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AWOL draws attention to the British Museums interactive on-line presence. Typing Nativity into the search engine brought me to this exquisite ivory panel from 15th-century France. The whole story is there, shepherds and magi, too:And then a friend led me to a passage by Jane Kenyon on the annunciation,
Italian Renaissance painting often shows the Virgin holding her place in the book she was reading when the angel broke in upon her--a curious anachronism as the ur-Mary was unlikely to have been reading a bound book. In any case, Mary stops reading and listens to Gabriel's outlandish news. The lives of God's holy ones are subject to major interruptions. I think of Simone Martini's depiction of the Annunciation. In many paintings of the period Mary draws back from Gabriel in trepidation, but I know of no other picture in which sorrow, fear, and even belligerence appear so clearly. The corners of her mouth turn downward. Get away from me!But love was working in her, and in the faith which overturns fear she replied: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it unto me according to thy word." How I love Martini's glimpse of Mary in the moments just before she brings herself to say yes.Gabriel's Truth, in A Hundred White Daffodils
Here is Simone Martinis masterpiece (1333), now in the Uffizi. Judge for yourselves:And here, courtesy of John Page, is Duccio's Annunciation of a little earlier:
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Rev. Joseph A. Komonchak, professor emeritus of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, is a retired priest of the Archdiocese of New York.
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I love Martini's Annunciation. Mary's shrinking from the news shows, I think, that she understands the full weight of what will be expected of her ... and what she will be required to endure to raise her son. There must have been many people who always believed Jesus was merely a bastard. I recently read Mrs. Gaskell's "Ruth," about a woman who bears an illegitimate son in Victorian England. A Methodist minister and his sister take her in. The little boy grows up to be a happy child ... which makes the three adults worry all the more of how the stigma of his birth will stunt his life and shut him out from opportunities. The minister's advice to Ruth strikes me as something Mary might have contemplated:"The world is not everything, Ruth; nor the is the want of men's good opinion and esteem the highest need which man has. Teach [your son] this. You would not wish his life to be one summer's day. You dared not make it so, if you had the power. Teach him to bid a noble Christian welcome to the trials which God sends.... Tell him of the hard and thorny path which was trodden once by the bleeding feet of One. Ruth! Think of the Saviour's life and cruel death, and of his divine faithfulness."
Many thanks for the reminder of the Martini work, and this thread.
The idea of being disturbed by an interruption from something so much bigger than oneself is an idea that could find some resonance today!
I see the shepherds (and sheep), but no magi in that ivory panel. I also see that Mary is lying down for a change, which is nice. The kneeling-in-adoration post-partum posture always strikes me as a bit unlikely. And she even has a nice a tasseled pillow for her head!
I think you're right, Mollie. My first glance was that the figure on the lower right was a King, but now I see that it is probably St. Joseph. In his Mont saint Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams comments on an almost identical representation of the Nativity at Chartres:
On the lintel immediately above the doorway is a succession of smallgroups: first, the Annunciation; Mary stands to receive theArchangel Gabriel, who comes to announce to her that she is chosento be the Mother of God. The second is the Visitation, and in thisscene also Mary stands, but she already wears a crown; at least, theAbbe Bulteau says so, although time has dealt harshly with it. Then,in the centre, follows the Nativity; Mary lies on a low bed,beneath, or before, a sort of table or cradle on which lies theInfant, while Saint Joseph stands at the bed's head. Then the angelappears, directing three shepherds to the spot, filling the rest ofthe space.In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed,for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace atChartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted herpeople to share. The Virgin of Chartres was the greatest of allqueens, but the most womanly of women, as we shall see; and herdouble character is sustained throughout her palace.
Wow. I'm kind of fascinated by the tradition ("correct theology"!) that held that Mary's childbirth had to have been painless, but I'm also glad it's not part of the standard Nativity narrative anymore. Regardless I would think Mary deserves a rest after all she's been through, suffering or no. I remember reading one version of the Nativity -- I think it's from one of the medieval mystery-play cycles -- in which Joseph actually misses the birth, because he goes off in search of some women to assist his laboring wife, and by the time he gets back the baby has arrived -- it was just that easy! It looks like this St. Joseph could be returning from the same errand.
Mollie, that's from the Infancy Gospel of James (but i don't doubt that the tradition survived into later contexts): the labor is especially easy because it never happens: Jesus just appear, and Mary's hymen remains intact! (seriously, Salome does a vaginal exam to prove it)i had to make a copy of the Martini in college--very wonderful.
The Martini has always been my favorite Annunciation. Note particularly the way Gabriel's words -- Ave Maria, gratia plena -- go straight as a laser beam from his mouth to Mary's head and ears.
In some artworks on the Nativity Joseph is pictured as asleep. I wonder why. Maybe it has to do with the fact that Joseph received messages from God in dreams.http://www.aug.edu/augusta/iconography/newStuffForXnCours/arenaChapel/na...
It is worthwhile noting that the Eastern Churches' iconography always and still has Mary on a 'royal bed' (which often looks a bit like an air mattress) with the child either by her side or next to her in the manger/crib. This is also true in the Western Church up till the time of Saint Birgitta of Sweden (14th century). Birgitta (or Bridget) mentioned in her "Revelations" that she saw the Virgin kneeling before the manger/crib with a candle in her hand worshiping her child. The lit candle was understood as a 'symbolic understanding' of the method of the birth of the child leaving his Mother an intact Virgin (passing like a glowing light from her womb). It is under the influence of these texts ("Revelations) that one begins to see images with the Virgin kneeling before the crib, so not before the mid 14th century. One therefore can easily 'date' Nativity images in the West as 'before and after' Birgitta.
How times change. I have a little calendar by Warhol. The Nativity drawing shows Mary and Joseph kneeling in prayer at either end of the crib, where the baby Jesus lies on the straw, happily hugging the big fat cat that lies on top of Him.Inclines me to believe that Warhol actually did go to Mass daily and serve in soup kitchens regularly.
I've never understood how Mary is praised for saying yes to God when the request was made by an angel.Did she know the angel Gabriel was before her? If she knew he was an angel then isn't that astounding experience suffiicent for any human to say yes to?If an angel appeared to me-that would be the end of all trepidation since I now know that spirits exist and hence what was faith in God is now confirmation.If she did not know he was an angel -that's different but I'd love to have that explained. The appearance of an angel is treated like it's irrelevant - a mere messenger-when in actuality such a supernatural experience would alters the experience of being human for anyone-no?
"Angel," of course, means "messenger," and so in the biblical accounts of appearances of angels, it's usually understood that their message is from God so that to say Yes to their word is to say Yes to God. These wonderful paintings are visualizations of an intensely personal and intimate encounter with God.
