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Terry Pratchett diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's
What miserable news. Bastard fucking universe, there are plenty of other people out there you could have picked on, why did it have to be him? :(
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Curiosity has killed many a cat, but I was killed by rationality - a less rational man would have given in to the urge to flee, to run blindly into the night - and would have been spared the horror that is contained in this house (only a small fraction of which I can report here). The light is fading and before it fails completely I will take my last chance on the stairs, though I can feel them waiting below in the hall, and the effort is futile.
It started in the last weeks of 19--, when Rodway claimed that he had discovered hidden
I wonder who the hell Rodway was going to be? And what had he found? Some game idea long forgotten...
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Olde games
Quite possibly the best version of Space Invaders so far...
http://www2.b3ta.com/notepadinvaders/
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A whale of a time?
People on TV and in films never talk during sex, which has occasionally struck me as odd. Mind you, I suppose that most of the things said during passionate moments don't bear repeating... "Lie back and think of Wales" a girlfriend once said to me in jest; I suspect she meant "You lie back - I'll think of Whales"...
Don't ask me, I just think these aphorisms up. Some other bugger can answer them...
(That one makes me sound like a bit of a carbon chauvinist, but I'm not. As long as something is looking at the universe with wonder and understanding I don't care if it's an over-educated monkey or a piece of technology.)
Quantum mice - a watched mouse never gets caught...
About a week ago we discovered we have mice in the eaves, a situation SWMBO asked me to remedy in my own time, or at least that's how I chose to interpret her hour of screaming hysterics...
So, following on from a design for a mouse trap Ste and I made about twenty years ago, which caught a dozen mice in its first four hours of operation, I hacked together a transparent box with some bait, an infra-red beam to detect the mouse and a solenoid operated trap door to catch it. This was then placed in a likely spot and an infra-red video camera rigged up to watch the mice being caught.
About an hour later the first customer turns up. After a cautious sniff around the outside it stuck its head and shoulders into the box and rooted about, not going far enough in to break the beam. Fair enough, perhaps mice have grown more cunning in the last twenty years... Nil desperandum - give them a chance to get used to it.
A bit later another mouse appears and goes through the same process... Perhaps they don't like plastic boxes?
Then one turns up and gets inside the box - I sit poised - surely this is it? But no, somehow the bloody thing doesn't trip the trap, and leaves. Bastard, I'll get it next time... But no, it's back, and this time it brings a friend. To cut a long story short they explore the box, they party on down on the bait, they jump about, have sex, snooze a little, and at no point does the bloody trap door close. After a bit they get bored waiting for something to happen and wander off, presumably giving the place a bad review.
Only then does it occur to me that a mouse trap that relies on the mice breaking an infra-red beak in a transparent box is probably not the best thing to watch using an infra-red camera that has about a dozen high-intensity infra-red LEDs built in as illumination... Doh!
Got 'em when they came back an while later - amazing the difference a bit of cardboard around the camera makes...
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Programmers can't, part the n'th.
Grumpy crem... Shouldn't have sent this, perhaps, but there are times when the unspeakable incompetence of programmers drives me into incoherent rage... Sorry, incoherent fucking rage...
It might help to explain the annoyance that this isn't their first attempt, and I've given them perfectly good source code that would do the job, so they're playing the "not invented here" game by refusing to use it. And so wasting my time... Tossers...
> Attached is a dump of the RS232 data.
> Please check that it conforms to your specification.
No, it certainly doesn't conform to our specification. Tell the stupid bastards to try reading the fucking documentation, I've made it perfectly clear (in several places) that all the data is encoded as pairs of hex characters.
[sigh] Let's look at the bytes.
The first four bytes are OK, I suppose, though not what I asked for.
> 0D 43 41 4E
[CR] CAN - I'd rather they used KAN, it seems (slightly) cleaner to avoid using hex chars in the header, but that doesn't particularly matter.
> 47 00 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 [etc]
But after the first four bytes they go into a bit of a decline. All the rest are garbage - they've completely failed to grasp the idea (god knows how) that ALL the raw bytes are encoded as pairs of hex characters... They're not allowed to send any bytes other than the ASCII characters for "0" to "9" and "A" to "F"
Let me quote from the fucking documentation: "Data bytes are encoded using pairs of hexadecimal characters."
Is there anything even vaguely unclear about that? It's the second fucking sentence... Can't they read? Did they get bored after reading the first sentence and give up? If that isn't clear then what about this?
"After a valid marker field ALL machine-readable data will be represented as octal bytes encoded as pairs of hexadecimal ASCII characters (0123456789ABCDEF or 0123456789abcdef)."
What sort of moron do you have to be read that and not grasp the idea we encode data as "pairs of hexadecimal ASCII characters"?
I don't need or intend to waste my time on drivelling fucking morons like this... The documentation is perfectly clear, tell them to get someone in off the fucking street to read it to them if they can't understand simple bloody english. Pillocks...
[polite but irrelevent bit removed]
I've given them source code that does the encoding, why can't they just use it? If they don't want to use it then what sort of pillock doesn't at least look at it to see what it's doing? Christ, where do you dig these people up?
Here is the relevant bit of the protocol document, in case they haven't even bothered to look at the fucking thing.
I've made bold (assuming your email client understands this) the places where I made it absolutely fucking clear how the data are encoded... Perhaps you can see why I'm pissed off at having to deal with some jerk who can't read?
Haven't they even got the fucking common sense to look at the examples I've included and see that they're nothing at all like the drivel they're sending? There are times when I despair at the sheer unbelievable moronic stupidity of programmers.
[first line of documentation]
Messages use standard ASCII encoding. Data bytes are encoded using pairs of hexadecimal characters.
[section deleted]
After a valid marker field ALL machine-readable data will be represented as octal bytes encoded as pairs of hexadecimal ASCII characters (0123456789ABCDEF or 0123456789abcdef). These pairs may optionally be separated by SPACE characters to increase human readability. Any character aside from (0123456789ABCDEF or 0123456789abcdef) and SPACE will be treated as a terminator. Normally upper case should be used for hexadecimal numbers, but lower case may be used.
Following the marker field there may be an arbitrary number of space characters, then there must be two hexadecimal characters representing a single byte of "message length" information.
[section and some examples (FFS!) deleted]
Following the length field there may be an arbitrary number of space characters, then there must be two hexadecimal characters representing a single byte of "message type" information. This contains a single byte representing the type of the message. This field must be present in a valid message.
[section including another example deleted]
Following the "message-type" field there may, or may not, be message data. If there is it must be an even number of hexadecimal characters representing a number of bytes. These may be separated by any combination of space characters but ONLY between pairs of hexadecimal digits.
Following the message data, or the message-type field if there is no data, there may be an arbitrary number of space characters, then there would normally be two hexadecimal characters representing a single byte of "checksum" information.
[etc, etc]
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The Moving Cursor
The Moving Cursor writes; and, having writ,
Microsoft Word crashes: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall save the file,
Nor all your Tears recover a Word of it
Everything is getting far too complicated
The universe has run out of simplicity. Be warned...
According to Dick Francis there's an evocative phrase in the racing world for the situation where a jockey is replaced against their wishes - "jocked-off".
Pity there isn't a similar phrase for designers - "designed-off" doesn't quite catch the "fucked-off" feeling...
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The dangers of abstraction
Apparently there is an offence under British law of "abstracting electricity", which covers tampering with an electricity meter. Abstracting? I imagine outstanding warrants exist for Messers Ampere, Volt and Coulomb, not to mention Faraday and Maxwell.
