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Vim won't make you a more productive developer
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Disclaimer: I am playing devil's advocate. I do believe Vim makes me more efficient with some trade-off, YMMV.
We, as developers, spend a lot of our time on our text editor of choice. Choosing to use Vim, in my opinion, ultimately won't make a huge difference with any other editor. The majority of modern editors are more than capable to handle the task at hand and are much easier to get started with.
You want to use Vim? Sure. After you are vaguely familiar with it, you will dive deep into Vim's ecosystem and soon learn about the variety of flavors Vim comes in and the many ways to manage plugins and configuration. Suddenly need to code in Java? well darn, you'll need to expand your code completion, syntax highlighting, and add additional functions like compilation.
And after going through all of that, would you argue that you emerged out of it a stronger better developer? Or would you say it was all but a distraction and the time spent there could've been spent on coding and learning about other facets of programming?
I use Vim daily and I love it, but it's kind of difficult for me to recommend it because it truly is a time-sink. What the folks rave about is more about Vim-navigation and not Vim itself, and that is easily solved with Vim-mode, which is available in most editors.
So, what's your stance on the general push for vim?
Personally, I love Vim for the same reason that some people love raising a banzai tree, or building a toothpick castle. If I've got the time, I like to fiddle.
Sometimes, yes, I just want to knock some code out, or navigate around a big project to get a bird's eye view of everything. At that point, I reach for VS Code.
But, if I've got the time, or what I'm working on isn't super important, I like taking the time to tweak my
.vimrc to get things just right. And then, in a couple of days or weeks, I do the next bunch of tweaking. It's fun and it's interesting.
It's relaxing to me to do something small and pointless, but to do it very carefully and to do it right. I don't know. Maybe it's a "when you focus on something small, all of the big stuff fades out for a while" thing.
I think that's the reason I'd recommend Vim to somebody. Not because it's "better than your current editor", not because you'll inherently "be more productive", but because you're interested in learning something new, adding another tool to your toolbelt, and fiddling. And I think that's enough reason to pick it up!
It's relaxing to me to do something small and pointless, but to do it very carefully and to do it right. I don't know. Maybe it's a "when you focus on something small, all of the big stuff fades out for a while" thing.
THIS. This so hard. I have NEVER been able to put it into words but oh man, this.
I think it's the same as dvorak and qwerty keyboards. One can type faster on dvorak, but there is a lot of time invested in learning and practicing. If one have time to invest in Vim, I don't see any reason why not.
I personally think that there is to much programming subjects to learn, that investing much time in text editor is pointless.
Totally agree. It's like knitting or oragami, but you end up with a cooler workflow each time, instead of a bunch of knick knacks laying around the house.
When the discussion comes to the point where it is "would you recommend Vim or not" I think of an analogy that I like to use: it's like recommending a bike over a car.
It might be an overly simplified analogy, and it goes together with the fact that I love my bike as much as I love vim, but it goes like this:
Vim is my bike, a car is an IDE, and your text/code is your distance. Short distance might be a script, a long distance might be a project.
With the bike you can get around. You choose short distances when you are starting, and you fall. A LOT. The better you get, the longer you ride. If you loved it, you'll love it more. If you didn't, then riding isn't your thing. You start tweaking your bike: did you choose a road bike over a mountain bike for your daily commute? that's fine, but ride. After you ride your custom bike, you don't want to use the same bike you used at the beginning. Your bike is yours and only yours. Then, you start using it for more than commuting. You ride it for fun, you do day trips, or even week trips. You use it in distances other rather go by car, but it doesn't matter, you enjoy it. And sure, you brag about it.
The car is something different. It's heavy duty. It comes with all the goodies you might need for long distances. You need to learn how to drive, sure. There are a couple of controls, you can go fast or slow, but as long as you don't get crazy you won't crash. You are surrounded by safety, sit back and strap on. Have a long distance to drive? it might come with a GPS, you just drive. (Sure, you can use a GPS with the bike, just as well as you can install an autocomplete plugin in Vim).
Some bikers can't wrap their head around people driving to starbucks and back. Some drivers are tired of the bikers bragging saying how biking is better than driving for "all the wrong reasons". Others, just choose the right transport for their commute. Sometimes you might want to ride, some other times you need to go across the country carrying a bunch of luggage, for which the car just works.
For me, it isn't about arriving, it is about enjoying the ride. Would I recommend vim? sure, why not? try it. Just know that, unlike when learning how to drive, you do fall from the bike.
Really well expressed!
I myself prefer nowadays PHPStorm for PHP development, but everything else is done in vim. The key point for me is how easy it is to script changes by recording macros and automating tedious refactorings. After all I already dug through 100k of ancient Perl code and could not have survived this without and editor that simply works.
What I most miss in these discussions is always the fact, that development environments are different. I would love to build all my software on one machine, locally and my bespoke editor config. But my reality is, that I have to analyze and debug my code on a couple thousand servers, where it simply is impractical to always have your config with you.
So my best tip for everyone: memorize the three most important settings (
:syntax on,
:set bg=dark and
:colorscheme desert are these three for me) so you are neither blinded nor disgusted when moving systems quickly. And while the perfect setup might have vim-airline and zenburn, you can at least live on a remote system without going nuts.
Agreed. I believe that the title of the article is a bit misleading, as Vim can indeed make you more productive! if you choose if for the right task, and know your way around it. The more experienced you are, the broader range of tasks you can do productively.
The last part of your comment is also on point: if there are customization-elements that make your experience easier in a session on a remote/different machine then learning them will make your life easier. It can be even added to my analogy: if you get a bike while you visit someone else, what's the first thing you do? You set the settle to your height, probably change the gear, so that it feels comfortable. You can also drive without doing any of this, sure, but it will be a pain.
My stance on the general push for Vim - after having used it for years before moving back to modeless editors and although I maintain a semi-official Vim build for Windows - are the following considerations:
- Editor modes are annoying. In most cases, when I start my editor, I want to type stuff right away. Having to press extra keys for that is not something I'd want to have.
- The Vim ecosystem is broken. Four concurring plug-in managers - or was it five? - try to be the "only one".
- No Vim is like any other Vim. Because of a giant mess of optional features,
:versionis a mandatory command whenever I come across "a Vim".
Yes, Vim is cool. A version of
vi is installed on most Unix and unixoid systems - but then again, so is
ed. -- Vim imitates a concept that was made for systems which haven't been seen in three decades, but its preferences still make sense: everything is a mnemonic. A lot of that is purely emotional though. Impress your friends by not using a mouse, hoo! One could imagine higher aspirations. (My stance on syntax highlighting and code completion is a different topic... Vim's default colors hurt my eyes.)
I have learned a lot in my time with Vim. One of the things I have learned is that modal editors kill too much of my time.
I couldn't disagree more. Vim's modal nature is insanely convenient and fast, whereas non-modal editors force you to waste time mousing around in menus or GUI elements. Most programmers spend far more time editing and navigating code vs writing it.
"In most cases, when I start my editor, I want to type stuff right away."
vim +star
I've used several plugin managers and never had any issue installing the plugins I wanted.
"No Vim is like any other Vim" is like complaining that nobody else organizes their kitchen exactly like you organize yours. 99% of the time, you'll be using the vim you installed and configured.
As for the original question here: a task being difficult and time-consuming isn't a good reason to avoid it, if the payoff is good. Learning vim is one of the best decisions I've ever made.
