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Tedstone Wafer is a village and civil parish  north east of Hereford, in the county of Herefordshire, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 112. The parish touches Collington, Edvin Loach and Saltmarshe, Lower Sapey, Norton, Tedstone Delamere and Wolferlow. Tedstone Wafer shares a parish council with Edvin Loach and Saltmarshe, Tedstone Delamere, Upper Sapey and Wolferlow called "North Bromyard Group Parish Council".

Landmarks
There are 9 listed buildings in Tedstone Wafer. Tedstone Wafer has a church called St James that was formerly called St Mary and a village hall.

History
The name "Tedstone" means 'Teod(i)'s thorn-tree', the "Wafer" part being that Robert le Wafre held land here in 1160-70. Tedstone Wafer was recorded in the Domesday Book as Tedesthorne/Tetistorp along with Tedstone Delamere.

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Updated: Nov. 17, 2012 at 11:55 p.m.
Cleveland Browns cornerback Joe Haden traveled with his team this weekend, but his availability is very much in doubt.
NFL.com's Ian Rapoport spoke with Browns coach Pat Shurmur, who made it sound as if Cleveland will be without its best defensive player against the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.
Rapoport mentioned to Shurmur that Haden's prospects didn't look good for Week 11.
"Nope. But we've had to do things around here, guys gotta step up and play," Shurmur told Rapoport. "I think everybody deals with that, so I'm way beyond worrying about that now."
Haden strained his oblique in practice Wednesday and missed practice Thursday and Friday. Rapoport reported the Browns are hopeful he'll play, but are realistically pessimistic. Shurmur called Haden -- who is listed as questionable -- a "game-time decision."
If the Browns don't have Haden, a thin secondary will be tasked with covering Cowboys playmakers Miles Austin and Dez Bryant. Expect one -- or both -- to have a big day.


Frank Lampard says England's flop footballers have to ignore the criticism they will get for their World Cup performances.
Lampard (left) intends to carry on playing international football after England's woeful exit in South Africa – and claims all the flak being aimed at the squad won't make any difference to the players.
He said: "I want to carry on with England. I think there will be a lot of talking, not just about me.
"It's important players go away and don't listen to it and concentrate on our jobs now.
"The talk is great for the people who are involved in that sort of thing but it doesn't actually make any difference.


Home >Data Centers >What is Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)?
Multi-Protocol Label Switching is a term used in networking to refers to a technique of handling data packets in an efficacious manner. In essence, it provides sophisticated guidelines regarding how packets of data should be routed within a network in such a way that issues such as low traffic quality are reduced. This method of data packet handling is usually used in various networks including ethernet networks, VPNs and the public Internet.
The role of MPLS is to ensure that data packets are routed from place to place in the most efficacious manner possible. Label switching is key to this process. In essence, it involves labeling of information packets. Typically, such labels contain data such as their source, location and destination. With MPLS, the labeling is more advanced, and includes information such as the type of information that the packet contains.
The labeling information is then used to assign a Forwarding Equivalence Class to each data packet. By doing this, MPLS ensures that data packets that need to reach their destination fast, such as video conferencing data, is forwarded using low latency pathways. Data that has a lower priority is routed using slower pathways, ensuring that the network is efficient. In essence, it is one of the best ways of managing network resources.
MPLS as described above is normally used for non-public networks such as VPNs. However, MPLS also has applications in the public internet. The use of MPLS in this domain is more or less similar to how it is used in private networks: to ensure that data is first prioritized and then sent along pathways determined by their priority levels. Within companies that use VPNs, MPLS can be set up in such a manner that it conforms to the company's protocols. For instance, if the company considers some types of data as high priority, then the MPLS can be modified to suit this business model.
The improvement or personalization of protocols such as Multi-Protocol Label Switching is done through traffic engineering. This is the key to reducing the cost of networking, but without sacrificing the network's performance. The result is a low-cost but high-performance network. In this manner, it is useful when customizing IT infrastructure such as cloud services and colocation. The more these protocols are refined, the better the network performance and the lower the cost of using them.
If you are setting up IT infrastructure for any reason, you should consider using MPLS to manage your data traffic. It can go a long way in reducing the cost of bandwidth, and also ensuring that the network performs to the exact specifications that you want. The good thing is that once MPLS has been set up, you can reap the benefits for a long time before the need to review and refine the protocol. MPLS is often disregarded, but it can have huge benefits when set up just right.


