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Malcolm Gladwell Looks At Technology Innovations
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This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. And it's time now for All Tech Considered.
Innovation and originality are close cousins. We think of creative innovators as people with new ideas, but to read Malcolm Gladwell on the subject is to be reminded of a distinction. An innovator may not be the one with the new idea but the one with a new take on an old idea.
Gladwell's article "Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple and the Truth About Innovation" appears in the May 16th issue of The New Yorker. And he joins us from New York. Welcome to the program once again.
Mr. MALCOLM GLADWELL (Author): Thank you.
SIEGEL: You deal with a fabled and you would say somewhat misunderstood event in the history of Silicon Valley. Steve Jobs sees a mouse. What happened?
Mr. GLADWELL: Yes. Well, there was Xerox in its heyday, when it was one of the great American tech companies in the late '60s. Sets up this legendary R and D facility in Palo Alto, in Silicon Valley called Xerox PARC, and staffs it with the greatest computer scientists in the world.
And over the course of the '70s, they essentially invent virtually everything that we associate with the personal computer - the desktop computer, the mouse, windows, the ethernet, the laser printer. Everything comes out of there.
And in 1979 Steve Jobs, who is then 24-year-old entrepreneur from down the street comes to visit and he sees the mouse. He's never seen a mouse before, and he says - he starts jumping up and down and says: This is the future, right?
And he also sees the fact that they had icons on the screen and they would click on icons on the screen with the mouse, and they would open and close windows. And he's never seen this approach to computing before. And he drives back to Apple, this little tiny start-up company...
SIEGEL: Mm-hmm.
Mr. GLADWELL: ...and he says: Stop what you're doing, this is the way to do a personal computer. And the result of that is the Macintosh.
SIEGEL: Right. The rest is folklore now.
SIEGEL: He had a deal, actually. He wasn't stealing something from them. He...
Mr. GLADWELL: No, he was - yeah, he gave them - they invited him in in exchange for the right to invest in Apple Computer.
SIEGEL: So the folkloric moral of this story is that the nimble, future-oriented Apple picks the pocket of the hide-bound dinosaur Xerox. And you say that's an extreme reading of what happened.
Mr. GLADWELL: Yeah, that's the way this story has been told a hundred times. I mean, it's a staple myth of Silicon Valley. And it's very often told in a way to suggest that Jobs is the thief in the night and Xerox is the hapless dupe. And I think that's an uncharitable and inaccurate reading of that narrative.
SIEGEL: And we should say here that Steve Jobs came away from looking at a very expensive and somewhat clunky mouse...
SIEGEL: ...and saying we've got to make one that works better and that's much, much, much cheaper.
Mr. GLADWELL: Yeah, so when the mouse that Jobs sees and so inspires his curiosity costs about three or four hundred dollars to make; was this sort of big, clunky thing with three buttons on it, and didn't work very well. Because, you know, it only works in a kind of pristine environment when you were rolling it on the right kind of surface.
And Jobs realizes that he has to transform that if he's going to make it a commercial product. And he famously goes to this guy named Dean Hovey, who was one of the big industrial designer in Silicon Valley who had worked with Jobs for years. And he says: I've seen this thing, but my version can't be $300, it must be $15. And my version can't have three buttons, it must have no buttons. And my version has to work on everything, including Formica.
And, you know, the notion - that's why I so object to the notion that he stole the idea from Xerox PARC. He didn't. He understood that it had to change in a dramatic way before it could be commercially viable.
SIEGEL: Now you invoke an analogy here, in terms of innovation, as to how the revolution in military affairs took place. And you talk about three different militaries that took part in a revolutionary development of drones and AWACS and a variety of things. The Soviet military that thought it up, the U.S. military that built it, the Israeli military that used it all.
Mr. GLADWELL: Yeah, this an argument that's made in a really brilliant book by a guy named Dima Adamsky, called "The Culture of Military Innovation." And he simply points out that it's the Soviet Union in the '70s - a cadre of intellectuals there - who conceive of this on a conceptual level; who realize that digital technology is going to change the way we fight wars. But they don't do anything with it.
And then in America in the '70s and early '80s, all of these technologies are developed. They actually make the gadgets. You know, they make the drone and they make the precision-guided missile. But it's Israel that really puts all these things together and uses them in a war, in the Lebanon war of 1982, for the first time.
And Adamsky's point is that there's a reason why that revolution happens in a different way in three separate places at different times. And that is that the thing that makes you good at conceptualizing makes it difficult for you to make the object.
I mean, modern technological revolutions are so complex that one party can only ever master or innovate in one sort of specific area. So we shouldn't think about revolutions having an inventor. We should only think of them as having inventors.
SIEGEL: So those three roles in the development of the modern arsenal would roughly have analogies in industry here.
Mr. GLADWELL: Yeah. I mean, I think that we wrongly fetishize being first in a technological revolution, because, you know, the Soviets are the first to think about the revolution in military affairs. But the revolution is so complex that that means that they're not around when it actually comes to fruition in the field.
Similarly, Xerox PARC is first to come up with all these technologies, but the very thing that makes them first makes it difficult for them to capitalize on the technologies.
SIEGEL: Mm-hmm.
Mr. GLADWELL: Wasn't first with the desktop computer. Wasn't first with the laptop. Was way late with the mp3 player, with the iPod. And was massively late with the iPhone, right? He was six years late to the smartphone business, and yet now he, you know, has this dominant position.
SIEGEL: Well, Malcolm Gladwell, thanks a lot for talking with us.
Mr. GLADWELL: Thank you so much.
SIEGEL: And Malcolm Gladwell's article in the May 16th issue of The New Yorker magazine is called "Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple and the Truth About Innovation."
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Auto-flush Toilets Terrifying Kids
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Designed to keep patrons from having to touch handles in public restrooms, automatic toilets have created another problem — many young children are afraid to use them. Karen Deerwester, author of The Potty Training Answer Book, says that with a little coaxing and encouragement, most kids can tame their fears of the whooshing monsters. Meanwhile, Jeffrey Kay has invented a device that tackles the problem head on.
All right, so what does my deep-seated fear of germs have to do with terrorizing our editor Trish McKinney's adorable daughter? You guessed it: auto flushing toilets.
(Soundbite of laughter)
BURBANK: All right. You probably didn't guess it. Here's what I'm talking about, though. More and more public restroom toilets…
Luke, just wait. If you did, I'm very worried about you.
BURBANK: Yeah, right. If you did, your name is Steve Peterson.
More and more public restroom toilets have those automatic flushers on them now. And this is awesome for phobic people like me; not so awesome for little kids - a lot of whom, according to our staff and a recent New York Times piece, are scared to death of these whooshing monsters that could flush right out from under them at anytime.
Since we did get a nudge from the old gray lady on this, we're filing it under rip off from the headlines.
We have Karen Deerwester here. She's the author of "The Potty Training Answer Book" and a parent educator with Family Time Coaching and Consulting in South Florida. Hi, Karen.
Ms. KAREN DEERWESTER (Author, "The Potty Training Answer Book"; Parent Educator and CEO, Family Time, Inc.): Good morning, Luke. Good morning, Alison.
STEWART: Good morning.
BURBANK: Here's an account from a parenting Web site called the Berkeley Parents Network, quote, "one thing I didn't anticipate when my son finally sat on the big potty was that automatic public toilets can flush when the child is still on and it scares the bejeezers out of them. Be sure to cover the sensor and let her know that you're doing it so there's no possibility it will flush while she's on it. And you can flush on your/her terms." Signed, mom of a 3-year-old, afraid of the auto flush.
Is this some really big deal for people that are trying to potty train their kids?
Ms. DEERWESTER: Well, you can bet it's scary. But something has - fears are part of childhood, so fears have always - will always be a part of potty training. And before we up the ante on the auto flushers, they were afraid of big, cold toilets. They were afraid of the flush. There was - there are fears associated with it, but the automatic flusher does take some of that control away. And so parents want to be aware, prepared and have a plan to conquer the auto flusher.
BURBANK: Sounds like you're taking kind of a, you know, tough love approach here. It's not…
Ms. DEERWESTER: No. No, no.
BURBANK: It's not take little Timmy to a different bathroom. It's just like tell Timmy to get over it.
Ms. DEERWESTER: Well, but my - because you want children to know that they're capable in the face of fear. So in the answer book, what I write is do everything you can to minimize the surprise and make it part of your routine to check the stall before you go in. Then, what I write is, assume a John Wayne posture…
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. DEERWESTER: …and talk with that voice. Okay, we're coming in and we're not afraid of you flushers. Pretend to shine your finger on the flush-checking flashlight. I know you're there and I know you're going to flush. Keep your child engaged in the power play, then children have power to conquer it.
Now, because you want children to know there are lots of unpredictable things. You can hold their hand while they're there. I absolutely think a flush stopper is a great idea, but what I'd like you to do is after you've got the situation managed and you've got the flusher covered while your child is going to the bathroom, and upped and wiped and all that good stuff, then you want them to still watch you flush the toilet. Take the flusher - the auto flusher - the flush stopper off and let them see the flush.
BURBANK: Don't you think, though, maybe with little kids this - I mean, as much as you're trying to John Wayne them that if they are making progress in their potty training and they are so sensitive, I mean, shouldn't you just avoid these bathrooms at all cost, I mean, just for the sake of their progress?
Ms. DEERWESTER: Well, and maybe, I think, when you're initially potty training, when your child is first getting the potty skills, you're controlling the situation. With the potty chairs, they're learning those skills at home. You know, they're not - I don't - I think that you can carefully build their pottying skills prior to getting on the auto flushers. That, I mean, you can do it step-by-step.
BURBANK: Are M&M's still really the key to this whole process? Does anyone do that anymore?
Ms. DEERWESTER: In my - in the answer book, I think that potty training is a natural part of development, and the child doesn't have to do it for a reward from you. So I will…
BURBANK: What if, as the parent, I like the M&M's?
Ms. DEERWESTER: Well, if you like them, you know, you do what works and you do what makes - what helps you get through the moment and have a fun time. The most important thing is no power struggles. And so I really believe that, you know, you want potty training to be a potty partnership with mom and dad, and you want your child to feel like I can manage my body, I can manage the world.
STEWART: What do you mean power struggles?
Ms. DEERWESTER: Well, if you give them M&M's and they don't really want to potty train, and there are some readiness factors that aren't quite in place, or your child is at the oppositional stage then all of a sudden, it's, like, I want more M&M's. I don't want…
Ms. DEERWESTER: I don't want those M&M's. I want a Barbie doll.
BURBANK: Yeah. I've had a few, like, four-hour M&M feeding sessions with a kid on the toilet who's doesn't even need to have to go to the bathroom. They just like M&M's.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Ms. DEERWESTER: You know, it's - if there's frustration in a parenting situation, chances are it's a lot harder than it needs to be, and you can sidestep the problem.
BURBANK: Are there any other sort of technological advances like this that come to mind that are terrifying for kids that, you know, people our age didn't have to think about?
Ms. DEERWESTER: I can't think of anything technologically, but I know the thing that I worry about that's a real safety issue is when you're carrying those traveling potty chairs in the vans, in the SUVs, and you stop on the side of the road to potty. That seems really, really dangerous to me.
And then I'm back to the readiness factor, and I say, you know what, a child is potty trained when they can hold their pee and hold their poop until they get to the next most convenient place to go. And so don't - you don't have to go through a lot of insanity in order to be potty trained. They're all going to be potty trained eventually.
BURBANK: We're hoping. Definitely…
Ms. DEERWESTER: They are, they are. I promise.
BURBANK: …we're hoping. Okay. Well, you've written a book on this, so I'm going to trust you on this.
Karen Deerwester, author of "The Potty Training Answer Book," thank you very much for talking to us on the BPP.
Ms. DEERWESTER: My pleasure. Good luck.
STEWART: You heard Karen mentioning stopping the flush. Sometimes, necessity is the mother of invention. In this case, it was the father who did the inventing. Courtney Kay's dad decided to take the automatic flush issue head on and patented an advice to help parents and tiny tots handle the stress of psycho toilets.
Jeffrey Kay joins us now.
Okay. Jeff, what's the name of your product and how does it work?
Mr. JEFFREY KAY (Developer, Flush-Stopper): Well, it's called the Flush-Stopper. And…
STEWART: That's clear.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. KAY: Yeah. It's pretty clear. It stops automatic flush toilets from flushing, like, if your kids are trying to go potty and learn how to go potty. So it basically adheres on to the back of the toilets where it blocks the beam because the beams are set too high for little people, and it allows them to go to the bathroom. And then once you're done, you pull it off, as Karen mentioned, and it does flush afterwards, but what it doesn't do is flush while your child is trying to kind of prop themselves up on this oversized toilet in the middle of nowhere and prevent it from flushing on them because some of those flushers are - they're very strong.
And, you know, this came as a, you know, a necessity for us because we were potty training. And my daughter was doing great until we went to the mall and then all of a sudden, she met face-to-face with one of these automatic flush stoppers, and it really scared her and it set us back months. And it's very frustrating because it's a process, and you want to keep moving forward; you don't want to move backward.
STEWART: That's one of the things that's sort of interesting about this. I guess if you don't have kids, you don't think about it. They're not big enough to be in the way of the sensor. That thing just fires off at will.
Mr. KAY: Yeah. And, you know, not just once or twice, you know, it'll keep going the whole time. And, you know - so it became a frustration. It became a point where when we're out, we're walking around really looking for bathrooms that didn't have automatic flush toilets, which was a drag. And then we also had - sometimes we would put our hand over it…
Mr. KAY: …which kind of felt gross.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. KAY: And, You know, there was - it was like, there's got to be a better way. There's got to be a way to control this thing. And so, you know, that's when I invented the Flush-Stopper. And actually, we used it. It became kind of a fun little gimmick that, you know, when we would go out in public, we would take it out, and, you know…
STEWART: And show people.
Mr. KAY: …my kids were part of it. And…
STEWART: Hey, Jeff.
Mr. KAY: …we would take it off at the end. And they kind of actually enjoyed it.
STEWART: Jeff, Jeff Kay.
Mr. KAY: Yeah.
STEWART: You can find his Flush-Stopper online. Thanks for sharing your story with us.
Mr. KAY: Thank you.
BURBANK: This is the BPP from NPR News. Back with lots more in just a moment.
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The sounds we grew up with
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I still have the 1977 Chevy Scottsdale pickup truck that my dad bought new. Lots of its pieces and parts have been replaced....
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Great writing Mr. K. I grew up with KNUJ, also. And by the way, I enjoyed your piece last time, also, but was unable to comment on it. I couldn't comment on this one, either, at first. Thought maybe you were in trouble but of course, your could not possible be. Keep up the good work.
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if youre going to start programming, i would start with C and C++ since these are the two most accepted languages. then move on to proprietary MS stuff like C# and VB.
you will also find that when you move onto the MS stuff, they will be ridiculously easy because much of the memory/variable management that C and C++ require, are taken care of by MS's languages/IDE's.
I think that's more of a regional thing, there are no C and C++ jobs in my area, there are very few .NET jobs of any sort in my area, they're almost all Java
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not done playing it yet, so i really can't give it that valid of a rating, but i went ahead and went with a 9. it's funny because i referred to doom3 as an orgasm before actually seeing this thread, so i guess that's the perfect match.
i told my friends "doom3 gives me a lightgasm" meaning it's the first game ever to have lighting so great i don't know anything they could have done to make it better.
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Default NVIDIA criticizing 3DMark: History Repeats
NVIDIA criticizing Futuremark/Madonion is nothing new. They did it before. The only difference now is that NVIDIA has friends that jumped on the bandwagon (e.g. HardOCP).
Read this January 2000 article http://www.3dgpu.com/editor/re_3dmarkflaws.php for more info.
Here's an excerpt.
The first flaw that Derek Perez of NVIDIA mentions is that 3DMark2K uses a custom T&L engine as its default T&L engine....
And is it a "flaw"? I call it a preference, not a "flaw". In Quake II, the default "handedness" for the player is right-handed. Is that a "flaw" if you are left-handed? ....
It is only a flaw if I am unable to change these default settings (or if the interface/menu system is so confusing that it is difficult to figure out how to change them). That is obviously not the case with 3DMark2000 since you can change the settings easily.
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Special needs: Friends find it hard to complain around me
Have you ever worried that your kid may get stuck in one of these swings and you won't be able to get them out? Me too! See, we have way more in common than you think! JO ASHLINE, FOR THE REGISTER
I hear it all the time.
"I'm sorry," they tell me, expecting me to be offended, hurt, annoyed. But I am neither of these things.
"It's okay," I tell them, and mean it.
Most of my friends don't like to complain in front of me. On more than one ocassion, while deep in conversation about the mundane things in life and the daily stresses of parenthood, a look of humiliation will cross a pal's face as she realizes who she's complaining to: a parent of a special needs child.
That's when the backpeddling - "Oh, it's not so bad, we'll manage," - and flustered apoligizing - "Oh man, I can't believe I just said that, I feel like such a jerk," - begins and I am forced once again to reassure my friend and attempt to pick up the pieces of our interrupted dialogue.
Yes, I have a special needs son. No, that doesn't mean I live a life frought with daily tragedy. Yes, I too find myself getting worked up about the little things in life, but that's where the blessing of raising a special needs child comes in: I have a constant reminder to keep things in perspective. That's probably where truly, we differ the most.
I don't often sweat the small stuff for very long.
But that doesn't mean others can't or shouldn't. And the stuff that's seemingly "small" from where I sit could be incredibly painful or difficult from someone else's chair.
The bottom line is it's not a competition, and I'm not keeping tabs. There's no universal law that says I have more reason or right to complain about my life than anyone else, no heirarchy of what constitutes a legitimate reason to whine or get stressed. I want to hear about the things others worry about, because more often than not, despite what they may think, I can relate to many of those concerns.
We all want our children to thrive, to be healthy, to learn, to have friends and meaningful relationships. We all want our children to feel safe and protected, to be nourished physically, emotionally and spiritually. We all want what's best for our kids, regardless of whether our child is special needs or not.
I don't want the people around me to filter their converstations because they feel their worries and complaints aren't valid in the eyes of a mother whose son has special needs. Their worries are valid. Parenting is difficult and rewarding for all of us, regardless of the details.
Did your daughter bruise her knee during gymnatstics and you're worried she's having trouble walking? Did your son get called names at school and your heart is broken? Tell me. I care. I'm not standing in front of you, pretending to listen, all the while thinking, "Are you serious? She's complaing about a stupid bruise or some first grade bullies while I have to worry about Andrew's seizures?"
It's not always the thing we worry about that binds us as parents -- it's the feelings those worries bring to the surface that are the common thread in parentin. It's the feeling that we are powerless sometimes, we don't have all the answers, and we've made more mistakes than we maybe care to admit.
It's the feeling that we may be alone in our feelings.
Granted, the majority of my friends cannot relate to raising a special needs child. But we're all moms and dads and that should be enough to get a decent conversation going -- the kind of conversation where at one point or another, both of us are shaking our heads in unison and saying, "Yeah. That."
So talk to me. Freely. I want to know, and I'm not judging you, I promise.
Plus, it's hard to be a good listener when people assume you don't want to hear what they've got to say.
I'm not a martyr, I'm not miserable, I'm not running around the planet with a "woe is me" attitude. For the most part, my life is great; my special needs son is amazing and so is his brother, and I'm a lucky mom to be blessed with the very important task of not completely screwing up either one of my kids.
See? We have way more in common than you think.
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Gummi Bear Skeleton Candle Reveals the Horror Within After You Light it Up
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When they’re unlit, these gummi bear candles look adorable, but we wouldn’t recommend giving them to a child unless you want to give them nightmares. When the flame’s a-burning, the colorful wax melts to reveal the bear’s ghastly skeleton. It’ll take some time before the entire skeleton is revealed though, as the 3-pound candle can burn for approximately a hundred hours.
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Could Dwight Howard take his talents to… China?
Magic center Dwight Howard enjoys rock-star status in China, perhaps ranking behind only Yao Ming and Kobe Bryant in popularity. If the lockout goes on, could Dwight sign to play basketball in China? Yeah, it sounds far-fetched, crazy, ridiculous, risky…
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He is the enfant terrible even in the kernel community, similar to this libc-guy Ulrich Drepper.
"What I actually suggested in that interview was not so much that the BSDs should adopt the Linux APIs, but instead that people should just forget about the BSDs. Full stop."
So that is exactly the opinion of this guy.
"And on Linux, if we ever want to catch up with MacOS or Windows we probably even need a much faster pace. "
A fine answer to this bewildering saying ...
"Brute forcing software design through several revisions of code or several forked projects detracts from the collaboration effort and I would question whether or not true innovation is being made, or if it's just code churn.
How often does OSX, Windows, etc dramatically change system interfaces or how components interact with one another, and how do end-users receive the changes? I know based on my experience that people absolutely loathed the Windows 2000 -> XP and XP -> Vista/7 transitions and those only happened every 3-5 or so years. Freedesktop and other associated projects (Gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE) pulls this stuff every release, which is either biannually or annually!"
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AOL is testing a scheme to let its members customise their AOL Mail address by using a domain name of their choice instead of the default, the ISP and web portal firm announced last week.
AOL members interested in the MYeAddress test project can find more information and sign up here.
The move is another attempt by AOL to increase the allure of the services it provides for paying customers, who have been cancelling their subscriptions at an alarming rate in the past several years. Most former subscribers graduated from AOL's slower dialup access to broadband services from other ISPs.
Choosing a new domain name will not affect the member's AOL Mail account. The password will remain the same, as will the mailbox and its contents. The difference will be that all mail the member sends will carry the new domain name, while the member will be able to receive mail sent to both domains in the same mailbox.
AOL warns, however, that MYeAddress accounts will be cancelled when the test project ends. Consequently, participants should choose a domain name they're not interested in using after the scheme closes.
Participating in the test is free but limited to AOL subscribers. Once the beta period ends, there will be a fee attached to MYeAddress.
AOL is providing MYeAddress in conjunction with Affinity Internet, which will process domain-name registrations, according to AOL.
MYeAddress subscribers will be able to use their chosen domain name as the address to a website as well, although this isn't currently part of the beta programme. When this becomes available, Affinity will provide web-hosting services.
AOL ended this year's first quarter with 18.6 million US subscribers, down by 3.1 million from Q1 2005. AOL had 24 million subscribers in Q1 2004.
Although AOL is refocusing its business on being an open web portal and selling online ads, the transition is far from complete. Its Q1 2006 revenue declined seven percent to $2bn (about £1.1bn), caused by a 13 percent fall in subscription revenue. Operating income fell 14 percent to $269m (£143m).
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by dws (Chancellor) on Mar 08, 2001 at 23:56 UTC
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UPDATE Thanks for the clarification dws.
In both the traditional model and in XP, you might be thinking ahead strategically. They part company when it comes to tactics. The traditional model requires what XP calls Big Design Up Front, which involves planning out design and construction well ahead of time. XP reduces tactical scope by restricting design and implementation to one "feature" (user story) at a time.
In the traditional model, you (try to) avoid coding conflicts by planning ahead. In XP, you avoid conflicts by taking one step at a time, having a full set of regression tests so that you prove on short notice that your system is in a working state, and refactoring before you're done with the step.
There's more parallelism in the traditional model, with testing deferred until the system is once again back into a working state. XP tests all the way along, keeping the system in a working state between short steps.
Clarification: In the traditional model, the phases of development happen in serial, while implementation activities happen in parallel. In XP, phases happen more in parallel, with implementation happening more in serial.
Thanks to tilly for indirectly pointing the need for a clarification.
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by Roboz (Novice)
on Oct 17, 2012 at 08:33 UTC ( #999488=perlquestion: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
I have a question: How would I get data that is deep in the data structure when the higher level data is unknown? Yeah, I think an example is in order. I have XML similar to this:
<Things> <Thing> <Animal> <ThingName>Dog</ThingName> <ThingID>123</ThingID> </Animal> </Thing> <Thing> <Veg> <ThingName>Carrot</ThingName> <ThingID>42</ThingID> </Veg> </Thing> <Thing> <Mineral> <ThingName>Talc</ThingName> <ThingID>007</ThingID> </Mineral> </Thing> </Things>
BTW the formatting of this is completely out of my control. Anyway the SOAP::Lite result data structure looks like this:
$Var1 = \{ 'Thing' => [ { 'Animal' => { 'ThingName' => 'Dog', 'ThingID' => '123' } }, { 'Veg' => { 'ThingName' => 'Carrot', 'ThingID' => '42' } }, { 'Mineral' => { 'ThingName' => 'Talc', 'ThingID' => '007' } } ] };
And I'm trying to access the 'ThingName' without knowing whether it's 'Animal', 'Veg' or 'Mineral'. Is there a way to use a wildcard in the following code?
foreach my $e ( @{ $SOAPresult->{Thing} } ) { print "$e->{*wildcard here*}{ThingName}\n"; }
... or is there some other way to get there? In reality, there are many more than three different things, so trying each is not an option. Thanks for any help you great gurus can provide. I'm looking forward to when I can start answering instead of asking!
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by Anonymous Monk on Oct 17, 2012 at 08:39 UTC
You don't need to know the name, use values, or use ->findvalue( '//ThingName' )
I wish this worked with my SOAP::Lite results. I get 'Can't call method "findvalue" (or "valueof") on unblessed reference...' errors.
I wish this worked ...
See SOAP::SOM find/match... its all the same
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by kcott (Abbot) on Oct 17, 2012 at 09:02 UTC
G'day Roboz,
Firstly, the data structure you present is invalid. In the code below, I've added a closing brace to 'Mineral' => { .... Also, you show $Var1 as being a reference to a hashref: I don't know if that's correct or another typo - the following code assumes it is correct.
