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Rusty Miller's bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rustym/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2004-08-10T22:43:00ZTools we used to test C# during VS2005http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rustym/archive/2006/02/09/528860.aspx2006-02-09T23:14:00Z2006-02-09T23:14:00Z
During this last product cycle the C# test team faced some interesting testing challenges. Below is a recap from some of tools written by the C# test team for Visual C# and Visual Studio 2005.

CompilerFX:
One of the big challenges of testing a compiler and other language related features of the IDE is that numerous combinations of syntax that are possible to combine. To help solve this problem, we created CompilerFx. CompilerFx is an internal test tool that enables programmatic access to the C# AST (abstract syntax tree). It is written in C# and exposes nodes, the symbol table and annotated parse tree through a rich object model. It has various helper APIs that enables querying the code context easily. The AST information is dumped by the C# Compiler; this enables the tool to have access to the latest language features as soon as they are available.
Having the C# AST opened up the opportunity for automatically generating tests. Knowing the code context by querying the AST, we are able to recognize interesting code points such as a method invocation and its return type and then generate test cases based on that. This is powerful when it can be done across an existing test suite of 20,000 compiler tests. Since these new compiler tests are compiled and run, we would expect test execution to continue to pass, since the semantics of the code should change. During the VS2005 product cycle CompilerFX based tools found close to 100 bugs across features including the compiler, the refactoring engine, edit and continue, and code formatting. Testing using the AST has a lot of potential and is a place we'll continue to invest.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>

TAO: Test Automation Object
An important part of what a QA team does is automating test scenarios, many of which require manipulating the user interface. Over time we have created internal tools based mostly on Active Accessibility to do so. A common and significant problem with these tools is synchronizing the tests with the target application; writing very robust tests using this method has not always been easy. When the product UI changes, it often breaks tests and simple focus issues on the test machine can cause false positives.
Trying to circumvent this problem the C# test team created TAO (Test Automation Object). TAO is basically a test object in the language services that is only instantiated in a test environment. TAO differs from previous efforts in the following ways:<o:p></o:p>

· Separation between tests and execution engine: TAO tests are written in XML making them independent of the engine that executes them. This is really a data driven test. This abstraction also enables us to use the same tests to verify a feature through the UI (with a more traditional UI manipulation technique) or through an API.<o:p></o:p>

· Bypass the UI: TAO does not interact with the product through the traditional approach using Windows messages or Active Accessibility talking to the UI controls. Instead it drives the product through a lower level test interface that enables it to reach functionality without having to mimic a user's actions. Through these APIs tests can also obtain more detailed information on the product state including events and internal data structures.<o:p></o:p>

· Performance: You might not consider performance as a critical feature of a test; however, we are finding more and more that the usefulness of a test depends a lot on how quickly it can run. TAO tests execute about 4 times faster than the traditional UI based tests.<o:p></o:p>

· Efficient to write: TAO tests take about half as long to write as a traditional UI test.<o:p></o:p>

DELTA: Debugger Engine Level Test Automation
During VS2002, VS2003 and most of VS2005 the Debugger was tested mainly using an UI-based approach, driving the product through the UI exercising the test scenarios. DELTA is an engine level test library developed in C# that communicates with and drives the lower level debugger components through a set of API's exposed by the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Interop.dll. DELTA creates an instance of the Session Debug Manager ("SDM") component of the debugger which is a dispatcher between the UI and the various lower level components called "debug engines". DELTA uses this instance of the SDM to perform various debugging actions such as launching an executable or attaching to an already running one, controlling the execution flow through stepping or breakpoints or manipulating the current state through locals, call stack or threads information. DELTA tests have all the benefits of non-UI automation such as very fast execution and significantly increased robustness. We found that the cost of writing a Delta test was about the same as the UI approach, however, the DELTA test was about 30 times faster to execute. This makes sense when you consider that it's only loading a small fraction of the DLL's loaded in VS2005. By targeting the lower level debugger components, DELTA enables us to specifically target components in our testing. One of the biggest benefits is that these test are very robust and fast, which make them useful for checkin tests in addition to running as part of distributed test automation runs.<o:p></o:p>

If you passionate about writing tools and implementing creative ways to test, check out C# job openings (external). You can send your résumé to email@example.com or directly to me, I would love to hear your feedback.<o:p></o:p>

rustymhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rustym/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxCustomer bugs - list of fixeshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rustym/archive/2005/05/18/419807.aspx2005-05-19T03:22:00Z2005-05-19T03:22:00Z
To follow up from the previous post, here are all the fixed C# and Visual Studio Debugger bugs reported through MSDN Product Feedback for Beta1 and the CTP's (this doesn't include bugs entered on Beta2).

The top bug reporters for C# and the Debugger are:

 TAG 7
 Werdna 4
 Bob Cohen 3
 Keith Hill 3
 Jouko Kynsijrvi 3

Thanks to everyone that reported a bug!

- Rusty

rustymhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rustym/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxCustomer bugs - resultshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rustym/archive/2005/04/28/413063.aspx2005-04-28T17:32:00Z2005-04-28T17:32:00Z
Almost 9 months after shipping Beta1, Beta2 is shipped and in your hands. One big difference between VS2005 Beta1 and betas of our previous products has been the amount of community involvement. Beta1 was the debut of the MSDN Product Feedback Center, which improved upon the previous bug reporting mechanism in a couple key ways:

It improved transparency through the way it synchronizes data back and forth from our internal bug database to the MSDN Product Feedback site. In particular it enabled MS employee's to add comments to bug reports, which get pushed out to you.

It (finally) provided a more objective way to rank issues through voting and the importance rating. This gave us a better picture of how many users were affected a particular issue.<o:p></o:p>

Now that it was opened to the public (as opposed to you only being able to see your own bugs), it encouraged sharing workarounds, searching for duplicates before entering bugs and discussing/debating a particular issue through discussion threads.<o:p></o:p>

This helped remove some of the barriers between the internal product team and customers. The results so far have been great! Here is a summary of the resolutions of C# and the Visual Studio Debugger feedback. I've also included resolutions for bugs entered by MS employees for the same period for comparison.

