Many people (most of them related to me) thought it was pretty stupid that I went to New York City last weekend. I don't blame them for having that opinion, but I could not be happier with my decision to go. At the time, we did think the marathon was going to happen. We learned while on the bus to NYC (thank you Twitter) that it was not happening. I'm really not interested in discussing the politics of that decision here. The situation in New York and New Jersey is extremely upsetting. But I will only say this – In times of disaster, sometimes people just need someone to blame. I understand that desire to look for blame. But I was really disappointed to see so many negative comments and statements made towards the people who were going to run the marathon. I think that was just misplaced aggression. Times like these can, unfortunately, bring out the worst in some and that always makes me very sad.
That being said, in trying times such as these, even though I often feel disappointment in how some react, I am always equally if not more blown away by the resilient and enduring nature of the human spirit. I lived through 9/11 in New York / New Jersey. This storm has brought horrible destruction to these areas, but I have never doubted for one moment that they will emerge on the other end of the trial stronger than ever. So I went to New York with a heart full of faith and trust… and I had a blast.
One of the best parts of the weekend was getting to participate in the Run to Recover in Central Park. On Sunday morning, Mike and I walked over to Central Park to join thousands of other runners doing loops of Central Park. Some people were out there legitimately running a marathon (that would be over 4 loops of the park… woof). I have to give these folks SO much credit. If my marathon had been cancelled in the spring, I definitely would've just cried and ate ice cream. People were donating clothes, running to raise money for relief charities, and also getting out there and achieving a goal they set for themselves in the face of extreme opposition. I also want to say a big thank you to the people who came out to cheer in the park. That was by far the coolest experience of my life (never have I ever had thousands of people cheering for me during a training run).
I actually had an amazing run, which was just the icing on the cake. I was so pumped up by the crowds and all the inspirational people around me I ended up moving really quickly! At one point I looked at my Garmin and I was doing 8:30 min / miles! That is not something I do. People were also giving me a lot of shout outs for my shirt (which is, let's be honest, amazing). Thank you New York for an amazing weekend. And for once again reaffirming for me that we are all stronger than an obstacle.
Truthfully, up until Friday, I was in support of the marathon, so I think if I had signed up, I would have gone too. I completely agree that the marathon became the symbolic enemy of the people. I actually started to get scared for the runners because people were threatening some pretty terrible things and I think some of them might have acted on it.
Aside from some big time crybabies, I was glad that so many runners stayed positive and made the most of their trips. I'm glad you got to run (and so fast!).
I might have passed you in the park on Sunday without even knowing it! I was amazed by how many smiling people were there. I think there was a lot more positive energy in the city than there would have been had the actual marathon gone on.


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Q: C/C++ AQtime profiler questions I need to profile my console program with AQ. It is in one big file (for optimizations purposes).
void function1();
void function2()
// etc more declarations
int main{

    //alot of loops, and function uses
    function1();
    function1();
}

Profiling on "Elapsed time" default profile just gives me that main is using 100% and that it took 40sec to do its job. Nothing on how much time the functions that were called inside the main took time, only how many times they were called, which says nothing.
Am I missing something in configuring AQtime as I cant find it? Would like to get how much time the functions took time to do it's job..

A: AQtime will only profile the routines you tell it to profile. Its startup wizard is pretty helpful in terms of helping you configure this correctly; I'd recommend paying pretty careful attention to it, but the general procedure is:

*

*Create an area. Configure that area for line or routine profiling.

*Add source files to the area. In this case, just your one file.

*Now profile.

The general rule is that if you don't tell AQtime to instrument the routine, it will not be instrumented. There is a default area for all code in your application, but it is for routine profiling, not line profiling, only.

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Ever the fiercely supportive partner, the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan has come out to sound a note of warning to any who believe they can destabilise the government of her husband.
"My husband is a man of peace," she said, speaking in Bayelsa at a thanksgiving organised by the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Benson Kombowei.
She also went on to state that the violent activities of the Boko Haram sect were simply orchestrations by a set of individuals who were out to discredit President Jonathan.


⇒ SPM file formats – load almost all file formats generated by SPM controllers and software packages.
⇒ Multi-channel – Add support of multi-channel images and associated studies and operators.
⇒ Image correction – Correct images from acquisition errors (line correction, tip deconvolution).


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Associations between motor proficiency and academic performance in mathematics and reading in year 1 school children: A cross-sectional study
Kirstin Macdonald, Nikki Milne, Rob Marc Orr, Rodney Pope
Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine
Background: A key priority for learning during the early years of school is for children to develop skills in numeracy and literacy. Consequently, less time may be allocated in the curriculum to foster other important developmental areas, including the ongoing motor skill development of school children, which has been positively linked to academic performance. In order to promote holistic approaches to teaching and learning in the early years of school, it is necessary to further delineate the nature of associations between motor skills and foundation academic skills. The aim of this study was to examine associations between fine and gross motor proficiency and academic performance in mathematics and reading in Year 1 children. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with Year 1 children from two primary schools in New South Wales, Australia (N = 55; 25 boys, 30 girls; mean age 6.77 ± 0.40 years). The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency (2nd Edition) and the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test II (Australian Edition) were used to assess motor proficiency and academic performance in mathematics and reading, respectively. Associations between the components of motor proficiency and academic outcomes were examined using Pearson's and Spearman's correlation analyses. Hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to determine how much variance in mathematics and reading composite scores could be explained by motor proficiency after controlling for age. Results: A significant moderate positive association was found between total motor composite and mathematics composite scores (r =.466, p <.001). Fine manual control composite scores were significantly associated with both mathematics (r s =.572, p <.001) and reading (r s =.476, p =.001) composite scores. After controlling for age, fine motor integration was the only component of motor proficiency that explained significant variance in mathematics and reading composite scores. Conclusions: The results of the study revealed that Year 1 children's overall motor proficiency was significantly related to their mathematical ability. Children's fine motor integration skills were also predictive of mathematics and reading ability. These study findings may interest both early childhood educators and paediatric health professionals.
Published - 14 Feb 2020
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Macdonald, K., Milne, N., Orr, R. M., & Pope, R. (2020). Associations between motor proficiency and academic performance in mathematics and reading in year 1 school children: A cross-sectional study. BMC Pediatrics, 20, [69]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-1967-8
Macdonald, Kirstin ; Milne, Nikki ; Orr, Rob Marc ; Pope, Rodney. / Associations between motor proficiency and academic performance in mathematics and reading in year 1 school children: A cross-sectional study. In: BMC Pediatrics. 2020 ; Vol. 20.
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Revenues increased by 21% to £205m in the latest Dentons UK and Middle East LLP consolidated accounts for the financial year ending 30 April 2018, compared to £170m for 2017. Net profit increased by 27% to £60m.
The Dentons results incorporate six months of trading as a combined firm after the combination with Maclay Murray and Spens went live on 28 October 2017. MMS LLP, which had a different year end to Dentons, has also published its closing accounts for the partial financial year to 27 October 2017, which show revenues of £15.8m and net profit of £3.6m for the period.
Staff costs increased 12.5% compared to the previous year, principally driven by the addition of staff from MMS for the second six months following on from the combination.
The average number of UK members in the year was 155 (176 by year end post-merger), and the highest paid member earned £1.4m.
The closing cash position is broadly in line with the previous year, which is very pleasing given the completion of the merger during the year. The increase in net cash flows from operating activities was offset by increases in cash outflows in relation to investing and financing activities.
Dentons continued to reduce its bank loans from £800k to £nil outstanding at 30 April 2018.
The provision for property costs increased during the year due to vacant space in three of the Dentons UK offices, a majority of which have now been sub-let.
These accounts encompass Dentons' UK and Middle East LLP's operations in Aberdeen, Abu Dhabi, Amman, Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Jeddah, London, Milton Keynes, Muscat, Riyadh and Watford.
"This is our strongest ever set of financial results, following a year of exceptional performance across all areas of the business. It is particularly pleasing to have achieved this level of revenue and profit growth during a period of intensive integration activity arising from the merger with Maclay Murray and Spens. Since joining forces half way through the financial year our lawyers in England and Scotland worked together on more than 1,000 client matters.
"Overall, the bigger picture for us is that the investments we have made in the UK & Middle East over the past few years are now really starting to pay off. Even without the merger our revenues would have grown 9% last year, but it's the five-year trend that tells the real story. Since 2013/14 our revenues have increased by 39%, with PEP rising 60%, as we have successfully pursued a strategy of creating stronger ties with key clients, developing a strong value proposition, and investing to grow market share.
"During this period we have put particular effort into capitalising on the opportunities presented by the Firm's global platform, which over the last financial year expanded to 70 countries following combinations in the Americas, Africa and Asia-Pacific. This is now flowing through into the deals pipeline. On the Corporate side, acting for KKR on its binding €6.825 billion offer for the spreads business of Unilever was one of last year's highlights, as was our advice to DP Eurasia on its successful LSE IPO – the first Turkish business to access the premium segment of the UK market. We would also highlight our representation of Aprirose on its £525m acquisition of QHotels – one of the UK's largest hotel transactions of 2017.
"The contentious practices continued to make excellent progress, appearing in court acting for FTSE-100 companies more than any other firm for the second year in a row. We also benefitted from some very substantial matters reaching a high point in the disputes cycle, such as representing RBS in its defence of the Wall claim, and our work on a multi-million dollar arbitration concerning the fit-out contract for Terminal 3 at Dubai Airport. The stand-out matter was our work on the Carillion liquidation, where we acted for the Government and now represent the Official Receiver as Liquidator and PwC as Special Managers."


