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WEIRTON - Hancock County rivals Oak Glen and Weir locked horns Thursday night at Weir High School.
The Golden Bears came up big defensively in the fourth quarter, holding the Red Riders to just a pair of shots from the field to pull away for a 54-43 victory.
"It always feels good to get a win down here," said Oak Glen head coach Scott Wiley. "They have dangerous shooters, and you just can't relax on them because they shoot and make those threes.
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LATE IN THE GAME — Oak Glen's Casey Patterson is fouled by Weir's Shelva Burns as the Red Riders' Lindsey Robinson looks on during the final seconds of the Golden Bears' 54-43 win Thursday.
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"It feels pretty good. We have a goal. We're looking at OVACs, and this is a good step for us."
With Oak Glen leading 42-37 after three quarters, the home squad was only able to get a three-pointer from Alyssa Shingle and a two-point basket from Raegan Stead from the field during the final eight minutes. Stead also added a free throw as the Red Riders were outscored 12-6 during the fourth.
"We didn't make any shots," said Weir head coach Bill Smith. "You've got to make shots. People who were shooting in the first quarter and first half, had the ball late and didn't want to shoot for some reason. Then people got into positions where they forced things.
"They tried to make things happen on their own. We weren't playing as a group. It doesn't work, it doesn't work at all. We'll give them (today) off and get back in the gym Saturday. That's all you can do."
Vanessa Hissam and Logan Andrews paced the Golden Bears in the final frame with four points each.
"I thought we had a real good effort," said Wiley. "We tried to press early on them. They're so darn quick you can't press them too hard though. We tried to get the kids rotated in and wear them down a little bit.
"I think that's what we did. The girls played really tough, and I'm just excited for the win."
Jessica Stivason joined Hissam for team-high honors with 14 points on the night. Andrews joined the pair in double-digits with 10 points.
"They beat us in the paint," said Smith. "I bet they made one or two shots from the outside. They beat us in the paint again. They did what they had to do to win."
Stead scored a game-high 15 points for the Red Riders with Shingle contributing 13 points. Oak Glen travels to Madonna Saturday. Weir is on the road at Buckeye Local next Thursday.
Oak Glen 54, Weir 43
Oak Glen 15 11 16 12 - 54
Weir 12 12 13 6 - 43
OAK GLEN: Arnott 0 2-4 2, Snow 0 0-0 0, Patterson 3 1-2 7, Evans 0 0-0 0, Andrews 1 8-10 10, Herstine 1 0-0 2, Feicht 0 1-2 1, Hissam 7 0-0 14, Wiley 2 0-0 4, Stivason 7 0-0 14. TOTALS: 21 12-18 54.
WEIR: R. Young 1 3-4 5, Stead 6 1-1 15, Shingle 5 0-0 13, Robinson 0 0-0 0, Lemley 2 2-4 6, Burns 2 0-0 4. TOTALS: 16 6-9 43. 3-pointers: Shingle (3), Stead (2).


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WACO (October 24, 2012)—A 26-year-old man who was riding his bicycle west on Austin Avenue Wednesday night ran a red light at the 17th street intersection and was struck by a northbound SUV, police said.
The man, who wasn't identified, suffered facial injuries that were not life threatening, police said.
He was taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center.
He wasn't wearing a helmet and the bicycle did not have a light, police said.
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I now have a private TV recorder on my sheevaplug, that also can broadcast the live TV through the network.
On the hardware side, I plugged a USB DVB-T adapter (I used an AVerTV Volar Black HD :
). I use a SDHC card (32GB) for the OS and the storage.
On the software side, I installed hts tvheadend (
). It has a great web interface where you can configure your channels, watch them, and schedule recordings based on a program guide. All this can be used with my XBMC media-center frontend (on another computer) : it supports the htsp protocol for the live broadcasts of tvheadend, and the recordings can be accessed throught FTP (or any protocol you like : SMB etc)
For those who would be interested to setup something similar, here are the main steps I had to follow :
- I installed debian Squeeze as the operating system, but I suppose other versions/distributions should also work
- For the USB adapter to be recognized, I had to compile and install v4l-dvb, then modprobe dvb-usb-af9015 (this should be a different module if you have a different adapter). The firmware has to be copied manually in /lib/firmware (I took it from
). In my case, I also added an option "options dvb-usb-af9015 remote=-1" for modprobe, but I'm not sure it is necessary
- HTS tvheadend has debian repositories, but only for x86 and amd64 architectures. So I had to compile it myself. Just download the source code (I used version 2.12), configure with "./configure --cpu=armv4t --release --disable-avahi" and make. After that, you can launch tvheadend from the command-line, and start playing with it
- tvheadend can grab the electronic program guides from the Internet, through xmltv. You have to install the package xmltv, then to configure it with tv_grab_xx --configure (replace the xx with your country code)
- To install tvheadend as a service, I copied the /etc/init.d/tvheadend file from the x86 .deb package, created a symlink of the executable to /usr/bin, installed the service (update-rc.d tvheadend defaults >/dev/null), created a /home/hts directory, created a hts user (adduser --system --group --shell /bin/bash --home /home/hts hts), and copied the .hts and .xmltv directories in /home/hts. Maybe there is a simpler way to do it...
The whole thing consumes 4.7W when idle, and less than 1% of CPU. Of course, you can install other services on the same machine.
While recording, it consumes 4.9W, and less than 10% of CPU. It dumps the audio/video stream as it is : no realtime transcoding. Some post-processing can be launched by tvheadend but I did not try it (I suppose we should not expect miracles because of the computing power of the sheevaplug)
One last remark : the xmltv grab duration might depend on the country/implementation. In my country, it is veeeery slow : around 8 hours to complete it. It is partly due to delays in the implementation itself (it tries not to overload the web site that is crawled), and partly due to the CPU power it needs (it takes between 30 and 80% of the CPU during these 8 hours). For that reason, I only grab every 4 days (96 hours)
On the whole, I'm very happy with this setup : it's stable, I can schedule the recordings through the Internet, I can watch TV or recordings with XBMC, it consumes less than 5W etc.
I also like the "geeky" parts, like being able to automatically schedule recordings based on regular expressions.
