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FMC Technologies Named World's Most Admired Oil and Gas Equipment, Services Company
HOUSTON, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- FMC Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FTI) announced today that it has been named the 2012 World's Most Admired Company in the Oil and Gas Equipment, Services industry by FORTUNE® Magazine.
The rankings are based on a survey of approximately 15,000 senior executives, outside directors and industry analysts. Companies were evaluated based on the following criteria: innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management, financial soundness, quality of products/services, long-term investment and global competitiveness.
"We are honored that our peers have again selected FMC as the world's most admired company in our industry," said John Gremp, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of FMC Technologies. "Our employees strive to deliver customer success each day, and I am pleased their efforts and the reliability of our innovative technologies and services have made a strong impression in the market."
FMC Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:FTI) is a leading global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry. The Company has approximately 14,200 employees and operates 27 production facilities in 16 countries. FMC Technologies designs, manufactures and services technologically sophisticated systems and products such as subsea production and processing systems, surface wellhead systems, high pressure fluid control equipment, measurement solutions, and marine loading systems for the oil and gas industry. For more information, visit www.fmctechnologies.com.
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More than half of FDNY say they'll refuse COVID-19 vaccine
The New York Post:
More than half of New York City firefighters say they won't be vaccinated for COVID-19 when the potentially life-saving shot becomes available to first responders in a matter of weeks, according to a new internal survey.
About 55 percent of 2,053 smoke-eaters polled in the last three days by their union, the Uniformed Firefighters Association, answered "No" when asked, "Will you get the COVID-19 Vaccine from Pfizer when the Department makes it available?" UFA President Andy Ansbro told The Post. The responses account for about 25 percent of the UFA's 8,200 active members.
The stunning anti-vax response follows an August survey of MTA workers that showed only 30 percent of 645 respondents were definitely willing to be vaccinated. Thirty-eight percent were unsure and 32 percent said they would not take the vaccine, according to the poll of Transport Workers Union members conducted by the NYU School of Global Public Health.
If the survey results become the reality, it would mean thousands of NYC's first responders and other essential frontline workers would continue to be vulnerable to the virus and remain potential spreaders.
The FDNY announced last week it would not make the vaccine mandatory for its members, a policy expected to be followed by all city agencies and even hospitals.
The data comes as Trump pandemic advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said that most healthy Americans should not expect to be vaccinated before the spring, as the first shots are rolled out to health care workers, the elderly and the medically vulnerable.
"A healthy non-elderly person with no recognizable underlying conditions, will likely start . . . in the end of March, early April. Once you get into April, probably full blast with those individuals," Fauci said during a CNN town hall Friday — the same day the city reported positive coronavirus test results doubled in the past month.
Read more at The New York Post
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- "Dr. Seuss' the Lorax" has easily beaten Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter" at the weekend box office.
Studio estimates Sunday put Universal Pictures' "The Lorax" at No. 1 for the second-straight weekend as the animated adventure based on the children's book took in $39.1 million. That raised its 10-day domestic total to $122 million, making "The Lorax" the top-grossing movie released this year.
"John Carter," based on "Tarzan" creator Burroughs' tales of the interplanetary adventurer, opened in second-place with $30.6 million. That's an awful start given the whopping $250 million that Disney reportedly spent to make "John Carter," which also earned generally poor reviews that will hurt its long-term prospects.
The movie's salvation could come overseas, where "John Carter" opened in 55 markets with $70.6 million, giving it a worldwide total of $101.2 million.
The stronger international business helps, but that worldwide total still pales compared to global debuts of $200 million and up for many modern blockbusters.
"We would have hoped for more considering the larger economics of the film but are still encouraged with how it's been received by audiences that have seen it and hope to see that generate positive word of mouth for the balance of the run," said Dave Hollis, Disney's head of distribution.
The Warner Bros. teen comedy "Project X" held up well in its second weekend with $11.6 million to finish at No. 3 and raise its domestic haul to $40.1 million.
Elizabeth Olsen's horror tale "Silent House," released by Open Road Films, opened modestly at No. 4 with $7 million. Olsen plays a young woman terrorized inside her family's spooky summer home.
Eddie Murphy's comedy "A Thousand Words," a leftover shot in 2008 and finally dumped into theaters by distributor Paramount, was a dud at No. 6 with just $6.4 million.
The movie features Murphy as a fast-talking literary agent and neglectful family man who gets a lesson on the important things in life after discovering he has only a thousand words left to utter before he dies.
"A Thousand Words" was so bad it had a perfect score on the film critic site Rottentomatoes.com: all of the 37 reviews compiled there for the movie were negative.
"John Carter" at least managed 49 percent favorable notices of the 170 reviews compiled there. That's still not a recipe for staying power at the box office, particularly with such a bad opening in the United States.
"If you just take the domestic number, it's not a very pretty picture," said Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. "But if you look at the worldwide opening weekend of a hundred million dollars, that's pretty solid."
"John Carter" casts "Friday Night Lights" co-star Taylor Kitsch in the title role as a 19th century Civil War veteran whisked away to Mars, where he falls for a beautiful princess and becomes a hero in the red planet's own civil war.
Disney executives noted that the movie had a 25 percent uptick in domestic business from opening day Friday to Saturday, saying it was a sign that audiences were talking up "John Carter" to friends.
But the movie drew only 41 percent of its viewers from the under-25 crowd, indicating that Hollywood's key audience of young action fans was not interested.
Overall domestic business rose again as studios continued their 2012 box-office roll. Revenues totaled $140.5 million, up 8.7 percent from the same weekend last year, according to Hollywood.com.
Receipts have climbed every weekend this year, with domestic revenues inching above $2 billion so far in 2012, an 18 percent increase over last year's.
1. "Dr. Seuss' the Lorax," $39.1 million ($1.4 million international).
2. "John Carter," $30.6 million ($70.6 million international).
3. "Project X," $11.6 million.
4. "Silent House," $7.01 million.
5. "Act of Valor," $7 million.
6. "A Thousand Words," $6.4 million.
7. "Safe House," $5 million ($6.1 million international).
8. "The Vow," $4 million ($2.4 million international).
9. "This Means War," $3.8 million.
10. "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island," $3.7 million.


