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Walter Dorwin Teague's "World of Tomorrow"
Walter Dorwin Teague, courtesy of North Carolina State University.
Visit the ultra-sleek website of the industrial design firm TEAGUE and you will see the echoes of company founder and namesake Walter Dorwin Teague. TEAGUE touts "we design experiences for people and things in motion." This could easily have been declared in 1939 when Teague applied his experience as an industrial designer to the New York World's Fair "World of Tomorrow."
Walter Dorwin Teague's story starts in the house of a Methodist circuit-riding preacher in Decatur, Indiana. Here, Walter was born on December 18, 1883, the youngest of six children to Reverend M.A. Teague and Hettie Teague. By late 1889, the family had settled in Pendleton, where Teague graduated high school in 1902. Teague credits his time in Pendleton, and particularly a book on the history of architecture from the Pendleton High School library, with setting him on the path that would eventually lead him to become a dominant force in American industrial design.
Walter Dorwin Teague designed the Kodak Baby Brownie Camera and its packaging, seen here. The Baby Brownie, sold for just $1, is credited with helping popularize amateur photography. Image courtesy of Cooper Hewitt.
Soon after his graduation, Teague moved to New York City to study at The Art Students League of New York. However, it wasn't until the late 1920s that Teague discovered his life's passion: industrial design. He was early to the game – in the decade after Teague scored his first major contract with Eastman Kodak in 1928, mentions of the phrase "industrial designer" in printed material increased 40 fold. Many sources consider Walter Dorwin Teague to be one of the five founders of industrial design in the United States, along with Henry Dreyfuss, Donald Deskey, Raymond Loewy, and Norman Bel Geddes.
In the decade after his first contract with Kodak, Teague designed for the likes of Boeing, Texaco, the Marmon Motor Company, and Ford Motor Company. He built lasting business relationships with many of these companies, and in some cases those relationships went beyond the designing of products. In the early 1930s, Henry Ford turned to Walter Dorwin Teague to design a cutting-edge exhibit hall for the 1934 re-opening of the Chicago World's Fair, themed "Century of Progress." The exhibition featured a wide array of elements, including a museum, industrial barn, and gardens tied together by–what else–design.
Interior of the Ford Pavilion at the 1934 Chicago Century of Progress. This diorama shows the extraction of different materials used in automobile production. Image courtesy of Hemmings Daily.
According to historian Roland Marchand, the 1934 Chicago Century of Progress:
ushered in a period of striking convergence between an increasing corporate sensitivity to public relations and the applications of designers' expertise to display strategies. More than ever before, the great fairs became arenas for the public dramatization of corporate identities.
Gone were the sales-driven exhibits of the past, in which company representatives pitched the latest and greatest Ford products. With Teague at the helm, salesmen were replaced by young, affable college students. Product demonstrations were replaced by art, dioramas, and museums. Pressure to buy was replaced with entertainment, as well as information about the concepts behind and benefits of featured products. These innovations made the exhibit a hit of the fair and Walter Dorwin Teague a highly sought after exhibition hall designer.
In the wake of the successful Ford project, Teague designed exhibits for a number of regional fairs. He designed for Ford in San Diego (1935), Dallas (1936) and Cleveland (1936), and for Du Pont and Texaco in Dallas (1936). These smaller exhibits were a trial of sorts for the 1939 New York World's Fair, which would become Teague's crowning achievement in the realm of exhibit design.
Cover, New York World's Fair 1939 Brochure, from the Collections of The Henry Ford.
For the New York World's Fair, which was themed "The World of Tomorrow," Teague designed the exhibition halls for heavy-hitters like Ford, U.S. Steel, Du Pont, National Cash Register (NCR), Consolidated Edison Company, Eastman Kodak, A.B. Dick, Bryany Heater Company, and parts of the United States Government Building. In addition, Teague served on the official Design Board, the lone industrial designer among a group of architects.
One might assume that with so much on his plate, Teague would have moved towards a more hands-off approach at the 1939 fair. However, he was deeply involved in the conceptualization process. While on previous projects he had simply put the finishing touches on an already developed idea or perhaps added design elements around an existing exhibit plan, by 1939, Teague was involved in "the fundamental work of determining what [the] exhibit should be." Employing lessons learned at the 1934 Century of Progress, Teague determined that exhibits should include animation and audience participation whenever possible. He and his team also began using phrases such as "visual dramatization" and "industrial showmanship" to describe their work. The resulting 1939 New York World's Fair exhibits reflected the evolution of his design approach.
Exterior of Du Pont's "Wonder World of Chemistry," designed by Walter Dorwin Teague. Image courtesy of Curbed New York blog; The "Tower of Research," from the cover of the June 1939 issue of The Du Pont Magazine, accessed with the Hagley Digital Archive.
Du Pont, the company responsible for developments such as Kevlar, Teflon, neoprene, and Freon, had high expectations for their exhibit. In the November 1938 issue of The Du Pont Magazine, the company promised, "a panorama of man's triumphs over his environment, of the progress he has made in building a new nation and a new civilization, of the hopes and plans he has for creating a better world in the future" and to illustrate "chemistry's part in making the United States more self-sufficient."
The resulting exhibition building, featuring a 120-foot "Tower of Research" inspired by test tubes, literally towered over passersby. The essential element of animation was incorporated through lights and bubbles that flowed through the test tubes and brought the structure to life. Inside the building were a variety of displays that highlighted the role of chemistry in the modern world–and painted a picture of what the "World of Tomorrow" could look like with further investments in the sciences. Displays followed the production process from raw materials to laboratory testing, and finally to manufacturing. Still other exhibits featured technicians weaving rayon, making cellophane, and demonstrating various techniques used in producing Du Pont materials. From the Tower of Research to fully functional displays to a plethora of dioramas, every aspect of Teague's design employed the tenets of visual dramatization, industrial showmanship, and educational entertainment.
Ford Building Model, courtesy of New York Public Library New York World's Fair (1939-1940) Collection.
The same tenets were present in Teague's development of the Ford building. Whereas a tower drew visitor's eyes towards the Du Pont building, a metallic sculpture of the Roman god Mercury–symbolizing "fleet, effortless travel"–attracted exhibit-goers. Inside the exhibition hall, a 70-foot-high moving mural made of automobile parts, planned by Teague and designed by Henry Billings, welcomed visitors to the Ford building. The theme, "From Earth to Ford V-8," was depicted in the "Cycle of Production," a massive revolving wedding cake-like structure with three tiers. On the bottom tier, small animated figures harvested raw materials such as cotton, wool, and wood. On the next tier, figures processed those raw materials into cloth and boards. Finally, on the top tier, those products were incorporated into the final product – the wildly popular 1939 Ford V-8, a finished version of which adorned the top of the turntable. Surrounding the "Cycle of Production" were live demonstrations of the production process depicted in the display.
Even more so than in the Du Pont exhibition, Teague incorporated a plethora of entertainment elements into the Ford pavilion. The same figures from the Cycle of Production were featured in a Technicolor film, telling the story of Ford production. Visitors watched the history of transportation unfold in the form of a live musical drama and ballet. They also watched race car drivers demonstrating the abilities of Ford cars on an outdoor track. Teague united these seemingly disparate parts through design to tell the story of Ford's impact on the world–whether that be in job creation, technological advancement, or simply as an amusing diversion.
The features seen in these two exhibition buildings could be found to varying degrees in Teague's other designs at the fair. The U.S. Steel building consisted of a 66-foot-high stainless steel hemisphere, an early example of a building designed to highlight, rather than mask, its steel structural supports. The National Cash Register exhibit was perhaps the least innovative, yet most striking of Teague's 1939 World's Fair designs–it was simply a gigantic, working cash register which displayed the fair attendance numbers. Inside, various models of NCR registers were shown being used in exotic locals around the world. For Consolidated Edison's "The City of Light" display, Teague recreated New York City by building 4,000 scale buildings. The diorama came to life to depict a day in the city–the printing press of the Brooklyn Eagle whirred, a family lounged on a porch listening to the radio, and a six-car subway sped through the display. These innovative features developed by the industrious Hoosier and his design firm would be the central design elements in exhibition halls for decades to come.
