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package net.spy.memcached.collection;

import net.spy.memcached.util.BTreeUtil;

public class SMGetElement<T> implements Comparable<SMGetElement<T>> {

	private String key;
	private long bkey;
	private byte[] bytebkey;
	private T value;

	public SMGetElement(String key, long bkey, T value) {
		this.key = key;
		this.bkey = bkey;
		this.bytebkey = null;
		this.value = value;
	}

	public SMGetElement(String key, byte[] bkey, T value) {
		this.key = key;
		this.bkey = -1;
		this.bytebkey = bkey;
		this.value = value;
	}

	@Override
	public String toString() {
		return "SMGetElement {KEY:" + key + ", BKEY:"
				+ ((bytebkey == null) ? bkey : BTreeUtil.toHex(bytebkey))
				+ ", VALUE:" + value + "}";
	}

	@Override
	public int compareTo(SMGetElement<T> param) {
		assert param != null;

		int comp;
		/* compare bkey */
		if (bytebkey == null)
			comp = new Long(bkey).compareTo(param.getBkey());
		else
			comp = BTreeUtil.compareByteArraysInLexOrder(bytebkey, param.getByteBkey());

		/* if bkey is equal, then compare key */
		if (comp == 0)
			comp = key.compareTo(param.getKey());

		return comp;
	}

	public String getKey() {
		return key;
	}

	public void setKey(String key) {
		this.key = key;
	}

	public long getBkey() {
		if (bkey == -1) {
			throw new IllegalStateException("This element has byte[] bkey. " + toString());
		}
		return bkey;
	}

	public byte[] getByteBkey() {
		if (bytebkey == null) {
			throw new IllegalStateException(
					"This element has java.lang.Long type bkey. " + toString());
		}
		return bytebkey;
	}

	public Object getBkeyByObject() {
		if (bytebkey != null) {
			return bytebkey;
		} else {
			return bkey;
		}
	}

	public void setBkey(long bkey) {
		this.bkey = bkey;
	}

	public T getValue() {
		return value;
	}

	public void setValue(T value) {
		this.value = value;
	}

	public boolean hasByteArrayBkey() {
		return bytebkey != null;
	}
}

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National Tell a Fairy Tale Day
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26th February marks the celebration of the National Tell a Fairy Tale Day, a day set aside to encourage enthusiasts and celebrators of this day to actively read, tell and even listen to different fairy tales from different parts of the world.
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The National Tell Fairy Tale Day is on the 26th of February and is celebrated annually in different parts of the world.
This day provides the perfect opportunity for reading fairy tales, listening to them, and even telling them to friends, loved ones, and even children.
A fairy tale is any short story typically featuring fantasy characters and magical beings. This means that the characters may or may not be human and have supernatural abilities like magic.
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\section{Introduction}

The massless Schwinger model is wellknown to be equivalent to a theory of a
free massive boson with Schwinger mass $\mu_0^2 = \frac{e^2}{\pi}$
(\cite{Sc1}). This massive field is formed via the chiral anomaly and may
be interpreted as a fermion--antifermion bound state (\cite{CKS}, \cite{IP1},
\cite{ABH}, \cite{Diss}, \cite{Le1}). Besides, the massless Schwinger model
shows other nontrivial features like fermion condensate, instantons and
nontrivial vacuum structure ($\theta$ vacuum) (\cite{LS1}--\cite{IP1},
\cite{DSEQ}--\cite{Diss}, \cite{Sm1}--\cite{KS1}, \cite{tH1}).
In the massless Schwinger model physical quantities do not
depend on the vacuum angle $\theta$.

The massive Schwinger model is different in some repects. First, it is no
longer exactly solvable (\cite{KS1}--\cite{Fry},
\cite{ABH}, \cite{Diss}). The physical state -- the massive boson -- is no
longer free, and its mass acquires corrections due to the interaction.
Instanton--like gauge fields and a nontrivial vacuum structure persist to be
present, and, in addition, physical quantities now depend on the vacuum angle
$\theta$. The fermion condensate, too, acquires corrections due to the fermion
mass (\cite{MSSM}).

Here we show how to compute Green functions for the massive Schwinger model
within the Euclidean path integral formalism, using a perturbation expansion
in the fermion mass. (The existence and finiteness of the mass perturbation
theory for the massive Schwinger model was proven in \cite{FS1}). For this
purpose we use the known exact solution of the massless Schwinger model as a
starting point. From the perturbation expansion we explicitly calculate
corrections to the Schwinger mass up to second orcer in the fermion mass $m$,
for a general vacuum angle $\theta$.

