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CHASING THE CURE IN NEW MEXICO
Tuberculosis and the Quest for Health
BY NANCY OWEN LEWIS (MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, 2016)
Given its monumental toll on victims and their families, tuberculosis could hardly claim to have a positive side. But from the 1880s until 1940, when the bronchial illness ravaged the nation, it brought surprising and lasting benefits to New Mexico. In Chasing the Cure in New Mexico, Nancy Owen Lewis lays out a thorough analysis of how the illness and the presumed curative powers of a high, dry environment led to massive in-migration, the first stirrings of public-health services, and a bounty of sanatoriums, boardinghouses, ranches, camps, and hot springs that catered to patients from throughout the nation.
Between 1885 and 1890 alone, appeals to TB patients attracted 19,000 people to the New Mexico Territory—more than a tenth of the era's non–Native American population. Their anglicizing effect eventually aided the 1912 push for statehood, and some of the individual patients changed the state forever. Among them were eventual U.S. senators Bronson Cutting and Clinton P. Anderson, future congressman Albert Simms, and future governor and Albuquerque mayor Clyde Tingley, who arrived with his ill fiancée, Carrie. Other cure-seekers included artists Gerald Cassidy, Carlos Vierra, Sheldon Parsons, Kenneth Chapman, and Will Shuster; poet Alice Corbin Henderson; and two journalists, James Ward Hicks and Willard Andrews, who together started New Mexico Magazine in 1923. (Fellow "lunger" George M. Fitzpatrick served as its editor for 34 years.) John Gaw Meem decided to pursue a career in architecture while a patient at Sunmount Sanatorium; his work became a hallmark of Santa Fe Style.
Lewis doesn't shy away from portraying the horrors of the illness or the resistance many residents had to promoting their hometowns to sick people. The public-health response, she notes, often faltered, but one of the physicians who came for a cure, William Randolph Lovelace, established a medical empire that lasts today.
As for a cure, the development of streptomycin and other drugs in the 1940s proved far more effective than New Mexico's TB industry. Vestiges of its architectural legacy remain, including Hotel Parq Central in Albuquerque, St. Joseph's Square apartment complex in Silver City, and Montezuma Castle in Las Vegas.
Chasing the Cure shines on the strength of Lewis' research and engaging voice. Read it on a sunny porch to soak up the full effect.
Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill
BY MARK LEE GARDNER (WILLIAM MORROW, 2016)
In February 1898, the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, and Theodore Roosevelt finally found the war he had pursued for more than a decade. To avenge his father's lack of Civil War service, to forge his path to higher office—regardless the reason, Teddy didn't "want to be in an office during war. I want to be at the front."
Mark Lee Gardner, a historian of the West, focuses his third book on a detailed accounting of how Roosevelt marshaled a force of cowboys—many of them New Mexicans—and led the 1st Volunteer Cavalry up two Cuban hills and straight into infamy. During their day, the Rough Riders caught the nation's fancy and drew the jealousies of other fighting units that were arguably better trained, better equipped, and better prepared to drive Spain out of its last colony in the Americas. Symbols of derring-do and rugged romance, Rough Riders drew fawning young maidens as their trains headed east to Florida ports, tossing buttons torn from their uniforms to them as gifts.
As Gardner notes, though, their warrior intentions were partly foiled. Higher-ups decided other units should ride into battle. Roosevelt's Rough Riders were relegated to infantry chores. Many of them never even set a toe on Cuban soil, and those who did endured a rough, reckless, and deadly charge, mingling, sometimes heroically, sometimes abysmally, with African American troops known as Buffalo Soldiers. Gardner's book lays out every step of those battles and the lives lost. His final chapter speaks hauntingly of loved ones left behind and of veterans' efforts to capitalize on their fame or stumble through what surely was the lingering trauma of war.
Was the Maine's explosion an act of war or a tragic accident? Were Americans interested in Cuban independence or empire building? Did Roosevelt earn the Medal of Honor he was posthumously awarded? Gardner's book doesn't explore those questions, which deserve our era's critical eye. His fast pace and comprehensive research, though, carry readers into a brief and memorable period of history, with pointy-toed boots firmly planted in New Mexico's cowboy story.
HIKING TO HISTORY
A Guide to Off-Road New Mexico Historic Sites
(UNM Press, 2016)
WILD GUIDE
Passport to New Mexico Wilderness
BY ROBERT JULYAN (New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, 2016)
"I've always felt that history is best experienced on foot, if for no other reason than that was usually how it was made." So begins Hiking to History, one of two new books bearing Robert Julyan's name, each an indispensable addition to his writings on our state's geographic and cultural history.
Wild Guide updates Julyan's out-of-print New Mexico Wilderness Areas. Focused strictly on wilderness areas that often abut better-known public lands, it defines what makes them special, where to hike, and what to look for. Published by the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, it's rich with information about geology, flora, and fauna, while lighter on hiking info. Nonetheless, trail hounds hungry for something new will welcome it as a supplement to other guides.
With Hiking to History, Julyan unleashes his inner storyteller to fill in the blanks on 22 lore-laden places, ranging from how Mount Walter in Taos got its name (hint: when Harold D. Walter wasn't shooting photos for this magazine, he climbed a lot of mountains) to how Persian ibex ended up in the Florida Mountains near Deming.
Besides introducing readers to a host of colorful and thoroughly New Mexican characters, Julyan provides tips on trail conditions, lengths, and GPS coordinates. You may need all of those to find that fabled place where Ernest Blumenschein and Bert Phillips' wagon wheel broke—the accident that gave birth to the Taos Society of Artists. Julyan describes his meticulous research, including oral accounts and photo comparisons, to alight upon the proper spot.
Each chapter goes down as easily as a granola bar on the trail—with far more nutrition. Wise readers will tuck it into their backpacks to inspire the next adventure and have a little something to read around the campfire later.
COYOTA IN THE KITCHEN
A Memoir of New and Old Mexico
BY ANITA RODRÍGUEZ
Skeletons live in Anita Rodríguez's closets. Around her Taos home, dragon's teeth lie just below the topsoil. With Coyota in the Kitchen, she flings open the closet door and digs out the dragon's teeth (or old grievances) to reveal her family and her culture in all their beauty and pain.
An award-winning artist, Rodríguez long paid her bills as an enjarrdora, a plasterer of adobe buildings, historically a woman's job but one she had to fight for in contemporary northern New Mexico. She did so with bravado earned the hard way in a family of strong people that included her Spanglish-speaking Hispanic father and her fatally flawed Texan mother.
Surely she was loved, but in a family sprawl that included alcoholism, adultery, and criminal behavior, she needed to find a stable path of her own from a young age. Good thing there was always food and always someone who knew the old recipes, simple though they were.
Rodríguez writes with verve, confidence, and endless humor about family gatherings that usually include a kitchen table and often end in a fight. Along the way, she teaches readers about the histories of tamales, atole, and quelites and provides the kinds of recipes you're likely to find at a New Mexico potluck. Pinto bean soup. Horno-baked rump roast. Chile con papas. (Warning: There will be lard.)
Meanwhile, pressure cookers explode and curses take root. Rodríguez moves to Mexico and eventually comes back. Here, her aunties, cousins, and grandmother help her restore her roots.
"From the worst to the most joyous, any occasion was an excuse to cook," she writes. "Those cooks and their food were the glue that held extended families together."
Published as part of the UNM Press Querencia series, which has featured such indelible voices as Don J. Usner, Juan Estevan Arellano, and Enrique R. Lamadrid, Coyota celebrates the weeknight cooking that has sustained generations. Those lucky enough to have grown up in this culture will spot their tíos and comadres on every page. Those who wish they could claim such roots will fall into a family big enough to cure your cold, break your heart, drive you crazy, and make you laugh. Just remember to save room for the Chocolate, Tequila, and Persimmon Mortal Sin Pie.
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title: Common Lisp, Parenscript, and AJAX
labels: [lisp, tutorial]
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When looking to make full-stack web applications in lisp, Common Lisp and
Parenscript are just as capable as Clojure and Clojurescript, if only less
documented. As I wanted to make a web-based REPL for
[jank](https://github.com/jeaye/jank), my statically-typed functional
programming language, I evaluated both the Clojure and Common Lisp stacks and,
ultimately, decided on Common Lisp.