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Mornings are becoming my favorite part of the day, especially Saturday Mornings. This wasn't always the case because we had little one's waking up multiple times in the night to nurse, or they needed something because you know they were babies. By the time the morning would roll around I defiantly resembled something looking close to a Zombie.
Now fast forward. The kids are older and sleep amazingly which means as parents we are sleeping and the only time I resemble a Zombie is when I have an allergic reaction to food.
Each morning we have our family rituals, get up, get any chores out of the way, make breakfast and lunches sit together as a family and ask each other about our dreams from the night before, talk about how exciting the day ahead will be and seeing friends or teachers. These small moments are my favorite and it's interesting that it naturally happens around the table. These are the moments to hold onto and treasure. During the week we make it a point to gather each morning together take time and, do these rituals, then we head off to school and start work.
Saturdays are my favorite because when we do this we get to linger a bit; we maybe make something like gluten free waffles, (still in the midst of testing new recipes from scratch) Or Make Van's frozen waffles. These are defiantly our favorite store bought brand. The point isn't just about some elaborate menu, but cherishing the time we have together. It goes quick and going even quicker. I thought I would share a glimpse into our morning breakfast time as a family, the time we cherish and love and all look forward to partake in.
What are the rituals that you love and do each day? Whether that is alone, with your family or anything else that tickles your fancy?


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William Martins Le Poer Trench1
M, #48801, b. 26 September 1866, d. 13 September 1904
William Martins Le Poer Trench was born on 26 September 1866.1 He was the son of Colonel William Le Poer Trench and Harriet Maria Georgina Martins.1 He married Elinor Mary Cox, daughter of Dr. J. C. Cox, on 17 April 1891.2 He died on 13 September 1904 at age 37, without issue.1
He lived at Coorheen, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaG.2,1
[S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 793. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 130. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
Elinor Mary Cox1
Elinor Mary Cox is the daughter of Dr. J. C. Cox.1 She married, firstly, William Martins Le Poer Trench, son of Colonel William Le Poer Trench and Harriet Maria Georgina Martins, on 17 April 1891.1 She married, secondly, Hon. Sydney Trench, son of Hon. Frederic Sydney Charles Trench and Lady Anne Le Poer Trench, on 6 November 1905.1 She married, thirdly, Brig.-Gen. Ronald Campbell Machachlan on 7 January 1908.1
From 17 April 1891, her married name became Trench. From 7 January 1908, her married name became Machachlan.1
Hon. Sydney Trench1
M, #48803, b. 9 January 1877, d. 16 December 1905
Hon. Sydney Trench was born on 9 January 1877.1 He was the son of Hon. Frederic Sydney Charles Trench and Lady Anne Le Poer Trench.1 He married Elinor Mary Cox, daughter of Dr. J. C. Cox, on 6 November 1905.1 He died on 16 December 1905 at age 28.1
Ranulf II de Bayeux, Vicomte de Bessin1,2
M, #48804, b. circa 1050, d. November 1120
Ranulf II de Bayeux, Vicomte de Bessin was born circa 1050 at Bayeux, Normandy, FranceG.3 He was the son of Ranulph de Bayeux, Vicomte de Bessin and Aliz de Normandie.3 He married Margaret d'Avranches, daughter of Richard le Goz, Vicomte d'Avranches and Emma de Contville, circa 1069 at Avranches, Normandy, FranceG.3 He died in November 1120.4
He gained the title of Vicomte de Bayeux [Normandy] in 1089, or 'de la Bessin', of which Bayeux is the capital.4
Child of Ranulf II de Bayeux, Vicomte de Bessin
William le Meschin, Lord of Copeland+1
Children of Ranulf II de Bayeux, Vicomte de Bessin and Margaret d'Avranches
unknown daughter le Meschin5
Agnès de Briquessart+6
Ranulph le Meschin, 1st Earl of Chester+7 b. c 1070, d. 17 Jan 1128/29
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 353. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S5162] Werner Kittel, "re: Normandy Families," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 4 February 2011. Hereinafter cited as "re: Normandy Families."
[S125] Richard Glanville-Brown, online <e-mail address>, Richard Glanville-Brown (RR 2, Milton, Ontario, Canada), downloaded 17 August 2005.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 166.
