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Chania is an old harbour town with a medieval heart and is worth checking out. The seafront quarter includes a little mosque which is a remnant from the 17th century when the Turks controlled the area. These days the mosque's been converted into a very nice art gallery. Make sure you also check out the Archeological Museum which is full of Minoan artifacts, including a glass display packed with pottery bulls. These were found in a grave site and it's believed the pottery bulls were included in the graves where sacrificing a live bull would have been too expensive!
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Topic: Apple v. Samsung
Apple, Samsung rest cases in patent trial as testimony phase wraps up
08/17/2012, 08:08 pm
Both parties rested their case in the Apple v. Samsung trial on Friday, bringing an end to the testimony portion of the proceedings ahead of closing arguments and jury deliberation set to take place next week.
Motorola files new ITC suit against Apple, claims patent infringement [u]
08/17/2012, 07:08 pm
Google-owned Motorola on Friday filed its second U.S. International Trade Commission suit against Apple, claiming the iPhone, iPad and certain Mac computers infringe on owned patents.
Judge Koh allows Samsung to present Fidler tablet concept as iPad prior art
08/17/2012, 02:08 pm
Over Apple's objections, Samsung was granted the right to present pictures of a tablet newspaper concept from 1994 as evidence of prior art refuting the originality of its iPad design patents.
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08/17/2012, 02:08 am
In an order filed late Thursday, Apple v. Samsung Magistrate Judge Paul Grewal denied Samsung's request that the jury be told Apple may have destroyed email evidence pertinent to the case.
Samsung rests it case, says Apple could owe nearly $422M in royalties
08/16/2012, 07:08 pm
Samsung on Thursday rested its case in the Apple v. Samsung trial, concluding its phase of the trial with a pair of expert witnesses who believe Apple could owe $421.8 million in royalties over five patents owned by the South Korean company.
Judge loses temper, hits Apple counsel with 'smoking crack' remark
08/16/2012, 06:08 pm
After Samsung wrapped up its case on Thursday, an obviously frustrated Judge Lucy Koh jibed Apple counsel when presented with 75 pages worth of briefings for its last remaining witnesses, alluding that the lawyer was "smoking crack" with the long list of 22 people.
Samsung witness says Apple's damages closer to $519 million, not $2.5 billion
08/16/2012, 03:08 pm
An expert witness called by Samsung has testified that, according to his calculations, Samsung's US profit margins were 12 percent rather than 35.5, meaning Apple's damages should be limited to $519 million, well below the minimum of $2.5 billion it is demanding.
Samsung designer says Galaxy Tab 10.1 design work preceded iPad announcement
08/16/2012, 03:08 am
Samsung marched a number of witnesses to the stand on Wednesday in efforts to rebut Apple's patent infringement claims, including an industrial designer involved in the design of the original Galaxy Tab 10.1 and a number of Galaxy smartphones.
Apple document brags iPhone set the tone for trade show company did not attend
08/15/2012, 10:08 pm
An internal Apple document entered into evidence on Wednesday touts the iPhone's "quiet" presence at the 3GSM Congress Trade Show in 2007, an event at which the company didn't even have a booth.
Judge says 'it's time for peace,' asks Apple and Samsung CEOs to discuss settlement
08/15/2012, 05:08 pm
Apple v. Samsung presiding Judge Lucy Koh on Wednesday asked that the CEOs of both companies discuss possible settlement options at least once over the phone before the trial moves to jury deliberation next week.
Samsung to call Motorola's "one bullet to kill" witness to justify iPhone royalty demands
08/15/2012, 12:08 pm
After working to defend against for two weeks of Apple's copying claims, Samsung has gone on the defensive to claim that Apple owes it steep royalties for infringing its 3G standard essential patents, using the same witness called by Google's Motorola Mobility to bring standards essential patent claims against Microsoft.
Top Samsung designer denies copying iOS icons while patent expert says Apple design patents should be invalidated
08/15/2012, 01:08 am
In continued Apple v. Samsung court proceedings, a top Samsung designer denied copying Apple's icons, and an expert witness said the Cupertino company's design patents should be invalidated due to prior art.
Judge angered by continued Apple, Samsung courtroom "theatrics"
08/14/2012, 07:08 pm
Apple v. Samsung presiding Judge Lucy Koh on Tuesday seemed to have had enough of the parties' legal maneuvering, the latest being an Apple and Intel bid to block testimony from a Samsung witness just hours before he was slated to take the stand.
Samsung accuses Apple of infringing on three patents
08/14/2012, 06:08 pm
Samsung on Tuesday moved forward with arguments in its case against Apple, going on the offensive by alleging the iPhone maker infringed on three patents regarding the usability of multi-feature portable devices like smartphones.
Apple "rubber-banding," "pinch-to-zoom" patents challenged by Samsung witnesses
08/13/2012, 11:08 pm
Samsung on Monday mounted its defense in the ongoing Apple v. Samsung patent trial, with the pair of "fact witnesses" giving testimony regarding alleged prior art to Apple's "rubber-banding" and "pinch-to-zoom" patents.
One Samsung exec told company to learn from Apple's iPhone, not copy it
08/13/2012, 07:08 pm
An Apple v. Samsung court document filed on Monday reveals an e-mail in which a top Samsung designer said to "learn through the lessons of the iPhone," not to make replica handsets based on Apple's popular designs.
Three Samsung handsets removed from list of accused devices at patent trial
08/13/2012, 05:08 pm
Apple v. Samsung presiding Judge Lucy Koh on Monday ruled Samsung's GT-i9000, GT-i9100 and Galaxy Ace will be removed from the list of devices accused of infringing on Apple's patents.
Apple licensed iPhone, iPad patents to Microsoft, with "anti-clone" restriction
08/13/2012, 02:08 pm
Apple's patent licensing director Boris Teksler testified that the company licensed a series of patents to Microsoft, but failed to reach a licensing agreement with Samsung despite reaching out to the company in October of 2010.
Apple v. Samsung draws line between copying and patent infringement
08/13/2012, 01:08 pm
The inability of Apple and Samsung to agree on proposed jury instructions has hinged upon a few key issues, particularly the distinction between simple copying and patent infringement.
