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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democratic leaders moved ahead on Monday with plans for a vote on Chuck Hagel's confirmation as secretary of defense, clearing the way for him to become President Barack Obama's new Pentagon chief despite intense opposition from some Republicans.
Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which must approve Hagel's nomination before he is considered by the full Senate, said he intends to ask the committee to vote during a meeting at 2:30 p.m. EST (1930 GMT) on Tuesday.
The committee, in which Democrats control 14 seats to 12 held by Republicans, is expected to approve the nomination.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he expected the full Senate's debate on Hagel's nomination to finish by Thursday, paving the way for a vote in the chamber.
With Democrats controlling a 55-45 Senate majority, Hagel's confirmation is expected.
"We hope on Wednesday and/or Thursday we'll be able to finish the Hagel nomination," Reid said on the Senate floor.
Hagel, 66, a Republican and former Nebraska senator, has been the target of harsh criticism from senators in his own party, who raised questions over whether he is sufficiently supportive of Israel and tough on Iran.
Hagel's testimony before the armed services panel during his January 31 confirmation hearing has also been criticized. Even some Democrats have said he appeared unprepared and at times hesitant during aggressive questioning by Republican committee members.
Hagel's backers, convinced he will succeed the retiring Leon Panetta at the Defense Department, have called Republican delays and threats to prevent a vote on his nomination political posturing that threatens national security.
"We believe firmly that ... Senator Hagel will be confirmed as the next secretary of defense," White House spokesman Jay Carney told a news briefing on Monday.
No Democrat has come out against Hagel, and at least two Republicans - Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Mike Johanns, who holds Hagel's old Nebraska Senate seat - have said they will vote for him.
A few other Republicans have said they would not support the use of any procedural mechanism that would force the Democrats to round up 60 votes to confirm Hagel.
Senator John McCain, who has raised concerns about Hagel, said on Monday he felt the nominee had provided enough information and that it was appropriate for the committee to vote on whether to send the nomination to the full Senate.
He said he would not participate in a Republican walkout over Hagel's nomination threatened by some Hagel opponents.
Levin had hoped to have the committee vote on Hagel's confirmation last week, but delayed amid Republican demands for more information on issues including Hagel's business dealings and past speeches.
Levin has characterized some of the requests as an attempt to set a new standard for a cabinet nominee.
Calling the Hagel fight an example of the intense partisanship stymieing Congress, Democrats also note that no cabinet nomination has ever been subjected to some of the procedural hurdles threatened over Hagel.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been among the most vocal Hagel opponents, on Sunday threatened to block a vote on his confirmation - and consideration of Obama's nomination of John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency - until the White House provides more information about the deadly September attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
That hold could prevent a vote by the full Senate from moving to the floor via unanimous consent or a voice vote, a senior Republican Senate aide said.
But the aide noted that, since Democrats control a Senate majority - and appear to have enough votes to overcome any procedural hurdle - it would not stop it.
Graham has previously threatened to block the Hagel vote if Panetta did not appear before the committee to discuss Benghazi.
Panetta and General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified in a four-hour hearing on Thursday, but Graham said he was still not satisfied.
Graham and some other Republican lawmakers have questioned Obama's response to the September 11, 2012, Benghazi incident, in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed.
The Senate Intelligence Committee hopes to hold a vote on Brennan's nomination on Thursday, after a closed-door hearing with Brennan scheduled for Tuesday.
A congressional source said it is possible the Brennan vote could be held up while Intelligence Committee members spar with the White House over the disclosure of sensitive documents related to the Benghazi attack.
(Additional reporting by Mark Hosenball, Susan Cornwell, Rachelle Younglai and Roberta Rampton; Editing by Jackie Frank, Philip Barbara and Todd Eastham)


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BANGKOK (AP) — The founder of Thailand's royalist "yellow shirt" movement was sentenced Tuesday to two years in jail for defaming the monarchy by repeating offensive comments made by a political opponent.
A Bangkok appeals court found 65-year-old media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul guilty of lese majeste for quoting remarks made by an anti-establishment activist to a crowd at a protest in 2008. He was released after posting 500,000 baht ($15,935) in bail pending a planned appeal.
Thailand's lese majeste law is the world's harshest, mandating a jail term of three to 15 years. Tuesday's action overturned a criminal court's dismissal of the case against Sondhi on the grounds that he was only urging that the original speaker be prosecuted. The judge also cut his three-year sentence by a year because he provided helpful testimony.
Sondhi was the main leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy, also known as the yellow shirts, which led major street rallies in Bangkok that helped trigger a 2006 coup that toppled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and ignited an extended period of political instability in the country.
The yellow shirts, made up of mostly the urban elite, claimed Thaksin was corrupt and accused him of disrespecting the monarchy.
In 2008, the yellow shirts took to the streets again after a pro-Thaksin party was returned to power. In an effort to oust it, they occupied the prime minister's offices for three months and Bangkok's two airports for a week. Those actions led to charges of terrorism and other offenses being filed against Sondhi and his top colleagues, cases which are still going through the judicial process.
