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"Splash" made him a star. "Philadelphia" gave him legitimacy. "Big?" Well, that made Tom Hanks into a cinematic icon.
Josh Baskin (David Moscow) is a 12 year-old kid who is sick and tired of the limitations his age hands him on a daily basis. Wishing to Zoltar, a carnival arcade fortune teller, to be "big," Josh wakes up the next day to find himself with the body of a 30-year-old man (now played by Tom Hanks). Now faced with the prospects of having to maintain a job and social relationships with adults, such as office love interest Susan (Elizabeth Perkins), Josh has trouble adjusting to his new body and the overwhelming complexity of his life as a man.
Released during the summer of 1988, "Big" was a sleeper hit that went through the stratosphere, informing popular culture for a brief moment in time. It was a year where everyone learned how to play "Heart and Soul" on the piano and baby corn received its largest endorsement yet. The movie also made a household name out of Tom Hanks, who rode his newfound celebrity over the subsequent years to some interesting choices and some wildly-loathed flops. Still, "Big" gave him a career, and I couldn't imagine the movie without him.
I was 12 years old when "Big" hit the cinemas, and you couldn't find a more optimum age to view the film for the first time. In its purest form, "Big" is porn for pre-teens; the film arranging a fantasyland of toy-testing corporate jobs and infinite goof-off resources unheard of to the unspoiled young mind. Pushing these juicy buttons was director Penny Marshall, here in the first act of an incredible trilogy of blockbuster knock-outs ("A League of Their Own," "Awakenings") she never achieved again.
Using Hanks's wide-eyed disbelief towards the world around him, Marshall takes the viewer on a voyage that exploits the terror and bliss of being a young boy with the unlimited passport of a grown-up body. I'll never forget the palpable pinch of panic that Marshall constructs out of Josh's first night away from home; a hellish evening in a seedy hotel that best sells the homesickness and alarm of the situation. It's one of those great movie scenes that's perfect in all four corners and nothing feels manipulative or stagy.
The screenplay by Anne Spielberg (yes, THAT Spielberg) and Gary Ross is peppered with moments like that, where Josh's semi-adulthood clashes with his kid mentality, bopping the results back and forth between slapstick comedy and aching, unsettling growing-pain drama. "Big" is such a vastly beautiful piece of scripting; nearly every moment a fragment of tender humanity that was rare to behold then and practically extinct now. The feature was also Marshall's most tonally controlled directing job. The filmmaker was a perfect match for the juvenile antics as much as she was able to nurture tricky romantic leanings out of Josh as he embarked on a tentative relationship with Susan.
However ace the productions credits were, the star of the show is Hanks, and his prancing, dynamic work as Josh. "Big" is the actor in his finest element, able to convey both the mania of the 12-year-old mind at play while the matured Josh sorts out his routine with adults. The classic scenes are almost too numerous to list: Josh on the piano, dealing with hors d'oeuvres, losing his virginity, drinking up his kid-friendly loft (lordy, who didn't want a soda machine in their room!), and his prankster time with pal Billy (Jared Rushton). Hanks is like McEnroe, just zipping around the frame smacking back one-liners and spastic body language to anyone who dare face him. It's a tour de force performance of the highest order, and one he's wisely never exploited again for career gain. It's a singular slice of Hanks to treasure and arguably the best work he's ever put on film.
The motive behind this edition of "Big" is to reveal a brand-spanking-new "Extended Edition," which adds 25 minutes to the 104-minute running time of the theatrical cut. "Big" is already a millimeter too unwieldy at the shorter running time, leaving the longer cut better enjoyed as a curiosity than a playable movie.
The new cut delves into characters more, but still doesn't space out the pace of the film. I was expecting "Big" to inhale more profoundly with this fresh footage, but the new cut tends to just extend character beats that didn't hunger for the special attention. While a majority of the footage is simple, forgettable scene extensions, here are some of the larger additions:
(4 minutes) - Josh's infant sister is moved into the young boy's room, to his great protest. We also see Billy's argumentative home life.
(19 minutes) - Josh's mother is shown telling her side of the "kidnapping" to the cops.
(32 minutes) - Susan is exposed as a much more icy lady than the theatrical cut touches on.
(43 minutes) - Josh calls home a second time trying to wrangle advice from his mother on how to best deal with a stomachache. Honestly, this is the finest scene of the bunch. I have no idea why this failed to make it into the theatrical cut.
(58 minutes) - Josh and Billy go tuxedo shopping.
(79 minutes) - Josh and toy company honcho MacMillan (Robert Loggia) discuss toys and the ways of women.
(92 minutes) - Susan is also revealed to be a changed person after her night of carnal bliss with a 13 year-ol...er, I mean our pal Josh.
(100 minutes) - Josh and Susan mess around with a musical toy prototype.
(110 minutes) - Susan goes through Josh's wallet, finding more evidence that he's telling the truth about his prepubescent origins. Also, Billy learns the whereabouts of a Zoltar machine over the phone.
Offered in anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio), "Big" is given a superior film-like presentation. Image is stable and free from any wear and tear, while flesh tones and colors are rendered accurately in this softly photographed movie. The extended cut is included via seamless branching, and the new sequences blend unexpectedly well with the old.
Offered only in 2.0 Dolby Digital, the lack of a hefty sonic upgrade hurts the "Big" experience initially. After all, it's new DVD, why not beef up the mix? Truth is, this is tender, calm film that doesn't need the boost. The mix on the DVD does a fine job keeping the viewer engaged, with surround touches used at appropriate moments. The memorable score by Howard Shore (gotta love that Zoltar theme) is balanced well with the dialogue, making for a gentle, but agreeable listen.
