This Literally is the perfect set of headphones.The noise canceling is outstanding it literally takes away any outside ambient noise. In addition the sound that they produce is amazing. I am someone that has worked in radio for many years in the past and typically am board listening to most music. However listening to music that I've heard many times before in this set of cans makes it a totally new experience. They are worth every penny.
Comfy! But doesent work good in colder weather.
Very comfy and Good sound, but if u live in a cold country (like sweden) these headphones wont work so good even in like -0 Celsius!. Mine are switching off and there is many people with the same issue (google it). I am really hoping that Sony fixes this issue.
These are the greatest headphones I have ever used. The sound is great, the noise cancelling works brilliantly and the connection is strong and versatile. They are comfortable to wear and the battery lasts for days with reasonable heavy use. I would highly recommend.
There is nothing that I dislike about these headphones. They are light, extremely comfortable & the noise cancellation is second to none. App interaction and customisable features are great too.
I have used this now for two weeks and am very happy with my purchase. One downside is the "ding" every time there is a change in the listening mode.
I have now used these headphones for two months on average for around 6 hrs a day, they are comfortable to wear and once you are used to the control system they are very easy to use, if not easier to use than a normal wire set of phones or other wireless phones that don't have the touch controls in the headset Noise cancelling is outstanding, the normal day to day sounds are totally wiped away but the louder sounds like metal hitting metal or the louder babies screaming are faint muffles. The first time you switch the noise cancelling on it is quit amazing feeling of being in a world of your own. I live just off a busy road and I yesterday in the warm weather took a relaxing nap with the headphones on and thew doors and windows wide open and never heard a thing. It was wonderful. Sound quality is outstanding and has a very good base line to the headphones, the app is a good add-on but is not needed as the base setting of the phones is excellent and I have not found many headsets to better the sound that are not twice the price. I am also a big gaming with PC and Xbox and have been using these headphones for the last couple of months over my normal wired headphones. The sound quality is brilliant where you can hear the minute detail, (i.e. footsteps, rustling vegitation). I have been told that the microphone works ok, they are not as clear as the purpose built phones and I do sound like I am some way away. So I use these phones when I am playing on my own as the sound quality is so much better. Connectivity is very good and has connected to verything I own from PC, Amazon devises, Apple Ipod, Huawei phones, the only fail is to my nearly new (six months old) Sony 4k TV. Major fail. The one draw back is these phone will only connect to one devise at a time, so if you want to connect to another devise you must remember to switch the previous devise off. Are they worth the money. It is the most I have ever paid for headphones, but I will not be parted from them. I love them to bits and I don't feel like a fool walking down the street in them. So Yes.
I bought these for a long flight as my noise cancelling earbuds were next to useless. I hesitated buying them as they were expensive but have been delighted. I haven't used all the features as yet but they give superb sound and cut out all engine noises even seated at the back of the plane. Very impressed with the battery life.
I use these mainly on my commute, an hours flight each way on a noisy turbo prop airliner, put these on and.........silence! I'm amazed just how good they are. Music sounds fantastic, I'm hearing notes I didn't know were there.
Bought these as an upgrade to my now dying 5 year old sing headphones. These are quite frankly the best headphones I have ever used. The audio quality is pristine and the noise canceling is truly industry leading.
Had these a short while and used on a long train journey. They did a very effective job producing a quality sound and cancelling out nearly all the outside sounds. Use is simple, not used google assist or alexa yet. Only gripe is having to cycle through the different options. The app works well and is simple though not sure how effective the eq is.
My niece bought me a set from Amazon UK and these frequently have a "humming" noise in the right headphone and with the noise cancelling function turned on. We are in the process of returning these to Amazon. I subsequently bought another set in South Africa. These occasionally have a "clicking" sound in the right headphone when in noise cancelling mode and particularly whilst walking or moving around.
Great features & sound but one issue.
I love these new head phones. The features are amazing especially the hand over the ear cup to let in ambient noises. However I have one issue and that's the Bluetooth. For the price range you should be able to pair more than one device to them. It's really inconvenient to keep having to pair with different devices.
I'v been looking for this pair of headphones for about a month, now i did and this is the greatest purchase i have ever made, i dont regret any pinny and the sound is just amazing, i wont talk a lot about the NC but believe me you wont get what people say about the NC until you try it, lets just say that its amazing!
Bought these to listen to some mindfulness lessons. My household is very busy and noisy. These have proved to be a godsend and now my kids realise they have to come and find me rather than yelling as I can't hear them. Thank you Sony for letting me have my sanity back.
If you are in need of wireless headphones that are pulchitrudinously immersive that deliver muscular bass along with entailing an expression of eating sour patch kids, these headphones are for you.
Good noise reduction, comfortable to wear and long battery life.
Previous to buying these I had a pair of Bose which failed after a few years and Bose were not interested in helping me. I came across these in a review video on YouTube and after doing extensive research any tech person will tell you how amazing these are. The app that accompanies it on iOS is superb and I have not had any issues with these. They look extremely slick and with the black and copper colour way they really stand out compared to anything else I've seen but in a subtle way. I cannot recommend these enough. The noise cancelling and sound quality beats everything else I've had in the past including Beats and Bose. I bought them from John Lewis as well to get the extra years warranty for free.
Great headphones in almost any category!
Although I expect Sony to improve everything connected to Bluetooth connectivity I think these headphones are a great purchase!
I did my research and pushed the button. These have been very good all round. Comfort, sound quality, noise cancelling - brilliant. Used for meditation and they work a treat. Recommended for sure.
After a fair amount of research I opted for these. I used to be a B&W favourite but with a heavy heart I chose the Sony 1000XM3 over the B&W PX. I was not disappointed. When listening to the two, the difference was as clear as night and day. All but the Sony lack tightness and clarity above 2kHz and this results in muddled audio of you have anything that is more than a singing voice. I did see results of pink noise testing, can't remember who by, but it showed that they Sony has a flat response up to 10kHz. Combine this with flagship noise cancelling and you have an amazing personal audio experience. The cancellation is miles ahead of any other headphone, seriously! I'm also really impressed with the form factor and the weight makes for comfortable wearing while still feeling like you have something of quality. I wear glasses but these don't give me any discomfort, and I wear them all day during work. I am very pleased with my purchase and eager to recommend them to anyone!
Bought these last week after comparing to Bose , we have bose at home and thought to compare , the sony were recommended as a comparison and it was the battery life that swung the buying decision although the Bose were just a tad comfier the Sony were comfortable enough , charged once and they still have 50% after two weeks of use nightly for 2-3 hours per night. Phone feature works well no problem with people hearing me answering mobile calls. Absolutely made up. Only negative in comparison is they don't connect to multiple devices at the same time although the phone app allows you to change settings while connected to another device. Only other irritation is having to scroll through to third setting for noise cancellation, this should be the first setting not the last. Ambient sound is accessible from cupping hand over right hand headphone cup so why this is set for first setting on menu I've no idea.
Very comfortable headphones, can wear for a long time and not get fatigued. A bit bass heavy for my ears even after playing with EQ. Flat is still best. Volume up/down a bit hit and miss. Do get some dropouts on Bluetooth, but fine with quite short jack lead. Overall very good headphones. keeps a fair bit of noise out just by putting them on your head. With noise cancelling on, what washing machine?
Bought these 3 weeks ago, and they are brilliant for my train commute.
Best headphones I've ever had almost completely blocks out traffic noise.
Using a LG V20 phone that supports LDAC streaming Spotify premium. The sound is amazing via these headphones. I own many expensive headphones, Amps and Dacs. This headphone replaced all my headphones I used to use when going out and about. Still not match for my Sony Z1R but Sony will get there hopefully in the future with bluetooth technology. Thank you Sony you make the best headphones in the World hands down and I heard and used many many headphones.
Sony decided to manufacture their hinges out of plastic. Bose, their price competetor, used metal. I questioned several people in their technical support, and they told me they are specifically designed not to make a creaking noise, until you use them. So, essentially, you cannot use the headphones without them failing and making an awful creaking noise. I am desperately trying to return a month old pair of headphones because they have already failed. I will be getting my third pair if they do.
Thought long and hard about paying £299 for a set of phones, especially since I already have a pair of Senheisers! But they are just fabulous! The noise cancelling works superbly, isolating me from anything around me allowing me to listen as if I was in a studio. The base is jaw dropping but not overpowering, meaning the finer instrumentation shines through. I would say it is money very well spent!!
Pleased with decision to buy!
My son allowed me to listen to his new WH-1000XM3 headphones - I was about to buy a Bose model, changed my mind and went for Sony. Still very pleased!
