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Thursday, April 09, 2009
Moving on
"Must leave Canada by 31 Aug 2009" - is what it says in my work permit. Fellow readers of this blog know I have thus been looking for a new job. I am happy to tell you today that the search is over - beginning September, I will start my new position as an assistant professor at NORDITA in Stockholm. I would like to thank all of you who have expressed their support and encouragement in many comments, emails and messages during the last months. Happy Easter to all of you :-)
40 comments:
- Dr M said...
Congratulations! Welcome to Sweden! It's good to see enthusiastic young researchers get professor positions at Nordita.
- 5:19 PM, April 09, 2009
- Georg said...
Hello Bee,
found a hive at last?
Viel Erfolg.
- 5:38 PM, April 09, 2009
- Michael F. Martin said...
What a great place to end up. Congrats!
- 5:38 PM, April 09, 2009
- DV8 2XL said...
Canada's loss, good luck on you new posting
- 5:38 PM, April 09, 2009
And very convenient if you should happen to win the Nobel Prize!
By the by, if you move to Stockholm and you decide you like it there, does that mean you have Stockholm Syndrome?
- 5:57 PM, April 09, 2009
- Arun said...
Congratulations, Professor Bee!
- 6:16 PM, April 09, 2009
- 6:45 PM, April 09, 2009
- Uncle Al said...
Godspeed, Bee! Approach lutefisk with caution, surströmming with dread. Both destroy silverware on contact and permanently affix to crockery if not washed off point of use. The surströmming museum is in Skeppsmalen, 30 km north of Örnsköldsvik, itself at the northern end of Höga Kusten in north Sweden. Like a Frank Gehry building, everybody should visit once - as a dire warning.
- 7:09 PM, April 09, 2009
Ah well congrats then! I hope you'll still be blogging from Sweden.
- 7:48 PM, April 09, 2009
- Garrett said...
Congratulations Sabine. Good to see that your work and long search paid off.
- 8:20 PM, April 09, 2009
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
- 8:25 PM, April 09, 2009
Many congratulations, Sabine! Though you go to Sweden, you are virtually here, right? I look forward to hearing about Northern Lights.
- 9:05 PM, April 09, 2009
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Bee (A.K.A. Prof, Hossenfelder),
It so nice to hear the news you've found placement in what I consider to be the second best Hockey nation on the planet. Now that as I suspect you will teach a bit, perhaps you should take with you a hockey stick to use as a pointer as is the PI tradition. Who knows if nothing else it may even have some of your students pay closer attention:-) All levity aside, once again congratulations and continued success?
- 9:09 PM, April 09, 2009
Hi Bee,
Congrats...Now almost done in Canada, what are your thoughts on it? I am asking that as a former postdoc in Canada :-)
- 1:25 AM, April 10, 2009
- Kris Krogh said...
Barack becomes a president and Bee becomes a professor. Maybe there is some justice in the world!
- 2:03 AM, April 10, 2009
- marco cirelli said...
- 2:25 AM, April 10, 2009
Congratulations professor Hossenfelder!
Back to Europe for good then...I hope that you'll continue to blog.
- 2:32 AM, April 10, 2009
- Frédéric Balmer said...
Herzliche Gratulation zur neuen Herausforderung als Assistant Professor.
Stockholm ist in der Tat eine der schönsten Städte Europas, sei dir unser aller Neid gewiss ;-)
- 4:58 AM, April 10, 2009
- Psmith said...
Congratulations Madame !
- 6:36 AM, April 10, 2009
Willkommen in Stockholm!
Ist die Anstellung permanent oder zeitbegrenzt?
- 7:44 AM, April 10, 2009
- Bee said...
Danke :-) Die Stelle ist zeitbegrenzt.
- 7:45 AM, April 10, 2009
- Bee said...
Hi All,
Thanks for your kind wishes. I am indeed very happy about the job, and though I will miss America, also happy to go back to Europe.
I don't know whether I will continue blogging. It has less to do with my move than with me getting tired of blogging more generally. I feel like I am repeating myself too many times, and my blogging has developed a tendency to become a link dump for interesting-things-I-came-across, which is less time-consuming but also less rewarding than original writing.
Anyway, you can be sure I'll document my moving frustrations here. I am already mentally selling off furniture and boxing my apartment (keep or toss?). Luckily I hear they have IKEA in Sweden ;-)
- 7:55 AM, April 10, 2009
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Bee,
"I feel like I am repeating myself too many times, and my blogging has developed a tendency to become a link dump for interesting-things-I-came-across, which is less time-consuming but also less rewarding than original writing."
I think I can safely say that if you do curtail your blogging it will be missed by many and also a general loss. Yet with you becoming a assistant professor, structuring curriculum, lecturing and evaluation will necessarily certainly take up much of your time, which leaves less time for research let alone blogging.
I think you narrow too much as to what constitutes original thought, for although perhaps within places like PI or universities some of what you say could be just part of everyday discussion yet in the greater world for the most part practically non existent. If it happens that you limit your posts to only those which are totally of your own mind and far less frequent I for one will consider it something worth waiting for.
Just as suggestion, after you settle in at your new position, perhaps you might entice some of your students to continue in part what you may be left with little time for. After all, the primary function of teaching is to open the minds of your students to the widest view and consideration of perspective.
- 8:22 AM, April 10, 2009
- Christine said...
Congratulations and good luck in your new position!
Best wishes,
- 9:03 AM, April 10, 2009
- notevenwrong said...
Congratulations! I'm glad to hear that the job search worked out well.
- 10:28 AM, April 10, 2009
- Sojourner said...
congrats Bee :)
Hope you will continue to blog. I am sure there will be interesting things to share in the future. After all, you are going to deal with 'raw and fresh minds' :)
- 12:09 PM, April 10, 2009
- 2:36 PM, April 10, 2009
Warmest congratulations to-be professor Bee.
I wonder if Stefan is going to join you?
I also wonder if you're going to replace your Blackberry with a Nokia phone (well, Finland is next door)? ;-)
Well, I've been to Stockholm a few times and their winter is only slightly better than Waterloo. But I am sure your famous blog personality will make Nordita a far more recognized name.
All the best.
- 10:20 PM, April 10, 2009
"I don't know whether I will continue blogging."
Please don't take this the wrong way....but I think that you will find blogging more rewarding if you write more about your research in physics, less about other stuff.
- 1:53 AM, April 11, 2009
- 4:07 AM, April 11, 2009
- Bee said...
Anonymous: If you want to read about my research, you can find it on the arXiv. This blog is not, and has never been, a documentation of my own work. It's my hobby and for that reason it reflects dominantly what I'm interested in besides my own research.
- 10:44 AM, April 11, 2009
- Plato said...
Hi Bee,
A lot of artists and writings come to dry spells in their work, and we all know how much more we can be motivated when there s a cause that holds deep meaning to oneself.
I think we are always in a state of flux as we move on from day to day and one's writing/art will meet those dry spells does not mean one has no longer anything left to say.
AS well, the European and other countries perspective about the world is just as important as an America bend on things, so I am sure there will be things you see there, that we will not see here, that we might all like to learn.
Congratulations as well on your new job.
- 5:16 PM, April 11, 2009
- Michael Nielsen said...
Hi Bee - Congratulations! That's really great to hear.
- 7:36 AM, April 12, 2009
- Bee said...
