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World Snooker has written to its players informing them that the sponsors of the game's two biggest events have terminated their contracts with immediate effect.
888.com will no longer sponsor the World Championship. They signed a five-year deal in 2006 but are ending it after only three.
Saga Insurance has withdrawn its support of the Wembley Masters.
Both companies invoked early termination clauses in their contracts. According to World Snooker, the reason given in each case is the current problems in the financial markets.
This news is about as bad as it gets for the game and, in particular, for the governing body.
When the 888.com deal was originally announced, World Snooker chairman Sir Rodney Walker said: "I believe this is the first step in a transformation which will change the commercial face of snooker in the future."
Oddly, there is no mention of the double sponsorship blow on the governing body's official website.
World Snooker told its players that they "ask for your further co-operation in assisting World Snooker to promote the game and our organisation in a positive light."
In other words: "don't criticise us for this."
However, I suspect most players will reflect that while to lose one major sponsor can be seen as unlucky, to lose two suggests a big problem with the way the sport is being administered.
For the sake of snooker, everyone connected with it will hope replacement sponsors can be found, but I suspect the next few months will be rocky to say the least.
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Welcome back David!
I can't believe this news, I received it via a text message from a friend earlier in the afternoon who went to a birthday function yesterday evening and I thought he was still worse for wear!
Joking aside this is an absolute tragedy to lose not one, but two sponsers of our flagship events. That means only a few weeks until the first ranking event of the new season and out of the UK events only the Grand Prix (Royal London Watches) and the UK championship (Maplin Electronics) are sponsered which when you consider the viewing figures Snooker receives is disgusting.
I don't know in the current climate how snooker can entise sponsers with all the politics currently going on and the fact that World Snooker can't announce this breaking news on their website. Likewise they can't cover the news on the World Series as they must consider it a serious threat, in light of today's news who know's what they are thinking?
888.com and Saga Insurance were good sponsers to replace Embassy and Benson & Hedges in the light of things even though 888.com took over the popular Heritage Room at The Crucible with hospitality suites.
The one thing that worries me now, not only as a snooker fan for over 20 years and a qualified referee, is how the players and management are going to take this - darts had serious political problems which lead to the split and the formation of the PDC back in 1993 and as great as it is over the Christmas and New Year to watch and visit two World Championships I wouldn't want this is snooker and I'm sure the leading television broadcasters who do such a good job covering our game wouldn't want.
One things for certain, the coming months will be full of uncertainty and nerves.
What do you think this news holds for the future, David?
- 5:28 pm
- Janie Watkins said...
It seems very strange that 888 had cited Financial downturn as a reason to WSA, when only today they were announcing a 33% increase in income from sectors of their business.
Sadly it seems my contribution to SAGA's income via my car insurance, isn't enough to guarantee sponsorship of one of our prestige events.
- 6:02 pm
indeed Janice ...
according to this http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/2008/08/05/big-break-for-888-com-as-sales-rise-115875-20684974/
it does not look as if snooker was a cause of financial concerns, quite the contrary ...
- 6:49 pm
Unfortunately, sponsorships and other philanthropic causes are the first things to go out the window when economies begin to contract. Anyway, we ain't seen nothing yet. We'll be lucky if venues like the Crucible are still open when this depression is finished. All sports are in for a rude awakening, not just snooker.
Batten down the hatches!!!
Mat Wilson
- 8:59 am
Those on the WPBSA board ought to hang their heads in shame for not accepting the Altium proposal in 2002. They won't, though. This, as we all know, would have guaranteed a nine-tournament ranking season for the five years from 2002 to 2007, plus invitation events and a challenge tour, and would have meant players competing for £9.5m more in prize money than they actually have competed for over this period.
Sponsors need to know that their brand is in safe hands. Even in this economic downturn I think they would have been far less likely to withdraw from their contracts had they felt more confident about WPBSA's handling of its affairs.
- 9:05 am
Altium was 2002 and if Saga wobble,
so could maybe Altium.
I agree with everybody about mismanagment but the sinking ship
never sank, so it is hard to discredit Sir Walker for the situation in hand.
Masters is the BBC,s baby and there are nothing wrong with wieving figures, if you add Eurosport.
Saga, to me, was not an inter-national sponsor and that is what is needed.
888 ! &%-/# them!
Ladbrokes would have felt fine.
We might all have to get used to
watching daytime snooker, light
is namely coming from east of UK.
Janie, get a new insurancecompany
for your car! In case of a Saga crash.
- 9:51 am
To paraphrase John Virgo, "That was careless".
On the one hand, I'm surprised that 888 have withdrawn, given that as one poster has mentioned, they've just announced a 33% increase, not to mention their efforts as sponsors which I seem to remember David pointing out in his review blog of the World Champs.
It's also interesting though that this news has been announced when the Olympics and the start of the football season are dominating the back pages. An attempt by the WPBSA to bury bad news?
In my opinion, this is not the way to administer a sport which gets more airtime on Free-to-air TV than most. A heavily reduced calendar for the last few years, shocking handling of the Chris Small case, and now this. And that's only recently.
The thing is, though, whilst some players will complain (and with very good reason), it's the professionals who can vote out board members. If the players do nothing about it this time, then they are numpties.
Sam T
- 9:56 am
I feel for you players.
As Churchill once said... KBO!
(It means Keep buggering on!)
- 10:54 am
888.com have announced profits, so it is clearly not fragile markets, and they have signed a five year sponsorship agreement in 2006 - so the money was already allocated! Cricket have announced a £300m sponsorship deal on Tuesday - so it can only go back to the door of World Snooker. Having dealt with World Snooker, they have probably forced the sponsors to walk away through their greed. Unfortunately the Board members do not have knowledge of delivering tangible beneifts to sponsors and just take the money and run. If Rodney Walker wont sack the incompetent board members, the players should have them removed. A professional organisation should have professional people on the board. At present the board consists of a failed businessman, ex hairdresser and a sports administrator. They despise and chase away people who want to help and work with them - often hounding them out of the sport completely. Until these muppets are taken off the board - it will be the same roundabout!
- 11:57 am
Maybe that´s the bill for the WSA for not doing everything for the sport and the pros.
Things like they do with Small, making the dates for there events to hit other tournaments (Worldseries, Paul Hunter Classics), making not everything official, only if Dave is posting it on this site and much more are only small holes in a ship.
But with a lot of small holes a big ship can also get down.
I hope they change there thinking a little bit and all will come to a good end.
Janie: There a enough other insurances.
Jürgen from Germany
- 12:19 pm
Regarding the timing of this announcement - does anyone else think it suspicious that it came during Dave's holiday? Either they wanted to wreck his week off or they were hoping he wouldn't bother responding and the news would slip by unnoticed!
As for the future, I think they are going to have to look to getting Chinese sponsors as the game is so big there but if this happens how long before the World's move away from the UK?
