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Q: Refactor nested async callback within react's componentDidMount() using an external file I'm using react's componentDidMount(), which holds a lot of code and does two callbacks. Eventually, in the inner most callback (i.e., the second one), I execute this.setState({}).
Minimal code
class App extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = { data: {} };
  }

  requests() {
    fooCallback.request({ data: { query: userQuery } }).subscribe(({ jsonResp1 }) => {

      // 100 lines of data processing with jsonResp1

      // second Callback
      barCallback.request({ data: { string: userString } }).subscribe(({ jsonResp2 }) => {

        // 200 lines of data processing with jsonResp2
        this.setState({ data: processedData })

      });
    });

    componentDidMount() {
      this.requests();
    }
  }

  render() {
    // ...
    return (
          // ...
        );
  }

}

Since the request()method is very huge it bloats my main container component App. I've already tried to create an external js file (default export function ...) and imported that in my App.js. Yet, this was not possible probably due to the asynchron nature of the method.
Is it somehow possible to reduce my App.js?
Edit
What I tried in many variants is to create an external.js file:
external.js
export default async () => {
    return fooCallback.request({ data: { query: userQuery } }).subscribe(({ jsonResp1 }) => {

      // 100 lines of data processing with jsonResp1

      // second Callback
      barCallback.request({ data: { string: userString } }).subscribe(({ jsonResp2 }) => {

        // 200 lines of data processing with jsonResp2
        return processedData

      });

    return barCallback;

    });

... and then to import it
App.js
import getData from './js/getData.js'
// ...
async componentDidMount() {
  const response = await this.getData()
  this.setState({data: response})
}

Yet, no success. Is the only way to create a class component, maybe?

A: If I understand your question correctly, you want to move the request function to a separate file, but within the function you use "this.setState" which is out of the components scoping.
You're right to move this logic out of the component. Callbacks are a little confusing to work with sometimes, especially when callbacks depend on other callbacks, so on and so forth.
Wouldn't it be nice if callbacks acted synchronous? You can simulate this by wrapping the callbacks in Promises and awaiting the results of the callbacks to resolve. This way, you're program will wait for the first callback to execute entirely and return data before executing the following callback (you were going to nest) that needed the output of the first.
Utility file will look something like:
function processRespOne(fooCallback, userQuery) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    fooCallback.request({ data: { query: userQuery } }).subscribe(({ jsonResp1 }) => {
      // ...process jsonResp1
      // by resolving this data, it acts like a standard function "return" if the invoking expression awaits it
      resolve(processedData);
    });
  });
}

function processRespTwo(respOneData, barCallback, userString) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    barCallback.request({ data: { string: userString } }).subscribe(({ jsonResp2 }) => {
      // process jsonResp2 with the output of respOneData
      resolve(processedData);
    });
  });
}

// here I define the function "async" so i can use the "await" syntax, so my asynchronous function acts synchronous
// Async functions return promises. So caller's can await this function.
export async function requests(fooCallback, userQuery, barCallback, userString) {
  const respOneData = await processRespOne(fooCallback, userQuery);
  const results = await processRespTwo(respOneData, barCallback, userString)

  // anyone who is "await"ing this function will get back results
  return results;
}

In App.js
import { requests } from './js/getData.js';
//...
   async componentDidMount() {
     const results = await requests(fooCallback, userQuery, barCallback, userString);
     this.setState({ results });
   }

Here's a link to a really good answer discussing converting callbacks into promises for more synchronous like execution. Definitely take a look at the "nodebacks" example in the accepted answer: How do I convert an existing callback API to promises?

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Epic Games Reveals Daydream Dungeon Demo
By Kevin Joyce	 Last updated May 19, 2016
In line with the announcement that Unreal Engine 4 now supports development for Google's newly announced mobile virtual reality (VR) platform, Daydream, Epic Games has revealed their own technical demonstration for the head-mounted display (HMD). The currently unnamed dungeon-based role-playing game (RPG) was built in just two weeks using the now publicly available Unreal Engine 4 plugin.
The work of just one developer, Epic Games Principal Artist Shane Caudle, this demonstration will be made available to developers to showcase the graphical bar that can be achieved on Daydream, as well as how to leverage the Daydream controller's touchpad and buttons. The entire piece was created using only Unreal Engine 4 Blueprint visual scripting and simple fantasy-themed assets.
Epic Games has released a video offering a taste of the gameplay experience available in this technical demonstration for Daydream, as well as notable employees of the company discussing both the hardware and Epic Games' plans to support it. VRFocus will keep you updated with all the latest details on Epic Games' work in VR and on the Daydream platform.
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One thing.
grubl
One thing. Apr 12, 2010 12:33:36 GMT -5
Post by grubl on Apr 12, 2010 12:33:36 GMT -5
Does anyone really now consider BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA and BUCKAROO BANZAI masterpieces? Maybe cult curios. Mayb e worth a laugh, but come on.
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Post by james on Apr 12, 2010 13:25:47 GMT -5
I love both (Carpenter's film a bit more than the latter). What was terrific about Little China in 1985, which might not be quite as subversive now, is the way the film upends the macho action genre along racial lines. Like Derrick and Tom mentioned, the film starts with the illusion that Kurt Russell is the hero and Dennis Dun the sidekick - and then the formula is flipped over. Russell plays the character to the hilt knowing this (he did something similar in Death Proof).
If you look at American movies in the 80's, there's the most well known stream of glossy blockbusters and "high concept" star vehicles (Top Gun, etc.) that are often really dull (or unintenionally hilarious). Underneath, you have a less-celebrated stream of subversive films, usually (but not always) low-budget, that often satirize and/or critique the very same values celebrated by the blockbusters and high concepts.
I'd consider Big Trouble in Little China as one of those Buckaroo Banzai, not so much, although God knows it's different that the typical 80's movie coming out of Holywood. (Also, Day of the Dead, Night of the Comet, The 'Burbs and Repo Man, to name a few others).
I could include They Live, but I agree with Tom that the movie suffers from half-working as a vehicle for Roddy Piper. Also, generally, I think Carpenter came up with a good concept but didn't think it through as thoroughly as he should have (George Romero might have done a better job with it).
The only film you mentioned that I find watchable is REPO MAN; very smart, very well made, strong performances, spot on dialogue.
No doubt, the '80s and90's were almost total shit for movies. Subervise on its' own, isn't enough for me.
I will add, having never heard of Roddy Piper before seeing it, I thought that THEY LIVE was a lot of fun.
Post by Derrick on Apr 12, 2010 18:24:29 GMT -5
james said it a lot better than I could have and with less wordage. I agree with everything he said and yes, I consider BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA and BUCKAROO BANZAI masterpieces of their genre.
I hate to always come off as negative. I truly love film and it makes me very critical. I do enjoy listening to what you guys have to say. But, those two films, I just don't get it. I love Ed Wood, I'm open to schlock.
Apr 12, 2010 18:46:03 GMT -5 grubl said:
I absolutely LOVE that you don't like everything I do, grubl. THAT is what makes BETTER IN THE DARK so much fun. Tom and and I encourage everybody who listens to us to disagree and debate. That is the only way we truly learn. By the exchanging of IDEAS.
stacyd
Post by stacyd on Apr 12, 2010 22:23:45 GMT -5
BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA came along on home video at just the right time. Much like Army of Darkness, I watched this film on VHS in my aunt and uncle's basement with my cousin and some friends and we ate it up with a spoon. At the time I never picked up on the fact that Kurt Russel was meant to be the sidekick, I just saw him as the Blundering Hero when compared to Dennis Dun's Martial Arts Master. It was like an issue of Marvel Team-Up with Jack Burton as the wisecracking, slightly inept Spider-Man having to deal with Kung-Fu magic and mysticism alongside Iron Fist or Shang-Chi. He's good in his environment, but here he's so completely out of his depth that he comes off as a total boob.
BUCKAROO BANZAI I came to much, much later on in life, and I immediately fell in love with its demented sensibility. As a guy who reads comics like Alan Moore's Tom Strong and the Doc Savage paperbacks it was easy to see Buckaroo and his Hong Kong Kavaliers as the modern-day descendants of pulp heroes like Doc and the Fabulous Five. And John Lithgow's performance as Dr. Lizardo. . .oh my God. That is the true face of cheesy, epic, go-for-broke supervillainy at it's finest. The whole film crackles with this optimistic energy that by the end, as the heroes are making their pimp stride to. . .uh. . .someplace. . .you just want to join in. That world is the kind of world I'd love to explore further and escape into, but sadly. BUCKAROO BANAZAI VS. THE WORLD CRIME LEAGUE seems forever out of reach. Ah well. . .
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Post by tombitd on Apr 12, 2010 23:18:21 GMT -5
[quote author=stacyd board=episode79 thread=384 post=1359 time=1271129025 That world is the kind of world I'd love to explore further and escape into, but sadly. BUCKAROO BANAZAI VS. THE WORLD CRIME LEAGUE seems forever out of reach. Ah well. . .
Waaaay back when I was in college, I was sent by the college newspaper to interview Earl Rousch. During that interview, Rousch revealed that the 'Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League' thing was never intended to be made.
And if you pick up the anniversary DVD, you get a strange featurette about the making of the film where Rousch insists that the film was just an adaptation of the real adventures of the real Dr. Banzai...
One thing. Apr 13, 2010 0:14:44 GMT -5
Post by stacyd on Apr 13, 2010 0:14:44 GMT -5
Dang. Still, it's probably for the best: Weller is far too long in the tooth now to play Buckaroo and I doubt that lightning-in-a-bottle energy could be captured twice.
I noticed that too. . .which was a fun little conceit but at the same time I was like "C'mon Earl, take us behind the curtain into your process huh? What were your influences?" but he wasn't budging from the notion that Buckaroo was a real person. Very odd.


