The history. The pageantry. The walk through Gasoline Alley. The feeling of racing on a narrow path surrounded by fans.

Those are some of the great memories of those who have competed at Indianapolis. If they haven't experienced it themselves, Formula One and NASCAR drivers have watched enough on television or talked to their fellow racers to know just how big a deal the Indianapolis 500 is.

For Formula One and NASCAR drivers, some dreamed of racing at Indy growing up and others watched but have no interest. Tony Stewart, Danica Patrick, Kurt Busch and AJ Allmendinger are the current NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers who have competed at Indianapolis, and they have great memories of being part of the history of the first 99 Indianapolis 500s.

Here's what some NASCAR and F1 drivers had to say about Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the 100th running of the Indy 500:

AJ Allmendinger, Sprint Cup driver and IndyCar race winner: "When I took the lead there [in 2013], I never had that feeling before. It was almost like an out-of-body experience. I was shaking for five laps in the car, 'Holy crap, AJ, you've got 100 to go, regain your focus.' It was almost like I was watching myself leading the race. ... Everything went quiet. That was probably the coolest moment as it is happening. It's the Indy 500. I was very fortunate to be driving for Roger Penske. It's pretty cool to think about 100 years. Just as a racing fan, it's pretty special to know that there's been a race going on 100 years like that. I'll watch the start Sunday. I won't lie, there will be a part of me that it would have been pretty cool [to race it] but I know my heart wouldn't be completely there [after driver Justin Wilson's death last year at Pocono]."

Fernando Alonso, Formula One champion: "I would like to race there one day but it is not close so I am not thinking about it too much. After F1, if I want to keep racing it will be Le Mans, not Indy. That would be my first step and I don't know how motivated I will be at that age [once he's done Le Mans]."

Ryan Blaney, Sprint Cup driver: "I always followed it just because I thought it was neat. Growing up I was a fan of all racing, whether it's NASCAR, IndyCar, Australian V8 stuff, F1, I liked it all. Definitely now since I've been with Penske, you watch the IndyCar stuff more just because you know those guys -- Will [Power] and Helio [Castroneves] and Juan [Pablo Montoya] and Simon [Pagenaud] -- you support them more just because they're friends of yours and you like to see that team succeed also. ... Mr. Penske is driving the pace car, which is really, really neat, and that would be a heck of a way to cap that off -- with a guy who has won there more than anybody, and to be able to do the 100th would be really neat. It's a shame I can't go to it, but I'll definitely be watching on TV."

Kurt Busch, Sprint Cup champion and Indy 500 participant: "It's very special to have a centennial anniversary around anything, and to have run the race a couple years ago, it gives me the fire and the desire to go and do it again. It's something special to be said about 100 years, and each and every year 33 drivers get to start the race, and you're in an elite fraternity of specific racing royalty that's been able to compete in the Indianapolis 500. To start and to drive down into turn one three-wide with 32 of your closest friends, it's an amazing feeling."

Kurt Busch has run in one Indy 500, finishing sixth in 2014. Michael Hickey/Getty Images

Kyle Busch, Sprint Cup champion: "I was never much of an IndyCar guy. I always watched it, enjoyed watching it but never thought I would be an IndyCar racer. I'm going to be excited to watch it. I think it is going to be neat. The 100th of anything is obviously pretty cool that it's been around that long. Maybe one day I can have my own shot at it."

Jenson Button, Formula One driver: "It is a very special event and been around for 100 years. It is an event still loved by millions and some unbelievable talent across the pond, but it is not something I would look at doing after F1. There are still some areas of motorsport which still need to be improved in terms of safety and hopefully that is being looked at so the motorsport can continue for many more years, safely, hopefully."

Carl Edwards, Sprint Cup driver: "I think anybody who has any interest in auto racing watches the Indy 500. I assume that because I always did and all the people around me we watched the Indy 500. ... That race is very similar to the Daytona 500, it's a historic event and whatever happens is important there. It's neat to watch for me as a driver, it's neat to watch because all of the pressure is so much that rides on that race it's neat to watch how everyone responds to it and how they compete. With Kurt [Busch] being in it that was cool to watch. That was neat and that was probably the most fun I've had watching it in a while."

Jeff Gordon, Sprint Cup champion: "It takes me back to my childhood because that is the form of racing that I was brought up around and was viewing. It reminds me of the time I got Rick Mears' autograph at Indy. It also reminds me of the fact that there was nothing, no opportunities there for me to go race the Indy 500 but yet there was in NASCAR. There is a little bit there, if I had probably anything on my checklist that I would have liked to have accomplished, it would have been the Indy 500. Yet [winning] the Brickyard 400 five times is something that luckily made up for that little bit of a loss."

Romain Grosjean, Formula One driver: "I think it's very tricky. It's very specific. At the minute, I love watching it but I'm not very much attracted by driving an oval. Maybe I should try to change my mind. Right now I quite like braking and turning right and left and right now that's not really happening on ovals! I love watching the race but I have never been attracted to it. The Le Mans 24 Hours, yes, the Monte Carlo Rally, yes ... the problem is [I enjoy] turning right!"

Lewis Hamilton, Formula One champion: "Funnily enough I was looking at Nigel Mansell's car from 1993 and at that time it would have been cool and perhaps I would have wanted to do it, but I don't have any desire now. The cars aren't as exciting as they once were, so it is not on my radar or goals list. I'd rather just do a NASCAR race. I like street circuits.

Brad Keselowski, Sprint Cup champion: "It's a big race. It's hard to put it in perspective. A hundred years is a long, long time for anything. The race has almost existed as long as cars have. That's saying something."

Danica Patrick, Sprint Cup driver and IndyCar race winner: "From a fan's standpoint, you feel the energy there because there are so many people and there's so many people because there is so much history and there is a culture around it. You're not only just celebrating, you're celebrating history, you're celebrating the greatest drivers, you're celebrating the biggest race of the year, you're celebrating because it's Memorial Day, you're celebrating because it's a pretty damn good party."