historical notes Ernst was a member of the Surrealists and a collector of tribal art from North America, Africa and the Pacific region. (retrieved 7/21/2008 <http://www.nga.gov.au/exhibitions/wall2wall/index.html>).
Ernst married four times: to Luise Straus, Marie-Berthe Aurenche, art collector Peggy Guggenheim, and Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning.
Ernst's son is the abstract painter Jimmy Ernst.


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package client

import (
	"bytes"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"strings"
	"time"

	"github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"

	"github.com/chai2010/qingcloud-go/pkg/internal/pbutil"
	"github.com/chai2010/qingcloud-go/pkg/internal/signature"
	"github.com/chai2010/qingcloud-go/pkg/status"
)

var DebugMode = false

type Validator interface {
	Validate() error
}

type Client struct {
	accessKeyId     string
	secretAccessKey string
	apiServer       string
	zone            string
}

func NewClient(apiServer, accessKeyId, secretAccessKey, zone string) *Client {
	if apiServer == "" {
		log.Fatalf("qingcloud-go/pkg/client.NewClient: invalid apiServer: %q", apiServer)
	}
	if accessKeyId == "" {
		log.Fatalf("qingcloud-go/pkg/client.NewClient: invalid accessKeyId: %q", accessKeyId)
	}
	if secretAccessKey == "" {
		log.Fatalf("qingcloud-go/pkg/client.NewClient: invalid secretAccessKey: %q", secretAccessKey)
	}

	return &Client{
		apiServer:       apiServer,
		accessKeyId:     accessKeyId,
		secretAccessKey: secretAccessKey,
		zone:            zone,
	}
}

