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Memo to WashPost, George Will: Cassandra was right
George Will and the editorial page editors at the Washington Post proved a long time ago they don't know science (see "The Post, abandoning any journalistic standards, lets George Will publish a third time global warming lies debunked on its own pages"). And they don't do any fact-checking (see WashPost op-ed page remains the home of un-fact-checked disinformation about clean energy and global warming).
But as a letter to the editor pointed out, they don't know mythology either. I was so focused on critiquing the substance of the original post (here and here), I missed the unintentional inanity of the headline, "Cooling Down the Cassandras," and Will's final line:
Environmental Cassandras must be careful with their predictions lest they commit what climate alarmists consider the unpardonable faux pas of denying that the world is coming to an end.
Other than not knowing the science or doing basic fact-checking, the faux pas is pretending to be an intellectual while not even knowing you've used a mythological metaphor containing a hidden army that destroys your whole damn message. Cassandra famously had the gift of prophecy but the curse of not being believed, with archetypally tragic results:
While Cassandra foresaw the destruction of Troy (she warned the Trojans about the Trojan Horse, the death of Agamemnon, and her own demise), she was unable to do anything to forestall these tragedies since they did not believe her.
So yes, climate scientists have become Cassandras — and Will and WashPost's Fred Hiatt are the ones blind to the obvious dangers, the ones trying to drown out the warmings of those who are trying to warn about impending catastrophe.
Here's the letter, by Jim Mcelfish, Senior Attorney, Environmental Law Institute Washington:
George F. Will used his Oct. 1 column to deride government officials and scientists warning of the consequences of global warming, and he suggested that these climate-change "Cassandras" slow down and not cater to "alarmists." Mr. Will has perhaps forgotten his classics. Cassandra, prophetess of Troy, was always right when she sounded the alarm but was never believed by those with power to avert disaster.
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17 Responses to Memo to WashPost, George Will: Cassandra was right
I know I sometimes feel like Cassandra…
Oh, c'mon now Joe! You don't actually expect someone as important as George Will to actually read now, do you? I mean, geez, where are your priorities?
(This has probably been posted here already, but it merits being reposted: a handsomely done YouTube smackdown of Will and the "they predicted cooling in the '70's" meme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU_AtHkB4Ms )
Will himself reminds me of Alcibiades, the Athenian aristocrat whose vanity kept getting him into trouble. He is associated with failed military campaigns and arrogant underestimation of the enemy. This was especially true in Sicily (where his main motivation appeared to be plunder), and later in the final days of the war with Sparta.
In public, he was arrogant and self righteous, in private, dissolute and selfish.
If you are a military leader, these human weaknesses have a way of catching up. Alcibiades' failures finally led to his being stripped of his power. For journalists, no problem: Will's tenure at the Post is secure. Apparently the editors at that once respected paper have found a kindred spirit.
Arcane political procedures, the balk rule in baseball (the subject, I believe, of six of Will's books) and bow-ties are the areas where I defer to Will's expertise, especially when the three are somehow combined. About sentence structure or science he knows not of what he speaks.
George may want to hear of the tale of the Boy Who Denied Wolf. (Apologies to Aesop's The Boy Who Cried Wolf)
"Sometimes when we deny, but eventually realize the truth, we learn it too late to say. We will deny once, deny twice — but then perish when we deny our own plight."
Nice story :)
Here is another one i like:
One day, getting out of a foreign airport, you catch a taxy (1) to go to an important meeting.. and you are late. The taxi driver, a guy with a big smile that says he can get you there in no time, gets your luggage in the trunk and then shoots out in the traffic. You immediately realize that the guy does not know how to drive .. he makes a couple of false starts, then shoots out full speed. He says (2):"Time is money you know? got no time to lose .. and you are late too".
He starts driving crazily fast in the traffic, and you ask him to slow down (3). He says:"Why? I am not going fast at all!" .. while he hits 100 miles an hour (4).
Meanwhile you look at the guy closely .. and you notice he is squeezing his eyes as if he is short sighted, while the guy narrowly avoids a couple cars.
You also smell alcohol in his breath (5). You say:"Please slow down, I want to get there alive, it does not matter if I am late" (6). He says:"Don't worry, I will get you there in time" (7). He starts driving 150 miles an hour, turning in narrow streets at full speed to avoid traffic. At this point, I don't know you, but I would panic.
Now, about climate, these are the analogies i find:
1) we are on a vehicle (the earth) .. and we cannot get out.
2) someone (the deniers, I suspect) are polluting it far more than it is safe (sustainable). They say that they do it in your own interest.
3) climate-conscious people (scientists, environmentalists, several government organizations and now quite a few countries) are asking to slow down and switch to a sustainable economy.
4) deniers.. none is more deaf than who does not want to listen and discuss openly (because of vested interests i suspect).
5) addiction to big money .. works the same.
6) most people would accept some sacrifices to achieve a sustainable economy
7) typical behaviour of who pretends to be doing something for your own good.
And in an ideal world one would get off the plane and have someone drive a rickshaw (carbon dioxide neutral) and get late to the meeting.
Hold on, of course nobody would be flying anymore. Because it will be so expensive only rich people like Al Gore will be able to afford it. And so he will keep jetting around the globe warning about the aviation industry's carbon dioxide output.
Everyone is a environmental pillager if he uses more of the resources that he fairly should. What is the fair carbon/pollution budget I can consume every year without overusing my share of the planet? I don't know, but I think that is something that everyone should be very conscious of.