During a speech at one of the 2008 rallies, Sondhi quoted some remarks made by Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul, a journalist-turned-activist who supported Thaksin. She was sentenced in 2011 to 15 years in prison for her comments.
Media operating in Thailand cannot publish the content of the alleged insults because doing so would also be a violation of the country's lese majeste laws.
The lese majeste law has traditionally been used as a political weapon in Thailand, where the monarchy is generally held in high respect. Although King Bhumibol Adulyadej has said he is not above criticism, anyone can file a complaint based on a trivial or vague remark. In one recent case, a Bangkok man was in jail for almost a year on a case brought by his vindictive brother on the basis of remarks allegedly made in the privacy of his own home. He was acquitted on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence.
The court ruled Tuesday that Sondhi had no need to quote Daranee's remarks, and by doing so in a public place might have spread them to people who would otherwise not have heard them.
"I only brought up (Daranee's remarks) to call for the authorities, both the military and the police, to prosecute a person who said such offensive comments, and to ask them how they could let these people defame the beloved monarchy of the entire country," Sondhi said after the verdict in an interview with his main media outlet, the Manager Online news website.
His lawyer, Suwat Apaipakdi, said Sondhi will appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
The appeals court on Wednesday also sentenced a Thai woman on lese majeste charges to five years to prison for posting anti-monarchy comments on a Thai web board in 2008. The verdict overturned a criminal court's dismissal of the case on the grounds that there was not enough evidence to pinpoint that the accused was the one who posted the comments.

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1. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningtony anecito Jun 8, 2006 9:43 AM (in response to tony anecito)
Okay due to the level of intrest and the emails I have recieved I have decided every couple of days to leave some more tuning information. The info will cover all levels of a system design with emphasis on the best design based upon performance.
With that in mind I wanted to mention that the next recommendation would be to put Apache in front as a web server since my measurements have indicated it is much faster for http then the web server functionality provided by Jboss.
Thats the tip for today.
2. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningtony anecito Jun 11, 2006 4:26 PM (in response to tony anecito)
Okay here is the next installment in overall performance tuning.
Today is Sun JVM setting day. I use the following for JBoss:
-server -XX:NewSize=356m -XX:SurvivorRatio=16 -XX:MaxNewSize=356m -Xms400m -Xmx400m
The basics are:
1. Always set max heap size to min heap size.
2. Always set new generation size as appropiate but again set its min an max size to be the same.
3. Set Survivor size small relative to new generation.
Why these setting in this manner is that you can for 2x-5x performance inprovement because the CPU is not busy monitoring resizing resources such as memory. The new generation size is set to maximum for me because if you have short lived objects it is best to keep them in the new generation area rather then going to the survivor spaces.
The main thing to remember is you need to monitor your own usage to determine the best settings for your application.
Good Luck All,
3. Re: JBoss Performance TuningPeter Johnson Jun 12, 2006 12:00 PM (in response to tony anecito)
I have to disagree with your proposed heap settings. You have set the young generation to use most of the heap, and have allowed for only a very small tenured generation. Using your settings, every collection will be a major collection -- the Sun JVM performs a major collection if there is not enough space to hold all of the objects in the young generation during a collection (this is one of the things that we tweaked in our JVM, which is based on Sun's source -- we calculate how many objects will be tenured first before determining if we need a major collection). Major collections tend to be fairly expensive, thought that is somewhat reduced based on the size of your tenured generation.
Recommeded heap ratios are for the tenured generation to be approximately two times the size of the young generation. Our recommended sizes are 1200MB for the heap and 400MB for the young generation. Of course, we also recommend that you have 2GB of RAM to do this. And by the way, this recommendation is only a starting point, you have to tune from there and to do that you have to gather and analyze the garbage collection statistics. I have written several white papers on this topic, they are available at www.cmg.org, but you have to be a CMG member to see them. If there is interest, I will see about posting them somewhere more accessible.
4. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningtony anecito Jun 12, 2006 12:39 PM (in response to tony anecito)
Hi PeterJ,
Thanks for the response I appreciate it. In case you did not notice I mentioned that the heap should be adjusted to meet the needs of the application and the settings I mentioned were for my own application. What I hopefully pointed out also that the main emphasis is on getting the CPU to not be busy resizing the tenured and new generation areas. The developers/leads should always measure then measure again the performance gains for each setting under varying loads.
I have done this and have made great gains on production systems over the years following this process.
One of my goals was to avoid major collections which I was able to do since the objects were very short life span (message objects for interfaces mainly). Other applications will probably have singletons or caches which I expect would end up being tenured so what you say would be true.
I would be interested in seeing any reseach papers you have written since papers do have great ideas.
Even though I see on the web the message heap sizes depends on application usage it is really true.
Again thanks for the feedback.
5. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningtony anecito Jun 12, 2006 11:23 PM (in response to tony anecito)
Hi All,
Another tip to mention is use of startup options for JBoss. I use the default startup instead of the All option. I did not need the services provided by the All option but I did need EJB support and I found a recommendation a year ago that from the JBoss CTO to reduce resources and improve performance to use the Default option. I measured performance before and after and sure enough he was right. Again if the CPU is occupied providing more services reduction of those services will improve performance.