Mary was taken aback by Gabriel's first wordsas who would not be?and she thought, "What sort of greeting is this?" (Luke 1:29) He probably didn't have wings or a halo. They came later, I think, as a convention in painting to show us less spiritually attuned souls what was going on. And he said nothing about his own identity, although he spoke as one who knows the truth. So he was just a messenger, albeit with a momentous messsage. For her part, Mary did not ask for ID. She did have a reasonable question about implementation, and when she understood that nothing was required of her but acceptance, she gave it freely, explaining simply that she was the servant (literally, the slave) of the Lord.
I often wonder if what we characterize today as a flash of inspiration or recognition, or the acceptance of a seemly overwhelming obligation, might in the past have been characterized by the appearance of an angel. While we seem to be good these days at cross-cultural understanding (when we put our minds to it), I think we sometimes lack a cross-temporal imagination, having a hard time imagining what it must have been like to experience life in the past. Phenomena are characterized differently in different times yet I wonder how different they actually are.
I once attended a meeting at Notre Dame of people who were both believing Christians and first-class scientists. One of the Protestant participants told a story that included a moment when in an airport God spoke to him and told him to go speak to a man unknown to him, and the encounter was a significant moment for both of them. I've always been sorry that I did not ask him what it was like to hear God talking to him and telling him things. I've never had an experience I would describe in such terms, and I would like to know what it's like.
I guess I get it;"a flash of inspiration or regognition".Does that mean Mary did not actually see an angel but had an inner experience of believing that she was called to be the mother of the Lord?It was in her mind this experience? Is that it?[like when God spoke to the man in the airport?]And because we[via the gospel writers] believe in the incarnation -a sort of reverse engineering [in the annunciation gospel] is used to give a plausible theological narrative,consistent with what is already present in the old testament scripture, of jesus's conception? is that it? This flash of recognition or inspiration resonates with me.When i first started working-for the post office many years ago, i am retired now- I was a lapsed catholic and had been so since my teens. I was new at the job and did not know any one and felt rather nervous .The place was noisy and the work was uncomfortable. I was sorting the mail and all of a sudden someone came up to me and handed me a letter addressed to me. [some junk mail or bill -iIbelieve]. She said my name -which surprised me as she was not my supervisor and did not work on the floor with me. Her voice was gentle and kind. I thanked her and looked at her and noticed she was wearing a crucifix .In that moment I felt and I knew that I wanted to go back to the church-to be connected to God again. It was a flash- a moment of knowing I wanted and needed God. Psychologically one can say that because I was in a stressful situation and someone spoke to me in a gentle kind voice-I regressed to a memory of childhood faith. Sure-that's true .It is also true that in that moment-the sound of her voice and the sight of the crucifix around her neck -gave me not just a sense of peace but a knowledge that what I wanted was to be connected again to Jesus Christ.I did come back to the church shortly after that[after a few other experiences similar to that].
Rose-ellen, you may have had a modern-day angelic experience ;-)One of the most fascinating (if slightly whacky) books I've ever read is calledThe Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes. He basically says that until two or so millennia before Christ, humans weren't what we think of as fully self-conscious (e.g., me thinking about me, that person you talk to when you talk to yourself). Rather, they were just conscious, and the right brain told the left brain what to do via voices. Then, life got too complex for this to continue to work, so self-consciousness arose via the use of language, in particular metaphor. He shows the evolution by looking at the Iliad and the Odyssey, charting how self-reflection appears in the narrative over time. He does the same thing with the Old Testament, showing how both self-reflection (and the nature of God) evolved over time. That's a really brief and not very good summary, but you get the idea. Fascinating stuff. It's also fascinating to imagine the creation story saying something similar, with humans taking a bite "from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Sounds like the acquisition of self-reflection to me!Here it is at Amazon, with tons of reviews, which give a better feel for the book:http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Consciousness-Breakdown-Bicameral-Mind/dp/0...
Rose-EllenThanks for sharing your personal, beautiful experience. I think too often too many of us are closed, and unable to hear or see such graceful events. We can frequently dismiss it in psychological interpretation, but that wouldn't be very faithful would it? Good for you.Shayne A LaBudda
Rose-Ellen, of course the incident can be given a psychological interpretation, but why would God not use such means to reach out to you as well? Both can be simultaneously true, the natural and the supernatural, can't they? In that way, a person who does not want to see such a sign of grace is free to ignore it, and a person who is open to it can benefit from it.
Rose-Ellen --Thank you for sharing your story. Unfortunately, too many people these days won't admit that such events are even possible. They're taken in by the claims of some scientists that the only thing that is real is what is material and that the larws of nature cannot be broken. There are even many believers who will grant that God created the world out of nothing, but then they say that He can't create exceptions to His own physical laws. How narrow-minded!True, it is not all that hard to fool ourselves about these events. On the other hand, sometimes it is hard *not* to believe there are exceptions. So that is another question for those theological epistemologists I'm always talking about: How can we distinguish the fake miracles from the real ones?
"... the claims of some scientists that the only thing that is real is what is material and that the larws of nature cannot be broken."Some scientists may claim that. But I think the commoner view is more modest: that science restricts itself to study of the natural world and has no competence beyond it.
John Prior, does that mean that you yield expertise of the natural world to science? That if they say it is impossible that a stinking Lazarus was raised up by the voice of Jesus 4 days after death, then it did not happen?
No, Claire, I was saying that scrupulous scientists will only say that they don't know of any natural process by which that could have happened, which accords very well with the Christian belief.
Jphn P. --I must beg to differ with you. A study of scientists as early as 1914 showed that 58% of scientists were agnostics. Later in the century the influence of the logical positivists became even stronger, so I suspect that the proportion of agnostic/atheist among everyday scientists has become even larger. There was also a more recent study which showed that something like 98% of the most admired scientists today are agnostic/atheists. (Sorry, I haven been able to track down that study on the net.)Philosophy of science since the "Enlightenment has been moving toward atheistic/agnotic materialism, towards the posit ion that the only kind of reality is material reality, and scientists study it experimentally. With the logical positivists in the 20-s-30's this school of thought became extremely dominant among the most respected scientists (including Nobel Prize winners). There have been some exceptions, the big ones being Einstein and Wittgenstein (who was a great logician besides great philosopher of language). Einstein thought that there is an intelligence which orders the world (but he didn't believe n a personal God). Wittgenstein believe in "the mystical" and eventually asked to talk to a priest as he lay dying, and his friends had him buried at a Mass. There have been a few other notable exceptions, including David Bohm an John Polkinghorne. HOWEVER ------- Thoma;s Nagel, a highly respected philosopher of scientist -- AND an atheist -- very recently published his "Mind and Cosmos" which asserts that materialism cannot account for the process of evolution which has resulted in consciousness, ergo there is something besides matter in the world. Nagel has caused a furor in philosophy because of it. It is being reviewed all over the place, not just in philosophy journals, because he is really the first non-religious person to challenge the Enlightenment. (Or that's how I see him :-) Here's a review of his book in Public Discourse; Neither Darwin Nor God? | Public DiscoursePlease forgive my typing. Bad eyesight today.