I agree with you. How they work on a guest machine while connecting to them via ssh ? They're can touch their gui icons ? I don't know...
99% of the time, you'll be using the vim you installed and configured.
And since every single distributor compiles different options, you can never be sure about which they are.
If you can use git and GitHub, you can compile your own vim in easily less than 5 minutes.
That's true for all editors. (I compile from Mercurial though.)
To your first point: usually I edit already created files. In these files after I open them, very very rarely I am at the place where I want to start writing something. So I need to navigate to the place of my interest and vim-mode so far always bested other editors.
I like the idea of working solely on a keyboard, but I don't know if I'm convinced that Vim is the best solution. I've been working on a "regular" editors like Atom and VS Code ever since I started programming, and I haven't seen a need to move to something as hardcore as vim.
Also, the fact that it seems "hardcore" feels burdensome and heavy to me. Tools are supposed to help you be more productive, and while there's a learning curve to everything, I think it what you said is true:
it's kind of difficult for me to recommend it because it truly is a time-sink.
The one thing Vim does better than Atom and VS Code is performance. Even a GVim with a dozen of plug-ins feels snappy when compared to those.
But then again, so does every other non-JavaScript editor...
I disagree, it depends heavily on your plugins. I've had my vim slow to a crawl (full seconds between key presses and actions) because an environment variable wasn't set.
That isn't to say Electron based editors are fast either, they aren't. But VS Code is 'good enough' and has an insane number of plugins.
You can profile syntax highlighting by running
:syntime on, moving around, then running
:syntime report. Then fix it :)
The issue was actually caused by vim-powerline and some locale variables being not set. Not really the syntax highlighting, but thanks for the info :)
Great to hear. Personally I switched to lightline which is quite a bit leaner with respect to performance. I also removed git information from my statusline as I found that to sometimes cause a performance hit (although I didn't bother trying to fix it to update async).
Ehhhhh I would agree with this for most things save ruby.. specifically ERB files. I have super performance problems that I've never been able to solve, tried all kinds of stuff, but nothing I can think of works, Vim's fine with most things but Open an ERB file and vim begins to chug.
Have you tried
vim -u NONE?
I was able to narrow it down with debugging, it only slows down in erb files, it's fine every where else. I believe it to be an issue with the regex for syntax highlighting.
If you think syntax highlighting is what's slowing it down, then you need to try to load one of the problematic files with
vim -u NONE. That command tells vim not to load any config and thus vim launches in vi compatibility mode. If it it's still slow, then it's not the syntax highlighting and the problem is elsewhere. For example, vim doesn't take too kindly to files that are absurdly huge (>5MB) or have absurdly long lines (>10K columns). But the thing is, that in itself is way better than all the other text editors, which choke on files much smaller than the ones vim chokes on. You should isolate the problem before spreading something like this; you might be spreading misinformation.
I don't have a stance on
the general push for vim since I don't believe it exists. Not sure I get what that means.
variety of flavors Vim comes in - Vim or NeoVim? GVim? again not sure what you mean.
you'll need to expand your code completion, syntax highlighting, and add additional functions like compilation - no actually you don't need to do that at all. You can if you want or you need that type of support. Personally in the teams I have been a part of and lead, reliance on IDEs can be taken too far to become a crutch and can inhibit understanding on what is going on in your codebase.
I have been doing development for over 20 years. I have used a lot of editors and IDEs over the years on a lot of platforms and I have settled on Vim as I like the feeling of it and I have the ability to optimise my workflow with it. Editing at the speed of thought is pretty close to the truth for me. It feels like playing an instrument, if you will, and similarly the more you do it, the better you get and the better it feels.
Vim is the fastest keyboard driven language for editing. It's not an IDE but you can add in IDE style features if you would like. There is a reason for there being Vim plugins for most IDEs including Emacs the best operating system without a decent editor. If you don't want to mess with configuring Vim much you don't have to. NeoVim out of the box has some pretty sensible defaults.
Have a watch of some of the destroyallsoftware.com screencasts to get a feel of what that looks like.
what about adding vim's keybinding in <your-favourite-editor>
I think I forgot to escape <
Sure, if that works for you and maybe that can be a good softer introduction for some folks to Vim and modal editing in general.
I started out learning Vim because I had to regularly modify files on production systems that didn't have a IDE option installed. Now I use it because I'm comfortable with it and really like it's speed.
VimAwesome is a fantastic resource especially with the plugin/plugin manager issue. I've switched back and forth from a couple of different managers and haven't had any troubles.
I've tried most of the big name editors, each for a reasonable amount of time, and they're good. I always come back to Vim, though.
It's nice knowing that Vim will be on pretty much every system I log into. If it's not, it's usually no trouble to get it installed. It's fast and I think the movement keys are great. You can customize it as much as you want to and get some really great features.
I am vim user and I have tries to switch to other editors and the main thing that makes me switch back is the lack of the leader key in vim mode for any other editor out there. I have my key strokes that "save me time" intiated by the leader key. I just cannot find an editor that will allow me to do that without being another time sink to setup.:-)
I'm on the fence about this as well.
I think every developer should at some point install Vim, try out a bunch of plugins, and run through some tutorials — even if it's just so you won't feel scared when you end up within the editor by accident.
But more productive? Complex editing tricks often require a refresher in the form of a few internet searches and a bunch of experiments. You tell yourself that it's investment in future productivity... But obscure key combinations are long gone from my muscle memory when I need them again.
I love Vim as an editor, and use it out of habit when editing configs, markdown, latex, and bash scripts.
For larger code projects I personally prefer the Jetbrains IDEs, as they offer great out of the box smartness tuned to specific languages.
I got started with vi on Sparc 5s (and less!) in 1996 or so, and over the decades have accumulated a 200-line .vimrc file. I do not use it for every purpose, using VS Code for most of my coding, but I do use /vim?/ for a few special purposes.
Sorting - For things like the entries in CSS, I like them to be sorted, so that I don't have to hunt as hard to see if
font-sizeis set. I'm sure it's available in Code, and I think I have it set for one of the systems I use, but it isn't built-in so it isn't consistent. I go into visual mode and get it done.
- PerlTidy - Here, I'm very in the minority, but my code base and experience is largely in Perl. 1) the Perltidy VSCode extension isn't happy on on non-Linux systems. 2) the Perltidy VSCode wants to go with system Perl, not my self-compiled current Perl, and thus doesn't always work right.
Remote - The machine I'm editing on is not always the machine under my fingers, and the user I'm editing as is not always me. I can often mount those file systems and edit with VSCode, but it is often quicker and easier to just ssh in,
vi file.confand get out.
Honestly, I could easily get my .vimrc under 100 lines -- maybe less -- without losing any of the functionality I need. A lot of it is taken from people like Damian Conway's vim settings. See Damian Conway show off vim at OSCON.
My problem is the same as the users who don't use it often: it would take time to determine which things I use and need and which things I do not, and it is easier to just go forward with things as they are. I was strongly in a sink-or-swim environment when I learned vi, surrounded by lots of people with similar knowledge but knowing just that keystroke that I needed to move forward. But the space I work in is somewhat anachronistic in the coming cloud world.
I would gladly wear a t-shirt with the "Oh Ned! You Are a vi man after all!" image on it, but honestly, if I could trade my not-ready-for-git-or-other-revision-control current codebase for something where I wasn't developing in production (It existed like this before I got here) and all it would cost me is my vim knowledge, I would trade it in an instant.
