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LEXUS RESHAPES VEHICLE DEVELOPMENT WITH THE ALL-NEW NX
· All-new NX is the first model produced using new Lexus vehicle development techniques
· Full incorporation of digital, computer-based modelling with benefits including more precise quality assurance
· Dynamic performance refined using direct feedback from professional racing drivers
· Lexus' second generation mid-size SUV is a comprehensively new vehicle – more than 95% of parts are newly developed
· Adoption of new GA-K platform, a pivotal innovation in improving dynamic performance and delivering the Lexus Driving Signature
· Dynamic quality refined with new steering, braking and suspension systems
A new approach to vehicle development
In launching the all-new NX, Lexus has done more than deliver a new car – it has brought about a revolution in its approach to vehicle development.
The second generation of Lexus' mid-size luxury SUV is the first model to be developed using new techniques and strategies, targeting even higher quality and dynamic performance. Chief Engineer Takeaki Kato explains: "Lexus' development scheme was substantially changed for the new NX. We fully incorporated digital, or model-based development, using computers for smarter engineering. This gives us benefits such as being able to detect all inconsistencies when carrying out quality assurance."
At the same time new digital tools were adopted, physical items were still used to confirm the sensory aspects of the NX – how it looks, feels and sounds to the customer.
The human element has also been given new priority in the development of the NX's dynamic performance. Professional racing drivers were enlisted to test the NX at Lexus' Shimoyama proving ground and their feedback was used to refine the car's responsiveness and handling.
Cost management is another important aspect, with a focus on reducing the cost of existing technology features so the new, advanced technologies can be offered at an affordable price to the customer.
These initiatives will be incorporated for all future Lexus models and will continue to evolve, with stronger collaboration between chief engineers to help progress the next chapter of the Lexus brand.
A genuinely "all-new" vehicle
Even at first glance, it's easy to recognise the all-new NX as a successor to Lexus' original mid-size luxury SUV. But while there is a clear visual link between the two models in terms of an evolution in design and styling, they are very different vehicles – in fact, more than 95% of the parts have been newly developed. This approach covers all aspects of the new NX: performance, ride, handling, safety, comfort, connectivity, and more.
The changes extend to every aspect of the vehicle, from powertrain components to a wealth of individual features such as the seats, the steering wheel, the Lexus Link multimedia systems, Lexus Safety System + functions, the wheels, door mirrors and even the motor that operates the power back door more quickly and quietly. In every instance, the goal has been to deliver a better experience for the customer, from the way something works to how it looks, sounds and feels.
A new platform to deliver the Lexus Driving Signature
Perhaps no new feature is more fundamental to the character and quality of the car than its Lexus Global Architecture K (GA-K) platform. Using this new platform has brought the NX's centre of gravity down by 20 mm and helped achieve a better weight balance between the front and rear of the car. It's also 30% more rigid than the previous model's chassis, which is key to agile, stable and responsive handling and stronger protection in an impact.
Furthermore, it is the foundation for securing the Lexus Driving Signature. A defining quality of new Lexus models, this is optimum dynamic response to the use of steering, throttle and brakes that gives the driver confidence and a sense of control and connection with their car at every moment. In addition to the new platform, Lexus has also introduced new braking, steering and suspension systems, co-ordinated and tuned to achieve consistent, seamless performance.
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Lexus expects the NX's "brand new" qualities will help it increase its sales and almost double its segment share in Europe. It predicts an increase from 3.6% to 6% in 2022 in its first full year of sales.
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North America, United States, Alaska, Ruth Gorge, Hut Tower, Tower Couloir to Werewolf-Hut Col
Hut Tower, Tower Couloir to Werewolf-Hut Col. James Mehigan and I aren't keen on beach vacations, so we traveled to Alaska in April, just in time for the end of a two-month high-pressure spell. On the day we arrived the wind swung to the south, which, according to a local climber, brings two types of clouds: serious and accumulating.
We gave ourselves just two weeks to pull off the first ascent of the couloir leading to the col between the Werewolf and Hut towers (6,700' and 6,200'), but pulled it off in a 23-hour continuous push, battling subzero temperatures, falling snow, and marginal ice conditions.
The crux section of the climb involved a struggle with an overhanging chimney that was shrouded by a veil of vertical powder snow. Running through the powder snow, though, were four-inch-wide tentacles of semi-consolidated snow-ice that made the route possible. It included three pitches of stout Scottish Grade VII, with the second-from-last pitch being much like the moves out of the cave on Darth Vader (VII, 8) on Ben Nevis.
Tower Couloir, 500m, ED, Scottish VII, A1.
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Temasek (4,374m), Singapura I (4,589m/4,550m), Ong Teng Cheong (4,743m), ...
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Parafia Zwiastowania Przenajświętszej Bogurodzicy i św. Jana Teologa – parafia prawosławna w Supraślu, w dekanacie Białystok należącym do diecezji białostocko-gdańskiej.

Na terenie parafii funkcjonują 4 cerkwie i 1 kaplica:
 cerkiew Zwiastowania Przenajświętszej Bogurodzicy w Supraślu – parafialna i jednocześnie główna klasztorna
 cerkiew św. Antoniego Supraskiego w Supraślu – klasztorna
 cerkiew św. Jana Teologa w Supraślu – klasztorna
 cerkiew św. Łukasza Biskupa Krymu w Łaźniach – filialna
 kaplica św. Jerzego Zwycięzcy w Supraślu – cmentarna

W Karakulach budowana jest cerkiew filialna pw. Ikony Matki Bożej "Życiodajne Źródło".

Historia

Dzieje prawosławia w dzisiejszym Supraślu sięgają przełomu XV i XVI wieku, kiedy na tym terenie rozpoczął działalność męski monaster, przeniesiony z Gródka. W 1915 wskutek działań wojennych mnisi (z większą częścią ludności prawosławnej) udali się w głąb Rosji. Po odzyskaniu przez Polskę niepodległości i powrocie prawosławnych z bieżeństwa monaster wznowił działalność, jednak już w 1922 władze państwowe relegowały mnichów, a budynki klasztorne przekazały salezjanom. Od tej pory tylko kaplica cmentarna św. Jerzego w Podsupraślu należała nadal do Kościoła prawosławnego, jednak dopiero w 1927 zezwolono na odprawianie tam nabożeństw. W owym czasie supraska społeczność prawosławna podlegała parafii w Wasilkowie i była obsługiwana przez tamtejszych duchownych, głównie ks. mitrata Aleksego Mularczyka, który od 1929 większość czasu spędzał w Supraślu (mimo początkowego sprzeciwu władz) i opiekował się wspólnotą do 1970. Pod koniec II wojny światowej, wycofujący się z Supraśla Niemcy wysadzili w powietrze główną cerkiew klasztorną (Zwiastowania Bogurodzicy), natomiast w najmniej zniszczonych, prowizorycznie odrestaurowanych budynkach monasterskich urządzono po wojnie szkołę rolniczą. W 1958 prawosławni po kilkunastoletnich staraniach odzyskali definitywnie cerkiew św. Jana Teologa (przeznaczoną przez władze do rozbiórki), a w latach osiemdziesiątych również pozostałe obiekty. W latach 1971–1984 społecznością opiekował się ks. Aleksander Makal. W 1984 reaktywowano w Supraślu prawosławny monaster oraz przyklasztorną parafię, która weszła w skład dekanatu białostockiego diecezji białostocko-gdańskiej. Rozpoczęto, zapoczątkowaną przez o. ihumena Mirona (Chodakowskiego) i kontynuowaną przez archimandrytę Gabriela (Gibę), odbudowę (trwającą do tej pory) cerkwi Zwiastowania Bogurodzicy, która znów stała się główną świątynią klasztorną, a także parafialną. Cerkiew św. Jana Teologa pełni obecnie funkcje pomocnicze zarówno dla monasteru jak i parafii.

13 kwietnia 2014 w należącej do parafii wsi Łaźnie rozpoczęto budowę cerkwi filialnej pod wezwaniem św. Łukasza Biskupa Krymu. Pierwsza Liturgia w nowej świątyni sprawowana była w uroczystość patronalną 11 czerwca 2014. Obecnie trwają prace wykończeniowe w cerkwi (m.in. związane ze stolarką drzwiową i okienną, budową pięciu kopuł i urządzeniem wnętrza). Obiekt został poświęcony 22 czerwca 2019 r.