This code shows how you might go about achieving what you're after. I'll leave you to make adjustments for whatever typos may exist.
#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my $SOAPresult = \{ 'Thing' => [ { 'Animal' => { 'ThingName' => 'Dog', 'ThingID' => '123' } }, { 'Veg' => { 'ThingName' => 'Carrot', 'ThingID' => '42' } }, { 'Mineral' => { 'ThingName' => 'Talc', 'ThingID' => '007' } } ] }; my $SOAPresult_deref = $$SOAPresult; my @types = qw{Animal Veg Mineral}; for my $type (@types) { foreach my $e ( @{ $SOAPresult_deref->{Thing} } ) { next unless exists $e->{$type}; print "Wildcard = $type\n"; print "$e->{$type}{ThingName}\n"; } }
$ Wildcard = Animal Dog Wildcard = Veg Carrot Wildcard = Mineral Talc
-- Ken
Thanks for catching that closing bracket. I'm working on an offline system so I have to manually transcribe vs. cut-n-paste... Your assumption is correct, $Var1 is a reference. I was trying to just read the ThingName without knowing (or caring) what type it was. I used animal, veg and mineral as a stand in for a long list of specifics that I don't have access to, alas. I would rather use an XPath statement with valueof but I always get the "Can't call method "valueof" without a package or object reference..." error.
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by eduardo (Curate)
on Nov 15, 2001 at 00:46 UTC ( #125414=perlmeditation: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??
So, the Java 1.4 documents are beginning to come out... and they are incredibly excited about the regular expression support and just how *easy* string processing is getting in java. As an example, here is the program the document suggests for creating a histogram of all of the words in a file:
import*; import java.nio.*; import java.nio.channels.*; import java.nio.charset.*; import java.util.*; import java.util.regex.*; public class WordCount { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { String filename = args[0]; // Map File from filename to byte buffer FileInputStream input = new FileInputStream(filename); FileChannel channel = input.getChannel(); int fileLength = (int)channel.size(); MappedByteBuffer buffer =, 0, fileLength); // Convert to character buffer Charset charset = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1"); CharsetDecoder decoder = charset.newDecoder(); CharBuffer charBuffer = decoder.decode(buffer); // Create line pattern Pattern linePattern = Pattern.compile(".*$", Pattern.MULTILINE); // Create word pattern Pattern wordBreakPattern = Pattern.compile("[{space}{punct}]"); // Match line pattern to buffer Matcher lineMatcher = linePattern.matcher(charBuffer); Map map = new TreeMap(); Integer ONE = new Integer(1); // For each line while (lineMatcher.find()) { // Get line CharSequence line =; // Get array of words on line String words[] = wordBreakPattern.split(line); // For each word for (int i=0, n=words.length; i<n; i++) { if (words[i].length() > 0) { Integer frequency = (Integer)map.get(words[i]); if (frequency == null) { frequency = ONE; } else { int value = frequency.intValue(); frequency = new Integer(value + 1); } map.put(words[i], frequency); } } } System.out.println(map); } }
Ok... I don't know about you, but if I were a maintenence coder, and I was presented with this snippet, I don't think I'd know what to do! Cognitive psychology tells us that the human mind can hold on average 7 units of information at once... *this* particular program has *considerably* more than 7 logical atoms of information... thereby making it larger than can be held in the mind at one moment. So, let's look at a program that duplicates this functionality in say... perl. Now, I know that Perl isn't the end all be all language, but:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my %frequency = (); $frequency{$_}++ for (split /\W/, <>); print "$_: $frequency{$_}\n" for (keys %frequency);
This program now has variable declaration checking, handles multiple files at the command line, etc... due to use strict, and -w there is a relatively strong guarantee that I'm not making any of the "mistakes" that are common with "interpreted" VHLLs. (I know perl is not *really* interpreted, it's a hybrid, but people lump it in with the "interpreted" languages.) Now, tell me... is that not a *lot* easier to comprehend... and more importantly, if you were a maintenance coder... would you not prefer to have to understand these 2 lines of code, rather than the chunk of java? All language bigotry aside... and yes, Perl has some serious flaws... I'm beginning to see the beauty of VHLLs more and more and more every day. It's such a pleasure to be able to *express* my program, rather than dictate it.
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by dws (Chancellor) on Nov 15, 2001 at 01:33 UTC
If I were a Perl maintenance coder, I might prefer something slightly more verbose (but only slightly).
But if I were using this example to wave at Java coders to convince them that Perl will save them grief, I would make it even more verbose, lest it reenforce a notion that Perl is overly cryptic. Past a point, "Look how small we can do this with Perl!" becomes a negative. Instead, present Java programmers with something more familiar.
Something like
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my %frequency = (); # maps token -> count # for every line of every input file while ( <> ) { # for each token on the line foreach my $token ( split /\W/ ) { # increment the count for the token $frequency{$token}++; } } # print each token and its count foreach my $token ( sort keys %frequency ) { print "$token: $frequency{$token}\n"; }
A bit more verbose than what would automatically fly off the fingertips of a seasoned Perl hacker, but even with comments, it is less than a third the size of the Java example. AND it only uses control structures that a Java programmer should recognize. The only thing they might object to is the hidden use of $_.
(I don't know how TreeMap behaves, so the sort might need to be changed to sort on value.)
I agree with your sentiment. However, I want to play devils advocate for a moment... This node stemmed from a conversation I had with a professor of mine a few weeks ago, where he was touting the value of languages like Java, due to the fact that they were easy to do maintenance coding for. I vehemently disagreed with him (I am currently doing maintenance java coding...) as I feel that one of the biggest problems with languages such as Java is that the *idioms* of the language do now allow for elegant expression of algorithms without a very liberal propegation of metasyntactic variables.
So, I wrote this particular example in the most idiomatic Perl I knew how. This is my logic: Average Java programmers will program average Java idioms with an average level of skill. The companion to that is that average *Perl* programmers will program average Perl idioms with an average level of skill. What I wanted to show was that with a comparable level of skill between Java and Perl, using the idioms that were native to average programmers of *both* environments, the resulting idiomatic Perl code would be easier to maintain (from a cognitive psychology standpoint, as well as the other "benefits.")
I feel that I am, at best, an "average" perl developer, and when I read the problem description on the Java page, the exact idiom that came to mind was the one I put down on paper... as a matter of fact, I had considered asking either maverick or jeffa, who are considerably better Perl programmers than myself, for a good idea as to how to make it shorter. I fortunately quickly realized that asking wizards for help, in attempting to create a compelling example as to how the average coder would fare... was a bit of an improper turn of logic on my part!
In closing... were I trying to win over Java developers, I think I would have done something more along the lines of what you very elegantly suggest. However, I am past a point in my life where I want to win language wars, and proselytize and convert the lost :) I was more interested in showing how an "average" developer with an "average" skillset, would probably fare better in Perl...
Thx for the comment, btw...
I'm with dws on this one. His example is much more maintainable than your original one. Hanging out on Perlmonks might make you think that lots of Perl developers are comfortable with throwing around condensed code with unusual uses of for and splitting on <>, but that just isn't the case in the rest of the world. I have a pretty good amount of professional Perl experience under my belt, and I had to stare at your code for a minute to figure out what was going on there.
When people attack Perl, they often do it on the basis of readability. That's why I think it's very important to write clean and understandable code when it's for public consumption. It's not so much a Perl vs. Java thing as a general advocacy thing. Note that I didn't say never to use Perl idioms. Just know the difference between idiomatic and confusing.
Hmmm. Another look what I can do in two lines discussion. I've been in quite a few of these so let me toss in something that might be a little different.
First up, you have picked one of perls strongest features to beat one of Java's weakest. If you compared opening a window and displaying a list of selections, I think I know which language would come out ahead.
And now to the debate. The fantastic people who designed perl made some particular choices about the functionality they were going to build into perl. The possibly fantastic people who wrote Java made different choices. Why did the perl designers stop at map and split and not continue to give us commands like 'load_and_split'?
Why did the Java designers stop long before that? I suspect that the Java designers were expecting people to write classes like 'load_and_split' and share them around. But for various reasons the Java community doesn't work like the perl community and so these higher level functions don't get passed around.
If there was a decent string library produced by someone, then java would win in your example because all average java programmers would be using GNU.string.file_load_and_split( FH, "\W") or however you would say it in Java. But we ended up with the great designers somehow and so we have the great functions that do just enough and not too much.
If Dr Conway hadn't found perl you might have found java developers touting their Conway.quantum.superpositions or functions as being the epitomy of programming.
Perl people seem to delight in commands which are powerful but still somehow clear. Java people seem to love lots of code. But there's no reason why de facto standard class libraries couldn't be generated and passed around
However given the amount of head kicking it takes to get people to use CGI and strict here at the monastery, I imagine you could never get Java developers to use other peoples classes. They'd always be whinging about how they could do it faster or one line less or something. Sounds kinda familiar actually...
I didn't believe in evil until I dated it.
Were I trying to tout the advantages of Perl to a maintainance programmer who had been around the block, I would not put in comments that they would be sure to recognize as maintainance pitfalls! Instead I would go the other way:
#! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # Create a frequency count of all words in all input files my %freq_count; while (defined(my $line = <>)) { while ($line =~ /(\w+)/g) { $freq_count{$1}++; } } # Print the frequency summary. foreach my $word (sort keys %freq_count) { print "$word:\t$freq_count{$word}\n"; }
There. The looping constructs are all readily explainable, there are no hidden uses of $_, and no comments that will become wrong with time. I also removed a bug in the code that you wrote (which you copied unchanged from eduardo).
Kudos to the first person to figure out what the bug is.
tilly: Kudos to the first person to figure out what the bug is.
I'm guessing split /\W/: this splits on each non-word character, but if there are several \Ws together(a comma followed by a space, for instance) it will split between them, creating a spurious "" word. The fix was to look for \w+ (although you might also say split /\W+/).
Update: The above split-based "solution" introduces spurious "" words if a line (say) begins (or ends) with a \W. Looks like m/(\w+)/g is the Right Thing in this case.
Update 2: Of course, split discards any empty trailing entries, so only the ones at the beginning of the line are a problem. (I'll get this eventually...)
One last hurdle,
What if you want to print out the list not alphabetically, but by how many occurances of the word occur? The easiest way to do this would be an ST1. Is an ST easy to maintain?
Correct me if i'm wrong but i believe that Java has a method of doing this immediately (which is probably why they used the Tree to print it) whereas Perl can do it readily, but it's harder to understand for the common Java programmer, not to mention a few Perl programmers. Who wins maintainability this time?
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Are you sure your code snippet could convince Java coders to switch to Perl? They would still object the funny characters "$", "@" and "%". And they would also object names without a class qualifier, the typeless definitions of variables, the use of plain functions instead of methods.
At the same time, Perl coders, even seasoned coders would cringe when reading your code. Why code a Perl program with a Java mindset?
Can we really convince Java coders to adopt Perl? Some people love bureaucracy and red tape, others don't like it, but it gives them a feeling of security, and they would be afraid to exercise their free will (supposing they still have one). So, there exist coders that love code red tape, or feel secure only when bound in code red tape.
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by runrig (Abbot) on Nov 15, 2001 at 05:08 UTC
If someone's going to maintain perl, I expect them to know or learn what operators like '<>' are, and that you can have statement modifiers, and that there's a '$_' variable, and that this is a whole lot more maintainable (fixing your bug, but not spelling out everything quite as much as tilly did above):
# Count words in files or STDIN my %frequency; while (<>) { $frequency{$1}++ while /(\w+)/g; } print "$_: $frequency{$_}\n" for sort keys %frequency;
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by jeffa (Chancellor) on Mar 09, 2003 at 16:20 UTC
... if one is good enough at one-liners, drop the maintenance and go for free-thought poetry:
perl -lane 's/\W//g,$h{lc$_}++for@F}{print"$_ => $h{$_}"for keys%h' fi +le
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)
perl -nle'$h{+lc}++for/(\w+)/g}{print"$a => $b"while+($a,$b)=each%h' f +ile
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This solution is extremely similar to the Haskell one in both structure and technique -- as much of a direct translation as I could manage. I had to roll a couple of tools, but they are elegantly in keeping with functional programming style.
I was really pleased with how this all came together.
use strict; use warnings; # A stream is an array ref, in which the first element is an ordinary # value, and the second element is a continuation: a sub that yields # a stream. In other words, a lazy list. # Takes an ordinary list and turns it into a stream sub stream_up { my ($x, @rest) = @_; return [ $x, sub { @rest ? stream_up(@rest) : [] } ]; } # Yields the first N elements from a stream sub take { my ($N, $x_xs) = @_; $N > 0 or return (); if (!@$x_xs) { return () } my ($x, $xs) = @$x_xs; return($x, take($N-1, $xs->())); } # merge takes two streams, and returns one sub merge { my ($x_xs, $y_ys) = @_; if (!@$x_xs) { return $y_ys } if (!@$y_ys) { return $x_xs } my ($x, $xs) = @$x_xs; my ($y, $ys) = @$y_ys; if ($x < $y) { return [$x, sub { merge($xs->(), $y_ys) } ] } if ($x > $y) { return [$y, sub { merge($x_xs , $ys->())} ] } if ($x == $y) { return [$x, sub { merge($xs->(), $ys->())} ] } } # Like map, but applies coderef to stream, returning a stream sub stream_map { my ($coderef, $x_xs) = @_; if (!@$x_xs) { return $x_xs } my ($x, $xs) = @$x_xs; local $_ = $x; return [$coderef->($x), sub { stream_map($coderef, $xs->()) }]; } # genHam takes a stream and returns a stream sub genHam { my ($x_xs) = @_; if (!@$x_xs) { return $x_xs } my ($x, $xs) = @$x_xs; my $out; $out = merge([1, sub {stream_map(sub{$_ * $x}, $out)}], genHam($xs +->())); } print "$_\n" for take 20, genHam stream_up(2,3,5);
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Hi, OK, I'm just a noob at this, but know I could fix the problem if it was my tank.
Here's what I would do:
1. STOP all ferts.
2. Use LESS light! Remove the dimmer one. Looks like you have two there. As for light, the watts per gallon rule doesn't usually work so well any more. Base your lighting on PAR, PUR and LUMENS.
3. The filter should pump at least 200 gph min, like a Fluval 50. Clean it but first scrape the algae off the sides of the tank, etc. and let the filter take up all the green stuff.
4. Lower the light to say 8-9hrs a day.
5. Do water changes of 10gal every 4 days or so as to not shock the fish.
6. Use only a pinch of fish food, like Omega One Flakes. Only feed once a day. Some flake foods contain phosphates as preservatives. Check the Tetra label for phosphates!
7. Your pH is LOW, check your tap water for pH and if low or if you are using a water softener, then you might consider bypassing it somehow.
8. Setup and run an airstone ALL the time. Algae die off robs O2 from the water.
9. Whatever you do, don't use a water clarifier cause if the water does clear, you won't know what the real cause was.
10. After you do all the above, you might want to get an API Phosphate PO4 test kit. If you have high phosphates, which I suspect, then you can CUT them down easily by adding a second HOB fliter, like a Fluval 30 or 50 and pack it with API Ammo-Chips AND API Phos-Zorb.
11. You should also consider a power head to increase water flow, but heavy aeration might be enough.
12. You should also check the substrate for iron content. This will help the plants grow, so when things settle down and you have clear water, then you might not have to use so much ferts or CO2. Your plants are small and don't "really" need much now except the nitrates from the good bacteria.
13. When you do see plant growth, go easy on the ferts! (err on the side of less is more)
14. And whatever you do DON'T try to raise the pH with liquid chemicals! Shoot for a pH that's around 7.5. Then, the fish waste will naturally lower it. Then, you raise it back up again with WC's! Simple! The WC's alone should be enough to gradually raise the pH.
Presently, on my 37 gal, use two Fluval 50's. First is set up with Sponge, Bio-Max and Carbon. The second uses a Sponge, Ammo-Chips and Phos-Zorb pouches.
Good Luck! (I like your cats!)
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ASUS PG221 22-inch widescreen LCD multimedia monitor
ASUS, Taiwan has launched the PG221 LCD monitor and we don't mind coming right out and saying it looks like a beaut.
A 22-inch widescreen with quasi-military slash industrial design notes with great visual and audio specs, anyone in the market for a multimedia monitor might want to wait for this to hit their fair shores.
The first thing you'll notice about the PG221, and probably its biggest selling point, is the military-styled 15 watt subwoofer tank-box.
We're not entirely sure what exactly about this is particularly militarily-styled, nor indeed what a tank-box is, but what we do know is that it gives you mega sound without needing extra speakers.
The 15 watt subwoofer combines with 10 watts-worth of satellite speakers to give you 2.1 stereo surround sound.
If you wanted to further expand the audio the PG221 is also able to support a 6.1 surround sound system with SRS TruSurround XT Technology.
The monitor boasts fast 2ms (G2G) response times and a 2000:1 contrast ratio, plus clever ASUS tech-ery to make the picture pretty.
Other features of note for this dishy display include USB 2.0 support, a built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam, a 3.5mm headphone jack and support for VGA, DVI, Composite A/V, S-Video and Component (YPbPr, up to 1080i/p).
Just one more thing - the PG221 comes with "Light-in-Motion" scenario lighting effects, which we assume is similar to Philips' amMX technology.
Each light colour (red, green, orange, pink or blue) stands for a sound preset mode (fighting game, strategic game, music, theatre or standard) that you've selected.
Somewhat randomly, the press information informs us that these effects are described as being derived directly from the "magic weapon light sabres" in Star Wars. Cool.
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The Dreamers (2003)
by Cynthia Fuchs
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Young people, film buffs, a whole generation discovered that they were not locked out from society as they believed they had been, in a way, that they could actually, themselves, effect real change.
—Gilbert Adair, “Outside the Window: Events in France, May 1968”
It’s an eye-opener.
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“Because of the character of my movies, I see the story, but I see especially the characters going to their shape, day after day, and if you shoot in chronology and continuity, you can see even better that phenomenon,” says Bernardo Bertolucci while watching the opening credits of The Dreamers. “At the beginning, they are a bit unshaped, and day after day, you can see them becoming something new, something that didn’t exist before.”
The start of The Dreamers shows a young American student, Matthew (Michael Pitt), as he encounters Paris, signaled here by conventional images like cobbled streets and the Eiffel Tower. He looks naïve and pale and, as someone tells him soon, “clean.” But, for all Bertolucci’s skills and the beauty of his backdrop, Matthew doesn’t exactly become “something that didn’t exist before.” Rather, he’s a character you’ve likely seen before, in part by design, as The Dreamers quotes from all sorts of 1950s and 1960s films, in particular the French New Wave. As becomes clear on the Fox DVD commentary, separate tracks by Bertolucci, Gilbert Adair, and screenwriter Jeremy Thomas, each man brought to bear his memories and subjective senses of Paris 1968, the hope, energy, and eventual dissipation of that moment, filtered through some serious nostalgia
This multiply layered frame is revealed in the film’s two historically-minded featurettes, the 14-minute “Outside the Window: Events in France, May 1968” (including footage and interviews with experts on the relevant cultural history) and “Bertolucci Makes The Dreamers,” in which interviewees repeat some of the same comments as before, but here in the service of describing the production per se. As the production is so “autobiographical” (for the director especially, who was involved with the cinephile riots in France in 1968), much of the recollection is doubled, as the makers recreate what they remember, to make it immediate for the screen.
Bertolucci enumerates several of his philosophical notion regarding filmmaking: for one thing, the characters and the actors are interchangeable to him, and for another, time in cinema is always “present.” “Because in cinema,” he says, “You are allowed only to contemplate only one tense, the present, because when you are contemporary to what you shoot, or whom, this prevalence of the present is something that we cannot forget, that we cannot ignore.” It’s easy to understand this idea of the present in the film, even if is occasionally strained.
During the first moments of The Dreamers, Matthew finds love at the Cinémathèque Française. The camera pans over the audience, light from the screen spilling over their upturned faces. And what is movie that so enthralls them? Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor, a film that not only inspired the Nouvelle Vague, but also brilliantly challenged U.S. political institutions and moral presumptions. Following this first scene, however, Shock Corridor is disappeared from The Dreamers, its famous immoderation—its indictments of U.S. racism and sexism, the war against North Korea, the newspaper business, and psychiatry—lost in a shuffle of other excesses (which led to the film’s NC-17 rating; it is also available on an R-rated DVD).
While these excesses will not be surprising for viewers familiar with Bertolucci’s work and ideas, neither will they challenge anything resembling the status quo. The latest movie from the director of Last Tango in Paris is all about reaffirming wistful memories of a place and time—Paris, May 1968—when revolution seemed possible and worthy, even if the crass commercialists and cynics have long since won out. The frustration of The Dreamers lies in its easy lapsing into such unimaginative nostalgia, as if recalling the moment is enough: no questions need be asked, of participants, observers, or chroniclers.
Matthew’s personal revolution tends to obscure the student demonstrations of 1968, because, the film suggests, he’s a kid—sensitive, smart, cinephilically inclined—who’s distracted by immediate gratifications. (This following the minute when he’s drawn to the student protests and speeches by film professors and Cinémathèque curator Henri Langlois, as well as the exhortations of Jean-Pierre Léaud himself, only, of course, considerably older than he was back then.) Matthew’s more captivating objects of affection arrive in the form of twins Théo (Louis Garrel) and Isabelle (Eva Green). These crass French kids see the foreigner as an object for their own game-playing, and so they gambol on Parisian streets, accompanied by the soundtrack to The 400 Blows, in love with the spring weather, the future stretching before them, each other, and themselves.
The idea of the twins surely resonates with the sort of self-involvement that The Dreamers investigates, but these kids are so languid and lovely, so immersed in each other as self-reflecting images, that they also pose a risk and seduction for the naïve and intense American. And so, they invite him inside. First, he enters their home, specifically, the classically lovely apartement where they live with their bored-seeming, sophisticated mother (Anna Chancellor) and poet dad (Robin Renucci).
At first Matthew is enchanted by the dinner table “philosophical speculating,” Isabelle and Théo smoking ceaselessly, he in black turtleneck, but of course. Matthew even imagines himself quick enough to step in, regarding the ways that all lines intersect and all things connect—Matthew is surprised to learn that the performance he thought was solidly smart and entertaining has only bored Isabelle and Théo. His perspective apparently needs some adjustment, and he’s all too willing to shift—or go through the motions of shifting—in order to impress his new friends.
When the parents leave for a month’s vacation, the kids hole up together, immersing themselves in dense discussions of the relative merits of Hendrix and Clapton, or Keaton and Chaplin. By way of increasingly heavy-handed illustration, the film repeatedly reveals the sources of their potentially clever allusions, as well as having the kids name the films in question. Thus, Isabelle brings up Jean Seberg in Breathless, and the film shows that; she performs a scene from Blonde Venus and the film shows that (the memorable Dietrich in a gorilla suit scene). Rarely does The Dreamers trust its audience to grasp a reference—all are spelled out, such that any deeper context—what movies meant in the ‘60s, for the Cahiers du Cinema and others, how movies intersected with sexual or political revolutions—is laid out like a roadmap, ironically leaving little room for viewers’ own “dreaming.”
As a surrogate viewer, Matthew provides simultaneous judgment of and seduction by the twins, whose “corruption” is suggested in their incestuous intimacy (they never quite sleep together on screen, though Matthew’s erect penis is shown, as he serves as mediating lover for the siblings). Once he proves himself able to keep up—literally, during a run through the Louvre emulating the one enacted by the three youngsters in Godard’s Bande à Part—Matthew finds himself accepted. Bertolucci says in the making of documentary, that here he is quoting the filmmaker who is obsessed with quotation. Moreover, this moment is underlined by cuts to Tod Browning’s Freaks, as Isabelle and Théo chant, “One of us, one of us.” Quoting, yes, it’s a meaningful exercise.
This thematic interest in the ways that movies reflect and shape lived experience is exacerbated by the kids’ sexual experimenting. The camera lingers on their exquisite, lithe bodies - bodies that plainly haven’t spent much time outside the privileged existence the film depicts—in ways that are not so much shocking as they are deferential and, after a while, redundant. Framed by mirrors, lounging in tubs and at the kitchen table, the kids are, as Bertolucci puts it, “regressing” into childishness. Matthew unknowingly deflowers Isabelle (girls losing various forms of virginity being a favorite topic of Bertolucci’s), the boys gaze longingly and competitively on one another, and Isabelle begins to unravel.
Adair describes the dynamic this way: There is a sexual tension between Matthew and Théo, but their relationship is between Matthew and Isabelle, though… it’s an early time for sexual arousal, nobody’s that formed. So in this film, they’re learning about sex, they’re all virgins… They’re learning about those feelings in the film. It’s the ‘60s after all, and that was a wonderful period. Some would say a decadent period, but in fact, it was not. Of course, it was a wonderful, free and innocent time. And sex had a different meaning then because it was a moment when one didn’t have an idea of sexual disease.”
Isabelle’s destruction is this unoriginal film’s least compelling, least compelling, and least worthwhile quotation—the crazed young girl, driven over a series of edges by cruel young men (Théo is obviously selfish and angry, Matthew is only self-absorbed enough not to look out for her very carefully). Isabelle’s increasingly self-destructive tragedy doesn’t reveal anything you haven’t seen or thought of before, especially if you have even a passing familiarity with the array of films quoted by The Dreamers.
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Today in APIs: OpenGov's Open Data API Tips
Greg Bates
May. 13 2014, 12:15AM EDT
The Obama Administration's open data policy is one year old. MIT uses the Google Maps API to map bike crashes in New York. Plus: Bitly hacked, and Apigee Smartdocs' method-level API documentation.
