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The Home: Multidisciplinary Reflections
Edward Elgar
The Home: Multidisciplinary Reflections explores the relationship between home environments and family and societal wellbeing.
Antonio Argandoña (ed.), "The Home: Multidisciplinary Reflections", Edward Elgar, 2018. 200pp.
Home: A Complex Field
In the first major work to take the home as a center of analysis for global social problems, experts from a variety of fields reveal the multidimensional reality of the home and its role in societies worldwide. This unique book serves as a basis for action by proposing global legislative, political and institutional initiatives with the home in mind.
The multidisciplinary and integrative approach taken by this book avoids simplistic accounts of the home, studies the value of the home, the service it offers, and its contribution to the wellbeing and prosperity of communities. Reviewing its internal functions and external relationships, the authors connect the themes of family, housing, income and wealth, community, relationships, family policies, socioeconomic setting, culture and history from across the world.
Academics studying issues such as family, housing, public and social policy, sociology, urban studies and poverty will benefit from the range of insights this book offers into what the home means worldwide. Policymakers, social organizations and specialized networks working in the areas of family, education, poverty and housing will greatly benefit from the insight and breadth of this research.
Bryan Sanderson, Home Renaissance Foundation
Carlos Cavallé, Social Trends Institute
Antonio Argandoña
1. The home: Multidisciplinary reflections
Antonio Argandoña
PART I Philosophy
2. What is a home? On the intrinsic nature of a home
Alfredo Marcos and Marta Bertolaso
3. Self and others: Home as a cradle of a non-violent relationship
Maria do Céu Patrão Neves
Part II Health Sciences
4. The impact of the home environment on children's health and cognitive and social development
Sir Harry Burns
PART III Sociology
5. Reproducing homes: Intergenerational transmission of marriage and relationship legacy
Mark Regnerus
PART IV Economics
6. The family and economic theorizing
Stefano Zamagni
7. Pension provision, lifetime financial sustainability, care and dignity in old age: Legal and economic issues
E. Philip Davis and Rosa M. Lastra
PART V Geography
8. Spatial relationality and domesticity: Reality and functions of the home from a human geography perspective
Alban d'Entremont
Experts associated with the publication: A. Argandoña, M. Bertolaso, H. Burns, A. d'Entremont, M. do Céu Patrão Neves, E.P. Davis, R.M. Lastra, A. Marcos, M. Regnerus, S. Zamagni


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Re: erroneous result when adding reals
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- Subject: [mg100877] Re: erroneous result when adding reals
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Hi Vlad, this is a very common question. Read about computer representation of real numbers. You will see that machine binary real numbers cover only a (unevenly spaced )grid in the domain of real numbers. Your problem is that 1/100 can not be exactly represented as a machine binary real number. Try e.g.: FromDigits@RealDigits[1/100, 2] Further, the sum can also not exact. Therefore, the error you get by subsequent summation depends on h and the current sum. Daniel Vlad Seghete wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm fairly new to Mathematica and today I ran into an issue that > confuses me endlessly. It has to do with simple addition of real > numbers. It seems like adding x (anything) to 0. (the real) produces a > result different from x, within something close to machine precision. > The problem becomes more serious when I do the addition in a Do loop, > like below: > > Module[{tnew, tcur = 0., h = 1/100}, > Clear[ts]; ts = {tcur}; (* ts is a list *) > Do[tcur = ts[[-1]]; > tnew = tcur + h; (* add h to the last element of the list > *) > AppendTo[ts, tnew], (* and then push it at the end of the list *) > {step, 1, 300} (* repead 300 times *) > ] > ]; > ListLinePlot[Table[h, {h, 0, 3, 1/100}] - ts, InterpolationOrder -> > 0] > > The plot I get is NOT constant, and the error introduced through the > "real addition" done in the Do loop is systematic and adds up to > something relatively large. Notice that if I substitute 0. (the real) > with 0 (the integer or rational), then the result is exactly like > expected. > > Do any of you know why this happens and how I could avoid it, other > than working with *only* rational numbers? Thank you! >

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Kara's Nicole Reveals Her Fear of Variety Programs
On July 21, Kara's Nicole revealed her fear of variety programs on KBS 2TV's talk show "Do Dream."
Nicole explained, "I developed a phobia of variety programs in Korea because of my poor Korean. Then we started promoting in Japan two years ago. I started to have a fear of variety of programs in Japan as well because my Japanese was also not that good."
She continued, "I started to speak less on variety programs because I didn't want to make mistakes or be in a position where someone couldn't understand what I said. To this, soccer player Koo Ja Chul said, "I don't think you need to do that. When I asked a Japanese athlete on the club team, he said, 'They speak enough Japanese. Still, the mistakes they make occasionally are cute."
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Camus, a Romance336
Albert Camus is best known for his contribution to twentieth-century literature. But who was he, beneath the trappings of fame? Camus, a Romance reveals the French-Algerian of humble birth; the TB-stricken exile editing the war resistance newspaper Combat; the pied noir in anguish over the Algerian War; the Don Juan who loved a multitude of women. These form only the barest outlines of Camus's life, which Elizabeth Hawes chronicles alongside her own experience following in his footsteps. Camus, a Romance is at once biography and memoirwrought with passion and detail, it is the story not only of Camus, but of the relationship between a reader and a most beloved writer.
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Young in Algeria
The book that catapulted me into Camus's early years was an autobiographical work undertaken at the very end of his life, and this timing made its eloquence doubly affecting. In intense, streaming prose, The First Man begins the story of a child born in poverty, who caught the attention of a primary school teacher who introduced him to books, proposed a scholarship to the local lycée, and watched him flourish. The setting is the working-class neighborhood of Belcourt in Algiers, where Camus lived with his older brother Lucien and a bachelor uncle, Étienne, in a household dominated by women: a tyrannical grandmother who ruled the roost, and a submissive, sweet-natured mother who was illiterate, partially deaf, and nearly mute. His father, a caviste who managed the wine harvest for several local domaines, had served in the Zouave1 regiment fighting for France in World War I and died in the Battle of the Marne when Camus was an infant. Mainly conscripts from the French settlers of Algeria, the Zouaves, dressed in colorful red-and-blue Arab garb that made them look like battle flags, were shock troops and died in great numbers. The shell fragment removed from his father's head sent home by the French government was kept in an old biscuit tin in the kitchen of the three- room apartment, his Croix de Guerre in a gilt frame in the dining room. Albert and Lucien shared a bed in a room with their mother. There was no bathroom, electricity, or running water. The toilet was in the hall. The kitchen had no oven, so every few days Albert or his brother took a platter of food to a nearby butcher to be cooked. These details are recounted in The FirstMan without any particular drama or intimation of deprivation, for in Belcourt there was nothing unusual about them. From the house, a small balcony opened onto the larger world of the busy rue de Lyon below, with its shops, cafés, and crowded markets. The street was filled with the sounds of many languages — French, Arabic, Italian, Spanish — and of tambourines and castenets, braying donkeys, and the clacking of the tramway. It smelled of saffron, garlic, anise, fish, overripe fruit, honeysuckle, and jasmine. The sun was hot. The sea was at the edge of the neighborhood.
