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hi dev team!
it would be great if gxt 3.x and 2.x can be used in same project.
please have a look at gxt uibinder framework.
with this in mind, porting can be a smooth process, using gwt 2.4, gxt 2.x and gxt 3.x widgets at same time. as gxt 2.x and 3.x run on gwt 2.x this should not be a problem.
regards, kht
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GXT3 is not backward compatible. As the package is different, you could use it in the same project, however they wont be really able to interact with each other as you would look for it.
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hi sven!
thanks for your answer!
backward compatibility: there is no need to be backward compatible, as long as both (gxt2+3) can be used at same time.
with uibinder framework, gxt2 widgets should be easy to integrate.
my only aim is, how to bring lots of gxt2 source to new world. all runs with gwt 2.4rc1 and gxt 2.2.4. there is np mix/match gwt 2.4 widgets with gxt2 widgets. same i would expect from gxt3.
sven, is there a rough timeframe for gxt3? np if it needs another year to be final and mature, but it will be great if we roughly can plan.....
regards, kht
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There is no public timeframe right now.
with uibinder framework, gxt2 widgets should be easy to integrate.


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I can only answer the computer question, although it has the exact same meaning for the English language. In short: Syntax is structure, and semantics is meaning.
Programming languages are written based on a grammar (just like English.) Grammars might say something like "If statements always have the form: if (condition) then (statement)." If you write something that follows the grammar perfectly, then it is syntactically correct, but may or may not be semantically correct, or semantically meaningful.
In some arbitrary simple language, the statement:
is syntactically correct, but not semantically correct, since it has no meaning even though it correctly follows the structure of the language.
A very common example is Chomsky's statement "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously", which follows the grammar of the English language but is semantically incorrect because it contains several contradictions -- colorless things cannot be green, for instance. You could of course argue this poetically to have some meaning (I would probably hate you), but that's beyond the scope of this discussion.
In English, "I no like!" is grammatically incorrect (syntactically incorrect), but is not semantically incorrect since it does imbue some meaning.
In coding, this is more muddy; it's hard to say whether a statement like "i (int) = 3" is semantically correct even though it's syntactically correct. There's really no meaning in this distinction, either. Generally, a statement has to be syntactically valid before it even has a chance of being semantically valid.
Semantics is:
I think your confusion comes from the last phrase, that is, does puncutation come under "signs and symbols"? The answer is no, because, semantics deals with the meaning, so punctuation would not come under this, as punctuation does not have a meaning, and does not denote something.
Punctuation comes under, syntax, which is:
Thus, in order to construct a sentences, you will need to follow certain rules, including rules for using punctuation. Punctuation comes under syntax.
What doe spelling come under? I would say, "morphology":
Thus, morphology, deals with how words are formed, and spelling would come under this.
Hope that helps.
All sources are from Wikipedia.
Syntax is the symbology and grammar of a language, which tells you the rules for constructing well-formed sentences of the language. Semantics concerns what those statements mean.
These all mean the same thing, which is to say they have the same semantics, but they are described using slightly different syntax.
Some languages offer alternative syntaxes for commonly used language constructs. For instance, in Lua the following are exactly equivalent; i.e. they have identical semantics:
As do the following:
As far as computer science applies, simple answer is...
Syntax errors are those errors caused because you did not follow the rules of the language:
For C++
Semantics errors are those errors caused due to mispelling and such
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I have a couple of questions. It would be nice, to get an answere..
as you can see, I've created a function to create a Window.
1) In this case, this should be a login window. But how the hell can I tell this button not to be in the middle, but at the right side of the window. something like a position tag or so.
2) Also, I saw some issues about Panels.. Why do I need Panels? I mean where exactly is the benefit if i am using it, instead of just putting all my elements directly to the window?
3) What kind of programming style is a good one? Recently I worked at a very big Java Project and I really liked the structure there. So I am new at EXTjs, and I am searching for a simliar kind of structure.
Is it a good style, to create a new js File for every component I am writing? if so, is there another posibillity, to use all the components in my index.html? Currentyl I am include all the scripts like this: <script lanuage="text/javascript" src="..."></script>
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1. buttonAlign:'right'.
2. Panels are widely overused. In most cases (like yours) you don't need an extra Panel.
You need an extra container (can be a simple Container, not even a Panel) if you want some items inside a layout to be layed out differently (e.g. form layout inside a column layout).
3. Yes, creating a file for every component is good practice.
During testing you should indeed include all files separately, but for the final distribution you should merge, compress (use YUICompressor) and gzip the result.
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thank you for your reply. you really helped me out dude.
ok, here's another one (i am still learning...)
1) What I want to do is that the user calls the Web-App like http://www.foo.de/webapp
Now the first thing this user should see is this login dialog. If the user's logn was succesfully, he/she should be forwarded to the main page.
Will it be the best thing, to work with cookies / sessions? I think about creating 2 jsp pages. in the index page, there's only the dialog displayed. If all is ok, the user is forwarded to the main page, or something like that.
2) if I understand the concept correct, I have to use only 1, maximum 2 html/jsp page(s) and all the action is done by some JavaScripts. (This is completly new for me, as I told u I am comming from the java side with as much classes as possible )
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1. Yes, you could create 2 pages and forward (remember to use standardSubmit:true, because an XHR request won't follow the forward). Or you could just create 1 page and make the login window modal:true.
2. Yes, your entire application can consist of:
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Suggest you scan the main wiki tutorials page. There's some articles on design/layout of code, suggestions on writing large applications, minification, etc.
There are a few examples of logins about (sample apps, etc.). I think you have the drift of the login already though.MJ
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(Inspired by Double AA) Based on the Premise (which I may be wrong on) that there are pieces of the actual Tobacco leaves or whatever else is smoked in the inhaled part of the smoke hence there would seem to be ingestion of Tobbaco in the smoking processes. Why is there no Bracha on Smoking?
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Tasting something and then spitting it out without digesting does not require a bracha (Shulchan Aruch 210:2). This happens when tasting something to see if spices are needed .
The Magen Avraham (210:9) questions whether a bracha is required when smoking.It is similar to tasting and then spitting out which does not require a bracha being that the smoke is never digested or it should be no different than smelling which does require a bracha rishona. Even more so here since some people actually swallow the tobacco.
The Minhag Yisroel Torah (210) brings down from the K'sav Sofer that R' Mordechai Banet, prior to smoking a cigarette, would make a shehakol on another food item with the intent to include the cigarette as well. Should the cigarette require a bracha, the shehakol (an all encompassing bracha) would include it. However the Minhag Yisrael Torah writes that the minhag b'zman hazeh is not to make a bracha prior to smoking.
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If $x_{a+1}$-$x_{a}$ converges to $0$ and $x_{2a}$-$2x_{a}$ converges to $0$ , does that imply $x_a$ converges to $0$?