You are absolutely right that we cannot give up our lifestyle .. but the issue I am trying to address above is that, in my opinion, we need to start managing climate, to the best of our knowledge, to conserve our lifestyle. If we don't we are exactly like the reckless driver of the story.
We are short sighted at the moment .. science cannot say at the moment exactly how close we are to catastrophic climatic tipping points. We are still trying to understand what happens when Arctic ice melts.. and meanwhile we are driving co2 at full speed. So we need to improve out knowledge, and our models. We are pumping oil like never before .. oh, yes we might be next to the maximum extraction capacity. And we are doing the desperate move of getting it from tar sands while destroying forest.. man thats going too fast!
Meanwhile, a climatic bomb of methane is about to go off in the north while we struggle to get oil. An enormous amount of methane could pop out of frozen grounds and the ocean, and in some places it seems to be doing it. This methane is likely to tip our climate in a catastrophic direction, as it seemingly happened in the past: it is, I read, a much more powerful than co2 as a greenhouse gas.
Wait a minute, why are we struggling to pull out oil while another form of fossil energy is about to blow in our face?
Is it possible to use methane instead of oil? And synthesize oil refined products out of methane? It sounds like a better plan to defuse a (small part of a) climatic bomb while getting energy .. at the same time, and buying some time to change the economy to a sustainable one. Using methane instead of oil would buy us some time, while doing science on climate prediction and learning to manage the planet better. I fear we don't know how to drive it at the moment. Due to the co2 raise there would probably be a number of catastrophes happening, but if i understand well the worse comes when methane pops up from the Arctic in enormous quantities.
Well you people know certainly better.
The Washington Post probably got hundreds letters about Will's piece, many of them correcting his portrayal of the science. And they choose to print only one letter — about classical mythology. It shows the level of editorial clout Will exercises at the paper.
Giove, "harvesting" the methane in the arctic and permafrost areas is likely an intractable problem because it is not generally concentrated in pools that can be drilled into and pumped out, but distributed in bubbles that are only a little ways beneath the surface and that had previously been frozen in the ice. As the ice melts, these bubbles just percolate up. There may be some tappable concentrations, but identifying and tapping them before they simply boil to the surface is, again, likely to be difficult at best.
Per your question of synthesizing oil refined products out of methane: methane is a very small molecule, a single carbon atom surrounded by four hydrogen atoms, whereas petroleum products are long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms. Assembling such a petroleum-like chain from methane atoms — assuming this is even possible, which I do not know — would involve an unthinkable amount of energy, energy that would be much better used directly substituting for those petroleum products.
There are coal-fired electrical generating plants that are being retrofitted to also use natural gas (which is another name for methane), as this produces less pollution than coal by itself. So burning natural gas directly rather than using coal or oil has various advantages that are currently being used and expanded upon. It still has a GHG footprint, but not as severe as coal or oil.
Here's a link to a news story about a study recently published in Nature, showing rapid and continuing acceleration of key glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, as shown by NASA's ICESat satellite:
What this study shows is that key glaciers, long ago known to be vulnerable to global warming, are accelerating, in a scenario fully consistent with rapid worldwide global warming. The whole cycle of glacial formation and destruction seems to have sped up- and destruction seems to be occurring more rapidly than creation.
It's real, it's really happening, and it's happening very, very rapidly. We are witnessing huge changes, in a very short period of time. The changes are not only in the direction of warming or melting – there are areas of increased glacial generation, too. But huge changes are occurring, very, very rapidly, apparently linked to global warming, and potentially capable of rapidly destabilizing both the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets.
We may already have passed the tipping point, on an accelerating and irreversible path toward a methane catastrophe, similar to those that caused the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, and the Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction.
The Permian-Triassic Mass Extinction killed 95 percent or so of marine species and 80 percent or so of terrestrial species, and this apparent runaway greenhouse event was apparently tied in with destabilization of trillions of tons of methane hydrate deposits, on the continental shelves.
This could happen to us, too, and in fact recent polar sea water acidification measurements suggest that large releases of methane from the hydrates may be already under way.
We really are living in a glass house, and we really are throwing stones at it.
Our glass house appears to be cracking, even as we speak, regardless of what George Will or our controlled mainstream media admit or deny.
95% of marine species and 80% of terrestrial species extinct translates to a likelihood of
0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of a human managing to stay alive through such an event right? Or maybe add some more zeros :)
It must be said that George Will is the only writer at the Washington Post. On September 25 the WP published an article by their staff writer Judith Eilperin, "New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast Of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/24/AR2009092402602.html).
Eilperin is a writer who certainly takes climate change seriously, as should we all. But while we many of us complain of government inaction and failure address the problem of runaway global warming, few of us are emotionally capable of facing up to this impending calamity ourselves.
If we, the people, were really taking climate change seriously, we'd immediately stop driving any faster than 55 MPH and demand that our government constrain air travel, either by rationing or using a permit system. But that's just not happening. Instead, unconsciously hypocrital folks tell you they understand global warming is real, and then hop on a jet for a fun vacation. It would be funny if it weren't so very sad.
About humanity's chances for survival-
It seems possible that a small elite could survive most methane catastrophes, holed up in Antarctic and far northern latitudes, perhaps in domed cities, with air cleaned of hydrogen sulfide, sitting on gene banks of the earth's former biodiversity.
Wikipedia- Svalbard Global Seed Vault
But humanity could not survive all methane catastrophes, IMO.
