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27 Feb 2012 8:14 AM #1
TreePanel CheckCascade style bug
We found an issue in the TreePanel selection behavior. The behavior is different from previous releases and is shown when the check cascade style is set to CHILDREN. When child nodes are checked and the parent is collapsed the child nodes loose the checked property. This behavior can also be seen in the TreePanel example on http://www.sencha.com/examples/#checkboxtree (currently version 2.2.5)
* Open the function
* Set cascade behavior to CHILDREN
* Expand some nodes e.g. Beethoven/Sonatas
* Check box items
* Collapse sonatas or Beethoven
* Expand the node you just collapsed.
The nodes which where checked are now unchecked.
Can you fix this so that the child nodes are kept checked?
27 Feb 2012 8:27 AM #2
The problem is that the parent is not checked and this gets bubbled down to the children. I do not see an easy way to fix this without introducing a braking change
27 Feb 2012 8:33 AM #3
Yes, i noticed that when looking into to code. However, the thing is we (finally) upgrade, from 2.2.1, to 2.2.5 which introduced this bug. I just did check the old version again and there collapsing/expanding parent nodes is not a problem when child nodes are checked.
27 Feb 2012 8:37 AM #4
The change was introduced with[s5124] Problem with cascading in checkbox tree.
I will add it to the list to things to look at.
7 Mar 2012 10:53 PM #5
Hello Sven,
can you report any progress on this issue or give an expected delivery date? Thanks.
1 May 2012 10:21 PM #6
Hello Sven, any news on this issue? Should I create a bug thread in Ext GWT Bugs?
2 May 2012 2:28 AM #7
I moved it there now. There is no progess yet. If this is an high priority item, feel free to open a real support ticket in your ticket system.


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Why do we sing the song "Echad Mi Yodeya" at the seder?
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R' Yedidiah Tiah Weil (1700s, Prague), in his Hagada commentary Marbeh Lisaper (now available online in English translation by R' Mark Greenspan, in the Sefaria Haggadah), says that the enumerated items in "Echad - Mi Yodeya" allude to the favors that God did for us that are listed in "Dayeinu". Here's a brief synopsis of his explanations:
R' Pinkus suggests an answer to this question in the introduction to his sefer ברכות בחשבון, which is an entire book about this piyyut.
My translation of the first paragraph of his introduction:
So the relevance is that this night is connected to the underlying foundations of existence, and this is the subject and meaning of this piyyut. The sefer then goes through each verse and explains how it represents and conveys these fundamental pillars of existence. I attempted to summarize two of them here.
Rabbi Y. L. HaKohen Maimon (Chagim UMo'adim pp. 171-192, especially p. 191) suggests that the reason why we say Echad Mi Yodeia at the seder is to strengthen our belief in the oral Torah.
In the times of the ge'onim, Karaites were disputing the authenticity of our traditions. For this reason, the ge'onim arranged to say things such as Rabbi Yishma'el's thirteen rules every day, to say a hataras nedarim at the beginning of the holiest day of the year (Karaites deny that it is even allowed by the Torah to annul vows, disputing the weak exegesis of הוא לא יחל דברו אבל אחרים מוחלים לו), and other such things, in order to instill in the nation the firm belief in G-d's Torah, written and oral.
Along these lines, they established that we should say "Echad Mi Yodeia," in which we say: Our G-d is one, and He doesn't have a son or any other partner in running the world; the only two and three we have are the two tablets and the three patriarchs. He especially emphasizes the connection between the five books of the Torah and the six orders of mishnah.
In conclusion, we say "שלושה עשר מדיא." Rabbi Maimon suggests that these are not G-d's thirteen attributes of mercy as they are normally understood to be, but rather Rabbi Yishma'el's שלוש עשרה מדות שהתורה נדרשת בהן.
The Hagadas "Atteres Yeshuah" has a beautiful explanation of how this song enumerates the merits in which the Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt:
I heard all of the niggunim in Nirtzah are since you are supposed to be busy with Yetzias Mitzrayim the whole night( A halacha unlike Shavous where it is a Minhag )this is a riddle that we are supposed to figure out its deeper meaning (Haggadah Shlall Rav)
R' Eran Moshe Margaliot (in Pesach Ha'haggadah p.26) writes that a theme of the Hagaddah is the understanding that a person recognizes that all of his wisdom is not due to his own accomplishment, but rather is from Hashem. Therefore, even a wise person must retell the story each year. This is why we conclude with Echad Mi Yodeya - we are announcing that "mi yodeya" - that someone knows something - is granted from "Echad Elokeinu" - the One G-d.
Another answer given by various Chassidish rebbes, though I have yet to find it in print, is that Echad mi Yodeah is nothing more nor less than a drinking song. It's late at night, you've had four cups of wine (probably larger than a chazon ish shiur). In that state people tend to sing loudly and off-key about whatever is on their minds and -- so the chassidish teaching goes -- what is on a Jew's mind other than God. I doubt this was the original intention of the composer, but it's an interesting perspective.
The recently published "Jewish Wisdom in the Numbers" by Osher Chaim Levene with Rabbi Yehoshua Hartman (Artscroll/Mesorah, 2013) addresses this very question on page 24. It says, in part, "(This) deceptively simple folk-song is not a playful game. It actually points to the great significance invested into numbers when they are framed within a Torah setting." Each verse has a meaningful link to a Jewish concept such as One is Hashem, three are the patriarchs, etc. I have only started to read the book. Perhaps when I finish, I'll expand on the topic. Be forewarned though, I'm a slow reader so it take until next Pesach!
As far as I can tell so far, there is no further explanation as to why this song is sung during the Seder. Perhaps---and this is purely a guess--- the structure of the song: who knows One (Hashem)...I know One, alludes to the underlying mysticism that was understood by Binei Israel after the exodus from Mitzraim and the revelation at Mt. Sinai where, it has been said, even the simplest Jew attained a high level of hidden, deep knowledge of Hashem.


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Suppose $A\otimes B$ is the minimal tensor product of two unital $C^*$ algebras $A$ and $B$. We know that the set of states, $\{\phi\otimes\psi|\phi\in S(A),\psi\in S(B) \}$ on $A\otimes B$ separates the points of $A\otimes B$. Here $S(A)$ and $S(B)$ are the state spaces of $A$ and $B$ respectively. My question is:
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Hi Mitchell,
fill: true, style:{fill:'#01DF01'} in series config option is filling with single color '#01DF01'. Where and how to apply CSS3 gradients in Ext.chart.Chart.