Ann O,Scientists have personal beliefs just as other people have, and it may well be that most of them today do not believe in God. But that is not a scientific conclusion. The hypothesis that God exists or that there is a supernatural order of being entirely distinct from the natural universe is neither verifiable nor falsifiable by scientific methods. God is, after all, said to be transcendent. The most that can be said, I think, is that it is no longer necessary to posit an Aeolus to account for the blowing wind or a Zeus to explain a lightning strike. There are still many natural mysteries. But suppose in the future everything about the workings of the world becomes known, and all can be explained without invoking God. Would that mean that he does not exist? No, it might only mean that he has a light hand on the world, and chooses for his own reasons to be known by faith and by love only, as many believe in him and love him today.I say again that science itself (if not every scientist) is modest. It strives to learn what it can in the workaday world and leaves to other disciplines the high knowledge of unseen realms.
John Prior: You wrote: "I say again that science itself (if not every scientist) is modest. It strives to learn what it can in the workaday world and leaves to other disciplines the high knowledge of unseen realms.""Science itself," of course, does not exist, much less "strive" or "leave". Scientists do exist, and some of them "strive" and some of them "leave".
I am sorry to learn that science does not exist, and that the canons of science, the community of scientists, and the work they do cannot for brevity be called science. But I doubt that I am the first or will be the last to make that mistake.


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Philharmonic Unveils Trove Online
In 1927, the chairman of the New York Philharmonic wrote a love letter in looping, left-slanted script to the head of the orchestra's women's auxiliary. He was Clarence Mackay, a married, music-loving telegraph magnate. She was Helen Huntington Astor, then the first wife of millionaire Vincent Astor.
Before signing off with a "dare-devil" kiss, Mr. Mackay shared good news: "our Philharmonic this past year made a record: 98 per cent attendance all concerts…and all debts paid!!"
The missive is among the millions of new pages from the Philharmonic's archives that will be posted online by 2016 in a $2.4 million digitization project, offering new insight into the art, business and personalities of one of the world's pre-eminent cultural institutions.
The orchestra posted its first batch of records—representing the era of music director Leonard Bernstein from 1943 to 1970—two years ago. Since then, the site has attracted nearly 80,000 visitors from 143 countries, many drawn to orchestral scores such as a Gustav Mahler symphony with conducting notes penciled in by the composer himself. The digital archives already are spurring new academic research. And other arts organizations have taken the Philharmonic's lead, launching their own digitization projects.
In February, the orchestra will release its next bundle: 520,000 pages of instrumental music parts, joining the 1,380 orchestral scores already online. After that, the Philharmonic will post concert programs, correspondence, business records and annual reports dating back to the ensemble's debut in 1842, including letters from Mahler and Arturo Toscanini.
Later will come the recordings. With more than 7,000 hours of audio, including almost every radio broadcast since the mid-1930s, that effort is expected to cost an additional $2 million, including fees for copyright holders.
The first annual report, published in September 1843, offers a peek into the budget of the nascent orchestra. Among the items listed in the orchestra's library: 40 music stands, 40 tin candlesticks and a tin ticket box.
Another gem in the collection: the earliest known electrical recording of a symphony orchestra, captured in 1924 by Bell Labs, which was testing a microphone in Carnegie Hall as Willem Mengelberg conducted Strauss.
A significant swath of records won't be made public immediately: the organization's internal records since 1970. Those will remain private until 50 years after they were created, said the Philharmonic's archivist Barbara Haws.
The project is notable for the vast amount of material it is making available to the public. A core group of researchers has emerged to dive into the trove: 2,557 people have logged on to the archives 200 or more times in the past six months. In person, that number of visitors and page turns would have turned fragile documents to dust.
The key to the project, Ms. Haws said, was an innovation by Israeli photographer Ardon Bar-Hama, who developed for the Philharmonic a quicker system of capturing archival images with digital cameras. It allowed the orchestra to digitize up to 2,000 pages per day per camera, cutting the cost in half compared with other methods that use scanners, she said.
Last year, Carnegie Hall and the Brooklyn Academy of Music announced similar projects. Carnegie Hall, in the first phase of an endeavor estimated to cost $5 million, is now digitizing 1,900 hours of audio, 480 hours of video, and 17,000 feet of film. BAM, in a smaller-scale project, is scanning tens of thousands of items from its collection of ephemera, including programs, posters, blueprints, photographs and correspondence.
The Philharmonic's archives already are presenting new opportunities for researchers.
Shamus Khan, a sociologist at Columbia University, is analyzing the orchestra's subscriber lists to create a database mapping New York's elites in the seats of the concert hall. He believes the records will offer snapshots of the city's evolving social life.
"What if we knew who'd gone to the Philharmonic over the last 150 years—where they sat, who sat around them, what concerts they went to—and we knew where they lived in the world?" Mr. Khan said. "We think that can tell us a lot."
Carol Oja, a musicologist at Harvard University, directs the students in her freshman seminar on Leonard Bernstein to explore the Philharmonic's archives. And she has used them in her own research on the racial desegregation of classical music performance, searching concert programs from the 1940s and '50s to find African-American soloists, the repertoire they were hired to perform and the white musicians they played alongside.
Ms. Haws said she is awed by the ways the archives can now be used. "This kind of research was never in my wildest dreams," she said.
And she imagines technology to marshal the archives in new ways. She is hoping to work with a university to develop software, for example, that can recognize the markings of successive maestros on a given score. It may not be too long, she mused, before a young music student can listen as a computer simulates how each conductor's interpretation changes the way the orchestra sounds, from Mahler to Bruno Walter to Bernstein.
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GRAND PRAIRIE (January 31, 2013)—A former Waco man wanted in a shooting Wednesday in Grand Prairie that left a Waco woman dead and her mother wounded, was arrested Thursday in North Texas.
Detective Mark Beseda confirmed the arrest of Christopher Darrell Jefferson, 31, late Thursday afternoon.
Dallas police made the arrest.
Jefferson was in the Grand Prairie Detention Center Thursday evening in lieu of $1 million bond.
Jefferson was thought to be hiding either in the Dallas area or to be headed for the Waco area, driving either a maroon Pontiac Grand Am sedan with Texas license plate DX3-G733 or a white Chevrolet Caprice.
Jefferson and the woman who died both are from Waco and the car for which police were looking was registered in Waco, Beseda said.
Grand Prairie police believe both the victim and Jefferson have family in Waco.
Waco police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton declined to comment on what efforts Waco police might be making to locate Jefferson citing an ongoing investigation, but he did confirm Waco police had been notified of the search.
At around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday officers were sent to an address in the 2000 block of Eva Street, in Grand Prairie, where they found two woman suffering gunshot wounds.
Latoya McGowan, 24, and another woman who was identified as McGowan's mother both were taken to Methodist Hospital, in Dallas, where McGowan later was pronounced dead.
