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I often have trouble connecting to wifi with my MacBook Pro. To help identify the problem, I was wondering if there were any tools for measuring wireless signal strength.
If you're just looking for a quick signal strength number, option-click on the AirPort icon in the menu bar. Under the connected network you will see several pieces of information:
RSSI is your signal strengh in dB. Higher (closer to 0) is better.
If you're looking for noise or the signal strength for multiple access points, I suggest checking out iStumbler:
You can get quite a bit of info from the command line, with the (well-hidden) airport utility. With the
It doesn't have a man page, but if you run it without any options it'll list its options.
System Profiler will list available Wireless Networks as well as the following information
If you find that your connection problems occur in the same location, you could use a tool like NetSpot that would let you visually see areas of low signal. NetSpot is free and available within the App Store.
See below for an example of how a map of your apartment's wifi signal could look.
Macworld reviewed Netspot and published a brief tutorial last year about how it could be used.
Another, out-of-the-box way (at least on Mountain Lion):
This will show you all the info you want for all the networks in range, without needing to install additional software.
I typically use WiFi Explorer. Its newer than iStumbler and provides the following features:
It's available in the Mac App store. It's priced at .99 cents. Developers are responsive to questions.
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I have experienced with two kinds of team. After a feature is assigned to me, one kind of dev lead tell me the exact file or class to add my code, another kind of team just say the story or requirement to me. The latter job is hard, if the software I am working on is too big to grasp the structure. Should senior guys tell the place to add the code before coding?
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I think it's OK for a senior developer to suggest what the best place for changes would be, if they know the code well enough to do that, and the more junior developer doesn't know the code that well.
If it's a very complex change that needs to be applied in many parts of the system, then trying to micromanage all of it will most likely make everyone miserable. In that case, they should provide more general guidance and let the junior developer learn on their own.
Never be afraid to ask for clarification on something. CYA, always. If it's a job too big to grasp, chances are you aren't meant to. Ask the lead developer "I understand what I need to do, but since I haven't needed to work on the architecture, I don't know where I need to do it for sure. Can you please help point me to at least the general area?"
I think it depends on the devs skill level. Trust me, it's usually not easy for the senior dev either. I would take it as compliment that they trust you to determine how things are done. Just make sure you run your design passed someone else before doing the work.
As a note, you shouldn't blindly trust what the senior guy is telling you. Do your own analysis and if what he tells you doesn't make sense, push back and ask questions.
When I was a dev lead last time (full of juniors, most of them were last year students on CS MSc), I had a third approach:
I don't say it worked quite well.
For simple tasks, like, add a new column to a report table, they did a huge mess, editing all the files, then they said "it's already done", then we reviewed it, turned out it's not the way it should've been done, they had to revert nearly everything (1) and then start again.
On big tasks (5+ classes involved), it was on the other side: they were simply silent for a day or two, then we had to go through it together, and basically I drew up a design which they had to implement.
Although I was there and for every single decision I explained it to them fully, and they had the required readings before, and it was more like a demonstration (2), at the end of the day, they still had to implement my design mostly, and they weren't that happy about it as when they're let free.
I know it's hard to differentiate planning from doing, but I guess it's called software engineering because there are still a few individuals left who know what they do, as opposed to craftsmen. My duty as their trainer was not to create another average coder, but someone who excels in his profession. Luckily, today, all of these are teamleaders (or were, but joined a different, more "agile" company with no leadership)
So, all in all, I don't know what's best, I only know that code quality is more important than junior's convenience - they're there to learn, not to let any kind of code to be commited to prod...
(1) ("Why? It works, doesn't it?" "Yes, but you're querying database from the view layer or such")
(2) ("you see? we need this, and we usually use this pattern for this as you seen in this other similar module; here, our coding guideline (which was 2 pages long) says, do this, so, let's do this, and then ,let's draw a sequence diagram on how it would work... ok, now let's draw a class diagram about it")
None of them
Ideally, there should be a design meeting of technical details that you are planned to implement in a team environment. That is the
Another point is - Communicating clearly what developer does not know is very important. Never be afraid to ask questions on domain specific details and requirements. This will assure that you are on a right path :)
In important thing that newbies forget to do is, to Google for technical problems first before asking to the
The team (or lead if your team is less democratic) should generally come to some sort of agreement on design. There's other ways of getting stuff done though, so I imagine it will vary depending on where you're coding.
If you're having trouble grasping the structure of the codebase or don't know how best to design the new feature, ask your lead or peers. Part of making good process is collaboration with your team.
I like this question. As a software architect, my manager pulled me into his office for a 1.5 hour "chat" about how it IS MY RESPONSIBILITY to ensure that every line of code that any other developer on the team commits conforms 100% to the coding standards and architecture of the application, and basically that logic is in the right place (i.e. if a dev commits code that contains business logic coded into a button click handler instead of a business layer, then its my fault). However I was also told that we a) can't do peer programming, because it is inefficient, and b) I don't have time to do code reviews. (yes, I'm looking for a new job now).
Anyway, what I told him is that no, it is NOT my job to tell developers where to put their code exactly, but rather it is the architect's job to make the application framework and layout as intuitive as possible for the devs to determine where code should go, and to make it as easy as possible for them to put that code there.
Some software architectures can do a good job of guiding this too, for example in an "onion architecture", the UI would not have a reference (at a project level) to the DB, so you couldn't possibly put DB code in the UI button click handler (unless the developer adds the missing reference of course, which you usually also can't really prevent).
What I do consider a good technique:
Peer programming. Especially when senior level people are paired with junior level people. If one person doesn't know where code goes, the other might. Or a peer might notice someone slipping code into a place that doesn't conform to good software craftsmanship principals or patterns.
If you can't peer up to code an entire feature, then one good way to go is to get the requirements (or acceptance criteria for a story / feature), and have the architect and the feature programmer peer up for a couple hours and write all the unit tests to cover the spec. Yep, I'm talking test-driven development here. Those unit tests are usually set up to indicate the design and where code would have to be to make the tests pass. Then the (broken) tests can be handed off to the feature programmer to code alone, but his design will be largely guided by the tests, which the architect helped arrange. It really does work out well when you can't to full-time peer programming, and have programmers familiar enough with or willing to learn unit testing and TDD!
It depends on the core architecture of the system. Some of them (including some really big that I have seen from inside) have NO internal structure, to me they merely are collections of parallel solutions to a bunch of tasks, eventually forming a system or framework. In these cases, it can be an open question if the senior should or should not tell such things - and the answer likely depends on taste and habits. I prefer another way (which is a subjective judgement, it took me several years to create this architecture).
I was a lead programmer in a country-wide data management system. This means a rather "horizontal" application structure: lots of guided data management on hierarchical data structures (like personal data, property information, ...) and higher level actions: tender application and progress workflow, filing, notification letters, etc. I am sure that without a clear internal structure such systems just collapse in time because of their own weight (keep all old stuff but constantly change all existing tenders, letters, while adding new ones; most of the time working under irrational deadline pressure).
So we have created support components ("toolkit") for database access, direct data manipulation screens, forms, letters, workflows, ...; and high level services, like a filing system capable of collecting, displaying any document of any type for a case of a client, or the form manager that was responsible for let the client fill a specific type of form, it (and not the form business logic) managed the filing, storing, etc.
Behind this structure we had configuration tables where the individual gui declaration, the associated business logic, etc. had to be registered, and if it was there, the feature was integrated to the system. Of course all components had clever abstract base classes, so most of them were ready to use (like managing the new hierarchical data type in sometimes multiple data tables) by configuration, without any coding.
Consequentially, the mentioned question NEVER even appeared.
The system lives today, many years after I have left the company (therefore this is only my subjective opinion, they may think differently), and as far as I know, reused in new systems. The only problem is that working in this environment is boring. (Or they are too polite to tell the truth... :-) )
Part of the job a lead to help grow the skills of those around him. Growth is not possible if you are never given a chance to solve the hard problems. The lead should be there to help, answer questions, and put you back on track if you need it. In general they should not give you the solutions. You should come up with the solutions, possibly with their help, and certainly with their guidance.