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Q: add event listeners to global stage via class AS3 i am making a simple game i want to be able to add an keyboard event lisnter within the class constructor. However i am having trouble. i undertsand you have to pass the stage through a listed display object property stage? anyway i am getting errors that do not recognise my event listener keyboard event.
Best Louis
   package louiseguchi.game
{
    import flash.display.Stage;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.ui.Keyboard
    import flash.events.KeyboardEvent

    {

        public function keyBoardVelocity extends EventDispatcher ()
        {
            // constructor code

            stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, keyPressUp);

        }
        private static function keyPressUp(Event:KeyboardEvent):void{
            trace("ok")
        }

    }

}

A: You can create a class with a public static property that you would assign the stage reference to thereby making the stage accessible throughout the application like in the following:
package
{
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.Event;

    public class Main extends Sprite
    {
        public function Main():void
        {
            if (stage) init();
            else addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);

        }// end function

        private function init(e:Event = null):void
        {
            removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);

            GlobalVars.stage = stage;

            var keyboardVelocity:KeyboardVelocity = new KeyboardVelocity();

        }// end function

    }// end class

}// end package

import flash.display.Stage;

internal class GlobalVars
{
    public static var stage:Stage;

}// end class

import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;

internal class KeyboardVelocity extends EventDispatcher
{
    public function KeyboardVelocity()
    {
        var stage:Stage = GlobalVars.stage;

        stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onStageKeyDown);

    }// end function

    private function onStageKeyDown(e:KeyboardEvent):void
    {
        trace("key down");

    }// end function

}// end class

Note: I've used internal classes so that you can simply copy and paste the code into you document class and run it. Ideally you would separate the classes into their own files.
Personally I'm not a fan of making objects globally accessible as it poses a potential security risk and is bad practice in my opinion. You should consider simply parsing a reference of the stage to your KeyboardVelocity class like in the following:
package
{
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.events.Event;

    public class Main extends Sprite
    {
        public function Main():void
        {
            if (stage) init();
            else addEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);
        }

        private function init(e:Event = null):void
        {
            removeEventListener(Event.ADDED_TO_STAGE, init);

            var keyboardVelocity:KeyboardVelocity = new KeyboardVelocity(stage);

        }// end function

    }// end class

}// end package

import flash.display.Stage;
import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;

internal class KeyboardVelocity extends EventDispatcher
{
    public function KeyboardVelocity(stage:Stage)
    {
        stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, onStageKeyDown);

    }// end function

    private function onStageKeyDown(e:KeyboardEvent):void
    {
        trace("key down");

    }// end function

}// end class

A: A few problems here. For one, your class is malformed. See my comments.
  package louiseguchi.game
    {
        import Main; //doc class
        import flash.display.Stage;
        import flash.events.Event;
        import flash.display.Sprite;
        import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
        import flash.ui.Keyboard
        import flash.events.KeyboardEvent

//only classes may be extended
        public class KeyBoardVelocity extends EventDispatcher
        {

    //here is your constructor
            public function KeyBoardVelocity()
            {
                super()
                init()
            }

            private function init():void
            {
                addEventHandlers();
            }

            private function addEventHandlers()
            {
//static access of main stage
                Main.stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP, keyPressUp);
            }

            // instance function
            private function keyPressUp(Event:KeyboardEvent):void{
                trace("ok")
            }

        }

    }

Note that I added a few steps in between the constructor and your listener. Do so if you like, but I generally put very little in a constructor.
Secondly, you need to have some object in the display list to access the stage, and generally its accessed via the Main document class. Here, I just have a static get function that references in the document class:
package com.b99.testBed //alter as needed
{
    import com.b99.testBed.keypress.KeyBoardVelocity;
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.display.Stage;

    /**
     * ...
     * @author bosworth99
     */
    public class Main extends Sprite
    {
        private static var _stage:Stage;

        public function Main()
        {
            super();
            init();
        }

        private function init():void
        {
            _stage = this.stage;

            var _candidate:KeyBoardVelocity = new KeyBoardVelocity();

        }

        public static function get stage():Stage { return _stage; }

    }

}

You could gain access to the stage in a number of ways, this is the one I generally prefer.
Hope that helps.


