This Top 10 list consist of what I consider to be the 10 funniest "marijuana-inspired" movies of all time.
€�Starring: Ice Cube (Craig), Chris Tucker (Smokey), Mike Epps ( DayDay), John Witherspoon (Willie Jones), Don Curry (Uncle Elroy), Terry Crews (Damon), Katt Williams (Money Mike), Tiny Lister (Deebo), Nia Long (Debbie), & more.
Lucky worm gets to smoke pineapple express.
Starring: Method Man (Silas), Redman (Jamal), Obba Babatunde (Dean Cain), Fred Willard (Phillip), Lark Voorhies (Lauren), Essence Atkins (Jamie), & more.
€Starring: Seth Rogan (Seth), James Franco (James), Jonah Hill (Jonah), Jay Baruchel (Jay), Danny McBride (Danny), Craig Robinson (Craig), & more.
Starring: Kal Penn (Kumar), John Cho (Harold), Neil Patrick Harris (as Himself), Paula Garces (Maria), David Krumholtz (Goldstein), Eddie Kaye Thomas (Rosenburg), Danny Trejo (Mr. Perez), Danneel Harris (Vanessa), & more.
Starring: Seth MacFarlane (Ted), Mark Whalberg (John), Mila Kunis (Lori), Patrick Warburton (Guy), Jessica Barth (Tami Lynn), & more.
How is this only #9... Enough said.
€Starring: Cheech Marin (Cheech) & Tommy Chong (Chong).
Starring: Snoop Dogg (Mac), Wiz Khalifa (Devin), Mike Epps (Mr. Armstrong), Andy Milonakis (Knees Down), Teairra Mari (Ms. Huck), Mystikal (Slow Burn), & more.
Starring: Nick Swardson (Jeff), Allen Covert (Alex), Peter Dante (Dante), Jonah Hill (Barry), Rob Schneider (Yuri), Linda Cardellini (Samantha), & more.
13 Dude, Where's My Car?
This movie is not even on the. what?
The dude is the perfect definition of a stoner.
This movie doesn't just include Marijuana, it includes it all!


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Remember, remember…
…Guy Hands may have had a forgettable fireworks night this year, but he has the chance to make amends with LPs and rebuild his reputation.
PEI Staff
"Remember, remember the fifth of November…" begins the rhyme taught to children in the UK, lest they forget when Guy Fawkes, a would-be destroyer of the Houses of Parliament in 1605, was foiled in his ambitious gunpowder plot. Fawkes, along with accomplices, was executed. His scuppered act of terrorism is remembered yearly with fireworks displays up and down the country.
It was another Guy, Terra Firma's founder, chief investment officer and figurehead Guy Hands, who occupied the headlines on 5 November this year. After just four hours of deliberation, a jury ruled that Citi investment banker David Wormsley had not tricked his long-time business associate and sometime friend Guy Hands into overpaying for music group EMI. At stake was a maximum payout of £1.5 billion (€1.7 billion; $2.4 billion) in damages and considerable reputation risk. A win for Hands might have set an interesting precedent for other bankers to be sued where LBOs had gone awry.
The ultimate verdict was unsurprising. Jurors were being asked by Terra Firma's attorney to award against Citi purely on the basis of Hands' testimony: nothing was offered in the way of documentary evidence. It always seemed like a long-shot at best or – at worst – a hopeless case for Terra Firma; a tactic to gain some bargaining leverage in debt renegotiations that went too far.
The question now is: what will this outcome ultimately cost Hands and Terra Firma?
For one thing, there is the ongoing risk that EMI Group could pass into the hands of its lender, Citi. Despite being turned around from an operational point of view, EMI has since day one struggled with its £2.5 billion debt burden, consisting entirely of loans by Citi.
If EMI breaches covenants and the equity is lost, Hands will feel it in his pocket. As revealed in the trial, a large portion of his personal wealth is tied up in the music company. And do spare a thought for Terra Firma's limited partners – their exposure to this deal is massive, too. The next financial test of EMI's covenants is due at the end of March 2011.
Next, you have the legal cost of the trial, which one insider pegged as being in the "low tens of millions". The plaintiffs were Terra Firma's Funds II and III, which means it is the LPs who foot the bill – insult added to injury, one might say.
And then there is the reputational cost to Hands and Terra Firma. This is a man who has built a private equity firm from the ground up, one which – like others – remains closely defined by the presence and influence of its founder. To many the man and the firm are interchangeable.
It has been suggested that he may find it difficult in future to find any bankers willing to do business with him. More importantly, however (and also more probably), trust is at stake between Hands and the limited partner community. Hands' reputation as a dealmaker has undoubtedly been blemished; the premise of the whole legal action – that he relied on an adviser to guide him on price, rather than his own due diligence and investment judgement – has raised questions about his approach.
He now has to convince his investors that even after EMI, there is still life in him – and Terra Firma. While very difficult indeed, this is not a hopeless case to make. Yes, the €2.2 billion of equity invested in EMI represents an unusually large concentration of capital for the Terra Firma funds, which between them have €7.5 billion of LP money. However, there are eight other assets still in the portfolio, some of them in rude health, according to some of the LPs. Meanwhile, and crucially, Fund III still has around €2.4 billion to invest. This is far and away his greatest asset now. If he can keep his team intact, Hands will get the chance to make up some ground.
Hands has always been willing to address the public – either through the media or via the conference circuit – and this has not relented in the wake of his court defeat. Since his return from New York to Guernsey and to business as usual, he has stepped right back into the limelight.
In late November he addressed conference delegates in Paris. After comparing the process of appearing as a court witness to having his teeth drilled at the dentist, Hands spoke frankly about the way forward: invest the rest of the fund and try to look after the existing portfolio. "If we get that right we will raise another fund, if we don't we won't, it is that simple."
"Regardless of the court result," he said, "all I can say is there is always the next deal". Whether this means he has written EMI off – in his head, at least – is not clear, but it signals, along with his public appearance, his determination to fight his way back.
While he may have been foiled in his attempt to score a historic court victory, Guy Hands – unlike his namesake 400 years ago – could well live to tell the tale.

