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Journal of Medical Case Reports
Social isolation and cancer management – advanced rectal cancer with patient delay following the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima, Japan: a case report
Akihiko Ozaki1,
Claire Leppold2,6,
Toyoaki Sawano1,
Masaharu Tsubokura3,
Manabu Tsukada1,
Tetsuya Tanimoto4,
Masahiro Kami5 &
Hiromichi Ohira1
Journal of Medical Case Reports volume 11, Article number: 138 (2017) Cite this article
Little is known about the effects of social isolation in the elderly on their process of gaining health information and seeking health care.
In March 2011, Fukushima, Japan experienced an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, also known as Japan's triple disaster. In June 2016, an 80-year-old Japanese man, who lived alone after divorce at the age of 42, presented to our hospital with bloody stools and dizziness. Although his bloody stools initially occurred in May 2015, a year earlier, he did not pursue the possibility of malignancy. He was diagnosed as having stage IIIA rectal cancer. Detailed history taking revealed that he experienced social isolation after the disaster, due to the evacuation of his friends, losing his regular opportunities for socialization. He additionally reported that the current diagnosis of rectal cancer made him feel he had lost his health in addition to his social relationships. Although radical surgery was attempted, it failed to resect the lesion completely, and thereafter his disease gradually progressed. As support from family or friends was not available, he was not able to receive palliative radiation therapy or home-based care in his end-of-life period. He died at a long-term care facility in February 2017.
This case suggests that intense social isolation after the Fukushima disaster was a likely contributor to the patient delay, poor treatment course, and poor outcome of an elderly patient with rectal cancer. Direct communication with family and friends may play an indispensable role in increasing health awareness and promoting health-seeking behaviors, and in the midst of social isolation, elderly patients with cancer may lose these opportunities and experience increased risk of patient delay. Although health care providers may be able to alleviate isolation-induced delay by promoting cancer knowledge and awareness widely among local residents, policy-led interventions at the community level may be essential to reducing social isolation and its health consequences.
Colorectal cancer is the third and second most common cancer among males and females worldwide, respectively [1]. High-income countries (HICs), including Japan, have recently achieved a steady decline in colorectal cancer mortality rates, primarily due to the start of national screening programs [2]. Nonetheless, not all populations have benefited from these programs. Less than half of targets for colorectal screening programs in HICs actually undergo recommended tests [3, 4], as exemplified in the case of Japan, where the attendance rate of annual fecal occult blood tests was only 35.4% in 2013 [4]. Resultantly, approximately 80% of cases are detected after symptoms appear in HICs [5], and 25.0 to 36.6% of patients with symptomatic colorectal cancer further experience patient delay, which is defined as 3 months or longer from symptom recognition to first medical consultation [6]. The limited uptake in screening programs and prominence of patient delay call for an improvement in public awareness of screenings, symptoms, and consequences of colorectal cancer [6, 7].
It has been suggested that social support may help the patients make timely medical consultations, although multiple elements can contribute to patient delay in patients with colorectal cancer, including poor health literacy, rural residence, and denial of symptoms or non-recognition of symptom seriousness [8]. However, the elderly may not be able to obtain sufficient social support; although this population tend to rely on family and friends to gather health information [9, 10], they may experience deterioration of social relationships due to deaths of significant others or physical distance from family members [11]. In fact, the prevalence of social isolation, absolute lack of social relationships, currently reaches 10 to 43% among the elderly in HICs, with evidence of its various health consequences [11]. Although the extent of social isolation among the elderly has not been well described in the nationwide scale of Japan, it has been shown that 17.4% and 38.4% of the population aged 65 years or older lived alone and only with their partners, respectively, in 2014 [12]. In addition, in Japan the proportion of the general population who never or rarely socialize with those other than family members was 15.3%, the highest figure among countries which belong to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), from 1999 to 2002 [13]. Thus, we hypothesize that a large proportion of the elderly population may struggle to obtain the health information and social support necessary to remain healthy or recover from episodes of ill-health. However, limited information is available regarding how the processes of health information-seeking among the elderly may be affected by social isolation. Nuclear disasters are a phenomenon in which the affected area may experience a long-term alteration of its social structure, and can provide a unique lens to assess the ways in which social isolation may impact health information-seeking behaviors among the elderly.
In March 2011, Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture (Fig. 1), located 14 to 38 km north of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP), was struck by all three components of Japan's 2011 triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster) [14]. A 20 km radius from the FDNPP was designated as a mandatory evacuation zone by the Central Government of Japan. Minamisoma City Office has continuously examined the level of external and internal radiation exposure among local residents, and has demonstrated that those figures are too low to cause health effects in the general public [15,16,17,18]. A recent study reported that there have been no clear relationships between the incidence of childhood thyroid cancer and the level of external radiation exposure in Fukushima Prefecture, denying the existence of a radiation-induced pandemic for this malignancy [19]. However, the city experienced long-term changes in its social structure, primarily due to mass evacuation which occurred chiefly among the young and middle-aged generations because of fear of radiation exposure [14]. Minamisoma's original population of 71,561 rapidly dropped to approximately 10,000 in the immediate aftermath of the disaster, and it has gradually recovered to 56,810 as of March 2017 [20]. Furthermore, the proportion of those aged 65 and above rose from 26.5% in 2010 to 32.0% in 2015, while the average number of people per household declined from 3.00 in 2010 to 2.23 in 2015 [21]. It has been additionally suggested that the average public expenditure for long-term care per person increased by 30% in the city post-disaster compared with pre-disaster because of changing demographics and the decreased social support and informal care available to the elderly remaining in the city [22]. However, there is still limited information available regarding health consequences induced by the post-disaster social changes in Minamisoma City.
Geographical location of Minamisoma City, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, and Miyagi Cancer Center
Our case report describes the case of an elderly man diagnosed as having an advanced stage rectal cancer following long-term patient delay complicated by social isolation in Minamisoma City, Fukushima, after the triple disaster of March 2011 [14].
In June 2016, an 80-year-old Japanese man with no significant medical history was referred to Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital (Fig. 1) for bloody stools and dizziness. He first noticed bloody stools in May 2015 and was aware of the possibility of colorectal cancer. However, he did not seek medical attention for over 1 year, reportedly because he considered the amount of blood trivial and did not experience other serious symptoms. It was only after considerable dizziness that he first sought medical consultation. His hemoglobin level was 7.4 g/dL with mean corpuscular volume of 78 fL at first presentation. Colonoscopy and abdominal computed tomography revealed a locally advanced rectal cancer.
He reported that he did not fear a cancer diagnosis. Regarding his life history, after he graduated from junior high school at age 15, he worked for the construction industry and retired at 73. Although he was married at 19 and had two children, he divorced at 42, and thereafter lived alone. He had never undertaken any type of cancer screening, although Minamisoma City provided multiple screening programs including biennial fecal occult blood tests for colorectal cancer [23]. He resided in the most central area of the city, with the nearest general hospital 1.0 km away.
