Most of the tech press acts as if the surface design of gadgets is what that matters. Sometimes, they're right. Most of the time, design lies deeper.
In a Tinderbox Six outline, pressing up-arrow moves the selection up, and pressing down-arrow moves the selection down. In a long, long outline, press and hold an arrow key. You might scroll through a page or two of notes and then, suddenly, stall. Now when it ought to be scrolling, Tinderbox would beep at you.
You always scroll through all the currently-visible notes, and then some more notes, before stalling; you never seem to stall immediately. ❧ There's nothing special about the note on which you stall. ❧ Things are worse when you press and hold the arrow keys. Moving more deliberately, one click at a time, you're less likely to stall.
Note that all these hints can be explained away by saying, "It's unlikely that you'll stall on any given note." That turns out not to be the explanation, but that is the simplest explanation and Occam is often a terrific companion for the software detective.
figure out which note is the next or previous note.
if that note is off screen, scroll until it is visible.
This is pretty simple, and it's hard to see how you could make it simpler and still do what needs to be done.
That's simple, too. When do we need to do this? Well, obviously, we need this when we scroll. And when we press up-arrow or down-arrow, we'd better be sure that the note has a view before we select it and put it in charge of event handling.
And there's our answer! At the bottom of the screen, we press down-arrow several times in a row, very quickly. The note we've now selected is, say, five notes below the bottom. It's now in charge. And we press again, so it's going to hand off to the next note.
BUT… scrolling is animated — jt plays out over time, on its own schedule. So now, perhaps, we scroll the screen a bit. And maybe we look around for any off-screen views we can recycle. We're pressing down-arrow, so a bunch of views have scrolled off the top of the screen. Recycle them!
Oh — and there are some views beneath the bottom of the screen, too – because we've pressed the key so quickly. They're offscreen. Recycle those, too!
And so the view that's responsible for handling events goes into the recycling pool. Sure, before the note gets to the edge of the screen, we'll make it a new view. But that view won't be handling events. And the old view won't be, either, because we've removed it from its window and that takes it off duty. So no one handles events, and we start beeping.
I began with the usual suspects and routine probing, but got nowhere. This persisted through several attempts, concentrating on finding attempts to set the keyboard focus. Ultimately, every Tinderbox method that explicitly set the keyboard focus was examined, but none appeared to by setting it incorrectly.
Once I knew this investigation was at least a bear and possibly an epic, I concluded that the actual crime had to be that some unknown rogue object was covertly stealing the keyboard focus. To catch the thief, I eventually built all sorts of monitors, ultimately subclassing NSWindow so I could intercept every call to makeFirstResponder:, only to find that no one was stealing the keyboard focus. If no one was stealing the focus, why was firstResponder a note one minute and nil the next? Oh: someone is stealing the view, and that view was holding the keyboard focus. To steal the Torkington Tiara, they abducted Lady Torkington.
Just don't recycle a note that's selected. Wait until it's not selected, even if it's offscreen.
On the surface, this was a tiny UI glitch, one that's barely an inconvenience. In practice, it might require an unnecessary mouse click for every 100-250 arrow key presses. Say a mouse click takes 3 seconds, and the average user makes $100,000/year. That's about a nickel per click. But a lot of that scrolling isn't really productive anyway: lots of scrolling is actually a displacement activity, something people do while they're thinking or worrying or waiting to get off the phone. So making that scrolling a little slower or less fun isn't good, but it's not really costing anyone any money. How many unnecessary mouse clicks do we need to save to justify the twenty or thirty hours it took to solve this?
Of course, solving the crime is a good thing in itself. Now that it's fixed, we understand the system more completely. The user experience is now more solid, and that reassures everyone. A byproduct of all that debugging is some refactoring that clarifies the code.
That wasn't the case ten years ago, by the way: before refactoring, long debugging adventures tended to make the code worse, not better. You'd add instrumentation and sensors and loggers, you'd try experiments, and inevitably some of that scar tissue made its way into the final product.
The Official Party Line, of course, calls for infinite attention and polish and emphasizes the importance of a pristine user experience. This makes some sense on its own, and also because relentlessly solving this problem revealed a small but systematic problem in recycling. We have lots of separate processors performing their own tasks, we have animations going on all over the place, and any of these might at any moment need to make sure that some note it's working on has a view – any might recycle our offscreen view and foul up event handling.
But it's not always that simple. Lots of small UI glitches turn out to be small, esoteric bugs that don't matter. Lots of outright crashes turn out to be small, esoteric bugs that will matter only to the four of people who will ever experience them. This particular bug had a one-line fix, but that one line probably cost a few thousand dollars. For a few thousand dollars, you might be willing to put up with some visual artifacts.
Would better testing have caught this? Probably not, because the critical factor here is that scrolling is animated and asynchronous. Asynchronous tests are difficult to write, slow to run, and therefore costly. There was no particular reason to expect this Spanish Inquisition.
Would better design have prevented this? I'm not wild about the view recycling, which smells of premature optimization. But Apple does it conspicuously in NSTableView, which suggests (a) it's desirable and (b) the rest of the system expects it. Tinderbox users build much larger documents than you'd expect, and that means we could wind up with a ton of views and that will bog down your computer. But we're not building this for your computer: we're also building this for your computer in 2024. And remember, Moore's Law says that your 2024 computer is going to have 64GB of memory, 4TB of hard drive, and 64 cores.
At one of the first computer science conferences I attended, someone asked markup language pioneer Brian Reid about the prospects for WYSIWYG editors. Reid pointed out that paragraph formatting was just too CPU-intensive, observing that it could "bring a dedicated 370 to its knees." Now, of course, we do that on our pocket phones.
I think fixing this was right, but it's a near-run thing. We never talk about the bugs we should let be.
Second reading of this marvelous, strange book. My original notes stand up well, I think.
In this fascinating and compelling novel, every chapter begins with a timeshift and a new point of view. What might seem a tedious experiment in late postmodernism becomes, in Egan's hands, a natural way to tell a complex story about the intersecting lives of a group of friends and acquaintances over the span of many years.
Lou lets go of Mindy's hand and sits up straight. He wants to grab his daughter's skinny arm and yank her away from these black men, but does no such thing, of course. That would be letting her win. The warrior smiles at Charlie. He's nineteen, only five years older than she is, and has lived away from his village since he was ten. But he's sung for enough American tourists to recognize that in her world, Charlie is a child. Thirty-five years from now, in 2008, this warrior will be caught in the tribal violence between the Kikuyu and the Luo and will die in a fire. He'll have had four wives and sixty-three grandchildren by then, one of whom, a boy named Joe, will inherit his lalema: the iron hunting dagger in a leather scabbard now hanging at his side. Joe will go to college at Columbia and study engineering, becoming an expert in visual robotic technology that detects the slightest hint of irregular movement (the legacy of a childhood spent scanning the grass for lions). He'll marry an American named Lulu and remain in New York, where he'll invent a scanning device that becomes standard issue for crowd security. He and Lulu will buy a loft in Tribeca, where his grandfather's hunting dagger will be displayed inside a cube of Plexiglas, directly under a skylight.
I wasn't expecting great things from Divergent, although the book was a lark. It's a well made movie, about as good as it could possibly be.
The director lost his nerve (or feared for his PG-13 rating) in the boot camp assault, and that's politically unfortunate, but perhaps the plot can't really bear that additional weight. It certainly keeps moving.
Ruined Chicago never looked better.
We used to have one big mother class that was complicated and hard to understand. Now we have a smaller mother class and a bunch of very simple new bunny classes.
This is the way one hopes things will work. But, as Brent notes, it doesn't always work that way.
And some of the bunnies had to know about each other: the drag controller delegate needed to know about the table view delegate and datasource. The timeline cell delegate needed to know about the datasource. Etc.
We have a basket of bunnies and a ball of yarn: the bunnies are cute, but the tangle isn't. The new objects seem simple, but they all know too much about each other and they all communicate in complicated ways – ways so complicated that life was better when everything was in one monster mother class.
Sometimes, that's the answer. But sometimes, refactoring further can drive you to a new design. Test-driven design throughout will help prevent errors from creeping in – and that's important because we're going to be yanking code all over the place.
First, you may be able to simplify things in the old mother class by pushing properties and instance values down from the old class to the bunny class that is its primary user. This can eliminate a lot of communication between the bunnies and the mother class. Ideally, only one bunny needs this data. If a few bunnies need to share, that might be OK.
When possible, it's better for the mother to tell the bunnies what to do than to ask them about their internal state. This can often simplify coordination and improve encapsulation.
When bunnies need to talk to each other, you wind up with lots of inter-bunny murmuring.
In fact, you may soon be able to remove a bunch of dependencies between bunnies at the cost of a few tiny methods in the mother class.
Continue this refactoring until the bunnies no longer need to know about each other, and talk only to their mother.