func (p *Client) CallMethod(
	svcMethodName, httpMethod string,
	input, output proto.Message,
	opt *CallOptions,
) error {
	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("input: %#v\n", input)
	}

	if x, ok := input.(Validator); ok {
		if err := x.Validate(); err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}

	inputMap, err := pbutil.ProtoMessageToMap(input)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	inputMap["action"] = svcMethodName
	inputMap["version"] = "1"

	if inputMap["time_stamp"] == "" {
		inputMap["time_stamp"] = time.Now().UTC().Format("2006-01-02T15:04:05Z")
	}
	if inputMap["zone"] == "" {
		inputMap["zone"] = p.zone
	}

	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("inputMap: %#v\n", inputMap)
	}

	query, sig := signature.Build(
		p.accessKeyId, p.secretAccessKey,
		httpMethod, p.getApiServerPath(),
		inputMap,
	)

	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("query: %v\n", query)
		log.Printf("sig: %v\n", sig)
	}

	switch httpMethod {
	case "GET":
		return p.doGet(opt.GetHttpClient(), query, output)
	case "POST":
		return p.doPost(opt.GetHttpClient(), query, output)
	default:
		return fmt.Errorf("pkg/client.CallMethod: unsupport methond %v", httpMethod)
	}
}

func (p *Client) CallMethodWithMapX(
	svcMethodName, httpMethod string, input map[string]interface{},
	opt *CallOptions,
) (
	output string, err error,
) {
	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("input: %#v\n", input)
	}

	inputMap := pbutil.UnpackMapXToMapString(input)
	inputMap["action"] = svcMethodName
	inputMap["version"] = "1"

	if inputMap["time_stamp"] == "" {
		inputMap["time_stamp"] = time.Now().UTC().Format("2006-01-02T15:04:05Z")
	}
	if inputMap["zone"] == "" {
		inputMap["zone"] = p.zone
	}

	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("inputMap: %#v\n", inputMap)
	}

	query, sig := signature.Build(
		p.accessKeyId, p.secretAccessKey,
		httpMethod, p.getApiServerPath(),
		inputMap,
	)

	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("query: %v\n", query)
		log.Printf("sig: %v\n", sig)
	}

	switch httpMethod {
	case "GET":
		return p.doGet_json(opt.GetHttpClient(), query)
	case "POST":
		return p.doPost_json(opt.GetHttpClient(), query)
	default:
		return "", fmt.Errorf("pkg/client.CallMethod: unsupport methond %v", httpMethod)
	}
}

func (p *Client) CallMethodWithJson(
	svcMethodName, httpMethod string, input string,
	opt *CallOptions,
) (
	output string, err error,
) {
	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("input: %#v\n", input)
	}

	inputMap, err := pbutil.JsonToMapString(input)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	inputMap["action"] = svcMethodName
	inputMap["version"] = "1"

	if inputMap["time_stamp"] == "" {
		inputMap["time_stamp"] = time.Now().UTC().Format("2006-01-02T15:04:05Z")
	}
	if inputMap["zone"] == "" {
		inputMap["zone"] = p.zone
	}

	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("inputMap: %#v\n", inputMap)
	}

	query, sig := signature.Build(
		p.accessKeyId, p.secretAccessKey,
		httpMethod, p.getApiServerPath(),
		inputMap,
	)

