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IMO ... We need to knock the repuplicans and democrats around at LEAST one year and vote for a third party ... Found this guy after 60 seconds of searching, and already seems like a better candidate than either Obama or Romney.
Maybe then, we'll have some actual decent competitors that know what the hell is going on in our country. Not the 1% that doesn't know about the other 99%, or the black guy that was going to "change the world" but has barely changed his own smirk in 4 years.
Oh, and my Facebook response to my old co-worker that posted it and turned it into a debate. I was being sarcastic btw...
I feel he would just take the tax breaks and use the money to finish his house and continue his lavish lifestyle instead of growing his business and create more jobs. Rich hoard; while it can be argued that the things bought and his house being built in and of itself stimulate the economy and create jobs, I can't but help feel more New business and jobs would be created if the money was put in the hands of the middle class; the middle class is on a mission to survive not be complacent with content like a wealthy person. If you're wealthy why would you work harder for your next bill, but if your poor or middle class wouldn't you ramp up production to meet the demand of a outstanding bill ?
I feel he would just take the tax breaks and use the money to finish his house and continue his lavish lifestyle instead of growing his business and create more jobs.
This is what history tells us always happens when you put more money in the hands of the wealthy and jack up corporate profits. And why would it do anything else? There's no market pressure to increase wages or hire.
Just look at our last corporate profit repatriation holiday, for instance. It was all hyped up as going to create jobs, increase wages, etc. What did it actually do? CEO bonuses.
Why do people continuously fall for this supply side bull****? Wages go up and businesses hire when they're forced to by competition for workers (And collective bargaining), increased demand (Ultimately from consumers), and similar pressures in the job market. Nothing else.
I feel he would just take the tax breaks and use the money to finish his house and continue his lavish lifestyle instead of growing his business and create more jobs. Rich hoard; while it can be argued that the things bought and his house being built in and of itself stimulate the economy and create jobs, I can't but help feel more New business and jobs would be created if the money was put in the hands of the middle class; the middle class is on a mission to survive not be complacent with content like a wealthy person. If you're wealthy why would you work harder for your next bill, but if your poor or middle class wouldn't you ramp up production to meet the demand of a outstanding bill ?
He did. When he started this house he fired 22 people in one day. Then 10 the next, 15 the next so on and so forth.
I think the employers call is clear. His taxes go up he will take peoples job to maintain his lavish lifestyle. It may be selfish but its legal and fair.
On the other hand if he were getting a tax incentive for hiring more people, he'd do that and everybody would win.
Exactly, the guy doesn't know squat about macro economics.
Haha, nice. Make it about his lifestyle and not his business. He is clearly evil because he cares about himself more than his employees, right? Why does anyone start their own business? If you say anything but "to make money" you are wrong. Companies started for any other reason do not succeed.
Tax incentives wouldn't do anything. There is no way to create a tax incentive for hiring people unless you do away with medicare/caid, payroll tax, Unempl. ins tax, etc that are direcrly related to hiring. The only way to increase hiring activity in any business is to allow the business to keep more of their revenue, period. This means lowering the marginal tax rates as well as the employment taxes to incentivitze growing the business. Business owners will not hire more people if it doesn't make monetary sense for their business. |
Contents
Plot
Today is the day a princess gets chosen to host the Royal Prep Tea Party. Sofia tells everyone that before she was a princess, she and her friends would spread blankets on the ground and borrow tea cups from their mothers. But Amber, Hildegard, and Clio tell her that the Tea Party is a big deal because the whole class goes including the Fairies, and they hosted bigger parties. When Sofia is chosen to host the next Royal Prep Tea Party, Hildegard and Clio tell her that she needs to do better than borrowed tea cups.
At the castle, Sofia shows Amber and James that she wants to host one of the tea parties she used to have with Ruby and Jade, only this time, they get to use the castle tea cups and get to paint them. While James likes this idea, Amber doesn't because she thinks it's too small. She tells Sofia that she's her secret weapon for throwing a fabulous party, and she convinces her that bigger is better. Baileywick gives Sofia a planer to plan her party. Sofia decides on a swan themed tea party with swan shaped cookies and cakes. Ruby and Jade come over to have tea with her. She takes them to her hideaway: a secret garden. While the three of them have tea and biscuits, Sofia tells Ruby and Jade about the tea party for Royal Prep and wishing she could throw a party like the one she's having with them but feels she has to be considerate of her guests and Amber says her guests want a big and fancy party.
Sofia is selecting the plates and wants the plain white plates but Amber takes over and picks the shiny gold ones. When Sofia is picking the goblets, Amber takes over again and picks the biggest ones. Sofia is starting to feel overwhelmed and says this is starting to look more like a feast instead of a tea party but Amber says you can never have too much of a good thing. When Amber finds out the size of the cookie samples after James ate them all, she insists that they be as big as possible which Sofia, out of consideration of her guests, reluctantly agrees to despite James's protests. Cedric agrees to make the tables float. Sofia asks the swans to help with her party and they agree. Amber decides to add a ice swan to the mix. Sofia is dismayed by how big Amber made her plan her party and James is annoyed that Amber didn't let Sofia make her own decisions. Sofia finishes by getting a new dress prepared for the party.
The next day, Miranda comes out to see the party and notices how overwhelmed Sofia is. Suddenly, disaster strikes: The ice swan is accidentally sent into the swans pond. The spooked swans crash into Cedric, causing him to lose control of the floating tables, causing a mess and making them fly away. Sofia is upset because the party is ruined and she doesn't have time to plan another big party. Miranda asks her if she even wanted to throw a big party and Sofia says she didn't but only did so because she wanted to be considerate of her guests. Miranda tells Sofia that she's the host and it's what she wants that matters. Sofia decides to throw the party she wants in her hideaway and the guests declare it the best tea party they ever attended.
Home Video Release
Songs
Trivia
Goofs
At the end of the episode Hildegard and Clio can be seen sitting on the picnic blankets with everyone else but seconds before the episode closes their legs are visible in a standing up position even though they are still sitting.
At the end of the song, Bigger is Better, the rear castle guard's right hand is out of place while carrying the pallet Amber is standing on.
Cedric calls his Erlenmeyer flask a beaker.
While Sofia meets and greets Ralph and the swans after asking Cedric for the floating tables, the shiny effects from her tiara were out of place.
At the end, Sofia states that everyone gets to paint their own teacups. However the cups they are painting have two handles, indicating that they are sugar bowls. |
No. 2--95--0698
_________________________________________________________________
IN THE
APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS
SECOND DISTRICT
_________________________________________________________________
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE ) Appeal from the Circuit Court
OF ILLINOIS, ) of Stephenson County.
)
Plaintiff-Appellant, ) No. 93--CF--422
)
v. )
)
JOHN A. GOEBEL, ) Honorable
) Richard E. DeMoss,
Defendant-Appellee. ) Judge, Presiding.
_________________________________________________________________
JUSTICE HUTCHINSON delivered the opinion of the court:
The State appeals from the order of the circuit court of
Stephenson County granting the motion of the defendant, John A.
Goebel, to dismiss an amended information filed against him on
January 9, 1995. The State's motion to reconsider was denied, and
this timely appeal was filed. We reverse and remand.
The State petitioned this court for leave to supply us with
additional authority; we granted the State's petition. On appeal
to this court, the State raises one issue: whether reversal of the
trial court's dismissal order is required, based on the authority
of People v. DiLorenzo, 169 Ill. 2d 318 (1996). The State contends
that the allegations in the amended information were sufficient to
state the offense of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. We agree
with the State.
Defendant was charged by information with the offense of
criminal sexual assault. The information was later amended to
charge defendant with committing the offense of aggravated criminal
sexual abuse. The amended information alleged:
"[Defendant], on or about the 10th day of November 1992
at and within Stephenson County, Illinois did commit the
offense of AGGRAVATED CRIMINAL SEXUAL ABUSE in violation of
Chapter 38, Illinois Revised Statutes *** Section 12--16(b) in
that said defendant, [a family member] of [D.R.], knowingly
committed an act of sexual conduct with [D.R.], who was under
18 years of age when the act was committed, in that said
defendant rubbed his penis against the buttocks of [D.R.]."
(Emphasis in original.)
Section 12--16(b) of the Criminal Code of 1961 reads in
pertinent part:
"The accused commits aggravated criminal sexual abuse if
he or she commits an act of sexual conduct with a victim who
was under 18 years of age when the act was committed and the
accused was a family member." 720 ILCS Ann. 5/12--16(b)
(Smith-Hurd Supp. 1996).
The Criminal Code of 1961 defines "sexual conduct" in
pertinent part as "any intentional or knowing touching or fondling
by *** the accused *** of the sex organs *** of the victim *** for
the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal of the victim or the
accused." 720 ILCS Ann. 5/12--12(e) (Smith-Hurd Supp. 1996).
Defendant was tried before a jury on January 10-12, 1995. The
State's first witness was the victim, D.R. D.R. testified to the
events occurring on or about November 8 and 9, 1992, in which she,
defendant, and her sister, Tonya, were at the residence of
defendant and his wife, Darcy. D.R. testified that the three of
them, D.R., Tonya, and defendant, were painting the kitchen, and,
by the end of the evening, D.R. had paint in her hair and clothes.
She testified that she went upstairs to take a bath, but, because
the paint was still in her hair, she called to her sister for
assistance. Defendant, instead, went upstairs into the bathroom
and suggested she go to the basement and shower the paint out of
her hair. D.R. testified that, upon exiting from the shower in the
basement, defendant had come down the stairs, led her towards a
workout bench, and, with her back facing him, exposed his penis to
her. He then "started rubbing his penis up and down on [her]
butt." D.R. also testified that defendant told her that she was
too beautiful for her own good.
D.R. testified that another incident occurred at defendant's
residence after a funeral sometime at the end of June 1992. She
testified that she and defendant went downstairs to talk, but that
defendant started rubbing her back and put his hand down her pants.
She testified that defendant took off D.R.'s pants, kissed her
breasts, put his finger in her vagina, and then put his mouth on
her vagina. Defendant then exposed his penis to her, ejaculated,
and instructed D.R. to taste the semen.
According to D.R.'s testimony, another incident took place at
defendant's residence around October 1992. D.R. testified that she
and defendant were in the living room and she had been getting him
beers from the refrigerator when he told her to go upstairs "so
Darcy won't get suspicious." She testified that they went upstairs
and defendant turned on the television. Defendant then proceeded
to pull down D.R.'s pants, kiss her breasts and vagina, and put his
finger in her vagina.
D.R. next testified to an incident occurring in mid to late
June 1993 at defendant's newly purchased residence. D.R., among
others, was helping defendant renovate the residence prior to
defendant and his family moving in. D.R. testified that, on this
occasion, she had just finished going to the bathroom, but, before
she could pull up her underwear and pants, defendant came in and
put his fingers on her vagina and talked about his sex drive. D.R.
testified that defendant then stopped, apologized, and said he
could not help himself. She testified they then took a tour of the
house, and, while they were upstairs, defendant laid D.R. down,
took her pants down, and lifted her shirt and bra, exposing her
breasts. D.R. testified that defendant then put his fingers in her
vagina, kissed her breasts and vagina, and then attempted, but
failed, to put his penis in her vagina. Defendant then instructed
her to put her mouth on his penis, but then stopped and told her to
get a cup. D.R. testified she went downstairs, got the cup, went
back upstairs, and defendant again told her to put her mouth on his
penis. D.R. said defendant then ejaculated in her mouth.
Defendant then performed oral sex on D.R. D.R. testified that,
during the ensuing conversation, defendant stated that "he didn't
know if most [family members] did this but he thought they should
because he was trying to teach [her]" about sex.
On cross-examination, counsel for defendant attempted to
elicit from D.R. specific dates, times, and places of the
incidents, and whether any witnesses were present.
Tonya, sister of D.R., testified next, and she recalled the
events surrounding the November 8 and 9, 1992, incident. Tonya
testified that D.R. had taken a bath upstairs after painting that
evening and had called for Tonya, but that defendant went upstairs
instead. She then testified that D.R. went to the basement to take
a shower, and minutes later, while D.R. was still in the basement,
defendant went downstairs. On cross-examination, Tonya testified
as to her employment history, her knowledge of the June 1992
funeral, her recollection that defendant was in the basement with
D.R. in November 1992, and the terms of her visitation with
defendant.
The State's last witness was Officer Richard Roodhouse. He
testified about the investigation of the allegations against
defendant. Roodhouse testified that defendant acknowledged his
hand "fell against her breast" on one occasion and, on another
occasion, D.R. was getting up from a couch and she put her hand on
defendant's groin or penis. Roodhouse testified that defendant
said he "didn't remove [either his hand from her breast or her hand
from his groin or penis] right away because he had taken some
psychology courses, and the *** courses had taught him not to do so
because it would make that gesture appear dirty." He also
testified that defendant acknowledged taking the girls for rides in
the country and talking about sex "because he didn't want [them] to
be naive about sex." Defendant also told Roodhouse that D.R. had
the dates all wrong.
Defendant's brother, James, testified for the defendant.
James testified about the events surrounding the June 1992 funeral
and his work schedule.
Defendant's brother, Bill, testified next about the events of
the June 1992 funeral.
Six other witnesses testified that they helped remodel or
observed the remodeling of defendant's new home.
Darcy, defendant's wife, testified next. She testified as to
the events surrounding the June 1992 funeral, the routine she
typically followed, and observations she made during the remodeling
of her and defendant's new home.
Defendant testified next. Defendant categorically denied all
incidents of sexual abuse. Regarding the November 8 and 9, 1992,
incident, defendant testified that both Tonya and D.R. were in the
bathroom upstairs trying to get paint out of D.R.'s hair.
Defendant testified that he told D.R., through the bathroom door,
to go to the basement and let the shower water "beat [the paint]
out" of her hair. Defendant testified that Tonya stayed in the
bathroom upstairs while D.R. went down to the basement and took a
shower. He testified that he stayed in the kitchen and did not go
into the basement until D.R. had already gone back upstairs into
the bathroom where Tonya was. After that, he testified, he went to
the basement and stoked the wood-burning furnace and was only in
the basement for approximately five minutes.
Defendant acknowledged his conversations with Roodhouse
regarding defendant touching D.R.'s breast and her touching his
groin. On cross-examination, defendant also testified to only two
occasions, occurring years apart, when he was driving in the
country that he talked with his daughters about sex. Defendant
testified regarding the psychology course that he took, but never
finished, where he learned not to take his hand away from D.R.'s
breast too quickly or remove D.R.'s hand from his groin or penis
because it would make the gesture appear dirty. Defendant also
testified that on November 9, 1992, the only people painting and
remodeling in his new house were himself, Tonya, and D.R.
Before the case was given to the jury for decision, defendant
moved to have the charge dismissed. Defendant argued that the
charge did not state an offense and asserted that the evidence did
not support a conviction.
After hearing the arguments of counsel, the trial court first
denied the motion for a directed finding, stating that "the
evidence is sufficient that a jury can reasonably find the
defendant guilty of the charge." The trial court then discussed
defendant's motion to dismiss and determined that dismissal should
be granted because the charge failed to state an offense.
In granting the motion, the trial court explained that an
allegation regarding the child victim's buttocks did not charge the
offense of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, relying on People v.
Nibbio, 180 Ill. App. 3d 513 (1989). However, after the parties
filed post-judgment motions, the trial court reconsidered its
reasoning. On reconsideration, the trial court agreed with the
State that sexual conduct includes the knowing touching of the
victim's body by the penis of the accused. However, to prosecute
such a charge, the State must allege and prove that the touching
was done "for the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal of the
victim or of the accused." 720 ILCS Ann. 5/12--12(e) (Smith-Hurd
Supp. 1996). Relying on People v. Edwards, 195 Ill. App. 3d 454
(1990), the trial court, stated that that element was not alleged
in the amended information and the order dismissing the charge
would stand.
Before addressing the State's argument, we note that defendant
failed to file a brief in this appeal. However, because we find
the issue presented relatively straightforward, we may decide this
case without an appellee's brief in accordance with First Capitol
Mortgage Corp. v. Talandis Construction Corp., 63 Ill. 2d 128, 133
(1976) (holding that a reviewing court should decide the merits of
an appeal where the record is simple and the claimed error is such
that a decision can be made easily without the aid of an appellee's
brief); see also Exline v. Exline, 277 Ill. App. 3d 10, 13 (1995).
The State argues that reversal of the trial court's dismissal
order is required, relying on the authority of People v. DiLorenzo,
169 Ill. 2d 318 (1996). The State contends that, based on
DiLorenzo, the allegations in the amended information were
sufficient to state the offense of aggravated criminal sexual
abuse.
We are obliged to follow the precedents of our supreme court.
A settled rule of law that contravenes no statute or constitutional
principles should be followed under the doctrine of stare decisis
unless it can be shown that serious detriment prejudicial to the
public interest is likely to result. Pasquale v. Speed Products
Engineering, 166 Ill. 2d 337, 349 (1995). Stare decisis is a
policy of the courts to stand by precedent and leave settled points
of law undisturbed. Charles v. Seigfried, 165 Ill. 2d 482, 492
(1995). Additionally, our appellate court lacks the authority to
overrule or modify decisions of our supreme court. People v.
Woodard, 276 Ill. App. 3d 242, 245 (1995); Vonholdt v. Barba &
Barba Construction, Inc., 276 Ill. App. 3d 325, 329 (1995). Thus,
it is our duty to examine the DiLorenzo decision and determine
whether the material facts found by the Illinois Supreme Court in
DiLorenzo are similar to or different from those facts in the
present case.
In DiLorenzo, the defendant was charged with, inter alia,
aggravated criminal sexual abuse (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1991, ch. 38,
par. 12--16(c)(1)(i) (now 720 ILCS Ann. 5/12--16(c)(1)(i) (Smith-
Hurd Supp. 1996))). The indictment was in writing, specifically
named the alleged committed offenses, and provided citation to the
relevant statutory provisions, date of the offense, county of its
occurrence, and the defendant's name. Further, the indictment, in
the words of the statute, stated that the defendant committed the
offense of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in that
"he, who was 17 years of age or older, knowingly committed an
act of sexual conduct with [C.R.] who was under 13 years of
age when the act was committed."
Following a bench trial, the defendant was found guilty of
aggravated criminal sexual abuse and was sentenced; the appellate
court affirmed. The defendant appealed, asserting that the
indictment was fatally defective in that the aggravated criminal
sexual abuse charge failed to explicitly state that the alleged
"sexual conduct" with C.R. was "for the purpose of sexual
gratification or arousal of the victim or the accused" and also
that the indictment failed to set forth with particularity the
allegedly wrongful acts that constituted "sexual conduct."
The DiLorenzo defendant, like defendant in the present case,
failed to challenge the sufficiency of the charging instrument in
a pretrial motion. Therefore, the supreme court declined to
discuss the sufficiency of the charging instrument when attacked in
a pretrial motion. Because defendant in the present case also
waited until the conclusion of the trial to attack the
information's sufficiency, we too decline to address the issue of
a pretrial attack of the charging instrument.
Instead, the DiLorenzo court stated that, when the sufficiency
of a charging instrument is attacked for the first time on appeal,
the standard of review is whether the charging instrument apprised
the defendant of the precise offense charged with enough
specificity to (1) allow preparation of her or his defense and (2)
allow pleading a resulting conviction as a bar to future
prosecution arising out of the same conduct. DiLorenzo, 169 Ill.
2d at 321-22, citing People v. Thingvold, 145 Ill. 2d 441, 448
(1991).
The DiLorenzo court determined that the phrase "for the
purpose of sexual gratification" or the definition of "sexual
conduct" were unnecessary to its disposition and declined to
distinguish our rationale in People v. Edwards, 195 Ill. App. 3d
454 (1990). In Edwards, the defendant appealed two of his
convictions of aggravated criminal sexual abuse on the grounds that
the convictions were improperly charged. The defendant argued
that, because the charges were based upon the defendant's "sexual
conduct" with the victim, the charging instrument should have
included the relevant provision of the statute, "for the purpose of
sexual gratification or arousal of the victim or the accused." 720
ILCS Ann. 5/12--12(e) (Smith-Hurd Supp. 1996).
This court reversed those convictions, stating that reference
to the definition of "sexual conduct" was essential to the offense
of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Edwards, 195 Ill. App. 3d at
457. In interpreting clauses and definitions in statutes, courts
should construe those words in accordance with the statutory
definition. DeBois v. Department of Employment Security, 274 Ill.
App. 3d 660, 664 (1995). Because the charges in Edwards were, for
the most part, expressed in the language of the "sexual conduct"
definition and because the charges omitted the element that the
relevant conduct was committed "for the purpose of sexual arousal
or gratification," we held that the charges failed both to set
forth fully the nature and elements of the offense and to be as
fully descriptive as the language of the statute. Edwards, 195
Ill. App. 3d at 457.
In disregarding the Edwards rationale, the DiLorenzo court
theorized that, should the defendant have needed to know "some of
the details" of the charge, the defendant could have filed a
request for a bill of particulars. Our supreme court concluded
that the defendant was aware of the nature of the charges against
him and that no impediment existed in the preparation of his
defense as a result of the manner in which the indictment charged
the offenses. DiLorenzo, 169 Ill. 2d at 324-25.
We determine that the material facts in the case at bar are
sufficiently analogous to the material facts of the DiLorenzo case.
The amended information apprised defendant of the precise offense
charged with enough specificity to allow preparation of his defense
and to allow pleading a resulting conviction as a bar to future
prosecution arising out of the same conduct. Our own review of the
record indicates that defendant was fully cognizant of the nature
of the charges against him, that he was being tried for "an act of
sexual conduct with [D.R.]." Defendant called 10 witnesses,
including himself, to refute the specifically charged offense
occurring on or about November 10, 1992, as well as the allegations
surrounding the June 1992 incident taking place after the
relative's funeral. Though defendant did not specifically defend
against each of the incidents to which D.R. testified, on at least
two occasions in the report of proceedings defendant did offer a
blanket denial of all allegations concerning sexual abuse of D.R.
Counsel for defendant cross-examined D.R. in depth, attempting to
elicit specific dates, places, times, and witnesses present.
Furthermore, defendant even secured broadcast schedules from an
area television station to defend against the alleged October 1992
incident.
Pursuant to the doctrine of stare decisis, we adhere to the
decision of our supreme court in DiLorenzo and reverse the trial
court's order dismissing the amended information charge against
defendant. To the extent our holding in Edwards is inconsistent
with this result, Edwards is overruled.
Finally, we compare the date of the disposition of DiLorenzo
with the pendency of the present case. DiLorenzo was disposed of
on February 15, 1996, while the instant case was dismissed by the
trial court on May 3, 1995. The State timely filed its appeal,
thus effecting a continuation in the proceedings. See 134 Ill. 2d
R. 606. In reversing the trial court's dismissal of the charging
instrument, we recognize that our supreme court has the inherent
power to give its decisions prospective or retrospective
application. See Berryman Equipment v. Industrial Comm'n, 276 Ill.
App. 3d 76, 79 (1995). Generally, a supreme court decision applies
retroactively to cases pending at the time the decision is
announced. People v. Granados, 172 Ill. 2d 358, 365 (1996). A
decision will be applied retroactively unless the court expressly
declares that its decision is a clear break with the past, such as
when it explicitly overrules its own past precedent, disapproves a
previously approved practice, or overturns a well-established body
of lower court authority. People v. Phillips, 219 Ill. App. 3d
877, 879 (1991). Because the DiLorenzo decision offers no such
declarations warranting only prospective application, its holding
will be applied retroactively, and, thus, DiLorenzo is controlling
in the appeal before us.
For the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the circuit court
of Stephenson County is reversed, and the cause is remanded for
further proceedings.
Reversed and remanded.
GEIGER and RATHJE, JJ., concur.
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The Teacher's Magazine N° 218
Noviembre 2018
This month, The Teacher’s Magazine presents the first part of a crazy ABC, with poems to read to children and to use as decoration for the classroom. You will also find activities to work with pirates for different ages and levels.
In our Phonics for Kids section, a new sound is introduced with a story called Brook the Woodpecker.
The school year is coming to an end, and you will find a Student Self-reflection Sheet, for learners to reflect on their learning process. Gamification in the EFL Classroom presents different apps with which students can revise concepts in a fun way.
There is the life of Julieta Lanteri, the first woman to vote in Argentina, to use not only as a comprehension and writing activity, but also as a starting point for a debate on women’s rights and discrimination.
The Teacher's Magazine is a monthly issue specially designed for teachers of English as Foreign or Second Language. It provides creative ready-to-go materials to make their classes more active and appealing to students.
The ideal magazine for English teachers that choose to work effectively with students of all levels and ages and an asset at the moment of developing contents. |
Chinese party cadre jailed for taking bribes
BEIJING (AP) — A court in southern China sentenced a former Communist Party cadre who gained notoriety last year for amassing a large number of properties to 11 years and 6 months in prison on Thursday.
Cai Bin, formerly a party official at a local urban management bureau, was convicted of taking 2.75 million yuan ($450,000) in bribes, and the illegal gains were turned over to the state treasury, the party-run People’s Daily said on its news site.
Investigations against Cai began after online reports alleged Cai and his family owned 22 properties and questioned how a government official could afford them in a country where a working family struggles to buy one apartment in major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
China’s web users gave Cai the nickname “Uncle House,” and a following online movement exposed several more government officials with excessive real estate holdings, including a bank official who had 41 properties in Beijing.
Members of the Chinese public have resorted to the Internet, especially social media, to expose corruption, but Chinese authorities are wary of having to respond to public demands. |
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package com.psaravan.filebrowserview.lib.AsyncTasks;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.content.DialogInterface.OnClickListener;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.widget.Toast;
import com.psaravan.filebrowserview.lib.Interfaces.MoveInterface;
import com.psaravan.filebrowserview.lib.R;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import java.io.File;
/**
* AsyncTask that moves the specified file/folder recursively to a new location.
*
* @author Saravan Pantham
*/
public class AsyncMoveTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, Boolean> {
private Context mContext;
private ProgressDialog pd;
private File mSourceFile;
private File mDestDirFile;
private boolean mShowProgress = true;
private MoveInterface mMoveInterface;
public AsyncMoveTask(Context context, File source, File destDir, boolean showProgress) {
mContext = context;
mSourceFile = source;
mShowProgress = showProgress;
mDestDirFile = destDir;
}
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
if (mSourceFile==null)
return;
//Skip the rest of this method if the user doesn't want a progress dialog.
if (!mShowProgress)
return;
pd = new ProgressDialog(mContext);
pd.setCancelable(false);
pd.setIndeterminate(false);
pd.setTitle(R.string.move);
pd.setMessage(mContext.getResources().getString(R.string.moving) + " " + mSourceFile.getName());
pd.setButton(DialogInterface.BUTTON_NEUTRAL, mContext.getResources()
.getString(R.string.run_in_background),
new OnClickListener() {
@Override
public void onClick(DialogInterface arg0, int arg1) {
pd.dismiss();
}
});
pd.show();
if (mMoveInterface!=null)
mMoveInterface.preMoveStartSync();
}
@Override
protected Boolean doInBackground(String... params) {
if (mMoveInterface!=null)
mMoveInterface.preMoveStartAsync();
if (mSourceFile==null || mDestDirFile==null) {
if (mMoveInterface!=null)
mMoveInterface.onMoveCompleteAsync(false);
return false;
}
if (mSourceFile.isDirectory()) {
try {
FileUtils.moveDirectory(mSourceFile, mDestDirFile);
} catch (Exception e) {
if (mMoveInterface!=null)
mMoveInterface.onMoveCompleteAsync(false);
return false;
}
} else {
try {
FileUtils.moveFile(mSourceFile, mDestDirFile);
} catch (Exception e) {
if (mMoveInterface!=null)
mMoveInterface.onMoveCompleteAsync(false);
return false;
}
}
if (mMoveInterface!=null)
mMoveInterface.onMoveCompleteAsync(true);
return true;
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(Boolean result) {
super.onPostExecute(result);
if (mMoveInterface!=null)
mMoveInterface.onMoveCompleteSync(result);
if (pd!=null)
pd.dismiss();
if (result==true) {
String message = mSourceFile.getName() + " " + mContext.getResources().getString(R.string.moved);
Toast.makeText(mContext, message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
} else {
String message = mSourceFile.getName() + " " + mContext.getResources().getString(R.string.could_not_be_moved);
Toast.makeText(mContext, message, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}
}
/**
* @param moveInterface The move interface instance to attach to this
* AsyncTask.
*/
public void setMoveInterface(MoveInterface moveInterface) {
mMoveInterface = moveInterface;
}
} |
Question No: 51
You are developing a test case that must be run multiple times with different input values for a specific field each time. You have a list of values that will be used for the input.
You need to modify the test to enter each value into the field.
What should you do?
Insert a parameter into the Action column of the test step and enter the input values into the Parameter Values pane.
Insert a parameter into the Expected Results column of the test step and enter the input values into Parameter values pane.
Insert a parameter into the Action column of the test step.
Create test steps for each input value in the Action column.
Answer: A
Explanation: Add parameters to a test case
Create a parameter by typing a name preceded by quot;@quot; in the actions and expected results of your test steps.
Note: When you write a manual test, you often want to specify that the test should be repeated several times with different test data. For example, if your users can add different quantities of a product to a shopping cart, then you want to check that a quantity of 200 works just as well as a quantity of 1.
To do this, you insert parameters in your test steps. Along with the test steps, you provide a table of parameter values.
Reference: Repeat a test with different data
Question No: 52
You are using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) to manage test cases. You want to review all test cases with shared steps.
You need to build a direct links query that will generate a list of all test cases in the team project that use a shared step.
Which three actions should you perform? (Each correct answer presents part of the solution. Choose three.)
Set the linked work items filter to Work item type = Shared Steps.
Set the main query to Team Project = @Project AND Work Item Type = Test Case.
Return all top-level work items.
Return only items that have the specified links.
Return only items that do not have the specified links.
Answer: A,B,D Explanation:
Q: How do I link test cases, shared steps, and test results?
A: The link types, Tested and Tested By are used to link test cases to work items, and Test Case and Shared Steps are used to link Shared steps to test cases. Using Microsoft Test Manager, you can create test cases and test plans which define and manage these associations. Also, Test Manager creates and manages the associations of test results to test cases and test plans.
Question No: 53
You are managing test cases by using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).
You plan to test a part of your product on a specific configuration you create.
You need to ensure that new test cases in a specific test suite default to use this configuration without impacting other test suites.
What should you do?
Create a new test plan for testing with the specific configuration.
Select all test cases in the test suite and select the specific configuration.
Select the specific configuration as the default configuration for the test plan.
Select the specific configuration as the default configuration for the test suite.
Answer: D
Explanation: At any time when you are planning what to test, you can add test configurations and set them as the default configurations for your test plan. When you next add test cases to the test plan, a pairing of each default configuration with the test case is added to the test plan. When you run the tests from the test plan, these pairings called test points are shown and each can be run individually. Test results are saved for each test point.
You can also override the default test configurations for the plan and set different default configurations for a specific test suite. When test cases are added to these test suites, a pairing of each default configuration for the test suite with the test case is added to the test plan as shown in the following illustration.
Reference: How to: Select Different Test Configurations For a Test Plan or a Test Suite
Question No: 54
You are using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM). You plan to reduce the maintenance of test suites.
You need to create test suites for which the test cases are automatically added.
What are two possible types of test suites that achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution. Choose two.)
Exploratory-based
Static
Query-based
Requirements-based
Answer: C,D
Explanation: C: Query-based suites show the results of a query that you define. For example, you could select all the test cases that have Priority = 1.
D: Requirements-based suites are derived from Product Backlog Items, User Stories, or other requirements. The suite contains all the test cases that are linked to its requirement. This type helps you track how well each requirement has been tested.
Question No: 55
You are using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) to perform exploratory testing.
You need to ensure that any bugs or test cases created during an exploratory test session are associated with a specific requirement for the purposes of traceability.
What should you do?
From the Test activity, select View Exploratory Test Sessions. Open a session and click
the Copy Link button.
From the Run Tests activity, select a test case that is a part of a requirement suite and select Run.
Create a requirement suite in the test plan, right-click on the suite, and select Explore Requirement.
From the Do Exploratory Testing activity, select Explore.
Answer: C
Explanation: Add a Requirement to your Test Plan
Once your Requirement is in your Test Plan, right mouse click and select Explore requirement
->Perform the steps of the test case and mark each step with a result.
->When you reach the shared steps, choose the down-arrow next to the shared steps icon and select Start and record.
Etc
D (not C): Creating an Action Recording for Shared Steps in Microsoft Test Manager You can create an action recording for a shared step in Microsoft Test Manager that will automatically run when the shared step is included in test cases.
To create an action recording for shared steps in Microsoft Test Manager
->Open Microsoft Test Manager.
->On the center group switcher, choose the down-arrow and then choose Testing Center.
->On the center group menu bar, choose Organize.
->On the menu, choose Shared Steps Manager.
->In the list of shared step, choose the row for the shared step for which you want to create an action recording.
Question No: 59
You are using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM). A test case is already in production.
You need to modify the test case to indicate it is being reworked. What should you do?
Change the test case state to Design.
Change the test case to Blocked.
Change the test case state to Closed.
Change the test plan state to Inactive.
Answer: A
Explanation: No test cases are ready to be run.
When all test cases remain in a design state for a long time, some issue is blocking progress. You might want to investigate the cause of the blockage.
Note: Update the state of each test case as it progresses from Design to Ready to Closed.
Question No: 60
You are using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).
You plan to design a shared steps work item with the possibility that it will be used with multiple rows of test data.
You need to create a test case that contains the shared steps in multiple iterations. You also need to provide different test data for each iteration.
What should you do?
Create a copy of the shared steps work item and provide different values for the parameters in the original shared steps work item and its copy. Use the different shared steps work items in the test cases to get different test data.
Create an action recording of the shared steps work item and specify multiple parameter values while recording.
Provide default parameter values in the shared steps work item and provide different data in the test case for multiple iterations. |
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I just read the story of a boy falsely accused of rape. The girl later dropped the case. I am a mother of three boys. All teenagers. They are the best things in my life. For this “selfish” reason, stories like this break my my heart.
One of my greatest future fears is that they will meet the wrong girl. A girl who is vindictive and who has the ability to accuse them of something they didn’t do. I speak as a mother and I will speak this as it bothers me.
Back in the day when I was growing up and abstinence was still a virtue, it was harder for rape accusations to happen. These days, anyone can accuse anyone of rape. Rape accusations has been weaponised and this is scary.
When we actually think of it, the weaponization of rape accusations hurts everyone. It hurts the cases of women who actually are raped cos only close friends and die hard women supporters will take the women’s word for it.
It hurts the men. Who have to live in fear and not get into relationships because they can’t tell what would happen if a relationship goes sour. This is turn hurts the women who will be looking for the good men who have been scared of from dating.
It hurts society cos men and women cannot just meet and be friends without fear. I have told my boys: never be alone in a room with a lady for any reason except she is your wife. You think this is extreme?
As I type this I am literally shaking from reading that boy’s story. I can’t imagine what he and his family had to go through. As long as false rape accusations exist, men need to find ways of protecting themselves too.
Even when you are dating a girl, better to have a chaperone. If you are going to marry her, you will have as much sex as you want. If you aren’t going to marry her the “hit and run” is not worth the pains or possible jail time.
And please please please, don’t be so inebriated as to not even remember what happened. *sigh. Please be careful out there.
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Random digging…
Tonight I attempted to get a one-click install app on Dreamhost running again. To be specific this is an installation of Gallery 2 written in PHP that sometime in 2007-2011 time period was a a great offering.
It has been broken for some time. My access to Dreamhost over the last several years has primarily involved digging up my credentials logging in and changing the expiration data and CCV on my billing card to keep the account alive for the ancient things that run there… like this blog, and the old photo gallery, before Amazon Photos, and before Flickr was on my radar, and whatever other latest sites the cool kids use for photo management (I still haven’t found a system I like…)
Anyway digging into an app that I configured more than a decade ago on a hosting provider that I haven’t used much in almost that long has proven interesting, it also lead down the rabbits hole of looking at old blog posts.
Attempting to run Linux and MIPS and Sparc hardware for fun?
Anyway back to trying to figure out Gallery’s db connection issues, if I can’t get it working shortly though, I’ll leave it and come back maybe tomorrow, maybe six months from now… |
{
"type": "minecraft:crafting_shaped",
"pattern": [
"X ",
"XX ",
"XXX"
],
"key": {
"X": {
"item": "tfc:wood/planks/douglas_fir"
}
},
"result": {
"item": "tfc:stairs/wood/douglas_fir",
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 2f68e14..262822a 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,3 +1,38 @@
+This is an Nginx fork that adds dtrace USDT probes.
-Documentation is available at http://nginx.org
+Installation:
+
+ ./configure --with-dtrace-probes \
+ --with-dtrace=/usr/sbin/dtrace \
+ ...
+ make
+ make install
+
+Usage on Linux (with systemtap):
+
+ # make the stap-nginx script visiable in your PATH
+ export PATH=/usr/local/nginx/sbin:$PATH
+
+ # list all the static probes available in your nginx
+ stap-nginx -L 'process("nginx").mark("*")'
+
+ # run the test.stp file
+ stap-nginx test.stp
+
+Sample test.stp file:
+
+ probe begin
+ {
+ print("Tracing. Hit CTRL-C to stop.\n")
+ }
+
+ probe process("nginx").mark("http-subrequest-start")
+ {
+ printf("uri: %s?%s\n", ngx_http_req_uri($arg1),
+ ngx_http_req_args($arg1))
+ }
+
+For now, only tested on Solaris 11 Express and Fedora Linux 17.
+
+The original Nginx documentation is available at http://nginx.org
diff --git a/auto/install b/auto/install
index f7f686c..d6bc457 100644
--- a/auto/install
+++ b/auto/install
@@ -16,6 +16,20 @@ END
fi
+case ".$NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH" in
+ ./*)
+ ;;
+
+ .)
+ NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH=$NGX_PREFIX/sbin/stap-nginx
+ ;;
+
+ *)
+ NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH=$NGX_PREFIX/$NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH
+ ;;
+esac
+
+
case ".$NGX_SBIN_PATH" in
./*)
;;
@@ -49,6 +63,16 @@ case ".$NGX_PID_PATH" in
esac
+case ".$NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX" in
+ ./* | .)
+ ;;
+
+ *)
+ NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX=$NGX_PREFIX/$NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX
+ ;;
+esac
+
+
case ".$NGX_ERROR_LOG_PATH" in
./* | .)
