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Callahan comes off being fired by the University of Nebraska last month where he finished a four year term and a 5-7 season this past fall. Prior to Nebraska he was the head coach of the Raiders in 2002-2003 where he led Oakland to the Superbowl his first season, a loss to the Buccaneers.
Callahan has a good reputation as an offensive assistant with an expertise on the offensive line and the running game, two areas where the Jets had a lot of problems last season. He will work on improving these areas and its even possible he could take over for current Jets offensive line coach Tony Wise, who has been rumored to be on the chopping block.
There was talk that Callahan could be a replacement for offensive coordinator Brian Shottenheimer, who had a second interview with the Ravens for their head coaching position this week, however the job was given late last night to Eagles secondary coach John Harbaugh.
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Learn the basic keyboard functions; Enter, Space bar, Tab; arrow keys; delete and backspace; Help. Learn the basic functions of the alphanumeric computer keyboard. The instructor will discuss what each key does, and how they work. Make use of your computer's function keys and discover several keyboard shortcuts for common operations. Proper care and cleaning of the keyboard will be taught, as well as tips to begin practicing your typing skills.
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A hilarious new Fly Guy adventure: When Fly Guy joins Buzz's class on a trip to a flyswatter factory, it's the "best field trip ever!"
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- A player that has quietly gone about his business during OTAs and minicamp has been receiver
- During the 7-on-7 period down in the red zone, Williams ran a route out of the right slot and was able to put himself in a position right between
- Williams, who has a tendency to body catch the ball in the middle of the field, extended his hands and grabbed the ball at the highest point before landing with both feet in bounds in the back of the end zone. It was an outstanding throw by Weeden but an even better route and catch by Williams.
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Bruce Carterand how much better he has played in coverage and how these defensive coaches are showing confidence in his ability to line up and play in the nickel.
During the 7-on-7 period, Scott Linehan decided to show an empty backfield with
Dez Bryantas the slot receiver on the right side. At the snap of the ball, Bryant broke for the middle of the field. Brandon Weeden knew by his pre-snap look that Bryant was going to have a shot at the goal line.
Carter peeked to his left as Bryant worked behind him. J.J. Wilcox saw the route developing and broke forward on the ball. Carter was in the perfect zone drop between Weeden and Bryant as the ball was thrown. Despite having his share of issues securing the ball when he had a shot at an interception, Carter snatched the ball out of the air and killed the drive.
Later in the practice, Carter came up with another nice play dealing with
Jason Wittenon a "Hot" read, knocking the ball away. That's no easy feat, given how well Witten plays making contested catches.
- There are times during these practices where the rookies get a learning experience about running across a veteran using poor technique. This happened to
Devin Streetwhen he was matched up with Morris Claibornein 7-on-7 in the red zone.
What I have seen from Claiborne in these practices is that he is not giving these receivers much room at all tooperate and especially not in the red zone. When Street came off the ball, he didn't appear that he really had a plan for how he wanted to attack Claiborne. Conversely, it was clear Claiborne had a plan for how to deal with Street.
As Street worked up the field, Claiborne was able to position himself to the inside, which forced Street wider in his route. There was no separation and no window for Weeden to fit the ball in there. Claiborne had tied up Street to the point where there was no way for him to adjust to the ball.
- Weeden fired the ball in Street's direction thinking he would be able to make the play, but Claiborne was right there to knock the ball away. The lesson for Devin Street in this matchup was if you do not run your routes with purpose and physically fight for position with a corner that has length and quickness, your margin for success is very slim.


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Down on the (Urban) Farm for a Day of Service
August 29, 2014
For the vast majority of NJIT's incoming Class of 2018, college life began not in a lecture hall or classroom, but on a ride through the city of Newark to an elementary school, senior center, food bank, urban farm or park. >>
EPA Awards $1 Million Grant to NJIT's Brownfield Program
December 06, 2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $1 million grant to a team of environmental experts at NJIT who offer technical assistance to communities working to transform contaminated properties into clean and productive land. >>
NJIT environmental experts will offer better ways to manage brownfields projects and the availability of professional help at NJIT at an upcoming national brownfields conference on May 15-17, 2013 in Atlanta. >>
Northern New Jersey IT Industry Roundtable on Sept. 20
September 17, 2012
Come and be part of this specially focused industry roundtable. You will have a chance to tell NJIT, Rutgers-Newark, Bergen Community College, Essex County College, Hudson County Community College, County College of Morris and Passaic County Community College as well as the Workforce Investment Boards in these northern New Jersey counties what kinds of IT and STEM skills your company's current and future technical workforce needs. >>
Xiaoning Ding, Expert in Multi-core Computer Systems, Appointed
August 16, 2012
Xiaoning Ding, PhD, whose research has improved the performance of multi-core computer systems, will join NJIT's College of Computing Sciences as an assistant professor this fall. >>
Removal of Hexavalent Chromium From Your Drinking Water
December 22, 2010
The only way to learn if your water source has hexavalent chromium is to check with your public water supplier and request a water quality report, said NJIT Professor Taha Marhaba, a civil/environmental engineer. >>
NJIT's Judith Sheft To Provide Training at First Peruvian-American Business Incubator
December 13, 2010
Judith Sheft, associate vice president of technology development at NJIT, will visiting Lima, Peru, on Dec.17-21 to provide incubator training to managers at the new Peruvian-American Business Development Center-Incubator sponsored by Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, NJIT, the Peruvian American National Roundtable and The Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey. >>
Organic Garden To Grace NJIT Rooftop Thanks to Efforts of Chef and Others
September 01, 2010
Up on the roof of the NJIT Campus Center, NJIT award-winning chef Peter Fischbach eyes a new crop of green goodness. In about two months, Fischbach hopes a bounty of wholesome organic winter veggies--from kale to arugula--will be ready to harvest into mouth-watering, organic greatness in his kitchen. >>
Director of University Audits Alice Blount-Fenney (far right), of Edison, served as chair of the 2010 Audit Directors Annual Round Table this spring at NJIT. The event was attended by audit directors from various colleges and universities in New Jersey and New York including Rutgers, Stevens Institute, UMDNJ, New York University, and Columbia University, as well as healthcare facilities. >>
The New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has presented the Educator of the Year Award to John Schuring, Stabile Professor for Innovation and Technology at NJIT. (ATTENTION MEDIA: To interview Schuring as an expert, contact Sheryl Weinstein at 973-596-3436.) >>
NL Chemical Technology Executive To Give Vincent A. Stabile Systems Engineering and Management Lecture
April 28, 2009
