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We surely met them at least once in a lifetime – a condescending coworker. Such colleagues make life tough, and may even make you fall in situations when you question your sense of worth.Dealing with such person can be annoying, and hence, everyone avoids talking about them.
If a condescending coworker does not directly affect your work, then you may ignore him. But if such person deals with your daily work routine then you have to take an action in a way that it does not lead to any side effects.
Here are some top ways for dealing with difficult people at the workplace and to live a stress-free and happy professional life.
Tips to Deal with Condescending Coworker:
The following mentioned are few points on how to deal with the condescending coworker at workplace.
1. Identify condescending behaviour of the colleague:
Gestures such as yelling, commenting, and shouting are some very common symptoms of condescension. In the work area, people, however, opt for subtle ways of condescending, like talking behind the backs, cracking jokes related to your work, or avoiding you in meetings important for the organization.
If your colleague shows any such gestures and behavioural act, then you can avoid engaging in such situation by discouraging gossips, creating jokes not related to the co-workers and creating a pleasing environment.
2. Watch out for moody and demanding colleagues:
There are few colleagues or difficult coworkers who you cannot avoid and who are also an important part of your team. There are very fewer co-workers who are a joy to work with. If you have colleagues who are arrogant, moody or demanding, then it is better to confront the same. But make sure that your confrontation does not make your colleague feel defensive.
3. Try to stay calm and ignore it:
If a colleague makes an unpleasing comment which is not a part of its routine or regular nature, then the most effective way to deal with it is just to move on and stay calm.
You must understand that only stupid people make bad comments and intentionally lashes out others at work. If it is only a secluded statement, then try to stay calm and move on with other things.
4. Try to emphasize on solving one problem at a time:
If you and your colleague have decided to find a solution to a problem, then try to solve one issue at a time. It is a possibility that if you will highlight more than one issue, then your co-worker will take it personally and might react aggressively to the entire situation.
Also, showcasing one mistake of your colleague will help you understand his behaviour and help you judge that whether he his is truly interested to find a solution to the problem or is just acting artificial.
5. Transform the condescending behaviour of the colleague into a useful action:
Sometimes; you can make a person realize about his condescension behaviour by transforming his wasteful comment or gesture into productive action. If your co-worker acts more knowledgeable and superior than you, then you must communicate with her or him in an effective way so that his feelings get transformed into productivity.
You can ask questions related to that particular thing, or you may show him that since he has more knowledge he must do that particular task himself, and more.
6. Analyse, your circumstances:
May, be your first reaction to any troubling situation would be a shock at the way you are being attended by your co-worker. At the office, you expect every person to act professionally, and it is almost difficult to handle clients or co-workers who act in a hostile or childish way.
It is essential to take your time to let the shock or surprise wear off and then try to analyse the entire situation that is happening, and that has happened.
Take a decision by your analysis and what has resulted in such behaviour of your colleague or team member.
7. Ask for assistance:
If the actions of your colleague make you suffer from a difficult situation at the workplace due to a condescending coworker, then you must talk to your senior or team in-charge about the overall situation.
If possible, then try to gather some proof or real facts supporting the issues, like emails showcasing condescending behaviour or messages. The situation will be troubling, if the problems have occurred because of your senior's condescending nature.In such case, you do not have any better option than to stay calm and try to focus more on your work and productivity.
8. Try to go for a direct interaction:
For dealing with difficult employees or senior, the other most effective way is to ask for a personal discussion or meeting to resolve the problems.
If your intention is to not divulge what the entire discussion is all about, suggest something that sounds neutral, such as improving the communication flow in the workplace.
Since here the problem is with the colleague so you may always ask your supervisor or boss to be a part of it and act as an intermediary between the two. The presence of a third person will also help smooth out the situation and avoids occurrence of any conflict.
9. Speak out, but without anger:
If someone's condescending behaviour is affecting your potential tasks related to your profession, then you have to speak out, but without showing any real anger. Try responding courteously to the behaviour. You have to be polite and must pass on your message to that person indicating how you feel about disrespect and arrogance displayed by that individual. You can make polite statements to show that such behaviour is not acceptable by you and is truly very condescending.
10. Show kindness in every response:
It is true that when a person behaves arrogantly, then it is difficult to show kindness towards him. But, if you do not want to feel guilty about any gesture, as showing negative attitude is not in your behaviour, and if you want to stay positive, then showing kindness is essential. It will not only help you stay positive but will also lend a helping hand in solving the problem.
11. Do not just smash it loud:
If your co-worker shows condescending behaviour towards you then try to resist the eagerness to retaliate. Breathe for a while, relax, think over the entire situation and analyse every aspect before moving on.
You need to relax and stay calm and think of the entire situation that has happened and the reasons of why it has occurred. If the problem has occurred because of your mistake, then you must stay calm.
If in case it is completely the fault of your colleague, then still you must think with a relaxed mind and try to answer the situation in a pleasing manner.
12. Make an intelligent move:
If you are experiencing any problematic issue at work, specifically with a co-worker who bullies you personally, then you must take an action accordingly.
If you do not take a move, then there are possibilities that the situation may get even more deteriorate and hence you have to act to overcome the entire stress of dealing the situation and not end up being a bully.
You must try to let the offending colleague get aware of problems you are facing because of his behaviour.
13. Look for a perfect timing to take action:
Whatever action you decide to take, do not let it wait for longer. The more time you will take to deal the troubling situation, the more stressed and disturbed you will become. If you have opted to take an action, then look for a suitable time and do not delay the process. It is wise to handle the problem before it becomes painful.
While deciding on an action to take, make sure to stay emotionally controlled and do not let your anger conquer your mind. Remember, you have to revert to your colleague, but without leading to any harsh results.
14. Try to maintain your personal character:
Despite its significance you must avoid engaging in troubling situations by maintaining your character. Do not complain to others on a regular basis as it can risk your personal reputation.
