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Q: Javascript this and naming vs. not naming variables "use script";

var user = {
    name: "John Doe",
    career: "Civil Engineer",
    socialMedia: {
        fb: "www.facebook.com/johndoe",
        twitter: "www.twitter.com/johndoe"
    },
    about: function() {
        console.log("My name is " + this.name + " and I am a " + this.career);
    }
}

var name = "Jen";
var career = "Dentist";

user.about();

var newAction = user.about;

newAction(); // My name is undefined and I am a undefined

Why is newAction() returning undefined name and career but when I remove the var from:
var name = "Jen";
var career = "Dentist";

to
name = "Jen";
career = "Dentist";
then I execute newAction() again and get:
newAction() // My name is Jen and I am a Dentist

A: nodejs code does not run in global scope, but in some kind of function instance:
//(function(module){
  var some=5;
 console.log(global.some);//undefined
//})(..)

So if you declare a variable, it is not part of global which this refers to, its just in the invisible function scope ( thats a difference to browsers where var in the highest scope are part of window).
If you leave away the declaration (not good, not in strict mode), it gets scoped globally, and therefore becomes part of global aka this in functions. So may do:
global.name="John";
newAction();//this===global

The 'this' keyword behaves differently in Nodejs and browser


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Crying Is Not Enough is a third-person adventure game, in which a man named Jacob enters a parallel reality that exists alongside our world, in order to 'bring his wife back to life' from a coma. Jacob's voice is provided by Dean Wendt, who was the voice of Barney, the purple dinosaur. He doesn't sound very much like Barney in the trailer, but I can't quite get past the fact that he was Barney for so long. Somebody should really mod the game, when it comes out next year, to replace Jacob's character model with a skipping, dancing Barney. He wouldn't really fit in the permanently mood-lit 'No Man's Land' shown in the trailer below but the press release does say that 'mysterious creatures' live there. What could be more mysterious than a overly optimistic singing dinosaur made out of felt, with a human being as its sole internal organ?
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The scariest thing of all is that the song is now in my head, worming its way around and waiting to burst out at an inopportune moment. I'll probably start singing it to the person at the checkout in Tesco.
That's more like it. Or not. The trailer doesn't contain any combat but there will apparently be "both gun and melee fighting", as well as a karma system that tracks the player's actions and alters enemy reactions accordingly.
Crying is Not Enough isn't a small project. The trailer covers the first episode of the first part of a trilogy, which falls under the name Project Chromopolis, all of which makes me think this might end up being the worst kind of Neverending Story and it's hard to imagine one worse than any story where this happens.
I saw that when I was a child and I'm amazed that I ever stopped crying.

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Ok, so it's like 7 months into the new year but it's still a new year. Anywho, I made two big resolutions this year. One was to be more healthy and two was to be a writer and start working on my next screenplay. I have done well with the first one but have only written down ideas here and there for this screenplay. So now I offically in front of all my new friends and colleagues pledge to reach my goal of at least starting the screenplay. Once it's started then we'll talk of finishing it. There you have it. You are now a witness.
Good luck - I prefer summer goals to new year resolutions. That way, it's a set time for me to comlete something. Hope you reach your goal!
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Course will cover advanced database topics. You're expected to come in with basic database knowledge (which I don't have). Course will also consist of paper readings. Everyone will sign up for a paper to present and must meet with instructor for feedback a week before actually presenting.

Student presentations begin on Tuesday Sept 16, which is really soon. Reviews for each week are due Monday before class at midnight.

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Carlo Rola (* 6. Oktober 1958 in Spalt, Mittelfranken; † 14. März 2016 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Film- und Fernsehregisseur, Filmproduzent und Drehbuchautor (Stoffentwicklung, Dialog-Dramaturgie).

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Carlo Rola studierte ab 1978 Rechtswissenschaften in Frankfurt am Main und verdiente sich sein Geld als Stuntman beim Theater.

Ab 1981 widmete er sich ausschließlich dem Theater und der Oper, war Regieassistent und Mitarbeiter unter anderem von Hans Neuenfels, Ruth Berghaus und Peter Stein bei verschiedensten Produktionen in Hamburg, Frankfurt und Berlin. Sein Debüt als Regisseur hatte er 1983 in Frankfurt mit einer englischsprachigen Inszenierung von Endstation Sehnsucht. Ebenfalls zu dieser Zeit arbeitete er als Produktionsleiter für Kino- und Fernsehproduktionen.

1994 war Carlo Rola Dozent für Werbefilm an der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen "Konrad Wolf" in Potsdam-Babelsberg, 1999 und 2001 für Regie an der Deutschen Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB).