Yes. There's probably a clever proof, but here's a non-clever one. Suppose you had a sequence satisfying your hypotheses but not converging to 0. Multiplying it by a suitable constant (which doesn't affect the hypotheses), you can assume that $x_a>1$ for infinitely many $a$, in particular for some $a$ so large that $|x_{2b}-2x_b|<\frac12$ for all $b\geq a$. Applying that inequality repeatedly, with $a,2a,4a,\dots$ as $b$, you get that $x_{2^ka}>(2^k+1)/2$ for all integers $k\geq0$. Then
Just a very quick argument which reduces the possibilities: Let $\Omega\subset{\mathbb R}\cup\{\pm\infty\}$ be the $\omega$-limit set of the sequence, that is the set of limits of "converging" sub-sequences. It is a non-void closed set by construction. The property $x_{a+1}-x_a\rightarrow0$ tells us that $\Omega$ is a connected set. The property $x_{2a}-2x_a\rightarrow0$ tells us that $2\Omega=\Omega$. Therefore $\Omega$ can only be equal to one of the four sets $$\{0\},\quad[0,+\infty],\quad[-\infty,0],\quad{\mathbb R}.$$
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I have read books on my iPod, not a great fan.
I watched the first half, rugby for women
I have read books on my iPod, not a great fan.
I watched the first half, rugby for women
I watched the first half but not watched the 2nd half (had it on in the background) because I was creating a new challenge in the Challenge thread. Very cheap plug.
I will be attempting this
I didn't watch (mainly as I was at work)
A Boston team vs. a New York team. :shrug:
I have no interest in the super bowl.
Happy that the Patriots lost, however Eli will now be thought of as an 'Elite' QB
I was watching it after getting back from seeing Mastodon in Bristol* then decided to go to bed when they started saying Madonna would be on soon.
*Awesome gig, Mastodon are just such a great band. All four of them can sing really well and are amazing at their respective instruments as well. And the songs and concepts are excellent. Dillinger Escape Plan and Red Fang supported, the former were very good when they dialed back the heaviness, the latter were excellent - like an old-man Queens of the Stoneage. Definitely be looking them up for further listening!
That music is a little too heavy even for me, but I love AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Rose Tattoo - that kinda stuff
Snake has an idea of what I listen to, All Time Low, Scooter and Parkway Drive all feature heavily
I remember seeing Iron Maiden at Earl's Court when I was 18, absolutely blew my mind. Trivium were the support and they looked like absolute rank amateurs in comparison! Although when I saw them (Trivium) again a couple of years ago in Bristol when they were touring Shogun I have to say I was impressed. Definitely matured in the mean time.
Their fans are still tards though.
I'd be more likely to listen to Converge than Mastodon, but the rest of the bands mentioned...
In all seriousness I listen to/play a massive range of music. I'm in four bands at the moment playing R&B, electro, swing, and djent/prog metal. I'm just as likely to go to a musical as Metallica. All music is awesome.
Which part AB? It depends on what I am doing. Scooter is incredibly good when cycling to uni
I think it might be, I'm actually rather fond of eurodance myself.
Oh good God
I can listen to quite a bit of music without wanting to put a bullet in the brain, although my favourites are hard rock or classic rock, but dance and a lot of the MTV crap makes my soul want to projectile vomit.
Only dance I ever listened to was Prodigy, Fat Boy Slim and The Chemical Brothers. I prefer rock music like the Doors I like them so much I have the lead singer tattooed on my chest, other than classic rock I love Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Monster Magnet, Insane Clown Posse, Queens of the Stoneage anything rock-ish I suppose. My ipod is filled with all sorts though from Guns and Roses to Scissor Sisters.
I suppose the only modern dance type of music I listen to is Example.
Melt, Temple of your dreams and Your lies become you are probably my favourites by them, they really should be more well known his voice is second to none for rock music.
Also listen to classic music every now and then, particularly the more calm and string oriented type. What I listen to depends on my mood really, but there are some types I just can't take, such as a lot or rap, electronica-/etc and over-whored out pop.
AB yes, it's hardcore trance. Anything with a high tempo is great to do exercise to and trance zones me out.
i generally go through phases of listening to the same band last few weeks it was Korn with the new album (massive korn fan and id sell my kidney to go see em live!)
at the minute im listening to alot of Godsmack and Five Finger Death Punch
Oh if any of you guys live in southish England heres a festival you might be interested in: http://redfest.co.uk/lineup/
£60 inc camping for 3 days of music
Anyone heard of a game called Kingdoms of Amalur out this week, looks pretty good but not sure how open world it is.
It uses online pass, miss it.
Online pass?
I already have a few games that use an online pass so that doesn't worry me if it's a good game.
I don't like it from principle. Anything that is designed to stop used games and not piracy is plain stupid.
I agree it is stupid and it does annoy me but I couldn't not buy Uncharted 3 or Saints Row 3.
I don't own either :3 I also really dislike EA, they ruined the Crysis franchise by forcing stupid deadlines on the studio.
I just completed Homefront having sat down to play it twice. Would not recommend unless it's cheap. A 5-hour single-player campaign just isn't good enough. Plus it's just frustrating having recently played Gears of War 3 how unpolished the gameplay is. Totally ruins the immersion when you're cursing the game developer halfway through a mission because you couldn't crawl under an object because the other bint in your team was supposed to go through first.
Welcome to CoD land!
Don't like Evil Arts either. They have ruined so many games now it's not even funny. So sad to see what a company they are now compared with when they started out, and what they tried to achieve then. Also sad to see what BioWare has become.
Steam I can cope with, I only buy games on sale so I can't complain and it offers a social aspect too. Also the make Half Life
On the music front, in all seriousness I love a bit of Disney, they have some classic songs that I listen to whilst playing FIFA
Apart from that, I listen to all sorts of things although I don't own much music.
Disney have made some absolute classics! I love a bit of Mozart or Bach whilst I'm working as well. Rachmaninov is utterly brilliant for piano concertos.
I go for a lot of film scores. Inception, LOTR, Blade Runner, Batman, The Crow etc
Hans Zimmer has great scores, even for rubbish like the Live-action Thunderbirds.
Oh that film! Sorry when you say "live-action" I think of Larping, and Larped Thunderbirds would be absolutely ridiculous.
I don't really like third person view. I much prefer first person.
There seem to be just as many shambolically terrible as excellent indie bands, it's weird. Probably a product of the fact that there's not much room for innovation in the genre, so both the unimaginative and the innovative stick out like sore thumbs. That's why I listen to a lot of prog and classical music, there's loads of fantastic prog bands/musicians and classical composers doing really interesting stuff both now and in the past. In particular prog (including the djent sub-genre) is making a massive comeback with bands like Mastodon, Animals as Leaders, Tesseract, Periphery, Opeth, Meshuggah and Fall of Troy (until they split up) doing some absolutely mindblowing stuff.
I once saw Opeth do an acoustic set in Italy. Weird as ****, but SO good.
I love Opeth, but some of their fans are absolute mouth-breathers. Whenever you go to see them there's always the "hilarious" people who try to start "ironic" mosh-pits during the quieter/slower parts. Because noone has ever done that before. Although I saw a guy get a smack in the mouth for that last time I saw them so there's hope yet!
The best thing about their music is the dynamic range, which is just unbelievable, nothing outside of orchestral pieces even gets close. The fact that they do both ends of the spectrum just as brilliantly is an added bonus of course! Wonderfully talented musicians and songwriters.
I've heard of ISIS but not listened to them, and the others I've not even heard of, so no!
The music is epic, beautiful, tragic and sometimes funny too.
Mahler famously said that the symphony should be like the world and that it must embrace everything. His symphonies are extraordinary, epic masterpieces and they do live up to that ideal.