Under the wing of Louis Germain, his elementary school teacher and first surrogate father, Camus was a model student, serious, reserved, but responsive — d'une sagesse exemplaire, Germain would say. He liked school-work and school life and rose quickly to the top of the class. This achievement helped Germain to persuade his mother that he should move on to the lycée rather than go to work for the local tonnelier, or cooper, where his uncle made barrels. Outside school, Camus led a life like that of any other young boy in the quartier, except for the way it registered on him and how he internalized its every detail. He loved sports as well as books. With a gang of friends, he played games in the street with apricot pits or stones or a wooden club; climbed trees in the park; shared minted caramels, the dried lupine seeds called tramousses, and an occasional cornet of fried potatoes; swam (and bathed) in the harbor, shouting, diving, reigning over life and the sea "like nobles certain that their riches were limitless." Even boredom was "a game, a delight, a kind of excitement," he writes in The First Man. Camus recalled the most humdrum facts of his early existence with equanimity and a warm heart: the single pair of pants pressed nightly; the nails fixed on his shoes to prevent him from playing soccer and preserve the soles; the obligatory siestas with his grandmother, and the odor of her elderly flesh. (As an adult, he admitted that he hated those naps, and that thereafter he could never bring himself to sleep in the afternoon until he was gravely ill.) He was sustained by these memories in later years, when he was disenchanted with Paris and felt like an alien in a forest of concrete and steel. His nostalgia was expressed in his most lyric prose. Each time he returned to Algeria, Camus says, he felt blessed relief and release. "He could breathe, on the giant back of the sea he was breathing in waves, rocked by the great sun, at last he could sleep and he could come back to the childhood from which he never recovered, to the secret of the light, of the warm poverty which enabled him to survive and overcome everything."
It was at the lycée, which was located in bustling, cosmopolitan central Algiers and drew a more diverse body of students from more affluent sections of the city, that Camus first became self-conscious about his background, feeling "singular" rather than unconsciously universal. Before that, he thought all the world was like him, he said. At the lycée, he learned to make comparisons. He was a scholarship student known as a "pupil of the nation," a category open not only to the sons of deceased soldiers but also to sons of military and civil functionaries and officials of the French colony, who had better clothes and bigger houses up in the hills. On his application for the lycée, Camus had to describe his mother as a domestique, or cleaning woman; this suddenly filled him with shame, and then "the shame of feeling shame." But the challenges to his mother's stature, like his grandmother's overriding authority or his own growing awareness of her helpless ignorance, provoked in him a greater respect for her gentle endurance and an ever fiercer compensatory love. He would remember with anger and sadness her one brief attempt at a romance, which had given her a new gaiety and glamour, but was rudely quashed by her mother and her brother Étienne. All his life, he would be consumed with protecting and honoring the silent figure whose illiteracy and deafness isolated her from the world outside, who couldn't read newspapers or hear the radio, who had no idea what history and geography might be, who had no expectations or discernible desires, who "did not dare to desire."
Camus's own life could be understood as a response to his mother's — his ambitions as a reaction to her docility and his tireless activism as engendered by her passivity — for it was in almost every way an antithesis. Camus knew this. He dedicated The First Man, the first of the books he intended to write about love, to the widow Camus, "to you who will never be able to read this book." In a note to himself, he wrote of "the story of two people joined by the same blood and every kind of difference. She similar to the best this world has, and he quietly abominable. He thrown into all the follies of our time; she passing through the same history as if it were that of any time. She silent most of the time, with only a few words at her disposal to express herself; he constantly talking and unable to find in thousands of words what she could say with a single one of her silences. Mother and son."
The stories about the first decade of Camus's life are very moving, because they are suffused with a sense of innocence and primary love. Few writers have described poverty in the third world with the clarity, eloquence, and total recall that he brought to the subject, and although he describes this world as bleak, "naked as death," "closed in on itself like an island in society," "a fortress without drawbridges," in his memory it is also oddly rich and alluring. Indeed so caught up was I in the minutiae of these early days — the kerosene lamp and the dark stairs, the drama of a lost sou, the occasional pleasure of a hunting trip to the mountains with his uncle or an American western at the dusty movie house down the street (Tom Mix, Douglas Fairbanks) — that I was reluctant to have Camus grow up, and I dreaded the moment when I would lose the direct sound of his voice, when somewhere during the lycée years The First Man would abruptly end.
Camus, however, "his youthful blood boiling," was impatient to grow, to inhabit all the places he had read about in school. School was his joy, the drawbridge out of the fortress, an escape from family life to somewhere else. His memory of filling inkwells, the delicious taste of the strap of his bookbag, the smell of a varnished ruler, its sting as a tool of discipline, was as acute as that of the urine and floating orange blossoms in the town fountain. He read the stories, in the textbooks sent from France, about snowfalls and children in wooden shoes as myths about a Garden of Eden. He relived Louis Germain's firsthand accounts of World War I with occasional outbursts of emotion. It was all part of the powerful poetry of school. Germain shared his own life with his students, talked about his favorite books and his philosophy, and set an example that influenced Camus's later desire to teach. In Germain's class, students felt for the first time that they existed and were objects of the highest regard, he remembered; they were judged worthy to discover the world.
When the personal testimony of The First Man ends, Camus is fourteen or fifteen years old, an adolescent in the cinquième class, which is roughly the equivalent of the eighth grade. A photograph from this time shows him in short pants, posing with his soccer team and grinning to reveal two mischievous dimples. He has a newsboy's cap on his head and a scarf draped around his neck, and although he looks very young and quite small — he was late to grow and was called moustique, or mosquito, by his teammates — he already has a seductive and glowing presence. The child has died, he notes, recalling that he had summarily refused his grandmother's whipping (generally a punishment for tardiness or ruining his shoes) and had caught an inadvertent glimpse up a woman's skirt. He had also earned money at a summer job, kissed a girl, and been made the first-string goalie on the lycée team.
Soccer was a passion as consuming as books, and on the playing field Camus made himself respected and liked by the tough guys in school. The lessons were enduring — "What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport," he wrote later in his journal — and the camaraderie was an antidote to his growing awareness of the cultural differences that set him apart from his classmates, whose parents could pass on traditions, a system of values, and a clear sense of right and wrong: a heritage, as he elaborated. In The First Man, Camus describes suffering from a sense of otherness, his "ecstasy of joy punctuated by the sudden counterpunches inflicted by a world unknown to him," but he also reports that he was quick to recover, avidly trying to understand and assimilate a world he did not know. Certain of a future, toughened by his childhood, he was ready to find his place almost anywhere. If he felt separate, he never felt inferior. He was learning to fashion something that resembled a style of behavior and to create a heritage on his own, he said. He was "from somewhere else, that was all."
As someone with a mission, I read The First Man with joy at its truthfulness and its explicit information. Even if his book wasn't meant to be confessional, Camus was explaining himself, revealing in his recollections of childhood the important underpinnings of his character — independence, passion, courage, and (just as important to me) a deep sense of vulnerability. A sort of underdog quality, when paired with strength of character, can be crucial in a hero. Even while knowing humiliation, Camus did not have the slightest desire to have a different family or a different station in life. "How can it be made clear that a poor child can sometimes be ashamed without ever being envious?" he writes. The fact that in order to survive he would camouflage his vulnerability as irony, charm, and sometimes arrogance made him all the more sympathetic, because I identified with his behavior. At the same time, I was glad that Camus dropped a few hints about a dark and rebellious side, because that, too, seemed normal. Without much explanation, he mentions his "violent temper," the "hard and nasty arrogance" that enabled him to cope with guilt, and a dread of death, darkness, and the unknown (particularly intense in the evening as he made his way home from school). About school life, he says, in direct contrast to Germain's earlier report on his calmness and good manners, that he was too rambunctious and liked to show off. Jean Grenier, his professor and mentor in his last year at the lycée, and later at the University of Algiers, noticed the naturally undisciplined air of his pupil and placed him in the front row to keep him in sight.