W 2015 w południowym budynku monasterskim urządzono cerkiew pod wezwaniem św. Antoniego Supraskiego. Pierwsza Boska Liturgia w nowej świątyni była celebrowana 22 marca tegoż roku.

Zasięg terytorialny i liczba wiernych
W 1937 supraska wspólnota prawosławna (ok. 390 rodzin – 1630 osób) zamieszkiwała – oprócz miasta – okoliczne wsie: Cieliczanka, Ogrodniczki, Ciasne, Karakule, Nowodworce, Kolonie: Sadowy Stok, Jałówka, Ożynnik w powiecie białostockim oraz wsie i kolonie Surażkowo, Sokołda, Łaźnie, Podłaźnie, Krzemienne, Konne, Międzyrzecze i Woronicze w powiecie sokólskim.

Wykaz proboszczów
 1984 – ks. Aleksander Makal
 1984–1998 – o. ihumen Miron (Chodakowski)
 2000–2008 – archimandryta Gabriel (Giba)
 2008–2010 – p.o. biskup Grzegorz (Charkiewicz)
 od 2010 – ihumen (od 2012 archimandryta, a od 2017 biskup) Andrzej (Borkowski)

Obiekty sakralne w Supraślu
 Cerkiew Zwiastowania Przenajświętszej Bogurodzicy – renesansowa, obronna, wzniesiona w latach 1503–1511, zburzona w 1944, odbudowywana od 1985. Obecnie główna świątynia klasztorna i parafialna. W krypcie cerkwi spoczywa arcybiskup Miron (Chodakowski), który w latach 1984–1998 był przełożonym supraskiego monasteru.
 Cerkiew św. Jana Teologa – wzniesiona w 1888 na terenie monasteru. W 1922 wraz ze wszystkimi obiektami klasztornymi przekazana salezjanom. Od 1942 ponownie użytkowana przez prawosławnych, z przerwą w latach 1954–1956. Oficjalnie odzyskana dopiero w 1958. Obecnie pełni rolę świątyni pomocniczej zarówno monasteru, jak i parafii.
 Cerkiew św. Antoniego Supraskiego – w budynku monasterskim, czynna od 2015. Upamiętnia 500-lecie męczeńskiej śmierci patrona.
 Kaplica św. Jerzego Zwycięzcy – murowana, wzniesiona w 1901 na cmentarzu w Podsupraślu. W latach 1922–1942 i 1954–1956 była jedyną czynną świątynią supraskiej wspólnoty prawosławnej; następnie powróciła do pierwotnej funkcji kaplicy cmentarnej.

Pozostałe obiekty sakralne

Łaźnie
 Cerkiew św. Łukasza Biskupa Krymu – filialna, drewniana, budowana od 2014, poświęcona 22 czerwca 2019 r. Pierwsza w Polsce świątynia dedykowana arcybiskupowi Łukaszowi (Wojno-Jasienieckiemu), świętemu prawosławnemu polskiego pochodzenia. Od listopada 2017 r. w cerkwi są regularnie celebrowane Święte Liturgie (w drugą niedzielę miesiąca).

Karakule
 Cerkiew Ikony Matki Bożej "Życiodajne Źródło" – filialna; w budowie.

Galeria

Przypisy

Zobacz też
 Podsupraśl

Bibliografia
 Kalendarz Prawosławny 2021, Wydanie Warszawskiej Metropolii Prawosławnej, , s. 222
 Hierarchia i kler kościoła prawosławnego w granicach II Rzeczypospolitej i Polski powojennej w XIX–XXI wieku, ks. Grzegorz Sosna i m. Antonina Troc-Sosna, Ryboły 2012

Linki zewnętrzne
 Oficjalna strona kościoła prawosławnego w Polsce

 "Przegląd Prawosławny", nr 2 (308), luty 2011 – Bez niego nie byłoby już prawosławia w Supraślu (wspomnienie o ks. Aleksym Mularczyku)

Parafie pod wezwaniem św. Jana Ewangelisty (Apostoła)
Parafie pod wezwaniem Zwiastowania Najświętszej Maryi Panny
Parafie prawosławne w dekanacie Białystok
Zwiastowania
Parafia

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I'm most of the way through Easy Selections from Xenophon and decided to take a break and read Thrasymachus. I realize that in the Xenophon selections I've been shielded from Xenophon's word order, and I realize that the readings from Thrasymachus have been created by the authors, but I assume that those readings reflect natural Greek word order. I'm stumped by the reply to Jason from the priest of Apollo (reading VIII): Ἂνδρα μίαν κρηπῖδ᾽͵ ὦ τλῆμον͵ φεῦγε φέροντα.
I assume the warning means "O Wretch, flee a man bearing one sandal." I'm having a hard time understanding why the word order would seem natural. I can imagine that the first three words are first because they express the key point -- but I cannot see why φέροντα comes at the end. It's probably the least important word in the sentence, but the whole sentence is held in suspense for this unimportant word. He's not, for example, swinging the sandal or throwing it. φεῦγε φέροντα feels like the last two pieces in a jigsaw puzzle that you have to make fit by pounding. What am I missing?
This is a hexameter. The word order to a certain extent is constrained by the meter. And it ends with a catchy alliteration. But Greek word order is difficult to pin down, and strict rules can't be formulated--only general tendencies.
The Pythia could have said Ἂνδρα μίαν κρηπῖδα φέροντ', ὦ τλῆμον͵ φεῦγε. That would be metrical, to be sure, but metrically less effective, with a heavy spondee in the fifth foot.
Jason himself was the man with one sandal, the other having been lost while he was crossing a river. The oracular response was delivered to Jason's uncle, Pelias, who had ousted Jason's father Aeson from the throne of Thessaly, and who was ultimately killed by his own daughters. They were deceived into cutting him up and boiling the pieces by Jason's then consort, Medea. The oracle warned Pelias about Jason.
Thanks, Hylander! Since the passage was in prose, I wasn't thinking verse. The idea that a heavy spondee would be metrically less effective is rather beyond me for right now. I did sort of realize there was alliteration, but I was focused on the meaning not thinking the alliteration was driving the word order.
I am glad to hear that some sort of meaning was not at play in the word order!
I've noticed in reading Herodotus that quite often whenever an oracle's reply is quoted, it's rendered in hexameter. Is this common?
This appears to be dactylic hexameter, so usually the fifth foot would be a dactyl. In this line, all but the first and fifth feet are spondees. Of course, spondees are found on the fifth foot, just not very often and usually with the result of slowing the movement of the verse.
The oracle always responded in hexameters, and I think Herodotus and others usually if not always quote the responses in hexameters. In ancient Greece, hexameters were the original medium of written communication, and prose was a later discovery. In fact, hexameters, or at least metrical communication of important information, probably preceded writing: meter made memorization of information easier before writing became available.
Mark Mueller, I wonder whether you could change the heading of this thread so that the subject is more transparent. I realize that you're quoting a comic discussion of inverted word order from Le bourgeois gentilhomme (I had to look it up myself), but not everyone knows that, and I think others might weigh in if they can see what you're asking about.
Hylander, thanks for the reply! I never realized that prose came along much later than verse and I would imagine that explains why not only poetry but plays were written in meter (not necessarily hexameter) as well.
changing it on a reply does the trick.
Thanks, Mark! Seems to have done the trick. Maybe some others can be lured into commenting.
Apparently oracles gave up hexameter as too troublesome. Plutarch wrote a ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΜΗ ΧΡΑΝ ΕΜΜΕΤΡΑ ΝΥΝ ΤΗΝ ΠΥΘΙΑΝ.
ἀλλὰ κἀκείνας αἰτιᾶσθε τὰς πάλαι προφήτιδας ὡς φαύλοις ποιήμασι χρωμένας, καὶ τὰς νῦν καταλογάδην καὶ διὰ τῶν ἐπιτυχόντων ὀνομάτων τοὺς χρησμοὺς λεγούσας, ὅπως ὑμῖν ἀκεφάλων καὶ λαγαρῶν μέτρων καὶ μειούρων εὐθύνας μὴ ὑπέχωσι.
I tried to find a Greek source for something like this Jason line, but couldn't.
I couldn't find the scene in Flaccus.
δημόθεν οἰοπέδιλον, ὑπ᾿ ἐννεσίῃσι δαμῆναι.
oracles gave up hexameter as too troublesome.
That would have been about 600+ years after Herodotus' time.
Yes, I didn't mean to contradict anything. Herodotus always puts his responses in meter, though I've only read bits and pieces. The Sibylline Oracles are all in hexameters.
However, Plutarch does make me wonder how much of this was just literary convention, rather than actual utterances. It's clear that all of the examples in Herodotus were dreamed up after the fact.
I looked for the text of the famous oracle about Socrates, which would have come up in court, and could perhaps be real. I found an interesting discussion about it in a Scholia on Clouds.
I find it interesting that Xenophon and Plato both use μηδένα instead of οὐδένα, and makes me wonder if their versions derive from a real source.
μηδένα εἶναι ἀνθρώπων ἐμοῦ μήτε ἐλευθεριώτερον μήτε δικαιότερον μήτε σωφρονέστερον.
ἀνεῖλεν οὖν ἡ Πυθία μηδένα σοφώτερον εἶναι.
σοφὸς Σοφοκλῆς, σοφώτερος δ' Εὐριπίδης, ἀνδρῶν δὲ πάντων Σωκράτης σοφώτερος. τούτου Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Μόλων ἐν τῷ κατὰ φιλοσόφων ἐψεῦσθαί φησι τὴν Πυθί- αν· τοὺς γὰρ πυθικοὺς χρησμοὺς ἑξαμέτρους εἶναι καὶ <ἀ>εί. ἔστι δὲ παρὰ (10) κωμικῷ τινι †συγκεχωρίσθαι τῷ χρησμῷ δύναται†. ὅτι δὲ καὶ ἄλλοι διὰ τριμέτρων πλείους εἰσὶ χρησμοί, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ πεζῷ λόγῳ λεχθέντες τῇ Πυθίᾳ, δῆλον.
There's a lot that could be said about the production of oracles (see e.g. Fontenrose's The Delphic Oracle, but he downplays politicization), but to get back on topic, and to Mark's excellent query about the word order of this particular oracle. The crucial thing is that it's not prose but verse, a dactylic hexameter as Hylander pointed out (so the topic title is still a bit misleading?). That should be obvious to anyone reading the passage. The hexameter is the most venerable of the Greek meters, and oracles are delivered in hexameter as a matter of course. Word order in hexameter is in fact not very far removed from prose, and Ἂνδρα μίαν κρηπῖδ᾽͵ ὦ τλῆμον͵ φεῦγε φέροντα illustrates the fact. But it's not quite the same, and Mark did well to fasten on the position of φέροντα. In prose the participle would probably not be deferred so, but in hexameter its position at the end has no special significance beyond (importantly) completing both the verse and the syntax—just as Mark noted.
Verse is "marked" speech, and word order in verse is routinely somewhat different from how it is in prose. Partly this is due to metrical constraints, but it goes deeper than that. It's more a matter of stylization, and poets can manipulate word order for effect. Prose writers can too, of course, but not to the extent that poets can. The more elevated the verse form, the more "distortion" you're likely to get, and the more functional it becomes. Menander for instance, composing in iambic trimeters in more or less ordinary language (and iambics are the closest meter to the rhythms of ordinary speech), departs little from ordinary word order, but a poet like Pindar, operating with a complex metrical system and in highflown language, achieves effects through word order which are simply unattainable in prose.
I have just corrected all of the mentions of κληπῖδα to κρηπῖδα. I won't mention the names of those who copy-pasted from the initial error (but it was everybody).
Thank you Joel. I admit to sometimes copy-pasting without copy-editing, and am not ashamed of it.
Apologies to all for the trivial nature of this post. My previous one had a little more substance to it.