Seit seinen Anfängen als Regisseur überarbeitete er regelmäßig Drehbücher und übernahm "Dialogue-Polishing". Für 15 Folgen von Rosa Roth, Die Patriarchin und Afrika Mon Amour hat er die Stoffideen entwickelt. Auch für nationale und internationale Werbespots, Trailer und Musikvideos zeichnete er als Regisseur verantwortlich.

1996 gründete er mit Oliver Berben die MOOVIE the art of entertainment GmbH in Berlin. Seitdem wurden dort mehr als 40 Filme produziert, davon 30 unter seiner Regie.

Carlo Rola war mit der Schauspielerin Dennenesch Zoudé verheiratet. Er erlag im März 2016 im Alter von 57 Jahren einem plötzlichen Herztod.

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 DIVA 2006 für Die Patriarchin in der Kategorie "erfolgreichster Fernsehfilm 2005"
 Goldene Kamera für Die Patriarchin 2005
 Best Director – Award für Sass beim Tokyo International Film Festival 2002
 Nominierung für Grimme-Preis 2000 für Der Solist – Kein Weg zurück
 Beste Kamera für Verlorenes Leben 1997 in Reims (10e Rencontres Europénnes de Télévision)
 Finalist Award (Regie, Film, Produzent) des New York Film Festival für Sieben Feuer des Todes (Code Red)
 Preis des Filmfestival Porto für Das Missverständnis
 Grimme-Preis in Silber für Moskito
 Publikums-Bambi für Krupp – eine deutsche Familie

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Starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey, Andrew Kevin Walker
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Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Pride. Lust. Envy. Two cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders, each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gwyneth Paltrow also stars in this acclaimed thriller set in a dour, drizzly city sick with pain and blight. David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) guides the action - physical, mental and spiritual - with a sure understanding of what terrifies us, right up to a stunning denouement that will rip the scar tissue off the most hardened soul.
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Spain keeps on breaking tourism records, with the number of tourists visiting the European Union nation up 12 percent in the first six months of the year.
Spain has broken its own tourist number records each year for the past four years as economic and security concerns elsewhere lure visitors away from rival Mediterranean destinations.
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Scotland's impressive Duncan Taylor lifts profile in Cardiff
Interviewed ahead of Saturday's match against Wales, Duncan Taylor had suggested that he was the donkey in the Scottish midfield, not that he used that exact word. Mark Bennett, he insisted, boasted the gas whereas he, in comparison, was a bit of a plodder. Some plodder!
Scotlands Duncan Taylor holds off Gareth Davies to score a last-gasp try. Picture: Getty Images
When John Hardie spilled the ball deep inside Welsh territory in the middle of the second half the ball popped up nicely for Tom James, who is the form wing in Wales right now. He scooped up the unexpected gift, set off for the Scottish line and could be forgiven for assuming he was home and hosed with Tommy Seymour unable to reel him in.
James hadn't banked on Taylor who, like that Fiat 500 with a Ferrari engine, displayed the sort of speed few suspected he boasted under the bonnet. The Scot had the angle but even then he did fantastically well to make the cover tackle when the score looked a certainty.
"I was happy to make the tackle but anyone would have done the same thing," said Taylor. "It's one of those things, you just do it for the team. Unfortunately they scored about five minutes later."
Taylor probably has the lowest profile of any player in the Scotland squad, although it is a good bit higher now than it was before Saturday's match. Of his 14 caps to date just five have been in the starting XV and just two of those starts have been in the Six Nations.
He missed the World Cup through injury and he is a little unlucky to play in a position where Scotland have strength in depth, at least in relative terms. Until now he has been fairly far down the pecking order but he was rarely far from the action in Cardiff.
Taylor was beaten in the air by the giant Jamie Roberts to set up Wales' first and highly controversial try. Then came that jaw-dropping cover tackle when Taylor showed some serious wheels, and at the death he took his try like a veteran rather than the rookie he is. Credit to Ruaridh Jackson who delayed his pass just long enough to tempt two defenders before putting away Taylor, who stepped inside the final defender for his first international score.
It was a good afternoon's work from the Saracens man but if he was planning on dancing until dawn in celebration, Taylor hid the fact pretty well. "I don't take any satisfaction from scoring to be honest," he said. "We lost the game so it doesn't mean anything to me. I'm not happy having come off the field having lost again. I was happy to score obviously but it wasn't enough to win the game.
"The Six Nations is gruelling and we'll carry this feeling into the next game. It's a must-win game and we don't want to lose any more, we are done with that. It's all about winning and getting that winning feeling back. I honestly believe just one win is all it would take.
"One win and we'd turn a corner, if we can get the winning mentality back then the sky is the limit for us, I really do believe that. We've got a great squad and we are capable of doing things in this competition. It's about taking our chances when they come along. We need to keep pushing until the very end. We've got a good squad and we won't let our heads go down, we're not that far away."
Vern Cotter was talking about names that might come back into the mix ahead of the Italian match, which is two weeks hence. The coach name-checked Grant Gilchrist, Josh Strauss, who got some game time for Glasgow on Friday evening, and another midfielder in Peter Horne who, it's worth remembering, scored a smart try against Australia in the World Cup.
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Q: Why scala cannot resolve the T parameter When I try to call the following function:
def sortBy[T, R](seq: Seq[T], by: T => R)(implicit ordering: Ordering[R]): Seq[T] = {
    ...
}

