Joey was telling me about Army Boots while we pushed our bikes up Conrad hill. How she had fallen in love with one of the American soldiers that had come to Rupert back in World War II. How he took her out dancing, and told her he would marry her, and be with her forever, and all that stuff. How she fought with her parents on being with him, and how everyone called her names for hanging with the Army men, let alone the Americans. How her Dad used to hit her, and lock her out of the house, and how sometimes she would be found asleep on the stoop of her house. She was sure positive this love was one of them movie loves, and soon she would be taken back to the U.S. and be Mrs. Whatever his name was. But once the war was over the Americans were gone so fast that she barely made it to the dock to see his ship set off in the harbour. Joey said he heard that she waded out in the chuck- she was gonna swim after him, she was sure he just got whisked away so fast that he just forgot, and once he saw her from one of the port holes he'd stop the boat and bring her on board. He never did. The other men on the deck laughed at her, called her names, and threw things at her like she was no one. Some guy, Joey said he heard, threw a pair of boots at her- shoelaces tied together. They hit her and she dropped in the water face down and someone had to jump down and lift her up. Her eyes were deep black and her sockets red with tears, and salt water. The story was she grabbed them boots that hit her, and with her dress clinging to her like skin, she walked home. She used the boots to smash the window on the door of her parents house, and never left. When we reached the top of the hill, Joey and I jumped on our bikes and coasted down, and turned on 9th Ave and he stopped, pointed at a small place, with a large fence. It was where Army Boots loved. He said she had land mines in her yard, and never came out- not ever. That she never loved again, and when her parents died, never went to their funeral, and just stayed home with them horrible boots that hit her sitting under her bed- waiting for that American to take her back. We rode off to to Henry's B-Y Market for a Rocket Popsicle and I was sure I saw the curtains move. Sure of it as the nose on my face. I didn't tell Joey, though. He was already on to other pressing matters, and soon enough so was I- like how Darth Vader got burned, and whether the Dukes of Hazard would be a rerun this week. But I always remembered Army Boots and her story- even if it might not be true, I told it to everyone I know so maybe it could be. And maybe, I hoped, he did come back to her. Maybe.


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Q: Installing scikits.samplerate fails I'd like to use "scikits.samplerate", but installation fails.
I'm using Windows10 (64 Bits) for Python 3.51 with Anaconda.
Firstly, I followed this instruction:
https://scikits.appspot.com/samplerate
>pip install scikits.samplerate Collecting scikits.samplerate   Using cached scikits.samplerate-0.3.3.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    SamplerateInfo:
      libraries samplerate not found in c:\users\username\anaconda3\lib
      libraries samplerate not found in C:\
      libraries samplerate not found in c:\users\username\anaconda3\libs
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "scikits\samplerate\setup.py", line 15, in configuration
        sf_config = sf_info.get_info(2)
      File "c:\users\username\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\system_info.py", line 568, in get_info
        raise self.notfounderror(self.notfounderror.__doc__)
    numpy.distutils.system_info.NotFoundError: Some third-party program or library is not found.

    During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-9sjnkaf5\scikits.samplerate\setup.py", line 74, in <module>
        classifiers = CLASSIFIERS,
      File "c:\users\username\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\core.py", line 135, in setup
        config = configuration()
      File "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-9sjnkaf5\scikits.samplerate\setup.py", line 59, in configuration
        config.add_subpackage(DISTNAME)
      File "c:\users\username\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\misc_util.py", line 1002, in add_subpackage
        caller_level = 2)
      File "c:\users\username\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\misc_util.py", line 971, in get_subpackage
        caller_level = caller_level + 1)
      File "c:\users\username\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\numpy\distutils\misc_util.py", line 908, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
        config = setup_module.configuration(*args)
      File "scikits\samplerate\setup.py", line 20, in configuration
        [samplerate].""")
    numpy.distutils.system_info.NotFoundError: SRC (http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/) library not found.  Directories to search
    for the libraries can be specified in the site.cfg file, in section
    [samplerate].

    ---------------------------------------- Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-9sjnkaf5\scikits.samplerate\

... Next, I followed this instruction:
https://anaconda.org/hcc/scikits.samplerate
>conda install -c hcc scikits.samplerate=0.3.3 Using Anaconda Cloud api site https://api.anaconda.org Fetching package metadata: ...... Solving package specifications: . Error:  Package missing in current win-64 channels:
  - scikits.samplerate 0.3.3*

You can search for this package on anaconda.org with

    anaconda search -t conda scikits.samplerate 0.3.3*

... so, I serached:
[Anaconda3] C:\Users\username>anaconda search -t conda scikits↲ Using Anaconda Cloud api site https://api.anaconda.org↲ Run 'anaconda show <USER/PACKAGE>' to get more details:↲ Packages:↲
     Name                      |  Version | Package Types   | Platforms↲
     ------------------------- |   ------ | --------------- | ---------------↲
     HCC/scikits.samplerate    |    0.3.3 | conda           | linux-64↲
                                          : A python module for high quality audio resampling↲
     anaconda/scikits-image    |    0.7.1 | conda           | linux-64, win-32, win-64, linux-32, osx-64↲
     davidbgonzalez/scikits.talkbox |    0.2.5 | conda           | linux-64↲
     desilinguist/scikits-bootstrap |    0.3.1 | conda           | linux-64, osx-64↲
     krisvanneste/scikits.timeseries |   0.91.3 | conda           | win-64↲
     lukepfister/scikits.cuda  | master_2016.2 | conda           | linux-64↲
                                          : Python interface to GPU-powered libraries↲
     menpo/scikits.sparse      |      0.2 | conda           | linux-64, osx-64↲
     miguelalexanderdiaz/scikits.cuda |  0.5.0b1 | conda           | linux-64↲
                                          : Python interface to GPU-powered libraries↲
     poppy-project/scikits.samplerate |    0.3.3 | conda           | linux-armv7l↲
                                          : Simple Hamming Marker Detection using OpenCV↲
     rgrout/scikits.bootstrap  |    0.3.2 | conda           | linux-64, osx-64↲
                                          : Bootstrap confidence interval estimation routines for SciPy.↲ Found 10 packages↲ ↲ [Anaconda3] C:\Users\username>anaconda show poppy-project/scikits.samplerate↲ Using Anaconda Cloud api site https://api.anaconda.org↲ Name:    scikits.samplerate↲ Summary: Simple Hamming Marker Detection using OpenCV↲ Access:  public↲ Package Types: conda↲ Versions:↲    + 0.3.3↲ ↲ To install this package with conda run:↲
     conda install --channel https://conda.anaconda.org/poppy-project scikits.samplerate↲ ↲ [Anaconda3] C:\Users\username>conda install
--channel https://conda.anaconda.org/poppy-project scikits.samplerate↲ Using Anaconda Cloud api site https://api.anaconda.org↲ Fetching package metadata: ......↲ Solving package specifications: .↲ Error:  Package missing in current win-64 channels:↲
  - scikits.samplerate↲ ↲ You can search for this package on anaconda.org with↲ ↲
    anaconda search -t conda scikits.samplerate↲

... I have done what I was told, but still it fails.
Does anyone have a solution?
Is this really installable?

A: I am not sure if this would work, but glad if it does. Have you tried to edit the site.cfg file and try the installation again.This is what line 20 error in your question says as well.
The user here has done it on Ubuntu, maybe a similar approach works for Windows as well.
http://msnoise.org/doc/installation.html
You first need to install the SRC library:

sudo apt-get install libsamplerate0 libsamplerate0-dev
This python package will probably be the most tricky to install. If you are lucky, you can just

pip install scikits.samplerate
On my Ubuntu 12.04, this results in an error because the SRC library path is not found. The reason is that the setup searches SRC in /usr/lib and not in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu where the library is actually present. To install, you need to download the archive from pypi and edit some configuration file:

wget https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/scikits.samplerate/scikits.samplerate-0.3.3.tar.gz#md5=96c8d8ba3aa95a9db15994f78792efb4
tar -xvf scikits.samplerate-0.3.3.tar.gz
cd scikits.samplerate-0.3.3
then edit the site.cfg example file and insert the following lines:

[samplerate]
library_dirs=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
include_dirs=/usr/include
To know where the SRC library is on you machine:

sudo dpkg -L libsamplerate0
sudo dpkg -L libsamplerate0-dev
then, build and install:

python setup.py build
python setup.py install

A: Firstly, notice I used UNIX system, not Windows.
I had same/similar error:

...numpy.distutils.system_info.NotFoundError: SRC
  (http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/) library not found.  Directories to
  search
      for the libraries can be specified in the site.cfg file, in section...