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Leeds star posts touching message to Lionel Messi after World Cup triumph, he knows him well
Leeds United defender Junior Firpo has congratulated his old Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi on Instagram after the Argentine skipper held aloft the World Cup trophy – following a penalty-shootout win over France on Sunday evening.
An enthralling game and surely, one of the best finals in World Cup history – after one of the best-ever tournaments. Messi got his hands on a trophy that has eluded him for his entire career, scoring twice and expelling 2014 ghosts.
Kylian Mbappe, his PSG teammate, netted a hat-trick throughout the 120 minutes – but it was Argentina that went on to win the trophy. Probably deserved on the night, given Messi and co. were so much better for much of the two hours.
Firpo of course, played alongside Messi at Barcelona before joining Leeds for a fee of £13million in 2021. Indeed, Firpo shared the pitch with the Argentine superstar as many as 30 times for the Nou Camp side. He took to Instagram.
The Leeds defender shared a touching message, saying that it was Messi's time and a trophy that he has been "owed". His post is translated as: "The best my eyes have seen, football owed you. Congratulations Leo," and a goat emoji.
Leeds defender Firpo congratulates Barcelona teammate Messi on Sunday
What a performance from Messi. On the biggest stage, in arguably the biggest game of his career – Messi stood out. He was in fine form, like he has been during the entire World Cup in Qatar. When needed, he produced for his country.
It is quite remarkable to think that Firpo is struggling to get into the Leeds side at the moment. But he was at one point, a regular for Barca in a side that also had Messi. On the whole, a title Messi has deserved to win, for his career.
Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images


Vendors in the HPC universe are jumping on the Hadoop bandwagon. This week SGI announced that it was marrying Cloudera's CDH (Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop) software with its own cluster machines. This is not too surprising, considering Hadoop's role as the leading open source framework for data-intensive analytics on distributed platforms, and Cloudera's position as a top Hadoop distributor and supporter.
According to the press release, the SGI-Cloudera partnership will "enable the two companies to jointly build, sell and deploy integrated, high performance Apache Hadoop-based commercial solutions." But as pointed out by Derrick Harris over at GigaOM, this is not necessarily an HPC play in the conventional sense. Even though Hadoop can be used for technical workloads like genomics and seismology, it's more typical application is for search engines, social media analytics, and advertising optimization.
According to Harris, the Cloudera integration with SGI gear appears to be targeted more toward the latter. On SGI's website, the pre-configured Hadoop clusters come in two cluster flavors: Rackable Servers and CloudRack Servers. Both are from the non-HPC side of the house. That doesn't mean such systems won't be running technical computing workloads, however, given the somewhat different nature of these data-intensive applications (i.e., you don't necessarily need top bin CPUs, or even InfiniBand, for I/O-bound Hadoop apps).
Harris also points out that Microsoft recently announced its Hadoop integration with Windows Server and Azure. This is an even more nuanced move, considering that Microsoft already has a Hadoop alternative for HPC called LINQ to HPC (formally Dryad). The latter is also packaged with HPC Server 2008 R2, and eventually will be supported in Azure as well.
The implication is that Microsoft will position its LINQ technology for HPC-type applications, and its standard Hadoop integration for non-HPC use cases. There are other Hadoop alternatives designed specifically for performance-obsessed users. In this category are platforms like LexisNexis' Data Analytics Supercomputer (DAS) offering, as well as non-standard flavors of Hadoop that are being tweaked for performance.
Unfortunately this is the ultimate endorsement of a successful technology — copycats and derivatives. If successful though, at least some of these performance-minded frameworks for data-intensive analytics could find a happy home in HPC.


Hear finalists from the Archibald Prize 2019 talk about creating portraits and being selected for Australia's favourite art award. Then enjoy the bluegrass/folk stylings of Sydney locals The Morrisons.
Duration 1 hour, 40 minutes. Domain Theatre. Free, bookings recommended.


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Resources Building Law Reports – Part 5 [2021] now published
Building Law Reports – Part 5 [2021] now published
Books & Publications, Construction and engineering
Part 5 of the Building Law Reports covers the following key judgments:
Anchor Hanover Group & Ors v Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd & Ors [2021] BLR 319
Naylor and Others v Roamquest Ltd and Another [2021] BLR 330
Denka Advantech v Seraya Energy [2021] BLR 340
Introduction to the Building Law Reports Part 5 [2021]
The national and international Covid restrictions on lockdowns seem to be encouraging parties and their legal teams to embark on numerous procedural applications, such as summary judgment and striking out. Most of the cases reported in this volume provide some evidence of that.
Anchor Hanover Group and Others v Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd related to flooding of houses causing damage to buildings and contents. Flooding was said to been caused by a blocked box culvert constructed in 2012 as part of river diversion works. Amongst others, the Environment Agency ("EA") was sued in negligence in relation to the flooding on the basis of its involvement and because the box culvert as designed and installed was not only inadequate to prevent flooding but it actively increased the risk of flooding. EA had approved the requisite drawings at the time. It sought to strike out the proceedings against it on the basis that there was no established cause of action. Mrs Justice O'Farrell in the TCC reviewed the law and, although finding that public bodies such as EA do not owe a duty of care to private individuals from simply exercising their statutory powers or duties, held that duties of care can apply in some circumstances including conduct which gives rise to an assumption of responsibility. She decided against striking out on the basis that, because the pleaded facts showed that EA had been involved in the hydraulic modelling used for the design of the river diversion works, there was an arguable case that the conduct went beyond simply exercising its statutory powers and duties.
Mrs Justice O'Farrell in the TCC in Naylor and Others v Roamquest Ltd and Another had to deal with a case arising following the Grenfell fire disaster where some leasehold owners of tower blocks in Greenwich, London sued the developer and design and build contractor. The claim was based on the NHBC Build Mark warranty scheme in circumstances where the NHBC had accepted responsibility for defective cladding, insulation and cavity barriers. However, it related to uninsured losses as well as certain additional defects which were pleaded so thinly that the judge, on the striking out application, found that the claim was "speculative and inadequately particularised". This reflected the fact that the claim was at least in part pleaded on the basis of negative assertions that certain disclosed documents did not disclose that work had been properly carried out or that it was suspected that defects found elsewhere were replicated in the relevant tower blocks. It is a good example of the basis upon which striking out should be allowed, albeit that, here, the judge decided that the claimants should be given the opportunity to re-plead their case properly.
Denka Advantech v Seraya Energy is a very interesting case from the Singapore Court of Appeal on liquidated damages. The five-person court strongly came down in favour of applying the test of genuine pre-estimate of loss since this was consistent with the focus on the secondary obligation to pay damages that arose from the breach of contract. The long-standing authority of Dunlop was followed. The "legitimate interest" test more recently adopted by the British Supreme Court in Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi; ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis (Consumers Association intervening) [2015] UKSC 67; [2016] BLR 1; [2016] 1 Lloyd's Rep 55 was not followed, it being held that it was too general and could be applied in a wide range of ways and to wide-ranging circumstances, giving rise to the potential for uncertainty. The editors consider that it is very useful to report cases, particularly from other common law jurisdictions and the Singapore Courts are a very fruitful source, for comparative law purposes. Given the size of the e-judgment, we have edited the factual parts of the judgment for spatial reasons.
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Published: 22 Mar 17
DOTT is the dog tag of the future
It aims to improve the chances of reuniting with missing pets.
DOTT is a smart dog tag that replaces old, traditional tags and increases the chances of finding a missing pet. It creates a community and acts as a dog park in your mobile. A dot on a map shows location information, whilst the second "T" stands for location technology. "We make use of location technology and reunite lost pets with their family members," says Ashley Tang, CEO, DOTT.
DOTT is based in Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, backed by well-established technology companies including a partner of Texas Instrument as well as world-class manufacturers. "Comparing with other existing tracking devices, DOTT is extremely small and light, only 7g and 1.5cm in radius, the battery life is more than 6 months," notes Tang. "It makes use of existing pet owner communities, and help each other look for missing pets."
Tang and DOTT co-founder/CTO James Williams started their initiative because finding missing pets has been rooted as the mission in their lives. "Our pets are our family members. One out of three family pets get lost in their lifetime, that is ten million pets in the USA per year. Only 10% are ever found," shares Tang, a passionate pet lover who, during her childhood, had 10 pets that got lost. Williams, meanwhile, is a dog owner determined to develop new DOTT products which improve the quality of life for pets, their owners, and the community.
DOTT has won various startup pitch competitions, and was named as one of "The Best Kickstarter Inventions" by MSN Money. Tang says the DOTT team comprises pet lovers in Silicon Valley and Hong Kong, with proven entrepreneurship and corporate experience from Citibank, Linkedin, and Yahoo, amongst other companies. "We met each other in dog parks, we shared the same vision, and we founded DOTT," she recalls.
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A perfect plate of catfish at Zydeco Louisiana Diner.
Fried catfish makes frequent appearances in Houston: on restaurant menus, at wedding receptions, family reunions, Fridays during Lent if you happen to be Catholic, and at home if you want to rustle up a special treat for the family. More than 50 percent of catfish consumption in the United States takes place right here in Texas. Now, catfish might not be the most beautiful fish there is (think unscaled, slimy skin; fleshy lips; and long, droopy whiskers) but when prepared correctly it sure tastes good.
Catfish isn't expensive to buy and it offers a mild, sweet taste. The official season starts in March (so right about now!) and continues until late August or early September. There are various batter recipes for catfish, but yellow cornmeal tends to feature in most of them. Some catfish aficionados prefer to dip their fish in beer before breading it, while others opt for milk or egg. Some dredge it without using any liquid first, like the pioneers did in the old days when all they had to hand was the fish itself, cornmeal and oil.
These fish have been caught and farmed for centuries in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. They are high in Vitamin D. The farm-raised kind (which is what you're buying at the grocery store unless you fish for your own) are low in omega-3 fatty acids but high in omega-6 fatty acids. You might see Vietnamese catfish in grocery stores here, but they aren't allowed to be labelled as catfish. Instead they are labelled as basa, swai or pangasius. Give those a miss and choose locally-caught catfish filets for the best result!
Catfish were considered a holiday delicacy in Central Europe. Migrants from Europe and Africa entering the United States introduced this tradition, and it's in the South that eating catfish is most prevalent. Although it's usually breaded and fried in America, catfish is cooked differently in other countries. In Malaysia it's fried with spices or grilled and enjoyed with tamarind and chile gravy. In Vietnam, it's rubbed with turmeric and served with dill.
In Hungary, catfish is cooked in paprika sauce and served with curd cheese and pasta. In Myanmar it's made into a fish noodle soup with ginger, garlic, lemongrass, onion and more, while Nigerians like to make it into a spicy soup. You might see it prepared differently on local menus. It can be baked en papillôte, broiled with lemon and garlic or made into bouillabaisse. However the Texan way is to batter and fry it, and you can't go wrong with that simple yet oh-so-good recipe!
It looks better with a cornmeal jacket.
So you're going to make fried catfish the Texan way. What are you going to have with it? Hush puppies, collard greens, potato salad, fries, and coleslaw are all worthy side dishes for fried catfish, so take your pick. You can serve tartar sauce, cocktail sauce or lime mayonnaise with your catfish, or how about mayonnaise and sour cream with some horseradish and mustard stirred in? This crispy meal is also great without any sauce on the side, or even just a few lemon wedges. Some people like to serve their fried catfish in a sandwich, too.
Grind salt and black pepper over the fish filets and let them come to room temperature. Heat 3 inches of oil in a big heavy pot or iron skillet. Beat the milk with the eggs. Pour the cornmeal on a plate. Now dip the catfish filets into the egg mixture then dredge them in cornmeal to coat both sides. Let any excess drip off. Carefully add the coated fish to the hot oil and cook for 4 minutes or until golden brown, turning once. You might need to do this in 2 batches depending on the size of your pan. Drain the hot, crispy fish on paper towels and serve right away. This recipe makes enough for 4 servings.


