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package dagger.internal.codegen;

import static com.google.auto.common.MoreElements.getLocalAndInheritedMethods;
import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState;
import static com.squareup.javapoet.MethodSpec.constructorBuilder;
import static com.squareup.javapoet.MethodSpec.methodBuilder;
import static dagger.internal.codegen.AnnotationSpecs.Suppression.UNCHECKED;
import static dagger.internal.codegen.GeneratedComponentModel.MethodSpecKind.COMPONENT_METHOD;
import static dagger.internal.codegen.GeneratedComponentModel.MethodSpecKind.CONSTRUCTOR;
import static dagger.internal.codegen.GeneratedComponentModel.MethodSpecKind.INITIALIZE_METHOD;
import static dagger.internal.codegen.GeneratedComponentModel.TypeSpecKind.SUBCOMPONENT;
import static javax.lang.model.element.Modifier.FINAL;
import static javax.lang.model.element.Modifier.PRIVATE;

import com.google.auto.common.MoreTypes;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableListMultimap;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.google.common.collect.Multimaps;
import com.squareup.javapoet.ClassName;
import com.squareup.javapoet.CodeBlock;
import com.squareup.javapoet.FieldSpec;
import com.squareup.javapoet.MethodSpec;
import com.squareup.javapoet.TypeSpec;
import dagger.internal.codegen.ComponentDescriptor.ComponentMethodDescriptor;
import java.util.List;
import javax.lang.model.util.Elements;

/** Creates the implementation class for a component or subcomponent. */
abstract class AbstractComponentWriter {
  // TODO(dpb): Make all these fields private after refactoring is complete.
  protected final Elements elements;
  protected final DaggerTypes types;
  private final CompilerOptions compilerOptions;
  protected final BindingGraph graph;
  protected final SubcomponentNames subcomponentNames;
  private final ComponentBindingExpressions bindingExpressions;
  protected final ComponentRequirementFields componentRequirementFields;
  protected final GeneratedComponentModel generatedComponentModel;
  private final ComponentRequirementField.Factory componentRequirementFieldFactory;
  protected final MethodSpec.Builder constructor = constructorBuilder().addModifiers(PRIVATE);
  private final OptionalFactories optionalFactories;
  private ComponentBuilder builder;
  private boolean done;

  /**
   * For each component requirement, the builder field. This map is empty for subcomponents that do
   * not use a builder.
   */
  private final ImmutableMap<ComponentRequirement, FieldSpec> builderFields;

  AbstractComponentWriter(
      DaggerTypes types,
      Elements elements,
      CompilerOptions compilerOptions,
      BindingGraph graph,
      GeneratedComponentModel generatedComponentModel,
      SubcomponentNames subcomponentNames,
      OptionalFactories optionalFactories,
      ComponentBindingExpressions bindingExpressions,
      ComponentRequirementFields componentRequirementFields) {
    this.types = types;
    this.elements = elements;
    this.compilerOptions = compilerOptions;
    this.graph = graph;
    this.subcomponentNames = subcomponentNames;
    this.generatedComponentModel = generatedComponentModel;
    this.optionalFactories = optionalFactories;
    this.bindingExpressions = bindingExpressions;
    // TODO(dpb): Allow ComponentBuilder.create to return a no-op object
    if (hasBuilder(graph)) {
      builder =
          ComponentBuilder.create(
              generatedComponentModel.name(), graph, subcomponentNames, elements, types);
      builderFields = builder.builderFields();
    } else {
      builderFields = ImmutableMap.of();
    }
    this.componentRequirementFields = componentRequirementFields;
    this.componentRequirementFieldFactory =
        new ComponentRequirementField.Factory(generatedComponentModel, builderFields);
  }

  protected AbstractComponentWriter(
      AbstractComponentWriter parent,
      GeneratedComponentModel generatedComponentModel,
      BindingGraph graph,
      ComponentRequirementFields componentRequirementFields) {
    this(
        parent.types,
        parent.elements,
        parent.compilerOptions,
        graph,
        generatedComponentModel,
        parent.subcomponentNames,
        parent.optionalFactories,
        parent.bindingExpressions.forChildComponent(
            graph, generatedComponentModel, componentRequirementFields),
        componentRequirementFields);
  }

  /**
   * Constructs a {@link TypeSpec.Builder} that models the {@link BindingGraph} for this component.
   * This is only intended to be called once (and will throw on successive invocations). If the
   * component must be regenerated, use a new instance.
   */
  final TypeSpec.Builder write() {
    checkState(!done, "ComponentWriter has already been generated.");
    generatedComponentModel.addSupertype(graph.componentType());
    if (hasBuilder(graph)) {
      addBuilder();
    }

    getLocalAndInheritedMethods(
            graph.componentDescriptor().componentDefinitionType(), types, elements)
        .forEach(method -> generatedComponentModel.claimMethodName(method.getSimpleName()));

    addFactoryMethods();
    createComponentRequirementFields();
    addInterfaceMethods();
    addSubcomponents();
    addInitializeMethods();
    generatedComponentModel.addMethod(CONSTRUCTOR, constructor.build());
    if (graph.componentDescriptor().kind().isTopLevel()) {
      optionalFactories.addMembers(generatedComponentModel);
    }
    done = true;
    return generatedComponentModel.generate();
  }

  private static boolean hasBuilder(BindingGraph graph) {
    ComponentDescriptor component = graph.componentDescriptor();
    return component.kind().isTopLevel() || component.builderSpec().isPresent();
  }

  /**
   * Adds a builder type.
   */
  private void addBuilder() {
    addBuilderClass(builder.typeSpec());

    constructor.addParameter(builderName(), "builder");
  }

  /**
   * Adds {@code builder} as a nested builder class. Root components and subcomponents will nest
   * this in different classes.
   */
  protected abstract void addBuilderClass(TypeSpec builder);

  protected final ClassName builderName() {
    return builder.name();
  }

  /** Adds component factory methods. */
  protected abstract void addFactoryMethods();

  private void createComponentRequirementFields() {
    builderFields
        .keySet()
        .stream()
        .map(componentRequirementFieldFactory::forBuilderField)
        .forEach(componentRequirementFields::add);
  }

  private void addInterfaceMethods() {
    /* Each component method may have been declared by several supertypes. We want to implement only
     * one method for each distinct signature.*/
    ImmutableListMultimap<MethodSignature, ComponentMethodDescriptor> componentMethodsBySignature =
        Multimaps.index(graph.componentDescriptor().entryPointMethods(), this::getMethodSignature);
    for (List<ComponentMethodDescriptor> methodsWithSameSignature :
        Multimaps.asMap(componentMethodsBySignature).values()) {
      ComponentMethodDescriptor anyOneMethod = methodsWithSameSignature.stream().findAny().get();
      generatedComponentModel.addMethod(
          COMPONENT_METHOD, bindingExpressions.getComponentMethod(anyOneMethod));
    }
  }

  private MethodSignature getMethodSignature(ComponentMethodDescriptor method) {
    return MethodSignature.forComponentMethod(
        method, MoreTypes.asDeclared(graph.componentType().asType()), types);
  }

  private void addSubcomponents() {
    for (BindingGraph subgraph : graph.subgraphs()) {
      generatedComponentModel.addType(
          SUBCOMPONENT, new SubcomponentWriter(this, subgraph).write().build());
    }
  }

  private static final int INITIALIZATIONS_PER_INITIALIZE_METHOD = 100;

  private void addInitializeMethods() {
    List<List<CodeBlock>> partitions =
        Lists.partition(
            generatedComponentModel.getInitializations(), INITIALIZATIONS_PER_INITIALIZE_METHOD);

    UniqueNameSet methodNames = new UniqueNameSet();
    for (List<CodeBlock> partition : partitions) {
      String methodName = methodNames.getUniqueName("initialize");
      MethodSpec.Builder initializeMethod =
          methodBuilder(methodName)
              .addModifiers(PRIVATE)
              /* TODO(gak): Strictly speaking, we only need the suppression here if we are also
               * initializing a raw field in this method, but the structure of this code makes it
               * awkward to pass that bit through.  This will be cleaned up when we no longer
               * separate fields and initilization as we do now. */
              .addAnnotation(AnnotationSpecs.suppressWarnings(UNCHECKED))
              .addCode(CodeBlocks.concat(partition));
      if (hasBuilder(graph)) {
        initializeMethod.addParameter(builderName(), "builder", FINAL);
        constructor.addStatement("$L(builder)", methodName);
      } else {
        constructor.addStatement("$L()", methodName);
      }
      generatedComponentModel.addMethod(INITIALIZE_METHOD, initializeMethod.build());
    }
  }
}