I followed link given in it, found download site:
http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/download.html

*

*downloaded sources,

*compiled and installed them

*then just installed scikits.samplerate using pip

In Windows it might be more difficult (i haven't tried it!), but on the site there is a link to instructions for Windows: http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/win32.html

A: For Centos7 when I had that error I did:
yum install libsamplerate-devel libsamplerate

A: For Windows I am using Miniconda2 and in order to get librosa to work installed ffmpeg using this command:
conda install -c conda-forge ffmpeg

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Background: The normal external ear is a complex three-dimensional structure and, as such, reconstruction of the ear is a demanding undertaking. A new era in ear reconstruction began in 1959 when Tanzer introduced his multistage autologous rib cartilage technique and it gained wide acceptance from the surgeons. The aim of the present study was reconstruction of pinna in microtia cases using esthetic component and to study its surgical outcome.
Methods: A prospective longitudinal study was conducted in the department of plastic, reconstructive and facio-maxillary surgery, Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College, Salem, for a period of 2 years. A total of 26 patients with microtia were included in our study. The reconstruction of microtia was done by the following steps; a. first stage – removal of the rib cartilage and framework implantation; b. second stage - rotation of the ear lobule by Z plasty incision; c. third stage– creation of cephaloauricular sulcus; d. fourth stage - tragus construction and concha excavation. All the socio-demographic details and the clinical parameters related to the reconstructed ear were measured and tabulated.
Results: The mean age of the study subjects was 14.3 years with a male: female ratio of 2:1. Based on the Tanzer classification all the patients were either in grade IIA or grade III of microtia with 35% of the patients had the hearing loss exceeding 40db. The mean length, breadth, degree of protrusion and degree of inclination of the reconstructed ear were 58.5mm, 34.6mm, 25o and 13o respectively. The most common complication reported in present study subjects was malposition of the reconstructed pinna (21.7%) followed by hematoma infection (8.6%) and hidden helix. Post-operatively the mean hearing loss was only 25db.
Conclusions: The esthetic results of each of these techniques can be excellent when performed by an experienced surgeon in appropriately selected patients.
Naki H. Reconstruction of microtia with a contour accentuated framework and supplemental coverage. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1986;78:604.
Brent B. Auricular repair with autogenous rib cartilage grafts: two decades of experience with 600 cases. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1992;90:355.
Chauhan DS, Guruprasad Y. Auricular Reconstruction of Congenital Microtia Using Autogenous Costal Cartilage: Report of 27 Cases. J Maxillofac Oral Surg. 2012;11(1):47-52.
Tanzer RC. Total reconstruction of the external ear. Plast Reconstr Surg Transplant Bull. 1959;23:1-15.
Brent B. Auricular repair with autogenous rib cartilage grafts: Two decades of experience with 600 cases. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1992;90:355-74.
Nagata S. A new method of total reconstruction of the auricle for microtia. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1993;92(2):187-201.
Marx H. Die Missbildungen des ohres. In: Denker AK, editor. Handbuch der Spez Path Anatomie Histologie. Berlin: Springer; 1926: 131.
Narges Baluch, Satoru Nagata, Chul Park, Gordon H Wilkes, John Reinisch, Leila Kasrai and David Fisher. Plast Surg (Oakv). 2014;22(1):39–43.
Converse JM. Construction of the auricle in unilateral congenital microtia. Transactions Am Academy Ophthalmol Otolaryngol. 1968;72:995-1013.
Tanzer RC. Total reconstruction of the auricle. The evolution of a plan of treatment. Plastic Reconstructive Surg. 1971;47:523-33.
Brent B. The correction of microtia with autogenous cartilage grafts: I. The classic deformity. Plastic Reconstructive Surg. 1980;66:1-12.
Nagata S. Modification of the stages in total reconstruction of the auricle: part III. Grafting the three-dimensional costal cartilage framework for small concha-type microtia. Plastic Reconstructive Surg. 1994;93(2):243-53.
Firmin F. Ear reconstruction in cases of typical microtia. Personal experience based on 352 microtic ear corrections. Scandinavian J Plastic Reconstructive Surg Hand Surg. 1998;32(1):35–47.
Nagata S, Brent BD. Modification of the stages in total reconstruction of the auricle: part IV. Ear elevation for the constructed auricle. Plastic Reconstructive Surg. 1994;93(2):254-68.
Brent B. The pediatrician's role in caring for patients with congenital microtia and atresia. Pediatr Ann. 1999;28:374.
Yotsuyanag T, Yamashital K, Sawada Y. Reconstruction of congenital and acquired earlobe deformity. Clin Plast Surg. 2000;29:249.
Cao Y, Vacanti JP, Paige KT. Transplantation of chondrocytes utilizing polymer-cell construct to produce tissue-engineered cartilage in the shape of human ear. Plast Reconstr Surg. 1997;100:297.
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Q: Is there a way to end a recursive method when a certain condition is met in Swift? I have a function which returns me a value and its size that can set on calculative label width. After met certain condition I want to stop further procedure of recursion function like break.
func getLength(value: Int, font: UIFont, viewFrame: CGRect) -> (width:CGFloat, text:String) {
    let width: CGFloat!
     var val = value

    let size = String(format:"%d",value).size(attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: font])
    if size.width+10 > viewFrame.size.width {
        width = viewFrame.size.width-10
        val = val/10
        _ = getLength(value: val, font: font, viewFrame: viewFrame)
        return (0.0 , "")

    } else {
        width = size.width+10
        return (width,String(format:"%d+",val))
    }
}

A: When using recursive function you should return value on both condition
 func getLength(value: Int, font: UIFont, viewFrame: CGRect) -> (width:CGFloat, text:String) {
        let width: CGFloat!
         var val = value

        let size = String(format:"%d",value).size(attributes: [NSFontAttributeName: font])
        if size.width+10 > viewFrame.size.width {
            width = viewFrame.size.width-10
            val = val/10
            return getLength(value: val, font: font, viewFrame: viewFrame)

        } else {
            width = size.width+10
            return (width,String(format:"%d+",val))
        }
    }

A: Just return a value in the function rather than recursively calling the function again. That will stop the recursion, you'll return up the call stack, and return a value. In your case the recursion looks pointless, since you always return (0.0, "") if your if statement evaluates as true.


