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Sounds to me like you went about that really well - you provided someone with more options than they started with and provided some insights into the "reality" of striper fishing. No matter how she decides to fish in the years to come, you showed her another way to enjoy the great resource we have in the striper scene. When a gut hooked schoolie comes to the shore, she may think of the advice of the nice man she met on the Merrimac. The sum of everything we learn along the way makes us the fishermen that we are today, and your discussion with her will probably be remembered by her through the years.
I once stood in a line of guys throwing plugs at the pogie schools last year. I was throwing a juvie pattern into the fringes of the school and hooking up regularly. There were no keepers in the mix but they were mostly over 24", able to at least make those hard compressed runs and take some drag here and there... great fun on the fly rod. The guy to my right couldn't help but ask about the fly stuff, so I cast the line and let him strip it in. Strip, strip - WHAM! He had a blast reeling in three or four nice fish. His comment after that was "that felt to me like 'true' fishing". I thought to myself "what a good way to put it - 'true' fishing". After a couple more nice fish, I moved on to look for bigger stuff on the next flat.
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Fishing at PI this morning a young lady all set up for fishing stopped by and asked Terry and I if the fish were biting. We told her yes that schoolies are around.
While we were fishing I noticed her setting up with herring chunks and fishfinder with a 2oz. sinker. Just before I had to leave I went over and asked her if she was fishing for dinner and she replied no. I then explained to her that schoolies is a term used to describe sub-legal striped bass and that the minimum size of a keeper is 30". I then explained that I had caught some fish this morning that were far short of that size and I released them all basically unharmed. She said that she doesn't keep any fish either.
Without inquiring about her fishing virginity, wise move on my part. I went into detail of the ethics of C&R and how to fish plastics with spinning gear. She was very interested since I convinced her that it is a very productive way to catch fish. So I replaced her bait fishing setup with a jig and BA. I gave her a lesson on how to fish it and how to handle and release the fish, wished her luck and off I went. I know it's not an introduction to SWFF but since she had equipment and was willing to learn I figured I'd do the next best thing. I hope she caught one.
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it seems this thing is like credit data. companies give up the data in exchange for a credit score and risk profiling
same here. seems like private companies will be giving up their security cam and other data in exchange for security services
I like the use of "conspiracy" and "alleged" in the top-level story. It gives this a real air of critical reporting. You know! Like the conspiracy story about your parent's families, in which your father is alleged to have impregnated your mother.
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Michael Aizenman, Princeton professor of physics and mathematics, has been selected to receive the Brouwer Prize by the Dutch Mathematical Society. The award is the Netherlands' most prestigious award in mathematics.
Every three years, the society chooses a prominent mathematician to present a lecture on an important field in mathematics and to receive the Brouwer Memorial Medal. Aizenman will give the 2002 Brouwer lecture in mathematical physics during the annual Dutch Mathematical Congress April 4-5 at the Technical University Eindhoven.
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WHAT IF? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Randall Munroe. 320 pp. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. $24.00.
Question: What if you took a celebrated Internet cartoonist and set him loose on a bunch of wildly hypothetical science questions? Answer: You would get an incredibly fun book with quirky, hand-drawn pictures.
The cartoonist in question is Randall Munroe, and his much-anticipated first book, What If?, debuts in early September. In it, he presents a collection of essays that address queries submitted by readers of his acclaimed Web comic xkcd. For the past two years Munroe has been writing and illustrating weekly blog posts along these lines. The book selects from these posts and expands on them, taking the opportunity to discuss a breadth of scientific, technical, and mathematical topics in whimsical, illuminating ways.
Is it possible, one reader asks, to build a jetpack using downward-firing machine guns strapped to your back? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. From another reader: How many kilowatts of power can Yoda generate using the Force? Turns out, it's about 19.2 kilowatts, depending on your estimates for the weight of an X-wing starfighter and the gravitational constant on Dagobah. At least it's green energy. (Green, like Yoda. Get it?) How much suction power does a lifetime of kissing generate? We're on our own with this one: There are some questions even Munroe won't answer. He relegates them to purgatory-like interchapters called "Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox," which present queries he has deemed too strange for any response other than a wry drawing.
The many questions that receive full replies are the kind you might imagine inquisitive youth (or drunk physics majors) asking themselves in moments of boredom. Munroe raises the ante with answers that are both playful and erudite, all of them illustrated with good humor in his signature stick-figure style.
Most of Munroe's insights don't lead to a happy ending. What would happen if the Sun suddenly went out? We'd all die, of course. What if you threw a baseball at nearly the speed of light? There would be a giant explosion. What if you flew a Cessna over Venus? It would erupt in flames immediately. But the direct answer is only the beginning. Munroe typically addresses the reader's question in the first paragraph; from there his response often takes a 90-degree turn to explore a surprising implication or an interesting deeper question hidden within each seemingly simple opening scenario. For example, in answering what would happen if everyone in the world got together and jumped at the same time (little beyond brief pressure to the Earth's crust and a loud noise), Munroe goes on to explore the post-jump logistics of 7 billion people dispersing from one place (this scenario doesn't end well either).