There are a few minor problems, but I did not investigate much on them :
- The program guides that come with the stream itself have problem with accents (I suppose there's an encoding issue somewhere : either in the firmware, v4l-dvb or tvheadend)
- The recordings can not always be downloaded through the web interface (only the small ones). Anyway, I prefer accessing them through FTP
- Some channels use EAC3 audio codec in my country, which is not very common : many OS/media players do not support it. Anyway, XBMC does :-)
- Timeshifting does not work well : that's normal (see tvheadend documentation)
- You can not record a channel and watch another one (except if you have a double tuner adapter)
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Unfortunately it's on NBC. Which means it will probably end up going to syndication.
The best thing I can say about it is that it's not crap. The premise is standard soap opera drama, shady back room deals, crime cover-ups, moneyed family intrigues, wild children and scary patriarchs. All of the same stuff that Revenge has, without the tension.
Because the central family is so entitled it is difficult to sympathize with their plight. The interloper, who happens to be the lead roll of Undercover Detective Joanna Locasto (Meagan Goode), has been extremely underwritten and her motives thin and tired.
The patriarch, Robert Bowers (Victor Garber) shows an increased range from Alias, a bit like what a window shutter is to that old wooden rocking chair on Grans back verandah. He does still manage to convey some of the nuances required for the role.
However the evil, empathetic Sen. Dwight Haverstock (John Laroquette) brings a real presence to the screen.
The real shining light so far is Mia Bowers (Ella Rae Peck). She was well cast and it seems that she is in her wheel house. She proves to have real emotional integrity when put under the pressures of her situation.
I guess my real problem with the show is that it is too tame. 10pm on a Monday night, in the year 2013, is well late enough to put some meat into the story, the characters, the language... by being so underwhelming I feel NBC is letting down their audience, actors and themselves.
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You've seen this story before. Both Hot Rod and Chevy High Performance have taken a whack at the "big-block versus small-block" concept a couple of times, usually with informative results. Recently, both magazines ran a story wherein two engines were built, dyno'd, and run at the track. One was a small-block and the other a big-block, and they both displaced 408ci to take the displacement issue out of the study and simply find which engine had a better design. Ultimately, the Rat trounced the Mouse both on the dyno (by 22 lb-ft and 41 hp) and at the strip (12.31 versus 12.59). They claimed the Rat cost about $4,500, only $850 more than the small-block (neither price included frivolities like a carb, ignition, headers, pulleys, hardware, or chemicals). It was an interesting study that made for a frenzy of bench racing. But then it occurred to us: Who pays $4,500 to build a big-block that's only 408 cubes?
We're just a bunch of dirtbags trying to go fast for cheap with a worthless El Camino, so theory means little to us. In an attempt to let the Rat and Mouse face off in a more practical scenario, we decided to look at the real price and performance of a used 350 with basic bolt-ons versus a second-hand 454 with the same upgrades. We've practically broken our arms patting ourselves on the back for making our small-block-powered El Cheapo '72 run 12.93 at 103 mph for a total investment in the entire car of $1,994.87 (see "12s for $1,995," May '99). All that was involved was a used 350 with a cam, headers, a single-plane intake, a theory-be-damned 800 double-pumper, a used TH350, and a swap-meet nitrous system. And you're right, high 12s on spray isn't that impressive--until you learn that the car has 2.56:1 rearend gears. How quick would the same car run with all the same stuff hung on a 454? Would it be worth the extra price? Read on to find out.
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We searched swap meets, junkyards, and classified ads for months trying to find the right 454, meaning one that was as complete as possible and that we believed had the potential to run strong without a rebuild. It seems that you rust-belt guys have it good with big-blocks, since trucks fall apart around them and the engines are for sale cheaper than here in SoCal. We had a tough time even finding good crank cores for less than $100, and complete running engines often topped $1,000! We settled on this long-block for $500--a price that would buy us at least four running 350s in virtually complete condition.While the seller claimed the engine was an 1985 casting numbers revealed an 1985 intake, 1974 peanut-port (small oval-port) heads, and a 1974 block(arrow).Our second clue to the engine's past life was the yellow machine-shop markings on the front main cap (arrow). That, the Fel-Pro gaskets, and the fact that the oil pump pickup tube was tack-welded to the pump told us it had probably been rebuilt in a decent local shop. The rods were all mismarked with cylinder stampings, but side clearance seemed good. The timing chain was a double-roller and in just-installed condition--including a cam gear installed with two Taiwan Grade 5 bolts with no thread locker on 'em.After jerking the oil pan and the stock cast-iron intake, we found clues as to why the engine was removed. First we spotted a lifter retaining clip (A) in the oil pan, which explained why there was a lifter's inner plunger (B) lying in the lifter valley. We figured a flat cam lobe and wasted lifter (C) caused both problems, presumably the result of improper cam break-in on this otherwise new engine. Then we found the bent pushrod (closest to the foreground), thanks to a long exhaust pushrod having been installed where one of the shorter intake pushrods was supposed to be. What jokers. We later found a mystery chunk of unknown "oops" (D) under the valvespring with a retainer (E) that was chewed up badly.We never took the heads off our previous 350 bomber, but felt obligated to go deeper into the 454 considering the money we'd spent. We found the Rat was 0.060-over, which meant 468 cubes but no chance of an inexpensive rebuild in the future. The good news was that there was no ring ridge, the cylinder crosshatch was still there, and the block had been decked so that the piston height was around 0.008 in the hole. With flat-top pistons, compression was about 8.8:1 once we scraped all the carbon off. The engine was reassembled using a complete Fel-Pro gasket set from PAW. Don't forget that big-blocks require thread sealer on the head bolts.We chose a low-cost SSI camshaft for the big-block, selecting a grind that was identical to the one we used in the 350. The only difference was that the lift is greater in the 454 because it uses stock rocker arms with a 1.7:1 ratio instead of the 1.5:1 ratio used in a stock small-block. The specs are: 0.527/0.553 lift, 224/234 degrees of duration at 0.050 tappet lift. We massaged it with cam sauce and stabbed it in with new lifters and our old timing chain. We also had to buy one pushrod to replace the hashed one we found during disassembly. We didn't degree the cam because we're not only cheap, we're lazyOne bummer about the Rat is that we had to change valvesprings to Crane 99839s to accommodate the cam lift; those are single-style springs that do not require machining. Both the big- and small-block can usually handle up to 0.500 lift with good stock springs, and we got away with the stockers on the 350 thanks to the 0.465/0.488 lift. All the cams with less than 0.500 lift were too weenie for the larger displacement of the big-block, so the springs had to be changed. We also had to buy one new retainer.Our 454 came with Taiwan chrome for the oil pan, timing cover, and valve covers, but there was no balancer, pulleys, or water pump. Around here, you could sooner walk to the moon than find that big-block stuff in a junkyard for a fair price, so we were forced to buy PAW chrome replacements. A 396 balancer won't work on a 454 because the 396 is internally balanced and the 454 is externally balanced (you can tell the 454 unit by the counterweight on the back). We eventually found this balancer at a Goodguys swap meet and smacked the guy down to $20, but we still had to buy a balancer bolt.