Resolution of bugs reported since Beta1:

 IssueType	 Source	 Total	 Fixed	 Postponed	 Won'tFix	 ByDesign	 NotRepro

 CodeDefects	 MSDNFeedback	 555	 240	 59	 8	 101	 142

 	 MSDNFeedback	 	 43%	 11%	 1%	 18%	 26%

 	 Internal	 	 45%	 11%	 4%	 10%	 10%

 Suggestions/DCRs	 MSDNFeedback	  567	 51	 286	 39	 131	 45

 	 MSDNFeedback	 	 9%	 50%	 7%	 23%	 8%

 	 Internal	 	 23%	 45%	 13%	 8%	 3%

For code defects, the fixed and postponed rates are almost the same between bugs reported through MSDN Feedback and those reported internally. I think the higher "Not Repro" rate for MSDN Feedback code defects is due to having older builds compared with internal teams. Getting your bug reports improves the product is two key ways. First, obviously, it identifies specific issues that we missed through our normal testing, but need to fix. Test teams employ a variety of test activities in the course of their testing, but even then it's hard to find all the issues (or know which ones to fix) before it goes out in Beta. The second way it improves the product is by identifying deficiencies in our test approach, which we can then address in our processes so that the next milestone doesn't suffer the same class of problems. We are currently in the process of doing a test hole analysis for these MSDN Feedback bugs to see if there are trends or patterns to the bugs we missed. Getting beta and early adopter coverage is really important part of our strategy for testing the product and improving how we develop software.

Suggestions and Design Change Request (DCRs) are less of an apples-to-apples comparison with internally entered suggestions. The first observation is that a lot more suggestions are entered through MSDN Feedback Center in percentage and total than MS employees enter internally. Over half of MSDN Feedback reports are suggestions, but internal suggestions account for less than 5% of the total. I think a lot of the "suggestions" internally are expressed through email and hallway conversations instead of bug reports. I think the best forum for suggestions is really through the community anyway. The MSDN Feedback site enables us to objectively rank what is important to you through voting and the importance rating. This has been useful in weighing the different suggestions and as a result we've been able to act on your feedback – the two notable examples being C# EnC (399 votes) and Update Icon sets (813 votes), the #1 and #2 voted items.

Overally, I've been impressed with the quality of the bug reports and the volume of reports has been manageable. In my next post I'll include the list of fixed C# and Debugger bugs.

- Rusty Miller
Visual C# Test Manager

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I love going out to college campuses and meeting students, chatting about their projects and giving them a coding problem or two. Every college has its only flavor and emphasis - some focus on Java, others C or C++, and some C#. The programming language doesn't really matter – they all give us a chance to talk about a coding problem, tradeoffs with optimization and interesting things to test.  There are hands-on schools where coding skills are quite good while others tend to be more theoretical and students have less coding experience.  In general, coding skills aren't as important as problem solving, raw smarts, and of course a passion for software. Technologies and even languages come and go, so your ability to learn and ramp up on the next technology or language is more important that deep skills in the technology of the day if you can't learn the next.  This last Winter I made a visit to the University of Waterloo, Ontario. (We have several Waterloo alums on C# team.) Waterloo has a really cool coop program where students take 6-8 coops over the course of their degree. I never did an internship or coop during college, but wish I had – it's a great learning experience.  I also got a chance to visit Virginia Tech, another one of my favorite schools. While doing recruiting at colleges, we're looking for great hires for any discipline (Developer, Developer in Test and Program Management) and any team at Microsoft.

My team (C# and the VS Debugger) is looking for Developers in Test (aka SDET), which is probably the least understood discipline outside of Microsoft. Santosh wrote a nice blog entry on what it's like to be a tester at MS. Scott Guthrie, Product Unit Manager, of ASP.NET, also has a thorough description of the whole testing process. Check out the jobsblog for a couple other good descriptions (Are you a good enough developer to be a Microsoft SDET? and 3 reasons to consider SDET ). You can also listen to Peter Hauge's podcast. The biggest misconception about testing at Microsoft is that it's not technical. I think a lot of this perception comes from people's experience working for software companies where testers primarily do manual testing and the ratio is on the order of 1 tester for every 10 developers (or even fewer). In those cases, testers really don't have the time to dedicate to the technical side of testing. Depending on the team, the ratio at MS is one SDET to one SDE. SDET's are essentially developers that work on the testing problem. One of the coolest things about the SDET role in my opinion is the mix of creativity, technical and problem solving you get to apply to most testing problems. Many times the design and implementation is a known quantity, but the testing can be approached from many different ways - restricted to your imagination really.

If you are interested in an SDET position send me your resume at firstname.lastname@example.com. Our C# and Debugger job descriptions can be found here.

Rusty Miller
Visual C# Test Manager

rustymhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rustym/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTest styles and predicting bugshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rustym/archive/2005/04/19/409782.aspx2005-04-19T22:06:00Z2005-04-19T22:06:00Z
I recently had some flight/airport time to catch up on a couple articles I've been meaning to read.

What is a good test case by Cem Kaner
This is a good summary for people new to software testing. I'm a strong believer in using multiple "test styles" and test activities as part of an overall testing strategy. This paper breaks black box testing into Function, Domain, Specification, Risk-based, Stress, Regression, User, Scenario, State-model based, High volume automated and Exploratory testing. Internally we may use different terms, but hit most of these categories in some form. For example, in addition to functional testing, which is probably the dominant style, we also do stress, capacity, security, specification (feature specs as well as others Logo requirement and Accessiblity/Section 508 etc), scenario and exploratory testing. We do "User" testing through both dogfooding our product as well as through betas and early adopter programs. My team has a few pilot projects with State-model based testing, but it's limited right at the moment. We have recently done a lot more high volume automated testing on our IDE features, where we take arbitrary code and apply generic tests to it. This has been pretty successful. We've taken our compiler test suite of 20,000+ language tests and run in through this engine and have found a number of bugs we didn't with traditional methods.

A Critique of Software Defect Prediction Models by Norman E. Fenton and Martin Neil
A Decision-Analytic Stopping Rule for Validation of Commercial Software Systems by Tom Chávez
Both papers related to predicting bugs and had interesting approaches, which I want to look into more when I get more time. I appreciate the point in Fenton and Neil's paper about testing effort and testability needing to be part of the equation. They make a good point that variables such as developer skills are very important and can be more important than module size or complexity in bug rates. If these are held constant, it's more valid, but a magic number like the "Goldilocks's Conjecture" that says there's an ideal module size is suspect.

Chávez's stopping rule paper also sounds promising, although in general I think we are still a long way from being able to rely on numbers alone.  I think we will still rely a lot on people's experience and gut feel for setting schedules and determining when to ship. We do something internally (and I'm sure many other software projects out there do the same), which we call "bake-time", where we might have zero ship stoppers at a given point in time, but we still want to wait before we ship because of the possibility of unfound bugs.  Historically last minute ship stoppers have popped up due to hard to predict activities (if we knew what they were we'd do those tests ahead of time). Typically it's a result of someone intentionally doing creative testing or performing a real world scenario people hadn't thought of yet. It's a challenge to anticipate what these are, but it's this hunt that makes for some very exciting and creative testing.