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The ex-husband of Gwyneth Paltrow has a new girlfriend
Chris Martin had an affair with Heather Graham.
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Chris Martin does not lose hope
to establish, finally, their personal lives. Recently, he appeared in public with a new
girlfriend, actress Heather Graham. The couple was caught by the paparazzi on a beach
Malibu. Chris and Heather walked, laughed and clearly enjoyed each other's company.
However, nothing extra they are in public does not allow it. But reporters were able to trace that at the end of the walk,
they retired together in close to the beach mansion…
Apparently Heather was the new girl Martin, succeeding in this "post" former friend
musician Annabelle Wallis. An affair with Annabelle started Chris last summer.
However, it haven't seen with Martin. While Chris Wallis managed
long to meet with another actress – Jennifer Lawrence.
However, until recently,
all of Martin's novels were almost doomed from the start. It was
its close informal relationship with his ex-wife and mother of two children
Gwyneth Paltrow. Since then, as Chris and Gwyneth decided to leave, they
in fact, never been apart for a long time. Even after Paltrow
last spring, officially filed for divorce, and Martin all weekend
the holidays spent with her and the kids. Not
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However, now Martin and
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icy 1 year ago | link
I didn't find too much to take away from this. No comparison with C (not that it hasn't been done a million times already). It's just a feature list and potential applications for Rust.
skade 1 year ago | link
I assume one of the reasons is that we're not the target audience. I read the blog post as more geared towards technical high/C-Level management.
proctrap edited 1 year ago | link
I certainly would like rust to become even more successful. But I feel like zig is going to take the lead in replacing C eventually, based on my limited knowledge. It's far easier to integrate with existing C than rust is already. It has even easier ways of having multiple allocators (stack,pool etc) and allows for seamless async-await as far as I know. This makes it even better for usage in embedded environments and the harsh c world of Drivers, Kernels and so on.
Rust is a little bit too heavy or constraining it seems for those bare metal workloads and zig can just place itself as drop in replacement. Sure rust gives you even more guarantees, while zig feels like a tidy C in that aspect. But this may be more desirable than to fit your stuff into rusts totally different world. Or writing loads of unsafe code, while 99% of your Linux Kernel may already be a bunch of unsafe hacks to allow the speed and integration it has.
On the other side are the people that enjoy strong typing but don't want to interact with the borrow checker, here Nim may be more of an option. Meanwhile Deno/Typescript, Ruby and Python are still staying strong in that field.
And replacing numpy with a rust-ish library sounds nice. But we shouldn't forget that there are still loads of Fortran libs underneath those heavily utilized python libs.
This may sound pessimistic so I'd really like to get some different opinions on my thoughts.
jakob 1 year ago | link
Rust is a little bit too heavy or constraining it seems for those bare metal workloads…
There are a few examples of Rust being used in "bare metal" environments. I wouldn't say it's constraining to the point that "bare metal" software can't be written in it. Rust is billed as a "systems programming language", after all.
Sure rust gives you even more guarantees, while zig feels like a tidy C in that aspect. But this may be more desirable than to fit your stuff into rusts totally different world. Or writing loads of unsafe code, while 99% of your Linux Kernel may already be a bunch of unsafe hacks to allow the speed and integration it has.
I didn't fully understand this point. That valuing performance over safety guarantees is a trade-off worth making?
Garbage collection is certainly another viable approach to the problem of memory safety. Though, some may argue that GC pauses are inappropriate for an embedded system running some sort of real-time application.
I believe Fortran is relatively safe. IIRC the speed of Fortran arises from aliasing not being allowed in the language.
Zig is cool, but the size of its user base is much smaller than Rust's, ergo I expect more effort to be poured into the Rust language.
chbarts 1 year ago | link
That valuing performance over safety guarantees is a trade-off worth making?
Sometimes it is. Sometimes, if you don't prioritize performance, the code is incorrect, and the fact the code is safer doesn't make it correct. Just buying a faster processor isn't always a solution, either.
calvin 1 year ago | link
Yeah, Rust is more of the C++ replacement than C.
kornel edited 1 year ago | link
Rust has attracted a lot of people (including me) who wanted a better C, and don't think that C++ is a better C.
I agree that zig is closer to being a direct C replacement. However, after using Rust I also got used to quality-of-life improvements it brings, so there's no going back for me :)
friendlysock 1 year ago | link
But D though… >_<
dsp 1 year ago | link
I am unsure if Zig can take the lead in replacing Rust. Successfully replacing a language such as C, in my opinion, can only be a combination of (1) a strong value proposition, (2) ability to gain traction within a developer community, (3) gain traction in larger organisations. I believe the first aspect, both Rust and Zig has. What I believe Rust has, that makes it a prime candidate for replacing C in some ares, is that it has a very strong developer community that is develops integrations into wide variety of developer tools (e.g. IntelliJ Rust support), a strong ecosystem (crates.io, cargo) and advocates highly for it. In addition, it gains tractions within larger organisations and allows people to work paid on the Rust ecosystem. While Zig might be better suited, in my opinion, other factors play a significant role where Rust is really strong atm, in addition to have a strong value proposition.
snej 1 year ago | link
I doubt many people who still favor C will like Rust, much less switch to it (voluntarily.) C is barely-structured, with a minimum of typing or type-safety. You get struct, enum, pointers and arrays. It's "structured assembly", as they say. Anyone who prefers C today likes it that way.
Going from that to Rust's complex type system must be like trying to learn a distant foreign language like (to me) Russian or Chinese. (Actually I hear Georgian has the most WTF grammar of all, to an English speaker.)
And after the feel-good C parser ("Hey dude, I'm not sure that void* really points to a Foo, but I'm not going to harsh your mellow, go for it"), the borrow checker would feel like some sadistic English headmaster. "Class! Tompkins, that blithering moron in your midst, has yet again attempted to reuse an already-moved value. Fetch my cricket bat and lower your trousers, boy."
Okay that had me laughing.
isagalaev 1 year ago | link
Lack of classes and succession, which makes writing object-oriented code harder
This shouldn't be in the "Cons" list. Not having inheritance is a blessing because it doesn't let people indoctrinated into OOP introduce complexity at every step.
Loup-Vaillant 1 year ago | link
It's a con for the already indoctrinated, though…
boh 1 year ago | link
Rust seems like a cult at this point. It seems that in every post there is always someone commenting "you know, in Rust we do it like this", or "how funny, this remind me that one time, at Rust camp, when…"
I'm glad some many people have found their passion, but it is funny nonetheless to see how "intense" Rust fans can be.
pyj edited 1 year ago | link
Rust does an excellent job alienating a decent number of C++ programmers by constantly hijacking their posts.
I wish people would also stop wrapping C++ up in discussions about C. They're not the same language and each have their own good and bad points. That table's wrong: C++ is type safe, has C++ has implicit typing with auto and you can do "dynamic" type checking (either with templates or std::any).
inactive-user edited 1 year ago | link
C++ is type safe
What meaning of "type safe" do you have in mind here? In C++ the type system is more of a suggestion than a strict enforcer. Let's see what Wikipedia has to say about it:
First definition:
In computer science, type safety is the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors. A type error is erroneous or undesirable program behaviour caused by a discrepancy between differing data types for the program's constants, variables, and methods (functions), e.g., treating an integer (int) as a floating-point number (float).
Second definition:
Vijay Saraswat provides the following definition: "A language is type-safe if the only operations that can be performed on data in the language are those sanctioned by the type of the data."
Both are demonstrably not true for C++ with its const_cast, reinterpret_cast, normal casts between different pointer types, no array bounds checking and lack of memory safety which results in values being overwritten by other data and basically any violation of type system you can think of.