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On "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
From The Dispatch:
The film is never for a moment as good as any of the original trilogy (and that includes the unfairly maligned "Temple of Doom"), but it's still a blast. Instead of the adventure serials that the original trilogy paid homage to, "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is more in the vein of the sci-fi B movies that were popular during the time the film is set. It is a much more outlandish film than its predecessors, even if its central premise isn't ultimately any more ridiculous than the supernatural mythologies of the originals. However, there are several moments where the film seems to jump the tracks (Mutt's Tarzan moment during the jungle chase is a bit much), and Ray Winstone's character is horribly underdeveloped, as is often the case with the plot, which becomes increasingly muddled as the film goes on.
Click here to read my full review.
Bravo! Fantastic review Matt, I think we had a v. similar take on the film, which was really good and I plan on seeing it again sometime as well.
Why thank you Nicky!
Great minds think alike, eh? ;-)
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It's Aiming for Consensus in a NON-consensus World Thing
"Trigger warning: the event conducted just beyond this sign may contain triggering and/or sensitive material. Sexual violence, sexual assault, and abuse are some of the topics mentioned within the event. If you feel triggered, please know there are resources to help you." @Hofstra University, posted at the doors of the auditorium....just before the first Presidential debate...last week
from Bloomberg...quoting Ding Shuang (who worked at IMF 1997-2010) --
"The consensus in policy-making circles was that more trade meant better economic growth, but the benefits weren't shared equitably, so now we see a round of anti-globalization, anti-free trade...globalization will stall for the moment, until we can find a way to share those benefits."
here's one more just to get things started --
"The scientific consensus is in and the argument is now over. If you do not believe in climate change, you do not believe in facts, or in science or empirical truths and therefore, in my humble opinion, should not be allowed to hold public office." actor Leonardo DiCaprio
so first of all -- regarding this "consensus"...this thing called a collective opinion, and such. Newsflash: there is none...and that goes for many, many things, Leonardo...and to all in your company of elitists, inside or outside Hollywood.
and regarding this thing called appeasement to all and to all a good night, a one-size, fits all, pacifier of offenses large and small....enough already. Even the University of Chicago agrees with me.
We had utopia, it was called The Garden of Eden.
And look how well that turned out ...being the fault of our own starry eyed humanity, we proved royally unfit; suddenly, where there was once only good to be found, now there were two. From then on, good would share the world with evil, and nothing would ever be the same again.
Pleasing everyone in the uber-sensitive environment we've made for ourselves is now next to impossible.
And trying to divvy up the world into equal portions of shared benefits -- as if the scope of wealth and resources, development and ambition, education and population, were all non-starters -- is futile, if not prelude to committing total fraud against the globe.
All things being equal, we're not all the same. But one thing's for certain -- this attempt to coddle everyone at the same time is ludicrous. And it's giving me heart palpitations.
Here's another good one (from the same Bloomberg piece, linked above);
...Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics at Oxford Economics in Hong Kong and a former IMF official. "If we lose consensus on what kind of a world we want to have, the world will probably be worse off."
What kind of world?
Looking at the current run of clashes and conflicts, recognizing the clear and present danger of a lack of consensus with the best interests for all, of course, in mind -- including, but not limited to -- ISIS in the Middle East (and lone wolves stationed throughout the world), Russian forces on the move, North Korea playing with fire, China testing the free world, free trade and free waters, liberals ridiculing conservative thought every single bloody day -- making every effort through the mainstream media and social media to shut down anything and everything that doesn't sound like leftist consensus....
This girl just has to wonder...hello! Consensus is in the eyes of the beholder of a pipe bomb, I mean dream.
What kind of world we want to have, he says....seriously, Louis Kuijs? (love the name, by the way)
We can't even get to an easy consensus at the PTA, and you guys think we should be taking this world, wide, web view of making economic equality for all? Economic opportunity is one thing, but trying to make it all even-steven -- are you nuts?
And you say, "if we lose consensus on what kind of world we want to have" -- as if we have it right now. Earth to wonder boy Kuijs -- that is one thing I can surely say we do not have in our possession. What consensus do you speak of? ...the one coming from you and the merry band of elitists who want to corrupt and control the world by pressing a button? Not sure you guys have the right temperament or authority to do so, as things stand now. Just sayin'.
I know, me likes to poke fun.
But it's not funny.
You know what I think is beautiful?
That we DO NOT have consensus on many, many things.
By lacking in consensus, we gain insight, knowledge, greater understanding of how someone else thinks -- whether right or wrong. It's at the point of reaching "a consensus" when all of us should stop and wonder, wait a minute...what are the consequences, what are we missing, what has history taught us thus far? Is this really what we want, where we want to go, what we should do? IS it?
And then -- in that moment of consensus-itus realize that the thing we should be doing may not actually be what the consensus of some believe at all; maybe political correctness does affect outcome; just maybe history has been here before, and lays the foundation for a better course of action.
And yes -- maybe the consensus on climate change is YES, there is climate change; but the real question is whether we all believe it is man-made....or just part of the masterpiece that is this world -- a kind of climate change carousing with mother earth since the beginning of time...indeed.
And here's another angle -- and in the news thanks to one Billy BadBoyClinton. Take Obamacare -- there was only "consensus" from the left; not one republican voted for it. Not one. And now look at it..."the craziest thing ever."
And just for the record -- from the beginning, this Obamacare was planned to fail. Oh yes, go ahead and hate me, call me a racist, whatever -- it was. It was planned to fail in order to eventually get to the single payer system, and thereby seal the bad deal into another debt for eternity, adding to the long list of government un-funded liabilities (currently hundreds of trillions in the fiery hole that is hell on hybrid wheels). Obamacare was designed to break America in two; consider it just another dimension of good and evil playing with the fundamentals, resting on the ultimate goal of total transformation.
Now, before I go for today -- someone near and dear to my heart sent me a link to an article by Victor Davis Hanson; and I'm thinking not only that I like how he thinks, but may even go so far as to admit consensus between two parties without prejudice (teehee).
The thing is: consensus can change with the winds of time and on a dime -- and we are talking all things being equally man-made this time around. So without further adieu, read this from Hanson: 2016 Mirrors years that sparked world wars...here's his final two cents:
"The problem is that there is no other "someone" (especially not the United Nations or the European Union) with the requisite power and authority except the United States. But for a long time America has done more than its fair share of international policing — and its people are tired of costly dragon-slaying abroad.
The result is that at this late date, the tough medicine of restoring long-term deterrence is as almost as dangerous as the disease of continual short-term appeasement."
All things are not equal on the world stage, if ever they ever could be! (and btw, the pink hilites was all G x)
America is constantly at work, correcting wrongs of our own making, and even the wrongs we had no business being part of, if only to protect what is good -- and it's a value no man can truly quantify. As a nation, America has always been a citizenship sensitive to the needs of others, foreign and domestic, even if the resolution was a long time in the making.
Trigger warnings abound. Safe places, there are none. In reality, we must deal with reality and that includes the workings of good and evil competing for world power, or our attention, all the live long day. Our reaction to such antics is what reveals who we are and how much we care about WHAT KIND OF WORLD WE WANT TO HAVE. And that kind of world is constantly in flux -- by hoodlums and globalists sometimes looking an awful lot alike.
What I DO KNOW -- regarding things like ISIS -- they will never ever never ever come to a consensus with the western world. Never, Did I say Never? yes. never. There is no consensus there.
Man-made climate change dwellers will never see eye to eye with the Mighty God Made All things of and around the Earth believers -- as climate change comes and goes for ever and a millennium. There is no consensus there.
And regarding the globalization equalization conundrum -- clearly, consensus has not been reached.
It's a moving target: how 'bout we aim for consensus, but keep an open mind. Almost anything can happen tomorrow, and this, too, shall change.
Labels: Bloomberg, climate change, consensus, globalization, obamacare, trigger warning, Victor Davis Hanson
It's So Shines a Good Deed in a Weary World Thing
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Though you are young, you can do something significant to the world. The thing is you are gifted with so many skills that you can make use of to give value to yourself. It is possible to learn many skills nowadays because of so any online sources. You can watch videos in youtube to learn how to become someone. Remember, your goal is to turn from nobody to somebody. When you are eager to learn to improve yourself in terms of skills, you will be recognized.
You can do something being a teen. Being young doesn't mean you are incapable of becoming extraordinary. In fact, there are so many teens nowadays with brilliant minds who became inventors and scientists at their early ages. You just have to focus on what you would like to learn about.
Remember that Beatles? Or Michael Jackson? Or the Bee Gees? They started early in their careers being young musicians. During their teenage years they became famous. This is also similar to Disney talents like Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez and others.
Do not let your age be a hindrance on who you would like to become. You will be the architect of your destiny. If you will only learn to give importance to different values you are learning, you will go farther. Just be humble when you are already at the top because your relationship with the people around you is your greatest asset. You will be appreciated more by becoming an inspiration to others.


