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co-director and co-producer of Alive Day Memories. Alpert is also the co-founder and co-director of Downtown Community Television Center and an award-winning journalist.
assistant producer of Alive Day Memories and producer and reporter at Downtown Community Television Center.
AMY GOODMAN: As General David Petraeus testified on Capitol Hill about the war in Iraq over the past two days, it's become increasingly apparent the Bush administration plans to continue the war for the indefinite future.
Since the U.S. invaded Iraq, up to a million Iraqis have been killed. 3,774 U.S. troops have also died.
On Tuesday, the military announced seven members of the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade were killed in a vehicle accident. The 2nd Brigade was the first military unit to deploy this year as part of President Bush's so-called surge. Ten more soldiers were injured in the accident.
Today, we're going to look at what happens to the soldiers who narrowly escape death in Iraq. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have been injured in Iraq, and, for the first time in American history, 90 percent of the wounded survive their injuries, but a greater percentage of these men and women are returning with amputations, traumatic brain injuries, severe post-traumatic stress.
A new HBO documentary provides an inside look at how the war has permanently changed the lives of these wounded troops. It's called Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq. The film premiered Sunday night, is airing again on HBO this Thursday, 9:00 p.m. Eastern.
Co-founder of Downtown Community Television Center and award-winning journalist Jon Alpert co-directed and co-produced this documentary. His daughter Tami Alpert is a producer and reporter for DCTV. She also assisted in producing Alive Day Memories. They join us now here in our firehouse studio.
Talk about these soldiers, Jon.
JON ALPERT: Well, these soldiers are basically your neighbors. These are the people that live next door to you that you might have gone to high school with. But in many cases they can't walk anymore. They've lost their legs. They've lost their arms. They've lost their sight. And these are the people that have really paid a very, very, very dear price for us.
AMY GOODMAN: How did you choose them?
JON ALPERT: Well, Tami did a lot of that work, along with Ellen Goosenberg, one of the other producers. But the directive came out from HBO, Sheila Nevins, who runs the documentary division, and Jim Gandolfini, that they wanted to find soldiers and enable these soldiers to tell their stories. And so, Tami went out and started looking for them.
AMY GOODMAN: Let's go to one of them. I want to play a clip from your documentary, Alive Day Memories, of First Lieutenant Dawn Halfaker. She was severely injured in June 2004, four months after being deployed to Iraq. Her right arm and shoulder were amputated.
FIRST LT. DAWN HALFAKER: The reality of, you know, will I be able to raise a kid. I won't be able to pick up my son or daughter with two arms. I won't.
AMY GOODMAN: Tell us about Dawn, Tami.
TAMI ALPERT: Well, I had an opportunity to go down and meet her in her apartment. And I think every single person who watches this film has a different soldier that they feel touches them in a particular way. And, for me, I think that Dawn's story personally affects me, because she's really a peer of mine, very similar in age. A lot of these soldiers are quite young. That's basically what our army is today. It's a very young army. So everybody that I went out to meet was my age or younger, for the most part. And to see somebody who's in a similar place in their life as me, who doesn't have an arm and has to live their life like that, it really gives you a perspective change.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to play another clip from Alive Day Memories of Private Dexter Pitts. He was seriously injured in January 2005, six months after being deployed to Iraq. He's 22 years old.
PVT. DEXTER PITTS: I've done some, like, mean things to kids over there that I had to do. And I tell people some things I've done. They're like, "No, not Dex, man. Not you." I do what I had to do to survive. I sit there in my bed at night, and everything plays over and over from the first moment, and I hear these Iraqi voices coming towards me. I don't want to live that life no more and be on my medication every morning that I wake up. When I want to go to sleep, I have to take a pill. I don't want to live like that, you know?
INTERVIEWER: Is this what the Army calls "combat stress"?
PVT. DEXTER PITTS: PTSD is what they call it. In the world I come from, in the Army and infantry land, you know, they don't believe in PTSD. They believe that there's just weak-minded people, there's nothing wrong with you.
AMY GOODMAN: Explain Dexter's story, Jon.
JON ALPERT: Dexter has had a lot of therapy. Many of the things that he's seen disturb him so profoundly he found difficulty sleeping. And it's hard for them to talk about this. It's hard for them to sort of get back to the normal life, after some of the horrific things that they've seen over there in Iraq.
He's going to school, and he's studying to be a law enforcement official. That's what he'd really like to do. What was inspiring is the determination of these 10 wounded soldiers to try to get on with their lives. You know, I've had some days where I just want to sit down on the subway track and let the train roll me over, and when you think of the courage that these soldiers have shown both in Iraq and here, it's really inspiring.
AMY GOODMAN: Tami, tell us about Bryan Anderson.
TAMI ALPERT: Bryan Anderson, I got to meet him while he was still recovering at Walter Reed Hospital. He is a fellow who's in his early twenties. He lost both of his legs, with just about three inches on either side, and he's lost one of his arms.
And I looked at him, and he really only has two fingers left. He's got one hand, but three of the fingers are not functional. He doesn't have feeling in them. And so, basically, he's hanging onto life with those two fingers.
And, you know, I've become personal friends with him. Every time he comes to New York, he gives me a call to hang out and get a drink. Working on this project really profoundly moved me. And when I see somebody who is really struggling to make it and just has those two fingers, you have to think about all the soldiers that didn't make it into this film. And, you know, this is just a sample.
AMY GOODMAN: Jon, Alive Day Memories — explain Alive Day.
JON ALPERT: Well, Alive Day is the name that's given to the day that you were blown up. And they basically say that you have a second chance at life, because you should have died. And many of these soldiers, in other wars, would have died. They would have died on the battlefield or somewhere back to the hospital. And it's used as a therapeutic tool to try and help them.
The interesting thing about these soldiers is they want very much to tell their stories. In the beginning, you're a little bit nervous about asking them to talk about their missing arms, their missing eyes, but they want the American people to hear their stories, because the American people sent them over there, and they want the American people to know about their heroism, but they also want them to know about the horror of the war, the cost of the war.
AMY GOODMAN: Jon and Tami Alpert, I want to thank you very much for being here and for doing this film. It's called Alive Day Memories. It's airing again on HBO on Thursday night at 9:00 Eastern Standard Time. Thank you so much.


Chintz promised Callum that she'd stay in the house until he got home on Tuesday. Just to be sure, Callum asked Landon to stay with her during the day. They decided he should park his squad car in the driveway to let people know he was there.
Landon was in a particularly good mood. He'd asked Mac to marry him, she'd said yes, and they'd put a down payment on the house they'd been looking at.
He bit into a cookie and nodded.
They were huddled close to each other on the sofa, glancing through home books and yakking about paint colors when Callum walked through the door.
Landon told him about the food they'd decided on for his reception. Then he stood. "Since you're back, I can go home early, too. The girls will be getting home from school soon." He grabbed a bulging bag and zipped out the door.
"I hope Mac likes it, too." She came to give him a hug.
"Do I smell chickien?" He went to look in the pot on the stove.
"How was your day?" She pulled a cooler out of a lower cupboard while he told her about a road rage incident he'd worked that morning.
She shook her head. What was wrong with people? She picked up after Landon while Callum went to change clothes. When he came back, they started to pack their picnic. She loaded the chicken into a deep Tupperware container.
She gave a satisfied smile. "That's because I ran the hood the entire time we cooked. I wanted to surprise you." She brought out a pan of brownies, too.
"I'm inviting you on stake-outs more often." He reached for a brownie, paused, and when she didn't smack his hand, he gobbled one down. He needed TLC. He was going to put in a long day today.
They tossed two apples in the picnic basket, too, and two beers and a bottle of wine. Callum carried the basket to the car, then they drove to the parking lot where Heath worked and waited.
He walked out of his office building at a little before five and went straight to a red convertible with its own parking space close to the door.
"Fasten your seat belt," he told her. A good thing, because Heath drove like a bat shot out of a catapult. She'd have lost him in under ten minutes, but Callum kept up with him, staying far enough behind that Heath didn't notice them.
They drove to the far north side of Three Rivers, finally stopping at a fancy hotel/restaurant. Callum dropped her off at a side door, and she waited there to watch Heath go into a private room. When Callum joined her, he headed straight to the front desk, showed his badge, and told the security person that he was following a suspect who'd entered that room. They were invited to watch the proceedings on a security camera as Heath joined a group of people at a large table.
Anita walked to the door and closed it before they sat down to eat. A serious conversation started up and Ken turned his head sharply when he must have heard footsteps going past their door. Everyone grew silent for a minute until they must have passed.
Brock motioned to the empty chair and Heath shrugged, then launched into a short speech. Everyone hung on his words. When they finished their salads, they carried the plates to a deep tub a busboy would use. Obviously, they waited on themselves and didn't want anyone entering the room while they were there.
They went through the buffet line and returned to the table. A man wearing a T-shirt and worn jeans stood, pulled a list out of his pocket, and pointed at a youngish woman they'd never seen, his expression scrunched in anger. He pointed at a name on the list and glared at her.
"Can you focus in closer on that paper?" Callum asked.
The man fiddled with his controls and they could clearly see five names with a checkmark next to Chintz's. Callum cussed under his breath. He quickly wrote down the names in his notepad. As they watched, Mr. T-shirt pulled a pen from his back pocket and scratched the checkmark off. Then he raised his eyebrows at the woman. She wore an expensive short-sleeve dress, high heels, and enough jewelry to put bling to shame.
She stood and whatever she said only made the man angrier. But she shrugged. She wrote down the four other names, each on its own piece of paper, and walked to a hat. She tossed the names inside it. Then the man rose and pulled a name from it. Greg Reed. Her smile grew vicious as she put a checkmark next to him on the list.
They stared at each other. The security man couldn't hide his surprise. "This isn't some kind of a joke?" he asked.
Callum tore off a sheet from his notepad for each of them. "When these people leave, I want the license plate numbers for each person we don't recognize." He assigned Chintz the glitzy woman and the people on each side of her. He took three more, and the security man took two. "We've met the other four," Callum explained.
They got in position so that they could watch people when they left the room without being seen. When the club members finally walked to their cars and drove away, Callum had the make of car and license number of each one. The man who'd stuffed the list back into his pocket walked to the same car that had pulled on the verge of their yard with fake car trouble—the man with the crossbow.
"You'll let me know?" the man asked.
The picture showed her in a tiny bikini on a large boat. A party was going on behind her. Another person who wanted more excitement in her life like Brock and Heath? And what could be more exciting than choosing people to kill?
An hour later, Callum had the name and picture of each person in the club. Then he looked up Greg Reed. He let out a low whistle and pointed to the image on his screen. Greg's arm was around Tia Martyn with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
"Guess things went sour after that," he said.
Way south. Greg had to be six feet tall, but not especially good-looking. He looked rich and confident, though, and Chintz would bet those qualities appealed to Tina. So, if they'd broken up, why would he attend a party she gave? She looked at the picture in Paris more closely. Tia wore a big shiny engagement ring. She hadn't been wearing one at the club, but Chintz wondered if Greg knew that. And she wondered why the ring was gone. Had Tia found out Greg was cheating on her before they tied the knot? That might explain why she'd added him to her list.
That made Chintz wonder. Once each club member had eliminated one person they'd chosen, would they draw another name out of the hat? And use the same list?
Only one way to find out. Callum would have to arrest every single member of the club.