Sergio Perez, Formula One driver: "Obviously Indy is a very big race -- one of the biggest ones in the history of our sport. I would definitely be interested in trying the Indy 500 but I think if you want to do it properly and challenge for the victory you have to do a lot of testing. Ovals are very different to what we are doing in Formula One. It takes some time, when I talk to drivers in ovals, but it's something really exciting and something probably one day I will do."

Tony Stewart, Sprint Cup and IndyCar champion: "When you grow up 45 minutes from Indy, there is nothing that compares to [that track]. That is sacred ground to me. It always has been, always will be."

Leonard Wood, NASCAR team owner and Indy 500 pit-stop pioneer: "I've always been fascinated with the Indy 500. ... It's just a special place in our heart. It's always exciting. There's a lot of energy before the race, excitement buildup."


Q:

how to do long view in interface bulider?

i want to develop 320 * 800 view .in that view lot of button,textviews are there.
but i know how to do it dynamically with scrollview.but any tutorial to do it through
Interface Builder?

A:

The first thing you have to do is to drag your view object (from the library) into the collection of objects on the XIB window (where files owner and such is).  You main window is locked at a give size but supplemental views (not shown on the primary window) can be any size and controlled as the Answer 1 indicates.
At run time, you will have to associate the scroll view/supplemental views.


KPD identifies victim in fatal shooting

Knoxville Police are still investigating a fatal shooting that killed an 18-year-old Knoxville man.

According to investigators, officers were responded to a shooting call at 310 Bell Street early Wednesday morning. They found Deshawn Dupree King, 18, of Knoxville, dead of gunshot wounds in a Ford Explorer.

The two suspects were described as black males dressed in all black. They fled in an unknown direction after the shooting.

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Knoxville Police say a man died following a shooting on the 300 block of Bell Street in east Knoxville.

According to a KPD press release, the shooting happened around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday morning.


Third International Symposium on Myelodysplastic Syndromes in Childhood.
This article summarizes presentations from the Third International Symposium on Myelodysplastic Syndromes in Childhood, April 27-29, 2003, in Stresa, Italy. Topics included epidemiology, pathology, cytogenetics, molecular biology, pathophysiology, and treatment. Dr. Susanna Fenu was the Meeting Chair.


141 Conn. 247 (1954)
FRANK AMATO
v.
STEPHEN CAMPANO ET AL.
Supreme Court of Connecticut.
Argued March 2, 1954.
Decided May 5, 1954.
INGLIS, C. J., BALDWIN, O'SULLIVAN, WYNNE and DALY, JS.
Nelson Harris, for the plaintiff in error.
No appearance for the defendants in error.
WYNNE, J.
This is a writ of error brought to this court from the City Court of New Haven. The defendants in error, hereinafter referred to as the *248 landlords, are brothers and sisters, five in number. They own, by virtue of a certificate of distribution, the real estate known as 256-258 Wallace Street in New Haven. The premises consist of a store on the first floor and two apartments on the second floor. One of these apartments has been occupied for many years by the plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the tenant, on a month-to-month tenancy that started before the landlords became the owners. The established rent for the apartment is $22.50 a month. A summary process action was started against the tenant by writ and complaint dated March 17, 1953, and made returnable to the City Court of New Haven on the 14th day of April, 1953. The process was signed by John M. Chapnick. It was not signed in terms by him as a commissioner of the Superior Court but as the attorney for the plaintiffs. The landlords had applied to the office of rent stabilization in New Haven for a certificate relating to eviction on the ground that one of them, Stephen Campano, sought to occupy the premises himself. The certificate was duly issued, a notice to quit was served, and the summary process action was brought. The City Court of New Haven, after a trial, found the issues for the landlords and entered judgment that they recover immediate possession of the premises. The tenant filed a bill of exceptions, incorporating therein his claims of law.
This writ is brought under § 8015 of the General Statutes. We are concerned only with errors in matters of law. The bill of exceptions, which was allowed, serves the function of a finding on appeal. Kovner v. Dubin, 104 Conn. 112, 117, 132 A. 473. The questions which are raised by the tenant are: (1) Was the purported notice to quit which was served on him a duplicate of the one produced *249 in court? (2) When it appeared that there were five owners of the property, was a notice that was subscribed in the name of one owner only, followed by the words "and others," a compliance with the statute relating to summary process? (3) Was it error for the City Court not to dismiss the action of summary process when it was called to the court's attention that the writ did not show on its face that the person signing it was a commissioner of the Superior Court?
The trial court's conclusions as to the notice to quit is that it complied with the statute. General Statutes § 8274. There was a slight discrepancy between the notice produced in court and the duplicate. The one served on the tenant lacked the words "His Attorney" after the signature "John M. Chapnick." It also lacked further information as to Chapnick's identity and office address which appeared on the notice produced in court. Otherwise the notices are identical. The words appearing on the notice produced in court and not on the one served on the tenant are at most mere surplusage, and the circumstantial discrepancy cannot be held to violate the statute, which requires that the notice served should be a duplicate copy. Webb v. Ambler, 125 Conn. 543, 552, 7 A.2d 228. In substance and tenor it was. Nor can we hold that the fact that the notice was not signed by all the owners has any significance. It was signed by Chapnick as attorney and indicated that he signed for all. It was sufficient under the statute. The case of Lorch v. Page, 97 Conn. 66, 115 A. 681, is distinguishable. There the notice purported to be a true and attested copy, presumably made by an officer or indifferent person. It was pointed out that this was not a compliance with the statute, which required a duplicate copy. In the case at bar, the notice *250 served on the tenant was, in its essentials, a duplicate, properly signed and served, of the notice produced in court. See Molzon v. Carroll, 91 Conn. 642, 645, 100 A. 1057.
As to the final claim that the court erred in failing to dismiss the action because the writ did not appear to be signed by Mr. Chapnick in the capacity of commissioner of the Superior Court, we consider that the question is before us because it was made a part of the bill of exceptions. While it is true that a summary process writ has to be signed by a commissioner of the Superior Court, it was in fact so signed in this case. All attorneys are commissioners. The appended description of his capacity as attorney did not divest Chapnick of his authority. Had there been a technical deviation from the mandate of the statute, the proper remedy would have been a plea in abatement. The judgment of the lower court was predicated upon the submission of the cause to the jurisdiction of the court. When the defendant (plaintiff in error) appeared generally, he waived whatever defect there had been in the issuance of the writ.
There is no error.
In this opinion the other judges concurred.