Also, I forgot to answer one of the good points PeterJ mentioned regarding use of the tenured (old) generation area of the heap. If you do not need the heap space there do not size it too big because the garbage collection takes longer in the tenured area the more space you allocate even if you do not use all of it.
I only used 400MB for the heap because my server I was experimenting with only had 1GB. But even if it was a production server I would only size it to what is needed but probably start off with what PeterJ mentioned. Never be afraid to experiment to find the performance sweet point try new things cheaper to do it before production than find out later.
Got to go.
6. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningtony anecito Jun 14, 2006 12:26 AM (in response to tony anecito)
Hi All,
Just one last posting regarding performance since I am getting quite busy on other interesting projects (hobbies) at home. Once you can get down to the usec response time range you might try tuning Apache Web Server. There are several recommnedations on the web but turning off logging and setting Allow Overide to None makes a difference. Turning off logging is not something I would recommend normally but it does yield results.
Along the same lines make sure you do not write to the console or Application logs (such as log4J) unless you have errors. Can not tell you how many times I have seen developers abuse the logs and console and the surprise in their faces when they see the time difference when setting both to reasonable levels.
Thanks for all the interest in this thread and good luck on all your projects!!
7. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningchahua wang Jun 22, 2006 4:56 PM (in response to tony anecito)
Could you tell me how to put EJB in same class loader as Servlets. Cuurently I have an EAR, contains jar, har and war files,
How can I tell they are using the same classloader ?
Thank you very much.
8. Re: JBoss Performance TuningPeter Johnson Jun 22, 2006 5:10 PM (in response to tony anecito)
chwang, since your question is not relevant to the topic of this thread, you should start a new topic. Also, since your question is not performance related, you should post the question to a different forum, either [Beginners Corner] or [Installation, Configuration & Deployment] (but not to both!)
9. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningchahua wang Jun 22, 2006 5:11 PM (in response to tony anecito)
Hi, Tony, Also I ahve a question
about set JVM,
you said set jvm
-server -XX:NewSize=356m -XX:SurvivorRatio=16 -XX:MaxNewSize=356m -Xms400m -Xmx400m
But I set JVM in run.bat
set JAVA_OPTS=%JAVA_OPTS% -Xms128m -Xmx812m
I don't where to set heap size in Jboos, please let me know. Thank you.
10. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningtony anecito Jun 23, 2006 9:41 AM (in response to tony anecito)
It is application dependent. I know not the best answer. For performance I would monitor the application using JConsole (JVM 1.5). If you do not have that then use verboseGC setting to print out heap contents. What you are looking for is the frequency of "tenured" gc's. If you have more than one an every 10 minutes I would increase the new generation size. Hopefully all your objects are short term and will be collected.
Start out with 512MB and decrease/increase based upon monitoring and some sort of load testing. Again, make sure the min/max size of the heap is the same and adjust the new/tenured area based upon some sort of load testing.
What JVM are you using?
Tony Anecito
11. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningtony anecito Jun 25, 2006 1:31 AM (in response to tony anecito)
I am tuning to a new level (network) and decided to mention a few things.
Use a tool such as TCPOptimizer.
Adjust your MRU, MTU such that it meets you needs. For example if you transmit only a couple hundred bytes you can adjust it to that size say versus the standard 1500 bytes. If you transmit say 3000 bytes then the 1500 byte plus ACK can be quite an issue over long distances and the bigger the message the more chatty it can be.
This may not be an issue if you are down to around 20msec or less over short distances from the server (10 miles max) on the internet but I am working the long distance now (1500 miles) where a simple 1500 byte transmit and 3000 byte return take around 300 milliseconds through who knows how many routers.
Also, I found this good link thanks to PeterJ on another thread. It backs up what I said about reducing services and a few other tuning hints.
I am down to 100,000 transactions per second per thread at the servlet layer but still working on getting the Web Service Layer to be better than 4-5 milliseconds to get through that layer thus the TCP stack tuning and some other methods I will try soon.
I have yet to upgrade from the old P4 to say a AMD64 X2 4200 but hopefully some day soon then I will report more on those results. My goal is to get to over 1 million transactions per second with total round trip time of less than 5 milliseconds over a distance of 10 miles.
Good Luck,
Tony Anecito
12. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningtony anecito Jun 27, 2006 12:40 AM (in response to tony anecito)
I figured out the main issue for the 1500 mile distance is the limitation due to EM fields traveling at a maximum the speed of light. The time to take the first bit of a packet is around 80msec. Thus if you have a request plus the response then 160 milliseconds is used up. If you have several routers involved that may put you up to 300 milliseconds.
Thus to go from coast to coast a couple of tenths of a second will be used for dynamic data.
Just a FYI.
Tony Anecito
13. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningtony anecito Jul 11, 2006 1:13 AM (in response to tony anecito)
More about networks. For internal users you might want to check out extended or jumbo frames. The are several white papers on the subject but the limitation is for internal sites where you have gigabit lan where the client and server hardware supports. The test results in at least one paper indicate a 2x perfomance improvement. This will reduce the CPU loading on the web container and the client.