Personally I think they're abstracting the urine...
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They're Watching
Reading an article in the paper today I was struck again by the credulity of journalists, who are capable of being sold any story, no matter how ridiculous, provided it's framed so as to reinforce their belief in their own cynicism. The particular case in point was a claim that the British secret service have developed a device that allows them to read the information on a computer screen using nothing more than the reflections on the user's face. From, oh, half a mile away... Hmmm... I suppose you could get a specular reflection from the... No. Forget it - there are much easier ways to do this.
But it did have me wondering why the spooks would bother putting out such a story, assuming they did. Presumably to cover up the way they really do it...
And thinking about the number of different ways you could do it got me wondering about computer security in general, and the great unanswered question of why the hell any sovereign government other than the US would allow Microsoft to sell Vista to their citizens, let alone use it in their government departments, when MS or anyone else who has access to the relevant codes can use the content protection (ha ha) features to pull the plug on any Vista machine whenever they want.
It seems to me that there is a strong case to be made for all 'essential' computing to be done using open source software on open sourced hardware, unfortunately there's a much stronger case to be made that all politicians are incompetent to even understand the problem.
Of course, you don't have to worry about this if you believe his Billiness is a nice guy who won't ever use them maliciously or to gain a commercial advantage, and that the US government doesn't have access to them, and that no hacker will ever have access to them, and no virus will ever be written that 'bricks' your computer using them, and so on.
(Bricks means to turn your computer into a brick, ie, stop it functioning. Vista has introduced ways to do this remotely, and not just by causing the software to malfunction through the usual programmer incompetence, hard as it may be to believe Vista certified hardware can be told to stop working, and it then becomes permanently useless. Bet it doesn't mention that on the box...)
But maybe I too suffer from excessive cynicism, because I suspect that behind all this submission is a naive government that has been fed a few crumbs allowing them back door access to Windows, and they're so fucking stupid they've sold the rest of us down the river to a foreign power in exchange...
Not that I don't admire MS for trying; in one stroke they stand to make the PC a closed-architecture machine and so kill off Linux, a master-stroke of industrial ruthlessness. Pity they're being allowed to get away with it, though ultimately I suspect that a few billion Chinese won't give a fuck and all MS will achieve is to slightly speed the end of western domination of the IT industry. I'm tempted to say good riddance...
Think I'm too paranoid? See http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
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Programmers Can't (part deux)
Wrote this for another conference, but I just can't be bothered any more.
> ISTR the core of a 3D modelling app in the 90s was written in
> assembly.
Shock! Horror! Never! Not the 90s!
Sorry, but this thread is becoming increasingly surreal; it's true enough that most programmers these days are writing non-critical applications for absurdly fast machines and so don't need to care much about efficiency, but there's still plenty of assembler being used where performance and reliability do matter.
For all the exaggerations put about the difference between compiled code from an efficient language (C, for example) and competent assembler is very rarely less than a factor of three (execution time) and can be several orders of magnitude. A sensible rule of thumb is that on average a bloody good compiler will emit code that runs about three times slower than bog-standard human assembler. It's meaningless to discuss the ratios for optimised assembler; it depends too much on specific circumstances. Besides, outside the fevered imagination of other programmers the reality is that assembly programmers very, very rarely bother to optimise their code; bog standard assembler is usually fast enough.
The performance difference between compiled code for an inefficient language, as most are these days, and assembler is correspondingly greater; frankly only a fool would consider them comparable, so I find it fairly disturbing that so many programmers are ignorant enough of the basics to talk about compiled code and human produced assembler without understanding that the two things are really poles apart.
Now, every time the subject comes up on cix it gets bogged down in irrelevancies - "I don't use assembler because it makes the dog throw up", or "It took me five years to write a Hello World program in BASIC, I wouldn't live long enough to do one in assembler", or "I knew someone who knew someone who had a friend who wrote everything in assembler, even love-letters, but they gave up when compilers started producing better code" without mentioning this happened after they'd become so senile they couldn't remember their own name, or whatever, so don't expect me to do more than this one grump. If anyone needs a reality check have a look at some of the compiler code dumps in cix:avr, or cix:zeitgeist/mp3vsassembler:8 where I've looked in some detail at the code emitted by compilers (mainly C/GCC). I might be persuaded to argue the case in mp3vsassembler, I suppose, but frankly I doubt it.
Still, this is a beginners topic, I suppose. Perhaps for our next excursion into profound ignorance we could round up a few virgins and get them discussing sex? I'm sure we could find a few who'd consider themselves Don Juan on the basis of their first fumble; be much more fun to read and maybe more relevant to linux than the ramblings of a few programmers who "saw some assembler once" and believe that makes them experts in computer science. Just a thought...
[WSFN]
(cix: August 2006)
RAD tools aren't a new thing...
Someone asked me why this wasn't republished in grumbles, I though it had been.
The comment was originally inspired by a thread where some poor sod was discussing a god-awful vax cross-assembler that used to assemble Z80 code at the rate of a couple of lines of source per second. This was back in the 80's, and even then that sort of performance was laughably slow. Not that I have much sympathy with programmers who put up with garbage development tools - we always wrote our own, and as a result while that idiot was waiting half an hour or so for each build we'd have been long finished and off down the pub. Each to their own, I suppose...
From cix:flying_gerbils, Nov 2001. This was a glimpse of what life was like in the fast lane of software development way back when we were fab, not flab ;)
It is the mid 80's. In a bedroom in Manchester crem leans back from his computer and idly fondles his sleeping girlfriend**. ParaSys, his IDE, notices he's stopped typing and assembles several thousand lines of Dark Star source, links it and sends it across the network to the target machine. Debugging windows open, soft-scrolling command histories in the couple of seconds this entire process requires. The game starts. ParaSys emulates user interaction until a watch point event fires and traps the application. The editor window moves to the offending line and register displays slide into place. Crem groans. Lesley stops groaning. He leans forward and single-steps through a few lines of code, then changes one with ParaSys automatically updating the syntax-highlighting and error markers as he types. He leans back and seconds later both games continue with renewed enthusiasm... Twenty seconds have passed...
It is nearly twenty years later. In an office in wales crem leans back from his computer and idly fondles himself. Ameol doesn't notice. Lesley is long-gone and the only thing groaning is his chair...
** Games weren't written in bedrooms for nothing, y'know.
Labels: games, my favourites, programmers
Bzzzz-z-z-z-zzzzz-z-z-z-zzzzz
I have long cherished the ambition to stop working on tedious industrial products and get involved in something more satisfying, something with human interest, something that increases the sum total of human happiness... In short, sex aids.
The opportunity arose last week. One of my friends managed to wear out her favourite toy and asked if I could fix it; reluctantly, after several fractions of a second of arm-twisting, I agreed.
On inspection all that was wrong with the poor thing was that the wires were broken - it was one of the ones that has a control box and a variety of plug-in, erm, attachments. These had all been used to the point where they were intermittent; a simple enough fix - some more flexible cable, some heat-shrink tubing, some user-testing [cold shower] and the job's done. Unless, of course, you have the sort of mind that opens the control box, looks at the inevitable 12C508 PIC, and thinks "PIC? I'm not having any of my friends having sex with a fucking PIC..."
So, a couple of hours later we have a new improved AVR version. From eight 'programmes' to forty; pulses, sequences, sawtooths, triangle waves, variable speeds...
Source (Zeus) code for the AtTiny15 can be found at http://www.desdes.com/products/avr/
Labels: humour, my favourites
Terry Pratchett diagnosed with early onset Alzheim...
Quantum mice - a watched mouse never gets caught.....