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Wynright Corporation, a leading independent, U.S.-based provider of intelligent material handling systems, today announced the appointment of supply chain veteran Gordon Hellberg to the newly created position of Executive Vice President, Sales. Hellberg is charged with applying his more than 30 years' experience in developing and guiding top-flight sales organizations within the materials handling industry to helping Wynright grow its market presence through its direct and indirect sales channels.
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Everyone knows Temperature gradient is a vector quantity having direction from cold to hot.My confusion: why is temperature gradient vector if its direction is always fixed (as in the case of pressure) (Don't say that it is because it follows vector law of addition,I am searching for more concrete answer...)
A maybe more mathematical awnser: You can define temperature as a scalar field (e.g. on earth). So given a certain position on the surface of the earth (or in three dimensions if you wish, it does not change anything) you have a scalar, the temperature on this position. Now you can take the gradient of this field, and now you have a vector.
More directly on your question: 1) A vector is still a vector, even if he has a constant value. 2) Why is its value fixed? You don't know where the temperature is highest, or you can even define a time dependend temperature field, (on earth temperature is not fix, it changes quite obviously), then its gradient is not fixed either
Temperature gradient is actually an object called a one-form. A temperature gradient does not have a direction. Instead you combine it with a vector to get a scalar (the temperature change). It's the vector that gives the direction.
To take a simple 1-D example, suppose we have a temperature that varies along the $x$ axis as:
$$ T = 298 + x $$
so at $x = 0$ the temperature is 298K, at x = 1m it's 299K and so on. The temperature gradient is obviously 1 degree per metre. If we take a unit vector pointing to the right i.e. $\vec{x} = (1)$ and multiply this by the temperature gradient we get +1 i.e. the temperature rises by 1K when moving 1m in the positive $x$ direction. But suppose we take a unit vector pointing to the left, $\vec{x} = (-1)$ and multiply this by the temperature gradient we get -1 i.e. the temperature falls by 1K when moving 1m in the negative $x$ direction.
So you can't say that the temperature gradient has a direction. It's the vector you choose to multiply it by that gives a direction i.e. hotter in one direction and cooler in the opposite direction.
The example is rather trivial in 1D, but gets more interesting in 3D, and more interesting still in curved co-ordinate systems as found in general relativity. In fact a gradient is the archetypal example of a one-form used in many GR textbooks.


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I'm writing an OpenGL app with Java. I need to do some math for camera and frustum culling (for AABB). Could you suggest a simple and fast Java math library for that?
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Vecmath from Java3d http://java.net/projects/vecmath is useful for standard 3d geometry stuff.
Not sure camera and frustum culling would really be a bottleneck, but if you use this heavily you should try to reuse things like Vector3f rather than calling
I'am the author of la4j library (Linar Algebra for Java). I've just released verion 0.3.0. Try to look at it. la4j works pretty fine now with sparse and dense matrices.
JAMA math.nist.gov/javanumerics/jama
Colt acs.lbl.gov/software/colt
jblas jblas.org
These come to mind first. jblas, thanks to the natives, seems to be a lot faster than the other though. Keep in mind the applet loader from LWJGL allow you to easily use natives in an applet.
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/529457/performance-of-java-matrix-math-libraries


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What if you could carry around a terrabyte of data with you on a mobile device? What will the next big breakthrough in searching, programming languages, tools and data management be? Wouldn't you just love to have the job of thinking about the next big thing to come? I certainly would – unfortunately to earn that place you probably need a PhD. Oh well I guess I'll go back to school…someday (that would be the day I finish all those projects in my garage). But I digress – if you want to know what the people who do have these jobs do and what they are thinking then you will want to listen to Andrew Herbert – director of the Microsoft Research labs in Cambridge.
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When using robocopy windows utility, what flags do I set so that robocopy aborts on the very first error it sees, similar to xcopy /dry command?
I need to mirror two dirs, and on occasion some files would be locked. I do not want robocopy to continue trying to copy files, or override the files that are not locked - rather the very first error should stop the whole copy process.
I already have the /R set to 0 - unfortunately that it only applies to a single file, NOT to the whole copying process. Hence, the first file is ignored (instead of stopping the copying), but subsequent files are copied.


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** FILE ** Robin Williams laughs with his wife Marsha Garces Williams in this Nov. 17, 2005, file photo in New York. Garces Williams filed a petition for dissolution of marriage on March 21, 2008, in San Francisco Superior Court citing irreconcilable differences. The two met when Garces Williams worked as a nanny for Williams' son Zachary, whom he had with his previous wife, Valerie Valardi. Robin and Garces Williams also have two children together, Zelda and Cody. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin, file)
HOLLYWOOD -- Robin Williams is looking to transition to the small screen. He's set to star in a new CBS comedy pilot from David E. Kelley called Crazy Ones, which focuses on a father and daughter who work together in an advertising office. It's described as a workplace/single-camera comedy.
CBS also picked up two drama pilots today, one of which could raise eyebrows since some politicians and the NRA are trying to blame Hollywood for gun violence. CBS has ordered a project called Anatomy of Violence, a potential new series from the masterminds behind Homeland (Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa) that focuses on a criminal psychologist with an expertise in sociopaths who partners with a young female detective with whom he shares a conflicted past.
Sounds like a swell companion for Criminal Minds, no? Or maybe it's a romance disguised as a dark violent show! Anyway, it's from 20th Century Fox TV, which makes the award-winning Homeland for Showtime. Alex Cary is also listed as the writer.
The network also picked up a pilot called Intelligence from executive producers Michael Seitzman, David Semel and Tripp Vinson. Its described as a drama that is centered at the U.S. Cyber Command, which focuses on a unit that has been created around one agent with a very special gift, a microchip that has been implanted in his brain that allows him to access the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
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The following real estate transactions were filed in Jefferson County:
Debora Dombo and others to David Gantzer, lot 12, Hammonds Subdivision.
Pauline Denger to Joseph Helmbright Jr., lot 3, Lupton's Addition.
Eleanor Conroy to Jonathan Taliani, lot 6, Grandview Estates.
GMAC Mortgage to Housing & Urban Development, lots 8-9, Monroeville; and 0.268 acre, Brush Creek Township.
JP Morgan Chase Bank to Ronald and Rayelene McElroy, lots 39 and 41, Original Springfield (survivorship).
A&H Logging to Karen Molnar,. lots 5, 12 and 22 and part lot 12, Homewood Park.
Joe Carter to Matthew Dahlem, lot 12, Harry Speaker's Addition.
Joshua and Jennifer Myers to Luke and Carol Hightshue, lot 12, Banfield Improvement (survivorship).