Further detailed history taking revealed that he was exposed to social isolation after the 2011 disaster. Although he lived alone before the disaster, he hosted a neighborhood association with residents of the same generation and had many opportunities to socialize with friends. The association members were interested in health issues, and normally shared their health concerns with each other. In their gatherings, he had actually learned that colorectal cancer could cause bloody stools. However, the 2011 triple disaster, particularly the nuclear disaster, led to long-term evacuation of his neighbors. He lost contact with almost all his friends, and was unable to continue organizing the neighborhood association gatherings. He went outside less frequently and spent more time watching television, losing chances to discuss health concerns or share health information with others. In fact, he never talked to anyone about his symptoms before his first hospital visit. He remained out of contact with his ex-wife and children. Furthermore, he did not use a cellular phone, smart phone, or the Internet. He disclosed that he felt alone due to post-disaster changes, and that the diagnosis further intensified his loneliness, because he felt that he had "lost everything," in terms of his family, friends, and his health. He also reported that he felt he should have made a more timely first medical consultation so that his disease might have been found at an earlier stage.
A Hartmann procedure was performed in June 2016 but it failed to successfully resect the lesion due to its severe invasion. The final diagnosis was stage IIIA rectal cancer with a direct invasion to sacrum. Although chemotherapy was initiated in July 2016, buttock pain which derived from the remnant lesion gradually exacerbated. We recommended palliative radiation therapy to him for the purpose of pain control, yet he decided not to receive it. Miyagi Cancer Center (Fig. 1), the most accessible facility with radiation equipment, is located approximately 60 km away from his residence; however, it was impossible for him to regularly visit the facility, as he did not possess a car and no one around him was able to take him there. He was admitted to our department due to general weakening in November 2016, and chemotherapy was stopped. We had multiple meetings with social workers and community health workers to try to achieve his wishes to spend his end-of-life period at home. However, he was not able to be discharged from the hospital due to insufficient support from his family and neighbors. He was transferred to a long-term care facility in January 2017, and died in February 2017.
This is a case of locally advanced rectal cancer with long-term patient delay following the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima; our patient died within 1 year of his first medical consultation. We found that our patient experienced social isolation post-disaster, which may have reduced his opportunities to discuss health concerns and gain understanding of colorectal cancer; these factors may have contributed to the prolonged patient delay of over 1 year.
Social isolation is a crucial component which can complicate cancer management in post-disaster settings, as accentuated in Hurricane Katrina [24]. In fact, we previously reported an association between social isolation and patient delay in patients with breast cancer after the triple disaster [25], and the present case further underscores the possibility that face-to-face interaction with family and friends can play a predominant role as a source for health information, and as an opportunity to discuss and confirm symptoms. In addition, socially isolated elderly adults may find it particularly difficult to adopt new sources of health information, such as the Internet [9]. We therefore find it important to recognize that events triggering social isolation, such as nuclear disasters, may have widespread health consequences through loss of health information and social support, particularly in elderly populations.
Of note, although our patient was initially aware of the potential of malignancy, he did not pursue this possibility. Normalcy bias, a mindset which underestimates possible risk and assumes that adverse consequences occur to other people, may have been a potential contributor to his actions [25, 26]. Social isolation may strengthen normalcy bias [25], and if he had had an opportunity to discuss his symptoms with family members or friends, he may have been able to interpret his own symptoms appropriately and seek medical attention earlier; these processes have been found to be crucial for seeking timely medical care [27]. Furthermore, his limited health literacy and initial lack of urgent symptoms call for further attention in fully understanding his patient delay, as they are known risk factors [8]. We speculate that the coexistence of the above factors with social isolation could have made him more susceptible to patient delay.
He reported a continued intense feeling of loneliness for all the 5 years following the disaster. Social isolation may be more persistent after nuclear disasters, compared to natural disasters, due to long-lasting evacuation and community tensions [25, 28]. Community disruption after the nuclear accident appears to have caused social isolation in our patient, and other patients with cancer in Fukushima may be experiencing similar phenomena of isolation-induced delay, given that the restoration from the Fukushima nuclear disasters is still underway 6 years after the disaster [29, 30].
The social isolation of our patient not only led to his patient delay and an advanced stage diagnosis, but also limited his treatment choices and eventually lead to an early death. He was able to receive neither radiation therapy nor home-based care in his end-of-life period. These findings suggest that conventional support from health care providers and social workers alone may not be enough to overcome social isolation. It is true that the World Health Organization and the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) have concluded that any possible health effects induced by radiation exposure after the Fukushima disaster would be negligible [31, 32], and this information, along with new results from ongoing studies, is shared widely with local residents in Fukushima through public presentations and media coverage. However, health issues caused by social changes following the 2011 triple disaster, as accentuated in this case, have been relatively underrepresented.
Local health care providers have been playing extra roles to alleviate the long-term decline of social support in the disaster-struck areas of Fukushima [29]. Although the provision of medical services is the most critical task for physicians, and individual social workers and community health workers may be able to intervene in patients' social environments through public and private services, these hospital-centered measures alone are unlikely to resolve delayed medical consultations among socially isolated people [25]. Although it is difficult to individually reach residents with cancer-suggestive symptoms who are yet to make their first medical consultation, it may be worthwhile to organize public sessions which promote cancer awareness and knowledge among local residents, possibly enabling local health care providers to approach a large number of patients with potential cancer symptoms.
We additionally suggest that policy-level interventions are imperative in resolving social isolation and its persistent health effects following the Fukushima nuclear disaster. In particular, it may be meaningful for local municipalities to conduct community outreach programs, such as health checkups and counseling services, at shelters and temporary housing sites in addition to general residential areas [33,34,35]. These efforts may help to identify local residents with insufficient support or those with early signs of cancer, and encourage these vulnerable populations to make timely medical consultations when they are in need of medical services. Considering that isolation-induced health effects are not limited to patients with cancer [36], mitigation of isolation should be considered a critical public health issue in post-disaster settings. Public activities to strengthen the bonds and interactions within communities may further alleviate social isolation and its broad health effects.
Given recent global trends of population ageing, nuclear power use, and climate change, the present findings may be applicable beyond Fukushima. Population ageing has progressed globally, with longevity and declining fertility rates [37]. In particular, low fertility rates, an issue among the majority of HICs [37], can contribute to social isolation in the elderly, as accentuated in examples from China [38]. In addition, while there is increasing interest in nuclear energy [39], concerns remain about future nuclear disasters [40]. Natural disasters may similarly expose their victims to social isolation and its various health consequences, as seen in reports from Hurricane Katrina [41, 42], and the occurrence and severity of this type of disaster are currently on the rise worldwide due to global warming [43]. The potential for a simultaneous increase of elderly populations and risk of both nuclear and natural disasters calls for improved attention to the broader impacts of social isolation among the elderly.