	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("query: %v\n", query)
		log.Printf("sig: %v\n", sig)
	}

	switch httpMethod {
	case "GET":
		return p.doGet_json(opt.GetHttpClient(), query)
	case "POST":
		return p.doPost_json(opt.GetHttpClient(), query)
	default:
		return "", fmt.Errorf("pkg/client.CallMethod: unsupport methond %v", httpMethod)
	}
}

func (p *Client) getApiServerPath() string {
	u, _ := url.Parse(p.apiServer)
	return u.Path
}

func (p *Client) doGet_json(c *http.Client, query string) (string, error) {
	url := p.apiServer + "?" + query
	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("GET: %v\n", url)
	}

	resp, err := c.Get(url)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var buf bytes.Buffer
	_, err = buf.ReadFrom(resp.Body)
	return string(buf.Bytes()), err
}

func (p *Client) doGet(c *http.Client, query string, output proto.Message) error {
	url := p.apiServer + "?" + query
	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("GET: %v\n", url)
	}

	resp, err := c.Get(url)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	err = DecodeResponse(resp, output)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return nil
}

func (p *Client) doPost(c *http.Client, query string, output proto.Message) error {
	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("POST: %v, %v\n", p.apiServer, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
		log.Printf("Body: %v\n", query)
	}

	resp, err := c.Post(p.apiServer, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", strings.NewReader(query))
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	err = DecodeResponse(resp, output)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return nil
}

func (p *Client) doPost_json(c *http.Client, query string) (string, error) {
	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("POST: %v, %v\n", p.apiServer, "application/json")
		log.Printf("Body: %v\n", query)
	}

	resp, err := c.Post(p.apiServer, "application/json", strings.NewReader(query))
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var buf bytes.Buffer
	_, err = buf.ReadFrom(resp.Body)
	return string(buf.Bytes()), err
}

func DecodeResponse(resp *http.Response, output proto.Message) error {
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var buf bytes.Buffer
	buf.ReadFrom(resp.Body)

	if DebugMode {
		log.Printf("RespBody: %s\n", buf.Bytes())
	}

	if resp.StatusCode != 200 || resp.Header.Get("Content-Type") != "application/json" {
		return status.NewError(int32(resp.StatusCode), string(buf.Bytes()))
	}

	err := pbutil.DecodeJson(buf.Bytes(), output)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if s, ok := output.(status.Status); ok {
		if err := status.Error(s); err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}