[S2512] Robert Pearson, "re: le Meschin Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 18 November 2007. Hereinafter cited as "re: le Meschin Family."
[S3268] Hans Harmsen, "re: Chester Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 21 August 2008. Hereinafter cited as "re: Chester Family."
[S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 53. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
Hon. Frederic Sydney Charles Trench1
M, #48805, b. 18 April 1839, d. 2 March 1879
Hon. Frederic Sydney Charles Trench was born on 18 April 1839.2 He was the son of Frederick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown and Harriet Georgiana Cosby.1 He married Lady Anne Le Poer Trench, daughter of William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty and Lady Sarah Juliana Butler, on 30 April 1867.2 He died on 2 March 1879 at age 39.1
Children of Hon. Frederic Sydney Charles Trench and Lady Anne Le Poer Trench
Frederic Oliver Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown+1 b. 2 Feb 1868, d. 20 Mar 1946
Hon. William Cosby Trench+3 b. 23 Jan 1869, d. 12 Mar 1944
Charlotte Anne Trench4 b. 13 Jan 1871, d. 28 Aug 1947
Sarah May Trench+3 b. 17 Aug 1873, d. 30 Mar 1934
Hon. Sydney Trench4 b. 9 Jan 1877, d. 16 Dec 1905
[S8] BP1999. [S8]
Lady Anne Le Poer Trench1
F, #48806, b. 1839, d. 12 March 1924
Lady Anne Le Poer Trench was born in 1839.2 She was the daughter of William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty and Lady Sarah Juliana Butler.1 She married Hon. Frederic Sydney Charles Trench, son of Frederick Mason Trench, 2nd Baron Ashtown and Harriet Georgiana Cosby, on 30 April 1867.3 She died on 12 March 1924.3
Her married name became Trench.
Children of Lady Anne Le Poer Trench and Hon. Frederic Sydney Charles Trench
[S2392] Letter from Lucy Trench (London, U.K.) to Darryl Roger Lundy, 7 August 2007; unknown repository (unknown repository address).
Power Henry Le Poer Trench1
M, #48807, b. 11 May 1841, d. 30 April 1899
Power Henry Le Poer Trench was born on 11 May 1841.1 He was the son of William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty and Lady Sarah Juliana Butler.1 He died on 30 April 1899 at age 57, unmarried.1
He was Secretary of the British Embassy at Berlin between 1888 and 1893.1 He held the office of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Mexico between 1893 and 1894.1 He held the office of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Japan between 1894 and 1895.1
Lady Anne Butler1
F, #48808, d. 29 May 1831
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Lady Anne Butler was the daughter of Henry Thomas Butler, 2nd Earl of Carrick and Sarah Elizabeth Taylor.1 She married Reverend Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham, son of Rt. Rev. Henry Maxwell and Margaret Foster, on 8 September 1798.2 She died on 29 May 1831.2
From 8 September 1798, her married name became Maxwell.
Children of Lady Anne Butler and Reverend Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham
Hon. Sarah Juliana Maxwell+3 d. 17 Dec 1870
Hon. Anne Maxwell3 d. Dec 1857
unknown son Maxwell3
unknown daughter Maxwell3
Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham3 b. 9 Aug 1799, d. 20 Aug 1868
Somerset Richard Maxwell, 8th Baron Farnham3 b. 18 Oct 1803, d. 4 Jun 1884
Hon. Harriet Margaret Maxwell+1 b. 11 Feb 1805, d. 4 Jul 1880
Lt.-Col. James Pierce Maxwell, 9th Baron Farnham3 b. 1813, d. 26 Oct 1896
Hon. Richard Thomas Maxwell+3 b. 19 Feb 1815, d. 22 Jan 1874
Reverend Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham1
M, #48809, b. after 1768, d. 19 October 1838
Reverend Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham was born after 1768. He was the son of Rt. Rev. Henry Maxwell and Margaret Foster.2 He married Lady Anne Butler, daughter of Henry Thomas Butler, 2nd Earl of Carrick and Sarah Elizabeth Taylor, on 8 September 1798.1 He died on 19 October 1838.2
He succeeded as the 6th Baron Farnham, of Farnham, co. Cavan [I., 1756] on 20 September 1838.2
Children of Reverend Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham and Lady Anne Butler
Hon. Richard Thomas Maxwell1
M, #48810, b. 19 February 1815, d. 22 January 1874
Hon. Richard Thomas Maxwell was born on 19 February 1815.2 He was the son of Reverend Henry Maxwell, 6th Baron Farnham and Lady Anne Butler.2 He married Charlotte Anne Elrington, daughter of Henry Preston Elrington, on 7 March 1848.2 He died on 22 January 1874 at age 58.2
He lived at Finnebrogue, County Down, IrelandG.3 He lived at Fortland, County Cavan, IrelandG.4
Children of Hon. Richard Thomas Maxwell and Charlotte Anne Elrington
Hon. Anna Frances Maxwell+4 d. 5 Apr 1937
Hon. Isabella Sarah Maxwell3 d. 15 May 1902
Somerset Henry Maxwell of Calderwood, 10th Baron Farnham+2 b. 7 Mar 1849, d. 22 Nov 1900
Harriet Elizabeth Maxwell2 b. 16 Apr 1854, d. 19 Nov 1875
Colonel Hon. Henry Edward Maxwell+4 b. 27 Nov 1857, d. 2 Mar 1919
[S4045] Daniel Curran, "re: Garrett Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 26 October 2009. Hereinafter cited as "re: Garrett Family."
