The hardcover is out – for example here: Amazon.com or at Springer – but its coming out in paperback soon – Amazon.ca . Its not coming in paperback, so I just bought the hard cover. Its ok if a paperback comes later but I can't wait!
So what I'm saying is that I'm cheap enough to wait for the paperback, so I actually have not read the book, but it looks like its going to be a real addition to the field. Its aimed at people with at least a science background.
The book takes the discovery (by for example Couder/Bush) that quantum-like behaviour is not solely reserved to atomic particles one step further. If electrons are modelled as vibrating droplets instead of the usually assumed point objects, and if the classical laws of nature are applied, then exactly the same behaviour as in quantum theory is found, quantitatively correct! The world of atoms is strange and quantum mechanics, the theory of this world, is almost magic. Or is it? Tiny droplets of oil bouncing round on a fluid surface can also mimic the world of quantum mechanics. For the layman – for whom the main part of this book is written – this is good news. If the everyday laws of nature can conspire to show up quantum-like phenomena, there is hope to form mental pictures how the atomic world works.
To begin with a warning: the contents of this book may be controversial.
one of the many other popular-scientific books.
new theory of quantum mechanics, nor does it have the intention. Quantum theory in its present form is an almost perfect tool to calculate the behaviour of elementary particles. But the theory is "strange", it is not something that intuitively can be understood. What this book tries to add are visualisations or mental pictures, closer to the intuition, because they are based on classical physics. However, the mental pictures in this book are not just half-baked analogies or metaphores, they are solidly founded on a large body of mathematical theory (for the diehards: the theory can be found in the appendix). This aspect makes this book different from other popular-scientific books.
Here is an excerpt from the book's appendix. You can see that a mathematical treatment is supplied. This book is written for people who already know QM. I can think of some young physics undergrads I might buy this for!
I will do an in depth review when I'm able to get the book.
Perhaps you might be interested in looking at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.00329 since this is about how QM might be emergent from a GR-like theory of gravity. I will be talking about this at EmQM2017 next week.
I think this clear 'classical' mechanics approach explains a lot of QM magic. I am very interested in your full review.
Thanks for the link. I bought the book. I will hopefully do a more complete review later.
Tom, are you family of Ross Anderson, professor in Cambridge ? He did write the foreword in the book of Theo van Holten as you probably might have noticed.
Hi – no relation (and a slightly different spelling). I did have lunch with Ross Anderson in about 2015 or so, though!


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Changes in store for next GE
Saturday, 30 Nov 2019
Residents cast their vote in the city's by-election at a polling station in Singapore on January 26, 2013. Voters in a Singapore suburb began casting ballots on January 26 in a by-election that tests the public mood two years after the ruling party suffered its worst ever poll performance. AFP PHOTO / ROSLAN RAHAN
SINGAPORE: The Elections Department (ELD) will introduce a number of changes in the upcoming polls, including self-inking pens and new polling booths.
Candidates will also be able to fill in most of the required paperwork online.
These include appointing their election agents, paying their election deposits, and preparing their nomination papers.
However, hard copies of nomination papers must still be submitted on Nomination Day.
The Electoral Boundaries Review Committee was convened in August, marking the first step towards the next general election, which must be held by April 2021.
In the past three general elections under Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the period between the announcement of the committee's formation and Polling Day has ranged between two and six months.
The new self-inking pens, which have been used in countries such as South Korea, allow voters to easily stamp an "X" for the party of their choice.
The ELD said it made the decision to change the pens provided after feedback that some older voters had difficulty gripping regular pens to cast their votes.
Voters in certain constituencies will also see prototype polling booths made largely from cardboard and other recyclable materials.
Designed by students from the Singapore Institute of Technology, the new booths cost S$30 (RM91.5) each.
In comparison, the old booths, which are used for around 12 years before being replaced, cost about S$750 (RM2,289).
The ELD will hold roadshows ahead of the next general election to familiarise voters with the new equipment.
The latest changes come on the back of an announcement by the ELD last year, in which it said voters will be able to register electronically at polling stations and have their votes tallied by counting machines.
However, hard copy ballot papers will continue to be used, and counting assistants will still handle the mixing, unfolding and sorting of the papers.
The department will also organise sessions for political party representatives to try out the new digital services and provide feedback.
However, the actual system will be open for use only after the Writ of Election has been issued for security reasons. — The Straits Times/ANN
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Hip-hop pioneers hoping to create NYC museum
In this Feb. 28, 2006 file photo, Afrika Bambaataa speaks at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in New York. Hip-hop began in the early 1970s as an alternative to gang activity. Before the music was recorded, founding fathers like DJ Afrika Bambaataa – whose slogan was "peace, love, unity and having fun" – would play Malcolm X's voice over instrumental break beats. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
NEW YORK (AP) — The pioneers of hip-hop are hoping to create a museum in the Bronx dedicated to the genre.
Organizers say it would be called the Universal Hip Hop Museum.
Afrika Bambaataa says the museum would look at the historical and cultural roots of hip-hop and the contributions made by break dancers and disc jockeys.
Bambaataa is frequently called the father of hip-hop. He would serve as the museum's chairman.
The museum hopes to open in 2017 inside the Kingsbridge Armory, which is being redeveloped into a national ice sports center. The plan was announced at a news conference on Wednesday.
Bambaataa says many people think of rappers when they hear the word hip-hop. But he says there's a whole culture and movement behind it.
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The culture in my organization is toxic. We have intelligent, proud, committed leaders who are beginning to learn the talk of collaboration and empowerment. However, they still cling to the quick-and-dirty solution of compliance. My question is, how is intentional influence different from manipulation? I fear that the concept of intentional influence will enable a dysfunctional culture. I think cultural change in medicine will be a long, slow process if it is to be meaningful and sustainable. But how do we avoid manipulation/forced compliance in the process?
This is a nice, hard question. I like the thought you've put into it, and I'll try to give it the kind of answer it deserves. First, I want to explore the toxic environment you describe because it's a common problem for cultures in transition. Second, I'll focus on intentional influence and tackle the conundrum of influence without manipulation.
Your Toxic Environment. It sounds as if you have leaders who talk the right talk and may buy in to the need to improve collaboration and empowerment across the culture. But, when they need quick action, they revert to their old ways of forced compliance. It's a classic case of actions speaking louder than words. People see them as hypocrites and the culture becomes toxic. Here are a few ideas for overcoming this hurdle.
Crucial moments. Humans are hard-wired for self-protection. As a result, we are always on the lookout for bad news—and we're naturally suspicious of good news. This makes us quick to read bad intent in others' actions. So, when leaders talk the talk about collaboration and empowerment, we tend to hold back and watch their actions for evidence of their true intent.
We're also pretty good at masking our own motives—putting on a good face—and we know our leaders are good at it too. So we don't trust their more scripted and formal interactions. The evidence we find most credible is how they behave when the stakes are high, and supporting new values requires painful sacrifices. It's these crucial moments that test leaders' resolve.
Hypocrites and heroes. In these crucial moments, leaders' actions will make them either hypocrites or heroes. There is safe ground in between.
The best leaders capitalize on crucial moments by doubling down on their support for the new culture. They turn the crucial moment into a symbol of their support by making a sacrifice. By sacrifice, I mean a trade-off. They trade another value—their time, ego, money, or another priority—in favor of the new cultural value. Here's an example: A CEO of a major aerospace and defense corporation was in the middle of an employee-feedback session when his assistant passed him a message, "The Prince has arrived a half hour early." The Prince was a royal buyer who was there to discuss a multi-billion dollar order. This was a crucial moment, and the CEO recognized it. Royalty doesn't like to be kept waiting and the sale was important. In the old culture, the CEO would have ended the feedback session on the spot. But this time he didn't. Instead, he explained the situation to the group and then said, "I know you've all invested time and energy in preparing for this meeting. And I'm anxious to hear your perspectives. Let's continue our meeting. I'll have my assistant work with the Prince until we've wrapped up here." He put his meeting with the Prince at risk in favor of getting feedback. You can bet people noticed. Making the trade-off signaled that the CEO's verbal support for employee input was genuine and sincere.
Intentional Influence. How can leaders drive rapid change without resorting to forced compliance or manipulation? We wrote Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change in order to answer this exact question. I'll outline a few key concepts so you can see how the process works.
Manipulation versus influence. First, I'll define manipulation, so we can see how influence is different. An action is manipulative if it derives a part of its power from subterfuge—i.e., from being hidden or underhanded. If explaining exactly what you are doing and why makes the action less effective, then it is manipulative. The influence strategies we teach in Influencer are just the opposite: they become more powerful as people understand how and why they are being used.
Make the business case for change. Don't assume that a desire for open dialogue will be enough to drive culture change. Instead, make a detailed business case that ties these behaviors to bottom-line results. Share the facts you have—the good, the bad, and the ugly—about the need for the cultural change.
Measure it like it matters. Measure both behavior change and results. Cascade behavior change goals as key performance indicators for senior leaders, managers, and employees at all levels.
Turn leaders into influencers. Involve both formal and informal leaders in all phases of the culture-change initiative. These leaders, including senior leaders, must teach, model, and hold each other accountable for the new norms.
Employ all Six Sources of Influence™. Too often leaders rely on a single source solution. For example, they over-rely on training, or incentives, or motivational speeches and posters. Our research has shown that combining four or more different Sources of Influence makes you ten times more likely to succeed.
Culture change doesn't have to move at a glacial pace. If the organization recruits all Six Sources of Influence to work for the change, they will find that the improvements are profound, rapid, and enduring.


