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Casinos are notorious for destroying communities that are already teetering on the brink. Willets Point has the potential to be great ,if only we are given a fighting chance.
The current proposal to revive Willets Point is something the entire community has gotten behind. We have given up so much to get to this point that adding a casino will set us back. When we should be talking about jobs, economic development, improving the pockmarked streets and other infrastructure, we are discussing further obliteration.
The addition of the casino will not add anything to the economic structure of the community; it will simply be a gamble on our community.
Even elected officials who represent Willets Point and the surrounding communities have spoken out against what would be a doomed casino project. Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras, whose district encompasses Willets Point, stated that "it is unprecedented to convert part of an existing economic development project that provides affordable housing and retail jobs for the purpose of building a casino, which would obviously affect the social fabric of the community."
Andrew Rocco, president of College Point Civic Association, said our government should focus on investing in the things that we already have instead of creating and investing in the gambling industry. To echo Mr. Rocco's words, I say we need sound investment in the people and cultural institutions that are in the surrounding areas of Willets Point.
A casino in this community will not add to the revitalization of Willets Point, all it will mean is a loss of jobs and closing of area businesses. When a casino comes into an existing community, the survivors are very few. Not many businesses can withstand the onslaught of a casino.
There will be no infusion of tourism dollars to the neighborhood. Patrons to the casino will undoubtedly spend both their money and time inside the casino. The added visitors to the area will add their dollars to the casino's bottom line, while the rest of the community struggles.
Casinos are unfair and destructive to local communities. The current Willets Point Plan, which will be a great improvement to the local community, is something that has been vetted and approved. Adding a casino was never part of the original plan.
I speak for many who would have never supported the restructuring if we had known that a casino could be part of the package. Instituting something of that magnitude into our community without our consent is not only unfair, but disrespectful.
Do we not get a say in what happens in or to our community? Are we that irrelevant? We ask our legislators to not destroy what we are trying to build up. Give us the respect that you demand for your community.
Edwin Salas is president of the Statewide Association of Minority Businesses.


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The Pythagoreans noticed that nice simple ratios of string length made nice sounds together.
Using an understanding that 1:2 and 2:3 were good ratios, start with a length and keep reducing it to 2/3 of itself. Each time that took the length under 1/2 they doubled it to get back within range.
The scale on a piano does something clever : the ratio (interval) between any adjacent points on the scale is equal. If you play any note, twelve points higher will be exactly an octave on.
The reader is invited to investigate changes (or permutations) in the ringing of church bells, illustrated by braid diagrams showing the order in which the bells are rung.
Suppose you are a bellringer. Can you find the changes so that, starting and ending with a round, all the 24 possible permutations are rung once each and only once?
Bellringers have a special way to write down the patterns they ring. Learn about these patterns and draw some of your own.
An article for students and teachers on symmetry and square dancing. What do the symmetries of the square have to do with a dos-e-dos or a swing? Find out more?

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Apps Only: Nopa in San Francisco
When I first moved to San Francisco after college, I had the good fortune of living a few blocks away from Nopa. The restaurant, often credited with remaking (and re-naming) the Western Addition neighborhood, was a fitting re-entry to the glories of California cuisine: an emphasis on seasonal produce, close ties to local farms, and a casual, come-as-you-are vibe.
Now that Drinks editor Maggie has set up shop in California, it seemed like the perfect time to bring her to one of my favorite spots, along with Sweets editor and fellow San Francisco resident, Carrie.
While I'm convinced that anything you order from their oft-changing menu is likely to be delicious, something I particularly love about the restaurant is their ample selection of sharable starters and sides. This is not a restaurant where making an Apps Only meal is a challenge; rather, sometimes it's hard to talk myself into the pricier main courses when I know I can leave full and happy sticking strictly to the "small plates" side of the menu.
While the menu certainly does change, there are a few staple items that you're likely the find in one form or another. The little fried fish ($11) is one of those. Whole quick-fried anchovies are served with a smoky, pepper-laden Romesco sauce. The fish were strikingly delicate, flaking apart and entirely lacking in the briny, pungent flavor so often associated with the anchovy. I missed the intensity, but these make for an excellent conversion tool for those wary of anchovies generally.
Grilled calamari ($12) was the show-stealer of the evening. Served atop a light avocado cream and tossed with purslane, cucumbers, and crisp spiced chickpeas, the tender rounds of squid were texturally perfect - smooth and snappy, without a trace of rubbery chew. The hint of char on the squid paired nicely with the chickpeas, the smoky flavor particularly rich when eating pieces of tendril.
An Early Girl tomato salad ($10) showcased the vegetable at its sweet, high-season best. Studded with milky, fresh mozzarella and oil-soaked garlic croutons, the salad was a touch too oily, but that didn't stop us from polishing it off. The rich sweetness of the tomatoes and aged vinegar was nicely countered by plump, salt-rich olives.
Slice correspondent David Kover has touched on Nopa's flatbread ($15) before, but it's worth a second mention. As starters go, this one is ample; you could easily make a meal of it (and I have, more than once, showed up at Nopa around 12:30 for a cocktail and an order of flatbread). Of course, the rotating toppings mean that not all flatbreads are created equal, but we lucked out on this particular visit (the crisp, buttery-but-not-greasy crust was spot-on, too). Rich, smoky bacon lent a dominant flavor note, well-balanced by crescenza cheese, escarole, and garlic. Just-roasted whole cherry tomatoes dotted the surface, bursting with a sweet acidity to counter the rich base.
Lest you get fully caught up in the appetizer side of the menu, let me take this opportunity to remind you of Nopa's excellent, generously-portioned sides. Namely, their grilled broccoli ($6), a fresh, crisp rendering dressed liberally with lemon and coated with anchovy-laced breadcrumbs. "Almost unexpectedly good," we decided, while discussing the merits of just ordering the broccoli side for dinner (definitely doable, though I'd want to put a poached egg on mine).
The french fries ($6) are worth ordering, too. Medium-cut and delicately fried, the fries showcase the fresh flavor of potato, and are well-salted enough to still be addictive. The dips served with the fries change: I've seen harissa aioli, a basil mayonnaise, and now, a red pepper feta dip. The feta lent a wonderful salt and creaminess without the slick of a mayonnaise-based dip, and quickly disappeared.
All told, we clocked in around $20 per person. Is this steep for an apps-only meal? Maybe. Though I'd argue that considering how full we left, and Nopa's repute for great food, it's still a pretty great deal.
560 Divisadero Street, San Francisco CA 94117 (map) 415-864-8643; nopasf.com


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Sorry, Europe: Usher needs to reschedule your dates.
Live Nation Global Touring announced Wednesday that the "Usher Euphoria Tour" in Europe will be pushed back to the fall of 2013.
In a statement posted on his website, Usher explained he needed to "take this time to focus on my children and continue to evolve with my fans."
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"The feeling of euphoria that I get when performing for you is indescribable," the new Voice coach added. "I love each and every one of you and thank you for being there every step of the way."
Last month, following a nasty custody battle, Usher was awarded primary custody of his and Tameka Foster's two sons: Usher Raymond V, 4, and Naviyd Raymond, 3.
Usher's rescheduled "Euphoria" tour dates will be announced next year.
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Today's game
I'm not sure what the problem was yesterday with the posts. If it continues, please let me know and I"ll have someone at MLBAM check into it.
Tough loss last night, but on the bright side, we're still in first. We missed a chance to gain a game on the Pads and they missed a chance to pick one up on us.