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Study Antibiotic Use Rate in W.Va.
When West Virginians talk about the state's drug problem, the focus often is on heroin, marijuana, prescription painkillers, "bath salts" and similar substances. But antibiotics? What's wrong with pharmaceuticals many people view as miracle drugs?
Plenty, if they are overused – and Mountain State residents may be doing just that.
A study by the nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation indicates West Virginians use antibiotics at a much higher rate than most other Americans. In 2010, there were 1,178 antibiotic prescriptions filled for every 1,000 residents of the state. That is the second highest rate of use in the country.
What is problematic about use of antibiotics is that when overused, they can result in germs that are resistant to drug treatment.
The health care community's response to disease-causing microbes that develop resistance to some antibiotics has been to develop new ones. There is some concern that strategy will not work forever.
State health officials should look into West Virginians' use of antibiotics. This is one situation in which a large federal research grant would be appropriate, to determine whether our use of antibiotics is so high it is contributing to the problem of drug-resistant germs – and if so, what can be done to alleviate the problem.


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Boasting several shopping centres, Durbanville, north of Cape Town, is one of the fastest-growing towns in South Africa with a plethora of restaurants, pubs, guest houses and bed and breakfasts to suit your needs.
With picturesque avenues highlighting the Cape's colonial history, Durbanville is noted for its historic buildings, rolling wine estates and stunning mountain views.
A beautiful combination of modern efficiency and old-world charm, Durbanville is the ideal place to stay for visitors looking to be close to Cape Town, while luxuriating in the peace offered by the scenic beauty of the town.
Just a few minutes' drive will take you to an excellent shopping and entertainment centre, the Tygervalley Shopping Centre, while Durbanville is situated within minutes of the main highways into the Cape Town city centre and the Cape Boland towns, making it conveniently central for both business and leisure activities.
The Tygervalley Shopping Centre is a 20-minute drive to either the Cape Town International Airport, the start of the Stellenbosch wine route or the beaches of Blouberg, while Durbanville's own internationally acclaimed wine route and the Durbanville Wine Valley is less than 3km down the road.
Durbanville remains a sought-after neighbourhood in which to put down roots; many a visitor has returned as a resident.
Places to see in Durbanville include: Rust en Vrede (an historic building); the Durbanville Nature Reserve, Onze Molen (a restored mill); King's Court (a 1905 residential building); the All Saints' Church; Dutch Reformed Church and the synagogue.
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The Southern Suburbs are a tourist's delight. The area, which stretches from the slopes of the Table Mountain range to the False Bay coast, offers natural attractions and a vibrant nightlife.
St James
Just a little further on from Cape Town's well-known Muizenberg beach is St James. Home to a cluster of well-known and oft-photographed bathing boxes on the beach, St James is a picturesque area that offers beachgoers respite from the westerly wind.
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Only 18km from the Cape Town city centre, an arc of fine white sand gives away the secluded location of one of Cape Town's most beautiful beaches, Llandudno.
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(CNN)-- Police in Georgia defended their decision Tuesday to handcuff and arrest a six-year-old elementary student after the school called to report a juvenile had assaulted a principal and was damaging school property.
Milledgeville police said they were called to Creekside Elementary school on Friday for an unruly juvenile, who was allegedly throwing a tantrum.
According to their report, when the officer arrived, he observed kindergartner Salecia Johnson on the floor of the principal's office screaming and crying.
The officer stated in the report that he noticed damage to school property and tried numerous times to calm down the girl, who eventually "pulled away and began actively resisting and fighting with me."
"The child was then placed in handcuffs for her safety and the officer proceeded to bring her down to the police station," said Chief Dray Swicord.
Despite the girl's behavior, her family said police should not have been involved.
"I don't think she misbehaved to the point where she should have been handcuffed and taken downtown to the police department," Johnson's aunt, Candace Ruff, told CNN affiliate WMAZ.
The girl was released to Ruff after numerous attempts to reach her parents failed, the police report said.
Swicord said his department still has not heard from the girl's mother or father.
But the parents have spoken to reporters.
"Call the police? Is that the first step?" Johnson's mother, Constance Ruff, asked.
Johnson's mother said she wondered if there was "any other kind of intervention" the school could have used to help her daughter.
"They don't have no business calling the police and handcuffing my child," said Salecia's father, Earnest Johnson.
Regardless of age, said Swicord, "when a person is put in handcuffs it's for their safety, it's not a punishment."
According to the police report, Johnson's combative behavior included throwing furniture, including a small shelf which struck the principal on the leg.
The child was also observed "biting the door knob of the office and jumping on the paper shredder."
The report stated Johnson also "attempted to break a glass frame above the shredder."
"I noticed the damage to school property and possible assault of other students and staff," the responding officer said in the report.
CNN reached out to Creekside Elementary school for comment but was told the principal is assisting with statewide testing and was unable to respond.
Johnson's mother said her daughter was suspended and cannot return to school until August.
The six-year-old was initially charged as a juvenile with simple battery of a school teacher and criminal damage to property, but a police spokesman said at a news conference Tuesday the girl would not be charged due to her age.
Police have also notified the Department of Family and Children's Services about the incident.


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A conference room (seating 12) and a press room (seating 35) are available at the VIP facilities in the North Terminal. A Representative Lounge is available, equipped with fax, photocopying, a data-projector and free Internet. There are other lounges offering business and conference facilities as well, including the Bohemia Lounge and the Moravia Lounge. Fixed and mobile congress counters can be hired through the VIP Service (tel: (02) 2056 2525 or (02) 2011 3491). A congress hall seating up to 350 people is located in the building connecting Terminals 1 and 2.


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When is time right?
"In the hours that followed the initial reporting on the horrors in Newtown, as we were all struggling to absorb the facts," wrote Keith Burris, editorial page editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, "the president's press secretary said, 'This is not the time to talk about gun control.' That has become conventional wisdom. Gun control is deemed political, maybe even liberal. And politics has no place in the wake of a tragedy. This is nonsense thinking. Garbage thinking. It has become dangerous thinking."
We're with Jay Carney, the press secretary. So wildly inaccurate and conflicting was the early coverage of the shootings — all the way up to and including the identity of the gunman — that basing any strong position on what everyone knows or thinks they know would produce a whole orchard full of what lawyers call "poisoned fruit." Nothing good could come of public policy drawn from so tainted a source.
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bob wrote on Dec 20, 2012 11:21 AM:
" They rammed gun control down the masses throats, for safety in pre-Nazi Germany. I guess it is due to the fact their is a massive amount of baby boomers with tons of paper assets from people like Bernie Madoff, except they are not Bernie Madoff. And really who IS going to pay. There really is no industry to earn it from. How long before the lack of consumers comes back to haunt investors. Speaking of which, where is the outcry that the people affected the most from gun violence this time, probably have portfolio's that rake in the cash from weapons here, and abroad. Reminds me of the election. Remember McMahon, she had commercials insinuating her opponent was bad because he was anti war and we build so many war machines. That is abhorrent, and I thank god every day she was not elected. "
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Weight and Diabetes in Kids
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Type 1 diabetes is not related to being overweight and can not be prevented. Type 1 diabetes occurs when a person's immune system attacks the pancreas and destroys the cells that create insulin. Children and teens with type 1 diabetes depend on daily injections of insulin or an insulin pump to control their blood glucose level. This form of diabetes usually comes on suddenly. Symptoms of type 1 diabetes include the following:
- Frequent urination - Children with diabetes need to urinate more frequently, due to the kidneys responding to and flushing out the high levels of glucose in the bloodstream.
- Excessive thirst - Because of frequent urination, a child loses a large amount of body fluid, which results in thirst and which can lead to dehydration. Children with diabetes drink more fluids in an attempt to stay hydrated.
- Extreme hunger accompanied by loss of weight - Kids and teens who develop type 1 diabetes may have an increased appetite, but often lose weight because their bodies can't use glucose properly, and flush it out of the body in urine.
- Nausea and vomiting - When the symptoms of diabetes aren't properly recognized and treated, chemicals called ketones can build up in the blood and cause stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, breathing problems, fruity-smelling breath, and loss of consciousness.
- Weakness and fatigue - Children with diabetes may become fatigued more easily, because their bodies do not use the glucose properly to supply energy.
Other symptoms may include bedwetting in children who were typically dry at night, or vaginal yeast infections in prepubescent girls.Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes occurs when the pancreas can produce insulin, but the body can't use it properly to move the glucose into the cells (this is called insulin resistance). Overweight or obese children are more at risk for developing type 2 diabetes, because excess body fat, especially around the waist, increases insulin resistance. Developing type 2 diabetes may be delayed or prevented with a healthy and physically active lifestyle.
Children are at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes if they have one or more family members with the disease, or if they belong to certain ethnic and racial groups - including Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders. This form of diabetes usually develops slowly. Symptoms of type 2 diabetes include:
- Tingling or numbness in feet and hands
- Recurring or hard-to-heal skin, gum, urinary infections, or bladder infections
- Fatigue
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- Any type 1, insulin-dependent symptoms
Thinking about the long-term complications from diabetes can be scary for parents and kids. Even though your diabetic child or teen may not display any symptoms now, complications may develop over time in adulthood. If a diabetic's blood sugar isn't monitored and cared for properly, the body can suffer negative effects in the eyes, kidneys, nerves, heart and blood vessels, gums, and feet. To help avoid these complications, people with diabetes should be diligent about following doctor's instructions for routine care, including regular eye exams, annual tests for kidney disease, regular monitoring of cholesterol and blood pressure, regular exercise, routine dental care, and proper foot care.