We also learned the high cost of big-block parts when we hunted for an aluminum intake at many swap meets. We paid just $15 for a somewhat mangled Torker intake when we built our 350, but couldn't find a used big-block unit for under $125. By swinging a deal with the same guy we got the vibration damper from, we finally got an Edelbrock Torker II 2-O for $100. The manifold is designed for large oval ports, and it's really not recommended for our peanut-ports, but we did it anyway. The carb is the very same 800-cfm double-pumper that had served duty on the 350 small-block. It was $50 at a swap meet.Another refugee from the 350 was the junkyard HEI distributor--it's one of few items that interchange between the two engines. We were able to reuse the small-block's lower alternator bracket, thermostat housing, fan belt, and plug wires; we also salvaged a few pipe plugs and bolts. The 454 takes different attaching hardware in most places,the water pumps and pulleys are different, and so is the fuel-pump blockoff plate. The El Camino uses a Carter electric fuel pump instead of a mechanical pump.The good news about the 454 is that it's virtually a direct swap for the 350. We reused the engine mounts from the small-block, though lining them up on the frame was inexplicably more difficult with the 454. The big-block bolted right up to the TH350 trans because the bellhousing bolt pattern is the same, and the B&M torque converter was double-drilled to accept the flywheel bolt pattern. We sort of butchered the throttle linkage to make it work (not too proudly, though), and the small-block radiator and hoses even lined up. We used the small-block fan and shroud after swapping to a shorter Flex-A-Lite fan spacer, but the shroud is uncomfortably close to the lower pulley because we used a long water pump setup (brackets were more expensive for the short pump). A real big-block shroud and a beefier radiator would be better.We cheated: We actually found a set of big-block Chevelle headers at a Goodguys swap meet for $8, but we didn't want to carry them home. We listed the $8 price in the chart, but we really used a trick set of coated Hedman Hedders we had leftover from a dyno session. They fit perfectly--in fact, we'd say they're easier to work on than the small-block headers in the same car.Here's what the fat-block looked like once it was all bolted up and ready to go with the same Carter electric fuel pump and NOS Power Shot nitrous unit we'd used on the 350. The 454 bumped up the Elco's weight from 3,250 to 3,400 pounds, and the nose sagged about 11/4 inches. That gave the car a good stance, but the wasted shocks get really bouncy with the big-block weight, and the handling is noticeably worse than it was before. The manual steering doesn't seem much heavier, but the brakes sure do.


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It drives me up the wall! Should I make a big deal of it or just drop it?
There is a colleague of mine who constantly writes:
It drives me up the wall! Should I make a big deal of it or just drop it?
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It's only redundant code, not life or death. However....
If it's happening a lot, it could be a problem with how
for example.
When I see
However, my perspective is skewed because I spent several summers in college teaching programming to kids, who frequently wrote expressions like this because they genuinely hadn't mastered the mental exercise of evaluating an expression. Once they grokked the concept, the redundancy became obvious.
For an otherwise competent professional programmer, this is probably not the case. It's probably just a bad habit they developed in their early days of programming and never quite shook. But it would still scare me a bit if it was the first thing I saw someone do in an interview.
That drives me crazy too, but I'd say mention the redundancy to them in a constructive way and then drop it even if they don't concur.
Alternatively you could try this approach:
Them: Why would we do that? The second half of that statement is redundant, it would always evaluate to true.
You: By George, you are right. Silly me. Let's just go with a version without all the redundancy then. How about?
I think that, if something so trivial is your biggest problem with your co-workers, you should consider yourself pretty lucky.
You should definitely stop this bad habit. Gently...
It's easy to forget to write the double equal signs, turning the code into:
In C# for example this will only produce a warning, not an error. So unless you treat warnings as errors the code will run, set the variable to true and always enter the condition.
I agree with you, but I'm going to play devil's advocate here:
Depending on the language and the variable's name, x==true is appropriate:
Consider the following situation in a language with static typing and type coercion for integral types:
Someone reading this section of the code might not realize immediately that actionsAllowed is a boolean variable - it could also be an integer, representing the number of allowed actions. So by adding == true, it becomes clear that x is a boolean, and not an integer being coerced to a boolean:
What about nullable bools?
Typically, you don't want to make a big deal out of coding conventions unless said convention is somehow impeding the project in a significant way. I've seen many a heated argument escalate over things as small as code regions and leading underscores.
That being said, I see no issue with adding
If there is an established convention, I say follow it unless there is reason to change. However, it's not really worth raising a big stink about.
Ack. I'm that guy. The shame, the shame. It's how I learned, and it's how I "auto-format" in my head. The only time I use Joel's prefered syntax is when the bool variable has a verb prefix like "is." I need the verb, be it "is," "can," "did," or else I need the == to provide the verb "equals." I might never break that habit, so I'll understand if you don't say 'hello' to me on the street.
remind me of "boolean madness code", its like these
Instead of:
Personally, I strongly dislike the way to say "not" in C based languages. That little exclamation mark is too easy to overlook.
Hence I write it out in full:
After reading that for a while, I want symmetry too with
So consider it an artifact of C using
It depends on the language, but it's usually a bad idea...
In C, never do this. It's too easy to find a situation where the value you are testing is not false (non-zero), but also not equal to the single value defined as "true".
In Ruby, do this only if you are absolutely certain that you want to fail on everything except Boolean true.
In C++ and other static languages with a bool type, it's redundant, and can lead to programming errors when you mis-type
You think that's bad? How about:
I prefer
too, but I'm afraid that bringing it up would piss people off, so my advice is to forget it. Sorry!
you should tell him that he is doing it wrong.
if (true == someBool) {
if he ever forget one = he is in big trouble in his writing style.