No doubt, the new "Big" DVD is stacked with extras. Trouble is, there isn't much here that's genuinely worth the time invested. I hope that doesn't read as too harsh a criticism, but the DVD is lacking one large component that would've taken this release from something welcomed to a must have: Tom Hanks. For whatever reason, the DVD is lacking any input from Hanks, and his absence is a crime. No discussion of "Big" is complete without two cents from the man who made the material spring to life. Still, Fox puts in some effort to rise above the actor's absence by trying to focus on the writing process that defined "Big" on several levels.
First up is a feature-length audio commentary, labeled here as an "audio documentary." Back in 1986, when Anne Spielberg and Gary Ross were just preparing to dream up their movie, Spielberg decided to document the process on cassette. The resulting tapes have been edited for length and clarity, and presented on the DVD.
Moderated by a DVD producer, the track alternates between the present day musings of Spielberg and Ross and those aged, slightly muddled taped conversations. It's a fascinating look at the process of writing in a collaborative setting, with the two screenwriters bouncing around ideas and characters in such a volcanic fashion, it puts the term "brainstorming" to shame. It's more like "brainhurricane."
The chat isn't screen-specific and I can't write with honesty that this innovative extra completely held my attention throughout the theatrical cut of the film. Still, it's a unique idea that explores how "Big" came to be, while also discussing some plot points and ideas that never made it into the final draft - one of them a passing mention of the alternate ending that was reportedly tested and discarded, featuring Susan going back to Zoltar and wishing she could be a kid again to remain with Josh.
"'Big' Beginnings" is a featurette with Ross and Spielberg chatting on-camera about their experiences writing together and the overall genesis of "Big." Producer James L. Brooks joins them about halfway in to marvel over how much the picture's massive success took everyone by surprise. When you consider the film was the last released of the "body switching" cinema tear of 87/88 ("Vice Versa," "18 Again," "Like Father, Like Son"), Brooks's reaction is an appropriate one.
"Chemistry of a Classic" pushes further into the production side of "Big," gathering cast members and director Marshall to discuss their involvement with the picture. A great deal of background info is spilled here, including the early days of film when it looked as though Robert De Niro was a lock to star.
Robert Loggia, Elizabeth Perkins, and David Moscow all throw in their thoughts on the casting and the lasting popularity of the film, but the real centerpiece is a glimpse of a grown-up Jared Rushton. The popular child actor ("Honey, I Shrunk the Kids"), now 33, has transformed himself into an alt-rocker extraordinaire. It's a kick to see him, and makes this short but revealing look at "Big" all the more entertaining.
"The Work of Play" is a short featurette on the real-life adventures of toy company employees. Sure, it fits the theme of the DVD like a glove, but I'll never get those 10 minutes back.
"Backstory: 'Big'" is the 2001 AMC special on film's history. A bit more sterile than the new featurettes, this is still required viewing for any admirer of the film. That is, if you didn't already see it six years ago.
"Carnival Party Newswrap" is a 90-second-long promotional glimpse of the "Big" premiere. Fox turned a backlot into a carnival for the guests, and mammoth industry names such as Barry Boswick and Stefanie Powers showed up to party down.
Some deleted scenes are included on the DVD, but don't get too excited. Made up of scenes from the extended cut, there isn't any new ground covered here. If you have zero interest in watching the longer version of "Big," then stop by this supplement, which can be viewed with or without Penny Marshall's needless intros ("This scene was good, take a look").
Finally, two trailers and two T.V. spots are presented here, along with trailers for "Bachelor Party," "The Man with One Red Shoe," "Cast Away," "That Thing You Do!," and the Luke Perry DTV feature, "The Sandlot: Heading Home."
Yes, "Big" remains the classic it was destined to become nearly 20 years ago. The picture still stands proud as a comedy easy chair of sorts, but even more vividly as Tom Hanks's finest hour as an actor. The extended cut adds more meat to the bones and, for purists, the extra footage will satisfy great curiosity. For the average joe, I would suggest sticking with the theatrical cut. Thankfully, Fox has done the viewer a solid and included it here for easy access. It's is the superior version of the film; the one we all have locked tightly in our hearts.


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The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work engaged (in its process, or in the issues it raises) with technology. See the full list of Artist Profiles here.
Daniel Rourke: Your recent work, You Could've Said, is described as "a Google keyword confessional for radio." I've often considered your work as having elements of the confession, partly because of the deeply personal stance you perform—addressing we, the viewer or listener, in a one-on-one confluence, but also through the way your work hijacks and exposes the unseen, often algorithmic, functions of social and network media. You allow Google keywords to parasitize your identity and in turn you apparently "confess" on Google's behalf. Are you in search of redemption for your social-media self? Or is it the soul of the algorithm you wish to save?
Erica Scourti: Or maybe the algorithm and social media soul is now so intertwined and interdependent that it makes little sense to even separate the two, in a unlikely fulfillment of Donna Haraway's cyborg? Instead of having machines built into/onto us (Google glasses notwithstanding), the algorithms which parse our email content, Facebook behaviours, Amazon spending habits, and so on, don't just read us, but shape us.

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Rodrigo Diaz, 22, was driving around with his girlfriend and two friends on Saturday night when he pulled into a driveway, thinking they had arrived at another friend's house, his brother says. But instead he pulled into the driveway of Phillip Sailors, 69, who thought his home was being robbed, his lawyer says. Sailors then shot Diaz, according to the police report, citing what Sailors told officers at the scene. Diaz later died while in the intensive care unit.