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REVIEW OF PRISON EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN ENGLAND - NEW REPORT!
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE WARNING - "high-quality impartial careers advice is critically important"
In July 2017, Prospects commissioned us undertake an international literature review of education and training in prisons. This report draws upon key findings from the UK, Europe and internationally. The work is set within the context of a recommissioning of education and skills in England's prisons in 2018. The aim of the review is to identify good and innovative policies and practices in education and training, including information, advice and guidance (IAG), to support prisoners into employment and/or training on release.
What research has been carried out over the last decade on effective strategies in prisons and local communities to improve prisoner's outcomes?
What types of interventions affect post-release recidivism and employment rates?
Where are examples of good/innovative policies and practices?
Furthermore, this review aims to identify which interventions might be most appropriate to implement in England's prisons to support education and skills, and in turn to improve educational, economic, or social outcomes for prisoners from a wide variety of backgrounds.
An in-depth analysis of 41 inspection reports published by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons in England and Wales over the last three years.
To optimise the chances of identifying relevant and reliable research within a literature characterised by the use of varying terminology and diffused across a very wide range of disciplines and academic and public reports, the research team used wide-ranging evidence databases via the University of Warwick Library (such as EBSCO and Scopus which allow sophisticated searching across a wide range of thematic databases) plus personal resource libraries. In addition, key informants were contacted across OECD countries (see Appendix 1). Our literature review includes findings from 100 studies.


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W3C libwww libraries
This directory contains sources for the World Wide Web Consortium's libwww libraries, which optionally may be linked together with the WFDB library to allow applications to read annotated, digitized signals directly from web (HTTP) and FTP servers without the use of a web browser or FTP client. For convenience, precompiled binaries are available for several popular platforms.
The last release of libwww was in mid-2002. We currently use and recommend libcurl as a modern and more capable alternative, especially if you are developing new software, since libcurl has extensive documentation and an active development community.
Note that the libwww libraries may already be installed on your system. Try running the command
libwww-config --version
If the libwww package is installed, this command will print its version number (e.g., "5.4.0"). In this case, we do not recommend upgrading to a newer version unless you encounter problems related to libwww.
[FreeBSD] [GNU/Linux] [Mac OS X (Darwin)] [MS-Windows] [Solaris/SunOS] [Other platforms] [Sources]
FreeBSD binaries
The FreeBSD port of libwww is available from the FreeBSD Project.
GNU/Linux binaries
If you need to install libwww under Linux, choose a set of RPMs from those listed below, download them, and install them using a command such as:
rpm -Uvh w3c-libwww-*
Binary RPMS for version 5.4.0:
For Intel x86-compatible CPUs using glibc (compatible with Fedora Core 1 and later):
w3c-libwww-5.4.0-10.i386.rpm (required)
w3c-libwww-devel-5.4.0-10.i386.rpm (required)
w3c-libwww-apps-5.4.0-10.i386.rpm (optional)
For Intel x86-compatible CPUs using glibc (compatible with Red Hat Linux 8.x and 9.x):
w3c-libwww-5.4.0-1.i386.rpm (required)
w3c-libwww-devel-5.4.0-1.i386.rpm (required)
w3c-libwww-apps-5.4.0-1.i386.rpm (optional)
For Intel x86-compatible CPUs using glibc (compatible with Red Hat Linux 7.x):
For Intel x86-compatible CPUs using libc5 (compatible with Red Hat Linux 5.x):
For Alpha CPUs using glibc:
w3c-libwww-5.2.8-4.alpha.rpm (required)
w3c-libwww-devel-5.2.8-4.alpha.rpm (required)
w3c-libwww-apps-5.2.8-4.alpha.rpm (optional)
For Sparc CPUs using glibc:
w3c-libwww-5.2.8-4.sparc.rpm (required)
w3c-libwww-devel-5.2.8-4.sparc.rpm (required)
w3c-libwww-apps-5.2.8-4.sparc.rpm (optional)
A precompiled version of libwww is available through the Fink project, which is a library of open source software ported to Mac OS X, along with tools to manage installation and updating. It is available at http://fink.sourceforge.net. Also available is a GUI package management tool, Fink Commander, that makes the use of Fink much easier (http://finkcommannder.sourceforge.net/).
MS-Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Version 5.4.0 has been precompiled for MS-Windows and is available for use with:
Cygwin gcc (recommended)
Other compilers
All of these have been compiled from the version 5.2.8 sources:
Sparc CPUs (compiled with gcc 2.95.1 under Solaris 2.5)
Intel x86-compatible CPUs (use Intel Linux binaries and lxrun).
If your operating system and CPU combination does not appear in this list, no binaries are currently available for it. You may wish to check the W3C's libwww pages for updates, and for binaries for other operating systems.
Your contributions are welcome! If you have created working libwww libraries for other operating systems or CPUs, please contact us to arrange for your binaries to be posted here.
libwww sources
Sources for version 5.4.0 are available here:
w3c-libwww-5.4.0.tar.gz (gzip-compressed tar archive)
Under Linux, MS-Windows (with Cygwin/gcc), or Unix, download the source archive, unpack, compile, and install it using the commands:
tar xfvz w3c-libwww-5.4.0.tar.gz
cd w3c-libwww-5.4.0
./configure --with-zlib
Much more detailed installation notes, including information about compiling libwww using proprietary compilers, are available on the W3C's web site.
If you are compiling libwww from sources, we recommend using version 5.4.0 (above). The older versions are those that were compiled to produce several of the binary versions available below.
Sources for version 5.3.2 (December 2000) are available here:
w3c-libwww-5.3.2-5.src.rpm (source RPM)
Sources for version 5.2.8 (April 1999) are available here:


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<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Command;

use App\Repository\LearningMaterialRepository;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\ProgressBar;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Helper\Table;
use App\Service\IliosFileSystem;

/**
 * Sync a user with their directory information
 *
 * Class SyncUserCommand
 */
class ValidateLearningMaterialPathsCommand extends Command
{
    public function __construct(
        protected IliosFileSystem $iliosFileSystem,
        protected LearningMaterialRepository $learningMaterialRepository
    ) {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    protected function configure()
    {
        $this
            ->setName('ilios:validate-learning-materials')
            ->setAliases(['ilios:maintenance:validate-learning-materials'])
            ->setDescription('Validate file paths for learning materials');
    }

    protected function execute(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output): int
    {
        $totalLearningMaterialsCount = $this->learningMaterialRepository->getTotalFileLearningMaterialCount();

        $progress = new ProgressBar($output, $totalLearningMaterialsCount);
        $progress->setRedrawFrequency(208);
        $output->writeln("<info>Starting validate of learning materials...</info>");
        $progress->start();