;;
@@ -147,6 +171,36 @@ install: $NGX_OBJS${ngx_dirsep}nginx${ngx_binext} \
|| cp -R $NGX_HTML '\$(DESTDIR)$NGX_PREFIX'
END
+if [ $NGX_DTRACE = YES -a $DTRACE_FROM_SYSTEMTAP = YES ]; then
+
+ ngx_tapset_srcs="$NGX_TAPSET_SRCS"
+
+ cat << END >> $NGX_MAKEFILE
+ test -d '\$(DESTDIR)$NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX' || \
+ mkdir -p '\$(DESTDIR)$NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX'
+END
+
+ for ngx_tapset_src in $ngx_tapset_srcs
+ do
+ ngx_tapset_file=`basename $ngx_tapset_src`
+
+ cat << END >> $NGX_MAKEFILE
+
+ sed -e "s|NGX_SBIN_PATH|$NGX_SBIN_PATH|g" $ngx_long_cont \
+ $ngx_tapset_src > '\$(DESTDIR)$NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX/$ngx_tapset_file'
+END
+
+ done
+
+ cat << END >> $NGX_MAKEFILE
+
+ test -d '\$(DESTDIR)`dirname "$NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH"`' || \
+ mkdir -p '\$(DESTDIR)`dirname "$NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH"`'
+ cp $NGX_OBJS/stap-nginx '\$(DESTDIR)$NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH'
+ chmod 0755 '\$(DESTDIR)$NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH'
+END
+
+fi
if test -n "$NGX_ERROR_LOG_PATH"; then
cat << END >> $NGX_MAKEFILE
@@ -158,6 +212,18 @@ END
fi
+if [ $NGX_DTRACE = YES ]; then
+ cat << END >> $NGX_MAKEFILE
+
+$NGX_OBJS${ngx_dirsep}stap-nginx: src/dtrace/stap-nginx
+ sed -e "s|NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX|$NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX|g" $ngx_long_cont \
+ -e "s|NGX_SBIN_DIR|`dirname $NGX_SBIN_PATH`|g" $ngx_long_cont \
+ -e "s|NGX_SBIN_PATH|$NGX_SBIN_PATH|g" $ngx_long_cont \
+ src/dtrace/stap-nginx > $NGX_OBJS${ngx_dirsep}stap-nginx
+END
+fi
+
+
# create Makefile
cat << END >> Makefile
diff --git a/auto/make b/auto/make
index dca011c..57ed99f 100644
--- a/auto/make
+++ b/auto/make
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ LINK = $LINK
END
+if [ $NGX_DTRACE = YES ]; then
+ echo DTRACE = $DTRACE >> $NGX_MAKEFILE
+fi
if test -n "$NGX_PERL_CFLAGS"; then
echo NGX_PERL_CFLAGS = $NGX_PERL_CFLAGS >> $NGX_MAKEFILE
@@ -204,6 +207,44 @@ ngx_objs=`echo $ngx_all_objs $ngx_modules_obj \
| sed -e "s/ *\([^ ][^ ]*\)/$ngx_long_regex_cont\1/g" \
-e "s/\//$ngx_regex_dirsep/g"`
+if [ $NGX_DTRACE = YES ]; then
+
+ ngx_dtrace_obj=$NGX_OBJS${ngx_dirsep}ngx_dtrace_provider.$ngx_objext
+
+ ngx_dtrace_h=$NGX_OBJS${ngx_dirsep}ngx_dtrace_provider.h
+
+ ngx_dtrace_d=$NGX_OBJS${ngx_dirsep}dtrace_providers.d
+
+ ngx_dtrace_providers=`echo $NGX_DTRACE_PROVIDERS \
+ | sed -e "s/ *\([^ ][^ ]*\)/$ngx_long_regex_cont\1/g" \
+ -e "s/\//$ngx_regex_dirsep/g"`
+
+ cat << END >> $NGX_MAKEFILE
+
+all: $NGX_OBJS${ngx_dirsep}nginx${ngx_binext}
+
+$ngx_dtrace_d: $ngx_dtrace_providers
+ cat $ngx_dtrace_providers > $ngx_dtrace_d
+
+$ngx_dtrace_h: $ngx_dtrace_d
+ \$(DTRACE) -h -o $ngx_dtrace_h -s $ngx_dtrace_d
+END
+
+ if [ $DTRACE_PROBE_OBJ = YES ]; then
+ cat << END >> $NGX_MAKEFILE
+$ngx_dtrace_obj: $ngx_dtrace_d $ngx_deps$ngx_spacer
+ \$(DTRACE) -G -o $ngx_dtrace_obj -s $ngx_dtrace_d $ngx_objs
+END
+
+ ngx_deps="$ngx_deps$ngx_long_cont$ngx_dtrace_obj"
+ ngx_objs="$ngx_objs$ngx_long_cont$ngx_dtrace_obj"
+
+ if [ "$DTRACE_FROM_SYSTEMTAP" = YES ]; then
+ ngx_deps="$ngx_deps$ngx_long_cont$NGX_OBJS${ngx_dirsep}stap-nginx"
+ fi
+ fi
+fi
+
if test -n "$NGX_LD_OPT$CORE_LIBS"; then
ngx_libs=`echo $NGX_LD_OPT $CORE_LIBS \
| sed -e "s/\//$ngx_regex_dirsep/g" -e "s/^/$ngx_long_regex_cont/"`
diff --git a/auto/options b/auto/options
index cdf83ca..7f24765 100644
--- a/auto/options
+++ b/auto/options
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ NGX_CONF_PATH=
NGX_ERROR_LOG_PATH=
NGX_PID_PATH=
NGX_LOCK_PATH=
+NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX=
+NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH=
NGX_USER=
NGX_GROUP=
NGX_BUILD=
@@ -21,6 +23,12 @@ CPP=
NGX_OBJS=objs
NGX_DEBUG=NO
+NGX_DTRACE=NO
+DTRACE=dtrace
+
+DTRACE_PROBE_OBJ=YES
+DTRACE_FROM_SYSTEMTAP=NO
+
NGX_CC_OPT=
NGX_LD_OPT=
CPU=NO
@@ -181,6 +189,8 @@ do
--error-log-path=*) NGX_ERROR_LOG_PATH="$value";;
--pid-path=*) NGX_PID_PATH="$value" ;;
--lock-path=*) NGX_LOCK_PATH="$value" ;;
+ --tapset-prefix=*) NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX="$value" ;;
+ --stap-nginx-path=*) NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH="$value" ;;
--user=*) NGX_USER="$value" ;;
--group=*) NGX_GROUP="$value" ;;
@@ -305,7 +315,8 @@ use the \"--with-mail_ssl_module\" option instead"
--with-ld-opt=*) NGX_LD_OPT="$value" ;;
--with-cpu-opt=*) CPU="$value" ;;
--with-debug) NGX_DEBUG=YES ;;
-
+ --with-dtrace=*) DTRACE="$value" ;;
+ --with-dtrace-probes) NGX_DTRACE=YES ;;
--without-pcre) USE_PCRE=DISABLED ;;
--with-pcre) USE_PCRE=YES ;;
--with-pcre=*) PCRE="$value" ;;
@@ -359,6 +370,8 @@ cat << END
--error-log-path=PATH set error log pathname
--pid-path=PATH set nginx.pid pathname
--lock-path=PATH set nginx.lock pathname
+ --tapset-prefix=PATH set systemtap tapset directory prefix
+ --stap-nginx-path=PATH set stap-nginx pathname
--user=USER set non-privileged user for
worker processes
@@ -506,6 +519,8 @@ cat << END
--with-openssl-opt=OPTIONS set additional build options for OpenSSL
--with-debug enable debug logging
+ --with-dtrace-probes enable dtrace USDT probes
+ --with-dtrace=PATH set dtrace utility pathname
END
@@ -536,6 +551,7 @@ NGX_CONF_PATH=${NGX_CONF_PATH:-conf/nginx.conf}
NGX_CONF_PREFIX=`dirname $NGX_CONF_PATH`
NGX_PID_PATH=${NGX_PID_PATH:-logs/nginx.pid}
NGX_LOCK_PATH=${NGX_LOCK_PATH:-logs/nginx.lock}
+NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX=${NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX:-tapset}
if [ ".$NGX_ERROR_LOG_PATH" = ".stderr" ]; then
NGX_ERROR_LOG_PATH=
diff --git a/auto/os/darwin b/auto/os/darwin
index 1d3e3d3..cb4ef3a 100644
--- a/auto/os/darwin
+++ b/auto/os/darwin
@@ -113,3 +113,6 @@ ngx_feature_libs=
ngx_feature_test="int32_t lock, n;
n = OSAtomicCompareAndSwap32Barrier(0, 1, &lock)"
. auto/feature
+
+DTRACE_PROBE_OBJ=NO
+
diff --git a/auto/os/freebsd b/auto/os/freebsd
index 937ca20..d76b32b 100644
--- a/auto/os/freebsd
+++ b/auto/os/freebsd
@@ -105,3 +105,8 @@ if [ $version -ge 701000 ]; then
echo " + cpuset_setaffinity() found"
have=NGX_HAVE_CPUSET_SETAFFINITY . auto/have
fi
+
+if [ $NGX_DTRACE = YES ]; then
+ NGX_LD_OPT="$NGX_LD_OPT -lelf"
+fi
+
diff --git a/auto/os/linux b/auto/os/linux
index c932267..b5114d6 100644
--- a/auto/os/linux
+++ b/auto/os/linux
@@ -171,3 +171,5 @@ ngx_include="sys/vfs.h"; . auto/include
CC_AUX_FLAGS="$cc_aux_flags -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
+
+DTRACE_FROM_SYSTEMTAP=YES
diff --git a/auto/sources b/auto/sources
index 2abbc60..fa7157d 100644
--- a/auto/sources
+++ b/auto/sources
@@ -39,10 +39,16 @@ CORE_DEPS="src/core/nginx.h \
src/core/ngx_resolver.h \
src/core/ngx_open_file_cache.h \
src/core/ngx_crypt.h \
+ src/core/ngx_core_probe.h \
src/core/ngx_proxy_protocol.h \
src/core/ngx_syslog.h"
+if [ $NGX_DTRACE = YES ]; then
+ CORE_DEPS="$CORE_DEPS objs/ngx_dtrace_provider.h"
+fi
+
+
CORE_SRCS="src/core/nginx.c \
src/core/ngx_log.c \
src/core/ngx_palloc.c \
@@ -91,13 +97,14 @@ OPENSSL_SRCS="src/event/ngx_event_openssl.c \
EVENT_MODULES="ngx_events_module ngx_event_core_module"
-EVENT_INCS="src/event src/event/modules"
+EVENT_INCS="src/event src/event/modules src/http src/http/modules"
EVENT_DEPS="src/event/ngx_event.h \
src/event/ngx_event_timer.h \
src/event/ngx_event_posted.h \
src/event/ngx_event_connect.h \
- src/event/ngx_event_pipe.h"
+ src/event/ngx_event_pipe.h \
+ src/event/ngx_event_probe.h"
EVENT_SRCS="src/event/ngx_event.c \
src/event/ngx_event_timer.c \
@@ -289,7 +296,8 @@ HTTP_DEPS="src/http/ngx_http.h \
src/http/ngx_http_variables.h \
src/http/ngx_http_script.h \
src/http/ngx_http_upstream.h \
- src/http/ngx_http_upstream_round_robin.h"
+ src/http/ngx_http_upstream_round_robin.h \
+ src/http/ngx_http_probe.h"
HTTP_SRCS="src/http/ngx_http.c \
src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c \
@@ -593,3 +601,8 @@ NGX_GOOGLE_PERFTOOLS_MODULE=ngx_google_perftools_module
NGX_GOOGLE_PERFTOOLS_SRCS=src/misc/ngx_google_perftools_module.c
NGX_CPP_TEST_SRCS=src/misc/ngx_cpp_test_module.cpp
+
+NGX_DTRACE_PROVIDERS=src/dtrace/nginx_provider.d
+
+NGX_TAPSET_SRCS=src/dtrace/nginx.stp
+
diff --git a/auto/summary b/auto/summary
index 1be975d..a1b6109 100644
--- a/auto/summary
+++ b/auto/summary
@@ -71,6 +71,19 @@ else
echo " nginx logs errors to stderr"
fi
+if [ $NGX_DTRACE = YES ]; then
+ cat << END
+ nginx dtrace static probes enabled
+END
+
+ if [ $DTRACE_FROM_SYSTEMTAP = YES ]; then
+ cat << END
+ nginx systemtap tapset prefix: "$NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX"
+ nginx systemtap wrapper script: "$NGX_STAP_NGX_PATH"
+END
+ fi
+fi
+
cat << END
nginx http access log file: "$NGX_HTTP_LOG_PATH"
nginx http client request body temporary files: "$NGX_HTTP_CLIENT_TEMP_PATH"
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index ceff15e..49223f8 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ if [ $NGX_DEBUG = YES ]; then
have=NGX_DEBUG . auto/have
fi
+if [ $NGX_DTRACE = YES ]; then
+ have=NGX_DTRACE . auto/have
+fi
if test -z "$NGX_PLATFORM"; then
echo "checking for OS"
diff --git a/src/core/ngx_core_probe.h b/src/core/ngx_core_probe.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91bf91e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/ngx_core_probe.h
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#ifndef _NGX_CORE_PROBE_H_INCLUDED_
+#define _NGX_CORE_PROBE_H_INCLUDED_
+
+
+#include <ngx_config.h>
+#include <ngx_core.h>
+#include <ngx_event.h>
+
+
+#if (NGX_DTRACE)
+
+#include <ngx_http.h>
+#include <ngx_dtrace_provider.h>
+
+#define ngx_core_probe_create_pool_done(pool, size) \
+ NGINX_CREATE_POOL_DONE(pool, size)
+
+#else /* !(NGX_DTRACE) */
+
+#define ngx_core_probe_create_pool_done(pool, size)
+
+#endif
+
+
+#endif /* _NGX_CORE_PROBE_H_INCLUDED_ */
diff --git a/src/core/ngx_palloc.c b/src/core/ngx_palloc.c
index ef4a647..49bb30b 100644
--- a/src/core/ngx_palloc.c
+++ b/src/core/ngx_palloc.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>
+#include <ngx_core_probe.h>
static void *ngx_palloc_block(ngx_pool_t *pool, size_t size);
@@ -37,6 +38,8 @@ ngx_create_pool(size_t size, ngx_log_t *log)
p->cleanup = NULL;
p->log = log;
+ ngx_core_probe_create_pool_done(p, size);
+
return p;
}
diff --git a/src/dtrace/nginx.stp b/src/dtrace/nginx.stp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e824daf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/dtrace/nginx.stp
@@ -0,0 +1,299 @@
+/* tapset for nginx */
+
+
+function ngx_indent(n, delta)
+{
+ s = ""
+ for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
+ s .= delta
+ }
+
+ return s
+}
+
+
+function ngx_http_subreq_depth(r)
+{
+ depth = 0
+
+ for (pr = @cast(r, "ngx_http_request_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->parent;
+ pr != 0;
+ pr = @cast(pr, "ngx_http_request_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->parent)
+ {
+ depth++
+ }
+
+ return depth
+}
+
+
+function ngx_http_req_parent(r)
+{
+ return @cast(r, "ngx_http_request_s", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->parent
+}
+
+
+/* retrieve the request uri string from the ngx_http_request_t pointer */
+function ngx_http_req_uri(r)
+{
+ len = @cast(r, "ngx_http_request_s", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->uri->len
+
+ if (len == 0) {
+ return ""
+ }
+
+ return user_string_n(@cast(r, "ngx_http_request_s", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->uri->data, len)
+}
+
+
+/* retrieve the request query string from the ngx_http_request_t pointer */
+function ngx_http_req_args(r)
+{
+ len = @cast(r, "ngx_http_request_s", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->args->len
+
+ if (len == 0) {
+ return ""
+ }
+
+ return user_string_n(@cast(r, "ngx_http_request_s", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->args->data, len)
+}
+
+
+/* retrieve the first command name (or directive name) from
+ * the ngx_module_t pointer */
+function ngx_http_module_cmd(m)
+{
+ cmds = @cast(m, "ngx_module_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->commands
+ if (cmds == 0) {
+ return ""
+ }
+
+ len = @cast(cmds, "ngx_command_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->name->len
+
+ if (len == 0) {
+ return ""
+ }
+
+ return user_string_n(@cast(cmds, "ngx_command_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->name->data, len)
+}
+
+
+function ngx_chain_buf(cl)
+{
+ return @cast(cl, "ngx_chain_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->buf
+}
+
+
+function ngx_chain_next(cl)
+{
+ return @cast(cl, "ngx_chain_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->next
+}
+
+function ngx_buf_tag(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->tag
+}
+
+function ngx_buf_in_memory(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->temporary
+ || @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->memory
+ || @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->mmap
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_pos(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->pos
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_file_pos(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->file_pos
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_last(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->last
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_file_last(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->file_last
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_end(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->end
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_in_file(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->in_file
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_last_buf(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "/home/agentzh/git/lua-nginx-module/work/nginx/sbin/nginx")->last_buf
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_last_in_chain(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "/home/agentzh/git/lua-nginx-module/work/nginx/sbin/nginx")->last_in_chain
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_sync(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "/home/agentzh/git/lua-nginx-module/work/nginx/sbin/nginx")->sync
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_flush(b)
+{
+ return @cast(b, "ngx_buf_t", "/home/agentzh/git/lua-nginx-module/work/nginx/sbin/nginx")->flush
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_size(b)
+{
+ if (ngx_buf_in_memory(b)) {
+ return ngx_buf_last(b) - ngx_buf_pos(b)
+ }
+
+ return ngx_buf_file_last(b) - ngx_buf_file_pos(b)
+}
+
+
+function ngx_buf_data(b)
+{
+ return user_string_n(ngx_buf_pos(b), ngx_buf_last(b) - ngx_buf_pos(b))
+}
+
+
+function ngx_chain_writer_ctx_out(ctx)
+{
+ return @cast(c, "ngx_chain_writer_ctx_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->out
+}
+
+
+function ngx_chain_dump:string (input)
+{
+ if (input == 0) {
+ return "NULL"
+ }
+
+ out = ""
+ cl = input
+ while (cl) {
+ buf = ngx_chain_buf(cl)
+
+ if (ngx_buf_in_memory(buf)) {
+ out .= sprintf("[%s]", text_str(ngx_buf_data(buf)))
+
+ } else {
+ out .= "\"\""
+ }
+
+ if (ngx_buf_in_file(buf)) {
+ out .= sprintf("<in_file:%d-%d>", ngx_buf_file_pos(buf),
+ ngx_buf_file_last(buf))
+ }
+
+ if (ngx_buf_last_buf(buf)) {
+ out .= "<last_buf>"
+ }
+
+ if (ngx_buf_last_in_chain(buf)) {
+ out .= "<last_in_chain>"
+ }
+
+ if (ngx_buf_sync(buf)) {
+ out .= "<sync>"
+ }
+
+ if (ngx_buf_flush(buf)) {
+ out .= "<flush>"
+ }
+
+ tag = ngx_buf_tag(buf)
+ if (tag) {
+ out .= sprintf("<tag:%p>", tag)
+ }
+
+ cl = ngx_chain_next(cl)
+ if (cl) {
+ out .= " "
+ }
+ }
+ return out
+}
+
+
+function ngx_pool_cleanup_file_name(c)
+{
+ return user_string(@cast(c, "ngx_pool_cleanup_file_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->name)
+}
+
+
+function ngx_http_req_content_length(r)
+{
+ return @cast(r, "ngx_http_request_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->headers_in->content_length_n
+}
+
+
+function ngx_http_req_body_temp_file_name(r)
+{
+ rb = @cast(r, "ngx_http_request_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->request_body
+ if (!rb) {
+ return ""
+ }
+
+ tf = @cast(rb, "ngx_http_request_body_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->temp_file
+ if (!tf) {
+ return ""
+ }
+
+ len = @cast(tf, "ngx_temp_file_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->file->name->len
+
+ return user_string_n(@cast(tf, "ngx_temp_file_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->file->name->data, len)
+}
+
+
+function ngx_table_elt_key(e)
+{
+ len = @cast(e, "ngx_table_elt_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->key->len
+
+ return user_string_n(@cast(e, "ngx_table_elt_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->key->data, len)
+}
+
+
+function ngx_table_elt_value(e)
+{
+ len = @cast(e, "ngx_table_elt_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->value->len
+
+ return user_string_n(@cast(e, "ngx_table_elt_t", "NGX_SBIN_PATH")->value->data, len)
+}
+
+
+function ngx_iovec_dump:string (iov, iovcnt) {
+ out = ""
+ for (i = 0; i < iovcnt; i++) {
+ out .= sprintf("\"%s\"(%p)", text_str(user_string_n(
+ @cast(iov, "struct iovec")[i]->iov_base,
+ @cast(iov, "struct iovec")[i]->iov_len)
+ ), @cast(iov, "struct iovec")[i]->iov_base)
+ if (i != iovcnt - 1) {
+ out .= " "
+ }
+ }
+ return out
+}
+
diff --git a/src/dtrace/nginx_provider.d b/src/dtrace/nginx_provider.d
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5887ae7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/dtrace/nginx_provider.d
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+typedef struct { int dummy; } ngx_http_request_t;
+typedef struct { int dummy; } ngx_str_t;
+typedef int64_t ngx_int_t;
+typedef uint64_t ngx_uint_t;
+typedef ngx_uint_t ngx_msec_t;
+typedef struct { int dummy; } ngx_module_t;
+typedef struct { int dummy; } ngx_http_module_t;
+typedef struct { int dummy; } ngx_table_elt_t;
+typedef struct { int dummy; } ngx_event_t;
+typedef struct { int dummy; } ngx_pool_t;
+typedef char unsigned u_char;
+
+
+provider nginx {
+ /* probes for subrequests */
+ probe http__subrequest__cycle(ngx_http_request_t *pr, ngx_str_t *uri, ngx_str_t *args);
+ probe http__subrequest__start(ngx_http_request_t *r);
+ probe http__subrequest__finalize_writing(ngx_http_request_t *r);
+ probe http__subrequest__finalize_nonactive(ngx_http_request_t *r);
+ probe http__subrequest__wake__parent(ngx_http_request_t *r);
+ probe http__subrequest__done(ngx_http_request_t *r);
+ probe http__subrequest__post__start(ngx_http_request_t *r, ngx_int_t rc);
+ probe http__subrequest__post__done(ngx_http_request_t *r, ngx_int_t rc);
+ probe http__module__post__config(ngx_module_t *m);
+ probe http__read__body__done(ngx_http_request_t *r);
+ probe http__read__req__line__done(ngx_http_request_t *r);
+ probe http__read__req__header__done(ngx_http_request_t *r, ngx_table_elt_t *h);
+ probe timer__add(ngx_event_t *ev, ngx_msec_t timer);
+ probe timer__del(ngx_event_t *ev);
+ probe timer__expire(ngx_event_t *ev);
+ probe create__pool__done(ngx_pool_t *pool, size_t size);
+};
+
+
+#pragma D attributes Evolving/Evolving/Common provider nginx provider
+#pragma D attributes Private/Private/Unknown provider nginx module
+#pragma D attributes Private/Private/Unknown provider nginx function
+#pragma D attributes Private/Private/Common provider nginx name
+#pragma D attributes Evolving/Evolving/Common provider nginx args
+
diff --git a/src/dtrace/stap-nginx b/src/dtrace/stap-nginx
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..1bca4cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/dtrace/stap-nginx
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+PATH="NGX_SBIN_DIR:$PATH"
+export PATH
+exec stap -d "NGX_SBIN_PATH" -I "NGX_TAPSET_PREFIX" "$@"
+
diff --git a/src/event/ngx_event_probe.h b/src/event/ngx_event_probe.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5aa0397
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/event/ngx_event_probe.h
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#ifndef _NGX_EVENT_PROBE_H_INCLUDED_
+#define _NGX_EVENT_PROBE_H_INCLUDED_
+
+
+#include <ngx_config.h>
+#include <ngx_core.h>
+#include <ngx_event.h>
+
+
+#if (NGX_DTRACE)
+
+#include <ngx_http.h>
+#include <ngx_dtrace_provider.h>
+
+#define ngx_event_probe_timer_add(ev, timer) \
+ NGINX_TIMER_ADD(ev, timer)
+
+#define ngx_event_probe_timer_del(ev) \
+ NGINX_TIMER_DEL(ev)
+
+#define ngx_event_probe_timer_expire(ev) \
+ NGINX_TIMER_EXPIRE(ev)
+
+#else /* !(NGX_DTRACE) */
+
+#define ngx_event_probe_timer_add(ev, timer)
+#define ngx_event_probe_timer_del(ev)
+#define ngx_event_probe_timer_expire(ev)
+
+#endif
+
+
+#endif /* _NGX_EVENT_PROBE_H_INCLUDED_ */
diff --git a/src/event/ngx_event_timer.c b/src/event/ngx_event_timer.c
index 8f547b2..6e77465 100644
--- a/src/event/ngx_event_timer.c
+++ b/src/event/ngx_event_timer.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>
#include <ngx_event.h>
+#include <ngx_event_probe.h>
ngx_rbtree_t ngx_event_timer_rbtree;
@@ -91,6 +92,8 @@ ngx_event_expire_timers(void)
ev->timedout = 1;
+ ngx_event_probe_timer_expire(ev);
+
ev->handler(ev);
}
}
@@ -136,3 +139,19 @@ ngx_event_cancel_timers(void)
ev->handler(ev);
}
}
+
+
+#if (NGX_DTRACE)
+void
+ngx_event_probe_timer_add_helper(ngx_event_t *ev, ngx_msec_t timer)
+{
+ ngx_event_probe_timer_add(ev, timer);
+}
+
+
+void
+ngx_event_probe_timer_del_helper(ngx_event_t *ev)
+{
+ ngx_event_probe_timer_del(ev);
+}
+#endif
diff --git a/src/event/ngx_event_timer.h b/src/event/ngx_event_timer.h
index 99f8a48..8bc619a 100644
--- a/src/event/ngx_event_timer.h
+++ b/src/event/ngx_event_timer.h
@@ -25,12 +25,23 @@ void ngx_event_expire_timers(void);
void ngx_event_cancel_timers(void);
+#if (NGX_DTRACE)
+void ngx_event_probe_timer_add_helper(ngx_event_t *ev,
+ ngx_msec_t timer);
+void ngx_event_probe_timer_del_helper(ngx_event_t *ev);
+#endif
+
+
extern ngx_rbtree_t ngx_event_timer_rbtree;
static ngx_inline void
ngx_event_del_timer(ngx_event_t *ev)
{
+#if (NGX_DTRACE)
+ ngx_event_probe_timer_del_helper(ev);
+#endif
+
ngx_log_debug2(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_EVENT, ev->log, 0,
"event timer del: %d: %M",
ngx_event_ident(ev->data), ev->timer.key);
@@ -77,6 +88,10 @@ ngx_event_add_timer(ngx_event_t *ev, ngx_msec_t timer)
ev->timer.key = key;
+#if (NGX_DTRACE)
+ ngx_event_probe_timer_add_helper(ev, timer);
+#endif
+
ngx_log_debug3(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_EVENT, ev->log, 0,
"event timer add: %d: %M:%M",
ngx_event_ident(ev->data), timer, ev->timer.key);
diff --git a/src/http/ngx_http.c b/src/http/ngx_http.c
index d09e3f0..5ae35a7 100644
--- a/src/http/ngx_http.c
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>
#include <ngx_http.h>
+#include <ngx_http_probe.h>
static char *ngx_http_block(ngx_conf_t *cf, ngx_command_t *cmd, void *conf);
@@ -312,6 +313,9 @@ ngx_http_block(ngx_conf_t *cf, ngx_command_t *cmd, void *conf)
module = ngx_modules[m]->ctx;
if (module->postconfiguration) {
+
+ ngx_http_probe_module_post_config(ngx_modules[m]);
+
if (module->postconfiguration(cf) != NGX_OK) {
return NGX_CONF_ERROR;
}
diff --git a/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c b/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c
index 49c4560..808d1d8 100644
--- a/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http_core_module.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>
#include <ngx_http.h>
+#include <ngx_http_probe.h>
typedef struct {
@@ -2431,6 +2432,8 @@ ngx_http_subrequest(ngx_http_request_t *r,
ngx_http_postponed_request_t *pr, *p;
if (r->subrequests == 0) {
+ ngx_http_probe_subrequest_cycle(r, uri, args);
+
ngx_log_error(NGX_LOG_ERR, r->connection->log, 0,
"subrequests cycle while processing \"%V\"", uri);
return NGX_ERROR;
@@ -2557,6 +2560,8 @@ ngx_http_subrequest(ngx_http_request_t *r,
*psr = sr;
+ ngx_http_probe_subrequest_start(sr);
+
return ngx_http_post_request(sr, NULL);
}
diff --git a/src/http/ngx_http_probe.h b/src/http/ngx_http_probe.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d7d2d45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http_probe.h
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+#ifndef _NGX_HTTP_PROBE_H_INCLUDED_
+#define _NGX_HTTP_PROBE_H_INCLUDED_
+
+
+#include <ngx_config.h>
+#include <ngx_core.h>
+#include <ngx_http.h>
+
+
+#if (NGX_DTRACE)
+
+#include <ngx_dtrace_provider.h>
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_cycle(pr, uri, args) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_CYCLE(pr, uri, args)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_start(r) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_START(r)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_finalize_writing(r) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_FINALIZE_WRITING(r)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_finalize_nonactive(r) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_FINALIZE_NONACTIVE(r)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_finalize_nonactive(r) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_FINALIZE_NONACTIVE(r)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_wake_parent(r) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_WAKE_PARENT(r)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_done(r) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_DONE(r)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_post_start(r, rc) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_POST_START(r, rc)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_post_done(r, rc) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_POST_DONE(r, rc)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_module_post_config(m) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_MODULE_POST_CONFIG(m)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_read_body_abort(r, reason) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_READ_BODY_ABORT(r, reason)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_read_body_done(r) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_READ_BODY_DONE(r)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_read_req_line_done(r) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_READ_REQ_LINE_DONE(r)
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_read_req_header_done(r, h) \
+ NGINX_HTTP_READ_REQ_HEADER_DONE(r, h)
+
+#else /* !(NGX_DTRACE) */
+
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_cycle(pr, uri, args)
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_start(r)
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_finalize_writing(r)
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_finalize_nonactive(r)
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_wake_parent(r)
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_done(r)
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_post_start(r, rc)
+#define ngx_http_probe_subrequest_post_done(r, rc)
+#define ngx_http_probe_module_post_config(m)
+#define ngx_http_probe_read_body_abort(r, reason)
+#define ngx_http_probe_read_body_done(r)
+#define ngx_http_probe_read_req_line_done(r)
+#define ngx_http_probe_read_req_header_done(r, h)
+
+#endif /* NGX_DTRACE */
+
+
+#endif /* _NGX_HTTP_PROBE_H_INCLUDED_ */
diff --git a/src/http/ngx_http_request.c b/src/http/ngx_http_request.c
index 1bd14e6..92f5a88 100644
--- a/src/http/ngx_http_request.c
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http_request.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>
#include <ngx_http.h>
+#include <ngx_http_probe.h>
static void ngx_http_wait_request_handler(ngx_event_t *ev);
@@ -1054,7 +1055,6 @@ ngx_http_process_request_line(ngx_event_t *rev)
}
}
-
ngx_int_t
ngx_http_process_request_uri(ngx_http_request_t *r)
{
@@ -1311,6 +1311,8 @@ ngx_http_process_request_headers(ngx_event_t *rev)
return;
}
+ ngx_http_probe_read_req_header_done(r, h);
+
ngx_log_debug2(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_HTTP, r->connection->log, 0,
"http header: \"%V: %V\"",
&h->key, &h->value);
@@ -2281,7 +2283,11 @@ ngx_http_finalize_request(ngx_http_request_t *r, ngx_int_t rc)
}
if (r != r->main && r->post_subrequest) {
+ ngx_http_probe_subrequest_post_start(r, rc);
+
rc = r->post_subrequest->handler(r, r->post_subrequest->data, rc);
+
+ ngx_http_probe_subrequest_post_done(r, rc);
}
if (rc == NGX_ERROR
@@ -2331,6 +2337,8 @@ ngx_http_finalize_request(ngx_http_request_t *r, ngx_int_t rc)
if (r->buffered || r->postponed) {
+ ngx_http_probe_subrequest_finalize_writing(r);
+
if (ngx_http_set_write_handler(r) != NGX_OK) {
ngx_http_terminate_request(r, 0);
}
@@ -2366,10 +2374,14 @@ ngx_http_finalize_request(ngx_http_request_t *r, ngx_int_t rc)
pr->postponed = pr->postponed->next;
}
+ ngx_http_probe_subrequest_done(r);
+
c->data = pr;
} else {
+ ngx_http_probe_subrequest_finalize_nonactive(r);
+
ngx_log_debug2(NGX_LOG_DEBUG_HTTP, c->log, 0,
"http finalize non-active request: \"%V?%V\"",
&r->uri, &r->args);
@@ -2381,6 +2393,8 @@ ngx_http_finalize_request(ngx_http_request_t *r, ngx_int_t rc)
}
}
+ ngx_http_probe_subrequest_wake_parent(r);
+
if (ngx_http_post_request(pr, NULL) != NGX_OK) {
r->main->count++;
ngx_http_terminate_request(r, 0);
diff --git a/src/http/ngx_http_request_body.c b/src/http/ngx_http_request_body.c
index 77e92e3..5b14369 100644
--- a/src/http/ngx_http_request_body.c
+++ b/src/http/ngx_http_request_body.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#include <ngx_config.h>
#include <ngx_core.h>
#include <ngx_http.h>
+#include <ngx_http_probe.h>
static void ngx_http_read_client_request_body_handler(ngx_http_request_t *r);
@@ -477,6 +478,8 @@ ngx_http_do_read_client_request_body(ngx_http_request_t *r)
rb->post_handler(r);
}
+ ngx_http_probe_read_body_done(r);
+
return NGX_OK;
}
|
Kuala Lumpur
Eat and meet
Bars & nightlife
Kuala Lumpur has a vibrant nightlife, which may be surprising to some as the city is the capital of a Muslim-majority country. But KL offers something to suit all tastes once the sun dips, from low-key neighbourhood pubs through to cutting-edge clubs. Whatever kind of place rocks your boat, a near-universal feature is how relaxed and friendly everything is. It's refreshingly easy in KL for... Read our full review of Nightlife in KL.
One of the biggest complaints about Kuala Lumpur, from both visitors and residents alike, is the shocking price of alcohol. It is often more expensive to get a drink in KL than in notoriously expensive cities like London and New York (and er, islands like Bali). Hefty government taxes are partly to blame, but many bars and restaurants contribute to the problem by having extremely high mark-ups.... Read our full review of Happy hours and other ways to get cheap(er) drinks in Kuala Lumpur.
As Kuala Lumpur grows ever upwards, one of the benefits is an increasing number of rooftop bars where you can get spectacular views of the city. For the most part these are based in high end hotels, making for a mixed clientele of well-heeled locals, expats and visitors. The dress code tends towards “smart casual”, so no sandals, shorts or vests for... Read our full review of Best rooftop bars in Kuala Lumpur.
Cafes
With a red and black exterior and a patio occupied to the brim during lunch, Antipodean Cafe on Kuala Lumpur‘s trendy Jalan Telawi is one of Bangsar’s most successful lunch and coffeehouses (though they’re open for dinner too). Drawing inspiration from the taste and lifestyle of the Antipodes to the south, its extensive menu is locally sourced as much as possible and includes classics as... Read our full review of The Antipodean.
If anywhere in KL can claim to have a burgeoning cafe culture it is Bangsar, particularly the area centred on Jalan Telawi and on the upper floor of Bangsar Village II is where you'll find Marmalade -- one of KL's most charming eateries. It serves up an imaginative selection of breakfasts, salads, sandwiches and pasta dishes. The kids menu helps cement its popularity amongst local yummy... Read our full review of Marmalade.
The cafe serves up light-ish food, such as quiches, pies and salads. The selection may be on the small side, but the portions are generous. Staff can be charming or snotty, depending one side of the bed they go out of. Somewhat difficult to find, it's tucked away in the corner of Peter Hoe Evolution, KL's funkiest shop, on the second floor of the Lee Rubber Building.
The closest public... Read our full review of Peter Hoe Cafe.
When I first came to Kuala Lumpur, a workmate of mine offered to take me to their favourite Chinese eatery. I readily accepted the offer, but as we entered the place, I began to have second thoughts. Our “restaurant” was a collection of plastic tables and stools, located inside a car park. Once the food arrived though, my doubts evaporated. This was seriously good stuff — Chinese food with... Read our full review of An introduction to Chinese coffee shops in Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysia is one of the few places I can think of that has a deeply ingrained culture of both tea and coffee drinking. For the most part, coffee (like tea come to think of it) is served up strong, milky and sweet; an anti-skinny decaff latte if you like. The quality is higher at traditional Malaysian cafes known as kopitiams, which were once common in Kuala Lumpur, but are now an endangered... Read our full review of Where to get a good cup of coffee in Kuala Lumpur.
Tea drinking has been part of Malaysian life for hundreds of years, although exactly when the habit started is unclear. The most likely explanation is that it was brought to the country by traders from China. The word for tea in Malay is teh, derived from Hokkien, the dialect spoken in the Chinese province of Fujian, and by many Malaysian Chinese. Confusingly enough, in Kuala Lumpur, the most... Read our full review of Drinking and buying tea in Kuala Lumpur.
Forget the decor, this eatery is all about the food, which has kept it popular for half a century. While the language and lack of menu are a bit of a headache, it is well worth making the extra effort to enjoy their stand-out dishes including the crispy sweet and sour fish and belly pork.
If in doubt, ask for help from your fellow diners. For character, opt for the older bulding, for air-con,... Read our full review of Sek Yuen.
Its intimate, stylish Bangsar branch, serves a selection of decent thin-crust pizzas and Asian favourites, such as mee siam (Thai style fried noodles), and has a commendable wine list, but it's the desserts which set pulses racing. The pavlova and tiramisu are just two of the shockingly good options. Be warned though, such pleasure does not come cheap -- a dessert and a soft drink will set you... Read our full review of Alexis.
It's part of the BIG Group launched in 2011 by Benjamin Yong, a man with a seeming Midas touch when it comes to food. When it opened, Plan B focused on breakfasts, light pasta dishes, salads and sandwiches, but has now introduced an evening menu too. Prices are very reasonable, and wine bought from the nearby Ben's General Store does not attract a corkage charge.
Bangsar Village is a twenty... Read our full review of Plan B.
Coliseum has been serving food and drink for more than 90 years and while the mostly Western-style food may not hit any great heights, and the service is nothing to shout about, the place is soaked in history, and well worth at least one visit.
Coliseum is on Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman about half way (as the crow flies) between Masjid Jemak and Bandaraya LRTs. If you're walking from Masjid... Read our full review of Coliseum Cafe.
Chinese
The steamed meat dumplings are delicious, as are many of the more unusual dishes, such as the noodles mixed with sesame and peanut, and pumpkin with salted duck eggs.
Din Tai Fung has several clearly-marked vegetarian dishes, and is happy to adapt dishes where posssible. It's best to go with at least one other person, so you can smaple a good range of the flavours and textures on offer.... Read our full review of Din Tai Fung.
Worth the visit for its chicken wings alone, it is does superb seafood dishes, like chilli prawns and black pepper crab. The English menu and a willingness to adapt dishes to your taste or dietery needs are other bonuses. Wong Ah Wah's popularity means it has no need to lure in customers with menu-waving waiters, unlike many of its rivals along Jalan Alor. It's open from late afternoon until the... Read our full review of Wong Ah Wah.
One of the finest options is Li Yen in the Ritz Carlton. It is renowned for its service, its sumptuous decor and cassic Cantonese cuisine, including top notch dim sum.
Stand-out dishes include the golden prawns (deep fried with shredded yam) and deep fried fish with salt and pepper. While the food is not outrageously priced for the quality on offer, alcohol prices are another matter entirely.... Read our full review of Li Yen.
This place has a door-stopper size picture menu, most with an English description of the dish. Portions are large, so if you want to sample a a selection of different offerings, best to go in a group. Solo diners are better off opting for good value single plate meals.
Set at the far southern end of Chinatown on Jalan Panggong, the closest monorail station to Wan Fo Yuan is... Read our full review of Wan Fo Yuan.
Kedai Kopi Lai Foong, near to Sze Wa Taoist temple, is well worth popping into if you are in the neighbourhood. The restaurant feels a little like a mini food market as there are a bunch of stalls around the perimeter, each preparing a specific dish. Prices are clearly displayed and you pay as soon as the food arrives. Kedai Kopi Lai Foong is especially well known for its beef noodle soup and... Read our full review of Kedai Kopi Lai Foong.
One of the few proper Chinese coffee shops left in central KL, the decor does not seem to have changed for decades. Or some of the customers for that matter. During the day, you order food from the various stalls, while someone will come to your table to take drinks orders.
Favourites here include char siew (Cantonese barbecued pork), and curry mee (noodle) soup. Zhing Hong has a good... Read our full review of Restoran Zhing Kong.
Yut Kee is a Kuala Lumpur culinary institution, although sadly not one many visitors will have heard of. It’s been serving up tasty food and drink for 83 years, making it one of the city’s very oldest eateries. In that time, this traditional Chinese coffee shop has survived a world war, several recessions, umpteen floods, the communal violence of 1969, and until now, the relentless march of... Read our full review of Yut Kee Restaurant.
Known as century eggs, hundred-year eggs, millennium eggs or pidan, this Chinese delicacy is not as old as its name suggests but might take that long to work up the courage to eat. If you can get over the pungent smell and its odd colour, its a popular dish in Malaysia that you might find yourself... Read our full review of Century eggs.
Ming Tien in Taman Megah is one outdoor food court you shouldn’t miss trying out in Kuala Lumpur. Festooned with coloured lights, wooden huts and trees, Ming Tien is an affordable but popular location to taste local dishes once the sun... Read our full review of Ming Tien Food Court.
Dim sum is a Cantonese custom that you can enjoy at various locations throughout Kuala Lumpur. Dim Sum, literally translated as “to touch your heart,” originated in the teahouses of China but this charming way of dining has made inroads into most parts of Asia and has become part of the culture in Malaysia and beyond. Although it was originally considered inappropriate to enjoy a cup of tea... Read our full review of Dim sum in Kuala Lumpur.
Familiar with Cantonese cuisine? It’s more than just dim sum, with roast duck being an institution all of its own. In London, the Four Seasons’ roast duck restaurant has become famous, particularly in Cantonese circles, for being the best outside of Hong Kong. Now two siblings who worked for eight years in the London Bayswater establishment along with other ex-London based relatives have... Read our full review of Village Roast Duck.
With a large Chinese population in Malaysia, it comes as no surprise that many prized dishes from China have become commonplace. Some of them are just too good to miss, like Beijing’s famous duck dish, Peking... Read our full review of Peking duck in Kuala Lumpur.
Dragon-i has two main specialities, Shanghainese la mian (pulled noodles), which you can see prepared in the open kitchen area, and xiao long bao (steamed dumplings). But the menu it is filled with tasty treats, none of which is likely to break the bank. The braised pork belly, and salt and pepper bean curd are both recommended. Dragon-i wins bonus points for having several clearly-marked... Read our full review of Dragon-i.
Fine dining
French chef Nathalie Arbefeuille has taken the KL fine dining scene by storm over the last few years, with her mix of classic Franco-Italian cuisine and more innovative European/Asian fusion dishes. Of her two KL restaurants, the most convenient for visitors is Cuisine Gourmet by Nathalie.
Her cooking is deceptively simple, forgoing flashiness, to turn out satisfying dishes like foie gras... Read our full review of Cuisine Gourmet by Nathalie.
The weekday three course set lunch costs just 100 ringgit, for some of KL's very best food. Dishes like chicken consomme with black truffle and foie gras terrine; and wagyu beef with roasted eringi (a type of Japanese mushroom), are incredible value for money. The a la carte choices are even more sumptuous. A very nice touch, is that all prices at Sage are quoted nett, so no sneaky plus plus... Read our full review of Sage.
Food courts
Food is a very important draw at these temples to consumerism, split into two distinct types, stand-alone restaurants, and food courts. Every shopping centre has at least one food court, some of the larger ones have several.
They all run on much the same principle though, that you order food from individual outlets, and sit down wherever you can find a free table. This can be somewhat of a... Read our full review of Food courts in KL.
Gastropub
If you are looking for a proper non-halal fried breakfast, with real bacon and pork sausages, then these outlets take a lot of beating. Other highlights include the bangers and mash (sausage and mashed potatoes), burgers and steaks. The sausages are made in house, and are so highly regarded as to be sold in most of the city's best supermarkets. Although very popular with locals, Jarrod's attracts... Read our full review of Jarrod and Rawlins.
Named after the ancient name for Britain, the menu would not be out of place in London, where the two owners (one British, one Malaysian) learnt their trade. Albion KL serves up a mixture of British classics with a twist, such as beer battered fish and chips, as well as more global offerings, like gravadlax (Swedish-style cured salmon).
The express lunch deal, offering three courses for... Read our full review of Albion KL.
Wild mushroom risotto (slow cooked Italian rice), with oyster mushroom tempura, is just one of the imaginative offerings. But the menu has simpler non-fusion fare too, such as the steak sandwich. As an added bonus, vegetarians are well catered for.
Although not cheap, a starter, main course and dessert should still leave change from 100 ringgit. The ground floor has the feel of an upmarket... Read our full review of Twentyone Kitchen and Bar.
It has nine different choices of battered fish, including classics like cod, and more unusual options such as parrot fish. The barramundi is a good option. Away from fish & chips, the hearty pies are also recommended, particularly the steak and Guinness.
For a true taste of home, assuming you come from the north of England that is, the chips with curry sauce are a must. Prices are moderate to... Read our full review of The Magnificent Fish and Chips Bar.
Indian
The Indian dining experience does not get much more sumptuous (or over the top) than at Bombay Palace, set in colonial bungalow on the edge of KLCC. It's on the pricey side, especially if you order wine, but the food is reliably good. Stand-out dishes include the butter chicken (creamy chicken curry) and the palak paneer.
Bombay Palace is at 215 Jalan Tun Razak, just to the north of the Royal... Read our full review of Bombay Palace.
Nagasari is a bit unusual in other ways too. Although it looks like a Mamak shop, and opens nearly as long hours, its menu is a mix of south and north Indian dishes, including banana leaf (12:00-15:00), tandoori chicken and aloo capsicum (potatoes and sweet pepper curry), all done to the same high standards. It also has a stall serving Chinese vegetarian food at lunchtime, and another one,... Read our full review of Nagasari Curry House.
If there is one local food experience which should be tried at least once by every visitor to KL, it is the banana leak curry. At its most basic, this meal consists of rice, south Indian curries, salads and chutneys, served on a banana leaf, all for 5-6 ringgit.
What sets Devi's apart, is not just the quality of the basic selection, but also the range of curry sauces to slop over your rice... Read our full review of Devi's Corner.
Named after nasi kandar, originally a Penang favourite of steamed rice served with a selection of dishes, but now mostly associated with Malaysian Indian Muslims (Mamaks). Other popular offerings include a wide selection of South Indian breads, ketam masala (stewed crab with curry sauce), burung puyuh (fried quail) and ayam kampung goreng (crispy fried chicken).
If you're finding mall eating... Read our full review of Nasi Kandar Pelita.
One of the undoubted culinary highlights of Kuala Lumpur is south Indian food, done with a distinctive Malaysian twist. The eateries can be divided into two main categories: those run by Hindus, and those run by Indians who have converted to Islam, known as Mamaks. Although many dishes turn up at both types of establishment, distinctive differences do exist between... Read our full review of South Indian food in Kuala Lumpur.
A short hop from the Liza De Inn Hotel, you’ll find Kanna Curry House in Section 17, a residential part of Petaling Jaya. With a modest but clean interior and a simple outdoor section with plastic tables and chairs, it may look like any other south Indian joint in Kuala Lumpur. But appearances are not what’s driven this restaurant’s popularity; its banana leaf, on the other hand, has helped... Read our full review of Kanna Curry House.
South Indian restaurants are far more the norm in Kuala Lumpur, but flamboyant Sagar in Bangsar, a 15-minute cab ride from the city centre, offers a wide selection of northern Indian specialties, such as tandoori chicken, rogan gosh and chicken biryani. Vegetarians aren’t forgotten either, with a long list of dishes that’ll suit even the most hardcore vegan’s... Read our full review of Sagar.
A plate of rice topped with four different curries for breakfast? Sounds like a handful (or rather plateful) but that’s exactly what nasi kandar is about; a combination of tantalising, distinct flavours. Once you get used to the idea of consuming so many carbs and so much spice so early in the day, I guarantee you’ll be fighting for a plate of this truly Malaysian dish on... Read our full review of Nasi Kandar.
Now in it's third and largest incarnation in the area over the last five years, it finally looks to have found a long-term home.
Part of a small local chain, SK Corner offers all the classics, including roti canai (fluffy flat bread with curry saunce), tosai (thin savoury pancake, usually served with curry sauces and chutneys), Mamak mee (spicy fried noodles), ayam goreng (fried chicken),... Read our full review of Restoran SK Corner.
The deep fried bitter gourd is worth the trip to this Bangsar outlet almost by itself. Popular extras, like the ikan goreng (fried fish coated in spices), and vegetarian chicken curry, are cheap and tasty too. As an added bonus, Sri Nirwana serves banana leaf all day and all night -- at most other places it is a lunch-time treat only.
Bangsar Village is a twenty minute walk (or five minute... Read our full review of Sri Nirwana Maju.
Introduction
KL is one of world's great unsung culinary destinations. You could stay for a year, eat out every night, and still not exhaust the city's supply of superb eateries. What truly impresses about KL's eateries is how high overall standards are, especially places that are popular with... Read our full review of Great places to eat in Kuala Lumpur.
Malay & Nyonya
It serves up most of the Malay classics, including otak otak (steamed seafood mousse wrapped in a green leaf), rendang (slow cooked dry meat curry), and ayam percik (chargrilled marinated chicken).
Bijan may not be cheap (the least expensive main course is 30 ringgit), but it does represent reasonable value for money. Unusually for Malay cuisine it can be washed down with a glass of beer or... Read our full review of Bijan.
The menu includes a good selection of Malay classics, with some Indonesian ones thrown in for good measure. Recommended dishes include the sup ekor (oxtail soup), sambal tumis udang (prawns in a sour spicy sauce), and the kambing masak merah (slow-cooked marinated lamb shank).
A nice touch is the mini-tasting menus, which give diners the chance to sample a selection of dishes, such as prawns... Read our full review of Enak KL.
Kuala Lumpur is not so much the city that never sleeps, as the city that never stops eating. To say that the city’s residents like their food is a serious understatement. They are obsessed with it. Day to day life is planned around meals, not the other way... Read our full review of Eating around the clock in KL.
Every year, Kuala Lumpur plays host to a global halal conference, an indication of how important the Malaysian government views the international market for products that comply with Islamic rules. The event covers everything from food to financial services, which probably comes as a bit of a surprise to anyone who thinks the term only refers to the way an animal is slaughtered. So what does... Read our full review of Halal and Haram (Haraam) in Kuala Lumpur.
The two main centres of Nyonya cooking are Penang, where Thai influences also feature, and Melaka, where Portuguese and Indonesian cuisines form part of the mix.
The Old China Cafe explores these disparate influences to the full, serving up dishes such as gulai kepala ikan (fish head curry) and ayam cincalok (chicken with preserved shrimp). It's worth a visit for the historic shophouse alone... Read our full review of Old China Cafe.
A good way to start your meal is with the selection of appetisers, which includes popiah goreng (fried spring rolls) and cucur udang (deep fried battered prawns). Other recommended dishes include the ikan siakap masam manis (deep fried sweet and sour sea bass) and ayam panggang kuah percik (chargrilled marinated chicken).
Songket has the bonus (or curse) of live traditional entertainment... Read our full review of Songket.
Makan Kitchen not only tries to show off this regional variety, it also showcases some of Malaysia's non-Malay cuisines, including Indian, Chinese, Nyonya (Malay-Chinese), Ibanese (from the Iban people of Sarawak), and Kristang (Portuguese-Malakan). It's possible to order a la carte, or as a sort of buffet (59-79 ringgit, where you choose a selection of dishes, and it's cooked freshly for you).... Read our full review of Makan Kitchen.
Markets
As I may have mentioned before, Malaysians like their food. It’s one of the few things which cuts across all the main ethnic groups in the country. One big difference between the races though, is that while fantastic Chinese and Indian food is easily accessible to tourists, good Malay cooking is far more difficult to... Read our full review of Ramadan food markets in Kuala Lumpur.
Close to where Kuala Lumpur began in 1857 is a traffic-clogged square called Pasar Medan — literally, “market field” in Malay. It was here that the city’s pioneering tin miners bought their fresh supplies, and around which the early settlement too shape. In the late 19th century, the market was moved to a new site a few hundred metres away, where Central Market now... Read our full review of The best fresh food markets in Kuala Lumpur.
Middle Eastern
The large range of hot and cold meze, and excellent Lebanese bread sandwiches, mostly priced in the 10-15 ringgit mark, all make for high quality, decent value snacks. The same could not be said of its alcohol prices though, which are cheeky to say the least.
Al-Amar's big brother, in Pavilion, is a much more formal, and thus pricier affair, turning out what many people believe to be the best... Read our full review of Al-Amar.
The food, which is described as Arabian, is not only reliably good, but also the best value Middle Eastern cuisine in town. As well as a good range of meze, and grilled meat and fish dishes, Sahara Tent has some more esoteric offerings, like Arayess (lamb stuffed bread), and fried breaded fish fillet on a bed of hummus.
Sahara Tent is a five minute walk from Bukit Bintang monorail... Read our full review of Sahara Tent.
One such place is Naab, which specialises in Iranian fare. While most of the dishes would not look out of place on a Lebanese menu, such as the various kebabs, dolma (vine leaves stuffed with herby rice) and hummus, Naab has a sprinkling of more unusual offerings. These include lamb shank with broad bean rice and ghorme sabzi, a traditional Iranian beef stew.
Naab is good value for money,... Read our full review of Naab.
Tarbush is part of a small local chain but don't let that put you off. The sharing plates of meze (mostly vegetarian appetisers), served with warm flat bread, make for tasty meals in themselves. These include some of the best hummus (chickpea and sesame paste dip) in town, as well as baba ghanoush (smoky aubergine dip), falafel (deep fried chickpea patties) and fattoush (mixed salad topped by... Read our full review of Tarbush.
Though strictly speaking not part of the Middle East, Turkish cuisine shares many of the same dishes. What makes Bosphorus special though, is the offerings which are more particular to Turkey, including imam bayaldi (baked stuffed aubergine), cacik (yoghurt and garlic dip), lahmacun (Turkish lamb pizza), and hunkar begendi (literally the Sultan's favourite, slow cooked lamb served on aubergine... Read our full review of Bosphorus.
Other Asian cuisine
Apart from the well-executed standards, there are also a number of more unusual dishes, such chor ladda (chicken and peanut dumplings) and Yam Hua Plee (banana flower and minced chicken salad), many from the Isaan region of Thailand. Rama V wins further points for having an interesting vegetarian menu.
Rama V is on the south side of Jalan U-Thant, which runs off to the east of Jalan Tun... Read our full review of Rama V Fine Thai Cuisine.
Forget the stained/torn table cloths, and the wobbly tables, and concentrate on the food. The green curries are wonderfully spicy and flavoursome, while the som tam (spicy papaya salad), and pad Thai (sour sweet fried flat noodles), are great too.
Considering its convenient location, at the Jalan Alor end of Changkat Bukit Bintang, and the reasonable prices, this place is a true rough... Read our full review of Restoran Thai Somtam Seafood.
What sets Samira apart from many of its rivals, is that the food has not been altered too much for local tastes. This is proper Thai (and Laotian) fare, with favourites like tom kha (spicy cocount milk soup), and pad thai (sour sweet rice noodles), done reliably well.
Samira has several vegetarian options and is happy to adapt dishes where possible. It's hidden away in Sentul Park, on the... Read our full review of Samira by Asian Terrace.
The two conveniently placed KL outlets (one in Equatorial, the other in Pavilion), are both reliably good places to find authentic cuisine. It is the simple things which Kampachi does well, such as the california rolls (meat, fish or vegetables, wrapped in rice), soba (buckwheat noodle) soup, shioyaki (salt baked fish), and bento (assorted goodies served in a multi-compartment tray).
You'll... Read our full review of Kampachi.
Seafood
Whether you’re seeking a quick culinary expedition or just looking for a new place to visit for a day from Kuala Lumpur, Port Klang is easily accessible and allows you to combine filling your stomach with the discovery of a new location. Relatively unknown by foreigners, Port Klang’s crab and steamboat dishes are highly sought after by tourists visiting from Singapore and other parts of... Read our full review of Seafood in Port Klang.