\section{Exact solution of the massless case}

The vacuum functional (and Green functions) of the massive Schwinger model may
be inferred from $n$--point functions of the massless Schwinger model via an
expansion in the fermion mass. Indeed, we may write for the Euclidean vacuum
functional ($k\ldots$ instanton number)
\begin{equation}
Z(m,\theta)=\sum_{k=-\infty}^{\infty}e^{ik\theta}Z_k (m)
\end{equation}
where
\begin{displaymath}
Z_k (m)=N\int D\bar\Psi D\Psi DA^\mu_k e^{\int dx\Bigl[ \bar\Psi(i\partial\hspace{-4.6pt} /
-eA\hspace{-5pt}  /  _k +m)\Psi -\frac{1}{4}F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}\Bigr] }
\end{displaymath}
\begin{displaymath}
=N\int D\bar\Psi D\Psi D\beta_k \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{m^n}{n!}\prod_{i=1}^n
\int dx_i \bar\Psi (x_i)\Psi (x_i)\cdot
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
\cdot \exp\{\int dx\Bigl[ \bar\Psi
(i\partial\hspace{-6pt} /   -\epsilon_{\mu\nu}\gamma^{\mu}\partial^\nu \beta_k
)\Psi +\frac{1}{2}\beta_k \Box^2 \beta_k \Bigr] \}
\end{equation}
($A_\mu =\epsilon_{\mu\nu}\partial^\nu \beta$ corresponding to Lorentz gauge).
Therefore the perturbative computation of $Z(m,\theta)$ is traced back to the
computation of scalar VEVs ( $\langle\prod_i S(x_i )\rangle_0 $, $S(x)\equiv
\bar\Psi (x)\Psi (x)$ ) for the massless Schwinger model and some space time
integrations. It is useful to rewrite the scalar densities in terms of chiral
ones, $S(x)=S_+ (x)+S_- (x)$, $S_\pm \equiv \bar\Psi P_\pm \Psi$, because then
only a definite instanton sector $k=n_+ -n_-$ contributes to the VEV
$\langle\prod_{i=1}^{n_+} S_+ (x_i)\prod_{j=1}^{n_-} S_- (x_j)\rangle_0$. A
general VEV may be computed exactly (see e.g.
\cite{DSEQ}--\cite{Diss}, \cite{Zah}, \cite{MSSM}),
 \begin{equation}
\langle S_{H_1}(x_1)\cdots S_{H_n}(x_n)\rangle_0
=\Bigl( \frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^n \exp
\Bigl[ \sum_{i<j}(-)^{\sigma_i \sigma_j}4\pi D_{\mu_0} (x_i -x_j)\Bigr]
\end{equation}
where $\sigma_i =\pm 1$ for $H_i =\pm$, $D_{\mu_0}$ is the massive scalar
propagator,
\begin{equation}
D_{\mu_0}(x)=-\frac{1}{2\pi}K_0 (\mu_0 |x|), \quad \tilde
D_{\mu_0}(p)= \frac{-1}{p^2 +\mu_0^2},
\end{equation}
($K_0\ldots$ McDonald function) and $\Sigma$ is the fermion condensate
of the massless Schwinger model,
\begin{equation}
\Sigma =\langle\bar\Psi \Psi\rangle_0 =\frac{e^\gamma}{2\pi}\mu_0
\end{equation}
($\gamma\ldots$ Euler constant). The index 0 for $\mu_0$ indicates that it is
the order zero result, the index 0 for the VEVs means that they are with
respect to the massless Schwinger model. From this $Z(m,\theta)$ may be
computed (see \cite{MSSM} for details,
\cite{LSm} for its physical implications),
\begin{displaymath}
Z(m,\theta)= e^{V\alpha (m,\theta)},
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
\alpha (m,\theta)=m\frac{\Sigma}{2}2\cos\theta + m^2
\Bigl(\frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^2 (E\cos 2\theta +F)+o(m^3 )
\end{equation}
($V\ldots$ space time volume) where
\begin{displaymath}
E=\int d^2 xE(x) \equiv \int d^2 x(e^{-2K_0 (\mu_0
|x|)}-1)=-8.9139\cdot\frac{1}{\mu_0^2}
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
F=\int d^2 xF(x) \equiv \int d^2 x(e^{2K_0 (\mu_0 |x|)}-1) = 9.7384\cdot
\frac{1}{\mu_0^2}
\end{equation}
and for $F$ a subtraction of a free field singularity is necessary.

In order to compute VEVs for the massive Schwinger model one has to insert the
corresponding operators into the path integral (1), (2) and divide by the
vacuum functional $Z(m,\theta)$:
\begin{equation}
\langle \hat O \rangle_m =\frac{1}{Z(m,\theta)} \langle \hat O
\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{m^n}{n!}\prod_{i=1}^n \int dx_i \bar\Psi (x_i) \Psi
(x_i) \rangle_0
\end{equation}
Via the normalization all volume factors cancel completely, as it certainly has
to be (we will explicitly see this in the computations). For the computation
of VEVs of scalar $(S)$ and chiral $(S_\pm)$ densities formula (3) suffices
and could be used e.g. for the computation of the fermion condensate $\langle
\bar\Psi\Psi\rangle_m$  (this however may be derived at once from (6), see
\cite{MSSM}).

For the computation of the Schwinger mass additional Green functions of the
massless Schwinger model are needed. It is wellknown that the vector current
correlator is the free massive propagator in the massless Schwinger model:
\begin{equation}
\langle J_\mu (x)J_\nu (y)\rangle_0 =\frac{1}{\pi}\epsilon_{\mu\mu'}
\partial_x^{\mu'} \epsilon_{\nu\nu'}\partial_y^{\nu'}D_{\mu_0}(x-y)
\end{equation}
Therefore, for a perturbative calculation we need the $n$--point functions
\begin{displaymath}
\langle J_\mu (y_2)J_\nu (y_1)\prod_{i=1}^n S_{H_i}(x_i)\rangle_0 =
\frac{1}{\pi}\epsilon_{\mu\mu'}
\partial_x^{\mu'} \epsilon_{\nu\nu'}\partial_y^{\nu'}\cdot
\end{displaymath}
\begin{displaymath}
\cdot \Bigl(\frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^n \Bigl[D_{\mu_0}(y_1 -y_2) +4\pi
(\sum_{i=1}^n (-)^{\sigma_i} D_{\mu_0}(x_i -y_2))(\sum_{j=1}^n (-)^{\sigma_j}
D_{\mu_0}(x_j -y_1))\Bigr]\cdot
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
\cdot e^{4\pi \sum_{k<l}(-)^{\sigma_k \sigma_l}D_{\mu_0} (x_k -x_l)}
\end{equation}
which may be computed from the Euclidean path integral or from bosonization
(the latter method is easier).

\section{Computation of the Schwinger mass}

For the perturbative computation of the massive propagator we simply have to
insert successive orders of equ. (10) into (8). The factor $(\frac{1}{\pi}
\epsilon_{\mu\mu'} \partial_{y_2}^{\mu'}
\epsilon_{\nu\nu'}\partial_{y_1}^{\nu'} )$ is the same for all orders,
therefore we will ignore it in the sequel.