The Obama Administration's Open Data Policy Complete's First Year
Last year, the Obama Administration inaugurated an open data policy. Now it offers a list of 5 tips for APIs:
• Developers want to start using the API immediately
• Interactive documentation is the norm
• don’t speak government
• Keep listening to your users
• Keep iterating
As Rebecca Carroll points out in NextGov, the Obama Administration is looking to make government data more accessible:
The Obama administration has argued that properly formatted government data fuels private sector innovation and economic growth. Nextgov has been tracking this phenomenon in a special report called Government Data Unbound, which notes that much machine-readable government data would be a lot more useful if it was better formatted.
Open government and data access conjure up images of transparency, but that isn't the primary motivator here. Rather, data that is freely accessible can also fuel entrepreneurship, science, economic growth and innovation.
The You Are Here Project Puts New York Bike Crashes on the Map
Since August of 2011, New Yorkers have reported thousands of bike crashes to police, including over 3,700 in Brooklyn, 2,600 in Manhattan. Now, an MIT group called the You Are Here Project has used an API to plot the crashes.
As John Metcalfe reports in The Atlantic Cities, the maps offer a peek at the world of cycling pain in the big apple:
The team took collision data provided by the NYPD and geolocated it with Google Maps API to make a series of interactive maps, using orange dots to show where collisions have happened and red lines to denote roads with large clusters of wrecks. The time frame is August 2011 to February 2014, a sufficient enough period to establish a historical web of skidding tires and bodies hitting metal that stretches all across the five boroughs. The MIT guys say they created these "in the hope that those streets might be made safer for riders." (Note that they include only crashes involving physical harm, and that not everyone reports their scrape-ups to the police.)
The Bronx and Staten Island are safer, but that may be deceiving: they have fewer crashes, but presumably fewer bikers as well.
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(3 cr.) Students in this course study the major works of poetry, drama and novel of 19th-century Spain. Movements include romanticism, realism and naturalism. Major authors considered are Espronceda, Zorrilla, Perez Galdos, and Alarcon. Every Third Year, Spring
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Alma movie: Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Give Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) credit for one thing: she's got good taste in music, However, when she's not rocking out to the Streets and Toots and the Maytals, she's bonking one of her students and sharing intimate details of her misdeeds with one of her least trustworthy colleagues, the Machiavellian Barbara Covett (Judi Dench). In addition to her ethical lapses, Sheba's profoundly lacking both discretion and common sense; it's tough to do your job effectively when you're showing favoritism toward a 15-year-old in the classroom and being emotionally manipulated everywhere else.
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Hand-picked by the senior partner of Fortune-Rockwell Investments to fix a predecessor's errors, business analyst Christina Mendoza still finds herself justifying her presence to junior partner Derek Rockwell. Despite a previous problem with workplace sexual harassment and Derek's reputation as a womanizer, she finds him very attractive. Though Christina tries to resist, she falls under Derek's spell. But can they beat the odds and stay together for more than one night? For A Tycoon in Texas (2), Crystal Green created a likable heroine in Christina, but her actions make her seem either very naive or just too stupid to live. Her backstory makes it clear that her earlier sexual harassment experience was quite harrowing and affected her life in many negative ways. It's confusing and disappointing then to see her risk getting involved with her chauvinistic jerk of a boss, who doesn't seem like a keeper.
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60-Second Earth
Climate Currently Pays for Increased Human Wealth
Economists and policy analysts held out hope that global wealth could continue to rise without also raising CO2 emissions. But a look back at life expectancy at birth compared with per capita pollution around the world from 1970 to 2009 suggests otherwise.
Economic development in the poorest countries starts off by reducing CO2 pollution in the 1970s and 1980s, perhaps because fossil fuel burning replaces even more polluting fires in individual homes. But in more recent years that benefit has leveled off. And developed countries like the U.S. or China seem to increase emissions whenever the economy grows.
A switch to energy sources that produce less CO2 seems key to breaking that link. In the long run, after all, checking climate change is vital to human wellbeing too.
—David Biello
[The above text is a transcript of this podcast.]
[Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.]
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Naturist kid falls in love with cute girl. Hero baseball coach be my dad, he's really dating mom!
Jeff goes to Sean’s house after school. Sean’s not very talkative. “What’s wrong Sean!? You look really depressed.”
“What do you mean nothing!? Tell me.”
“Big fight with the woman of my dreams.”
Shocked, with compassion, “Ohhhh.” Then a brainstorm, “So you can go to the beach with us tomorrow!”
Annoyed, but quietly, “Don’t even go there.”
“I’m so sorry. I’ll leave you alone—until I think of a way to cheer you up.”
“Thanks, buddy…. Actually, why don’t you sit with me in my big recliner?”
Jeff lays a hand on Sean’s thigh. Sean puts his arm around Jeff’s back. Soon Jeff gets on Sean’s lap resting chest to chest, moving his hands to his shoulders. Sean wraps his arms around Jeff, one hand moving to his shoulder, the other to his buttocks. Quietly tears rolls down Sean’s cheeks. He becomes amazed by the comfort he experiences in Jeff’s loving embrace.
That night Sean sleeps restlessly. In the morning he eventually drags himself out of bed, muttering to himself, “What will I do today, without Roxanne? I feel so empty. Guess checking out the babes at the beach aint a half-bad idea. I think I’ll call Jeff. Where’s his number. “Morning. This is Sean.”
Ignoring Sean’s melancholy grumble, “Hey! Sean! Good morning. You’re not calling a practice today, are you? We’re packing for the…”
“Beach. I…”
“Wanna go too! All right! Mom, Sean is coming too!”
With his head beginning to spin, “Jeff. I’d like to ask your mom, not tell her.”
“She’s already figuring on it.”
“Well, OK. And thanks for making me feel so welcome. I need that this morning.”
“Yeah. I could tell.”
“Really? Impressive! So what time should I come over?”
“Mom says she’ll pick you up around 10:30. Is that OK?”
“Sounds good, buddy. See you soon.”
As Rachel pulls into the parking lot Sean says, “I’m not familiar with this beach.”
Rachel replies, “It’s called Black’s Beach.”
“Oh!? Isn’t that a nudist beach?”
“Didn’t you tell him, Jeff? I’m so embarrassed! Let’s go to La Jolla Beach instead.”
“Well, Rachel. That’s kind of you. But we’re here already.”
“Have you ever been to a clothing-optional beach before?”
“No. But I’ll give it a whirl.”
So they make their way down to the beach. Jeff strips the instant he put his stuff down. Surprised, Sean says, “Well. You’re quite the veteran in this sandbox.”
“I love being naked as a jaybird.”
“So I see.”
As they all get settled in Sean surmises that Rachel isn’t getting naked out of deference to him. He doesn’t feel ready to show the world his manhood, but thinks, “If I get naked, then she will feel free to do her thing.” While playing in the sand, Jeff keeps him in his radar. He knows some people take hours to bare all in public for the first time. He could see how nervous Sean is, yet he moves with great determination. Anticipating that Sean would make a beeline to his chair, Jeff quickly puts a towel in it, explaining that you need to do that before putting your butt down.
Trying to sound relaxed, “Thanks Jeff.”
Sure enough. Sean sits down quickly, before Jeff can straighten out the towel. Sure enough, Rachel gets up. With exquisite elegance she begins to disrobe. Sean would have fallen over, had he not been seated. This takes babe watching to a whole new level, he realizes. It’s like she’s doing a strip tease for me, as he wipes the drool off his chin. Of course, it didn’t matter which way she turns. Her body stuns from all angles.
When Jeff sees Sean really relaxing, he comes over and sits on his leg, one leg on each side, “Wanna play Frisbee?”
Feeling Jeff’s scrotum on his leg, Sean feels frightened, yet amazed by his carefree spirit. “Yeah, sound like a good idea.”
To Sean’s delight Rachel joins in on the fun. How tantalizing to watch her large, firm breasts bounce with every movement. After a while Rachel says, “Well I worked up a good thirst. How about the two of you?”
“You bet.” So they sit down for some ice-cold lemonade.
Their small talk gets interrupted, “Hi Jeff! Hi Rachel.”
“Hi Alex.”
“You brought company.” Alex turns toward him, “Sean!” Instantly his boyhood rises to full attention. Jeff and Rachel chuckle. “So you frequent Black’s Beach too, huh.”
“First time, buddy,” as Alex leans over to give him a hug. Sean moves his arm as he feels a hot hammer brush against it. “Down boy. Down boy.”
“You think I’m a dog!”
“Well you appear to be as active as one.”
“Come on, Sean.”
“Please don’t cum on me.”
Again Jeff and Rachel chuckle. That surprises Sean. He didn’t expect Jeff to follow the play on words. Jeff follows with, “He can’t do that yet.”
“Could’ve fooled me!”
Rachel graciously offers, “Who wants to go swimming?” So they all make their way to the peaceful ocean. Sean feels like he is in heaven as he walks beside Rachel. Alex and Jeff already frolicking in the water, “Come on, you slow pokes.”
When they finally catch up, the kids just about tackle Sean. As the horseplay continues, all Sean can think about is his desire to be carousing with Rachel, the quiet observer. Yes, he appreciates how the kids have removed him from his misery, but he’s becoming overwhelmed with feelings for Rachel. “Come on and join the fray, Rachel.” He senses that she feels the same way about him, but she doesn’t join in. Sean finds an opportunity to break free from the boys, moving to gently tackle Rachel. They never even touched before. She gets up, turns to tackle him chest to chest. Sean wraps his arms around her—to keep his head from going under, of course. The boys watch in awe. “My Mom had a crush on him since the first time she set eyes on him. Sean’s gonna be my father! Just watch!”
“That’s fine, as long as he’s my lover.”
“You’re a sick puppy.”
“No I’m not. I just know what I want. He’s got the hottest ass I ever did see.”
“You got hard before seeing his butt, butthead…. Too bad he doesn’t want you.”
“He will. You’ll see.” He cringes as he sees Sean and Rachel maintaining a full embrace as their tongues explore each other’s mouth.
As Rachel and Sean walk back to their chairs, “Rachel, please don’t be offended. The only reason I came today was I felt lonely and wanted to watch babes. I guess Jeff told you about the fight with my finance.”
“Yes, he did.”
“Honestly, I wasn’t thinking about you. Now I’m thinking—Jeff is ten. That would make you a lot older than you look, a lot older than me.”
“Actually, I’m 23. I was 12 when I gave birth to Jeff. His father took no responsibility in his care. My parents took care of him as I finished school.”
“Wow! I can’t imagine what you’ve gone through.”
“Mostly it’s been wonderful, thanks to my parents.”
“I’m 20, so 23 works. You were 12!?”
“Weren’t you?”
“I don’t remember. Alzheimer’s disease must be setting in. Give me a day and I won’t remember this incredibly hot experience.”
2007-01-29 23:20:25
i can't wait to read the chapter about this idiots personal therapist get on with it you tard
2007-01-21 06:52:21
None of these characters are bi-sexual. One is gay. Doesn't it take two to tango? Happy reading!
2007-01-19 12:57:57
okay I started reading the first few sentences of this story by mistake. Why the hell wouldn't you label it a gay story? It certainly is gay or at least bi-sexual. Come on.
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It's that time of year again - when night and weekend television is filled with infomercial fitness products. Watch the TV spots enough times, and you'll start reaching for your phone to make that call.
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These products look tempting with all their before-and-after photos and scientific graphs, but how do you know if they'll work for you? Use these tips before making a purchase and check out some of our favorite (and least favorite) options.
Before making a purchase
There are a few criteria you should keep in mind before caving in to the grand promises of infomercial fitness products:
Commercials run at night for a reason -- you're tired, your inhibitions are lowered and you're more likely to make a purchase. If you see a product you'd like to try while watching TV at night, avoid making an immediate buy. Sleep on it and ask yourself if you really need the product in the morning.
Many infomercial products and programs can work -- but only if you use them! If you're not the type of person who is likely to work out at home, shelling out a lot of cash for home-based products and programs won't suddenly change your fitness-style inclinations. Always make a plan for using the product before making the purchase.
Space can be a factor. If the product you want to buy is big and bulky, make sure you have a place to put it. If your only option is the garage or the guest bedroom, think twice before investing. Will you really put it to use if you have to spend your workouts in an isolated location?
Be wary of the big promises. Getting fit takes time, energy, motivation and persistence. If there's an infomercial product that promises big results without much time or effort, it's probably not as great as it sounds.
The good
If you're going to be working out at home and you need a little help along the way, consider the following infomercial products:
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The Wave is essentially a combination step/balance product that allows you to perform a number of cardio and resistance exercises. The product's flexibility is exactly why it qualifies as "good." You can use it in conjunction with the provided workout videos or you can incorporate the Wave into your own workout routine. For only $50. it's also affordable, portable and easily storable.
Beachbody workout programs
Most of the Beachbody workout programs, like P90X, P90X2, ChaLEAN Xtreme, Hip Hop Abs, Turbo Jam and 10-Minute Trainer, are programs that will be effective if you stick with them. The fact is, they get you up off the couch and get you moving, which is what fitness and weight loss is all about. It's important to note, though, that these programs are also quite difficult and may not be appropriate for all individuals. If you're motivated enough to work out at home and stick with the program, there's no real reason not to try them.
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If you like performing pushups, situps and pullups at home, or if you plan on trying a program like P90X that incorporates many of these movements, you may want to pick up the Power Trainer Pro. This doorway pullup bar can also be used for hanging ab work and floor exercises like pushups and situps. The benefit is its flexibility and compact size, which enables you to use it in a variety of ways without taking up too much space.
The bad
Some infomercial equipment just shouldn't be bought. Avoid any items that focus on a single body part or claim you'll slim down and tone your entire body while just working your abs. Also, when you exercise, you want to be able to move your muscles in their full range of motion, so any equipment that looks like it limits movement should stay off your must-purchase list. Here are a few items you should avoid:
Ab Doer TwistAb Doer Twist
There's no reason you need to shell out $200 for the Ab Doer Twist. Pick up an exercise ball and a yoga mat for less than $50 and you can perform all the ab exercises you want.
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Chest Magic
Any infomercial that claims traditional pushups and pullups are designed for men and aren't appropriate for women should immediately be removed from the "credible" list. Chest Magic isn't worth the money.
Stamina treadmillsStamina bikes and treadmills
Stamina bikes and treadmills aren't very sturdy and don't provide enough variability to fit a wide range of body sizes. This means you'll be forced to use a shortened range of motion on equipment that's not very durable or comfortable.
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The ugly
Really? People buy these things? Unless you're buying it as a gag gift, these pieces of equipment probably aren't going to do you a whole lot of good:
Spin GymSpin Gym
The Spin Gym claims you can tone your entire upper body by simply pulling on a cord. There may be some truth to their claims, but the equipment is flimsy, it requires a shortened range of motion and it doesn't hold a candle to good old-fashioned pushups, pullups and dumbbell exercises.
Free flexorFree Flexor
The Free Flexor is like the Shake Weight 2.0 -- it may be moderately effective at strengthening and toning your arms, but it's so ridiculous (not to mention, um, the way it looks) that no one could possibly use it without laughing. Gag gift? Yes. Serious workout tool? Probably not.
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As a screenwriter and actor, Vidal had a hand in a number of movies, including "Suddenly Last Summer" and the epically awful "Caligula." But Vidal also was involved in a very different sword-and-sandals affair, the 1959 remake of "Ben-Hur."And Vidal had some unorthodox ideas about the reasons why Judah Ben-Hur, played by Charlton Heston, and the Roman tribune Messala (Stephen Boyd) had gone from boyhood pals to deadly enemies, culminating in their chariot-race showdown.
What triggered the smackdown between Heston and Vidal was the release of the 1995 documentary film "The Celluloid Closet," which outed the coded gay subtexts -- and closeted gay performers -- in a number of Hollywood films. Directed and written by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the documentary's most talked-about sequence was an interview with Vidal in which the writer described how he'd convinced Boyd and director William Wyler that there had to be a deeper motive to explain Messala's lethal hatred of his old friend Ben-Hur -- namely, that the two men once had a homosexual relationship that Messala wanted to resume but Ben-Hur did not.
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According to Vidal, Heston was never let in on that twist, and the actor was not amused by Vidal's account in the film. In a March 17, 1996, letter to The L.A. Times, Heston asserted that Vidal had a minimal role in writing "Ben-Hur": Heston wrote that Vidal "produced a scene of several pages which Wyler rejected after a read-through."
"Vidal's claim that he slipped in a scene implying a homosexual relationship between the two men insults Willy Wyler and, I have to say, irritates the hell out of me," Heston concluded.
Vidal, never one to back down from a verbal brawl, responded to Heston's terse letter with a much longer elaboration of his role in "Ben-Hur," and taunting Heston as "the spokesperson for the National Rifle Assn."
As usual, Vidal had the last word.
"As for you, Chuck," he summed up, "just remember that wise saying, Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."
Read the entire back-and-forth: Counterpunch: Gore Vidal responds to Charlton Heston
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Hawking Hi-Gain 12dBi review
Improve your wireless signal with this nifty antenna
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Our Verdict
Works well enough, but this device has too many flaws for us to recommend it completely
• Consistently strong signal
• Can be stuck anywhere
• Tricky to set up
• Need to buy a plug-in wireless adapter
If you live in a built-up area and suffer from a weak wireless signal on your home network, the Hawking Hi-Gain 12dBi directional window antenna is worth a look.
The rectangular antenna, which is styled like a socket extension, can either be attached to your window using suckers, or to your wall by screws, and offers a much stronger signal over standard 802.11b/g routers.
Improved Wi-Fi
Unfortunately, you'll also need an external USB Wi-Fi stick - even if your laptop already has a wireless capabilities - as the Window Antenna has to be connected to the adapter's aerial. For this review, we used Hawking's wireless 108G USB adapter (£18 inc. VAT).
It needs to be connected to the Windows Antenna with the provided cable. It's a simple case of unscrewing the aerial from the USB stick and connecting the wire, but this approach stops you enjoying the freedom found when using a regular wireless network.
Configuring the device to a network can be tricky for first-time users. This is due to the drivers being hidden on the supplied disc. Once up and running, we found wireless performance was greatly improved.
We tried using the laptop in a different room from the router, with several walls in the way, and at a considerable distance.
Strong signal
Using our regular Wi-Fi adapter, signal strength was low, showing up to only two bars and occasionally encountering network problems. Using the external Wi-Fi adapter and Windows Antenna, we had no such problems.
Signal strength was excellent, maintaining a stable connection and showing up as five bars on the Windows Wireless Connection manager.
If your router is stored in a separate room and you need a stronger signal, Hawking's Hi-Gain Windows Antenna is a potential solution. It's not without problems, however, and it's frustrating that you'll also have to buy a plug-in wireless adapter.
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How to make your CEO a massive tech advocate, guaranteed!
CIOs are tasked with promoting a vision and strategy for IT. But CEOs, when you can get theikr ear, aren't really interested in technology. Marc Schiller talks about what you can do to solve this dilemma.
Problem: Building a relationship with the CEO ain't easy.
IT leaders know that building a relationship with the CEO is important in order to:
• Effectively promote a vision and strategy for IT
• Advocate on behalf of the IT group and its interests
• Build personal reputation and influence
At the same time, IT leaders face two major challenges in this regard:
1. Most CEOs don't really care all that much about technology
2. Getting face time with the CEO is difficult
It's a tough problem
What makes this such a tough problem is that the very core issues that are so important to you as the IT leader are simply not that critical to the CEO. For most companies, IT represents less than 5% of the budget. It's just not that important financially -- except, of course, when there are problems and systems aren't running correctly, then the CEO is all over you. And that's the worst time to try and build a relationship.
The conventional approach
To address this problem, IT leaders invest (rightfully so, I might add) a great deal of time framing technology issues in business terms and advancing theirs with special-purpose presentations. (See "Three Presentations Every Influential CIO Must Have at the Ready.")
Clearly, I am a big believer in this approach, and it can yield wonderful results. However, I often find that even with the very best IT vision presentation, the IT leader struggles to get an audience with the CEO. Breaking through that structural apathy so many CEOs have to technology can be very hard.
An even better way
Thanks to the results of a recently published study (I'll get to it in a minute) there is now a whole new and much more powerful way to connect with the CEO of your company and to get him massively interested in technology at the same time.
Sound too good to be true? Hold your judgment for just a few minutes more and check this out.
We all know that the absolute best way to connect with any person is to focus your interactions with him on the issues that are most important to him. When you are talking about and working on things that are very important to the other person, he has a lot of time and interest in building a relationship with you. It's basic. The problem is that the CEO doesn't feel that way about technology. But what if you could have the following water-cooler conversation with your CEO (we'll call him Jim)? Do you think this would get his attention?
"Jim, I know you're interested in our company's reputation and our financial performance, which is why I want to come speak with you about some important industry data that has recently come out.
It turns out a company's reputation, financial performance, and even CEO pay can all be directly linked to how the company approaches certain kinds of IT investment.
What I think we can learn from the study are some really easy, no-cost or very low-cost things we could do immediately to start getting these benefits.
When should I make an appointment to see you?"
At this point, you have his undivided attention. I'd be shocked if he didn't say something like: "Actually, I've got a few minutes right now. Let's go for a short walk."
What the research shows
Before I tell you how to have the follow-up conversation with the CEO, let's take a look at the research and what it tells us.
In his study entitled "The Surprising Impact of Fashions in Information Technology," Professor Ping Wang of the University of Maryland and his team identified the business impacts associated with the method and manner of adopting different types of technologies. In particular, they were able to demonstrate a very strong correlation between the adoption of "hip" or "fashionable" technologies and key business indicators. In other words, they found that companies that approached "hip" or "fashionable" IT in a particular manner enjoyed important business benefits.
And while there were many aspects to their findings, I am going to focus on the key findings that serve our purpose as stated above: Building a relationship with the CEO.
Here are their findings in a nutshell:
Finding #1: Being associated with in-fashion IT correlated with an increase in the company's reputation.
The more often a company's name appeared in articles that also mentioned an IT innovation that was considered in-fashion at the time of mention, the higher the reputation score that company had in the subsequent year's list of America's Most Admired Companies. More specifically, for each 1% increase in the company-technology associations, a reputation score increase of 0.52% was reported.
If that's not interesting enough, the reputation bumps occurred whether or not the company actually followed through with an investment in the technology discussed.
Finding #2: Actually investing in hip IT further increased reputation AND was linked to improvements in bottom-line performance.
When a company actually invested in fashionable IT, their reputation scores increased even more substantially. Every $1 million investment was associated with a bump of 0.66 points in a company's reputation score (measured from 1 to 10) the following year.
Additionally, the companies that actually made investments in fashionable IT experienced better bottom-line performance by the third year, as measured by the sum of the company's return on assets, equity, and sales.
Finding #3: CEO compensation went up in proportion to the size of the "hip" IT investment.
That's right, you read that correctly.
A company's association with hip IT correlated to an increase in the CEO's pay. For every $1 million a company invested in fashionable tech, the CEO received a $45,000 bump in compensation, on average, the following year -- REGARDLESS of how the company actually performed.
Are you still sitting down?
If you are anything like me, I could scarcely believe this. But it's true. And the research is rock solid. Backed up by public source available data from 1971 to 2002.
Hopefully, by now you are starting to take me seriously about a whole new and powerful way to capture the attention of your CEO. But you're probably wondering: What exactly do I do with this information? How do I present it to my CEO? What's in it for me?
I'll cover that in next week's post.
Marc, according to social research just because A and B happen together doesnt mean that A leads to B. It's likely both Hip IT investments and bottom-line performance are a result of the company's innovative work culture or other important factors. And most CEOs would understand this basic principle. So I fail to believe that they would buy into this argument.
I will agree that many CEO's are unresponsive to IT and see it as a another necessary administrative expense there are still many who are more open-minded. C level execs want to talk about their businesses whether to employees or vendors. If you can legitimately demonstrate practices or innovations that will resolve pain points, better the business and mesh with the corporate strategy you can be successful.
Don't want to be a negative nancy here...but there's a reason why 99.9% CEOs/Owners don't like tech people or tech-anything...they hate the idea that someone else is potentially smarter than them. So despite them needing IT people or resources in order for their company to operate, the truth is they really dislike having to employ people who most likely know they are full of crap when they try to report earnings, talk to employees about the company status, determine costs, etc. As a result, instead of admitting, "Hey, IT's my not my strong suit" and hiring effective IT workers/management and allocating resources to IT stuff, they instead just outright ignore it. There's no "talking" a CEO/Owner into anything. Especially if you're just a peon already employed by the company. Now if you're an outside vendor or business that has close ties with the owner's, you may have luck getting him to buy your IT advice, goods & services...but there's something about IT people being treated like idiots...even though they probably know more about what the business needs to operate day to day than the bosses!
I agree, there is a flawed observational approach here. I hate to use the word "holistic" but if you want your company to be seen as leading edge you need more than a Facebook fan page or dishing out iPads to some execs. Slapping some random attributes of a successful, innovative company onto some old donkey of a business will not transform it. The fault is not the data but the interpretation of it. For example a good friend of mine always claimed that global warming was caused by the decline of pirates. If you plot piracy on the high seas against global mean temperatures you will see that as piracy declines, so global warming increases. In order to combat climate change we need to get more pirates out there. This seems to be someone pulling the same stunt, but without it being a joke.
I was thinking the same thing whilst reading this "revolutionary new research". It's so obvious that A doesn't imply B - I can't believe someone wrote an entire article advocating this. Look at the school yard - all the cool kids have ipods these days. Does that mean if geeky/unpopular Jimmy goes out and buys an ipod he will suddenly be considered cool? Of course not. This whole article reminds me of paid adverts I see on supposedly legitimate current affairs programs. "You'll be amamzed", "Guaranteed". Bleh. This is well below the standard of article I have come to expect from TechRepublic. -0.66 reputation points in my eyes.