Today, we recalled Tim Hamulack and optioned Giovanni Carrara for assignment.
Despite the loss, the lineup is the same tonight as it was yetserday. See below for the details…
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why hamulack? there are better pitchers down there, hopefully it works out.. lets see wat mike marshall jr does today,
Oh boy no, not Hamulack! We're going to miss Gio, and that's not neccesarily a good thing 😦
( I also had the comment spam thing yesterday, btw! )
Anyhow, I hope the team comes out swinging today, bent even more on turning in a W. Can't let yesterday be a setback – let's go for it, team!
I'll reserve judgement on Hamulack until he pitches a couple of times. He must have shown something in AAA to be brought up. I hope he learned a few things since this spring.
I'm really surprized to see Martin in there today. He had an extremely tough night last night and Az really pushes it when they get on base. A fresh catcher is a must !! Drew had a great night and I can see him doing it again tonight, lets hope he's working toward a big finish to 2006. Sad to see Gio go but something had to be done.
Go Dodgers !!
Gary, Martin's a young pup and can handle it. I'm sure he's lobbied long and hard to Grady to keep him in the lineup tonight. I think you underestimate Martin's ability to recover quickly. He'll play well, just wait and see.
Hamulack bounced up and down a little bit between AAA and the big time start of the year – was great in AAA, was horrid in the majors!
Maybe he learnt something now, but who knows? Let's see!
Testing out the comment capability, Josh. First time I've heard of that (on your previous post), will follow up with our Six Apart partners if further reports of an "anti-spam blocker" experience. Am not aware of it in our past year of MLBlogging. I know there has been a troll on Giants blogs that we've had to deal with, and obviously the prime suspect would be a Dodger fan because, well, the obvious. But since multiple people here said there was an issue, I don't think it's related to that. Anyone can feel free to comment on my MLBlogs community blog below with any such experience.
Best wishes to Lowe.. I hope x rays come out negative.
Oh boy, familiar pattern of badness-y losing coming up for the Dodgers 😦
Nothing positive on this blog at all! Kent wins it for us! Come on people 😛
I'll bite! Way to go Jeff Kent! What did I say earlier in the week about the pitching getting better against us? Well, San Diego threw us really tough, and Arizona is trying to do the same thing. We need gritty at bats from guys like Jeff Kent, late in the game and pulling off a victory. Way to go TEAM in picking up Derek Lowe tonight. Good thing it's only the glove hand, so let's hope he makes his next start.
All-in-all, a good victory for the "Boys in Blue" today.
Way to go Johnny Brox!! Dude throws one pitch and gets the victory!! LOL!! Too funny… Johnny Brox Rocks!
Alex, you got a point. So here's the all-positive edition:
1) Ned Colletti had been getting a lot of credit for the recent run of success the Dodgers had over the last few weeks. The man tonight, though, was the other mustached Dodger, Jeff Kent. A home run in the top of the 9th not only put the Dodgers up and let Saito get back on track with the save, but reminded us that he can still get the job done.
2) Derek Lowe, were it not for a line drive to the left hand, would have been the game's hero after going 7 or 8 solid innings and resting the bullpen. He pitched well, though, and (pardon the hearsay) Dodger Thoughts posters report that Vin Scully said that preliminary reports said it was a bruise and the x-rays were negative.
3) Tim Hamulack, the guy remaining from the Duaner Sanchez/Jae Seo trade, had a nasty start. While Gio wasn't great, one had to wonder how good Hamulack would be. He came back with a 1-2-3 inning, striking out 2, making a good impression after his callup. The next step for him will be nailing Barry Bonds somewhere other than the body armor.
4) You didn't have to be a current Dodger to have a good night. Shawn Green and Paul LoDuca each had two hits and Guillermo Mota pitched two perfect innings striking out two. Adrian Beltre tied the game with a home run to lead off the 8th inning as the Mariners beat the Red Sox. Good night for Dodgers.
5) At the very surface, Chad Billingsley has an ERA 2 runs less than Livan Hernandez, which would seem to favor Chad. Billingsley had his first 7 inning start of his major league career in Chase Field, so it's not an unfamiliar park. August has been his best month yet, not only because he's 2-0 with a 1.57 ERA, but because he's got more strikeouts than innings pitched, and a K/BB of 2.18, so his peripherals support his success a bit more. Hernandez is durable (unless hit hard early), but clearly beatable.
Thank goodness for Jeff Kent! Before he got it done, something like twelve batters were retired in a row … and the team won't be a consistently good team until we've shaken that bug out of our lineup, and start getting hits after the third or fourth inning consistently.
All the same, a feel-good win, lifting our 1-run record to an approaching OK 13-16 ( but for a 2-run bomb, we would have lost a 1-run game yesterday! )
With the pen really used up, we need to look to tomorrow's starter to throw strikes and go seven.
Why Hamulack? That's simple is because none of them pitcher have major league experience except Kuo. Since the mod being picky and delete my post for no reason here are his minor league stats. I know Hamulack wasn't good when he was call but he's was going to be call on Sept anyway and his number and the minor deserve his call up now.
1.42 28 3 38 30 9 6 1 26 44 .222
and btw we shouldn't let Sanchez/Schmoil go. You guys knew Hamulack was going to come in anyway.
I'm not impressed with those AAA numbers 56 runners allowed and less than 2-1 strikeout to walk ratio and 9 runs allowed. looks like he is still walking too many and not throwing strikes. Gio was having problems out there but I guess we don't have alot of options.
Cararra was done , he stunk 3 years ago. Hamulack can only get better (I hope). With Hamulack at least there's an upside.
keep in mind that it's September on Friday. It's not unreasonable to think Hamulack can pitch effectively for 4 days, especially if he's not used in each game.


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The Herald endorses Michaelle Solages, a Democrat from Valley Stream, for the 22nd Assembly District seat.
Solages was first elected to the office in 2012, when the district was formed from parts of other districts. It encompasses Valley Stream, Floral Park, Bellerose Terrace, North Woodmere, Elmont, Stewart Manor and parts of Franklin Square.
She has since listened to her constituents' concerns and fought for their interests. When Elmont residents opposed the Belmont Park stadium project, Solages demanded that the Empire State Development Corp. hold public hearings, and encouraged ESD to create high-paying jobs for area residents. Then, when Valley Stream residents were outraged over New York American Water's new conservation rates, Solages co-sponsored a bill to create a State Office of the Utility Consumer Advocate, which would advocate for consumers who are having difficulties with utility companies.
Solages has also advocated for education. She helped steer state money to local school districts for science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics programs, as well as a $15,000 grant for a summer music program for the Valley Stream Central High School District. Additionally, after Valley Stream residents noticed a spike in their school tax bills because of the Green Acres Mall PILOT (payment-in-lieu-of-taxes) agreement, Solages proposed legislation to ensure that all Industrial Development Agencies send notice about a PILOT agreement to every district in a centralized school system, not only to the district where the business is located.
Her opponent, Gonald Moncion, a Republican from Elmont, also seems to care about his community. He has served as a community organizer and volunteer. But we believe he needs to better understand the issues before we might consider endorsing him.
Cast your ballot for Solages on Election Day.