Her mother was treated and later released.
A press release says McGowan was the mother of Jefferson's children and that the children were present at the residence when their mother and grandmother were shot.
Beseda said the three children, aged 3- to 6-years-old, witnessed the shootings.
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Second Deputy Prime Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz began the Cabinet session at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh today by offering reassurances regarding the health of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, who underwent successful back surgery over the weekend. Then, Prince Nayef gave a briefing on the King's most recent foreign consultations, including a phone call he received from U.S. President Barack Obama.
After reviewing the latest regional and international developments, the Cabinet hailed the statement issued by an extraordinary meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers calling for a halt to all violence in Syria. The ministers also expressed appreciation for the widespread international support the Kingdom has received following the revelation of a plot to assassinate Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir. They thanked U.S. authorities for preventing the attack and renewed the Kingdom's call for all countries to fight against the scourge of terrorism.
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On the domestic front, the Cabinet reviewed the economic, social and cultural events of the past week, including the Forum on Recent Trends in Alternative Sentences organized by the Ministry of Justice. It also noted the participation of the Kingdom in international economic and political symposia, including the Saudi Financial Forum held in London and the meeting of Finance Ministers of the Group of Twenty (G-20) in Paris.
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(CNN) -- It was a horrifying front-page photo in every sense of the word.
It felt cheap, degrading and exploitative in a way that words could never match.
The photo captures a Queens man, Ki Suk Han, after he had been pushed onto the subway tracks Monday as an oncoming train roared toward him. The screaming headline says it all: "DOOMED."
But the New York Post had every right to run the picture. This is what tabloids do -- milk tragedy for every ounce of emotional impact. No New York straphanger should have been surprised to see the photo.
A typical reaction: "Sickening rubber-necking front page from the New York Post. Imagine how this man's family feels," tweeted an editor at The Guardian.
That, of course, is the normal human response. It also explains why Rupert Murdoch's paper did it, knowing that everyone in New York would be gripped by the image.
No one would dispute that the story is newsworthy. It is, in fact, every New Yorker's nightmare. Perhaps you have to have spent much of your life crowding onto narrow platforms with total strangers and trying to squeeze onto overcrowded subway cars, to understand the every-day fear that you could be groped, mugged or pushed into danger.
Why, then, the visceral sense of revulsion?
It's fine to look down your nose at the New York Post for showing such a horrific picture, to say it was grossly unethical. But what about all the media outlets that show equally horrific pictures from war zones? We've seen bloodied children in Gaza, Pakistani police machine-gunned by the Taliban, bodies being thrown off roofs in Syria. And we're horrified by a picture of a man who is about to die in New York? What's the difference? Is it any worse because it happens in the United States?
The truth is that this picture seems more monstrously unfair because we can easily imagine being in the victim's place. We may complain about it, but if it's so clearly out of bounds, why have so many websites and television networks now run it?
For the Post to run it was unfair to Han's family, but the media don't usually worry about such things. It was accurate and captured an important story.
It was insensitive -- hard to imagine the photo running in The New York Times -- but people buy the Post for punch-in-the-gut tales, for the "headless body in topless bar," not for astute foreign policy analysis. The story is so sickening that we want to turn away but can't. The picture makes us so uncomfortable that we're mad at the Post for inflicting it on us.
There are pictures of murder victims in the paper every day, part of the sad toll of urban life. But the difference is that we're not watching them being shot or stabbed.
One aspect of this tale that makes my blood boil is the role of the freelance photographer, R. Umar Abbasi. Instead of snapping two pictures of a man about to die, why didn't he try to pull him to safety? Abbasi claims he hoped the flash would warn the subway driver. I'm not buying it. His first instinct was to record death, not prevent it. Every editor has to strike a balance between depicting ugly reality and the sensibilities of readers and viewers.
There are those who believe that the American media should run more pictures of dead or wounded soldiers, that we -- especially in television news -- sanitize war by shying away from showing its victims.
Would I have run the front-page photo of Han? No way. But the New York Post has a different mission, to shock and sensationalize, especially when it comes to crime. On that point, the tabloid succeeded, which is why so many people are angry -- and everyone is buzzing about it.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Howard Kurtz.
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The choir director at Franklin Simpson High School resigns her position after school officials say she violated board policy.
Franklin-Simpson Superintendent Jim Flynn says Danielle Brown is accused of violating policy at a school lock-in last Thursday night.
Flynn would not comment on specific facts about the case but says it has been turned over to the county attorney.
Simpson county attorney Sid Broderson says the matter is now being investigated by Franklin City Police.
Brown and a group of choral students left early Friday morning to join other area choirs for a concert at New York City's Carnegie Hall.
Brown, who also taught arts and humanities, had been at Franklin Simpson for the past two years.


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In the recently released Bollywood movie Kahaani, at the ending, why did "Milan" actually show up? Why did he want to Kill Vidhya Balan? How was he seriously affected by the things done by her? Why didn't he send just someone else instead of traveling all the way from wherever he was to Kolkata [West Bengal, India] to kill her?
From the Wikipedia article for Kahaani:
As per this conversation Bhaskaran got threatened so he sent Milan to meet Vidya because she asked to meet her husband who looks like Milan. So Bhaskaran's plan is to kill Vidya by her own husband(I mean Milan, who looks like her husband). So its order from Bhaskaran, his head, so that Milan personally went to meet her.


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The Bean Machine, also known as a quincunx or the Galton box, is a well known triangular board that contains several rows ($n$) of staggered, but equally spaced pegs. Balls are dropped from the top one by one to avoid interference. They bounce off the pegs and stack up at the bottom of the triangle in bins. The resulting stacks of balls approach the characteristic Bell curve shape for large $n$.
Consider the following altered Bean Machine that now has all the 'prime numbered pegs' (counting top to bottom, left to right) removed:
Based on what is known about the primes, is there anything that could be predicted about the resulting distribution of balls for large $n$? Is it expected to be skewed to the left or the right? Or does it nicely balance out like the normal distribution?


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5 Clothing Innovations That Will be Annoying You Soon
There are certain inventions that really don't evolve, and most clothing falls into that category. Sure, styles and fabrics change, but the shirt has been using the same basic design for centuries. A hunk of fabric with holes for your arms and head. It works just fine.
But the world is full of designers and inventors who need to pay the bills, and so they are busy trying to apply the latest technology to items of clothing that really, really don't need it. Here are the awful fruits of their labors.
#5. The Defensible Dress a.k.a. The Stabskirt
One of the biggest hassles of modern life is people. They're everywhere! On the bus it's, "Is this seat taken?" On a picnic, "Melissa, will you marry me?" At home: "Mommy, can you tuck me into bed?" Arrrrrgggghhhh! If only you could stab them.