Jane C. Li, PhD, a vice president at NL Chemical Technology, Inc. in Mount Prospect, Illinois, will give The Vincent A. Stabile Systems Engineering & Management Lecture on May 4 at 3 p.m. in the Guttenberg Information Technologies Center Seminar Room 3730. Contact: Vonney Williams, firstname.lastname@example.com, ext. 3333. >>
Technology and life sciences-related businesses, service providers, and state universities are invited to attend a roundtable discussion on the financial resources and incentives available to New Jersey's most promising technology companies at NJIT's Enterprise Development Center III. Hosted by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the Edison Innovation Roundtable will be held on March 30, 8:30-11:30 a.m. Click here to register. >>
For Up-Close Look at NJIT, Make Time To Attend Open House Tour
November 14, 2008
For an up-close look at life at NJIT, make time this fall and winter to attend an upcoming open house. The take-away will be more than a campus tour and meeting with an admissions counselor. You'll learn about NJIT's graduate and undergraduate programs in high-growth in-demand fields and meet one on one with faculty and admissions representatives. >>
Students from India's Heritage Institute Gain Hands-On Training at NJIT's Summer Research Experience Symposium
October 08, 2008
NJIT conducted a summer research program in partnership with the Heritage Institute of Technology (HITK) in Kolkata, India. The 20 students enrolled in NJIT's Undergraduate Research Experience Symposium were able to participate in a state-of-the-art research facility with world-class faculty. They were accompanied by Srabanti Basu, a senior lecturer in biotechnology at HITK. The program was initiated and managed by Durga Misra, PhD, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT, who also encouraged the participation of faculty and the Albert Dorman Honors College students who mentored the HITK students after hours in their residence hall. "The Summer Research Experience is a rare opportunity to receive hands-on training with NJIT professors and students at the university's facilities," said Misra. "A group of three students worked in NJIT's new Vincent A. Stabile Systems Engineering and Management Laboratories to gain experience with the Stabile Laboratories' Festo System." Student research projects included low-power microchip design, drug delivery systems, nanoelectronics, ultrafiltration to scalable web search, clean slate Internet design and management systems analysis. >>
Students from Indian Technology School Gain Hands-on Training in NJIT's Stabile Laboratories
July 22, 2008
Three Indian students from the Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India, are spending the summer in New Jersey in NJIT's new Vincent A. Stabile Systems Engineering and Management Laboratories. Working with Stabile Scholar Frank Munoz (left), a graduate student in engineering management, Soumik Chakrabarty, Saurabh Kumar, and Shipon Roy are taking advantage of a rare opportunity to gain experience with the Stabile Laboratories' Festo System. >>
200 Leading Experts in Applied Math To Attend NJITs Fifth Annual Math Conference Set for May 19-21, 2008 in Newark
May 16, 2008
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will host May 19-21, 2008, more than 200 leading experts for the fifth annual Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics Conference, an unusual three-day event featuring leading researchers who will discuss the latest news and research findings in their fields. >>
Open House for New Vincent A. Stabile Laboratory at NJITs Newark College of Engineering
February 11, 2008
An open house and robotics demonstration of cutting-edge manufacturing processes will showcase the new Vincent A. Stabile Laboratory at NJIT's Newark College of Engineering (NCE) on Feb. 20, 2008 from 1 p.m.- 4:30 p.m. >>
Brooklyn, NY Resident Receives Master Teacher Designation
September 13, 2007
NJIT Mathematics Professor Amitabha Bose, PhD, of Brooklyn, NY, received a master teacher designation at NJIT's annual convocation on Sept. 5, 2007. >>
NJIT Math Professor Amitabha Bose Receives Honor for Teaching
September 13, 2006
Amitabha Bose, PhD, a professor in the department of mathematical sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), received at NJIT's annual awards convocation today an award for outstanding teaching. >>
New Jersey Colleges Unite To Offer State's First Higher Ed Jobs Database
November 16, 2005
NJIT is one of 28 New Jersey colleges and universities that have teamed up to offer the region's first online jobs database aimed at helping higher education institutions attract and retain a diverse work force. The New Jersey Higher Education Recruitment Consortium, which is free to job seekers, was launched on Nov. 15 and allows job seekers to search the full range of positions at colleges and universities. >>
KUDOS - September 2005
September 01, 2005
NJIT has promoted one faculty member to the rank of distinguished professor, five to the rank of professor, one to the rank of associate professor with tenure, and two received tenure without change in rank. PROMOTION TO DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR Zeynep Celik, New Jersey School of Architecture, joined NJIT in September of 1990 as an associate professor, and was promoted to Professor of Architecture in 1996. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984 and began her academic career at Columbia University. She is a well-known and respected scholar in the field of architectural and urban history. Her long list of highly regarded publications studies the cities of Ottoman and French Empires in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. She was the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians from 2000 to 2003. Her outstanding scholarship has been recognized with prestigious honors, including three awards in 2004: the Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and the Council of American Overseers Research Center Fellowship. She lectures throughout the world and has held visiting professorships at Harvard University, Barnard College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and most recently at the Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She serves the university and the profession on a variety of important committees, including the University's Promotion and Tenure Committee. Promotion to Professor Michael Bieber, Department of Information Systems, came to NJIT in 1993 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1999. Previously, he has been on the faculty at Boston College (Carroll School of Management) and New York University (Stern School of Business). His Ph.D. was awarded by the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. His research has been strongly funded throughout his career by NSF, and involves making learning more effective and concerns hypermedia, digital libraries, educational research, software engineering, the World Wide Web and Web Engineering, and virtual communities. He has been extremely active in professional service and is the associate editor of three scholarly journals. He has shown leadership and accomplishment in his teaching, developed a commitment to research in education and learning, and has been nominated twice for excellence in teaching awards by the IS Department. He currently serves as Acting Chair for his department, and as co-Director of the Collaborative Hypermedia Research Laboratory. Amitabha Bose, Department of Mathematical Sciences, joined NJIT in 1996 as assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure in 2001. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Brown University, and served on the faculty at Boston University and at the Polytechnic Preparatory School in Brooklyn before coming to NJIT. He is an accomplished scholar and a recognized leader who has significantly affected the development of the research and education agendas for his department. His primary research interests are in the area of Dynamical Systems with a specialty in geometric singular perturbation analysis of problems in mathematical neurosciences, and he has received strong support for his research and education projects from NSF. Dr. Bose's teaching is exceptional - he is a fine lecturer and a successful mentor of undergraduate and graduate students - and he has received teaching awards from the department and the Honors College. He has also started an undergraduate training program to inspire young mathematicians to become interested in biological programs and young biologists to recognize the usefulness of mathematical approaches to their field. Dr. Bose serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies since 2001 and is a member of the departmental curriculum committee and several university committees. Boris Khusid, Department of Mechanical Engineering, joined NJIT as an associate professor in 1998 and was granted tenure in 2002. He has a Ph.D. in Thermal Sciences and Engineering from Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, Academy of Science of Belarus, Minsk, USSR (1975), a D.S. in Thermal Sciences & Engineering from the Council of the Ministers of the USSR, Moscow (1985), and Professor in Thermal Sciences & Engineering from the Department of Education of the USSR, Moscow (1991). Before coming to NJIT, he had been a noted scientist in Russia, and had served as a Levich Institute research associate at the City College of the City University of New York. His research is in the area of physicochemical hydrodynamics of phenomena governed by the interaction of fluid flows, electro-magnetic fields, heat and mass transfer, and chemical reactions. He has received funding from many agencies, including NSF, DARPA, ONR, and the Keck Foundation. His work has applications for microfluidics, homeland security (e.g., biosensing) and nanotechnology. He has published 127 papers in highly selective peer-reviewed journals and 4 books, and he has organized many workshops and sessions on electro-hydrodynamics at American Society of Mechanical Engineering International Congresses (2002-2004) and International and U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics (2002-2004). He is a member of several committees of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering. He makes strong contributions to teaching in undergraduate and graduate education, and has involved undergraduate students in research. His teaching evaluations are very good, and he has developed a new course in nanoscale materials characterization. He has advised several MS and PhD students in their thesis work, and one of his students has received a national award. Michael Siegel, Department of Mathematical Sciences, is an extremely creative and influential researcher, who has made significant contributions with real impact in the mathematical sciences. He has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 1989. He joined NJIT in 1995 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1998. His recent work in the areas of interfacial fluid dynamics and singularities is always at the cutting edge and has opened up new and productive lines of investigation. His research has been funded through several NSF programs, and he has notably served as Principal Investigator for an important NSF-funded Focus Research Group on singularity formation in 3-D Euler flow. He is very effective in the classroom, as well as in curriculum and course development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Not only is he a leader in his chosen profession, but he is also a role model for younger faculty members as he has taken leadership roles in shaping the future of the department and of the Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics, his department, and NJIT. Pushpendra Singh, Department of Mechanical Engineering, joined NJIT as assistant professor in 1996 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2001. His Ph.D. was awarded in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1991. Before coming to NJIT, he was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a member of the technical staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His current research interests fall into three areas: the direct numerical simulations of multiphase fluids, the fluid dynamics of two fluid interfaces, and the modeling of biological materials. His research has been funded by NSF, ONR, state agencies, and industry. Dr. Singh has taught a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate courses, some of which he developed, and he is appreciated as a fine teacher with a commitment to continuous improvement and innovation. He serves on several departmental and university committees, and has been actively involved in advising and recruitment. PROMOTION TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WITH TENURE I. Joga Rao, Department of Mechanical Engineering, joined NJIT in December of 1999 as an assistant professor. Dr. Rao's Ph.D. was awarded by Texas A&M University in 1999. His research is in the areas of continuum mechanics and constitutive modeling. He is currently investigating modeling the mechanics of growth in biological tissues, mechanics of crystallization in polymers, shape memory polymers and the mechanics of creep in single crystal super alloys. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. Dr. Rao has developed two new graduate courses, and is active in teaching undergraduate courses as well. He is a dedicated teacher, and is the recipient of the Newark College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching award for 2005. In addition, the department has nominated him for an Excellence in Graduate Instruction teaching award. Dr. Rao has served at the national level on the Board of Directors of the Polymer Analysis Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers and he is a member of the Constitutive Equations Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has organized and chaired numerous sessions and symposia at various conferences. He also serves on several university and departmental committees. TENURE WITHOUT CHANGE IN RANK Artur Czumaj, Department of Computer Science, began his career at NJIT in January of 2000 as an associate professor without tenure. He previously was an assistant professor at the University of Paderborn (Germany) from which he received his Ph.D. in 1995 and the Habilitation (second doctorate) in 1999. His main research interest is in theoretical computer science, focusing on the design and analysis of algorithms - this work has been funded by NSF grants. He has been published in some of the most prestigious conferences in theoretical computer science and in many of the prestigious journals in the field. He has been teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and has developed extensive Web-based notes for his courses. His student evaluations are positive. He has served on several important departmental committees and is a member of the editorial boards of two scholarly journals. Edward Dreizin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, came to NJIT as a research professor in 1999, became associate professor in 2001, and was promoted to the rank of Professor in 2004. He completed his doctoral degree in Applied Physics in 1992 at Odessa University (Ukraine). Prior to his joining NJIT, he spent six years as a research scientist in industry. His research is in the area of energetic materials and metal combustion. He has developed a mechanical alloying technology for the synthesis of nano-structured energetic materials and established laboratory facilities for the characterization and testing of those materials. His research has been supported by the Department of Defense (Army, Navy, ONR, DTRA), NASA, NSF and industry. He has developed two new graduate courses at NJIT, and is active in teaching upper division undergraduate courses. 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September 20th 3-8pm
Annual BBQ & Story Slam
College Greens Swim Club
2707 Notre Dame Drive, Sacramento
Story Slam Theme will be "Miscommunication"
Please contact <firstname.lastname@example.com> if you are interested in sharing your 5 min story.Story telling coaching will be made available for those interested.