I don't think that there is any music that impacts upon me in such a way as Mahler's music does. It can be breathtakingly beautiful and can wrench at my heart one minute. It can be tragic and even visceral. It can even make me smile with parody and pastiche. It's extraordinary music. The music also has a great narrative to it. Every symphony has a story to tell.
I could recommend some specific recordings if you are interested? There are two excellent versions of the first and fifth symphony that I would recommend. They should be quite inexpensive as well.
In terms of classical music, I also enjoy Beethoven, some Bach, some Mozart, Sibelius and Stravinsky. There are plenty of others that I enjoy but these are perhaps the favourites really. I like the romantic/modernist period best and the symphony would be my favourite genre.
There is a lot of rubbish indie these days. I feel like I grew out of it really. I used to have a huge CD library but sold many of my CDs a few years back.There seem to be just as many shambolically terrible as excellent indie bands, it's weird. Probably a product of the fact that there's not much room for innovation in the genre, so both the unimaginative and the innovative stick out like sore thumbs. That's why I listen to a lot of prog and classical music, there's loads of fantastic prog bands/musicians and classical composers doing really interesting stuff both now and in the past. In particular prog (including the djent sub-genre) is making a massive comeback with bands like Mastodon, Animals as Leaders, Tesseract, Periphery, Opeth, Meshuggah and Fall of Troy (until they split up) doing some absolutely mindblowing stuff.
I hate the way that music operates on what is fashionable rather than what is good, indie music particularly. So many of the friends I used to have would basically listen to whatever the NME said was amazing at that particular time. So much of it was mediocre music.
Anyway, some of the pop music that I put one side to keep would include (not in any specific order): The Smiths, Morrissey, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Beck, The Black Keys, Gomez, Jimi Hendrix, Maximo Park, Nick Drake, Radiohead, The Stone Roses, Supergrass and Tom Waits. Those are some favourites that I can think of right now.
I have no idea about music these days. I stopped following new music around 2007 or 2008. I just grew very disinterested with the state of modern pop music and listened primarily to classical music plus some old favourites (mainly Morrissey!) now and then.
Very very true. Music journalists tend to decide what music is commercially successful rather than the actual quality of the music. That said there's an absolutely incredible skill in writing a catchy song that will be commercially successful, but for the most part it's luck and friends in high places. I mean that's the only way I can explain Mark Ronson.There is a lot of rubbish indie these days. I feel like I grew out of it really. I used to have a huge CD library but sold many of my CDs a few years back.
I hate the way that music operates on what is fashionable rather than what is good, indie music particularly. So many of the friends I used to have would basically listen to whatever the NME said was amazing at that particular time. So much of it was mediocre music.
All excellent I absolutely adore Tom Waits and Jimi Hendrix. Two very rare musicians who transcend time and genre. I'm pretty accepting of different opinions on music, but if you don't like those two you just don't like music.Anyway, some of the pop music that I put one side to keep would include (not in any specific order): The Smiths, Morrissey, Kate Bush, The Beatles, Beck, The Black Keys, Gomez, Jimi Hendrix, Maximo Park, Nick Drake, Radiohead, The Stone Roses, Supergrass and Tom Waits. Those are some favourites that I can think of right now.
I completely switched off to new music for about 4 years from 2006. I was utterly convinced in my omniscient late-teenage mind that all the good music that was ever going to be written had already been written. Even the bands I liked were churning out rubbish, and with a couple of exceptions (Alter Bridge were absolutely tearing it up at that time and The Raconteurs blew me away the first time I heard them) I didn't buy a single album during that period.I have no idea about music these days. I stopped following new music around 2007 or 2008. I just grew very disinterested with the state of modern pop music and listened primarily to classical music plus some old favourites (mainly Morrissey!) now and then.
Then last year my friend sent me a few recommendations, amongst which was Mastodon's Crack the Skye, Fall of Troy's Phantom on the Horizon, and Periphery and Animals as Leaders' eponymous albums and I was just spellbound. Totally changed my musical outlook - there's new and interesting music coming out absolutely all the time if you don't restrict yourself based on genre. There's no good/bad types or genres of music, just good and bad music.
This is my favourite recording of Mahler's fifth and the first Mahler that I bought and listened to: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symph...8630103&sr=8-1 - it's a good price too at only £5 to £6 new.
This was my favourite for the first symphony - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symph...630279&sr=1-15 - a bit more expensive but available to buy used for £8.
But this would be pretty awesome as an alternative - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symph...8630359&sr=1-2 - I saw some of Valery Gergiev and the LSO's Mahler cycle at the Barbican in London and it was superb. £6.99 is a good price for such an amazing piece of music.
I'd recommend both symphonies as starting points. Maybe the first symphony as the more accessible one. The fifth is perhaps more complex. Perhaps the first would give the best taster to begin with but they are both amazing. In fact, all of the symphonies are fantastic anyway so you can't really go wrong.
If you are really serious about getting to grips with Mahler's music then I recommend this book - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symph...8630698&sr=8-1 - which I read alongside the symphonies the first time that I listened to them. You could probably pick up a good boxset of the Mahler symphonies to for £20-£40 depending on the conductor etc. Initially, I borrowed a ton of different recordings from my local library to see which I liked best. I listened to maybe two or three of each symphony and noted my favourites. Your local library is a great place to try out new classical music. I used to borrow a ton of CDs from there to find out what I liked best.
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I've left the book for the moment as it's a bit expensive, I'll keep it on my wish-list though in case I end up wanting it
Not liking the Heskey hate, he's the 16th highest Premier League scorer of all time and was fantastic for England in the World Cup 2010 qualifying campaign. I'd love to be that rubbish. Having said that, McLeish needs to get it through his head that he's NOT a left-winger! Absolute farce when he came on for Insomnia at the weekend. Not that I particularly care of course as it benefitted us
Also whilst I'm here, if anyone is at all interested I'm writing a blog about my attempts to learn music production by recording a guitar, bass and vocals cover of the full Crack the Skye album. Basically I'm hoping the carrot of the shiny new guitar and stick of keeping up the blog will force me to actually get it done, so I'd appreciate some followers to make the sticky blog even stickier
If nothing else you'll be able to laugh at my initial attempts at the vocals
Steam has announced 33% off Skyrim as the mid-week madness sale today. Just for anyone who is interested.
In addition, they have the Elder Scrolls collection for 50% off. Morrowind GOTY down to £6.49, Oblivion GOTY down to £7.49 and Oblivion GOTY Deluxe down to £9.99.
Tempted to get Morrowind GOTY and Oblivion GOTY Deluxe as I've enjoyed Skyrim so much. Worth getting whilst they are on such a good deal?
I got Morrowind for around that price a while a go but not played it yet. Oblivion is brilliant and well worth £7.49.
I put Morrowind GOTY and Oblivion GOTY Deluxe (the £9.99 one) in my cart. Not sure whether to press buy yet.
I recently bought Skyrim so I think Mrs Crouchaldinho may well kill me for purchasing more games!
But I'm enjoying Skyrim so much that I would really like to try the old TES games.
Although Skyrim is a better game in many ways I enjoyed my play through Oblivion a bit more, probably because it was all new to me at the time.
I just buy the missus something or let her get something in return. I got Morrowind ready to play and she got Downton Abbey to watch whilst I play, easy.