Italian painter Marco Casentini opens a show, Recent Paintings, at Brian Gross Fine Art on Thursday, January 4, with a reception for the artist from 5:30-7:30 pm. The exhibition will continue through Feburary 17 and features his signature geometric abstractions in vibrant color.
Working in acrylic on canvas, Casentini refines his investigations through bright, multi-colored planar paintings. The interplay of the rectangular elements of intense, saturated colors with sharp, clean lines make the paintings pop. In a new twist, he paints two, long vertical planes of a single color on either side of the canvas that emphasize the energy created by the smaller rectangles within.
In contrast to these colorful paintings, Casentini makes quieter reductive, monochromatic paintings where subtle changes in surface and transparencies create shifts in the spatial reading of these moody landscapes. Here, the artist explores the geometric space within a limited color range. The overlapping planes of varying hue and texture keep the eye constantly moving, fluctuating between flatness and dimensionality.
Born in La Spezia, Italy in 1961, Casentini studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Carrara, Italy. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands, as well as Australia. This is his fourth solo exhibition with Brian Gross Fine Art. He currently lives and works in Milan, Italy.


This is an intact example of the Tudor Revival style, and is a contributing element to the Montlake Historic District. The earliest known owners (1928) were Kenneth B. Edgers, a dentist, and his wife Lois; they remained here at least through 1938. The home was owned by George L. & Mae Nixon in 1948; he was a cement contractor. The owner in 1958 was Anita M. Panattoni, who worked at Crawford's Sea Grill.
This 1.5 story house is generally square in plan, is clad with combed shingles, and has a side gabled roof with a front gabled wing and returned eaves. The entry vestibule is recessed beneath the front gable eaves, with a rounded door and surround. It is nearly centered on the front (north) façade, Flanking the entry are sets of ten-over-one fixed sash windows with 4-over-1 casement surrounds. Beneath the gable peak on the second story is a set of smaller six-over-one fixed sash windows with 4-over-1 casement surrounds. Secondary facades feature similar materials and fenestration. An exterior brick chimney is on the east wall.


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The 11 most expensive homes across America
Charlene Jimenez
We recently reported on America's top 10 least expensive homes and found listings for as low as $3,000 and while we enjoy finding the deals across the nation, we wanted to contrast those ten listings with the following eleven which are the most expensive cities in the top 11 largest metropolitan areas in America and note the large disparity in how expensive New York and Los Angeles are compared to places like San Antonio and Phoenix.
We do not care who the owners are, rather prefer to peek at the extremes in the market that is on a roller coaster itself. Take a look at these eleven listings and tell us in the comments what you think. Click any image to view more details and to visit the actual listing online for more photos:
1. New York City – $90,000,000
2. Los Angeles, CA – $65,000,000
3. San Diego, CA – $18,000,000
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The American Genius Staff Writer: Charlene Jimenez earned her Master's Degree in Arts and Culture with a Creative Writing concentration from the University of Denver after earning her Bachelor's Degree in English from Brigham Young University in Idaho. Jimenez's column is dedicated to business and technology tips, trends and best practices for entrepreneurs and small business professionals.
Zillow launches real estate brokerage after eons of swearing they wouldn't
Real estate commissions are negotiable, no matter what any lawsuit says
$60M lawsuit alleges Zillow listings can be hijacked
Zillow sued for $81 million by real estate photographer
Zillow sued for concealing Zestimates on certain listings
Austin's largest venture raise this year will surprise you
Austin tops the list of best places to buy a home
When looking to buy a home, taking the long view is important before making such a huge investment – where are the best places to make that commitment?
Lani Rosales, COO + News Director
Looking at the bigger picture
(REALUOSO.COM) – Let us first express that although we are completely biased about Texas (we're headquartered here, I personally grew up here), the data is not – Texas is the best. That's a scientific fact. There's a running joke in Austin that if there is a list of "best places to [anything]," we're on it, and the joke causes eye rolls instead of humility (we're sore winners and sore losers in this town).
That said, SelfStorage.com dug into the data and determined that the top 12 places to buy a home are currently Texas and North Carolina (and Portland, I guess you're okay too or whatever).
They examined the nerdiest of numbers from the compound annual growth rate in inflation-adjusted GDP to cost premium, affordability, taxes, job growth, and housing availability.
"Buying a house is a big decision and a big commitment," the company notes. "Although U.S. home prices have risen in the long term, the last decade has shown that path is sometimes full of twists, turns, dizzying heights and steep, abrupt falls. Today, home prices are stabilizing and increasing in most areas of the U.S."
Click here to continue reading the list of the 12 best places to buy a home…
Average age of houses on the rise, so is it now better or worse to buy new?
With aging housing in America, are first-time buyers better off buying new or existing homes? The average age of a home is rising, as is the price of new housing, so a shift could be upon us.
Dawn Brotherton, Staff Writer
The average home age is higher than ever
(REALUOSO.COM) – In a survey from the Department of Housing and Urban Development American Housing Survey (AHS), the median age of homes in the United States was 35 years old. In Texas, homes are a bit younger with the median age between 19 – 29 years. The northeast has the oldest homes, with the median age between 50 – 61 years. In 1985, the median age of a home was only 23 years.
With more houses around 40 years old, the National Association of Realtors asserts that homeowners will have to undertake remodeling and renovation projects before selling unless the home is sold as-is, in which case the buyer will be responsible to update their new residence. Even homeowners who aren't selling will need to consider remodeling for structural and aesthetic reasons.
Prices of new homes on the rise
Newer homes cost more than they used to. The price differential between new homes and older homes has increased from 10 percent traditionally to around 37 percent in 2014. This is due to rising construction costs, scarcity of lots, and a low inventory of new homes that doesn't meet the demand.
Click here to continue reading this story…
Are Realtors the real loser in the fight between Zillow Group and Move, Inc.?
The last year has been one of dramatic and rapid change in the real estate tech sector, but Realtors are vulnerable, and we're worried.
Why Realtors are vulnerable to these rapid changes
(REALUOSO.COM) – Corporate warfare demands headlines in every industry, but in the real estate tech sector, a storm has been brewing for years, which in the last year has come to a head. Zillow Group and Move, Inc. (which is owned by News Corp. and operates ListHub, Realtor.com, TopProducer, and other brands) have been competing for a decade now, and the race has appeared to be an aggressive yet polite boxing match. Last year, the gloves came off, and now, they've drawn swords and appear to want blood.
Note: We'll let you decide which company plays which role in the image above.
So how then, does any of this make Realtors the victims of this sword fight? Let's get everyone up to speed, and then we'll discuss.
1. Zillow poaches top talent, Move/NAR sues
It all started last year when the gloves came off – Move's Chief Strategy Officer (who was also Realtor.com's President), Errol Samuelson jumped ship and joined Zillow on the same day he phoned in his resignation without notice. He left under questionable circumstances, which has led to a lengthy legal battle (wherein Move and NAR have sued Zillow and Samuelson over allegations of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and misappropriation of trade secrets), with the most recent motion being for contempt, which a judge granted to Move/NAR after the mysterious "Samuelson Memo" surfaced.
Salt was added to the wound when Move awarded Samuelson's job to Move veteran, Curt Beardsley, who days after Samuelson left, also defected to Zillow. This too led to a lawsuit, with allegations including breach of contract, violation of corporations code, illegal dumping of stocks, and Move has sought restitution. These charges are extremely serious, but demanded slightly less attention than the ongoing lawsuit against Samuelson.
2. Two major media brands emerge
Last fall, the News Corp. acquisition of Move, Inc. was given the green light by the feds, and this month, Zillow finalized their acquisition of Trulia.