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I have a Google Drawing amongst my Google docs files with a huge canvas.
The shape I drew within the image is a lot smaller than the canvas though. How can I tell Google Drawing to automatically shrink the size of the canvas to fit the size of my shape?


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Planks are always fun to play with !! I don't post about how many times I use planks often enough.
This would be a great appetizer for any meal!
I have a variety of planks at my house from Montana Grills. Their planks are available at Walmart throughout Canada. I love the variety of pairing different wood planks with different foods.
This recipe would make a terrific appetizer using one large scallop or 3-4 for a main.
Serves 6
6 fresh scallops (u10 or larger)
2 pints cherry tomatoes cut in half
12 cloves garlic
1 cup olive oil
2-3 sprigs thyme
1 large sweet onion
chives finely chopped
sea salt & pepper to taste
Prepare your charcoal grill for indirect cooking. Medium high heat.
Place the tomatoes, garlic, thyme, and olive oil in a disposable half pan. Add 2 handfuls apple wood chips to the charcoal. Place pan on indirect side of grill. BBQ until the tomatoes have taken on the smoke and have begun to break down. Cut onion in half and place on indirect side of grill. Every 10 minutes open the lid and stir the tomatoes. Remove onions and pan from grill & set aside. Total time Approx. 30 minutes.
Place a scallop on the centre of each plank. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of the tomato olive oil and two gloves of the smoked garlic on top of each scallop. Sprinkle with salt & pepper. BBQ direct until the scallop is just turning opaque. Approx 15-20 minutes.
Serve the scallops with the smoked tomatoes & garlic. Add a piece of the smoked onion. Sprinkle on chives and tomato oil. Enjoy.


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8 Terrifying Skeletons of Adorable Animals
#4. Mars Attacks!
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Behold, we have unmistakable proof of extraterrestrial life! When the planet goes up in flames during the big invasion, we'll be sitting pretty in our underground shelter full of grenades and Twinkies, and you'll all be busy getting vaporized. Who's a "delusional man-child" now, Brenda?!
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Erm, no, actually. False alarm. It's just the skull of the minute and harmless-looking owl monkey, a species commonly found in Central and South America. Unlike the other entries on this list, whose skulls were seemingly designed for the sole purpose of causing anybody who saw them to evacuate his bowels while simultaneously calling his mother and finding religion, the owl monkey actually needs those gargantuan eye sockets to hold its equally gargantuan eyes, which help it see in the dark. To see ... you ... in the dark.
#3. Sandworm Death Strike!
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Question: Which animal has a skull like a Star Destroyer with teeth? Give up? We did. We ran away screaming before the Jawas and sand people showed up.
These skulls have convinced us of two things: 1) The movie Dune was filmed on Earth without the aid of special effects, and 2) by some strange glitch in the time-space continuum, Charles Darwin was a huge H.R. Giger fan.
But Actually is...
Oh, of course. It's just a lovable, barrier-jumping, vandal-rehabilitating, crime-fighting killer whale. Admittedly, most of our whale knowledge comes from Free Willy, but we're pretty sure that's an accurate depiction of all marine life.
The absolute freakiest thing about this skull is the fact that it technically doesn't even exist. If you look again at the photo up top, you can see the total number of bones present in its head: three. That's it. We know the human skull is technically made up of only two bones (the mandible and the maxilla), but at least they make some kind of discernible shape vaguely reflective of the living creature. It was H.P. Lovecraft who once said that the scariest thing to witness was nothingness, and we're only just now realizing what he meant by that.
#2. Attack of the Crossroads Chimera!
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Half of us thought this was a Chupacabra skull, and the other half believed it was a hellhound. We flipped a coin to settle the argument. The coin froze in midair for a full 10 seconds before it burst into flames and melted into a molten puddle in the shape of a pentagram. So we're just gonna agree to disagree and settle on Chupacabra hellhound for now.
But Actually is...
Seriously?! That's what a seal looks like if you remove all of the fur, blubber and love? Man, no wonder Mother Nature kept that shit hidden. It's difficult to decide what's most terrifying about that skull, but we'll go with the masses of teeth, which somehow seem to have sprouted their own tiny, razor-sharp teeth. We know these things eat fish, and you need some kind of teeth to deal with that, but goddammit, seals, we manage that shit just fine without the meta-fangs.
#1. Here Be Dragons!
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Now don't take this the wrong way, but if you were a princess and we were the bravest knights in the land, we would let this thing kill you every single time. You could be beautiful, wealthy, magical, whatever. You would seriously die, a lot, and we would just let it happen, because there is no way in hell we're going near that thing.
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We've had countless depictions of hippos as obese ...
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The keyboard on my iPod malfunctioned, and I couldn't get onto it. I then backed it up and restored it. After it was restored, I tried to put my previous files back on it, but only got my pictures and bookmarks on. It says the "other" category is using 2.5GB of space! I am wondering what possibly is going on? (If it helps, it was jailbroken and now is upgraded to iOS 5.1.1).
Anything from applications (non-iTunes apps), saved games, stored files (using OpenSSH for example). Mainly jailbreak items etc ... make up the (Other) in iTunes. Anything that takes up space and can not be recognized by iTunes, shows up as 'other'.
I think what is happening is it is installing things from all of your jailbroken apps even though your device is not jailbroken any more. I think what ZHENJiNG LiANG is saying is to restore your iPod as a new device and then sync everything (music, apps, photos) etc... manually instead of restoring from your backup. Because your backup obviously has files in it that no longer relate to your non jailbroken phone.
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My MYSQL table is very large (250GB, around 200M rows). Recently I've been putting it through a lot -- parallel processes that do a large number of reads.
It has started locking and crashing with alarming regularity. About once per week. The recovery is obviously time consuming.
Does this seem consistent with overloading, or should I suspect another cause (e.g., hardware failure)?
Next, what are the best steps for resolving it? I think switching to InnoDB will probably take a very long time. I can dial down the processes accessing it, but I'm unclear how low to go to stop being "abusive". Any advice?


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You can try add a comnent there http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/csharpfuture
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good I admire you so much ? and I like C# so much ! haha
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13 Oct 2008 8:16 AM #1
Left and right align question
I'd like to place two items at the top of the screen - a logo in the top left and a link (eg. a login or logout link) in the top right. How should I code this in GWT? I've tried using RowLayout but this just lets me choose an absolute or a percentage offset, which is no use if the browser window is resized. Is there an easy way to right align something?
13 Oct 2008 1:45 PM #2
TableRowLayout has setCellHorizontalAlign and with a few columns, you can do what you wanted...
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There is no TableRowLayout in gxt3. What should I use instead to get the same behavior?