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Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor modulators are a class of drugs used as immunomodulators, most notably in cases of multiple sclerosis.

These drugs have the ability to modulate the G-protein coupled S1P receptors. Drugs that modulate S1P1 receptors bind to those receptors in lymph nodes and prevent certain lymphoid immune cells from being excreted into the blood and reaching the central nervous system (CNS), leading to lymphopenia.

History and development

Discovery
The class of drugs known as S1P receptor modulators came into being with the synthesis of compound FTY720 (fingolimod) in 1992. The drug was developed following observations of immunosuppressive action in ISP-1 (myriocin), a natural product derived from the fungus Isaria sinclairii. Myriocin, see illustration 1, is an untraditional amino acid that has showed effectiveness as an in vivo immunosuppressant in rats. This led to further investigation of a possible drug-class that could be used in immunosuppressive therapy. The lymphopenia causing mechanism of fingolimod was discovered in 2002 and was found to be due to the drug's ability to alter the S1P1 receptor in the secondary lymphs. Furthermore, fingolimod was found to modulate receptors 1-5 of the sphingosine-1-phosphate class. Fingolimod is the first-in-class discovered drug that act as a sphingosine-1-receptor modulator. Even though it has the drawback of not being a selective receptor modulator it has passed all clinical drug trials and was approved for the market in USA in 2010. In the beginning the focus of developing a drug from myriocin was to find an immunosuppressant drug that could be used to prevent rejection of organs during and after a transplant. But fingolimod was later found to be more effective against multiple sclerosis. The mechanism that lead to the desired effect of fingolimod is due to the modulation of S1P1 receptors and the future development of this drug class is therefore aiming for more selective modulators than fingolimod.

Development
Researchers figured out that the metabolite ISP-1, myriocin, was 10 times more active than cyclosporin A. The first drug FTY720 (fingolimod) was developed from ISP-1. Because the metabolite itself is an amphiphilic compound and, which represent poor cellular permeability and oral bioavailability FTY720, fingolimod, was synthesized to improve these properties in vivo.

To enhance its activity a few changes were made to the structure shown in illustration 1. In order to find an active pharmacophore the structure was simplified by removing chirality and functionality. The first chiral group, marked red on illustration 1, was removed by the conversion of the carboxyl acid to 2-amino-1,2-propane diol.

As research continued it was discovered that reduction of the ketone and olefin groups, marked purple on illustration 1,  was tolerated. Furthermore, the remaining 3-hydroxyl and 4-hydroxyl groups marked green on illustration 1 were non-essential to its activity. They were therefore removed from the compound resulting in an achiral intermediate and daughter compound. These changes of ISP-1 resulted in continued improvements in the profile of the compound.

To further improve the activity and safety the side chain was shortened from 28 carbons to 14 carbons marked orange on illustration 1.

To find the lead optimization a part of the fatty acid side chain was replaced with 1,4-disubstituted phenyl ring. This was done to decrease the bond rotation. The phenyl ring was moved along the side chain to find its optimal position. These efforts resulted in the two carbon linkers from the polar head group to the phenyl moiety. The resulting product was FTY720 as shown in illustration 2 and its activated, phosphorylated form in illustrations 3a and 3b. Research showed that FTY720 had the same efficacy as ISP-1 in vitro. Moreover, it was found that FTY720 is 100 times more efficient than Cyclosporin A against experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in an animal model of multiple sclerosis.

Pharmacology
At first the mechanism of action of the first drug in this class (fingolimod) was unknown and great efforts were made to figure out its mechanism of action.  Researchers figured out at last that these drugs are prodrugs and becomes active when being phosphorylated by kinases.  Then the phosphorylated drug binds to sphingosine receptors: not only S1P1, but also S1P3, S1P4 and S1P5.  By binding to the S1P receptors, the receptors break down with time and become inactivated. The myelin sheath is therefore less likely to break down and stays intact for a longer time.

The binding to receptor S1P1 is the one that contributes to the mechanism of action, while the others are thought to produce the unwanted side effects of the drugs. The aim in the future for these drugs is therefore to find chemicals/drugs that can bind more selectively to the S1P1 subtype.

Adverse side effect of the drugs at first dose can be bradycardia, influenza, back pain, hypertension, headache, cough, dyspnea and diarrhea. With further development of the class of drugs hopefully these side effects will no longer be a big issue.

Clinical use
The first S1P receptor modulator available on the market was fingolimod. Fingolimod was approved and released on the market in USA in 2010 as an anti-multiple sclerosis drug.

Multiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease where immune cells attack the neurons of the central nervous system and degrade the myelin that protect them.

There is no cure for multiple sclerosis, but disease modifying therapies (DMTs) can slow disease progression and reduce the frequency and severity of relapses. Whereas S1P receptor modulators work by modulating the immune system, other DMTs have different mechanisms, such as suppressing the immune system.

Other possible uses of S1P receptor modulators are as agents against autoimmunity, against cancer and inflammatory diseases like Alzheimer's disease, and in organ transplants to prevent rejection of the transplant.

Sphingosine-1-receptor modulators drugs

(*)In phase III for psoriasis, in phase II for graft vs. host.

(**) Is on the market in Russia.

