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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: TypeError
Message: Couldn't cast array of type
struct<Content-Length: string, Content-Type: string, WARC-Block-Digest: string, WARC-Concurrent-To: string, WARC-Date: timestamp[s], WARC-IP-Address: string, WARC-Payload-Digest: string, WARC-Record-ID: string, WARC-Target-URI: string, WARC-Type: string, WARC-Warcinfo-ID: string, WARC-Truncated: string, WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: string>
to
{'Content-Length': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'Content-Type': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Block-Digest': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Concurrent-To': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Date': Value(dtype='timestamp[s]', id=None), 'WARC-IP-Address': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Payload-Digest': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Record-ID': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Target-URI': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Type': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Truncated': Value(dtype='string', id=None)}
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1871, in _prepare_split_single
writer.write_table(table)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/arrow_writer.py", line 643, in write_table
pa_table = table_cast(pa_table, self._schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2293, in table_cast
return cast_table_to_schema(table, schema)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2246, in cast_table_to_schema
arrays = [
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2247, in <listcomp>
cast_array_to_feature(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1796, in wrapper
return pa.chunked_array([func(chunk, *args, **kwargs) for chunk in array.chunks])
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 1796, in <listcomp>
return pa.chunked_array([func(chunk, *args, **kwargs) for chunk in array.chunks])
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/table.py", line 2109, in cast_array_to_feature
raise TypeError(f"Couldn't cast array of type\n{_short_str(array.type)}\nto\n{_short_str(feature)}")
TypeError: Couldn't cast array of type
struct<Content-Length: string, Content-Type: string, WARC-Block-Digest: string, WARC-Concurrent-To: string, WARC-Date: timestamp[s], WARC-IP-Address: string, WARC-Payload-Digest: string, WARC-Record-ID: string, WARC-Target-URI: string, WARC-Type: string, WARC-Warcinfo-ID: string, WARC-Truncated: string, WARC-Identified-Payload-Type: string>
to
{'Content-Length': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'Content-Type': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Block-Digest': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Concurrent-To': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Date': Value(dtype='timestamp[s]', id=None), 'WARC-IP-Address': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Payload-Digest': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Record-ID': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Target-URI': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Type': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': Value(dtype='string', id=None), 'WARC-Truncated': Value(dtype='string', id=None)}
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1428, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations, partial, estimated_dataset_info = stream_convert_to_parquet(
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 989, in stream_convert_to_parquet
builder._prepare_split(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1742, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1898, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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The SortField class includes possible fields that can be used to sort calendar events.
When you retrieve events using functions in the CalendarService class (such as CalendarService::events()), you provide an EventSearchParameters object that includes information about the results that you want. You can set a SortField in the EventSearchParameters that describes what fields you want to use to sort the search results.
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} | 651 | Women in the tech world are abuzz today about a TechCrunch post by VC (and self-proclaimed loudmouth) David McClure. He exhorts those women who complain about the lack of high-profile women in the tech world to quit whining and start putting their money into female-led start-ups. Or as he puts it, "Seriously ladies: WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? If you're a believer, then be an investor."
The whole thing is intended to gain attention, which it has: As of publishing this post, there were 93 comments plus separate discussions on both Facebook and Twitter, not to mention among Inc.com's female editors. But mostly it's a very thinly disguised promotional piece for McClure's newest project, Women Investors NOW, which challenges women to publicly commit to invest a total of $15,000 in three start-ups over the next year, presumably through his company 500 Startups.
So, kudos, Dave, on a highly effective bit of marketing. Now let's look at a couple of questions your post brings to mind:
1. Should there be a special effort to specifically fund women-led start-ups?
McClure refers to complaints that there aren't enough women on panels at conferences, and to me that sounds like a no-brainer: Conference panels that "look like America" should if nothing else be good for attendance because a wider range of people may be inspired to come. (Incidentally, female tech writers make great panelists. Just saying.)
But when it comes to funding start-ups specifically because they're headed by women... oh boy, do I have mixed feelings about that. Partly it feels like being damned with faint praise, as when people say Sylvia Plath was a "great woman poet." Why not just a great poet? And, does it invite start-ups to fake it, using wives or girlfriends as the illusory heads of a companies that are actually run by their husbands or boyfriends?
Then there's this comment by a female tech executive McClure quotes: "There's a special place in Hell for women who 'make it,' but aren't willing to turn around and help their peers who haven't." The implicit idea is that we women--more than half the earth's population--are all in one giant sisterhood club together. Any club that has Michele Bachmann in it, I don't want to be part of.
2. Can just anyone be an angel investor?
To me, this is a much more appealing aspect of McClure's post. I love the idea that it's possible for more or less anyone to be an angel investor and it had never occurred to me before I read that post. An angel, I always figured, needed not only extreme wealth, but also inner knowledge of the mysterious and magical workings of Silicon Valley. McClure's challenge is forcing me to reconsider that assumption.
As he puts it: "I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups..." I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $5,000 to $10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.
He adds, "If your excuse for not getting started as an angel is you don't think you know what you're doing--congratulations, you're in good company. Even experienced VCs will tell you they have to make educated guesses, and sometimes rookies are as good as veterans at picking winners."
Well, since you put it that way Dave, this angel investing for dummies sounds like an intriguing idea. I ain't wealthy, but I may just try to pull a few of my female friends together and pool our resources to give it a try. But if I do, I'll make sure to upload a photo of at least one of us. Otherwise, your website will automatically represent us with a generic outline--of a man. | http://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/dave-mcclure-challenge-women-angel-investors.html | robots: classic
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Truth and Lies
People know I have secrets; I wouldn't be human if I didn't. The number of secrets I have, and the intensity with which I keep them buried, is perhaps not quite as clear, but still. It is known that I have secrets.
Here are some of the secrets I've never even dared whisper aloud to an empty room; I fear death. I fear growing old alone. I fear hurting the people I love the most. I fear a lot of things. People think of me as brave, or – perhaps more accurately – reckless, due to the amount of times I put myself in danger, take unnecessary risks, do stupid things that result in me having guns and knives waved in my face on an increasingly regular basis. But people don't know about my fears. I'm scared to let my daughter grow up, because I know soon my little girl will be gone forever. I'm scared to tell the woman I love how I feel. I'm scared to let people see me for who I really am.
People don't know that I sometimes jump when I see shadows on the wall; that when I wake to the sound of water clanging in the pipes I often think, for a few moments, that it is actually the sound of my mother downstairs, chopping vegetables; that my obsession with the truth derives from my inability to embrace it myself.
Being a master of liars makes you a master of lies.
I seek answers to unwritten questions, tell people what they want to know before they even know they want to know it, look for reason where there is none, invade people's privacy without invitation, and, more than anything, try to peel back the layers of every lie I see, until all that remains is the hard, bitter truth.
It can provide a lot of things; justice, power, hope, condolence, satisfaction. A lot of the time, more pain than comfort. One thing truth can never do, however, is undo the past. This is a hard lesson to learn.
Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn, though, is that when you look in the mirror, the person staring back at you is the only person you can't escape. And when it's just you and your reflection, labels don't seem to matter. Ex-husband. Father. Boss. Lie-detector. The definitions of your life dissipate, and all that is left is the things you know about yourself, and the secrets you try to keep.
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• Trials
• Product Updates
Configure Network Settings on Gumstix Overo Hardware
You can configure the IP settings of the Overo® hardware by running Linux® shell commands directly on the Overo hardware. Doing so allows the board to communicate over the network to which it is connected.
To inspect and reconfigure the IP settings on a board that already has the new firmware, follow the procedure in this section.
To configure the IP settings while you are replacing the firmware on your Overo hardware, see Replace Firmware on Gumstix Overo Hardware.
You may need to reconfigure the IP settings if your board:
• Has unknown IP settings
• Is unreachable using a network connection
• Is being moved to a network or direct Ethernet connection that uses static IP settings
• Is being moved from a network that used static IP settings to one that uses DHCP services
There are several conditions under which networks use DHCP or static IP settings:
• Use DHCP services — If your board is connected to a network with DHCP services, such as an office LAN or a home network connected to the Internet. DHCP is a network service that automatically configures the IP settings of Ethernet devices connected to a network.
• Use static IP settings — If your board is directly connected to an Ethernet port on your computer or connected to an isolated network without DHCP services.
To configure the board to use DHCP or static IP settings:
1. Open a serial command-line session, as described in Open a Serial Command-line Session with Gumstix Overo Hardware.
Alternatively, you can use a terminal window after accessing the Linux desktop as described in:
2. Display the contents of the /etc/network/interfaces file. Enter:
cat /etc/network/interfaces
If the board is configured to use DHCP services (the default configuration), dhcp appears at the end of the following line:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
If the board is configured to use static IP settings, static appears at the end of the following line:
iface eth0 inet static
3. Create a backup of the /etc/network/interfaces file. Enter:
If prompted, enter the root password (default: root).
4. Edit interfaces using a simple editor called nano. Enter:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
5. Edit the last word of line that starts with iface eth0 inet.
To use DHCP services, change the line to:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
To use static IP settings, change the line to:
iface eth0 inet static
6. For static IP settings, add lines for address, netmask, and gateway. For example:
iface eth0 inet static
For static IP settings:
• The value of the subnet mask must be the same for all devices on the network.
• The value of the IP address must be unique for each device on the network.
For example, if the Ethernet port on your host computer has a network mask of and a static IP address of, set:
• netmask to use the same network mask value,
• address to an unused IP address, between and
7. Tell nano to exit and save the changes:
1. Press Ctrl+X.
2. Enter Y to save the modified buffer.
3. For "File Name to Write: /etc/network/interfaces", press Enter.
4. The nano editor confirms that it "Wrote # lines" and returns control to the command line.
8. Reboot your board for the settings to take effect:
sudo shutdown -r now
9. Test the IP settings by logging in to the board over a telnet session.
Note: You can use the ifconfig command to temporarily change the IP settings. Rebooting the board removes the ifconfig settings and restores the /etc/network/interfaces settings.
To change the IP settings temporarily, open a Linux command line. Enter ifconfig, the device id, a valid IP address, netmask, and the appropriate network mask. For example:
ifconfig eth0 netmask
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Part 2: Sound designer and environment artists reveal their secrets
Page 2 of 2
What's the best location you've built for the game?
Noel Lukasewich: I'd have to say Don's Earth is pretty awesome. It showed us a lot of what we wanted to do, sort of paved the way for a lot of our new stuff.
Don Arceta: Yeah, but eventually they're all going to have that same level of detail as that Earth level. We're still building the game, so there are some awesome environments right now but the scope of the levels is really big. We have this awesome Earth vista and there's just going to be tons of things going on out there. I think the thing that's going to make the levels awesome is just what happens in them.
Mass Effect is basically a world without denim - there are few things recognisable from the present. How do you make Earth feel like Earth?
NL: Well, we've had conversations about what to push and what to keep. We don't want to have the streets paved with plastic and that kind of crazy stuff but do we keep the concrete? Do we keep the road signs?
DA: It's hard finding that balance because Mass Effect is all big curves and arching structures, and you don't want famous landmarks to just stick out like a sore thumb in that sci-fi universe. That's the kind of the balance artists are looking for - making it fit but still feel like Earth. Just putting Venetian blinds on the windows makes it more familiar to the player that this is Earth. You wouldn't ever see that on an Asari planet.
What sort of interaction is there between the gameplay guys and your team?
DA: It's a lot of back and forth. We let the designers know exactly what's important to us on the art side - maybe the way the sun hits inside a room or something that we just don't want to lose - and design will work with us exactly how to keep that.
We have a lot more integrated cover, so you don't walk into a room and immediately know there's going to be a combat there. It's about making these spaces feel natural and not forced. It shouldn't ever feel forced, by gameplay or art - it really should be this perfect marriage.
NL: Yeah, you don't want to walk through a room and go, "okay nothing's going to happen here. There's no cover for me here," and then you walk around the next corner and you just see a sea of these chest-high things - you basically see the fight ahead.
That's something few cover-based shooters get right.
DA: Yeah, you play a game like Gears of War and they just have sandbags everywhere, and we really don't want to do that. We really want to get away from arbitrary things placed just for the sake of gameplay.
BioWare tend to build spaces that often feel like they exist only to have a fight in, not to live and work in. How important is it to fix that?
NL: Absolutely important. All the departments are involved now - we'll have writers and combat designers in and we'll really talk about the history of the places.
DL: We're really pushing the variety within the levels, so you're not walking into the same room just decorated differently. We're really trying to push each room as a functional space. A hallway has a function for people working there, and we're just trying to really make sense of it in the game.