Fatty Crab is a name on Kuala Lumpur‘s seafood circuit that any self-respecting seafood lover ought to know. It’s impossible to miss with the crowds waiting outside to dine here; even with two floors of seating, you may need to wait more than an hour on weekends for a table. The best strategy is to either go early (before 20:00), late (after 21:30), or dine here on weekdays when the throngs... Read our full review of Fatty Crab.
Anyone up for some fresh seafood in Kuala Lumpur? If heading for the coast is too time-consuming and inconvenient, then this is the place for you in Kuala Lumpur: Unique Seafood is 15 minutes from the city centre by cab and you’ll find more than a hundred fish tanks filled with fresh seafood imported from all over the world, including some rather unique specimens. From abalone and geoduck, to... Read our full review of Unique Seafood 23.
Vegetarian
As well as the lunch-time mixed rice section, it's a great spot to try Chinese and Nyonya dishes which are usually off-limits. The curry mee (thick curry noodle soup), asam laksa (sour spicy soup) and the char kuay teow (spicy fried flat noodles) are particularly good. As with every other vegetarian eatery in town, no alcohol is served.
Blue Boy is just off Jalan Tong Shin a 20-30 minute walk... Read our full review of Blue Boy.
Apart from breads, which are ordered from the waiting staff, the rest of the food is served as a buffet. As many of the dishes, which change every day, are cooked to old family recipes, Annalakshmi is a genuine culinary voyage of discovery. Whatever you choose to pay (15-20 ringgit a head is reasonable), the money goes to a good cause, helping to fund the Temple of Fine Arts.
Annalakshmi is... Read our full review of Annalakshmi.
The cafe is owned by Artisan Roast, purveyor of some of the city's finest coffee. So you can rest assured that you can get a quality caffeine fix to go with your vegetarian and vegan food. As well as savoury snacks, are sweet pastries and ice cream. The only disappointing feature is the lack of decaf coffee.
You'll find RAW Coffee on the ground floor of the Wisma Equity Building on the north... Read our full review of RAW Coffee Kuala Lumpur.
This popular eatery does a range of good value thalis thalis (a selection of dishes normally served on a round stainless steel plate), from various regions of India. A la carte choices include south Indian treats like masala tosai (savoury pancake with spicy potato filling), as well as north Indian favourites like sag paneer (cottage cheese cubes with spinach). While the decor won't win any... Read our full review of Bakti Woodlands.
Horror, pity and grudging admiration: the three main ways Malaysians react when they find out someone is a vegetarian. This would suggest that keeping clear of meat and fish is a tough ask, even in cosmopolitan KL. Which is odd, because there are few places in the world where vegetarians can eat as well.... Read our full review of How to eat vegetarian in Kuala Lumpur.
Saravana Bhavan, which has convenient outlets in Bangsar, Brickfields and Little India, turns out some of the city's best Indian food, all of it vegetarian. Top picks include the superb masala tosai (savoury pancake stuffed with a spicy potato and onion mix), aloo gobi masala (potato and cauliflower curry) and paneer butter masala (cubes of Indian cottage cheese in a rich tomato sauce).... Read our full review of Saravana Bhavan.
Western
Set on the edge of the embassy district, this place is a triumph of substance over style. Forget the plastic furniture, neon lighting, and traffic noise, steaks of this quality, for under 30 ringgit, are worth travelling miles for. The mixed clientele includes plenty of diplomats, who generally know a thing or two when it comes to food. Cold beer is available by the can.
Suzi's Corner can be... Read our full review of Suzi's Corner.
Promising to burger you senseless, Daily Grind has a wide range of burgers to choose from, including two vegetarian options, although the classic beef burger with cheese is hard to beat. Most are in the 30-40 ringgit bracket, so not exactly cheap, but for the taste and quality, it's really not bad value.
Bangsar Village is a twenty minute walk (or five minute cab ride) from Bangsar LRT on the... Read our full review of The Daily Grind.
Named after a frangipani which unfortunately no longer stands out front, the restaurant pulls off the fusion trick, marrying European and Asian cuisines, to make an end result which is greater than the sum of parts. Dishes like the strudel of seared foie gras and apple rendang (unlike the Malaysian dry curry, this is a fried fruit reduction) may sound like a dog's dinner, but are actually very... Read our full review of Frangipani.
Although named after the Spanish for pig, this place is run by an Austrian, and turns out dishes from all over Europe. Thuringer tostbratwurst (sausage with pickled cabbage and mashed potato), may sit uneasily with pan-fired goats cheese wrapped in Serrano ham, but El Cerdo's legion of loyal customers attest to the quality of the food. Despite the rustic nature of the menu, this is not a cheap... Read our full review of El Cerdo.
Quite apart from having a great range of authentic tapas, cold cuts, and main meals, El Meson is the unlikely home to one of KL's best fried breakfasts, with real bacon and pork sausages. Unlikely, because most Spaniards (like Italians) start the day with nothing more substantial than a coffee. The rest of the menu, however, could hardly be more evocative of Spain.
Bangsar Village is a twenty... Read our full review of El Meson.
A favourite amongst expats and well-heeled locals alike, this is a great place for a treat Italian meal while visiting KL. Although by no means cheap, Sassorosso is not outrageously priced, so long as you stick to pizzas and pasta, and avoid the temptations of the extensive wine list. It also does a great value lunchtime deal, with an antipasti buffet, and pizza or pasta, for little more than 50... Read our full review of Sassorosso.
While it is relatively easy to get good Spanish food in Kuala Lumpur, the most prominent local chain, La Bodega, lets itself down by being pork-free. Spanish food without the likes of jamon (ham) and chorizo (spicy pork sausage), is simply not the same. That said, La Bodega is still one of the best places in town for tapas.
The most accessible branch is Bodega @Pavilion KL, which, while being... Read our full review of La Bodega.
With a diverse multiracial society and an evolving food culture, there’s no doubt that diners are spoilt for choice in Malaysia. But you aren’t limited to Asian cuisine if you’re seeking something a little more exotic to this part of the world; if you prefer the zing of jalapenos, jump on the wagon at Las Carretas for affordable Mexican cuisine and refreshing... Read our full review of Las Carretas.
Dishes like lamb shank with soft polenta (cornmeal), roast sea bass with grilled vegetables, and pumpkin ravioli with duck breast, are great examples of less being more. The pizza is good too, although it's best to go for the more classic options, such as funghi (mushroom) or quattro formagi (four cheeses). The wine and food pricing is amongst the fairest in KL, for a restaurant of this quality.... Read our full review of Tatto.
It is an undeniably pleasant setting -- one of KL's very best spots for a romantic date. And the food is generally decent too, especially the pizzas. But the use of pork substitutes, like beef bacon and turkey ham, is somewhat less classy than the decor. Where possible stick to simpler combinations, with real Italian ingredients, such as the gnocchi (potato dumplings) with gorgonzola and rocket;... Read our full review of Nerovivo. |
using Mirror;
namespace WeaverTargetRpcTests.TargetRpcValid
{
class TargetRpcValid : NetworkBehaviour
{
[TargetRpc]
void TargetThatIsTotallyValid(NetworkConnection nc) { }
}
}
|
// Copyright (c) 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.
//
// This implements a Clang tool to convert all instances of std::string("") to
// std::string(). The latter is more efficient (as std::string doesn't have to
// take a copy of an empty string) and generates fewer instructions as well. It
// should be run using the tools/clang/scripts/run_tool.py helper.
#include <memory>
#include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchFinder.h"
#include "clang/ASTMatchers/ASTMatchers.h"
#include "clang/Basic/SourceManager.h"
#include "clang/Frontend/FrontendActions.h"
#include "clang/Tooling/CommonOptionsParser.h"
#include "clang/Tooling/Refactoring.h"
#include "clang/Tooling/Tooling.h"
#include "llvm/Support/CommandLine.h"
using namespace clang::ast_matchers;
using clang::tooling::CommonOptionsParser;
using clang::tooling::Replacement;
using clang::tooling::Replacements;
namespace {
// Handles replacements for stack and heap-allocated instances, e.g.:
// std::string a("");
// std::string* b = new std::string("");
class ConstructorCallback : public MatchFinder::MatchCallback {
public:
ConstructorCallback(Replacements* replacements)
: replacements_(replacements) {}
virtual void run(const MatchFinder::MatchResult& result) override;
private:
Replacements* const replacements_;
};
// Handles replacements for invocations of std::string("") in an initializer
// list.
class InitializerCallback : public MatchFinder::MatchCallback {
public:
InitializerCallback(Replacements* replacements)
: replacements_(replacements) {}
virtual void run(const MatchFinder::MatchResult& result) override;
private:
Replacements* const replacements_;
};
// Handles replacements for invocations of std::string("") in a temporary
// context, e.g. FunctionThatTakesString(std::string("")). Note that this
// handles implicits construction of std::string as well.
class TemporaryCallback : public MatchFinder::MatchCallback {
public:
TemporaryCallback(Replacements* replacements) : replacements_(replacements) {}
virtual void run(const MatchFinder::MatchResult& result) override;
private:
Replacements* const replacements_;
};
class EmptyStringConverter {
public:
explicit EmptyStringConverter(Replacements* replacements)
: constructor_callback_(replacements),
initializer_callback_(replacements),
temporary_callback_(replacements) {}
void SetupMatchers(MatchFinder* match_finder);
private:
ConstructorCallback constructor_callback_;
InitializerCallback initializer_callback_;
TemporaryCallback temporary_callback_;
};
void EmptyStringConverter::SetupMatchers(MatchFinder* match_finder) {
const clang::ast_matchers::StatementMatcher& constructor_call = id(
"call",
cxxConstructExpr(
hasDeclaration(cxxMethodDecl(ofClass(hasName("std::basic_string")))),
argumentCountIs(2), hasArgument(0, id("literal", stringLiteral())),
hasArgument(1, cxxDefaultArgExpr())));
// Note that expr(has()) in the matcher is significant; the Clang AST wraps
// calls to the std::string constructor with exprWithCleanups nodes. Without
// the expr(has()) matcher, the first and last rules would not match anything!
match_finder->addMatcher(varDecl(forEach(expr(has(constructor_call)))),
&constructor_callback_);
match_finder->addMatcher(cxxNewExpr(has(constructor_call)),
&constructor_callback_);
// The implicitly generated constructor for temporary could be wrapped by
// implicitCastExpr, so ignoringParenImpCasts is needed.
match_finder->addMatcher(
cxxBindTemporaryExpr(ignoringParenImpCasts(forEach(constructor_call))),
&temporary_callback_);
// Note that forEachConstructorInitializer is needed. The std::string
// constructor is wrapped by exprWithCleanups and cxxCtorInitializer.
// forEach() would not work.
match_finder->addMatcher(cxxConstructorDecl(forEachConstructorInitializer(
withInitializer(expr(has(constructor_call))))),
&initializer_callback_);
}
void ConstructorCallback::run(const MatchFinder::MatchResult& result) {
const clang::StringLiteral* literal =
result.Nodes.getNodeAs<clang::StringLiteral>("literal");
if (literal->getLength() > 0)
return;
const clang::CXXConstructExpr* call =
result.Nodes.getNodeAs<clang::CXXConstructExpr>("call");
clang::CharSourceRange range =
clang::CharSourceRange::getTokenRange(call->getParenOrBraceRange());
auto err = replacements_->add(Replacement(*result.SourceManager, range, ""));
assert(!err);
}
void InitializerCallback::run(const MatchFinder::MatchResult& result) {
const clang::StringLiteral* literal =
result.Nodes.getNodeAs<clang::StringLiteral>("literal");
if (literal->getLength() > 0)
return;
const clang::CXXConstructExpr* call =
result.Nodes.getNodeAs<clang::CXXConstructExpr>("call");
auto err = replacements_->add(Replacement(*result.SourceManager, call, ""));
assert(!err);
}
void TemporaryCallback::run(const MatchFinder::MatchResult& result) {
const clang::StringLiteral* literal =
result.Nodes.getNodeAs<clang::StringLiteral>("literal");
if (literal->getLength() > 0)
return;
const clang::CXXConstructExpr* call =
result.Nodes.getNodeAs<clang::CXXConstructExpr>("call");
// Differentiate between explicit and implicit calls to std::string's
// constructor. An implicitly generated constructor won't have a valid
// source range for the parenthesis. We do this because the matched expression
// for |call| in the explicit case doesn't include the closing parenthesis.
clang::SourceRange range = call->getParenOrBraceRange();
if (range.isValid()) {
auto err =
replacements_->add(Replacement(*result.SourceManager, literal, ""));
assert(!err);
} else {
auto err = replacements_->add(
Replacement(*result.SourceManager, call,
literal->isWide() ? "std::wstring()" : "std::string()"));
assert(!err);
}
}
} // namespace
static llvm::cl::extrahelp common_help(CommonOptionsParser::HelpMessage);
int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) {
llvm::cl::OptionCategory category("EmptyString Tool");
CommonOptionsParser options(argc, argv, category);
clang::tooling::ClangTool tool(options.getCompilations(),
options.getSourcePathList());
Replacements replacements;
EmptyStringConverter converter(&replacements);
MatchFinder match_finder;
converter.SetupMatchers(&match_finder);
std::unique_ptr<clang::tooling::FrontendActionFactory> frontend_factory =
clang::tooling::newFrontendActionFactory(&match_finder);
int result = tool.run(frontend_factory.get());
if (result != 0)
return result;
if (replacements.empty())
return 0;
// Each replacement line should have the following format:
// r:<file path>:<offset>:<length>:<replacement text>
// Only the <replacement text> field can contain embedded ":" characters.
// TODO(dcheng): Use a more clever serialization. Ideally we'd use the YAML
// serialization and then use clang-apply-replacements, but that would require
// copying and pasting a larger amount of boilerplate for all Chrome clang
// tools.
llvm::outs() << "==== BEGIN EDITS ====\n";
for (const auto& r : replacements) {
llvm::outs() << "r:::" << r.getFilePath() << ":::" << r.getOffset()
<< ":::" << r.getLength() << ":::" << r.getReplacementText()
<< "\n";
}
llvm::outs() << "==== END EDITS ====\n";
return 0;
}
|
Take a rocks glass and fill the bottom with one layer of fresh blueberries. Add the brown sugar and lemon juice and gently muddle. (The longer you let this sit, the better the flavors are going to meld). Fill the glass with ice then top with the rum and ginger ale. |
Detail of Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing showing inscription
Detail of Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) showing the inscription made by Jasper Johns
Research Material
Artwork Detail
The inscription below
Erased de Kooning Drawing
was executed by artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) using a lettering device. The paper bearing the inscription is normally framed by a window cut into the work’s mat board. In this conservation image we see the entire sheet, with remnants of tape along its edges and slight staining caused by exposure to light and the acidic backing board on which the drawing was originally mounted. |
[*] Richard and Anita Calkins Distinguished Professor of Law, Drake Law School. B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University, 1975; J.D., Harvard University, 1978. The author is especially grateful for the careful review and thoughtful comments of Professor David C. Baldus (which is not to imply that Professor Baldus agrees with any of the author's particular substantive points). The author, with the guidance of Professor Baldus, has made every effort to avoid misinterpreting or misusing any of the statistical data mentioned herein. Any errors, of course, are solely attributable to the author. The author also thanks his secretary, Karla Westberg, and his research assistants, Julie Greteman and Kristin Mueller, for their diligent assistance.
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[1] Carol S. Steiker & Jordan M. Steiker, Sober Second Thoughts: Reflections on Two Decades of Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment, 109 HARV. L. REV. 355 (1995). The Steiker article has been cited in the popular press. See Ted Gest, A House Without a Blueprint: After 20 Years, the Death Penalty Is Still Being Meted Out Unevenly, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REP., July 8, 1996, at 41 (quoting Steiker and Steiker for the proposition that Supreme Court death penalty jurisprudence has "grown like a house without a blueprint—with a new room here, a staircase there, but without the guidance of a master builder"). See also RAYMOND PATERNOSTER, CAPITAL PUNISHMENTIN AMERICA at xv (1991) ("[A] substantial number of death sentences continue to be imposed in a fashion that can only be described as 'freakish.' "); Daniel Givelber, The New Law of Murder, 69 IND. L.J. 375, 378 (1994) ("The new law [of capital] murder is a failure. By most measures, it has marginally reduced but by no means eliminated arbitrariness from capital punishment.").
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[6] The article is particularly effective in showing how easily states can fulfill the requirements the Court has set, seeid. at 402, and at illuminating roads not taken by the Court that might have had better results, see id. at 414-26.
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[7] Steiker and Steiker never suggest that any of these goals are viewed by the Court as more important than any other, and in fact may suggest at one point that minimizing underinclusion is in fact the Court's primary goal: "Each of the three concerns or commitments (desert, fairness, and individualization) reflects different facets of the basic norm of equal treatment, the idea that like cases should be treated alike." Id. at 369.
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[8] In this context, as in most others, it is dangerous to view "the Court" as an entity with a single mind, when in fact it is composed of nine members who often have diametrically opposed opinions. As to the death penalty, as Steiker and Steiker point out, "the basic configuration on Eighth Amendment issues remained constant for two decades after Furman: two unwavering poles competed for the center." Id. at 428 (citing Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972)). On one pole were former Justices Brennan and Marshall, who advocated complete abolition of the death penalty. See id. at 427. On the other pole were former Chief Justice Burger and current Chief Justice Rehnquist (joined in more recent days by Justices Scalia and Thomas), who oppose significant regulation of the death penalty through the Eighth Amendment. See id. It was thus the remaining "centrist" justices like Blackmun (until late in his career, when he became a virtual abolitionist), O'Connor, Powell, Stevens, and White, whose votes controlled the outcomes of cases. See id. at 428. Thus, when I refer to "the Court," I am referring to that centrist bloc as augmented by whatever votes they could pull from the two poles on particular issues. Despite the cobbled-together nature of this body of doctrine, Steiker and Steiker acknowledge that the Court has promulgated some consistent themes, see id. at 364, and I agree (although I do not agree with Steiker and Steiker concerning what all those themes are).
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[29] See id. at 397 (citing Turner v. Murray, 476 U.S. 28, 37 (1986) (permitting voir dire concerning racial prejudice in cases involving interracial murders); Gardner v. Florida, 430 U.S. 349, 357-62 (1977) (invalidating a death sentence based in part upon a presentence report not made available to defense counsel); Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320, 328-30 (1985) (preventing prosecutors from arguing that the jury's decision is not the final one concerning the death sentence since the jury verdict is subject to appellate review); Beck v. Alabama, 447 U.S. 625, 637-38 (1980) (requiring the inclusion of lesser-included offense instructions that would support a guilty verdict for a noncapital offense); Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154, 163-64 (1994) (permitting defendant to inform jury that a "life" sentence means life without parole); Johnson v. Mississippi, 486 U.S. 578, 584-87 (1988) (overturning a sentence based upon a prior conviction later invalidated); Herrera v. Collins, 506 U.S. 390, 417 (1993) (post-trial judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence may be constitutionally required in a truly compelling case)).
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[31] See id. ("It is difficult to imagine a body of doctrine that is much worse—either in its costs of implementation or in its negligible returns—than the one we have now."); id. at 429 (describing the doctrinal structure as "functionally and aesthetically unsatisfying"); id. at 437 (describing the Court's doctrine as "failure as regulation"); id. at 438 ("We are left with the worst of all possible worlds: the Supreme Court's detailed attention to death penalty law has generated negligible improvements over the pre-Furman era, but has helped people to accept without second thoughts—much less 'sober' ones—our profoundly failed system of capital punishment.").
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[32] See, e.g., David C. Baldus et al., Comparative Review of Death Sentences: An Empirical Study of the Georgia Experiment, 74 J. CRIM. L. & CRIMINOLOGY 661, 664 (1983) ("[I]ndividual death sentences that are excessively severe in comparison to the sentences imposed in factually indistinguishable cases—what we call 'comparatively excessive'—do violate the [E]ighth [A]mendment."); Arnold Barnett, Some Distribution Patterns for the Georgia Death Sentence, 18 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1327, 1328 (1985) ("The notion animating proportionality review—one that has been explicitly endorsed by the Supreme Court—is that death sentences cannot be imposed in an arbitrary manner. It is considered objectionable if a given defendant is put to death while, in adjacent counties (or adjacent courtrooms), defendants in virtually the same situation are given prison terms."); PATERNOSTER, supra note 1, at 162-64 (arguing that Furman and Gregg both show that the Court has been concerned with underinclusion).
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[35] The two written works in which BWP set forth the findings that are most pertinent for purposes of this Article are BALDUSETAL., EQUAL JUSTICE, supra note 33, and Baldus et al., Comparative Review, supra note 32.
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[41] See id. at 1339-41, 1364-66. Barnett's method may seem overly simplistic in focusing on only three variables, but the accuracy of his selection of factors is not crucial because choosing other factors would result in the same sort of continuum with low death sentencing rates for the least culpable cases, midrange death sentencing rates for midrange cases, and high death sentencing rates for the most culpable offenders. See, e.g., infra notes 177-81 and accompanying text (explaining system developed by BWP).
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[42] See Barnett, supra note 32, at 1341. Barnett's protocols for each of the three variables are reproduced at the end of this Article. Seeinfra Appendix A.
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[44] Barnett's chart is found at Barnett, supra note 32, at 1342. Actually, the chart I have reproduced here is a reformulation of Barnett's chart produced by BWP in BALDUSETAL., EQUAL JUSTICE, supra note 33, at 95. I chose to use the Baldus reformulation because it is slightly easier to understand. There are a couple of minor discrepancies between the two charts for which I cannot account, but they do not make any difference in the analysis.
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[66] There were 2,484 such convictions in the six-year period following Furman. See BALDUSETAL., EQUAL JUSTICE, supra note 33, at 45. This means there likely were about 2,000 in the five-year period included in Barnett's study.
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[74] Death penalty cases, if properly defended, cost a great deal more than other murder cases at virtually every stage, from voir dire through sentencing. Since most death-eligible defendants are indigent, the court ends up footing litigation costs for both sides. For horror stories of capital defendants who got bargain-basement representation, see Stephen B. Bright, Counsel for the Poor: The Death Sentence Not for the Worst Crime but for the Worst Lawyer, 103 YALE L.J. 1835 (1994).
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[75] See GA. CODE ANN. § 17-10-30.1 (Supp. 1996) (permitting sentencing by a judge presumably if jury is waived, although the statute is not entirely clear on that point).
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[77] See, e.g., In re Winship, 397 U.S. 358, 363 (1970) ("The accused during a criminal prosecution has at stake interest of immense importance, both because of the possibility that he may lose his liberty upon conviction and because of the certainty that he would be stigmatized by the conviction.").
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[78] See id. at 371-72 (Harlan, J., concurring).
In a civil suit between two private parties for money damages, for example, we view it as no more serious in general for there to be an erroneous verdict in the defendant's favor than for there to be an erroneous verdict in the plaintiff's favor . . . . In a criminal case, on the other hand, we do not view the social disutility of convicting an innocent man as equivalent to the disutility of acquitting someone who is guilty . . . . I view the requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt in a criminal case as bottomed on a fundamental value determination of our society that it is far worse to convict an innocent man than to let a guilty man go free.
[79] The Court found the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard of proof to be constitutionally required in In re Winship, 397 U.S. 358, 364 (1970). As to the supermajority requirement, the Constitution requires unanimity for conviction by a six-person jury. See Burch v. Louisiana, 441 U.S. 130, 138 (1979). As to a twelve-person jury, the Court has upheld a nine-to-three verdict in favor of conviction. See Johnson v. Louisiana, 406 U.S. 356, 362-63 (1972). However, the Court probably would not approve any lesser supermajority. Johnson was a five-to-four decision, and one of the five members of the majority, Justice Blackmun, stated in his concurrence that any lesser number of votes for conviction would cause him "great difficulty." Id. at 366 (Blackmun, J., concurring).
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[80] See, e.g., 18 U.S.C.A. § 3553(b) (West Supp. 1996) (providing that a court may depart from the sentencing guidelines due to a "circumstance of a kind, or to a degree, not adequately taken into consideration by the Sentencing Commission in formulating the guidelines that should result in a sentence different from that described").
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[81] For discussions of mercy as a desirable aspect of criminal sentencing, see JEFFRIE G. MURPHY & JEAN HAMPTON, FORGIVENESSAND MERCY 20 (1988) ("To be merciful is to treat a person less harshly than, given certain rules, one has a right to treat that person."); Eric L. Muller, The Virtue of Mercy in Criminal Sentencing, 24 SETON HALL L. REV. 288, 335 (1993):
Mercy . . . is an attitude that the sentencer adopts, during the process of selecting a sentence from within a range of authorized punishments, by imagining both the nature of the criminal episode and the impact of the possible sentences from the defendant's perspective. Mercy reminds the judge of how things look from the defense table. Mercy's role in the sentencing process is therefore a limiting or restraining one; it provides a check against the risk that the sentencer will get things wrong by describing the nature of the crime in an imbalanced way or underestimating the impact of the sentence on the defendant.
See also Paul Whitlock Cobb, Jr., Note, Reviving Mercy in the Structure of Capital Punishment, 99 YALE L.J. 389, 391 (1989) (arguing that mercy is a particular virtue in capital sentencing). But see California v. Brown, 479 U.S. 538, 542 (1987) (holding that an instruction requiring jurors to ignore "mere sentiment, conjecture, sympathy, passion, prejudice, public opinion or public feeling" was not unconstitutional).
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[82] Justice Brennan created the "death is different" argument in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 282 (1972) (Brennan, J., concurring). Since then, the Court has adopted this precept in part, although by no means to the extent it could have. See Steiker & Steiker, supra note 1, at 397 (discussing the relatively limited scope to which the Court has put the "death is different" doctrine into practice).
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[86] See CAL. PENAL CODE § 190.4(a) (West 1988); Skaggs v. Commonwealth, 694 S.W.2d 672, 681 (Ky. 1985) (discussing that the failure of a jury to reach a verdict will result in the retrial of the sentencing).
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[102] See, e.g., James Luginbuhl & Julie Howe, Discretion in Capital Sentencing Instructions: Guided or Misguided?, 70 IND. L.J. 1161, 1165-76 (1995) (discussing evidence of juror misapplication of instructions concerning burden of proof regarding aggravating and mitigating circumstances and unanimity requirement regarding finding of aggravating and mitigating circumstances). However, jurors can hardly miss the requirement that their ultimate decision to impose a death sentence must be unanimous.
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[103] See, e.g., BALDUSETAL., EQUAL JUSTICE, supra note 33, at 235.
In comparing post- Furman death sentencing rates among the states, it is worth noting that the states whose statutes require death sentencing by the judge rather than by the jury tend to have the highest rates in the region (e.g., Indiana in the East North Central region, Florida in the South Atlantic region, Alabama in the East South Central region, and Arizona and Idaho in the Mountain region).
Id.; see also Harris v. Alabama, 115 S. Ct. 1031, 1036 (1995) (noting that according to statistics compiled by the Alabama Prison Project, there have been only five cases in Alabama in which the judge rejected an advisory verdict of death and instead imposed life imprisonment, compared to 47 instances where the judge imposed a death sentence over a jury recommendation of life imprisonment); Stephen B. Bright & Patrick J. Keenan, Judges and the Politics of Death: Deciding Between the Bill of Rights and the Next Election in Capital Cases, 75 B.U. L. REV. 759 (1995) (exploring and decrying the propensity of judges to resort to death sentences in view of increasing public and political pressure).
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[107] The Court upheld sentencing by a one-person sentencer when it refused to find sentencing by the trial judge unconstitutional in Proffitt v.Florida, 428 U.S. 242, 259-60 (1976). The extent to which the Court might permit a death sentence to be imposed by a nonunanimous jury has never been tested, because all states with jury sentencing require a unanimous verdict. The Court has not yet decided whether a unanimous verdict is required at the guilt phase of a case in which the death sentence may be sought upon conviction. See Schad v. Arizona, 501 U.S. 624, 630 (1991). The Court also has not required that the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard be employed during capital sentencing, as is evidenced by the Court's upholding of state schemes that do not embody that requirement. Seesupra notes 82, 85, 92-93 and accompanying text (states not employing the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard in capital sentencing).
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[108] Examples include witnesses changing stories, co-defendants getting deals, and prosecutors' offices being short of resources.
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[109] See Bordenkircher v. Hayes, 434 U.S. 357, 364 (1978).
[S]o long as the prosecutor has probable cause to believe that the accused committed an offense defined by statute, the decision whether or not to prosecute, and what charge to file or bring before a grand jury generally rests entirely in his discretion [but the decision to prosecute may not be] . . . "deliberately based upon an unjustifiable standard such as race, religion, or other arbitrary classification."
[112] 391 U.S. 510 (1968). Although Steiker and Steiker begin their analysis with the 1972 Furman case, see Steiker & Steiker, supra note 1, at 363, I believe the 1968 Witherspoon case is the appropriate starting point for considering the Court's regulation of states' administration of the death penalty.
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[116] 428 U.S. 280 (1976). Woodson held unconstitutional a statute that made the death penalty mandatory for every defendant convicted of first-degree murder or felony murder. See id. at 301.
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[117] 428 U.S. 325 (1976). Roberts held unconstitutional a Louisiana statute that imposed a mandatory death sentence on five narrowly defined categories of first-degree murder. See id. at 335-36.
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[118] The Court appeared to reached the logical end of this line in Sumner v. Shuman, 483 U.S. 66, 85 (1987) (holding mandatory death penalty for murder committed by a person serving a life sentence unconstitutional).
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[119] 438 U.S. 586 (1978). Lockett held unconstitutional an Ohio statute that limited the categories of mitigating evidence that could be considered by the sentencer. See id. at 608.
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[120] 455 U.S. 104 (1982). Eddings held that it was unconstitutional for a sentencer to refuse, as a matter of law, to consider all relevant mitigating evidence. See id. at 112.
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[131] The most famous portion of the opinion deals with McCleskey's claim of invidious discrimination. For a discussion of this claim and the Court's treatment of it, see infra notes 138-141 and accompanying text.
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[139] SeeMcCleskey, 481 U.S. at 298 ("[M]cCleskey would have to prove that the Georgia legislature enacted or maintained the death penalty statute becauseof an anticipated racially discriminatory effect.") (emphasis added).
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[142] The Court may have missed the golden opportunity in McCleskey to pay more than lip service to this goal.
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[143] See Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586, 604 (1978).
[T]he Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments require that the sentencer, in all but the rarest kind of capital case, not be precluded from considering, as a mitigating factor, any aspect of a defendant's character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death.
[C]ontemporary death penalty law is remarkably undemanding. The narrowing, channeling, and individualization requirements can be simultaneously and completely satisfied by a statute that defines capital murder as any murder accompanied by some additional, objective factor or factors and that provides for a sentencing proceeding in which the sentencer is asked simply whether the defendant should live or die.
[T]he narrowing function required for a regime of capital punishment may be provided in either of these two ways: The legislature may itself narrow the definition of capital offenses, as Texas and Louisiana have done, so that the jury finding of guilty responds to this concern, or the legislature may more broadly define capital offenses and provide for narrowing by jury findings of aggravating circumstances at the penalty phase.
[148] SeeLockett, 438 U.S. at 608 (invalidating a statute that limited the kinds of mitigating evidence the sentencer could consider).
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[149] See Caldwell v. Mississippi, 472 U.S. 320, 329-30 (1985) (reversing a death sentence because the prosecutor and judge had indicated to the jury that their decision was not final due to appellate review, thereby possibly detracting from the jury's awareness that it was exercising a "truly awesome responsibility").
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[158] At many points, Steiker and Steiker assert that state systems have the potential to operate arbitrarily. See, e.g., id. at 375 ("[T]he continuing failure of states to narrow the class of death-eligible invites the possibility that some defendants will receive the death penalty in circumstances in which it is not deserved according to wider community standards (overinclusion)."); id. at 378 ("[T]he fear of overinclusive application of the death penalty that accounted in part for the Court's decision to enter the constitutional thicket remains quite justified."); id. at 381-82 ("Narrowing the class of the death-eligible in no way addresses the problem of [overinclusion], because open-ended discretion after death-eligibility permits, even invites, the jury to act according to its own unaccountable whims."); id. at 391-92 ("Although such discretion cannot be used to render a defendant death-eligible contrary to community standards, it can be used to exempt favored defendants from the death penalty or to withhold severe punishment for crimes against despised victims."); id. at 402 ("And the fact of minimal regulation, which invites if not guarantees the same kinds of inequality as the pre-Furman regime, is filtered through time-consuming, expensive proceedings that ultimately do little to satisfy the concerns that led the Court to take a sober second look at this country's death penalty practices in the first place."); id. at 417-18 ("[A]llowing states to seek the death penalty against all offenders in these categories presents a real and substantial danger that many offenders will be selected for execution who do not 'deserve' it (and who will therefore be treated more harshly than many offenders who do 'deserve' death).") (emphasis added).
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[159] See id. at 426 ("We have argued that the Supreme Court's chosen path of constitutional regulation of the death penalty has been a disaster, an enormous regulatory effort with almost no rationalizing effect."); see alsoid. at 403 ("In short, the last twenty years have produced a complicated regulatory apparatus that achieves extremely modest goals with a maximum amount of political and legal discomfort."); id. at 426 ("It is difficult to imagine a body of doctrine that is much worse—either in its costs of implementation or in its negligible returns—than the one we have now."); id. at 429 (arguing that the Court's death penalty doctrinal structure is "functionally and ethically unsatisfying."); id. at 437 ("We began our exploration of legitimation theory in an effort to support the idea that the Court's deeply flawed death penalty law persists because of its success as a 'facade' that creates an appearance of stringent regulation but hides the incoherence and ineffectiveness of the underlying structure."); id. at 438 ("We are left with the worst of all possible worlds: the Supreme Court's detailed attention to death penalty law has generated negligible improvements over the pre-Furman era, but has helped people to accept without second thoughts—much less 'sober' ones—our profoundly failed system of capital punishment.").
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[161] See Steiker & Steiker, supra note 1, at 375 (stating that the Baldus study "found that approximately 86% of all persons convicted of murder in Georgia over a five-year period after the adoption of Georgia's new statute were death-eligible under that scheme.").
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[164] The difference between this 20% and the 14% exclusion figure used by Steiker and Steiker, seesupra note 161, is that the 14% figure is based on 1974-79 cases, see BALDUSETAL., EQUAL JUSTICE, supra note 33, at 268 n.31, while my 20% figure is based on 1973-78 cases, seeid. at 88-89.
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[165] See BALDUSETAL., EQUAL JUSTICE, supra note 33, at 43 (post-Furman cases analyzed included those from March 28, 1973, through June 20, 1978). In some jurisdictions, legislatures have drawn narrow death-eligibility criteria, resulting in a small percentage of homicides being death eligible. Seeid. at 233-34 (about 20% of Colorado murder and nonnegligent manslaughter cases death-eligible); see also David Baldus & George Woodworth, Proportionality: The View of the Special Master, 6 CHANCE: NEW DIRECTIONSFOR STATISTICSAND COMPUTING 9, 11 (1993) (only 227 of over 2,000 New Jersey homicide cases death-eligible).
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[171] That is, of course, as long as the defendant's attorney took advantage of the opportunity to present such evidence. For horror stories concerning attorneys who completely wasted this opportunity (not necessarily in Georgia), see David J. Gross, Sixth Amendment—Defendant's Dual Burden in Claims of Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, 75 J. CRIM. L. 755, 757 (1984); Welsh S. White, Effective Assistance of Counsel in Capital Cases: The Evolving Standard of Care, 1993 U. ILL. L. REV. 323, 325.
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[172] See BALDUSETAL., EQUAL JUSTICE, supra note 33, at 182 ("The most striking post-Furman change has been the statewide decline in the race-of-defendant effect. Indeed, on average, black defendants appear to enjoy a slight overall advantage compared to white defendants, although the effect is not statistically significant.")
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[173] See id. at 183-84. Instead, BWP attribute the finding to a general trend toward equal treatment of African-American defendants that began in urban areas and spread to rural areas. See id. Thus, they state, "Consequently, it does not appear that the decline in discrimination based on the defendant's race is attributable to Georgia's 1973 statutory changes." Id. at 184.
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[178] See BALDUSETAL., EQUAL JUSTICE, supra note 33, at 229-48 (discussing three studies of pre- Furman cases, and three studies of post-Furman cases). An interesting recent research effort is reported in Robert E. Weiss et al., Assessing the Capriciousness of Death Penalty Charging, 30 L. & SOC'Y REV. 607, 617-25 (1996) (analyzing death penalty charging in 363 homicides in San Francisco County, California, through regression analysis and concluding that under the most optimistic assessment, the charging system "wring[s] out about two-thirds of the potential capriciousness").
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[179] See BALDUSETAL., EQUAL JUSTICE, supra note 33, at 80-81 ("The purpose of each analysis was to determine whether those defendants who received sentences of death can be meaningfully distinguished from the many other defendants who received only life sentences.").
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[180] See id. at 44 (over 150 aggravating and mitigating factors were used).
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[183] In light of this statistic, it is possible to argue that the Court overreacted in Furman. However, there are important aspects of the world as seen by the Court in 1972 that are not reflected by this statistic. First, this statistic does not include cases that came before the Court from Georgia in which the defendants had been sentenced to death for rape or armed robbery, two crimes as to which the Court later determined that the death penalty was overinclusive as a matter of law. See Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584, 597 (1977); Hooks v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 917, 917 (1977). Second, it took quite a lot of legwork for the Baldus group to dig out the information that enabled them to determine just how aggravated each case was. The lack of a meaningful sentencing proceeding in Georgia prior to 1972 means that the Court did not have access to this information—the Georgia system from the Court's perspective must have resembled a "black box" from which defendants' names were pulled seemingly at random. Third, this statistic does not reflect the seemingly disproportionate number of African-Americans sentenced to death, particularly for rapes of white women. See supra note 128 and accompanying text.
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[186] I realize, of course, that death penalty opponents often contend that the very fact that the system cannot be made perfect is a cogent argument for its abolition.
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[187] This has prompted me to make a modest effort to do so. See infra Part III.B.1.b.
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[188] These cases are summarized in Appendix B. I identified these cases by obtaining a printout of all of the inmates on Georgia's death row from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund Death Penalty Project. I arranged the cases in reverse chronological order from date of sentence, then I searched the defendants' names electronically, to find a direct appeal decision by the Georgia Supreme Court. I excluded two of these cases. First, I did not use Drane v. State, 455 S.E.2d 27 (Ga. 1995), because the Georgia Supreme Court found that the trial court may have improperly excluded the co-defendant's confession—in which the co-defendant took major responsibility for the killing—and reversed the conviction. See id. at 30. Although this evidence was admitted at the sentencing phase, the failure to admit it at the guilt phase could have undermined the validity of the jury's verdict at the guilt phase. The second case I excluded was Potts v. State, 410 S.E.2d 89 (Ga. 1991). This case involved a kidnapping and murder that occurred in 1981, but took almost a decade to reach the Georgia Supreme Court. I excluded this case because the crime was not committed during the same time frame as the other cases I examined. I replaced these two cases with the next two cases in reverse chronological order.
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The mitigating factors were: Defendant showed remorse, gave self up within 24 hours, was drunk or had a history of drug or alcohol abuse, had no intent to kill, believed he or she had a moral justification, the victim was a fugitive, provoked or aroused defendant, was drinking, or using drugs or had bad blood with defendant.
[221] See id. at 686 n.92 ("The minor aggravating factors were: A race-related motive, victim was drowned, defendant resisted arrest, defendant created a great risk in a public place, or the victim was a hostage or female.").
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[222] Specifically, I assumed that the factors included within the Barnett analysis and the BWP analysis continue to identify the basic aggravating and mitigating factors, and continue to directly reflect their relative strength. As BWP explain:
There are two basic approaches to classifying cases as similar or dissimilar—the a priori and the empirical. The a priori approach endeavors to classify cases as similar on the basis of criteria that, from a legal or moral perspective, one believes should govern the appropriate sentence.
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The empirical approach also begins by presupposing that certain factual characteristics of the case being reviewed can serve to identify other cases of "similar" culpability. In contrast to the a priori approach—which primarily selects those factual characteristics on a normative basis—the empirical approach tries to employ those legitimate case characteristics that, statistically, best explain the observed sentencing results . . . . The difference between the two methods is that the a priorist selects the factors he or she believes should influence the sentencing decision, while the empiricist selects the factors that actually appear to do so.
BALDUSETAL., EQUAL JUSTICE, supra note 33, at 47-48. Thus, I am adopting an a priori approach, with my a priori choices being informed by the results of empirical studies.
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[227] Barnett reported no cases in this box, but this is clearly a box that should have a high ratio—the ratios in the other boxes where the three Barnett integers totaled "4" are .56 and .81.
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[228] In this case, the defendant pulled the victim's head back by the hair and shot her in the forehead. If this is not an "execution-style" killing (BWP do not define this), then there is no serious aggravating circumstance, and the case scores .00 on the BWP scale. If it is an execution-style killing, then it scores .42.
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[229] There were not enough cases in this box in the BWP study (only one, in which a death sentence was not imposed) to form a valid proportion. The boxes on either side had moderate ratios (.40 and .50), but were based upon a small number of cases.
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[232] See David Cook et al., The Decisionmakers: What Moves Prosecutors, Judges, & Jurors? (Mar. 4, 1996) (finding that jurors are more willing to find mental problems mitigating in the abstract than when applied to a real case) (materials based upon the Capital Jury Research project presented at Life in the Balance VIII conference in St. Louis, Missouri) (on file with the author).
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[244] See id. at 90-91 ("Specifically, our 'overall culpability' index ranks the cases according to the presence or absence of seventeen legitimate case characteristics and combinations thereof that share a statistically significant relationship with the sentences imposed.").
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[245] See id. at 56.
We developed a regression-based culpability index for the [study] with a logistic multiple-regression analysis designed to identify statistically the factors that best explain which defendants received death sentences . . . . This procedure required us, first, to collect information for every case concerning a large number of legitimate case characteristics, such as prior record or a contemporaneous felony, that might have influenced the sentencing decision. We then computed for each such case characteristic a regression co-efficient (or 'weight') that reflected its individual contribution to the overall culpability index. Next, we calculated the relative culpability or blameworthiness of each case by summing the 'weights' of all the legitimate explanatory variables present in that case. We then ranked all the cases according to their relative culpability scores, thereby constructing an overall culpability index along which the cases were distributed. Finally, we defined as 'similar' six groups of cases with comparable overall culpability scores.
[258] To me, the most regrettable road not taken by the Court has been its failure to require a heightened level of attorney competence above the relatively minimal standard set for all cases, including death penalty cases, in Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 687 (1984) (requiring that counsel's performance be shown to be deficient and that the deficiency prejudiced the defense in order to reverse a conviction or death sentence). A requirement that states provide super-competent trial counsel would either force states out of the death penalty business due to excessive costs or force states to provide top-notch counsel. Either possibility would be more fair to defendants and more efficient in the long run.
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I've just spent the last eight days on a boat with Jim
and Anna Abernethy, Captain Kurt, Chef Steve, and six British blokes representing
Dive Magazine UK, the BBC, and various other fine British institutions (in
fact, Jeremy may qualify as a "fine institution" by himself :).
We left out of Palm Beach aboard the M/V Shear Water, the Abernethy's wonderful
liveaboard, bound for the Bahamas (Little Bahama Bank) with over 500 lbs of
crated fish to use as tasty morsels for attracting great hammerhead sharks
and tiger sharks. Photographs have been separated into individual categories,
and may be accessed by clicking on the links in the menu to the right, or
by scrolling down a bit on this page.
NEW! - See a
mpg video of me shooting this
image of a reef shark. Watch for my strobes firing at the end of the clip.
Thanks to Jim Abernethy for shooting the clip and for e-mailing it to me.
:)
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BAHAMAS SHARK TRIP, TABLE OF PHOTOGRAPHS
great hammerheads
reef sharks
bulls and lemons
night dolphins
people portraits
shark wrangling
sunsets
topside
walker's cay
artsy pics
misc. photos
anna's photos
BAHAMAS SHARK TRIP, FEB 20: JEWFISH MOUNTAIN
23:21 - I finally have a moment to myself -- it's been a looong day! We awoke
this morning docked in West End for customs and motored off once we had been
cleared. By late morning we were anchored at Jewfish Mountain for a day of diving.
Gliding around the site were 15-20 Caribbean reef sharks of varying size. Many
were curious juveniles who were more than happy to buzz a dome port for a portrait.
At around 65' there was a beautiful purple tube sponge surrounded by red and
orange sponges, which was perfect for reef portraits of sharks. These were the
sort of shots that Jeremy liked (the rest being "crap" :). He paid
me a nice compliment by telling me, "normally I'm quite rude to photographers
because I don't like their stuff, but I like yours; i like that you naturally
shoot with interesting composition." I'm finding him to be an interesting
guy. He's only taken two photographs so far. I guess he has enough of these
sorts of shots, having authored three books on sharks.
At one point I tugged on some fish that was sticking out of our bait box and
ended up pulling out a rather large piece by accident. The sharks came *really*
close at that point (as I kicked away from the fish, which I had dropped) and
I was bumped multiple times as they investigated me and my white strobes. My
strobes were given light bites a few times.
I think I have my exposures down now. It's a great feeling knowing that I can
likely get "the shot," should the moment present itself. Having said
that, I utterly failed to shoot any presentable night dolphin shots this evening.
We had some dolphin feeding on flying fish near the boat for a couple of hours,
and a few of us jumped in to play with them. Geoff was in the water for a full
hour in only a t-shirt and trunks! I should have pre-focused my camera, but
instead relied on auto-focus assisted by a bright Hartenberger light to illuminate
the way. I was able to get some good photos using this method last year, but
this time the D60's notoriously poor autofocus mechanism failed to act fast
enough, so I ended up with 40 blurry photos. :( Some of them looked like they
could have been fantastic, had they been in focus. *sigh*
I did get a blurry photo of what looks like a sea snake. I yelled, "snake!"
when I saw it, but was told by those watching over me from the boat that it
was an eel. Everyone changed their minds when they saw the photo. It's neat
looking (although blurry). Also near was a school of a couple hundred small
squid that kept appearing directly beneath the boat (coming up from the depths
to about 15-20', repeatedly).
I'm having a good time with the Brits and their Brit humor. Earlier, someone
uttered the phrase, "you could see her tonsils through her rectum."
You'd probably never hear an American string words together like that. :)
I've retired to my bunk and am typing away here, listening to Vienna Teng
before going to bed. It's impossible for me to do any "personal" work
out in the galley because of various distractions. :)
BAHAMAS SHARK TRIP, FEB 21: MOUNT MOKARRAN
12:21 - Hammerhead!! Two great hammerheads (and a beautiful frigate bird) are
circling the boat here at Mount Mokarran. One is probably just over 10', and the
other is said to be about the same size (I just spent 45 minutes with one of them
and didn't see the other one). Anna did a fantastic job wrangling the shark onto
the dive platform, which gave all of us opportunities to get some chomping shots.
He (the shark) was completely unafraid, gliding between us at arm's length.
15:05 - When I splashed back into the water the second time, the hammerhead
whipped around and swam towards me with great purpose. I took a few blurry photos
of him while beating his head lightly with my camera; next time I will be prepared
to take proper photographs while I avoid being investigated too closely.
Anna said that he came at me three times. :)
Down at the bottom there were bull sharks, reef sharks, and lemon sharks wandering
around. Jimmy took some shots of a large pregnant lemon shark covered with remoras.
I should have explored down there a bit more. One or two tiger sharks came in
as well, but they weren't close enough to get photographs of.
22:49 - I was just browsing through some photographs I have here on my computer
from the days just before I left on this trip; it seems strange that the people
in those images are dressed in San Francisco attire, sitting in my place at
a house concert. I sometimes think about how bipolar my life is and wish that
I could just be settled/content sitting at home relaxing. Earlier today Brahms'
c minor piano quartet lodged itself in my head, and memories of performing it
with Livia, Barry, and Fred flashed by. I haven't touched my cello since December
26th. Every time I leave on one of these extended trips, I am away from the
other things that make me happy (friends, playing music, etc.).