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The pics looked like fun. Sorry 'bout your yard.
We have a thistle problem that's pretty annoying. I just pull them out but it's so tough to get the whole root so they grow back right away.
wags83 wrote: Source of the post We have a thistle problem that's pretty annoying. I just pull them out but it's so tough to get the whole root so they grow back right away.
I haven't at this point. It's mostly in and around the garden, so I was trying to avoid that but I might have to do something at least for the yard. I'll just keep pulling in the garden.
It's mid October and my yard looks better than it did during the summer. I'll be mowing into December if this keeps up.
Aerated. How do I over seed?
ejhartman91 wrote: Aerated. How do I over seed?
Get some bags of seed and spread it all over. Do you have a broadcast spreader? You can also rent a fancy machine that puts the seed into the ground.
Most people say to overseed in the fall because you can't seed in the spring when you put down weed preventative, that stop stops seed from growing.
Corey said there is a Scott's app that tells you when to do everything. Corey, does it take location into account?
Downloaded the Scott's app. This is cool. I'm assuming I can substitute other fertilizer products for the Scott's stuff recommended in the app (i.e. Menard's) I actually went out and bought a Scott's broadcast spreader to replace my crappy sub $20 Yardworks spreader from Menard's. I also bought some seed (I will be overseeding to help repair my yard) and Fall fertilizer.
Mowed last night since the next week has a high of 45 basically. Maybe that will be the last mow of the season?
I mowed earlier this week and put down fall season fertilizer. Hoping this is the last mow for the year. Definitely need to take my mower somewhere to get it tuned up.
I wanted to mow once more just to mulch up the last few leaves that didn't get raked but didn't really get a chance. If it warms up this weekend, maybe I will Sunday or Monday.
I need to mow one more time at some point to mulch up the leaves. We didn't rake at all this year since we have two small trees and the leaves never really blew in our yard.
We finished raking last night, but we spaced it out enough that there are leaves in areas where we had earlier raked. Big tree in the backyard is completely done dropping leaves but front yard has a lot left to fall.
When are we doing the spring stuff boys?