The most significant event in Camus's years at the lycée was the onset of pulmonary tuberculosis when he was seventeen, midway through his final year of première supérieure, which he had to resume the following fall. The incidence of TB and of death from the illness — in eighteen to twenty-four months if it is untreated — was disproportionally high among the underprivileged and undernourished. So dramatic were the first signs of the disease — fainting spells, exhaustion, handkerchiefs drenched in blood — that Camus assumed he would die. He became a regular patient at the predominately Muslim Mustapha Hospital in Algiers, where the standard procedure was periodic artificial pneumothorax, injections of air to collapse the affected lung and allow it to heal. Until he had gained enough strength to resume his studies, he moved into the more comfortable household of his uncle Gustave Acault, a prosperous butcher who could fill the standard prescription of complete rest and large quantities of red meat. The company of his colorful and cultured uncle, a popular fixture in Algiers cafe life, well known for his love of politics, books, and fine clothes, took the edge off the new isolation and deprivation Camus felt watching his old friends carry on with their lives. Acault had great expectations for his nephew (he thought Camus might become a butcher, since this work would give him plentiful time to write) and treated him as the son he never had, engaging him in long discussions about literature and current affairs (Acault believed firmly in the equality of les indigènes) and offering him a generous allowance and weekend motor excursions to the country. In these long months of enforced rest, Camus found compensatory pleasures in Acault's extensive library, where he chose books at random, discovered authors like Paul Valéry and André Gide, and began "to really read." If many things were beginning to pull him away from the child he had been, as he notes in The First Man, his illness and his awareness of the inevitability of a foreshortened life pushed him dramatically into adult sensibilities and manhood.
Camus never published any direct recollections of the impact of what in later years he would often refer to as "the flu," although he intended to write about it in The First Man — he outlines "school to the illness" in his notes. But in essays written two years after the first appearance of tuberculosis, originally intended for inclusion in his first book, The Wrong Side and the Right Side, but later withheld, he described the hospital scene at Mustapha — the hollow laughter, the incessant coughing, the bones without flesh, the brittle aura of resignation. "Le mal vient vite, mais pour repartir il lui faut du temps" "The illness comes on quickly, but for it to go away again takes time," he notes. He also described his mother's quiet response to his crisis. At the time of the first symptoms and the abundant spitting of blood, she had been no more worried than a person of normal sensitivity might be about a family member's headache, he remembers. But if he was initially disconcerted by his mother's "surprising indifference" to the gravity of his condition, he also knew that in his seventeen years he, too, had learned indifference, which was both a cover-up for suffering and a commitment to getting on with life. To a latter-day eye, the very titles of the essays in The Wrong Side and the Right Side reveal the state of mind into which Camus was plunged by his illness and his growing, even enforced, intellectuality: "Irony," "Death in the Soul," "Love of Life," "Between Yes and No," "The Wrong Side and the Right Side."
For the official portrait of the première sypérieure or so- called hypokhagne classe of 1932, which was devoted to preparation for the rigorous exam to qualify for the agrégation degree, necessary for teaching in the French university system, Camus has dressed in a three-piece suit and slicked back his hair. He looks like a young man, still tender-faced but also skeptical and slightly aloof. He stands out in the group of fourteen students and assorted professors, in part because of the outrageously wide, shiny lapels of his suit jacket, and also because he has chosen not to wear the ceremonial floppy bow and decorous soldier's hat that the others have donned for graduation day. At nineteen, he was coming into his own. On the streets, he sported a felt Borsalino hat, a white suit, and — a direct sign of his uncle's influence — white socks. He had a new band of intellectual friends, who would become poets, editors, architects, and sculptors, and with whom he passed many hours in cafés and on long walks, weekends with girls at the beach, and Saturday nights in dance halls. His ardor for life had returned, intensified by his confrontation with death, which he described as an "apprenticeship" and a learning experience.(Continues…)
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Table of Contents
Prologue: From the Beginning 1
1 Young in Algeria 15
2 Moving On 25
3 To France 51
4 Paris 1943 69
5 New York 1946 99
6 Back to Europe 125
8 L'Homme Révolté 163
9 Friends 181
10 Pursuing Char 199
11 The Company of Women 213
12 War in Algeria 235
13 Fans 259
14 Le Premier Homme 271
Epilogue 289
Acknowledgments 291
Permissions 293
Photo Credits 295
Notes 297
Selected Bibliography 315


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Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Bearnes, Hampton & Littlewood's Fine Art Sale in Exeter on 5 October features an unusual group of rare, early items relating to Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, inventor of the Diorama, a theatrical spectacle, and the daguerreotype, the earliest form of photography, made public in 1839.
Amongst the rarities is a copy of 'Les Machabées', (Lot 701) Estimate £400 - £600) a play for which, early in his career, Daguerre designed the sets in 1817. His name appears on the title page. Further lots include early published reports of both diorama and daguerreotype, with the daguerreotype itself represented by two of the earliest examples of photographic portraits, one French, by Victor Chevalier, and one English, from Richard Beard's studio, undated but around 1841/2. The two final items of the twenty-five strong contingent are portraits of Daguerre himself. One of them is a late (1880s) copy of an 1848 daguerreotype of the inventor, by Charles R. Meade Lot 724) estimate £1000 - £1500.
The other, a unique piece, is a Societé Française de Photographie silver medal dated 1902 (Lot 725) estimate £800 - £1200, featuring double profile portraits of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, and of Joseph Nicephore Niépce, his collaborator in the earliest steps in the development of the medium.
Update: the catalogue can be seen here: http://www.bhandl.co.uk/sales/assets/FS/2016/10/04/FS041016-works-o...
For further details visit http://www.bhandl.co.uk/ or telephone Rachel Littlewood on 01392 413100.
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The pricing on some of these items seems pretty high to me, even with the pound being so low. I sold a similar (but in better condition) Chevalier dag with the same label and information for $2,100 (admittedly 14 years ago), not 3,000 pounds, plus premium. Seems like Bearnes thinks every photo item should be priced like their Cravens sale results. Some paper priced ok, but not in the best condition. No Daguerre letters or really important items. I was a bit disappointed.
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Hollywood legend Richard Gere has become a father for the second time.
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Puppy love helps with life on the transplant list
SHE doesn't know it, but St Bernard puppy Marilyn is helping her master survive life on the transplant list. Cancer has destroyed almost all of Wayne Carter's liver. At 56, the Ipswich father of two is clinging to the hope he will soon get a call from his organ donor team. As the days tick by, the former butcher distracts himself with caring for his dogs. MORE FROM THE EKKA Key to Ekka glory: Be a ghost, let your dog take spotlight Ekka promotes Lockyer Valley food bowl to city folk Boonah farmer Syd Haag crowned Ekka Legend Not willing to let the disease beat him, Mr Carter and Marilyn are at the Ekka chasing glory in the canine show ring this week. The eight-month-old proved her potential a few days ago when she scored a coveted blue ribbon and the title of minor puppy bitch. "I've just had two liver operations so I don't really get to do much anymore," Mr Carter says as he fondles Marilyn's ears. "I haven't got much of my liver left. "Now that I'm on the transplant list, it's 'see how it goes'." As he lifts the 40kg pooch onto the grooming table, Mr Carter reveals how hard it was for him and his partner Stacy Guilfoyle to hear the devastating news three years ago. "It was a shock," he says of the cancer diagnosis. "It was like 'what do we do?'; 'How do we get past it?'. "It's been a hell of journey." Prepping Marilyn for her next big appearance - a shot at the puppy sweepstakes title it becomes clear how vital the giant puppy is to Mr Carter's hold on life. "Having these dogs around is part of the journey," he says. "If I didn't have the dogs it would probably be a different story. They help you forget about the bad things and get on with the good things."