	return nil
}


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Ecole Nationale Supérieure D'architecture De Saint-etienne
Study abroad in Saint-etienne, France
Erasmus Code FST-ETIE08
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Protection of student interest at the heart of NACAC debate
ICEF Monitor recently sat down with Thomas Hassett, the Director of International Admissions at Pennsylvania's Gannon University and a member of the NACAC Commission on International Student Recruitment. In the following interview, Mr. Hassett provides some excellent background on the Commission's work to date and looks ahead to the group's forthcoming recommendations on international recruitment practice. Those recommendations are expected to be filed for review in early 2013 and then formally reported at the annual NACAC conference later in the year.
The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) is a US-based member organisation of more than 12,000 secondary and postsecondary education professionals who "work with students transitioning to and between colleges." The NACAC Statement of Principles of Good Practice includes a provision that bans the payment of commissions to student recruiters.
In the past, NACAC has interpreted this statement as applying to both domestic and international recruitment and this in turn gives rise to the question as to whether NACAC members could be in breach of the Statement of Principles if they engaged international education agents and if those agents were compensated on a commission basis.
The NACAC Board has solicited additional public comment on its interpretation and has also launched a special 26-member Commission on International Student Recruitment to further explore the issue and advise the association on international recruitment practices.
The Commission met for the first time in March 2011 and will meet again at the October 2012 NACAC National Conference in Denver. The NACAC discussion occurs against a backdrop of recent moves to strengthen standards of practice and students rights across the industry, including a new International Student Mobility Charter adopted at the September 2012 EAIE conference in Dublin and the much-discussed London Statement on ethical recruitment issued earlier this year by the UK, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand.
Please see our earlier post on the NACAC process for additional background as well as an overview of different perspectives on working with international education agents.
Special thanks to Florian Schäfer from kommod.tv who interviewed Mr. Hassett on behalf of ICEF Monitor.
This entry was posted in Agents, Higher Education, North America, Regions, United States, Video Interviews and tagged student mobility, international students, student recruitment, NACAC, AIRC.
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In this week's show, the team discusses this week's Disneyland news, plus road trip traditions when driving to Disneyland. Also, Wayne has his next Disneyland 101 focusing on dining and Tony has continuing coverage of his Disneyland-themed March Madness brackets. Want to get in touch? Check out our contact page.
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June 07, 2007 Arts & Culture » Blister
By Billy Manes
"I should have shaved my pussy for this! The stubble is sticking to my dress."
And so begins one mighty headache of a journey out to the One Mighty Weekend VIP reception way out at Disney's Buena Vista Palace. Savannah's playing annoying, no-underpants girlfriend/Gay Days antidote, while I'm doing my best mean-dad-with-a-crumpled-Google-Map, lamenting the absence of actual addresses on the big-eared concourse and grunting obscenities from a vocal register that I thought I lost with my ass cherry.
"Why won't anybody fuck me?" she whines on, oblivious. "I can't even get a redneck skater to fuck me cuz I'm so hip-hop."
"Correction: You're red-hop."
"Why can't I be hip-neck?"