There are two terms from (10) to be inserted in first order, namely $S_H ,
H=\pm$, and four terms, $S_{H_1}S_{H_2}, H_i =\pm$, in second order. For the
moment we consider the case where all $H_i =+$; the other contributions can be
inferred from this one by a rearrangement of some signs. Up to second order,
we find ( $\langle J_\mu (y_2 )J_\nu (y_1)\rangle_m \equiv \frac{1}{\pi}
\epsilon_{\mu\mu'} \partial^{\mu'}_{y_2} \epsilon_{\nu\nu'}
\partial^{\nu'}_{y_1} T(y_1 ,y_2)$ )
\begin{displaymath}
T(y_1 ,y_2)= \frac{1}{Z(m,\theta)}\Bigl[ D_{\mu_0}(y_1 -y_2) +
m\frac{\Sigma}{2}V D_{\mu_0}(y_1 -y_2) + 4\pi m\frac{\Sigma}{2}\int
dxD_{\mu_0} (x-y_2)D_{\mu_0}(x-y_1) +
\end{displaymath}
\begin{displaymath}
\frac{m^2}{2!}\Bigl( \frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^2 \int dx_1 dx_2 [D_{\mu_0}(y_1
-y_2)+ 4\pi (D_{\mu_0}(x_1 -y_2)+D_{\mu_0}(x_2 -y_2))\cdot
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
\cdot (D_{\mu_0}(x_1 -y_1) +
D_{\mu_0}(x_2 -y_1))]e^{4\pi D_{\mu_0}(x_1 -x_2)}\Bigr]
\end{equation}
Inserting equ. (6) for the vacuum functional $Z(m,\theta)$ and using the
perturbation formula of second order,
\begin{displaymath}
\frac{a_0 +a_1 x+a_2 x^2 +o(x^3 )}{1+b_1 x+b_2 x^2 +o(x^3 )}=
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
a_0 +a_1 x+a_2 x^2 -a_0 b_1 x-a_0 b_2 x^2 -a_1 b_1 x^2 +a_0 b_1^2 x^2 +o(x^3 )
\end{equation}
we arrive at
\begin{displaymath}
T(y_1 ,y_2)=D_{\mu_0}(y_1 -y_2)+4\pi m\frac{\Sigma}{2}\int dx D_{\mu_0}(x-y_2)
D_{\mu_0}(x-y_1) +
\end{displaymath}
\begin{displaymath}
\frac{m^2}{2!}\Bigl(\frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^2 4\pi \int dx_1 dx_2 [2D_{\mu_0}
(x_1 -y_2)D_{\mu_0}(x_1 -y_1)+2D_{\mu_0}(x_1 -y_1)D_{\mu_0}(x_2 -y_2)]\cdot
\end{displaymath}
\begin{displaymath}
\cdot (E(x_1 -x_2)+1) - 4\pi m^2 \Bigl(\frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^2 V\int dx
D_{\mu_0} (x-y_2)D_{\mu_0}(x-y_1)\end{displaymath}
\begin{displaymath}
=D_{\mu_0}(y_1 -y_2)+4\pi m\frac{\Sigma}{2}\int dx D_{\mu_0}(x-y_2)
D_{\mu_0}(x-y_1) +
\end{displaymath}
\begin{displaymath}
m^2\Bigl(\frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^2 4\pi E \int
dxD_{\mu_0}(x-y_2)D_{\mu_0}(x-y_1)+
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
m^2 \Bigl(\frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^2 4\pi \int dx_1 dx_2 D_{\mu_0}(x_1 -y_1)
D_{\mu_0}(x_2 -y_2)(E(x_1 -x_2)+1)
\end{equation}
where $E,E(x)$ are given in (7) and we used the $x\rightarrow -x$ symmetry of all
occurring functions. Observe that, as claimed, all volume factors $V$ have
dropped out.

However, expression (13) is not yet the desired result for further
computation, there is still one unwanted term. The last line of expression (13)
consists of two terms, due to the factor $(E(x_1 -x_2)+1)$. The second one,
proportional to 1, reads
\begin{equation}
m^2 \Bigl( \frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^2 4\pi\int dx_1 D_{\mu_0}(x_1 -y_1)\int dx_2
D_{\mu_0} (x_2 -y_2)
\end{equation}
and obviously does not contribute to the $y_1 -y_2$ correlation. It is a
disconnected part stemming from the VEVs
\begin{equation}
\langle J_\mu (y_i)S_+ (x_j)\rangle_0 \sim
\epsilon_{\mu\mu'}\partial_{y_i}^{\mu'} D_{\mu_0}(x_j -y_i)
\end{equation}
and must be subtracted from (13).