Floor coverings should be vacuumed once every week and all the more regularly in zones of overwhelming movement. Visit vacuuming drags out the life of your cover by keeping a development of lumpy particles that can cut cover strands. At regular intervals, take some additional time and utilize your fissure device for cleaning around baseboards and radiators in other difficulties to-achieve places.
You should make cover purifier at home with the end goal to make your cover unscented and new. For home constructed cover purifier you require 1 container pounded, dried herbs, for example, rosemary, southern-wood, and lavender.
Combine fixings, and sprinkle over cover. Permit to sit for a couple of minutes, at that point vacuum.
This technique involves boiling water being infused into the cover under a considerable measure of weight.
By having pressurized boiling water coordinated into the cover, any soil that was stuck onto the cover filaments is slackened and disintegrated into the water. You could likewise include a cleaning arrangement or cleanser to the cover particularly when cleaning vigorously ruined areas of the cover.
The water is then separated from the cover utilizing a vacuum drawing all the soil alongside it and leaving the cover shimmering. Vacuums that are utilized in wet cleaning or steam cleaning are expensive than others.
The cleaning operator suspends the earth, and soils which are unsettled by a vacuum's turning brush, while the crystallization specialist exemplifies them and dries them into precious stones that will at that point be vacuumed far from the rugs. Encapsulation method is less effective for oily and sleek sand carpets.
In this cover cleaning approach, you utilize a cleaning item that is blended with carbonated water. This blend will then be spread like a fog over your cover and a hat – a roundabout turning cradle – keeps running over those grimy regions of the cover. The cap contains a spongy covering and is supplanted with a clean new one at whatever point it ends up filthy. This guarantees all the earth is pulled back from the cover as it sticks onto the cap. This method is effective than wet cleaning method because it does not require long time to drying carpets.


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Q: Knowing when to ask for help I'm an undergrad with weekly problem sets due. Often if I begin the problem set early and think about it a bit each day, I can solve all of the problems. But other times it will quickly become apparent that one or two problems are going to be sticking points for me and that getting unstuck will be nontrivial.
Ultimately there are failsafes available for these situations: I can ask a friend, go to a tutoring session, go to office hours, or peruse the web for hints. But I much prefer getting the problem on my own, which means I sometimes spend a great deal of time on a single problem for which the payoff (in terms of increased conceptual understanding) is small.
In my own life, when I decide to stop working on the problem will depend on a variety of factors: how stressed I am, whether I feel like I still have ideas, how soon the problem set is due, etc. As it is, I just make a subjective judgment about the relative value of proceeding and then decide to quit or continue. But I was wondering if anyone had any more well-defined heuristics they used to decide when to ask for help.
Note that I'm referring to difficulties with particular problems, not difficulties with underlying concepts, which I would ordinarily try to resolve as quickly as possible (rather than working on them over a period of days). This seems reasonable to me because understanding the theorem statements or techniques used is so fundamental to mastering the material, whereas a difficult homework problem isn't as crucial to one's understanding.

A: I had this problem. Of course, I wanted to solve all the problems on my own, but my time was limited by the other work I had to do. And besides, sometimes you know you're just stuck and have no idea how to proceed.
My rule was to ask for help after $X$ amount of time had passed since my last piece of progress on the problem. The exact amount of time depended on the difficulty of the class and other commitments. This kept me sane and gave me time to do my other homework. So, for example, if you're trying to solve some undergraduate-level real analysis problem, and you've thought for an hour about it and gotten nowhere, then it is probably reasonable to just move on to the next problem and ask about it in office hours.