        $valid = 0;
        $broken = [];
        $offset = 0;
        $limit = 500;

        while ($valid + count($broken) < $totalLearningMaterialsCount) {
            $learningMaterials = $this->learningMaterialRepository->findFileLearningMaterials($limit, $offset);
            foreach ($learningMaterials as $lm) {
                if ($this->iliosFileSystem->checkLearningMaterialFilePath($lm)) {
                    $valid++;
                } else {
                    $broken[] = [
                        'id' => $lm->getId(),
                        'path' => $lm->getRelativePath()
                    ];
                }
                $progress->advance();
            }
            $offset += $limit;
        }

        $progress->finish();
        $output->writeln('');

        $output->writeln("<info>Validated {$valid} learning materials file path.</info>");
        if ($broken !== []) {
            $msg = "<error>Unable to find the files for " . count($broken) . ' learning material.</error>';
            $output->writeln($msg);
            $rows = array_map(fn($arr) => [
                $arr['id'],
                $arr['path']
            ], $broken);
            $table = new Table($output);
            $table
                ->setHeaders(['Learning Material ID', 'Relative Path'])
                ->setRows($rows)
            ;
            $table->render();

            return 1;
        }

        return 0;
    }
}

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Georgia House approves bill to expand Medical Marijuana Program
In a major development, Georgia House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved legislation expanding eligibility conditions for treatment under the state's medical marijuana program.
The Senate Bill 16, which was passed with 167-4 Vote, needs Senate approval to send the bill to Republican Gov. Nathan Deal's desk for his review and signature.
The new measure adds six additional conditions to the list of diseases that qualify patients with a doctor's prescription for medical marijuana treatment. The conditions include Tourette's syndrome, autism, epidermolysis bullosa, Alzheimer's disease, HIV/AIDS and peripheral neuropathy.
A total of eight diseases are now eligible for treatment with low-THC cannabis oil across the state. In addition, anyone in a hospice program, regardless of diagnosis, will be allowed access to marijuana oil that's low on THC, the chemical responsible for the marijuana high.
The Senate passed a bill earlier in this year's session reducing the allowable THC content to 3 percent. THC is the chemical in marijuana that gets users high. The House amended the bill to put the allowable level of THC back at 5 percent, the content permitted by current law.
"I'm grateful we've moved the bill," said Rep. Allen Peake (R-Macon), who has sponsored medical marijuana bills the last several sessions. "We're not there yet. We still have a huge issue of, where do we access the product. And until we deal with that we're still going to be shortchanging our citizens in some respects."
"More than 1,300 Georgia patients have benefit from cannabis oil since medical marijuana was legalized in Georgia two years ago", he said. "It is changing people's lives, making life bearable, giving our citizens hope."
Sen. Ben Watson, R-Savannah, authored the original Senate Bill 16. He said that he was pleased with the outcome.


FS is a pair of nice '12 hubcaps to presumably (hopefully) go along with the pair of crappy ones below! $20 for this pair. Buy 'em all and combine shipping. Est. then at $8. If I overcharge ship I refund the difference. Sorry for the fuzzy pic!
Prefer PayPal but will take check or M.O.
These have been committed to by Werner in the other hubcap post. Thanks all.