Anthony and Shelley Osso to Bryan and Lindsey Smith, lot 38, Dorian Heights (survivorship).
Robert and Carolyn Strobel to Robert and Diane Strobel, 5.873 acres, Cross Creek Township (survivorship).
Deutsche Bank to Thomas and Fonda Thompson, metes, Knox Township.
Billy and Delores Wright to John Dennis and Paul Dennis, metes, Island Creek Township (survivorship).
Sheriff of Jefferson County to US Bank, part lot 3, Hannah Ollum Subdivision.
Alice Johnston (deceased) to Troy Radinsky, lot 4 and part lot 3, Saltsman.
Troy and Lori Radinsky to Todd Clegg, lot 4 and part lot 3, Saltsman.
Renee and Randy Ralston to Tri Capital Investment Group, lot 62 and part lot 63, Riviera Tract.
Luvern Hoerchler to Village of Richmond, lot 35, Original Richmond.
Al Klapka to Kevin Stingle, 0.377 acre, Smithfield Township.
Federal National Mortgage Association to Arthur and Jean Ritenour, 10,890 square feet, Warren Township.
Alton Brand (deceased) to Joyce Brand, part lots 16-17, Saltsman's.
Joyce Brand to Joyce Brand and others, part lots 16-17, Saltsman's (survivorship).
Paul Tournay Jr. to Flora Cooper, part lot 76, Labelleview.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to Fannie Mae, lots 83-84, Labelleview.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to Deutsche Bank, lot 66, Altamont.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to JP Morgan Chase Bank, 5.051.25 square feet, Warren Township.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to US Bank, lots 10-11, Orchard Place.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to JP Morgan Chase Bank, lot 37, Walton & Thomasson's Third.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., metes, Ross Township.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to US Bank, lot 8, Hilsinger First.
Gerald Cornish Sr. (deceased) to James and Suzanne McConnell, metes, Wells-Warren Township.
US Bank to Housing & Urban Development, metes, Wells-Warren Township.
George and Mary Ann Kokos to Tina Carbasho, lot 23, Labelleview.
Annette Anticole to John and Sandra Cilli, lot 149, Country Club Hills (survivorship).
Vincent Mollay (deceased) to Susan Mollay, 0.126 acre, Cross Creek Township.
First National Bank of Pennsylvania to William and Yvonne Larkins, 0.5 acre, Salem Township.
Janet and William Vanzin to Colleen and Jeffrey Bake, metes, Cross Creek Township.
William and Margaret Kerr to Todd Zimish, 0.0829 acre, Island Creek Township.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to PNC Bank, part lots 167-168, Labelleview.
Josephine and Guido Covelli to Linda Way Properties LLC, lot 257, Dixon Heights No. 2.
Scott and Mary Sollom to John Pollard and Claire Plante, part lot 56, Simmons & Foster (survivorship).
Richard and Tammy Saphore to Shirlene Speedy, 0.416 acre, Island Creek Township.
Norma Zambon to Matthew and Laura Brookes, 0.775 acre, Smithfield Township (survivorship).
Charles Williams III to Carl Huber, 1.001 acres, Ross Township.
JP Morgan Chase Bank to Charles and Linda Brown Jr., lot 21, McLaughlin First (survivorship).
Robert Lamb (deceased) to Katrina Koran and Dennis Lamb, 1,032 acres, Island Creek Township.
Carl and Frances Boyd to Rebecca Hazelton and Joshua Cichon, lots 9-12, Patterson Addition (survivorship).
Arthur Binion to Joseph Greep and Kenneth Greep, 3.049 acres, Ross Township (survivorship).
Bradley Jones to Bruner Land Co., 42.718 acres, Springfield Township.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. to John Grew, metes, Wells-Warren Township.
Catherine Andrews (deceased) to Roosevelt Andrews Sr., lot 34, McCooks.
Samuel and Anna Luckino to William Babel, lots 25-26, Rosemont unrecorded.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to American General Mortgage Loan Trust, 0.399 acre, Island Creek Township.
Robert and Joyce Matthews to Robert Matthews, metes, Ross Township.
Freddie Sturm to Krista Holyak, lot 25, Homewood Park.
Claire Lovinski to Harold Fyock Jr., 1.7925 Cross Creek Township.
William and Jean Higgins to Benjamin Ramsey, 0.579 acre, Island Creek Township.
Housing & Urban Development to Thomas and Carla Roth, 5.15 acres, Island Creek Township (survivorship).
Federal Home Mortgage Corp. to David Maple JR., 1.605 acres, Knox Township.
Jeffrey Thomas to Joshua Thomas, 2.9697 acres, Warren Township.
Liberty Savings Bank to Housing & Urban Development, lot 46, Hollywood Subdivision.
Christopher DeNoble to Christopher DeNoble and Marsha Thompson, 2.802 acres, Smithfield Township (survivorship).
Dorothy Yohn (deceased) to Linda Wise and Karen Spiker, 13.88 acres, Cross Creek Township.
Sheriff of Jefferson County to Federal National Mortgage Association, lot 11, Brentwood Estates.
Howard P. Swiger 1995 Living Trust to George Swiger, lot 25, Lacy's Third.
Vince Aquino and others to Brian and Bethany Rea, lot 55, Lawson Estates (survivorship).
John and Monica Freeland III to Howard and Michelle Nelson Jr., lots 1-3, Patterson's Addition (survivorship).
Christopher Christ Jr. (deceased) to Rita Christ and others, lot 66, Westwood Estates.
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WELLSBURG - Michael Jebbia has piled up 123 victories in his six-plus seasons at Wheeling Park.
Part of what helped him get to that number so quickly was that he and his guys were able to fatten up on some down Brooke teams a couple of times in each of those years.
He entered Tuesday's clash in the Brooke Wellness Center with a record of 14-0 against the Bruins, having last seen them do any type of celebrating when he was an assistant during Sam Andy's final season.
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STUFFED — Brooke's Thomas Cole goes up for a block against Theo Blackston during the Bruins' 66-49 win over the Patriots Tuesday in Wellsburg.
-- Jim Elliott
Brooke started on a 9-0 run, let the Patriots get back into it just before halftime, then scored the first three baskets of the second half on its way to a 66-49 victory, its first against Park since 2006.
''The bottom line is Brooke (8-4) cared more - Brooke wanted it more,'' Jebbia said. ''All you had to watch as a spectator was the first three minutes, 9-0, and the first three minutes of the second half, 6-0. There's 15 points right there.''