With the spaceflight community still in awe at the unveiling of the Interplanetary Transport System (ITS), SpaceX has set itself some lofty long-term goals. However, while the realization of the plan is up for debate, the presentation has at least revealed some of the key specifications of the system, not least the Raptor engine.
Since the 2010 disclosure of the Raptor code name for its next-generation engine, it has been through different combustion cycles, propellants and thrust levels. This began with notional plans for 667kN of power, once reaching as high as 6,670kN, before now settling at 3,000kN of sea level thrust.
In all launch vehicle designs that require new engines, the long pole has always been main rocket propulsion – with engine development a key stage for any space project.
Having a full array of seasoned test stand capabilities is a basic requirement, as NPO Energomash found out with the excruciating development of the RD-170 that resulted in the destruction of its test stand.
Full flow engines, like the Raptor, are usually considered to be impossible to test in the subsystems evaluation stage. The main problem is the highly integrated nature of the cycle.
In the full flow staged combustion cycle, almost all the fuel is first burned with a tiny bit of oxidizer in the fuel preburner to generate hot gas. Then, all that gas mass is put through the turbines, to drive the turbopumps, which are used to feed the preburners.
Rocket pumps have to increase the pressure to enormous levels. This is required because even after going through the cooling passages – the preburner and the turbine – it still needs to be injected into the main combustion chamber at the required pressure level.
In the Raptor's case, this is expected to be a record-breaking 30MPa – more than 300 atmospheres of pressure. For comparison, the previous record holder for chamber pressure, the RD-170 derivative RD-191, was 25.74MPa.
In the full flow case, the same process of converting to hot gas and driving the turbopumps also needs to be done with the oxidizer.
While complex, this cycle allows for the use of all available mass to power the turbomachinery, thus enabling the highest possible chamber pressure.
The higher the chamber pressure, the higher the efficiency of the engine, as measured by specific impulse. It also reduces the physical size of the engine hardware, since it required less plumbing/piping, while the throat of the engine is also physically smaller.
However, the problem for this type of cycle is that to test the preburner in the full flow case, you need both the fuel and oxidizer pumps to feed it. However, to drive the turbopumps you need the output of both the preburners.
Also, to test the combustion chamber and its injectors, you need the turbopumps and the preburners.
As such, individual testing of each subsystem is almost impossible for full flow engines, unless you have a test stand capable of supplying extremely high-pressure liquid and hot gas of both the fuel and oxidizer at the same time.
Enter the famous Stennis Space Center and its critical E2 test stand.
While incapable of handling the full size of the expected Raptor engine unit, the Stennis test stand enabled the individual testing of each subcomponent of the 1MN scaled prototype that SpaceX currently has at its test facility in McGregor, Texas.
During late 2013, the SpaceX engineers arrived at Stennis to help upgrade its unique E2 test stand, enabling it to supply liquid and hot gaseous methane.
On April 21, 2014 the upgraded test stand was officially inaugurated and a full test program of each individual subsystem was tested and validated.
Since the final thrust level of the Raptor had not been settled, it was decided that the first integrated test engine would be a 1MN sub-scale engine.
It enabled the full testing at Stennis E2 and allowed for the development of robust startup and shutdown sequences, characterize hardware durability and anchor analytical models that would be used for future designs.
The physics of mixing gasses in the combustion chamber is not as well developed as the more traditional gas-liquid or liquid-liquid forms in the West.
SpaceX engineers developed specialized software to compute just the mixing process in detail while adding approximations for the rest of the flow. This still allowed for very high fidelity simulations to be carried with reasonable computing resources.
However, this modeling breakthrough still requires validation with real results first, which will be realized by the demonstrator engine.
Once the final engine thrust was defined, the engine could be scaled up with relative ease. The full flow cycle is very helpful in that sense and the 1MN thrust level would already be considered a big engine.
With the production engines – as currently envisioned – it would need to triple its thrust. Not trivial, but still within what could be considered highly representative as a demonstrator.
On August 8, 2016, the first integrated Raptor demonstrator left its Hawthorne base for SpaceX's very own Raptor test stand in its McGregor testing facility.
With a thrust of 1MN (225klbf) at sea level, this was to be the first methane full flow engine to ever reach a test stand. In fact, it was the second full flow engine for any propellant.
Glushko's RD-270 was the pioneer in 1967 – interestingly also designed for a Mars bounded rocket, the UR-700.
However, that engine never solved its combustion instability issues and its hypergolic propellant made it an environmental tragedy waiting to happen. The launch vehicle was never provided with a green light.
The Raptor demonstrator turbomachinery is capable of producing 27MW of power, with more power "per unit of thrust" of any hydrocarbon engine.
It also demonstrates the use of 3D printing, with 40 percent of the engine utilizing this technology when measured by mass.
Experts analysis via L2 also implied that the integrated nature of the design would be difficult to construct and assemble if built by the traditional method.
Then came the recent – and timely – milestone. On September 26, at around 3am UTC, the first ignition test of the demonstrator was performed.
Via the standard procedure for the first ignition test of a new engine – called a "burp test" – a short firing tests the ignition phase, usually without the engine reaching full power.
However, this first test was more than just a burp test, with SpaceX's CTO and founder, Elon Musk, showing a video – during his overview at the IAC forum in Guadalajara – of the Raptor igniting and firing for approximately nine seconds before shutting down.
In L2 McGregor photos, the engine has been observed without the sporting of an extension. Mr. Musk has since confirmed that the development engine will eventually have a nozzle with an expansion ratio of 150, the maximum possible within Earth's atmosphere.
Should all go to plan with the development, the Raptor will provide the required thrust to launch the massive ITS off the launch pad.
Raptor will come in two versions, one optimized for the first stage – and thus with a short nozzle – and another one for the spacecraft – with a long nozzle optimized for vacuum and Mars' weak atmosphere.
As is traditional for SpaceX, both engines variations would have the same powerpack and thrust chamber. The only difference would be on the nozzle.
They will also have a version with – and without – Thrust Vector Control (TVC). The use of fixed engines on the outer rings of the ITS allows for more tight packing and reduced dry mass.
The vectored inner engines would supply control authority. Differential throttling may be an option in case of emergency.
The first stage model is documented as sporting a sea level thrust of 3,050 kN with an isp of 334 seconds, and 3,285 kN and 361 seconds in vacuum. Its diameter will be less than two meters.
The vacuum version of the Raptor will produce 3.5MN of thrust, with a specific impulse of 382 seconds, thanks to its 200 expansion ratio nozzle. It will have an estimated diameter of four meters.
With an estimated 80MW of power on the turbopumps, both engines would use subcooled liquid methane and oxygen as propellant. This improves the specific impulse, the thrust and reduces the risk of cavitation on the turbopump.
Also, Raptor will have some changes that are critical to reducing the fluids from five to two, eliminating the issues related to hypergolics.
The engine will have heat exchangers to heat methane and oxygen so the ITS can self-pressurize. The helium pressurization system has provided quite a few headaches to SpaceX on its current rockets and as such is not surprising its engineers saw the option to eliminate it entirely as preferable.
Additionally, it will eliminate the TEA-TEB hypergolic cartridges currently used by Merlin engines. Instead, Raptor has implemented a new spark ignition system that, at least theoretically, would allow for unlimited re-ignitions.
Raptor will also be able to throttle from 100 percent to 20 percent of thrust, providing additional options during its powered phases.
Having a 30MPa chamber pressure not only allows for the best specific impulse – short of the much heavier hydrogen-fuelled engines – but it also reduces size and mass significantly.
In fact, Mr. Musk stated that he expects Raptor to actually have the highest thrust to weight ratio ever for a production rocket engine. A record currently held by the company's other engine, the Merlin 1D.
The small size, which Elon characterized as similar to the Merlin 1D, makes SpaceX confident that it will be able to produce them in mass. Currently, SpaceX is producing Merlins at a rate of 300 per year.
With 51 engines per each ITS, SpaceX will need quite a number of them for its initial fleet.
The first stage will sport 42 engines on the first stage, and nine on the second. Interestingly, the second stage – as currently envisioned – would use six vacuum and three atmospheric optimized Raptors.
However, for each trip at least two upper stages would be needed, one spacecraft and at least one tanker. Numerous tankers are likely to be required for each ITS heading out to Mars.
While the ITS sports numerous technological breakthroughs – such as the fully composite tanks and methane-oxygen thrusters – Raptor is the most critical technology in enabling a design that SpaceX currently expect could reduce the cost per passenger (plus cargo) to Mars, from around 10 billion to just 140,000 dollars.
The reality of that goal is open to debate, but SpaceX has shown a path towards that ambitious future.