References

Multiple sclerosis
Receptor modulators


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A career OPS+ of 154, roughly meaning he batted 50% better than the average major leaguer for his career.
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Leaving steroid and PED use out of the equation, one can easily say Ramirez is one of the 4-5 best right handed hitters of the last half century. He can be mentioned in the same breath as the likes of Willie Mays, Albert Pujols, Hank Aaron, and Frank Robinson in terms of being a complete hitter.
Yet, in the end his 2nd drug suspension will define his legacy. He'll never be in the Hall of Fame, not while we have a voter base that refused to elect Jeff Bagwell in his first year of eligibility, seemingly on the question of whether or not he "could have been using" despite not one shred of proof otherwise.
I'm of two conflicting thoughts on the eligibility considerations for players who used PEDs. On the one hand, the most hallowed records in the game (single season home run and career home run records) were shattered by hitters who artificially enabled themselves to surpass the previous records and forever change the game. Many of the hall voter base are long time baseball writers who grew up idolizing those players whose records were "stolen" by these modern day cheaters, and they will forever penalize the likes of McGwire, Sosa and Bonds for destroying the memory of Ruth, Aaron or Maris. The 2013 hall of fame ballot especially highlights this issue and may be our best test case for how these players are treated.
On the other hand, the culture of the game at the time encouraged and fostered drug use during the mid 90s, and various opinions from players at the time put the overall usage across the entire league in the 75% range. We didn't discount the pitching performances of players in the dead ball era, nor do we ignore the performance of pitchers in the late 60s who dominated their counterparts during a small era of dominance. We used to have dozens of batters hitting .400 prior to the turn of the century, yet now the best hitters in the league hit in the mid .300s at best. Players in the early parts of the century played in a non-integrated sport, and players in the 60's and 70's notoriously used stimulants on a regular basis to make it through the grind of the season. At some point voters need to realize that omitting an entire generation of players based on innuendo or suspicion is doing the game a huge injustice and destroying an entire generation of legacy that merits inclusion in the hall of fame.
There is no good solution. At some point though we need to at least acknowledge this generation's greatest players. Unfortunately, it probably will take a veteran's committee 30 years from now to do it.
Si's Tom Verducci wrote a great piece echoing much of what I've said above; it is worth a read.
Why is Bernadina the presumed LF Starter over Morse?
(Coincidentally, i'm also assuming that Rick Ankiel is a backup/fall back plan and nothing more. He's had exactly ONE impressive hitting season and was worse than Nyjer Morgan last year splitting time between the Royals, the Braves and the DL. But it is concievable that Ankiel is "competing" for the LF job as well).
Mike Morse turned out to be one of the bright storylines for the team at the plate last year, posting a very respectable 2010 slash line of .289/.352/.519 and hitting 15 homers in just 293 at bats for a season OPS+ of 133 (3rd on the team behind Dunn and Zimmerman, just ahead of Willingham). He's a former infielder who moves around well despite being a big guy and can play four positions relatively easily (both corner infield and both corner outfield positions).
Roger Bernadina meanwhile posted this 2010 slash line: .246/.307/.384 in 461 plate appearances. He had 11 homers and provided very good outfield defense with capabilities at all three positions.
So, given that the Nats traded away two of their best four hitters last year and clearly seem set to take a small step backwards in offensive production, why exactly is the presumed starter in left field not automatically going to be Morse?
The arguments i've heard are variations of three themes: lefty-righty splits at the plate, defense and balance of our lefty-righty hitters on the bench. Lets discuss each item.
1. Lefty-Righty Splits: the knock on Morse is that he cannot hit right handed pitchers. He mashes lefties but struggles against righties. Is this true? According to his 2010 splits, he clearly hits lefties better (he hit .295 versus .287 against right handers) but more significantly his slugging percentage split is significantly different (.466 versus .625 against lefties). So clearly he doesn't hit for as much power against right handers.
The thing is, his performance as a righty versus other righties is still pretty good as compared to the league. His "sOPS+" values (sOPS+ being his Split league adjusted OPS value) was 126, meaning that he's about 26% better than the league average for righty-righty matchups.
So, lets quickly look at Bernadina's splits. Turns out, Bernadina actually hits lefties BETTER than righties, but his best slugging figure (.429 against lefties) is worse than Morse's weakest slugging figure.
Conclusion: Morse may be slightly weaker against righties, but he's better against either arm than Bernadina. He is closer to a #5 hitter in terms of power while Bernadina is a #2/#7 hitter.
2. Defense: Bernadina is clearly a better outfielder, and has a fantastic career UZR/150 rating in left. He posted a 13.3 for 2010 and has a career 11.8. Meanwhile Morse isn't exactly Reggie Jackson patrolling left field but he's not bad either. In very limited LF career stats he has a 15.2 uzr/150 rating in left. He's significantly worse in Right … but then again that's why we bought 7 years of Jayson Werth.
Meanwhile, Morse is also a very good first baseman and has logged time at SS and 3B. Bernadina is purely an outfielder but can play center in a pinch.
But here's the thing; you don't NEED a star quality defender in left field! Not at the expense of greatly needed offense anyway. That's why Josh Willingham still has a job and that's why Manny Ramirez was able to play in Boston (and in the NL) for so long.
Conclusion: Bernadina's better in left, but both bring defensive flexibilty to the table.
3. Lefty-Right balance in the lineup. Morse is a righty, Bernadina a lefty. Lets look at the probable 25-man roster out-field players.
But, of the presumed starters only Morgan and LaRoche are lefties. Espinosa switch-hits but he's probably stuck in the 8-hole until he improves on last year's tailoff at the plate. So, if we start Morse we're looking at a lineup that probably goes L-R-R-L-R-R-R-S-Pitcher. Three straight right-handed hitters after LaRoche. If we replace Morse with Bernadina the lineup probably goes L-R-R-L-R-L-R-S-Pitcher, a much better balance.
Of course, we also have one Matt Stairs in camp and people are talking about him making the team as a designated pinch hitter. I have an awful hard time believing this, but if it happens (at the probable expense of Albert Gonzalez), then having Morse on the bench as a right-handed hitting counterpart to Stairs makes a bit of sense. Certainly having Bernadina, Ankiel AND Stairs on the bench makes no sense. But, since Stairs brings no defensive value to the team we'd be incredibly thin at infield backup positions without Morse in the fold.
Conclusion: unclear until we see how Stairs looks in spring training.
In conclusion, there are arguments on both sides for/against either Morse or Bernadina in left. Perhaps we'll be surprised by Morse in left and Bernadina in center with Ankiel an able backup (certainly a possibility if Morgan does not improve on last year's performance). But I find it hard to believe we're going to sit Morse over Bernadina or Ankiel at the beginning of the season.
Post trade deadline, Jayson Stark was quoted somewhere (can't find the link) that the White Sox offered up both Daniel Hudson and catcher prospect Tyler Flowers for Dunn. If that is indeed true, I can't quite understand why the Nats didn't pull the trigger.
offer up Dunn." I really think teh Nats want to resign the guy. Yeah he'll be expensive but look at his production.
and, yes 2nd in Ks.
You just have to resign a guy like this. Youare not going to find a slugging talent like this on the FA market these days. I mean, the best comparison seems to be someone like Fielder and he'll be looking for a $100M contract.
4th in adjusted OPS+ at 147, just behind Dunn.
I mean, basically they're saying that 2 of the 4 best overall hitters in the NL are hitting right next to each other in the heart of the Washington lineup. I'll put our 3-4-5 hitters up there against anyone in the league right now. Milwaukee's Braun-Fielder-Hart is pretty good. Philly's Utley-Howard-Werth should be up there in normal circumstances. Same with the dodgers (a healthy Ramirez-Kemp-Ethier combo).
Speaking of the dodgers; man the nats (well, Dunn) got to Kershaw last night. 6 rbi and 2 homers will make for a nice week, let alone a nice first couple of at bats.
Sign him; he's the key to the middle of the order of this team for the next 4 years, by which time we should be competing for the playoffs.


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At camp, kids teach dogs, learn about themselves
Laura Tichy-Smith
Special to The News-Press;
For 10 years, Brooke's Legacy has tried to bring about positive outcomes from unfortunate circumstances. Founded by Naples dog groomer Tink Bechtol, the nonprofit is named in memory of her daughter, Brooke Miller, who died after a car accident while she was on her way to her 18th birthday party.
According to the organization's website, Miller's puppy survived the accident, and Bechtol started the organization that takes in pets scheduled to be put down to give them the second chance at life that her daughter did not get.
Now the all-volunteer pet fostering and adoption nonprofit has entered a new stage by collaborating with Delta Family Counseling and Healing Paws-Abilities Dog Training and Massage to offer its new "Pawsitive" Kids Camp. The camp started because Tara Moser, owner of the counseling practice, utilized animal-assisted play therapy for children in her practice.
The camp counselors, who are professional therapists and dog trainers who donate their time, devote the first morning of camp to presenting the "doggone" safety-training curriculum to children without the dogs present. To provide for the highest level of supervision, Moser said each week of the camp has only eight openings for children to be paired with dogs.
"Dogs don't speak English, so we teach the children how to read the dog's body language and teach them hand signals," Moser said.
Along with dog safety and obedience training techniques, Moser said the children benefit from the camp by learning about self-control, self-esteem, social skills and social boundaries. She said the children can transfer the lessons about body language and boundaries to their interactions with people.
The children participate in arts and crafts at the camp by making a scrapbook as well as a poster describing their dog for an adoption event.
"They also learn about saying goodbye to a dog," she said, "and that it is OK to cry but they should celebrate it, too."
Connect with this writer: @LauraTichySmith (Twitter)
• Nonprofit contact: brookeslegacyanimal rescue.org
• Camp contact: pawsitivekidscamp.com