Living in London and commuting on the tube, I was getting concerned with the external noise causing me to crank up the volume on my previous headphones, blasting my ears with unnecessary volume. So I decided to invest in noise-cancelling headphones and tried several before settling on these Sony pair. Oh my goodness - the noise cancelling is exemplary. No - it will not create an absolutely silent atmosphere when in a noisy situation, but it blocks out so much sound that you really need to try it to believe it. Oh - and it makes it perfect for commuting, especially on the tube, where I now barely hit half way on my volume crank. But one of the best features is the ambient noise function. The accompanying app allows you to customise the headphone features to your liking (and works surprisingly well in the tightly controlled world of iOS). This app allows you to tune ambient noise, so you can let in external noise when walking out and about, allowing you to stay alert with moving traffic and obstacles whilst still wearing the headphones. I didn't appreciate this feature before purchasing the product, but now find it invaluable as I am able to listen to my music and podcasts whilst walking without taking them off, whilst still being aware of my surroundings, hitting full noise cancelling when stepping onto the tube. The sound quality is also excellent. Both wirelessly and wired. Working in the media, this is very important for me. And with the accompanying app, you can change the properties of the headphones to suit your own liking. Once getting it set up, I found the bass deep and the higher frequencies crisp, whilst still being well balanced. Asides from these two important features, the headphones come included with a great designed case, with a divider providing extra integrity when jammed in a packed bag. It also includes a decently long 3.5mm jack cable, in-flight jack and USB-C which allows for very rapid charging. The only thing I would improve here is the length of the USB-C cable, which is annoyingly short. The headphones are also very comfortable, with good cushioning on the ear pads and the headband. They also have a good amount of 'tightness', when gripping your head - tight enough to stay in place, but not enough to be uncomfortable over long periods of time. The touch controls on the right headphone work well, but do take some getting used to. For the first week, I found myself skipping tracks as opposed to changing volume, but it is something you get used to and it becomes rather accurate when you do. The only finicky issue I have here with the interface is that the voice guide is American, with no selection for British! Another small issue is the Bluetooth pairing - which works well, but with only one device at the time. I have previously used headphones which allow you to pair with two devices at a time, making it an easy switch between your phone and your laptop - but I now have to manually re-pair when switching. It is not a big deal, but would be nice if it could be adapted nonetheless. Overall, these are a very well designed pair of headphones for both sound quality and features, being the current King of noise cancelling - and overall very worthy of its price point.
Bought these 3 weeks ago and they have lived up to reviews. Excellent sound quality and control.
A great set of headphones, comfortable to wear. I bought them from John Lewis where they gave me a demonstration and the sound was better than the Bose headphones.
I bought these headphones a few weeks ago and they pair brilliantly with my iPhone, MacBook Pro, iPad etc. However, even though I have a Sony and a Samsung television with Bluetooth capability, these headphones will not pair with either - apparently because they are all of three years old. I went back to where I purchased the headphones and they confirmed that I could not expect them to pair with such old televisions. I have subsequently bought a Bluetooth transmitter/receiver which plugs into the televisions and does the job. That was extra expense on top of what was already a costly set of headphones. That said, the quality of the headphones is excellent.
Very effective noise cancelling and excellent sound quality. Very comfortable too.
Absolutely fantastic sound quality and complete outside noise cancelling capabilities. Very impressive technological advances and software. Long battery life by far the best headphones I have ever owned.
I work in a noisy open plan office and I also travel extensively so I wanted noise cancelling headphones to make these situations more "bearable"! Friends and colleagues already use noise cancelling headphones and I was able to learn from their experiences as well as doing my own homework on what was out there. They had to be noise cancelling, wireless, comfortable, affordable and offer good battery life. The Sony's ticked all of these boxes and are simply excellent.
The charger cable connector is an absolute joke. It is weird, and can only be used on these headphones. In addition, its about 7 inches long. I'm not kidding. For this alone I give it 2 stars. Another problem is that for no apparent reason, there is a beep and the noise cancelling just turns off. I have to turn the ambient back off, then turn the noise cancelling back off. It just does this for no apparent reason.
They would be perfect if Sony sent an update that would allow full multiple device connections with out having to disconnect 1 device.
The features everyone raves about are true but the build quality is lacking. The headset itself feels good, rather flexible. The touch controls are finicky, and the internals seem to have problems. My right ear driver seems to have an internal wiring issue where it diconnects completely. Only by tapping on the right ear (where all the controls are) does it reconnect. Doing this is only a temporary solution until a slight bump makes it disconnect again. I lose all function in my right ear which is rather uncomfortable when you have noise-cancelling on. I am currently in the process of working out the warranty, but regarding registering my device, I keep getting errors preventing me from doing so. So I cannot speak on the warranties behalf, but as for the product, I may have just gotten a defective device. Once I complete my warranty, I will update review. If problem persists, I will go back to my usual Sennheiser's that I have had for years with no problems.
Great headphones with annoying faults.
I've been rocking the WH-1000XM3 for the past couple weeks and enjoying the silence ANC provides. The sound is of high quality, the comfort and the noice cancelling is top of the line, however.... Considering the price of these headphones, I'd expect less faults. In cold weather the touch controls are pretty much useless. The function that allows you to speak to surrounding people when your palm is on the cup turns on and off with cold wind, the volume and song control does not work or randomly skips/pauses your content. Noted that this can be fixed by restarting the headset - this is an considering the premium price the user pays. Another HUGE issue that makes me hate these is - microphone quality. Absolutely useless microphones while in any sort of communication, be it phone call or VoIP such as skype, whatsapp or discord. The microphone sounds muffled, distant, under water, and picks up EVERYTHING around you, literally. Working in a relatively quiet office, I still cant use the XM3's for calls because nobody can hear me on the other end or they cant understand me due to all the noise picked up by surroundings. Additionally, the ANC turns off and ambient sound turns on while you're on a phone call, which AGAIN picks up all the sounds around making calls extremely hard to understand too. Also - updating the firmware to the latest update completely screws up the ANC of the headset, decreasing it by probably like 30%... The quality is high, but these faults are not to be expected from Sony considering the premium price we're paying.
Great product. Support, maybe yes or maybe not.
I bought it on march, 7, 2019, during a vacational trip to US. Few days after the left side silenced. But i was already back to Brazil. Sony brazil refused to even receive the headphone to fix it at my expenses. Great. if it was bose i would be well supported. my mistake, buy a sony product out of where i live.
After doing lots of research on the best noise cancelling headphones I opted for the Sony WH-1000XM3. Build quality is second to none, the features of the headphones are brilliant and they work well with the Sony App. You can use the app to adjust the headphone to your preference.
Been using this for 2 weeks and find these headphones an excellent purchase. Features are as advertised, which really is a big thumbs up from me. Took some time getting used to the touch controls but I'd have them no other way as having only 2 buttons contributes to understated classy looks. Noise-cancelling is not total with no music playing but suddenly becomes near-perfect as soon as music is played. Thanks to the excellent NC, music can be heard clearly at very low volumes - this I consider a huge benefit to my long-term hearing. I guess :) Overall, highly recommended if one's budget can stretch to make the purchase.
I had to choose WH-1000XM3 among the top brands in the market because when I compared other reviews and tested them in the shops, WH-1000XM3 was indeed the best noise cancelling headphones. Very sophisticated design, ergonomic, comfortable and the touchpad is great, plus no need to turn off or remove headphones when I need to converse. I love most is the easy setting for ambient sound/ noise cancelling with adaptic sound control, loads of options to choose from what type of sounds and settings. This is the headphone that's been thought off very well, with almost complete options you can ask for. Sound though is not as promising compared to Bose but maybe because I just haven't explored the sound settings yet. I used it the minibus going to the airport and I had never had land travel so quiet, same to be said when I was on the plane, comfortable trip.
Very light, great sound quality, best battery life co/ all other wireless headphones, great noise cancelling which adapts according to environment.
I bought these a few weeks ago and have just used them during my journey to and from France for a few day's skiing. The noise cancelling was excellent on bus, train and aircraft. I listened to some old classics albums that I've been playing for years and the sound quality of these headphones beats anything I've tried before.
I bought these about a month ago and am very pleased with them. Very comfortable, can be worn for hours and easily forgotten they are on....until they come off! Noise cancelling is fantastic, almost completely silent on a plane and train. They have resulted in me listening to a lot more music. Can't fault them.
They are so good that I have to make sure that I don't miss my stop on the London Underground!
Excellent noise cancelling with brilliant sound.
After trying my colleagues's NC headphones I felt the need to have ones. I tried a few other brands but I wasn't satisfied with the level of the NC or/and of the sound. After i read a few reviews I decided to try the WH-1000XM3s. What a great purchase! Not only do they have a great noice cancelling but they also produce a brilliant sound while NCing. The daily commute to and from work is now a breeze. The NC is even good while not listeing to music. The app provides great functionality to the headphones. You can choose a NC level and there is a feature for a dynamic swithcing, which basicly detects your movements and readjusts the NC. The volume and skip track controls take a while to get used to. The quality is good, they are light and do not produce a discomfort even after a few hours. Overall a great product with amazing features.
Quick delivery and very pleased with the colour chosen. Sound is what I expected with good smooth base. Quality storage case, only problem encountered is bluetooth as at present unable to connect to Ipod, TV and car but will keep trying as it has worked on other devices.
best ever headphones in the world today!
I bought this 2 months ago,the bluetooth drops off, the mic randomly turns on, the sound quality randomly deteriorates and there is constant static and ringing in the backrgound.
Got these yesterday, after wanting a pair of noise cancelling headphones for a while. I've had the Sony MDR-7500 studio headphones for years and while those offer crystal clear sound reproduction, their not great for noisy environments. The WH-1000XM3's noise cancelling capabilities are really really great, the best I've ever tried, they don't just block out ambient noise, they block out a lot of other sounds as well. The part I am a little disappointed in is the actual music quality. They skew a little bass heavy, and when compared with the studio headphones, everything sounds a little softer. There is a definite boost in clarity when using these plugged into a high quality audio source, like the Audioquest Dragonfly Red + Tidal, but I am pretty impressed by how good things sound over bluetooth, which is convenient for traveling. For everyday listening, especially when your music source is Apple Music or Spotify, these headphones are great, and very comfortable, but if you really want that next level of audio quality, you're better off sticking with the pro-line of products.
I spent a long time (nearly a year) deciding whether to invest in some noise cancelling headphones, there was only really two choices, Bose or Sony. I kept waiting and waiting for a really good deal to lower the price dramatically but it never came. Now I am kicking myself for wasting so much time, these headphones have been transformative. I work in co-working environments and travel a lot and after a few weeks of constant use I am continually being impressed by them.