In my experience the one thing that Vim got right was keybindings and mapping. Modal editing does take away many pains of editing and does make you faster.
However, where I found Vim severely lacking was basically other things like:
- opening multiple files
- opening multiple projects
- syntax highlighting
- and file navigation
- fuzzy file search
- tag search
My current setup consists of Sublime Text 3 with NeoVintageous for Vim like editing.
I believe it gives me the best of both worlds. Vim like keybinding and modal editing with all of Sublime's sublime features.
tag search, see ctags
fuzzy search, see fzf
multiple files, yeah it can do that with :buffer
vim's use of the unix philosophy to use other command line tools for extending features without bloat is another thing they got write.
I used all of those methods.
But modern editors such as Sublime and VS Code still provide a much better experience in those categories.
well one is more than welcome to use what they like. but please give examples of how x is better than y.
in this case, fzf and ctags also work with other tools out of the box so my email (mutt) client, file manager (mc), chat (bitlbee+irssi), and others has fuzzy search and tags. With that whole environment portable to thousands of machines online via git clone or docker image instead locked to one desktop.
- opening multiple files: open in splits or tabs, search through open files with fzf
- opening multiple projects: personally I use tmux for that
- syntax highlighting: polyglot
- file navigation: vinegar, nerdtree or just fzf
- fuzzy file search: fzf or rg or ag etc.
- tag search: gutentags with fzf backed by ctags
Far and away better than VSCode especially on code bases with a lot of files - the command t plugin for Vim (I personally use fzf on smaller code bases) happily works across millions of files.
Actually, VIM is one of the most favorite thing i'v discovered. It's so cool, i don't have to use a mouse to navigate when i code anymore.
It's painfully when come to config and install suitable plugins for vim. :(
I do know, it's worth. But it's too hard to make everything work perfectly as i want.
I'v pay weeks, even months to make my own vim config. (There are a lots of .vimrc sharing in the internet, but we can't just use other people configs..you know...Only we know what we need, what we do want to use...)
I'v tried so much to create mine configs. But it's never make me satisfy...
Maybe, i'll try it again in the future, but not now. Because currently, VSCode is the one that suitable for me. It have everything i need: Terminal, Split windows, Smart autocomplete...etc.
But how can i live without vim, i have to use VSCodeVim, which let you have almost all basic key mappings in vim. It's not the best, but it work for me :). Do you guys use it too ?
Again, i can't live without vim :)). I'm even install a plugin call Vimium on chrome, which let you use some basic navigation in chrome :))
Things I like with Vim;
- Running commands on the shell then pasting the results into the buffer
- It blends very well in a multi-panel tmux session
- I can go to the top and bottom of the file with
- You don't need to the reach for the mouse
There are lots of other things, but these are probably the top 4 for me.
I generally don't want to recommend Vim, or any editor for that matter, to anybody. I think people, most specially coders, would like to try out lots of editors before they gravitate to their preferences. Then at at that point, they should just use whatever feels very natural for them. To each his own, I guess.
I prefer to recommend that developers try both
vim and
emacs at some point - that leaves the decision of whether to learn either (or both) entirely up to them. Personally, I know both, although I gravitate towards
vim in the command-line. A lot of devs are scared off by the respective exit commands alone, so it takes some encouragement for them to try those editors in earnest, I believe.
That said, I do recommend that Linux ITs and sysadmins learn at least one power-user text editor. The time taken to learn
vim or
emacs quickly pays for itself when maintaining a server. (
nano is a terrible option for that purpose.) Even if one has managed to set up their IDE or fancy window-system-based text editor to be able to edit remote server files, one should still know a good command-line editor; you can't always connect your favorite machine to the server when a fix is needed!
I don't know about the editors themselves but I'm pretty sure that Vim key bindings (which is available for many popular editors via plugins) will make you (hopefully) more productive at editing text which increase the productivity of developing code since it requires typing a lot.
Even though I struggled quite a bit at the beginning of learning Vim and Vim key bindings, I highly recommend every developer to try to be comfortable with Vim key bindings and enjoy their faster code editing with less typing for the rest of their coding lives.
To be honest, mouse-less access to any file I need to edit locally or on a *nix server. Vim keyboard shortcuts have been embedded into my brain since Uni days. But when it comes to heavier languages like Java I'd use an IDE not something like vim.
surprising, I've found that vim can do java development. one also needs Gradle and to actually understand java but that's a good thing.
I truly and objectively believe vim does make me more productive. Some other stuff not necessarily related to text editing are way more important, but since I'm willing to pass a lot of time of my life coding, investing in optimizng the text editing process is really important.
While editing text, before vim I've noticed what takes the most time is figuring out how to do what you want to do in the minimum amount of time. Vim solves that problem beautifully, at the cost of being hard to learn. It comes to a point vim makes you spend less time thinking
I feel vim is like learning a new language, it's hard at first but once you master it you don't even think about it and do everything really naturally and fast, whereas previous text editors felt like using Google translate everytime I wanted to express myself.
It really comes to this: optimizing your process to the point you don't even need think about it, it all comes naturally to do boring stuff fast. If the tool you use is impairing you from getting to that point, maybe it's time to change tools. That's what happened to me.
But text editing is just a fraction of the big picture. Planning well your code - and your day! - beforehand, knowing how to better navigate through code to find fast the information you need, improving readability and designing an architecture that allows you to make changes easily are more important, specially because it might affect the overall productivity of your team.
I both agree and disagree with this post. Vim doesn't compete with the capabilities and tighter integration other IDEs have but affords you the flexibility to customize the experience with the many off the shelf plugins and tweaks, etc to make it your own for your needs - that's harder to do with the all-in-one competitors and where it is possible, you are boxed in and limited. Have a new company DSL that has custom dev/test work flows and complex integrations with git? OK, write your own nominal syntax/plugin, hook in with vim autocommands that run custom tests in the background, have fugitive manage your git CI/CD,etc. Overheads? Sure. But manageable. Take vim away from me and I'm paraplegic. Give me something else in its stead and I'm dysfunctional.
I tend to agree, it's the navigation and some other best tricks that make vim so pleasant to work with. The package management is a bit of a pain though. A couple of months ago I decided to give emacs a go and soon afterwards I stumbled across evil mode and soon after that I discovered spacemacs. Spacemacs is fantastic all the joys of vim without the pain.
Well rounded perspective IMHO.
I was an emacs person for 10 years before I embraced Vim. And, relative to job requirements, I used several other editors along the way (for years each) -including Eclipse, Visual Studio, and several others -all of which I used some form of 'vim mode'. Each of these editors requires a time investment. And with that said, I think your comment about Vim being "truly is a time-sink" is spot on.
Any time I've interviewed a developer or admin over the years one of the first questions I ask is: "What editor do you use?". By that question I'm not judging the answer but only that the person has an answer. Often the best candidates have been the ones who will say they have 'some' primary editor and adjust otherwise.
Nice article.
Fiddling to make it work well for a new requirement isn't something that should take a significant amount of your time, so I don't worry about it. I've kept my vim config under version control for the last several years, and so I can tell you how often I've mucked about with it. Three times, in the last six years.
So I've spent less time mucking about with my editor config, which is at least a little bit productive, than I have on utterly unproductive stuff like configuring my machine to use the corporate-VPN-of-the-week (I'm up to three this year so far and that's without changing jobs) or on explaining our unchanged deployment process to product managers (about once a month).