Looking for the moment at the first order correction only, it is very easy to
find the Schwinger mass correction:
\begin{displaymath}
\Box_{y_1}T^{(1)}(y_1 ,y_2)=\delta (y_1 -y_2)+\mu_0^2 D_{\mu_0}(y_1 -y_2)+
\end{displaymath}
\begin{displaymath}
4\pi m\frac{\Sigma}{2}(D_{\mu_0}(y_1 -y_2)+\mu_0^2 \int dxD_{\mu_0}(x-y_2)
D_{\mu_0}(x-y_1))
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
\equiv \delta (y_1 -y_2)+\mu_1^2 D_{\mu_1}(y_1 -y_2)+o(m^2 )
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
\mu_1^2 =\mu_0^2 +4\pi m\frac{\Sigma}{2}
\end{equation}
To obtain the second order result, we rewrite expression (13), without the
disconnected part, in momentum space and substitute all functions by their
Fourier transforms (thereby the convolutions turn into products):
\begin{displaymath}
\tilde T(p)=\frac{-1}{p^2 +\mu_0^2}+4\pi m\frac{\Sigma}{2}\frac{1}{(p^2
+\mu_0^2)^2} +4\pi m^2 \Bigl(\frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^2
\frac{1}{(p^2 +\mu_0^2)^2} (E+\tilde E(p))=
\end{displaymath}
\begin{displaymath}
\frac{-1}{p^2 +\mu_0^2}(1-4\pi m\frac{\Sigma}{2}\frac{1}{p^2 +\mu_0^2}- 4\pi
m^2 \Bigl(\frac{\Sigma}{2}\Bigr)^2 (E+\tilde E(p))\frac{1}{p^2 +\mu_0^2})=\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
\frac{-1}{p^2 +\mu_0^2 +4\pi m\frac{\Sigma}{2} +4\pi m^2 (\frac{\Sigma}{2})^2
(E+\tilde E(p))+(4\pi m \frac{\Sigma}{2})^2 \frac{1}{p^2 +\mu_0^2}}
+o(m^3)
\end{equation}
Therefore, for finding the mass pole, $p^2$ has to obey the self consistency
equation (after a rescaling ${p'}^2 =\frac{p^2}{\mu_0^2}$, $E' =E(\mu_0^2
\equiv 1)=\mu_0^2 E$ etc.)
\begin{equation}
{p'}^2 =-1-4\pi\frac{m}{\mu_0}\frac{\Sigma}{2\mu_0}-4\pi \frac{m^2}{\mu_0^2}
\Bigl( \frac{\Sigma}{2\mu_0}\Bigr)^2 [E' +\tilde E'(p') +\frac{4\pi}{{p'}^2
+1}]
\end{equation}
The second order part (the term in square brackets) may be rewritten like
\begin{displaymath}
[\cdots ]=\int d^2 x[e^{-2K_0 (|x|)}-1+e^{ip' x}(e^{-2K_0 (|x|)}-1+ 2K_0
(|x|)]=
\end{displaymath}
\begin{displaymath}
\int_0^\infty dr r[2\pi (e^{-2K_0 (r)}-1) + \int_0^{2\pi} d\theta
e^{i|p'|r\cos\theta} (e^{-2K_0 (r)}-1+2K_0 (r))]=
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
2\pi \int_0^\infty dr r[e^{-2K_0 (r)}-1 + J_0 (|p'|r)(e^{-2K_0 (r)}-1+ 2K_0
(r))]
\end{equation}
where $J_0$ is the Bessel function of the first kind. This expression behaves
well around $|p'|=i$ and therefore we may set $|p'|=i$ because deviations
from this value are of higher order in $m$. Using $I_0 (r)=J_0 (ir)$ we find
\begin{equation}
{p'}^2=-1-4\pi\frac{m}{\mu_0}\frac{\Sigma}{2\mu_0} -8\pi^2 \frac{m^2}{\mu_0^2}
\Bigl(\frac{\Sigma}{2\mu_0} \Bigr)^2 \cdot A
\end{equation}
\begin{displaymath}
A:= \int_0^\infty dr r[e^{-2K_0 (r)}-1 + I_0 (r)(e^{-2K_0 (r)}-1+2K_0 (r))]
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
A=-0.6599
\end{equation}
This result was computed for the positive chirality densities $S_+$. For the
pure negative chirality densities $S_-$ the result is completely identical.
However in second order there are mixed products $S_+ S_- ,S_- S_+$, too. Both
of them lead to the same result, where the above integral $A$ is substituted
by a similar expression $B$,
\begin{displaymath}
B:=\int_0^\infty drr[e^{+2K_0 (r)}-1 + I_0 (r)(-e^{+2K_0 (r)}+1+2K_0 (r))]
\end{displaymath}
\begin{equation}
B=1.7277
\end{equation}
In this expression the nice feature of cancellation of UV divergencies occurs.
Indeed, both $e^{2K_0 (r)}$ and $-I_0 (r)e^{2K_0 (r)}$ diverge like
$\frac{1}{r^2}$ for small $r$ (this divergency corresponds to the free fermion
field divergency of the underlying theory), but obviously the divergencies
cancel each other. In fact, this cancellation was already observed twenty
years ago in \cite{KS1} within a bosonization approach, and on general grounds
it should continue to hold for higher orders.

Collecting all results and multiplying each contribution with its
corresponding $\theta$ factor
($S_\pm \rightarrow e^{\pm i\theta}$, see (1--3)), we find
for the Schwinger mass in second order
\begin{equation}
-{p'}^2 \equiv \frac{\mu_2^2}{\mu_0^2}=1+8\pi
\frac{m}{\mu_0}\frac{\Sigma}{2\mu_0} \cos\theta + 16\pi^2 \frac{m^2}{\mu_0^2}
\Bigl( \frac{\Sigma}{2\mu_0}\Bigr)^2 (A\cos 2\theta + B)
\end{equation}
or, inserting all numbers (remember
$\frac{\Sigma}{2\mu_0}=\frac{e^\gamma}{4\pi}$, equ. (5))
\begin{equation}
\mu_2^2 =\mu_0^2 (1 + 3.5621\cdot \frac{m}{\mu_0}\cos\theta + 5.4807 \cdot
\frac{m^2}{\mu_0^2} - 2.0933\cdot\frac{m^2}{\mu_0^2}\cos 2\theta )
\end{equation}
which is our final result.

For the special case $\theta =0$ our result (24) precisely coincides with
the result in \cite{Vary}, where the second order correction for $\theta =0$
was computed within bosonization and using near light cone coordinates. In the
same article this result was compared with a lattice calculation
(\cite{Crew}), and a good agreement is obtained within the range
of the expansion
parameter $\frac{m}{\mu_0}$ where the lattice calculations were performed.

\section{Summary}

We have demonstrated a general method of computing $n$--point functions for
the massive Schwinger model in mass perturbation theory within the Euclidean
path integral formalism, using the known exact solution of the massless
Schwinger model as a starting point.

All $n$--point functions exist
perturbatively and are finite in the infinite volume limit.

Using this approach we were able to compute the mass
perturbation corrections to
the Schwinger mass up to second order, and almost all calculations could be
done analytically. This feature does not persist to hold for higher orders.
Already in third order an equation analogous to (19) will be a true self
consistency equation that can be solved only numerically.

For $\theta =0$, the result (24) is well reproduced by lattice calculations
(\cite{Vary}).

The numerical calculations in this article were done with Mathematica 2.2.

\section*{Acknowledgements}
The author thanks H. Leutwyler for very helpful discussions and the members of
the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Bern University, where this work was
done, for their hospitality.

This work was supported by a research stipendium of the University of Vienna.