But I suppose it is ok, because I shot some fantastic hammerhead pictures today.
:)
BAHAMAS SHARK TRIP, FEB 22: WALKER'S CAY
21:41 - As forecasted, the wind started blowing today. We drove around looking
for calm seas for most of the day, eventually giving up and coming in to dock
at Walker's Cay. Around the shark dive area bull sharks, lemon sharks, and nurse
sharks swimming around close to shore. We're booked to swim with the bull sharks
there at 8am tomorrow morning. The shark scientist Dr. Erich Ritter (the one who
was recently bitten
at the bull shark area) is here as well; he was giving a talk in a side room when
we arrived. A few in our group have some shared history with Dr. Ritter and were
interested in seeing the condition of his leg, but no one mustered up enough momentum
to ask about it. We did, however, talk to the person who drove him away from the
site to be evacuated. It is said that Dr. Ritter kept repeating, "it was
my fault! it was my fault!" afterwards.
We've just eaten a wonderful dinner and are now watching "Blue Water,
White Death," a documentary with Ron and Valerie Taylor about early shark
diving.
BAHAMAS SHARK TRIP, FEB 23: WALKER-S CAY
16:24 - The wind is blowing 20-25 knots out of the northwest. We've been confined
to the boat for most of the day, but a few of us did venture out for a blustery
walk around the beautiful beach at the tip of the island. A small airplane left
the smell of burning rubber while landing as we were walking back, and Dr. Erich
Ritter came jogging down the runway -- in shorts. I'm amazed that he is able to
jog with so much damage done to his leg! I won't describe it here, but I will
say that he is lucky to be on his feet.
16:45 - The blokes are all outside trying to bait in a bull shark. John came
inside a few minutes ago carrying a small, hollow, red tube. "Guess what
was in this tube?" he asked. Yep. It was the handle to a mop pole. The
rest of the pole -- with around $12K worth of camera gear attached -- had fallen
off and was laying in the sand. Luckily, the water is shallow, and Captain Kurt
managed to fish it out with a large hook. Boys will be boys, I suppose. :) Both
Jimmy and John have been trying to get close-up footage of Bahama Mama (a large
local bull shark) for awhile now.
BAHAMAS SHARK TRIP, FEB 24: DODDSR
16:09 - We left this morning and are now anchored at a site lovingly referred
to as "Drop Over Dead Dog Snapper Rock." There are a few Caribbean reef
sharks circling around, and some distance from the anchor line is a grouper spawning
aggregation (at a sandy patch in 110' of water). Many pregnant groupers are there,
along with a large school of Bermuda chubs (also spawning). The school of chubs
followed me while I swam around the sandy area, but the grouper were rather paranoid,
and I was unable to get close to them. The wind is still blowing pretty hard,
and the swell on the surface made it difficult to get back onto the boat.
21:56 - We're anchored at Lilly Bank now, in calm water for the night. In the
morning we return to Mount Mokkaran, the site of our first hammerhead sighting.
All of us are praying for a large tiger shark. :)
BAHAMAS SHARK TRIP, FEB 25: MOUNT OLYMPUS
17:14 - Mount Mokarran was too rough this morning, so we ended up anchoring at
Mount Olympus, a gorgeous reef, by Bahamian standards. It is covered with nice
sea fans and colorful sponges, but unfortunately the visibility was poor (because
of particles in the water and a deep thermocline) so we continued to El Dorado
for the remainder of the afternoon. There are some really large reef sharks at
El Dorado. Jimmy snapped the metal ball off of Anna's Sea & Sea strobe arm mount
during the first dive. Things like mounting balls really should be indestructible!
I don't think my ULCS balls would have been that easy to break off. Anyway, we
tried using the Pasco Fix magic glue that the Austrian guy at the Miami Boat Show
sold us, and the glued-on ball stayed in place for most of the second dive, but
broke again when Anna was adjusting her strobe position. We're going to glue it
again tonight and let it cure all night.
BAHAMAS SHARK TRIP, FEB 26: MOUNT MOKARRAN
22:05 - Two great hammerheads came in today, but neither of them were "players".
A small 7' one swam circles around Jeremy and only came up for bait a few times
before disappearing off into the murk. A larger 11-12' one (with disfigured pectoral
fins, Jeremy says. he even drew an illustration for us.) was off further in the
distance, circling the boat. Its dorsal fin was enormous! Jim and Anna have seen
great hammerheads as long as 18', but this 11-12' specimen was the largest one
I have ever seen. I followed it, drifting with the current until I was further
from the boat than I wanted to be. Even though I knew I wasn't in any real danger,
I had to suppress the slight panic that was welling up within me. (Imagine: the
visibility is around 90' or so, but it's a milky view all around. You look up
and scan the brightness above for the tell-tale shadow of the boat, and it is
nowhere to be seen. A large hammerhead is circling just out of sight... :) Although
I don't get "lost" that often, it's always like that for me during the
moment I realize that I have no idea where the boat is.
At the bottom 90' below, four bull sharks (two large and two small), a few
reef sharks, and two lemon sharks (one of them was 8-9' long!) patrolled, but
they didn't seem to be as friendly as the sharks we've seen elsewhere. I was
unable to get close enough to any of them to take a decent photo. I did, however,
take a nice photo of the bow of the Shear Water from beneath the water, with
thin ribbons of perfect light streaming downward from around it.
We're anchored here for the night. Jimmy says that there are often tiger sharks
pacing around in the early morning after a night with bait left out. "I
just hope that if one comes by it isn't big enough to try to eat the crate itself,"
he said. I'm planning on going in with him first thing in the morning. Hope
there's something fun out there. :)
I had another "what the HELL am I doing with my life!?" moment this
evening while I was sitting at dinner between two conversations. I have no idea
how I'm going to figure it out. Part of me just wants to settle down with a
"normal" job. There's tremendous security in that, and as a bonus
I would be able to develop my local friendships in a way that would alleviate
some of the frustration I've been feeling lately. Argh.
BAHAMAS SHARK TRIP, FEB 27: MOUNT MOKARRAN
22:41 - The Coast Guard just stopped our boat to see if we were smuggling drugs.
As they came close enough to see us, one of the shouted, "Is that Mr. Abernethy?"
It helps to be known. :)
Today was a fantastic day of hanging out with sharks. Jimmy never woke me up
in the morning; instead, I was shaken into consciousness by an increased swell
that repeatedly threw the bow of the boat up and down. I spent most of the morning
hanging out in the galley, waiting for an interesting shark to appear. By 11am,
we had two hammerheads and a tiger on the bottom, investigating two crates of
fish that had fallen off of the bait line. Unfortunately (for the rest of us),
only Derek was in the water at that time, but one of the hammerheads turned
out to be a player and circled around us until the sun went down. It was around
10' long. A smaller tiger shark was also in the water with us for much of the
day, but it was extremely skittish and was chased away by the hammerhead whenever
it came close to us. I saw it a few times off in the distance, but it never
ventured close enough for me to get a photo. Several large bull sharks were
at the bottom, along with a couple of nice looking lemon sharks (which carry
a permanent, sinister smile on their faces). By the end of the day, they were
getting close enough to us for photographs. It is apparently a great thing to
get bull shark photos with relatively clear water. I've heard that they can
be nasty, but haven't had any experience with them before this trip. At Walker's
Cay, it is easy to get close to bull sharks, but the visibility there isn't
as good unless you are lucky enough to have the opportunity to go in without
hordes of other people.
Simon seems to attract hammerheads when he returns to the boat from the water.
A few times now Anna has wrangled in hammerheads literally to the swim step
while Simon was trying to get onto it. When it happened today, he looked up
from the water and yelled, "Stop your damn wrangling, woman!" :)
The good barrister Derek wrangled for awhile today. I imagined him wearing
a wig. He has 11 weeks of vacation a year, and he takes every day of it. Europeans
REALLY know how to balance work and play properly!
Everyone almost literally jumped out of the water back onto the boat when five
or six bull sharks came charging up from 80' to greet them at the surface. Not
long after Jimmy dumped in an old, useless crate of fish, one of them came straight
at me as well. I took a picture and kept my camera between me and it. :)
Another interesting event: a hammerhead stole one of our 69-cent styrofoam
floats; it bit straight through the rope (eating the bait), and the float ball
drifted off the stern in the current. At Anna's urging, Jimmy promptly donned
fins & mask and dove in to retrieve it. The same gang of bulls who had earlier
expressed interest in the others on the surface immediately charged up again
to investigate. After all, the light-colored things in the water previously
were fish carcasses. :) Jimmy thrashed around in circles, coming up a few times
to yell, "Shit!" Jeremy happened to be coming back to the boat at
that time (we promptly sent him back out to help), but a few moments later,
Jimmy stuck his head up out of the water and yelled, "I need a camera!".
Typical. :) Jeremy told us that he was thinking, "who's the idiot snorkeling
with the bull sharks?" At Walker's Cay there is a strict rule that you
must be totally encased in black to get in with the bulls. Erich Ritter was
bare-legged when he was bitten there. |
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if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "This script must be called with an argument" >&2
exit 1
fi
/usr/local/bin/mine $(script/find_spec_or_impl.rb $1)
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Noida grows, but poor infrastructure, closure of industries haunt
Noida, April 17 (IANS) Despite being a virtual extension of India’s national capital, this industrial hub, software centre and leisure destination still laments over poor power supply and roads, making the hunger for such essentials as well as the closure of industries major election planks. Close to 10,000 industrial units dot this city, technically in Uttar Pradesh but bordering New Delhi. Just a fourth of them function. Rising crime and poor infrastructure have only fanned the angst of the 250,000-strong electorate.
“The government in power has only traded stones and erected statues,” said Samajwadi Party contestant Narendra Bhati, seeking to blame both the central and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government of Chief Minister Mayawati for the lack of development.
“Little has been done to look after the development of the state as a whole and this city in general,” Bhati told IANS, promising to bring change if elected.
For Noida Entrepreneurs Association president Rakesh Katyal, jobs, or the lack of them, was a major issue, as only 2,700 industrial units were functioning out of 9,700 that had set up shop here.
“The financial slowdown has eaten up small and medium industries and the rest are hit by high value-added tax. But the government does not appear to be concerned.”
Then there is mafia - and crime.
“The city is transforming from an industrial hub to a crime hub,” Aditya Ghildyal, general secretary of the Association of Greater Noida Industries, told IANS.
It was here that the infamous serial killings of children took place and gory tales of cannibalism hit global headlines. And it was again here that the chief executive of a multinational firm was lynched in broad daylight.
“Industrialists and we residents are scared to step out of our houses in the night. Why talk about night, there are incidents taking place in broad daylight,” said Ghildyal.
The suburban city which was earlier part of a reserved constituency, Khurja, has become Gautam Buddh Nagar constituency after delimitation. Home to nearly 400,000 people, this booming city has seen for almost four decades migration of people from all parts of the country, both for job and for a home of their own.
Noida has become a major residential hub as people took up apartments in the suburb’s high rises, strewn across the city, at most competitive prices, little knowing that they would have to later regret their decision.
Little wonder then that Satya Verma, an employee of information technology major Hindustan Computers Ltd, who was once elated getting a job in Noida, now regrets his decision.
“Development is restricted to some areas. Water is dirty. Electricity supply is poor. There are potholes everywhere. Theft and burglaries are routine,” he said.
“It is hard to believe that there are so many software companies here - many of them catering to Fortune 500 companies,” he added, a view shared by Sunit Rai, a public relations executive who lives in Sector 62.
“Why blame politicians alone? It seems people are also comfortable with big shopping malls mushrooming in the city. They do not really seem to care about basic needs like infrastructure,” Rai said.
The suburban city boasts of international-style shopping malls highlighting the glaring differences in the two parallel ecosystems that runs in the city. The Great India Noida Place - a one kilometre long mall - and other shopping marts like Centre Stage Mall, Spice and many more are some of the examples of its glamorous side.
Then there is the Atta market, a shoppers paradise for the middle-class, which houses almost everything a household would need at very competitive prices.
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Ashok Kumar Pradhan won the 2004 polls from Khurja with an impressive margin of 41,350 votes. He is contesting this time from Bulandshahr and Mahesh Sharma, owner of the well-known Kailash Hospitals and a doctor himself, is the BJP candidate from Noida.
“We want maximum number of people to come out and vote no matter whoever they vote for,” BJP vice-president Chiranjeev Mahajan said.
“What this city needs is an educated leader who would understand policies and not any someone who would only grow richer with the nation’s money.”
The Congress got only 18.16 percent of the votes in 2004. This time, it has fielded Ramesh Chand Tomar, who was in the BJP for years and switched to the Congress recently.
The BSP too has a new candidate this year - Surendra Nagar, who has huge resources at his disposal being the owner of Paras Milk, a Rs. 600-crore dairy business. |
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Crowd besieges Danish Tehran embassy
A crowd of over 1,000 people tonight attempted to storm the Danish embassy in Tehran, which sits behind a high wall in the north of the city.
After they rammed the metal gate to the compound, police drove them back with teargas and arrested some.
Firefighters were seen trying to put out a fire inside, apparently caused by a firebomb.
Earlier, hundreds of demonstrators pelted the Austrian embassy compound with petrol bombs and rocks late, as protests over cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed spread across the Muslim world.
Denmark had previously asked the Iranian authorities to increase security at the embassy, following weekend attacks on its embassy in Damascus and its consulate in Beirut, which were both burned by angry demonstrators.
Iran's commerce minister announced today, however, that all trade with Denmark had been suspended.
Anger at the cartoons rose across east Africa: at least one person was killed in a protest in Somalia and Djibouti banned the import of Danish products.
In Kenya, the country's main Islamic group announced plans for a mass protest against Denmark.
Qatar's Chamber of Commerce said it had halted dealings with Danish and Norwegian delegations, urging Muslim states to do the same. In Bahrain, parliament formed a committee to contact Arab and Islamic governments to enforce the boycott.
In Strasbourg, the Council of Europe described as 'unacceptable' the violence of the past few days.
Freedom of opinion and expression is protected by European human rights law, 'even in cases when the views expressed were offensive,' said Secretary General Terry Davis.
Denmark told its nationals to avoid Muslim countries even as it pursued diplomatic efforts to defuse tension over the publication of the cartoons.
The foreign ministry warning lists 14 Muslim countries travellers should avoid following violent protests against the cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish daily.
Earlier today, there were demonstrations and riots across muslim Asia against the cartoons
Authorities in Afghanistan say three people have been killed during clashes between police and protestors.
Two were killed in gunfire from among protestors at the main gates of Bagram Airbase, 60km north of the capital Kabul. A crowd of about 5,000 people had gathered to protest outside the US-led coalition's Bagram headquarters.
Five protestors and eight police officers were wounded in the incident.
And in the eastern province of Lakhman, a third protestor died after being shot during a demonstration.
In Somalia, a 14-year-old boy was shot dead and several others were injured after crowds attacked police.
There have also been demonstrations in Indonesia, India, Gaza, Thailand and New Zealand.
The cartoons were first published in a Danish newspaper in September and have since been reprinted in several publications, most of them European.
UK police have govt support
The British government has said the behaviour of some Muslim demonstrators outside the Danish Embassy in London in recent days was completely unacceptable.
A Downing Street statement added that the police would have the government's full support in any actions they wished to take as a result of the protests.
Police have been criticised for failing to arrest some of the London demonstrators, as they carried signs threatening to kill those who published the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Earlier, some of Lebanon's political leaders accused Syria of being behind the attack on the Danish embassy in Beirut yesterday.
The mission was ransacked and burnt during the violent protests. The attack on the embassy has resulted in the resignation of Lebanon's Interior Minister, Hassan Sabeh. |
Tentative Graduation Dates Set
I hope that everyone in your household is staying safe and finding continued enjoyment in your time together. As the school district alters or finalizes plans during this time of school closure, there are several items of importance that I want to bring to your attention.
New Feeding Sites to Open Monday, April 20
Beginning Monday, April 20, we will begin Grab-and-Go meal service for any child ages 1 to 18 at five additional school sites.
Angie Debo Elementary (16060 N. May Ave.)
Frontier Elementary (4901 Explorer Dr.)
Heritage Elementary (400 E. Sorghum Mill Rd.)
Northern Hills Elementary (901 E. Wayne St.)
Orvis Risner Elementary (2801 S. Rankin St.)
The meals will be available in the schools’ drive-thru from 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Monday-Friday. Meal service will be set up near the schools’ cafeterias, which, in some cases, could be at the back of the building. The addition of these sites brings to 13 the number of feeding locations across our district. Each week, EPS is serving around 5,000 students an estimated 10,000 meals. For a master list of all Grab-and-Go feeding sites, go to edmondschools.net.
Tentative Dates Set for Graduation Ceremonies
District and high school administrators, as well as senior sponsors, have been finalizing plans to move high school graduation ceremonies to the summertime. The Cox Convention Center has been booked for two tentative dates, July 11 and July 24, the latter date preferred, but will be dependent on other concurrently scheduled events at the Cox. Additionally, we are requesting a booking date over fall break (TBD) that, while not ideal, still provides an opportunity to recognize and reflect upon our graduates’ accomplishments, even as they have begun their new lives in college or careers. We are communicating these dates now so that families have the opportunity to “hold” the dates and begin to make tentative plans with family and friends. National and local health and safety guidelines will dictate on which date the ceremonies will be held.
Commemorative graduation programs will be printed and school sites will soon announce tryouts among the valedictorians for the positions of graduation speakers. In the meantime, the district, thanks to a grant from the Edmond Public Schools Foundation, is purchasing yard signs for all graduates to proudly display at home to commemorate this important accomplishment. Members of the EPS Foundation Board and the schools’ teachers are planning a surprise posting of the yard signs in the seniors’ front yards. As we near the end of school, seniors will be contacted to solicit information regarding transcript needs, scholarships, and post-graduation plans. Also, dates will soon be announced for seniors to schedule appointments to return their Chromebooks and student IDs and at the same time pick up their official diplomas, yearbooks, and any personal items still remaining in the buildings.
District Developing Plan to Pick Up Personal Belongings
We hope to be able to announce by late next week our plan for how elementary, middle school and high school students (except seniors) will pick up their personal belongings and drop off school equipment such as textbooks, library books and so on. Thank you for your patience as we develop this process.
2020-2021 Annual Update to Open May 1
Parents or guardians of students currently enrolled in the 2019-20 school are required to complete an Annual Update for 2020-2021 by logging into the Parent Portal. After May 1, login, scroll down and click on the “More” link and then “Online Registration” in the lower-left corner of the portal screen to begin the Annual Update. Parents or guardians can verify their existing information and make any needed changes. Students will not receive 2020-21 schedules or homeroom teacher assignments in August until this update has been completed. If you need assistance registering or logging in to the Parent Portal, please email parentportalhelp@edmondschools.net with your specific question.
Teachers off Contract on April 24
As Friday, April 24 (better known as “April Day”) is still considered a non-contract day for all certified personnel under the EPS board-approved school calendar, all teachers will be off that day. Teachers will not be obligated to contact students or hold virtual lessons on this day. Remember, content and lessons can still be accessed and completed on the EPS Learning Dashboard.
New Content Uploaded to EPS Learning Dashboard on Sundays
New content is uploaded to the EPS Learning Dashboard every Sunday at noon. Please encourage your child to do as many of the dashboard activities as possible. The skills addressed in the learning dashboard each week are key skills needed for the next grade level.
Until our next communication, please stay safe and take care of yourselves. If you are struggling with excessive worry, anxiety or depression, please reach out to our Call Sam hotline. The number is 1-855-225-2SAM (2726). This free, 24-hour, confidential hotline is staffed by full-time counselors at Mercy who are eager to assist you. |
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Quarterback Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos looks on during warm-ups before playing against the Seattle Seahawks during Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium on February 2014 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. |
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to this problem (and practice coding more problems) at:
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*/
public class Solution {
public static void main(String args[]) {
/*
Here you are given the adjacency list, but even if you were
given the raw edges and vertices (remember: G = (V, E)), you'd
still be able to build the adjacency list in O(|E|) time.
Just loop over the edges and build what you see below.
*/
Map<Integer, List<Integer>> originalNodeToAdjacents = new HashMap<>();
originalNodeToAdjacents.put(0, Arrays.asList(1));
originalNodeToAdjacents.put(1, Arrays.asList(2));
originalNodeToAdjacents.put(2, Arrays.asList(3, 4));
originalNodeToAdjacents.put(3, Arrays.asList(0));
originalNodeToAdjacents.put(4, Arrays.asList(2));
/*
The graph above:
0 ---> 1 ---> 2 <---> 4
^ /
\ /
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*/
/*
If we reverse each edge:
0 <--- 1 <--- 2 <---> 4
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*/
System.out.println(isStronglyConnected(originalNodeToAdjacents));
}
private static boolean isStronglyConnected(Map<Integer, List<Integer>> originalNodeToAdjacents) {
boolean allNodesReached = allNodesReachedViaBFS(originalNodeToAdjacents);
if (!allNodesReached) {
return false;
}
Map<Integer, List<Integer>> reversedNodeToAdjacents = reverseGraph(originalNodeToAdjacents);
boolean allNodesReachedWithReverseGraph = allNodesReachedViaBFS(reversedNodeToAdjacents);
return allNodesReachedWithReverseGraph;
}
private static boolean allNodesReachedViaBFS(Map<Integer, List<Integer>> originalNodeToAdjacents) {
Set<Integer> visited = new HashSet<>();
Queue<Integer> queue = new LinkedList<>();
queue.add(0);
visited.add(0);
while (!queue.isEmpty()) {
int node = queue.poll();
List<Integer> adjacents = originalNodeToAdjacents.get(node);
if (adjacents != null) {
for (int adjacent: adjacents) {
if (!visited.contains(adjacent)) {
visited.add(adjacent);
queue.add(adjacent);
}
}
}
}
return visited.size() == originalNodeToAdjacents.size();
}
private static Map<Integer, List<Integer>> reverseGraph(Map<Integer, List<Integer>> originalNodeToAdjacents) {
Map<Integer, List<Integer>> reversedNodeToAdjacents = new HashMap<>();
for (Map.Entry<Integer, List<Integer>> entry: originalNodeToAdjacents.entrySet()) {
int nodeValue = entry.getKey();
List<Integer> adjacents = entry.getValue();
// Reverse each edge
for (int adjacent: adjacents) {
List<Integer> reversedAdjacents;
if (!reversedNodeToAdjacents.containsKey(adjacent)) {
reversedAdjacents = new ArrayList<>();
} else {
reversedAdjacents = reversedNodeToAdjacents.get(adjacent);
}
// Reverse edge, before node went to adjacent, now adjacent maps to the node
reversedAdjacents.add(nodeValue);
reversedNodeToAdjacents.put(adjacent, reversedAdjacents);
}
}
return reversedNodeToAdjacents;
}
}
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Breaking News
All Ages Ladies Soccer
Thistle ladies caused one of the upsets of the season defeating old rivals Workies 3-0. Knowing they had only 4 games to go, out of finals contention and only fielding 10 players, Thistle ladies had something to prove.
The first goal was a result from a brilliant cross by Maddie Risby to Brooke McDonald to slide one past the keeper. Rhiannon Walding scored next as she lofted a well weighted ball from near half way. Jamie-Lee Hunt closed off the scoring with a wonderful one on one with the keeper.
Ashlee Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Merry and Annmarie Tomazin were once again outstanding in defence. Angie Cambourn and Jacinta Moon held their own in the middle of the field shutting down any attack coming down the centre. Danielle Byrne was outstanding in goals saving some tricky and fast shots determined to not to let any slip past her.
Overall Thistle ladies have had a fun and wonderful season and we hope to see you all back next year! |
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Malik
Morgan
#24
Guard
Height:
6'4"
Weight:
199lbs.
Class:
Sophomore
City/State:
River Ridge, La.
High School:
John Curtis HS
Major:
Sports Administration
Experience:
2 Letters
Career Statistics ▾▸
Bio
SOPHOMORE SEASON (2013-14) Season ended early when he suffered a knee injury during the second half of the Auburn game (2/12) … Played in 21 games with six starts prior to injury … One double figure game in the overtime win against Butler (12/1) in the Old Spice Classic … In that game, hit 5-of-11 field goals, including 2-of-3 three-pointers with a season high seven rebounds and three steals, scoring a career tying high of 12 points … Four career games in double figures … Had a strong start at South Carolina (1/11), playing a career best 33 minutes with eight points, six rebounds and four assists … Made nine treys, 34 in two seasons … Averaged 15.5 minutes a game, 4.4 points and 3.1 rebounds a contest.
FRESHMAN SEASON (2012-13)Morgan played in all 31 games at LSU, with 14 starts and proved a factor in many games for the Tigers … Averaged 5.3 points per game and 2.9 rebounds, while averaging 18.4 minutes a game … Three games in double figures – 12 at Tennessee (2/19); 11 at Georgia (1/19) and 10 in his first LSU game vs. UC Santa Barbara (11/9) … Eight points against Seton Hall (11/29) where Morgan was 3-of-4 from the field with 2 treys was huge as LSU came from 16-point second-half deficit … Season best 5 assists vs. Mississippi State (2/16) and 5 steals vs. Northwestern State (11/20) … Best of 8 rebounds against Chattanooga (12/11) … Made 25 three-pointers.
PRIOR TO LSULed John Curtis to its first Class 2A State Championship in 2012, earning All-State First Team honors from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association … Was named the Class 2A Player of the Year by LSWA … Averaged 18.1 points, five assists and 4.3 rebounds to earn District 10-2A Player of the Year honors and help the Patriots earn the No. 1 playoff seed … Had a career high of 56 points and 10 rebounds in a game versus Riverside Academy … Coach Mike Krajcer was named Coach of the Year as Patriots capped off a 30-3 season.
PERSONALBorn on Jan. 31, 1993 … Left handed … Honor Student at John Curtis … Parents are Detra and Sam Morgan … Siblings are Kai Morgan (14) and Kolby Morgan (16) … Mother attended LSU and played volleyball at LSU (1983-86) … Detra (Brown) played on two SEC Championship teams at LSU (1985-86) and led the team in kills, hitting percentage and digs in 1985 … Cousin Aaron Morgan is a football defensive end for the Jacksonville Jaguars … Said LSU was “my dream school since I was a baby since my mother played volleyball at LSU” … Major at LSU is sports management … Likes to watch TV to relax … Lists as his hobby “playing basketball with brother and sister” … Favorite food is Shrimp Pasta … Favorite NBA player of Oklahoma City, but favorite team is the Miami Heat. |
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Rapper Iggy Azalea says she is now concentrating on executive producing film and TV projects. The 26-year-old star has revealed that she is no more interested in acting but she will remain involved in the industry through her production company, Azalea Street Productions, reported Femalefirst.
“There’s no more acting but I actually am doing a lot of executive producing. I’ve got a film coming out next year that I’m producing. “I’m not going to say what network, but I’ve just signed a first rights deal agreement with a big network in America that I am executive producing. We are doing five shows a year for the network, all scripted,” she said.
Azalea, however, remained tight-lipped over projects her production company is working on. “I’m not acting but I’m definitely creating a lot of scripted content that you guys will be seeing. I find books and projects and things that I like and I team up with writers and go over the scripts and develop them. “I have a production company called Azalea Street Productions. It is all secret still,” she said.
Australian rap superstar Iggy Azalea is the latest recruit to join the X Factor Australia judging panel, which returns to our screen this week just days after it premieres in Australia.
We find out what the Fancy singer plans to bring to this year’s series.
What type of artists are you hoping to unearth?
I’m not necessarily looking for that ballad voice although it would be nice. I think I just really want someone with an interesting story who is an interesting person. Charismatic, warm and friendly. Somebody that I would want to be friends with and everybody is drawn to. I want to really take the time to notice who is memorable and then also who’s talented and can pull it off on stage. But I think sometimes these shows become so much about who can belt it out the most and not enough about personality. I really want to find that person who can still be in people’s minds even when the cameras aren’t rolling anymore.
Have you seen any rappers?
No, I’m not looking for a rapper. I never really feel like that works in this format. Rap is about song writing and this is about singing and covering other people’s songs, so I don’t know that this works in this format because you’re singing someone else’s lyrics and you also don’t necessarily have a vocal ability, so what are you showcasing if they’re not your lyrics? It kind of gets into murky water, lost in translation.
The ‘Black Widow’ hitmaker – who was born in Sydney and grew up in Mullumbimby – sees America as her home now but enjoys returning to her birth country from time to time.
She said: ‘I mean, to be honest with you, my home is in America. I’ve lived there for a decade, that’s where I live. It’s great to come back and visit my grandparents, but there is no home connection. It would be like you going home to where you lived when you were nine, I kind of don’t associate with that anymore.’
And the 26-year-old singer is ‘proud’ of the success she has achieved.
She added to Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper: ‘To be the best, you want to compete with the best. The people I saw back then who I saw in the charts, who were at the top of our charts, were American.
‘I am proud, but I think anybody would be proud of the success that I’ve had, whether they come from a big city or a small town. It’s tough, no matter what.’
Meanwhile, Iggy will return to Australia following the announcement she will be a new judge on The X Factor.
She said previously: ‘I hope it will be a bit of a summer getaway and I can work too. It will be summer so hopefully I can get out and chill and show everybody that is coming with me the good food and the beach and play some tennis and ride horses.
‘Spending a month in Australia is the longest I will have spent there in literally like 10 years.
Aussie rapstress Iggy Azalea appears to be turning her attention to producing content for NBCUniversal. The “Team” performer just signed a production deal with the company to create original content.
Azalea made the announcement via Instagram with a photo of her signature on the contract.
“Wanted to share with everyone that my production company ‘Azalea Street’ has just signed on to create original content for Universal NBC! So guys, I’m an Executive Producer for at least a few years to come! Hopefully many! Lots of scripted series in the works! Lots of interesting ideas!”
This partnership between Azalea’s company and NBCUniversal appears to have been in the works for some time. She mentioned her interest in producing content during a recent interview with Notion magazine.
“I would still like to get into producing movies and television series, behind the scenes and will be doing that in the next one or two years.”
So, if you’re waiting on Azalea’s sophomore album, you’re going to need to keep waiting. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t hard at work!
Rapper Iggy Azalea has bought a new home and is busy decorating it following her recent split from her ex-fiance Nick Young.
The “Fancy” hitmaker, 26, seems she’s keen to wipe clear any memories she has of her former lover by setting up home elsewhere and putting her own stamp on the interiors, reported Conmtactmusic.
Taking to her Twitter account, she said, “Can’t wait to get home and get started on fixing up my new place. I’ve been annoying Adam and Guy talking about carpet all week (sic).”
The 26-year-old rapper moved out of the home she shared with Nick in Tarzana, California, late last month after she saw the NBA basketball player getting frisky beneath the sheets with a mystery woman on their home CCTV.
Azalea and Young began dating at the beginning of 2014 and got engaged in 2015, but their romance was rocked earlier this year when the “Team” hitmaker had to suffer the indignity of a video leaking online which showed Nick admitting to his Los Angeles Lakers teammate D’Angelo Russell that he had cheated on her with a teenager.
Iggy Azalea is gearing up to join a new “team.” The 26-year-old has confirmed she’s taking her talents down under to join the judges’ panel on The X Factor Australia.
“I understand what it’s like to have giant dreams and intend to help other young Australians achieve theirs by sharing my knowledge and developing their talent in collaboration with The X Factor,” the Sydney-born artist said in a statement.
Iggy will replace Dannii Minogue (sister of Kylie) on the talent show’s upcoming eighth season, though her fellow co-judges have yet to be announced. |
Retailers had worse sales in November than expected — because of Sandy. The economy isn’t doing as well as experts thought it would — because of Sandy. New home sales were weaker than first reported — because of Sandy.
Hurricane Sandy, of course, was a mighty disaster. But it is a godsend to anyone who needs an excuse. Didn’t do your term paper? Blame Sandy. Missed a credit-card payment? It’s Sandy’s fault.
Hell, I’m going to plead emotional distress — because of Sandy — the next time I get a traffic ticket, forget to hold open a door or jaywalk.
So you can now expect any company, especially those selling or doing anything on the East Coast, to blame the infamous hurricane. This will go on for months. Sandy is like spackle: it covers a whole lot of mistakes.
If you want to entertain yourself for a few seconds, put the words “because of Sandy” into a Google search, and you’ll see that everything from blood drives to restaurants to pay phones to college application deadlines were affected by the storm.
I mention this because the Labor Department will announce its employment numbers this Friday. They aren’t supposed to be very good — only 90,000 new jobs compared with the 171,000 jobs that magically appeared just a few days before the presidential election.
As I’ve mentioned before, the last two employment reports were unusually — and suspiciously — strong. A person with a skeptical mind might think this was because the Democrats needed good economic reports to hold power.
President Obama will be in office for another four years, and there is now no real reason to prove statistically that the economy is stronger than it really is. In fact, with the current fiscal-cliff talks, it might be better for the administration to show economic weakness so that the Republicans are forced to negotiate.
Besides, if Friday’s number is less than the 90,000 expected, or the unemployment rate goes higher than the anticipated 8 percent (from 7.9 percent), Sandy will be blamed.
I have a prediction: a lot of newborns in 2013 will be named — you guessed it — Sandy because of Sandy.
***
In my last column, I wrote about pedophiles posting their filth on Facebook.
But this isn’t just Facebook’s problem.
Companies that advertise on the site are going to be humiliated someday when their ads run alongside sexually explicit images of children. And this is a format problem that only a complete overhaul of Facebook’s design will solve.
As it now stands, the advertisements that come up on a Facebook user’s screen are meant entirely for that user. What I mean is, if a person’s Facebook profile says he has a family, the ads will reflect that with, for instance, lots of insurance and financial-services companies.
It doesn’t matter what the Facebook user is looking at on the left part of his screen. Those ads come up automatically on the right side.
So when The Post’s computer technician and I were investigating the disturbing photos the other day, we saw a stack of ads for MasterCard, Dunkin’ Donuts, State Farm Insurance, the state of Arizona, a game called “Battle Pirates” and Kim Crawford Wine on the same screen.
I wonder what those companies would think if they knew.
*
Wall Street may care about Friday’s jobs report, but the thing that really matters on Main Street is income statistics.
Here are some:
According to the Federal Reserve, real median household income was up just 1.2 percent in October from this year’s low of $50,757 in April. The current $51,089 income level is slightly above what it was at the end of last year.
Median income was $54,761 in October 2007.
So, you see the problem?
Well, you really don’t get the whole sense from those numbers. Besides this drop-off in income, households are also getting hurt on their investments.
Sure, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index is up nicely this year, and the Dow Jones industrial index has some gain. But people aren’t likely to cash in stocks — and have to record a gain or loss on taxes — when they want to make a purchase.
They are more likely, in my experience, to look at their bank accounts, see interest income and spend the money that their money has made. But interest income is so puny these days because rates are being held at historic lows by the Fed.
Bottom line: Households are not only earning less at work but also getting less return on their savings. Add to that the possibility of higher taxes at the end of the year, and you can probably can see why the economy is in a perpetual state of blah.
The only states in which consumers should be feeling any better are those where marijuana has been legalized.
My favorite joke of the week is Obama asking for an end to the US debt ceiling. With the Fed already having created $3 trillion in an alternate currency to buy its quantitative-easing bonds, the idea of also giving Washington a blank check on spending is pretty hilarious.
I wonder how hard our kids will be laughing 10 or 20 years from now when they endure the 1920s German experience of having to cart wheelbarrows full of currency to the supermarket. |
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Camy here: If you haven't read anything by Robin Lee Hatcher yet, you need to go out right now and buy this book! I have to admit that I enjoy her historical novels more than her contemporaries. (I hope that doesn't make her upset. :) You can read excerpts of all her books on her website in case you don't believe me when I tell you she's a fabulous writer!
Robin Lee Hatcher discovered her vocation as a novelist after many years of reading everything she could put her hands on, including the backs of cereal boxes and ketchup bottles. The winner of the Christy Award for Excellence in Christian Fiction (Whispers from Yesterday), the RITA Award for Best Inspirational Romance (Patterns of Love and The Shepherd's Voice), two RT Career Achievement Awards (Americana Romance and Inspirational Fiction), and the RWA Lifetime Achievement Award, Robin is the author of over 50 novels, including Catching Katie, named one of the Best Books of 2004 by the Library Journal.
Robin enjoys being with her family, spending time in the beautiful Idaho outdoors, reading books that make her cry, and watching romantic movies. She is passionate about the theater, and several nights every summer, she can be found at the outdoor amphitheater of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, enjoying Shakespeare under the stars. She makes her home outside of Boise, sharing it with Poppet the high-maintenance Papillon
ABOUT THE BOOK
It's 1918, and Daphne McKinley, heiress to a small fortune, has found contentment in the town of Bethlehem Springs, Idaho. But Daphne has a secret.
A series of dime novels loosely based on local lore and featuring a nefarious villain known as Rawhide Rick has enjoyed modest popularity among readers. Nobody in Bethlehem Springs knows the man behind the stories ... except Daphne.
When newspaperman Joshua Crawford comes to town searching for the man who sullied the good name of his grandfather, Daphne finds herself at a crossroads, reassessing the power of her words, re-thinking how best to honor her gifts, and reconsidering what she wants out of life.
Propelled by a white hot fury, Joshua Crawford pushed open the door to Gregory Halifax’s office so hard it hit the wall with a loud wham. Startled, Gregory looked up a split second before Joshua slapped the newspaper onto the desk.
“What is this garbage?” Joshua demanded.
Gregory’s expression changed from one of surprise to a smirk. “So you read it.”
“Of course I read it, and I’m here to demand a retraction.”
“A retraction? For what?”
“For what you wrote about my grandfather.”
Gregory laughed softly. “You must be joking. The article is about dime novelists. The part about Richard Terrell was the words of the author, not mine.”
“But you made what Mr. Morgan wrote in his novels sound as if it was fact rather than fiction. It’s not.”
“How do you know it’s not? Tell me. What do you know about your grandfather before he settled in St. Louis? Nothing, that’s what. You’ve said so yourself.”
“Did you contact anyone in Idaho to try to confirm that the character in Morgan’s books is based on the real Richard Terrell?”
“I didn’t need to. I interviewed the publishers for my story. And again, the focus of my article is the men who write dime novels, not on the characters found in their books.”
“But in the process you’ve dragged my grandfather’s good name through the mud. I want a retraction.”
Gregory pushed back his chair and stood, the smile gone from his face. “When you prove anything I wrote is in error, then come see me again, and we’ll have this discussion. Until then, get out.”
For one moment, Joshua thought he might be able to control his temper. For one very brief moment — just before he caught Gregory’s jaw with a right hook followed by a left jab to the gut. Gregory flew backward into the wall. The glass in the office door rattled again. Joshua readied himself for the other man to fight back. To his dissatisfaction, it didn’t happen. Gregory’s eyes were still unfocused when more men poured into the office and grabbed Joshua by the arms, hauling him away. One of the men was Joshua’s boss, Langston Lee.
“You’re fired, Crawford. Collect your things and get out. I won’t have my reporters brawling. You hear me. Get out or I’ll call the police.”
Joshua longed to turn his rage onto his boss, to give Langston Lee a little of what he’d already given Gregory Halifax. But he had enough good sense left to resist the urge. He was already out of a job. He didn’t want to spend time in a jail cell besides.
But so help him, he would get a retraction out of this newspaper. He would prove Gregory Halifax was a shoddy reporter and see that he was fired. He would hear Langston Lee apologize. And he would make certain D. B. Morgan never again maligned his grandfather in print.
This wasn’t over yet.
Chapter 1
October 1918
Maybe it was time to kill Rawhide Rick. He’d served his purpose, the old rascal. He’d hunted buffalo and fought Indians and stolen gold from hardworking miners and sent men to the gallows. Now might be the time for him to meet his Maker. The trick was deciding how to kill him.
Daphne McKinley rose from her desk and walked into the parlor, where she pushed aside the curtains at the window.
A golden haze blanketed Bethlehem Springs. It had been a beautiful autumn. The prettiest one yet in her three years in this serene Idaho mountain town. The trees had been the brightest of golds, the most fiery of reds, the deepest of greens. Daphne had spent many a mild afternoon walking trails through the forest, enjoying the colors and the smells.
If Rawhide Rick — who by this point in the series of books had become the infamous Judge Richard Terrell — was dead, what would become of the dashing Bill McFarland, hero of The McFarland Chronicles? Without his arch enemy, his life might become rather dull. Or perhaps it was Daphne who would find life dull without Rawhide Rick. Wicked he was, but he certainly kept things interesting whenever he was around.
She rubbed her eyelids with the tips of her fingers, and when she pulled them away, she noticed ink stains on her right hand. Her fountain pen was leaking. Perhaps it was time to buy a typewriter. But would writing on a machine feel the same?
Daphne turned from the window, her gaze sweeping the parlor. She’d come to love this small house on Wallula Street. Since moving into it soon after Gwen — its previous owner — married Daphne’s brother, she’d delighted in making it her home, decorating and furnishing it in ways that pleased her. Daphne’s childhood homes had been large and filled with servants waiting to attend to her slightest wish. But she had often been forced to live by the timetables of others. Now she could do as she willed, when she willed. The freedom she enjoyed was intoxicating.
The best part was when she wanted to be with family, she got into her motorcar — her very own, quite wonderful McLaughlin- Buick — and drove to her brother’s home to play with her young nephew and infant niece. She was completely dotty over the two of them. She loved to crawl around on the floor with Andy — he would turn two at the end of November — the both of them squealing and giggling. And there was nothing like cuddling three-month-old Ellie. Daphne thought the baby girl smelled like sunshine.
A sigh escaped her. She hadn’t time for daydreaming about Morgan’s and Gwen’s darling children. She must decide what to do. If she was going to kill the judge, she needed to notify Elwood Shriver at once. Wavering in indecisiveness served no good purpose.
She returned to her small office. The floor around her desk was littered with wadded sheets of paper. It was always thus when words frustrated her. “So wasteful,” she scolded softly.
of the war half a world away was splashed across the front page. More than a million American men — just boys, many of them — were now fighting in Europe alongside the Allied Powers. The end was near, some said. She prayed to God they were right. Too many had died already. Others, like Woody Statham, would wear the scars from their war wounds for the remainder of their lives — if not on their bodies then in their souls.
She flipped through several more pages of the newspaper, but nothing she read captured her imagination or sparked her creativity. Besides, she’d read every article before, some of them several times.
Maybe her problem wasn’t with Rawhide Rick. Maybe the problem was Bill McFarland. Maybe she was tired of him. Maybe he should die.
“Maybe the whole lot of them should perish,” she muttered as she laid the newspaper aside.
She spun her chair toward the bookcase beneath the office window. There, on the bottom row, were copies of The McFarland Chronicles by D. B. Morgan, all ten volumes. And if she didn’t decide soon what to do about Rawhide Rick, ten volumes would be all there were.
There was no question that Daphne loved writing stories of adventure and danger in the West of forty and fifty years ago. And while she would concede that her books were not great literature, they were entertaining, for readers and for herself. But there were days like today when she was tempted to contact her editor in New York City and tell him that she (D. B. McKinley, whom Elwood Shriver thought to be a man) was retiring and thus so must D. B. Morgan (the pseudonym used on her books). However, she knew she would miss the storytelling were she to give it up. After all, it didn’t take much effort to clean her small house or cook the As she sat down, she took up the five-day-old newspaper. News occasional meal. Without her writing pursuits, what would she do with her time?
It would be nice if she could discuss her feelings with someone, but there wasn’t another person, in Bethlehem Springs or elsewhere, who knew she was the author of dime novels. She wasn’t sure her brother would believe her if she told him. The only soul who might suspect anything was Dedrik Finster, the Bethlehem Springs postmaster, because of the mail she sent and received, but his English wasn’t the best and he probably had no idea that Shriver & Sons was a publishing company. Why would he?
Maybe what she needed more than anything was a drive out to the Arlington ranch and a long visit with Griff Arlington, Gwen and Cleo’s father. That man had given her more story ideas in the last three years than she could ever hope to put on paper. It was Griff who had told her about the escapades of the real-life Richard Terrell, every bit as much a scoundrel as her fictional character, although perhaps in different ways. Yes, a visit with Griff was just what the doctor ordered.
Her mind made up, she rose and went in search of hat, gloves, and coat.
****
Joshua stepped from the passenger car onto the platform and looked about him. A large family — father, mother, and six children — were being escorted into the railroad station by a young man in a blue uniform. They were on their way to a hot springs resort located north of Bethlehem Springs. He knew this because they had spoken of little else during the journey, and Joshua couldn’t have helped but overhear their conversation as they’d been a rather boisterous group.
He, on the other hand, was headed into the town that appeared to be about a quarter mile or so up a dirt road that passed between two low-slung hills. Switching his valise to the opposite hand, he set off in that direction.
The first building he saw upon entering Bethlehem Springs was a church. All Saints Presbyterian, according to the sign out front. Catty-corner from All Saints was the Daily Herald, his destination. He crossed the street and entered the newspaper office. Familiar smells — newsprint, ink, dust — filled his nostrils.
An attractive but pale-looking woman, dressed in black, came out of the back room, hesitated when she saw him, then moved forward, stopping on the opposite side of a raised counter. “May I help you, sir?”
“Yes.” He set down his valise and removed his hat. “My name is Joshua Crawford. I’m here to see Nathan Patterson.”
“I’m sorry, Mr. Crawford.” Her voice broke, and it took her a moment to continue. “Mr. Patterson passed away.” She drew a long breath and released it. “I’m his widow. Perhaps I can assist you.”
Either Nathan Patterson had been much older than his wife or he had died tragically young, for Joshua guessed the woman to be no more than in her early thirties.
Joshua had counted on this job. Without it, he couldn’t afford to stay in Idaho. He would barely have enough money for train fare back to St. Louis, as long as he didn’t spend a night in the hotel, and even then he wouldn’t have much left over to buy food. He would be extremely hungry before he reached Missouri. Not to mention that he wouldn’t have a job waiting for him when he got there — unless he was successful here first.
“I’m glad you’ve come, Mr. Crawford. My husband would be heartbroken to see this newspaper fail. I assume you can do more than report?”
“Ma’am?”
“You are qualified to manage the paper, I trust.”
Manage it? That was more than he’d expected. But if it worked out . . . “Yes, I am qualified,” he answered — with more confidence than he felt.
“Good. Nathan’s final instruction was for me to offer you the job as managing editor of the Daily Herald. If you’re interested, that is.”
He hadn’t thought to be in Idaho more than a month or two. Surely he could discover the information he needed, take care of matters, and return to Missouri before Christmas. On the other hand, success as a managing editor would look good on his résumé, would give him many more opportunities than simply working as a reporter for a small paper.
“Are you interested, Mr. Crawford?”
He had few other options. None, actually. Not if he wanted to honor his grandfather’s memory. Not if he wanted to restore his own good name and get back his old job. Taking the job as managing editor didn’t mean he would be here forever. He could keep the newspaper running until Mrs. Patterson found his replacement. It was the least he could do for the man who had paid his train fare from Missouri to Idaho. “Yes, Mrs. Patterson. I’m interested.”
“The pay will be ninety-five dollars a month to start. I know it isn’t the sort of salary you must have received at a large newspaper, but you’ll have a place to live for free.” She pointed at the ceiling. “There’s an apartment above the office with a kitchen and bath. It hasn’t been used for several years, but with a bit of elbow grease, it should clean up well and prove adequate for a bachelor such as yourself.”
Ninety-five a month. Not quite twelve hundred a year. Less than Langston Lee had paid him back in St. Louis, but more than the sum Nathan Patterson had offered when he’d applied for the job with the Daily Herald. With a place to live thrown in, the salary would allow him to put money aside for when he returned to Missouri.
“That sounds fine,” he answered.