Executive officers tend to be older and probably in many cases are not connected to "hip" IT- which I assume is facebook, twitter, social networks in general, along with gmail and online software tools. If they are not users of such things they don't tend to care, but make them aware that it would really improve the image of the company and increase the bottom line, and they would probably be all ears. In the university setting it is just as true, but what we are trying to attract is better caliber students and they way that is done as far as IT goes is to have those "hip" IT things that "digital natives" want. Our executive officers tend to fit the not interested category because they don't use or are not interested in the "hip" tech just what works, but on the downside we have a large student body that sometimes feels that the "U" is behind the times.
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Shouldn't that read Lets go for a long walk now on a short Pier? The best way to deal with Owners/CEO is not to try to talk them into anything. Just be there with the solutions when the need arises. ;) Col
It's not uncommon to find poor ROI results for IT initiatives that were pitched as technologically promising. This has an impact on the attitude of executives in viewing whether IT is an enabler of the business. Budgets are tight and I expect to see even higher demand from IT to convince Executives of value. This only results in a "deer in the headlights" look from IT managers that already don't have enough budget to even do the basics. What you speak of is an organizational management issue and has really nothing to do with technology.
I think the author makes his most valid point in saying that the best way to approach a CEO (or anyone for that matter) with an IT-related scenario is to find a way to couch that scenario within their own concerns. This can be said of many things, and is just as true in those situations. A simple example: I couldn't get a budget of $2500 approved for 5 new PCs in the accounting department. "We don't have the money right now" is all I ever heard, which was somewhat legitimate as the CEO and CFO were struggling with cash flow and budget issues at the time. The PCs were old, slow, and prone to frequent issues, which took me away from other tasks. I couldn't sell the budget from the standpoint of the value of my own time that would be saved, as I was on salary and any additional hours required of me carried no weight or value to the CEO. However, I asked him to accompany me to the accounting department one day and asked him to simply stand there and just watch the employees work. Within 10 minutes he realized (as I already had) that all of those employees spent a significant amount of their time sitting on their thumbs waiting for their old PCs to catch up with them. I explained that new PCs would allow things to get done much faster and with a reduced staff (we had a bad apple that nobody got along with that needed to move on anyway). Couched in those terms, he immediately perceived value in my proposal, the budget was approved, and the ROI was realized in about a month. Interestingly, when he made the decision a year later to start another company, he immediately pulled me in to the process, asked me to research all the tech needs to get things going, and didn't once questions my list of needs. My proposed budget was signed off on immediately without any compromise required. Sometimes if you can validate and prove yourself and your ideas just once, relations with the top brass become immensely easier from that point forward.
It's bad for your U's reputation and ultimately bad for your business. The more of your user base or potential user base that is using technology the more tech they will also require from your business. I would say you need to stay current, especially at the university level. Of course you know that, now you need to communicate that to the top guy. Pilot projects? Surveys regarding the "success and acceptance" of the pilot projects? Analysis of the "caliber" of students you are attracting 1 year out, 2 years out, etc.
You are 100% right, I totally agree with you. The moment you earn the top management trust you are taken for granted.
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Wednesday 03 June 2015
Elephant hair helps them stay cool
Elephants use the hair on their skin to help them stay cool, new research has revealed.
Elephants have sparse hair on their skin and particularly their heads which helps them stay cool
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The elephant's large ears are known to help them stay cool, but new research has shown their sparse hair does too Photo: ALAMY
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Elephants have sparse hair on their skin and particularly their heads which helps them stay cool Photo: Tejas Soni/Solent News
In most animals it evolved to help them stay warm, but elephants use their hair to cool off, according to a new study.
Scientists have found that the sparse bristles of hair covering the skin of the largest living animals to walk on land can dissipate heat.
It is the latest adaptation found in elephants to help them cope with the sweltering heat of their African and Asian habitats.
Biologists have long known that elephants use their distinctive large ears and bathing in rivers to keep cool in such hot climates, but recent research revealed their bodies are also covered in “hot spots” that help them shed excess heat.
The latest surprising discovery provides a new insight into how such large animals are able to survive in areas of the world like the African Savannah and India, where temperatures rarely dip below 25 degrees C.
Professor Elie Bou-Zeid, an environmental engineer from Princeton University who led the research, said: “Hair works as an insulator when it covers the skin. We show that sparse hair has the opposite effect.
“Sparse hair increases heat dissipation from the skin of elephants. What was surprising to us when was the magnitude we found for this effect.”
Elephants have the highest ratio of body mass to skin surface in any land animal, meaning they should struggle to control their body temperature in hot conditions. Smaller animals tend to cope better in hot conditions.
Using experiments with a range of different densities of hair, however, the scientists discovered that elephant hair was sparse enough to wicks heat away from the skin, allowing it to dissipate into the air more easily.
In still conditions sparse hair increased heat loss by five per cent and up to 23 per cent in a light breeze.
They said that hair switches from being an insulator to being a heat dissipater when there are fewer than 300,000 hairs per square metre (10 square feet).
Elephants have around 1,500 hairs per square metre while the human head has 2 million per square metre.
The researchers, whose study is published in the scientific journal PLOS One, speculate that body hair may have first evolved as a way of staying cool rather than staying warm.
Conor Myhrvold, the lead author on the study, said: “the heat transfer effect of elephant hair challenges the belief that a sparse hair layer would have provided insulation early on in its evolutionary development.
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Morton is yet to make his mark
Peter Hanlon
'Cale Morton's performance against Collingwood on Monday was a familiar tale of good being drowned out by bad.'
'Cale Morton's performance against Collingwood on Monday was a familiar tale of good being drowned out by bad.' Photo: Paul Rovere
BEFORE exhaling deeply at the prospect of a much-needed weekend off, Melbourne's football department yesterday turned to the task of writing mid-season reviews. Cale Morton's success in addressing the negative aspects of his report card over the next 11 games could yet be career-defining.
Morton has another year of his contract to run and, while the price paid for him at the 2007 draft table - No.4 behind Matthew Kreuzer, Trent Cotchin and Chris Masten - generally buys a footballer more time than his peers, it is not beyond the realms that his name could appear in the trade window come October.
His performance against Collingwood on Monday was a familiar tale of good being drowned out by bad, the most notable instance of the latter handing the Magpies a momentum-sapping third-quarter goal after Morton's shanked left-footer picked out Dane Swan on the members' wing. ''Mark Neeld's spray on Morton'' became the hot-button topic on the Demonland online forum yesterday, after the coach delivered an immediate verbal assessment of the mistake as Morton passed him moments later, having come straight to the bench.
Supporters who had jeered Alan Didak when he hobbled off injured in the opening minutes had cheered as one of their own left the field, and not as a show of support. Yesterday, fans in roughly equal measure either backed the 22-year-old to come good, or made it clear that their patience had run out.
At the real Demon land, they played it straight. Football manager Josh Mahoney said only that all players were being analysed in the bye week. Pressed on whether the coaching staff were happy with Morton , he reiterated: ''We analyse all our players, we're just going through our list at the moment.''
Mahoney said Morton was working hard on his game and had shown some good signs earlier in the season playing different roles through the midfield. ''His competitiveness, contest to contest, is something he's continually working on, like all our players are working on their strengths and weaknesses throughout the year,'' Mahoney said.
One improvement the Demons want to see is in Morton's contested ball work, his ''inside'' game. This doesn't always come easily for 192-centimetre footballers who aren't blessed with the ideal frame to trade weight at the coalface, but while Morton's ''outside'' talents were initially eye-catching, he performed well in both aspects through 19 games in his first year.
''We see his strengths as his ability to run and spread and get on the end of some scoring chains,'' Mahoney said, conceding that obviously you would like all your players to finish perfectly when given the chance. ''Most clubs try to give the ball to an uncontested possession, and the important thing is to use that uncontested possession and kick it effectively.''
For all his efforts, Morton has suffered from his mistakes coming across as classic ''coach-killer'' moments. One fan commented yesterday that he had played well against the Pies ''apart from the bit where I had to throw the TV out the window''.
Neeld insists that his players ''take their turn'', which is why Morton's biggest area for improvement might not be so much finding more polish as doing what the structure-based modern game demands.
Reverting to what he knows he can do well when in doubt will not help his cause.
16 comments so far
• Week in and week out he's lacking in intensity, doesn't run hard enough or contest hard enough. He makes bad decisions and is too lightly built to be any good. I'd be blooding harder guys like Tom Couch. As someone who has attended every Dees game in Melbourne this year, Morton has to go. He is not the type of player who will fit within Neeld's game plan. We need ruthless tough competitors and more mongrel fans too. The soft tag has to die. We've improved over the past three games. Morton is a throwback to the previous regime. Trade him
Julius Seizure
Date and time
June 13, 2012, 3:26AM
• Is writing an article the questions the courage of a player in the 16th placed team really required? Surely there were more important issues to promote debate on. You bemoan the focus on players courage, and then take a veiled shot at it? Been inside the fence have you........
Date and time
June 13, 2012, 6:38AM
• Mark Neeld's spray said it all about where this coach is coming from. It's the old fashioned coaching by fear. It won't work, long term. This team don't know where they are. Two quarters they are playing negative footy, then they are supposed to switch to positive. This is fine if you have a team of Judds. Neeld needs to examine his coaching style as he 's out of touch with the modern game. He needs to go and study the top teams and coaches and copy the best.
the Coast
Date and time
June 13, 2012, 7:16AM
• Can't agree Rod, as Mark has said once the players start nailing the basics, then will be time for the tactical stuff, I think at the moment Mark is still letting guys know he is in charge and I support that, their is not doubt the Dees played a tougher brand of footy on the weekend all be it for 2 1/2 quarters, I just think as supporters we need to put the emphasis on the players no more excuses it is us the supporters and the footy club they represent we love them through the hard times and it is now time they realize our commitment to them and repay us, at times on the weekend I felt pride in my football side again, I had almost forgot that feeling, I support Mark I think he is doing a great job, just my opinion
Iron Man
Date and time
June 13, 2012, 8:57AM
• Lets hope you are right and I'm wrong but the Dees have a history of not employing proven coaches as head coach. They like to try and spot new talent and this has never worked. When it really matters they don't like to pay the big money that a coach who's taken a team to a flag demands.
the Coast
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June 13, 2012, 11:22AM
• Pretty sure Neeld was at Collingwood for the past two seasons Rod... Where would you have Neeld go to study/copy "the best"?
Date and time
June 13, 2012, 2:35PM
• Cale please forgive us, it is nothing personal. You continued presence in the team seems to signal our continued doom. You are Murphy's Law on legs. Casey needs you, we don't. Do you care?
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June 13, 2012, 7:51AM
• Yep 100% correct mickmaw.
It isn't anything personal, but it seems when Melbourne least need someone letting them down Morton bobs up with THE clanger; the one that'll make you want to tear out your hair & up your membership.
He's the poster-boy for 'bruise-free' footy.
I actually can't believe Jack Watts copped it for so many weeks while this top-5 draft pick bumbles his way through his career thus far without anything like the scrutiny.
Please match-committee spare the poor MFC members/supporters & drop him.
Date and time
June 13, 2012, 9:25AM
• Was Peter Hanlon asked by the club to write this piece?
If not it seems an extraordinary attack upon a defenseless young player. The kid was humiliated in front of the MCC on Monday and then roundly jeered by once-a-year attendees. No doubt these were the same supporters who cheered Alan Didak's injury. With supporters like this no wonder the club always struggles for respect.
This club still has such a long way to go. It has a fickle supporter base without passion and a group of downhill-skier type players who refuse to do the hard work, wag the dog and confuse toughness with cheap thuggery as we witnessed on Monday.
Luke Tapscott and Colin Sylvia have hardly set the perfect example this season and both took cheap shots that could have led to very serious injuries to opponents on Monday. This is not tough footy and not the acts of respected footy payers. Where are Peter Scanlon's articles about these two disappointments?
To Cale Morton, if you are reading this article, continue to do your best and then ask for a clearance at year's end; preferably to a club that has a culture of success, players prepared to do the hard yards and a supporter base who understand the word loyalty.
In other words, get off the sinking rust bucket inhabited by the theatre-going crowd and to a club that will harness your skills and help you develop your full potential. That club will never be Melbourne.
Date and time
June 13, 2012, 9:30AM
• well said
don't forget Tapscott put Maxwell into the interchange area (NO FREE KICK)
Jones should be captain then vc Grimes ,trengrove and clarke dvc
green ,davey,dunn,jurrah ,bennell,morton, gone
open thy eyes
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June 13, 2012, 3:00PM
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Senior Demons drove tanking
Key members of Melbourne's football department meet in 2009.
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• If this is the case the penalties should be massive. Tanking is far more serious in my view than Salary Cap breaches. I would say anything short of extinction would be too soft.
Date and time
October 30, 2012, 3:18PM
• No it's not.
Date and time
October 30, 2012, 3:42PM
• What was that groan I heard from down Docklands way - was it Vlad or just a passing barge?
Date and time
October 30, 2012, 3:52PM
• Never bet on something that can talk. Will the betting agencies be providing refunds?
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October 30, 2012, 4:05PM
• I agree, they should have to forfeit draft picks if found guilty of this
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October 30, 2012, 4:12PM
• Disagree with this. Tanking is the realm of the desperate loooking for hope, salary cap breaches are usually insidous attempts to load up and steal a premiership. Tanking for picks that give you a 'chance' at a better future (any draftee is still a lottery ticket after all) is common in sports across the world. Breaching caps in a capped sport is always unacceptable.
Really, if you want to do this, good luck to you and your club, it's rarely a fast track to success.
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October 30, 2012, 4:19PM
• Impact on culture, loss of players = already paid/ still paying a high price. New coach and new players is changing the culture at that level so I think ban all the Coaches and Managers involved for two years and maybe suspend any players for eleven games. They'll lose some drafting as well but maybe this should just be in the National Draft.
Date and time
October 30, 2012, 4:38PM
• Just like Collingwood tanked in 2005 to get the likes of Pendlebury and Thomas, in that infamous match against Carlton, hey Toovey!!!
Date and time
October 30, 2012, 4:56PM
• What's the big deal? This happens in every sports league that has a draft, and it's no bad thing. It's not like the teams involved wouldnt rather be on top. Playing the rookies over the back half of the year both furthers their development, and makes it more likely the team will lose, improving the draft position. Both good things from any team near the bottom. Any team that didnt do this would be idiots.
Mike G
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October 30, 2012, 7:29PM
• I'm with @Davis and @Mike G. This is the AFL's fault, and their new-found vigour is more about their own embarrassment than anything else. Every club has done this or something equivalent. Why wouldn't they? The system devised by the AFL encourages it. Melbourne seem to have been particularly obvious about their efforts - which is embarrassing for the AFL. But how do you define the offence? And how is it different from resting your best players pre-finals? Or playing young players to give them experience? Or not going pedal-to-the-metal when you're 5 goals up with 10 mins to go? It's a ridiculous precedent to set, and the AFL are in a noose of their own making here. It's going to be an uncomfortable period for them, and rightly so. They will rightly be acccused of hypocrisy and double-standards. There will be calls for investigations into other clubs. However when faced with going after powerful, cashed-up Collingwood, for example, they will balk and either ignore it or declare some kind of 'amnesty'. Melbourne may seem like an easy target now, but the AFL will ultimately pay for this. Hopefully it will at least kick-start some kind of meaningful discussion about how the rules might need to change. The witch-hunting is ridiculous.
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I am using this type of flour for the first time for pizza, has anyone ever used this grade of flour and if so is there a difference vs. bread flour?
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'00' refers basically to a very finely milled white flour. Typically milled from soft wheat, it is used in anything from pasta to pizza to panettone.
Could you tell us a little more about the particular 00 flour you have there? All 00 flours are not equal - some have more protein (some have very little) and hence some are more suitable for bread and pizza than others.
If you're using 'Caputo', perhaps the most well known brand of 00 flour (at least in pizza circles) , then the 'caputo rosso' ('caputo pizzaiolo'?) or available in larger bags (presumably for commercial/professional s): 'caputo pizzeria' (which confusingly comes in a blue bag) flours are best for making bread and pizza. Especially if you are using an extended ferment.
Hope that helps.
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Hello....I've been making pizza with Caputo "00" flour for a couple of months now. Here is my formula.
500 gr. of flour
1 tsp. instant yeast
2 tsp. salt
whisk these dry ingredients together to get them evenly incorporated
375 gr. water....weigh this, not measured
1 Tablespoon of olive oil.
This is about %75 hydration.
I mix this until everything is incorporated evenly.
Then I slam, stretch, and fold 10 times.
Rest for 20 minutes....stretch and fold
Rest, stretch and fold two more times at 20 minute intervals.
Refrigerate over night....divide into three 10 oz. dough pieces....refrigerate until ready for one or two days.....take out dough ball two hours before ready to use......
CarlSF's picture
I have used type 00 flour for making pizza. I believe this flour has very low protein than bread flour, and the ash content may be "00" hence the reason why it is called type 00. From my visual and tactile feel, this flour comes together very easily and quickly when it is mixed with water, salt, and yeast. When I say quickly, I mean it takes about 2 minutes to form into a dough by hand. Whereas with bread flour (when using the same amount of water, salt, and yeast), it may take about 5 or 6 minutes to form into a dough by hand. In terms of taste and texture, the pizza made with type 00 flour can have a light crust with a slightly chewy interior. The crust is not tough to bite off. In comparison with a pizza made from bread flour, the crust can be thick and tough with a chewy interior. Others might have a different characteristic with their pizza made from either type 00 flour and bread flour, but this is what I have encountered so far.
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00 refers to the milling - it is not directly related to ash content.
The protein content varies depending on the type and brand of 00 flour. Caputo, for example, has a whole range of 00 flours ranging from about 10% protein (maybe less?) to 12+ (this comes from different blends of wheat) There are also other classifications of italian flour including '0' (coarser) and 000 (equivalent to pastry or cake flour).
on the subject of italian flour, fwiw: grano tenero refers to wheat flour and grano duro refers to durum. 'manitoba' refers to flour milled from canadian hard wheat.
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OK, so "rainwater" is using Caputa "00" flour. Looks like it's working great. How do we know if he's using 10% 00 or 12% 00? I've never used Italian specialty flour. Does the packaging include that information? In english?
foolishpoolish's picture
You can glean some info from that page re: Caputo specifications - but it's still a bit of a mystery as to exact protein levels etc.
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There seems to be some confusion on that forum as to where to purchase the Caputo flour. I'm not enrolled. If you are, perhaps you could link them to this:
or this:[by_title]=Y&posted_data[by_shortdescr]=N&posted_data[by_fulldescr]=...
Note: For some strange reason, the link above doesn't allow you to access the page by clicking on the link information string. You'll have to cut and paste the link information into the URL box to make the connection.
foolishpoolish's picture
I think in the US it might be cheaper (if you can call it that!) to order from Forno Bravo.
$55 for a bag of Caputo Pizzeria compared to the amazon price of $75.90 for example.
rainwater's picture
Rainwater, me, is using the "Antimo Caputo" bag of "00"'s a red bag. It's the flour that they suggest to use for pizza and bread on their (Caputo's) web site.....I don't know anything about protein levels or anything like this. Although I like the pizza crust with this flour very much.....very good flavor and scent...I actually prefer the pizza crust that I make with the King Arthur unbleached bread flour.....The King Arthur performs better after two days in the refrigerator than the Italian flour. I like the texture and crumb with the King Arthur better....although....the Italian flour makes better bread!
Barbara Krauss's picture
Barbara Krauss
Pennsylvania Macaroni Company in Pittsburgh sells a 55# bag of Caputo 00 for $38.95, plus shipping.
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Plaisham (not verified)
hmmm well I STILL don't know what 00 is. Canadian here. We do not have designation for 00. We do not have King Arthur flour. I can't find Italian flour.
We only have 1. All purpose 2. Bread flour is marked as bread machine flour, 3. Cake flour (expensive) 4. Whole Wheat flour 4. Some specialty flours such as rice, gluten, barley and Indian bean flours.
I do not have a bread machine. I do not have a mixer with hooks. I just hand knead on counter. It's bad enough converting everything to metric lol now it's the flour!!! yikes.
And poor lol so I am not paying $40 for a bag of flour!! And no spell checker on site. lol
nicodvb's picture
you can get to 00 flour. The classical italian 00 flour is very finely milled from soft wheat with a percentage of ashes not higher than 0.55%. Generally it's very weak and good only for cakes and biscuits, although there are few occasional exceptions.
Lately italian millers have begun to produce high-gluten 00 flours from american and canadian hard wheat, but it's a very recent trend.
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I use caputo typo '00' flour weekly to make pizzas. One thing you have to know about this flour is that it is specifically gauged in Antimo Caputo's lab for its extensibility, which means that it stretches out and doesn't contract. This makes it easy to make a thin pizza dough, but it's not very springy.
I like my pizza crust slightly chewy, and so I cut this flour with all-purpose flour in a 50/50 ratio. With a 6-hour rise, it yields excellent results.
In Seattle, you can buy caputo flour by the pound or bag at Pacific Food Importers down on 6th Avenue S (behind Safeco Field).
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Yes there is a difference, it is fine so fine and you can get by with 59% hydration. Very strong flour.
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This is a lovely flour. It makes shaping the crust so easy. Without this flour I have a difficult time achieving a thin crust. I mix it with all purpose flour. I use 2/3 all purpose and 1/3 00 flour. If I use all 00 flour I find that it's too sticky to work with.
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cut back on your water and you'll be able to use hundred percent Caputo. It's not a thirsty flour-60% is what my local pizzeria mixes.
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What it Means to Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present by Joanna Bourke – review
Joanna Bourke's survey of 200 years of injustice is a thought-provoking if incomplete read
Shackled Guantanamo prisoner
A shackled prisoner in Guantánamo Bay. One detainee, noticing a dog in an air-conditioned kennel, said to the guards, 'I want his rights.', only to be told, 'That dog is a member of the US army.' Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images
"Are women animals?" asked a correspondent to the Times in 1872 who described herself only as "An Earnest Englishwoman." Her point was not that women should be regarded as less than fully human, but that they already were – to such a degree that they would have more rights if they could at least be granted the same status as cats, dogs and horses. The law could be more punitive to a man who ill-treated his horse than to one who murdered his wife.
Inmates at Guantánamo Bay made precisely the same case. Noticing a dog in an air-conditioned kennel, a British detainee said to the guards, "I want his rights" – only to be told: "That dog is a member of the US army." Clive Stafford Smith, representing the inmates, declared that "it would be a huge step for mankind if the judges gave our clients the same rights as the animals".
As these cases illustrate, historian Joanna Bourke's survey is not so much about the boundaries of humankind as about the way in which some humans have systematically denied full personhood to others, particularly women, children and other (generally non-European) races and cultures. She would have helped her argument by keeping that distinction clear. When, for example, she remarks – apropos of slavery – that it questions "who is truly human and who is merely 'property'", only to follow with the suggestion that "the claim that some humans are property rather than true 'persons' is still rampant", the confusion muddies the point.
Although the forms of denigration that Bourke considers are certainly "dehumanising", they don't usually challenge biological or species identity. Rather, they erect hierarchies of human worth, development and supposed intellectual and spiritual capacity. All the same, her well-made thesis is that this tendency has commonly pushed the oppressed group towards the realm of beasts, whether via the bird-like "twittering" of women or the "simian" countenance of African slaves.
It is an ugly spectacle to see with what insufferable smugness and pseudoscientific justification these judgments have been repeatedly made by white western males. And it would be nonsense to pretend that we all know better now. Yet there is something a little paralysing about this detailed exposé of the obviously pernicious. It is not to belittle the evils of slavery, racism, female oppression and the Holocaust to say that they are, in themselves, scarcely news.
There is also a strong risk of presentism in all this: judging the past as if it were the present. While it is no response to protest that no one knew any better in those days, one is left wondering how to contextualise Darwin's references to "savages… on [a] par with Monkeys" to, say, Thackeray's or Carlyle's hysterical aversion to African-Americans. It is surely an oversight that Bourke makes nothing of Darwin's anti-slavery motivation in showing that humankind is truly one species, given how thoroughly this was recently documented by Adrian Desmond and James Moore.
The kind of exclusivity that Bourke explores is at least as old as slavery itself, which occasionally means that one feels the absence of the long view. The nastiness and bigotry on display here would be found in spades in the middle ages or ancient Greece. Bourke shows how fears of the use of animal tissue in medicine have remained more or less unchanged from Jenner's cowpox vaccinations in 1796 to xenografts of animal organs today. But it seems a shame not to consider the same themes in Thomas Shadwell's play The Virtuoso (1676), in which he satirised the animal-to-human transfusion experiments of the Royal Society. And when one critic of vaccination worried that it might induce ladies to "receive the embraces of the bull", there are significant echoes of the legendary coupling of Pasiphaë and Minos's beautiful bull to produce the monstrous Minotaur.
But within the scope that Bourke has set herself, she has found some extraordinary material, such as the rejuvenation experiments of Serge Voronoff in the 1920s. These involved placing slices of simian testicle inside a man's scrotum under local anaesthetic. An analogous anti-ageing procedure for women was harder to arrange, but in any event was deemed less important (not everything stays the same, then).