with this:
case class MyClass(f1: Int, f2: Int)
val o1 = MyClass(1, 2)
val o2 = MyClass(3, 4)

sortBy(Seq(o1, o2), x => x.f1)

I get compilation error "cannot resolve symbol f1"
However when I call it with explicit types it works:
sortBy[MyClass,Int](...)

My question is why scala cannot infer these types automatically?

A: As one of the ways to solve
def sortBy[T, R](seq: Seq[T], by: T => R)(implicit ordering: Ordering[R]): Seq[T] = ???

case class MyClass(f1: Int, f2: Int)
val o1 = MyClass(1, 2)
val o2 = MyClass(3, 4)

def orderFunc(a: MyClass): Int = a.f1

sortBy(Seq(o1, o2), orderFunc)

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China ponders sending more combat troops on UN peacekeeping missions
Jun 15th 2013 | BEIJING
THE planned deployment of UN peacekeepers in Mali next month is likely to include a large contingent from China. In recent years—having once eschewed such missions—China has become a frequent contributor of blue-helmet troops. But it has shied away from sending combat forces, preferring to focus on support roles. Its involvement in Mali could mark a bolder approach.
Reports have suggested that China could dispatch between 500 and 600 soldiers to Mali. This would be one of the country's biggest UN deployments since it began joining peacekeeping operations in the early 1990s (it had previously regarded them as interfering in other countries' affairs). With nearly 1,900 troops deployed as of December 2012, China's contribution is relatively small compared with those of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. But it is the largest among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
According to a UN official quoted by Agence France-Presse, at least 155 of China's troops in Mali are expected to be engineers. This would be in line with China's normal practice: most of its peacekeepers are engineers, medical workers and transport staff. Diplomats believe, though, that some of those sent to Mali might be combat troops.
China has long been reluctant to send combat forces on UN missions. It still worries about being seen as interfering. It also has doubts about its troops' capabilities. Its army dipped a tentative toe into such operations in January last year, when it sent a platoon of infantry to guard Chinese engineers and doctors belonging to a peacekeeping force in South Sudan.
In Mali, where the peacekeepers are to help contain an Islamic insurgency in the north, China might well be tempted to do the same. The Security Council, which unanimously approved a force of 12,600 peacekeepers for Mali in April, is due to decide later this month whether security conditions are right for the deployment. It could be a dangerous mission.
China has a keen interest in being seen to help Africa, but it will continue to tread carefully. The country also has a keen interest in projecting the country's military rise as benign. Rifle-toting Chinese troops might help in restoring stability to conflict zones, but images of them might trouble the West.
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Cameron v. Boone
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We think that as a prerequisite to review, there must be some record by which we may ascertain that an unjust…
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However, there was no obstructed view of the left turning car, or any other unusual circumstance which would…
Full title:LESTER G. CAMERON et al., Appellants, v. LILA BOONE, Individually and as…
Court:The Supreme Court of Washington. Department Two
62 Wn. 2d 420 (Wash. 1963)
62 Wash. 2d 420
383 P.2d 277
The Supreme Court of Washington. Department Two
No. 36146.
[1]Automobiles — Traffic Barriers — Center Stripes. RCW 46.60.020, which makes it unlawful to drive across a center line consisting of two parallel barrier stripes, is a self-executing exercise of police power by the state, and does not depend upon the intent of local authorities even where the barrier stripes have been painted on by such authorities.
[2] Same — Traffic Barriers — Stripes Resembling Barrier. RCW 46.60.020, which makes it unlawful to cross parallel barrier stripes 4 or more inches apart, is not rendered inapplicable simply because such stripes are less than 4 inches apart, since there is a question of fact, in such a situation, as to whether the painted stripes so closely resembled a statutory barrier that reasonable care required a driver to treat them as such.
[3] Trial — Instructions — Unnecessary Instructions. The giving of an unnecessary instruction was not prejudicial where, under the evidence and argument, there was no possibility that the jury could have been misled thereby.
[4] Evidence — Intoxication. Evidence that a person has consumed an undisclosed volume of whisky, by itself, is insufficient to raise a jury question as to such person's intoxication.
[5] Same — Offer of Proof — Purpose. The purpose of requiring an offer of proof is not only to achieve a fully informed trial court, but also to reserve grounds for argument on appeal.
[6] Trial — Interrogatories — Duty to Answer. Where a defendant who was required by order of court to answer certain interrogatories died before completing the answers, the defendant's surviving spouse, who had been substituted as defendant, was not required, in the absence of judicial guidance, to supply answers to the interrogatories which would have been based upon hearsay statements of her decedent.
[7] Same — Interrogatories — Failure to Answer. The provision of RPPP 37(d) for striking the pleading of a party who fails to answer interrogatories submitted under Rule 33, should be considered by the courts as an extreme penalty to be invoked only in the case of a wilful failure to answer.
See Ann. 4 A.L.R. 2d 374; Am. Jur., Discovery and Inspection (rev. ed. § 66).
