Fixed a board drawing bug that could occur when piece animation was enabled.
Server output processing slightly changed to make the interface behaviour more "smooth" when a large amount of data is received (e.g. with "who v").
Bug fixed: in some cases the explosions in atomic games were not correctly updated.
The following preference pages have been renamed:	General -> Other options, Console and Chat -> Settings - Infow window -> Appearance .
Fixed a bug: option "Show Friends tab when a new arrival notification is received - Only when not playing" was not correctly loaded from the preferences.
The following commands are now available as UI script commands: ChatWithUser, ViewProfileOfUser,SendMessageToUser.
The Preference wizard (executed the first time BabasChess is started) now enables autoflag at the first logon, unless the user claims to be an "expert FICS users".
In Fischer Random games it is now possible to castle with the mouse by moving the king over the rook.
Fixed a bug in games with multiple examiners: BabasChess did not detect when another examiner exited from bsetup mode.
Fixed a bug in command history of the Main Console: in some cases the history could lose some commands.
Now the Messages window underlines URL links and the user can click them.
The Connect dialog has been reorganized and a button to open the Server preference page has been added.
Now pieces in inactive board cannot be moved (the user has to enter in Edit mode). A new option in Board preferences ("Allow any piece to be moved in inactive boards") can be selected to enable the old behaviour.
Macro %ch% now uses '!' and '^' aliases if the active tab is shout or c-shout, respectively. This enables a "tell %ch% bla bla" script to work on any active Channel window tab, including shout/c-shout.
Right click on the Info Window tabs now shows a popup menu that lets the user directly open the Preferences on the Info Window Tab page; a similar command has been added to the popup menus of the Chat/Channel window tabs.
The following command is available (only as UI script command): PrefEnableOrDisableMoveAnnounces.
Removed three commands from sought graph/table context menus (partner, match, follow) and added two new ones: seek and unseek.
All the toolbar and menu icons have been redesigned (from 16-colors to true color with semi-transparency).
Fixed a bug in board setup position that could make BabasChess crash when the two kings were at a 2-squares distance and the castling flags were not correctly set.
Fixed a bug in board setup position (local game), which could cause a wrong error message to be displayed in some chess variants.
A crash reporting tool has been added. Now if BabasChess crashes, it attempts to save some useful information in a log file and in a crash dump file and asks the user to send them to the developer by e-mail: this will help to fix bugs. No personal information is saved and, in any case, the user can view the files before accepting to send them.
Now Plugins can add new tabs to the Info Window (A Rating Graph plugin is available).
New BabasChess commands available in scripts: ConsolePrint and PlaySound.
Move announcements (Preferences->Sounds): a folder containinig DGT-compatible move announcement sounds is required (not provided with BabasChess, but it can be freely downloaded from the DGT web site).
Fixed a minor bug in the analysis status message: in some cases the number of nodes was not shown.
New option in Prefs->General: "Flash main window when it is your turn but BabasChess is not the active program".
New option in engine advaced configuration to terminate the engine process after each analysis (useful for some engines).
The following commands are available (only as UI script commands): WindowCloseAllBoards, WindowMaximizeOrRestoreActive, WindowActivateNextBoard, PrefEnableOrDisableSounds.
In the Board Setup Properties dialog it is now possible to change the castling rights.
Fixed two bugs in the Game Properties dialog: the "site" field was not working and the clock increment was not correctly loaded from the PGN file.
Now scripts (sequences of server and/or UI commands) can be associated to specific events (Preferences->Advanced->Scripts).
New option (Preferences->Advanced->Customize) to hide the "Configure/Load" buttons in the customized buttons toolbar.
New option (Preferences->Advanced->Customize) to make the mouse action submenu the main contextual menu with the default contextual menu items in a submenu.
The "mate in ... missed/offered" automatic annotations in the game analysis now report the number of moves instead of the number of half moves.
BabasChess now asks a confirmation for potentially dangerous command links (e.g. "clearmessages *"); there is an option in Preferences->General to disable this behaviour.
When a window layout is saved, now BabasChess asks if customized buttons must be included in the layout: if they are not included, the layout, when loaded, will not change the current customized buttons (but it will still change their layout and visibility state).
UI commands to add/remove circle and arrows in examined games using the mouse (in the Game toolbar and Edit->Examine menu).
Removed the "unexamine" button from the game toolbar (the "edit" button does the same thing in an examined board).
New Paste command (Edit menu): it automatically detects if the data in the clipboard is a FEN string, a whole PGN game or a partial move list and pastes it in the active board.
Now incomplete FEN (without castling rights) are accepted as well.
The captured pieces button in the game toolbar now has a drop-down menu with the same layout options that are in the Game menu.
The 3 layout toolbar buttons (save/load/autolayout) have been replaced by a single button with a drop-down menu: the menu also contains 9 default layouts (default keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl+1,..., Ctrl+9).
BabasChess menu commands that show the output in the main console (e.g. Finger opponent) now automatically show the main console if it is not visible. This applies only to UI commands (standard menus), not to scripts. This behaviour may be particularly useful if the main console is in autohide mode.
Fixed a redraw bug: the board was not corretcly repainted when the promotion popup was active.
The promotion popup now remembers its last position.
The History/Stored/Journal tabs of the Profile Window now automatically unexamine the current game if the user asks to examine another game.
Support for new enhanced board squares: all the board squares can now be different and it is possible to specify custom colors: see new square sets Wood, Wood (custom colors), Marble, and Masonry.
Support for new enhanced bitmap pieces: they can have semitransparent antialiased borders to look smoothed at any size, support custom colors and shadow. All the old-style bitmap pieces have been removed from the default installation and the following piece sets have been provided in the new format: WCN, Dyche, CClient and Mono. However the old-style bitmap pieces are still supported if installed in the Data folder.
Board highlights (last move, target/source square, premoves) can now be semitransparent (opacity option in Preferences->Board->Piece movement).
Sought graph circles, board highlight arrows and examine markers are now antialiased (smoothed).
The number of nodes in the Analysis tab is now reported in a more compact format when greater than 1M.
Game analysis (menu Edit) is now performed in background so that it is possible to perform other tasks (e.g. chatting, observing other games, ...) at the same time (except playing: if you start a game, the analysis ends).
Added the Game statistics command (pstat) to the sought graph/table context menu.
Added two new options (General): "Automatically set the primary game when you change the active board window" and "Automatically set open for matches when you seek a new game".
Added Move up/down buttons to the Customize Web Links dialog.
The game finished dialog now is shown only when the board is the active window.
Fixed a bug in "Delete all variations" command.
New option to flip the hand cursor used to move the pieces.
In the Info Window it is now possible to choose which tabs to display and their order (Preferences->Info window->Tabs).
New autosave options added to Preferences->Game save (only rated, aborted, adjourned).
The five promotion buttons in the toolbar have been replaced by a single button with a drop-down menu, which also allows to enable/disable automatic promotion.
User-rules censor auto-reply message now uses xtell instead of tell.
A full screen mode is available (menu View, default keyboard shortcut is Alt+Return).
Fixed a bug that caused the current position in the movelist to be lost when the clock was changed in an examined game (this typically happened in relayed games).
Fixed a parsing bug that did not make it possible to open a pgn file with a nag at the end of a subvariation.
Layout events now are not executed while there is a modal dialog active, to avoid potential problems: the layout event is executed as soon as the modal dialog is closed.
Fixed a bug that could make BabasChess crash when a seek was removed while the Choose seek ad dialog was open (sought graph).
BabasChess now has an integrated timeseal, which can be enabled in the advanced connection options; the external timeseal is still the default setting.
It is now possible to close the promotion popup and cancel the pawn promotion move.