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Shock building talent in Tulsa for 2015
Courtney Paris signed to a multi-year contract.
The 6th season of the Tulsa Shock WNBA team is fast approaching and head coach Fred Williams is hard at work assembling his team. Williams is looking to improve upon a 12-21 first year record and he made two crucial steps in building a winning team with the signings of fan favorite (and OU graduate) Courtney Paris and Plenette Pierson.
Courtney Paris, who was signed to a free agent contract in 2014, was signed to a multi-year deal on February 2nd. After finishing the 2014 season ranked first in in the league, Paris was named the winner of the WNBA Peak Performer Award for Rebounds. Paris had a total of 347 rebounds, which ranks second in Shock history of most rebounds in a single-season. Paris scored in double-figures in 17 games and had 13 double-doubles. Paris also shot 57.4 percent from the field, which is the highest field goal percentage in a single-season in Shock history.
"Oklahoma has felt like home since my sister and I arrived in Norman back in 2005," said Paris, "To have the opportunity to stay in Tulsa and continue my basketball career for the next few years couldn't have worked out any better. I believe in the direction of the franchise and I am eager and ready for the opportunity to help it continue to grow. I feel like with the young talent on the team the future is bright in Tulsa and I'm excited to be a part of it."
Shock Coach Fred Williams
Coach Williams was very complimentary of Paris, who started in all 34 games, averaging a career-high 9.2 points per game and a career-high 10.2 rebounds per game last season.
"Courtney has seen tremendous improvement each year that she has been in the league," said Fred Williams, Head Coach of the Tulsa Shock. "Last season gave her great opportunities for minutes played and she responded by being the leading rebounder in the WNBA. Courtney is a team player and continues to be one of our veteran leaders for the Shock. She is a hard worker and has a great basketball IQ."
Plenette Pierson returns to Tulsa after four seasons with the New York Liberty.
Plenette Pierson, who was one of four players who moved with the team from Detroit in 2010, will rejoin the Shock when play begins this spring. The Shock traded Pierson to New York in exchange for forward Tiffany Jackson-Jones in 2010. Pierson appeared in 33 games last season for the Liberty, averaging 7.2 points and 3.1 rebounds per game.
"We are excited to have Plenette come back to Tulsa and wear a Shock uniform," said Steve Swetoha, President of the Tulsa Shock. "Plenette's leadership on and off the floor will be a great addition for our young team."
Pierson won two WNBA Championships (2006, 2008) when the Shock was in Detroit. Pierson was also named the WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year in 2007. An eleven-year veteran, Pierson's career averages are 9.6 points per game and 4.3 rebounds per game.
"Plenette is a player that will always give you 110 percent on the court," said Fred Williams, Head Coach of the Tulsa Shock. "She has championship experience that will be extremely valuable for us. She is a proven winner in the WNBA and we are excited to have her back in Tulsa."
The Shock will begin their sixth season in Tulsa this spring. Season tickets and other information can be obtained by clicking here for wnba.com/shock.
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This final issue in the Lincoln Sesquicentennial Series shows a drawing by Fritz Busse of part of the famous statue by Daniel Chester French, which stands in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Birth Of Daniel Chester French
Daniel Chester French was born on April 20, 1850, in Exeter, New Hampshire.
French was the son Henry Flagg French, a lawyer, judge, and Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary. Though he showed a talent for drawing as a child, French didn't discover sculpture until his late teens.
After the family moved to Concord, Massachusetts, in 1867, French met artist Abigail May Alcott (sister of author Louisa May Alcott and the inspiration for Amy in Little Women). Having studied fine arts in Boston, Alcott gave French an introduction to working with clay and encouraged him to pursue a career. He went on to study with the same teachers she had – William Rimmer (anatomy) and William Morris Hunt (drawing). French then spent a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and several years in Florence, Italy, under the instruction of Thomas Ball.
In 1873, family friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson helped French get one of the most important commissions of his career. The city of Concord was preparing for the Centennial of the Revolutionary War Battles of Lexington and Concord and wanted to erect a statue at the North Bridge to commemorate them. Emerson recommended French for the job, and he got it. The people of Concord gave French their family's militia uniforms so the statue could be as accurate as possible. Several locals also posed to provide models for the head, while the body was based on a famous classical sculpture. Ten Civil War Cannons were melted to provide the bronze for the seven-foot tall statue. It was unveiled on April 19, 1875, with President Ulysses S. Grant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ralph Waldo Emerson in attendance.
French was just 25 at the time, and had only a few years of education in sculpture. The Minute Man was his first full-sized sculpture and it earned him immediate acclaim. He then established his own studio in Washington, D.C., and began receiving commissions for portrait busts as well as tall figures for public buildings. His renown began to spread and soon, he was hired to sculpt three massive figures for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Among them was the 65-foot tall Statue of the Republic, a personification of the ideal of the Republic covered in gold leaf. The statue towered over the expo, which was attended by some 27 million people. The recognition he received from that statue made him even more famous, and soon French had more commissions than he could handle. In fact, he often had to book them two to three years in advance.
In the coming years, French helped found the National Sculpture Society, became a member of a number of art groups, and received honorary degrees from four universities. He also designed one side of the Pulitzer Prize gold medal (picturing Benjamin Franklin).
In 1914, French was hired for perhaps one of his most famous sculptures, the seated Abraham Lincoln that sits in Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. He made three plaster casts (which are on display at his Chesterwood Studio in Massachusetts) before the final sculpture, which took a year to make, could be completed.
Over the course of his career, French made over 100 statues, memorials, sculpture and reliefs, many of which are on display in public places. He died on October 7, 1931. Several years before he'd claimed, "I'd like to live to be two thousand years old and just sculpt all the time."
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Abraham Lincoln, President
Elected President in November 1860, Abraham Lincoln inherited a nation already on the brink of civil war. An outspoken critic of slavery, Lincoln had won entirely on the strength of his support in the North. Shortly after the election, seven Southern states seceded. One month after Lincoln assumed the office, the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
The Civil War consumed much of Lincoln's presidency. He closely supervised his military commanders and visited key battlegrounds. In 1862, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in Confederate territories. This allowed the Union army to liberate slaves as it moved south. Lincoln then focused on the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which permanently abolished slavery throughout the nation.
In spite of the Union's advantages, the Confederate Army was victorious in many critical battles, and the fighting wore on for several years. In 1864, Lincoln won re-election in a landslide. In his inaugural speech, with victory nearly at hand, Lincoln promised to act "with malice toward none; with charity for all."
One month later, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army and the Civil War ended. Complete victory was short lived – President Lincoln was assassinated less than a week later.
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CHICAGO, Ill. — As a late addition to the NBA Draft Combine, Isaac Haas has not met with any teams yet during his time in Chicago. When he does, he has just one question.
Hass was in his apartment, packing up with the intentions of soon heading north east to Fort Wayne — home of his agent, Roosevelt Barnes, Jr. of Independent Sports & Entertainment (ISE) — when he received a last-minute invite. Although he couldn't play, he could take a physical and go through most of the measurables.
Haas is a big man — 7 foot, 2.75 inches, to be exact — the tallest of 70 players at the combine. His standing reach (9'3.5″) ranks third among centers and his wingspan is tied for fourth (7'5″).
But Haas, who turns 23 in October, has been limited since a nasty fall on March 16th. He suffered a fractured right elbow in their opening game of the NCAA Tournament against Cal State Fullerton. And while he flirted with returning in the tournament, it never happened. He then underwent surgery once their season ended.
Haas described his rehab as painful.
Haas expects to meet with his doctor "somewhat soon," and then he's got to sell himself during pre-draft workouts. He plans on playing professional basketball, and in the NBA, next season. He just doesn't know where yet.
"I think I can, it just really depends on what the teams want and where I can end up that will actually use me," said Haas.
One of the challenges for Haas and other traditional big men is the game evolving away from low post threats and favoring versatility. Remember Pacers center Roy Hibbert? He's just 31 and without a job.
"Every team can use a big men, especially later in the playoffs you see big men touching the ball a little bit more," he said. "Throughout the regular season, I feel like big men are often used … and they're always useful, and I know that I can be useful.
Isaac Haas is ready to be cleared for basketball activities.
Haas, a native of Hokes Bluff, Alabama, averaged 14.7 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks per game during his fourth and final year at Purdue. They went 104-37 during his time in West Lafayette, including a 30-7 senior season that ended in a loss in the regional semifinals to Texas Tech.
Haas praised Purdue for their use of bigs in the offense. He and freshman backup Matt Haarms were fed the ball often, and the offense showcased his post-up game, court vision, and playing inside out.
His favorite player growing up? None other than arguably the best power forward of all time, Tim Duncan. The Big Fundamental. It's the only NBA jersey he's ever owned.
Haas confidently spoke about his abilities and his future, hoping to be a dominant big man as Shaq once was.
"I could go back and say Shaquille O'Neal," he said. "Obviously it's a little bit different, he was just such a dominant force and hopefully I can be that. I just have a really strong low-post games, I can pick-and-pop from 15 feet, I believe I can shoot 3s. I just haven't been able to shoot it in college obviously with the system that we ran.
I would love the Celtics to sign him even if they send him in their development League . He worth the risk for somebody who is 7'2. Also an excellent FT shooter for a big man.