Since the music discussion is happening ... over in FMS, at one point we shared things like http://www.last.fm/user/Makonnen .
Ergh last.fm not a fan at all.
Well heres a SS of my music folder:
Over 80% has been listened to at least once, most 5x or over.
Oh, yes I am that OCD that my music folder is arranged by artist then album
Only 17gb? ive got double that! and ive listened to all of mine
I'm proud to say I've only heard about a handful of those artists!
Don't have a great deal of music on my laptop, much more on the desktop (that may be dead now), but have listened to all I have here a whole lot of times. It's "only" 21 GB though. On the desktop I have a crapton of bootlegs; concert recordings with various bands, particularly AC/DC as that is my favourite band. Most of the recordings are of poor standard, but I used to collect and trade some years back so it grew quickly, and some of them are really good too. Soundboard recordings are
Btw all of those are album recordings, none of it is live
Flamers, your music collection makes me weep
I've got 40gb on this laptop, 60gb on my other laptop and 120gb on a portable drive at my parents.
4000 songs :P it's not bad!
Metal, Trance, Pop Punk, Punk, Rock, TranceCore. You know, the norm
Not normally one to criticise peoples music preferences but I have to agree with Deisler on this one. Some shockers in there Flamers. Looking at Chad Kroeger, Delta Goodrem and Scooter in particular
You also appear to be lacking some At The Drive In, Smiths, PJ Harvey and Nick Cave in your "music" library. You need to sort that out
Flamers wouldn't like At The Drive In. I've been trying to enlighten him for a while now, it's a thankless task.
Perhaps Flamers might like The Mars Volta???
First 2 have 1 song each and scooter is for exercise
I can see how some music is good but if I don't listen to it theres not much point in me owning it.
I get what you mean, like something you intellectually know is good but it just doesn't push your buttons. What I don't understand is how Fall of Troy/Mars Volta/At The Drive In don't push your buttons, but there we go
Because I am strange, as are all of us
Especially me. I think the Beatles, The Stone Roses and The Smiths are utterly dull, bar maybe two songs each.
Can't believe Capello's gone. Hope the incredibly-poorly-concealed xenophobes in the tabloid press are happy. Probably a good decision for him though, he can't win at Euro 2012 unless England get to the last 4 which won't happen. He's also right about Terry, you can't punish someone for a crime they've not been found guilty of. I think Terry is a nasty piece of work and even on playing ability alone I wouldn't have him in the England side, so certainly don't want to do him any favours, but this is about one of the fundamental tenets of our criminal justice system.
Can't say I'm too surprised. It's just typical of the FA to make a complete balls up of the whole JT scenario, which now leaves the national team completely in the lurch four months before a major tournament. This is just another in a long list of cases where the suits at the top of the national game self destruct at the worst possible moment.
I'm not going to start singing Capello's praises, simply because I don't think his performance as England manager justified his demands and inflated salary. Personally, I think he should have gone after the World Cup, but as the FA, in their superior wisdom, decided to extend his contract weeks before the competition, it would have cost them a fortune to sack him then. That being said, I think he was put into an impossible situation here. The FA went above his head, and completely undermined his position as head coach. Whether what he said to the press was right or wrong, is debatable, but I do feel that he was left with very little option but to walk.
Regarding England etc., get Harry Redknapp in now!
We beat the World Champions in his final match in charge, completely shutting their attack down.
We effortlessly qualified for both major tournaments he was contracted for, having blown several chances to qualify for Euro 2008 under McClaren, a thoroughly decent manager.
Capello is a spectacularly good manager, his career record means he should be beyond reproach. England have an average pool of players, and are a team whose talisman is its greatest flaw.
The media crucified him because they themselves crippled the players with expectation at the World Cup. Their complete lack of self-awareness and reactionary, downright destructive journalism makes me physically sick.
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Capello has done very well with the players available to him. But it's never enough. He could have taken England to the semi final or even final of the World Cup and there is a good chance the media would still crucify him. The thing is, England simply don't have a team capable of winning tournaments. With a few exceptions the players are quite average now (for that level), with some on their last legs. You may say Hart is a top-top class player now, and Rooney is a given, but apart from that England don't have many players that would walk into the team of (other) top nations.
But the English (media) still live with this delusion that England is a world class footballing nation and for decade after decade they somehow underperform at every tournament.
Capello had a 66% win rate, better than any other England manager.
This, exactly.
Capello has done very well with the players available to him. But it's never enough. He could have taken England to the semi final or even final of the World Cup and there is a good chance the media would still crucify him. The thing is, England simply don't have a team capable of winning tournaments. With a few exceptions the players are quite average now (for that level), with some on their last legs. You may say Hart is a top-top class player now, and Rooney is a given, but apart from that England don't have many players that would walk into the team of (other) top nations.
But the English (media) still live with this delusion that England is a world class footballing nation and for decade after decade they somehow underperform at every tournament.
I think England are similar now to a Portugal or a Holland, where they're no better than a dark horse that COULD win a championship IF certain things break their way.
Honestly, the England job is a no-win situation now. It's basically the Kobiyashi Maru of international jobs. There's no good reason for a foreign manager to take it because of all the barracking you get from the redtops (and if Barry Fry is any indication, you're viewed with suspicion even within the coaching fraternity. Not exactly a great platform to look at new players or try to change a style of play). And even 'arry sounded less than enthusiastic about the job a few months ago (basically saying you can't turn it down if you're an English manager, even though he agreed with the "poisoned chalice" depiction of the job)
Granted, we qualified easily for the World Cup, but I can't agree that we effortlessly qualified for the Euros, especially considering the performances against Montenegro, a relative minnow in the footballing world. Surely, a international manager should be judged by their performance in major tournaments, and reaching the second round of the World Cup is nothing to get too excited about, especially when considering Ericsson managed to get us to the quarter-finals twice. Same with the Spain match; if that had been a competitive match at major tournament then, quite rightly, everyone would be singing his praises, but it wasn't. It was a home friendly, played in the middle of November.
Perhaps Capello would have fared better at Euro 2012, but unfortunately, we will never know. Personally, I don't think we would. Undoubtedly, we no longer have a pool of 'world class' players, with maybe the exceptions of Rooney, Hart, Wilshere, but it is possible to do respectably well at these tournaments with a fairly average team; take Greece, Paraguay and Turkey as recent examples.
No-one can doubt the record that Capello has as a club manager, winning several major trophies over the course of his career, and I totally agree that there has been a witch-hunt in the Press ever since he took the job, but fundamentally, I don't think his employment as England manager reflected good value for money. That all being said, I don't think the current mess is his fault at all, and do kind of admire him for sticking to his principles and telling the FA where to stick it.
Montenegro are partly relative minnows because they're new enough to be working their way up to their true status, while not one of the strongest, they're strong enough not to be the comfortable win that the press and public think that a lot of these 'good to middling' sides still are, as if it was 50 years ago. Best record definitely, and in a more competitive international world (yes there's new nations and minnows but a lot of nations have up to a few strong and well known players that they didn't have years ago, Slovakia, and Turkey (who for ages were just the sort of team we were beating by big scores) from the late 90's to name a couple) but there has to be some weighting for tournaments, and England were woeful throughout (admitedly there's nothing new in that in recent years) in 2010. All sorts of types of managers have tried in recent years, and while Capello failed badly to turn things for the most part, I have always defended him because he's hardly been part of the problem in the first place if you look back to at least Keegan and beyond.