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The Objectivism Meta-Blog Discussion
Intellectual Activism and Study Groups
Reblogged: Who Framed the Second Amendment?
By Rule of Reason Blog,
January 17, 2013 in The Objectivism Meta-Blog Discussion
Rule of Reason Blog
"If there's even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try," said President Barack Obama.
In the fantasy world of Left/Liberalism, in which the vacuity of preventive, positivist law reigns and is unquestioned and adopted as policy, countless lives will have been "saved" with gun bans, smoking bans, big soft drink bans, msg-bans, transfat bans, medical insuranceless bans (Obamacare), lead gas bans, "dirty" energy bans, pollution bans, drug bans, asbestos bans, greenhouse gas bans, Islamophobic speech bans, hate speech bans, and so on. But how, then, is it proven that even one life has been "saved"? Will the Left/Liberals be able to trot out the single life that has been saved? Will that single individual become the poster child of tyranny?
Let's up the ante, and move on to "countless" lives saved. Where are the graphs, the pie charts, the statistics to come from? Is there a kind of gigantic federal database that collects, analyzes, correlates and decollates "non-events" to prove the efficacy of bans? Oh, they can be produced, but will they be as credible as, say, the numbers produced by the wizards of University of East Anglia to "prove" anthropological global warming?
The absurdity of bans is nearly self-evident, but not so much that liberals and leftists can grasp it. Were it as self-evident as a sunrise, we would not be bothered with pontificating, sanctimonious rhetoric surrounding the signing of executive orders to "save" one life, never mind countless lives.
Let's examine the absurdity for a moment, even though Ayn Rand counseled (through one of her villains), "Don't bother to examine a folly – ask yourself only what it accomplishes."*
The purpose of any ban is to cause an absence of a consequence. The absence or delinquency of a consequence is held as proof of the efficacy of a ban. Thus, the presence of a gun in someone's hand will likely cause the death of a child. The absence of a gun in someone's hand will result in the child not being killed by a gun. In logic, this is the fallacy of attempting to prove a negative. The absence of something causes a non-event. In fact, it causes nothing. Ergo, a universal gun ban – of handguns, automatics, clip-loaded, whatever – will consequently cause incalculable non-events.
Let's imagine more non-events. That guy you passed on the street did not try to rob you because he had no gun. Because there are no guns in your house, your wife, son, or daughter did not try to kill you with a gun because there are no guns in your house. Your three-year-old kid did not accidentally kill herself while playing with a gun because there were no guns for her to play with. If your son is mentally unbalanced, he could not go to a local school with a gun and begin killing students and teachers.
Just imagine: If no guns had been allowed in Newtown, Connecticut, Adam Lanza would not have been able to go to the Sandy Hook school to commit a massacre.
Just imagine: If George Zimmerman had not been carrying a gun that fateful evening, Trayvon Martin would still be alive today. Possibly he would be in jail for assault and battery, and Zimmerman beaten to a pulp by a punk and still recovering from his wounds. But, the saved life is the important thing, you see.
Okay. No guns. But that does not rule out clubs, knives, frying pans, tire irons, rolling pins, or other objects that can be used to kill. I can't recall the number of times the cartoon character and moonshiner Snuffy Smith was beaned by his wife with a rolling pin. Those cartoons were dangerous. Provocative. And sanctioned violence! Then there was Joe Palooka, and Popeye!
So, just imagine: There's this unstable fellow who's really, really mad at the world. At his parents. At his siblings. At his teachers. His classmates. At that girl who won't look at him twice because he's wearing razor blade earrings and has a steel pin lanced through his lower lip to complement his multi-dyed semi-Mohawk hairdo with a cowlick and the stud affixed to his tongue. He's so upset, he sits in his room and pounds the top of his desk in frustration and anger and just knows that he is alone in his victimhood. Nobody understands him. He's the only sane person in his known world. What's a guy to do? It's hopeless. He's doomed to unhappiness and solitude! He may as well try to make a statement, or die trying. And make others die while he tries. It's all their fault, you see, that he's so terribly frustrated! He shakes his feeble fist in the air, and cries, "Cruel world! Hear me roar!"
In the fantasy world of Left/Liberal bans, he calms down, cleans himself up and finds a job at the local Burger King, or volunteers for community service, or masters quantum mechanics. Why? Because he had no access to guns! No guns in his house! No gun sales allowed in his town! No gun ownership allowed in it whatsoever! Guns aren't even available for purchase across the state line. Not anywhere. All is peaceful. Nothing happens, except that flowers sing as he passes by, everyone smiles at him, and the world throbs with the placid quietude of a gun-less society.
The fantasy world of the gun-haters is about as real as Toontown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
In the real world, he finds a tire iron or baseball bat and goes to the nearest primary school and starts killing children and teachers with it. But first murders his parents and siblings. See? It was a no-gun non-event! Lives were saved from guns! Think of all the disgruntled former employees who can't go to their former workplace and start shooting. Of all the gang members who won't be able to rub out their neighborhood rivals. Of all the bank robbers who can't rob banks because of the absence of guns. Of all the men and women whose spouses had no guns with which to punish them.
By now, one should be convinced that banning guns – any type of gun – from sale or ownership, will have only two real-world consequences: criminals and the criminally insane will get them somehow, somewhere; and victims, real and potential, will be disarmed against them. There will be real, demonstrable events, which the MSM and anti-gun advocates will ignore or gloss over or explain away.
Aside from scrutinizing the deadly fantasy worlds of the Adam Lanzas and Andre Breiviks and Timothy McVeighs of the world, the Technicolor fantasy worlds of anti-gun advocates should also be subjected to close examination. It will be seen that their projections and forecasts have all the substance and veracity of a computer model predicting next week's weather.
Then we'll know who framed the Second Amendment – and why.
*Ellsworth Toohey, p. 666, in The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand (1943). New York: Penguin/Plume Centennial Edition, 2005.
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Seven Seas Explorer Review
Seven Seas Explorer Cruise Reviews
Lisbon to Europe - Western Mediterranean Regent Seven Seas Explorer Cruise Reviews
Cruise Line Regent Seven Seas Cruises Regent Seven Seas Cruises Ship Seven Seas Explorer Seven Seas Mariner Destination Africa Europe - Western Mediterranean Mediterranean Spain Transatlantic Departure Port Los Angeles Miami Athens (Lavrion) Athens (Piraeus) Barcelona Cape Town Civitavecchia Copacabana Beach Copenhagen Haifa Lisbon London (Canary Wharf) London (Southampton) London (Tilbury) London (Tower Bridge) Los Angeles Miami Monaco Monte Carlo Oslo Piraeus Reykjavik Rio de Janeiro Rome (Civitavecchia) Santiago (Valparaiso) Southampton Stockholm Tilbury Valparaiso Venice
5 Lisbon to Europe - Western Mediterranean Regent Seven Seas Explorer Cruise Reviews
42trvl
Luxurious Ship BUT
Seven Seas Explorer Europe - Western Mediterranean
The ship is absolutely beautiful - both public spaces and cabins. Like a very luxurious hotel. By appearances, you could easily forget that you were on a cruise ship - more like being at a Ritz Carlton or Four Seasons, and our Explorer ... Read More
The ship is absolutely beautiful - both public spaces and cabins. Like a very luxurious hotel. By appearances, you could easily forget that you were on a cruise ship - more like being at a Ritz Carlton or Four Seasons, and our Explorer Suite category cabin was extremely comfortable. But that was the problem. It was all about appearances. That may be enough for some, and you would not be disappointed in terms of high end comfort. The library, lounges, restaurants were all very attractive. But then the service. Didn't even come close to matching the surroundings. I actually found some staff downright hostile. They seemed so unhappy so much of the time. Our butler was nowhere to be found the afternoon of embarkation and for the rest of the cruise it was like pulling teeth to get anything out of him. At one point he threw away newspapers I had set aside on our sofa (needed them for work) and he took it upon himself to throw them out when he brought in the newer newspapers then tried to blame it on the room steward who swore up and down that he never throws anything away if it's not in the garbage can, which I believe because when I did have things right next to the garbage can to throw out (they didn't fit in the can) he did not take them. The room steward seemed pleasant enough, but overworked and doing his work somewhat begrudgingly. They seemed really "cheap" about things. For example, a spare roll of toilet paper is usually kept in the bathrooms. They would never replenish this - even after we had to call for more tp and you could clearly see there were only a few sheets left on the existing roll. You would think once that happened they would be better about restocking. The last night, we needed to take tp out of one bathroom for another. Toiletries were never replenished, even when soap was down to a sliver. Service was quick and perfunctory. We had to ask multiple times for them to put the cushions back out on the deck chairs. I understand taking them in at night in inclement weather, but even when we were in port overnight with very pleasant weather, they would not put anything out and often we had to do ourselves. Not a big deal, but you would think at these prices they could make sure details like that were attended to. Also, with all it's beauty, the ship itself still seemed kind of odd. We are used to the creakiness when a ship is at sea. But this one made all kinds of weird noises at all different hours - especially at night. We did not get one decent night's sleep over the 12 days we were on board. Dining was okay, but varied widely from one venue to another. Anywhere from bad to pretty good. Never really good. Prime 7 and Pacific Rim were very disappointing. We get better steaks at our local diner, and the Asian food left us not feeling great and very thirsty all night long. Chartreuse was the only specialty restaurant we enjoyed and would return to. Compass Rose was decent with good service. The Pool Grill lunches were okay if you stuck to the salads, but the hot foods were pretty awful. Husband said it was the worst hamburger he ever had, and I could barely eat two bites of the chicken wings I ordered. Pizza was dull and flavorless. In Veranda, lunch was okay. Dinner (when it became an Italian restaurant) varied. Breakfast was not good at all if you wanted anything beyond eggs. On the plus side, we did not go hungry, but compared to other cruise ships we have been on, the pickings were slim and with very limited hours and availability. Servers for the large part seemed unhappy. Most did their jobs, but that's it - just did their jobs. Once in a while you would get someone with a smile and that was such an exciting moment due to the rarity. The ports and itinerary for this particular cruise were, for the large part, very good. That's why we picked this cruise (Lisbon, Porto, A Coruna, Bilbao, Bordeaux, L'Orient, St. Malo, Guernsey, Southampton). We did Lisbon on our own, but I heard from other passengers who did pre-cruise through Regent that there was a bit of a cattle car feel. We then felt that throughout the cruise with any excursions booked through Regent. They may be free (as part of "all inclusive"), but be warned. You get what you pay for. Generally speaking the Excursions staff was clueless. Not only were they uniformly not very nice, they knew little to nothing about the ports. On other cruise lines, we have gotten much more detailed port information, including maps, the night before and there is usually someone you can speak with on the ship who has some familiarity with the ports. With this we had to wait for a local representative to come on board the ship the "day of" before we could see any map or get any local iniformation. The excursions themselves were pretty mediocre. Every day we saw or heard stories of people getting left behind or "lost." You are sent out in groups way too big to get much out of anything. The tours were not all that informative and very poorly timed. There was a lot of wasted time, and when you were given any free time it was usually not in the center of things. Huge variations among guides depending on the luck of the draw with which bus you ended up on. Some people complained that they couldn't even understand their guides. In one port, even the guide was wondering who had arranged such a tour. We were left with nothing to do except have tea for an hour and a half in the middle of nowhere - at the expense of seeing the island. As compared to other cruise lines we have been on (Crystal, for example) or when doing independent touring, Regent appears to be scraping pretty close to bottom of the barrel in terms of what tour companies they are using. And you never once saw a Regent rep accompanying any of the tours to see how things were going, nor was there any effort to get feedback from passengers. Clearly they take a "hands over one's ears, hear no evil, see no evil" approach to things. Another big shortcoming was the quality of WiFi. No excuse in this day and age, especially on such a new ship, for it to be so erratic and unreliable. We have been on much older ships in the middle of nowhere with much better service. They have clearly skimped in this area and have no interest in serving their customers except for collecting the money for usage. Fortunately, the