It can raise questions such as why you are not able to fight with your enemies at work, or why you cannot win your battle. By regularly complaining about your co-worker you might display yourself as a troublemaker in the office.Also, it could make you be blamed for the occurrence of varied conflicts in the office.
15. Keep your grievances Confidential:
Do not let your grievances become public. Importantly, do not engage with problem creating persons in front of your boss, other co-workers, or your clients. Keeping your problems or issues with an individual would make it convenient for you to resolve the conflict or gel with that person once the issue has been resolved.
16. Consider rethinking your distress:
May be you are over-reacting. Ask yourself that whether the situation is truly important to you and need your time. Forgetting about it will help you stay stress-free and away from unnecessary frustration.
17. Approach the toxic co-worker:
If the co-worker was once a good colleague of yours, then you may try approaching him or her first to solve the problem. Think on a positive note and act as if you are truly interested in solving the problem. You can begin the discussion on a soft note and apologize if you too have made some mistake in the past.
18. Make the most of the situation:
It is a possibility that you may not agree with the person creating a problem. But even if you do not like him or her, you can still take a lesson from the entire event. You may use your discussion in a method to identify more about the viewpoint of your co-worker.
There are almost negligible chances that you may make best friends, but you may use this entire situation to comprehend more about handling such situations. It will help you handle future problems with much ease.
19. No need to show judgemental body language:
Non-verbal interaction is always vital, specifically when you intend to work through issues. When discussing such problems of condescension with your colleague, check out your body language and also what you intend to say.
Avoid gestures such as rolling your eyes, pointing out fingers, crossing arms, standing while the person is sitting, and more.
20. Try to watch out for things from other person's point of view:
Sometimes individual are condescending without even realizing the fact that they are doing so. Try rising above your feelings and seek to comprehend your colleague's perspective.
You may invite your colleague for explaining what she or he was feeling or thinking when showcasing the condescending manner at the workplace.
If you wish to be more considerate, then you may ask the colleague to tell you about his perspective on a specific situation.
21. Do not take it to a personal level:
It is extremely essential that you must not take things personally as it will make you think that the person is attacking you. It may also trigger a fear of insecurity within you. When such situation occurs, you are not able to make fair, logical decisions. Might be the person is trying to provoke your negative side to make you feel in front of others colleagues or your boss. Do not forget your kindness and do not let negativity win over your positive character.
So when dealing with difficult people at work, you must remember that condescending coworker behaviour is a reflection of their bad attitude and not yours. What others say and showcase is an explanation of their thoughts and character.
You need to immune yourself against the viewpoints and behaviours of others so that you do not end up being a victim of wasteful sufferings. You cannot change the behaviours and personality of others, but you must learn to deal effectively with troubling people to reduce the suffering or impact on your personality, character and your work.


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The Madison, buffet
Originally uploaded by winemedineme
I recently attended a wedding at The Madison in Covington. It's awfully easy to take pictures of food at weddings-- no one thinks ill of you for having a camera out.
I've been to several weddings at the Madison-- it's a gorgeous facility, as far as reception halls are concerned. The food isn't bad for reception hall food-- they have a lot of choices, and their "basic" menu isn't bad.
The usual choices are chicken and beef tenderloin. Chicken's hard to keep from getting rubbery on a steam table, so I went with the carved tenderloin. It was pretty good-- not as rare as I would like, butnot cooked to death, either. The vegetables (green beans and a squash/carrot mix) were good and not overcooked. The mashed potatoes were made out of actual potatoes (I went to one wedding where there were still lumps of potato flakes in the potatoes-- yuck!) and not bad either. The white sauce is horseradish cream (a bit m ore than I would have liked) but was pretty tasty.
There was also a cheese tray, cocktails, bread with cinnamon and regular butter and, of course, wedding cake (and I have no idea who DID the wedding cake-- must inquire). Their per person charge also includes wine and beer, so it's a beautiful spot and not a bad value, either. Weddings are so darn expensive.

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Industrial Transportation
Some railroad and trucking investors were disappointed last year when there was no economic recovery in the second half.
Nevertheless, Mark Levin of Davenport & Co. in Richmond, Va., this year's No. 1 stock picker in the industrial-transportation sector, found opportunities to boost returns. He focused on companies he considered attractively valued, with strong management teams and pricing discipline.


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"But I don't feel like spaghetti"
"I can't listen to that lady's voice, I need concentration!"
"Can I ring the bell again?"
Above is a sampling of the responses I received from kids when I tried doing some of the "Mindfulness Exercises" recommended in the book Sitting Still Like a Frog (by Elaine Snel). A few weeks ago, I reviewed the content of the book (follow this link to read it), and then I took a few weeks to test it out. What followed was a series of events that contained hilarity, frustration, bewilderment, compassion, and love (sometimes all at the same time), and ultimately led to some important parenting (and teaching) lessons for me, as well as some implications for using the book with kids. I'll share some of the outcomes of these trials as well as the lessons learned.
The first exercise on the CD was a breathing exercise. There was a 5 minute version and a 9 minute version. After listening to the first minute of the five minute version I chose the that one, because I was already feeling a bit bored after 15 seconds. The speaker talked in a calm and slow fashion in a way kids could understand. However, it was a bit too calm and slow for me. I did the exercise with my son. He was excited to sit on a pillow and help me light candles for the experience. I played the CD on my computer, which was a bit clunky and awkward, having a big electronic device in our way, but we eventually got used to it. As the speaker began, my son's anticipation for the activity began to wane. Then he realized he actually needed to listen. After that fact was firmly established (cue parental frustration), he did start to follow the speakers directions. Slowly his body became more relaxed. Then more relaxed. Then even more relaxed. Wait, was he falling asleep? By minute three it was clear he was dozing. By minute five he was totally zonked. Three hours later, he was still at it, so I carried him to his bed and he slept peacefully the whole night. Lesson learned: Have some pillows and blankets handy for this one.