Sometimes managers aren't suited for certain positions. Capello's had an exceptional career but maybe internationals weren't for him. There also seems to be a trend on judging managers with a good record (Erikson at club level, Benitez) on their last failure in or at England, and trying to argue Capello's career merits to a friend was rather hard in the face of 'he picked Heskey' (This from a Liverpool fan).
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Of course there is more to success than win ratio, but with the players available to him I think it is beyond doubt that Capello has done well with England, just as it is with Ericsson (though he had better players at the time I suppose).
Think it could be a good idea to pull a "Germany" actually. The old guard is mostly over the hill and not really good enough for the team any more, so going with young talent might not be a bad idea. Smalling, Jones, Cleverley, Welbeck, Wilshire, Walker, Oxlaide. A lot of good talent there that should play for England the next decade if things work out well. Putting some of these in the spine will give England more energy and pace than the likes of Terry, Lampard and Gerrard do, though Gerrard does perhaps still warrant a place in the squad at least.
Whatever happens, I don't envy the new guy. Redknapp gets enough abuse as it is; it will only get worse if he takes the job.
Totally agree with that post, Pangaea.
Capello was completely hamstrung at the World Cup by three things. Rio Ferdinand's injury, and the loss of form of Rooney and Heskey. In the qualifying campaign Heskey was absolutely fantastic, bully defenders around, holding the ball up well, bringing other people into the game, generally playing as the perfect wall striker. Rooney similarly gobbled up the goals and was in the form of his life. Come the World Cup, Heskey couldn't trap a bag of cement and Rooney looked like a Sunday league player. Add in Ferdinand's injury meaning we were stuck with Upson alongside Terry, two immobile lumps, and the evisceration at the hands of Germany's mobile, technical players was inevitable. Just look at Newcastle's recent games against Fulham and Brighton for how badly it can affect a good side to have two useless strikers and a rubbish centreback. It makes a massive difference to your ball retention and defensive solidity - two absolute fundamental keys of international tournament football, and two things England had in spades during qualifying. Capello did his job, the players failed him when it mattered.
England actually have some relatively modern looking footballers coming through the youth ranks now. Whilst the likes of Terry, Gerrard and Lampard were and are undoubtedly excellent players, they're all throwbacks. No other international side aiming to get to the latter stages of tournaments has the blood-and-thunder centre-half or lung-busting box-to-box midfielder. A central midfield with Wilshere and Cleverley plus a holding player (I don't want to say Rodwell yet as I think he's very overrated despite his undoubted potential) would have a much more natural balance. With a front three of Sturridge, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Adam Johnson or Ashley Young, suddenly England look like a 21st century football team.
The massive, massive glaring problem with this is that the media would kill them for drawing a game. Despite this being what they called for so loudly they made themselves sick after the 2010 World Cup, they would absolutely get right on their backs if it didn't work even for one game. Just look at the France friendly. If a competent coach and a core group of 15 or so players could work behind closed doors between now and 2014, with the remainder of the squad made up of in-form players, we'd have a shot at a good tournament like Germany had in 2010. It just can't happen though, the whole thing is a massive, self-defeating mess.
Capello was good with what he did, but we need to 'do a Germany' as was said earlier.
A team like
Cahill (NB The DC position is one we're quite well served in, so put whoever you want in there)
Walcott/The Ox
For me, the lack of a good English striker is what hamstrings us. And don't tell me about Wayne Rooney, he's not IMO.
Sturridge would be a good call.


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Man, who doesn't want to be able to fly? You can laugh at gravity, zoom through the air unaided, like Superman or Neo or several thousand species of bird. And, like them, maybe find out what it's like to take a dump in mid-air. What are they going to do, arrest you? Only if the cops have a damned jet.
Oh Shit...
So how fast are you going up there? Were you assuming you'd get super speed to go along with your flight? OK. Have you seen what a bird can do to a jet engine at high speed? Imagine what it does to your face. Yeah, that's why anything going faster than a hang glider has a windshield up there.But if instead just you're flying at about the same speed you run, then, well, you're like that old couple that drives 25 on the interstate. The crime will be long over by the time your slow ass gets there.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me."
But let's say you did get some kind of speed boost, and a bird-proof face. Do you know where you're going? Up there in the wild blue yonder, without landmarks, how do you expect to navigate? Do you have an exact map of the entire country in your head? Sure, you can find the Empire State building if that's where the bad guys are, but what if the crime is happening in some house way the fuck out in the middle of nowhere, amid a tangle of looping country roads?
OK, so you get some kind of radar installed in your head. But now you have the atmosphere to deal with. Wind constantly blowing particles into your eyes and the freezing cold. Granted, you'd have to go up pretty high to get that effect, but you're not going to be a moron and fly where people can see you.
"'No, honey, you take the car, I'd rather fly'. Such an idiot.
Oh, by the way, you might want to be careful what you wear. Not only is it cold enough to freeze your balls, but lower temperatures mean you're more of a conductor of electricity. It's like when you're walking home on a winter day, come in and shock the shit out of whatever you touch. Multiply that by say, a million. If you're wearing anything like wool--though we don't know what the Hell kind of superhero would wear wool anyway--you're going to be a human capacitor. If you happen to be a supervillain, we suggest working on your Palpatine voice so you can make one Hell of an entrance when you land.
#6. Super Strength
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Super strength, as demonstrated by pretty much every fucking superhero ever, is the superpower that everybody wants most. Yes, more than flight. Flight doesn't do you a damned bit of good if after you get there you can't kick some ass. But there are a couple of big problems with it. Big ones.
Oh Shit...
So the first thing you'll want to do in your career as a superhero is try to lift something huge. Hell, that's all they did in the last Superman movie and--oh no! That bus is falling off a cliff! Better go catch it!
Or you can just hold a bunch of trash, or whatever.
You jump up and catch the underside on your hands. Great job! But, instead of the relieved cries of little Johnny and Mary as they're saved from falling to fiery doom, you hear screams of agony as your hands rip through the undercarriage, up through the aisle, your arms and torso now bloodied like some B-grade zombie. It's not your blood; you just impaled little Johnny from crotch to sternum.
You can thank the laws of physics, specifically, pressure. Because all of your super strength is concentrated in your tiny little hands, you're basically like a dagger plunging into a watermelon. Remember when Superman caught that airliner in Superman Returns? He'd have just gotten embedded in the nosecone. He'd be puncturing the plane, not catching it.
Same thing when you wind up launching yourself into space to stop that asteroid. At best you'll bury yourself in the surface of the rock, at worst you'll crack the thing into pieces, turning one killer asteroid into three. If there were any life on Earth left, we're pretty sure on your tombstone it would read something like "Here lies ______, who passed away from being metaphorically slapped in the face by Isaac Newton's penis."
#5. Super Speed
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So let's settle for a lesser super power. How about super speed, like the Flash? Outrun bullet trains, bullets and/or bullets being fired by trains. You can get anywhere you need to be faster on foot than most people can drive.
Oh Shit...
You may have noticed after your little impression of the Flash that your whole body's wreathed in fire. It's the friction of your body rubbing against a whole bunch of air molecules. The rest of us mortals aren't bothered by that because we move at the pace of a narcoleptic snail compared to you.