Indeed. But the way things have gone in this rivalry, Bruins coach Dave Reitter wasn't sure if any of it was enough.
''I commend my kids for being able to handle the run they made at us in the first half,'' Reitter said. ''In the past, runs like that have caused us to fold, caused us to lose our composure. We maintained it and came back out ready to play again and started doing the things we were supposed to do in the first half.''
Wheeling Park (3-7) trailed by 12 after the first quarter, but outscored the Bruins 15-6 to make it a three-point game at halftime. From there, Brooke pushed its lead to as high as 17 and maintained a double-digit advantage throughout the fourth quarter.
The Bruins got it done behind four double-figure scorers, including a pair of fellows who made a living beyond the 3-point line. Russell Schwertfeger hit four 3-pointers and finished with 18 points and Eric Johnson hit three more and added 12 points. Meanwhile, with an array of short jumpers, Ryan Heaton added 18 points and Jessi Gambellin controlled things inside with 10.
Brooke outscored Wheeling Park, which was led by 12 points from Luke Saseen and 10 from Phillip Bledsoe, 28-22 in the paint and 21-15 from beyond the arc.
''The thing is you always want to beat Wheeling Park,'' Reitter said. ''No matter what happens, they've always had a great program. Michael's got a great group of kids there. They play hard. They play a tough schedule. So you know that when you play them, it's not going to be a cake walk; it's going to be an aggressive basketball game.''
Seven losses in 10 outings doesn't sit well with a guy like Jebbia, who has taken each of his last four teams to the state tournament, including a pair of state championship games.
''We just have a lot of guys that are more worried about themselves more than the team. Until we fix that, until we start to play harder, it's going to be a rough year.
''(The Bruins) care about each other, and I'm not 100 percent sure our guys care about each other right now. They don't have to invite each other for dinner, but they have to play together as a unit.''
Brooke 66, Wheeling Park 49
Wheeling Park 5 15 10 19 - 49
Brooke 17 6 21 22 - 66
WHEELING PARK: Reinbeau 3 0-0 8; Phillips 3 0-0 6; Saseen 5 1-3 12; Snedeker 0 0-0 0; Smith 2 0-0 6; Thomas 0 2-2 2; Bledsoe 4 2-2 10; Blackston 1 1-2 3; Kowalo 0 2-4 2. Totals: 18 8-15 49. 3-pointers: Reinbeau 2, Saseen, Smith.
BROOKE: Schambach 0 0-0 0; Cole 0 0-0 0; Johnson 3 3-3 12; Wallace 3 1-1 7; Heaton 9 1-2 19; Schwertfeger 5 4-7 18; Buchmelter 0 0-0 0; Gambellin 4 2-3 10. Totals: 24 1-16 66. 3-pointers: Johnson 3, Schwertfeger 4.


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There is a website and iPhone app that contain a listing of kosher restaurants. In addition, one feature is the listing of 'star-ratings' and reviews by users. Are there any halachic ramifications to this?
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If you feel the restaurant quality is poor, then to tell others as much (so they won't get a bad experience) would be "lashon hara for constructive purpose" (l'toelet), just like if someone asked "do you think this would be a good shidduch" or "should I go into business with this guy?". Just make sure you stay as tone-neutral as possible; that you have no ax to grind; and that nothing disproportionately bad will come of it. (If a restaurant is truly, truly bad, than its going out of business due to lack of customers is probably not disproportionate.) If you're just rating by number of stars (and there are many other raters as well), I don't see the issue. Yes, different people will have different taste, so just because you didn't like it doesn't mean nobody will; but hopefully the online readers will figure that out too. (If it's currently unreviewed and you give it zero stars, that looks really bad. If it has a bunch of five-stars and you give it one star saying "too spicy for my taste", people will read that appropriately.)
I disagree - I will not send my friends to bad restaurant that is bad. If I know the owner and my friends know the owner, then I would be hesitant to say anything bad. If I go out of my way to make sure the restaurant is known to be bad thats one thing, but casually in a conversation where people are talking about "bad experiences in restaurants", then thats the topic and everyone is allowed to express themselves within reason.


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An adjective describing one who is skilled in the art of pimping that has a unique, fresh style that is unlike any other and is the only one who can pull off the look. Pimpalicious is also a synonym for "cool". Pimpalicious is a general adjective that is used to describe the life-of-the-party, the popular kid in school that everyone adores, and anyone named Jordan.
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If something is pimpalicious it is also pimptastic and pimp-happening. In the kind of way that a milkshake would bring a boy to the yard, a pimptastic person or something that is pimptastic, would have a similar ability, however on a variety of spectrums.
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Isn't this the same deal as the question that was asked yesterday about the deal being deleted?
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Right on. No one ever re-posted it so I went ahead and added it back in here so everyone could see it.
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FYI, the majority of flights I'm looking at will allow travel between January 22, 2013 and March 20, 2013. Not all flights have this, but that's a much wider travel window.
@alltold: I see what you did there....
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Can anyone tell me how to crop a raster layer in QGIS? I want to make contours from a section of a layer, and including the whole layer will create far more data than I need and slow down the rendering.
I have found that I can do it by using the Raster calculator and specifying a new layer extent, but how do I know what values to enter for the rows and columns?
I also tried cropping the geotiff in Photoshop, but it seemed to lose the coordinate data.
Is there any way to create contours from part of a raster layer without having to crop it first?
I am very new to this, so it's possible I'm missing something obvious. I'd appreciate any insights!


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CVS Huge Nut Sale 50% off + additional 25% off for $0.50
Click on CVS brand on the left hand side
Coupon code BLACKFRIDAY for additional 25% off
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insert huge nut joke here?
@rookie3001: I thought about it but I don't want to get banned.
Hey, if you're nutless, you're nutless!
Wait... So CVS is having a sale on huge nuts? I'm pretty disappointed with the lack of bad jokes in the comments.
I'm basically the biggest nut lover here, so this is a great deal!
Weird glitch! After I applied BLACKFRIDAY coupon code. The total price jumped up. It looks like instead of taking 25% off, it added $25% more to the total.
Anyone having this issue?
their server is way slow, but $41 of salty goodness for $13.60. no huge nut joke here.
Actually, every order qualifies for free shipping. You do not need to spend $49+ for it. No minimum.
Waste of time. Site will not complete checkout, been trying for an hour or more.
Be patient, they're busting a nut trying to fill all the orders..
Deal is dead. Their server(s) apparently melted yesterday. Glad some folks were able to get the deal.