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Tangier Bids Farewell to the Kuniholm Era
July 6, 2010 Leave a comment by Michael Toler
When they arrived in Tangier to run the American Legation, Thor and Elizabeth Kuniholm knew they were embarking on an adventure. It was 1991, when the world was about to witness the fall of the Soviet Union, and Francis Fukuyama was drafting the End of History. In Tangier, history wasn't ending, it was just taking a new twist.
It's a story that began in 1821, when Morocco's Sultan Moulay Suleiman donated a building in the medina of Tangier to the new American Republic, one that became the American Legation, which conducted America's relations with Morocco through its independence in 1956. At which point, diplomatic relations moved to the capital Rabat, and the Legation's future teetered on the brink.
"What led to the restoration was a birthday," writes Boston University historian Diana Wylie in her forthcoming book about the Legation, its history, and its art collection. The birthday: America's Bicentennial in 1976. The restoration and the preservation of the building was the work of a motivated group of American diplomats associated with Morocco and the Old Legation.
The ensuing years of consolidation then led to the Kuniholm Era, echoing the Maxwell Blake era of the first decades of the 20th century. Blake had given the Legation the structures it has today; Thor Kuniholm gave TALIM its multifaceted programming, all done on a shoestring budget.
Thor and Elizabeth rolled up their sleeves and commenced what was to become a 19-year labor of love, one which ended today when they got on a plane to return to another adopted city of theirs, Philadelphia. The very city that was the capital of the newly-independent United States when it sent its first diplomatic mission to Tangier.
The Legation was once saved by a special Fourth of July, and Thor and Elizabeth marked their July 4th 2010 with a farewell lunch on one of Tangier's loveliest sights, overlooking the blustery Atlantic. Earlier, American Ambassador to Morocco Samuel Kaplan came to honor the Kuniholms for a special "America Day."
Lovers of art and good neighbors to the people of Tangier's crowded inner-city medina, the Kuniholms turned America's only National Historic Landmark abroad into a museum and a place where neighborhood women learn to become literate in their own language, Arabic.
In September 2001, when President George W. Bush asked rhetorically "Why do they hate us?" of the Muslim world, the Legation's director didn't stop his literacy programs to ask himself the question. This kind of diplomacy of the deed is the Tangier American Legation's strongest suit. And Thor Kuniholm is synonymous with the Legation. He's The Man Who Makes Things Happen.
TAL expanded to TALIM in recent years – Institute for Moroccan Studies – a reflection of the Legation's association with the American Institute for Maghrib Studies, AIMS, a consortium of American universities with North Africa programs. The Legation makes a unique venue for AIMS conferences, and scholars from the US, Europe, and across the Maghrib use its research library for their work.
I've had "hard acts to follow" often in my Foreign Service career, but this time it's going to be a while before this new guy in town gets name recognition anything like that of Thor Kuniholm. All honor to Thor and Elizabeth, who served their country while earning the respect, admiration, and affection of their Moroccan neighbors.
Gerald Loftus
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Dissecting Interstellar: Love, Wormholes and Robots
Posted on November 10, 2014 by Zac
Sky-high expectations and marketing oversaturation could leave some audiences disappointed, but Interstellar still does plenty to amaze viewers.
*** Spoiler Warnings Throughout *** For a spoiler free review from Zac head here.
Grant: First off, the special effects and computer graphics are not something that usually contribute to my enjoyment of a film, but the effects in Interstellar are truly awe-inspiring throughout the film. This is more up your alley, so I'm sure you agree.
Zac: Are you saying I am a simpleton who only needs whiz bang effects? You might be partially right there and Interstellar delivers on every technical level behind the camera. The effects work is seamless with the wealth of practical work going on in camera, the cinematography is gorgeous (especially when it is full 70mm IMAX stock) and Hans Zimmer's score is one of his best.
Grant: Another thing that impressed me as the film progressed were the well imagined robots with fascinating abilities (I was worried that TARS wouldn't know how to swim, silly me). The appearance of the robots was innovative and their personalities were surprisingly fun. It was a nice harken back to the days of A New Hope, when robots (or droids) were an effective comic relief.
Zac: They brought a lot of life to Interstellar that was sorely missing elsewhere, McConaughey's Cooper and the two primary robots, TARS and CASE, were the only people having any fun on this very serious mission and without them the film might have gotten a bit too heavy. Yeah, it's grim circumstances in this future dystopian version of our world, but you still have to be able to smile and TARS & CASE provided that.
Grant: I often find myself morbidly interested in dystopias, so maybe I was an easy target, but I found the future dust bowl world imagined by the Nolan brothers very effective. While the crop failure and other global crises were worrying, it was the existing society that was most disturbing. I had never imagined the end of the world could be so structured.
Zac: I enjoyed the world building, for sure, but I maybe would have liked the film to go one step further a couple of times. Are there no more cities/metropolis? The New York Yankees are still around? What sparked the rationale behind becoming moon landing truthers? And why was NASA asked to bomb poor/starving people? I get that this is Cooper's story and it leaves things up to your imagination, but Nolan's choice to keep the film's focus so narrow on this world might be Interstellar's biggest problem. Just a bit more depth to that world building could have resonated humanity's story as that much more desperate and sad, it also might have cut down on the exposition needed telling us how desperate things are. I'm all for show over tell.
Grant: By teaching children that the moon landings were a hoax you can help dissuade any notion that space colonization could be humanity's salvation. It also provides an example of the Soviet Union, which in their version of history spent so much money on science and technology that it went bankrupt (which is half right). In the original script the Indian surveillance drone was a Chinese drone (probably changed so that the Chinese government would allow the film to be shown in their country). It might be safe to assume that U.S. cities have been nuked after a global conflict over scarce resources (luckily the Yankees were traveling at the time so they were spared). I'm not sure if there is a good way to provide the back story without creating more exposition and extending an already long film. For me, the unanswered questions let my imagination run wild to fill in the gaps.
Zac: Yeah, I mean, I get the film's rationale for the moon landing stuff, they say as much. Maybe they could have shown some of the footage from the drone, given us a quick glimpse of the world today without any exposition while showing off Cooper's engineering skills to boot. It's not a huge complaint, but I love the world building and I feel like the Nolans only dipped their toes into it. There was room for more without losing the focus on Cooper, that is all I am saying.
Though I'm still not ready to give up that focusing so much on Cooper hurts the film, especially when it wants Anne Hathaway's Amelia to be such an equal player once the film goes into outer space. Knowing more about her background and her relationship to Edmund, one of the twelve Lazarus pilots, would have given her so much more depth and some stakes beyond that of the mission. It might also have helped that crazy pitch about love she makes for visiting Edmund's planet over Mann's. Another less plot driven scene with Mann would have also been appreciated to maybe get into his psyche just a bit more; especially since he ends up turning on everyone. This could have also been a good moment to get into the crazy sacrifice of the Lazarus mission and how it affected Mann sending all these people to their deaths. I feel like the film glosses over this significance with "they are heroes" BS.
Grant: Yes, it is time to talk about some of the film's problems with characters. Anne Hathaway wasn't bad, but her character didn't quite work. It is hard to justify giving her more screen time, but it is possible with better character development her scenes could contribute to the film's emotional core. Instead her speech comes off flat and the film's emotional core remains with McConaughey and Chastain.
Damon's Mann also could have been written better. While Damon was well cast, the character's evil plot was a bit ridiculous, especially for someone who was described as "the best of us." While clunky, that character might have served a purpose of a counterbalance to Michael Caine's character. Mann was obviously very selfish, and Cane's Dr. Brand was possibly selfless to a fault. At one point he asks McConaughey to trust him as he is lying to McConaughey's face, presumably years after he began lying to his daughter about Plan A. These scientists were said to represent the best of humanity, yet they show the awful side of humanity in the quest to preserve it.
Zac: I think Damon is a good enough actor to pull off the betrayal even if the motivations could have been stronger. This is why I think a scene showing a bit of his mental psyche/breakdown over being alone all of these years or his role in the Lazarus missions could have been better served. The filmmaking does a great job of anticipating his turn, but you are right in that there wasn't much motivation or logic on the screen; even if I bought it.
Another reason to forgive all of this business with Mann is that the whole sequence revolving around his betrayal is pretty much incredible. Yeah, the filmmaking sells the turn a minute before it happens, but the fight, rescue, chase, docking, let's slingshot off a black hole sequence that kicks into gear there can go up against just about anything Nolan has done. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and when Cooper is like, "I'm going to dock it," I lost my shit. A moment made all the more magical by the cocksure delivery of THE McConaughey. The sequence is one of the best of the year and should be seen in IMAX.
Grant: Yeah, I guess the Mann betrayal was a necessary plot element to line up the film for the third act, where the film really hit its stride. The docking scene was great, the call back to the 10% dishonesty was moving and I was in complete awe as the dimensions began to blend. I was already sold on the central relationship between McConaughey and Chastain, but the scenes from the black hole left my mind racing and my heart aching. So many implications and wonderful contradictions.
Zac: Oh boy, we aren't on the same page here.
A major reason why I wasn't able to really get on board with these moments is because I really don't like time travel stories where things in the future affect things in the past but that future couldn't exist without the future effecting said past. Now, I know I should listen to Bruce Willis in Looper and not worry about how all that shit works, but my mind can't escape such blatant manipulation of time like it happens here in Interstellar. Yes, I don't know the realities of 5th dimensions and tesseracts harnessed by black holes, and I actually think this sequence might make sense in the film's realm of logic in hindsight, but in the moment I couldn't stop myself from thinking, "The McConaughey can't be telling himself to go to the NASA base from the future because if he doesn't get there on his own he can't be in this position to talk to himself in the first place." Now, if McConaughey hadn't communicated with himself and just passed along TARS data to Murph, I think I wouldn't have any of these issues. Had the coordinates to NASA came through the wormhole from the evolved humans of the future and Cooper just saw that this was an opportunity to communicate with the past and did so through the watch, this all makes logical time travel sense to me. He isn't influencing himself or how he got to that place and he would still get back a moment with Murph. Cooper telling himself to stay was the most egregious bit here for me, especially Murph could have totally been just trying to have her Dad not leave in the first place. In fact, it might have been even cooler if the real message from the 5th dimensional humans was "Let him go," because Cooper was necessary to saving Earth's version of humanity and reuniting them with Amelia's Plan B human race.