Social isolation after the nuclear accident may have been a primary contributing factor to patient delay in this case. Social support from family and friends may be imperative for the health of the elderly, contributing to their health awareness and health-seeking behaviors; social isolation can therefore delay a first medical consultation and diagnosis, in addition to the course of treatment and outcome. Countermeasures led by health care providers and broader policy initiatives may be warranted to reduce social isolation and its health effects. This case additionally suggests we should be aware that disasters can further deteriorate social connections of elderly populations, possibly leading to a detrimental effect on post-disaster management of health issues, including cancers.
FDNPP:
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
HICs:
High-income countries
OECD:
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
UNSCEAR:
United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
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We do not have any funding. We express our gratitude to Mr Masatsugu Tanaki and Dr Shigeaki Kato for their constructive opinions on this study.
AO, TS, ManT, and HO treated the patient. AO wrote the manuscript. All authors conceptualized and designed the case report, and revised the paper. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images. A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.
The Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital Institutional Review Board waived the review of this study, because this study is a clinical case report.
Department of Surgery, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, 2-54-6 Takamicho, Haramachi, Minamisoma, Fukushima, 975-0033, Japan
Akihiko Ozaki, Toyoaki Sawano, Manabu Tsukada & Hiromichi Ohira
Department of Research, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Minamisoma, Fukushima, 975-0033, Japan
Claire Leppold
Department of Radiation Protection, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Minamisoma, Fukushima, 975-0033, Japan
Masaharu Tsubokura
Department of Internal Medicine, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Iwaki, Fukushima, 972-8322, Japan
Tetsuya Tanimoto
Medical Governance Research Institute, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-0074, Japan
Masahiro Kami
Global Public Health Unit, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, Edinburgh, UK
Akihiko Ozaki
Toyoaki Sawano
Manabu Tsukada
Hiromichi Ohira
Correspondence to Akihiko Ozaki.
Ozaki, A., Leppold, C., Sawano, T. et al. Social isolation and cancer management – advanced rectal cancer with patient delay following the 2011 triple disaster in Fukushima, Japan: a case report. J Med Case Reports 11, 138 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-017-1306-3
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Shocked Mother Spots Drawing of a Male Genitalia Hidden In A Netflix Kid's Cartoon
Maya the Bee just got naughty!
When it comes to children's entertainment, parents have to keep in mind that not all animated shows are actually suitable for young audiences. Besides, there are a lot of cartoons out there that are made specifically for mature viewers. These shows, by comparison, contain edgier material than your typical Saturday morning cartoons.
Of course, you, as a responsible parent, have to make sure that you provide guidance for your children as they look for stuff to watch. You have to expose them to wholesome content such as Maya the Bee. Or maybe not?
GASP! Is that what I think it is?!
Source: Studio 100
Apparently, one alarmed mother recently took it to social media to share her disgust about Maya the Bee. According to her, she made a shocking discovery one day when she spotted a drawing of a penis in episode 35 of the said Netflix children's show. The "object" in question can be seen around the 5:30 mark.
In a Facebook post, Chey Robinson said she is "extremely disgusted" about the drawing.
The concerned mother wrote:
"I know that something like this should not be in a kid's show whatever. I'm extremely disgusted by it. There should be no reason why my kids should have to see something like this."
Robinson's post led many parents to be in uproar against the phallic illustration.
Meanwhile, Studio 100, the production team behind the cartoon, issued a statement to address the concern.
In a Hollywood Reporter article, we read that the studio said:
"An absolutely inappropriate image has been discovered in a four-second fly-by scene in one episode of the total of 78 episodes of the series. The origin of this image obviously results from a very bad joke from one of the 150 artists working on the production.
The company likewise added:
"This is indeed unacceptable to the Studio 100 Group as owner of the brand and all its partners and doesn't reflect the quality of its work and its values. Legal action has already been started. Studio 100 very much regrets this incident and would like to offer its sincere apologies to all Maya the Bee fans. At the same time the company is taking all suitable technical measures to remedy the situation."
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Same can be said of the road leading from Asda & Police station towards Rhosddu. I see cars swapping lanes every day many not knowing which lane to get in. I also see them cutting straight across rather than following the lane around the roundabouts. Poor driving indeed.
I wish i had been given an advanced driving skills course paid by me and other tax payers so that i would know all the tips and hints to avoid being in an accident with an irresponsible driver who hasn't been on advanced driving skills course sponsored by me or other tax payers.
In other words if everyone had been on an advanced driving course there would be no need for speed bumps, traffic calming measures, speed limits or even the upkeep of overgrown roundabouts.
A lot of people are impatient when driving. You will never change that. All the speed bumps in the world will not alter anything. The ones that drive at speed & dangerously round islands call everyone else fit to burn. They cannot see that they themselves are the problem.
I did both Driving and Riding tests a few years ago now and I am still a member of the IAM, it is very useful, however it is still helpful if overgrown roundabouts are maintained allowing you a clearer view of the junctions…..
You are having a laugh aren't you? How TF do you read the road when you're in the correct lane and a vehicle on your left-hand side is weaving all over the place when there's no road markings on one of the busiest roundabouts in the county?
There are no road markings on the Sainsbury's petrol roundabout.
How and why do I have to 'read the road' if I'm indicating right, I'm in the right hand lane, and very aware that people in the left-hand lane are suspect to encroaching into my lane?
If you are doing everything correctly, why do you have to put up with bad drivers who don't help matters by dangerously 'crossing paths' with you on a busy road with no visible markings on a busy piece of road?
Rob (admin), ask Wrexham Council why there's no road markings on one of the towns' busiest roundabouts please. And also ask 'em to cut down their Magic Roundabout which is an obvious driving hazard.
that's all very nice & good. Well done.
But we're talking about basics here. Other posters have pointed out that the bushes on the said roundabout turn it into a 'blind spot'.
Also, there are no visible lane markings on the road in question.
You can be an 'advanced driver', James Bonds' stunt replacement, whatever, but the facts remain the same.
Bushes on roundabout present a blind spot & driving hazard.
Can't the Council not also sort out the historical problems of flash-flooding on the left lane of the Plas Coch roundabout or Stansty bridge every time we have heavy rain?
What are the taxpayers getting for their money?
If it's a problem with drainage, then get in specialists for the job?
The Council wants us to become a City – and pay higher rates.. Let's see them deal with town problems first.
Oddly enough we have info about being penalised for having more training.
Hope to have it up this week if we get the reply from police on it – some will agree and some probably disagree!
Other posters have pointed out that the bushes on the said roundabout turn it into a 'blind spot'.
Ok, yes they do need cutting as I agreed with in my post?
Many roundabouts are like this, including the one in Rhostyllen under the A483, where people swing to the right to straight line the exit to Johnstown with cars on the inside heading for the A483 to Wrexham. I to would prefer two painted lanes around the roundabout (s) but Wrexham council are probably not going to do it.
Much of advanced driving and riding is about anticipating what others will do!
That's me leaving this thread now, I will sit back and let others carry on ranting at each other….. Enjoy!
Looking forward to reading that.