NL: I'm doing something right now where I've built the environment as an undamaged structure, and then I start smashing bits up. We try to design the architecture first before we blow it up, rather than just having a box and cramming destroyed bits in it. We're really thinking about how someone from the future designed this building, and whether it functions well. Then we blow it up!
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Creatures Medicine 101: Antigens and Antibodies
Antibodies fight antigens. Right? Every chemical list says so. Even the hoverdoc's cure glossary says so.
Well... as much sense as that makes, I'm having an impossible time proving that true. I can't find any chemical reaction genes that indicate as such, and if I inject a norn with an antibody and follow it up with an antigen injection, it doesn't seem to decay any faster than if no antibodies were present.
No.. the way the reaction equation works is something like this: Antigen X = Antibody X + side effect X
For example, the CFE bruin genome states that 2 antigen 0 = 12 Antibody 0 + 1 histamine B
Antibodies don't seem to actually fight antigens. Antibodies are what the immune system turns antibodies into; essentially, they are a by-product of the body's attempt to fight the infection. In this second graph, I manually lowered the concentration of antibody 0 several times (hence the jagged blue line) and the concentration had absolutely no effect on the rate of decay of the antigen; it follows the same steady curve.
So if antibodies don't fight antigens, what are you supposed to give an ill creature? It is a bit daunting to suddenly find that those antibody-filled lemons aren't doing a thing for a creature's immunity.
What a creature really needs to fight antigens is Vitamin C; this chemical speeds up the reaction rate of the antigen-to-antibody conversion. As a disclaimer though, you want to be very careful using vitamin C to cure antigen 5 (we'll get to exactly why in a minute). Sadly, the only source of Vitamin C I am aware of is found in the vitamin potion from the potion machine on the C3 bridge, meaning DS-standalone worlds will have to find a non-native way to get this vitamin.
But not only does Vitamin C speed up the antigen conversion, it also speeds up the clock rate of the bones organ, which is responsible for the creation of Prostaglandin, the chemical used to heal the organs injured by the antigens. Vitamin C really is quite the healer! Just be sure the creature is eating enough fat and protein, as those are broken down into the chemicals necessary for Prostaglandin synthesis.
But let's step back a bit to talk a little more about antigens themselves. As mentioned earlier, the immune system breaks antigens down into antibodies and a "side effect" chemical. The side effects are as follows:
- Antigen 0 -- Histamine B
- Antigen 1 -- Histamine A
- Antigen 2 -- Coldness
- Antigen 3 -- Coldness
- Antigen 4 -- Hotness
- Antigen 5 -- Wounded
- Antigen 6 -- Hotness
- Antigen 7 -- Pain
Most of these side effects are rather harmless, and act more as symptoms of the infection than anything. But antigen 5's side effect is quite the opposite, in fact; it is deadlier than the antigen itself. Woundedness is a chemical that will instantly kill the creature if it gets too high.
As mentioned before, Vitamin C accelerates the breakdown of antigens to antibodies. This also means it accelerates the creation of the side-effect chemical. This graph shows the reaction resulting from injecting a creature with antigen 5 less than a half dose of vitamin C. The antigen breaks down faster, and both the antibody and the wounded chemical (chemical 90 in this graph) spike, creating a very dangerous situation. For antigen 5, it may be best to have the creature rest and recover naturally.
There is more to know about antigens, particularly which organs they attack. In the next installment (which I haven't actually started writing yet, and still have some research to do, so it'll likely be a while) I plan to detail the functions of each organ so you can have some context as to what exactly is at stake when dealing with antigens.
1. I love these entries! I'm hoping to do a little study on the toxins and antigens in C1 shortly: They're much more straightforward than those in C3/DS, but the whole antibody/antigen reaction is still present. Some might agree, but it's almost like creatures don't have a real immune system. The antigens create the antibodies that are supposed to fight them off.
Have you viewed the graph of a creature who is actually infected with an antigen? If memory serves me correctly, the antigen has a steady "spiking" pattern. I've got a few of these graphs filed under Biochemistry.
Antigen 5 certainly is dangerous! Vitamin C does seem to be the cure, although I never thought of it before. That is, except in the case of antigen 5.
Excellent discussion, as always! I learn something new from your entries all the time, and I usually get the urge to jump into the scientific side of the game. I'm sure this will be helpful to others, and perhaps it will help save some Norns, Ettins, and Grendels!
2. Sorry for the multiple comments: I just found a very interesting page from The Norn Underground, which talks about creating more realistic antibody/antigen reactions. Very interesting concept that might be worth checking out! Seems to me like the genes have been altered to make antibodies actually fight off the antigens... Sounds more like a real immune system!
Granted, these are for the C1 genetics, but I think the idea might apply to this discussion. It's always bothered me that creatures don't have anything resembling a real immune system. I'm tempted to try out some genetic engineering as recommended on the page!
3. Vitamins C and E have a half life of 255, the same as such vital chemicals as ATP, energy, muscle tissue, etc. Could feeding your norns something with vitamin C in it regularly cause the vitamin to build up in their system, leading to shorter illnesses in general? (assuming antigen 5 is out of the picture...)
4. Wow, that's quite remarkable. Jessica is quite right that Norns, Grendels and Ettins don't have anything that closely resembles an immune system. But these findings are quite remarkable.
I currently have a Norn who isn't able to produce Antibody4, and theoretically should have a hard time getting over Antigen4.
Previously I had a similar Norn with the missing Antibody, however she managed to recover from her related Antigen without issue.
I'll definitely be doing some tests on my current Norn to see what I can find out.
5. As far as antibodies fighting antigens go, I believe that it's not the creature itself that uses antibodies to fight off antigens. What I think happens is that as soon as a certain antibody gets high enough/stays in the system long enough, the game engine itself kills the antigen and prevents it from re-infecting the creature.
I'm not 100% sure that's what happens, though - I haven't read it anywhere. Rather, it's an educated guess I've made from personal observation.
6. Does prostaglandin also speed up the conversion of antigens to antibodies?
The hotness associated with antigens 6 and 4 should be mentioned, as it is in the previous post, as a possible cause of death by dehydration, if the antigen to antibody reaction proceeds too quickly.
7. The antibodies don't do anything to the antigens themselves but they do fight bacteria. If I remember correctly, the bacteria.cos file has code that makes the bacteria more likely to die or detach if they're infecting a creature with high antibodies. Of course, you can just use the antibacterial spray to remove the bacteria. Feeding antibodies to norns is still helpful to minimize their exposure to bacteria when you're not watching though. | http://naturingnurturing.blogspot.com/2011/11/creatures-medicine-101-antigens-and.html | robots: classic
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Dear Tom and Ray:
Last September, I purchased a 1991 Toyota MR 2. I love the car and am enjoying every mile. I do have one problem, though. My rear tires are wearing out twice as fast as the front ones. They're Bridgestone RE 71 Potenzas. I never smoke the tires--so that's not the cause of the problem. I stopped at a tire store, and they said they replaced the tires on one MR 2 that had only 15,000 miles on it! Am I doomed to replace my rear tires every two years at $240? Why are they wearing out?
RAY: Well, Hank, there are several possible reasons. The first one is you. Since you bought an MR 2, I'm going to guess that you don't mosey down the highway at 35mph like my brother does in his '63 Dodge Dart. And you don't have to actually smoke the tires to put a lot of wear and tear on them.
TOM: Also, the tires that come with this car are made of a relatively soft compound. The softer the rubber, the goo-ier the tires, and the more the car "sticks" to the road. That's one of the reasons you can drive down circular parking garage ramps at 65 mph in this car. The downside of softer tires is that they wear out faster. So it may be a combination of your driving and the type of tires you have.
RAY: The only other possibility is that you need a camber adjustment. If that were the case, the tires would be wearing more on the inside edges. If they're not, either ease up on the gas a little bit, or just put $2 a week in a piggy bank for your next set of rear tires, and don't worry about it.
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Caroline Manzo tackles questions on parenting, relationships, and self-esteem.
on May 16, 20110
Got a question for Caroline? Send it.
Jennifer from Manahawkin, NJ says: Hi Caroline - Love the show but most of all I love the kind of mother you are. My question is this. I have three children, two boys (12 and 10) and one girl (5). I really, really want another baby, but my husband says absolutely not! He's concerned about finances, room in our house, etc. He is an amazing father, and I think we do such a great job as parents that we are exactly the type of parents who should be having more children. I know too many people that pop out kids, and then don't take care of them. It breaks my heart, because I just want to be a mom, that's all I ever wanted. How am I supposed to deal with not having another baby. I'm only 32, but the clock is ticking. We have discussed this topic for years and hundreds of times. He's a definite no and I'm a definite yes! Help!
PS: Should I get him drunk and take advantage or what?
Caroline says: Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer... Count your blessings! You seem to have a wonderful family life that includes a doting father and three beautiful children, be happy!
I have to agree with your husband on this one. It isn't easy raising a family today, and I can understand where he's coming from. Think about college tuition, clothes, extra curricular activities, medical bills, and whatever other surprises pop up along the way. You tell me that he is a doting father and a great provider, so why would you want to put unnecessary pressure on him? It appears to me that this is a true sticking point in the relationship. I can understand if you've discussed having children and never did, that's a promise broken, but you've got three children so he's kept his end of the deal.
I can promise you this as sure as I know my name, if you keep up with the "argument," it will eventually strain your relationship and in doing so will ultimately affect the children.
Another thing that seems to be screaming at me as I read in between the lines; I know the feeling of being a mom, there's no greater joy in the world. However, you cannot let being a mother define who you are. Yes, it's a huge roll that you will play until your dying day. Having said that, you are also a wife and an individual. Never lose sight of that, remember to keep the spark alive between you and your husband. Being a mom and dad are very important roles, but being a husband and wife is the glue that holds the family together.
Now let's talk about getting him drunk and taking advantage. Hey, I'm all for it, but for the right reasons! Having children is a life-changing situation and should be discussed and agreed upon by the two of you. There's no room for joking.
Jennifer you seem like a loving, devoted mother, and I commend you, I really do. You have three healthy children that live a blessed life. Love your children and your husband with all of your heart and realize how lucky you are to have them. BE HAPPY.
Well let me start by saying that i think you're a Role Model..and I just want to ask for your advice.. ME and my mom always argue about things I tried so hard not say anything back and if i do she always throws inn face how i am overweight and that just makes me think so bad of myself what should I do?? I understand if you do not reply...Thanks..=)
Hello Caroline , I am a 52 yr old mother of 2 sons, ages 23,26. My youngest son was in trouble when he was 14, he was sent away for approx 2-3 yrs . When it was time for him to come home I wasn't able financially to bring him home also the partner that I was with would not let him come home . I have regretted this from the time I allowed it to happen. I have a very strained relationship with him. The whole time he was in placement I went to visit and was very supportive of him. He had always said that he was OK with my being with a woman. Now He is being distant and says we don't have anything in common and won't come to see me .He states this is because I am a lesbian , but yet he says he doesn't want me to change. I would do anything for both my children I love them so much. I am at my wits end I feel like he hates me and is being very judgmental . I don't know what else I can do to repair this relationship. | http://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-new-jersey/season-3/blogs/ask-caroline/ask-caroline-count-your-blessings?nxa=blog:The%20Real%20Housewives%20of%20New%20Jersey%20Season%203:Someday%20Your%20Prince%20Will%20Come | robots: classic
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It's fitting that a country so obsessed with kimchi would have a museum devoted to it. On one of our last days in Seoul Jacob and I took the subway to the COEX Mall, which housed the Kimchi Field Museum in the basement.
The place was rather small, but included a small tasting room and the standard "history of" and "how to make" displays. Over a hundred plastic models of various kinds of kimchi took up a third of the museum. I would probably have expected the shrimp, cod gills, and ginseng kimchi. But pickled pumpkin? Persimmon? Pheasant? The museum was indeed an eye-opener.
Mall food in Asia tends to be of higher quality than its counterpart in the west, so it wasn't surprising we found Korean restaurant inside COEX that served a nice bubbling beansprout rice stew...
...along with the requisite 5 or 6 side dishes.
One of the most memorable things I ate last week was in Hongdae, the funky district around Hongik University. We found a pod-like little glass box of a restaurant amidst higher concrete buildings. You are free to draw all over the tables, and are given pens to do so.
The memorable dish in question was a noodle soup with clams and shrimp in an subtly aromatic garlic and seafood broth that I couldn't stop slurping. I forget the Korean name of the dish, but now I am on a personal mission to find a suitable recipe.