But I would never try to push anyone to use vim. I don't care what editor anyone uses. If they want to use Sublime, or emacs, or Komodo, or ed (or even ED) that's fine by me, provided that their code works, meets our coding standards, and passes code review.
the constant tweeking time sink to vim is a symptom not the norm. with releases like neovim and onivim one has those same tweeks baked in.
Honestly thought, if one is only using vim for home row navigation then they're missing the point. try to disable cusor movement by unbinding the keymaps and start to use vim mode as it's intended, a command prompt.
did anyone know that :r!foo.sh will actually read into the current buffer the strout of "foo.sh" or :split !fu.sh will bring a new horizontal rule window with the output of that shell command?
how about :set makeprg=... ? or the scripting language that's built-in?
I'm proud to say that vim has made me a better developer because it's been a tool which always is there, is built by programmers for programmers and just works for any use.
And that's the point of it.
I never customize my vim. I have mostly pursued vim in VSCode and in the terminal. I enjoy not touch the mouse to move around and navigate. I've been using it for years and have not managed to use all the features of it.
I think I'm echoing some of the other comments here, but I was intially attracted to vim because I wanted to be a power user. I have probably spent weeks worth of time customizing and tweaking it, even picking up a little vimscript along the way. My life got tremendously better when I stopped trying to make vim "perfect". I reduced the number of plugins I use (no completion needed with default control p and n, no syntax highlighting, etc). I wanted a universal tool to help me write code that didn't get in my way.
So while vim itself didn't make me a better programmer, it certainly made me appreciate the "right tool for the job" mindset. I think vim is one of the best text editors that you'll find, but if you want more, well, find what works best for you I guess
I use Vim. I like Vim. I am more productive with Vim. But it's not twice as productive, it's more like 5% more productive.
If not Vim, I'd be using an IDE. Either Xcode or Visual Studio. As source code editors, they're okay. (For other capabilities, there are some things I really like about Xcode, some things I really like about Visual Studio. And then there are things that one does great, and the other does poorly. And yet other things where both IDEs are infuriating. Meh, go figure.)
My stance on the general push for Vim is "It's too late for me! Save yourself!"
My fingers know Vim, tacitly. When I use other editors or IDEs and I feel claustrophobic and hobbled.
PS: I used to be an emacs user. Started using vi on a bet / dare / challenge, and never went back to emacs. In hindsight, I think the one thing that emacs lacked was a good editor.
After committing to Vim for 1+ year, I can say that although it is fast, it is not that much faster than, say, VSCode. Using vim is faster to do within-file editing, but across-file editing I find using VSCode to be faster - (I may need to optimize my vim workflow more); and that's with ripgrep and ctags and other plugins.
The cool thing about Vim is, I can work about as fast as using VSCode in places where resources are scarce or GUI is nonexistent (like VPS?) - places where VSCode can't live, I can still go fast.
So yes, not faster than other editors, but about as fast - and more versatile!
I'm not a vim user (anymore), but I use vim bindings.
For me the desirable part of vim is the modes and bindings - I hate moving from mouse to keyboard constantly and find vim bindings good for that.
Most IDEs and text editors have vim plugins that you can use, a lot of them aren't fantastic, but some work well enough.
I use vscode with the vim plugin - the best of both worlds.
It is all about vim's navigation for me. I use VS with a vim emulated plug in. I loved vim editing in my browsers toxt boxes (plug in was unstable so I removed it). Sometimes wish bash had vim instead of emacs shortcuts.
VIM vs IDE is pointless, use the tool that makes you more comfortable.
A story for context. Once I met someone who uses Vim the team tried to convince him to at least use Sublime Text, then he shows us how quick he was and why he uses VIM. He likes to think everything, every line, so it suited it for him. We all think on what we code, but this guy really took her time.
On the opposite side, I use anything from Jetbrains, and I fly on it. I can create boilerplate with a shortcut or run custom cli commands.
I guess something that is never discussed is, VIM favors cli type of devs and GUIs hide favors visual type of devs.
I think every dev should learn both. I love my term I have spent hours pimping it and have done the same with my IDE's, so eventually, every dev gets rewarded by pointless tasks, but those things add up.
I started using vi when it came out. I still use vim. For most things I prefer an IDE, however vim is still better for searching within a huge file, and for doing things that are highly repetitive. My third favorite editor is Excel. In Excel I build custom code generators for my ORMs.
I often use VIM because I can access anything anywhere anytime.
I do not use it in a productivity environment when I code on a single project for a while.
I use it to manage my servers without any interface, with minimal requirements and a lot of productivity when you can access all your computers around the world with simple commands, download files, read logs, manage configurations, etc.
Vim is productive when used for those reasons.
I think the title is quite misleading and Vim the editor is not to be conflated with Vim the keybinding and editing philosophy. I also don't use Vim the editor now unless I'm performing quick edits on a file. I normally use Spacemacs and VS Code.
However, learning the Vim keybindings, even though it might be time-consuming, will give you far greater rewards for a lifetime to come. I think you're also not against learning the Vim navigation but you didn't express it well with the title.
I'd say learning the key bindings is already most of the battle and should be recommended to every dev. After that if one wants to learn Vim configurations they're free to do so. However that's not the key to productivity at all.


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I can't imagine many taxpayers are happy with the idea of elected officials using public funds to pay for travel to political party-related events – even fairly serious-minded events such as a GOP lawyers meeting. Yet that's what Treasurer Scott Gessler did this year, and now The Post's Tim Hoover has confirmed that his behavior is unusual indeed.
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Target Audience
- Grades 1-4
- ELLs & struggling readers
Program Benefits
- Teaches the 4,000 most common and useful English words, which account for 80% of words in a typical text
- Ensures students know the meanings of the words when they hear them or see them in print and that students can pronounce the words
- Provides individualized, self-paced instruction that can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection
- Diagnoses individual learners by identifying the words with which they are unfamiliar
- Includes 355 interactive and engaging web-based lessons organized into 8 levels of proficiency
- Game-like activities motivate students to learn new words
- Students only need to use the program 30 minutes a day / 3 times a week
- Requires little teacher time beyond initial student setup
- Easy-to-use learner management system for initial student placement, monitoring, and reporting
- Research-based and field-tested
How It Works
The First 4,000 Words core instruction uses a validated technique for building oral vocabulary in preschool and primary grade children with small oral vocabularies often called Shared Book Reading where students are read a short passage several times with a focus on words in the passage that children are unlikely to know.
Characteristics of effective shared reading are:
- Involves several readings of a number of short books.
- Focuses students' attention on the words.
- Deliberately stretches students and scaffolds their efforts.
- Employs carefully selected words and books.
The major problem with the traditional face-to-face, teacher-to-student method is that it is very expensive given the huge amount of teacher time required and it is virtually impossible to individualize the instruction so that each student gets taught just the words he or she needs.
The First 4,000 Words program offers a web-delivered version of this technique that adapts to the unique needs of each learner by identifying only the words with which he or she is unfamiliar. The program is designed with colorful graphics, interesting sound effects, and game-like activities to keep students engaged and motivated.
What Are The First 4,000 Words?
There are 3,805 targeted words for instruction. Most will be accompanied by a picture and a simple statement of meaning. The words were selected from the most frequent words in The Educators Word Frequency Guide (Zeno et al. 1995) and the 4,000 word families of Hieberts Word Zones corpus (2005).
4KW Source List - A list of approximately 4,000 word families sequenced by frequency.