Due to the rapidity and one way nature of the changes we have initiated, and our continued one way forcing of the climate, it seems possible that our climate could sail right through Lovelock's second stable state of the climate system, and end up in totally unknown territory. If the stabilizing influence of life is removed completely, this could end up resembling the surface of Venus, which is thermodynamic equilibrium for the earth's surface, in the absence of life.
Needless to say, global warming of any sort, especially runaway global warming and a methane catastrophe, seem catastrophic for the vast majority of humanity, although a small elite could profit via disaster capitalism.
Chances are, if civilization breaks down due to global warming, the chaos will swallow victims and profiteers alike – no matter how rich they are.
someone said that to win a battle the critical factor is to progressively reduce the options of the enemy .. until he has no other options left but losing ..
now an elite sitting in a small dome in an hostile atmosphere on top of a mountain of seeds .. has not many options left ..
The problem with all of this discussion is that George Will, Sen. Inhofe, Congressman Rohrabacher all make such good targets for scorn and derision that we are willing to accept a slow death as the alternative.
The more I read and learn, the more that I am convinced about two things: James Hansen is correct about the need for civil disobedience to combat King Coal and (2) that the Democratic Party of Jay Rockefeller, Robert Byrd, Dick Durbin, et. al. will never be willing to do anything other than promise us that clean coal is the future rather than the oxymoron we know it to be.
I have little hope that any climate bill we see this year will have anything close to the controls needed to solve this and, lacking the ability to change things at the ballot boxes, we will need to do it by following Hansen to the as of yet un-removed mountain tops.
Gary Herstein (10) — Can you provide a link to a story of converting from coal to natrual gas? Thanks.


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Please consult the screenshot first.
I am using JPA generated metamodel which in turn uses metamodel processor from eclipse link (this is standard mechanism used in java based on META-INF/"services").
Metamodel is generated properly during compilation phase and the generated classes show up in "Generated Sources (annotations)" (also properly).
The problem:
Classed belonging to "Source packages" (normal classes) in general can't see any classes which show up in "Generated sources (annotations)".
The project build is based on maven. Maven build succeeds, however Netbeans shows some imports which cannot be resolved which leads to compilation failures reported by Netbeans. Those imports are coming from the "Generated sources (annotations)".
The problem persists also in dev 201209200001
experiencing the same problem on 7.4RC1s (same project, several people on different OSses).
strange enough, adding build/generated-sources/ap-source-output to src path and removing it again after one good compile did indeed helped...!?
The safer way seems to be:
stop netbeans
rm -rf ${HOME}/.cache/netbeans/7.4rc1/
(or Library/Caches/NetBeans/7.4rc1)
start netbeans
clean build
I also have the same problem.
I cannot find the ${HOME}/.cache/netbeans/7.4rc1/ (or library/Caches/NetBeans/7.4rc1) folder (I'm running on Windows XP).
It is still happening to me, both on version 7.2.1 and version 7.4. The same exact project compiles fine on another workstations with 7.4. I tried to delete the cache and restart with no luck. The only workaround is to manually add the build/generated-sources folder to the src PATH
Running into the same issue working with Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.0 (Build 201403101706)
Clearing the cache seems to remove the problem for the first start, but the problem returns after changes to the entities.
I am seeing the same behavior with generated classes from the cxf-codegen-plugin.
Maven still builds/compiles everything fine but the editor complains about the classes not being found.
Same problem here, with Netbeans 8.0.2. Cleaning the cache seems to work with Linux but not with Windows 7
Bug remains on
Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.0.2 (Build 201411181905)
I tried changing the lib, switching between eclipselink 241 > 252, didn't work, now the IDE doesn't find more generated meta model than before
(In reply to FiruzzZ from comment #8)
> Bug remains on
> Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.0.2 (Build 201411181905)
> I tried changing the lib, switching between eclipselink 241 > 252, didn't
> work, now the IDE doesn't find more generated meta model than before
PD: removing the cache folder /local/netbeans/cache solved the issue, but the IDE threw a few problems notifications on its start up
Clearing the .cache/netbeans/8.0.2 didn't work for me. I had to add generated metamodel classes to the src path and not remove them. Confused.
I was experiencing this issue on a Maven project where the JPA implementation was Hibernate. I solved it by adding hibernate-entitymanager and hibernate-jpa-2.1-api to the pom.xml as provided dependencies. HTH
Mine is not a maven project. And I use eclipselink.
*** Bug 251130 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Same here (NB 8.0.2, Maven, JPA metamodel generated by Hibernate). Clearing the cache works (at least on Linux), but this is not an option when working with large projects on a daily basis.
I'm using NB for over a decade now (each and every workday), but this one is driving me crazy. Please fix it.
Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the problem in the current dev build. I have tried to create a simple Maven project with eclipselink and it seems to work as expected. Could you please create a simple test project demonstrating the problem and attach it to the issue? Also, cloud you please check that your source root's cache directory contains sources generated by the eclipselink's annotation processors? (go to var/cache/index directory located in your NB userdir, in Segments file find which segment belongs to your source root and go to the proper segment directory. There should be directory java/14/sources containing all sources generated by the annotation processors). Thanks.
(In reply to Dusan Balek from comment #15)
java/14 has
/classes/projectname/test (with a few random testing classes)
(3 segments, .gen, .cfs)
/sources (empty)
/whitelist (empty)
Nothing related to "generated model" or any classes
same issue with the tutorial of code generation using Annotations Processor (https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/java/annotations-custom.html)
Any solution? I need it for a college project, please, help me.