Hi Plato,
You are misunderstanding. It's not that wouldn't know what to write about, I am just wondering whether it is worth the time. Though noteworthy exceptions do certainly exist, in the vast majority of cases the feedback on blogs (generally, not this one specifically) is not constructive and even if, memory lasts about three days, and I inevitably end up repeating the same thing over and over again which is utterly frustrating. It's like running on a treadmill, you're not getting anywhere with it. The introductions into physics topics I have written are in the sidebar and I honestly don't know why I should repeat them every couple of months, but if I can trust the sitetracker, hardly anybody reads ever anything from the archives, unless possibly by mistake (and yes, occasionally, there is a person browsing the archives). But seriously, how many popular level introductions to the cosmological constant, the double slit experiment, or dark matter does the world really need?
That is to say not that I don't think blogs are useful, their use is just very restricted, and I am not sure that use is what I need. Blogs are useful for example to have a general level discussion on some topics and to collect a couple of opinions. Once you've done that however, the same people tend to repeat their opinions and there's no moving forwards. That is certainly symptomatic for our wider society, but honestly not how I am used to discussions in my worklife. There I usually see a clear progress in the sense that we've discussed this and that, came to a conclusion, and can now build the next argument on it. Etc. That's what I find missing in the blogosphere. Take for an example how often we and hundreds of other people have discussed the issue of anonymity and pseudoanonymity. Lots of words, lots of intelligent things have been said. And two months later exactly the same discussion will be held on another blog.
The other thing that blogs are good for however is maintaining a circle of friends, and that is presently the main reason why I keep on writing. For through the years I've come to like you and many of our frequent visitors and I would certainly miss chatting with them, constructive or not. Best,
- 9:22 AM, April 12, 2009
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Bee,
I can understand what you feel as you have expressed to Plato, yet never imagine for a moment that your insights, perspective and candor be anything but valued and valuable. Your future students will truly benefit as I and others know full well how impactful it can be.
- 9:52 AM, April 12, 2009
- Successful Researcher said...
- 6:29 PM, April 12, 2009
Hi Bee!
I do hope you can continue blogging. But in case you don't, just wanted to let you know that you will be missed! I have been a passive reader of your blog for about three years now.
Best wishes,
- 11:29 PM, April 12, 2009
Bee - belated congrats on your new home away from home! I'm glad to see you are keeping snow in your life ;)
- 12:48 AM, April 18, 2009
- Amara said...
Oh my.. I'm so out of reading blogs these days.. and apologies for my lateness in seeing this. I'm so happy for this news! A big congratulations and hug.. your hard work paid off!
(grinning ear-to-ear)
- 1:00 AM, April 18, 2009
Congratulations. BTW since you will soon join NORIDA, do you know if the 1975 Physics nobel prize winners (Bohr and Mottelson) still
at NORDITA(In copenhagen)?
- 12:23 AM, April 19, 2009


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Chicken man plucked from farm
BRIDGEPORT -- Why did the chicken cross the road?
Because the city police kicked it off their property.
Christopher Toole, the self-styled urban farmer from New York City who Mayor Bill Finch allowed to raise his herd on excess land near the police department's animal shelter, said Wednesday the cops gave him 30 days to relocate his donkeys, goats, pigs and all but six chickens.
"It looks like the Bridgeport Farm will soon be no longer," Toole wrote on his Facebook page. "We have just been given 30 days to remove all of our animals (except six chickens) by the Bridgeport Police Department."
What the mayor has called an experimental urban farm began last year when city health officials took issue with the several chickens Toole was raising at his apartment.
Finch granted the hens asylum on the animal shelter land, saying it was a good opportunity for an experimental urban farm. Toole then continued growing his herd with little to no oversight.
A report in Hearst Connecticut Newspapers on the farm drew the attention of the state Department of Agriculture, which quarantined the farm until Toole spent around $2,000 to bring the situation up to code.
State inspectors have since paid numerous visits and asked local police to keep an eye on Toole.
As Hearst recently reported, state agriculture officials and city police have been losing patience with the situation, but Finch's office had been mum on Toole's future.
Toole on his Facebook page is appealing for aid.
"Anyone know of a farm (or large block of land) that would be interested in having our family and animals as partners?," he wrote. "Looks like it's going to be a tough couple of months!"
As for Toole's six-chicken limit, that is the number of hens residents will be allowed to keep under a new poultry policy the Finch administration and health department hope to implement later this winter.


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Former Germany international Lothar Matthaus claims Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski has agreed to join Bundesliga rivals Bayern Munich in the summer.
The Polish striker has been heavily linked with a move to Manchester United in the past, but reports emerged last week that he is close to a switch to the Allianz Arena.
Lewandowski has reportedly told Dortmund he will not extend his contract with the club, which expires in 2014. The reigning Bundesliga champions are consigned to losing their leading striker in the summer, and are willing to sell up in order to secure a fee for one of their most prized assets.
Manchester United reportedly abandoned a move for Lewandowski last summer after setting their sights on Robin van Persie, but have been linked with making another swoop for the 24-year-old.
However the Red Devils may miss out once more after Matthaus, who made over 300 appearances for Bayern in two spells while also winning 150 caps for Germany, revealed Lewandowski could complete a summer move to his former club for a fee in the region of "£20m to £25m".
"I was on the road this week. I heard that Lewandowski has an agreement with Bayern. Only the date of the move remains undecided," the 1990 World Cup winner told Sky Bundesliga.
"Lewandowski's contract runs out in 2014 and Dortmund will only get a fee in 2013 - surely a high fee. I heard it was something between £20m-£25m, otherwise he will go to Bayern for free next year."
Matthuas' comments have angered Bayern Munich President Uli Hoeness, who criticised the 51-year-old's decision to speak out about the club's affairs.
"Lothar Matthaus has become active again in recent months. It was always with women and now he is suddenly discussing new players at Bayern. It seems that he has changed his hunting field somewhat," he told Sport1.
"Why should we deny things that do not concern us at the present? We have no desire to constantly deny any rumours. We focus only on our work and not rumours."
Lewandowski, who scored and was sent off in Dortmund's 4-1 defeat aginst Hamburg on Saturday, could become Pep Guardiola's first signing as Bayern boss when he takes charge of the Bavarian club in the summer.
The former Barcelona coach has agreed to take over from current boss Jupp Heynckes on July 1.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Alabama is the new No. 1 in The Associated Press college football poll, moving past Southern California after its resounding victory against Michigan.
The Crimson Tide swayed more than enough voters with its 41-14 win Saturday night in Texas to overtake the preseason No. 1 Trojans, who beat Hawaii 49-10. USC entered that game a 40-point favorite at home.
The Tide receives 45 first-place votes, up 28 from last week. USC draws 11 first-place votes and No. 3 LSU four.
It's the 47th time Alabama has been No. 1, the 16th under coach Nick Saban.
This is the 86th time in the 76-year history of the AP media poll that the top-ranked team won and dropped in the rankings. It's happened at least once every year since 2007.
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G6230, Reviewed May 2017
Whether on an individual basis at fairs or in 4-H, FFA or a garden club competition, exhibiting vegetables is an excellent way to learn more about quality and handling of vegetables. While setting up an exhibit, you have a chance to meet others with similar interests and learn from them. Win or lose, you can learn from the experience and accept the challenge to improve future displays and exhibits.
Rules and classes normally are set up by the show or fair committee. These rules should be followed carefully. Failure to set up or classify a display properly may mean automatic disqualification, even for the best vegetables.
Read premium lists carefully so that the correct number of specimens are exhibited in each class. There is no "correct" number of items for all events, and each committee is responsible for establishing its own requirements. The number of items required for any display, however, should be clearly listed in the fair catalog.