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court for King County, No. 548950, Henry W. Cramer, J., entered May 12, 1961. Affirmed.
Action for damages. Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of the defendant.
Stuart K. Nielsen, for appellants.
Ogden Ogden, for respondent.
DAWSON, J.[fn†] [fn†] Judge Dawson is serving as a judge pro tempore of the Supreme Court pursuant to Art. 4, § 2(a) (amendment 38), state constitution.
An automobile driven by Benjamin E. Boone collided with the rear of a car driven by Lester G. Cameron, plaintiff. Mr. Boone died before trial from causes not arising from the collision.
Mr. Boone's widow, individually and as executrix of his estate, was substituted as defendant. Issues of negligence and contributory negligence, among others, were tried to a jury. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of dismissal entered after a jury verdict for defendant.
The following undisputed facts are gleaned from a record somewhat devoid of detail. June 12, 1959, appellant drove his automobile in an easterly direction on Bothell Way, in the unincorporated portion of King County known as Kenmore. He passed the Kirkland intersection where a traffic control signal was in operation, and proceeded on the straight, hard-surfaced, four-lane highway, in the inner lane, until he brought his car to a stop several hundred feet beyond the intersection, intending (after the heavy traffic proceeding west cleared) to make a left turn in mid-block across a double center line and into a private driveway on the north side of the highway. The center lines were less than 4 inches apart. While stopped and waiting for an opportunity to make the turn, a vehicle approached appellant from the rear, and passed in the right lane. Shortly thereafter, his car was struck by the Boone vehicle. Whether the car which passed appellant interfered with Mr. Boone's ability to see appellant's car is not known. Skid marks indicated that Mr. Boone had applied brakes at least 25 feet before the impact. There is no testimony as to the speed of the Boone car, none as to weather conditions, and none as to the volume of traffic proceeding east at the time of the accident. No witness saw the collision.
Appellant makes 11 assignments of error. Several are so interrelated that they will not be segregated. In view of our decision, consideration of three of them would be academic and serve no useful purpose.
Three assignments relate to RCW 46.60.020, which restricts vehicular traffic over or across two parallel barrier stripes dividing any four-lane highway. Appellant urges that two instructions given on this issue constitute error; that a directed verdict for appellant was justified because there was a failure to prove contributory negligence.
[1] It is argued that because the barrier stripes were painted by a local authority before its passage, and no local intention is shown to come within its purview, RCW 46.60.020 is not applicable. The fallacy in this argument is that the legislature expressly defined the standard of care and made the standard applicable to all four-lane highways, so divided. RCW 46.60.020. Under its terms, its force is not a matter of local intention, but the act is a complete, self-executing exercise of police power by the state.
Further, it is argued that the statute is inapplicable because the barrier stripes were less than 4 inches apart.
[2] Phillips v. Richmond, 59 Wn.2d 571, 580, 369 P.2d 299, is in point on this issue. The pertinent and controlling language follows:
". . . There is no evidence that at the time appellant attempted his left turn he was aware that the distance between the painted stripes was less than four inches and that he acted on the theory that he could legally make a left turn for that reason. Furthermore, the manner of painting the stripes was described in detail by the employees of the state highway department, who testified that the apparatus used properly spaced the distance between the stripes, but that in repainting them on the highway the precise location did not conform exactly with the old stripes. The jury could have properly found from the evidence that the double line so closely resembled a statutory barrier that a reasonably prudent man would have treated it as such. Furthermore, even if he knew at the time he attempted to make his left turn that the stripes were less than four inches apart, and for that reason believed that it was not illegal to turn left at that point, the jury could have properly found that a reasonably prudent driver still should reckon with the possibility that other drivers on the highway would regard the double line as a traffic barrier, so that they would not expect anyone to stop and make a left turn at that point. In that case, such a driver should have decided not to attempt a left turn, because of the danger involved.
"The foregoing has demonstrated that the existence of a statute defining traffic barriers is relevant to the issue of whether appellant was contributorily negligent, even if the painted stripes in this case did not meet the statutory requirements. Therefore, an instruction on the statute was necessary and proper."
This rule is controlling. Patently, the instructions were necessary; the issue of contributory negligence was for the jury, not the court.
Another assignment of error also bears on the issue of contributory negligence. It relates specifically to instruction No. 10, which we set out:
"The laws of the State of Washington provide: `A signal of intention to turn right or left when required shall be given continuously during not less than the last one hundred feet traveled by the vehicle before turning or during a period of time not less than that time required to traverse a distance in feet equal to five times the maximum speed in miles per hour allowed by law during the approach to the point of turning or stopping.'"