Apple blocks Samsung F700 designer's testimony, calls it irrelevant
08/13/2012, 01:08 pm
Hyong Shin Park, a designer for Samsung, won't be taking the stand in the patent infringement because Apple successfully argued that her testimony has nothing to do with its infringement claims.


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Setting Up LWJGL with NetBeans
From LWJGL
This tutorial will explain how to setup LWJGL with the NetBeans IDE.
Requirements: You should have NetBeans (and Java) installed and should be familiar with creating a new Java project in NetBeans and extracting Zip files.
Note: X.X anywhere denotes the version number of LWJGL that you are specifically downloading and setting up.
Downloading and Setting Up LWJGL
Here are the first steps that are required for any IDE.
- Create a dedicated folder for LWJGL and remember its location. This folder will be the permanent residence of LWJGL on your system. Optionally, name it "lwjgl-X.X" to denote it from earlier/later versions.
- Download LWJGL from here into the folder.
- lwjgl-X.X.zip is the only one required.
- (Recommended.) Download lwjgl-docs-X.X.zip if you want to be able to see LWJGL's Javadoc within NetBeans.
- (Recommended.) Download lwjgl-source-X.X.zip if you want to be able to navigate to LWJGL's source code within NetBeans.
- (Optional.) Download lwjgl_applet-X.X.zip if you want to be able to create Java Applets with LWJGL. This exceeds the scope of this tutorial; for more information, please go to the LWJGL Applet Tutorials.
- Extract lwjgl-X.X.zip and lwjgl-source-X.X.zip.
- lwjgl-docs-X.X.zip does not need to be extracted.
Setting Up LWJGL in NetBeans
- Open up NetBeans.
- Go to Tools|Libraries in the main menu.
- Click on the New Library button.
- Type in LWJGL or LWJGL-X.X to distinguish it from earlier/later versions or any other name that you want for the Library Name.
- Always make sure that the correct Library is selected; you don't want to accidentally modify another Library. Now select the Classpath tab for your newly created Library and then click the Add JAR/Folder... button.
- Go to the folder where you extracted lwjgl-X.X.zip and then go into the jar folder. The only JARs that you really need are lwjgl.jar, lwjgl_util.jar, and jinput.jar. You can select multiple files by holding down the Ctrl key while you click so that you can do this in just one step.
- The rest of these steps are optional.
- Select the Sources tab and then click the Add JAR/Folder... button. Next, go to the folder where you extracted lwjgl-source-X.X.zip and then go into the src folder. Select the generated and java folders.
- Select the Javadoc tab and then click the Add JAR/Folder... button. Finally, select wherever you put lwjgl-docs-X.X.zip, and we are done. Phew. *Wipes sweat from forehead.*
Setting Up a Project to Use LWJGL in NetBeans
- Create a new Java Application Project in NetBeans from File|New Project... in the main menu.
- Add the created Library from #Setting Up LWJGL in NetBeans to your project. You can do this 3 different ways:
- Your project should now look like this:
- Go to your project's properties. You can do this 2 different ways:
- Finally, you need to tell NetBeans where the Native Libraries (i.e, DLL, JNILIB, DYLIB, SO files) are for your system so that the natives are linked when running.
- Select the Run category and then type the following into the VM Options, replacing what is in bold to suit your system:
- -Djava.library.path=<lwjgl-X.X path>/native/<linux|macosx|solaris|windows>
- Note: If your path has any spaces in it, you'll need to surround it in quotes like this:
- -Djava.library.path="My Spacey Folder/lwjgl-X.X/native/windows"
- Note: This only means that you can run the program inside of NetBeans. To run it outside of NetBeans, run this command:
- java -Djava.library.path=<path> -jar <name>.jar
- For more information on distribution, please go to the General FAQ.
- Select the Run category and then type the following into the VM Options, replacing what is in bold to suit your system:
Testing the Full Setup
- Add the following import to a class in your project:
import org.lwjgl.LWJGLException;
- Right click on the import and then select Navigate|Go to Source. Make sure that the actual code is there and that nothing looks like the following:
//compiled code throw new RuntimeException("Compiled Code");
- Right click on the import again and then select Show Javadoc. This should open up a new window/tab through your web browser with documentation explaining the code.
- Finally, try compiling, building, and running this simple test code:
import static org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.*; import static org.lwjgl.util.glu.GLU.*; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.logging.FileHandler; import java.util.logging.Level; import java.util.logging.Logger; import org.lwjgl.LWJGLException; import org.lwjgl.input.Keyboard; import org.lwjgl.input.Mouse; import org.lwjgl.opengl.Display; import org.lwjgl.opengl.DisplayMode; /** * @author jediTofu * @see LWJGL Home Page */ public class Main { public static final int DISPLAY_HEIGHT = 480; public static final int DISPLAY_WIDTH = 640; public static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(Main.class.getName()); private int squareSize; private int squareX; private int squareY; private int squareZ; static { try { LOGGER.addHandler(new FileHandler("errors.log",true)); } catch(IOException ex) { LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING,ex.toString(),ex); } } public static void main(String[] args) { Main main = null; try { System.out.println("Keys:"); System.out.println("down - Shrink"); System.out.println("up - Grow"); System.out.println("left - Rotate left"); System.out.println("right - Rotate right"); System.out.println("esc - Exit"); main = new Main(); main.create(); main.run(); } catch(Exception ex) { LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE,ex.toString(),ex); } finally { if(main != null) { main.destroy(); } } } public Main() { squareSize = 100; squareX = 0; squareY = 0; squareZ = 0; } public void create() throws LWJGLException { //Display Display.setDisplayMode(new DisplayMode(DISPLAY_WIDTH,DISPLAY_HEIGHT)); Display.setFullscreen(false); Display.setTitle("Hello LWJGL World!"); Display.create(); //Keyboard Keyboard.create(); //Mouse Mouse.setGrabbed(false); Mouse.create(); //OpenGL initGL(); resizeGL(); } public void destroy() { //Methods already check if created before destroying. Mouse.destroy(); Keyboard.destroy(); Display.destroy(); } public void initGL() { //2D Initialization glClearColor(0.0f,0.0f,0.0f,0.0f); glDisable(GL_DEPTH_TEST); glDisable(GL_LIGHTING); } public void processKeyboard() { //Square's Size if(Keyboard.isKeyDown(Keyboard.KEY_DOWN)) { --squareSize; } if(Keyboard.isKeyDown(Keyboard.KEY_UP)) { ++squareSize; } //Square's