What If? has a lot of material, and a lot of audience, to draw on. xkcd launched in 2005 and according to Alexa, a company that measures Internet traffic, it is currently the most popular comic on the Web. Estimates put its Web traffic at well over a billion page views per year. Munroe covers a wide range of topics in xkcd; regular readers expect to see everything from programmers engaged in technical conversation to sprawling infographics to experimental comic art experiences. I suspect Munroe started the "What If?" project as an outlet for material that fell outside even the wide perimeter of xkcd—topics he couldn't quite turn into comics but wanted to investigate in depth, then share his findings.
And share he does. Each answer allows readers to accompany Munroe on a "deep dive" of what Michael Stevens of the YouTube channel VSauce calls "hyper-curiosity": an experience similar to what happens when you visit a site such as Wikipedia to answer a question and you follow link after link, exploring a topic layer by layer, until you end up in a thoroughly unexpected place. Munroe serves as an inspired guide for just this sort of quest. Although he may wander, it's with purpose, and in the end each response generally finds its way to a thought-provoking conclusion brought home with a comical punchline. For instance, what if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? After a six-page, microsecond-by-microsecond play-by-play that details how the glass would implode, spraying glass shards everywhere, Munroe concludes: "If the optimist says the glass is half full, and the pessimist says the glass is half empty, the physicist ducks."
Munroe has hit on a wonderful form of science and engineering communication that can do so much—extolling the value of analytical thinking, examining data, and doing back-of-the-envelope calculations (things that, to my annoyance, television programs such as Mythbusters don't seem to do)—while entertaining readers at the same time.
The book opens with a disclaimer: "The author of this book . . . likes it when things catch fire and explode, which means he does not have your best interests in mind." To dispel any doubt, it states outright, "Do not try any of this at home." So in real life, don't stand in your front yard and try to shoot enough arrows to blot out the Sun. Don't even think about loading a firearm with a bullet as dense as a neutron star and shooting it at the Earth. Instead, block off a Saturday afternoon and try wrapping your mind around this cleverly entertaining book.
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He was supposed to come home later this month, but when the U.S. Navy hinted that he could be home early, Lt. Kris Breunig jumped all over the opportunity.
"This will be my last deployment, knock on wood," Breunig said.
Breunig has been serving in the Middle East for most of the last three years. He was initially deployed to Afghanistan, but was most recently in Egypt and Qatar. He said it feels like just yesterday that he enlisted. That was 20 years ago.
Once he had his tickets home in hand, Breunig and his wife, Nadine, got to planning his return. They mapped out a scheme, a surprise in the Cambridge homecoming parade. That would have worked if the rain didn't keep his son's third grade class inside.
When the Cambridge Elementary principal turned off a movie on the big screen and turned on the lights, Tyler Breunig never expected the announcement he was about to hear. Then he saw his dad walk into the small theater. After a moment of disbelief, there was nothing else to do but run straight into his arms.
"Very surprised that daddy came home," Tyler said. "I was expecting him to come home maybe like the 12th or something like that."
Tyler turns nine this month, and dad didn't want to miss it.
"I've missed six of those nine years," Breunig said.
The boys have been bonded by bracelets, ones they rarely take off.
Breunig said technology helps him stay in touch, but it's nothing compared to coming home to his wife, Tyler, and four-year-old Alyssa.
"It's not this. And it takes away from, you know, this is the part he likes, the hugs and the sitting and having late midnight ice cream, which I plan on doing tonight by the way," Breunig explained.
"Their faces light up when they recognize and realize that he's actually here instead of just looking at him on the computer, you know," wife Nadine said. "You can kind of get used to that."
Nadine, Tyler, and Alyssa have been living with the kids' grandfather in Cambridge over the last three years. While Breunig will be stationed in California in the coming year, but he plans to buy a nearby property and settle down there as soon as he retires.
"Everybody knows that we're in the military and there's sacrifice that goes along with it," Breunig said. "But what a lot of people don't take into consideration is the sacrifice that's going on back home."
"Today when I got him from the airport picking him up, as soon as I saw his face, it's just like instant kind of relief, like I can stop stressing so much," Nadine said.
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Princeton alumna and decorated triathlete Karen Smyers will speak on "Pursuing One's Passion Through Setbacks and Challenges" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, in McCosh 10.
The talk by Smyers, a member of the Princeton class of 1983, is the next address in the Jake McCandless '51 Princeton Varsity Club Speaker Series.
Smyers is known for overcoming numerous physical setbacks, including a severed hamstring and thyroid cancer. She was named the United States Olympic Committee Triathlete of the Year in 1994-96 and 1999 and a member of the inaugural Hall of Fame class of USA Triathalon earlier this year.
The McCandless Speaker Series strives to bring to campus speakers who will engage the Princeton community in topics that reflect the educational values inherent in the intercollegiate athletics experience. For more information, contact Kelli Staples at firstname.lastname@example.com or (609) 258-6696.


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Just take a look at any Norman Rockwell painting, Scout leaders with Square jaws sitting by a perfect fire, scouts praying under the dining fly and a Scoutmaster standing vigil over sleeping Scouts on a perfect star lit night. Takes our breath away when we imagine what that time in Scouting was like. But sit and chat awhile with one of our honored Scouting Alumni and he tells the story of a Scouting experience much like ours.