Paul Hayes, Sinn Féin's candidate in Cork South-West, has been active in the party's local organisation for almost fifteen years. The 33-year-old has served terms as both secretary and chairperson of the Sinn Fein cumann in his native Clonakilty. Hayes' only formal electoral experience to date came in 2004 when he was elected to Clonakilty Town Council. He served as a town councillor until 2009.
Hayes currently works in sales and business development for the Java Republic coffee company.


Following on the heels of competitor PeopleSoft Inc., SAP AG. last week began offering a client-server-based software package for educational institutions. Called SAP IQ, the new system builds on the popular R/3 package, yet is designed to support the educational processes and resource allocation needs of schools, universities, institutes and businesses that deal with education, training, and extended learning.
IQ Campus, for the needs of higher education.
IQ Training, for commercial training groups.
IQ Congress, for conference organizations.
SAP competitor PeopleSoft has been offering its PeopleSoft Student Administration package for years. The system helps colleges manage admissions, recruitment, financial aid, and other activities.


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Q: Spring @Autowired and WebApplicationContext in Tomcat @Autowired works only once.
What to do to make it wire the bean every time the Servlet is recreated?
My web-app (Tomcat6 container) consists of 2 Servlets. Every servlet has private fields.
Their setters are marked with @Autowired
In the init method I use

WebApplicationContextUtils
...
autowireBean(this);

It autowires the properties marked with @Autowired once - during the initialization of the Servlet.
Any other session will see these fields values, they will not be rewired after the previous session is destroyed.
What to do to make them rewire them each time a Servlet constructor is called?
a) Put the autowiring into the constructor?
Or better 2) get a web app context and extract a bean from there?

A: Try using scope as prototype for that bean @Scope("prototype")

A: There seems to be some misunderstanding about how the container works.  Servlets are essentially singletons, you don't get a new servlet everytime someone calls the server.  Storing state in private fields on a servlet is pretty much an error.
What is the scope and life-cycle of the stateful part of your request processing?  If it's just the life of the request then you can take whatever on your servlet is stateful and move it into another class.  Then you can define a prototype bean for that class and use getBean at the start of the request to get a new one.  If you want to start getting fancy you could write a filter that puts a new bean into a ThreadLocal at the start of each request.
If your state needs to span multiple requests, you need to start keeping state or a key that points to the state storage on the web session, or look into using a conversation framework.

A: You may try to use @Scope("session")

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Q: Is it beneficial to hide elements not in use? I come from a computer science background and the languages I'm most familiar with are Java, C# and C++. In these languages your memory footprint is always in the back of your mind and I've been taught to destroy objects that are not in use.
I've recently got an internship as a web dev. I'm getting up to speed with various practices and doing a bit of web design which I haven't done in a while, at least not properly. In one of my sites I have a few images that appear on the screen, then move out of the viewport never to be seen again.
Would it be beneficial to .hide() the elements in question? Would it reduce the memory footprint enough to make it worth it? Would it reduce the footprint at all? A co-worker said it wouldn't be worth it as the hit is taken on page load but he wasn't totally sure.

A: As mentioned in the comments, hiding the element still leaves it in the DOM (Document Object Model). Personally, If I had something moving off screen and then not needed I would use the jQuery .remove() method to physically remove it from the DOM. It may make a difference to performance depending on the size of the image and the amount of images that this is happening to.
Like I've said, I like my DOM to be clean and tidy without any unnecessary clutter, so I would remove them, but that's just me.
EDIT: Looking into it a bit more, it appears that removing the element from the DOM does not free the memory associated with it (source). It seems that it is dependant on the DOM implementation when the memory is freed (source). Physically reusing the nodes looks like the most efficient way to go.