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Tank House, 1925 J St, Sacramento 95811
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October 17th 7pm
Adventures in Dining (AID)
New Canton Restaurant, 2523 Broadway, Sacramento, 95818
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I happened to be looking at my old Youtube videos recently and wondered WHY I have not posted any of these for my new beloved fan base. This is Krash at the ripe age of 17 hosting his first ever show in High School. It was one of those funky shows where you find some […]


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El Paso, Texas (KDBC) — If you needed proof that El Paso is growing by leaps and bounds, here it is. The city is home to the most populated zip code in the entire country. According to AARP, the 79936 zip code in far East El Paso is home to 116,860 residents. That beats out zip codes in cities like Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. That zip code includes neighborhoods near Montwood Drive and North Zaragosa road. The news comes as a surprise to many who live there.
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Hops (the fruiting bodies of the hop plant) is most famous as the source of beer's bitter flavor. However, it also has a long history of use in herbal medicine as well. Its most common herbal use today is as a mild sedative, possibly helpful for
insomnia. In addition, hops has a constituent with strong estrogen-like properties, and for that reason it has been proposed as a treatment for menopausal symptoms. However, neither of these proposed uses is supported by reliable scientific evidence.
In recent years, an entirely novel and rather surprising potential use of hops has come to light: treating hay fever.
For reasons that are not at all clear, a water extract of hops (called, unsurprisingly, "hop water") may reduce allergic reactions. The first evidence came from an animal study performed in Japan in 2005. Based on these results, as well as a subsequent animal studies, Japanese researchers conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled human trial.
In this study, 39 people were given a daily drink containing either 100 mg of hop water or placebo. All of these study participants were known to have allergies to the Japanese cedar. This plant is a strong allergen—as famous in Japan for causing hay fever symptoms as ragweed is in the US.
The results of this small trial were promising. Over the weeks of the study, use of the hop water extract significantly reduced nasal symptoms as compared to placebo.
Note that this level of evidence has to be classified as "preliminary." Larger studies (particularly, studies conducted by researchers not connected to any hop water product) will be necessary to establish whether this reported benefit is real.
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Segawa S, Takata Y, Wakita Y, et al. Clinical effects of a hop water extract on Japanese cedar pollinosis during the pollen season: a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2007 Aug 7 [Epub ahead of print].
Segawa S, Takata Y, Kaneda H, et al. Effects of a hop water extract on the compound 48/80-stimulated vascular permeability in ICR mice and histamine release from OVA-sensitized BALB/c mice.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2007;71:1577-81.
Takubo M, Inoue T, Jiang S, et al. Effects of hop extracts on nasal rubbing and sneezing in BALB/c mice.
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Development of an epithermal/fast neutron scattering technique for void fraction measurement in two-phase systems with portable neutron sources
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A technique to measure void fraction in a two-phase flow system using the multiple scattering of neutrons from portable neutron sources was investigated. There exists evidence from a previous investigation with a neutron beam extracted from a nuclear research reactor, that the basic technique is attractive. The counting rate of multiply-scattered, thermalized neutrons was found to be nearly linear with void fraction and independent of flow regime. However, early investigation with a portable neutron source revealed that these advantages were not realized in all situations. In the present work, the objective, then was to determine the conditions under which the advantages of linearity and flow pattern independence could be achieved with portable neutron sources. Experiments were carried out to study the effect of various parameters like symmetry of neutron sources, test-section to detector distances, and detection energy bn did not affect the technique significantly. More significant parameters were flow patterns, test-section inside diameter, test-section wall thickness, presence of neutron reflector material around the test section, and incident neutron spectrum. From the trends observed in the parametric study, it was found that near linearity with void fraction and flow pattern independence could be achieved by tailoring the energy spectrum of the incident neutron beam, e.g. by moderating neutrons emitted by a given source. The amount of moderation required decreased with test-section inside diameter, test section wall thickness, and he addition of neutron reflector material surrounding the test-section. This finding was verified with experiments conducted for four different test sections. The reasons for these experimental observations were clarified by studying the effect of monoenergetic incident neutron groups with Monte Carlo simulation, the result of which was further interpreted with thermalization probability considerations. The Monte Carlo study revealed that each monoenergetic neutron group results in a different response in terms of thermalized neutron counting rate, which, in general, is neither linear with void fraction nor flow regime independent. However, linearity and flow regime independence could be achieved by superimposing the effect of different energy groups, i.e. by tailoring the neutron spectrum. In practice, this is achieved by appropriately moderating the neutron beam from a given source. Based on the understanding achieved, a conceptual design of a portable void fraction meter, and a design procedure are suggested.
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The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has restricted takeoff and landing weight for all international airlines flying widebodies to Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) to 196 metric tons (432,102 pounds) through September 30. The decision is a result of safety concerns following repeated cracks on the 46-year-old runway.
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what wall color goes with medium cherry cabinets and toffee leather furniture with mixed golden colored tile
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what colors would look best in the rooms and should I use all the same color or possibly paint 1 accent wall color? Right now it is a gray blue, but don't like it much. I would like to have a warm inviting open flow throughout the great room that includes LR, DR and kitchen. I cannot make a decision as I have a hard time visualizing. Please help! Thanks in advance, the more suggestions the better! :)
I think I would to the kitchen wall(s) a medium tan/beige of the tile (or even Swiss Coffee), but the living room walls the "terra cotta dark tan/brown" color of the tile "Buckskin Pony". But, these are tricky colors. You'll have to test several shades to have each color complement the tile/sofa and cabinet color. It may take a few tries to get the colors just right.