How about
Actually, if it's nullable, testing for x == true would be necessary. :)
I write code like that!
Here is why:
"if bla == true" reads like a sentence, where as "if bla" does not in many cases. It just sounds wrong, when READING actual code.
Also the compiler warns about assignments in if blocks, so there is really no danger in using == true. (confusing it with =)
Also do guys that don't write "== true", use that "!()" for "== false"? I find it really ugly. And if you use "== false", it is only very consistent to also use "== true", instead of having two distinct ways of verifying truth.
Remember you are working as part of a team, so you need to work these things out together. "Plays nice with others" is still an important personality trait even after elementary school :)
Generally will omit the '== true', but it's hardly worth even a minute discussing it unless you have it included in your team's coding standards.
While I agree as a mainly C# developer, I can't say this is always the case. For instance, in Javascript, the === will perform type coalescence. So assuming var x = 3 then:
I guess that's different than == since even in JS I wouldn't use if(x == true) but just something to think about.
This sort of touches on another point though which has come up in my office:
In C#, bool b; would be enough and would initalize b to false. However, it is more explicit to write the above line and anyway should be ripped out by the compiler during optimization.
So I guess my point is it's not always so obvious what is and isn't good practice and a lot of it boils down to preference as well as language features/quirks.
Ah yes, but what if the variable is nullable? (bool?)
Some languages (C#) will require and cast or comparison with 'true'.
The young know the rules, but the old know the exceptions ;)
In latest
If tristate is not a problem, then there usually should not be a reason to compare something to
Regardless of the language, any time you find yourself comparing something to
Such coding would have rubbed me the wrong way before too. Although your example identifier is named "someBool", using that coding style inadvertently on a variable which wasn't guaranteed to be a boolean could have unintended behavior. If the value of "someBool" isn't exactly "true" or "false", the result will be false.
I encountered a very subtle bug this past year caused by such a coding style which was difficult to identify because one's eyes gloss over such constructs. You'd think, "How could it be wrong?" The same holds true for such well-understood expressions as "(var)" or "(!var)", that you read or code them without verifying their behavior.
So I've introduced a couple of coding standards to reduce the existence of such bugs in the codebase and the likelihood that such subtle bugs will accidentally creep in sometime in the future.
By cleaning up code not conforming to the new style, I've identified and corrected a few more instances of such subtle bugs.
Had to use this all the time in ActionScript 2 (admittedly now a dead language), because:
So it was almost always best to be specific.
I agree. It's a redundant construction, specially in strong typed languages.
To add another misuse of booleans, I have found this kind of construction a bunch of times in Javascript, (specially at some spaghetti-like monster functions, as in 100+ lines):
It seems, that due to the lack of an strict type definition in this language, some programmers prefer not have to be messing around with the
I have a colleague who will have some code like this:
And then, for some sort of test/debugging, he will wish to not call this block so he'll change it to:
And then occasionally he'll change it to:
The worst thing is, this type of debugging has rubbed off on me on occasion and is really bad for other developers to read!
I'd say consistency is king in a codebase. So you should use the style, that is mostly used in your organization. Try to make your preferred style part of official company coding guidelines. If it's already in the guidelines, just follow it.
(That being said, it would also really annoy me - but probably not enough to make a big deal out of it).
I prefer not placing the extra == true, but sometimes I accidentally include it and don't notice it. The person may not have noticed and accidentally placed them. I reread my code and sometimes notice that I placed the extra == true so I remove that == true. I sometimes don't notice it and would happily welcome someone telling me I placed it redundantly.
how about:
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Hurricane Man is out like his predecessor Sandy. Although I have a strong feeling I'll hear from him again at some point telling me how busy he's been…bla bla…bla…bla…blaaaa……I'm bored. If I can't even rely on you as a booty call, what good are you?
So I went on a date last week with a guy I'm intrigued by, yet on the fence about. On paper we have a lot in common. On paper he's a great catch. But there's an "X" factor…something wrong or missing (I'm assuming) that I can't quite put my finger on…yet.
Handsome, clean cut, seems relatively successful, intelligent, well-traveled and educated forty something…..Never married…no kids…uh oh….watch for falling shoes…to drop.I'm getting a Clark Kent vibe from him.
He's a little nerdy for lack of a better word. He has no game, and I'm always on the fence deciding if that's a good or bad thing. Of course I don't want a player, but a man who knows how to date, how to treat a woman, how to PLAN a date. I'm not looking for chivalry (God forbid) but just some old-fashioned pleasantries to take the sting out of the wretchedness of dating.
Doesn't drink, or smoke or do drugs. No tattoos, no notable vices. Sounds like a snoozer I know. But to offset this, he is incredibly well travelled….a HUGE plus in my book. Very adventurous and has family in corners of the globe and apparently the will and desire to take off at a moment's notice. So I wonder, has he never married because of this whole vagabond/citizen of the world crap? Is that why I've never married? Or…is he just a closet deviant with female body parts in jars and bags under his bed? It's a 50/50 shot at this point.
I always seem to be drawn to a specific type of personality. Charming, smooth, sarcastic, funny…..and ultimately….kinda douchey when they're not being charming. Always a yin for the yang. This guy, although well spoken, has a sort of awkward quality to him. I'm just not sure if that will irk or entice me. Something about him reminds me of the Brainiac Cowboy, but cuter….and hopefully dresses better. Not really my type, but a possible option and contender. The first kiss will be critical.
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It's one of those wait and see scenarios, I'm being open-minded and I really need to go out again before forming an opinion. But here's the kicker…Clark Kent appears to be a closet perv. He hasn't said anything inappropriate but he's definitely putting his feelers out there. Him texting me at 11 pm asking me if I'd like him to come over was the first indicator. Subsequent messages packed with sexual overtones and double entendres sealed the deal. Apparently I send out a sex goddess vibe I'm completely unaware of! Of course I find that intriguing as hell. Wolf in sheep's clothing and all that jazz. Let's just hope it's not of the Ted Bundy/Craigslist Killer variety.
Things to be cautious of…him noting that he isn't looking for a relationship per se, but if it happens that's great. I fucking hate when they say that because it's really bullshit. It's simply code for "I want to hook up with no strings….unless I decide I'd like to pursue you….so don't hold me to it." Second clue…his profile says he's looking for "friends and activity partners." WTF?