A: @Pointy gave the correct answer (as a comment). No - it does very little to hide it because it's still in memory because the element (and all of it's children) are still in the DOM. It MAY make painting a little faster in scrollable/transformable areas (but it may not) but it certainly doesn't decrease the memory consumption of your app simply by hiding it.


On the 2nd October we sadly said 'Goodbye' to Mrs May, who was retiring after 30 years working at the school.
Children presented Mrs May with a book, shaped like Mrs May's favourite jumpers, that they had all contributed their Goodbye messages to. Then they sand 'Happy Retirement to you'.
Mrs Wray read a poem that she had written to Mrs May to say Goodbye. Click on the link below to read Mrs Wray's poem.


And what's a culinary tour without dessert? I've walked past ChocolaTas so many times, but I'd never indulged. I learned that Granville Island, and the Vancouver food scene is home to one of the fastest growing collectives of Master Chocolatiers in the world. A sampling of salted rosemary chocolate goodness was the perfect follow up to fresh seafood.
One of the last stops of our tour was the Edible Vancouver Bistro where any questions you previously had about Canadian food were asked and answered. A sampling of cranberry & onion jams, crackers, truffle and bacon sea salts, local chocolates and refreshing elderflower rounded out our seminar on local food.


BOSTON — Malcolm Rogers, the longest serving director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced his retirement.
Rogers told the MFA's board of trustees Thursday night he will stay on the job he's held for 19 years until a successor is chosen, the museum said.
Rogers, 65, is credited with innovative exhibitions, expanding the 144-year-old museum's collection and its landmark building, and its education and community outreach.
Trustees chairwoman Grace Fey said Rogers ''will forever be a part of the foundation of this museum and of an arts and culture renaissance in Boston.'' She told The Boston Globe the search for a successor could take a year.
During his tenure, the MFA began operating seven days a week, eliminated admission fees for children under 18, and opened some entrance doors it had closed to save money.
He led a $504 million fundraising campaign that included building its new Art of the Americas Wing, opened in 2010, and renovating its west-facing wing as the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art in 2011.
Among 375 exhibitions the MFA held, he drew some criticism and new audiences with less conventional shows such as a 1996 exhibit of celebrity photographer Herb Ritts, and fashion designer Ralph Lauren's car collection in 2005.


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Phil Bezanson is a partner at Bracewell LLP in Seattle, where he represents corporate clients, senior management and boards of directors, as well as individual clients in internal investigations, securities enforcement, criminal defense and regulatory matters. Phil is a member of the Bracewell LLP team that has worked on recent high-profile and complex cases, including the Deepwater Horizon explosion; the George Washington Bridge lane closure; General Motors' ignition switch investigations; "Pay to Play" cases in New York, New Mexico and Illinois; the stock options backdating cases; and a variety of matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, accounting and public disclosure practices at publicly traded companies and trading desks at financial institutions.
Who Is Watching The Watchmen?
by Philip Bezanson
CFTC Penalizes Registrant for Outsourced IT Security Lapses Last month, the CFTC settled charges against an organization for its failure to ensure the security of its' customers' records and information. The registrant's third-party vendor gained unauthorized access to more than 90,000 records, and the CFTC's charges make clear the risks registrants can face when their third parties are derelict in their duties....
Key Decision Made on U.S. Companies Storing Data Overseas
Google Ordered to Surrender Foreign Server Data Attorneys from Bracewell analyze a recent court decision ordering Google to comply with warrants issued and produce to the FBI data that was stored on servers abroad. The decision could have far-reaching implications and has the potential to impact any company storing data overseas – or considering it. with co-author Laura Prebeck Hang On August 17,...
DOJ's Largest Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action
Nationwide Prosecutions: "Just the Beginning" Recent DOJ and Department of Health and Human Services charges were brought against 412 defendants, across 30+ states, with defendants accused of defrauding taxpayers of approximately $1.3 billion. It's been described as the largest health care fraud enforcement action in DOJ history. In light of the varied health-care-related business practices that are the subjects of the major...
Anti-Corruption Enforcement in Mexico
Your Integrity Policy Matters Mexico's General Law of Administrative Accountability, set to go into effect next week, is the final part of a historic package of far-reaching anti-corruption laws, dubbed the National Anti-Corruption System, that were passed last year. Taken as a whole, the National Anti-Corruption System will have far-flung consequences for those doing business in Mexico and will expand the scope...
DOJ Releases New Guidance on Compliance Programs
Bracewell white collar attorneys dissect guidance from the DOJ's Fraud Section on how it assesses compliance program (and intends to). This guidance provides insight into the questions corporate counsel should expect from DOJ prosecutors during a criminal investigation and highlights common indicators of a strong corporate culture of compliance.
Modern Enforcement: Rolls-Royce's $800M Global Settlement
Case Highlights Growing Trend in Collaborative Enforcement This article by Bracewell white-collar attorneys details the resolution of parallel investigations by U.S., U.K. and Brazilian authorities. Rolls-Royce's long-running scheme to bribe government officials across the globe in exchange for government contracts has resulted in a record enforcement action. Learn about what this could mean for future investigations. By: Phil Bezanson, Glen Kopp and...
Attorney-Client Privilege in WA No Longer Applies When Employment Ends
A recent Washington state Supreme Court adopted a rarely affirmed position and held that attorney-client privilege does not extend to postemployment communications between former employees and counsel representing the former employer. This ruling would impact counsel responsible for conducting internal investigations and could restrict their ability to interview their clients' former employees.

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Q: Unable to install pymssql I was trying to install pymssql .For this I use pip and installed it using a virtual environment according to instructions mentioned here But when I say
(my_new_env)tmp> pip install pymssql
I see the following errors :

Downloading pymssql-2.0.0b1-dev-20111019.tar.gz (5.0Mb): 5.0Mb
  downloaded  Running setup.py egg_info for package pymssql
   Traceback
  (most recent call last):
       File "", line 14, in
       File "/private/tmp/my_new_env/build/pymssql/setup.py", line 41, in
         from Cython.Distutils import build_ext as _build_ext    ImportError: No module named Cython.Distutils    Complete output from
  command python setup.py egg_info:    Traceback (most recent call
  last):
File "", line 14, in
File "/private/tmp/my_new_env/build/pymssql/setup.py", line 41, in

from Cython.Distutils import build_ext as _build_ext
ImportError: No module named Cython.Distutils

I googled a bit for this issue.Do I have to install Cython or something? If so some instructions in this direction would be helpful.
Thanks!