The Spaghetti Test
In this exercise, kids tense up parts of their body and then let it go (like loose spaghetti). On a snow day, my son and his friend had been holed up inside for many hours and had developed lots of "schpilkus" (Yiddish for pent up energy). I figured this was a good moment to try the Spaghetti Test to calm things down a bit. We set up the computer and the pillows and the candles, and even rang some bells. The voice came on the computer and told the kids to tense up their legs and then relax them. I think the kids took the speaker a little too seriously. I've never seen a kid tense up with such tenacity before (perhaps it was the schpilkus?), and by the time they were supposed to relax, they were more revved up than ever. After repeating a series of these exercises (I'm not going to try to explain what it looks like for two eight-year-olds to repeatedly spaz out as a voice on a computer calmly urges them on; let's just say, this was my moment of 'hilarity'). At the end, I asked if they felt any calmer. "Not really" they said. But they sure could go for some spaghetti right now. Lesson learned: Save Spaghetti Tests for low-energy days.
The Hard Moment
On yet another snow day, we tried again with another friend (and his parent as well). This time, we chose a meditation that focused on dealing with difficulty. Our child guest was an experienced kid-meditator (he did mindfulness mediation at his school). When I suggested we try this exercise, he immediately jumped into full lotus pose with his hands sitting Muladhara on each leg (wow). However, as I started to play the CD he cried out in frustration – "I can't concentrate with that voice!" So he went off into another room to meditate on his own. Hmm. Well, we continued with the meditation, which helped us reflect on positive feelings and to comfort our sad feelings. My adult friend and I agreed that we walked away feeling a little lighter and more positive. I asked my son what he thought of to make him feel better. "Eating hamburgers," was his reply. Lesson Learned: To each his own.
The Aftermath: Letting go and embracing the now
I was feeling a little frustrated with my experiments. My son was thinking of eating hamburgers and falling asleep. His friends were spazzing out or running away from the voice lady. Nothing seemed to be working the way I thought it might (yes, I did have that little picture in my head of my son in lotus position beside me as we both silently contemplated compassion and goodness side by side – I can have dreams, can't I?). Well Buddha, in all his wisdom, says we need to let go of desires which create internal conflicts, and, sure enough, he was right. It was a few weeks after I had decidedly given up on the whole meditation-with-kids thing (or at least, meditation with my kid). I was helping my son with homework. It was a punishing ordeal. We'd been at it nearly an hour, and we still had more to go. It was 8:00 at night, and we were both exhausted. "I have a stomach-ache mom," he said as he began the next section of his work. One part of me thought, "Alert, this is a distraction technique, proceed with caution, and push forward!!" but the other part remembered that a stomach ache can be a sign of worry or stress. I stopped what I was doing. I wrapped him in a big hug. I said "Let's just forget about homework for a second. Take a deep breath, and follow your breathing. Feel your breath go into your belly." Instead of the typically silly "big breaths" he normally did when I asked him to take a breath, he really focused on his breathing. Then, I said "pay attention to your feet now. Feel your breath fill up your feet and go out again." We worked progressively, paying attention to his legs, arms, shoulders, neck and head. After a few minutes he looked up at me. "I'm okay now Mom, let's finish this up," he said.
We had done it. Not in the way I thought or planned, but together, through the practices, we had learned a thing or two that we were able to use when we really needed it.
Lesson learned: Let go, and let the moment come to you.
The big implications from this little experiment are this:
1. You and/or your kid(s) may not like the CD. The adult should listen to the CD and learn the exercises so they can try them with the children in a way that works for them.
2. Let go of your expectations and just practice.
3. If you do need some expectations, expect some frustration, some laughter, and some love.
4. Overall what is most important here is the relationship you build with your child or students through this practice. You are learning to listen to, care for, be patient with, and understand each other. Dedicate some time to building your relationships in this way.


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Gunman kills two guards outside Jeddah palace
The attacker, a 28-year-old Saudi national, was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and three Molotov cocktails
Two members of the Saudi Royal Guard were shot dead and three others were injured on Saturday by a gunman outside a royal palace in Jeddah.
An interior ministry spokesman said that the incident took place at 3.25am in front of the western gate of the Al Salam Palace, where the men were stationed, reported the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
The men "came under fire by a person who got out of a car, a Hyundai, which he was driving and which carried the license plate H S K 6081", he said, adding that the gunman was "immediately dealt with" and shot dead on the spot.
The spokesman said that the attacker, who was identified as 28-year-old Mansur Al Amiri, a Saudi national, was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and three Molotov cocktails.
The two guards killed were identified as Hammad bin Shallah Al Mutairi and Abdullah bin Faisal Al Subaie.
Those injured were Walid bin Ali Shami, Ahmed Saleh Al Qarni and Abdullah Hindi Subeii, all of whom were transported to hospital for treatment.
The Saudi authorities have launched an investigation to determine the gunman's motive for the attack.
King Salman of Saudi Arabia — who was on an official visit to Russia during the attack — often holds meetings and hosts leaders at the palace.
UAE's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said in a tweet on Sunday that Saudi Arabia will win the war on terrorism.
"Saudi Arabia will overcome terrorism and regional challenges, and it will continue with confidence with its development plans to flourish," he said. "The UAE will stand by [Saudi Arabia] through thick and thin."
ستنتصر السعودية على الإرهاب والتحديات الإقليمية وستمضي بثقة في خططها التنموية نحو الإزدهار، وستقف الإمارات إلى جانبها في اليسر والعسر.— د. أنور قرقاش (@AnwarGargash) October 8, 2017
Other Arab countries, including Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Egypt, condemned the "terrorist" attack, saying that they stand firmly by Saudi Arabia.
A Kuwaiti foreign affairs ministry spokesman said that his country supported Saudi Arabia's efforts to combat terrorism and safeguard its safety and stability, reported the Kuwait News Agency, KUNA.
"There is a need to double the international community's efforts to face terrorism and rid this world of its evil," he said.
Bahrain said it condemns the attack and "all forms of terrorism and those who support and finance it", according to a foreign ministry statement carried by the Bahrain News Agency.