Now, when the bunnies want something from the mother or from another bunny, they talk to the Nanny. When the mother class wants a bunny to do something, it tells the Nanny.
The Nanny knows where to find each bunny and the mother, but otherwise it has no state. It's got lots of intimate knowledge – it #include's each bunny – but that's OK because it doesn't really do very much with that knowledge. It just relays messages between the bunnies, and passes messages from the bunnies to the mother and from the mother to the bunnies.
Often, you may find that the Nanny has a bunch of methods that talk to the same two or three bunny classes. If the Nanny starts to get complicated, you can hare off the parts that deal with that group of bunnies into its own Nanny.
I mistrust box-and-line diagrams; they're often an indication of architectural astronautics. Is all this refactoring getting us anywhere? We started with a 2500-line mother class. Perhaps we end up with 8 classes. The mother's still 1000 lines, and the nannies and bunnies are 200-400 lines. Are we better off?
First, everything is much simpler. Five years from now, you get a crash report right in the middle of Driller, because it's being passed a WarpDrive and those hadn't even been invented back in 2014. With only a handful of methods, fixing Driller to work with a WarpDrive won't be hard. You probably won't even need to glance at the other bunnies.
But even if you need to look through every single bunny and every nanny, you're still better off. Small classes are easy to understand. 2500-line classes make you nervous now, and they'll make you nervous in 2019.
Testing bunnies is likely to be straightforward. To test the old mother class, you probably need to build a model and then mock a view, and you're going to need to plant sensors or breakpoints to get internal state. Trust me, you don't want that.
Just this morning, Tinderbox was crashing when a table inside a popover called reloadData, thanks to some asynchronous code that was bashing the model just as we were reloading. In a five-method bunny that was so simple it couldn't possibly crash, a concurrency error was an obvious place to look and the fix took twenty minutes. In a fifty-method mother, especially one you don't really trust, you could spend days hunting that crash.
I'm pretty sure that the advantage of bunny classes can, in fact, be quantified. And perhaps it has! Let me know.
This recent series has been getting a lot of traffic from colleagues, and also at least one college class. (Hi, all you Manitobans!) I've not been seeing much email. Have something I should know about? Email me.
This book is the heir to the old Bill James Baseball Abstract. I used to rush out and devour Baseball Abstract as soon as it arrived. Today, we have far more knowledge and far better tools, and where Baseball Abstract was always tinged by the derision of the baseball world, many modern Sabremetricians are honored (and employed) throughout the major leagues.
But it's a lot less interesting and a lot less fun.
But when Bill James wrote about Rickey Henderson's place in history, he was writing first about history and only incidentally about Henderson. Today's Baseball Prospectus comments are focused entirely on the player and his immediate prospects, mostly with an eye to fantasy drafts. I understand: I buy the book for my own fantasy draft. I've been part of the Eddie Plank League since 1993. But I'd much rather read about the game than whether this scrub might help my team a bit.
Anyway, I just fouled up my whole season by writing a "10" next to the name of Anibal Sanchez. Or, rather, I intended to write a "10" but actually wrote a "0". So welcome my new ace starter for his third stint with the Mallards (sigh), Anibal Sanchez. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen.
James used to write about topics that were fascinating even if they didn't help with your Rotisseries league. What would Mike Schmidt hit if he always batted against the Cubs? Is taking the Cubs to win the series at 100-1 a reasonable proposition? Was it going to harm the characters of promising rookies Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco to be stuck on the hapless A's?
That was an interesting question, before we knew the answer. Cobb would've caught it.
Old, blind violinist Max Jacobus makes an unlikely mystery detective, and the dense and unlikely plot does not make his efforts easier. Yet there are some very good scenes here, and some fine ideas about music and some musicians.
Congratulations to Leslie Lamport, winner of the Turing Award.
Brent Simmons poses an interesting puzzle about subclassing, and finds a nice solution.
Yes, novices subclass too often; they have learned about inheritance and, having overcome the obstacles, want to use it everywhere. But that's not what we're talking about here. Are subclasses a code smell?
I think that's a mistake. I use (shallow) inheritance all over Tinderbox, and it's essential.
Here's one example, the Get Info popover in Tinderbox Six. It gives you information about the selected note.
At the left, we have a source list of various types of information we might find about a note. "Book" has the ISBN, the publisher, and tools for getting more information from libraries and other Web services. "Map" takes the address or the latitude and longitude and shows it to you on a map. "Similar" finds notes in this document with similar text.
Each of these panes is managed by its own class of view controller. We have TbxBookInfoController for books, and TbxMapInfoController for maps. The BookInfo controller knows how to talks to GoodReads and it knows how to validate ISBNs; that's not stuff the MapInfo controller needs to know about. The MapInfo controller knows about geocoding, which isn't very useful for the BookInfo controller.
But both kinds of controller have something in common: their views fit into the right panel of the GetInfo popover. So there's lots of stuff that they share in order to manage the view and in order to talk to the rest of the system. The common stuff – the stuff about being a swappable Get Info pane – belongs to the superclass. The specialized stuff – books, maps, texts, tf-idf similarity measuring – belongs in the individual pane controller.
We could do this by delegation, but we don't want to! After all, the first thing that a Get Info pane needs to know is, "what UI elements do I control?" We don't want to discover them through some narrow delegation API: we want them to be our properties. They're bound to be different for each kind of pane. New panes will come fairly often; we don't want to expand the delegate protocol every time a new flavor of pane needs some new detail.
Over in the test lab, we've got another little inheritance hierarchy. Some tests inherit directly from XCTestCase, but lots of tests inherit from TbxTestCase, a subclass that provides a bunch of convenience functions for making and validating test documents. A few tests inherit from another subclass, AcceptanceTestCase, which builds a really complex text fixture that's essentially a functional Tinderbox window; this is far too cumbersome for most testing but it provides a full text fixture for functional tests.
The C++ world long ago came to grips with excessive reliance on inheritance and instituted a convention: public inheritance means that the subclass is a kind of its superclass. If you inherit, you promise to do everything the superclass does, and more. If you inherit, anyone that expects the superclass should be happy to receive you. That's restrictive – Java is far more relaxed about inheritance – but it does rein in novice excesses.
What gets confused here is a different (and still recently-discovered) code smell: subclassing framework classes is undesirable. Inheritance is intimate, and requires extensive understanding; frameworks want to keep things more distant and formal so they can hide implementation details. As the undesirability of framework inheritance has become clearer, frameworks have begun to move away from requiring applications to do this: Cocoa, with its reliance on delegation, was an early leader in this movement. But this is a separate issue concerning proper relations between framework and application; application design itself is a separate issue entirely.
You don't need inheritance every day, but when you need it, you really do need it.
A diary washes up on a beach in British Columbia. In Ruth Ozeki's new novel, a Japanese-American Canadian novelist named Ruth finds the diary, wrapped in freezer bags and protected by a Hello Kitty lunchbox. In its pages, she finds a fascinating story of Nao, a suicidal Japanese schoolgirl, and her friendship with her great grandmother Jiko, a radical feminist Buddhist nun who was 104 years old and whose gentle, philosophical son died in a kamikaze attack on the American fleet.
This is a charming little story about growing up, and also about getting past writer's block. There's also more than a little reflection on the meaning of being Japanese: Ruth is an American nisei living in Canada, and Nao thinks of Sunnyvale, California as home and her life in Tokyo as an exile imposed by her parents' failure. This is quite good. The book ends with a quantum-mechanically flavored coda that is less so, but even that is redeemed by the cat Pest — short for Pesto, which is itself an informal name because the cat's proper name is Schrödinger.


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Stanley Cavell, Prominent Harvard Philosopher, Dies at 91
Posted June 20, 2018 11:13 p.m. EDT
By Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
Stanley Cavell, a prominent philosopher who found heady ideas not only in the works of great thinkers of the past but also in romantic comedies from Hollywood, died Tuesday in Boston. He was 91.
The cause was heart failure, his son David said.
Cavell was for decades on the faculty of Harvard University, where he often expounded on the ideas of what is called ordinary language philosophy, which argued that philosophers had become so preoccupied with convoluted statements of philosophical problems that they had lost touch with everyday words and their meanings.
As he put it in his 1984 book, "Themes Out of School: Effects and Causes," philosophy should be a "willingness to think not about something other than what ordinary human beings think about, but rather to learn to think undistractedly about things that ordinary human beings cannot help thinking about."
And thus he would often connect philosophy to movies and plays, as he did in "Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage," a 1981 book that trained a philosophical lens on "All About Eve," "Bringing Up Baby" and five other films from the years 1934 to 1949.
"Stanley Cavell brought to philosophy a human depth and subtlety that it had all too often lacked," said Martha C. Nussbaum, a former colleague at Harvard and now the Ernst Freund distinguished service professor in the law school and philosophy department at the University of Chicago. "He also showed his more cautious peers that writing on Shakespeare and even Hollywood films could make a philosophical contribution, illuminating issues of love, shame and community."