About Silver

Sterling Silver is a precious metal, used for jewelry because it combines strength, durability and a natural white color. As with gold, U.S. laws and Federal Trade Commission guidelines govern the way silver must be described, according to its "fineness", the amount of pure silver it contains. An item that is "sterling silver" contains at least 92.5% pure silver. At Fortunoff, the majority of silver jewelry we carry is sterling silver.

Since high-purity sterling silver has a tendency to tarnish, various techniques are employed to inhibit tarnishing. Manufacturers often coat the silver with another white metal, such as rhodium (a valuable platinum-family metal), while others apply a thin polymer or other clear finish. Sometimes a tarnish-resistant coated piece of paper may be enclosed within the plastic bag or pouch that holds the silver jewelry. If your silver jewelry was purchased within the last ten years, chances are good that it has been coated with an anti tarnishing agent.

Thin coatings of silver may also be applied over base metals. Known as silver plated or silver coated jewelry, these are better for necklaces or earrings, where durability is not key. There are no regulations governing the amount of silver in such items, however. Costume jewelry or base metal jewelry that is described as "silver," may be silver colored base metal and contains no silver.

Silver Care

Special Care For Silver Sterling Jewelry

Silver tarnishes naturally when exposed to light and air. This process, called oxidation, can create an interesting and desirable patina that can be enjoyed or conversely, removed using polishing cloths specifically made for silver jewelry. Anti-tarnish coatings on silver jewelry can scratch or wear off unevenly, creating the appearance of water spots or similar discoloration. This Sterling Silver should be wiped, not forcefully rubbed with a polishing cloth.

For polishing older sterling silver pieces, use a cloth or mitt specially designed for silver, and silver polish.

For silver with anti-tarnish coatings, use a soft jewelry polishing cloth only. It is best to lightly wipe or clean these pieces as you would gold jewelry. Do not use silver polish.

Wipe your Vermeil jewelry as you would gold jewelry. Do not use abrasives, chemicals, or silver polish.

Never wear your sterling silver jewelry while swimming in chlorine water, as chlorine may cause discoloration of the metal.

As with other fine jewelry, exposure to any chemicals may damage the finish.

Store your sterling silver jewelry in a cool dry place, individually wrapped in a cloth to prevent it from being scratched by other jewelry.

Gift Wrap
If you would like your gift box wrapped or to send a personalized gift message, simply choose "Gift Services" during checkout. You can select to have your box wrapped in our elegant silver paper and enter your gift message, which we will hand-write on our gift card.

Free Ground Delivery
Shop at FortunoffJewelry.com and enjoy free FedEx Home Delivery on every order, every day. Your free shipping discount will be automatically applied during checkout.

Shipping Info

General Shipping Information

Fortunoff will make every attempt to fill your order as quickly as possible. We ship most in-stock orders within 3 business days using Federal Express or US Postal Service Priority Mail. We require a signature for proof-of-delivery for orders over $500. Your selection ships in a gift box or pouch. Free gift wrapping and gift card messages are available; just indicate your request at check-out in the appropriate fields.

Our standard residential shipping method is FedEx Home Delivery. In the Metro NY area these may arrive the next day after they are shipped, but this is not guaranteed.

Orders that are designated for Overnight or 2-Day service may not ship the same day they were ordered. These still are subject to normal order processing and fulfillment. For rush orders or stock inquires, call our Customer Service Team at 1-800-636-7886 or e-mail service@fortunoffjewelry.com.

We cannot ship to international addresses, P.O. Boxes, APO or FPO addresses. Orders to Alaska and Hawaii must be shipped using Overnight or 2-Day methods.

We do not ship out orders on Saturday or Sunday, or for weekend delivery.

If your order cannot be shipped within 5 business days after your order is confirmed, Fortunoff will notify you by e-mail or phone. Dates quoted for merchandise that is not immediately available (backorder, special order or merchandise that requires sizing or personalization) are approximate and not guaranteed. We will make every attempt to expedite your order and notify you by e-mail or phone when you order is ready to ship.

Merchandise will be billed to your credit card when shipped.

Packages that are returned or shipped with an incorrect address provided by the customer will be subject to additional shipping charges.

Shipping Method

Shipping rates are dependent upon the shipping method you choose. We offer the following methods:

FedEx Home Delivery/Ground

FREE

FedEx 2-Day

$12.00 per address

FedEx Overnight

$22.00 per address

Multiple Items Being Shipped

Orders containing multiple items being shipped to the same address may ship separately if some items become backordered. This will not result in additional shipping charges. You will be notified as each item ships. Items being shipped to multiple addresses are subject to separate shipping charges. Items that are expected to arrive within 7 days of each other shipping to the same address will be held and shipped together unless you instruct us otherwise.

Contact Us

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From 9:30 AM to 6 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday You may also request a phone appointment. Our customer service team is here to help you with any question you might have.

About Silver

Sterling Silver is a precious metal, used for jewelry because it combines strength, durability and a natural white color. As with gold, U.S. laws and Federal Trade Commission guidelines govern the way silver must be described, according to its "fineness", the amount of pure silver it contains. An item that is "sterling silver" contains at least 92.5% pure silver. At Fortunoff, the majority of silver jewelry we carry is sterling silver.

Since high-purity sterling silver has a tendency to tarnish, various techniques are employed to inhibit tarnishing. Manufacturers often coat the silver with another white metal, such as rhodium (a valuable platinum-family metal), while others apply a thin polymer or other clear finish. Sometimes a tarnish-resistant coated piece of paper may be enclosed within the plastic bag or pouch that holds the silver jewelry. If your silver jewelry was purchased within the last ten years, chances are good that it has been coated with an anti tarnishing agent.