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On that rare occasion when all of the stars are lined up as I stand over the dyeing embers of a fire that was once full of cheer and look around, giggles permeate the air from tents in the distance, I think that this is what Rockwell saw. And then I am awakened by the sounds of Scouts burning their breakfast. A Patrol leader struggles to get his patrol packed up and on the trail. And new Scouts that are having trouble getting their sleeping bag back into that little bag it came in… where did Rockwell go?
You see there is a sliding scale of perfection and just like the saying that says that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.. so is perfection. Perfection in Scouting is all about learning and improving from that which you learned. It's ok for a Scout to go home hungry because he burned his breakfast, he won't starve, but he will learn. It is ok for a Scout to get wet when it rains at night, he won't shrivel and fade away.. but he will stake his tent out better next time and store his gear like he was taught.
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According to the OpenNet Initiative (ONI)--a joint initiative of Harvard University, the University of Toronto and the SecDev Group--47% of the world's Internet users experience some form of fractured Internet. ONI bases their research on technical testing in 74 countries, 42 of which the researchers found engage in "some form of filtering of content." Though the aforementioned statistic (47%, or 960 million Internet users) includes countries like Morocco that engage only in "selective" blocking of websites, 31% of the world's Internet users live in countries that engage in "substantial" or "pervasive" online censorship.
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According to a report from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Salvadoran site El Faro is under threat for investigative reporting conducted in February 2011 on an organized crime network in Northeast El Salvador. The crime ring, said CPJ, involved gang leaders, prominent businessmen, and local politicians, and resulted in journalists from the news site being followed and photographed. CPJ notes that Salvadoran journalists who report on organized crime in the country often report feeling threatened.
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 9:14 PM GMT on April 06, 2007
Significant climate change is already occurring, will grow dramatically, and will cause serious disruptions to natural ecosystems and the lives of billions of people world-wide over the coming century. We need to better prepare for the inevitable changes--and attempt to lessen the magnitude of the these changes by reducing greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. That's the take-home message from today's latest report from the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Every six years, the IPCC releases a huge, influential study detailing the state of Earth's climate. Part 1 of the 2007 report, summarizing the science of climate change, was released in February. Today's summary, titled "Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability" addressed the likely impacts of climate change on Earth's ecosystems and people. Not all of the expected changes will be harmful--the IPCC emphasizes that "impacts of future climate change will be mixed across regions" for temperature rises of 1 to 3 �C above 1990 levels, with the big losers being the poor developing countries. However, if global warming exceeds 2 to 3 �C, the IPCC states it is very likely that all regions of the globe will suffer increased costs or declining benefits. I believe it is the responsibility of every citizen of the planet to take the 30 minutes needed to read the IPCC summary and familiarize themselves with what the world's top scientists say about the likely impacts of climate change. The scope and severity of the Earth-shaking changes that lie ahead present a breathtakingly formidable challenge for humanity.
Figure 1. Locations of significant changes in physical systems (snow, ice and frozen ground, hydrology, coastal processes) and biological systems (land, ocean, and freshwater) from 1970 to 2004. Between 90% and 100% of these changes are consistent with warming global temperatures, due in large part to human-emitted greenhouse gases. White areas are where not enough data existed to determine a temperature change. Figure 1 is a simplified form of Figure SPM-1 of the 2007 IPCC document, "Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability--Summary for Policy Makers."
Observed impacts of climate change to date
The IPCC report begins by summarizing observed changes in physical systems (snow, ice and frozen ground, hydrology, coastal processes) and biological systems (land, ocean, and freshwater) reported in 577 papers in the scientific literature between 1990 and 2004 (Figure 1). They conclude, "Observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases." Examples for which they are highly (80% chance) or very highly confident (>90% chance) of include:
Earlier bird migrations and leaf unfolding
Poleward shifts in the ranges of various plant and animal species
Shifts in the ranges and numbers of ocean species near the poles
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Earlier and increased peaks in spring run-off from glacier- and snow-fed rivers
Warming of lakes and rivers
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Melting permafrost
Medium confidence effects (50% chance of being true) observed in the Northern Hemisphere include:
Earlier spring planting of crops
Increases in forest fires and pest damage to forests
Heat-related deaths in Europe, spread of disease in some areas, and changes in allergenic pollen
Hunting and travel by humans over Arctic snow and ice
Future impacts
This is where the IPCC report gets very sobering. Keep in mind that the predicted future impacts may be understated, given the cautious nature of scientists--and the fact that the final version was edited by government officials, who changed the original conclusions of the scientists. I'll present just of few of the more mind-boggling impacts (in blue, with my comments in black), and leave the rest for the interested reader to discover:
The resilience of many ecosystems is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change, associated disturbances (e.g., flooding, drought, wildfire, insects, ocean acidification), and other global change drivers (e.g., land use change, pollution, over-exploitation of resources) (high confidence).
In other words, some ecosystems will collapse, putting the people who depend on these ecosystems in grave peril.
Many millions more people are projected to be flooded every year due to sea-level rise by the 2080s. Those densely-populated and low-lying areas where adaptive capacity is relatively low, and which already face other challenges such as tropical storms or local coastal subsidence, are especially at risk. The numbers affected will be largest in the mega-deltas of Asia and Africa while small islands are especially vulnerable (very high confidence).