"As a teacher," she added, "he thrilled and challenged generations of undergraduates in the core curriculum, and nourished the careers of many graduate students who are now leaders in the profession."
Stanley Louis Goldstein was born Sept. 1, 1926, in Atlanta. His mother, Fannie (Segal) Goldstein, was a gifted pianist who instilled in him an interest in music. His father, Irving, had a series of jewelry stores and other small shops.
When he was young the family moved from Atlanta to Sacramento, California, and back again several times as his father chased economic stability during the Depression.
Stanley, a gifted student, graduated from high school in Sacramento in 1943 and, after changing his name to Cavell, enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley. David Cavell said that "Goldstein" had been assigned to his father, an immigrant from Poland, when he arrived in the United States and said he was Jewish. "Cavell" was a variant on the family's original Polish name, although David Cavell said the exact rendering of that name has been lost to history.
Cavell was rejected for military service because of ear damage he had suffered when he was struck by a car at age 6, although, eager to serve because of his family's roots, he tried to bluff his way through.
"He tried to both lie about his age and forge a doctor's note," David Cavell said. "The Army doctor took one look at his ear and told him, 'Go home, son.'"
He studied music at Berkeley and, after graduating in 1947, was accepted at the Juilliard School as a composition major. But he soon developed other interests.
"Within three months, two months, six weeks, I started playing hooky from my composition lessons," Cavell said in an oral history recorded for Berkeley's "Conversations With History" video series.
"I went, while I was playing hooky, to at least two films a day," he added, "and often to the theater in the evening."
He eventually entered graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he discovered a passion for philosophy. Transferring to Harvard, he earned a Ph.D. in philosophy and from 1953 to 1956 he was a junior fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows. He then went back to Berkeley, where he taught for six years.
In 1957, he wrote an essay called "Must We Mean What We Say?" (His first book, a collection published in 1969, carried the same title and led with that essay.) It examined the issue of philosophy's detachment from real-world language. It opened stridently.
"That what we ordinarily say and mean may have a direct and deep control over what we can philosophically say and mean is an idea which many philosophers find oppressive," he wrote. The essay went on to discuss the theories of J.L. Austin, one of his main influences, and others on both sides of the ordinary-language debate.
Cavell returned to Harvard to teach in 1963 and settled there, becoming professor emeritus in 1997.
In 1969, when students protesting the Vietnam War and the presence of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps on campus set up headquarters in a building where he was supposed to be teaching a lecture class, he staged an impromptu question-and-answer session for students on the steps. News coverage of the moment gave the sense that Cavell was even then encouraging students to make intellectual connections.
"There is a way of looking at going into a building like Lyndon Johnson's going into Vietnam," he was quoted as saying.
Cavell wrote 18 books, with "Pursuits of Happiness" among the most attention-getting. That book discussed seven movies that involved couples pondering divorce or trying to reconcile after separation — he called them comedies of remarriage and filled his discussion of them with references to Astin, Hegel, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Kant and other philosophers. But he invited readers not to take it all too seriously.
"If my citings of philosophical texts along the way hinder more than they help you, skip them," he wrote.
Cavell's marriage to Marcia Schmid ended in divorce. In 1967 he married Cathleen Cohen, who survives him, as do his sons, David and Benjamin; a daughter, Rachel Cavell; and four grandchildren. He lived in Brookline, Massachusetts. Cavell, who received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1992, was particularly known in philosophical circles for his interpretations of Wittgenstein. His books included "The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy" (1979).
Jonathan Lear, reviewing that work in The New York Times, faulted the prose but admired the effort.
"While much of the book is charming," he wrote, "there is much that is overwritten and self-conscious. Yet perhaps stylistic difficulty is the inevitable cost of having taken on the remarkable task of welcoming the poets back into the Republic and re-establishing a dialogue between literature and philosophy."
Did Cavell's efforts to bring subjects like film into philosophy create problems for him in the ivory towers of Harvard?
"It's caused me a certain amount of grief," he conceded in the oral history.
But he defended the choice.
"It was not a question of why I was interested in film," he said, "but a question of, since everybody is interested in film, throughout the world, why don't philosophers write about it?"
Copyright 2018 New York Times News Service. All rights reserved.
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15-year-old Jessica Baker in Year 11 at Rendcomb College, has been awarded 4th place in the BE100 class at the Mitsubishi Motors Cup competition just hours after sitting her History GCSE exam.
Following on from her success in the Regional Championships in September last year, Jessica and her horse Belville Clover have continued their impressive performances ranking 4th out of 91 entrants of all ages at the Mitsubishi Motors Cup competition.
The competition was held on Wednesday, 2 May at the beginning of one of the world's most famous sporting events – The Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials.
What made her achievement even more impressive was the fact she completed her History GCSE only two hours before she was scheduled to compete. Following her exam she made the hour long journey from Rendcomb to Badminton, leaving only an hour of preparation time before the competition.
In order to be able to compete at these prestigious Championships, Jessica had to compete in qualifying events, requiring her to come in the top 20% at both the BE100 event and the Regional Final.
The Mitsubishi Motors Cup is a prestigious Equestrian series and Championship offering 'amateur' riders the chance to qualify and compete at the world famous Badminton Horse Trials.
Pupils from Year 5 through to Year 13 may join the Equestrian Club at Rendcomb College. The Club is open to all pupils regardless of experience and the emphasis is on developing their potential and enjoying working with horses and ponies.
Club members have riding lessons and learn about stable management at The Talland School of Equitation where all instructors are British Horse Society qualified. Pupils do not need to own their own horse or pony to be a member of the Club and those who do, can compete for the school at Dressage, Show Jumping and Eventing. The school registers the competitors with the NSEA, the BS and BE for school competitions.
Riding is an all-round experience much valued and enjoyed by all those in the Equestrian Club.


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I have a project with two spatials, I have two spatial objects created and outputting readings, I had set a message with the input setHubPort 0 and the other setHubPort 5.
both Phidget objects are recording but they were back to front. so it seems the setHubPort command is not working with the Spatial? what am I doing wrong here?
also - has anyone made a Max patcher that calculates the angle of tilt from either gyroscope or accelerometer? that they would be willing to share?
What do you mean by "back to front"? Are you saying that the object that you're opening as hub port 5 is getting data from the accelerometer on port 0? Are you setting hub port before opening? You won't be able to change any of these matching critera after calling open.
How do you call open?
When using Phidgets with Max/MSP, you do not need to call open. All Phidgets are opened and specified within the object itself. The Phidget is closed once the object ceases to exist.
All other specifiers can be found in the readme.txt file included with the examples.
Thanks I'll look at that, it explains why when U have max open the phidgets doesn't work in any other program.
Can I ask what is the output units from the accelerometer and gyro I'm trying to work in programming to get positional data from the unit. Is there any internal processing done on the readings as I don't seem to get Accel readings higher than 1?
The units for the accelerometer are g-force (g), and the units for the gyroscope are degrees per second.
To find this information (for those who later come across this post with similar questions), you can go to the API page, and select your Phidget and class from the drop-down menus. You can see the attached screen-shot for details.
How quickly are you moving the accelerometer? The spatial is able to measure up to 8g on all axes. You should see spikes in the reading above 1 if you shake the accelerometer hard enough.
I have successfully inputted the maths for calculating tilt from the accelerometer but am struggling with the gyroscope.
I was using the accum box to tally a running total but my value always resets to zero when gyro stops moving. This is now Max/MSP coding but do you have any idea what would be the best function here? I need to serially add the output values to get the gyro rotation?
I was using the complimentary filter for the final checking.
Some one from the Max forum gave some advice re: the gyro accumulation.
I noticed the fastest sample rate from the sensors is 20ms.
but the number readouts I'm getting through MAX/MSP are no where near updating at 20ms, maybe 1-1.5/sec.
I can't work out is that just lag in the animation and the number calculations are secretly happening - or does it just mean I am losing data?
someone suggested I should record my outputs as audio then convert that to numbers and process it afterwards?
Can I ask you to look at my attempt at patch and see what u think?
When calculating rotation from angular rate data, use the timestamp in the event, not a fixed value matching the data interval.


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Front Matter Jews Control of Liquor Jewish Liquor Trust Jews in Bootlegging Influence in American Life Against 'Americanism' Benedict Arnold's Associates Arnold's Shady Deal Arnold's Jewish Aids Changing Jewish Names Jewish 'Kol Nidre' New York Magistrates National Voice Is Heard What Jews Attempted The Jewish Question Louis Marshall, Enigma Economic Plans of Jews A Jew Sees His People Candid Address to Jews An Address to Gentiles
Aspects of Jewish Power - Henry Ford
An Address to Gentiles on the Jewish Problem
The heading of this article presents difficulties. The correct use of the term "Gentile" is in question. It is a name that has been given us, not by ourselves, but by Jews, and it is by no means certain that it is accurately given. A very great chance exists that it is not. That, however, is a matter which "gentiles" do not bother to understand; they think, of course, that if one is not a Jew one must be a gentile This is only another instance of the Jewish view being "put over" without the "gentile" understanding or even questioning it.