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Back in the day, I ran a my own computer business called Rent-A-Geek Onsite Computer Service. In starting it up, I encountered several things which might be of interest to others, so here they are, and their solutions:
Naming Your Business
You need to pick a name for your business. It can be simple like 'Bud's computer service', or catchy like 'Rent-A-Geek', or professional sounding like 'CompuTex'. The biggest thing about it is that it has to be unique to your area. To find out if your business name is unique, go to your local county courthouse, in the county clerk's office, and ask to see the registry of business names. Usually the clerk will look it up for you, but sometimes there's a moldy smelling book she'll place on the counter and let you thumb through. All names are alphabetized. If your business name is unique, you can register it with the county clerk for a small fee (in Texas it was 10 bucks) and no one will be legally permitted to use that business name in your area for 5 years. Remember that 5 years if you're planning on running your business for a long time - you'll need to re-register it at the end of every 5 years. If you plan on running your business in multiple counties (IE: an onsite computer service covering several towns across 5 counties like mine was) you'll need to register the name in *each* county.
Yes, the government will want its take of your business activity as well. This segment will teach you how to acquire a sales tax license, collect and account for taxes, when to tax and when not to tax, and about the wonderful tax number.
Sales Tax License
Take a trip down to your local tax assessor-collector's office. It may or may not be in your county courthouse or city hall. There will be some short forms to fill out regarding the name of your business, it's operating address (your office or home office), telephone number, and type of business. This license costs nothing in Texas, but that might vary from state to state. When you get the license, the clerk will tell you about when and when not to collect sales tax, and how to calculate it. Again, if you operate in multiple counties, get information for *each* county you operate in, the sales tax formula may differ. The license, however is statewide, so you'll only need one.
Collecting and Accounting for Taxes
The clerk will also provide you with little 'cheat cards' to carry with you, or keep at your register, showing the local formula for calculating sales tax. In my county in Texas, our local tax rate is 8.25%, so any taxable item I sold in my county had to be marked up by that amount. For those of you who are mathematically challenged, take the cost of the item * 1.0825 and you're doing just fine. Again the syntax is (cost * 1.(yourlocaltaxrate) ).
In accounting my taxes I kept 1 hardcopy of each job order / receipt I gave the customer, and kept those in a file in my briefcase. I also kept (attached to the job orders with a paperclip) the originals of ALL purchase receipts associated with that job - gas, meals en route, and parts are all part of the job - not all are taxable, but all are tax deductable, which we'll get into in a bit. I also kept spreadsheets - one showing revenues only, broken down this way: Rows were job numbers, columns were (respectively) labor, parts, tax county 1, tax county 2, tax county 3, etc. In addition to this I kept a database of each job - client's name, address and phone number, parts purchased for that job, what the customer paid, and a small blurb on what I did.
When and when not to tax
Sales tax is only charged on material goods sold and associated services. Consulting fees are not taxed. This means that if you have to replace a part in a customer's machine (like a modem replacement, etc.), you tax both the part and the labor you charge, but if that customer didn't need a part (like a virii recovery or teaching them how to run disk cleanup/defrag), it's a consulting job, and your labor is tax free.
That WONDERFUL tax number!
The last thing you'll receive from the clerk when you apply for your tax license is a tax number. This number is your best friend when you have to run out to buy a new hard drive for the client's machine you're working on. Since that part is intended for a client and not you, it's tax free to you. Tell the salesperson at the parts store at time of checkout that you're tax exempt on that purchase, give them your tax number, and get it tax free!
While we're on taxes
A couple of things that you will love about owning your own small business (besides the phenominally awesome power of being the boss!) First off, give up on ever doing your taxes for yourself again while you own the business. Find a reliable CPA local to your area to do them for you. Come tax time load up those files of job orders and receipts you've been saving (here's where they pay off) and take them to your CPA. They'll love you because they can do wonderful things with them - for the first 5 years your business is legally allowed to show a LOSS, and I promise your CPA will do their best to make sure you do so if they're worth their salt. 100% of every business LOSS is 100% tax deductible! Enjoy your tax shelter and the nice phat refund it brings you.
Some things you might consider that will help your CPA find that loss for you:
If you run your business from your home, and you have a *dedicated office*, you may deduct renting the cost of that office - this means your business is paying you rent for the space - write yourself a receipt. Dedicated office means it's not used for any other purpose - so take that spare bedroom and convert it already!
If you use your home computer in your business, sell it to yourself! Write that receipt for the Original cost of the computer. Since you own the business, if you ever close down, go bankrupt, whatever, the computer reverts back to you. Better yet, consider renting it from yourself... Just be sure and do your paperwork on that computer.
If you use your car in your business (like in an onsite computer service) You can do the same thing as you did with your computer. You may also keep the receipts for your car insurance on that car and charge them to the business as well. You may also keep the receipts for gasoline, car washes, etc, and charge them too. Your CPA will think you're a pretty smart cookie. One word on gasoline - it's best done by mileage if you're intending to do this since you don't always use the car for your business and the IRS knows it. Know what your car's gas mileage is, know how many miles you run from office to job site - here's the trick to doing it: Keep a notebook in your car. When you start the car, write down the odometer. When you get back to the office, write it down again. End odometer minus start odometer equals miles you travelled. Divide that by mpg and that's how much gas you can deduct.
Lunches - You are entitled to deduct the meal you eat during a job IF - you worked 8 hours that day, and IF you were working around lunchtime. The less ethical of us will stack their jobs correctly to show they were working 8 hours whether or not they actually did. The IRS has no way of knowing what time you did the work.
How much should I charge?
Not too tough that one, well it is, but it's not - check with your competitors. See what they're charging for their labor. Price yourself accordingly, but a bit less than theirs if you're feeling competitive and that you can live on such a low rate.
Small Business Administration
I should have listed this one first, but I got wrapped up in so many other things that it wound up way down here. Your local Small Business Administration has a plethorae of information and resources available to you which will help you start up and run your business. Our local one even runs a free seminar at the local community college which helps you develop business contacts, a business plan, a marketing strategy, and the works. This seminar is required if you ever want to expand your business using loans from the SBA.
A couple tips and tricks
Tip 1: In the computer business, it's very easy to get trapped into always having to return to a customer's site and repair their computer for free. To avoid this, make sure you and your customer both understand completely what is to be done before the job begins, and afterward, go over with them exactly what you did. Tell them you'll stand behind the work you did, but if something goes wrong in a different area, you'll have to charge them for it. I used to give my customers 'one free callback' if something went wrong within a week of my working on it. It built very nice goodwill with my customers, even though I usually wound up repairing a few other small things. As long as new parts weren't involved, I didn't charge them for that one callback.
Tip 2: Always get a receipt for everything! Save that receipt! I had a leather laptop case I used just for my business. One slot in it held a collapsable file folder with a nice velcro'd top that held my receipts, both purchases and finished job orders. Save those receipts because they'll save you $$ later on.
Tip 3: Document EVERYTHING. Even if you're just teaching grandma where the on/off switch is on the power supply, it carries with it a bit of liability. Make sure you have documented exactly what you did to whom, when you did it, and how much you charged them for it. EVEN ON FREE CALLBACKS DO A JOB ORDER!
Tip 4: I found, in the time I ran my business, that my job wasn't so much the repair techie as it was the teacher. My customers spent more time listening to what I had to tell them about running their machine cleanly and safely than I actually spent repairing them. They were charged accordingly, at the same rate as my 'repair labor' since it was my knowledge I was selling them. Beware of the 'bubba' conversations - the customer who wants to take an hour after the job's finished to talk about this or that thing computer related. Beware of folks at parties, restaurants, or wherever. Once word gets out that you're not just a techie but a business owner, the world will be beating a path to your door for free advice. Take a note from the doctors and lawyers out there and try not to discuss business outside of business hours, unless you're advertising or signing a new client...