Do I sound like a three year old yet?
I could make that little fox pendant all day!
I love simple jewellery. Thank you, Cyndi, for the review and the giveaway.
I've posted at my blog about the giveaway.
This looks like a cute book. I'd like a chance to win it. I have a friend just learning to bead with her daughter and this would make a great gift or something for the 3 of us to share together.
Sweet! I am all about cute!
What a great giveaway! I love this theme and this must be a wonderful book!
This would make a wonderful addition to my Beading Library! Please pick me!


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package org.apache.nutch.parse.zip;

// JDK imports
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
import java.util.zip.ZipInputStream;
import java.net.URL;

// Commons Logging imports
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

// Hadoop imports
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;

// Nutch imports
import org.apache.nutch.metadata.Metadata;
import org.apache.nutch.net.protocols.Response;
import org.apache.nutch.parse.Parse;
import org.apache.nutch.parse.ParseData;
import org.apache.nutch.parse.ParseUtil;
import org.apache.nutch.parse.ParseImpl;
import org.apache.nutch.parse.ParseException;
import org.apache.nutch.parse.Outlink;
import org.apache.nutch.protocol.Content;
import org.apache.nutch.util.MimeUtil;

/**
 *
 * @author Rohit Kulkarni & Ashish Vaidya
 */
public class ZipTextExtractor {

  /** Get the MimeTypes resolver instance. */
  private MimeUtil MIME;

  public static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(ZipTextExtractor.class);

  private Configuration conf;

  /** Creates a new instance of ZipTextExtractor */
  public ZipTextExtractor(Configuration conf) {
    this.conf = conf;
    this.MIME = new MimeUtil(conf);
  }

  public String extractText(InputStream input, String url, List outLinksList) throws IOException {
    String resultText = "";
    byte temp;

    ZipInputStream zin = new ZipInputStream(input);

    ZipEntry entry;

    while ((entry = zin.getNextEntry()) != null) {

      if (!entry.isDirectory()) {
        int size = (int) entry.getSize();
        byte[] b = new byte[size];
        for(int x = 0; x < size; x++) {
          int err = zin.read();
          if(err != -1) {
            b[x] = (byte)err;
          }
        }
        String newurl = url + "/";
        String fname = entry.getName();
        newurl += fname;
        URL aURL = new URL(newurl);
        String base = aURL.toString();
        int i = fname.lastIndexOf('.');
        if (i != -1) {
          // Trying to resolve the Mime-Type
          String contentType = MIME.getMimeType(fname).getName();
          try {
            Metadata metadata = new Metadata();
            metadata.set(Response.CONTENT_LENGTH, Long.toString(entry.getSize()));
            metadata.set(Response.CONTENT_TYPE, contentType);
            Content content = new Content(newurl, base, b, contentType, metadata, this.conf);
            Parse parse = new ParseUtil(this.conf).parse(content).get(content.getUrl());
            ParseData theParseData = parse.getData();
            Outlink[] theOutlinks = theParseData.getOutlinks();

            for(int count = 0; count < theOutlinks.length; count++) {
              outLinksList.add(new Outlink(theOutlinks[count].getToUrl(), theOutlinks[count].getAnchor()));
            }

            resultText += entry.getName() + " " + parse.getText() + " ";
          } catch (ParseException e) {
            if (LOG.isInfoEnabled()) {
              LOG.info("fetch okay, but can't parse " + fname + ", reason: " + e.getMessage());
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }

    return resultText;
  }

}

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Q: C# Console app, Can't keep program running in while loop I am trying to change Console color when user press certain keys, but I doing something wrong in while loop. try break and return, but both does not work for me. I still new to coding.
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {

        while (true )
        {Console.WriteLine("Press Key R,G,B,D,C,M to change Console Color");
            Console.ReadLine();

            if (Console.ReadKey(true).Key == ConsoleKey.R)
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
                Console.Clear();
                //Console.WriteLine("Press Key R,G,B,D,C,M to change Console Color");
               break;
            }

            else if (Console.ReadKey(true).Key == ConsoleKey.G)
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
                Console.Clear();
                Console.WriteLine("Press Key R,G,B,D,C,M to change Console Color");
                //break;
            }

            else if (Console.ReadKey(true).Key == ConsoleKey.B)
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Blue;
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
                Console.Clear();
               Console.WriteLine("Press Key R,G,B,D,C,M to change Console Color");
                //return;
            }

            else if (Console.ReadKey(true).Key == ConsoleKey.D)
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkGreen;
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
                Console.Clear();
                Console.WriteLine("Press Key R,G,B,D,C,M to change Console Color");
              // break;
            }

            else if (Console.ReadKey(true).Key == ConsoleKey.C)
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Cyan;
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkRed;
                Console.Clear();
               Console.WriteLine("Press Key R,G,B,D,C,M to change Console Color");
               // break;
            }

            else if (Console.ReadKey(true).Key == ConsoleKey.M)
            {
                Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Magenta;
                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
                Console.Clear();
                Console.WriteLine("Press Key R,G,B,D,C,M to change Console Color");
              //  break;
            }

            else {
                Console.WriteLine("You didn't press Key R,G,B,D,C,M.");
              //Console.ReadLine();
               // return;
            }
         // Console.ReadLine();

        }
    }
}

}

A: According to what you want to implement

change Console color when user press certain keys

Console.ReadLine on every iteration is redundant.
Exiting while loop on pressing R key is also unexpected behaviour.
Try following code.
static void Main(string[] args)
{

  while (true)
  {
    Console.WriteLine("Press Key R,G,B,D,C,M to change Console Color. Press E to Exit");
    switch (Console.ReadKey(true).Key)
    {
      case ConsoleKey.R:
        Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
        Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
        Console.Clear();
        break;
      case ConsoleKey.G:
        Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
        Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
        Console.Clear();
        break;
      case ConsoleKey.B:
        Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Blue;
        Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
        Console.Clear();
        break;
      case ConsoleKey.D:
        Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkGreen;
        Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
        Console.Clear();
        break;

      case ConsoleKey.C:
        Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Cyan;
        Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkRed;
        Console.Clear();
        break;
      case ConsoleKey.M:
        Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Magenta;
        Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
        Console.Clear();
        break;
      case ConsoleKey.E:
        return;
      default:
        Console.WriteLine("You didn't press Key R,G,B,D,C,M.");
        break;
    }
    Console.WriteLine("Press Key R,G,B,D,C,M to change Console Color");
  }
}

