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I am building a web application and wanted to know if I will see a performance increase if I create some Classes that are Shared across the application to hold all the data which would otherwise be accessed from a MySQL database.
I have three tables: tblHouses, tblBrands, and tblProducts.
tblProducts has a primary key: idProduct and a foreign key: idBrand.
tblBrands has a primary key: idBrand and a foreign key: idHouse.
tblHouse has a primary key: idHouse and no foreign key.
I can create Classes for each of these tables with methods to retrieve information from the database based on idHouse, idBrand, or idProduct but I wondered if creating a Shared Class Catalogue which contains a List(Of Class Products), Class Products containing the information from tblProduct along with idBrand and idHouse which are retrieved from the database on initialisation, might give improved performance.
I envisage being able to then iterate through the list of Products within Catalogue to get a List of Products dependent on Catalogue method parameters. One example method would be:
Catalogue.getProductsByBrand(idBrand) returns List(Of Products)
For x = 0 to List.Count Step 1
if List(x).idBrand = idBrand then
end if
return results
End Function
! I know that this is just pseudocode but it's only there to help explain my requirements.
Will iterating through these objects provide a performance increase compared to repeat SQL database calls or not given that I can also load Class House and Class Brand similarly as shared Classes. The instantiation could be done from a CMS when administrators make a change to the database tables and because the Class is Shared these Classes will be available in the same state to all users of the application.
Please advise as I have been unable to find anything conclusive when searching online for an answer or advice.
If you are unsure of the definition of Catalogue, House, Brand, or Product then they are described below:
Catalogue: A list of all products
House: A 3rd Party Supplier (e.g. Diesel)
Brand: The 3rd Party Suppliers Brand (e.g. Fuel For Life)
Product: A unique product under the Brand (e.g. Fuel For Life EDT 50ml)
Thank you in advance...
I may have my terminology wrong and might mean Static instead of Shared. I mean whichever allows a Class not to be instantiated and the content is shared across an application.


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There is already existing infrastructure and projects where people can donate their system's computational power: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ [berkeley.edu]
i have a car.
i have a rocket engine.
what's the problem?
You might, if it isn't supervised by a trio of idiots [youtube.com].
Really. This is a stupid story. You might as well ask why you can't convert your car into a spaceship.
No, that would actually make sense some day.
More like converting all cars into clock just because you happen to notice lots of them show up at certain times of the day.
Really. This is a stupid story. You might as well ask why you can't convert your car into a spaceship.
No, that would actually make sense some day....
Do we really need to add the word "Relevant" in the line "News for Nerds" here? I thought it was fairly clear with the line "Stuff that Matters".
Parent is right here, this is a stupid story, mainly for the fact that the author acts like boinc, SETI, genome/folding@home, and many, many others have somehow fallen into a black hole that everyone forgot about. The concept of using CPU cycles in a massive parallel effort is hardly new. "harnessing the power"...sheesh, like once THIS project cracks 500,000 core
Really. This is a stupid story. You might as well ask why you can't convert your car into a spaceship.
No, that would actually make sense some day....
Do we really need to add the word "Relevant" in the line "News for Nerds" here? I thought it was fairly clear with the line "Stuff that Matters".
Parent is right here, this is a stupid story, mainly for the fact that the author acts like boinc, SETI, genome/folding@home, and many, many others have somehow fallen into a black hole that everyone forgot about. The concept of using CPU cycles in a massive parallel effort is hardly new. "harnessing the power"...sheesh, like once THIS project cracks 500,000 cores processing at once, a holodeck or time machine will magically appear...
Well. I don't know about a time machine. Those things are dangerous. But a holodeck now: if converting Wikipedia into a multiprocessor array would come up with a holodeck, I'd be all for it. Matter of fact, the number of Slashdotters who would immediately buy one is legion
Then you would introduce another popup:
Your browser has notice a script taking too much cpu time, do you wan't to terminate the script ? Yes/No
Ever seen those ?
Really. This is a stupid story. You might as well ask why you can't convert your car into a spaceship.
Or a 1986 Yugo into a Bugatti Veyron.
Boinc is merely a recent example in a long line of examples of computational networks serving what in the long run are problems not worth solving unless the cost of doing so approaches zero.
Now if Facebook somehow snuck such a computational client onto every visitors computer then it might actually serve a real purpose other than as a sop to the ego of lonely desperate people.
Or run Folding@Home and help cure cancer.
"what kind of problems would you want it chugging away at?"
Well obviously the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
So I get the value of "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" is 42?
So I get the value of "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" is 42?
Nope. 5x9 is 42.
Tsk. May want to re-read the "tri"logy again.
"What do get if you multiply six by nine?"
Damned lameness filter wouldn't let me post the question in the canonical all-caps.
Just think -- wikipedia can be changed in a few seconds by any schoolkid with an idea for some online graffiti -- would you want it chugging away at _any problems at all_?
"what kind of problems would you want it chugging away at?"
Well obviously the Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
How about, "How do we make wikipedia accurate and reliable?"
Welcome to the new paradigm. Das Tubes moved your cheese.
Try this:
Employ researchers to correct Three Mistakes Per Article.
Anything so hoplessly confused not to survive that metric gets tagged as Start Over.
I'd much rather broken information on any topic than elite info on more than seven topics.
google SETI sometime. It was successful there because all involved had a common interest, NOT SO for wiki, so I'll put my money on 'flop'.
Only if bitten by a radiaoactive calculator!
Only if bitten by a radiaoactive calculator!
Even then - I'd probably stop using Wikipedia if it slowed down my computer whenever I visited it as I tend to leave dozens of pages open for extended periods when researching anything.
Wikipedia is a clusterfuck of little tiny fiefdoms. And you expect them to solve actual problems? hahahahaha.
Wikipedia is a clusterfuck of little tiny fiefdoms.
If Wikipedia has come off this way to you, then perhaps you've run into one too many editors who routinely violate the policy against treating an article as a "fiefdom" [wikipedia.org]. If you can't resolve a problem with an article through the typical BOLD, revert, discuss cycle [wikipedia.org], other dispute resolution [wikipedia.org] mechanisms are available.
Wikipedia could use that computing power to harvest bitcoins so that they'll never have to beg for money again. It's a brilliant plan.
17th June, Symantec's blog:
It has been known for some time that a botnet's combined computing power could be used for a number of nefarious purposes. We can now add Bitcoin mining to that list.
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/bitcoin-botnet-mining [symantec.com]
17th June, Symantec's blog:
It has been known for some time that a botnet's combined computing power could be used for a number of nefarious purposes. We can now add Bitcoin mining to that list.
So that is what all those annoying Flash things in webpages are doing when they swallow all my CPU power!
The biggest reason JS would never work is that there's no ability to sleep execution in JS. If you set it on a task, it will devote 100% to it, and leave nothing left for the browser. Essentially your JS would kick off and your browser would freeze.
A 1x1px swf or something like that would be a far better idea.
There's a new "web worker" api which I think is similar to multithreading.
don't forget where the solution is declared copyright by sony and your edits get "Suppressed" so that the history log is wiped.
