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A few times after tweeting about Noda Time, people have asked why they should use Noda Time - they believe that the .NET date and time support is already good enough. Now obviously I haven't seen their code, but I suspect that pretty much any code base doing any work with dates and times will be clearer using Noda Time - and quite possibly more correct, due to the way that Noda Time forces you into making some decisions which are murky in .NET. This post is about the shortcomings of the .NET date and time API. Obviously I'm biased, and I hope this post isn't seen as disrespectful to the BCL team - aside from anything else, they work under a different set of constraints regarding COM interop etc.
What's does a DateTime mean?
When there's a Stack Overflow question about DateTime not doing quite what the questioner expected, I often find myself wondering what a particular value is meant to represent, exactly. It sounds simple - it's a date and time, right? But it gets rather more complicated as soon as you start thinking about it more carefully. For example, assuming the clock doesn't tick between the two property invocations, what should the value of "mystery" be in the following snippet?
DateTime local = DateTime.Now;
bool mystery = local == utc;
I honestly don't know what this will do. There are three options which all make a certain amount of sense:
- It should always be true: the two values are associated with the same instant in time, it's just that one is expressed locally and one is expressed universally
- It should always be false: the two values represent different kinds of data, so are automatically unequal
- It should return true if your local time zone is currently in sync with UTC, i.e. when time zones are disregarded completely, the two values are equal
I don't care much what the actual behaviour is - the fact that the behaviour is unobvious is a symptom of a deeper problem. It all comes back to the DateTime.Kind property which allows a DateTime to represent one of three kinds of value:
- DateTimeKind.Utc: A UTC date and time
- DateTimeKind.Local: A date and time which is a local time for the system the code is executing on
- DateTimeKind.Unspecified: Um, tricky. Depends on what you do with it.
The value of the property affects various different operations in different ways. For example, if you call ToUniversalTime() on an "unspecified" DateTime, it will assume that you really meant it as a local value before. On the other hand, if you call ToLocalTime() on an "unspecified" DateTime, it will assume that you really meant it as a UTC value before. That's one model of behaviour.
If you construct a DateTimeOffset from a DateTime and a TimeSpan, the behaviour is somewhat different:
- A UTC value is simple - you've given it UTC, and you want to represent "UTC + the specified offset"
- A local value is only sometimes valid: the constructor validates that the offset from UTC at the specified local time in the system default time zone is the same as the offset you've specified.
- An unspecified value is always valid, and represents the local time in some unspecified time zone, such that the offset is valid at the time.
I don't know about you, but this sort of thing gives me the semantic heebie-jeebies. It's like having a "number" type which has a sequence of digits - but you have to ask another property whether those digits are hex or decimal, and the answer can sometimes be "Well, what do you think?"
Of course, in .NET 1.1, DateTimeKind didn't even exist. This didn't mean the problem didn't exist - it means that the confusing behaviour which tries to make sense of a type which represents different kinds of value couldn't even try to be consistent. It had to be based on the context: it was as if it were permanently Unspecified.
Doesn't DateTimeOffset fix this?
Okay, so now we know we don't like DateTime much. Does DateTimeOffset help us? Well, somewhat. A DateTimeOffset value has a very definite meaning: it's a local date and time with a specific offset from UTC. I should probably take a moment to explain what I mean by "local" date and times - and instants - at this point.
A local date and time isn't tied to any particular time zone. At this moment, is it before or after "10pm on August 20th 2011"? It depends where you are in the world. (I'm leaving aside any non-ISO calendar representations for the moment, by the way.) So a DateTimeOffset contains a time-zone-independent component (that "10pm on ..." part) but also an offset from UTC - which means it can be converted to an instant on what I think of as the time line. Ignoring relativity, everyone on the planet experiences a a particular instant simultaneously. If I click my fingers (infinitely quickly!) then any particular event in the universe happened before that instant, at that instant or after that instant. Whether you were in a particular time zone or not is irrelevant. In that respect instants are global compared to the local date and time which any particular individual may have observed at a particular instant.
(Still with me? Keep going - I'm hoping that the previous paragraph will end up being the hardest in this post. It's a hugely important conceptual point though.)
So a DateTimeOffset maps to an instant, but also deals with a local date and time. That means it's not really an ideal type if we only want to represent a local date and time - but then neither is DateTime. A DateTime with a kind of DateTimeKind.Local isn't really local in the same sense - it's tied to the default time zone of the system it's running on. A DateTime with a kind of DateTimeKind.Unspecified is closer in some cases - such as when constructing a DateTimeOffset - but the semantics are odd in other cases, as described above. So neither DateTimeOffset nor DateTime are good types to use for genuinely local date and time values.