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'Mink River'
Once, reading a book on wildflowers, I learned that there was a plant called bastard toadflax. In Brian DoylesMink River, a flawed but wonderful book, the author disgorges such arcane information effortlessly and wholesale, and we learn perhaps more than we want to know about the flora and fauna of the Oregon coast. Yet,Mink Riveris tender, hilarious, original, and outrageous; I loved it in spite of itself. Mr. Doyles shameless love for humanity in all its particularity takes your breath away.Neawanaka is an imaginary town bounded by the ocean, two creeks, and the Mink River. Its people are as ordinary and exceptional as people anywhere else, but Mr. Doyles enormous affection for them brings his characters to life. Billy and May Mahon, a Native American couple, their daughter Nora, her Irish immigrant husband Owen Cooney, and their son, Daniel, are the central characters. Billy, May, and Nora also have Salish (native) names: Worried Man, Maple Head, and No Horses. They are a close family and closely tied to Billys best friend, Cedar, a war veteran with an unknown past who Billy saved from drowning in the Mink River. Billy and Cedar comprise the towns Department of Public Works, whose purview is not only repairing roads and trimming trees but also, in ways large and small, helping people to have better lives. Help is needed in a town down on its luck: factories close, the logging disappears, fish are fewer and smaller, and it rains at least 280 days a year.Mr. Doyle has an Irish lust for language that can seem to overflow the pages. May and Billy sometimes speak and think in their native Salish; Owen speaks Gaelic, his own native language, to Nora and Daniel, so he can hear the beautiful sound of it. And then there is Mr. Doyles passion for the natural world which provides one of the joys of the book: an almost liturgical litany of trees, shrubs, fish, flowers, birds, and animals with which he sees fit to randomly entertain us. If there is a native berrysalmonberry, salal berry, bearberry, shotberry, thimbleberry, snowberryor birdouzel, skimmer, murre, grebe, nighthawkthat he omits to mention, I would be surprised. Yet one of my quibbles with the book is that he sometimes goes overboard, as in a list of all the fish, birds, and animals consumed during the life of a three-year old bear. I wish his editor had wielded a sharper pencil.Mink Riveris much more about character and language than about plot. In fact, the plot is a series of accidents and agonies: a death here, an arrest there, a town picnic, and no small amount of magical reality, which serve to gather us into the lives of the characters. Moses is a crow who aids Billy and Moses in their do-good projects. He fell from the nest as a fledgling and was rescued by a nun whose name we never learn; she not only taught him to speak, but over time she made him a boon companion. Moses recalls their last meal together before the nuns death: they would always have this bronze morning, the bronze triangles of toast between them, the bowl of bronze berries, her left hand on his right foot, his eyes closed, her body shivering, the burble of pigeons on the fire escape the only sound in the room. We hear the voice of Moses, more human than corvid, without skepticism.In an interview, Mr. Doyle admitted to being fairly accused of vast elephantine sentences and passionate overwriting. Even if true, these things only slightly diminish his achievement. When the old nun dies, her soul on its way heavenward gets caught on the blades of a whirring ceiling fan. The town doctor houses the sick and the dying in his own home. His twelve daily cigarettes are each named after one of the twelve apostles. Owen Cooney tells his son heartrending tales ofan gorta,the Great Hunger which changed the history of Ireland. Billy and May tell their grandson tales of their Salish forebears. Declan, a young fisherman, sets out to catch a halibut as big as a door. Michael, the town policeman, loves opera and knows the lyrics toToscaby heart. Stella, the bar owner, dreams of having a vineyard. A dying man dreams of going to sea. When Daniel rides his bicycle off a cliff, a young she-bear carries his stretcher. Mr. Doyle achieves this interweaving of the tragic and the mundane, the magical and the real, with great success.There is a paternalism in Mr. Doyle, a desire to make amends for the suffering his characters endure. They are his children, are they not? So, at the end, the dying man dies at sea after catching a really big fish. Everyone realizes at least a small piece of a dream. Two or three bad apples are disposed of, but not without sympathy. Mr. Doyle has been criticized for stitching together what appears to be a happy ending, but what he really did was to give people hope. Like the people we love and hold dear, books that we love are often flawed but we love them still.
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The only addition I would make to the comments here is that, although the novel is not so much about plot, it is very much about story and what it means to be part of a story larger than one's individual drama.
Thank you, Mark. Your remark is on point, and I wish I my own powers of observation were as acute.
I would agree completely with the observations herein. The flaws are as noted, as pervasive and occasionally awe-insiring in their breadth. The reader learns perhaps more than desired about a number of arcane subjects. Having concurred with the review's comments I would only add that, as the wine people say, there were "flavor notes" of Under Milk Wood and As I Lay Dying. There was also a rhythm of the oral tradition that can still be heard in an Irish pub if you're ever lucky enough to be in one. In these respects the book is a very enjoyable read with a fair slug of the mystical-magical. While Mink River is perhaps not perfect it can be transformational in spots.It's a good book to have enjoyed and I would venture you can read it twice.
Larry, I will definitely read this book again. I have bought three copies so far, two as gifts, and will surely buy a few more for birthdays and Christmas. And I appreciate your noting that Brian Doyle's story is reminiscent of the Irish oral tradition. Sadly, I have never been in an Irish pub except for the New York City variety.


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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Serge Gainsbourg Tribute - Hollywood Bowl
12 comments:
- Incognito said...
Hey! I am so happy to hear about Serge Gainsbourg from someone who is not French! If you speak and are able to understand the lyrics of his songs you can see he was a poet. Actually he considered much more poetry than music. Did you know he made a song with Charlotte called Lemon Incest? This song was also a scandal. I actually prefer the Gainsbourg of the beginning much more. It is so refreshing hearing a foreigner not speaking about "La vie en rose" by Edith Piaf :D Thanks for your post and you should have been lucky attending this concert!
Shug'A'Very from Incognito ;)
- August 30, 2011 at 3:43 PM
- Clifton Weaver said...
Great post about Serge Gainsbourg! One note though, the photos of Bardot and Birkin are from "Don Juan or If Don Juan Were A Woman" not from Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow Up". They do not appear in that movie.
- August 30, 2011 at 7:46 PM
- Style Dilettante said...
Thank you for the correction!