Tip 5: Advertise! Nobody will call you if they don't know you exist. Place an ad in the classifieds of your local paper, and another in any 'free advertising' publication like 'the thrifty nickel' from my area. If you can afford it, get a bigger ad. Save your receipts, Uncle Sam will pay you back for them next year.
Tip 6: Try not to use your home phone number or your personal cell number as your business phone number. Get a separate phone if you can swing it. Make sure that phone is manned 24/7. Since you're a small business (meaning you and you alone) I strongly recommend a cell phone. Love your business enough to answer it even if it rings at 3 am!
It may seem complex, but it's really simple to start and run your business. How seriously you take it is strictly up to you. Good luck in your endeavours!


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A new monster sized folder from Cold Steel– the masters of this type of knife! This Rajah utilizes the great Kukri style of blade that is large enough to actually feel like a Kukri fixed blade. This is a knife to be experienced. It is the first of 2 Rajah knives and the other should arrive soon, but this one is more economical.
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What if you need fewer licenses of QuickBooks than you used to?
One Enterprise 11 user had this scenario. She tells her story:
"AccountingUsers saved the day! After over a decade of dedicated QuickBooks use, I started my own business from home. I no longer needed the Enterprise version I had been using at my previous company.
But there was no way to "downgrade" to a fewer licensed version. Unacceptable! Thank goodness I found AccountingUsers' services to make the necessary edits to my company file. Highly recommend this!"
— Sara Carter, The GKW Company, Inc.
So the solution we had for Sara was to convert her Enterprise file to QuickBooks Premier format. Then she was able to just purchase and use the number of Premier licenses she needed…and save the difference in annual upgrade and support fees over continuing to maintain lots of Enterprise licenses.
This situation might also help a business who outsources some of their accounting operations and doesn't need as many users and licenses of QuickBooks as before.
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When we convert an Enterprise file to Premier or Pro, all the information in the file is retained…transactions, accounts, lists, balances, memorized reports, custom templates, user preferences, payroll details…everything.
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Originally, Wii Sports Resort did not include a golf game. But it ended up in Wii Sports Resorts only after Miyamoto mistakenly said it would be in the game.
Nintendo staffer Takayuki Shimamura recounts the story with a laugh: "Right after getting back to Japan, he suddenly said: "You know we're including golf now." Apparently he'd stated in an interview that this time round golf shots would be determined by the backswing, even though at that time a golf game didn't exist in any shape or form!"
So there you go! Wii Sports Resort golf, courtesy of an interview flub.
Miyamoto tricked devs into putting Golf back into Wii Sports Resort, also belittles employees [GoNintendo]


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The number of "Great" individuals in Florida is now greater than it was.
Gov. Rick Scott bestowed the "Great Floridian" honor on 21 individuals with connections to the Sunshine State on Wednesday.
Over the past two weeks, Scott dubbed both University of Florida football great Tim Tebow and South Florida businessman H. Wayne Huizenga with the designation.
The 2013 class also includes former Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula, General Norman Schwarzkopf, golfer "Bubba" Watson, and 16th Century Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León, each recognized for making significant contributions to the progress and welfare of Florida.
"It's just trying to find people that have done something significant in our state," Scott said when asked how the individuals were selected on Tuesday.
"It's a good thing that we have such great people all around our state. One of the great things about the 19.2 million people living in our state is that you can be proud of a lot of them," Scott added. "There are a lot of great people who live in Florida."
The tribute, first awarded in 1981 to Gov. Thomas LeRoy Collins, who served from 1955 to 1961, has been given to 89 individuals, including those named Wednesday.
Others in the 2013 "Great Floridian" class include: former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Alto Lee Adams; Florida State University and Tampa Bay Buccaneers football player Derrick Brooks; former Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson; UF professor James Robert Cade, the inventor of Gatorade; Walt Disney; former Bucs head coach Tony Dungy; former attorney general and state Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Ervin; Dr. Pedro Jose Greer, Jr., the founder of the Camillus Health Concern and St. John Bosco Clinic; former state senator and U.S. Congressman Bill Gunter; Charlotte McGuire, MD, the "Mother of the FSU Medical School;" General Craig McKinley; Palm Beach fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer; Betty Sembler, founder of Straight, Inc., Save Our Society From Drugs, and the Drug Free America Foundation, Inc.; UF and NFL football player Emmitt Smith; author Patrick Smith; former UF Heisman Trophy winner and coach Steve Spurrier; and farmer Ruth Springer Wedgworth.
A committee comprised of the governor, the Cabinet, the Senate President and House Speaker, nominate the candidates, with the Secretary of State actually getting to make the final selection.
In the 1980s, only six individuals received the honor.
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† Each of these variations in retail burglaries deserves its own guide, but the information provided here should be sufficiently broad to provide assistance in all cases.
In general, you should seek to establish what kinds of offenders are involved, what kinds of stores they target, how they gain access to the stores, how they deal with security measures, and, finally, how they dispose of stolen goods. Knowledge of these factors will help you design an effective response to the problem.
Police crime reports or calls-for-service data do not generally distinguish the different kinds of nonresidential burglaries. Retail burglaries are lumped together with burglaries of educational institutions, medical centers, offices, and construction sites. Consequently, gathering information about your local problem can be labor-intensive. It requires a careful review of police records and the identification of retail burglary incidents. Fortunately, the large majority of retail burglaries are reported to police, but it can still be difficult to identify repeat burglaries because locations may not be systematically recorded. For example, the store name might be included in some crime reports, and only the street address in others.
In addition, many important details about the type of business, points of entry and nature of losses may not be included. Thus, you should try to gather systematic information about these details using other data sources. Because gathering and analyzing data can be time-consuming and involve technical problems, you should seek help from your local university, especially one with a criminal justice department. Data collection methods that can provide useful information include the following:
The following are some critical questions you should try to answer in analyzing your particular retail burglary problem. Your answers to these and other questions will help you choose the most appropriate set of responses later on.
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Participants collect pledges from friends, family, and co-workers, and can walk with their dog either the 2.5-mile or 5-mile course. If you raise $25, you receive a dog bandana. If you raise $50, you receive a bandana and a T-shirt. If you raise $100, you receive a bandana, T-shirt, and sun visor.
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"Welcome back to the fight," Nazi resistance leader Victor Laszlo says to Rick Blaine at the end of "Casablanca" – as the famous plane to Lisbon sputters and roars. "This time I know our side will win."
It's one of the finest Hollywood scenes ever – apotheosized by black and whites of Humphrey Bogart (Rick) and Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa Lund) face to face in the night fog, saying goodbye at the airport so her husband Laszlo can escape. They will always have Paris.
Of this trio, the elegant character of Laszlo, played by the refugee Austrian actor Paul Henreid, is nearly forgotten – in film and in real life. He went on to play roles as European types, Nazi heavies, and freedom fighters, as well as raised war bonds in Washington. But he got blacklisted in the McCarthy era for refusing to divulge the political views of fellow actors, and ended up directing TV fare for 25 years. Bogart got an Oscar nomination for "Casablanca." Henreid got typecast. He never broke free, becoming one of the countless Tinseltown footnotes who lived outside the Oscar glare.
Today Henreid's daughter, Monika, raised in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood, shuttles from the US to Vienna to reconstruct her father's life on film – a narrative itself synonymous with the 20th century whirlwinds that tossed European artists and intellectuals around like the characters in Casablanca itself.