Walter Dorwin Teague is best remembered as the "Dean of Industrial Design." His impact on corporate exhibitions has largely been forgotten with the diminishing role of exhibits in modern life. But at the 1939 New York World's Fair, the impact of this industrious Hoosier was impossible to ignore.
Author Lindsey BeckleyPosted on May 1, 2019 May 2, 2019 Categories UncategorizedTags 1934 Chicago World's Fair, 1939 World's Fair, Boeing, Century of Progress, Consolidated Edison Company, Cycle of Production, Decatur, dioramas, Du Pont, DuPont, Eastman Kodak, exhibition, Ford Motor Company, Ford V-8, Indiana, industrial design, National Cash Register, New York City, Pendleton, Pendleton High School, Texaco, The Art Students League of New York, The City of Light, the Marmon Motor Company, Tower of Research, U.S. Steel, Walter Dorwin Teague, World of Tomorrow
Micajah C. White: Forgotten Victim of the Assault on Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, image courtesy of pbs.org.
Whenever the great abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass and the State of Indiana are mentioned together, it is usually in reference to the mobbing of Douglass at Pendleton. Interestingly, were it not for a typographical error, a Westfield man would be included in the historic accounts as one of the defenders of Douglass. However, even aside from his brush with history, Micajah C. White and his connection to the anti-slavery movement make for an inspiring story.
The story of Douglass' assault is well known. In 1843, he was on a speaking tour of the midwestern states. He and several members of the New England Anti-Slavery Society were trying to rouse abolitionist support in what was then considered the Western U.S. Regrettably, they were met with hostility and threats. On September 16, they were to speak at a church meeting in Pendleton. As they tried to speak, a mob stormed the platform, tearing it down and attacking the speakers. Douglass attempted to defend himself and the others by grabbing a club and swinging it vigorously. However, a stone was thrown, breaking his hand, and another stone knocked him briefly unconscious. Eventually the mob relented, and the party retreated to a safe house.
Douglass defending himself against mob, courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collections, accessed Kaily Kos.
In Douglass's autobiography, My Life and Times (1881), he used a curious sentence to describe what happened, saying, "They tore down the platform on which we stood, assaulted Mr. White and knocked out several of his teeth, dealt a heavy blow on William A. White, striking him on the back part of the head, badly cutting his scalp and felling him to the ground." Most historians have assumed that it was William A. White of Massachusetts who received this terrible beating alone. However, it turns out that an overzealous editor simply trimmed someone out of the manuscript.
Other sources supply the name. William A. White himself wrote a description of the event in the October 13, 1843 issue of the newspaper The Liberator. Indiana Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin mentions it in his Reminiscences published in 1876. Frederick Douglass himself mentions it in an August, 1889 article for Cosmopolitan. After Douglass died in February of 1895, Thomas Lindley of Westfield and J. B. Lewis of Fall Creek Township wrote down their memories of the incident which were published in the local papers. Lindley's father had been at the meeting and had gotten his hat knocked off. Lewis did not witness the assault, but he was able to see Douglass speak a few nights later at Jonesboro, Indiana. According to all of these people, the injured man was Micajah C. White of Westfield, Indiana. This would explain the odd sentence in the autobiography. Obviously, someone was confused by the two men named White.
IHB historical marker, image courtesy of Panoramio.
Unfortunately this confusion has obscured Micajah White's involvement, a man who deserves to be mentioned with the early abolitionists. He was born in New Garden, North Carolina in 1819 to a family of staunch Quakers with strong abolitionist leanings. His father's sister married Levi Coffin, the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. The family moved from North Carolina to Milford, Indiana, in 1827, and from there to Hamilton County. In 1833, the Whites were founding members of the Spiceland Quaker Meeting and in 1838, at the age of 19, Micajah was appointed recorder of Meeting Minutes. Sometime in the 1840's, he married his first wife, Elizabeth. In 1845, his sister Martha began keeping a diary, which presents a clear picture of the family's fortunes.
Micajah, or "M.C." as his family called him, joined the newly formed Anti-Slavery Meeting in Eagletown in 1845, two years after the assault. This was a group of dissident Quakers who felt they needed to take a proactive stance on the ending of slavery. These people were the ones most commonly involved in the local Underground Railroad. M.C. was disowned by the Spiceland Meeting for this action.
It seems to be obvious that M.C. would be involved in the Underground Railroad. There is the standard problem that, because it was a secret organization, there is little written evidence of its activities. However, Levi Coffin reported in his Reminiscences that M.C. did assist him.
IHB historical marker, image courtesy of Hmdb.org.
The only local story that survives about M.C.'s activities in the UGRR involves a slave woman who reached Westfield just a step ahead of slave-hunters sometime around 1850. M.C.'s mother, Louisa White, owned an inn and the fugitive was placed in hiding there just as the slave-hunters happened to walk in and asked for food and lodging. Mrs. White calmly served them and then dressed the slave woman in some of her own clothes, including a large bonnet. The two of them coolly walked past the hunters and over to her son M.C.'s house, where the woman was helped on her way.
Of course, there were other concerns in M.C.'s life. His daughter, Madeline, had been born in 1851. His second child, Eugene, was born in January of 1852. Tragically, his wife died in March and his son died in April of that year. He had to balance his own grief with the lives of the people he was assisting.
M.C. was recognized as a key figure in the local anti-slavery movement. His mother's brother, William Bundun, died in 1855. M.C. and Martha's husband, Aaron Talbert, were witnesses of his will. After making bequeaths to his wife and children, Bundun said, "I direct also that the sum of 100 dollars when collected by placed in the hands of Micajah C. White or Aaron V. Talbert for the purpose of aiding or assisting destitute fugitive slaves on their way in making their escape from slavery to a land of Liberty – to Canada". The Talbert and White families were very close. When M.C. remarried in 1856, his new wife was Aaron's sister, Patience.
Because of their abolitionist sympathies, the Whites were probably more aware of national affairs than most people. The execution of John Brown on Dec. 2 1859, takes up two pages in Martha Talbert's diary. It was particularly sad for her because it was the same date that her adored infant daughter had died seven years before. M.C. and Aaron Talbert went to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in May of 1860. It is unknown whether they attended as delegates or just spectators. This was, of course, the convention where Abraham Lincoln was nominated to the presidency.
"The Republicans in Nominating Convention in Their Wigwam at Chicago, May 1860," from Harper's Weekly, May 19, 1860, accessed Library of Congress.
While at the Convention, Underground Railroad activity continued at home and Martha Talbert possibly referenced escaped slaves in her diary. She refers to the people as "Kentucky refugees" and simply states that they are staying there. Any more detail probably would have been dangerous to write down.
When the Civil War started in April of 1861, members of the White family left the Quaker church and joined the Army. M.C.'s brother Isaac joined the 12th Indiana Infantry, a one-year regiment. In 1862, he re-enlisted and joined the 101st Indiana and was appointed a Second Lieutenant. The regiment saw action in Kentucky and Tennessee and Isaac was later promoted to Captain. Another brother, Mordecai, became a recruiter for one of the new black regiments. He traveled to Vicksburg in 1864 to try to enlist ex-slaves. He finally enlisted himself in March of 1865 at about the same time Isaac was discharged for disability.
M.C. probably would have been more proactive at the beginning of the war, but was suffering from a series of lung ailments. In 1862, he became the Military Agent for Washington Township. The job of the Military Agent was to assist the families of soldiers who may have been suffering while the breadwinner was away from home. Then in October of 1863, M.C. decided to move his family to Minneapolis, Minnesota, probably for better economic opportunity. Whatever the reason, he was eventually joined by his sister Martha's family, his mother, and the rest of his brothers and sisters. They prospered there and M.C. became a druggist. He died at the age of 70 on March 31, 1889, six years before Frederick Douglass.
Author David HeighwayPosted on April 18, 2016 September 15, 2017 Categories UncategorizedTags 1860 Republican National Convention, Anti-slavery, Frederick Douglass, Indiana, Levi Coffin, Micajah C. White, Pendleton, Quakers, Underground Railroad, Westfield