Now, Rust also isn't type-safe. Safe Rust is type-safe. Unsafe Rust isn't, but even unsafe Rust is more type-safe than C++.
davmac edited 1 year ago | link
In C++ the type system is more of a suggestion than a strict enforcer
I can't comprehend how that could be true, other than that it allows explicit casting, which many languages (that are generally considered type-safe) do. One typical difference is that C++ is not memory safe, and such a cast may have or result in undefined behaviour rather than a run-time error as a result. But memory safe and type safe are not the same thing.
Let's see what Wikipedia has to say about it:
The first definition is bogus, and the second is met by C++, excluding casts; it won't let you call a member function that doesn't exist, it won't let you add two things that have no suitable operator overload defined, etc. That's what's usually meant by type-safety: if the code compiles and contains no type casts, you can't get a runtime type error. Casts do break this, of course, but if you use a cast you're explicitly overriding the type system.
It may do a few implicit conversions if necessary, which is an example of weak typing, but not of lack of type safety.
(One problem, admittedly, is that there is no very good agreement on what "type safety" really means, as can be seen in the wikipedia article you refer to. But it irks me that people point at C++ and say it lacks type safety because of XYZ, and they are really talking about memory safety or implicit conversion).
no array bounds checking and lack of memory safety
That's nothing to do with type safety.
inactive-user 1 year ago | link
Without memory-safety there is no type-safety, as you can modify any object representation to anything you want. You don't need casts in C++ to violate type-safety in this way, just use-after free, out-of-bounds array access, use-after-referenced-object-wend-out-of-scope.
I can't comprehend how that could be true, other than that it allows explicit casting, which many languages (that are generally considered type-safe) do.
Which languages are you talking about and in what way does casting in them violate type-safety? Note that type-casting alone isn't a problem in C++, only casting of pointers.
in what way does casting in them violate type-safety
It doesn't, that was the point I was making.
You have certain types of cast available in C++ for which using them breaks universal type safety (as you define it at least). But, they're clear markers in the code, and they indicate a choice of the programmer to override the type system. Saying "the type system is more of a suggestion than a strict enforcer" is true for C++ only in the same way as it is for Rust, which has an "unsafe" keyword and allows casts; that is, it's not really true at all. Type-checking in C++ is generally quite stringent.
even unsafe Rust is more type-safe than C++
How would you even measure it? If "without memory-safety there is no type-safety" – your own words – then both unsafe Rust and C++ have no type-safety, and unsafe Rust can't be "more" type-safe than C++.
I think Rust is pushing language development in a good direction, but this kind of "Rust good, C++ bad!" clamour is not constructive.
You have certain types of cast available in C++ for which using them breaks universal type safety (as you define it at least). But, they're clear markers in the code, and they indicate a choice of the programmer to override the type system.
That's only true for casts though. I've already pointed out many other aspects of the language which don't require any casts, and yet violate type-safety. You can't grep for out-of-bounds array access, use-after-free,use-after-referenced-variable-went-out-of-scope the way you can for unsafe.
I need to do more in unsafe Rust to e.g. go against the borrow-checker. It's not enough to just write unsafe, I also need to convert some references into pointers. In C++ there is no equivalent thing that would stop me from violating the ownership model.
There are good and bad language design decisions. C++ had plenty of the latter. Is pointing out the bad decisions inconstructive? Maybe in the sense that it doesn't advance the state of C++. But I think it's constructive in the sense that people should be aware that it's not the only way in the niche that C++ fills and there are options you can switch to. C++ continually disappoints me both in ergonomics and safety, and its committee never disappoints on the front of making it even worse that it already is. So yes, it's not constructive for C++. I don't have a problem with that. Pointing out those flaws also serves another constructive purpose: a warning not to repeat C++'s faults in other languages. Let's learn from the past.
davmac 1 year ago | link
C++ had plenty of the latter. Is pointing out the bad decisions inconstructive?
No. But bold assertions like "In C++ the type system is more of a suggestion than a strict enforcer" are unconstructive. Assertions like "unsafe Rust is more type-safe than C++" are unconstructive if you don't clarify what you mean by "more type-safe".
How would you even measure it?
I need to do more in unsafe Rust to e.g. go against the borrow-checker
You're missing my point. You vacillate between treating type-safety as a binary quantity ("C++ is not type-safe") and as a spectrum ("unsafe Rust is more type-safe than C++"). Pick one!
Agreed. I was being ridiculous. Too much time spent on the internet.
travv0 1 year ago | link
it allows explicit casting, which many languages (that are generally considered type-safe) do.
Please name one language that allows unsafe typecasts but is considered type-safe.
That's what's usually meant by type-safety: if the code compiles and contains no type casts, you can't get a runtime type error.
Most people's definition of type safety is not the same as yours; runtime type errors are an example of type safety as the language doesn't allow values of a type to be used incorrectly. Compile-time vs runtime type-checking has nothing to do with type safety. You seem to be confusing static typing with type safety.
I didn't say "unsafe typecasts".
If you want to make the argument that it's the unsafe casts that make C++ not typesafe, I'm somewhat ok with that. But do casts in general make it not typesafe? No. Implicit conversions? No.
Most people's definition of type safety is not the same as yours; runtime type errors are an example of type safety as the language doesn't allow values of a type to be used incorrectly
Definitions are problematic here, as I already noted. By your definition, I don't think you can have a memory-unsafe language which is type-safe at all (depending on what exactly you mean by "used incorrectly", I suppose). The wikipedia article also essentially defines "type safe" and "memory safe" in a way that you can't have one without also having the other. That seems pointless to me, but ok, maybe it's the more accepted usage.
C++ does implicit conversions of primitives, that doesn't mean that it's not type safe. You can see this with restrictions on narrowing casts on things like std::vector<int> v = {{ 1, 2, 3.0 }}; giving an error, and also with how function overrides with various primitives work. This is also visible at the function level because C doesn't allow function overloading, whereas C++ does, because the types (integer, float, etc.) are part of the symbol put in the binary.
Rust even allows normal casts between pointer types using as. This is actually a difference between C and C++ in that C++ requires the cast.
reinterpret_cast in C++ is used for the same purposes as std::mem::transmute in Rust, for most of the same reasons, like reinterpreting binary data from a file or network as a struct.
I think I've only ever seen one actual use of const_cast in 5 years and about 20 million lines of code.
C++ does implicit conversions of primitives, that doesn't mean that it's not type safe.
It doesn't matter whether they are implicit.
Here is a perfectly valid C++14 program demonstrating problems with casts:
const std::string hello = "hello";
float* fello = (float*)(void*)const_cast<std::string*>(&hello);
*fello /= 0.0;
std::cout << hello;
int x = 5;
double* y = (double*)&x;
std::cout << *y;
Another one, no casts, no bounds-checking:
volatile int a[] = {1, 2, 3};
for (int i = 0; i <= 3; i++) {
a[i] = 0xff;
What do they have in common? They demonstrate that the language is not type-safe (they violate the semantics of the std::string type). Similar effects can be achieved with use-after-free, referring to variables whose references were captured in e.g. a lambda, but whose scope already ended.
Rust even allows normal casts between pointer types using as.
You can do neither in safe Rust. All C++'s footguns on the other hand are at your disposal at all times. And you can't just grep for them in an inherited codebase.
Wikipedia page provides a clear objective definition of a type-safe language. It isn't a language that merely allows you to write programs that don't violate type safety. It's a language that prevents you and your collaborators from violating type safety, so you may sleep well, without the paranoia that maybe a string is not a string.