Tony Anecito
14. Re: JBoss Performance Tuningtony anecito Jul 18, 2006 9:06 AM (in response to tony anecito)
Hi All,
Just wanted to mention I am using JAX-WS 2.0 for my web service layer. Even though it is a reference implementation it still has been fast compared to axis. The important thing to know about Web Service layers for performance are:
1. Use fast infoset.
2. Use Document literal
3. Use primatives and array of primatives instead of collections
4. Keep messages small (below 1500 bytes)
I would only use Web Service layer for B to B but would advise for large objects that are returned from a Web Service to use RMI if used inside a company.
Have Fun,
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1. Re: Blacktie deployable artifactsTom Jenkinson Feb 10, 2009 7:01 AM (in response to Tom Jenkinson)
As a follow up to this:
One route that we are currently considering is to provide a simple Microcontainer plugin: http://www.jboss.org/jbossmc/
This should hopefully allow us to integrate into the JON tooling as well as launch the C services via JNI.
2. Re: Blacktie deployable artifactsAles Justin Feb 10, 2009 7:50 AM (in response to Tom Jenkinson)
A few Qs first so I get a feeling for what exactly you do and want. :-)
How exactly do you currently deploy BlactTie stuff?
(OK, the server is C++ standalone process)
What's the deployment unit?
As it's been a while since I did JNI,
how hard or how exactly would you launch your services?
Afaik you load your .dll into system cl, and then get a handle on your native code.
I doubt we can make anything smaller that the current JBossAS.
Since currently the only thing that knows how to talk to JON (and not even this in a full extent) is the JBossAS's ProfileService (PS).
Good thing is that PS was stripped out as a spi,
and I believe Scott is doing some embedded experiments with it.
WRT small runtime env
Have a look at my MC demos env:
- http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/demos/microcontainer/trunk/
It's fully mavenized, hence trivial to setup in IDE.
The bootstrap is very simple, but it does the job.
The actual integration work
* C service via JNI --> deployers usage
* JON extensions --> hooking onto JNI interfaces + wrapping it with Managed/MetaType annotated objects
* PS exposure --> nag PS people to make it standalone :-)
3. Re: Blacktie deployable artifactsTom Jenkinson Feb 11, 2009 4:23 AM (in response to Tom Jenkinson)
He Ales,
Thankyou very much for your response here are the answers:
1. Deployment is currently achieved at the "server" level, this is an executable native binary which allows individual "services" to be started/stopped but not new ones added, ergo, the deployment unit is the "server (.exe)" so to speak
2. I can already launch this deployment unit (when compiled as a shared library instead of executable) from JNI (and can debug it with GDB - if readers are interested you may like to check out a wiki article we put together on it https://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-13325)
3. Re: the comments on JON, point taken and very useful pointers for me
4. Re, the microcontainer demo, thanks for the pointer and I will certainly look into this
Thanks again for your time and I think we will continue to pursue the idea of creating a Microcontainer service wrapper for our JNI "server" with a proof of concept piece of work in the next few weeks.


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That idea has already drawn strong support from Rep. Patti Smith, R-Corbett, who has pledged to provide any assistance that is available from her office.
"I think we have some pretty significant issues facing us right now and we need to bring together some experts to pool their resources and come up with good questions for us to answer," said John Arens, chair of the county board.
He said those questions will stem from a wide range of issues, including what role the county can play in tree fruit marketing, and how local officials can aid federal legislative efforts to equalize foreign trade and compensate farmers for good environmental stewardship of their land.
"We need to look at all of the things that would help the industry as a whole and then, from that, ask what the county can do," said Arens.
Since the financially troubled orchardists provide one-third of the county's employment base, the commission believes that the cumulative local voice needs to be strong enough to ensure that it is heard at both the state and federal levels of government.
"We just need to get people to the table and come up with ideas," said Commissioner Chuck Thomsen, who is also local pear farmer.
In 2001, Hood River orchardists sustained more than a $28 million loss, the lowest point in 13 years. Conversely, during that same year, their expenses hit an all-time high at $3.4 billion because of increasing costs for energy, fertilizer, seeds, fuel, labor and regulatory compliance.
"We need to make sure that we are all on the same page with our efforts to turn this thing around," said Arens.
The county board received a preliminary list of candidates for the work group from Camille Hukari, government liaison for the Hood River Grower Shipper Association. These individuals were selected from a broad range of backgrounds and include: Kaye White, Hood River Valley Fruit Loop coordinator; Dollie Rasmussen, small crop farmer/fruit stand owner; Frank Wimmers, board chair for Diamond Fruit Growers, Inc.; Gary Willis, value-added developer; Steve Bickford, small packer/board for Mid-Columbia Growers Marketing Cooperative; Sam Asai, Oregon Farm Service Agency board; Mike McCarthy, Grower Shipper Marketing Committee chair; Terry Benton, grower; Craig Mallon, Grower Shipper board of directors; Allen Moore, former commercial grower/packer; Ron Stewart, organic grower/packer;and Clark Seavert, superintendent of Mid-Columbia Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
Arens said the advisory body is also open to other interested individuals who step forward with a request to serve. Within the next month, Arens said a meeting will be scheduled between the group and the county board to lay ground rules and set out the scope of work.