Mrs. Patterson gave him a fleeting smile. “Good. Now let me show you to your quarters. I’m sure you must be weary from your journey. We can begin work in the morning.”
****
Daphne was invited by Griff Arlington to have supper with the family and to spend the night at the ranch as she occasionally did, but she declined. Griff ’s storytelling about his early days in Idaho had done just what she’d hoped. Ideas were rolling around in her head, and she was desperate to get them on paper before they disappeared like a puff of smoke in the wind.
As soon as she walked into her house, she tossed her coat over the nearest chair, dropped her hat on the table, and hurried into her office, where she lit the lamp and began scribbling as fast as she could. It seemed she barely drew a breath for the next hour. When she looked up at last, she saw that night had fallen over Bethlehem Springs. Her stomach growled, reminding her that she’d missed supper. Still, she had little desire to cook. This seemed like a good evening to pay a visit to one of the town’s restaurants.
Daphne had three choices — the Gold Mountain, which served the most wonderful breakfasts; the restaurant inside the Washington Hotel where she liked to dine before an evening at the Opera House; and the South Fork, famous for their pies and home-style fare. She decided on the latter.
As she walked briskly along Wallula Street toward Main, her way was lit by street lamps, one of many improvements made during Mayor Gwen McKinley’s term of office, which had ended almost ten months earlier. Daphne thought it unfortunate for the town that her sister-in-law had retired from public service. She hoped that, when her nephew and niece were older, Gwen would run for office again.
As Daphne neared the office of the Daily Herald, she noticed light spilling through the windows of the apartment above it, something she’d never seen before. Was the newly widowed Christina Patterson up there, perhaps sorting through memorabilia from her marriage? Should Daphne postpone her evening meal another hour and see if she could offer the woman any comfort or assistance?
Nathan Patterson’s death had been a shock to the town. A man of thirty-seven years, he’d looked in the pink of health. To have him weaken and die so suddenly had taken everyone, especially his wife, by surprise. And even while they grieved the loss of a friend, many wondered about the future of the Daily Herald. It had been almost a week since the last edition. What would become of the newspaper without Nathan at its helm?
A shadow fell across the nearest window, and Daphne stopped on the sidewalk, still pondering what she should do. Would Christina welcome a visit from her or had she gone up there to escape intrusion? Daphne remembered all too well how difficult the death of a loved one could be. She’d been a girl of sixteen when her beloved father died, a young woman of twenty when she’d lost her mother. Even now, all these years later, she felt a painful sting in her chest, knowing she wouldn’t see either of them again this side of heaven.
She also remembered that sometimes she’d wanted to be alone with her memories, alone to cry and mourn. And so she decided not to disturb the new widow and instead moved on, rounding the corner onto Main Street and entering the South Fork Restaurant a few moments later.
Delicious scents filled the dining room, making her stomach grumble once again. It was late enough that the dinner crowd had come and gone. There were customers at only two tables — Mabel and Roscoe Finch, who worked for her brother and sister-in-law, and Ashley Thurber, the elementary school teacher. Daphne greeted each one of them before sitting at a table in the corner, her back to the wall. Whenever she dined out, she preferred similar seating. It allowed her to study others without being too obvious. She loved to watch and listen to people. She’d learned a great deal from the habit, and much of what she’d learned had made it into her stories at one time or another.
Sara Henley — a shy, plain girl of eighteen — approached Daphne, a pad in her hand and a smile on her face. “Evening, Miss McKinley.”
“Wonderful.” Sara lowered her voice. “My dad’s agreed I can study art. I won’t leave for school until spring, and I have to save every cent I earn to help cover my expenses. But all winter I can look forward to going.”
Daphne touched the back of Sara’s hand with her fingertips. “I’m glad for you. You have a wonderful talent. You must promise that you’ll write and tell me all about the school and its instructors once you’re there.”
“’Course I will. If it wasn’t for your encouragement, I never would’ve had the nerve to ask my dad to let me go.”
Daphne had done little besides tell Sara that she shouldn’t give up on her dreams, no matter how long it took, that God could open doors in surprising ways if she would simply trust Him. But she was glad Sara had found her words to be helpful and even more glad that Sara’s father had consented. “I believe art school will be the making of you. Wait and see if I’m not right.”
As Sara disappeared into the restaurant kitchen, the front door opened, letting in the cool night air along with a man Daphne had never seen before. He was tall, at least six feet, perhaps a little more. He had brown hair that was shaggy near his collar, and unless the poor light in the restaurant deceived her, there was the shadow of a beard under the skin of his jaw and upper lip.
Who was he? Not a cowboy nor a miner. That was clear by the clothes he wore. His suit appeared of good quality, but even from where she sat she could tell it had seen its share of wear. A man of trade perhaps or a salesman. Definitely not a guest of her brother’s spa, for he looked neither wealthy nor in poor health.
At that moment, the stranger turned his head and his gaze met hers. She swallowed a gasp of surprise. Good heavens! He had the most astonishing eyes. What color were they? She wished she could tell. So pale. Perhaps blue. Or maybe a silvery-gray. No, they were blue. She was sure of it. And she seemed unable to look away, even when she knew she should. Thankfully, he broke the connection and moved to a table, sitting in a chair with his right side toward her.
Daphne drew a hungry breath into her lungs. Until that moment she hadn’t known she’d held it.
Could I capture his eyes with words? What a character he would make. He could be Bill’s friend. Perhaps he could ride with him for the next few adventures. What name should I give him?
She pulled a small notebook and the stub of a pencil from her pocket and made a few notes to herself.
In Daphne’s fourth, fifth, and sixth novels, her hero, Bill McFarland, had courted a woman in Idaho City, but she’d grown tired of waiting for him to propose and had married someone else. Perhaps this new friend with his magnetic eyes could help Bill find the right woman, one who wouldn’t object to his adventurous spirit. Then again, Bill would have to watch out or his new friend might steal the right woman for himself.
The thought caused her to glance up from her notebook — only to discover he was looking in her direction. Her breath caught for a second time and a blush warmed her face as she dropped her gaze again. Oh, yes. Mr. Blue Eyes would definitely make things interesting for the readers of The McFarland Chronicles. She hoped her dinner would arrive soon. Another late-night writing session was looming.
****
December 5, 1871
There comes a time in a man’s life when it seems prudent that he look hard at his past, to remember from whence he came, to learn to be grateful for God’s mercy, perhaps even for the purpose of becoming a cautionary tale for others. And so I have decided to write an account of my life, from beginning to the present, knowing all the while that the future will be significantly different from those years that have gone before. In truth, I already know that my life will soon change for the better. I know this because, at the age of fifty, I am about to take a wife. No former associate of mine could be more surprised at this news than I am. I never believed I was the marrying kind. Nor would I have believed a woman as fine as my Annie would agree to be my wife, especially after she learned of my less than pristine past.
But I am getting ahead of myself. A record of my life should begin at the beginning. And so it shall.
****
I was born on a small farm in Missouri in the winter of 1821, the youngest of five children, all boys. My parents came to the region after the War of 1812, along with many other settlers. Like most everyone they knew, my parents were poor. They eked out a living the only way they knew how, through hard work and sweat and tears. They weren’t educated, and they yearned for something quite different for their children.
It amazes me, as I look back, that my mother managed to teach her sons so much when she never attended school a day in her life. Not that I appreciated her efforts back then. All I wanted when I was a lad was to go fishing or hunting or even just to lie on my back on a hot summer day and watch the clouds drift by. Still, despite my lack of enthusiasm, I learned to read and write and do arithmetic. I even came to appreciate, albeit many years later, the wisdom and enjoyment that could be found in books.
My parents were god-fearing people, but since there was no church within easy distance of our farm, it fell to my father and mother to see that their sons came to know the Bible and to embrace the tenants of the Christian faith. In this regard, I was even less enthusiastic. Rebellion resided in my stubborn heart, and it did not matter if my father took a strap to me or my mother sweetly entreated me. I would not yield.
Perhaps, given enough time, I might have come to know the God my parents believed in. But there wasn’t enough time. They died of the fever when I was eight years old, along with two of my brothers. Moses was ten and Oliver was nine. That was in the winter of 1829. February, I believe. There was deep snow on the ground and the temperatures were frigid. My surviving two brothers could manage no more than shallow graves as the ground was frozen hard.
I have never confessed this to a living soul, but I cried myself to sleep at night more often than not in the months that followed.
My two oldest brothers, Jefferson and Lyman, took over running the farm and raising me. They did the best they were able, them being just boys themselves, Jefferson not yet eighteen, Lyman only sixteen. I wish now that I had appreciated them more.
After I stopped crying myself to sleep at night, anger took the place of tears. I was angry with everyone, and my temper got me into plenty of trouble. I was fourteen the year I hit Lyman so hard I broke his nose. Of course, he gave me back in kind. A few weeks later, I struck out on my own.
I never knew what happened to my brothers. By the time I got to an age and a place where I wanted to get in touch with them, where I would have liked to see them again, they were gone. I was told they sold the farm and nobody knew where they went from there.
I have often wondered if they are still alive. I wonder if they think of me and wonder the same.
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Fatou Diome
Meet the writer
Born in Senegal in 1968, Fatou Diome has lived in France since 1994. A politically engaged author, her literary work is nourished by her struggle against intolerance. Her most recent work, Marianne porte plainte! is an excellent example of this. In it she demonstrates how the concept of national identity fractures society, creating a barrier between ‘them’ and ‘us’, while ignoring the migratory flows that have always played an important role in history. It celebrates the emancipating virtues of education, enabling us to go beyond our strictly defined perceived affiliations, to combat amalgams and to focus on the collective destiny of the human species.
Fatou Diome sees Humanity as something more than the sum of its artificially labelled subgroups.
The encounter with the author is the start of Les Assises Citoyennes sur les Migrations organised by the CNCD 11.11.11 and is organised in the context of the Migrations campaign by 11.11.11. |
If people are stupid enough that they need a law to make them do the right thing then that gene pool needs chlorinated whether it's jaywalker and an escalade or whatever else. What's wrong with personal responsibility instead a nanny state?
It may not be their own genes they're eliminating. It could be the neighbor kid's genes.
So when someone walks into traffic and a car swerves and wrecks, how do you hold the jaywalker responsible if it's not illegal to jaywalk? |
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Pakistan 'militant leader' Malik Ishaq arrested
Pakistani police have detained Malik Ishaq, founder and former head of militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), at his home in Punjab province.
The group said that it carried out an attack in a Shia Muslim area of the southern city of Quetta last Saturday which killed almost 90 people.
However, it is not clear whether Mr Ishaq's detention is directly related to the attack.
Mr Ishaq spent a decade in jail before being released in 2011.
A heavy contingent of police surrounded Mr Ishaq's residence and held negotiations with him, after which he gave himself over to the police, the BBC's M Ilyas Khan reports from Islamabad.
He had been released from jail a few months ago, our correspondent adds.
It is not clear whether Mr Ishaq has been formally charged with any offence. Under public order laws, suspects can be held in Pakistan for three months without any charge.
Pakistani authorities have long been criticised for not taking enough action against groups such as LeJ that foment sectarian violence.
When a local journalist asked Mr Ishaq in 2011 what intended to do after his release from jail, he replied his organisation would continue its "good work" - fighting those who opposed their version of Islam. |
# Airspeed Velocity
`pandera`'s performance benchmarks over time can be [viewed on this airspeed-velocity dashboard](https://pandera-dev.github.io/pandera-asv-logs/).
The [config](https://github.com/pandera-dev/pandera-asv-logs/tree/master/asv_bench/asv.conf.json) and [results files](https://github.com/pandera-dev/pandera-asv-logs/tree/master/results) files are tracked in the [pandera-asv-logs](https://github.com/pandera-dev/pandera-asv-logs) repo to avoid build files in the main repo.
The [benchmarks](https://github.com/pandera-dev/pandera/tree/master/benchmarks/) are tracked in the main [pandera repo](https://github.com/pandera-dev/pandera).
## Running `asv`
Ensure both the `pandera` and `pandera-asv-logs` repos are checked out to the same parent directory.
From the `pandera-asv-logs` repo, run:
```
asv run ALL --config asv_bench/asv.conf.json
```
## Publishing results:
To build the html and preview the results:
```
asv publish --config asv_bench/asv.conf.json
asv preview --config asv_bench/asv.conf.json
```
The `.json` results files are committed or PR'd into the master branch of `pandera-asv-logs`.
The published html is pushed directly to the gh-pages branch of `pandera-asv-logs` by running:
```
asv gh-pages --rewrite --config asv_bench/asv.conf.json
```
The `--rewrite` flag overwrites the existing `gh-pages`, avoiding duplication of data.
The `asv` docs are [here](https://asv.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html).
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The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is pleased to submit the following testimony on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 appropriation for the Department of Energy (DOE) science and research programs. The ASM is the largest single life science organization in the world with more than 37,000 members. The ASM mission is to enhance the science of microbiology, to gain a better understanding of life processes, and to promote the application of this knowledge for improved health and environmental well-being.
The DOE Office of Science is the lead federal agency supporting research and development (R&D) in energy, a field rich with innovation possibilities and economic significance. The Office of Science manages a portfolio through six program offices: Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Basic Energy Sciences, Biological and Environmental Research, Fusion Energy Sciences, High Energy Physics, and Nuclear Physics. The Office of Science directly finances both DOE and non-DOE R&D projects, while operating unique federal facilities also made available to extramural scientists and engineers.
The ASM is concerned that budget cut backs will negatively impact Office of Science programs that clearly contribute to US global competitiveness in science and technology. Although the specific effects of sequestration mandated cuts are still uncertain, the DOE anticipates a $215 million decrease for the Office of Science in FY 2013.
Both academia and industry in the United States depend upon funding and facilities available through the Office of Science. For decades, it has been the dominant federal sponsor of physical sciences research, while also supporting advances in computer science, materials science, mathematics, biological and environmental science, nanotechnology, and engineering. DOE grants and contracts support researchers and their students at more than 300 US colleges and universities. Funding cuts will impact all scientific users of DOE facilities in addition to the probable reductions in both the size and number of extramural grants awarded. DOE has also predicted that sequestration would cause schedule delays and increased costs for planned new user facilities. Collectively, these declining resources negatively impact the training of the Nation’s future R&D workforce.
DOE Funding Expands R&D Enterprise and Supports InnovationIn FY 2013 the DOE’s Office of Science was slated for increased funding to support physical sciences and engineering, guided by strategies to enhance US capabilities under the America COMPETES Act and the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act. The final Office of Science funding level still fell far short of the doubling pace of increases established by the America COMPETES Act. Federal R&D expenditures are far sighted investments in innovation and ultimately in US economic vitality. Although the United States today, remains the world’s single largest R&D performer, the Nation’s R&D growth has slowed and decreased in recent years, especially when compared to growth in other nations. Under the current DOE Strategic Plan, the agency’s priority goals include: “maintaining a vibrant US effort in science and engineering as a cornerstone of our economic prosperity, with clear leadership in strategic areas.”
Last November, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released its report on the future of the US research enterprise. Among its conclusions was that the US is “unique in the world in the range and quality of its Federal and National Laboratories” and that “the three pillars of the US research enterprise are its research universities, its National Laboratories, and industry's substantial commitment to basic and applied research.” The DOE’s national laboratories are integral to R&D innovation and economic success. The Office of Science manages 10 of the 17 DOE laboratories in this country, utilized each year by more than 25,000 non-DOE scientists nationwide.
In 2012, updates to the DOE’s strategic plan specifically addressed the importance of Office of Science managed facilities: “prioritization of scientific facilities to ensure optimal benefit from Federal investments….By September 30, 2013, formulate a 10-year prioritization of scientific facilities across the Office of Science based on (1) the ability of the facility to contribute to world-leading science, (2) the readiness of the facility for construction, and (3) an estimated construction and operations cost of the facility.” Many Office of Science facilities host one of a kind, unique and difficult to access equipment; often too expensive to construct and operate elsewhere. The DOE points to the example of the pharmaceutical industry’s use of Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Photon Source to rapidly screen the molecular structure of candidates for novel drug design. The computing facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory recently screened 2 million different drug compounds against a targeted receptor in less than two days, using 3D biological simulations at a fraction of the cost and time typically required.
DOE sponsored discoveries have evolved into valuable commercial products and processes through the agency’s emphasis on technology transfer (T2) to the private sector. In 2012, DOE researchers won 36 of the 100 awards announced each year by R&D Magazine for the most outstanding technology advances with commercial potential. Since competition began in 1962, DOE national labs have won more than 800 awards. T2 mechanisms like patent licensing and cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs) have built strong collaborations among the Office of Science, other federal entities, and US industry. Annual T2 performance metrics underscore DOE’s importance to the US research enterprise: in FY 2010, 697 active CRADAs; 1,616 new inventions disclosed and 480 patents issued; 6,224 licenses granted for using DOE inventions or other intellectual property; and about $41 million in licensing income and $25 million in royalties.
In 2012, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory licensed its microbial detection array technology to a company that supplies DNA microarrays and instruments, for eventual commercialization and sale to food safety professionals, law enforcement, medical professionals and others. The Lawrence Livermore Microbial Detection Array (LLMDA) technology can detect within 24 hours, more than 2,200 viruses and 900 bacteria currently among its probe array, which will be updated periodically. In February, DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) announced 17 of its projects have attracted more than $450 million in private sector funding after ARPA-E’s initial investment of approximately $70 million. Twelve have been leveraged to form new companies, and at least 10 have partnered with other government agencies for additional investment. ARPA-E was created under the America COMPETES Act, receiving its initial funding in 2009. The ARPA-E projects with current private sector investments include engineering bacteria for efficient fuel production and developing electrofuels; or liquid fuel derived from renewable electricity and bacteria.
DOE Funding Promotes Biological Sciences and Sustainable EnergyWithin the Office of Science, the Biological and Environmental Research program funds cutting edge studies in environmental contaminants, biofuels, genomics and cross disciplinary research integrating biological and physical sciences. The ASM is particularly interested in BER’s broad utilization of microorganisms, including redesigning microbes for sustainable fuel production and optimal contaminant bioremediation. We recognize the invaluable contributions from BER’s Genomic Sciences Program and the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), ambitious efforts of notable benefit to understanding the biological sciences that clearly justify strong funding in FY 2014 and beyond. Previous investments have generated a long list of results, including these recent examples:
University scientists used X-ray crystallography to discover the structure of the regulator inside tuberculosis bacteria that control the pathogen’s efflux pump rendering the pathogens resistant to drugs.
DOE scientists determined the genetic sequence of a group of microbes called SR1 bacteria that have not been cultivated in the laboratory, discovering that the bacteria employ a unique genetic code; human oral SR1 bacteria are elevated in the oral infection periodontitis.
Scientists studying bacterial RNA-guided cleavage of foreign DNA have described a new approach to editing microbial genomes, a type of “programmable DNA scissors” that has promising R&D applications through new biofuels and therapeutic drugs.
Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory demonstrated for the first time that a cyanobacterium can produce hydrogen and oxygen simultaneously and steadily for at least 100 hours, potentially important to commercial hydrogen production.
DOE chemists will use high-throughput technologies developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory to screen beef samples for shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), during a three-year project focusing on the early detection of STEC at all levels of the US beef production chain.
DOE programs like BER and ARPA-E are leading the nation’s R&D on renewable energy sources. In 2012, DOE joined with the Department of Agriculture (USDA) in distributing $41 million among thirteen new biomass R&D projects aimed toward sustainable biofuel production, in addition to other funding for biomass genomics to improve biofuel feedstocks. The joint sponsorship is part of a much larger DOE initiative with USDA to increase US biofuels. JGI researchers recently sequenced the genomes of eleven strains of a group of bacteria called actinobacteria, which produce cellulose degrading enzymes of interest to the biotechnology and biofuels industries and identified eight cellulolytic species not previously known to degrade cellulose biomass. DOE scientists also described a unique molecular transporter mechanism to deliver molecules into algal cells, pointing the way to engineering algae that synthesize biofuels, vaccines, and other compounds. At DOE’s Joint BioEnergy Institute, researchers identified a tropical rainforest microbe that can survive high concentrations of ionic liquid used to dissolve cellulosic biomass in biofuel production, while others developed a new synthetic biology technique, dynamic sensor regulator system, which detects metabolic change and controls gene expression in microbes during biofuel production, increasing output.
The ASM urges Congress to fund the Department of Energy’s Office of Science at the highest possible level in FY 2014. The DOE Office of Science programs enhance United States competitiveness through fundamental research and advanced scientific breakthroughs that revolutionize the Nation’s approach to challenging and ongoing, energy and environment challenges.
The ASM appreciates the opportunity to provide written testimony and would be pleased to assist the Subcommittee as it considers the FY 2014 appropriation for the DOE.
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Hello, I too am searching for Adams family of Harrison Co KY.Nora Adams (married John Q Groves, one child, Hattie Lee, died in 1893 from a tragic fire) amaternal great great grandmother.She lived in the Tricum area of Harrison County Route 36 west out of Cynthiana Kentucky. She is buried in the Rocky Springs Cemetery beside John, no marker, just two fieldstones.Any information you would have on the Adams would be greatly appreciated as I have hit a brick wall in locating her ancestors. thanks gb:) |
However, dampening the mood was the injury sustained by captain Paul Pogba, who was taken off after just 18 minutes following an apparent hamstring niggle.
Fellaini calmed the nerves around the stadium when he opened the scoring after 35 minutes, nodding home Ashley Young's inch-perfect cross from close range.
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United were untroubled in the second half, but a mistake from Victor Lindelof nearly allowed Mohammed Elyounoussi to pull one back from the Swiss side, however, David de Gea's strong hand denied his short-range effort.
19-year-old Rashford made sure the result was sealed six minutes from time, finishing off Fellaini's deflected cut-back. His goal made him the fourth United teenager to score in the Champions League. |
Vinchopolis
In which our heroes meet in a tavern
It was just another day in Vinchopolis. With a newly-conquered island kingdom under its thumb, the city’s supply of wood was suddenly quite well stocked. There were also rumours of a new race called “Eladrin” who carried with them a terrible plague. Although these creatures had officially been confined in quarantine, word had gotten out that some had escaped, and vigilantes had taken to killing them on sight as a public health measure.
Penrhyn Firewing arrived for work at her miserable job in the Department of Fine Print Penmanship and Small Parcel Deliveries, where her gnoll boss yelled at her for being late despite the fact that she was on time. She went to her little cubicle and worked away filling out forms until she ran out of ink. She went to the supply room to replenish her ink, but there was none in the closet. In its place was a note instead saying “See boss about ink”. So she went to see her boss again (he was passed out from exhaustion) and got yelled at again (after she woke him). Eventually she figured out who she was supposed to see, and in exchange for the ink, she was required to deliver a few things, including a message to a certain police precinct.
Meanwhile, Markto left his basement for the first time to wander the streets in search of his father. He saw the semanet urchins above, and watched as one keeled over and died, splatting in the street. Another urchin took its place almost immediately. Markto followed the flag messages, hoping they might lead to his father.
Meanwhile, in a grimy bar in the anarchist district, Idril tried to gauge public attitudes toward the city, the system, and the rumoured existence of a Cult of the City and its purported messiah figure. Vicaun and Spire (in its female Tiefling disguise) were hanging out there and noticed Idril. They tried to run their usual 3-card monte scam, but she didn’t bite. Just as she was about to leave in search of the Cult, Spire called out to her.
Spire questioned Idril about her intentions, then offered to set up a meeting with a cultist in one hour. Idril agreed. Then Spire and Vicaun went off to the side to discuss things privately.
Vicaun didn’t think well of the Cult, and seemed unimpressed with his partner’s arrangement. But as soon as they were alone, Spire shapeshifted into Vicaun and started talking excitedly about this big score they could pull on Idril. Vicaun got all uncomfortable and asked Spire to shapeshift into something else. Spire responded by shapeshifting into Vicaun’s mother.
Spire reasoned that if Idril knew the locations of other islands that could be exploited for resources, the information could be extraordinarily valuable. It suggested a plan to earn Idril’s confidence and get her to reveal it.
Meanwhile, Sub-Patrolman Tomok Biter, the Orc watchman (who speaks with an Irish brogue) was sent on patrol as part of a new program with a really long, bureaucratic name, involving “cultural outreach” or somesuch. The program was primarily about pacifying and eliminating individuals who stuck out too much. His new partner was a stinky Troglodyte, Chegar, who enjoyed smashing things. Chegar was very pleased with himself, as he had made a xylophone out of the bones of a bunch of goblins he had killed the other night. Tomok sighed and humoured him, taking care to stay downwind.
Their patrol turned up very little, so they headed back to the station.
Meanwhile, the smog made it difficult for Penrhyn to fly, so she had to land. Lurching down the street toward her was a bizarre, complex, Rube-Golderg-ian robot. It had no standard parts, no serial number, no identification of any kind. This disturbed Penrhyn deeply, and she flew up to perch on its head.
It asked Penrhyn if she had seen its father. Penrhyn questioned the automaton about its serial number, origins and so forth, but it seemed unable to answer. So she decided they should file a missing persons report in an attempt to find the automaton’s “father”. Since Penrhyn had to deliver her message to the police department anyway, it would not require her to go far out of their way. In addition, she could stay perched on the automaton’s head and get a ride.
When they arrived at the station, message turned out to be for SubPatrolman Tomok Biter. The automaton (whose name turned out to be “Markto”) asked Tomok if Tomok has seen father. Penrhyn apologized for the strange machine and attempted to explain that it must be broken or something. Penrhyn and Tomok tried to ascertain Markto’s origins, but it was simply too strange to figure out.
Then Tomok’s partner excitedly announced they got a hot tip about the Eladrin quarantine escapee. Tomok decided to leave and deal with the missing persons report later (that would have had to travel to the department of Missing Persons Forms). Markto followed Tomok out into the streets, and Penrhyn rode along on Markto’s head, still searching for a registration plate somewhere on its body.
Meanwhile, as Vicaun and Spire prepared their Cult disguises, they got word from other cultists of trouble back at the dive bar. Apparently the Eladrin had been causing quite a stir, talking about how life doesn’t have to be like this, about how they have entire forests full of growing plants where she comes from. The treacherous duo rushed back to make sure their gravy train wouldn’t be derailed.
And so it was that our heroes converged right around the time a local unofficial official public health vigilante organization jumped out screaming “Kill the filthy plague bearer!” The bar patrons screamed, and the fight began.Chegar just wanted to smash things, the goblins (vigilantes) just want to kill Idril, the duo wanted to keep Idril alive, Markto wanted to find his father and was convinced that Tomok could help, Penrhyn was disturbed at the continuing inappropriateness of Markto not having the correct paperwork, and Tomok… Tomok was getting a headache.
Idril took a serious beatdown from the vigilantes. The duo burst in and fought back. Tomok decided to arrest the vigilantes and restore the peace. The vigilantes resisted arrest. Chegar just wanted to smash something, so he smashed Markto.
Spire briefly switched to true form, admiring Markto’s beauty, then screamed in horror when Markto was struck. Spire then switched back to its cultist form (an intense Elf with male pattern baldness) and psychically assaulted the troglodyte. Only Penrhyn noticed this odd shift from a high window as she scorched the goblins with her magic. Under the combined assault, the vigilantes fell quickly, and as the last goblin standing surrendered, Idril teleported outside the building and fled. Moments later, Vicaun knocked Chegar unconscious.
The battle was over, and our heroes had won, but the chaos would be difficult for Tomok to explain in his report, Spire was apparently unhappy with Idril’s hasty exit, Idril would need to go into hiding, Markto was damaged and no closer to finding his father, Penrhyn was still perturbed at the lack of proper paperwork, and Vicaun feared the loss of yet another potential big score to bad luck. |
Complicated Candida parapsilosis peritonitis on peritoneal dialysis in a neonate with renal failure because of bilateral adrenal abscesses.
We present a full-term female infant with a difficult delivery course complicated with Escherichia coli sepsis and bilateral adrenal abscesses. She developed renal failure and received peritoneal dialysis. Peritonitis of Candida parapsilosis developed later. The infant was successfully treated with hemofiltration and a combination of antifungal agents. |
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WARNING: Arizonans quitting smoking may be hazardous to the fiscal health of publicly funded programs that receive tobacco tax revenues.
Tucson Citizen
Friday, November 30, 2007
Heidi Rowley
Sales of cigarettes in Arizona have fallen by millions of packs since voters approved a big tobacco tax increase and a ban on smoking in bars a year ago
Tobacco tax revenue increased $57 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30, to $345.6 million.
But all of that increase, and more, went into a new fund for early childhood education. The fund received $74 million, nearly all the revenue from an 82-cent per pack increase approved by voters.
It means that other state funds and programs that get tobacco tax revenue, including the state's program to help people stop smoking and other health-care funds, have gotten less money.
And the end of the decline is not yet in sight, said Kevin McCarthy, president of the Arizona Tax Research Association.
"They are in the early stages of seeing diminishing returns," McCarthy said. "Their pots of money are only going to decrease over time."
McCarthy's group warned last year that the higher tobacco tax would present the state with a fiscal hazard.
In the last seven months of the 2006-07 fiscal year, cigarette sales fell so much that state funds dependent on tobacco tax revenues took in about $17 million less than they did in 2005-06.
The program for the poor is known as the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. It used money from the state general fund to make up for declining tobacco tax dollars this time out.
But the state's dark economic outlook and expected budget tightening could limit or eliminate that option in the future.
"It will be a much more discussed issue next spring as the state tries to deal with its overall picture," AHCCCS Deputy Director Tom Betlach said.
Even programs that help smokers quit are seeing their funding source shrink as the demand for their services increases.
The state tax increase on a pack of cigarettes, from $1.18 to $2, took effect last Dec. 1, after voters approval in November.
Eighty cents of the increase go to the Early Childhood and Development Fund, created by Proposition 203, known as First Things First for Arizona's Children.
Two cents go to Smoke Free Arizona, an education program in the state Department of Health Services focusing on the smoking ban in public buildings. That ban took effect effect May 1.
Sales of cigarettes in Arizona dropped 50 million packs, or 31 percent, in the first eight months of 2007, to 112 million packs compared to 161.6 million during the same period in 2006.
AHCCCS took almost $10 million from the general fund in 2006-07 because of the drop in tobacco tax money, spokeswoman Rainey Day Holloway said.
Although revenue from tobacco taxes is less than 1 percent of the agency's $7.5 billion budget, AHCCCS' Betlach said the agency monitors it regularly.
From July through October, the first four months of fiscal 2008, Betlach said, AHCCCS received $8.7 million less in tobacco tax revenue than in the same period last year. He said the Legislature will have to reassign funds to make up the difference.
AHCCCS has not had to cut any programs.
AHCCCS gets tobacco tax revenue through both the Tobacco Tax and Health Care Fund and the Tobacco Products Tax Fund.
The Tobacco Tax and Health Care Fund was created in 1994 when Arizonans voted to increase the cigarette tax by 40 cents a pack, from 18 to 58 cents, to pay for health care for the medically needy through AHCCCS, among other programs.
The Tobacco Products Tax Fund was created in 2002 when voters approved increasing the tobacco tax to $1.18 a pack to help fund AHCCCS and the state's trauma centers.
Together, the funds have shrunk more than $14 million with cigarettes sales down.
In addition to AHCCCS, the Tobacco Tax and Health Care Fund supports the Tobacco Education and Prevention Program, run by the Arizona Department of Health Services.
The Tobacco Education and Prevention Program funds local smoking cessation programs and the Arizona Smokers' Helpline.
Since Dec. 1 - when the new tax kicked in - the number of calls to the line has more than doubled, to 425 a week from 175, said Stephen Michael, director of the program.
Staff monitoring the line helps quitters by making weekly and sometimes daily phone calls of support. It also refers callers to local programs, such as Pima County's Tobacco Free Ways. The program has added 6 1/2 full-time positions since Dec. 1 to make and take calls.
"Demand for our program is going up," Michael said. "We've had to increase employees. . . . If more people are going to quit, you are going to have to put money into it."
Referrals from physicians to the line have increased to 750 a month from an average of 150 before the tax increase. A total of 2,700 referrals has come in since July, compared to 550 from July to November 2006.
About 40 percent of the people using line to quit are on the prescription drug Chantix, Michael said. The state pays for 50 percent, or about $60, of a 30-day supply. The state also will help pay for nicotine patches.
Byron Homer, administrative services officer for the Tobacco Education and Prevention Program, said the state is trying to lower the smoking rate from 20 percent of adults to 12 percent.
"It's frustrating," said Marcy M. Flanagan, senior program director of Pima County's Tobacco Education and Prevention Program. "If we're going to get the rate down, we're going to have to fund these programs."
As more people quit, the ones left are hard-core smokers who need costlier help.
"It might take more medical intervention to get people to quit," Flanagan said. |
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And more on Warlord Games Bolt Action as sanctimonious gits
Apologies to regular viewers - this is a bit of a rant.As part of my Bolt Action purchases I got a British machine gun and crew. I couldn't quite see from online pictures how it all went together.
Luckily in the box there was card which said go to their webpage for instructions.
However when I tried to go there I got the message.
"This is somewhat embarrassing isn't it. .... Either it as been moved or you typed a wrong address." And I thought is this a message for me as if I've made a mistake, or about them not having the advertised page available. But if it was them, then I'd expect an apology for it not being available and a redirect. Then I thought, what a bunch of arrogant smug sanctimonious gits. You provide a guide to a page then insult people who follow that guide. At the moment I'm not sure whether to buy anything else for Bolt Action, or from Warlord Games. Maybe I'm just being too reactionary, but stuff them; I'm a customer and I expect an advertised service. Bah humbug!
Personally I have only bought their product second hand, so usually built and undercoated. Poor show that the link doesn't work, they need to have a look at battlefront, may be overpriced and out of scale but the website does help in the build.
Had a very different experience with Warlord Games. Purchased at a show a SS boxed set which was missing a medic figure. Contacted the seller and not interested in resolving the problem. Contacted Warlord and happy to help. Too the point that they sent me a full box set with medic figure and all the other 20 figures too.
That said I do think that they need to remove the wording about you getting the wrong address. Most people who use the net now understand the need for the correct data in the address or you don't get what you want. |
Davis, Boone miss first day of mini-camp
SANTA CLARA (AP) — The start of the San Francisco 49ers’ three-day mandatory minicamp was overshadowed more by the players who were absent than the ones in attendance.
Two-time Pro Bowl tight end Vernon Davis and right guard Alex Boone skipped the first day of San Francisco’s minicamp Tuesday. Both starters are seeking raises despite two years left on their contracts.
Coach Jim Harbaugh also said cornerback Eric Wright was not with the team because he’s contemplating retirement. Wright, a seven-year veteran who played in seven games for the 49ers last season, had participated in most of the team’s offseason conditioning program.
Players can be fined nearly $70,000 if they miss all three days of the minicamp, per the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement. If Davis and Boone continue to hold out, they set the stage for what could be major distractions leading into training camp next month for a 49ers team that has Super Bowl aspirations.
Harbaugh said he appreciates players who show up for the voluntary workouts in the offseason but expects everybody in attendance for the mandatory meetings. He said he was “disappointed” Davis and Boone are holding out.
“Not the decision that I envisioned being the 49er way,” Harbaugh said. “Really nothing more to be said about it. The focus will be on what’s going on here.”
Neither Davis nor Boone has been present during the first eight weeks of the team’s voluntary offseason program. Davis sacrificed a $200,000 bonus for missing the workouts.
And while both are seeking new deals, Davis has been the most vocal about his situation.
“In 2010 I signed a five-year, $37 million contract extension with $23 million guaranteed. It was the biggest contract for a tight end in league history. Four years later, and I’m playing at a higher level than I was then, which brings me to why I’m holding out,” Davis wrote in a guest column for MMQB.com on Monday. “It’s all about getting paid what you deserve. It’s not that complicated. I want the 49ers to win the Super Bowl, and I want to be on the field this summer working toward that goal, but I have to worry about my future first.
“Most of my teammates and many players in the NFL understand that. A few don’t,” Davis continued. “Behind closed doors, they’ll say they’re all about the team and would run through a brick wall for the organization. But when you look closer, they’re doing things to contradict themselves. I can’t listen to anyone but my family and my advisors, because those are the people who are going to be there when football inevitably dumps me.”
Davis, who initially acted coy about skipping the team’s voluntary offseason program, began making his displeasure known publicly shortly before the 49ers announced they had given quarterback Colin Kaepernick a six-year contract extension through the 2020 season that could be worth up to $126 million.
Davis, who is now 30 years old, had 52 catches for 850 yards and accounted for 13 of Kaepernick’s 21 touchdown passes last season. |
Q:
how to carry a graphics card arround if I dont have anti static bag
I want to carry a graphics card to a friends place. The Card is old and I don't have the original packaging.
I know that best way to carry it will be in an anti-static polybag and I tried hard to get one at local stores without any luck. I tried looking for them online but they come as a bunch and cost does not suit the purpose.
Is there any other way to safely do this?
I got my hands on some packaging foam from a PC which looks like conductive black foam, will wrapping the card in it will make it safe?
A:
Carefully wrap it in aluminium foil ensuring that you touch the foil and card all the time while wrapping until wrapped. Do the same when unwrapping and keep hold of the card and touch whatever target system with your other hand (to equalize any potential differences) before inserting the card.
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Queen Victoria’s private beach to open
English Heritage has returned to the beach the original wooden bathing machine which ran down a ramp into the sea and from which Victoria – her modesty preserved – would emerge in her swimming suit. English Heritage has also restored the small covered seat – The Queen’s Alcove – where she sat and sketched the coastal views.
"Queen Victoria is fixed in many people’s minds as ‘the Grandmother of Europe’, a Queen who spent most of her reign in mourning for her husband," said Simon Thurley, English Heritage’s Chief Executive. "Opening her beach at Osborne lets us show another side to her – this was a Queen who collected sea shells with her children, who sketched the changing sea, and who swam sometimes twice a day. Osborne was her seaside retreat from the formalities of Buckingham Palace, now people can visit that seaside."
"It is impossible to imagine a prettier spot," Queen Victoria wrote after a visit to Osborne and Prince Albert likened the bay to that of Naples in Italy. The beach was a deciding factor behind their decision in 1845, to buy the seaside property as their private home. Osborne Bay was often used as a landing for both the royal family and visiting dignitaries while the royal children collected shells from the shore and learned to swim in the special floating bath (since destroyed) designed by their father, Prince Albert. |
Q:
How to determine the confidence of a neural network prediction?
To illustrate my question, suppose that I have a training set where the input has a degree of noise but the output does not, for example;
# Training data
[1.02, 1.95, 2.01, 3.06] : [1.0]
[2.03, 4.11, 5.92, 8.00] : [2.0]
[10.01, 11.02, 11.96, 12.04] : [1.0]
[2.99, 6.06, 9.01, 12.10] : [3.0]
here the output is the gradient of the input array if it were noiseless (not the actual gradient).
After training the network, the output should look something like this for a given input.
# Expected Output
[1.01, 1.96, 2.00, 3.06] : 95% confidence interval of [0.97, 1.03]
[2.03, 4.11, 3.89, 3.51] : 95% confidence interval of [2.30, 4.12]
My question is how can a neural network be created such that it will return a predicted value and a measure of confidence, such as a variance or confidence interval?
A:
It sounds like you are looking for a prediction-interval, i.e., an interval that contains a prespecified percentage of future realizations. (Look at the tag wikis for prediction-interval and confidence-interval for the difference.)
Your best bet is likely to work directly with NN architectures that do not output single point predictions, but entire predictive distributions. You can then directly extract desired prediction intervals (or mean, or median point predictions) from these distributions. I and others have been arguing that predictive distributions are much more useful than point predictions, but to be honest, I have not yet seen a lot of work on predictive distributions with neural nets, although I have been keeping my eyes open. This paper sounds like it might be useful. You might want to search a bit, perhaps also using other keywords like "forecast distributions" or "predictive densities" and such.
That said, you might want to look into Michael Feindt's NeuroBayes algorithm, which uses a Bayesian approach to forecast predictive densities.
A:
I'm not sure you can compute a confidence interval for a single prediction, but you can indeed compute a confidence interval for error rate of the whole dataset (you can generalize for accuracy and whatever other measure you are assessing).
If $e$ is your error rate while classifying some data $S$ of size $n$, a 95% confidence interval for your error rate is given by:
$$ e \pm 1.96\sqrt{\frac{e\,(1-e)}{n}}$$.
(see "Machine Learning" book from Tom Mitchell, chapter 5.)
EDIT
Guess I should state a more general case, which is:
$$ e \pm z_N\sqrt{\frac{e\,(1-e)}{n}},$$
where common choices for $z_N$ are listed in the following table:
confidence level 80% 90% 95% 98% 99%
values of zN 1.28 1.64 1.96 2.33 2.58
A:
Prediction intervals (PI) in non parametric regression & classification problems, such as neural nets, SVMs, random forests, etc. are difficult to construct. I'd love to hear other opinions on this.
However, as far as I know, Conformal Prediction (CP) is the only principled method for building calibrated PI for prediction in nonparametric regression and classification problems. For a tutorial on CP, see Shfer & Vovk (2008), J. Machine Learning Research 9, 371-421 [pdf]
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Independence from Obamacare needed
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By U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston
Special to the News
POSTED:July 11, 2013 6:00 p.m.
The Obama administration last week announced it would postpone a controversial mandate within Obamacare for one year. Without the delay, businesses with at least 50 employees would be subject to fines beginning next year if they failed to provide their employees with health insurance.The announcement conveniently came just before a long holiday weekend for many Americans and while the president was abroad. It also just happens to push the job-killing requirement past next year’s elections.The good news, though, is that employers are given a year of relief from this massive new regulatory requirement.The bad news is everything else.Already, businesses have spent millions preparing to comply with the new regulations. Hard-working Americans have seen their hours cut so as not to be classified as full-time employees under the law.The move does nothing to impact the individual mandate that will require all Americans to purchase health care or be subject to a penalty. Already expected to cost $4 billion, the delay could further drive up President Obama’s historic deficits, as more are forced onto government-subsidized insurance plans.Try as it might, the Obama administration cannot issue enough waivers, special-interest carve-outs or delays to hide the fact that Obamacare is the wrong prescription for America. It increases costs, takes away choices and does nothing to solve the underlying problems in America’s health-care system.Instead, the law’s 159 new agencies, bureaus and boards will churn out new regulations, requirements and mandates. Already, they have added some 20,000 new pages of government rules, adding to the regulatory burdens that hold back our economy.Instead of delaying aspects of Obamacare, the misguided law should be repealed in its entirety. We should replace it with common-sense legislation that will bring down costs and increase access to care without growing the size or scope of the federal government. Enacting medical-liability reform, expanding health-savings accounts and opening interstate competition for insurance plans would do a world more good to that end than Obamacare ever will.This disastrous law was ramrodded through Congress with such reckless abandon that Nancy Pelosi said, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.” Now that President Obama and his allies are learning just what is, they should join us in giving the American people independence from Obamacare. |
718 S.E.2d 145 (2011)
STATE of North Carolina
v.
Terry Adonis BALDWIN.
No. 325P11.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
October 6, 2011.
Anne Bleyman, for Baldwin, Terry Adonis.
Amanda Little, Assistant Attorney General, for State of N.C.
Peter S. Gilchrist, III, District Attorney, for State of N.C.
ORDER
Upon consideration of the notice of appeal from the North Carolina Court of Appeals, filed by the Defendant on the 1st of August 2011 in this matter pursuant to G.S. 7A-30, and the motion to dismiss the appeal for lack of substantial constitutional question filed by the State of NC, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals: the motion to dismiss the appeal is
*146 "Allowed by order of the Court in conference, this the 6th of October 2011."
Upon consideration of the petition filed on the 1st of August 2011 by Defendant in this matter for discretionary review of the decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals pursuant to G.S. 7A-31, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Court of Appeals:
"Denied by order of the Court in conference, this the 6th of October 2011."
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Gary B. Sanders, “Confederate Conflict in Jackson County, Alabama”
Guest columnist Gary B. Sanders, who is kin to the Sanders family of Montgomery and Randolph Counties of North Carolina, has ancestors on both sides of the U.S./Confederate divide. Here, Gary tells the story of his great, great, grand uncle, Joseph Sanders of Jackson County, Alabama, who was murdered during the Civil War on account of his Unionist views.
Vikki Bynum, Moderator
Confederate-Unionist Conflict in Jackson County, Alabama: The Murder of “Uncle Joe” Sanders, 1863
By Gary B. Sanders
Jackson County, Alabama, lies in the northeast Alabama hill country, near the Tennessee border, a region of yeoman farmers who were only reluctantly persuaded to join the Confederacy in 1861. As the war progressed and the fortunes of the Confederacy waned, there was a breakdown in social control in such counties, often leading to guerrilla warfare, revenge killings, and general lawlessness. The story of the murder of the elderly Joseph Sanders on April 10, 1863 on his own farm in Jackson County was one such incident, briefly mentioned in newspapers of the time but long remembered by Joseph’s descendants as they passed down the family tradition of their ancestor who died a martyr to his loyalty to the Union. As always with such stories, embellishments along the way and varying renditions of the event may not reflect what actually happened. A closer look at the life and death of Joseph Sanders, however, may help us understand the disrupting impact of the Civil War on life in Jackson County.
Scene from Jackson County, Alabama. Photo courtesy of Gary B. Sanders
Joseph Sanders was born in 1793, in Randolph County, North Carolina, the son of Joseph and Rebecca Sanders. The elder Joseph, a Revolutionary War patriot, died in 1803 and made provision in his will that if any of his children became orphaned before they came or age or were married that they should be apprenticed to Quakers. This provision of the will never took effect, as all the children were married within six years of their father’s death. Five of senior Joseph’s seven children married children or grandchildren of Isaac Saunders of Randolph County, who, according to DNA tests of his descendants, was not related to Joseph at all. This close relationship between these two unrelated Sanders lines has baffled genealogical researchers among their descendants, but it helped to cement family ties and loyalties whenever descendants of Isaac and Joseph moved from North Carolina.
The younger Joseph was the last of his siblings to marry when he wed Martha Sanders on August 21, 1809 in Randolph County. In the late 1820s, Joseph and Martha, their large family of children, and many of their relatives moved to Jackson County, Alabama. As the Cherokee and other Indian groups were pushed further west, the northeast Alabama region along the Tennessee River became a prime destination for white settlement. Joseph bought land in Jackson County in 1831 and farmed there the rest of his life. Many of his Sanders cousins also moved to Jackson County as did his brother George and his brothers-in-law Francis Sanders and Benjamin Sanders, along with their numerous families.
During the late 1830s, Martha died, and Joseph began seeking a new wife. He re-married about 1838 to Deborah Saunders who was another granddaughter of Isaac Saunders of Randolph County. One of the descendants of Joseph’s second marriage, Lottie Kingery Hoge, later wrote of Deborah,
I don’t know how she first got acquainted with my Alabama grandfather, Mr. Joseph Sanders, but she went to Alabama and they were married. He was much older than her for he had been married before and had 12 children, most of them grown and married, probably at ages of 14-16. I don’t know when they [Joseph and Deborah] were married but probably about 1838 for their oldest son was born about 1840. That was Uncle Henry.
Joseph and Deborah had three children together before she died about 1854. Joseph married for the third time on November 11, 1860 to a widow, Mahala Harper Shelton of Jackson County. The 1860 census list Joseph as age sixty seven with personal property worth $1500 and real estate worth $1500. While he was not a wealthy man, these assets were enough to indicate his farm was prosperous by the standards of the time. Joseph Sanders, by 1860, was the acknowledged patriarch of the Jackson County Sanders. Nearly everyone called him “Uncle Joe,” regardless of whether he was actually an uncle, cousin, granduncle, or some other relative. In fact, nearly every Sanders in the county was related to him, in some cases as double cousins.