Save Some Code for Later with Ruby Procs - Garbage Burrito!
I was working on a BBCode parser for Rails, and Ryan B suggested that I use ruby for the codes, as opposed to just some regexp. So my first problem to solve was, how do I store a block of code to be used later on. "Well isn't that what methods are for?" you might say, well yeah, but this needs to be configurable. You don't want to have to create a method to add new codes. Luckily Ruby has Procs(or blocks, or closures, whatever!). A Proc is an object that represents a block of code. Since it's an object, it can be stored in a hash very easily. Here's the test script I created.
blocks = Hash.new if @blocks.nil?
The add_block method stores the provided block in a hash, and the call_block retrieves and executes it. I also allow one argument to be passed to the block. Here's an example of how to use this.
This will print 'Hello Burrito!' five times. Obviously this test script is pretty useless, but the concept opens up some cool possibilities.
I'm pretty excited about the BBCode parser though. Once we're done with the first release of rorBB, I'll post some more information about it.
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Nanocrystalline materials, with grain size less than 100 nm, are known to possess some attractive properties, such as high yield and fracture strengths , improved wear resistance . A lot of applications of nanocrystalline materials depend on grain size and temperature. Hariss  studied mechanical properties of polycrystalline tungsten at temperature ranging from 25°C to 950°C using nanoindentation. This method is widely used to obtain the elasticity modulus, hardness, and yield stress of nanocrystalline materials [4-7]. Nanoindentation is a method that uses an indenter with a known geometry to drive into a specific site of the specimen by applying an increased load [8,9]. This method is widely used for measuring mechanical properties of thin films, because it employs small loads (in the order of nanonewtons) that enable handling thicknesses at the nanometer scale. Recently some works are carried out using Finite Element (FE) nanoindentation simulation to study mechanical properties of thin films and coated systems [10,11]. Because of the development of computer simulation technology, the simulation scale expended from thousands to millions of atoms. Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulation has been used extensively to study material properties in various fields such as bioscience, chemistry, material science and technology [12,13]. Hasnaoui et al.  studied interaction between dislocations and grain boundaries under an indenter. Kelchner et al.  found that initial partial dislocation loops were nucleated off the indenting axis below the Au(111) surface. Ruestes  has studied the effects of indenter diameter, penetration velocity and interatomic potentials on defect mechanisms and evolution of tantalum nanoindentation. Hagelaar  studied the formation and destruction of nanoindentation contacts in tungsten. According to Li, et al. , MD simulations have been used to study the plastic deformation initiated by the indentation process. Dislocation nucleation and pile-up are observed during nanoindentation of a single crystal iron. Moreover, the plastic deformation of nanocrystalline tantalum during nanoindentation is regulated by deformation twin in terms of surface topography . The main goal of this work is to analysis these effects on nanoindentation of nc tungsten by using MD simulations. The results are compared in part with those proposed by other simulation methods but also with experience.
Where E is the total energy of the system, V(rij) represents the pair interaction energy between an atom i and its neighboring atom j, φ(rij) is the electronic density function, and F(ρi) represents an embedding function accounting for the effects of the free electrons in the metal . In particular, we used the EAM potential functions developed .
In this study, MD simulations are performed using the Large Scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator code (LAMMPS) . We use periodic boundary conditions in the lateral directions (x and y) and a free surface in the indenting direction (z). The sample sizes perpendicularly to the indentation direction were chosen to be large enough to avoid spurious effects of the periodic boundary conditions. We used a fixed boundary condition at the bottom of the nc-W, representing a hard substrate. The indenter is modeled by a virtual spherical indenter using a strong repulsive potential.
We start by constructing nanocrystals that contain 5 grains with anaverage grain size of 15 nm, 9 nm and 6 nm using the Voronoi construction . The simulations box is a cube with dimensions corresponding to the average grain size. The heart of the grains contains atoms are ranging bcc lattice with random crystallographic orientations. The simulations were performed using a rigid spherical indenter with a radius of 30 Å. The indenter moved toward the surface of the sample at a constant velocity until the desired depth was reached and then the system was equilibrated for several simulation steps [26,27].
In this work we use an indenter velocity ranging from 3 Å/ps to 5 Å/ps, which is much faster than in experiments , but although carried out with relatively higher speed these simulations could still reveal the main features of the atomic rearrangements . The MD time step is set to 1fs. The sample was initially relaxed at 300 K using the velocity rescaling method . The bottom 20 Å of the substrate are kept fixed; the region from 20 Å to 40 Å are set as the thermostat atoms and the top of the sample surface was treated as a free surface .
Figure 1: The load vs. indentation depth curve fitted on the Hertzian theory.
With E is the Young's modulus and ϑ the Poisson"s ratio. We note that the value of is taken to be 0.28 as given by the interatomic potential .
We can see from Table 1 that the Young's modulus increases with increasing of the grain size. On the other hand, the Young modulus value 399.3 GPa, found for the 15 nm grain size sample is close to that of bulk W (410 GPa) . Kang et al.  obtained value of 323.6 GPa for the Young modulus by nanoindentation and nanoscratch experiments of polycrystalline tungsten. Hariss et al.  carried out experiments and found that the reduced elastic modulus value is 287 GPa for the temperature range from 25 to 800°C. At 300 K, we calculated reduced elastic modulus of the 6nm average grain size sample and found 318.1GPa. This result is very close to that found experimentally by Dylan et al.  (317 GPa).
Table 1: Values of reduced elastic modulus, Young's modulus of nc-W.
We plotted the result of Table 1 in Figure 2 and observed that the reduced elastic modulus Er of nanocrystalline tungsten shows a linear relationship with the reciprocal average grain size 1/d. This behavior has been observed experimentally by Sanders et al. .
Figure 2: The linear relationship between Er and 1/d.
The linear relationship between Er and 1/d may be a general feature for nanocrystalline metals in the average grain size ranging presented in this paper. When the average grain size decreases the atomic fraction in grains boundary will decrease because of the increase of atomic fraction in grains. This can be seen in Figure 3, which shows that the reduced elastic modulus increases almost linearly with increasing of the atomic fraction of grains. We can deduce that Er and 1/d have a linear relationship, at least in the studied range of average grain size. Zhou and Nan  also found a linear relationship for nanocrystalline metals with body-centered cubic (bcc) structure .
Figure 3: Reduced modulus Er various atomic fraction of grains.
It is important to study the effects of the velocities of the indenter on the mechanical behavior. The velocities of the indenter are varied from 35 Å/ps to 5 Å/ps, respectively. In Figure 4, we plotted an example of these curves for the penetration velocity of 5 Å/ps. We found that for 5 Å/ps, the slope of the load–depth curve (10 eV.Å-3) is steeper than that for the 4 Å/ps (8.9 eV.Å-3) and 3Å/ps (8.3 eV.Å-3). This shows that the Young's modulus increases with the penetration velocity. These results were also found for nc-Ni  and nc-Cu .
Figure 4: Load- displacement curve for indentation velocities of 5 Å/ps and a grain size of 6 nm.
MD simulations have been used to study the effect of penetration velocity and grain size on reduced elastic modulus and Young's modulus of nanocrystalline tungsten. The load-depth curve is in a good agreement with the modified Hertizian theory. The values of the reduced elastic modulus obtained agree well with experiment and finite element simulation results. The effect of indentation velocity showed that the reduced modulus Er increases as the penetration velocity increases. The reduced modulus Er shows a linear relationship with the reciprocal of average grain size 1/d for nanocrystalline tungsten. This behavior is explained by the increase of the fraction of grain boundary atoms when the grain size increases.
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Q: Improve perfomance of synchronized 2D array I'm writing a multi-player game, and I need some solution which will represent the play field. I implemented for demo Synchronized2DArray class, but I think this is not the best way. Synchronized block locks whole array, while I need to lock only one cell. Is it possible to lock only one cell or may be there are other ways to improve perfomance?
class Synchronized2DArray {
    private int[][] array;

    public Synchronized2DArray(int size) {
        array = new int[size][size];
    }

    public void setValue(int x, int y, int value) {
        synchronized (array) {
            array[x][y] = value;
        }
    }

    public int getValue(int x, int y) {
        synchronized (array) {
            return array[x][y];
        }
    }

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A: I think your real problems are on different levels:

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*Your abstractions are "lousy". You see, in good OO design you create classes to abstract; in order to create a reasonable, helpful model of the things you are dealing with. An array of int values ... is providing only a tiny bit of abstraction.

*Then there is also a misconception on how locking works. You are not "locking" the whole array. Instead, you wrote code that makes sure that calls to getValue() and setValue() are serialized. The above code makes it impossible that one thread sets a value while another thread is reading that value. There is a subtle difference there.

So, my (pretty generic) answer would be: you should step back and spent some time thinking on

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*creating an object model that helps you implementing your ideas in a true, OO way.

*what kind of parallel activities will be possible, and for which one you want to optimize.

For example, you could change your current locking approach to use a ReentrantReadWriteLock instead; allowing unlimited reader access; but making sure that writing will not happen in parallel.

A: GhostCat has a point, but I can see performance as a possible reason for using arrays here. You probably want to keep a play field in an array and you want to use an array of some primitive type here to avoid the overhead of large numbers of objects. This is not easily abstracted away in Java, though the set and get methods might map the ints to something more meaningful.
More specifically to your question:
You could synchronize on a single row or column of your array like this:
synchronized (array[x]) { ... }

You cannot easily synchronize on just one cell as synchronization in Java only works on objects but not on primitive datatypes like int.
If you used objects as cell elements (e.g. Integer instead of int), you could synchronize on a single cell but the memory and performance overhead is probably too big to make this a good idea.