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This is similar to what I was thinking for the living room wall color...Lenox Tan by BM:
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thanks, just wondering about gold color with green undertones or a softy taupe color. Waht are your thoughts on this?
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I'd take the tile color (by the way, love that tile) and put it next to the gold/green paint samples and look closely to see if you see any relation to the paint chip and the tile. Or, at least complements each other nicely. Paint/tile on a monitor is really hard to suggest. Get a few paint samples and actually paint on the wall by the sofa, and next to the tile and cabinets and live with it for a few days to view during the day/evening. Colors on the wall look so different during the day. You could just use a lighter shade of the paint chip for the kitchen and the medium shade for the living room, and the lighest shade for the ceiling. That's pretty fool proof (as long as you pick the right first choice!)
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Here's a gold with green undertones. I don't think it would complement tile/cabinets/furniture together.
January 27, 2013 at 10:57PM Like
Thanks for all the help. I really appreciate it. Someone else had mentioned BM lemon sorbet, what are your thoughts on that color? :)
January 28, 2013 at 8:06PM Like
Anyone else have any ideas????
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I think Lemon Sorbet would be too "bright. How about Lemon Meringue? Maybe my response will prompt another suggestion. : )
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Thanks Darzy, Is the picture you uploded Lemon Meringue?? I do like the Lenox tan pics, I'll have to get some paint and try to take a gander at it. Where do you get the pics when you suggest them?
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In January the American Library Association met in Philadelphia to award a variety of prizes (including the Caldecott Medal, the Newbery Medal, the Printz Award, the Coretta Scott King Book Awards and the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award) for outstanding achievement in the field of children's literature.
This year's Caldecott winner was the picture book "Locomotive" by Brian Floca. Honors went to "Journey" by Aaron Becker, "Flora and Flamingo" by Molly Idle, and "Mr. Wuffles!" by David Wiesner. All of these are excellent choices, and the good news is that because of this recognition, all four books will be in print until the end of time, thus ensuring that future generations of children can enjoy them, too.
However, as always there were many worthy and memorable books that weren't honored and that will, sadly, fade into obscurity. This has been the case with one of my all-time favorite picture books — "Dora's Box."
"Dora's Box," by Ann-Jeanette Campbell and illustrated by Fabian Negrin, was published in 1998. It's a brilliant reframing of the Pandora myth, which tells how all the world's evils — famine, war, pestilence and illness — are released when a curious young girl opens a forbidden box.
Campbell's story examines what would happen if there were, in fact, no earthly sorrow in an individual's life. In "Dora's Box," a well-meaning mother and father are determined to protect their beloved daughter from pain — and to that end they store anything that can hurt the young girl in a magical box: thorns, hot coals, splinters from a charred tree, the sting of a bee. And the girl Dora does, in fact, grow up to be remarkably happy. She never exhibits anger. She never pouts. She is always pleasant and good-natured.
The author notes, however, that there is something unnatural about such a child. "Dora liked the forest, especially the birds. But the birds thought there was something peculiar about the little girl who was never anything but happy. She didn't seem to be real flesh and blood."
The problem, of course, is that because Dora herself has never experienced pain or sorrow or frustration or disappointment or boredom, she cannot empathize with those who do. She cannot feel with or for her fellow human beings.
I first read this story when my husband and I were still in the thick of raising our five boys. Like most parents, we wanted all of Life's Creamy Good Stuff for them. We wanted them to make good grades and be picked for all-star teams and have lots of friends. We wanted them to enjoy good health — physically and mentally. We wanted to protect them from the things that might hurt them. We didn't want them to be overlooked or hurt or marginalized or misunderstood.
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Morning everyone,
I've just woken up to over a foot of snow and no television! Spare a thought for the ground feeding birds such as black birds, and put a box, small table or tray outside for them to feed from.
Looking forward to seeing everyone's snowy pictures!
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I've bought a pack of lolly sticks and some rubber bands so they can make stilts... any other suggestions?
In all seriousness, quite agree and also some fresh water too
Already been out and taken care of this for our brood Becky.
Nice thought...
the birds are eating better than us at the moment! Agree with the comment about taking the nets off the fat balls for the ground feeders. Don't forget they like old fruit and scraps too, cereal , cooked rice,pasta etc
This morning we have 6 blackbirds, starlings, Fieldfaire,great/blue and cole tits, Jay ,woodpecker,chaffinches,2 types of sparrows, 4 robins in a territory battle, long tail tits and a wag tail
I'm having to get up 20 minutes earlier each day to de-ice the car then de-ice the bird table! Not sure how long the two bird baths last during the day before they start to refreeze but our back garden seems to be more popular than ever this year.
We have 2 hangers for fat balls, 2 hangers for seeds, 2 trays for scraps and seeds. Not great on identification of birds but we've had the robin territory battles too. Doves are here, crows, blackbirds, blue tits, yellowhammers, and a few others. Oh, and a squirrel.
Wilko's good deal on fat balls. You can get the same from InStore/Poundstretcher and even Pets At Home have had a box of 100 for £14. We've also used some Bill Oddie packets of seed stuff, mixed them all together in a tub, and sprinkle some on the trays. Very popular.
Just a thought, try to find a cat-proof location for all the feeding.
We have two nearly Feral cats locally and they are killers at the best of times.
These conditions could make it even easier for them (and others like them) to take more birds than usual
Our pond is taking a hammering even more than normal in the last few days. Mind you the blackbirds aren't all that keen on sharing it.
Yep, Fatballs, Sunflower seeds and fresh bread, water in pond is clear thanks to a mist machine, & chased the fat cat away.