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TDD: Probes
I've been thinking about TDD this week through the lens of the Unusual Spending kata.
The unusual spending kata is superficially similar to Thomas Mayrhofer's employee report: the behavior of the system is to produce a human readable report. In the case of unusual spending, the interesting part of the report is the body of the email message.
At the API boundary, the body of the email message is a String, which is to say it is an opaque sequence of bytes. We're preparing to pass the email across a boundary, so it's normal that we transition from domain specific data representations to domain agnostic data representations.
But there's a consequence associated with that -- we're pretty much limited to testing the domain agnostic properties of the value. We can test the length, the prefix, the suffix; we can match the entire String against a golden master.
What we cannot easily do is extract domain specific semantics back out of the value. It's not impossible, of course; but the ROI is pretty lousy.
Writing tests that are coupled to an opaque representation like this isn't necessarily a problem; but as Mayrhofer showed, it's awkward to have a lot of tests that are tightly coupled to unstable behaviors.
In the case of the Unusual Spending kata, we "know" that the email representation is unstable because it is up near the top of the value chain; it's close to the human beings in the system - the one's we want to delight so that they keep paying us to do good work.
It's not much of a stretch to extend the Unusual Spending kata with Mayrhofer's changing requirements. What happens to us after we have shipped our solution, the customers tell us that the items in the email need to be reordered? What happens after we ship that patch, when we discover that the capitalization of categories also needs to be changed?
Our automated checks provide inputs to some test subject, and measure the outputs. Between the two lie any number of design decisions. The long term stability of the check is going to be some sort of sum over the stability of each of the decisions we have made.
Therefore, when we set our probes at the outer boundary of the system, the stability of the checks is weakest.
A way to attack this problem is to have probes at different levels. One advantage is that we can test subsets of decisions in isolation; aka "unit tests".
Less familiar, but still effective, is that we can use the probes to compare the behaviors we see on different paths. Scott Wlaschin describes a related idea in his work on property based testing. Is behavior A consistent with the composition of behaviors B and C? Is behavior B consistent with the composition of D, E, and F?
There's a little bit of care to be taken here, because we aren't trying to duplicate the implementation in our tests, nor are we trying to enforce a specific implementation. The "actual" value in our check will be the result of plugging some inputs into a black box function; the "expected" value will plug some (possibly different) inputs into a pipeline.
Following this through to its logical conclusion: the tests are trying to encourage a design where pipeline segments can be used independently of our branching logic.
Parnas taught us to encapsulate decisions in modules; it's a strategy we can use to mitigate the risk of change. Similarly, when we are writing tests, we need designs that do not overfit those same decisions.
That in turn suggests a interesting feedback loop - the arrival of requirement to change behavior may require the addition of a number of "redundant" tests of the existing implementation, so that older tests that were too tightly coupled to the unstable behavior can be decommissioned.
Perhaps this pattern of pipeline equivalencies is useful in creating those separate tests.
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Q: How do I fill an array in my main class with a fillPermutation void method? My RandomPermutation class and fillPermutation method:
public class RandomPermutation
{
    public int permutation[];
    private int numAttempts[];

    public void fillPermutation(int numItems, int seed)
    {

        if (permutation.length!=numItems)
            permutation = new int[numItems];
        Random rand = new Random(seed);
        permutation[0]=rand.nextInt(numItems-1);
        numAttempts[0]=1;

        for(int i=1; i<numItems-1; i++)
        {
            int count = 0;
            int m=rand.nextInt(numItems);
            for(int j=0; j<i-1; j++)
                while(m==permutation[j])
                {
                    m=rand.nextInt(numItems);
                    count++;
                }
            permutation[i]=m;
            numAttempts[i]=count;
        }
    }
}

Requirements for the main class:
"Initially, main-function should call fill-function once for numItems = 10, and print the permutation and the numAt- tempts as shown below. You would also want to print the integers m as they are created in the process, but turn the printing of m off before generating the second part of the output; save the outputs in some file. Then, add the call averNumAttempts with numItems = 10 and numIterationss = 100000 in main-function to generate the second part of the output and save it at the end of the first output file. Finally, submit paper copy of your code and the output file."
So how do I make this work using a void method? There's a bit more info on the assignment sheet about the other parts of the code if anybody needs clarification.
Thanks ahead of time!