Meanwhile, Turkey also said it condemned the attack in Jeddah.
"We wish Allah's mercy upon the Saudi security officers who lost their lives as a result of this heinous attack and a speedy recovery to the wounded," said a statement released by the foreign ministry.
"Furthermore, we convey our condolences to the brotherly government and the people of Saudi Arabia."
Updated: October 8, 2017 04:37 PM


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Dani (unregistered)
Excellent stuff! If you can't put some humor in coding then where can you?
Ray S (unregistered)
Hey, at least the kid had the excuse of being a student. Some of us have to deal with this crap in the real world with alleged 'professionals'.
That said, I do love the name, and if "-18 for sucking at life" is true, extra points for hilarity. :-)
James Mastros (unregistered)
Ugh. You know, if either of you had been that kid, you would have escilated that, and the prof, or some other higher-up, would have been forced to do something, and the kid would likely have been given a higher grade which they did not deserve.

-4 for poor name.

-4 for unneccessary cast

-6 for dereferencing a freed pointer

-6 for not having an exit condition

Same grade, but penilizing people for "sucking at life" is simply not a valid thing to do.
Daniel R (unregistered)
And what about penalizing him for dereferencing a void pointer? I think the "significant names for variables and functions" is a bit subjective but compiler and error warning are worse than a funny name.
l33t h4x0r (unregistered)
Note: It is perfectly legal to call free() with a null-pointer. It simply does nothing.
Now our score improved to -19.
But you should never use a pointer after freeing it. Back at -20.
Meh. (unregistered)
> Same grade, but penilizing people for "sucking at life" is simply not a valid thing to do.
Although I agree with the wording, I would have cut the poor name and unnecessary cast demerits in half, and then added "-4 for turning in obviously broken code that you haven't tested, wasting my time."
(Sometimes, btw, a cast that may be unneccessary is in fact there sometimes to explicitly force a certain type promotion, or make an implicit promotion explicit. This is especially true when working with third-party libraries; if you find yourself doing this with your own code, overload your function for the original type if it is suitably meaningful.)
Arf arf arf (unregistered)
Mr. Mastros, my impression is that the student so penile to begin with that no TA could've made him any more so.
l33t h4x0r d00d: The problem is that he'll end up dereferencing NULL when he recurses -- or at least he will be if he set tail->next to NULL when he built the list. Anybody here trust him to have gotten that right? Yeah, me neither... In that case, at the end of the list he'll follow a gibberish pointer to Podunk and end up with an access violation. Unless he accidentally used calloc() instead of malloc().
I did once work with somebody who thought that the C++ delete operator set the pointer to NULL. So he'd always say
if ( p ) delete p;
...and then do it again for the same p later on. He ultimately decided that operator delete "wasn't working right"; it was "just corrupting the object instead of deleting it".
Tom Seddon (unregistered)
Any pointer turns into void *. That's why the cast is wrong -- it's unnecessary, and it stops the compiler error if you accidentally pass the wrong type of variable (due to a typo, say).
TheF0o1 (unregistered)
> ... you would have escilated that...
>
-4 for unneccessary cast

> ... but penilizing people for "sucking at life" is simply not a valid thing to do.
-3 for misspelling "escalated", "unnecessary", and "penalizing"
-3 for poor grammar
No penalty for sucking at life
Justin Lovell (unregistered)
I do not know why some people are surprised at stupid names? When it comes down to code that will be looked at only once and is not a "critical" piece of code for my classes, I have some stuff like this:
program SomeStupidTestThatWasDecidedToBeWrittenOneDayBeforeHolidays;
writeln('You are a stupid user! And because I am the most intelligent piece of code, I can predict that you want to exit out this programme right now... press any key to exit.');
writeln('Fooled yea! The stupid piece of code will be executed momentarily...');
{... actual code ...}
Jeez! This is what I do for fun just BECAUSE I have to code in Pascal for school.
Ron (unregistered)
Ha hah ahaha
Obviously none of you guys went to CMU.
At CMU it is perfectly valid to tell someone they suck at life. Although it should be a given, since you are an undergrad at CMU.
josh (unregistered)
The problem is not checking for NULL before freeing the pointer, the problem is not checking for NULL as an exit condition. Even dereferencing NULL is a secondary problem. Since this code is dereferencing the pointer only after it is freed anyway, the value it held is ultimately irrelevant at that point.
Andy (unregistered)
When I was in college we had a Scheme professor (he also taught a C++ class the following semester) who could barely speak English and was a mediocre teacher in general. One of my friends took to turning in all his assignments with every variable, function, etc. named "thingy" or a variation on the word or a profanity.
Got at least a B in both classes, probably a B+ or A (been a few years).
Jeff Perrin (unregistered)
Heh. You said "penilizing"
Tiernan O'Toole (unregistered)
i was that kid, well not in the example, but in my class. i was docked 15% in a programming exam, of which i got 85% BTW, for not having a button other then the standard windows one, for killing the program. there was a menu, there was the windows one, the program did everything it was ment to do on the spec, but the ba****d docked me 15% for not having a button. still pi**ed of to this day because of it. still got an A but thats not the point.
James (unregistered)
We actually had someone at Uni submit his haskell code with functions along the lines of "HaskellIsCrap", "B*****dHaskell" and so forth.
He even got reasonable marks, considering that half the functions didn't work that is.
But then even I managed to get some RIP acronyms into my Prolog.
KoFFiE (unregistered)
> Note: It is perfectly legal to call free() with a null-pointer. It simply does nothing.