wifi plan was included with our stateroom, otherwise I would have been furious for spending so much and getting what we got. Can't really comment on the entertainment. Especially with living in NY, we go to see theater, music and other entertainment quite often, so don't really look for it on a cruise ship. Although on many cruises we have been on, they have had some fun and different offerings that we don't get to here in the city. Not on this cruise. Nothing was really to our taste and the little bit we did see and hear, was not particularly impressive. The one thing I will give them high marks for was the Enrichment lecturer - an instructor from NY. She was the only person we heard from throughout the entire cruise who had any insight about anything. She was smart and well spoken, and we enjoyed her lectures. Overall, it's tough that we were left feeling the way we did. Great ship, great cabin, great itinerary, but the service end of things made us feel really badly and makes us doubt we would try Regent again. Maybe they were very good once, but it seems that since NCL acquired them things have gone downhill. The ship may be fancier, but it's still Norwegian Cruise Lines - not one of our favorites. A cruise is about so much more than just your room and surroundings. And maybe it is just how this particular ship is managed, but there definitely appears to be a morale problem among employees. Even higher level officers. On just about every other cruise we have been (several of them over multiple brands), the officers are much more visible and there is more opportunity to interact with them. Here, there was no effort whatsoever. To us it seemed very obvious that they just want your money, they will make you comfortable enough, but then want you to leave them alone. I have felt much better treated on much less expensive cruise ships. In my opinion, you would be better off paying for the best cabin you can on a less luxurious ship but then getting much better service and being made to feel more special. When we have stayed in higher level suites on other ships, we have received true VIP service. Nothing of the sort here. Other than free newspapers and free wifi (that barely worked), there was nothing here that made us feel special. As I mentioned earlier, there was even a sort of hostility here. Heck. On our last morning I couldn't even get a cup of tea. We had ordered room service and they brought me a decaf tea bag. When the steward came to try to service our room 20 minutes before we were supposed to be out of it, I mentioned the tea bag to him and asked if he could get me a non decaf regular tea bag. He snatched it out of my hand and never came back. So would I recommend this line to others? Likely not. Or I would lay it out as is and leave it up to you to decide if it's worth it. I think with so many lines building so many new ships now, there are much better options. Even as one who loves luxury hotels, I would be willing to go just a little less luxurious on a ship for better service.The surroundings are just not worth the premium charged here and for the lack of quality in other areas. Read Less
Sail Date May 2018
FEMOC
Simply extraordinary!
We took a our first cruise on Regent in May from Lisbon to London and we were blown away. We have taken Crystal in the past on some 15 cruises, and now we find ourselves remiss for patronizing a good cruise line (Crystal) when there was ... Read More
We took a our first cruise on Regent in May from Lisbon to London and we were blown away. We have taken Crystal in the past on some 15 cruises, and now we find ourselves remiss for patronizing a good cruise line (Crystal) when there was such a much finer cruise line (Regent) out there. Regent beats Crystal in room quality, service, staff, food, athletic facility, spa, public areas, embarkment, and in a very big way, in excursions. Crystal does have better entertainment, but overall this is a minor item to us. Further, Regent is not as pretentious as Crystal by declaring itself the "best" cruise line, and Regent does not push purchasing photos at every conceivable instance as Crystal always does. And even the passengers on Regent appear to be more polished and polite than those we have encountered on recent Crystal ships. Perhaps Crystal is yesterday's cruise line, but Regent is today's. Special compliments to the Regent's ship management. The attendants for the rooms were almost invisible, yet their job was always complete in a timely manner. Similarly, we were treated excellently by the food mangers in the various restaurants. Our favorite restaurant was Prime with the bone-in ribeye. Every excursion seemed better than the one before! Thank you Regent-job excellently done! Read Less
hcbmwb
Fabulous ship
We have cruised at least 6 times on the Explorer. It is a beautiful ship with wonderful service and great food. The staff is very friendly and helpful. The complimentary wine selections were very good. The five restaurants offer a ... Read More
We have cruised at least 6 times on the Explorer. It is a beautiful ship with wonderful service and great food. The staff is very friendly and helpful. The complimentary wine selections were very good. The five restaurants offer a great variety of dinning for diner. The main dining room, Compass Rose, is very attractive and offers a great variety of dinning options. One half of the menu remains the same with many selections and the other half changes daily. On our first Explorer cruise in August 2016, the ship had only been launched a few weeks and there were a few wrinkles with service in Compass Rose. However, after a few nights these problems seemed to have been resolved. Setti Mari is the Italian restaurant on deck 11 aft. Weather permitting, it is a great place to dine outside. the other three restaurants, Prime Seven, Chartreuse, and Pacific Rim (our favorite) require reservations but there are no additional charges. A night in each may be reserved several weeks prior to embarkation. After boarding, additional reservations may be made. The public areas are very nice. We never felt crowded. The pool was spacious with ample deck chairs and lounges. The pool grill is a nice place for lunch. A lunch buffet is also served in La Veranda (deck 11 aft) and a full service lunch is available in Compass Rose and one of the specialty restaurants. Read Less
Sail Date August 2016
gjewing
Lisbon to Barcelona - a Great Cruise on RSS Explorer
This is the first time we have cruised on a ship bigger than 450 passengers – previously having sailed on the chic Club Med 2 (twice) and Regent's Navigator (3 times). So we were apprehensive about upscaling but the draw of cruising on ... Read More
This is the first time we have cruised on a ship bigger than 450 passengers – previously having sailed on the chic Club Med 2 (twice) and Regent's Navigator (3 times). So we were apprehensive about upscaling but the draw of cruising on 'the most luxurious ship ever built' was too tempting to avoid. Is it the most luxurious? – we have not enough cruising experience to really say but Explorer is stylish, spacious, if a little ostentatious in places. Our suite (Penthouse 820) was beautiful with superb décor and an amazing wet room – the colour scheme and furnishings were lovely and the balcony was enormous. Even though this was Explorer's 4th cruise since its inauguration some 'snags' still were not ironed out in our suite and, ship wide, we thought some fittings were a little flimsy and lightweight. However, it is a beautiful ship and we never felt crowded or rushed at any time. There was ample space on the sun decks for all those seeking sun or shade, though bar service to the upper pool deck was slow at times – except for Edwin, who was ever present and engaging. As always, the staff make the ship and several staff we knew from our Navigator cruises were on board and, as ever, so welcoming. They reported that expectations of staff were even higher on Explorer but our experience was that the service was similar to that we had come to expect on the Navigator. Luxury comes in many forms – not just the fabric of the ship and, at times, we felt that some staff were lauding the fact that they were on 'the most luxurious ship ever built' and serving the passengers was a bit beneath them. This was particular so with staff at the Reception desk who, at times, were discourteous and unhelpful – we highlighted this on the mid cruise review and received a telephone call saying that this would be addressed and was work in progress. On a 6* ship this should never be 'work in progress'. (NB a previous Cruise Critic review raised concerns over the Reception staff.) Our favourite restaurants were the Compass Rose and Prime 7. We loved the décor in Compass Rose and the service was always very attentive, especially from Melbourne, Marvin, Vaughan and Kas. The pan-fried fois gras was phenomenal. Prime 7 is much brighter than on Navigator and the service was more slick and attentive. Oxana is the star – both in Prime 7 and around the ship. The petit fours were delicious. The speciality French restaurant, La Charteuse, did not really live up to expectations – we live in France, so booked our combined wedding anniversary/birthday celebration for La Chartreuse but on our arrival the Maitre d' had forgotten the event and had not listened to our personal request regarding a table for 2 – even though we personally discussed this with him two days before. There was no 'mise en bouche' – in a 6* French restaurant!? and the various courses we tried were mediocre. The vivacious Rovie made our two visits to La Chartreuse particularly memorable – she was so engaging and hard working. The Asian/Fusion restaurant, Pacific Rim', was our least favourite – it was rather dark and the food was uninspiring. That said, we have not tried a lot of Asian Fusion cuisine and other passengers reported that the food was very good overall. La Verandah is superb – the breakfast and lunch buffets are always interesting, colourful and contemporary. Eating out on the rear deck, either at sea or in port, was always a joy. Staff such as Olexsandra, Carol, Marylene and Marco were so welcoming and engaging. La Verandah converts in the evening to the Italian restaurant, Sette Mari, but we never ate here throughout the cruise. We rarely missed the evening entertainment and the main dance group led by Amanda and Robin were excellent with their best show being the 60's Tribute. Guest singer, Phil Browne, was simply outstanding bringing his tremendous experience and repertoire from the West End. As was Andrew Scrimshire – a talented cellist. Our favourite entertainment, however, was the Nature's Rythmn Trio, who played in various bars/lounges throughout the cruise – they were so entertaining, versatile and talented. Their repertoire was phenomenal. The Cruise Director, Ray Solaire, in our view, was passed his best and we thought his various performances of comedy, singing and ventriloquism were cheesy, outdated and predictable. The captain, known as Captain Stan, was excellent and always kept passengers informed of the ship's progress in relation to the excellent cruise itinerary and weather. On a one to one basis, he was so engaging and ready to converse. This cannot be said for some members of his senior team, who rarely engaged with passengers and toured the ship with almost a scowl. Michala, in the boutique, was lovely and really showed interest in our cruise experience as well as promoting the products on sale. Overall, we really enjoyed our cruise and, even at some rough moments in the Atlantic, the cruise on Explorer was always comfortable and smooth. We are really looking forward to our next cruise on Explorer in the Eastern Caribbean in late Feb 2017. We are great fans of the Regent Seven Seas brand and the 'all inclusive' package lives up to its name unequivocally. Read Less
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Fabulous cruise on Regent Seven Seas Explorer
Absolutely fabulous. The new ship is beautiful. Our F2 Superior suite was beautiful. The bed was comfy, the bathroom huge with tub and shower, big walk-in closet, and more storage than we could use. The staff was great and it was great ... Read More
Absolutely fabulous. The new ship is beautiful. Our F2 Superior suite was beautiful. The bed was comfy, the bathroom huge with tub and shower, big walk-in closet, and more storage than we could use. The staff was great and it was great to see some familiar staff from previous Regent Cruises. The new Pacific Rim restaurant was superb and we ate there several time and ordered almost the same meal each time (Crispy soft shell crab appetizer, Miso Cod and Lobster main courses). Prime 7's cuisine and service was great, as usual, but the decor is more open and attractive than on the other Regent ships. Chartreuse and Seti Mare were great as well. The large outdoor eating area of La Veranda was larger had many more tables than the other Regent ships. The decor of the Compass Rose main restaurant was refreshingly bright and open and the menu was great with changes daily. Service in all were superior. The outdoor bar by the pool is nice. The entertainment was good but we did miss the Jean Ann Ryan productions. Most of the excursions were great. The transition excursion in Barcelona was a disappointment, however. Can't wait for my next cruise on the Regent Explorer. Read Less
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After a 43-year run, the legendary Uptown dive Carol's Pub closed in 2016 due to tax issues and a revoked liquor license. Earlier this year we got the lovely news that a new owner is working on opening it again, hopefully sometime during the fall.
Today reader/photographer Bill Biederman was on the scene as the pool table from Carol's was removed from the premises at 4659 North Clark, as were the electronic dart boards.
The new owner, Ed Warm, who also owns Joe's On Weed Street, has promised to keep the ambiance of the original Carol's alive, along with some civilizing touches like no more crack-of-dawn opening hours and the installation of outdoor security cameras.
There is no opening date yet, since the labyrinth of licensing has to be navigated, but one good omen is that, as of a couple weeks ago, Carol's was seeking to employ an experienced bar manager.
What's wrong with crack-of-dawn opening hours?
Unless he brings back hillbillies leaning out the windows screaming & hollering, I ain't interested.