Expect damage and human suffering from hurricanes to greatly increase in coming decades, thanks to higher seas levels.
There is medium confidence that at least partial deglaciation of the Greenland ice sheet, and possibly the West Antarctic ice sheet, would occur over a period of time ranging from centuries to millennia for a global average temperature increase of 1-4 �C (relative to 1990-2000), causing a contribution to sea level rise of 4-6 m or more.
Along with drought and ecosystem collapse, sea level rise is my big concern. Sea level before the most recent ice age was about 4-6 meters (13-20 feet) higher than today, at global temperatures that we expect to match by 2100. The IPCC states that a sea level rise of 0.6-1.9 feet (0.18-0.58 meters) is expected by 2100, and a 4-6 meter rise is not likely for centuries. However, our understanding of the response of glaciers to climate warming is poor. An unexpected rapid partial disintegration of the Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets later this century raising sea levels by 2 meters (6 feet) has at least a 1% chance of occurring, in my opinion.
The language of the 2007 IPCC climate report is couched in uncertainly, but the broad picture is clear: future climate change may rival or exceed a World War in its effect on society. Steps to lessen its impact and adapt to it need to be made as soon as possible. The cost in lives, dollars, and human suffering will be far greater if we do not.
In his 2006 book, The Revenge of Gaia, philosopher-scientist James Lovelock writes, "I am old enough to notice a remarkable similarity between attitudes over sixty years ago towards the threat of war and those now towards the threat of global heating. Most of us think that something unpleasant may soon happen, but we are as confused as we were in 1938 over what form it will take and what to do about it. Our response so far is just like that before the Second World War, and attempt to appease. The Kyoto agreement was uncannily like that of Munich, with politicians out to show they do respond but in reality playing for time...Battle will soon be joined, and what we face now is far more deadly than any blitzkrieg."
The climate change storm is coming, and the wind is already starting to rise.
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My next blog will be Monday afternoon or Tuesday. I've got several topics in mind--tornadoes in Chicago, Greenland glaciers, or hurricane model improvements.
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rmathew: Just read SICP, it's great. For a LISP interpreter there is the MIT one of course (SCHEME). But that one only works from within a GUI. A commandline Scheme is PLT, use "MzScheme.exe -r %*" in a .bat file for the CMD shell (assuming you are using Windows).
And there is CLISP, which is NOT Scheme! But on Windows that is not so easy to use from the commandline, you have to do something like this in a .bat file:
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"They's Just DAWGS"; "I train dogs, Not papers"
"Hunting is a skill to be learned whether you do it early or late it still needs to be learned"
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So I keep the food up to avoid a problem, but sometimes I wonder if I am just avoiding a problem that I could remedy if I knew how.
Last edited by Renee P.; 04-19-2013 at 01:03 PM.
Never heard of the guy watched video. Been chewed up a few times. Former PSD, military trainer, dog needs a lead on strong collar , choke chain and take him into a airplane swing round and round, drop on ground, try it again if he persists. That type of food removal should start as a 12 week old! Guy in my opinion to get in dog's face with dog like posturing is kinda wacko. The worse bite you can have is from a dog that doesn't knowhow to bite, will leash climb and go for the face, not a trained bite dog going for appendage or a body hold. Geeze and people buy his material!
Earl Dillow
Renee'Pete, do you think that food aggressive dog in the video could be rehabilitated? Would it ever be reliable around food?
My older lab gets scary around food with other animals/pets. Blood has never been shed, and she has never been aggressive to people, but I don't trust her.
Most dogs can be successfully rehabilitated , BUT,,, and thats a but with a capital B,,,most people can't be made to change their habit patterns and the way they deal with dogs.
Dogs rank themselves per individual whether human or dog.. So lets say I get a dog to let me touch it and take its food away while eating or even leaving a room if I enter while its eating,,,that does not mean that the dog now does this when any one touches the dog or takes its food away. Only when I do it. So now the owners of the dog must learn to do what counters this ,, AND with a capital A,,,they must do it that way for a long time. Some people are great learners and take whats taught to heart. The majority doesn't or can't and in a few months the dog slides back to the way it was. Then when they try to do what was taught ,,the techniques or way of doing things have morphed so much because they haven't been doing it correctly from the start (due to an apathetic mind set) that they can't get it done.
Its actually simple to change behavior and thinking patterns in a dog,,,people can be a major pain in the arse.
Some people are very successful in the long run and many are not because of the human variable.
I disagree with most of what you wrote. Am I allowed to say that to an Icon of the retriever sports. (smile emoticon insert)
Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Psalms 12: 8
The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exulted
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
If Cesar has helped educate the general public to walk their dog and show the dog some limits and train consistently and patiently, that's a good thing. If only a fraction of the public took some of his stuff to heart, maybe we'd have fewer dogs in shelters and pounds.