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Limitless (2011)
Released: 1st August 2011
Release type: Retail / Rental
Catalogue No: MP1120BR
Based on: The novel 'The Dark Fields' by Alan Glynn
Story: Techno thriller, based on Alan Glynn's 2003 novel 'The Dark Fields', starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. When failed writer and loser in love Eddie Morra (Cooper), through a series of convoluted events, discovers the new designer drug MDT-48, his life and outlook are immediately changed. This latest of pharmaceutical concoctions goes straight to work on Eddie's brain power, making him the sharpest thinker on the planet. He has instant recall of everything he's ever learned and uses it to propel himself into the world of high finance, where he attracts the interest of high-powered businessman Carl Van Loon (De Niro). Unfortunately MDT-48 comes with some particularly nasty side-effects that soon make themselves felt and as Eddie's ascent stars to falter, so does his mind. He soon discovers, however, that the paranoia he's feeling is utterly justified and there are dangerous people on the loose who really are out to get him.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Anna Friel, Johnny Whitworth, Jennifer Butler, Robert John Burke, Tomas Arana, T.V. Carpio, Andrew Howard
Cinematographer: Jo Willems
Directed by: Neil Burger
Produced by: Leslie Dixon, Ryan Kavanaugh, Scott Kroopf
Written by: Leslie Dixon
Studio/distributor: Momentum Pictures


Linz (pts032/27.09.2017/16:15) - S&T AG, Linz, Austria (ISIN AT0000A0E9W5, WKN A0X9EJ, http://www.snt.at ) reports that it received declarations constituting the procurement of a total of some 6,6 million of new S&T shares during the period of subscription. This subscription constituted a public offer from S&T AG that was made during the period of acceptance of August 30, 2017 - September 26, 2017 to former shareholders of Kontron AG, who had become those of S&T Deutschland Holding AG, via Small & Mid Cap Investmentbank AG. This offer formed part of the non-cash increase in capital being undertaken for subscription by S&T AG, was for the consignment of consideration to S&T AG, and was based on the authorized prospectus of June 16, 2017, which included Appendix Nr. 1 dated August 21, 2017.
The term of subscription provided a large majority of the former shareholders of Kontron AG - who were caused by the merger of Kontron AG into S&T Deutschland Holding AG to become those on an interim basis of S&T Deutschland Holding AG - with the option of transferring their shares of S&T Deutschland Holding AG to Small & Mid Cap Investmentbank AG, which was to consign them as consideration to S&T AG, which was undertaking a non-cash capital increase. The former Kontron AG shareholders accepting this offer received for each set of 39 shares of S&T Deutschland Holding AG 10 new shares in S&T AG, plus a payment in cash amounting to EUR 0.15 per each of the latter. Any other remaining shares offered (fractional holdings, in that they were not to be evenly divided by 39) were purchased by S&T AG at an amount of EUR 3.11 per share of S&T Deutschland Holding AG. This thus represented cash compensation.
Through the public offer, S&T AG was supplied with a total of some 25,95 million S&T Deutschland Holding AG shares. These shares constituted consideration, or were acquired for cash. Factoring in the shares offered for purchase in cash will cause S&T AG - upon the conclusion of the transfers - to hold some 92.3 % of S&T Deutschland Holding AG (which is to be renamed Kontron S&T AG, Augsburg) The entry by S&T AG in the corporate registry of the increase in non-cash capital will cause its share capital to rise from the current EUR 50,917,864 by EUR 6.599.050 to EUR 57.516.914.
In accordance with the resolutions that it has passed and upon receiving the consent for such from the Supervisory Board, S&T AG plans to immediately perform the non-cash increase in capital, so that entry of such into the corporate registry maintained by the state court based in Linz, Austria can be applied for. The completion of such will be expeditiously followed by the application for listing of the new shares on the regulated market (Prime Standard) of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The company assumes that this authorization for listing by and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange - and thus the launching of trading in the new shares - will take place by October 18, 2017. Upon being authorized for listing on the securities exchange, the new shares will be listed and the pay out will be made in cash of EUR 0.15 for each new S&T AG share. These will be processed via the banks of securities deposit accounts. It will be accompanied by a booking out of the interim classification (ISIN DE000A2E4MU3) created for purposes of settlement. At approximately the same time, the banks of securities deposit accounts will pay out the cash going for shares in S&T Deutschland Holding AG at a rate of EUR 3.11 per share.
In the words of Hannes Niederhauser, CEO of S&T AG: "The high rate of acceptance of the offer to subscribe shows that the former shareholders of Kontron AG believe in the strategy being implemented by the Kontron S&T Group. The successful conclusion of this process has provided us with the basis for the furthering of the transformation of this new company into the leader on the world's Internet of Things market."
S&T AG is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange ( http://www.snt.at , ISIN AT0000A0E9W5, WKN A0X9EJ, SANT) and forms part of the Exchange's TecDAX index of leading high-techs. The company has some 3,700 staff members working for the Group's subsidiaries and operations, which are located in more than 25 countries. S&T is one of the leading suppliers of IT systems, services and solutions in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2016, S&T took a stake in Kontron AG, one of the leaders on the world's market for embedded computers. This transaction enhanced S&T's already large portfolio of proprietary technologies. These are used in the areas of IT appliances, cloud security, software, smart energy, and Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT) - a sector in which S&T forms the cutting edge.


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Aerodance Episode 3: Baker is out for Kindle, paperback, and is free to read with KU and Prime. The entirety of Aerodance grew from the trope of pilots and the relationship they have with their aircraft. In real militaries, pilots go up in whatever plane they get assigned to that day, even if their name is painted on some other fuselage. Maintenance requirements, evening out flight hours, and all the rest of that logistical stuff that keeps aircraft and their operators safe and effective makes the notion of giving Major Chet Gunpass his very own 150 million dollar Raptor impractical to the point of impossibility. But I've always been taken with images like Poe Dameron's Black One halloween-painted X-Wing, and the Red Barron's iconic red Albatross and Fokker. Those aircraft are distinctly tied to those pilots, and maybe there were a bunch of stenciled TIE fighters or Camel's and SPADs painted onto their fuselages. I don't know, but I've always romanticized the trope, so Aerodance is, at least in part, about Tyto and "his" Edge.
And Baker is so exciting and was so fun to write because it was finally time to dive into that relationship, and to start exploring how Tyto and his mysterious, potentially over-powered ship might factor into the brewing conflict at large. I hope you enjoy it.
Beyond all that, I want to blab about the next few months. It's summer, and I have a lot of time to write and a lot of stories I want to get out. Three seems like a good number of Aerodances to bite off at one time, so Episode 4 will be out in a few months. But I've got other fun stuff to write in the mean time. First up is a Blade Runner-Gibson-Dredd-Cyberpunk story called The Shadow Net. It takes place in Los Angeles a few decades in the future and follows Lee Bishop, a former corporate enforcer type, as he grapples with the notion of how all the data we post about ourselves online can almost take on a life and will of its own. After that, I'm eyeing something I'm calling Hammer Squad, which is probably best described as military-fantasy. It follows a few sledge-swinging, keg-toting dwarven warriors when they're assigned to a joint operation as part of a team with some men, elves, ratmen and some others. It takes place in the Chaos Trims My Beard universe, but decades before Edwayn and Venrick have their eventful weekend. After that, and after the long while that I've spent planning and plotting and coming up with more terrible puns through which to construct entire scenes around, I'm diving into Ratman Deux: Another Fantasy Noir.
Also, I'm working on something called Golem, which will be posted in chapters or substories here and other places for free.
The second episode of Aerodance, Through The Gates is now available on Kindle, the Unlimited/Prime lending library, and paperback.
It was a fun book to write, even if I spiraled in on myself in a lot of new and unusual ways in getting it done in a month. The book is longer than Pilots by about 12k words, though it didn't really hit me until I had the paperbacks in hand and compared them. I think I used the extra pages well, though. The (nearly assembled) crew of the Dragosa finds themselves in a bit of a bind with regards to getting off Tauro VI, and with the help of some new faces they set out to pull off something like a reverse starship heist. It's a weird term, but I hope you guys enjoy it.