- 1:56 pm
Rodney Walker is on BBC 5 Live tonight at 7.40. Should make for interesting listening.
- 4:01 pm
Not least because the interview will be conducted by the chairman of the Snooker Writers' Association.
- 5:53 pm
extremely unfortunate piece of news! let us all hope that there will be a reasonable solution to all this without cancellation of tournamets
- 6:01 pm
Mr. Hendon,
Michael89 has included a clearly slandering view of Ronnie O'Sullivan in his comment. I will not quote it, for it sickens me. It is of such seriousness that it should call for a reaction.
Don't you think?
Thank you.
Black_cat, avid reader of your blog
- 6:20 pm
Yeah, making lewd comments definitely proofs that O'Sullivan is a N...I didn't know history courses in Russia were THAT bad.
On topic: I hope they don't turn towards China now for finding sponsor, as this would probably mean even more tournaments there. I don't like the atmosphere there, far too noisy crowed and, as far as I understand from comments and articles, the audience isn't so fond of long matches.
- 6:33 pm
- Dave H said...
I have deleted the offensive section and repost what Michael89 posted below
Please, please, please do not throw around insults about players or anyone else here.
"Hi for everyone.
Yesterday i read this news and i was very disappointed. The contracts termination will cost "only" 1.5 m pounds per year and it will be disastrous for the game. I think that sponsors has terminated the contracts becouse of very strain and hard relations and negotiations with WPBSA and Rodney Walker.
Maybe Rodney Walker didn't execute all conditions of deal, who knows... But my own opinion is simple - it was because of the scandal with Ronnie in April. I think that this sensational fact has been produced by WPBSA to put O'Sullivan under pressure and make sure that only Rodney Walker has a real power in the snooker world. Now Ronnie is the most popular player in the world, so he is making very good advertising companiies and endorsement contracts. It's not wonder that this scandal could make only losses and bad things for sponsors reputation.
I am from Russia and i can say that in the former Soviet Countries there are many firms that can sponsor majority of snooker events. Now the snooker is become more and more popular there and we want to have may be some major event in Russia or Ukraine. If snooker is become a really international kind of sport it will have 15-17 events per season and millions of pounds in prize money.
And what do you think Dave? For us (Russians and russians mass media) is important to
understand what do you think about this problem and what is your opinon about the snooker's expansion to the Russia and Ukraine?
Sorry for my poor English, I can understand all your posts but can't write all sentences correctly.
Michael89 from Moscow and Donezk."
- 6:41 pm
- Миша said...
I want to say for all people - I am really sorry for offensive section in my post - I didn't know that it is so offensive for English people - I can't feel some niceties of English language.
Some opinions about O'Sullivan's behaviour were on Chinese and on Russian snooker forums. I did not want to offend somebody, only wanted to understand Britan's people and of course opinion of Davis about the sponsorship situation. Nevertheless, David, what do you think about my questions?
I again apologise for my incorrect post higher.
- 7:54 pm
The World Championship and Masters are now without sponsors, the Grand Prix and UK Championship have just one more year to run on their current contract, and there are at least 50% fewer ranking tournaments than 10 years ago.
The situation has now reached crisis point. The sooner the likes of Pat Mooney and Barry Hearn bang their heads together and start a full breakaway tour the better.
I don't post these comments lightly, but we are facing a situation in snooker similar to that which darts experienced in the early 1990s. The PDC breakway in darts was painful, but was ultimately a beneficial move.
World Series Snooker, while far from perfect, has been a breath of fresh air for snooker and I believe something more substantial may flow from it.
- 11:41 pm
Interesting comment regards the expansion of snooker in Russia, there is a significant investment going into development of Snooker in Russia by the World Series and financial backing is in place to deliver the Final in Moscow for the coming years. If we dare to dream, locations and cities such as Moscow, Berlin, Mumbai, Warsaw and many more will be hosting prestegious and very high prize money events within three years and this will be thx to the World Series of Snooker and bear in mind these events are staged to compliment ranking events and explore new territories at no risk to the game or the finacies of World Snooker, but if they are smart they will watch and learn and open dialogue with WSS and show full support. The choices are simple, Telford or Berlin, Newport or Warsaw, Glasgow or Zurich and so on, you tell me what is the more attrcative sponsors package and audience generator.
A very interested party
- 11:59 pm
The only positive part from the Mr. Rodney Walker interview: next week, he said, World Snooker is to announce a brand new tournament in the Middle East later this year. At least that's good news.
cheers, Eric
- 7:05 am
if the new tournament in Egypt is a ranking tournament, which will benefit ALL the player then yes I welcome it but if it's not, they cant class it as a tournament proper.
And I would bet it's not a ranking event.
- 8:29 am
Are the TV contracts the next thing to go? I have the feeling that this could be the beginning of the end - a similar feeling I had about ten years ago but nothing has been done since except struggling on from one season to the next. Successful sports have their seasons mapped out well in advance - probably more than 18 months in advance. Snooker staggers from one week to the next, and the excuse that the end of tobacco sponsorship was a blow just doesn't wash. Apart from the Irish Masters, where national tobacco policy changed almost overnight, there was at least three years' warning about the end of tobacco sponsorship, and much longer in the case of the world championship. Sometimes it makes me so mad!
- 12:39 pm
- Dave H said...
Michael - snooker in Russia and the Ukraine is increasing in popularity all the time
I know this because they are both in the top 5 in terms of people who visit this blog
If there is sufficient investment locally there's no reason they can't become established areas for professional tournaments
- 3:28 pm
Just for the absolute record there will be a Sponsor for the World Snooker Championships, which start on the 18th of this month, they we're came to view the Venue last week, and this company will be announced next Week.
Oh and the reason I know this is I work there...
- 12:11 am
Like I said before, the WORLD SNOOKER CHAMPIONSHIP does have a Sponsor THIS year 2009... It will be revealed next week...
- 1:35 pm
Last night, Sony rolled out the 3.0 firmware for the Playstation 3, just in time for the launch of the new, lower priced "PS3 Slim.
- 8:14 am
Now that Sony's console is adding the capability to stream movies, should we expect a similar offering from Nintendo? Doubtful.
- 8:16 am


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Kris Humphries has been adamant ... he never dated Myla Sinanaj. Myla swore during her deposition in the Kim Kardashian divorce case ... she and Kris were just friends. Well guess which friends apparently spent the night together this week?
TMZ shot video of Kris and Myla leaving her house in Rutherford, New Jersey Tuesday. He was inside the house for several hours. And we're told ... Kris' car was parked outside the entire night Monday.
Remember ... during Myla's depo ... she testified she was never pregnant with Kris' baby (even though she told various people she was), and Kris never spoke a word to her about his divorce.
The question -- have Kris and Myla been hooking up all along, and did she tell the truth during her depo?
