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Q: Need help with MIPS programming
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Need help with MIPS program

Hi guys, I'm having the hardest time programming in MIPS assembly language. I have to write a program that reads a string (from a keyboard), stores it in the memory, and  computes and prints  the frequency of each character; and then it  reverses the string and prints the reversed string.
I have no idea how to start writing this. Can anyone help me?
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Thanks.

A: MIPS just refers to a certain type of processor - by itself it can't do anything useful.
Attached to some memory, it can run machine-code programs stored in that memory, and change the memory contents, but still has no way of interacting with the outside world.
In order for it to accept input (the string) and generate output (the frequencies and reversed string) it must be connected to a device that allows it to interact with other computers or people, such as graphics or keyboard controllers or a network interface.
You mention in a comment that you're using PCspim - this emulates a certain type of MIPS processor. It also simulates a "memory-mapped console" which lets you read characters from the keyboard and write to the screen by accessing memory between 0xffff0000 and 0xffff0010.
My approach would be to find an existing program (Googling spim examples brings up a few), get it running in PCspim to ensure the simulator is installed and working correctly, figure out how it works, then try to adapt it (with reference to the spim docs) to do what you want. If you encounter a problem you can't solve then post a new question with specific details of where you're stuck and what you've tried.

A: Start from this free Appendix that covers many topics of what you need to do (mainly for Mips over PCSPIM, but it should be ok since your question seems homework). Link here (PDF).