I know this is a sensitive subject. But I was not brought up knowing anything about the caste system for Tamils. I googled Tamil Castes, hoping to find pages of hits with academic studies and blog posts on the subject. But I hit a wall. Most of the actual studies that are on google are about caste system for Sri Lankan Tamils. Then I found this.
"Castes for Tamils living in the State of Tamil Nadu; whether Tamils belong to a specific caste; whether they are related to the untouchables (Harijans or Dalits); whether they face any problems with other castes or with the authorities because they belong to a particular caste (2003 - December 2005)"
Quote: "Although no information could be found as to the specific names of the various castes found in Tamil Nadu,....."
There is literally no inventory (what's the right word?) of all the castes in TN? How about putting together a list of resources on this subject.
Edit: I just want to mention that there are good reasons why in order to eliminate a virus we need to first study it properly.
To begin with, I found the names of the castes that are classified as SC and ST from the census website.
There are 76 scheduled castes and 36 scheduled tribes in TN. Full lists are in the attachments. Its a start. What remains are the OBC group of castes and the FC group of castes.
Thanks for those links, Aditya and Geetha. The last one seemed comprehensive. I am amazed at the number of castes!
I've extracted the details from the links provided by Geetha and Aditya, and am posting the complete list of Backward and Scheduled castes from TN below.
Kammalar or Viswakarma , Viswakarmala (including Thattar, Porkollar, Kannar, Karumar, Kollar, Thacher, Kal Thacher, Kamsala and Viswa brahmin.
Kongu Vellalars( including Vellala Gounder, Nattu Gounder, Narambukkatti Gounder, Tirumudi Vellalar, Thondu Vellalar, Pala Gounder, Poosari, Gounder, Anuppa Vellala Gounder, Kurumba Gounder, Padaithalai Gounder, Chendalai Gounder, Pavalankatti Vellala Gounder, Pallavellala GounderSanku,Vellala Gounder,and Rathinagiri Gounder).
**(Included in the List of OBC as per Central Govt. instruction Lr.No: 5783/BC1/95/3 Dt: 17.06.96.
Orphans and destitute children who have lost their parents before reaching the age of ten and are destitutes; and who have nobody else to take care of them either by law or custom; and also who are admitted into any of the schools or orphanages run by the Government or recognized by the Government.
The entry is to be read as "in Kanniyakumari district and Shencottah taluk of Tirunelveli district".
Ajita, the Pondicherry bit at the end does not belong in this list!


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Arizona Bill to Thwart NSA Spying Officially Introduced
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Arizona 4th Amendment Protection Act Introduced, Bans Help to NSA, Use of Warrantless Data in Court.
Arizona state Senator Kelli Ward made good on her commitment to introduce legislation that would withdraw all state support of the NSA and hang a big "Spies Not Welcome Here" sign on the front door of the Grand Canyon State this week.
After being the first legislator in the country to announce an intent to do so last fall, Ward along with nine sponsors introduced the Fourth Amendment Protection Act on Wednesday. SB1156 also garnered four co-sponsors, including senate President Andy Biggs.
Based on model legislation drafted by the OffNow Coalition, the Arizona Fourth Amendment Protection Act would ban the state from engaging in activities which help the NSA carry out their warrantless data-collection programs, or even make use of the information on a local level.
The Coalition is organized by the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC) and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, a civil liberties group advised by well known anti-establishment figures such as Daniel Ellsburg and Naomi Wolf.
The bill reads, in part, the state of Arizona will not "provide material support or assistance in any form to any federal agency that claims the power to collect, or comply with any federal law, rule, regulation or order that purports to authorize the collection of, electronic data or metadata of any person pursuant to any action that is not based on a warrant that particularly describes the person, place and thing to be searched or seized."
The legislation also bans the use of warrantless data in courts in the state. A Reuters report last year revealed that the NSA shares data with state and local law enforcement through a secret outfit called the Special Operation Division (SOD). The federal government also shares data mined by its agencies, including the NSA, through "fusion centers."
TAC national communications director Mike Maharrey said this part of the bill would have the most impact. "SB1156 would make this information utterly useless in the state of Arizona," he said.
Ward told US News that her goal was to protect the Constitution. "I believe the number one priority for national security is defending and protecting the Constitution," she said. "Without that, the rest becomes irrelevant."
While the NSA does not operate a physical facility in the state, the prohibition of material support sends an important message to the spy agency by pulling up the welcome mat.
"We know the NSA is aggressively expanding its physical locations, not just in Utah, but in Texas, Hawaii and other states too," Maharrey said. "Since the NSA isn't transparent about its plans, it's essential to not only address where it is right now, but work to get the rest of the country to say, 'You're not welcome here either!' Our plan is to box them in and do everything we can to stop them."
The legislation also addresses relationships between the NSA and public universities. Currently, the spy agency has agreements with 166 schools across the U.S. Two Arizona state universities currently maintain partnerships with the NSA. The Arizona Fourth Amendment Protection Act would address the status of Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, Tucson, as NSA "Centers of Academic Excellence" and would prevent future agreements with other state schools.
Arizona joins Washington State, Oklahoma, Indiana, California and Tennessee in considering the Fourth Amendment Protection Act. Bills addressing one aspect of the OffNow campaign – data sharing – are pending in Kansas and Missouri. Sources close to the Coalition indicate lawmakers in several other states will introduce the act in the coming weeks.
Maharrey emphasized the importance of states standing together against unconstitutional spying.
"It's important for Arizona to take a stand with California, Washington State, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Indiana, Kansas and Missouri. We need to take steps to protect the Fourth Amendment, even if the NSA refuses to," he said. "And while one state might not make a difference, all of us together will."
The OffNow coalition is group of grassroots organizations and individuals spanning the political spectrum committed to stopping unconstitutional NSA spying through state and local activism. #NullifyNSA
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Female Interest in Cannabis Is Growing, But by How Much?
More women are getting into cannabis, a somewhat unsurprising trend given the cannabis movement's strong momentum over the past few years. But how quickly is female interest in cannabis growing, and which states have the most cannabis-curious ladies? We dove into our data to glean some insight.
Yearly Growth of Visits to Leafly.com (2014 – 2015)
Based on our traffic stats, both women and men are getting increasingly interested in cannabis content, but year-over-year growth for females outpaced males by an impressive 27%. Quite frankly, it's a beautiful thing to behold — over the past few years we've seen more female entrepreneurs enter the cannabis industry and positively influence it. With a market still in its infancy, there's a lot of opportunity for women to cement their place as both creators and consumers.
States with the Largest Growth of Cannabis-Curious Women
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Delaware may be small, but its yearly growth in female visits to Leafly.com is anything but. The state sent 317% more traffic from female visitors to our website from 2014 to 2015.
The other top states for largest year-over-year growth were:
Recall that of those states, only Alaska has legalized the use of recreational cannabis (well, technically Washington, D.C., also legalized, but there's no market in place thanks to a minefield of political issues surrounding implementation). Idaho, the Dakotas, and Arkansas have no legalization whatsoever, although South Dakota and Idaho have recently become more cannabis-curious, so the correlating spike of cannabis-curious females from those locations checking out our website isn't terribly surprising. Four states, Delaware, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Montana, have legalized some form of medical marijuana but only two, Delaware and Montana, have medical marijuana dispensaries (South Carolina and Tennessee have CBD-only laws).