Well actually, you can, thanks to the Defensible Dress, or rather, the Really Pointy Girdle thingy. See, the Defensible Dress is actually a band that is covered in long, pointy rods that fits around the waist and is connected to an infrared sensor fitted underneath normal clothing.
Invented by designer Meejin Yoon and inspired by porcupines, the sensor triggers the rods to stand straight out in all directions whenever it senses someone getting too close to the wearer, thus preventing unwanted encroachment. A mild poking will teach them a lesson!
The Problem Is...
Besides the fact you look like the lamest mutant from the lamest movie ever?
Pictured: Fashion Faux Pas
The dress is completely undiscerning as to who and when it will strike. Your boss reaches in to give you a congratulatory handshake on your promotion- STAB! Grandma gives you a hug- STAB! An impromptu dry humping session- GENITAL STAB! Friendly fire is inevitable. Innocent strangers who happen to walk past you on a crowded street will feel the sharp sting of retribution from your now armed personal bubble.
#4. Transforming Clothes
Imagine it's a bright, sunny day. You're sauntering down Main Street wearing your favorite Ween T-shirt and stop to admire the women's spinning class in the gym across the street. Suddenly the clouds roll in and it begins to pour on your cold, exposed head. Luckily for you, your Ween T-shirt senses the change in weather.
The collar broadens to cover your neck, the sleeves automatically roll down to your wrists and a hood rises up to fit snugly over your head. All the while, you never had to take your hands out of your pockets or your eyes off of the spinning class. Perfect for the voyeur who doesn't care for interruption or wetness.
This radical technology from British designer Hussein Chalayan is achieved by using a collection of cables, rods, motors, microcontrollers and batteries to change the shape of clothing on the fly to whatever style suits your needs. He even created a dress that would leave a woman completely naked by sucking it into her hat (that link is to an NSFW video of that very thing happening).
If you prefer less moving parts in your transforming clothes (and less chance to be horribly electrocuted), designer Marielle Leenders has created shape Memory Textiles that work basically the same way, only using fabric that contracts under heat.
The Problem Is...
You're an incredible lazy ass, that's the problem. What, you can't roll up your own sleeves? What do you want next, pants that wipe your ass? (NOTE: contact Cracked patent department about ass-wiping pants.)
There is also the possibility of a gear or a rod grabbing a hand full of chest hair or pubes while it's turning your jeans into Daisy Dukes. We were going to also say that the "instant nudity" feature could go off at the wrong time, but what's the right time? Who reading this has ever wanted their clothes to instantly vanish into their hat? OK, other than you, Prince.
#3. Spray-on Fabric
The moment they invented cheese that comes out of an aerosol can, we predicted a future where everything could be bought in spray-can form. That glorious future has eluded us so far, but they've taken a bold step in the right direct with Spray-on Fabric. Fabrican, as it's called, uses a pressurized formula that, when sprayed from an aerosol can, creates fibers that adhere to any surface and bind to create a piece of non-woven fabric. It can be sprayed onto a luscious, nude 20-something model, for example, to instantly create an entire dress or outfit right onto her body.
Or sprayed onto this man, to create nightmares.
Any style or look can be created; your only limit is your imagination. Then, when the outfit has served its purpose, just peel it off like a couture wetsuit and toss it in the trash, making closets and wardrobes obsolete. For men, this technology is especially useful because those nude 20-something models will need to hire spray boys.
The Problem Is...
So the future is Silly String? No, worse, the future is more like Ron Popeil's spray-on hair, but instead of spraying on your head, you get to spray it on your genitals. We don't want to be crude here, but this appears to be the second miraculous invention on our list with the potential to accidentally rip out wads of pubic hair with each use.
Also, this stuff isn't exactly more convenient than the clothes we own now, which can be applied in seconds. The whole process of getting spray-dressed could take 30 minutes, four cans of spray-on fabric and a partner to help you cover those hard to reach areas ("Hey, Phil, can you spray this stuff in my butthole real quick?"). Is that the point of technology, to take a simple task and make it as difficult, time consuming and uncomfortable as possible?
Oh and did we mention 99.99 percent of the population doesn't look like a nubile 20-something? Haute couture is fine and all, but the true purpose of clothing is to hide our shame. Because spray-on fabric is as skin tight as a coat of paint, every flaw will be exposed to the light of day. Whether it's that fourth ring of fat or horrible appendectomy scar, spray on clothes aren't out to do you any favors.


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Amber Alert never issued after twin toddlers kidnapped
Arrested suspect says he doesn't remember a thing
Lenoir County deputies said a man brutally assaulted a grandmother, took off with the twin toddlers she was watching and abandoned them in an alley -- and he insists he doesn't remember a thing. During the three hours the toddlers were missing, an Amber Alert was never issued by authorities.
According to deputies, leads and tips were developing at a fast pace during the investigation. They tell us an alert was in the process of being issued when the twins were found.
Phillip Brian Johnson, 24, was arrested and charged in connection with that kidnapping. He was found near Mallards Food Shop along N.C. Hwy 11 about two hours after deputies say he kidnapped the twins. The children were not with him when he was found, and he allegedly told authorities that he didn't know how he'd gotten there.
The twins, 2, were found curled up together in the family's Dodge Neon about an hour after that, according to deputies. The car was allegedly stolen by Johnson during the kidnapping.
It all started just after 7 p.m. Monday. Louanne Neely, the twins' grandmother who was babysitting the children at their home on Turnage Drive in Kinston, told authorities that she had been attacked and that a family friend had taken the children and the family car. Neeley said that Johnson was at the home waiting for the twins' father to return so that they could move a piece of furniture. Without warning, Neeley told authorities, the suspect started pushing her and then hit her in the face with a lamp.
After Neeley got up and ran to a neighbor's house for help, authorities were called and the search was on for the suspect, the car and the children. Deputies first spotted Johnson about two hours later walking along the highway, but the car and children were nowhere to be found.
About an hour after that, the car was found in an alley along Heritage Street. The twins, one boy and one girl, were inside the unlocked car and were cuddled up together. After a medical examination, they were returned to their parents.
"We were elated when they were located without injury," Lenoir County Chief Deputy Christopher Hill said.
Johnson was taken to jail and held under a $200,000 bond. A motive is still unclear, but deputies said Johnson may have a history of drug problems and mental illness.
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A lot of Uberman users report that it's very hard to recover from a lost nap. I ignored this advice and tried it anyway last week. It turns out to be a major issue that eventually forced me back to the standard monophasic sleep schedule.
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The 6 Most Overhyped Technologies
#3. Hybrid Vehicles
Hybrid vehicles, with their part-electrical, part-gasoline engines are a sort of compromise for people who care about fuel consumption, but aren't going to go all-out for some hippie contraption that has to be plugged in for eight hours before you can drive it. Ask any hybrid owner why they own one, and you'll likely hear a variety of answers like "to save the environment," "to reduce our dependence on foreign oil," and "to drive Dick Cheney back into the sea from whence he came."