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In sweeping strokes, we can understand "globalism" as closely related to the term "postcolonialism" itself. The two terms share the idea of cosmopolitan centers in changing relations with rural areas and the emerging metropolises of the Third World. For the purposes at least of this page, however, we will use "globalism" to refer to economic relations and shifts in modes of production that occur between financial centers like New York, Tokyo, London, and Los Angeles and emerging nations around the world. Usually narrated as positive processes like "investment," "progress" and "development," activists and scholars around the world have begun to discuss globalism with ambivalence as they unpack profound asymmetries between center and periphery. The most visible actors in these relations are abstract, imagined entities called "Trans-" or "Multi-National Corporations"(MNCs). The sites where MNCs do (and do not) set up shop become the crucibles for radical change in material conditions and cultural production as well as potential sites of resistance from people whose lives have changed dramatically, as often as not for the worse, despite the rhetoric of progress. (See Marx and the Idea of Commodity)
Flexible Accumulation
Although many theorists have offered engaging descriptions of Late Capital's strategies, geographer David Harvey has formulated a succinct and useful set of concepts that captures the way MNCs do business:
Flexible Accumulation … Rests on flexibility with respect to labour processes, labour markets, products, and patterns of consumption. It is characterized by the emergence of entirely new sectors of production, new ways of providing financial services, new markets, and, above all, greatly intensified rates of commercial, technological, and organizational innovation. It has entrained rapid shifts in the patterning of uneven development, both between sectors and geographical regions…. It has also entrained a new round of what I shall call 'time-space compression" … In the capitalist world the time horizons of both private and public decision-making have shrunk, while satellite communication and declining transport costs have made it increasingly possible to spread those decisions immediately over an ever wider and variegated space. (The Condition of Post-modernity, 147)
Flexible accumulation, then, belies the nature of corporations that are not so "multi-" as much they are "trans-". Transnational accumulation does not occur equally between geographical areas, but rather in specific locations — Wall and Bond Streets, for example — with transactions that transgress no end of boundaries with increasing speed.
For people living in locations affected, directly or indirectly, by the presence of MNCs, the ebb and flow of global capital becomes a destabilizing force, something to follow or find and that seems to value them as labor. In turn, however, new-found cash incomes create new markets consisting of people not previously thought of as viable consumers. In the worst case scenario, peoples marginal to urban centers where MNCs are headquartered become doubly exploited, first as labor and later as consumers. Both processes increase accumulations of capital far from the sites where goods are produced.
Cultural Implications
Focusing on the cultural implications of transnational capital, anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has tendered a useful set of terms for a world that has undergone what he calls, after Deleuze and Guattari, "deterritorialization." In Appadurai's scheme a variety of "scapes" — ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, finacescapes and ideoscapes — are constantly at play. Most crucial and human among these post-territorial scapes are the ethnoscapes "… who make up the shifting world in which we live: tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles, guest-workers and other groups and persons [that] constitute an essential feature of the world and appear to affect the politics of and between nations to an unprecedented degree."(See Representation)
Where cultural practice takes hold in the interstices of this transnational culture is in the production of the imagination, a term Appadurai uses not in an individual sense, but rather in terms of "a social practice." New or refined forms of media financed by ideologically thick apparati produce what is possible, what we can imagine in and between cultural and geographic boundaries. (See as response to Nationalism)
In his considerations of mediascapes, Appadurai harkens back to Guy Debord, theorist of the spectacle, who examined a technologically accelerated process by which a new mode of spectacular production transforms social relations in a total frame: "The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images … The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image."
Extending this framework, Rey Chow follows spectacular logic to the point of inversion, as the visuality of the transnational society of the spectacle finds media supplanting imagination in creating what she calls "Postmodern Automatons." Her first step in locating an arena for a feminist intervention in global power relations comes in recognizing that "… a perception of the spectacular cannot be separated from technology, which turns the human body into the site of experimentation and mass production." Once spectacle dissolves human agency, it finds the human body a fertile site for production.
Writers and Theorists
Chow's search for sites and strategies for intervention — which she locates in the mediation between "critical regionalism"and the supposed abandon of postmodern theory — opens up the crucial question of finding other sites and strategies where resistance can or does take place. Chow's work complements the work of other feminists who consider the many positions women hold or can take both in regard to transnational capital and academic feminism's subject matter. Expanding on a phrase coined by Adrienne Rich, writers like Chandra Mohanty, Caren Kaplan, and Lata Mani interrogate the "politics of location" by which discursive assymmetries and ellisions of real agency parallel the material conditions fostered by globalism.
Locating the problems of "postcoloniality," Arif Dirlik offered an early salvo along this front from within the intellectual or academic institutions implicated in the logic of globalism:
I would suggest … that postcoloniality is the condition of the intelligentsia of global capitalism. The question, then, is not whether this global intelligentsia can (or should) return to national loyalties but whether, in recognition of its own class-position in global capitalism, it can generate a thoroughgoing criticism of its own ideology and formulate practices or resistance against the system of which it is a product. (356)
In An Antique Land, 1994.
Anthropologist and novelist Amitav Ghosh has explored the relations of people in and between nations through wars and accumulation, in both his novel The Shadow Lines, which takes place in India, Britain, and Bangladesh, and his non-fictional book In an Antique Land, follows people through the Arab world at the time of the Gulf War and back through history.
Antiguan writer Jamaica Kincaid imagines her own country through the eyes of a tourist at the same time as she exposes the global transformations that legitimate and illegitimate transnational economic flows have affected Antigua in A Small Place.
Anna Tsing's In the Realm of the Diamond Queen, an imaginative ethnography, links marginality in what some would call an isolated area in Indonesia to broader — regional, national, and global — concerns. She shows how female cultural innovators incorporate and overturn observable, local depredations of various processes that have global implications.
Vandana Shiva, a physicist and Director of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in Dehra Dunn (India), confronts the environmental challenges that large scale industry presents to ecologically minded feminists as she relates environmental health to human health, insisting that the two are a continuity, not independent spheres.
Works Cited and Bibliography
Ahmad, Aijaz. "Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the 'National Allegory.'" Social Text 17 (Fall 1987). 3-25. (A response to Jameson, below.)
Appadurai, Arjun. "Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transnational Anthropology." Recapturing Anthropology. Satnta Fe: School of American Research P, 1991. 191-210.
—. "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy." The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 1995. 324-339. (Reprint from Public Culture 2:2 (Spring 1990). 1-24.)
(Both of the above articles are included in Appadurai's recent Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996.)
Baudrillard, Jean. Selected Writings (Mark Poster, ed.). Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1988.
Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. Donald Nicholson-Smith, trans. New York: Zone Books, 1995.
Dirlik, Arif. "The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism," Critical Inquiry 20 (Winter 1994): 328-56.
Ghosh, Amitav. In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveller's Tale. New York: Vintage, 1992.
—. The Shadow Lines. New York: Penguin, 1990.
Grewal, Inderpal and Caren Kaplan (eds.). Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P,1994.
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell,1990.
Jameson, Fredric. "Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism." Social Text 15 (Fall 1986). 65-88.
Kaplan, Caren. "Resisting Autobiography: Outlaw Genres and Subjects." Smith & Watson, eds, De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992. 115-138.
Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. New York: Plume (Penguin), 1988.
Mani, Lata. "Multiple Mediations: Feminist Scholarship in the Age of Multinational Reception." Feminist Review 35 (Summer 1990). 24-41.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. "Feminist Encounters: Locating the Politics of Experience." Barrett & Phillips, eds. Destabilizing Theory: Contemporary Feminist Debates. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1992. 74-92.
Sangari, Kumkum. "The Politics of the Possible." Mohamed &Lloyd, eds. The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse. New York: Oxford UP, 1990.216-245.
Shiva, Vandana (ed.). Close to Home: Women Reconnect Ecology, Health and Development Worldwide. Phildelphia: New Society Publishers, 1994.
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. In the Realm of the Diamond Queen. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1993.
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Nigeria Police to sponsor officers on Jerusalem holy pilgrimage
The Nigeria Police Force (NPF)is to sponsor ten of its men on holy pilgrimage to Jerusalem aimed to encourage Police Officers of the Christian denomination to be steadfast and uphold the lofty tenets of their faith.
Penpushing reports that a statement by the Force Police Public Relations Officer Muyiwa Adejobi explained that the Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba on Friday met with the beneficiaries of the gestures which is the first of its kind to be initiated and financed by the police leadership in collaboration with some well-meaning Nigerians.
The statement added that the Inspector General of Police has sought and gotten the approval of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) to ensure that this becomes a routine activity, adding that he has equally institutionalized the system to ensure that subsequent administrations tow the same path.
"The IGP has also sought and gotten the approval of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC) to ensure that this becomes a routine activity. He has equally institutionalized the system to ensure that subsequent administrations tow the same path", Adejobi wrote.
Penpushing further reports that Inspector-General of Police urged the officers to be good ambassadors of the Nigeria Police Force and the country during the period of the pilgrimage and equally tasked them to spend the period in sober reflection which would ultimately impact on their policing
Don't see yourself as weaker vessel, Iyalode Yoruba tells women
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How the World's Wealthiest Investors Create Tech Trends
| Feb 24, 2022 | Daily Dispatch | 5 min readPrint
Dave's note: Before we get into my five-part electric vehicle (EV) investing series, I want to address what's going on in the world today.
With the current situation in Ukraine ramping up, we understand you're probably worried…
As we write, the S&P 500 Index is off about 12% this year. The Dow Jones is off about 11%. Both moves are what we view as corrections.
That's not to say there aren't more concerns ahead. It's just our experience telling us to stay the course until the facts change.
As of right now, we see no reason to panic. But if you're having trouble sleeping at night, now might be a good time to review your portfolio.
Look at your trailing stop losses. See if there are places where you have too much of one thing and not enough of another.
For instance, you may have too much tech and not enough inflation-related exposure, like gold, which is up over 5% so far this year.
It's okay to shift assets from one sector to another… or raise some cash if needed.
And if you have any questions, feel free to let us know at [email protected]. While we can't give individual investment advice, we'll respond to common questions in future issues.
Now, back to my EV series…
By David Forest, editor, Strategic Trader
He told me to meet him on the docks.
"Don't ask too many questions," my good friend, a lawyer I'd worked with for years, said.
I went along with his request and joined him one gray morning down by the dark ocean.
Eventually, a loud whirring sounded over the horizon.
A helicopter appeared. It landed, and I followed him inside.
As the chopper lifted off over the water, he explained we were heading for a tiny island off the Pacific Coast.
A very wealthy man wanted to see us there…
Top Investors Ride the Wave All the Way Up
It turned out my friend was working with this reclusive investor. They'd identified a new energy technology.
The tech turned fossil fuels like oil and natural gas into clean-burning hydrogen. It all happened in the ground, so you didn't even need to pump the petroleum.
They believed it was a breakthrough. But geology played a key role in making or breaking it.
As a professional geologist, they wanted my opinion on whether to move forward.
Eventually, the wealthy investor's island compound appeared in the distance. The helicopter set down, and he greeted us.
We spent the day in his living room, overlooking the lush cedar forest. There, we hashed through every aspect of the new technology.
In the end, I wasn't convinced. I told him the tech had promise, but it was more of a science project than a sure thing.
He didn't seem put off. His cheer was surprising, given he'd already invested serious money getting the hydrogen tech to its current stage.
But for him, the amount was peanuts compared to his overall net worth. He said he'd keep working on the tech, no worries.
I realized something that day. It's a critical part of how the richest people on the planet grow their fortunes.
Most investors chase trends. The world's wealthiest investors create them.
It's tempting to jump on what everyone else does, says, or buys.
But that's not the way to make a truly outstanding fortune.
The world's top investors get into trends right at the beginning. They ride the wave all the way up.
This, of course, means bigger gains. It also ensures smaller losses. If a sector hasn't moved up yet, it doesn't have far to fall.
The hydrogen tech I viewed on the island getaway is a prime example. At the time I visited, no one cared about next-generation energy tech. Today, hydrogen is one of the hottest sectors on the planet. I suspect the wealthy investor I met is raking in millions.
Making the Trends
I've applied this lesson myself since. For the last several years, I've dedicated a lot of time to new satellite imaging technology. It's the biggest breakthrough I've seen for finding massive supplies of "hard tech" metals.
Plus, I worked with a PhD mathematician. He developed completely new ways of crunching satellite data.
We applied it all over the world – Colombia, Mongolia, even Roman ruins in Europe.
One of our biggest tests of this new tech came in the Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar.
We ran our satellite over hundreds of thousands of square miles – nearly half the country. Then, I drove thousands of miles checking what we found.
Our target was copper. That's one of the biggest hard tech plays going on. It's critical to the electric vehicle (EV) revolution – every single EV contains over 180 pounds of copper.
When I got out to the barrens, however, I realized I wasn't alone looking for hard tech. Driving through the desert, I came across a massive settlement in the middle of nowhere.
It was a Chinese conglomerate. They were busy digging copper from the ground. They shipped it back to China to feed the country's massive tech sector.
Asking around, I found they'd been at it for years. Just like the wealthy gentleman on the island, they took a long view on tech investing. They'd sunk millions back when no one cared about copper.
Now, they were ahead of everyone. I'd bet they're making billions today, with copper prices hitting record highs.
They beat me… and that was disappointing. But it was also an important experience.
It clued me into just how big EV hard tech was becoming. That revelation came at a time when no one cared yet about EVs.
Lessons like that (and from other massive investors like billionaire Robert Friedland) drove me headlong into EV research.
The Next EV Winners Are Right Here
It's worked out. Today, we're positioned for one of the biggest tech booms in history. It's the kind of play wealthy investors love – one that's just starting… and poised to be world-changing.
To that end… I'm hosting a huge event on Wednesday, March 2 at 8 p.m. ET.
It's called the EV Superboom Summit. The urgent reason? Forty-nine years' worth of gains… in 12 months, due to a tiny company in a small subsector of the EV industry.
Like hard tech… this company is essential to Tesla's EVs… Ford's EVs… Jaguar, Porsche, GM, Chevy, Mercedes' EVs… and more.
Plus, it costs just three dollars to get in on the ground floor.
Don't be late on this… make sure you reserve your slot right here.
Keep walking the path,
David Forest
Editor, Strategic Trader