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Starting October 2018 and ending June 2019, Tigard Public Library will host Saturday volunteer sessions for teens in middle and high school. Up to 25 teens ages 12 through 18 will help the circulation division with shelving, bin sorting and pulling patron requests.
Volunteer sessions will occur from 10:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. every Saturday.
Teens who want to volunteer for a particular Saturday must sign up online or with Volunteer Coordinator Katie Nelson ahead of time. All teens (returning and new) must sign up before 2 p.m. the day before Saturday volunteer session.
All teen volunteers should come to the right-side entrance of the library at the beginning of the volunteer shift. This entrance is by the drive-thru book drop off.
Tigard Public Library is no longer accepting drop-in volunteers on Saturday morning, so please remember to sign up!
Must sign up before 2 p.m. the day before Saturday volunteer session.
If the weather outside is frightful and you're not sure whether or not to come in for your volunteer shift, please….
Check the library's Facebook page, Twitter feed, or library website and look for an inclement weather announcement.
When in doubt, be safe and stay home.


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Q: What was the volume of the universe a short time after the big bang? I assume this question is somehow ill posed, but I do not know in which way.
I think it is not a difference here whether the universe expanded into space,
or space expanded itself.
Seen from the inside, expanding means changing the volume, so there is a volume, right?

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Chi Chien Chilli Seeds. The Chi Chien (C. Annuum) is a well known Chinese heirloom chilli. This chilli grows well and can be expected to reach a height of around 100cm. A typical annuum style plant structure to this variety with a tendancy to grow vertical and not bushy. This plant - in our experience - will definitely benefit from "Topping" to encourage these plants to broaden out. White flowers give way to green Cayenne type pods that grow facing heaven in a rather attractive and unusual cluster of pods (much like the "Poinsettia Chilli aka Hot Claw Chilli"). We also note that "The Rooster Spur Chilli" has an uncanny resenblence to this chilli. Whether or not these are all one and the same variety, we can not confirm - but there certainly is a very simillar resemblance in all of these. The green pods eventually ripen to a bright red and this chilli has major easthetic appeal when laden with these bright red clusters of pods. Besides the aesthetic appeal of this chilli, it is also a very versatile chilli in the kitchen. Used extensively in chinese cuisine, these chillies are super fresh or dried and make a very attractive red chilli powder. These chillies are hot and will add instant heat to dishes. A fresh, clean flavour to these chillies with a peppery heat. A geat variety to grow in the chilli patch - espacially if you like Asian cooking.


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Chapman Freeborn expands reach into South Africa
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has announced the formal expansion of its global charter coverage into South Africa.
The aircraft charter specialist has appointed Lizane Albers-Mostert as Business Development Manager for South Africa, based primarily in Johannesburg with responsibility for the strategic development of the company's activity in the country and the surrounding region.
Her appointment follows a highly successful first 10 months of business for Chapman Freeborn's office in Entebbe, Uganda, which opened in January 2009.
Lizane joins Chapman Freeborn with several years experience in the South African charter aviation industry.
Iain Clark, regional manager for Chapman Freeborn in Africa, said:
"We are delighted that Lizane is bringing her charter aviation skills and knowledge to Chapman Freeborn.
"Her appointment will help our worldwide offices further unlock the potential of Africa for our clients."
The expansion into South Africa underlines Chapman Freeborn's position in Africa's cargo charter market, where its client roster already includes major freight forwarders and international aid agencies, as well as other sectors including mining, energy, telecommunications and manufacturing industries.
Johannesburg is a major cargo centre and can accommodate wide body freighters from North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
Working in tandem with the strategically-located Entebbe operation, Chapman Freeborn can then utilise appropriate cargo aircraft to connect to smaller and remote airstrips across Southern, Central and Eastern Africa.
In addition to the cargo operations, Lizane's remit will also include growing the company's passenger business in Africa, including executive and larger commercial aircraft charters.
Chapman Freeborn's global offices are already seeing high demand for passenger charters to Johannesburg and other South African destinations ahead of next summer's World Cup, and this is expected to increase further following the group stage draw in Cape Town on December 4.
Elsewhere, Chapman Freeborn will provide aircraft charters for clients ranging from multinational corporations to the sports industry and incentive travel organisers. The company's worldwide expertise in supplying charter solutions for the music and movie business will also ensure a large number of VIP clients calling on their private jet services.
Chapman Freeborn has 32 offices in 22 countries across five continents. The company coordinated more than 5,000 cargo and passenger charters last year.
Alex Berry appointed director of Chapman Freeborn's executive jet division
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering is delighted to announce a new senior appointment. The global aircraft charter specialist has appointed Alex Berry as Director of Executive Aircraft for its worldwide operations, with responsibility for expanding the company's…
Chapman Freeborn opens new Houston office
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering has announced the expansion of its US operations. The global aircraft charter specialist has opened a new office in Houston due to growing demand for its services in the region. The announcement…
Chapman Freeborn to exhibit at the Air Cargo Forum in Amsterdam
Chapman Freeborn Airchartering is set to showcase its charter expertise at this year's bi-annual TIACA Air Cargo Forum, held from November 2 – 4 at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition Centre. The event, which is organised…