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Sec. 10. Detinue
Detinue was the only action allowed by the common law to recover specific goods except in the few instances where replevin would lie.
The obligation upon which detinue was based arose from the possession of property by the defendant which he was under a duty to deliver to the plaintiff. This obligation most commonly arose upon a bailment; but also arose where the defendant had sold goods to the plaintiff and the ownership had become vested in the plaintiff.29 The action was also allowed in cases where the defendant had wrongfully come into possession of the property. And as the remedy of assumpsit never came into use in such a case,30 detinue came to be regarded as sounding in tort rather than in contract; or at least partaking in some degree of the character of each of these branches of the law.31
26 See The Seisin of Chattels, 1 Law Q. Rev. 326, by Maitland; The Disseisin of Chattels, 3 Harv. L. Rev. 23, 313, 337, by Ames.
27 The action of account and the obligations upon which it might be based are analysed by Langdell in 2 Harv. L. Rev. 243-257.
28 See a full examination of the early authorities by Hening in 3 Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, 343.
29 8 Harv. L. Rev. 258,259, by Ames.
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Except for rare mutations, cheetahs (whose name is the Hindi for "spotted ones") have tawny or grayish white coats covered with round or oval black spots roughly an inch in diameter, located everywhere except for the throat and abdomen. The hair on the coarse coats is slightly longer at the nape, and the tail has four to six black rings (distinctive to each cheetah) and a white tuft at the end. Cheetahs purr, yelp, and bark rather than roar, owing to the lack of an ossified hyoid. Cheetahs have long bodies and legs and a small domed head with high set eyes, short ears, and a black line (resembling a teardrop) that runs from each eye down to the mouth. These lines aid vision by reducing solar glare. The whiskers are smaller than those of most cats, but cheetahs hunt by sight alone. Mature cheetahs weigh between 110 and 130 pounds and reach an average height of thirty-two inches at the shoulder, while their bodies extend to roughly fifty inches in length. Male cheetahs are slightly larger than females, but both sexes have small teeth and large lungs and nasal passages which produce a high volume of oxygen. One set of leg muscles is designed for walking, while another is for high-speed sprinting. Cheetah paws are round and hard, and have semiretractable claws that provide traction during sprints and help the cheetah make quick turns. By a combination of running and leaping, the cheetah can accelerate from 0 to 45 miles per hour in two seconds, and can reach recorded speeds of up to 71 miles per hour-but for no more than 300 yards.