A: You need to install Cython.  It is available on PyPi so you may be able to do:
pip install cython

That may not work on windows (I really don't know), but if it doesn't check out this page:
http://cython.org/#download
On that page you will see a link to windows installers.  Pick the right one and you should be good to go.


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Strivr raises $30M in Series-B funding
Granted patent for measuring real-world effectiveness of VR-based training
Strivr announced today that we raised $30 million in Series B financing led by Georgian Partners. Other new investors include Franklin Templeton and Prologis Ventures.
With the patent, Strivr has developed an algorithm to predict how performance in a virtual environment will map to performance in that same situation or task in real life.
Join upcoming 'Ask Me Anything' livestream session with CEO Derek Belch on April 9 at 9am PT / 12pm ET.
Over the last five years, we have worked tirelessly at Strivr to become the leader in the emerging category of Immersive Learning. Today, we are proud to announced our latest fundraise of $30 million in Series B financing led by Georgian Partners.
Franklin Templeton and Prologis Ventures joined the round as new investors, with participation from existing investors, including GreatPoint Ventures and Alumni Ventures Group.
Series B financing to fuel the accelerated adoption of Immersive Learning at scale
In today's rapidly evolving macroeconomic climate, enterprises must ensure employees are fully engaged and well-prepared to do their jobs. The power of Immersive Learning to address this challenge at scale is being realized through deployments at leading companies including Walmart, Verizon, Fidelity, and FieldCore (a GE Company).
With this new funding, Strivr looks to further expand adoption of Immersive Learning to help companies elevate workforce engagement and performance.
"With more than 1.5 million training sessions conducted in VR and over 22,000 headsets deployed across our customer base, Strivr has developed the world's only end-to-end software platform for the delivery of immersive solutions to elevate workforce learning and performance," said Derek Belch, founder and CEO of Strivr.
"We are thrilled to leverage this new round of investment led by Georgian Partners to more rapidly accelerate the adoption of Immersive Learning in the enterprise and take the next step in connecting immersive data to real-world performance improvement."
Data patent for predicting real-world performance
We are also excited to announce the issuance of a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) covering the measurement of training data in Virtual Reality. With this patent, Strivr has developed an algorithm to predict how performance in a virtual environment will map to performance in that same situation or task in real life.
This method automatically clusters learners into groups based on sensing data, which can include head, hand, and eye movements, as well as physiological data. With this approach, Strivr is setting the path to develop benchmarks for learning and development in VR across a broad range of industries.
"With the rapid increase in large enterprises embracing Immersive Learning to improve performance, we are now able to connect employee learning with business outcomes using completely new types of data," said Tyson Baber, Partner at Georgian Partners. "We believe in Strivr's team, mission, and methodology, and are very excited to partner with them as they deliver the next generation of predictive, workforce analytics."
With the funding, Tyson also joins our Board of Directors.
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I love this place. And the transparent template design & flaming favicon are both so rad!
Hey just happened to chance across this blog from Indiblogger. Glad to see another art blog :) You've got a different style of artwork, it's interesting. I like the image icon for meet the other blog.
OH! btw me too happy to find another art blog. Saw all ya vector art stuff! :) Cool, n see ya around!


Last weekend we made our first trip to the zoo. Aside from being sleepy from missing naps, the boys really seemed to enjoy it. Hayden waved "hi" to most of the animals. I think their favorite was the polar bear - at least it was my favorite. The monkeys were funny to watch too. Here are some pics from the day.
Here is one of the few times the boys got to be out of the stroller and walking around. It was a challenge deciding when to keep them in the stroller and when to get them out, but we did okay. I don't remember what they were looking at here, but as you can see "Puppy" had to go with us. I eventually had to hide Puppy because I was afraid he would get lost - and that would make for a BAD day!
Here are all 3 boys looking at the Panda Bear.
Here we are at the Polar Bear exhibit. The boys seemed to like this. The fact that they got to walk around may have had something to do with it. Carson seemed interested in a couple of older girls while there. I'm not sure if he is looking for the Polar bear, or if he is looking at the girl :).
We had to take a break and eat some lunch. I just happened to bring some little cups for them to eat snacks in, but they ended up eating their lunches in them. They did really well. As you can see, Hayden was very comfortable with his feet propped up on his Bubby's seat.
After lunch, we took the train ride around the farm. It was an okay ride for me and Phillip, but the boys really seemed to enjoy it. Luckily, the driver of the train agreed to take our picture.
As I mentioned earlier, the boys pretty much missed their naps. Here they are on the ride home. Carson went to sleep pretty early, but Hayden held on as long as he could. I think we were pretty close to home before he finally went to sleep.
The zoo is the best! As much as we hate paying $10 every time we go to the zoo, the double stroller they have is wonderful there! It is easy for the girls to climb in and out of to see all the animals they want to get "close" to, but when they get tired they can still ride. It is wonderful! I am glad you enjoyed it, we always do!
It looks like Hayden and Carson enjoyed their first trip to the zoo! We went a few months ago and Hayden loved it as well. Glad you guys had fun!