"Basically, what happened is they were looking for one of my brother's girlfriend's friends," says his brother David E. Diaz-Valencia, 23. "The guy came outside and my brother's girlfriend said he was screaming, 'Get off my property!' and he shot into the air. My brother was backing out fast because he was scared and he rolled down the window to say he was sorry and he was not doing anything wrong. Then the guy shot him in his head."
When officers arrived, Angie Rebolledo, Diaz's girlfriend, had blood on her jeans, both arms and both hands as she was attempting to get a response from him and screamed frantically that her boyfriend had been shot, according to police.
Police arrested Sailors, of Lilburn, Georgia, who was booked into the Gwinnett County jail Sunday afternoon and charged with murder, according to the police report.
"At this point we have established probable cause to charge Mr. Sailors and when the investigation is complete, we will turn over the case file to the Gwinnett County District Attorneys Officer for processing," Lilburn police Chief Bruce Hedley told NBC Latino. "To preserve the integrity of the case, I will not be releasing further information concerning this incident."
Sailors' lawyer says his client is a Vietnam veteran with no prior criminal history and thought he and his wife were about to be victims of a home invasion. "You have to understand this is a 69-year-old man who is a military veteran who has been honorably discharged," Michael Puglise says. "He dedicated his life to community service, specifically the Christian Lay Ministry in Latin America."
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Puglise adds that Sailors' small, quiet, quaint town is now plagued with gang activity and the home next door was vandalized weeks before. He fired a warning shot and then when the car was accelerated to go in reverse he perceived it differently.
"He's an elderly man, he perceived the car going towards his house, towards him."
Asked about the contention that the victim rolled the window down and said sorry and he wasn't doing anything wrong, Puglise said he wasn't aware of the statement.
"Each person in the situation perceived things differently," he says. "He most certainly did not hear anything."
The victim's brother, Diaz-Valencia, says Diaz was going to school to be an auto mechanic.
"He was a really happy person, he was a really good brother and he never had problems with anybody," he says.
Diaz-Valencia says their father has been in the United States for more than 10 years and he and his brothers had been in the U.S. since 2006, coming from Medellín, Colombia. "My dad got us our papers and green card," he says. "He had been here and he wanted to give us a better life."
Diaz-Valencia, who goes to the Aviation Institute of Maintenance and is set to graduate in 9 weeks, says no one thinks his brother was gunned down because he was Hispanic.
"Nobody has said that," he says. "We don't think it's about racism. Maybe the guy was angry, trying to protect his own property, but that's why we have police."
The funeral will most likely be on Thursday, Diaz-Valencia says.
He adds that he has no ill will towards the suspect, Sailors.
"I don't want anything bad for him, just for him to be put in jail, he needs to pay for what he did," he says.
"It's not shooting first and asking second."
NBC News producer Edgar Zuniga contributed to this story.
UPDATE: Georgia man who killed young man who pulled into wrong driveway, released on bond


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Jury finds Sanford guilty in 1980 murder
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PLACERVILLE — An El Dorado Superior Court jury on Wednesday found Andrew Sanford guilty of first degree murder for killing 16-year-old Richard Swanson in August 1980.
The jury of four men and eight women deliberated for less than two days before rendering its verdict. Sanford's murder trial had lasted for more than a month.
"Nothing can bring their son Richard back, but it is my hope that Richard's mother and father may find some peace knowing the person responsible for their son's death is finally being held responsible for his actions," El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson said in a formal statement.
At the time of his killing, Swanson had been working for three weeks at his first job as the graveyard shift attendant at the South Y Gas Station in South Lake Tahoe.
Reporting to work shortly before midnight on Aug. 14, 1980, Swanson was later found dead in the back storage room. He had been beaten, wrapped in duct tape and left to suffocate and die with $761.02 missing from the register.
Sanford was 19 at the time of the murder.
"Disappointed, but nothing surprises me," defense attorney Erik Schlueter told the Mountain Democrat. He said he decision will be appealed but by a different attorney. Schlueter maintains there is reasonable doubt about Sanford's guilt. "It was an old case and poorly investigated," he said.
Prosecutor Trish Kelliher was glad the family was able to get closure 34 years after the death of Richard Swanson. "I am grateful that justice has finally been obtained for Richard Swanson and his family," Kelliher said. "Richard's murder was as needless as it was vicious. Richard was a decent, hardworking young man whose life was cut short by this defendant's selfishness and greed. I commend all of the many individuals who have worked so hard to ensure that the truth was revealed and justice achieved, particularly the jurors who worked diligently and conscientiously through a very difficult trial. And I commend Mr. and Mrs. Swanson for never giving up on their son."
When asked if there was any closure because of the conviction, Ron Swanson noted, "There sure is." He said there were "so many people" to give thanks to in convicting his son's murderer.
"So many," added Sharon Swanson, Ron's wife and Richard's mother. "God is at the top of the list." She noted that Kelliher did "an excellent job" in prosecuting.
Ron said that it was "hard to believe it's over," and that "science caught up."
Sharon added, "Two years ago, we couldn't do this. There was not enough (DNA) technology."
Authorities described Sanford as a trouble maker with a criminal record for small time crimes such as auto theft and breaking and entering. He hung around the gas station and was familiar with employee routines. He also moved away from South Lake Tahoe the same day Swanson was found murdered, according to the District Attorney's Office.
South Lake Tahoe Police investigated the killing, conducted interviews and collected the duct tape used on Sanford that later provided the DNA evidence linking Sanford to the crime in 2011.
Sanford was arrested for domestic violence in Sacramento County nearly 30 years later and his DNA was taken and entered into the Combined DNA Index System, where it was matched to the DNA on the duct tape used to suffocate Swanson, the District Attorney's Office said.
Sanford is set to be sentenced at 1:30 p.m. June 16.