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Why, in fact, disabled characters – or indeed any characters – are rarely played by disabled actors is one of the key concerns of Access All Areas – a Hackney-based performance company for adults with learning disabilities.
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I made today's card for the PTI Make It Monday challenge. This week Betsy shares her creative new version of stamp 'kissing' - Die Cut Kissing. Betsy has a lovely tutorial here.
The only flat-ish stamps I could find from the plethora of PTI stamps I own - were the Watercolor Wonder Stamps and the only coverplate die I have that I thought would work for this is the Night Sky Cover Plate. And here is the card I made using Betsy's Die Cut Kissing Technique.
Here's a photo of the die cut piece of the coverplate - you can see where I 'kissed' it with my inked stamps before stamping them onto the Fresh Snow Linen Card stock. Pressing the stamp lightly onto the die cut piece - picks up the pattern of the die cut - here it picked up the stars and dots.
I inked my stamps first with Enchanted Evening and then 'rock and rolled' the stamp on my Smokey Shadow ink pad - getting that color only on the edges of the stamp. Then I stamped each stamp onto the linen panel - here's a close up showing how the 'kissing' transferred the cut outs of the die (stars and dots) to the stamp. Pretty cool huh?!
I love the look of this - I never would have thought of creating this card on my own - that's the fun of challenges like Make It Monday - learning and trying out new techniques! The headstone and sentiment are from Haunted Headstones Stamps. I also used the headstone and bat dies from Haunted Headstones Dies. I used the 'rock and roll' technique in stamping the headstone as well with the blue and black inks.
You'll find the Make it Monday challenge here.
Accessories: Haunted Headstone Dies, Coverplate Night Sky - PTI, black rhinestones - Kaiser, foam dots.
I finally got my Guiding Light stamp set from PTI out and used it! I used the masking sentiment technique for tis weeks Make It Monday challenge. I stamped the sentiment on a sticky note - cut it out close to the sentiment and placed the sticky on my card panel as a mask. Then I stamped the light house over the sticky, removed the sticky and stamped the sentiment in the open space - so it looks like the sentiment is in the center of the stamp!
I die cut the panel with a Stitched Rectangle from Waltzingmouse and layered it over a newsprint patterned paper that I had stapled a piece of Film Strip Ribbon to.
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Yay - it's Friday! It's raining here in MA and we may have scattered showers all weekend - but that's ok - I won't be working! I have a lovely lunch planned with my sister on Saturday - I'm taking her to the Wenham Tea House to celebrate her 65th birthday. Looking forward to having some lovely Earl Gray Tea, tea sandwiches and a scone!
Accessories: Film Strip Ribbon - Idea-ology, Mini Attacher - Ranger, Stitched Edge Die - Waltzingmouse, rhinestone - Kaiser.
Today I have a fun project to share - that I made for Eileen Hull's August Art with Heart challenge - Old is New. Use one of her older dies for your creation. Eileen designs for Sizzix and I just LOVE all of her dies!
I decided to use her - Shoe 3D die - and I had all intentions of making a sweet little baby boy shoe for a friend who is having a baby boy in a few months. But something dark and ugly came over me and this is how my shoe ended up!
I have several step by step photos to share just how this all came about! First I die cut the shoe out of Little Sizzles Cream Matboard. Then I assembled it. Next I covered the outside with Graphite Texture Paste using my palette knife. It has a rough sandy texture and a little glitter in it. I poked a wooden barbecue skewer through the lacing holes to clear the paste out of them. I left the shoe overnight to dry.
I used the shoe die to cut out pieces to line the shoe with - I just had to cut them down a little bit to fit inside. I trimmed the side pieces along the bottom edge so I didn't mess up the lacing holes.
I painted around the inside seams and along all the edges of the shoe and any other parts that the cream matboard showed through.
and then I fit the lining pieces inside - being sure to match up the lacing holes. On my finished shoe - you can't even see the lining! (but I know it's there!!??!) The papers are from Paper Stash - Regions Beyond.
I colored a piece of Crinkle Ribbon with Black Soot and Spiced Marmalade Distress Markers. Tim showed us this technique on his July Tag. Then I spritzed it with water so the colors blended.
I crunched up the ribbon and dried it with my heat tool.
I threaded the ribbon through a large eye needle (that I made sure would fit through the hole before forcing it!) and laced up the shoe - being careful when I pulled the ribbon through the holes that they didn't tear.
Then I started preparing things I wanted to put on my shoe. I colored the Crossbones and Oddities Spider by dropping Espresso Alcohol Ink on them - purposely not covering them completely so some of the silver still showed.
I dabbed Espresso and Butterscotch Alcohol ink along with Blending Solution on this Oddities word tag.
I filled the shoe with orange/black/white basket shred to hold the tongue of the shoe up. I folded a piece of cool spider web ribbon in half and stuck it into the shoe against the back, I added the spider to the web with a jump ring (see it there?!) I backed the ephemera moon to a piece of black card stock and stuck it into the back of the shoe on a Memo Pin. I glued the web to the back of the moon to help keep the web up. The ephemera skeleton is just sitting on the edge of the shoe.
I used Alpha Parts/Newsprint to spell out BOO on one side of my shoe. I adhered it with Multi Medium.
and with a 'nod' to the fact it's supposed to be a baby shoe - I spelled out 'mummy' on the other side (a little double entendre!) Since the letters are black - I rubbed some Brushed Pewter Distress Spray Stain over them with my finger so they stood out a bit better against the black shoe.
I attached the Oddities word charm to the lacing with a Loop Pin and adhered the Crossbones and Ephemera 31 with Multi Medium.
I really love how my Halloween shoe came out - I think it will be a fun decoration for my kitchen windowsill! My little shoe measures approx. 1 3/4w"x4d"x2h" - perfect size for a little party favor.
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Every day, while I drive to and from work, I have the same nightmare: What if the traffic police officers followed a work routine similar to that of other government employees? What would happen if the fine women managing traffic at Tripureshwor decided to take a long tea break? And what if the police officers at Gaushala chowk decided to register their attendance and then take their wives on a shopping spree? Traffic in Kathmandu would definitely come to a halt. Drivers would no doubt fight each other and all hell would break loose. This article, thus, is a salute to all the hardworking men and women who have been holding the most difficult job in our Capital city—managing road traffic.
Our traffic lights never work. The solar panels intended to power them have gathered dust. The drivers do not care. Everyone is in a hurry, even pedestrians. No one wants to wait. We have run out of patience—no one bothers to stop, look, and go; everyone just wants to just go, go, go. The traffic police continue to do their job with what little resources they have. And they seem to manage just fine. If only we civilians acted our part just as fine as them.
One of my colleagues once updated his Facebook status saying he was tired of Nepali people complaining. Pardon me, dear colleague, but I am about to do the same—complain. Once upon a time, there was a time when everyone drove stress-free in Kathmandu and dreaded nothing else other than the infamous. Well, Kalanki is history now—and the history of this infamous traffic jam has been successfully replicated in almost every junction inside Kathmandu city.
Who is to blame here? Do we put the blame on the traffic signals that never function? Or on the banks whose loans made it possible to storm the roads for 99 percent of the four- and two-wheel owners? Or the increasing number of pedestrians waiting on each side of the roads? Or do we blame the widened roads?
Roads are bad. There are too many vehicles, pedestrians, bike riders, and too few traffic controllers. Ah, the poor traffic police. Theirs is the only job I would not want to take up even if I was racked with hunger. To deal with both air and sound pollution is a war in itself that our traffic police are brave enough to fight. The harsh rays of the sun have faded their uniforms. They look dirty, tired, and often irritated. Just imagine standing in the middle of thousands of honking vehicles, all on the verge of running into each other repeatedly.
Well, as I said before, I have decided to blame myself for the utter nuisance we create for ourselves in our roads. If only we were not in a hurry. If only we thought of letting the other vehicle pass before us, just for once. If only we did not park at our sole convenience, wreaking havoc on other drivers. If only we drove in our lanes. If only we acted in a civilised manner. If only we respected authority. If only we loved our country a little more.
Tomorrow, while you are on the road, do your bit. Relax, do not rush, but do not miss the traffic signal. I am sure there are many like us who want to do their bit but then get carried away—especially the little boys behind the wheels of microbuses. They are rogues, I tell you. But that's all they know, they didn't need to learn the basics to be a driver. All they had to do was accelerate, manoeuvre, and hit the brakes. Eureka, everyone can drive.
Yes, if only the traffic department decided to spend wisely and strategically. Many roads would be better off if they were one-way streets. If only the traffic signals functioned routinely. And, well, if only we—the drivers—respected the situation and took control of it. So next time when you decide to argue with the traffic police or hit the gas until you emerge a winner, remember that traffic police are humans too. Remember they are on the road 24/7, come Dashain or Tihar, rain or shine. They do not get long lunch breaks neither can they fake attendance. Try and be a little civilised if you can—it is completely okay to turn up a couple of minutes late.