When in charge of determining the number of vegetables to be required in each display, remember that normally the larger and heavier the product, the fewer specimens required. Therefore, large watermelons, muskmelons, pumpkins and winter squash are often shown as single specimens.
Vegetables of smaller size normally are shown in groups of three to six. Small pumpkins, eggplant and small winter squash may be shown in groups of three, while vegetables such as tomato, cucumber and pepper normally are shown in groups of four to six.
Root crops more often are shown in groups of eight to 12. Because crops such as potatoes, onions, carrots and beets are more variable in shape and development, a larger sample is necessary for a better evaluation.
For crops that are very productive and relatively uniform, an even larger sample is necessary. Therefore, such items as snap beans or cherry tomatoes are displayed in groups of 18 to 24.
Leafy vegetables, such as cabbage or lettuce, usually are shown as single heads, but when leaves are cut individually, such as for chard or rhubarb, about six to 12 stems should be in each display.
The contest rules should list the amount for each exhibit determined by the show or fair committee. If any changes are made, announcements should be made well in advance of display time so that participants are prepared to display the correct number of vegetables.
Some shows have displays called "collections" in which the exhibitor is allowed some choice in selecting and placing an assortment of vegetables. Quality and condition of the vegetables are important in these displays, but a pleasing arrangement and display is also considered in the judging.
Two types of containers normally are used for a vegetable display. Plates are used most widely for displaying fruiting vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers or beans. Leafy vegetables such as lettuce or chard are displayed in jars containing water. Wide-mouth pint or quart canning jars usually are adequate, but the fair or show may specify other containers or even furnish containers. Large vegetables such as watermelons or pumpkins do not require a display container.
When paper plates are used, they should be simple and unadorned. The large, dinner plate size is preferred. Liners, pads, doilies and other flourishes are unnecessary and undesirable. The judge must make an objective evaluation of the vegetables, and extra items mean nothing and may actually annoy judges.
Plastic films may be used to protect vegetables during travel or set-up but should be removed before judging. Do not enclose moist vegetables in films during hot weather, as rapid decay might occur. A judge may understand slight wilting at the time of judging under hot conditions, but decay is inexcusable at any time.
Because fairs and shows are held over a wide range of dates, having vegetables at the ideal stage of maturity at the time of a show may be difficult. Ideal maturity is desirable, however, and will win over immature or overmature products. Never exhibit overripe or overmature vegetables. In some seasons, only slightly immature crops may be available.
Rather than not participate, the beginning exhibitor could gain experience by showing slightly immature vegetables that are as perfect as possible. In large shows or fairs, however, where competition is keen, only enter the highest quality produce at proper maturity.
Many vegetable crops do not last long in the display, especially during hot weather. Timing a crop for proper maturity at the time of showing is important. Crops that apparently will mature ahead of display time should be picked just slightly immature and placed in good storage conditions until about a day or two before display time, when they may be allowed to mature for the show.
Crops that store well in a cool, dry place, such as a cool basement, include potatoes, onions, winter squash, watermelon, pumpkin, dry beans and Cushaw pumpkins (sometimes called crookneck squash).
Other crops require some refrigeration and/or moisture to keep them in good condition. Clean and refrigerate the vegetables immediately after harvest. Vegetables with a naturally waxy or corky skin may be refrigerated dry. These include pepper, cucumber and cantaloupe.
Many root crops and leafy vegetables should be stored in loose plastic bags or sprinkled daily with fresh water and kept in a refrigerator's vegetable crisper. Such crops include green beans, carrots, beets, sweet corn, okra, cabbage and other leafy vegetables.
Vegetables for display must be handled carefully. To prevent bruising during travel, they should be wrapped and padded in baskets or boxes. A lining or loose wrapping of plastic also can prevent drying. Protect them from the sun to prevent discoloration. Avoid light on potatoes, which can cause greening.
If vegetables have been stored cool and "sweat" when brought into a warm room, they should not be wrapped or placed in closed containers until they have warmed and moisture condensation has stopped. Wipe them dry before packing. Always take a few extra vegetables in case of damage or injury during handling and moving.
When preparing a display for exhibit, knowing what judges will look for in the display is helpful. The judge may lift and examine products on all sides, so imperfections cannot be hidden (Figures 1 and 2). The important characteristics of good vegetables are not greatly different from those looked for in flowers and fruits.
Always show crops at their best. Some grooming is important, but grooming should not give an unnatural look to the crop. The main characteristics a judge evaluates in each exhibit are quality, condition, uniformity and typical of variety.
One of the most important but difficult to describe characteristics is quality. Quality means that the vegetable is at its best and in prime eating condition. Prime eating condition may be at a fairly young stage in some vegetables, such as summer squash, beets or green beans. It means fully developed fruits at the peak of maturity in others, such as tomato, watermelon or eggplant.
The inherent quality of a vegetable includes color, shape, texture, taste and size. Quality is also a measure of the ability of the person who has grown the vegetable for display.
Condition is a measure of how the crop has been handled. An important part of this evaluation is cleanliness. Such items as tomato or pepper are seldom a problem, but root crops such as onions, potatoes and beets, or leaf crops such as lettuce may present problems in cleaning. Do not wash vegetables for exhibit unless absolutely necessary. Instead, use a very soft cloth or brush, and lightly remove any soil. For some vegetables, washing may remove the waxy "bloom," which should be left on. For others, washing gives an unnatural "scrubbed" appearance.
Vegetables also must be free of blemishes. Blemishes may be caused by insects, diseases or poor handling. Presence of such damage indicates poor care or culture and is a serious fault. Slight bruising or punctures caused by handling are undesirable but, if small, are not rated downward as much as damage by insects or diseases. Sun scald or hail damage are also undesirable.
One of the most obvious conditions of a display is uniformity (Figures 3 and 4). Uniformity of the products in a display is another measure of ability because of the difficulty of growing a large number of vegetables that look identical. The larger the planting, however, the more likely an exhibitor will be able to develop very uniform displays.
Size is an important aspect of uniformity. All vegetables in one exhibit should be the same size. In addition, the size should be typical of the variety — not too large or too small. Oversized vegetables do not receive extra points, and sometimes they may be at a disadvantage.
Uniform ripeness is also important. A display with slightly immature and uniform vegetables is better than one with items at different stages of maturity.
The vegetables should be uniform in shape. For example, do not mix round and flat onions; onions in a single display should be all the same shape. Select peppers, small pumpkins or eggplant of as identical shape as possible.
Uniform color is very evident and also important. A single off-color item in a display is a serious fault. Green peppers should be entirely green; one with a red splotch downgrades the display.
Typical of variety
All vegetables in the same exhibit should be the same kind and variety. Mixing types or varieties is usually an automatic disqualification. All entries should be typical of the variety. Some shows require that the variety be listed with the display. This practice is often helpful to the judge, especially in the case of very new or unusual varieties.
The judge will try to evaluate as many exhibits as possible. Failure to follow rules and to display properly may mean that your entry will not be judged. These conditions usually mean an automatic disqualification:
All exhibits should fulfill the qualifications described above. In addition, individual vegetables have some special considerations.
Select straight, dark green spears. They should be at least 1/2 inch diameter at the butt end and trimmed to a uniform length of 7 to 8 inches. Display in water to prevent wilting.
Figure 1
Vegetables will be inspected on all sides, so imperfections cannot be hidden.
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Figure 2
Examine display vegetables carefully for flaws. These are less flawed than the tomatoes in Figure 1.
Figure 3
Uniformity is important when selecting vegetables for judging. These tomatoes are of high quality, but they lack uniformity.
Figure 4
Select good tomatoes with uniformity for display.