Z if(Keyboard.isKeyDown(Keyboard.KEY_LEFT)) { ++squareZ; } if(Keyboard.isKeyDown(Keyboard.KEY_RIGHT)) { --squareZ; } } public void processMouse() { squareX = Mouse.getX(); squareY = Mouse.getY(); } public void render() { glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT); glLoadIdentity(); //Draw a basic square glTranslatef(squareX,squareY,0.0f); glRotatef(squareZ,0.0f,0.0f,1.0f); glTranslatef(-(squareSize >> 1),-(squareSize >> 1),0.0f); glColor3f(0.0f,0.5f,0.5f); glBegin(GL_QUADS); glTexCoord2f(0.0f,0.0f); glVertex2f(0.0f,0.0f); glTexCoord2f(1.0f,0.0f); glVertex2f(squareSize,0.0f); glTexCoord2f(1.0f,1.0f); glVertex2f(squareSize,squareSize); glTexCoord2f(0.0f,1.0f); glVertex2f(0.0f,squareSize); glEnd(); } public void resizeGL() { //2D Scene glViewport(0,0,DISPLAY_WIDTH,DISPLAY_HEIGHT); glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION); glLoadIdentity(); gluOrtho2D(0.0f,DISPLAY_WIDTH,0.0f,DISPLAY_HEIGHT); glPushMatrix(); glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glLoadIdentity(); glPushMatrix(); } public void run() { while(!Display.isCloseRequested() && !Keyboard.isKeyDown(Keyboard.KEY_ESCAPE)) { if(Display.isVisible()) { processKeyboard(); processMouse(); update(); render(); } else { if(Display.isDirty()) { render(); } try { Thread.sleep(100); } catch(InterruptedException ex) { } } Display.update(); Display.sync(60); } } public void update() { if(squareSize < 5) { squareSize = 5; } else if(squareSize >= DISPLAY_HEIGHT) { squareSize = DISPLAY_HEIGHT; } } }


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IG Online's tradition of holiday-related features continues with this profile on Kasper Holopainen, the 2012 Finnish national all-around champion and Northern European all-around bronze medalist, who reflects on his 2012 successes despite knee problems.
"It feels excellent, because I've had a lot of trouble with my knee," said the 19-year-old Holopianen, who trains under coach Timo Holopainen (no relation) at the Voimisteluseura VSH club in Helsinki. "It's been bothering me for the past year but I had a lot of trouble with it this fall. I had knee surgery a few weeks ago, but still, I could compete. I had competitions for five or six weekends in a row."
Holopainen said he his victory at October's Finnish championships, his final meet of 2012, capped a year that tested his knee as well as his determination.
"At Finnish nationals my knee hurt so much during warm-up that I was thinking of doing only three or four apparatuses," he said. "But I made up my mind to do all-around. I did floor and vault a little easier than usual, but everything else was OK."
Holopainen said his relative youth did not intimidate him at the Northern Europeans in Glasgow in October, where he placed third all-around behind gold medalist Helge Vammen of Denmark (age 26) and silver medalist Clinton Purnell of Wales (age 23).
"I don't put much pressure on myself," he said. "I just do what I can and hope everything will be OK. I'm not very scared of competing. I don't think about the other guys. I just do my own thing."
Holopainen started gymnastics with his brother, who quit the sport at age 13 and began playing ice hockey. Kasper was coached by Samir Daruish at the club for seven years, and began training under Timo Holopainen in 2009.
Holopainen's goal is to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, and thereby inspire future generations of Finnish gymnasts.
"We haven't had a lot of success," he said. "It would be nice to show the young gymnasts that we can still do it. That's why I'm trying to get to the 2016 Olympic Games, so that we will get more gymnasts. At the moment the national team is very small, and we have only a few elite gymnasts from whom to choose for competitions."
Although the Finnish team has not factored in major international competitions recently, Holopainen is confident that it is progressing.
"We're on a good track," he said. "We're concentrating more on getting to the Olympics, and we have strong all-around gymnasts, which is important because it's very hard for specialists to make it. We're trying to get three or four good all-around gymnasts for the next world championships (in fall 2013), where we can (start to) qualify for the Olympic Games. I think that, if we have four strong all-around gymnasts, it will be much easier to get there."
Holopainen said he looks forward to a two-week holiday break from gymnastics, during which he will spend time with family and friends in Helsinki.
"Usually we just stay home," he said. "If we have time, we visit our grandparents, who live about 400 kilometers away, My mother has five brothers and five sisters, and usually it's very crowded when everybody goes there. We go there every few years, but usually we just stay home and relax. For the past couple of years, we have gone skiing in the Laplands, with a group of gymnasts. This year we're not going."
Holopainen said he has not made a New Year's resolution since he was a young child, but he has specific gymnastics goals for 2013.
"I'll try to get my knee as good as possible and get the same scores as I did this fall, and even better," he told IG. "The main competition is the European Championships (in April), where I hope to make the all-around final. If my knee is fine, I can train for that, so it will be possible."
Read more on IG's recent visit to Helsinki in the January/February 2013 issue of International Gymnast magazine. To subscribe or order back issues, click here.
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Sticky lemon pork
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- Easily doubled / halved
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal336
- fat11g
- saturates3g
- carbs14g
- sugars4g
- fibre1g
- protein46g
- salt0.34g
- 3 tbsp plain flour
- 1 tbsp paprika
A spice that's central to Hungarian cuisine, paprika is made by drying a particular type of…
- 800g leg or shoulder pork, diced into large chunks
One of the most versatile types of meat, pork is economical, tender if cooked correctly, and…
- 2 tbsp olive oil
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- 2 rosemary sprigs, leaves stripped
Rosemary's intense, fragrant aroma has traditionally been paired with lamb, chicken and game…
- 4 garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 bay leaves
- 300ml white wine
- peeled zest and juice lemon
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Tip the flour, paprika, salt and pepper into a food bag and toss in the pork until coated. Heat the oil in a flameproof casserole and fry the pork until brown on all sides. Add them rosemary, garlic and bay, then fry for 1 min more. Pour in the wine and bring to the boil, scraping the bottom of the casserole. Lower to a simmer and throw in the lemon zest.