I had mentioned in my last Seoul post how Koreans have become obsessed with and adapted their own versions of American foods. Imagine my surprise upon seeing a huge sign for the Doughnut Plant on my first day, a slice of my beloved Lower East Side in Seoul. The placard fonts and enormous doughnuts were both reminiscent of the original New York hole-in-the-wall, and one wall was decorated with a blown-up Times article about Mark Israel, the founder.
I didn't know if it was a legitimate franchise or just a well-done homage until I did some quick Googling later on. The Doughnut Plant actually has four locations in Seoul and ten in Tokyo. Gone is the grubbiness and sunrise call for fresh hot doughnuts. This location has regular hours, leather banquettes, and the muted brown color scheme of an upscale sandwich shop. (Of course, Asian franchises of Dunkin Donuts, Pizza Hut, and other fast food joints are also gussied up versions of the stateside locations.)
As for taste, my glazed pistachio was nowhere near as delicious as the LES original. But for being in Asia, and thousands of miles from New York, it was pretty decent, and a nice reminder of home. | http://appetiteforchina.com/blog/seoul-food-part-2/ | robots: classic
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It's bad for you.
It's good for you again...
no wait, we've discovered it's bad for you.
It prevents cancer.
It causes cancer.
oh oops, it's great at fighting cancer.
oh, we were wrong again, it will definitely give you cancer.
but if you drink it while hanging upside down at the stroke of midnight in July during a full moon, it MIGHT help fight cancer.
It helps your teeth.
It hurts your teeth.
It causes cavities.
It repairs soft spots!
Oh wait, no it doesn't it CREATES soft spots.
and it causes cancer too.
but if you only drink a little it will help you live longer.
oh no, we were wrong again. it will kill you pretty quickly, actually.
It's responsible for early onset of alzheimers.
No, it improves your memory and brain function!
No, we spoke too soon...
it causes cancer.
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Asked: 4 years ago
Can you customize your car?
In the game can you customize the cars you own?
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Yes, most of them have multiple preset paint jobs, and aside from a handful of cars, you can choose you own style of paint and colors. However, the changes are only cosmetic; they don't change the vehicle's stats. The company-sponsored cars, such as the Wal-Mart WTR and Circuit City Hot Rod, cannot be changed. Neither can the Legendary cars (a DLC pack). When you get your Burnout Elite license, you get a gold paint finish for most of your cars, and when you find all the discoverables after you get your Elite license, you get a platinum paint finish.
For the Bikes, it's the same, except that the final bike you unlock is customizable by country only. In addition, you get chrome male and female riders after you complete 2 sets of online bike challenges.
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So the resource methods arent marked as "run" correctly and are called several times if dependencies are set in other resource methods.
Could you please provide a unit test or other code that proves this issue? With both $resource and $resourceName all unittests pass.
its a little bit tricky :)
Just use the following Bootstrap class and you will see that the FunctionTest will be called 3 times:
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protected function _initFunctionTesta()
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protected function _initFunctionTest()
echo 'CALL Nr. '.$this->_counter.'<br />';
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First, I'm an entry level programmer; In fact, I'm finishing an A.S. degree with a final capstone project over the summer. In my new job, when there isn't some project for me to do (they're waiting to fill the team with more new hires), I've been given books to read and learn from while I wait - some textbooks, others not so much (like Code Complete). After going through these books, I've turned to the internet to learn as much as possible, and started learning about SOLID and DI (we talked some about Liskov's substitution principle, but not much else SOLID ideas). So as I've learned, I sat down to do to learn better, and began writing some code to utilize DI by hand (there are no DI frameworks on the development computers).
Thing is, as I do it, I notice it feels familiar... and it seems like it is very much like work I've done in the past using composition of abstract classes using polymorphism. Am I missing a bigger picture here? Is there something about DI (at least by hand) that goes beyond that? I understand the possibility of having configurations not in code of some DI frameworks having some great benefits as far as changing things without having to recompile, but when doing it by hand, I'm not sure if it's any different than stated above... Some insight into this would be very helpful!
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The fundamental idea in DI is simply to push dependencies into objects, rather than letting them pull dependencies from outside. This was also called "inversion of control" earlier. This allows one to control dependencies much better, and - last but not least - to write code which is easy to unit test.
DI frameworks only build on top of this idea, and (partly) automate the often tedious part of wiring object dependencies together. This may otherwise require a significant amount of code in a larger project when done by hand.
To define dependencies, apart from external configuration files, it is also possible to use code annotations nowadays, e.g. in languages like Java and C#. These may bring the best of both worlds: wiring dependencies in a declarative style, but right within the code itself, where it logically belongs to. To me, the possibility of changing dependencies without having to recompile is not that valuable, as it is rarely done in real life (apart from some special cases), but introduces an often artifical separation of dependencies from the classes and objects defined within the code.
To return to your title question, DI is not an alternative to composition nor polymorphism; after all, it is made possible by these two.
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Dependency Injection (DI) is a form of Inversion of Control (IoC). – Matthew Flynn Jun 1 '12 at 22:29
@MatthewFlynn, indeed. For reference: martinfowler.com/articles/injection.html – Péter Török Jun 1 '12 at 22:41
That IS my reference. He talks about the new " lightweight containers" doing inversion of control, which was something that was already common as UI event listeners were a form of IoC. He dubs the object binding that Spring and other IoC containers do as Dependency Injection to differentiate it from the other form of Inversion of Control. – Matthew Flynn Jun 1 '12 at 23:07
Oops--I missed the "indeed." I thought you were contradicting me... Sorry. – Matthew Flynn Jun 1 '12 at 23:57
Your last paragraph makes me feel a bit better; the whole time I was working on my little learning project, I kept saying to myself, "this feels like polymorphism.." . Unfortunately, the .Net and c# at my job is horribly out of date, but from looking into it, is Unity the built in c# framework you are talking about? – Drake Clarris Jun 2 '12 at 2:32
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I am not an expert as I only started using DI in the past couple of years, but a few of the useful themes/functionalities of DI containers that I've noticed are (which I don't think of as products of composition/polymorphism (but I may stand to be corrected on that):
• central hub of object creation
• provide singletons on a per thread basis
• aspect oriented techniques such as interception
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Super Mario Bros. Nearly Had a Shoot 'em Up Stage
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Before fireballs came bullets
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GamesX99 said:
Lol Bowser comes breathing fire and Mario just pulls out a gun...I see some good sells
PSICOffee said:
ha wow that would have totally made the game as standard as the rest of the games that were gun shooters on the NES. Mario would have NEVER been as popular as he is today like that. Throwing fireballs is a key staple that makes him stand out. Its interesting but I'm glad they did what they ended up doing. Believe me, I've played games like Platoon and Rush 'n Attack and having to jump with the dpad up and then to the side as pressing diagonal upper right is a pain and not as responsive as you think.
The minus world is the only glitch I can get to flawlessly work too. Perfecting some other glitches in SMB and finally finishing Balloon Trip in balloon fight (got to rank 3 before carelessly dieing and never trying again) are some of my big "goals" for NES games.
motang said:
Interesting, but we do have something like that, and it's called Cave Story.
Punny said:
It's kind of hard to imagine Mario with a gun.
/looks at Yoshi's Safari
Wait a minute!
Hokori said:
Hay at least weve got Pole's Big Adventure..... OK we dont, but Japan does..... I WANT MY WII TO BE JAPANESE!
FonistofCruxis said:
Although I enjoy shmups, I'm glad this didn't happen. It just wouldn't suit Mario and it wouldn't have been as original. If this had happened Mario probably wouldn't be the awesome series we have today or even worse, it may not have been able to save the game industry like it did and gaming wouldn't exist anymore. Although I wouldn't mind it if this concept turned into a new game. That might be a really good game.
Meta-Rift said:
@22: Funny you should say that, one time I almost ended up making an SMB FPS fan game.
StarDust4Ever said:
Minus world: You will need Big Mario. Stand on the pipe at the end of 1-2, and break all but the rightmost block on the cieling. Duck on the edge of the pipe and do a "crouch jump" by hitting A while holding D+R on the D-pad. If done correctly, Mario will slide underneath the block and get sucked into the wall. Let Mario slide almost to the right edge of the screen, then walk him over until he falls into the warp room. Immediately go down the first pipe without allowing the screen to scroll any further. Enter world " -1"
Besides World " -1", the "Thank you dead Mario" glitch is another fun one that's fairly easy to pull off. You will need to be little Mario. After you jump under or over Bowser, move Mario to the far right side of the bridge. Wait until Bowser approaches, then jump into the air just as the gap closes, and when you land, try to touch Bowser and the Axe at the same time. Mario will "die" but also complete the level and move on to the next world, or save the princess if in 8-4.
Megumi said:
I could never pull off the -1 glitch, is it basically the first water level only looped?
Iggy said:
Dont just think about how this would change the mario franchise but the whole gaming industry. Im sure the game would be fun but who knows if video games would be even popular today if they were mario bros. with guns.
Chunky_Droid said:
This is probably why Mario Land had them, I enjoyed those stages, totally looking forward to it being re-released on the 3DS!
NintyMan said:
Mario was originally going to be a shooter? You learn something new every now and then...
Objection said:
Interesting but I'm glad it didn't go down that route. Mario is fun and different because it doesn't take the same routes so many other games do.
Nintendo-is-my-love said:
so happy it didnt have a shooting stage i hate xbox and playstation with all here shooting stages that are all the same thats what i love about nintendo is how all there games are different
JimLad said:
Good for him, there were enough scrolling shooters at the time. It pays to break away from the pack every now and then. cough
LuWiiGi said:
FPS is probably the only popular genre that Mario hasn't explored. Maybe it could work, as long as Mario didn't fire an actual gun.
Mach-X said:
More glitches :I'm sure most of you are familiar with repeatedly jumping on the koopa troopa coming down the stairs at the end of 3-1 or other levels for virtually unlimited lives
But how about fireball ability while small? Yes I've done this, you need to be fighting bowser in any -4 level and be fire mario. Run under/over bowser and stand next to the switch. Now this takes practice and timing, what you need to do is jump and hit the switch and bowser at exactly the same time. If it works, you'll hear the 'shrink' noise and bowser will fall. When you start the next level you will be small, orange and white and wield fireballs!
Capt_N said:
Note for all reading this: Most games on VC are the original game/rom image. So, those particular exact-copy games bear all their original errors/etc.
@BellGoRiiing: Minus World is actually 7-2(which itself is a repeat of 2-2, w/ more enemies) looped. From what little I know about why the glitch occurs, it basically happens b/c you go down the warp zone pipes, w/o the "Welcome To The Warp Zone". If that text doesn't occur, the game hasn't changed the pointers to where the pipes take you, thereby taking you to where they point by default. The pipe that goes to world 3 takes you to world 5-1. The pipes that take you to worlds 2, & 4 both take you to world 36-1, which is represented in game code/on-screen text as -1. A blank space is the numeral 36 in the game's character table.
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(CNN) -- Mary and Carol Higgins Clark are perhaps one of the most popular mother-daughter tandems in the publishing world. Mary Higgins Clark is the top-selling female suspense writer in the United States, and her newest book, "You Belong to Me," has 45 million copies in print in the U.S. alone. On top of that, she was recently voted "Mother of the Year" by the Mother's Day Committee.
Carol Higgins Clark, meanwhile, is also a success. She's an actress, and has a new novel titled "Twanged". Both women appeared on CNN Sunday Morning on Mother's Day.
CNN ANCHOR LEON HARRIS: Happy mother's day to you.
HARRIS: Hey, how does that feel to be "Mother of the Year"?
MARY HIGGINS CLARK: Well, I was very flattered. I asked Carol if she voted.
HARRIS: Did you?
CAROL HIGGINS CLARK: I wasn't asked to vote. But I would have voted for her definitely.
HARRIS: Carol, what kind of mom is Mary?
CAROL HIGGINS CLARK: She's a terrific mother. She really is. She always has been. She's always taught us not to get upset about the little things, and as a matter of fact, we tease her. Because if you would come home with a great big problem and tell her about it, she would say, "Yes, but do you know so-and-so has a much bigger problem than you do."
HARRIS: There you go. Some perspective for you, huh?
MARY HIGGINS CLARK: Everything in perspective. That's right.
HARRIS: I've got one question I was begged to ask you this morning. And this is about you, Mary. You write these suspenseful, scary kind of stories. What kind of bed-time stories did you tell Carol?
MARY HIGGINS CLARK: "Now, children, go to sleep. I don't want you to worry when you hear the creaking on the stairs. The ghost promised he wouldn't show up tonight."