Internally, we use a low tech but relatively accurate method of predicting bug rates with historical data. We look at the shape of active and incoming bug graphs from previous product cycles and incoming rates from test passes and fixed rates to help predict our dates. One interesting observation is that while we are driving to hit zero bugs for a even milestone, the total number of bugs stays roughly constant if add the current milestone's bugs with the bug pushed off to the next milestone, however, the make-up of these bugs changes to weigh the low priority and lower severity variety over time.

I'd be interested to know if other people have implemented an bug predicting or stopping rules.

rustymhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rustym/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxIntroduction & Application Verifierhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rustym/archive/2004/08/10/212438.aspx2004-08-11T05:43:00Z2004-08-11T05:43:00Z
Hello, I'm the Test Manager for Visual C# and the Visual Studio Debugger. During my career at MS, I've also worked on Win95, Visual Test, Visual J++ and Visual C++.

In addition to blogging about what my team is up to, I'll touch on some of the other stuff I have my fingers in:
- Various aspects of software quality
- Side-by-Side (for example, VS2003 SxS with VS2005 on the same machine).
- MSDN Product Feedback
- Application Verifier, one of my favorite test tools

Which brings me to my first testing suggestion, AppVerifier. If you haven't given it a try already, try running your app under AppVerifier. If you are running on Windows XP or greater (the greater the better because more verifications are added to the OS on in later versions) you can almost immediately find bugs by running your app with this turned on. For the "core" set of verifications, the tool causes your app to fail fast when it does something wrong by AV'ing immediately instead of later down the line when the bad code is long gone from the scene. These are the core verifications:

PageHeap: Checks the heap for corruption and adds guard pages to the end of each allocation. This causes access violations when there are buffer overruns.
Locks: Checks for errors in lock usage. This might cause access violations when errors are located.
Handles: Checks for handle errors. This might cause access violations when errors are located.

It can also help you make your app more secure. See Mike Howard's article.

To get started:
1) Install the Applications Compatibilty Toolkit and run "appverif" from the Start.Run.
2) Set the verifications you want to turn on for your EXE.
3) You should run it under a debugger, so open your EXE in the Visual Studio Debugger (of course! :-) ) and set up your symbol and source paths.
4) F5
5) Test your app.

Tips:
1) With PageHeap on you will need lots of extra memory. For VS2005 we turn on all the verifications and found 1GB is needed, although I'm sure you can get by with less depending on your app.
2) As I mentioned, use the newest version of the OS. I'd suggest Windows Server 2003 if you have it. At a minimum you need Windows XP.
3) If you turn on verifications that output to the log file, try "Break on Error". This will give you a call stack can you can immediately see who is causing the problem.

Also see Appverifer FAQ .

We use it internally and find a fair number of bugs, but it's the quality not the quanity that's important and AppVerifer can help identify those bad bugs that would otherwise reduce the stabilty of your app.