States with the Best and Worst Proportion of Female Users
When it comes to the biggest proportion of female visitors coming to Leafly.com, South Dakota takes the cake, with 40% of its overall traffic sent to our website comprised of women. Maine, Montana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oregon, Washington, Arkansas, Wyoming, and New Mexico round out the top 10, with over one-third of their overall traffic to Leafly.com possessing two X chromosomes. While you may be unimpressed that close to two-thirds of traffic to Leafly.com from these top states still comes from men, keep in mind that as recently as the end of 2013, our overall traffic breakdown was 80% male / 20% female. In just two years, the gap has shrunk considerably in these locations, with a 35% increase in overall female traffic to our site.
As for the bottom 10 states, sure, there's progress to be made with their female representation, but you can say the same for most of the markets representing the lowest percentage of female visitors:
Kansas and Indiana have no cannabis laws whatsoever
Washington, D.C., as I already noted, legalized cannabis but it's still illegal to purchase it (there are no dispensaries in operation) or use it in public
Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, and Oklahoma have restrictive CBD-only laws
Maryland legalized medical marijuana but its system is unlikely to be operational until 2017
New Jersey, well, is New Jersey, meaning it legalized medical marijuana but only has a few dispensaries open and has to face the ongoing anti-cannabis wrath of Governor Chris Christie
Vermont offers a shining ray of hope for the cannabis movement in that it could become the first state to legalize recreational use via an act of the Legislature rather than through a ballot initiative. Its efforts are not without some hiccups, however, so we'll have to wait and see what happens.
Why This Growth Isn't Good Enough
Some growth is great, but ladies, we can do better! Don't be afraid to come out of the cannabis closet — learn the differences between cannabis types, familiarize yourself with consumption methods, get educated on how CBD is helping patients of all ages, especially children suffering from severe epilepsy disorders. Numerous publications posit that women could be the ones who end cannabis prohibition, with High Times and Jane West making a pointed observation:
While middle-aged women remain among the least likely demographic to support legalization, let alone use cannabis personally, they're also, ironically, perhaps more in need of the plant's considerable medicinal and stress-relief properties than most people.
"I no longer wake up on the weekends feeling like shit," said cannabis-friendly event planner Jane West, after describing her former wine drinking habit as opening up a bottle when she started making dinner, followed by a second bottle when dinner hit the table. "
Women in my demographic are prescribed antidepressants at a rate higher than any other group of Americans," West said. "And I want them to be open to learning more about the plant and all of the benefits it can provide, including understanding that marijuana is safer than alcohol and a healthier alternative to prescription medication. When that happens, we will create a whole new demographic of cannabis users."
Indeed we will. And, as our data indicates, we're already starting to see it happen. Women have the strength, resolve, and determination to make huge waves in the cannabis movement. The tipping point is yet upon us, and many of us, myself included, are hoping it happens very soon.
Business Takeaways
The growth of female cannabis consumers is a crucial trend that businesses should keep in mind and respond to accordingly. Here are some questions you should be asking yourself:
How female-friendly is my staff? Do you have any female employees? If so, do you perpetuate the "hot stoner chick" stereotype, or is your staff's overall appearance and demeanor more inclusive and welcoming to both men and women?
How safety-conscious is my location? Safety is important for both genders, but women may especially feel more at ease with the implementation of security cameras, guards, a clean, well-lit storefront, on-site parking, and other factors that can make their trip to your establishment more comfortable. I know there are some elements outside of your control — perhaps the only location available when you set up shop was in the sketchy part of town — but if you can create as secure an experience as possible, your customers will have more peace of mind and may be more likely to make a return visit.
What sort of products do I carry that are appealing to women? There are more female-friendly products hitting the market, such as cannabis-infused arousal spray, vaginal suppositories for menstrual cramps, lubricants, and female-made topicals. These product inclusions may seem small, but they can make a big difference to your female clientele.
Do I have any female-friendly strains in stock? Yes, women are interested in different strains than men, and we have data to suggest what they are and why females may be interested in them.
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When Was Dark Matter Formed?
Our current understanding of the event dubbed the Big Bang implies that all matter, and all energy, appeared in our Universe at that moment. Ever since then, the Universe has been changing, and those changes are reflected in the behavior of matter and energy.
Unfortunately, we can't observe this event directly in order to get a better understanding of how the earliest stages of the Universe's evolution unfolded. This isn't something that can be fixed with a more powerful telescope, either; at an early point in time, the Universe was quite simply opaque to light. And much in the same way that I can't see through furniture, even the best observatories can't penetrate into the depths of time beyond this point.
To explain how we know that dark matter has been around since the very early Universe, I have to talk a bit about how we've managed to learn about the early Universe in general.
You may have seen this image before. The cosmic microwave background, which has the alternate name of the "oldest light in the Universe" is the surface of the cloudy Universe, just as it became transparent to light. There's a lot of information about the early Universe embedded in this image, which tells us about the temperature of the Universe, and how the matter which later became clusters of galaxies was distributed around.
It's this latter point which points to the existence of dark matter in the very early Universe.
One of the ways this image is analysed is by looking at the characteristic spacing between bright and cool patches. If this were 100% randomly distributed, you wouldn't expect to find things at any particular distance more frequently than any other distance. And that could have been the way our Universe was arranged, but it isn't. Our Universe has a few preferred spacings.
One of these sets of spacings is formally termed Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. Baryons are simply any matter, the protons and neutrons and electrons that make up humans and stars and dogs. Acoustic oscillations should sound like a musical term more than a physics one, and it's not without reason. The early Universe was much like a fluid in many ways, and information travelled through it like sound through water. The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, therefore, refers to the way that the stuff of atoms rippled through the early Universe.
The cause of those ripples? A pressure from dark matter. When the Universe became less fluid, the protons, electrons and neutrons were frozen into place, wherever their ripple had left them. There's a huge number of these ripples in the Universe, so rather than a single stone thrown into a lake, our image is more like a water surface pummeled by a tropical rainstorm. The spacing between where the dark matter sat, and where some of the baryons in our Universe had rippled outwards to, is reflected in the statistics of the cosmic microwave image. Without the presence of dark matter, we wouldn't expect to see this exact spacing. And if dark matter was present so early in the Universe, it probably was formed in the big bang. At the very least, it couldn't have been formed later, the way the heavy elements in our Universe were formed by stars, many years after this snapshot of our early Universe.