Boston as the host city was a great choice, because of the closeness to IBM and the availability of many IBM executives who also attended several sessions. Many had great presentations themselves, were open to answer questions, did mingle around the attendees and also joined the night at the museum. Boston is a beautiful city that is easily reached from almost all over the world. Nevertheless for us as an European business partner and speaker it was not an easy decision regarding the high flight and hotel costs, but it was for sure the right decision.
Our session (co speaking with Andreas Ponte) around a customer story about a joint platform for 7 major insurance companies in Europe was well appreciated and we were following up the conversation with many interested listeners. We will publish the slides soon, but this post belongs the Social Connections Team – you all did an excellent job, thank you very much for the effort! I am already looking forward to the next show in Stuttgart in October 2015.
Stuart McIntyre was core and center for the past eight events and after his career step there were questions about the future of the event. But Stuart is still and will be involved in organizing this events and as he built this strong and capable group of volunteers they all will carry on and I am sure that with Social Connections 9 we will see and experience another great and successful event.


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Latest: Singapore single mother awaits death row in Malaysia for drug trafficking. On the pretext of a business trip to China, Iqah was handed a suitcase containing heroin arranged by her Nigerian boyfriend and was arrested by Malaysian Immigration. A campaign is underway to raise funds for the appeal. To find out more, read
Iqah's story - The single mum who became an unwitting drug mule.
We have also heard that since Vui Kong's appeal started, there has been an unofficial stay of execution for all prisoners on death row in Changi Prison, pending the decision of the court on Yong's case. As the case has been dismissed by the Court of Appeal, we anticipate a Changi gallows bloodbath in a scale not seen since the Pulau Senang uprising in 1965 when 18 men were convicted of murder and hanged in a single Friday morning.
Singapore, which routinely persecute dissenters and critics, continue to hang young drug runners while at the same time work closely with Burmese military generals, and has invested billions in business ties with Burma, one of the biggest heroin manufacturing countries the world.
If you know someone who's charged in a capital case, received the death sentence, or is on death row in Singapore and if you have have your side of the story to tell, contact us at sgdeathpenalty [at] gmail.com
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SINGAPORE: Narcotics officers have nabbed 116 drug offenders in two major operations carried out island—wide over three days.
Eleven were arrested for suspected drug trafficking and 105 for suspected drug consumption.
Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) officers also seized drugs with a total estimated street value of S$83,700.
In the first operation carried out on 10 and 11 August, they arrested nine people who were suspected of trafficking drugs at various locations.
CNB officers also arrested 105 suspected drug abusers and those wanted for drug—related offences at various locations around Singapore including Clementi, Sengkang, Bukit Merah and North Bridge Road.
The arrests led to a seizure of various drugs, including about 44 grammes of Ice and 32 grammes of heroin, with a total street value of S$16,200.
In the morning of 12 August, CNB launched another major operation targeting a suspected drug distributor operating in the eastern part of Singapore.
Officers tailed the 41—year—old Singaporean from Ang Mo Kio where he met up with his accomplice.
They were then tailed to Bedok where they were arrested by CNB officers.
Two bundles of heroin were found in their vehicle. The heroin weighed about 450 grammes and its street value was over S$67,500.
The two men will be investigated for the offence of drug trafficking under the Misuse of Drugs Act and may face the death penalty if convicted.
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Man charged for murder in Robinson Road building fire
Yahoo: Man charged for murder in Robinson Road building fire
A 66-year-old man has been charged on Friday with the murder of a woman whose badly-burnt body was found following the Afro Asia Building fire on Wednesday morning.
Govindasamy Nallaiah is accused of killing Low Foong Meng, 56, in an office belonging to law firm, B Rengarajoo & Associates, reported Channel NewsAsia.
The building fire is believed to have started in the law firm, located on the sixth floor, and was contained within it.
It is believed that Govindasamy was a client of the firm. The firm is run by Low's partner, lawyer Rengarajoo Balasamy, whom she lived with. She also worked at the firm.
Govindasamy is now remanded at the Central Police Division and will be back in court on 19 August.
If convicted of murder, he will face the death penalty.
The Indian man was arrested at 10,50 pm on Wednesday in Jurong. The arrest was made 13 hours after the fire at law firm B Rengarajoo & Associates was reported.
The Singapore Civil Defence Force found Low's body on Wednesday after the fire was put out. There were no injuries reported otherwise.
The SCDF said it was alerted to the fire at the seven-storey building at 63 Robinson Road at 10 am. Some 20 fire fighters were deployed to the affected unit to put out the fire.
The fire was confined to a unit measuring about 30 by 20 metres and did not spread to adjacent units, said SCDF. Officers took half an hour to control the fire and another half an hour to extinguish it.
Several vehicles were sent to the scene, including fire engines, four Red Rhinos, an ambulance and four support vehicles. Jet sprays were used outside the building to prevent the fire from spreading.
A support vehicle that was sent to help fight the fire experienced a glitch as its mechanical arm, used to lift firemen, stalled. SCDF said this did not hamper operations as officers could still get to the affected unit and bring the fire under control.
Officers from Central Police Division and the Criminal Investigation Department's Special Investigation Section were at the scene to conduct investigations while officers from CID's Forensic Management Branch and scientists from the Health Sciences Authority were present to gather forensic evidence.
Occupants, who just went through a fire drill last week, evacuated on their own prior to SCDF's arrival.
Those whom Yahoo! Singapore spoke to said the couple have been working at the building for some 20 years.
Insurance agent Joyce Ng, 52, who works on the fifth floor, described Rengarajoo as friendly and helpful.
Other building occupants said they started noticing the smell of gas at about 9:30am and saw smoke on the sixth floor 20 minutes later. Building security evacuated the occupants and the process was cool and calm, they said.
This is the first time the building, one of the oldest in the area, caught fire, they said.
The building which was upgraded just three months ago is managed by Afro Asia Shipping Company (Pte Ltd).
The cause of fire and the death is under investigation.
For further enquiries on the matter, the public may call the police hotline at 1800-5471818.
- Additional reporting by Liyana Low
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Q: C++ how to validate input for use with overloaded >> operator I am writing a program that can do operations on complex numbers. I have a class called ComplexNumber that has the overloaded operators in it. My program takes input from a file in the form of complex *operator* complex. So, for example an input would look like 3+4i + 2+3i. I have written my >> operator so this works fine.
The issue arises when the input looks like 3i + 1+2i. We have to validate the input so it works when the complex number is missing parts. It can be just a real number, or just an imaginary number.
The functions in the ComplexNumber class that relate to this issue are as follows:
ComplexNumber::ComplexNumber(double r,double i)
{
    realNum = r;
    imaginaryNum = i;
}

istream& operator>>(istream &input , ComplexNumber& other)  //Overloaded >> operator
{
    char filter = 0;
    double r =0;
    double i = 0;

    input >> r >> i >> filter;
    other.setR(r);
    other.setI(i);

    return input;
}

And the way I am reading in the input in my main class is as follows:
 void input(ifstream &in)
{
        ComplexNumber a,b;
        in >> a;
        in.get();
        string op;
        getline(in,op,' ');
        in >> b;
        cout << a << " " << op << " " << b << endl;
}