So this is the Flash, but fire burned his costume. The fire also gave him a mustache, somehow.
But, hey, maybe you've got some kind of fireproof suit. But Newton is still going to find a way to fuck you up. And if you thought friction was an asshole, wait until you hear what inertia is going to do to you. Let's say you hear about a totally awesome party across town and there's a girl there who wants your junk like, right this second. Zoom, off you go. But wait, what's that gooey shit on the ground behind you?
That, my friend, is your internal organs being liquefied from approximately 25 Gs and pushed out through your pores. Not that you'll care because the moment you do your immediate, Flash-like stop, your brain will go slamming into the front of your skull.
OK, so maybe you've got a special suit that is both fireproof and somehow overcomes the forces of inertia. For super speed to be of any use to you, your perception would have to be sped up as well. Otherwise the landscape will go blurring past and you'll wind up pulverizing yourself on the nearest wall like a fly on a windshield.
OK, so fine, let's say you've got super sped-up senses to go with your super speed. Now your problem is that when you're functioning at normal speed, the rest of the world will seem impossibly slow to your super-fast brain. You watched The Matrix, right? Of course you did, don't play that game. Well, imagine what it would be like if you were in bullet time all the fucking time. Thanks to your sped-up perceptions, everything takes place in super slow motion, including the waiting room at the dentist.
#4. Telepathy
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Ah, telepathy. You're basically like Charles Xavier, and can read people's thoughts. You should be able to tell when somebody's thinking about committing a crime and stop them before they can do it, right? Or you can find out what people really think about you and/or get prices on used cars like you wouldn't believe.
Oh Shit...
People's thought processes don't work at all like they're portrayed in TV shows. When say, Matt Parkman from Heroes picks up someone's thoughts, it's almost always a complete sentence, a complete idea. Humans don't think like that. A peek into your suspected criminal's brain will go something like:
"Holy fuck that chick is hot I'd like to imagine railing her or imagine that other guy railing her with a huge dick wait am I gay for that Hell no chicks are hot just like the Transformers especially Starscream I wonder if he ever did it with Bumblebee and wait what was I supposed to be getting from the store again oh yeah milk why is it okay to drink fluid from a cow's tit but not a human's and... "
"If everyone could just shut up for like five fucking seconds...
All of this will be playing against some 10-second snatch of pop song or commercial jingle they've gotten stuck in their head. And that you now have stuck in yours.
Now, imagine getting something like that, but from multiple people all around you. Imagine sitting in a restaurant trying to have a nice meal when you hear the waiters thinking about the hot hand-to-gland combat session they had in the kitchen and their spunk getting in your soup. Then suddenly you scream in sheer horror as a semi half a block away plows head-on toward a small car--the raw emotion overwhelming your ability to discern whether those are your thoughts or someone else's.
In fact, you likely wouldn't even be able to hear your own thoughts after a while, say, a minute or two. The next thing you know, you're being carted off by the nice men in white coats, babbling and shitting your straitjacket all the way.


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Graph $f(x)=e^x$
I have no idea how to graph this. I looked on wolframalpha and it is just a curve. But how would I come up with this curve without the use of other resources (i.e. on a test).
I have no idea how to graph this. I looked on wolframalpha and it is just a curve. But how would I come up with this curve without the use of other resources (i.e. on a test).
You'd like to capture some of the important behavior of the graph, yes? For example, end-behavior (what happens as $x\to-\infty$ or $x\to\infty$), intercepts, where it's increasing/decreasing, any peaks or troughs.
In this case, you'll want to convey the idea that $f(x)$ is always positive, continuous, and increasing (should be evident from your sketch, and the fact that you'll not draw any jumps, peaks or troughs) You'll want to show that $f(0)=1$. You'll want to show that as $x\to-\infty$, $f(x)$ levels off and approaches $0$ asymptotically (again, should look that way from your sketch, but you may want to explicitly indicate the horizontal asymptote). You'll want to give the idea that as $x\to\infty$, $f(x)\to\infty$ (should look that way). You'll want to plot a few other points, too, like $f(1)=e\approx 2.8$ and $f(-1)=1/e\approx 0.35$. That should cover it pretty well.
You mention in your question that "I have no idea how to graph this" and "how would I come up with this curve without the use of other resources (i.e. on a test)". I know that you have already accepted one answer, but I thought that I would add a bit.
In my opinion, then best thing is to remember (memorize if you will) certain types of functions and their graphs. So you probably already know how to graph a linear function like $f(x) = 5x -4$. Before a test, you would ask your teacher which types of functions that you would be required to ne able to sketch by hand without any graphing calculator. Then you could go study these different types.
Now, if you don't have a graphing calculator, but you have a simple calculator, then you could also try to sketch the graph of a function by just "plotting points". So you draw a coordinate system with an $x$-axis and a $y$-axis and for various values of $x$ you calculate corresponding values of $y$ and then you plot those points. In the end you connect all the dots with lines/curves (so if the dots are all on a straight line, then you can just draw a straight line, but is things seem to curve one way or the other, then you try to "curve with the points").
No matter what, I would recommend to try and sit down with a piece of paper. Draw a coordinate system (maybe your a ruler). And try to sketch graphs of various functions. This will then familiarize you with how graphs of certain functions looks like.


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My question is regarding use of indexes.
Should I start indexing right from the start or when performance problem arises?
We can also create temporary index while executing a query. What are the pros and cons of such techniques?
My question is regarding use of indexes.
Indexing strategy tends to evolve as usage patterns emerge. That said, there are also strategies and design guidelines that can be applied up front.
Beyond the above, take a gradual and holistic approach to implementing new indexes. By holistic, I mean assess the potential benefit and impact to all queries and existing indexes when evaluating an addition.
A not uncommon problem in SQL Server circles is overindexing, as a result of guidance from the missing index DMVs and SSMS hints. Neither of these tools evaluate existing indexes and will merrily suggest you create a new 6 column index rather than add a single column to an existing 5 column index.
Kimberly Tripp has some excellent material on indexing strategy that while SQL focused is applicable to other platforms. For the SQL Server folk, there are some handy tools for identifying duplicates like the example above.
This usually only applies for rarely run queries, typically ETL. You need to assess:
There's really risks associated with both approaches:
Option a) Index from the start, but not realize you have created a number of indexes which are never used. These add some overhead (most noticeably to queries that modify data, but also with optimization of SELECT statements trying to identify the best index).
You will need to discipline yourself to identify indexes no longer being used and try and remove them (PostgreSQL can do this; unfortunately MySQL by comparison is very weak at this out of the box.)
Option b) Don't add indexes until people start complaining, or your diagnostic tools trigger that certain queries are slow and could be improved.
The risk that you introduce is that you don't have a big enough time window between when you notice you need the index, and when you have to add it.
PostgreSQL does support building indexes
Option (b) tends to be my preference, but I think a hybrid of both options is probably the best solution. It has to do with your confidence level as to whether you think an index will actually be used.
What makes this a particularly complex discussion is that it is usually easy to change indexes, but it is harder to change schema. I do not want to promote the delayed reaction of b as an excuse to be reckless.