A: A rule of thumb. Never seek any help for a question when you have got some idea on how to solve it. When you absolutely run out of ideas and you did applied them all and you got stuck, then at that point of time, you should seek help.
You know , even when sometimes I have no clue on how to answer a question  $\textbf{But I still have got some time before it's due}$. I actually leave it for a day or two and attack it again. Sometimes, It actually works. The biggest trap that mathematicians fall in is the $\textbf{frozen mind set}$. Meaning that they repetitively try to answer a question using the same strategy. But when you take some break from a problem and attack it again,You will have a new mind set and there is a better chance that you will be able to solve it.
The problem is that I have many smart friends that are too lazy to solve a problem even though they have a rough idea on how to solve it. For instance, They look at the question, and then they say, Yes, This question will be solved in that way using that rule, But instead of actually solving it, They still ask people or post their questions online. I am afraid to say that this behaviour is not beneficial on the long run. They may survive like that in the first couple of years but then they will use a lot of problem solving skills on their way.
The more suffering that You get while solving a problem, the more value that you will get out of it, and you will grow better as a mathematician and a problem solver. But don't over stress, sometimes, You have to ask someone


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Mormons repeal ban on baptisms for children of gay parents
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Posted: Thu 1:36 PM, Apr 04, 2019 |
Updated: Thu 2:57 PM, Apr 04, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The surprise announcement Thursday by the faith widely known as the Mormon church reverses rules that triggered widespread condemnations from LGBTQ members and their allies.
The church in a statement says it isn't changing its doctrinal opposition to gay marriage and still considers same-sex relationships to be a "serious transgression."
But people in same-sex relationships will no longer be considered "apostates" who must be kicked out of the religion.
The change also marks the biggest move yet by church President Russell M. Nelson, who has made a flurry of changes since taking over the faith in January 2018.
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Doomsday Reels: The Children
Ryan Covey
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The Children (2008)
Tom Shankland
THE ACTORS
Hannah Tointon (Casey), Eva Birthistle (Elaine), Stephen Campbell Moore (Jonah), Jeremy Sheffield (Robbie), Rachel Shelly (Chloe), Eva Sayer (Miranda), William Howes (Paulie), Jake Hathaway (Nicky), Rafiella Brooks (Leah)
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"A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents." -IMDb.com synopsis
As I said in my review of Cooties, killer kids are a dynamite concept for a horror movie. They're either a corruption of something sweet and innocent into something monstrous or the overt selfishness and lack of empathy of childhood magnified into some horrific creature, depending on your tolerance for children. It's the perversion of something weak into something suddenly powerful, turning a power dynamic on its head that makes the idea work.
Conceptually, The Children (not to be confused with the other killer kid movie of the same title that was distributed by Troma) is a bit of an amalgamation of People Toys (also known as Devil Times Five, because some movies deserve two awful titles) and Who Can Kill a Child? (the gold standard of the killer kid sub-genre, for those who were curious). The setting of a winter retreat where sweet innocent-looking kids brutally murder selfish shit-head adults is reminiscent of the former while the idea of a communicable homicidal urge passed between children reminds me of the latter.
What The Children does, which no killer kid film that I am aware of has done, is makes it very personal. In all other killer kid movies the kids are either completely unrelated to the protagonists, mutated in some way to make them monstrous, or behave in a detached and inhuman way from moment one. The titular children aren't like that, they look like kids and though they have a placid look on their faces until the moment of murder they still know how to use their emotional attachment to the adults to their advantage. They come to their loved ones crying, begging for comfort and trying to hug or be held. When confronted with violence they cry and act weak, only resuming their attack when the prey's guard is down. It's a very insidious tactic that makes this movie especially rough and mean. Who Can Kill a Child? asked if you could bring yourself to kill a random kid who attacked you, The Children asks if you would be able to murder your own child as they beg for mercy and comfort to save your own life.
Now, your own mileage may vary on the effect this movie has on you. Some people hate kids and will see the protagonists of this movie as stupid and weak, bragging that they could fight a hundred kids and win (as the earthen floor of their basements would surely attest). This movie is going to hit the hardest for those viewers who have children, work with children, or have a close bond with a niece/nephew or young relative. Those people are going to project their own experiences onto this movie and for those people (present company included) this is a deeply disturbing film.
Sometimes writer/director Tom Shankland takes mercy on the viewer, allowing extreme violence to be more implied than shown. We'll see a kid's head falling rapidly toward a giant shard of glass than cut away to a close-up of blood running along the floor. Other times he opts to show rather extreme bits of gore (there is one extremely gory kid kill in this movie and two others which are merely very violent), albeit generally in quick shots rather than anything lingering. Unfortunately this stylistic choice sometimes makes it difficult to tell what the hell you're actually seeing on-screen.
On the subject of muddled messages, I had a little trouble with the characters. It at first seemed like there were twice as many kids as there actually are and I had a difficult time establishing which ones belonged to which adults. I only managed to hammer out the character relationships upon reading some reviews of the film after watching it.
The movie takes its sweet time getting to the point, spending time with the adults yammering on about nothing and being awful people. It would seem that the unlikable qualities of the adults were a choice, framing the teenage Casey as the ersatz leading lady but Casey isn't a much better. The Children doesn't make Cooties' mistake of framing all the children as awful before they become violent but it does make it feel like the violence visited on the parents is more than a little bit of comeuppance for their selfish and shallow behavior. The adults are petty, patronizing, and really kind of deserving of their fates.
Casey's big defining characteristics are that she hates her stepdad, who clearly loves his two biological children more than her. She has a complicated relationship with her mother, a terrible relationship with her younger sister, and likes her cool weed-smoking uncle. She's an asset to the plot largely because she's the only character actually willing to commit violence against the children when things go to hell. This actually makes Casey seem less heroic as she doesn't seem to feel much remorse for violently killing her siblings and cousins, which seems at odds with the big point of the movie.
But forget the adults because I want to talk about the real stars of the film: the kids. Child actors are underappreciated in any genre, but especially in horror. The mark of a great child actor is that the audience doesn't even realize they're there. Pet Sematary is terrifying movie filled with all manner of horrors, but the most effective bit of the film is three-year-old Miko Hughes as the re-animated Gage Creed. Gage has a ton of dialogue (though quite a bit less than he has in the book, for obvious reasons) and he doesn't read it super naturally but it works because a three-year-old is speaking like an adult and he's terrifying. The kids of The Children don't talk much, even before they become evil, but they communicate a myriad of emotions with astounding ease. There's nothing false about any of the child-actors in this movie and if I can praise it for nothing else I praise this movie for that.
The Children is slow to start but once it makes it over the second-act hill it's a disturbing roller coaster ride to the finish and a very worthwhile and enjoyable film from there. Now I'm going to talk about the film's ending so those wanting to avoid spoilers should skip down to "The Shill."
After dispatching Casey's sister, she and her mother Chloe are surrounded by an army of children in the woods. Casey vomits what appears to be the same yellow bile that all the infected children have thrown up earlier in the film, and then climbs in the car with her mother and rides to safety. The shot slowly zooms in on Casey's face as her expression goes from fearful to dispassionate and the shot goes to black. The implication seems to be either that Casey is young enough to be susceptible to the virus or that it effects people of all ages but works more slowly on teenagers and adults.