When the Civil War began, the citizens of Jackson County were split far more evenly in loyalty than in most southern counties. There were few large slave owners in the county and many residents were subsistence farmers who had little regard for the institution of slavery. In 1850 only one man named Sanders in the county owned slaves. Nevertheless, there was still substantial support for the Confederacy, and those who refused to accept secession were regarded as traitors by those who supported the Rebel cause. Although too old to serve as a soldier, Joseph Sanders remained loyal to the national government and his sons and many of his nephews and grand nephews joined the Union Army.
The conflicting loyalties in northeast Alabama created a very chaotic and lawless situation in which it is often difficult to determine the motivations of the people involved. Confederate and Union armies moved back and forth across the county, as did bands of deserters, often with no loyalty to either side. Murders, shootings, and acts of violence were commonplace toward the end of the war. “Uncle Joe” Sanders was killed in one of these incidents in 1863 while at his farm at Mud Creek.
The following letter by Louie Richard Davis of Texas was written to friends in Scottsboro, Alabama, July 24, 1974, and was published in Sanders Siftings, July 2000, p. 1:
I know you have some information on the Sanders that was killed by bushwhackers. I have heard a story here in Texas passed down through generations (may have changed some). One of the Sanders, close relation to Phoebe was caught off guard while plowing in a field by bushwhackers. They took him and his horse to the top of a hill and made the Sanders dig a grave. Then the bushwhackers killed both man and horse and buried both in the grave with the legs of the horse sticking up out of the grave. This is some tale and may not be exactly true but is what I have heard. [This Phoebe was the daughter of Joseph’s sister Mary and her husband Benjamin Sanders. Louis Davis was a descendant of Phoebe.-gs]
Other accounts of the killing differ somewhat in the details. A second version was e-mailed to me in 2007 by Bob Dean, a descendant of Rebecca Sanders, Joseph’s niece:
Mud Creek is located north of Scottsboro, and there is a cave there, the one that we have always known as Blowing Cave. Joseph Sanders patented 80 acres of land in 1831 that contained this cave. I will tell you the story told [to] me as close as I can remember it. It is not exactly like the story that we have heard before but close.
Bob’s informant, John Dolberry, owned the Mud Creek property that belonged to Joseph Sanders and he remembered listening to his grandmother talk about the murder many times when he was a child. His grandmother was the daughter of John Sanders, a son of Mary Sanders, Joseph’s sister, and her husband Benjamin Sanders. In his conversation with Bob Dean, John Dolberry pointed to the cove behind the house and said they hanged Joseph
back in the cove at the foot of the mountain on a big mulberry tree. It had a big limb that ran out and then turned up. His grandmother said that was the limb that they hung Joseph on. He was hanged by southerners who thought he was giving help to the Yankees. There were three of the rebels, one a neighbor by the name of Barbee. After killing him they left with a horse they were using as a pack mule to carry, I suppose, the things that they had taken. After they killed Joseph, they left, leading their horse. That evening, not long after the rebels left, a group of Yankees came down out of the mountain and went after the rebels. They caught up with them near the foot of the mountain close to the old Moody Brick. The Yankees killed the horse and made the men dig a grave for it. When the grave was dug, they killed the men, put them in the hole and rolled the horse in on top of them. This could be the story of putting Joseph in the grave with the horse on top of him and the horse with its legs sticking up.
They [Joseph’s family] buried Uncle Joe and there were four cedar posts put at the corners of his grave. These were moved after somebody in Texas had the marker put in. [This grave marker was erected in the 1990s.-gs]. The mulberry tree was there for a long time; it had a limb that stuck out and turned up. That was the limb upon which they hanged Uncle Joe.
His [great] grandmother sat over there with the body until someone came to help get him to the house. So, apparently he was not killed where he was buried. But the fact that he was buried there would seem to indicate that he lived there.
Bob concludes, “It may be as close to eyewitness information as we can get even though his information did not come directly from someone that was there. It did come in a direct line from someone that was a witness to the events. I’m sure that the story is not without flaws, mistakes, and bad memory but may be as close to the truth as we’ll ever get.”
More detail about the identity of the men who killed Joseph Sanders is found in a January 27, 2004 posting on the Sanders Ancestry.com forum by Don E. Schaefer, editor of Sanders Siftings, and a descendant of Benjamin Sanders who married Joseph Sanders’ sister Mary:
Here is some information about the Joseph Sanders (1793-1863) often referred to as Joseph, Jr.: Concerning the murder of Joseph Sanders, this is what I have picked up from several sources. From notes in the Scottsboro library: “Joseph Sanders was taken from his home during the Civil War and was shot while on his knees by a rock because his boys were in the Union Army. Everyone called him Uncle Joe. He was shot by Jeff Barbee, Thomps Houston, and John Teeters on his farm near Mud Creek, these men were tories never served on either side during the Civil War.” Ann Barbee Chambless of Scottsboro told me that she has been searching for the real story of what happened. A brother of her great-grandfather was one of the “whippersnappers” and she can find no record of a trial. Her ancestor had a record of an estate settlement about that time. Possibly some vigilante justice or Union troops took care of things, without leaving a record. With the lack of a trial or record, I guess many versions of what happened cropped up, slanted to whatever a person’s sympathies were during and after the war. Glenn (Chick) Sanders of Huntsville says that there was no marker for Joe Sanders and he and some other relatives had one put up on his grave. He also said he has been told that two of Joseph Sanders’ sons, Henry A. and John G., killed two of the men who murdered their father.
Don Schaefer’s account is based partly on the testimony of Carroll Jackson Brewer in 1876 to the Southern Claims Commission concerning the compensation claim of John Sanders, Joseph’s nephew: “James Hawkins and others searched for his uncle often and did take out him, J. Sanders who was seventy years old, they taken him out of the field when he was at work and shot him on the side of the mountain.” Carroll Jackson Brewer was married to John Sanders’ half-niece and therefore related by marriage to Joseph.
Don Schaefer also contributed some material he received from Ann Barbee Chambless who was related to one of the men who killed Joseph:
I keep hoping you will unearth the real story about the murder of Uncle Joe Sanders, even though my great grandfather’s brother was one of the three culprits. One of the older men in this county has told me the “hanging tree” still stands at the head of Mud Creek where justice was administered. I still do not know if it would be labeled “roadside justice” or as you suggested Federal troop intervention. I do know that a group of Federal troops stationed in this area took over the Barbee home for their winter quarters one year. My great-great uncle was a very young boy at the time. He lived until I was about six or seven years old, so I remember hearing him repeat stories from that time period. Of course, he never told about his brother being hung. His stories were about his father’s death just before the Civil War (died in 1860) and how another brother died of measles after enlisting in the CSA. That brother was buried at Corinth, MS. My own great grandfather was a CSA Scout and was in the Federal prison at Rock Island. Uncle Lewis told what a difficult winter he, his mother, and his older sisters had the winter they were forced to live in what had been slave quarters. That is one reason I have always been so interested in learning more about the murder of Uncle Joe Sanders and what happened to the culprits. If your Madison County contact provides you with any part of the story, please be sure to share with me.” [From Ann Barbee Chambless, the Jackson County (Ala.) Historical Association].
Although John Dolberry’s family tradition was that Joseph was hanged, the only document contemporaneous with the murder, a brief newspaper article from the Huntsville Confederate for April 23, 1863, stated that Joseph was shot: “On the same day, we learn, an old man, named Saunders, who affiliated with the Abolition Army, when they occupied Jackson county, and went off with them, but returned to depredate on the neighborhood, was shot and killed by some unknown person, on Mud Creek in that county.”
Just as we do not know for certain whether Joseph Sanders was shot or hanged (or possibly both), we have no firm documentation on what happened to the men who killed Joseph Sanders. The family tradition from John Dolberry states that the killers were slain by federal troops shortly after the murder; another account mentioned by Don Schaefer is that “vigilante justice,” possibly by Joseph’s sons, took care of the killers. Whatever may have happened during the war as the aftermath to the incident, after the war the event lived on for the most part only in the tradition of the Sanders family and their relatives. There are no records of legal investigations and no suggestion of any enduring blood feuds. Probably, for whatever reason, the murderers did not live long after the killing.
The impact of the War, of course, endured for the rest of the lives of the participants. Joseph’s widow and her stepsons appear to have quarreled over his estate. In 1874, eleven years after his death, she was given as her dowry rights a one-quarter distribution from his estate.
Three of Joseph’s sons served in the Union Army and two of them were wounded at the Battle of Nashville. When Henry, one of the sons, returned home and discovered that his young wife was pregnant, he divorced her and had nothing to do with her or the baby. He married again and eventually had eight children. Joseph’s nephew, John Sanders, returned home after serving in an Ohio Regiment and later became a justice of the peace in Jackson County. In 1876 in testimony to the Southern Claims Commission, John’s friend and relative by marriage, Carroll J. Brewer, stated that John had been a firm Union supporter even before the War:
I knew him about twenty-five years for all that time and live about three miles from him at Mainard cove, PO, Jackson county. I have heard him discuss that he could not sustain the secession principles…all of his talk with me was in the side of the union and he always voted in support… Claimant went into the Regular Federal Army and served nearly three years, and he caused nineteen men with him when he went.
The loyalty of the Sanders family of Jackson County to the Union probably had more to do with the unique political climate of the county rather than with any philosophy unique to this family. Close relatives of Joseph and his nephew John who lived outside the county often joined the Confederate Army. John Sanders himself recognized the influence of geographical location in his testimony to the Southern Claims Commission:
I have a brother said to be in the Confederate army. I did not see him [join?] Isaac Sanders, forty-four or five years of age on entering the Confederate army in Montgomery County, Arkansas. I have no influence on him. He lived in Arkansas when he joined the army. [He or I?] contributed nothing to his outfit. [He] would not of have been living here.
This may mean, possibly, that in John’s opinion Isaac would not have joined the Confederates if he had still been living in Jackson County.
In John’s testimony and in that of his neighbors, we can ascertain his intense national loyalty. We see much the same intensity in the affidavits filed in support of pension claims of the other Sanders men who fought for the Union or in testimony to the Southern Claims Commission concerning their claims for compensation for property losses during the war. With Joseph Sanders, however, the record is silent on any voiced expressions or writings he may have made in support of the Union cause. All we have as a record is his actions in encouraging his sons and neighbors to support the Union, efforts that ultimately led to his death.
John Dolberry, the descendant who still lived on Joseph Sanders’ farm as of 2007, stated that Joseph was not buried near the mulberry tree where he was killed. Instead, he was buried some distance away near where an infant child of Joseph and Deborah had been buried earlier. There may very well be other family members who are buried nearby, but no other markers are present today.
Photo courtesy of Gary B. Sanders
Originally four cedar posts were erected to mark Joseph’s grave. Later, in the early 1990s, someone erected a modern tombstone marker. Unfortunately, the dates on the new tombstone are incorrect and the name is given as Joseph B. Sanders, although there are no records that give him a middle name or initial. His real birth and death dates are 1793 and March 10, 1863, according to census records and the testimony to the Southern Claims Commission of his friend Carroll Jackson Brewer.
Joseph Sanders gravestone, photo by Gary B. Sanders
The grave is located under a tree at the end of County Road 111 in Jackson County. Local people call this site “Dolberry Hollow.” My sister and I visited the resting place of our ancestor in 2007. Today, one sees only a pastoral view of thriving fields of corn and mountain scenery. It is difficult to imagine the strife that engulfed the area at the time of Joseph Sanders’ death.
Also located across the road is the “Blowing Cave,” which is something of a local tourist attraction. A strong breeze blows from the cave, hence the name by which it has been known since before the Civil War. In her book Sanders and Bean Families: Past and Present Virginia Retan describes the Blowing Cave as follows:
Mother Nature provided an air conditioner during the terribly hot season of summer, known as the Blowing Cave. The cave was named Blowing Cave because of the cool breeze that forever flowed from the entrance in the summer and the warm breeze which flowed in the cooler months. This cave was, and is today, quite an attraction.
Inside the cave, there are many rooms. People have used the Blowing Cave many times for shelter from tornadoes and other storms. Unfortunately, many of the rooms have been washed away by great gushes of water which are known to come unexpectedly from the cave. Some people say that the end of the cave comes out in Winchester, Tennessee. Some have said that they have traveled all through the cave and it took them three or four days to reach the other side.
Photo courtesy of Gary B. Sanders
Now (1986), many groups enjoy exploring the cave, with experienced guides, of course. Scouts enjoy staying overnight there, checking out the remaining rooms of the cave. The cave is now posted and people enter at their own risk. Young couples used to take walks there on Sunday afternoons; even now in 1986, it is said there is evidence of courtships of days long ago, in the names carved on trees or scraped in the rocks at the entrance of the cave.
Although the cave is no longer open to the public (as of 2007, the time of my visit), one can still stand about several yards away and get a good view of the cave opening, and sometimes even feel the cool breeze from the cave, just as Uncle Joe Sanders and his family and friends probably used to do on hot summer days before the Civil War.
Gary B Sanders’ story is continued proof that Vikki’s blog attracts terrific writers. Interesting indeed. In particular, I appreciated the comment about the two unrelated Sanders and Saunders families of Randolph County NC (as proven by DNA,) and the subsequent confusion this has caused later generations of family researches. Been there. Done that. Two un-related Wilbourn and Welborn famillies also settled (same time frame) in Wilkes Co NC, among other places. Mercy! The trouble this causes later generations when families of the same surname settle into rural areas during the same era. Excellent work. Thank you, Gary!
This is a very interesting story, especially for me. My Mama’s family are Saunders from Tuckaseegee Valley NC. My 3X GGF Jordan Holland served from January 1863 to August 1863 with a Home Guard Unit called the Henry Mounted Rebels in Henry County Alabama, Afterward, he enlisted with the 22nd GA Heavy Artillery for the rest of the War. Page 89 of the History of Henry County Alabama(2002) states, “The Henry Mounted Rebels were organized to rid the Choctawhatchee River areas of Confederate Deserters led by Joseph Sanders. They terrorized local citizens all the way to the Florida line.” I am glad to hear the other side of the story. I am not sure how it really turned out, only that ole Jordan was with the group that hunted him. Only found that out yesterday at a library in Atlanta. I was doing a Google search on Joseph Sanders and the War in Alabama and came across this. Thanks for sharing.
Jon, I didn’t make the connection when I first read your comment, but I believe the Joseph Sanders who led a group of Confederate deserters in southern Alabama and Florida was Joseph Ganes Sanders who was born in 1827 in South Carolina and and who died in Georgia in 1867. At the beginning of the Civil War, he was living in Dale County, Alabama. There is a Wikipedia article about him. Another source describes him when he served at Gettysburg as “a backwoods unlettered farmer and millwright.” ( http://www.history-sites.com/cgi-bin/bbs62x/alcwmb/arch_config.pl?md=read;id=35432).
Gary, Thank you for sharing this. I now reside at the cave and take care of its visitors. For years I had heard many versions of the history and am delighted to come across this as it is by far the most accurate. Please contact me sometime as I would love to talk with you.
Nathan, thank you (and all the others who commented on my article) for the kind words. When I was at the cave in June 2007, I was told it was in the possession of John Dolberry, a second great grand nephew of Joseph Sanders. A quick Google search appears to show that it was acquired by the Southeastern Cave Conservancy in January 2008. Is this correct? At any rate, I would be very interested in exchanging information with you and will send a message to your e-mail address that Vikki provided.
I am a 3 greats back granddaughter of Joseph and would love to connect with you family to share my family line my great grandpa was John Crawfordberry Sanders hope I spelled that right ! Please contact me!
I’m sorry Gary. I believe my father had a brother named Gary, along with Tone Leo, Wayne, David, Aunt Wanda, Larry. My grandfather’s name was Tony Leo. His mother was Rebecca Jane e, whose mom was Malinda,daughter of Brittain. I visited my Grandmother Hazel Maddox in 1990. I was sad to see during my research that grandpa Joe Maddox from Lane a Virginia ia had passed away. I was born in New Port News Virginia. My mom’s name was Diane Renee Sutherland. I grew up in Pascagoula, Ms. I hope this helps. I REALLY ENJOY READING YOU ARTICLES
Hi I just recently moved to Pensacola and discovered my grandfather is Ernest Sanders, great great great grandson of Joseph Sanders through son Henry. I am truly interested in my southern history as I grew up in Seattle WA thinking I was Italian not a Sanders. Apparently my father had a falling out with family and changed his history to a stepparent. Please contact me anytime.
Please see my Web site for other information on our Sanders familyhttp://home.earthlink.net/~garybsanders/
There are several mentions there of your ancestor Henry A. Sanders who served in the 18th Ohio Regiment, Company B., and was wounded in the right shoulder at the Battle of Nashville. He survived the war, returned to Alabama, divorced his first wife, then married two more times and had eight children. Henry was described by one contemporary as a “red-headed Irishman.”
I am a relative to John Dolberry and have many fond memories as a child playing outside the “blowing cave” and drinking from the spring. My grandfather Marion Little is also buried at the nearby grave yard. I loved reading about my family history. Thank you.
Hi Gary Sanders,
Thanks for sharing the Sanders’ blood line. I really don’t know much about my family tree. I do have a U.S. WWII Draft Card with my grandfather’s name (Birl Sanders) on it. He lived in Eleazer, Randolph county (South of Asheboro near the Montgomery county line). I would love to find out more about my ancestry and DNA testing.
Hi Jimmy,
I don’t have your grandfather Birl listed in my files but send me a personal e-mail and we can discuss your descent from the Sanders of Randolph and Montgomery. Thanks.
–Garyhttp://home.earthlink.net/~garybsanders
Wow! my name is Jay Wilson. I live in Chattanooga Tn. My father was born @ Mud Creek near the blowing cave in 1933. He will be 81 in April. His mother (my grandmother) was Elizabeth Eliza Sanders. She was born Febuary 19, 1900 and died Febuary 21, 1998. I think she said she was John T. Dolberrys cousin. Her father was Jesse Sanders and I believe her mother was Sarah Jacks Sanders. Her siblings were Wallace, Annie, Ab, and Sally Sanders. Eliza married my grandfather James Riley Wilson from Fackler Al. I believe. I would be curious to know if you have any further info on where we all fit into this tree. Thanks, Jay Wilson
Hi Gary
My name is Jesse Sanders I live in Michigan. Jay Wilson is my cousin, his father is my uncle Gene. My father was his brother Jessie David Sanders who was born in 1920 in Mud Creek. He died in 1965. He served in the Army during World War II in Germany. He married twice and had four children Ronald David Sanders his oldest son,and Patricia Sanders with his first wife Gladys (Oakwood ) Sanders .
Me and my sister Sandra Sanders- White are from his second marriage to Gloria ( Opdycke ) Sanders. I believe from your research that I come from the line of John G Sanders, Uncle joes son. |
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Launch of Maxxia & Remserv Claims
The launch of the desktop and smartphone claiming platforms made claiming easier with automated processing and 24/7 access.
My role: Leading the design I worked closely with multiple teams to develop a solid visual story that succeeded in driving customers to these new platforms.
Claims app launch
Educational flyer, promotional material
Internal communications launched first to educate our customer facing employees. A visual guide to the app was desk dropped to staff on the internal launch day. 'Smart phone' chocolate bars came floor stickers were distributed around offices to add excitement and it helped to aid positive change.
Claims for desktop launch
Educational flyer, poster, DL, email template, digital banners
A flyer was distributed internally with the same intention of educating employees about the platform and the positive affect it will have on our customers.
After internal education, the second step was launching to our customers. A range of digital and print pieces were rolled out nationally across all offices, over 50 client sites and 300,000 customers with the main goal of converting customers from manual call centre claiming to online claiming.
The results
Within six month of launch over 65 per cent of customers were using the new platforms.
Both apps had over 22,000 downloads in two months.
The Maxxia desktop portal had over 1.1 million logins in six months.
These results in relieving the burden felt by the call centre who where manually entering and processing claims resulting in a more efficient process flow for the company. |
Which Wedding Gown Style Is Perfect For Your Personality? (Quiz)
Like nearly every woman, you've had the perfect wedding gown dreamed up in your head since the first time you watched "Cinderella" at age 5.
Like your taste in food, music and Disney princes, however, your personal style has vastly changed since then. It's only natural your shift in personality would make those once-beloved puffy Cinderella sleeves completely repulsive to you now.
Sometimes, the best way to find the dress of your dreams is to pick a style that most closely matches your personality. After all, your brain and natural charisma are what led you to find the love of your life, and it's important to may homage to that when choosing a wedding gown. You want your outfit to feel like you, not some elaborate version of what you think a bride is supposed to look like.
Still confused? Take this quiz to find the best dress silhouette for your personality type. |
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All month, I’ve been writing poems each morning to a theme via CLMOOC’s Poetry Port — a project designed to spread collaboration and support through various networks. Along with the daily writing, a number of us were writing poems for others — sometimes as unexpected gifts and sometimes for the recipient’s request. The Thinglink above is my curation of my own poems, some via audio and some via text.
Today, the last day, the daily poem theme was not Farewell, but instead, Welcome.
Kevin’s Note: I signed up for a month-long Digital Detox project out of Middlebury College and enjoyed the email updates throughout January that got us thinking about our digital lives, and offered small steps and actions to take. I made comics about the concepts as a way to read deeper and think a little more critically about the ways digital devices and platforms are part of our lives. This is the last comic I made for that project.
Kevin’s Note: I signed up for a month-long Digital Detox project out of Middlebury College and enjoyed the email updates throughout January that got us thinking about our digital lives, and offered small steps and actions to take. I made comics about the concepts as a way to read deeper and think a little more critically about the ways digital devices and platforms are part of our lives.
One of the many topics that come up when I read Christopher Paul Curtis’ novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 is the role of young people in the civil rights movement. Although the novel never references the Birmingham Children’s Crusade, the movie adaptation does, through the memory of some cousins of the Watson children, and so we spend time discussing how young people took the streets in protest, were attacked by police with fire canons and dogs, and were sent to jail by the hundreds.
Let The Children March, a picture book by author Monica Clark-Robinson and illustrator Frank Morrison is a powerful text companion to those discussions. With brilliant visuals and an engaging story (plus, a valuable timeline of 1963 in Alabama during the Civil Rights era), the book brings to the surface the courage of the kids who took to the streets, the wariness and worry of the parents who allowed the march (code-named D Day and Double D Day) to happen, and the movement leaders who accepted that children being arrested would create tension for the Kennedy White House to finally act against segregation.
The picture book centers on a narrator voice of a child who takes part in the Birmingham Children’s Crusade, but it more of a universal voice, advocating for change against unjust rules and putting the self in danger to force confrontation against a police force that was part of the problem, not the solution.
I appreciate how Let The Children March gives those young marchers a voice, and also, explores the results of the march (which the scenes in the Watsons movie does not do because of the time frame). President Kennedy did get involved after getting pressure from the country and the world. Birmingham did end official segregation (if not racial violence, as the bombing of the church that forms the center of the Watsons novel shows. Change happened, even if the results of those actions are still something we continue to reckon with as a country.
(This is for the Slice of Life challenge, hosted by Two Writing Teachers. We write on Tuesdays about the small moments in the larger perspective … or is that the larger perspective in the smaller moments? You write, too.)
I was wandering our small city’s downtown, a little bit bored and sort of wasting the hour. This is often when our attention to the small things of the world is at its finest — when we are not consumed by other tasks. I noticed the window of a public art gallery, and wandered in. I had time.
The latest art show in the gallery is called Tiny Pricks, and it features embroidery of President Trump’s craziest quotes, with art as the lens of protest. It’s both amazingly insightful and sadly alarming (the things Trump says). Along with the art on display, the gallery has hosted sessions for more embroidery for visitors. At a table, all of the materials were laid out, at rest, as if the embroidery team had just suddenly gone off on coffee break and would be back soon.
If I knew how to embroider with needle and thread and cloth, I might have sat down and continued their work. Instead, I kept making my way through the hanging wall displays. There must have been at least a 100 or more embroidered works of art.
I wandered in the gallery for some time, just staring at the embroidery and appreciating how art is a way for us to express our political views, and then wondering if projects like this will translate into votes in November. I eavesdropped in on other patrons, who seemed to be asking some of the same questions.
I left after a bit, still thinking about the artwork for hours later, which I suppose is a sign of the power of the embroidery, of the artists, to help us see the world — political, or otherwise — in a new way and to wonder about other paths forward.
Kevin’s Note: I signed up for a month-long Digital Detox project out of Middlebury College and enjoyed the email updates throughout January that got us thinking about our digital lives, and offered small steps and actions to take. I made comics about the concepts as a way to read deeper and think a little more critically about the ways digital devices and platforms are part of our lives.
I had this idea of going back to a poem that I wrote, rather quickly, for the theme of Memories for CLMOOC’s month of poetry, and think a bit deeper on why I wrote what I wrote. To be honest, the comment annotations are small — you can get a closer look here, if you want.
My hope was to uncover some of my intentions with the small poem, to surface some of my moves. I would not call this poem anything extraordinary or special or even one of my best poems this month, but there are elements of personal story and intentional rhyming, as well as regrets about the ending, that made this poem worth a second look. For me, anyway.
Last night was the second online session of an inquiry group project called The Grapple Series – hosted by the National Writing Project, Western Pennsylvania Writing Project and the CMU CREATE Lab — that is looking at the impact of AI and technology on our lives. The theme last night was algorithms and justice, a pairing that made for interesting conversations about how blind trust in both often lead to disastrous consequences.
We explored some interesting reading and video pieces before gathering in our online session. The articles explored the issue from multiple angles, but the overall connecting concepts are clear: algorithms are created people, and people have bias, and so algorithms have bias, too, and when algorithms are embedded with bias, it impacts our notions of justice in the world.
Sometimes, this is literal — as in the case of computer software being used to designate length of parole. Sometimes, it is more nuanced — the way search engines bring racial stereotypes to the surface. Sometimes it is not yet known — the way facial recognition is changing our sense of privacy in the public sphere.
The Grapple gathering began with a large discussion and writing about justice and algorithms, and then broke into smaller groups, where we engaged in deeper debate about the role of algorithms on society.
We also teamed up to create our own paper “algorithm” for fighting off the common cold, and while our group went a sort of silly route (Should a teacher call in sick or not?), the short flowchart activity reminded us how often we can fall into Yes/No binary decisions that can leave the humanity aspect out. Another small group did integrate ideas of humanity into their algorithm, and I found that quite interesting.
I appreciate being able to work through and “grapple” with these complex questions rippling through society. There is no real solution — the algorithmic genie is long gone from its bottle. But we can be aware, and make some decisions about how what information we share and how we are being manipulated by technology.
Second, this poem is for Ron, whose work as an artist is always interesting to me. He makes picture books and does daily artwork and sketches, and is always up for another connected adventure.
Ron and I know each other through CLMOOC and DS106 and other adventures. His poem began in digital format, but then I wanted a more static version, too.
Finally, this poem is for Raymond.
Our paths crossed years ago in CLMOOC, and I bought his small book of poems, a book that inspired the poem. We still interact now and then, and although I think our political views are quite different, I enjoy understanding Raymond’s perspective and reading his poetry. |
The state's largely Democratic electorate, coupled with Warren's pulling women voters to her side, proved too much for Senator Brown to overcome.
Brown was popular and benefited in this "blue" state by avoiding lock-step votes with Senate Republicans. But unlike 2010, when he won his seat in a special election, this was a presidential year that brought out a broader array of the state's electorate. The race this year also brought in massive amounts of campaign contributions on both sides, as Republicans sought to defend a seat and Democrats sought to reclaim it.
Ms. Warren is a stalwart liberal who became known nationally as a crusader against the power of Wall Street banks and for her focus on the economic struggles of working-class families.
"It was exactly 50 years ago tonight that Ted Kennedy was first elected to the United States Senate," Warren told cheering supporters Tuesday night. "We miss his passion, his commitment, his energy, and his fight for working families."
Warren said that Mr. Kennedy's pledge back then – to devote all his strength and will to serving Bay State residents – is now hers as well.
Both candidates maintained a positive impression with voters during the campaign. Yet the campaign was also rife with negative ads.
Warren's ads appealed especially to women, and they did so successfully.
"Don't let Scott Brown put women's health at risk," one Warren flier warned as Election Day neared. The mailing said Brown had, among other things, "stood with Republican extremists against Planned Parenthood, voting to limit access to preventive care."
Warren also bored in on the national implications of the race, arguing that a vote for Brown would also be a vote for expanding the clout of Republicans in the Senate – many of whom are more conservative than Brown. She reminded voters that the next senator from Massachusetts could have a role to play in anointing Supreme Court nominees, and she sought to raise doubts about Brown's commitment to abortion rights.
Warren fended off attacks by Brown, including his questioning of her integrity during her academic career. She had listed herself as a minority in a directory of law-school professors for many years, then dropped the listing after gaining a position at Harvard Law School. Warren rejected the implication that she had used the listing to advance her career, and most voters didn't hold the issue against her.
After the hard-fought race, Brown was gracious in conceding defeat. "She won it fair and square folks," he told his campaign staff. "May she bring that Senate office great credit."
Warren, too, sounded a magnanimous note. She said although Brown's supporters didn't vote for her, she embraced his message of being ready to work across party lines. "I promise I'm going to work to earn your support," Warren said. |
LINE’s Webtoon app updates its comics daily, and is optimized for mobile platforms without data restrictions, as you can download them over wifi and read them on the subway or at the Javitz Center, which is a data deadzone. It is available now via Google Playstore and the Apple store.
The app launched in Korea in 2004, and launched in the US in 2014. It already has millions of users in both Korea and the US.
The app will work with pros and with amateurs in a “challenge league.” The editorial team elevates some of the most popular webtoons to pro status, so its a good place to try and break in, if you’re so inclined.
Matt Hawkins is launching a branch of his comic Cyber Force on the LINE Webtoon app in November which will run for 52 weeks. Cyber Force: Powers will fit into his work that is existing currently in trades (the first two volumes of which are readily available on the apl now, with one chaoter releasing every week), as well as the anime Witchblade, The Darkness video games, and Aphrodite Nine.
Hawkins did accidentally spoil the news that there will be a third in The Darkness franchise.
Michelle Phan’s webtoon Helios Femina will be about an alchemist who needs to find a songstress and from there embark on some kind of “odyssey.” Phan was much more excited to discuss how excited she is by the app. For those interested, she hand draws the comic, scans it, and inks it digitally. She posts photos of her process on SnapChat.
Dean Haspiel is a veteran webcomic artist. His webtoon New Brooklyn is a superhero story in the spirit of “What if Jack Kirby and Alex Toth got together?” The impetus of Haspiel’s story were the white flags on the Brooklyn Bridge last year, and thus New Brooklyn is a story about Brooklyn being a sentient being that creates superheroes and villains. It is very much an outlet for Haspiel’s tech fatigue and malaise “What if Brooklyn has gotten fed up with the world and technology?”
Rob Feldman is working on two webtoons for LINE, horror tale Chiller and Sci-Fi-meets-Evil Kineval-meets-UltraMan story Cyko KO. Chiller relies on sound effects from the FXToonEditor available to all Webtoon creators. Cyko KO was originally born as an animated series.
Stephen McCraine’s Space Boy was the winner of the first challenge league contest. He called the challenge a “comics marathon” with no time to worry or over-plan.
The top four comics get a publishing deal with LINE. The third contest is running now, sponsored by Stan Lee. Submissions close December 13, 2015. Submissions require the first three chapters of a webtoon.
Has quietly been working at Bleeding Cool for over three years. He has written comics for Image, Top Cow, Shadowline, Avatar, IDW, Dynamite, Moonstone, Humanoids and Zenescope. He is the author of the Lucius Fogg series of novels and a published photographer. |
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I am quite sure that when we hear of Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol, most of us think of speck, strudel, and Muller-Thurgau. The same happens with the denomination of Veneto Valpolicella, which recalls some good red wines. Despite this, it should surprise no one that some portions of these two regions are devoted to the cultivation of olive trees and the production of great extra virgin olive oils.
I am glad when people open the bottle of my oil and get excited.- Monica Vaccarella
There is a part of the province of Trento which is tempered by the mitigating effects of Lake Garda and enjoys a sub-Mediterranean climate with moderately cold winters and hot summers, ideal conditions for growing olive trees up to an altitude of 300 meters (984.2 ft).
Olio Cru’s olive groves in Arco, Trento
A few miles from the northern shores of the lake, in the territories of Arco, Bolognano and Massone, lush olive groves give life to 7c, an olive oil producer and three-time Gold Award winner at the New York International Olive Oil Competition (including one Best in Class in 2016).
“2,000 plants, mostly Casaliva, lie on the slopes of the hill overlooking the town of Arco, partly rooted on terraces and partly flourishing on the rough hillside,” said the head of manufacturing, Massimo Azzolini. “The challenging terrain makes harvest complex, and even though we can use mechanical facilitators in some plots, a large part of work is by hand,” he pointed out.
Harvest usually starts in the last week of October; the liquid gold that comes out is light-to-medium fruity, moderately spicy and bitter, with hints of almond, artichoke, and grass. “Part of our product is made with de-pitted olives that must be picked when they are at least 70 percent green,” Azzolini explained, adding that the harvest must be anticipated to catch fruits at the beginning of veraison, in order to obtain a product characterized by decisive pungency and fruitiness.
Olio Cru
As we move to Veneto, Valpolicella is the protected designation of origin of an extra virgin olive oil produced in the area situated on the right side of the Adige river. Monica Vaccarella manages 1.5 hectares (3.7 acres) of olive grove with 500 plants at an altitude of 400 meters (1,312 feet), in Avesa, between the Val Borago and the Val Gavina.
Two steps away from Verona, the native varieties Grignano and Favarol flank the more widespread Frantoio, Pendolino, Leccino and Leccio del Corno. “I produce two blends, of which the Veneto Valpolicella PDO is my flagship,” said Vaccarella, as she explained that she combines 60 percent of local cultivars with the other ones in accordance with the product specification of the protected denomination of origin which requires that at least half of the extra virgin olive oil consists of native types.
Monica Vaccarella during harvest
“These two local varieties make the oil enjoyable, while the early harvest gives energy to it and allows the taste to expand with formidable bitterness and pungency,” our producer said while describing her extra virgin olive oil with aromas of white fruit, grass and basil.
The olive trees were planted by her father Angelo 27 years ago, and she started to manage the olive grove in 2010. They carry out a so-called balanced pruning which helps to avoid biological alternation of high and low yields. “It is a painstaking and draining work which takes two months since we operate on the smallest branches,” Vaccarella revealed.
However, the flat landscape facilitates harvest and in one day they can collect 800 to 1,000 kilograms (1,764-2,205 pounds) of olives. “We crush them within 6 hours, that is the only way to get the most out of the fruits and reach such a low level of acidity,” she remarked. “I am glad when people open the bottle of my oil and get excited.” |
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SparkFun Ambient Light Sensor Breakout - TEMT6000
Description: Basic breakout board for the TEMT6000 Ambient Light Sensor. Only what you need, nothing you don’t. Sensor acts like a transistor - the greater the incoming light, the higher the analog voltage on the signal pin.
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I had a question about the output this sensor gives off…
I’m using it with a basic stamp 2pe microcontroller and haven’t been sure how to convert the analog output into lux. Is there a specific equation I have to use for this or are there several (like ones that include temperature, etc)?
Although the datasheet does not provide this information, an email to Vishay got some dynamic response data. The upshot is that for the fastest response to changing light conditions one must have a high current flowing through the device. Icmax is defined at 20ma. With the 10K resistor (assuming no current out the signal line), and a 5 volt supply, than the maximum collector current is 5/10K or a tiny 500 micro amps. At this condition, rise and fall times are around 15 micro seconds. Increase Ic (by lowering the value of the resistor) and you can drop the times to bellow 10 usec.
SFE, how about a breakout board with this sensor and a logarithmic amplifier? I don’t care for the difference between 100 lux and 105 lux, which you won’t notice anyway, but I do care about the difference between 10 lux, 100 lux and 1000 lux. Log amp, please!
With a photoresistor you build a voltage divider which is anything but linear, this one is linear. Also, a phototransistor has a much wider range and is faster. Phototransistors are being used to trigger slave strobe light in photostudios, a photoresistor is orders of magnitude too slow for this.
Would this be a good device for measuring and data logging sunlight in a garden? Also, is there a waterproof version, or a good way to waterproof this without diffusing the light from hitting the sensor? Thanks!
Amazingly simple to use.
I’m using it as a trigger in a spectrometer, gives the go signal when the emission starts.
highly stable and incredibly easy to work with. Only problem is, my fingers are too big
Remarkable. I swapped this in place of a potentiometer in my Arduino project and it worked exactly as expected without any changes. It’s great to have this as a breakout.
Now I have to modify the software to provide some dampening.
I would like to use this in an application where I need much higher resolution, but it won’t need to measure more than 2 lux or so. If I just put a big resistor on the ground pin, will that effectively multiply the voltage on the signal pin? Also, while this won’t need to actively measure more than 2 lux, it will still regularly be exposed to 100+ lux while it’s on. If putting the resistor on there will fry a 5V picaxe I/O pin, it won’t work.
If this doesn’t work, I’d appreciate any ideas for something that would. I would just use a CdS photoresistor, but linearity is very helpful.
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News: 1930-1959
This guide recommends resources for finding information in the news - past and present. The UW Libraries has many newspapers on microfilm in addition to those listed here. For help finding more, email mcnews@u.washington.edu
Newspapers as Primary Sources
Newspapers were the primary means of communcating news during this time period; however, the Depression impacted the industry. Patricia Dooley explains that in "early 1931, the owners of the New york World were forced by hard times to sell the paper for a mere $5 million to the Scripps-Howard chain." In response to the economic conditions, a group of reporters and editors established the American Newspaper Guild in 1933. Dooley writes that the Guild was "the first successful attempt to organize the nontechnical side of newspaper production." The Guild was controversial at first, but it still exists today as The Newspaper Guild.
Indexes the Sydney Morning Herald, other capital city dailies, and national weeklies for articles in the social sciences and humanities through 1994. Beginning in 1995, only The Australian, the newspaper of record, is scanned for articles within the scope of PAIS. Microfilm of Australian newspapers may be available through Interlibrary Loan. |
Seeding Change in Weather Modification Globally
Seeding Change in Weather Modification Globally
Operational programmes to modify the weather – including to disperse fog, enhance rain and snowfall, and suppress hail – are taking place in more than 50 countries worldwide. Since the discovery in the late 1940s that crystals of silver iodide can form ice crystals in some water vapor, scientists have been working to understand how to alter the way water forms and moves within a cloud. Despite decades of research, deep skepticism still surrounds cloud seeding due, in part, to the challenge of verifying the efficacy of the technique – establishing cause and effect – given the complexity and variability of weather systems.
Warm or cold, polluted or clean, over a mountain or a field, a cloud’s characteristics are key to the success or failure of cloud seeding efforts. New tools are enabling meteorologists to study and understand clouds and their modification with greater precision than ever, while new technologies such as nanotechnology are expanding the possibilities for the field. Bolstered by an international drive for research and funding to secure water resources, scientists are cautiously working to modernize rainmaking for the 21st century.
“Water is the basic sustenance of life on Earth, with water and the air we breathe as the two primary issues in this century,” says Dr. Roelof Bruintjes of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and chair of the WMO Expert Team on Weather Modification. “Improving our understanding of cloud and precipitation processes are the number one priority and the better we understand them, the better we can potentially impact cloud processes with cloud seeding.”
The fundamental challenge of weather modification is identifying and locating the best clouds for the job. Without clouds, these technologies are powerless. While “cloud seeding could be a tool to enhance water resources, it is not a ‘drought busting’ because we need clouds,” says Bruintjes, whose early training in weather modification was in South Africa. “Nobody can make a cloud or chase away a cloud.”
“The basic concept of weather modification, especially precipitation enhancement, is to find a rate-limiting process related to the conversion of cloud water to precipitation in natural clouds, and to bypass it with a minimum level of artificial stimulation,” says Dr. Masataka Murakami of the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research at Nagoya University in Japan. “Therefore, it is important to find the clouds that have the potential to precipitate but cannot exert that ability.”
Indeed, says Dr. Abdullah Al Mandoos, director of the National Centre for Meteorology and Seismology in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): “Any country that has a plan to implement cloud seeding projects needs to investigate the physical and chemical properties of the frequent and available clouds in their territory.”
Part of finding the “right” clouds depends of the temperature. Increasing precipitation requires one of two approaches to help water particles collide, merge, and grow: glaciogenic seeding and hygroscopic seeding. Glaciogenic seeding uses agents, such as silver iodide, that initiate ice formation in “cold clouds,” those colder than 0 °C and that have supercooled water. Because silver iodide has a crystalline shape similar to natural ice, it can create ice earlier in the lifetime of a cloud, giving it more time to grow precipitation-sized particles.In “warm clouds,” convective clouds with large parts warmer than -10 °C, scientists can use hygroscopic seeding, generally with a simple salt. The salt helps water droplets to collide and produce rain.
For either glaciogenic or hygroscopic seeding, it is essential to determine if clouds in a region are already efficient or if cloud seeding can potentially make a difference. “The main cloud seeding methods provide centers for drops and ice crystals to form on,” Bruintjes says. “If these particles already exist in optimal size and concentration in some regions of the world, cloud seeding would not have an impact.”
The location of the clouds is also highly significant. Clouds in the tropics differ from clouds in the mid-latitudes because temperature influences how cloud processes operate. “In addition, clouds in different regions with different levels of pollution can also develop precipitation differently – and even in one region depending on the pollution on a specific day,” Bruintjes says. Anything that alters clouds can affect seeding.
Some of the most successful cases of cloud seeding in the world have happened in mountainous regions, with glaciogenic seeding of “orographic” clouds. In these regions, clouds form from air flowing over mountains. They are an especially attractive target for cloud seeding because high-elevation snowpacks can store water for a region year-round.
In Japan, for example, where water shortage is a transient, not chronic, problem, Murakami says that glaciogenic seeding of orographic snow clouds can be a preventive measure in late spring and early summer. Such operational programmes can be conducted “once the long-term prediction of precipitation becomes more accurate and reliable and when we can predict water shortage with a lead time of a few months,” he says.
Bruintjes and Murakami point to examples of snowpack enhancement projects in Wyoming, USA, and the Snowy Mountains in Australia. In the Snowy Mountains, scientists have been using glaciogenic seeding on cold fronts to the west of the mountains. In the colder months, ground-based generators spray a mixture of silver iodide that the winds carry east to clouds over the mountains. In an analysis of results from the initial 2005-2009 experiment, researchers found a positive, but not statistically significant, impact of seeding on snowfall; however, they found the targeting of the seeding efforts “unequivocally successful”, with levels of silver iodide higher in seeded areas compared to unseeded ones. A secondary analysis showed enhanced levels of seeding materials that suggested additional ice particles and thus an impact on cloud precipitation processes. The project continues to this date, well beyond the initial trials. Some reports suggest that snowfall has increased by up to 14%.
Measuring the impact of cloud seeding initiatives is challenging. “Usually we revert to a randomized experiment similar to what is used in the medical community when they test a new drug,” Bruintjes says. Like in a medical experiment, where no two people are alike, “no cloud is the same as another, and there are many factors that can play a role in the development of precipitation in a cloud.”
Over the last 10 years, cloud seeding experiments have benefited from advances in numerical models that can simulate seeding more accurately, as well as improved observational tools to understand the physical processes in clouds due to seeding. These tools include more precise satellite capability and ground-based and airborne dual-polarization radars that can better measure precipitation size.
“Although not perfect, it has been a great step forward,” Bruintjes says. “As we get better at weather prediction, we can better predict a change.”
Another member of the WMO Expert Team on Weather Modification, Andrea Flossmann of Observatoire de Physique du Globe de Clermont Ferrand in France, says that researchers have been working to improve the statistical approaches necessary to validate the randomized approach. “Still, reliable campaigns remain costly, requiring numerous test clouds, both seeded and not,” she says.
One such group is Murakami’s research team, which received a 2015 grant award from the UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science. “We are working to better evaluate, and ultimately improve, the effectiveness of precipitation enhancement in arid and semi-arid regions through a sound scientific research consisting of data analysis, laboratory experiments, field observation and numerical modelling,” he says. A major aim of the work is to clarify the microphysical structures of clouds suitable for seeding and their occurrence frequency over the eastern mountain areas of the UAE.
UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science
Rain enhancement in the UAE
The US$ 5 million UAE Research Programme for Rain Enhancement Science launched in 2015 as an international initiative to advance the research and technology of rain enhancement. According to its director, Alya Al Mazroui, the program has two goals: to boost research in rain enhancement worldwide, and to increase rainfall in the UAE and other arid and semi-arid regions in the world.
Water is a critical issue in the UAE with its 10 000 year-old groundwater supplies running low, and demand for water expected to double in the next 15 years by some estimates. Desalinated seawater accounts for 40% of the country’s water supply. With the high cost of desalination, the UAE has been conducting cloud seeding as a possible lower-cost alternative. In 2016, UAE undertook 177 cloud seeding operations, mostly using hygroscopic seeding in the eastern mountain ranges on the border with Oman to raise levels in aquifers and reservoirs. According to a report from 2015, greater-than-normal cloud cover enabled more missions that year.
As part of its rain enhancement program, the UAE is working to lead the way for greater investments and technological advancements in weather modification. Al Mandoos says he is proud of the “UAE as a global hub that develops the best technologies that contribute to the water shortage solutions.”
In addition to the award to Murakami’s team for improving cloud seeding validation, other recipients of the 2015 award were projects to “use nanotechnology to manufacture more effective seeding materials and land cover modification to enhance the confluence areas and improve the convection initiation,” says Al Mandoos. Using nanotechnology, researchers could potentially create new chemicals for cloud seeding that better mimic the crystalline structure of ice at a nanoscale. The UAE Program team is working with awardees over the next three years to help them implement their research projects.
Al Mandoos of the UAE points to the WMO Guiding Principles for the Planning of Weather Modification Activities as an important resource for countries looking to improve water security. “The guidelines state that countries that practice cloud seeding must investigate seeded and unseeded clouds through a statistical randomization method,” he says. “The outcome of this statistical randomization process must then be supported with an analysis that validates the original cloud seeding operations.”
Caution advised
The 2015 WMO Statement on Weather Modification also discusses weather modification techniques to suppress hail and disperse fog, and it mentions recent interest in climate engineering. “Recently, seeding has been proposed as a climate mitigation strategy, to increase cloud brightness and increase the part of solar radiation reflected into space,” Flossmann says. The WMO report offers caution for such global-scale efforts, pointing out the historical difficulties in proving cause and effect for seeding interventions at the local scale.
Global-scale cloud seeding does have a historical precedence but in an unexpected way: through inadvertent weather modification. For example, volcanic eruptions have injected particles into stratosphere that have reduced temperatures globally for 2 to 3 years after the eruptions (e.g. such eruptions are thought to have contributed to the “little ice age” in the 19th century). As another example of inadvertent weather modification, Flossmann says that satellites have observed that particles released by ship chimneys modify cloud properties of the stratocumulus cloud deck above, appearing to brighten the clouds.
For all weather modification – intentional or not – it is important to remember that “the atmosphere has no walls,” Flossmann says. “What you add may not have the desired effect in your vicinity, but by being transported along might have undesired effects elsewhere.”
But above all, it’s all about the clouds. “There is no one-size-fits-all solution,” she says. “It depends very much on the specific cloud whether adding particles to it will have any effect at all, and if it has an effect that it is in the desired direction.”
Award Winners of the UAE Rain Enhancement Programme - The United Arab Emirates announced the winners of the Rain Enhancement Programme on 17 January. The US$5 million funding went to Professor Giles Harrison of the University of Reading, Professor Hannele Korhonen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute and Dr Paul Lawson of SPEC Inc.