DateTimeOffset also isn't a good type to use if you want to tie yourself to a specific time zone, because it has no idea of the time zone which gave the relevant offset in the first place. As of .NET 3.5 there's a pretty reasonable TimeZoneInfo class, but no type which talks about "a local time in a particular time zone". So with DateTimeOffset you know what that particular time is in some unspecified time zone, but you don't know what the local time will be a minute later, as the offset for that time zone could change (usually due to daylight saving time changes).
What about dates and times?
So far I've only been talking about "date and time" values. What about date values and time values - values which only have one component or the other. It's more common to want to represent a date than a time, but both are common enough to be worth considering.
Now yes, you can use a DateTime for a date - heck, there's even the DateTime.Date property which will return the date for a particular date and time... but as another DateTime which happens to be at midnight. That's not at all the same as having a separate type which is readily identifiable as "just a date" (and likewise "just a time of day" - .NET uses TimeSpan for that, which again doesn't really feel quite right to me).
What about time zones themselves? Surely TimeZoneInfo is fine there.
As I said before, TimeZoneInfo isn't bad. It suffers from two major problems and some minor ones:
First, it's all based on Windows time zone IDs. That's natural enough - but it's not what the rest of the world uses. Every non-Windows system I've ever seen is based on the Olson (aka tz aka zoneinfo) time zone database, and the IDs assigned there. You may have seen IDs such as "Europe/London" or "America/Los_Angeles" - those are Olson identifiers. Talk to a web service offering geo information, chances are it'll talk in Olson identifiers. Interact with another calendaring system, chances are it'll talk in Olson identifiers. Now there are problems there too in terms of identifier stability, which the Unicode Consortium tries to address with CLDR... but at least you've got a good chance. It would be nice if TimeZoneInfo offered some kind of mapping between the two identifier schemes, or somewhere else in .NET did. (Noda Time knows about both sets of identifiers, although the mapping isn't publicly accessible just yet. This will be fixed before release.)
Second, it's based on DateTime and DateTimeOffset, which means you've got to be careful when you use it - if you assume one kind of DateTime when you're actually giving or receiving another kind, you may have problems. It's reasonably well documented, but frankly explaining this sort of thing is intrinsically hard enough without having to put everything in terms which are inconsistent.
Then there are a few issues around ambiguous or invalid local date and time values. These occur due to daylight saving changes: if the clock goes forward (e.g. from 1am to 2am) that introduces some invalid local date and time values (e.g. 1.30am doesn't occur on that day). If the clock goes backward (e.g. from 2am to 1am) that introduces ambiguities: 1.30am occurs twice. You can explicitly ask TimeZoneInfo whether a particular value is invalid or ambiguous, but it's easy to miss that it's even a possibility. If you try to convert a local value to a UTC value via a time zone, it will throw an exception if it's invalid but silently assume standard time (as opposed to daylight saving time) if it's ambiguous. That sort of decision leads developers to not even consider the possibilities involved. Speaking of which...
This all sounds too complicated.
You may be thinking at this point, "You're making a big deal out of nothing. I don't want to think about this stuff - why are you trying to make everything so complicated? I've been using the .NET API for years, and not had problems." If so, I suspect there are three broad possibilities:
- You're far, far smarter than I am, and understood all of these intricacies through intuition. Your code always makes use of the right kind of DateTime, uses DateTimeOffset appropriately, and will always do the right thing with invalid or ambiguous local date and time values. No doubt you also write lock-free multi-threaded code sharing state in a way which is as efficient as possible but still rock solid. What the heck are you doing reading this in the first place?
- You have run into these issues, but have mostly forgotten them - after all, they've only sucked away 10 minutes of your life at a time, as you experimented to get something that appeared to work (or at least made the unit tests pass; the unit tests which may well be conceptually wrong too). Maybe you've wondered about it, but decided that the problem was with you rather than the API.
- You've never seen the problems, but only because you don't bother testing your code, which has so far only ever run in a single time zone, on computers which are always turned off at night (thus missing all daylight saving transitions). In some ways you're lucky, but you've got a time zone.
Okay, that was somewhat facetious, but it really is a problem. If you've never really thought about the difference between "local" times and "global" instants before, you should have done. It's an important distinction - similar to the distinction between binary floating point and decimal floating point types. Failures can be subtle, hard to diagnose, hard to explain, hard to correct, pervasive, and easy to reintroduce at another point of the program.
Handling date and time values is intrinsically tricky. There are nasty cases to think about like days which don't start at midnight due to daylight saving changes (for example, Sunday October 17th 2010 in Brazil started at 1am). If you're particularly unlucky you'll have to work with multiple calendar systems (Gregorian, Julian, Coptic, Buddhist etc). If you deal with dates and time around the start of the 20th century you may see some very odd time zone transitions as countries went from strictly-longitudinal offsets to mostly "round" values (e.g. Paris in 1911). You may need to deal with governments changing time zone transitions with only a couple of weeks' notice. You may need to deal with time zone identifiers changing (e.g. Asia/Calcutta to Asia/Kolcata).