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Clemson Football: Dabo responds to Doeren
Clemson Tigers head coach responded to North Carolina State Wolfpack coach's call for an investigation into a laptop on Clemson's sideline.
Clemson Football: Dabo responds to Doeren Clemson Tigers head coach responded to North Carolina State Wolfpack coach's call for an investigation into a laptop on Clemson's sideline. Check out this story on independentmail.com: https://www.independentmail.com/story/sports/college/clemson/football/2017/11/07/dabo-swinney-fires-back-dan-doeren-i-think-investigation-needs-managing-his-side/840002001/
Marcel Louis-Jacques, Orange and White Published 12:27 p.m. ET Nov. 7, 2017 | Updated 12:41 p.m. ET Nov. 7, 2017
Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney (left) chats with North Carolina State head coach Dave Doeren prior to a game at Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday.(Photo: Rob Kinnan, USA TODAY Sports)
CLEMSON — Dabo Swinney responded Tuesday to NC State football coach Dave Doeren's call for an investigation into a laptop on Clemson's sideline during the team's ACC Atlantic contest Saturday, telling the fifth-year coach to worry about "managing his side."
Doeren's postgame comments went viral Saturday after he questioned the use of a laptop he allegedly saw on Clemson's sideline. Swinney had been relatively dismissive of the matter, but when he was asked during his weekly press conference if Doeren had reached out to him to clear the air, he made it clear how out-of-line Doeren's comments were.
"It's disappointing because that was kind of a challenge to our integrity," Swinney said. "And then you watch the tape, and two years ago we go up there and one of the coaches pushes Deshaun Watson. This year we've got some guy take a swipe at K'Von. What if he breaks a finger?
I think the investigation needs to be managing his side and not worrying about ours. So I didn't get a call. Didn't get a call."
The incidents Swinney referred to included an incident in 2015 when NC State running backs coach Des Kitchings shoved Clemson quarterback Deshaun Watson on the sideline during a 56-41 Tiger victory. At the time, Doeren said Kitchings apologized to both Watson and the Tigers' staff.
NC State coach swings at Clemson's Deshaun Watson https://t.co/7iTcIOpWml
— Jay Jones (@clemsonjj) November 5, 2017
He also shed light on a video that surfaced following this past Saturday's game, which showed an NC State staffer apparently swiping at Clemson safety K'Von Wallace after Wallace's game-sealing interception.
Swinney set up the harshest part of his response with a jab at NC State defensive end Bradley Chubb, who repeatedly took Clemson quarterback Kelly Bryant's towel early in Saturday's game.
"I did investigate. I did. I followed instructions to do some investigation, and I did," Swinney said. "It turns out there was just a major crisis going on. There was a young guy trying to help a team in need, and I think, trying to be helpful in the situation, they were trying to get in touch with Amazon. We had a crisis. We were in dire need of towels, alright. We were trying to get one of them drones to come in and drop some towels on the sideline and it just didn't work out.
(Photo: The Associated Press)
"But on that, I want to launch an investigation, too. What do they do with those towels? Is it a towel wall of fame?"
Westside basketball sweeps rival T.L. Hanna to keep atop of region standings
T.L. Hanna girls basketball are early leaders in Region title race
Keyshuna Fair's play has lifted Westside girls basketball to strong start
Daniel boys basketball still seeking improvement heading into region play
Even in early success, Wren boys basketball is still finding their way
Alexis Holliday's athletic career to continue at Clemson University