"He played heroic screen characters but often got slapped around in life, so he constantly tried to reinvent himself," says Ms. Henreid, whose father died in 1992. "People think he is French. No one can pronounce his name. He is known as Victor Laszlo, but he spent much of his life in L.A., working and directing. He gave Richard Dreyfuss his first film job; he discovered Burt Reynolds. But it [being typecast] took a toll."
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Henreid came from an aristocratic Viennese family – his banker father was knighted, his mother owned a shop on the Herrengasse. He was twice blacklisted in Europe. He hung out with film director Otto Preminger and studied at the Max Reinhardt center. But in 1934 he refused to sign a Nazi loyalty oath that was part of a lucrative Berlin film contract. He escaped to London, worked on stage, but became a deportable alien after the Anchluss in 1938, when Hitler annexed Austria. Desperate to flee to America, he despaired when authorities told him the Austrian émigré list was full.
Then a US consulate official noticed Henreid's birthplace, Trieste, formerly a part of Austria but by then in Italy. "Oh, we've got lots of space on the Italian list," his daughter says the consular official told him. "When would you like to go?"
"Tomorrow," he answered.
Henreid created a European home in Los Angeles, a "Viennese island." It was a refuge for artists like Arthur Rubenstein, who practiced piano there, and for a never-ending troupe of scholars and intellectuals from the Old World.
Henreid existed half in and half out of Hollywood. "We didn't have Hollywood parties; it wasn't a celebrity center," his daughter says. "My father was close to Bette Davis, but we didn't live in Beverly Hills."
They had a nanny, a housekeeper, a cook, a French teacher, a gardener. "Sports wasn't something you talked about, it was something you did. You played tennis and rode horses every day," Monika Henreid says. "My mother taught the cook how to prepare Viennese food. It was very Old Europe. If the door to my parent's part of the house was closed, you didn't go in, you didn't even think about knocking."
"Casablanca," shot in 1942 just after Pearl Harbor, was based on a play by school teacher Murray Burnett ("Everybody Comes to Rick's") after a visit to Nazi-occupied Vienna. It continues to rank No. 1 or 2, along with Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane," as the best film of all time. Romance, moral tension, spies, Nazis, thieves, heroes, intrigue – all collide in Rick's Café Americain. It is run by a stoical antihero (Bogart), who, in the end, does the right thing since, "The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy mixed up world."
Google "Casablanca" today, and the film comes up before the Moroccan city. But when it was made, "Casablanca" was an afterthought for Warner Brothers; Hungarian director Michael Curtiz said he never realized it would be a classic. Instead, emblematic music like "As Time Goes By" emerged. So did countless one-liners now echoed in pop culture: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here," "This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship," "Round up the usual suspects," "Here's looking at you kid." (The oft-repeated "Play it again, Sam," isn't an actual line in "Casablanca;" Rick only says "Play it.")
Film critic Pauline Kael attributed much of Casablanca's authenticity and spark to its many European actors – refugees playing refugees. Of 14 main roles, only three are US-born actors. "There were Austrians, Czechs, Lithuanians," Henreid notes. "The script was rewritten every day. The actors got their lines, and would balk. Yugoslavs or Russians would say, 'I can't speak like a guy from Nebraska if I'm a central European émigré to North Africa.' "
Henreid himself criticized Laszlo's authenticity. He doubted a resistance leader who escaped Nazi camps could waltz into the swankest cafe in town wearing a white suit with his wife on his arm. Nor would Laszlo be able to negotiate with Vichy police and Nazi officers.
But nothing came of the protestations. It was Hollywood, in 1942. Casablanca's "airport," to give perspective, was the Van Nuys airfield in suburban Los Angeles, with a load of potted palms added for Mediterranean flavor.
Henreid, along with European actors like Peter Lorre and Marlene Dietrich, gets credit for helping build a genre later known as "film noir," edgy black-and-white psychological thrillers – such as "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Big Sleep." Henreid received critical acclaim for "Now, Voyager," with Bette Davis. But he got few leading roles after "Casablanca."
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Monika Henreid now lives in Montana. She has worked as an actress in a few small movies. After a recent screening of "Casablanca" in Vienna, where she has come to do her documentary work on her father, she laments that the man who played Laszlo, and whose life was forever altered by not signing a Nazi oath, spent many creative years in a McCarthy-era limbo. She told a Viennese audience before a showing of the film that her father insisted in his contract that the Laszlo character end up with Ilsa Lund – and apparently several different endings of the film were written.
Henreid's wife, Lisl, whom he met in Vienna on the night of his first play as an actor, was the one who kept him going. Their marriage lasted 49 years. After the war, the Henreids sometimes summered in Austria. But he never returned to live. The "Vienna my father grew up in was gone, physically and culturally," his daughter says. "He wasn't famous when he left, anyway. We couldn't come back for so many reasons. Daughters were in school. There wasn't any work. Sometimes life just interferes with your plans."
Like getting an iconic part and then getting pigeonholed for it. On the other hand, if Henreid hadn't done the movie, he probably would have regretted it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of his life.


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FBI agents digging into background of bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get help from Cambridge, MA Mosque members who knew the suspects as some members of Congress want to learn more about FBI contact with Tamerlan before the bombing.
Just weeks before the Boston Marathon bombing,Tamerlan Tsarnaev — the suspected mastermind of the plot — was still attending prayer services at a Cambridge mosque where he had previously caused disruptions and been threatened with eviction, a spokesman for the mosque said.
Yusufi Vali, a spokesman for the mosque, said that FBI agents have begun questioning members of the mosque about their interactions with the 26-year-old Tsarnaev, who was killed during a shootout with police last Friday, and his younger brother, Dzohkhar, who is still hospitalized and has been charged with helping carry out the attack.
As soon as mosque leaders learned of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's alleged involvement, "We immediately called law enforcement and said, 'Listen, we've got folks who knew him and if you need any information, we're here – and those folks have already met with the FBI."
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has told investigators he and his older brother acted alone, learning how to build the pressure cooker bombs by reading the al Qaeda propaganda magazine Inspire online. He said they plotted the bombing to defend Islam because of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, federal law enforcement officials tell NBC News.
FBI agents have also begun reviewing the two brothers' cellphone and email records and so far have found no sign of accomplices -- or connections to international terror groups, said a counterterrorism source who has been briefed on the investigation.
But there are signs that Tamerlan had become radicalized — apparently from a friend in the United States named "Mischa" — described as a Russian of Armenian descent who was a relatively recent convert to Islam and who lived in Cambridge, according by Tsarnaev's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni. Tsarni told NBC News that Mischa presented himself as an "exorcist" who specialized in "removing demons from people's bodies." He recounted hearing from his brother, Anzor, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar's father, about an incident in 2007 when the father came home one night and found Mischa lecturing his son about Islamic ways. The father was outraged and ordered Mischa to leave the house. Shortly after that, he said, Tamerlan dropped out of school, telling his parents that music and the arts were incompatible with Islamic teachings.
Ruslan Tsarni said he has told the FBI about Mischa. NBC News has been unable to contact him, and Vali said that he is unaware of anybody in the mosque community who matches the description.
FBI agents are also trying to determine if there were other influences on Tamerlan Tsarnaev from people he may have met with during a six-month trip to Russia last year — during which he spent time in Chechnya and Dagestan, according to his father.