All of this is on top of the actual business rules you're trying to implement, of course. They may be complicated too. Given all this complexity, you should at least have an API which allows you to express what you mean relatively clearly.
So is Noda Time perfect then?
Of course not. Noda Time suffers several problems:
- Despite all of the above, I'm a rank amateur when it comes to the theory of date and time. Leap seconds baffle me. The thought of a Julian-Gregorian calendar with a cutover point makes me want to cry, which is why I haven't quite implemented it yet. As far as I'm aware, no-one involved in Noda Time is an expert - although Stephen Colebourne, the author of Joda Time and lead of JSR-310 lurks on the mailing list. (Point of trivia: He was present at my first presentation on Noda Time. I asked if anyone happened to know the difference between the Gregorian calendar and the ISO-8601 calendar. He raised his hand and gave the correct answer, obviously. I asked how he happened to know it, and he replied, "I'm Stephen Colebourne." I nearly collapsed.)
- We haven't finished yet. A beautifully designed API is useless if it isn't implemented.
- There are bound to be bugs - the BCL team's code is exercised on hundreds of thousands of machines around the world all the time. Errors are likely to be picked up quickly.
- We don't have any resources - we're a small group of active developers doing this for fun. I'm not saying that for pity (it's great fun) but for the inevitable issues around the amount of time that can be spent on features, documentation etc.
- We're not part of the BCL. Want to use Noda Time in a LINQ to SQL (or even NHibernate) query? Good luck with that. Even if we succeed beyond my expectations, I'm not expecting other open source projects to take a dependency on us for ages.
Having said that, I am pleased with the overall design. We've tried to keep a balance between flexibility and providing one simple way of achieving any particular goal (with more to do, of course). I'll write another post some time about the design style we've been gradually evolving towards, comparing it with both Joda Time and .NET. The best outcome is the set of types to come out of it, each of which has a reasonably clear role. I won't bore you with all the details here - see other posts, documentation etc.
Ironically, the best outcome for the world would probably be for the BCL team to pick up on this post and decide to overhaul the API radically for .NET 6 (I'm assuming the ship has effectively sailed on .NET 5). While I'm enjoying doing this, I'm sure there are other projects I'd enjoy too - and frankly date and time is too important a concept to rest on my shoulders for the .NET community for long.
I hope I've persuaded you that the .NET API has significant flaws. I may have also persuaded you that Noda Time is worth looking at more closely, but that's a secondary goal really. If you truly understand the flaws in the built-in types - in particular the semantic ambiguity around DateTime - then you're more likely to use those types carefully and accurately in your code. That alone is enough to make me happy.


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England Under-21s captain Jordan Henderson praised his players for their reaction to the alleged racist abuse suffered in Serbia and called on UEFA to take the appropriate action.
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Southampton Town Councilwoman Bridget Fleming defeated Jennifer Maertz by a wide margin in a Democratic primary on Thursday to determine who will represent the party in a bid to unseat State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle in the November 6 general election.
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Unofficial results posted by the Suffolk Board of Elections on Friday had 2,031 votes for Ms. Fleming and 531 for Ms. Maertz.
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"We did it," said Ms. Fleming, upon the concession from Ms. Maertz. She thanked many people including her staff and volunteers, who went door to door with her, and made the calls that she credited for her victory. Also essential to her win, she said, was an endorsement from Senator Liz Krueger, a Manhattan Democrat, and her No Bad Apples PAC; Gordon Herr, the chairman of Southampton Democratic Committee, and Lisa Tyson, director of the Long Island Progressive Coalition. "Senator Bridget Fleming has a nice ring to it," said Mr. Herr.
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Kovacevic: Steelers backed into a corner
There might not be a sadder sight, in this or any other realm, than Superman looking vulnerable.
You should have seen Troy Polamalu dragging along his right leg in a big black boot Tuesday, snailing his way through the Steelers' headquarters. There still wasn't any official word on the severity of his aggravated calf injury, but suffice it to say he didn't need a boot the first time around.
Sad, indeed.
Polamalu isn't done, as so many seem to be fretting. It's only a calf injury, he's 31, and he very much has the will to continue what's already a Hall of Fame career. Even if the cape is folded up for good, the cerebral Clark Kent brand of No. 43 is better than most any NFL safety out there.
As nickel back Cortez Allen told me Tuesday, "There's still no one else like him."
The real question facing the Steelers is how the secondary will get by in the interim, beginning Thursday night in Tennessee.
Think they're up to it?
I feel that way about Ryan Clark, who's been terrific apart from a couple notable brain cramps.
But the rest?
Ike Taylor had a fine 2011 right up until he met Demaryius Thomas in Denver, both at the end of last season and the start of this one. Whether those wounded him or not, overall this season, he's allowed 16 completions on the 29 times his receiver has been the pass target, according to Pro Football Focus. That ranks 134th out of 164 cornerbacks in the NFL.