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{
    ifstream in("complex.txt");
    if(!in) cout << "failed to open file." << endl;

    while(!in.eof()){
        input(in);
    }
    return 0;
}

For my operators to work, I need to set the missing part of the input as 0 in the object. So if the input was 3i the variables in the object would be realNum = 0, imaginaryNum = 3 How can I achieve this?
How can I check the input on the line to decide how it should be read in? At the moment, it is expecting the complex number to have both a real and imaginary part to it.
I also wrote an overloaded constructor for cases where the complex number only has one of the parts to it, but I am unsure how to use it. The function is as follows:
ComplexNumber::ComplexNumber(double in, string r_i)    //Overloaded constructor
{
    if(r_i == "r"){realNum = in; imaginaryNum = 0;}
    else{imaginaryNum = in; realNum = 0;}
}

Beyond this issue, we also have to check to make sure that the input has no invalid characters eg. j or ! but i feel that if I get help with this first problem, I can use the information given to solve this second problem.
I realize that this may not be worded in the best way, I just hope you understand what I am trying to achieve. I really appreciate any help with this. Thanks.

A: Normally I'd do this with a state machine. Never done it with C++ streams before. Bit sneakier than it looked, but basically the same. Commentary on the whats and whys embedded as comments in the code.
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>
#include <cmath>
#include <cctype>

// Made this really dumb for ease of writing example
struct ComplexNumber
{
    double realNum;
    double imaginaryNum;

};

// splitting the guts of the parsing off into its own function made writing
// operator>> dead easy

bool parsecomplex(std::istream &input,
                  double & real,
                  double & imag)
{
    char filter;
    double temp;
    char next;
    if (input >> temp)// read a double. No clue if it's the real or imaginary part yet.
    {
        next = input.peek(); // check the next character, but do not extract
        if (next != 'i') // not imaginary
        {
            real = temp; // store as real
            if (next == '+' || next == '-') // do we stop here or is there an imaginary?
            {
                if (input >> imag >> filter // read imaginary
                        && filter == 'i') // and ensure trailing i
                {
                    return true;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                return true;
            }
        }
        else
        { // just an imaginary
            imag = temp;
            input >> filter; // remove the i. we already know it's an i
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

std::istream& operator>>(std::istream &input,
                         ComplexNumber& other)
{
    double real = 0.0;
    double imag = 0.0;

    if (parsecomplex(input, real, imag))
    { // OK so we got a good complex number.

        other.realNum = real;
        other.imaginaryNum = imag;
        input.clear(); // may have read eof
        return input;

      /* This next bit is a deviation from normal stream parsing. Typically 3j
         would be read and store of 3 as real and j stays in the stream for the
         next read. OP sounds like they might need to be a bit more anal. If so,
         replace the above with

        char next = input.peek();
        if (std::isspace(next) || next == std::char_traits<char>::eof())
        {
            other.realNum = real;
            other.imaginaryNum = imag;
            input.clear(); // may have read eof
            return input;
        }

       The Law of Least Surprise says you should go with the expected parsing
       behaviour so as to not leave a trail of confused and angry programmers
       in your wake. */
    }
    input.setstate(std::ios::failbit);
    return input;
}

// quick test harness
void test(const char * str)
{
    ComplexNumber cnum;
    std::stringstream input(str);

    if (input >> cnum)
    {
        std::string remaining;
        std::getline(input, remaining);
        std::cout << str << " is " << cnum.realNum <<","<< cnum.imaginaryNum
                  << " still in stream: " << remaining << std::endl;
    }
    else
    {
        std::cout << "Invalid: " << str << std::endl;
    }
}

int main()
{
    test("3-3i");
    test("3");
    test("-3i");
    test(" 3-3i");
    test("3-3i ");
    test("3 ");
    test("-3i ");
    test("3-3i 3-3i");
    test("3 -3i");
    test("j3+3i");
    test("3j3i");
    test("3+3j");
    test("3+3ij");
    test("3j");
    test("-3j");
    test("-3ij");
    test("");
    test("DETHTONGUE!");
}

Output:
3-3i is 3,-3 still in stream:
3 is 3,0 still in stream:
-3i is 0,-3 still in stream:
 3-3i is 3,-3 still in stream:
3-3i  is 3,-3 still in stream:
3  is 3,0 still in stream:
-3i  is 0,-3 still in stream:
3-3i 3-3i is 3,-3 still in stream:  3-3i
3 -3i is 3,0 still in stream:  -3i
Invalid: j3+3i
3j3i is 3,0 still in stream: j3i
Invalid: 3+3j
3+3ij is 3,3 still in stream: j
3j is 3,0 still in stream: j
-3j is -3,0 still in stream: j
-3ij is 0,-3 still in stream: j
Invalid:
Invalid: DETHTONGUE!