There is another difficulty: how shall one address "gentiles" collectively? When one addresses Jews he knows that the Jew is always a Jew; that every Jew acknowledges every other Jew; that Jews understand each other and are loyal to each other as against "outsiders"; that they think together and act together; that they stand together for Jewish defense, no matter how just the charge brought against them. When you address Jews you address a unit, and when you discuss Jews you get a united reaction from them.
This cannot be said of gentiles. They are of many races, many nationalities, many religions, many tongues. They never think of themselves as being united under the name "gentiles." They are not race or class conscious; certainly they do not think of themselves as a unit with reference to the Jews as an opposite unit. "Gentiles" cannot be organized into one group nationally, let alone internationally, as Jews can. Jews of every shade of opinion, of every degree of religion and of unreligion, can unite all round the world, and do unite, having their own news service, their own telegraph service, their own "foreign department" (as they themselves describe it), by which they keep themselves united and informed for mass action. There is nothing even remotely approaching that among "gentiles."
Not that this fact can be urged against the "gentiles" as a fault. There are reasons why the "gentiles" never can be united. And one reason is that among the so-called "gentiles" there is a regnant superior strain that is not "gentile" at all; no more is it Jewish. There are racial and moral strains among the non-Jewish section of the world which never can be brought into agreement. And, outside this superior strain, among the gentiles proper, the very basis for enduring union is lacking.
So that the only union that can be expected is a union of the superior strain, which physically and morally is unconquerable, and whose task it is to liberate the lesser peoples who easily fall victims to subversion and have no reactive power to rescue themselves.
It is to this human Gulf Stream that flows through the ocean of humanity, blessing it, that this address is offered. As to the identity of this section of humanity—"He that hath ears to hear, let him hear." The others will not, because they cannot. There are many genuine gentiles mixed up in our common population, but it is not to them that these words are offered.
The Jewish Question has existed for a long time, as the Jew knows and admits, and is a consequence of certain un-Jewish, or rather un-Israelitish ideas held by Jewish persons of power. The disability under which the Jew labors is that he is not a Jew, properly speaking, and does not desire to be. Just at that point is the soil and the root of the Jewish Question.
Tackling the Jewish Question is not congenial work. The Race which this article now addresses has always shrunk from tackling it. Our Race has little disposition to chastise any portion of humanity, to arouse feeling or resist it. We have little taste for this surgical work which becomes absolutely necessary when certain corrupt influences deeply dislocate and seriously injure the common life. Nothing but a clear vision of the danger, nothing but an imperative sense of duty would impel any one of us to embark on a course which is subject to misunderstanding and which must, in the nature of things, wait long for its complete justification. Our Race is too fair, and has always been too fair, to enter hastily into judgement—and upon this fairness and long-suffering the offending groups have often seriously trespassed.
Regarded by itself, as a separate entity, the Jewish Power is most impressive. International Jews today occupy literally every controlling lever of power. Building up for centuries, perfecting their teamwork from generation to generation, from country to country, they have practically reached the summit. Nothing but the Christian religion remains unvanquished by them, though through false "liberalism" even that has felt the Jewish assault. So great is this power that the very knowledge of it kills hope that any movement can ever dislodge it.
Earnest, honest men have walked around it, surveyed it, measured its strength, and have given up the dream of changing it. In Russia they tried to segregate it, but while segregation went on from one side, infiltration proceeded from the other, and even the "anti-Semitic" Russian Government was honey-combed with Jews, as the end showed. In Germany they endeavored to vote the Jewish power out of politics, only to find the root deep-set in finance—and no country has yet attacked the sacred image of gold. In England the policy of absorption was adopted, and the result is that wherever a Jew was put in power the British Empire has reaped trouble, in Ireland, in India, in Palestine, the present vice-regents of all these possessions being Jews. Other little countries, exasperated beyond endurance, tried violence, and failed just as miserably as the others.
Why? Because every one of these methods is precisely the method that the Jew prefers to have people try. He knows their futility first; they find it out later. He knows how these methods positively help him; they discover that later. The knowledge thus won would be pure gain, were it not that it also seems to discourage the hope of men who know how seriously wrong the situation is.
Besides this massive array of power, immovable as it appears, there is the veil cast over the Christian mind as to the supposedly peculiar destiny of "God's chosen people." The Christian cannot read the Bible except through Jewish spectacles, and, therefore, reads it wrong. The idea of "the chosen people" is one of the two great biblical ideas, but that the Jews constitute this Chosen People is entirely opposed to the statement of the Bible—even of the Bible which the Jews acknowledge, the Old Testament of the Christians. The blessings of world possession, world rule, superior population, commercial greatness, military power, constituted governments, "a great nation and a company of nations"—all of these means by which to spread light and healing among the nations—were truly promised to one people, to Israel, not to Judah. Judah's destiny was to be quite different. Very few Bible readers ever note the distinction between the House of Israel and the House of Judah, yet this distinction was marked from the time of Jacob; the prophets absolutely insist upon it. Israel seceded from Judah, being unable to live with that people any longer. Israel's destiny took them out into the world, and if the Bible be true, then Israel's destiny of greatness is being fulfilled in Israel, and not in Judah. The two Houses are distinct to this day, although a future reunion, a spiritual reunion, is prophesied to come.
Yet the false idea that the Jews constitute All Israel has penetrated the Christian consciousness to an alarming extent, so that when the Jewish press insists, as it does every week, "We gave you your God, we gave you your Bible, we gave you your Christ," even Christian ministers cannot find an answer. The answer is that the Old Testament is nine-tenths an Israelitish book, and not a Jewish book. Abraham was not a Jew; Isaac was not a Jew; Jacob was not a Jew; Moses was not a Jew; Joshua was not a Jew; Gideon was not a Jew; Samuel was not a Jew; even Esther and Mordecai were not Jews, but Benjamites; the majority of the prophets were not Jews, but Israelites. Upon the coming of Judah into power, in the persons of David and Solomon, the misrule was so great that Israel seceded, and the secession was sanctioned by the prophets. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ found his disciples in Galilee, far out of Judea, and of them there was but one, Judas, whose name indicates that he was a Jew. St. Paul was of the tribe of Benjamin, "the light tribe," which was left with Judah "for a light."
But there is a constant patter of preaching (the Russellites make it the great theme) that "the Jews are to rule the world because it is so prophesied." The amazing blindness with which Christians have regarded the open pages of their Bible is the only explanation of this one-sided teaching which is confusing to the Christians and exceedingly dangerous to the Jews. In the Bible, Israel is the Chosen People of Blessing, and the time is announced when Judah shall walk to Israel and recognize them and become one with them. There is a chosen racial breed, a select seed, a superior strain of blood and soul in the world, but it is not Judah. One thing, therefore, that Christians can do, as a contribution to the solution of the Jewish Question, is to read their Bibles carefully.
The Jewish Question will be solved, and its solution will begin in the United States. But that does not mean that it will come as the result of a popular movement. Great changes do not occur that way. It makes little difference whether the mass of the people see this Question or not; the mass of the people are not always called into such matters. Their work is to hold the world steady while the change takes place. But a sufficient number of qualified persons have seen the Question to insure that now the era of solution has set in. The timid, the soft literary men in pulpits (with whose ilk Jeremiah had a keen acquaintance), the false preachers of "Peace, peace," the hush brothers and sisters of every name, the shallow shouters for "fairness," and all who are afraid of the truth in its surgical forms—these have no place in the healing of the hurt of these times; they are wedded to their softness. Nothing has been more shameful in the last two years than the spectacle of men bidding for the applause of bootleggers, and gamblers, and the lecherous masters of the modern stage, and the sinister Kehillah, and the anti-Christian American Jewish Committee, because, forsooth, some one has fulfilled the duty to tell the truth. However, these things must always be, and the evil influences among the Jews have learned just what kind of help they may expect and from what kind of people.
THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT has not been making a fight but fulfilling a duty to shed light on a matter crying for light. THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, therefore, has never urged any individual or organization to join it in this work. Nor has it charged with cowardice those who for prudential or other reasons have kept silent. Editors especially have been absolved; not one of them was asked to lend his aid, although the files of this office hold thousands of written assurances from newspaper men all over the land, and from all parts of the world, testifying to the truth of our statements. Organizations have been proposed, for various purposes; strong organizations have offered themselves as vehicles for the carrying out of any plan THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT might propose. But all such undertakings have been avoided, our belief being that simply to state the truth, and let it work its own right will, was sufficient at this time. And to that belief and policy we have adhered.