Yeah, really.
Taylor can play much better, and he knows it.
Keenan Lewis, a first-year starter, has allowed 15 completions on 24 targets. That ranks 157th. And his next official pass defensed will be his first.
Unlike Taylor, no one knows if Lewis can play better. There's no precedent.
No one knows if Curtis Brown can replace him, either. The franchise's highest draft pick among defensive backs in the past six years — third round, 2011 — still can't find his way to the field.
Allen has fit in with the rest, allowing 10 completions on 14 targets. That ranks 115th.
At safety, Mundy has allowed nine completions on 12 targets. That ranks 119th.
Mike Tomlin strongly hinted Monday that he'll spell Mundy with Will Allen, but that's hardly the cavalry. Allen, 30, is in his ninth NFL season and hasn't made a start since Oct. 4, 2009.
Answers, anyone?
Who among these men looks poised to make a difference?
Naturally, all hands will go up.
"With Troy not being there, it'll be tough, but we strive to pick up our game every week," Cortez Allen said. "The standard is the standard. We'll get it done."
"Even with Troy, we've got to get better," Lewis said.
Lewis is right, of course, as the above numbers illustrate. There's ample room to improve.
But he also made a point to underscore that the Steelers' overall pass defense numbers are "pretty good," and he's right about that, too: They rank third in the NFL in allowing 185 yards per game. Other than Thomas, no individual receiver has topped 67 yards. In fact, beyond Thomas' 71-yard catch-and-run in the opener, there has been only one other pass of 25 yards or longer.
"We know the numbers that matter," Lewis said.
Those are fair points based on hard numbers. I can respect that.
As he and Allen both explained, the gap between the team and individual numbers could be based on the defensive coaches, Dick LeBeau and Carnell Lake, hoping to avoid big plays.
"We're tackling the catch," Allen said. "That's not to say we can't still do better, but that's what our focus is."
And that works just fine in limiting the big plays. But it wasn't nearly good enough when the Eagles drip-drip-dripped their way to a 17-play, 79-yard drive that nearly gave the Steelers a 1-3 record Sunday.
To echo Allen, the Steelers can do better at this position.
That they haven't isn't exactly an accident.
In the six drafts under Tomlin and Kevin Colbert, they've picked only eight defensive backs, none in the top two rounds and only one who found sustained work: That was William Gay, class of 2007. He started last season but was held in such low regard that management didn't lift a pinky to keep him from walking as a free agent afterward.
Most of the rest of the picks are barely worth mentioning. One could argue that Polamalu and Clark not only have covered the Steelers' mistakes on the field, per their job description, but also in the drafts.
And yet, Tomlin and Colbert brought a roster into Latrobe that had no real fail-safe for Polamalu and/or Clark being hurt at safety, and no real replacement for Gay.
The reckoning is at hand.
It might not come against Matt Hasselbeck and a Tennessee offense so plodding that running back Chris Johnson told Nashville reporters this week: "I don't think we're close right now."
It might not even come before Polamalu returns.
But it will come. And there will be Hail Mary to pay.


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Notes from The British Correspondent (or "Who Let Him Back In?")
Psst...down here. Psst! Yes, beside the potted plant. Hello, it's the British correspondent here. As you probably don't know, I was banned and exiled from this website after an unfortunate incident involving a chocolate sauce, a hair-dryer and Ryan's red sweater-vest, but I have sneaked (snuck?) back on to deliver this vitally important message: Britons of the World, unite. People of Britain, stand up and prepare yourselves! English, drink that tea! Scottish, fry something! Welsh, knit something! Irish, make a stew! Right...have you done that? Good. Now would you please get to your local supermarket, video store or anywhere that "Studio DC Almost Live" is being sold on DVD (I've seen it in Morrisons, Sainsbury's, WH Smith and my assistant saw some somewhere in Scotland). Wait! Before you leave to said store!!! Come back, would you, and finish reading. Right, good. Now, when you get to said store you must find the shelf containing "Studio DC Almost Live" DVDs and move them all up to a top-shelf, preferably at eye-level and right where the Store usually stocks their most important DVDs. Bonus points if you can stack them in the Charts at numbers 1, 2 and 3.
Right. Done that? Now GET OUT OF THERE and beware of security!!!
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This message will self destruct in five seconds.
Actually, it won't, but didn't that give you an icy shiver of excitement?
Good. Now get to work my minions!
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Oh no. How did that person get on the website. Is Ryan going away again? I wish he wouldn't. I always miss his posts and the British Correspendant made a mess before.ReplyDelete
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I'm not going anywhere, no worries. TBC just offered up an article today and I let him put it on. Don't fret!
~ Ryan
Oh good. Okay.ReplyDelete
But I just went to Walmart and I could not find Studio DC Almost Lives, so I have not moved it up yet. As soon as I see it, I will though. Do not worry!