An example where having a knowledgeable engineer on staff can save you from a meltdown when the REAL traffic hits the server(s), but much like inticketing.com, they apparently choose otherwise.


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$4,4952 Bedroom, 2 Baths
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Unit has Juliette Balcony.
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Building Features & Amenities
- Elevator
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- Attended Lobby
- Concierge
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- Laundry in Building
- Fitness Center
- Residents Lounge
- Rooftop Deck
- On-site Parking Lot
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- Cold Food Storage Room (for deliveries)
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Modern design and a desirable neighborhood are not the only thing this gem of a building has to offer. Located at 150 4th Avenue in Brooklyn, Instrata Park Slope is also conveniently placed by the Union Street Subway station and several parks-among them Fort Greene Park and Thomas Greene Playground.
This harmonious Zen inspired living space is complemented by a two story attended lobby and other luxurious niceties. Among a plethora of amenities, Instrata Park Slope offers a fitness center, yoga room, courtyard and terrace. The courtyard and terrace areas feature places for private seating and meditative areas.
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So I'm trying to start a C++, OpenGL project on Visual Studio 2010, and I have put glut.h and glut32.dll in the project directory, along with the glut.dll and glut32.lib files in a folder named "glut" in the project directory.
I have also gone to "Porject Properties -> Linker -> Input -> Additional dependencies" and I have typed in "glut32.lib" at the end, and made sure I am not missing a semicolon.
when I try doing
#include "glut.h"
in the Main.cpp file, it complains
error LNK1104: cannot open file 'glut32.libkernel32.lib'
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Thunderstorms, some strong, late Monday night through late Tuesday night
Trips to the beach are standard fare for most summer travelers, but crowded stretches of sand can make vacations more of a pain than a pleasure.
Corals in remote and relatively pristine reefs fare little better overall amid global warming than those growing alongside heavily populated coastlines, according to research published Wednesday.
A cluster of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea is giving up some of its deep secrets, as archaeologists have now found 45 shipwrecks there in less than a year's time.
The Tarheel State has 301 miles of coastline, from the Outer Banks to the South Carolina border, and nearly all of it is accessible beachfront.
Let's start with the basics: You're going "down the shore," not to the beach, when you head to New Jersey's coast.
What's lurking in the water of your public swimming pool?
Urban beaches don't have to be concrete slabs overlooking a river.
A dime-size jellyfish that can deliver severely painful stings has been spotted in New Jersey waters for the first time.


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I can scroll with 2 fingers with my touchpad on Win7 but when I switch to Ubuntu 10.04 it doesn't work, the option is greyed out.
Could anyone help?
- My touchpad is Synaptics V7.2 PS/2 Port
In Ubuntu this option is disabled by default, go to System > Preferences > Mouse, in the Touchpad tab select "Two-finger scrolling" and that's done.
Try adding
to the end of your
If my previous answer didn't work for any reason it means there is a compatibility issue with the touchpad, to fix it you need to enable SHMConfig, to do it type in the terminal:
If there is a Section "ServerLayout" in the file, add this line into it:
Save the file, close it and reboot your system.
Then install these packages from the Universe Repository:
After a reboot try enabling Two-finger scrolling through Mouse Preferences and if it's still impossible try in the terminal:
Eventually, if you didn't achieve nothing, see this Touchpad Troubleshooting Page and if any, report a bug.
I had the same problem when I was using 10.04. Basically I think there is a bug which doesnot show two finger scrolling option although it works in older package. I think you can enable the graphical button from gconf but it didnot help me then. Here are some questions I posted with some solutions:
Touchpad two finger sensivity problem
Vostro 3400 touchpad multiple gesture and two finger scrolling not working
I have tried few solutions but it didn't work however I found out that you can scroll placing one finger to the right of touchpad and going up or down.
From Ubuntu forums, you could try something like this.


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General Motors' Bowling Green Corvette Assembly is one of 54 facilities to meet a voluntary energy-reduction challenge set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, cutting its energy intensity by 26 percent in less than one year to meet the EPA's ENERGY STAR® Challenge for Industry.
To meet the ENERGY STAR Challenge for Industry, facilities need to reduce energy intensity by 10 percent within five years. Bowling Green's reduction avoided 12,884 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere — the equivalent of electricity use by 1,456 U.S. homes annually.
"Our employees are committed to helping increase our global operations' energy efficiency," said Mike Robinson, GM vice president of sustainability and global regulatory affairs. "They remain at the core of our progress."
GM's Bowling Green Assembly saved more than $1 million in energy costs annually through its efforts. GM leads all companies worldwide in meeting the challenge. Total companywide savings in energy costs total $90M.
For over 30 years, Bowling Green Assembly has been committed to actions that restore and preserve the environment while building America's favorite sports car – the Chevrolet Corvette. The Corvette plant continues to demonstrate its commitment to the environment through its recent change to energy efficient fluorescent lighting throughout the 1 million square foot plant.
This change has shown many important energy saving benefits:
• Generating a total lighting energy savings of approximately 52%;
• Recycling over 1200 used lamps and 35,000 pounds of scrap metal from the fixtures;
• Saving 2,673 megawatt-hours of electricity;
• Reducing the emission of carbon dioxide gases by 1,800 metric tons;
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In March of 2011, GM received an ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year awardfor energy management. Between 2005 and 2010, it reduced energy use in its global facilities by 28 percent and has since set a new goalto reduce energy intensity globally 20 percent by 2020.
In addition to lighting changes, Bowling Green Assembly advanced its environmental awareness and responsibility by:
• Recycling 98.3 tons of cardboard/paper; 4 tons of wood; and 506 tons of scrap metal.
• Managing 72 tons of material to Waste-to-Energy facilities.
• Working with over 350 students from local elementary and high schools, as well as the local university, to participate in stream water quality surveys.
• Enhancing the Wildlife Habitat trails by utilizing wood chips from projects at various businesses instead of having them go to the landfill. The Bowling Green Assembly Wildlife Habitat received certification from the Wildlife Habitat Council in November 2012.


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5 Tips for a Greener Christmas
You've probably seen the shocking statistics: Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, Americans throw away a million extra tons of garbage each week. The 2.65 billion Christmas cards sold each year in the U.S. could fill a football field 10 stories high. And more than 33 million Christmas trees are cut down, sold, and discarded each year. What's an eco-minded person to do? Read on.
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Be a smarter shopper this year and "let your fingers do the walking." Shop online -- you'll avoid the crowds and save time and gasoline. Just make sure that you purchase items that won't require a lot of packing material for shipping. Likewise, when shopping for gifts that you must ship to the recipient, pick things that are small and/or lightweight, and easy to ship.