Type-casts are explicitly there to subvert type-safety. Rust has equivalent constructs, and I can write equivalent programs in Rust, if you allow me the "unsafe" keyword.
Native arrays in C++ are of course flagrantly unsafe. So is pointer arithmetic. Both are heavily discouraged in modern C++
So I will disagree with you that Rust is type-safe; only the subset without "unsafe" is. I agree C++ is unsafe, but the unsafety can be avoided by avoiding certain language features, which can be enforced as part of a style guide. (Unlike C, where no style guide can save you.)
(I do think "unsafe" is a brilliant feature, and I wish other languages had it; I'm looking at you, Nim.)
They are discouraged in favour of std::vector with operator[] which has the same problem.
So I will disagree with you that Rust is type-safe; only the subset without "unsafe" is.
If you check my comment again, you will see that I explicitly said that Rust isn't type-safe, only safe Rust (as in without unsafe code) is.
Hm, I'd forgotten that vector isn't range-checked by default. I use the libc++ feature that turns on range checking, plus the Clang address and UB sanitizers in test builds.
At that point you can opt into bounds-checking in the compiler and then classic arrays are just fine. You'll gain lighter syntax and faster compilation as well. Unless you want growable arrays, but that's a different scenario.
I'm not aware of a compiler flag for bounds-checking C arrays … ? It seems of limited use because, if you pass an array as a function parameter, it decays into a pointer with no length information.
g++ -fcheck-pointer-bounds -mmpx
Appears to work with arrays converted to pointers as well. But maybe there is a case where it will not work. I would have to check more details.
UPDATE: Above works only on x86 linux though. But after a bit of searching I found this piece on Wikipedia, which says that you can enable bounds-checking in STL with _GLIBCXX_DEBUG=1 or _LIBCPP_DEBUG=1 preprocessor constants. That will be more portable. I'm glad I found out about it. Less stress in the future debugging C++ memory issues.
travv0 edited 1 year ago | link
Implicit conversions have nothing to do with type safety. JavaScript will implicitly convert a float to a string but is a type-safe language. You can work around C++'s type system which means it isn't type-safe. Rust's std::mem::transmute is also not type-safe and can't be used in safe Rust code.
LenFalken 1 year ago | link
Maybe explore why this is the case?
If I had to guess, it's desperation to validate the time they've spent climbing the absurd learning curve. I see so many Rust programmers who only have personal projects to show, and bash away with Python/Go/Whatever at their jobs.
I'd never even consider Rust for anything serious. It's way too difficult to learn, and there's way too many low-quality user conversations that I've read. It's hard to take it seriously.
I think Zig will eventually find a place in low-level systems programming, and thank God for that. It's by no means perfect, imo, but it's way easier to learn than Rust.
Your comment reads like your issues with Rust are that (i) it's not mainstream, and (ii) you're not familiar with it.
I'll just note that C++ is probably even harder to learn than Rust. Except most don't even realise it, because on average, they're much more familiar with C++ already.
nerosnm 1 year ago | link
I'll just note that C++ is probably even harder to learn than Rust.
I agree. I think there's a misconception that Rust is harder to learn than it is, and that comes from the strong shift it forces you to make in your mental model when you're at the early-intermediate stage of your learning. It's an uncomfortable thing to have to do, because it makes you feel like a beginner for a bit, but ultimately I don't think it makes Rust that much harder to learn. I think if you were learning Rust and you actually were a beginner to programming, that barrier wouldn't really exist.
C++ teaches you the same lessons that Rust's borrow checker does, but it teaches you those things over the span of 40 years through hard-won experience. Rust compresses that into a few months.
GrayGnome edited 1 year ago | link
I've always been curious about this. Having written C++ and C in the past (though not a lot), I found Rust's borrow checker to be, in most cases, fairly easy to learn. I understand the pain if you're coming from a managed memory language, but if you're already used to manual memory management, the borrow checker often just enforces best practices. Don't return dangling pointers unless they have an explicitly tracked lifetime, make sure that any function consuming a struct uses a read-only pointer to the struct, etc, etc. The borrow checker certainly makes some things that a programmer knows is safe much harder to express, but that sounds more like a sharp edge than a learning curve. And if you're coming from a managed language, manual memory management will always be a learning curve.
danielrheath 1 year ago | link
Rust compresses that into a few months.
That's exactly what I mean by "hard to learn"; the learning is front-loaded. The payoff is great but the cost is very real.
GrayGnome 1 year ago | link
The low-quality internet chatter certainly doesn't help, case in point TFA. Most of it just reads like marketing blog posts and exhortations on the glory of the fearless borrow checker.
nerosnm edited 1 year ago | link
If I had to guess, it's desperation to validate the time they've spent climbing the absurd learning curve.
I can only speak from my own experience, but for me this is the other way around. My outward expression of enthusiasm is a result of already feeling the time I spent learning Rust has been validated by how much I enjoy working with the language.
I see so many Rust programmers who only have personal projects to show, and bash away with Python/Go/Whatever at their jobs.
I'm not sure if you intended it as such, but I don't think this really works as a supporting argument that it's too difficult to learn. Rust jobs are still really scarce, for a variety of debatable reasons - foremost among them, imo, that it's trying to displace some very well-established/entrenched languages (C and C++). That and the fact that it's still quite a young language in the grand scheme of things. I think that scarcity is probably the main reason you see this happening.
I'd never even consider Rust for anything serious. It's way too difficult to learn
Again, I can only speak anecdotally, but I work full-time in Rust, and it's in a very serious use-case. And I work with people who didn't know Rust before they worked here, and they're getting by more than fine.
And yes, I realise the more I type the more I validate this:
to see how "intense" Rust fans can be
xyproto 1 year ago | link
Being the most popular language on Stack Overflow probably means a mix of being a language people want to learn and being a language that makes people wonder what on earth is going on.
fouric 1 year ago | link
The list of "cons" doesn't include some pretty important stuff like slow compile times, poor error handling (anything less powerful than a condition system is "poor"), and missing REPL and hotpatching - conversely, I don't like "lack of classes and succession" and "compiler polices memory addresses too much" (what does this even mean?) in that list.
Moreover, sections like "Blockchain in Rust" and the "Rust development timeline" that is made to look like a graph (but isn't) make me feel like the article is overall a content-light fluff piece.
enterprisey 1 year ago | link
What are the main advantages of a condition system? I looked the term up and wasn't impressed, quite possibly because I didn't find any use-cases where the idea truly excelled.
The main benefit is being able to handle errors from a function lower in the stack without unwinding the stack, and then continue execution from where the error occurred. As a big fan of Common Lisp I do like the condition system but I'd still take a sum type error system like Rust or Haskell over it any day, because despite my best intentions I do forget to handle errors I should be handling without it.
In addition to travv0's point - one of the advantages is the ability to separate the decision of which error-recovery strategy to choose from what that strategy is. Exception systems force you to either handle the error at a high level, which results in duplicating the lower-level code all the way down the callstack to where the error occurred (because that's the only code that had access to the details of the error), or at a low level, and hard-coding a recovery strategy that is completely blind to the high-level context of why the erroring operation was initiated in the first place. In other words, it separates policy from mechanism.
Of course, I knew there was another key piece I was missing. Thanks for expanding on my answer. For those that want more info, Peter Seibel's excellent book Practical Common Lisp has a chapter on them and has a pretty high-level explanation even if you're not familiar with Common Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-conditions-and-restarts.html
untitaker 1 year ago | link
Is this the technical content that I hard lobste.rs likes to pride itself upon?
GeoffWozniak 1 year ago | link
No. (I consider it a weak submission but not something to be flagged.)