In taking exceptions, the following colloquy ensued:
". . . There isn't any issue that if a hand signal was given it was given for an adequate length of time, therefore, can only confuse the jury. It doesn't give any definitions of the —. THE COURT: You asked for that. MR. NIELSEN: Yes, but evidence has changed a little bit during the trial. I think it is a bit confusing and isn't too helpful."
[3] Appellant should have more clearly expressed his intention to withdraw the proposed instruction. However, the instruction was not prejudicial. It precluded speculation by the jury as to the measure of appellant's duty. As the evidence, which was uncontroverted, supported a finding of full compliance by appellant with this duty, and none other, it is difficult to conceive of confusion. Respondent's duties in the premises were fully defined by instruction No. 6, which told the jury that one is charged with the duty of seeing those objects or persons which he would have seen had he been exercising reasonable care; by instruction No. 15, which defined the primary duty of avoiding a collision as resting upon the following driver; and by instruction No. 16, which contained the elements of the humanitarian doctrine of last clear chance. There is no claim that improper argument distorted the instructions given. The jury could not have been misled. Perhaps instruction No. 10 was unnecessary, but it was harmless.
Error is also assigned to the court's refusal to permit inquiry as to drinking by Mr. Boone before the accident. The following pertinent colloquy is taken out of context, and includes the only offer of proof on the issue of drinking:
"MR. OGDEN: . . . I am at this time requesting the court to instruct counsel not to pursue that line which relates to any question of drinking on the part of the deceased. . . . MR. NIELSEN: . . . Your Honor misconstrued it. We are not claiming the Defendant was drunk. . . . THE COURT: It is immaterial. We might as well understand each other. If I am in error you may have your remedy, but you will not bring the liquor in, under your last statement. . . . Would you mind advising me how you intend to bring this drinking out? Is it going to be someone who saw him take a drink, or is it going to be brought out by hearsay testimony? MR. NIELSEN: Only by one party at the scene of the accident that actually talked with him and said the man had some liquor on his breath and admitted having had a drink. . . . THE COURT: The only question in my mind, from the statement made by Mr. Nielsen in chambers and made by him now, whether or not that one drink is material; I don't believe it is. . . . MR. NIELSEN:. . . I don't know what this man is going to say, but I think if he can answer the question, and given the opportunity properly, I think he should be entitled to it. We do not say the man was intoxicated." (Italics ours.)
The witness referred to was Officer Don Graybill, who, before he testified, was admonished by the court: "The court has eliminated liquor from this case, officer." A portion of the officer's testimony follows:
"Q. Did you notice the condition of Mr. Boone after the accident? A. I talked to Mr. Boone. Q. And what was his condition that you noted? A. I felt that he was greatly excited. Q. Was he in any condition to drive after the accident? A. I did not feel that he should, no. Q. Why would that be? You can answer that. A. Mr. Boone was considerably — an elderly person. I felt that the accident had excited him considerably, and I didn't feel that it would be safe for him to drive any vehicle, and I didn't feel that his vehicle was driveable, so I personally took him home."
Appellant argues "What a different effect on the jury had the officer been permitted to answer as respondents' counsel knew he would, that defendant-driver was in no condition to drive because of his age (83 years), eyesight and drinking combined."
[4] There is no formula for determining in all cases when one is or is not under the influence of or affected by intoxicating liquor. Ordinarily, the question is one of fact to be determined by the jury. Whether Officer Graybill would have made a prima facie showing had he not been admonished, we can neither divine nor surmise. However, it can be said, categorically, that evidence of one drink of whisky, volume undisclosed, if submitted to the jury, would result in speculation and prejudice. Some quantum of additional proof was necessary to raise a jury question. Shaw v. Browning, 59 Wn.2d 133, 367 P.2d 17; White v. Peters, 52 Wn.2d 824, 329 P.2d 471; Wood v. Myers, 48 Wn.2d 746, 296 P.2d 525. No offer of proof has supplied this omission.
[5] The rule that requires an offer of proof supports two basic purposes. The first is a fully informed court. Tomlinson v. Bean, 26 Wn.2d 354, 173 P.2d 972. In the case at bar, the court was informed that the extent of the testimony on drinking was not known to appellant. Before the court could review, revaluate, and, in its discretion, perhaps revise, its prior ruling, it was necessary that the issue have more substance than an uncharted fishing expedition. Without an offer of proof, the court could not rule otherwise than it did.
The second purpose of an offer is to save the point on appeal. There is no record from which we may infer that appellant could have substantiated the issue of drinking. The assignment, therefore, is without merit.
The three following assignments were argued without segregation, and we will not vary the procedure:
"I. The refusal of appellant's motion to strike pleadings of respondents for failure to answer interrogatories as required by court order, or grant any relief therefor. II. Refusal of the court to allow the consideration of disclosures as Answers to Interrogatories. III. The refusal to permit the reading of Answers to Interrogatories to the jury."
The facts are that on August 18, 1960, Mr. Boone was given 10 days within which to answer the majority of 64 interrogatories which had been directed to him (a number had been stricken by the court). He died November 3, 1960, without having complied. These were ultimately answered by Lila Boone, surviving spouse, but, when thus answered, 27 of the answers were "Not known" or "Don't know," and, obviously, do not attain the dignity of probative testimony. None of her answers was pertinent on the issue of liability, and no purpose would have been served in permitting counsel to read them to the jury, even though we sympathize with appellant's Socratic statement: "Is a party to hide available evidence and falsely answer interrogatories ordered answered by the court and benefit from such conduct? The proceedings in this case would indicate so."
In United States v. Continental Cas. Co., 303 F.2d 91, the federal court said:
". . . A party to an action has the right to have the benefits of discovery procedure promptly, not only in order that he may have ample time to prepare his case before scheduled trial, but also in order to bring to light facts which may entitle him to summary judgment or induce settlement prior to trial."
We are fully aware that benefits inure when the obligation to disclose is promptly met, and these may be dissipated and substantial rights lost by procrastination. Therefore, a court should not hesitate to impose sanctions under proper circumstances. However, during trial, in the absence of sanction, we know of no general principle which permits the disregard of the laws of evidence.
[6] Mrs. Boone's failure to answer interrogatories is laid in the fluid area of exceptions to the hearsay rule. The basic rule precludes testimony of a witness when sourced, not upon personal knowledge, but in the verbal or written word of another. 5 Wigmore on Evidence (3d ed.) § 1364. Among its numerous, sharply defined exceptions, there is none which admits every statement of a deceased person, even though made ante litem motam. Without statutory implementation, the admission of such statements, particularly those dealing with past events, is sharply circumscribed. Thus, without judicial guidance, Mrs. Boone was under no duty to determine what answers, if any, as a matter of law, could have been based upon hearsay statements of her deceased husband.
Mr. Boone in his life signed one or more written reports. None was formally offered in evidence; thus, we are uninformed as to general contents of such reports. It is true that admissions against interest, if material to the issues, may become admissible as exceptions to the hearsay rule. Wigmore, supra, § 1456. But no offer was made. After a careful reading of the record, it is our impression that appellant regarded the reports as the source of information from which the surviving spouse could and should have answered certain interrogatories more responsively.
Rule of Pleading, Practice and Procedure 37 (d) provides as follows:
"If a party or an officer or managing agent of a party wilfully fails to appear before the officer who is to take his deposition, after being served with a proper notice, or fails to serve answers to interrogatories submitted under Rule 33, after proper service of such interrogatories, the court on motion and notice may strike out all or any part of any pleading of that party, or dismiss the action or proceeding or any part thereof, or enter a judgment by default against that party." (Italics ours.)
[7] Appellant apparently did not seek the admission of pertinent disclosures in the reports as a sanction, or order nisi, under Rule 37 (d), which might have been a practical approach to his problem, as a pretrial procedure, but he assigns error to the court's failure to strike respondent's pleadings. This is an extreme penalty and is sharply distinguished by the courts from an order impelling compliance, because rights must be safeguarded under the fifth amendment of the United States Constitution. Mitchell v. Watson, 58 Wn.2d 206, 361 P.2d 744.
We, therefore, construe the rule to mean, that to come within the purview of the extreme penalty in Rule 37 (d), a failure to answer interrogatories must be a wilful failure. In accord are: Cardox Corp. v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., 23 F.R.D. 27; United States v. Continental Cas. Co., supra; 4 Moore's Federal Practice (2d ed.) § 33.28, note 2; 2A Barron Holtzoff, Federal Practice and Procedure, § 855.
In view of this construction, we cannot predicate error upon the trial court's action, unless we can determine that Mr. Boone's failure to answer interrogatories was a wilful failure. From the record, it is impossible to so determine. It was due to contumacy or a condition in extremis, depending upon which ipse dixit of counsel is correct. On February 7, 1961, the motion to strike respondent's pleadings and enter judgment by default was denied. In the absence of a showing to the contrary, we must presume this order was well founded.
We, therefore, conclude that, under the facts in the case and the instructions given, the jury could have determined that the contributory negligence of appellant was a proximate cause of the accident, and that respondent neither saw appellant's peril nor, by the exercise of reasonable care, could have seen it in time to have avoided the accident by the exercise of reasonable care.
Finding no reversible error, the judgment is affirmed.
OTT, C.J., DONWORTH, FINLEY and WEAVER, JJ., concur.
August 29, 1963. Petition for rehearing denied.