As stated above - he should have checked it and exited, and also - lucky you that you only code on PC-platform :) I code on embedded (mostly m68k) systems, and calling "free(0);" on some platforms is a quick (and dirty?) trick for an instant reboot... I know - not really standard C, but good practice to avoid such things from happening imho, and if you know this, this can be real handy, the resetting of a system is most of the time some obscure system call. free(0) is a LOT easier :D
Disclaimer: the free(0) trick is only used in debug versions of these platforms supporting this "feature" to indicate something really really bad went wrong :)
Also another remark, this implementation is pritty stack-intensive (at least if working with a stack-oriented platform/compiler, but since most are...), even if the logic itself would be ok hence it's recursive behavior. I still wouldn't use it to free a linked list of 10.000 items :) Offcourse some compilers optimize this into a loop, but I don't like that that much :)
Distilled Software Hate (unregistered)
On some UNIX systems they used to set the word at zero to zero so indirecting through an extra null pointer was mostly safe. For all I know some platforms (SCO, maybe) still do this. On those platforms he'll get a segfault or bus error when he blows the stack instead of when he follows the null pointer to madness or blows out on a protection fault.
He's also depending on malloc allowing one use-after-free. With a debugging malloc or a secure free he'd hit a wild pointer or a null poiinter right off no matter what the list is.
defrost (unregistered)
Just for the record;
free( head ); // does NOT make head==NULL
and so
FreeThisSchnizzle( head->next );
will NOT dereference a NULL ptr, it will pass
the value at offset of member next after the pointer head, which still retains it's previous pointer value.
What actually happens is implementation dependant, behaviour will range from "works as expected" to a segfault / bus error ...
Jon Hanna (unregistered)
> free( head ); // does NOT make head==NULL
No, but recursing through a linked list with the end node marked by having a null next pointer does (eventually, after you call FreeThisSchnizzle() on that null next pointer).
>What actually happens is implementation dependant,
No, it is undefined. Were it implementation dependant then any given implementation would have to document its behaviour (which may be completely up to the implementation, or one of a few possible options).
As both derefencing a null pointer and dereferencing a pointer to an object that has been freed are undefined a compiler can do whatever it wants, and this can change between releases of the compiler without any warning. It can also change depending on debug options (and they often do, as debuggers will try to catch just the two errors above, assuming the compiler didn't already catch the fact that the function never returns).
Relying on implementation dependant behaviour is generally a Bad Thing but ocassionally necesary (in particular in very low-level code). Relying on undefined behaviour is just wrong. As a coder (rather than a compiler developer) it's best to read "undefined" in the standard as "Breaks. Horribly."
>behaviour will range from "works as expected" to
It is recursion without a condition that will stop the condition.
It might just be (not sure) theoretically possible for a compliant compiler to:
1. Not break at the use of a feed pointer.
2. Not break at the dereferencing of a null pointer.
3. Optimise the tail-recursion into an iteration, so there is no stack overflow[].
4. Realise that the iteration is no longer doing anything after it has reached the null pointer and optimise it away, to a more efficient behaviour that is the same "as if" it hadn't optimised; i.e. putting the thread to sleep (but not killing it, unless there was no references to the thread's handle stored)
5. Making the thread permanently sleep isn't a disaster for the rest of the program.
The success of this would be just slightly less dependent on luck than if you gave the same assignment to a blind monkey with carpal tunnel syndrome.
[] The only thing that indicates any method in the madness in FreeThisSchnizzle is that while the recursive call clearly should be before the call to free it may have been put at the end in the hope of making the recursion tail recursion and hence allowing the compiler to quite easily make it an iteration.
Slom (unregistered)
Jon Hanna : "As both derefencing a null pointer and dereferencing a pointer to an object that has been freed are undefined"
dereferencing NULL is perfectly valid and defined ansi-c !
( avoiding if(x) free (x) constructs, simply results in a NOP)
Slom (unregistered)
meant freeing
nick (unregistered)
>> free( head ); // does NOT make head==NULL
>No, but recursing through a linked list with the end node marked by having a null next pointer does (eventually, after you call FreeThisSchnizzle() on that null next pointer).
Point is that it won't (legally) recurse -- the damage (de-referencing an already freed pointer) is done on the first iteration so the NULL at the end is technically irrelevant
Chui Tey (unregistered)
I'm surprised no one pointed out that the recursion doesn't terminate (until you run out of stack space, that is).
Ian (unregistered)
Haha... that was me.
The TA, not the student. :P
Ian (unregistered)
And looking back... Levi sent in the wrong code there. The exact code from my records was such:
void freeThisShnizzle(Word *node)
if (node!=NULL)
freeThisShnizzle( node );
Note that our recursive call is before our call to free... additionally nothing is ever set to null. I rapidly ran out of stack space when running this student's code, and then when I saw why...well... I thought he deserved a more specific penalty than a flat -20.
Somebody, just sent me this link. I am the person who wrote this code. Apparantly people still talk about this. Some guy came up to me in graphics last semester talking about it, and nearly wanted my autograph when I told him. I've still got a video of the class in which everyone laughed at me if anyone wants it [:D]. The code listed a few posts up is what I turned in, not the one in the first post, and the first -1 was for turning in an infinitely recursive function.
In my defense, this class isn't very serious, as its just a half semester intro to c, and for christ's sake, the labs were due on friday night!
Actually, I made a mistake. The -18 was for the infinite recursion, and the -1 was for sucking at life.
Sorry for the spam, but here's the video http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rmoulton/FreeThisShnizzle.wmv
Foon (cs)
Alex Papadimoulis:
-1 for not checking if the pointer is null and for calling free() before recursing.
-1 for calling this function FreeThisSchnizzle()
-18 for sucking at life
What about "using recursion when iteration will do the job"?
JamesCurran (cs)
:And looking back... Levi sent in the wrong code there. The exact code from my records was such:
Ok, let's reflect on this a moment. A person, in attempting to offer some code to TheDailyWTF,
(a) inadvertantly fixes the one error in the code, but
(b) injects three NEW errors into it!
Now, that's a WTF!
CornedBee (cs)
The original code would have caused this statistic in one of our programming classes:
- Starting points: 100
- Does not compile: -100
- End result: 0
Can I tell you all a joke I read on the internet?
Okay...here goes.
Why was Snoop Doggy Dogg carrying an umbrella?
Fo' Drizzle.