After the trip, a YouTube account was set up filled with postings of radical jihadi videos — including the sermons of Feiz Mohammed, a radical Muslim preacher from Australia who has been investigated by authorities for allegedly inciting violence. Authorities in that country have examined a series of sermons known as the "Death Series," in which he describes Jews as "pigs" and encourages Muslim parents to offer up their children as soldiers to defend Islam.
Vali said that, after Tamerlan Tsarnaev was identified as a suspect in the Boston bombing last week, congregants reported two incidents in which he had disrupted services at the mosque. The most recent one took place on Martin Luther King Day in January, when Tsarnaev interrupted a talk by a speaker saying King could be compared to the prophet Mohammed.
Tsarnaev stood up and called the speaker a "non-believer" and a "hypocrite," he said. At that point, "the congregation yelled back, 'You need to leave." And then leadership had a conference with him, and told him, that you need to stay silent or you are not welcome here."
Vali said that Tsarnaev returned to the mosque — as recently as last month — but there were no further disruptions.
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Marianist Brother Richard Joyal, who was murdered in Haiti after withdrawing money at an ATM in late April, was a dedicated missionary who had worked in trying circumstances around the world.
Joyal, 62, was shot three times in the back in an apparent robbery April 25.
He had just withdrawn $1,000 from a bank in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, when two men approached him on a motorcycle, stole his backpack and shot him.
Joyal travelled to Haiti to help close the Society of Mary mission there. He was due to return to Canada May 3.
"It's a pity, a real pity," Father Gerard Blais, who oversees the Marianist missions in Canada and Haiti, said in a phone interview April 30. "We knew the dangers there. He knew the dangers there."
Joyal was helping secure visas and passports for 10 young religious Haitian men who were being sent to Marianist properties in other countries as part of the closure of the Port-au-Prince mission.
The Haitian mission was being closed because of a separate murder of a Marianist brother last year. On Aug. 29, a young Haitian brother was killed in a shooting, Blais said.
"It was a very bad situation," Blais said from his office outside of Quebec City.
Blais said he asked Joyal to travel to Haiti to close the mission "because he was used to working in hard situations."
Joyal left Winnipeg as a young man in 1983 to open the Marianist ministry in India.
He spent 20 years there, building a "care centre for street children, developing lay communities and promoting vocations to Marianist life, both lay and religious," according to a report on the mission published in 2006.
In 2004, he arrived alone in the Philippines, traveling to the Mindanao region, where clashes between Islamist separatist movements and the Philippine government had displaced hundreds of thousands of residents.
By the time he left four years later, Joyal had created a ministry focused on working with impoverished, homeless children and a centre "dedicated to the formation of young men interested in Marianist religious life," according to a Marianist newsletter in 2009.
He first travelled to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
"Where others saw only poverty and despair, he spoke enthusiastically of the deep faith and liturgical celebrations of her people," wrote Isabella Moyer, president of the International Organization of Marianist Lay Communities.
"In an Easter message to a friend, (Joyal) wrote: 'I knew all along that Jesus was Indian. I also discovered that he was also Filipino. Now, I am discovering that he's Haitian.'"


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The Sticking Place Interactive Documentary – one of the collaborator's of this project is Su-An Ng whose short film Nature on its Course screened at Reel Asian in 2010. Help Su-An and her team reach $20,000!
The Shinsedai Cinema Festival is a showcase of independent Japanese films founded by Chris Magee and Jasper Sharp. Next year the festival moves to Revue Cinema and are raising funds to help bring Japanese guests to the 2012 event. Shinsedai has been a longtime support of Reel Asian. Help Chris and his team reach $7,000!
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As a result, this lil' ol' blog here will suffer some neglect. (Sorry, Mom).
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European stocks fell Friday as the United Nations was reportedly set to convene an emergency meeting about the worsening political crisis in Ukraine.
The Stoxx Europe 600 XX:SXXP -0.22% fell 0.4% to 337.17, hitting intraday lows near the close of the session after Russia called for a meeting with the United Nations Security Council to discuss the "serious escalation of violence in Ukraine," according to French news agency AFP.
The meeting was expected to be held Friday afternoon U.S. Eastern time. The Stoxx Europe 600 still finished higher for the week by 1.3%.
A Ukrainian military operation launched Friday has left "many" pro-Russian activists dead as Ukraine tried to regain control of the pro-Russian separatist stronghold of Slovyansk, Britain's BBC reported Ukraine's interim president Oleksandr Turchynov as saying.
Among country-specific indexes, Germany's DAX 30 DX:DAX -0.49% fell 0.5% to 9,556.02. German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with U.S. President Obama on Friday in Washington at a time that a number of German businesses are cautioning against expanded sanctions that could target Russian industries.
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The Stoxx 600 briefly climbed after the U.S. Labor Department reported the addition of 288,000 jobs in April, well above the 215,000 nonfarm jobs expected by economists surveyed by MarketWatch. The U.S. Federal Reserve has been monitoring labor-market conditions as part of its strategy of reducing stimulus efforts as well as timing an eventual raise in interest rates.
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The heightened tensions between Kiev and Moscow came ahead of a three-day weekend in the U.K. and Ireland that will see trading shuttered on Monday.
The U.K.'s FTSE 100 UK:UKX +0.20% held to higher ground Friday, ending up 0.2% at 6,822.42, topped by rallies in shares of Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC UK:RBS +8.19% and InterContinental Hotels Group UK:IHG +8.20%
RBS shares rose 8.2% after the 80% state-owned bank said first-quarter profit jumped to 1.2 billion pounds ($2.02 billion). Shares of InterContinental Hotels UK:IHG +8.20% advanced 8.2% as well after the company, whose brands include Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza, said it plans to distribute $750 million to shareholders through a special dividend.
But AstraZeneca PLC UK:AZN -0.15% AZN -0.09% shares gave up 0.2% as the British drug maker rejected a sweetened merger offer from Pfizer Inc. PFE -1.28% , saying the higher bid of £50 a share ($84.46) was "inadequate," and would dramatically dilute AstraZeneca shareholders' exposure to its "rapidly progressing" pipeline.
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Elsewhere in the drug sector, Germany's Bayer AG DE:BAYN +0.08% is close to a takeover of Merck & Co. Inc.'s MRK -2.35% consumer-healthcare unit in a deal valued at $14 billion, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Bayer shares ended flat in Frankfurt. A representative from Bayer declined to comment on the report, while a spokesperson from Merck wasn't immediately available to comment.
France's CAC 40 FR:PX1 -0.65% shed 0.7% to 4,458.17, after being closed Thursday for the May Day holiday.
There was overall improvement in the euro-zone's manufacturing sector in April, with recovery in the area becoming broader-based, according to the final reading of Markit's purchasing managers index. It rose to 53.4 from 53.0 in March, slightly higher than an initial reading of 53.3.
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.NET Development Foundation/Using System Types
|.NET Development Foundation
Using System types[edit]
Exam objective: Manage data in a .NET Framework application by using the .NET Framework 2.0 system types.
(Refer System namespace)
Value types usage[edit]
Following are some "usage" oriented remarks about value types.
Value types contain the values they are assigned:
int a = 1; // the variable "a" contains "1" of value type int
Value types can also be created by using the new keyword. Using the new keyword initializes the variable with the default value obtained from the type's default constructor:
int a = new int(); // using the default constructor via the new keyword return a; // returns "0" in the case of type Int.
Value types can be declared without being initialized, but they must be initialized to some value before being used:
int a; // This is perfectly acceptable return a; // NOT acceptable! You can't use "a" because "a" doesn't have a value!