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Chardonnay 100%
The generic Comtes Lafon Meursault village delivers green apples and pears together with a well balanced minerality. A very refreshing vintage that drinks well now and has the potential for quite some more years to come.
About Domaine des Comtes Lafon
Domaine des Comtes Lafon has the deepest and coldest cellars in Burgundy and they nurture some of the greatest dry white wines of Burgundy. Dominique Lafon is the leading producer in Meursault, producing wines of astonishing depth and complexity, yet supremely balanced as well.
The domaine dates back to the building of the house and cellar at Clos de la Barre by the Boch family in 1869. However the real creator of the estate was Comte Jules Lafon who married Mademoiselle Marie Boch on St Vincent's day 1894, and was shrewd enough to purchase exceptionally well sited plots in the best vineyards of Meursault and Volnay, as well as a treasured piece of Le Montrachet acquired in 1919.
Dominique Lafon has been in charge since 1985, taking over a domaine which already had a reputation for outstanding, if irregular whites, and potentially good reds. When Lafon took over the domaine, most of his vineyards were leased out on a share-cropping basis. It was only towards the end of the 80s that he managed to reclaim all the vineyards and thus have full responsibility for them. The white wines are now consistently among the best in Burgundy while since 1989 the reds have reached the top division. Not only are the Lafons' holdings in the best vineyards of Meursault and Volnay, but they are mostly very well situated within the vineyards. The domaine is now cultivated according to biodynamic principles with no use of herbicides or chemical sprays. All the wines are barrel-fermented, using new oak for the 1er Crus upwards. There is only one racking after the malolactic and the wines are bottled nearly two years after the vintage, one of the latest bottlings in Burgundy. This is the very pinnacle of White Burgundy with superlative fruit, power, complexity and total harmony being the wines' hallmarks. The reds (incl. those from Volnay, Monthélie) are first class as well.
In September 1999 the Lafons bought a domaine in the Maconnais at Milly Lamartine, sold under the label of Les Héritiers du Comte Lafon. Further vineyards have been bought subsequently, and from 2009 there is a contract in place to farm the vineyards of the Chateau de Viré. Dominique has also established a small label of his own, the wines being made in Beaune.
The white wines are whole bunch pressed then settled in tank at 12°C for 24 hours. No new oak is used for the village wines, up to 70% for Charmes and Perrières, less for Genevrières, and 100% for Le Montrachet, though these are subsequently racked into older wood. The wines spend a second winter in wood.
The red grapes are 100% destemmed and put in stainless steel tank with a cooling and heating system. Temperature reduced to 14° for a three to five day pre-fermentation maceration. The vats are typically punched down twice a day during fermentation. Post-fermentation maceration depends on the tannins, while sometimes the juice is pressed and run off into barrel to finish fermenting there. 30% new oak is used. Maturation takes place over 18 months with two rackings before bottling without fining or filtration if possible.
Chardonnay is a green-skinned grape variety used in the production of white wine. The variety originated in the Burgundy wine region of eastern France, but is now grown wherever wine is produced, from England to New Zealand. For new and developing wine regions, growing Chardonnay is seen as a 'rite of passage' and an easy entry into the international wine market.