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Q: python zeromq Parallel Pipeline multiple consumers (workers) Hello together!
I would like to combine data from different python programs via zeromq. I think for that job the best solution would be parallel pipelines as are described in this example at the ponit "3. Parallel Pipeline (parallel pipeline mode)".
So in the beginning I wanted to test the functionality with just very simple examples. That for I've just used the three patterns producer, consumer and resultcollector that you can find on the example. I just made small changes:
Producer
import zmq

context = zmq.Context()
socket = context.socket(zmq.PUSH)
socket.bind("tcp://*:5566")

work_message = "start working"
socket.send_json(work_message)

Consumer_1
import random
import zmq

context = zmq.Context()
consumer_id = 199

#receiving work
consumer_receiver = context.socket(zmq.PULL)
consumer_receiver.connect("tcp://localhost:5566")

#forewarding results
consumer_sender = context.socket(zmq.PUSH)
consumer_sender.bind("tcp://*:5500")

msg = consumer_receiver.recv_json()

for i in (0, 100):
    if msg == "start working":
        data = "id: " + str(consumer_id) + "; Hello"
        consumer_sender.send_json(data)

Result Collector
#coding:utf-8

import zmq

context = zmq.Context()
result_receiver = context.socket(zmq.PULL)
result_receiver.connect("tcp://localhost:5599")

result = result_receiver.recv_json()

collected_data = []

for i in (0, 10000):
    collected_data.append(result)

print(collected_data)

So the main communication between them is working.
But now I've tried to add another consumer (worker) who delivers data. It should be possible, as you can see in the example I've linked.
Here you can see my second consumer (worker):
Consumer_2
import random
import zmq

context = zmq.Context()
consumer_id = 10

#receiving work
consumer_receiver = context.socket(zmq.PULL)
consumer_receiver.connect("tcp://localhost:5566")

#forewarding results
consumer_sender = context.socket(zmq.PUSH)
consumer_sender.bind("tcp://*:5599")

msg = consumer_receiver.recv_json()

for i in (0, 100):
    if msg == "start working":
        data = "id: " + str(consumer_id) + "; World"
        consumer_sender.send_json(data)

It's pretty much the same as consumer_1.
But when I want to run both consumers i get the error message "ZMQError: Adress in use":
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ZMQError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-af8297fe1137> in <module>
     12 #forewarding results
     13 consumer_sender = context.socket(zmq.PUSH)
---> 14 consumer_sender.bind("tcp://*:5599")
     15
     16 msg = consumer_receiver.recv_json()

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\zmq\sugar\socket.py in bind(self, addr)
    171
    172         """
--> 173         super().bind(addr)
    174         return self._bind_cm(addr)
    175

zmq/backend/cython/socket.pyx in zmq.backend.cython.socket.Socket.bind()

~\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\zmq\backend\cython\checkrc.pxd in zmq.backend.cython.checkrc._check_rc()

ZMQError: Address in use

Where is my fault? It has to be possible to push with different programms to a single port (as in the example port 5599) or am I wrong?
I am pretty new to programming at all so sorry if you think that this is a stupid question.
It would be very nice if you guys could help me out here.
Thanks a lot!