In addition to Mark's answer
You can get a feel by having realistic test data at expected quantities. I've seen many, many (too many) cases where a query runs OK with a 1000 rows but not the million in production.
If you can, work on a copy of production later on,
Of course, I've seen the odd problem only in production because of usage patterns when everything else is identical
Temporary indexes? Outside of ETL load patterns, if you need them once you'll need them again. Don't forget: an index create/drop is a write and is logged = more load
Just to add a few things.
This is my approach.
I will try to answer only the first question. If you can estimate even roughly from the beginning how many records you'll have in your tables after a certain amount of time, than I'd say it's better to start from the beginning to design some indexes. Try to use some test tools or test scripts that will automate as many calls as possible for the application calls that you think will be most often used and you'll see what table scans can be avoided from the beginning.
It will be a guess work at the beginning, but in time, as you have proper usage statistics, you'll have a clearer image.


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6 Comics That Covered Serious Issues And Failed Hilariously
#3. Alpha Flight vs. AIDS
Alpha Flight is the Canadian equivalent of The Avengers in the Marvel Universe, and for years, the writers tried to turn one of the members, Northstar, into Marvel's first openly gay superhero. One writer even started but eventually scrapped a story where Northstar contracts a mysterious disease that was later going to be revealed as AIDS, which he got from wanton gay sex, and the story was going to end with Northstar's death because "He's gay, so of course he is going to die of AIDS at some point." But in 1994, they couldn't resist getting Northstar involved in an AIDS storyline. Because, you know, he's gay.
It starts with Northstar finding a newborn baby in a trash bin and taking her to a nearby hospital. The doctors discover the baby is HIV positive, and the Alpha Flight team adopts her as an honorary member. Despite an attack from a supervillain in the same issue, it was still a slow enough news day in Canada that they make a media circus out of the poor baby. And that's when things get stupid.
At this point Alpha Flight #106 proudly introduces us to Major Mapleleaf, a retired Canadian superhero who fought in World War II alongside Captain America. Yes, freaking Major Mapleleaf. Surely with a name like that, he won't be a ridiculous Frankenstein monster of Canadian cliches, right?
He is so Canadian he shits bacon. POLITE BACON!
We find out the good Major had a son who was gay and (of course) died of AIDS. Now he is angry because all Canada feels bad about the little baby girl and nobody made a media circus for his son. So what does he plan to do about it? Nothing less than storm the hospital and kill that baby girl with his super fists. Great idea, Major; nobody will feel sorry about a baby with AIDS after she's crushed to death by a passing sociopath.
Northstar of course disagrees with the Major's well-crafted baby-murdering stratagem and sets out to do what Canada pays him to do, which is punch the shit out of people. The Major explains to him that nobody can understand the pain his son went through, but Northstar understands because ... *GASP!* He is gay!
After a couple of hugs, the Major calms down, so he and Northstar return to the hospital where they learn that the Canadian Death Panel has decreed that the baby is the next to die. Damn you, death panel, damn you!
What the hell is wrong with that guy's legs?
And yes, now the Major and Alpha Flight are pals because everyone just forgot that the crazy old coot knocked down a hospital wall with the specific purpose of storming in and punching a baby girl to death.
After this story, Northstar's homosexuality was almost never mentioned, and he didn't have any love interests like his fellow teammates did. For all practical purposes, he was back in his Maplewood closet. It wasn't until the early 21st century that Marvel allowed writers to write him as a gay man again.
#2. Superman vs. Illegal Immigration
This is an immigration story starring Superman, an immigrant character himself created by two guys -- who in turn are sons of immigrants -- who wanted to create a character to teach Americans that immigrants are really swell and helpful. However, Superman has technically been living illegally in America under a fake ID for years; he's not exactly in a position to lecture others on the crime of illegal immigration without coming off as -- what's the word? -- oh, right, a major hypocrite.
In his defense, the background check would be a bitch.
In this issue, Superman runs into a group of illegal aliens (outer space ones, not Mexicans) who escaped from their home planet because it has been conquered by some evil space empire that turned their home into a dystopian horror. In a normal Superman story, Supes would gather his superhero pals, fly to that planet and beat the shit out of some space Stalins. As you may have already guessed, this is not a normal story. Superman is not cool with these new visitors showing up and taking from hard-working Americans.
Say what? So immigrants running for their lives have to pull out Excel and calculate the net present value of their existence for you to let them in? Because we don't remember baby Superman having to do any of that shit when his rocket landed in Kansas.
With laserlike focus on the merits of his argument, Superman then basically just states that illegal immigration is at least implied to be OK in some situations; it would just be better if you picked a more convenient time for him.
"Oh, I am sorry, SuperWhine; did my family pick a wrong time in your life to try to survive? That's OK, we'll just go back to our planet and jump back into the acid mines until you feel better about my family not living in a hellhole. How about next week?"
Oh, and Superman is apparently supreme judge of the Court of Superman in this issue. Why not let the country they landed in decide what to do?
If it makes you feel better, Superman lets the aliens stay in the end, but only after they use their technology to save the life of an old guy and then their money to buy a plant and hire a bunch of local people. So yes, this Superman is not against illegal immigration as long as you bribe your way in.
#1. Mickey Mouse vs. Homosexuality
Here we have the oldest item on the list: It's a Mickey Mouse comic strip from 1931. Yeah, you know this is going to a dark place.
It starts with Mickey visiting his neighbor Kat Nipp, who, from the sight of his yard sign, is so tough he never learned to spell and just punches the dictionary until it agrees with him. Is that a barrel used as a chimney? Shit, forget what we said. Wanna use a barrel as a chimney? Sure, whatever you say, Nipp. Wanna boil water at 30 degrees? Go for it, just don't kill me, man! But as it turns out, that's not Mr. Nipp -- that's just some random walking horrible homosexual stereotype.
Now it's time to show 1930s kids how tolerance works, Mickey!
Yes, "cream-puff inhaler."
Mickey, you little scamp; you never learn. What, you want more? Nope, that was the whole joke: Mickey meets gay cat thing and then beats it up for being gay. That was considered an enlightened message in 1931 -- before then, Mickey would have straight-up stabbed him.
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Spartacus @ the Met, July 22, 23, 2005Reviews and Comments
Posted 25 July 2005 - 03:36 PM
I suppose I am not surprised but I am shocked.
Posted 25 July 2005 - 04:29 PM
If there's a connection to other versions, I haven't heard, but am curious.
Raffaello Giovagnoli's "Spartacus" was written in 1874. It was enormously popular in Russia in mid-twentieth century, and is still in print there.
Posted 26 July 2005 - 05:25 PM
Posted 27 July 2005 - 05:46 AM
Posted 27 July 2005 - 03:16 PM
Posted 27 July 2005 - 03:49 PM
I've tried the archives of the Met website with no luck. Any other suggestions?
Posted 27 July 2005 - 05:36 PM
Cargill: this is not the way I remember that season, which was in the neighborhood of 1990 & was at the Met. To the best of my recollection, we had a full length Spartacus, a full length Golden Age (both starring Mukhamedov) & that masterpiece, Potemkin.
I've tried the archives of the Met website with no luck. Any other suggestions?