- Rusty Miller

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Out of Office auto-replies are setup within Exchange, and reply to any incoming messages- not sure if that's what you are looking to do?
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quibble: I believe the ruling was a woman can't withdraw consent after the man had penetrated her. Still is rape if she says "yes" in the bar but "no" when they get to the room (pre-insertion).
But yes, pretty appalling that a juror would say "well, the roofie was to 'loosen her up', not to assault her." What's the difference?
Re: My Drunken Feminism Babble at Barça the Other Night and re: This Post...
I don't know where this is from or with what/whom it is associated, but yikes.
Commenter 1: The article specifically reports that jurors are more inclined to convict if roofies are involved:
"By contrast, where the drug Rohypnol had been used, jurors were more inclined to hold the defendant responsible for rape, even if the effect of the drug was the same as if a woman were very drunk."
Really hard to know what this study says about the English without looking at how questions were framed. The study is also missing a control condition. Would jurors be less inclined to convict a murderer based on testimony from drunk vs sober witnesses? Probably, but that doesn't mean they think the victim deserved to be killed.
Good LORD, 2! I had no idea white, heterosexual men were so oppressed.
Let's face it, many men are sluts, and they get drunk to get laid. If they got raped while passed out, well, mission accomplished. They'd feel differently if physically assaulted in any other way though, or if the sex was (gasp!) homosexual. C'mon, a hole is a hole right?!
Thank you for continuing to be a vigilant feminist, Erica.
Issues like this always present thorny legal issues. Especially when trying to decide criminal liability based on the testimony of two people one or both of whom my have been awfully drunk at the time. It is even more complicated when the victim suffers form a blackout (either self or attacker induced) and does not remember the event. Generally there is no physical evidence to separate this kind of rape from non-rape, nor is their often witnesses. This leaves only the victim and alleged attackers testimony
I am not really sure there is a good solution. Ideally we would be able to conclusively ascertain rape from non-rape, but that is not the case.
And HIM: Yah I think that was what it said. The traditional rule for rape revolves around forcible, non-consensual, penetration of a vagina (nothing else). Penetration was a bright lien between rape and non rape (or sexual assault). Continuing a sex act therefore, under that rule, could not be rape. May be sexual assault or something but could not be rape as the actual penetration was consensual. A stupid rule sure, but one that has fortunately been changed by statue in (almost) every jurisdiction.
Less than 6% of rape allegations lead to an offender being convicted?
That is really fucked up.
To be fair, Britain is struggling mightily with the problems inherent in building a society where every single person is paralytically drunk 24 hours a day.
To me, the obvious test for fairness in a case like this is to see if the ruling would have been identical had the alleged victim been a man. In other words, if a man fails to guard his drink adequately, another male spikes it and then "takes advantage" of his inebriation to similarly violate him without explicit consent, would a judge and jury find the defendant guilty of rape?
I rather suspect the answer is yes; they'd be much more appalled by a male being plied with drinks and then raped by another man than by a woman being identically violated. Because after all, we all know that any woman who allows herself to go into a bar and drink in the presence of men when she has her vagina with her is Asking For It, right?
I remove my vagina when I go out, and replace it with a set of false teeth.
The feminists must be marching today. I got 3 on 1'd earlier today in an online discussion on rape. I made the point that a fundamental fear of men is a perception gap between said woman's perception, where she believes every man is a rapist, and reality, where nearly all men are not and never will be rapists. And the Iron Femifist came down hard.
Statistics supposedly show that one out of twelve men has committed or attempted rape. I don't know how that data was compiled so I can't vouch for it, but it kind of refutes the argument that you made, Gomez.
There's also this little gem.
A study of attitudes toward rape at one college asked male students if they would commit acquaintance rape if they could be assured that no one else would find out and they would not be punished. Only 40 percent said they were not at all likely to rape a woman if given the opportunity described. Other studies on attitudes toward rape have found similar results.
So, while eleven out of twelve men will never attempt or commit rape, at least six out of those eleven men would like to.
Speaking of date rape, anyone remember what The Stranger did to Isaac Brock?
That study is certainly troubling. I wonder if the numbers would translate into "real world" actions; that is, for respondents who said "maybe" or equivalent (the link isn't working for me, so I can't read the article itself), how many would actually commite rape if the circumstances arose?
Imagine that at some time in the future we develop completely convincing virtual reality. So, as per numerous sci-fi movies, you can plug in and experience totally believable alternate realities. Now, imagine you can do this with complete anonymity. You could play out absolutely any scenario you wanted, with no repercussions, embarrasment to you or harm to anyone else.
What would you do in this playground of the mind? Obviously, people would experiment with whatever fetishes they are most interested in, but may be too embarrased or inhibited to engage in for real. But how many people would try more extreme and/or illegal scenarios? How many people wouldn't be tempted to try the forbidden?
And if someone does try something like rape, does that say anything meaningful about their psyche, or their potential actions back in real life? Would it be fair to condemn someone based on their virtual actions, or would it be akin to entrapment? It has been well established that otherwise good people can do pretty bad things given the appropriate impetus.
But back to the study... I sincerely hope that at least some of the "maybe's" would in fact become "no's" when it came to the crunch. But given the inherent tension set up by the differing sex drives of the genders, I think that's probably not very likely, sadly.
that study and others like it rely on an extraordinarily broad definition of what constitutes rape, including such scenarios as a girl rejecting verbal requests for sex from a potential partner.
1) I continue to believe that women who drink bear a great deal of responsibility to protect themselves.
2) However, I DO NOT see the drinking women's responsibility to protect herself as a legal defense against charges of rape!
3) I am dumbfounded that any jury would not see "spiking a drink" as prima facie evidence of intent to ignore the victims consent or lack of consent, and thereby as evidence of intent to commit the crime of rape for which they are on trial. I have to think a prosecutor here in the U.S. would easily be able to get a jury to convict if the jury was given convincing evidence of the defendant having spike a victims drink.
4) But then I read the posts by commenters here, even here, and I despair.
Geni wrote "To me, the obvious test for fairness in a case like this is to see if the ruling would have been identical had the alleged victim been a man." I agree. But I also maintain the converse holds, if you wouldn't call a woman doing it a rapist, then don't convict a man.
The issue seems to be getting blurry between consensual alcohol intake and putting a roofie in someone's drink. Roofie-ing someone is rape, end of story full stop. Mirror, nobody on this board is excusing the man who puts a pill surreptitiously in a woman's drink to make her pass out, so no reason to despair.
A woman who buys and consumes drinks under her own power is a different story. If she's passed out and a man (not a husband/boyfriend) humps her inert body, that's also rape. But between sobriety and unconsciousness, where is the cutoff point where it's automatically rape, and are you willing to use this yardstick for both sexes?
I'd like to see the study that shows 1 in 12 men committed or attempted rape. Until we see it, ballocks. What is presented with no evidence can be refuted with no evidence. I suspect this is one of those studies that counts women with 2 or more drinks in their systems as unable to give consent, and thus rape victims. By this logic, about 9 out of 10 women are rapists.
@ 18 and 20,
The 1 in 13 men (I was wrong about the 1 in 12 number. I apologize to that 13th decent human being I impugned) study was conducted on college campuses. In the study, 1 out of 13 men admitted to committing acts that fit the legal definition of rape and attempted rape.
Here's the summary of the findings:
In the present study, behaviorally specific items regarding rape and lesser forms of sexual aggression or victimization were presented in a noncrime context to an approximately representative national sample of high education students. The results indicated that, since the age of 14, 27.5% of college women reported experiencing and 7.7% of college men reported perpetrating an act that met legal definitions of rape, which includes attempts. Because virtually none of these victims or perpetrators had been involved in the criminal justice system, their experiences would not be reflected in official crime statistics such as the Uniform Crime Reports.
A victimization rate for women of 38 per 1,000 was calculated, which represented the number of women per thousand who experienced a rape (that met the FBI definition) during the previous 6 months. A Corresponding perpetration rate of 9 per 1,000 men was also reported, which represented the number of men per thousand who admitted an act during the previous 6 months that met the FBI definition of rape. This rape victimization rate is 10-5 times greater than rates that are based on the NCS (National Crime Survey), which are 3.9 per 1,000 16-19 year-old women and 2.5 per 1,000 20-24 year-old women. Even men's rate of admitting to raping are 2-3 times greater than NCS estimates of the risk of rape for women between the ages of 16-24. At least among students in higher education, it must be concluded that official surveys such as the NCS fail to describe the full extent of sexual victimization.
The findings of the present study demonstrate that men do not admit enough sexual aggression to account for the number of victimizations reported by women. Specifically, 54% of college women claimed to be sexually victimized, but only 25% of college men admitted any degree of sexually aggressive behavior. The number of times that men admitted to perpetrating each aggressive act was virtually identical to the number of times women reported experiencing each act. Thus, the results of the present study failed to support notions that a few extremely sexually active men could account for the victimization of a sizable number of women. Clearly, some of the victimizations reported by college women occurred in earlier years and were not perpetrated by the men who were surveyed. In addition, some recent victimizations may have involved community members who were not attending higher education institutions. Future research must determine whether these explanations can account for the sizable difference in rates.
According to the study, the FBI (and National Crime Survey) definition of rape is "forcible actual or attempted vaginal intercourse with a woman against consent by force or threat of force." The study used the more broader state definition of "oral, anal, vaginal intercourse, or penetration by objects against consent through threat, force, or intentional incapacitation of the victim via drugs."
I can't find the questions that they asked male participants, but here are the questions to female participants:
Have you had a man attempt sexual intercourse (get on top of you, attempt to insert his penis) when you didn't want to by threatening or using some degree of force (twisting your arm, holding you down, etc.), but intercourse did not occur?
Have you had a man attempt sexual intercourse (get on top of you, attempt to insert his penis) when you didn't want to by giving alcohol or drugs, but intercourse did not occur?
Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn't want to because a man gave you alcohol or drugs?
Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn't want to because a man threatened or used some degree of physical force (twisting your arm, holding you down, etc.) to make you?
Have you had sex acts (anal or oral intercourse or penetration by objects other than the penis) when you didn't want to because a man threatened or used some degree of physical force (twisting your arm, holding you down, etc.) to make you?
"Have you had a man attempt sexual intercourse (get on top of you, attempt to insert his penis) when you didn't want to by giving alcohol or drugs, but intercourse did not occur?"
The problem is, this also covers a guy buying a girl drinks, attempting to climb on the girl, getting rebuffed, and going, "OK, no problem."
"Have you had sexual intercourse when you didn't want to because a man gave you alcohol or drugs?"
With this question there is no distinction between a man forcibly holding a woman down and penetrating her, and a girlfriend putting up with her drunk boyfriend when she'd really rather sleep. Or a guy putting a roofie in her drink and having his way with her, versus some guy paying for a pitcher of margaritas and her cheating on her boyfriend.
On many campuses in the 90's, a woman could accuse a man of rape, successfully, even when there had been no drugs, alcohol, or coercion involved. Men were all assumed to be rapists-in-wait, and they were not only responsible for what they did when intoxicated, they were responsible for what the women they were with did, when intoxicated. I have no idea what the scene is like on campuses now, but I believe the study Keshmeshi cites came out then.
Again, physical force, verbal threats, roofies or Everclear in your drink = rape. Next day regret does not.
And yes, a woman can tell the guy to stop at any time, and he should. If he keeps on against her will, that is also rape.
The alcohol/drug questions accounted for only a small percentage of the yes answers in the study. But, by all means, waste your energy denying that sexual violence is an endemic problem in this country because you don't like a couple of questions in a survey.
Anyway, your bullshit is beside the point. My original comment was in response to Gomez's claim that an insignificant number of men have or will ever commit rape. Despite your guys' willingness to pretend that all rapists are dirty, stinky sociopaths hiding behind bushes, the reality is that, by all appearances, most rapists are completely normal. They're your, and my, colleagues, acquaintances, friends, and relatives.
If you can give the survey's location online, please do. If alcohol and drugs played only a small part in the results of that survey, I'll be happy to be corrected. My points on the non-clarity of the study still stand, however.
You're damn right I've got a problem with a couple of questions in a survey,' and if you gave a damn about the subject of either rape or justice, you would too.