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Orangutan. Sun, 02/10/2013 - 9:15pm
Don Siegelman
Trevor Aaronson
The Bush regime's response to 9/11 and the Obama regime's validation of this response have destroyed accountable democratic government in the United States. So much unaccountable power has been concentrated in the executive branch that the US Constitution is no longer an operable document.
Whether a person believes the official story of 9/11 which rests on unproven government assertions or believes the documented evidence provided by a large number of scientists, first responders, and structural engineers and architects, the result is the same. 9/11 was used to create an open-ended "war on terror" and a police state. It is extraordinary that so many Americans believe that "it can't happen here" when it already has.
We have had a decade of highly visible evidence of the construction of a police state: the PATRIOT Act, illegal spying on Americans in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the initiation of wars of aggression--war crimes under the Nuremberg Standard--based on intentional lies, the Justice Department's concocted legal memos justifying the executive branch's violation of domestic and international laws against torture, the indefinite detention of US citizens in violation of the constitutionally protected rights of habeas corpus and due process, the use of secret evidence and secret "expert witnesses" who cannot be cross-examined against defendants in trials, the creation of military tribunals in order to evade federal courts, secret legal memos giving the president authority to launch preemptive cyber attacks on any country without providing evidence that the country constitutes a threat, and the Obama regime's murder of US citizens without evidence or due process.
Despite laws protecting whistleblowers and the media and the US Military Code which requires soldiers to report war crimes, whistleblowers such as CIA agent John Kiriakou, media such as Julian Assange, and soldiers such as Bradley Manning are persecuted and prosecuted for revealing US government crimes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33804.htm The criminals go free, and those who report the crimes are punished.
Trevor Aaronson in his book, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's War on Terrorism, documents that the FBI has so far concocted 150 "terrorist plots" and that almost all of the other "terrorist cases" are cases unrelated to terrorism, such as immigration, with a terror charge tacked on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LpTOrNQ3G9Q#! The presstitute American media doesn't ask why, if there is so much real terrorism requiring an American war against it, the FBI has to invent and solicit terrorist plots.
Today the purpose of a prosecution is to serve the prosecutor's career and that of the party that appoints him or her. A prosecutor's career is served by high conviction rates, which require plea bargains in which the evidence against a defendant is never tested in court or before a jury, and by high profile cases, which can launch a prosecutor into a political career, as Rudy Giuliana achieved with his frame-up of Michael Milken.
Glenn Greenwald explained how Internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz was driven to his death by the ambition of two federal prosecutors, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Assistant US Attorney Stephen Heymann, who had no aversion to destroying an innocent person with ridiculous and trumped-up charges in order to advance their careers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/16/ortiz-heymann-swartz-accountability-abuse
It is rare for a prosecutor to suffer any consequence for bringing false charges, for consciously using and even paying for false evidence, and for lying to judge and jury. As prosecutors are rarely held accountable, they employ illegal and unethical methods and routinely abuse their power. As judges are mainly concerned with clearing their court dockets, justice is rarely served in America, which explains why the US has not only a larger percentage of its citizens in prison than any other country on earth, but also the largest absolute number of prisoners. The US actually has more of its citizens in prison than "authoritarian" China which has a population four times larger than the US. The US, possibly the greatest human rights abuser in history, is constantly bringing human rights charges against China. Where are the human rights charges against Washington?
In America the collapse of law has gone beyond corrupt prosecutors and their concocted false prosecutions. Unless it needs or desires a show trial, a police state does not need prosecutors and courts. By producing legal memos that the president can both throw people into prison without a trial and execute them without a trial simply by stating that some official in the executive branch thinks the person has a possible or potential connection to terrorism, tyranny's friends in the Justice (sic) Department have dispensed with the need for courts, prosecutors and trials.The Bush/Obama regime has made the executive branch judge, juror, and executioner. All that is needed is an unproven assertion by some executive branch official. Here we have the epitome of evil.
Evidence is no longer required for the president of the US to imprison people for life or to deprive them of their life. A secret Justice Department memo has been leaked to NBC News that reveals the tyrannical reasoning that authorizes the executive branch to execute American citizens on the basis of belief alone without the requirement of evidence that they are terrorists or associated with terrorists. http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/04/16843014-exclusive-justice-department-memo-reveals-legal-case-for-drone-strikes-on-americans?lite
Not only for Palestinians has law ceased to exist, but also for Americans, and for Washington's NATO puppets in the UK and Europe, pitiful remnants of once great nations now complicit in Washington's crimes against humanity. The Open Society Justice Initiative, a NGO based in New York, has issued a report that documents that 54 governments are involved in Washington's rendition and torture program. Twenty-five of the governments that help Washington to kidnap, disappear, and torture people are European. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/05/cia-rendition-report-uk-court
Glenn Greenwald writes that "the most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens for execution without any charges or due process, far from any battlefield. The Obama administration has not only asserted exactly that power in theory, but has exercised it in practice." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33847.htm
Additional reading: The legal analysis in the URL below written by seasoned attorneys shows that Obama is a tyrant. The point made by the attorneys is too clear to be debatable. http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/assassin_in_chief.html
Paul Craig Roberts is a former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury and Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Also a shortened version covered on CounterPunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/08/the-police-state-is-real/
Along the same lines...
The White House is "Judge, Jury and Executioner" of Both Drone and Cyber-Attacks
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/the-white-house-is-judge-jury-and-executioner-of-both-drone-and-cyber-attacks.html
"Indeed, Bush and Obama have literally set the clock back 800 years … to before the signing of the Magna Carta."
Orangutan. on Sun, 02/10/2013 - 11:35pm.
9/11 Changed Everything... Never Forget.
"The [United States] Department of Homeland Security's civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation's borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever -- all in the name of national security."
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/electronics-border-seizures/
Your computers, cell phones and other electronics can be seized within 100 Miles of US Border for any reason (This covers 2/3 of US Population) - DHS
Orangutan. on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 12:16am.
The Courage to Say it Like it Is
We all better start seeing it like it is, rather than how they ( corporate mainstream media and corporate controlled Washington) tell us it is! In my opinion, Paul tells it like it is. Hard to stomach; the truth often hurts! We better deal with it while we can. Thank you Paul, I respect your patriotism. And, thank you, Orangutan, for the excellent link to Washington's Blog.
Thinker on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 12:17am.
Seeing it like it is
It seems to me that there is an ever-growing percentage of the populous that does see it like it is. You see this in the rash of mainstream articles talking about the growth of what they attempt to dismiss as "the lunatic fringe"--those who give credence to conspiracy theories of all shapes and sizes. While the coincidence theorists and obedient MSM does its best to stem the tide, the doubts linger and persist because there are so many gaping holes in so many of the "news" stories we are fed. And once a thinking person finally convinces him- or herself that a particular story is false, then all bets are off and every story suddenly falls under suspicion. So the MSM pushes back lamenting the rise if the lunatic fringe while the "lunatic" fringe (in fact the awakened fringe) sits back and mutters "directed history" to its growing self. Alternative news sites (without the quotation marks) like the highly recommended The Daily Bell push and push and push. Thanks to the 'net we're winning the information war. (Look for "cyber security" to be dripping off the tongues of all the powers that be this year. We've got them worried; we must guard net freedom of speech with vigilance.). The big question is where does it all lead us? Fascinating but scary times we live in.
chriskin on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 3:21pm.
Show "Sentimental " by marzi
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Thank you, Mr. Roberts, for a great article about where this government is going wrong. Just one point where I feel you're overstating the case about Israel/Palestine. The land belonged right or wrong to the Ottomans and was purchased in lots right or wrong from them for the state of Israel. Unfortunately, those working the land at the turn of the century did not for the most part control the land they worked. So it is a bit too strong to call this a theft.
There is also a tendency to wax superlative about the Palestinians when any Google search of the Palestinian treatment of their women comes up of many reports of violence just like other areas of the Middle East, except Israel. I think it's best to be circumspect about any country in this zone of animosity where no one country is beyond criticism.
marzi on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 8:17pm.
Ethnic Cleansing-A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
The New Historians
Since 1988 Ilan Pappé and other Israeli historians have been reversing many of the myths of the founding of Israel. Basic information about this important scholastic movement know as The New Historians can be found on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Historians
Peter ORourke on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 9:20am.
The most sophisticated people constantly at war
Do you really take nationalism and borders seriously? Do you think Europeans are the most educated and refined people in the world? Why then is the map of Europe and the Middle East in constant flux? Do the Ottomans matter and the plunder of countless nations? Borders keep changing. Check out this map-video and enlarge to full screen. Still no comment from you on the many studies on violence toward women in Palestine and elsewhere in these countries AND on the black market Gaza multi-millionaires who it seems do not give very much to their community.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/greek-election-aftermath-1000-years-context?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campai...
marzi on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 3:12pm.
What Can I Say About the Plight of Palestinian Women?
I didn't say anything about civilizing these people just quit stealing their land. I can only offer a single factor reductionist answer and while that is not always the best answer sometimes it is the most pertinent: in simplistic terms you have your Indians and you have your reservation; then you start subsuming the reservation and what happens to the Indians? So, because among the Palestinians there are those who are absconders of charity and black marketeers; they, then, do not deserve the rights to self determination? In the U.S. Red Cross officials have been caught riding high on charitable funds with expensive condo rendezvous, fleet cars, and exorbitant salaries. Because women suffer in Palestine because of some unfortunate clinging to Hammurabian justice codes that gives you and me quit claim to just how many hectares of land? Your map shows a thousand year time frame and looking at the map above shows just what kind of immediate pressures are brought to bare in that kind of flux. If you want to talk about nationalism look no further than Zionism which was hatched in the same milieu of rabid nationalistic fervor that gave rise to the Third Reich. As for putting this on nationalistic terms that is not a problem. We are not really talking about a Palestinian nation at this point, the Israelis have made sure of that.
Peter ORourke on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 8:13pm.
What you say is valid about self-determination, but it doesn't work for the women who live on that land, who don't and will not have it - half the population There seems to be an impasse as to this point with none of the "guys" who read this site understanding that. Also, under Faisal I Jews were already coming to Palestine. He thought too rapidly, so it was earlier than the rise of Nazism. As befits the fanaticism of this area, Faisal was probably poisoned, one reason being he was too "modern" and too pro-west and among other things let Gertrude Bell order education for women in Iraq when he ruled there. Just an example of why you cant idealize a people in the Islamic nations unless you think assassination and ignorance are fine. Have you read Reading Lolita in Tehran? A simple place to begin.