4KW Teaching List - A list of approximately 4,000 word families sequenced by frequency within each of these categories:
- Target words - 3,541
- Function words - 116
- Proper nouns - 148
- The 100 Most Frequent Words
Since The First 4,000 Words is web-based, there are no program files to install and maintain. You and your students simply log in from any computer with an internet connection.
From The First 4,000 Words Administrative Website, teachers and administrators can:
- Manage student accounts
- Track students' progress
- View individual and group reports
- Access the Teacher Manual
From The First 4,000 Words Student Website, students can:
- Access the Vocabitat™ lessons
- View lessons completed
- View lesson scores
The Teacher Manual provides a program overview as well as quick-start directions to begin using the program. The manual is organized into five main sections:
- Student Placement in the Program
- Program Description
- Administration of the Program
- Troubleshooting Guide
- Word List
Also Available:
The optional paper-and-pencil Listening and Reading Vocabulary Tests enable teachers to quickly assess students vocabularies prior to beginning The First 4,000 Words program.
Teacher Instructions for administering the Listening and Reading Vocabulary Tests is also included.
The Vocabitat™ Story Bundles, written for various lexile reading levels, can be purchased for use as supplementary materials. Each 30-page bundle includes:
- 5-6 units from the curriculum
- 5 stories per unit
- A set of discussion questions
- Illustrations used in the interactive program
Learner Management System
The administrative web site allows teachers and school administrators to manage and track the progress of their students. Through this web site, teachers have the ability to fine-tune the experience of the student by changing their current location within the continuum of lessons and by manipulating a variety of activity-level controls. Teachers are also given access to detailed metrics for both individual students and for groups of students.
Only administrators have access to these areas:
- Account - view the school/school districts account and license information
- Teachers - add, view, and edit teacher accounts
Both teachers and administrators have access to these areas:
- Preferences - change personal account information (such as user name and password)
- Advanced configurations - set passing scoring; choose options that control events in the students learning experience (such as word display during tests)
- Groups - add or edit groups of students; view reports about groups
- Students - add students or edit student information; assign students to groups; view reports about students
Data for reports can be viewed and compiled by group or student. Before viewing data, teachers and administrators select the data range.
Student reports:
- Provide general information about student progress (such as number of lessons complete, number of lessons retaken, current lesson, average scores, and a list of words the student has missed.)
- Provide details about student success for each lesson (such as date complete, pretest score, posttest score, and missed words.)
Group reports:
- Provide summary information for each student in the group (such as last lesson completed, number of lessons tested out of, number of lessons passed, and number of lessons failed.)
- Provide averages and totals for the group as a whole (such as average number of lessons completed, total number of lessons passed, total number of lessons failed.)
- Provide data about the words most often missed.
The First 4000 Words is an internet-based tool. Access to and use of the software requires a basic Macintosh or PC computer with a stable internet connection.
This program was designed to run on the Adobe Flash Player browser plug-in (version 10.0 and above). The core hardware requirements for the most recent version of Adobe Flash Player can be found at the following website: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/systemreqs/
Hardware requirements include:
- A 512k DSL or faster connection
- Screen resolution:
Minimum C 1024 x 768 (must use browser full-screen mode C F11)
Suggested C 1280 x 1024
- Sound card with speakers or headphones
- Microphone (necessary for speech recognition)
Take a Tour of the Vocabitat™
Students learn about The First 4,000 Words in an online environment called the Vocabitat™a vocabulary habitat.
The First 4,000 Words curriculum
- Total of 355 Lessons, organized into 8 Levels
- Each Level is subdivided into Units
- Each Unit contains 5 stories written around a common theme (such as People at Work, Traditions, or Famous Presidents)
- Each story represents a Lesson and focuses on teaching 10 words
|# of
|# of
|Animal Guide
|Snap the Salamander
|Gusty the Bobcat
|Jade the Otter
|Lightening the Hawk
|Redwood the Fox
|Shimmer the Raven
|Granite the Goat
|Ursa the Bear
Program Structure
Each 15-minute lesson focuses on 10 words and guides students through a series of activities.
Students will visit Treehouse Studio at the beginning and at the end of each lesson for pre- and post-assessments.
- Pre-assessment C determines if the 10 lesson words are part of a students vocabulary.
- Post-assessment C ensures students have learned the 10 target words.
Here students are able to listen to stories with the 10 lesson words.
Shared Reading 1: Read along with a story.
- Sentences are underlined as the story is read
- Missed words (if any) are highlighted
- See an illustration that matches the word
- Hear the word used in a sentence from the story
- Hear an explanation of the word's meanings
- Practice saying the word and get feedback
- Replay any sentence
- Hear missed words defined through audio and illustration
Here students are able to practice their skills with the 10 lesson words by playing two games.
Submarine or Balloon Game
- Students see three lesson words and a picture on the left side of the screen and a submarine or balloon on the right.
- Students click the word that matches the picture.
- The sooner students identify the correct answer, the faster and farther the submarine or balloon travels.
- By clicking the icon to the left of each word, students can hear it pronounced.
- Students see the lesson words arranged on a puzzle board.
- Students listen to a definition and then click the word that matches the definition.
- When students click the correct word, it is replaced by a puzzle piece.
- Students continue in this manner until an entire picture is revealed.
Students who score 90% or better on the post-assessment will move to the next lesson.
Students who score less than 90% will need to complete a remediation game before moving on to the next lesson.
Remediation Game
- Students are presented with 10 words and 10 pictures.
- Their task is to drag the correct word to the picture.
- If the student is unsure about what the picture represents, the student can click the picture to hear the word associated with it.
Bonus Lesson at Pride Peak
At the end of a unit (5 lessons), students play a bonus game at Pride Peak.
- Reviews function words, proper nouns, and the words targeted in the lessons.
- The words are read, one at a time, to the students.
- The students must quickly and correctly select the word that matches what they hear to prevent the clouds from descending upon the mountain and stopping the climbers ascent.
Product Alignment to Common Core Standards in English Language Arts
The purpose of The First 4,000 Words program is to ensure that students in grades 1-4 know the meanings of the 4,000 most frequent words when they hear them and see them in print. This purpose is in direct alignment with the Common Core Standard on Vocabulary Acquisition and Use. The broad anchor standard (p. 25) states that students must "acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening."
The following table shows the grade-specific versions of Vocabulary Acquisition and Use Standard #6, together with a few examples of words taught in The First 4,000 Words program.
|Vocabulary Acquisition and Use, #6
|Examples from
The First 4,000 Words
|Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (e.g., because).
|words that express relationships: between, across, similar, different
|Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
|adjectives and adverbs: young, far, whole, quickly, slowly, easily
|Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
|words that signal spatial and temporal relationships: below, previous, next, during, later
|Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a particular topic (e.g., wildlife, conservation, and endangered when discussing animal preservation).