Root Problems:
Hysterical, possibly Gore-fueled overestimation of value.
The problem with hybrid cars isn't what they can do, it's what people think they can do. Realistically, a hybrid car will get roughly 20-30 percent better gas mileage than a similarly sized normal car. It turns out they don't perform as well in the real world as in the lab, and the talk of 55 miles to the gallon for hybrids was pretty much bullshit ( the Toyota Prius' gas mileage was knocked back from 55 to 46 MPG by the EPA). Sure, those numbers are still light years ahead of the customized Escalades issued to the Cracked staff ...
...but don't blow away the numbers for regular ol' economy cars that cost $5,000 less.
As far as environmental impact, don't forget the manufacturing process. Just by insisting on buying a new car instead of keeping your old one, you added 27 tons of waste to the environment. It's more so for a hybrid, since their enormously powerful batteries don't grow on trees, perhaps due to an oversight on the part of God. They have to be built and shipped around the planet, creating waste every step of the way.
We're pretty level-headed here at Cracked, and generally agree that mankind should never harm the planet, except possibly in self defense. So, we applaud the goal of improving fuel economy in vehicles. But if you buy a hybrid, don't fool yourself into thinking you're single handedly saving Earth. You're maybe helping a bit, but if the planet's ever going to be saved, it will require a concerted effort from everyone, including consumers, businesses, governments and, most importantly, Batman.
#2. The Internet on your TV
For some strange reason, it's long been a goal for many very smart people to move Internet users away from the computer desk and onto the sofa. You can browse the Internet on the Nintendo Wii and the Sony PS3, plus Microsoft still has its set-top browser out there (they bought up the old WebTV thing years ago) which is enjoyed by literally hundreds of people.
Root Problems:
Remarkably ill-conceived product.
To see why this doesn't work, here's a fun little experiment you can do. Go get a ruler and measure how tall the text is on your monitor when viewing one of your favorite websites. It doesn't have to be this one, and in fact, probably isn't.
Every website in existence is designed to be viewed from about 2 feet away, and uses relatively small fonts as a consequence. So in other words, you'd need something like a 200-inch television to display text that's readable from your couch.
This leads us right to the other problem: Web content isn't designed to be shared. TV shows are broadcast in 30- to 60- minute chunks that a family or group of friends can all sit and watch together. Web browsing is a series of three-minute-long hops from link to link, at the whims of whoever is doing the navigating.
Mom sitting there and watching while Dad navigates through his favorite sports blogs would be torture for both. Mom, because she probably doesn't care about his sports and Dad, because he has to now pretend he uses the Internet to read about sports and not anime porn.
#1. Virtual Reality
In the movie Disclosure, Michael Douglas has to track down evidence that proves Demi Moore at one point found him sexually desirable. In order to access his company's network, he's forced to use a virtual reality getup thanks to several unlikely plot contrivances. This involves donning a 10-pound helmet, slipping on some kind of power glove, and then clambering up on a sort of roller platform. Once that's all done, he gets to pretend to walk down the corridors of a virtual library, where he pretends to open a virtual file cabinet, pretends to grab a virtual file folder, and then pretends to flip through virtual pages looking for the evidence that proves that the woman who was pretending to find him attractive wasn't pretending.
Got all that?
Root Problems:
It's not actually useful for anything.
The problem is that any idiot (even Michael Douglas, probably) could accomplish the above task 10 times faster with a keyboard and mouse. Just because you could do it in virtual reality doesn't mean you should. Given the choice, anyone who uses a computer to do a job is only going to be interested in using the fastest and easiest method, not the one that requires the user to possess both a helmet and the weathered good looks of Michael Douglas.
No one in the '90s thought that we'd be sitting here in 2007 and thinking of those VR headsets as a ridiculous fad. Yet, even the most advanced game consoles are still played with the same old control pads on the same old television. The Wii does add a tiny element of virtual reality in that it lets you physically interact with the game, a little. But, just a little.
The whole point of VR is to completely immerse you in the entertainment, but a regular old TV kind of already does that. When you're wrapped up in a good TV show, you're not thinking about your surroundings. You block it out, you're focused on the show. By moving the screen to an inch in front of your eyeball, VR is solving a problem that doesn't really exist.
Sure, some time in the distant future when real "almost reality" simulations exist, we'll wind up using some kind of VR technology, but only if it doesn't require us to stand up and wear a 10-pound helmet. But, it will be well worth the wait, because on that day we will find ourselves neck deep in a first-person sex-with-Michael Douglas simulator, and it will be glorious.
If you like this article, check out Chris's post about a Wii conspiracy theory on the Official Cracked Blog today.


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When I took my Java courses a year ago, I was told that Java is used mostly in the overseas gaming companies while C++ is used here in the US. What languages should I focus on learning in-depth?
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Common programming languages can be broken up by "type" of game development.
Large, triple-A games that are pushing the envelope when it comes to graphics typically utilized a mixture of straight C and C++ for the majority of the project. Often, a scripting language will be involved--though, this isn't necessarily true of all engines.
Gameplay code is often written in a proprietary language (UnrealScript), Python, Lua (CryTek, Spark Engine), or, in some cases, C# (The Sims 2). A few game engines are starting to support JavaScript (Unity, etc.).
Shader languages are also utilized, of course.
In the mobile realm, iPhones are dominated by objective-C while most other cellphones utilize Java (Android, Brew-based, etc.).
As for indies or small companies, they can be utilizing pretty much anything depending on their target platforms. For instance, C# is common with small time Live developers. Flash developers obviously use ActionScript.
So, there you go. Hope that helps.
C++ is the lingua franca of the console game industry. C# is used pretty heavily for tools and pipelines.
C++ is fairly prominent in the current gaming market. Thought C is still widely used.
When making games, your main focus should not be language but the end product. Never start a project thinking "How can we make this in language X?" but "How can we make this in the best way possible?"
The ultimate source is the TIOBE Index. Granted it won't tell you what each language is being used for...
As already mentioned, C++ is essentially the language to learn; the major consoles all host a C++ development environment, for better or worse. C# is starting to take off, in XNA-powered games, but is most often also used for tools development.
Lua is also one of the most commonly used scripting languages in games; it's helpful to have at least a passing familiarity with it.
Often the build chain used to build the game will contain scripts written in Python or Perl; it's helpful to be familiar with those too (though it's not a requirement).
It is best not to learn one language, but to learn different programming concepts and how to apply them in a few different languages, frameworks and enviroments.
Don't forget PHP. It is very popular in MMORGP played via WWW development. In Poland f.g. there is very large number of MMORPG based on Vallheru engine, written entirely in PHP.
Maybe you shouldn't focus on learning one specific language. You should how to develop.
Yesterday, i downloaded the iOS SDK and Xcode. And i took it right away and made a little tetris. I'm an as3 guy, and i haven't even bother about learning Objective-C. But i was able to make a simple game because i understand how to develop.