There is a lot more to get into regarding my theories behind that, and I am very intrigued to see how these scenes play out knowing what I am getting into on a second viewing.
Grant: Cooper was dealing with overwhelming regret when he sent the 'STAY' message. I believe it took him some time to figure out what he must do in order to truly help his daughter and humanity.
Zac: I totally agree with this, Cooper was emotional, not logical.
Grant: It sounds like you aren't too bothered by the contradictions, but for those moviegoers that will dwell on it, just understand that there are factors in the Universe that humans are far from understanding. We don't know what capabilities a theoretical 5th dimension could bring. Is the timeline in Interstellar logical by the normal rules of nature? No. You know what else isn't logical? Quantum mechanics. Just because we don't understand something doesn't make it impossible.
Zac: As I said above, I agree, we don't know what is possible with all the stuff Interstellar is playing with, but the whole 5th dimension still fell flat for me; this could be for a number of reasons. One is that I think Chastain is left with nothing to do for any of the time she is on-screen. Yes, I can feel her anger and she plays that well, but mostly she is a plot device to run around and then only succeeds because she is told the missing piece to her breakthrough. Murph never evolves as a character after her Dad walks out and into outer space which really left me wanting more. They don't even really give us the background needed for Murph and her brother's relationship, which the film hangs the Earth based climax on and there is nothing there. Casey Affleck was great in the video feeds after the first 23 year relativity jump, but after that he is only allowed to be Mr. Grumpy Face. Affleck is rightfully grumpy, the world is dying, but I feel like we missed out on something major between him and Chastain that a couple of lines can't fill in.
Grant: Yeah, that 23 year jump video feed with Affleck was some powerful stuff.
Anyway, Chastain was far from a plot device, she was the heart of the film. You can feel her passion whether it is her discovery that Dr. Brand is working on the equation with "two hands tied behind his back" or her sudden decision that she must return to the farmhouse and intervene in saving her 'lost cause' relatives (which reflect her ability to save the 'lost cause' of humanity). Also, are you really giving her no credit for decoding the mystery of the 'ghost' and understanding the significance of the defective watch?
Zac: I'm not saying she isn't an intelligent character, or didn't do important things for humanity, when I say she is a plot device I just meant that all of those things you just listed are pushing the plot and we didn't get to connect to her on an emotional level. I think the film as a whole loses its emotional touch once the story leaves earth. This doesn't ruin the film for me, but I think that her going back to save her in-laws would have resonated anything for me if we had a beat or two with her and her brother, showing us how they fell out. I wanted to see the more human side of Murph as she grew up, emotionally she was that same girl who was mad at her dad and while that is warranted, I think the emotions only resonated on Cooper's side, if any, for me. Again, this all could me being mucked up by the time travel stuff, a second viewing will reveal a lot for me.
Grant: I think the return to the farmhouse was staged by the scene where the siblings fight over leaving the farmhouse, with Affleck revealing his emotional scars and Chastain no longer defending their father. I would argue that unlike Inception, Interstellar featured a strong, well crafted central theme. The absence of parents can leave a gaping hole, Cooper understands the damage that he is causing. Cooper echoes his wife's words in a great bit of foreshadowing: "Once you're a parent, you're the ghost of your children's future." I thought one of the most effective moments was when Chastain intercepts her brother just as things are about to boil over to tell him that their father did not abandon them, I expected him to be ambivalent, but he was completely disarmed. Much like how an abandoned child (even after years of disappointments) has faith that a parent wasn't being selfish and the parent will come back for them. Like his sister, the ghost of an absent father haunted him. Just because Tom was content living as a farmer, didn't mean that he didn't love his father. I would be very interested to get the perspective of somebody that had an absentee parent to see what their perspective was on these relationships.
Zac: The only time I felt emotion for Cooper and Murph was when they finally reunite in the flesh, but I was shocked at how uninterested the film was in that moment. Again, we only see Cooper's side of things, the anticipation and wonder of what Murph will be like all grown past him, and it was a bit jarring when Murph just sort of sent him packing after Amelia. Murph's solace and ability to so quickly send Cooper off makes sense, she had her reconnection with her father years ago with the watch and clearly moved on with her life and family, but I would have like to have seen that and not be left to infer it. Cooper also goes along with the plan pretty quickly and this would have also been a bit more believable had I felt a strong connection with him and Amelia, but that wasn't there either.
Grant: It sounds like we agree that the film's conclusion was weak. Similar to Dark Knight Rises, the film created an extended ending that tries to answer too many questions. I would have liked it to end with Cooper drifting near Saturn with the red and blue lights in the background. I loved the ambiguity of the film's beginning, and I would have appreciated a similar style at the film's conclusion. I could have done without great-grandma Murphy.
Zac: I don't know if it was weak, it just went where I didn't expect it to. I didn't expect the tesseract, the "ghosting" or even Cooper to survive actually. I actually thought we were going to see Cooper get spaghettified as he fell into the black hole and follow the two women of the film to finish the story out; Murph getting TARS' transmission and Amelia setting up on Edmund's planet. In hindsight, this is unrealistic given how focused the film was on Cooper's journey, and it isn't really fair to hold the film towards something you wanted, but part of me feels that is the better ending. Yeah, never reuniting father and daughter is a far darker tale, and I have already argued that neither Murph or Amelia was fleshed out enough to make an ending built around them resonate either, but I kept wishing we got something we didn't.
Grant: Spaghettification would have been ballsy, I suppose Nolan knew he had to write a Hollywood ending in order to avoid arguing with the producers for two years straight. As Cooper was transferring the sequence to Murphy, I was hoping for one last twist. I wanted Cooper to realize that the wormhole wasn't to help humanity find these planets, but instead to find the black hole to unlock the secrets of space travel. That would have blown me away. However, this theory doesn't seem to hold up after Edmund's planet looked promising.
Zac: That again is the rub though, right? Future humans who have the capability to create a wormhole can't be reliant on someone in their past to show them the way to have the ability to get to the point where they sent the wormhole back in the first place.
I think the only way the time travel stuff of this film works is if we are dealing with multiple timelines. Let's assume that the future, 5th dimensional controlling humans understand that their are multiple timeline/universes and have clearly figured out how to cross between them in some capacity based on the tesseract we see Cooper put in the film. I think you are on to something with the true mission of Cooper is not to get back to his daughter, but to save Earth's humanity by giving them the data needed from the black hole.
All of this theorizing is contingent on one thing though, who put the wormhole there? All of this is based on non 5th dimensional thinking to start, because if we are keeping this all human, and they were the ones who put the wormhole there for the film's timeline to discover, then the first timeline would have had to survive without the assistance of a worm hole. So here we go.
Timeline 1: Earth goes through the same dystopia defining future that we see at the start of Interstellar, only this time they head out on a mission to save humanity without the aid of a wormhole. So think Plan B of the film with absolutely no hope of a Plan A. Using cryosleep, robot pilots and long distance sub-light speed travel, humanity on Earth will be long-lost before this new colony of humans ever even finds a planet. But say they do, and they flourish and evolve for thousands and thousands of years, and using their 5th dimensional abilities they decided to save Earth's humanity and put a wormhole they created just beyond Saturn.
Timeline 2: Life on Earth unfolds as it does in the previous timeline (and the timeline of Interstellar). A wormhole appears, NASA builds in secret, launches the Lazarus missions and ten years later Amelia leads Romilly and Doyle on a mission piloted by TARS through the wormhole and directly for Edmund's planet. After settling the new home planet, Amelia and the team build a colony for years, but watch Plan A fail on Earth through transmissions as the Earthbound human race dies off, with Murph being the last contact they have with NASA.
Humanity evolves on Amelia's colony to the point of 5th dimensional knowledge and they solve the Plan A problem while studying Gargantua over the many years of evolution. They build the tesseract connected to Murph's bedroom in the black hole and this inadvertently pulls Cooper into the mix.
You could even imagine a scenario where Cooper ends up the pilot in Timeline 2, something happens to him and Amelia wants to try to save him and humanity with the tesseract.
Timeline 3/Alternate Timeline 2: This is what we see in Interstellar, but there are two interesting ways to look at it.
One, the film plays out, is a completely separate timeline and humanity is saved back on Earth and on Amelia's planet as they reconnect as the end of Interstellar implies. Cooper's actions in the tesseract help relay the Gargantua data needed to Murph and all is well and good. Maybe we can even infer that all three of these timelines eventually meet/communicate as they catch up to each other and communicate across time 5th dimensionally. A very happy ending indeed.
Another more interesting way to look at Interstellar is that the events of the film are happening in the same timeline as Timeline 2. This would raise the stakes of the film significantly as the presence of Cooper is actually threatening to ruin everything that came before it, including Amelia being put on that colony so they can set up the tesseract that makes saving humanity possible.
If we are viewing Cooper as a huge wrench in Timeline 2 staying intact, all of the decisions he makes to throw off the original plan of going straight to Edmund elevates everything. The decision to visit Miller's planet and losing Doyle, everything with Mann potentially erasing Amelia and the colony entirely, I think these are some really interesting time traveling stakes to view the movie through. It also ends up making Cooper even more heroic as he not only save Amelia and the Plan B colony, but also ends up saving humanity by transmitting TARS' data back to Earth.
I know the film doesn't really lend itself to you thinking about all of this while watching, but I wonder how much background thought went into figuring out the time travel logistics of all this with the Nolan's and their science team.
Grant: Ha, I like to imagine you have push pins and string connecting characters across the timelines on a big wall in your apartment. The only thing I disagree with is that Doyle would die even if Cooper wasn't there because they were going to Tsunami planet first regardless, right?
Anyway, I don't think your timelines were the same that the Nolans used to justify the storyline. I think their approach was more like: "Hey, we are dealing with the 5th dimension, we don't need to worry about the Grandfather Paradox!"
Zac: You are probably right, but a man can theorize endlessly into the night, right?
Grant: At least you didn't theorize a scene where Cooper lands on Edmund's planet to find an elderly Amelia raising fifty creepy kids.
Zac: There is that.
Tags: Anne Hathaway, Bill Irwin, Casey Affleck, Christopher Nolan, David Gyasi, Interstellar, Jessica Chastain, Josh Stewart, Matt Damon, Matthew McConaughey, Wes BentleyCategories: Dissecting Such & Such, Film Review