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Amateur Players Tour offers a taste of pro-style experience
Three-year-old tour has grown to more than 4,000 members in 41 chapters nationwide by creating top-tier tournament opportunities for players wanting to compete against similar skill levels
By Mike Purkey
The great Bobby Jones once said, "There is golf — and there is tournament golf. And they are not at all alike." Anyone who has played in a tournament can confirm the truth in that statement. But the vast majority of golfers have never had a tournament experience and that's where Matt Minder comes in.
Minder is a co-founder of the Amateur Players Tour, whose 4,000 nationwide members have the opportunity to play tournaments against players of their own skill level at courses, some of which they might not have had access.
APT was officially launched in late 2020 and began with 180 members in the St. Louis area. Minder started the business in 2018 and two years later, joined forces with his partner, Jody Barrett, with the idea of expanding the concept nationally.
While Amateur Players Tour members have the opportunity to compete in local tournaments, they can also play in national events at venues like Streamsong, Pinehurst and Big Cedar Lodge.
(Photo: Amateur Players Tour)
Minder and Barrett met in 2016 when they ran and were captains of an event they called the Tour Players Cup, a Ryder Cup-style event in Tunica, Mississippi. Both Minder and Barrett have have extensive experience playing state and national level amateur golf and knew what it took to run high caliber tournaments.
"I was fortunate enough growing up to be able to play some really good amateur golf events," Minder says. "And it was always it was always fun to go to those big events — how you were treated, the quality of the venues and the atmosphere.
"The idea was to create those experiences for the everyday golfer, for the 10 or 12 handicap players who just absolutely love golf, to give them opportunities to play great golf courses, but also just experience what a top tier tournament atmosphere feels like."
Minder emphasizes players exchanging scorecards on the first tee, players being announced by the starter, snacks at the turn, coolers on the course and marshaling the pace of play as details experienced at the best tournaments.
"We want to make sure that it's a special time when guys come to our events," Minder says.
Players pay an annual fee of $125 to join the Amateur Players Tour and have access to dozen or more local tournaments each year with typical entry fees from $90-$130, depending on the location, and includes greens fees, cart fees, range balls and prize fund. Prizes are paid in Visa gift cards.
Members also have access to tournaments in any other location, including national tournaments at venues like Streamsong, Pinehurst, Myrtle Beach and Big Cedar Lodge. There also have been events at PGA Tour stops TPC San Antonio, site of the Valero Texas Open, and TPC Deere Run, site of the John Deere Classic. This past Labor Day, APT had an event at Chambers Bay near Seattle, site of the 2015 U.S. Open.
Events typically have five flights based on handicap and APT has its own handicap index calculated solely on tournament scores.
APT has been the beneficiary of the golf boom of the last three years. "I think there's a market for what we are doing because golf has been so busy," Minder says. "It's hard to find tee times a lot on the weekend. So, this is a great way to come together.
"I think people are looking for camaraderie, and I think they're looking for, you know, competition in ways to explore that. But also ways to travel. We have a lot of people that join our tour and play locally, but they love to go on golf trips, and they don't really like to organize golf trips. Maybe six or seven guys will join our tour, and then they'll travel together to four or five of our majors.
"But what's been cool is we have a really neat national community. We have a Facebook group where people communicate. The friendships and the support and the camaraderie really surprised me a little bit. I thought it would be a little bit more segmented and players would just support each other on their respective tours. It's a really cool culture across the country. Everybody supports everybody, as they get better. We post tournament winners and they get congratulations from all over the country."
The co-founders projected APT would have 800-1,200 members after the first year but blew through that with 3,200 members. Now, with 4,000 members and 41 chapters nationwide, including one in Toronto, Minder says near-term expectations are of 10-12,000 members.
Amateur Players Tour is not the only one of its kind in existence. Older and more successful national tours were in the marketplace first and everyone is competing for players.
"Competition is a good thing, certainly for the consumer because it brings accountability," Minder says. "But it also pushes us to continually innovate and we're motivated to constantly learn to be better and to continue to make improvements. Our slogan is 'By the Players, For the Players.' We take that seriously.
"We have an executive committee that takes player feedback and we constantly evaluate what we do just like any growing company. We take that feedback to make the necessary changes to keep things moving in the right direction."
If golf's rising tide lifts all boats, Minder hopes it's full steam ahead.
Mike Purkey
Purkey has been writing about all things golf for more than 30 years, working at the highest level at publications such as Golf Magazine and Global Golf Post. He is an avid golfer, with a handicap too low for his ability. Purkey lives in Charlotte, N.C.
Email: golfedit@gmail.com
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I got a custom component which is actually an ajax search form. Someone select some options and when he hit submit button i want to load some products based on the selected criteria.
I includes the js / css snipcart files needed inside my template's index.php file and when I use the JS validation on snipcart's dashboard it says everything is ok.
Reading the Snipcart's Doc i have to add the data-item-url for each product.
Item B1-TEST has not been found at http://mydomain.com/components/com_rouf/scripts/ajaxProducts.php.
After that i moved the ajax file mechanism inside a new view file and instead of ajax call i used a form to send the search options.
After that i thought that for actually printing the html code of product so snipcart can crawl and find it in both the view and ajax file a $_POST is mandatory.
So i created a new file test.php printing ALL products.Ofc this is a retarded way and it is only for test purposes.
Didnt work either. I allready sent an email @ snipcart but I didnt have a response.
Has anyone set snipcart before in Joomla! ? Am I completly missing something here or ?
Okay, I found the mistake. I needed to set the character encoding to UTF-8 at the external script, because the name values were getting converted to boxes and that caused value collisions.
I'll provide all of the steps that I did to achieve the final result.
Set data-item-url to the same file, but attach $_SESSION vars, so that the products will get printed at the HTTP REQUEST snipcart will do when someone checkouts.
For External Script: You must set character encoding at UTF-8 <?php header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8"); ?> This will protect multibyte characters from being converted to boxes, and ensures that the item-name will be the same. I don't suggest this one because you have to NOT use defined( '_JEXEC' ) or die( 'Restricted access' ); on top of file, because snipcart http req will fail. So you will have a page with all your product's info open to everyone.
EDIT : I found a better way, using $_POST for form and $_GET just for the snipcart's request.
The value in data-item-url must be a URL where the actual buy button will be found. When looking at the source of the page specified in the data-item-url attribute we must find the actual snipcart-add-item button for the specific product.
Looks like the solution you tried with the test.php file could work. So maybe it's a problem with the domains setup.
The most common reason is that the value specified in data-item-url is not valid.
Before completing the order, Snipcart makes a HTTP request to the value specified in this attribute to make sure the price and other important information have not been altered by someone who knows how to use browser developer tools.
The specified URL must be an URL where the snipcart buy button for the product will be available on the source of the page.
Important notice: For users with a single-page website, the data-item-url field should be filled with only your basic domain name, such as www.example.com, or with a simple slash bar /.
Also, you need to allow on which domain and sub domains your products are available. If you log into the dashboard and go to Settings > General you will be able to set your default domain name as well as the additional allowed domains and sub domains.
For example, if the data-item-url value is http://test.mysite.com/products/1 and your default domain is mysite.com it will fail. You will need to add test.mysite.com in the allowed sub domains.
If you want, you can also use relative URL (/products/1). But we will only validate the product in your default domain name. So in the example above, if the data-item-url value was /products/1 we would make the HTTP request to validate the information to http://mysite.com/products/1.
To specify a relative URL, the data-item-url value must starts with a /.
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This is an exciting opportunity to work in a growing life sciences company that provides medical imaging and services and software to the drug development community. This role will be located on the Imperial College campus at Hammersmith Hospital in West London.
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Experience of working analytical laboratory experience such as HPLC, TLC and GC, including method development and validation.
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in Big Fished Directed by Tim Burton. Jim Carrey is an example of an actor who when the audience sees his name in the credit, they automatically know that there's going to be a bit of comedy in the film. However, through the presentation of mise-en-scene in this film, Burton drives in a much more Tim Burton Cinematic Techniques. Much of the relationship between Kim and Edward revolves around the penetration of Edwards psyche. Tim Burton also uses sound to achieve foreshadowing on what's about to happen based on the style of audio and effects for the audience to perceive.
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Looked After and Adopted Children's Support and Therapeutic Team (LAACTT) Referral Process.
Administration worker / Business support (Social Care).
The aim of the team is to enhance the service to Looked After and Adopted Children and involved professionals, their families and carers, being mindful of their social, developmental and emotional health and well-being.
The impact of moves upon children's well-being.
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To promote stability of placement for looked after children by providing a highly responsive and intensive intervention programme for identified children and their carer who need it the most.
Provide a brief Tier 2 Child and Adolescent Mental Health type Service. This work draws on the principles of DDP, Theraplay, Art Therapy and Narrative Therapy. Where a child is in a foster placement, the method of referral is directly to the Therapeutic Team. When a child is adopted, the Post-Adoption Assessment is the method used to determine level of support required. This work can be in the form of individual, joint or family sessions with children and their families or other involved professionals. The post adoption worker may also utilise Adoption Support Fund, (ASF) to support adoptive families who meet the criteria.
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Provide performance analysis particularly in respect of the emotional and behavioural health of children in care (NI 58) and the stability of placements of looked after children (NI 62 and NI 63), National Minimum Standards.
For brief therapeutic interventions, (typically 6–14 sessions) referrals in respect of looked after and adopted children and those in special guardianship arrangements can be directly referred into the Therapeutic Team.
For adopted children, parents can contact the team and a post - adoption assessment / SGO assessment can be undertaken, to determine levels of needs and involvement.
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The Therapeutic Team Therapeutic Team recognises that, for some children and young people, discrimination is a fact of everyday life. The team will work with carers and children / young people to reflect and look at the effect of discrimination where necessary. Management information on ethnicity / gender / sexuality / and disability will be compiled and regularly analysed to ensure that the service is being fairly accessed across the population of looked after and adopted children.