In your defense? But it doesn't compile! Even if it was due on a Friday night (was it assigned Friday morning?), can't you at least try to compile and run the thing?Why take a half-semester "intro to C class" in the first place if you don't care to learn C?Sheesh.David W.
That was intended for Anonymous, who said a few posts back "In my defense....."David W
Didn't anyone find the Snoop Dogg joke funny? I did.
That sort of "speak" makes me laugh.
Everytime I hear someone say something like "Fo' heezy" or "That's the sheezy." I have to say "Bless you." because it sounds like they sneezed.
I don't think that joke is funny because I don't speak that language. I never heard those expressions before.
Please translate them into English.
:I don't think that joke is funny because I don't speak that language. I never heard those expressions before.
Please translate them into English.
Y'know, I would love to translate them for you, however I myself don't know what they mean.
I just think they sound funny.
A-skizzle! A-skizzle!
Excuse me...
I had to sneeze. [:^)]
You're excuzzed.
Matt (unregistered)
So I was actually in this class, and the best part was when the TA put the code up on the monitor:
"Ok everyone, what's the problem with this code?"
"uhh . . it's an infinite loop that will overflow the stack space?"
"No! The problem is that it's named FreeThisSchnizzle!"
Schol-R-LEA (cs)
Anonymous:I'm surprised no one pointed out that the recursion doesn't terminate (until you run out of stack space, that is).
And possibly not even then, if (for example) it were compiled with gcc 3.* using the -foptimize-sibling-calls switch (or -O2, which includes that one). That makes it one of the few valid arguments against TCO I've seen.
Suomynona (unregistered)
No, it is *undefined*. Were it implementation dependant then any given implementation would have to document its behaviour (which may be completely up to the implementation, or one of a few possible options).
You're confusing "implementation dependant" with "implementation-defined", which is standardese for what you describe. Argument from authority: I know what I'm talking about, because I had to read the C99 standard for money. ;-p
Suomynona (unregistered)
dereferencing NULL is perfectly valid and defined ansi-c !
( avoiding if(x) free (x) constructs, simply results in a NOP)
You meant freeing
NULLis valid ANSI-C, but actually, dereferencing
NULLis also valid ANSI-C. Only if you do anything useful with the dereferenced pointer is the behavior undefined.
For example, C99 explicitely states that
&*pfor a pointer
pis equivalent to
p, even if
p == NULL.
tiro (cs)
In my defense, this class isn't very serious, as its just a half semester intro to c, and for christ's sake, the labs were due on friday night!
This is the only valid WTF justification I have seen on these boards so far!
JamesCurran (cs)
ah... but did you find the limerick?Anonymous:I know what I'm talking about, because I had to read the C99 standard for money. ;-p
(OK, it's actually in the C++98 standard)
David Schwartz (unregistered)
I once worked on a project that had so much code like this, they simply changed the "free" function so that it free's whatever you passed it on the previous call to "free" and saves this pointer to free NEXT time.
I couldn't understand how they could ever get to this point. All the ways I could imagine this happening had "checking and egg" issues. Why write the "delayed free" if you didn't have code like this? And why write code like this if you had a "delayed" free?
I finally tracked down the history. They once had a bug just like this, and as a quick workaround (it wasn't as trivial a fix as this example) they wrote the "delayed free" function. The problem was solved, so why mess with it? Over time, more bugs crept in that weren't detected because "delayed free" hid them, so over time, they just started writing to the "delayed free" model.
Alex Gartrell (unregistered)
Can't we keep this kind of stuff in-house?
Regular Person (unregistered)
Great Post!
This kid sounds like such a douche! He tried to implement HUMOR into an entry level computer programming class?
We all know programmers (as a group) tend to be taken very seriously, so this type of behavior only makes us look uncool.
radaway (unregistered)
Yeah but you supposedly want to stop the recursion eventually.
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Album: Paroxysm of Hatred
Released date: January 22nd, 2018
Genre: Death/Thrash Metal
Country: Greece
Label: Memento Mori
What we have here is the sophomore studio full-length album of the Greek death/thrash metal quartet Rapture. This record, named "Paroxysm of Hatred", was released just last January 22nd of 2018 under the banner of the Spanish extreme music record label Memento Mori. Many have strongly criticized this offering saying that the only thing that made this material competent is its strong veneration to the old guards of the thrash and death metal genre. Well, yes, the band has that evident traces of a powerful worship to early music of bands like Demolition Hammer, Massacra, Dark Angel, Kreator, "Leprosy" and "Spiritual Healing" era Death, and "Altars of Madness" era Morbid Angel; but what Rapture did is that they took those violent and aggressive elements from the mentioned bands above and boosted it a couple of more times to manufacture their own brand of barbaric and skull fracturing death/thrash metal music.
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In tracks like 'Vanishing Innocence', 'Paroxysm of Hatred: Procreation', 'Taken By Apathy', 'Quintessence Of Lunacy', and 'Paroxysm of Hatred: Revelation', an eruption of insane and unadulterated thrash guitar playing and relentless pounding drum section will satisfy fans of both thrash and death metal. A maelstrom of saw-toothed riffs and sinister tremolo picking, especially on the mentioned tracks above, are what the listeners would encounter in the guitar area during the forty-one minutes of running time of "Paroxysm of Hatred". The tunes here contain numerous pile of varying riffs that range from frantic tremolo picking to more throbbing grooves and then to a 'non compos mentis' kaleidoscopic death metal riff. The two axemen of Rapture sure knows how to succeed in bringing to completion a thrasher's craving for a record with a chainsaw-laden guitar section.
Listen to the songs carefully and you can also hear that the bass playing here is pretty busy and active. But, like the familiar standards of the late 80s and early 90s thrash music, the bass line is subdued and subjugated by the rhythm guitar and the fury of the drum. Speaking of the drums, it's one hell of a chaotic and bludgeoning affair as it sounds like the drum kit is getting compellingly blown up by the drummer with his crushing and exceptionally tight performance. Man, the guy behind the drums is just pure fucking aggression in his approach and it fits well to the offering as it is the primary focus of this album.