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Tony Abbott In Canada
Prime Minister Tony Abbott is in Canada, following his trip to France for the D-Day commemoration.
Abbott spoke warmly of Australian-Canadian relations and gave a brief speech at the Canadian War Museum.
At a media conference, Abbott canvassed a wide range of issues, including Canadian investment in Australia. Questioned about domestic politics, he defended his paid parental leave.
At one stage during the 18-minute media conference, Abbott inadvertently said "Canadia" before correcting himself. The slip of the tongue caused much excitement on social media.
Watch the "Canadia" slip (24s)
Listen to Abbott's media conference (18m)
Listen to Abbott's speech at the Canadian War Museum (5m)
Filed Under: Abbott, Audio, Australia, Commonwealth, Video Tagged With: Canada, Canadian War Museum, Tony Abbott
The Queen's 2013 Christmas Message
Queen Elizabeth II has delivered her annual Christmas message to the Commonwealth.
The theme of the 87-year-old monarch's televised address was "reflection". It focussed on the birth of her great-grandson and heir, Prince George, the 60th anniversary of her coronation in 1953, and looked ahead to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Commonwealth, Republic, United Kingdom, Video Tagged With: Christmas, Queen Elizabeth II
British Foreign Secretary William Hague's Howard Lecture
This is the audio of UK Foreign Secretary William Hague's Howard Lecture at the Menzies Resource Centre in Sydney.
Hague was introduced by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott. He also answered questions. Former Prime Minister John Howard gave the thank you speech. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Australia, Commonwealth, Liberal Party, United Kingdom, Video Tagged With: John Howard, Menzies Resource Centre, Tony Abbott, William Hague
Howard Lecture: Tony Abbott Introduces William Hague
This is the text and audio of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's speech to the Menzies Research Centre, in Sydney.
Abbott introduced UK Foreign Secretary William Hague who gave the John Howard Lecture. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Australia, Commonwealth, Liberal Party, United Kingdom Tagged With: John Howard, Menzies Research Centre, Tony Abbott, William Hague
AUKMIN III Communique
The third Australia-UK Ministerial Consultations were held at HMAS Watson in Sydney. This is the Joint Communique issued after the talks.
A joint press conference was held after the meeting by the Australian and UK Foreign Ministers, Kevin Rudd and William Hague, and the Defence Ministers, Stephen Smith and Liam Fox. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Australia, Commonwealth, Defence, Gillard, United Kingdom Tagged With: AUKMin, Kevin Rudd, Liam Fox, Stephen Smith, William Hague
Howard And Rudd Speak At Luncheon For Canadian Prime Minister Harper
Following the APEC Forum, a parliamentary luncheon was held for the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd both spoke at the luncheon.
Howard also announced an agreement had been reached with Canada on climate change and energy. [Read more…]
Filed Under: 2007 Federal Election, Audio, Climate Change, Commonwealth, Howard Tagged With: Canada, Kevin Rudd, Stephen Harper
John Howard's Address At Opening Of CHOGM In Nigeria
This is Prime Minister John Howard's speech at the opening of CHOGM.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is being held in Nigeria. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Commonwealth, Howard
Queen Elizabeth II's 2002 Christmas Message
This is Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth.
This is the 50th Christmas Message, since the Queen ascended to the throne in February 1952. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Commonwealth, United Kingdom Tagged With: Christmas Message, Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Mother A Great And Gracious Lady: Howard
The Prime Minister, John Howard, has paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who died yesterday at the age of 101.
Howard held a press conference in Sydney.
Listen to Howard (25s)
Transcript of Prime Minister John Howard's press conference on the death of the Queen Mother.
PRIME MINISTER: Well, ladies and gentlemen, I know that all Australians will join me in mourning the passing of a very great and gracious lady, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. It is a time of mourning but it is also very particularly a time of thanksgiving for a quite remarkable life. A life which touched three centuries and the death of The Queen Mother removes a link with events long ago which have shaped the history of this country as well as the history of the United Kingdom and many other member countries of the commonwealth. She was a person who led a quite amazing life. It was not only very long but it was also a life governed by a loyalty and tradition and commitment to service. She embodied values of old-fashioned patriotism, of stoicism, of commitment to family and commitment to nation and commitment to an ideal. It will never be forgotten that during the darkest days of World War II, beside her husband, the late King George VI, she refused to leave London during the worst of the Nazi onslaught and was constantly with her late husband encouraging and uplifting the spirits their beleaguered people. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Commonwealth, Howard, United Kingdom Tagged With: Queen Mother
Move With The Times To Remain Relevant, Queen Tells CHOGM
Australia's Head of State, the British Queen Elizabeth II, speaking in her capacity as Head of the Commonwealth, has officially opened the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Coolum, on the Sunshine Coast, in Queensland.
Listen to the Queen's speech (7m)
Listen to Don McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary-General (7m)
Listen to the opening music (16m)
Listen to Waltzing Matilda (3m)
Text of Queen Elizabeth II's speech at the opening of CHOGM.
Mr Prime Minister, Mr Secretary General, President Mbeki, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am very pleased to be with you today in Coolum. I am delighted that this meeting takes place in Australia, one of the Commonwealth's founding members. I know it was originally planned to coincide with the Centenary of Federation last year, but that is still recent enough for us to congratulate the people of this country on that major milestone in their history. May I thank you, Mr Prime Minister, for the warm welcome we have all received in Australia.
May I also express my best wishes to you, Mr Secretary General, as you embark on your important responsibilities at this your first Heads of Government Meeting in your present post, although you are of course no stranger to Commonwealth meetings. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Audio, Commonwealth, United Kingdom Tagged With: CHOGM, Coolum, Don McKinnon, Queen Elizabeth II, Waltzing Matilda
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January 1, 2021
What a year 2020 was. We closed the store to in-person browsing. We boarded up the windows briefly. We learned how to fulfill online sales at a rate we'd never seen before. We added home delivery, curbside pickup, and appointment shopping to our regular routine. We answered more phone calls than we've probably ever gotten.
Thank you to everyone who has stuck with us through these trying times. Your curiosity and thirst for knowledge have kept us going. We don't yet know what the 'next normal' will be for us, but we're heartened to know that there are so many adventurous, avid readers out there. And we're still here to help you find books to delight, inspire, and inform you.
This first newsletter of the year is a chance to both look back and look forward. We found a few minutes to reflect on our favorite books of 2020, and we're happy to tell you about some great new books coming out this month. January is perfect reading weather, you know. Make the most of the quiet winter nights, and travel through a good book. As always, we have a lot of suggestions for you.
Our booksellers' favorite books of 2020
We've made our list and checked it twice.
We love all the books, of course, but there are some we love just a little bit more than the others. They're not always the critical favorites or the big blockbusters. Some are books you'll recognize; some are the oddballs that spoke to us as readers.
Here is our idiosyncratic, highly biased list of our favorite books published in the last year.
Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; Finch by Jeff Vandermeer
"I nearly got fired at my first-ever job because I couldn't stop reading City of Saints and Madmen at the register. Ambergris is enough of a deep cut that at one time you could bring City to a Vandermeer signing and he'd look at you like excuse me, where did you find this roadkill? But finally-- the whole Gormen-ghastly, delirious, Nabokovian sprawl is back in print."
--Emily
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
"If Marlon James and the ghost of Gabriel Garcia Marquez collaborated on a feminist crime novel, it would look something like this. Melchor's characters are hustlers and whores, full of yearning and violence and loathing for the hellish world they inhabit. Male brutality--and female complicity--are rarely so fully rendered."
--Hank
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
"This book is an imagined account of the family of William Shakespeare, who reside in Warwickshire while he is off writing and producing plays in London. O'Farrell recounts in gorgeous language the passion, grief, and ultimately, reconciliation with this loss. O'Farrell's sentences have been described as having a music-like cadence that make the book pure pleasure to read. It is one of those rare books you will want to read and reread and to share with friends."
--Jean
Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing by Peter Guralnick