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McCarthy takes blame for botched lateral on punt
Randall Cobb, a happy Green Bay Packer, threw on his fresh-out-of-the-box, green, NFC North champions lid and smiled.
"Make sure you get a good look at it," he said to reporters huddled around his locker stall.
Cobb's "other" throw Sunday wasn't executed nearly as well.
Coach Mike McCarthy might have wanted to toss the particular trick play from his team's playbook after the Packers' 21-13, division-clinching win over the Bears at Soldier Field.
"We had the fake punt (return), which is my responsibility, and clearly not the highlight of my coaching career," McCarthy said.
The trick was a disaster and the timing of it had the potential to be extremely costly for the Packers. They had a 21-10 lead when Cobb dropped back to receive Adam Podlesh's punt from the Bears 30 with 8:11 left in the fourth quarter. Cobb caught the punt at the Green Bay 23, then threw a jump-pass/lateral to Jeremy Ross.
The ball slipped through Ross' hands, bounced on the grass and was recovered by the Bears' Anthony Walters at the Green Bay 16.
"I wasn't surprised (by the call)," Ross said. "You're always ready for it. The whole play was great. Everything was set up. The conditions were right. How (the Bears) played it was right. The only thing that wasn't right was me dropping (the ball)."
Cobb took responsibility for his lob, which wouldn't suggest Aaron Rodgers should be worried about his starting-QB job.
"We got to execute it," Cobb said. "We've been practicing it for a few weeks.
"Maybe I can throw a better ball."
Ross, too, accepted blame.
"I'm a wide receiver," Ross said. "If it comes my way, I got to catch it. I was just in a hurry to run. I saw No. 14 (Eric Weems) approaching me. He actually was calling it out, saying, 'Watch (No.) 10 (Ross).' When the ball was in the air, I saw him running toward me so I got focused on that. I was like, 'Man, I got to get out of here.'"
Said McCarthy: "In the end, it's not a very good decision. I wish I had that back."


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The Voters Speak
Elections come and go. Some things never change. But, every once in awhile, things do change. Special elections are generally held to fill a vacant seat or to decide an urgent issue. Over the years, some elections were truly special. They are the ones that change the way we live.
The presidential election of 1884 changed things in Washington. Not since 1856 had the nation elected a democratic president. The South, still reeling from the effects of Reconstruction, became more solid and with the unlikely support of states like New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, helped to elect New York governor, Grover Cleveland, during a Republican stronghold on the presidency which lasted for fifty-two years.
Cleveland's election led some to fear that blacks in the South would become so enraged over the loss of gains they had made after the Civil War that they would take to the streets and riot. Such was the case on November 16, just 12 days after the election. Somehow reports of a riot in Dublin spread like flames across a dry Kansas wheatfield in headlines of newspapers across the country. Stories of a race war with several persons being killed came out of Atlanta. With Dublin being some forty miles from the nearest telegraphic station, urgent inquiries were made into the extent of the turmoil. At the same time, reports of an incendiary riot in Brunswick were published.
One curious Cochranite rode over to investigate and found "that matters in are entirely peaceful in Dublin." The railroad agent in Toomsboro reported that he had heard nothing of the revolt. Meanwhile in Dublin, the center of the alleged insurrection, the editor of the Dublin Post wrote, "If there has been a riot in our town, our citizens are ignorant of it. Our officers have but little trouble in arresting criminals. We guess the report grew out of the fact that three Negroes gave bond and were released from jail one day last week." In Brunswick, the reports of a devastating conflagration were true. The source of the devastating fire was not the refusal of black citizens and fireman to work to suppress the fire as was reported. In fact, the "colored firemen" were hailed for doing their usual good work.
Women were allowed to vote across the nation with the adoption of the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920. Within a month, Maggie New, a Dublin city hall employee, was the first to subscribe her name on the register of voters. Tax Collector M.C. Dominey arranged to have registration books for women at a popular drug store for ten straight days. It would be another half century or so before a woman, Lena Opie, was elected to a city office.
The women of Brewton, Georgia didn't take quite that long. Mrs. H.H. Beall was elected in November 1921. The first female mayor of a Laurens County town promised to work with the council to clean up the town. Mrs. Beall, who succeeded her husband, said, "There a few things that need attention here, and we are going to see that they get it."
Mayor Beall had a lot of support in her crusade to clean up the railroad town. Seven men and five women entered the race for the five seats on the town council. Reportedly only nine votes out of the 250-resident town and all the voters were male. With only nine voters and nine male candidates in the race for mayor and council, only the candidates themselves voted. Mrs. Beall received a majority of the votes in her race while the slate of women candidates received five votes each. Mrs. M.E. Beall even defeated her husband, who only garnered one vote, presumably, but not necessarily, his own. Elected to the council were Mrs. M.E. Brantley, Mrs. F.A. Brantley, Mrs. H.B. Sutton, Mrs. M.F. Beall, and Mrs. C.G. Moye, whose husband was defeated in his bid for mayor. The all female mayor and council proceeded to make plans to hire a female police chief and town clerk.
The 1936 Laurens County election did little to change the way we live, but it did provide some curious and somewhat surprising comments from the unopposed candidate for county surveyor. J. Lester Jackson pledged, "I will do just a little work as I can." Jackson revealed in deciding to run for the office, that he was "persuaded by myself and none one else."
The general election in 1964 had a proposed constitutional amendment which provided for the merger of the Dublin and Laurens County school systems, beginning in the 1965-1966 school year. Voters ratified the local law. But, when the newly created Dublin-Laurens Board of Education failed in the minds of many county residents to rightly show respect to the former Laurens County Superintendent, lawyers found a loophole in the law and succeeded in revoking the merger after one year and keeping the two systems separate, as they remain today.
In an effort to help our community grow and prevent apathy among even the most
progressive minded voters, members of the Dublin Civitan Club offered prizes ranging from a piano to a camera to encourage more than a fifty percent turnout in a special election to construct an additional gas line to supply the new industries being established in Dublin in 1966.
The Rev. Bridges Edwards, Sr. was a well beloved former pastor of Washington Street Presbyterian Church in Dublin. His son, Bridges Edwards, Jr., was the first African-American student to attend Dublin Junior High when the school board allowed each student the choice of their own school.
Rev. Edwards, known as a builder of bridges between the races, stated, "Dublin has come a long way in the relationships between the races in the last year," after winning a seat on the Dublin City Council in December 1966. Rev. Bridges garnered some support from the white community, while the black population was close to thirty percent. Lonnie Fuller, a losing candidate, filed a challenge to the election on the grounds that his name was left off the ballot. Despite the fact that Fuller's name was hand written on every ballot, Superior Court Judge Harold E. Ward voided the results and ordered a new election, in which Rev. Edwards was defeated. Several years later, Emory Thomas would become the first African-American council member to sit on the Dublin City Council.
Today, like every other election day, is a critical day in the history and the future of our community. Go out and vote for the candidate of your choice. Whatever you do, vote. When you vote, think of the person whose only agenda is not his own, but one for the greater good of all of the people all of the time.


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A person who, after developing a romantic relationship with a seemingly sane member of the opposite sex, repeatedly has their new partner turn into a raving fundamentalist, often pushing them to accept their religious doctrines, and pressuring them for marriage and children.
"Dude, I can't believe this! This is the third chick I've dated that's turned into a complete fundie. What's up?"
"I told you man, you're a fundiemaker."
"I told you man, you're a fundiemaker."
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One of the biggest disappointments in my new iPad purchase was finding out there wasn't a native alarm app included – that is, until iOS6 came along and made everything right again.