Postponed from other dates due to inaugurations and snow storms, but it's here now -- for real!
Joe and Jesse talk about Jesse's latest book -- iPad for Seniors for Dummies -- just out from Wiley.
What about news reports that tablets are dead?
What's next in tech? Is it worth learning iPad or should we wait for….?????
The book is relative to iOS 10 (released last fall). What does it have to offer?
How do you get used to the Apple Pencil?
The book is available now from your local bookseller or online as an iBook on iTunes or Amazon on Kindle or print.


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Quick Answer: What Was Globe Theatre?
1 What is the Globe Theatre known for?
2 What is the Globe Theatre and why is it important?
3 Why was the Globe Theatre built?
4 What was the Globe Theatre stage?
5 How much did it cost to watch a play at the Globe Theatre?
6 How was the Globe Theatre destroyed?
7 Why does the Globe Theatre have no roof?
8 What happened to the first Globe Theatre?
9 Who was the Globe Theatre built by?
10 How tall is the Globe Theater?
What is the Globe Theatre known for?
Globe Theatre, famous London theatre in which after 1599 the plays of William Shakespeare were performed.
What is the Globe Theatre and why is it important?
It is a symbol of England's artistic heritage, primarily Shakespeare's plays, which were often performed in the original Globe. Today, the Globe puts on not only Shakespeare's great works but also other dramatic works. It operates as a major tourist attraction, drawing theater lovers from all over the world.
Why was the Globe Theatre built?
The Puritan owner, Giles Allen. disapproved of the Theatre and the Lord Chamberlain's Company acting troupe – which included William Shakespeare. Burbage opened negotiations to re-new the lease of the 'Theatre' but these all failed which is the reason why the Globe Theatre was built.
What was the Globe Theatre stage?
The stage was large, 43 or 44 feet (about 13 metres) across and 27 or more feet (some 8 metres) deep. The two stage posts were substantial, since they had to uphold the large cover, or heavens, which had a trapdoor in it with a windlass for winding boys playing gods down onto the stage.
You might be interested: Where Is The Kings Theatre Glasgow?
How much did it cost to watch a play at the Globe Theatre?
Admission to the indoor theatres started at 6 pence. One penny was only the price of a loaf of bread. Compare that to today's prices. The low cost was one reason the theatre was so popular.
How was the Globe Theatre destroyed?
On 29th June 1613, a theatrical cannon misfired during a performance of Henry VIII and set fire to the thatch of the Globe Theatre, engulfing the roof in flames. Within minutes, the wooden structure was also alight, and in under an hour the Globe was destroyed. Incredibly, only one casualty was recorded.
Why does the Globe Theatre have no roof?
However, a few adaptations were made to the building. First, the Globe Theatre is the first and only building to have thatched roofing after they were banned as a direct result of the Great Fire of London in 1666, so some safety precautions had to be taken.
What happened to the first Globe Theatre?
Disaster struck the Globe in 1613. On 29 June, at a performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII, some small cannons were fired. They didn't use cannon balls, but they did use gunpowder held down by wadding. A piece of burning wadding set fire to the thatch.
Who was the Globe Theatre built by?
At the Globe Theatre there were three classes, the upper, middle, and lower class.
How tall is the Globe Theater?
If it rains, people on the floor (standing) get wet, and people in the benches won't cuz they are under roof. over a year ago. over a year ago. There's covered seating and there's the open standing only area in front of the stage.


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Ash Wednesday Service with Dreamers
Faith Leaders Performed Ash Wednesday Service with Dreamers in Front of Senator McConnell's and Schumer's Office to Demand Passage of Dream Act
Washington, D.C. (February 14, 2018) – Faith leaders from various Christian traditions joined together with Dreamers in front of the offices of Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Chuck Schumer this morning to perform an Ash Wednesday service and urge the Senators to push passage of the Dream Act. Immigration staffers at Senator McConnell's office heard directly from Dreamers, who represented just a fraction of the 800,000 youth currently at risk for deportation due to the rescission of DACA.
A livestream of the action can be viewed here, and photos can be seen here.
Notable quotes from participants:
Rev. Noel Andersen (Church World Service): "To everyone that is upholding this sinful deportation system: we are asking them to change their ways and repent today through passing the Dream Act now."
Rev. Dr. Sharon Stanley Rea (Disciples of Christ): "What we remember on Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day is the importance of sacrifice. Everyone who's here as a Dreamer knows what you have put down in these months in the movement for justice for your family. We hope that Congress makes the decision that respects the sacrifices you have made."
Catalina (United We Dream): "We came to this country when I was just six years old. We escaped violence in Mexico and now we're at this point where we don't know what will happen to us in the future. Our community is terrified. I am going to continue fighting for them. We deserve a Dream Act.
Patrick Carolan (Franciscan Action Network): "We are here to remind Senator McConnell and all the members of Congress, the vast majority who claim to be Christian, that we are all considered strangers somewhere. That we should treat the strangers who come to our community the way we would like to be treated. And that we can never ever accept intolerance or injustice while claiming to be part of people of faith and part of the body of Christ."
Rev. Adam Taylor (Sojourners): "When we welcome the stranger among us, we are welcoming Christ. As long as we deny justice and opportunity for immigrants in our midst, we pray for repentance to day. For legislators and elected officials whose hearts may be calloused but can be softened and replaced with compassion. Dreamers are made in God's image and we pray that He strengthen them today."
Rev. Jeania Ree V. Moore (The United Methodist Church): "Christ, too, faced evil and was empowered through the love of God to confront that evil. We see God's recognition of who we are as a reminder as we go forth to confront challenges equal and to persevere in that hope, that faith, and that love."
Sr. Mary Ellen: "We remember that you (Christ) were crucified by politicians that rejected your message for fear of loss of power and wealth. We, as your followers, carry forward your message of liberty, justice, and freedom for all."
Contact: Wardah Khalid | media@cwsglobal.org | 240.621.2841
Tags: Ash Wednesday, DACA, Lent


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There are some 34 cards in his file which you may procure through the service noted in the Red enclosed box above.
Hopefully, I've got the narrative down right, but, it would be best to obtain hard copies to verify the data.
M G. Wigginton
Green H. Wigginton
Enlisted as Privates
"I" Co. AL 48th Infantry
John W. Wigginton
Residence Cherokee County AL;
Enlisted on 4/26/1862 at Cherokee County, AL as a Captain.
On 4/26/1862 he was commissioned into "I" Co. AL 48th Infantry
He was Surrendered on 4/9/1865 at Appomattox, VA
* Major 11/1/1864 (Estimated date)
Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
* 11/1/1864 from company I to Field & Staff (Estimated date)
(Died about 25 years after the war)
After the War he lived in Cleburne County, AL
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Southern Historical Society Papers: Appomattox Paroles ANV
- Field Officers, Regiments & Battalions of CS Army
- The War Between the Union & Confederacy: Wm Oates
Wigginton, M. G., Co. I, 48th Alabama Infantry, reference envelope, Cards filed with Wiggonton, M. G.
Wigginton, M.[Matthew], G., Private, Company I, 48th Regiment Alabama Infantry, enlisted April 26, 1862 at Abernathy, Ala. by Capt. J. W. Wigginton for 3 years or the war, admitted Lovingston Hospital, Winchester, Va. August 27, 1862, Rubeola, returned to duty September 8, admitted Chimborazo Hospital, Div. 4, November 26, 1862, gunshot wound left hip, returned to duty January 6, 1863, wounded at Sharpsburg, near Snicker's Neck, January 16, 1863, admitted 3rd Alabama Hospital, Richmond, Va., February 11, 1863, admitted Chimborazo Hosptial, Div. 4 February 20. 1863, gunshot wound left thigh, admitted CSA General Hospital, Danville, Va. March 14, 1863, Pneumonia, returned to duty April 3, 1863, recorded on the May & June, 1863 muster as absent, sick in hospital, returned to duty prior the next bi-monthly muster, captured at Louden/near Knoxville, Tennessee December 3/4, 1863, sent to Camp Chase, Ohio prison camp December 15, 1863, arrived Rock Island Barracks, Illinois prison camp January 6, 1864, transferred for exchange March 2, 1865, admitted Receiving & Wayside Hospital, Richmond, March 9, transferred to Howard's Grove hospital March 10, admitted Jackson Hospital, Richmond, Va. March 11, 1865, gunshot wound right leg, duration 5 months, furloughed March 21, 1865 for 60 days, end of records
M311: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Alabama


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Q: ¿Como puedo meter una variable de la misma clase que la clase que estoy definiendo? Estoy realizando un problema de A* y necesito guardar el padre para luego imprimir el recorrido. El todo funciona correctamente hasta que en el método de imprimir le pido el nodo padre y me da este error:

"error.EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (code=EXC_I386_INVOP, subcode=0x0)"

Os dejo los todos los pedazos donde aparece esta variable.
class node{

private:

    node *padre;
    vector<vector <string>>situacion;
    int profundidad;
    int g = 0;
    int h = 0;
    int f = 0;
    string paso;

public:

    node getPadre(){

     return *padre;
   }

   void setPadre(node newPadre){

    padre = &newPadre;
   }
};

// ...

newNode.setPadre(nodo); //Donde "nodo es una variable de la clase node"

// ...

node itNode = itNode.getPadre(); // donde it node

El problema es que guardo los nodos en una vector<nodes> y la reorganizo con sort en cada iteración, con lo que las memorias cambian, y por eso al intentar acceder al nodo padre, no esta ahí.
¿Sabéis si hay alguna manera de hacer un sort con un vector<*node>?
Muchas gracias de antemano a todos los que respondáis o lo intentéis.

A: void setPadre(node newPadre){
  padre = &newPadre;
}

Fíjate que le estás pasando una copia, no el objeto original. Por lo tanto, lo que estás almacenando es una posición de memória que deja de ser correcta en cuanto sales de tu función.
La solución es sencilla:
void setPadre( node &newPadre){
  padre = &newPadre;
}

Es decir: pasarlo por referencia, no por valor.