Author
Lisa M.P. Munoz is a science writer and content strategist based in Washington, D.C., USA. She is a former press officer and editor for WMO. |
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enDejalNews #75: Time Out tips & supporter pollhttp://dejal.org/blog/2019/02/dejalnews-75-time-out-tips-supporter-poll
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<p><b>DejalNews 2019-02</b>, <i>issue #75</i></p>
<h4>Welcome</h4>
<p>This is <i>DejalNews</i>, an occasional newsletter from <a href="/">Dejal</a>.</p>
<p><i><b>If you want to receive these newsletters in your email inbox, head over to the <a href="/subscribe/">DejalNews subscribe page</a> to sign up.</b></i></p>
<h4>Time Out tips</h4>
<p>So far I've been sticking to my goal of a <a href="/blog/">Dejal blog post</a> each week. No idea if I can keep it up, but I want to try.</p>
<p>Following the <a href="/blog/2019/01/dejalnews-74-its-back">previous <i>DejalNews</i> newsletter</a>, a couple of weeks ago I <a href="/blog/2019/02/time-out-tip-dry-eye-blink-reminders">posted a Time Out tip to help with dry eyes</a>, and last week I <a href="/blog/2019/02/time-out-tip-lifetime-supporter">posted about making your own lifetime supporter option</a>. Check out those posts if you missed them.</p>
<h4>Auto-renewing Time Out supporter option?</h4>
<p>Speaking of the Time Out supporter options, there's something I've been considering for a while. As you may know, currently the 3-, 6-, and 12-month supporter options are one-time payments; they don't automatically renew. Which is fine for many people, who either only want to buy once, or want to choose when to renew. But lots of customers do renew their support when it expires, which I greatly appreciate.</p>
<p>So I was wondering if people would like and use an option to automatically renew their supporter status. To be clear, this would be completely optional, in addition to the current non-renewing choices.</p>
<p>I've created <a href="/poll/2019/02/timeout-auto-renew">a poll to ask about this option</a>.</p>
<p>I know this newsletter doesn't have a huge readership (since I removed the old subscribers rather than risk anyone thinking it spam), but I would really appreciate it if everyone who reads this would vote on this poll. Thank you.</p>
<p><i>- David</i></p>
DejalNewsWed, 20 Feb 2019 04:36:50 +0000David Sinclair11517 at http://dejal.orgWould you like an option to automatically renew the Time Out supporter status?http://dejal.org/poll/2019/02/timeout-auto-renew
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http://dejal.org/poll/2019/02/timeout-auto-renew#commentsWed, 20 Feb 2019 04:29:13 +0000David Sinclair11516 at http://dejal.orgTime Out tip: lifetime supporter?http://dejal.org/blog/2019/02/time-out-tip-lifetime-supporter
<p><a href="/timeout/"><img src="/timeout/images/icon.png" align="right" /></a>In ye olde days, software was sold once, for what would be considered nowadays to be a high price, and every year or so the developer would release a major paid upgrade, typically charging about half of the original price.</p>
<p>I still do this for <a href="/simon/">Simon</a>, my pro tool to monitor websites and servers for changes or failures, since that model is still common for pro apps. Though it is also available on <a href="https://go.setapp.com/stp124?refAppID=201&stc=site&utm_medium=available_on_setapp_button&utm_source=201&utm_campaign=blog">Setapp</a>, as part of a subscription along with hundreds of other apps.</p>
<p>But for <a href="/timeout/">Time Out</a>, my popular break reminder app, I wanted to try something different. I introduced a "supporter" model, where people can get the main features completely free, but be rewarded for supporting ongoing development with extra features. </p>
<p>Unlike old-school purchases, the supporter purchases are much cheaper, only a few bucks, and for a specific period of time, 3, 6, or 12 months. The extra features can be tried for an hour at a time, or are unlocked permanently with any supporter level. The "catch", such as it is, is that when I update the app, I may add new features that are only available to current supporters, so if your support has expired, you won't get those features unless you renew your support. Of course, you can try them, to help decide if you want to renew.</p>
<p>That seems really fair to me; you can have breaks for free, or get extra features cheaply, and if you like my improvements, you can help pay for their development. Or continue using the older features forever without paying more.</p>
<p>Win/win — you get a useful app that is regularly improved, and I get to eat. I also don't have to hold back major features for a big paid upgrade; I can add things whenever desired.</p>
<p>Even so, I occasionally get people asking about a lifetime purchase option. I don't currently offer that, since I feel it would be detrimental to the long-term survival of the app. However, you can effectively make your own lifetime option, by purchasing multiple 12-month supporter statuses. Each one you purchase will extend your supporter status by a year. So if you envision using Time Out for the next 5 years, purchasing 5 times will extend your support that long. Or whatever duration you want to use.</p>
<p>Of course, it’s worth reiterating that you don't have to pay more than once if you don't want to. You can become a supporter at whatever level you feel comfortable with, and not pay again unless you want to show your appreciation (kinda like a tip jar). After your supporter status expires, all of the advanced features that you had when you were a supporter will remain available permanently. You’d only need to renew if I add new features in the future that you want to use.</p>
timeouttipsMon, 11 Feb 2019 22:56:00 +0000David Sinclair11514 at http://dejal.orgTime Out tip: dry eye blink remindershttp://dejal.org/blog/2019/02/time-out-tip-dry-eye-blink-reminders
<p><a href="/timeout/"><img src="/timeout/images/icon.png" align="right" /></a>People use <a href="/timeout/">Time Out</a> for lots of reasons; to avoid RSI, to get regular exercise, to avoid sore eyes, to remember to eat regularly, to stop work at the end of the day, and more. But one use case that I've seen several people mentioning recently is to help with dry eyes.</p>
<p>A nice comment from one example:</p>
<blockquote><p>
"...my eyes are freakishly dry, way over-the-top compared to the average dry eye patient, and your app has allowed me to use my computer longer without killing my eyes. I can't thank you enough for making it!!"
</p></blockquote>
<p>People who experience dry eyes can sometimes find that blinking more frequently can help keep the eyes lubricated. That can be hard to remember when focused on work, though. Time Out's default Micro break can help with that, but some people prefer even more frequent reminders.</p>
<p>Time Out breaks can currently be configured to occur as much as once per minute, which is a lot for a typical break, but by making the break only last one second, and configuring the other <b>Schedule</b> settings to avoid skipping or delaying it, the break can be a very brief reminder without being too disruptive:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2019/timeout/dry-eye/schedule.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2019/timeout/dry-eye/schedule.png" alt="Time Out schedule page" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>In the next version of Time Out, I am considering enabling using frequency units of seconds, instead of minutes (and hours, etc). It is currently limited to a minimum of 1 minute, as that seemed like a reasonable minimum, but a very quick break like this every few seconds does have merit. But read on for a way this can be achieved even now.</p>
<p>The <b>Appearance</b> options can be set to avoid fading the screen via the <b>None</b> theme, with zero fade-in and fade-out times (set the fade times before changing the theme):</p>
<p><a href="/files/2019/timeout/dry-eye/appearance.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2019/timeout/dry-eye/appearance.png" alt="Time Out appearance page" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>A great way to very quickly remind yourself to blink is to flash the screen. This can be done via the <b>Flash Screen</b> action. The color and duration of the flash can be tweaked as desired.</p>
<p>And if once per minute isn't enough, you can add as many as you want on the <b>Actions</b> page, spaced out by setting the offset <b>After Start</b>, like this to have it flash every 10 seconds:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2019/timeout/dry-eye/actions.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2019/timeout/dry-eye/actions.png" alt="Time Out actions page" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>I hope this is helpful to people suffering from dry eye, or anyone wanting more frequent reminders.</p>
timeouttipsMon, 04 Feb 2019 21:23:49 +0000David Sinclair11513 at http://dejal.orgDejalNews #74: It's back!http://dejal.org/blog/2019/01/dejalnews-74-its-back
<p><img src="/files/dejalnews/header.png" alt="DejalNews header" width="100%" border="0" /> </p>
<p><b>DejalNews 2019-01</b>, <i>issue #74</i></p>
<h4>Welcome</h4>
<p>This is <i>DejalNews</i>, an occasional newsletter from <a href="/">Dejal</a>.</p>
<p><i><b>If you want to receive these newsletters in your email inbox, head over to the <a href="/subscribe/">DejalNews subscribe page</a> to sign up.</b></i></p>
<h4>DejalNews is back!</h4>
<p>The previous issue of <i>DejalNews</i> was a bit over a year ago. I didn't intend to take a year off publishing these newsletters, but sometimes things just happen. I want to get back on that horse, so hopefully will resume publishing a newsletter each month. Usually they will cover recent releases and news, but I've got a bit of catching up to do this time.</p>
<h4>Simon 4.3.1, Time Out 2.5</h4>
<p>Since it's been a while since the previous newsletter, I should mention the updates to my main two apps, <a href="/simon/">Dejal Simon</a> version 4.3.1, and <a href="/timeout/">Time Out</a> version 2.5. If you missed them, take a look at the release notes or <a href="/blog/release">blog</a> for what changed.</p>
<h4>Introducing SheetPlanner</h4>
<p>An exciting new Mac app was introduced recently: <a href="/consulting/sheetplanner/">SheetPlanner</a>. This app was written by me as a consulting project. It is a pro-level outliner, planner, todo, calendar, and more.</p>
<p>Version 1.0 of this app was well-received, and we're working on some great enhancements for version 1.1 and beyond. Check it out!</p>
<h4>Summary blog posts</h4>
<p>A great resource to catch up with or review what happened in the past year are my traditional end-of-year blog posts:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/blog/2019/01/featured-blog-posts-2018">Featured blog posts of 2018</a>: highlighting a few interesting posts from 2018.</li>
<li><a href="/blog/2019/01/dejal-year-review-2018">Dejal year in review: 2018</a>: summarizing updates to Dejal and consulting apps in 2018.</li>
<li><a href="/blog/2019/01/looking-ahead-2019">Looking ahead: 2019</a>: trying to predict what's coming up this year.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Personal blogs</h4>
<p>But wait, there's more! Blogs, that is. Perhaps one reason for the hiatus of newsletters is that I've been publishing a lot more on my personal blogs, fulfilling that creative outlet. If you want to learn a bit more about the man behind the apps, my non-Dejal projects and interests, check out my other blogs:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://dejus.com/">Dejus</a> is my personal blog, where I post a photo every day, and other short tweet-like comments. If you follow one blog, this the the one; everything gets linked from here.</li>
<li><a href="https://yellowcottagehomestead.com/">Yellow Cottage Homestead</a> is a blog that has longer posts about goings on around the homestead of my wife and I, featuring a weekly #Caturday post with pictures of the feral cats we care for, plus our chickens, bees, building projects, and other homestead topics. If you want to see what I build when not building apps, this is the place.</li>
</ul>
<p><i>- David</i></p>
DejalNewsMon, 28 Jan 2019 23:40:14 +0000David Sinclair11512 at http://dejal.org#10YearChallenge: Time Outhttp://dejal.org/blog/2019/01/10yearchallenge-time-out
<p><a href="/timeout/"><img src="/timeout/images/icon.png" align="right" /></a>There's a recent meme going around called <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%2310YearChallenge">#10YearChallenge</a>, where people post pictures (often of themselves) from 2009 and 2019.</p>
<p>While I usually don't bother with memes, I thought it'd be fun to look at <a href="/timeout/">Time Out</a> from 2009 vs 2019.</p>
<p>Here's what a Time Out break looked like back in 2009, plus you can see the old app icon during the break (no other themes!):</p>
<p><a href="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2009-break.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2009-break.png" alt="Time Out 2009 break screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Vs 2019:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2019-break.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2019-break.png" alt="Time Out 2019 break screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>The Timer preferences in 2009:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2009-normal.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2009-normal.png" alt="Time Out 2009 timer screenshot" width="401" height="399" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Vs the Schedule prefs in 2019:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2019-schedule.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2019-schedule.png" alt="Time Out 2019 schedule screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>The Appearance prefs in 2009:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2009-appearance.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2009-appearance.png" alt="Time Out 2009 appearance screenshot" width="379" height="260" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Vs 2019:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2019-appearance.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2019/2009vs2019/2019-appearance.png" alt="Time Out 2009 appearance screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Things can certainly change quite a bit in a decade!</p>
historytimeoutMon, 21 Jan 2019 22:22:22 +0000David Sinclair11511 at http://dejal.orgLooking ahead: 2019http://dejal.org/blog/2019/01/looking-ahead-2019
<p>Last week I published my annual <a href="/blog/2019/01/dejal-year-review-2018">Dejal year in review</a> post for 2018. This week, let's look ahead for what's in store for 2019.</p>
<p>I am currently working on a complete rewrite of <a href="/pack/">Pack</a>, my simple packing list app. It was originally written in Objective-C, using some legacy techniques and technologies, but I decided to rewrite it from scratch using Swift and modern approaches. It's usually not a good idea to rewrite working code, but this app is small enough, and the code crusty enough, that I deemed it worthwhile. I use this app every time I travel, so I'm keen to keep it fresh and current, and add some great new features... hopefully including iCloud syncing, though we'll see how that goes.</p>
<p>Next up I will start on <a href="/timeout/">Time Out</a> version 2.6, with a number of enhancements planned, and several more queued up for future versions. If you have any requests for 2.6 or later, now would be a great time to <a href="/contact/?prod=timeout&ref=summary&subj=Time+Out+2.6+suggestion">get in touch</a>.</p>
<p>Fun fact: this week Time Out is the top featured app in the Mac App Store, with <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/story/id1446914963">a great feature story</a>. (That link will take you to the story in the App Store on a Mac or iOS device.)</p>
<p>I also have a couple of new apps in various states of planning or prototyping; one for macOS, another for iOS. Handy tools to scratch my own itch, which can sometime be a great way to work on an app, though not necessarily a key to commercial success. I hope to get to one or both of those later in the year.</p>
<p>And let's not forget <a href="/simon/">Simon</a>; I have some big enhancements planned for its next release, too.</p>
<p>On the <a href="/consulting/">consulting</a> side, I'm continuing to work on <a href="/consulting/sheetplanner/">SheetPlanner</a>, <a href="/consulting/newsblur/">NewsBlur</a>, and other client projects this year, with some great new releases coming up.</p>
<p>I've noticed that <a href="/blog/">the Dejal blog</a> was a bit neglected last year, with relatively few posts, and I haven't done a <a href="/subscribe/">DejalNews newsletter</a> for a while, so I want to get back into those; I've set a goal to do one post per week, and one newsletter per month, so please hold me to that! I also want to do some improvements to the website this year. (I guess I satisfied my blogging needs with my <a href="https://dejus.com/">personal</a> and <a href="https://yellowcottagehomestead.com/">homestead</a> blogs, but I don't want to ignore the Dejal one too.)</p>
<p>In terms of conferences, last year I attended <a href="http://altconf.com">AltConf</a> in San Jose and <a href="https://swiftbynorthwest.com">Swift by Northwest</a> in Portland. This year I'm considering entering the lottery for <a href="https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/">WWDC</a>, since it'll likely have a strong Mac focus, but plan to attend AltConf again if I don't get in. I'd also like to attend other conferences, to be determined.</p>
<p>It's going to be another busy year!</p>
summaryMon, 14 Jan 2019 22:10:28 +0000David Sinclair11509 at http://dejal.orgDejal year in review: 2018http://dejal.org/blog/2019/01/dejal-year-review-2018
<p>Happy New Year! </p>
<p>As we start a new year, let's review what happened with the <a href="/apps/">Dejal apps</a> in 2018:</p>
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<td valign="top"><a href="/simon/"><img src="/simon/images/icon.png" width="64" height="64" /></a></td>
<td>My pro app to monitor websites and servers for changes and failures, <a href="/simon/"><b>Simon</b></a>, had a couple of updates in 2018, to version 4.3.1, including Mojave dark mode, meta refresh options, pause improvements, refinements to services and filters, and more. It continues to be sold both directly and as one of the foundation apps in the popular <a href="https://go.setapp.com/stp124?refAppID=201">Setapp</a> subscription service.</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="/timeout/"><img src="/timeout/images/icon.png" width="64" height="64" /></a></td>
<td>My popular break reminder tool, <a href="/timeout/"><b>Time Out</b></a>, had two significant updates in 2018, including version 2.4, adding a useful statistics chart, options to disable buttons for a few seconds, scheduling enhancements, and other improvements, and version 2.5, which included Mojave dark mode, day-of-week availability options, and other improvements. It continues to be available both directly and via the Mac App Store, where it was recently picked as an app they love, and regularly ranked #1 in the Health & Fitness category.</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="/pack/"><img src="/pack/images/icon.png" width="64" height="64" /></a></td>
<td><a href="/pack/"><b>Pack</b></a>, a simple iPhone app to make it easy to pack for trips, didn't have any updates in 2018, but I am working on a big update (more below). I use it for every trip, and have a number of improvements planned. Try it for your next trip!</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="/datestamp/"><img src="/datestamp/images/icon.png" width="64" height="64" /></a></td>
<td><a href="/datestamp/"><b>Date Stamp</b></a>, an iMessage app to provide customizable date stamp stickers, was updated to version 1.0.1. It may or may not be updated again, but works really well as-is. The iMessage store didn't have a very good start, but is more visible in recent iOS releases. Tell your friends if you like this.</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="/chickens/"><img src="/chickens/images/icon.png" width="64" height="64" /></a></td>
<td><a href="/chickens/"><b>Chicken GIFs</b></a> is a sticker pack featuring many fun animated GIFs of my chickens, which can be used as reactions in messages. It may or may not get any future updates, but is fun as-is.</td>
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<h4>Consulting</h4>
<p>Dejal also produces macOS and iOS apps for other companies, under the banner of <a href="/consulting/">Dejal Consulting</a>. (I do wonder if I should split it into a separate company... but it's been fine for nearly 30 years.)</p>
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<td valign="top"><a href="/consulting/sheetplanner/"><img src="/consulting/sheetplanner/images/icon.png" width="64" height="64" /></a></td>
<td>The big news in 2018 was the release of <a href="/consulting/sheetplanner/">SheetPlanner</a>, a pro-level outliner, planner, todo, calendar, and more. I'm really proud of how this app turned out, and it has been fairly popular on the Mac App Store already. I'm continuing to work on this app, so stay tuned for some great enhancements throughout the year.</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="/consulting/newsblur/"><img src="/consulting/newsblur/images/icon.png" width="64" height="64" /></a></td>
<td>I have also resumed working on the iOS client for <a href="/consulting/newsblur/">NewsBlur</a>, a popular RSS reader, with many great enhancements in version 8, and more to come.</td>
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<td valign="top"><a href="/consulting/"><img src="/consulting/images/icon.png" width="64" height="64" /></a></td>
<td>I'm also currently working on a macOS project for another client, that I can't mention yet. More about that in the future.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>I am currently fully booked up for the next several months at least, but am always interested in talking with potential new clients. If you have a macOS or iOS project you'd like help with (or a custom Simon enhancement), <a href="/consulting/">check out my consulting page</a> for more information.</p>
<h4>Thank you</h4>
<p>Thank you and welcome to my new customers, and many thanks to the long-term customers who are still enjoying my apps. I really appreciate your support.</p>
summaryMon, 07 Jan 2019 22:43:14 +0000David Sinclair11508 at http://dejal.orgFeatured blog posts of 2018http://dejal.org/blog/2019/01/featured-blog-posts-2018
<p>My blog posts often just cover new <a href="/blog/release">releases</a>, but sometimes I post general-interest or <a href="/blog/development">developer</a>-interest topics. Some highlights from 2018 included:</p>
<ul>
<li>The previous list of <a href="https://www.dejal.com/blog/2018/01/featured-blog-posts-2017">featured blog posts</a>.</li>
<li>A peek behind the curtain, <a href="https://www.dejal.com/blog/2018/01/about-author">about the author</a>, with links to my personal and homestead blogs and social media accounts. Check out <a href="https://dejus.com/">my daily photos</a>!</li>
<li>A report on <a href="https://www.dejal.com/blog/2018/03/time-out-2-two-years">Time Out 2, two years on</a>, with numbers and a chart evaluating the supporter durations and purchases.</li>
<li>Following the trend to <a href="https://www.dejal.com/blog/2018/05/more-secure-world">support secure connections to the site</a> via <code>https://</code> TLS/SSL.</li>
<li>Announcing that <a href="https://www.dejal.com/blog/2018/05/heading-san-jose-wwdc-week">I'd be in San Jose for WWDC week</a>, and <a href="https://www.dejal.com/blog/2018/06/wwdc-week-san-jose">a followup</a> afterwards.</li>
<li>And <a href="https://www.dejal.com/blog/2018/10/attending-swift-northwest-conference-portland">attending another conference, Swift by Northwest</a> in Portland.</li>
<li>A useful tip for Time Out: <a href="https://www.dejal.com/blog/2018/11/time-out-tips-lunchtime-night-breaks">lunchtime and night breaks</a>.</li>
<li>Finally, <a href="https://www.dejal.com/blog/2018/11/introducing-sheetplanner-mac">introduction of a new app, SheetPlanner</a> (written by me as consulting work).</li>
</ul>
<p>I hope you enjoyed these posts.</p>
summaryMon, 07 Jan 2019 21:29:33 +0000David Sinclair11507 at http://dejal.orgIntroducing SheetPlanner for Machttp://dejal.org/blog/2018/11/introducing-sheetplanner-mac
<p><a href="/consulting/sheetplanner/"><img src="/consulting/sheetplanner/images/icon.png" align="right" /></a>I'm pleased to announce the release of a new macOS app: <a href="https://sheetplanner.com">SheetPlanner</a>. This is a powerful new app that combines an outliner, todo, spreadsheet, timeline, calendar, and more, enabling you to easily plan projects, manage tasks, organize information, and many other uses. </p>
<p>It includes support for multiple types of columns, inline notes and links, sorting, an option to focus on a subset of rows, flexible smart filter options, styles, dark mode, and many more features, yet is very simple to get started.</p>
<p>SheetPlanner was written by me over the past 18 months or so, as a <a href="/consulting/">Dejal consulting project</a> for SheetPlanner Software LLC.</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/sheetplanner/planning.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/sheetplanner/planning.png" alt="SheetPlanner planning document screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Start by picking one of the pre-made templates, or an empty document:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/sheetplanner/templates.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/sheetplanner/templates.png" alt="Template chooser screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Configure columns, the theme, and other options in the Inspector:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/sheetplanner/theme.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/sheetplanner/theme.png" alt="SheetPlanner theme screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>You can show any combination of the Outline, Timeline, Month, Year, and Inspector views, in horizontal or vertical orientation:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/sheetplanner/vertical.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/sheetplanner/vertical.png" alt="Vertical orientation screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Show a month view to see dates on a calendar:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/sheetplanner/calendar.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/sheetplanner/calendar.png" alt="Month view screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>And/or a year view for a heat map of tasks:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/sheetplanner/expenses.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/sheetplanner/expenses.png" alt="Year view screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Include inline notes and/or attachments:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/sheetplanner/inspector.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/sheetplanner/inspector.png" alt="Inspector screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Customize powerful filters to show only matching rows:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/sheetplanner/sales.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/sheetplanner/sales.png" alt="Editing a filter screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Or edit the preferences:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/sheetplanner/preferences.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/sheetplanner/preferences.png" alt="Preferences screenshot" width="75%" border="0" /></a></p>
<h2>Try it now!</h2>
<p>SheetPlanner is available as a free download, and includes a free three-week full-featured trial. The app can be purchased for just $49.99, or continue with a free read-only mode if you're not ready to buy.</p>
<p>Visit the <a href="https://sheetplanner.com/">SheetPlanner website</a> to learn more, or <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/sheetplanner/id1438761088?mt=12">download from the Mac App Store</a> to try it for yourself!</p>
consultingWed, 28 Nov 2018 18:20:14 +0000David Sinclair11501 at http://dejal.orgTime Out tips: lunchtime & night breakshttp://dejal.org/blog/2018/11/time-out-tips-lunchtime-night-breaks
<p><a href="/timeout/"><img src="/timeout/images/icon.png" align="right" /></a>On <a href="https://twitter.com/dejal">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/earthabbey">Abbey Jackson</a> asked:</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/dejal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dejal</a> Love TimeOut! Just noticed on the appstore screenshots an example that shows "Lunch". Could you share the set up for a daily lunch break at lunch time (rather than a rolling time frame)</p>
<p>— Abbey Jackson (@earthabbey) <a href="https://twitter.com/earthabbey/status/1062909036486524929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2018</a></p></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Sure! Here's the <b>Schedule</b> page for my <a href="/timeout/">Time Out</a> preferences, showing my <b>Lunchtime</b> break configuration:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/timeout/lunchtime.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/timeout/lunchtime.png" alt="Lunchtime schedule screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>There are two important steps to do this: firstly, set the frequency to <b>Every 1 day</b>, and secondly, use the <b>Available</b> options to set a fixed start time of noon. In my example, I have this break only occur on weekdays. I also have the natural break option set to <b>Continue Countdown</b>, since I want the break to start immediately, not get pushed back due to idle time.</p>
<p>Didn't realize that you can set daily breaks? Yep! Click, arrow, or tab to the units of the duration ("Break for") and frequency ("Every") fields to change between various units: seconds, minutes, hours for the duration, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years for the frequency.</p>
<p>As a bonus, here's my <b>Night</b> break, that tells me to go to bed:</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/timeout/night.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/timeout/night.png" alt="Night schedule screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>This is similar, but a longer duration. And yes, I go to bed rather early, as I usually get up at 05:30 (but don't get to my Mac till after breakfast).</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
http://dejal.org/blog/2018/11/time-out-tips-lunchtime-night-breaks#commentstimeouttipsto2Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:32:52 +0000David Sinclair11500 at http://dejal.orgTime Out 2.5 releasedhttp://dejal.org/blog/2018/10/time-out-2.5-released
<p><a href="/timeout/"><img src="/timeout/images/icon.png" align="right" /></a>I'm pleased to announce the general release of version 2.5 of <a href="/timeout/">Time Out</a>, my popular break reminder tool.</p>
<p>The most obvious change in version 2.5 is dark mode support on Mojave (macOS 10.14):</p>
<p><a href="/files/2018/timeout/2.5/schedule.png" title="Click for full size."><img src="/files/2018/timeout/2.5/schedule.png" alt="Mojave dark mode schedule screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>Isn't that pretty?</p>
<p>In addition to Mojave compatibility, this update also includes a new option on the <b>Break Schedule</b> page of the preferences to choose which days of the week a break is available. Eagle-eyed people may have noticed it in the above screenshot:</p>
<p><img src="/files/2018/timeout/2.5/schedule-avail.png" alt="Mojave dark mode schedule screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></p>
<p>Using this option, you could indicate that breaks should only occur on weekdays, as above, or only Fridays, or any other combination. The days of the week can combine with a time range, or apply all day on the indicated days. This new feature is available as a reward for current supporters, or you can try it as often as you like, for an hour at a time.</p>
<p>(Don't worry, the first day of the week will respect your System Preferences; if you consider that the week starts on Sunday, for example, that'll be first in the control.)</p>
<p>Another new supporter option is on the <b>Advanced</b> preferences page: the ability to disable the app switcher, force quit, and shut down panels during a break:</p>
<p><img src="/files/2018/timeout/2.5/advanced.png" alt="Mojave dark mode advanced screenshot" width="100%" border="0" /></p>
<p>Most people probably don't need this, but if you need a little extra encouragement to avoid skipping breaks, this might be helpful, when combined with existing options to disable the postpone and skip buttons.</p>
<p>There are of course a number of other enhancements and fixes. I recommend everyone update to this version.</p>
<p>Here are the full release notes:</p>
<h4>Mojave dark mode and compatibility</h4>
<ul>
<li>All of the app content has been updated to support dark mode on macOS 10.14.</li>
<li>Built for Mojave (macOS 10.14), but still compatible back to Yosemite (10.10).</li>
</ul>
<h4>New option to choose which days of the week a break is available</h4>
<ul>
<li>Renamed the <b>Break Schedule Available</b> options to "Every Day" and "Between", and added a new "All Day" option.</li>
<li>The latter two now include buttons for the days of the week, enabling days to be toggled off or on, to indicate on which days to use the break.</li>
<li>The difference between them is that "All Day" doesn't have the time fields, and "Between" does.</li>
<li>This new feature could be useful to have breaks that are only used on weekends, or working days, or Wednesdays and Fridays, or any other combination.</li>
<li>This new option is available as a reward for current supporters. If you were a supporter in the past, but it has expired, you can extend your supporter status to use this feature, or try for an hour at a time.</li>
</ul>
<h4>New option to disable the app switcher, force quit, and shut down panels during a break</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added a checkbox on the <b>Advanced</b> page to disable the panels that appear when switching apps via Cmd-Tab, force quit via Cmd-Option-Escape, and sleep, restart, or shut down via Ctrl-Eject (or Ctrl-Power). Defaults off.</li>
<li>This new option is also available as a reward for current supporters.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Other changes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Can now manually postpone a break for longer than the frequency interval.</li>
<li>Fixed playing a sound for the <b>Display Notification</b> break action.</li>
<li>Fixed a scheduler issue where a lower priority break may be skipped if a higher priority break has never been done.</li>
<li>Removed the Fabric crash reporter, to avoid sending unnecessary data to a third party.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Want to try it?</h4>
<p>If you are using the Mac App Store edition, you can update via the <b>App Store</b> app.</p>
<p>If you are using the direct edition, you can use the <b>Check for Updates</b> feature in the app to update.</p>
<p>Otherwise, <a href="/download/?prod=timeout&op=show&ref=blog">download Time Out 2.5 now!</a></p>
http://dejal.org/blog/2018/10/time-out-2.5-released#commentsreleasetimeoutto2Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:11:03 +0000David Sinclair11497 at http://dejal.orgTime Out 2.5b2 releasedhttp://dejal.org/blog/2018/10/time-out-2.5b2-released
<p><a href="/timeout/"><img src="/timeout/images/icon.png" align="right" /></a>What's this? Another <a href="/timeout/">Time Out</a> beta already? Yep!</p>
<p>This second beta of version 2.5 includes a couple much-requested new features for supporters, improvements for Mojave, and a fix for prior OS versions, among other changes.</p>
<p>Read on for details:</p>
<h4>New option to choose which days of the week a break is available</h4>
<ul>
<li>Renamed the <b>Break Schedule Available</b> options to "Every Day" and "Between", and added a new "All Day" option.</li>
<li>The latter two now include buttons for the days of the week, enabling days to be toggled off or on, to indicate on which days to use the break.</li>
<li>The difference between them is that "All Day" doesn't have the time fields, and "Between" does.</li>
<li>This new feature could be useful to have breaks that are only used on weekends, or working days, or Wednesdays and Fridays, or any other combination.</li>
<li>This new option is available as a reward for current supporters. If you were a supporter in the past, but it has expired, you can extend your supporter status to use this feature, or try for an hour at a time.</li>
</ul>
<h4>New option to disable the app switcher, force quit, and shut down panels during a break</h4>
<ul>
<li>Added a checkbox on the <b>Advanced</b> page to disable the panels that appear when switching apps via Cmd-Tab, force quit via Cmd-Option-Escape, and sleep, restart, or shut down via Ctrl-Eject (or Ctrl-Power). Defaults off.</li>
<li>This new option is also available as a reward for current supporters.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Mojave dark mode and compatibility</h4>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a crash of the previous beta on macOS versions before Mojave, when displaying the status popover. Sorry about that!</li>
<li>Fixed some cosmetic visual issues from the previous beta.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Other changes</h4>
<ul>
<li>Can now manually postpone a break for longer than the frequency interval.</li>
<li>Fixed playing a sound for the <b>Display Notification</b> break action.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Want to try it?</h4>
<p>If you are using the direct edition, you can change your <b>Updates</b> preferences to include beta releases, then use the <b>Check for Updates</b> feature in the app to update.</p>
<p>Otherwise, <a href="/download/?prod=timeout&op=show&rel=beta&ref=blog">download 2.5b2 now!</a></p>
http://dejal.org/blog/2018/10/time-out-2.5b2-released#commentsreleasetimeoutto2Wed, 10 Oct 2018 03:37:02 +0000David Sinclair11495 at http://dejal.orgAttending Swift by Northwest conference in Portlandhttp://dejal.org/blog/2018/10/attending-swift-northwest-conference-portland
<p>I will be attending the <a href="https://swiftbynorthwest.com/">Swift by Northwest conference</a> in Portland on October 18-20. This is a sold-out conference for macOS and iOS developers, with a focus on the Swift programming language, and related topics.</p>
<p>I've written a blog post on my personal blog to introduce myself to attendees. Others may also be interested.</p>
<p><a href="http://dejus.com/2018/10/09/0928/">Check it out!</a></p>
http://dejal.org/blog/2018/10/attending-swift-northwest-conference-portland#commentsconferencestravelTue, 09 Oct 2018 16:55:57 +0000David Sinclair11494 at http://dejal.orgSimon 4.3.1 releasedhttp://dejal.org/blog/2018/10/simon-4.3.1-released
<p><a href="/simon/"><img src="/simon/images/icon.png" align="right" /></a><a href="/simon/">Simon</a> version 4.3.1 is now available. This bug-fix update just has a couple of tweaks:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a crash when generating a remote report.</li>
<li>Further tweaks for dark mode on Mojave.</li>
</ul>
<p>Remember, Simon's price has been temporarily reduced (for the full license and upgrade license), to celebrate version 4.3 (and 4.3.1). Get it while it lasts!</p>
<p>Changes in 4.3 included:</p>
<ul>
<li>Mojave dark mode and compatibility</li>
<li>Added the ability to follow or not follow a meta refresh for each test</li>
<li>Several improvements to the pause and auto-pause functions</li>
<li>A number of refinements of services and filters</li>
<li>Updated the default data</li>
<li>Plus many other improvements</li>
<h4>Get it now!</h4>
<p>If you are using the direct edition, you can use the <b>Check for Updates</b> feature in the app to update.</p>
<p>If you are using the <a href="https://go.setapp.com/stp124?refAppID=201&stc=site&utm_medium=available_on_setapp_button&utm_source=201&utm_campaign=https://www.dejal.com/blog/">Setapp edition</a>, the app will automatically update shortly.</p>
<p>Otherwise, <a href="/download/?prod=simon&op=show&ref=blog">download Simon 4.3.1 now</a>.</p>
</ul>http://dejal.org/blog/2018/10/simon-4.3.1-released#commentsreleasesimonMon, 08 Oct 2018 18:33:00 +0000David Sinclair11493 at http://dejal.org |
Motorcycle News, Editorials, Product Reviews and Bike Reviews
Inside the Women’s Motocross Association
Although you’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of the Women’s Motocross Association (WMA), Southern California MX fans may have seen some seriously fast ladies ripping up the incredibly rough Glen Helen track on Saturday (in between men’s Pro motos at the annual outdoors ‘Prequel’). Founded just a bit more than two years ago, the WMA appears to have already taken the role of the world’s premier sanctioning body for women’s professional motocross racing.
I had the opportunity to spend some time with a few WMA racers on the Friday morning prior to the Glen Helen race, courtesy of new series sponsor Kawasaki. Seeing these girls in action around the track at Glen Helen, besides reminding me how slow I am on an MX bike, was a revelation about the current level of Pro competition in the WMA series. Of course, none of the WMA racers are going to be out dicing with James Stewart and Ricky Carmichael, but there are some talented MX riders in this series, and the fact that a few of them are physically very small only makes it that much more entertaining to watch them throw a full-size MX bike around on a rough track.
As I said, the WMA has quickly become the premier sanctioning body in the world for women’s MX. Besides the fact that the WMA has an AMA charter (the WMA pro class champion is recognized at the AMA Sport Award Banquet), take as evidence the participation of female racers from as far away as New Zealand (it doesn’t get much farther away than that, does it?) who have come to the US to pursue their dream of success in professional MX racing.
Doesn’t sound too much different from the men’s AMA Supercross and Motocross, does it? It’s hard not to be impressed by the worldwide prestige the WMA series has attained in the short time since it was started in 2004.
Partly due to the influx of fast females from overseas, the 2006 WMA pro field is the strongest that women’s MX has ever seen. In fact, the opening race at Glen Helen on Saturday was won by one of those New Zealand imports, 17-year old phenom Katherine Prumm. In between contesting the Women’s World MX Championship in Europe (where she is in contention for the title), the Kawasaki rider has made time to come to the US for two rounds of the WMA series, hoping to earn a contract to race the series full-time next year.
In 2006, WMA races will run in conjunction with four AMA Outdoor Nationals – Hangtown, Washougal, Broome-Tioga, and Steel City. So check out the WMA web site, and if you find yourself in the pits at one of the aforementioned nationals, take the time to walk away from the long autograph lines at the factory semis and go talk to one of the WMA racers. I’m certain that the WMA series will end up with a new fan. |
all the information, none of the junk | biotech • healthcare • life sciences
Join Us at “Biotech in the Belt-Tightening Era” April 9 in Seattle
Payers didn’t have much power in biotech’s old days. For a long time, biotech companies could get away with believing that if they offered patients important new drugs, devices or diagnostics they could essentially impose high prices on U.S. health insurers. Getting data to win over the FDA, physicians, and shareholders was what counted.
Those days are over. The Affordable Care Act is heading toward full implementation, and employers everywhere are screaming for an end to runaway healthcare spending. Payers are looking harder than ever to find ways to cut out waste in the system. Life science investors now increasingly want to know how the new products in the pipeline of today will thrive in the cost-constrained environment of tomorrow.
How is your biotech company adapting to the new reality? This is one of the big questions every life sciences company needs to be thinking about. So I’m excited to pull together a stellar lineup of speakers to discuss this trend at the next big Xconomy event—“Biotech in the Belt-Tightening Era.” This event will be held the afternoon of April 9 at Northeastern University’s new Seattle office at 401 Terry Avenue North.
Here’s who you can expect to hear from:
Kim Popovits, CEO of Genomic Health
—Kim Popovits, CEO of Genomic Health (NASDAQ: GHDX). This Redwood City, CA-based company has grown into one of the biggest success stories in molecular diagnostics. This company did it by blazing a trail with insurers, persuading them to pay several thousand dollars for a genetic test that can predict whether an individual woman’s breast cancer is likely to recur after surgery, and whether she is likely to benefit from a round of preventive chemotherapy. It took reams of data, and years of persistence. But the company is now building on what it learned from that experience to branch into predictive diagnostic tests for colorectal cancer and prostate cancer patients.
—Risa Stack, general manager of GE’s healthmagination program. Stack recently left her job as a go-to life sciences partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to join GE’s $6 billion healthymagination program. The stated purpose of GE’s initiative is to foster technologies that increase access to healthcare while lowering costs. Like when she was at KPCB, she’s looking for good ideas, and figuring how they might fit into GE’s plans.
Mitch Gold
—Mitch Gold, the founder and chairman of Seattle-based Alpine Biosciences. Gold is best known as the former CEO of Dendreon. He left the company about a year ago, not too long after his company hit an iceberg known as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which conducted a lengthy public inquiry in 2011 before it decided that yes, it officially would pay $93,000 a patient for Dendreon’s sipuleucel-T (Provenge). That experience greatly influenced Gold’s thinking about his new immunotherapy venture, which has a stated goal of advancing immunotherapies that work on multiple biologic pathways, to “create a more robust, defined, and effective immune response in a more cost-efficient manner.” This will be Gold’s first public appearance discussing his plans for Alpine Biosciences, and how drug pricing considerations have factored into his strategy.
Clay Siegall
—Clay Siegall, the CEO of Seattle Genetics (NASDAQ: SGEN). Siegall’s company delivered the goods almost two years ago, introducing the first commercially successful “empowered antibody” and the biggest innovation for a couple of rare lymphomas in decades. The company responded by setting a price of $13,500 a dose initially, and increasing it since. Seattle Genetics has so far had good fortune in its dealings with insurers at this price, but I for one am interested in hearing Siegall talk about what kind of prices he believes the company will be able to command for future drugs from its pipeline.
—Scott Ramsey, director of the Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research and Evaluation at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Ramsey, was profiled in these pages last year as a “lonely voice asking tough questions on cancer cost effectiveness.” Some in industry may not like to hear what he has to say, but his voice is an influential one that shouldn’t be ignored. Results from ICORE’s studies will end up being published in peer-reviewed journals, and he intends to put data into a free public resource designed to help patients see where the waste is in cancer treatment, and help patients see where they can get bang for their healthcare buck.
—Mark Litton, co-founder and chief business officer, Alder Biopharmaceuticals. This Bothell, WA-based company was built on the idea of making better/faster/cheaper antibody drugs. Alder is now gathering the kind of data from clinical trials that it believes it will need to satisfy not just the FDA, but payers who will want to know they’re getting a good value.
—Al Luderer, CEO, Seattle-based Integrated Diagnostics. This company, a spinoff from Lee Hood’s group at the Institute for Systems Biology, is preparing to release its first commercial product this spring. It’s a blood-based test that’s supposed to be able to give doctors a clear early warning sign of lung cancer on the move. InDi will surely need to convince physicians this test is worth incorporating into their practice, but the company also started talking to payers before it even designed its all-important prospective clinical trial. I’ll be sure to ask him what he learned from those conversations, and how it influenced the company’s strategy.
Chad Robins
—Chad Robins, co-founder and CEO, Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies. Robins is running one of the two aggressive startups in the U.S. using high-speed DNA sequencers to help doctors determine when they have truly wiped out a patient’s blood cancer with standard treatment, or when a previously undetectable malignancy is still hanging around there in the blood. Adaptive started out providing its service to researchers, but it is making the push into the bigger diagnostics market this year, which means it must offer a compelling proposition to payers.
As you can see, we’ve got a diverse group of speakers coming at this question on both the therapeutics and diagnostics side. I’ll have more to say about the agenda for this event in coming weeks. But now is the best time to get your tickets, as we have a President’s Day discount running for the next week. See you there at Northeastern University Seattle on April 9. |
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Fort Bowie Hike
Fort Bowie was established in the mid-1800s to protect Apache Pass. Apache Pass was used by the Butterfield Overland Mail Route and became an important spot to protect due to its year-round water supply, Apache Spring. For over 30 years, it was a sight of major military operations until Geronimo surrendered in 1886 and the Chiricahua Indians were removed to Florida and Alabama.
Here we are just starting our hike and we can look out towards the pass , which is where the very first V shows on the left. It was a trek of one and a half miles out and one and a half miles back, at elevations ranging from 4,550 to 5,250 feet. We began about three in the afternoon, it was upper 80s in temperature, and it didn’t take long before we were wondering if we had bit off more than we could chew, or hike, as the case may be!
The path was totally dirt and mostly smooth, although at times there was some incline and you had to really watch your step.
Here we are almost getting to the area where the Butterfield Overland Mail route went through. There was a way-station with an inn (of sorts) where the travelers could stop for the night, which now are just foundation ruins.
The fort ruins are way in the distance, just small glimmers of white. We still have a long ways to hike!
Here is one of the many varieties of cactus in the area. We are beginning to gain elevation and are very near the spring, as you can tell from the denser and greener foliage. In Arizona, you know there is water when you see large trees. Everywhere else, trees appear to be more scrub brush than what us Easterners think of as trees.
Apache Spring, the year-round water source that was the cause of so much strife in the mid- to late-1800s.
Some of the local Sonoran Desert vegetation.
And here is our goal, the ruins of Fort Bowie! After the cool shade of the springs area, this last section of the hike up was a difficult one. Thankfully there was a Visitor’s Center at the top with air conditioning, and that is where we headed and rested before venturing back out to look at the ruins. Although truthfully, by the time we got there, we had really ceased to care very much about the ruins. We were more than a little fatigued, and beginning to worry about the late hour and whether we would make it back down to the car before dark!
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Judicial Nominees
In Clinton’s 8 years in office, 61 (perhaps 63) of his judicial nominees were blocked by Senate Republicans.
In Bush’s 4 years in office, only 10 of his nominees have been blocked.
There’s no puzzle here to figure out. The facts are plain. Despite the fact that Clinton’s nominees were more centrist and Bush’s have been more extremist, The Democrats have blocked far fewer nominees than the Republicans did under Clinton. And Clinton didn’t even recycle his nominees; unlike Bush, he didn’t bring back rejects in order to make the other party look more obstructionist.
Still, right-wingers shamelessly whine about how the Democrats are uprooting Democracy by not simply out-and-out confirming whomever Bush wants put into lifetime judicial seats, no matter how radical, no matter how questionable.
When it’s shown that the GOP was far more obstructionist over Clinton, they switch arguments and say that it’s how the nominations are being blocked that’s important. The Democrats are using the filibuster, and as such, they aren’t even allowing the Congress to vote on the nominees! How evil!
But then, under Clinton, Republicans (who had control over both houses of Congress and therefore did not need the filibuster) blocked most of Clinton’s nominees under what was called the “blue slip” system. In this system, a nominee’s home-state senator may indefinitely delay and thereby kill a nomination simply by withholding a blue slip of paper needed by the Judiciary committee for the nomination to go forward. In other words, Republicans didn’t even allow the Congress to vote on the nominees!
Both filibusters and the blue slip achieve the same end by the same method: delay a nomination until the Senate gives up and moves on. So any claim by Republicans that the filibuster is somehow dirty is hypocritical to say the least.
After Bush took office, the blue slip rule was still in effect–but then Republicans started noticing that Democrats were using it for the same purposes Republicans had! Well, we can’t have that! So in 2003, when Republicans retook their sliver majority in the Senate, they changed the rules (they love doing that, don’t they?) so Democrats couldn’t do what they had been doing. This forced the Democrats to either resort to filibusters, or to become completely powerless. All of this just adds another layer to the GOP hypocrisy.
Another layer still: it turns out that Senate Republicans haveused the filibuster to block nominations themselves. In 1995, Clinton nominated Dr. Henry Foster Jr. for a Public Health post. Senators Orrin Hatch, Trent Lott, John Ashcroft, Bob Dole, John McCain and 38 other Republicans successfully filibustered the Senate to shoot down Clinton’s nominee. When Clinton nominated the same man as Surgeon General in 1998, Ashcroft again used the filibuster, though this time unsuccessfully. The GOP similarly used the filibuster to block ambassadorial and judicial nominees as well.
So just about every way you can look at it, the Senate Republicans are being massively hypocritical on this issue. They blocked more nominees, and in as many as if not more ways than Democrats. It’s the hit-and-run driver berating the jaywalker for his scofflaw behavior.
But rank-and-file Republicans don’t seem to care about this. It’s outrage time, apparently. However, I don’t see this becoming as big an issue in next year’s elections as such things as, say, the deficit, social security, and right to privacy vs. political grandstanding (re: Terry Schiavo). I think there are enough stains on the GOP record so that the voters won’t as easily forget. And blaming others is how the GOP thrives. Republicans have controlled Congress completely for 10 of the 12 years up to 2006 (the other 2 years mostly in complete control) and will have had the White House for 6. When things are going down the toilet, they won’t have anyone to blame but themselves; no one will be buying the idea that everything is still Clinton’s fault.
It cuts both ways. Here is an exerpt from a MSNBC article.
There are very few who are not hypocritical on this, even the dear democrats. (Since it seems you were not aware.)
“Protesting the maneuvers by Republican senators, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told the Senate on March 9, 2000, “Whoever the next president might be, if it is a Republican president, do we start doing the same things to him the Republicans have done to President Clinton?”
We now know the answer to Leahy’s question: yes.
Leahy and other Democrats are doing to President Bush what the Republicans did to Clinton. Such delays “should not be done in judicial nominations,” Leahy said in 2000. “We should protect the integrity and the independence of our federal courts.”
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., on March 8, 2000 noted “It is indefensible to hold a nomination hostage for his entire second term. It defies the clear constitutional prerogatives of the duly elected president to choose nominees to the bench and the duty of the Senate to say yes or no.”
“I plead with my colleagues to move judges with alacrity, vote them up or down,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. during the Paez saga. “This delay makes a mockery of the Constitution.” |
Q:
How to access drives other than C: in Ubuntu on Windows
In the Windows Subsystem for Linux, I can access the C: drive as /mnt/c.