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When Nancy and I travelled to Italy for the first time about a decade ago it was an eye-opening experience. Making central Tuscany our base of operations we pushed our flying Fiat to the outer limits of its capabilities, exploring from Florence in the North to the charming little hill town of Pitigliano in the South, with just about every major wine region in between. As beautiful as Tuscany is and as wonderful as its wines may be, it was the food that made the biggest impression. The simplicity and elegance — the clarity — of Tuscan cuisine permanently changed the way I cooked. In fact, it changed the way that I think about food.
Last year, when Nancy and I travelled to Italy for the second time it was to Piedmont for a refresher course. This time we rented a house outside of Asti, giving us access to a kitchen and an incentive to frequent the wonderful open air markets of Asti and Turin. The astonishing array of ingredients available to us – from the marvelous ridged tomatoes to the amazing veal and the indescribably luxurious truffle pastes – made even the most simple of meals a pleasure. What could be easier or more enjoyable than coming home from the market with a bag full of freshly made Agnolloti and serving them with truffle paste and some remarkable olive oil?
As decadent (and surprisingly inexpensive) as the truffle paste may have been it was really the Agnolloti that were the find of the trip. These little raviolis – filled with either meat or cheese – are ubiquitous on the Piemontese table. It was in an attempt to recapture some of those memories that I decided to make some of my own. Incidentally, I am hardly the first to use beef cheeks (my new favorite ingredient) to stuff pasta. Mario Batali's Beef Cheek Ravioli with Crushed Squab Liver and Black Truffles is a famous fixture on the Ristorante Babbo Enoteca menu.
But I was looking for something a little bit different. I wanted to contrast the deep flavors and warm comfort of the braised meat and pasta with the earthiness of the porcinis, on the one hand, and the ethereal qualities of the gremolata. There is absolutely nothing wrong with adapting the braising liquid from the beef cheeks to use for the sauce. That did not happen to be an option for me since I was using leftover beef cheeks from several nights before. After all, raviolis have always been delivery systems for leftovers, haven't they? You can also use any of many methods for making or rolling out the pasta and for manufacturing the Agnolloti. While beef cheeks might seem like an exotic ingredient, they are becoming increasingly available. The last two times we bought them we found them at Walmart and Costco! If you cannot find beef cheeks, short ribs or even chuck are adequate alternatives.
Parmigiano-Reggiano (or Grana Padana or Pecorino Romano) cheese for grating.
Braise the Beef Cheeks. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a dutch oven over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking. While the oil is heating, pat beef cheeks dry and season with salt and pepper. Brown cheeks, without crowding (working in batches if necessary), on all sides, about 10 minutes total, and transfer with tongs to a bowl. Pour off the fat from pot, then add remaining 2 tablespoons oil and cook onion, carrot, and celery over moderately low heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 10 minutes. Return the cheeks to the pot and pour in the wine, scraping up any brown bits. Add the beef stock to the pan and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and maintain the simmer until the cheeks are very tender, about three hours.
Make the Pasta Dough. In the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with its dough hook, mix the pasta ingredients and knead into a smooth, soft dough. Stretch the layer of pasta to a thickness of less then 1/16 of an inch (on a pasta machine, take it to its last notch).
Make the Agnolloti. Lay one sheet of pasta on a floured surface, and place heaping teaspoons of the filling on the pasta at 1 1/2-inch intervals, in lines 1 1/2 inches apart, until you have covered half the sheet. Brush the edges of the dough with water, and fold over the uncovered side of the dough. Pinch edges to seal. Using a fluted pastry wheel cut down the length of the dough between the mounds of filling. Then cut each strip into individual ravioli parcels. Pinch and crimp all edges with a fork to seal, using a little water if necessary. Repeat with all dough and all filling. Arrange the ravioli in a single layer on a floured dish towel, and let them dry for about ½ an hour, turning them over after 15 minutes.
Make the Sauce. Place the minced shallots, porcinis and bay leaf in a sauce pan with half the wine and 1 cup of the stock and reduce to barely ¼ the original volume. Strain the porcinis and shallots from the sauce reserving them for use as a garnish. Return the remaining liquid to the pan, add the tomato paste as well as the remaining wine and stock, whisk well to fully incorporate the tomato paste and reduce to desired sauce consistency.
Cook the Agnolloti. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the agnolloti and cook for 10 to 12 minutes, until tender. When ready, the pasta will rise to the surface of the water.
Make the Gremolata. Using a lemon zester, remove about 1 teaspoon of lemon zest and finely mince. Keep in mind that the zest is the outer yellow peel of a lemon. Be careful not to include any of the white pith below the skin because it is bitter. Combine the minced lemon zest with the remaining ingredients in a bowl and season to taste with Kosher salt and black pepper.
Assemble the Dish. Place four agnolloti across the center of each plate with a horizontal line of the gremolata "below" it on the plate as a garnish to be incorporated with each bite. Top the agnolotti with the sauce, garnish with the porcinis and drizzle with truffle oil or extremely good quality extra virgin olive oil. Grate parmagiano-regiano cheese as desired.
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Ray Woolhead is the owner of Divine Gin, a distillery based just a few miles away in Holmfirth. We stock their Angel Gin – a dry, zesty spirit presented in a unique bottle. Ray designed the gin to be drinkable neat, like a whiskey, as well as with a mixer such as tonic, so it is distilled four times to create a smooth finish on the palate. Make an appointment with our team of experts to sample some for yourself.
"The only thing that is added to our distilled spirit is fresh Yorkshire spring water, sourced very locally. The distillation process takes about 30 hours with some botanicals being macerated prior to heat. The spirit is rested before cutting back with spring water. We are small batch at the moment producing 35 bottles per run with an ABV of 42%`'.
How long have you been in business and what led you into it?
I had no experience in distilling up until 3 years ago when I decided to embark on this project. I attended a course at the Institute of Brewing and Distilling as an introduction and then got straight on with it! After 20 months of experimentation trying to get a taste that is acceptable to most people's palette, without the hard hit of lots of gins that turn people off, we made the decision to test the market place, and with demand outstripping our capacity Gin Divine was born. The desire to create a gin that was drinkable neat, like a whisky, as well as refreshing with a mixer, was the driving force. We wanted to create something that both myself and my wife could enjoy drinking together.
Creating a gin isn't that complicated when you understand the distillation process, flavour profiling, cuts for fruitiness or earthy flavours etc. Margins are very tight when producing at a craft level but I do enjoy taking a batch from start to finish, and I feel a connection with every bottle that leaves. I hope people like the flavour. Thankfully the feedback has been very positive so far and we are making strides forward with a new still on order and a purpose-built unit being converted as we speak.
How many variations do you make?
It's been hard enough in the last 4 months getting (Angel) Gin Divine to a level so we've been concentrating on this as a core flavour before embarking on flavoured gin. We do have various experimental recipes that we plan to develop based around fresh vibrant profiles, pomegranate and basil being one that I favour at the moment.
Our gin is distilled 4 times before it reaches the bottle. We use a directly heated still with the botanicals immersed straight into the liquid. The only thing that is added to our distilled spirit is fresh Yorkshire spring water, sourced very locally. The distillation process takes about 30 hours with some botanicals being macerated prior to heat. The spirit is rested before cutting back with spring water. We are small batch at the moment producing 35 bottles per run with an ABV of 42%.
What's your favourite way to enjoy your product?
We like to taste the gin with pomegranate seeds and a slice of dragon fruit (white), or to pull out the botanical profile sip neat or with a small splash of spring water. A winter garnish of cinnamon enhances the warm pepper flavours.
What's your favourite food accompaniment?
I like to drink Divine in a Tapas style environment, tasting with a variety of small dishes and using the botanicals to develop different flavours in the dishes. With the various botanicals it would be hard to pick out one flavour to complement both the gin and food flavour. After dinner, neat with a block of ice, cheese and biscuits finishes a meal off lovely.