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Fontaines D.C- Dogrel Review
By MD | September 27, 2019
Whoever thought that post-punk was a fad relegated to the days of PiL and Joy Division clearly wasn't paying attention. There's been a resurgence of these kinds of raw, bare-bones, streetwise bands in recent years, one of which is relative Irish newcomers Fontaines D.C. Originally they started out as a group of college students bound together by Irish poetry and the works of the American beatniks, leading to the writing of the poetry books Vroom and Winding as their first major contributions to art and literature.
Eventually this evolved into playing music, and led to their debut album Dogrel (taken from the Irish expression doggerel, or poetry for the people) being released this April. Already they have gained immense upward traction, playing The Tonight Show in May, selling out nine shows in a row at SXSW and having their debut hit #4 and #9 in Ireland and the UK respectively. There's another record planned for next year, but in the meantime it serves to get into the innards of this one to see who Fontaines D.C really are and what they're about.
The most striking thing about "Big", the album's opening track isn't just the pounding drums and the bass line that follows it, but the vivid lyrical imagery courtesy of vocalist Grian Chatten: "Dublin in the rain is mine/A pregnant city with a Catholic mind/Starch those sheets for the birdhouse jail/All mescalined when the past is stale/pale." Chatten, in his shouted vocals evokes the image of a more poetic John Lydon taking the reins, while the track as a whole contains a gritty urban sensibility that's refined and intelligent as opposed to being merely headstrong.
This bleak urban realism continues over to "Sha Sha Sha" and gives us a picture of the pregnant streets of Dublin down on the street level. A cabbie rolls down the roads of the great Irish city, at first cast in a romantic light by the narrator, then in a more realistic one while encountering brawlers whose "heads hit the streets" and "drunken pervs" staggering home. The sharp metropolitan drive in this unfolding saga escalates from sharp indie staccato on "Sha Sha Sha" into the realm of the atmospheric, then into the crashing and chaotic in "Too Real."
Not only is the recurring use of repetition as a poetic device applied thoroughly amidst this rapid-paced sonic assault "I'm about to make a lot of money", "Six o'clock"; but the auditory background of the verses themselves resemble slews of cars speeding by in the street to emphasize the city dynamic laid out thus far. It's a guitar tactic that dates at least back to Montrose's "Bad Motor Scooter" and likely from Hendrix, but Carlos O'Connell and Conor Curley manage to twist it uniquely to their own distorto-jangly ends.
The succeeding track, "Television Screens" is the sole track on the record that originated from the band's early poems. Lyrically, it could be about anything from climate change to personal authenticity and the superficiality of internet culture. Musically, it follows the same formula of sidewalk ethereal jangle already established in previous songs, and helps to add careful, subtle contrasts between tracks while still keeping a cohesive sound intact.
"Hurricane Laughter", in a contrasting tone rumbles angrily ashore, true to its title. Lines like "Hurricane laughter, tearing down the plaster" and "and there is no connection available" create striking imagery and manifest disturbing dichotomies within the song; with the manic tone of its musical body crashing up against a storm of laughter; perhaps to mask the anxiety and pain one feels in the face of the state of modern urban affairs.
"Roy's Song" subsides the crashing waves in exchange for familiar clean tones, exploring themes of youthful innocence and adult disillusionment painted over the backdrop of a cold urban landscape. It's a perfectly hypnotic tune that sets the city, Catholic mind and all as a remorseless killer of dreams and aspirations while at the same time a tireless muse for any young creatives to drag inspiration from out of the ruins. Take these lines as proof enough of that: "The breeze in the night time would kill you stone dead/It was the message I heard when the company said/"There is no warning and there is no future/I like the way they treat me but I hate the way they use her."
The next track, "The Lotts", takes its name from a small pub in downtown Dublin where Fontaines D.C regularly practiced and was a stomping (and shooting) ground for junkies of all types and stripes. One could practically visualize through the ringing guitars and Chatten's descriptive, repetitive stanzas the sight of used needles on a dirty, worn sidewalk and more than a fiend or two passed out or on death's doorstep from a fix too many.
While "The Lotts" highlights the skids and bums, "Chequeless Reckless" aims at the sellouts, charlatans, clout-chasers and shallow materialists in the upper echelons. Not a soul in this picture is safe from the sweeping critique of capitalist society and modernity writ large embarked on in this short, pointed number. As much as their relationship with Dublin is complicated, the boys nevertheless feel a sense of urgency to protect her and her essence from the creep of a hollow future; reiterating that "money is the sandpit of the soul."
"Liberty Belle" follows suit, named after another local bar and the distinctly Irish pub violence that breaks off for any particular circumstance that might warrant it. It's a distinctly punky tune, very much in keep with the uptick street-poet-post-punk thematics consistently maintained thus far into the album.
Two closing numbers: The first being "Boys In The Better Land", Chatten's account of an encounter with a Irish Republican cabby who is anything but sympathetic to the Brits. Over all-too-familiar punk chords, Chatten details the tale of the man who "spits out "Brits out", only smokes Carrolls", and, according to a separate interview on the record, uses the driver as something of a representation of himself. Further demonstrating the love-hate dynamic with Dublin throughout the album, he also hints that despite all the local pride, it may be best to "get yourself a good car and get out of here" as the city loses more and more of its character.
After all the experimentation with punk, post-punk, garage, jangle and everything else, the slow pub ballad "Dublin City Sky" routes everything back to the fertile Irish ground where Fontaines D.C was sprung from. As the city changes, the song insists, let the small moments be the best moments as everything surrounding begins to fade. A fitting note to close out a journey into the heart of Ireland on, however long it may live in its current form.
All in all, Fontaines D.C is a compelling new band with many a compelling, complex story to tell with all shades and sides to explore. Dogrel is a remarkably strong album to enter on, and hopefully the hype does not burn them out early on. In a musical universe with increasingly vapid, shallow pop songs all produced by the same person and utterly deracinated in terms of discernible identity to one part of the world or another, Fontaines D.C represents a refreshing new change for the coming decade; equal parts punk pastime and indie future- laden with unmistakable depth. If tomorrow's Dublin proves to be too unbearable to inhabit in the long run, at least they will have already found a new home in the ears and hearts of many across the world if they stay this dazzling, enthralling course.


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The Debate Over Boycotting the 2022 Beijing Olympics
For months, human rights groups and some politicians in Western nations have urged countries to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over the Chinese government's rights abuses. The United States became the first major power to impose a diplomatic boycott, announcing two months before the games that it will not send any officials to Beijing. Other countries, including some in the European Union (EU), could follow suit.
China is facing intense criticism for its human rights record. Several countries, including the United States, have accused China of committing genocide against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region, allegations that China denies. Rights groups have also called attention to Beijing's repression in Tibet and its crackdown on freedoms in Hong Kong. The disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai from public view in November added to concerns.
A coalition of nearly two hundred rights groups argues that participating in the Beijing Olympics would be turning a blind eye to these abuses and could be seen as "an endorsement of the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian rule." The International Olympic Committee (IOC), which organizes and oversees the games, has sought to avoid the controversy, reaffirming that it maintains a "neutral" position on political issues.
What could boycotts look like?
In a full boycott, a government refuses to send athletes, officials, and spectators to the host nation. U.S. President Joe Biden's administration is instead imposing a diplomatic boycott: Citing the Chinese government's "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang" and other abuses, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said athletes are still allowed to compete, but Biden and other government officials will not attend.
Other alternatives to a full boycott include:
Relocation. Some lawmakers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and several EU countries have called for the 2022 Olympics to be moved to another country if China does not stop persecuting Uyghurs. Experts say the IOC is unlikely to consider a relocation, which would probably require a postponement at this late date.
Athlete protests. Athletes can themselves boycott the games or use the media spotlight to make political statements. Although this is prohibited by the IOC, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee has said it will not sanction American athletes for protests. Still, some experts warn that athletes who do so could face repercussions.
Actions by sponsors. Activists are also pressuring corporate sponsors, such as Airbnb and Coca-Cola, to withdraw their support, though none have done so yet. When the Financial Times asked the thirteen companies that have major sponsorship contracts with the IOC about their plans, eleven refused to comment.
What motivated past boycotts?
Full boycotts have happened a handful of times for a variety of reasons. Notable examples include the 1976 games, when more than two dozen African nations boycotted the Montreal Olympics after the IOC refused to ban New Zealand, whose rugby team had ignored an international sporting embargo to tour apartheid South Africa. Four years later, the United States led a boycott of the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union retaliated in 1984, boycotting the Los Angeles Olympics. The last full boycott was in 1988, when North Korea and its allies skipped the Seoul Olympics.
Do boycotts work?
Experts say it is difficult to measure a boycott's success. "Boycotts have impacts in a variety of ways that are almost always indirect, almost always over a relatively extended period of time, and sometimes counterproductive," says David Black, a professor at Dalhousie University who studies sports and international diplomacy.
For example, Black says, the Soviet Union didn't leave Afghanistan because of the 1980 boycott, but the boycott eroded the prestige it hoped to gain from the games and signaled growing disapproval of Moscow's actions.
In the case of the 2022 Beijing Olympics, many experts say that a boycott likely won't work and could make it even harder to gain concessions from China. Some say that concerned governments and media outlets could instead use the 2022 games to draw attention to China's abuses.
Would China retaliate?
China's foreign ministry has warned of a "robust response" to any boycotts, including taking unspecified "countermeasures" against the United States over its diplomatic boycott. Experts point out that Beijing has many ways it could retaliate.
The Chinese government could suspend bilateral exchanges and participation in global talks, such as those on climate change; disrupt trade; and sanction foreign officials. Indeed, there are countless examples in recent years of Beijing retaliating against foreign actions it disapproved of.
China could also leverage its vast consumer market of 1.4 billion people to damage companies that withdraw support for the games. For example, earlier this year, brands including H&M and Nike faced boycotts by some of the Chinese public after the companies said they would stop using cotton from Xinjiang. "If Beijing perceives that it has lost face, it could react pretty strongly," says CFR's Yanzhong Huang.
(Courtesy Council on Foreign Relations/by Lindsay Maizland)
Tags: 2022BeijingBoycottingDebateOlympics