Then deleted because the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything isn't notable enough.
And then the solution would be deleted because it wasn't noteworthy.
if i want to contribute computing power somewhere for free then there are ways to do it already
if wikipedia needs money, i can donate something or pay something.
But *please* i use wikipedia often, maybe primarily, on my tablet. I dont think that abusing an ARM processor running on Battery power connected via an instable and slow internet connection will help a lot.
The only real advantage to JavaScript in this case is to capture the cycles of the sort of people who wouldn't trip that control -- which means anonymous visitors, which means I'd have to opt out.
If they made it opt-in, they could just as easily link to boinc.
If they made it opt-in, they could just as easily link to boinc.
Would you rather view ads or rent off some of your CPU / memory?
It depends. Personally, I'd prefer to rent off my CPU only when I'm not using my computer, not when I'm actively looking for something on Wikipedia and I have x number of tabs already opened. I guess the same could be said for ads too. Whenever I'm browsing the web, I opt for no ads if I can help it, or less computationally intensive ads (like Google ad-words) instead.
And the problem with Wikipedia doing that is that its users are already used loading a clean site without too many ads (except for various f
[Wikipedia's] users are already used loading a clean site without too many ads (except for various fundraising ads)
Aren't all ads "fundraising ads"?
If they wished to enforce, rather then persuade, they'd run into the unpleasant set of problems [...]
Hehehehe... I am perpetually amazed that people who probably never even contributed to Wikipedia cannot sleep at night because a site this popular refuses to make money by abusing its users. It seems like every interview with Jimmy Wales starts with "have you thought of putting ads on Wikipedia"? Yes. I am sure he had. I am sure he probably figured out how this would be a checkmate in 2 moves:
Black: put commercial ads or scripts on Wikipedia.
White: create a $1e7/year non-profit and fork the project. Check
javascript is an unbelievably inefficient mechanism for attacking the sort of problems where you would want a large distributed computing system
Not necessarily. This is true of most of the Javascript engines around, because they're pure interpreters of a language not designed to be particularly efficient, but Javascript can be compiled to machine code before execution. This is what Google's V8, the Javascript engine in Chrome, does. With JIT-compiled Javascript you'll get comparable efficiency to JIT-compiled Java, which is pretty competitive with compiled C.
The rest of your post is dead on, though. There really aren't any spare cycles today.
... against entropy.
There is plenty of raw computing power. Take BOINC for example: if you look at the projects, there is very little exciting. Seti@Home has been running for ages, you can do protein folding, you can do some mathematics that it interesting but hardly revolutionary. More computing power leads to marginally better weather forecasts. NP-complete problems will not yield to computing power - you only get a tiny bit farther.
I'll be interested to see if any
I'll be interested to see if any
I guess it depends on how you define "significant." My guess is that there are a lot of areas of science that could benefit from massive computing resources, not because it would magically solve problems, but because it would enable researchers to explore more hypotheses and be more efficient while doing so. The reason they're not using existing resources like DOE supercomputers is because many of these applications are (not unreasonably) perceived as wasteful and inefficient, but if petaflop-class distributed systems became widely accessible, this argument would vanish.
I personally find some of the hype about Folding@Home to be overblown (it's not going to cure cancer or replace crystallography, folks), but it's actually an excellent example of the kind of problem that's ill-suited towards traditional HPC but a perfect fit for distributed systems. The molecular dynamics simulations that it runs are not hugely time consuming on their own, but there is a huge sampling problem: only a tiny fraction of the simulations have the desired result. So they run tens or hundreds of thousands of simulations on their network, and get the answer they want. There are other examples like this, also in protein structure; it turns out that you can solve some X-ray crystal structures by brute-force computing instead of often laborious experimental methods involving heavy atoms. This isn't common practice because it requires 1000s of processors to happen in a reasonable amount of time - and it still may not work. But if every biology department had a petaflop cluster available, it would be much more popular.
More generally, if we suddenly gained 100- or 1000-fold increase in processing power, habits would change. My lab recently bought several 48-core systems (which are insanely cheap), and we're starting to do things with them that we would have considered extravagant before. Nothing world-changing, and nothing that would have been outright impossible on older systems, but the boost in efficiency is very noticeable - time that would have been spent waiting for the computers to finish crunching numbers is spent analyzing results and generating new datasets instead.
> 48-core systems (which are insanely cheap),
Cheap. 48-core. In the same sentence!
Thats.... intriguing. i googled and found a couple of links for 48 core intel and AMD systems
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/10/intels-48-core-processor-destined-for-science-ships-to-univers/ [engadget.com] (Intel -- honest to goodness, 48 cores on a die)
http://www.guru3d.com/news/amd-shows-48core-magny-cours-system/ [guru3d.com] -- ("48 core" AMD system
I'm guessing this is the Intel system which is only
I said 48-core systems, not 48-core processors. For our purposes the difference is negligible. I'm not sure if we have 8x6core or 4x12core, probably the former. Anyway, without a RAID array the price of one of these boxes is less than $15,000, which is what we paid for a 16-core system less than 3 years ago.
Most likely, a system like this is so inefficient in terms of network usage vs potentional computational power plus added administrative overhead, that it would only be wasted bandwidth and electricity and netto only harmful on a macro scale.
Better have the wikipedia servers, and other datacenters, run some boinc when idling. But they won't do that cause it's directly translated to the electricity bill. Network and cpu power are cheap, but still not free, and cpu's make up a large part of that power bill es
*Moderator*: Your article about an illegitimate currency no one accepts will be deleted due to lack of notability.
Q: Will wikipedia become a supercomputer?
A: It turns out that there are stupid questions.
I have a better idea!
Instead of resorting to nuclear power, think of the untapped resource of the common household hamster!
All those wheels, spinning and turning - all that energy going to waste! Every hamster owning house should have a miniature turbine inside it, powered by the hamster. Think of the energy it'll generate! Why, after only a year, your single solitary hamster will probably have generated enough power to power a lightbulb for a few minutes! Assuming your hamster lives that long.
Unused CPU capacity is not free to utilize. A CPU under load consumes much more power, so who is going to pay for that?
While you're in the movie, someone else could drive your car around! You aren't using it, and the gas is already paid for!
While you're at work, we could use your house for storage!
Or while you're waiting in line to checkout, you could stock shelves!
if I asked her to make me a sammich.
Using your computer's spare cycles isn't wearing it out, or possibly damaging it, or using nearly as much energy as driving your car around. Your analogy isn't useful at all.
People still might not want their PC's spare cycles used in this way, but it's not like driving their car.
Article: "While Wikipedia's visitors read Wikepedia's entries, the CPUs of their computers are almost idle."
Assumptions, Assumptions. How do they know? Personally I do tons of stuff and I use computers several years old - I notice if a web-page starts to kill my CPU and I quickly kill it.
The users CPU is the users. Not the website's, they don't have the right to take it over without asking, no matter how altruistic the cause is.
Why not ask the user for permission? Well, if your going to do that, why not jus
I would want to see scientific problems that the website publishers could solve for money distributed to the website consumers. That way sites like Wikipedia could fund their operation scaled to their audience.