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Without a doubt, understanding how to build polymorph objects in PHP 5 can be of great help when developing object-oriented web applications. this is especially true if you want to make use of the big pillars of software engineering in a truly efficient way.
In addition, it's quite possible that you, as a self-taught PHP developer, have already implemented Polymorphism in your own web-based programs without even knowing it. This is good; however, you should learn the theoretical concepts that surround the application of this key programming technique sooner or later in your career. This is especially true if your goal is to become a professional programmer.
Fortunately, in the case of PHP 5, Polymorphism can be achieved in a pretty straightforward fashion, even by those who have only an intermediate background in the object-oriented paradigm and the use of interfaces.
Naturally, if you've already read all of the articles that precede this one, then hopefully at this point you'll have a solid background in how to build polymorph objects using interfaces and through abstract classes. In those tutorials I explained with a decent variety of code samples how to use Polymorphism for constructing objects that rendered some basic HTML elements, including divs and paragraphs.
However, one thing that must be noticed with reference to these examples is that they implemented Polymorphism through either interfaces or abstract classes, but never by utilizing both approaches at the same time. So, can this be done successfully? Fortunately, the answer is yes! Moreover, the process is so easy to accomplish that it's reduced to creating some subclasses from a base class, while making these children implementers of a certain interface. This is it.
In the next few lines I'm going to demonstrate how to work simultaneously with interfaces and abstract classes to implement Polymorphism in PHP 5.
Don't waste more time and begin reading right now!
{mospagebreak title=Achieving Polymorphism via abstract classes}
As I explained in the introduction, PHP 5 makes it really easy to implement Polymorphism by combining the functionality of abstract classes and interfaces. But before I dive more deeply into the details of how to accomplish this, I'd like to spend a few moments reintroducing the example application developed in the previous article of the series. It showed how to build a couple of polymorph objects by way of a simple abstract class.
That being clarified, here's the definition of that abstract class, which encapsulates most of the functionality required for creating HTML elements. Look at it, please:
abstract class HtmlElement
protected $id = 'myid';
protected $class = 'myclass';
protected $content = 'Default content for the HTML element';
// assign id attribute to HTML element
public function setId($id = ")
if ($id !== ")
$this->id = $id;
return $this;
// assign class attribute to HTML element
public function setClass($class = ")
if ($class !== ")
$this->class = $class;
return $this;
// set content for HTML element
public function setContent($content = ")
if ($content !== ")
$this->content = $content;
return $this;
// render HTML element (not implemented)
abstract function render();
As shown before, the signature of the "HtmlElement" abstract class includes nothing special. It simply defines some basic methods for assigning "id" and "class" attributes to the HTML element being created, as well as for setting its content.
Of course, the class's "render()" method has no concrete implementation, since this process should be delegated entirely to the eventual subclasses. Below you'll find the signatures of two child classes that use the method for displaying paragraphs and a div, respectively, on screen. Here they are:
// define Div class (subclass of HtmlElement class)
class Div extends HtmlElement
// render div element
public function render()
return '
id . '" class="' . $this->class . '">' . $this->content . '
';
// define Paragraph class (subclass of HtmlElement class)
class Paragraph extends HtmlElement
// render paragraph element
public function render()
return '
id . '" class="' . $this->class . '">' . $this->content . '
';
As I stated previously, the pair of subclasses shown above add concrete logic to the inherited "render()" method for constructing HTML divs and paragraphs respectively. This demonstrates that two classes that are of the same type can behave differently when the same method is called.
If you have any doubts about the polymorph nature of these classes, then take a look at the following script, which should help to dissipate them quickly:
// create new instance of Div class
$div = new Div();
// assign attributes and content for div element and display it on the browser
echo $div->setId('divid')->setClass('divclass')->setContent('This is the new content for the div.')->render();
// create new instance of Paragraph class
$par = new Paragraph();
// assign attributes and content for paragraph element and display it on the browser
echo $par->setId('parid')->setClass('parclass')->setContent('This is the new content for the paragraph.')->render();
Simple and illustrative. From the previous code fragment it's clear to see how easy it is to build polymorph objects by using an abstract class. This is by far the most common approach that can be used for implementing Polymorphism in PHP 5. As I discussed in a previous part of this series, it's also possible to use interfaces, even though this approach doesn't fully exploit the benefits of Inheritance, for obvious reasons.
Nonetheless, as this article's title suggests, it's feasible to construct polymorph objects by combining abstract classes and interfaces with relative ease. So, in the next section I'm going to demonstrate how to do this with some of the sample classes shown previously.
To learn more on this topic, click on the link below and keep reading.
{mospagebreak title=Defining a simple interface and an abstract class}
Since my plan here consists of demonstrating how to construct polymorph objects by combining interfaces and abstract classes together, I'm going to reuse the "HtmlElement" class that you saw in the previous segment, along with a brand new interface called "Parser." Later on, these entities will be used again for constructing more complex HTML elements.
Having explained my goal, it's example time. So, here's the trivial definition of the "Parser" interface, along with the corresponding "HtmlElement" class:
// define interface Parser
interface Parser
public function parseContent();
// define abstract class HtmlElement
abstract class HtmlElement
protected $id = 'myid';
protected $class = 'myclass';
protected $content = 'Default content for the HTML element';
// assign id attribute to HTML element
public function setId($id = ")
if ($id !== ")
$this->id = $id;
return $this;
// assign class attribute to HTML element
public function setClass($class = ")
if ($class !== ")
$this->class = $class;
return $this;
// set content for HTML element
public function setContent($content = ")
if ($content !== ")
$this->content = $content;
return $this;
// render HTML element (not implemented)
abstract function render();
Since the purpose of the "Parser()" interface is to provide structure to any HTML element, and the abstract class adds logic to that element, there's nothing special to note with reference to the previous code fragment. However, it's valid to say that if I derive a subclass from the base "HtmlElement" that also implements the "Parser()" interface, this child would be inheriting both structure and logic, right?
This could be useful if you want to specify different behaviors for diverse HTML element objects when their inherited "parseContent()" method gets invoked.
Let me clarify this concept, so you can grasp it more easily: the "Div" class built in the previous section could implement the "parseContent()" method to replace certain incorrect tags, such as " and ", with "
" tags when assigning its contents. Its sister "Paragraph" could do something similar, but in that case it'd simply remove nested paragraphs.
Well, if this explanation still sounds a bit confusing to you, fear not; in the last section of this tutorial I'm going to show you how to redefine the previous "Div" class so it can engage in the aforementioned polymorph behavior.
Now, read the upcoming segment. We're almost finished!
{mospagebreak title=Building an improved polymorph class}
In the earlier section I defined a simple interface in conjunction with the "HtmlElement" abstract class, so next I'll build a subclass that implements the interface.
Want to see how this can be accomplished in a single step? Look at the following code sample, which redefines the "Div" class that you saw before:
class Div extends HtmlElement implements Parser
public function parseContent()
if ($this->content !== ")
$this->content = preg_replace(array('/(|)/', '/(|)/'), array('
', '
'), $this->content);
return $this;
// render div element
public function render()
return '
id . '" class="' . $this->class . '">' . $this->content . '
';
By examining the definition of the improved "Div" class, you can see how easy it is to build polymorph objects that inherit structure and functionality from an interface and an abstract class. Please, notice how this concrete class implements the inherited "parseContent()" method to replace some invalid tags with divs, thus basically sanitizing its contents.
Now that you've grasped the driving logic of the previous class, it's time to see how it can be used for displaying a single div on the browser. The following script shows how to do that:
// create new instance of Div class
$div = new Div();
// assign attributes and content for div element and display it on the browser
echo $div->setId('divid')
->setContent('This is the new content for the div.')