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Q: Android Programming Beginning I am a beginner to Android programming. I install all required software to develop apps. My system is Windows 7 64bit with 8G ram. I started with a simple "hello world" application.
But it takes too long to launch the Android system on emulator, and sometimes I am tired of waiting and stop it, and if it finally launch it shows an Error message

unfortunately launcher has stop working!

frequently on android screen and does not show any key on android home screen.
Is my system's RAM is too small for android programming? If so what is minimum requirement?
And also I have an android phone, is there any way to test and debug my Android programs using my phone so I don't have to increase my system's RAM?

A: Recent changes to Google's AVD have made Android SDK Virtual machines very usable. if you're experiencing slow down make sure you have most recent HAXM from intel. Note is only compatible with intel processors. I would suggest to make sure virtualization is turned on in your BIOS.
https://developer.android.com/studio/run/emulator.html
if you were using a Linux machine be sure to install KVM Kernel-based Virtualization Machine.

A: Your system ram is more than sufficient for android development.
Download the latest version of Android Studio and Android SDK.
Open Android Sdk and install x86 or x86_64 emulator if you have an intel machine and also install haxm accelerator this will provide you with huge performance boost.
If you want to debug with your phone, open settings->developer options and enable adb and then run the app on your phone.

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3/1 - Birdie has adjusted well to the new environment and is out with the full pack! She's doing great with her socialization and now the real work begins!
3/4 - Birdie is doing well. She's settled in and is having a blast playing with the pack. She has shown resource guarding around her food, growling at the dogs in the crate next to her around feeding time. She got a correction this morning doing that. Later today, she had no problem sharing the water bowl later. She is doing a lot of jumping and biting, but I worked a lot with her on Friday and this morning on learning "Off" and "Gentle". She is showing signs today that she is starting to understand those concepts. When playing with a Whippet pup this morning she was way too rough and got a correction for not being gentle. About half an hour later, during play again, she would make eye contact every time I said gentle and mouth at the pup instead. Smart girl! With "Off" she has sat or backed up a few times now with a stern verbal command. We will continue to work those and establish the hierarchy as we move into working recall as well this week.
3/6 - Birdie is still working to understand the new concepts. She is doing a great job being gentler in her play with the other pups! She has still gotten excited and mouthed at trainer hands a few times, but less every day. Jumping is still in the works, but an "off/uh-uh" and wag of the finger and you can tell that she knows she's not supposed to. Some of it is just stubborn pup attitude! She hasn't shown any resource guarding since the first couple of days.
3/8 - We continue to work Birdie with her jumping and mouthiness. Tough concept but she definitely shows signs of understanding.
3/11 - Worked basic obedience with Birdie today. One on one. She does incredibly well without distraction and with treat motivation! She rocked Sit/Stay/Down and Come! Roll was a bit of work but she got the hang of it very fast. She was a little mouthy with that one, but settled into it well.
3/12 - Mark has started working with Birdie on her resource guarding. She displayed a bit of it with us and fellow pups around her food dish, so Mark started working her with that. She was unsure and a bit on edge with the food when Mark was working her with it. She wasn't overly aggressive, but definitely showed her discomfort with him touching her food. After a while, he was able to get her to relax and calmly take it from his hands. Now, with that baseline established, he will be moving into working with a bone. She's definitely a sassy pup, but a sweet love as well! She's still doing some jumping and mouthing, which we continue to work with her. Patience, repetition and diligence is key in that arena! She and I are working on having to sit and be calm if she wants attention from me. No jumping and mouthing to ask for pets. Tough concept, but she shows signs of starting to understand. Today, after being told "off" from jumping up, she dropped down and chose to walk against my legs and lean in instead. A much better response and method of asking for attention! Had a pack walk today and walked Birdie on her harness. She pulled like crazy! She seems to have better walks while on prong. Worked on a bit of recall in during group play today as well as the pack sit. Overall a great job!
3/13 - We have worked Birdie with resource guarding around her food in the days leading up to today. When she first arrived, she was growling at the other dogs in crates next to hers around her food. She got a stern correction from Jen over that and sat back in her crate quietly. Ever since then, she hasn't made a peep at the other dogs around feeding time and sits calmly at the back of her crate when Jen feeds. She's put her hand in the dish and tried to coax her over and Birdie won't come until Jen leaves and closes the crate door. She had a couple moments as previously mentioned with Mark, but nothing overly aggressive. Today, Mark worked with the bone. He put it in her crate to let her chew on it and get attached. As soon as he opened the door, however, she dropped it and ran to him. He kept trying to give it back to her outside the crate and she would take it and drop it without issue.
3/15 - Birdie got out with Drogo and a bone in the run. She did not growl at him when he came near. She postured once and a quick "Shh, Leave-It" from Mark got her to completely disengage and refocus on Mark. Mark, his wife (Lia) and myself all worked on taking the bone away from Birdie and she gave it up every time without complaint.
3/19 - Birdie did incredibly well today with her walk, obedience refreshers and working "Drop It" and "Leave It" with a couple of sticks we found in the park! She practiced her skills so hard that she was wiped out on our walk back and she trailed behind happily and curled up for a nap once back in the office!
3/23 - Birdie worked with her owner Liz in an appointment today and did very well! She also worked more with Rodeo and Drogo over high value resources. At one point, Mark has holding the bone with Birdie and Drogo on either end of it, without any issues! Way to go!
3/26 - Birdie hasn't had any issues sharing water in the larger pack that we have with us over Spring Break. She's been having a blast playing and socializing with them as well. She hasn't had any issues with anyone walking by her food while she's eating and allows the trainers to stick their hands in her food without concern. Excellent work Bird-dog!