By adding auto-generated folder in the library and then remove, the error stop, but if i save any changes in any other file, or perform a rebuild, the issue back.
Also having this problem. I can provide a little more background on what is happening in my situation.
Using EclipseLink 2.6 and Netbeans 8.0.2
The problem for me only happens when I have extended a @MappedSuperclass on my original @Entity.
When using the MetaModel Netbeans will only not recognize the @MappedSuperclass variables.
However, I can sometimes empty the cache, or clean/build to re-generate the MetaModel which sometimes resolves the problem but not all the time.
To FiruzzZ: As can be seen from your caches, there were no sources generated by the annotation processors while indexing your project. Please check that annotation processing is enabled in editor for your project.
To rogerio-163: Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce the problem. I walked through the tutorial (step-by-step) and everything worked as described.
To all: Could you please create a simple test project demonstrating the problem and attach it to the issue? Thanks.
(In reply to Dusan Balek from comment #15)
> ..Also, cloud you please
> check that your source root's cache directory contains sources generated by
> the eclipselink's annotation processors? (go to var/cache/index directory
> located in your NB userdir, in Segments file find which segment belongs to
> your source root and go to the proper segment directory. There should be
> directory java/14/sources containing all sources generated by the annotation
> processors). Thanks.
I double checked and result that I wasn't looking at right folder, I found the one for the project and there just a few (6 files) generated from Entities, I looked around and I found in the path:
*.rapt (<--- those files got their proper metamodel generated)
but those with the extension *.sig (doesn't, 84 files)
I will attack those in case those could be helpful for something.
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I had this problem on the past and didn't remember how to solve that.
After two days headache i found it!
In the persistence.xml file i removed the instruction below:
Maybe it works on old netbeans versions. Actually my persistence.xml file didn't had this line on previous versions of my project, it was added when editing persistence.xml in design mode when i changed "Persistence Provider" value and back to the same.
Someone else can confirm that?
Still missing something in my solution :-(
It works for my office computer, but to the home no.
I uninstalled and installed the same versions (7.3 and 8.1) at home who worked in the office and used the same project that was using at the office. I have the same project using the same versions of netbeans working in the office but not at home :-(

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My artwork for Pansage / Yanappu. I'm pleased with how it turned out.
Please don't use any of my artwork, including this piece, without my permission. Thank you.
Please don't use any of my artwork, including this piece, without my permission. Thank you.
haha it looks like he has a brocoli on his head XD This is one of my favorite pokemon, mostly because Cilan has it and i'm a huge fangirl of Cilan ^///^ hehehe i love this :3
Antanvo! bravismo! cin vo nya,
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"I have broccoli on my head. Your argument is invalid."
Sugimori, is that you?! No just kidding, it does look a lot like Sugimori-style. But this artwork is way better then the one Sugimori made for Yanappu, that's for sure.
it looks like he has broccoli on his head !!
Cool! Its better then original
cool! your art reminds me of sugimori art.
este pokémon no me gusta porque es basicamente un aipom con un brocoli encima
I honestly hate this Pokemon. A monkey with BROCCOLI on its head.
But you make it look cool
But you make it look cool
This artwork of Yanappu is really cool! Yes more monkeys!
Brocoli! I like it x3
Yay Mr.Broccomonkey XD
lol Broccoli <3
I like how well you drew it. But the pokemon itself.........well........I'm just not a fan of it. (it's got broccoli for hair)
Amazing work!
This may be the only thing of your's I do not like. It doesn't really fit the pokemon's personality. The official Pokemon site of Japan updated with a screenshot of Yanappu's front sprite. Yanappu is a very happy and joyful pokemon. Your artwork doesn't really show that.
Nice like always.
WOW! YOUR FAST XOUS! And it looks better than the original!
So are you going to do Emonga too? 'o'
So are you going to do Emonga too? 'o'
I kinda want to start Emonga, but every time I start drawing things, I seem to forget about it. xD At this point, all I'd feel comfortable doing is getting an outlined sketch done, so when we get clear, official-quality artwork of it I can color it in and post it.
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Recent changes to feature-requestshttps://sourceforge.net/p/dynamicjasper/feature-requests/2013-12-29T16:00:12Z#6 Header Column and Row Span2013-12-29T16:00:12Z2013-12-29T16:00:12ZWillershttps://sourceforge.net/u/paullera/https://sourceforge.net208e3e17e8d16d8d35e8e7063b4166f2e48080d5

I saw the tutorial "HOW-TO Create colspan headers" but I think this feature is still incomplete, or at least I have not found a way to create a rowspan behavior in column header.