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On Gaudete Sunday, we cut down our own Christmas tree with some friends. It was my first experience of actually cutting it down, though, I actually didn't do it - Kevin did. It was a bit anti-climactic, but it was also cheaper than buying one pre-cut. So win-win.
Afterwards, we went to our respective homes to setup the trees and ended up at Fr. Michael's rectory for some dinner & Marvel entertainment. The Avengers is just that good.
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6. Update It Frequently
Yep, it's called blogging. Designers love to resist blogging but when it can reap such big ass rewards for your business I don't know why you want to resist it.
7. Be My Guest
Guest blogging is awesome for boosting your SEO. It's called backlinks.
8. Don't Change Your Domain Name Like Your Panties
The age of your domain is muy importante. If you continue to switch your domain name and get a new one every year you're screwing yourself. I know, because I've been guilty of this. The older your website, the better ranking.
9. Get Local Clients With Your Website
If you're an interior designer in Los Angeles, make sure you're putting that on your website.
10. Designer, Decorator, Tomayto, Tomahto
I know you're proud of your title - whichever it is. But let's be frank. Your clients don't give a shit about your title and rarely know the difference. Use the long tail keyword "los angeles interior designer" and "los angeles interior decorator". People are searching for both and like I said, they don't know the diff so why not increase your odds?
11. Name Your Images With Your Keyword
Your images on your website need to also be named the same as the keyword you're optimizing for on your page or post.
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12. Oh the humanity!
You have to write for humans. Your page/post should be optimized for your keyword but that doesn't mean your title has to follow that rule, too.
How To Make 1000% More On The Sale Of Your Home <-- Bueno
13. Use Your Headers
You know those H2, H3, H4 etc. things... use those with your keyword to organize your content.
Those 13 SEO Tips For Interior Designers Are Gold - If You Follow Them
SEO is a foreign and techy language that interior designers don't want to get tangled up in, but listen to me. You MUST. It is so vitally important to your business that if you don't get on board, you'll be left behind.
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- Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4 and grease 24 muffin-tin cups.
- Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger onto greaseproof paper.
- Beat together the eggs, buttermilk, melted butter, treacle, vanilla, sugar and pumpkin in a large bowl.
- Stir in the dry ingredients, all at once, just until moistened.
- Then it's time to fold in the almonds! Spoon into the prepared muffin tin, filling almost to the top.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Remove the muffins from the cups and cool on wire racks. Serve warm - that's when they're at their scrummiest!
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250g plain flour 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg 1/4 tsp ground ginger 2 eggs 80ml buttermilk 75g butter, melted 1 tbs treacle 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 200g sugar 250g pumpkin puree 60g chopped almonds
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Rep Jim Jordan Corners Rosenstein On 2nd Special Counsel, DOJ Corruption
Rep Jim Jordan asks the questions Rod Rosenstein and the rest of the corrupt officials at DOJ and the FBI don't want to answer in House Judiciary Committee Hearings. They've
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Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) has been calling, along with many of his colleagues in the House, for a special counsel to deal with the corruption in the DOJ and FBI for months. On Wednesday he had an opportunity to ask a top DOJ official if it was going to happen.
Rod Rosenstein effectively said "No" in response to Rep Jordan's questions. They'll continue to police themselves and he'll decide when his crony, Robert Mueller, is called off of the witch hunt that Rosenstein set him loose on.
Despite the overwhelming conflicts of interest and total lack of any evidence of Russia collusion by the Trump team, and mountains of evidence piling up of the DOJ and FBI serving as a political arm of the Clinton campaign and Obama regime, Rosenstein is going to continue to allow the fraud, the expense, and the personal injury to citizens who serve this nation to take place.
Jordan opened his time with a question that he wants answered but is apparently, from having seen the events that transpired earlier in the hearing, and the DOJ ignoring the same questions when submitted by letter, aware will not be answered by Rosenstein. "Did the FBI pay Christopher Steele and was the dossier the basis for securing warrants at the FISA court to spy on Americans associated with the Trump campaign?"
Jordan says, "Yesterday I was convinced that the answer to those questions was probably "Yes," but today I'm even more convinced the answer is "yes" based upon the text messages we got to read early this morning." He goes on to recap the offenses believed to have been committed by Peter Strzok and read a few of his anti-Trump biased text messages.
He focuses in on a particular Strzok text messages where he says, "We can't take the risk, we have to do something about it," referring to the people of the United States possibly electing Donald Trump as their President. He also notes another comment by Strzok which stated, "I can protect our country at many levels," which sounds like he's willing to do what it takes, legal or otherwise, to make certain Trump isn't elected.
Jordan challenges Rosenstein, saying, "It seems to me you've got two things you can do. You're the guy in charge. You're the guy that picked Mueller. You're the guy who wrote the memo saying why he needed to fire Comey. You're the guy in charge. You could disband the Mueller Special Prosecutor and you can do what we've all called for, appoint a second special counsel to look into this, to look into Peter Strzok, Bruce Ohr, everything else we've learned in the last several weeks."
That's not going to happen because, while Rosenstein was all too willing to unleash a rabid mongrel on his cabal's political adversary, President Trump, the last thing he wants is for the same thing to happen to him and his fellow conspirators at the DOJ, FBI.
He points to their own internal investigation through the office of the Inspector General, as the route that will be taken in correcting or appearing to take interest in the problems the nation recognizes and Rep Jordan points out have completely eroded any confidence the nation has in the Departments Rosenstein oversees. The cover up, with the possible exception of action following the IG report, and the witch hunt will continue. Jordan and Congress have Mr. Rosenstein's permission to pound sand.