|actions, emotions, states of being: characterized, united, graceful, muscular domain-specific: blood, arteries, veins, circulation
Vocabulary is generally defined as the knowledge of words and word meanings. Word knowledge is a process that occurs over time; to truly understand the complexity of teaching and learning vocabulary, you should review the following information about vocabulary:
Types of Vocabulary
Listening vocabulary - all the words a person can recognize when listening to speech
Speaking vocabulary - all the words a person can use in speech
Reading vocabulary - all the words a person can recognize when reading
Writing vocabulary - all the words a person can employ in writing
Oral vs. Print Vocabulary
Oral vocabulary - includes those words that we recognize and use in listening and speaking
Print vocabulary - includes those words that we recognize and use in reading and writing
Word Knowledge
Unknown - the word is completely unfamiliar to the student and its meaning is unknown
Acquainted - the word is somewhat familiar; the student has some idea of its basic meaning
Established - the word is very familiar; the student can immediately recognize its meaning and use the word correctly
Productive vs. Receptive Word Knowledge
Productive/Expressive (active) vocabulary - includes words we are able to use when we speak/write
Receptive (passive) vocabulary - includes words that we recognize when we hear/see
Types of Vocabulary Instruction
Direct Vocabulary Learning - refers to intentional and explicit teaching of specific words and word-learning strategies
Indirect Vocabulary Learning- refers to word learning that occurs incidentally through experiences with oral language and wide reading
Importance of Vocabulary
- Vocabulary is the foundation for communication and learning
- Language and thought are synonymous
- Vocabulary size is strongly linked to reading comprehension and overall academic success
- A person may be judged by others based on their vocabulary
Importance of Vocabulary (for early learners and ELLs)
- Beginning readers use their oral vocabulary to make sense of the words they see in print
- Readers must know what most of the words mean before they can understand what they are reading
Vocabulary is identified as one of the 5 essential components of reading instruction
- Phonemic awareness - awareness of and ability to manipulate sounds in words
- Phonics - knowledge of relationships between letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language
- Vocabulary - recognizing and understanding the meaning of words in reading and writing as well as in oral language
- Fluency - ability to read rapidly with phrasing, an important bridge to comprehension
- Text Comprehension - using a system of strategic actions, smoothly and in coordination, to get meaning while reading texts
The Vocabulary Learning Task Is Huge
- The average 3rd grader knows about 15,000 words
- The average 6th grader knows about 25,000 words
- The average high school graduate knows about 50,000 words
This means that average students learn 3,000 - 4,000 words a year.
This translates to 10 words a day / 7 days a week / 52 weeks a year with no time off for weekends, summers, or good behavior.
The Vocabulary Learning Gap
Some children particularly children of poverty and English language learners come to school with very small oral vocabularies. Their small oral vocabularies are a huge hurdle to their learning to read and learning more generally. There are three major components to this problem that have made it particularly difficult to solve.
- The gap is huge, constituting thousands of words (Chall & Jacobs, 2003; Graves, 2006; Hart & Risley, 1995, 2003).
- Although words tend to be learned in the same order, different students have vocabularies of radically different sizes, making it difficult to determine what words to teach to a particular group of students (Biemiller, 2004; Biemiller & Slonim, 2001; Hiebert, 2005).
- Given the number of words that need to be taught and the differential word knowledge of students in any particular setting, the task is virtually impossible for an individual teacher to accomplish.
Research indicates that this gap only widens further as students get older if the problem is not addressed. Students who don't understand what they read or hear are less likely to actively participate in reading and listening activities, thereby further reducing their exposure to and learning from these activities.
Did You Know?
No Child Left Behind
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) identifies vocabulary development as one of the essential components of reading instruction. The NCLB Act, policy documents, reauthorization information, and other resources can be located on the U.S. Department of Education website.
Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported By Rigorous Evidence: A User Friendly Guide
The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 specifies that administrators and teachers select and implement programs that are supported by scientifically based research. This guide is designed to help educators identify and implement evidence-based interventions.
Institute of Education Sciences - What Works Clearinghouse
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) initiative was created in 2002 to be a central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education. Find information about various types of interventions including programs, products, practices, and policies.
Institute of Education Sciences - National Center for Education Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. Many subjects and topics are covered, including The Nation's Report Card: Reading 2011.
A Validated Approach to Teaching a Basic Vocabulary
The instructional approach used in The First 4,000 Words is based on three lines of research.
Shared Book Reading
While simply reading to children has been found to be somewhat effective in promoting vocabulary growth, shared book reading a procedure in which the teacher directly focuses on and discusses words that come up in the reading has been shown to be considerably more effective (Beck & McKeown, in press; Biemiller, 2006; Biemiller & Boote, 2006; Zevenbergen & Whitehurst, 2003). Shared book reading is designed for preschool or primary-grade students, and it is particularly useful for students who come to school with relatively small vocabularies and therefore need special assistance to catch up with their peers. Some characteristics of effective shared book reading taken from Graves (2006) are shown below.
- The children play active roles.
- The reading selection is read several times.
- The reader focuses the children's attention directly on words.
- The selection is read fluently using an animated and lively reading style.
- The selections are interesting and enjoyable and stretch children's thinking.
- The words are somewhat challenging, but are words children are likely to encounter in the future.
Research on Robust Vocabulary Instruction
While instruction that includes presenting words in context and defining them has been shown to be a relatively powerful sort of vocabulary instruction, robust vocabulary instruction has been shown to be even more powerful (Graves, 2006; Stahl & Nagy, 2006). Robust vocabulary instruction is a procedure developed by Beck and McKeown and validated by them and their colleagues in a number of studies (e.g., Beck & McKeown, in press; Beck, Perfetti, & McKeown, 1982).
Research on What Constitutes Relatively Powerful Vocabulary Instruction
While almost any sort of vocabulary instruction produces some gains in word knowledge (Petty, Herold, & Stoll, 1967), instruction that includes at least two components using the words to be taught in context and defining them has been shown to be markedly superior to instruction that includes only one of these components (Graves, 2006; Stahl & Fairbanks, 1986; Stahl & Nagy, 2006).
Other Research-Based Elements and Techniques
The First 4,000 Words program incorporates a number of other research-based elements and techniques, including, but not limited to:
- The 4,000 words were drawn from two well-recognized vocabulary lists: Zeno et al.'s The Educator's Word Frequency Guide and Hiebert's Word Zones™ corpus.
- To ensure comprehensibility, stories used in the interactive reading activities are written to appropriate Lexile levels.
- The activities include game-based learning techniques.
- At critical junctures in the program, students are asked if they understood what was taught.
Field tests have shown the program to be highly effective:
- Students learned the words during the individual lessons and retained that knowledge on the post-tests given weeks or even months after the instruction.
- Students were judged to be appropriately engaged (demonstrating direct attention to the program and participating in the instructional activities) 91% of the time.
- Teachers ratings of overall perception of the program average 2.9 on the 3 point scale.
- Teachers ratings of how the program would fit within existing curricula averaged 2.7 out of 3.
Field testing of the program took place in grades 1-4 in three different schools in greater Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. Three distinct field tests were conducted. The first test took place during Phase I. Its primary purpose was to test the feasibility of a prototype of the proposed product. The second test was conducted early in Phase II and gathered information on implementation and teacher reactions. The purpose of the final test, which involved the full program, was to determine the promise of education improvement.
The First 4,000 Words - Background Research
The vocabulary taught in the program is derived from a corpus of the 5,586 most frequent words developed by Hiebert (2005) and referred to as the Word Zones corpus. Hiebert developed the Word Zones corpus from the frequency count presented in the Educators Word Frequency Guide (Zeno, Ivens, Millard, & Duvvuri, 1995) by grouping words into four frequency zones and identifying each zone as appropriate for a grade level.
The First 4,000 Words List and Placement Tests - Details and Results
The First 4000 Word List and accompanying placement tests were constructed for a project designed to ensure that first through fourth grade students have mastered a basic listening vocabulary.