HARRIS: Carol, was it really that bad?
CAROL HIGGINS CLARK: She used to say, "There's a man behind the curtain. But don't worry about it."
HARRIS: Now, she didn't do that to you. Did she?
CAROL HIGGINS CLARK: No, she really didn't. No. It was later in life that she started writing these spooky stories. It was when I was in college, actually.
HARRIS: Mary, I want to know what you think is the real root of your success. It seems like every time you put pen to paper now, it's a guaranteed million seller, if not more. What do think is your secret? If you had to bottle it and sell it, what would you say the secret was?
MARY HIGGINS CLARK: Well, I think the secret for any successful writer is to be a storyteller. I heard (Nobel Prize winner) Isaac Bashevis Singer say that years ago. He said, "I do not care how eloquent your phrase is, how polished your prose, unless you are a storyteller, you are not a writer."
He said in medieval times the storyteller went from castle to castle. He began with the magical words "Once upon a time," and everyone went "shhhh" and drew closer to the fire.
Begin your books with those words. I think I'm an Irish storyteller. I don't write a book. I hang over the back fence and talk about the neighbors."
HARRIS: Tell us about "You Belong To Me."
MARY HIGGINS CLARK: "You Belong To Me" is about a psychologist who had been a prosecutor, which means she had a trained mind, has a radio show and starts to discuss a woman who was missing from a cruise ship three years earlier. And she starts to get phone-ins.
You know: "A man approached me on a cruise ship. And we never dated on the ship. He said 'let's not be seen. Let's not be talked about. And I would meet him at the different ports. And he gave me a ring that said 'You Belong To Me.'"
So I had a serial killer tracking lonely women on up-scale cruise ships. And I think that's a sweet idea, don't you?
HARRIS: Yes, that works. That's a nice cheery thing.
HARRIS: Carol, how about your book "Twanged?" As I understand it, there's a bit of an autobiographical twinge here?
CAROL HIGGINS CLARK: My female private investigator, Regan Reiley, her mother is a mystery writer. And she is a continuing character. So she's in all my books. But in "Twanged," I have a country singer who has a hit single whose mother is from Ireland. And she has been given a fiddle by her mentor from Ireland, but it turns out it has a curse on it if it leaves Ireland.
And she's heading to the Hampton's for a music festival. And Regan Reiley is there to protect her.
MARY HIGGINS CLARK: It's a very funny book. I write the psychological suspense. She writes the tongue-and-cheek humor and does very, very well.
HARRIS: Exactly, and that's why the two of you seem to offer such a great balance for folks that do keep track of the work of both of you. You guys ever steal ideas from each other?
MARY HIGGINS CLARK: No, I tried to steal an (idea about) a Santa Claus who was a fake. And Carol said, "You can't do that. That's what I'm writing in my book."
CAROL HIGGINS CLARK: One time she tried to use the name of a character that I had already used. I said to her, "Everyone's going to think I'm copying you. You can't use that name."
So that's the only thing we really argue about. We go around together. We did a book signing together yesterday. It's really a lot of fun to be in the same field together. We go to mystery writer's dinners and conventions together. So it's nice.
MARY HIGGINS CLARK: You know, it's the same as though a doctor says, you know, "My son or my daughter is going to be a doctor." And everyone says, "Isn't that wonderful? Aren't you proud?"
For some crazy reason, they think that a writer might resent another writer in the family. I had always said that Carol would support me in my declining years. But I got married, so she's off the hook.
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} | 808 | January 20, 2006 -- Defining exactly what Chiari is is not an easy task. Because Hans Chiari first described the condition in terms of the cerebellar tonsils herniating out of the skull, most people define Chiari as tonsillar herniation of greater than 3mm-5mm. Herniation is defined (or measured) as the distance below the foramen magnum, or the opening at the bottom of the skull through which the brain and spine meet.
While this definition is still widely used today (potentially to the harm of many patients), research has continued to show that the amount of tonsillar herniation is not related to severity of symptoms or clinical outcome. In fact, some people have significant herniations, greater than 3mm, with no symptoms. In fact, one study examined over 12,000 MRI's (Elster et al.) and found that over 30% of the people who had herniations greater than 5mm were symptom free.
Conversely, some people exhibit classic Chiari-type symptoms with little to no herniation. Having symptoms with no herniation is sometimes referred to as Chiari 0, and has become a controversial subject. Some surgeons believe that operating on Chiari 0 type patients is beneficial, while others remain skeptical.
Unfortunately, the way Chiari is defined now causes problems for patients in two ways. Some patients, with significant herniations and symptoms, are told that Chiari is no big deal, lots of people have herniations, and that it is benign. At the other end of the spectrum, Chiari 0 patients are told they don't have Chiari because there is only a little herniation, and their symptoms are dismissed as being due to something like stress, or emotional problems.
This limited usefulness of tonsillar herniation in defining Chiari has led many experts to base their diagnoses not solely on MRI's, but rather on a combination of MRI, cine MRI, symptoms, neurological exam, and their own experience and judgment. It has also led researchers to look beyond the herniation measurement for more useful metrics which might define the Chiari condition.
Along those lines, several research studies over the years have focused on the size of the posterior fossa region in Chiari patients. The posterior fossa is the area in the back of the skull, near the bottom where the cerebellum and brain stem are situated. Research has shown that in general, Chiari patients have smaller posterior fossa's than average people. This has led to the theory that Chiari is not a disorder of the brain, but rather a result of the skull being too small for a normal sized brain.
Now, a team from the Allegheny Neuroscience Institute in Pittsburgh, led by Dr. Sekula and Dr. Jannetta, have extended this line of research and shown that so-called Chiari 0 patients tend to have small posterior fossa's, similar to Chiari I patients. They published their work in December, 2005 in the journal Cerebrospinal Fluid Research.
Specifically, they looked at 22 patients who were suffering from Chiari like symptoms (see Table 1) and compared their MRI's to 25 people with no evidence of Chiari or syringomyelia (they had been treated for trigeminal neuralgia). The Chiari 0 group [Ed. note: the authors did not use the term Chiari 0 in their paper, they referred to the group as Chiari-like] was comprised of 15 women and 7 men. On average they had been experiencing symptoms for more than 7 years, and none had been treated surgically.
The patients were given a complete exam, and filled out both a symptom check-list and a personality assessment. The personality assessment was designed to identify anyone with emotional problems or who was depressed. In addition, the group underwent MRI's which were then reviewed by a physician who did not know their diagnosis.
Based upon the results from other studies, the team decided to look at nine different measurements in the posterior fossa region (see image below).
They found that in the Chiari 0 group, 4 of the nine measurements were significantly different from the control group (see Table 2). The clivus, the basiocciput, and the basisphenoid were all smaller in the Chiari group, and the tentorial angle was steeper. Interestingly, the most significant difference between the two groups was the clivus. An article in the December issue of Chiari & Syringomyelia News (Tracing The Origins Of Chiari) reported on a study which hypothesized that Chiari is due to a problem in the development of this exact structure It should also be noted that the size of the cerebellum was not significantly different between the two groups.
While the authors believe that their findings indicate that the current definition of Chiari may be too restrictive, they are cautious about the surgical implications until more research is done. At this time, they do not recommend surgery for patients with minimal herniation, but suggest observation instead.
The findings from one study are not likely to eliminate the controversy surrounding Chiari 0, but it is certainly a start.
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} | 285 | From: Stephen Carlson (
Date: Tue Nov 14 1995 - 16:48:46 EST
I haven't seen any replies to this, but there have been computer
problems last week, so I apologize in advance if I am retreading
old ground.
Edgar M. Krentz wrote:
> The question is complicated by the context, since v.41 sys that Jesus had
> pity on the man (SPLAGXNISQEIS). The western text tradition, representedby
> Codex D and the Latin MSS a ff2 r1 reprent both one Old Latin and two Vg
> Mss reads ORGISQEIS instead of EMBRIMIHSAMENOS, apparently to remove the
> conflict with v. 43.
I think that more consideration needs to be given to the Western
reading. From a source critical perspective, I frankly can't see
how both Matthew and Luke would agree to remove SPLAGXNISQEIS, since
Matthew includes it even where Mark does not (20:34, cf. Mk10:52),
and Luke uses it to describe Jesus in his own special material (7:13).
On the other hand, while Mark does not use ORGISQEIS to describe Jesus
elsewhere, he did use MET' ORGHS at 3:5, which is lacking in the other
parallels (Mt12:13 Lk6:10).
ORGISQEIS fits the context better(*), and its harsh description of
Jesus, which Matthew and Luke do not include, may well be a "harder
reading" which was smoothed to SPLAGXNISQEIS. If ORGISQEIS is the
correct reading here, then EMBRIMHSAMENOS presents little difficulty.
Stephen Carlson
(*) I'm aware that fitting the context better is also an argument
for being less original (i.e., an "easier reading"), but we need to
consider the whole picture.
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La Russa, a Californian who holds a law degree, said in late June that he supports the law: "I'm actually a supporter of what Arizona is doing," La Russa said. "If the national government doesn't fix your problem, you've got a problem. You've got to fix it yourself. That's just part of the American way." La Russa graduated from Florida State law school in 1978 and passed the bar the following year, making him one of five manager/lawyers in MLB history.
Pujols, who had remained silent on the law--in his typical stoic, non-confrontational deference to the equally intense and competitive manager--has spoken out against it along with some other players who have criticized the law this week, USA Today reports:
Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols refused comment on whether the game should be moved, saying it's out of his control, but did say he opposed the law.
Said Pujols Monday: "I'm opposed to it. How are you going to tell me that, me being Hispanic, if you stop me and I don't have my ID, you're going to arrest me? That can't be.''
Relevant background information: this follows an extremely rare (possibly the first ever) dugout yelling incident between Pujols and La Russa in May. With two outs and Pujols at the plate, La Russa gave the signal for outfielder Ryan Ludwick (who is not very fast) to steal second. He got thrown out, and the inning ended. Pujols displayed his disgust, flipping a couple trays of gum in the dugout, and La Russa told him, "that's enough," then added "I [expletive deleted] how to manage!" Disagreement over immigration policy was not reported as a motivating factor in the steal sign.
More back-story: both Pujols's and La Russa's fates with the Cardinals organization are up in the air. La Russa is under a one-year contract extension; he and pitching coach Dave Duncan (who has been with La Russa since his Oakland days) are getting old, and they might not be back next year. Pujols, meanwhile, will soon enter free agency, and his new contract will be negotiated after this season. The two have traditionally gotten along, or so it's always appeared. If Tony goes, it's possible Pujols will go too, depending on who replaces him.
Back to immigration: why not judge this issue on the comparative records of Pujols and La Russa, rather than SB 1070's actual legal merits? La Russa is the third-winningest manager of all time and the winningest active manager, fewer than 100 games ahead of Bobby Cox; he's won five pennants and two World Series titles. Pujols, on the other hand, is fourth all-time in slugging percentage and 21st all-time in batting average; he was the first player to hit 30+ home runs in each of his first nine seasons; he's a three-time NL MVP; he won a Gold Glove at first base in 2006.
Despite the Justice Department's pending lawsuit, we will probably have to wait at least another five years, to see how the rest of Pujols's career goes, to know whether Arizona was within its constitutional bounds in passing SB 1070. | http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/07/albert-pujols-vs-tony-la-russa-on-arizonas-immigration-law/59658/ | robots: classic
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Im not sure how to word what I want to do so I apologise in advance
I'm currently writing unit tests for some legacy code as part of my job. One of these bits of code is a (Java) HttpServlet which provides a re-direct URL. Essentially the code looks like this:
public class Server extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
String url = "....";
.. // do some work to create that url
As part of my unit test for this class I want to test that redirect URL created. So I would do something along the lines of:
Server server = new Server();
server.doGet(request, response);
String url = getRedirectURL(response);
// test URL returned
What's the best way to 'getRedirectURL' from the response?
I'm currently using Junit and Jmock (both latest versions). I create a Mock HttpServletRequest and I can easily create a mock HttpServletResponse and add an expectation for the sendRedirect(url) method IF I knew the expected format of the URL, however I do not.
My attempt was to create a mock class, implementing HttpServletResponse which stored the value of the url and then allowed me to retrieve it later. i.e.
private class MockHttpServletResponse implements HttpServletResponse {
String url;
public String getURL() {
return url;
public void sendRedirect(String url) {
this.url = url;
However, because it implements an interface Java wants me to implement ALL the methods in HttpServletResponse which I really don't want to do.