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My latest knitting obsession, creating moss and fern textures and patterns in knit fabric. This shawl distracted me from designs and gifts with approaching deadlines; now it's done and I can get some work done!
I've already planned and swatched for the next moss and fern project, but I'm not allowed to start until a few other projects are complete. At that point I'll write up the pattern for this shawl, too. It's going to take some time, since it isn't a "plug in stitches from the stitch dictionary" project... I just winged it and ripped whenever it got off course. Until then, here's another shot.
I'm loving the colors: Louet Gems fingering in Goldenrod for the main color, and some very saturated Sundara Sock Yarn for the blue contrasting bits.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Moss and Ferns, let me be, I have work to do!
Posted by weaverknits at 3:26 PM
4 comments:
- Mildawg said...
Your ability to rock the yellows never ceases to amaze. Great pose in the last photo!
- April 12, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- Laine de Bergère said...
ooo yum! I am really into yellow this season. This is really pretty!
- April 14, 2010 at 7:36 AM
- Thea said...
Nice! I keep forgetting about louet gems, it's a nice yarn. Love the color combo.
- April 14, 2010 at 10:33 AM
- Crystal (clstal) said...
Wait. I hate to comment on anything but the lovely knitting (lovely!) but I'm stuck on the glasses.
That last pair is incredible and I love them and you rock them (!!). Also, did you buy them online?
- May 2, 2010 at 7:22 PM
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2013-10-09 / Columnists
Pets, Pets, Pets
Belmont Park. The Belmont Stakes. Man O'War. Most folks associate the August Belmonts of North Babylon with horses and racing. However, the Belmont clan was quite influential in the dog world too. In fact, the first Japanese Chins to come to America belonged to this prominent family.
Horse Sense: August Belmont, Sr. (1813-1890), the wealthy 19th century banker, decided in 1864 to locate his horse stud farm on 1,100 acres just north of Babylon Village. His 24-room mansion was finished in 1868, complete with more than 30 buildings and hundreds of acres set aside to breed horses. To the west of the stables was a mile-long training track.
Following his father's death, August Belmont, Jr. (1853-1924) assumed leadership of the family's banking and railroad concerns. He was instrumental in the building of the NYC subway system and Belmont Park. The Belmont Stakes, the third race in the Triple Crown, is named for his father. Besides many other successful thoroughbreds, he bred a young colt in 1917 that his wife named "My Man O'War" because her 64-year-old husband went off to serve in Europe during World War I. The Belmonts regretfully sold him (minus the "My") as a yearling.
In 1885 Belmont, Jr. purchased a farm near Lexington, KY and most of the race horses were raised there. The Babylon Nursery Farm became a place for wintering adult horses and for caring for ailing equines. During World War I the same property became an air field called Camp Dam used by the Army Air Corps. After Belmont, Jr.'s death, the family sold most of the estate for real estate development, while 250 acres became Belmont State Park. The original mansion was razed in 1935 (except for the cannons and a significant dog grave). The present building is NYS Park Department headquarters. No one from the Belmont family ever lived in that building.
The Dog Grave: As discussed in past "Pets," I believe that the lone tombstone on the Belmont property inscribed "In Memory of My Faithful Dog Robin Mar. 25, 1879" belongs to a dog that Belmont, Jr. entered twice in the first Westminster Kennel Club (WKC) show in 1877. I matched up Robin's name and age in a facsimile copy of the first WKC catalogue to a listing as a Gordon Setter; and with a slightly different description, as an English Setter. Such a show stunt would not pass muster nowadays but back then there were no registration numbers and the distinction between the two Setter breeds was fuzzy. Belmont also entered Robin's son and mate as Gordon Setters as well as several Smooth Fox Terriers, his signature breed. Years later he moved his Blemton kennels to Hempstead where he continued to breed champion Fox Terriers. Note that "Blemton" is an anagram of "Belmont."
Why a grave for just Robin? A July 1938 Long Island Forum article mentions that the Belmonts had an enclosure with a family pet plot on the side of the mansion behind one cannon. The rest of the headstones may have been removed when the mansion was razed and the new circular driveway put in. Several years ago the park maintenance workers checked sheds at my request but no other pet tombstones were stored away. Although he judged at WKC shows, August Belmont, Jr. was never a member of the WKC but his brothers Oliver Hazard and Major Perry were. Except for one reference in an old journal, saying that the WKC superintendent's home on Livingston Ave. in Babylon was on the path to the Belmont estate, I can find no reference that any of the Belmonts attended celebrations or pigeon shoots at the WKC clubhouse two miles south near Southards Pond.
The American Kennel Club: Belmont., Jr. was the fourth president of the American Kennel Club (AKC), which formed in 1884, after WKC. During the financier's term from 1888 to 1916, Belmont's acumen brought the young AKC stability, prestige, and fiscal strength. The AKC needed an editorial forum and a record of kennel activity. In 1889 he created the AKC Gazette and guaranteed it against loss for five years at a rate of $5,000 per year. None of Belmont's money was ever used, and this magazine showcasing the purebred dog continued to publish until two years ago.
The First Chins in America: This connection to "dogdom" pre-dates the family's move to North Babylon. The name Japanese Chin is actually a misnomer because this Toy breed traces to China rather than Japan. Many believe that at one time Chins and Pekingese were the same breed. Some of these imperial dogs became pets of Buddhist monks and others were given as gifts to traveling dignitaries or traded with visiting merchants. Eventually Chins could be found in various parts of the Far East including Japan.
Japan closed its doors in 1636 to the outside world to keep foreigners from influencing their culture. It wasn't until Commodore Matthew C. Perry opened trade with the closed Empire in the mid-1850s that Westerners set foot in Japan again. When Perry arrived offering the good will of President Franklin Pierce and Queen Victoria, he sailed home laden with imperial gifts including three pairs of Chins- one for him, another for the President and the last for Queen Victoria. Only Perry's pair survived the voyage. Perry gave his canine gifts to his daughter Caroline Perry Belmont who was married to Belmont, Sr. The male and female never bred but remained cherished house pets. I would love to know if they lived long enough to be laid to rest in the pet plot prior to Robin.
As for the cannons still pointing at Belmont Lake- Mrs. Belmont's uncle was Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry who defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812. Two cannons from one of the British ships were found in a Pittsburgh junkyard by Mrs. Belmont and moved to "guard" her now vanished N. Babylon mansion.
For Adoption at Babylon Town Shelter (631-643- 92700 Lamar St. W. Babylon: No Japanese Chins, but a sweet stray Pekingese now called "Garth," and "Cindy," a senior female Chihuahua mix #13-598 with vision loss from dry eye. "Shady" #3-516 is an outgoing longhaired black cat with a silver undercoat.