The goal of this post is not to compare the Common Lisp and Clojure stacks, but
is, instead, to offer an updated introduction to actually getting the Common
Lisp stack running. Unfortunately, *every single* example and tutorial I've
found on the topic has *something* incorrect. The minimal scope of this post,
hopefully, will maximize its portability and longevity.

**UPDATE 2017-01-15:** At this point, I wouldn't recommend Common Lisp for web
applications. In the past couple of years, I've spent a great deal of time with
Clojure; its functional-first approach to programming, persistent, immutable
data structures, and code-as-data macros have proven, in several projects, to be
not only practical, but immensely enjoyable.

### Dependencies
To begin with, we'll sort out our dependencies. This was tested using SBCL
1.2.15.79-c2708da on Slackware 14.1 x86_64, but it should have no issues
elsewhere.

1. [parenscript](https://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/) (a set of macros for turning Common Lisp into Javascript)
2. [hunchentoot](http://weitz.de/hunchentoot/) (a pure Common Lisp web server)
3. [cl-who](http://weitz.de/cl-who/) (a DSL for building HTML, compatible with Parenscript)
4. [smackjack](https://github.com/aarvid/SmackJack) (an AJAX library we'll use from Parenscript)

We'll just use [quicklisp](https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/) to install these for us.

```cl
(ql:quickload '(:hunchentoot :cl-who :parenscript :smackjack))
```

### Package
After that, we'll define a package for our application. In my case, it's `:jank-repl`.

```cl
(defpackage :jank-repl
  (:use :cl :hunchentoot :cl-who :parenscript :smackjack))
(in-package :jank-repl)
```

### Starting the server
At this point, we can tell Hunchentoot to start up. It won't do much, but it'll allow us to verify everything is good so far.

```cl
(defparameter *server*
  (start (make-instance 'easy-acceptor :address "localhost" :port 8080)))
```

We specify the `'easy-acceptor` so that Hunchentoot will detect our custom routes later on, automatically. Different acceptors can be added to a global `*dispatch-table*`, which we'll see later.

**NOTE:** Many Hunchentoot examples and tutorials will use `'acceptor` instead of `'easy-acceptor`. Do *not* do this unless you know what you're doing. Nothing will work.

Now we can try connecting to the server, either through our browser, or simply via curl.

```bash
curl "http://localhost:8080/"
```

If all is working well, you should get a simple page back saying something like "Welcome to Hunchentoot!" We can now start adding some custom pages.

### Adding custom pages
Before we jump into using cl-who with Hunchentoot, we need to tell Parenscript how to escape its strings when embedded in cl-who.

```cl
; Allow cl-who and Parenscript to work together
(setf *js-string-delimiter* #\")
```

Now we can define a custom route using Hunchentoot's `define-easy-handler` macro.

```cl
(define-easy-handler (repl :uri "/repl") ()
  (with-html-output-to-string (s)
    (:html
      (:body
        (:h2 "Jank REPL")))))
```

This macro will setup routing for us, requiring no extra Hunchentoot code. As you can see, we use cl-who here to build HTML into a string. The return value of this handler is the html (or other content, if desired) of the webpage.