- August 30, 2011 at 10:45 PM
- Lady and Olga said...
Didn't know Serge was really known abroad but I'm happy about discovering it :)
PS : thanks for your last two comments :) I hope you understand me better now that I've started translating my posts in english ;)
- August 31, 2011 at 12:33 AM
- Ann said...
This is a very interesting and informative post...
I enjoyed reading it ♥
- August 31, 2011 at 1:01 AM
- Hillary said...
Arg! I wanted to go to that so bad, but I was out of town! I'm so jealous!
- August 31, 2011 at 4:50 AM
- Shybiker said...
What a fabulous post! I love music and enjoyed learning about all this; you present the information so nicely. And the post is part travelogue as well. Now I want to hop on a plane!
- August 31, 2011 at 5:20 AM
- Samantha said...
This has made me even MORE excited for my trip to this fabulous city in October!!!!!!!!
I gave you a little bit of a shout-out in my post today. :)
Thanks again for ALL of your help!
- August 31, 2011 at 9:34 AM
- absolutelyfaaabulous said...
What.... looks like an amazing concert you went too.. and stop being paranoiac: you are still allowed to enjoy certain things from time to time without taking all the pics for us. Anyway, great post. The venue looks amazing.. Really wish I could live in LA to live these sort of moments.. Am still on holidays but will check everything up/blog more as soon as back. A big kiss!
- August 31, 2011 at 5:34 PM
- The Foolish Aesthete said...
So great to learn more of Serge Gainsbourg. I had always wanted to know why Charlotte was so cool --- but with Serge and Jane as parents, how could one not be? And I was so happy to be corrected about Californian walking habits! I am observing more and more walkers in our neighborhoods, outside of walking and biking for exercise.
- August 31, 2011 at 8:47 PM
- muse said...
I love Serge&Jane....Xx MUse
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- Constance said...
I love them!!!
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U.S. and Afghan officials told the paper that the Afghan military isn't expected to have an independent and fully functioning air force until around 2017, well after the withdrawal of most U.S. and international troops.
On the west end of Kabul International Airport, twin-engine C-27As sit side by side, sunlight reflecting off their gray wings and the green, black, and red of the Afghan flag emblazoned on their tails. For more than a year, though, most of the planes had been little more than expensive aviation exhibitions, unable to fly due to lack of spare parts and maintenance.
Now, despite spending nearly $600 million on the program, the U.S. is canceling the contract for the aircraft and disposing of all 16 planes delivered to the Afghan Air Force, the Journal reported.
Alenia Aermacchi North America, a unit of Italian defense conglomerate Finmeccanica SpA, failed to meet the requirements of their contract to maintain the fleet, according to an email from U.S. Air Force spokesman Ed Gulick, who was quoted in the Journal.
"This decision comes after failed attempts by the contractor to generate a sufficient number of fully mission-capable aircraft that would provide an effective airlift capability for the AAF," Gulick said in the email.
An Alenia representative was quoted in the Journal as saying the company had not received word of the decision and that the program had recently shown improvement.
"It's all a bit surprising that this decision is being made now when the [remediation] plan is being fully implemented," the representative said.
The entire fleet of C-27As was grounded in December 2011 and even recently only four to six planes have been able to operate at any one time, Afghan Air Force spokesman Col. Mohammad Bahadur said in an interview with Stars and Stripes.
"The basic problem is that these airplanes were purchased without spare parts," Bahadur said. "For a small part, you need to wait for weeks or months."
For the Afghan military, still struggling to operate independently, the lack of cargo aircraft has been a blow to an already shaky logistics system. The Afghan security forces have leaned heavily on their fleet of Russian helicopters and Cessna 208 planes. But those aircraft struggle to keep up with demand, especially on longer routes, such as the roughly 300-mile haul between the capital and Kandahar, Afghanistan's second city and still a major center for fighting.
Shortages of fuel and parts are epidemic for Afghan troops, whose Humvees and pickups often lie dormant for days; many units complain of a shortage of ammunition.
The U.S. is set to deliver four C-130s, four-engine cargo planes that are the workhorses of the U.S. Air Force, to the Afghan Air Force in 2013, said Ministry of Defense spokesman Gen. Zahir Azimi said in an interview with Stars and Stripes.
"A military that doesn't have a plane is like a man without legs," Azimi said.
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Windows Azure Web Sites provides a multitude of deployment options - FTP and Web Deploy publishing, as well as integrated publishing using GitHub.com, CodePlex.com, and BitBucket. The latest addition to the publishing options make web site deployment as easy as copying files into a local DropBox folder on your development workstation. This video walks through the very simple process of marrying up a DropBox folder with a Windows Azure Web Site, and shows how quickly you can get a web site up and running or maintain it using simple drag-and-drop deployment.
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Thank you for this tut, simple but informative. But why don't to link SkyDrive to Source Controls, just to use this option you make us to open account with DropBox
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Democrats Harden Budget Positions
The White House and congressional Democrats hardened their budget positions on Tuesday and signaled they are prepared for partisan jockeying before any agreement to block impending spending cuts and tax increases can be reached with Republicans.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.), a rare liberal who has supported changes in Medicare and other entitlements as part of a broad budget deal, made clear he wouldn't back them under a short-term agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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White House officials suggested in a closed-door meeting with supporters that talks wouldn't heat up for about a week. In the meeting, President Barack Obama said he considered the fiscal-cliff debate a defining moment of his presidency.
"The next four weeks could define the next four years," Mr. Obama told a small group of Democrats after joining their meeting in the Roosevelt Room with his top aides, according to a participant.
Republicans criticized what they saw as a lack of progress and girded for a public-relations initiative of their own to galvanize small-business owners in support of their fiscal-cliff proposals, in particular their opposition to raising the top income-tax rates.
"If the president wants a solution to the challenges of the moment, the people he needs to be talking to are the members of his own party, so he can convince them of the need to act,'' said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.).
In the wake of an initial White House budget meeting, members of both parties seemed to agree that any fiscal-cliff deal would be linked to a broader budget agreement involving both tax increases and cuts in entitlement programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.
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Republicans have since refused to budge on a demand that tax rates remain unchanged, while Democrats insist that upper rates must rise. Republicans have called for big changes in entitlement programs; most Democrats have refused to offer any until Republicans give more ground on taxes.