Rape is a horrible act, and it's also a horrible thing to be charged with wrongly. At a certain point, a viewpoint sprang up among some women, the mirror image of some men thinking 'she's got it coming if she dresses a certain way,' that is 'he's got an accusation of rape coming, even if we have to broaden the definition of rape to something we'd never go after a woman for.' The woman just being pissed at the guy the next day was enough to bring charges - remember how, on some campuses, LYING to the girl before sex could be construed as rape?
Neither Gomez or I defended roofies, physical force, sex with the comatose, or claimed that rapists were dirty homeless men in bushes, but I'm still hearing a deafening silence on my question, also asked the last time Erica brought this subject up, namely,
What is a definition of rape that you'd like to see women prosecuted for as vigorously as men? And if the man and woman are both drunk on their own alcohol, and both consent to sex, are they both rapists? Neither of them?
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Freddy's Back!
Freddy Muñoz is a bit concerned. Agitated, even. As we enter the Minneapolis Institute of Arts' Target Gallery, three days before "Freddy Muñoz: Paintings, 2002-2006" opens, he leans over the brushed chrome railing that protects three smallish acrylics and touches one with a finger.
"It seems that a tall person could grab one of these very easily," he says to Stuart Turnquist, coordinator of the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, which puts local artists on the MIA's walls. All Muñoz's other works are in the 10-foot by 10-foot range, and can presumably fend for themselves. "I trust that the gallery will be well protected?" he adds.
Turnquist says, "Oh, we'll have people everywhere." With his mustache and wire rims, Turnquist looks not unlike Ned Flanders, and has a calmly upbeat demeanor to match. Turnquist has been allaying artists' anxieties—and humoring their whims—for 29 years now as the MAEP coordinator. He knows what he's doing, which is generally letting artists do what they want.
Muñoz's attention to detail is understandable, given that this is his first big local solo show since a Martin Friedman-curated Walker exhibition in 1963. At 71, he looks great: just a hint of tummy, wavy white hair that spirals upward like the plumage of some regal bird, and steely eyes that modulate from brown to hazel. With his aquiline nose and multiple-earthtone outfit, he suggests a raptor in sparrow's clothing.
Born and raised in colonial Algiers, Muñoz studied in Paris for three years and spent a couple of years in Canada before coming to Minneapolis and entering the U of M's MFA program in 1958. He took a teaching job there three years later, shortly after getting his degree. In 1964 he traveled upstate and upstairs to become the head of the Duluth campus's art department. He resigned from that post in 1978. "Since then," he says "I've been teaching privately and conducting workshops all over—the U.S., Canada, Mexico, France."
While he very much identifies with the French, the artist's work reflects the inspiration of avatars ranging from Velazquez, Giotto, and Goya to Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollack, and Franz Kline—sometimes all at once. Marrying image and abstraction with freedom and discipline, he often challenges himself and his audiences with the robustness of an artist half his age. One of his contributions to a 2002 McKnight group show at MCAD was a realistically rendered, six-foot by nine-foot hunk of raw meat dotted with little color copies of Giotto angels.
Muñoz began his current cycle of apocalyptic paintings in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he worked and taught for seven years. "I was fed up then," he explains later, the disgust in his voice so thick you can taste it. "And I'm fed up now. One Bush is one Bush too many." Like many people who weren't blessed enough to be born in the U.S. of A., he pronounces the president's name "Boosh," as though dropping an alternative term for an unsavory sexual practice.
"Does the lighting seem even to you?" Muñoz asks a tech staffer as we approach the massive canvas called Net. What appear to be thick ropes of living flame dance across a background that shifts from black to a deep, vibrant blue as the eye travels down the painting's surface. He waves a hand toward the picture's upper edge, fingers aflutter. "I'm sure your instruments would tell you that it is, but, to me, the painting seems a bit darker along the top."
"I work fast," he tells me as we watch the tech dude reposition a few track lights, "but I prepare slow. I spent two months getting ready to paint Net, making the brushes"—exotic-looking, extra-heavy-duty implements that are displayed near the gallery's entrance—"and thinking about what I was going to do. Then, I painted it in eight hours. I love Mozart's Requiem, so I played it again and again. I laughed, and cried, and painted, and sweated. Then it was over."
Satisfied, Muñoz turns toward Monkey, assuming the classic inspector's position, hands tucked behind his back. Considerably less abstract than its roommates, but no less expansive, the painting depicts a life-size anthropoid with a look of ineffable anguish on its face. The creature is seated at the bottom of an abysmal chamber draped with strips of bloody flesh.
"How does this look?" Lindquist asks.
"It's exactly as it should be," replies Muñoz. "The monkey is making eye contact with us."
In the next room, a hanging wants for a tweak. "I don't think we need quite so many push pins along the top," he says, gesturing broadly toward Oneness. Like his other paintings, the earthy abstraction is on unstretched canvas—an approach mandated by both physical and financial necessity. Muñoz's Central Avenue studio is tiny; the paintings he makes in it tend toward the enormous. Without the option of rolling them up after completion, he'd soon run out of space.
Climbing a four-wheeled platform, which has two sets of stairs and railings on either side, Turnquist starts carefully yanking pins. "I wish I had one of those in my studio," Muñoz says wistfully of the museum's contraption. "I use step ladders. All the time I'm working, it's up, down, up, down. By the end of the day, I'm worn out."
Exhausted as he may be, the painter still has the energy to bike from his studio to the house in Uptown he shares with his partner of 10 years and another couple. An avid cyclist and walker, Muñoz is a hell of a lot fitter than most guys in their 70s—to the extent that he can get away with wearing his shirt unbuttoned almost to the navel.
"What do you think?" Turnquist asks after pulling all but a few of the pins. "I feel better that way," Muñoz replies. "Now if we could do the same with Animal."
Turnquist wheels the platform over to a huge portrayal of a pig, who is so energetically gleeful, he almost seems ready to leap out of the painting. "It's a portrait," Muñoz confides, "But I can't say of who."
A lover of critters for as long as he can remember, Muñoz gave up red meat right around the time he hit Oaxaca, after immersing himself in Buddhist philosophy for a few years. "Buddhism had an enormous effect on me," he says, "But at the same time, I read some books about how red meat really isn't good for us. I also learned about the awful conditions in slaughterhouses. Animals are sentient creatures with intelligence and spirit. They shouldn't be treated so terribly."
At a right angle to Animal, smaller versions of the smiling porker populate The Pigs Are Coming. Yet the splashes of red on some of their mouths and the painting's deep crimson lower border suggest that more than a little is amiss. Which is exactly the exhibition's point.
Muñoz isn't blood-shy. "Science is just now discovering what the Hindus and Buddhists have known for thousands of years," he says. "That everything in the universe is interconnected. I could never be like Matisse, painting flowers and nudes during World War II. I can live them, sure, but art is another matter. Everybody has a dark side. I just choose to engage mine."
But Muñoz doesn't dwell exclusively on the lurid. "Apocalypse happens every day," he says. "It's always a transition, never just an ending. Something good comes out of it, then eventually, more apocalypse."
Even his pigs face the prospect of a brighter future. Scattered among them in the upper half of the canvas are more of those Giotto angels, blue-green, beatific, and decidedly aloft. "They represent the non-corporeal aspect of the pigs," Muñoz says, smiling broadly. "This way, I can communicate with Giotto across the centuries."
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Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Mark hopkins is back! & with good stuff! (see end letter I sent Carlos today, no its not a contradiction, i do not hate men, i hate what they do...the future is women, & women will take care of men the way men take care of women now, but obviously they will choose the sweet nice ones, not the creeps...carlos is sweet, nice, tender, he has a super good heart, but he's on the wrong path & i want to help)
hey mark
this is incredible
anything of this sort i will put into the new newsletters as well as the new book, so keep it coming if you find it
it is truly informative stuff for matriarchy
He speaks of his site, "Fall of Mankind," which is now off the web, from Mark Hopkins (a genius who also happens to be a "12" hottie):
It will be back on a much more serious tone. The issue will not die.
There are more women employed than men in the US, as of now. But there are more working age men than women in the US and in every other population on Earth. Since HR is mostly run by women now -- and HR is the gatekeepers for job entry -- that lopsidedness will become even more lopsided. Men are being locked out from the bottom.
That's the Glass Floor.
The distribution of power, wealth and control is going to get very lopsided even more so than when it was a man's world.
About 10% of men in the US are in jail, many on non-violent offenses or crimes that were not considered crimes a generation or two ago. If states run out of money, prisoners will be required to pay for their stay in jail. That's forced labor.
That's a slave class formed of men.
On the other side of the equation: most people coming out of college in public administration are women. If jail wardens also tip toward female majority, then the institutions holding the population of male slaves will be run by women.
In other words, you are slowly seeing the pieces being put into place of the transformation of the male population into a slave class, subordinate to women and at a lower standing.
These are also the seeds of violent backlash and revolution by a large and growing number of disaffected and displaced males against what this society is becoming.
And, if so, it will be a just cause.
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- neo said...
Femdom is a tool of feminism to enslave men and make them weak and submissive.The funny thing is those who do femdom many a times revert back to other extreme-maledom.It does'nt take much intelligence to understand that this BDSM is only a sexual perversion designed to cause physical and mental trauma to people engaged in it and thus cause degeneration of society.Masonic(freemasons) writers for the last 200 years have written feminist and femdom sexual utopia in protestant countries under the secret guidance of catholic Jesuit preists.They promoted feminism and these sexual perversions only to destroy your protestant nations.Freemasonry is a secret society developed by Jesuits to enslave men and women of protestant countries through feminism and femdom and thus destroy protestantism secretly,results of which you can clearly see in mainline protestantism today.That is why you see masonic lodges only in predominantly protestant areas,never in catholic areas. I belive god will bless you to see the truth that feminism and femdom are only lies initiated by catholics through their secret jesuit -freemason axis to destroy protestantism-true religion of god.
- 6 August 2010 at 05:31
- Fairy network work from home - Butterfly Lullaby said...
Brilliant blog! Good to see another strong women not brainwashed by some men. We are made to feel we should just put up and shut up and that is not only by some men but women too.
I for one do not want my child growing up with all this rubbish. She deserves to be treated with respect and to know wrong from right.
- 26 June 2011 at 01:05
- M123 said...
lol, so tha sayin we men will at some point be kneelin before our female mistresses/rulers/controllers/owners?
ha i can just imagine a women goin "bow down to me, slave!"
if thats whats goin to appen then fine ill go along with it, tha gorra take t'rough wi' t'smooth i guess!
- 25 December 2011 at 12:24
- Matt. Bov said...
I don't think men should be slaves or women we just need a stronger military. So someone should go to jail for a longer period of time than usual to stop the violence and crimes. And all you women out there if you really want your man to be your slave then that proves you don't truly love him.
- 21 February 2013 at 14:15
- Matt. Bov said...
I don't think men should be slaves or women we just need a stronger military. So someone should go to jail for a longer period of time than usual to stop the violence and crimes. And all you women out there if you really want your man to be your slave then that proves you don't truly love him.
- 21 February 2013 at 14:15
- Bill Stegall said...
The sounder the better. I have been asking myself why the same churches that so vociferously oppose abortion rights (and weirdly, birth control) have such a lukewarm response to expanding Medicaid? They are not carrying picket signs about that issue! Why would they care more for the unborn than the people out of the womb? It is obvious to me that many of the men who might have moral qualms about abortion are also there because subconsciously they fear sexually powerful women who are liberated from the control of men and the church. The idea emasculates them. They sense that such women will create a more equitable world with a higher minimum wage, better childcare, and real protection for the environment. Conservative men instinctively and correctly see free independent women as a threat to their sexual, political, and economic power. Hmmmm, I may be a man, but I'm joining the revolution!
- 30 July 2014 at 10:58
- LIMPdick said...
All hail to the mighty clitoris! ALL HAIL!
- 4 August 2014 at 05:34
- Juliette Bravo said...
We males need to remember and recognize the WOMEN have decisively "WON THE GENDER WAR" and there is a unwritten rule of war that says "to the victor goes the spoils" in other words, those who win take whatever the loser has and controls it !! males have lost the gender war, so Females have the right to do as they please with the "losers" aka males. Do you ever wonder why women have begun taunting males as "LOSERS" and signaling with their hand a "L" symbol for males ? This is the main reason I advocate Radical Feminism and Female Supremacy. Women have won the gender, so why do they have to continue fighting for their "spoils of war" this has only made the Women angrier at males to the point where Females, now consider males as "non essential" and the "disposable gender" We males must do anything it takes to please our Female conquerors so maybe they will have mercy on the male gender, when Women finally are the ruling majority in social, economic and political world issues. Enslavement of the male is a much more viable solution, than being designated as non-essential or disposable.
- 25 September 2015 at 07:42
- Tomas Mnet said...
In prehistoric times existed matriarchy. Very hard and sadistic matriarchy:
Then, the pendulum swung the other way.
Today is probably balanced account. And coming new age for people. And I hope - not again matriarchy.
- 28 October 2015 at 15:21