It's a nice stinger but it also robs the movie of the more existential undertones. So Chloe may be attacked by her daughter and killed, what does it matter at this point? To survive she's had to endure the death of her family. Her oldest daughter killed her young son and his cousin by impaling them on sharp debris, she ran over her younger daughter with a car. What's the point of surviving when you have to live with the realization that you had to brutally kill your own children? Could you live with yourself after that? Would you want to? There's no triumph to Chloe and Casey's escape, they have nowhere to run to and they've lost everything. For Casey to go insane and kill her mom would surely be preferable to having to live with the guilt. That's why The Children is unique and why it's so deeply affecting.
THE SHILL
The Children is available on DVD, Blu-Ray, and Amazon Instant.
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WKND Dubai: Epic specialty coffee and artfully-presented food in a super-cool setting
First opened in mid-September 2020, WKND Dubai is already a bona fide must-visit hotspot with those in the know (including your friends at The Huntr, of course). Discover how and why WKND lives up to the hype here now…
Conceptualised by James Soo Yong Kim and Abdullah Al Mazrouei, WKND Dubai is first and foremost a specialty coffee concept. Using its own Supra Coffee beans (roasted in Abu Dhabi), this Al Safa hotspot is a must-visit for any coffee connoisseur. The spaceship-like central island is devoted purely to coffee and features the slick barista bar flanked by chairs and a low-table set up complete with custom V60 brewing gear, plus there's also an adjacent wall complete with 20 automated slow-drips – which were all designed and custom-made by James and Abdullah. The coffee menu features the usual specialty favourites and The Huntr enjoyed several faultless coffees including cortado (25AED), flat white (25AED) and V60 (28AED) (brewed at the table with an insightful delivery by the passionate barista Gerard, no less).
Secondly, it's all about coffee's perfect pairing – dessert. But since The Huntr visited WKND in the morning we skipped the sweet stuff and dove straight into the breakfast menu (which, like all sections of the menu – is available from open until close every day). The WKND Benedict (62AED) is a hearty mix of braised brisket, corn hollandaise, and avocado crema inside a croissant and topped with a perfect poached egg. The Cauliflower & Eggs (58AED) is rather remarkable – not only does it look like art, but its surprising combination of ingredients (caramelized cauliflower, almond, silver anchovies, poached eggs, and Hokkaido loaf) will also delight adventurous foodies looking to try something different. The Croque Madam (55AED) is beautifully-presented and features the unique addition of strawberry jam and the popular Breakfast Pizza (65AED) is a must-try for those who love smoked salmon benedicts and have a good appetite. Last but not least, the artfully arranged light option – the Acai Bowl (49AED) comes with peanut butter, mixed berries, chia seeds, figs, and kiwi.
The menu has been meticulously designed by James (himself an ex chef at the likes of Michelin Star restaurants Caviar Russe, Blanca and Danja in NYC) and features an array of international dishes with flashes of Asian inspirations here and there. It is divided into sections: appetizers (small dishes, snacks, and sharing plates), breakfast, pasta dishes, Napoli pizzas, lunch & dinner plates (burgers, steaks, rice, sandwiches, and co), salads, sweets and Bingsu (a Korean shaved ice dessert). There are quite a few vegetarian-friendly dishes (including a delicious-sounding Impossible Burger) but vegan options are limited.
Interiors-wise, James also acted as the architect for the project with Abdullah providing essential support as his creative partner. And we must congratulate them – because the ambience at WKND is inspiring and striking. If Virgil Abloh and Kanye West opened a specialty coffee bar and bistro, it might look a lot like this. Stark and creative, considered, and curated. The glass cube 'Studio' at the back (complete with Virgil Abloh's "Keep Off" rug for Ikea) offers a semi-private experience if you can snag it and will be transformed monthly to offer new artistic installations, seating and dining experiences. There are also various table arrangements for small and large groups throughout the open-plan space – including a long wooden bench arrangement directly in front of 'The Studio'.
Alongside its noteworthy coffee, the alcohol-free WKND drinks menu also offers a selection of mocktails – we tried and loved the Refreshing (32AED), which was exactly that and features a mix of passion fruit and yuzu citron and the Cherry Blossom (32AED) – a fruity combo of raspberry, pomegranate, and strawberry.
Whilst it's not too hard to find amazing specialty coffee and amazing gourmet food in Dubai, it is quite rare to find them wrapped up in such a delightful package, together.
So, what are you waiting for? Race you there…
Insider tips: WKND is busy weekdays from 2 pm and weekends from open until close. Free parking is available underground and there's also paid RTA parking available out front. If you want to visit during a quiet time we suggest heading to WKND at opening time (currently 9 am) on a weekday as The Huntr did. Toilets available on-site, plus charging stations and free wifi – making this a great spot to study or get work done during its off-peak timings (9 am-2 pm weekdays). WKND Dubai is open 9 am until 11 pm Saturday-Wednesday and 9 am until midnight on Thursdays and Fridays.
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When the pinch-hitter Carlos Guillen of the Mariners shocked everyone by squaring around to bunt in the bottom of the ninth inning today, he pushed the ball past pitcher Keith Foulke, first baseman Frank Thomas and second baseman Ray Durham of the White Sox.
All three defenders spun and lunged in futility like plastic figures in a table-top hockey game who could not quite reach the puck.
As the ball hit the infield grass and rolled over the dirt and into right field, Guillen's face broke into a grin while he danced down the first-base line. Behind him, the pinch-runner Rickey Henderson dashed from third to home with the winning run as the Mariners won, 2-1, at Safeco Field to sweep their American League division series in three games.
The fans -- 48,010 of them, the largest crowd in the brief history of this delightful new stadium -- erupted in a sort of a shocked shout that grew into a joyous roar as the Mariners raced from their first-base dugout and mobbed Guillen.
Before long, some of the players uncorked Champagne bottles and sprayed them on the giddy spectators.
Next week the Mariners will face either the Yankees or the Oakland Athletics for the American League pennant. But that can wait. The Mariners celebrated loudly and at length today after a splendid climax to a so-so series. In an era filled with home-run inflation and long, tedious games, these two teams performed a neat little pitchers' duel filled with good fielding and managerial strategy over a pleasant and fast-paced 2 hours 40 minutes.
And the winning play was really a bit of improvisation. Seattle Manager Lou Piniella had told Guillen to try to hit a grounder to first base because Thomas does not play there often and might not be able to throw out the speedy Henderson.
So, on the first pitch, Guillen decided to try to hit a sacrifice fly. He fouled the pitch off. ''After that, I said, 'I'll try for a grounder to first base,' '' said Guillen, a utility infielder who spent time in the minor leagues this season.
With four infielders pulled in, a bunt might seem like a low-percentage play. Did Guillen think the bunt surprised the White Sox? ''Yeah,'' he said.
The Mariners, the last of the eight qualifiers in baseball's postseason tournament, became the first team to reach the second of three rounds. They won the wild-card berth on the final day of the season. Now, they have a chance to rest and scout their next opponent. They are playing little ball, the kind usually found in the National League. They are winning with pitching, fielding and timely hitting from veteran players.
Jerry Manuel, the Chicago manager, said Seattle's late quest for a playoff berth has given the Mariners momentum to go much farther.
Chicago finished the regular season with the best record in the American League, but limped into the postseason with injured pitchers and nervous hitters. James Baldwin, today's starter, worked despite cortisone shots to numb the pain of a damaged right shoulder. He pitched six innings and left with a 1-1 tie. The only Chicago run came after a second-inning double by Harold Baines, who moved to third on a fly ball to center and scored on another fly to the same place.
The Mariners tied the score in the bottom of the fourth inning on a two-out ground ball by Stan Javier that hit the glove of Durham and bounced away. It could have been scored an error. Although Manuel shaved his beard and shuffled his lineup to change Chicago's luck, he got an 0-for-2 performance from Thomas, who finished the series 0 for 9. The Sox managed only three hits today.
Seattle's winning pitcher was the reliever Jose Paniagua, but the star on the mound was Aaron Sele, the starter, who left with one out in the eighth. The Mariners bullpen gave up no runs in the series.
A key addition this season has been John Olerud, the veteran first baseman who played with the Mets from 1997 to 1999. He went 3 for 10 in this series, including a home run in the first game. Today, Olerud made three unassisted putouts, one of them a spear of a hard grounder by Chris Singleton.
He started the ninth with a line drive off a 3-1 pitch into the midsection of pitcher Kelly Wunsch. The pitcher fielded the ball off the mound but threw hurriedly and awkwardly from one knee. The ball skipped past Thomas, allowing Olerud to take second. Henderson ran for Olerud and took third on a sacrifice bunt by Javier to set up the final moments.
''This series, we played about as well as you could hope to play,'' Olerud said.