After restarting the server, we can now test out this new page.

```bash
curl "http://localhost:8080/repl"
```

### Setting up a remote API
To have our server start responding to queries, we'll begin integrating SmackJack into our source. To start, we need an AJAX processor operating at a specific URI.

```cl
(defparameter *ajax-processor*
  (make-instance 'ajax-processor :server-uri "/repl-api"))
```

After that, we can register remote functions with it using SmackJack's `defun-ajax` macro. We'll start with a simple echo function. The `:callback-data` can be various types, from text to JSON, to XML. For now, we'll just echo text.

```cl
(defun-ajax echo (data) (*ajax-processor* :callback-data :response-text)
  (concatenate 'string "echo: " data))
```

The last thing we need to do, in order for us to access our remote functions through Hunchentoot, is integrate the AJAX handler with Hunchentoot's dispatch table.

```cl
(setq *dispatch-table* (list 'dispatch-easy-handlers
                             (create-ajax-dispatcher *ajax-processor*)))
```

Now we can test the server!

```bash
curl 'http://localhost:8080/repl-api/ECHO?data="testing!"'
```

**NOTE:** The capitalization of `ECHO` here and the quoting of the `data` value is very deliberate. This is also something that many examples/tutorials will get wrong.

### Calling from Parenscript
Finally, we need to call our server from the client. We'll spice up our REPL page to have some Parenscript and we'll use the echo server with SmackJack to reply to the client.

In order to access our AJAX functions from Parenscript, we need to bring in SmackJack's prologue, which is just a generated dump of JavaScript wrappers. Aside from that, we'll need to define a two Parenscript functions.

1. Something to call when an event on the page happens; it calls into SmackJack
2. A callback for when we hear back from the server

Let's see how that looks, replacing our old call to `define-easy-handler`:

```cl
(define-easy-handler (repl :uri "/repl") ()
  (with-html-output-to-string (s)
    (:html
      (:head
        (:title "Jank REPL")
        (str (generate-prologue *ajax-processor*))
        (:script :type "text/javascript"
          (str
            (ps
              (defun callback (response)
                (alert response))
              (defun on-click ()
                (chain smackjack (echo (chain document
                                              (get-element-by-id "data")
                                              value)
                                       callback)))))))
      (:body
        (:p
          (:input :id "data" :type "text"))
        (:p
          (:button :type "button"
                   :onclick (ps-inline (on-click))
                   "Submit!"))))))
```

This is quite a bit larger than our previous `/repl` Hunchentoot handler, but the pieces are quite simple. First, we see we're generating SmackJack's prologue. We need to use cl-who's `str` function to marshal Common Lisp strings into the HTML generation. Aside from that, we're defining a script tag with some Parenscript, denoted by `ps`.

As mentioned before, we have two Parenscript functions. One handles the initial event and the other handles the callback from the server. I'll point out a couple of subtle bits which other examples and tutorials get wrong.

1. We use `chain` to access nested functions within Parenscript objects
2. We use `ps-inline` to generate JavaScript prefixed with "javascript:"

Now navigate to [http://localhost:8080/repl](http://localhost:8080/repl) and jot something into the text box. When you click the submit button, you'll contact the server. Once the server's reply comes back, your window  will be alerted with the response.

### Wrapping up
The full source for this can fit comfortably under 50 lines, which is great, considering it's both the front end and back end logic. However, the state of documentation for these projects, most of which have been stale for a matter of years, is very unfortunate. Even a matter of 50 lines can prove to be several hours of pain.

Of course, this isn't quite a REPL yet, but all of the necessary glue work between the client and server is entirely done. Now it's just a matter of cleaning up the UI and implementing the backend logic.

The full echo client/server source is shown below, as well as some references I used while piecing this together.

### Full source

```cl
(ql:quickload '(:hunchentoot :cl-who :parenscript :smackjack))

(defpackage :jank-repl
  (:use :cl :hunchentoot :cl-who :parenscript :smackjack))
(in-package :jank-repl)

; Allow cl-who and parenscript to work together
(setf *js-string-delimiter* #\")

(defparameter *ajax-processor*
  (make-instance 'ajax-processor :server-uri "/repl-api"))

(defun-ajax echo (data) (*ajax-processor* :callback-data :response-text)
  (concatenate 'string "echo: " data))

(define-easy-handler (repl :uri "/repl") ()
  (with-html-output-to-string (s)
    (:html
      (:head
        (:title "Jank REPL")
        (str (generate-prologue *ajax-processor*))
        (:script :type "text/javascript"
          (str
            (ps
              (defun callback (response)
                (alert response))
              (defun on-click ()
                (chain smackjack (echo (chain document
                                              (get-element-by-id "data")
                                              value)
                                       callback)))))))
      (:body
        (:p
          (:input :id "data" :type "text"))
        (:p
          (:button :type "button"
                   :onclick (ps-inline (on-click))
                   "Submit!"))))))

(defparameter *server*
  (start (make-instance 'easy-acceptor :address "localhost" :port 8080)))

(setq *dispatch-table* (list 'dispatch-easy-handlers
                             (create-ajax-dispatcher *ajax-processor*)))
```

### References
Note that *many* of these are out of date. Compare the usages you find with what's shown above to have a higher chance of bringing in working code.

- [Official Parenscript tutorial](https://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/tutorial.html)
- [Other Parenscript tutorial](http://vitovan.com/lispweb3.html)
- [Parenscript tips](http://www.cliki.net/ParenscriptTipsAndTricks)
- [SmackJack Demo](https://github.com/aarvid/SmackJack/blob/master/demo/demo.lisp)

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The Chant: A video clip for the actors and fresh gameplay from the scary
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Ice skating in downtown Providence is a must-do when visiting the city during the holiday season. Take this opportunity to skate at this beautiful rink while surrounding yourself with holiday music, festive lights, and great architecture.
Conveniently, the rink is located in the heart of downtown, and within walking distance of plenty of restaurants and Providence Place Mall: the largest mall in Rhode Island.
10. Federal Hill's "Little Italy"
downtown known for its' abundance of delicious Italian restaurants.
You will never run out of Italian dining choices with over 30 options in Providence's famous "Little Italy."