Well, unfortunately Studio DC isn't out on DVD in the states yet, only overseas. But it should be coming soon!ReplyDelete
Ahem. Sparkle, my dear, as fantastic as your efforts in the re-shelving department have been this day, the Cracker of Prawns is right, Studio DC is not yet available in the USA. I was really making my article as a plea for British folks to get involved with promoting the dvd by putting it on higher shelves. (Which they BETTER be doing if they call themselves Muppet Fans!!!)ReplyDelete
Anyway...I better disappear before Ryan sees me. I'll just leave this test-computer I'm using in the electrical store and sneak back to Morrisons to check if security moved the dvds back.
Night all!
Okay. I guess that was a wasted trip then. Not completly wasted though because I bought a pineapple flavoured lollipop.ReplyDelete
Okay the British Correspendent. I'll wait until it is released and then look again. When is it being released here?ReplyDelete
Sadly, we do not yet have a US release date for Studio DC: Almost Live, but I'm sure we'll tell you as soon as we know!ReplyDelete
--Lisa the Intern
Okay Liza. Tell Ryan hi from me when you see him!ReplyDelete


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It seems that more and more of these videos are surfacing recently (or maybe they always have and your author is just in the dark), but Palm Beach International Raceway seems to be the hot spot for match-ups between Chevrolets and much more expensive sports cars recently – especially since the Street Car Drags event just took place there. Earlier this week, a super controversial video of a ZL1 and McLaren hit the interwebs and caused quite a stir – but this time the video is of a showdown between a C7 Corvette Z51 and the electric-powered 2013 Tesla Model S P85. You can check it out below.
There are a few reasons why this video is worth mentioning. One, both competitors knew that the race was valid (not the case with the aforementioned video, which was a fun run with an unfamiliar driver). Each car had a GoPro camera or two mounted in strategic spots to capture the action. Two, there was more than one run. It's hard to say by looking at a single race whether one car is actually faster than the other or if driver error may have been involved. Mind you, that can always be the case, but at least each driver has more than one chance to get it right.
The video shows the C7 and the Tesla running very similar quarter-mile times. In both runs, the Tesla clearly beats the Corvette off the line, but the Corvette slowly reels it in until both cross the finish line in a very close call with only hundredths of a second separating them (Tesla by 0.0235 in the first run and Corvette by 0.0774 in the second).
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Cerebrally unentertaining. That is how I would describe 'Cosmopolis', the new cinematic effort by David Cronenberg (The Fly, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises) starring Robert Pattinson. Much of it has to do with its inexhaustible stream of abstract sequences that amount to meaningless nothings. I found the film to be always saying too much, but never saying anything at all. It is banal and sufferingly boring. Cronenberg's attempt to capture the zeitgeist of our times was commendable on a cerebral point of view, but he could have made more of a creative push to entertain us cinematically as well. Dry abstractions are abusive and should not have a place amongst a paying crowd. Give it away for free, as altruistic charity or something, but don't make us pay for it. Some stories are assimilated better in books than movies, 'Cosmopolis' is one such case.
Based on the novel by Don DeLillo, this highly bombastic story is about a 28-year old financial whiz kid and billionaire asset manager named Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson) who needs to go crosstown to get a haircut amidst the social chaos that is unfolding before his very eyes. He suffers from ennui and is looking for the meaning of his life. Having started the day with everything, believing he is the future, Packer's perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
I think I'm a pretty intelligent guy and I like high concept film fare, but this movie was pontificating highfalutin trivialities. I've always felt that the original purpose of commercial film was to entertain. If you are a paying customer, you must be entertained. We can get into the subjectivity of how one perceives entertainment, but most directors are payed to provide audiences with swift and concise films that possess lively editing, fine acting and an engrossing story. Many of those elements don't happen here and it leads to boredom and agitation, specially when you're sitting down for close to two hours. Just ask the guy who was next to me who was so antsy that his restless body language made me more fidgety than what I already was.
Cronenberg isn't the only director who tends to create slow paced, dialogue intense films. Just take a look at the worst offender in Jim Jarmusch's 'The Limits of Control' or a close second in Sofia Coppola's 'Somewhere'. These are some examples of stoic torture. It's the type of projects that seem aimless and provokes an internal feeling to just piercingly screech amongst the eternal and endless silence in the theater.
One can read the aforementioned argument and debate me that movies like this aren't for everybody, but then why make them if only a fraction of people are going to enjoy it? How can one honestly invest for a modicum as opposed to the whole? Not good business and I believe that the box office will reflect that.
A good example of conveying existential and metaphysical topics while infusing humor and human elements that we can all identify with is Richard Linklater's 'Waking Life,' one of my favorite films of all time. It's about a man who shuffles through a lucid dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe. I can tell you it is better than 'Cosmopolis'. Another piece of film that tackles the narrative of the human existence with diverting situational pep is 'Biutiful' by Alejandro González Iñárritu. You know you're about to get clubbed with a philosophical message, but at least you'll feel winded by the end from the journey you took.