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What's the best wiper blades?
I'm looking to get some new wiper blades for my Nissan Rogue. I would like to find a good deal on the newer rain-x latitude blades. Specifically 26" and 14".
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I just bought some RainX Latitude wipers two weeks ago. They're great. I got them on Amazon for about 36% less than Walmart was charging - plus no tax.
I've got a subscription to ConsumerReports.org, so I checked there before buying. Here's what they had to say:
The Latitude came in 2nd place after Valeo 600 Series. They're both around the same price and both got Recommended status from CR. The Anco 31 Series & Michelin RainForce were in 3rd & 4th and both received CR Best Buy status.
The Valeo ranks Excellent (5/5) in cleaning when new while the Latitude only ranks Very Good (4/5). BUT the Latitude still ranks Very Good after 6 months, while the performance of the Valeo drops to Good (3/5) after 6 months. I basically chose the wipers that would hold up longer.
If you're looking at Latitudes you've probably their copy about the frameless "beam" design. CR says, "Beam blades usually cost more than conventional wipers, but overall we didn't see a notable advantage in regular use. "
@anotherhiggins: Thank you for posting that.
I always caution people about CR ratings. They are only good for the item at the time it was tested. Companies often change their formulas or use cheaper grades of materials for a variety of reasons. Sometimes, a company will order a shipment of chemical x from country y, will advance test the product, bulk purchase and ship, and later found out that they got a little of the ole bait and switch. Sometimes it is just inferior or in other cases it is substituted. The point of all of this is that an item tested today may not be the same thing hung on the store shelf tomorrow.
So now I have come to an issue with finding a good 14" wiper blade. The good year assurance comes in a 14" size and seems comparable to the latitude. Anyone ever use the good assurance wiper blades?
Put RainX (The liquid) on your windshield and most of the time you won't even need to turn on your wipers. The raindrops just scoot up and away. Your blades, when you do use them, will last a long, long time.
i like the rainx blades. i find that the rainx windshield wiper fluid helps keep the windshield pretty clear when raining too.
I use aquapel on my windshield and it keeps the water beading for about 6 months. But I also fav aquapel because I get it for free from my mother in law who happens to be a auto-glass sales rep
it really depends on your wind shield, the rainX wipers don't sit flush with my wind shield, so they're utterly useless at the tips.
If you have some that work, go for the same brand, just make sure you buy the right size.
Seriously the best you can buy is the generic wipers they sell at walmart Tire and Lube. RainX wipers streak after about 2 weeks for me. The generic brand leaves NO streaks and last for a long time. You have to ask them specifically for the generic brand they use in the shop.
If you can find them (I did at Wal Mart), I like the triple edge wipers. You do have to fill out an online registration but, after that, they will send you a new pair for free. The shipping time is a bit long, so you should plan ahead (as soon as you notice them starting to deteriorate, fill out the form).
I've been using Trico NeoForms since 2009 and believe they are the best wiper blades. I started with rainx latitudes but had issues with them missing spots - I think it had to do with them being too stiff. Also, the attachment was huge and ugly. So I switched to bosch icons. They were good but very expensive. That's when I switched NeoForms. They are smooth and quiet and very low profile (small adapter system). They also are dircet-connect to my arms where as most of the others required snap-on subassemblies to attach. The price was very good too (wipers123 online). They really are the best wipers I've ever used.
I would go for the Rain-X Latitude
- best total coverage of the windshield,
- extremely easy to install, as it comes with several different adapters designed to be used with all kinds of mounting points.
- The graphite-coated blade deliver clean, quiet, smooth wipes and can be used reliably all year round.
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This question already has an answer here:
In English, you can command yourself for encouragement. For example, when you're lifting weights in the gym, you can yell at yourself, "Focus! Come on! Do it!". However, in Spanish, the first-person imperative is always left blank in conjugation tables:
- enfoquemos
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There is a bit of discussion in related questions about automated LaTeX (re)compilation (e.g., here and here) and elsewhere on the web on rerunning the
latex command in order to resolve all references.
Now how can I precisely determine from visual inspection (or a search query) in the
log-file whether all references are resolved? That is, what is the precise set of messages that indicates that there are unresolved references? A regular-expression-like answer will be good.
(I know that I can mine the solutions to the above-cited SE.TeX post for an educated guess of an answer, but it seems like having an expert answer this and having that answer in one place in this forum will be useful for many people.)


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I've seen a lot of people on SMP that seem to go faster than me when playing. Did I miss a run button that I'm not aware in the game?
As of Beta 1.8, you can sprint by double-tapping the forward key (W by default). This seems to be unlimited, as long as you don't let go of the button and don't run into anything. Hitting a mob while sprinting will also cause you to stop sprinting, and send the mob flying.
Your food meter drains a lot quicker while sprinting, and when it's down to 3 pieces of meat or less, you can't sprint at all.
You can run, but it's called sprinting: tap w twice. However, I couldn't get it to work (but it works for my cousin).