marzi on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 10:55am.
No One is "Idealizing" Anything
Hamstrung, but good for a few things, Noam Chomsky says that the Israelis are making a prison of Palestine, or what's left of it. Palestine belongs to the Palestinians, ipso facto, and what they do there is an internal affair. You, or I, can't and shouldn't attempt to solve the problems of Palestine as that is their business; unless of course they have oil and then by all means! Although you are not coming out and saying it; what I am hearing is Israel good Palestinian/Arabs bad, all while claiming to eschew nationalism.
Perhaps I didn't state my facts clearly but Zionism is a late 19th Century construct and it evolved concomitantly with the cohesion of the last great nation-states in Europe: Germany and Italy; both of which became rabidly nationalistic and fascistic even to the point of inventing the latter term and both Hitler and Herzl were products of the Austria-Hungarian Empire and to a meaningful extent they were contemporaries both in witnessing the decline of one empire and the emergence of what would one day become terror states before these two men in turn and au fur et à mesure would go on to create their own.
You mentioned Gertrude Bell and her contribution to women's education in Iraq without mentioning that this "change agent" was a spy for the British and as much responsible for creating the internecine strife caused by the formation of Iraq by the British Empire as anyone else. Remember, the British only play for keeps. Great Britain was the nation that bled India white in the "Good War" to make the world "safe for democracy."
As I already mentioned, much of the structure of the umwelt in Islamic culture predates Islam itself. These laws date to the code of Hammurabi and perhaps even predate it going back to the Bronze Age and are the origin of many of the strict dictates of that culture. That is a lot of tradition to buck. With the collapse of communism these ancient laws have seen a resurgence as far away as Albania demonstrating the persistence of their influence. The Kanun as,it is called in Albania is thought to have Mesopotamian origins and shows stark similarities with Persian and Arabic honor codes and Albania's centrality in the Bronze Range suggests that is probably true.
I am reticent to quote rock stars, not that they are incapable of thinking but it is hard to structure a weltanschauung in a three minute pop song. Do you think that John Lennon was speaking only of the Islamic nations when he said, quite insightfully and significantly that: Women is the Nigger of the World ? It is disingenuous to point at another culture with glibness and cultural smugness in a condemnatory fashion. Look at the Western culture for example. Many cultural historians feel that the Judeo-Christian culture itself which is a cohesive element and ostensibly a cultural and moral imperative is actually a facultative agent for imperialism, war and aggrandizement: "Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy everything that belongs to them." It has been stated by some that Biblical texts promoting peace have been excerpted. I don't know about that but I do know, along with "smiting," at the very core of Christianity lies the central concept that someone has to die before things get better. What could be a better justification for war?
As far as assassination and ignorance being fine, as you state: "Just an example of why you cant idealize a people in the Islamic nations unless you think assassination and ignorance are fine", those things, assassination and ignorance, are two of our chief products and exports of the U.S. of A. Only around 23 per cent of U.S. citizens have a college degree and while high school drop out rates have improved they still run around eight per cent of the population; this is sadly a low education success rate for "the greatest nation in the world," as it is often touted. As far as assassinations go who needs to be reminded of JFK, MLK, RFK, and Malcolm X and that is to say nothing about the death squads that we engendered. So polished are we at this game that Henry Kissinger was able to oversee political disappearances in Argentina in Operación Cóndor and, perhaps, even rig the outcome of the 1978 World Cup between Argentina and Peru at the same time,now that is efficiency! It was through American intervention that Jacobo Timerman, editor of La Prensa a moderate Argentine daily, was arrested and tortured leading him to ask: "¿Qué es más justo un escuadrón de la muerte de la extrema derecha o un escuadrón de la muerte de ala izquierda:" we caused that. The CIA put a hit out on Charles Horman, a Harvard educated writer, because of what his saw in Viña del Mar, Chile vis a vis the American involvement in the coup d'état there. In El Salvador in 1980 four Maryknoll nuns were killed and raped by a U.S. trained escuadrón de la muerte but that is OK, right? Because everyone knows that right wing death squads are more just than left wing death squads! Or don't they? And, speaking of ignorance, have you taken a hard look at what passes for culture in Western countries? We have gladiatorial combative sports that are, probably, rigged though no one will admit it but the fact that they are in bed with organized crime through the last bastion of "sanctioned" illegal gambling it would take a stretch of the imagination to think that they were not; and it has been done before. And do I really need to bring up Lindsey Lohan, Kim Khardashian, Brittney Spears, US and People magazines and the whole gamut of veritable celebrity worship that goes on: do I really need to state that?
I have had Reading Lolita in Tehran in my library for quite some time now but I haven't gotten around to it. I have, currently, three or four thousand books in my library and it is, as you might imagine, a daunting challenge to read all of them but I am trying. I must say that I find your admonition to "begin" my education to be quite impertinent: " Have you read Reading Lolita in Tehran? A simple place to begin." Struck down by penury, I began my education as an autodidact. I have read and studied assiduously my whole life. When I was fortunate enough to matriculate and begin my formal education, I took full advantage of it. I often took two overloaded, red lined, full time loads and studied diligently and on graduating I have continued my studies vigorously. So to suggest to me that I "start" somewhere is really beyond the pale.
Peter ORourke on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 4:45pm.
Enough with the more-feminist-than-thou sanctimony
This started with your objecting to Roberts' characterization of Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. Then you try to change the subject (from what would be called ethnic cleansing were it taking placed anywhere else), by implying that opposition to and abhorrence of US-Israeli policy towards those societies amounts to ignoring the situation of Muslim women. That's the kind of stuff I expect to hear from Washington think-tanks! If your neightbor is abusing his wife, does that give you the right to go in, seize property, drive people out, and leave mayhem and grief in your wake? Would you have us believe that western imperialism in that region has had the slightest thing to do with concern for the women there?!!
Opposition to imperialism does not entail idealizing anybody.
rm on Thu, 02/14/2013 - 1:03am.
Enemies of the Constitution
Daniel Ellsberg: Obama, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Senators Voting for Indefinite Detention Are "Enemies of the Constitution"
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/daniel-ellsberg-obama-bush-cheney-rumsfeld-and-senators-voting-for-indefinite-deten...
Orangutan. on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 12:52pm.
But Obama is a "Constitutional Scholar"
Now how would I know that unless someone told me? That is the biggest lie since the Cherry Tree lie and like that "sapling" was planted by the state.
Traitors!
Enemies of the Constitution? By extension this infers that they are enemies of the State, and by definition traitors. What is the usual penalty for someone found guilty in a court of law, of the crime of treason? hmm....
Furthermore, elected officials, before taking office, take an oath which includes "protecting the Constitution of the United States". For example, the presidential oath of office reads: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." In 2005, when Bush/Cheney were inaugurated for a 2nd term, they both were aware that they had supported and signed legislation in the 2001-2005 time frame that violated sections of the Bill of Rights (which as of this minute is still a part of the US Constitution). Were they aware that more anti-Constitutional legislation was coming down the pipe that they would too support and sign? You bet. Did they swear to protect the US Constitution knowing full well they were going to vandalize it, and had already done so? You bet. A similar scenario is more than likely with ObamaCorp®.
To the crime of treason, a case of perjury could be added as well. Of course, are there any lawyers out there who are prepared to research and perhaps pursue such cases? Probably not, but a court case along these lines makes for a very satisfactory thought experiment, especially being aware that the potential penalties for treason are most severe, and perjury is no laughing matter either.
bloggulator on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 10:42pm.
bloggulator's question 'any lawyers?': PHILIPPE SANDS,
i would suggest, though he's british. after
uplifting exchange with a local town librarian, below, please read my guardian letter which follows. .:
" do you want this book mentioned below, 'torture team,' for library? i'll bring tomorrow just in case." l.
reply: "Absolutely. Thanks!"
no, d; thank YOU for your open mindedness re important issues." sincerely, l
"You're very welcome. Happy to be so…"
my Guardian LETTER:
"Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald chides our government for its hypocrisy after a state department official 'expressed concern' about what he called a 'climate of impunity' over abuses by police and security forces in Egypt.
('Italy's Ex-Intelligence Chief Given 10 year Sentence for Role in CIA Kidnapping.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/13/italy-cia-rendition-abu-omar)
Yes, the U.S. (des?)pot calls the kettle black! Further proof is in International lawyer/University College London Prof Philippe Sands' '08 book 'Torture Team: Rumsfelds' Memo and the Betrayal of American Values.' It builds a detailed legal case scenario for a potential International Criminal Court prosecution of former Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld and top Bush administration lawyers who tried to 'justify' the '18 interrogation techniques' used at Guantanamo and by extension, or, 'mission creep,' Abu Graib. Prof Sands discovered that top Joint Chiefs of Staff attorneys were purposely bypassed in this planning because they knew the latter would not approve due to its illegality, threat to our own future-captured service people and, simply, because, torture does not work.
Although the 'news' we got at the time implicated rogue underling types, the book finds those at the top most responsible and describes how inexperienced recruits at Guantanamo followed the 'creative' lead beamed into the island prison by Fox TV's popular program '24.' My shocked impression years ago when chancing upon this fear mongering show was that it was propaganda 'manufacturing consent' in American minds for torture.
Prof. Sands draws similarities with the Nuremberg trials, and conducted numerous interviews culminating with NATO country judge and prosecutor who indicated the 'techniques' did, in their estimation, comprise torture, and warranted prosecution by the ICC (International Criminal Court) if within a reasonable time the U.S./relevant countries do not themselves prosecute. The administration lawyers' behaviour, in their view, went beyond complicity.
It appears in this country the powerful are above the law, including the Constitution, which requires abiding by U.S. signed treaties/ international agreements such as the Geneva Accords, & Torture Conventions, (in which formation the U.S. played the moral, guiding force.)
Extremely relevant, and even worse in description of more recent torture committed by this country is the following article by most diligent researcher/former Underwriters Lab chemist/whistleblower Kevin Ryan: http://911blogger.com/news/2013-02-10/forgetting-torture-lee-hamilton-john-brennan-and-abu-zubaydah#comments
"The pervasive news surrounding the confirmation hearing of John Brennan, Obama's nominee for CIA director, is paralleled by another, related story that has been largely ignored by the U.S. media. That is the story of the man called Abu Zubaydah, whose alleged torture testimony, obtained by the CIA while Brennan was the head of the agency's Terrorist Threat Center, built the foundation for the official account of 9/11. Zubaydah is at the center of an unraveling of the official account of the 9/11 attacks.[1] His extensive torture at the hands of the CIA during Brennan's tenure, which included at least 83 water-boarding sessions, hanging the man naked from the ceiling, slamming him against a concrete wall, and other atrocious experimental techniques, was said to produce valuable evidence about al Qaeda. However, the government now claims that Zubaydah was never a member or associate of al Qaeda and therefore he could not have known any of the information that the 9/11 Commission attributed to him….. In 2009, it was revealed that when Brennan was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, in 2005, the CIA had destroyed the torture tapes, most of which featured Zubaydah."
A climate of impunity, indeed.
thymesup on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 1:31pm.