"I applaud Hood River County for putting this work group together and we're all in this together so anything I can do to help them I will," said Smith. "There's never been a more important time in our agricultural economy for us to face these issues and deal with them."
Meanwhile, Smith is forging ahead with her new "Buy Oregon" economic stimulus plan. For the past two months she has been promoting the idea that public institutions, such as schools and correctional facilities, should voluntarily buy products grown in their native state or, secondly, grown in America.
"Sept. 11 really opened the eyes of many consumers that we need to be aware of what we're eating more than ever and buy U.S.A. because we know our food is safe," said Smith, who believes that consumer demand is the key to a healthy fruit and produce market.
The Corbett rancher also has firsthand knowledge of the situation facing the nation's food producers and plans to use that expertise in her new role as vice-chair of the Joint Natural Resource Committee and as a member of the House Jobs and Economy Committee.
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A bit of a loaded question that is clearly pointed at AUSD being the bad guy here. I personally applaud financial rsponsability when spending my tax dollars. The fact that the state takes those dollars and sends them outside our community is our own fault as we voted them into office. The reality is that he strike will probably do the opposit of what the teachers want. It is likely that some parents will begin thinking the same way as I and consider home schooling or other options outside of the AUSD.
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The problem with generality is, well, that there isn't any. Ogg is supposed to be a general-purpose container format, meaning that "encoded data of any type can be encapsulated with a minimum of effort". According to Mans, Ogg doesn't fit this description.
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On the receiving side, playback cannot commence until packets from all elementary streams are available. Hence, with two streams (audio and video) interleaved at the page level, playback is delayed by at least one page duration (two if checksums are verified).
This problem could technically be solved, but in doing so, you'd hit the overhead problem again. "Minimum latency is clearly achieved by minimising the page duration, which in turn implies sending only one packet per page," Mans explains, "This is where the size of the page header becomes important. The header for a single-packet page is 27 + packet_size/255 bytes in size. For a 1 Mbps video stream at 25 fps this gives an overhead of approximately 1%. With a typical audio packet size of 400 bytes, the overhead becomes a staggering 7%. The average overhead for a multiplex of these two streams is 1.4%."
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I read The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Shimada (mentioned in End) and Honeymoon to Nowhere, which have been translated into English.
Mike Grost's page is a good place to start.
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Spoiler for Van Dine's The Benson Murder Case:
Now, this was his first novel ever, so, I figure it would take him a few to get good... Does the writing get better? And the mystery?
Mind you, I only solved it in the first chapter because I got loaded up with strategies from Umineko and knew exactly what I was looking for, but I don't need the mystery to be impossible to figure out to enjoy it...
For those that have read a lot of other traditional mystery novels... do any of the other mysteries do much better than this? Does Ellery Queen, for example?
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I might try digging around on the Japanese web if nobody knows anything offhand.
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You seem to have completely ignored the writing, and if that's the result of Umineko's influence, then that is a shame.
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Van Dine is very dry, and very British (despite his being an American). I wouldn't really recommend him unless you're already a die hard mystery fan.
For some nice follow-ups to Umineko, try John Dickson Carr's "The Three Coffins", or Nicholas Blake's, "Thou Shell of Death". Or try some hard-boiled stuff - Dashiell Hammett's "Maltese Falcon" or Raymond Chandler's "The Long Goodbye".
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Dry writing is dry. And biased reply is biased.
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I'm pretty sure Willard's crawling out of his grave in sheer rage and on his way to your house right now...
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What you gave the story was a cursory glance rather than drinking it in like it deserves. That you dismissed everything as:
Van Dine's style is about much, much more than the puzzle itself, this is especially true with the Benson case. If you just didn't like it, then I wouldn't object to a matter of taste, but to simply dismiss a classic Golden Age story like that as bad, well, then I really have to call foul on your assessment.
The Benson case is a classic for the writing in it, and there's a lot more to that story than just being dry. It deserves more credit than you're giving it.
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It's like someone writing an essay called, "Why America is not Inferior to Japan". Anyone who is not a raging otaku will be like, "well, duh."
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Which is why I wanted to know if it improves. Because maybe the main characters were meant to be developed further along in the series. But apparently I don't get the answer to that question because I somehow read it "wrong." Which is a patently absurd reaction to my query.
So I thank you for being the one to bring up the word 'bad' with this novel.
But anyways, about the story... Sorry, but there really isn't much else there. Please name something if you think there is rather than making this somehow a problem with *me*.
The only things I can think of that are 'there' are the elements about the puzzle and the reasoning behind the puzzle. That I got and they were fairly decent. I can see that even though this is Van Dine's first novel that he has the basic mechanics of writing a mystery down fairly well.
But this is supposedly a novel, right? Not some kind of simple logic puzzle. So you can't tell me that the characters Vance, Markham and Van Dine were anything other than totally flat. Maybe that's how he wanted to play it out, but it really is boring then to watch flat characters go around as mouth-pieces of the author.