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Vol. 22, No. 5
San Diego Was Smokin'
Jacob Najor: Drummer With All the Right Grooves
Holly Hofmann's Jazz Heroics
GRAMPADREW: Existential-CowPunk-Flim Flam Man
Ted Stern: Chasing the Allure of Universal Magic
Jeff Beck: A Tribute
Marcus Petronius Bashore: The Best Seat in the House
Pacific Wave: A Surfin' Safari
The Winter Dance Party 1959: The Night the Music Lived
Back with a Bang! Java Joe's Reunion at San Diego Folk Heritage
Arlo Guthrie and Richie Furay Release New Songs of Pandemic and Patriotism
John Prine: An Appreciation
Remembering a Gentle Soul: David Olney
Ray Bonneville Brings His Musical Masala to San Diego
Dar Williams' Journey Through a Thousand Towns
Examining Bob Dylan's Love Sick Blues
John Densmore: An Invitation to Dance on Fire
Jazz 88 Keeps Pumping Out the Tunes: Station persists despite numerous challenges over the years, including Coronavirus
Me and Ronnie Earl
San Diego Is (Almost) Famous Again: Cameron Crowe Brings his Movie to the Old Globe Stage
The End of the Line for Mad, the Magazine That Was Satirical, Silly, and Serious
THE HOSPICE BUBBLE and Other Devastating Affirmations: Poems by Lizzie Wann
You'll Get Pie in the Sky When You Die
LENNY BRUCE: Word Blower Supremo (and the brother that you never had)
The Kazoo: Not Just an Annoying Party Favor
Words and Music: The Singing Trees at UCSD
Everything You Didn't Know About Whistles!
Celebrating the Stylophone
The Central Library Concert Series
Limiter: Mastering the Mix Raises the Roof
Jeffrey Joe Morin's Songs for Ginny
Big Quiet Steps: Presonus Moves Studio One into New Directions with Version 6
Critical Ear Theory
A Bluegrass New Year!
Bluegrass and the Holiday Season
How to Participate and Enjoy Bluegrass Jamming
Summergrass
Fiddle Contests
The Best Damn Blues Singer in Memphis!
Jody Reynolds and the Storms
How to Produce a Wild Street Fair
Before Tomcat Came to Town
The Live Album
Upward Social Mobility
Gain, Volume, Loudness
Do You Really Need All of That?
¿Por qué no los dos?
Things I Don't Do…
The Beatles' Covers Chart Top 100 (1963 -2023)
FYI/November Edition
Gone in 48 Hours
Music and the Law: Band Member Agreements
How to Get Your Music Placed in a Film or Television Show
How Much Does an Artist Get Paid per Stream?
Music in Sports: An Interview with California Sports Lawyer Jeremy Evans
The Role of a Record Label
Everything's Riding on This
CALAMITY: Live at Satellite
MIKE POPE: Songs for People (High & Low)
JEFF BERKLEY & THE BANNED: I Can Reach the Stars
JOHN PRIMER: Hard Times
DAVE PRESTON: Alligator Shoes
Lady Brain Presents "Home is Where the Art is" Holiday Party and Clothing Drive
How Did You Get Here?
Aging Rockers and Fixed Incomes
Doors of Change: An Environment of Trust
Notes from Desert Trip
The Value of Things
The Final Cut
Nifty Nasties
Paul and Me (and Ocean Beach)
A Child's Garden of Vinyl
This Is No Parasite
A Look Back at the Year That Wasn't
Viva Troubadour!
I'll Be Doggone
Nothing Spells Success Like Failure
Let's Face It
Notes on On the Beach by Neil Young
Beehives and Hand Claps: The Enduring Quality of Girl Groups
Wow by Moby Grape
Odyssey & Oracle in Wax (or how I found my groove)
School Girl Crush
The Mothers of God
A Light in the Dark
The Open Heart
Art and Memory
The Starving Musicians: Where to Eat in this Town
Where to Eat in This Town
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Examining Bob Dylan's Love Sick Blues by Ted BurkeApril 2018
John Densmore: An Invitation to Dance on Fire by Terry RolandApril 2018
A Father's Day Story: The Courtship of Harry Nilsson's Son, Zak by Terry Paul RolandApril 2018
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Q & A with Gabe Lapano: After the Rain and Beyond by Andy RasmussenApril 2018
Remembering Sam Hinton by Paul HomiczApril 2018
Band of Brothers: The Liggins Brothers by Bart MendozaApril 2018
by Lyle DuplessieApril 2018
Texas Jim Lewis and his Lone Star Cowboys, with Smokey Rogers playing banjo, circa 1935.
Rogers in Tex Williams' Western Caravan, 1949.
Left to right: Spade Cooley, Tex Williams, and Rogers.
Back before Nashville became "the home of country music," and the music was still called country and western, the San Diego area was a major center for the genre. The 1930s brought thousands of Dust Bowl refugees into the state, while the 1940s and the outbreak of World War II brought even more folks from all over rural America to California. Many of these people wound up in the San Diego area as part of the U.S. military or worked in the defense industry. When these people arrived in town, they brought with them their culture, including their musical tastes. One of the characters to arrive on the local scene during this period was Eugene "Smokey" Rogers. Smokey became a colorful fixture in the area from the 1940s through the early part of the 1960s. Smokey first hit the big time in 1935 when he began playing banjo for Texas Jim Lewis and His Lone Star Cowboys. Texas Jim was one of the pioneers of Western Swing but became most noted for his novelty numbers. His music centered around his cacophonous invention called the Hootenanny, an odd collection of washboards, horns, bells, sirens, clackers, whistles, guns, and just about anything else that could stir up a ruckus.
When Texas Jim was drafted in 1942, he turned over the reins to his fiddle player, Spade Cooley. Spade promptly changed the band's name to the Spade Cooley Orchestra, and Smokey went to work for Spade. But ol' Spade had a lead vocalist and guitar player by the name of "Tex" Williams. Besides being a talented performer, Tex was a handsome devil, which landed him starring roles in several B westerns of the day. Smokey was often featured in these movies as well. In short order, Tex became a star in his own right and the inevitable rift developed between Tex and Spade. Soon Tex lit out and took with him Smokey and most of the band.
In 1946 Tex formed his Western Caravan. Smokey, along with buddies Andre "Cactus" Soldi and Larry "Pedro" DePaul, became equal partners with Tex. They soon formed a home base to play the Palace Barn in Riverside. In 1947 the Western Caravan scored a major hit with "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette" (that's right, the same song was covered by Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen in the early 1970s). With this hit, the band produced more radio shows and movie shorts and toured all over the country. Upon returning to Riverside, they found themselves hosting a weekly NBC television show. You could say that the boys hit pay dirt. But by 1949 the wheels came off this wagon, too, with Tex moving on in search of greener pastures.
When Tex rode off into the sunset, Smokey went into full gallop. Smokey, along with his partners Cactus and Pedro, was soon staking claim to San Diego's Western Caravan entertainment scene. Smokey and the boys also took over the ownership and operation of one of the nation's foremost country and western watering holes and entertainment hot spots, the Bostonia Ballroom in El Cajon. From about 1950 to the early years of the '60s, every major country-western entertainer passed through the Ballroom. Hank Williams, Hank Thompson, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Lefty Frizzell, Marty Robbins, Brenda Lee, Terry Preston (aka Ferlin Husky), a very young Willie Nelson, and Jerry Lee Lewis were just a few of the featured acts to play there.
Also in the late 1940s, Smokey lassoed another gig with local KFMB-TV. Smokey and the band hosted an afternoon variety show five days a week. In the beginning, the show was on four hours a day, but as more network shows moved in, the show was cut to three hours, then down to two. The show lasted six and a half years.
While hosting the TV show, Smokey still had plenty of other chores. The Western Caravan played every weekend at the Bostonia Ballroom, adjacent to which a radio station was soon broadcasting. Smokey and his partners bought Valley Music, still owned and operated by the Soldi family to this day (in 2001).
In 1957, Ferlin Husky scored a major hit with the Smokey Rogers-penned composition "Gone." In addition to being one of the most melancholy country songs ever recorded, it marked the beginning of the new, more polished and less twangy Nashville sound. "Gone" was a masterpiece, with heart-wrenching lyrics, a stellar vocal delivery by Ferlin, and a polished studio production, which was not strangled in sap and syrup. As a result, the song became a hit on rock radio as well.
But alas, all good things come to an end. In the early 1960s, Smokey, Cactus, and Pedro dissolved their partnership. Smokey took over full ownership of the Bostonia Ballroom but sold it a couple of years later. Though Smokey continued to perform and record, the momentum was gone. In the 1970s Lou Curtiss was able to get Smokey to perform at three San Diego Folk Festivals. Indeed, by that time Western Swing was becoming a forgotten American musical art form.
Smokey passed away in November 1993. He was the consummate entertainer and a major figure and link in the history of the San Diego-area music scene.
(Special thanks to Liz Abbott, Lou Curtiss, Andrea Long, Jim Soldi, and Tommy Turman for information used in this article. NOTE: This article is a reprint from November 2001.)
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Q: Как на андроид реализовать виджет поверх всех окон? Добрый день.
Возник вопрос по реализации Андроид виджета который бы располагался поверх всех окон. Т.е. при свертывании моего приложения есть необходимость появления данного виджета, который бы был постоянно на виду. Так вот гуглю пока ничего толком не нашел! Помогите, пожалуйста. Буду рад любой помощи, узнать бы хотя бы в какую сторону копать!
A: Пример картинки поверх всех окон
https://droidqd.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/how-to-make-a-floating-face-bubble-on-home-screen-in-android/
Ключевой кусок
 public class FloatingFaceBubbleService extends Service {
   private WindowManager windowManager;
   private ImageView floatingFaceBubble;
   public void onCreate() {
     super.onCreate();
     floatingFaceBubble = new ImageView(this);
     //a face floating bubble as imageView
     floatingFaceBubble.setImageResource(R.drawable.floating_bubble);
     windowManager = (WindowManager)getSystemService(WINDOW_SERVICE);
     //here is all the science of params
     final LayoutParams myParams = new WindowManager.LayoutParams(
       LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
       LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT,
       LayoutParams.TYPE_PHONE,
       LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE,
       PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT);
     myParams.gravity = Gravity.TOP | Gravity.LEFT;
     myParams.x=0;
     myParams.y=100;
     // add a floatingfacebubble icon in window
     windowManager.addView(floatingFaceBubble, myParams);