"But what shall we do?" is the constant question; "How shall we balk this system which surrounds us and infects so much of our common life?"
Observe it, identify it, eschew it—that is more powerful than active opposition. The clear eye of the man who sees and understands is something that even the evil powers of Jewry cannot endure.
But the most potent action any awakened person can take is this: to erect again our own moral landmarks, which the Oriental Jewish invasion has broken down. This would spell sheer doom to the whole evil system sponsored by the Jews. And this is the course which has never been tried. To go back to the principles which made our race great, the principles to which we have been recreant and therefore have fallen an easy prey—this is the only invincible course. It is an opposition which evil Jews cannot understand and cannot defeat.
In place of the way of doing business which Jewish dealers have introduced, let the business men of the country adopt the old way of the white man, when a man's word was as good as his bond, and when business was service and not exploitation.
Let the men and women of the country learn how to buy, let them learn how to test quallity in fabric and food, instead of being dependent on price tags. The merchandising practices of this country, in the hands of ruthless exploiters, have all but ruined honest merchants. Let any dweller in a great city recall the last twenty years, how the Christian merchants have been growing fewer and fewer. Why? Is it because the owners of Jewish department stores are better business men? No! The Jewish merchants began the practice of filling their store windows with goods that looked like the goods in reputable merchants' windows, and sold them for a much lower price. The helpless public, no longer able to determine the quality of goods, and guided solely by price tags, flocked to the Jews' store. The result is that one hears everywhere in ordinary conversation the complaint that "everything is shoddy." Of course it is, and it will remain so, until we educate people in the art of buying. That of itself will break down three-fourths of the abuses practiced in the commercial world today.
Another contribution that can be made to the defeat of Jewish subversive influence is the examination of so-called "liberal" ideas, their source, their effect, their whole tendency. Men are thinking ideas today that poison them morally, socially and economically. These ideas are as deliberately shot into society as poison gas was shot into ranks of soldiers in France. Our mental hospitality has been grossly abused, the public mind has been made a sewer. The time has come for a custom barrier to be raised for the examination of imported ideas. Unrestricted immigration of ideas has been as bad for the American mentality as unrestricted immigration of people has been for American society.
We have taken our amusements withought thought of what was behind them in the way of deliberate intent to make us common and careless and coarse. We have read our newspapers, wholly innocent of the propaganda mixed with the news. We have even taken our religion in a Judaized form, without toubling to inquire whether it squared with the Bible, the textbook of religion. We have read our novels and have failed to see what serum the author was injecting along with his story. And all this has been possible because we have been asleep, enjoying, as we thought, a life which was swiftly being taken from us, and dreaming that the old principles still held sway.
It is perfectly obvious that the cure for all this is to become awake, alert, to challenge the foreign influence, and to seek out again the principles that gave us our greatness.
We have been weaned away from our natural leaders. We have been taught to look to those who cannot even speak our language and who do not hold our institutions dear. A people that turns from its own leaders, or a people whose leaders have been turned from the sacred responsibilities of the high office of leading, is in a precarious position, and becomes an easy victim to confusion of soul. There is a dearth of voices in the land today, the prophets are dumb, or are reading beautiful essays to the people. Suspicion has been sowed like darnel seed between classes of the same race, the people have been broken up, and the subversive Jewish influence supports the oligarchy of unserviceable wealth at one end of the social scale, while it stimulates the baser elements of industrial unrest at the other end. And the race thus rent asunder to its own undoing, does not see this—capital does not see, and labor does not see—that the leaders of chaos are alien in blood and soul.
To keep American and Christian the school, the church, the legislature, the jury room and the Government, is the most potent resistance that can be made to the evil influences which have been upon us and which this series of articles has partly uncovered. The strength of all subversive influence is in proportion as we cease to be what we ought to be. The evil influences surrounding this people can succeed only as they change this people into something less than it ought to be. Therefore, to go back to the old landmarks, whereby we made all the progress we ever made, is not only the part of wisdom, but the need of the hour. The school must be cleansed. The jury box must be kept inviolate—trial by jury has almost disappeared in Jewish New York. The church must be un-Judaized and Christianized. The Government must be Americanized. Let there be the utmost freedom of thought and speech, but let there be also with it a discrimination which will prevent the people being victimized by every spurious idea, every "gold brick" economic proposal which comes along. It needs only that men be awake to their better interests and to leave no place in their scheme of life for the practices which destroy the very foundations of confidence.
Surely it must be understood by this time that the Jews rule, not by reason of their brilliance or their money, but by ideas which are not even properly Jewish, but Babylonian. They have captured the castle from within. They have been able to do so only because of our ignorance of the lineage and dignity of the stock of ideas upon which our civilization has been founded. Our people needs to engraft itself again on the parent tree and draw again the sustenance which made it great and fruitful.
Many so-called "gentiles" are somewhat affected by the Jews' wails of "persecution." This has been sufficiently discussed in previous articles, but "gentiles" can further contribute to the solution of the Jewish Question by looking about them to see if they can discover any evidence of "persecution" here—unless it be persecution of the Christians by the organized agencies of the Jews! In this month's Atlantic Monthly a Jewish rabbi, who undoubtedly knows better, assumes that his race is a hated race. He rather enjoys the thought and accepts it as a distinctive honor. Our "gentile" might also observe how untrue this is—how, indeed, in this mixture of nations, the Jew gets off with less even of the harmless kind of racial animosity than any other foreign admixture.
Above all, the "gentile," so-called, who in ninety cases out of every one hundred is no gentile at all (as the Jews may well admit) will do well to avoid fear. Nothing is more abject than "the fear of the Jew," and nothing more disastrous to the Jew than the tactics he employs to sustain that fear. The Jewish subversive power has been powerful only for evil and only where there was a disposition to evil. It has never yet succeeded in bringing shame or confusion to the right.
Indeed, there is one sure way of gaining the respect of the Jew, and that is, Tell The Truth. No one knows better than the Jew whether statements made about Jews are true or not. "Gentiles" may never be certain whether a statement made about the Jews may be relied upon, but Jews always know. That is why prejudice, abuse, hatred, scorn, ridicule, false charges roll off them as water off a duck. The Jews have never in all their history feared the lies of their enemies; but they have feared the truth. And if they only fear the truth in the ancient sense, not to be afraid of it but to fear to violate it, and to fear to have the truth testify against them, then the day of Judah's return to standing has come. The truth is Judah's friend, and Israel's friend, and the world's friend. It makes hard demands; it is sometimes not easy to speak and harder still to hear; but the truth heals, as Judah is due to discover.
There is this to say, that among the many thousands of persons who have written to THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT confirming out of their own observation and experience the statements made in this series of articles, there has been a most gratifying absence of the spirit of violence. At the beginning a few rabid Jew-baiters made themselves known and expressed their hope that at last a regular program of pogroms was to be instituted. We never knew how far these advances were made with knowledge of the Jewish leaders, but we do know that for a year and a half in this United States the Jewish press, and Jewish thugs, and Jewish politicians, and even some of the most respectable of the Jewish organizations did their utmost, and in some of the strangest ways, to compel this Study of the Jewish Question to lead into violence and disorder. There was nothing that the Jewish leaders more desperately desired or more tirelessly worked for.
That was their first setback. Everywhere else in the world they had always been able to foment this sort of thing and label it "anti-Semitism." The label "anti-Semitism" is one of the choicest weapons in the Jewish armory. But in the United States their plan failed. It is their first notification that in this country the Question is going to be solved; it is not to be given a new lease of life by following the old mistakes.
THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT knows the temper of the American people in this question, that it is cool, fair, and somewhat more determined than it formerly was. But the Jews know this temper better than anyone else. Hence the magnitude and superb rashness of the propaganda with which they are literally flooding the country. THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT is grateful for the flood of Jewish propaganda. It has served in hundreds of important cases to give the confirmation to our statements which was wanted. Jewish literature has been a powerful informer of the gravity of the Jewish Question in the United States. The result was not what the Jewish leaders wished, of course, but it was serviceable to the truth just the same.
Now that the Question is open, now that the press is able to print "Jew" when necessary, now that a bunch of keys has been provided by which the people may unlock doors and make further inquiries, THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT will follow other aspects of the Question, discussing them from time to time as circumstances may warrant.


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Q: resizing images in jQuery I've set up a small demo that automatically resizes an image to fit inside it's container div when it is clicked.
It works by taking the size of the image then dividing that by the size of the box and working out which ratio is higher before resizing the image based on either width or height accordingly. It's probably better to look at the code to see how it works.
The only problem is that it's rather glitchy. It does work but instead of resizing based on the image's width it seems to be calculating it based on the browser width but still passing on the correct values on the resize.
Have a look at it at the two links below and have a play at resizing the browser window to see the glitch. I have crossed out the overflow:hidden; attribute so you can see the dimensions of the image outside the div.