So, my point here is that you maybe should spend more time learning new concepts, than a specific language. Or Learn X languages and port your knowledge to other languages.
Game development is a different ball game form application programming.
In the world of games it is all about speed. When pushing the envelope with 1080p HD graphics, high sampling sound and nex gen AI every last processor cycle counts.
Historically C and C++ have been the fasts but java is now comparable to c++ in terms of speed in some circumstances.
C++ allows you greater control over the architectural you design on than any other language.
Most senior game developer are well senior meaning they were taught the old school way as they were invented an as such are very proficient in older technologies.
But the most major reason that commercial game development favours C++ is that it has been used for over 15 years in the games industry and there are literally billions of in house and public access library's for it. If you want it chances are someone has built it in c++.
Having said that java is becoming more and more popular as it makes it easier to develop on the wide spread and constantly changing mobile architectural but bleeding edge games will continue to have there core written in c++ for some time to come.
Objective-C for iOS devices of course. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#referencelibrary/GettingStarted/RoadMapiOS/chapters/Languages.html And most OS X programs are coded in it as well : https://developer.apple.com/technologies/mac/cocoa.html


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My BJCP Course states that (too) late aeration can cause diacetyl. My understanding is that diacetyl is produced by yeast during the first phase of fermentation. How could too much oxygen in a finished beer cause diacetyl flavor. Is it due to oxygenation?
Even if all the yeast is filtered out of the beer, if there is diacetyl precursor still in solution (alpha acetolactate) the general oxidation of the beer will cause the alpha acetolactate to be converted to diacetyl. This is a non-enzymic, yeast-less process. Minimizing oxygen minimizes this affect, as does minimizing alpha acetolactate content.
Look here, under "Beer Aging" section of article.
Actually I found an article from BYO that says:
My understanding from the reading I'm doing is the extra oxygen will cause the yeast to produce more diacetyl. If the oxygen is added early on, the yeast has plenty of time to clean up this extra diacetyl. If the oxygen is added late in fermentation, the yeast has time to make the diacetyl, but not clean it up.
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A woman from Dodge City was killed in car accident just before 8 p.m. Thursday in Haskell County five miles east of the U-83 and K-144 junction.
Crystal Lou Dillon, 22, was driving eastbound on K-144 when her vehicle went left of center and over-corrected to the right. A report from the Kansas Highway Patrol said her 2005 Buick then drove off the roadway, down a small embankment and into a field where it rolled three to four times. The report states that Crystal was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the vehicle.
The other two occupants of the vehicle, 29-year-old Lucy Dillon and 24-year-old Mario Dillon, both of Ulysses, were injured in the accident. Lucy was taken to Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital. Mario was initially taken to St. Catherine Hospital and later flown to Via Christi Hospital on St. Francis in Wichita.
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Strong Bad's brother. Synonymous to "depressio." Has elephant feet and a big white face. Loves the Cure and the Pet Shop Boys, poetry, and board games more than most people. If Strong Bad had his way, this guy would have horns and a tail.
Homestar as Strong Sad: Some animal died.
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Strong Sad has good penmanship, but most people find him annoying beyond sanity.
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A pathetic, grey being with elephant feet that is constantly tortured by his brother Strong Bad. Enjoys talking to walls and trees, playing board games with other board games, and hoping that one day he could die. However, evidence shows that he was once happy with Strong Bad.
"Each day, we die a little more..."-Strong Sad
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The brother of Strong Bad and Strong Mad. He has an elephant-type torso and a ghostie head. He likes board games and The Cure.
"Each day we die a little more."
"Hey Marzipan, some animal died."
"I'm sad that I'm flying."
"Hey Marzipan, some animal died."
"I'm sad that I'm flying."
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1. A cute, gray thing that is mistreated a lot by the people in homestarrunner.com
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A fat, depressed guy.
Constantly is pummeld by his two brothers: strong mad and strong bad.
Constantly is pummeld by his two brothers: strong mad and strong bad.
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He's a fat grey guy with elephant feet and white round face. He's always sad.
StrongSad,"Each day we die a little more..." He stuff like that and he has a sad high pitched voice.
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Stiff Clutch Pedal Fix - Clutch CureWritten by on October 23, 2007 A Quick Fix For An Overly Stiff Pedal
There's nothing more frustrating than having a modified vintage vehicle that you can't drive or don't enjoy driving. No, we're not taking shots at trailer-borne trophy queens (not right now anyway). We're talking about mechanical or structural problems that could prevent somebody from completely enjoying their ride-stuff like a leaky windshield, lousy steering alignment, cooling problems, or improper seat position.
For one owner of a '52 Chevy pickup, the culprit was an extremely stiff clutch pedal. It had plenty of throw, but was so hard to engage that it made it difficult to drive the four-speed truck. The owner eventually got frustrated and sold the truck to Wil Sakowski at Sakowski Motors.
As it turns out, remedying the clutch pedal problem required just a little bit of imagination, a handful of basic tools, and an average level of mechanical skill. There was some typical hot rod trial and error involved in solving the problem, but in one day, Wil had the throw reduced and the pedal pressure down to a comfortable level.
When the day comes that this pickup is rebuilt, the pedal assem-blies may be completely rebuilt as well. In the meantime, a problem has been fixed and a classic truck is exceedingly more drivable than it was yesterday.
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The amount of pedal throw and the pedal pressure is a result of the ratio between the longer upper arm and the short lower arm.Another problem with this linkage was that the rod was positioned too close to the orange-colored clutch fork.In order to figure out the mechanical advantage of the unmodified piece, Wil measured the lengths of both arms.The length of the upper arm, from the pivot hole to the point where it curves to connect to the pedal is approximately 8 1/2 inches.In order to move the rod farther from the clutch fork, Wil replaced the 90-degree pin end of the rod with a yoke removed from the end of an extra master cylinder he had in the shop.
With the clutch pedal assembly remounted into position, it's easy to see the significant difference in the position of the rod.Relocating the rod to the center hole of the lower arm provided just the right amount of pedal pressure and throw.


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More than 25 years ago, Allen Wirfs-Brock created one of the early implementations of Smalltalk. He was working at Tektronix at the time, as was Ward Cunningham who became the first user of Tektronix Smalltalk. Allen later served as chief scientist of Digitalk-ParcPlace and CTO of Instantiations, then joined Microsoft four years ago. His original charter was to work on future strategies for Visual Studio, but recently -- in light of growing interest in dynamic languages at Microsot -- he's returning to his roots.
In this conversation we review the history of Smalltalk, and trace the evolution of the techniques that it (and Lisp) pioneered, from the early implementations to such modern descendants as Python and Ruby.