A: Your code was not working because: you were first expecting the user to input a line and then a key.
Second: if the user pressed r the while loop would break.
You should read the key before you start checking the user input because on every if you were expecting a new key press.
   while(true)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Press Key R,G,B,D,C,M to change Console Color");

                var key = Console.ReadKey();
                if (key.Key == ConsoleKey.R)
                {
                    Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
                    Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
                    Console.Clear();
                }

                else if (key.Key == ConsoleKey.G)
                {
                    Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Green;
                    Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
                    Console.Clear();
                }

                else if (key.Key == ConsoleKey.B)
                {
                    Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Blue;
                    Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
                    Console.Clear();
                }

                else if (key.Key == ConsoleKey.D)
                {
                    Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkGreen;
                    Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
                    Console.Clear();
                }

                else if (key.Key == ConsoleKey.C)
                {
                    Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Cyan;
                    Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkRed;
                    Console.Clear();
                }

                else if (key.Key == ConsoleKey.M)
                {
                    Console.BackgroundColor = ConsoleColor.Magenta;
                    Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Black;
                    Console.Clear();
                }

                else
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("You didn't press Key R,G,B,D,C,M.");
                }

            };

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Hack: Confessions of a Presidential Campaign Reporter
Michael Hastings had what for many journalists would be a dream job—covering the presidential race for Newsweek. Too bad the dream is very, very far from reality
By Michael Hastings
The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's The Making of the President, the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting. That book began with a note of thanks: "First, to the politicians of America—men whom I have found over the long years the pleasantest, shrewdest and generally the most honorable of companions.… Second, I must thank my comrades in the press—whose reporting at every level of American politics purifies, protects and refreshes our system from year to year."
Right. It's been a long forty-eight years, Mr. White.
Before I start reminiscing, I want to make clear that there are some great and responsible journalists covering politics in America. It's a hard job, for all sorts of reasons, some of which I'll lay out here. It's often physically exhausting and also mind-numbingly dull much of the time. More importantly, if you're traveling with a campaign day in and day out, it's difficult to get any critical distance on what you're seeing, and the price you pay as a reporter for writing stuff that doesn't echo the campaign's message is excommunication from your sources, which doesn't sit well with your editors back at the home office.
Fortunately for me, I was on a somewhat unusual assignment, a long-term, supersecret project for Newsweek magazine. The agreement Newsweek had made with each of the campaigns was that in addition to the reporters covering them day to day, there would be another bunch whose material would be kept confidential and published in a special issue of the magazine, as well as in a book, that would come out after the election. So my job was
basically: Ride the buses and planes with the candidates, have big lunches and dinners on the expense account, get sources drunk and singing, then report back the behind-the-scenes story. I was supposed to follow whoever the front-runner was for the nomination, starting in the primaries and going right on through the general election. Back then, every pundit and hack on the trail (myself included) was drinking from the same Fountain of Conventional Wisdom (CW), and we'd all agreed that John McCain was finished, Fred Thompson didn't really want it, maybe Mitt Romney had a chance, but that the real candidate to watch was Rudy Giuliani. So Rudy was my man.
On one of my first days, I watched Rudy deliver his stump speech in Peterborough, New Hampshire. As you might imagine, it was a little focused on the "terrorist war against us." His solution was to "go on the offense"—meaning more aggressive torture techniques, recklessly increasing the size of our military forces, fighting an unending war in Iraq, and possibly bombing the shit out of Iran. "If someone wants to kill your family," he was fond of saying, "you can't negotiate with them. What do you negotiate? Who they are going to kill first?"
I listened to variations of this speech so many times over the next three months that I picked up one of Rudy's verbal ticks. A friend from The New York Times stopped me in midconversation once and said, "Did you hear what you just said? That's what Rudy says all the time: 'The reality is…' "
The reality is: I quickly realized Rudy was a maniac. I had a recurring fantasy in which I took him out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that put him out of commission for a year or so), saving America from the horror of a President Giuliani. If that sounds like I had some trouble being "objective," I did. Objectivity is a fallacy. In campaign reporting more than any other kind of press coverage, reporters aren't just covering a story, they're a part of it—influencing outcomes, setting expectations, framing candidates—and despite what they tell themselves, it's impossible to both be a part of the action and report on it objectively. In some cases, you genuinely like the candidate you're covering and you root for him, because over the long haul you come to see him as a human being. For a long time, this was John McCain's ace in the hole with the press, whom he referred to as "my base." Reporters rode along with him, and he joked with them, and that went a long way toward shaping the tone of their coverage. (Last January a group of reporters asked McCain's staff to make McCain campaign press T-shirts for them.) And because your success is linked to the candidate's, you want to be with a winner, because that's the story that makes the paper or the magazine or gets you on TV.
In my case, it was easy to despise Rudy. I'd spent two years covering the war in Iraq. I had a brother who was currently deployed there as an infantry platoon leader, and I had Iraqi friends who were now living as refugees. To listen to a man so casually invoke violence and warfare—a man who'd never set foot in Iraq or in any war zone—was troubling indeed. I wasn't alone in the press corps. I don't think I spoke to another journalist who ever said one good thing about the man. What did we say? We made fun of his divorces and his wives, that he'd married a second cousin, that he surrounded himself with corrupt cronies, that he had a piss-poor relationship with his children, etc. We talked about his megalomania and his cynical exploitation of September 11.
Still, I ate meals with staffers and campaign managers. I tried to say things that would make me appear sympathetic to Rudy while not technically lying. ("Wow, he sure seems popular." "I was in New York on 9/11, and I have to be honest with you, I was glad Rudy was in charge.") I tried to stay out of any discussion about issues and to just repeat the mantra to myself: I am here to observe and record, observe and record.
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The dance with staffers is a perilous one. You're probably not going to get much, if any, one-on-one time with the candidate, which means your sources of information are the people who work for him. So you pretend to be friendly and nonthreatening, and over time you "build trust," which everybody involved knows is an illusion. If the time comes, if your editor calls for it, you're supposed to fuck them over; and they'll throw you under a bus without much thought, too. (I should say that personal friendships can actually develop, despite the odds.) For the top campaign officials and operatives, seduction and punishment of reporters is an art. Write this uff_ piece now; we'll give you something good later. No, don't write it this way, write it that way. We'll give you something good later._
at the end of December, with Giuliani sitting out Iowa and the bottom falling out of his poll numbers in New Hampshire, I joined up with Mike Huckabee's campaign in Des Moines. When Huckabee won the caucus on January 3, it turned out to be the second-biggest story of the evening after Barack Obama's victory over Hillary. The two stories shared something in common: Almost everyone in the media whose job was to make predictions had gotten it dead wrong.
Huck was traveling like a winner now—police escort to the airport, 727 with all first-class seats to take him to Manchester and the New Hampshire primary. As the plane took off, Huckabee rolled an orange down the aisle, back to the forty or so reporters in the traveling press. (Orange rolling has a long tradition on campaign planes. Depending on the imagination and the blood-alcohol level back in the press section, all sorts of other objects get sent up the aisle—windup toys, tennis balls, ice cubes, maybe a little dignity.)
Chip Saltsman, Huckabee's campaign manager, slouched down next to a reporter from Time and began to get nicely buzzed off some small bottles of Maker's Mark that had been smuggled onto the Baptist's plane. I had newsmagazine envy thinking I should have thought of the booze and gotten Chip drunk so he'd give me all the great stuff I was sure that bastard from Time was getting. Up in the front of the plane, grizzled campaign operative Ed Rollins sat with the actor Chuck Norris and his wife, Gena. We all agreed that Chuck was responsible for our being here. Huckabee had put Norris in an ad with him two months earlier. It featured Chuck and Huck reciting facts about Chuck Norris: "My plan to secure the border? Two words: Chuck Norris." "When Chuck Norris does a push-up, he isn't lifting himself up—he's pushing the Earth down." There were a gazillion YouTube hits, and the ads brought Huckabee his first sustained round of national press coverage.