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December 2000 Java News
The Jenesis Language Syntax API is a tool for generation of Java source code files. Language syntax elements are composed as an object tree which is then transformed to text. The resulting .java source file can be automatically compiled using either javac or Jikes and subsequently reflected, if desired. Jenesis is published under the GNU General Public License 2.0. Java 1.2 or later is required.
Sun's posted a beta of the Java Advanced Imaging API 1.1 on the Java Developer Connection (registration required). New features in 1.1 include:
Remote network imaging
An enhanced operation registry
An optimized tile cache
Improved property management
Support for editing Rendered Op Chains
Improvements in multi-tile processing
Non-image data in processing chains
The image collection API is now close to as powerful as the rendered image API
A "more general set of specific image collection implementations"
A better TIFF codec
Better support for object serialization
Sun's posted two new bug fix releases of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1 and 1.3:
Java Development Kit v 1.1.8_12 L10N for Solaris only.
Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition v 1.3.0_01 L10N for Linux, Windows, and Solaris. As well as fixing bugs, this release enhances the Java Plug-In to work better with Netscape 6.
Slava Pestov's released JEdit 3.0, an open source text editor written in Java. According to the announcement, new features include:
Macro system improvements
The limited macro language used in jEdit 2.6 and earlier has been replaced with BeanShell. BeanShell is a full-featured scripting language with a syntax very similar to Java; hence Java programmers will be able to pick it up very easily. Recording user actions is still supported, so non-programmers can continue to use jEdit's macro features.
User interface improvements
The buffer switching tabs have been replaced with a combo box (the BufferTabs plugin, available from plugin central, can be installed to get the old tabs back)
I/O progress is now displayed in the top-right corner of the editor window
Caret location information is now displayed in the bottom-left corner of the text area
Some of the larger option panes in the 'Utilities->Global Options' dialog box have been split into multiple panes, for a less cluttered appearance
A 'tip of the day' is now shown on jEdit startup (this can be disabled)
Search and replace improvements
The search and replace and HyperSearch dialog boxes have been merged
Multiple line search and replace is now supported
The jEdit 2.5-style search bar is back
Word wrap
jEdit now supports word wrap. Inserting characters beyond a specified wrap column will automatically place a line break at the appropriate location.
Indent width -vs- tab width
The indent width (used when doing auto indent and shifting lines) and the tab width (used when displaying tabs) can now be set separately.
Caret positions saved in recent file list
jEdit now remembers the caret position in recently opened files, and automatically restores it when a recent file is opened.
Scrolling improvements
The horizontal scroll bar width is now set according to the longest visible line.
The text area can now be scrolled from the keyboard using the commands in the View->Scrolling menu. (Contributed by Ollie Rutherfurd )
New miscellaneous commands
File->Insert File: inserts specified file into current buffer
File->Save a Copy As: saves buffer to a different file, and doesn't rename the buffer
New edit modes
Syntax highlighting was added for the following file types, bringing the total number of supported file types up to 46:
Assembly (Intel x86 MASM/NASM)
DSSSL
RPM spec
Texinfo
Assembly syntax highlighting was contributed by Kristian Ovaska (). C# syntax highlighting was contributed by Ollie Rutherfurd ().
FTP support moved to a plugin
FTP support has been moved out of the editor core to the 'FTP' plugin, which can be installed using the plugin manager.
The Public Review Draft Specification for JSR-34 Java Advanced Imaging API 1.1 has been published to the Java Community Process for Public Review. Comments are due by February 5, 2001.
I'm leaving for Christmas vacation a little later today if LaGuardia's still open. I'll have Internet access while I'm away. Nonetheless things are likely to be a little slow here for the next week, and you probably have better things to do than think about Java right now. But I do promise to have some big announcements and a major shift in direction for this site come the New Year.
Version 3.1 of the free NetBeans IDE for Java has been released. Major new features in version 3.1 include:
Ant Integration Module
Scripting Module
Cross-Directory Compiler
There are also improvements to the Form Editor, the Source Editor, the CVS Module, the JSP Module, the I18n Module, and the Properties Module Enhancements
Sun's posted the final draft proposal of the Java API for XML Processing 1.1 in PDF and PostScript format.
The finished version of JSR-56, Java Network Launching Protocol, has been released. This describes the protocol used by Java Web Start. As usual the spec is in PDF format, and requires a click-wrap license agreement. Here's an idea for the next iteration of the JCP now being discussed: absolutely anybody should be allowed to read the specs for free without agreeing to anything.
The Maintenance Review Draft Specification for JDBC 2.1 has been posted to the Java Community Process. So far the listed errata are just in the JavaDoc. No actual functionality changes seem to be proposed. Comments are due by January 18, 2001.
Four new Java Specification Requests (JSRs) have been posted to the Java Community Process:
JSR-96 Java Daemons proposes the development of a standard platform-independent Java API for system level services known as daemons on Unix and other things on other platforms. Comments are due by January 3, 2001.
JSR-97 JavaHelp 2.0 Specification. Updates from Java Help 1.0 would include enhancements to merging, multi-topic printing, improved secondary window and popup usage, JFC ToolTip HelpSet support, HelpSet presentation controls and additional navigators. Comments are due by January 3, 2001.
JSR-98 JAIN Service Provider Mobility API. "JAIN SPA 2.1 Mobility is the Java specification of the Parlay API Version 2.1 Mobility interface. The API is intended to allow software developers to rapidly develop external Service Provider type applications using abstract primitives that hide the heterogeneity of underlying networks." Comments are due by January 3, 2001.
JSR-99 Java Specification Participation Agreement. According to section 2.3 of this JSR,
An Ad Hoc Committee of the JCP Executive Committee has been meeting for several months to address accumulated comments and concerns with the JSPA. The Ad Hoc Committee has divided its efforts into "short term" issues, that could be addressed in a maintenance release of the JSPA, and longer term issues that require more extensive consideration. As a result of this process, a maintenance revision of the JSPA has been proposed for Community Review. The changes it reflects are modest, primarily editorial in nature, and will not result in significant changes to the rights and obligations of Members in comparison to prior versions of the JSPA.
The purpose of this JSR is to further explore the more substantial issues considered by the Ad Hoc Committee (as well as other possible changes) which, if adopted, would significantly alter the rights and obligations of Members in comparison to prior JSPAs Issues that might be addressed include:
(i) patent license/non-assert provisions with respect to a Member's own "Contributions";
(ii) patent license/non-assert provisions with respect to all other Members' Contributions, i.e. with respect to all "Output" of the JCP;
(iii) role of Sun as licensor and as licensee when Sun is not the Specification Lead with respect to a particular JSR;
(iv) are the current terms and conditions concerning "Independent Implementations" properly drafted;
(v) the desirability of retaining for a successor Specification Lead a license to the TCK developed by a prior Specification Lead that does not continue in that role; and
(vi) clearer statement of the purposes, and limitations, for which Confidential Information disclosed per JCP activities could be used.
The Ad Hoc Committee has also been concerned with maximizing consistency in the JSPA across the Java Community, especially with respect to any particular JSR, and the Expert Group will continue to explore ways that might achieve this result.
Comments are due by January 8, 2001.
Idoox has released IdooXoap for Java version 1.0, an implementation of the Simple Object Access Protocol. The major improvements since pre-betas include:
Selective Java to WSDL compilation
Improved interoperability
Hiromitsu Takagi has uncovered a major security hole in Apple's Mac OS Runtime for Java 2.2.3 that lets applets read files and transmit the information back to the originating Web site. It is not yet known if earlier versions of MRJ have been affected. Mac users should turn off Java. Non-Mac users don't have to worry. Takagi reported the hole to Apple in October. Apple apparently ignored him.
The College Board, the monopoly that brings you the SAT and the Advanced Placement Tests, has announced that starting in 2003 the AP Computer Science test will include object orientation (about 10 years late), Furthermore, the language will change from the current C++ to Java.
IBM's alphaWorks has posted version 2.0.4 of their Logging Toolkit for Java that "provides message logging and tracing functions for Java applications."
The Unicode Consortium has published the first beta data files for Unicode 3.1. Version 3.1 adds many new characters and new blocks including:
Old Italic
Deseret
Byzantine Musical Symbols
Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B
Most importantly, even for developers who don't have a specific need for any of these characters, all of these have code points greater than 65535 (0xFFFF). Characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane are no longer just a theoretical possibility. Java is simply not ready for this. and getting it ready is going to break a huge amount of existing software. A two-byte char is no longer going to be adequate to represent Unicode. I'm not sure whether it would be possible to redefine chars as 4 bytes without breaking a lot of code, but that's probably the simplest solution at this point. It might also be possible to break the assumption that one char maps to one character by using surrogate pairs, but that makes programming a lot more difficult. For instance, you can't just count up the number of chars in a String to get its length. You have to consider what chars are in the String. And not all sequences of chars actually form legal Strings.
I don't know whether or not Sun has thought about how they're going to handle this. Unicode aficionados have known this was coming for years now. It could have been foreseen back before Java 1.0 was released. Java 1.3 still doesn't support Unicode 3.0, even though the changes from 2.1 to 3.0 were much less wrenching, so I'm not optimistic about the prospects of this getting straightened out any time soon. This is particularly bad news when integrating Java with non-Java standards like XML that already do allow these new characters to be used.
One80 Software has announced Geneva, a small clean-room Java virtual machine for 8-bit processors. It's targeted at the embedded device market. There's some usefully skeptical discussion on SlashDot.
Sun's posted the final version of the Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1 Specification in PDF and PostScript formats.
Sun says they've posted the FCS version of Java Web Start 1.0. However, I couldn't get the download links to work, so I'm not sure if it's really there or not. Java Web Start is a new, hopefully better way to install Java applications under the control of a security manager. Sun's failed at this task twice before with applets and JAR archives, both of which were way too hard to for developers to get comfortable with for different reasons. Let's hope the third time's the charm.
Sun's also posted the third beta of the Java Media Framework 2.1.1 on the Java Developer Connection (registration required). New features in beta 3 include:
The JMF Customizer has been added to the JMF performance packs.
The QuickTime file writer now creates streamable QuickTime files
Support for UNC paths such as file://unixmachine/home/videouser/video.mov
RTP Connector: a new interface that allows developers to connect JMF/RTP to their own and possibly proprietary transport services.
RTSP Processor
A new control that provides a handle on RTPManager objects to retrieve RTP statistics from the RTSP Player
The RTSP Player can handle multiple audio and video streams
JAWT support for jdk1.3+
And of course various bugs were fixed.
Slava Pestov's posted JEdit 3.0 beta 5, an open source text editor written in Java. New features include RPM spec file and Texinfo syntax highlighting, and as usual many bugs have been fixed.
Vita Nuova has released a beta of an Inferno plug-in for Internet Explorer. Inferno is an experimental operating system from Bell Labs and the folks who brought you C and Unix. Inferno applications are written in Limbo, a simple, modular, C-like language which is alleged to be exceptionally easy to read and understand. Limbo has built-in facilities for string handling, list manipulation and interprocess communication and synchronization. Maybe when Netscape talked about replacing the OS with the browser, they were just a few years too early?
Bare Bones Software has released version 6.0.2 of BBEdit, the payware Macintosh text editor I use to produce most of this site. The major new feature is support for the Compact HTML 2.0 format used in iMode phones. Many bugs are fixed besides. The upgrade is free for 6.0 owners.
The Jakarta Apache Project has released Tomcat 4.0, milestone 5. All Tomcat 4.0 users should upgrade immediately as it fixes the security vulnerability I mentioned here yesterday. Besides that, this release adds a web connector for Apache and a JNDI naming context for use when running outside a J2EE application server. Many bugs are fixed as well. This is the feature freeze for Tomcat 4.0. NO new features should be added until Tomcat 4.1.
Sun's posted the final draft of the PersonalJava 1.2a Specification. There's yet another ridiculous click-wrap license aghreement before you can actually download it.
The Jakarta Apache Project has identified multiple security vulnerabilities in both Tomcat 3.1 and Tomcat 3.2 final as well as Tomcat 4.0 milestone 4. If you're using Tomcat (a JSP and servlet engine for Apache), you should immediaately upgrade to 3.1.1 or 3.2.1. Tomcat 4.0 milestone 5 will fix the one vulnerabaility that affects this version, but is ot yet available. In the meantime, you might want to downgrade to 3.2.1.
Sun's posted a beta of the Java Access Bridge 1.0.1 on the Java Developer Connection (registration required). The Java Access Bridge enables Windows based Assistive Technology to work with the Java Accessibility API found in Swing components. According to Sun, "This release fixes incompatibilities with JavaTM 2 Platform, Standard Edition, v1.3, and also cleans up the installer."
Arcane Technologies Ltd. has released Magician 2.1.4 for Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Linux/PPC and SPARC/Solaris. Magician 2.1.4 features full OpenGL 1.2 and GLU 1.2 functionality ncluding support for NURBS surfaces, tesselators and quadrics (whatever those are). Magician interfaces directly with existing OpenGL installations to deliver hardware-accelerator-aware 3D capabilities to Java.
Wolfram Research has released JLink 1.1, a toolkit that integrates Mathematica and Java so Mathematica programs can invoke Mathematica code and vice versa. Version 1.1 includes full source code for JLink, a MathCanvas Java class for displaying Mathematica graphics, ragged arrays, some performance optimizations, and other new features.