Cover the casserole, place on the lowest heat and simmer for 1 hr until the pork is tender. Add a splash of water if the sauce becomes too thick. Just before serving, stir in the lemon juice and check the seasoning.
Recipe Tip
Why not try...Lemony lamb chopsGrill lamb chops for 5-6 mins each side until pink. Meanwhile, mix together the finely grated zest 1 lemon with finely chopped parsley and 1 finely chopped garlic clove. Sprinkle over the lamb to serve.


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Many students start a course and have no idea what they want to do for work when they finish. Meanwhile, industry sectors are trying to meet the demands of a global economy. So should university courses be driven by skills shortages instead of student demand?
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Should industry play a bigger part in what courses regional universities offer?
And should we see higher education as an expense or a valued asset?
These were just a couple of the questions put to a panel in ABC News 24's Future Forum at the Ballarat Mining Exchange.
Dr Patrice Braun, the interim director of University Ballarat's Centre for Regional Innovation and Competiveness said courses on offer should reflect a balance of student demand and workplace shortages.
"The universities need to be very closely aligned with what industry needs and in our very rapid global economy, things are shifting very rapidly, so for universities to be flexible about what they deliver is very important," she said.
"There are quite a few students who may study one thing and end up doing something quite different in a job down the line, so, there are some core knowledge economy skills that they can build and then they can diversify other skills on top of that, in which case they can actually work in a number of fields."
Dr Strobe Driver, a sessional lecturer in international studies at the University of Ballarat, said the university offers courses associated with Australia in the Asian century.
"Regional universities do have to keep up with what goes on in the broader community and I don't think they're not doing that, but there are other underlying issues for regional universities besides the actual relevance of their topics."
He said he believes the main problems have arisen from higher education being viewed as an expense, rather than an asset to the country.
"The ability of the universities to retain their staff, and the casualisation of the workforce ... rather than giving academics job security, is a huge issue in the education industry."
Future Forum will go to air on ABC News 24 at 8.30pm on Sunday, December 9.
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Barron's senior editor Jack Hough has some key stocks hitting 52-week highs that should not be ignored by bargain hunters.
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Whitney Houston performed at Clive Davis's party on Saturday night and while her voice, understandably, has suffered, by all accounts she was captivating on stage, as she assured the crowd: "I got it, I got it".
Great news, of course.
But also… let me be the bitch … there is a lesson here.
Did you see her on Grammy night? She presented the first award. And, um, her speech pattern. Like 5 seconds between every word.
Brain fried.
Too much drugs.
My husband and I were watching and he was like – ummmm…Kerry Katona? It's his favourite interview ever. Because the morning presenters actually called her on it. But I digress.
RDJ doesn't seem to have this problem. He's as articulate as ever. It's those vitamins and that spinach juice, I'm telling you. Whitney needs the same formula.
But she looked great, right? This is all that matters…?
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Hey everybody, I've been in a snippet writing mood lately, and I started writing some generators. scalt's tutorial on generators is a nice introduction to generators, but this tutorial will go into more advanced use cases of generators. The focus of this tutorial will be generators involving enormously huge, and even infinite, sets.
Generators are great because they allow you to iterate over a potentially huge list of numbers without having to store the list in its entirety in memory. This quality can make generators very handy, particularly in resource critical situations. Consider this situation: you want to compute the sum of all values from 1 to 100,000,000. How would you do this? You might try this:
total = 0 for i in range(1,100000001): total += i
However, this lacks a certain elegance that we've come to expect in Python. For those of you more familiar with list comprehensions, you might think that using one is the way to go:
total = sum([i for i in range(1,100000001)])
But when I ran that, my computer slowed down to a crawl. Who would have thought allocating space in memory for one hundred million integers would slow things down? A better solution is necessary, enter the generator!
total = sum(i for i in range(1,100000001)) #With python 2.x, you'll want to use xrange()
By using a generator, we evaluate total 1 value at a time (lazily). By doing it this way, we don't have to allocate space for 100,000,000 integers in memory at the same time. Don't misunderstand, this code will take a while to compute (it did on mine at least), but, it's far faster and less resource intensive than the comprehension approach. My generator found the total in about 30 seconds on my machine, the comprehension has taken something around 10 minutes.
As you can see, generators provide an elegant solution to a real problem. However, this is not what I love most about generators. What I love most about generators is their utility in infinite sets. In the snippets section, you'll find quite a few generators for infinite sets that I've submitted so far. One tried and true snippet is the Fibonacci generator:
__author__ = "atraub" __date__= "6/13/2012" #optionally supply the first two values of generator to seed it def fibonacciGenerator(previous=0,current=1): """Creates a Fibonacci Generator""" #handle the first two values if previous > current: previous,current = current, previous yield previous yield current #handle all subsequent values while True: current,previous = previous+current,current yield current
This generator will infinitely generate fibonacci values. Here's an example of the Fibonacci generator in action (ran from the Python shell):
>>> x = fibonacciGenerator() >>> for i in range(20): print(next(x)) 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610 987 1597 2584 4181
In this example, we create a generator and then use it to find the first 20 Fibs. If we want the next 20, we can simply run the loop again and our generator will pick right back up where we left off. Another cool aspect of generators is that they can be paired with list comprehensions, as you can see in the following interactive session:
>>> x = fibonacciGenerator() >>> y = [next(x) for i in range(20)] >>> print(y) [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181]
This is pretty cool. Sometimes, a generator can't easily be expressed in a simple function. For this, Python allows us to make object oriented Generators. For this, I created a generator to create the values of the Kolakoski sequence.