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Knowledge How and Understanding
Let me continue the theme of working through John and Marc's paper 'Know-how and Concept Possession' while they're too busy at the SEP to notice...
They claim (fn31) that the following case is a counterexample to any account of knowledge how that fails to make understanding necessary (as they sometime put the condition, knowing how to X requires a minimal understanding of X-ing):
'Irina knows a way of doing a salchow, namely, by taking off from the back inside edge of her skate, jumping in the air, spinning, and landing on the back outside edge of her skate. Moreover, she knows that this is a way of doing a salchow (her coach told her). Suppose, however, that Irina is deeply confused about the concepts back outside edge and back inside edge. In particular, suppose that she takes her back outside edge to be her front inside edge and her back inside edge to be her front outside edge. (As per Burge, we take it that this degree of misunderstanding is consistent with attributing to Irina possession of the concepts back outside edge and back inside edge and associated propositional attitudes.) However, as in the case described above, Irina has a severe neurological abnormality that makes her act in ways that differ dramatically from how she actually takes herself to be acting. Whenever she actually attempts to do a salchow (in accordance with her misconception of a correct way of doing one) this abnormality causes her to reliably perform the correct sequence of moves. Despite the fact that what she is doing and what she takes herself to be doing come apart, she fails to notice the mismatch. (48, fn suppressed)
It's supposedly a counterexample since any account that fails to include the understanding condition (including Stanley and Williamson's better known version of intellectualism) will rule this as a case in which Irina knows how.
But I'm sceptical. Here's a skeletal account of knowledge how, inspired by Nozick's tracking account of knowledge that (we may call it the guiding account):
S knows how to X iff:
1. S is able to X (there's a lot of complexity being suppressed here, of course. See the preceding post for discussion)
2. S has a true belief about how to X
3. ~2 []-> ~1
4. 2 []-> 1
If the tracking account gives some content to the idea that if one knows that p, one has the belief that p in virtue of p's being true, then the guiding account gives some (though admittedly not much) content to the idea that one successfully X's (or would successfully X under the right kind of conditions) in virtue of one's having a true belief about how to X.
These 4 conditions obviously raise as many questions and issues as they speak to, but let's not get into that here. The point for now is just that any account that endorses 4 seems to be in a position to deliver the result that Irina does not know how in John and Marc's case. For although in that case Irina is able to perform the jump, and she has a true belief about how to X (as a result of the testimony she's received from her trainer), there is a relevant class of worlds in which she has the belief and yet she isn't able to successfully perform the jumps; the class of worlds in which she lacks the 'severe neurological abnormality' which so fortunately cancels out her misunderstanding.
The guiding account is obviously just a toy account, but the verdict it offers in the case at hand doesn't seem at all ill-motivated. Just as Gettier-man's belief that either Jones owns a Ford or is in Barcelona fails to count as knowledge because it was merely luck that he formed a true belief, Irina fails to know how to perform the jump because her success at performing it is too lucky; there are close worlds in which Gettier man forms the belief by the same method and yet gets things wrong, and their are close worlds in which Irina tries to X, and has a true belief about how to X, but fails to because the factor that cancels out her misunderstanding is absent. On this analysis of why Irina fails to know how in such a case, it's not significant that Irina misunderstands X-ing. The relevant features of the case are just this; there's some factor which prevents her from knowing how and, crucially, it's a matter of luck, in a pertinent sense, that there's a countervailing factor which stops this from interfering with successful performance. Toy account or not, I think the guiding account provides the basis of a challenge to the claim that the case is a counterexample to any account that lacks the understanding condition.
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Marc and I didn't intend to suggest that a non-ad hoc analysis with a condition that's necessarily equivalent to our understanding requirement couldn't get the job done.
Assuming that the nearest worlds are ones in which Irina both has the relevant belief and does not have her neurological abnormality (this isn't obvious), then perhaps condition 4 will do the trick.
Incidentally, it would be strange if the counterfactual was brute. But what would ground the falsity of the relevant counterfactual in this case? Presumably Irina's misunderstanding, in which case it is significant that Irina misunderstands. (After all, her misunderstanding is the factor that prevents her from knowing how -- the abnormality is what you call the "countervailing" factor.)
Finally, I wonder if our analysis of understanding a way, in which the notion of a guiding conception plays a certain key role, might perhaps help here. It's at that point that our account connects the mental states of the agent who knows how to F with successful F-ing -- a connection you seem to be urging.
# posted by Anonymous : 5/20/2008 12:47 AM
I absolutely agree it would be strange if the counterfactuals were brute. That's really why I referred to it as a skeleton - I was envisaging a number of different ways of fleshing the thing out by offering different accounts of what makes the counterfactual conditionals true. You're right, of course, that one such account could appeal to your story about the link between understanding and knowledge how. It's an open, and I think interesting question whether there are other worthwhile options.
On the issue of the diagnosis of this case, it might be worth thinking through a range of similar cases. The diagnosis I offered tried to subsume the case in which Irina misunderstands under a more general kind of explanation. Now, one would hope that your suggestion that this isn't really more general - that this kind of explanation in terms of the luckiness of her successful action will also make reference to lack of understanding - will be testable by looking at a range of cases in which it's merely lucky that the subject successfully Xs. We can look at these cases and judge whether it's an essential feature that the subject misunderstand how to X.
I know of one case in the existent literature, and it's the alternative case you guys discuss where Irina has a false belief about how to perform a Salchow, but where her abnormality leads her to successfully perform the jump nonetheless. But this case is no good, since she has a false belief. What we are looking for is a range of cases in which a subject has a true belief (a knowledgeable belief, if you must) about how to X, and is able to successful X, and yet the link between them is too lucky in the relevant sense. Once we have some cases on the table, we can examine whether understanding and misunderstanding is a recurring theme, or whether, as I guess I was assuming when I wrote the post, there are a number of different ways that true or knowledgeable belief about how to X could threaten to fail to lead to successful action, each of which could be 'fixed' in a lucky fashion. So let's have the cases!