Value types cannot equal null. .NET 2.0 provides a Nullable type to get around this limitation, which is discussed in the next section, but null is not a valid value for value types:
int a = null; // Won't compile - throws an error.
If you copy a Value type to another Value type, the value is copied. Changing the value of the copy has no effect on the value of the original. The second is merely a copy of the first - they are in no way connected after assignment. This is fairly intuitive:
int var1 = 1; int var2 = var1; //the value of var1 (a "1" of type int) is copied to var2 var2 = 25; // The "1" value in var2 is overwritten with "25" Console.WriteLine("The value of var1 is {0}, the value of var2 is {1}", var1, var2);
Which would result in the output:
The value of var1 is 1, the value of var2 is 25
Changing the value of the copy (var2 in this instance) had no effect on the value of the original (var1). This is different from reference types which copy a reference to the value, not the value itself.
Value types cannot be derived from.
Value types as method parameters are passed by value by default. A copy of the value-type is made and the copy is passed to the method as a parameter. If the parameter is changed inside the method it will not affect the value of the original value type.
Nullable type[edit]
See MSDN
A nullable type...
- Is a generic type
- Is an instance of System.Nullable struct.
- Can only be declared on value types.
- Is declared with System.Nullable<type> or the shorthand type? - the two are interchangeable.
System.Nullable<int> MyNullableInt; // the long version int? MyNullableInt; // the short version
- Accepts the normal range of values of the underlying type, as well as null.
bool? MyBoolNullable; // valid values: true || false || null
Be careful with nullable booleans! In if, for, while or logical evaluation statements a nullable boolean will equate a null value with false—it will not throw an error.
Methods: T GetValueOrDefault() & T GetValueOrDefault(T defaultValue)
Returns the stored value or the default value if the stored value is set to null.
Properties: HasValue & Value
Nullable types have two read only properties: HasValue and Value.
HasValue is a boolean property that returns true if Value != null. It provides a means to check your type for a non-null value before using it where you might throw an error:
int? MyInt = null; int MyOtherInt; MyOtherInt = MyInt.Value + 1; // Error! You can't add null + 1!! if (MyInt.HasValue) MyOtherInt = MyInt.Value + 1; // This is a better way.
Value returns the value of your type, null or otherwise.
int? MyInt = 27; if (MyInt.HasValue) return MyInt.Value; // returns 27. MyInt = null; return MyInt; // returns null.
Wrapping / Unwrapping
Wrapping is the process of packaging a value m from a non-nullable type N to a nullable type N? via the expression new N?(m)
Unwrapping is the process of evaluating a nullable type N? for instance m as type N or NULL and is performed via the 'Value' property (e.g. m.Value).
Note: Unwrapping a null instance generates the exception System.InvalidOperationException
The ?? Operator (aka the Null Coalescing Operator)
While not for use solely with Nullable types, the ?? operator proves very useful when you want to use a default value instead of a null value. The ?? operator returns the left operand of a statement if not null, otherwise it returns the right operand.
int? MyInt = null; return MyInt ?? 27; // returns 27, since MyInt is null
For more information see the blog entry by R. Aaron Zupancic on the ?? Operator
Building a value type[edit]
Building a value type must be very simple. The following example defines a custom "point" structure with only 2 double members. See boxing and unboxing for a discussion of implicit conversion of value types to reference types.
Building and using a custom value type (struct)
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; // namespace ValueTypeLab01 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { MyPoint p; p.x = 3.2; p.y = 14.1; Console.WriteLine("Distance from origin: " + Program.Distance(p)); // Wait for finish Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER to finish"); Console.ReadLine(); } // method where MyPoint is passed by value public static double Distance(MyPoint p) { return Math.Sqrt(p.x * p.x + p.y * p.y); } } // MyPoint is a struct (custom value type) representing a point public struct MyPoint { public double x; public double y; } }
Using a user-defined value type[edit]
The above example can be used here. Note that the p variable does not have to be initialized with the new operator.
Using enumerations[edit]
The following sample shows simple uses of the System enumeration DayOfWeek. The code is much simpler to read than testing for an integer value representing a day. Note that using ToString() on an enum variable will give the string representation of the value (ex. "Monday" instead of "1").
The possible values can be listed using Reflection. See that section for details.
For a discussion of the Enum class see MSDN
There is a special type of enumeration called a flags enumeration. The exam objectives do not mention it specifically. See MSDN if you are interested.
Simple use of enumerations
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; // namespace EnumLab01 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { DayOfWeek day = DayOfWeek.Friday; if (day == DayOfWeek.Friday) { Console.WriteLine("Day: {0}", day); } DayOfWeek day2 = DayOfWeek.Monday; if (day2 < day) { Console.WriteLine("Smaller than Friday"); } switch (day) { case DayOfWeek.Monday: Console.WriteLine("Monday processing"); break; default: Console.WriteLine("Default processing"); break; } int i = (int)DayOfWeek.Sunday; Console.WriteLine("Int value of day: {0}", i); // Finishing Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER to finish"); Console.ReadLine(); } } }
Building an enumeration[edit]
Building a custom enumeration is pretty straightforward as shown by the following example.
Declaring a simple enumeration
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; // namespace EnumLab02 { class Program { public enum MyColor { None = 0, Red, Green, Blue } static void Main(string[] args) { MyColor col = MyColor.Green; Console.WriteLine("Color: {0}", col); // Finishing Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER to finish"); Console.ReadLine(); } } }
Using reference types[edit]
Reference types are more commonly referred to as objects. Classes, Interfaces and Delegates are all reference types, as well as the built-in reference types System.Object and System.String. Reference types are stored in managed Heap memory.
Unlike Value types, reference types can be assigned the value null.
Copying a reference type copies a reference that points to the object, not a copy of the object itself. This can seem counter-intuitive at times, since changing a copy of a reference will also change the original.
A Value type stores the value it is assigned, plain and simple - but a Reference type stores a pointer to a location in memory (on the heap). Think of the heap as a bunch of lockers and the Reference type holds the locker number (there are no locks in this metaphor). Copying a Reference type is like giving someone a copy of your locker number, rather than a copy of its contents. Two Reference types that point to the same memory is like two people sharing the same locker - both can modify its content:
Example of using Reference types
public class Dog { private string breed; public string Breed { get {return breed;} set {breed = value;} } private int age; public int Age { get {return age;} set {age = value;} } public override string ToString() { return String.Format("is a {0} that is {1} years old.", Breed, Age); } public Dog(string dogBreed, int dogAge) { this.breed = dogBreed; this.age = dogAge; } } public class Example() { public static void Main() { Dog myDog = new Dog("Labrador", 1); // myDog points to a position in memory. Dog yourDog = new Dog("Doberman", 3); // yourDog points to a different position in memory. yourDog = myDog; // both now point to the same position in memory, // where a Dog type has values of "Labrador" and 1 yourDog.Breed = "Mutt"; myDog.Age = 13; Console.WriteLine("Your dog {0}\nMy dog {1}", yourDog.ToString(), myDog.ToString()); } }
Since the yourDog variable and the the myDog variable both point to the same memory store, the ouput of which would be:
Your dog is a Mutt that is 13 years old. My dog is a Mutt that is 13 years old.
As a practice for manipulating reference types you may want to work with the String and StringBuilder classes. We have put these with the text manipulation section but manipulating strings is a basic operation of almost all programs.
Using and building arrays[edit]
See MSDN for reference information.