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In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (/ˈraɪzoʊm/, from Ancient Greek: rhízōma "mass of roots",[1] from rhizóō "cause to strike root")[2] is a modified subterranean stem of a plant that is usually found underground, often sending out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks and rootstocks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and are diageotropic or grow perpendicular to the force of gravity. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow upwards.[3]
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The poplars (species of Populus) are an example of trees that propagate using a rhizome. The Pando colony in Utah is a famous example, which has been living for about 80,000 years. The rhizome of a poplar colony is the key to its longevity: foragers, insects, fungus, and forest fires may destroy the above-ground portion of the tree, but the underground rhizome is somewhat protected against these threats.
A stolon is similar to a rhizome, but, unlike a rhizome, which is the main stem of the plant, a stolon sprouts from an existing stem, has long internodes, and generates new shoots at the end, such as in the strawberry plant. In general, rhizomes have short internodes; they send out roots from the bottom of the nodes and new upward-growing shoots from the top of the nodes. A stem tuber is a thickened part of a rhizome or stolon that has been enlarged for use as a storage organ.[6] In general, a tuber is high in starch, for example, the common potato, which is a modified stolon. The term tuber is often used imprecisely, and is sometimes applied to plants with rhizomes.
Some plants have rhizomes that grow above ground or that lie at the soil surface, including some Iris species, and ferns, whose spreading stems are rhizomes. Plants with underground rhizomes include gingers, bamboo, the Venus Flytrap, Chinese lantern, Western poison-oak,[7] hops, and Alstroemeria, and the weeds Johnson grass, bermuda grass, and purple nut sedge. Rhizomes generally form a single layer, but in Giant Horsetails, can be multi-tiered.[8]
Many rhizomes have culinary value, and some, such as zhe'ergen, are commonly consumed raw.[citation needed]
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- ^ Nayak, Sanghamitra; Pradeep Kumar Naik (2006). "Factors effecting in vitro microrhizome formation and growth in Curcuma longa L. and improved field performance of micropropagated plants". Science Asia 32: 31–37.
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Talk is not cheap, or simple, in combat
Military adoption of commercial Wi-Fi and 3G/4G network technology ought to be straightforward. Systems are highly capable, there is very little time lag between technology development and deployment, and the high volume of civilian sales reduces costs and risk. Throw in some encryption and a bit of ruggedization, and surely you can turn the iPhones and Android tablets of today into the battlefield communications platforms of tomorrow.
But it is more complicated than that. Greg Moore, business sector manager in the Special Military Products division at Roke Manor Research, the British sensor and communications specialist, says the key challenge is spectrum management.
Well-defined commercial standards and regulation have had the effect of pushing military systems out of civilian spectrum ranges, meaning commercial technology has to be modified to work in military frequency bands, which will often end up eliminating any benefits in terms of the time and money taken to field products. But if military systems move into commercial frequency ranges, an overloaded spectrum is subject to interference and communications become unreliable.
Perhaps counter-intuitively, the problem is, if anything, amplified when the military network is being established in a place like Afghanistan, where domestic network infrastructure is limited—and in a counter-insurgency conflict where the adversary seeks to blend in with the general population.
"The adversary is likely to use commercial systems for communications, or for applications they may wish to use for triggering devices," suggests Moore. "So, naturally, you're going to want to prevent them from communicating on commercial frequencies. That causes you a problem if you want to deny them the use of the same commercial bands you're using to communicate as well."
The other key issue Roke has identified is mobility. Wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, and cellular networks rely on base stations, which are generally fixed, because they draw power from large generators or electricity mains. Because each base station is linked to its neighbors directionally, network integrity depends on each station knowing where the others are located at all times.
"What we've looked at is whether you can deliver some of the functionality you get from a base station in a smaller form factor, that will allow you to move about the battlefield at reduced power consumption," he says.
The result is Battlefield Connect, a demonstration system based on technologies developed for femtocell base stations. About the size of a domestic broadband router, these devices use Wi-Fi to deliver very localized cellphone network connectivity. "That has allowed the miniaturization of a lot of the technology you'd find on a typical [cellular] base station with a mast," says Moore. "But [femtocell] ranges are typically measured in tens of meters, [as opposed to] the 10- or 20-km performance you get from the big base station."
The hand-portable base station has provided a 3G network with a 40-km (25- mi.) range, and has been capable of maintaining network provision even when the unit is moving in a vehicle at speeds of up to 120 kph (75 mph). In theory, it could be installed on a fleet of ground vehicles, and onboard UAVs, providing network availability and communications between a series of moving platforms.
The Battlefield Connect system is intended to prove the viability of Roke's proposed technical and operational proposals. It was developed with internal company funding, but Roke has been using it as part of a number of U.K. defense ministry research programs, "to help answer questions and explore problems," Moore says. "They have acknowledged the benefits but want to have questions answered about some of the potential pitfalls, and make sure we're developing technical solutions to overcome those."
Another technology from the commercial world with promise of military utility is the concept of self-organizing networks. "On the battlefield everything is much more chaotic and unpredictable," Moore says. "What a self-organizing network is able to do is to adjust power and frequency use without significant user intervention, based on what other base stations around them are doing. The network could change itself if a base station moved, or even if a base station got taken out it would be able to rebalance the other nodes in the network to ensure coverage.
"I think—and this is my personal view —that at the moment, a lot of defense departments around the world are still trying to understand the requirements and exactly how they want to use the technology."
The barriers to fielding successful solutions may end up having more to do with politics and institutional cultures than technology.
"Is the procurement culture really set up to be able to move with the technology?" Moore ponders. "If you can't move with the technology you end up being stuck in an obsolescence issue, where you're trying to support a version of the standard that really isn't the cutting edge any more. I think this is the fundamental problem: It's just such a different way of thinking about things that, understandably, there's a degree of trepidation before people commit to the technology."
So, rather than focusing solely on the technology and leaving the user base to fall in line, the company is examining this challenge, too.
"One of the things that Roke is exploring is, are there solutions we can provide as an applique to commercial networks?" Moore says. "In effect, to say, 'Well, you buy the core commercial technology, you add something on top, and that provides you with some of the protection against some of the concerns you have. But when you look at commercial and military technology you're trying to bring two different procurement cultures and business models together."
Israeli companies are offering militarized commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions that could complement or (for export) partly substitute the IDF's sophisticated Digital Army Program (DAP, also known as Zayad). Developed by prime contractor Elbit Systems, Zayad has improved operational flexibility, coordination and combat efficiency at all combat levels, while reducing the scourge of friendly fire.
Zayad was designed as an evolving system that could accommodate enhancements including information sharing, accessibility, cross-network connectivity and broadband communications. However, the fact that legacy radio systems will remain for decades necessitates the use of several levels of communications—all capable of maintaining connectivity and redundancy under battlefield conditions, such as adverse weather, natural or man-made interference, or hostile electronic attack.