On the plane, Huckabee was ecstatic. He gave an impromptu press conference in the aisle, telling us all he'd recently given a speech in the same ballroom where four years earlier Howard Dean had unleashed his scream. "What would your scream sound like?" a top political reporter for CNN asked. "Could you do it for us?" Huckabee didn't take the bait, but it gives some sense of how the press felt about the man. We thought he was a joke, from his views on evolution to gun control to homeschooling. But we cut him some slack because he was entertaining, and he played up being a yokel because he knew it worked with us.
We landed in Manchester late at night. Huckabee's people had lost the luggage, so we spent a half hour waiting on the tarmac in the cold, freezing our asses off and watching Judy Woodruff from PBS throw a fit while Huck's staff got their shit together.
Through a series of flukes, I somehow ended up at the same hotel as Huckabee while most of the other reporters were scattered across town. Over the next few days, I took up my post in the lobby of the Homewood Suites, figuring I might get a glimpse of Huckabee in an "unguarded moment," just in case he ended up being the nominee or vice president. Maybe I'd catch him swearing, or bringing in a hooker, or breaking out in spontaneous prayer. Maybe he'd learn my name and I could be one of those reporters whom the candidate addresses on a first-name basis. "Mikey, you have a question for me?" There's a not-so-subtle hierarchy among reporters, and petty jealousies and ass-kissing competitions and displays of inflated self-importance break out all the time. (On the flight from Des Moines, I'd gone to the front of the plane and struck up a conversation with Huck's ad guy, thinking I might get something useful, but also maybe he'd introduce me to Huck's daughter, Sarah, and I wouldn't feel like the only loser on the plane who wasn't on a first-name basis with her. But she ended up talking to the Time guy, too.)
On Sunday, two days before the primary and a few hours before a Fox News debate, I sat down in the lobby to interview Saltsman and Rollins, when Chuck Norris and Gena approached. Gena was younger than Chuck and pretty hot. From a little distance, Chuck Norris looked exactly like Chuck Norris should, like a guy who could choke your ass out, quick. Up close, though, you could see he had a hearing aid. And his red hair and goatee were dyed. I did a quick check on IMDB as I sat there. Chuck Norris was 67 years old. It couldn't be so.
"Your staff hasn't gotten the Mucinex for my wife," he said to Saltsman. "Gena's head still hurts, and all she wants is Mucinex, and we haven't got it."
"When did you ask for it?" Saltsman said.
"Three days ago. We asked for it three days ago. Gena's been sick, and she hasn't gotten her Mucinex."
"I'm sorry, Chuck. Next time, whatever you need, just come right to me."
"Next time we'll have to bring our own guy along to take care of us," Chuck said.
"We'll get it for you right away, Chuck," Saltsman said, dispatching a low-level staff boy to Walgreens.
"We'll have to bring our own guy next time," Chuck said again.
Chuck and Gena made their exit, and Rollins started telling me how he'd threatened Mitt Romney that morning in the green room before a Fox News appearance. He'd been threatening Romney a lot lately. He'd told The Washington Post that he'd wanted to knock Romney's teeth out, a remark that made the Drudge Report. Now Rollins told me he walked up to Romney, shook his hand, and said, " 'Nice teeth, governor.' His aides were in the fetal position," Rollins went on. "They didn't know what the fuck to do. No one had ever talked to him like that. They were like, Oh shit, how the fuck do we keep Rollins away from the governor?" His goal, he said, was to get inside Romney's head and "psyche him out."
Just then Huckabee came down into the lobby, dressed in a skintight yellow jogging suit. He started chatting with Chip and Ed. Chip suggested he take a state police escort with him on his run. Now that he was a winner, he needed the security.
"How far are you going to jog, Governor?" I asked.
"Five K," he said, and then he told me he always liked to jog before a debate, to relax.
I could see the overly dramatic paragraph already taking shape in my head: "Mike Huckabee slipped on his yellow running suit, black water bottle attached to his hip, and went out onto the cold streets of Manchester to clear his head before his debate. It was his usual routine. The once overweight former governor of Arkansas now relied on the discipline of the marathon runner to get him through his toughest political contests.…"
over the next two days, I drove around to a few other campaign stops for Huckabee, but the story on the Republican side was now clearly shifting to McCain. I didn't jump at the chance to cover him. I'd met him and thought he was affable, and I imagine he was at one time as honorable as everyone says. But his views on war and foreign policy, the way he fetishized the idea of sacrifice, unnerved me a little. He seemed to have gone just a little crazy, Captain Ahab–style. One aspect of McCain that did intrigue me was his purported womanizing, which came up a lot among reporters. Get a group of political journalists (and campaign operatives and staffers, too, as long as it's not their candidate) around a dinner table, or at a bar after a few drinks, or looking to dispel the boredom in hushed conversations on a plane or bus, and the sex life of the candidate, any candidate, will eventually come up. The rumor of the moment was a story that was spiked by the Times, supposedly saying that McCain had an affair with a lobbyist (the story eventually ran, but it was flimsy and an embarrassment to the paper), but there were plenty of other tales being passed around.
There was no small amount of hypocrisy when it came to journalists discussing the sex lives of the people they cover, since fidelity wasn't exactly a prized virtue among reporters on the campaign trail. For my part, I watched a lot of porn. A colleague told me the first thing he did after checking in to a hotel was to check out their porn selection. I followed his example. I'd become an expert on the various hotel chains and what they offered. The best was clearly the Hyatt Regency; the Homewood Suites had the usual selection of XX features. On my last night in Manchester, after the primaries were over and the campaigns had moved on, I selected one called Nasty Older Sluts or something like that for $11.95. (Note to Newsweek accounting department: I never expensed the porn.)
It occurred to me, as I sat there watching an interracial couple banging, that jacking off in a hotel room was not unlike the larger experience of campaign reporting. You watch two performers. You kind of like it when one of them gets humiliated. You know they're professionals, so you don't feel much sympathy for them. You wish you could participate, but instead you watch with a hidden envy and feel vaguely ashamed for watching. You think you could probably do as good a job or better. You sometimes get a glimpse, intentionally or not, of society's hidden desires and fears. You watch the porn week after week, the scenes almost always the same, none of them too memorable. The best ones get sent around the Internet.
in the weeks after New Hampshire, I went down to Florida to watch Giuliani lose for good. I received a press release saying academy award–winning actor jon voight endorses mayor giuliani, which seemed as good a death knell as any. Voight joined the mayor on the campaign trail. Most of Rudy's senior staff were hiding from the press, so Voight filled the void with an impromptu press conference. He explained how being cast in _Midnight Cowboy _was similar to Rudy's decision-making ability on 9/11. It didn't make sense then, either. After running out of campaign questions—and since nobody cared what Jon Voight thought—a reporter from The New York Observer asked him about his daughter, Angelina Jolie. This was an answer worth listening to. He couldn't confirm the rumor that she was pregnant, but he did "wish her the best in life." Then a Fox News embed posted a blog item featuring clips of a movie he did called Karate Dog.
Tempers got short. After one stop, we came back on the plane to find Rawlings baseballs, all signed by Rudy. A reporter for NBC wrote a blog post about it, entitled "A Going-Away Gift from Rudy?" Rudy's campaign advisers went ballistic—they saw what they were doing as a nice gesture, a nod to our shared experience, and to have it reported that he was quitting infuriated them. "He fucked us," the campaign manager said to me. "Put that in your fucking book."
I'd been promised behind-the-scenes access the next day. I would finally get to ride on Rudy's bus, not the press bus. But that morning, when I went to get on Rudy's bus, his deputy press spokesperson (who would later become Sarah Palin's spokesperson) stopped me at the door. I explained I'd been promised access. She said she hadn't been told that, but she'd go check. She went inside the bus; the door closed; the bus drove away. I was left standing in the parking lot.
Rudy had raised nearly $60 million, spent all of it, and received only one delegate, running what was one of the most catastrophic campaigns in history. Despite my feelings toward him—the country had dodged a real bullet there—I sympathized with his staffers. He gave his farewell address in Orlando. Backstage, two of his close aides cried. He gave them both a hug, patting one on the shoulder and saying, "Good, good," an endearing expression he'd used throughout the year. It was depressing. I found myself thinking,
Maybe he's not such a bad guy after all.…
I got a new assignment before Super Tuesday. I would be covering Hillary now, switching to the Democrats. At this point, despite Obama's wins in South Carolina and Iowa, the CW still said Hillary would be the nominee. So I got Hillary.