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Because I'm doing so much moving around of the post-upgraded sites I'm running into lots of issues with broken links. In an attempt to solve this problem I've begun working on 3 commands. This first command, gl-replacefieldvalues, will take in a search string and a replacement string and modify every list item where a match is made. The searching can be scoped to the entire farm, a single web application, a single site collection (and all sub-sites), a single web site (and all sub-sites) or a single list and can be further restricted to only update a specific field.
The command uses Regex.Replace() so you can get pretty complex with your replacements (I'm no regular expression expert so I've kept my uses fairly simplistic). The other two commands I'll document later (one will apply all the URL changes identified in the Upgrade Area Url Mappings list and the other will attempt to handle content within web parts – I'm still creating these and should be finished some time this week).
22:     continue; // We don't want to change this url because then external links will break.
27:     continue; // We're only going to work with strings.
Replaces all occurrences of the search string with the replacement string.  Supports use of regular expressions.  Use -test to verify your replacements before executing.
If you wish to filter by field name you can specify either the display name or the internal name. Note that if you specify the internal name you must also add the "useinternalfieldname" parameter – if you don't use the internal field name then be aware that you may be updating more than the field you intended as the display name is not always unique (but in most cases it is).
If you don't want your changes published then don't specify the publish parameter. However, specifying the publish parameter will not publish items that were previously checked out. If an item can be published and it requires approval then specifying the publish parameter will also cause the item to be approved. Use of regular expressions can be extremely powerful and dangerous especially when updating at a large scope so again, I strongly encourage the use of the -test parameter to verify the changes to be made before you actually apply your changes.
Update 12/13/2007: I've updated this command to support the passing in of an input file containing search and replace strings. The input file can be either a flat file where each replacement is on a separate line with a delimiter separating the search and replace strings or an XML file. The syntax details have been updated above. Thanks to Glenn Hickman for helping with this.
Thanks also Gary, this came in very handy. I have extended your 'replacefieldvalues' somewhat by allowing to pass an input file containing the replacements. If specified, the command iterates over an input file containing a pipe separated set of source and replace strings.
Let me know if you are interested in getting a patch for this by posting back here.
I'm definitely interested in seeing what you did – if I can integrate it into mine I'll certainly try. You can email to me at gary at thelapointes dot com (if you zip it up just change the zip extension or my company's spam filter will block it).
I am however experiencing mixed results with running this command on a web application in order to update the evil telerik formats for angle brackets (~GT~ and ~LT). some of the content is updated while other content is not and the formatting remains…have you or anyone else encountered this?
Also – if you could replicate in a virtual environment you could step through the code and see what's happening when it hits a value that you expect to get modified. If you find a bug please let me know and I'll try to incorporate your changes.
We have tried this to run in our virtual box and recieved some errors while compiling it in .net framework..
This is a good work. Please provide the intructions to compile or run the application.
You can just download and install the WSP file – you don't need to rebuild the source unless you've made changes.
I appreciate your prompt reply to this post. Thank you.
Could you please provide details for bellow dumb quires ?
1.How to run/download the WCF which intern replaces the odd characters ?
2.As seen in code; which has Sharepoint list and settings as a input parameters ! How to input those values ?
3.where to place the Code ?
4.What is the logic behind the replace mechanism ? does it searches in each node for this odd character?
5.Initially we had tried to replace these odd characters from DB end ! ; some part of it has been resolved however some parts are missing or some parts are not changed! .
How exactly the MOSS/MCMS store the data?
Not sure what you mean by WCF (assuming you mean WSP?). If you go to my downloads page you can download the appropriate WSP file – there's install instructions on the page. Once installed you can run the stsadm command as shown in the example – make sure you are running with a farm admin account. The replace loops through all list items in every list and does a regex.replace using the provided parameters. You should never edit the database data directly as this will violate your support agreement with Microsoft.
Thanks Gary, Thanks for the information.
We will try this. Let you know the results.
Hi Gary, using the search and replace input file sounds great, can we highlight say the ID field number and replace content in another field, say the created by or possibily the created date?
Hi Gary… Any chance you can give me a pointer into how I replace the GUID of an Audience once they have been imported?? I have audiences on the Navigation of my site and they are now out of Sync with the SSP.
You just need to know the old GUID and the new GUID and you can then use the gl-replacefieldvalues or any of my other replace commands (for web parts or navigation).
i have to update list item fields (i.e. "Worked Hours" (Number)) regularly by an Identifier (i.e. "ProjectName" (String)).
So how can i update a field by defining an identifier? "Import"-Structure is to be defined by me, so i could get data-to-be-imported right into powershell or dos-batch-format containing whole command….
Bernhard – forgive me as it's late and I've been traveling all day but I'm afraid I'm just not following what it is you are trying to do. Could you explain further?
This is exactly what I was looking for as I needed to fix that infamous MCMS->MOSS Telerik ~LT~/~GT~ issue. However, when I ran the command, instead of converting the ~LT~/~GT~ to characters that get parsed as HTML tags, it creates *actual* characters, which it then escapes to < and >, which don't get parsed, but merely displayed. I hope that made sense!
I can't seem to figure out how to get it to work otherwise. Any ideas?
I'm not entirely sure I'm following you. How were you calling the commnand?
Gary, Wow! Thank you so much for all the reasons that I'm sure you know.
I'm trying to repair the icon URL for each web in a site that was moved. I've run both gl-replacewebpartcontent and gl-replacefieldvalues (which worked great). However, the icon URL for each web is still pointing to the old location. Any advice regarding this?
can you share the code for calling the input file? this would be handy, as I like to integrate it to your other script as well (replacewebpartcontent).