Below I describe a column header with the behavior I want:

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Merge branches jasper4_1 and jasper4_1_fix_sub_report2012-08-02T14:34:33Z2012-08-02T14:34:33Zmdaloiahttps://sourceforge.net/u/mdaloia/https://sourceforge.netf41c35a1a4e7370a13bd3252e84ce15cd5918b49The changes done on jasper4\_1\_fix\_sub\_report branch must be merged back into jasper4\_1. For what I could see the release of DynamicJasper 4.0.1 was done using the jasper4\_1\_fix\_sub\_report branch, but on http://dynamicjasper.com/download/ says that the current branch for 4.0+ is jasper4\_1. Also, it would be great that the latest stable and most recent release of DJ will be on master branch and the old stable releases stay on branch \(for example DJ\_3.x\). If it couldn't be done for some reason, at least I suggest to rename the branch jasper4\_1 to something more explicit like DJ\_4.x. ThanksAdd Colspan functionality2011-12-13T21:39:01Z2011-12-13T21:39:01ZJuan Lagostenahttps://sourceforge.net/u/tolengo/https://sourceforge.netc828f308f08685e4f5e0ca601916589f00f7690aThe idea is to have a colspan functionality like HTML. So, for example, if we have three columns with a colspan of 3, we will have on top of the three columns, a colspan title. See attachmentFormat measure depending on another value2011-12-13T21:30:34Z2011-12-13T21:30:34ZJuan Lagostenahttps://sourceforge.net/u/tolengo/https://sourceforge.net00b7118b30abd5e52a9b43b7c974fe7f37a5dbf5Need to add a field to the cross-tab which will decide what the format of the measure will be. For example, I have a data type k and if it is 1, the value will be formatted as a number, otherwise, it will be a dollar amount. I cannot format the value before and make it string, because then the summation will not work. This field will only be used to decide the format and will not be displayed.Add method to DynamicJasperHelper to generate JasperDesign2011-12-05T22:23:45Z2011-12-05T22:23:45ZJacob Schoenhttps://sourceforge.net/u/jschoen82/https://sourceforge.netc072caac94b124f3bb5e87921e67e02b76bf2f66By adding a helper method it will allow for users to work directly against the JasperReports API for items that Dynamic Jasper does not currently support. It can be worked around at the moment, but it would make life easier for users to not have to worry about how to do it. Simply put it will allow users to use DynamicJasper to its fullest and then drop down to the JasperReports API for anything extra they need.Put releases on maven repository2010-12-22T16:14:07Z2010-12-22T16:14:07ZSam Zilverberghttps://sourceforge.net/u/samzilverberg/https://sourceforge.net5830871b73e2932b7421573dcf2f512821e0d45ahttp://fdvs.com.ar/djmaven2/ The latest release in that repo is 3.1.2 http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/ar.com.fdvs/DynamicJasper The latest release in that repo is 3.0.13 DJ is currently at 3.1.6 and anything since 3.1.2 has to be manually downloaded and mvn-installed to the local repository. Please upload your latest releases to one of the repositories above.Group splitting functionality required2010-02-09T07:02:16Z2010-02-09T07:02:16ZHernanhttps://sourceforge.net/u/hernancho/https://sourceforge.netf9313cf7805541df2b3fd2158e852f6cc38f0904Groups should have an option to be prevented from been splitted. \(See attachment\) In this example 'Aspects of Speaking' should start in the next page. This annoys users big time. An option to set that when setting groups would be awesome. I am a developer...if i could help greatSummaryBand copy setWhenNoData is invoked2010-01-06T19:25:38Z2010-01-06T19:25:38ZBrian Swainhttps://sourceforge.net/u/ieatlead/https://sourceforge.net76015fc9fb088f1015cf87ad311a22fdb0773055Currently the setWhenNoData is not copying the Summary band of the template reports. I'd like to formally request that the setWhenNoData be dynamic in that the method can be overloaded to support the various sections of the report to be included or omitted, primarily the summary band.Subtotals groups if only one record, should not be so2009-09-28T17:27:49Z2009-09-28T17:27:49ZBrian Swainhttps://sourceforge.net/u/ieatlead/https://sourceforge.net50b7af035a8eb30cade43c105c6e30a4ca8c661bLooking for some help on setting up a group that will only subtotal if there is more than one record. Groups should not subtotal for one record, or at least have the option to not subtotal on group break if the record count is only Makes no sense for my reports to subtotal on one record. should be a parameter I can set for this? IF group record count = 1 then no group total?Add ImageColumns to Crosstabs2009-09-04T14:43:28Z2009-09-04T14:43:28ZMark Southernhttps://sourceforge.net/u/mrsouthern/https://sourceforge.net17b4ea123f1fe71ed155427927277cacf79109d6Add an image in a crosstab row or column


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She was a ladycat a year or so back. Really a great gal. Not your typical model type.
wonder if she cooks?!
I'll cook for her ....*** it!!
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Preventing train deaths is hard to do.
There's not much the MTA can do to prevent subway-pushing incidents like the two that ended in the deaths of Ki Suk Han and Sunando Sen this December besides encouraging passengers to be more aware of their surroundings. So, they're increasing the frequency of the already-familiar order to, "Please stand away from the platform edge." Most numbered lines (and the L) will hear the alert every time a train approaches and twice more every fifteen minutes, though many other lines will only hear it once every fifteen minutes. Sadly, the new system got off to an inauspicious start yesterday as a man was struck by a northbound train passing through the Church Street B/Q station.


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ESPN's statistical wizard John Hollinger just released a massive trove of player projections for the upcoming season. He was nice enough to answer some questions about his work.
People get crazy about your statistic: PER. Some are hypnotized by it, and treat it like religion. Others can't believe anyone would pay it any mind. There has been a lot of internet discussion about it lately. Can you give me the layman's explanation of what PER is, and how it should best be used?
PER is absolutely a religion and should be treated as such, with me as the all-knowing maharaja whose authority is unquestioned. OK, not really. But that would be so cool if it happened.