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In further tests to see how useful the R09 is for recording underwater I tried two different approaches today. We decided to go for a quick swim because it was about 30 degrees. On the way we made a brief stop at a small area with lots of rocks and I got some quick samples of digging and using a pick on the rocks. At the beach I once again wanted to try the R09 in the water. First off I put it in a heavy plastic waterproof satchel. I wasn't sure how well sound would transfer through the heavy plastic. The pouch was well sealed and I had no problem diving with the unit and swimming through waves. No water got in. Next I tried a small zip lock sandwich bag for the sake of comparison. I think a little water may have gotten in, or it might have just been my wet hands leaving some damp on the unit, either way there was no problem with either setup.
When I got home and compared the recordings there were several notable things. In both cases I had the recording level set to absolute minimum, but even with this the levels peaked out quite often. It seems that being in surf or infact any decent wave is just too much for the unit to cope with. There wasn't a huge amount of difference in the quality of the two recordings. The both peaked out when waves hit, then there was a sweet spot just under the water where they captured some nice wave movement, but once they got deeper both units seemed to not capture much of anything. It looks like the subtleties of deeper water currents are not being transferred through the plastic.
I will need to analyse further what bits sound useful and see if I can try and do another session to grab some usable material. This is all very much trial and error at this stage, but it is a good way of understanding the limitations of the equipment under these circumstances.
I was also lucky enough today to have our next door neighbour outside working on one of his cars. Lu owns a 1983 Mazda RX7 series 3 with a series 5 engine in it, and he was flushing out the radiator getting it ready for a hill climb race next month. Lu also owns a 1956 Chevy as well as an old BSA motorbike and a Harley. Today I got to record the RX7.
Cars will continue to be a challenge, because you really need to have them in a studio up on rollers so you can record a constant sample in each gear etc. But while that is not possible I will continue to gather as much material as I can. I plan on going to the hill climb competition to record Lu's car as he races as well as, as many others as I can.