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Usually this time of year beautiful purple agapanthus fill this section of our school's garden. My plan was to take classes outside to do some observational sketches followed by paintings using tempera and pastels.
So, I went out 2 weeks ago to take some photos to put on the Smartboard for us all to discuss, and what do I find? -- a carpet of green leaves with 3 dried agapanthus left over form who knows when!! Not a purple flower in sight!
Not to be deterred, I cut the dried stalks, thinking I would go to Plan B and have the kids sketch them instead. Then last week I decided to check again. Believe me, during my first trip out there I searched between all the leaves looking for prospective buds, but didn't find one! Now, all of a sudden, look what I find -- a beginning!!!
So now, I think I'll wait a week or two and see what happens. Maybe I'll get my bed of solid agapanthus before school ends after all and we can do this project I have in mind. Meanwhile, I have to decide on something else for this week:)) I have several ideas and will let you know what I end up with:))


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The Howard Stern Show is a syndicated radio show that has run from 1982 till present day. Broadcast out of New York by Howard Stern and running from 6:00AM-10AM, and sometimes as late as 12PM. Howard's show was instrumental in breaking down many barriers in radio from deviating from regular talk and corny morning routines and focusing on gross out jokes, strippers and sideshow style characters mixed with some political and pop culture commentary and news segments. Howard's show has been fined by the FCC several times in his career in the process of developing his show's material.
The show started to come together over various stations Howard worked in after graduating college with a media degree. He met and worked with Fred Norris and Robin Quivers, who he found good chemistry with. By the time he reached Detroit, he had established himself as a top notch DJ, preferring talking and doing his schtick versus playing records. While most who would listen to his earliest work would find it tame by today's standards, for it's time it was very edgy for radio.
After Detroit and Washington D.C., the first big success the show found was at WNBC in New York, Howard's home city. The show became a huge hit, seemingly getting more popular the more Howard and his crew fought censorship and management to produce their show the way the wanted it. It culminated in them being fired after several spats with NBC management. The full story is documented in his book and movie Private Parts. (Ironically, just two years after he left, NBC sold off their radio ops and WNBC became WFAN, an all-sports station currently owned by CBS.)
He was immediately picked up by WXRK radio, also in New York, where he dropped music completely from his format in favor of a purely morning talk/comedy radio show, and was eventually syndicated throughout the country and the show gained its largest success nationwide. Throughout the 90s, the "King of All Media" would write two books and make a movie based on his show's exploits, as well as three TV shows (one on local NY station WWOR-9 that was a variety (which was proceeded by a couple of pilots for Fox that didn't go anywhere), two on E!, a one on one interview show that was dropped in favor of airing clips from his radio show, which was also duplicated by CBS on Saturday nights for a brief while), and two pay per view events, establishing The Howard Stern Show as the undisputed biggest radio show in the country.
While the show is famous for being edgy, vulgar, over-the-top, etc., the hardcore fans are just as fond of the interaction with the various members of the staff (particularly if Howard is yelling at someone for screwing up). Additionally, Howard is probably one of the best, if not the best, interviewers in the country; always providing a fascinating look at anyone from a hooker working down the street to an A-list celebrity, often getting them to open up about things they would never say elsewhere.
By 2005, Howard's show was broadcast in several major markets, until Clear Channel had his show cancelled in many of those markets, prompting Howard's move to Sirius Satellite Radio so his un-PC jokes and material can flourish, profanity can't be censored and the FCC is off his back. Additionally the show has its own on demand TV channel, Howard TV featuring highlights of the show daily plus classic clips and other special programming.
The show largely begins with Howard Stern and sidekick / newswoman Robin Quivers discussing the previous day's show, upcoming events in the day among other topics. These can be several, or if something is really stuck in Howard's craw, can last for hours. Celebrity interviews are normally in the middle of the show and finally Robin's news report which often ends the day-is considered the best parts of the show. Phone calls from fans/protesters and other games the cast plays are usually interspersed in between, like prank calls, feuds between cast members, and calls/visits from the Wack Pack.
Howard Stern has been doing this show now for almost 30 years. Most of the cast and show members have been with him at that time.
Main Cast
- Howard Stern - host, overseeing creative director, King of all Media.
- Fred Norris - cohort, handles a little of everything on the show. Does voices, plays sound effects and writes segments. Oddest member of the show. Longest-running member, has been with Howard (mostly) since he was at his first radio gig out of college in the early 80s.
- Robin Quivers - news anchor and co host. Second longest running cast member since the early 80s.
- Gary Dell'Abate - Head Producer and Gofer (the infamous Ba Ba Booey!). Been with the show since the WNBC days in the mid 80s, starting as an intern.
- Jackie Martling - Head writer starting in the late 80s - left show in 2001 over contract dispute. Returned to Sirius for his own separate show.
- "Stuttering" John Melendez - intern turned segment producer. Worked taking calls from listeners and known more for asking celebrities embarrassing questions at press functions or movie premieres (to Chevy Chase "Did you think you'd live to see the day that Garret Morris matters more then you?"). Left in 2004 to be the announcer on The Tonight Show.
- Billy West - Voice talent on the show who appeared intermittently in the early 90's before becoming a full part of the show before leaving again (he was making too much money in voice acting to be on the show daily). Famous for his Marge Schott impression and operating the Jackie Puppet.
- Ralph Cirella - Howard's stylist since the early 90s, probably the most hated regular by the fans.
- Artie Lange - Sidekick for Howard and replacement for Jackie Martling in Fall of 2001. Does jokes and still tours and acts. Was eventually let go for his drug and alchohol problems that culminated in a suicide attempt in 2009. Has cleaned up his act and hosted his own show on Direc TV (now cancelled) and still doing stand up.
- Richard Christy - segment producer and often prank caller for the show, despite his inability to disguise his effeminate southern voice. He competed and won the "Get John's Job" Contest in 2004. Formerly a wack packer and oddly, a drummer for several well known death metal bands.
- Sal the Stockbroker - segment producer and often co-conspirator at prank calls with Richard Christy. He was the runner-up in the "Get John's Job" Contest behind Richard Christy, but he ended up being hired for the staff anyway. Formerly a wack packer and of course Stockbroker.
- George Takei - a semi-regular cast member (he lives in Los Angeles, so he is usually only part of the show when he's in New York, often for week-long stints) and is officially the show's announcer. Began in 2005.
- Lisa G - News reporter for Howard News. Joined after the jump to Sirius.
- Jon Hein - News reporter for Howard News. Creator of jumptheshark.com, joined after the jump to Sirius.
Regular contributors (aka "The Wack Pack")
- Fred the Elephant Boy - A man with a speech impediment, one of the longest running constant members of the pack since the 80s.
- Eric The Midget - Sorry, Eric the Actor, a little person confined to a wheelchair with a host of medical issues, known for his negative demeanor and ungratefulness. A regular since 2002, passed away in 2014.