If you prefer to go to your favorite mall, plan out your shopping list in advance to consolidate trips, and take along your own shopping bags. Think about buying eco-friendly gifts, such as low-flow shower heads, fluorescent lightbulbs, and other energy-saving items. Look for gifts that encourage others to save resources -- e.g., reusable tote bags, a vegetarian cookbook, or a book on things you can make from recycled materials. You could also try shopping for unusual items at antique stores, flea markets, and consignment shops -- where everything is recycled.
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I mentioned in my last post that I finally found some tamarind here in ye olde North. Huzzah! I decided that a good way to make of its unique flavour was to make a paste to add to Thai and other Asian dishes. A little work goes a long way here because you can keep this in a glass jar in the fridge for a few months and just add it as you see fit. You can make this as hot or as mild as you want--I kept it pretty mild for the kiddies.
Makes about 2 cups
- generous 1/2 cup dried shitake mushroom pieces (i.e. break up the shrooms a bit to get more into the cup)
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1 head of garlic, cloves peeled and sliced
- 3 shallots, sliced (about 1 cup)
- dried red chiles to taste, or red curry paste
- 3 tbsp of tamarind pulp
- 1/4 cup hot water (more if needed)
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 tbsp vegetarian oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp mushroom soy sauce
- 1 cup veggie broth (more as needed)
1. Put mushroom pieces in a bowl and cover with hot water. Soak until soft (about 15 mins). Place tamarind in a bowl and add 1/4 cup of hot water. Set aside.
2. While the mushrooms are soaking, heat oil in a saucepan over medium/med-hi heat. Add garlic and fry for about 1 min, until golden but not brown. Remove from oil with a slotted spoon.
3. Add shallots to the oil and fry for 1 min. Add chiles and fry for another min (if using curry paste, then skip this step). Remove from oil with a slotted spoon. Remove pan from heat.
4. Mash tamarind pulp with a fork until a thick paste forms. Add more water, if needed. Press through a fine sieve with the back of a spoon. Discard fibres and seeds left behind.
5. Drain mushrooms. Place in a food processor along with garlic, shallots, chiles, tamarind paste, sugar, and sauces (and curry paste if you are using that). Begin to process. With motor running add the oil you fried the garlic in. Then slowly add veggie broth. If the mixture is too thick, or not smooth enough, add more broth.
6. Pour mixture back into saucepan and heat over medium heat until bubbling. Cook for 10 mins, sirring regularly, or until sauce darkens and thickens (should be like the consistency of pudding). The oil will separate out, but don't worry, you can stir it back in later.
7. Pour into a glass jar and let cool. Store in the fridge. When cold, stir to mix the oil back in.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Chili Tamarind Paste
I mentioned in my last post that I finally found some tamarind here in ye olde North. Huzzah! I decided that a good way to make of its unique flavour was to make a paste to add to Thai and other Asian dishes. A little work goes a long way here because you can keep this in a glass jar in the fridge for a few months and just add it as you see fit. You can make this as hot or as mild as you want--I kept it pretty mild for the kiddies.
10 comments:
- Eve Love said...
mmh.. this looks good!
- August 12, 2009 at 10:06 PM
- Pistachio and Cardamom said...
cool idea! the recipe looks great
- August 12, 2009 at 11:29 PM
- DJ said...
This looks perfect for throwing through stir-fries, yum!
- August 13, 2009 at 4:53 AM
- Bianca said...
Yum! I love tamarind. I have some tamarind concentrate (not sure if that's the same thing as pulp) in my pantry that needs to be used. I might try this.
- August 13, 2009 at 5:09 PM
- dirtyduck said...
hi i was looking up vital wheat gluten and trying to find out the amino acid analysis for it when i came across this http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=28867.0
somebody mentioned YOU in a thread thing and they put your blog name!!!! i would want to know if somebody did that for me so i thought i should pass it along! i had written a comment about your ravioli a few days ago(first time at your blog) and so thats how i recognized your blog name. hope you get a kick out of this, she was talking about your excellent recipes!!!
- August 14, 2009 at 5:17 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Just use 3-4 tbsp of the concentrate (and don't add the 1/4 cup of water for soaking the pulp).
- August 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Vegan Dad said...
Thanks! It's nice to see my fame has spread all over the internets (ha!).
- August 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Laurie said...
May I ask where you found tamarind in the Bay? I love it in a dipping sauce with samosas but I haven't been able to find either here at all! Looks like I'll have to take things into my own hands...
- August 14, 2009 at 10:11 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Go to TW Foods on Main Street (I did buy the last 2 packs, though). They have a pretty good Asian section.
- August 15, 2009 at 11:17 AM
- Laurie said...
I didn't even think to look there! Thanks!
- August 15, 2009 at 3:57 PM


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Is light the new dark?
Dark. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 is dark, the darkest of the Harry Potter movies. Reviewers used the adjectives to describe but also to praise. That is not unusual. I might not have even noticed except for wondering whether certain youngsters in my circle would be seeing the movie and what its impact might be. (To be sure, one certain youngster has not only read the book but could relate it scene by scene.) Dark means serious. Dark means shadows. Dark means not evading the sad and inexplicable complexities of lifeor even worse. Dark is grownup.I was mulling this when I read a short piece in the November 25 New York Review of Books about a previously unpublished confessional poem that Ted Hughes wrote but never finished before his death in 1998. It dwells on whom he was sleeping with, and where, on the weekend when his estranged wife Sylvia Plath committed suicide. Dont count me among those fascinated by either Plaths death or Hughess infidelities, any more than among those obsessed with whether the Rosenbergs were guilty. Those are special tastes.But Carol Ann Duffy, Britains current poet laureate, did get my attention by praising the poem as the darkest poem that he wrote about the death of Sylvia Plath, one that seems to touch a deeper, darker place than poem hes ever written.Actually the NYRB article, by Mark Ford, leaves a rather different impression, of a mans desperate effort to exorcise the memory of squalid, shameful behavior. Even before I read enough to entertain that conclusion, however, I was wondering how shopworn our praise of darkness has become, or how much it tells us about the conventional thinking of a post-Christian culture.Profound = deeper = darker. I understand the subterranean metaphor. But could we turn it around? What of the image of light? Though darkness is inescapable in our faith, could we write, even if somewhat paradoxically, that a poem touched a deeper, brighter place than any before it?Let us then throw off the works of darkness, Paul told us this morning, and put on the armor of light. I am sure that Harry Potter will. Maybe some reviewers will take up the challenge.