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Lyoto Machida 101 – Fighting Style
MMA — 03 September 2012
The first time viewing Lyoto Machida fight was at Sports Bar in Peterborough Ontario back in December 2007. I remember that day fondly because of the fact that I did not pay very much attention to him; after reading on his opponent Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou and his winning streak, I automatically assumed that this was going to be a short match. As I was busy socializing with my friends, I neglected to see that Lyoto Machida (who was much smaller than Rameau physically), was not only winning the fight; he was confusing Rameau to the point that he had no clue how to handle him. The next minute I turned around to see Lyoto Machida's hands raised in victory, and Rameau lying on the ground; I couldn't believe what I saw but all I was thinking was "how could this possibly happen?"
Fast forward to April 2008, after work I decided to view UFC matches on YouTube. As I was passing through the list of matches to view, I finally found the Machida vs Sokoudjou match that has eluded me for so long, so without any hesitation I chose that match to view. I can safely say after watching that match again, it made the pain of ignoring it back in December so much worse; I concluded after watching the manner in which Lyoto dissected and eluded his opponent, eventually hitting him a strike that sent him on the ground and eventually making him the victor, that this was the best MMA fighter I had ever seen. For the next month I watched that match everyday to understand what he was doing, his movements, his fighting style. The match was so influential to me that I decided to go back and study the Martial Art that eluded me for so long, Karate. Till this day I am still a Karate practitioner and I credit that match and Lyoto Machida for showing me the beauty of traditional Martial Arts, but more importantly the effectiveness of it in a modernized Martial Arts.
Perhaps to understand this we should begin by understanding his fighting style. Lyoto Machida comes from a Karate background, to be more specific, the style is called Shotokan; Shoto (pronounced as 'Shooto') meaning "pine-waves", and Kan meaning "house" or "hall". Like many forms of Karate (ie: Goju-Ryu, Wado, Uechi-Ryu, Shito-Ryu), Shotokan originated in Okinawa before it was occupied by Japan; the name of the founder was the legendary Gichin Funakoshi. What makes Lyoto Machida very distinct from other fighters, is the fact that his style of fighting is as traditional as one can be, unlike Freestyle Karate he employs very fundamental techniques instilled by Gichin Funakoshi; yet he is able to incorporate these techniques with other forms of fighting such as Boxing, Muay Thai Kickboxing, Sumo Wrestling, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. As matter of fact, his father the legendary Yoshizo Machida, is from the same lineage of the great Funakoshi. In Karate there are three distinct parts; Kata (forms), Kumite (sparring), and Kihon (basics). Lyoto Machida implements all the parts when he fights in the Octogon, but much of what he does is based on Kumite; the key to Lyoto success in Kumite and in MMA, derived from the other parts that he has spent over 30 years perfecting. When Lyoto Machida fights he is employing a strategy which is very unlike what MMA fighter were accustomed to seeing when he debuted to the UFC in 2006.
For the next part of Lyoto Machida 101, I will breakdown the strategy he employs, from his stance to his movements.
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Economia Gli economisti (English version)
Economics in Crisis
by J. Bradford DelongCronologia articolo
Argomenti: Lavoro | Larry Summers | J. Bradford | Barack Obama | Economics at the University | California | Perhaps
BERKELEY – The most interesting moment at a recent conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire – site of the 1945 conference that created today's global economic architecture – came when Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf quizzed former United States Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, President Barack Obama's ex-assistant for economic policy. "[Doesn't] what has happened in the past few years, Wolf asked, simply suggest that [academic] economists did not understand what was going on?
Here is the most interesting part of Summers' long answer: There is a lot in [Walter] Bagehot that is about the crisis we just went through. There is more in [Hyman] Minsky, and perhaps more still in [Charles] Kindleberger. That may sound obscure to a non-economist, but it was a devastating indictment.
Bagehot (1826-1877) was a mid-nineteenth-century editor of The Economist who published a book about financial markets, Lombard Street, in 1873. Summers is certainly right: there is an awful lot in Lombard Street that is about the crisis from which we are now recovering.
Minsky (1919-1996) is best approached not through his collected essays, entitled Can It Happen Again?, but rather through the use Kindleberger (1910-2003) made of his work in his 1978 book Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises. Asked to name where to turn to understand what was going on in 2008, Summers cited three dead men, a book written 33 years ago, and another written the century before last.
Summers then enlarged his answer to include living economists: , , , many, many others. He talked about the revolution in finance as it was realized that asset prices show large volatility that does not reflect anything about fundamentals, but added that macroeconomics [did not] keep up with [this] revolution. As a result, to the great detriment of contemporary macroeconomics, his fellow economists did not understand asset prices, manias, panics, and liquidity.
For Summers, the problem is that there is so much that is distracting, confusing, and problem-denying in…the first year course in most PhD programs. As a result, even though economics knows a fair amount, it has forgotten a fair amount that is relevant, and it has been distracted by an enormous amount.
I think that Summers' judgments are fair and correct. And I count myself among those who had forgotten and been distracted, even though I have always assigned Lombard Street to my economic history courses and Manias, Panics, and Crashes to my macroeconomics classes, and have always paid close and respectful attention to , , and .
But I was shocked by how large a panic was produced by what seemed to me – and still does – relatively small losses (in terms of the size of the global economy) in subprime mortgages; by the weakness of risk controls at the major highly-leveraged banks; by how deep the decline in demand was; by how ineffective the market's equilibrium-restoring forces have been at rebalancing labor-market supply and demand; and by how much core-country governments have been able to borrow to support demand without triggering any run-up in interest rates.
It is the scale of the catastrophe that astonishes me. But what astonishes me even more is the apparent failure of academic economics to take steps to prepare itself for the future. We need to change our hiring patterns, I expected to hear economics departments around the world say in the wake of the crisis.
The fact is that we need fewer efficient-markets theorists and more people who work on microstructure, limits to arbitrage, and cognitive biases. We need fewer equilibrium business-cycle theorists and more old-fashioned Keynesians and monetarists. We need more monetary historians and historians of economic thought and fewer model-builders. We need more , , , Reinharts, and – not to mention a Kindleberger, Minsky, or Bagehot.
Yet that is not what economics departments are saying nowadays.
Perhaps I am missing what is really going on. Perhaps economics departments are reorienting themselves after the Great Recession in a way similar to how they reoriented themselves in a monetarist direction after the inflation of the 1970's. But if I am missing some big change that is taking place, I would like somebody to show it to me.
Perhaps academic economics departments will lose mindshare and influence to others – from business schools and public-policy programs to political science, psychology, and sociology departments. As university chancellors and students demand relevance and utility, perhaps these colleagues will take over teaching how the economy works and leave academic economists in a rump discipline that merely teaches the theory of logical choice.
Or perhaps economics will remain a discipline that forgets most of what it once knew and allows itself to be continually distracted, confused, and in denial. If that were that to happen, we would all be worse off.
J. Bradford DeLong, a former assistant secretary of the US Treasury, is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and a research associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research.
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Q: TypeError Unit Test Jasmine I need some help, I'm making some progress towards actually reading through a whole file, however, I've hit a decently sized roadblock (for me it's decent, I'm new to it). I'm trying to mock up most of a controller and I run into a problem when I get about half way through reading the file and I have no idea how to overcome it. I'll include as much code as I can below.
LocationController.js
angular
.module('TDE')
.controller('LocationController', ['$rootScope', '$scope', '$location', '$window', '$document', 'LocationService', 'HeaderFooterService', 'SearchService', 'TranslationService', 'MTDE_CONFIG', 'LocationPartnerAssignmentService', 'ExperimentService', function ($rootScope, $scope, $location, $window, $document, $LocationService, $HeaderFooterService, $SearchService, $TranslationService, $MTDE_CONFIG, $LocationPartnerAssignmentService, $ExperimentService) {
//passes over this code