Thank you in advance :) i'll try and re-word this
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If you use JMock, you only have to implement the methods which are called. See the JMock docs for examples. – Peter Lawrey Sep 6 '11 at 16:09
Hi Josh, What is it about the response that you are wanting to test? If you don't know or care what the URL could be then is it enough to just test that it is not null? – Kevin Stembridge Sep 6 '11 at 16:17
I care what the URL is, that's the annoying thing. I can test that the sendRedirect method is called with a (non-null) String like: response.sendRedirect(with(a(String.class))); but I want to run tests against the value of the URL returned. – Josh England Sep 7 '11 at 7:49
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You need to implement a custom matcher. See Writing New Matchers
A custom matcher allows you to test exactly what you want, but it will also allow you to store the value that is passed to the matcher, so that you can retrieve it later:
From the jmock site:
import org.hamcrest.AbstractMatcher;
public class StringStartsWithMatcher extends TypeSafeMatcher<String> {
private String prefix;
private String calledValue; // ADDED THIS
public StringStartsWithMatcher(String prefix) {
this.prefix = prefix;
public String getCalledValue() {
return calledValue;
public boolean matchesSafely(String s) {
this.calledValue = s; // AND HERE
return s.startsWith(prefix);
public StringBuffer describeTo(Description description) {
return description.appendText("a string starting with ").appendValue(prefix);
public static Matcher<String> aStringStartingWith( String prefix ) {
return new StringStartsWithMatcher(prefix);
public class MyTestCase {
public void testSomething() {
TypeSafeMatcher<String> matcher = aStringStartingWith("http")
context.checking(new Expectations() {{
oneOf (logger).error(with(matcher));
// more tests using matcher.getCalledValue()
So you're storing the url value in calledValue, which you're then retrieving through getCalledValue().
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That's awesome :) thanks :D <3 – Josh England Sep 7 '11 at 12:00
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I'm guessing you just want to confirm that the sendRedirect method was invoked on the response mock but you don't care what the value was. If that's the case you can set an expectation like this:
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unfortunately I care what the value set is :( – Josh England Sep 7 '11 at 7:51
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Given this is all taking place in a unit test, can you not predict what the URL will be and so match it? That said, it's often worth using matchers to pull out just the features that you care about, which makes the test more focussed.
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How do I stop feeling shame for watching shows on the CW? Please advise. —Erin
I get this question in various forms a lot. "Oh, I probably shouldn't tell you this, but my guilty pleasure is a dumb show on the CW," people always say sheepishly. (It's always Supernatural, by the way, and they are always very surprised when I guess it. Walk in the light, Supernatural fans! It is okay!) Cut that crap out right now. I'm ashamed of some of the bad choices I've made, and I feel guilty about times in my life when I hurt someone, times I've lived with less integrity than I want to. But feeling shame about having seen every Gossip Girl? Hell, no. Disabuse yourself of the concept of guilty pleasures, because that puritanical garbage has got to stop. Pleasure's pleasure. Watch Supernatural and Reign and Arrow and Top Model if you like them. Life's hard enough, and shame never got anyone anywhere good.
Of all the seemingly very likable/watchable USA Network shows (Suits, White Collar, etc.), which one should I watch first? @abbygardner
Suits. I liked the first two seasons of White Collar okay, and I was a total Psych devotee for many years, but Suits is the way to go here. I didn't love the pilot, though; I'd say start at episode four or five and cope with the confusion, and then once you're into it, go back and watch the early eps. Suits is a perfect example of a cable show that's a little bit better than it has to be. The dialogue is snappier than you'd expect, the production values just a smidge higher, the writing and plotting savvier than just any old procedural.
Doctor Who — I think maybe it's just my television sensibilities, but I can't do it. I like some campy things, but it's just too goofy. I know so many people who are in love with it. And I've seen "Blink" and I liked it, but when I've tried to watch other episodes, I couldn't hold out. Is there a way into the series or is it just not for me? I loved Peter Capaldi so much on The Hour and I would love to watch more of him, but I'm not sure I can handle it. —Kevin
I'm with you. Doctor Who is a terrific show that I simply cannot get into. I've watched 20 or so episodes, too, so it's not for lack of trying. It's just too campy for me. Like … Cassandra, the talking sideways vagina made out of pizza skin? I cannot. I tried getting more into the emotional side of things, digging way in with Rose and the Tenth Doctor (and even crying my eyes out "Journey's End"), and still it just never sat right with me. I took another swing with the Eleventh Doctor, trying to invest in Amy and Rory and Riversong and everything, but every time the real emotional resonance hit, some supposed-to-be-scary Dalek would roll in bleating "exterminate," but all I could see was a cruddy stray shopping cart in a parking lot. The show just doesn't click for me. Obviously the Peter Capaldi episodes haven't aired yet, so I can't speak to them in particular, but if you're not feeling it, you're not feeling it. We can't have everything.
I have a solid few months of maternity leave coming up. I want to get a lineup of shows together that I haven't seen but my husband won't care (too much) if he misses. (And that I can pause a lot to deal with nursing, changing diapers, interacting with my child, etc.) The major gaps in my viewing history are The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Buffy. If I do Buffy, do I need Veronica Mars, too? What else should I be going for? I also like the little one-season-wonders as palate cleansers between big binge-watches. Assume no Netflix/streaming besides HBO Go, but willing to buy/borrow DVDs as needed. —SarahAreBee
First of all, congratulations on the impeding arrival of Baby AreBee. Second of all, my guess is that Mad Men, The Sopranos, Buffy, and Veronica Mars are going to be a little too much show for you during maternity leave. All four of those shows are designed for devoted, serious viewing, and it's possible that your energies will be focused elsewhere during this time. (Or maybe not! There’s no one right way to be on maternity leave!) I asked a few of my friends who are parents what they watched on their maternity and paternity leaves, and they generally recommended gentler series, and several of them mentioned that they barely remembered most of the content of said shows. (Again, not true for everyone! You don't have to take my word for it, etc.! If this is going to be a very concentrate-able time for you, go ahead and watch Mad Men!) Many new parents find instances of violence, particularly violence against children, to be tough to watch in those first few months, too, which is why I might steer you away from the current list you have. With that in mind, my No. 1 recommendation is Gilmore Girls. No violence, very loving relationship between a parent and child, and absolutely as snappy as Buffy, but without any real mythology. GG is also easier to jump in and out of, so if you can't remember exactly what happened on the previous episode or perhaps dozed for a moment or two, you're not really going to be too lost. If you want something a little darker to scratch an antihero itch, those first few seasons of House are incredible, but again, pretty easy to fade in and out of (and just skip the episodes about sick kids). And as far as HBO Go palate-cleansers are concerned, Bored to Death is your jam. Smart, funny, distinctive, and even in its most cynical moments, there's a strain of joyfulness and playfulness that comes through. A few months from now, if you don't remember the exact details of the characters, you'll remember you at least had a good time hanging out with them.
I want to start watching Adventure Time, but it's such a massive undertaking I don't even know where to begin. Tips? @jamie__pm
Seems kind of obvious, but start at the beginning. Or start with season three, episode five: "Too Young." Not for any real reason, I just really like that episode. Jump around for a while, and then once you're hooked, go back and dig in from the get-go. Adventure Time has an incredibly consistent hit rate, so it's hard to go too wrong.
My question is on the topic of Aaron Sorkin and misogyny. I didn't watch The West Wing while it was airing, but started watching recently, sometime after I watched the first season of The Newsroom. While The Newsroom was airing, I read — and concurred with — a lot of criticisms of the misogynistic treatment of female characters as shrill or bumbling or incompetent or otherwise somehow inferior to their male colleagues and superiors. Then watching The West Wing with this in the back of my mind, I couldn't stop seeing the same things happening in that show! So my question: Am I crazy for seeing all this misogyny? Like, did The Newsroom make me paranoid and I'm seeing things that aren't there in TWW? Or is it possible that both shows are misogynistic, and The Newsroom is just more blatant about it; or that since The Newsroom came out a decade later, after TV audiences had seen a number of legitimately strong female characters on other shows, that the misogyny is more obvious by comparison to the rest of TV than it was in 2000? (Or did people think The West Wing was misogynistic when it was airing and there just isn't a huge internet record of it?) —Jean
You're not crazy. The portrayals of female characters on TWW often leave a lot to be desired, and many of the male characters say and do things that make my skin crawl. I am as devoted to Josh Lyman as any Lemon-Lyman fangirl, but I distinctly remember shuddering the first time I heard him declare to Toby, "Sam's getting beat by a girl!" (And no, episodes like "The Crackpots and These Women" do not help; the opposite of being degraded isn't being revered — it's being seen as a fully complex human being.)
The big difference between TWW and Newsroom isn't their respective eras, though. It's everything else on the show. Many of the male characters on TWW are casually sexist and many of the female characters are presented as ditzy; they are also funny and smart and vulnerable and passionate about good government. The stories have both moments of levity and moments of seriousness, and I legitimately want everyone to be happy and fulfilled. I would vote for Bartlet. I would vote for Sam. I would vote for Andi. On The Newsroom, the misogyny feels more entrenched, plus the characters themselves are not richly developed. Take the chronic woman-hating away from season one's Will MacAvoy, and all that's left is a well-cut sweater and a one-liner about the NFL. I would not watch News Night. I would not work for Mackenzie.
I love The West Wing. I've loved that show for 15 years; I used to tape the episodes as I watched them, and then immediately watch them again. I've seen my favorite episodes probably 30 times, and I've ripped the director commentary tracks as MP3s so I can listen to them when I take long walks. It's possible to both love the show and to recoil at its misogyny. We're allowed to like problematic things, or to like something but not like every single aspect of it; you can have a favorite album but have a least-favorite song on it. If I hold out for a show with perfect gender politics, I'll never be able to watch anything ever. So if the sexism on TWW bugs you to a point that you don't like the show, I understand, and I can't really fault you. But if you're looking for permission to be both bothered by some aspects of the show and to enjoy other aspects of the series, well, permission granted.
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I do understand about taxes go to programes for the public. That is what taxes are for. (I just meant more taxes than what we are currently paying) And I do understand that not everyone pays taxes. I would like to know how Obama made it worse than pre 2008. Well I guess I am wrong but I thought that his claim, just like every other false claim was to reduce the deficit, reduce taxes all while improving the over all situation of the country What policy Obama has implemented that would cause government to grow. It isn't that programs have been implemented yet, but the writing is on the wall based on his intentions, especially when we are out of money. How could he possibility pay for these proposed programs if he's out of money? Take a guess.It just seems to me that some people say Obama is the cause but not back it up. If I made the statement that he did "x" and "x" then I would be wrong. I mentioned many posts ago that no matter who got that job for the current term was going to be fighting an uphill battle. "Big Government" when it becomes big government perpetuates it self.
Thank you toast for for your input. I'm not trying to be difficult here but this goes back to the original question. What has Obama done or hasn't done to deserve to be re-elected.
His changes that he said he was going to make, if he has in fact made them, have not improved on a system that needs so much improvement. Any small legitimate improvement for the good of the nation would make the argument for the current president a strong one, no matter who it was
So yes the question is "What has he done?" Nothing that I can tell and its time to take a different approach, in my very humble opinion.
Let it be known, if it isn't already painfully obvious, that I know as much as I need to to sound like I am full of caca. So, (like usual) in very interested in learning more about this so when asked I can form a more informed and better educated opinion.
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"Bridesmaid's" Kristen Wiig (left) fakes suicide to jump start her playwright career and gets put in custody of her gambling-addicted mom Annette Bening in "Girl Most Likely," in theaters July 19.
Amanda Seyfried plays the pioneering "Deep Throat" porn star in the flick "Lovelace," in theaters Aug. 9.
"The Heat" opened to $39 million over the weekend. That's a nice number, considering it's about what the female buddy-cop comedy cost to make. It was better than the very good $35.4 million opening co-star Melissa McCarthy's hit comedy "Identity Thief" enjoyed in February, way better than the $26 million first weekend superhit "Bridesmaids" had two years ago -- and it humiliated the testosterone-driven, $150 million action spectacular "White House Down," which premiered this weekend, quite inadequately, to less than $25 million.
All of which is good news, obviously, for women in Hollywood, who have had it pretty rough of late.
A study published by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism earlier this year noted that in 2012's top 100 box-office hits, only 28.4 percent of the speaking roles were for women and just 16.7 of the key directing, writing and producing positions went to females.
Not unexpectedly, that has resulted in disproportionately sexualized, idealized and otherwise underdimensionalized onscreen portrayals of the fairer sex. And as has been widely reported, "The Heat" is the only women-led movie major Hollywood studios are releasing this summer.