Take a look at the code here:
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View the fullscreen result here:
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or read the jQuery here
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A: Right off the top of my head, I'd bet this is a closure issue.  Since you're referencing 'this' inside the functions, which are also inside of another function, 'this' isn't attached to the image but rather to the window.  You could update the functions to pass a reference to 'this' as an argument, or set up a variable scoped to the click function that references back to 'this'.

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Travis Andrews (2009)
Degree: B.A. in English with concentrations in Creative Writing and Film
Tell us about your job and what you most enjoy.
I'm currently a features reporter with The Washington Post, where I focus on all aspects of culture. I'm also an author now. My debut book, Because He's Jeff Goldblum, is a celebration of the actor and was published in April.
So many aspects of my job appeal to me. It's difficult to narrow it down! I'd say what I most enjoy is the ability to become curious about something and then get paid to explore that subject, write about it and share it with others. I've always loved writing, and I've always enjoyed learning. My job allows me to marry those interests, all while – I hope – contributing to the greater good in some capacity.
Why did you decide to major in English?
I always knew I wanted to write for a living, and let's be honest – not many of us are going to become famous novelists. So I decided to pursue journalism. I actually began my LSU career as a journalism major in the Manship School, and I worked at The Reveille throughout my time in college. Part of me, though, always wanted to be an English major, to study the stories that shaped our language, our cultures.
During an internship early in college, I met a successful journalist who told that if I worked at the school paper, then majoring in journalism was redundant. I was relieved and excited and immediately switched my major to creative writing, with a focus in film. I couldn't be happier that I did.
How do you use the skills you developed in your English classes on a regular basis?
At its heart, journalism is a form of storytelling. All writing is. Majoring in English helped me focus on the various forms of storytelling, to learn how to craft a narrative – whether in a book form or in a 500-word article.
I also learned the foundational texts, which come in handier than you might think. It gave me a base knowledge of major touchpoints in literature and film, which has been extremely useful in my work as a features reporter and sometimes critic. And my wonderful professors — in particular, my hero Professor James Wilcox — helped me understand those texts, understand good writing. So many writers can succumb to their own egos, something I see fairly often. My professors taught me to adore the craft of writing, of literature, more than anything else. That's a vital lesson.
What's one of your favorite memories from your time at LSU?
I only get to choose one! That's going to be tough. All the football games, all the nights at Highland Coffees writing, the evenings spent making deadline in the basement of Hodges, the (unnecessary) cheese fries at Louie's at 3 a.m., the morning spent on the lake rowing with the crew team.
It's impossible to choose, so I'll say what I miss most: Walking around the lakes. My friend and fellow alumnus Sajid Qadri and I spent countless evenings exploring campus — you can find some crazy things around! — and then just ambling around those beautiful lakes, thinking of the future, figuring out ourselves, maybe carrying a red solo cup from time to time. There's a certain freedom to that, one that disappears after graduation (to some degree). It's a moment when everything in life is potential, and there's something absolutely beautiful about that.
What advice could you provide to current and/or prospective majors?
Enjoy your time at LSU, because it's over in a flash. I know that's cliché advice, but cliches are cliché for a reason: They're usually true. So, in terms of the cliché life lesson: Savor your time as a Tiger.
In a more professional sense, I would say it's important to learn as much as you can from your professors and to understand that storytelling is a useful skill, regardless of your profession. I think a lot of English majors aren't quite sure what they want to do professionally, which (in my view) is actually pretty useful. Don't box yourself in just yet. If you want to be a writer, for example, it's helpful to think of all the various forms of writing: journalism, legal writing, screenwriting, fiction writing, advertising copywriting, social media writing, etc. etc. As much as the world changes, one thing is irreplaceable: the humanity inherent in writing and storytelling. So soak that up as much as you can.
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You can keep up with Travis on Twitter (@travismandrews) and through his website (https://travismandrews.com).
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Despite initial reports that have claimed the iPhone 5c is not a selling that well and reports about Apple cutting iPhone 5c production in favor of the iPhone 5s, Apple's multi-colored iPhone seems to be picking up steam in India. While actual sales numbers aren't offered, and only anecdotal evidence is presented at this time, it appears that the iPhone 5c is selling rather well in the region and is even outselling the Galaxy S4 in some cases.
The Indian Express says that several factors including Apple's iPhone trade-in program and lucrative deals from local operators have contributed to the newfound success of the iPhone 5c, although the iPhone 5s is also selling very well in the country.
"We usually keep around 100 units for seven days," an Apple reseller in South Delhi said. "But since the launch of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, we have to update stocks every two days. And sales increase three times over the weekend."
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Akwa Ibom is one of Nigeria's 36 states, with a population of over 5 million people. It was created in 1987 and is the highest oil and gas-producing State in the country. The State has comparative advantage in agriculture, tourism, maritime and the hospitality industry.
Akwa Ibom is blessed with world class road network and other modern infrastructural amenities. It has a functional Airport, a 30,000 capacity stadium, the largest Golf Resort East of the Niger and luxurious hotels, including Le Meridien and Four Point by Sheraton. With the proposed construction of Ibom Deep Seaport, the State is primed to become the maritime hub of the Gulf of Guinea.
The Governor of the State is Udom Emmanuel, a seasoned Financial Services and Corporate Governance expert. He was elected Governor on April 11, 2015.
Cameroon National Shippers' Council is a Public Agency created by Decree n° 75/118 of 21 January 1975 and reorganized by Decree n° 78/052 of 12 February 1978, restructured by Decree n° 98/311 of 9 December 1998.
Enable each shipper to perform import and export operations with ease regardless of the mode of transport chosen and at an optimal cost.
Providing assistance to and protecting the interests of shippers with a view to contributing to the promotion of international trade. The main objective of the CNSC is to fulfil these missions while its permanent challenge is to meet the expectations of shippers.
In order to achieve these objectives, the CNSC carries out field actions such as training, information, studies and counselling, negotiations and the construction of infrastructures.
Over the last ten years, we have stepped up our activities and made significant investments for the benefit of shippers. These include and are not limited to the creation of new services, the opening of CNSC's country office in Paris-France and regional offices in the port cities of Kribi and Limbe, the construction and operationalization of cargo warehouses within the ports of Douala, Kribi and Tiko Wharf and the undergoing construction of the Douala-Ndjamena corridor trucker accommodation centres. All these achievements and many others make the CNSC a key player in international trade and trade facilitation.
In 2006 the name was changed from Corporation of London to avoid confusion with the wider London local government, the Greater London Authority. The corporation is the world's oldest continuously elected local government body. Both businesses and residents of the City, or "Square Mile", are entitled to vote in elections, and in addition to its functions as the local authority – analogous to those undertaken by the boroughs that administer the rest of London – it takes responsibility for supporting the financial services industry and representing its interests. The corporation's structure includes the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, the Court of Common Council, and the Freemen and Livery of the City.
Commonwealth organisations are involved in diverse activities, from helping countries with trade negotiations to encouraging women's leadership, building the small business sector, supporting youth participation at all levels of society and providing experts to write laws.
The Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (CFTC) was set-up in 1971 and is the principal means for the Commonwealth Secretariat to provide technical assistance to Commonwealth countries. Our approach emphasises country ownership by delivering technical assistance on a demand-driven basis.
As India's premier business association with a network of 66 offices including 9 Centres of Excellence in India, and 7 overseas offices in Australia, China, Egypt, France, Singapore, UK, and USA, as well as institutional partnerships with over 300 counterpart organizations in 106 countries, CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry and the international business community.
Established 90 years ago, FICCI is the largest and oldest apex business organization in India. Its history is closely interwoven with India's struggle for independence, its industrialization, and its emergence as one of the most rapidly growing global economies.
A non-government, not-for-profit organization, FICCI is the voice of India's business and industry. From influencing policy to encouraging debate, engaging with policy makers and civil society, FICCI articulates the views and concerns of industry, reaching out to over 2,50,000 companies. FICCI serves its members from large (domestic and global companies) and MSME sectors as well as the public sector, drawing its strength from diverse regional chambers of commerce and industry.
The Chamber with its presence in 14 states and 10 countries provides a platform for networking and consensus-building within and across sectors and is the first port of call for Indian industry, policy makers and the international business community.
FSD Africa is a non-profit company which aims to increase prosperity, create jobs and reduce poverty by bringing about a transformation in financial markets in SSA and in the economies they serve. It provides know-how and capital to champions of change whose ideas, influence and actions will make finance more useful to African businesses and households. Through access to finance initiatives, it seeks to build financial inclusion. Through capital market development, it looks to promote economic growth and increase investment. As a regional programme, it seeks to encourage collaboration, knowledge transfer and other market-building activities. FSD Africa is funded by UK aid from the UK government.
Gibraltar has been British since 1704. Under the Gibraltar Constitution Order of 2006, Gibraltar has full internal self-governance on all issues except foreign affairs, defence and certain internal security issues for which the United Kingdom is responsible.