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#2. "Your weapons won't work here! You are going to have to go sneaky for this one."
Perhaps you've been captured by the bad guys, who've taken away your weapons. Perhaps the snipers are suddenly super accurate or deadly. Or perhaps the hero's balls just drop off. One way or the other, the hero must get through a level when fighting the enemy head-on (that is, using the techniques you spent the entire game mastering) is impossible.
This one turns up in some of the greatest games ever made. Call of Duty 4 forced you to crawl around on your elbows for an entire level because you were massively outnumbered. Resident Evil 4 put you in the frail, unarmed, teenage body of Ashley as your reward for mowing down a castle full of badasses to get there.
In Legend of Zelda: Windwaker, Link loses all of his weapons (and fingers apparently, as it seems he can no longer pick up enemy weapons, either) forcing him to sneak around in a frustrating stealth sequence. Yes, a freaking stealth sequence. In Zelda. Are we going to get one of these in the next Mario game, too?
Not quite how you'd expect the savior of Hyrule to roll.
Seems Like a Good Idea Because...
In movies they do this all the time to raise the tension. The hero needs weaknesses, otherwise we start to think of them as invincible and thus boring. You need to see Iron Man with his suit disabled, or Bruce Wayne attacked by the villain while out of his Batman costume. So why not do it in games?
Doesn't Work Because...
Gaming is different. We're not watching the hero being frustrated by his powerlessness, we're playing as him, and thus feeling the actual frustration. And we're doing it in a game where, up until then, the primary reward for advancing was we got better weapons and abilities. Taking them away is literally taking away the things that had kept us playing up until then.
Also, these levels often wind up with an instant-failure aspect to them (get caught by a bad guy in Wind Waker, or get seen by a spotlight, and your punishment is you have to do it all over starting from a jail cell). Suddenly upping the "difficulty" of a situation in a movie has you on the edge of your seat. Upping the difficulty of a game has you replaying the same level over and over.
It's not drama, it's infuriating tedium, and you only keep playing so you can get to the part of the game where you get back the freaking weapons you already earned.
It's Sort of Like...
Having a dream that you're Batman, then your mom wakes you up to take out the trash.
#1. "Now you can either kill Boris and become evil, or let him go, and become good! It actually doesn't matter either way."
Remember Fable? Remember how nobody could get lead designer Peter Molyneux to shut up about the morality system and complex character interactions and how every one of the player's actions would effect the game's story? Remember how that turned out?
"Me! I do!"
In the actual game we found if we were nice to everybody, we got a halo and people were nice to us. If we were mean and killed people, we got devil horns and people screamed and ran away. That was pretty much it. As for the consequences of player actions, if you ate a bunch of pies you would get fat. That's essentially what the consequences system was, a glorified overeating simulator.
These days we have games like Infamous, which once again played up the state-of-the-art morality system in its pre-release hype. What we got was a series of laughably bipolar choices ("Will you save the bus full of children, or shove it into the vat of acid?") and only minor modifications to your powers as a reward either way.
Even GTA IV (aka The Most Expensive Game Ever Made), gave you the option to kill or spare the life of some victims. Sparing someone's life tended to have one of two outcomes:
1. You meet them later and they thank you
2. You meet them later and they try to kill you
Wait, a second! We're starting to think the whole morality thing is just a series of cheap gimmicks intended to make us play the same game a second time!
Seems Like a Good Idea Because...
The whole "morality system" is the newest fad in gaming for a reason: It sounds awesome. You get to make real choices, and deal with the consequences of them. It's like a different game every time you play! Now there's something books or novels will ever be able to do!
Eat that, novels!
Well, unless you count those cheesy Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books. And in reality, the morality system in most games is about as complex as those were. Maybe a little less.
Doesn't Work Because...
Real choices, the kind you get in real life where the consequences completely change the trajectory of every event that follows, will never be practical in video games. It costs enough to program a full-length game that will keep you entertained throughout. They're not going to program the equivalent of 10 or 20 games just to give you a whole bunch of branching paths that 90 percent of gamers will never see since they'll only play through once.
It's Sort of Like...
Having a girl ask, "Why do you think I'm not speaking to you?" and realizing your answer actually has no effect on whether or not a fight is about to ensue.
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With recent postgres//postgis version, you can now use the operator <-> to find nearest rows to a point :
Correct me if I'm wrong, but according to my tests :
SELECT name, gid
FROM geonames
ORDER BY geom <-> st_setsrid(st_makepoint(-90,40),4326)
is the same precision and a bit slower as if I use the Postgres Point type. Now I would like to use this new operator with Geography type to do better calculus on a spheroid.
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27 Nov 2012 11:26 AM #1
Data update bug in TreeGrid
In my program I have a TreeGrid which is connected with live data via a RpcProxy and a TreeLoader.
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Now there's is a bug in the TreeGrid when the Parent 'Map' is open while there's a data update for this Parent 'Map'. For example in this situation 'Map A' when I make a copy of 'Doc A'. After the update of the data nothing seems to happen, but when 'Map A' is closed and opened again;
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The old 'Doc A' and the new 'Copy of Doc A' are present in 'Map A' (as it should) but there's also a new strange copy of 'Doc A' outside 'Map A'
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The new data outside the parent is random; sometimes only one file from the parent and sometimes multiple files from the parent. This behavior only occurs when the parent 'Map' is open while updating the data from this 'Map'. As a workaround my program closes every 'Map' before updating it's data. But this is a lot of work and is strange behavior to the user...
27 Nov 2012 9:01 PM #2
Can you reproduce this on any of the samples? I'm not entirely clear on the steps, if this is something that can be run with either the editing or drag and drop examples.
Which version of GXT are you using?
Can you reproduce this in a code sample that we can test with?
From the comments about 'a copy of' and updating an object, I'm concerned that there is a colliding key bug, but you should get assertion failures about that in dev mode.
28 Nov 2012 2:09 AM #3
Hello Colin,
I'm using version; <gxt.version>3.0.1</gxt.version> with Maven.
To refute your statement about colliding keys i enabled the key values in the TreeGrid (right side);
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This is before the copy/past action;
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This is after the copy/past action while closing 'Map A' while pasting, so the data update takes places on a closed parent. As you see, this works well and the new key is unique. Now I copy 'Copy of Doc A' again and leave 'Map A' open while pasting.
Nothing happens on the screen (with de debugger i can see the nodes are updated as they should) ... But after closing 'Map A';
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The two old docs 'Doc A' and 'Copy of Doc A' are outside 'Map A', and when opening 'Map A' again;
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As you can see, the copy action succeeded with three unique keys (the first three documents). But the two old documents (the last two) appear as ghost documents outside 'Map A'
Summarised; The TreeGrid does not update live data in the parent branch while a parent branch is open. When this parent branch is closed after this data update, the current members of this branch are viewed outside (next to) the parent branch (this is the bug). Inside the parent branch everything is ok. The ghost files are indeed with duplicated keys, but these do not originate from the server.
Roland Beuker
30 Nov 2012 2:37 AM #4
I'm not sure whether the duplicate nodes are really "outside" the parent map. They have the same indentation as the nodes which are supposedly "inside" the parent map. If they are really outside I would expect the duplicate node to have the same indentation as the parent map. So, I would see the following situation:
- Map A Doc A Copy of Doc A Doc A (this is the duplicate node...)
- Map A Doc A Copy of Doc A Doc A (this is the duplicate node...)
+ Map A Doc A (this is the duplicate node...)
Kind regards,
1 Dec 2012 3:15 AM #5
onDataChange does not trigger render/refresh methods
I've found the cause of the problem
Nothing happens after the data update because the GridView is not updated (onUpdate, doRender, renderUI, renderRows, refreshRow etc.) after a data update from the server... The onDataChange(M parent) from TreeGrid does not trigger any of these methods...
Following on this, the methods from GridView are also not called when the parent branche (for example Map A) is closed after the data update. This causes the 'ghost Doc A' outside Map A after the data update and parent collapse;
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There's no render/refresh so Doc A just stays where it already was, only the '-' from the parent Map A changes into '+'. This is actually the same situation as before;
Finaly Map A is expanded again, for the first time this triggers GridView methods;
insertRows(int firstRow, int lastRow, boolean isUpdate)
renderRows(int startRow, int endRow)
The rendering starts on the index of Map A and ends on the index of Copy of Doc A leaving the old 'ghost Doc A' untouched
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There must be an additional function which renders the GridView straight after the data update onDataChange(M parent)
1 Dec 2012 4:27 AM #6
1 Dec 2012 5:09 AM #7
Now i need to know how to start the additional render/refresh after the data update
2 Dec 2012 5:20 PM #8
The initial post mentioned "a bug in the TreeGrid when the Parent 'Map' is open while there's a data update for this Parent 'Map'", but now it appears to be the data changed events which cause this issue - is it both, or just the one?
To be clear, I certainly believe there is a bug here, and I could believe that the bug is within GXT itself, but without a sketch of how updates are being performed, it is very difficult to say. http://www.sencha.com/examples/#Exam...itabletreegrid allows a user to cause the StoreUpdateEvents (actually, StoreRecordChangedEvent, but set autoCommit to true on the TreeStore, and you get StoreUpdateEvents), which don't seem to have the issue described. Initial experimentation with firing a real StoreDataChangedEvent doesn't seem to cause an issue either:
store.addStoreUpdateHandler(new StoreUpdateHandler<BaseDto>() { @Override public void onUpdate(final StoreUpdateEvent<BaseDto> event) { Scheduler.get().scheduleDeferred(new ScheduledCommand() { @Override public void execute() { store.fireEvent(new StoreDataChangeEvent<BaseDto>(event.getItems().get(0))); } }); } });
I'll continue to try to reproduce it, but lacking reproducible examples, I'm a little limited.
Now i need to know how to start the additional render/refresh after the data update
3 Dec 2012 8:11 AM #9
The complete story
Hello Colin,
Thanks for your extensive attention, and my apologies for the missing bug template in this story; where're facing a strict deadline in December and this bug involves a lot of code.
How is the rest of this wired up? How are changes coming from the client, to the server, and back to the client? This behavior (name changes, etc) doesn't seem to be any of the standard loaders, so I'm assuming something else is in place.
Then how are you wiring the load event to the TreeStore? Two provided classes that can do this for you are SubTreeStoreBinding and ChildTreeStoreBinding, based on how much of the subtree you are rewiring.
From this point it's only standard Sencha code. Now a failing use-case; COPY/PASTE
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I open Map A, select Doc A and choose COPY. This only saves the File_ID from Doc A. Then i select Map A and choose PASTE. This results in a copy command to the server which creates a Copy of Doc A (in Map A) and returns Map A as an updated Parent directory to our RpcProxy/TreeLoader. Our TreeLoader calls the standard load(pChangedParentItem); which results in a new list of children for Map A to the TreeGrid;
replaceChildren(M parent, List<M> children)
parentNode.addChildren(0, wrap(children))
fireEvent(new StoreDataChangeEvent<M>(parent))
onDataChange(M parent)
renderChildren(parent, autoLoad)
register(M m)
register(M m) (only 'Copy of Doc A' is added to nodes)
treeGridView.onIconStyleChange(node, calculateIconStyle(model))
treeGridView.onJointChange(node, calculateJoint(model))
Thats all; no call to GridView ...
3 Dec 2012 1:27 PM #10
renderChildren only updates the nodes, not the store ...... but it does appear to update the ListStore that represents the actual set of items to be rendered - this happens via the TreeGrid.renderChildren method. TreeGridView, which via GridView listens to that underlying ListStore should be listening to those events, should then respond through its own remove/add events. Any StoreDataUpdateEvent coming from the TreeStore should therefore be causing a bunch of add/remove events on the ListStore, which the GridView/TreeGridView should be reading, and redrawing accordingly.
replaceChildren(M parent, List<M> children)
parentNode.addChildren(0, wrap(children))
fireEvent(new StoreDataChangeEvent<M>(parent))
onDataChange(M parent)
renderChildren(parent, autoLoad)
register(M m)
register(M m) (only 'Copy of Doc A' is added to nodes)
treeGridView.onIconStyleChange(node, calculateIconStyle(model))
treeGridView.onJointChange(node, calculateJoint(model))
Indeed, renderChildren(parent, autoLoad) is called with parent = 'Map A' and autoLoad = 'false'
protected void renderChildren(M parent, boolean auto) { List<M> children = parent == null ? treeStore.getRootItems() : treeStore.getChildren(parent); for (M child : children) { register(child); } if (parent == null && children.size() > 0) // parent != null { store.addAll(children); } for (M child : children) { if (autoExpand) // autoExpand == false { final M c = child; Scheduler.get().scheduleDeferred(new ScheduledCommand() { @Override public void execute() { setExpanded(c, true); } }); } else if (loader != null) { if (autoLoad) // autoLoad == false { if (store.isFiltered() || (!auto)) { renderChildren(child, auto); } else { loader.loadChildren(child); } } } } }