В примере по ссылке можно так же посмотреть реализацию перетаскивания этого окошка пальцем и обработку нажатия (лучше переделать).
Основная идея - отображать view через ViewManager (это можно делать из сторонних классов, но UI потока.)
Чтобы было поверх всех окон - LayoutParams.TYPE_PHONE - т.е. вьюшка как во входящем звонке поверх всех окон выскакивает. Только мы ее убирать не будем.
Скорее всего понадобиться еще LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE.
Единственное - это не виджет. Виджет только на рабочем столе. Зато можно рисовать такое окошко из сервиса и постоянно "оживлять" сервис, если его убили.

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J Bertani 30th March 2007
Answering to Ali Dan there is no other way to the swiss sector from the french one than the way he described. I live in Geneva and flying from its airport (french sector and swiss sector) almost once a month and saw many times passengers with suitcases having to go through the french police desk french custom swiss police and finally swiss custom in order to check their bags in the swiss sector. One option is that sometimes there's one check-in desk open in the french sector for flight departing from the swiss side (ie all flight not going to france). When it is not open there's a phone I guess to be used to call a check in agent.
Recommended no
Ali Dan 28th March 2007
I don't understand the description given by Harry Albright. I've just come back from Geneva where I flew into the swiss side picked up my baggage at the carousel exited quite normally into the swiss sector turned left to the passport control between Geneva airport switzerland and Geneva airport France (with luggage already to hand no baggage handlers involved!) and went to the car hire desk to get the car. The return journey was a different story! How are you supposed to get from Geneva Airport France to Geneva Airport Switzerland without finding yourself airside and having to ask passport control and customs to let you through the arrivals area and back out into the Swiss airport? There must be a way but obviously an awful lot of people don't find it because none of the airport staff batted an eyelid - they just looked bored and annoyed at our stupidity. So how do you do it? Anybody? A definite plus on the way out is that the security areas are spread out and people get through faster (at least that was my experience).
Peter Bedson 28th February 2007
Looking at the comments GVA is really not that bad - granted it is a zoo on week-ends in the ski season but otherwise it is not too crowded and quite efficient. You can get to France through the Swiss side terminal - just collect your luggage in the main bagage hall go out into the Swiss side and then walk upstairs (to the left I think) through a small door and you are in France! There is a place for someone to check your passport but I have never seen anyone there. The French side is much less crowded and has a full set of (albeit fewer) check in desks so you can check in and leave your luggage here without a long wait but be warned - you need a boarding card to go from France to Switzerland in the terminal so you can't go back to the Swiss side once you have left - make sure you have all your children with you! I have no idea if there is any public transport or taxis on the French side - probably not - but there is a full set of car hire booths (if you hire on the French side you must bring it back to the French side otherwise Herz or whoever will charge you lots of money to move the car about 100m). There are lots of shops selling pricy watches and chocolate and a reasonably good duty free - before security - but the cafes in the departure satellites (after the security has removed your drinks) are horrendously expensive - €3 for a small bottle of water anyone - but aside from that the only problem is the lack of seating downstairs however if you go upstairs near the frequent fliers lounges (follow sign for chapel) the lounges are usually empty.
William Hogan 26th February 2007
Just had the frustration and displeasure of experiencing the Swiss efficiency machine in action yesterday at GVA travelling with 5 adults and 5 children the enjoyment of our ski holiday was quickly replaced by discomfort and stress. Voted unanimously by our group as possibly the worst airport to visit in years. Reading through the other comments published by dissatisfied travellers let me update and reassure them that nothing has changed - long queues no seating ( floor space only if you were lucky ) overcrowding and a total lack of facilities for the traveller. Security processing slow and inefficient. Would love to go back to holiday area but not if GVA is in the travel plans.
Donald Munro 26th February 2007
I have often wondered how I could exit Geneva airport through the French sector when heading for France anyway in order to take advantage of the cheaper car hire rates. Harry Albright's comments looked promising until I came to the statement "You will need to ask a baggage handler to go and fetch any checked luggage from the Swiss side. "Has anyone ever tried this and if so how many hours / days does that take? I think I am stuck with Swiss cars for the foreseeable future.
Harry Albright 10th December 2006
To help people avoid the problems that Jenny Eckersley encountered here are a few tips. First of all the signs are for Ferney (note the second "e") because that is the French town next to the airport. The only reason for using the French sector even if you are travelling on into France is to pick up a French rental car. In this case follow the "Secteur Francais" signs before passport control (do not go through Swiss passport control) and you will arrive at the French car rental desks. (You will need to ask a baggage handler to go and fetch any checked luggage from the Swiss side.) This does not apply if you are arriving from France as you will be in the French sector to begin with. Or if you aren't renting a French car exit through Switzerland where you will have the full range of transport options including trains to the main station and on to France. If you have rented a French car on leaving the airport follow the signs back to Geneva (it's hardly the airport's fault that the French authorities don't sign their roads very well) and cross back into Switzerland. You will go under the airport runway and link up with the Swiss autoroute that passes in front of the airport. Take this in the direction of Geneva (not Lausanne) and continue on the autotroute until you reach the Bardonnex customs post. From there you will link directly on to the A40. On the way back come off the A40 at Bardonnex and follow the autoroute to the airport. Follow the signs for "secteur francais" to return your car then go to the Swiss side to check in for flights to countries other than France. If in doubt ask the people at the rental desk for directions to your destination. As for walking miles to the B gates there are travellators. You actually have to walk very little at all. Walks to the gates at Heathrow or Gatwick are much more arduous. Geneva is actually one of the most compact best managed airports I have used. It is true that if you want to shop or eat stay landside as long as possible. Airside most of the facilities are in the main terminal so avoid going to the gates until as late as possible. They really are just pre- boarding holding areas (as they are in most airports).