Central to meeting this challenge is software-defined radio (SDR). Elbit Systems subsidiary Tadiran has responded by developing the SDR-7200 radio, a family of vehicular and man-portable digital radios that flexibly support different users with broadband, voice and data, while matching legacy waveforms when needed. These sets enable the army to enhance some networks without replacing all legacy radio systems.
Two Israeli companies, meanwhile, are developing networks based on a "militarized commercial standard" that could complement Zayad. Rafael, the broadband network subcontractor for Zayad, has developed TacMAX, employing the latest WiMax (8.2.16e) commercial standard, which is likely to support the system in future generations. The TacMAX includes a family of base stations, repeater stations and mobile stations capable of delivering high-quality video, data and voice. TacMAX uses the 700-mhz band, which allows it to work with fewer base stations, covering larger cells, compared to other Wi-Fi systems that work in the 2.1-2.5-ghz waveband.
Rafael is designing TacMAX to be rapidly deployable, supporting division and brigade level communications with broadband data networking, as well as providing broadband connectivity for coastal and border security networks. The system can also be used to enhance service for current mobile subscribers requiring ultra-high data rates.
IAI-Elta is offering an alternative militarized COTS solution, based on the Fourth-Generation Long-Term Evolution (4G/LTE) communications standard and aimed at air, land, fire control and naval forces. The land-networking segment operates as a stand-alone system designated TAC4G, providing full broadband networking for land and low-level manned and unmanned aircraft, unmanned ground vehicles and unattended sensors. The system is designed to support users moving at up to 350 kph.
A different application, known as C3Strike, provides a unique segment supporting command, control and communications dedicated for precision attack and guided weapons. Elta Systems considered WiMax but opted for 4G/LTE for its better flexibility and support of maneuvering forces.
Elta adds advanced security layers—encryption, information protection and cyber defense—to the basic 4G/LTE standard. The company says that an important advantage of the 4G/LTE standard is that a military user could exploit commercial infrastructure to deploy its secure networks. Like commercial 4G/LTE networks, TAC4G will support smartphones, handsets and video, transferring up to 150 mbps back and forth. Elta Systems has already developed an Android-based, ruggedized user set which could use 4G/LTE modems to carry secure, protected communications.


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Making your own stock or broth is easy (although not quick). After cooking whole chicken or turkey (like at Thanksgiving), save the left over bones to make stock later. Homemade stock can be used in place of store bought chicken broth, tastes great, and doesn't contain any MSG or additives.
You'll need a large pot - I used a
12 quart Multi-Pot
but any large pot will work. I wouldn't try it in a pot with a capacity smaller than 8 quarts because you'll need enough room for the poultry, vegetables, and water to cover.
Take the remains of a chicken or turkey after it's been carved and break it into pieces so it will fit in your pot. Alternatively, you can use the bones from chicken parts or a pack of chicken wings. To season the stock, wash and rough cut four carrots, four celery ribs, and one onion. Throw these into the stock pot with the poultry and add two peeled garlic cloves, 2 bay leaves, about fifteen whole peppercorns, two whole cloves, 1 tsp. ground thyme, and 1 tsp. ground parsley.
Since I used a multi-pot, I had the luxury of placing the colander insert into the pot and then adding all the solid ingredients. This is a nice arrangement because after I'm done with the stock, I can easily remove all the solids by lifting out the colander insert. The steamer basket can also be placed ontop to help keep all the solids under water.
Pour in enough drinking water to cover the solids by at least an inch, about 2 gallons. Over high heat, bring the water to a simmer (about 190°F or 88°C) while being careful not to let it come to a full boil. As anyone who has watched
knows, bringing the stock to a full boil will break up the solids into particulate matter that clouds the liquid. We want to cook the stock slowly and gently. A simmer is almost as hot as a rolling boil, but the liquid is just barely bubbling. The bubbles should be forming slowly and steadily. If no bubbles form, then the water is not hot enough; but if bubbles begin to rise rapidly, the water is too hot. Once the water begins to simmer, fiddle with your heat settings until it maintains the simmer.
Continue to simmer the stock for at least four hours, checking on the water level every thirty minutes or so. If the water level has dropped and solids are beginning to be exposed, boil some water separately and pour it into the stock until the water level has risen beyond the solids again.
When you get tired of simmering (after four or more hours), it's time to drain the solids from the stock. Since I used a multi-pot, I just carefully lifted up the collander and tilted it to drain. If you're not using a multipot, you can pour the stock into another pot with a large collander placed over it. Make sure the other pot is large enough to hold the liquid (about two quarts) or use multiple receiving pots.
To remove smaller particles in the stock, pour the liquid through a fine mesh sieve placed over a large pot. I placed my 8-quart pot in the kitchen sink on a layer of ice. This means I won't have to carry around a nearly full container filled with simmering stock.
Add more ice around the pot to help chill the stock quickly. I also recommend a tip from
Alton Brown
: place a bottle or two of ice in the middle of the stock to chill inside out as well as outside in. To do this, simply take a water bottle and fill it 60-70% full of water and freeze.
Once the stock is chilled to around 50°F (10°C) (about 1-1/2 hour), move the stock to the refrigerator to finish chilling. The stock will last for about a week in the fridge. If two gallons of stock is too much for you to consume in a week (which is probably true for most families), you can freeze the stock and it should maintain taste and quality for about three months.
You might notice that after making stock, the bones have become extremely brittle. That's because the long simmer has extracted most of the collagen from the bones (as well as nutrients like niacin, fiboflavin, and calcium) which reduces the structural integrity of the bone. Some chef's advocate squeezing every last bit of collagen out of the bones, but I find that after four hours of simmering enough flavor (from the vegetables and bones) and thickening agent (the collagen turns into gelatin in the simmering water) has permeated the broth that it is unnecessary to extract all the collagen.
Chicken Stock
(makes 2 gallons or 7.6 liters)
1 chicken carcass
break apart
simmer 4 hours
4 carrots
4 celery ribs
1 onion
15 whole peppercorns
2 bay leaves
2 whole cloves
2 garlic cloves
1 tsp. dried thyme
1 tsp. dried parsley
8 quarts (7.6 liters) drinking water
Copyright Michael Chu 2004
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:39 pm
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I recently read a comment on Soup Song
suggesting the use of a few threads of saffron to improve the poultry stock recipe that was quite similar to yours.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:39 pm
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It's just an oversight, I know, but I think you mean 2 gallons of water, not 2 quarts.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:40 pm
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Sir, your site is fantastic, and this was another smashing article. But I was wondering, I have heard that true stock must be made using uncooked bone, so that the gelatin is preserved, and that using cooked meat is for broths. IIRC this was from one of Tom Colicchios Think Like a Chef . Am I off on this?