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A lot of people think of marijuana as a victimless crime, but in the case of one 15-year-old girl who was allegedly kept in a toolbox and forced to work on a pot farm, it definitely wasn't. Two Northern California men were arrested for running an illegal pot farm with over 1,000 plants, and also for allegedly keeping the teen girl as their sex slave/pot farm worker. The most horrific part is that they reportedly kept her in a small metal toolbox.
Ryan Balletto, 30, and Patrick Pearmain, 24, not only allegedly kept the unnamed girl in a 4 feet by 2 feet toolbox for days on end and forced her to "cut buds," but they used her as a sex slave. Bondage devices were found near the box, which had holes drilled into it so the girl could breathe. Police also found a noose and a rack that would be used to hold someone against their will.
That is a small box. Unless she was super tiny, she wouldn't have even been able to stand up straight or sit down.
And reportedly the men actually had the nerve to call her a "trooper" for not screaming when she was put in the box -- as if she might not have been frightened into catatonia and muteness!
If all of this weren't bad enough, police think there were other female victims. Police are still working to verify that.
The girl was found when she somehow discovered that cops were looking for her and was able to contact them from her cellphone, which they then traced to the farm.
The men also had a massive arsenal of military-grade weapons, the largest in the area's history. Hey, but at least some people got their pot, right? Pot lovers might want to think about where their pot comes from. Chances are it's not from some old lady's tomato garden.
Editor's Note: According to the news video from KPIX, the victim had a cell phone.
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she still had a cellphone?...wtf....either these guys are stupid as hell or something else is happening here
I agree Elaine..There's more to this story then meets the eye. I am quite sure they would not have allowed her to have her cell phone,and if she had one all this time and was able to call the police,why would she wait until she knew they were looking for her.How would she NOT know right from the start the cops were looking for her.Why would she not call the cops or her family ASAP. and they make it sound like becuase they grow pot that that is the reason for what they put her through..
she had a cellphone and didnt call for help sooner???
Where did you get this bit about the cell phone? I've pulled up a few seperate articles on this and no where did I see that information. What I did see (http://www.kveo.com/news/california-teen-allegedly-abused-held-captive-pot-farm) was that the LAPD alerted Lake County that one of the men had kidnapped this girl. Do you guys seriously get paid for this crap?
This author is a moron. Pot has nothing to do with stupid rapists. They were going to be depraved criminals whether or not they had a pot farm. And I bet they get more jail time for the pot then the kidnapping and rape.
a drug is a drug! legal or not! So let's say they legalize it... it would be much much easier for teens to get a hold of it. These kids can be your kids, little sister, little brother, family period.... Why can't people just have fun without get high or drunk gees! if it's for rx that's different!
She DID NOT have a cell phone. No where, in any article anywhere, does it remotely ever say she had one. Where in the heck did this author get her info??? Not from an actual news source, that's for sure. The LAPD were alerted that she may be at the site - and they checked it out and found her. Also, it's the weapons that are a big issue - not the pot. Pot doesn't kill people, guns kill people ( : Another winner Kiri...


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Ahmed Darwish
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Location: Egypt
Date: Mon Nov 8 2010
Ahmed Darwish discusses what he sees as the key challenges facing the Egyptian civil service. He focuses on his role in instituting an e-governance program and in using technology to increase the efficiency of the civil service. He also explains the strides Egypt made during the past decade in updating the government's technological infrastructure. Darwish further discusses reforms regarding the government process for contracting with the private sector and the training processes for civil service employees. He also touches on efforts to reduce the size of the civil service, and stresses the importance of getting top managers of the civil service on board with reforms.
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At the time of this interview, Ahmed Darwish was Egypt's minister of state for administrative development, a position he had held since 2004. He previously served as e-government program director in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Darwish was a lecturer at the University of California, Davis, and a professor in computer engineering at Cairo University. He earned a bachelor's degree from Cairo University, followed by a master's degree in computer science. He received his doctorate in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Davis. He received the Egyptian National Engineering Award in 1999.


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I love the small town. I love how friendly the new principal is and makes it a point to greet the students. my daughter loves it here. however the parking is awful and the PTO is a popular girl high school click. so good luck getting into volunteer in your childs class. and in a town only a mile long you look around and wonder with the amount of students if half the kids actually live there.
The teachers are very nice, my daughter has enjoyed her 2 years here so far. The education is amazing! The things she has picked up and she is only 8 wow!
I have one child who has graduated from Faber and one who is still in the system. If you have gifted/advanced children, they will fare well in the earlier grades. But once they reach the higher grades starting around 3rd or 4th grade, your children may become bored and feel unchallenged. I have spoken and e-mailed the teachers requesting more challenging curriculum but it seems the challenges of getting an integrated classroom to pass the NJASKs takes up all their time. The Gifted and Talented program only meets once a week which is hardly enough to challenge the children. This is the sacrifice of going to a super small school system. We are seriously looking to move to a better school district. The teachers are caring and involved but just don't have the time to handle the diverse needs of an integrated classroom.
This school has a great ESL teacher. Super after school programs. Most importantly dedicated teacher at all grade levels.
The school appears to have caring staff, though there is a real lack of real support with special needs children. The staff come across as quite clueless when it comes to developing a plan for the less than average child. I hope that when my other children are old enough to attend they have a more positive experience.
The school started a pre-school program that teaches reading at 4 years old. The after school program is ran by another town and is expensive.
The district has a strong elementary school. The middle school and high school are improving. There are quite a few extracurricular programs including sports, band, math league, chess, juggling, newspaper, an afterschool program on site. The small size of the district is appealing. Academic achievement is somewhat average because of economic demographics of the town, but on par with other schools with similar demographics. Overall, John P. Faber School is a pretty good school with caring teachers and strong parent involvement.
This school academic wise is great. As I can see my child has been going here for 4 years and the parents are very clicky.