The unicameral parliament is elected for a term of up to four years and consists of 17 elected members, and the Speaker. The cabinet of Her Majesty's Government of Gibraltar consists of 10 elected members.
Gibraltar's head of state is the British monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II, who is represented by the Governor of Gibraltar.
Up to 15,000 EU workers, half of them Spanish, cross from Spain to 'the Rock' each day and are employed in a wide range of professional and service sectors. In recent years, Gibraltar has seen major structural change from a public to a private sector economy, but changes in government spending still have a major impact on the level of employment. The financial sector, tourism, gaming revenues, shipping services fees, and duties on consumer goods also generate Government revenue. The financial sector, tourism, shipping and e-gaming are the main economic sectors. Gibraltar's GDP per capita is £56,612, according to the official budget in 2017.
The Bailiwick of Guernsey comprises three separate jurisdictions: Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. Guernsey is the largest, and most populous island in the Bailiwick. There are close constitutional, cultural and economic links between the islands and the parliaments work closely together.
Guernsey's parliament is the States of Deliberation and consists of 38 democratically elected Guernsey members and two elected Alderney representatives, and it has legislative competence. The government consists of a senior committee and six principal committees.
Guernsey has fiscal autonomy, raising its own taxes in order to fund its public services, and it does not receive funding from the UK or the EU. It is not part of the UK, but its citizens have British nationality, and Guernsey is a member of the British-Irish Council. Guernsey is also an active member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.
Guernsey has a diverse economy, a strong financial services sector with an international reputation, and is part of the sterling zone. It adheres to international standards such as in financial stability and probity, tax transparency and information exchange, and data protection.
Jersey is a British Crown Dependency located near to the coast of Normandy, France. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes went on to become kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey and the other Channel Islands remained attached to the English crown.
Jersey has its own Government and Parliament and is autonomous on all domestic matters. On behalf of the British Crown, the UK Government is responsible for the Island's defence and, as a matter of international law, our foreign affairs. The Island is not represented in the UK Parliament, which does not legislate for Jersey without its consent.
Jersey is one of the world's leading international finance centres, with the financial and professional services sector employing just over 20% of the Island's workforce. The Island's reputation for political and economic stability, reliability and high levels of service and expertise help to attract capital from across the world. This in turn is often invested into the UK and Europe, supporting jobs and growth.
Jersey has long been a much loved destination for tourists from the UK, Europe and further afield. Over 700,000 visitors a year are drawn to the Island by its stunning natural environment, historic sites and fabulous food.
The Island's traditional industries of agricultural and fisheries sectors are perhaps best known for the famous Jersey Cow, the Jersey Royal potato and world renowned seafood and shellfish. Around 30,000 tonnes of Jersey Royals are exported each year, mostly to the UK. Jersey also produces over 1500 tonnes of oysters, the majority of which are exported to France for onward transmission across the EU.
The Island has a growing digital and tech sector, currently employing over 2,500 people, underpinned by the roll out of 1Gb fibre broadband which – along with a comprehensive 4G network – makes Jersey one of the best connected jurisdictions in the world.
Invest Cyprus is a member of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) and the Mediterranean Investment Network, ANIMA.
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Invest Turks and Caicos bridges the gap between the business community, government and investment opportunities.
Our team provides free and confidential advice and support, helping investors navigate the path to successful business operations in the islands. Operating as a statutory body, with oversight by the Ministry of Finance, Trade and Investment, Invest Turks and Caicos was established in 2015 as the principal investment promotion agency for the islands with a specific mandate to promote and facilitate trade and investment, public-private partnership and other forms of commercial alliances, encourage domestic entrepreneurship, innovation and capital formation, and generally to liaise with government agencies and the private sector to streamline the investment process.
We work actively to support the growth of local businesses, including the management and delivery of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise programme which provides concessions and other support to locally owned businesses.
Located in the Irish Sea at the centre of the British Isles, the Isle of Man is a resilient and resourceful country with a distinct national identity, independent spirit and strong sense of community loyalty.
As a self-governing British Crown Dependency with its own parliament, government and laws the Island has strong political, business, cultural and historical ties to the United Kingdom and the wider Commonwealth family.
HM The Queen, as 'Lord of Mann', is the Manx Head of State.
Home to 84,000 people, the Isle of Man is the first entire nation to be awarded UNESCO status as a Biosphere Reserve. The designation, recognising the Island as a "special place for people and nature", applauds our ability to use our natural assets sustainably in support of a progressive economy.
It is an international business centre known for its innovation, entrepreneurialism and long-standing policy of positive engagement with international initiatives and standards.
Well-known for its financial services industry the Isle of Man has successfully encouraged the diversification of its economy into other sectors including business aviation services, aerospace, offshore energy and clean tech, e-business and e-gaming, ICT, food and drink production, general manufacturing, ship and yacht management and tourism.
What is known today as the Nigerian Shippers' Council was established in 1978 by Decree 13 now Cap.133LFN, 2004 and vested with the responsibility of protecting the interest of Nigerian Shippers i.e. importers and exporters. Prior to this period, there was total deterioration in the quality of shipping services and unmitigated increase in ocean freight rates by foreign ship owners that operated scheduled liner services to Nigerian Ports.
Consequently, the affected shippers had no collective means of ascertaining the quantum and quality of services offered them, nor were they guaranteed adequacy of shipping space.
The Nigerian Shippers' Council therefore, was formed to defend and represent the interest of shippers throughout the transport chain by ensuring that the shipment of goods to and fro Nigeria is done under the most reliable, safe and economical arrangements favourable to shippers.
However, in 2014, and following the concessioning of the Ports in 2006, aimed at making the Nigerian Ports effective and efficient in line with global trend and best practices, the government further pronounced the Nigerian Shippers' Council as the port economic regulator. This added responsibility to the Council is aimed at instituting an effective regulatory regime at the Nigerian Ports for enhanced efficiency and to address the negative impact of concession activities on the economy due to absence of an economic regulator.
The Employers' Federation of Pakistan, known simply as EFP, is a non-profit entity which was established in 1950, under the Companies Ordinance 1984. Since then, the EFP has risen to prominence as the only 'body of employers' in Pakistan that is not only a member of the International Organization of Employers (IOE), but also affiliated with the Confederation of AsiaPacific Employers (CAPE), as well as, the South Asian Forum of Employers (SAFE). Statistically, the total outreach of EFP, through a base of over 1000 member organizations, and 28 leading chambers and industrial associations, stands at a record 2.5 million Pakistani workers.
Led by the current president, Mr. Majyd Aziz, the EFP is a tripartite constituent of International Labour Organization (ILO), and with it, carries the statutory mandate to bridge the communication gap between various business entities, stakeholders, social partners, and the government, in an effort to draft policies aimed at promoting the welfare of Pakistan. These policies are primarily directed at tackling various issues related to underemployment, poverty, abuse of workers' rights, and a host socio- and macro-economic problems prevalent in the industrial, agricultural, and services sectors of the Pakistani economy.
In lieu of its unwavering commitments to stimulate the general well-being of the country, and in acting as a linchpin to strengthen the bilateral ties of Pakistan with her trading partners, the EFP recently inaugurated an Economic Council. This EFP Economic Council (EFP-EC), chaired by Mr. Ismail Suttar, and under his new mantra of, "industrialization on war footing", has set a prime goal to not only tap the countless technological frontiers but also exploit the talent-rich pool of youth to successfully push Pakistan to its next stage of industrialization. Achieving this goal, it firmly believes, shall ensure a thriving future for Pakistan, in terms of both socio and economic prosperity.


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Friends in Low Places: Where The Real Lobbying Happens
To advise him on tax policy, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hires from a corporation infamous for avoiding taxes, while a bank regulator and a Beltway consulting firm swap top officials.
by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica
Feb. 20, 2013, 1 p.m. EST
Hold Companies, Executives and Government Officials Accountable
Obsess all you'd like about President Obama's nomination of Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Who heads the agency is vital, but important fights in Washington are happening in quiet rooms, away from the media gaze.
After a widely praised stint as a tough United States attorney, Ms. White spent the last decade serving so many large banks and investment houses that by the time she finishes recusing herself from regulatory matters, she may be down to overseeing First Wauwatosa Securities.
Now, Ms. White maintains she can run the S.E.C., without fear or favor. But the focus shouldn't be limited to whether she can be effective. For lobbyists, the real targets are regulators and staff members for lawmakers.
Ms. White, at least, will have to sit for congressional testimony, answer occasional questions from the media and fill out disclosure forms. Staff members, however, work in untroubled anonymity for the most part. So, while everyone knows there's a revolving door — so naïve to even bring it up! — few realize just how fluidly it spins.
Take what happened late last month as Washington geared up for more fights about the taxing, spending and the deficit. The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, decided to bolster his staff's expertise on taxes.