Greg Guerin sent in this note on BlackBerries and PageWriters:
According to this CNN article the personal information device known as Blackberry is hot, and it's programmable in Java (the J2ME/MIDP genre). It looks interesting:
However, I find this response a bit clue-impaired:
Q. What about Motorola, which has new two-way pager-wireless devices on the market that are being touted by Hollywood celebrities?
A. Motorola is selling a pager, a very simple device, that runs on a legacy network and has limited functionality.
These must be the Motorola PageWriter devices. For being "a very simple device" they have a small but usable QWERTY keyboard, can send & receive email, provide address-book, calendar, & alarm functions, and support third-party software via the FlexScript language.
While FlexScript isn't Java, it isn't as crippled as WAP, either. And "limited functionality" is true of ANY handheld device, whether it supports Java, MIDP, or anything else. Not even the most capable Palm device has unlimited functionality.
(BTW, since Motorola owns Metrowerks, I keep wondering why they don't just distribute CW compiler plug-ins instead of stand-alone semi-lame platform-specific IDE's for everything. Maybe it just takes a while for the clues to really sink in.)
I don't normally post unsolicited email aside from product announcements, but in this case Guerin included one very important sentence at the end of his message: "Permission granted to quote or publish." I do sometimes get interesting thoughts or responses from readers, but unless permission is explicitly granted to publish these notes I assume each one is intended as a private communication (again, aside from product announcements which the correspondent clearly wants me to publicize unless they say otherwise.) So if you are sending me materials for publication, please be sure to tell me that's what you're doing! Of course this all may become moot next year when I finally (fingers crossed) get discussion forums working on this site.
Frederic Lavigne's released 0.3.1 of Skin Look And Feel. This release adds theme packs (GTK/KDE themes in one file) and SkinRegion. SkinRegion (Windows only) lets you create irregular windows. SkinRegion is currently available only for Microsoft Windows.
Romain Guy's released Jext 2.10, an open source programmer's editor written in Java. New features include single JVM loading, workspaces, virtual folders and templates.
The Apache XML Project has released the first beta of Batik, a Java program/class library for browsing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) documents and converting them to GIF or PNG. This is based on the Java 2D API, and supports most of the static features of the November 2nd, 2000 Candidate Recommendation of SVG. Animation and other dynamic features are planned.
The current beta 1 release is definitely a little rough, and I recommend it for extreme early adopters only at this point. Clearly a lot of thought has gone into the initial documentation, and there were copious step-by-step instructions for installing this and getting it to run, including such often omitted details as setting particular environment variables and setting up your CLASSPATH. Unfortunately that's no substitute for a more intuitive. less complicated process. I had a great deal of trouble getting it to display the sample documents, problems which I eventually tracked down to an old version of w3c.jar in my ext directory. Less motivated/experienced users would never have gotten past this. Clearly the problem isn't with Batik itself, which is a very nice piece of work. It's with Java's insanely complex, difficult and unintuitive installation system. Here are three changes I propose to make Java software much more competitive with compiled software:
Break the connection between package structure and directories. This single problem causes more difficulty for new users of Java than almost everything else combined. Both .class and .java files contain sufficient internal information for the compiler to tell what package the class is in. Why does this need to be duplicated in the file system?
Add enforceable version info to the manifest in a JAR archive. Allow other programs to simply and easily specify which version of a standard JAR archive like w3c.jar they must load. Allow multiple versions to coexist in the CLASSPATH.
Make JAR archives truly runnable. That is, let me download a JAR archive, double-click it, and have the program embedded in that archive run like any other standalone application. Microsoft's VM does let developers build standalone executable for Windows, and these are so much easier to install and use that I invariably pick them when given a choice between standalone versions and pure Java versions. This should be available on all platforms in all VMs. Indeed it should be the standard way to distribute a Java program to end users
In what is perhaps a related note, IBM's alphaWorks has updated their Install Toolkit for Java with some minor enhancements and bug fixes.
The IBM T.J. Watson Research Center has posted a new release of the Agent Building and Learning Environment (ABLE), a toolkit for developing hybrid intelligent software agents and agent applications in Java, on alphaWorks. This release is a "major redesign of inference engines adding support for user libraries and Java object scripting, new CommonRules and DecisionTree beans" as well assorted bug fixes.
Sun's released the final version of JavaMail 1.2. This version fixes more than 40 bugs, and adds many new features including:
IMAP connection pooling
IMAP NAMESPACE support
IMAP QUOTA support
IMAP ACL support
IMAP LITERAL+ support
Faster parsing of large messages
Serializable search terms
Sun's released the JDBC API Test Suite 1.2.1. This "uses the J2EE SDK to test a JDBC driver with an application server. After passing the JDBC API test suite, driver developers will have confidence that their JDBC driver will work as part of a J2EE compatible environment."
Opera Software is releasing a free-beer, ad-supported version of their namesake web browser, Opera. Information about what adds have been seen, user dmographics, and the like are sent to Opera's servers using an XML format. For $39 you can turn off the ads. Opera 5.0 is currently availabled for Windows only and supports XML, Java (separate download required), 128-bit encryption, TLS 1.0, SSL 2 and 3, CSS1 and CSS2, HTML 4.01, HTTP 1.1, ECMAScript, JavaScript 1.3, and provides experimental support for DOM and WAP/ WML.
I've been trying to avoid buying from Amazon lately. Its recent anti-union activities are just one more in a long list of reasons why I don't like supporting them, and why I would really like to never buy from them again (or at least until they start treating customers and employees fairly). I just wish its competitors wouldn't make this so hard.
For a recent Christmas gift order, I had to try three different stores before I found one (FatBrain) that could fill my order. At the first two stores I tried (ecampus.com and A1Books) I couldn't even figure out how to put a book in my shopping cart. And none of these stores offered gift wrapping, so I'll have to wrap the books myself when they arrive and then reship them to the recipient.
Next I wanted to order a CD-player and a CD-RW drive. At Amazon this could have been part of the same order with the books. However, everywhere else this meant going to a different store. At least at Outpost.com I was able to get both the CD player and the CD-RW drive in one order. However, I had to use my PC to place the order because Outpost.com's site simply doesn't work on my Mac. If I wasn't in that small percentage of Mac users who have a PC sitting right next to their Mac, Outpost would have lost this several-hundred dollar order. The exact problem isn't important, but what it boils down to is that Outpost.com uses more complicated DHTML than is actually needed to let people browse their catalog and order from them. I reported the bug in their site months ago and they still haven't fixed it. I don't know how many thousands of dollars in sales they've lost since then, simply because their site is more complex than it needs to be. Buy.com has similar though more sporadic problems.
My Christmas shopping finished for the moment, I decided it was time to sign up for an online brokerage account so I could take advantage of what I thought was a real buying opportunity for Red Hat stock, so I surfed over to etrade. However, the first thing I wanted to know before I signed up for an account was how much their commission was going to cost me. That information may have been somewhere on their site, but I certainly couldn't find it. Every time I clicked on a link that looked like it might take me somewhere useful, I was presented with a request for a username and password I didn't have and wasn't going to get unless I signed up for an account first. But I wouldn't sign up for an account unless I first found out about the commission structure. Catch-22. Consequently etrade lost my account.
The state of user interface design at ecommerce sites is almost universally abysmal. Amazon is one of the few sites that gets it right; and that, more than anything else, explains their market-leading position. Everybody else needs to go read everything Jakob Nielsen's ever written and accept it as revealed gospel truth. Poor user interface design is costing ecommerce sites real money today. It's hard to quantify the exact cost of a missed opportunity, but many of these sites are so bad that I wouldn't be surprised if it's significantly more than the sales these sites are actually closing. Despite all its political and PR problems, one thing Amazon understands better than anyone is how not to frustrate surfers and chase customers away once they arrive at one of its sites. I wish all its competitors would learn how not to do that as well.
Sun's posted the second early access release of the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.1 on the Java Developer Connection (registration required). JAXP 1.1 is based on SAX2 and DOM2, the TRAX API for XSLT processing, and a few factory classes for locating a parser. It includes Sun's Crimson XML parser and a version of the Apache XML Project's Xalan XSLT processor.
Sun's posted the The Public Review Draft Specification for JSR-57 Long-term Persistence for JavaBeans to the Java Community Process. Comments are due by January 3, 2001.
Arcane Technologies Ltd. has released Sorceress, a set of Java bindings for the OpenGL Optimizer and Cosmo3D libraries from SGI, as open source (GPL). Cosmo3D is a scene graph API upon which OpenGL Optimizer is built. Optimizer is a high-level API designed to allow you to represent higher-order surfaces simply, such as NURBS, Coons patches and ruled surfaces.
Slava Pestov's posted the "first" prerelease of JEdit 3.0, an open source text editor written in Java. However, this is really just 2.7p4 with a renumbering. New features include DSSSL syntax highlighting and a tip of the day, and as usual many bugs have been fixed.
Alex Cozzi of IBM has released MulticastChannel, a Java class library and API that "simplifies the development and use of services based on UDP multicast sockets." MulticastChannel provides a distributed naming service that associates names with address/port/time-to-live triplets so that programs can communicate in a one-to-many fashion using fast UDP multicast sockets. IBM claims this can "exchange up to 10MBytes/sec of information on a 100Mb Ethernet network."
AlphaWorks has updated Regex for Java, their regular expression class library. This release adds new substitute and split functions as well as support for XML Schemas style regular expressions. The primary difference between XML schema regular expressions and most traditional regular expression languages is the addition of regular expressions for Unicode character classes. For instance, it's easy to match any character that's a currency sign or a digit, regardless of language or script.
AlphaWorks has also updated the Jinsight tracing program, a visual tool for optimizing and understanding Java programs . This release just fixes a few bugs.
The Apache Jakarta Project has released Tomcat 3.2, a servlet and JSP engine for the Apache Web server. Tomcat implements the Java Servlet API 2.2 and Java Server Pages 1.1. This release has many new features including support for SSL connections, should be significantly faster, and fixes more than 100 bugs.
Sun's posted the FCS version of the Java 2 Micro Edition Wireless Toolkit. This is a set of development tools for MIDP compliant applications targeted at devices such as cell phones and two way pagers..
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Should you snack between meals? It depends how fast you burn what you ate the meal before. Again, there is no straightforward answer because everyone is so different. Some people need to snack between meals; others do better waiting for the next meal. If you have an active lifestyle and need to re-fuel between meals, here are some good tips on what to choose.
The following is a guest blog from the original Snack Queen, Mary Rand. Queen Mary is a very active snowboarder, surfer and skateboarder. You might be surprised by the amount of food she can pack away on any given day.
'My friends call me the 'snack queen', rightfully so – at all times, my backpack can be up to 5 pounds heavier than my friends… STOCKED with food.
Before I leave for the day, I fill my bag with a tasty assortment of nutrient dense snacks.
Most of my snacks are of the non-perishable variety. I usually pack some nuts and dried fruit. I love raw roasted cashews, tamari flavored almonds, dark chocolate and nut trail mixes, pistachios, dried mango, apricots, coconut, dark chocolate covered dried fruit and more. These snacks hold up great in the backpack.
I also try to pack something crunchy and salty, like homemade popcorn, rice crackers or chips. 'Mary's Gone Crackers' are one of my favorite snacks. Crackers pair well with protein rich spreads like hummus, goat cheese, baby Belle cheese, no nitrite salami, Greek yogurt spinach and artichoke dip and almond butter.
I also pack whatever fresh fruit and vegetables are laying around as I'm on my way out the door. Large organic carrots are a go-to for me and don't have to be peeled…just rinsed. Carrots are satisfying and make me slow down because I have to chew a lot, besides they are really tasty! Apples, bananas, pears, oranges, grapefruit, pretty much whatever is on the counter and won't get squished in my back pack…bananas are risky but are worth the risk because they are really filling!
In addition, I do like to buy some already prepared snacks like date balls or cookies, filled with nuts and seeds.
I've also been known to lug around some very interesting snacks, such as kimchi, left overs from the night before, and pickles.
My friends look at me like I'm crazy, but secretly I think they are jealous because they always end up asking me to share my food with them.
My diet varies because of my hectic schedule, but I have noticed that my system prefers several small feedings throughout the day as opposed to eating three large meals. This grazing seems to keep me alert and warm. My metabolism is constantly working to digest my snacks which keeps my blood pumping to warm my toes and keep me mentally alert. I definitely feel fueled both mentally and physically to accomplish what I need to do throughout the day without ever feeling empty, bitchy or lethargic.
Grazing around like a farm animal and feeding on high fiber, plant based proteins packed with vitamins and minerals leads me to portion my 'bigger' meals a little smaller. If I don't eat on the regular, every 2-3 hours, my mood can get a little dark to say the least; besides, I just don't feel balanced.