Indeed I'd like to see a cross-website distributed credit accumulate, so I could purchase from websites against my accumulated credit from my computing on their behalf. Websites that split with me fairly, say 50-50%, their revenue from my computation would get my preferred business, weighted against t
Well, one person started to, then kinda went on a weird
other-topic rant.
The biggest issue, which makes this entire idea, sound
pretty worthless... for the majority of Wikipedia users, I
presume and have no idea of a source that would vet that
or refute it? What good is 1 or two minutes of computing
Even the longest articles I might read on there are barely
5 minutes for me. I am a quick reader though.
Do many users 'stay' on the site for extended periods of
time? I honestly have never researched anything for
Please, for the love of all that is sane, do not press enter just because you've reached the edge of the textbox. Some of us actually have desktop sized screens, and reading a column of text that only occupies 1/4 of it is excruciatingly painful.
Please, for the love of all that is sane, do not press enter just because you've reached the edge of the textbox. Some of us actually have desktop sized screens, and reading a column of text that only occupies 1/4 of it is excruciatingly painful.
I know you're just a troll... but trolls need to be fed too.
http://www.surl.org/usabilitynews/72/columns.asp [surl.org]
I type, so people can READ. Maybe you type to get your
typing nut off... but I want people to read and comprehend.
Typing with REASONABLE column widths and starting
paragraphs with new thoughts and creating summary
based sentences, allows higher and quicker reading
If you read that article, which I doubt you will, you will see:
"Shorter line lengths result in increased comprehension.
The optima
Webpages are not PDFs. Type normally, and anyone who wants to view it in paragraphs of a certain size can just resize their browser window. Manually adding line breaks requires people who desire differently sized paragraphs to pipe the text through sed. I'm sure you can see which option makes it more easily accessible.
Furthermore, I would say the difference in moderation demonstrates the agreement of the mods with my point - people don't bother to read when it takes too much effort.
Sigh for the good ole days.
Git off my lawn!
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I hit some random website (I don't remember which one) and suddenly my CPU usage pegged and the Java console popped up. The output on the console implied that a Java applet was mining bitcoins. Of course, I killed the browser process immediately.
A few years ago, I designed a Java "CPU leech" applet that would do things like this. Wasn't particularly difficult. I never actually built it; somebody else obviously did.
I wonder how many of these things are out there that are smart enough to throttle their CP
Let us be serious for a minute.
That kind of thing would require being able to harness serious computing power from within a web browser.
Web browsers are already struggling not to fall over, consume all of your RAM and crash your GPU doing nothing at all.
Performing some computation while loading Wikipedia pages would need to be done with Javascript, which is arguably one of the slowest programming languages ever. Even the latest JIT can barely make it play mp3 in real-time using the latest high-end PC.
That c
I have seen the tendency in computing over the last couple of years. It's no longer "OK, I have to solve problem X. What tool can I use to solve it?" it's "Oh, I have Shiny new tool X. what Problems could I solve with it?"
If people did that in the real world, you would have tons of people trying to fly across the Atlantic on rubber ducks, while taking a brand new Airbus to the pool as a flotation device.
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The son returned the compliment about his father's talent, but added, "He took a lot of hits to the head."
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This rebound win looked and felt even better.
"One of our best 60-minute performances," Giroux raved. "It's good to see that we can put things behind us and move on. But if we win 7-0 the next game, we have to be ready to put that behind us and get ready for the next game."
The Habs (19-11-3, 41 points) were hoping to gain some juice from Danny Briere playing his first game in Wells Fargo Center since leaving the Flyers last summer. They had gone on a 9-0-1 run recently but were coming off a 6-0 loss at home to the Los Angeles Kings Wednesday.
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"Guys were really working hard off the backcheck," said Mason, forced to stop but 20 shots. "When you're doing that, you're not giving them opportunities to make their plays off the rush, because they're such a fast team off of it. The guys really did a great job. That's the kind of effort we need to play in order to win hockey games."
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So not only was it a special night for the Raffl(s) and an impressive performance by the Flyers ... they had a little luck going for them, too.


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978 281-3680
with Chef Eric Lorden
and Dr. Kathleen Powers Erickson (The "Wine PhD")
4 artfully-prepared courses and 4 fabulous wines!
$50.00 per person
First Course:
Matzo-dusted soft-shell crab, pan fried, with
Cajun-spiced mayonnaise
Wine: Paul Cluver dry Riesling
from Elgin Valley, South Africa
(Will be on the wine list – bottle: $30.00, glass: $8.00)
Second Course:
Salad of caramelized brussel sprouts and
Tasso Ham, on a bed of arugula, with Dijon vinaigrette
Wine: Eberle Cote de Robles Blanc,
from Paso Robles, California
(Will be on the wine list – bottle: $40.00, glass: $10.00)
Third Course:
Grilled Icelandic Arctic Char and spring ramps,
with peanut mole,
side dish of quinoa with mushroom medley
Wine: Tenuta Sant' Antonio Corvina,
from the Veneto, Italy
(Will be on the wine list – bottle: $30.00, glass: $8.00)
Fourth Course:
Rhubarb and apple crisp, topped with
Kilthurn English farmhouse cave-aged cheddar
Wine: Campbell's Rutherglen Tokay,
from Victoria, Australia
(Will be on the wine list – half bottle: $24.00)


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Wendell Case, 84
Wendell Carl Case, 84, of Ansley, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013. The second of three children, Wendell was born Feb. 13, 1929, to Carl and Edith (Sherbeck) Case. With the exception of his military service, he lived his entire life in Ansley, and was born and raised in the same house, a fact he was proud of. He graduated from Ansley High School in 1947, and on June 14, 1948, he enlisted in the Army. During his Army service, he spent a year in Puerto Rico, where he contracted tropical phagedena, which led to a medical discharge from the Army June 13, 1953. Following his service, he remained a member of the American Legion. On Aug. 25, 1951, he married Patricia Moore, and they had two children; Robert and Alan. One of his favorite pastimes was pheasant hunting; it was an activity he enjoyed with his children and grandchildren. Wendell worked for a few years as a delivery truck driver for Butter Crust, a local bread company, and then worked for Meston Motors until 1960, when he became the fifth person to be hired at the new Becton Dickinson plant in Broken Bow. He worked for B-D until he retired in 1990. Wendell enjoyed cats and dogs, and, over the years, had several of both. In addition to his parents, Wendell was preceded in death by his wife, Patricia; his sister, Florence, and his brother, Charles. He is survived by his sons, Robert and Alan; his grandchildren, Steven, Sean, Christina, Brooke, and Andrew, as well as nine great-grandchildren.There will be a graveside memorial service for Wendell June 14, 2014, at 11 a.m. at the Ansley Cemetery at Ansley. The family requests that any memorials in Wendell's name be made to the Ansley Volunteer Fire and Rescue. Govier Brothers Mortuary of Broken Bow is in charge of the arrangements.Published in Custer County Chief, Jan. 9, 2014


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ACS NewsScope Highlights Rowland Performance Courses
December 2, 2011 -- The Dec. 2nd issue of NewsScope, the electronic weekly update from the American College of Surgeons, promoted Dr. Pamela Rowland's Oral Board Review courses scheduled for February and September of 2012. The full text of the article:
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Residential market sales in April based on activity reported through the Regina and area MLS® System were down from 2015 levels in all geographic areas but up slightly inside the city, said the Association of Regina REALTORS® Inc.