__author__ = "atraub" __date__= "6/09/2012" class Kolakoski: """Class based generator for the Kolakoski sequence""" def __init__(self): """Sets up the generator""" self.sequence = [] self.i = 0 self.currentNum = 1 self.nextNum = 2 def __next__(self): """Implements next() in Python 3""" return self.__realNext() def next(self): """Implements next() in Python 2""" return self.__realNext() def __realNext(self): """Underlying function to get the next value in the sequence""" if self.i == 0: """Base case for first value""" retVal = [1] elif self.i == 1: """Base case for second value""" retVal = [2,2] else: """Default case for all values after the first 2""" retVal = self.__getNext() self.__update(retVal) return retVal def __getNext(self): """Gets the next value after the first two""" return [self.currentNum for a in range(self.sequence[self.i])] def __update(self,retVal): """Handles upkeep of the generator""" self.i += 1 #increments the index self.sequence.extend(retVal) #Adds newest value to underlying sequence self.currentNum,self.nextNum = self.nextNum,self.currentNum #sets the current number def __str__(self): """Creates a string representation of the underlying sequence""" return ",".join([str(a) for a in self.sequence]) def getLast(self): """gets the last value generated by the sequence""" return self.last
Object oriented generators aren't extremely tough. The one nuance is that Python3 requires a method called __next__ and python2 requires the method be named next. This isn't the time or place to walk through the code itself, but it's not overly complex once you have a firm understanding of how the Kolakoski sequence is generated. Despite the different appearance of this generator, calling on it is still syntactically identical. Unfortunately, the Kolakoski sequence still requires an underlying list to generate values, and as of this iteration I wasn't able to find a way to generate values without it, thus, this generator is not ideal for infinite sets. (On a side note, I did develop a version that could save memory by removing elements from the underlying list that were no longer necessary to generate new values, however, the nature of the sequence dictates that even with this optimization, the list will still grow infinitely huge).
I hope that through this tutorial, you've seen that generators do have a lot of power and utility. Whether you want to generate values from infinite sets or perform calculations on massive sets of values, a generator may be the solution you've been looking for.
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na paglulumbay.
Sa pag-iibigang
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I have sold jewelry on my blog in the past, but it's been a while. I also sell jewelry at Golightly's. It's my way to earn a little bit of income with out really having to go to work. I am so blessed that I get to stay home and be a wife and mom. That's what suits us best. I know others LOVE to get out of the house and go to work. I have never liked being somewhere at 8:00 am. It's unnatural for me to be out of my PJ's at that time!
So right now I am still trying to decorate Katie's nursery. I can't get it how I want it. It's frustrating since decorating is what I do. I have dreamed of decorating a nursery for years and I just can't get hers done. It's going to take some moolah. So I need to earn some more...
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It's not pictured, but the clasp on the necklace is adjustable, so you can make it longer or shorter.
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C. Pearl necklace with orange and pink cross $38
This necklace is super long. When I put it on it goes down to my shins, but I'm a shorty!
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The cross looks black in the picture, but it's a very dark chocolate brown. I love it with the turquoise and cream!
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Big Beaver, the Loveland craft brewery popular for its naughty-named beers and eco-friendly business model, will soon try its hand at the cider game.
Blown Spoke Hard Cider Co., a bicycle-themed cidery and part-time meadery, opens Aug. 3 at 2707 W. Eisenhower Blvd., in the space adjacent to Big Beaver. For those who aren't enticed by owner Peter Villeneuve's Bust-a-Nut Brown Ale, Wonder Weiner Wheat or any of the other 14 brews he keeps on tap, the cidery will be a welcome addition of options and flavors.
Villeneuve, a Colorado State University graduate, has been brewing beer since the mid-'90s, and opened Big Beaver in 2010. Initially a one-man-band, Big Beaver has gradually expanded, now offering a large tasting room, patio area and high-capacity brewing system. The cidery, he said, will be yet another amenity for his growing base of devotees.
"It's great for people with celiac disease, people who don't like gluten in their diet, or people who just don't want beer," said Villeneuve, 49, before noting his revulsion at gluten-free beer.
"I'll never go down that road," he said.
Blown Spoke will have 10 ciders on tap, featuring several varieties of the classic hard apple cider, plus flavored blends such as cranberry, passion fruit and pomegranate. For some of the flavors, including apple and cranberry, customers will be able to choose from several different levels of sweetness. The cidery won't use any additives or preservatives, and all of its fruit will be shipped from Michigan.
Because of licensing obstacles, Blown Spoke and Big Beaver are separate entities, meaning that Villeneuve cannot allow drinking customers to meander between the two. He's hopeful, however, that the law will foster a sense of community.
"People will just have to talk to one another," he says.
Part of Big Beaver's communal flavor ties into a commitment to sustainable packaging, which Villeneuve intends to continue at Blown Spoke. The company deals only in reusable pint-glasses and growlers, refusing to can or bottle any of its product. The new cidery will encourage this practice by offering swing-top bottles for take-home use.
The brewery's absence on store shelves hasn't damaged business a bit, said marketing director KatiLyn VanNossdall.
"People will come here and fill their growlers instead of going to the liquor store and buying a six-pack," the 25-year-old said. "It's a great community to try to start something like this."
VanNossdall said customer loyalty is strong enough that she's now redeeming more than 80 buy-10-get-one-free cards every week. She attributed much of that to word-of-mouth: "That's our best and most flattering form of advertising."
For the time being, Blown Spoke will open only on Saturdays, though Villeneuve is confident that his Midwestern sensibility and superior product will soon change that.
"I grew up in Wisconsin, where beer was basically a soft drink," he said. "Here, it's much different. People want quality, and we have it."
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DALLAS (AP) - A Texas woman was indicted Friday on charges that she sent threatening, ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in an attempt to frame her estranged husband.
The federal indictment charges Shannon Richardson, 35, with two counts of mailing a threatening communication and one count of making a threat against the president of the United States.
Richardson, an actress from New Boston, was arrested June 7.
She is accused of sending the threatening letters in May to Obama, Bloomberg and a third man who heads the mayor's gun-control group.
"What's in this letter is nothing compared to what I've got in store for you, Mr. President," the letter to Obama said.