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Android Finally Hits Stride in Tablets
Apple faces tough competition from Android-powered smartphones, but its position in tablets is often described quite differently–as pretty close to total domination. But the Silicon Valley giant's loss of market share is taking place at a very similar rate, one research firm says.
Tablets powered by the Google operating system swelled to 39% of the market in the fourth quarter of 2011, says Strategy Analytics. That's up from 29% in the year-earlier period.
Yes, Apple's standing with iPad was still enviable, accounting for 68.2% of sales, the firm says. But the situation looked quite similar at the same point after the iPhone's introduction in 2007.
For a time, the radical new pocket communicator dominated the market; seven quarters later–roughly the same elapsed time since the iPad's introduction, the penetration of Android-based smartphones was about the same as it is with non-Apple tablets today, the research firm says.
"In other words, Android tablets are rising at broadly the same rate as Android smartphones did in the past," says Neil Mawston, executive director of the global wireless practice of Strategy Analytics.
Mawston says the firm's numbers do incorporate Apple's blowout fourth-quarter results issued Tuesday. They don't include any indications from Samsung Electronics or Amazon.com about their sales of Android-based tablets in the period ended December.
Jen-Hsun Huang, the chief executive of chip maker Nvidia, made much the same point at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier in the month. He argued that Android will pick up even more momentum as tablet makers adopt Ice Cream Sandwich, the code name for a new version of Android that unifies tablet and smartphone versions of the operating system.
Performance will be noticeably better, said Huang, whose company supplies chips that power hardware powered by Android and Microsoft's Windows. "Everything is buttery smooth," he said during a demonstration of an Asustek tablet running Ice Cream Sandwich. "Smooth like a baby's bottom."
Apple's tablet software, of course, is excellent and likely to get better. And sales are still doing amazingly well; Apple said Tuesday that shipments more than doubled to 15.43 million units.
But the Android ecosystem has one attribute Apple can't duplicate–many hardware vendors competing fiercely on price as well as features. Shipments of Android-based tablets tripled to 10.5 million units in the quarter, Strategy Analytics says.