There were 309 sales reported during the month in all geographic areas, down 5% from 2015 when 325 sales were reported. The number of sales was below both the immediate past five-year average of 371 and ten-year average of 362, resulting as the lowest in the past ten years. There were 263 sales reported in the city, up 4% from 2015 when 252 were posted.
For the year-to-date, 966 sales have occurred in all areas compared to 942 last year – a 3% increase.
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Sales dollar volume of $98.0M was posted in all geographic areas, a decrease of 10% from 2015's $109.2M. Dollar volume in the city of $84.1M was down 2% from 2015's $85.4M. In the city there were 1,207 homes for sale at the end of the month, a decrease of 13% from last year's 1,393. About 25% of active listings in the city are condos.
There were 790 new listings placed on the MLS® System during the month in all geographic areas, down 9% from 2015's 871. In the city 492 listings were added, down 19% from 605 in 2015. The ratio of firm sales to new listings for the month was 53% in the city and 39% in all geographic areas. Balanced market conditions are generally in the 40-60% range – below 40% is considered to be a buyer's market - above 60% is considered to be a market favouring sellers.


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Hey everyone! I'm working on my final program for my Intro to Java class for the semester. Essentially, the program I thought of is supposed to have a JLabel at the top saying "I can tell you the colors of certain fruits!", a JComboBox that contains the names of 5 fruits, and a JButton. When the user selects a fruit from the JComboBox and presses the button, a JLabel is added that says "<selected fruits> are <respective color>!". In addition to that, the JLabel that is added when the button is pressed is supposed to be set to the color of the fruit. THAT is where my problem lays. As of right now, I simply have five if-statements (one for each fruit) that determine which fruit is selected,and set the color using the setForeground() method. I would really like to condense these if-statements somehow, but I truly don't know how! I was thinking maybe I could create a container array that is parallel to the fruit and color arrays, but I don't even know if a container array is possible to make!
Help is VERY much appreciated!
Here is my code:
import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; //The class extends JFrame for GUI purposes, and implements ActionListener //so events can take place within the JFrame. public class FinalProject extends JFrame implements ActionListener { //First, I declare GUI elements: the JLabel that lets the user know what the program does, //my choice of font, the "Submit Fruit" button that the user will press //once they have selected their fruit, and a place holder label that will eventually //display a final message. JLabel label = new JLabel("I can tell you the colors of certain fruits!"); Font font = new Font("Times New Roman", Font.BOLD, 20); JButton submit = new JButton("Submit Fruit"); JLabel lastLabel = new JLabel(" "); //The following two parallel arrays contain the selection of fruits and their respective colors. String[] fruit = {"Apples", "Bananas", "Blueberries", "Limes", "Oranges"}; String[] color = {"red", "yellow", "blue", "green", "orange"}; //Now the JComboBox is created, and the fruit array is used as an argument so that the fruits //will all appear in the drop down menu. Also, constants that will be used for the width and height //of the JFrame are also declared. JComboBox fruitChoice = new JComboBox(fruit); final int WIDTH = 425; final int HEIGHT = 200; Container con = getContentPane(); //Here is where the constructor is formed, and all necessary elements will be added. public FinalProject() { super("Final Program"); //First, the size of the JFrame is set, default close operation is set to exit on close, // the layout is set, and the font of the first label is set. setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT); setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setLayout(new FlowLayout()); label.setFont(font); //Now the GUI components will be added, adding an action listener to the submit button //so that it can trigger an event. con.add(label); con.add(fruitChoice); con.add(submit); submit.addActionListener(this); } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { int index = fruitChoice.getSelectedIndex(); for(int x = 0; x < 5; x++) { if(x == index) { lastLabel.setText(fruit[x] + " are " + color[x]); lastLabel.setFont(font); if(x == 0) { lastLabel.setForeground(Color.RED); } if(x == 1) { lastLabel.setForeground(Color.YELLOW); } if(x == 2) { lastLabel.setForeground(Color.BLUE); } if(x == 3) { lastLabel.setForeground(Color.GREEN); } if(x == 4) { lastLabel.setForeground(Color.ORANGE); } con.add(lastLabel); } } invalidate(); validate(); } public static void main(String[] args) { FinalProject frame = new FinalProject(); frame.setVisible(true); } }


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What about an optical interferometer?
I think this was people, not computers, going over images for a long time.
I find it difficult to imagine having the patience to do that, but no doubt such people are employed by the government.
If my job consisted of examining images of Iraqi and Chinese air bases and munitions plants, I'd probably welcome some Martian landscape for a change.
Of course, I could be all off in this...
Great, with no Red Menace in the form of the USSR, the US has turned it's eye to the Other Red Menace. Mars.
Those Martian Bastards don't stand a chance.
So when does the first interplanetary antique go on sale?
I think this was people, not computers, going over images for a long time.
I find it difficult to imagine having the patience to do that, but no doubt such people are employed by the government.
Disclaimer: I have no special knowledge in the areas of photo interpretation or geology, but to me there seem to be several common-sense reasons why good imagery doesn't give you all the answers.
Even if you had centimetre-resolution images of Mars, that's not necessarily going to tell you whether canals were formed by water. Why? Because it only shows what's there. It doesn't necessarily show you how it got to be that way.
Secondly, on Earth, you can use aerial imagery of well-known areas to learn what certain features look like, and then extrapolate to other areas. On Mars, we have (by comparison) bugger-all ground-based imagery, let alone extensive studies of geology and the like, to use to do extrapolation.
Catchphrase? Hey, at least I didn't say "all your polar landers are belong to us."
At the very least if she's upright, we can attempt to power her up and get her going. This also gets rid of the whole "Martians shot it down" discussion since we now know that all NASA did is forget where they parked.
Simple. You forget the camera resolution... with a surface resolution of only a metre or two, the entire lander would only take up one or two pixels at most, it may even be sub-pixel!
How do you look for something that small? You don't. What the NIMA guys are almost certainly doing is looking for the shadow of the lander! At certain lighting angles, the lander would cast a shadow 10s or even hundreds of metres across the surface.
NIMA looks for shadows, and estimates the size of the objects from the lighting angle. How do they tell if it's the lander and not a boulder, or if the lander is upright?
Come back later (like the scheduled observations in october?) when the lighting is at different angles, and take more pictures. From the way the shadow changes, you can guess the shape of the object, and if it's on the surface or a metre above it on legs.
The NIMA guys ovbiously have narrowed it down to a few likely candidates, and are waiting for more images.
NIMA is DoD. The do what they want and NASA can't really say too much if they step on our toes. Fortunately in this case, NIMA's expertise payed off bigtime.
In either case, it is possible that the lander could have ended up sitting upright, more-or-less in one piece. Just because it's sitting on all 3 legs doesn't mean it is functional. It could be all smashed up from a rough landing, or covered in dirt. It might have flipped over a couple times and eventually come to rest in an upright position.