- Bigfoot - A large man with a deep voice and odd personality. Won a "Be a New Wackpacker" contest his friends entered him in (he had never litstened to the show before). Known for his weird life, a regular since the move to Sirius/XM.
- Kenneth Keith Kallenbach - A strange young man who kept trying to set himself on fire for the show, among other stunts. A regular since the late 80s, he passed away in the mid 2000s.
- Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf - Exactly What It Says on the Tin. A fan favorite from the mid 90s who passed away in the early 2000s.
- Beetlejuice - A little person with a mental disability who nevertheless has supreme confidence. A fan favorite since the mid 90s.
- Jeff the Drunk - An alcholic loser who's (you guessed it) usually drunk (and stoned) on the show. Lost use of one arm due to refusing to go to the hospital for medical problems. Been around since the early 90s.
- Mariann From Brooklyn - A super fan who's been calling into the show since the late 80s, known for her obnoxiously annoying voice.
- Captain Janx - The supreme prank caller of the show's regulars, been calling into the show (and others obv) since the mid 80s. Invented saying "baba booey" to various call-in shows (along with "Howard Stern's penis" etc)
- King of All Blacks - A regular caller since the early 90s.
- King of all Jews - A regular caller since the early 90s.
- Blue Iris - An elderly porn star.
- Joey Boots - A regular caller since the late 90s.
- Sour Shoes - Supreme song parody creator. A regular since the mid 2000s.
- Crazy Alice - A bipolar woman and regular since the early 90s.
- Underdog Lady - A strange woman known for going around in an Underdog costume, was a regular through the late 80s and early 90s, left the show for over a decade and returned intermittantly since the mid 2000s.
- Crackhead Bob - A former crack addict left with a speech impediment from his drug days, a regular since the 90s.
- Gary the Retard - A mentally challenged man, a regular since the late 90s.
- Wendy the Retard - A mentally challenged woman from Florida, a regular since the early 2000s.
- Beautiful All Along: Most people know Mariann From Brooklyn by her annoying voice (and usually end up picturing her as an ugly old crone), and most are taken aback when they see her (she's quite the attractive woman).
- Berserk Button: Howard can be set off by many things, usually when it comes to his competitors who copied his act.
- Catchphrase: Baba Booey is the most infamous but there are other lesser known ones.
- Ronnie Mund: "Let's fuck some whores!"
- K.C. Armstrong: "Noice"
- Gary: "Can I ask you a question..."
- George Takei: "Oh myyyyyyy..."
- Celebrity Star: Howard can have a wide range of celebrities on his show. Kathy Griffin, William Shatner, Hugh Jackman and Carly Simon among others. Celebrities who are a big deal are often kept a mystery to Stern and staff by wearing blindfolds and guessing such as Ringo Starr, Robert Duvall and Pete Rose.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Fred to an extent.
- Cluster F-Bomb: The Sirius years can often have scattered profanity, with Howard often cluster F-bombing his staff or callers.
- Defeat Means Friendship: Many other radio hosts and celebrities competed with and denounced Stern at the height of his popularity. Now in what may be the twilight of his career, Stern has made up with many of his former enemies, Bubba The Love Sponge, Rosie O'Donnell, and Chevy Chase to name a few. Can Kathy Lee Gifford be far behind? This has proved very controversial with some fans.
- Richard beat Sal in the contest to replace Stuttering John, making Sal irate and considering Richard his sworn enemy. Sal was later hired by the show and he and Richard became best friends.
- Evil Laugh: Many people's opinions of Robin's laugh which is constant throughout the show.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: A LOT in his terrestrial radio days, even though the FCC would still fine the show for what was done. In a bit of irony, Howard would often report of similar radio shows doing similar acts and would never hear of them being fined. See Berserk Button.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Richard and Sal, although the "heterosexual" part seems not to apply at times. Also Gary and Jon Hein.
- Irony: Howard constantly bemoans his staff's lack of professionalism while his show glorifies immaturity and lack of tact.
- Jerkass: Howard can be one at times. Eric the Midget is often one.
- Jumping the Shark: Jon Hein, the writer that originally coined the phrase "Jumping the Shark" and created Jumptheshark.com, now works on The Howard Stern Show as the host of The Wrap Up Show, the show that directly follows The Howard Stern Show and discusses the days events with show producer Gary Dell'Abate.
- Like a God to Me: In his first year as a full-time staff member of the show, Sal described Howard Stern (whom he had looked up to for years) as "an entity" and "god-like" as a justification for wanting to do anything (anything) for him, much to the disturbance of the staff (and Stern himself).Sal: There's normal human beings, and then there's Howard Stern.
- Mistaken for Special Guest: George Takei often sits in as an announcer a couple times a year in the Sirius(XM) era.
- Only Sane Employee: Howard as he would point out to Gary MANY TIMES.
- Not So Different: The show has become more popular with people on the right side of the political spectrum in recent years due to Howard's unabashed mockery of political correctness and SJWs.
- Platonic Life-Partners: Howard and Robin. Howard has stated that he'd refuse to do his show without her and consider each other best friends off air.
- Proud to Be a Geek: Howard admits to being a Star Trek fan and reading Superman and Comic Book/{{Batman]} comics. Ralph to an even bigger extent.
- Richard is a proud fan of animated shows such as The Simpsons and King of the Hill, and commonly geeks out whenever Mike Judge is a guest on the show.
- Refuge in Audacity: A staple of the show.
- Rogues Gallery: The Wack Pack, a collection of frequent guests who are afflicted, odd or otherwise interesting to say the least. Crackhead Bob, Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf, Fred the Elephant Boy, Eric The Midget, John The Stutterer, Evil David Letterman, Crazy Alice, Yukko the Clown, Underdog Lady among many others.
- Smarter Than You Look: Despite having plenty of toilet humor and naked women on his show, Stern is a graduate from Boston University and is well versed in current events.
- The Chewtoy: Gary, though not as much as he once was.
- The Quiet One: Fred. When he talks, take notice, if you make fun of him, run-he does bite back.
- The Unintelligible: Crackhead Bob and Fred the Elephant Boy have severe speech impediments. John The Stutterer.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Gary in the satellite years toughened up to be more competent at his job.
- Ultimate Job Security: Seemingly the entire staff, with Howard refusing to fire anyone even for the grossest incompetence. Howard is much more likely to berate them on air or come up with a Cool and Unusual Punishment.
- Very Special Episode: Joanie "Chyna" Laurer's guest appearance in January 2005 unwittingly turned into this. Having already been having serious personal problems since her departure from the WWE, she underwent an on-air meltdown that saw her drop a Cluster F-Bomb or twenty in a phone call to former boyfriend Sean Waltman, before stripping naked in the studio. Howard called an end to the interview after that and actually told her on-air that for as much as he appreciates bad behavior from his guests, even he could see that she was in serious need of help.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: George Takei and Artie are a mild version of this trope. Artie has a tendency of telling gay jokes, and George good-naturedly calls him on it.
- Vocal Dissonance: As his nickname describes, Wack Packer, High Pitch Erik is a grown man who's about 6'1" and roughly around 400 lbs., and talks like Mickey Mouse with a New York accent.


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More often than not people come to us and say, "I'm just not able to grow my business. I've tried lots of things, but nothing seems to work."
The first question we ask is this, "How many media channels (such as Printed Media (newspapers, directories, magazines, etc.), E-Media (internet, Google, etc.), Direct Mail (letters, postcards, etc.) and media pieces (the physical marketing piece used in each media channel to communicate your message – such as an advert in a local newspaper) are you using at the moment?"