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Man learns he's a donor match for fiance hours after proposing
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A recently engaged couple discovered they are the perfect match in more ways than one when a call came just hours after Aldo Cataldi popped the question, informing him that he was qualified to donate his kidney to newly minted fiance, Geraldine Chingosho.
"Donating my kidney to my fiancé was such a normal thing to for me to do — I didn't really think about it," Cataldi, who went under the knife in February, told SWNS.
"The most important thing is she'll feel better and have a better quality of life. I didn't do it for the spotlight or anything — but because it was the right thing to do."
Chingosho, who is thriving with her new kidney and planning their wedding, had been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease shortly after her first date with Cataldi, SWNS reported. None of the 22-year-old's relatives were found to be compatible donors and soon she needed daily dialysis.
"He would come from work after a 12.5-hour shift in the hospital and bring me food," Chingosho told SWNS of her then-boyfriend.
"He'd help me get dressed and would speak to the doctors to find out exactly what was going on. He was Superman, my superhero, while I was poorly. He took care of me and my whole dialysis regime. He basically became my carer."
Chingosho said Cataldi volunteered to be tested immediately to see if he was a match, but she had doubts due to their different ethnicities. The pair went to Portugal to celebrate her birthday where Cataldi proposed. Just hours later, the call with news that he was a donor match came.
"We were both in complete shock but we were over-the-moon," she told SWNS. "It was like all my birthdays had come at once."
The pair underwent surgery on Feb. 21 at Leicester Hospital, and are now looking forward to their August wedding.
"Aldo saved my life and I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him," Chingosho told SWNS.
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The American-Israeli War on Gaza
by Jeremy R. Hammond / December 27th, 2009
One year ago today, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, a murderous full-scale military assault on the small, densely populated, and defenseless Gaza Strip. The operation resulted in the massacre of over 1,300 Palestinians, the vast majority civilians, including hundreds of children.
This includes only those killed directly by military attacks. The actual casualty figure from Israel's policies towards Gaza, including the number of deaths attributable to its ongoing siege of the territory, is unknown.
The official pretext for the operation given by Israel and parroted unquestioningly in the Western media is that Israel had to respond with force as an act of self-defense against to an onslaught of rocket attacks against southern Israel from Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza.
Even if this were true, nations acting in self-defense against armed attacks must respect international law designed to protect civilians in time of war. Israel flagrantly violated the Geneva Conventions and other relevant treaties governing the use of force during the course of its operation, committing numerous war crimes.
But the stated pretext itself does not stand up to scrutiny. Six months prior to the assault on Gaza, Israel and Hamas had agreed to a cease-fire. Under the terms of the truce agreement, Hamas would end its rocket attacks against Israel and Israel would similarly cease attacks against Palestinians in Gaza and lift its siege on the territory.
Hamas, for its part, lived up to its obligations under the truce. It fired no rockets into Israel and actively pressured other groups to similarly refrain from launching attacks.
Israel, on the other hand, never lived up to its obligations under the truce. From the beginning, Israel declared a "security zone" on Gaza's side of the border and Israeli soldiers repeatedly violated the truce by firing at Palestinians, guilty of merely trying to access their own land.
Israel also never eased its siege of Gaza. Israel controlled (and continues to control) the borders of Gaza, its airspace, and its coast, and implementing a near total blockade, including preventing by force the delivery of humanitarian goods into the territory.
Rather than easing the siege, Israel continued to let in only minimal amounts of humanitarian supplies (a practice that also continues today), just enough to prevent a total humanitarian catastrophe, thus keeping the population of Gaza in a state of despair and on the verge of human limits, with untold consequences on the health and mental well-being of the Palestinians.
The complete breakdown of the truce agreement came on November 4, when Israel launched airstrikes and a ground incursion into Gaza, killing four Palestinians. This violation of the cease-fire resulted in its effective undoing.
Israel's official reason for the attack was its claim that militants were digging a tunnel under the border. The more credible explanation, however, was that Israel wanted to provoke Hamas into launching rockets and thus to claim a pretext for the full-scale military assault that Israel had, at that time, by its own account, already been planning.
Indeed, from the beginning of the truce, it appeared Israel's intent was to provoke a violent response in order claim a pretext for its military assault. While Hamas scrupulously observed the cease-fire, Israel took deliberate actions to undermine it. Besides those already noted, Israel also stepped up operations against Palestinians in the West Bank, such as the assassination of members of Islamic Jihad shortly after the announcement of the truce.
Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza responded to that incident by firing rockets into Israel, but Hamas criticized the attacks and pressured Islamic Jihad to cease, including with the threat of arrests, and the tenuous truce continued to hold, for a time.
A greater and more provocative action was necessary in order to completely undermine the truce, and Israel's November 4 attack proved to be that action. From that day forward, the so-called "cease-fire" consisted of tit-for-tat attacks on a daily basis, with Israel launching repeated attacks on Gaza and Hamas and other militant groups launching rockets into Israel.
Israel had achieved the pretext it was looking for in order to gain the political cover necessary to wage its assault on the civilian population of Gaza.
And make no mistake; Operation Cast Lead was a war on a civilian population, an extremely murderous act of collective punishment.
The death toll itself stands as an undeniable testament to that, but the manner in which Israel waged its operation also leaves no doubt as to its true objective.
As already noted, Israel claims its operation was designed to end rocket attacks. In truth, it was Israel that deliberately violated and undermined the truce.
Israel also claims its operation was aimed at militants. As evidence of its respect for international law and extraordinary efforts to prevent the loss of innocent life, Israel notes the fact that it dropped thousands of leaflets on Gaza prior to its operations warning civilians to flee the oncoming assault.
But the fact is this is not evidence of Israel's respect for innocent life, but rather strong evidence that its killing of civilians was deliberate and intended. For starters, civilians, told to flee, had nowhere to go. No place in Gaza was safe from Israel's attacks. Furthermore, in some cases civilians were told to go to city centers, and, after many had done so, those same locations were then purposefully bombed by Israel.
Israel's claimed respect for innocent life is also belied by its means of indiscriminate warfare. Israel heavily bombarded civilian population centers. It deliberately and systematically targeted civilian locations with protected status under international law, including schools and hospitals.
Israel also used indiscriminate weaponry, including white phosphorus munitions. The use of white phosphorus is permitted under international law for illuminating the battlefield or creating smokescreens. However, its use as an incendiary weapon (it is also a chemical weapon, in that its incendiary effect is the result of a chemical reaction) is a violation of international law and a war crime, particularly when used indiscriminately against populated areas and civilian locations such as schools, as it was in Gaza.
Moreover, Israel, demonstrated extreme contempt for and defiance to the United Nations and the international community by deliberately targeting U.N. sites within Gaza. It targeted U.N. clinics, schools, and other compounds.
Israel attacked humanitarian convoys attempting to deliver much needed supplies to the desperate people of Gaza, and in other cases prevented medical teams, including from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from reaching victims of its assault, also a war crime.
Israel also deliberately targeted a U.N. warehouse where humanitarian supplies were being stored, attacking the site with white phosphorus munitions, resulting in the warehouse and goods inside catching fire and nearly burning to the ground.
All of these actions by Israel, all well documented and incontrovertible, constitute grave war crimes under the Geneva Conventions and other relevant treaties of international law.
The U.S. Role
Israel's contempt for innocent life, for the international community, and for international law is perhaps matched only by the U.S. willingness to support Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people.
Simply stated, without U.S. support, none of this could go on.
The U.S. supports Israel financially. Aid to Israel is on the order of $3 billion a year. This money is given, unlike aid to other countries, with no strings attached, and with little to no oversight about how it is to be used.
Even if it is not used directly to finance Israeli policies and activities in violation of international law, such as its ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories, construction of settlements in the West Bank, construction of a its "separation barrier" within the West Bank, destruction of Palestinian homes and other property, killing of Palestinian civilians, etc., U.S. financial support allows Israel to free up other funding for these illegal activities. It effectively rewards Israel for criminal actions.
The U.S. supports Israel militarily. And military equipment provided by the U.S. is used by Israel for actions constituting war crimes under international law. The massacre in Gaza was carried out with the help of U.S.-provided Apache helicopter gunships, U.S.-provided F-16 fighter bombers, and U.S.-provided munitions, including white phosphorus and cluster munitions.
This military support to Israel is not only a violation of international law and relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions calling on member states not to provide material support for Israeli crimes, but it is also a violation of U.S. law. Besides international treaties such as the U.N. Charter and the Geneva Conventions constituting "the supreme Law of the Land" under the U.S. Constitution, U.S. law forbids the exporting of military equipment to countries that routinely violate international law and commit offenses against human rights. Yet U.S. military support for Israel continues unabated.
The U.S. supports Israel diplomatically. The principle means by which the U.S. does so is through the use of its veto power in the U.N. Security Council. While Israel was using U.S. military hardware to murder innocent Palestinians, the U.S. was actively trying to stall a cease-fire resolution to give Israel more time to carry out its assault. A watered-down version of the resolution was finally found acceptable to the U.S., which reportedly was ready to vote in favor, but after receiving a call from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, while not going so far as to cast a veto, instead abstained rather than casting a vote for a resolution rightfully critical of Israel.
The Role of the U.S. Media
The U.S. mainstream corporate media also play a significant role in the Israeli-Arab conflict, and reporting on Operation Cast Lead provides a useful case study into the nature of its role. To describe U.S. media accounts of Israel's ongoing atrocities in Gaza as "biased" would be a sore understatement.
Take the reporting of the New York Times, America's "newspaper of record" reporting "all the news that's fit to print". Arguably the most widely read and important newspaper in the world, what the Times reports is regularly picked up by other major media, with the newspaper effectively serving as a trend-setter for the news Americans consume. Its impact on the perceptions Americans have of conflicts such as Israel's war on the civilian population of Gaza is enormous.
The New York Times' reporting on Israel's assault was reminiscent of its reporting on Iraq with respect to that nation's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction and ties to terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda, prior to the initiation of the U.S. war of aggression against that country based on such lies and deceptions as then reported matter-of-factly by the Times.
Propaganda devices employed by the Times in this case, as in the case of Iraq, included the use of euphemisms and the selective reporting of facts.
For instance, although the Times did report initially on Israel's November 4 violation of the truce, it exercised selective amnesia in its subsequent reporting and described only the "breakdown" of the cease-fire and thus failing to inform readers of the single identifiable causal factor for that "breakdown".
Moreover, the Times accepted without scrutiny and parroted the official line from Israeli officials that its operation was launched in response to rocket attacks and the violation by Hamas of the truce, thus implicitly and falsely attributing the failure of the cease-fire to its violation by Hamas.
The Times repeatedly and consistently downplayed the true nature of Israel's assault on Gaza. In one notable example, the Times' Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner wrote in an article that Palestinians had "claimed" that Israel was using white phosphorus munitions, employing this propaganda device to intentionally cast doubt in the mind of the reader as to the veracity of the so-called "claim".
The truth is that Bronner knew perfectly well this was not a "claim" but a known fact. He could just as well have written at that time that human rights organizations had criticized Israel for its known use of white phosphorus, rather than attributing it as mere a Palestinian "claim".
By this time, although reporters were banned from entering Gaza, there was no question that Israel was doing so, including proof in photographs showing the unmistakable smoke trails and incendiary projectiles of white phosphorus being used over residential neighborhoods.
Remarkably, the same day Bronner's article appeared, another article also appeared, written by his Palestinian colleague Taghreed El-Khodary, the Times' only correspondent actually reporting from inside of Gaza, who reported on finding white phosphorus casings with markings showing that they were U.S.-made.
In El-Khodary's reports from Gaza, one could find a more reliable account of what was actually happening on the ground, but even her articles were heavily edited and/or rewritten by the Times' editorial staff, and it was the dishonest and propagandistic reporting of Bronner and his Jerusalem-based British-Israeli colleague Isabel Kershner that generally typified the nature of the Times' reporting on the massacre.
Countless other examples abound, but it's beyond the scope of this article and would be superfluous to continue to list them.
The Role of the American People
In short, Americans reading about the violence in U.S. newspapers or watching it on TV received a heavily distorted account of what was going down.
But this is no excuse for ignorance. The facts are known and available to every American with access to the internet. One may turn to the healthy alternative media in the U.S. One may turn to international media sources, including Israeli sources like the Jerusalem Post, Haaretz, or Ynet (Yedioth Ahronoth online). One may turn to human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, or the Israeli group B'tselem.
One may also turn to the report of the U.N. Human Rights Council inquiry into the violence, headed up by the respected international jurist Richard Goldstone, who himself happens to be Jewish (a fact worthy of mention due to Israeli and U.S. charges that the report is biased; in another example of U.S. diplomatic support for Israeli crimes, the U.S. has actively sought to block implementation of its recommendations or any Security Council follow-up actions).
Goldstone himself has concluded that Israel's actions were targeted at the civilian population of Gaza as an act of collective punishment, and his conclusion is well supported by his final report and the evidence it presents.
The facts are beyond dispute. The conclusions are obvious and incontrovertible. It is well past time that the American people wake up to the realities on the ground in the Palestinian territories. Many Americans already demonstrate the modicum of moral integrity required to speak out against their government's support for Israeli crimes, but it is not enough.
Without massive public opposition to the U.S. policy of supporting Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, the crimes will continue. Israel will continue to act with impunity and continue to violate international law under U.S. cover.
The fact of the matter is that the American people have more power in their hands than any other body to bring about an end to the violence and to create the conditions for a just and sustainable peace in the Middle East.
Americans themselves may not realize this truth, but the international community well recognizes it. And the world is watching, and waiting.
Will the American people continue to turn their heads away and wash their collective hands of the affair, deceiving themselves into believing they have no responsibility for what goes on "over there" and that they have no influence to change things, anyway?
Or will the American people cast away ignorance and apathy and demonstrate intellectual honesty, moral integrity, compassion, and strength of will by standing up and acting to pressure their government to change its policies?
The answer to these questions remains to be seen. Only time will tell. In the meantime, the Palestinian people continue pay the price for the willingness of Americans to allow their government to pursue criminal policies contrary to their own interests and antithetical to the very principles of justice and humanity every American would like to think their country stands for.
Jeremy R. Hammond is the editor of Foreign Policy Journal, a website providing news, analysis, and opinion from outside the standard framework provided by government officials and the corporate media. He was among the recipients of the 2010 Project Censored Awards for outstanding investigative journalism and is the author of The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination. You can contact him at: jeremy@foreignpolicyjournal.com. Read other articles by Jeremy, or visit Jeremy's website.
This article was posted on Sunday, December 27th, 2009 at 9:02am and is filed under Colonialism, Imperialism, Israel/Palestine, Media, Militarism, Propaganda, United Nations, War Crimes.
Max Shields said on December 27th, 2009 at 11:40am #
Jeremy fine job in outlining the problem. But the "American people" that great abstraction of our wonderous imagination, aren't about to "save" the Palestinians. Even with the support of the Zionists, a variety of well meaning – though duped – Jewish and non-Jewish organizations, little has been done in Darfur.
The American people are walking around either full of a bubble ready to burst or bewildered by economic unraveling.
Max Shields said on December 27th, 2009 at 12:18pm #
Sometimes you've got to let nature take its course. The Internet is not a correction to the corporate mass media. It is extremely fragmented with people going to sites that align with their inclinations.
I think, as much as I would like nothing better than to see the end to the Gaza murder, it's like bang your head against a wall to expect the "great" American masses to rise up against genocide. How about Russia and China? No word from them, and I don't expect there will be. Israel is tied to US "fortunes"; and there is where nature will determine the outcome.
If the American people can't muster enough gumption to stop our wars in AfPak and invasion and occupation of Iraq, end the US occupation of hundreds of nations through the placement of 800 basis world-wide; what makes anyone think they're going to interject themselves regarding Israel with all of the corporate media spewing its narrative?
Similarly, the American people aren't going to end global warming. These are deep system problems. The American people will do nothing unless they are confronted with utter collapse and then it will be to revolt against the system, not rally to help those who are clearly in dire need.
I could be wrong – I truly hope I am…but this is been going on for decades, and there's no sign of change on the horizon.
Rehmat said on December 27th, 2009 at 7:38pm #
It is interesting to see the editor of the magazine co-founded by an Islamophobe Samuel P. Huntington, the author of "Clash of Civilizations" – throwing a few pebbles on fellow Israeli Islamophobes.
Zionist regime is desperate to survive on western crutches. It's not only isolated from most of the world – it has finally met it match – Hizbollah.
"Regarding Al-Manar, it's personal for Israel. The reason is that Al-Manar did to Israeli government propaganda machine (Hasbara) during and following July 2006 war what Hezbollah fighters did to Israeli troops. Al-Manar kicked butt. That station must be made to disappear. The plan is to stop 15-20 million daily viewers of Al-Manar from receiving its transmission and well as to intimidate all the other Middle East TV channels that are suspected of moving toward the growing "Culture of Resistance" spreading in the Middle East from Lebanon," A Washington DC observer of how Israel controls the US Congress 12/9/09.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2009/12/27/al-manar-tv-haunts-warmongers/
Mulga Mumblebrain said on December 28th, 2009 at 3:28am #
A fine exposition of the facts. One quibble. It is redundant to state what international humanitarian law says states should behave, when Israel rejects all international law, on the basis that, as a superior form of life, Jews are not required to observe any law but Judaic religious law. The Yesha Council of Rabbis and Torah Sages made plain in 2006, during the brutal attack on Lebanon that targeted civilians fleeing under white flags, mosques, schools, power stations, bridges, power lines, shops, warehouses, even hospitals and ambulances, that, as far as their interpretation of Judaic Law sees it, killing enemy civilians is not a crime, it is a 'mitzvah' or good deed.
This attitude, which is plainly that of the Israeli ruling elite and many Jews, if not, surely, all, or even, one might hope, a majority, is rooted in the genocidal mythology of the Torah. The Torah, in the stories of the indiscriminate massacre of the Passover and the various genocides of the conquest of Canaan, contain the earliest extant stories of genocide and religious injunctions to commit them. Even more sinisterly, the story of the Amalek, allegedly 'God's' eternal enemies, and whose total extermination he demands, are used, even today, by Judaic fanatics to label various enemies, and target them for destruction. Palestinians, of course, Moslems and Arabs in general, the Iranians, even, (Gold help us!), the USA, have been identified by various loonies as 'Amalek'. The US got the nod due to religious 'marrying-out' of Jews there, in the perverted pathopsychology of Judaic extremism seen as 'the loss of precious Jewish souls' (ours are, need one point out, not so precious). To see just how far this genocidal mania has penetrated Israeli state psychology, just remember that one of Netanyahu's thugs told the New York Times that, as far as the current Israeli fascist regime is concerned, when one contemplates Iran, one must 'think Amalek'.
So there you have it. In Netanyahu's circle, Iran, with it tens of millions of people, is pencilled in for 'shock and awe', just like every other Islamic Middle Eastern state, from Lebanon to Yemen,Eritrea and Pakistan. Since 1947 the numbers killed in wars, massacres and terror launched by Israel and its prime stooge, the US, and a rabble of complicit, racist, Rightwing puppets, in wars of aggression in the Moslem world number in the millions, with more certain to come. And, as Judeofascists, religious and secular make plain, their bloodlust is virtually unslakeable. Only armed resistance, in particular the triumphs of Hezbollah, has ever stopped this Moloch, although it is certain that Israel is plotting its revenge against Lebanon.What is worse, when the blow falls, you can be certain that the vermin of Western politics and media will fall into line behind their Judaic owners' aggression and violence.