NIMA, on the other hand, has the skills to pick out small objects like people and cars from satellite photos of earth. I don't see why JPL would doubt NIMA's findings. The question now is how much NIMA can talk about their findings or discuss the techiques they used without disclosing anything classified. At the very least, they should be able to say to NASA "these are the photos we used, and we believe the lander is right *there* (see, if you squint your eyes you can sorta see something...)
They found it by analyzing photos of Mars taken from orbit around Mars. These are the same photos that NASA has, because they are photos taken by NASA spacecraft.
NIMA is able to analyze those photos with an entirely different toolset and skills. NASA may have the rocket scientists, but they don't have spooks who can read newspapers from orbit
Jeezus... all they do is make maps and catalog satellite imagery... it's not like they are the CIA... they make maps for the most part, having formerly been the DMA (defense mapping agency)... very informative web page for a "top secret spy agency."
Look at it here [nima.mil]
We do know that Mars had water, and probably still has some;
We definitely know that Mars has some water left. A few of the Viking lander photos showed dustings of frosting on the rocks.
... we just don't know how much, we don't know how recently, and we don't know how important it was in shaping the Martian surface.
Yes. I'd like future missions to answer some of those questions.
Seriously, it's called making theories based on observations. If you see a big rock with a big groove in the earth near it, you might conclude the rock was moved, say, by a glacier. On the other hand, if there's a nearby lava flow, maybe it was moved by volcanic processes.
That's a slightly silly example, but the point is that better data is really valuable. If anything, our experience correlating aerial views with ground views on earth provides a powerful reality check against our interpretations of mars photos from space.
Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.
NIMA may have the ability to confirm that for you.
'Course, if the Martians really are playing with us, it might be standing on its head...
Probably the only thing they see is a rectangular smudge against a muddy background, and if it's the polar lander, then the width and height of the smudge would be consistent with it standing up, but not consistent with it laying on its side. I really doubt they're getting good enough image clarity to see individual landing legs.
'Course, if the Martians really are playing with us, it might be standing on its head...
Sad thing, that the first contact had to be so hostile.
Though he does have a point, sort of. This tells is it's intact, possibly still working. It didn't crash, although it may have simply crashed.
I don't claim to be right, I just claim to be thinking about it.
The polar lander crashed. It was given up for dead. Have some respect for it.
There are several good reasons to find out if the lander really did crash as people had thought up until now, or if some other failure caused it to lose contact with NASA. Firstly, if it did land correctly, NASA would know that their design is sound, and they don't have to spend millions of dollars re-inventing a new landing system. They can just re-use the same technology from the polar lander. Secondly, if it lost contact for some other reason, surely it would be a good idea to find out what that reason is (to avoid wasting resources in creating a new lander that fails in exactly the same way).
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The polar lander crashed. It was given up for dead. Have some respect for it.
Heyyyy, waitaminute...the same thing could be said for Windoze machines everywhere. *grin*
All kidding aside, this is a piece of hardware, trying to reprogram it or get it up and running again isn't the same thing as defiling it's grave.
No need to get NASA or NIMA to do that... there exists an older, and similarly reliable method of car-key divination:
[sits in a lotus position]
[rests a magic eight-ball on his lap]
[makes suitably impressive "Ooohhmm"-ing noises]
They're behind the couch. And for my next trick, I shall channel your TV remote...
It's mostly politics: JPL's Climate Orbiter failed, too, and JPL did one of the investigations into the two failures. Basically, they whitewashed their problems and crapped all over LockMart for what were very similar failings... not to excuse LockMart's bungling, just to point out another trait which NASA persistently exhibits.
If indeed the Young report's conclusions [space.com] were correct, a line of code in the system controller's program would fix the problem: basically, when the legs deploy they tend to set the switches which tell the vehicle it's landed, thereby shutting down the landing motors as soon as they ignite -- simply reseting the registers after leg deployment does the job. In this case, LockMart wants to fix the code, and wants NASA to launch it (well, at least some of the LockMart employees want this).
If NIMA has found the MPL as described, however, then something else is wrong and there's no point in launching another (possibly fundamentally-defective) spacecraft. The Young report was pretty scathing: both JPL's MCO and LockMart's MPL were built for less than the wildly-successful Pathfinder lander, and both projects suffered from lack of supervision by experienced planetary spacecraft engineers, and from inadequate testing. It's not clear that all the potential problems have been identified, so NASA's decision to cancel the 2001 lander's launch may be a good call -- I have mixed feelings about it.
But in any case, NIMA's "discovery" is extremely tentative (despite the ridiculously misleading headline (for shame,
I thought you installed the batteries.
I thought that it got flipped over and everything. but I guess not:
NIMA is a combat support agency of the Department of Defense. The agency has a global mission and unique responsibilities to manage and provide imagery and geo-spatial information to national policymakers and military forces. A world-class leader in imagery intelligence, NIMA routinely supports the operations of top-secret U.S. national security spacecraft. They employ specialists in maximizing information that can be gleaned from surveillance photography.
"Shortly after the loss of Mars Polar Lander, NIMA and NASA began working together analyzing images of the intended landing site and to try to locate the spacecraft," said Jennifer Lafley, a NIMA spokeswoman. "At this point, the results of this study are not conclusive, and the agencies are working together on resolving a number of technical questions," Lafley said.
NIMA experts believe they have identified the Mars Polar Lander. Furthermore, the source said that the lander appears intact on the surface, sitting atop its trio of landing legs. If so, that finding calls to question a failure review board that cited a software glitch and inadequate testing procedures as a likely cause for the probe to smack into Mars' surface at high speed.
Looks like that mapping geeks took to using the Nasa photos as a training exercise, or something. I think NIMA was featured in a couple of Slash stories a few months back, again featuring mapping stuff. but I can't find the links right off.
I've got news for you. It's a machine.
It was built to serve as a scientific data gatherer and was thought to have failed.
If this can still be somewhat accomplished, then you and me as taxpayers funding this excellent piece of engineering are getting more bang for our buck then we were originally getting. Hooray for that.
"Hey, slow down a bit. That bridge may have iced over."
"Silence, foolish American! You convey nothing! I will not be fooled by your weasel word--*CRUNCH*
"If found intact, it would mean that we would have to re examine our most probable cause of failure."
That should be reason enough.
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Not sure why so much hate on Ko. He's like the antithesis of the indecisive male lead of a harem anime.
And speaking of seiyuus, who voiced bookstore meganekko girl who has a crush on Ko? Yeah, I'm pretty bad at recognizing seiyuus apart from a handful of people (which says something when I know its Omigawa-san XD)
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I don't recall Ohana ever thinking to herself "I like Ko" or any variations on the quote. There's still a chance she's not romantically attracted to Ko.
I get the feeling the "mystery guest" merely reports on the inn, and the reviewer actually types up the article based on the mystery guest's observations. Of course, since the whole system was rigged from the top anyway, there isn't much the mystery guest can do. Or maybe the woman in episode 9 was just a secretive blogger. Bummer.