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I have started off by reading Displaying Facebook posts to non-Facebook users which is of some use but I cannot believe it is this difficult to get a public feed from Facebook.
The page I want a feed from is public, you do not need to be logged into get to it.
Am I right in presuming that I need an access_token to get to this information, attempting to access the URL without results in an OAuth error.
So the flow should be like this (massively, overly complex):
- Authenticate using a user (what if the user isn't on Facebook?)
- Some complex OAuth nonsense - just to read the feed, I do not even want a like button or post to wall functionality
- Get the feed using a PHP request to the correct URL with the user's access_token
- Render the feed
Assuming the user isn't on Facebook, what do you do, use a generic app to get the feed?
- Hardcode an auth request to Facebook using my generic app's ID and secret
- Some complex OAuth nonsense
- Get the feed using a PHP request to the correct URL with the app's access_token
- Render the feed
- Oh no, the auth has expired, re-auth and capture this new access_token for use in future requests.
This seems really complex for no reason other than Facebook wants to know EVERYTHING that is going on, it'd be easier to do a cURL and scrape the content from the public URL using XPath.
Any help on this would be great.
Thanks, Jake
An edit to show this is not an exact duplicate.
I had this working with an access_token in place, but now it fails, the token has expired and I can no longer use it to obtain information from the public wall.
I attempted to extend the expiration date of this token using the methods mentioned in other posts but this didn't work and the expiration was not extended - we are now here, with an invalid token and no further along.
It seems that the manual process of having to approve the OAuth request means that it is impossible to programatically get the feed of a public page.