No wonder it is an embarrassment to endocrinologists that this is how their field began, although I didn't need to be told that twice in the same chapter. Such repetition is not the only evidence of some loose editing. Lapses into the gnomic wink-wink traits of literary theory are mercifully rare, but to define molecular biologist James Watson as a "leading Darwin scholar" is eccentric at best. Perhaps that's part and parcel with the neglect of modern genomics, the most egregious omission in the book.
Yet if the narrative is patchy, this is still more than a collection of historical curiosities. Bourke's critique of the concept of human rights opens an important debate on a complacent ideal, while her cross-examination of animal welfare should give all parties pause for thought. And she is quite right to say that modern biomedical science genuinely does now complicate the definition of humanity in ways that we are ill equipped, ethically and philosophically, to confront.
Philip Ball is the author of Unnatural: The Heretical Idea of Making People (Bodley Head)
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A happy anniversary to one and all
Anniversaries were being hijacked in the Commons yesterday as fast as liquor trucks during prohibition. The first to be flagged down by a gang disguised as policemen was the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. This is to be celebrated next year. MPs heard the alarming news that the bicentennial would be organised by the deputy prime minister.
With John Prescott in charge, anything might happen. He could set up a Shadow Strategic Bicentenary Authority, which would report in 2008. It might be renamed the Aberration of Silverware.
But what troubled them most was the fact that Prescott is an MP for Hull - as was William Wilberforce. Was the fabled city on the Humber trying to keep the festivities to itself? Malcolm Moss, a Tory, thundered about an abolitionist called Thomas Clarkson, who, it happened, came from Wisbech, in his own constituency. (I wondered if he was a forebear of Jeremy Clarkson, possibly hosting a programme that showed men riding on very fast horses. "You'll love the throaty roar when this gorgeous gee-gee hits the flat. Yes, there's all of one horse-power under that saddle!")
The celebrations, he said, should not be limited to Hull but should include other key abolitionists, and their links with other constituencies! Such as his own! Then Kerry McCarthy wanted us to applaud her own city's contribution to the fun. Since that city was Bristol, the epicentre of the slave trade, that seemed a magnificent example of chutzpah.
The next truck to be stopped by Al Capone's men was Christmas itself. It was Labour MPs who decreed that this was actually a Labour celebration. A Tory, Tony Baldry, asked about the centenary of the English hymnal. His supplementary was bizarre. Would Stuart Bell, who represents the Church Commissioners, agree with him that "the rhythm of the Christian year is a map of the soul's seasons through darkness and light, hope and fulfilment, and that the singing of hymns is one of the more exhilarating ways of celebrating the soul's progress?"
Well, there's no answer to that, though Mr Bell might have claimed that since 1997 there has been a 27% increase in salvation statistics, and that more souls are making their life-journeys by public transport than ever before. Then Chris Bryant, a former vicar, pointed out that the English hymnal had been put together by Percy Dearmer, who was "a prominent Christian socialist".
Mr Bell replied that Christian socialism and the Labour party "go hand-in-hand at this Christmas season". I took this to mean that Christmas was actually an early Labour rite, like the Durham miners' gala.
Certainly, the cash for peerages row shows that there is a great profit throughout the land. And the prime minister's embarrassing interview with the police did precede his own flight into Egypt.
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What a smoothie
Richard Alston's latest is a masterclass in precision, but at its heart lies a performance of dazzling nonchalance
Richard Alston Dance Company
Sadler's Wells, London EC1
If I were to define the choreography of Richard Alston in a single word - sad I know, but this is the kind of thing that keeps us dance folk awake at night - I'd describe it as Yang. In Chinese metaphysics, Yang is the bright, masculine, solar principal, while Yin is feminine, mysterious and lunar.
Yin-inclining choreographers might include Lev Ivanov, who created the white acts of Swan Lake; Antony Tudor, whose mutely anguished Lilac Garden and The Leaves Are Fading negotiate the territory of the female heart with such acuity; and the high priestess of alienation herself, Pina Bausch.
Yin ballets tend to be nocturnal, like Ashton's Scenes de Ballet or Balanchine's Liebeslieder Walzer, and to occupy a dreamworld whose twin poles are sexuality and death. When Odette tells Siegfried in Swan Lake: 'This is the lake of my mother's tears', it's an archetypally Yin moment.
Richard Alston exists at the other end of the emotional scale. His work, while essentially abstract, is as smooth as brushed aluminium. Its finely milled components slot together with Vorsprung durch Technik exactitude.
Alston's shtick is to take strong-charactered music and then, with an engineer's precision, rework it as dance. The results have the bracing purity of higher maths, with the masculine virtues of order and perfectionism much in evidence. Only once can I remember Alston dipping a toe into the dark waters of Yin, and that was in last year's Volumina, to a churning score by Ligeti.
In Fingerprint, which had its London premiere on Wednesday, he applies himself to Bach's capriccio in B flat and toccata in D major. In each case, the dancers (six for the capriccio, three for the toccata) beat, turn, whirl and leap in description of the music's structure. It's like watching a highly tuned surgery team: by the piece's end, two musical skeletons have been perfectly excavated from their surrounding flesh and lie shining before you.
How you respond to this depends on your expectations. If you have a taste for enchantment - for ambiguity and the lake of tears - stay at home; Alston will withhold what you need. If what you're after is high-level craft, step inside. At the centre of the Alston operation is the dynamic between dancers Martin Lawrance and Jonathan Goddard. Lawrance is grave, considered and precise, the Alston dynamic made flesh. He's also, as a score of neatly crafted, hyper-Yang compositions have demonstrated, a choreographer in the Alstonian mode. Goddard is fleet and dazzling, and his phenomenal nonchalance in performance does much to humanise the often academic tone of Alston's work.
In Fingerprint, and later in Devil in the Detail, set to Scott Joplin rags, Goddard finds grace notes which would elude any other performer. He has what Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire had: the ability to bend even the most complex routines to his mood. In consequence, it's not the technique you see, but the attitude. Most dancers take air-turns on the ascent; in Devil, Goddard waits until he's on the way down, and then, at the last moment - sorry guys, almost forgot - springs the step on you. The result has the beauty and mystery of a perfect frisbee flight.
Alston has always created his best work for men, which may be why his male dancers stay with him and his women move on - Francesca Romo is a particular loss. But it was moving to see a visibly pregnant Sonja Peedo dancing in Brink on Wednesday. That, I have to admit, was very Yin.
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A fight over history's tragic truth
By Dovid Katz, February 2, 2012
Seventy years is the lifespan for latterday humans. It is also the years that have passed since Hitler's "Final Solution" Wannsee Conference.
In the half year beforehand, the Nazis saw how easy it was to find enthusiastic local killers in the parts of Eastern Europe they invaded in June 1941.
Around a million Jews perished by bullets there. Here in Eastern Europe, denial, never viable, has been replaced by a new ruse: Holocaust obfuscation. Deflate Nazi crimes, inflate Soviet crimes, redefine "genocide" by law, and find ways to turn local killers into heroes and to fault Jewish survivors.
In 2008, a group of East European members of the European Parliament proclaimed the "Prague Declaration". It has the word "same" five times, equalising Nazi and Soviet rule. Its demands: overhaul of textbooks, a single commemoration day, and a "Nuremberg" process for communists.
But 70 parliamentarians from 19 EU states have now signed the Seventy Years Declaration. A bold new reaffirmation. The legacy of the Holocaust shall not be undermined.
The writer is editor of defendinghistory.com
Last updated: 2:57pm, February 2 2012
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Re: End of Shadow War = Lame
^^^^Whatever would those two ideologies now trapping humanity be?
As to the main topic, remember the most brilliant victory is the one won without fighting. Any notion that a satisfactory climax involves the humans actually defeating the Vorlons and the Shadows is childish. A major point of the series is that the Shadows and the Vorlons keep playing war games because they aren't paying any price for it. If either the Shadows or the Vorlons attempted to continue their attack on the supporters of the other, then they would be facing the combined might of the enemy (alone more or less equal,) the united lesser races, and the remnant First Ones brought by Ivanova. That coalition would exact altogether too high a price for their glorified hobby. The only way Shadows and Vorlons could continue is to make an agreement---then the lesser races, even with the First Ones, wouldn't have a chance. But then, if the Shadows and Vorlons could have agreed, would there have been a cycle of wars in the first place?
The climax is better than thrilling---it's honest and inevitable.
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Old March 18 2009, 04:01 AM #41
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Re: Resident Evil 5
This whole racism thing is silly. They're zombies. They're trying to kill Sheva and me. I'm going to kill them before they kill me. I would be doing the same thing if they where any other race (and I did to those Spanish zombies in Resident Evil 4 and I will to whatever race the zombies will be in Resident Evil 6).
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Re: Transphasic shields in the novels
And originally the Enterprise used lithium in its energy reactors (whatever they were at that stage in the production). But it was quickly realized that using a real element with known properties was going to restrict story-telling potential. So they created dilithium, possessing any potential properties the writers might need in the future.
Similarly, neutronium is a real thing, with known properties. It couldn't be a hull material; better to invent hyponeutronium with whatever properties the story might require (including being able to be made into hulls and doors).
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Old September 8 2012, 06:07 AM #7
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Re: Star Trek 2 Has A New Title?
If it's part of an actual sentence, "Star Trek Into Darkness," rather than "Star Trek: Into Darkness," I'm cool with it. Star Trek XIII could continue that naming theme with "Star Trek Towards the Future" or something like that.
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Re: Star Trek A To Z
A is for A Deck....on Earth and later Federation starships that almost always means the main bridge.
B is for Beta Quadrant. Home of gaseous anomalies and an interstellar empire or two.
C is for Chapel. Nurse Chapel. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
D is for the Daystrom Institute.
E is for Excelsior.
F is for the Ferengi Tower of Commerce, the tallest building on Ferenginar and possibly the entire Ferengi Alliance.
G is for Gorn. Morn should have been a Gorn. Would have made Quark's a more interesting place. He could've ate the occassionally unruly customer.
H is for Hermes, USS.
I is for Imzadi. What Troi calls Riker.
J is for Jim.
- Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet)
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Re: First Contact: Sphere's weapons = pathetic.
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In the novel and the script the Borg Sphere is explained to be an Escape Pod.
That explains it!
Those were just signal flares!
It was the best "weapon" they had.
Just because it's futuristic doesn't mean it's practical.
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What's New Scooby-Doo?
Season 2 Episode 16
Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
Aired Saturday 8:00 AM Mar 04, 2003 on The WB
Episode Recap
The film takes place in Australia and Vampire Rock, a rock formation shaped like a vampire head. There is a legend of a vampire named the Yowie Yahoo, who lives in the rock. The film starts at Vampire Rock where the "Vampire Rock Music Festival" is being set up. Many people are excited for it, but some don't think it should take place because it would anger the Yowie Yahoo. One such person is Malcolm Illiwara, but the problem is, his own grandson Daniel is the manager of the contest. One night, as Malcolm and his grandson watch a sure-to-win performer named Matt Marvelous, the Yowie Yahoo appears. The Yowie Yahoo and its three vampire minions capture Matt Marvelous and take him away. Everybody is scared, and Malcolm blames the contest for what happened.
Meanwhile, Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc. arrive in Australia for a vacation after solving the mystery of the Sea Serpent Smugglers on a cruise ship. After seeing the harbor, the gang decides to go to the outback and see the music festival. Scooby and Shaggy separate and find Yowie Yahoo. They escape and warn Fred, Daphne and Velma, but no one believes them and continue their way to the festival.
When they arrive, they meet The Hex Girls, who are the opening act. They also see Daniel, Malcolm, and Russell, who runs the contest with Daniel. Malcolm says he has warned Daniel about what has happened and drives off. Daniel tells them that most of the performers have left because they are too scared of the vampires. Daniel and Russell then tell them about Wildwind, a musical group who performed at the Vampire Rock Music Festival the year before. They tell the gang Wildwind put on a great performance, but only got third place. They then went into Vampire Rock to camp, but were never heard from again. There were three performers, Dark Skull, Stormy Weather, and Lightning Strikes. Legend says that they have been turned into Vampires by the Yowie Yahoo. Daniel says he does not believe it, but then Russell reminded him that the three vampires who were with the Yowie Yahoo when it kidnapped Matt Marvelous looked just like the members of Wildwind.
Fred decides the best way to solve the mystery is to enter the contest as a band, in order to drive the Yowie Yahoo to capture them. Russell is skeptical, but Daniel thinks it is a good idea. The Hex Girls make them look like rock stars, and soon they are on stage. While they are practicing, (but not very well because Velma has a stage-fright and Shaggy's guitar's string breaks when he plays it), a golf cart approaches them. In it are Jasper Ridgeway, a snotty manager, and his band, the Bad Omens, who have three performers. They criticize the gangs playing and make them leave the stage so they can practice. Then the gang learns that Ridgeway was once the manager of Wildwind.
Jasper says Wildwind was the greatest band he ever managed and is sad that they disappeared. He then complains about the head and camping, and goes back to his "tent", leaving his band to practice. The gang grows suspicious of Ridgeway and thinks he might have put his band up to masquerading as vampires and getting rid of all the other performers. They split up, with Fred, Velma, and Daphne going to Jasper's trailer and Shaggy and Scooby staying at the food stands.
At the trailer, Fred, Velma, and Daphne find that Jasper has lots of mementos of Wildwind, including three copies of the suits the band members used. They also wonder why Jasper did not come to his trailer, (as they have been there); when he said he was going to. Meanwhile, Scobby and Shaggy get chased by the Wildwind Vampires, but eventually loose them. They end up back at the stage, where the Bad Omens are rehearsing. There, they witness the Yowie Yahoo and the Wildwind vampires capture the Bad Omens is the same way they captured Matt Marvelous. They tell the others, but no one believes them again. Jasper is sad they are gone, but then he says he should have gone back to his trailer, when in fact he was never there at all. Fred decides that everyone should sleep at the same place, so no one gets taken.
During the night, a band named Two Skinny Dudes arrives. They say they have been staying in Vampire Rock, but have not seen any. Jasper quickly forgets the Bad Omens and asks Two Skinny Dudes if they wanted him to be their manager, which makes the gang suspicious. The next day the gang and Daniel go to see Malcolm. He explains how Wildwind was foolish to go into Vampire Rock. He also says how vampires hate the sun, cannot run over running water, and cannot be seen in a picture. That night is the performance, and the Hex Girls start things off. However, the Yowie Yahoo and the Wildwind vampires appear and capture the Hex Girls. The gang finally believes Shaggy and Scooby. The crowd thinks it was an act, but the gang decides to investigate the rock.
Inside, Fred, Velma, and Daphne find lots of special effects equipment like fans and lights. However, Daphne is trapped in a secret chamber, but she finds the Wildwind vampires and gets chased. Scooby and Shaggy get trapped by a group of dingoes. The sound of Daphne running scares off the Dingoes. Daphne is trapped in a cliff and she jumps to the water. Meanwhile, Fred and Velma go look for her. Velma slips on the stone and drops her glasses unitil someone gave her the glasses back and she realizes these are Wildwind. Fred and Velma escape to a cliff and jump to the water before the reunion with Scooby, Shaggy and Daphne, but then the whole gang gets trapped by the vampires and the Yowie Yahoo.
The gang is able to avoid them until the sun comes up. The sun reflects off Scooby-Doo's collar, which shines on the Yowie Yahoo and destroys him. However, the Wildwind vampires are not affected by the sun or running over water, and give chase to the gang. The chase them until the gang and Daniel unleash a trap and capture the "vampires". Jasper and Daniel are confused, wondering who did it, but the gang knows. After splashing water on the faces to get rid of the makeup, the gang shows that it was Two Skinny Dudes and Russell. Daniel and Jasper are surprised, but get even more surprised when the gang unmasks them and it is shown that the members of Wildwind are the actual vampires. They explain how they wanted to start up their career, so they posed as dead and were planning to perform again. They used special effects to make the Yowie Yahoo and climbing equipment to fly around. When asked about the missing performers, they said they gave them free Great Barrier Reef Scuba Diving tours and sent them away. Then the Hex Girls and Malcolm show up. They say they were left in the Outback because they did not want the trip, but Malcolm found them.
Wildwind are sent to jail. Daniel says that Mystery Inc's. band is the only one left, so they win. The film ends with the gang performing to the crowd and getting their band name, Those Meddling Kids, joined by the Hex Girls. Velma confronts her stage-fright and sings very well. Shaggy does not do very well because the string on his guitar breaks again and he fell into a crowd with no one catching him. The fireworks set off and the dingoes watch the concert.
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ugh i hate my mom, she's such a fbb. >:(
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FBBS is commonly known as facebook boredom syndrome. When someone stays on facebook anywhere from thirty seconds to hours long they develop this syndrome.
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Hey, Carl, I'm really starting to sweat down here. Can you do a Bahama Breezer on my dong real quick?
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Word used in Mexican Spanish to describe a state of being "pocho." Pocho is a derogatory term that Mexicans use for American hispanics who can't speak Spanish correctly. Also used to describe someone who says he's bilingual, but in reality can't function in either Tex-Mex.
HR Manager: Didn't that last applicant say he was bilingual on his resume ?
Supervisor: Yeah, puro pochismo. He can't write a business letter to our clients in Mexico, and he can't spell in English either. Where do these guys get off bragging how bilingual they are ?
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THE CLAIM: Spicy foods increase metabolism.
THE FACTS: Is it true, as has long been held, that spicy foods not only heat you up but also speed up the metabolism?
Generally, studies have shown that on average a meal containing a spicy dish, like a bowl of chili, can temporarily increase metabolism by about 8 percent over a person's normal rate, an amount considered fairly negligible. But besides a slight uptick in metabolism, spicy foods may also increase feelings of satiety.
One study of adult men this year by Canadian researchers found that those who were served hot sauce with appetizers before a meal went on to consume on average about 200 fewer calories at lunch and in later meals than their peers who did not have anything with capsaicin. The researchers suggested that capsaicin might work as an appetite suppressant. But take heed: Spicy foods can also worsen symptoms of ulcers and heartburn.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Research suggests that spicy foods can increase metabolism, though only to a minor extent.
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Meet a Visiting Cartoonist: A Chat With George O’Connor
The Library of Congress' National Book Festival is happening on the Mall this Saturday and Sunday, with most cartoonists appearing on Sunday in the big new Graphic Novels tent. George O'Connor is sneaking in on Saturday, however, where he'll promote Journey into Mohawk Country, a historical graphic novel on an early Dutch explorer's travels in what became New York State
Washington City Paper: Why will you be in Washington?
George O'Connor: I’m in Washington for a couple of things. The School Library Journal is holding a Summit on Thursday and Friday, and I’m doing a presentation for the attendees on reading and graphic literature. I’m going to joined in this by two other very talented cartoonists, Jarrett Krosoczka and Eric Wight, and we’ll be creating a jam comic live in front of the crowd. It should be pretty fun. Then, on Saturday, I’ll be at the Library of Congress’s National Book Festival. My graphic novel Journey into Mohawk Country was chosen to represent New York at the Pavilion of the States this year, and I’ll be signing copies at the New York booth from 12:30 until 2.
WCP: What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?
G O'C: Tricky question—stylistically, I’m all over the place from project to project. If I had to define my work, really, I would say it’s a mostly idiosyncratic mix of stuff I’m interested in. And since most of the stuff I’m interested in is stuff I learned about when I was 12, I tend to make most of my comics for an all-age audience, or try to, at least.
G O'C: I’m a combo man. I do all my black and white artwork the old-fashioned way—pencil, pen, brush and ink on Bristol paper. Then I scan it into my computer for touch-ups, corrections and coloring.
G O'C: I was born in Long Island, New York in the 1970s.
WCP: Can you tell us a little about your book that you'll be in town signing?
G O'C: I’m going to be here for a couple of things, as mentioned above. For the SLJ Summit, I’ll be promoting my most recent book, Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory, which is the latest volume of my Greek Mythology graphic novel series Olympians (the previous volumes were Zeus: King of the Gods and Athena: Grey-Eyed Goddess). Then on Saturday, I’ll be appearing in promotion of Journey into Mohawk Country. The text of Mohawk Country was written in 1634 by a Dutch barber/surgeon named Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, and it’s a journal of the actual journey he made 100 miles into the interior of what would one day become NY state. None of his words were changed (except for being translated into English), I just made it into a comic. It’s pretty fascinating stuff.
G O'C: Like many cartoonists, I suspect that much of my training was self-taught or on-the-job, but I did graduate from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn with a degree in Illustration. I learned a lot of helpful things there, especially about drawing very fast.
WCP: Who are your influences?
G O'C: Some of my faves, in no particular order, are Mike Mignola, P. Craig Russell, Jaime Hernandez, Bill Watterson, Berkeley Breathed, and Walt Simonson.
G O'C: Huh! I tend not to dwell on the past like that, but if I could somehow take the confidence that I have in myself and my work now, and transpose it back in time to me when I was first starting out, well, that would be pretty sweet. That’s all part of the process of growing as a creator though, it would be kind of a cheat to skip it, like some sort of time paradox.
WCP: What work are you best known for?
G O'C: I’d have to say the Olympians series of Greek mythology graphic novels. Which is very rewarding, as they’ve been kind of a childhood dream come true.
WCP: What work are you most proud of?
G O'C: The most recent volume of Olympians, Hera: The Goddess and Her Glory is, in my opinion, the strongest thing I’ve ever written. I feel like I passed through a new high watermark with that one. The next book in Olympians, Hades: Lord of the Dead is just as good, or maybe even better. Now the pressure is on to keep them at this level!
G O'C: I’m very lucky in that I have quite a bit of work already lined up in front of me for the immediate future—Olympians is projected to run for twelve volumes, and after a few years away I’ve recently signed up a couple of new picture books (about dinosaurs! Yeah!). I have a lot of ideas rattling around in my head, and, like always, they’re based on the things I like. I’m lucky to have a job that let’s me explore my interests like this.
G O'C: I go for a walk, or a run, or a long, pointless subway ride. That normally clears it up.
G O'C: I think the much-heralded looming digital revolution will be less of a revolution than it will be an addition to the way business is already done—it will just be another way for people to get their content; some folks will prefer digital, others printed.
Mainstream comics (meaning, mainly, superhero stuff from D.C. and Marvel) seems to be going through a crucial period right now—their actual readership is dwindling, as their properties become more and more well-known through other media, like movies and television. I expect we’ll see more creators accustomed to doing work-for-hire for the big two companies strike out and work on their own, creator-owned materials. It’s one thing to do work on a corporation’ characters, it’s another thing to do work on your own.
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Lorna's Silence
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MPAA rating: R
Genre: Drama, Foreign
In order to follow their dreams and set up a snack bar, a group of immigrants living in Belgium devise a plan to get them all what they want.
Starring: Arta Dobroshi, Jérémie Renier
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne Luc Dardenne
Editorial Review
'Lorna's Silence' Speaks Volumes About Morality
By John Anderson
Special to The Washington Post
Friday, August 28, 2009
Despite the lofty place they occupy in world cinema, filmmaking brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne have never bothered turning their pensive, intimate camera on characters falling from great societal heights. No, their people-in-crisis are generally only two or three rungs from the bottom already, which makes the stakes not just desperate but dire.
In their latest -- the noirish, gripping "Lorna's Silence" -- the title character is an Albanian emigre and pawn in a trans-European marriage-for-immigration racket, whose conspirators would rather kill her husband than wait for a divorce. Does she save the husband, or save herself? As they've done often enough, the Dardennes place their heroine at the intersection of economic salvation and moral damnation, with very few places to turn that don't involve a head-on collision with a nasty fate.
Played with sullen determination by the Kosovo-born Arta Dobroshi, Lorna is an innately decent woman trying to be a hard case, because it's her only sensible choice. The man to whom she's married, Claudy (Dardenne regular Jrmie Renier, looking particularly raw-boned and seedy), is a junkie who's been paid to marry and divorce Lorna in order to provide her with Belgian citizenship. With her new status, she can move on to larger enterprises -- a wealthy Russian, for instance, whom she plans to wed for a tidy profit (and, presumably, then divorce him and marry others).
Because the Russian's in a hurry, because Belgian divorce is slow, because he's the parasitic product of an economic system gone loco, Lorna's "handler," Fabio (Fabrizio Rongione), has decided it makes more sense to give Claudy an overdose. "He's just a junkie," Fabio mutters, as if to say, "it's just business."
To call Lorna's attitude toward Claudy brusque would be like saying Hitler had an unfriendly attitude toward Poland. Their relationship has been set up as ultimate in arranged mismatches -- the nightly ritual involves dismantling the one bed, so Claudy can sleep on part of it in the living room. Their involvement with each other -- Lorna's choice, not Claudy's -- is minimal, and she never smiles. But when Claudy attempts to kick his heroin habit, mostly to win some respect from his wife, he also wins a piece of her heart. And as she helps him, negotiating with the ruthless Fabio and letting her profits drift away in the process, we sense the presence of a fractured saint.
The Belgian brothers, who won this year's screenplay prize at Cannes (where they have won the Palme d'Or twice), are among the world's more plainly political filmmakers: Their heroes (in "Rosetta," "La Promesse" and "The Son") are prisoners of class and need. The characters' crimes, and their acts of nobility, are dictated by where on the economic ladder fate has placed them. As the Dardennes see it -- and they make us agree -- these people possess a moral gravity that's positively Greek. That Lorna, a kind of jetsam bobbing along the transcontinental human drift, can even make moral choices brings her close to sanctification. And, of course, tragedy.
But while the Dardennes may be moralists, they are also makers of thrillers: The story within "Lorna' Silence" is built on tiny increments of tantalizing details, meted out in penurious droplets and with chest-tightening tension that suggests that what the brothers wanted to be when they grew up were boa constrictors -- Belgian boas, with degrees in Marxist theory.