In his discussion with Democratic supporters Tuesday, Mr. Obama showed no inclination to give ground. He repeated his threat to veto legislation that doesn't make upper-income Americans pay more in taxes and promised he wouldn't accept "a bad deal."
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer told the group that the White House should know in about seven to 10 days how much the Republicans will be willing to compromise on taxes, according to attendees. Senior White House adviser David Plouffe warned the Democrats of a big fight ahead which required the party to stick together, attendees said.
Mr. Durbin, the Senate majority whip and a close Obama ally, was one of the few senior Democratic liberals willing to entertain big changes in Medicare. In a speech Tuesday at Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, he said Democrats "should be willing to talk about ways to ensure the long-term viability of Medicare and Medicaid."
At the same time, he said such changes should be dealt with next year, rather than in a hurried manner during the current lame-duck session of Congress.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said he hadn't seen Mr. Durbin's remarks but said Mr. Obama wants a deal that includes changes to entitlements.
Complicating the already complex budget talks, Mr. Durbin said the year-end budget agreement will have to include an increase in the country's statutory borrowing limit to avoid another fight when the federal debt ceiling is reached, likely early next year. "The president isn't going to sign off on an agreement that doesn't provide some certainty on the debt ceiling," he said.
A GOP House leadership aide said Republicans would insist on greater concessions from Democrats, in addition to any fiscal-cliff agreement, to include the debt ceiling in any deal.
—Corey Boles contributed to this article.
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Sounds easy but it is not.I downloaded ubuntu 12.10 to a USB stick so I can carry it around and use it on any computer.I try to running the OS from stick but it just does not work.So what I am doing wrong and what I have to do to get to work.Search on the Net for good tutorial but find none.
Use an application like Linux Live USB (Windows) or UNetbootin/Startup Disk creator (Linux). Just navigate to the .iso and burn it to your usb drive.
A persistent install as described above is OK for testing Ubuntu but should not be updated, takes a long time to boot, is not secure and is limited to 4GB persistence*.
You can alternately do a Full install to USB:
Following is step by step how to install 12.04 on a 8GB flash drive, it is similar to installing to internal drive:
Turn off and unplug the computer. (See note at bottom) Remove the side from the case. Unplug the power cable from the hard drive. Plug the computer back in. Insert the flash drive. Insert the Live CD or Live USB. Start the computer, the CD/USB should boot. Select language. Select install Ubuntu. Select Download updates while installing and Select Install this third-party software. Continue At "Installation type" select "Something else". Continue Confirm Device is correct. Select "New Partition Table" Click Continue on the drop down.
(Optional partition for use on Windows machine) Click "Free space" and "Add". Select "Primary". Make "New partition size..." about 1000 megabytes. Location = Beginning. "Use as:" = "FAT32 file system". And "Mount point" = /windows. Select "OK"
Click "free space" and then "Add". Select "Primary", "New partition size ..." = 4500 to 6000 megabytes, Beginning, Ext4, and Mount point = "/" then OK.
(Optional home partition) Click "free space" and then "Add". Select "Primary", "New partition size ..." = 1000 to 4000 megabytes, Beginning, Ext2, and Mount point = "/home" then OK. (Optional swap space, allows hibernation)
Click "free space" and then "Add". Select "Primary", "New partition size ..." = remaining space, (1000 to 2000 megabytes, or same size as RAM), Beginning and "Use as" = "swap area" then OK.
(Important) Confirm "Device for boot loader installation" points to the USB drive. Default should be ok if HDD was unplugged. Click "Install Now".
Select your location. Continue. Select Keyboard layout. Continue. Insert your name, username, password, computer name and select if you want to log in automatically or require a password. Selecting "Encrypt my home folder" is a good option if you are worried about loosing your USB drive. Select Continue. Wait until install is complete. Turn off computer and plug in the HDD. Stick the side panel back on.
Note: You may omit disabling the hard drive if after partitioning you choose to install grub to the root of the usb drive you are installing Ubuntu to, (ie sdb not sdb1). Be cautious, many people have overwritten the HDD MBR. You may do an update-grub later.
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I have several open projects in my GTD system. They are all important ("top priority") and they are all driving towards a similar due date, however, they are not interdependent projects. What is the best way to work towards the completion of all the projects in a non-linear (project 1, complete, project 2, complete ...) fashion?
Or, is a linear approach the most efficient?
I guess the Question Behind the Question is, management would like to see progress on all projects (weekly, monthly, etc.), how do you show progress on all projects while working the most efficiently?


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Have you experienced lucid dreaming?
By definition: dreaming while knowing that you are dreaming. I think most people have. However, and I guess more of what I was after in this question, to what extent have you experienced lucid dreaming?
I've been researching it for the past couple months, while keeping a dream journal of the "normal" dreams I have. If I write everything I dream down right away, it helps me become more familiar with my dreams, and lucid dream more often. I still have a problem with waking up sometimes, when I start getting into dream control, but I've been able to have quite a few, lengthy, lucid dreams.
How about you? What's your experience? Any tips or tricks for dreaming more lucidly?
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Every night. In color. It's like watching a movie. I don't keep a dream journal, most of the stuff that happens is fairly banal. No tips, it's just the way my brain works.
There have been a few times where I've had nightmares, realized it and changed it into something far more pleasant, yes.
Ever suffer from sleep paralysis though, now that sucks. The first time, I was full on hallucinating. The last time, a few months back, I realized what was happening, but still couldn't move.
I had a dream while daydreaming, does that count?
Yes, absolutely. I have manipulated the course of my dreams many times. In most dreams, I am aware that I am dreaming. Nowadays, I don't remember my dreams as much, I should start working on that again, I think it leads to a more creative life.
Just an interesting aside, some wooters might enjoy, I have dreamed for years about zombies. These dreams are never scary, always funny. They seem to happen when I am having trouble with someone close to me not "keeping up" with something going on. As represented by the slow moving, lumbering zombies. In the dreams, I am always accompanied by whoever "gets it", and we always are doing casual, fun stuff, in between brief battles and chases. In one particular one, I remember, fighting off a hoard, while having a cocktail, and trying a complicated new recipe. Mine are always in color too, and in other dreams,(thankfully not the zombie dreams) I have noticed odors.