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House Damage Caused By Hail Storms
Don't attempt to protect your property during a hailstorm -- you could be injured.
1 Install Windows on a Home With Aluminum Siding
2 Replace T1-11 Siding on a Shed
3 Where Is the Soffit on a House?
4 Pick a Colored Roof Shingle
California sees its fair share of inclement weather, and hail storms are not unheard of in the coastal areas. Even if hail is rare in your area, it can still cause significant damage to your house. These falling lumps of ice can range from the size of a small pea to the size of a softball and can cause property damage in a number of ways.
Hail can cause minor to major roof problems. It is often difficult to detect roof damage from hail -- in fact, you may only notice it after you discover other damage, such as leaks. Metal roofs will sometimes show dings and dents, but it may be difficult to recognize hail damage on shingled or flat roofs. You might not be able to see roof damage, such as missing or fractured shingles, from the ground, so you'll need to take a closer look to assess the damage. Look for "bruises" on roof shingles after a driving hail storm -- small dark spots where the hail knocked off the shingle's granules. While some hail damage is simply cosmetic, you should replace missing or significantly damaged shingles as soon as possible.
Window Damage
Hail storms can cause broken windows in your house, which in turn exposes the interior of your home to the elements. Reaching speeds of up to 100 miles per hour by the time they hit the ground, large pieces of hail can break through window and door glass and cause property damage as well as injury. During a hail storm, stay away from the windows, and cover any broken windows as soon as possible after the storm is over to protect your home from water damage.
Siding Damage
Wind-driven hail can shred and split to your house's siding. Much of the hail damage done to siding is cosmetic, but more severe damage can cause cracks and leaks. Closely inspect your siding after a hail storm. If your house is painted, rather than sided, the hail can peel the paint and expose the wood underneath. Exposed wood, when left to the elements, can rot. These areas should be painted as soon as possible to avoid further damage.
Other Damage
A driving hailstorm can cause damage to your air conditioning unit. Large pieces of hail can harm the fins on your unit, which in turn restricts air flow and impedes function. Chimneys and flue vents are also susceptible to damage from hail storms, though dents from hail are often cosmetic and do not hinder them from working properly.
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Study for Portrait of Van Gogh III
Oil and sand on canvas
78 ⅛ x 56 ⅛ in. (198.4 x 142.5 cm)
Specific Date and Location
Painted March 1957
Alley 130
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
'Francis Bacon', Hanover Gallery, London, 21 March 1957 - 26 April 1957 (13)
'Francis Bacon', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 11 January 1963 - 18 February 1963 (40)
'Francis Bacon', Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 18 October 1963 - 12 January 1964
'Francis Bacon', Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 24 January 1964 - 23 February 1964 (39)
'Francis Bacon Retrospektive', Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 12 June 1987 - 12 September 1987 (10)
'Francis Bacon: Paintings', Central House of the Artists, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 23 September 1988 - 06 November 1988 (6)
'Francis Bacon', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 12 October 1989 - 07 January 1990
'Francis Bacon', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 11 February 1990 - 29 April 1990
'Francis Bacon', Museum of Modern Art, New York, 24 May 1990 - 28 August 1990 (19)
'Van Gogh by Bacon', Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, 05 July 2002 - 06 October 2002 (unnum.)
'New Images of Man', Museum of Modern Art, New York, 30 September 1959 - 29 November 1959
'New Images of Man', Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 09 January 1960 - 07 February 1960 (15)
'Francis Bacon - Hyman Bloom', Art Galleries of the University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 30 October 1960 - 11 December 1960 (Bacon 9)
'Critic's Choice: Art Since World War II', Providence Art Club, Rhode Island, 31 March 1965 - 24 April 1965 (4)
'International Expressionism, Part I', Marlborough-Gerson Gallery Inc, New York, April - May 1968 (2)
'Inaugural Exhibition', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 04 October 1974 - 15 September 1975 (unnum.)
'Westkunst: Zeitgenossische Kunst seit 1939', Rheinhallen Messegelande, Cologne, 30 June 1981 - 16 August 1981 (489)
'La grande parade: Highlights in Painting after 1940', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 15 December 1984 - 15 April 1985 (6)
'Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits', Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 12 March 2000 - 04 June 2000 (219)
'Encounters: New Art from Old', The National Gallery, London, 14 June 2000 - 17 September 2000 (18)
'Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits', Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 02 July 2000 - 24 September 2000
'Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits', Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 22 October 2000 - 14 January 2001
New Images of Man Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art 9 Jan. 1960-7 Feb. 1960; New York: Museum of Modern Art 30 Sep. 1959-29 Nov. 1959; exh cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1959). pp. 30-31; ill. p. 33
Norbert Lynton, 'London Letter: Bacon, Davie, Kokoschka' (: Art International, 1962). ill. p. 69 (b&w)
Francis Bacon (65 works), New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 18 Oct. 1963-12 Jan. 1964; Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago 24 Jan. 1964-23 Feb. 1964; exh cat. (New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1963). p. 13; ill. No. 39, p. 54 (b&w)
John Russell, Francis Bacon, Art in Progress (London: Methuen, 1964). ill. unpaged (b&w)
Ronald Alley, John Rothenstein, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné and Documentation (London: Thames & Hudson, New York: Viking Press, 1964). No. 130; pp. 102, 110, 111, 116, 272; ill. No. 130, unpaged,
Francis Bacon (108 works), Paris: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais 26 Oct. 1971-10 Jan. 1972; Düsseldorf: Kunsthalle 7 Mar. 1972-7 May. 1972; exh cat. (Paris: Centre national d'art contemporain, 1971). p. 18
Lorenza Trucchi, Francis Bacon, trans. by John Shepley (London: Thames & Hudson, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1976). pp. 10, 14; ill. No. 54, unpaged
Hugh M. Davies, Francis Bacon: The Early and Middle Years, 1928-1958 (London and New York: Garland Publishing, 1978). pp. 69, 118, 155-163, 170; ill. No. 123, unpaged (b&w)
Francis Bacon (125 works), London: Tate Gallery 22 May. 1985-18 Aug. 1985; Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie 19 Oct. 1985-5 Jan. 1986; Berlin: Nationalgalerie 7 Feb. 1986-31 Mar. 1986; exh cat. (London: Tate Gallery in assoc. with Thames & Hudson, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985). p. 26
British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement London: Royal Academy of Arts 15 Jan. 1987-5 Apr. 1987; exh cat. (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1986). p. 420
Hugh M. Davies, Sally Yard, Francis Bacon, Modern Masters series (New York: Abbeville Press, 1986). p. 35; ill. No. 38, p. 36 (b&w)
Francis Bacon (59 works), Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution 12 Oct. 1989-7 Jan. 1990; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 11 Feb. 1990-29 Apr. 1990; New York: Museum of Modern Art 24 May. 1990-28 Aug. 1990; exh cat. (Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, London: Thames & Hudson, 1990). p. 20; ill. No. 19, unpaged
Ernst van Alphen, Francis Bacon and the Loss of Self, Essays in Art and Culture Series (London: Reaktion Books, 1992). pp. 143-144; ill. No. 74, p. 131
Victor Willing, ''Icarus or the Walking-Wounded'' [The late Victor Willing wrote down these personal memories of Francis Bacon in 1985, shortly before his death.]5:3, Autumn. (: Modern Painters, , pp. 69-71 1992) ill. p. 71 (b&w)
Michel Archimbaud, Francis Bacon: In Conversation with Michel Archimbaud (London: Phaidon Press 2010, 1993; repr.). p. 177
Andrew Sinclair, Francis Bacon: His Life and Violent Times (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993). pp. 131-132
Figurabile: Francis Bacon Venice: Museo Correr 13 Jun. 1993-10 Oct. 1993; exh cat. (Milan: Electa, 1993). p. 110
John Russell, Francis Bacon, World of Art series, Revised and updated edn. (London: Thames & Hudson, 1993). pp. 51-52, 96, 103
Daniel Farson, The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon (London: Vintage, 1994). p. 89
José Maria Faerna, Bacon, trans. by Wayne Finke, Great Modern Masters (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995). p. 16
Wieland Schmied, Francis Bacon: Commitment and Conflict, trans. by John Ormrod (Munich and New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1996). pp. 87-88; ill. No. 104, p. 88 (b&w)
Christophe Domino, Francis Bacon: 'Taking Reality by Surprise', New Horizons series (London: Thames & Hudson, 1997). pp. 62-63, 125; ill. p. 63
Francis Bacon in Dublin (45 works), Dublin: Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art 1 Jun. 2000-31 Aug. 2000; exh cat. (London: Thames & Hudson in assoc. with Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2000). p. 68
David Sylvester, Looking Back at Francis Bacon (London: Thames & Hudson, 2000). p. 88
Andrew Brighton, Francis Bacon, British Artists (London: Tate Publishing, 2001). p. 58
Francis Bacon: Caged, Uncaged (48 works, 62 items of studio material), Porto: Fundação de Serralves 24 Jan. 2003-20 Apr. 2003; exh cat. (Porto: Fundação de Serralves, 2003). pp. 60-63
Luigi Ficacci, Bacon: 1909-1992, Taschen Basic Art Series (Cologne and London: Taschen, 2003). p. 92
Martin Hammer, Bacon and Sutherland (New Haven: Yale University Press for Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005). p. 52
Francis Bacon: Studying Form (37 works), London: Faggionato Fine Arts 9 Feb. 2005-15 Apr. 2005; exh cat. (London: The Estate of Francis Bacon, London: Faggionato Fine Arts, 2005). p. 57
Margarita Cappock, Francis Bacon's Studio (London: Merrell, 2005). p. 148
Francis Bacon: Portraits and Heads (54 works), Edinburgh: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 4 Jun. 2005-4 Sep. 2005; Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle 13 Oct. 2005-15 Jan. 2006; exh cat. (Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland in association with the British Council, 2005). pp. 45, 94
Francis Bacon in the 1950s (55 works), Norwich: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 26 Sep. 2006-10 Dec. 2006; Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum 29 Jan. 2007-15 Apr. 2007; Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery 5 May. 2007-30 Jul. 2007; exh cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press in assoc. with the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2006). pp. 50-52, 166, 168; ill. No. 22, p. 51
Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait: Essays and Interviews (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008). pp. 81, 161-163, 260; ill. unpaged
Michael Peppiatt, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma, Revised edn. (London: Constable, 2008). pp. 204, 206-207, 211, 217, 399
Francis Bacon (90 works), London: Tate Britain 11 Sep. 2008-4 Jan. 2009; exh cat. (London: Tate Publishing, 2008). pp. 53, 154-156; ill. No. 33, p. 52
Sam Hunter, Francis Bacon, Modern Masters series (Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafia, 2009). p. 15
Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon - New Studies: Centenary Essays (Göttingen: Steidl, 2009). pp. 101-102
Caravaggio Bacon (16 works), Rome: Galleria Borghese 2 Oct. 2009-24 Jan. 2010; exh cat. (Milan: Federico Motta Editore, 2009). p. 80
Anna Maria Wieland, Francis Bacon, trans. by Michael Robinson (Munich, Berlin, London and New York: Prestel Verlag, 2009). ill. p. 73
Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty (22 works, works on paper and selected archival material, illus.), Dublin: Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane 28 Oct. 2009-7 Mar. 2010; exh cat. (Göttingen: Steidl, 2009). pp. 75, 148
Francis Bacon: Five Decades (54 works), Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales 17 Nov. 2012-24 Feb. 2013; exh cat. (London: Thames & Hudson, Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2012). pp. 106, 223
Movement and Gravity: Bacon and Rodin in Dialogue (3 works), London: Ordovas 8 Feb. 2013-6 Apr. 2013; exh cat. (London: Ordovas, 2013). p. 8
Martin Hammer, Francis Bacon, Phaidon Focus (London and New York: Phaidon, 2013). pp. 10, 63, 143; ill. No. 57, p. 68
Kitty Hauser, This is Bacon (London: Laurence King Publishing, 2014). p. 42
Francis Bacon/Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone (20 works), Oxford: Ashmolean Museum 12 Sep. 2013-5 Jan. 2014; exh cat. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2014). p. 42
Francis Bacon: Late Paintings (18 works), New York: Gagosian Gallery 7 Nov. 2015-12 Dec. 2015; exh cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2015). p. 174
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Martin Harrison, Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné (London: The Estate of Francis Bacon, 2016). pp. 13, 156, 460, 474, 480, 486, 498, 500, 502, 504, 508, 510, 526, 528; ill. p. 501