In the current development of mankind twentieth century was a period marked by tragedy and spectacular progress. Of the great tragedies remind the two world wars , and inventing , producing, and ultimately , the use of the atomic bomb , which brings to mankind the horrors of self-destruction .
As spectacular development in the twentieth century is the moment in which man is closest to the discovery of the great secret : understanding of the universe.
The paradox is that both aspects are indirectly linked to the genius of one person – namely, of Albert Einstein !
The creation of this contribution tortured genius scientist for the rest of his life !
Born in Germany, is a family of Jewish industrialist , as a child Einstein showed serious difficulties to adapt to school and the teachers declared it problem child that does not want to learn. After years he formulated the theory of relativity and enjoys worldwide recognition persecution by the Nazis , forced to leave their homeland to escape the compound in America. The fact that has contributed , albeit indirectly , for the creation of the atomic bomb , causes ugrezeniya and anguish of learning that his whole life is a fighter for world peace and became a symbol of the twentieth century.
In the childhood genius of Albert Einstein did not notice. He is introverted child , so often becomes the subject of jokes among his classmates . Not a brilliant student, but it does not read like any popular science books.
Tends to analyze in detail from various perspectives, every thought , idea or information stored however silence until lunch that his brain has exhausted a subject – something that causes people to think about the retarded and to underestimate .
He was born in the small German city of Ulm . The story goes that when his mother first saw her newborn son Albert, nearly fainted . Newborn weighing more than normal and there were swollen and square head . His parents are worried and wondered if offspring with which God has given them , is normal.
Great is their astonishment , however , when one day the little open mouth and speaks with ease and vocabulary of an adult. What happened ? By this time the child analyze the use of the word and then give outward expression of what has been learned .
At school, Einstein continued to use the advanced method of study. While certain items it stimulates interest , it quite differently things with physics and philosophy – two disciplines that really fascinating.
When still young , his father showed him a compass Herman , the fact that the pointer remains fixed regardless of the movement of the compass, endlessly surprising little Albert, who realizes that there exists invisible and independent of human will power that he can not understand.
At age 11 , Albert visited elite school in Munich , Germany. This is a school that operates under German military model , and teachers used the iron discipline and absolute obedience which is not appealed Albert who hates collective activities and strict discipline . The age of 15 moved to semeystvotmu Itliya , and he remained in Munich where the military school is required. Prepare your plan to leave the strict school and to avoid military service . Request assistance from lekar which to issue a document that the school his mental health.
So Einstein came from Germany – the country where he spent his childhood and went to Italy with his family.
Though sad departure from Einstein's Germany , his parents support it. So 16 years Albert an examination at the Polytechnic in Zurich, Switzerland , while failing to take the exam , the results are displayed on the science makes the evaluation committee to accept it.
So at the age of 20 years old he met Mileva Maric and his relationship with this woman played a big role for the rest of his life.
Mileva is an intelligent woman. Due to illness in childhood , she limps with one leg .
" The woman you love , you will do together learned research. I do not want to waste my time with ignorant and uneducated people who make me feel like I'm standing at the wall . " With such love letters he reveals his feelings to Mileva .
World of Physics 1905 is the year of the wonders of Einstein. For 100 days he published three original theories , one of which is the theory of the photoelectric effect , which later received the Nobel Prize . Published Theory of Relativity , which will continue to connect his name – Einstein.
Although his theories were published in several issues of some journals , they remain completely unanswered by the scientific community . Just when Einstein began to experience razacharovanie , received a letter from Berlin, which screamed : " In your theory has some vague salient . " The sender is the famous physicist Max Planck , who first discovered the young tester images.
Einstein's theories represent an innovation for its time . He argues that the only quantity that remains constant prirodatam is the speed of light and therefore the concept of time is relative. This perspective, the key principles of Nyutyun physics that rule 300 years , by which time is constant. His theory caused astonishment in the scientific world . This astonishment is even greater due to the fact that these conclusions are formulated not by any professor and unknown tester images, which is only 26 years old.
While the university continues to formulate theories. Firstly , that time is not an absolute value , and then takes on the relativity of space.
Theory of relativity , Einstein is not very understandable . But, as he argues , if someone came to the secret of the universe with the soul of a little child , then the most complicated theory seems simple.
In February 1919 declared his divorce with Mileva Maric . Three years after the divorce while back with a ship from Japan, learned that he was awarded the Nobel nagada physics . The story goes that he took the news very quiet and reserved, probably because of the fact that the reward is awarded not for relativity to his research on the photoelectric effect . The money that gets a gives Mileva , thus the promise given in the past, when they believed that one day I will win the Nobel Prize.
Although it is entirely Jewish family Einstein fully perceived the German way of life.
Already gained worldwide popularity each year Ayshtayn invited to the United States at conferences . While Einstein in America, is distributed rumored to be preparing his murder . He traveled from America to Europe, but not going to Germany and Belgium , where under the protection of the royal family.
All materials left by scientists in Germany were destroyed by the Nazis. Einstein who first left Germany at age 16 , was forced to do it again 54 years of age.
For 20 years from 1933 when he left Germany for the rest of your life – Einstein lives in the university town of Princeton , New Jersey .
The release of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima deeply hurt him and turns it into a fierce supporter.
76 years old witnessed two world wars, and his life is a mix of fame , recognition, bitterness and disappointment !