Tahoe Daily Tribune reporter Tom Lotshaw contributed to this report.
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DEAR PEGGY: Every physician I've seen has told me how much calcium I need in milligrams, but food labels list it in percent daily value. This is confusing because all people likely don't need the same amount of calcium. How can I calculate calcium in milligrams based on food labels? —B.S., Gainesville, Florida
You're right. Different age groups and people with certain health conditions need different amounts of calcium, so having one general daily value can be confusing. The percent daily values on food labels show whether a food is high or low in a nutrient. They're meant to help you make healthful decisions, but they don't offer a perfect system.
The calcium listed on food labels is based on 1,000 mg per day. With that know-how, you can calculate the percentage into milligrams.
For example, a food with calcium listed at 7% DV would be calculated this way: .07 x 1,000 mg = 70 mg calcium per serving.


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Latest Neurology News
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Recent immigrants to Canada and the United States may be less likely to suffer a stroke at a young age than long-term residents, a new study has found.
University of Toronto researchers identified 966,000 new immigrants to Ontario over a 12-year period and compared them with more than 3.2 million people who'd lived in the province for at least five years. During an average follow-up of about six years, there were 933 strokes among the new immigrants and 5,283 strokes among the long-term residents. That works out to a rate of 2.6 strokes per person per year among long-term residents and 1.7 strokes per person per year among the new immigrants -- a 30 percent lower rate for new immigrants.
The findings were the same after the researchers adjusted for income level, smoking and history of diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes.
The study authors noted that there are several possible reasons why recent immigrants may have a lower stroke risk than long-term residents: people willing to endure the stress of immigration are usually in good health prior to immigrating; medical examinations required of all potential immigrants screens out unhealthy people; and recent immigrants who suffer health problems may return to their home country for support.
The study findings are published in the Feb. 3 online edition of the journal Neurology.
"More research to determine whether the risk of stroke in immigrants 'normalizes' to the level seen in longer-term residents may help shed light on undiscovered risk factors for stroke," Dr. Bradley S. Jacobs, of Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, wrote in an accompanying editorial.
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ATHENS, BABY: A Conversation with Poka Yio
The Beggar's Opera at the 4th Athens Biennale, AGORA . Source.
If you thought the Greek economic crisis had faded into irrelevancy, think again. Greece may not dominate headlines as it once did, but here, issues of value, capital and labor are fermenting, combusting, imploding, and reforming in ways that have international significance. The 4th Athens Biennale (AB4) has broached this reality head-on by installing a biennale in the old Athens Stock Exchange building that closed in 2007, and by taking as its title the word AGORA, which has come to mean "marketplace" in modern Greek, but which, in ancient times, referred to a gathering space that had overlapping social, commercial, and political uses. In order to create a space of true and viable exchange in a building once defined by power imbalance and manipulation, the biennale was organized according to a radical system. Instead of a single curator, the exhibition was organized by some forty people who responded to an open call put out only six months ago. The result is an electrifying example of networked culture in practice; of collective action enacted within what is arguably still an institutional frame of the art world itself, an agora. To get a deeper understanding of AB4's aims, and to learn how this all worked in practice, I caught up with Poka Yio via email after visiting the exhibition during the opening days. An artist himself, Yio is co-founder of the Athens Biennale along with Xenia Kalpatsoglou and Augustinos Zenakos, and a co-curator of the current biennale.
Stephanie Bailey: Can you talk about how the 4th Athens Biennale was organized in only six months, and through an open call inviting not one, but many curators?
Poka Yio: When asked what, in our opinion, a biennale is, our answer is: "an X-ray of today." But what is today? In the past, the two-year period was perfect to put together such a big endeavor as a biennale, but this has changed dramatically. Now we are witnessing an unprecedented acceleration of history, and creators, theorists and all sorts of analysts fail more and more to grasp it. The financial analysts have failed to overcome the crash, the political theorists have failed to arm us with the political means to withstand the social pressure without the loss of civic and human rights, and art fails to present "today" in its meta-language.
(A)non-Proposition: A Conversation with Studio for Propositional Cinema
In the summer of 2013, Studio for Propositional Cinema (SPC) launched itself during the Kunstverein Düsseldorf's congress "Proposals and Propositions" with a talk by Hans-Jürgen Hafner, the director of the Kunstverein, which was theatrically disrupted by an audience member planted by SPC. The project with the Kunstverein continued with regular presentations and events throughout a three month period, which included an exhibition, a performance, a reading, a screening, a poster project, and so on, each taking place at a different type of venue. The project included collaborations with a range of cultural producers, including Henning Fehr & Philipp Rühr, Aaron Peck, Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Pablo Larios, Dena Yago, and Rachel Rose.
This interview seeks to understand the intentions the SPC have for cinema in the 21st Century, taking into account cinema's contemporary and historical modes of production and dissemination.
SB: What is the SPC's form and function?
SPC: We are a structure for generating images and language, and act as a functionary of that structure. One of our primary functions is to ensure that the structure remains formless.
We exist in order to find new ways to research, to produce, to disseminate. Within our cultural context, all forms of cultural production come with a set of traditions and accepted orthodoxies that function as models for the territory or language in which it is considered viable to function. We formed out of dissatisfaction with these impositions. We attempt to function just enough outside of the model to see which and how many aspects of the model we can remove, destroy, or rearrange while still viably, or at least arguably, working within the form of cinema, since it is our purported form of cultural engagement at the moment. Since our primary starting point comes from a notion of a disassembled cinema, we consider every element within the cinematic apparatus as simultaneously expendable and expandable.
A Network for a Space: Auto Italia South East Moves Into King's Cross
Tim Ivison, Julia Tcharfas, George Moustakas and Rachel Pimm. View of Recent Work by Artists (2013).