If there's a lack of character development, or even characterization (except for Vance who we get a good description of) then normally we should have some kind of interesting plot. But the plot consisted mostly of them going around talking to people. Or, wow, sometimes the people come to them!
The only somewhat interesting twist, which, if you were somehow not paying attention is that Markham never gets his ideas right. That's it.
Actually, I went on to his second book (I think, going by publishing date), the Canary Murder Case and I was utterly shocked that Van Dine actually *said* something. "By all means," was his first utterance. Did he even say anything in the previous novel? And also Vance seems to be undergoing some more characterization.
So maybe it picks up later on.
Which is what I was trying to ask. Honestly, telling me that somehow I read it "wrong" without telling me anything else about how great the book is is not very useful. You could have at least told me that it gets better later... does it?
Or maybe it doesn't and you know these stories remain rather flat and you have to take it out on me, personally.
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And what I was hinting at you missing, Kylon, was how absurdly easy it was to present disjointed coincedences and facts as evidence to prove any number of theories, but the apparently most important aspect when determining which suspect to go after is determined by the psychology of the characters.
It was all one big justification of Vance's approach. Before you ask "why mention it now"? It's because you've satisfied my curiosity that you may have realized the possibility of what I was getting at, but simply discarded it. However, you've made it plain that you missed it entirely, so consider this a freebie.
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"16. A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no "atmospheric" preoccupations."
Granted, Van Dine's commandments are somewhat tongue-in-cheek. But yeah, don't expect the guy to go out of his way to make his novels an entertaining read. He's only interested in presenting a problem for people to solve.
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It's hit-or-miss sometimes, but a few of his stories are really, really good. But as far as characterization and all? You are probably off avoiding him, really. I love his stories because to me a good mystery is about a larger than life detective godstomping a mystery. But if you want something else...
It's a matter of opinion, I suppose.
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Oh yeah, Van Dine's a smart guy - no doubt about that. And it's certainly better to omit literary extras in your mystery, rather than writing bad literature.
But eh, what can I say, I like my mysteries to have a bit of life to them.
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Why is that approach still nearly ubiquitous on college campuses? "In economics, we use more mathematical models than the other social sciences, and we tend to think more abstractly," explains Barnard's David Weiman, the Alena Wels Hirschorn '58 Professor of Economics.
Until the fall of 2007, Barnard's two entry-level courses, "Introduction to Macroeconomics" and "Introduction to Microeconomics," followed that abstract approach. But, for years both Weiman and Dye, as well as other members of the Barnard economics faculty, talked about their increasing unhappiness with the abstract introduction to their field. Barnard's two entry-level courses succeeded in giving students a general knowledge of theories and tools basic to the discipline. But students were left with what Weiman describes as "only a tenuous, casual notion of what a corporation is, what a bank is, how money functions, and how federal and state governments regulate the economy."
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Following procedures for curriculum change, the department developed and approved those two new courses, and then submitted them to the faculty's College-wide committee on instruction. Once the committee endorsed the proposal, its positive recommendation went to a meeting of the entire faculty, where both courses won a final vote.
Today, the study of economics at Barnard starts with a lively course boasting the more friendly name "Introduction to Economic Reasoning" (ECON BC 1003)." Student enrollment has gone way up, and to accommodate rising demand, the department added more course sections for the 2008-2009 academic year. One section is taught by Weiman, another by Marcellus Andrews, term professor of economics and author of The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America, about free markets and technology, and their relationship to poverty and inequality.
Weiman says that while he and Andrews differ slightly in how they organize the course, as they continue to experiment they're adopting each other's ideas and "moving toward a common platform." For example, Andrews recommended the book that Weiman decided to use as the first reading of the semester, The Market System by Yale economist Charles Lindblom, which in very accessible language explains not only the economic realities of today's global marketplace, but the political and social realities as well. Such books are hard to find, Dye says, because most cogent economic texts are "written in ways hard for introductory-level students to understand."
Whatever their level of understanding, students are like everyone else these days in wanting to know what can be done to stabilize the economy. "This crisis is a laboratory for us," Dye says.
Indeed, during one class last fall, Weiman presented a May 2008 Lehman Brothers balance sheet revealing a company whose reported net worth was grossly overstated, being based on the company's holdings of $40 billion in "toxic" mortgage-backed securities. Students were assigned the task of explaining the profit incentive that led Lehman Brothers and other companies to become so highly leveraged.
Other discussions and assignments have focused on such matters as the volatility in oil prices, government regulation of the fi nancial and manufacturing sectors, the internal rules of stock and commodity exchanges, and the relationship of the current crisis to tax rates, interest rates and monetary supply. Whatever the focus, students learn to make sense of and create diagrammatic presentations of the facts, figures, and trends. "I feel very strongly about making sure students have the capacity to digest quantitative empirical information," Weiman says.
For those pursuing an economics major, Barnard's second introductory course follows the math to a much higher level. "Mathematical Methods for Economics" (ECON BC 1007) starts with the basics—algebra, solving equations, and graphing—and moves on to calculus and its application to economic problems and policies. "Why should students care about solving simultaneous equations?" asks Sharon Harrison, associate professor of economics and the course instructor. "One example of their relevance is the models economists use to understand the behavior of businesses and consumers."