On a bright note, Robert Pattinson continues his growth as an actor. 'Water for Elephants' set him apart from the teenage 'Twilight' series and gave him shadows of credibility. This movie keeps reinforcing the objective, albeit as another brooding character. If you look at almost all his movies, he plays Mr. Brood. It's as if his range doesn't allow for a different emotional state. But within that broodiness, he can be seen expanding his skill. Let's wait for a body of work where he does a comedy (although many would categorize the Twilight Saga as comedy) or an adventure film so we can judge him appropriately.
If you're a young Pattinson fan looking for a romantic drama where Pattinson swoons you over, boy are you in for a surprise. This is a young girl's living nightmare as you'll be offered enough apathetic dialogue to snore you into puberty.


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Anyone who thinks covering a national political convention is all swag and swanky parties ought to come down to Tampa. And bring a good pair of shoes.
For me, Monday, Aug. 27, began before sunrise at the admittedly comfortable TradeWinds resort at St. Pete's Beach, an hour's drive from the Tampa Bay Times Forum, where the convention had been scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. before the threat of Tropical Storm Isaac forced the cancellation of most events.
Not canceled was a pre-breakfast speech from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. The wind was howling and rain was coming down at 6 a.m., but the early weather reports showed signs that the storm would take a westerly path toward Louisiana and mostly miss the Tampa area.
I made my way to the hall where the speech was to occur, and nabbed a prime spot near the podium, where I could capture video of the remarks to post on the P-E's website. I was joined by several other California reporters with similar agendas. We waited until a short while before the speech, when convention officials ushered us to the back of the room. Christie is giving a keynote address, and apparently didn't want footage of Monday's speech to take away from its force.
The room filled quickly, and the banished reporters spotted former Gov. Pete Wilson, Rep. Darrell Issa and a few other notables, who we interviewed while Bruce Springsteen's greatest hits played on a loop in honor of the Garden State governor. Eventually he took the stage and gave an entertaining speech (check back for the full story later.) He was followed by Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, and a handful of other speakers, before the delegation of hundreds filed into a pair of banquet rooms for breakfast.
No food for the press.
For many in the delegation, the day's official schedule had run its course. I had to make my way to Tampa to obtain my credential for the convention and attend a National Republican Congressional Committee press conference on contested House races. Problem was, my planned transportation – the daily delegation bus into town – had been canceled along with the convention's first day.
Loathe to pay a ridiculous cab fee, I was stranded – until to my aid came Elizabeth Emken, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in California, and her aide, Mark Standriff. The two were headed to the convention hall and graciously offered to give me a ride. We had a nice chat about Emken's campaign to unseat Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and they dropped me at a Downtown intersection teeming with police in riot gear, though I saw no protesters. The sun had emerged, and it was hot. "What storm?" I asked myself, shaking my head like an idiot.
Got my credentials from a nearby hotel without a hitch and asked a cop how to get to the Westin Hotel, where the news conference was to happen in an hour. He said it was probably a 20-minute walk. As he pointed the way, the guy next to him said, "Hey, do you know there's a tornado watch?"
"Yeah," said the first one. "They're saying people should take cover."
I thought I'd better make my way to the Westin, and started marching. Seconds later, the sky opened up, spraying rain in every direction. The wind made short work of the umbrella I should have known would be worthless when I pulled it from the "free" crate full back at the TradeWinds. Over the next hour, the weather fluxuated between violent wind, sideways rain and brutal heat – sometimes with all three at the same time.
The officer's 20 minute estimate didn't take into account the perimeter checks and security fencing crisscrossing the downtown area. By the time I figured out that maze, I was drenched (85 percent rain, 15 percent sweat.)
The Westin now in sight, workers and more police in golf carts whizzed by me, shouting about the tornado watch. To my knowledge, no tornado ever materialized. I walked into the Westin in time to hear the Republican Party's latest thinking on the nationally watched race for the Riverside-centered 41st Congressional District (I'll post the full story on that, too.)
In a stroke of luck, a fellow reporter offered me a ride back to St. Pete's Beach. Despite what looks to be fast-growing traffic nightmare near the Tampa Bay Times Forum – site of the festivities – we arrived back at TradeWinds by a little before 6 pm, when I ordered my only nourishment of the day, a club sandwich from room service ($11.50) and sat down to write.
After that: it'll be one day down and 11 to go before the last night of the immediately following Democratic National Convention ends in Charlotte.
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Running back Jerome Harrison needed only to pass a standard physical exam before his trade from the Detroit Lions to the Philadelphia Eagles was complete.
He failed. But the attempted trade may have saved Harrison's life.