Auto Italia South East is no stranger to precarity. The inaugural event for this artist-run project's new space located on York Way in King's Cross was a conference titled "Immaterial Labour Isn't Working" (20th April—12th May 2013, organized in collaboration with Huw Lemmey), which built on and extended a growing international discourse surrounding art and labor. The title was suggestively open-ended. It could be taken to mean that immaterial labor—the post-Fordist condition in which work is based on knowledge, and may not even be recognizable as work in a traditional sense—leads to untenable and precarious situations for workers. Or, it could be taken to mean that immaterial labor isn't work at all, because it is so close to leisure.


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a vested interest
This page is about the idiom a vested interest
If you have a vested interest in something, you have a strong personal interest in it because you stand to gain from it.
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- The Minister of Commerce is suspected of having vested interests in several companies that have won big government contracts recently.
- As both a shareholder in a publishing company and a published author, the newspaper's book reviewer is seen as having vested interests in certain publishers.
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At Pivotal we practice a form of Agile software development descended from the original Extreme Programming (XP) created by Kent Beck et al. XP codifies many of our core practices including pair programming, test-driven development, iteration planning, and stand-up. XP also has a very strong emphasis on flat hierarchies and frequent communication. Because of its values and engineering guidelines, XP allows for high-quality software to be produced and shipped extremely quickly. XP values working software over extensive specifications or documentation, so-called "big design up front." This is so the product can be iterated on quickly, both in the business and the technical sense.
Opinions differ as to which of XP's practices is the most valuable in accomplishing this. One of my personal favorites is simplicity and clarity in code and design. Simplicity is a difficult thing to pin down. Occam's Razor, one of the earliest and most popular statements of the parsimony principle, suggests we form a hypothesis with the least "plurality," or the fewest assumptions or entities possible. Since then people have rephrased this idea as "keep it simple, stupid" (KISS) or probably the most elegant, "less is more." My favorite statement is St. Exupéry's:
"It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
XP offers us its own guidance on simplicity and writing simple code. It has two simply stated tenets on simplicity: "do the simplest thing which can possibly work," and the related "you ain't gonna need it" (YAGNI). Ward Cunningham, another father of XP, explains the first concept as:
"What's possible? What is the simplest thing we could say in code, so that we'll be talking about something that's on the screen, instead of something that's ill-formed in our mind. Once we get something on the screen, we can look at it. If it needs to be more, we can make it more."
YAGNI is an answer to the temptation to prematurely optimize: "Always implement things when you actually need them, never when you just foresee that you need them." Yet, XP also tells us we should "refactor mercilessly," and Cunningham has long been a proponent of object-oriented design patterns. There is some tension there and it depends on the project and situation.
Clojure creator Rich Hickey tells us in his 2011 talk that the easiest thing isn't always the most simple, and the simplest design isn't always immediately apparent. This is a veiled jab at object-oriented programming in favor of functional languages. Obviously object orientation leads to many more "entities" than functional design, assuming entities are objects. Yet most programmers will tell you that objected-oriented design is "easier" than functional design. Perhaps this is merely because they are more familiar with OOP from past experience. However, many would also argue that functional code is quite complex. Code is communication, so a good design is easily parsed (by humans) and understood. That might mean favoring OOP conventions over a more functional style. In Ruby we have a number of functional-inspired techniques that allow for some middle ground to follow the principle of least astonishment.
Let's look at a case study. Some months ago, I worked on a Ruby implementation of Tetris in my spare time. My goal was to have a working implementation in the shortest time possible, to win a bet that a working game of Tetris would take more than a few days. I settled on Gosu, a C++ 2D game development library that provides graphics, sound, and many other features in a pure Ruby wrapper. The game is on Github. After bundling, you should be able to run it with 'ruby game_window.rb,' and try prefacing that with bundle exec if it doesn't work right away. You will need to have a number of dependencies installed, see the Gosu documentation for more.
I assume the reader is familiar with the rules of Tetris. One of the first things I did was create the shapes for the pieces. Tetris has 7 pieces. All somewhat resemble letters: I the 4×1 stick, J and its mirror L, S and its mirror Z, O the square box, and T. I knew in my head what these pieces looked like, and could easily draw them. So, I created a relative X,Y coordinate system and a draw method. For example, the I piece was [[0,0],[1,0],[2,0],[3,0]].
Now that I had pieces, I needed rotation. I knew what the rotation should look like, but I was not entirely sure how to implement the concept in code. Without researching the question much, I decided to hard-code my values. This seems "dirty" or "ugly," but it is in keeping with Cunningham's urging to put something on the screen now and iterate on it later. It was the simplest thing that could possibly provide a working implementation of the game. I also knew that there was a bounded number of possible pieces and rotations in the game, and no need to generalize further. Furthermore, I wasn't working with a team, didn't need to maintain the code going forward, and had to win a bet. So I created a large case statement of hashes that looked like this:
def shape
case @type
when :I
{0 => [[1,0],[2,0],[3,0]],
1 => [[0,-1],[0,-2],[0,-3]],
2 => [[-1,0],[-2,0],[-3,0]],
3 => [[0,1],[0,2],[0,3]] }
The pieces, when generated, would randomly assign themselves a type from the list, and a rotation starting at 0. The current_shape method would call to the shape hash method with the current rotation to get the current shape. When the player pressed up, the game would increment the rotation by 1 or reset it back to 0 if it had reached 3. This is not a bad "simplest thing" solution because it is fairly easy to understand what it is doing, and hopefully easy to refactor it into something a bit more elegant. You can see this early commit here. Feel free to checkout that version of the code and run it as well (git checkout 04d590d114cdd564f54491b77339c6ac24bb1693). It will generate a random Tetris piece and then crash. The next commit, ebfcc34e461d30321edf7293f8dc3de95fa2af2b, has semi-functional rotation using the hash method.