Thin coatings of silver may also be applied over base metals. Known as silver plated or silver coated jewelry, these are better for necklaces or earrings, where durability is not key. There are no regulations governing the amount of silver in such items, however. Costume jewelry or base metal jewelry that is described as "silver," may be silver colored base metal and contains no silver.

Silver Care

Special Care For Silver Sterling Jewelry

Silver tarnishes naturally when exposed to light and air. This process, called oxidation, can create an interesting and desirable patina that can be enjoyed or conversely, removed using polishing cloths specifically made for silver jewelry. Anti-tarnish coatings on silver jewelry can scratch or wear off unevenly, creating the appearance of water spots or similar discoloration. This Sterling Silver should be wiped, not forcefully rubbed with a polishing cloth.

For polishing older sterling silver pieces, use a cloth or mitt specially designed for silver, and silver polish.

For silver with anti-tarnish coatings, use a soft jewelry polishing cloth only. It is best to lightly wipe or clean these pieces as you would gold jewelry. Do not use silver polish.

Wipe your Vermeil jewelry as you would gold jewelry. Do not use abrasives, chemicals, or silver polish.

Never wear your sterling silver jewelry while swimming in chlorine water, as chlorine may cause discoloration of the metal.

As with other fine jewelry, exposure to any chemicals may damage the finish.

Store your sterling silver jewelry in a cool dry place, individually wrapped in a cloth to prevent it from being scratched by other jewelry.

Gift Wrap
If you would like your gift box wrapped or to send a personalized gift message, simply choose "Gift Services" during checkout. You can select to have your box wrapped in our elegant silver paper and enter your gift message, which we will hand-write on our gift card.

Free Ground Delivery
Shop at FortunoffJewelry.com and enjoy free FedEx Home Delivery on every order, every day. Your free shipping discount will be automatically applied during checkout.

Shipping Info

General Shipping Information

Fortunoff will make every attempt to fill your order as quickly as possible. We ship most in-stock orders within 3 business days using Federal Express or US Postal Service Priority Mail. We require a signature for proof-of-delivery for orders over $500. Your selection ships in a gift box or pouch. Free gift wrapping and gift card messages are available; just indicate your request at check-out in the appropriate fields.

Our standard residential shipping method is FedEx Home Delivery. In the Metro NY area these may arrive the next day after they are shipped, but this is not guaranteed.

Orders that are designated for Overnight or 2-Day service may not ship the same day they were ordered. These still are subject to normal order processing and fulfillment. For rush orders or stock inquires, call our Customer Service Team at 1-800-636-7886 or e-mail service@fortunoffjewelry.com.

We cannot ship to international addresses, P.O. Boxes, APO or FPO addresses. Orders to Alaska and Hawaii must be shipped using Overnight or 2-Day methods.

We do not ship out orders on Saturday or Sunday, or for weekend delivery.

If your order cannot be shipped within 5 business days after your order is confirmed, Fortunoff will notify you by e-mail or phone. Dates quoted for merchandise that is not immediately available (backorder, special order or merchandise that requires sizing or personalization) are approximate and not guaranteed. We will make every attempt to expedite your order and notify you by e-mail or phone when you order is ready to ship.

Merchandise will be billed to your credit card when shipped.

Packages that are returned or shipped with an incorrect address provided by the customer will be subject to additional shipping charges.

Shipping Method

Shipping rates are dependent upon the shipping method you choose. We offer the following methods:

FedEx Home Delivery/Ground

FREE

FedEx 2-Day

$12.00 per address

FedEx Overnight

$22.00 per address

Multiple Items Being Shipped

Orders containing multiple items being shipped to the same address may ship separately if some items become backordered. This will not result in additional shipping charges. You will be notified as each item ships. Items being shipped to multiple addresses are subject to separate shipping charges. Items that are expected to arrive within 7 days of each other shipping to the same address will be held and shipped together unless you instruct us otherwise.

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It’s About Slavery Not State’s Rights: Stop Putting Those People on Pedestals

Confederate Statue in Jasper, Alabama. Confederate flag made out of flowers.

Do not buy into the lie that the Confederacy was about State’s Rights. Not true. It was all about keeping the institution of black slavery in perpetuity.

And, as are most unjust causes, the Civil War was ultimately all about money.

Thanks to a correspondent who knew how to access the relevant historical archives for the State of Texas, I have now read the 1861 document called “A declaration of the causes which impel the State of Texas to secede from the Federal Union.”

Let me express myself as clearly as possible:

The idea that the Confederacy was not about slavery, but more about State’s Rights is a total load of horse hockey.

You can read the whole document here, but I’ve copied the more relevant portions below. The bolded texts are mine:

Texas abandoned her separate national existence and consented to become one of the Confederated States to promote her welfare, insure domestic tranquility [sic] and secure more substantially the blessings of peace and liberty to her people. She was received into the confederacy with her own constitution, under the guarantee of the federal constitution and the compact of annexation, that she should enjoy these blessings. She was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery–the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits–a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.

. . .

The controlling majority of the Federal Government, under various pretences and disguises, has so administered the same as to exclude the citizens of the Southern States, unless under odious and unconstitutional restrictions, from all the immense territory owned in common by all the States on the Pacific Ocean, for the avowed purpose of acquiring sufficient power in the common government to use it as a means of destroying the institutions of Texas and her sister slave-holding States.

. . .

Please, please read the rest of it. There is one reason and one only: they wanted to keep their slaves into perpetuity because they were sure that was part of the God-ordained order.

They are not “beautiful statues.”

So stop the silliness that a move to remove those monuments that celebrate the continued oppression of slaves is a way to “erase history” or destroy some beautiful statues without cause.