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Oh, Inverted World: The Shins Live in Atlanta
Photos and Review by Tyler Sterling
Roughly thirty minutes and change into the Oh, Inverted World reunion tour, James Mercer coyly admits to the crowd, "… and that's the whole record. It's only thirty-three minutes or so." It was like seeing Plymouth rock in person—much more towering in concept than reality. The crowd had practically just synced into a shared frequency before the latest iteration of the lineup breezed through tracks from other albums in The Shins' catalogue.
If this is a review of a show honoring The Shins debut 2001 album, Oh, Inverted World!, we will invert the way we think about a live show. You know how this one started. There was applause in the beginning, throughout the show, and then at the end. Beer was spilled. A six-foot-something guy stood in the front, blocking the view for a few bitter audience members in his wake. Someone sang too loud during a quiet part of an acoustic track. We clapped. We shouted the lyrics back to the lyricist. And per contract with the musical gods, the band walked offstage at the end and then returned for an encore.
Let's redirect our focus to that moment—only thirty-three minutes or so into the show.
Find a comfortable spot atop Plymouth Rock and we will dive into this show at the most illogical and inverted place, right in the middle.
Part of the genius of The Shins' songwriting has always been how its unburdened by the weight of its many crafty lyrical turns of phrase. The album starts off with a mouthful—"I think I'll go home and mull this over/ Before I cram it down my throat/ At long last it's crashed, its colossal mass/ Has broken up into bits in my moat." Somehow, these silver dollar lyrics that would crush most songwriters into a paste are strung into a catchy Beatlesque melodies. These and many other words unintentionally inspired legions of bedroom poets to test their silver tongues and melodic chops in the early 2000s. However, Mercer's uncanny ability to synthesize enormous feelings into concise indie-pop songs always set him apart from the many bookish copycat killers.
Back to minute thirty-three or so. Once it was announced that the album was over, there was a brief moment when the venue lost gravity. Weightless, we noticed the massive wintery backdrop of the Oh, Inverted World! album cover projected behind the band who looked ready to jump into fan favorites from other records just to end our freefalling. Bottles of light beer floated in midair. Tour posters got caught in the rafters. It was a tangled-up room full of people who realized that they all separately discovered Plymouth Rock over twenty years ago and then collectively forgot what it looked like.
How could a piece of music with such a short runtime occupy so many minutes of our lives? How many times had each of us in the audience tried to duet with "New Slang" as it poured out of car speakers, just loud enough to hide behind Mercer's polished croon? How many daydreams have we conjured about these strange combinations of words and melody? Maybe Mercer was wondering the same thing. He had a lot riding on this record release as a college dropout who was given a chance to prove himself by the iconic Sub Pop Records. How many months did it take him to write and record each of the eleven tracks until he felt that Oh, Inverted World! was ready to represent him as a musician?
We can never really predict the lifespan of a piece of music. On a hot summer night in Atlanta, it became clear that the album isn't only thirty-three minutes or so long—it's over twenty years long and counting.
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Q: How to resolve this error :Only the original thread that created a view hierarchy can touch its views I got this error and added some logs to see what was going on and I am a bit confused.
I have 3 fragments, Category, Symbol, Meaning. The each have a recyclerview. The initial fragment for the app is CategoryFragment. It shows the list of categories and when a category is selected it navigates to SymbolFragment. This shows a list of symbols and when you click on one of them it navigates you to MeaningFragment. All of the data in the various lists are in a Room database.
This is what the Category section looks like:
Log.d("Dreams", "Category before Coroutine Thread: " + Thread.currentThread().name.toString())
        viewModel.viewModelScope.launch(Dispatchers.IO) {
            Log.d("Dreams", "Category in Coroutine Thread: " + Thread.currentThread().name.toString())
            viewModel.getAllCategories().collect() {
                categoryAdapter.submitList(it)
            }

        }

This Category one does not cause the Exception. The code works fine
When this is run the Log shows:
D/Dreams: Category before Coroutine Thread: main
D/Dreams: Category in Coroutine Thread: DefaultDispatcher-worker-1

The SymbolFragment code looks like this:
Log.d("Dreams", "Symbol before Coroutine Thread: " + Thread.currentThread().name.toString())
        //lifecycle.coroutineScope.launch {
        viewModel.viewModelScope.launch(Dispatchers.IO) {
            Log.d("Dreams", "Symbol in Coroutine Thread: " + Thread.currentThread().name.toString())
            viewModel.symbolIdentitiesByCategoryIdentity(categoryIdentity).collect() {
                symbolAdapter.submitList(it)
            }
        }

This DOES generate the Exception and the log shows:
D/Dreams: Symbol before Coroutine Thread: main
D/Dreams: Symbol in Coroutine Thread: DefaultDispatcher-worker-1

If I un-comment the lifecycle.coroutineScope.launch line and
comment the viewModel.viewModelScope.launch(Dispatcher.IO),
the Symbol Fragment runs fine. The log looks like this:
D/Dreams: Symbol before Coroutine Thread: main
D/Dreams: Symbol in Coroutine Thread: main

This makes sense since both are on main.
The Meaning Fragment has the same behavior as the Symbol Fragment.
But this leaves me with a couple of questions:

*

*Why does Category not get an error since the threads are
different after
viewModel.viewModelScope.launch(Dispatchers.IO) ?