"A valuable addition to American music writing. Beautiful profiles of genius composers, from Chuck Berry to Merle Haggard to Willie Dixon and beyond. Guralnick is a fantastic journalist who illuminates the fierce creativity of these transcendent artists and their times. Highly recommended."
--Joe
"Please take me away from pandemics. And Osman does. He took me right to over-the-hill folks solving murders and being amusing as well. A great read. People being both smart and wise."
--Kathy
Birds of Minnesota by Robert B. Janssen
"While I read lots of cover to cover books, both fiction and nonfiction, this is the book that gave me some hope and a look forward during this bizarre year. What armchair pleasure, with its gorgeous color photos and detailed maps, it provides as I anticipate searching for some of these birds in the spring. Janssen's scholarship and dedication to his life's work to document the birds in Minnesota—where they can be found and when—just boggled my mind. I'm an amateur birder at best, but this is a great addition to my collection of guides and would be a welcome gift to birders at any level."
--Keelin
Luster by Raven Leilani
"This novel felt like a story I was being told by my closest girlfriend over glasses of wine. Leilani's prose give a unique and realistic perspective to black female sexuality, feminism, extramarital relationships, and microaggressions in modern society. Hilarious, thought-provoking, and intimate."
--Milan
A Song Below Water by Bethany Morrow
"A story of two friends, Effie and Tavia, who navigate blackness and misogyny in Portland gets an added twist when Tavia is holding a secret: She is a siren. In this magical realist novel, sirens, gargoyles, and other magical creatures roam the world but some are viewed with more suspicion and distrust than others. An allegory, while also not, for what it means to be black women coming of age while also trying to manage family trauma, culture, identity within their journey to seek safety in a society that is systematically built against you. Great for people that loved The Hate U Give or your favorite mermaid fan, A Song Below Water will make you love the characters and the worldbuilding before you've even finished the first chapter."
--Riley
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
"This is the story of the Filipino-Hawaiian Flores family. Life is a near constant struggle for Malia and Augie. But they have each other, their children, and the beautiful Big Island. With the collapse of the sugar cane industry and the declining financial condition of the family, the three children make their way to the mainland to attend university and to pursue lives there, not all happily. When tragedy revisits the family in Hawaii, they're all forced to reevaluate their beliefs and the meaning of family. This book is so gorgeously written, the story and the characters will stay with me for a long time. One of my favorites this year."
--Nick
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
"In Earthlings, Sayaka Murata takes the central theme of her hit novel Convenience Store Woman--a woman's response to societal pressure towards marriage and motherhood--and turns it up to eleven. Earthlings is raw and shocking, and yet I closed the book wanting even more. Not for the faint of heart, Earthlings is a shocking funhouse mirror held up to the modern world."
--David
New year, new books
We have the hottest new books for cold winter nights.
AVAILABLE JANUARY 5
The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr
"A new kind of epic...A grand achievement...While The Prophets' dreamy realism recalls the work of Toni Morrison...its penetrating focus on social dynamics stands out more singularly."
--Entertainment Weekly
Isaiah was Samuel's and Samuel was Isaiah's. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man--a fellow slave--seeks to gain favor by preaching the master's gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel's love, which was once so simple, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation's harmony.
The Prophets is a singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.
Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku by Natalie Goldberg
A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three lines that "make the mind leap." A good one, he said, lets the mind experience "a small sensation of space which is nothing less than God." As many spiritual practices seek to do, the haiku's spare yet acute noticing of the immediate and often ordinary grounds the reader in the pure awareness of now.
Natalie Goldberg is a delightfully companionable tour guide into this world. She highlights the history of the form, dating back to the seventeenth century; shows why masters such as Basho and Issa are so revered; discovers Chiyo-ni, an important woman haiku master; and provides insight into writing and reading haiku.
Natalie Goldberg is the author of fifteen books, including the classic bestseller Writing Down the Bones, which has changed the way writing is taught in the United States.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves--and our world today.
Saunders approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.
SIGNED COPIES AVAILABLE JANUARY 12
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
If there's one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it's that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad's in prison.
Life's not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav's got everything under control. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he's a father.
Angie Thomas is the author of the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novels The Hate U Give and On the Come Up.
Saving Justice by James Comey
James Comey might best be known as the FBI director that Donald Trump fired in 2017, but he's had a long, varied career in the law and justice system. He knows better than most just what a force for good the US justice system can be, and how far afield it has strayed during the Trump Presidency.
In his much-anticipated follow-up to A Higher Loyalty, Comey uses anecdotes and lessons from his career to show how the federal justice system works. From prosecuting mobsters as an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York in the 1980s to grappling with the legalities of anti-terrorism work as the Deputy Attorney General in the early 2000s to, of course, his tumultuous stint as FBI director beginning in 2013, Comey shows just how essential it is to pursue the primacy of truth for federal law enforcement.
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Racial Politics Make Everything Worse (posted 4/26/21)
I won't lie to you: as an inveterate optimist who always tries to find humor in the ongoing circus of human behavior, I've had a tough time writing today's column. Mostly because every time I turn on the tv or open a browser, I'm bombarded by a nearly overwhelming desire to swear at the cavalcade of evil idiots who are doing their best to tear our country apart.
The primary cause of my mixture of rage and despair this week is the extent of the racial poison in our society, and the unutterably disgusting creeps who are spreading it and profiting from it. To take just one example, the shamefully biased coverage of race in our cop-hating and white-hating MSM has produced a public who wildly over-estimates anti-black racism in our society, especially when it comes to law enforcement.
Nearly half of all liberals believe that around 1,000 or more unarmed black men were killed by cops in 2019 – 12% of liberals and 22% of "very liberals" believe estimate that number at 10,000 or more! Even 26% of moderates, 14% of conservatives and 7% of very conservatives put that number at 10,000 or more.
The real number is 25. And even that number doesn't necessarily reflect unjustified uses of force. Some of those unarmed 25 may have been fighting with the cops or committing assault – the way Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown were, to name just two high-profile cases — when they were killed.
I try very hard not to hold the ignorance of regular people against them in this regard, because they've been force-fed a steady diet of anti-American, anti-police and anti-white hatred. But there is no excuse for the leftist elites, who absolutely know better, but do not care. If their power and wealth can be increased by fomenting racial hatred, they gladly start the fires, and then throw gasoline on them.
Ugh! I'm struggling not to give in and hate those who are hating us, but they are making it so freaking hard! From Melting-Face Maxine Waters' inciting violence from the mob, to LeBron James' threatening tweets aimed at the officer who saved an innocent black girl's life by shooting a guilty one, they are going to get thousands of black people killed by preventing cops from stopping black predators who are preying on innocent black folks.
Maybe the sickest part of this whole nauseating mess is the way that leftist elites actively side against innocent black people, and romanticize and champion black criminals!
Obama said that if he had a son, he'd look like Trayvon Martin. Why say that? Martin had already broken the nose and fractured the skull of his victim, and was continuing to smash his head into concrete when he got shot, so why identify yourself with him?
Why not say that your hypothetical son would look Frederick Douglas, or Thomas Sowell, or Walter Payton? Or what about, "If I had a son, he'd look like Denzel Washington?" (I'm not gay or a woman, but… giggity giggity).
Do you know any other non-leftist ethnic groups who choose to elevate and sympathize with the criminals among them? Have you ever heard a Columbian say, "I hope my son grows up to look like tubby drug kingpin Pablo Escobar?" Or any German say, "I only wish my offspring could have the chinless weasel vibe of mass murderer Heinrich Himmler?" Or any generic white dad say, "My son could well turn out to have the soul-less sociopathy of Ted Bundy?"
You don't. Because that would be sick.
But that's exactly what evil mummy Imhotep Pelosi did with addicted, career-criminal George Floyd. She turned him into a Christ figure, thanking him "for sacrificing his life for justice."