Those “beautiful statues” represent the worse of humanity. We have placed on pedestals those men who led a cause to keep a whole people group in chains, gave them the right to impregnate the women at will and sell off the children for a profit.

As I said at the beginning, it is all about money. Always.

Most monuments need to go, but those that stay should be relabeled as part of our shameful past so we may learn truth from them.

Germany does not have adoration-type memorials to Hitler around for people to venerate. Instead, Germans own their past disgraces.

You are absolutely correct. Very well written. That’s why we got Jim Crow after the civil war . There was no “state’s rights” movement , like the Jim Crow laws.

Chuck Johnson

You are absolutely correct. Very well written. That’s why we got Jim
Crow after the civil war . There was no “state’s rights” movement ,
like the Jim Crow laws.-Al

The struggle for states’ rights continued in the South long after the end of the Civil War.
An enormous number of legal conflicts ensued. I saw some of these conflicts played out on my TV set in the 1960s.

Yes, but Jim Crow became law and was enforced with cruelty and many innocent people lost their lives because of Jim Crow laws . The legal conflicts for states rights is a false equivalency.

Josh

Yes yes, people went and sent their children to die in a America’s bloodiest war so that 26% of families can keep their slaves.
And, of course, the North sent their kids to die in a war to free people they still felt were worth 3/5 of a vote. You’re right, this makes perfect sense why a nation would lunge itself into war: to determine the outcome of persons whom they didn’t even view as persons.

Joshua Hauck-Whealton

“Yes yes, people went and sent their children to die in a America’s bloodiest war so that 26% of families can keep their slaves.”

Out of curiosity, how many of those 74% of families had members voting in the state legislatures? Versus how many large plantation owners? There’s a reason that the war was called a “rich man’s war”. Seriously, if we’re looking at the common soldier to figure out what the cause of a war is, then we have to conclude that the Iraq War was about getting help with college tuition.

Josh

“we’re looking at the common soldier to figure out what the cause of a war is”
So, you think the motive for these poor souls was motivated by a lie, or that the purpose of those sending them into war was ultimately about slavery?

Joshua Hauck-Whealton

The motives of these poor souls were many and varied. It should be remembered that many slipped over the line and fought for the Union, or refused to fight, or became insurgents. Others fought because their homeland was invaded. And many fought because they were drafted or press-ganged, because they were scared of the reprisals and rioting that might follow a slave emancipation, because they were being paid, because they saw slave ownership as their path to wealth, because they were young and hotheaded, and so on.

All I’m saying that that you can’t take all of these various motives and average them together and come up with the cause of the war. We don’t usually try in modern wars. The histories I’ve read of the the war in Iraq all start in the White House.

In the end, the necessary and sufficient cause for the war was the secession, the secession was voted for by state legislature in the south, and we know from the various Declaration of Causes that they did so because they saw that their peculiar institution was being threatened. So slavery was the cause of the war.

Josh

These two statements are vying for the same position:
“In the end, the necessary and sufficient cause for the war was the secession”
“So slavery was the cause of the war.”

Obviously, they can’t both be true.

Had the North let the South go, as per their constitutional right, why would there be cause for war?

Josh Hauck

1. I think that works. Defense of slavery caused the secession, the secession caused the war, therefore slavery caused the war. That’s the communicative property, right? I can never remember formal logic, so I may be wrong.

2. To answer your direct question, Lincoln and most of his allies believed that secession would lead to a breakdown on both sides that would eventually lead to anarchy or despotism. If states could withdraw unilaterally any time they got in a snit, how long could any group last? Remember, they’d watched the Revolutions of 1848 get reversed, and the French Revolution was still in their rear view mirror. The thinking was the republics were inherently fragile things, always prone to flying apart and getting dragged back together by tyrants. The original constitution had to be defended. Bringing us to …

3. “as per their constitutional right”

Lemme just quote that wide-eyed liberal Andrew Jackson: “To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation because it would be a solecism to contend that any part of a nation might dissolve its connection with the other parts, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offense. Secession, like any other revolutionary act, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right, is confounding the meaning of terms, and can only be done through gross error, or to deceive those who are willing to assert a right, but would pause before they made a revolution, or incur the penalties consequent upon a failure. ”

Wordy, isn’t he? Madison, Hamilton, Jackson and (of course) Lincoln argued that if was a fundamental property of compacts that they are reciprocal. Everybody is bound to everybody else, and no one may leave unless everybody leaves. Basically, you can vote to dissolve the Constitution, or you can declare a revolution and burn it, but you can’t pretend that it allows you to leave whenever you feel like it.

Josh

1) Not to split hairs, but it is actually the Transitive Property:
The proposed containment of slavery -> Secession of South Carolina -> Non-acceptance by the Federal Government -> War
This is not communicative:
Communicative would be that we could rearrange these events and have the same result.
Of course, War first would not necessarily lead to proposed containment of slavery within newly created states.

And as far as transitivity is concerned (it’s not transitive):
This does not imply Secession of South Carolina -> War, because it fundamentally betrays the Federal Government’s (and the North’s) choice in reacting.
We could see how ludicrous it is in me giving my son potatoes for billionth time in his life. Suddenly, I’m convinced that potatoes are bad while he’s eating Pringles. I threaten to slap him if he eats the potato chips and get real close to his face. He pushes me and eats a chip, so I slap him in the face.
This is a pretty direct analogy (the South fired first while the North was stationing at Sumter, so the North slapped them in the face).
Clearly, I’d be wrong in my aggression. It was Northern aggression (first threatening to limit what the South could do, and then refusal of THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT, and then threat of military action)
We’ll return to this momentarily.