Anyway, PER is a per-minute rating of a player's statistical productivity. It's great for measuring a player's "tangibles"; the one area it struggles is with defense because so much of that remains a black box for the analytical community.
I use it so much because it makes it very easy to make comparisons between players who play differing minutes, or in different systems or what-not -- comparisons which, using conventional stats, are almost impossible.
We're not saying it should be used in a vacuum, right? It's not like you're saying teams should fire all their scouts.
Firing all the scouts and the aforementioned maharaja idea would both be wonderful for me, actually, but for the teams I wouldn't recommend it. PER is a great way to evaluate a player's *statistical* production, but that still leaves hundreds of elements that you can't deduce without watching players on the court and, perhaps more importantly, off it.
For instance, here's one crucial one that comes to mind: How likely is this guy to keep working and improving that PER in coming years?
What was wrong with the old numbers?
You can't make comparisons with them. Points per game is so heavily context dependent that it's really not very useful, and the other per-game averages have similar shortcomings.
You can use them to tell that Kobe Bryant is a better player than Scott Padgett (as if you'd need stats to make that brilliant deduction), but if you try to compare Richard Jefferson to Lamar Odom you're not going to get very far.
If PER is a better measure of a player's value than points and rebounds and all that, wouldn't it be cool to use PER as a basis for a new fantasy basketball game?
I've found that fantasy rules value things so much differently than PER does that using PER for fantasy is essentially useless. Well, unless you made PER the only stat for the league and based everything off it. If I become the leader of a PER cult in Guyana I'm totally doing that.
I have always wondered: what's the physical process like when you do these rankings? I assume you have all these numbers in a computer? How do they get updated? And is the whole thing laborious? I mean, if I were to give you box scores from my rec. league, and ask you to determine the PER of all the players, would it take long? (By the way, you could probably make a lot of money selling that kind of stuff in rec. leagues, come to think of it.)
Well, ESPN has automated the process now so folks can see it every morning without me lifting a finger. But yes, I just download the stats, drop them into an Excel sheet, and voila. It can be very fast if everything is formatted correctly.
Alas, it's probably not useful for a rec league unless somebody is tracking things like opponent turnovers and the league average pace factor.
Now, today we are seeing your PER projections for the upcoming season -- as in, here's a very refined statistical analysis for something that hasn't even happened yet! People are going to think you're just sitting in your basement saying "lookie here, I'm feeling like Yao's going to be about a 27 this season." But that's not how it works, right? Can you explain the science?
Of course that's not how it works -- I don't have a basement. Come to think of it there are one or two other differences.
Here's how it really goes down: I take a player like Yao Ming, and compare him to all the players who were his 2006-07 age from the past 20 years, and find the ones who were most similar statistically over the previous three-year period (and yes, height is one of the "stats").
Then I see how those players did the following season, weighting the results of the most similar players the most heavily, and apply those gains or losses to Yao's stats from the past season. And in Yao's case, what I find is that the players who were similar to him improved sharply at his age, and that's why his projection is so positive for this year.
Are there any players out there that you never really noticed or cared about, but then saw they had surprisingly good PER numbers? Or have you pretty much gotten to the point where you can see good PER in real time?
For the most part it's the latter, but there are exceptions. Like Antonio Daniels. For some reason every summer when I sit down to write I'm like, "Wow, his PER was that good?"


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Many lately have been predicting the fall of Hi5, the third largest social netowrking site (after MySpace & Facebook) Does Hi5 have what it takes to co-exist with the big boys? Lets take a closer look…
The Market Share
As you can see from the graph below, Hi5 may be in the top three, but it's a distant third. In fact, in recent months their unique visotor counts seem to have been in a downward trend while MySpace and Facebook have been gaining market share at a rapid pace.
The Demographics
The one thing that has historically kept Hi5 from being more popular in the United States may be it's one saving grace. Lets take a look at the user demographics for the top three sites…see anything unusual about Hi5?
Thats right, Hi5 has the dominant position in every category except "Caucasian". The one that especially stands out is "Hispanic". Hi5 has over 10 times the market share in the Hispanic community than Facebook, and nearly 5 times that of MySpace! Right now Facebook and MySpace might be hot in the USA and UK, but eventually their growth will slow in those areas. If Hi5 can leverage their current user base to expand further into non-english speaking markets, they could quickly become a formidable contender to MySpace and Facebook.
The Conclusion: Is There Room For All Three?
Some things are hot in one area of the world and don't catch on quite as well in others. Look at the game "Lineage". One of the hottest Multiplayer MMO games in the world, with a subscriber base of over 1 million, but almost all of them in Korea. Even the American juggernaut "World of Warcraft", isn't able to penetrate the Korean market with the same success they had in the USA.
Just like there is room for a McDonalds, Wendys, Taco Bell, etc. on every corner, there is room for multiple "flavors" of Social Networking sites. The one that fails will most likely be the one that tries to be all things to all people.


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Dolphin and Whale Sleep
Are dolphins and whales considered cathemeral? [as opposed to diurnal, nocturnal or crepuscular]. [more inside]
Is it wrong to swim with the dolphins?
Please help me decide whether it's ok to pay for "swim with the dolphins" type experiences. Is this animal cruelty I shouldn't support with my hard-earned dollars? [more inside]
Flipping with Flipper
NaNoWriMo Novel filter: What's it actually like to swim with dolphins in the wild in non-contrived encounters. Not interested in pros or cons of swimming with these mammals, just in what the experience is like. (previously)
Yeah, but do the dolphins want to swim with us?