I'm no Biblical scholar, but I don't remember the part where Christ was a violent criminal, always getting high on that Judean Jumping Juice (or whatever they called their equivalent of meth around the year zero), or that scene in the Gospels where Christ and the apostles broke into a home, and while the rest of the gang was ransacking the place, Christ held a sword to the belly of a pregnant woman.
And it's not just Obama and Nasty Nancy. All over the media, we've seen artwork featuring George Floyd with angel wings, flying up to heaven. We've heard the same hagiographic depictions of Michael Brown (the "gentle giant"), and Jacob "mostly unarmed" Blake, and now, Ma'Khia Bryant, the honor student who was always peaceful. Right up until she tried to knife two other girls.
In fact, her case is a good example: it featured a violent black attacker, and a black victim. And who did the media, and Hacky Psaki, and every MSM talking head choose to praise? The attacker.
Former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was typically idiotic: "A Black teenage girl named Ma'Khia Bryant was killed because a police officer immediately decided to shoot her multiple times in order to break up a knife fight."
First of all, if he hadn't acted "immediately," Bryant's victim would be dead. And then he'd be a racist, because he didn't protect a black victim.
Also: Hey Val, you know what a knife fight is? A fight between TWO people with knives. If one person has a knife and the other one is unarmed, that's attempted murder, you miserable dope.
You might as well say that Jack the Ripper was "an accomplished knife fighter." And he was: the guy retired undefeated, with a record of between 5-0 and 11-0, depending on which statistics you believe.
These people are malevolent liars, and they have been for years. But most of their lies were opaque enough that they were at least a little tough to pin down. Terms like "fascist" and "systemic racism" and "social justice" are vague to the point of being nearly content-less.
But now these a-holes are lying about video that we can see with our own eyes! Last year one moron after another stood in front of burning buildings and looted stores and said, "These protests are super peaceful." And today, a bunch of armchair detectives are saying that the cop in Columbus was wrong to shoot a knife-wielding attacker. After all, how could he have known what her intentions were?
Let's go to the videotape, which captured Ma'Khia Bryant's last words: "I'm gonna stab the f**k out of you, b***h!"
While I was watching all of this racist garbage and choking on my own bile, I remembered a funny, mock PSA that Chris Rock made, called, "How Not to Get You're A** Kicked by the Police."
I was going to say Google it, but as one CO reader pointed out, Google is a creepy leftist corporation run by people who hate our guts. So Bing that video, and watch it now. I'll wait…
Can you believe that a video with that much common sense on the subject of race, could be made in this country only 14 short years ago? I'm shocked that it hasn't been taken down, or that Rock hasn't been cancelled, or at least forced to grovel and apologize for it.
The best humor works because there is truth in it, and this video obviously tells some plain truths that everybody can recognize: non-criminals who behave properly when they're pulled over almost never end up in violent struggles with cops. Or as Rock puts it, "If you follow these easy tips, you'll be fine."
He gives such now-controversial advice as "Obey the Law." He says, "You've heard people say, 'Man, I wouldn't do that s**t if I was you.' Well here's some of that s**t." And then he lists the resume of virtually every one of BLM's high-profile "martyrs" over the last several years: "car jacking, armed robbery, arson, selling drugs, buying drugs, stabbing, shooting."
Some parts of the video haven't aged well, including a running joke involving cops surrounding and pounding on a person who has violated Rock's advice. And there is some wry acknowledgement of racism, as when Rock advises his typical black driver that "if you want to travel with a friend, make it a white friend."
But as Rock summarizes his advice at the end of the video – "stop immediately when pulled over, be polite, shut the f**k up, etc." – you recognize that this is what responsible parents have been telling their kids – of all races – forever.
And it's the opposite of the way that every high-profile person killed by cops lately has acted.
One silver lining in this grim situation is that there are still plenty of people who know the truth, even though they are often intimidated by the loudest and most violent in their communities. Most black folks tell pollsters that they want more police – not less – in the crime-ridden areas in which they live. Some black people in Columbus have publicly supported what the officer had to do in the Ma'Khia Bryant case.
It's beyond maddening to see the way that crowds often turn on cops when they do their jobs, especially considering that in virtually all cases, black people are the ones who called the cops in the first place. But I think that last point speaks to the fact that most people know, deep down, more about right and wrong that their politics will sometimes let them admit.
I always think back to a clot of antifa boneheads last summer. During a protest, they were stomping around like the petulant (but violent) children they are, chanting some variation of "F the police." Then a gun went off nearby, and one of their own was hit.
And they immediately started screaming. "Call the cops!"
I'm afraid that the day is coming when they're going to get what they've been whining for. More and more cops are leaving, and someday soon, that phone call is going to be answered by a voice mail:
"This is the police department. We've gotten your message loud and clear. You're on your own."
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Geertjan Wielenga on the NetBeans Platform
By Steven Haines and Geertjan Wielenga
Geertjan Wielenga, co-author of Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans™ Platform, and Steve Haines discuss JavaOne and the current state of the NetBeans Platform.
Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform
Geertjan Wielenga is a member of the JavaOne "Rock Star Wall of Fame" for his contributions to JavaOne and Java technology. He is also co-author (along with Tim Boudreau and Jaroslav Tulach) of Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans™ Platform (also available in Safari Books Online and as a downloadable eBook). Steve Haines, host of InformIT's Java Reference Guide, caught up to him for a quick Q&A before this year's JavaOne.
InformIT: First, can you give us a little background on yourself?
Geertjan Wielenga: I'm a writer on the NetBeans team, specifically focused on documentation that relates to the NetBeans Platform. That's the Swing application framework underneath applications such as Java VisualVM, NetBeans IDE, iReport, applications at Boeing, and many other similar large applications.
My official task is to support developers of these kinds of applications by writing tutorials for them. At the same time, I also give trainings on these topics and occasionally meet with customers of the NetBeans Platform, to give advice, or to hear from them what problems they're encountering.
I do this in Prague, in the Czech Republic, which is where NetBeans was originally created and where the majority of its engineers are still found.
IT: You co-wrote a book entitled Rich Client Programming. Can you describe it? What did your readers find most valuable in this book?
GW: It's the first book on the NetBeans Platform that's appeared since the product's 5.0 release. That release saw many significant changes to support NetBeans Platform developers. In particular, a set of tools were created for NetBeans IDE to simplify the life of NetBeans Platform developers, such as templates of various kinds that create skeleton code for NetBeans API classes.
The book can really be divided into two parts. The first half describes the NetBeans Platform's core APIs: the runtime container APIs, the Window System API, the Nodes API, the Explorer & Property Sheet API, the FileSystem API, and the DataSystems API. The second half looks at a number of APIs relating to creating support for editors.
Quite a lot has changed in the interim, but the first half has stood up to the test of time so far! That part is still valuable and will continue being so. The main value readers have found in the book is that it presents the NetBeans Platform story from the point of view of the developers behind it. It has done so very successfully, to the point that other writers — i.e., writers who have nothing to do with the development of the NetBeans Platform — have been able to write their own books on the same topic, using the information in this book as a starting point. For example, since this book came out, others have been published by O'Reilly and Apress, neither of which would have been possible without ours first having seen the light of day.
IT: You have a presentation at this year's JavaOne about porting an application to the NetBeans Platform. What advancements have been made in recent versions of the NetBeans Platform that make it the framework of choice for Java developers?
GW: Many improvements have taken place in the past few years. For example, support for annotations are increasingly finding their way into the NetBeans Platform. So, instead of declaring application contributions in XML files, developers will instead increasingly be able to annotate their classes instead, as is done effectively in the JSR-296 Swing Application Framework. Another example is that many developers have requested support for reusing modules from other applications, a concept known as "suite chaining." That will be supported via user interface support from NetBeans Platform 6.7 onwards.