I don't know about the mid 80s - early nineties - but I have a program from the performance I saw at the Met on May 10th 1975:
Spartacus, Ballet in 3 acts, world premiere Bolshoi Theater April 9th, 1968
The cast was Vasiliev, Liepa, Nina Sorokina as Phrygia (funny, I always thought I had seen Bessmertnova) and Timofeyeva
The season included Giselle, Swan Lake & Ivan The Terrible
Posted 27 July 2005 - 05:59 PM
Posted 27 July 2005 - 08:08 PM
A Bolshoi mixed bill which included the Appian Way section of Spartacus was performed at the New York State Theater in July, 2000. Surely too recent for Irek.
As I recall, only one act of Spartacus was performed in NY the last time the Bolshoi was here; it was on a triple bill with the Shades scene and Symphony in C. I have seen the Bolshoi each visit since the mid-1980's, and this is the first time I have seen the full-length version, so in this case, I think the NYTimes is right!
Posted 27 July 2005 - 10:57 PM
Posted 28 July 2005 - 07:14 AM
Maybe Spartacus was performed on that tour, but it wouldn't have been with Irek since he had already left the company.
Posted 28 July 2005 - 09:58 AM
Posted 28 July 2005 - 10:16 AM
I checked my online resources and discovered that the Bolshoi did tour to NYC (part of a nine week four city tour) in 1987 with a "Giselle", "Raymonda" a Mixed Bill and "The Golden Age". On the mixed bill which included many Bolshoi chestnuts like "Don Q Grand Pas", "Spring Waters" "Le Corsaire" "Legend of Love" and the first act of Grigorovich's "Romeo and Juliet" also included one act (second?) of "Spartacus" with Irek Mukhamedov as Sparty and Bessmertnova as Phrygia. Mukhamedov didn't start dancing Spartacus in 1988 - he danced it within a year of joining the Bolshoi c. 1981. The Grigorovich Romeo and Juliet also was excerpted in the Mixed Bill that year and was seen complete in July 1990 at the Met. So the complete "Spartacus" wasn't seen since the 1970's.
I think bolshoi performed "Romeo and Juliette" for that season. I moved to New York in 1988. I hadn't seen any 3acts of spasrutacus until this year. But Bolshoi came probably in 1987or 1986, I haerd. I don't know what they did then.
The 1987 tour included besides Mukhamedov such dancers as Nina Ananiashvili, Maria Bylova, Lyudmila Semenyaka, Natalia Bessmertnova, Alexei Fadeyechev, Andris Liepa and Alla Mikhalchencko and Nina Semizorova. Not a shabby lineup.
I don't know if "Giselle" and "Raymonda" were done in NYC. The Mixed Bill and "Golden Age" definitely were.
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Catching child sex predators with an appUPDATED 11:51 PM PST Nov 14, 2013
Could a child sex predator be living next door to you? The thought is alarming and disturbing, but all too often, real.Video Transcript
PREDATOR BE LIVING NEXT DOOR TO YOU? THE THOUGHT IS ALARMING AND DISTURBING, BUT ALL TOO OFTEN, REAL. THERE'S AN ESTIMATED 400- THOUSAND REGISTERED CHILD SEX OFFENDERS IN THE U-S ...BUT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ARE UNACCOUNTED FOR AND VICTIMIZING CHILDREN. FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS, AN ELITE TEAM OF DETECTIVES FROM THE U-S DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HAS TRACKED THESE PREDATORS AROUND THE WORLD ... AND NOW, IT'S LAUNCHED A NEW SMARTPHONE APP THAT LETS YOU HELP NAB SOME OF THESE BAD GUYS. WE GET THE EXCLUSIVE STORY TONIGHT FROM ACTION NEWS REPORTER MAY CHOW. ## FEDERAL AUTHORITIES ARE USING THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO CATCH SUSPECTED AND KNOWN CHILD SEX PREDATORS. IN WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY DESCRIBES AS ITS MOST "URGENT CASE," U-S CUSTOMS AND IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IS HOPING THE PUBLIC CAN HELP IDENTIFY THIS CALIFORNIA MAN, A SUSPECTED PREDATOR WHO APPEARS IN VIDEOS SEXUALLY ABUSING A YOUNG GIRL. PATRICK 7:34-7:50 "in child exploitation investigations, we're investigating crimes where a child is actively being abused in many instances, so by getting that information very quickly to law enforcement, it enables us to go out and make an arrest that we maybe not been able to make." AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS HOPING TO DO THAT WITH THE LAUNCH OF A FIRST OF ITS KIND SMARTPHONE APP, CALLED "OPERATION PREDATOR." BRIAN 5:24-5:34 "the creation of this app is a useful tool for ICE. We recognize a lot of people get their information on their mobile devices, and we wanted to reach the public in that way." HERE'S HOW IT WORKS: ONCE YOU DOWNLOAD THE FREE APP FROM APPLE ITUNES, YOU CAN READ NEWS RELEASES AND UP-TO- DATE INFORMATION ON ARRESTS AND WARRANTS. THEN THERE ARE THE ALERTS, WHICH CONTAIN PHOTOS AND PROFILES OF SUSPECTED OFFENDERS. PATRICK 6:48-7:02: "on the app, there's an option to actually submit a tip to our ICE tipline, there are two options, one is to click a button and you're actually talking a live person on the phone, the other option is to send a web report." THE APP IS THE LATEST TOOL IN THE HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT'S FIGHT AGAINST CHILD EXPLOITATION. SINCE 2003, AGENTS HAVE ARRESTED MORE THAN 10-THOUSAND PREDATORS WITH THE HELP OF ANONYMOUS LEADS. PATRICK 7:14-7:23: "by using the app, people can actually share the information with their friends and family very quickly and very rapidly in the current world of social media." IN MAY... 58-YEAR-OLD ACCUSED CHILD PREDATOR DAVID STEVENS OF SALINAS WAS CAPTURED -- 25 HOURS AFTER THE U-S IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT'S HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS TEAM ISSUED A PUBLIC APPEAL ...ONLINE. VINCE :42-:54: "that's how the ball got rolling on stevens' case, that they then came contacted us, and let's work together on it." POLICE IN DEMARK INTERCEPTED INTERNET VIDEOS STEVENS IS ACCUSED OF HAVING RECORDED, WHICH DOCUMENT THE SEXUAL ABUSE OF A YOUNG GIRL. ICE AUTHORITIES DIDN'T HAVE a NAME, ONLY A FACE...SO THEY TURNED TO SOCIAL MEDIA. STEPHANIE 2:02-2:12: "A person saw that, a person recognized that person and as a result, a child was really saved from a situation of being continuously molested." THE APP DIDN'T LEAD TO STEVENS' ARREST, SINCE IT HAD IT NOT BEEN CREATED YET, BUT AUTHORITIES SAY STEVENS WOULD HAVE APPEARED ALONGSIDE THE MEN CURRENTLY LISTED. STEPHANIE 3:51-4:08: "many of these people could be anywhere in the world, and because we have have ability to transfer these images to individuals who want to participate, there is a better chance some these people be better located." REPORTING IN SALINAS, MAY CHOW KSBW ACTION NEWS EIGHT.### YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE OPERATION PREDATOR APP FROM APPLE'S APP STORE OR I-TUNES, AND ICE IS WORKING ON EXPANDING ITS COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER SMARTPHONES. AND AGAIN.... ALL TIPS WILL REMAIN ANONYMOUS.###
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