The long, long road over the moors and up into the forest—who trod it into being first of all? Man, a human being, the first that came here. There was no path before he came. Afterward, some beast or other, following the faint tracks over marsh and moorland, wearing them deeper; after these again some Lapp gained scent of the path, and took that way from field to field, looking to his reindeer. Thus was made the road through the great Almenning—the common tracts without an owner; no-man's-land.
The man comes, walking toward the north. He bears a sack, the first sack, carrying food and some few implements. A strong, coarse fellow, with a red iron beard, and little scars on face and hands; sites of old wounds—were they gained in toil or fight? Maybe the man has been in prison, and is looking for a place to hide; or a philosopher, maybe, in search of peace. This or that, he comes; the figure of a man in this great solitude. He trudges on; bird and beast are silent all about him; now and again he utters a word or two; speaking to himself. "Eyah—well, well...."—so he speaks to himself. Here and there, where the moors give place to a kindlier spot, an open space in the midst of the forest, he lays down the sack and goes exploring; after a while he returns, heaves the sack to his shoulder again, and trudges on. So through the day, noting time by the sun; night falls, and he throws himself down on the heather, resting on one arm.
A few hours' rest, and he is on the move again: "Eyah, well...."—moving northward again, noting time by the sun; a meal of barley cakes and goats' milk cheese, a drink of water from the stream, and on again. This day too he journeys, for there are many kindly spots in the woods to be explored. What is he seeking? A place, a patch of ground? An emigrant, maybe, from the homestead tracts; he keeps his eyes alert, looking out; now and again he climbs to the top of a hill, looking out. The sun goes down once more.
The morning shows him a range of pasture and woodland. He moves down, and there is a green hillside; far below, a glimpse of the stream, and a hare bounding across. The man nods his head, as it were approvingly—the stream is not so broad but that a hare may cross it at a bound. A white grouse sitting close upon its nest starts up at his feet with an angry hiss, and he nods again: feathered game and fur—a good spot this. Heather, bilberry, and cloudberry cover the ground; there are tiny ferns, and the seven-pointed star flowers of the winter-green. Here and there he stops to dig with an iron tool, and finds good mould, or peaty soil, manured with the rotted wood and fallen leaves of a thousand years. He nods, to say that he has found himself a place to stay and live: ay, he will stay here and live. Two days he goes exploring the country round, returning each evening to the hillside. He sleeps at night on a bed of stacked pine; already he feels at home here, with a bed of pine beneath an overhanging rock.
The worst of his task had been to find the place; this no-man's place, but his. Now, there was work to fill his days. He started at once, stripping birch bark in the woods farther off, while the sap was still in the trees. The bark he pressed and dried, and when he had gathered a heavy load, carried it all the miles back to the village, to be sold for building. Then back to the hillside, with new sacks of food and implements; flour and pork, a cooking-pot, a spade—out and back along the way he had come, carrying loads all the time. A born carrier of loads, a lumbering barge of a man in the forest—oh, as if he loved his calling, tramping long roads and carrying heavy burdens; as if life without a load upon one's shoulders were a miserable thing, no life for him.
One day he came up with more than the load he bore; came leading three goats in a leash. He was proud of his goats as if they had been horned cattle, and tended them kindly. Then came the first stranger passing, a nomad Lapp; at sight of the goats, he knew that this was a man who had come to stay, and spoke to him.
"You going to live here for good?"
"Isak. You don't know of a woman body anywhere'd come and help?"
"No. But I'll say a word of it to all I meet."
"Ay, do that. Say I've creatures here, and none to look to them."
The Lapp went on his way. Isak—ay, he would say a word of that. The man on the hillside was no runaway; he had told his name. A runaway? He would have been found. Only a worker, and a hardy one. He set about cutting winter fodder for his goats, clearing the ground, digging a field, shifting stones, making a wall of stones. By the autumn he had built a house for himself, a hut of turf, sound and strong and warm; storms could not shake it, and nothing could burn it down. Here was a home; he could go inside and shut the door, and stay there; could stand outside on the door-slab, the owner of that house, if any should pass by. There were two rooms in the hut; for himself at the one end, and for his beasts at the other. Farthest in, against the wall of rock, was the hayloft. Everything was there.
Two more Lapps come by, father and son. They stand resting with both hands on their long staves, taking stock of the hut and the clearing, noting the sound of the goat-bells up on the hillside.
"_Goddag_" say the Lapps. "And here's fine folk come to live." Lapps talk that way, with flattering words.
"You don't know of any woman hereabouts to help?" says Isak, thinking always of but one thing.
"Woman to help? No. But we'll say a word of it."
"Ay, if you'd be so good. That I've a house and a bit of ground here, and goats, but no woman to help. Say that."
Oh, he had sought about for a woman to help each time he had been down to the village with his loads of bark, but there was none to be found. They would look at him, a widow or an old unmarried one or so, but all afraid to offer, whatever might be in their minds. Isak couldn't tell why. Couldn't tell why? Who would go as help to live with a man in the wilds, ever so many miles away—a whole day's journey to the nearest neighbour? And the man himself was no way charming or pleasant by his looks, far from it; and when he spoke it was no tenor with eyes to heaven, but a coarse voice, something like a beast's.
Well, he would have to manage alone.
In winter, he made great wooden troughs, and sold them in the village, carrying sacks of food and tools back through the snow; hard days when he was tied to a load. There were the goats, and none to look to them; he could not be away for long. And what did he do? Need made him wise; his brain was strong and little used; he trained it up to ever more and more. His first way was to let the goats loose before starting off himself, so that they could get a full feed among the undergrowth in the woods. But he found another plan. He took a bucket, a great vessel, and hung it up by the river so that a single drop fell in at a time, taking fourteen hours to fill it. When it was full to the brim, the weight was right; the bucket sank, and in doing so, pulled a line connected with the hayloft; a trap-door opened, and three bundles of fodder came through—the goats were fed.
A bright idea; an inspiration, maybe, sent from God. The man had none to help him but himself. It served his need until late in the autumn; then came the first snow, then rain, then snow again, snowing all the time. And his machine went wrong; the bucket was filled from above, opening the trap too soon. He fixed a cover over, and all went well again for a time; then came winter, the drop of water froze to an icicle, and stopped the machine for good.
The goats must do as their master—learn to do without.
Hard times—the man had need of help, and there was none, yet still he found a way. He worked and worked at his home; he made a window in the hut with two panes of real glass, and that was a bright and wonderful day in his life. No need of lighting fires to see; he could sit indoors and work at his wooden troughs by daylight. Better days, brighter days ... eyah!
He read no books, but his thoughts were often with God; it was natural, coming of simplicity and awe. The stars in the sky, the wind in the trees, the solitude and the wide-spreading snow, the might of earth and over earth filled him many times a day with a deep earnestness. He was a sinner and feared God; on Sundays he washed himself out of reverence for the holy day, but worked none the less as through the week.
Spring came; he worked on his patch of ground, and planted potatoes. His livestock multiplied; the two she-goats had each had twins, making seven in all about the place. He made a bigger shed for them, ready for further increase, and put a couple of glass panes in there too. Ay, 'twas lighter and brighter now in every way.
And then at last came help; the woman he needed. She tacked about for a long time, this way and that across the hillside, before venturing near; it was evening before she could bring herself to come down. And then she came—a big, brown-eyed girl, full-built and coarse, with good, heavy hands, and rough hide brogues on her feet as if she had been a Lapp, and a calfskin bag slung from her shoulders. Not altogether young; speaking politely; somewhere nearing thirty.
There was nothing to fear; but she gave him greeting and said hastily: "I was going cross the hills, and took this way, that was all."
"Ho," said the man. He could barely take her meaning, for she spoke in a slovenly way, also, she kept her face turned aside.
"Ay," said she, "'tis a long way to come."
"Ay, it's that," says the man. "Cross the hills, you said?"
"Eh, so you've your people there? And what's your name?"
"Isak? H'm. D'you live here yourself, maybe?"
"Ay, here, such as it is."
"Why, 'tis none so bad," said she to please him.
Now he had grown something clever to think out the way of things, and it struck him then she'd come for that very business and no other; had started out two days back just to come here. Maybe she had heard of his wanting a woman to help.
"Go inside a bit and rest your feet," said he.
They went into the hut and took a bit of the food she had brought, and some of his goats' milk to drink; then they made coffee, that she had brought with her in a bladder. Settled down comfortably over their coffee until bedtime. And in the night, he lay wanting her, and she was willing.
She did not go away next morning; all that day she did not go, but helped about the place; milked the goats, and scoured pots and things with fine sand, and got them clean. She did not go away at all. Inger was her name. And Isak was his name.
And now it was another life for the solitary man. True, this wife of his had a curious slovenly way of speech, and always turning her face aside, by reason of a hare-lip that she had, but that was no matter. Save that her mouth was disfigured, she would hardly have come to him at all; he might well be grateful for that she was marked with a hare-lip. And as to that, he himself was no beauty. Isak with the iron beard and rugged body, a grim and surly figure of a man; ay, as a man seen through a flaw in the window-pane. His look was not a gentle one; as if Barabbas might break loose at any minute. It was a wonder Inger herself did not run away.
She did not run away. When he had been out, and came home again, there was Inger at the hut; the two were one, the woman and the hut.
It was another mouth for him to feed, but no loss in that; he had more freedom now, and could go and stay as he needed. And there were matters to be looked to away from home. There was the river; pleasant to look at, and deep and swift besides; a river not to be despised; it must come from some big water up in the hills. He got himself some fishing gear and went exploring; in the evening he came back with a basket of trout and char. This was a great thing to Inger, and a marvel; she was overwhelmed, being no way used to fine dishes. She clapped her hands and cried out: "Why! Wherever...." And she was not slow to see how he was pleased at her surprise, and proud of it, for she said more in the same strain—oh, she had never seen the like, and how had he ever managed to find such things!
Inger was a blessing, too, in other ways. No clever head nor great in wit, maybe—but she had two lambing ewes with some of her kinsfolk, and brought them down. It was the best they could have wished for at the hut; sheep with wool and lambs four new head to their stock about the place; it was growing, getting bigger; a wonder and a marvel how their stock was grown. And Inger brought more; clothes, and little trifles of her own, a looking-glass and a string of pretty glass beads, a spinning-wheel, and carding-combs. Why, if she went on that gait the hut would soon be filled from floor to roof and no room for more! Isak was astonished in his turn at all this wealth of goods, but being a silent man and slow to speak, he said nothing, only shambled out to the door-slab and looked at the weather, and shambled in again. Ay, he had been lucky indeed; he felt himself more and more in love, or drawn towards her, or whatever it might be.
"You've no call to fetch along all such stuff," said he. "Tis more than's needed."
"I've more if I like to fetch it. And there's uncle Sivert besides—you've heard of him?" "No."
"Why, he's a rich man, and district treasurer besides."
Love makes a fool of the wise. Isak felt he must do something grand himself, and overdid it. "What I was going to say; you've no need to bother with hoeing potatoes. I'll do it myself the evening, when I come home."
And he took his ax and went off to the woods.
She heard him felling in the woods, not so far off; she could hear from the crash that he was felling big timber. She listened for a while, and then went out to the potato field and set to work hoeing. Love makes fools wise.
"Why, you're out of your senses," said Inger when she came out. "Is that work for a man single-handed?" He made no answer; wouldn't have said a word for anything. To do a little more than was work for a man single-handed was nothing to speak of—nothing at all. A stick of timber—huh! "And what are you going to do with it?" she asked.
"Oh, we'll see," he answered carelessly, as if scarcely heeding she was there.
But when he saw that she had hoed the potatoes after all he was not pleased. It was as if she had done almost as much as he; and that was not to his liking. He slipped the rope from the tree-trunk and went off with it once more.
"What, haven't you done yet?"
And he came back with another stick like the last, only with no noise nor sign of being out of breath; hauled it up to the hut like an ox, and left it there.
That summer he felled a mass of timber, and brought it to the hut.


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Brooks Newmark, Tory Minister, Quits After Social Media 'Sex' Scandal Set For Sunday Newspaper
Jessica Elgot— The Huffington Post UK
27/09/2014 02:44pm BST | Updated September 27, 2014
The Conservatives were plunged into a second crisis in less than 12 hours, this time a "sexting scandal" involving Minister for Civil Society Brooks Newmark.
Newmark, who is set to be exposed by a Sunday newspaper for sending explicit pictures on social media, has resigned from the front bench. Newmark was communicating with a male freelance reporter who he believed to be a female Tory activist, a sting from the Sunday Mirror.
"I have decided to resign as Minister for Civil Society having been notified of a story to be published in a Sunday newspaper," the MP for Braintree said in a statement.
"I would like to appeal for the privacy of my family to be respected at this time. I remain a loyal supporter of this Government as its long term economic plan continues to deliver for the British people."
Brooks Newmark, Tory MP, has resigned as minister for civil society
A Downing Street spokesman said: "The Prime Minister has accepted Brooks Newmark's resignation from his role as Minister for Civil Society."
The paper is set to report that Newmark "initiated" a conversation through private messaging on a social network with an undercover male reporter posing as a party activist. "As part of a series of exchanges [Newmark] sent a graphic picture exposing himself while wearing a pair of paisley pyjamas," the paper said.
It also reported that the MP apparently texted the reporter, promising to "meet up" at party conference and signing off with a kiss.
Though the full details of the story are yet to be published, some on social media have already criticised the effect such a sting could have on Newmark's family, and questioned if such a sting was in the public interest.
Call me a dangerous libertine, but should sending an obscene picture to a consenting adult be an issue to anyone but Newmark's wife?
— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) September 27, 2014
Reading about Brooks Newmark. I really dislike this 'undercover' reporting trying to catch public figures out. Even Tories.
— A (@husseybyname) September 27, 2014
Good grief, politics can be horrible. Beyond the jokes about Newmark is a partner, five children and a family humiliated. Off to pub.
— Iain Martin (@iainmartin1) September 27, 2014
Oh. Brooks Newmark sent photographs of his own self to people he thought wanted to receive them. *shrugs*
— Deborah Orr (@DeborahJaneOrr) September 27, 2014
Newmark, who has been an MP since 2005, was made a Cabinet Office minister in Cameron's last reshuffle in July, having previously served a spell in the Tory whips office. As part of his role, Newmark promoted Women2Win drive to get more women into politics. He is married to Lucy Keegan, and the couple have four sons and one daughter.
He will be replaced in his front bench role by Rob Wilson. The announcement came just hours after Conservative backbencher Mark Reckless announced that he was defecting to Ukip.
The defection, coupled with the indignity of Newmark's resignation, will make it a tough start to the Conservative's annual conference, due to begin tomorrow.
Sextingbrooks newmarkuk newsConservativesSex scandal