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:: Issues > Obama
When the White House had to decide in recent days where President Barack Obama would deliver a high-profile speech directed at the Muslim world, a debate broke out among his advisers.
Wednesday, May 13,2009 05:24
by Gerald F. Seib The Wall Street Journal
Some pushed for the speech to be made in Indonesia, which would make some sense. Indonesia is, after all, home to the world's largest Muslim population. It has coped with Islamic extremism, but as a practicing democracy, it's also a nation the U.S. could point to as a kind of model.
But ultimately, the administration decided the June 4 speech, aimed at the fifth of the world's population that is Muslim, would be given in Egypt. That decision speaks loudly about the real challenge Mr. Obama faces. He won't simply be talking to Muslims about religion and culture. Inevitably, he will be speaking to the fundamental political divide in the Islamic world today, which starts in the Middle East, and in which Egypt is a crucial player.
Possible Implications of Obama's Speech to Muslim World
President Obama's decision to give a speech directed to the Muslim world from Egypt says much about the split between moderate and radical Islam, and Egypt's central role in that debate. Capital Journal Columnist Jerry Seib explains.
It's increasingly clear the real divide is between relatively moderate Islamic governments willing to be aligned with the U.S. -- Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian Authority -- and a radical axis led by Iran that includes Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas, the various splinters of al Qaeda and, increasingly, nations such as Qatar. Up in the air are nations such as Lebanon, which has a crucial election next month that will help determine its path.
The goal of any speech to the Islamic world can't be simply to make Muslims feel better about America, but to convince Islamic leaders and people alike that there's nothing incompatible about being Muslim and being aligned with the U.S. More bluntly, the goal is to convince the Muslim audience that Iran doesn't represent the future.
And Egypt is -- or at least should be -- central to that effort.
Egypt sits at the center of three large and politically important concentric circles: the Arab world, the African world and the Islamic world. That's a crucial position to occupy in the historic struggle now under way between moderate and radical Islam.
Egypt knows both sides of that struggle. It is the birthplace of the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization that is the wellspring of many of today's radical Islamic movements. Cairo was the site of what remains one of the most shocking attacks ever launched by Islamic extremists, the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat by radicals who had infiltrated his own military.
On the other hand, Egypt is home to one of the most celebrated, and moderating, influences in the Islamic world, the historic Al-Azhar University. Its scholars have been ruling on religious and legal matters for Sunni Muslims for more than a thousand years. By and large, Al-Azhar has been a source of reason, even though its critics try to discredit it by charging that it operates under the government's thumb.
The point is that Egypt -- the largest Arab nation, Sunni, moderate and fairly pro-Western in its outlook -- ought to be a powerful and democratic counterweight to large, Shiite and more radical Iran. In reality, sometimes it fills that role effectively and sometimes it doesn't, which has long been a source of frustration to American policy makers.
Much of this ambiguous situation is personified by Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak. Mr. Mubarak, who just turned 81 years old, has been Egypt's leader since the Sadat assassination. Throughout, he has been a friend of the U.S., a voice for political and religious moderation, a defender of Egypt's historic peace agreement with Israel, and the catalyst for economic liberalization.
He also has confounded those who thought he would demonstrate that there could be an orderly democratic transfer of power in the Arab world's largest nation. Instead, he was re-elected without opposition four times, and a fifth time in a contested election marred by the jailing of his chief opponent. Many Egyptians think he is grooming his son to take his place. Egypt's human-rights record is spotty, and dissidents often are taken out of circulation.
Much of the political repression in Egypt is carried out in the name of keeping Islamic extremists under control, which raises the classic question of whether that strategy is successful or simply breeding more anger beneath the surface. Egyptians think the 27-year rule of Mr. Mubarak shows that their approach works.
In any case, Egypt's political, economic and human-rights records, however blemished, shine when compared to the systems advanced by radical Islamists. More to the point for Mr. Obama's effort next month, Egypt has a government and a people that have a long history of wanting friendship with the U.S.
The war in Iraq has strained those feelings; in an exhaustive series of surveys it has done in the Muslim world, the Gallup polling organization found recently that a paltry 6% of Egyptians said they approved of American leadership. But Gallup also found that Egyptians said an American withdrawal from Iraq would be the single act that would most improve their view. Mr. Obama, of course, has set that withdrawal into motion.
So there is room for a significant improvement in Egyptians' views of the U.S., as well as in Egypt's role as a counterweight to radical Islam. One speech won't accomplish both, of course, but it's a good place to start
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McLaren P1: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
February 28th, 2014 by Kenny Hoeschen
Chris Harris of /DRIVE had the chance to visit with McLaren's Chief Test Driver, Chris Goodwin to discuss anything and everything about the new McLaren P1, the unofficial successor to the incredible supercar the McLaren F1. The P1 is a 903hp plug-in hybrid that sells for $1.15 million.
The pair cover all the details of the P1's engine and hybrid drive system. Although it still has a 3.8 liter twin-turbo eight-cylinder engine, the engine block differs quite a lot from that in the McLaren 12C. The P1's torque is far greater because of McLaren's addition of the electric motor, which is used to "torque fill" and address any turbo lag that may otherwise occur. The additional power is also necessary with the hybrid system due to the cost of additional weight, largely in the batteries. With the addition of the electric motor, McLaren says that the term "turbo lag" simply doesn't apply to the P1.
The pair also discusses several other aspects of the car, including the P1's adjustable suspension, with selective ride height and stiffness. Goodwin explains that the real "game changer" is the race mode, which transforms the car — lowering the car, stiffening the springs, extending the rear wing significantly, resulting in about 600kg in downforce.
The interview is very informative and it's interesting to hear all the innovations that McLaren put into the P1, including all the differences from the 12C. If you'd like to see Chris Harris's review of the P1, you can watch it here:
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The underground Metro train rattled along the line, with bursts of light illuminating the tunnel walls as sparks flashed from the rails. Interspersed with a constant, loud electric buzz was the clickety-click of the wheels over the track joints, which drowned out almost all other sounds. Not that there were many people who were chatting. Most of the commuters read their daily newspaper while on their journey to work on auto-pilot, or were dreaming of their holiday on a sun-drenched beach under a clear blue sky in some far off, foreign resort. For the younger ones, they perhaps thought of the sexual athletics they had performed last night, or possibly the ones they hoped to achieve that night.
Standing together in the crowded train were two women, who lived close to each other, and over time had become friends when they saw both of them taking the same journey to work each day. Those unable to gain a seat clutched tightly on to roof straps and swayed from side to side, as the train coursed its way through the dark tunnels. Once in a while the two women's eyes met as they waited patiently in silence for the train to reach their destination. Every few minutes, light from another station burst in, and when the doors opened more people crammed into the carriage, before the train again rattled along on its buffeting journey. The carriage was full, as it always was at this rush hour time early in the morning, and to keep upright and avoid the embarrassment of barging into anyone, was an art that regular commuters had learnt to master over the years.
A screech, when the brakes were applied and bodies inevitably lurched forwards, indicated the train's approach to the next station on its route. The two women looked at each other and gave a gentle nod to confirm that this was Nieuwemarkt, the stop where they were both to alight.
The train ground to a halt, and the doors parted and disgorged many of its passengers. Little more than a handful of others waited to take their place. In the station, the hum of the train receded into the distance as it travelled on its way to Centraal Station, the final stop on its long journey.
At journey's end, a clattering of shoes echoed around the station as passengers barged their way up the crowded stairways and escalators to hurry through the turnstiles. They finally emerged into fresh air and freedom in the crowded streets of the Dutch city of Amsterdam.