I think you can see where we're going with this. The reply often goes something like this…
"Well we do some local advertising and send some letters out."
Despite your success, you'll probably find you only use one or two or a handful of media channels and media pieces.
Now we're not saying you can't have success just from using the likes of local newspaper or magazine advertising and sales letters, but just think what you could do if you applied an extra 5, 10, 15, 20 or more proven media pieces across each Business Multiplier to grow your business. What effect would this have if each media piece was working and returning a profit for you?
This is how you create multiple streams of income. How many media pieces are you using right now?


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I get pretty mess in winter. Well, it's not my season.
Trying to be okay with cold days and nights. I'm doing my best!
As Iam a mix-everything-person, I got my inspiration in lots of things.
Here are some of them, I just hope they can also help those souls like me.
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For the last couple weeks, I've been talking up the Turkey Sandwiches from the QFC Deli. For those of you not in the Northwest, QFC stands for "Quality Food Centers" and most of the stores have a nice little deli featuring Boar's Head meats and cheeses along with some REAL Turkey breast slices. I visit a lot of grocery stores for my full-time job and QFC has been a reliable source of Turkey Sandwich pick-me-ups.
Until today.
To order a sandwich from the QFC deli, you fill out a sheet of paper and tell them exactly what you want (a la Which Wich). In the past, I've had really good luck matching up Boar's Head Pastrami-seasoned Turkey with a nice Deli Mustard, so that's what I went with today. But here's what I got:
Does this look like DELI MUSTARD? NO, because it is fucking YELLOW MUSTARD. The problem with mustard is that once it's on the sandwich, it's on the sandwich. At least with Mayo you can scrape it off and get rid of most of it. Not with Yellow Mustard.
On top of that, the Whole Wheat Ciabatta sucked too.
The lesson learned here: It's better to be the asshole who asks to see the mustard before it's applied to the sandwich rather than the asshole who says "that's the wrong mustard!" after it's already hit the bread and they have to start over. But whatever you do, don't be the dipshit that I was today and just accept their mustard and hope that it's going to turn out.


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SXSW Interactive 2013
How Twitter Has Changed How We Watch TV
Social media has had a dramatic impact on how we watch television, with Twitter leading the way for a social TV revolution. Social television - the term used to describe the symbiotic relationship between social media and TV - is producing big changes in how TV programs are created, delivered and consumed. Shows like American Idol and Pretty Little Liars, and special televised events like the Golden Globes and X Games, have embraced social media as a way to interact more intimately with their audiences, bringing content from the TV screen to the second screen (and in some cases from the second screen to the TV screen).
We watch more live TV now than we did five years ago. Advertisers use branded hashtags to market to viewers. Fictional characters have their own Twitter accounts. Actors tweet from behind the scenes as they're filming new episodes. This panel will explore these changes and more in an attempt to understand the impact social media has had on TV (and vice versa).
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- How has Twitter changed how we watch TV?
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- What role do second screen apps play in TV viewing?
- What are some predictions for the future of Twitter and TV?
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DES MOINES - A state official says the 102-degree heat recorded this week in southern Iowa made it the hottest day this late in the year in six decades.
State Climatologist Harry Hillaker said the 102-degree heat was recorded Monday at Donnellson and Keokuk.
He said the last time a reading that high occurred this late in the year was Sept. 28, 1953, when 100-degree readings occurred across nearly half of the state.
He said, in all, high temperatures have reached 100 or more 109 times in 38 different Septembers. He said most of those winters were followed by less snow than usual, but one was among the coldest and snowiest winters on record.
Bottom line?
He said, "with hot September weather, you always need to be prepared for anything in Iowa."


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How to integrate LogMeIn Central with PingOne.
A live IdP environment must be configured before implementing federated authentication for LogMeIn.
See PingOne's Support Site.
The Identity Provider must be configured to trust the LogMeIn Common Login Service (CLS) as a Service Provider. CLS is LogMeIn's own shared authentication service that provides single login experience for LogMeIn products and services on every platform.
You must add LogMeIn CLS as an application in Ping Identity to allow a trust relationship to be established between your network and LogMeIn.
The Application Configuration screen is displayed.
From PingOne's Application Configuration screen the CLS connection must be configured
The SSO Attribute Mapping screen is displayed.
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The Review Setup screen is displayed.
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Consensual SEO. Debunking the Ethical SEO Myth
The Consensual Framework
I choose a consent-based framework for determining ethical behavior in the SEO world because (1) it does not intimate what the participant wants (some users want product sites, some users want informational sites, some webmasters want unrelated reciprocal links, some webmasters do not, etc.), and (2) it limits the responsibilities of participants to what they can ultimately control.
Consensuality is the basis of social contracts, democracy, and any functioning, fluxuating community of competitors. Consensuality requires accurate, unbiased information. There are some caveats to this, though. We must limit consensuality and consenting authority (a veto) to the direct property of the participant. A searcher has direct authority over their search experience. A website owner has consent authority over what occurs directly on his/her website. It is unrealistic to ask webmasters to take ownership of the search engines results. If a website owner improves on-site optimization for his â€Å"Timber Logging Industry†site, it is not his/her responsibility if he now ranks number 1 for â€Å"Key Logging Software†terms. This is an uncontrolled externality.
These are the three tenets of a Consensual SEO model
(1) Consenting and consent-granting participants are acknowledged and respected
(2) Consent required to act upon a participant's property
(3) As long as the above two are met, externalities are ignored
Stakeholders vs. Participants.
One of the most important changes this model makes to those previously presented is that it does not necessarily respect all stakeholders. On the contrary, the consensual model is relational and requires that each member wishing to have consent, must grant consent. The general setup for stakeholders includes three members…
(1) Search Engines
(2) Website Owners & SEOs
(3) Searchers
The participants, however, are different.
(1) Website Owners & SEOs
(2) Searchers
I will not be surprised if this causes some bit of controversy, but Search Engines violate the very first rule (granting consent) and thus cannot be included in this model. Search engines have long chosen to believe that, by default, all sites are to be included in its results. This opt-out method is simply not consistent with the consensual model. If Google will not take the time to read the TOS of various sites or, at least, use an opt-in method for its cache and index, it is automatically excluded from this model.
Simply put: You are not responsible for what Google takes from you. Period. You may want to respect it if you wish to protect your site rankings, but you are not ethically, morally, legally or otherwise obligated to it within a consensual model of ethics.
This is a breath of fresh air for most search engine optimizers who find it hard to beleive that they are called unethical for placing a reciprocal link or using CSS to place text at the bottom of the page which occurs at the top of the code. Do not get too hasty with your comment spam tools, though.
Participant Property.
Website Owner:
Consensual authority over all site property including, but not limited to, email addresses associated with the domain, guestbooks, blogs, forums, etc.
Consensual authority over their search decision (to exit the search page or continue looking through results).
I will start with the latter as, admittedly, it is a fairly nebulous concept.
Consent requires the ability to make rational, informed decision. While some of us may joke about whether or not searchers are rational beings, we must assume so. Thus, for searchers to have consensual authority over their search experience, they must be presented with accurate information about a site in the search engine. Unfortunately, the only information a searcher is given about a site is the title, snippet, and ranking. Thus, this rules out several types of SEO as being unethical…
(1) Cloaking
Sorry folks, but you need to show the search engine the same page you show the user (or at least the same content). The snippet needs to be, as best to your ability, an accurate representation of the content on the page.