So on Jan. 25, Mr. Reid's office announced that he had appointed Cathy Koch as chief adviser to the majority leader for tax and economic policy. The news release lists Ms. Koch's admirable and formidable experience in the public sector. "Prior to joining Senator Reid's office," the release says, "Koch served as tax chief at the Senate Finance Committee."
It's funny, though. The notice left something out. Because immediately before joining Mr. Reid's office, Ms. Koch wasn't in government. She was working for a large corporation.
Not just any corporation, but quite possibly the most influential company in America, and one that arguably stands to lose the most if there were any serious tax reform that closed corporate loopholes. Ms. Koch arrives at the senator's office by way of General Electric.
Yes, General Electric, the company that paid almost no taxes in 2010. Just as the tax reform debate is heating up, Mr. Reid has put in place a person who is extraordinarily positioned to torpedo any tax reform that might draw a dollar out of G.E. — and, by extension, any big corporation.
Omitting her last job from the announcement must have merely been an oversight. By the way, no rules prevent Ms. Koch from meeting with G.E. or working on issues that would affect the company.
The senator's office, which declined to make Ms. Koch available for an interview, says that she will support the majority leader in his efforts to close corporate tax loopholes. His office said in a statement that the senator considers her knowledge of the private sector to be an asset and that she complies with "all relevant Senate ethics rules and disclosures."
In a statement, the senator's spokesman said, "The impulse in some quarters to reflexively cast suspicion on private-sector experience is part of what makes qualified individuals reluctant to enter public service."
Over in bank regulatory land, meanwhile, January was playing out like a Beltway remake of "Freaky Friday."
Julie Williams, chief counsel for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and a major friend of the banks for years, had been recently shown the door by Thomas J. Curry, the new head of the regulator. Banking reform advocates took that to be an omen that a new era might be dawning at the agency, which has often been a handmaiden to large banks.
Ms. Williams, of course, landed on her feet. She's now at the Promontory Financial Group, a classic Washington creature that is a private-sector mirror image of a regulatory body. Promontory is the Shadow O.C.C. The firm was founded by a former head of the agency, Eugene A. Ludwig, and if you were to walk down the halls swinging a copy of the Volcker Rule, you would be sure to hit a former O.C.C. official. Promontory says only about 5 percent of its employees comes from the O.C.C., but concedes about more than a quarter are former regulators.
Promontory, as the firm explains on its website, "excels at helping financial companies grapple with and resolve critical issues, particularly those with a regulatory dimension." But it plays for the other team, too, by helping the O.C.C. put into effect regulatory reviews. The dreary normality of this is a Washington scandal in the Michael Kinsley sense: a perfectly legal one.
Promontory, which demurred on a request to talk with Ms. Williams, has a different view. The firm doesn't lobby or help in litigation. It argues that after banks stop fighting regulators and lobbying against rules, then they come to Promontory to figure out how to fix their problems and comply.
"We are known in the industry as the tough-love doctors," said Mr. Ludwig, the chief executive of Promontory. "I am deeply committed to financial stability, and the only way to have stability is to do the right thing in both the spirit and letter of the law."
Hmm. Remember the Independent Foreclosure Review, the program that the O.C.C. and other federal bank regulators trumpeted as the largest effort to compensate victims of big banks' foreclosure abuses? As my colleague at ProPublica, Paul Kiel, detailed last year, that review involved consultants like Promontory essentially letting banks decide who was victimized. How well did that work? So well that the regulators had to scuttle the program because it hadn't given one red cent to homeowners but somehow, I don't know how, managed to send more than $1.5 billion to consultants — including Promontory.
Promontory maintains that it complied with the conditions set out by the O.C.C. And the review was replaced by a settlement, which the regulators say will compensate victims — though the average payout is small beer.
Who, exactly, makes the rules at the O.C.C.? I mentioned "Freaky Friday." That's because at the agency, Ms. Williams is being replaced by Amy Friend. And where is Ms. Friend coming from? Wait for it ... Promontory. In March, maybe they'll do the switcheroo back.
The O.C.C. didn't make Ms. Friend available but said that her "talent, integrity and commitment to public service are beyond reproach" and would be subject to the rule requiring her to recuse herself for a year on matters specifically relating to her former employer.
I spoke with people who said she was a smart and dedicated public servant, an expert on the Dodd-Frank Act who can help finalize the scandalously long list of unfinished rules and expedite its implementation.
"Amy Friend is absolutely rowing in the right direction," said a Senate staff member who worked on efforts to push for stronger financial regulation.
Let's hope so.
But people also described Ms. Friend as pragmatic. In Washington, that's the ultimate compliment. Sadly, that has come to mean someone who seeks compromise and never pushes for an overhaul when a quarter-measure will do.
Washington today resembles something like the end of "Animal Farm." People move from one side of the table to the other and up and down the Acela corridor with ease. An outsider looking at a negotiating table would glance from lobbyist to staff member, from colleague to former colleague, from pig to man and from man to pig and find it impossible to say which is which.
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Ganesh Salon, one of the oldest salons in Guwahati, few yards from the Assam Secretariat on the Beltola-Basistha Road has been serving the people of Guwahati since 1972. Owner of the salon Ram Thakur, presently 67 years old, moved from Bihar to Shillong in 1956, when it was still the capital of Assam. Now the Secretary of the Guwahati Salon Union, he had actually quit his government job to work in a saloon back in the 60s.
The new and fancier salons opening up in the city is also a cause for concern 'A lot of modern salons have come up, and it is affecting our business. But, we have been serving the people of Guwahati for more than forty years. So, we don't need to worry too much. Back in the 80s, many MLAs used to came to us for haircut. We have sustained this business for years and we shall continue to do so for years to come,' he said.
The city has lots of establishments that have their own story to tell. Ganesh Salon is one amongst them, on the verge of completing of 50 years, a big deal for any business.


SeaCrisp Breaded Cod Stick, 1 Ounce of 160 Pieces, 10 Pound -- 1 each.
Preparation instructions: COOKING INSTRUCTIONS FROM FROZEN:TO BAKE: Place frozen fillets on a lightly oiled sheet pan. CONVECTION OVEN: Preheat oven to 400F and bake for about 15 minutes.CONVENTIONAL OVEN: Preheat oven to 425F and bake for about 20 minutes.NOTE: COOK TO AN INTERNAL TEMPERATURE OF 165F MINIMUM.


This recently renovated oceanfront villa features great views from both the living room and master bedroom. Guests enjoy wireless internet access. As the name implies you will be staying near the sound of the surf for rest and relaxation. Kiawah Island boasts 30 plus miles of paved bicycle trails making it an easy jaunt to Night Heron Park's green spaces and playgrounds. Bike trails also extend all the way to Freshfields Village. Kiawah Island's beautiful 10 miles of hard packed beach are also perfect for bike riding, plus, walking, shelling or simply sunning. Square Feet 1012.
The living room, with sleeper sofa, is open to the dining room and has deck access. The kitchen has upgraded appliances.
The master bedroom with TV has a completely renovated bath. The twin bedroom has a private access to the hall bath which has been completely renovated.
Each Windswept Villa includes: free parking, deck, initial supply of linens and towels, washer and dryer, color cable TV, air conditioning, starter supply of paper products and detergents, local telephone service, 24-hour security in a gated community. The wireless service operates on an open network that requires no logins or passwords and provides no network security. Wireless internet services are not guaranteed to work with your equipment. We cannot provide support for guest's personal computer systems.
For guests staying 2/12/18-3/30/18, please be aware that there may be some noise as areas of the villa complex are being repaved and curbs are repaired. Also please note that Beach Boardwalk #19 will be closed from 3/5/18-3/16/18.


Michael Angell has served as Director of Performing Arts Grants for the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation since its inception in 2011. One of three program areas of the foundation, Performing Arts awards grants to nonprofit performers, presenters, and educators in classical music and theater. The program has made nearly twelve million dollars in awards. Grantees include nine organizations which sponsor El Sistema inspired programs.
Mike grew up in suburban Chicago, playing trumpet in school bands and orchestras, eventually turning to composition in high school. He continued his musical training in the Midwest, receiving his B.M. in Composition and Trumpet Performance from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and his M.M. and D.M.A. in Composition from the University of Michigan. He was hired onto the music faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1994, where he served for fourteen years, teaching courses in theory, aural skills, composition, computer music, and founding and directing the Computer Music Ensemble. Angell has been an active composer since youth, creating both acoustic and electro-acoustic works, presenting them in numerous venues nationwide, and receiving a variety of publications, recordings and awards. He has served on the boards of directors of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), and the Birmingham Artburst series. In 1994, he co-founded the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, (http://bham.artmusic.org) a new music peer organization for composers and performers which presents an annual concert series. He served as BAMA's initial president for three years. Angell is committed to the arts, both for its powerful intrinsic value, as well as its tremendous capacity to positively impact individuals and communities.