Why can't this be over with? Oh, because the bump-and-circuit-dance of Gay Days hasn't even almost approached its faked anticlimax — cue pink queer in a red shirt passing out on the "It's a Small World" ride — and there's still plenty of meaningless mess to be made. We finally arrive at our destination just early enough to be way too early and just late enough for my pre-event buzz to wane into a pool of rhetoric. Who am I? Why am I here? Who else is going to be here? Is it going to be middle-aged gym-rats in designer-ripped casual chic? Do I have a stomach? Will … she … be … here?
"Ah, Billy Manes. The next mayor of Orlando," comes heaving sarcastically out of an SUV plopped down out of nowhere. Omigod. She is here!
Full disclosure: By some twist of a very short hair, commissioner Patty Sheehan and I have spent the better part of this year in a publicity-fueled version of a slightly uglier Paris and Nicole (I'm so Paris), but perhaps in respect to the launch of the fifth-season reunion of The Simple Life, we are now able to simply call each other "bitch" and get back to the more important business of projected BlackBerry existences. Ah, the magic of Gay Days.
Patty's posse, myself and Savannah's nearly-exposed itchy nethers take our gay parade the 30 miles from parking place to 27th floor of the Palace for some high-end hobnobbery of the homosexual kind. Wait a minute!
"This is why you can't get fucked," I decode in Savannah's direction.
"You are ruining my life," she chafes. "That's it. I'm going to have to get gay guys to fuck me."
Er, you already have, right? Anyway, the party doesn't disappoint in the ridiculously lavish department. Amid the fragrant stench of sushi, pear-tinis and queers-bathed-in-cologne, a slightly frenetic din of cautious braggadocio is producing a white-noise resonance of what must be a very good time indeed. Until, that is, Savannah and I go a little heavy on the wasabi. Ouch! I do have a stomach!
Bored with our standard mingle circle — the Patty brigade, Watermark body hair and Graham from the Weekly (gay!) — we take our Japanese toxicity into territories unknown, hopping — get this — all the way over to the other side of the party. There we find another bored-looking couple-not-really-a-couple and get to chatting about nothing. He works for Logo, she's a photo editor and they both exhibit that medicated quality peculiar to Manhattan panic attacks. We try to make things interesting by dropping a few "when I was in New York" names, but to no avail. He starts lamenting the absence of the Golden Girls house from the MGM studio tour, and we naturally have to go. Thank you for being a friend, etc.
Back on the other side of the party — as the party has precisely two sides — Savannah runs to a window to take in the beauty.
"Look at the pretty colors," she sparkles.
"Look at the dirty pool," I dull.
"No, but look at the pretty decorations!"
"Yes, but look at the dirty roof!"
"You're so negative!"
"Nobody can be negative at Gay Days!" comes a portly voice from behind.
Yikes! "Uh, yeah they can," I reach for the yellow slip in my wallet. Queer Tip: Nobody should use the word "negative" at Gay Days.
Regardless, we are having a good time, especially Savannah, who claims she's "captured the magic" on a number of occasions, each following a posed picture (without underwear!) wrapped around a Disney character. Hopefully she hasn't "captured" too much. Patty's police liaison, the super-hot Jim Young, raises the bar with a story about his niece at the end-of-day Disney parade that ends with, "Uncle Jimmy, you made all of my dreams come true!" I knock the bar to the floor with my own rendition ending in, "Uncle Jimmy, you made all of my wet dreams come true!" All of which is followed by Savannah's suspicion that she and Young would make beautiful, tall, blond babies, to which somebody responds, "Oh, the Führer would be so proud!" This with Parliament House's Don and Susan Granatstein in earshot! Oh, the hilarity!
By the time Susan is punching me, hugging me and crowing, "I could strangle you!" I realize that it's time to go. But how?
"Do you mind if I wipe my hands on your dress?" I grab a corner of Savannah's drapery. "Who didn't wear any underwear?"
"I knew I should have shaved!" she stops the whole gay world.
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The DOMA President was speaking on CNC3 this morning.