The quiz competition question was; Bees are found on every continent of earth except for one, which is it? The answer is Antartica. well done for those who got it correct, and we can chin wag more on the next live chat on the Swirly Soph Art app.


No, not teddy bears guzzling Dr Peppers and chomping on fish sticks. Just us city types, woefully ill-equipped and unsuitably dressed for a trek across the deepest darkest swathes of Cannock Chase. For today was the day we went location scouting for the front cover of Runners.
As usual, things didn't go quite to plan. For a start, I don't think we could have chosen a colder day. Some very good friends and their son accompanied me and my two daughters to act as models for the day so that we could get some idea of composition for photos. And while said friends were old hands at wandering the countryside, as for me and my girls, if we've strayed into a yard with weeds growing through the cracks we feel like we've been on safari. So I pitched up in knitted boots and the thinnest jeans I own (only because these jeans fitted inside the boots, you see) and the oldest daughter was almost as bad in pumps and a bomber jacket. At least the little one had enough sense to make up for us and attempted to put on outdoorsy clothes in her padded coat and space boots.
We arrived at the first location to find a huge search and rescue operation going on. Now, this is where I show how shallow I am and admit that I got quite excited by all the drama because my brain was ticking over with story possibilities. So we moved on from there after a while, really because we were in the way, even though I dearly wanted to sneak inside the operations tent and spy on them. Our next location was better apart from the deer that I nearly ran over parking up. Location number three was late in the afternoon and the icicles had already started to form on my eyebrows as we arrived. We trudged into the deepest section of wood and did some really nice posing, and were just making our way out as the sun went down when I noticed an eye-watering pong coming from our group.
Everyone checks their shoes. The culprit is little daughter, the evidence slathered all over her pink space boots. But it's not lovely veggie deer pellets, oh no. It's radioactive orange, sloppy, full-bore carnivorous dog cack. And guess who got to clean them up. Talk about suffering for your art. When we take the actual models up there, I'll remember to take a hosepipe.