In a class about supply and demand, students learn how Starbucks decides on the price of a latte and on how many lattes—at what price—it's most profitable to sell. Says Harrison, "The higher the price, the more Starbucks wants to sell. But on the demand side, when something costs more, people want less of it. Simultaneous equations put the two together, and show when they match up, or what we call the equilibrium. So, in order to understand the implications of this behavior, you have to know how to do the math."
Harrison has won a Gladys Brooks Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award for her success in instilling students with a passion for challenging subjects. "I've always been excited about how you can take something abstract and learn about the real world. It's great to show students that," she says. "For every single math lesson you see in my syllabus, there are real-life applications."
In today's world, perhaps it's not just Barnard's economic majors, but everyone—of every age, profession and economic station—who may need two semesters of introductory economics, and a working knowledge of calculus, just to get by.
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank our local law enforcement for the service and commitment they continue to invest into our community. While their time and resources may be limited, they work night and day to serve and protect the citizens within Spencer County.
I am writing this in response to The Spencer Magnet article from Oct. 5, back page, "Citizens heard at public hearing." I am a resident of Taylorsville Place, and have lived there since August. As everyone else that lives in Taylorsville Place Apartments, I went through a very lengthy and detailed screening process in order to qualify to become a resident. It was all worth it in the end because now I get to enjoy living in a very well-managed, beautiful community.
I have to say how wonderful this community is and how you guys really come through when someone is in need. We hosted a food drive on Saturday to help support the "Backpack Buddy Program" at our local schools. This program feeds our local children, in need, over the weekend, and for every weekend until school is out.
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Does everyone in your home know what the smoke alarm sounds like? Did you remove the batteries when they started chirping instead of replacing them? If it did sound, would you know what to do?
Taylorsville-Spencer County Fire Protection District is teaming up with the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association during October 9-15 to let our community know: "It's Fire Prevention Week. Protect your Family from Fire!"
The issuance of a qualified opinion by State Auditor Crit Luallen regarding apparent inappropriate financial and accounting practices of the Spencer County Clerk's Office is extremely disconcerting. As both an auditor and a Spencer County resident, I am disappointed that taxes paid to the county may have been misused in such a flagrantly egregious manner.
After reading last week's edition of The Spencer Magnet regarding the Progressive Dinner, I felt that some clarification was needed.
The implication that some local businesses decided not to participate in the event this year was in fact incorrect.
This year, some of the businesses decided to participate in a different fashion. We were one of the first to purchase tickets to attend the event and enjoy the beautification of Main Street.
Although I had hoped the election of 2010 would have greatly diminished the good ole boy network in local government, it has not. Carmin Gaines said it very well, the election simply changed the players.
Judge-Executive Bill Karrer and the magistrates have come against County Clerk Judy Puckett and former EDA director Annette King, citing the rule of law and accountability to the taxpayers. However, the Ethics Commission and Deputy Damon Jewell have gotten a free pass.
To this year's Spencer County community participants, the Spencer County Family Resource and Youth Service Center would like to thank everyone who made the Health Fair/Readifest event so successful on Saturday, Aug. 6, at Spencer County High School.
Our sponsors for this year were: Spencer County Cooperative Extension Office, Publishers Printing, Jewish Hospital of Shelbyville, Spencer County Health Department, and Multi-Purpose Community Action Agency.
In the late afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, the most crowded skies of the world became silent. There were no high streaks of contrails mixing with clouds. The ever present life-saving chatter of air traffic controllers ceased. A kind of strange eerie void had restored the heavens to its pristine past. Nothing man-made moved in the skies above the United States.
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In this letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Louise Strong expresses her hope that the world war will "be fizzling out" by the end of the month -- that the outcome of the war will be a newly democratic Poland and a bloc of countries in Eastern Europe united for peace by the USSR. Strong believes that the USSR is the one nation working for peace against the whole world. She offers her opinion that, without the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact, Hitler would already have marched into the Baltic states and the Balkans, and that the USSR would be pressed on both sides by the Germans and the Japanese. Strong suggests that the Russians saw Hitler's ambitions, and recognized "that Chamberlain was intentionally pushing him eastwards". She notes that the "Whaley-Eaton service" believes the Soviets slowed Hitler down more by signing the non-aggression pact than they could have done militarily. Strong also points out to Roosevelt that the British are treating Hitler as an enemy, but are publicly uncertain about whether or not to consider Stalin an enemy, as well .
Strong moves on to Slovakia's enthusiasm for the U.S.S.R., citing a statement appearing in the Times by a Slovakian cabinet minister who alleges that fewer than 15% of Slovaks would vote to reunify Czechoslovakia, but that a significant majority would vote to be incorporated into the Soviet Union if that were possible. Strong believes this "speaks volumes for how the common people... were impressed by the Soviet Union". She tells Roosevelt that it's plain that the Soviets are trying "to form a neutral bloc of all East Europe, much as we try to form a strong neutrak [sic] bloc to keep war out of the Americas", and calls it a tragedy that the United States won't admit that it shares goals with the U.S.S.R. Strong lists multiple comparisons between the two countries to show this similarity .