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Rogue Wave C++ Standard Library Reference Guide

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Module:  Standard C++ Library   Library:  Containers

Does not inherit

Local Index

Summary

Synopsis

Description

Interface

Constructors

Destructors

Assignment Operators

Allocators

Iterators

Member Functions

Nonmember Operators

Specialized Algorithms

Example

Warnings

See Also

Standards Conformance

Local Index

Members

assign()

back()

begin()

clear()

empty()

end()

erase()

front()

get_allocator()

insert()

list()

max_size()

merge()

operator=()

pop_back()

pop_front()

push_back()

push_front()

rbegin()

remove()

remove_if()

rend()

resize()

reverse()

size()

sort()

splice()

swap()

unique()

~list()

Non-Members

operator!=()

operator>()

operator>=()

operator<()

operator<=()

operator==()

Summary

A sequence that supports bidirectional iterators

Synopsis

#include <list>

namespace std {
  template <class T, class Allocator = allocator<T> >
  class list;
}

Description

list is a type of sequence that supports bidirectional iterators. A list allows constant time insert and erase operations anywhere within the sequence, with storage management handled automatically. Constant time random access is not supported.

Any type used for the template parameter <SAMP>T</SAMP> must include the following members. Here <SAMP>T</SAMP> is the type, <SAMP>t</SAMP> is a <SAMP>value</SAMP> of <SAMP>T</SAMP> and <SAMP>u</SAMP> is a <SAMP>const</SAMP> <SAMP>value</SAMP> of <SAMP>T</SAMP>.

Copy constructors

<SAMP>T(t)</SAMP> and <SAMP>T(u)</SAMP>

Destructor

<SAMP>t.~T()</SAMP>

Address of

<SAMP>&t</SAMP> and <SAMP>&u</SAMP> yielding <SAMP>T*</SAMP> and <SAMP>const T*</SAMP> respectively

Assignment

<SAMP>t = a</SAMP> where <SAMP>a</SAMP> is a (possibly <SAMP>const</SAMP>) value of <SAMP>T</SAMP>

Interface

namespace std {

  template <class T, class Allocator = allocator<T> >
  class list {

    public:

      // typedefs
      class iterator;
      class const_iterator;
      typedef typename
           Allocator::reference reference;
      typedef typename
           Allocator::const_reference const_reference;
      typedef typename
           Allocator::size_type size_type;
      typedef typename
           Allocator::difference_type difference_type;
      typedef T value_type;
      typedef typename
           Allocator::pointer pointer;
      typedef typename
           Allocator::const_pointer const_pointer;
      typedef Allocator allocator_type;

      typedef typename std::reverse_iterator<iterator>
                         reverse_iterator;
      typedef typename std::reverse_iterator<const_iterator>
                         const_reverse_iterator;

      // Construct/Copy/Destroy

      explicit list (const Allocator& = Allocator());
      explicit list (size_type);
      list(size_type, const T&, const Allocator& =
         Allocator())
      template <class InputIterator>
      list(InputIterator, InputIterator,
           const Allocator& = Allocator());
      list(const list<T, Allocator>& x);
      ~list();
      list<T,Allocator>& operator= (const list<T,Allocator>&);
      template <class InputIterator>
      void assign (InputIterator, InputIterator);
      void assign (size_type n, const T&);

      allocator_type get allocator () const;

     // Iterators

     iterator begin ();
     const_iterator begin () const;
     iterator end ();
     const_iterator end () const;
     reverse_iterator rbegin ();
     const_reverse_iterator rbegin () const;
     reverse_iterator rend ();
     const_reverse_iterator rend () const;

     // Capacity

     bool empty () const;
     size_type size () const;
     size_type max_size () const;
     void resize (size_type, T);

     // Element Access

     reference front ();
     const_reference front () const;
     reference back ();
     const_reference back () const;

     // Modifiers

     void push_front (const T&);
     void pop_front ();
     void push_back (const T&);
     void pop_back ();

     iterator insert (iterator, const T&);
     void insert (iterator, size_type, const T&);
     template <class InputIterator>
     void insert (iterator, InputIterator, InputIterator);

     iterator erase (iterator);
     iterator erase (iterator, iterator);

     void swap (list<T, Allocator>&);
     void clear ();

     // Special mutative operations on list

     void splice (iterator, list<T, Allocator>&);
     void splice (iterator, list<T, Allocator>&, iterator);
     void splice (iterator, list<T, Allocator>&, iterator,
                  iterator);

     void remove (const T&);
     template <class Predicate>
     void remove_if (Predicate);

     void unique ();
     template <class BinaryPredicate>
     void unique (BinaryPredicate);

     void merge (list<T, Allocator>&);
     template <class Compare>
     void merge (list<T, Allocator>&, Compare);

     void sort ();
     template <class Compare>
     void sort (Compare);

     void reverse();
  };

  // Nonmember List Operators

  template <class T, class Allocator>
  bool operator==(const list<T, Allocator>&,
                  const list<T, Allocator>&);

  template <class T, class Allocator>
  bool operator!=(const list<T, Allocator>&,
                  const list<T, Allocator>&);

  template <class T, class Allocator>
  bool operator<(const list<T, Allocator>&,
                 const list<T, Allocator>&);

  template <class T, class Allocator>
  bool operator>(const list<T, Allocator>&,
                 const list<T, Allocator>&);

  template <class T, class Allocator>
  bool operator<=(const list<T, Allocator>&,
                  const list<T, Allocator>&);

  template <class T, class Allocator>
  bool operator>=(const list<T, Allocator>&,
                 const list<T, Allocator>&);

  // Specialized Algorithms

  template <class T, class Allocator>
  void swap(list<T,Allocator>&, list<T, Allocator>&);
}

Constructors

explicit list(const Allocator& alloc = Allocator());

Creates a list of zero elements. The list uses the allocator <SAMP>alloc</SAMP> for all storage management.

explicit list(size_type n);

Creates a list of length <SAMP>n</SAMP>, containing <SAMP>n</SAMP> copies of the default value for type <SAMP>T</SAMP>. <SAMP>T</SAMP> must have a default constructor. The list uses the allocator <SAMP>Allocator()</SAMP> for all storage management.

list(size_type n, const T& value,
      const Allocator& alloc = Allocator());

Creates a list of length <SAMP>n</SAMP>, containing <SAMP>n</SAMP> copies of <SAMP>value</SAMP>. The list uses the allocator <SAMP>alloc</SAMP> for all storage management.

template <class InputIterator>
list(InputIterator start, InputIterator finish,
      const Allocator& alloc = Allocator());

Creates a list of length <SAMP>finish - start</SAMP>, filled with all values obtained by dereferencing the <SAMP>InputIterators</SAMP> on the range<SAMP> [start, finish)</SAMP>. The list uses the allocator <SAMP>alloc</SAMP> for all storage management.

list(const list<T, Allocator>& x);

Creates a copy of <SAMP>x</SAMP>.

Destructors

~list();

Releases any allocated memory for this list.

Assignment Operators

list<T, Allocator>&
operator=(const list<T, Allocator>& x)

Erases all elements in self, then inserts into self a copy of each element in <SAMP>x</SAMP>. Returns a reference to <SAMP>*this</SAMP>.

Allocators

allocator_type
get_allocator() const;

Returns a copy of the allocator used by self for storage management.

Iterators

iterator
begin();

Returns a bidirectional iterator that points to the first element.

const_iterator
begin() const;

Returns a constant bidirectional iterator that points to the first element.

iterator
end();

Returns a bidirectional iterator that points to the past-the-end value.

const_iterator
end() const;

Returns a constant bidirectional iterator that points to the past-the-end value.

reverse_iterator
rbegin();

Returns a bidirectional iterator that points to the past-the-end value.

const_reverse_iterator
rbegin() const;

Returns a constant bidirectional iterator that points to the past-the-end value.

reverse_iterator
rend();

Returns a bidirectional iterator that points to the first element.

const_reverse_iterator
rend() const;

Returns a constant bidirectional iterator that points to the first element.