Jenny Eckersley 7th December 2006
My recent experience of GVA was absolutely horrendous. Having flown by EasyJet from Newcastle we were happy to be back in France and looking forward to our weekend. We did not realise at the time how angry and depressed we would be a few hours later. Coming out of the airport (French sector) led us to the village of Ferny where there were no motorway signs to be seen for the A40. The exit from the airport was gloomy depressing and unhelpful. As a result of the lack of signposts we took the signs for Dijon as we live in Burgundy. This led us I think into the Jura mountains. Later next day In the daylight it was funny but at eght pm in the dark with a long drive ahead it was not at all amusing. On the way back on the 4th December I could not believe how unhelpful the main signposts were on the A 40. We had arrived in Switzerland before the signs for Ferny were shown on the motorway. As a result we had to find our way back into France and follow signs for Ferny yet again. Why do the signs not say on the motorway "For the French Section please follow signs for Ferny only"??. Anyway WHY FERNY? What is it's significance? Once in the French section we had to walk miles to the other side of the airport to a small departure lounge dealing with several flights. I refer of course to the B gates. There was no clear distinction between which were smoking and non-smoking areas- the shops were a disgrace. The whole area was filled with cigarette smoke and very smelly. It felt that the Swiss were treating the EasyJet passengers as a very "poor relation". I have a second home in France and if there were any way of avoiding Geneva airport I would do so. I cannot believe how chaotic and badly managed it is
Maurice Bulmer 9th June 2006
I have travelled via GVA for skiing in the March of each of the last 2 years arriving BA on Saturday mornings. I also use Calgary when skiing in Canada most years and have used other airports around the world for similar trips. None can compare with the abject chaos that is the luggage and ski collection process that reigns in Geneva. You would have thought they would have realised that many people arrive with skis on Winter weekends. Apparently not as the method used seems to be to dump them in piles on the floor and leave it to customers to identify and drag out their ski bags; which have not even been sorted by flight. Frankly it is a mess and compares incredibly poorly with Calgary in this respect. Another issue is the lack of seating in an overcrowded (Winter weekends again) airport resulting in people sitting wherever they can blocking the narrow gangways between high end shops selling over priced goods ranging from Rolex watches to caviar - but no seats to be had at the cramped self service restaurant! I am looking for another alternative. An additional 2 hour drive from Lyon would be preferable.
Simon Smith 31st January 2006
Flew out of GVA last Saturday. Huge queue at security although no worse than BAA regularly manages at LHR. The main problem was that they have so many shops that there isn't enough space for passengers to sit and there were 100+ passengers sitting on the floor. I would have thought providing seats for passengers would be a minimum basic service for an airport. Overall travelling through GVA was a pretty nasty experience.
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Military arrests five kidnappers, rescues five hostages in Ondo
Nigerian Air Force (NAF)'s Special Forces Wednesday killed two armed bandits after a fierce exchange of gunfire in Rafi and Doka villages of Mada District in Gusau Local Government Area (LGA) of Zamfara State.
According to NAF's statement, the 207 Quick Response Group, which was deployed to the area subsequently secured the two settlements.
This is coming as troops of the 32 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army have arrested five kidnappers and rescued five hostages in Jugbere Village in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State.
In an update on the war against armed banditry in Zamfara and other North-west states, NAF said the special forces encountered heavy gunfire from the bandits.
"In response to reports that high profile armed bandits were gathering around Rafi and Doka villages of Mada District in Gusau LGA of Zamfara State, which is under the Area of Responsibility (AOR) of the 207 Quick Response Group (207 QRG), a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Special Forces (SF) team was dispatched to the area yesterday to secure the two settlements and thwart the bandits' plans.
"Upon arrival at the location, the NAF SF team encountered resistance in the form of heavy gunfire from the bandits. However, the brave SF personnel employed superior tactics to outlast the bandits, who were soon low on ammunition, before engaging and overpowering them.
"Two bandits were neutralised in the process while others fled with gunshot wounds. Since then, the SF Team has been conducting aggressive patrols in the area, especially the fringes of the forest, to forestall any reprisal attack," a NAF statement said.
Meanwhile, troops of the 32 Artillery Brigade of the Nigerian Army located in Akure, have arrested five kidnappers and rescued five hostages following reports it received of nine kidnap incidents in the area.
A statement signed by the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations of the Brigade, Captain Victor Olukoya, said following reports it received, a raid was conducted on the kidnappers' hideout in Jugbere village of Owo LGA in Ondo State.
"Following credible information of kidnap incident involving nine persons at Mr. Godwin Ugu Integrated Agric Farm Owo, troops of 32 Artillery Brigade, Akure have in the early hours of today (yesterday) at about 1:00 am, conducted a raid operation on the kidnappers' hideout at Jugbere village in Owo Local Governnent Area of Ondo State.
"The operation resulted in the arrest of five kidnappers and rescue of five hostages and four other abductees escaped from the kidnappers' den on arrival of troops.
"The rescued hostages and the arrested suspects, who had minor injuries have been taken to the Brigade Medical Centre for medical examination/treatment", it said.
The Brigade said troops recovered weapons, charms and handsets from the kidnappers.
"The suspects will be handed over to the appropriate civil security agency at the conclusion of preliminary investigation."
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Q: Why does static field self assignment compile only with explicit static syntax? Why does this code compile with explicit static field notation on the right hand side, but not without ?
public class A
{
    static int a = ++A.a;  // compiles
    //static int a = ++a;  // error - cannot reference a field before it is defined