The major risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft has compiled a list of countries with the highest risk of violent crime — essentially, a roundup of some of the world's most dangerous countries.
The consultancy's Criminality Index focuses on countries where there is a widespread prevalence of drug trafficking, kidnapping, extortion, robbery, and other activities that involve or lead to violence.
Each country is given a numerical risk figure, ranging from 10 (low risk) t0 0 (high risk). Verisk Maplecroft also splits the countries it assesses into several risk profiles, ranging from low to extreme. The consultancy does not, however, give away its exact methodology.
13. Nigeria: 2.37 — Africa's largest economy has made big strides in recent years, but with the prevalence of the terrorist group Boko Haram and insurgents like the Niger Delta Avengers, the threat of violence in Nigeria remains extreme.
12. Colombia: 2.31 — Colombia is one of the gateways to drug-trafficking routes into the US, with the nation producing a substantial portion of the world's cocaine. The prevalence of drug gangs makes the nation extremely dangerous.
11. Libya: 2.30 — Since the destruction of Muammar Gaddafi's regime in 2011, a power vacuum has emerged in Libya, and the nation has become a hotbed of ISIS activity.
10. Pakistan: 1.98 — Political and religious tensions are widespread in Pakistan, and the country is frequently plagued by terrorist atrocities. As recently as Monday, a militant group attacked an army base in the Kashmir region of the country.
9. Somalia: 1.75 — Somalia is one of the world's most unstable nations and is by some criteria a failed state. Somalia is the centre of the piracy epidemic that hit the Indian Ocean in recent years and is also home to the terrorist group al-Shabab.
8. El Salvador: 1.55 — Located in the heart of Central America, El Salvador is plagued by gang violence and drug trafficking. It is less than a quarter of a century since the end of a brutal 12-year civil war in the country.
7. Venezuela: 1.46 — Like Colombia, Venezuela is one of the gateways to drug-trafficking routes into the US. The country's economy has virtually collapsed since the price of oil fell in 2014, leading to widespread food shortages and a lack of basic amenities for many people. This, in turn, has led to growing violence.
T-4. Syria: 1.19 — Torn apart by a horrific and devastating war between rebel forces and the government of President Bashar Assad, Syria is facing an enormous humanitarian crisis. In major cities, airstrikes are a near permanent fixture, killing thousands. Almost half a million people have died since the Syrian conflict began in 2011. ISIS' huge presence in the nation makes the situation even worse.
T-4. Iraq: 1.19 — More than a decade after the beginning of the Iraq War, the Middle-Eastern nation is still haunted by the conflict. Iraq may now have a Western-backed government, but ISIS is rampant in some regions and violence predominates in much of the country.
3. Mexico: 1.17 — As the hub for trafficking drugs between South America and North America, Mexico has a significant problem with violence. "With the security forces facing budget cuts, a deterioration in the overall security environment is likely, leaving investors exposed to risks such as extortion, theft, and potentially the kidnapping of personnel," Verisk's Mexico analyst Grant Sunderland says.
2. Guatemala: 0.72 — Like El Salvador and Honduras, Guatemala is a Central American nation plagued by the drug-trafficking industry. In 2015, Guatemala reported an average of 91 murders a week.