Member Functions

template <class InputIterator>
void
assign(InputIterator start, InputIterator finish);

If InputIterator is an integral type, the function calls <SAMP>assign(size_type(start), value_type (finish))</SAMP>. Otherwise, the function replaces elements in <SAMP>*this</SAMP> with copies of those in the range <SAMP>[start, finish)</SAMP>. The function invalidates all iterators and references to elements in <SAMP>*this</SAMP>.

void
assign(size_type n, const T& t);

Replaces elements in <SAMP>*this</SAMP> with <SAMP>n</SAMP> copies of <SAMP>t</SAMP>. The function invalidates all iterators and references to elements in <SAMP>*this</SAMP>.

reference
back();

Returns a <SAMP>reference</SAMP> to the last element.

const_reference
back() const;

Returns a constant reference to the last element.

void
clear();

Erases all elements from the list.

bool
empty() const;

Returns <SAMP>true</SAMP> if the <SAMP>size</SAMP> is zero.

iterator
erase(iterator position);

Removes the element pointed to by <SAMP>position</SAMP>. Returns an iterator pointing to the element following the deleted element, or <SAMP>end()</SAMP> if the deleted item was the last one in this list.

iterator
erase(iterator start, iterator finish);

Removes the elements in the range <SAMP>[start, finish)</SAMP>. Returns an iterator pointing to the element following the element following the last deleted element, or <SAMP>end()</SAMP> if there were no elements after the deleted range.

reference
front();

Returns a reference to the first element.

const_reference
front() const;

Returns a constant reference to the first element.

iterator
insert(iterator position, const T& x);

Inserts <SAMP>x</SAMP> before <SAMP>position</SAMP>. Returns an iterator that points to the inserted <SAMP>x</SAMP>.

void
insert(iterator position, size_type n, const T& x);

Inserts <SAMP>n</SAMP> copies of <SAMP>x</SAMP> before <SAMP>position</SAMP>.

template <class InputIterator>
void
insert(iterator position, InputIterator start,
        InputIterator finish);

Inserts copies of the elements in the range <SAMP>[start, finish)</SAMP> before <SAMP>position</SAMP>.

size_type
max_size() const;

Returns<SAMP> size()</SAMP> of the largest possible list.

void
merge(list<T, Allocator>& x);

Merges a sorted <SAMP>x</SAMP> with a sorted self using <SAMP>operator<</SAMP>. For equal elements in the two lists, elements from self always precede the elements from <SAMP>x</SAMP>. The <SAMP>merge</SAMP> function leaves <SAMP>x</SAMP> empty.

template <class Compare>
void
merge(list<T, Allocator>& x, Compare comp);

Merges a sorted <SAMP>x</SAMP> with sorted self using a compare function object, <SAMP>comp</SAMP>. For identical elements in the two lists, elements from self always precede the elements from <SAMP>x</SAMP>. The <SAMP>merge</SAMP> function leaves <SAMP>x</SAMP> empty.

void
pop_back();

Removes the last element.

void
pop_front();

Removes the first element.

void
push_back(const T& x);

Appends a copy of <SAMP>x</SAMP> to the end of the list.

void
push_front(const T& x);

Appends a copy of <SAMP>x</SAMP> to the front of the list.

void
remove(const T& value);
template <class Predicate>
void
remove_if(Predicate pred);

Removes all elements in the list referenced by the list iterator <SAMP>i</SAMP> for which <SAMP>*i == value </SAMP>or<SAMP> pred(*i) == true</SAMP>, whichever is applicable. This is a stable operation. The relative order of list items that are not removed is preserved.

void
resize(size_type sz, T c);

Alters the size of self. If the new size ( <SAMP>sz</SAMP> ) is greater than the current size, <SAMP>sz </SAMP>- <SAMP>size() c</SAMP>'s are inserted at the end of the list. If the new size is smaller than the current capacity, then the list is truncated by erasing <SAMP>size() - sz</SAMP> elements off the end. Otherwise, no action is taken.

void
reverse();

Reverses the order of the elements.

size_type
size() const;

Returns the number of elements.

void
sort();

Sorts self according to the <SAMP>operator<</SAMP>. <SAMP>sort</SAMP> maintains the relative order of equal elements.

template <class Compare>
void
sort(Compare comp);

Sorts self according to a comparison function object, <SAMP>comp</SAMP>. This is also a stable sort.

void
splice(iterator position, list<T, Allocator>& x);

Inserts <SAMP>x </SAMP>before <SAMP>position</SAMP>, leaving <SAMP>x </SAMP>empty.

void
splice(iterator position, list<T, Allocator>& x,
        iterator i);

Moves the elements pointed to by iterator <SAMP>i</SAMP> in <SAMP>x</SAMP> to self, inserting it before <SAMP>position</SAMP>. The element is removed from <SAMP>x</SAMP>.

void
splice(iterator position, list<T, Allocator >& x,
        iterator start, iterator finish);

Moves the elements in the range <SAMP>[start, finish)</SAMP> in <SAMP>x</SAMP> to self, inserting them before <SAMP>position</SAMP>. The elements in the range <SAMP>[start, finish)</SAMP> are removed from <SAMP>x</SAMP>.

void
swap(list <T, Allocator>& x);

Exchanges self with <SAMP>x</SAMP>.

void
unique();

Erases copies of consecutive repeated elements leaving the first occurrence.

template <class BinaryPredicate>
void
unique(BinaryPredicate binary_pred);

Erases consecutive elements matching a <SAMP>true</SAMP> condition of the <SAMP>binary_pred</SAMP>. The first occurrence is not removed.

Nonmember Operators

template <class T, class Allocator>
bool operator==(const list<T, Allocator>& x,
                 const list<T, Allocator>& y);

Returns <SAMP>true</SAMP> if <SAMP>x</SAMP> is the same as <SAMP>y</SAMP>.

template <class T, class Allocator>
bool operator!=(const list<T, Allocator>& x,
                 const list<T, Allocator>& y);

Returns !<SAMP>(x==y)</SAMP>.

template <class T, class Allocator>
bool operator<(const list<T, Allocator>& x,
                const list<T,Allocator>& y);

Returns <SAMP>true</SAMP> if the sequence defined by the elements contained in <SAMP>x</SAMP> is lexicographically less than the sequence defined by the elements contained in <SAMP>y</SAMP>.

template <class T, class Allocator>
bool operator>(const list<T, Allocator>& x,
                const list<T,Allocator>& y);

Returns <SAMP>y < x</SAMP>.

template <class T, class Allocator>
bool operator<=(const list<T, Allocator>& x,
                const list<T,Allocator>& y);

Returns !<SAMP>(y < x)</SAMP>.

template <class T, class Allocator>
bool operator>=(const list<T, Allocator>& x,
                const list<T,Allocator>& y);

Returns !<SAMP>(x < y)</SAMP>.

Specialized Algorithms

template <class T, class Allocator>
void swap(list<T, Allocator>& a, list<T, Allocator>& b);

 Swaps the contents of <SAMP>a</SAMP> and <SAMP>b</SAMP>.