Basking in the early Monday morning sunlight of May, this bustling street in the centre of Amsterdam was the pathway that carried many office and shop workers to their place of employment.
The two women spoke for a brief moment, before they parted and went their separate ways on the final stretch of their journey to work. They stepped over tram rails in the street, and dodged the screaming bromfietsen – the motorised cycles, and the hoards of bicycles, whose riders rang the bells to warn pedestrians of their impending approach. The trams, which provided one of the easiest methods of touring the city, bustled with passengers; a common sight in Amsterdam.
Claire turned south to journey down St. Antoniesbreestraat and Anna, in her mid-thirties, an attractive, part-time worker, headed west to cross three of the canal bridges to Damstraat and make her way towards the white stone column of the Nationaal Monument. The brisk ten minute walk, through streets that bristled with new life at the start of another working week, took her to Rokin, a street that held the premises where she had a job as a clerk for two full and one half day each week.
The office where Anna was employed, like so many others in this neighbourhood, was situated above a shop in an area that throbbed with life from early morning to late at night. She approached the street level door, and pressed the security buzzer to talk via the intercom to Michelle, a full time assistant manager. She was, as always on a Monday morning, already in the building and making preparations for the weeks trading.
'Hello. It's Anna,' she declared, speaking into the grill of the box mounted on the wall, its white paint now discoloured, flaked away with years of neglect.
A metallic buzz, followed by a gentle click, released the door and Anna pushed her way in. Before she had time to turn and close it, she heard a sudden rush of noise behind her and was violently shoved into the inner hallway. The force sent her staggering forwards and propelled her to her knees. She recovered, half rose and turned, only to feel a stinging blow to the side of her head as a man, wearing a ski mask that showed only his steel-grey eyes, cracked her with his gun before he slammed the door shut. Half crying, Anna sank back to her knees and felt an open gash on the side of her face. Her fingers became sticky with blood oozing from the wound. Grabbed by her hair, she yelled out in pain as the man dragged her back to her feet. Anna stared at the barrel of his gun, menacingly held only a few inches from her face.
Fear swamped every fibre of her body, so much so that she could hardly speak and mouthed the word 'Yes', as she nodded and felt a trickle of blood run down the side of her face.
'Then do exactly as I say, and you will be able to go home tonight. Otherwise …' His words trailed off as he pointed the gun at her, his unfinished sentence delivered with enough menace to convey his evil intentions.
The bruise on Anna's face was already beginning to hurt, and she wished now that she had taken a moment to check if anyone lurked suspiciously nearby before she pressed the buzzer, though she doubted if it would have made any difference. Once, she was diligent enough to check every time but, as time passed and nothing untoward happened, she became slack and through complacency she stopped checking.
The man shoved her up the steep, dimly lit stairs to the first floor landing. There, on the solid-looking door was painted the name, 'Kramer & Partners – Diamond Merchants – Please ring the bell and wait'.
Anna's finger trembled as she pressed the bell mounted on the doorframe, and the door immediately buzzed and opened without any further request to ask who was there. Michelle knew that Anna had just entered the building, and she too had long ago not bothered to check again, although she was regularly instructed to do so by her boss.
The masked man pushed Anna into a small, enclosed checking area where a video camera, mounted high up in one corner, stared down at the occupants. He squeezed himself into the corner below the camera to avoid being seen, not that Michelle checked the monitor. She released the inner door bolt and was about to grab the handle when the door crashed open and missed smashing her in the face by inches. Anna tripped as she was shoved into the room by the masked man and she stumbled towards Michelle who grabbed her, almost knocking the pair of them to the floor.
Michelle, a woman in her late thirties, had worked in Jan Kramer's workshop for many years. Her crisply ironed white blouse, smart tailored trousers and hair tightly clipped in place gave her the appearance of efficiency that she wished to portray, and had helped her to secure the position of Assistant Manager, which she cherished.
She clutched on to Anna, and looked in horror at the man who wielded a gun.
'What do you want?' Michelle asked nervously. 'We can't get into the safe. It's on a timer lock. Only the manager can open it,' she defended, in anticipation of his question.
The masked man ignored her remarks, closed the door and looked around the room. Two desks stood against the far wall, each held a computer. Below the window, a bench that held Kramer's diamond cutting and polishing equipment spanned the length of the room where daylight helped to illuminate his intricate work. In the rear wall were two closed doors.
'Where does this door lead to?' the gunman demanded. He pointed to the first door.
'The toilets and fire escape,' Michelle responded.
Michelle and Anna held onto each other and trembled. Neither knew what to do and both were terrified at the situation they found themselves caught up in. They had always dreaded that this might happen one day, but neither believed that it would become a reality. This day, that belief had undergone a dramatic change.
The masked man twisted the key to unlock the stockroom door, tugged the fluorescent light cord with his gloved hand and peered inside. It was very small, more like a cupboard than a room, and contained a row of shelves that held stationery and box-files filled with letters and transactions.
'Get in,' he demanded, waving his gun in the direction of the room.
The two wide-eyed women sidled towards the door and were shoved inside the musty stockroom. The man slammed the door behind them and turned the key. It left them to stand in the confined space with little more than enough room to turn around in. Anna removed her coat and put it down on a stack of box files.
'Your poor head,' Michelle stated.
She took a handkerchief from her pocket and wiped away the drying trail of blood from Anna's face. Anna flinched at the attention; a bruise was beginning to swell up on the side of her head. The two women stood, wondering what the gunman's next move would be as their pounding heart rates gradually subsided to a more normal level.
Anna knelt to look through the keyhole.
'What can you see?' whispered Michelle.
'If we're not there to answer the door, then he will know that something is wrong and call the police,' Michelle answered in a positive way to give comfort to the pair of them.
Anna looked at her watch. 'Mr Kramer won't be here for another half an hour,' she proclaimed.
Locked in the tiny room, they listened at the door, and tried to decide what the masked man was doing. They strained to hear any sound from the room above the traffic noise from outside that drifted in through a window that Michelle had opened to allow in some fresh air.
She listened to the machine run through its noisy diagnostic checks before it was ready to print.
'I wonder why he's done that?' questioned Michelle.
For the next twenty-five minutes they anxiously waited. They heard little or no sound of movement, and wondered what was happening. Suddenly the key rattled in the lock and their door was opened.
'What do you want with me?' she asked in a shaky voice.
Michelle took a tentative step forward and the man grabbed her blouse, yanked her out, slammed the door shut and locked it.
Michelle nodded. Anna's bruised and blooded face had convinced her that he was ruthless and would carry out his threat if she did not do as instructed. She realised that he had watched the shop because he knew their routine, and he was bound to know that Mr Kramer always arrived promptly at half past nine on Monday mornings. But, did he know that she had instructions to signal Mr Kramer in a special way if there was a problem? Worse still, did she dare to use it? After all, diamonds could be replaced, their lives could not, and the safe rarely contained many precious stones on a Monday morning.
Minutes ticked by. The hands on the wall clock dragged down to the number six extra slowly for Michelle. She waited with fear and trepidation as her heart thumped. With a scared look, she nervously rubbed her sweaty palms while she watched the time for her boss to arrive creep closer and closer. Her mouth was dry and she could hardly swallow.	At precisely half past nine, Jan Kramer pressed the buzzer.
'Come in, Jan,' she said, and pressed the switch to release the outside door.
She waited for the bell from the inside door to ring while the masked man gripped her by the arm, his gun shoved hard into her back.
'Jan Kramer is an old man and cannot climb the difficult stairs quickly,' Michelle replied, as the second buzz sounded.
The intruder watched while Michelle pressed the door release to unlock the outer door. The familiar buzz sounded and the masked man waved his gun at the bolted inner door to indicate that Michelle should open it. She obeyed, and a man in his late sixties, with one hand buried deep into his coat pocket and the other clutching a walking stick, sauntered slowly through the checking area and into the room.