If convicted, Richardson faces up to five years in prison on each charge.
Richardson's attorney, Tonda Curry, said her client will plead not guilty. Although federal investigators say Richardson has admitted mailing the letters, Curry noted that the government must prove Richardson had "the requisite mental state" to make her actions a crime.
Curry said prosecutors have told her they are considering additional charges for the manufacture or possession of a biological agent.
"I'm hopeful that the counter-terrorism task force wouldn't even approve that charge, because it's clear in this case that whatever was done was not done for the purpose of hurting the president, the mayor or anyone else," said Curry, noting that high-ranking public officials typically don't open their own mail.
Davilyn Walston, the spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in the eastern district of Texas, said she couldn't comment on the specifics of the Richardson investigation, but she said there's always a possibility of a superseding indictment in every case.
Authorities have determined that the letters were mailed from New Boston, about 150 miles northeast of Dallas, or nearby Texarkana and postmarked in Shreveport, La.
The government has accused Richardson of mailing the letters and trying to pin the crime on Nathan Richardson, whom she married in 2011. He filed for divorce earlier this month and told the Texarkana Gazette he contemplated divorce last year but reconsidered when the relationship seemed to improve.
The marriage was at least the third for Shannon Richardson, and she has five children ranging in age from 4 to 19 from other relationships, according to Nathan Richardson's attorney, John Delk.
Delk said Friday that his client has been allowed to return to the couple's home in New Boston, which was quarantined after it was searched by FBI agents wearing hazardous material suits.
"He's starting to get his life back in order, and he's still cooperating fully with the investigators, answering any questions they may have and providing any evidence they may need," Delk said.
The children from Shannon Richardson's previous relationships are now in Georgia with Richardson's second husband, Delk said.
According to an FBI affidavit, Richardson first contacted authorities to implicate her husband in the scheme. But she failed a polygraph exam and investigators found inconsistencies in her story, the document alleges.
Richardson, who has had minor television and film roles under the name Shannon Guess, later admitted she mailed the letters but maintained that her husband made her do it, according to the affidavit.
Richardson, who is six months pregnant, has been in the Titus County jail since her arrest but is due to be transferred to a federal prison for a psychological exam.
A federal judge last week ordered Richardson to undergo the exam after Curry requested it, saying her client had displayed "a pattern of behavior" that calls into question whether she could assist in her defense.
"The fact that she's in jail while she's pregnant, the possibility of having to give birth to her child while in custody, not having her own doctor - all those things are contributing (to her mental state)," Curry said.


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This is settled in $p$-modular representation theory of finite groups and finite dim. algebras. So we let $k$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$ and $G$ a finite group. A module with trivial source (TS module for short) is an indecomposable direct summand of the induced module $k_Q^G$ where $Q$ is any $p$-subgroup of $G$. Note that $k_Q^G$ is the tensor product $k_Q\otimes kG$ .
Projective indecomposable $kG$-modules (PIMs for short) can be shown to have trivial source (namely as direct summands of $k_1^G$). My question is if they just ''happen'' to have trivial source as well, or if PIMs and other modules with trivial source have even more structure in common.
To put the question from another point of view: In other finite dimensional algebras over $k$, can we find analogues of modules with trivial source in the sense that they are connected to projective modules in a similar (to me unknown) way as they are in group rings?


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With complex products such as automobiles, integration is a key element of performance. That means managers must understand which activities and competencies they can safely outsource and which they need to keep.
We live in an era in which business disaggregation is the norm. In industry after industry, managers have taken deliberate steps to separate their value chains and shift important activities and functions to outside suppliers. The outsourcing trend became increasingly visible during the 1990s, when companies such as IBM began to outsource not just manufacturing but also design activities. The trend reached its peak within the past decade, when even companies such as Boeing started outsourcing innovation activities. But what happens when companies become too dependent on outside suppliers and cede them too much control if they lack the same degree of understanding and awareness about how important product or service elements fit together and what's necessary? Once management lets go of critical internal levers, how does it go about reestablishing them?
These questions arose during a multiyear research project examining supply strategy relating to new product development at a major European automotive company (see "About the Research"). In the late 1980s, the company — which we call Alpha — had direct supply relationships with more than 3,000 suppliers, most of them small companies. The suppliers were mostly involved in the production of components, and only to a limited extent in the design of components. In the early 1990s, however, management began shifting increasing amounts of design and engineering work to suppliers. That trend was hastened by the proliferation of electronics in cars, which was beyond the traditional competence base of automotive manufacturers. Although all companies shift activities to outside suppliers, Alpha pushed outsourcing even further. By the mid-1990s, Alpha began to outsource the design of complete systems, such as dashboards, seats and safety systems, to suppliers that had the ability to provide entire systems. (See "The Anatomy of an Auto.")
The Leading Question
How can companies make the right decisions about outsourcing?
- Keep activities in-house that have direct impacts on product performance.
- Maintain control over activities that are highly interdependent with the technologies that impact on the performance of the overall product.
To senior management, outsourcing entire systems — including the design of those systems — seemed like the right direction. Similar supply arrangements were already common in other industries such as computers.


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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 9, No. 2 Fall 1982
M. C. Wells
Abstract: Frederick Winslow Taylor developed a system of cost accounting while at the Midvale Steel Company (1878 to 1890). In their article on his contribution to the development of cost accounting, Chen and Pan suggest that Taylor has not received the credit he deserves. They also assert a close association between cost accounting and scientific management. Finally, Chen and Pan compare Tay-lor's work with a book published in 1885 by Metcalfe.
In this comment, Taylor's contribution is more critically evaluated. As he did nothing to promote cost systems, it is concluded that he has received the credit due to him. Metcalfe's book is also evaluated, and placed in the perspective of other publications of the period.