But the success of "The Heat" will change all that, right? Ha-ha. Sounds like something only a man would say.
" 'The Heat' shouldn't be a big deal. It shouldn't be some watershed moment in the history of women in film," said Anne Thompson, a longtime industry observer and editor of the website Thompson on Hollywood. "It should be something that's normal, everyday. What I've realized over the years is that every time there's a step forward in the form of a big hit that women flock to -- "Sex and the City," "Twilight," "Bridesmaids," "Beaches" back in the day -- people act as if they were just discovering something."
That may be because, no matter how much success individual women-led films have repeatedly had, the Hollywood machine is geared more and more every year toward the crude comedies and fantasy blockbusters that tend to suck in the valued first-weekend audience of young males and play well throughout international markets. Their outrageous humor, big fights and explosive action translates easier overseas than the more verbal and emotionally nuanced stories women typically create and headline.
That's just how studio development people are geared to think. Even when such films as "Bridesmaids" and now "Heat" prove girls can be just as raunchy or tough as the man-boys who dominate Hollywood.
"It's insane," declared Paul Feig -- a man, true, but, as the director of the two aforementioned hits, one who clearly appreciates strong, flawed, funny women. "It's embarrassing that it's 2013 and we're having a discussion like this. But it comes down to economics, and Hollywood is a business. If their business models show that women don't show up to see other women or ... I don't know what these business models are, to be quite honest. But I've had them thrown at me enough in my career.
"It's ridiculous to fall back on an excuse to not do something," he reckoned. "I have had producers and people in the business who have occasionally told me, 'You don't want to get pigeonholed as the Women's Guy.' Why wouldn't I? Is Martin Scorsese worried about being pigeonholed as a guy who directs a lot of men? It makes no sense."
Lucky stars like Bullock, McCarthy and Meryl Streep (not so long ago the Queen of Summer but who is uncharacteristically MIA this season) aside, actresses are noticing the lack of decent jobs in, at least, high-paying, widely distributed studio films. "It's been hard finding a great female role," said Rooney Mara, who appeared in "The Social Network" and was Oscar nominated for "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" but has only been making independent films for the past few years. "There are so many great scripts or movies where the female role isn't that great."
"I think it's true there are not as many women's roles as men's, and a lot of times they tend to be these archetypal wise women or girlfriends -- kind of two-dimensional to move the plot forward," said Mireille Enos, who has the role of, yes, Brad Pitt's wife in the summer blockbuster "World War Z." Like many actresses, she has found steadier, more challenging work on smaller screens, where she headlines AMC's series "The Killing."
"Even though it's good it's being spoken about, there is so much going on," acknowledged Gemma Arterton, a British actress with two very different, independently produced movies in L.A. theaters at the moment: the erotic vampire thriller "Byzantium" and the feel-good geriatric dramedy "Unfinished Song." "It's very much bubbling, I really feel like it's going to happen soon. There are certain TV shows and films that have been made that prove there is a better market for the female voice. People will go and are interested in seeing what's real and stuff like that. The problem is, it's really hard to get financing, Even for 'Byzantium,' we found it so hard to make this movie because there was no lead male in it."
Wait a minute, a dedicated L.A. moviegoer might say. Sure, indie financing is increasingly difficult, but that hasn't stopped a wide array of strong, complex, compellingly imperfect and just plain realistic portrayals of women this year in such diverse titles as "Frances Ha," "Stories We Tell," "The East," "The Bling Ring," "Much Ado About Nothing" and, prurience aside, even the occasionally empowering "Spring Breakers."
July and August offer up another fine batch of female-heavy indies: "Just Like a Woman," starring Sienna Miller; "The Hot Flashes," with Brooke Shields, Virginia Madsen and Daryl Hannah; "Girl Most Likely," starring "Bridesmaids" creator Kristen Wiig; Woody Allen's "Blue Jasmine," with Cate Blanchett; the semiautobiographical "To Do List," by up-and-coming director Maggie Carey; writer-director-star Lake Bell's "In a World..."; the Mara-starring "Ain't Them Bodies Saints," "Lovelace," with Amanda Seyfried; "Austenland," from first-time director Jerusha Hess and starring Keri Russell; and "Short Term 12," with rising star Brie Larson
Looks like a veritable feast of feminine diversity. Just keep in mind that all these films put together will probably play on just a fraction of the screens "Man of Steel" opened to across North America.
The Sundance Institute and the nonprofit Women in Film commissioned another USC study that found a higher percentage of women in key behind-the-lens positions on features that have been programmed at the Sundance Film Festival (16.9 percent directed by women over 11 years) than on the box-office top 100 (a minuscule 4.1 percent last year).
Sundance is implementing a mentorship program, and WIF is trying to teach women to focus as much on the financial as the creative elements of the projects they are pitching. Schulman also hopes that getting the word out about the statistics to agencies and production companies, as well as endeavoring to dispel myths such as women can't multitask as well as men when it comes to family-versus-work concerns, will help turn the situation around.
"I don't think that men in Hollywood are necessarily trying to keep women down in some huge agenda," Schulman said. "I think it's more that we've got a sort of cultural ennui, where we've been doing the same things the same way for so long that changing and acknowledging the need is half the battle."
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325 F.2d 793
TURF CENTER, INC., Allen A. Goldberg, Milton Hyatt and Myer Mayor Fox, Appellants,
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.
No. 18452.
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.
December 10, 1963.
Rehearing Denied January 14, 1964.
Murray B. Guterson, and Max R. Nicolai, Seattle, Wash., for appellants.
Brockman Adams, U. S. Atty., and David J. Dorsey, Asst. U. S. Atty., Seattle, Wash., for appellee.
Before MERRILL and DUNIWAY, Circuit Judges, and TAYLOR, District Judge.
TAYLOR, District Judge.
The appellants were convicted in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Northern Division, on four counts of an Indictment, each count charging a violation of Title 18 U.S.C. § 1952.1 They were charged as principals under 18 U.S.C. § 2. Each count is identical except for the date on which the offense was alleged to have been committed.2
The record discloses that in May, 1962, the appellants purchased a business in Seattle, Washington, known as the Turf Smoke Shop, Inc., where among other things, there was conducted "pull-tab" games. Admittedly this operation involved betting and wagering on sporting events, occurring from time to time throughout the United States, in violation of the anti-gambling laws of the State of Washington. After the appellants purchased the business it was operated under the name of Turf Center, Inc., in the same manner as it had been operated. There was located in and upon the premises of this enterprise a Western Union Telegraph Company wire service which formed a loop through Chicago, Illinois, where the scores and results of various national sporting events were correlated and dispatched to the Turf Center in Seattle. This wire facility was used by appellants to obtain up-to-the-minute reports of scores and results while sporting events were in progress and at their termination; all for the purpose of promoting and facilitating the betting and wagering games being conducted by appellants.
Appellants have specified eight errors, none of which has merit. We consider them in the order assigned.
Under Specification of Error No. 1, appellants contend that 18 U.S.C. § 1952 violates the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and a portion of the Sixth Amendment because the application of the statute is vague and its language fails to apprise a man of common intelligence of what conduct he must avoid to be certain he does not run afoul of its provisions.
A statute meets the standard of certainty required by the Constitution if its language conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practices. United States v. Petrillo, 332 U.S. 1, 67 S.Ct. 1538, 91 L. Ed. 1877 (1948); Gorin v. United States, 312 U.S. 19, 61 S.Ct. 429, 85 L.Ed. 488 (1941). Neither the word "facilitate" nor the phrase "any facility" are vague, indefinite or uncertain as contended. See United States v. Smith, 209 F.Supp. 907, 918 (D.C., Ill., 1962); United States v. Barrow, 212 F.Supp. 837, 840 (D.C.Pa., 1962); and United States v. Teemer, 214 F.Supp. 952, 956 (D.C.Va., 1963). The argument that the word "involving" creates vagueness because it leaves uncertain and indefinite both the degree and remoteness of the involvement in gambling required of the business enterprise is without merit. The fact that in some cases it may be difficult to determine the side of the line on which a particular fact situation falls is not sufficient reason to hold the language too ambiguous to define a criminal offense. United States v. Petrillo, supra. Finally, appellants' argument that the word "gambling" refers to gambling as it was known to the common law and that it does not have reference to the phrase "offenses in violation of the laws of the State in which they are committed or of the United States" leads to an absurd result, especially in the light of the statute's legislative history.
The statute meets the standard of certainty required by the Constitution. The case of Winters v. New York, 333 U.S. 507, 68 S.Ct. 665, 92 L.Ed. 840 (1948) and similar cases relied on by appellants are inapposite.
By appellants' second Specification it is claimed that Title 18 U.S.C. § 1952 is unconstitutional because it denies equal protection of the laws on the theory that, if read to apply only in states where gambling is illegal, residents of such states are discriminated against and hence denied equality under the law guaranteed by the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.
Legislation which constitutes an exercise by Congress of its plenary power over commerce is not repugnant to the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment merely because of variation in State laws. Clark Distilling Company v. Western Maryland Railway Company, 242 U.S. 311, 37 S.Ct. 180, 61 L.Ed. 326 (1916). Cf. United States v. Ryan, 213 F.Supp. 763, 766 (D.C.Colo., 1963).
Specification No. 3 attacks Counts V, VII, IX, and XI, the counts on which appellants were convicted, as being obscure and vague in violation of Rule 7(c) Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.3
It will be noted that each of these counts is substantially in the words of Section 1952, the statute in question. Appellants argue that the precise nature of the gambling offenses should have been set forth in detail in order to be properly apprised of the offense charged. The violation of the State statutes was an element of the offense and not the gravamen of the charge.
An indictment is sufficient if it contains the elements of the offense contended to be charged, and sufficiently apprises the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet. Hagner v. United States, 285 U.S. 427, 431, 52 S.Ct. 417, 419, 76 L.Ed. 861 (1932); United States v. Debrow, 346 U.S. 374, 376, 74 S.Ct. 113, 114, 98 L.Ed. 92 (1953).4
It cannot be convincingly argued here that the statute does not embody all the elements of the offense nor that the counts questioned in the indictment do not substantially adhere to the wording of Section 1952. Appellants were sufficiently apprised of what they had to meet by the allegations in each of the counts. The case of Russell v. United States, 369 U.S. 749, 82 S.Ct. 1038, 8 L.Ed.2d 240 (1962), relied on by appellants, represents an exception to the rule and is not in point here. Cf. United States v. Teemer, 214 F.Supp. 952, 957 (D.C.W.Va.1963).
Appellants also urge that because the indictment is not sufficiently specific they would be precluded from pleading former jeopardy in the event of a subsequent prosecution for the same offenses. It is contended that by using the conjunctive in each count in pleading the violation of the State and Federal anti-gambling laws as part of the unlawful activity the counts were too vague to establish former jeopardy. We do not agree.
Where a crime, denounced disjunctively in the statute, is charged in the conjunctive, the proof of any one of the allegations will sustain a conviction. Arellanes v. United States, 302 F.2d 603, 609, (9th Cir. 1962), cert. den. 371 U.S. 930, 83 S.Ct. 294, 9 L.Ed.2d 238. Thus, it is recognized that charging in one count the doing of the prohibited act in each of the prohibited modes redounds to the benefit of the accused. A judgment on a verdict of guilty upon that count will be a bar to any further prosecution in respect to any embraced by it. Crain v. United States, 162 U.S. 625, 636, 16 S.Ct. 952, 955, 40 L.Ed. 1097 (1896). See also, Korholz v. United States, 269 F.2d 897, 900, (10th Cir. 1959), cert. den. 361 U.S. 929, 80 S.Ct. 367, 4 L.Ed.2d 352 (1960); and Rule 7(c), Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
By Specifications of Error Nos. 4, 5, and 6 the appellants attack the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the convictions. During the argument before this Court counsel for appellants in essence admitted that there is little, if any, merit to these specifications and we find none. On an examination of the evidence and the inferences to be drawn therefrom, it is clear that there is substantial evidence to warrant the convictions as found by the jury. Agobian v. United States, 323 F.2d 693, (9th Cir., 1963); Foster v. United States, 318 F.2d 684, 689, (9th Cir., 1963).
By their last Specifications of Error, Nos. 7 and 8, appellants contend that the trial court erred in refusing to give and in the giving of certain instructions on specific intent. We are satisfied that the instructions, when taken as a whole, properly and sufficiently advised the jury as to the question of intent.5 Batemen v. United States, 212 F.2d 61, 70 (9th Cir., 1954); Legatos v. United States, 222 F.2d 678, 687 (9th Cir., 1955). We find there was no error in refusing to give nor the giving of any instructions.