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(a);
    }
}

A: This is simply how the language spec is written. Specifically, Sec 8.3.3 says:

References to a field are sometimes restricted, even through the field is in scope. The following rules constrain forward references to a field (where the use textually precedes the field declaration) as well as self-reference (where the field is used in its own initializer).
For a reference by simple name to a class variable f declared in class
  or interface C, it is a compile-time error if:

*

*...

Emphasis mine.
A.a is not a simple name, so it's not a compile-time error.

A: In addition to @Andy's answer I would like to show some examples that are taken from this JLS chapter. They explains the Use Before Declaration rules, demonstrating valid & invalid cases:
class UseBeforeDeclaration {
    static {
        int a = UseBeforeDeclaration.b + 2; // ok - 'b' is not accessed via simple name
    }

    {
        c = 1000000; // ok - assignment
        c = c + 100; // error - right hand side reads before declaration
        int d = c++; // error - read before declaration
        int e = this.c * 2; // ok - 'c' is not accessed via simple name
    }

    static int b;
    int c;
}

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}


You will meet for a couple of hours a week before to be given the book and some homework to read up on to help the following week sink in faster. The following week will take in extensive countryside roads around Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire or Lincolnshire and will improve your cornering techniques, speed in bends, forward planning skills and will improve fuel efficiency and passenger friendliness through systematic riding and concentration. There will be a working lunch stop half way through. A copy of "Roadcraft, the police rider's manual" will be included in the price (see price list) We can also use an on-bike video to see the progress you make throughout the day and you will receive the original footage of the day if you bring in a minimum of a 32gb memory stick/card.
Meeting a week before to book in, receive Roadcraft manual, be talked through an advanced riding video and given a little homework to read up on a few points. This will help us to concentrate on more riding on the day. Price excludes lunch on the day.