2) The irony in this is astounding:
“Lincoln…believed…secession would lead to…”
“anarchy”
Which is ironic, because the first thing that happened was the creation of a new “union”.
“despotism”
Which is ironic, since He used federal policy to forbid the spread of slave states and then used the Northern military to threaten the South.
“how long could any group last?”
As long as one group does not impose on another group’s rights as determined by their constitution. Certainly, we have a case where this was not upheld.
It’s kind of like asking how long can a friendship last? Until one quits being a friend (and then forbids the other person from NOT hanging out with them through force).
In fact, this was the entire reason for the right of secession! It was to prevent that aggressive group from staying conjoined to the group they aggressed upon.
“The thinking was the republics were inherently fragile things”
Precisely as they should be, lest these leaders amass too much power lead on their own whims. Sound like Hamilton’s thinking.
“always prone to flying apart and getting dragged back together by tyrants. ”
Please tell me you get the irony here; it was dragged back together by forcing together a people who wanted to be apart–pretty tyrannical.

3) “Secession, like any other revolutionary act, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression”
Which is exactly what led to secession; now, Lincoln ran on a platform of not expanding slavery in the creation of new states. This alone, suffices to rob the southern states of their voice (if even their future voice) in Congress–a Congress which would no longer be representative of them.
Thus, who first burned it?

Now let me just quote that Thomas Jefferson:
“If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation … to a continuance in union … I have no hesitation in saying, let us separate.”

PedasiPaul

Look at what Texas wrote at the time animated secession.

Josh

I’m willing to be enlightened.

PedasiPaul

The article we are commenting on contains quotes from the 1861 document.

Josh

Since when does the last state to secede from the Union become the primary spokesperson for secession?
Sure, secession was spurred by the threat to the slavery industry.

BUT,

Had the North let the South go, as per their constitutional right, why would there be cause for war?

PedasiPaul

OK fair enough. The LAST state to secede doesn’t become the primary spokesperson. How about the FIRST state to secede? South Carolina adopted its “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union to formalize its secession.” That document makes it pretty clear that protecting slavery was a prime motivation for seccession.

Then there’s the Mississippi Seccession Statement, which says, “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest in the world…There was no choice left to us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the union.”

How about Alexander Stephens, vice president of the CSA. He wrote, “With us, all of the white race, however high or low, rich or poor, are equal in the eye of the law. Not so with the negro. Subordination is his place. He, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system…It is, indeed, in conformity with the ordinance of the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of His ordinances, or to question them…The great objects of humanity are best attained when there is conformity to His laws and decrees, in the formation of governments as well as in all things else. Our confederacy is founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws.”

Josh

“protecting slavery was a prime motivation for SECESSION.”
Precisely.

“There was no choice left to us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the union.”
Precisely.

“How about Alexander Stephens, vice president of the CSA…”
Now we get to the problem you have with me: I’m not defending racism or slavery; both of those are horrid institutions along with any other prejudice and enslavement. To conflate the two is an abhorrent dishonesty.

All I’m saying is that slavery wasn’t the cause of war; it was (or, rather, it’s importance for Southern economy–which should teach us a lesson about market intervention) a primary driver of secession, along with tariffs.

The trash from Alexander Stephens mouth was just that: trash.
Yet, there’d have been no need for war if the North left the South alone.

PedasiPaul

I think we agree that secession was to a good degree over slavery. I think we disagree about whether Lincoln was wrong in holding the Union together.

Chuck Johnson

In the 1960s I had a history teacher who told the class that the Civil War was about states’ rights and not about slavery.
It was apparent to me that his claim was ignorant and dishonest, and I wondered who told him such a thing. I didn’t ask him.
Now, Christy is inverting that same claim in saying that it’s not about states’ rights, it’s about slavery.

That teacher and Christy are both wrong, and wrong in the same way.
Both are pushing their own preferred politics by using incorrect logic and incorrect use of the English language to promote those preferred politics.

The resolution is simple: The Civil War was all about states’ rights. The most important of those states’ rights is legalized slavery.

Guthrum

I certainly agree with that. You can’t separate the two.

Joshua Hauck-Whealton

I’d prefer to avoid crediting the Confederacy with any concern for State’s Rights. The south enthusiastically supported the gag rule in the national legislature, the use of the Federal Post Office to prevent the spread of abolitionist material, and most importantly the Fugitive Slave Act. The slaveholding states were always happy to ignore the principle of State’s Rights when it suited them.

Money is just a part of it.
It was also about propping up the ancient pyramid of authority.
It was also about conservative, or backwards-looking morals and values.
It was also about upholding Christian principles. The Southern Baptist church was founded to be a church which was friendly and welcoming to slave owners.

Previous generations of Americans were, to put it mildly, much more generous toward Confederates than this current generation. I would say that they were much better examples of agape love than the present vindictive, accusatory mindset.

FDR at the unveiling of the Robert E. Lee statue in Lee Park, Dallas, Texas, June 12, 1936:

“I am very happy to take part in this unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee. All over the United States we recognize him as a great leader of men, as a great general. But, also, all over the United States I believe that we recognize him as something much more important than that. We recognize Robert E. Lee as one of our greatest American Christians and one of our greatest American gentlemen.”

Woodrow Wilson, speech given at the dedication of the Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, 4 June 1914:

“My privilege is this, ladies and gentlemen: To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces to the future, quickened by the memories of the past, but with nothing to do with the contests of the past, knowing, as we have shed our blood upon opposite sides, we now face and admire one another.”

Calvin Coolidge, speaking at the Confederate Memorial at Arlington Cemetery, May 25, 1924:

“They were all Americans, all contending for what they believed were their rights. On many a battle field they sleep side by side. Here, in a place set aside for the resting place of those who have performed military duty, both make a final bivouac. But their country lives.
“The bitterness of conflict is passed. Time has softened it; discretion has changed it. Your country respects you for cherishing the memory of those who wore the gray. You respect others who cherish the memory of those who wore the blue. In that mutual respect may there be a firmer friendship, a stronger and more glorious Union.
“America claims them all. Her flag floats over them all. Her Government protects them all. They all rest in the same divine peace.”