"A smile relieves a heart that grieves"
- Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
I think Bora needs to make a video on how to use a rope with a dog. He'd be "Rope Commander"...probably make millions on A&E
I gotta chime in and defend Cesar - I really admire what he does, and hey, if he can make a living at it more power to him. If you watch enough of the old "Dog Whisperer" episodes you will see him work with a wide variety of dogs and their issues - shy timid dogs to very aggressive. Dogs DO respond very well to his approach, much of which is common sense (which too many dog owners lack!). It can be hard for those of us who TRAIN our dogs to relate, as Cesar claims he does NOT train the dogs but trains their humans. Our dogs, being trained from a young age generally don't develop major behavior issues. But the average pet dog does not have that advantage. I suspect Cesar has saved a good many dogs from being 'dumped' over the years, and that is a good thing.
Even if the owners get the dog to back down, what's gonna happen when it is around other people? That is why most people have dogs, to hang out with them. Pet dogs are always around other people. And the people are clueless. One day someone will not be paying attention, and the baby will walk by the dog holding a hotdog and bam! Dog goes ballistic. Scares the crap out of me.
I guess I think that labrador retrievers aren't supposed to be like that.
Ok,Ok, Chris and Pete I did A generalization of watching single few minute video, made a shot from the hip statement on the basis of watching a person get in a posturing, face close to a growling aggressive dog and got bit, hand and groin area. I apologize, but, still think for a moment the guy who got bit shown in the video for that moment was a wacko.
Whew what a mouthful! I maybe wrong as I haven't seen his otherwise brilliant reviews by some. Retrievers that don!'t bite are much easier for the ikon to digest. Plus I was bored and waiting to go to meet my co-judge for Saturdays hunt test to do our set-ups.
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With the Republican and Democratic national conventions approaching, federal, state, and local officials are working tirelessly to ensure that Tampa and Charlotte welcome all visitors to their cities with rose petals and open arms. Just kidding – they're actually spending tens of millions of dollars on combat training, armor, bloodhounds, and sophisticated weaponry. Guests who plan on protesting the events are, in a word, unwelcome. As are credentialed journalists who venture outside of designated boundaries.
Republican National Convention planners in Tampa have $50 million in federal grant money to splurge on safety measures. In what officials there call the "largest maritime security effort the area has ever undertaken," authorities have established seven militarized zones in the bay around the convention base. On August 26, police in nearby St. Petersburg will tap into Tampa's funding to guard guests at an RNC kickoff party on Tropicana Field. And for the following day's big protest, which the Coalition to March on the RNC expects to draw around 5000 people, Tampa storm troopers will get backup from out-of-town cops, all clad in khaki uniforms purchased especially for the occasion.
With its own $50 million to burn, the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte probably won't be much friendlier. Ten thousand protesters are expected to swarm uptown on September 2, which would result in the biggest march in city history. To keep tabs on it all, 21 DNC security subcommittees have met monthly since the site was announced in early 2011. They've also taken extra, if not unconstitutional, steps to quiet free speech. In February, Mecklenburg County commissioners banned camping on all county property — a complement to existing camping prohibitions in public parks. As an additional deterrent to incoming activists, Charlotte held a lottery for protest groups, requiring demonstrators to apply in advance to reserve time slots in a designated picket zone. Only 41 groups vied for formal permissions by the July 2 deadline (and all were granted permits). But many protesters and protest movements say they'll be there anyway, working outside of the officials' tidy protest narrative. And Charlotte authorities expect that. They've prepared for mass arrests by increasing prison staff by 30 percent and doubling the number of clerk magistrates on hand.
In discussing quadrennial electoral madness, Americans often point to the mayhem outside of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. But while those memories endure, recent history has also proven brutal for activists in US hot zones. In 2004, the New York Police Department set an all-time convention record by jailing roughly 1800 people at the RNC. Four years later, between the DNC in Denver and its counterpart in the Twin Cities, there were nearly 1000 indiscriminate detentions; in the case of the former, rather than contest permissible claims of false arrests at trial, city attorneys eventually settled with the American Civil Liberties Union for $200,000.
There's little reason to believe that journalists and protesters in 2012 will fare much better. Both conventions are designated "National Security Special Events," which in the age of high-tech surveillance drones and the Patriot Act means an unchecked free-for-all for the United States Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security. Credentialing laws and procedures are woefully outdated, while a flurry of last-minute ordinances in both host cities have placed confusing circumstantial bans on everything from glass, ropes, and masks to backpacks and tripods.
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People are never happy with free software it seems. 1.3 of Fluffy Clouds is out and now the feature request is for proper dual head support. There's several complaints that it runs too slow on two monitors.
I hooked the laptop up to the TV with it running 1024x768 on the second screen to test and it ran ok. I guess there's a case for it, but it involves a pretty substantial re-write and I'm debating if I really want to do this. I suppose I'd need it in the future so I might as well go through the pain and do it now.
If you're going to do something you might as well do it right. I'll keep telling myself that as I try to summon the will. Shame about the bad comments Version Tracker users gave 1.3 though. That's really sucked my will to code.


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Typical /. moron. Some of the points are less worthless, but he's not saying anything that hasn't been said a million times before.
Typical /. moron. Some of the points are less worthless, but he's not saying anything that hasn't been said a million times before.
Creating template versions of the mozilla string class, perhaps parameterized with the various functionality as template arguments, would cause each function that needed a general string argument to be a template as well, to accept whatever the user passed in. Am I missing something obvious here?