Lorna's Silence (105 minutes, at Landmark's E Street Cinema and AMC Loews Shirlington) is rated R for sexual content, drug content, nudity and vulgarity. In French with English subtitles.
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Dec. 14, 2000 -- Can a troubled marriage increase your risk of heart problems? A new study by researchers at the University of Toronto suggests that it can.
Just as job stress has been linked to heart damage and high blood pressure, the study shows that people who reported problems with their live-in relationships had decreased heart function three years later, and some had increases in blood pressure.
"It was better to avoid your spouse if you had a bad marriage," says lead researcher Brian Baker, MD. "The reverse is also the case. In three-quarters of the sample, if they had a good marriage, it was better to be with their spouse." Baker is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and a cardiovascular psychiatrist at the University Health Network.
The findings, which appear in a recent issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, back up other research showing that supportive people and even pets can modify your heart health for the better.
The researchers studied more than 100 people who were living with a partner and had mild hypertension, or high blood pressure, at the start of the study. The participants, whose average age was 47, filled out a detailed questionnaire on their marriages. Blood pressure was measured and heart function was examined using a device called an echocardiogram.
Three years later, the quality of marriage and amount of contact with spouses were linked to either an increase or decrease in blood pressure. For example, those with happy marriages who had high contact with spouses were better off.
Troubled spouses, however, had a thickening of the left ventricle, one of the chambers of the heart. This thickening is associated with decreased heart function and other heart-related problems.
"It's thought that because the blood pressure is raised for a period of time, the heart has to pump harder and so it becomes thicker," Baker tells WebMD. "In other words, if your marriage was good, your left ventricle was thinner. If it was bad, it was thicker.
He adds that further studies must be done to confirm these results and to compare findings in people with normal blood pressure. If the findings are reproduced, there may be implications regarding the way people are treated.
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CC-licensed: Dan Taylor
The BBC has unveiled plans to bring its iPlayer on-demand streaming software to the rest of the world, starting with the USA. BBC Worldwide will be taking the technology and launching it on the iPad as a pilot, until it gets green-lit by the BBC Trust.
The service will be subscription-only for the time being, with a few free sections supported by advertising. It'll carry internationally-popular shows like the BBC's wildlife documentaries, Doctor Who, Torchwood and Top Gear. The move likely comes in response to looming budget cuts by the coalition government, with the aim of bringing in a bit more cash from the international market.
BBC Worldwide is the BBC's commercial arm, which is distinct from the license fee-funded, non-profit BBC. It'll likely need to license the existing technology from the BBC, as well as its shows, but the opportunity for profits is vast -- there's already a large market for BBC content on existing video-on-demand services like iTunes.
It's also good news for international fans of the BBC's content. As the BBC is a content creator, it can mostly set its own streaming terms (with a few restrictions placed by the studios it works with), and given that the iPlayer is pretty good, all things considered, the end result for viewers would be not unlike Sony Music or Universal creating something as good as Spotify.
Of course, locking the functionality into the iPad is a bit of a shame. It'd be ever better if the BBC offered an API for the content so that it could be built into third party apps and viewed on other platforms too, like Android. The tricky jungle of broadcasting rights might make that one difficult to clear, though.
In the meantime, expect BBC Worldwide to take on greater prominence in the global media landscape, particularly in the USA.
1. I have an ipad but BBC will have to do some more efforts to get me back.I am still upset with Torchwood season 3 and still despise the way the producers treated a big part of the show fans. I am not about to give one penny to the BBC before they aknowledge that a lot of people are not happy with the turn taken by Torchwood. And as long as they don't bring back Ianto Jones to Torchwood they will never see the color of my money again...
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Palestinians Adopt Name to Show Off New 'State' Status
TEL AVIV—Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas officially changed his government's name to "the State of Palestine" in an attempt to implement—even if only symbolically—a recent United Nations vote granting it the status of nonmember observer state.
Palestinian government bodies will no longer use "The Palestinian Authority,'' the title of the autonomous government created by the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords, and...
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At the Movies
Author secret goldfish
Date/Time 07 Jun 2012 2:26:38am
D&M have their review up now.......I included mine below (just got back from the Wed advanced screening), I went over the 100 word limit on the talkback section so thought I'd post it here rather than just simply trashing it when realising I'd gone over the limit!
Not that Prometheus is 100% an "Alien" film, but if it was, I'd rate it third behind Alien and Aliens.
That might not sound very encouraging to those hoping for more but being third behind Alien and Aliens is nothing to be ashamed about as this film still towers miles above Alien3, Alien Resurrection and the god awful AvP films (not to mention most of the other Hollywood blockbusters that this will be competing against at the box office).
The problem with comparing Prometheus to the original Alien is that the story Prometheus attempts to tell is bigger and more ambitious, tackling large questions like the origin of life.
The "horror" element is almost secondary and is also something we already know is coming and something we already expect from the film.
Alien, on the other hand, had the much simpler story of ordinary 'truckers in space" who just wanted to get home but are forced to do "one last job" resulting in them being trapped and hunted by an unknown inside a terrifying "haunted house" like scenario.
Sometimes "less", "unknown" and "simpler" just work better.
Returning to the world of Alien was always going to be difficult though and Ridley Scott does it more ambitiously and far more successfully than I expected as well as doing so far better than any other film maker I can imagine doing a film like this.
I had hoped that Prometheus would have the same level of "scare" and suspense that the original Alien had, which is perhaps wishful thinking considering what the has happened with the Alien franchise during the past 30+ years since the very original and unexpected original.
Prometheus still manages to have its moments though, even if they don't reach the level of the original Alien.
There are still a lot of surprises, and twists to the story not given away in the trailers (which I felt showed too much) and the film itself looks spectacular and feels very "real" unlike most special effects heavy modern films.
Prometheus does have some hollywood cliches but far fewer than most blockbuster films. It also doesn't suffer from feeling the need to give you every answer you want or treat it's audience members like simpletons which most blockbusters (Avatar) fall into the trap of doing.
Overall though, Prometheus is a really good (perhaps not perfect) film which is far far better than most films of its kind/budget/ambition.
It is enjoyable/surprising/visually stunning and well worth seeing. You'll be doing yourself a huge favour though and enjoy t
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Author: Oliver Schneider
This folder contains a selection of scripts I am using to help me accomplish certain tasks.
• makemcpp.cmd can be used to build MCPP, a portable C preprocessor. The tool is great, but it looks like the project is dormant or dead. makemcpp.cmd relies on setvcvars.cmd found in the same folder.
• ollisign.cmd is the script I am using to sign programs.
• setvcvars.cmd is a very nifty script that allows you to detect the given Visual C++ installation, given by the version number - e.g. 8.0 for Visual C++ 2005, and call its vcvars32.bat or vcvarsall.bat and thus make the build environment available to you (devenv.exe, nmake.exe etc). This is very useful if you don't want to hardcode the installation paths to Visual C++ into your build scripts. Instead setvcvars.cmd will use reg.exe (must be downloaded on Windows 2000, but comes on board starting with XP) to detect the installation path.
• setbccvars.cmd is an adaptation of setvcvars.cmd Christian Wimmer wrote for BCC/BCB from Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero.
• the folder speedcommander-includes contains some VBA snippets that I use for my favorite file manager on Windows: SpeedCommander. SC as it is affectionately called by its fans (me included) allows to automate tasks by means of VBA macros. In order to not repeat the common code in each and every macro, I wrote these "include" files. Make sure to read the README.txt in the folder to see how this works.
•, sync and relocate-svnsync-source are scipts that can be used in conjunction with the svnsync command. From the first step of initializing to the steps of synchronizing regularly and relocating where to synchronize from.
• sysinternals-mirror a script that can be used to mirror the contents of without wasting their bandwidth. That is, it will copy only select items and only if they have a newer timestamp than the local version.
The scripts are placed into the PUBLIC DOMAIN/CC0.
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contentbrowser / src / templates / documentation.html
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{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% block title %}Documentation{% endblock %}
{% block body %}
<h1 class="backhome"><a href=/><img src="/static/home.png" alt="Home" /></a></h1>
<h2 class="title">Documentation</h2>
<div class="content">
<p>When you hit the homepage of the service, there are 3 possibilities:</p>
<li>pasting an URI to read the content and only the content</li>
<li>searching for a term in your browsing archives (you need to browse a few URIs before it becomes useful, obviously)</li>
<li>droping the bookmarklet in your topbar to instantly access this service when you reach an article with hard to read content</li>
<p>When you're reading an article, you can always reach the original page via links on the header and the footer. The link at the top allows you to go back to the welcome page.</p>
<p>There are a few themes available, see <code>src/static/themes/</code> and you can easily create your own, just drop your custom <acronym>CSS</acronym> in this folder and modify the <code>CSS_THEME</code> setting (see below).</p>
<p>The easiest way to proceed is to copy an existing theme in order to know class names and so on. Do not hesitate to share your theme via pull-request!</p>
<p><code>LOCAL_HOST</code> and <code>LOCAL_PORT</code> define the host and port to launch your service. Pro-tip: hack your <code>/etc/hosts</code> file to setup your own domain.</p>
<p><code>FORCE_REFRESH</code> setting is mainly for development usage, when you fill the database with wrong data it'll erase it if you hit the same <acronym>URI</acronym> and refill it with fresh data.</p>
<p><code>CSS_THEME</code> is a string with the name of the <acronym>CSS</acronym> file (without <code>.css</code>) you put in your theme folder (<code>src/static/themes/</code>).</p>
<p><code>REDIS_HOST</code> and <code>REDIS_PORT</code> are useful if you don't run the default configuration.</p>
<p><code>WHOOSH_INDEX</code> is the name of the folder to store Whoosh's index.</p>
<p><code>USE_DEBUGGER</code> and <code>USE_RELOADER</code> are mainly for debugging purpose, set those to <code>True</code> if you're familiar with Werkzeug.</p>
<p>Do not modify the <code>PROXY_URL</code> setting unless you know what you're doing!</p>
<p><code>print("Hello developers!")</code></p>
<p>The code has been splited in a few files:</p>
<li><code></code> is creating the <acronym>WSGI</acronym> app, not really interesting</li>
<li><code></code> contains Werkzeug URIs and views</li>
<li><code></code> deals with persistence in both Redis and Whoosh, the parsing of the <acronym>HTML</acronym> is done in that class too</li>
<li><code></code> contains useful functions used as Jinja's filters or helpers.</li>
<li><code></code> defines custom settings to run the application.</li>
<li><code>/static/</code> contains <acronym>CSS</acronym> files (with themes) and images.</li>
<p>Once you know the code dispatching, let's talk about data's dispatching! When you submit a <acronym>URI</acronym>:</p>
<li>the web page will be retrieved by <a href="">requests</a> and parsed with <a href="">readability</a></li>
<li>the content of the web page is modified to create local links for each link in that content in order to be able to browse from content to content</li>
<li>the content is stored in both <a href="">Redis</a> and <a href="">Whoosh</a>, the first one is used to cache it across requests, the second to index content and allow search across browsing history</li>
<p>That's it for now, please submit enhancement's issues if you need more information here to participate, the code should be well documented so dig in :-).</p>
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django-admin-tools changelog
Version 0.4.1, 15 November 2011:
* Static files and django 1.3 support
* Fixed modules instanciation issues (fixes #65)
* Nested groups support & better html id generation (fixes issue #70)
* Fixed various js and css problems
* Added translation for Finnish + updates on other languages
* More robust dashboard layout
* Added force_show_title property to Group module
Version 0.4.0, 13 December 2010:
Important information if you are upgrading from a previous version
This release of django-admin-tools introduces support for south database
migrations, if you are **not** using south you can skip this step.
Existing django-admin-tools should do the following::
python migrate --fake admin_tools.dashboard
python migrate --fake
New users should do::
python migrate admin_tools.dashboard
python migrate
Major changes
* big improvements of the API (see the dashboard and menu documentation for
details), the old API is still supported but now deprecated;
* added a ModelList menu item;
* custom and multiple admin sites basic support;
* better integration with django-grappelli;
* django south support.
Bugfixes and minor changes
* Fixed issue #40 (python 2.5 compatibility);
* Fixed issue #49: disable rendering of empty group modules;
* Fixed issue #51: more robust test runner;
* Fixed issues #57 and #58: updated custom dashboard and menu template files
to reflect the current code;
* Fixed issue #60: explicitely set color for links in module content;
* Some fixes for the future django 1.3;
* Fixes issue #61: Create empty preferences instance if user has no
preferences saved yet.
* Fixed issue #62: updated base template to reflect django 1.2 changes;
* Fixed various js namespace pollutions;
* Improved docs;
* CZ locale support.
For more informations please see:
Version 0.3.0, 16 July 2010:
Major changes
* added tests infrastructure, code coverage is around 70%;
* import paths and class names are changed. Old class names and paths are
deprecated but still work;
* ``dashboard.modules.AppList``, ``dashboard.modules.ModelList`` and
``menu.items.AppList`` now have ability to display any models from different
apps (using glob syntax) via ``models`` and ``exclude`` parameters.
The order is now preserved. See #15;
* implemented dashboard module groups : you can now group modules in tabs,
accordion or in a stacked layout.
Bugfixes and minor changes
* moved the menu and dashboard template dirs in a "admin_tools" directory to
avoid name conflicts with other apps, for example: django-cms
* fixed bookmark bugs. The saved url was urlencoded, so we need to decode it
before we save it. Added a clean_url method to the ``BookmarkForm``.
Fixes #25;
* build urlpatterns conditionally regarding the content of ``INSTALLED_APPS``;
* better display of selected menu items;
* avoid a useless ajax GET request for retrieving dashboard preferences;
* upgraded jquery and jquery ui and renamed the files to more generic names;
* don't show bookmark form if ``NoReverseError``. This was breaking the
``django.contrib.auth`` unit tests;
* fixed url lookup for remove bookmark form;
* fixed issue #26 (menu bar showing for non-staff users) and also updated
templates to match the django 1.2 templates;
* fixed issue #29 : Django 1.2 admin base template change;
* changed the way js files are loaded, hopefully now they are loaded
syncronously (fixes issue #32);
* fixed issue #33: empty applist menu items should not be displayed;
* fixed issue #34: can't drag modules into an empty column;
* fixed issue #35 (wrong docstring for menu).
New class names and paths
- admin_tools.dashboard.models.Dashboard => admin_tools.dashboard.Dashboard
- admin_tools.dashboard.models.DefaultIndexDashboard => admin_tools.dashboard.DefaultIndexDashboard
- admin_tools.dashboard.models.DefaultAppIndexDashboard => admin_tools.dashboard.DefaultAppIndexDashboard
- admin_tools.dashboard.models.AppIndexDashboard => admin_tools.dashboard.AppIndexDashboard
- admin_tools.dashboard.models.DashboardModule => admin_tools.dashboard.modules.DashboardModule
- admin_tools.dashboard.models.AppListDashboardModule => admin_tools.dashboard.modules.AppList
- admin_tools.dashboard.models.ModelListDashboardModule => admin_tools.dashboard.modules.ModelList
- admin_tools.dashboard.models.LinkListDashboardModule => admin_tools.dashboard.modules.LinkList
- admin_tools.dashboard.models.FeedDashboardModule => admin_tools.dashboard.modules.Feed
- =>
- =>
- =>
- =>
- =>
Version 0.2.0, 15 March 2010:
* bookmarks are now being saved in the database
(fixes issue #20, thanks @alexrobbins);
* dashboard preferences are also saved in the database;
* added support for django-staticfiles STATIC_URL settings
(fixes issue #21, thanks @dstufft);
* fixed issue #23: render_theming_css tag does not work on windows;
* added polish, italian, greek and brazilian locales;
* updated docs.
Backwards incompatible changes in 0.2.0
Now, django-admin-tools stores menu and dashboard preferences in the database,
so you'll need to run syncdb and to add the django-admin-tools urls to your
urlconf. These steps are described in details in the documentation.
You'll also need to add ``admin_tools`` to your ``INSTALLED_APPS`` for the
locales to work (this was not documented in previous versions).
Version 0.1.2, 13 February 2010:
* fixed documentation issues;
* added locales;
* fixed issue #9: don't fail when feedparser is not installed;
* fixed issue #5: implemented dashboard layout persistence in cookies;
* enable all modules by default in the default dashboard;
* fixed recent actions log entry urls when displayed in app_index;
* added a "bookmarks" menu item and the code to manage bookmarks;
* fixed jquery issues with django 1.2.
Version 0.1.1, 10 February 2010:
* fixed issue #2: template tag libraries have generic names;
* changed the way dashboards are selected, don't rely on request variables but
pass an extra argument to the template tag instead (fixes issue #3);
* fixed (fixes issue #1);
* better file.
Version 0.1.0, 10 February 2010:
* Initial release
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Implemented a method from_text in the SpriteFactory.
1. dangillet
First attempt at implementing a from_text method in SpriteFactory.
Not sure if it is the way to go.
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1. Bil Bas
Don't forget we have wrapping in SDL2:
textSurface = sdlttf.TTF_RenderText_Shaded_Wrapped(..., width)
Also, if the background color is RGBA(0, 0, 0, 0) it should really use TTF_RenderText_Blended_Wrapped
And to deal with TTF not being available you could just catch the exception if it fails.
2. dangillet author
Hi Bil,
Thanks for the comments. I was actually unaware that SDL2_TTF had wrapped functions. That's really awesome! So I tried to incorporate them. I also changed to blended when the background is black.
I'm new to Hg and I messed up a bit with my repo. I can see that obviously this is seen in this updated pull request. Sorry for that. Is there something I can do to clean it up?
Otherwise I'm not sure where you would catch exceptions if TTF is not available. Do you mean in the common.py file?
3. Bil Bas
Great that you've updated it so quickly!
However, SDL_Color(0, 0, 0) is solid black, which is a reasonable non-transparent background colour. SDL_Color(0, 0, 0, 0) is transparency and should be the default background colour (and cause Blended).
4. Bil Bas
Not entirely sure where you should catch exceptions. I know in my project, where I've implemented a very similar (though less robust) from_text(), I've just assumed that SDL_TTF is loaded, because it will be ;)
5. Bil Bas
Oh and Blended functions don't require a background color (for obvious reasons). I can fork and edit your version if you are feeling I'm just telling you what to do!
6. dangillet author
Thanks a lot. I was indeed trying to run some tests and failed miserably for that reason. I've updated the code and made some more changes. I welcome any feedback as it makes me improve my programming skills. I don't have (yet) an ego problem. :)
There's something else I noticed which annoys me a bit. If we don't delete the SpriteFactory before sdl2ext.quit() is called, we get an exception as the SpriteFactory.del() tries to call TTF_CloseFont(). I don't see how to address this problem properly. I'm thinking that maybe the Font dict should be dealt in a separate class, like a FontResource. The user would have to shut it down properly before calling sdl2ext.quit().
In the meantime, I will check in the del method if TTF is still initialized, and if not, re-initialize it, close the fonts, and close TTF. Or is this an overkill and I could just catch the exception and pass silently on it?
7. Bil Bas
No such thing as windir when not on Windows, so use 'if "windir" in os.environ:' to skip if it if it isn't going to be there. Where fonts are on Linux/Mac, is more difficult to discover, so maybe leave that for now (just so it doesn't break because we don't have a windir!).
8. dangillet author
Right! I try now to look in different folders depending on the OS. The idea is that if you just type a font name without any path, it should be one of the system font, a bit like web browser fonts.
At least now if the platform is not recognized, no prefix is used and an exception will be thrown because the font couldn't be found in the current folder.
9. Marcus von Appen repo owner
Thanks for your efforts, Dan!
Please go ahead with the seperate class of a FontResource or FontManager, which takes care of managing the TTF fonts. To save you the hassle of creating your own font detection, please look at https://bitbucket.org/marcusva/python-utils/src/9a7e4f481c76197f315b5096fc5a3e33b550c24d/utils/sysfont.py?at=default, which provides a system font detection for Windows and X11 (MacOS X still missing).
I do not want to have platform-specific font detection code within py-sdl2, though. From my experience it can often create problems, if the underlying system is wrongly (or differently) configured, fonts are not available on the target system, etc. - and the developer should look into the right place instead of creating a ticket here ;-).
Back to the FontManager class. It should/could be able to create rendered text, ideally with only a small set of of function arguments, with defaults being set as class attributes. A quick 1-minute brainstorming:
class FontManager:
def __init__(self, ...):
self.bgcolor = bgcolor
self.fgcolor = fgcolor
self.fonts = {} # dict containing a TTF_Font to name mapping
self.defaultfont = None # Default font name to be used - must be available in self.fonts
self.fontsize = ....
def __del__(self):
# clean all fonts - it's the user's responsibility to clean up before quitting.
def render(self, text, bgcolor=None, fgcolor=None, font=None):
# and other useful methods
class SpriteFactory:
def from_text(self, text, **kwargs):
manager = self.default_args["fontmanager"]
# some checks
textsf = manager.render(**kwargs))
return textsf
10. dangillet author
Hi Marcus,
Thanks for the guidance. I do agree that it's probably not a good idea to try to have a system font detection in py-sdl2.
I'm leaving tomorrow for my work. I'll try to code a bit, but I might be able to update this code only by the end of the week (week-end). Just to say that I'm not ignoring your post.
11. dangillet author
Hi Marcus,
Here is what I came up with. I tried to use mock in the tests. I hope you don't mind. It's a bit of a learning experience for me, so if you have any suggestions to the way I use them, please feel free.
There might be a few other things to clean / update. But hopefully this will be a better starting point.
Cheers, Dan.
12. dangillet author
Hi Marcus,
Here is the updated version, taking into account your very useful comments. Thanks for that.
I'm still not 100% sure that my tests do the right thing. I guess there could be many more. Just let me know if I missed some obvious cases. Also I could have missed some CamelCases, so don't hesitate to point them out. :)
Regards, Dan.
13. dangillet author
I've updated the code according to your comments. I was not 100% sure at how to make default_font behave. Let me know if you like what I did. If not, let me know what behavior you have in mind.
As usual, I'm opened to feedback.
Best regards, Dan.
14. Marcus von Appen repo owner
A (probably) last set of comments - I think the FontManager, you designed, is a solid start, which has room for improvements in later stages. If you could edge out the last small issues, I would assume it to be ready for a merge. Thanks for your effort!
15. dangillet author
Thanks for your kind words. But you helped tremendously in the design of the FontManager, so I don't think I should take that much credit. I'm glad someone can show me better ways to approach a problem, and takes the time to do it.
So here is the (probably) last changes.
16. Marcus von Appen repo owner
Two more things spotted, one leftover and a question regarding the comic.ttf file - is the file free from any copyright and legal restrictions (placed in the Public Domain)?
17. dangillet author
I looked on the web and couldn't make sure comic.ttf was in the Public Domain. So I replaced it by another font under the Public Domain. Its licence is included.
18. Marcus von Appen repo owner
I would like to avoid a different license (such as the OFL) within the distribution, since it complicates redistributing or modifying the whole package. Please use a font, for which the author(s) decided not to care about what happens to it.
19. dangillet author
Ok, understood. I found another font without any license. This made me realize that default alias mechanism should be modified in case the font_path contains dots. So resources/effloresce.regular.ttf will lead to effloresce.regular as default alias.
20. dangillet author
Well, according to what I read, it seemed ok to use it. But instead of debating about this, I thought of a better solution. I just copied tuffy.ttf and renamed it tuffy.copy.ttf. So it's twice the same font, but different font files, and so behaves like different fonts for the test cases.
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php-src / TODO-PHP5
Full commit
Component: Zend Engine 2
Important stuff to finish: PPP members/PPP methods,
support of overloaded extensions, possibly differentiate
between class and namespace as discussed with Stig in
Responsibility: Zeev, Andi, Stas
Time frame: Couple of months for first part and extensions will be
ongoing while PHP is being fixed.
Things to leave for later versions: Native aggregation
support, accessing static members via object and not class.
Component: Aggregation
Responsibility: Andi, Stig?
Time frame: ?
Component: Redesign of API Versioning
Responsibility: ?
Time frame: 1 month
Component: Thread Safety
Identify the extensions that are not thread safe by design
or due to dependant libraries and identify them as such.
If possible try to resolve thread safety issue via code
improvements (if php code or patches will be accepted by
library maintainers). For situations where thread safety
cannot easily be acheived a flag in the extension API is
set so PHP can identify non-thread safe extensions. These
extensions will not be loaded in a ZTS compiled binary
(unless it is cli/cgi).
Responsibility: ?
Time frame: ?
Component: SAPI
Environment variables defined in the CGI spec need to be
verified in each SAPI module that they conform to the CGI
spec correctly. If they do not, the SAPI module needs to
fix the variable prior to script execution. Having this
conformity will aid in having PHP scripts run correctly
under different sapi modules.
Responsibility: Shane Caraveo & each sapi module owner
Timeframe: ? (but shouldn't be much effort, most modules are probably ok)
Component: RPC Abstraction Layer
Porting java, com, dotnet, xmlrpc, corba, soap and python, srm
(are there more ?) to work with the new oo api and preferably
by using ext/rpc.
Responsibility: Harald
Time frame: 2 months (but i have to wait for a few engine features first)
Component: OO Extensions
Each OO extension has to be revised and rewritten to fit into
the new OO model. We should decide which extensions are a must
to have for the release and which can be ported by the maintainer
later as a separate pecl release.
A list of extensions to be extended that have to be investigated:
* browscap
* aggregate
* all *sql extensions (*_fetch_object)
* domxml (seems like christian is rewriting it anyways)
* ming
Responsibility: Harald (, extension maintainers)
Component: Abstract Data Types (ADT)
Responsibility: Sterling, Harald
Time frame: ?