Jimmy Carter restores Jefferson Davis’ citizenship
October 17, 1978
“In posthumously restoring the full rights of citizenship to Jefferson Davis, the Congress officially completes the long process of reconciliation that has reunited our people following the tragic conflict between the States. Earlier, he was specifically exempted form resolutions restoring the rights of other officials in the Confederacy. He had served the United States long and honorably as a soldier, Member of the U.S. House and Senate, and as Secretary of War. General Robert E. Lee’s citizenship was restored in 1976. It is fitting that Jefferson Davis should no longer be singled out for punishment.”
“Our Nation needs to clear away the guilts and enmities and recriminations of the past, to finally set at rest the divisions that threatened to destroy our Nation and to discredit the principles on which it was founded. Our people need to turn their attention to the important tasks that still lie before us in establishing those principles for all people.”

Gerald Ford signs restoration of Lee’s citizenship
August 5, 1975
“I am very pleased to sign Senate Joint Resolution 23, restoring posthumously the long overdue, full rights of citizenship to General Robert E. Lee. This legislation corrects a 110-year oversight of American history.”
“Lee’s dedication to his native State of Virginia chartered his course for the bitter Civil War years, causing him to reluctantly resign from a distinguished career in the United States Army and to serve as General of the Army of Northern Virginia. He, thus, forfeited his rights to U.S. citizenship.”
“Once the war was over, he firmly felt the wounds of the North and South must be bound up. He sought to show by example that the citizens of the South must dedicate their efforts to rebuilding that region of the country as a strong and vital part of the American Union.”
“As a soldier, General Lee left his mark on military strategy. As a man, he stood as the symbol of valor and of duty. As an educator, he appealed to reason and learning to achieve understanding and to build a stronger nation. The course he chose after the war became a symbol to all those who had marched with him in the bitter years towards Appomattox.”
“General Lee’s character has been an example to succeeding generations, making the restoration of his citizenship an event in which every American can take pride.”
“In approving this Joint Resolution, the Congress removed the legal obstacle to citizenship which resulted from General Lee’s Civil War service. Although more than a century late, I am delighted to sign this resolution and to complete the full restoration of General Lee’s citizenship.”

I’m not seeing this sort of compassion coming from a lot of people right now.

I thought Christianity was about mercy and forgiveness, not grudges.

John Smith

Previous generations of Americans were, to put it mildly, much more
generous toward Confederates than this current generation. I would say
that they were much better examples of agape love than the present
vindictive, accusatory mindset.

Previous generations of Americans cared, to put it mildly, much less about Confederate’s past or present victims than this current generation. Siding with a monster who feeds on people does not make you more loving, it makes you a villain.

I thought Christianity was about mercy and forgiveness, not grudges.

Telling the truth about the Confederacy of Slave States is not about a grudge, but about bringing to an end the harm it’s legacy still causes. General Lee is long dead and getting whatever reward fighting for the Nazis of his day deserves, but his statue is here on Earth and serving as a rally point for neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan and other assorted monsters.

The ghost of the Confederacy is a malevolent spirit indeed, and thus needs to be busted.

Baby_Raptor

You’re an enormous asshole. Even worse, you’re totally disingenuous. Somehow, you lived your entire life with these statues all around and you were ok with it. Suddenly in the last 6 months, you see the inherent evil in all of them. How come you didn’t see it last summer? Or anytime in the last few decades? Because you’re a disingenuous asshole, as I stated earlier.

John Smith

I’m not an American. I haven’t lived with Confederate statues around me, though I’ve noticed my society’s worst elements have taken their flag as their own. I have to agree with them at that, if nothing else.

Nonetheless, to address your point: the reason people didn’t see the evil in Confederate statues before it was pointed out to them is precisely that they have lived with that evil all their lives. The mask of respectability and normality has been finally torn off. The true face of the Confederacy of Slavers is visible now, and of course it’s making people recoil in horror, because it’s the face of a monster, and always was.

Baby_Raptor

Translation – you’re full of shit. You lost the election in a humiliating fashion and are desperately clinging to any scraps to maintain the illusion of power.

Alexander Wayson

It’s ALL about states’ rights!!! The southern states were much richer than the north. They had all of the agriculture and the north had all of the industry. What started the entire thing was the north being pissed off because the south wouldn’t share, and the south got tired of being bullied!! Slavery didn’t even come into the mix until towards the middle when Lincoln needed more support, otherwise he KNEW he was fucked. The states had EVERY right to leave the union. That being said, I believe that slavery was a despicable and heinous thing that should never be repeated. But as my good friend Tyler Durden once said “sticking feathers up your butt does not make you chicken.” Do some research for yourself, call things what they are, and stop being so fucking blind!! It’s what they want!!

PedasiPaul

The Texan document makes clear that racial subordination was a prime purpose of secession from the start.

Alexander Wayson

Well you edited your reply because originally you had cited the CSA Constitution. Which, you were wrong. The Texan document does mention it. You were right there. But that was one state. And I hate to break it to you but Lincoln didn’t give two shits about slaves, and didn’t until it was in his interests to. Despite what you may’ve seen on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter…

Nimblewill

The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the “rock upon which the old Union would split.” He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away… Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it—when the “storm came and the wind blew, it fell.”


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Pacman JonesSuspended Without Pay Over Insane Hotel Incident

7/21/2017 9:44 AM PDT

Pacman Jones has finally received his NFL punishment over that hotel incident in which he allegedly assaulted a security officer and told a cop to "suck my d*ck" ... and he'll only miss 1 game.

The incident went down back in January and the aftermath was recorded on police cameras. Jones not only cussed out the arresting officer, he also wished death upon him.

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Jones was initially arrested for disorderly conduct, assault and obstructing official business -- but the first two charges were dropped and he ultimately pled guilty to the 3rd.

The NFL says Jones will be suspended without pay for the first 2017 regular season game for violating the league’s Personal Conduct Policy.

The NFL says it considered the crazy video of Jones going off on the cops when the league decided his punishment.

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IBM on Wednesday is rolling out new prepackaged and pretested superclusters that include its blade server technology.
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IBM more than a year ago rolled out the Cluster 1300, which includes older models of Intel-based systems and does not include blades, and the RISC-based Cluster e1600, powered by Unix-based pSeries systems. Dougherty said the 1350 eventually will replace the 1300, and that IBM in the future will come out with a new RISC-based supercluster. He declined to elaborate on the timetable.