The best thing about the NetBeans Platform is that it is open sourced, meaning that anyone can contribute to it. Also, it is therefore not locked into a particular company at all; enhancements can thereby potentially be user-driven, rather than driven from within NetBeans itself.
IT: You also have a presentation on the VisualVM Tool. Can you describe for our readers what that is and, from your presentation, Getting More Out of the Java VisualVM Tool, what types of things you're going to show to get more out of it?
GW: Java VisualVM is a new tool that is a standard part of the JDK since JDK 6 Update 7. Look in the JDK's bin folder and there you'll find it. Start it up and then any Java applications running on the VM will automatically be registered in it, so that its threads and deadlocks and so on can be analyzed and fixed.
My presentation at JavaOne will be about extending this tool. Extension of this tool is as simple as extending NetBeans IDE, since they're both based on the NetBeans Platform. So several parts of the presentation will focus on the NetBeans Platform itself and what you can do with it. Its architecture will be described and then the audience will be shown the main VisualVM APIs, how to use them, and how to plug into VisualVM.
IT: What are you particularly excited to see at this year's JavaOne?
GW: Just being able to chat with a lot of people I've had the privilege to meet over the past years! JavaOne is really THE place where you can find out what everyone else is up to and catch up with old friends and acquaintances and even make a few new ones.
IT: We've all seen changes in the Java industry in the past year, most recently and notably the acquisition of Sun by Oracle. How do you feel that this will impact the Java community?
GW: Too soon to tell, I think! Not sure how much all the speculation helps, either, so I'm not going to contribute to it myself. On the other hand, I do hope Oracle sees the obvious value of the NetBeans Platform (one look here should be enough) and also understands that the NetBeans Platform is actually a completely different product to NetBeans IDE. For example, not supporting NetBeans IDE does not automatically mean the same as not supporting the NetBeans Platform. In fact, many Oracle applications could stand to gain a lot from being ported to the NetBeans Platform!
IT: What's next for you? What are you working on?
GW: Too many things. Mainly I'm looking forward to giving more NetBeans Platform Trainings, which is always very interesting, both for the students and the instructors as well!
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Jónsi / Death Vessel - Terminal 5 - May 8, 2010
I arrived at Terminal 5 with a friend of mine at 7:15. I wanted to make sure I was there early and didn't miss the opening performer. With a name like Death Vessel, I was curious. As I passed the stage to get to the balcony, I noticed that the curtain behind the stage looked like a painters dirty floor canvas. There were square boxes with transparent screens at the top. Two boxes were on each side of the stage. The two front boxes on either side (or the two boxes which were downstage) seemed as if their screen parts were burnt.
The music that was playing over the sound system before and after Death Vessel's set sounded like new age piano player George Winston. It also sounded like the music my chiropractor might play while there's a heating pad on my back and he's working on another patient.
The stage was filled with an odd assemblage of percussion and keyboard instruments that would be used for Jonsi's set. The keyboards were an upright piano, an organ, a few digital keyboards and a small keyboard in a suitcase. The percussion instruments were 1 vibraphone, 1small metal xylophone and two sets of drums; one set looking traditional and the other looking like it had lots of shiny brass cymbals.
Death Vessel
The audience seemed to steadily filter in through the annoying Terminal 5 entrance. By the time Death Vessel got on stage, the room was pretty full. Promptly at 8PM Joel Thibodeau AKA Death Vessel walked out. He had long straight hair that was parted in the middle and reached his waist. To me, he looked American Indian but I knew that wasn't the case because his bio states that he was born in Berlin and raised in Kennebunkport, Maine.
The pairing of Death Vessel as the opening act for Jónsi was a really good choice. Like Jónsi , Joel Thibodeau is anomaly. First off, he has the soprano voice of a choir boy. Secondly, his music can be very loosely defined as folk. However, there seems to be a metal or grunge sensibility to his lyrics which are dark and at times esoteric. Third, his guitar playing involves intricate picking and fingering.
Thibodeau opened his set with "Deep In The Horchata." (Hmmm - Horchata, where have I heard that word before?) From the moment he started playing the song's rhythmic guitar pattern, the audience pretty much quieted down. I think his guitar work caught the audience's attention and his odd voice kept them listening. "Now that you've dropped the A Bomb" was that first song's odd lyrical hook but there were still more odd lyrics to come.
Thibodeau's next two songs were "Obadiah in Oblivion" and "Bruno's Torso." The latter had a lighter – major chord sounding feel to it but still had undefinable dark lyrics such as "Dang, thereby my shebang is an emblem of a bigger bodily crime, Blood feather stuck in mine." (I can say the songs about HIV and AIDS but that would be a guess). Towards the end of Thibodeau's set, there were more intriguing lyrics which made reference to Catholic symbols and traditions.
For his fourth song, Thibodeau's did something with a bluegrass feel which made the audience automatically clap along. But I noticed that by the fifth song he seemed to have lost the audience. On the Thibodeau's sixth song, his voice reminded me of Graham Nash. Thibodeau's ended his set with his strongest song which had an alternative chord that worked as a turnaround between the chorus and verse.
I can't say I loved every song in Deep Vessel's set. However, I can say I loved Thibodeau's playing and his voice.
Jónsi
Jónsi walked on stage at approximately 9PM with acoustic guitar in hand. Once Jónsi started his first song, Ólafur Björn Ólafsson AKA Óbó came out to play the vibraphone. Between vocal parts of the song Óbó repeatedly hit the same notes with his mallets. Those notes augmented the tranquil mood of song adding a meditative quality to Jónsi's guitar picking. Óbó continued adding color to the second song ,by running a violin bow against the edges of several vibraphone keys.
For Jónsi's second song, the other members of the band walked on stage. One member of the band was Jónsi's long time boyfriend, keyboard and guitar player, Alex Somers. The song, "Hengilás" was in Jónsi's native language of Icelandic. It might have been in his made up language of Hopelandic, but I have no way of knowing since I don't speak either language.
The second song was the start of journey that took the audience through a cycle of songs, as well as projected illustrations and animations done buy Jónsi's sister Inga Birgisdóttir . In the beginning of the song the back canvas looked like a page from an very old book. As the song progressed fire was projected on to canvas and the earlier mentioned boxes. The very real projection of fire than segued into butterflies. At some point in the beginning of the show the backdrop curtain was taken away to reveal a wall of windows panes but the projections continued. A friend of mine, who had a better view of the stage than I, later noted that the projected part of the journey was through the seasons of a year.
A concurrent somewhat fuzzy projection of Jónsi was picked up by a small camera (probably attached to his mic) for the song "Icycle Sleeves." Drummer, Thorvaldur Thór Thorvaldsson AKA Doddi, immediately took us into the next song "Kolniður" with a slow and steady pronounced beat on his kick drum. When the band joined in, they played darkly momentous chords. As the song progressed it went through loud and grinding section with white lights flashing and brilliantly animated illustrations. The drawings were of an eagle flying over trees, and a wolf who eventually attacks a dear after running through the forest.
During the show it was hard to keep track of who was playing what on which song because the musicians kept trading off instruments between each other. For the song "Tornado," I believe Somers was playing piano, Jónsi played vibraphone with Óbó for part of the song and bassist Úlfur hansson played the small metal xylophone on top of the organ. "Tornado" is one of my favorite songs on Jónsi's CD "Go." It has a brilliant lyric with lines like "You grow, you grow like tornado,You grow from the inside."
After seeing Jónsi do it few times, I noticed that he feels the music by closing his eyes and moving his head back and forth as if saying "no." Jonsi appears rather tall on stage and has a presence that seems completely focused inward and on his music. I the truest sense, Jónsi is a performance artist; both his music and presentation in concert are of equal importance. That presentation includes his military patterned jacket with attached colorful fringed and bandaged cloth as well as the head piece he wore at the end of the show. The projections, Jónsi's outfit, his high falsetto voice and his music were all interwoven as part of one beautiful concert experience.
Jónsi moved through several songs starting with "Sinking Friendships," moving from piano to acoustic guitar to the ukulele which he played on "Go Do." Bassist Úlfur Hansson had my friend and I intrigued through the entire show. First off he sat at on floor at one point and played something in a suitcase. I later found out it was nothing more than a keyboard. During the song "K12," Hansson played something called a Monome. The thing was the size of an Ipad with lit up boxes that Hansson would push down. The Monome is apparently a computer controller by a hardware company that has the same name. Who knew?