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package com.tvh.gmaildrafter.ui;

import com.tvh.gmaildrafter.Authenticater;
import com.tvh.gmaildrafter.Credentials;
import com.tvh.gmaildrafter.PasswordStoreManager;
import com.tvh.gmaildrafter.PasswordStore;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class GetCredentials extends javax.swing.JDialog {
    private PasswordStoreManager PWMan;

    /**
     * Creates new form GetCredentials
     */
    public GetCredentials(java.awt.Frame parent, boolean modal, String username) {
        super(parent, modal);
        try {
            javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(javax.swing.UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName()); //This is a bit late, but we don't want to do it if the window isn't shown anyway and we're sure this is the only dialog in the application
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(GetCredentials.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } catch (InstantiationException ex) {
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(GetCredentials.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } catch (IllegalAccessException ex) {
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(GetCredentials.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } catch (javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
            java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(GetCredentials.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }

        initComponents();
        this.getRootPane().setDefaultButton(jBtnOk);

        centerScreen();

        setAlwaysOnTop(true);

        if (username != null) {
            jTxtUsername.setText(username);
        }
        if (username != null && username != "") {
            jPassword.requestFocusInWindow();
        }
        /* TODO: have a look at http://stackoverflow.com/a/596141/1389704 */

        PWMan = new PasswordStoreManager();
        this.update_list();
    }

    private void update_list() {
        jStoreList.removeAllItems();
        for (int i=0; i< PWMan.get_store_num(); i++) {
            jStoreList.addItem(PWMan.get_store(i).get_nick());
        }

        this.precompile_form();
    }

    private void precompile_form() {
        String nick = "";
        try {
            nick = jStoreList.getSelectedItem().toString();

        } catch(Exception e){
        }

        if (nick.length()>0) {
            PasswordStore current = PWMan.get_store(nick);
            Credentials cred = current.getStoredLogin();
            jTxtNick.setText(nick);
            jTxtHash.setText(cred.getHash());
            jTxtUsername.setText(cred.getUsername());

        } else {
            jTxtNick.setText("");
            jTxtHash.setText("");
            jTxtUsername.setText("");
            jPassword.setText("");
        }

    }

    /**
     * This method is called from within the constructor to initialize the form.
     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is always
     * regenerated by the Form Editor.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">//GEN-BEGIN:initComponents
    private void initComponents() {

        jLblUsername = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jTxtUsername = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        jLblPassword = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jPassword = new javax.swing.JPasswordField();
        jBtnOk = new javax.swing.JButton();
        jBtnCancel = new javax.swing.JButton();
        jLblHash = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jTxtHash = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        jButtonSave = new javax.swing.JButton();
        jLblNick = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jTxtNick = new javax.swing.JTextField();
        jStoreList = new javax.swing.JComboBox<>();
        jButtonModify = new javax.swing.JButton();
        jButtonDelete = new javax.swing.JButton();
        jButtonCancel = new javax.swing.JButton();

        setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
        setTitle("Provide Google login credentials");

        jLblUsername.setLabelFor(jTxtUsername);
        jLblUsername.setText("Email Address");

        jTxtUsername.setEnabled(false);

        jLblPassword.setLabelFor(jPassword);
        jLblPassword.setText("Password");

        jPassword.setEnabled(false);

        jBtnOk.setText("Ok");
        jBtnOk.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                jBtnOkActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });

        jBtnCancel.setText("Cancel");
        jBtnCancel.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                jBtnCancelActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });

        jLblHash.setLabelFor(jTxtHash);
        jLblHash.setText("Hash");

        jTxtHash.setEnabled(false);

        jButtonSave.setText("Save");
        jButtonSave.setEnabled(false);
        jButtonSave.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                jButtonSaveActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });

        jLblNick.setLabelFor(jTxtUsername);
        jLblNick.setText("Nickname/reminder");

        jTxtNick.setEnabled(false);

        jStoreList.setModel(new javax.swing.DefaultComboBoxModel<>(new String[] { "Item 1", "Item 2", "Item 3", "Item 4" }));
        jStoreList.addItemListener(new java.awt.event.ItemListener() {
            public void itemStateChanged(java.awt.event.ItemEvent evt) {
                jStoreListItemStateChanged(evt);
            }
        });

        jButtonModify.setText("Add/Modify");
        jButtonModify.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                jButtonModifyActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });

        jButtonDelete.setText("Delete");
        jButtonDelete.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                jButtonDeleteActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });

        jButtonCancel.setText("Cancel");
        jButtonCancel.setEnabled(false);
        jButtonCancel.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                jButtonCancelActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });

        javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
        layout.setHorizontalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addContainerGap()
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                    .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                        .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                            .addComponent(jLblUsername, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 93, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
                            .addComponent(jLblPassword))
                        .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.UNRELATED)
                        .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                            .addComponent(jTxtUsername)
                            .addComponent(jPassword)))
                    .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                        .addComponent(jBtnOk, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 294, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
                        .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED, 41, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                        .addComponent(jBtnCancel, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 294, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
                    .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                        .addComponent(jLblNick, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 93, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
                        .addGap(10, 10, 10)
                        .addComponent(jTxtNick))
                    .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                        .addGap(0, 0, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                        .addComponent(jButtonModify, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 115, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
                        .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED)
                        .addComponent(jButtonDelete, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 115, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
                    .addComponent(jStoreList, 0, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                    .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                        .addComponent(jLblHash)
                        .addGap(79, 79, 79)
                        .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
                            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                                .addComponent(jButtonSave, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 248, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
                                .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                                .addComponent(jButtonCancel, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, 248, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
                            .addComponent(jTxtHash))))
                .addContainerGap())
        );
        layout.setVerticalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addContainerGap()
                .addComponent(jStoreList, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE)
                .addGap(18, 18, 18)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                    .addComponent(jButtonModify)
                    .addComponent(jButtonDelete))
                .addGap(7, 7, 7)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                    .addComponent(jLblNick)
                    .addComponent(jTxtNick, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
                .addGap(8, 8, 8)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                    .addComponent(jLblUsername)
                    .addComponent(jTxtUsername, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
                .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                    .addComponent(jLblPassword)
                    .addComponent(jPassword, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
                .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                    .addComponent(jLblHash)
                    .addComponent(jTxtHash, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
                .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.RELATED)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                    .addComponent(jButtonSave)
                    .addComponent(jButtonCancel))
                .addGap(18, 18, 18)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                    .addComponent(jBtnOk)
                    .addComponent(jBtnCancel))
                .addContainerGap(javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE))
        );

        pack();
    }// </editor-fold>//GEN-END:initComponents
    private Credentials cred = null;

    public Credentials getCredentials() {
        return cred;
    }
    private void jBtnOkActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_jBtnOkActionPerformed
        String nick = "";
        Credentials cred;
        try {
            nick = jStoreList.getSelectedItem().toString();

        } catch(Exception e){
        }

        if (nick.length()>0) {
            PasswordStore ps = PWMan.get_store(nick);
            cred = ps.getStoredLogin();

        } else {
            cred = new Credentials("", "", "");
        }

        if ("".equals(cred.getUsername())
                || "".equals(cred.getPassword())
                || "".equals(cred.getHash())) {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Provide email address, password and hash!");
            return;
        }

        if (Authenticater.testCredentials(cred)) {
            this.cred = cred;
            setVisible(false);
        } else {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Login Failed!");
        }