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Q: Websphere parallel install ear I have a Webspehere 7.0 and deploy there EAR file. But deploy is very slowly
How is it possible to parallelize the deploy of the EAR file to the Websphere 7.0?

A: There are a few options that you can consider to speed up deployment:

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*you should verify that there are no unneeded or redundant jars contained in the application like javaee, jta, jstl, database drivers etc.. This is especially often, when application is build with Maven.

*you can also shrink ear by putting some large rarely changing libraries into shared libraries defined in WebSphere

*you may change some deployment settings

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*switch to RMI instead of SOAP

*manually copy end expand EAR

*increase heap size of dmgr and node agents.

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package org.gradle.plugins.ide.internal.generator;

import com.google.common.base.Predicate;
import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
import groovy.lang.Closure;
import groovy.util.Node;
import groovy.util.XmlParser;
import org.gradle.api.Action;
import org.gradle.api.XmlProvider;
import org.gradle.internal.Cast;
import org.gradle.internal.xml.XmlTransformer;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import static org.gradle.util.ConfigureUtil.configureUsing;

/**
 * A {@link org.gradle.plugins.ide.internal.generator.generator.PersistableConfigurationObject}
 * which is stored in an XML file.
 */
public abstract class XmlPersistableConfigurationObject extends AbstractPersistableConfigurationObject {

    private final XmlTransformer xmlTransformer;
    private Node xml;

    protected XmlPersistableConfigurationObject(XmlTransformer xmlTransformer) {
        this.xmlTransformer = xmlTransformer;
    }

    @Override
    public void load(InputStream inputStream) throws Exception {
        xml = new XmlParser().parse(inputStream);
        load(xml);
    }

    @Override
    public void store(OutputStream outputStream) {
        store(xml);
        xmlTransformer.transform(xml, outputStream);
    }

    public Node getXml() {
        return xml;
    }

    /**
     * Called immediately after the XML file has been read.
     */
    protected void load(Node xml) {
        // no-op
    }

    /**
     * Called immediately before the XML file is to be written.
     */
    protected void store(Node xml) {
        // no-op
    }

    public void transformAction(Closure action) {
        transformAction(configureUsing(action));
    }

    /**
     * @param action transform action
     * @since 3.5
     */
    public void transformAction(Action<? super XmlProvider> action) {
        xmlTransformer.addAction(action);
    }

    protected static List<Node> getChildren(@Nullable Node root, String name) {
        return root == null ? Collections.<Node>emptyList() : Cast.<List<Node>>uncheckedCast(root.get(name));
    }

    @Nullable
    public static Node findFirstChildNamed(@Nullable Node root, String name) {
        return root == null ? null : Iterables.getFirst(getChildren(root, name), null);
    }

    @Nullable
    public static Node findFirstChildWithAttributeValue(@Nullable Node root, String childName, String attribute, String value) {
        return root == null ? null : findFirstWithAttributeValue(getChildren(root, childName), attribute, value);
    }

    @Nullable
    protected static Node findFirstWithAttributeValue(@Nullable List<Node> nodes, final String attribute, final String value) {
        return nodes == null ? null : Iterables.getFirst(Iterables.filter(nodes, new Predicate<Node>() {
            @Override
            public boolean apply(Node node) {
                return value.equals(node.attribute(attribute));
            }
        }), null);
    }

    public static Node findOrCreateFirstChildNamed(Node root, String name) {
        Node child = findFirstChildNamed(root, name);
        if (child == null) {
            child = root.appendNode(name);
        }
        return child;
    }

    public static Node findOrCreateFirstChildWithAttributeValue(@Nullable Node root, String childName, String attribute, String value) {
        Node child = findFirstChildWithAttributeValue(root, childName, attribute, value);
        if (child == null) {
            Map<String, Object> attributes = Maps.newHashMap();
            attributes.put(attribute, value);
            child = root.appendNode(childName, attributes);
        }
        return child;
    }
}

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Pierre Fabre (14 de octubre de 1933-24 de marzo de 2006) fue un actor, guionista y director cinematográfico y televisivo de nacionalidad francesa.

Nacido en Wimereux, Francia, Pierre Fabre escribió diferentes guiones televisivos, entre ellos los de  Jules Bonnot (1969) y La lune d'Omaha (1985). Fue conocida su actuación como Louis Mandrin en una producción televisiva de 1971.

Pierre Fabre falleció en París, Francia, en 2006. Estuvo casado con la actriz Anna Karina entre 1968 y 1974.

Selección de su filmografía

Actor
Cine
 1962 : Jules y Jim, de François Truffaut
 1965 : Sangre en Indochina, de Pierre Schoendoerffer
 1969 : El pequeño salvaje, de François Truffaut
 1970 : Domicilio conyugal, de François Truffaut
 1975 : Le Jardin qui bascule, de Guy Gilles
 1982 : L'Honneur d'un capitaine, de Pierre Schoendoerffer
 1987 : Les mois d'avril sont meurtriers, de Laurent Heynemann
Televisión
 1972 : Mandrin, de Philippe Fourastié

Director
1980 : Tout dépend des filles, con Jean-Pierre Sentier

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Filmografía en Cinemotions.com
Filmografía en dvdtoile.com

Actores de cine de Francia
Actores de televisión de Francia
Guionistas de cine de Francia
Directores de cine de Francia