About the Author
Peter Steinfels, co-founder of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture and a former editor of Commonweal, is the author of A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America.
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Peter==Are you sure that the post-moderns are praising the darkness of such writings as Ted Hughes' confessional poem? It seems to me that what has happened is that they've discovered that the optimism of the Enlightenment wasn't justified, and the Age of Aquarius which their children have been touting is not a viable hope either. Freedom was at the apex of their values, but maybe they've started to realize that freedom as they viewed it was really just license all along, and it doesn't work to bring us happiness. (Freedom. Now there's a paradoxical problem.)Post-post-modernism is with us, and they're finding it unexpectedly ugly, scary and dark.
Peter,your reflection brought to mind once again the grace of the liturgical year and its human and cosmic rhythms: from the half-light of Advent, through the tenebrae of Good Friday, to the joyful proclamation of the "Exultet." Happy reading of "Light of the World!"
Here in bourgeois suburbia, we have so many ways to self-medicate against the experience and the spectacle of human suffering that, perhaps, contemporary writers and artists do us a favor by pulling back the veil to reveal just what it is about our condition that causes us to cry out, "Come, Lord Jesus!"
It is true that the light/darkness metaphor has been atrociously overused since the very first day of the Creation, to the point that it's now almost impossible to use it without descending to the level of platitude.A few weeks ago there was a discussion on one of the threads about whether Stalin was mentally ill. I thought the Harry Potter books I read (I'm not sure which ones) were inane, but I remember the author making the point that Voldemort is evil because he's not all there, he's like darkness, the absence of light. This is a Christian truism, of course. But one person who does not fit this paradigm, is Milton's Satan (Milton describes the illumination in hell as "darkness visible"). He is evil because he's power-thirsty, he really, really wants to be the alpha dog. (This is, incidentally, one way the HP books avoid the very common trap of making the bad guy more sympathetic than the good guy. Does anybody really like Milton's Jesus better than Satan?) I think this is a pattern; Stalin was not mentally ill. Mental illness is due to malfunctions in the brain's equipment or operation. Stalin was evil. Somehow, he was completely missing pieces of his mind, things normal humans have.I'm personally less thrilled about using darkness as a metaphor for ignorance, as in the expressions "dark matter" "dark energy" "dark entropy" and such. If "dark" simply means the absence of knowledge, fine and good. But in this case, it seems the "darkness" is pretending to be knowledge. ("What causes the acceleration?" "We don't know, so we call it dark energy" as opposed to "Oh, that acceleration is caused by dark energy.")
Felapton --It's my understanding that "dark matter" is called dark because it literally emits no photons. The gravitational pull of black holes (composed of dark matter) is so powerful that the photons can't escape, and that's why we have no pictures of them. They're the Darth Vaders of this universe. Or is this right?
I agree Mr. Steinfels with what you have written here and think that "dark" or "darkness" in addition signifies for many people "reality." Too often "goodness" or "light" is presented as saccharine, sentimental and so demonstrably false. Unfortunately, people have turned away from the fact that the "light" is not artifically sweetened falsehood, but the heart of reality, that "true light" goes everywhere and anywhere and the darkness cannot overcome it. There are too few depictions of the toughness of the light.
If some of the mystics are to be believed (and why not?), then darkness isn't a bad thing at all. Some of them talk of the "cataphatic way" of meeting God in the depths of the soul, and those depths are dark, and God who is met there can be described only negatively. On the other hand, the great Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross describes "the dark night of the soul" as a painful separation from his beloved. In the history of Western mysticism it seems that Plato's description of the Good as "the sun" is the exception not the rule. Augustine, a neo-Platonist speaks of the :illumination" of the soul by God in his flights of prayer, but not everyone agrees that Augustine was a mystic in the sense of one who experiences the presence of God within. Bonaventure does talk of "rays of light" from God, but does not identify God with a metaphorical "light". There was an obscure lady mystic, Sophia of Klingenow who did say God was Light, but she never developed a big following.So, while the Christian mystics describe God as "Love", which is certainly a positive, they do not usually describe Him as "Light". Hmmm. On the other hand, in Dante's Paradisio he describes God as "Living Light". Hmm.Buddhists are said to achieve "illumination", but this is not a literal interpretation of being a "bodhi", which apparently just means "awakened". (One can awaken to darkness, can one not?) And the Hindu "nirvana" means literally just a "blowing out" of disturbing feelings, etc.Does the Bible speak of God as "light"?
Oh, how could I forget: And the Light shineth in the darkness and the darkness does not comprehend it.
Hi Ann, I think massive black holes and brown dwarfs are one thing some physicists think the "dark" matter could be. Other physicists think it could be subatomic particles. High energy physics and astronomy are two fields in which it's notoriously hard to get research funding, so there could be some wishful thinking involved in the hypotheses. You are right, fundamentally, it isn't matter that is missing; it's light. But basically, it's a name they pin on their lack of understanding, not an experimentally verified quantity. I would like to qualify my objection to "dark" nonsense in physics, because it occurs to me that the history of "energy" is a series of episodes just like this one. First you think energy is conserved. Then you think some is missing. Then you find it's electromagnetic "energy" and you think mechanical energy plus electromagnetic energy is conserved. Then, oops, some of your energy is missing again. Then you find that heat is random kinetic energy. OK, good, conservation of energy is back in style. But then you have to call T*dS (temperature times delta-entropy) an "energy," which seems fishy. So the concept of "energy" has come a long way in the process of our insisting that it be conserved.Did the concept have to evolve this way? Suppose we had said, back in the nineteenth century, "OK, conservation of energy is false. We need to define something new which we'll call "blarg." Energy is not conserved; energy plus blarg is conserved. Energy can be converted to blarg. Blarg can be converted to energy. If we had done that, what would quantum mechanics look like? Usually people ask this question in the form "If we met extra-terrestrials, would their science be the same as ours?" That makes it sound ridiculous, but it is an interesting question. (IMHO)
Here are some thoughts on the subject of darkness in literature from John Updike. It's from a translation of an interview he did just a few years before he died:"John Updike: [Laughs] I think its true to say that Iyou know there was a mode in the sixties or was it the seventies of black humorthere were a lot of black humorists and darkness and a kind of reflexive gloom, which many writers seem to give off. And Im relatively cheerful, youd have to say The expression of joy or of praise or of gratitude to be here, gratitude for the world, excitement at being conscious to the degree that we are conscious, all that plays into my work and may make me a relatively anachronistic or old-fashioned kind of writer. There certainly is enough gloom and tragedy, in even my writing, to go around. But its never only that. Its always something, if its only in the words themselves, theres something celebrative, to celebrate the world as it is. So yeah, I dont know too many people exactly like me."http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/2159/updike_11_15_10/
If I had to have a beer with Harry Potter, Gandalf or Winnie-the-Poopbag, I would choose Harry. But I'd sure rather skip the beer.Thank God I'm an American!