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Sunday, April 22.
"Nollywood is dead," an entertainment lawyer told me one night over drinks at Bogobiri.
It sounded like a bold, even reckless, statement: the Nigerian film industry, after all, is still churning out close to 1,000 low-budget movies a year. The film business, however wild and unregulated, grosses hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Nollywood stars are household names across West Africa, their sexual exploits and petty beefs and formal wear scrutinized and dissected by the overzealous editors of more than a dozen weekly tabloids. I had ostensibly come to Nigeria to report on Nollywood for Variety. If one of the world's most prolific film industries had died an untimely death – or if it were going through its death throes on my watch – it probably warranted at least a couple of column inches in the Hollywood trade rag.
"They tried to build something too fast before they really had anything," he continued. And here he started to make his case. It wasn't that the madly prolific Nollywood producers and directors were throwing down their HD cams and taking up profitable jobs as 419 scammers. The industry, for all its flaws, is still the creative lifeblood of sub-Saharan Africa's most populous nation, a provider of tens of thousands of jobs, and a way for Nigeria to flex its cultural muscle across the continent. Nollywood isn't going anywhere. The problem, he explained, was that filmmakers had become so caught up in their famous system of rapid-fire releases – putting out Sinner's Love 4, for example, fast on the heels of Sinner's Love 1, 2 and 3 – that they failed to build the proper structure to support a healthy, functioning film industry. In fact, the more I've spoken to people in the film business these first two weeks in Lagos, the more I get a sense of an industry in crisis, and not entirely sure which way to turn.
If you've read a Western news story on Nollywood in the past few years, you've probably come across the claim that the industry produces 2,000 films a year. This is a misleading figure for two reasons: first, because it was based on a highly flawed study conducted in 2006; second, because comparing Nollywood's prolific output to its Holly- and Bolly- counterparts is both unbalanced and a bit unfair. Those industries' movies are being screened in theaters from Miami to Mumbai, while Nollywood pics go straight to VCD, to be viewed in living rooms and shabby video shacks across Nigeria (and, thanks to piracy, the continent). Just 20-30 Nigerian movies are released in the country's cinemas each year. Most are commercial flops, even by the modest local standards. (The highest grossing Nigerian film of all time, Ije, made just over N50 million – around $310,000 – at the box office in 2010.) Those that do succeed still struggle to recover their production costs, because once a movie has left the theaters, the revenue streams dry up. Piracy has killed DVD distribution in Nigeria. Many filmmakers will avoid DVD releases altogether, hoping to make back their money at private screenings – hotels, churches, universities – once their films have left the theaters. (Ije still hasn't been released on DVD; The Figurine, a highly regarded film by the director Kunle Afolayan, was just released in January – roughly a year and a half after it left the theaters.) It seems like an odd way for a filmmaker to beat the pirates – gouging out the eyes to spite the face.
The problem that my lawyer friend was getting at is that all of this exists on a wobbly foundation. Formal financing is almost non-existent; most Nigerian producers finance their movies out of pocket, or through loans from friends. (Commercial banks charge extortionate interest rates – up to 30 percent – on loans. It's not uncommon for a producer to put up his house as collateral.) Distribution chains are poorly organized and undermined by piracy. Copyright laws are weak, and rarely enforced.
It's important to understand that there are two very different strains of thought in what one might loosely refer to as the "Nigerian film industry." One still adheres to the established Nollywood model, in which a film is shot on a frantic schedule and a very low budget; released straight to VCD; and (hopefully) snatched up by enough consumers for the producer to recoup his costs. (By all accounts, this model has worked, since the budgets involved are often comically low. Donatus Chikezie, a producer and the general secretary of the Association of Core Nollywood Producers, rattled off a list of titles that had sold 700,000, even a million or more copies, through legal sales alone.) The other – what has been referred to as "New Nollywood" or "New Nigeria Cinema" – is a movement to raise the artistic bar and start producing the sorts of movies that can perform globally. "The whole point of New Nigeria Cinema is to put a proper structure in place… concentrating on distribution, on developing talent, and getting international recognition," the actor Wale Ojo, who launched the movement in 2010, told me one morning at the Sheraton Hotel.
Here is the conundrum for a Nigerian filmmaker: a low-budget film released straight to VCD will in all likelihood make back its production costs, but will be too technically low-rent to receive that sort of international recognition; but a big-budget film with high production values – something shot on 35mm that will screen at the local Silverbird multiplex and look like, you know, an actual movie – will struggle to break even. Last month, the director Afolayan – generally regarded as Nigerian cinema's leading light – released his third feature, Phone Swap, a romantic comedy involving the sort of fish-out-of-water hilarity that ensues when two characters from very different backgrounds swap BlackBerries during an airport mishap and, by a series of marginally plausible coincidences, end up swapping lives. I caught Phone Swap at the Palms shopping center last week, and it was a pleasant surprise: well shot, well scripted, briskly paced, and marred by only one embarrassing scene in a Glo shop which almost played as a straight advertisement for the mobile phone provider, one of the pic's biggest corporate sponsors. All things considered, it was a solid film, one that I could even imagine playing to Western audiences. But after five weeks in the theaters, Phone Swap had grossed just N21 million – not even a third of the $400,000 it cost to produce. What's popularly referred to as "Nollywood" can in all likelihood continue on ad infinitum. But to make movies that can compete at Cannes or Tribeca or Berlin – something that all the top Nigerian talents aspire to – requires the sort of growth that hasn't happened yet.
Everyone I speak to believes it's coming. Part of the reason that movies make so little in box office receipts is that there are so few theaters to show their films. The first Nigerian multiplex was built in 2005; today there are just nine in a country of more than 160 million. That's likely to change dramatically in the coming years, as commercial growth in Nigeria keeps pace with a rapidly growing middle class with increased spending power. More shopping malls are coming to Lagos and Abuja and Port Harcourt and Ibadan, and they're going to build around the anchor tenants – Shoprite, Game, a Silverbird or Genesis cinema – that bring in foot traffic. Ten new theaters means a filmmaker will suddenly be able to double his box-office revenue. I've been given conservative estimates of another 30 movie theaters in the next five years. Kene Mkparu, a veteran of Britain's Odeon cinema chain, and managing director of Filmhouse, says his company alone should be able to roll out 20-25 theaters in that same timeframe. "We haven't even begun to scratch the potential of cinemas in Nigeria," he told me. Afolayan was also optimistic. "With the rate at which cinemas are beginning to develop, if your budget is 50 million (around $310,000), and your film is good…I believe strongly that it can actually gross $1 million," he said.
Set against this backdrop of cautious optimism – a sentiment you rarely encounter in this swaggering nation – the Nigerian film world is gearing up to host the eighth annual Africa Movie Academy Awards. The organizers have been relentlessly touting this as the most prestigious award ceremony on the continent, despite the fact that Burkina Faso's biannual FESPACO film festival – a far grander pageant – has been doling out its prestigious golden stallions to African filmmakers for fifty-some-odd years. The AMAAs have been, up until just a few years ago, a largely Nigerian affair. (They also seem to exist in their own hermetic world of self-congratulation: in the days leading up to the ceremony, about one in five Nigerians that I spoke to – at most – had heard of the awards, outside of people working in the film industry.) Only recently have the AMAAs become more inclusive; last year's big winner, the wildly entertaining noir thriller Viva Riva!, was a co-production between South Africa and the Congo shot in Kinshasa. Looking over this year's list of nominees, though, which almost entirely ignore the traditional cinematic powerhouses of Francophone West Africa and the Maghreb, it's hard not to get the sense that the AMAAs are largely being propped up as an Anglophone counterweight to the awards in Ouagadougou.
It is a stroke of good fortune that I've come to Lagos in time for the ceremony, which is being held here for the first time after a puzzling seven-year run in Port Harcourt. (On the surface, Nigeria's oil capital would seem like an odd venue for the awards, given the logistical challenges of more or less packing up the whole entertainment industry and flying it in from Lagos, not to mention the general unrest in the Delta, and the fact that more than one prominent Nigerian actor has been kidnapped and held for ransom in the past. I am told, though, that some under-the-table quid pro quo between festival organizers and the local government had something to do with it, an understanding which no doubt owed to a very baroque series of promises and back-scratches.) On the afternoon of the ceremony Lagos is putting its best foot forward as host. The scene at the Eko Hotel on Victoria Island is both splashy and ad hoc. Warnings that the formal red-carpet ceremony will begin, according to the invites, at "4pm prompt" are misleading: at half-past four, the red carpet is still being rolled into place. Dozens of attendees are gathered by the reception area, looking resplendent: jaunty men dressed for magazine covers; women in elaborate aso-egi with the pouty hauteur of royalty. "Nigerians are really into the whole see-and-be-seen thing," a magazine editor once told me. I would perhaps go a step further to say that they treat formal wear with the sort of gravity the rest of us show colon cancer. It is hardly surprising that Lagos society has spawned dozens of tabloid rags and websites dedicated to celebrity style and the weekly calendar of red-carpet events. You can pass an enjoyable afternoon trolling through the catty comments sections on blogs like Bella Naija and Linda Ikeji, where the veil of respect and deference draped across daily life in Nigerian is rent to pieces by what one imagines to be long, red, manicured nails. ("Nigerians are so bitchy," said my editor friend. "They're so hypocritical because they have to be over-complimentary.")
By 5pm there is a parade of long-legged, immaculately coiffed girls struggling to negotiate the stairs from the lobby to the pool bar in their impossibly high heels. Watching them is entertaining sport for the many single men clustered around the bar. In the crowd I notice some dimly remembered faces from film festivals past. A Kenyan friend, a high-powered MBA, suddenly materializes from the thicket in a cocktail dress, looking unsurprised to see me here. We make breezy talk, as if bumping into each other in Lagos were the most logical thing for a Kenyan and American living in Nairobi and Joburg, respectively. Africa can be small like that. After a few minutes her attention is drawn away by a man by the pool. "Isn't that a real actor?" she asks her friend. (The actor, it turns out, is Isaiah Washington.) They flit off. I finish my drink and return to the reception area to watch the new arrivals. Everyone is either taking pictures with their camera phones or waiting for their pictures to be taken. The paparazzi – a formidable force in Lagos – are everywhere. I spot a Nigerian friend, Nonny, an entertainment journalist, decked out as if she were planning to collect a few trophies herself. We watch a young starlet vamping for the photographers. "Is she famous?" I ask.