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Jérémy Chardy and Fabrice Martin were the defending champions, but Chardy chose not to participate and Martin chose to compete in Rio de Janeiro instead.

Nicolas Mahut and Vasek Pospisil won the title, defeating Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektić in the final, 6–3, 6–4.

Seeds

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American rock guitarist and vocalist.
Born: November 22, 1950 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.
Worked with Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes and others.
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From the MadeinAmerica.com Trade Show and Convention, owner at Made in America Stores, Mark Andol, reflects on his personal journey to entrepreneurship and explains why he is American-made.
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The 'Be Heard Act': Addressing the Impact of #MeToo at Work
Since 2017, sexual-misconduct allegations against high-profile people have made headlines globally.
Gaylynn Burroughs of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights discusses the impact of the #MeToo movement and the implications of proposed landmark legislation.
A Return to Live Performances at the Philadelphia Ballet
Shelly Power, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Ballet, discusses their upcoming season, their celebration of Black History Month, Women's History Month, and the thrill of reopening for in person performances. Recorded January 31, 2022.
Historical Crisis
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What do the academics say? Ashcroft's campaigning worked
By Mark Pack | Fri 14th September 2012 - 1:52 pm
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Welcome to the latest in our occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – the impact of the Ashcroft-funded Conservative key seats campaign in the run-up to the 2010 election.
The latest edition of the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (Volume 22, No.3) includes, "Laying the Foundations for Electoral Success: Conservative Pre-Campaign Canvassing before the 2010 UK General Election" by David Cutts, Ron Johnston, Charles Pattie and Justin Fisher:
The efforts of Lord Ashcroft's team involved the expenditure of several million pounds during the pre-election campaign period in an effort to win over voters in key battleground seats. But was it effective? … We provide substantial evidence that it was … Frequency also mattered. The Conservatives were far more likely to win Labour-held seats if constituencies received money from Lord Ashcroft's team on two or more occasions.
In total in 2007-9 Ashcroft's company Bearwood Services Ltd gave the Conservative party £3,628,238.62 the authors point out, adding that the activity such monies financed was mostly canvassing and literature (leaflets or direct mail):
Its strategy involved three main tasks:
identifying potential Conservative voters through (mostly telephone) surveys;
sending party literature to those targeted voters through direct mailings (some 74 million items were sent out between October 2007 and polling day, with 17 million in the last five months before polling day…); and
making grants to local parties to assist in their work to promote their candidates' profile
… the combined elements of the strategy meant that the 14 million or so electors in the 200 constituencies … received on average seven pieces of centrally-produced literature each, alongside more that was generated locally.
Given the relative success of all that effort, it is likely to be repeated on an even greater scale for the 2015 election. That will be a tough challenge for Liberal Democrats to match, helped however by one other conclusion from this research:
The Liberal Democrats benefited most from intensive campaign effort.
Longer-term Liberal Democrat campaigning had more of an impact than that which took place during the short-term campaign.
Ashcroft's own account of the work contains much useful information about the work he oversaw, hence my review of his book last year starting:
Controversial Conservative peer Michael Ashcroft has done campaigners in all parties a service with the frankness of his book on the 2010 general election, Minority Verdict.
My full review of Michael Ashcroft's book is here and you can buy the book here.
You can read the other posts in our What do the academics say? series here.
* Mark Pack is a member of the Federal Board and editor of Liberal Democrat Newswire.
Read more by Mark Pack or more about Charles Pattie, David Cutts, featured, justin fisher, lord ashcroft or Ron Johnston.
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Tony Dawson 14th Sep '12 - 3:50pm
Bearing in mind the considerable variation in results in Lib Dem-Tory marginals/targets, it would be interesting to know which Lib Dem seats Mr Ashcroft financed the opponents heavily and consistently.
RC 14th Sep '12 - 9:20pm
There are few greater justifications for remaining a Liberal Democrat than the presence of Lord Ashcroft and his baleful influence on UK politics. At constituency level should be hammering home the message that the Tory Party is the foot servant of rich and powerful individuals like him and Murdoch. Unfortunately, this fact doesn't seem to perturb voters in the slightest. They may moan about corruption in politics but when faced with a party that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ashcroft Plc. they still vote for it in droves.
This man cost us the seats we so richly deserved at the last election and which would have given us vital bargaining power in the post election period. He should not be forgiven.
Keith Browning 14th Sep '12 - 10:32pm
A targetted anti-Ashcroft campaign in the relevant constituencies might help to redress the balance. At least it might expose the propaganda for what it is.
Tim13 14th Sep '12 - 11:41pm
David Evans 16th Sep '12 - 8:23am
@Keith,
But where, bearing in mind our current position re membership, finances etc are we going to get the resources to deliver "A targetted anti-Ashcroft campaign in the relevant constituencies"?