Note: Several Authors (Compilation), Naqush: Iqbal Number Nairang-e-Khayal, Iqbal Number 1933 (Volume-1), ed. by Muhammad Tufail (Lahore: Idara Farogh-e-Urdu, 1977), p. 947.
Bibliography: Naqush: Iqbal Number Nairang-e-Khayal, Iqbal Number 1933 (Volume-1). Edited by Tufail, Muhammad. Lahore: Idara Farogh-e-Urdu, 1977.


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COMMITTING TO NON-PERSONAL ARTISTIC PROJECTS
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When I got up to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night I could barely move; my shoulder, side, and left knee were sore to the point of being half frozen. I thought for sure I wouldn't be able travel today but when I woke up again at 8 I felt much better. I didn't relish spending the day in a $3 hotel room so I packed everything up and hit the road. I stopped for breakfast on the way out of Jalpatagua and ended up spending a half hour chatting with the owner and his wife. They were pretty down on Costa Rica and Mexico, I guess neither have a good rep with Guatemalans. It actually feels a lot like I'm in Mexico already: my breakfast of huevos rancheros was typically Mexican, last night I had tacos al pastor for dinner, and I'm hearing words like "órale" on the street. Still lots of voseo here though. I'm surprised at how widespread the use of "vos" instead of "tu" has been throughout South and Central America.
Riding the bike loosened up my sore body. There was a fair amount of climbing today in hot weather so I took it easy. When I came to Barberena, a good-sized but run-down city, I decided to quit early. I splurged on a decent hotel room so I could take a hot shower but WiFi was nowhere to be found. I took a nap then rode back into the city in the evening to get dinner. I felt pretty sore again after I cooled down from the riding.


Golden Promise by James Connolly, Defectors, Perth, Australia.
Adapted from a recipe by James Connolly, Defectors, Perth, Australia.
"A twist on a Sazerac, using the grassy notes of The Macallan to work with the thyme syrup. Its floral nose also ties in well with the elderflower liqueur, and the Peychaud's bitters ties it all together." James Connolly.
Rinse a chilled cocktail glass with the St. Germain; set aside. Stir the remaining ingredients over ice and strain into the glass. Squeeze the twist over the drink, then discard.
*Thyme Syrup: Combine 150 ml (5 oz) of sugar syrup (1:1) with 10 g (1 teaspoon) finely chopped thyme in a whipped cream canister. Charge with 2 nitrogen cartridges and shake for 1 minute. Release gas slowly and fine-strain into desired vessel.
gaz sez: This drink is all over the place, and I think that James made a wise choice when he picked The Macallan as his base—it's a solid enough bottling to keep the other flavors—thyme, elderflower and Peychaud's, no less—under control. This is a complex dram with a very sturdy backbone.