Yes. If a function takes some specialization of a template, it is not a template. I can pass std::string to non-template functions, yet std::string is std::basic_string<char> which is, of course, a template!
If you have a function that takes nsAString& and doesn't care what the dynamic type is, this can be achieved with a simple handle class that wraps a particular specialization of a template, so that all specialisations can be handled through a uniform type.
Aside: The idea of types "parameterized with the various functionality as template arguments" is sometimes known as policy-based design and Andrei Alexandrescu has produced a policy-based std::string-compatible string class. A version of this is being developed for Boost under the name flex_string.
Your statement "the larger your template functions become, the more each instance costs every time you use it" simply doesn't wash with me. Factor out common parts that don't depend on the template arguments to avoid duplicating them (just as you would if you were hand-coding the function for all the types you want to use it with!)
If you want a function that operates on objects of three types, you should not end up with any more machine code if you write one template and instantiate it with three types than if you write three functions. Most claims of "template bloat" I've come across are FUD, bad style, or plain ignorance about the subject matter. If you instantiate the template willy-nilly with every type in your system, then you'll end up with a lot of bloat, but why the hell are you doing that if you don't need to? And if you do need to, you'd have had to hand-code the function for every type anyway, so you'd still have the bloat.
Apparently a recent Microsoft linker will actually merge common code for you, so parts of template functions that don't depend on the template args will use the exact same machine code - which potentially means less bloat with templates than hand-coded functions!
As for inheritance, one reason to use it judiciously is that public inheritance provides implicit conversions from derived to base (a.k.a up-casts,) which implies substitutability (c.f. LiskovSubstitutionPrinciple.) Unsafe or unintended implicit conversions weaken the type system and can lead to fragile, hard to debug code. If your types do not follow the LSP, do not use public inheritance.
If your types are not substitutable you might think that using private or protected inheritance would be better, but it is usually better to use composition, not inheritance, in that case. Say you want to re-use the implementation of some class A, so you do this:
class B : private A { void f(); };
If, at some later time, A is changed to add a virtual f(), then suddenly your class will either fail to compile (if the return types are not compatible) or will silently change the behaviour of the derived class in completely unintended ways. If A is not designed for use as a base class, don't inherit from it, add a member of type A to B instead.
You should try to use the weakest coupling between two types that you can, inheriting (privately or publicly) might bring more names into scope than you intended, causing clashes, or might cause your code to silently change meaning if the base class changes.
Inheritance is one of the strongest relationships available in C++ (along with friend) and inheritance leads to high coupling, coupling leads to spaghetti, spaghetti leads to late night debugging headaches, which is the way of the Dark Side.
I agree with terceiro, you do forget how to hide a bike - mine got stolen from the front garden last year because I didn't hide it well enough. (Sorry, Antonio, couldn't resist :-) My bike really did get stolen, but you've made me see a funny side to it! By the way, feel free to add yourself to the PStreams as "Helper" or whatever you think appropriate.)
That reminds me -- cdevienne, to record that you're the maintainer of libxml++ log in to advogato, then go to the libxml++ project page and choose a "Type of relationship" at the bottom of the page.
Been distracted from finishing the next version of PStreams by many things ...
Tweaked Marc Rochkind's Ux code to work with recent versions of GCC and glibc and sent him the updates.
Spent some time reading the strawman proposal for a C++ memory model, got confused by an example until I realised there must be a typo, which has now been corrected. That means I did understand it correctly - good!
Backlog of libstdc++ work is increasing. Lots of half-finished doc updates that I need to polish off. The std::tr1::shared_ptr in libstdc++ is still sub-optimal, using empty critical sections to provide full bi-directional memory barriers. One of the super-optimised asm versions in Boost's shared_ptr has turned out to cause a problem in certain situations with a certain compiler and so there's an update to 1.33.0 already, so there's something to be said for playing it safe - especially when I'm still learning about all this sink/hoist/yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-rum stuff. "Correctness is a constraint; performance is a goal."
Got sick of poor developer docs for Apache and am improving a small part of them that I happen to be familiar with (actually, the code in question is part of aprlib.) Have some ideas for some C++ types for use with aprlib, to register objects and cleanup functors (not just int (*)(void*) functions) with pools, kinda similar to TnFOX's transaction rollback stuff, but with pools.
I'm about to leave the job I've had for the past 6 years, which was mostly Apache-1.3 module development in C++, so I figure I've got a fair bit of relevant experience to make use of and now that I'm not constrained by business requirements (i.e. only using apache 1.3) I can play with 2.0 and the APR. The state-of-the-art of writing Apache modules in C++ doesn't seem to be very advanced. I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to write modules using exceptions and other modern C++ features and not worry about interfacing with C. I'm probably missing something that already makes it easy. Step 1: make mod_cplusplus exception safe.
Hope the new job lets me contribute to free software, I really don't see myself staying anywhere else for 6 years if I don't have permission to write (and license) my own code in my own time. It'll be nice to finally a recent version of GCC though, so I'll know code I worked on is being used :-)
Joke of the day, courtesy of the GCC mailing list:
Daniel Berlin: Again, please point to specific examples.