$scope.init = function () {
    // load dropdown for crop list

    // load dropdown for business partner list

    //load dropdown for experimenttype

    //load dropdown for IrrigationType
    //load dropdown for previousCrop

    var locationId = $SearchService.GetLocationId();
    $scope.LocationId=locationId;
    var experimentId = $SearchService.GetExperimentId();
    var experimentPartnerAssignmentId = $SearchService.GetExperimentPartnerAssignmentId();

    //load nitrogen value

    $ExperimentService.GetCrop(onSuccessCropCode,cropId);

    // get location detail from database
    if (locationId === "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000") {
        // Load the Unassigned Location here
        $scope.IsAssinged = false;
    }
    else {
        $LocationService.Detail(onSuccessDetail, locationId);
    }

    // get growing year list
    $scope.GrowingYearList = $LocationService.GrowingYearList();
}

$scope.init(); //I NEED TO BE MOCKED SOMEHOW

Helper.js
ddescribe("Phases of Testing: The Journey", function () {

describe("Phase I: Test that Jasmine runs", function () {
    it("should test Jasmine is up", function () {
        expect(true).toBe(true);
    });
});

describe("Phase II: Try something", function () {
    var DBMock, SyncMock, baseMock, configMock, TransMock, loginMock, locMock, headerMock,
            searchMock, LPAMock, expMock, mockScope, $location, $scope, ctrl, initMock;
    beforeEach(function () {
        angular.mock.module('TDE');
        inject(function (_$location_, _$rootScope_, _$controller_) {
            $location = _$location_;
            $scope = _$rootScope_.$new();
            ctrl = _$controller_('LocationController', {
                '$scope': $scope
            });
        });
    });
    it("should be able to grab something", function () {
        expect(true).toBe(true);
        expect($scope).toBeDefined();
        expect($scope.PlantingDateNull()).toBeTruthy();
    });
  });
});

EDIT:
Now the problem comes down to mocking the $scope.init() function call after it is initially defined. I can't find a good source for help on this anywhere.

A: You must provide mock for $LocationService instead of LocationService and create spy for Strips method, something like:
describe('myApp', function () {
var scope,
controller,
$mockLocationService = {};

beforeEach(function () {
    module('myApp');
});

beforeEach(function () {
    module(function ($provide) {
        $provide.value('$LocationService', $mockLocationService);
    });
});

describe('MyCtrl', function () {
    beforeEach(function () {
        $mockLocationService.Strips = jasmine.createSpy('$LocationService.Strips');
    });

    beforeEach(inject(function ($rootScope, $controller) {
        scope = $rootScope.$new();
        controller = $controller('MyCtrl', {
            '$scope': scope
        });
    }));

    it('calls Strips method', function () {
        expect($mockLocationService.Strips).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });
});

});
Answer is not anymore related to edited question, sorry.

A: Application:
var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []);

myApp.controller('MyCtrl', function ($scope, environment) {
    $scope.testValue = 'test environment';

    $scope.init = function() {
        $scope.testValue = 'development environment';
    };

    environment.development && $scope.init();
});

myApp.factory('environment', function() {
    return {
        development: true
    }
});

The most important line is environment.development && $scope.init();
environment.development:

*

*if it is evaluated to TRUE – $scope.inint() will be called

*evaluated to FALSE – will prevent for calling $scope.inint()
To prove it I'm going to stub this servis with two values
Test:
beforeEach(function () {
    module('myApp');
});

beforeEach(function () {
    module(function ($provide) {
        $provide.value('environment', mockEnvironment);
    });
});

describe('MyCtrl', function () {
    beforeEach(inject(function ($rootScope, $controller) {
        scope = $rootScope.$new();
        controllerInstantiate = $controller;
    }));

    it('prevents call .init() on test environment', function () {
        mockEnvironment.development = false;
        createController();
        expect(scope.testValue).toBe('test environment');
    });

    it('calls init on development environment', function () {
        mockEnvironment.development = true;
        createController();
        expect(scope.testValue).toBe('development environment');
    });

    function createController() {
        return controllerInstantiate('MyCtrl', {
            '$scope': scope
        });
    }
});