As regular readers of this site will probably be aware, we're filling the gaps between the end of last season and the start of next season with some great football videos from the past. This evening, we feature Arsenal. One of the great institutions of English football, Arsenal hold a record that will probably never be broken as members of the top division of English football, having been members of it since 1919, but they haven't always been completely successful during this time.
The years from 1972 to 1989 were pretty barren for Arsenal in the league, but they still put in some great performances during this time and we've selected six matches (starting a year earlier, in 1971) from the Arsenal archive. Prior to 1971, it had been nineteen years since Arsenal last appeared at Wembley in an FA Cup Final – their two League Cup final appearances there in 1968 and 1969 against Leeds United are best not mentioned here – and in the semi-final of the 1970/71 FA Cup they played Stoke City at Hillsborough. We then skip almost six years to the end of 1976. Arsenal had spent a club record £330,000 on striker Malcolm McDonald from Newcastle United, and the television cameras were present to see his first match against his old club.
Next up is a match from the start of the following season against a Nottingham Forest team that would end the season as the champions of England, and this is followed up with a home match against West Bromwich Albion from the 1980/81 season. Listen out for the slightly unusual sound of Desmond Lynam commentating on that match for the BBC. Our fifth match is from 1985 and sees Arsenal travel to Stamford Bridge for a match on a pitch resembling a cabbage patch against a Chelsea side that had just returned to the First Division after several seasons away. Last but by no means least, we have a League Cup semi-final match from White Hart Lane in 1987 which saw Arsenal needing a win to book a place at Wembley for the first time in seven years. It's a match that has long since passed into Arsenal folklore.


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