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:40 pm
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re: raw or cooked bones
It is true that raw bones have more collagen that turns into gelatin when cooked, but I find that there is more than enough collogen left in the bones of my roasted turkey to produce a fine stock. After refrigerating the stock, there was enough gelatin that it set. If your stock doesn't have high enough concentration of gelatin, just boil it down to half volume and that should do it.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:41 pm
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It was interesting to see that you use ice for chilling stock before refrigerating. We used to use an electric fan which did a surprisingly good job, but now we fill our sink with cold water to just shy of the buoyancy level of the pot and then throw in a couple of freezer packs. We have lots of these around because we're always ordering stuff from d'Artagnan.
As for the stock/broth questions: yes, you can used cooked meats to make stock. In fact, Madeleine Kamman has you roast or brown the veal bones and vegetables when making veal stock, and her recipe makes an exquisite golden stock. She is very big on keeping your stock either hot or cold, and never "just sitting".
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:41 pm
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Personally I do bring it to the boil, but keep an eagle eye on it and immediately skim the scum off the top. Use a mesh skimmer (I got my fantastic one in Muji) and keep plunging it into cold water, which helps it attract the scum. I also find it necessary to skim the fat off the top once it's chilled overnight.
As well as freezing it in plastic containers, I also pour it into freezer bags. Very handy for adding a little bit of stock to stirfries etc without having to defrost a whole pint.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:41 pm
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Last Xmas I made a Turducken, (for 3 people...) I had my butcher bone the birds for me, and insisted on him giving me the bones. (he looked odly at me) so I had a carrier bag full of mixed bird bones.
I made them into broth, which I mostly froze. I cooked the bones first.
Whenever they have a pig roast at the summer fete I try to scrounge a few bones too. Its shocking the amount of meat wasted during one of these costly events.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:42 pm
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You can also heavily reduce your stock and then freeze it as ice cubes for quick inclusion into dishes later.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:42 pm
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I think you get the best results by a) browning one or two of the chicken pieces used first (makes a richer flavored broth) b) adding a small amount of vinegar to the water (helps extract calcium & collagen from the bones) and c)adding a couple of sliced mushrooms, if available--it really improves flavor.
I actually remove the solids, separate out the large bones, split them and put them back in for an hour or so to get all the flavor from the marrow.
Broth will keep almost indefinitely in the fridge if you re-boil it for about ten minutes every 3-4 days. Also, don't remove the layer of congealed fat until you're ready to use the broth--the fat helps keep bacteria out and prevents flavor creep from other items in the fridge.
Personally I prefer to boil it down to a gelee and freeze it in cubes.
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:42 pm
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Great information! Simple things like this are fading away from our active, modern lifestyles, and it's critical that we wake up and realize what a nutritious powerhouse soup stock really is. This is one of the only ways to get the nutrients needed to keep our own bones & joints healthy!
Might want to consider what that hot water is leeching from the plastic bottles though! It's worth your time to research plastics --
ban them along with hydrogenation!
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:43 pm
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I notice Alton brown and you suggest cooling using a bed of ice. Any engineer, at least mechanical engineer, knows this is a poor mechanism for heat transfer. Immersion in a liquid is better because of more surface contact. One only needs to compare a person sitting on a bed of ice versus a person jumping into a lake of 50 degree water. Which is going to cause hypothermia faster? A no brainer for those who live in the frigid north, brrrrr.
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With Thanksgiving over with, and thawed organic turkey's on sale for 0.49 cents a pound, I decided to buy 60 lbs worth, cook up the meat, freeze it, give some away, and refrigerate the rest for soups, casseroles, and yeastie-roll-sandwiches for the next 2 weeks!
That left me with lotsa, lotsa, lotsa, bones, skin, necks, and residual meat.... so I decided to make stock!!!
I basically followed this recipe as is, though I cooked it for 6 hours, and refrigerated it over-night, so I could do a final skimming of the fat.... ala Alton Brown suggestion.
I bagged much of it and froze it, and saved some for turkey soup.
I think the whole idea of hanging over your stove and "skimming the scum" every 30, 60, or whatever minutes is a big waste of time. Just skim it once, and know that the final skimming of fat (after it sits overnight in the fridge), will clean it up swell!
I found the whole process to be very relaxed, and almost "zen-like". I basically did this on a lazy Sunday afternoon whilst drinking a 6-pack and watching football (GO SEAHAWKS!!!!!... woof...woof...woof!).
All in all, it filled my house with nice aroma's, gave me lots of pleasure (and yummy stock), and something to do whilst watching TV.
Good recipe.
Try it.
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:35 pm
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Once the stock is chilled to around 50°F (10°C) (about 1-1/2 hour), move the stock to the refrigerator to finish chilling.
was wondering: why not place the stock in the fridge after it has cooled down just a bit? Why wait so long (1 to 1/2 hrs) to put in the fridge? Will the stock be adversely affected if I just put it in the fridge still warm??
Thank you for your help.
Great site, by the way!!
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Michael Chu
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 7:43 am
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Carlos wrote:
was wondering: why not place the stock in the fridge after it has cooled down just a bit? Why wait so long (1 to 1/2 hrs) to put in the fridge? Will the stock be adversely affected if I just put it in the fridge still warm??
The reason why you cool it down as much as you can and as quickly as possible before putting it in the fridge is because otherwise you'll heat up the interior of the fridge. Two gallons of stock at a relatively high temperature contains a lot of kinetic energy. The air circulating in the refrigerator will take longer to cool the stock than if you placed the stockpot in a cold water bath. During this time, you'll also be heating up all the food in your refrigerator because most likely, your fridge can't keep up with the amount of heat introduced by the stock. In some cases, you may even break your fridge as it runs full power for a longer duration than the manufacturer intended.
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Project Freedom Update: Getting Down & Dirty with GTK+
January 4, 2009
Well it's been nearly a month since I first wrote about project freedom (as in financial) and I thought it might be time give a brief update on where I'm at. Given that we've just had Christmas and I'm currently on holidays progress hasn't been all that dazzling. That said, I'm still pretty happy with what has been done all things considered. So what have I been doing? Well so far I've mainly been looking at different approaches to building the application.
The Java Way
Naturally I immediately jumped to looking at a Java based solution – after all it is what I'd call my "home" language. Anyone who's been around a while and has had the opportunity to program in Java as well as a variety of other programming languages/paradigms would undoubtedly agree that it is a beautiful language. I for one really appreciate the consistency of the syntax, the uncompromising enforcement of the OOP paradigm, and most of all the rich standard library with its accompanying documentation.
Being that I work with this stuff quite a bit my head was filled with all sorts of ideas about how we could achieve our goals using Java as the weapon of choice. The first thing that came to mind was that I could utilize the Eclipse RCP and JFace to get some quick wins getting a basic application framework up and running. This approach has the following distinct advantages:
- Eclipse RCP contains an OSGi container built in (Equinox to be exact) which is a very powerful plugin framework in a manner of speaking. Potentially it means that each discrete piece of functionality can be build as a separate plugin (or bundle in OSGi-speak).