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DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Pam, you've said that art, and stories in general, offer the opportunity for release from everyday existence. The prolific novelist, Anne Tyler, once wrote, "I want to live other lives. I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get. Writing is my way of making other chances." What are some of the other lives you've dreamed up? Were you able to create them in a way that satisfied you?
PAM HAWKES: I mainly trawl my own and my family's life and mythologise it; but through these pretenses and imaginings, a deeper truth seems to emerge.
PAM HAWKES: You ask if this is satisfying and I would say sometimes it's far too unsettling, too personal, for me to feel satisfied.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Can you give an example?
PAM HAWKES: At my first solo exhibition in London. I had been using directly my own image, and that of my children. I felt as though my own life was too exposed, I had given way too much information.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Is there one painting in particular that continues to haunt you?
PAM HAWKES: One of my paintings does haunt me. When my daughter reached puberty, I did a large painting of her as the little girl I felt I'd lost as this new teenager was emerging. At the time I was exploring the notions of space and deconstruction of painting, and the image was of her split in half on the two opposite margins of the canvas. The one part of her emerging, the other side departing, and in the center was a void, just raw linen. Not long after this she became critically ill with meningitis and was on life support for three months and in a coma. She eventually recovered, but I could not look at this painting again. I still have it, rolled up in my studio. After this, my work changed, I reduced and simplified, they became quieter and still; but through this, I think, more complex.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Do you feel that the people you paint are autobiographical or composites of people you've met or dream of meeting? Is art, as E.L. Doctorow said about writing, a "socially acceptable form of schizophrenia"?
PAM HAWKES: Most of my work are composites of myself and family, but they are not portraits. They are idealized images which draw you in, but beyond that surface beauty I try to unsettle, to question the ideal.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Can you tell me a little more about that?
PAM HAWKES: It's connected with my love for medieval marginalia and religious icons, my first visual inspiration. The craftsmen who painted these images were not allowed to veer from the imagery prescribed by the church; and yet these icons seem to take on whatever persona the viewer, or worshiper, needs it to be. This is heightened by the beautifully and elaborately executed frames which further separate the imagery from the mundane world. My work takes much from this, frames which I paint or gild, sometimes carrying the central image over into the frame, escaping from those confines. The use of metal leaf again comes from iconography, and the use of text which often rather than use as a way of illumination, I use to confuse or in opposition to what's happening in the main image.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Which would you say is the most important quality to have as an artist? A good imagination? Or superior craftmanship?
PAM HAWKES: Imagination. Craftmanship comes with practice.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Does optimism serve the creative process better or frustration, longing?
PAM HAWKES: I think if I wasn't optimistic about my next painting, I would never paint again. Frustration kicks in half-way through. Longing, if I am away from the studio for more than a few days. I get homesick for it, I long to be there.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: It's been said that you create a sort of confined environment for your subjects in your paintings; and that this reflects the sense of entrapment we all experience. How would you describe the environment of your childhood? Was art for you a way of creating greater space for yourself?
PAM HAWKES: I had a great childhood: an inner-city kid who was free to roam the factory yards and canals where I grew up. Until you asked this question, I had never made any connection to this and my constant painting of women in confined environments. A light has just gone on!
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: What inspired you to become an artist? Were you always drawing as a child?
PAM HAWKES: In Birmingham there was an art school with a long tradition of training designers to go into the world-famous jewelry quarter. In fact, I was a trainee jewelry designer when I first left school. Throughout Birmingham, kids at normal schools with an aptitude for art were asked to take an art exam at the age of ten or eleven, and if you passed you were offered just one of about twenty-five places each year. My parents thought this was right for me as yes, I was always drawing or making something from a young age.
So I went to an art school from the age of eleven, where the bare minimum of academic subjects were taught, but all branches of the arts were studied. After this I drifted, and married young, but always painted. When I became a single mum with two young children and in my thirties, I recklessly went to study for a degree in fine art, and after this, my Masters. It was a tough but wonderful time; I no longer felt a perpetual outsider. I think I am a late developer!
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Do you ever paint to solve a personal dilemma you're struggling with? Does painting allow you to access a non-verbal, more intuitive solution?
PAM HAWKES: Always, for me there is no other way.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: I get the sense that you like to leave your viewer wondering, and maybe possibly also yourself. Does it ever feel to you as though your subjects know a secret they have yet to divulge even with you?
PAM HAWKES: Yes, yes! Sometimes I look back at my work and think, 'Oh, that's what it was all about.' I feel that I have failed when they have become too literal or illustrative; I know that's my weakness and I fight it.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Has a painting ever given you so much trouble that it almost became a battle of wills? If so, did you toss and start over? Or wrestle with it until you arrived at a pleasing solution?
PAM HAWKES: Yes, especially over the last two years I have struggled with many paintings. On the whole, I do wrestle, nothing seems to come easy; but I very rarely give up on a painting, and I eventually let it have its own way.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: How do you prepare for a painting? Do you research?
PAM HAWKES: I go against everything I was taught, and have taught. I rarely do research or preparatory drawings. I don't even draw on the canvas or board. I go straight in with half an idea and work it out as I go along. Not to be recommended. Paintings take me far longer than they should, as they are constantly evolving.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Are you ever concerned you will run out of ideas?
PAM HAWKES: All my work seems to follow from one to another. As I'm working on one, something else comes into my head, and that's the next painting. Consequently, I have four or five paintings going at any one time, along with notes of other thoughts in a journal. These can be quite long rambles, or scraps of sentences that I have read or heard. When I re-read these I am always inspired; hopefully this will always be so, don't worry about it too much.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Do you think of your viewers while you're working on a piece? Or do you paint primarily for yourself?
PAM HAWKES: I can't possibly know what a viewer will think of my work, nor should I try. I have to keep in mind, however, that it will one day be 'out there,' so I have to constantly question my work as objectively as I can; otherwise there can be a danger of becoming self-indulgent.
DEANNA ELAINE PIOWATY: Your definition of 'beauty'?
PAM HAWKES: Surfaces that I want to stroke, touch or lick.
Thank you for writing this article and interview on Pam Hawkes. She is one of the most talented artists working.


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Sunshine and Clouds
Lows follow highs; it's the way of the world.
But the sun does come out from behind the clouds, if you can find a little patience.
I suffered a low this week, after such a wonderful time teaching at the Winchester Writers' Festival.
Nothing was really wrong. It was just a case of life returning to normal, and that being quite a hit after such a high.
So I moped around in my usual melodramatic way (I sometimes believe writers like to think they feel more than mere mortals, and are keen to make that clear to all concerned), and then...
Just after I took this picture, the sun broke through again. In only a small way, but sufficient to lift me.
The Long Road to Success
I'm just back from the great Winchester Writers' Festival, having had a terrific time, with an important lesson for writers everywhere.
The road to Success can be a long and testing one.
This handsome chap is Dave Evans, who was on my course when first I taught crime writing at Winchester, four years ago.
We've always kept in touch, and - as Dave would tell you - there have been difficult moments. He's sometimes wondered when his break would come, known painfully well those dark days of loss of belief and confidence, but...
Dave kept going. He never stopped writing, believing, and trying.
And come this year's festival...
Anticipation is such a wonderful thing - the driver of so much of writing and life.
I've been enjoying plenty of it this week. From the build up to the start of Euro 2016, to teaching at the Winchester Writers' Festival next week, not to mention two weeks of hols to fully enjoy it all..
Ah, so sweet is the scent of anticipation.
Even today's rather curious element of anticipation, a first for me, has been a joy - rehearsing the panto I've written for the Swanwick Writers Summer School on Skype -
(This is director and fellow thespian Phil looking very actory,)
Anticipation is fundamental to writing. From the very start of a story, writers build up the anticipation. Of what's going to happen in the plot, or to the characters... it's all about that journey.
The Legacy Thing
Every way of life brings the opportunity to leave a legacy. But writing offers more than most.
That little thought was sparked by a cute, cute, cute experience walking along my dear River Exe this week -
Some new born cygnets, the first of the season, were getting a breakfasting lesson from mum and dad. Even grumpy old me had to smile.
But aside from our families, I've often heard writers say the legacy they're most proud of leaving is their books.
They can last for many years after we're gone, and bring new entertainments and insights to the generations which follow our own.
That's a tempting argument, which I've got some sympathy with.
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ConsumerWatch: No Pink Slip Signature Leads To Alleged Fraud
By Julie Watts April 30, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Filed Under:California DMV, ConsumerWatch, Crime, Fraud, Julie Watts, Pink-Slip, Title, Title Deed, Used Car
CBS 5 reporter Julie Watts confronts the seller of a used car who identified himself as Angelo Marks and who admitted on camera he was selling the car under someone else's name. (CBS)
WALNUT CREEK (CBS 5) – Next time you sell a used car, you may want to want to ask the buyer to sign the title deed (pink slip) in your presence.
That hadn't occurred to Christine Brownwesthoff of Walnut Creek when she sold her car to a buyer who responded to her Craigslist posting.
The next day, she discovered her car re-listed for $2000 more. "Good on him, he's making a couple of grand," Brownwesthoff initially thought.
But then she took a closer look at the ad and noticed it promised the car had a new engine with paperwork to prove it.
She realized it was unlikely the engine had been replaced within the 24 hours since she sold the car, and when she looked at her copy of the pink slip she worried that she might be held liable.
"He had not signed as the buyer, I had only signed as the seller. I'm assuming he's going to give the pink slip to the next buyer which would bypass him completely; making it look like I sold the car and lied about the new engine." said Brownwesthoff.
Concerned, her roommate contacted the seller posing as an interested buyer. That's when Brownwesthoff confirmed he was selling the car under her name along with a forged receipt for the new motor.
The seller claimed his name was Angelo Marks and that Christine was his wife. He created an elaborate story about why she had to have the engine replaced three years prior.
Brownwesthoff then contacted ConsumerWatch and the team accompanied her roommate to meet the alleged scammer for a second time.
When confronted, he didn't seem to care that he was in violation of state law that requires a secondhand dealers' license to sell a car under someone else's name. Before driving off, he denied that he forged the paperwork for the new engine. The Craiglist posting was removed the following day.
The DMV fraud department was investigating and warned buyers are not required to sign the pink slip in front of a seller, but the seller can certainly ask. .
The seller, however, is required to file a Notice of Transfer and Release of Liability with the DMV, within 5 days.
That can easily be done online at www.dmv.ca.gov/online/nrl/welcome.htm
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WARNING: Contents on this post are extremely cute! Please do not continue if you are offended by flowers, chocolate, cuteness, sweetness, pretty stuff, or just plain fun.
Sunday, I spent the day under the tutelage of my dear friend Lora who is a phenomenal cook and is always trying something new, which is only a small reason why I love her. Our plan all started when we were walking one day and she told me about this cute dessert she found and had been dying to try, well she had me at dessert! So we decided to host a Spring has Sprung party for our small group.
Slice pound cake and round out the edges so it fits in the bottom. The main purpose (I discovered) is to prevent any leakage. So fill the bottom space well with pound cake.
The next step is to put a straw in the pound cake, cut just below the brim of the clay pot.
Fill around the straw with your favorite ice cream! The ice cream needs to be soft to fill the easiest. We used Mint Chocolate Chip, Cookies and Cream, and Coffee.
I was in charge of the Mint, and you can see I made a much bigger mess than Lora. *Sigh* One day I'll be as great as Lora. But, it is okay if you make a mess, make sure that your straw is clear from ice cream (use a tooth pick or a fork to clean it out.) and you can clean off the rim of the pot before you freeze.
Now it's time to make some dirt! One reason I love playing in Lora's kitchen because she has all the right toys! We made a lot of fun stuff using her fancy tools (you'll see in later posts). If you have one of these big grinders...food processors it will make this step real easy. Crush or grind a box of oreos.
Cover your ice cream with oreo crumbs, try not to get it down the straw.
Finally, right before you serve stick your favorite flower down the straw!
Having a pretty table with flowers on it turns any dinner into a party!
Pretty and delicious! Our small group of fun ladies (who showed up in bright spring colors and even rocked a couple of big hats) didn't even notice right away that they were our dessert for the night.
Way too much fun! Love it!