i should have known it would come to this: standing in a public restroom with twenty or so other journalists, watching Eva Longoria, the star of Desperate Housewives, on closed-circuit TV as she moderates a town-hall event in Austin, Texas. It was March 3, a day before the Texas and Ohio primaries, and Hillary's advance staff had set us up in a men's bathroom. There were four urinals and one blue stall. A bunch of reporters struggled to find space for their laptops on long folding tables, and there was a kind of stunned amusement among the traveling press. A guy from the Chicago Tribune typed away in front of a urinal; a CNN cameraman captured video. The campaign sent out a press release: "For the record, these accommodations should in no way be taken as a commentary on the quality of our media coverage." But it was well established among reporters that Hillary's staffers were much bigger assholes than those of any other campaign—limiting access, screaming at reporters about the tone of their coverage, trying to shame us into submission. In my first interaction with the campaign, a staffer said, "Oh, you're from Newsweek? Are you going to write bad stuff about us, too?" Their attitude was that no matter what they did, the press was going to screw them, so they'd better screw us right back.
I thought it might be better jumping over to the Democrats; at least I wasn't appalled by their basic ideas. But Hillary Clinton's campaign was killing me. I could feel my soul die a little more with each cigarette break I took, each prepackaged meal I stuffed into my face. I couldn't stop eating when I was with her, and there was always food available. On most days, we took three to five flights, and each flight, no matter how short, had a catered meal. The campaigns charge reporters for all travel (the cost runs from $1,000 to $3,000 per day, per reporter), and catering is included in that price. Then there is food served at each event—pizza, sandwiches, celery, carrots, broccoli, bowl upon bowl of ranch dip, baskets of candy and chips. In part I felt obligated to eat every fucking thing in front of me, since it costs enough. But there was also a feeling that you were in a Gulag on wheels. Everyone traveling with the campaigns is completely dependent on them for food and transportation and shelter—not to mention any little interview crumb they toss our way, any remotely intriguing piece of information. Political reporting is founded on very dysfunctional relationships. You need them and they need you, but on some level they hate and distrust you (and on some level you, too, hate and distrust them), and in my experience a lot of that gets sublimated into food. Eat, hoard, scrounge, because you never know if they'll give you anything more.
Despite the attitude of her staff, Hillary herself seemed okay. She was more charming and funny and human than I expected her to be. I had the chance to stand next to her on the plane once while she chewed carrots, a few bits falling out of her mouth. She drank a glass of red wine and joked about how she'd like some good Mexican food in Texas but hoped it would be authentic and fresh. "You can't eat Mexican food out of a box," she said. It reminded me of hanging out at a friend's house in high school and chatting with a sort of cool mom. And yet I was also never unaware of her stature. For years I'd watched her get pummeled, and do some pummeling herself, and now she was expected to be the next president. You got a little buzz from witnessing history being made when you were around her.
But the goodwill I felt disappeared in Youngstown, Ohio. We were in a high school gym, and Hillary was being introduced by Tom Buenbarger, who heads up the International Machinists Union. Bused-in union members cheered and chanted. Buffenbarger started out by taking a swipe at Obama's white supporters. "I've got news for all the latte-drinking, Prius-driving, Birkenstock-wearing trust-fund babies crowding in to hear him speak!" he said.
I thought, Huh, I guess that means me.
Buffenbarger launched into a rant in which he compared Obama to Muhammad Ali, the best-known black American convert to Islam after Malcolm X. "But brothers and sisters," he said, "I've seen Ali in action. He could rope-a-dope with Foreman inside the ring. He could go toe-to-toe with Liston inside the ring. He could get his jaw broken by Norton and keep ghting inside the ring. But Barack Obama is no Muhammad Ali." The cunning racism of the attack actually made my heart start to beat fast and my ears start to ring. For the first time on the campaign trail, I felt completely outraged. I kept thinking, "Am I misreading this?" But there was no way, if you were in that room, to think it was anything other than what it was.
Things got worse after that. The attempt to smear Obama as a Muslim ratcheted up. A picture of him in Somali garb was leaked to the Drudge Report; soon after, a Clinton surrogate went on TV to say that Obama shouldn't be ashamed to be seen in "his native clothing." Finally, they even dropped the pretense of a cover when Clinton claimed in a speech that all the hardworking white Americans would vote for her. The campaign degenerated into a series of furious conference calls between Obama's and Hillary's advisers. I wanted out. I wanted Obama to win enough delegates to end this thing. But Hillary didn't lose, and even though the math was clear for everyone to understand, she kept on going. So I kept e-mailing and phoning and cornering her staff, trying to find out what was happening, what she was thinking. But I didn't care anymore if I got an interview. I didn't want to pretend that I thought she should win. I didn't want to pretend that I was enjoying being "a part of history."
I did hear two things in those final weeks, though, that are worth telling now. I was talking to a staffer about Bill Clinton and the impact he'd had on the campaign. "Do you think we should have sent him to Africa?" the staffer asked. "In February, should we have sent him to Africa? We were talking about that."
"He would have gone?" I asked.
"No way. I don't think anyone ever brought it up to him, but still…"
The other thing I learned is that Bill Clinton's favorite card game was no longer hearts. It was now Oh Hell, a game where everyone looks out for his own interests but, as the rules state, "there are times when players will find it in their interests to help each other." Clinton played for money. The buy-in was usually around $50, and the winner could take $400. Staffers swore by his photographic memory and ability to work out the odds in his head. But whenever he faced defeat, they said—when his back was against the wall—he'd try to cut a deal. "Clinton doesn't like to get screwed," a staffer who played with him told me. "He'd rather work out a bargain. He doesn't like it when he gets screwed."
Oh Hell.
The game summed up the frustration felt by Bill and Hillary, which had become palpable. Why the hell do the media hate us? Why the hell does Obama get a pass? Why the hell did we lose in Iowa? Why the hell aren't we winning?
And for me, the question was, Why the hell am I covering this?
It was the night of the Indiana primary, May 6, when the campaign finally realized it was finished. Yes, they had won Indiana, but not by enough. We were on the plane back to D.C., and a Clinton spokesperson, Jay Carson, came back to spin us. I didn't know Jay, but I'd heard that Leonardo DiCaprio was going to play him in a movie about his experience on the '04 Howard Dean campaign, and that seemed like a pretty cool thing to have being said about you.
On takeoff, Jay surfed down the aisle on a tray. People started to get good and drunk. I ate a Butterfinger. Jay started talking to the press, and then a guy from ABC said, "Russert called the race for Obama."
I couldn't hear what Jay replied, but his face betrayed surprise, just for moment.
By the time we landed at Dulles, there was a sense of incredible relief among the press corps. We'd all have to think about who we were covering next, but for now we were free; we just had to figure out when the concession speech would be. And then…the hardest-working, most in-denial woman in politics scheduled an event in West Virginia the next morning. That meant a 6 a.m. baggage call. It was 3 a.m. "Are you fucking kidding?" reporters started asking. "She's not quitting yet?" I went home.
Not long after, I was asked if I wanted to go to McCain. Maybe I should have done it. It was only a few more months. I'd be in the final throes right now, right in the lap of history. I would have been there for Sarah Palin and the crazy-ass convention in St. Paul; I would have had a front-row seat for all the deriding of the media. And I would have come to truly hate his campaign staff and their smug belief, based, unfortunately, on an accurate reading of the past, that they can lie to our faces and we'll swallow it.
I remembered this line from Bob Novak's autobiography, The Prince of Darkness: "With apparently little time left, I awaited my thirtieth birthday…with the grim recognition I was only a hack." Well, whatever you think of him, he went on to become one of the most influential political journalists of his time. Me? How would I escape hackdom? I could continue to gather the material I was supposed to gather, and I could try to write about what I'd seen in some way that felt honest, but it would likely be cut or certainly diluted. In the end, it wouldn't be the story I wanted to tell. I'd been at it for nearly a year, and maybe the best I had to offer were a few stories about Bill Clinton and Chuck Norris. But I think that told me all I needed to know about covering a presidential race. To borrow from Teddy White, what I was a part of had nothing to do with purifying and protecting.
So I dropped out, too.
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Q: Couldn't run my JAR file I finished my program and now i am trying to create a jar file to run it from, but when i try to do so, nothing happens, no error, not execution, no nothing.This is the path: D:\Eclipse\workspace\Game\src\AppPackage I compiled my class D:\Eclipse\workspace\Game\src\AppPackage javac Game.java Created my manifest and jar file : echo Main-Class: Game >manifest.txt and
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This is how i add a image from the images folder :
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A: You try to load the class Game from default package. But the path says you have the class in the AppPackage package. So Class should be AppPackage.Game
Also: you should use the IDE function to make the jar since only then the data gets packed together correctly. Afaik every IDE got a feature for that