@sykotek: I have sleep paralysis maybe once a year, if I had to guess. It does scare the hell out of you right away, I've sort of gotten used to it though. The last time it happened, I just told myself to calm down and wait to wake up. It felt like it took a couple minutes, but after imagining the feeling of moving my hands, even though I couldn't, I woke up :)
@dmaz: @sykotek: That has to be really terrible, how scary! I am picturing that Poe story, where the man is buried alive, mistakenly.
How about false awakenings? Those are always fun.
I did (big-time) when I was taking high dose Niacin in the mistaken hope that it would help with my "good" cholesterol.
The vivid dreams were often worth the itchy skin...
I've been able to produce lucid dreams since I was about 10. As I recall it started with learning to turn falling dreams into flying dreams. I love the flying, the swooping and soaring are fun, but to just float away by leaning up is my favorite.
Another dream I've had since childhood is one where I get to explore familiar places and find hidden cavelike rooms, winding passageways, impossibly tight gaps through walls and floors that lead to weird staircases and ladders. Haven't experienced that dream since I visited City Museum in St. Louis. The dream didn't have slides and I didn't need knee pads, but the museum felt eerily familiar.
I had a recurring theme in a dream, basically monsters and I would have some kind of firearm. The firearm would blow away walls and put big holes in things, but when I would shoot at the monsters, it would shoot bubbles, or go "click", or shoot Nerf darts, etc. During my last dream of this type, I recognized it was a dream and was able to shoot monsters galore. That was the last time I had that dream.
Lucid dreaming was my hobby back in high school and to some extent college. Once I even managed to stay lucid during the process of falling asleep. Best tip I have is to periodically ask yourself, "Am I dreaming?" Once you're in the habit of doing this two or three times a day, you will continue the habit into sleep and may be able to tell that you're dreaming when you make your "reality check."
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Yes, the odd thing about my lucid dreams are that the people inside the dream don't seem to react to me like I thought they would.
My most vivid dreams were from when I used nicotine patches to quit smoking.
As for sleep paralysis, it happens usually a couple times a year, and is always accompanied by false-awakenings. No matter how many times I have had them, I ALWAYS am trying to shout my way out of it, which I think works, only to realize I'm still paralyzed and dreaming. Subjectively, seems to last a really long time, but I honestly have no idea how long it lasts in reality.
Mine's the opposite.
There's a family trait wherein many of the male folk sometimes sleep, and therefore dream, with their eyes open. So if you come in the room and I'm actually sleeping, you could ask me a question. Then (silently) I'd dream I answered, dreamtdyou said something else, then I'd respond to that statement- out loud. My answer of course is not at all relevant to the last question. My wife loves doing that, when she finally figures it out.
Well I did sorta have one. I must have seen something that triggered me to do a reality check because I put my finger completely through my hand. Unfortunatly I got too excited and woke up. D:


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i am new in Saga Gis, i created grid- LS factor (from Rusle equation for erosis) in Saga gis and now i need to "put" it to Arcgis. How can i do this? I tried a lot of possibilities and none of them worked. Thanks
The easiest way is to export it as a geotiff. Modules>File>GDAL/OGR>GDAL:Export Raster to GeoTIFF. Just make sure that you add ".tif" to the end of your filename (see comments below). The geotiff format can be read directly by most GIS packages.
As Jay Guarneri mentionned, you can export to GeoTIFF using the
Another nice way is to create a virtual raster that can be loaded in ArcGIS (verion 10 and above, I think). Virtual raster is essentially an xml file describing your raster and pointing to it. So it's not a copy, and if you update the original raster content, you'll update the vrt at the same time (except if you play with dimensions or projection). You go in
That way you can work on your raster in saga and you just need to reload it in ArcGIS to update. No need to export it every single time.


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Who is to get the reward on the giving of Tzedaka, the giver or the receiver? And please, does it depend on the mood of the giver for some spiritual benefit to be granted?
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The Shulchan Aruch Yoreh De'a 247 says that the giver receives great reward.
The giver's mood does make a difference. Shulchan Aruch (Yoreh De'ah 249:3) says (paraphrased and shortened from Rambam, Hil. Matnos Aniyim 10:4):
Further on (249:13) he says (also from Rambam, ibid. 10:14) that the lowest level of charity is giving unwillingly (which implies that this is a valid, though sub-optimal, level of tzedakah). Shach there (:9) points out that the case here is that the giver is indeed giving against his will, but at least puts on a pleasant face while doing so.
The Ramban states in Devorim (Perek Kof Beis, Pasuk Vov) that "there is no benefit in our keeping of mitzvos to the Holy One blessed be He." One cannot "benefit Him" or "harm Him" through the keeping or not keeping of mitzvos. He states further that our "words of praise and remembrances of his miracles are considered as nothingness and emptiness to him. All these [mitzvos] are for our benefit alone. This is something agreed upon by all our Rabbis."
So from the Ramban one can clearly see that the performer of any Mitzvah will be benefited from doing the Mitzvah. The commandments are designed to help a person develop a correct relationship to Hashem. To put in another way, each Mitzvah deals with an aspect of a persons personality and helps move the person to be in line with what is real and true. Moving the person from their illusions and fantasies to a more clearer picture of reality. This of course will help a person have a clearer and proper ideas of Hashem to the extent man can have knowledge of Hashem. This of course is one approach to Mitzvot, however, I think it is important to clarify what you mean by "spiritual benefit" in terms your mind can truly understand. Giving Tzedakah will certainly help a person have a proper relationship to his money and his possessions. It can help a person recognize that money is merely a means, not an end in itself. A person may recognize that his possessions are a means by which he can assist in his development and relationship to Hashem. Furthermore, it forces a person to recognize the needs of others outside himself. In order to relate to Hashem and an objective reality outside oneself one must be able to consider someone besides his own narcissistic subjective reality.
The main thrust of my approach is to suggest ones internal attitude and philosophy is what is vital to the performance of the commandment. A monkey can pick up a Lulav, what differentiates us from the animal world is our ability to think and understand the ideas and perfection of the commandments. An approach for you to consider.


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It is amazing when someone labeled as a heretical Latin can donate to a Orthodox site & it's own brethern seem to become temporary blind to charity...hmmm james
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However, I noticed that
CASE ends with
END in PostgreSQL, while in MySQL it ends with
END CASE. Will this destroy my hopes for database agnosticism? Can I write an agnostic query with a conditional?