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Q : "Where is my fault? ... Okay understood, but what shall I do then?"

A :The safest way ( as even the ZeroMQ default values can and do evolve, from version to version ) is to design-in some level of self-protecting robustness.
I have experienced making my own code deadlocking the hardware and a reboot was the tool of last resort to repair an ill-designed code - so if you can learn from my mistakes, the better.
While these templates are not one-size-fits-all, yet they provide structure for further elaborated self-protecting, near-real-time capable distributed-computing, that even in those cases, that something crashes, keep a rule-of-thumb to gracefully dismantle and release all blocked resources back to the O/S ( so that next time the process gets re-launched, it will find it's "own" .bind()-ready ports free, ready to re-bind() a ZeroMQ AccessPoint back to the same port ( not so if was not gracefully released and zmq.LINGER kept a Context()-instance in an infinite waiting-loop if not set properly not to do so - do not rely on "current" version implicit default value, it might change again to some other default-value and any such based assumptions simply cease to work ).
The template for collector should look like this :
import zmq

context = zmq.Context()
#------------.Context()-call error-handling
...
result_receiver = context.socket( zmq.PULL )
#------------------------.socket()-call error-handling
...
result_receiver.setsockopt( zmq.LINGER,  0 )    # a default value might
change in future versions as it did already
#--------------.setsockopt() settings for other attributes
...
result_receiver.bind( "tcp://localhost:5599" )  # a BIND()-side, many .connect() here
#--------------.bind() error-handling
...
collected_data = []
poll_will_not_block_longer_than_ms = 5
try:
    #------------------------------------- INTENDED PATH:
    for i in range( 0, 10000 ):
        if ( 0 == result_receiver.poll( poll_will_not_block_longer_than_ms ):
             #--------------.poll() has nothing to deliver on .recv()
             # do some maintenance work
             ...
             # do some "right-sized" sleep ( by a countdown residual et al )
        else:
             #--------------.poll() SIG'd a .recv()-able message:
             result = result_receiver.recv_json()
             #-----------------------.recv_json()-call error-handling
             ...
             collected_data.append( result )
             #-------------.append() can silently grow till RAM exhausted
             #                       can kill the O/S, be careful in production
     #---------------------------------------------------
except KeyboardInterrupt:
     #aKeyboardInterrupt Handler PATH:
     ...
except *other*Exception:
     #anOther*Exception Handler PATH:
     ...
except:
     #all remaining Exceptions' handler code:
     ...

finally:
     #----------------------------------------- CORE ZeroMQ TIDY-UP CODE:
     result_receiver.close()
     context.term()
     ...
#---------------------------------------------- all resources gracefully released

print( collected_data )

Similarly the template for consumer-forwarder should look like this :
import zmq

DOWNLINK_URL = "tcp://*:5566"
UPLINK_URL   = "tcp://*:5599"

context = zmq.Context()
#------------.Context()-call error-handling
...
consumer_receiver = context.socket( zmq.PULL )
#--------------------------.socket()-call error-handling
...
consumer_receiver.setsockopt( zmq.LINGER,  0 )    # a default value might
change in future versions as it did already
#----------------.setsockopt() settings for other attributes
...
consumer_receiver.connect( DOWNLINK_URL )
#----------------.connect()-call error-handling
...
consumer_sender = context.socket( zmq.PUSH )
#------------------------.socket()-call error-handling
...
consumer_sender.setsockopt( zmq.LINGER,  0 )    # a default value might
change in future versions as it did already
#--------------.setsockopt() settings for other attributes
...
consumer_sender.connect( UPLINK_URL )
#--------------.connect()-call error-handling
...
consumer_id = 199
poll_will_not_block_longer_than_ms = 5
try:
    #------------------------------------- INTENDED PATH:
    for i in range( 0, 10000 ):
        if ( 0 == consumer_receiver.poll( poll_will_not_block_longer_than_ms ):
             #---------------------.poll() has nothing to deliver on .recv()
             # do some maintenance work
             ...
             # do some "right-sized" sleep ( by a countdown residual et al )
        else:
             #---------------------.poll() SIG'd a .recv()-able message:
             result = consumer_receiver.recv_json()
             #-------------------------.recv_json()-call error-handling
             ...
             data = "id: " + str( consumer_id ) + "; Hello"
             consumer_sender.send_json( data, zmq.NOBLOCK )
             #--------------.send_json()-call error-handling
             ...
     #---------------------------------------------------
except KeyboardInterrupt:
     #aKeyboardInterrupt Handler PATH:
     ...
except *other*Exception:
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     ...
except:
     #all remaining Exceptions' handler code:
     ...

finally:
     #----------------------------------------- CORE ZeroMQ TIDY-UP CODE:
     for aSocket in ( consumer_receiver,
                      consumer_sender ):
         aSocket.close()

     context.term()
     ...
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STAR EV revealed two prototypes at its PGA show exhibit; a standard Sirius with 2-in-1 Combo Seat, and a "tricked-out" version to show how customizable the Sirius will be. The front trunk gives the golf car the look of a hood that can be painted a different color from the main body, like the sleek matte black trunk on the deep metallic maroon prototype. STAR EV also offers a variety of wheels, with rim finishes in machined aluminum, matte black, dura chrome, black PVD, and special color accents.
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An off-trail hike, barely a scramble at all. Some steep scree / dinner plate near the summit ridge.
Named by So Nakagawa in 2011 after the nearby Ochre Spring / Paint Pots natural historical area in Kootenay National Park.
Saturday, June 2 2018 was looking like a mixed bag of Spring weather. Phil and I decided to play it easy and get out for an "exercise day" - hopefully one with some great views. Phil had put Ochre Spring Peak on our list a while ago already, but I'd never paid it much attention until the Matt's (Hobbs and Clay) recently posted trip reports on it, demonstrating some pretty sweet views.. Phil agreed that this was likely the best time of year to do it and since it has a very short approach and easy slopes, having snow in the ascent gully would be perfect.
!!Attention!! explor8ion.com is being updated and trip reports migrated to a new site while this one is still operational. The new version of this trip report can be found at https://verndewit.com/2018/06/02/ochre-spring-peak/ and contains more photos in a modern format. For more information on this move and possible future changes please click here.
Hey Vern - how interesting that you decided to check this peak out as I was also mulling over taking a stab at it sometime this summer. Pretty cool area with some pretty cool vantage points.
How you doing, Vern, I've got inspired from your trip report yesterday to do this glorious peak.
I've got a question about ViewRanger. Did it happen to you that you can't zoom anymore on the maps? It was fine until a couple of days ago, can't remember exactly when I first uploaded this but may be trail expiry date?
Hey Adrian, glad you enjoyed it - quite the views eh? As for ViewRanger, I've stopped using it and use Gaia exclusively now. I find it works that much better.
since they are blocked but for this 2760m hard to match, no doubt, especially the green slopes around.
Thanks for mentioning about Gaia, I just downloaded it, I checked it has this Ochre trip on it, so it should be my replacement for ViewRange (which perhaps expired).