*In Symbol, lifecycle.coroutineScope.launch does keep me on
main allowing me to update the symbolAdapter's List. However,
I don't think I want to be on main because
viewModel.symbolIdentitiesByCategory() accesses a Room DB
which does I/O. I think you don't want to do I/O on main.
Any comments are appreciated.

A: It will be safest to call submitList() from the main application thread.
You should not need Dispatchers.IO here, if symbolIdentitiesByCategory() returns a Flow. Room uses its own dispatcher for that flow; you would specify the dispatcher on which you wanted to collect the data.
But, for cases, where you do indeed need Dispatchers.IO for some work, you can switch back to the main application thread using withContext():
viewModel.viewModelScope.launch(Dispatchers.IO) {
  viewModel.symbolIdentitiesByCategoryIdentity(categoryIdentity).collect() {
    withContext(Dispatchers.Main) {
      symbolAdapter.submitList(it)
    }
  }
}

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I'm using the RetrOrangePi 4.2 FULL "SLIM PLUS" distro and when I save to the favorites menu, favorites (and last played games) don't survive reboot. Any ideas?
A and B seem to be switched in Emulation Station but not in games. Is this normal? If I switch in ES will that switch the interface for the games too?


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Why Hewlett-Packard took Apple's iPod shortcut
Monday, February 2, 2004 9:03 am 16 Comments
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"Last summer, Hewlett-Packard Co. found itself in an awkward position for a premier computer company: It hadn't fielded a single candidate in the fast-growing market of digital music players. HP had gone through numerous music player designs and had built several prototypes to show to focus groups around the country. But people kept saying they preferred the celebrated iPod from Apple Computer Inc.," Terril Yue Jones reports for the Los Angeles Times.
Jones reports, "Tom Anderson, HP's vice president of marketing for consumer PCs, couldn't say he was surprised. The self-proclaimed gadget freak had snapped up an iPod soon after Apple introduced the sleek white devices in October 2001, loading it with classical music and tunes from the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. He knew the iPod was the gold standard. 'Apple did everything right,' Anderson said. Everything HP did, he added, 'looked like a compromise.'"
"So HP switched gears. It dropped an industry bombshell at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month when it announced it would sell the iPod under the HP brand name," Jones reports. "Apple sold 1.45 million iPods last year, according to IDC, and the arrival of "hPods" will instantly triple or quadruple sales of the device, technology analyst Rob Enderle predicts. 'This deal explodes their potential,' he said."
Monday, February 2, 2004 at 10:17 am
"The arrival of "hPods" will instantly triple or quadruple sales of the device…"
Huh? How would it triple or quadruple sales of an already cross-platform device???
"…technology analyst Rob Enderle predicts."
Oh, this tool again. Never mind.
It'll be interesting to see the actual breakdown of the iPod/hPod sales, but if there's a big spike in Pod sales, it will be due to the iPod becoming ubiquitous and mature, not because of HP's clone.
MCCFR
Oh well, now Enderle says it's a good move I can breathe easy.
For a moment there, I was thinking my choice of an iPod was wrong – but now HP are there lending credibility to my purchasing decision.
Your assignment for the next 24 hours:
Rob Enderle: analyst or snake-oil salesman, discuss.
jfbiii
Tool-boy Rob is anxious to get on the bandwagon, now? But Tool-boy, iPod won't play WMA. Tool-boy, you'll have to use iTMS and iTunes to be able to use the iPod.
Poor Tool-boy. Stuck having to say something nice about someone who isn't paying for it. Is there anything sadder than a prostitute who turns a trick but doesn't get paid?
rockjohnson
This deal will probably triple (x)Pod sales simply because of HP's sales & distribution network. Apple has a historically small and crappy distribution network. The only people that really do a good job of selling Apple products is Apple. Have you been to CompUSA lately. Their merchandising is horrible; their Apple merchandising is better than the rest of the store but still isn't very good. HP on the other hand can sell (x)Pods at almost any electronic/computer retailer in the country. It's a matter of how easy is it to get access to the products and who can help with the marketing of those products.
At some point pure herd statistics come into play due to marketshare. People tend to buy what other people around them have. If the (x)Pod marketshare climbs to ~40% to ~50% it creates a type of windfall marketing opportunity where everyone just calls portable music players iPods, whether they are made by Apple or not (i.e. "Can you get me a Coke from the store?" "Sure, what kind would you like.") You just have to make sure that the distribution is there to handle the demand. People won't purchase products that they can't get access to. This has been a problem with the Mac and I'm hoping has learned from the Mac distribution problems. Don't license the software, OEM the hardware.
M. T. MacPhee
re: rockjohnson
Yes! OEM the hardware.
Wouldn't a nice blue G5 HPServe look good in those enterprise IT rooms?
Ender-ho seems to need a lesson in basic economics. Apple has over 60% of the HD-based market right now. For the sake of argument, lets say the market is 100 people. So 62 people are already buying iPods. So, according to Ender-ho, when the hPod comes on the market, suddenly iPods are going to be sold to 180 or 200 people? Clearly, for this to work the market has to double based solely on the arrival of the hPod (B/C even if the market was 200 (doubled) before the hPod came out, the iPod would claim about 124 of that based on current market share). Otherwise, the market is not big enough, since the iPod already claims over 60%.
SO, apparently Ender-ho thinks the current market for HD-based players is going to double or triple, presumably because people are clamoring for an HP iPod.
OK, I didn't do the best job explaining my point, but to me, it just doesn't seem logically possible. Not that it is surprising, considering the source.
Rock- while it is true that HP has a wider network, you can't compare Apple's Mac network to their iPod network. Circuit City, Best Buy, Target, Crutchfield. None of them sell Macs, they all sell iPods. Clearly, HP will improve the distribution, but most major electronics stores (at least the ones that sell HD MP3 players) already have iPods.
I don't know what the iPod's market share is overall, but it says in the article it is already over 60% of the HD-based MP3 market.
DrBadAss
In reference to the previous article about MS, Rio, and all the other little crying bitches in the industry, let me highlight a quote. "…will instantly triple or quadruple sales of the device…"
Now that we have the opinion of a PC loving analyst on the table, tell us again why Apple should even blink when you open your mouths.
Newmanstein
HP chose the iPod because they figured out just how difficult it was to create from scratch an online music store that is realy functional. Dell can't write software, so they made their predictable choice. Now ask Walmart and Coca-cola how difficult it is to create an intuitive online
music store. Best example…where is Micro$in's online store??…ha…found out it's much more difficult than a word processor, a database/calculator, a 2D presentation, and a still cheesy after version 6 IE web browser that got tromped by a beta Safari.
HP's move was very smart and their decision will bring them the biggest and quickest gains. If you can't lick 'em, then join 'em. In this case, this really makes sense because Apple has such an edge over everything else. This is a win/win situation for both companies. Others will eventually follow suit. Like Stevie boy said, everything is moving towards the cell phone and todays rumor of a iPod built into a phone makes sense. Apple licenses the technology, and the phone companies do what they do best also. Another future win/win as long as Apple has some control of quality control.