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Have you been looking for a great place to sit and enjoy the aromas of freshly ground coffee?
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Burnley football club is urging fans to take to pedal power for its last game of the season on 26th April
Burnley FC wants corporate support for bike-to-the-match promo
BikeBiz 5th March 2008	Business
Lew Carroll of Burnley FC's commercial department said:
"We are staging a campaign to encourage all our supporters to ditch the car and cycle to the game for the last game of the season."
Burnley is in the Football League Championship, the division below the Premier League.
The club's last home match of the season is against Cardiff City.
Alan Shearer might be about to ride 335 miles in two days for Sport Relief but, generally, football clubs and footballers have little to do with cycling.
And football supporters are not noted for their choice of sustainable transport for getting to and from matches. In last night's The Woman Who Stops Traffic on Channel 4, Kris Murrin was hissed from the pitch when she asked Boston United supporters to ditch their cars for Boston's No Car Day.
Clearly, Burnley Football Club is more enlightened than lowly Boston United. Carroll said companies can piggyback on the bike-to-the-match promotion, with 25 percent of the monies raised going to Leukaemia research and 75 percent to the club's youth development and community schemes.
"This ticks a whole host of Corporate Social Responsibility boxes for any company. It also promotes healthy lifestyles within the area through the vehicle of the football club," said Carroll.
'We would be looking for a nominal donation which we could back up with a full inventory package of advertising and promotional branding. For the full weight of the PR department we can put the brand into the public mind as a generous business willing to help worthwhile causes. How much would that kind of branding and PR cost any company?"
Carroll said the suggested donations start at about £1000 and this would be generate mentions on the club website and the Football League website as well as many media mentions. Company logos would also go in the match programme and on Turf Moor's giant stadium screen on match day.
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It was a nice dream. My boyfriend was spooning me, nuzzling my neck. His hand crept up under the covers, reaching under my pajama top to cup my breast. Until, abruptly, I realized: This wasn't my boyfriend, it was my father.
My father only looked at me, puzzled. It wasn't his fault. My mother had died the month before and his Alzheimer's-addled brain had him convinced that I was her. She'd only made him sleep alone when they were fighting, so he didn't understand why I insisted on sleeping in separate rooms. To him, it meant he was in the doghouse for some unfathomable reason.
"I'm sorry," he said, his eyes filling with tears.
I'd let him sleep with me this once because he otherwise had refused to lie down. He'd hardly slept in the month since her death. I was worried he'd collapse from exhaustion. But, apparently, exhaustion hadn't been on his mind this night.
Exhaustion was certainly on my mind. My father was what they called a wanderer. I lived in terror that he'd get out of the house and walk into traffic. I felt like a new parent of a very large adult toddler; I had to watch him constantly. I wanted nothing more than to keep him with me but I was rapidly realizing that I couldn't handle him. I'd go shopping and come home to a house full of gas — Dad had tried to cook but was used to an electric stove. The week before he walked my dog, as he had for years, and turned an around the block spin into a multi-hour silver alert ordeal. Fire and police finally found them both dehydrated four miles away.
I'd resisted for years my mother's attempts to put my father in a home. I was convinced he was better off at home with us. Old folks' homes were, in my mind, where people went to die. Despite these reservations, I decided it was time to start visiting some communities.
I researched the best places in Washington, D.C., and decided if I was going to have an awful time doing it, I would limit the pain to one day. So I stacked 13 visits on top of one another, packed dad and my dog into my car and off we went.
There aren't words to describe how terrible that day was. It started with dad refusing to get out of the car at the first home. When he finally did, he just shook his head the whole time, as if denying what his eyes were telling him would make it all go away.
By the 13th home, I was a mess. The staff took pity on me and took my dad and the dog for a walk without me as I sobbed my heart out.
It wasn't that the places were that bad. Some of them were beautiful. Manicured gardens, trips to the Smithsonian and spring group vacations to Europe. Lectures by Pulitzer Prize winners. Heck, I wanted to live in some of those places.
But others were dreadful. Especially the "memory units" — a nice name for the locked sections that house wanderers like my dad. Or, as he called it, jail. Most of these units featured drooling people parked in front of blaring televisions. Placing my father in almost any of these environments seemed cruel.
We went home and ordered pizza for dinner. Over a glass of wine, I asked my dad which he'd liked the best, not really expecting a cogent answer from him.
"The second to last," he said.
That moment was such a gift to me — he was rarely as clear as that over the five years he lived after that. He'd granted me his permission to put him in a home.
Of course, he didn't remember that two days later, when my sweet wouldn't-hurt-a-fly father slapped me across the face and screamed that I was imprisoning him as orderlies dragged him away.
Despite the last-minute upheaval, I was lucky. My father's United Nations pension enabled me to secure great care for him. If I hadn't had that, I would have had to quit my job to care for him myself, a stark choice an increasing number of Americans are forced to make. There are 11 million people living with dementia — 5.4 million of them with Alzheimer's — in the U.S. today, a number that will more than triple by 2030 as the Baby Boomer generation ages. Given recent drug-trial failures, we aren't likely to see a cure in time to help that generation.
Of the top 10 diseases afflicting Americans today, nine are declining. Only one is spiking: dementia. Dementia alone will break the backs of Medicare and Medicaid — it's projected to account for more than 70 percent of all costs by 2028.
Homes don't have to be like the sadder places I visited, residents acting like drooling zombies parked in front of televisions. As the need for care spikes, America needs to find non-pharmacological ways to improve the lives of those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, and the jobs of those caring for them. Currently, more than 95 percent of research goes into drugs. No attention is being paid to care. America is short 1.3 million caregivers and will be short nearly 2 million by 2020. Residential facilities experience on average a 55 percent annual staff turnover, which leads to disjointed care. We need more money devoted to looking for better caregiving solutions for the millions of lives those drugs will likely come too late to save.
I created MemoryWell, a national network of more than 350 journalists writing the life stories of those living with Alzheimer's and dementia, because I felt like I had to reinvent the wheel to improve his care and I hoped to save people the same arduous path. But there are too few startups and solutions like MemoryWell out there. More needs to be done.
Jay Newton-Small is cofounder of MemoryWell, a national network of more than 350 journalists who tell the life stories of those living with Alzheimer's and dementia in order to improve their care. Previously, Newton-Small was Washington correspondent for TIME Magazine, where she remains a contributor. At TIME she covered politics as well as stories on five continents, from conflicts in the Middle East to the earthquake in Haiti and the November 2015 Paris terror attacks. She has written more than half a dozen TIME cover stories and interviewed numerous heads of state, including Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush. She authored the 2016 best selling book, "Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works."


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