Empirical Evidence on The First 4,000 Words Program: A Report for Teachers Requesting Information on Research on the Program
The First 4,000 Words program was developed with U.S. Office of Education IES/SBIR grant. This type of grant funds both development of educational materials and testing them. We conducted three studies on the program: a feasibility study conducted in Spring 2008, a pilot study conducted in Summer 2008, and a field trial conducted in Spring 2009.
The effects of individualized, online vocabulary instruction on picture vocabulary scores: an efficacy study
Vocabulary knowledge is of fundamental importance to reading comprehension, and many students lack the vocabulary knowledge necessary to facilitate learning to read. A study was conducted to determine the effects of an individualized, online vocabulary program on picture vocabulary test scores.


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"Industrial Revolution: Part Two of Three "Industrial Disease"": The Gotham Fire Department quickly arrive on the scene of the explosion at Wayne-Powers. Batman and Paxton hop into an army vehicle and try to escape from the burning building. The fire surrounds the vehicle, forcing them to abando
Appearing in Industrial Revolution: Part Two of Three "Industrial Disease"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Blight (Flashback and main story)
- Doctor French
- Doug Tan
- Glen Godfrey
- Jokerz (Cameo)
Other Characters:
- Gotham City
- Gotham Harbor (Flashback only)
- Hamilton Hill High School
- Wayne Manor
Synopsis for Industrial Revolution: Part Two of Three "Industrial Disease"
The Gotham Fire Department quickly arrive on the scene of the explosion at Wayne-Powers. Batman and Paxton hop into an army vehicle and try to escape from the burning building. The fire surrounds the vehicle, forcing them to abandon it and hop onto a motorcycle. Batman suspects someone is out to kill Paxton. Batman drops Paxton off at the police station and heads to the batcave.
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The next day, Terry talks to Max about his break up with Dana. Max tells him that Dana just needs time as Dana's brother just got out, much to Terry's shock. Max tells him he could just tell Dana he's Batman but Terry's against it. Little do they know, that Undercloud is watching them. That night, at Dana's house, things between Doug and Dana are awkward so Doug leaves to go get groceries for the dinner he's preparing for Dana and Mrs. tan. Along the way, Doug encounters a gang of Jokerz.
Batman heads to the Gotham Stock Exchange so he can close or delay the the stock exchange but little does he know, Blight is there too. Batman turns invisible only to be attacked by Blight and pins him down.
- This book was first published on June 1, 2011.
- No special notes.
- No trivia.
See Also
- Write your own review of this comic!
- Discuss Batman Beyond Vol 4 6 on the forums
- Cover gallery for the Batman Beyond series
- Images from Batman Beyond Vol 4 6


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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
PHILIP MORRIS USA INC. v. Lu Xi
Case No. D2011-1059
1. The Parties
The Complainant is PHILIP MORRIS USA INC. of Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, represented by Arnold & Porter, United States of America.
The Respondent is Lu Xi of Shanghai, China.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed domain name <marlboroskyline.com> is registered with HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd.
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on June 22, 2011. On June 23, 2011, the Center transmitted by email to HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd. a request for registrar verification in connection with the disputed domain name. On June 24, 2011, HiChina Zhicheng Technology Ltd. transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details. On June 24, 2011, the Center transmitted an email communication to the parties in both Chinese and English regarding the language of the proceeding. On June 28, 2011, the Complainant submitted a request that English be the language of the proceeding. The Respondent did not comment on the language of the proceeding by the specified due date.
The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy" or "UDRP"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental Rules").
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on June 30, 2011. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was July 20, 2011. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent's default on July 21, 2011.
The Center appointed Douglas Clark as the sole panelist in this matter on July 27, 2011. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
Language of Proceedings
The language of the Registration Agreement is in Chinese. Paragraph 11(a) of the Rules provides that:
"Unless otherwise agreed by the Parties, or specified otherwise in the Registration Agreement, the language of the administrative proceeding shall be the language of the Registration Agreement, subject to the authority of the Panel to determine otherwise, having regard to the circumstances of the administrative proceeding."
The Complainant requested the language of the proceeding be in English on the grounds that the language of the website associated with the disputed domain name is English, evidencing the Respondent's level of comfort with the English language. For example, both the "Shipping & Returns" page and the "Privacy Notice" page on the Respondent's website are written entirely in English
The Complainant also argues that the Complainant does not reside in China and is unfamiliar with the Chinese language. As a result, the proceeding will be unduly delayed, and the Complainant would have to incur additional expenses for translation, if all documents were to be filed in Chinese.
The Respondent has not responded to the proceeding nor to the request that the language of the proceeding to be in English.
In the circumstances of this case, the Panel determines that English shall be the language of the proceeding. The website under the disputed domain name is written entirely in English and designed to do business worldwide in English. There can be no doubt that the Respondent is able to handle these proceedings in English. The Panel notes, that the fact the Complainant does not understand Chinese is also not of great relevance. The Complainant has a large presence in China and could, if necessary, have chosen a representative who was conversant in Chinese. Neverthelesss, given the Respondent has not responded to the case on its merits or in relation to the language of the proceeding, it would be unfair on the Complainant to request them to translate the Complaint into Chinese. As the only documents before the Panel are in English, the decision will be issued in English.
4. Factual Background
The Complainant manufactures, markets, and sells in the United States cigarettes, including cigarettes under its MARLBORO trademarks, of which MARLBORO SKYLINE, is a particular brand style. Marlboro cigarettes have been made and sold by the Complainant (and various predecessor entities) since 1883, with the modern history of the brand beginning in 1955. For many decades, the Complainant has used the MARLBORO trademark and variations thereof in connection with its tobacco and smoking-related products.
The Complainant is the registered owner of the following trademarks, among others, on the principal register of the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("PTO"):
Registration No.
Date Registered
April 14, 1908
MARLBORO and Red Roof design
July 25, 1972
August 18, 1992
The Respondent has registered the disputed domain name <marlboroskyline.com>. The disputed domain name resolves to the website located at "www.marlboroskyline.com" (the "Infringing Website"), which displays and offers for sale numerous cigarette products bearing the Complainant's trademarks and those of its affiliate, Trademarks LLC, including MARLBORO, MARLBORO SKYLINE, BENSON & HEDGES, VIRGINIA SLIMS, PARLIAMENT, L&M, and CHESTERFIELD cigarettes. Internet users can buy cigarettes from the website under the disputed domain name. The Respondent has also included on the Infringing Website a copyright notice incorporating the MARLBORO Mark that reads "Copyright Notice © 2011 Marlboroskyline.com. All Rights Reserved".
The Respondent has also provided false or incomplete contact information in the WhoIs records. The "Shanghai Pudongxinqu, Shanghai 128641" address provided by the Respondent does not include a specific address at which to contact Respondent. Similarly, the telephone number listed by Respondent represents China's country code, Beijing's area code, and a telephone number that appears to be a listing of digits in nearly sequential order.
5. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
Identical or confusingly similar
The Complainant argues that the disputed domain name <marlboroskyline.com> made up of the registered trademarks MARLBORO and SKYLINE is identical or confusingly similar to the Complainant's registered trademarks MARLBORO and SKYLINE. The combination of two marks is likely to cause confusion as to a relationship with the Complainant.
No rights or legitimate interests
The Respondent has no connection with the Complainant or any of its affiliates and has never sought or obtained any trademark registrations for MARLBORO or SKYLINE.
Registered and used in bad faith
There is no doubt that before registration of the disputed domain name the Respondent knew of the Complainant's rights in MARLBORO and SKYLINE and could also have by a simple Internet search confirmed this. The unauthorized sale of cigarettes by the Respondent is clearly use in bad faith.