Peter's post reminds me of C.E.M. Joad's "Decadence," which, if I recall correctly, includes a section that rails against "darkness" of various types in literary forms (Faulkner and especially his "Sound and Fury" come in for oblique criticism in particular). I see the book is on Google Books, so I should go over and reacquaint myself with it.On the other hand, I like Jim Pauwel's comment--thinking "Heart of Darkness" (or really anything by Conrad). Or "Night" by Elie Wiesel. Steinfels, Felapton, et al are free to air their views about Harry Potter without having slogged through all seven books, of course.. But I would suggest that anybody who finds Potter inane (let's remember that it's a book for children) would also find "Beowulf," the Arthur legend, Shakespearean tragedy, St. John of the Cross, or any exploration of the nature of the soul inane. Last time I plan to try to defend Potter. But, as a parent, it's a breath of fresh air to find a series for children that speaks frankly of the soul, of sacrifice, of the redemptive nature of suffering. But then, I can't design a bridge or do anything really useful (perhaps Felapton prefers Thomas the Tank Engine, an encomium to the Protestant work ethic and a capitalistic system in which workers who fail to perform unquestioningly end up on the scrap heap--literally).I'm only a dumb loser who teaches liberal arts. (Ouch! And apparently pretty thin-skinned to boot, cuz that bruise still hurts.)
Hughes? Yuck. Plath? Also yuck.Potter? As Jean says, for children. I think I read one of the books and didn't hate it. I can't get through the movies, although I like bits of them -- the moving pictures in newspapers, Alan Rickman, etc.But I don't understand the criticism of them (or of any children's books) for being too dark. Being scared is what listening to stories is all about, imho. When the ancestors sat around their fires listening to the earliest story tellers, or when kids sit around fires at camp, isn't being scared the point? The light of the fire vs. the darkness behind?I devoured Grimm's fairy tales as a child, and it would be hard to beat the horrors. In an interview with Russel Hoban in the FT the other day, he was asked what novel he would give children to introduce them to literature. He said, "Not a novel but a collection of Grimms fairy tales. The Goose Girl is one of my favourites."That was one of my faves, too. Oooh, dark. (And it prepared me for the scary Book of Esther, too, the whole megillah.)Interview with Hoban: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9d758ade-f363-11df-b34f-00144feab49a.html#axzz... Goose Girl:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_Girl
Yes, the fairy tales are "dark". But there's a certain sinister undertow in the Harry series. Barnes & Noble here is currently filled with big pictures of Harry/Daniel Radcliffe. Terribly sad looking kid. He looks five times his age I kept thinking that his next project would have to be Hamlet. Sigh.
One thing that intrigues me about the HP series is the moral developmental trajectory they show. Children's formative experiences aren't left behind, but build the adults we become. A small (not-a-spoiler) example is how Hermione became involved in justice for house-elves earlier in the series. She took pity on their wretched state (they are a slave-species, ragged, servile, and almost universally-disdained,) in a way very typical of a tween or young teen adopting some social cause. Harry and Ron roll their eyes at her for this ridiculous interest, never having thought much about it themselves. But it's not ridiculous, and at least one house-elf remains loyal and indebted when things get really, globally threatening in the new film. Dobbie may be a member of a slave-species, but he is a free elf. The series has been pretty serious from the start--Voldemort's been after Harry with murderous intent all the time, while Harry makes solid friends, navigates school, finds romance and all the usual growing up stuff. But the baddies now threaten to take over the world, and the good people have to step up. The echoes of WWII, and what that might have been like for draft-age kids then, are unmistakable. And the light? Wisdom that is kind to children and takes them seriously (Dumbledore,) strict and fair teachers (Prof. McGonnagal,) friends who love you enough to call you on your mistakes (Ron and especially Hermione,) people of uncertain goodness who seem to be battling their own childhood demons (Snape,) the power of parental love beyond death; in all of these, the power of love itself in all its manifestations. The light's everywhere. We'll see in the finale whether the darkness can overcome it.
Peter's original idea, that our culture may be extoling the dark rather than the light is an interesting one, and perhaps explains the popularity of "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy.I know there are at least three ways to read the ending, from unrelentingly grim to salvific. And there are metaphorical ways to see the story. But I found the book nearly unreadable. And I say that as someone who has made some modest cash money reviewing dystopian novels, so it's not like I don't understand, enjoy or profit from the "dark side." But a good dystopian is not dark for darkness' sake (sorry, Oscar). It's a warning: "Don't go down this road because here's where it leads." McCarthy's book is something else, but I haven't figured out exactly what.I've never known what to make of Hughes, Plath, Sexton, et al. It would be uncharitable to suggest that they made train wrecks of their lives in order to have something to write about.
Why "darkness" would be praised in in the Potter7.1 movie seems kind of strange unless the reviewers appreciate that the grim elements haven't been "Disney-fied." The kids look like they've been through the mill--as they have in the story. Maybe they feel that the darkness of the story elevates it to "grown up" reading. I haven't read the reviews so don't know. Overall, I haven't enjoyed the Yates treatment of the books on film, though I think 7.1 is better than the perfunctory job done with installments 5 and 6.Ann, Daniel Radcliffe would make a great Hamlet! If only he were a better actor.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.........Terry Pratchett
Please let me make a note about dark matter as I am an experimental astrophysicist looking for the stuff. "Dark" matter will not glow if heated; it does not cast a shadow; it does not reflect light. It is dark because it has no electric or magnetic interactions. It is there however, because we can feel it's gravitational pull. We can see the bunching of galaxies on the largest scales and we can see how our own Milky Way rotates. Across scales from the whole universe down to scales of our galaxy dark matter seems to be there.It _is_ possible that the issue could be solved with a so called "modified" theory of gravity, but no one has a theory of gravity that fits the data as well as the assumption of small particles of dark matter.Similarly dark energy - much less understood but there is no interaction that is electric or magnetic involved so it can't absorb or create light.It should be noted that dark matter is not dark in the way coal is dark. Coal absorbs light and casts a shadow. ===As for HP7a, I see it Monday. I think the reviewers like it dark because Voldemort and the Death Eaters really are awful. Like the Fascist Captain in Pans Labyrinth.


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