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Really, the way Ohana has handled Ko's confession has been pretty bad.
I know why it's been bad, but it doesn't totally excuse her, in my opinion. I mean, she's had plenty of time to think it over...
So yeah, Ohana really does have to take some responsibility here, in my view.
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I just didn't recognize Chiaki's voice in any of Minko's spoken lines in the entire episode which is why I was asking. It bothered me enough to ask to make sure is all..
Hmmm... I wonder if Satsuki wrote the reviews for all the inns in the area or just for Kissuoso (sp)
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I watched episode11 at last. I'm sure that next episode will be great ending of first half.
-I was thinking that Ohana was totally immature about the romantic love but I was wrong.
After all, I realized that there is no immature teenage girl because any girl knows well unlike guys that life is short.
-Glasses girl is possessive type. But she suits Ko-chan.
-Ohana is funny. She's shining like never before, IMO.
-But I want to dive into Minko's breast.
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wonderful episode. emotionally charged, beautifully animated, and funny all at the same time. it had the proper amount of angst mixed in. the development between Ohana and her mom was great. The scene between Yuina and Ohana was funny as well. Between her and Ko, well, there's not much that needs to be said about that. Though i hope there's a good resolution with that.
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The more I talk about it the less sense it makes.
And he only confessed the day she had to flee town (I can't remember if he said it after he found out or before but either way that's pretty bad timing.)
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Dear producers of Hanasaku Iroha, where are you taking us? After episodes 9 and 10 I thought about dropping the series but then you managed to convince me to continue the series with a very well executed episode 11. It's funny things got interesting the moment Ohana returned to Tokyo, the events at Kissuiso in the past few episodes somehow weren't very gripping (I blame you, Jiromarou, with your fanservice scenes!).
Ohana is still the stubborn and spontaneous girl who, upon reading a bad review about Kissuiso, decides to take a day off to find out who the writer of the review is. She returns to Tokyo where she threatens the magazine's editor (or whoever it is that's in charge of the matter) with her loud voice and hurt sense of justice. In real life, you'd get kicked out in no time, but since this is an anime, Ohana of course gets the information she wants no matter how irrational her method is.
And that's when things get interesting.
Satsuki, recently broken up with her boyfriend and happy-go-lucky as ever, wrote the review for her (corrupt?) higher-ups without even visiting Kissuiso. It's her job and as a grown-up she is part of a world that Ohana's youthful idealism cannot accept. Ohana tries to make Satsuki go to Kissuiso so that she can properly experience the inn's services herself and apologize afterwards. It is a surprisingly diplomatic offer Ohana comes up with; I was surprised Satsuki turned it down without thinking. I'm guessing that Satsuki still has a lot of unresolved problems with the grandmother because there was no harm in accepting Ohana's offer. We've seen several childhood flashbacks by now and while Satsuki has always been a crappy parent, she's always acknowledged Ohana's anger and her small gestures (like eating Ohana's meal in episode 2 or giving Ohana a bag with food) indicate that she at least cares about what her daughter thinks of her (as long as it doesn't collide with her own beliefs).
As you may guess, I'm not one of the Satsuki-haters out there. I don't find her loveable and she's clearly a failure as a mom, but she is very interesting as an individual, probably because right now, she's a mystery and no one understands her erratic actions. In a certain sense, Ohana is just like her. They both do whatever they want and don't really think about possible side effects. It is therefore only logical that Ohana's rash actions should fail when confronted with someone who is just like her. I've always been surprised about how the series promotes Ohana's inconsiderate/rash behavior, so I'm glad she finally met a worthy opponent. Satsuki is like the other side of the coin: The irresponsible adult provides a contrast to the" morally superior" (mark the quotation marks) heroine, but their personalities have the same root. I do not know what Satsuki's character holds in store for us - right now she is the flippant character who brings Ohana's inner turmoil to the surface but I hope that we'll get to know her as an individual soon. I'm not saying the series should suddenly come up with a redeeming background story, I just wish to get to know her true thoughts and intentions (whether they're good or bad) that are usually hidden behind that careless face.
Apart from Satsuki, there is another character who made this episode memorable: Kou. He's being nice and understanding as usual but his niceness is almost bordering on "kakkoii". It requires a lot of nerves to talk normally to someone who refuses to tell you their feelings even after almost six months. Kou doesn't chicken out but doesn't try to impose on Ohana either. He's just being the supportive friend she needs. Ohana on the other hand, finally realizes her own shortcomings and while still wanting to rely on Kou she also knows that she's being selfish and hypocritical. There are a lot of unspoken emotions in her monologues which she herself can't define yet and I think the episode ended very nicely with an Ohana and Minchi bonding moment (who just so HAPPENS to be in Tokyo - yeah, yeah, the writers lack creativity but it was nonetheless nice!). I'm looking forward to the new episodes - it's been a while since I last had that sort of feeling.
Overall, the episode deserves a 8.5/10. The only thing that substantially bothered me was that they made the love polygon even more complicated. I seriously don't like the potential misunderstandings and jealousy hidden in there, it's an awful thought. I hope they'll subdue the "romance" (for me it's more like "ship tease") a little.
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Any kind of reply to a confession is better than no reply at all.
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Of course Ko doesn't want to get rejected by Ohana (or annoy her), so he's been reluctant to admit his feelings. Ko was waiting for signs of Ohana sharing these feelings, but they never surfaced so he had to come out of his shell eventually.
I don't quite see how the love shape is complex at this point. I can only count of four people who show signs of straight romantic attraction (Ohana, Minko, Tohru, Ko) and the relationships appear to be very linear.
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This is a tangental philosophical point, but I disagree with the implicit argument made by some other posters here that being an adult means calmly accepting injustice, or rejecting one's ideals.
No, adults can choose to maintain their ideals and fight against what they perceive as injustice. It's just that adults are typically more realistic about the odds of success in such endeavors than adolescents and kids are.
In the real world, even someone like Ohana would eventually have to accept that she's not going to win every moral or ideological fight that she enters into. But that doesn't mean she has to abandon her ideals as she becomes an adult, or stop fighting for what she believes in altogether. Many adults don't.
That being said...
But as part of her bull-headed nature, she doesn't often take the time to do thorough cost-benefit analysis when it comes to the actions that she takes, and so her actions sometimes inadvertently bother or upset other people.
That's fine though, as a lot of Ohana's charm as a character is her bull-headed nature, in my view.
That being said, I have to agree with the following...
I know that the romantic conflict has to be dragged out for drama's sake, but I hope that Okada is careful here. Ohana could come off very badly if she doesn't give Ko a proper response to his confession at some point.
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Look at his confession.
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That's not going to work at all.
That doesn't really change what I said. Saying "he's in love" doesn't mean he wasn't being so roundabout that he never actually arrived at his destination (at least not before the girl he loves told him "I have no choice but to leave for the next three years"). I don't think anyone would ever turn to their best friend and say "we've been best friends for years - are you secretly in love with me?"