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Q:

Should this list initializer behavior be reported as bug in the Visual Studio C# Compiler?

First of all I will say that I've changed my design and no longer need that but getting a good answer for that will still be nice
I have the following class, ListContainer, in my code (The attached codes are all mcve):
class ListContainer
{
    public object ContainedList
    {
        get; private set;
    }

    public int Value
    {
        get; private set;
    }

    public ListContainer(object list, int value)
    {
        ContainedList = list;
        Value = value;
    }
}

And in some other class in my code I have a List<ListContainer> and I need each ListContainer to contain this List<ListContainer>, so I can implement it like that:
//Field in the class
List<ListContainer> mContainers = null;

//In the constructor:
mContainers = new List<ListContainer>();
mContainers.Add(new ListContainer(mContainers, SOME_CONST));
mContainers.Add(new ListContainer(mContainers, SOME_OTHER_CONST));

Than it works fine, but when I've tried to use list initializer:
//Field in the class
List<ListContainer> mContainers = null;

//In the constructor:
mContainers = new List<ListContainer>
{
    new ListContainer(mContainers, SOME_CONST),
    new ListContainer(mContainers, SOME_OTHER_CONST)
}

You would expect the results to be equivalent but in reality the result looks like that:
mContainers
    [0] - ListContainer
              ContainedList = null
              Value = SOME_CONST
    [1] - ListContainer
              ContainedList = null
              Value = SOME_OTHER_CONST

Seeing this results I've inspected the output MSIL of this C# compilation and seen the following code:

Now, this explains why the problem occurs, and I've even checked out in the CSharp Language Specification document and this is the defined behavior:

A List can be created and initialized as follows:
var contacts = new List<Contact> {
    new Contact {
        Name = "Chris Smith",
        PhoneNumbers = { "206-555-0101", "425-882-8080" }
    },
    new Contact {
        Name = "Bob Harris",
        PhoneNumbers = { "650-555-0199" }
    }
};

which has the same effect as
var __clist = new List<Contact>();
Contact __c1 = new Contact();
__c1.Name = "Chris Smith";
__c1.PhoneNumbers.Add("206-555-0101");
__c1.PhoneNumbers.Add("425-882-8080");
__clist.Add(__c1);
Contact __c2 = new Contact();
__c2.Name = "Bob Harris";
__c2.PhoneNumbers.Add("650-555-0199");
__clist.Add(__c2);
var contacts = __clist;

where __clist, __c1 and __c2 are temporary variables that are otherwise invisible and inaccessible.

So obviously this behaviour is intended. Is there a good reason everything is done on the temporary variable and not on the original one? since it seems like a wrong behaviour to me.

A:

The reason is to avoid race conditions with concurrent threads accessing the original variable where you would add your elements. An inconsistency would appear if a thread accesses the variable while not all elements are added to it yet.
Two threads accessing the same variable would therefore get an inconsistent list, with different elements in it.
This would not come as a shock if the elements are added on different lines, but since you use an object initializer, it is normal to perceive the object as directly initialized with all its elements in it, hence the need of a temporary, invisible, variable.


The Zine I Never Made

Musings, observations, and miscellany. Written by Amy [amy (at) riotgirl.club]

A Silicon Valley Dating Sim I'll Never Make

11/15/14

So I was watching a reverse-harem type anime show the other week, that was pretty terrible. It was based on a dating sim. I skipped watching the last episode because I completely lost interest but it did make me wonder what a dating sim based in Silicon Valley would be like. The player would be a young woman trying to find love and professional success amidst the infamous start-up culture in the Valley.

Here are my notes:

Dood types (all very attractive!)

Founder (and your boss)

Jack Dorsey-type

Hipster Developer (your co-worker)

young Tom Cruise but with thick rimmed glasses

The Bro-y Finance guy (works at another company)

buff, Henry Cavill type?

The Hermit Developer (works at another company)

a little bit slovenly. looks like James Franco but dirtier.

The Graduate School Professor/Artist

beautiful blonde

Other Characters

HR Lady (your co-worker)

Your Best Friend

STORY

Day One

"Hi [player],

sending you an email to wish you happy first day of work at [startup name]! You know I read in the newspaper that [startup name] was worth $1 billion dollars!!! I'm so proud of you! Also please let me know if you're coming home for Thanksgiving. i hope they will give you thanksgiving offâ€¦


1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a lithographic apparatus and a device manufacturing method.
2. Description of the Related Art
A lithographic apparatus is a machine that applies a desired pattern onto a target portion of a substrate. Lithographic apparatus can be used, for example, in the manufacture of integrated circuits (ICs). In that circumstance, a patterning devices, such as a mask, may be used to generate a circuit pattern corresponding to an individual layer of the IC, and this pattern can be imaged onto a target portion (e.g. comprising part of, one or several dies) on a substrate (e.g. a silicon wafer) that has a layer of radiation-sensitive material (resist).
In general, a single substrate will contain a network of adjacent target portions that are successively exposed. Known lithographic apparatus include so-called steppers, in which each target portion is irradiated by exposing an entire pattern onto the target portion in one go, and so-called scanners, in which each target portion is irradiated by scanning the pattern through the projection beam in a given direction (the “scanning”-direction) while synchronously scanning the substrate parallel or anti-parallel to this direction.
It has been found that the position of the stage or substrate holder (i.e., substrate holder) with respect to the projection beam is disturbed under many circumstances. This disturbance was thought largely due to mechanical influences, because moving parts, such as a moving measuring stage in a two stage apparatus, would exert forces on, for example, the substrate holder through the medium of the mounts, the suspension, and in general through the (mechanical) rest of the apparatus. In fact, suspension and mechanical decoupling techniques were much improved, but still a residual disturbance remained. This residual disturbance may limit the minimum feature size and the minimum overlay error during projection.