He looked startled when the door was slammed shut behind him. He turned to discover the reason, and Jan Kramer stood speechless, but defiant as he stared at the man in a ski mask holding a gun pointing at him.
'What do you want? There's nothing of much value here,' he boldly declared.
'You, get back into the stockroom,' Michelle was instructed.
She stared at Kramer with a look that said, 'There's nothing I can do about him,' and was pushed back into the stockroom and locked in.
The two women pressed their ears to the door, desperate to hear what was happening.
The masked intruder manhandled Kramer into a seat in front of his computer while he answered a double buzz on the door intercom. Shortly, a second man, who had kept watch outside, quietly entered the room and the pair helped themselves to everything in the safe.
'Another man's joined them now and I think someone's on the computer again,' said Anna, as she listened to the familiar rattle of the keyboard.
Little more than five minutes had passed, when suddenly the air was disturbed by the sound of police sirens wailing in the distance. They became louder until, with a screech of burning rubber, vehicles skidded to a halt outside the building and the crash of the outer door being smashed open reverberated in the shop.
The women heard angry shouts from the masked men and Kramer pleading, 'No, no,' followed by two or three muffled shots from a silenced gun.
'Oh, my God! I think he's shot Mr Kramer,' Anna declared, behind a hand that covered her mouth as if it could stop the agonised words from being spoken.
They heard the fire escape door crash open followed by frantic hammering on the office outer door. The lock was smashed, and soon the inner door was breached. Raised voices came from the room as armed policemen ran through the open rear doorway, and chased after the two men who made their getaway down the fire escape. Outside, shots were fired as the first policeman reached the rear steps.
'Armed police. Halt or I fire,' shouted the helmeted sergeant, clad in his bullet-proof vest.
He clattered down the fire escape and vaulted the last three steps, running towards a colleague who had approached the building from the rear and who lay on the ground injured, with a bullet wound to his leg.
'I'm okay. It's only a flesh wound. Get after them,' he said, clutching the wound to stem the flow of blood.
The sergeant strode down the brick-sided rear passageway to the corner, closely followed by a colleague. He rounded the corner, only to draw back quickly when one of the fugitives turned and fired. He missed his target by only inches. The bullet carved a lump out of the wall as the gunman spun on his heels and ran after his accomplice with all the speed that he could muster.
The two men dashed into Kalver-Straat, the pedestrian mall that bristled with early morning shoppers and tourists. They barged their way through the crowds, and knocked people to the ground in their mad dash to escape the lawmen chasing after them.
Momentarily stopped by the shot, the sergeant turned the corner and saw one man heading towards the vast Amsterdam Historish Museum, whilst the other crashed his way past pedestrians, and made for one of the bridges over the canal.
'Okay, Vim. Be careful,' he implored, dashing after his man.
Back in the shop, the women banged on the stockroom door and shouted to be let out. A Special Forces armed policeman, who looked daunting in his helmet and all black protective gear, unlocked the door.
'We work in this office. Where is Mr Kramer?' demanded Michelle.
She moved to look beyond the policeman and drew a sharp breath. 'Oh, no!' she declared, as tears filled her eyes and bubbled down her cheeks.
Their boss was slumped over the keyboard in front of the computer, with a bullet hole through his forehead, his eyes wide and staring into space. The computer monitor had been hit by one of the shots, tearing a hole in its screen.
Both women were led away, in a state of shock, and driven by ambulance to the local hospital for a check-up. The cuts and bruises on Anna's face were attended to, and both were given a tranquilliser and rested to calm their shattered nerves. Later, they were transferred to the local police station for questioning, though both were still dazed and in a confused state at the horrors they had witnessed.
In the commercial heart of Amsterdam, with its bustling street life, shoppers and tourists shrieked at the sight of a masked man brandishing a gun as he fled from an armed policeman in hot pursuit. The gunman tried to enter the vast Amsterdam Historish Museum, but the locked door held him at bay. He turned and fired at the approaching policeman. The bullet hit a woman shopper and scattered the screaming crowds in all directions. The officer dropped to the ground, reluctant to fire in return for fear that he may hit one of the many panic-stricken fleeing pedestrians.
After he failed to gain entry to the museum, the gunman continued his charge down Gedempte Begijnen-sloot, into Spui and through to the Begijnhof precinct, a small grass quadrangle surrounded by almshouses and two churches. He ran through the tiny, well kept front garden of a house and charged through the open front door. Inside, the elderly woman who rented the property was indignant at the gun-waving masked man who had burst into her home.
'Get out of my house,' she demanded.
Meanwhile, the second gunman was still being pursued by the other officer, who had chased him over three bridges, and he was beginning to tire. The policeman was gaining on him with each stride that he took.
At the next bridge, the gunman barged into a group of tourists and was knocked to the ground, causing a temporary halt to his escape. He scrambled to his feet, grabbed a woman to hide behind and fired a volley of shots at the policeman as he ran over the brow of the bridge. The policeman lunged to one side to avoid the bullets, but he was struck in the arm and leg, and crashed to the ground with his weapon slipping from his grasp. Before he could recover, the gunman threw the woman to one side and ran up to the policeman. He fired his last round at point blank range through the officer's visor into his head, killing him instantly.
Among screams from shocked tourists, he charged down the street, tore off his ski mask, stuffed it in his pocket and was out of sight before other policemen who followed caught up with their colleague. By the time they arrived, the gunman had hurriedly made his way to a nearby railway station.
Back at the Begijnhof quadrangle, unaware of what was happening to his friend, Sergeant Vim Rheimerman tried to persuade the other gunman of the futility of continuing, and hoped that he would give himself up before more drastic action needed to be taken.
'Get outta my way, bink. I'm coming out and I've got an old biddy with me, so back off,' the gunman growled.
He shoved the old woman towards her front door. The policeman backed away and stood off at ten yards. The gunman appeared at the front door with his arm around the old woman's throat and his gun held to her head.
'Put the gun down. That's the only way you'll get out of this quadrangle alive,' maintained the policeman.
Several more policemen discreetly slipped into the quadrangle, and ushered pedestrians, who had stopped to stare, out of the danger area. They took cover. The gunman nervously watched them spread out to guard the exits. Amongst them was a sharpshooter who carried his rifle with telescopic sights attached. He quietly took up position, lying face down on the pavement, with a clear view of the gunman and his hostage. He settled down and made himself comfortable.
The gunman shoved the woman a few paces forward. The sergeant backed away slowly while he listened to a message through the earpiece in his helmet. The sharpshooter informed him that he was in position, with a clear shot at the gunman and waited for him to give the signal to fire.
The gunman held on to her more tightly.
He stretched out his left hand in a gesture to accept the weapon.
'Who can? Who are you talking about?' the policeman asked, attempting to keep his man talking for as long as he could, using methods he was taught during the intensive training he received to combat this type of hostage situation.
'Never you mind. Just get out of my way,' the gunman insisted.
The quadrangle fell into an eerie quietness, with only a few birds that fluttered from tree to tree to break the silence. Even the sounds of traffic outside seemed to be dulled as the gunman and policeman faced each other in a deadly standoff that both were determined not to back away from.
He swung the weapon around to aim at the policeman.
The sergeant reacted quickly. He turned sideways and raised his gun. Two shots rang out almost simultaneously, one from his weapon and one from the sharpshooter's rifle. Both bullets zipped past the old woman and struck the gunman in the head. The force of the shots catapulted him to the ground and he dragged the old lady with him. The gun remained firmly grasped in his hand, but stayed silent – he had already fired his last shot.
The policeman pulled off his helmet and rushed to the old lady's side. 'Are you all right?' he asked, helping the woman to her feet.
'Good. That's one less thug to worry about,' proclaimed the old woman.
She turned to step over the body and returned to her house.
'Perhaps you should consider keeping your front door closed,' the policeman suggested, as his colleagues joined him.
'Not in this nice weather. I'll leave my front door open whenever I've a mind to, sonny,' the old woman replied, before she disappeared through her doorway.