I'm always looking for ways to explain why dynamic programming techniques are so important, and a great explanation emerged from this conversation. A Smalltalk system is, among other things, a population of continously evolving objects that communicate by passing messages. That same description applies to another kind of system: the Internet. I suggested -- and Allen agreed -- that this congruence is driving renewed appreciation for dynamic languages.
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i find it interesting that he seems to worry about the clr slowing down the dlr (as optimizations can "only" be made down to the clr level), when the newest version of iron python is almost twice as fast as the latest version of cpython..
he also says that the goal of smalltalk has always been to be as fast as c.. well thats all good but it is NOT as fasst as c.. not by a loooong shot.. i dont know any dynamic language that is nearly as fast as any static language..
and i dont buy this claim that "I have seen it work, you Can build reliable apps" either.. sure you CAN probobly build reliable large complete apps in dynamic languages.. but clearly most of the industry did not manage to to that and so switched over to more static languages.. or perhaps it was all a conspiracy?
also i find it amazing how someone that has worked so long in the industry can just fob of the issue of versioning.. i highly doubt that, including test time, development of a large scale app is any faster in a dynamic language than in a static one.. but if one went dynamic, one whould have a slower, less debuggable and unversioned version of the program..
the internet analogy is also irrelevant.. so what if the internet is somewhat similar to smalltalk.. the internet is mostly build on programs made in static languages and they work fine, the send and recive messages like a breeze. the argument seems to be
that just because both pass messages, one fits right into the other.. but sience the messages passed over the internet and the messages passed between smalltalk objects are not compatible, they cant be interchangeble
i dont mind dynamic languages for small apps and scripts(that perhaps talk to apps written in static languages).. but the indusrty has already tried dynamic languages for industral programming and rejected it.. and as he says, since very little has changes from the seventies, i dont that the industry is going to change now..
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AZUSA, Calif.-- Just two days after an impressive showing at the Grand Canyon Tournament, the Azusa Pacific men's tennis team continued its torrid start with a 9-0 sweep of the NAIA's No. 5 ranked Concordia in its home opener. The Cougars didn't drop a set on the day, and saw four players stay perfect in singles action this season.
"We're overachieving already. I really didn't think we'd play this well. I expected some ups and downs, but they guys have responded well," said head coach Mark Bohren. "I though the guys might be a little tired, but everybody came out and played with good intensity and didn't have much of a problem today."
Ben Eger picked up his 11th consecutive victory, improving to 7-0 in 2013 after making quick work of Patrick Szerementa at No. 4 with a blitzing 6-0, 6-0 sweep for the Cougars' first singles win. After a slow start the NCAA's (Division II) 6th ranked Jochem Hoefnagels also lifted his record to 7-0, posting his 28th consecutive singles victory dating back to 2012 with a match-clinching 6-3, 6-0 defeat of No. 14 (NAIA) Bruno Kliskinic at No. 1.
No. 31 ranked Frederik Wilkens kept his perfect mark intact, beating Marc Reddmann 6-1, 6-0 at No. 2, while 20th ranked Jan Meyer remained unscathed with his sixth consecutive victory at No. 3 singles (6-0, 6-2). Whitman Hough elevated his record to 5-2, smashing Farren Casad 6-3, 6-0, and Gary Yam pushed his record to 5-1 after beating Van Morgen 6-1, 6-1 at No. 6 singles to wrap up the day.
In doubles play the Cougars secured a sweep after a comeback win at No. 2. In the match the 24th ranked team of Wilkens and Yam trailed 4-1, but rallied back to take a 7-6 lead before clinching the win after Wilkens' match-point serve was returned to Yam at the net, who then backhanded the winner.
Hoefnagels and Meyer opened the morning with an 8-2 over Redmann and Szeremeta at No. 1, before Hough and Eger improved to 6-1 with an 8-1 win at No. 3. The victory elevated Azusa Pacific's record to 7-0 this season, with four of the team's wins coming against opponents ranked inside the top-30 nationally in their perspective divisions (Division II, NAIA). The Cougars will take a much needed break before returning to action next Monday for a road showdown with Fresno Pacific.


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Prostitution may be the oldest profession, but masturbation is the oldest pastime. And while there are many memorable cinematic masturbation scenes-a quick polling of CRACKED deskies produced titles like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky's and American Beauty-only CRACKED intern Ryan Grim could come up with a single song on the topic, and he was masturbating when we asked him. In other words, the Internet could use a definitive list of songs that are totally about masturbating.
#15. "My Ding-A-Ling"
Always went by the very best rule,
But every time the bell would ring,
You'd catch me playing with my ding-a-ling.
So many important questions are raised here. Does Berry have some sort of Pavlovian reaction whereby every time he hears a bell, he whips it out and starts going to town? If so, we're not sure that's the very best rule for grammar school, or any school for that matter. In fact, by the time senior year of high school rolled around, with it's 14 bells a day and underage freshman girls, we're guessing things got downright litigious.
On second thought, Mr. Berry did grow up in the '30s, and you know what they say about public masturbation and the Great Depression...
#14. "Darling Nikki"
I guess you could say she was a sex friend.
I met her in a hotel lobby,
Masturbating with a magazine.
We have a feeling most of Prince's stories start out with, "So I was hanging out in the hotel lobby, when suddenly I saw a girl masturbating with a magazine." But was she actually rubbing a rolled-up Playgirl against her yodel patch, or was she merely looking at the naked dudes while fiddling herself? Prince should really clarify these things in the liner notes, because if ever there was a lyric that could cause confused young people to hurt themselves, this is it.
#13. "Icicle"
I can finally rest my head.
And when they take from his body,
I think I'll take from mine instead,
Getting off, getting off while they're all downstairs.
Icicle" is our first entry from a woman and-surprise, surprise-it's Tori Amos. For some reason, she's always come off like a chronic masturbator. Maybe it's her boring, introspective music videos. Maybe it's the fact that she appears to be masturbating in at least a quarter of the images that accompany this YouTube audio clip. Or maybe it's the time she sent us that unsolicited humor submission about how she wore down the knob on her clit-hitter. Sorry, Tori, it just wasn't right for us, but feel free to contact us with any questions. And in case you're wondering how a Tori Amos song made it onto a "Best of.." anything list, the simple answer is that we were lesbians in college.


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I love the Stack Exchange network, but I often find myself procrastinating by looking at the most recently updated questions on the sites I visit most. Those questions are rarely (if ever) relevant for the task at hand, and are potentially harmful to my productivity. Stack Exchange has a reputation system with encourages people to give a good answer rapidly — if I wait answering until the evening, I have lost a chance to get a big reputation gain. A higher reputation gives personal pride and privileges on the network.
Now how can I prevent myself from browsing to irrelevant Stack Exchange network sites during working hours over and over again? Although a couple of sites may be relevant, asking and answering on Travel and Outdoor are certainly not helping me toward my PhD in any way.
Related but different: How to use the second brain of the Stack Exchange network in a productive way?
P.S. I think this question belongs on the main site, not on meta.