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A new exhibit focuses on the first decade of work by one of the leading figures in feminist art, Judy Chicago, who is now approaching her 75th birthday.
"Chicago in L.A.: Judy Chicago's Early Work 1963-74" is at the Brooklyn Museum from April 4 through September 28. It is billed as a reappraisal of her importance as a pioneer in the California art scene, bringing together more than 55 objects, including her Female Rejection Series, and large-scale paintings.
In this period of Chicago's life, she lived in Los Angeles and participated in the Finish Fetish School, which responded to the rapid post-World War II industrialization of the West Coast with its own brightly colored, high-gloss form of minimalism.
Through "Chicago in L.A.," audiences discover Heaven Is for White Men Only and her minimalist sculpture Rainbow Pickett, created for Chicago's first solo gallery show held in Los Angeles in 1966.
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- From: The Courier-Mail
- March 07, 2012
ONE fifth of Brisbane ratepayers have donated to the restoration of City Hall. Lord Mayor Graham Quirk said $2 million worth of tax-deductible donations had been made, mostly through $15 payments on rates bills.
"We've had 60,000 people so far make a contribution. That's been terrific, really does show the spirit that people have," he said.
Yesterday Cr Quirk showed off 12 function rooms at City Hall, which will become available when renovations are completed in February next year. Bookings for the rooms are being taken now.
Cr Quirk said the budget and timetable for the renovation project were on track and he believed it wouldn't exceed its $215 million budget.
City Hall was closed in late 2009 for the restoration to begin and so far 44 per cent has been completed.
An industrial kitchen, capable of producing 1200 meals per day, is also being built.
The landmark dome in the auditorium has been completely replaced.
One of the final items to be returned will be the City Hall's magnificent pipe organ, which is currently in 5000 pieces in three warehouses in Brisbane.
The organ is one of only two of its kind in the world - the other is in Westminster Abbey in London.
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A crowd of 20,213, a record for the AmericanAirlines Arena, saw the surging Heat win their 11th in a row at home. The Heat, who began the season 0-7, raised their record above .500 (40-39) for the first time since Oct. 31, 2001.
James led Cleveland with 24 points, eight assists and seven rebounds.
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The loss meant Philadelphia would be eliminated if Boston defeated New Orleans later Friday night. If not, the Sixers would have to win their final three games and the Celtics have to lose all of theirs.
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The Pistons, who are locked into the Eastern Conference's third seed, had just enough to beat the already-eliminated Raptors for their sixth straight win.
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SAN ANTONIO -- Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili each scored 21 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs to their eighth straight win.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Pardon the Indiana Pacers for not getting all warm and fuzzy about clinching homecourt advantage throughout the NBA playoffs.
Ron Artest had 24 points and four steals to help the Pacers make sure the playoffs will go through Indiana with a win over the short-handed Nets.
The victory assured the Pacers (59-21) of having the best record in the league and also set their NBA franchise record for wins in a season.
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HOUSTON -- The Houston Rockets clinched a playoff berth for the first time in five years, defeating the Denver Nuggets 106-103 Friday night behind a season-high 33 points from Steve Francis.
Marcus Camby scored 23 points and Carmelo Anthony had 20 as the Nuggets lost for the sixth straight time in Houston. Denver dropped into a three-way tie with Utah and Portland for eighth place in the Western Conference.
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- Rhymes: -ʊk
Etymology 1Edit
|PIE root
From Middle English, from Old English cōc ("a cook"), from Proto-Germanic *kukaz ("cook"), from Latin coquus ("cook"), from coquō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pekʷ- ("to cook, become ripe").
Cognate with Low German kokk ("cook"), Dutch kok ("cook"), German Koch ("cook"), Danish kok ("cook"), Norwegian kokk ("cook"), Swedish kock ("cook"), Icelandic kokkur ("cook"), Albanian kuq ("to fry, cook").
cook (plural cooks)
- (cooking) A person who prepares food for a living.
- (cooking) The head cook of a manor house
- (slang) One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth.
- Police found two meth cooks working in the illicit lab.
- Mel Bradshaw, Victim Impact
- By late October, the pressure on the Dark Arrows' ecstasy cook had eased. Other suppliers had moved in with product.
- 2011, Mackenzie Phillips, High on Arrival
- Owsley Stanley was a pioneer LSD cook, and the Purple Owsley pill from his now-defunct lab was Dad's prized possession, a rare, potent, druggie collector's item, the alleged inspiration for the Hendrix song "Purple Haze."
- A fish, the European striped wrasse.
- (food preparation for a living): chef
- (food preparation for a living): cordon bleu
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(head cook of a manor house):
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
|PIE root
From Middle English coken, from the noun cook.
cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)
- (transitive) To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
- I'm cooking bangers and mash.
- (intransitive) To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients.
- He's in the kitchen, cooking.
- (intransitive) To be being cooked.
- The dinner is cooking on the stove.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be uncomfortably hot.
- Look at that poor dog shut up in that car on a day like today - it must be cooking in there.
- (transitive, slang) To hold onto (a grenade) briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown.
- I always cook my frags, in case they try to grab one and throw it back.
- To concoct or prepare.
- 2006, Frank Spalding, Methamphetamine: The Dangers of Crystal Meth (page 47)
- The process of cooking meth can leave residue on surfaces all over the home, exposing all of its occupants to the drug.
- 2006, Frank Spalding, Methamphetamine: The Dangers of Crystal Meth (page 47)
- To tamper with or alter; to cook up.
- Addison
- They all of them receive the same advices from abroad, and very often in the same words; but their way of cooking it is so different.
- Addison
- (intransitive, idiomatic, jazz, slang) To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.)
- Watch this band: they cook!
- Crank up the Coltrane and start cooking!
- 1957, Miles Davis quoted by Ira Gitler, liner notes to Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet, Prestige LP 7094:
- This album is called Cookin' at Miles' request. He said, "After all, that's what we did – came in and cooked."
- (intransitive, idiomatic, music, slang) To play music vigorously.
- On the Wagner piece, the orchestra was cooking!
- 2012, Los Angeles Times, "Review: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra won't stand still":
- The tempos were swift. The orchestra cooked, reading [conductor] Kahane's mind and swinging with him as one.
- Troponyms: bake, barbecue, boil, braise, fry, grill, microwave, poach, roast, scramble, steam, stew
- See also Wikisaurus:cook
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Etymology 3Edit
cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)
- (obsolete, rare) To make the noise of the cuckoo.
- 1599, The Silkworms
- Constant cuckoos cook on every side.
- 1599, The Silkworms
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cook (third-person singular simple present cooks, present participle cooking, simple past and past participle cooked)