(2) Doorway Pages
Once again, this method shows the user a different snippet and title than the page they actually end up at. This is deliberately deceiving the searcher
(3) Intentionally Non-Relevant Results
(4) Deceptive domains
(domain naming that appears to match, such as purchasing the .org,.net,.tld of another branded site.
One question that this does raise, though, is using a link-building campaign to inflate search engine position. If my site ranks higher than another because I solicited links, am I being unethical towards the searcher? I believe in this case, once again, the answer is no. It is absurd to believe that a search engine without intentional link building would be substantially more reliable. On the contrary, if we relied on means other than link building to advertise our sites (such as banner ads, television, radio, etc.), all we would do is auction off the search results at a higher price. While this is, admittedly, a better-or-two-evils (and a very unsatisfying argument of ethics), it is the best I can do. On a Ends-Justified basis, link building is consensual. On a means-justified basis, it is not.
Website Owner:
As a website owner, you have consent authority over all that is your website. This means, however, that you must respect that consent authority among other websites. This rules out several types of SEO techniques.
(1) Comment Spam
(2) Guestbook Spam
(3) Referrer Spam
(4) Wiki Spam
(5) Forum Spam
(6) Link Exchange Request Email Spam
(7) Full Content Scraping
All of these methods forgo the consent of the website owner and thus, do not stand the test of consensual SEO.
There are some very surprising practices that do pass these guidelines. Content generation through methods other than content scraping is generally acceptable, provided you do not cloak the results (remember, in this case the Search Engines are acting as other websites and you must respect their TOS in this case). Keyword generation for massive site generation techniques are also generally acceptable. Neither of these methods actually violate the consent of individual searchers. The title, snippet, and cache in Google or any search engine are identical to what they will find on the page. On Ask.com they can even see the preview of the page before visiting.
I would love to hear any discussion on this. I believe wholeheartedly that the consensual method of SEO is much better suited for understanding the right and wrong of Search Engine Optimization.
Let us keep in mind that this is Search Engine Optimization. This is not â€Å"doing things for your site visitors that might have benefits in the search engines.â€ÂÂNo tags for this post.
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Great post about Google. Keep up the good work.
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Helixpoint on Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:35:02
private void checkRequired(Itcr tmp, string[] reqFields) { if (reqFields.Any(str => string.IsNullOrEmpty(str))) { throw new System.InvalidOperationException("A required field is missing"); } }
RJP1973 on Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:45:41
First, you should learn how to use the Visual Studio debugger. You could put a breakpoint on the line that throws the exception and then run the app from Visual Studio.
Second, your test is simply checking to see if any of the strings in the reqFields string array are null or empty. If they are then the exception is thrown.
Is that your intent?
Helixpoint on Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:51:30
My intention was to check if any value in the string array was empty, but now they want to see which is empty
DA924x on Wed, 26 Jul 2017 16:58:22
My intention was to check if any value in the string array was empty, but now they want to see which is empty
Well, one doesn't go around throwing exceptions on basically a validation check.
Fei Hu on Thu, 27 Jul 2017 06:17:07
Hello Helixpoint,
The Any method just Determines whether any element of a sequence exists or satisfies a condition . And can't pick one that not satisfies a condition . If you want to see which is empty , I suggest you can follow the demo as below.
private static void checkRequired(string[] reqFields) { for (int i = 0; i < reqFields.Length; i++) { if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(reqFields[i])) { Console.WriteLine("the index {0} of array is empty", i); } } }
Best regards,
Viorel_ on Thu, 27 Jul 2017 07:16:18
If you are interested in all of the indices, then try this:
string s = string.Join( ", ", reqFields .Select( ( v, i ) => new { v, i } ) .Where( p => string.IsNullOrEmpty( p.v ) ) .Select( p => p.i ) ); if( s.Length != 0 ) { throw new ArgumentException( $"The following elements of {nameof( reqFields )} are missing: [{s}]" ); }
CoolDadTx on Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:56:45
This seems like a good candidate for IValidatableObject. It seems like you are trying to validate that the object is valid. You're using an exception right now but the interface is a better option. Most modern UI technologies support it so you can actually bubble the error up.
class Program { static void Main ( string[] args ) { var items = new Itcr[] { new Itcr() { Name = "1", RequiredFields = new [] { "Field1" } }, new Itcr() { Name = "2", RequiredFields = new [] { "Field1", "" } }, }; var results = new Collection<ValidationResult>(); foreach (var item in items) { results.Clear(); if (!Validator.TryValidateObject(item, new ValidationContext(item), results)) Console.WriteLine($"Itcr {item.Name} is missing fields"); }; } } class Itcr : IValidatableObject { public string Name { get; set; } public string[] RequiredFields { get; set; } public IEnumerable<ValidationResult> Validate ( ValidationContext validationContext ) { //Should no required fields fail validation? if (RequiredFields?.Any(s => String.IsNullOrEmpty(s)) ?? false) yield return new ValidationResult("One or more required fields is missing"); } }
But your requirements seem a little off to me. Firstly you are wanting the value(s) that throw the exception but the check is for an empty string so all the value(s) you got would be empty strings. Seems like you want the Itcr value instead. This isn't a problem for the method you posted but for the caller of the method.
Secondly, if you don't want to allow empty strings in the required field then I wouldn't even bother exposing it as an array. I'd personally create a derived collection that accepts strings. Then I'd override the Add/Insert method to throw an exception if the value is null or empty. This eliminates the need for validation and it will fail at the point of insertion. If you're getting the list of strings from an external source then catch the error while processing that list, not when associating it with (or after) the Itcr object.
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Science is beginning to prove how we are controlled by our thoughts, feelings and emotions as shared in a July 2010 article of 'World Science'. Where their research validates concerns and casts doubts on common human feelings, and questions our perception in believing that we have any, if no free will. The article goes on to say that, "our subconscious thoughts can manipulate our goals and motivations much more than scientists ever imagined - also proving that the human brain is often steps ahead of its owner". Because the brain prepares actions/reactions well before any self awareness of the thought patterns instruct us to act according to and as them.
They show how our motivation toward a goal arise just from seeing words and their patterns without us being aware of our participation: "Students were seated at a table to work on two seemingly unrelated language puzzles. For some students, the first puzzle included words related to achievement (such as win or achieve), and for others it did not. Students who were exposed to achievement words were found to outperform the others on the second puzzle."They further present a theory based on the idea that the human brain is designed for action, continuously and subconsciously processing information relevant to our accepted and allowed behaviors, so that it is constantly ready to 'instruct' its owner how to deal with opportunities and challenges posed by our environment. The theory reveals just how thoroughly our unconscious, subconscious and conscious mind as thought patterns, permeate and control us within our everyday lives in which we are not even aware of.
Personally, I don't require proof from science. I've been studying and applying the material within 'The Desteni I Process'. They were the first in recognizing the abusiveness of our thought constructs and our word predetermination patterns as well as how we suppress ourselves within and as feelings and emotions, and the tools they offer assist one to realize the facts for themselves. They provide assistance to stop the designs of which we are controlled, so that we are able to redesign ourself step by step. It has been a simple investment in myself whereby applying the tools - I am able to assist myself as well as others to do the same. In the process, I am able to earn a stable and profitable income providing for me and my family – free from the daily grind of the matrix. Prove it for yourself!