Here you have it. With this basic example I showed that constructing polymorph classes that inherit methods from an abstract class and one or more interfaces is indeed a straightforward process.
As usual, feel free to tweak all of the code samples included in this tutorial, so you can sharpen your Polymorphism skills in PHP 5.
Final thoughts
This is it for the moment. Over the course of this fifth chapter of the series, you learned how to build a polymorph object in PHP 5 by combining an abstract class and a simple interface, which was useful for constructing basic HTML divs.
In the next tutorial I'm going to show you how to construct a polymorph class using the previous approach, but this time the class will be responsible for rendering HTML paragraphs.
Don't miss the upcoming article!


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Colorado Springs, CO (PRWEB) June 10, 2008
USA Pentathlon has accepted the 2008 Olympic invitations from the Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM), the International Governing Body for the sport of modern pentathlon, for Sheila Taormina (Livonia, Mich.), Margaux Isaksen (Fayetteville, Ark./Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Eli Bremer (Monument, Colo./Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Air Force) and have officially nominated these three athletes to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team.
For Taormina, this cements her place in Olympic history as the only woman ever to qualify for the Olympic Games in three different sports. This will be her fourth U.S. Olympic Team as she has already competed in the Olympic Games in the sports of swimming (1996) and triathlon (2000 and 2004). She won a gold medal in swimming at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga., swimming the third leg of the 800m freestyle relay. She finished sixth and 23rd, respectively, in the triathlon at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia and the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Taormina proved to be a quick study in the sport of modern pentathlon which she was first introduced to in June 2005. Her top modern pentathlon World Cup performance to date came in March 2007 when she won the silver medal at World Cup #2 in Cairo, Egypt.
A youngster at just 16 years-of-age, Isaksen also proved to be a quick study in the sport, first bursting onto the national scene in June 2007 when she captured all three U.S. National Championship titles (senior, junior and youth). In February 2008, Isaksen made her first World Cup Final at the first World Cup stop of the season in Cairo, Egypt finishing 13th. She served notice that she was a serious contender for 2008 when she won the silver medal at the second World Cup stop of the season in Mexico City, Mexico.
This will be the first Olympic Games for Bremer as an athlete. He worked the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece for NBC including doing the color commentary of the modern pentathlon competition for the broadcast. Bremer won the gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and finished an impressive 12th place today at the 2008 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
According to the UIPM, they will issue a re-allocation of Olympic invitations on June 15, which would be necessary for the U.S. to secure a second representative in the men's field. Dennis Bowsher (Dallas, Texas/Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Army) and Sam Sacksen (Somerset, Pa./Colorado Springs, Colo.) would be the only U.S. athletes remaining with a legitimate shot at a reallocated spot. Bowsher is ranked 29th on the Olympic qualification Pentathlon World Ranking list and Sacksen sits in 33rd. Sacksen holds the advantage over Bowsher in the World Cup standings as Sacksen is 18th and Bowsher 29th.
According to UIPM rules for Olympic participation, each NOC can be represented by a maximum of two men and two women. As stipulated by the UIPM, each NOC has until June 15, 2008 to confirm Olympic participation. In accordance with the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Selection Procedures for Modern Pentathlon, if more than two individuals per gender receive an official UIPM Letter of Invitation to the 2008 Olympic Games on June 1, the two highest ranked U.S. athletes (per gender) in the UIPM World Cup standings will qualify for nomination to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team.
Michelle "Mickey" Kelly (Chatham, N.Y./Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Army) also received an Olympic invitation from the UIPM on June 1 based on her performance in the continental qualifier of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Taormina and Isaksen earned their UIPM Olympic invitation off of the UIPM Pentathlon World Ranking for the Olympic qualifying period. The final pentathlon world ranking list for the Olympic qualification period which is posted on UIPM website http://www.pentathlon.org, shows that Taormina is ranked 25th, Isaksen 30th and Kelly 31st. For the women, the tiebreaker of the UIPM World Cup standings saw Taormina ranked ninth, Isaksen in 10th and Kelly a distant third in 29th. Taormina and Isaksen received the nomination to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team over Kelly based on the fact that they are the two highest ranked athletes in the tiebreaker system of the UIPM World Cup standing.
Questions regarding the UIPM Olympic Qualification Criteria should be directed to the UIPM. The official 2008 U.S. Olympic Team - Modern Pentathlon Selection Procedures can be found at http://www.usolympicteam.com/152.htm.
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|2012-08-16, 19:13
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For a zero-day release where 10k player's were trapped in-game a few hours after it went live? You wouldn't need too much secrecy.
|2012-08-16, 19:29
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|2012-08-16, 20:12
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|2012-08-17, 01:00
|Link #45
I disagree with you all.
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|2012-08-17, 15:50
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As for the rest, yeah there's very little wiggle room due to the setting. The problem is, we keep getting people complaining that there should be more wiggle due to reasons x,y,z and putting down the author, when reasons x,y,z are things that either will kill large numbers of people, assume Kayaba is an idiot or bluffing, the set up would be easy to hack, etc.
For example, I've seen people going on about how easy it should be to hack the server itself. Let's take a moment to think the set up through. We are Kayaba, creator of the technology, and lead designer and programmer of SAO. We have full administrative access and rights to the servers, full authority to send out patches, etc. And we want to screw people over and lock thousands of people into a death game.
To that end, we have to prevent tampering with the servers.
When we pull the trigger on the whole thing, there are a number of things that would happen to lock things down. First, all users other than us have all rights to the servers revoked. You were an admin? Congratulations, you not only no longer have admin rights, your account doesn't even exist anymore. Security permissions for all files and folders are reset so that only we have access. All remaining passwords are changed to something that hasn't been used before. Services not required for SAO are shut down and firewalled. The bios are all flashed with an image that removes all but the hard drive from the boot order, and is protected with a different password. Just for good measure, he takes over the company router the same way. MAC address (for those not familiar, it's the hardware address/id burned into your network card) filtering is enabled, the list for it pulled from the players within the game. Within the SAO server software, all persons with moderator or administrative rights have their rights reset to that of a common player, are kicked from the game, or both. Log out is removed from common player menu options, the MAC addresses of all current player connections are stored, and the game refuses all connections from hardware not on the list.
The servers are now no longer under Argus company control. They can not log in to them, access files on them over the network, can't even reboot without pulling the power cord. Not that rebooting will do them any good as they can't get into the bios, so the servers just reboot from the hard disk, and start up all the services, without them ever being allowed to intervene. They've essentially been locked out of their own system. Normally recovery from such an attack would have them shutting off the power, opening up the servers to reset the bios, then once they can boot to something other than the hard drive, re-image the servers from the last back up, and resetting or replacing the router.
Unfortunately, that's not an option in this case. Shutting down and wiping the servers will kill everyone that's trapped. They can try shutting down and compromising just one of the servers, then reconnecting it. We're smart though, so at the bare minimum, we've got the SAO software doing the same sort of file checking that Blizzard does for it's games. More likely, we're checking everything to see if it's been tampered with, and if anything's changed, it gets kicked. Permanently kicked if we're being particularly safe. So they're basically left with trying to brute force passwords as far as simple methods go. That can take a long time, and we've made sure they don't even know what user name they'd be needing to try, nor are we allowing them infinite attempts without.