Chen and Pan's article on Frederick Winslow Taylor's contribu-tions to the development of cost accounting1 is another in a long line of papers asserting a connection between scientific management and cost accounting. That connection is undeniable. But Chen and Pan's claims about Taylor's role is overstated. More importantly, perhaps, their claim that "an introduction to his [Taylor's] work in cost accounting . . . provides better understanding of his system of scientific management in general"2 suggests a fundamental mis-understanding of the nature of both cost accounting and scientific management. Taylor's (and others') systems of cost accounting in-volved the classification and grouping of expense items so that "all such items as interest, depreciation, taxes, insurance, sales and traveling [sic] expenses, as well as all of the more direct expenses of the business may be charged directly and equitably onto the sources from which we derive our income."3
Scientific management, on the other hand, required detailed plan-ning of the physical production, and a clear identification of the work to be undertaken by each worker. The only obvious connec-tion between these requirements and cost accounting is that the job sheets or cards can be used for both purposes. The significance of this connection for the development of cost accounting will be explored in greater detail below.


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Littleroot Town is a small town located in southern area of Hoenn that is surrounded by a thick forest. This is the hometown where the player moves into and begins their journey in the Generation III games.
This is the town where Professor Birch lives and is where May receives Torchic. Ash went to this town to begin his new journey in the Hoenn region.
New Neighborhood
Welcome to your new home in Littleroot Town. This is where your journey begins. You have just moved to this town after riding the uncomfortable truck. Your father, Norman, is already at work in Petalburg City, so your mother is taking care of getting everything put away. Thankfully, a moving company's Pokémon are doing the most work, which are the Machokes (Vigoroth for Pokémon Emerald).
Next, you go upstairs to check out your room. Refer the diary on the table as well, it will be useful for your journey. Then click on the clock to reset it.
After you reset it, go downstairs and your Mum will tell you to watch TV about your Dad. But it is over once you see it. Then your mother tells you to visit Prof. Birch. But first, you will have to visit your neighbors first.
Which house you live in depends on whether you decide to choose a boy or a girl. If you choose to be a girl, you live at the house on the right. If you choose to be a boy, you live at the house on the left. When it comes to visiting your neighbor, which is soon, visit the house just opposite yours.
Blocked Route 101
Route 101 is blocked by a little boy because you don't have your Pokémon yet! Visit your neighbors first then come back here.
Your Neighbor
It's time to meet your neighbor. Visit the houses next to yours and you will be greeted by a woman. Then head upstairs to meet your new friend (or rival). If you choose a boy, she will be a girl called May. If you choose a girl, he will be a boy called Brendan. After chatting, your rival will go downstairs and went off.
Rescue Prof. Birch
After meeting the Birch's family, head north of the town to Route 101. You will see a boy standing in front of the Route, telling something about someone is shouting. This sounds trouble. As you head out, you heard a scream. It turns out to be Prof. Birch chased by a Poochyena (Zigzagoon in Pokémon Emerald). He will ask you to reach for his bag and take out a Pokémon.
To rescue him, you have to take out a Pokémon to battle with the wild Pokémon. Take note that the Pokémon you choose will be your first Pokémon you will use for the entire game, so you should be sure with your final decision. You can choose either Grass-type Treecko, Fire-type Torchic or Water-type Mudkip. Battle with it and save Prof. Birch.Prof. Birch is grateful for your assistance. As a reward, he let you keep the Pokémon you selected earlier. With your first Pokémon, you can now head out of town and start your adventure.
After Rival Battle #1
After you battle your rival at Route 103, Prof. Birch is impressed with you and gives you a Pokédex so you can catalog your finds. Your rival will give you 5 Poké Balls so you can start catching Pokémon.
Before you leave Littleroot Town, your mother will tell you to wait. She will give you a Running Shoes. These sneakers will help you to run faster by pressing the 'B' button on the Game Boy while moving. You cannot run inside most buildings. But outside of battles? Run free!
After Battling Norman
After you receive the Balance Badge from your father at Petalburg Gym, return to your home. Your mother will give you an Amulet Coin, which will double the amount of money won from battles.
After Defeating the Elite Four
After the credits rolled, you will end up at your house. Head downstairs and your Dad will give you a ticket for the S.S. Tidal, Capt. Stern's new ferry. The ferry is found in the port in either Lilycove City or Slateport City.
- In the games, regardless of your player character choice, May lives here. In the anime, she actually lives in nearby Petalburg City, as does Norman.
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Dragonheart and Merlin posted a list of their nicknames last Thursday and it got me thinking about the other names we call Au and Target. It reveals a bit of character - theirs and mine - and our relationship too.
See what I mean by looking at their "other" names. Au's nicknames are followed by an A, Target's by a T, and ones that apply to both with an A and a T.
Fuzz face (A, T)
Squeezlebug (A,T)
Cat-Kur-Squizzle (A, T)
Squeezle-bug-fluff (A,T)
Cat fluff (A, T)
Mr Kitty (A)
Big kitty on the block (A)
You little bugger! (A)
Fuzzily wuzzily (T only because A objects!)
Mr Snizzles (T)
Little tail (T)
Au is a big man cat who's not much into hugs but he tolerates me quite well and let's me hug him every day - not too much though in case I am spoiled. And guess what I call him when he demands a treat to show his power over us and walks away without eating it!
Target is a very soft kitty who adores cuddles and baby talk. He's not at all worried about being called fuzzily wuzzily little tail snizzles sweetie... Mind you, it's early days and when he's older he may be put a limit on that sort of stuff.
Thanks for the great idea Dragonheart and Merlin!
Today is the last day for the Katz Tales competition, open to anyone living in Malaysia.
All you have to do is answer these questions:
1. Who is older: Target or Au?
2. Who was called Mr Snizzles as a kitten: Target or Au?
3. Who has a white tummy: Target or Au?
Also, complete the slogan in less than 20 words:
I like Katz Tales because . . . . .
Email entries to katztales AT lepak.com.
There are 3 first prizes:
1 copy of Katz Tales: Living Under The Velvet Paw
1 rock painting of your pet by Malaysia's pet artist Suzi Chua
Cat treats from Addiction
A 35% discount voucher for any Marshall Cavendish titles under General & Reference Publishing
And 3 second prizes:
1 copy of Katz Tales: Living Under The Velvet Paw
Cat treats from Addiction
A 35% discount voucher for any Marshall Cavendish titles under General & Reference Publishing
The closing date is THIS FRIDAY! Friday 29 January 2010. Winners will be announced in Weekender on Saturday 6 February 2010.