How can I access other drive letters, such as optical discs and network mounts? They do not show up under /mnt for me.
A:
How can I access other drive letters, such as optical discs and network mounts?
At the moment there are limitations on what drives are mounted:
In order for a drive to show up under /mnt/ it must meet the following
criteria:
The drive must be a fixed drive
The drive must be formatted to NTFS.
This has been raised as an issue: Drives other than C: are not mounted in /mnt #1079. It is still marked as "Open".
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The truth is, even though Moonlight will be remembered in trivia games and Wikipedia pages as the best picture of 2016, the people who made it will have to live with not having the moment of their name being read from the card. They were not allowed to deliver uninterrupted speeches. Instead, Barry Jenkins just stood in awe and uttered a few phrases.
Even with Moonlight winning, the talent behind the film still didn't get the respect it deserved, calling to mind one of the most iconic lines of Shonda Rhimes' Scandal. |
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Bold, powerful and elegant, the new Peugeot 3008 SUV delivers true presence on the road. Named 2017 European Car of the Year, the 3008 SUV makes a dramatic statement.
Elegant Design
The Peugeot 3008 SUV has a perfectly proportioned and unique design, characterised by a robust, powerful look with its strong shoulder line and horizontal bonnet. The finely proportioned design is emphasised by chrome wing inserts and steel roof arches which provide a sense of elegance. A streamlined Black Diamond roof is also available with the Peugeot 3008 SUV GT Line and GT levels. Choose between two different front-end designs depending on which setup you select.
Advanced Peugeot i-Cockpit®
Featuring the most advanced version of the Peugeot i-Cockpit®, the Peugeot 3008 SUV offers a high tech driving experience. With the configurable 12.3″ head-up digital instrument panel, you have access to a number of different modes via the digital touchscreen so you can customise your drive. The elegant re-design of the traditional steering wheel has resulted in a compact wheel for greater visibility. Prepare to be impressed by the graphics on the 8.0″ capacitive touchscreen where you can access features such as climate control, DAB radio, Mirroscreen® and 3D satellite navigation.
Intuitive Technology
The highly advanced, responsive technology included in the Peugeot 3008 SUV creates a safer, more enjoyable drive. The 180° reversing camera allows for exceptional visibility with rear grid view so you can easily see obstructions, including vehicles coming from both sides. You also have access to an overhead view to make difficult manoeuvring easy. The enhanced park assist available with the Allure, GT Line and GT levels makes parking a breeze and distance alert technology helps you avoid any collisions on the road.
Exceptional Handling
The new Peugeot 3008 SUV offers premium handling thanks to a raised driving position and high ground clearance. This gives you unparalleled views of the road ahead and offers exceptional visibility for easy handling.
Five Star Safety
The Peugeot engineers have taken your safety seriously with the development of the all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV and the vehicle has been developed to protect you and your passengers in the event of a collision. As a testament to the safety of the design, the 3008 SUV has been awarded the highest possible five star EURO NCAP safety rating.
Head up Digital Instrumental Panel
The all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV features the new generation Peugeot i-Cockpit® which includes the innovative 100% digital 12.3” touchscreen which will transform your driving experience. Fully customisable, the sleek panel has been designed to be within your field of vision above the steering wheel for optimal safety. The digital display boasts crystal clear graphics with a number of different modes so you can quickly and easily adjust your driving experience, including:
‘Dials’ mode with a traditional analogue set-up for a classic feel
‘Navigation’ mode makes the 3D navigation system the prominent features of the display
‘Personal’ mode allows you to customise the information you see on the display
Compact Multi-Function Steering Wheel
The new generation Peugeot i-Cockpit® included in the all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV features a compact steering wheel for with Mistral full-grain leather and stitch detailing for a deluxe, comfortable finish. The steering wheel has been developed by Peugeot engineers to create optimal visibility for the instrument displays featured in the i-Cockpit while also delivering superior agility and manoeuvrability for a unique driving experience. If you choose the GT Line or GT models, the compact steering wheels comes with additional Aikinite stitching, perforation detail and a satin chrome model designation badge.
8.0in Capacitive Touchscreen
Welcome to the digital age with the 8.0” capacitive touchscreen which is featured in the Peugeot 3008 SUV. Positioned towards the driver for ultimate convenience, the touchscreen offers the ultimate in smartphone connectivity thanks to Mirror Screen technology which works in conjunction with Apple CarPlay®, Android Auto® and Mirrorlink®. You also have convenience at your fingertips with the ability to control the dual zone climate control, Digital Audio Broadcasting radio and 3D satellite navigation. The various functions of the touch screen are easily accessible via the satin chrome piano key toggle switches
PEUGEOT i-Cockpit® Amplify
To take your drive to the next level, the GT Line and GT versions of the Peugeot 3008 SUV include the Peugeot i-Cockpit Amplify which offers two ambient settings to suit your mood. With the ‘Boost setting, you’ll experience a more dynamic driving experience while the ‘Relax’ setting allows you to unwind during your drive with a serene experience.
Electric Impulse Automatic Gearbox Control
The gearbox of the all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV blends seamlessly with the deluxe feel of the i-Cockpit thanks to its compact size, satin chrome and piano black materials, and leather trim. The ergonomic size allows for smooth, effortless gearbox changes and the control is linked to the advanced Efficient Automatic Transmission (EAT6) with Quickshift Technology. If you want to change things up, you can also switch to manual driving mode with the touch of a button to really take control.
Advanced Grip Control®
The Advanced Grip Control of the Peugeot 3008 SUV, which is optional on the Allure, GT Line and GT, allows you to easily adjust your driving mode depending on the terrain. With your choice of five modes, you’ll be able to optimise your traction in low grip conditions so you can have a dynamic driving experience. The system acts on the vehicle’s front wheels and is highly responsive in difficult conditions.
With your Peugeot 3008 SUV, you’ll also have access to Hill Assist Descent Control (HADC) which allows for a controlled descent on declines of more than 5% and with vehicle speed below 30km/h. As you descend, the system will reduce the chance of slipping by controlling your speed and brake. This allows you to concentrate on steering while the vehicle does the rest. For very steep slopes, you also have the option of ‘Clutch Mode’ which reduces your speed to 3km/h for a controlled descent.
Peugeot 3008 SUV Technology
3D Satellite Navigation
With the Peugeot 3008 SUV, you never need to worry about getting lost again thanks to the state of the art 3D satellite navigation system which includes Australian mapping, 3D city mapping (where available) and voice recognition (for radio and telephone functions). For easy access, the navigation system is linked to both the 8.0” capacitive colour touchscreen and the 12.3″ head-up digital instrument panel
Mirror Screen® and Smartphone Charging Plate
The all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV includes advanced connectivity thanks to Mirror Screen technology which allows you to connect directly with certain features of your smartphone through Apple CarPlay®, Mirror Link® and Android Auto™. This means you access certain apps, such as Google Maps, connect with your music and use voice control technology to make calls or send messages.
With compatible devices, you also have access to the easy to use smartphone charging plate. With this technology, you don’t need to worry if you realise your battery’s running low – you can simply put your smartphone in the charging area for a quick recharge.
180 Degree Reversing Camera
With the crystal clear views provided by the 180 degree reversing camera in the new Peugeot 3008 SUV, you’ll never need to worry about what’s behind you. The camera links directly to your 8.0” capacitive colour touchscreen and offers you a number of views, including:
Rear Grid View – allows you to view obstructions while the grid lines offer perspective for distances of one and two metres behind the bumper and orientation lines move with the steering.
180° View – divided into three zones, this view gives you a clear view of behind and to the sides of the vehicle which is ideal for reversing out of parking bays.
Overhead view – provides total overhead visibility so you can see any obstructions around the vehicle which is perfect for difficult manoeuvres.
Head up Digital Instrumental Panel
Enhanced Park Assist
The Enhanced Park Assist system with the new Peugeot 3008 SUV (standard on Allure, GT Line and GT) makes difficult manoeuvres and situations with limited visibility a breeze thanks to 360° views. With this technology, you’re provided with bird’s eye views around the vehicle you can see and avoid any obstacles with ease.
Hands-free Electric Tailgate
The hands-free electric tailgate which comes as an optional extra with the Allure, GT Line and GT models of Peugeot 3008 SUV means no more fumbling to find a free hand when you have your arms full. All it takes is a simple foot action to activate the sensor located underneath the bumper for the tailgate to open and close, making loading and unloading simple. The tailgate can also be electrically operated using the tailgate interior facia panel, dashboard, rear handle, and keyless entry enabled key fob.
PEUGEOT i-Cockpit® Amplify
The all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV uses LED technology to its full advantage to deliver a sleek, modern look with striking black and chrome trimmed headlights which include LED daytime running lights and LED headlights (standard with GT Line and GT). The signature Peugeot lion claw rear lights are also featured to add to the feline appearance and add to the assertive presence of the vehicle. The LED lighting of your 3008 SUV is energy efficient, provides a whiter light for better visibility, needs no warm up and has significant longevity when compared to halogen lighting.
Panoramic Opening Glass Roof
If you’d like to add something special to your driving experience, available as an option with the Peugeot 3008 SUV is the stunning panoramic opening glass roof. This feature not only allows you to experience fresh air and natural light as you drive but also adds an additional touch of elegance to the final look of the vehicle with the addition of ambient blue lighting around the glass panel. The roof is divided into two glass panels and can open up to 16 inches and includes a tilt function.
Peugeot 3008 SUV Technical information
121kW THP Turbo Engine
The 121kW 1.6 litre THP turbo petrol engine (offered with Active, Allure and GT Line levels) gives the new Peugeot 3008 SUV a powerful performance, delivering 121kW of power for impressive acceleration. While powerful, the engine is also compliant with Euro 6 emission standards with reduced CO2 emissions and low fuel consumption.
PEUGEOT HDi Turbo Diesel Engine
The Peugeot engineers are the masters of innovation and have delivered that 133kW BlueHDi S&S (Stop & Start) as the next generation in diesel engines, delivering 400Nm of torque. This engine is available exclusively with the GT and delivers a powerful performance while also complying with Euro 6 emission standards. The turbo diesel engine also features Stop & Start technology so you use less fuel and produce fewer emissions. With a three stage cleansing process, the BlueHDi reduces nitrogen oxides by up to 90% and eliminates 99.9% of particulates for a cleaner drive.
New EAT6 Automatic Gearbox
Peugeot have delivered the new EAT6 ((Efficient Automatic Transmission 6-Speed) automatic gearbox across the Peugeot 3008 SUV range. This system offers the ultimate in efficiency and innovation and it features Quickshift technology for quick, seamless gear changes as well as new electrical impulse control. For even better performance, a sport mode is also included.
Lightweight EMP2 Platform
The new Peugeot 3008 SUV offers a perfectly balanced drive due to the innovative EMP2 platform which is the latest generation in car platforms. This lightweight, sophisticated platform offers superior road handling and comfort and offers a wider turning circle for easy manoeuvring in your 3008 SUV.
Peugeot 3008 SUV Design
Power and Passion
The all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV has an imposing presence on the road due to a striking design with the perfect balance between power and elegance. The dynamic personality and feline look of the vehicle is evident with the strong shoulder line, horizontal bonnet, stainless steel roof arch trim and chrome wing inserts. To add your personality to your Peugeot 3008 SUV, you can choose between two front end designs with the Active and Allure models featuring a radiator grille with chrome facets and bright halogen headlamps while the GT Line and GT levels offer you a chequered radiator grille and full LED headlights.
Striking Front Design
The front design of Peugeot 3008 SUV has been developed with assertive, dynamic lines to reflect the power of the vehicle and the eye is immediately drawn to the striking chrome grille. The strong shoulder line and horizontal bonnet are perfectly balanced with elegant chrome detailing and sleek LED lights for a proportioned look. With 3008 SUV, you’ll have true presence on the road.
Elegant Styling
The unique style of the Peugeot 3008 SUV is all about sharp design and assertive presence. The gloss black rear panel of the vehicle features the iconic lion claw LED lights to add to the sleek, feline look and the Black Diamond rood (standard on GT Line and GT) offers an added air of sophistication.
Stunning Interior
The all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV features the stunning new generation Peugeot i-Cockpit® which well and truly brings you into the digital age. The compact steering wheel, sleek head up 12.3” head up instrument panel and 8” capacitive touch screen all combine to bring you an incredible driving experience. The stain chrome toggle switches of the 8” touch screen allow you to access each function with ease and you have radio, climate control, 3D Navigation, vehicle parameters, telephone and mobile applications in your reach. With technology at your fingertips and a stylish interior, you’ll love getting behind the wheel each day.
Versatile Modular Layout
The Peugeot 3008 SUV boasts a flexible interior layout for easy accessibility and adjustment. The folding bench seat has the ‘Magic Flat’ function and with the simple pull of a switch in the boot, the seat flattens down to transform the back into a spacious area for optimal loading and packing. With the back seats folded flat, the boot’s capacity is transformed from 591 litres to 1670 litres. The front passenger seat also has the ability to fold flat (not available with Active) so you an easily transport lengthy, awkward items.
Stylish Alloy Wheels
With the all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV, you can expect style all the way down to the wheels. The assertive look of the vehicle is complimented with a variety of alloy wheels including 17″ ‘Chicago’ alloy wheels on Active models, 18″ ‘Detroit’ alloy wheels on Allure and GT Line and 19″ ‘Boston’ alloy wheels on GT. Also available with 18″ ‘Los Angeles’ alloy wheel on the Allure, GT Line and GT is the Advanced Grip Control option.
Interior Fabrics & Seat Trims
When it comes to choosing the finishing touches to your Peugeot 3008 SUV, you can create a look that suits you with our selection of interior fabric and leather seat trims. With our range of finishes you’ll be able to create your own personalised ambience for your new vehicle.
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Are you a senior ITU Nurse interested in developing your career in a brand new facility in one London's top teaching hospitals?Are you experienced in Scrub?Would you like the opportunity to work in the Shard??Our Client:My client is a campus hospital with sites in some of London's top NHS Hospitals, a successful diagnostic centre in the Shard plus outpatient units across Canary Wharf.They are undergoing a multi-million pound expansion in 2017 and t ...
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Texas/Bay Area band Apache‘s sound is pushing upstream in a time when many bands are trying to tattoo a new sonic marker in the rock n’ roll landscape. They write catchy garage rock gems in the 70s glam-rock tradition. You won’t find any traces of grad-school ideology in “Crystal Clear” as Apache celebrates teenage angst through the power of lo-fi rock n’ roll.
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public static class SOArchitecture_Utility
{
public const int ASSET_MENU_ORDER_VARIABLES = 121;
public const int ASSET_MENU_ORDER_EVENTS = 122;
public const int ASSET_MENU_ORDER_COLLECTIONS = 123;
public const string VARIABLE_SUBMENU = "Variables/";
public const string COLLECTION_SUBMENU = "Collections/";
public const string GAME_EVENT = "Game Events/";
public const string ADVANCED_GAME_EVENT = GAME_EVENT + "Advanced/";
public const string ADVANCED_VARIABLE_SUBMENU = VARIABLE_SUBMENU + "Advanced/";
public const string ADVANCED_VARIABLE_COLLECTION = COLLECTION_SUBMENU + "Advanced/";
// Add Component Menus
public const string ADD_COMPONENT_ROOT_MENU = "SO Architecture/";
public const string EVENT_LISTENER_SUBMENU = ADD_COMPONENT_ROOT_MENU + "Event Listeners/";
}
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Daily Archives: October 15, 2008
My column for the FT this week (mentioned here two posts ago) states my own view on the implications of the financial crisis for the future of capitalism–namely, that the effects outside finance will be limited, and this is not the end of capitalism as we know it. Here are two other interesting and forcefully expressed opinions.
Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post thinks the game is up for “unregulated capitalism”:
In 1949, a number of famous writers, among them Arthur Koestler, André Gide, Richard Wright, Stephen Spender and Ignazio Silone, wrote essays explaining why they were no longer communists. The essays were collected in a volume entitled “The God That Failed.”
Today, conservative intellectuals might want to consider writing a tome on the failure of their own beloved deity, unregulated capitalism. The fall of the financial system has been so fast and far-reaching that there’s been no time to fully consider its implications for the reigning economic theology of the past 30 years. But with the most right-wing administration in modern American history scurrying to nationalize the banks, the question cannot be elided indefinitely.
What exactly do economic conservatives believe now that their god is dead? What’s become of the glories of privatized Social Security? Of the merits of 401(k)s vs. defined-benefit pensions?
No wonder we’ve seen a disoriented John McCain wandering the moors howling about Bill Ayers. What’s he supposed to do? Admit that the Reagan-Thatcher faith in unregulated capitalism, to which every GOP presidential candidate was pledging allegiance just last winter, has collapsed?
Interesting to see this dismiss the Clinton and Blair administrations as mere extensions of the Reagan-Thatcher order. Actually I agree with Meyerson about that: they were. But I thought that the Democratic narrative upholds the 1990s as an example of how good things can be when intelligent, well-meaning people are in charge. In other words, good government is more a question of competence and good faith than ideology. To abandon that line, you have to consign Clinton and Blair to the trash.
I was also a bit puzzled by this:
McCain and Barack Obama disagree sharply on the government’s role in bolstering the economy. Obama favors public outlays on alternative energy and education, which would not only create jobs but also make us more competitive globally.
What is this, “make us more competitive globally”? Surely that is the old, dead paradigm. Even as the piece reads its last rites, that Reagan-Thatcher way of thinking is stirring back to life. If you are going to dispense with market forces, I don’t think you can afford to care very much about staying competitive globally.
The other piece, much more to my own way of thinking, is by Simon Jenkins. For many years (outside the specialist domain of economic commentary) he has been my favourite British pundit, and one of the two or three best I have come across anywhere. Rigorous, liberal (in the old-fashioned sense), open-minded and surprising. See what you think:
So this is to be Brown’s Falklands. Victory on Mount All-fall-down. Bonfire of the bonuses. Service in St Paul’s. March-past by the Royal Troop of Derivatives Traders. Anthem to the Bankers’ Brigade. Tomb of the Unknown Arbitrageur.
A fortnight is clearly a long time in ideology. What fun historians will have with October 2008. Do you remember the hoary old days when they let Lehmans go bankrupt and refused to guarantee bank deposits? Where were you when a governor of the Bank of England worried about inflation and something called moral hazard? How tables turn. Socialism is now cock of the walk, capitalism mugged by reality.
It is rubbish, total rubbish. Market failure has been compounded by brain failure of the discredited profession of economics, overwhelmed by journalistic wish-fulfilment and glee.
The banks have not been “nationalised”, just deluged with money. They remain pluralist and competitive institutions, with independent boards. Their workers are not civil servants. Investors retain their shares. The bonus culture will revive. The impresarios of greed have been punished, or at least a few of them. But this is not socialism in our time, just public money hurled at the face of capitalism.
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I have been the FT's Washington columnist since April 2007. I moved from Britain to the US in 2005 to write for the Atlantic Monthly and the National Journal after 20 years working at the Economist, most recently as deputy editor. I write mainly about the intersection of politics and economics.
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The World Bank pioneered global HIV and AIDS financing early in the emergency and remains committed to achieving Millennium Development Goal 6, to halt by 2015 and begin to reverse the spread of HIV and AIDS, through prevention, care, treatment, and mitigation services for those affected by HIV and AIDS.
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The objective of the Additional
Financing for Total War against HIV and AIDS (TOWA) Project
is to assist Kenya to expand the coverage of targeted HIV
and AIDS prevention... Show More + and mitigation interventions. Negative
measures include: dust, air pollution, noise pollution,
water pollution, soil erosion, waste management, and borrow
pits. Negative measures include: a) locating this site away
from residential area in order to avoid dissipation of
noxious emissions to the community; b) locating it away from
agricultural areas to avoid contamination of food products
by effluents. Having it located in a well drained site
preferably downhill or away from any water wells. The site
can also be drained to avoid stagnation of storm water that
can result in to surface pollution or underground pollution;
c) locate site at least 50 meters away from any ground water
source; and d) plan the layout of the waste disposal area so
that the order of utilizing the excavated pits can be
determined. Such plans should be able to inform the
construction of future new pits at the site since plan
drawings are expected to remain in the records of waste
disposal units. Show Less -
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total war against HIV/AIDS project undertakes a situational
analysis of health care waste management through assessment
of policy,... Show More + legal and administrative framework in relation to
health care waste management. The study also assesses the
existing technologies, levels and presence of scavenging and
recycling; established the cost benefits of public-private
partnership in health care waste management, and finally
reviews existing training curricula, identifying unmet needs
and proposing appropriate and affordable strategies for the
training at various levels. Mitigation measures includes:
the need to reduce the volume or contaminated and organic
waste through shredding, recycling cremation of human body
parts, autoclaving. The segregation of material is crucial
in order to facilitate hygienic disposal. Proper and
adequate facilities for storage of healthcare wastes.
Measures will be taken for effective transportation of
healthcare wastes. Capacity will be carried out at all
levels from generation to disposal through appropriate
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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
OF TEXAS
NO. WR-17,575-06
RONALD MIXON, Relator
v.
TRAVIS DISTRICT CLERK, Respondent
ON APPLICATION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS
CAUSE NO. 100459 IN THE 147TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
FROM TRAVIS COUNTY
Per curiam.
O R D E R
Relator has filed a motion for leave to file a writ of mandamus pursuant to the original
jurisdiction of this Court. In it, he contends that he filed an application for a writ of habeas corpus
in the 147th Judicial District Court of Travis County, that more than 35 days have elapsed, and that
the application has not yet been forwarded to this Court.
In these circumstances, additional facts are needed. The respondent, the District Clerk of
Travis County, is ordered to file a response, which may be made by: submitting the record on such
habeas corpus application; submitting a copy of a timely filed order which designates issues to be
investigated, see McCree v. Hampton, 824 S.W.2d 578 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992); or stating that
Relator has not filed an application for habeas corpus in Travis County. Should the response include
an order designating issues, proof of the date the district attorney's office was served with the habeas
application shall also be submitted with the response. This application for leave to file a writ of
mandamus shall be held in abeyance until the respondent has submitted the appropriate response.
Such response shall be submitted within 30 days of the date of this order.
Filed: October 12, 2011
Do not publish
|
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/**
* Copyright (c) 2015-present, Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved.
*
* You are hereby granted a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to
* use, copy, modify, and distribute this software in source code or binary
* form for use in connection with the web services and APIs provided by
* Facebook.
*
* As with any software that integrates with the Facebook platform, your use
* of this software is subject to the Facebook Developer Principles and
* Policies [http://developers.facebook.com/policy/]. This copyright notice
* shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the software.
*
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
* IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
* THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
* LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
* FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
* DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*
*/
package com.facebook.ads.sdk;
import java.io.File;
import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import com.google.common.base.Function;
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.Futures;
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture;
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.SettableFuture;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.google.gson.JsonArray;
import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
import com.facebook.ads.sdk.APIException.MalformedResponseException;
/**
* This class is auto-generated.
*
* For any issues or feature requests related to this class, please let us know
* on github and we'll fix in our codegen framework. We'll not be able to accept
* pull request for this class.
*
*/
public class Flight extends APINode {
@SerializedName("applinks")
private CatalogItemAppLinks mApplinks = null;
@SerializedName("category_specific_fields")
private CatalogSubVerticalList mCategorySpecificFields = null;
@SerializedName("currency")
private String mCurrency = null;
@SerializedName("description")
private String mDescription = null;
@SerializedName("destination_airport")
private String mDestinationAirport = null;
@SerializedName("destination_city")
private String mDestinationCity = null;
@SerializedName("flight_id")
private String mFlightId = null;
@SerializedName("id")
private String mId = null;
@SerializedName("images")
private List<String> mImages = null;
@SerializedName("oneway_currency")
private String mOnewayCurrency = null;
@SerializedName("oneway_price")
private String mOnewayPrice = null;
@SerializedName("origin_airport")
private String mOriginAirport = null;
@SerializedName("origin_city")
private String mOriginCity = null;
@SerializedName("price")
private String mPrice = null;
@SerializedName("sanitized_images")
private List<String> mSanitizedImages = null;
@SerializedName("url")
private String mUrl = null;
protected static Gson gson = null;
Flight() {
}
public Flight(Long id, APIContext context) {
this(id.toString(), context);
}
public Flight(String id, APIContext context) {
this.mId = id;
this.context = context;
}
public Flight fetch() throws APIException{
Flight newInstance = fetchById(this.getPrefixedId().toString(), this.context);
this.copyFrom(newInstance);
return this;
}
public static Flight fetchById(Long id, APIContext context) throws APIException {
return fetchById(id.toString(), context);
}
public static ListenableFuture<Flight> fetchByIdAsync(Long id, APIContext context) throws APIException {
return fetchByIdAsync(id.toString(), context);
}
public static Flight fetchById(String id, APIContext context) throws APIException {
return
new APIRequestGet(id, context)
.requestAllFields()
.execute();
}
public static ListenableFuture<Flight> fetchByIdAsync(String id, APIContext context) throws APIException {
return
new APIRequestGet(id, context)
.requestAllFields()
.executeAsync();
}
public static APINodeList<Flight> fetchByIds(List<String> ids, List<String> fields, APIContext context) throws APIException {
return (APINodeList<Flight>)(
new APIRequest<Flight>(context, "", "/", "GET", Flight.getParser())
.setParam("ids", APIRequest.joinStringList(ids))
.requestFields(fields)
.execute()
);
}
public static ListenableFuture<APINodeList<Flight>> fetchByIdsAsync(List<String> ids, List<String> fields, APIContext context) throws APIException {
return
new APIRequest(context, "", "/", "GET", Flight.getParser())
.setParam("ids", APIRequest.joinStringList(ids))
.requestFields(fields)
.executeAsyncBase();
}
private String getPrefixedId() {
return getId();
}
public String getId() {
return getFieldId().toString();
}
public static Flight loadJSON(String json, APIContext context, String header) {
Flight flight = getGson().fromJson(json, Flight.class);
if (context.isDebug()) {
JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
JsonElement o1 = parser.parse(json);
JsonElement o2 = parser.parse(flight.toString());
if (o1.getAsJsonObject().get("__fb_trace_id__") != null) {
o2.getAsJsonObject().add("__fb_trace_id__", o1.getAsJsonObject().get("__fb_trace_id__"));
}
if (!o1.equals(o2)) {
context.log("[Warning] When parsing response, object is not consistent with JSON:");
context.log("[JSON]" + o1);
context.log("[Object]" + o2);
}
}
flight.context = context;
flight.rawValue = json;
flight.header = header;
return flight;
}
public static APINodeList<Flight> parseResponse(String json, APIContext context, APIRequest request, String header) throws MalformedResponseException {
APINodeList<Flight> flights = new APINodeList<Flight>(request, json, header);
JsonArray arr;
JsonObject obj;
JsonParser parser = new JsonParser();
Exception exception = null;
try{
JsonElement result = parser.parse(json);
if (result.isJsonArray()) {
// First, check if it's a pure JSON Array
arr = result.getAsJsonArray();
for (int i = 0; i < arr.size(); i++) {
flights.add(loadJSON(arr.get(i).getAsJsonObject().toString(), context, header));
};
return flights;
} else if (result.isJsonObject()) {
obj = result.getAsJsonObject();
if (obj.has("data")) {
if (obj.has("paging")) {
JsonObject paging = obj.get("paging").getAsJsonObject();
if (paging.has("cursors")) {
JsonObject cursors = paging.get("cursors").getAsJsonObject();
String before = cursors.has("before") ? cursors.get("before").getAsString() : null;
String after = cursors.has("after") ? cursors.get("after").getAsString() : null;
flights.setCursors(before, after);
}
String previous = paging.has("previous") ? paging.get("previous").getAsString() : null;
String next = paging.has("next") ? paging.get("next").getAsString() : null;
flights.setPaging(previous, next);
if (context.hasAppSecret()) {
flights.setAppSecret(context.getAppSecretProof());
}
}
if (obj.get("data").isJsonArray()) {
// Second, check if it's a JSON array with "data"
arr = obj.get("data").getAsJsonArray();
for (int i = 0; i < arr.size(); i++) {
flights.add(loadJSON(arr.get(i).getAsJsonObject().toString(), context, header));
};
} else if (obj.get("data").isJsonObject()) {
// Third, check if it's a JSON object with "data"
obj = obj.get("data").getAsJsonObject();
boolean isRedownload = false;
for (String s : new String[]{"campaigns", "adsets", "ads"}) {
if (obj.has(s)) {
isRedownload = true;
obj = obj.getAsJsonObject(s);
for (Map.Entry<String, JsonElement> entry : obj.entrySet()) {
flights.add(loadJSON(entry.getValue().toString(), context, header));
}
break;
}
}
if (!isRedownload) {
flights.add(loadJSON(obj.toString(), context, header));
}
}
return flights;
} else if (obj.has("images")) {
// Fourth, check if it's a map of image objects
obj = obj.get("images").getAsJsonObject();
for (Map.Entry<String, JsonElement> entry : obj.entrySet()) {
flights.add(loadJSON(entry.getValue().toString(), context, header));
}
return flights;
} else {
// Fifth, check if it's an array of objects indexed by id
boolean isIdIndexedArray = true;
for (Map.Entry entry : obj.entrySet()) {
String key = (String) entry.getKey();
if (key.equals("__fb_trace_id__")) {
continue;
}
JsonElement value = (JsonElement) entry.getValue();
if (
value != null &&
value.isJsonObject() &&
value.getAsJsonObject().has("id") &&
value.getAsJsonObject().get("id") != null &&
value.getAsJsonObject().get("id").getAsString().equals(key)
) {
flights.add(loadJSON(value.toString(), context, header));
} else {
isIdIndexedArray = false;
break;
}
}
if (isIdIndexedArray) {
return flights;
}
// Sixth, check if it's pure JsonObject
flights.clear();
flights.add(loadJSON(json, context, header));
return flights;
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
exception = e;
}
throw new MalformedResponseException(
"Invalid response string: " + json,
exception
);
}
@Override
public APIContext getContext() {
return context;
}
@Override
public void setContext(APIContext context) {
this.context = context;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return getGson().toJson(this);
}
public APIRequestGet get() {
return new APIRequestGet(this.getPrefixedId().toString(), context);
}
public APIRequestUpdate update() {
return new APIRequestUpdate(this.getPrefixedId().toString(), context);
}
public CatalogItemAppLinks getFieldApplinks() {
return mApplinks;
}
public CatalogSubVerticalList getFieldCategorySpecificFields() {
return mCategorySpecificFields;
}
public String getFieldCurrency() {
return mCurrency;
}
public String getFieldDescription() {
return mDescription;
}
public String getFieldDestinationAirport() {
return mDestinationAirport;
}
public String getFieldDestinationCity() {
return mDestinationCity;
}
public String getFieldFlightId() {
return mFlightId;
}
public String getFieldId() {
return mId;
}
public List<String> getFieldImages() {
return mImages;
}
public String getFieldOnewayCurrency() {
return mOnewayCurrency;
}
public String getFieldOnewayPrice() {
return mOnewayPrice;
}
public String getFieldOriginAirport() {
return mOriginAirport;
}
public String getFieldOriginCity() {
return mOriginCity;
}
public String getFieldPrice() {
return mPrice;
}
public List<String> getFieldSanitizedImages() {
return mSanitizedImages;
}
public String getFieldUrl() {
return mUrl;
}
public static class APIRequestGet extends APIRequest<Flight> {
Flight lastResponse = null;
@Override
public Flight getLastResponse() {
return lastResponse;
}
public static final String[] PARAMS = {
};
public static final String[] FIELDS = {
"applinks",
"category_specific_fields",
"currency",
"description",
"destination_airport",
"destination_city",
"flight_id",
"id",
"images",
"oneway_currency",
"oneway_price",
"origin_airport",
"origin_city",
"price",
"sanitized_images",
"url",
};
@Override
public Flight parseResponse(String response, String header) throws APIException {
return Flight.parseResponse(response, getContext(), this, header).head();
}
@Override
public Flight execute() throws APIException {
return execute(new HashMap<String, Object>());
}
@Override
public Flight execute(Map<String, Object> extraParams) throws APIException {
ResponseWrapper rw = executeInternal(extraParams);
lastResponse = parseResponse(rw.getBody(), rw.getHeader());
return lastResponse;
}
public ListenableFuture<Flight> executeAsync() throws APIException {
return executeAsync(new HashMap<String, Object>());
};
public ListenableFuture<Flight> executeAsync(Map<String, Object> extraParams) throws APIException {
return Futures.transform(
executeAsyncInternal(extraParams),
new Function<ResponseWrapper, Flight>() {
public Flight apply(ResponseWrapper result) {
try {
return APIRequestGet.this.parseResponse(result.getBody(), result.getHeader());
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
}
);
};
public APIRequestGet(String nodeId, APIContext context) {
super(context, nodeId, "/", "GET", Arrays.asList(PARAMS));
}
@Override
public APIRequestGet setParam(String param, Object value) {
setParamInternal(param, value);
return this;
}
@Override
public APIRequestGet setParams(Map<String, Object> params) {
setParamsInternal(params);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestAllFields () {
return this.requestAllFields(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestAllFields (boolean value) {
for (String field : FIELDS) {
this.requestField(field, value);
}
return this;
}
@Override
public APIRequestGet requestFields (List<String> fields) {
return this.requestFields(fields, true);
}
@Override
public APIRequestGet requestFields (List<String> fields, boolean value) {
for (String field : fields) {
this.requestField(field, value);
}
return this;
}
@Override
public APIRequestGet requestField (String field) {
this.requestField(field, true);
return this;
}
@Override
public APIRequestGet requestField (String field, boolean value) {
this.requestFieldInternal(field, value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestApplinksField () {
return this.requestApplinksField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestApplinksField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("applinks", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestCategorySpecificFieldsField () {
return this.requestCategorySpecificFieldsField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestCategorySpecificFieldsField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("category_specific_fields", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestCurrencyField () {
return this.requestCurrencyField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestCurrencyField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("currency", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestDescriptionField () {
return this.requestDescriptionField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestDescriptionField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("description", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestDestinationAirportField () {
return this.requestDestinationAirportField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestDestinationAirportField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("destination_airport", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestDestinationCityField () {
return this.requestDestinationCityField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestDestinationCityField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("destination_city", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestFlightIdField () {
return this.requestFlightIdField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestFlightIdField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("flight_id", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestIdField () {
return this.requestIdField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestIdField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("id", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestImagesField () {
return this.requestImagesField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestImagesField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("images", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestOnewayCurrencyField () {
return this.requestOnewayCurrencyField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestOnewayCurrencyField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("oneway_currency", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestOnewayPriceField () {
return this.requestOnewayPriceField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestOnewayPriceField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("oneway_price", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestOriginAirportField () {
return this.requestOriginAirportField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestOriginAirportField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("origin_airport", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestOriginCityField () {
return this.requestOriginCityField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestOriginCityField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("origin_city", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestPriceField () {
return this.requestPriceField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestPriceField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("price", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestSanitizedImagesField () {
return this.requestSanitizedImagesField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestSanitizedImagesField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("sanitized_images", value);
return this;
}
public APIRequestGet requestUrlField () {
return this.requestUrlField(true);
}
public APIRequestGet requestUrlField (boolean value) {
this.requestField("url", value);
return this;
}
}
public static class APIRequestUpdate extends APIRequest<Flight> {
Flight lastResponse = null;
@Override
public Flight getLastResponse() {
return lastResponse;
}
public static final String[] PARAMS = {
"currency",
"description",
"destination_airport",
"images",
"origin_airport",
"price",
"url",
};
public static final String[] FIELDS = {
};
@Override
public Flight parseResponse(String response, String header) throws APIException {
return Flight.parseResponse(response, getContext(), this, header).head();
}
@Override
public Flight execute() throws APIException {
return execute(new HashMap<String, Object>());
}
@Override
public Flight execute(Map<String, Object> extraParams) throws APIException {
ResponseWrapper rw = executeInternal(extraParams);
lastResponse = parseResponse(rw.getBody(), rw.getHeader());
return lastResponse;
}
public ListenableFuture<Flight> executeAsync() throws APIException {
return executeAsync(new HashMap<String, Object>());
};
public ListenableFuture<Flight> executeAsync(Map<String, Object> extraParams) throws APIException {
return Futures.transform(
executeAsyncInternal(extraParams),
new Function<ResponseWrapper, Flight>() {
public Flight apply(ResponseWrapper result) {
try {
return APIRequestUpdate.this.parseResponse(result.getBody(), result.getHeader());
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
}
);
};
public APIRequestUpdate(String nodeId, APIContext context) {
super(context, nodeId, "/", "POST", Arrays.asList(PARAMS));
}
@Override
public APIRequestUpdate setParam(String param, Object value) {
setParamInternal(param, value);
return this;
}
@Override
public APIRequestUpdate setParams(Map<String, Object> params) {
setParamsInternal(params);
return this;
}
public APIRequestUpdate setCurrency (String currency) {
this.setParam("currency", currency);
return this;
}
public APIRequestUpdate setDescription (String description) {
this.setParam("description", description);
return this;
}
public APIRequestUpdate setDestinationAirport (String destinationAirport) {
this.setParam("destination_airport", destinationAirport);
return this;
}
public APIRequestUpdate setImages (List<Object> images) {
this.setParam("images", images);
return this;
}
public APIRequestUpdate setImages (String images) {
this.setParam("images", images);
return this;
}
public APIRequestUpdate setOriginAirport (String originAirport) {
this.setParam("origin_airport", originAirport);
return this;
}
public APIRequestUpdate setPrice (Long price) {
this.setParam("price", price);
return this;
}
public APIRequestUpdate setPrice (String price) {
this.setParam("price", price);
return this;
}
public APIRequestUpdate setUrl (String url) {
this.setParam("url", url);
return this;
}
public APIRequestUpdate requestAllFields () {
return this.requestAllFields(true);
}
public APIRequestUpdate requestAllFields (boolean value) {
for (String field : FIELDS) {
this.requestField(field, value);
}
return this;
}
@Override
public APIRequestUpdate requestFields (List<String> fields) {
return this.requestFields(fields, true);
}
@Override
public APIRequestUpdate requestFields (List<String> fields, boolean value) {
for (String field : fields) {
this.requestField(field, value);
}
return this;
}
@Override
public APIRequestUpdate requestField (String field) {
this.requestField(field, true);
return this;
}
@Override
public APIRequestUpdate requestField (String field, boolean value) {
this.requestFieldInternal(field, value);
return this;
}
}
synchronized /*package*/ static Gson getGson() {
if (gson != null) {
return gson;
} else {
gson = new GsonBuilder()
.excludeFieldsWithModifiers(Modifier.STATIC)
.excludeFieldsWithModifiers(Modifier.PROTECTED)
.disableHtmlEscaping()
.create();
}
return gson;
}
public Flight copyFrom(Flight instance) {
this.mApplinks = instance.mApplinks;
this.mCategorySpecificFields = instance.mCategorySpecificFields;
this.mCurrency = instance.mCurrency;
this.mDescription = instance.mDescription;
this.mDestinationAirport = instance.mDestinationAirport;
this.mDestinationCity = instance.mDestinationCity;
this.mFlightId = instance.mFlightId;
this.mId = instance.mId;
this.mImages = instance.mImages;
this.mOnewayCurrency = instance.mOnewayCurrency;
this.mOnewayPrice = instance.mOnewayPrice;
this.mOriginAirport = instance.mOriginAirport;
this.mOriginCity = instance.mOriginCity;
this.mPrice = instance.mPrice;
this.mSanitizedImages = instance.mSanitizedImages;
this.mUrl = instance.mUrl;
this.context = instance.context;
this.rawValue = instance.rawValue;
return this;
}
public static APIRequest.ResponseParser<Flight> getParser() {
return new APIRequest.ResponseParser<Flight>() {
public APINodeList<Flight> parseResponse(String response, APIContext context, APIRequest<Flight> request, String header) throws MalformedResponseException {
return Flight.parseResponse(response, context, request, header);
}
};
}
}
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// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.
#ifndef COMPONENTS_DATA_REDUCTION_PROXY_CORE_BROWSER_DATA_REDUCTION_PROXY_SETTINGS_TEST_UTILS_H_
#define COMPONENTS_DATA_REDUCTION_PROXY_CORE_BROWSER_DATA_REDUCTION_PROXY_SETTINGS_TEST_UTILS_H_
#include <map>
#include <memory>
#include <string>
#include "components/data_reduction_proxy/core/browser/data_reduction_proxy_settings.h"
#include "components/prefs/testing_pref_service.h"
#include "net/log/test_net_log.h"
#include "net/url_request/test_url_fetcher_factory.h"
#include "net/url_request/url_request_test_util.h"
#include "testing/gmock/include/gmock/gmock.h"
#include "testing/gtest/include/gtest/gtest.h"
class PrefService;
class TestingPrefServiceSimple;
namespace data_reduction_proxy {
class DataReductionProxyTestContext;
class MockDataReductionProxyConfig;
template <class C>
class MockDataReductionProxySettings : public C {
public:
MockDataReductionProxySettings<C>() : C() {
}
MOCK_METHOD0(GetOriginalProfilePrefs, PrefService*());
MOCK_METHOD0(GetLocalStatePrefs, PrefService*());
MOCK_METHOD1(RecordStartupState,
void(ProxyStartupState state));
};
class DataReductionProxySettingsTestBase : public testing::Test {
public:
static void AddTestProxyToCommandLine();
DataReductionProxySettingsTestBase();
DataReductionProxySettingsTestBase(bool allowed,
bool fallback_allowed,
bool promo_allowed);
~DataReductionProxySettingsTestBase() override;
void AddProxyToCommandLine();
void SetUp() override;
template <class C> void ResetSettings(bool allowed,
bool fallback_allowed,
bool promo_allowed,
bool holdback);
virtual void ResetSettings(bool allowed,
bool fallback_allowed,
bool promo_allowed,
bool holdback) = 0;
void ExpectSetProxyPrefs(bool expected_enabled,
bool expected_at_startup);
void CheckMaybeActivateDataReductionProxy(bool initially_enabled,
bool request_succeeded,
bool expected_enabled,
bool expected_restricted,
bool expected_fallback_restricted);
void CheckOnPrefChange(bool enabled, bool expected_enabled, bool managed);
void InitWithStatisticsPrefs();
void InitDataReductionProxy(bool enabled_at_startup);
void CheckDataReductionProxySyntheticTrial(bool enabled);
bool SyntheticFieldTrialRegistrationCallback(const std::string& trial_name,
const std::string& group_name) {
synthetic_field_trials_[trial_name] = group_name;
return true;
}
base::MessageLoopForIO message_loop_;
std::unique_ptr<DataReductionProxyTestContext> test_context_;
std::unique_ptr<DataReductionProxySettings> settings_;
base::Time last_update_time_;
std::map<std::string, std::string> synthetic_field_trials_;
};
// Test implementations should be subclasses of an instantiation of this
// class parameterized for whatever DataReductionProxySettings class
// is being tested.
template <class C>
class ConcreteDataReductionProxySettingsTest
: public DataReductionProxySettingsTestBase {
public:
typedef MockDataReductionProxySettings<C> MockSettings;
void ResetSettings(bool allowed,
bool fallback_allowed,
bool promo_allowed,
bool holdback) override {
return DataReductionProxySettingsTestBase::ResetSettings<C>(
allowed, fallback_allowed, promo_allowed, holdback);
}
};
} // namespace data_reduction_proxy
#endif // COMPONENTS_DATA_REDUCTION_PROXY_CORE_BROWSER_DATA_REDUCTION_PROXY_SETTINGS_TEST_UTILS_H_
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ODUM
v.
STATE.
No. 2D10-1573.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
July 28, 2010.
Decision without published opinion Affirmed.
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%HOMWARP Warp image by an homography
%
% OUT = HOMWARP(H, IM, OPTIONS) is a warp of the image IM obtained by
% applying the homography H to the coordinates of every input pixel.
%
% [OUT,OFFS] = HOMWARP(H, IM, OPTIONS) as above but OFFS is the offset of the
% warped tile OUT with respect to the origin of IM.
%
% Options::
% 'full' output image contains all the warped pixels, but its
% position with respect to the input image is given by the
% second return value OFFS.
% 'extrapval',V set unmapped pixels to this value (default NaN)
% 'roi',R output image contains the specified ROI in the input image
% 'scale',S scale the output by this factor
% 'dimension',D ensure output image is DxD
% 'size',S size of output image S=[W,H]
% 'coords',{U,V} coordinate matrices for im, each same size as im.
%
% Notes::
% - The edges of the resulting output image will in general not be
% be vertical and horizontal lines.
%
% See also HOMOGRAPHY, ITRIM, INTERP2.
% Copyright (C) 1993-2011, by Peter I. Corke
%
% This file is part of The Machine Vision Toolbox for Matlab (MVTB).
%
% MVTB is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
% it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
% the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
% (at your option) any later version.
%
% MVTB is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
% GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
%
% You should have received a copy of the GNU Leser General Public License
% along with MVTB. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
function [w,foffs] = homwarp(H, im, varargin)
% the result of a warp can have negative pixel coordinates or very
% large coordinates, well away from the origin.
opt.full = false;
opt.extrapval = NaN;
opt.size = [];
opt.roi = [];
opt.scale = 1;
opt.dimension = [];
opt.coords = [];
opt = tb_optparse(opt, varargin);
[w,h] = isize(im);
if opt.roi
% opt.box is specified in standard ROI format
l = opt.roi(1,1); t = opt.roi(2,1);
r = opt.roi(1,2); b = opt.roi(2,2);
box = [l r r l; t t b b];
else
% bounding box in the input image is the full extent
box = [1 w w 1; 1 1 h h];
end
% map the box vertices in input image to vertices in output image
Hbox = homtrans(H, box);
% determine the extent of the image after warping
xmin = min(Hbox(1,:)); xmax = max(Hbox(1,:));
ymin = min(Hbox(2,:)); ymax = max(Hbox(2,:));
% we want the pixel coordinates to map to positive values, determine the minimum
if opt.full
offs = floor([xmin, ymin]);
% and prepend a translational homography that translates the output image
H = [1 0 -offs(1); 0 1 -offs(2); 0 0 1] * H;
end
sz = round([xmax-xmin+1, ymax-ymin+1]);
% we can specify the maxmimum dimension of the resulting image
if ~isempty(opt.dimension)
s = opt.dimension / max(sz);
H = diag([s s 1]) * H;
Hbox = homtrans(H, box);
% determine the extent
xmin = min(Hbox(1,:)); xmax = max(Hbox(1,:));
ymin = min(Hbox(2,:)); ymax = max(Hbox(2,:));
% we want the pixel coordinates to map to positive values, determine the minimum
offs = floor([xmin, ymin]);
% and prepend a translational homography that translates the output image
H = [1 0 -offs(1); 0 1 -offs(2); 0 0 1] * H;
sz = round([xmax-xmin+1, ymax-ymin+1]);
end
if isempty(opt.coords)
[Ui,Vi] = imeshgrid(im);
else
Ui = opt.coords{1};
Vi = opt.coords{2};
end
% determine size of the output image
if ~isempty(opt.size)
[Uo,Vo] = imeshgrid(opt.size);
else
if opt.full
[Uo,Vo] = imeshgrid(sz);
else
[Uo,Vo] = imeshgrid(im);
end
end
% warp the coordinates of the output pixels
UV = homtrans(inv(H), [Uo(:) Vo(:)]');
U = reshape(UV(1,:), size(Uo));
V = reshape(UV(2,:), size(Vo));
% interpolate for each color plane
for p=1:size(im,3)
imh(:,:,p) = interp2(Ui, Vi, idouble(im(:,:,p)), U, V, 'linear', opt.extrapval);
end
if nargout > 0
w = imh;
else
idisp(imh);
end
if nargout > 1 && opt.full
foffs = offs;
end
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