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Coinbase and Kraken exit Japanese Crypto market
Posted:Jan 18, 2023 14:17 Category: Asia , Crypto , Posted by Content Team
Prominent cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is winding down its operations in Japan after firing more than 950 people in one of its latest round of job cuts.
"Due to market conditions, our company has made the difficult decision to halt operations in Japan and to conduct a complete review of our business in the country," the exchange said.
In a blog on Wednesday, the exchange said it will terminate transactions with current users, who have until February 16th to withdraw their assets from the exchange.
"All Coinbase, Inc. customers can withdraw fiat currency and cryptocurrency holdings from Coinbase by February 16th," the company said.
Coinbase users can either sell their holdings or withdraw Japanese Yen to their local bank account. They won't be able to make fiat deposits after Jan. 20. Once the deadline passes, remaining assets will be converted to local currency then deposited with the Legal Affairs Bureau in line with the law.
Industry competitor, Kraken, announced in late December that it too would pull out of Japan by the end of January, saying the resources were not justified at the time. Coinbase laid off over 2,000 people last year as exchanges navigated a deadly market, with lower activity and revenues intensifying the crypto winter.
The company's stock price has been vulnerable to periods of high volatility.
S&P Global recently downgraded Coinbase's long-term credit rating, citing slow trading volumes and rising regulatory risks. Meanwhile, Cathie Wood's Ark Invest bought 33,756 Coinbase shares in December. The purchase was up 22% by January 11th.
BTIG analysts said in a Jan. 16th note that various factors could boost the company's stock price this year. In fact, the company's market share is said to have increased 29% in October, to 39% in December following the FTX blowout.
"Our bullish thesis for [Coinbase] shares at this point is anchored by two beliefs: that the company's liquidity should provide it with the runway it will need to support its operations until the next digital asset bull market begins, and that its status as a safe haven will enable it to emerge from the ongoing shakeout within the crypto exchange space in a position of strength," BTIG analysts Mark Palmer, Andrew Harte, Thomas Smith wrote.
Exchange shares are down 76% over a 12-month period, but are up 43% in the last week alone, per TradingView data.
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Aeroscraft discussed at European Parliament
November 25 - The president and ceo of Aeros, Igor Pasternak, and the company's director of strategic finance, William Feeley, have attended a meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium to discuss the economical and environmental benefits of
During the transport and logistical solution meeting with members of the European Commission, the successful flight of the Aeroscraft's demonstration vehicle was discussed, along with the technical innovations of the Aeroscraft, how it provides a more energy efficient method of cargo transport, and the opportunities and benefits arising from future operation of the Aeroscraft within European logistics chains.
The Aeroscraft prototype, Dragon Dream, was successful in establishing its internal variable buoyancy technology - control of static heaviness (COSH) - in January, 2013. The advanced prototype demonstrated integration of this key technology with other innovative sub-systems during flight operations in autumn of this year.
This evidence of technological maturity leads Aeros into fleet development with two configurations of the innovative aircraft this decade - a smaller 66-tonne capacity vehicle, ML866, and a larger 250-tonne capacity vehicle, ML868.
Parties in Brussels were particularly interested in the Aeroscraft's environmentally friendly benefits, burning only a third of the fuel of conventional cargo aircraft.
Also discussed was the Aeroscraft's oversized cargo bay, which has greater dimensions than the largest cargo carrying aircraft on the market today. Furthermore, because the cargo is loaded and off-loaded from the bottom of the aircraft, it is not limited to traditional nose-loading size restrictions.
At the end of the meeting, members agreed to host follow-up assemblies to further explore how the Aeroscraft could be integrated into European logistics supply chains.
Aeros expects the first Aeroscraft to be ready for operation in the next two to three years.
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Q: Why function execution is completed before I click on OK button in an Alert android? When I want to retrieve a value from an Alert box in android, it returns before I click on OK button.
here is the function I made:
public String enterSecretCode(){

    AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);

    alert.setTitle("Secret Code");
    alert.setMessage("Enter your 5 digit Secret Code to Encode!");

 // Set an EditText view to get user input
    final EditText input = new EditText(this);
    input.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {new InputFilter.LengthFilter(5)});
    input.setHint("XXXXX");
    input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
    alert.setView(input);

    alert.setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            code = input.getText().toString();
            // Do something with value!
        }
    });

    alert.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            // Canceled.
        }
    });

    alert.show();

    return code;
}

and here is the function call which I am trying to excuse on a button click:
String secretCode = enterSecretCode();

A: show() is not a blocking call. You need to rewrite your code to process your results as part of the positive button onClick() method, rather than having this method return some value.

A: If you want you can use an Interface:
Create a new Class called AlertInterface
public class AlertInterface {

Context context;
Receiver receiver;

public AlertInterface(Context context, Receiver receiver)
{
    this.context=context;
    this.receiver=receiver;
}

public void enterSecretCode()
{
    final AlertDialog.Builder alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(this.context);

    alert.setTitle("Secret Code");
    alert.setMessage("Enter your 5 digit Secret Code to Encode!");

    // Set an EditText view to get user input
    final EditText input = new EditText(this.context);
    input.setFilters(new InputFilter[] {new InputFilter.LengthFilter(5)});
    input.setHint("XXXXX");
    input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
    alert.setView(input);

    alert.setPositiveButton("Ok", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
            String code = input.getText().toString();
            receiver.onLoad(code);
        }
    });

    alert.setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
        public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
        }
    });
    alert.show();
}

public interface Receiver{
    void onLoad(String code);
}

}
For calling this Class add this in your Activity:
 AlertInterface aux=new AlertInterface(MainActivity.this, new AlertInterface.Receiver() {
        public void onLoad(String code) {
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,"Secret code entered: "+code,Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    });
    aux.enterSecretCode();

The result will receive in onLoad implement method in the Activity.


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Messi Would Swap Barcelona Titles for World Cup
May 29, 2018 June 12, 2018 / ThePanenka
Lionel Messi is so desperate to win the World Cup with Argentina that he would trade success with Barcelona to triumph in Russia this summer.
Messi, 30, has been on the losing side in four finals with Argentina, including the World Cup final in 2014 against Germany in Brazil.
Titles with Barca have not been so hard to come by. Messi has won 32 trophies since making his first-team debut, including a domestic double this season.
However, he says he would be willing to forgo another title with the Catalan club if it meant he could finally get his hands on the World Cup trophy.
"Winning the World Cup is a huge personal challenge for me, for the group [of players Argentina have] and for the country, who have the same dreams as us," he told El Trece. "It's a nice responsibility to represent a whole country at a World Cup.
"I would swap a title with Barcelona for one with the national team. While I want to win things again with my club, I want to win something with the national team.
"I know it would be special for what it means, to be [world] champions with Argentina would be different to everything, it would be something unique."
Since an extra-time defeat to Germany four years in the World Cup final, Argentina have lost two Copa America finals, too, both times on penalties against Chile.
The Albiceleste struggled to hit the heights which carried them to three successive finals in qualifying for this summer's World Cup, though, needing a Messi hat trick to beat Ecuador as they booked their place in Russia in their final match.
Their poor performance in qualifying, coupled with a 6-1 defeat to Spain in March, mean they are not among the outright favourites going into the finals.
Argentina have been drawn in Group D with Croatia, Nigeria and Iceland for the 2018 World Cup, to start on June 14.
"We have a really complicated draw," Messi added. "Iceland showed they can compete with anyone at the [European Championships in 2016], Croatia have a great midfield and it's always tough for us against Nigeria.
"I have a lot of faith in this group, though. We're working well, we have players with ability and experience, but we have to take things slowly. We don't want to send the message 'We're going to win the World Cup because we're the best…' because the reality is we aren't.
"There are various favourites at the moment. Brazil are one. Spain, Germany… they're some of the best teams right now."
Messi, who joined Barca as a 13-year-old, would have already won a World Cup if he defected to Spain as a teenager.
"A friend of mine told me that I'd now be a world champion already if I'd played for Spain, but it wouldn't have been the same," he said.
"Being a champion with Argentina would be something unique. I was 16 years old and, half in jest and half serious, the coach of the Under-17s put it to me [playing for Spain].
"It happened in Finland and Cesc [Fabregas] was my teammate at the time. That's where it all stems from, but at no time did the thought or any doubts cross my mind."
Messi, who has spent his whole senior career with Barca, scoring 552 goals, has been linked with Pep Guardiola's Manchester City in the past.
The 30-year-old suggested that he could return to his homeland in Argentina to play for Newell's Old Boys.
"I always said I wanted to play in Argentine football one day," Messi said.
"I don't know if it will happen but I have it in my mind. It would be at Newell's, nowhere else. I would like to do that for at least six months, but you never know what will happen.
"I'm increasingly sure that in Europe, Barcelona will be my only club."
Messi started out at Newell's Old Boys before joining Barcelona aged 13. He signed a new deal with Barcelona last November which runs until 2021 and has a buyout clause of 700m euros (£612m).
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The Washington State Marine Employees Commission is a public service agency operated under the executive branch of state government. The Commission was created by the Legislature in 1983 and is responsible for hearing and resolving complaints, grievances, and disputes between labor and management arising out of the operation of the ferry system. The Commission also provides for impasse mediation, conducts fact-finding and salary surveys, and provides for the selection of impartial arbitrators as needed. The Commission has a three-member, part-time Board appointed by the Governor with the consent of the Senate. One member is appointed from labor, one member from industry, and one member from the public. The public member serves as Chairman of the Commission. The Commission meets monthly in Olympia and Seattle to review the status of active dispute cases, as well as the status of negotiations on the collective bargaining agreements. The Commission had a budget of $354,000 for the 1997-99 biennium and $356,000 for the 1999- 01 biennium and employs two half-time staff members.
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MARSHALL, KATHY			CONF. SECRETARY			2621
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WA Today, Australia/April 8, 2014
By Genevieve Gannon and Melissa Iaria
More than half a century after he started sexually abusing the sons and daughters of his parishioners, Australia's worst pedophile priest has learnt he is likely to die in jail.
Gerald Francis Ridsdale, 79, was given an eight-year sentence after pleading guilty to 30 new charges against 14 boys and girls between 1961 and 1980, conduct described by the judge as "evil hypocrisy."
But the notorious pedophile, already serving time for a campaign of abuse dating back to 1961 when he was ordained, will not be eligible for parole until April 2019.
The protection of the Catholic church, which moved him from parish to parish throughout his career, meant his offending spanned three decades.
He abused 53 children in that time.
They included children of parishioners, wards of the state, altar servers, twin brothers and a girl as young as four-years-old.
It wasn't until 1993 that he was de-frocked.
Two years later, he was jailed for 18 years.
Clergy abuse victims advocate Chris Wilding said Ridsdale was the "pin-up boy for pedophiles within the Roman Catholic Church".
"He is the most prolific in this point at time," Ms Wilding said.
Ridsdale portrayed himself as the "friendly priest", luring his victims with inducements such as lollies and money to gain their trust.
He befriended victims and set up an after-school boys gathering, which was the setting for crimes against five children.
Many of Ridsdale's victims were extremely vulnerable - some being wards of the state or from broken homes.
Victorian County Court Chief Judge Michael Rozenes said he was supposed to avoid a crushing sentence that would prevent the former Catholic priest living a useful life after his release, but in some cases a criminal's age meant the just sentence was crushing.
The offending was a blatant breach of trust, Judge Rozenes said, adding that Ridsdale used his position within the Church to commit various serious sexual acts upon his victims.
"There is no doubt your conduct plummets to the depths of evil hypocrisy," Judge Rozenes said.
"Your conduct has given rise to disastrous, catastrophic and at times tragic results."
Ridsdale told one victim, an altar boy, that the abuse was a secret between them, and merely a "game" they played.
One girl was abused in a church confessional box after Ridsdale told her she was wicked and needed to be punished.
She was forced to say "forgive me Father for I have sinned", words usually uttered in a confession, before he abused her.
Ridsdale showed no expression when he was sentenced and slowly left the dock, using a walking frame.