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Bowerbirds and catbirds make up the bird family Ptilonorhynchidae. The family has 20 species in eight genera. bowerbirds have an Austro-Papuan distribution, with ten species endemic to New Guinea, eight endemic to Australia and two found in both.Although their distribution is centered around the tropical regions of New Guinea and northern Australia, some species extend into central, western and southeastern Australia. catbirds are monogamous and raise chicks with their mate, but all other bowerbirds are polygymous, with the female building the nest and raising the young alone. These latter species are commonly sexually dimorphic, with the female being more drab in color. Female bowerbirds build a nest by laying soft materials, such as leaves, ferns, and vine tendrils, on top of a loose foundation of sticks.
In and around the bower the male places a variety of brightly colored objects he has collected. These objects — usually different among each species — may include hundreds of shells, leaves, flowers, feathers, stones, berries, and even discarded plastic items, coins, nails, rifle shells, or pieces of glass. The males spend hours arranging this collection. Bowers within a species share a general form but do show significant variation, and the collection of objects reflects the biases of males of each species and its ability to procure items from the habitat, often stealing them from neighboring bowers. This hypothesis is not well supported because species with vastly different bower types have similar plumage. Borgia has suggested[citation needed] that the bower functioned initially as a device that benefits females by protecting them from forced copulations and thus giving them enhanced opportunity to choose males, and benefits males by enhancing female willingness to visit the bower. Evidence supporting this hypothesis comes from observations of Archbold's bowerbirds that have no true bower and have greatly modified their courtship so that the male is limited in his ability to mount the female without her cooperation. In toothbilled bowerbirds that have no bowers males may capture females out of the air and forcibly copulate with them. Once this initial function was established bowers were then co-opted by females for other functions such as use in assessing males based on the quality of bower construction. Recent studies with robot female bowerbirds by Patricelli and collaborators have shown that males react to female signals of discomfort during courtship by reducing the intensity of their potentially threatening courtship.[citation needed] Coleman and colleagues[who?] found that young females tend to be more easily threatened by intense male courtship, and these females tend to choose males based on traits not dependent on male courtship intensity.
traditionally been regarded as closely related to the birds of paradise, recent molecular studies suggest that while both families are part of the great corvid radiation that took place in or near Australia-New Guinea, the bowerbirds are more distant from the birds of paradise than was once thought. Sibley's DNA-DNA hybridization studies placed them close to the lyrebirds[citation needed]; however, anatomical evidence appears to contradict this placement[citation needed] and the true relationship remains unclear.
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defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Authentication extends CI_Controller
{

    function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
        $this->load->library('mpi/endeavour');
    }

    public function index(){

        parse_str($_POST['MD'],$MD);

        $this->db->where('id', $MD['merchant_id']);
        $merchant = $this->db->get('tblmerchants')->row();

        // Get merchant processor object
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        $merchantProcessor = $this->db->query($sql)->row();

        $processorData = json_decode($merchantProcessor->processor_data);

        $Endeavour = new Endeavour();

        if ($merchant->live_mode && $processorData->secure && !empty($processorData->secure_id)) {

            $Endeavour->setMID($processorData->secure_id);
        }

        $authResponse = $Endeavour->MPIAuthenticate($_POST);

        if ($authResponse['status'] == 'Y'){

            if ($merchant->live_mode) {
                $url = _LIVE_URL;
            } else {
                $url = _TEST_URL;
            }

            $post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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  <memberGuid>'.$merchant->secret_key.'</memberGuid>
  <method>'.$MD['method'].'</method>
  <countryId>'.$MD['countryId'].'</countryId>
  <amount>'.$MD['amount'].'</amount>
  <currencyId>'.$MD['currencyId'].'</currencyId>
  <trackingMemberCode>'.$MD['trackingMemberCode'].'</trackingMemberCode>
  <cardNumber>'.$MD['creditCard']['cardNumber'].'</cardNumber>
  <cardholder>'.(isset($MD['creditCard']['cardholder']) ? $MD['creditCard']['cardholder'] : null).'</cardholder>
  <cardExpiryMonth>'.$MD['creditCard']['cardExpiryMonth'].'</cardExpiryMonth>
  <cardExpiryYear>'.$MD['creditCard']['cardExpiryYear'].'</cardExpiryYear>
  <cardCvv>'.$MD['creditCard']['cardCvv'].'</cardCvv>
  <merchantAccountType>1</merchantAccountType>
  <xid>'.$authResponse['xid'].'</xid>
  <dbaName></dbaName>
  <dbaCity></dbaCity>
  <avsAddress></avsAddress>
  <avsZip></avsZip>
  <additionalInfo>'.json_encode($MD['additionalInfo']).'</additionalInfo>
</request>';

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            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
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            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postfields);

            $res = curl_exec($ch);

            if(curl_errno($ch))
            {
                curl_error($ch);
            }
            else
            {
                curl_close($ch);
                $response = json_decode($res);
            }

            redirect('http://crm.macropay.io/terminal/result/'.$response->TransactionId.'/1');
        } else {

            redirect('http://crm.macropay.io/terminal/failedauthentication/1');
        }
    }
}


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What is the significance of this character being given a name?
Does Chewie still owe a life debt to Han according to the Solo film?
Where / How did Han Solo learn to speak / understand Shyriiwook?
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Why did Jabba keep Han around?
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