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The 1936 college football season was the first in which the Associated Press writers' poll was used in selecting the mythical national champion. The first AP poll, taken of 35 writers, was released on October 20, 1936. Each writer listed his choice for the top ten teams, and points were tallied based on 10 for first place, 9 for second, etc., and the AP then ranked the twenty teams with the highest number of points. . In the first poll, Minnesota received 32 first place votes, and 3 votes for an additional 25 points, for a total of 345 altogether. The year 1936 also saw the addition of another major New Year's Day game, as Dallas hosted the first Cotton Bowl Classic.
Major conferences that existed in 1936 were the Western Conference (today's Big Ten), the Pacific Coast Conference (now the Pac-10), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), the old Southern Conference (whose members later played in the ACC), the Big Six (later the Big 12 )and the Southwest Conference.
September 19 TCU opened with a 6-0 win at Howard Payne College at Brownwood, Texas.
September 26 In Seattle, Minnesota opened its season with a 14-7 win over Washington.
Defending champ (under the Dickinson ratings) SMU had a tough time in beating North Texas, 6-0, and Rose Bowl winner Stanford lost its opener to visiting Santa Clara 13-0. Sugar Bowl winner TCU lost at Texas Tech 7-0. LSU beat visiting Rice 20-7. Alabama beat Samford 34-0 and Pittsburgh beat Ohio Wesleyan 53-0.
October 10 Minnesota beat visiting Nebraska 7-0. Pittsburgh won at Ohio State 6-0 Washington won at UCLA 14-0 Santa Clara beat San Francisco 15-7. Alabama beat Mississippi State 7-0. Northwestern beat North Dakota State 40-7.
October 17 Minnesota defeated Michigan 26-0. Santa Clara won at San Jose State 20-0 In Birmingham, Alabama and Tennessee played to a 0-0 tie. Northwestern edged Ohio State 14-13. In a meeting between Pittsburgh's two unbeaten (3-0-0) and untied schools, Pittsburgh was beaten by Duquesne, 7-0. Washington beat Oregon State 19-7.
The first AP Poll was released on October 20, with Minnesota being the majority favorite, with 32 of 35 first place votes, and 345 out of 350 points. The Gophers were followed by 2.Duke 3.Army 4.Northwestern and 5.Purdue. USC, ranked #6, received one first place vote.
At the Polo Grounds in New York, #2 Pittsburgh and #5 Fordham played to a 0-0 tie. In Portland, #4 Washington beat Oregon 7-0, but dropped to 6th. #10 Marquette beat visiting #20 St. Mary's 20-6 and rose to 4th place (the Warriors would give up football after 1960). The next top five was 1.Northwestern 2.Minnesota 3.Fordham 4.Marquette 5.Pitt.
November 7 #1 Northwestern beat Wisconsin 26-18. #2 Minnesota beat Iowa 52-0 #3 Fordham defeated visiting Purdue 15-0. #4 Marquette narrowly won in Omaha against Creighton, 7-6. #5 Pittsburgh beat Penn State 34-7.
#14 Alabama and #10 Tulane, both 5-0-1, met at Tuscaloosa. Alabama's 34-7 win was followed by its rise to 4th place in the poll.
November 14 #1 Northwestern won 9-0 at Michigan to clinch the Big Ten title, while #2 Minnesota beat Texas 47-19. #3 Fordham was idle. #4 Alabama beat Georgia Tech in Atlanta, 20-16. #5 Pittsburgh won at Nebraska 19-6 In Birmingham, #7 LSU beat Auburn 19-6 to extend its record to 7-0-1.
November 21 #1 Northwestern lost at #11 Notre Dame, 26-6, while #2 Minnesota won at Wisconsin 24-0 #3 Fordham and visiting Georgia played to a 7-7 tie. #4 Pittsburgh was idle. #5 LSU beat Lafayette College of Louisiana 93-0. #9 Santa Clara won in San Francisco at St. Mary's, 19-0. In the poll that followed, Northwestern-- which had been one game away from a perfect season-- fell to seventh place and Minnesota regained the top spot: 1.Minnesota 2.LSU 3.Alabama 4.Pitt 5.Santa Clara.
On November 26, Thanksgiving Day, #3 Alabama beat Vanderbilt 14-6 in Birmingham. #4 Pittsburgh beat its other crosstown rival, Carnegie Tech, 31-14. #6 Washington beat #20 Washington State 40-0. At Yankee Stadium Fordham, which had fallen to 8th, (5-0-2) lost to NYU, 7-6.
November 28 #2 LSU clinched the SEC title with a 33-0 win over #19 Tulane. #5 Santa Clara lost to #18 TCU, 9-0.
"There is no longer any blot left on Pittsburgh's Rose Bowl escutcheon," wrote Grantland Rice. "Here was a Panther who belonged to the jungle and not to the zoo-- a fast, hard driving slashing Panther who put both fang and claw to work in beating Washington's Huskies 21 to 0 before 87,200 chilly witnesses." .
Pitt had been ranked #3 by the AP, behind #2 LSU, which met Santa Clara in the Sugar Bowl. #1 ranked Minnesota, like other Big Ten teams, was not allowed to play postseason. LSU had lost the previous Sugar Bowl to TCU, by a 3-2 score. A crowd of 41,000 turned out in New Orleans, only to see the Tigers lose again. The Santa Clara Broncos took a 14-0 lead in the first quarter and won 21-14. .
A crowd of 17,000 turned out in Dallas to watch the first Cotton Bowl Classic. Sammy Baugh of Texas Christian completed only 5 of 13 pass attempts, but had 110 yards, a touchdown, and the win, as TCU beat Marquette 16-6. .
In the third annual Orange Bowl, 12,000 filled the stands in Miami to see the Duquesne Dukes beat the Mississippi State Bulldogs 13-12. Boyd Brumbaugh scored Duquesne's first touchdown and made the only extra point by either side. .
Villanova tied Auburn, 7-7, in the Bacardi Bowl, played before 6,000 spectators in sunny Havana, Cuba, Tuskegee Institute beat Prairie View A&M 6-0 in Houston before 3,000, and Hardin-Simmons beat Texas School of Mines 34-6 at the Sun Bowl in El Paso.
In 1936, John Heisman died and the trophy that is awarded to the best college football player in the nation was renamed in his honor. Larry Kelley, the second winner of the award was the first man to win it officially named as the "Heisman Trophy."
^ "Heisman Trophy". heisman.com. http://www.heisman.com/history/heisman-trophy.html. Retrieved 2008-01-06.


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Kołbaskowo () ist ein Dorf in der polnischen Woiwodschaft Westpommern. Es ist Sitz der Gmina Kołbaskowo (Landgemeinde Kolbitzow) und gehört mit dieser zum Powiat Policki (Pölitzer Kreis).

Geographische Lage
Das Dorf liegt im östlichen Vorpommern, zehn Kilometer südwestlich von Stettin an der Grenze zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Geschichte
In einer Urkunde von 1303  wird das alte Kirchdorf unter dem Namen Kolbaskow genannt, mit der Bischof Heinrich die Einkünfte von drei Kirchen, nämlich der von Pomellen, Rosow und Kolbaskow, dem Nonnenkloster in Stettin zur Versorgung seiner Kranken stiftete. Die Haupteinnahmequelle der Ortschaft war die Land- und Forstwirtschaft. Um das Jahr 1775 gab es in dem Kirchdorf, das zu diesem Zeitpunkt nicht mehr dem Nonnenkloster in Stettin gehörte, zehn Bauern, einen Kossäten, einen Pfarrbauern, einen Schulmeister und eine Schmiede. Am 1. Januar 1862 gab es in Kolbitzow 33 Wohnhäuser, 35 Nebengebäude, eine Bockwindmühle mit einem Mahlgang und einem Zylinder sowie 313 Einwohner, die auf 58 Familien verteilt waren, darunter ein Katholik.

Um das Jahr 1930 hatte die Gemarkung der Gemeinde Kolbitzow eine Flächengröße von 6,2 km², und innerhalb der Gemeindegrenzen standen zusammen 61 Wohnhäuser an drei verschiedenen Wohnorten:
 Bahnhof Kolbitzow
 Chausseehaus Kolbitzow
 Kolbitzow
1925 wurden in der Gemeinde Kolbitzow 580 Einwohner gezählt, die auf 110 Haushaltungen verteilt waren.

Kolbitzow gehörte im Jahr 1945 zum Landkreis Randow im Regierungsbezirk Stettin der preußischen Provinz Pommern des Deutschen Reichs. Die Ortschaft war dem Amtsbezirk Schöningen zugeordnet.

Gegen Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurde  Kolbitzow von der Roten Armee besetzt und 1945 zusammen mit anderen Teilen Pommerns und der Neumark – militärische Sperrgebiete ausgenommen – seitens der sowjetischen Besatzungsmacht der Volksrepublik Polen zur Verwaltung unterstellt. Es begann danach die allmähliche Zuwandereung von Polen. Das Dorf wurde in "Kołbaskowo" umbenannt. In der Folgezeit wurde die einheimische Bevölkerung von der polnischen Administration aus dem besetzten Gebiet vertrieben.

Kirchspiel
Das Kirchspiel von Kolbitzow war seit der Reformation bis 1945 evangelisch. Im Jahr 1925 wurden in Kolbitzow außer den Protestanten acht Katholiken gezählt.

Ausbau
Seit 1. Mai 2004 ist die Zollabteilung in Kołbaskowo eines der Binnenzollämter der Europäischen Union. Im gegenwärtigen Ausbaustand sind seit dem 4. Juni 1996 die gemeinsamen Abfertigungsanlagen auf einer Fläche von 34 ha fertiggestellt. Der Grenzverkehr ist durchgehend möglich.

Verkehr
Von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland aus erreicht man den Ort über die Bundesautobahn 11 (Europastraße 28) und über die Bundesstraße 2 (ehemalige Reichsstraße 2), von Stettin (Szczecin) und Hinterpommern aus über die Landesstraße DK 13 bzw. die Autobahn A 6.

Literatur
 Kolbitzow, Dorf, Kreis Randow, Pommern, in: Meyers Gazetteer, mit Eintrag aus Meyers Orts- und Verkehrslexikon, Ausgabe 1912, sowie einer historischen Landkarte der Umgebung von Kolbitzow (meyersgaz.org).
 Johannes Hinz: Pommern. Wegweiser durch ein unvergessenes Land. Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-181-3.
 Heinrich Berghaus: Landbuch des Herzogthums Pommern und des Fürstenthums Rügen. Teil II, Band 2, Anklam 1865, S. 1796–1798 (Online)
 Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann: Ausführliche Beschreibung des gegenwärtigen Zustandes des Königl. Preußischen Herzogtuns Vor- und Hinterpommern. Teil I: Allgemeine Einleitung und die Beschreibung des Preußischen Vorpommern, Stettin 1779, S. 194, Nr. 6 (Online)

Weblinks

 Amtsbezirk Schöningen (Territorial.de)
 Gunthard Stübs und Pommersche Forschungsgemeinschaft: Die Gemeinde Kolbitzow  im ehemaligen Kreis Randow in Pommern (2011).
 Portal der Gemeinde Kołbaskowo

Einzelnachweise

Ort in Pommern
Ort der Woiwodschaft Westpommern
Grenze zwischen Deutschland und Polen
Gmina Kołbaskowo

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We hope you enjoy exploring what year 3 have been up to recently.
Ask the children about why they are important to everyone at Brushwood.
Children have started to explore what happened in the Stone Age and they will be learning about the Bronze Age and the Iron Age soon. Most recently, children took part in a hunt around the school grounds where they became Hunter Gatherers collecting their food. All children thoroughly enjoyed this activity.
3D have also made Stone Age weapons, she some photos below.
Children have been exploring the human and animal skeletons this week which they have thoroughly enjoyed. They had an opportunity to create skeletons out of pasta and string.