If you want to keep in touch with updates, here are some simple ways:
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Tours last approximately 30-45 minutes and include an overview of the history and architecture of the State Capitol. Visitors can see the House and Senate Chambers, learn about the Ladybug (our state insect) and of the "Sacred Cod".
Advance reservations are requested for conducted tours. Please call 617-727-3676 to arrange for a tour for groups from one to fifty people. Please use our email address to request additional information or for general inquiries. However, we only accept reservations by phone.
Self-guided materials are available if visitors do not wish to join a conducted tour.
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Tours for school classes and other groups of ten or more should be scheduled at least three weeks in advance. Please address any inquiries to the address listed above.
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|Researchers report the discovery of a fossilized penguin predecessor, minus the traditional black tuxedo. We'll talk with one of the authors of a paper published this week in the journal Science describing Inkayacu paracasensis, a nearly five-foot-tall bird with reddish brown and grey feathers. It lived in what is now Peru, some 36 million years ago.


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by Hugh Hunter
"An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf" (1994) by area playwright Michael Hollinger, a former Mt. Airy resident who now lives in Wyncote, is now running at Old Academy Players in East Falls. It is 1961, and Victor is an aging journalist who uses his wealth to keep up a four-star restaurant in Paris where he is the only customer.
The play's dramatic premise is absurdly simple: Victor shows up to announce he is committing suicide by starvation. To kick off his plan, he orders the cafe staff to prepare a seven-course dinner for him, then serve it in the form of empty plates.
Head waiter Claude (Paul Muscarella) obliges, yet tries to tease Victor back to life. He has Victor savor the aromas from the serving trays and gives mouth-watering descriptions of all the dishes — rabbit consomme, pheasant with truffles, creme brulee. I wanted to eat it myself, but Victor will have none of
Arnie Feldman is convincing as Victor. This is a mixed blessing as you then get to spend 90 uninterrupted minutes in the company of a man so world-weary he seems to have to drag himself through the night.
Course by course, Victor tells you about his life. Disappointed in love, he has become a kind of professional expatriate who idolizes Ernest Hemingway. Indeed, in a loopy way Victor quotes Hemingway to sum up his every experience, and the thought occurs that in some sense he may be dead already.
In between plates, the cafe staff slip in their own sad stories: Claude is a closet homosexual. His wife, Mimi (Shari Lewis), feels lovelorn. Chef Gaston (Elliott Rotman) is hopelessly in love with Mimi. Antoine (Brian Weiser) is a stuttering, kazoo-playing artist manque, and Victor's girlfriend, Miss Berger (Terri Bateman), pops in with her own tragic tale. The result is a ragout of lost souls.
The Old Academy production is zesty. I loved the understated absurdity of the cafe decor (lots of empty picture frames on the wall). Director William H. Peterson makes good use of lights to coax some dramatic accents into the business,
and his cast gets you to look sympathetically upon the characters.
But the theme of "An Empty Plate" remains a puzzle to me. I could not get any sense of "what it meant" because it felt so confused at the basic level of genre and tone. It comes across as a conflicting potpourri of ingredients — TV sitcom, cerebral satire, horseplay and farce, absurdist theater — that
continually elbow each other off the stage.
I could feel the energy of the Old Academy production. But it is a challenge to stage something that lacks an essential direction, and "An Empty Plate" may leave you feeling a little hungry.
Old Academy Players is located at 3540-44 Indian Queen Lane. "An Empty Plate in the Cafe du Grand Boeuf" will run through Jan 30. Reservations at 215-843-1109.


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Schott Zwiesel Cru Classic Chardonnay Wine Glasses, Set of 6
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The ultimate stemware for casual entertaining and everyday sipping, these beautiful, extremely durable glasses will maintain their sparkling clarity through years of daily use. Schott Zwiesel, a German company known for glassware innovation since 1872, creates the break-, chip- and scratch-resistant stemware using patented Tritan titanium technology. Each glass features a varietal-specific bowl designed to showcase the bouquet and flavor of Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc and other light white wines. Graceful stems are proportioned for optimal stability. Made in Germany, this lead-free crystal glassware is favored by premier restaurants and hotels around the globe. Dishwasher safe. 13.8-oz. cap., 8" high. Set of six.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by LisaMP from Not Invincible but good Prior reviewers indicate they put their stemware in the dishwasher which is always a no-no unless they are really heavy cheap glass. Having had Riedel before these I will say they hold up much better. Most of the time when they hit the granite they do not break. But they are not invincible….. They are the perfect shape for drinking white wine and it is a pleasure to use them!Date published: 2015-07-28Rated 5 out of 5 by KayLeo from I love these glasses! Honestly, I am too clumsy to be owning such fine glassware. Can't tell you how many times I've accidentally knocked these glasses over on my granite counter tops. Too many times than I would care to admit! Despite being so abused, these glasses have held up beautifully. Other than the amazing durability of these glasses, I also love the shape. I won't pretend to be a wine connoisseur, but I can really tell the difference between drinking from these glasses compared to my cheapy-cheap old glasses. A good wine glass really can enhance your wine drinking experience!Date published: 2014-11-03Rated 1 out of 5 by Jules2307 from Worst Registry Item We registered for the Schott Zweisel Cru Chardonnay wine glasses, under the promise that they were tougher than normal wine glasses. We received a set of 6 about 6 months ago and we are already down to 3. So far all 3 have broken while being cleaned in the dishwasher or even just being placed in the sink. We are dismayed at the lack of quality and regret adding it to our registry. Honestly, a waste of money.Date published: 2014-08-14Rated 1 out of 5 by LL912 from The Worst! I registered for these (along with bordeaux, DOF, highball, and martini glasses) after a demonstration at the store showing that these glasses are "unbreakable." The sales associate literally took a glass and slammed it against a corner to demonstrate this. Two years later about 1 for every 6 of our glasses as broken. These glasses break in the dishwasher or shatter randomly. I am terribly disappointed as my previous set of stemware, not advertised as "unbreakable" lasted me 7 years with hardly any damage.Date published: 2014-05-19