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Guide to the Diary of Timothy Tuttle 1775-1776 MG 231
Guide to the Diary of Timothy Tuttle
1775-1776MG 231The New Jersey Historical Society
Inventory prepared by Stephen Yautz as part of the "Farm to City" project funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Finding aid encoded by Danielle Kovacs. September 2003. Production of the EAD 2002 version of this finding aid was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Finding aid written in English.
Creator: Timothy Tuttle
Title: Timothy Tuttle Diary
Abstract: This collection consists of a diary by Timothy Tuttle, a sergeant in the First Company of the First New Jersey Continental Regiment during the Revolutionary War.
Timothy Tuttle, a native of Morris County, New Jersey, joined the patriot cause when he enlisted in the First New Jersey Continental Regiment in 1775, commanded by Colonel, later Brigadier General, William Alexander (Lord Stirling). He was accorded the rank of sergeant, and served in Captain Joseph Morris's First Company. One of Tuttle's first assignments was the fortification of New York City in late 1775. However, with an American campaign against the British underway in Canada, he was ordered to proceed northward to reinforce the beleaguered American effort. Eventually, Tuttle was stationed at Ticonderoga, and other various locations in the northernmost portions of upstate New York, including Fort Edward, Lake George, and Crown Point. After surviving a bout of smallpox, Tuttle assisted in rebuilding the fortifications on a hill opposite Ticonderoga. The result of the soldiers' efforts was the halt of the British advance into New York that was led by General Guy Carleton in October 1776. Sergeant Tuttle and a segment of the First New Jersey Regiment were discharged upon their return to New Jersey in early November 1776.
Tuttle later served in the New Jersey Militia, and took part in the Battle of Red Bank in 1779 and the Battle of Connecticut Farms (now Union, New Jersey) in 1780, and eventually attained the rank of captain by the end of his term of service.
After the Revolutionary War ended, Tuttle managed a large flour mill located in Hanover, New Jersey. He and Mary Ward were married on October 24, 1779, with whom he had four children. Tuttle died in Hanover on June 16, 1816.
This collection consists of a diary by Timothy Tuttle, a sergeant in the First Company of the First New Jersey Continental Regiment. The journal covers the time span of December 21, 1775 to November 9, 1776.
In his diary, Tuttle recounts his activities that include daily routines of sentry duty, assisting in strengthening fortifications in New York City, and participating in the monotonous and grueling task of marching from Morris County to Elizabethtown to New York City, then to Long Island and back to New York City, and finally, to Ticonderoga, New York, where he remained for the duration of his service with the First New Jersey Regiment.
In other instances, Tuttle spent much of his time making preparations for battle. At one point, he spent the entire last two weeks in February 1776 doing nothing more than making cartridges for his musket. Malnourishment, fatigue and disease, as with most Continental Army troops at the time, plagued even Tuttle himself, when he was stricken with, and survived, a case of smallpox while encamped at Isle aux Nois, Quebec and Crown Point, New York in June 1776. The inoculations administered on June 19, 1776 seemed to have paid off, for Tuttle reports by July 1st that "the small pox seems to go favorable with us." Provisions were also low, since he complained that "we are pinched for provisions & I cant but grumble for I Believe it is to Be had, the Yankees [New Englanders] Gits fresh Beef enough."
Records of various loans that Tuttle made to others, as well as records of repayments of those loans, complete the volume.
The entries below represent persons, organizations, topics, and forms documented in this collection.
Alexander, William, 1726-1783.
Barton, William, 1748-1831.
Dorchester, Guy Carleton, Baron, 1724-1808.
New Jersey–Militia.
United States–Continental Army–New Jersey Regiment, First, (1777-1783)
Smallpox.
Soldiers.
Connecticut Farms (N.J.)
Crown Point (N.Y.)
Elizabeth (N.J.)
Fort Edward (N.Y.)
Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.)
Hanover (N.J.)
New Jersey–History–Revolution, 1775-1783.
Ticonderoga (N.Y.)
Union (Union County, N.J. : Township)
United States–History–Revolution, 1775-1783.
Diaries.
Journals.
For a printed version of Tuttle's diary in its entirety, see:
Wickman, Donald. "The Diary of Timothy Tuttle," New Jersey History, Fall/Winter 1995, volume 113, numbers 3-4.
For documents pertaining to the First New Jersey Continental Regiment, see:
Manuscript Group 70, James Alexander and William Alexander (Lord Stirling) Papers
Manuscript Group 226, First New Jersey Continental Regiment Orderly Book
Manuscript Group 232, William Barton Journal
Manuscript Group 833, First New Jersey Continental Regiment Account Book
Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Sent to Joseph F. Tuttle by favor of Hon. George Vail." It is not known how the collection came to The New Jersey Historical Society.
This collection should be cited as: Manuscript Group 231, Timothy Tuttle Journal, The New Jersey Historical Society.
Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War. Trenton, New Jersey: William T. Nicholson and Co., 1872.


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