Vincent Lefevre: GCC developers don't want examples.
Daniel Berlin is, of course, a prominent GCC developer.
Vincent Lefevre is the leader of a time-travelling race of aliens wanting to subvert GCC to their own evil purposes. Beware!
Update: it occurs to me that Vincent could be trying a Jedi mind trick, like "these aren't the droids you're looking for" ... even more reason to be wary. I suspect Darth Berlin will not be swayed but some lesser developers could be.
Aha! rillian, thanks for the info! I'm glad to know that too, as it confirms the theories about the cause. Damn that spam!
Oh, and the sendmail problem I was having turned out to be DNS issues at my ISP, nothing to do with the unrelated packages I'd upgraded, which is also re-assuring.
See returnoftheredi's diary for more info.
It's been blamed on a bug in the mod_virgule code that doesn't handle disk full errors, but I'm skeptical whether the disk fills up often enough to account for the frequency of the problems.
While I'm here, might as well mention I made a new release of PStreams at the weekend, which includes streambuf::in_avail() support and a close-on-exec trick to detect when the child process fails to execute, courtesy of slamb.
Oh, and it seems that by upgrading to a newer /etc/modprobe.conf.dist I've cocked up my sendmail config so that SMTP AUTH no longer works. Damn.
I agree with yeupou's comments on the "racism" issue. I think the US "patriot act" and "homeland security" laws are moronic, ill-conceived and harmful, but you can't blame Google for following the laws of the land. Do you really think Google employees should risk imprisonment in Guantanemo Bay to protest those laws?!? The Summer of Code is not intended as a political platform to campaign against the neo-cons. They are a US company and have to abide by US law, no matter how silly. Would you expect them to pay out for an open-source project that violated Microsoft patents? Or helped tap phones?
(Update: on second thoughts, that loaded second example is a bit misleading, since tapping phones is legal if done in the name of anti-terrorism ... maybe I should have used a less controversial subject like DeCSS ;)
roozbeh, Google's contribution to the Open Source community should not be overshadowed by this "racism" issue, which is not Google's fault.
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1. More and more restrictions being placed upon who can breed dogs, which dogs can be unneutered or kept open, how many litters/year someone can have without being a "puppy mill".
2. We use guns.
3. We kill ducks, pigeons, pheasant.
4. We raise (or buy raised) ducks, pigeons, pheasant.
5. We use electric collars
6. We use (often) public land
7. We use (sometimes big) trucks to transport our dogs and travel long distances to train, trial, and test. So far, I haven't seen the Prius that works for me. Can't take my dogs on any form of public transit. Even flying dogs cargo is getting harder and harder.
8. And most of all, we're going to have to work 2 and 3 jobs just to stay afloat, let alone have the time to do the things we love.
On the bright side... the government hasn't yet decided that veterinary care is a civil right. Therefore, our dogs will always be able to get good medical care.


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My father recently passed away. March 6th
His memorial was Monday.
The reason I wanted to bring this up is that it was because of my father, that I developed a love for the CFL and the BC Lions. He took me to my first games at Empire when I was young. He talked in almost worshipful terms about some of the Lions early greats, Willie Flemming, Joe Kapp, Jim Young . Later on, we purchased seasons tickets together as father and son. We shared the triumph of 1994 together in the stands at BC Place, enjoyed getting blown out of that same stadium and even made a road trip to Edmonton a few years ago. It was a special thing for me and the BC Lions will always be a part of some of my most favourite memories of my father.
I wish more than anything that I could go to just one more game with him; give him a big hug and cheer with him as we score on an exciting play. Unfortunately, now that opportunity is gone.
So for all you good and wonderful people here at Lionbackers, be sure to cherish those who are dear to you. Capture each special moment and treasure it and the next time you are at a game, give a toast to all the fathers and sons (and daughters) who have laughed, cheered and cried together watching our BC Lions.


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Marsden to discuss fundamentalism and politics, March 6
Posted March 2, 2006; 08:53 p.m.
"How 'Otherworldly' American Fundamentalists Became Political" is
the title of a talk set for 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 6, in McCosh 50.
George Marsden, the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, will present the lecture, which is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion.
Marsden teaches American religious and intellectual history, and is an expert on the history and present state of fundamentalism in America. He is the author of "Jonathan Edwards: A Life," which won the 2004 Bancroft Prize for Distinguished Books in American History and the 2005 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He also wrote "Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of 20th-Century Evangelicalism, 1870-1925," which was named one of Christianity Today's 100 "Books of the Century."
A second edition of "Fundamentalism and American Culture" has just been released by Oxford University Press. It includes a major new chapter that compares the fundamentalism since the 1970s to the fundamentalism of the 1920s, looking particularly at the extraordinary growth in political emphasis and power of the more recent movement.


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After nearly a week of well above average temperatures (daytime highs of 30C!) and clear blue skies, the weather is turning slightly more seasonal this morning. Cloudy and cooler this morning with very little wind. Fall is here and the bush is much more yellow than a week ago. 13 C with 94% relative humidity while shooting today.
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) has confirmed that PlayStation Vita will launch throughout Australasia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East from 23 February 2012.