B. Respondent
The Respondent did not reply to the Complainant's contentions.
6. Discussion and Findings
This is a very simple case of clear trademark hijacking for the purposes of commercial gain which the UDRP was designed to stop.
A. Identical or Confusingly Similar
The disputed domain name <marlboroskyline.com> is made up of two registered trademarks MARLBORO and SKYLINE. The combination of the two does not stop the disputed domain name being identical to the registered marks and the first part of the policy is therefore satisfied.
B. Rights or Legitimate Interests
The Respondent has not responded to the Complaint to assert any rights or legitimate interests. The use made by the Respondent of the website under the disputed domain name where the Complainant's trademark features prominently and apparently counterfeit products are sold make it hard to imagine that the Respondent could ever establish any rights or legitimate interests. Clearly, none of the circumstances in Paragraph 4(c) of the Policy, which sets out how a respondent can prove its rights or legitimate interests, are present in this case.
C. Registered and Used in Bad Faith
For the same reasons as those above, the Panel has no hesitation in finding that the disputed domain name <marlboroskyline.com> was registered in bad faith and is being used in bad faith.
This case clearly falls with Paragraph 4(b)(iv) of the Policy which provides that a registrant has registered and is using a domain name in bad faith where:
by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location.
7. Decision
For the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the disputed domain name, <marlboroskyline.com>, be transferred to the Complainant.
Douglas Clark
Sole Panelist
Dated: August 7, 2011


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First, I want to congratulate you for your daughter's big day and I want to tell you that you don't need to worry about your wedding toast. If this is your first father speech, then you're probably a little worried of what you'll say, how you'll say it, in what order, etc. And if you were searching on the internet for some samples of toasts for the bride's father, you probably found a lot of tips and resources and this might be overwhelming.
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A teenager has described her shock at seeing a couple apparently having sex under a bridge outside her house.
Mother-of-two, Lara Shoemark, 19, spotted them while sorting her washing out at her home.Man and woman found dead in remote AirBnB 'had suicide pact'
She says the couple sheltered from the rain at first, but then started kissing before turning things up a notch – by putting their hands down each other's underwear.
The bloke then lifted up his lover's skirt and they started having sex standing up.
She took pictures of them and put them online saying that it was the third time she's seen it happening.
Lara, of Bridgwater, Somerset, said: 'I was just in my living room and I've got a big window, half the length of the room.
'I was hanging up my washing on the radiator when I saw them. I was in shock.Driver, 87, jailed for killing woman when he mistook accelerator for brake
'They were there for ten or 15 minutes. At first they just stopped underneath the bridge as it was really badly raining, for shelter.
'Then they started kissing and then after a while he put his hands up her skirt and she put her hands down his trousers. You could see she was messing around.
'After that he lifted her leg up and then they started having sex.
'I decided to put the pictures online because it's the third time it's happened and when my kids are older I don't want them to see it. It is disgusting.
'Since I put the pictures up a lot of people have complained that it's just a normal thing to do to have sex outside.Labour's 'NHS for sale' document linked to Russia
'I've never experienced that myself. I wouldn't even think about it. If you're horny just go home.'
Lara first saw a couple getting it on in July last year, when she saw two men lying on a patch of nearby grass touching each other down below.
Two months later, she saw a horny duo banging under the bridge – in exactly the same spot as the most recent pair.
She said she's fed-up – and posted pictures of the latest sighting online in a bid to deter others from following suit.
She said: 'You don't expect to look out of my window and see people having sex. It is the same exact spot that we've seen people having sex before.Disabled people's work is worth just as much as anyone else's, Sally-Ann Hart
'It's very disrespectful. I have got two kids and if they were tall enough to see out of the window I'd have been really angry.
'My front door faces the bridge and it's literally right outside my window. There must be a hundred other houses here.
'You have got to be dumb to think you can have sex there without being seen.'


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The way the world produces and consumes food is inefficient, not sustainable and generates huge amounts of waste. To be exact 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted every year. That is a shocking number that needs to be changed. Because while we in the western world keep wasting food, people on the other side of the world remain hungry. A European or North American consumer wastes 15 times more food than a typical African consumer. Besides that Food waste in Europe alone could feed 200 million hungry people.
So why is there a food waste problem?
Food waste in the western world happens on a consumer level. Consumers order way too much food at restaurants, visiti all-inclusive resorts were they throw away half of the food and supermarkets dump food in containers that look too ugly.
While Food waste in developing countries happens at the post-harvest & processing stages. Lack of modern transport, storage infrastructure and financial, managerial and technical limitations contribute to these losses.
Next to food waste there is another problem in the world that contributes namely obesity.1.4 billion people are overweight. The world's average calorie consumption is rising, in 2050 we'll be eating 3,070 calories a day. On the other hand a lot of people are undernourished. Take a look at this infographic to view the facts.
Other interesting facts about food waste
Growing food that is never eaten emits 10% of "rich countries'" gas emissions.
A 20% reduction in food waste would be enough to feed 25 million Americans.
40 to 60% of all fish are discarded because of the wrong size, species or some other regulations.
Every year the EU throws away 90 million tons of food. If put on trucks, it would span the equator.
An average restaurant in Britain disposes of about 22 tons of food waste per year, which means each time a person eats, it creates 0.5 kg (1.2 lbs) of waste
Just one quarter of all wasted food could feed the 795 million undernourished people around the world who suffer from hunger
A European or North American consumer wastes almost 100 kilograms of food annually, which is more than his or her weight (70 kilograms)
Food waste generates 3.3 billions tons of carbon dioxide, which accelerates global climate change
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Vexx enables people to eat healthy and sustainable. By eating healthy you will notice that you have the energy to stay sharp and have time left to enjoy life. By being aware of our impact on the world we can make sure our children will also be able to enjoy it the way we do, without any concessions.
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Representative Dennis Keene Files Legislation for Gubernatorial Primary Elections
Representative Dennis Keene Files Legislation for Gubernatorial Primary Elections
Bill would allow candidates for governor to run without running mate
Frankfort, KY: Representative Dennis Keene (D-Wilder) filed legislation
to allow gubernatorial candidates to run independently without a lieutenant governor running mate until after the primary elections. House Bill 300 will permit a slate of candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor to appear on the ballot only in the regular election, not in the primary; require a party's nominee for Governor to designate his or her nominee for Lieutenant Governor no later than the fourth Tuesday following the primary. There is bi-partisan support for the legislation that is sponsored by Representative Dennis Keene (D-Wilder) and co-sponsored by Representative Sal Santoro (R-Florence).
"Our intent is to allow for the best ticket and slate of candidates to serve our Commonwealth as governor and lieutenant governor," says Representative Keene. "This legislation will put the focus squarely on the individual candidate for governor and allow them a wider choice of candidates to run with once the primary election is completed." Currently 43 states elect lieutenant governors and 22 of those states allow for a separate election in the primary and many even in the general election.
If passed, the legislation would become effective for the 2015 Kentucky Constitutional office elections.
Representative Dennis Keene has served the citizens of the 67th District since 2005 and is the chairman of the House Licensing and Occupations Committee, Vice Chairman of Economic Development, Vice Chairman on the Budget Subcommittee on Transportation and a member of the Banking & Insurance Committee. Keene is a small business owner and an economic development advisor for EGC Construction. For more information, visit: www.DennisKeene.com.


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