Component: Test Suite
Extending the test suite with atleast a test for every
function in an extension that doesn't require external
resources. Also developing an automated test thing which
cvs ups's, compiles and tests the build on a daily base on
as much platforms/extensions as possible.
The test suite will also be extended to support threaded
testing and testing for differing sapi modules (via http
calls or other methods).
Reponsibility: Derick (, extension maintainers)
Time frame: 3 months
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I thought the Perl Beginners' Site -
critique of the site by a certain prominent Perl developer revealed many
issues with it, and afterwards I had found stuff that I found lacking. So
here's what has changed.
We're now mirroring the public domain "Perl for Newbies" tutorial on as well as the GFDLed book
"Impatient Perl" by Greg London ( ). Their
We also fixed several look and style glitches.
There are also several corrections to the text and the hyperlinks.
Stack Overflow was added to .
There are now mentionings of two new topical books at -
"Perl & LWP" and "Programming the Perl DBI".
Finally, the "About this site" page at
was updated and made more modern.
mentioned otherwise, all the material on is made
available under the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC-by) for almost
unlimited distribution and re-use.
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id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 8330,Cannot add new filterspecs without modifining filterspecs.py,elwaywitvac ,nobody,"Adding your own filter specs works easily by simply using this code within an applications admin.py {{{ #!python from django.contrib.admin.filterspecs import FilterSpec class MyFilterSpec(FilterSpec): ... FilterSpec.register(...) }}} However, since the last default FilterSpec is always evaluated as True, and new FilterSpec's never get tested. It doesn't seem right to require a library file be modified in order to add a a feature to an application (for example, django-tagging which is what I was messing with when I found this.) Since I don't know exactly what channels I should be going through to submit this as a patch, I'll just put the solution I found here. It's easy to fix if you add the following the FilterSpec. {{{ #!python class FilterSpec(object): filter_specs = [] default = None #added ... def create(cls, f, request, params, model, model_admin): for test, factory in cls.filter_specs: if test(f): return factory(f, request, params, model, model_admin) ### added after this point if callable(default): return default(f, request, params, model, model_admin) create = classmethod(create) # new method def set_default(cls, factory): if callable(factory): cls.default = factory set_default = classmethod(set_default) }}} Then, just replace the last line (which registers AllValuesFilterSpec) with: {{{ #!python FilterSpec.set_default(AllValuesFilterSpec) }}}",,closed,contrib.admin,master,,duplicate,Filters,,Unreviewed,1,0,0,0,,
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1 Reply Latest reply: Feb 7, 2013 8:09 AM by Jeff Smith Sqldev Pm-Oracle RSS
Why spool doesnt work for me?
I just start to use SQL Developer and everyday i have several routines like export all data to XLS files, clear colums, reset values and etc.
So i start to search for comands that will do all this but i cant make one of them work
This one it's for export a Table to a excel file and i'm using spool
Spool c:\TABLE.xls
Select * from DATATABLE;
Spool off
the comand creates the TABLE.xls but it has nothing on it, i have search the internet and try some solutions, and none of them have worked,
can anybody help me?
i'm using sqldeveloper
• 1. Re: Why spool doesnt work for me?
Jeff Smith Sqldev Pm-Oracle
Spool will create a text file, so while your file will be created with the XLS file extension, it's just going to be a flat text file. If you want an Excel file, you'll need to use the SQL Developer Grid, Export -> Excel feature. I believe there are some folks that have built db packages that can create xls files, so you could try looking for those if you wanna stay in the script/SQLPlus world.
Also, your version is very out of date. Can you upgrade to v3.2 and try again?
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Database startup occurs under user SPID when SQL Server service starts - by James Lupolt
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Upon restarting SQL Server, we found that one database started under a user SPID. The following messages appeared in the error log:
2013-06-04 14:33:41.43 spid26s Starting up database 'FooDB1'.
2013-06-04 14:33:41.43 spid25s Starting up database 'FooDB2'.
2013-06-04 14:33:41.43 spid28s Starting up database 'FooDB3'.
2013-06-04 14:33:41.43 spid23s Starting up database 'FooDB4'.
2013-06-04 14:33:41.43 spid11s Starting up database 'FooDB5'.
2013-06-04 14:33:41.43 spid30s Starting up database 'FooDB6'.
2013-06-04 14:33:41.43 spid59 Starting up database 'FooDB7'.
2013-06-04 14:33:41.43 spid22s Starting up database 'FooDB8'.
2013-06-04 14:33:41.43 spid31s Starting up database 'FooDB9'.
Note that the 's' is missing from the SPID for FooDB7. I understand that system SPIDs can be greater than 50 since SQL 2005, but that 's' should be appended for a system SPID.
I understand also that a user SPID will be logged as starting the database if a user runs 'ALTER MyDB SET ONLINE', but wouldn't think that is a possibility here because it is occurring at service startup.
I confirmed that auto_close is not enabled on any databases. No stored procedures are marked to run at startup.
SP1 for SQL Server 2012 is installed.
Could someone comment on whether this could be a bug related to database startup? Does the code that generates those log entries just do something simple like "if spid > 50, append 's'"?
What prompted this inquiry is some unusual blocking that occurred during database startup for this database, but it's clear to me whether the blocking is related to the unusual startup log entries.
Sign in to post a comment.
Posted by Microsoft on 7/26/2013 at 6:41 PM
Thank you for submitting this feedback. The behavior you reported is expected as SQL Server allows user connections to start unstarted DBs on demand.
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JBoss Negotiation
The JBoss Negotiation project provides a Tomcat authenticator and JAAS login module to add SPNEGO support to JBoss.
This project is a component of the JBoss Security and Identity Management Project.
GA release: http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=149589
(Includes code and user guide).
PicketBox Downloads.
For assistance using the authenticator please use the Security & JAAS/JBoss user forum.
For development discussions please use the Design of Security on JBoss forum.
Bugs and Features
Bugs and feature requests can be raised within the SECURITY project in Jira, please set the component to 'Negotiation'.
The source for the authenticator and the documentation is held within subversion at the following locations: -
Additional Documentation
If you have any additional information you feel should be included in the documentation please feel free to add it here so it can be included in a subsequent release.
The following article contains the steps required on an all Windows domain: -
Typical use case described in the diagram.
• Users logs into his desktop (Such as a Windows machine). The desktop login is governed by Active Directory domain.
• User then uses his browser (IE/Firefox) to access a web application (that uses JBoss Negotiation) hosted on JBoss AS or JBoss EAP.
• The Browser transfers the desktop sign on information to the web application.
• JBoss EAP/AS uses background GSS messages with the Active Directory (or any Kerberos Server) to validate the user.
• The User has seamless SSO into the web application.
Integration Material for other Projects/Products at JBoss:
GateIn Integration with JBoss Negotiation
Note: If you want UNIX integration, then please look in the GateIn link above. (<= LINUX/UNIX)
Old SPNEGO/Kerberos Documentation
The old page discussing SPNEGO authentication can still be found at NegotiateKerberos.
* "[SPNEGOLoginModule] Unsupported negotiation mechanism 'NTLM'."
Basically the browser is falling back to deprecated NTLM mechanism and not the recommended SPNEGO mechanism.
JBossAS7/WildFly/EAP6 Kerberos : Look for NegotiationAuthenticatorValve https://community.jboss.org/wiki/AS7EAP6CustomAuthenticatorValves-WritingAndConfiguring
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2005 French riots
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"French riots" and "French civil unrest" redirect here. For the 2007 riots, see 2007 Villiers-le-Bel riots. For the riots in 2009, see 2009 French riots.
2005 French riots
Les Evenements de 2005.JPG
Various scenes from the civil unrest
Date 27 October – 16 November 2005
Location Various cities and towns in France
Causes Police chase of youths on 27 October
Methods Arson, rioting
Result Rioting slows down by mid-November, state of emergency declared on 8 November
Parties to the civil conflict
Unorganized groups
Lead figures
Non-centralized leadership
2,888 arrested
Unknown injured
126 police officers and firemen injured
2 civilians killed by rioters[1][2]
1 civilian killed by smoke inhalation[3]
The riots resulted in three deaths of non-rioters, many police injuries and nearly 3000 arrests. Although many of the rioters were Muslims, the government denied that radical islamism was a significant element in the violence.
Triggering event[edit]
Areas of Rioting in the Paris region as of 1 November
On 10 November and the morning of 11 November, violence increased overnight in the Paris region, and there were still a number of police wounded across the country.[14] According to the Interior Minister, violence, arson, and attacks on police worsened on the 11th and morning of the 12th, and there were further attacks on power stations, causing a blackout in the northern part of Amiens.
A burnt car in Paris' suburbs
A wine festival in Grenoble, Le Beaujolais nouveau, ended in rioting on the night of 18 November, with a crowd throwing rocks and bottles at riot police. Tear gas was deployed by officers. Sixteen youths and 17 police officers were injured. Though those events might have been easily linked with the riots in Paris suburbs, it appears they differ completely in nature and might just well be considered as predictable "wine festival" casualties, caused by misunderstanding and alcohol.
Salah Gaham's death[edit]
Commemorative plaque of Salah Gaham
On the night of 2 November 2005, three cars were burned in the basement of the Forum. Gaham attempted to extinguish the fire and fell unconscious due to smoke inhalation. Firefighters attempted to resuscitate Gaham but were unsuccessful. Gaham died at the age of thirty four; his was the first death caused by the period of civil unrest. The mayor honored Gaham by placing his name on a local street near the Forum. The street is called "Salah Gaham Square," and is marked by a commemorative plaque.[18]
Jean-Claude Irvoas, 56, was lynched by rioters on the 27 October while he was taking pictures in Epinay-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis.[19] On the 4 November, Jean-Jacques Le Chenadec, 61, was knocked unconscious by Salaheddine Alloul, 22, and died a few days later. The victim was trying to extinguish a trash bin fire near his home at Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis.[20]
Commenting on other demonstrations in Paris a few months later, the BBC summarised reasons behind the events included youth unemployment and lack of opportunities in France's poorest communities.[21] This is still a trend occurring in French suburbs today.
The BBC reported that French society's negative perceptions of Islam and social discrimination of immigrants had alienated some French Muslims and may have been a factor in the causes of the riots: "Islam is seen as the biggest challenge to the country's secular model in the past 100 years".[23] It was reported that there was discontent and a sense of alienation felt by many French Muslims and North African immigrants in the suburbs of French cities.[24] However, the editorial also questioned whether or not such alarm is justified, citing that France's Muslim ghettos are not hotbeds of separatism and that "the suburbs are full of people desperate to integrate into the wider society."[25]
There is a common perception, especially among foreigners and descendants of the recent waves of immigration,[26][27][28] that French society has long made a practice of hiding, or at least whitewashing, its numerous signs and symptoms of racism,[29][30][31] xenophobia and classism, by all accounts at least equal in intensity to those in other European countries.[32] According to the BBC, "Those who live there say that when they go for a job, as soon as they give their name as "Mamadou" and say they live in Clichy-sous-Bois, they are immediately told that the vacancy has been taken."[33][34]
Assessment of rioting[edit]
Summary statistics[edit]
Figures and tables[edit]
Departments with more car burnings than usual
Departments with more car burnings than usual the day before
Full extent
day No. of vehicles burned arrests extent of riots sources
1. Friday 28 October 2005 NA 27 Clichy-sous-Bois [36]
2. Saturday 29 October 2005 29 14 Clichy-sous-Bois [37]
3. Sunday 30 October 2005 30 19 Clichy-sous-Bois [38]
5. Tuesday 1 November 2005 69 NA Seine-Saint-Denis [39]
8. Friday 4 November 2005 596 78 Île-de-France, Dijon, Rouen, Marseille [40][41]
11. Monday 7 November 2005 1,408 395 274 towns in total. Île-de-France, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Midi-Pyrénées, Rhône-Alpes, Alsace, Franche-Comté, Angers. [44][45][46]
12. Tuesday 8 November 2005 1,173 330 Paris region, Lille, Auxerre, Toulouse, Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comté, Angers [47][48][49]
13. Wednesday 9 November 2005 617 280 116 towns in total. Paris region, Toulouse, Rhône, Gironde, Arras, Grasse, Dole, Bassens [2][50]
14. Thursday 10 November 2005 482 203 Toulouse, Belfort [4] [53]
15. Friday 11 November 2005 463 201 Toulouse, Lille, Lyon, Strasbourg, Marseille [6]
16. Saturday 12 November 2005 502 206 NA [54]
18. Monday 14 November 2005 284 115 Toulouse, Faches-Thumesnil, Halluin, Grenoble [55]
19. Tuesday 15 November 2005 215 71 Saint-Chamond, Bourges [56]
20. Wednesday 16 November 2005 163 50 Paris region, Arras, Brest, Vitry-le-François, Romans-sur-Isère [57][58]
TOTAL 20 nights 8,973 2,888
Allegations of an organized plot and Nicolas Sarkozy's comments[edit]
The families of the two dead youths, after refusing to meet with Sarkozy, met with Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. Azouz Begag, delegate minister for the promotion of equal opportunity, criticized Sarkozy for the latter's use of "imprecise, warlike semantics", while Marie-George Buffet, secretary of the French Communist Party, criticized an "unacceptable strategy of tension" and "the not less inexcusable definition of French youth as 'scum'" (racaille, a term considered by some to bear implicit racial and ethnic resonances) by the Interior Minister, Sarkozy. Others have suggested that foreign powers were involved in engineering the riot such as the Bush administration to get revenge on President Chirac for having blocked the UN security council resolutions to go to war in Iraq. The French communist party secretary Marie-George Buffet called for the creation of a Parliamentary commission to investigate the circumstances of the death of the two young people, which ignited the riots.[59]
State of emergency and measures concerning immigration policy[edit]
Media coverage[edit]
Foreign news coverage was criticized by president Chirac as showing in some cases excessiveness (démesure)[65] and Prime Minister de Villepin said in an interview to CNN that the events should not be called riots as the situation was not violent to the extent of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, no death casualties being reported during the unrest itself – although it had begun after the deaths of two youth pursued by the police.[66]
Backlash against French hip hop artists[edit]
See also[edit]
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58. ^ "Erneut Nacht der Zerstörungen in Frankreich: Unruhen ebben aber langsam ab - Nachrichten". NZZ.ch. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
62. ^ "Die Banlieues kommen nicht zur Ruhe: Besorgte Blicke aufs Wochenende - Nachrichten". NZZ.ch. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
64. ^ "Media Backspin". Backspin.typepad.com. Retrieved 2014-02-22.
1. Planoise-reflexion (In French)
2. Besancon.fr (In French)
3. ^ Article from Le Monde
4. ^ "Scotsman" on renewal of state of emergency
6. ^ "Each night between 40 and 60 cars are torched" according to the Council of State in "Le Canard enchaîné #4442, 14 December 2005.
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Grasse's shrew
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Grasse's shrew
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Soricomorpha
Family: Soricidae
Genus: Crocidura
Species: C. grassei
Binomial name
Crocidura grassei
Brosset, DuBost & Heim de Balsac, 1965
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Grasse's shrew range
The Grasse's shrew (Crocidura grassei) is a species of mammal in the Soricidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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For other uses, see Chasse (disambiguation).
Chassé in ballet
Chasse or chassé (Fr. "to chase") is a dance step used in many dances in many variations. All variations are triple-step patterns of gliding character in a "step-together-step" pattern. The word came from ballet terminology.
Varieties of Chasse[edit]
There is a large variety of Chasses across many dances. Variations include:
• The direction may be sideways, diagonal or even curving.
• Timing may vary. Typical timings in ballroom dances are qqS (1/4, 1/4, 1/2) and SaS ("slow-and-slow", 3/8, 1/8, 1/2).
• Footwork may vary.
A slide with both legs bent either forwards, backwards or sideways and meeting in the air straightened. It can be done either in a gallop (like children pretending to ride a horse) or by pushing the first foot along the floor in a plié and springing into the air where both legs meet stretched.
A number of specific dance variations in the International Style ballroom dances are named "chasse".
Ice dancing or roller dancing[edit]
In ice dancing, chassés are basic dance steps which appear, for example, in many compulsory dances. The International Skating Union rules define the following variants:[1]
• Simple chassé: a step in which the free foot is placed on the ice beside the skating foot, which is then lifted close to the new skating foot with the blade parallel to the ice. The two steps are skated on the same lobe, usually stepping from outside to inside edge.
• Cross chassé: a chassé in which the free foot is placed on the ice crossing behind the skating foot when skating forward, or in front when skating backward.
• Slide chassé: a chassé in which, instead of lifting the new free foot after the step, it slides off the ice in front when skating forward, or in back when skating backward.
Line dancing[edit]
In line dancing the term chasse is used for a triple step sequence in any direction (forward, side, back, diagonally, or curving). For instance, if the chasse is to be done to the right, the right foot steps right, the left foot is placed next to the right, with the weight being transferred to the left foot so that the right foot can complete the chasse by stepping to the right. The call is usually: "step, together, step". The step is often called the shuffle by line dancers.
1. ^ ISU technical regulations
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Simple Machines Forum
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Simple Machines Forum
Developer(s) The Simple Machines organization
Stable release 2.0.9 (October 2, 2014; 7 months ago (2014-10-02)) [±]
Preview release 2.1 Beta 1 (November 21, 2014; 6 months ago (2014-11-21)) [±]
Development status Active
Written in PHP
Type Internet forum
License Open Source
SMF 2: 3-clause BSD License
SMF 1: Simple Machines License
Simple Machines Forum software, or SMF software, is a open source, Internet forum, message-board program developed by The Simple Machines Organization. The name reflects the organization's initial goal of providing a program that could be operated by novice programmers and require minimal server resources.[1] Simple Machines won best free forum software award in 2009.[2]
On June 16, 2001,[3] 16 year old Zef Hemel along with collaborators Jeff Lewis, Corey Chapman, and Matt Mecham released the first open source bulletin board written in Perl called YaBB 1.0 (Yet Another Bulletin Board).[4] YaBB 1.0 was the leading free forum software package at the time. It proved, however, to be inefficient and slow for active communities.[5]
Lewis and Fung split off from the YaBB SE team to try a different approach for addressing the YaBB SE efficiency problems, security concerns, and to add new features. Lewis and Fung did a complete rewrite of the code[5] and changed the brand name to Simple Machines Forum (SMF).[6] On September 30, 2003, the first "YaBB SE/SMF" product, SMF 1.0 Beta 1a, was released.[7]
The development and support team for YaBB SE, was shut down in March 2004 with hundreds of communities in operation, when the developers joined the SMF project. A converter was developed to convert YaBB SE to SMF.[6][8][9]
On Dec 03, 2006, SMF 1.1 was released.[citation needed]
On April 8, 2007, Simple Machines announced the introduction of SMF 2.0.[11] SMF 2.0.x has been in development alongside SMF 1.1 since December 2005.
In June 2010, Simple Machines re-formed as a not-for-profit organization (NPO) registered in Nevada. The transfer of assets from LLC to NPO was completed in April 2011 and in May 2011, Simple Machines, LLC was dissolved. On the 24th of September 2010, the Simple Machines team announced the dissolving of the Simple Machines LLC and all assets moved to the nonprofit organization (Simple Machines) set up for the project.[10] The Simple Machines Organization has a not-for-profit applications pending with the IRS.[citation needed]
On June 11, 2011, SMF 2.0 was released.[12]
On November 21, 2014, SMF 2.1 beta was released.[citation needed]
A fresh installation of SMF 2.0 RC4, a preview release of the software
SMF 1.0 and 1.1 are published under OSI approved licenses. It is open source. Distribution of certain modified components is limited.
Simple Machines Forum version 2.0 and 2.1 are licensed under the 3-clause BSD license.[13] It is also open source with redistribution of modified code subject to guidelines.[1]
Simple Machines Forum software is written in the HyperText Preprocessor (PHP) language and uses MySQL database management - it is built around established industry standards. The use of PHP, MySQL and the fact that SMF is freeware, helped spawn the creation of a large and relatively active volunteer development community.[1]
Simple Machines Forum has a limited footprint and as it is free, the package is a popular choice for individuals and small organizations with limited resources. SMF support is often found on basic hosting packages, with or without 'one-click' install functionality. SMF is commonly deployed on shared servers, usually Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) compliant servers.[1]
Simple Machines Forum has 6 versions, YaBB 1, YaBB SE 1, SMF 1.0, SMF 1.1, SMF 2.0 and SMF 2.1
Version Release Date Latest Rev# Revision Date Development
YaBB June 16, 2001 2.6.11 December 17, 2014 Active[a]
YaBB SE 1 Nov 12, 2001 1.5.5 Jan 17, 2004 Inactive[b]
SMF 1.0 Sep 30, 2003 1.0.23 Dec 16, 2012 Inactive[c]
SMF 1.1 Dec 03, 2006 1.1.20 Oct 03, 2014 Active
SMF 2.0 Jun 11, 2011 2.0.9 Oct 03, 2014 Active[d]
SMF 2.1 Nov 21, 2014 2.1 beta 1 Nov 21, 2014 beta[e]
1. ^ YaBB became a separate and active community[14]
2. ^ YaBB SE became a separate and active community that disbanded in March 2004 to join SMF 1.1 effort.[8]
3. ^ Replaced by SMF 1.1
4. ^ There are 33 improvements between 2.0 and 1.1[15]
5. ^ There are 54 improvements between 2.0 and 2.1[16]
Local language options[edit]
SMF is available in 42 languages in UTF-8 and non-UTF-8 encodings:
30 additional languages in development via an on-line tool called Language Editor.
SMF team[edit]
The Simple Machines team consists of volunteers, and includes developers, support, customization, documentation, localization, marketing, and different management divisions.
SMF has a dedicated support staff and a volunteer user program called Community Support Helpers that provide free support in SMF related problems on the official community forum. Their duties include mostly helping forum owners with troubleshooting, optimization and customization of SMF.
The documentation and localization teams work on the SMF wiki, powered by MediaWiki and the Translate extension.[17]
Advanced support[edit]
Advanced support for SMF users including installation and upgrades by the Simple Machines staff, access to a hidden section on the SMF forum and access to advanced beta versions of software is available via a program name Charter Membership. Participants also have access to a private help-desk for one-on-one support outside of the public forum. On January 1, 2015, the annual fee was $49.95 USD.[18]
Prominent forums[edit]
There are more than 20 mega-forums, ranging in size from 1,000,000 to 75,000,000 posts, operating on this platform.[19]
• SMF has been criticized[by whom?] for not being available under a free software license; the developers acknowledge this. Redistribution of earlier releases of the software (SMF 1), even unmodified, were not allowed without written permission. That source code is not redistributable either, although it is allowed to distribute instructions on how to modify it.[40]
• Some users complain that navigating the website is difficult due to a usual layout that often requires visitors to navigate through multiple areas to find even the most basic information.[41]
See also[edit]
3. ^ "YaBB 1.0". Retrieved November 12, 2001.
4. ^ "Interview With Zef Hemel - Founder of YaBB". The Admin Zone. Retrieved Jun 15, 2005.
8. ^ a b Lewis, Jeff. "YaBB Perl Software Community". YaBB SE. Retrieved March 4, 2004.
12. ^ "2.0 Final has been released". The Simple Machines Organization. Retrieved June 11, 2011.
14. ^ " is coming back". Retrieved December 18, 2014.
18. ^ "Charter membership". Simple Machines. Retrieved January 15, 2015.
20. ^ "Forum stat page". Warrior Cats RPG. January 15, 2015.
21. ^ "Forum stat page". Kanye West Forum. January 15, 2015.
22. ^ "Forum stat page". Red and White Kop. January 15, 2015.
23. ^ "Forum stat page". Bitcoin Forum. January 15, 2015.
24. ^ "Forum stat page". Hogville. January 15, 2015.
25. ^ "Forum stat page". Taleworlds. January 15, 2015.
26. ^ "Forum stat page". January 15, 2015.
27. ^ "Forum stat page". Fertility Friends. January 15, 2015.
28. ^ "Forum stat page". Itasa. January 15, 2015.
29. ^ "Forum stat page". Forum SCP. January 15, 2015.
30. ^ "Forum stat page". Simple Machines Forum. January 15, 2015.
31. ^ "Forum stat page". January 15, 2015.
32. ^ "Forum stat page". January 15, 2015.
33. ^ "Forum stat page". KBoards.
34. ^ "Forum stat page". Bay 12 Games Forum. January 15, 2015.
35. ^ "Forum stat page". Chevy Avalanche Fan Club. January 15, 2015.
36. ^ "Forum stat page". BenzoBuddies. January 15, 2015.
37. ^ "Forum stat page". avast! support forums. January 15, 2015.
38. ^ "Forum stat page". Candy Magazine. January 23, 2015.
39. ^ "Forum stat page". Marlin Crawler. January 15, 2015.
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The Cable Guy
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This article is about the film. For the comedian, see Larry the Cable Guy.
The Cable Guy
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ben Stiller
Produced by Judd Apatow
Andrew Licht
Jeffrey A. Mueller
Written by Lou Holtz, Jr.
Starring Jim Carrey
Matthew Broderick
Leslie Mann
Music by John Ottman
Cinematography Robert Brinkmann
Edited by Steven Weisberg
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release dates
• June 14, 1996 (1996-06-14)
Running time
96 minutes[1]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $47 million[1]
Box office $102.8 million[1]
The Cable Guy is a 1996 American dark comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, who also co-stars in the film. The film stars Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick. The film was released in the United States on June 14, 1996, and is notable for being Judd Apatow's first work as a feature film producer. The film co-stars Leslie Mann, Jack Black, George Segal, Diane Lane, Eric Roberts, Owen Wilson, Janeane Garofalo, David Cross, Andy Dick, Amy Stiller and Bob Odenkirk.