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1) He thought by staying forever by her side, she would get that he's in love with her (unlike the typical harem male lead, he knows his feelings from the get go)
2) He saw that his actions were wrong, and admits it (unlike your typical harem male lead who usually does the same thing wrong again and again because he just does not learn)
3) Once he saw his actions were wrong, he goes and tries to rectify it, in this case by confessing DIRECTLY because his SUBTLE actions before didn't work (compare this to typical male harem lead who does nothing at all until the end, and maybe not even that)
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On 8-24-14 at approximately 7:30 pm a Deputy with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office was flagged down by a citizen in Greenwood in reference to an assault.
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At that time the K-9 Tracking Team from Jackson Correctional Institution in Malone was returning from assisting Seminole County Georgia with an escaped prisoner. They responded and assisted the Sheriff's Office in locating the suspect.
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Michael Allen Rouse, 70, of Reno, Nev., died Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012, of cancer after a short illness.
Born July 20, 1942, son of the late Voleria and Edgar Rouse of Westfield and Fredonia, Michael graduated from Fredonia High School in 1960. He attended Syracuse University and later received a Bachelor of Arts degree from SUNY Fredonia and a Master of Arts in English from Bread Loaf School of English in Vermont.
After teaching high school English for two years in Buffalo, Michael moved to Reno in 1968, where he worked in the gaming industry before going back to his first love, teaching. He was a substitute teacher in the Washoe County School District for a number of years. He was also a humanities instructor at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, which named him Part-Time Teacher of the Year in 2005 and 2006.
Michael is survived by his partner, Patricia Tallman Botti, originally from Fredonia; a son, Lt. Col. Douglas (Lee) Rouse, USAF, and two granddaughters, Chandler and Cameron, all of Vienna, Va.; four sisters, Shirley Lafond fo Lewisville, Texas, Marilyn Abbey of Northfield, Ill., Kay Rouse of Honolulu and Sharon Parker of Jacksonville, Fla.; as well as a number of nieces and nephews.
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Iraq considering BP for work on Kirkuk oil field
By ADAM SCHRECKAssociated Press
If the project moves ahead, it could help reverse years of production declines at the Kirkuk oil field and strengthen BP's relationship with Iraq as the OPEC nation works to sharply boost crude output in the years ahead.
The head of the Oil Ministry's petroleum contracts and licensing division, Abdul-Mahdi al-Ameedi, said a proposal submitted by London-based BP has been sent to the Cabinet for consideration.
He declined to discuss the terms of the project, and stressed that formal negotiations have yet to begin.
"If the Cabinet approves ... to initiate discussions, we'll proceed with this with BP," he said in a telephone interview.
BP spokesman Toby Odone confirmed that the company had submitted a proposal for work in Kirkuk. He declined to give details, including the scale of any potential investment.
"It's very early ... in terms of anything significant," he said. "It would be pretty small. It's just a short-term program. ... Whether it develops into something more is another matter."
Iraqi Oil Ministry spokesman Assem Jihad declined to comment.
BP is already is one of the international oil companies doing business in Iraq. It and China's CNPC won rights to develop the massive 17.8 billion barrel Rumaila field in southern Iraq during the country's first postwar oil auction in 2009.
The Kirkuk oil field was discovered in 1927. Production levels have fallen sharply over the years to less than 300,000 barrels a day as a result of mismanagement dating back to Saddam Hussein's rule as well as neglect and occasional sabotage of crucial infrastructure.
The field is at the heart of a disputed area running along the border of a largely autonomous northern region controlled by Iraq's minority Kurds, who have their own fighting force. An exchange of fire in another part of the contested region in November prompted Baghdad and the Kurds to rush troops and heavy weapons to their disputed internal border.
The Kurdish regional government criticized the BP plan as unconstitutional, insisting that work on existing fields must also include input from the Kirkuk provincial administration and the Kurds.
"The federal oil minister cannot act unilaterally, and no wise company would make itself a party to such a dispute," the Kurdish regional government said in a statement.
The Kurds have signed dozens of oil deals of their own since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Baghdad considers those contracts illegal and wants the central government to control Iraq's oil policy.
Having a major Western company doing work in Kirkuk could strengthen Baghdad's control over Kirkuk, which is ringed by flaming gas flares from the oil field.
Exxon Mobil Corp. infuriated Baghdad by agreeing with the Kurds to hunt for oil in their self-rule region in late 2011. That pact includes exploration of land claimed by both the Kurds and Arabs in Ninevah province.
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LAKE TEXOMA-Search and rescue teams are still at the scene of a "possible drowning." Crews are Trying to find a man, who was believed to have jumped from a boat last night.
Search and rescue teams from the OHP, Marshall and Bryan counties have been at Lake Texoma since early Friday morning, searching the waters and banks to see if the man has resurfaced.
Marshall County Search and Rescue told us crews have been searching the waters since 6:30 Friday morning. They, along with OHP Lake Patrol, Cartwright Fire and Lake Texoma Park Rangers are out with their boats going through the banks and part of the lake where the man was believed to have jumped.
OHP troopers said last night, a 61-year-old man jumped off a boat 50 to 60 yards south of the Roosevelt Memorial Bridge.They also said the man had been drinking. Right now, investigators are calling this a "possible drowning."
Marshall County Search and Rescue's Dean Wise said the search took longer because they don't know the exact location of where the man jumped off.
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PHOENIXVILLE —Denise Krisiewicz is the 2013 Phoenixville Area School District Citadels' Heart of Learning Award finalist. A third grade teacher at East Pikeland Elementary, Krisiewicz is a 16-year veteran in PASD, and highly respected within the district.
A love of science has motivated her to lead the after-school Science Explorer's Club at East Pikeland for several years, as well as being directly involved at the district level in science curriculum and professional development.
In presenting the award, Kyonia Hamilton from the Phoenixville branch of the Citadel Federal Credit Union read some excerpts from the nomination letters for Krisiewicz:
"No problem is too challenging for this teacher. Each challenge that is encountered is handled with a detailed plan of action."
A parent writes: "I love the fact that my son wakes up every day and enjoys going to school, not only to see his friends, but because he loves reading, math and science. He loves to learn because of his teacher."
The Citadel's Heart of Learning Award was developed by Citadel and the Chester County Intermediate Unit 12 years ago to recognize and reward, but mostly thank, the outstanding teachers we have here in Chester County. The program has grown in such popularity in our community that we receive thousands of heartfelt nominations for many well deserving teachers from all across Chester County.
A selection committee made up of prominent community members, narrows the field down to 15 finalists from each of the school districts. These 15 finalists then go to the next round and three overall winners will be chosen in May at the Citadel Heart of Learning Award banquet.
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This can be much faster than downloading one or both trees to a common servers and comparing the files there. After, only those files could be copied down for deeper comparison if needed. Show Sample Output
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Put the positive clauses after the '-o' option.
Have wc work on each file then add up the total with awk; get a 43% speed increase on RHEL over using "-exec cat|wc -l" and a 67% increase on my Ubuntu laptop (this is with 10MB of data in 767 files).
Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals and sort directory and files
Make sure that find does not touch anything other than regular files, and handles non-standard characters in filenames while passing to xargs.
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It only works in zsh
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By Friday, the sadness merely deepened, with the news that the nurse who unwittingly took the hoax call had died, an apparent suicide.