Example

//
//  list.cpp
//

#include <algorithm>   // for find
#include <list>        // for list
#include <string>      // for string
#include <iostream>    // for cout, endl

// Print out a list of strings.
inline std::ostream&
operator<< (std::ostream &out,
            const std::list<std::string,
            std::allocator<std::string> > &l)
{
    typedef std::ostream_iterator<std::string, char,
                                  std::char_traits<char> >
        ositer;

    std::copy (l.begin (), l.end (), ositer (out," "));

    return out;
}

int main ()
{
    typedef std::list<std::string,
                      std::allocator<std::string> > List;

    // Create a list of critters.
    List critters;

    // Insert several critters.
    critters.insert (critters.begin (), "antelope");
    critters.insert (critters.begin (), "bear");
    critters.insert (critters.begin (), "cat");

    // Print out the list.
    std::cout << critters << std::endl;

    // Change cat to cougar.
    *std::find (critters.begin (),critters.end (), "cat")
              = "cougar";
    std::cout << critters << std::endl;

    // Put a zebra at the beginning, an ocelot ahead of
    // antelope, and a rat at the end.
    critters.push_front ("zebra");
    critters.insert (std::find (critters.begin (),
                                critters.end (),
                                "antelope"), "ocelot");
    critters.push_back ("rat");
    std::cout << critters << std::endl;

    // Sort the list (Use list's sort function since the
    // generic algorithm requires a random access iterator
    // and list only provides bidirectional)
    critters.sort ();
    std::cout << critters << std::endl;

    // Now let's erase half of the critters.
    List::size_type half = critters.size () / 2;
    for (List::size_type i = 0; i != half; ++i)
        critters.erase (critters.begin ());

    std::cout << critters << std::endl;

    return 0;
}

Program Output:

cat bear antelope
cougar bear antelope
zebra cougar bear ocelot antelope rat
antelope bear cougar ocelot rat zebra
ocelot rat zebra

Warnings

Member function templates are used in all of the containers included in the Standard Template Library. For example, the constructor for list takes two templatized iterators:

template <class InputIterator>
list (InputIterator, InputIterator,
      const Allocator& = Allocator());

list also has an <SAMP>insert()</SAMP> function of this type. These functions, when not restricted by compiler limitations, allow you to use any type of input iterator as arguments. For compilers that do not support this feature, substitute functions allow you to use an iterator obtained from the same type of container as the one you are constructing (or calling a member function on), or you can use a pointer to the type of element you have in the container.

For example, if your compiler does not support member function templates, you can construct a list in the following two ways:

int intarray[10];
list<int> first_list(intarray,intarray + 10);
list<int> second_list(first_list.begin(),first_list.end());

You cannot construct a list this way:

list<long> long_list(first_list.begin(),first_list.end());

since the <SAMP>long_list</SAMP> and <SAMP>first_list</SAMP> are not the same type.

Additionally, list includes a <SAMP>merge()</SAMP> function of this type.

template <class Compare> void merge (list<T, Allocator>&,
  Compare);

This function allows you to specify a compare function object to be used in merging two lists. In this case, a substitute function is not included with the merge that uses the <SAMP>operator<</SAMP> as the default. Thus, if your compiler does not support member function templates, all list merges use <SAMP>operator<</SAMP>.

See Also

allocator, Containers, Iterators

Standards Conformance

ISO/IEC 14882:1998 -- International Standard for Information Systems -- Programming Language C++, Section 23.2.2

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Benjamin Moore Reveals the 2021 Color of the Year, and Other News
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Aegean Teal, Benjamin Moore's 2021 Color of the Year …
The Design Dispatch offers expertly written and essential news from the design world crafted by our dedicated team. Think of it as your cheat sheet for the day in design delivered to your inbox before you've had your coffee. Subscribe now.
Benjamin Moore selects the soothing Aegean Teal as its 2021 Color of the Year.
The painting experts at Benjamin Moore have selected Aegean Teal—a calming yet adaptable color awash in blue-green hues—as its 2021 Color of the Year. "We were gravitating towards colors that had this organic, natural, rooted sensibility," Andrea Magno, the brand's director of color marketing and development, tells AD. When her team was initially brainstorming the ideal shade back in December, they sought a color rooted in everyday, domestic pleasures—conversations that had prescient insight into the quarantine brought about by the coronavirus pandemic just a few months later. The color is part of a dozen shades that make up Benjamin Moore's Color Trends 2021 palette, which Magno describes as having a "sunbaked quality—it's almost like you left them out in the sun and they ripened."
To recoup losses, Singapore Airlines is converting its planes into pop-up restaurants.
Singapore Airlines has been getting creative with ways to recoup losses after experiencing a staggering 99.5 percent decline in passenger traffic due to the coronavirus. The cash-strapped company is converting two of its aircrafts into pop-up restaurants for two weekends in October and November, with promising results: all tables were completely booked within half an hour. Though asking customers to pay a premium for airplane food might sound questionable during a global depression, Singapore Airlines has been known to treat its passengers to award-winning meals devised by world-class chefs.
In New York, a newly unveiled nude public statue of Medusa has sparked fierce debate.
Despite preceding modernity by thousands of years, Medusa's fate as a woman who was blamed and chastised for being assaulted has unfortunately proved timeless. A recently unveiled seven-foot-tall bronze sculpture that sits outside the New York Criminal Court in Lower Manhattan, Medusa With The Head of Perseus by the Italian artist Luciano Garbati (a twist on Benvenuto Cellini's 16th-century work Perseus with the Head of Medusa), seeks to remagine her myth for the #MeToo era.
The statue, organized by the artist-led MWTH Project in partnership with NYC Parks, isn't without its detractors: some have taken issue with how the sculpture sits near the site of several high-profile abuse cases (including the Harvey Weinstein trials), how a man spearheaded the project, how it inaccurately portrays Medusa's body, and how the sculpted head of Perseus bears an uncanny resemblance to Garbati's own face. The art critic Jerry Saltz, writing for Curbed, dismisses the work as "typical of the kind of misguided bureaucracies and good managerial intentions that often result in such mediocrities." The sculpture will remain on view until April 30, 2021.
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An ultra-rare purple-pink diamond may soon fetch $38 million at auction.
Do Ho Suh suspends two fabric homes from an atrium in Seoul's airport.
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The Pilot Auction Facility for Methane and Climate Change Mitigation (PAF) provides support to businesses that invest in climate friendly projects. The first pilot auction was held online on July 15, 2015, auctioning off price guarantees, or put options, targeting methane reducing projects.
By providing a floor price for captured methane, the PAF offers private investors a financial incentive to fund carbon capture. Using an auction maximizes the impact of public funds dedicated to slowing climate change.
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The financing gap is particularly severe for climate change mitigation and adaptation technologies for a number of reasons. Not only is the market for these technologies still at a very early stage of development but it is also driven by regulation. Both of these factors represent significant risks for investors. In addition, low carbon technologies tend to be more capital-intensive and require much more start-up financing than other typical VC investment sectors like information technology. The funding gap is particularly deep in the developing world, which presents a riskier business environment and a more fragmented market for investors.
Several VC-style climate-change funds have recently been launched. The Carbon Trust, established by the British government, already invests in clean-technology firms based in the UK. In partnership with the Qatar Investment Authority, the Carbon Trust plans to set up a £250 million fund called the Qatar-UK Clean Technology Investment Fund, to be supported by both governments. The fund will primarily invest in the UK, but also to some extent in continental Europe and the Gulf Region. This will be the first major publicly-supported climate change VC fund of its size involving more than one country.
I had heard that the world spent less on energy R&D than on pet food, so I decided to check. Actually, it's worse than that.
Worldwide energy R&D spending in 2007 was about $12 billion according to IEA statistics that we are reporting in the upcoming World Development Report. I could not find what the world spends on pet food - so I looked up what happens in the US. In 2005, Americans spent $34 billion on pet products, 41 percent (or $14 billion) of which was on food and treats.
Technology Transfer in the Climate Context: Who is responsible?
The two great challenges of the 21st century are the battle against poverty and the management of climate change. On both we must act strongly now and expect to continue that action over the coming decades. Our response to climate change and poverty reduction will define our generation. If we fail on either one of them, we will fail on the other. The current crisis in the financial markets and the economic downturn is new and immediate, although some years in the making. All three challenges require urgent and decisive action, and all three can be overcome together through determined and concerted efforts across the world. But whilst recognising that we must respond, and respond strongly, to all three challenges, we should also recognise the opportunities: a well-constructed response to one can provide great direct advantages and opportunities for the other.
Some readers and activists may question why the World Bank Group funds coal-fired power plants and yet professes to embrace sustainable development. The answer is that there is an urgent need for energy in the poor countries that we serve and indeed in my home country, China. There are roughly 1.6 billion people in developing countries--700 million of whom are in Africa and 550 million in South Asia--who lack access to electricity.