I was able to finish the Tetris game with this hard-coded implementation and left it alone for some months. However, in the back of my head, the hard-coded solution was bothering me, and I wanted to implement it using a rotation matrix, a concept I dimly recalled from math class.
Good tests are the most important requirement for refactoring confidently, since they provide a known basis that your refactor preserved the correct behavior and did not break anything. I had been sloppy the first time around and hadn't written a test for the method that contained the massive case statement, which later became a class method with a type parameter. So here it is:
it "I" do
Piece.shape(:I)[0].should == [[1,0],[2,0],[3,0]]
Piece.shape(:I)[1].should == [[0,-1],[0,-2],[0,-3]]
Piece.shape(:I)[2].should == [[-1,0],[-2,0],[-3,0]]
Piece.shape(:I)[3].should == [[0,1],[0,2],[0,3]]
This was green, as you'll note it is quite similar to the implementation above. For my refactor I wanted to change the interface of the shape method to have 2 parameters instead of returning a hash, so my test would look like
Piece.shape(:I,0).should == [[1,0],[2,0],[3,0]]
but would otherwise remain the same. The case statement would remain, but would only return the 0 rotation, after which I would perform some sort of matrix transformation.
Wikipedia tells us that the rotation matrix for 90 degrees counterclockwise is:
After some Googling I settled on an implementation like this:
rotation.times do
shape = shape.map{|arr|(Matrix[arr] * Matrix[[0,-1],[1,0]]).to_a.flatten}
Although the tests passed for the I, J, and L shapes, the other piece tests did not. The O shape actually moved around its axis of rotation even though in my hard-coded version, I had it remain stationary. I had also previously suspected a bug in the implementation of the S or Z shapes, since they seemed to be roughly the same, even though they should have been mirror images. More than likely my known "true" values were simply off. Playing the game confirmed that the rotation was functional and acted as intended. You can see the commit at GitHub.
I was further able to refactor away the rotation variable, generate the shape at object initialize time, and apply the rotation upon receiving player input (commit). This optimizes the number of rotations. Previously, each rotation would start at 0 and progress to a maximum of 3. So if I rotated from 2 to 3, the old code would actually calculate the interim steps 0 to 1 and 1 to 2 as well. The new stateful version will only perform one matrix transformation per rotation.
This change also allowed me to rewrite the test in a much more object-oriented and end-to-end way, as follows:
let(:piece) { Piece.new(window, grid, type) }
describe "I" do
let(:type) { :I }
it "rotates" do
piece.shape.should == [[1,0],[2,0],[3,0]]
piece.shape.should == [[0,-1],[0,-2],[0,-3]]
piece.shape.should == [[-1,0],[-2,0],[-3,0]]
piece.shape.should == [[0,1],[0,2],[0,3]]
I think this is a reasonable showcase of a balance between refactoring and simplicity. My initial implementation was pretty ugly, but it allowed me to continue making progress. After getting the simplest thing out the door and hitting my deadline, I went back to refactor the technological debt I had accrued.
Also, I am not going to need it, but the solution is now generalized enough that I could add additional pieces. For example:
Some would argue that the new design is actually simpler. It's fewer lines of code, fewer branches in logic, it uses a well-established algorithm, it's more elegant. Sure, the refactored version is a vastly improved design, but "simple" isn't about lines of code or branches in logic. "Simple" is about complexity of implementation. For example, XP tells us about the "rule of three": refactor out duplication only on the third occurrence of duplicate logic, not the second. The implication is that duplication is more lines, but "simpler" to write.
What "simple" definitely is not about is elegance. The hard-coded solution was simpler because it had fewer levels of abstraction and required less of a cognitive load to understand than the matrix manipulation: the difference between basic Cartesian coordinates versus a result obtained using linear algebra. Math, even pre-calculus, is often quite elegant but quite abstract and therefore more complex than a simple table of values. Why does the rotation matrix work? Well, to understand that, you'll need to understand its generalized form, and quickly this solution becomes quite slow and complicated to implement, especially if it's late at night and you're having trouble remembering trigonometry.
It's clear that according to XP's philosophy, the hard-coded solution is the preferred first step. Kent Beck outlines the benefit of doing the easiest simple thing first:
- You get done sooner
- Your work is easier to communicate
- Duplication is obvious, so the needs and means for refactoring are clearer
- Tests are easier to write
- The code is easier to performance tune (Or, at least, there will be more scope for tuning performance)
- You feel less stress, which enhances all of the above
The key benefit of a simple solution is that you get it done faster so you can iterate on it. It's a first pass used to enable continued progress. Perhaps this principle should be called "do the easiest thing to make the tests pass," "do the ugliest, dirtiest thing first," "do what comes to mind first and stop thinking so hard," or maybe just "be as agile as possible." Agile, of course, primarily means "quick."
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Every so often, I'll grab my good friend Jeremy Cliff (who's appeared on Jalopnik at least once in the past), and we'll snap some pictures of a car that I'm reviewing for Web2Carz. This past week, we took a Range Rover Evoque to a local quasi-off-road area to see if we could have any fun with it. Spoiler Alert: We did.
The Evoque surprised me in how well it handled deep ruts and even deeper puddles. Then again, it's got a Range Rover badge, and I'm sure everybody would bitch and moan if it wasn't at least halfway capable.