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The Janome DM7200 is an easy to use, fully computerised sewing machine and yet it is packed with so many great features. Direct stitch selection keys of your everyday stitches plus 14 one-step buttonholes. The LCD screen shows selected stitch, recommended foot, default stitch width and length which you can change to suit your requirements. With 200 built-in stitches plus alphabet, this model offers a great range of stitches for all types of sewing.


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Q: Get cursor type from HCURSOR I get a HCURSOR from another process. I would like to find its type.
Its resource is of these LoadCursor.
I looked around in MSDN site did not found any info about how to get resource id of the HCURSOR.
How do i do that?
Thank you.

A: You don't.  Cursors don't necessarily have resource IDs (you could create a cursor in memory, for example).
You perhaps could try creating cursors from known resource IDs and then comparing them to the HCURSOR in question. (System cursors should be used with LoadImage(..., LR_SHARED), so multiple calls should return the same handle.)


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Frasier forgets the words in one of the funniest sitcom episodes of the 1990s
Erik Adams,
Noel Murray,
Donna Bowman,
Emily Todd VanDerWerff,
Genevieve Koski,
Phil Dyess-Nugent,
and Ryan McGee
Welcome to the TV Roundtable, where some of TV Club's writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme. The next eight installments focus on episodes with musical sequences.
"Look Before You Leap" (Frasier, season three, episode 16; originally aired February 27, 1996)
In which Dr. Crane fails to follow his own advice, to operatically tragic (and comedic) ends…
Noel Murray: When people talk about the Norman Lear era of the TV sitcom, they usually talk about how All In The Family, Maude, and Good Times all grappled with important social issues. Personally, I've always liked the way Lear's shows in the early '70s brought back the look and feel of '50s live television, making TV more like theater. The Cheers spin-off Frasier wasn't a Lear show, and didn't have anywhere near the same tone or subject matter as All In The Family, but it was as overtly theatrical as any of those '70s sitcoms. The performances, the staging, and the writing were all more in the mode of classic farce than most shows of its era. A major part of Frasier's appeal involved watching a cast of talented comic actors hit their marks and deliver their lines with crack timing.
"Look Before You Leap," in my opinion, is one of the funniest, most masterfully written, directed, and acted sitcom episodes in the history of the genre, and a major reason why it works is because it plays against the audience's expectations of the show's own slick professionalism. It's most-remembered—and rightly so—for its big finish, in which radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) backs out of singing a complicated aria as part of a PBS pledge drive, and instead sings the charming old ditty "Buttons And Bows," which he proceeds to botch beyond belief, by forgetting the words and ad-libbing gibberish like "let's all go to a taco show" and "my bones denounce the fearful trounce."
But what's so great about that moment are the insert shots of Frasier's producer Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin), who doesn't immediately understand what she's watching. The twist here was supposed to be Frasier weaseling out of a promise, after pushing his friends, family, and listeners to "take a leap" and do something bold and unexpected in honor of February 29th. The disaster that befalls Frasier when he plays it safe is completely unexpected, and all the funnier because of the way Frasier keeps grinning and gesturing, relying on the kabuki of showbiz to disguise his sudden incompetence.
The rest of "Look Before You Leap" follows a fairly common Frasier structure of parallel plotlines headed toward the same point. In Frasier's enthusiasm for Leap Day, he encourages Roz to take to the airwaves to find a handsome man she met that morning on the bus. He also advises his father Martin (John Mahoney) to take a last-minute flight to Montana for a friend's birthday party, his dad's physical therapist Daphne Moon (Jane Leeves) to get a new hairdo, and his brother Niles (David Hyde Pierce) not to have sex with his estranged wife. With the exception of Niles—who ignores Frasier's advice—everyone else has a lousy day. Daphne's haircut is hideous, Martin's plane almost crashes, and Roz finds out that her Prince Charming is married. Credited writers Chuck Ranberg and Anne Flett-Giordano use the premise to generate pithy one-liners and physical gags, which director James Burrows stages like the pro he is.
I'll save a rundown of the best lines and moments for the stray observations, or for you guys to kick around. Before I cede the floor, though, I want to say something briefly about why I chose the theme of "musical numbers" for this round of the Roundtable, and I want to praise one on-point non-musical scene in this episode. Personally, I love musicals, but I know many people don't, either because the kind of music in musicals isn't to their taste, or just because they can't abide the inherent phoniness of characters singing and dancing as part of a story. Me, I've always loved how the artificial can be used to express something deeply real and meaningful, often in a more direct way than mere realism could. I'm looking forward to kicking that idea around with you guys in the weeks to come, because dammit, I love watching skilled craftspeople perform for me, making an effort to be entertaining.
That's why I love the part in "Look Before You Leap" where Roz finds out that her crush-object only intends to have a sleazy affair with her. Most of the action in that scene takes place behind glass, outside the radio booth's window to the hallway, while Frasier keeps talking to his audience in the foreground. It's a classic piece of farcical staging: something happening in the back of the frame, unseen and unheard by the hero. But it's also of a piece with how this show presents its characters: as larger-than-life personalities, always putting themselves on display even when no one's really paying attention to them. And in "Look Before You Leap," the glare of that spotlight makes them sweat, copiously and hilariously.
Ryan McGee: The theatricality Noel correctly highlights makes Frasier what it is, and what it served as for years on end: the finest farce on television. Farce is silly, but it's also incredibly precise, relying on a combination of wordplay, physicality, and actor energy to truly sell the proceedings. A limp rendition of a farce is akin to tragedy: With the frantic pace removed, things no longer seem on the verge of flying off the handle. Gravity is farce's worst enemy, and the Leap Day plot sends Frasier's characters into a veritable tornado of mayhem, with everyone struggling to maintain a toehold on sanity.
The best example of this mixture of silliness and precision lies with David Hyde Pierce's performance, which is so good that it's incredibly easy to take it for granted. His combination of buttoned-up repression and barely contained lust gave Frasier some of its biggest belly-laughs, and his ability in this installment to turn any subject into something sexual, including the horrors that befell his father and Daphne, is a sure-fire laugh-getter. I especially like the wordless coda that ends the episode, with Niles casually assuring Frasier that he didn't go through with sex with Maris. Then he finds and tastes the last remnants of his food-filled tryst with her—a bit of whipped cream behind his ear.
But it all comes back to the show treating the set like a proscenium, dropping naturalism and heightening the performative aspects. Multi-camera shows these days primarily use the form to deploy as many setup/punchline combinations as possible, offering up bright, loud, fast chunks of comedy. But Frasier is content to deliver consistent comedy while also being patient in building elements, which will pay off in later acts. The cumulative effect rewards viewers in the moment, but truly pays off in the final movements of the episode. By the time Daphne and Marty are convulsing with laughter watching Frasier's bomb of a performance, so are we.
My question to the rest of the roundtable: Have we seen the end of this type of multi-cam show? Or is it right in our midst, and I'm too blind to see it?
Todd VanDerWerff: It's taken me a while to come around on Frasier. The show was so dominant at 1990s awards shows—sort of the Modern Family of its era, only even more so—that I soured against it, particularly when it kept beating other, better shows. (NewsRadio, my favorite show of the era, couldn't even get nominated.) I was the kind of kid who cared about those things, and Frasier's long, unchecked dominance greatly irritated me, even though I always had to admit the show was well done, given how it came up with the sorts of intricately constructed sitcom plots that are enormously hard to pull off. But now that it's been a while, I've realized that this is a terrific little show, particularly in its first five seasons (and its last one). It's easier to let those things go once you get a little distance, and while I'll never love this show as much as other shows of its era, I'm happy to admit that it perfected a kind of sitcom storytelling few other shows even tried.
Watching Frasier now, I'm mostly impressed by how much it fits into the evolutionary middle ground occupied by the era's NBC sitcoms. It's still a multi-camera sitcom, for sure, but it's trying camera setups that would be more likely on a single-camera show. I'm thinking, in particular, of when Frasier is announcing his plans to sing the aria from Rigoletto instead of "Buttons And Bows," and the scene cuts behind his booth, to where Roz is greeting Gary, then finding out he's married. It breaks one of those unstated rules of the multi-camera sitcom, because we should be able to see the audience (or, at least, the camera that was filming Frasier just a few seconds ago), but we can't. It's a touch jarring, but it's the sort of thing NBC's shows were doing as they pushed at the constraints of the format in the '90s.
As for the musical moment itself: It's wonderful. Frasier was so good at building to moments that had to be the biggest joke in the episode, then pulling those jokes off. And though this one is simple, it's saved by both the perfect ridiculousness of Frasier's faux lyrics and Kelsey Grammer's game spirit within the scene. I was listening to the audience during this episode, as I often do, and their laughs were often eruptions. That's the sort of thing a show like Big Bang Theory (which I would argue comes closest to replicating this kind of success, though it's much, much looser than Frasier) gets raked over the coals by those who dislike the program, but it's hard to say the same about Frasier. It earns those big laughs, and it makes sure people see just how hard it's working to earn them. It's relentlessly entertaining, and modern TV could use more of that.
Phil Dyess-Nugent: I have a love-hate thing for stories about people changing their lives by abandoning their comfort zones and taking a leap into the unknown. They can be naïve and ridiculous and even smug, but one of my all-time favorite movies is Jonathan Demme and E. Max Frye's Something Wild, which captures the thrill of liberation, but also makes the process dangerous enough to remind you why people have comfort zones in the first place. "Look Before You Leap" doesn't go that far, but I do like the way it plays the idea for laughs by having Frasier's life advice backfire, while having Frasier brought down a peg when he fails to take it himself.
I also have a love-hate thing for Kelsey Grammer. He's such a strange presence: a big, beefy guy who built a career on his mastery of comic prissiness, who, as the cherry on top, drags around this outsized tabloid reputation worthy of Evel Knievel. (And when he tries to stretch himself as an actor and play someone menacing who doesn't have a problem being crude, as in Boss, part of the fascination of the performance comes from the errant signs that the delicate, prissy guy is in there someplace.) So he makes an excellent frontman for this kind of farce. I wouldn't wish half his real-life travails on the guy, but God help me, I do enjoy seeing him humiliated.