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Today'sPassage – 2 Kings 10 – 12
Second Milers also read – Luke 13 – 14; Psalms 141 – 150; Proverbs 29
"Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel." – (2 Kings 10:28)
"And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD." – (2 Kings 11:18)
In all three of the chapters from 2 Kings that we have read today we have seen a "housecleaning" of sorts. First we see Jehu of the northern kingdom of Israel in chapter 10. He slaughters all of the family of wicked King Ahab along with all of the prophets of Baal. Now I understand that when we read passages like this in the 21st Century, we tend to think that Jehu was way to cruel to the family of Ahab. However, it is important to realize that Ahab and his wife, Jezebel, had done more to cause God to be angry than any other king of Israel or Judah. They had filled the land with immorality and idolatry; they had repressed the true worshippers of God, and promoted the worship of Baal. Jehu was actually fulfilling the Word of God through the prophet Elijah when he said that the house of Ahab and Jezebel would be destroyed. (1 Kings 21:19, 21, 29)
Now when we get to chapters 11 and 12, we are in the southern kingdom of Judah. The king of Judah, Ahaziah, was also slain by Jehu in the northern kingdom back in chapter 9. Ahaziah was friends with the king of Israel, so he was guilty by association. Also, Ahaziah's mother was the daughter of Ahab and Jezebel. So you see the wicked influence of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel of the northern kingdom had spread to the southern kingdom of Judah. By the way, it all started when the good king, Jehoshaphat, became friendly with Ahab. At any rate, by the time we get to 2 Kings 12, the southern kingdom of Judah is filled with the worship Baal, which needs to be exterminated from the land.
What we need to learn from all of this is that if we are not careful about living our lives separate from the world, we too will begin to allow all kinds of things that God is against. And what is worse, we will also set a poor example to our children who will most likely move even further away from God than we do. I do not believe that King Jehoshaphat would be pleased with what happened to his nation in the next couple of generations, but in reality, he was the one who started it all by getting too cozy with people who hated God and God's prophets.
Consider some New Testament verses about separation:
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" – (2 Corinthians 6:14)
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." – (1 John 2:15)
"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you," – (2 Corinthians 6:17)
"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." – (Romans 12:2)
I do not believe these verses teach that we should isolate ourselves from the world. Jesus said we are to be in the world but not of the world. Our presence as Christians in this world is really for the purpose of God's glorification. We are to make God look good to the world through our lives. When we allow the world to conform us into its image rather than us influencing the world, we are no longer glorifying God. Remember, Christian, you are the one who knows the truth. Don't let the vain philosophies of this world somehow cause you to doubt that truth. I think if we would be completely honest with ourselves, we would have to admit that we have all allowed too much of the dirt of the world to creep into our lives. Maybe its time for us to do a little housecleaning. Just a thought.
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Hi,I purchased a JD4500 in February '00. The Power Reverser transmission is nice except that it does not hold the tractor in place when the engine is shut off. This leaves all of the holding power up to the hand-operated emergency brake. The brake is not capable of holding the tractor with a small load on any kind of a slope and has nearly resulted in someone being run over when the brakes slipped. Has anyone else had this problem? I noticed that the current models now have foot-operated emergency brakes. This seems to be a large safety issue. Any suggestions on how to fix the problem?
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Pennsylvania Republicans Claim Obama Mural is Suppressing Their Votes
Republicans are upset by a mural of President Obama at the Ben Franklin Elementary School in Philadelphia, where people are voting today.
The Pennsylvania Republican Party claims that the mural is somehow suppressing GOP voters.
The Pennsylvania State Republican Committee took their complaint to court today and were supported by the Democratic City Committee of Philadelphia, reports CBS Philly.
A judge in Philadelphia ordered poll workers to cover the mural with paper, so they did.
Even though the Republicans got their way, with help of the Democrats, they are still angry.
GOP chairman Rob Gleason told CBS Philly: "The Obama campaign is 0-for-2 today in trying to get away with their disgusting attempts to suppress Republican voices in Philadelphia,."
"Whether it's blocking Republican Election Day workers from doing their job or violating Pennsylvania law by electioneering in the polling place, it is clear the Obama campaign has taken their campaign in the gutter to manipulate this election however they can."
There have been some complaints about Republican poll watchers not being allowed into polling places, which the city is investigating.
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A case of conspiracy,provoking a riot,and rioting was filed against former chief minister Keshubhai Patel and Mahagujarat Janata Party president Gordhan Zadafia at Bhesan court in Junagadh district on Thursday. The complaint also names some other Narendra Modi-baiters,including Congress MP from Porbandar Vitthal Radadiya,Congresss Babra MLA Bavku Unghad and Khodaldham trust promoter Naresh Patel.
The complainant is one Bahadur Khuman,whose paan stall at Parab Road in Bhesan town was among the nine shops set ablaze on June 3 by a mob. Khuman has blamed the arson on the speeches made by these leaders at a meeting on March 11.
The Bhesan court will investigate the matter under CrPC section 202.
While his community leaders have affiliations with the RSS and the BJP,Khuman says,I have no political affiliations or interest in politics. I just happen to be a victim who has lost source of his income in political games.
A total of 66 persons,including top leaders,have been accused of rioting,damage to property,inflammatory speeches and conspiracy under various IPC sections like 141,149 (unlawful assembly),120b (conspiracy),392 (robbery),436 (mischief by fire),452 and 153 (wantonly giving provocative speeches with intent to cause riot), said Khumans counsel Rajesh Thakar.
Though the rioting occurred hours after Bhupat Bhayani,a BJP councillor at Bhesan Taluka Panchayat,was shot at on June 3,the complainant in the plea claimed it had roots in Leuva Patel communitys meet organised on March 11 at Mota Kotda village near Visavadar where the leaders named in the case allegedly made inflammatory speeches.
Meanwhile,the police said they will carry a parallel inquiry following an application submitted by Kathi community members to Junagadh SP Dipankar Trivedi. The application has been forwarded by me to the police officers investigating the incident of riots at Bhesan on June 3, he said.


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St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate by Janet Brooke
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St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate by Janet Brooke is a new print that features a tiny church that survived the Great Fire of London of 1666.
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Her series of Wren churches was completed earlier in 2015 which culminated in an exhibition of the work at Gallery 101, on Queen Victoria Street, London.