According to ESPN.com's Adam Schefter, Eagles doctors found a brain tumor while performing the physical, which would not have been performed had Harrison not been traded. Physicals are often just a formality, the final step in the process of trading a player from one team to another. But if a serious injury is discovered, the trade is voided and the player must remain with his current team.
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The Cleveland Browns drafted him in the fifth round of the 2006 NFL draft. His best NFL season came in 2009, when he ran for 862 yards and five touchdowns. Cleveland traded Harrison to Philadelphia during the 2010 season, then he signed with Detroit prior to this year.
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For the few who might not know -- because they didn't care or whatever -- Freida (not Farida), is the
While reports of her conquering the red carpet at the Oscars and bagging other meaty roles abound (there's rumour she's doing a Tarantino film. Why?), here's another feather in Freida's cap.
According to the World's Sexiest Woman survey conducted by lad-mag FHM, Freida has been voted the 10th sexiest woman in the world.
For those who might say, "What's the big deal?" Well, none really but I am quite enjoying the fact that Freida has 'beaten' former favourites like Jennifer Lopez and Angelina Jolie.
I do have a feeling though that la Jolie and Jennifer Lowpants's fall in popularity has more to do with their being mommys rather than due to any fall in their 'sexiness'. After all beauty is skin deep and cosmetic surgery fixes everything.
For now though, desi oopmh is getting international 'recognition'. (If being wank material can be called that) The most Mrs Aishwarya Bachchan came to igniting passions -- I'm ignoring the Miss World title, that was eons ago -- was winning the world's sexiest eyes in 2008. Guess even lad-mag subscribing blokes found her cold.
While both Aishwarya and Freida cannot act -- yes, despite the Tarantino rumour -- at least Freida isn't as frigid as Mrs B Jr.
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Omri Casspi: Higher and Higher
Thursday, 28 February 2013
Image courtesy of www.cleveland.com
Hashem controls the NBA, too. In His infinite wisdom, Hashem engineered that the Sacramento Kings traded their 2009 first-round draft pick Omri Casspi (from Yavne, Israel and the NBA's only Jewish player) to the Cleveland Cavaliers last year. Once Omri came to Cleveland, he met our dear friend Tamir "Jewish Jordan" Goodman. They became great friends. Meanwhile, under Tamir's influence and guidance, Omri has been finding his way back to his Jewish roots. He already puts on tefillin every morning and is becoming just as tall spiritually as his 6'9" physical stature. I had the pleasure of hearing this first hand from Tamir when I visited him in his home last week in Cleveland.
Meanwhile, Omri is recovering from an emergency appendectomy that he had 3 days ago during an away game in Florida. We pray for his full and speedy recovery.
Omri Casspi and Tamir Goodman show that you can learn Torah, wear tzitzit and tefillin and still be a cool Jew and a basketball star. Yiddishkeit is definitely cool.


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The state agency I work for, the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) supports the arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences across the Commonwealth. The most obvious form of that support is funding to organizations and individuals, including an annual allocation of state funds to our partners at Mass Humanities. But in all of our programs – including my own area of focus, individual artists – we also look to foster dialogue. Why? Because, of course we do. Because, what are the arts and humanities if not dialogue? Because, the dialogue between painter and canvas, between story and reader, between historian and the poet whose work the historian inspires (or vice versa) is at the very core of our work – and supporting that dialogue is the key to our support of the cultural community.
When I first started at the MCC in 2005, I took over a program called the Artist to Artist Dialogues, where we invited past recipients of our Artist Fellowships Program to participate in live, public conversations. Artists of different disciplines – composers and novelists, sculptors and playwrights, poets and photographers – talked about both creative issues, like where their work is headed, and practical issues, like how they support themselves and how they balance life and art. The events were something we in our role as a state agency, with many connections to the different cultural sectors of the state, were uniquely suited to organize.
In 2007, we started to consider how media platforms that were by no means new at that point but were still undiscovered country to us – like the now-ancient craft of "blogging" – might serve the dialogues we were already seeking to have in Artist to Artist and other programs. In January 2008, we published the first post on our then-new blog, ArtSake.
After we had decided to launch a blog but before that first post, we asked ourselves a lot of questions (probably a good thing to do whenever embarking on something new): What ground is already covered? What already exists out there in the local arts blog-o-sphere? What gaps, if any, could we fill? What resources and strengths do we have uniquely available to us to do so?
Would ArtSake be, as one possibility went, a source of arts criticism and local arts news? It seemed to us those grounds were already covered, and better than we could. Arts critic and journalist Bill Marx had created The Arts Fuse, a comprehensive, locally-focused online source for criticism in all areas of the arts. Greg Cook's New England Journal of Aesthetic Research was already the smart, irreverent, quick-on-the-draw visual arts criticism and news resource that it still is, and at the time, the late, lamented Big RED and Shiny was still going strong. Besides which, was a cultural agency and arts funder really the best equipped to tackle real criticism, or nimble enough to be a timely purveyor of news?