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The Power of Leads
By: Chip Scanlan
When journalists talk about beginnings of stories the word they use is lead. Sometimes it's spelled "lede," a throwback to the precomputer age when the word for first paragraphs had to be distinguished from the word for the molten lead used to print newspapers. Leads are the foundation of every news story, no matter what the medium.
An effective lead makes a promise to the reader or viewer: I have something important, something interesting, to tell you. A good lead beckons and invites. It informs, attracts, and entices. If there's any poetry in journalism, it's most often found in the lead, as in the classic opening of what could have been a mundane weather forecast:
Snow, followed by small boys on sleds.
When the subject is leads, there's no shortage of opinions about their role, their preferred length, the rules they should follow or break. But no one disagrees about this enduring fact about lead writing: It's hard work.
Jack Cappon of The Associated Press called it, rightly, "the agony of square one."
"There is no getting around it, although every writer sometimes wishes there were," Cappon says. "Every story must have a beginning. A lead. Incubating a lead is a cause of great agony. Why is no mystery. Based on the lead, a reader makes a critical decision: Shall I go on?"
Whether you're a new reporter or a veteran writing for a newspaper, an online news site, radio, or television news, the ability to sum up a story in a single paragraph or draw the reader in with an anecdote or scene has become a daily job requirement.
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Some leads, a few miraculous ones, will fly off your fingers and appear, as if by magic, on the computer screen before you. But, as BNW winners attest, most are the product of time and effort, of cutting and moving and pasting, asking tough questions, searching for the right word. Don't assume that once you've written a lead, you have a lead, whether it works or not — it's there, stuck on top of the story like a great hunk of cement. Think instead of leads as a piece of clay that you can play with and refine.
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"I look at leads as my one frail opportunity to grab the reader. If I don't grab them at the start, I can't count on grabbing them in the middle, because they'll never get to the middle. Maybe 30 years ago, I would give it a slow boil. Now, it's got to be microwaved.
I don't look at my leads as a chance to show off my flowery writing. My leads are there to get you in and to keep you hooked to the story so that you can't go away."
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"Best Newspaper Writing 1996," Sports Writing
"There's that little thing called a lead. I know that I don't spend as much time on leads as I used to. We make a mistake when we're younger. We feel compelled to hit a home run in the very first sentence. So we spend a lot of time staring at the typewriter. I'll settle for a quiet single, or even a long foul, anything that gets me started. When I talk to young writers, that's the most sensible advice I can give them. Perfect anecdotal leads are so rare."
Saul Pett, Associated Press
"Best Newspaper Writing 1981," Non-Deadline Writing
"I often want to start in the moment, and start with the tension up front … My concern all the time is to bring readers in, to bring them in really fast."
DeNeen L. Brown, The Washington Post
"Usually I write a lead and say to myself, 'Well that's a better ending than a lead.' So I'll put that one away and try to come up with a different lead."
David Finkel, St. Petersburg Times
"The lead is more important because you will never get to the end if you don't have a good lead."
Daniel Henninger, The Wall Street Journal
"Best Newspaper Writing 1996," Editorial Writing
"My advice to young people is to know your ending before you start writing."
Ken Fuson, The Baltimore Sun
"I search for a lead. I guess I've always been a believer that if I've got two hours in which to do something, the best investment I can make is to spend the first hour and 45 minutes of it getting a good lead, because after that everything will come easily."
N. Don Wycliff, Chicago Tribune
"I might write the first sentence 10 different times. Take a look at it, and it's not quite right. It's the right thought, but it's not the right wording. Or it's the right wording, but it's not the right thought."
Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times
"Best Newspaper Writing 2002," Commentary
"I have to have a lead or I can't write anything. I have to have my first sentence, because that's my whole piece. That's the tone, that says what is this piece about, it's the theme, the thing by which everything hangs. If I don't have that first sentence, I just can't keep going forward."
Susan Trausch, The Boston Globe
"The way I start writing is always the same. I sit down at my typewriter and start typing. I start to babble, sometimes starting in the middle of the story and usually fairly quickly I see how it's going to start. It just starts shaping itself on the typewriter."
Cynthia Gorney, The Washington Post
"Best Newspaper Writing 1980," Features
"Don't bury your lead…The hook, the thing that makes the reader interested in reading the story. Hit them with the news, the peg? Why are you writing this story? What's it all about?"
Mark Fritz, The Associated Press
"Best Newspaper Writing 1995," Deadline Writing
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The Olney Lace Circle have taken part in a number of lace projects in the past and we have just finished a poppy field scene to commemorate 100 years since the end of the First World War.
Our deadline was summer 2016, so that the picture could be assembled and framed in time for our AGM in November.
Andrea and Lesley were thrilled with the positive response from the members and poppy petals were falling into their hands like confetti. Apart from the poppies of various sizes, the finished scene also included ears of corn and green leaves. the completed picture is stunning..
Below are photos of some of the elements of the picture and the bottom photo shows the proposed end result.
Andrea Wood, the Chair of the Lace Circle had the idea for the project back in 2014 when she visited the Poppy installation at the Tower of London - "Blood-swept Lands and Seas of Red".
Our picture is entitled "Peace After a Storm" - after an Olney Hymn by William Cowper.
Initially ,Andrea thought that the picture would commemorate the centenary of the First World War but then thought that it would be good for people just to enjoy a beautiful picture and have a quiet moment of reflection. She felt "It should represent whatever the viewer wished it to".
After many months of research, gathering various threads, sourcing and trialing various patterns designed by our tutor, at the time, Lesley Hancon, the members started making lace. Both Andrea and Lesley were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of the Lace Circle members and before long poppy petals were coming in thick and fast. Many hours have gone into each poppy petal, leaf and ear of corn.
The background for the poppies was painted by Lesley in acrylics on calico. The poppies and corn were then applied alongside beads representing swathes of poppies in the background.
Andrea and Lesley are incredibly proud of all the members who have contributed to help them achieve the finished picture. They also hope that the patients and staff of Willen Hospice enjoy the work of the Olney Lace Circle and that it brings hope, reflection, enlightenment, joy and inspiration and all find "Peace after a Storm"
The photos above show the presentation of 'Peace After The Storm' to representatives of Willen Hospice.
If you would like to read some of the related articles from the local press, please visit the following websites.
Our previous major project was for the QUEEN"S JUBILEE YEAR.
Our Chairman, at the time, Diana Tybjerg came up with the idea of creating a montage of lace crosses which would be presented to the Sisters at St Joseph's Convent, where we meet each week.
Once completed, Diana presented the montage to the Sisters at our AGM in November 2014. Below are a few photos of finished crosses, followed by the finished picture and its presentation to Sister Rita.
At the 1986 AGM, a member thought it might be a good idea for the Lace Circle to design and make a piece of modern lace which might then be donated to the Cowper and Newton Museum in Olney.
The 'piece of modern lace' became a set of four pictures, each interpreting one of the four seasons.
Lesley Hancon designed and organised the making of these pictures.
The first picture to be worked, was 'Summer'. It depicts the bridge and church of Olney - a scene which has been painted many times through the years.
The finished picture measures 2 feet square and has a 3-D effect created by the blossom on the tree being made of individual petals standing proud of the background as do the wings of the butterflies and dragonfly.
The second picture depicted Winter.
The view is from a window in the Cowper and Newton Museum and looks out onto the Bull Hotel in the High Street with a Christmassy theme.
The robin has a padded body, the candle is also raised and the Christmas roses and the ivy stand away from the background.
The Autumn picture is of Cowper's Oak, which is no longer in existence.
The Spring picture is of the Lace Factory in the High Street with spring flowers in the foreground. Click here to see a photograph of the actual building.
The time spent on all four pictures probably exceeds 2,000 hours.
The Lace Circle have gained a great deal from this project - fellowship, confidence to attempt more challenging work and using colour for the first time!
The four pictures were handed over to the Cowper and Newton Museum. They are on display in the Museum alongside examples of old lace.
In 1992 Olney's Community Centre, was re-opened by The Duchess of Kent on 1st October.
The Lace Circle was asked to demonstrate lace on that during the visit and also to make an item of lace which could be presented to Her Royal Highness.
As the Duchess was to be presented with a copy of The Olney Hymns by John Newton, we decided that a bookmark would be appropriate.
Two identical Bucks Point motifs were mounted, one on each end, on to ribbon.
The Duchess of Kent seemed thrilled to receive the gift and showed great interest in our lace making.
The Olney Textile Map was a community based project undertaken for the Millenium.
Contributions came from many different groups within the town, resulting in the production of a map of Olney using a variety of techniques and styles.
This map is on display at the Olney Community Centre, High Street Olney.
For our Silver Anniversary in 2004, we decided to make a chessboard featuring lace squares in black and white which could involve everyone in our group Each member, including the children, completed two squares each.
Our resident designer and secretary (at the time), Lesley, created 32 patterns, each one was to be worked in ecru and black, making 64 squares altogether.
Everyone enjoyed the project and as soon as some of the pieces were finished Lesley began mounting them. The work in progress was on display at our 25th Lace Day in September 2004.
A close up picture of four of the squares and a larger view showing the almost finished piece.
The completed wall hanging with all the names of the contributors printed below.
As soon as the last square was in place, the finished article was taken to be framed so that it would be available for all the members to see at the AGM in November.
The project is now completely finished and the result is a beautiful framed wall hanging which is publicly displayed in 'The Olney Centre' situated in Olney High Street.
A scarecrow exhibition was organised in Olney the same year and the Lace Circle were invited to contribute. Below are the photographs of our 'Lace Lady' sitting outside the Lace Factory building.
I think you'll agree that Diana and Lesley created her beautifully.


Summer is the time for BBQ and nice drinks! The sunny weather always calls to extreme measures and that means making lots of nice cold cocktails and bbq's every single weekend if we can!
So last Saturday I organised a "carne asada" for my Mexican comadres Susana, Haydee and Katrina, they all came to my house with their families and we had so much fun, eating and drinking, all and all it was a perfect afternoon. My lovely vecina Haydee gave me a Tequila as a present, so I decided to make frozen margaritas with pomegranate and lime and I have to tell you! You really have to make them on your next BBQ, they were a hit! The recipe is well easy, so here it is.
Place the ice cubes, tequila, pomegranate juice, lime juice, agave syrup and salt in a blender.
Blend until getting a smooth consistency.
Place the salt on a serving plate and rimm the glasses.
Serve some of the margarita liquid in each and add some pomegranate seeds and a slice of lime. Enjoy!