Available in Australia from AUD$349.95 (RRP) and New Zealand from NZD$449.95 (RRP) for the Wi-Fi model, and AUD$419.95 (RRP) and NZD$549.95 (RRP) for the 3G/Wi-Fi model respectively, PS Vita will offer uncompromised portable gaming experiences, anytime, and anywhere.
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Head north to Canada's beautiful province of Ontario for a fabulous Niagara Falls area getaway! But this one's a bit different – instead of staying in the heart of the Niagara Falls tourist area, you'll be at a beautifully situated resort just a short ride away – right on Lake Ontario – at the Ramada Jordan/Beacon Harbourside Resort. Located midway between Niagara Falls and Toronto – that's about 30 minutes in either direction – you'll enjoy great accommodations and a host of valued added features for the perfect area adventure. Guestrooms with lovely lake view start from $73 per night (Sunday through Thursday) for 2 guests and also include a free wine tasting, $25 restaurant voucher, free WiFi and more. Travel is valid through July 28, 2013. BOOK NOW! See more than just The Falls – for a memorable Niagara-area getaway!
Enjoy the best which the Niagara Falls-area has to offer at the Beacon Ramada Jordan!
Enjoy the best of all worlds at the Ramada Jordan / Beacon Harbourside Resort! Ideally located on Lake Ontario mid-way between Niagara Falls and Toronto, you can experience everything this wonderful area has to offer. This is a popular spot for weddings – which tells that the location and view are spectacular! Guest rooms are well-appointed, and feature free WiFi to keep you connected, along with lovely lake views. There's a full-service restaurant and fireside lounge on site for your eating and drinking pleasure. Additional hotel facilities include an indoor (salt-water) swimming pool, sauna, outdoor patio and a marina. Free parking is available; the hotel is 100% smoke-free; business services are available for an additional charge. Area highlights within a 30-minute drive of the hotel includeNiagara Falls, Niagara Parks and Botanical Gardens and a variety of wineries.
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Niagara Falls forms the international border between New York State on the American side and the province on Ontario on the Canadian side. And if you saw Nik Wallenda cross the falls on national TV last year – yes, he had to present his passport on the other side – you saw how really close it is. The three major falls are known as the American Side, Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side and Bridal Veil Falls. Combined, they form the highest water-flow rate of any waterfalls in the world. There are many look-out points and ways to enjoy this majestic attraction. For the best up-close-and-personal look, take a famous blue slicker and hop aboard the world-famous Maid of the Mist – the oldest and best-known attraction – to go right up to the fall's base! The more adventurous can walk behind them (literally) at Journey Behind the Falls at the bottom of Horseshoe Falls or fly over them in an unforgettable helicopter ride. Also make sure to ride to the observation deck at the top of the Skylon Tower for the highest overhead view of the falls in one direction, and great views as far as distant Toronto in the other.
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Niagara Falls at night is a spectacle unto itself. The Falls take on the colors of the rainbow, starting at dusk every evening – the only time they were turned off was in 2003 to support recovery efforts during a major northeast blackout. In addition to these night illuminations, there are spectacular fireworks displays scheduled on Friday nights throughout the year – enjoy them from many local restaurants or anywhere in the area. Check on-line for the 2013 schedule.
Niagara Falls Casinos and Entertainment
Bet you never thought that casinos would be an option on a Niagara Falls escape. The Niagara Fallsview Casino is one of Canada's premier destinations for live performances and is Canada's largest gaming floor with over 100 gaming tables, and also features great restaurants and shops. The Seneca Niagara Casino is on the American side and boasts 99 gaming tables – make sure to pay them a visit. Check the Niagara Falls entertainment calendar to see who you can see during your Niagara Falls getaway!
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Niagara stands with California andFrance as one of the best Wine Regions in the world – and is home to more than 50 world-class wineries. Over 90% of Canada's unique icewine is produced by Niagara vintners. You can tour the Niagara Wine Route by bar, bike, bus or on a guided tour – a year-round attraction! Remember to take advantage of your included Wine Tasting for 2 which is part of your TripAlertz getaway!
Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens
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'Zefirino' screening set
Posted February 14, 2008; 11:21 a.m.
"Zefirino: The Voice of a Castrato," an award-winning documentary about a senior thesis performance by 2004 Princeton graduate Anthony Roth Costanzo, will be screened at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 19, in 10 East Pyne.
The film demonstrates how Costanzo assembled a remarkable production to portray the lives of the castrati, male singers in 18th-century Italy who were castrated before puberty to maintain their soprano singing voices. Costanzo conceived of, co-wrote, produced and starred in the production, titled "The Double Life of Zefirino," as his senior thesis project.
The performance, which included Costanzo singing six 18th-century arias, had costumes designed by acclaimed film director James Ivory, sets created in Milan and two professional dancers who helped convey the story of the castrati.
The film won a 2007 director's choice award at the international Black Maria Film and Video Festival. Filmmaker Gerardo Puglia directed and photographed the 23-minute film, which took two years to make. It was produced by Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, a Princeton professor of French and Italian who taught Costanzo. Wendy Heller, associate professor of music, was his thesis adviser.
The screening is sponsored by the Department of Music and the Department of French and Italian.