A: Have a look at this tutorial: Creating a JAR File.
For your case, first of all you have to run the jar command from the src folder. For the Main-Class you have to specify the fully qualified name of the class, that means including the package: AppPackage.Game.
To include any other folder you just write it in the command line, like this:
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"Avengers: Age of Ultron" is under production, and with the movie finally shaping up, the plot details have started surfacing.
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Buzz is that Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and Baron Strucker, who all featured in the mid-credit scene of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", will be key to the film's beginning. In fact, "Age of Ultron" takes place immediately after the mid-credit scene of "The Winter Soldier," reported Latino Review.
Moreover, the first scene will show The Avengers attacking Strucker's Hydra outpost. Strucker (Thomas Kretschmann) will defend himself with the help of Loki's staff and the Chitauri weaponry.
Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch also join Strucker to fight against the Avengers. While Scarlet Witch casts a spell on Hulk, the Avengers eventually manage to win and capture the post.
Apart from this it is also being understood that Banner and Black Widow will develop feelings for each other, but the former is hesitant to express these feelings.
These spoilers are based on the comic book version of "Age of Ultron". However director Joss Whedon suggested in his interveiw that the character of the main villian Ultron will have an original form in the film and will not be based on the book.
"We're doing our own version of the origin story of Ultron....We were crafting our own version of it where [Ultron's] own origin comes more directly from the Avengers were already know about," MTV quoted Whedon.
There has also been a lot of buzz suggesting that Ant-Man's alter ego Hank Pym is going to have a major role in "Avengers: Age of Ultron." However, Whedon has refuted these rumours too.
"The other thing is in the origin story there was Hank Pim, so a lot of people assumed he was going to be in the mix, but he's not," he said. "We're basically taking the things from the comics for the movies that we need and can use. A lot of stuff has to fall by the way side."
Whedon also hinted that Ultron is going to have different iterations in the film.
"Ultron has been their chief villain when I read the book. He's been theAvengers villain. I was amazed anybody was surprised it was going to be him in the movie. Since before I even took the job of making the first one: 'I don't know if I want to make this movie but the second one should have Ultron in it," he explained.
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