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On 21st May 2018, Theresa May gave a speech on science and modern industrial strategy, and for the Healthy Ageing grand challenge she says "we will ensure that people can enjoy five extra healthy, independent years of life by 2035". Ultimately, this will improve people's lives. In achieving this, lifetime healthcare costs will be reduced for those additional five years that people are live in good health.
How will we know if we have reached that aim? Until now, there has been no current systematic measure of years of healthy life. Existing measures such as healthy life expectancy, QALYs (quality adjusted life years) and others are usually based on survey data for a sample of population who rate their own health. If we are to make strides in improvement, what is needed is an objective and data-driven measure of a population's healthy lifespan.
There is no doubt that people living in good health for longer is a good thing. Dr Alexander Finlayson, GP and Nye Health Founder, described this life-course trajectory as a "square-wave". Rather than seeing an inevitable down-hill trajectory in our health status and spending many years in poor health, our ambitions as a health system should be to keep people well for as long as possible. This is not a new concept. 'The compression of morbidity', introduced to us by Sir Muir Gray, has been described by Professor James Fries. Fries' hypothesis is that 'the burden of lifetime illness may be compressed into a shorter period before the time of death, if the age of onset of the first chronic infirmity can be postponed'. Extending lifespan, without extending our "healthspans", will also only lead to a health system we can't financially sustain.
There are early indications and reports that populations are acquiring illness earlier in their lives:
A recent Public Health England report found that strokes are occuring at a younger age;
Blood Pressure UK reported that more people are being diagnosed with hypertension in their 30s, 40s and 50s;
Type 2 diabetes is reported to be continuing to rise in children and young people in the UK (Candler, TP. et al. Diabetes. Med).
Cancer Research UK analysis shows that age-standardised incidence rates for cancers in young people increased by 33 per cent in the UK between 1993-1995 and 2013-2015.
In addition, last week The Times published an article showing as many as a fifth of people may suffer from poor health before the age of 30. A shocking headline. The less shocking but equally important headline is that nearly a fifth of people are living to well over 70 in good health. This early analysis also shows that prolonging healthspan nationally by a year could give 1.3 million people an extra year of good health, saving £3.4 billion a year. Extending it by five years could gain 6.8 million extra healthy years and save up to £17.1 billion.
Population segmentation approaches that are starting to be implemented across the country are looking at the 'healthy' population as a distinct group. The National Association of Primary Care (NAPC) has developed a population health management approach, which includes people who are 'generally well', as part of its Primary Care Home programme – a new care model that has over 200 sites across England. Identifying this population cohort is the first step to improving HealthSpan.
In a Royal College of Physicians Future of Healthcare paper by Ooutcomes Based Healthcare CEO, Dr Rupert Dunbar-Rees, he describes that "commissioning and payment mechanisms that underpin moves to sustainable care are essential enablers to get right". Measures such as HealthSpan that often require years to be impacted can be further supported through long-term funding and reimbursement – enabling a 'true' currency for prevention.
Monitoring and analysing HealthSpan will now allow health systems to derive insights to understand their healthy populations, and ages at which conditions are first being diagnosed. Further stratification can identify those most at risk of deteriorating health, and the contributing features. Measuring HealthSpan supports more personalised and innovative approaches to reducing the incidence of disease before it occurs, keeping people healthy longer and reducing the overall burden of illness and lifetime cost of healthcare. Just one great example of how digital behaviour interventions are being used to prevent type 2 diabetes is the pilot programme of the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme. Proactively focussing on the currently healthy population paves the way for a systematic shift to primary prevention, a more proactive health and care system, and one which gives us a chance of a more sustainable health and care system.
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National Arena League Announces Expansion Team for 2023
Fayetteville, North Carolina will be Home to the NAL Newest Franchise
ATLANTA, GA - As the 2022 NAL Regular Season begins to reach its last stretch of games before the postseason the National Arena League is excited to announce its first expansion team for the 2023 season. Currently the NAL has six teams throughout the United States and will now have a seventh team that will join the league next year in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The franchise was approved this month by the NAL board of directors for the 2023 season, officially, Fayetteville will begin operations as an NAL expansion team. 2023 will serve as their inaugural season as a franchise under team owner Dr. Robert Twadell who is a local business owner in Fayetteville and medical professional with over 26 years of experience.
"Fayetteville is looking forward to bringing a competitive arena football team to the National Arena League. We have Coach Charles Gunnings that will be joining us with over 15 years of experience and won championships in multiple arena football leagues." Stated Owner Dr. Robert Twaddell.
The National Arena League and the Fayetteville franchise will be announcing their team name, logo, team website and colors in the near future to fans more to look forward to this offseason. Fayetteville will become the seventh NAL franchise in 2023 awarding North Carolina (Greensboro, Fayetteville) as the second state to host two NAL franchises joining Florida (Jacksonville, Orlando). The move will strengthen the league's presence on the Atlantic coast as Fayetteville is the largest city in the southeastern region of North Carolina, the second-largest city (by miles) in the entire state of North Carolina. It's also famously known as the home to Fort Bragg, the world's largest military base home to more than 260,000 people and 54,000 active military service men & women.
"I am especially excited about the return of arena football to Fayetteville, NC. The city had a very successful arena team a number of years ago, and the crowd support there was amazing. We look forward to watching the newest member of the NAL play their games at the Cumberland County Crown Coliseum in 2023." Reported Commissioner Chris Siegfried
More news about the 2023 season will be announced this fall as four teams will enter the 2022 NAL playoffs with only two advancing to the 2023 National Arena League championship.