While Strong believes that Stalin and Molotov are successfully pressuring Germany to reconstitute Poland, she acknowledges that "Hitler is a wild beast, and more or less crazy", which makes it hard to predict whether he will follow through. She tells Roosevelt that she thinks Roosevelt has "gradually picked up an impression of the Soviet Union that is not quite true". Strong insists that freedom of religion is still practiced there -- that, in fact, there will be more freedom for the "Greek Catholic churches" under Soviet rule than they had experienced under the authority of "Roman Catholic Poland". She agrees with Roosevelt that widespread killing is deplorable, and that "East Europe is still a brutal place", but defends the executions taking place in Russia as necessary reactions to the presence of German spies and secret agents. While she is convinced that all those executed had been legally convicted, Strong does acknowledge that the "process was in some cases too swift and too secret". Strong notes that the secret ballot gives Russians much control of their government, and claims that even Stalin could be voted out of office if the elections went that way. She admits that a political machine is in place, but thinks that Roosevelt does not see how active the Russian people are in changing their government .
Strong concludes by mentioning a recent talk she had with "Senator Schwellenbach", who "explained the new Neutrality amendments; they seem to me a very conscientious job, intended really to keep us out of war." She signs herself "yours, with much appreciation of your patience in listening to me".
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Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970) was an American journalist and political activist throughout her life. After spending much of the 1910s working as a progressive advocate for child welfare, she became involved in the labor movement in Seattle, and through that movement increasingly identified herself with international communism. This advocacy, along with her work for the Seattle Union Record, connected her to the events surrounding the Seattle General Strike in 1919. Strong later left Seattle, and spent much of the 1920s and 1930s living in the Soviet Union, meeting with men such as Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, and writing books about her experiences for Western audiences in an attempt to build support for the USSR. During World War II, she continued to promote the cause of communism, although her support for the Chinese communist movement ultimately alienated her from the government in Moscow, limiting her to one visit to the Soviet Union in the final two decades of her life. She spent most of those years living in the People's Republic of China, befriending Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong, and continuing to publish books and articles in support of communism until the end of her life.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 as the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (as well as being the niece of an earlier American president, Theodore Roosevelt). In the 1930s, she had become a prominent advocate for the New Deal and the African-American civil rights movement. During World War II, she became an advocate for the United Nations, and later served as the United States' delegate to the U.N., chairing the commission that composed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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So, Community Isn't Moving to Fridays After All
And least not yet. And maybe not ever.
Vulture readers won't be surprised by this news: As we predicted last month, NBC has decided to delay (and possibly reverse) its decision to move Community and Whitney to Fridays. Both shows had been set to move to the night on October 19. But the network now confirms that won't happen. Officially, NBC isn't discussing the reason behind the move or announcing when either show will finally return. But insiders say it simply came down to marketing resources: The Peacock has been so busy hyping its other new shows (including successes such as Revolution and Go On), it hasn't had time to pump the Friday comedies. Debuting the shows on the night now would basically be giving up on them completely. Of course, there were many who thought that's exactly why NBC was shifting the shows to Fridays in the first place. But now that the fall season is underway, the Peacock's programmers have more intel and came to the conclusion that it made sense to wait. So what happens next?
We're just spitballing here, but it seems possible NBC might decide to see how Animal Practice and Up All Night do in the next few weeks. The former show has flatlined on Wednesdays, and if that continues, NBC might be smart to replace it with Whitney, thus creating a multi-cam comedy block on Wednesdays. Likewise, though Up All Night has done okay (relative to the also-struggling 30 Rock and Parks and Rec, that is), NBC might choose to ... yes, bring Community back to Thursday nights after all, where it might prove a better fit with either Parks or 30 Rock. Don't get too excited: This is just a theory, based partially in common sense and partially in ... positive thinking. Because, let's face it, it's also possible that NBC just gives up and decides to keep the shows on Friday, but waits until later in the year when it can give them a tad more promotion. We don't know. But we're hoping that tonight's move might actually end up meaning good things for Community (and Whitney).
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That's what a great commercial actor friend of mine Boise Thomas said on his recent trip to visit the mill. He said a lot of other insightful things, but that was one of the last I wrote down as my parents and I sat around listening to all he had to say. Boise has booked over a 100 nationwide commercials, including spots for McDonald's, Canon, Pillsbury, and more – not to mention time spent as a host for a Discovery channel program and M.C. for various festivals. After all that 15+ years experience acting and hosting he, I could tell, has gained much more than simply acting out a pitch for a brand, he knew what was selling it. From what I could gather from him 'the sell' for us is the heirloom quality solid wood furniture we make, the 'Made in USA' small town appeal, and the Motel 6 Tom Bodett-style simple, honest, genuine American business language (read that story here) that has a 3rd generation family-run business like Manchester Wood selling furniture; and I'd have to agree.
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I can't thank Boise enough for a great visit, with a touch of business advice for the family and myself to reflect on. To be proud of what you're doing is a great feeling, and he sure helped with that. To know "quality always finds a home," sure let's me know Manchester Wood: American Made Furniture will always find a home.
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