We conclude that the convictions should be and hereby are affirmed.
18 U.S.C. § 1952:
"(1) distribute the proceeds of any unlawful activity; or
"(2) commit any crime of violence to further any unlawful activity; or
Each county alleges:
"The Grand Jury Charges:
"That on or about * * *, at Seattle, in the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington and within the jurisdiction of this Court, the defendants, * * * did use a facility in interstate commerce, to wit, the wire facilities of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which facilities operate between Chicago, Illinois and Seattle, Washington, with the intent to promote, manage, establish, carry on and facilitate the promotion, management, establishment and carrying on of an unlawful activity, to wit, a business enterprise involving gambling offenses, that is to say, gambling, betting and wagering on sporting events in violation of Title 9, Revised Code of Washington, Sections 9.47.010, 9.47.020, 9.47.030, 9.47.060, 9.47.070 and in addition, the laws of the United States, namely Title 18, United States Code, Section 1084, and that said defendants did thereafter perform and attempt to perform acts in the Western District of Washington to promote, manage, carry on and establish the said unlawful activity, all in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1952 and 2."
Rule 7(c) provides:
"The indictment or the information shall be a plain, concise and definite written statement of the essential facts constituting the offense charged. It shall be signed by the attorney for the government. It need not contain a formal commencement, a formal conclusion or any other matter not necessary to such statement. Allegations made in one count may be incorporated by reference in another count. It may be alleged in a single count that the means by which the defendant committed the offense are unknown or that he committed it by one or more specified means. The indictment or information shall state for each count the official or customary citation of the statute, rule, regulation or other provision of law which the defendant is alleged therein to have violated. Error in the citation or its omission shall not be ground for dismissal of the indictment or information or for reversal of a conviction if the error or omission did not mislead the defendant to his prejudice."
In Hagner v. United States, supra, the court states the test to be as follows:
"The true test of the sufficiency of an indictment is not whether it could have been made more definite and certain, but whether it contains the elements of the offense intended to be charged, `and sufficiently apprises the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet, and, in case any other proceedings are taken against him for a similar offence, whether the record shows with accuracy to what extent he may plead a former acquittal or conviction.'"
"In order to convict the defendants * * * you must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, * * * of each of the following elements of the offense charged:
"The second element, that such use was with the intent to promote, manage, establish, carry on, or facilitate the promotion, management, establishment and carrying on, of a business enterprise involving gambling offense in violation of the laws of the State of Washington.
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"If you entertain a reasonable doubt as to the establishment of any one of the foregoing elements, you should return a verdict of not guilty.
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"* * * Now, with respect to any crime there must exist a union or joint operation of act and intent, and the burden is always upon the government to prove both act and intent beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Jessica Alba Was Right ... We Were Wrong
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Sweden was neutral during WWII and during the cold war and is still neutral today. I did not know that Switzerland also was neutral. But now I know.
You can say whatever you like, but Alba is right. She is probably more educated than most ignorant Americans.
From a Norwegian.
1874 days ago
Get over yourselves TMZ. You guys have egg on your face for being wrong. Just wipe it off and get over it. Sweden is still a neutral country. Do your research before mouthing off. But I guess it's hard to admit that someone you consider an idiot is smarter than you.
1874 days ago
Sweden is still neutral, its not part of NATO and it didn't take side in the Cold War, so in a sense Alba is still right...
Maybe before TMZ decides its a history site they should do some research...
1874 days ago
Osman Tansel
REALLY TMZ? May be because of the distance but, do you really think that Switzerland is neutral A very very very very huge big slimy baloon.
1874 days ago
You Idiots has anyone stopped to think that they still are neutral?
And if TMZ is the source of intellectual stimulus I think I'll stick with Jess.
1874 days ago
Jessica who? Doesn't she have better things to do, like learning to carry a baby correctly?
1874 days ago
TMZ ... you are not the brightest bulbs on the tree. Sweden was not merely neutral in WWII. They have a LONG tradition of neutrality going back many years ... indeed it's neutrality goes back further than Switzerland. Sweden isn't even part of NATO.
Oh, and TMZ, the Swiss have had military officers in Afghanistan until 2008.
You guys are morons. Admit you were wrong.
Sweden is actually much more the prototypical example of a neutral country for scholars of international relations and Alba's reference shows her intelligence and your response the lack thereof.
1874 days ago
Let me repeat ... the SWISS also had troops in Afghanistan until last year! and like Sweden, they were in a non-combat role.
Sweden currently has the longest tradition of neutrality of any country in the world. It is in there Constitution and it PRECEDES the Swiss tradition.
TMZ ... you are the ones who continue to throw egg on your face.
1874 days ago
Okay, now I see people bashing Alba even though she was correct because they are saying she couldn't have known she was correct.
Dudes, if you are going to bash someone for being stupid, pick something they say that is incorrect as an example rather than picking things they say that are correct and saying they must have been too stupid to know that what they said was correct.
Using examples of correct statements that someone said in order to point out their stupidity is ... well ... STUPID.
1874 days ago
I think people who are going on and on (like Jessica) are totally missing the point. She is arrogent to the extreme! She could learn something from any neutral country or person about being diplomatic and a peacemaker rather than being devisive and a troublemaker. There is a difference between a strong woman, and a little girl who is just a little too big for her size 0 panties! She does not help the cause of the Left by making people hate her and those like her even more than they already do. If she really wanted to be politically active and do something that would making her country a better place, she would get as far away from Hollywood as she could, and find a job that really made the world a better place. I am sure her hubris would keep her from taking less money and doing a job that did not get all of the attention that she does. Like others full of pride, she will fall eventually. As high up as she has let her ego get, it is gonna' really hurt when she does!
1874 days ago
TMZ. You are a bunch of retards. Sweden has been neutral since 1814, Switzerland since 1815. Sweden is currently neutral. TMZ reporters need to take their heads out of the Spears/insert celeb attack here rubbish, and maybe read something before they report inaccuracies. You lot should be ashamed of yourselves. Uneducated loudmouths.
1874 days ago
the point is, she comes off as a stupid, ungrateful, arrogant ass. she makes herself look stupid, and then complains about it. if she can't take it, then she shouldn't dish it out. i was once a fan of hers until i found out how much of a bitch she is. after so many years in the industry she should know how to conduct herself. she's a terrible role model and she's quickly turning into the next katherine heigl.
1874 days ago
The SWISS had peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan too, MORONS!
1874 days ago
Inger from Sveden
Freaking idiots, Sweden's been neutral with regards to international conflicts since the Treaty of Kiel (in 1814.) Neutrality doesn't prevent a country from sending PEACEKEEPING troops to another country (Afghanistan, for instance.) Maybe TMZ's illiterate, half-wit, writers maybe should go back to high school (and offer Ms. Alba a real apology, while they're at it.)
1874 days ago
Sweden has claimed to be neutral since, oh, the early 1800s. I think that gives them as much claim to the term as Switzerland. The fact that most Americans automatically assume 'Switzerland' when they hear "neutral" is prolly a reflection of our poor education in world history.
Alba may have intended Switzerland instead of Sweden, but even so, she was correct in calling Sweden neutral. TMZ and O'Reilly seem really silly for calling her on this one, when she is in fact, correct.
1874 days ago
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Congressman Trey Gowdy (R- SC) said on Fox News that Obamacare will result in people leaving the workforce to write poetry. Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) suggested Obamacare will make people lazy. Both these Republicans are misinterpreting or more likely intentionally spinning last week's Obamacare report from the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO found that people who only work additional hours for access to health insurance will scale back their hours as a result of Obamacare. The result would be a loss of work hours equivalent to about 2.3 million full-time jobs. Republicans, however, cited the report as evidence that Obamacare will result in job layoffs through disincentivisation. In other words, 2.3 million people will all stop working because they prefer being lazy, and by the way, those jobs they left - will magically disappear with them.
The fact is 2 + million people will for the first time be able to choose if they so desire not to work 60 hrs. a week because they need the health insurance the job offers. Is it “lazy” for someone to want to retire early, or go back to school, or start a business of their own - all without the terrifying prospects of losing health insurance coverage? Does Trey Gowdy want us to believe that after people leave their jobs because of early retirement or scaling back on hours, those jobs will not be refilled? Does he not understand that when millions of people start up new business, jobs will be created from new business hirings as well as new hires and to refill the jobs left.
Here is a newsflash for the Republicans and their media mouthpiece Fox News disseminating this nonsense. Every industrialized country work shorter work weeks and offer longer vacation leaves (paid). This allows them to spend more time and take longer vacations with their families. This system creates a larger spread of employment among the workforce and income among the population. In turn this owers unemployment and reduces social welfare and safety net programs. Most countries encourage earlier retirement. Which opens jobs up for younger workers and those coming out of school. These young people in turn start working, and paying taxes, as a productive member of society.
The only laziness is on the part of the Republicans who are too lazy to understand the facts. Facts like the working poor who are exhausted from the stress of constantly choosing which bill to pay on time, need affordable healthcare. The middle class who have been subsidizing an unfair tax code for corporations and the rich for years and whose median wage has hardly budged in decades need affordable healhcare.The only laziness is on the part of Republican politicians like Trey Gowdy and Roy Blunt. How much of the people’s “work” do they actually do when they show up everyday in DC given how much they’re paid and those generous benefits they receive? Are they creating jobs like they said they would when they were elected or wasting time and millions of taxpayer dollars trying to “get” Obama on some phony scandal.
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Every time I create a query and run it to create a report I save the query in my Projects folder in case I have to rerun the query in the future or if I have to modify it for any reason but it seems that for some reason a query which I ran sometime in mid June was not saved. I need to see the code I used in the query because I am looking at the report and some numbers do not look right so I need to check the query to see if there was something written incorrectly in the code.
Is there anyway in some logs maybe where I might be able to see the code for the query I ran (and did not save) back in June? This would be AWSOME if I can. Thanks!
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If your SQL Server has not been restarted there may a chance that your query text might have have been cached along with its execution plan. You may want to run the following to see if query text is still in the plan.
cp.objtype AS ObjectType,
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sys.dm_exec_sql_text(cp.plan_handle) AS st
st.text LIKE '%query search criteria%'
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Thanks. I'm not sure if it has gotten reset but this code will come in handy! – JuanVelez Jul 6 '12 at 19:31
Database transaction logs only contain the physical operations on the database, not the queries that are executed.
There are several ways to capture queries running against a SQL Server instance (server-side trace, Profiler trace, Extended Events), but they had to have been running while the query was executed. The only chance to retrieve it is to look in the plan cache as another answer mentions.
SSMS Tools Pack allows you to automatically saves scripts in SSMS as they are run. This is probably your best bet, as you don't really care about the other stuff that something like a server-side trace would get you.
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Thanks! Really Appreciate it! I'll check it out. – JuanVelez Jul 6 '12 at 19:31
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The new ListView control has two properties that you might confuse when you start using the control. As you may have guessed by this post, they have different purposes (but they”re both templates).
The EmptyDataItem lets you set the aspect of the control when its DataSource property is null ,,)ie, the control will render that template when it has no items to show).
The EmptyItemTemplate is used only when you”re using grouping. When you do that, your control will output something like this:
A | B | C
D |E | F
In the previous schema, each group has at most 3 elements: each line represents a group and each letter represents an item that the control is showing. Now suppose that in the previous example you only have 5 elements:
A | B | C
D |E | XXX
If you specify a template for the EmptyItemTemplate property, then the control will render the XXX item with the contents you specify in that template.
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I'm connecting from Oracle to different databases (MS Access, MySQL, ...). When opening the connection, the metadata (table and view definitions) from remote database is read by Oracle. But when updating a remote object metadata (add column on table, view definition,...) Oracle is not noticed.
The only way I've found to refresh the metadata is to kill the heterogeneous server process (hsolesql, ...) and query again. There is any other way to do it without killing the process?
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Perhaps by changing the HS_DESCRIBE_CACHE_HWM initialization parameter for your gateway to a smaller value (1) it will not continue to cache the data. You'll take a performance hit I believe, but may be necessary if you cannot perform the DDL through the gateway (which should update the cache as well).
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It's very very interesting!. I'm going to try and see how performance is affected with this. – FerranB Apr 23 '09 at 23:06
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post-Mirror Image. Everything Tubbs had tried to tell Caroline was true.