Using classes[edit]
Building a custom class[edit]
Using interfaces[edit]
Building a custom interface[edit]
Using attributes[edit]
Using generic types[edit]
The use of the four major categories of System Generic Types will mainly be demonstrated elsewhere in this book:
- The nullable type was discussed above
- A whole section follows on Generic collections
- The generic event handler will be discussed in the Event / Delegate section.
- The generic delegates will also be discussed in the Event / Delegate section as well as in the Generic collections section (Comparer class).
If you copy the next very simple example in Visual Studio and try to add something other than an int to the list the program will not compile. This demonstrates the strong typing capability of generics.
Very simple use of generic
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; namespace GenericsLab01 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { List<int> myIntList = new List<int>(); myIntList.Add(32); myIntList.Add(10); // Try to add something other than an int // ex. myIntList.Add(12.5); foreach (int i in myIntList) { Console.WriteLine("Item: " + i.ToString()); } Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER to finish"); Console.ReadLine(); } } }
You can use List<string> instead of List<int> and you will get a list of strings for the same price (you are using the same List(T) class).
Building generics[edit]
The programming of a custom generic collection was shown in the article mentioned in the topics discussion.
Here we have an example of a Generic Function. We use the trivial problem of swapping two references. Although very simple we still see the basic benefits of Generics:
- We don't have to recode a swap function for every type
- The generalization does not cost us the strong typing (try swapping an int and a string, it wont compile)
Simple custom generic function
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace GenericsLab03 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Program pgm = new Program(); // Swap strings string str1 = "First string"; string str2 = "Second string"; pgm.swap<string>(ref str1, ref str2); Console.WriteLine(str1); Console.WriteLine(str2); // Swap integers int int1 = 1; int int2 = 2; pgm.swap<int>(ref int1, ref int2); Console.WriteLine(int1); Console.WriteLine(int2); // Finish with wait Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER to finish"); Console.ReadLine(); } // Swapping references void swap<T>(ref T r1,ref T r2) { T r3 = r1; r1 = r2; r2 = r3; } } }
Next step is to present an example including a generic interface, a generic class that implements that generic interface and a class derived from that generic class. The sample also uses interface and derivation constraints.
This is another simple problem involving employees and suppliers which have nothing in common except that they can request payment to a "payment handler" (see visitor pattern).
The problem is to know where to put the logic if you have specific processing to do for a certain kind of payment just for employees. There are myriads of ways to solve that problem but the use of generics make the following sample clean, explicit and strongly typed.
The other nice thing is that it has nothing to do with containers or collections where you will find almost all of generic samples.
Please note that the EmployeeCheckPayment<T> class derives from CheckPayment<T> giving a stronger constraint on the type parameter T (must be employee not just implement IPaymentInfo). That gives us the to opportunity to have access (in its RequestPayment method) to all payment logic (from the base class) at the same time as all employee public interface (thru the sender method parameter) and that without having to do any cast.
Custom generic interface and class
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Text; namespace GennericLab04 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { // Pay supplier invoice CheckPayment<Supplier> checkS = new CheckPayment<Supplier>(); Supplier sup = new Supplier("Micro", "Paris", checkS); sup.InvoicePayment(); // Produce employee paycheck CheckPayment<Employee> checkE = new EmployeeCheckPayment<Employee>(); Employee emp = new Employee("Jacques", "Montreal", "bigboss", checkE); emp.PayTime(); // Wait to finish Console.WriteLine("Press ENTER to finish"); Console.ReadLine(); } } // Anything that can receive a payment must implement IPaymentInfo public interface IPaymentInfo { string Name { get;} string Address { get;} } // All payment handlers must implement IPaymentHandler public interface IPaymentHandler<T> where T:IPaymentInfo { void RequestPayment(T sender, double amount); } // Suppliers can receive payments thru their payment handler (which is given by an object factory) public class Supplier : IPaymentInfo { string _name; string _address; IPaymentHandler<Supplier> _handler; public Supplier(string name, string address, IPaymentHandler<Supplier> handler) { _name = name; _address = address; _handler = handler; } public string Name { get { return _name; } } public string Address { get { return _address; } } public void InvoicePayment() { _handler.RequestPayment(this, 4321.45); } } // Employees can also receive payments thru their payment handler (which is given by an object factory) // even if they are totally distinct from Suppliers public class Employee : IPaymentInfo { string _name; string _address; string _boss; IPaymentHandler<Employee> _handler; public Employee(string name, string address, string boss, IPaymentHandler<Employee> handler) { _name = name; _address = address; _boss = boss; _handler = handler; } public string Name { get { return _name; } } public string Address { get { return _address; } } public string Boss { get { return _boss; } } public void PayTime() { _handler.RequestPayment(this, 1234.50); } } // Basic payment handler public class CheckPayment<T> : IPaymentHandler<T> where T:IPaymentInfo { public virtual void RequestPayment (T sender, double amount) { Console.WriteLine(sender.Name); } } // Payment Handler for employees with supplementary logic public class EmployeeCheckPayment<T> : CheckPayment<T> where T:Employee { public override void RequestPayment(T sender, double amount) { Console.WriteLine("Get authorization from boss before paying, boss is: " + sender.Boss); base.RequestPayment(sender, amount); } } }
Exception classes[edit]
Some links to MSDN:
- Exceptions and exception handling - MSDN
- Handling and throwing exceptions - MSDN
- Exception Hierarchy - MSDN
- Exception Class and Properties - MSDN
Boxing and unboxing[edit]
See MSDN
All types derive directly or indirectly from System.Object (including value types by the way of System.ValueType). This allows the very convenient concept of a reference to "any" object but poses some technical concerns because value types are not "referenced". Comes boxing and unboxing.
Boxing and unboxing enable value types to be treated as objects. Boxing a value type packages it inside an instance of the Object reference type. This allows the value type to be stored on the garbage collected heap. Unboxing extracts the value type from the object. In this example, the integer variable i is boxed and assigned to object o:
int i = 123; object o = (object) i; // boxing
Please also note that it is not necessary to explicitly cast an integer to an object (as shown in the example above) to cause the integer to be boxed. Invoking any of its methods would also cause it to be boxed on the heap (because only the boxed form of the object has a pointer to a virtual method table):
int i=123; String s=i.toString(); //This call will cause boxing
There is also a third way in which a value type can be boxed. That happens when you pass a value type as a parameter to a function that expects an object. Let's say there is a function prototyped as:
void aFunction(object value)
Now let's say from some other part of your program you call this function like this:
int i=123; aFunction(i); //i is automatically boxed
This call would automatically cast the integer to an object, thus resulting in boxing.
The object o can then be unboxed and assigned to integer variable i:
o = 123; i = (int) o; // unboxing
Performance of boxing and unboxing
In relation to simple assignments, boxing and unboxing are computationally expensive processes. When a value type is boxed, an entirely new object must be allocated and constructed. To a lesser degree, the cast required for unboxing is also expensive computationally.
TypeForwardedToAttribute Class[edit]
See MSDN
- For a discussion of TypeForwardToAttribute in the CLR see MSDN
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KENNETT (AP) - A southeastern Missouri man accused of killing a 3-year-old girl who wandered into his yard has had his trial postponed.
Shawn Morgan, of Senath, had been scheduled to go on trial Dec. 10 in Dunklin County Circuit Court. The Daily Dunklin Democrat reports the case has been taken off the docket, but no new trial date has been set.
The county prosecutor said earlier this year he would seek the death penalty if Morgan is convicted in the August 2011 killing of BreeAnn Rodriguez. The toddler's remains were found 10 days later about eight miles away.
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