- SWT/JFace contain a rich component set which would do about 95% of what I require and look/behave just like native components on Mac, Windows and Linux.
- RCP comes with a tool that allows to generate an executable and budle a JRE with the application so you can avoid "but my system doesn't have Java (or version required) installed" type support headaches. It just runs.
- It'll run on Mac, Windows, and Linux with no issues whatsoever.
So why wouldn't I take that approach?
- Personally I've found RCP very hard to come to grips with. Documentation is scarce and outdated from what I can determine.
- OSGi adds a large amount of overhead in terms of complexity. Now I'm not exactly the smartest guy going round, but I'm not a moron either. I've spent hours frigging around with manifests, configurations, interfaces, dodgy docos and classpath hassles getting very little done. It all feels like a tremendous waste of time at this stage.
- Need to learn and ORM mapping tool like Hibernate or similar to overcome the OO to Relational mapping mismatch. I'm predominantly a user interface specialist so I usually leave this kinda stuff to someone else. Alternatively I can just battle on through with JDBC (*shudder).
As far as abstractions go Donald Knuth is reputed to have once said:
"There is no complexity problem in programming that cannot be eased by adding a layer of indirection. And there is no performance problem in programming that cannot be eased by removing a layer of indirection."
Ordinarily I'd agree with this statement. You only have to look as far as something like an ORM to see this principle at work. What could be simpler than just working with your domain objects and letting something else worry about the whole persistence issue? On the contrary though I'm inclined to say that the sheer number of abstractions present in the aforementioned solution actually add to its complexity – not reduce it as promised. As always in Java I seem to be forced to spend a lot of time thinking about the correct way to do something as opposed to just doing it and refactoring later.
So there it is, I've spent a whole lot of time without a great deal of success. About the best thing it's got going for it so far is that I've managed to do some modelling of the domain level objects. So where do we go from here?
Back to the Future
Some might consider this a backward step from comfortable walled garden that is Java but I've been experimenting a bit lately with C and GTK+. Yes you read right C, not C++, just pure unadulterated structured programming. Why not C++ indeed.
I'll probably get flamed for saying this, but I just don't like it. With great power comes great responsibility, and it's like a wild beast that can take on any form it likes depending on the wild mood swings of your average programmer. Every time I read C++ I get the impression that whoever's driving the evolution of the language can't quite decide what they want it to be. If Java is a well manicured, if somewhat anal, golfing green then C++ resembles a hoarders front yard. You know the ones, full of old car bodies and useless junk left over after you take all the useful stuff out. Don't take my word for it though, ask Linus. That said you can always pick and choose the bits you like and leave out the bits you don't.
Anyway, so far I'm really impressed. Previously I'd thought that leaving OO behind would just be too painful however I was pleasantly surprised. To demonstrate a few concepts to myself I briefly knocked up this little demo which consists of a simple GTK+ interface sitting atop an SQLite database. As far as I'm concerned this a great "thin line" of technology from top to bottom which could conceivably be employed to write the app.
#include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <gtk/gtk.h> #include <sqlite3.h> /* Database file name. */ const gchar *DB_FILENAME = "test.db"; /* A simple SQL query to select all rows from the person table. */ const gchar *DB_QUERY = "SELECT * FROM person;"; /* Index of the name column in the list view */ const gint LIST_COL_NAME = 0; /* Index of the age column in the list view */ const gint LIST_COL_AGE = 1; /* The total number of columns in the list view */ const gint LIST_NUM_COLS = 2; /* Global reference to DB handle. */ static sqlite3 *db; /* Callback that processes a single row returned from the database. The first * parameter is expected to be a pointer to a GtkTreeView. */ static int process_db_results( gpointer data, gint ncols, gchar *col_values[], gchar *col_names[] ) { GtkTreeView *view; GtkListStore *store; GtkTreeIter iter; /* Get reference to underlying GtkListStore so we can add to it. */ view = GTK_TREE_VIEW (data); store = GTK_LIST_STORE (gtk_tree_view_get_model (view)); /* Append a row and populate it using the row data provided */ gtk_list_store_append (store, &iter); gtk_list_store_set (store, &iter, LIST_COL_NAME, col_values[0], LIST_COL_AGE, col_values[1], -1); /* Auto-adjust columns to fit data. */ gtk_tree_view_columns_autosize (view); /* Return a zero to let SQLite know it's okay to continue processing */ return 0; } /* User clicked the "Load List" button. */ static void button_load_clicked( gpointer data ) { gint rc; gchar *err_msg = 0; /* Populate the list component with data from the DB. */ rc = sqlite3_exec (db, DB_QUERY, process_db_results, data, &err_msg); if (rc != SQLITE_OK) { fprintf (stderr, "SQL error: %s\n", err_msg); sqlite3_free (err_msg); } return; } /* User clicked the "Clear List" button. */ static void button_clear_clicked( gpointer data ) { GtkTreeModel *model; /* Get reference to underlying GtkTreeModel so we can clear it. */ model = gtk_tree_view_get_model (GTK_TREE_VIEW (data)); /* Clear the list using gtk_list_store_clear. This is much faster than * calling gtk_list_store_remove once for each row. */ gtk_list_store_clear( GTK_LIST_STORE (model)); return; } /* This callback quits the program */ static gboolean delete_event( GtkWidget *widget, GdkEvent *event, gpointer data ) { /* Close the database connection. */ sqlite3_close (db); /* Terminate the main program loop. */ gtk_main_quit (); return FALSE; } /* Creates a list view component consisting of two columns. The first column * is for a persons name, the second for their age. */ static GtkWidget * create_list_view( void ) { GtkCellRenderer *renderer; GtkTreeViewColumn *column; GtkListStore *store; GtkTreeView *view; view = GTK_TREE_VIEW (gtk_tree_view_new ()); /* --- Column #1 --- */ renderer = gtk_cell_renderer_text_new (); column = gtk_tree_view_column_new_with_attributes ("Name", renderer, "text", LIST_COL_NAME, NULL); gtk_tree_view_column_set_resizable (column, TRUE); gtk_tree_view_insert_column (view, column, -1); /* --- Column #2 --- */ renderer = gtk_cell_renderer_text_new (); column = gtk_tree_view_column_new_with_attributes ("Age", renderer, "text", LIST_COL_AGE, NULL); gtk_tree_view_insert_column (view, column, -1); store = gtk_list_store_new (LIST_NUM_COLS, G_TYPE_STRING, G_TYPE_STRING); gtk_tree_view_set_model (view, GTK_TREE_MODEL (store)); return GTK_WIDGET (view); } /* Initialises the application's database connection. */ static void init_db( void ) { gint rc; /* Open the database to initialise the connection object. */ rc = sqlite3_open (DB_FILENAME, &db); if (rc) { fprintf (stderr, "Can't open database: %s\n", sqlite3_errmsg (db)); sqlite3_close (db); exit(1); } } /* Initialises the application's user interface. */ static void init_ui( void ) { GtkWidget *window; GtkWidget *vbox, *hbox; GtkWidget *scrolled_window; GtkWidget *list_view; GtkWidget *button_load, *button_clear; /* Create the main application window */ window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); gtk_widget_set_size_request (GTK_WIDGET (window), 300, 150); gtk_window_set_title (GTK_WINDOW (window), "GTK/SQLite DB Example"); /* Configure app to terminate when closed */ g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (window), "delete_event", G_CALLBACK (delete_event), NULL); vbox = gtk_vbox_new (FALSE, 5); gtk_container_set_border_width (GTK_CONTAINER (vbox), 5); gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), vbox); gtk_widget_show (vbox); /* Create a scrolled window to pack the CList widget into */ scrolled_window = gtk_scrolled_window_new (NULL, NULL); gtk_scrolled_window_set_policy (GTK_SCROLLED_WINDOW (scrolled_window), GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC, GTK_POLICY_ALWAYS); gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (vbox), scrolled_window, TRUE, TRUE, 0); gtk_widget_show (scrolled_window); /* Create the list view which will display the data. */ list_view = create_list_view (); /* Add the list view widget to the vertical box and show it. */ gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (scrolled_window), list_view); gtk_widget_show (list_view); /* Create a horizontal box to hold our buttons */ hbox = gtk_hbox_new (FALSE, 0); gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (vbox), hbox, FALSE, TRUE, 0); gtk_widget_show (hbox); /* Create the buttons and add them to the window. */ button_load = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Load List"); button_clear = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Clear List"); gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (hbox), button_load, TRUE, TRUE, 0); gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (hbox), button_clear, TRUE, TRUE, 0); /* Connect our callbacks to the three buttons */ g_signal_connect_swapped (G_OBJECT (button_load), "clicked", G_CALLBACK (button_load_clicked), list_view); g_signal_connect_swapped (G_OBJECT (button_clear), "clicked", G_CALLBACK (button_clear_clicked), list_view); gtk_widget_show (button_load); gtk_widget_show (button_clear); /* The interface is completely set up so we show the window. */ gtk_widget_show (window); return; } int main( gint argc, gchar *argv[] ) { /* Before we even think about doing anything we must initialise GTK */ gtk_init (&argc, &argv); /* Initialise the database connection */ init_db (); /* Initialise the user interface */ init_ui (); /* Now that everything's ready, start the main program loop. */ gtk_main (); return 0; }
Not bad for 236 lines of code huh? Feel free to use the code in any way you like. You'll have to create a new database using the sqlite command-line utility first before running it though:
$ sqlite3 temp.db SQLite version 3.5.9 Enter ".help" for instructions sqlite> create table person (name varchar(30), age smallint); sqlite> insert into person values ("Phillip J. Fry", 33); sqlite> insert into person values ("Hubert J. Farnsworth", 167); sqlite> insert into person values ("Zapp Brannigan", 45); then type CTRL-D to exit
As far as I'm concerned writing this thing in C has a few compelling advantages:
- It's portable. C is arguably the most portable (not to mention widely used) language in the world. If binaries aren't available for your processor architecture, you can always compile it especially to suit that Z80 you've had sitting in your basement – just because you can.
- No special libraries or runtimes required here. Just run it baby.
- Glib, GTK+ again provide 95% of what I need for the app out of the box. Not to mention that the documentation is awesome and free. They're cross-platform too!
- Working with relational databases is a snack. No OO/RDBMS disparity here, it's all smooth sailing.
- It's really, really fast. There's no VM here, just bare-metal machine code.
- Like Java, there's heaps of free libraries and tools out there to take advantage of.
Of course using something as raw as C/GTK+ isn't without its hangups:
- Memory management and pointers frighten the bejesus out of many programmers. I don't mind them so much, but I do understand that some have a pathological aversion to them.
- Cross-compilation isn't exactly what I'd call straight forward.
- If you've been spoilt, like I have, working in 4th gen languages with awesome support for strings NULL terminated character arrays are a rude shock. Don't get me wrong, it's not difficult, it's just one extra thing to keep in mind.
- Very little in the way of syntactic sugar.
- GTK is still yet to be ported to Mac OSX. This is potentially a dealbreaker.
One thing in particular that I found was very nice was the GTK+ "Object Oriented" style interfaces which allow for a form of inheritance within a standard C program. This is a massive benefit because UI programming can get quite repetitive if you're unable to extend and modify components simply by subclassing them.
Well that's about all I've got for now. I'd be really interested in hearing what you think on the matter of technology choice, especially if you're looking to contribute in future.
One Response to "Project Freedom Update: Getting Down & Dirty with GTK+"
January 4, 2009 at 1:35 am
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text: R.J. O'Brien Recommends Halting Trade for Key USDA Reports May 15, 2012 06:19 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Julianne Johnston Pro Farmer Digital Managing Editor Email Twitter R.J. O'Brien & Associates (RJO) today called on U.S. futures exchanges and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to listen to feedback from farmers, food companies and commercial hedgers, and amend plans for the extended trading hours of grain and oilseed futures and options contracts. The firm is recommending a halt in trading on the 15 days a year when USDA issues Crop Production, Acreage and Quarterly Grain Stocks Reports. RJO Chairman and CEO Gerald Corcoran said the firm believes that as the reports are issued at 7:30 a.m. CT, a halt in trading from 7:15 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. CT would give market participants adequate time to receive and analyze the comprehensive global reports, without producing unnecessary volatility and exaggerated price moves. The markets have traditionally opened at 9:30 a.m. CT, giving the community two hours to absorb the wide array of data issued in the reports, says the firm. "Other Federal reports, such as those on jobs, unemployment, energy stocks and orange juice production, are not nearly as comprehensive or global in nature as the USDA crop reports, which contain extensive updates on production, usage and stocks of multiple crops in numerous countries. These reports play a vital role in risk management for core users of agricultural contracts – farmers, resellers, processors, end users and importers – who often discover major new fundamental developments that have a material impact on existing price levels. Our commercial customers and introducing brokers have grave concerns about the impact of trading straight through the release of the reports," says Corcoran. RJO says it supports the efforts of industry trade groups such as the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and North American Grain Export Association (NAGEA) to request additional time for public comment and industry response. At the same time, Corcoran said the firm is a strong advocate of around-the-clock electronic trading in futures markets. "Clearly, electronic trading around the clock has greatly broadened participation in the markets and facilitated stronger risk management opportunities. It was only a matter of time before the grain and oilseed markets would take part in this growth." Back to news