I've talked a lot lately about different VCSs.
I got some interesting comments in reply to my most recent post. One person took issue with my complaint that nobody really understood how to specify a revision to git format-patch, and proceeded to issue an incorrect suggestion. And a couple of people complained about my comments about bzr, which generally came down to the released version of bzr didn't have anything compelling and also didn't support tags.
All of them can rename files and (excepting git) completely accurately track back the file's history. But consider this: if person A commits a change to branch A that adds a file, and person B then renames the directory that the file is in on his branch, will a merge cause person A's file to appear in the new directory name? In darcs and bzr, yes. In Mercurial and git, no.
So yes, this is a nice thing. But I have never actually had this situation crop up in practice, and even if it did, could be trivially remedied. I would say that for me, I don't really care.
This is a really nice feature and is present in both git and bzr. I haven't tested it either place, but if it works as advertised — and properly supports tracking multiple related svn branches and merges — would be slick. That was enough to make me consider using git, but in retrospect, I so rarely interact with people using svn that it is not that big a deal to me.
Still, for those that have to work with svn users, this feature in bzr and git could be a big one.
Better yet would be to get all those svn holdouts over to DVCS.
A bzr checkout is basically a way to make local commits be pushed to the remote repo immediately, as with svn. This is of no utility to me, though I can see some may have a use for it. But it can be done with hg hooks and probably approximated with scripting in others.
bzr has built-in support to push to a server that has sftp only, and doesn't require a copy of itself on the server. While I believe that none of the other three have that, it is possible to rsync (and probably ftp) darcs and Mercurial repos to a server in a safe fashion by moving repo files in a defined order. Probably also possible with git. All four can pull repos using nothing but regular HTTP.
Integrated patch emailing. The big thing is that it has no built-in emailing of patches support. darcs is extremely strong in this area, followed by hg, and git is probably third. "darcs send" is all it takes to have darcs look at the remote repo, figure out what you have that they don't, and e-mail a bundle of changesets to them. I posted an extension and later a patchset that does all this for Mercurial except for automatically figuring out what default email address to do (that'll come in a few days, I think). One feature Mercurial has had for awhile that Darcs hasn't is sending multiple textual diffs as a thread, with one message per changeset. bzr doesn't have any support for emailing patches yet, which is disappointing. Because of the strong support for this in darcs and Mercurial, people running those systems feel less of a need to publish their repos.
Performance. Supposedly 0.15 is supposed to be better on this, but even if bzr achieves the claimed doubling of performance, most benchmarks I have seen would rate it as still being significantly behind git and Mercurial, though it may overtake darcs in some tests.
Extensive documentation. I would say that bzr's docs are better in some ways than git's (its tutorials especially), but lack depth. If you want to know some detail about how the repository works on-disk, it's not really documented. Darcs still has David's excellent manual, and Mercurial has the hg book which is still great as well.
Merging not as advanced. darcs is pretty obviously way on top here, but of the others, Mercurial does a pretty good job with its automatic handling of renames and automatic resolving of different branches that commit the same change (even if that same change is a rename, or an add of the same content). bzr can't resolve as much automatically.
Well, I'll say that bzr still doesn't look compelling enough for my use cases to use, and the lack of an easy-for-a-newbie-to-use automated email submission feature is a pretty big disappointment. Though I did appreciate the time those on #bzr spent with me, and if I needed to sync with svn users frequently, I'd probably choose bzr over git.
For now, I'm happy with sticking with darcs for my code and hg for my Debian work.
But all four communities are aggressively working on their weaknesses, and this landscape may look very different in a year.
I've been writing a lot about this lately, I know, but it's an interesting landscape.
I had previously discarded git, but in light of git-cvsserver (which provides a plausible way for Windows people to participate), I gave it a try.
The first thing I noticed is that git documentation, in general, is really poor. Some tutorials that claim to cover git actually cover cogito. Still others use commands that are much more complex than those in the current git — and these just the ones linked to from the git homepage.
git's manpages aren't much better. There are quite a few git commands (such as log) that take arguments that other git commands accept. Sometimes this fact is documented with a pointer to these other commands, but often not; a person is left guessing what the full range of accepted arguments are.
My complaint that git is overly complex still exists. They've made progress, but still have a serious issue here. Part is because of the docuemtnation, and part is because of the interface. I wanted to export to diffs all patches on the current branch in a repo. I asked on #git, and someone suggested using the revision specifier ..HEAD. Nope, didn't work. A few other git experts chimed in, and none could come up with the correct recipe. I finally used -500, which worked but is hackish.
git's lack of even offering support for a human to indicate renames also bothers me, though trustworthy people have assured me that it doesn't generally cause a problem in practice.
git does have nicer intra-repo branching than Mercurial does, for the moment. But the Mercurial folks are working on that anyway, and branching to new directories still works fine for me.
But in general, git's philosophy is to make things easy for the upstream maintainer, and doesn't spend much effort making things easy for contributors (except to make it mildly easier to contribute to a large project like Linux). Most of my software doesn't have a large developer community, and I want to make it as easy as possible for new developers to join in and participate. git still utterly fails on that.
I tried bzr again. It seems that every time I try it, after just a few minutes, I am repulsed. This time, I stopped when I realized that bzr doesn't support tags and has no support for emailing changesets whatsoever. As someone that has really liked darcs send (and even used tags way back with CVS!), this is alarming. The tutorial on the bzr website referenced a command "bzr help topics", which does not work.
So I'll stick with my mercurial and darcs combination for now.
I announced the first version of a hg send extension yesterday as well. I think Mercurial is very close to having a working equivalent to darcs send.
I have been tracking 2.6.16.x here because Xen doesn't have patches for 2.6.17 yet (why on earth that is, I don't know.) But I need a few 2.6.17.x patches to the qla2xx driver. So I figure this is an opportunity to learn git.
I learned git, but then quickly learned that I can't just pull random commits from one branch to another. I have to use git cherry-pick, which doesn't actually pull the commit unmodified — it takes a diff, and commits a new patch based on that diff. So I expect problems later when I bump the local branch to 2.6.17.
This seems depressingly like arch/baz/bzr, and is a good reason for me to stay with darcs for now. This same operation with darcs would have been trivial, AND darcs would have automatically pulled in prerequisite patches rather than giving a merge failure and making me find them manually.


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Our Year 7 'A' team are a 'Credit' to us!
Our Year 7 took part in the Fintona Credit Union Quiz last Friday. Two teams were entered and we are delighted to say that our 'B' team came second and our 'A' team came first. Our 'A' team are now through to the next round. Well done to both teams on this great achievement.


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