This is not the school you want your child to attend if they have learning disabilities. They do not have the experience or curriculm set up for children with special needs. The teacher are nice but 'nice' isn't what the children need to succeed. There are no extracurricular activities and discipline is low in the middle school.
faber offers a very good kindergarden curriculam.
The teachers have been wonderful. We love the school.
This is a wonderful school with caring teachers and staff. This school has made a positive difference in my son's life. I highly recommend this school.
This is a wonderful school with phenomonal teachers.
Don't have much experience yet, as this is my child's first year. The teachers we have met seem informed, competent and caring. However we have grave concerns with the school district as a whole. Not a lot of academic achievement here. The family instilling a drive to succeed seems to be missing. We hope our early perceptions are misguided.
My wife and I are the parents of a kindergartener and a third grader. We have been very pleased with the school and the teachers. Our eldest participates in the 'Newspaper Club' and played the violin last year in the 'Strings' program. Michael & Cecilie Sugden
I am a parent of a child in first grade and a High School junior. In my opinion, all of the schools are top notch! The teachers really care about my children and their future. A progress report is sent home before each marking period ends. I would recommend Dunellen to anyone looking for a great school system. In the coming year we will be changing Principals in the elementary school. Our new principal is an innovative and experienced woman. I am looking forward to working with her and improving Dunellen JP Faber in the coming years.I have lived in Dunellen for the past eight years and I love living here! The town and the schools are what makes Dunellen so great! We have a very dedicated PTO, and together we Keep Improving Dunellen Schools every day!
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- Calories: 52
- Fat: 0.0g
- Saturated fat: 0.0g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.0g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.0g
- Protein: 0.0g
- Carbohydrate: 13g
- Fiber: 1g
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- Iron: 0.0mg
- Sodium: 3mg
- Calcium: 13mg
- 1 cup thinly sliced ripe strawberries
- 1 mango, peeled, pitted and diced
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 2/3 cups mango nectar
- 1. Set temperature of freezer as low as it will go. Soak 10 wooden pop sticks in warm water for 10 minutes.
- 2. Drop strawberry slices into each cavity of a 10-pop mold, bending them so they won't clump. Blend mango and sugar in a food processor until smooth. With machine running, pour in nectar.
- 3. Pour mango mixture over strawberries to fill each cavity. Poke with a skewer to release air bubbles and distribute berries. Place top on mold and add sticks. Freeze for 8 to 12 hours.
- 4. To remove pops from mold, run top under tepid water to loosen, then swish bottoms in a basin of tepid water until loose. Pull middle sticks to remove top and all 10 pops. Store pops in ziplock freezer bags.
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Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-09 19:57 • by John Hensley (unregistered)
Why does this only happen in software? Why, for example, is the auto industry not plagued with self-taught inventors who can't be bothered to understand the combustion cycle, so they produce car designs with coal-fired engines?
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-09 20:10 • by Some Jerk (unregistered)
it isn't the industry that fails to comply with the standard... it is your imagination that fails to comply with the concept. Think about it... how many recalls happen each decade by some auto manufacturer that made a defective seatbealt... or the power stearing pump was not rated for specific weather conditions? it is the same thing in every industry. 95% of people are there for the paycheck. 4% are there because they love their jobs... and want to be the best at it... and what is between... well... who knows?
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-09 22:36 • by AnonymousCoder (unregistered)
Sarcasm aside - Oh I wish ! I wish to let it out, to burst into a rant over the code that's being written at my company - but there's one thing holding me. That's the Non Disclosure Agreement. And a few of the clauses in my contract, which explicitly prohibit me from bad mouthing the company or discrediting it.
One day - I'll do it.
The code is just so bad, it has to be exposed. It's a classic. Has everything - string arithmetic; procedural design in an OOP language; God class; lots of static classes with static methods and (lo and behold) public static fields; error handling by hiding - yes, it's the most blatant feature - exceptions are just swallowed (granted - not everyone); unchecked, unaccounted for global variables (you may think, hey - it's C#; don't matter, make singleton variables and mark them static); event handlers driven design, as substitute for polymorphism (of course, if you only have one class, you need handlers); dead code; commented blocks of junk which lay there for no reason; SQL database "layer" where you have to plug in parameters by index, longest sequence attaining 33 params (how the HELL could possibly a human keep track of that ?!)
-- A freaking jungle layed out with mines. God, I love to hate it...
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-10 00:15 • by default_ex (unregistered)
I sort of agree with you on this point. Having worked with a wide variety of people I've grown to be more understanding, but there is a limit.
The most important thing to consider with a programmer is that they'll be solving logic and math every time they go to work on a piece of code. Anyone that's put in the effort to learn the language well enough to write clumsy code is likely willing to learn more advanced concepts that'll turn them from a poor coder to a good coder.
The one point in your post that's most important is the why. All too often we see things posted on code websites with little or no explanation on why it works or how it works. That's the most important thing to know, otherwise we just breed more copy-paste coders.
However if someone is truly not intelligent enough to write decent code after a being given a fair chance to do so. Then their in the wrong field and will only endanger other people if their allowed to continue on as programmers. We have no way of knowing just how important our programs will be, for all we know the stuff could wind up being a core tool in a financial empire. We're in a position to do so much damage if our work screws up, that makes it our number one priority to ensure we remove as many fail clauses as possible.
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-10 05:15 • by Cbuttius
Maybe because in all other industries they go through some formal qualification with a recognised professional body, in your case engineering.
With software there is no real formal qualification and people are usually hired because they have the right buzzwords on their CV/resume, where longevity in a firm is seen as a plus (albeit they may have got set in their incorrect ways seeing only one way of doing something) often stuck in a system that has moved on. So even if this wasn't written a long time ago here, the person may have brought this in from the way they did this in their previous company.
1. Generic code is code that is not attached to any particular business logic and is commonly used all over your code.
Having to put it into a class is a WTF'ery of the language because classes are not extendable. In C++ you would make these free functions and probably put them in a namespace. You can then write more functions as you need them and put them into the same namespace but in a different file. True that if they all build into one common shared object library you need to rebuild that library for those who want to use the new functions but it is still adding rather than editing. (If your build makefile uses a wildcard you don't need to modify that either). Whatever, having them in one file is a WTF of the language.