The royal couple quickly issued a statement expressing their condolences over the death of Jacintha Saldanha, the 46-year-old mother of two duped by the DJs, who had suddenly found herself at the vortex of a global incident. They stressed they had not complained about the hoax call, and indeed offered praise for the staff. The hospital, too, stressed that Saldanha had not been reprimanded.
And yet the week can only be described as tragic, with the happiness so tarnished by the latest developments.
Saldanha was found dead early Friday at apartments affiliated with King Edward VII hospital in central London, where she worked for four years.
The Metropolitan Police would not release details of the death, except to say that they had received a call reporting that there was an unconscious woman in Weymouth Street, in central London, and two ambulance crews had arrived to find Saldanha already dead. A police spokesman said they were not treating the death as suspicious.
2DayFM, the Australian station that performed the prank early Tuesday, said in a statement posted on Facebook and Twitter that the two disc jockeys, Mel Greig and Michael Christian, would not return to the station until further notice. They had apologized for the hoax Wednesday.
Saldanha took the hoax call by the pair, who impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles to elicit information on the duchess, the hospital said. She later transferred the call to the nurse caring for the duchess, who was admitted to the hospital Monday with acute morning sickness.
"Our thoughts and deepest sympathies at this time are with her family and friends," hospital chief executive John Lofthouse said in a statement. "Everyone is shocked by the loss of a much loved and valued colleague."
St. James's Palace, the office of the duchess and her husband Prince William, also expressed sadness at the death, but insisted that it had not complained about the hoax.
"On the contrary, we offered our full and heartfelt support to the nurses involved and hospital staff at all times," the palace said in a statement.
Saldanha's family asked for privacy in a statement issued through London police.
"We as a family are deeply saddened by the loss of our beloved Jacintha," the statement said.
During the hoax call, a woman using the often-mimicked voice of Britain's monarch asked about the duchess' health. She was told by the second nurse who took the call from Saldanha that the duchess, the former Kate Middleton, "hasn't had any retching with me and she's been sleeping on and off."
The nurse went on to tell the personalities that the duchess had had an uneventful night, as a dog barking sound was heard in the background. The alleged queen and prince talk about traveling to the hospital to check in on the patient.
The hospital said it supported Saldanha in the aftermath of the call and that its phone protocols were under review.
The Australian station placed the recording of the conversation on its website, but later said it was sorry.
"We were very surprised that our call was put through. We thought we'd be hung up on as soon as they heard our terrible accents," Greig and Christian said in a joint statement with the station at the time. "We're very sorry if we've caused any issues and we're glad to hear that Kate is doing well."
The station's chief executive officer, Rhys Holleran, had spoken with the presenters after the nurse's death, and that both were deeply shocked. The hosts "have decided that they will not return to their radio show until further notice out of respect for what can only be described as a tragedy."
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Prince Harry (His Royal Highness Prince Henry Charles Albert David of Wales) is the younger son of Charles, Prince of Wales and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was born 15 September 1984 and is third in the line of succession to the thrones of 16 Realms including Australia Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
In October 2008, to pass the tests to fly military helicopters and was presented with his wings by his father on 7 May 2010.
Having since passed his Apache flying test, it is reported that he may return to Afghanistan.
Washington Post correspondent, Marie Cocco wrote in the ContraCostaTimes on 1 March 2007, under this telling headline: "U.S. upper class more stuck up than Britain's royalty, " that that it takes no nostalgia for the Crown to hear the honour in Prince Harry's vow -- and to wince at the contrast with the US much larger force in Iraq, from which, she declares, the sons and daughters of the American well-heeled and the well-known are largely absent.
She says this sense of duty in the Royal Family is no new thing. Older generations remember it in the Second World War, when The King and The Queen, as well as the Royal Family, stayed with the people. Prince Harry's grandfather and his father saw distinguished service. More recently, in the Falklands war, Prince Harry's uncle, Prince Andrew, also rode, or perhaps more correctly, flew into battle.
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No. 20 Men's Lacrosse Rolls Over Hartford, 24-11
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ALBANY, N.Y. – 20th-ranked University at Albany men's lacrosse used 10 different goal scorers in the rout over Hartford, 24-11, on Sunday, April 7 at John Fallon Field. The Great Danes have won four straight and improve to 2-0 in America East Conference play, while the Hawks fall to 1-1.
Eight different Great Dane players had at least two goals. Lyle Thompson paced the offensive strike with a game-high seven points on four goals and three assists. Ty and Miles Thompson combined for seven points on four goals and three assists (Miles- 2g; Ty-2g,3a).
UAlbany (8-3, 2-0 America East) picked up right where it left off, scoring the game's first goal two and half minutes in. Ty Thompson connected with his cousin Miles for an early 1-0 lead with 12:31 remaining.
Hartford (4-5, 1-1 America East) tallied the next three of four goals for its first lead of the game, 3-2, with 3:50 left in the first stanza. Following Jack Bobzien's goal, face-off specialist Adam Yee won the face-off and scored four seconds later.
The Hawks wasted little time in the second quarter, scoring 31 seconds in from the stick of Rory Nunamacher for their second and final lead of the game, 4-3.
The Great Danes responded with seven straight goals in a five minute and forty-five second stretch to and hold a six-goal lead, 10-4, with 9:18 left in the half. Tim Cox sparked the run, scoring his fourth and fifth goals of the season in a matter of 20 seconds.
Hartford retaliated back with the final four of the five goals to cut the deficit to three, 11-8, at the half. The Hawks' Jared Franze scored two of the four team goals. Both goals were facilitated by teammate Garret Dollard.
The third stanza was taken over by Lyle and Ty Thompson. Lyle, who was held pointless against Johns Hopkins, rattled of the first three of the four Great Dane goals of the third quarter. He also was able to find his cousin Ty for two goals.
Leading 16-9 through three quarters, the UAlbany defense tightened up for the final 15 minutes. The Great Danes allowed just two goals on seven shots. Seven different UAlbany players found the back of the net in the final stanza. The Great Danes fell one goal short of tying the program's record for most goals in a game (25), which was set against Hartford on March 26, 2005.
UAlbany goalie Blaze Riorden tallied seven saves to record his eighth win of the season. Hartford goalie Frank Piechota recorded 15 saves on 37 chances in the loss.
With the win, UAlbany becomes the only undefeated team left in conference play (2-0) and will look to extend its winning streak to five against Vermont on April 13 at Virtue Field. Game is slated for 1 p.m.


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Janee Carmella Kaei Jones and Kevin Dale Holman, both of Everett, Wash., were married at sunset April 18 in a private ceremony at Makena Cove in Maui, Hawaii. The Rev. Adam Conrad Gomes officiated.
Parents of the bride are Julia and Geoff Gibbens of Seattle and Michael Jones of Everett. Grandparents are Judy Bender, the late Stanley Bender and the late Myrtle "Penny" Ferguson.
Parents of the groom are Pam and Kendall Holman of Amarillo. Grandparents are T.W. and Peggy Holman and the late E.C. and Bonnie Felton.
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