Added support to enable/disable the UDI Standards such as GS1, HIBCC and ICCBBA. Refer to the parameter "ScannerConfig.UdiParameters" for details.
Added new property "LabelIdentifier()" to get the decoded type of the barcode. Note: This is especially applicable for UDI decoding. Use "LabelType" defined in each data item to get the individual barcode label types.
Added new property "TokenizedData()" to get the list of tokenized data received after processing the raw scanner data.
"Tokens" - Returns all the tokens with it's data.
SerialCommMgrEX.SupportedPorts - Returns list of supported serial ports information.
SerialCommMgrEX.GetPort(SerialPortInfo serialPortInfo) - This method returns the SerialComm object if the serial port info specified is valid. The SerialComm object created will be singleton object for a specific serial port.


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Teaching Trump what a winner looks like
Nation.com sports editor Dave Zirin tells the story of how a racist president learned that LeBron James has an army of supporters — and had to shut his fat mouth for once.
LAST WEEK, LeBron James opened a school for 245 at-risk kids in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. He went on a media tour to articulate his hopes for the altruistic venture. He received praise from all political corners, with one exception. On Friday, the president of the United States tweeted: "Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do. I like Mike!"
This tweet has already been picked over to death, and the main conclusion is that, yet again, we see baldly that the POTUS is a racist. He's a racist the way an ice machine makes ice. It's not a surprise or an add-on, or something he whips out with his tiny hands whenever he feels that he needs a distraction from Bob Mueller and the Russia probe. It just is. It's a feature, central to the package. He sees Black men talking on CNN — that network he supposedly doesn't watch — and goes after their intelligence, the same way he attacks "low IQ" Maxine Waters.
The delicious part of this is that Trump had every reason to say something about the Lemon-LeBron interview. During their conversation LeBron definitely threw an elbow at the orange smear in the White House, saying that he wouldn't sit across from Donald Trump, if asked. He also made the point that Trump has fanned the flames of racism, and emboldened racists saying, "The president in charge now has given people, they don't care now — they throw it in your face now."
Trump could have responded to that in myriad ways. One approach might have been, heaven forfend, some self-reflection about why there were people marching last weekend in the streets of Portland and Berkeley wearing Trump hats, and marching alongside those with swastikas. But all an ice machine does is make ice, so Trump basically said, "How dare you care me a racist, you dumb Black people?" His skin is so thin, if you cut him open his blood type would be Tang: pure orange from the inside and out.
HIS RESPONSE, coming so soon after LeBron opened his I Promise schools and in the shadow of his own barbaric, racist immigration family -separation policies, led to the most common refrain across social media: "LeBron puts children through school. Trump puts children in cages."
But that wasn't all. Trump was so repellent, he inspired a torrent of NBA athletes to rise up from their off season and defend LeBron. There are too many to pick through, but my favorite was All-Star center Karl Anthony-Towns, who said, "So let me get this straight: Flint, MI has dirty water still, but you worried about an interview about a man doing good for education and generations of kids in his hometown? Shut your damn mouth! Stop using them twitter fingers and get stuff done for our country with that pen."
Trump's venom even roused Michael Jordan from his Rip Van Winkle political slumber to say the tepid, but better than nothing, "I support LJ. He's doing an amazing job for his community." It wasn't exactly the Sermon on the Mount, but any support from MJ is like getting a cup of water in the desert. You don't ask questions and are surprised enough to have a drink.
Hell, even Melania released a statement in support of LeBron and asked about visiting the school.
The real proof that this was a fight that Trump had no business starting and no conceivable way of winning was that Trump had one of his not-at-all-racist MAGA rallies in LeBron's backyard of Ohio the following night. President Ice Machine catalogued his usual list of grievances, but the name he did not mention was LeBron James. What a profile in cowardice. No one is sure when Trump is going to get tired of so much winning, but hopefully mighty soon.
The best response to all of this, not surprisingly, came from LeBron himself, who merely put out a tweet about his iPromise schools, with the inspirational message, "Let's get it kids!! Love you guys." It was his way of saying what far too many have learned over the last 18 months: When you roll around with a pig, everyone gets dirty, but the pig wins because they don't know the difference.
First published at TheNation.com.
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Michael Kraft Memorial Tribute Established
American Floral Endowment Floral September 5, 2019
A memorial tribute has been established by the Next Level Florist Group to honor Michael Kraft who passed away April 25, 2019, at the age of 52. Michael passed away peacefully in his home after an eight-year battle with cancer.
Michael was a treasured member of the floral industry from the age of 22 when he joined the family business. Alongside his two brothers, for over 30 years, he co-owned Nanz & Kraft Florists in Louisville, Kentucky, founded in 1850.
Along with buying as many flowers and plants as were available from local Kentucky and Indiana farms, Michael traveled from South America to California to build grower relationships and procure the freshest flowers for his customers. With the goal of always improving Nanz & Kraft, he traveled 2-3 times a year for peer group meetings, learning what other shops did best and bringing those ideas home. This eagerness to learn was also shown during his time as President of the St. Mathews Business Association.
Michael married his wife Allison in 1989 and together they had two daughters, Shelby and Lindsey. He loved traveling with his family, cooking, being with friends, skiing in Colorado, and supporting the University of Kentucky (his alma mater) and the University of Louisville.
"Michael was so positive and inspirational, that people and families touched by cancer, began showing up at Nanz & Kraft seeking out his positivity, motivation and leadership to fight," said his brother, David. "There was nothing that could dampen his spirits or convince him that life was anything but something beautiful to get out and experience. He was a beacon for his family, his business, and the community."
Michael is survived by his wife, Allison Anderson Kraft and daughters Shelby Kraft Hyman (Alex) and Lindsey Kraft. He is also survived by his parents Carol and Ramsey Kraft, brothers Eddie (Sharon) Kraft, David (Susan) Kraft, as well as his in-laws Brenda and John Anderson, and his nieces and nephews.
Contributions to the Michael Kraft Memorial Tribute can be made here, or by sending a check to:
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1001 N. Fairfax Street, Suite 201
The family is always notified of donations and contributions can be made in any amount.
About AFE
The American Floral Endowment is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the floriculture and horticulture industry through funding research, educational grants and scholarships. Since 1961, more than $16 million has been funded in research and educational projects, and more than $3 million has been funded in scholarships and internships designed to attract and retain the future leaders of the industry. To learn more about AFE or make a tax-deductible contribution, visitwww.endowment.org.
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SEATTLE --- Boeing today delivered its fifth KC-46A Pegasus tanker to the U.S. Air Force, the first that will be based at Altus Air Force Base, Okla. The KC-46 departed Seattle's Boeing Field for Altus, where the base's 56th Air Refueling Squadron is responsible for Pegasus aircrew, maintenance and support training.


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Q: date format dilemma? I have this date from twitter, this represents the exact date the tweet is published,
Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:05:54 +0000

what I want is to make its format into MM/DD HH:MM, tried to look for php date formats but couldn't find a way to make it look exactly the way I want it to be. Can someone please help? Thanks.

A: print date('m/d h:i',strtotime('Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:05:54 +0000'));

The date function for php is a good place to find all sorts of information on this.
This would be pretty simple to search and figure it out.   You are looking for a date... ahh, date, that is a php function.  When you look that up you will see that it takes some params,  a format and a time stamp.  Well... You do not have a time stamp you have a string.   how do i convert a string to time?  Wait,  there is a strtotime function in php.  There you have it... run the date function in php with the way you want the date to look and then convert the string to timestamp with strtotime

A: <?php
    date_default_timezone_set("UTC");

    $string = "Sun, 01 Jul 2012 19:05:54 +0000";

    $timestamp = strtotime($string);

    print "Date is " . date("m/d H:i", $timestamp) . "\n";
?>

You may have to change timezone, and/or add/subtract seconds or use local time functions to convert between TZ's.