    }//GEN-LAST:event_jBtnOkActionPerformed

    private void jBtnCancelActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_jBtnCancelActionPerformed
        cred = null;
        setVisible(false);
    }//GEN-LAST:event_jBtnCancelActionPerformed

    private void jButtonSaveActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_jButtonSaveActionPerformed
        String username = jTxtUsername.getText();
        String password = new String(jPassword.getPassword());
        String hash = new String(jTxtHash.getText());
        String nick = new String(jTxtNick.getText());

        if ("".equals(jTxtUsername.getText())
            || "".equals(new String(jPassword.getPassword()))
            || "".equals(jTxtNick.getText())
            || "".equals(jTxtHash.getText())) {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "Provide nickname, email address, password and hash!");
            return;
        }

        Credentials credential = new Credentials(username, password, hash);
        int id = PWMan.get_store_id(nick);
        if (id == -1)
            PWMan.add(nick, credential);
        else
            PWMan.modify(id, credential);

        this.update_list();
        this.setEnableControls(false);
    }//GEN-LAST:event_jButtonSaveActionPerformed

    private void jButtonDeleteActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_jButtonDeleteActionPerformed
         String nick = "";
        try {
            nick = jStoreList.getSelectedItem().toString();
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
        if (nick.length() > 0) {
            PWMan.delete(PWMan.get_store_id(nick));
            this.update_list();
        }
    }//GEN-LAST:event_jButtonDeleteActionPerformed

    private void jButtonModifyActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_jButtonModifyActionPerformed
        this.precompile_form();

        this.setEnableControls(true);
    }//GEN-LAST:event_jButtonModifyActionPerformed

    private void jButtonCancelActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_jButtonCancelActionPerformed
        this.precompile_form();

        this.setEnableControls(false);
    }//GEN-LAST:event_jButtonCancelActionPerformed

    private void jStoreListItemStateChanged(java.awt.event.ItemEvent evt) {//GEN-FIRST:event_jStoreListItemStateChanged
        this.precompile_form();
    }//GEN-LAST:event_jStoreListItemStateChanged

    private void centerScreen() {
        Dimension dim = getToolkit().getScreenSize();
        Rectangle abounds = getBounds();
        setLocation((dim.width - abounds.width) / 2,
                (dim.height - abounds.height) / 2);
    }

    private void setEnableControls(boolean state) {
        /*disable/enable form*/
        jTxtNick.setEnabled(state);
        jTxtUsername.setEnabled(state);
        jPassword.setEnabled(state);
        jTxtHash.setEnabled(state);
        jButtonSave.setEnabled(state);
        jButtonCancel.setEnabled(state);

        /*do opposite on rest of gui*/
        jBtnOk.setEnabled(!state);
        jBtnCancel.setEnabled(!state);
        jButtonModify.setEnabled(!state);
        jButtonDelete.setEnabled(!state);
        jStoreList.setEnabled(!state);
    }

    // Variables declaration - do not modify//GEN-BEGIN:variables
    private javax.swing.JButton jBtnCancel;
    private javax.swing.JButton jBtnOk;
    private javax.swing.JButton jButtonCancel;
    private javax.swing.JButton jButtonDelete;
    private javax.swing.JButton jButtonModify;
    private javax.swing.JButton jButtonSave;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLblHash;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLblNick;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLblPassword;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLblUsername;
    private javax.swing.JPasswordField jPassword;
    private javax.swing.JComboBox<String> jStoreList;
    private javax.swing.JTextField jTxtHash;
    private javax.swing.JTextField jTxtNick;
    private javax.swing.JTextField jTxtUsername;
    // End of variables declaration//GEN-END:variables
}

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text:
Q: ajax jquery an empty error callback on success server operation I make an ajax call:
$.ajax({
    url: 'Login.aspx/AuthenticateRegularUser',
    type: 'POST',
    contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
    async: true,
    dataType: "json",
    data: '{ "emailAddress": "' + emailAddress + '","password": "' + password + '","verificationCode": "' + verificationCode + '" }',
    success: function(Result) {
        if (Result != "") {
            var ClientResponse = JSON.parse(Result.d);
            if (ClientResponse.Success) {
        //DO SUCCESS
            }

            else {
        //DO FAIL
            }
        }
    },
    error: function(xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {
    //DO ERROR
    }
});

Most of the times everything is working fine, and I get success callback.
But one of my clients has a problem that sometimes the operation completed successfully on the server, but I get an error callback with an empty error.
jqXHR is empty, textStatus = "" and null errorThrown.
any idea why?

A: Could it be the different type of browser?? Could be an IE related issue. Maybe ask the client to use firefox instead.
Could be IE interpret javascript differently to firefox, I had similar sort of issue before at work. Microsoft always try to have its own standard for javascript, html, css. Also check data: '{ "emailAddress": "' + emailAddress + there are seems to have too many Quotation mark.
Thanks

A: Try, need to  remove ' infront of data and syntax like as mentioned below
 data: { "emailAddress": emailAddress, "password": password, "verificationCode": verificationCode },

instead of
  data: '{ "emailAddress": "' + emailAddress + '","password": "' + password + '","verificationCode": "' + verificationCode + '" }',

Ref: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/

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text:
Q: I cannot read spaces and enters in c++ using devc++ Hi I am new here and I have little problem I guess. I want my program to change one character in whole text in text file. For example I want to change all A to G. But when I read it ,it does not even read spaces and enters. Also I want to write eddited text in new textfile. Thanks for help.

A: At the beginning you should load whole file.
std::ifstream is("file.txt");
is >> std::noskipws;
std::istream_iterator<char> start(is), end;
std::vector<char> buffer(start, end);

is >> std::noskipws prevents stream from skipping white characters like space or enter. Then replace characters using std::replace(buffer.begin(), buffer.end(), 'A', 'G');.
Now simply save file:
std::ofstream out("file.txt", std::ofstream::binary);
std::copy(buffer.begin(), buffer.end(), std::ostreambuf_iterator<char>(out));

You may want to read something about those:
std::ostreambuf_iterator, std::istream_iterator, std::noskipws, std::replace.


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Arrowhead Golf Club just northeast of Naples is in a highly affluent economic climate where the price to play and the quality of the experience make for one of the better deals around. A full-service public facility, Arrowhead is a popular venue that plays 6,832 yards from the tips over a modestly rolling terrain.
The two Tom Fazio-designed golf courses at Bonita Bay East are refreshing departures from Florida development courses that snake through residential neighborhoods. When you play Bonita Bay East, you feel like you're in Old Florida -- just you, your clubs and nature. If natural is what you are looking for, this is it, Katharine Dyson writes.
Bonita Springs is one of southwest Florida's great golf areas, and the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort and Spa is at the center of it all. Located steps from the resort is the Raptor Bay Golf Club, and Hyatt guests also have exclusive access to The Colony Golf & C.C. Additionally, golfers are minutes away from Old Corkscrew in Estero.
Tooling through rural Florida past cow-dotted pastures on your way to Copperhead Golf & Country Club in Lehigh Acres, you'd swear you were in the middle of nowhere. But Copperhead is a solid, well designed track with several memorable holes, a lot of water, rolling fairways and some elevation changes, along with some good grip-it-and-rip-it holes.
While playing Raptor Bay Golf Club in Bonita Springs, take time to soak up the melodies of bird calls, the waving grasses and the rippling waters of this Audubon International Gold Certified Sanctuary course. It's a beauty. Designed by Raymond Floyd, Raptor Bay is a joy to play and one you will want to come back to more than once. And with seven sets of tees, it's playable for all levels.
Some golf courses in Naples try to break you down the stretch, while others want you to go home happy. The final three holes can make or break your round, and Jeff Berlinicke offers up some of the best finishing stretches in Naples.
There are many reasons why couples golf is growing in Naples, Fla., where the area has morphed from a sleepy warm-weather getaway to a glamorous, high-end winter retreat. Real estate developers and the area's golf courses get it and are doing everything they can to lure in couples, Katharine Dyson writes.
Panther Run Golf Club is probably the best value in southwest Florida. Located roughly 30 minutes inland from Naples, this Troon Golf-managed facility is just far enough out of the way to keep costs down but close enough for golfers to make the drive. And the wide fairways and superb greens make it worth the trip, Jason Scott Deegan writes.