So they're left with trying to find new security exploits in the operating system, or in SAO, that would let them back in, modify files, with an ultimate goal of sending a valid log out command to all players. That takes time. They don't know what changes we made with SAO. Sure they could theoretically safely sacrifice a server to get copy of the updated server, compare it to what it should be, and decompile and start analyzing anything that's changed. Easier said than done, and while it may let you know what he did, it will not necessarily let you through to change it.
Remember, we/Kayaba have/has the luxury that most people attempt to secure a system don't. There are only about 10,000 machines in the world we wish to communicate with, and all of them are connected to us at the start, giving us the hardware address for them. So we can just drop all network packets originating from anything that isn't a known machine to us. So virtually all attack attempts would need to be done using MAC address spoofing, and/or man in the middle attacks. Screw up with those, and someone is disconnected too long, and killed. And the sort of hacking they'd need to do would require a lot of trial an error, and errors are likely to be killing people.
So over all, it'd be a royal pain to do. Virtually every attempt made on it would be risking someone's life. Odds are good the only service you'd have access to would be SAO, and you'd effectively be poking around trying to find a root access exploit without tipping off the server that you're poking around. Worse case scenario, one of your attempts irrecoverably corrupts a database, crashes the service, and everyone dies. Far from quick, or easy, and difficult to get authorization to risk the lives of innocent people by effectively hijacking their connection.
|2012-08-17, 16:19
|Link #47
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Another would be to homebrew a protocol to connect to the server (just to fuck with the hackers). Based around whichever certificate technology's the strongest at the time. And of course, change the certificates regularly. Sounds like a pain, but again, what do I care?
|2012-08-17, 17:12
|Link #48
Try me! <3
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Here's an article about "Regulation and licensure in engineering":
|2012-08-17, 18:31
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|2012-08-17, 18:44
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You can argue until you're blue in the face that the author is an idiot, and the anime is lame, but since the anime has not addressed any of your complaints you're not going to get ANY traction. It is the setting, and the anime has ignored your complaints from the opening minutes of the show. Case closed, no?
Again, we have the basic setting that says that 10,000 people are trapped. People are very welcome to argue their interpretation, and you can argue yours. But you're complaining that the author or the anime makers are dumb because they haven't addressed your point. It's a little... off. Whether it's logical or not, they haven't addressed it yet so no one knows yet.
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|2012-08-17, 19:15
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The bottom line is that while Kayaba can't make the servers unhackable, he can make it difficult and dangerous enough to severely limit what most sane people are willing to do.
|2012-08-17, 21:55
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Basically if the NervGear can kill or not isn't the question. The question is if someone is willing to exploit it to kill. Any hardware in real life can kill if purposed for, from your simple pencil to airplanes.
Also you need to take into account that almost all manufactured goods are produced with higher margins/thresholds of durability so they can perform for years or extended periods without failure.
So, let's take for example a CRT television/monitor. It's harmless with everyday use but all the capacitors and other stuff inside of it holds enough electric charge to kill you even after turned off. That's why it has stickers warning you not to open and only let qualified technicians repair it. Don't mention your own kitchen appliances like microwaves and other stuff.
As for durability and perfomance. Take for example your basic computer processor rated at 2-3GHz. Most of them come from the same silicon waffer but the speed ratings are basically limiters/multipliers/clock rates imposed on the chips in the factory. That's why you can overclock your processor to 6 Ghz or even 9 Ghz, how long it last before it fries depends on the cooling of course.
Same with another day to day machine. A car with an average 200 HP at 6000RPM. How many people tap the full potential of such engine? most people won't use more than 30% of that power and won't rev it beyond 3500RPMs. But a racedriver on a race track might, but also the engine and car components would need more frequent maintenance since it degrades them faster. Also the tires on a day to day basis last upwards of 50,000 miles, but take them to a race or drifting and they won't last more than a few laps totalling a few dozen miles.
There are a lot stuff on your daily life that looks harmless but can kill you. Even your little 9V battery powers stun guns and tasers (the later had cases of killing people too). A lot of today's devices like in the case of processors are restricted within their operation limits via software, whose to say Kayaba the very inventor of the NervGear can't update/change the firmware?
Also my 2 cents take on the frying your brain. You don't need to fry the whole brain to kill someone. Have you ever heard of a stroke? Just a little damage on a critical part of your brain might lead to you ending up paralyzed, a vegetable, coma or death. That little damage can come from an hemorrhage, aneurysm, a tumor, et al. The brain is a very delicate organ and it doesn't take a lot to damage it, just something targeted is enough. In the case of SAO, the NerveGear and Kayaba's plan, it kills by frying your brain with microwaves. Today we can use elemagnetic pulses on the brain to momentarily change the personality and decision ability of people, even jam the motor control of the body. So being more devious, since the device already intercepts/redirects your brain signals you can do other stuff to kill like making your body release all it's adrenaline and sending your heart into a tachycardia which might end up in a heart attack.
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There's one thing I don't get much in regards to how the primitive NervGear sends signals...
(1) How do microwave signals send / intercept nerve signals to the brain?
(2) Do you think future consoles (especially something that involves headgear) should include this dangerous technology?
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We can't intercept them but we can scan our brains and it's activity with MRI and CAT scans. Today those machines are room sized, but development in this field is continuing. Remember that 30-40 years ago computers were the size of a room and had no more processing power than your scientific calculator. From some documentary or article I read recently, some scientist were able to see what a patient could see from just translating his brain activity. They started by having the subjects looking at a card with a letter, then they scanned the visual cortex of the brain to see what kind of activity and pattern it made. After a while the computer by just looking at the brain activity it would interpret this signals and show a lowres image of what letter the subject was seeing directly from the brain.
As for inputting signals in the brain they already can do some crude stuff. They use a mesh/net on your head or a wand that sends electromagnetic pulses into the brain. This focused pulses affect the targeted region of the brain. For example while receiving this pulses it could change your personality or decision making momentarily like making you more altruistic or choosing answers that you couldn't normally chose. Also targeting other regions it affects your motor control, like making you shake a limb, unable to move it, disable your fine motor control or even disabling the limiters that prevent you from exerting so much force that it damages your muscles.
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Configuring JMS in Apache CXF is possible but not really easy or nice. I have written a Tutorial on the Camel Wiki that shows how to use Apache Camel to provide a better JMS Transport for CXF.
Why not simply use JMS Features of Apache CXF
JMS configuration in Apache CXF is possible but the configuration is not very flexible and quite error prone. In CXF you have to configure a JMSConduit or a JMSDestination for each webservice. The connection between Conduit and the Service proxy is the endpoint name which looks like "{http://service.test\}HelloWorldPort.jms-conduit". As this name is never explicitly configured elsewhere it is quite probable that you misspell the name. If this happens then the JMS Transport just does not work. There is no good error reporting to show you what you did wrong. The next thing is that you have to use JNDI for the connectionFactory and the queue name. This is something that beginners with JMS have many problems with.
Why is using Apache Camel better in the JMS Transport layer
In apache camel you can simply reference the ConnectionFactory as a spring bean. This means you can either define it directly in a spring bean what is the ideal way to start or you can use spring´s JNDI binding to retrieve it from your application server for production use.
The next nice thing is that you can configure all JMS options like Receive Timeout or username / password in a central location, the JMSComponent and then share this config for several services. On the other hand you can easily configure different JMS providers.
The last thing that I do not need right now but is nice to have is that you have the full power of Camel´s routing config. So if you want to do additional things from simply calling the service it is easy.
How to do it
The Tutorial can be found in the Apache Camel Wiki
Better JMS Transport for CXF Webservice using Apache Camel
Many thanks to Eduard Hildebrandt http://www.family-hildebrandt.com who helped a lot in making this example work by debugging all the problems we initially had and providing patches for the issues.