Do my son (5) and I want to "Swim with the Dolphins" in Nassau during a stop-off on our Disney Cruise? [more inside]
Moving to Dominica
How is the living/lifestyle for US expats and travelers on the island of Dominica? [more inside]
Dolphin documentary
What is the best dolphin documentary you have seen? [more inside]
Why are elephant and whale brains so large?
Why are elephant and whale brains so large (much bigger than yours)? Their twice as big brains don't seem twice as smart as horses or dolphins, let alone humans. What is that extra gray matter doing? Pointers to scientific papers or experts appreciated.
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While making this piece I thought about consumption, suffocation, of spiderwebs and infections. We are consumed on a daily basis by so much, both abstract and concrete. Our lives can be easily controlled and influenced by what surrounds us. This summer I reached an all time low.I was confused, overwhelmed, unsure of myself, depressed. I felt the pressure of others' opinions all around me and thought of my self/personality being eaten by my surroundings. As soon as I found this concept I knew there had to be an interaction between human and sculpture. Each rope symbolized another opinion. No matter how genuine or kind the opinion was, it still wove into the confusion and pressure. I created a constricting cocoon, much like the food sacs found in spiders' webs, and hung it high above the ground, making it even more difficult for the victim to escape her predator. Either she escapes wounded and exhausted or is trapped.
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The Seventeenth Child, by Dorothy Marie Rice & Lucille Mabel Walthall Payne, sets down the memories of a childhood lived in the countryside of 1930s Virginia by a black woman who grew up before the Civil Rights Movement made so many gains. These remembrances are plain, soft-spoken and ring true to an age that was certainly different from the one we know. In some ways, it was a harder time as in her earliest years even basic food was very hard to come by and the sharecropping system made it difficult for all farmers, black and white, to get ahead or even stay afloat during the bad harvest years.
But it was the warmth of family, faith, shared hardship and simple joys that made those days good as well as difficult. The children worked, not only because their help was needed but because it was understood that working was a good thing in and of itself. They helped pull and tend tobacco, can vegetables, sew quilts, raise chickens, and shell corn. Lucille Payne tells of how hard it was to earn money. How sometimes her mother might not be paid much more than fifty cents for a hard day's washing of filthy clothes in a dark and cold shed. Well, fifty cents and a hambone that might not be fit to eat without it being scrubbed, too, and sometimes not even then. But her mother said, "Well, you accept what they give you; next time it might be better."
It wasn't all about acceptance. Sometimes Lucille would see her mother spit in the water while she washed and she would ask her why she did that. "That helps to get them clean." But I know she was just so angry because she had to survive. When you have so many children you have to survive the best way you can. Likewise, when white children rode the bus to their segregated school, leaving the black children to walk and even calling them names, the black children got a bit of revenge…and a chance to be better than their so-called betters with an act of charity.
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Arnaud "Arna" Wendell Bontemps was born on October 13, 1902, in Alexanderia, Louisiana, a child of middle class parents of mixed racial heritage--what is sometimes called Creole. His father, Paul Bismark Bontemps, was descended from French plantation owners living in Haiti and their slaves. After coming to the United States, the Bontemps family lived free in Louisiana for decades, and the many of the men worked as skilled brick and stone masons for generations. In addition to working his trade, Arna's father also played music with a popular band. Arna's mother, Maria (pronounced Ma-rye-ah) Carolina Pembrooke was descended from an English planter and his Cherokee wife. Maria taught public school and enjoyed creating visual art.
It's 1933 and President Roosevelt is having a devil of a time finding someone to appoint to the post of ambassador to Germany in Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts. All of the usual picks politely decline the post, as news of Germany's foreboding political atmosphere drifts to America. Roosevelt eventually settles on William E. Dodd, a historian at the University of Chicago whose primary goal is to finish his multi-volume historical treatise on the antebellum South before he dies. By most accounts, Dodd is an odd pick for ambassador, being neither rich nor well-connected. Most ambassadors entertain lavishly during their appointments, and it is expected that the costs will come from their own coffers. Frugal Dodd immediately made waves by pledging to live solely on his meager income, almost unheard of in cosmopolitan Berlin.
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Film noir is not easily defined. The actual words come from French and mean "black cinema." It was in France during the post-war years that the term was used to describe a certain set of Hollywood films that were saturated with a darkness and cynicism that was not seen before. These movies included The Maltese Falcon (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), Laura (1944), and Murder, My Sweet (1944).
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Mon, Feb. 22, 10:33 AM
- Freeport McMoRan (FCX +12.1%) soars ~12% in early trade to lead the S&P 500, as copper futures and other base metals surge.
- The LME's three-month copper contract was up 1.4% at $4,686/metric ton after hitting a two-week high earlier in the session at $4,701, maintaining its price momentum after closing above $4,600/ton last week for the first time in almost two weeks.
- Positive trading sentiment on copper was upheld by China's announcement that it will reduce deed and business taxes for home buyers in a bid to speed up home sales and reduce the glut on the property market; weak Chinese property sales have been bad for copper prices, as the sector accounts for most of the demand for the metal.
- Meanwhile, Bloomberg's David Fickling thinks BHP Billiton (BHP +5.9%) ought to buy FCX: BHP's copper output would more than double overnight and control of all three of the world's biggest copper pits - Escondida, Grasberg and Morenci - while a deal also would make sense for FCX, "whose debts are dragging it dangerously close to the plughole."