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Maruti to Stop Selling Maruti 800 in 13 Indian Cities
NEW DELHI -- Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. will stop selling its lowest-priced model, the Maruti 800, in 13 of India's biggest cities from April 1, when the federal government implements new, more stringent emission standards, its chairman said Friday.
"We have no plans to upgrade the Maruti 800 to meet Bharat Stage IV emission norms," R.C. Bhargava told reporters Friday on the sidelines of an industry conference.
India will adopt Bharat Stage IV emission standards that are equivalent to the Euro-IV standards in 13 of India's biggest cities by April 1. Auto makers are required to invest in upgrading their vehicles to comply with the rules.
"We were contemplating if we can upgrade the Maruti 800 to comply with new emission norms or not and have taken a decision to stop selling the car in cities where new norms will be implemented from April 1," Mr. Bhargava said. "We'll continue to sell the model in rest of the country."
Maruti is India's largest car maker by sales with a local market share in excess of 50%. The company sells seven small car models in India such as the Maruti 800, the Alto and the Swift.
Mr. Bhargava said the company has no plans to introduce a new model at Maruti 800's price point. The company sells Maruti 800 model in four variants priced between 185,715 rupees ($4011) and 219,587 rupees at showrooms in New Delhi.
Sales of Maruti 800 declined 37% to 27,088 units in the April-January period of the current fiscal year that ends March 31. That compares with a 32% jump in the company's total sales (including exports) in the same period to 826,592 vehicles.
Separately, Maruti's Managing Executive Officer Administration, S.Y. Siddiqui, said the company will hire 950 employees in the next financial year which starts April 1.
"A part of this is the advanced hiring for the new capacity that will be operational by April 2012," Mr. Siddiqui said. "We'll continue to hire more people to meet the manpower needs for our research and development vertical as well as the new assembly line."
Maruti is investing 17 billion rupees until April 2012 to increase its annual vehicle production by 25%. The expansion will raise Maruti's annual output to 1.25 million cars from one million now, the company had said in January.
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