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What Are Ten Dollar Thoughts?
Ten Dollar Thoughts
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
I'm keeping it light today, folks. My job has been a bear lately. GAP's job has really been a bear lately. And sometimes (like now) my brain just loses its capacity to do anything worthwhile. Please, indulge me or forgive me as you find appropriate.
Tis the season of friendly competition. March Madness just wrapped up and we've all spent the past few weeks ribbing each other about unforeseen upsets ("bracket busters" in pool parlance) and whose team was going all the way. Admittedly, I had less fun with March Madness this year because I picked Pitt to win it all and, well, that didn't quite turn out. But I can take heart, not only because my whole pool's brackets were crappy this year, but because there is a new competition on the horizon: Cupcake Wars!
A bit of background for you…
GAP's family is competitive. They are a family of eight. Six kids, two parents, and split evenly between boys and girls. Whether it be a friendly game of Bridge or a full season of fantasy football, the competitive streak never fails to come out. If you didn't grow up in this kind of family (I didn't…) it takes a bit of getting used to. But I have grown to really love it. There are some competitions where I am a strong contender (Trivial Pursuit), and some where I am not (anything relating to football). However, since this family is an equal opportunity score keeper, everyone has their moment to shine.
I've been a part of GAP's family for nearly 12 years now and in that time we've all grown very close. Much of that closeness came from shared beach vacations, shared childbirth experiences, shared holidays, and, lately, shared e-mail threads of our favorite Charlie Sheen quotes. But some of it came from our little competitions. We boast about our skills and gravitas. We taunt and trash talk. And, with the exception of a couple of white elephant style trophies, we only play for bragging rights. At some point in time we've all been victorious and we've all been humbled. There's something very equalizing about it.
We will be gathering the whole group together over Memorial Day weekend to have portraits taken of the whole gang – all 19 of us. It will be fun and relaxing and with any luck at all the little kids will cooperate with the photographer. My mother-in-law couldn't leave well enough alone, though. She has instituted our family's first ever Cupcake Wars, complete with rules and regulations: There will be two divisions – sweet and savory. One entry per person. Submissions will be anonymous. Last minute finishing touches will be allowed. Scoring will be based on appearance (25%), creativity (25%), and taste (50%). It's going to be intense!
Even though general exhaustion around here has prevented me from relentless recipe testing these past few weeks, I'm really looking forward to it. Because no matter what kind of showing I make, I am assured of a few things. 1) We will all have stomach aches by the end of it. 2) We will all laugh a lot. 3) The whole thing will be memorable.
I guess what I'm driving at here (at the risk of getting a little saccharine) is that "friendly competition" doesn't tell the whole story. More than being a fun diversion, over time, it builds memories and forges bonds. At some level, at the end of the day, we all win. So, I may not turn out my best work (my sweet tooth has been on hiatus lately), but I'll have my game face on nonetheless.
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Censoring a King
Monday, April 4th, 2011
Happy Monday. I'm excited to announce a very special guest blogger today. Many of you know my sister Anne from her time over at Life in Pencil. Though she has recently stepped back from the blogging world, she knows she always has an open invitation to post here, should something thought-provoking speak to her. I was thrilled last week when she mentioned a certain inspiration, and am honored to be sharing her words with you today.
It's the kind of film the Oscars adore. Pedigree cast, period costumes, and British accents. The King's Speech had Oscar written all over it, and win it did. But added to the usual trappings of an Oscar-winning film, The King's Speech had something else…mass appeal. Beneath the thick London fog, there's a crowd-pleasing underdog film we Americans love to love. You can't help but root for the stammering monarch, and his supporting cast of feel-good characters. This is one of those rare Oscar winners—unlike The Departed or The Hurtlocker—that you can truly call a "family film". Oh, wait. Except for that pesky cussing and the R-rating.
If you haven't seen the King's Speech, then I have two things to say to you. 1) See it. You'll like it. 2) SPOILER ALERT!! And with that, I'll proceed.
In the film, Colin Firth's Duke of York has to let go of a few inner demons (namely, Daddy) that plague his speech. The straight-laced Duke cuts loose in front of his speech therapist and unloads some serious f-bombs with – surprise! – no stutter. It's not only funny, but illuminating. It's a moment that tells us as much about his character as maybe any other moment in the film. But if you're the ratings board, you don't care. It's the F-word. Rated R for, "don't bring your kids."
As it turns out, the Weinstein Company has a fool-proof plan to deal with the R-rating, open the film up to more families, and make caboodles of dollars. They're going to censor it. Harvey Weinstein, usually a champion of artsy and gutsy films, has released a PG-13 version of the film in theaters, in which Colin Firth's landmark cussing is softened and cleaned up. In this article, Entertainment Weekly critic Owen Gleiberman discusses this decision, and presents it as a problematic precedent, mostly for artistic reasons.
I'll admit I'm a fan of the well-placed cuss word, and not a big fan of awkward editing. I don't enjoy excessive cussing, and it can certainly become distracting if used poorly. But when used correctly, the 4-letter word can also bear artistic merit. Ever tried to watch Sex and the City on TBS? Don't. Samantha is all but destroyed. Numerous famous movie lines contain some colorful language, and one need look no further than another Oscar contender this year—True Grit—to find the famous Rooster Cogburn yelling "Fill your hand, you son of a BITCH!!" at a critical moment in the film. (No doubt riskier when it was uttered by John Wayne in 1969). "Son-of-GUN" just doesn't have the same ring, does it? The language makes these scenes memorable and quote-able years later, and the words themselves also make a statement about the character and the moment that no genteel sentence can match.
If you believe this sanitization tarnishes a piece of well-developed character development, then you're against the PG-13 release. But how about examining it from a parenting perspective? According to the Motion Picture Association of America, an R rating means, "Under 17 requires an accompanying parent or adult guardian." So, what in the name of popcorn and jujubes, should prevent a parent from doing just that? Why not accompany under-17 children to see the (otherwise squeaky clean) film, and then simply talk about the use of language if they're concerned? I'd venture to say there's not a single word in the film that a kid over the age of 10 hasn't heard before, and in a much less artistic and meaningful context.
Studios these days produce plenty of trash, but trash this isn't. It's well-made, uplifting, and chock-full of fine acting and clever writing. While the Weinstein Company just started marketing The King's Speech as a "family film", it was all along. No editing necessary.
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Missing: One Cobra, Found: Some Levity
Friday, April 1st, 2011
It took an escaped Egyptian cobra and the power of Twitter to capture the imagination of this country. I'm sure that overstates it a bit (maybe even a lot) but there's something really enchanting about this whole reptilian escapade.
For those who perhaps haven't been following along at home (hi Granddaddy), last week an Egyptian cobra (about an inch and a half in diameter, 20 inches long, and highly venomous) escaped from her enclosed habitat at the Bronx zoo. Given the dangerous nature of this particular ex-con, people became highly curious about her whereabouts. And the whole search took on a much more lighthearted tone when some clever genius created the Twitter account @BronxZoosCobra, documenting her supposed adventures throughout the city.
The best part about this whole thing? This Twitter feed has more than 200,000 followers. To put that into context, that's more followers than all of the state of Texas news organizations' followers combined. People ate it up, the very fact of which tells me that we all need some levity.
Some of my favorite tweets:
Gonna listen to some Jazz tonight. You know I love some great flute work. Do they provide it or is it bring your own basket?
Taking the Sex and the City Tour!!! I'm totally a SSSamantha.
On top of the Empire State Building! All the people look like little mice down there. Delicious little mice.
City may not sleep, but I'm ready to. Ooh a chimney! I bet you bragged to your friends about having a working fireplace in NYC. Hi roomie.
We sit here in a world filled with bad news. The Middle East seems to be crumbling one country at a time. Our economy is still shaky. Unions and state governments are at each other's throats across the Midwest. And if there's something fun and harmless that we can all agree upon, it's that the idea of an escaped cobra going on a Manhattan sightseeing expedition is a hoot.
Yesterday morning the missing cobra was found. She was coiled up in a dark corner of the reptile house, never having seen the light of day. And strangely, when I read of her capture I was sad. As of last night @BronxZoosCobra hadn't tweeted in more than seven hours, a long time for a snake who'd been updating every couple of hours prior to that. Her heyday has clearly ended. Of course I think it's better not to have a highly dangerous snake on the lam. But it's also sad that this thing – this amusement and diversion – is over. We clearly needed it.
For a blogger I'm not a huge user of social media. My usage of Facebook and Twitter is cursory at best. But in moments like this I'm hard pressed to deny their power. This was a 5:00 news afterthought that turned into a cultural moment because someone with a knack for one-liners opened a Twitter account.
I guess where I'm going with this is, thank you @BronxZoosCobra. Thanks for seizing an opportunity and creating some fun where there was none. We need to lighten the mood every now and then. You were just the Twicket.
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