- ETFs: JJC, DBB, CPER, BOM, RJZ, BOS, JJM, BDD, CUPM
Thu, Feb. 4, 12:41 PM
- The dollar (UUP -0.6%) is retreating again today, continuing a move which began at the start of the week and picked up steam yesterday morning when New York Fed President Bill Dudley called out the greenback's strength as a cause for concern.
- Not coincidentally, commodity stocks are bouncing off of sharply discounted levels, with names like Freeport McMoRan, Vale, and Cemex up double digit percentages over the last day-plus.
- Turning to countries, Brazil (EWZ +3.7%) is on a two-day tear of about 6%, and Canada (EWC +2%) of just under 3%. In its first chance to respond to Dudley's remarks, Australia (EWA +2.1%) gained 2.1% overnight.
- ETFs: DBB, BOM, RJZ, BOS, JJM, BDD, UBM, BDG, HEVY
Fri, Jan. 15, 10:34 AM
- Shares in global mining companies face their biggest back-to-back weekly losses in four years after signs of slowing growth in China, plunging oil prices and asset writedowns at BHP Billiton spark a selloff.
- Copper prices hit a six-year low for the fifth time in a week in London, -1.9%, amid worries about China's economy, and are now down nearly 9% YTD; aluminum, lead, nickel and zinc all fell more than 1%.
- Long-dated "copper prices adjusted for producer country FX are mostly unchanged, which underscores the macro nature of the recent declines," according to Goldman Sachs.
- "No lasting price recovery appears possible at present, neither on the metal markets nor on the commodities markets in general," Commerzbank says.
- ETFs: JJC, DBB, JJN, JJU, CPER, JJT, BOM, RJZ, BOS, FOIL, JJM, LD, BDD, NINI, CUPM, LEDD
Sep. 9, 2015, 11:19 AM
- Industrial metals continue their recent climb, with aluminum, zinc and lead trying to play catch-up with copper, which has gained 5% this week as more miners mothball operations at loss-making mines.
- Glencore's (OTCPK:GLNCY, OTCPK:GLCNF) Monday announcement that it will cut 400K metric tons of copper production over the next 18 months at two mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia comes in the wake of closures or cutbacks at mines controlled by Freeport McMoRan (FCX +4.3%) and others; shortly after Glencore's decision, the Chinese operator of the Baluba mine in Zambia said it was suspending operations and cutting jobs.
- The closures follow a high level of production outages across the copper industry this year because of bad weather and labor disputes, with the combined effect helping to tighten the difference between supply and demand.
- ETFs: JJC, DBB, JJN, JJU, CPER, JJT, BOM, RJZ, BOS, FOIL, JJM, LD, BDD, NINI, CUPM, LEDD
Aug. 11, 2015, 11:35 AM
- Commodity metals are getting hammered by China's devaluation, with aluminum trading down nearly 2%, copper prices lower by 2.5% and nickel plunging more than 3.5%.
- Hardest hit of the mining stocks is Freeport McMoRan (FCX -14.1%), which has completely surrendered yesterday's 10.8% surge; shares now are down 72% over the past year and 57% YTD.
- Iron ore miners are sharply lower: BHP -5.5%, RIO -4.2%, VALE -7.8%, CLF -7.3%.
- Steel companies: X -9.7%, MT -5.1%, AKS -5.7%, NUE -2.9%, STLD -3.5%, CMC -4%.
- Also: AA -6%, CENX -4.9%, TCK -8.2%, SCCO -4.9%.
- ETFs: XLB, JJC, XME, SLX, PEO, VAW, COPX, DBB, UYM, CU, IYM, JJN, SMN, JJU, PICK, MATL, CPER, JJT, BOM, RJZ, FXZ, PYZ, BOS, FOIL, JJM, LD, BDD
Feb. 3, 2015, 10:24 AM
- Copper prices are on track for their biggest gains since September on speculation that China would use stimulus measures to jump-start its economy and boost demand for the metal.
- Rising oil prices and Chinese stimulus speculation "have changed the focus to the upside and the short-covering has done the rest," says Saxo Bank's Ole Hansen, adding that "energy is such a big and important part of the commodity sector, and the somewhat improved sentiment there also helps other" raw materials; aluminum and nickel also are rising to multi-week highs.
- "We're in this perverse world where bad news is good news," says BNP Paribas analyst Stephen Briggs, and "a lot of people are thinking China's going to join the rest of the world and lower interest rates or [offer] some kind of monetary response."
- Raw materials companies are off to a strong start today: FCX +5.8%, BHP +3.9%, RIO +2.4%, VALE +3.9%, SCCO +3.4%.
- ETFs: JJC, DBB, JJN, JJU, JJT, CPER, BOM, RJZ, BOS, LD, BDD, JJM, FOIL, NINI, CUPM
Jan. 14, 2015, 10:28 AM
- Freeport McMoRan (FCX -10.8%) sinks to a 52-week low as copper prices fall 4.5% to collapse to 2009 levels, though it is off overnight lows after prices were down nearly 9% at one point in London.
- Other big global miners also are sharply lower: SCCO -7.3%, RIO -2.5%, BHP -4.4%, VALE -3.8%, CLF -5.8%.
- Concerns over a supply glut and slowing consumption in China have weighed on copper prices in recent months; copper is often seen as an omen for the global economy because it is used in a wide array of construction and manufacturing activities, so today's precipitous drop explains much of the weakness in global equity markets.
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