When I announced this Howto on the camel mailing list James Strachan told me that it is also possible to make your webservices transactional by using Spring declarative transactions. I will write a spearate article that focuses on how to do this.
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Christian, thanks for this great tutorial. Much appreciated and thanks for donating it to the Apache Camel documentation.
You can however use the links to the static html pages, they are much faster to load:
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Is there an example for for CXF JMS transport with Spring running in a war? I can get the java stand alone to work following "Jax-WS Java First with jms Transport" from the cxf.apache.org tutorial. But I can't get it working when the service is deployed in a war? I can get the CXF client to send messages to the jms queue but the service (HelloWorld service) is not picking up the message. Are there any samples that has got it working in a web application?
I have not tested with deployment in a war. But normally this should not matter. If you send me the project I can take a look at it.
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Atrial flutter is one of the more common abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) and involves the upper heart chambers (atria). It is caused by an abnormal electrical circuit that makes the atria beat quickly and flutter instead of fully squeezing. It can result in fast heart rates and a decrease in heart efficiency. This causes symptoms and increases the risk for stroke.
Normal electrical heart impulses are generated by the sinus node (SA node) in the right atrium. This node regulates the heart rate and timing of heartbeats. The electrical impulses travel through the heart muscle in the atria, triggering the muscle to squeeze. In atrial flutter, an abnormal electrical circuit forms in the atria after some type of heart muscle damage or other heart changes. This new circuit takes over the heart rhythm causing the abnormal fluttering.
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The Percentage Price Oscillator Histogram trend indicator is currently under zero on shares of Par Technology Corp (PAR). Active traders may be carefully tracking the indicator to see if the position is pointing to the stock as a sell.
Individual investors are constantly hearing about the next hot stock to buy. Acting purely on these types of tips can be hazardous to the portfolio if the research is not completed. Sometimes these stock tips will pan out and be correct, other times they can leave the investor wondering why they acted on the speculative advice. Even if a stock tip is correct, the results may have already been manifested and the investor would simply be getting in way too late. Knowing what information is reliable can drastically improve the chances of making smarter stock picks. Even the most praised stocks may not be able to withstand an overall market downturn.
After a recent technical review, shares of Par Technology Corp (PAR) have a 200-day moving average of 16.49. The 50-day is 21.43, and the 7-day is sitting at 18.38. Using a wider time frame to assess the moving average such as the 200-day, may help block out the noise and chaos that is often caused by daily price fluctuations. In some cases, MA's may be used as strong reference points for spotting support and resistance levels. Employing the use of the moving average for technical equity analysis is still highly popular among traders and investors. The moving average can be used as a reference point to assist with the discovery of buying and selling opportunities.
Presently, Par Technology Corp (PAR) has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -102.37. The CCI technical indicator can be used to help determine if a stock is overbought or oversold. CCI may also be used to help discover divergences that could possibly signal reversal moves. A CCI closer to +100 may provide an overbought signal, and a CCI near -100 may offer an oversold signal.
Technical traders often make a point of keeping an eye on the ATR or Average True Range of a particular equity. Currently, Par Technology Corp (PAR) has a 14-day ATR of 1.35. The Average True Range is an investor tool used to measure stock volatility. The ATR is not used to figure out price direction, just to measure volatility. The ATR is an indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder. Wilder has developed multiple indicators that are still quite popular in today's investing landscape. The general interpretation of the ATR is the higher the ATR value, the higher the volatility.
Par Technology Corp (PAR)'s Williams Percent Range or 14 day Williams %R presently is at -92.12. In general, if the reading goes above -20, the stock may be considered to be overbought. Alternately, if the indicator goes under -80, this may show the stock as being oversold.
We can also do some further technical analysis on the stock. At the time of writing, the 14-day ADX for Par Technology Corp (PAR) is 22.95. Many technical chart analysts believe that an ADX value over 25 would suggest a strong trend. A reading under 20 would indicate no trend, and a reading from 20-25 would suggest that there is no clear trend signal. The ADX is typically plotted along with two other directional movement indicator lines, the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI). Some analysts believe that the ADX is one of the best trend strength indicators available.
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CAMBRIDGE, UK — Dec. 9, 2008 —ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMH)] today announced that it will participate in the Open Handset Alliance. ARM has been working with the open Android platform for some time and is committed to delivering a rich mobile experience based on the platform. As part of this relationship, ARM will contribute its ARMv6 and ARMv7 architecture-based OpenMax DL libraries and insight on the ARM® CPU and ARM Mali™ GPU architectures to the Android Open Source Project
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The whispers of an Android-powered Nokia device have been a constant throughout the last few years, dying out only when the company was purchased by Microsoft. However, it's all coming back as more and more information about a prototype Android device by Nokia has been leaking out. Called the Nokia Normandy, this device was to run a highly customized build of Android.
Today, we get a peek at better shots of the interface along with a photo of the body of the device. The interface looks to closely resemble Windows Phone, with tiles arranged just like what Windows Phone features. However, there is support for folders from the looks of it. And with BBM on the screen, this might be a somewhat recent screenshot. There is also a list-based UI shown off, maybe an alternate UI option?
The body of the device is very much like other Lumia devices, which just means it looks nice, feels sturdy and is colorful. I'm definitely a fan of Nokia's hardware design, though the software could use some work… or a flash of AOSP.
Now that you've seen how the Nokia Normandy would have been like in more detail, does it make you want the device more? The photo of the body made me a little sad, because like many people, I've always wanted an Android device with Nokia's hardware design. Unfortunately, nothing Android-based will come from Nokia anytime soon. What we're just seeing is old info, a reminder of what could have been. Tell us your thoughts in the comments!
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Beaufort County Sheriff's Office investigators have identified a suspect in the February 17th shooting at a Hilton Head apartment complex.
Dayne Edward Wright ,25, of Ridgeland is wanted on one count of Attempted Murder and one count of Possession of a Firearm During Commission of a Violent Crime in connection with the Sunday afternoon shooting at Hilton Head Gardens that injured a 31-year old Hardeeville man.
Deputies responded to the apartments at approximately 4:30 pm Sunday in reference to multiple reports of shots fired near a pond in the apartment complex. While en route, deputies also received notification that a gunshot victim had arrived at the Hilton Head Hospital emergency room.
Deputies made contact with the victim at the hospital, who was being treated for multiple gunshot wounds. He advised that he and a friend had gone to the apartments to visit an unidentified female. As the two men were walking through the complex, they heard gunshots behind them.
The victim was struck several times. His friend, who was uninjured during the shooting, transported the victim to the hospital. The victim was transferred to Savannah for continuing medical treatment, where he remains in stable condition.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Freshman Mike Stutes held Cal Poly scoreless through 8.1 innings and senior Anthony Rea recorded the last two outs to lead the Santa Clara baseball team to a 3-0 win over Cal Poly on Sunday afternoon at Buck Shaw Stadium. The win improves the Bronco's record to 9-6 on the season, while the Mustangs fall to 10-8.
Stutes (3-1) allowed only eight hits and struck out seven batters in 8.1 innings of action. It was a career-long outing and a career best mark in strikeouts.
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A three-run seventh inning accounted for all of the runs scored in the game. Designated hitter Carl Bacon started the rally with a leadoff single to left center field. Nathan Faulkner came in to pinch run for Bacon and made an immediate impact, stealing second base during the following Bronco at-bat. Ryan Chiarelli would then advance Faulkner to third base with a sacrifice hit.
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This is an excellent video..some questions that i have asked before!!
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