Either way, this isn't about words, it's about pictures. Here, have a bunch of them. If you like 'em, do yourself a favor and go like Jeremy's page on Facebook, because he does way cooler shit than this. Enjoy, and have an awesome Independence Day weekend!
[ADDENDUM] It has come to my attention that this is not, in any way, off-roading. Semantically speaking, you're wrong; difficulty-wise, you're right. Having done more with more capable vehicles, I actually agree. But I liked the pictures, and people don't often do this with the Evoque, so here they are.


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Good afternoon from southwest Arkansas, in the great twin city of Texarkana. We are an up and coming area of geocachers and a cool little place to visit to not only do the GPS Maze Adventure at our Discovery Museum, but also to get 2 states in less than a minute, lol. We will be in Smackover tomorrow and can't wait to attempt the power trail and what appears to be a really cool earthcache. We are kind of like you, We are a family of 6: our geochild, DayLee (7), the little man, Dawson (11), the princess, DeLana (14) and the angel, Destiny (15), the Boss Hog and myself started in January of this year and really picked up the last couple of months with just over 350. We are having a big event October 21, 2011 and would love to see you there. The GC code is GC31ERB. Have fun and happy hunting!!!!
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And after a short break we are back with the winners of the 12th competition of our Birthday Bash where we were giving away a 120GB Western Digital Passport Drive sponsored by Newegg.com.
We had a tough time picking the winner from the 56 entries we got, a list of which you can find in our Google Docs account here.
And the winner of the 120GB WD Passport Drive is;
Congrats to Deepali Vichare for winning the prize sponsored by Newegg.com, but wait that is not all, we could not deject so many of you so we threw in a surprise gift sponsored by AMD for 5 more people.
5 surprise winners will be getting a 2GB pen drive that is generously sponsored by AMD.
Congrats Grace, Shivaranjan, Shankar Ganesh, Hariharakumar and Mohit Prabhat on winning 2GB pen drives sponsored by AMD. We will contact the winners shortly to distribute the prizes.
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cold lunch
This cold, wet weather just makes me want to crawl back into bed. I fought that feeling
though and had lunch out with my guys where we had meatballs, parsley pasta salad, red
bananas and some really toasted baguette. That little piece of bread lasted Israel nearly
4 blocks and remnants stuck to his jacket. It's a losing battle to try to keep him clean.
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Somedays I give up on keeping my little one clean. It's an endless battle, that I never win!ReplyDelete
Bread love starts early. I approve :)ReplyDelete
Aww This is my Josiah's FAV hangout-he spends nearly 2 hrs when we go ha! Did you see my fam-word is they were shopping for the boys Christmas presies there ;)ReplyDelete
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Linen Suit Wearing
In contrast to clothes that made of summer-friendly fabric, traditional clothing pieces are not breathed and therefore usually more discomfort during the warmer months. Linen fabric dresses are more comfortable especially in these warm conditions in summer hot. So, most of men prefer linen suits for their daily life and also in their wedding ceremony. In this article we will try to express linen suit wearing tips for men in both aspect of daily and wedding and also for combining them.
When wearing suit, choosing the fabric has a big importance as in addition to patterns and colors for having a gentleman look. This is also contributing the personal style and property and help a man to distinguish from the crowd somehow will be highlighted. With the season changes winter to summer, lighter more breathable materials release or re-emergence such as with the collection of tweed, velvet and heavy wool and flax, cotton and.
Season dressing and adopt strict wardrobe management skills will be essential during the summer. Winter, gives us the opportunity to make a layer for the functional purposes (always non-trendy), summer really bring out all that weaknesses that we have in choosing the right fabrics really. All day if you do not want to go through the town of speed transmitter, let's be sure we choose the right fabric!
The Linen Suit
Flax clothes are suitable for spring and summer, because of this reason linen suit wearing are preferred most of the men. Although flax is breathable, lightweight and durable fabric, it has the disadvantage of a easily folding. Therefore, corporate clothes made of linen suit to avoid wear and summer beach weddings more relaxed regarding the events book their use! Pure flax linen cotton wool or a team's alternative is to opt for a mixture; this is necessary to reduce the prevalence of wrinkles will help add structure.
Linen suits present a cool vibe effortlessly with the highest level of display. If you prefer to have a sophisticated image with relaxing mode, you have the option to use darker colors such as navy, brown or black as coal. These color alternative s also help you to be relax and have comfort in business or special events in spring or summer hot weather. However, -light colors such as light blue, cream, whitish or khaki, the ultimate summer (when looking at most associated throughout the day) view, will bring versatility to your wardrobe and entertainment.
Groom Style for Summer Weddings
Wearing suit can be difficult for men in their wedding ceremonies. So, most of men use suit pants and vest combinations instead of whole suit. On the other hand, linen suit wearing is more suitable for summer weddings and also summer hot weather wearing with its fabric properties. So there will be mostly seen linen suits for men wearing, especially for grooms. And also, these wedding sits can be matched man of colors and give to men an attractive image. A cream or beige line suit can be combined with orange or sky blue tie or pocket square. Also a brown linen suit used with pastel colored shirts. Light colored linen suits are also can combined with dark colored belts and shoes as having a contrast chic.
Power of Combining
If you assume you have more than one suit, you can use each suit pieces with different combines. Through this, when you use with ease your cotton shirt and linen jacket and leave with khaki or cotton trousers you can have more casual and sophisticated summer look. For example an opaque linen jacket and cotton trouser with brown belt and madras colored shirts bring chic appearance and all the eyes will on you during the night or on a special date.