We instead decided that ArtSake would focus on artists' voices – on dialogue about new art. My personal favorite posts on ArtSake have been conversations about the questions and choices and struggles of creating new work. Those, in my mind, are the conversations we as an agency are uniquely privileged to have.
For instance, playwright Eric Henry Sanders wrote on ArtSake about three stages in the creation of his play Reservoir, a reimaging of Georg Buchner's unfinished Expressionist masterpiece Woyzeck. In the post, Sanders discusses his decision to update the story in light of the PTSD epidemic among Afghanistan and Iraq veterans. The post includes an audio performance of one scene by Company One Theatre, with the Woyzeck character, now a military veteran named Hasek, reporting for his first session with an overworked therapist. I like the post because it exemplifies the different levels of dialogue always possible with a new work of art: between the artist grappling with the conflicts of his/her times; between the individual artist (in this case, the playwright) and a group of collaborating artists (the theatre company) bringing the work to life; between a story and an audience interested in how it is told. Since the post is published on the web for the foreseeable future, the dialogue between us and the reader can continue, too, in reader comments and correspondences. (On this last point: I was thrilled when a dramaturg in Ohio Googled Woyzeck and somehow found Sanders's post, later offering to produce his play!)
Similarly, when artist Betsy Damian wrote about a trip to Haiti and the children's book that resulted, the story of the story includes another, much larger turn of events. After the trip but before the book was finished, Haiti was devastated with the 2010 earthquake, casting Betsy's work in a new and more vital light. Arts and humanities not only incorporate history – they are in dialogue with it.
And we found a new platform for our Artist to Artist Dialogues, now continuing the conversations online. Sculptor Julie Levesque and painter Candice Smith Corby discussed family and domesticity in visual arts. Writer Karl Iagnemma and new media artist Brian Knep discussed the intersections of art and science. And most recently, multi-faceted writers Lise Haines and Elizabeth Searle discussed how some of the central issues of our times–terrorism, celebrations of violence, celebrity culture, and female identity–drive and inhabit their work.
Here's a sample of that discussion between Lise and Elizabeth:
Elizabeth: When you're writing, do you see the scenes cinematically?
Lise: I think my mind is very cinematic when I write. For me, an average day has three realities. Along with dream/sleep time and the waking world, my writing life is like a very vivid daydream. I feel like part of my job is to report back on this third reality.
Elizabeth: That's a great metaphor. You're mixing, in that dream-like way, so many things from your real life. But it creates something new.
It's a fun thing (one of many) about working in this field: in the dialogue between the arts and humanities, between the storytellers and their stories, between the idea and the art, the resulting conversation always has the potential to create something new.
Images: Eric Henry Sanders (playwright), Shawn LaCount (director), Fedna Jacquet (actor), Brett Marks (actor), and Anne Morgan (dramaturg) read a scene from RESERVOIR; a page from REV ABNE A: ABNER'S VISION by Betsy Damian, a Creole/English picture book for emergent readers (2010); cover art for GIRL HELD IN HOME by Elizabeth Searle (New Rivers Press, Fall 2011) and GIRL IN THE ARENA by Lise Haines (Bloomsbury USA, 2009).


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Hmmm me being Offensive to other mebers...
Hi I'm new to this web site,I did't see discussion group for jokes and stuff.
This morning I posted something I came across from a guy...
"killing the cats and feeding them to the family'was on the Yahoo answer board.
when I was looking to help my cat...
I just put it on here to chat about some thing other than what I'm going through..And I took no time to write anything..
The title was "How 2 kill my cats& feed them2 my family.Omg. please tell me this guy is only joking"
So not sure why members have flagged as being offensive...
Did u not read Omg Please tell me this guy is jokin..?
And as u can see I'm logged in as tarafernando..hmmmm Tara,is not a guys name...This is a animal forum and if u didt like it,dont read or make a comment..
Oh and please check out my pic's,my cat is sitting on a dinner plate...lol..
The discussion group for pet antics and jokes can be found here: Pet Stories - anecdotes - jokes
However the thread that was posted would not have been funny to anyone on this board. Yes this is an animal forum, where the members take the protection and care of animals very serious, we have seen far too many cases of animal abuse to find a question like that to be anything but offensive.
The manner in which it was posted gave the impression that was you writing and asking that question. There was no lead-in as to who or where this disturbing question had originated other than a short add-on in the title. Many people might miss the last added on sentence of the title as there was no separation between it and the original title.
Posting something that is likely to anger many people such as a topic like that, without adding where/when/who/"I'd like to discuss" or any comment to the original post will only get angry comments directed at the person who posted it as the members can only assume it was that persons' question.
This thread will now be closed please do not re-open another thread pertaining to this matter. If you wish to discuss this further please feel free to send a private message to one of the moderators or admins, this is not a discussion for open forum.
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