Consumer Reports' best and worst car brands in 2015. ... Overall, the German automaker had a score of 70 and a middle reliability rating.
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Great hosts, clean villa, great pool. Modern & nice location.
Dear Luxoria Team, we spend nice days in Willa Afrodita - Luxury place with amazing view. We were pleased with the wonderful environment, equipment, technical facilities, the only thing we could criticize was slow internet and the absence of sound technology for playing music and English speaking channels on TV-especially music-most of the channels was German-speaking and We do not speak German. We do not use the TV so much, but the future maybe we did not have such luck to beautiful weather as last time and we use TV more often. Above the table in the Garden have built up wasps nest, so they like this place as we do. We had a little problem with the fire in the fireplace in the garden, it would need to have a fire-starter and small wood-chips, since there has not been an axe so we couldn't chop yourself. All this our comments are detail - but you can hear these comments only from people who spent time there. We wish all visitors of the Villa, to make them like it as us and we'll be back. Who wants to spend a luxury holiday in private place with all comforts-we can recommend.
Amazing house for perfect breakaway! Every piece of this property is wonderful, clean, tidy ... Everything you need... Many thanks to Ankica & Marijo :) We are coming back!
Ferienhaus mit All inclusive: Schönes Haus mit neugestaltetem, wunderschönen Pool in sehr gutem Zustand. Fast einsam gelegen, nur eine nette Nachbarsfamilie nebenan. Ca. 5 min nach Sibenik, allerdings Auto dringend benötigt. Inmitten eines Gartens mit frischen Feigen, Zwetschgen, Tomaten, Wein, Kartoffeln und alles zum Selbsternten. Die Besitzer waren sehr nett und haben uns mit einer kroatischen Brotzeit empfangen. Jeden Tag kamen sie kurz vorbei mit frischem Brot aus der eigenen Bäckerei. An einem Abend waren wir sogar von Ihnen eingeladen zum kroatischen Nationalgericht in der hauseigenen, offenen Feuerstelle. Danach haben wir gemeinsam auf der eigens zum Haus gehörenden Bocciabahn ein Tunier gespielt. Wir danken für die außergewöhnliche Gastfreundschaft.
Jeżeli komuś zależy na ciszy, z dala od zgiełku miasta to miejsce jest idealne! Polecam serdecznie.
The best place to stay around KrKA National Park Everything was top class. Comfort, style and cleanliness. And an excellent host Wish we could have spent more time.
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Q: Не распознается ни одно событие SDL Написал такой код:
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib> // для system
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <SDL.h>
#include <SDL_image.h>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    SDL_Event e;
    while (1) {
        while (SDL_PollEvent(&e) != 0) {
            cout << 1;
        }