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text: Subject: UFOSNMW REPORT FORM Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 17:26:08 GMT From: unknown@unknown (unknown) To: firstname.lastname@example.com Name :Kerry and Gareth Location: South Western Manitoba Canada Date_of_Sighting: July 1995 Time_of_Sighting: around 11:30 or 12 AM Sighting: We live in Manitoba, Canadain a rural farming community. My boyfriend and I were driving around the country one night, he was going through a messy separation, we both worked and hardly saw eachother and were just out for a late drive to talk. We were not drinking or doing drugs of any sort. We were a mile South of my Dad's farm driving East, going slow because I was driving and we were also watching an incoming thunder and lightning storm moving west. I was looking out the window to the South East at the lightning and there was a huge lightning bolt which connected to other lightning in the clouds, it really lit up. At the same instant the first lightning bolt flashed I saw a spacecraft in plain, distinct view. The color was a darker pewter and it was "short and fat."It had a oval (oblong) middle and if you took the middle, cut it in half and stuck one part on the top and one part on the bottom that's what I saw. I saw it long enough to watch three lights, I think one was on each level. The lights went on and off in sucession. The first two were white and ended with a beautiful mauve/purple light. It is hard to say how bright the lights were because of the lightning. I don't think, well I'm pretty sure there wasn't any glare or shine off the craft from the lightning. Before I stopped the truck I looked over at Gareth and said, did you see that? He said yes, I said what the he-double hockey sticks was that? I had him describe what he saw to make sure we saw the same thing. We stopped the truck and got out and watched for a while and drove around to see if we could see it again, no luck. When I look at pictures of UFO's people have taken, I have never seen in them, what we saw. The pictures are of longer flatter crafts, the one we saw was short and "fat." I told my family what I saw and they laughed at me, of course. My sister who lives with my parents told me I was hallucinating or imagining things, until this summer. My Grandparent's live three miles South of my Dad's, my Mother works there to cook/clean for her ailing parents. My Mom and sister were comming back from their farm this summer around 11 Pm or so, it was really dark clear night. They were a half a mile from home and a brilliant beam of light lit up the back of their truck, it then went out and lit up the cab, only for seconds. They stopped the truck, there was no planes, no veicahls, no noise, nothing. They both agree that it came from the sky. When I spoke to my sister later she then agreed that I did see something that night(when I saw the strange craft). This is not as strange as what happened to my Grandfather's brother fifty years ago along the same stretch of road. Back then the brothers had a huge farm and employed alot of people. It was late at night, dark, and they were coming back from the field when a bright glowing object appeared beside the drivers side of the truck and followed them home. There were two hired men in the truck and they all had the same story. The driver had even sped up,then slowed down in attempt to loose it but did not. I don't know the whole story but that's what my Mom told me. I am not a believer in UFO's but what we saw I cannot explain, but I know what I saw. If anyone has had a similar experience I would love to hear about it. I have never asked anyone in the area where we live if they have everseen anything unusuall because it is a small community and that would not go over to well, I also have kids in school who would get the brunt of the ridicule. If need be,I would gladly submit to a lie detector test. Subject: UFOSNMW REPORT FORM Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:08:35 GMT From: unknown@unknown (unknown) To: firstname.lastname@example.com Name Gareth (Kerry) Location: Date_of_Sighting: Time_of_Sighting: Sighting: I sent a detailed letter of my sighting did you receive it? Would you please let me know as I would love to speak with persons who have seen unidentified flying objects, this has been bugging me for years. thanks.


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Level-access rooms and facilities for guests with disabilities are also available.
On request, outsize beds can be provided.
General information
Rating : 3 stars
Size : 22 roomsCurrency : EURCheck-in: from 11:00 to 20:00Check-out : 07:00 to 10:00
In the morning, you can help yourself to a healthy breakfast buffet featuring fresh fruit salad, assorted bread and rolls from the local bakery, home-made jams, cereals, and cold cuts from local farms.
Any individual nutritional requirements and intolerances are catered to.
In the afternoon, help yourself to free home-made cakes and freshly brewed coffee.
In the evening, treat yourself to a 4-course candlelit dinner and select wines from the Markgräflerland region.
Wi-fi is available in the entire hotel and is free of charge.
Free public parking is possible on site (reservation is not needed).
Pets are allowed on request. No extra charges.
Von-Andlaw-Straße 979415 Bad Bellingen
Travel information
Exit the A5 motorway at Müllheim if you are approaching from the north, or at Efringen-Kirchen if you are approaching from the south.
Continue towards Bad Bellingen until you reach the exit for Bad Bellingen Bamlach. In Bad Bellingen, turn into the 1st street on the right-hand side.
Area information
Lovely bicycle paths along the banks of the river Rhine and scenic vineyards offer fantastic views. Mountain bikers will enjoy the panoramic trails through the Black Forest or the Vosges mountains.
Bad Bellingen boasts 2 scenic, 18-hole golf courses. Other golf facilities await you in the area.
Attractive day trip destinations include Basel (museums), Freiburg (Old Town), Strasbourg (cathedral), Colmar (Isenheim Altarpiece), and Mulhouse (Europe's largest automobile museum).
If cancelled or modified up to 18:00 on the date of arrival, no fee will be charged.
If cancelled or modified later or in case of no-show, 80 percent of all nights will be charged.
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Buffet breakfast is included in the room rate.
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Around West Arthur: fun at Big Business Bash
Business Big Bash
The local West Arthur businesses celebrated Christmas with their customers just before Christmas at the Business Big Bash at the Darkan skate park.
A lovely balmy night saw a big crowd enjoy a sausage sizzle and a few drinks.
Drawn during the evening were the Shop Local incentive prizes with first prize going to Alex Prowse from Darkan, with the four subsequent prizes all won by people from Duranillin!
Australia Day Celebrations
The annual Australia Day celebrations at Lake Towerinning for the West Arthur community is on Friday, January 26.
Come along at 8am for a cooked breakfast but please bring your own utensils, cups, plates and chairs.
Bendigo Scholarships
If you are going to university or TAFE for the first time in 2019 you are eligible to apply for a Bendigo Scholarship.
Drop into the Bendigo agency in Darkan for more information or check out the website at bendigobank.com.au/scholarships.
Sheepfest Events
One of the new events at the 2019 Darkan Sheepfest is the Farmer Vs Footballer farm boot foot race. Sure to be lots of fun.
Get along to the Sheepfest on Saturday, February 9 from 9.30am. Entry by gold coin donation. There will be sport shear competition, wool fashion parade, ewe hogget competition, market stalls and lots more.
Declared Pests Around
The public is asked to keep an eye out for unusual birds following recent confirmed sightings of house sparrows in Esperance and Boyup Brook.
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development Esperance-based biosecurity officer Darren Dixon said house sparrows were declared pests because they could cause serious damage to crops and compete with native birds.
"Reports enable department biosecurity officers to act quickly, undertake surveillance and remove the birds, preventing them from establishing in the wild," Mr Dixon said.
A male house sparrow was recently photographed in Boyup Brook and was reported to the Blackwood Biosecurity Group who were able to locate and remove the birds.
A female house sparrow was also photographed in a bird bath near Esperance Port but has so far eluded capture.
Blood Testing Break
There will be blood testing in Darkan until Tuesday, January 29.
Shed Markets Start
The first Shed Market for 2019 will be on Sunday, January 13 starting at 10am.
Come along for morning tea with proceeds to the local St John Ambulance service.
If you are selling or swapping you'll need your own table too.


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