I never thought it before now, but I guess I think of Frasier as one of those shows that blurred the lines between multi-camera and single-camera sitcoms. It's theatrical, but in a completely different way than the neo-Playhouse 90 vibe of those old Norman Lear shows, which were so heavy on shouting and speechifying and scenes where the performers' animal energy came through to heat up the static camera setups. With the little chapter headings and the jazzy, minimalist title card and the unannounced celebrity-guest drop-ins when people would phone into Frasier's radio show, it gently set itself apart from everything else on TV. I think that when it was on, I bracketed it in my head, not with other sitcoms that were shot in front of a studio audience, but with things like the movies of Whit Stillman. The work of Stillman and his independent-film contemporaries was seen as anti-Hollywood, partly because it was so visually un-flashy and narratively uneventful that it served as a rebuke to movies full of actors slowly walking away from the block that was exploding in slow motion behind them. The style feels right because it feels like the style of the Crane brothers. (It's also a neat fit for the style of novelist and playwright Joe Keenan, who served as story editor or producer for most of the show's glory years, and who deserves to be regarded as one of Frasier's auteurs, even though he wasn't present at the creation.) It's a style that parodies Frasier and Niles' genteel cultural pretensions, but that partakes of them, too. It feels like an in-joke when Frasier yells, "Who watches PBS!?" because the answer ought to be, "Anybody who works on this show."
I don't have any strong aesthetic or philosophical objection—or attraction—to the multi-cam, live-studio-audience sitcom as a form. I think it's now regarded by a lot of people as uncool, and there's no shortage of examples you could point to that would appear to make the case. (Personally, my problem with The Big Bang Theory—which would be the first example that comes to mind even if Todd hadn't brought it up—is that, for all the talent in front of the camera, it's just a hacky show.) But there are also plenty of single-camera shows that have no idea how to forge a personal style appropriate to their material, that make it feel as if they have their own style of humor that you can't get anyplace else. Frasier (and NewsRadio, too) were able to do that, as surely as later, single-camera shows like 30 Rock (R.I.P.) and Community. (What do you think—R.I.P.?) I have a feeling that if multi-camera sitcoms were to disappear from the face of the Earth, within 20 years, some future Dan Harmon would emerge from his lair with the announcement that he's been looking at prehistoric files of The Honeymooners and The Bob Newhart Show and has discovered this thrilling way for young, anti-network maverick creators to do highly personal TV comedies in a way that's fast, cheap, and dirty. And if he's got something to say and can figure out a way to say it with that format, it might be great.
Genevieve Koski: Phil, I feel like I'm in the position you were in last summer in our discussion of Friends: I have very little knowledge of or affection for Frasier, a show I've always pigeonholed in the Things My Mom Likes category. Considering the show's run coincided with my teenage years, perhaps you can understand why I avoided it. My position on the series has softened over the years (particularly as I've come to realize my mom actually had pretty good taste in TV), but I've never felt a burning desire to catch up on it in syndication. While this isn't the first episode of Frasier I've seen, it is probably the first I've gone into with an open mind, and it was… okay? I guess?
Look, I get the farce thing, and I have no problem with three-camera shows. (Put me in the camp that acknowledges The Big Bang Theory is not The Worst Thing Ever.) And I didn't dislike this episode. But what I liked most about it—the climactic botched performance—is informed by the element that keeps me from really loving Frasier, which is the title character himself. Grammer's go-to prissy-blowhard character works fine for me when it's an accent, as on Cheers or especially as Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons—or when it's slightly mutated and put into a supporting role, as with David Hyde Pierce's character. But it isn't a character I'm able to attach much affection to. (Then again, I initially felt the same way about Michael Scott, who grew significantly in that regard over The Office's run, so it's entirely possible this impression is due to my admittedly tiny sample set.) Seeing Frasier humiliate himself is satisfying because he's such an insufferable pest throughout this episode, but schadenfreude only goes so far.
Of course, there's more driving that sequence than just comeuppance. The silliness of Frasier babbling "I love you in buckskin, la da da da da" in front of a PBS audience works because he's such a studiously un-silly character, a self-styled aesthete whose every utterance invites fate to take him down a couple pegs. (The same thing, not coincidentally, drives the character of Sideshow Bob.) And the previously mentioned performative feel of this heightened style of sitcom is given another layer in this episode's setup, which has Frasier actually performing. This is built into the show's overall premise as well, via Frasier's radio show, which lends another level of remove: We see the way the character actually acts in his world vs. how he acts behind a microphone or in front of a camera, and what he changes or obscures for the sake of his audience can be played for laughs. Frasier botching the song is only funny because people other than the show's main characters are watching. Humiliation requires an audience to truly sting.
Donna Bowman: Frasier Crane represents one of the most monumental accomplishments in all of sitcom history. He's a recurring character on Cheers, defined by his pretention, created as a romantic foil for Diane, but expanded into a series regular, due to his unique comic potential and the unusual empathy Grammer is able to elicit for such an insufferable blowhard. Then when Cheers ends, the miracle happens. This character is able to hold center stage in his own sitcom without losing the prickliness and snobbery that made him a breakout character in the first place. He gets surrounded by furniture from the central sitcom warehouse, like an equally prissy brother; a fish-out-of-water, salt-of-the-earth dad; a Cockney housekeeper; and a cute dog, for God's sake, and it doesn't feel like comedy by committee or lowest common denominator. Instead, it's like Frasier was always headed for this: holding forth in his own milieu, bemoaning the compromises he has to make for mass media, not-so-secretly enamored of the fame he pretends is a necessary evil, with a sliver of sweetness well concealed under his contempt for his fellow man.
Sitcoms get built around assholes all the time, because assholes can say and do things decent people can't, and such outrageousness can be funny and bracing. (Exhibit A: Archie Bunker.) But frequently, the asshole can't elicit empathy or identification from the audience; he becomes a defanged foil in his own show (Becker) or abandons the comedy part in order to use the asshole persona to do a little truth-telling (M*A*S*H, The John Larroquette Show). The magic of Frasier is how there's no discernible line between laughing at his self-inflicted ridiculousness and feeling deeply and painfully for what it does to him.
And that's why the final botching of "Buttons And Bows" is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen on television. It's not funny just because Frasier deserves his comeuppance, for his usual refusal to apply to himself the standards to which he holds others. It's not just funny because it's an unexpected topper to the basic joke of him weaseling out of a commitment in the name of giving imaginary viewers what they want. It's funny because he tries to keep going, and we have to applaud him for it. He's unprepared and he pays the price, but he's a trooper and a showman. He's not humiliated in the moment, because he remains game; he's humiliated after the fact when he belatedly has to realize how bad it was, and we don't see that moment. The show allows him his illusions, not just so they can lead to more comedy, but because everybody involved, from the writers to the viewers to the cast, truly likes Frasier, even at his most ridiculous and deluded. That was always the case, over a long 11 seasons of this show. I find that remarkably kind and affectionate, and unusual—maybe unprecedented—for a show centered around an unreformed asshole whose moments of self-awareness were few and far between.
Erik Adams: We've done a thorough job of examining this episode's many charms and highlighting the reason for its inclusion in this installment of the roundtable—though no one mentioned the tremendous comic device of Martin and Daphne entering the apartment on the same note of the aria, maybe because it failed to register without a third beat. I'd like to close things off by returning to one of Noel's first observations: the thrill of watching the Frasier cast earning their laughs in the moment, and with only minimal post-production assistance. The additional charge of Frasier's botched performance comes from the fact that Grammer himself did that botching live, expertly treading that tightrope of a sequence without tipping over into an overly rehearsed "bombing" or baldly improvised gibberish. He retains his composure as an actor while Frasier is losing his, and that's the magic of a good multi-camera sitcom. More than any other form of television, it's dependent on solid performances—which is what saves something like The Big Bang Theory on a weekly basis—and as long as there are actors who can pull off a "Buttons And Bows"-type moment, the "filmed live before a studio audience" show will never die.
RM: My vote for the laugh generated by the most unexpected moment: Frasier giving puppy-dog eyes to Roz while trying to cajole her to share her bus anecdote. It's so delightfully un-Frasier that I nearly spit up my drink.
PDN: Is it just me, or would Grandma In A Teddy be a great name for a band?
RM: I know it's been said a million times before, but has there ever been better casting than Pierce as Grammer's brother? We've had plenty of actors effortlessly own roles on shows without the built-in history that this one did, but in terms of the specific context here, this is one for the ages.
PDN: I'm a sucker for the theatrical trick of salvaging a groaner of a joke by having the actor react to it as if it were his character who thinks it's hilarious, and David Hyde Pierce's furtive snigger when he says "a dangerous aria" is a choice example.
NM: I could've sworn that Niles' line about "paying women to touch me" (manicurists, etc.) was originally spoken by Frasier to Diane on Cheers after they broke up, but I couldn't find any evidence of that on the Internet, so I guess I've just been misremembering the Frasier joke all these years.
PDN: Frasier could set up certain kinds of comic scenes with such precision that it would stand out a little on those rare occasions when the ball hit the dirt, and I think the scene of Roz meeting her secret admirer, while Frasier is taking credit for them on the air, stands out. It would flow better and, I think, be a lot funnier if the camera stayed on Frasier throughout and we saw Roz, through the window behind him, suddenly start whacking the guy with his flowers. Instead, there's a disruptive cut so we can hear the man tell Roz that he's married, a piece of information that could have been conveyed visually by having her point to his wedding ring, or even slipped in afterward. I'd like to think that this was the result of a note from some helpful network suit.
EA: Take it from Kelsey Grammer himself: It's a good thing YouTube wasn't around to spread Frasier's failure worldwide.
PDN: Check out Joan Cusack and Chloë Sevigny's love child sitting next to Roz at the phone bank!
NM: I know Frasier's punchline-heavy scripts rub some people the wrong way, because they sound too written, like a bunch of comedy writers talking to each other instead of actual people. But damn it, the punchlines are really funny. I don't care whether Martin really has a friend named Sharkbait O'Reilly who used to win the worst scar competition when they got together. It's a snappy joke regardless.
Next week: Genevieve Koski takes us back to Lawndale for a "Gah-Gahdamn" Daria musical. After that, Phil Dyess-Nugent invites us all to get weepy with a Joni Mitchell-covering Robert Downey Jr. on Ally McBeal. (You can watch the former on Amazon; the latter is available from Netflix and Hulu.)


It has been well documented that one of the most decorated and successful coaches in women's football, Eddie Wolecki Black, suffered a near fatal stroke whilst head coach of North Lanarkshire team Airdrieonians. Luckily he's been able to make a partial recovery, thanks to the swift and efficient work of the resident medical staff at the Excelsior Stadium and within our NHS. He currently continues his recovery, dealing with the effects of the event every day.
Luckily Eddie's family have discovered an opportunity which involves travelling to America to book experimental treatment to iron out some of these unfortunate after effects of the stroke. But, as with most things in life, it's going to cost significant sums, so a supporter of Eddie's cause has opened a donations portal to raise the quoted numbers of £10,000. Various members of the coaching community have taken part in some fundraising activities to contribute to the big target and fantastic progress is being made.
Football-wise Eddie has been an inspiration for many coaches, his focus on player development and demands for high standards have led to many players progressing to senior careers.