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Q: Pass optional parameters to a CLI program - Java I am making a Command Line program, I am using if conditions to check what the user entered and launch a specific method.
input = bufferedReader.readLine;

if (input.equals("search"))
    search();

So as for now, to preform a search, the user must enter:
>>> search
>>> aTextToSearchFor

But I want the user to be able to enter
>>> search -c 3

so, 3 will be passed as a parameter to the search() method
 also, search only should be valid and a default of 0 will be passed instead

Note:

*

*I am open to implement this without the -c, so the command will be search 5

*I have found about Apache Commons CLI & Jcommander, but I can't find a simple enough explanation to understand any thing :D

A: You might find String.split to be helpful. Maybe something like this will help you get started?
input = bufferedReader.readLine();
String[] args = input.split(" +"); // split on one or more spaces
if (args[0].equals("search")) {
    if (args.length > 2) {
        // args may be an array like {"search", "-c", "5"}.
        // After you confirm that, you may need to convert args[2]
        // from a String to an int using Integer.parseInt
        // (more code here)
    }
}

It is fine to start simple like this when your program is small. If your program is starting to get big and you feel like you're writing similar code over and over, then it's probably a good time to look into a command parsing library.
You mentioned Apache Commons CLI or Jcommander, but I personally find argparse4j to be a good balance between features and simplicity. It has a fluent API, meaning that your code would look something like:
ArgumentParser p = ArgumentParsers.newArgumentParser(myCommandName)
        .description(myCommandDescription);
p.addArgument(...).help(...)...
...
p.parseArgsOrFail(args);


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Punk Music Here is your mini-guide to punk music and as an added bonus some useful new vocabulary too. Sit back, put on your favourite track and find out more.


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I love to add some water into the whisky, just a drop, to see what it does. But it is for yourself to find out whether you like it or not. It was amazing with the Ichmurrin 12 yr, it had a "wow" effect on me. Fantastic!
This time I had another thought when adding some water. The palate opens up, but I do preferred neat above adding a drop of water to the whisky. Perhaps it's my age, (hitting 40 this year) or the time of year for it's now a winter instead of summer.
Does a season have any influence in the way a whisky smells and tastes like? Is there any difference between tasting a whisky during spring, summer, autumn or winter?
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It is a thing, isn't. Redbreast 12 yr for example, is the same. But also different experience in winter than drinking a dram in the summer 😉 And yessssss, drinking in the garden feels soooo much better ;).


I'm starting "Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald in print for tomorrow's DC book club meeting, working on "The Best American Nonrequired Reading of 2014" edited by Daniel Handler in ebook, and listening to "The Throne of Fire," the second book in Rick Riordan's Kane Chronicles in audio. What're your weekend reads?
LeVar Burton reading "Go the F*** to Sleep" for charity, with a link to Samuel L. Jackson's performance of the same.
Mental Floss collects recipes from 16 famous authors, including Edgar Allen Poe's eggnog and Emily Dickinson's gingerbread.
At the Huffington Post, this list of seven fairy tales for grown-ups added a few titles to my TBR list.
Finally, for Halloween, the Tor.com blog lists twelve books featuring witches.


Akka provides APIs for Java and Scala. Both support the full range of Akka features to provide a great development experience building concurrent and distributed systems.
Lightbend Tech Hub generates a variety of zipped examples that you can build and run with Maven, Gradle or sbt. Start with the Hello World example project to get acquainted with Akka basics.
The above example is a great introduction to Akka Actors. You find more guides and samples at developer.lightbend.com.


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Atollo Opal (Small) – Open Box
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Designed in 1977 by Vico Magistretti, over the years, Atollo has become the archetype of the table lamp, winning the Compasso d'Oro in 1979 and completely revolutionising the way we imagine the classic bedside lamp. The geometric shapes that compose it – cylinder, cone and hemisphere – have resulted in a product that is decorative and essential at the same time, disconnected from the historical period and the fashions of the moment, and one that has now fully become one of the icons of Italian design.
This lamp is an open box. Minor scratch on the back of the lamp base. The lamp shade is new.
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In 1920 Magistretti was born in Milan, the city in which he graduated in architecture in 1945, and where his professional career has spun its story ever since, chiefly in the fields of architecture, town planning and industrial design. The first recognition of his work came in 1948, when he won the Gran Premio at the 8th Triennale. After that came almost forty years of activity with other prizes and awards in recognition of Magistretti's work in various sectors in different countries.
Giving lessons and lectures in various faculties of architecture and schools of design in Italy and abroad, from Milan to New York, from Paris to London, a city to which he is particularly devoted, he has been an "Honorary Fellow" of the Royal College of Art since 1983.
Furniture, lamps and other objects that he designed may be found all over the world and the most important design museums have given exhibitions in his honour and kept examples of his work in their permanent collections.
Magistretti's research has been continuous – into design, the culture of the project and innovative experimentation with materials and space solutions, not to mention shapes and functions far from the rigours of fashion that they have passed through during the years. He started designing for Cassina in 1960, and from that date on his signature is to be found on very many products. We recall in particular the Maralunga sofa of 1973 and the Nuvola Rossa (1977) bookcase, which are still indisputable international best-sellers and have provoked hordes of imitations which have not been able to echo even faintly the success of the originals.


These fine but strong gloves let you feel, but keep clean and scratch free.
We tend to take a little more care of our hands these days.
These fine but strong gloves let you feel, but keep clean and scratch free. They provide the perfect blend of flexibility and protection.
Durable synthetic leather, stretch finger gussets and a flexible wrist closure allow for a comfortable and snug fit.
The most frequently worn glove for anyone with a toolbox.


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A svájci nagydíj volt az 1950-es Formula–1 világbajnokság negyedik futama,
1950. június 4-én Bernben.

Időmérő edzés

A Ferrarisok, Ascari és Villoresi hiába fogadkoztak a verseny előtt, hogy itt igyekeznek minél jobban szerepelni, már az időmérőn kiderült, nincs sok esélyük a győzelemre.
A rajtrács első sorát kibérelték az Alfa Romeo versenyzői, Fangio, Farina és Fagioli. Ascari és Villoresi csak a második sorból rajtolhatott.

Az időmérő végeredménye

Futam

A versenyen Ascari a második körben a boxba kényszerült javítás miatt, 3 körrel később végleg feladta a versenyt. Villoresi tizenkét kör után esett ki.  A versenyt Eugène Martin Talbotjának kirepülése, és a Felice Bonetto tankolása közben felrobbant hordó is színesítette. Fangio motorja szelepszár-szakadás miatt állt le kilenc körrel a vége előtt, ezért ő is kiállni kényszerült. A másik argentin, José Froilán González a Monacóban szerzett sérülései miatt nem indult el ezen a versenyen.

A futam végeredménye

Statisztikák
Vezető helyen:
Juan Manuel Fangio: 8 kör (1-6 / 21-22)
Nino Farina: 33 kör (7-20 / 24-42.)
Luigi Fagioli: 1 kör (23)

 Fangio 2. (R) pole-pozíciója
 Farina 2. (R) leggyorsabb köre
 Farina 2. (R) győzelme (149,279 km/h)
 Az Alfa Romeo 3. (R) győzelme
 Alfa Romeo 3. (R) pole-pozíciója
 Alfa Romeo 3. (R) leggyorsabb köre.

Források
 A verseny végeredménye

Svajcinagydij
Svájci Formula–1 futamok


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Q: Finding a unique value in excel Lets say I have two columns, A, B, and that the A column is in order from lowest to highest.
A     |      B
1     |      1.1
2     |      1.1
2     |      1.2
3     |      4.5
3     |      9.6
4     |      1.0

I am trying to sum up all of the values in column B that pertain to a specific value in column A. How can I do this the most efficiently? I know that the INDEX function can do this, but I do not want to manually find all of the different value groups, how large they are, and what rows they are at.

A: Sounds like a job for pivot table!
Highlight your table and go to Insert → pivot table and arrange it how you want. I'd do the following -

A: You use SUMIF(range,criteria,sum_range), if you do not want to manually enter all of the possible criteria you can use in combination with a H or VLOOKUP(). This is my preference for something like this, easier to adjust and can format your output differently to a pivot table.
SUMIF() Reference