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Work in Poland from January to June Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Work in Poland from January to June Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Poland View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message tbiehl2000Joined: 22 Jul 2004Posts: 87 Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 8:24 am Post subject: Work in Poland from January to June I have a question for anyone out there. I am a 36 yr old man. I am currently working as a waiter. I have a BA in Latin American Studies. I spent 7 weeks visiting a girlfriend (now ex-girlfriend) in Poland last October-November. Anyway, I am working here in the US and I plan on visiting Europe for about 6 weeks and then taking the CELTA course in Krakow next November. Provided I pass this course I would like to work in Eastern Europe somewhere from January 2005 till June of 2005 at which time I would return to the US to make American Dollars for the summer time and then return to teaching english... if I enjoy it. What are my chances of finding employment in Eastern Europe from January-June assuming I pass the CELTA? Will the short time span be a big problem? Thanks. Terry. Back to top XXXJoined: 14 Feb 2003Posts: 174Location: Where ever people wish to learn English Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject: It is quite possible to secure a teaching post in January. There will always be people who for one reason or another skip out on thier SIGNED contracts mid term. When this happens, schooler owners have to scramble to fill the position. Keep in contact with various schools, and you may get lucky. Back to top tbiehl2000Joined: 22 Jul 2004Posts: 87 Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:11 pm Post subject: work visa in Poland How does the 'work visa' work in Poland? I heard somewhere that work visas should be obtained from your native country but I am American and I will complete my CELTA in Poland most likely, at which time I will want to begin my job search. I certainly hope I wouldn't have to return to the US just for a work visa. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Terry. Back to top ellieJoined: 17 Jun 2004Posts: 14Location: Japan Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:36 am Post subject: I was told by my employer that if you are EU you are ok but Americans really do have to go back to the states to sort out their visa. crap but true. Back to top tbiehl2000Joined: 22 Jul 2004Posts: 87 Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:09 am Post subject: Consulate reply I received a brief reply from the Polish Consulate here in the States. He told me I needed to obtain my working papers through the Consulate in the US but that I could do it by mail. I wrote him back and told him that I would be in Poland and that I did not want to have to fly back if I didn't have to. I 'm still awaiting his response. His first email implied that I didn't have to return to the US. I am awaiting a clarification. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Poland All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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I'm a bit puzzled about this particular one though. I think it's not one of those Paris-Dakar ones as they all came in Rothman's livery. I've never seen a offroad Carrera RS with Martini livery before.
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Like many new shows, Fox's The Mindy Project is still finding its voice and creative direction. The comedy recently dropped a couple of regulars as part of a slight retooling, but the central conceit hasn't changed: Mindy Kaling stars as an ob-gyn looking to balance love, life and career. Chris Messina and Ed Weeks costar as her colleagues and romantic foils, while Kaling's old Office flame B.J. Novak (a consultant on the series) will guest star in an upcoming episode. Showrunner Matt Warburton tells us why we should book an appointment with The Mindy Project.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
D is for Dinosaur: ABC Book Craft & Dino Math Activities
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D is for dinosaur and its also for everyone of the 4 men I live with! LOL I saw you on the blog hop and I just had to check out the Divas since I have none. :)ReplyDelete
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My 4 yr old loves dinosaurs and he would really love this project! Thanks for sharing that dino pack too. Great ideas!ReplyDelete
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I also downloaded the Dinosaur pack from Teaching Mommies but when we did our D unit I totally forgot about it, ugh.
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600 Percent Increase in Samsung's Lobbying Spend Likely Apple's Fault
Samsung's interests in Washington these days are far greater than they ever have been before. The company's nasty intellectual property battle with Apple alone is enough to justify an increased presence around the Beltway. Add to that the anti-dumping tariffs and investigations its appliance pricing has drawn from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission, and Samsung's efforts to influence policy clearly seem a worthwhile pastime.
Little wonder, then, that Samsung's lobbying spend is increasing dramatically. In 2011, the company spent $150,000 on lobbying. In 2012? $900,000 — a 600 percent spike. Samsung says its expanded lobbying efforts are simply part of "day-to-day business operations," an apt explanation for a company whose day-to-day "operations" include a brutal, ongoing patent battle with Apple. These days, litigation seems part and parcel of the smartphone business. Certainly, that's true for both Samsung and Apple.
Speaking of Apple, the iPhone maker's lobbying spend actually decreased in 2012, though it still far exceeded Samsung's. Apple spent $2 million on U.S. lobbying last year, down 13 percent from the year prior.


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Facebook's stock surged more than 19% Wednesday, marking its best one-day gain since the company went public by far, as investors welcomed a healthy boost in sales.
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Facebook's stock rally comes a day before many of the company's employees will be able to sell their shares of the company. Facebook's main form of equity compensation, restricted stock units, will convert into common stock shares on Thursday using Wednesday's closing price. Facebook's current and former employees hold about 225 million of those units, worth nearly $5 billion based on Facebook's current share price. But they won't be eligible to sell those shares until Monday.
While the looming lockup expiration could put pressure on Facebook's stock, Mahaney said he that "long-term investors can use weakness around said lockups" and benefit from the positive fundamentals and valuation.
Despite Wednesday's big advance, Facebook (FB) shares are still about 40% below their IPO price of $38.>
As Facebook's stock rallied, other social media stocks also enjoyed a bump Wednesday. Shares of Yelp (YELP) jumped 7%, while LinkedIn (LNKD) gained 3%. Shares of the Social Media ETF (SOCL) rose more than 2%.
Zynga's stock declined 3%, as the company gears up to open its books after the closing bell. Zynga (ZNGA) makes money from games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, but has been struggling as users on Facebook, its biggest platform, cut back on their purchases.
Facebook's latest earnings report showed a 20% decline in payment revenue from Zynga over the last year. Late Tuesday, Zynga laid off 5% of its staff from multiple offices.
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