A large degree of Jonsi's music is reliant of the nuances of different sounds. So it was only fitting that drummer Dodi changed from the kit on one side of the stage to the other, also for the song "K12," . The kit Dodi changed to seemed to have more cymbals and an all together thinner sound. The last song of Jónsi's set "Around Us, " had the band working up to a high point before dropping out. Jónsi ended the song by falling to his knees and manipulating his voice with reverb, delay and a loop peddle,
The band came back with what was to be a grand finale. Though "Animal Arthimatic" was expected as an big encore ending because of its pop quality, the climatic ending came with "Grow Till Tall." As the encore's final song, "Grow Till Tall" grew with the repetition of Jónsi singing "You'll know." As the music swelled, an hunched over Jónsi flailed back and forth in what looked like a fringed Indian head dress. At one point, a thin neon light was circling around his head dress making the moment even more dramatic. It was as if Jónsi was caught on the inside of the "Tornado" he sang about in his song.
Once the band walked off stage, the audience wanted another encore. When Jónsi and the band came back out, they held hands and bowed as if they had done a Broadway show. It was clear there wasn't going to be another song. I think it was a good choice. The show was complete, the journey ended and the experience would be something not easily forgotten.
The band members are:
Úlfur Hansson on bass and monome
Ólafur Björn Ólafsson aka Óbó on piano,percussion and keyboard
Alex Somers on keyboard and guitar
Jón Pór Birgisson (Jónsi) on guitar,vocals and piano.
Horvaldur Thór Thorvaldsson aka Doddi on Drums, percussion and keys.
Jonsi's Set List
1.Stars in Still Water
2.Hengilás
3.Icicle Sleeves
4.Kolniður
5.Tornado
6.Sinking Friendships
7.Saint Naive
8.Guitar Song -New
9.Go Do
10.Boy Lilikoi
11.K12
12.Piano Song – New
13.Around Us
14.Animal Arithmetic
15.Grow Till Tall
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At some point, Microsoft published a sample container image that includes Nginx with Nano Server but it does not appear to be maintained and is 7 months out of date, so is not very useful to me. I was also not able to find any instructions for how they generated this container image, so that I could try to reproduce it with up to date components.
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Since ancient times, flowering plants, herbs, shrubs and trees of many sorts and varieties have been assigned names and meanings. Long before recorded history humankind has shared most intimate bonds with plants.
It is widely believed that the cultivation of plants for food, shelter and medicines allowed people to first settle in one place long enough to establish permanent communities that developed into cultures with unique arts, crafts and languages.
The Modern Language of Flowers
So it is not at all surprising that plants should be included as intimate parts of those arts, crafts and languages. Before plants were ever assigned official botanical names many flowering plants, herbs, shrubs and trees had a 'common' name by which their qualities were remembered: The pretty white flowers growing near Grandma's back door; the healing herbal balm growing near the stream; the fragrant bloom treasured by our beloved. Later we learned to give them names: pretty daisies; lemon balm; wild roses. And over time as the plants became associated with events in the course of human history, those names took on emotive meanings that gave them a 'life of their own': daisies came to represent loyal love, simplicity, cheer, innocence, purity and faith; balm came to represent healing and relief, sympathy, pleasantries and happiness; roses became a symbol for love, friendship, fidelity, passion, thankfulness and gratitude.
Because plants now had symbolic meanings, they took on a specific persona each with their own personal power. They then became sought after to bring that power to the individual, convey a special message or create an appropriate mood. Thus as an expression of loyal and maternal love, daisies became a cottage garden classic often planted at Grandma's back door; lemon balm was grown because we enjoy it's fragrant foliage that also makes a soothing herbal tea that can relieve pain; we started to give others bouquets of roses and other "love" flowers as a gesture of affection, thankfulness and gratitude.And after this happens enough times throughout the course of history, patterns develop into customs, which become traditions identifiable with that particular civilization.
And ultimately plants become identified with certain attributes, qualities or representations that large groups of people identified with so much so that they came to "represent" that quality.And thus today the daisy represents simplicity; lemon balm, healing and relief roses are one of the classic love flowers.Obviously, different cultures experience different things, leading sometimes to different flower meanings. For example, the yellow rose is a valuable wedding flower in western cultures. Throughout much of the world today, the yellow rose symbolizes gladness, joy, fidelity, friendship and freedom. Yet during the Victorian Age when the Language of Flowers was most fashionable in Europe, the yellow rose was a symbol of jealousy.
This unexpected meaning originated in far more ancient Islamic legends where the yellow rose was treacherous, a symbol of deceit, and even represented adultery! The French agreed and gave the yellow rose to those suspected of infidelity. And in Mexico the yellow rose is traditionally given in sympathy over a death, and is used extensively at funerals and to adorn grave sites. While in Japan, the yellow rose is traditionally given at birth as a symbol of future nobility.
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Thus the Modern Language of Flowers has come to assume a most memorable and meaningful place in the garden every bit as much as in the floral bouquet. For example it is possible to plant a garden based around an emotion, like a love garden featuring roses, dianthus, ranunculus, agapanthus, pansy, fern, jasmine, lily-of-the-valley, myrtle, laurel, lilac, jonquil, honeysuckle, lime, tulip and other emotive flowers. A garden of wisdom would include sage, daffodil, foxglove, acanthus, passion flower, hyacinth, pine, hawthorn, plane tree, poplar, balsam, cowslip, cherry, wheat pansy and water lily. A garden of memories could include all of the flowers of a love and wisdom garden mixed with specific plantings deeply associated with personal life experiences, personalities and memories. The emotive power created within such a garden would be highly beneficial especially for the garden creator.
And since this power permeates the garden like a heavenly fragrance on a balmy summer evening, all receptive souls entering the sanctum would be taken by its presence.There are those who quite rightly point out that it is only human obsession with routine, a need for control and understanding which drives us to stamp a human meaning on all of God's quite innocent botanical creations. It should be appreciated that while we honour tradition and the symbolic meanings behind the Language of Flowers, it should be obvious that, if one does not like the meaning of a particular plant, they are perfectly entitled to alter the meaning to suit their needs. There's bound to bit a bit of that as the reason why certain plants are called whatever they are called.That being said, there is often a great deal of meaning that has accumulated over centuries that does give each plant species a particular power.
Each time we acknowledge that power, it grows and thus we have a continuation today of the Language of Flowers. And once we have a grasp of this language code, it allows nature to communicate with us and us to understand whatever it is saying through this unique language.Today the Language of Flowers is known as Floriography. The first anthropological reference to the Language of Flowers appears in Persia around the 15th Century. By the 17th Century it was known as the 'Secret Language of Flowers'. The 'Secret' arrived in Europe in the 18th Century and became most popular in the 19th Century during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). At that time a very cleverly illustrated compilation was written about the Language of Flowers, A Floral Code. It was called The Language of Flowers by Jean Marsh, illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
The 1884 edition set the standard for the Victoria era and stands to this day. It soon became very popular with Victorian women who could communicate their feelings through this silent language at a time when the strict propriety of the era did not allow such intimate expression. It became quite fashionable for people to send Tussie-Mussie bouquets with a secret message. The tussie-mussie was a bouquet wrapped in a lace doily, tied with a (satin) ribbon. Each flower conveys an idea, feeling, emotion, or special message and every colour and number has a special meaning, as does a grouping of flowers or foliage. Presentation also became highly important. A bouquet presented upright was "affirmative", but if presented upside down its meaning was the opposite or "declined". It could even be used to ask/answer questions.
A bouquet presented with the right hand meant "yes", while presented with the left hand it meant "no". Even ribbon was included. Its colour was significant. And if tied with knot and bow to the left, the secret flower meaning of the bouquet referred to the giver. If tied to the right the meaning referred to the recipient. The tussie-mussie became the cherished gift of the era. The silent messages said through these bouquets transformed many lives.Today much of the past is gone and forgotten. Now we apply these same principles and their meanings to what we plant and where perhaps even more than what we are saying when we give flowers to another.The mixing of old knowledge from the West with Feng Shui from the East provides the opportunity to become deeply more creative and expressive allowing us to create harmony and the mood we wish to express in our gardens.
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