Nonny gives her a dismissive once-over. "No."
"Well," I say, "she's sure trying to be."
Toni Kan arrives at half-past six in a blazer and a shirt unbuttoned at the collar. All weekend he's been assuring me that the AMAA invitation's dire warnings – "Door closes at 6pm prompt!" – should be taken as little more than suggestions, gentle prods. He shows up looking unhurried, perhaps just arriving from a previous engagement. There aren't enough boxes on the social calendar for Toni Kan to fill. We have drinks by the pool with a couple of young filmmakers, waiting for the slow, casual migration that will mark the general consensus that the show is about to begin. Sitting at a nearby table is a beautiful young Nigerian couple; only later, after he's taken the stage, will I recognize the man as 2Face Idibia, one of the country's biggest pop stars. The trees are being rocked by a gentle sea breeze. An athletic, middle-aged man is doing laps in the pool, his face submerging and then coming up, gasping for air.
The red carpet has finally been fitted into place. Half a dozen TV crews are swarming, corralling the stars. "I'm hoping for some fun, I'm hoping for spontaneity," a bubbly young actress tells a TV presenter. It is impossible to tell who is famous and who is just phototropically straining toward the Klieg lights. The paparazzi are mostly young men in their early 20s with a look of Dickensian toil and misery about them. Their eyes hungrily prowl the crowd for famous faces. It is not uncommon for a photographer to snap a few pics of a woman striking elaborate poses before asking, "Can you spell your name for me?" There is something seedy and pent-up and sexual about the whole thing, a cocktail of high expectation and imminent disappointment. "Why not smile into my camera, sweetheart?" oozes one photographer. "That's how to do it."
The reception hall is large and festooned and full of handsome people making airy small talk. The buzz is low-energy, diffuse; no one seems to be in a hurry to find their seats. Technicians are still testing the lights and running cables between the tables, though the show was supposed to have kicked off an hour ago. Toni steers us toward a row of seats in the back of the hall and then sits there, looking fidgety, eyeing the VIP tables. Behind the stylish glasses his eyes are making rapid calculations, perhaps feeding past promises and favors owed into some complex social algorithm. He gets up and moves briskly to a nearby table and has a few words with a couple of doughty young women frowning into their BlackBerries. After a brief exchange he beckons me over. Just like that, I'm VIP. The women are unanimously uncurious about my presence at their table. Introductions are curt; no mention of their connection to Toni is ever made. No matter. A few minutes later I'm uncorking the bottle of red that is the sole alcoholic concession to the tens of thousands of naira they've spent for this table. Toni sits back in his chair, grinning marvelously at how things have turned out. Every few minutes a beautiful young woman will approach like a supplicant at a royal court. I realize how awfully good it must be to be Toni Kan.
It is almost half-past nine when the lights finally dim and the music kicks up and the night's emcee, the Haitian actor Jimmy Jean Louis, takes the stage. His monologue is undistinguished, greeted with feeble laughter and tepid applause. Distinguished guests are paraded out and trotted around like show ponies. A few minutes are set aside for Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, the festival's doyenne – a short, stolid, formidable woman who is largely responsible for midwiving the AMAAs into being. She trundles to the podium to sustained applause. Her face, even from the hundred or so dimly lit paces that separate us, seems to be fixed in a way that is determined, defiant. By way of reminder as to why we are all gathered here this evening in our formal finery for a ceremony that's kicked off at just about two hours past the appointed hour, she announces in a very theatrical voice, "Our objective is to tell African stories in our own words, and in our own way."
More applause, and not without feeling. Filmmakers anywhere in the world are, I suspect, a species accustomed to crouching in defensive postures, but nowhere is that more readily the case than in Africa. And not without good reason: nowhere else do images feel so politicized and burdened and freighted with meaning. I have perhaps spoken to a few hundred African filmmakers since I began writing for Variety nearly three years ago, and I have learned, across borders and languages, that a determination to act as a counterbalance to Western images of the continent – whether it's Blood Diamond or the latest bloodbath on CNN – is nearly a universal mission. It is a powerful yearning for audiences, too, despite the ready availability – and, admittedly, rabid popularity – of Hollywood movies across the continent. I often wonder if this is why African viewers are still drawn to their low-budget local melodramas, in spite of their shoddy production values. Even when a boom mic suddenly lowers itself into a scene, or a character's wardrobe seems to have changed between jump cuts, or the lead actor fumbles his way through the denouement in a way that really never should have left the cutting room floor, African audiences will put up with all manner of technical hijinx because they want to see themselves and their stories onscreen.
"A new wave of African filmmakers has emerged across the continent," says Anyiam-Osigwe. She gives an impassioned plea for African nations to tear down their borders to allow for the free movement of people, ideas and capital – a concession to the fact that a number of filmmakers aren't in attendance tonight because of visa hurdles. Finally she calls for greater investment in African film, which she says "cannot be done without the infrastructure support of corporate Nigeria and corporate Africa." Here she receives her finest ovation: nothing quite stirs the Nigerian heart like the potential of a solid investment promising appreciable returns. Then the lights dim, the music strikes up, and the show finally begins.
Enough column inches have been wasted through the years on awards ceremonies dragging their Louboutin heels into the wee hours. And Nigerians, especially, are not known for brevity. (To paraphrase an old saying: a Nigerian speaker's oratorical powers are measured by the strength of his legs.) Suffice it to say that the ceremony moves along with the briskness of rush-hour traffic on the Third Mainland Bridge; that the awards – which feature an endless procession of "Best Film" statuettes, including the categories of Best Diaspora Feature, Best Film by an African Living Abroad, Best Nigerian Film, Best Film in an African Language, and Best Film, full-stop – could perhaps, like a number of Nollywood films, use a bit of editing; that for most of the ceremony's four-plus hours of self-congratulation, my tablemates seem less interested in the onstage presentations than in the Twitter feeds scrolling across their BlackBerry screens; that the celebrated Nigerian songstress Asa – who belts out a few songs in a fierce, soulful voice – should be famous everywhere, immediately; that my friend Kwame Nyong'o, who wins the Best Animation award for his pic The Legend of Ngong Hills, fills me with a brief burst of Kenyan pride; that the choice of midget leading man Chinedu Ikedieze to hand out the award for Best Child Actor makes you almost pine for the good ol' days of military rule, when wrong-doers would be lined up on Bar Beach and shot in front of a crowd of spectators; that the technical dominance of the South African film industry affords a couple of brilliant moments of goofy white guys high-fiving and fumbling with the mic at the podium; that, vis-à-vis technical achievements, when the sound cuts out in the middle of 2Face Idibia's performance – the musical apex of the show – it seems to surprise absolutely no one, and affords everyone in attendance a chance to shake their heads and mutter the familiar refrain, "That's Nigeria for you"; that the presentation of the night's biggest awards by such low-rent black American entertainers as Maya Gilbert and Rockmond Dunbar seems like a not ungentle slap in the face to the many assembled filmmakers who have labored for years, if not decades, to develop their own film industries; that after announcing "Maya Gilbert!" in a delighted squeal while handing out the award for Best Actress – a joke that fell flat on its face, and that Maya Gilbert wouldn't have even briefly considered attempting at, say, the Oscars, and that lends further credence to my belief that Americans, whether white or black, will engage in all manner of self-aggrandizing nonsense on African soil, simply because they can – that Maya Gilbert should have all Africa travel privileges indefinitely revoked; that by the time South African filmmaker Charlie Vundla collects the Best Director and Best Film awards for How 2 Steal 2 Million, the banquet hall is roughly 1/3 full, and the greater part of the audience's energy is being directed toward the lithe young ushers handing out swag bags; that amid the general hubbub and cheerful commotion following the ceremony, there is some disagreement over which of the Eko Hotel's nightlife venues will be hosting the after-party; that after some elevator-related confusion, a delegation of South African filmmakers confirms that the rooftop bar is verily and indisputably closed; that the AMAAs have apparently blown their entire budget on putting up foreign filmmakers in the $300-and-up-a-night Eko, an act of generosity which is lost on at least one second-rate American movie star, who appeared in all the local tabloids shortly after arrival, complaining that the supposedly four-star Eko wasn't up to his exacting standards; that much milling around the lobby commences, putting a slight damper on the high mood of just a few minutes earlier; that after a spirited debate on the likelihood of finding a suitable nightclub in Lagos at half-past one on a Sunday night, the whole raucous lot of us repair to the pool bar, which grudgingly decides to stay open past its usual 1am closing time; that this beneficence proves to be short-lasting, as it takes less than 15 minutes for the thirsty celebrants to empty the fridges of every last bottle of Star and Gulder and Guinness, and even the Johnny Walker Black begins to move briskly at some one hundred U.S. bucks a bottle; that despite our general disappointment and sobriety, the mood is festive, even inspired, with past festivals and filmic triumphs recalled; that New York, too, is fondly remembered; that dawn can sneak up on you, suddenly arriving in equatorial Africa like someone's snapped open the curtains; and that a certain amount of fleecing by a Lagos cab driver is acceptable at the tail end of a good night.


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Saudi Minister of Defense Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz met with U.S. President Barack Obama today at the White House. Prince Salman conveyed greetings to the president on behalf of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz.
President Obama and Prince Salman noted the strong and historic relationship between the two countries and engaged in productive talks on a wide range of bilateral and regional issues.
Prince Salman was accompanied by Minister of State and Member of the Cabinet Dr. Mosaad Al-Aiban and Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Adel A. Al-Jubeir.
Earlier today, Prince Salman also met with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; John Brennan, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism; and Gen. James Mattis, commander, U.S. Central Command.


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MEXIA (November 6, 2012)--A boil water notice was issued late Tuesday morning requiring that all city water customers boil their water prior to consumption.
City officials say water should be boiled for at least two minutes before drinking and will notify residents when the order has been lifted.
For more information, call (254) 562-4110.