After a failed marriage proposal to his girlfriend Robin Harris (Leslie Mann), Steven M. Kovacs (Matthew Broderick) moves into his own apartment after they agree to spend some time apart. Enthusiastic cable guy Ernie "Chip" Douglas (Jim Carrey), an eccentric man with a lisp, installs his cable. Taking advice from his friend Rick (Jack Black), Steven bribes Chip to give him free movie channels, to which Chip agrees. Before he leaves, Chip gets Steven to hang out with him the next day and makes him one of his "preferred customers".
As promised, Chip arrives the next day, and he takes Steven to the satellite dish responsible for sending out television signals. Steven tells his problems with Robin to Chip, who advises him to admit his faults to Robin and invite her over to watch Sleepless in Seattle, which is running on HBO the next night. Steven takes Chip's advice, and Robin agrees to watch the movie with him. The next day, Chip begins acting more suspiciously, "running into" Steven and his friends at the gym and leaving several messages on Steven's answering machine. When Robin arrives to watch the movie, the cable is out, thanks to Chip, who intentionally sabotaged Steven's cable when he didn't call Chip back. Chip fixes the cable under the condition that they hang out again, to which Steven agrees.
The next evening, Chip takes Steven to Medieval Times, where Chip arranges for them to battle in the arena, referencing the Star Trek episode "Amok Time". Chip behaves aggressively, nearly killing Steven, who eventually bests him in combat. Afterwards, Chip congratulates Steven, who decides the experience was fun. When they arrive at Steven's home, Chip reveals that he's installed an expensive home theater system in his living room. Chip and Steven later host a party, complete with a karaoke sing-off. With Chip's help, Steven sleeps with a woman named Heather. The next morning Chip reveals that Heather is a prostitute. Furious, Steven throws Chip out, but Chip assures Steven he will make things better.
Chip tracks down Robin, who is on a date with another man (Owen Wilson). When the man goes to the bathroom, Chip severely beats him and tells him to stay away from Robin. He later upgrades Robin's cable, saying that it's on Steven. Robin decides to get back together with Steven as a result. Steven tells Chip that they cannot be friends, which hurts Chip. Chip then begins a series of vengeful acts. He gets Steven arrested for possession of stolen property (the home theater system), although Steven is released on bail.
During a dinner with his family and Robin, Steven is horrified to see Chip is in attendance as well. Steven tells him to leave, but Chip tells him to play along or he will show everyone a picture of Steven with the prostitute. The evening goes from bad to worse, with Steven punching Chip after the latter implies he slept with Robin. Steven is later fired from his job when Chip sends out a video of Steven insulting his boss to the entire office that was recorded on hidden cameras in his apartment.
After doing some investigating, Rick tells Steven that Chip has been fired from the cable company for stalking customers, and uses the names of television characters as aliases (with his current alias taken from My Three Sons). Chip calls Steven that night, telling him he's paying Robin a visit. Steven tracks them down to the satellite dish, where Chip holds Robin hostage. After a physical altercation and a chase, Steven gets the upper hand and is able to save Robin. As the police arrive, Chip goes into a long speech on how he was raised by television and apologizes to Steven for being a bad friend. He then dives into the satellite dish, which knocks out the cable across the entire town, just as the verdict in a highly publicized case involving a famous child star is about to be revealed.
Chip survives the fall, but injures his back. As Steven and Robin reunite, Steven forgives Chip and asks for his real name. Chip jokingly replies "Ricky Ricardo". Chip is later taken to the hospital in a helicopter. When one of the paramedics addresses him as "buddy", Chip asks the paramedic if he is truly his buddy, to which the paramedic replies, "Yeah, sure you are," causing Chip to smile deviously just before the credits roll.
First-time screenwriter Lou Holtz Jr. had the idea for The Cable Guy while working as a prosecutor in Los Angeles, declaring that once he saw the cable guy in the hallway of his mother's apartment he started thinking "What's he doing here so late?" The screenplay became the focus of a bidding war, won by Columbia Pictures at a price of $1 million. Chris Farley was originally cast to star as the Cable Guy, but dropped out because of scheduling difficulties. Jim Carrey joined the production, receiving a then-record $20 million to star. Following Carrey's signing, Columbia hired Judd Apatow to produce. The studio denied Apatow's interest in directing, but accepted his suggestion to invite Ben Stiller, star of his eponymous show in which Apatow had worked on.[2][3]
The original screenplay by Lou Holtz Jr. was a lighter comedy, described by Apatow as "a What About Bob? annoying-friend movie" where the Cable Guy was a likable loser who intrudes upon the cable subscriber's life, but never in a physically threatening way. Carrey, Apatow and Stiller liked the setup of "somebody who is really smart with technology invading somebody's life", and opted to add slapstick and darker tones, changing into a satire of thrillers such as Cape Fear, Unlawful Entry and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle. The dialogue would also fit Carrey's style of comedy.[4]
Holtz wrote four additional drafts, each one darker than the previous, before leaving the project. Apatow took over the writing, though he went uncredited for not fulfilling the WGA screenwriting credit system regarding how much a producer had to work on to be credited as writer as well.[4] Apatow and Stiller visited Carrey as he was filming Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls in South Carolina, and over a few days, riffed a lot of the setpieces that were added to the script, and how Carrey wanted to perform this character.[3] The final script had elements so disturbing that Columbia had many complaints on some scenes. In turn Apatow declared that the studio did not specifically order removals, "but we took [the scenes] out as part of the natural evolution of our creative process." Stiller stated that he shot every scene with "a dark version and a light version", and that he was surprised that the studio did not object to the violent ending.[4][5]
The fight sequence at Medieval Times between Chip (Jim Carrey) and Steven (Matthew Broderick) is a homage to the Star Trek (original series) episode Amok Time – including the use of Vulcan weapons (Lirpa), the dialogue, and the background music.[6] Director Ben Stiller is an admitted Star Trek fan.[7]
Critical response[edit]
The Cable Guy is regarded as having a darker tone than most of Carrey's previous work. Audiences had mixed reactions to this change of tone for Carrey and film critics gave mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 54% based on 56 reviews.[8]
The film was on J. Hoberman's Top 10 best of the year.[9] Roger Ebert included The Cable Guy in his worst of the year list for 1996,[10] though colleague Gene Siskel disagreed, calling it "a very good film. (Carrey's) best since The Mask".[11]
The film was also noted for its similarities to the Australian telemovie The Plumber (1979), which was written and directed by Peter Weir, who would later direct Carrey in The Truman Show (1998).
Box office[edit]
The film grossed $19,806,226 on its opening weekend. It grossed a total $60,240,295 in the North American domestic market, and $42,585,501 outside the U.S, making a total of $102,825,796 worldwide gross. Despite the critic perception that the movie was a flop, it made a profit in excess of its $47 million production budget.[1] It has gained cult-like status among movie-goers.[3][5]
Awards and nominations[edit]
1997 MTV Movie Awards
1997 Kid's Choice Awards
Home media[edit]
The Cable Guy was released on VHS on December 3, 1996, DVD on September 15, 1997 and Blu-ray on March 1, 2011. Bonus features on the Blu-ray include: Gag Reel, HBO First Look, Comedy Central Canned Ham Presents: The Cable Guy, Basketball, Medieval Times, Breakfast, Ending Mud Fight, Karaoke Alt. - Bust A Move, Deleted/extended scenes, Nightmare Camera Test, Leslie Mann Audition, and "Leave Me Alone" music video.
Cable Guy:
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released May 21, 1996 (1996-05-21)
Recorded 1995-1996
Genre Soundtrack
Label A&M Records
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 2/5 stars[12]
The Cable Guy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the official soundtrack.[13] It consists of previously unreleased songs, largely of alternative rock and heavy metal bands, and includes the first solo recording by Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains fame. The soundtrack includes Jim Carrey's version of Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love" which was performed by him in the film. It also includes a song from $10,000 Gold Chain, a side project of Pearl Jam lead guitarist Mike McCready. However, it does not include White Zombie's "More Human than Human", which is featured in a dramatic scene of the film.
Cantrell's "Leave Me Alone" served as the soundtrack's promotional vehicle and had a music video. This featured various footage from Cable Guy in a dark manner typical of Cantrell's style. It also had Jim Carrey's haunting face reaching out of a television screen at the observing Cantrell. While the album as a whole was not well received, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic noted that "Leave Me Alone" positively "rocks as hard as any Alice in Chains track."
The track "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" gained popularity for its appearance in the film and reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks in 1996.
Track listing[edit]
1. "I'll Juice You Up" – Jim Carrey
2. "Leave Me Alone" – Jerry Cantrell
3. "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" – Primitive Radio Gods
4. "Blind" – Silverchair
5. "Oh! Sweet Nuthin'" (The Velvet Underground cover) – $10,000 Gold Chain
6. "End of the World is Coming" – David Hilder
7. "Satellite of Love" – Porno for Pyros
8. "Get Outta My Head" – Cracker
9. "Somebody to Love" – Jim Carrey
10. "The Last Assassin" – Cypress Hill
11. "This Is" – Ruby
12. "Hey Man, Nice Shot" (Promo-Only Remix) – Filter
13. "Unattractive" – Toadies
14. "Download" – Expanding Man
15. "This Concludes Our Broadcast Day" – John Ottman
Chart positions[edit]
Year Single Chart Position
1996 "Leave Me Alone" Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks 14
See also[edit]
1. ^ a b c d "The Cable Guy (1996)". Box office mojo. IMDB. 1996-08-30. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
2. ^ "The 1996 Summer Movie Preview: June". Entertainment Weekly. May 24, 1996. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
3. ^ a b c Rabin, Nathan (March 1, 2011). "INTERVIEW: Judd Apatow". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
4. ^ a b c Welkos, Robert W. (June 25, 1996). "Humor Too Dark for Its Own Good?". The Los Angeles Times.
5. ^ a b Sellers, John (March 4, 2011). "Judd Apatow Tells Us the Legend of The Cable Guy, the Bomb That Wasn't". Vulture. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
6. ^ "''Cable Guy'' trivia". Retrieved 2012-03-12.
7. ^ Star Trek 30th Anniversary Special, October 6, 1996
8. ^ "The Cable Guy". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 2012-03-12.
9. ^ "J. Hoberman's Top Ten Lists 1977-2006". Eric C. Johnson. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
10. ^ Ebert, Roger (host); Siskel, Gene (host) (January 11, 1997). "The Worst Films of 1996". Siskel & Ebert. Season 11. syndicated. My next big star in a bad movie is Jim Carrey, who got one of the year's biggest paychecks for The Cable Guy but forgot he became a top box office star by being a likable nut in funny comedies. The Cable Guy was an exercise in hatefulness with Carrey playing a pathological character who seemed not funny but obnoxious and annoying. [...] Jim Carrey has generated a very real comic talent but he can't work with material as negative as it is in The Cable Guy.
11. ^ "Siskel & Ebert - The Cable Guy (1996)". Tribune Broadcasting. Retrieved 2013-12-15.
12. ^ "The Cable Guy - Original Soundtrack". Allmusic.
13. ^ The Cable Guy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Retrieved March 24, 2008.
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This special issue of Natural Computing seeks high quality original work relating to the evolution of indirect representations of
artificial neural networks (ANNS). Papers submitted can be original research papers or survey papers.
In nature biological neural networks are created through an exceptionally indirect process. A single set of evolved genes in a single fertilized ovuum produces a network with an enormous number of cells and connections. In other words, the genotype to phenotype mapping is extremely indirect and complex. In addition, the process is ongoing during the lifetime of the individual.
Indirect genotype representations of ANNS do not use a one-to-one mapping of weights and connections to genes
in the genotype. Typically, such mappings may be generative or developmental in nature, highly redundant or compressed. Usually, when such mappings are evolved small genetic changes can induce large scale changes in the networks (phenotypes). For instance a single gene change may cause multiple weights to change, neurons being disconnected and others connected, or large scale topological changes in the network. The aim of such mappings is to make ANNs more evolvable and often to scale up to large networks capable of solving complex and large scale problems. Indirect mappings may be used in many kinds of neural networks: non-spiking, spiking, recurrent, etc.
Relevant topics for the special issue include:
Generative or developmental neural networks;
Highly compressed genotype-phenotype mappings of neural networks;
Highly redundant mappings in which many genes may be ignored in building the neural network;
Evolutionary representations of neural networks that include greater biological plausibility;
Evolutionary representations which include an encoding of neural learning rules;
To submit a paper follow the instructions at:
Please make clear that submissions are intended for the special issue entitled:
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Submission system opened: June 1, 2014.
Closing date for submissions: September 1st, 2014.
Informal inquiries can be emailed to the guest editor:
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Bug#334589: netcfg: prompts for network interface, even at critical priority
Paul Telford wrote:
> I did an install using the latest (downloaded today) "testing"
> business-card installer image on and x86_64 machine. The machine has
> two NICs, and the install stopped and prompted me to choose one, even
> though I had set debconf/priority=critical. I believe this is a change
> in behaviour, as I don't remember seeing this question before on
> multi-NIC machines. (?) At most I think this question should be "high"
> priority, maybe even "normal". eth0 seems like a reasonable default.
It only prompts in the case where you have two interfaces and link
detection does not find a link on only one of them. There is not good
default in that situation.
This behavior has not changed in months.
see shy jo
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Re: Conflict/dependency granularity
> Bill Mitchell writes:
> >In this particular example, the ls program could no doubt go
> >in /usr/local/bin just as well (though there might be a config
> >file which needs to go in /etc), but there are probably other
> >examples which need to go into /usr/bin. A cooperating
> >system of programs, possibly, which have it hardcoded
> >to look for one another in /usr/bin.
> But such a system would have problems under any other operating system
> and should still be fixed. There's only so far one can go in terms of
> working around other people's bugs.
Where's the bug here? And by whose standards is it a bug?
(I should check the FSSTND before I ask that question, to see if
it reserves /bin, /usr/bin, and so forth for the distribution
provider, but my copy is at home. I don't think it does)
> >Perhaps I wasn't clear. I wasn't proposing that current dependency
> >schemes be replaced with file dependencies. I was saying that
> >the ability to specify file dependencies might also be useful in
> >some cases.
> I understood exactly what you meant. My point was that there may be
> areas where file dependencies are not sufficient.
yup. I think I said they wouldn't be a panacea. I suggested this
because: (1) I'm not convinced that Package dependencies and/or Virtual
dependencies are panacea(e?, s?) either; (2) given that there's no
panacea, a number of alternative means of specifying dependencies, each
probably covering holes which the some of others leave uncovered
might be a viable approach; (3) I imagine they'd be easy to do
(letting implementation concerns creep in, when I shouldn't do that)
(the code to parse dependency specs is already written -- all that
should be necessary would be to extend the control file syntax to
distinguish File dependencies from Package and Virtual dependencies,
and check for the specified files).
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Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:28:53AM -0700, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> For these reasons, I agree with the sentiment that UPX should be used on
> almost all (if not all) executables shipped with Debian.
i would strongly object to this. how would it affect other tools, such
as ident, ldd, and strings?
if it is something that could be done after the fact (and it seems to
be. the documentation on http://wildsau.idv.uni-linz.ac.at/mfx/upx.html
is very lacking) then by all means make a .deb that will upx pack
everything is /usr/bin et al. but do not do it by default.
however, on something like boot-floppies, this might be a goddess-send.
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Re: [2002-06-11] Release Status Update
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 01:14:44 +1000
Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the meantime, since we have woody-proposed-updates operational,
> and won't be accepting further promotion of packages from unstable to
> testing, there's no need to be particularly wary about uploading new
> stuff to unstable. So, have at it.
Now let us go cracking...
[email protected] http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer
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Joseph Carter <[email protected]> writes:
> I care. I suspect everyone who has to download the Packages.gz for sid on
> a slow link probably has a vested interest in removing the stupid and all
> but totally unused crap people throw in the archive, not adding more to
> it.
I appreciate the variety. I'd be much more interested in a better
compression algorithm (bz2, for example) than in a censored content.
> We have some really silly things in the archive, and that's fine as long
> as they actually have a real use. But I don't go packaging every little
> applet and script I write, because most of it is useful to six people,
> some of it closer to about a dozen.
Please define "real use".
> When packaging a thing, a developer should be asking what this package
> will add to Debian and who will benefit. If the answers are "not much"
> and "nobody really", do we really need to further bloat the Packages list,
> the archive space, the mirrors' disk requirements, etc, with it? I say
> probably not.
"Only do what's popular" has lead to Windows. I prefer Debian the way
it is.
Aaron Isotton
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Re: Free v's Open Source software
Steve Langasek wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:31:33AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
(*) IIRC there are no exceptions, and the sets are the same, but I
don't know if every single OSI-approved license is used in Debian main.
There are OSI-approved licenses that are not considered DFSG-compliant.
Which ones? This seems to be a slippery slope. All OSI should be eligible otherwise perhaps the OSI definition is wrong. Isn't it good enough to say that OSI, Free and 'list here' are fine?
What about the bios and hardware etc. as they aren't free? Things are gray, not black and white. The intent of a statement should be fine unless some legal determination is made that restricts the community that wants to follow the law.
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Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007, Don Armstrong wrote:
> Is there any reason why this isn't handled by a
> /usr/share/bug/gnome/script (or whatever is appropriate) which tells
> the user to install the -dbg package if they aren't currently
> installed so backtraces can be generated?
While this is an interesting suggestion (which I'm taking note of!),
it might not be enough when users are using specific reporting tools:
bug-buddy comes to mind for example.
> Once you've got the corefile, you can always mate the -dbg to it after
> the fact.
Hmm I don't expect the majority of users to know how to do this nor how
to enable core dumps in the default config.
This very discussion reminds me that we lack a serious debugging
infrastructure like major projects or companies have: Mozilla, Ubuntu,
Apple, Microsoft... We really need new tools:
- to collect segfault data using a different channel than bug reports
(for example to merge multiple reports into one, to find top
crashers, to protect sensitive information, ...)
- to get crashes with useful information (propose installing -dbg
packages, collect crash specific information such as
~/.xsession-errors for desktop apps)
- etc.
Loïc Minier
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Arch exclusion issue
We're using ftpsync to get a local archive for internal Debian
installation. We use the git version from ftp-master.d.o¹, and we only
mirror i386, amd64, and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64}.
When the git went fastforward from 8c00430 to 578af22, the ftpsync
script did copy all the architectures from upstream, thus filling the
dedicated partition. We found packages for s390, mips, mipsel, powerpc
and so on.
I rechecked the configuration, tested two different upstream (ftp.fr.d.o
& ftp2.fr.d.o), checked the rsync command which seemed to be correct.
Did I miss something in the changelog about arch exclusion ?
[1] https://ftp-master.debian.org/git/archvsync.git
Florent Charton
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Re: Python 2.1/2.2 removal; Python 2.4 as default
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:49:52PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar writes:
> > The first freezes are already closing in fast,
> did I miss something? There's no update since
We're roughly 16 weeks from the python freeze, including the debconf
period and the summer holiday period (for the northern hemisphere, that
During these mere 16 weeks, python 2.1 & 2.2 needs to be dropped, the
default moved to 2.4, and the plan is to overhaul the python
We can use all of those weeks to get settled over each of those issues,
and many more that are important for the release. Having 4 (or maybe
even 5) python versions would be a release blocker, and the two oldest
ones can be removed without any serious direct consequences, and simply
would provide a better urge for people to fix up their packages. Several
people already asked for removal, sponsoring, and I noticed some
more packages simply getting fixed over the weekend. So, because there
were no objections to the python 2.1/2.2 removal, I'll be proceeding
with that.
Regarding 2.4, I'd really like to get started with it asap, and having
the policy stuff happening in parallel. Are there any objections/reasons
to *not* do so in like a week from now, starting with a simple upload of
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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RE: problem reinstalling solaris10
Realizing that this is probably not the most elegant approach, any time I am cleaning off a drive that will be changing OSes, I always to a:
cp /dev/zero /dev/(whatever)
to force the entire drive clear, partition tables and all. Takes a while, and far from elegant, but I've also never had cross-OS issues that way either.
Wenton L. Davis
>From : Tobias Marx[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent : 6/20/2006 4:57:24 AM
To : [email protected]
Cc :
Subject : RE: problem reinstalling solaris10
i was testing around with debian on a sun blade 2500, but finally can't
get the grafics card to work.
so i want to reinstall solaris 10, which was running on that machine before.
problem is, that installing with the same dvd, that i used before,
stopps with "can't find harddrive".
can it be that this is caused by grub and the linux partitions on that
and if yes, how to remove them?
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lyx with teTeX??
Hi all,
I was wondering if lyx can be used with teTeX?? Does any one know if and
when teTeX will be able in debian?
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Re: nprint error:
On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 04:52:06AM -0500, Jeffrey Velez wrote:
> I can't mount a print queue on a Novell 4.1 Server using:
> nprint -s umsm3 -p .Network_Services.dpg.Mednet.mednet
> -q pq_mns_helpdesk_dpg_4
> I get the following Error:
> nprint: Could not find valid connection spec in ncp_initialize
> Where is this configured? (ncp_initialize).
I think this occurs because it does not know your username and password.
You need to use -U <username>, and it will prompt for your password.
You can also put these in a dotfile in your home directory (I do not
recall the name).
Is NDS supported these days with ncpfs? Neat.
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This is the last war I'm going to fight with you people
In the 2 or 3 months I've been on this list, I've posted several
questions. The bulk of the responses I've received have made no
attempt to answer my questions, but instead have been rude comments
that have nothing to do with the questions.
>From now on, if I post a question, any people who respond but who make
no attempt to answer the question will be put in my spam filter. I
have better things to do than to engage hot heads in worthless debates.
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Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:37:52PM -0500, I wrote:
> 3. I seems impossible to arrange for an iceweasel window to start up at a
> specified position on my desktop (fvwm).
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 20:32:16 -0500, [email protected] replied:
> If you want fvwm to open something at a definite location, specify the
> location in ~/.fvwm2rc. Here's the extract from mine
> ...
> + "I" Exec Eterm -x --bold-font fixed --no-cursor -g 57x5+947+974 --scrollbar 0
> --buttonbar 0 -e sudo grc tail -n 16 -f /var/log/syslog &
I do this in .fvwm2rc for various xterms. I believe this depends on the fact
that xterm and Eterm honor their geometry arguments from a command line. In
my experience, though, firefox (iceweasel) does not. Where the window comes
up, and what size it is, has no relation to any "-g" or "-geometry" arguments
I try. Neither its man page nor "firefox --help" indicates such an argument.
It's odd that giving it such an argument has no effect but also gives no
error message.
Firefox does claim to accept "-height" and "-width" but again, I actually get
800x980 no matter what arguments I give. And even those wouldn't allow
specification of window placement.
With old Netscape, having this in ~/.Xresources
Netscape.Navigator.geometry: 800x977+773+87
and calling xrdb worked. But it does not with firefox.
I brought this up as a question in a thread "size and position of iceweasel
window" last year. There seemed to be general agreement that firefox ignores
geometry requests.
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On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:13:53 -0600
Ron Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/18/2010 11:37 PM, Dan Serban wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I now have chromium and claws at my beck and call. Man.. are they
> > ever fast.
> >
> So, how effective are ABP and Flashblock? I read once that the
> Chrome ABP doesn't actually *block* ads from loading but simply
> prevents them from being displayed.
Nowadays the addblocker stops downloading, and the flashblock works
> Also, anyone with experience with these plugins (which *I* consider
> essential, though some may find heresy)?
> acroread
Should work fine
> Java
works here
> MozPlugger
no idea
> OOo
no idea
> Flash 10.0r45
works fine
> Silverlight 3.0.4xxxxx
works fine
> VLC
should work fine
Angus Hedger
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Question to all candidates: In eight years...
Dear candidates,
this is the echo of a question asked two years ago in the 2010 campaign.
In addition, do you see major changes happening in the recent or next years,
and how do you think Debian should react to them ?
Have a nice day,
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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sidebars in the wiki
Me again ;)
I still don't know how to edit sidebars in the wiki.
I need to be able to do that, to create the kind of menu there that exists for the English language (and also to insert the native spelling of my language, although I could just nag Thierry to do that ;) .)
Is this something we can do? (Not the nagging, the sidebars.)
Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia
Ở thành phố Renmark, tại miền sông của Nam Úc
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StreamReader.ReadToEnd Method
Reads all characters from the current position to the end of the stream.
Namespace: System.IO
Assemblies: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
System.IO (in System.IO.dll)
public override string ReadToEnd()
Return Value
Type: System.String
The rest of the stream as a string, from the current position to the end. If the current position is at the end of the stream, returns an empty string ("").
An I/O error occurs.
This method overrides TextReader.ReadToEnd.
ReadToEnd works best when you need to read all the input from the current position to the end of the stream. If more control is needed over how many characters are read from the stream, use the Read(Char[], Int32, Int32) method overload, which generally results in better performance.
ReadToEnd assumes that the stream knows when it has reached an end. For interactive protocols in which the server sends data only when you ask for it and does not close the connection, ReadToEnd might block indefinitely because it does not reach an end, and should be avoided.
Note that when using the Read method, it is more efficient to use a buffer that is the same size as the internal buffer of the stream. If the size of the buffer was unspecified when the stream was constructed, its default size is 4 kilobytes (4096 bytes).
The following code example reads all the way to the end of a file in one operation.
using System;
using System.IO;
class Test
public static void Main()
if (File.Exists(path))
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(path))
sw.WriteLine("is some text");
sw.WriteLine("to test");
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(path))
//This allows you to do one Read operation.
catch (Exception e)
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Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.0
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Supported in: Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1
Supported in: Windows Phone Silverlight 8
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