This is because they insisted that it had to be "pure OO" and thus everything attached to an object. Purism over practicality.
2. Having a function both strip whitespace and also convert null to empty string is not a WTF. The implementation used might be although I can't see it here. The name might be better and for commonly-used library code, finding good names for things is more essential. But then even some of the best known systems are known for poor naming choices.
Probably far too late to change the names now, my guess is that they are already all over the code.
3. Some of the others might be good contenders for using a regex and could possibly even be done as one-liners using them, but regexes look ugly in business code and don't belong there. I would rather see something like StringConversions.GetPrice( input_string ) in my business code than some horrible regex.
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-10 06:41 • by RayvenUK (unregistered)
I object to being called a Code Monke..... oooh, a digital banana, yum.
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-10 07:32 • by no laughing matter
Well, that is not true for all OO-languages. E.g. Ruby and Smalltalk allow to extend existing classes. Not claiming that this really is a good idea: When multiple programmers work on the same codebase, there definitely is a risk of collisions.
Well, in a true OO language "everything is an object" and in a class-based OO-language an object is an instance of a class.
So in such a true OO-language a namespace is an object, too, and there is no difference between putting the function in a namespace vs. adding a method to a class.
The rule that a class must be defined completely in one file is specific to Java, other OO-languages are more permissive and a real Smalltalk is image-based, not file-based.
If your "they" means the inventors of the Java language then i won't object, but this claim of impracticality is not true for all OO-languages.
There's nothing wrong if it is a composition of two other functions, one for stripping whitespace and one for converting null to empty string.
This allows for all of these features to be used separately when needed. And this is exactly what's wrong with this code: Too much features lumped together in a single method, and when some of the features are needed again, they are "re-used" by Copy-and-Paste-programming.
That's exactly what's refactoring is for, and refactoring works like a charm in Java and C# (it's much harder but still more-or-less works in dynamically-typed languages).
But even when refactoring is not available: rename the function, and add a function with the old name to call your new function and mark the function with the old name as deprecated.
If something is ill-named and you have to keep it for compatibility-reasons at least show a warning (e.g. by marking it as deprecated).
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-10 08:16 • by Some Jerk (unregistered)
Getting to the obvious point here... c++ is c++ and .NET is .NET. If every language conducted things the same way, then there would be only 1 development environment.
Yes... template functions are definately handy... but for those of us who don't use c++ every day, generic classes and methods are more consistent with our own daily workflow.
Regex DOES belong in business code... for validation purposes most especially. I disagree with using it for data type conversions, but that is possibly more preference than anything.
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-10 19:46 • by Craig's friend's friend (unregistered)
FAIL FAIL FAIL. Just because you read others codes with VS2015, it doesn't mean the original programmer actually written the code with .NET 2.0.
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-10 20:13 • by Nagash (unregistered)
Sir, me wrote Parse, then come along Nagash's friend changed it to TryParse. Nagash's friend was proud of himself saving an exception on error resume next. Tmr it ain't laughing matter when you look at it from VS2020 the whole thing WTF!?!
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Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-13 10:50 • by Neil (unregistered)
Don't show her this then:
int n = -1;
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-16 23:27 • by Late_in_the_game (unregistered)
public static bool isNumeric(string value)
bool isNum = true;
for (int i = 0; i < value.Length; i++)
if (!"1234567890".Contains(value.Substring(i, 1)))
isNum = false;
return isNum;
Somebody might have already picked this up, but this method will only return false if the LAST char in value is not a digit.
I can understand doing it this way instead of, say, trying to parse it and handling the exception, because throwing and catching an exception is relative expensive.
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-23 08:24 • by JM (unregistered)
I might excuse your post if you lack complete knowledge of C# in specific...and 'good programming patterns' in general.
This post was one of the best WTFs recently.
Anyone that doesn't think so should think long and hard as to why they don't get it.
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-08-23 08:25 • by JM (unregistered)
Above post was in regards to:
Reply didn't inject any quote.
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-10-02 21:26 • by nelson_no_nose (unregistered)
This sounds so similar to a couple of the places I've worked. I've seen my share of God classes of tens of thousands of lines and megabytes in size which wouldn't be so bad if they at least weren't so messy with inconsistency as far as the eye can see. One was even called "Functions". Commented out code everywhere and renamed files that are no longer used. Worst still, swaths of obsolete code that is still executed but to no effect other than generating heat. Layers of indirection so deep that a call trace has more steps than the Great Pyramid of Giza would if it were made of Lego bricks. Function names and inline langdoc that has nothing to do with what the function does. So much copy and pasted repeat code that someone coding it by scratch could make something with way less than half as many lines. Somehow managing to write something in 500 lines with no redundant code that could be rewritten in 50 lines while being more secure, featured, accurate, stable and efficient. Rosetta comments everywhere such as (bookshelf->addBook(book);//add book to bookshelf). It goes on and on.
What I find amazing is how pervasive these problems are. Whenever I think I have seen the worst of it, something else comes along. For a while I always wanted to expose it, but I've come to see so much of it that I just don't see the point of it.
Re: Common Functions, not Common Sense
2012-11-18 16:36 • by TigerShark (unregistered)
Other than not being a philosopher you are neither a very good programmer if you are convinced that your obscene last two sentences are the Truth Revealed from God to humanity.
Writing code in java and in other higher level languages more often increases the efficiency since the programmer is free to concentrate on the real problem that he has to solve rather than in the language intricacies.
It is enough to take a look to the jruby performance and to compare it to the ruby reference implementation written in c++.
In most cases jruby is much faster than ruby.
So we can infer that java is always more efficient than c++?
Of course not, but for sure we can say that your Absolute Truth that so gently you revealed to us, poor mere subhuman programmers, is just a bunch of crap.
BTW I don't like java, I prefer much more c#.
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