She hadn't planned to go back to Miami. Ever, if she could help it. But Bob's mother broke her hip and couldn't afford in-home care; and Caroline couldn't juggle the constant high-keyed crisis of the ER any more without seeing Sonny on every stretcher, so she offered to go. Eloise was the least demanding patient she'd had in years. Spent most of her time knitting and gossiping with her neighbors anyway. Caroline didn't mind – she was grateful for the break.
She'd just started to miss Billy when the bodies started piling up. Another war had started, the headlines screamed. Crime families jockeying for territory. Blood would run in the streets, the anchor of the evening news insisted with barely concealed glee.
Caroline hadn't seen any blood. Then, she spent most of her time at Eloise's bungalow, not the flashy clubs on the other side of town where the elite of the underworld partied. Thoughts of Tubbs and Gina and crossfire weren't worth dwelling on – she couldn't do it any longer. She had enough worrying to do over her own family.
She was at the market when she saw him. One of those open-air markets with stalls of fresh vegetables, tables piled high with the catch of the day. Mountains of mussels in the shell, big slabs of whole red snapper and tuna. She had rounded a corner, paused at a table of homemade preserves, when his voice froze her in place.
"If I had known you were going for groceries I would have sent Cliff." Sonny. It was Sonny, she'd know that edge anywhere, the one that said you were wasting his time, but he'd put up with it awhile longer.
"Hmm. I asked for you. You think the old man would like some caviar tonight?" A light voice answered, laced with the slightest simper.
"Whatever, darling. Pick something and let's head back."
"Open spaces make you jumpy?"
"Stupid questions don't become you, Celeste. What do you think your husband will do to me if you don't come back in one piece?"
Caroline, jar in her hand, was oblivious to the annoyed bleating of the vendor as she followed the sounds around the line of vegetable stalls to the fish mongers. Twenty feet away, a young thing in spotless white was wrinkling her nose at the arrayed seafood. Her companion turned toward Caroline, tan face blank with boredom, his gaze sweeping the market as if out of habit.
The glass jar slipped from her hand and shattered at her feet with a bang. The man who looked like her ex-husband hadn't flinched, but there was a gun in his hand where there hadn't been before, the barrel aimed at the pavement, concealed against his leg. The woman laughed, high pitched and forced.
"Jeezus, Sonny. Put that thing away."
Pickled yellow peppers spattered Caroline's ankles, juice running down her shins. Sonny holstered his weapon with a smirk. He dismissed Caroline with a quick once-over and turned back to the fish.
Nothing. Nothing there at all. She was just another shopper, a housewife verging on middle age, someone to be promptly forgotten.
Her legs weren't gonna hold her much longer. Vendors flapped around her, trying to hand her paper towels, one demanding that she pay for the jar she'd broken. Sonny's attention flickered back to the scene, annoyance carving lines at his mouth. He strode over to the conflagration and the crowd parted before him, going silent. Hens before the fox.
"Here. That should cover the damages. Now, can I shop in peace?" He tossed a bill at the woman whose jar Caroline had purloined and without a single glance in her direction returned to his lovely companion.
Caroline took one of the wads of paper towels and wiped at her legs. Her eyes felt too big for her head. Sonny was moving off, a brown paper bag dangling from the woman's hand as she joined him. Without thinking, without realizing what she was doing, Caroline followed.
He was alive. He was... it was all true. Everything Tubbs had tried to tell her was true. Her breath was tight in her chest. He... looked nothing like Sonny Crockett. Burnett, Tubbs had said. He'd adopted his cover name. Become his cover.
Despite the heat he was wearing black – black silk suit, cut to fit him like a second skin. Exquisitely tailored. Nothing the Sonny she knew would have worn. She could see the familiar leather of the holster when he pulled his jacket back. At least... at least something was the same. Precisely pressed shirt, charcoal grey with dark buttons and crisp collar. And a tie – she hadn't seen Sonny in a tie since their first divorce hearing, the one that had fallen through before they'd made it into the courthouse. And before that... it had been his mother's funeral. She could count on one hand the times he'd worn a tie.
For one crazy moment she had to hold herself back from calling his name. She could call Tubbs, tell him where Sonny was. But Tubbs already knew where Sonny was. What he was. What he'd become.
Caroline stumbled. When she looked up again it was into the barrel of a gun.
"You forming a fan club or something, lady?"
She couldn't move, her attention riveted by the black metal hardware inches away from her nose.
"Comeon, Sonny. We're gonna be late."
The gun lowered an inch, two, and Caroline felt her chest seize. Sonny was staring at her. And though there was nothing, nothing familiar at all in his face, she couldn't help but recall another time, another place, where she'd been in just this position. So long ago.
"Oh God," she gasped. Her face was wet. "I'm sorry, I-"
Irritation crinkled the corners of his eyes and twisted the thin line of his mouth. He shoved the gun back under his jacket. The fabric slipped back into place with a soft whisper of silk over leather. "What is it with this place? Seems like all the wackos crawl outta the woodwork every time I leave the car."
"Sonny, I don't think-" The note of pity in the other woman's voice straightened Caroline's spine.
Sonny's hand made a choppy gesture, like he was holding back the urge to hit one of them. "What do you want?"
What did she want? God.
"Nothing. Nothing. I... you reminded me of someone I used to know." She hated herself for the words even as they escaped her. Stupid. What a stupid thing to say.
Sonny let out a snort. A sound of restrained contempt, sharp as like a slap. Caroline forced herself not to flinch.
"Here." The woman, Celeste, stepped forward, shouldering Sonny out of her way. She held out a crisp folded handkerchief, an oddly old fashioned accessory. Celeste rolled her eyes. "Don't mind him, he can be a big jerk. He doesn't mean it. Here. Take it, I've got others at home."
"Thank you," Caroline managed. She dabbed at her face. Mascara left spidery stains behind on the cloth. Stupid, to be crying in front of this man, who wasn't remotely anyone she'd ever known.
"Are we done?" Sonny snapped at Celeste. One of his hands was clenched, the other rubbed at the back of his neck. "It ain't getting any cooler out here, and this fish is gonna stink up the limo as it is without us screwing around making new friends." He shifted from foot to foot and now it was as if Caroline wasn't there at all.
"Yeah, yeah. Such a gentleman." Celeste flashed Caroline an apologetic grin. She took Sonny's elbow and looped her arm through his. "Comeon, babe. Take me home."
And then they were walking away, leaving her behind again. Caroline watched as a sleek white limo pulled up to the curb. Sonny held the door open for Celeste, scanned the street again, one of his hands loose and ready to go for his weapon. Just before he joined the girl in the smooth leather seat he turned and glanced back to where Caroline stood. Just stared, eyes narrowed, distrust in every line of his thousand dollar suit. As if she was the threat.
She didn't move, couldn't have moved if she'd wanted to. What kind of threat could she possibly be to such a man?
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BC’s Graduated Licensing Program [GLP] was designed to help new drivers gain driving experience in a controlled, lower-risk environment and gain privileges as they become more skilful. Learner or “L” drivers are limited to two passengers: the licensed adult supervisor and one other person. Novice or “N” drivers are limited to one passenger unless they are driving with a supervisor 25 years or older with a valid driver's license or unless the passengers are immediate family members.
Versions of graduated licensing are in effect in several Canadian provinces, most U.S. states, New Zealand, and Australia. Studies in all these jurisdictions reportedly suggest that the programs are resulting in crash reductions ranging from 10 to 30 percent and that passenger restrictions are essential components of the program. Commonly cited statistics are that crash risk for teenage drivers increases incrementally by number of passengers. With three or more passengers, the fatal crash risk is about three times higher.
There is a general impression that teenage “N” drivers with cars often find themselves pestered by their friends to ignore the passenger limit. And one way of trying to avoid getting caught is the growing practice of “trunking”, which involves carrying passengers in the trunk while the car is being driven. There are reports of YouTube users uploading videos showing teens trunking.
Not surprisingly this work-around—also practiced, as one commentator put it, “just for the sheer goofiness of the thing” —is the cause of numerous injuries and fatalities across North America in the past few years. Enough so that California, in January 2007, passed a law against riding in a car trunk that penalizes both the driver and the passenger in the trunk.
Trunking is high risk. As one interviewed teenager put it:“I think it's kind of weird. If there's an accident, you're pretty much dead.” In 2005, for example, two teenagers in Los Angeles County were killed when they were thrown from a car trunk in a collision and then run over by oncoming traffic. The day after the California law came into effect, a 16-year-old Ottawa youth riding in the trunk of a Chrysler Intrepid transporting five other teenagers, including the 19-year-old driver, was badly injured after the vehicle swerved off the road and crashed into a house.
“They don't realize they are climbing into a potential death trap,” George Smith, a supervisor of traffic safety and training at the Canada Safety Council was quoted as saying. He explained that cars are designed to take the collision force away from the passenger compartment by folding up at the front and rear when there's an accident. Hiding in a place designed to compact when hit is “a very unsafe place to be.”
Poisoning from seepage of carbon monoxide into the trunk, asphyxiation from lack of oxygen, and heat prostration from excessive heat in the summer also add to the list of dangerous possibilities.
Locally, a recent case of young people caught trunking in Langley has prompted the police to warn about the danger and to caution that drivers found with people in the trunk may face a “driving-contrary-to-conditions” charge as well as a fine.
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At first glance, I'd say yes, simply because I've yet to see any modern game ship with a manual as thick as those I got with Falcon 3.0 or 4.0, but flight sims aren't really that popular these days, and those that are generally come with on-screen help or tutorials in place of manuals. Maybe that doesn't equal better design, but it's definitely a better integrated experience.
Remember an additional function of manuals, found in this statement:
A manual is the best copy protection.
When games came in boxes, usually some floppies or CDs, and a manual, you sometimes needed the manual to progress in the game at a certain point. I can easily remember two occassions:
"Star Trek 25th anniversary": You were ordered to take the Enterprise to a specific planet. Pressing 'W', you would engage the warp drive and select that star from a map. The map was printed in the manual (center page) with the names listed on the side, whereas the map in the game would only show the stars, not their names. When you chose the wrong one, you were attacked by (powerful) eneimes.
"Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle" (at least the floppy disk edition): When you found the plans for the super-battery, you needed to know the exact levels for the salad oil and the vinegar as well as the position of the toast bread, so the battery could power the Chron-o-John. The required combinations would be found in the manual. Without the correct combination, the game would not continue.
At those times, scanners and photocopiers were expensive devices, not likely to be found in homes. So simply making a copy of the relevant manual pages was not as trivial as copying the disk. Oh, and the Internet was not as we know it today, there was no google to ask, no game forums to visit easily.
A good manual, sometimes containing a "strategic guide" or other kind of help, would also make the game easier to play by providing that specific kind of instruction. This can also be seen as a copy protection.
NB that none of those actually prevents copying the disks or CDs of the game. It restricts the usefulness of the copies. :-)
The functionality of the manual as an aid for gaming has become part of modern games. They do not require the player to discover how the game works and what it goals are, instead a guide (however it is implemented) is integrated into gameplay. I think this makes modern games easier to play because all required additional information is integrated "on the go".
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Constituent to Senator Toomey: ‘take responsibility’
October 9, 2013
At a Danville Town Hall meeting recently, U.S. Senator Toomey explained why we do not have a greater number of higher paying jobs. The senator was told that $9 to $10 paying jobs do not help a person take care of their family. That is absolutely right. The senator agreed as well but provided a puzzling explanation.
Senator Toomey claimed that jobs are not as plentiful because they are going overseas. That seems like a fair explanation, but why did Senator Toomey neglect to bring up the “Bring Jobs Home Act.” This was a bill intended to reduce outsourcing by closing tax loopholes and giving tax incentives to companies that bring jobs back. The senator did not bring this up likely because he filibustered this sensible solution. If outsourcing is why we do not have higher paying jobs, then why did Senator Toomey agree to encourage the outsourcing?
Then, Senator Toomey explained that those companies continue to move overseas because of the high business taxes, but that those high business taxes must remain to sustain the $17 trillion debt. Once again, Senator Toomey neglected to take responsibility. Despite contributing to three budget surpluses, Toomey allowed PAYGO rules to expire. As these rules required that any new spending be offset by increases in revenue or decreases in spending elsewhere, the deficit soared when the statute ended. Toomey later tried to block attempts to re-establish this responsible and commonsense policy.
To add to his track record of choosing corporations over his constituents, Senator Toomey introduced the Data Protection Bill that protects companies over the consumers from even being sued due to a breach of private data. Where are his priorities?
It seems that Senator Toomey is quick to describe the problem and pass the buck but rarely displays an honest sense of responsibility before his constituents. How will we ever move forward without representatives who represent their constituents over their large corporation funders?
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