We speculate software and data migration are frequently urged by IT infrastructure modernization needs (emergencies would it be more precise to say perhaps) at the enterprise level which often are nearly related with platform obsolescence and associated maintenance costs. A possibly even more appreciable benefit might be the need of integration between heterogeneous information systems and data bases, the need of being able to easily connect information sources, to create access ports to facilitate extraction and derivation of knowledge from such sources helping at the management level at the decision-support systems level in a more natural and easy way. In other words, the real value of modernization would be to support BI-like strata pointing -for sure- to a better CRM platform among others. We feel migration is probably not perceived as a transitory goal, more as a mean, so the added-value might lie outside possibly hidden with respect to the whole migration effort per se. It seems to me that the vertical road which leads from software migration and modernization until reaching BI-end-user is perceived as a too long one, one that is hard to appreciate at first sight at the management level. My question to myself would be whether that has to be so. Shouldn't migration tools and message be pointing as layers enablers for the BI layer, in a more directly way. And if the answer is yes we should be asking ourselves how such migration tools can be adapted for closing the gap.


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Can we fix it for a jolly Christmas No 1? Yes we can!
By Craig Brown for the Daily Mail
Published: 19:42 EDT, 19 November 2012 | Updated: 19:47 EDT, 19 November 2012
Can he fix it? Bob the Builder
With Nadine Dorries stuck in the jungle, out of phone's way, journalists have been obliged to look elsewhere for inane quotes on topical issues.
Flicking through their contact books, past A for Abbott, Diane; B for Bercow, Sally; C for Charles, Prince, Clifford, Max, and Currie, Edwina; and D for Dell'Olio, Nancy, their eyes must surely light up when at last they arrive at P for psychologist.
You see, even the most eager rentaquote celebrities can sometimes go missing, but you can be sure there'll always be at least one psychologist available for an instant diagnosis.
The other day there was an item in The Guardian about which pop song would be this year's Christmas No 1. In recent years, went the argument, there has been a swing away from the traditional novelty numbers like Ernie and Grandad towards gloomier, more heart-rending ballads such as last year's Wherever You Are by The Military Wives.
This year, the hot favourites seem to be Gabrielle Aplin singing The Power Of Love and Robbie Williams and others singing He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother on behalf of the families of the Hillsborough victims. Neither of these songs are what used to be regarded as Christmassy: they lack chuckles, or razzle dazzle, or a popular children's figure such as Mr Blobby or Bob The Builder.
So, who to phone for an instant opinion on this sudden slide into gloom? With Prince Charles busy dancing with natives, and Max Clifford rehearsing for his interview for the post of Director-General of the BBC, the only person at hand with an opinion was A Psychologist.
The psychologist in question was a Dr Michael Lowis, who is qualified to talk about Christmas No 1s because he has, it seems, 'studied the emotional effects of music'.
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'Music is a great social experience and we tend to go for music that reflects our emotional lives,' he opined. 'We want to feel comforted. If you have a society of people who are feeling more introspective because they can't afford to splash out on Christmas presents, they want songs that reflect that.'
Like so many of these instant sociological explanations, this one carries a hint of common sense, however momentary. After all, if you or I were feeling depressed, might we not abandon Bob The Builder or Benny Hill for something a little more downbeat, a little more soulful?
But it doesn't take long before the cracks start to appear in the argument. For a start, if you can't afford a Christmas present, how could you afford to buy a Christmas CD? It's not as if sad songs come any cheaper than happy songs.
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More importantly, Dr Lowis doesn't appear to have done his homework. If he had looked at the old pop charts, he would have soon realised that, at times of national doom and gloom, the Christmas top ten is, more often than not, stuffed with the cheeriest of tunes.
Let's travel back to 1973, when Britain was in a terrible state, just before the announcement of the Three-Day Week. On December 12, the minutes of the Heath Cabinet recorded: 'The Chancellor said the country was now facing the gravest economic crisis since World War II.'
Yet the nation did not rush out to buy Leonard Cohen or The Who. The Christmas No 1 for 1973 was Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade, and behind it I Love You Love Me Love by Gary Glitter, You Won't Find Another Fool Like Me by The New Seekers, I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day by Wizzard and My Coo Ca Choo by Alvin Stardust.
Of these, only The New Seekers' song could be described as even remotely sad, and its very slightly sad lyrics are offset by a notably chirpy chorus of la-la-las.
Five years later came the infamous Winter Of Discontent, widely seen as the worst ever. If Dr Lowis was correct in his belief that we buy miserable records in times of misery, then the Christmas top ten of 1978 would have been filled with songs by Pink Floyd.
But what do we find? The 1978 Christmas No 1 was Mary's Boy Child by Boney M, with The Village People's YMCA at No 2, and the comical A Taste Of Aggro by The Barron Knights at No 3
And what of Bob The Builder? After being Christmas No 1 with his first song Can We Fix It?, in which week of which year was his second single riding high in the charts? The answer is September 15, 2001 — just four days after the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers.
This leads me to conclude that A Psychologist has, once again, got it wrong. The Christmas top ten has never been, and will never be, a barometer of 'the national mood'. And, if you don't believe me, just ask Bob The Builder.
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