    }
}

Какую бы я клавишу не нажал, 1 не выводится в консоль. Что я делаю не так?

A: #include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib> // для system
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <SDL.h>
#include <SDL_image.h>
using namespace std;
int main(int argc, char* argv[]){
    SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO);
    SDL_Event e;
    while (1) {
        while (SDL_PollEvent(&e) != 0) {
            cout << 1;
        }
    }
}

Необходимо было инициализировать SDL2.


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How mobile phones can be used to fight diseases like Ebola
By Dr Kunal Patel
Novel methods of communicating can break down discrimination and dangerous misinformation.
RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT HIV amongst sex workers in Thailand can be a difficult task. Why? Because barriers such as stigma and discrimination exist. To overcome such barriers, methods of education and awareness-building have to be innovative; and this was certainly the case when I was working in Northern Thailand, focusing on HIV stigma amongst the transgender populations and sex workers.
My colleagues and I had to use novel methods of communicating 'sex-ed' messages that did not bring attention to the sex workers and possibly lead to them being discriminated against. These methods included text messaging and the placement of text and video on mobile phones – devices which every sex worker we worked with had.
These devices became windows not only into the world of Candy Crush & co., but also were used to improve awareness about confidential HIV testing, a key aspect in the fight against HIV stigma.
Health systems are overstretched and overburdened
This highlights that the use of mobile phones, text messaging and video can be incredibly cost-effective and essential in healthcare work, particularly in developing countries. These tools can not only impact on patients, but also on healthcare workers themselves.
Currently, health systems in developing countries are overstretched and overburdened. There is a massive global health worker shortage – estimated to grow to 12.9 million by 2035, from the current deficit of 7.2 million – making it even more imperative to support front-line health workers through ICT and mobile technologies that provide education, improve efficiency and enable deliverable health services.
Millions of mobile connections are being made every year in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Capitalising on this tremendous growth is absolutely vital.
Misinformation is a major challenge for healthcare
The current Ebola outbreak has brought enormous media attention to the challenges healthcare systems face in settings where the infrastructure and levels of education are poor (as recently highlighted by the work of Alex Thomson, currently in Sierra Leone).
Mobiles, tablets and digital media can rapidly fill the gaps, providing educational videos; tools that allow doctors to trace sick individuals; digital training materials for new health worker; and systems that allow improved delivery of healthcare, such as rapid deployment of ambulances and medics.
'Phablets' or fitness bands are all good and well for tackling obesity in developed countries, but the majority of populations in areas such as Sub Saharan Africa have neither the funds for such devices, nor the high-end mobile networks to support them. However, even the simplest of phones can handle text messaging as well as small compressed videos without access to the internet. An example of how these more basic technologies are being successfully used would be the low-res versions of the animation, 'Ebola: Poem for the Living', and accompanying audio files, which are now being shared across West Africa via Bluetooth.
Addressing the global shortage of health workers
Currently in Ireland and Europe, healthcare workers such as GPs and hospital doctors continue their training using online platforms and materials sent to their mobile devices. However, health workers in developing countries may not necessarily have these tools to improve their knowledge. Therefore, we must act to address this imbalance. To do so requires strategic collaboration and partnership throughout the entire training ecosystem. The importance of this is now even greater, with the growing Ebola epidemic and the imbalance it is causing to health systems in Africa and beyond.
For the first time ever, Ireland hosted one of the most important conferences focused on technology for health education in developing countries – the GETHealth Summit. Key groups and individuals were in Dublin on 13th and 14th November 2014 to discuss what we can do next – not just for the Ebola crisis but for front-line health worker training globally. Our hope is that the power of technology can be harnessed to make real inroads into addressing the global shortage of health workers.
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So if I count well, there are 3 similar apps to interact with Calaos: Calaos-Home, Calaos-Web and Calaos-Mobile.
– Do those apps have the same features?
– Will all those 3 apps be concurrently maintained in the future?
– Could I use and rely on Calaos-Mobile as the only interface in my home or should I always use Calaos-Home to make sure to get the last bug/feature updates?
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Fuzzy Meadows: The Week's Best New Music (December 3rd - December 30th)
Welcome to FUZZY MEADOWS, our weekly recap of this week's new music. We're sharing our favorite releases of the week in the form of albums, singles, and music videos along with the "further listening" section of new and notable releases from around the web. It's generally written in the early hours of the morning and semi-unedited... but full of love and heart. The list is in alphabetical order and we sincerely recommend checking out all the music we've included. There's a lot of great new music being released. Support the bands you love. Spread the word and buy some new music.
*Disclaimer: We are making a conscious effort not to include any artist in our countdown on back-to-back weeks in order to diversify the feature, so be sure to check the "further listening" as well because it's often of top-notch quality too.
BLESSED | "Thought"
Vancouver's Blessed (or Abbotsford's, if you want to get specific) return with a brand new single, the first since the band's split with Tunic back in April. While the band prepare the release of their heavily anticipated full-length debut, "Thought" is a great preview, an immediate force of the band's art-leaning post-punk that's tangled and propulsive. The band, now a quintet with additional guitars and synth courtesy of Matt McKeen, warp rhythms into knots, their guitars slipping into the spaces between, forming their own paths that always manage to diverge in challenging structures that maintain melody and shape.
Thought by Blessed
CZARFACE & GHOSTFACE KILLAH | "Iron Claw"
In 2018 the trio of Czarface (Inspectah Deck, 7L, & Esoteric) teamed up with MF DOOM to release what I consider the year's best hip-hop album, the critically underrated Czarface Meets Metalface. In keep the theme of that collaborative record alive, the group are pairing up again, this time with fellow Wu-Tang Clan legend, Ghostface Killah. Set to release Czarface Meets Ghostface, the first single "Iron Claw" is quintessential Czarface, bringing the boom-bop of the early 90's back with hard-edged beats, soul samples, and the crackle of the tape. Inspectah Deck, Ghostface, and Esoteric continue to bring classic line-for-line verses that only serve as a reminder that the veterans remain at the top of the game.
EERIE WANDA | "Sleepy Eyes"
Eerie Wanda will release their sophomore album Pet Town in January, quite possibly the upcoming year's first essential release. We've already heard the dreamy perfection of "Moon," but the album's second single presents a different side of the record, one less tranquil but every bit as captivating. "Sleepy Eyes" opens a repeated chord structure, sparse and somewhat grungy, and then the vocals hit with dazzling rhythmic quality, each word punctuated for stunning effect. With the rhythm fully established already, the introduction of the song's percussion adds a great texture to the song's cemented groove... and that's before the sweeping keys bring the psych crescendo. The lyric video pays tribute to the joys of just staying home as Eerie Wanda's Marina Tadic practices rocking out with dolls and puppets (including a very awesome banana companion).
FRIED EGG | "Apraxia"
Virginia's Fried Egg will release their full length debut, Square One, in February via Feel It Records (The Cowboys, U-Nix, Vanilla Poppers), having established themselves as one of the DMV's most exciting hardcore bands in the past few years. The album's lead single "Apraxia" sounds both classic and innovative, a relentless barrage of riffs of stampeding rhythms, jostling around with a reckless tempo that contorts and expands without warning, the guitars joyously feeding back in response as the vocals are barked in rapid disdain. This one seriously shreds with a carnival like back and forth bridge that pulls from the Devo catalog before the band spit into a sludgier, noisier territory, packing the last lumbering punch.
Square One by Fried Egg
GOUGE AWAY | "Audiotree Live"
Florida's Gouge Away had a huge 2018 that saw them release their sophomore album, Burnt Sugar, via Deathwish Records to widespread acclaim from both critics and fans across the country. They brought their ferocious live show just about everywhere on tours with Culture Abuse and Drug Church (and another planned for February with Russian Circles), but in case you missed them, or if you're ready to relive the cathartic bliss, the band capped off the year with an Audiotree Session that has them in full on pummel, a quick succession of the band's scathing hardcore and post-hardcore blend. The band lurch into low-end heavy melodicism and back out into primal fury, adept at setting moods and tearing them back into oblivion.
MIRANDA WINTERS | "O.T.O. Revised"
Best known as the front person for Chicago's Melkbelly, Miranda Winters released her solo debut, Xobeci, What Grows Here? this summer, proving to be as adept at lo-fi home recorded pop as the colossal force and tangled charm of her main gig. With her full band releasing one of our absolute favorites of 2017 and her solo project doing the same for 2018, we can't wait to see what next year has in store, but before that, Winters has released a video for "O.T.O. Revised," the album's closing track and one of the record's folkier moments. The soft and meditative song plucks a singular melody that works almost in unison with the sound of her fingers moving over the strings. There's no repetition of verses., there's no chorus, and there's no need for either as the video's cartoon waves carry us off to sea in tranquility, much the same as the song.
MISTER GOBLIN | "Final Boy" EP
We've already featured Mister Goblin's first two singles "Be Right There" and "Nothing You Do (Happens)" so why stop now? The solo project of Sam Woodring (Two Inch Astronaut) released their debut EP, Final Boy, in early December, a stunning mix of pop centered songwriting that squirms its way into a bit of post-hardcore and more technical punk territory. From the gentle "Night Lighting" and its heartbreaking lyrics to the dissonant "Option Vampire" and it's experimental approach to Woodring's past catalog, every song is an immersive display of his songwriting at its best and most unrestrained. Album closer "Fixing The Jokes" could be the highlight on a record full of them, a dark acoustic intro is bolstered by a perfectly woven vocal melody before the song evolves into lush electronics.
Final Boy by Mister Goblin
NET | "Lookback / Big Shirt"
After a few years of inactivity, it would appear as though DC's Swings have called it a day. Thankfully, Zach Lewton and Daniel Howard (with help from Jamie Finucane) have returned as Net. Now located in Brooklyn, the duo are still making intricate art-pop with a barrage of influences that seem to range from soul to post-punk, a warm and unpredictable sound that's constantly engaging. "Lookback" is hypnotic and and soothing, a pop song at heart with a swarm of layered experimental beauty. "Big Shirt" is a glorious swoon, the bottom dropping out at times into stuttering rhythms and dreamy keys that trickle in at varying intensity. It's complex and wondrous, a promising new start from restlessly creative minds.
Lookback // Big Shirt by Net
STOVE | "Duckling Fantasy"
On Stove's sophomore album 's Favorite Friend, the band took an ultra personal record and made it relatable to anyone that's ever had feelings. It's a wild ride that highlights all the band did well on their debut and the EPs that followed it, adapting with an experimental approach to song structure and nuances that made each song unique from the next while retaining an impeccable cohesiveness (even when it tries to shake from it). I'm not saying it's my favorite album of year (because it's like picking your favorite kid), but it could just be my favorite album of the year. "Ducking Fantasy," one of the many highlights has drummer/vocalist/guitarist Jordyn Blakely as the father figure you always wished you had, teaching life lessons that don't always go so well. The song's subject matter can get heavy, but the band play it for laughs, creating the perfect balance in the process.
THELMA | "Take Me To Orlando"
Natasha Jacobs, better known as Thelma, has one of those incredible powerful and versatile voices, the kind you may associate with Fiona Apple, Joanna Newsom, or Angel Olsen. There's a sense of control as her pitch swings between low and high, with cracks and gasps in between. It's been a rough time for Jacobs since the release of her debut due to several severe medical conditions, but Thelma returns with a new album, The Only Thing, and the first single "Take Me To Orlando" is as dazzling as ever. The song opens with a big groove that's built on the vocal melody and a sustained synth. Jacobs adds gentle shifts and hooks from there, with an epic sensibility that plinks and soars in a real majestic, orchestrated, glow.
The Only Thing by Thelma
WU-TANG CLAN | "Tiny Desk Concert"
Wu-Tang Clan, the world's greatest hip-hop group continue to remind everyone of their legendary status in celebration of the 25th anniversary of their classic debut, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). The group dropped by NPR for what should probably be the Tiny Desk Concert finale (honestly, it's all downhill from here), opening with what some (myself) consider to be rap's greatest achievement, "Triumph". Nearly everyone who is there (Ghostface Killah and Method Man are missing) does there verse (RZA skips his… Raekwon gets cut off) and it's the WTC's criminally underrated MCs that really shine throughout the entire performance. Cappadonna, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, and U-God really lead the show, rapping classic verses with extended vocabulary and the that eloquent street knowledge that makes Wu-Tang for the children. Raekwon is really loving RZA's freestyle too. There's no better.
Further Listening:
DECEMBER 03 - DECEMBER 09:
BEDBUG "The Book Of Love" (Magnetic Fields cover) | CHRIS COHEN "Edit Out" | DEERHUNTER "Element" | DWELLER "Bugs" | GUIDED BY VOICES "My Future In Barcelona" | HALFSOUR "Values" | ILLUMINATI HOTTIES "The Way You Say Good-Night" (Magnetic Fields cover) | JR SLAYER "Half Lyfe" | LRRR / MAXSHH "Thank Your LRRR, You're Welcome Maxshh" EP | RICHARD VAIN "Night Jammer" LP | SASAMI "Not The Time" | SILVERBACKS "Just In The Band" (Live Session) | SUN YOUNG "Tiles" EP | SWERVEDRIVER "The Lonely Crowd Fades In The Air" | THICK "Lyfe" | TIM PRESLEY'S WHITE FENCE "I Have To Feed Larry's Hawk"
ANEURYSM "St. E's" | THE COWBOYS "Some Things Never Change" | DADDIES "Heart" | DEN-MATE "Audiotree Live" | GABRIEL BIRNBAUM "Stack The Miles" | HOLIDAY MUSIC "Moves" | LIVING STATUE RECORDS "You Can Sing Me Anything: A Tribute to 69 Love Songs" LP | MEAT PUPPETS "Warranty" | MERCURY REV "Big Boss Man" (feat. Hope Sandoval) | PLANET B "Mirror, Mirror, On The World" | RED SEA "Jumprope" | SINGLE MOTHERS "Tan Line (Like Passing Through A Wall)" | SUNWATCHERS "Beautiful Crystals" | TEYANA TAYLOR "Gonna Love Me" (Remix, feat. Ghostface Killah, Method Man, & Raekwon) | WINTERSLEEP "Surrender"
ALEXANDER "An Allston Pudding Session" | BIG BLISS "Audiotree Live" | BLUE RAY "OGFIL" EP | CULT LEADER "Audiotree Live" | FCKR JR "Fog b/w Nine Inch Cakes" | FRED CRACKLIN "One Bad Bear" | HEAVEN'S BLADE "I Don't Believe" | THE HERMITS "Teeth of the Mountain" | HOLY WAVE "Dixie Cups" | ONE STEP CLOSER "The Reach" | SEN MORIMOTO "Audiotree Live" | SLEEPING BAG "Play It Cool" LP | THANKS FOR COMING "Nosebleeds Always" LP | TONY MOLINA "Separate Ways" | TØRSÖ "Grab A Shovel" | TREDICI BACCI "Emmanuelle" (feat. JG Thirlwell) | TWIN DRUGS "MWR" | WOOING "In Her Head" | YOUNG JESUS "Fourth Zone of Gaits"
Tagged: Blessed, czarface, Ghostface Killah, Eerie Wanda, Stove, Wu-Tang Clan, Thelma, Fried Egg, Gouge Away, Miranda Winters, Mister Goblin, Net, Bedbug, Chris Cohen, Deerhunter, Dweller, Guided By Voices, Halfsour, Illuminati Hotties, JR Slayer, Lrrr, Maxshh, Richard Vain, Sasami, Silverbacks, Sun Young, Swervedriver, Thick, Tim Presley's White Fence, Aneurysm, The Cowboys, Daddies, Den-Mate, Sen Morimoto, Gabriel Birnbaum, Holiday Music, Living Statue Records, Meat Puppets, Mercury Rev, Hope Sandoval, Planet B, Red Sea, Single Mothers, Sunwatchers, Teyana Taylor, Method Man, Raekwon, Wintersleep, Alexander, Big Bliss, Blue Ray, Cult Leader, The Hermits, Holy Wave, Tony Molina, Sleeping Bag, Fred Cracklin, One Step Closer, Tørsö, Tredici Bacci, Twin Drugs, Wooing, Young Jesus, Heaven's Blade
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