The Chardonnay grape itself is neutral, with many of the flavours commonly associated with the wine being derived from such influences as terroir and oak. It is vinified in many different styles, from the lean, crisply mineral wines of Chablis, France, to New World wines with oak and tropical fruit flavours. In cool climates (such as Chablis and the Carneros AVA of California), Chardonnay wine tends to be medium to light body with noticeable acidity and flavours of green plum, apple, and pear. In warmer locations (such as the Adelaide Hills and Mornington Peninsula in Australia and Gisborne and Marlborough region of New Zealand), the flavours become more citrus, peach, and melon, while in very warm locations (such as the Central Coast AVA of California), more fig and tropical fruit notes such as banana and mango come out. Wines that have gone through malolactic fermentation tend to have softer acidity and fruit flavours with buttery mouthfeel and hazelnut notes.
Chardonnay is an important component of many sparkling wines around the world, including Champagne and Franciacorta in Italy.
Chardonnay's popularity peaked in the late 1980s, then gave way to a backlash among those wine connoisseurs who saw the grape as a leading negative component of the globalisation of wine. Nonetheless, it is one of the most widely planted grape varieties, with 210,000 hectares (520,000 acres) worldwide, second only to Airén among white wine grapes and fifth among all wine grapes.
Chardonnay lends itself to almost any style of wine making from dry still wines, to sparkling wines to sweet late harvest and even botrytized wines (though its susceptibility to other less favourable rot makes these wines rarer). The two winemaking decisions that most widely affect the end result of a Chardonnay wine is whether or not to use malolactic fermentation and the degree of oak influence used for the wine. With malolactic fermentation (or MLF), the harder malic acid gets converted into the softer lactic acid, and diacetyl which creates the "buttery-ness" that is associated with some styles of Chardonnay. The wines that do not go through MLF will have more green (unripe) apple like flavours. Oak can be introduced during fermentation or after in the form of the barrel aging. Depending on the amount of charring that the oak was treated with, this can introduce a "toastiness" and flavours that many wine drinkers mistake as a characteristic of the grape itself. These flavours can include caramel, cream, smoke, spice, coconut, cinnamon, cloves and vanilla.
Other winemaking decisions that can have a significant effect include the temperature of fermentation and what time, if any, that the wine allowed to spend aging on the lees. Burgundian winemaking tends to favour extended contact on the lees and even "stirring up" the lees within the wine while it is aging in the barrel in a process known as bâttonage. Colder fermentation temperatures produces more "tropical" fruit flavours like mango and pineapple. The "Old World" style of winemaking favours the use of wild, or ambient yeast, though some will also use specially cultivated yeast that can impart aromatic qualities to the wine. A particular style of yeast used in Champagne is the Prise de Mousse that is cultivated for use worldwide in sparkling Chardonnay wines. A potential drawback of using wild yeast is that the fermentation process can go very slow with the results of the yeasts being very unpredictable and producing potentially a very different wine each year. One Burgundian winemaker that favours the use of only wild yeast is Domaine des Comtes Lafon which had the fermentation of its 1963 Chardonnay batch take 5 years to complete when the fermentation process normally only takes a matter of weeks.
The time of harvesting is a crucial decision because the grape quickly begins to lose acidity as it ripens. For sparkling wine production, the grapes will be harvested early and slightly unripe to maintain the acid levels. Sparkling Chardonnay based wines tend to exhibit more floral and steely flavours in their youth. As the wine ages, particularly if it spends significant time on lees, the wines will develop "toasty" notes. Chardonnay grapes usually have little trouble developing sugar content, even in cooler climates, which translates into high potential alcohol levels and limits the need for chaptalisation. On the flip side, low acid levels can be a concern which make the wine taste "flabby" and dull. Winemakers can counteract this by adding tartaric acid in a process known as "acidification". In cooler climates, the extract and acidity of Chardonnay is magnified which has the potential of producing very concentrated wines that can develop through bottle aging. Chardonnay can blend well with other grapes and still maintain some of its unique character. The grapes most often blended with Chardonnay include Chenin Blanc, Colombard and Sémillon.
Due to the "malleability" of Chardonnay in winemaking and its ability to reflect its terroir, there is not one distinct universal "style" or set of constants that could be applied to Chardonnay made across the globe. According to Jancis Robinson, a sense of "smokiness" is one clue that could be picked up in a blind tasting of Chardonnay but there are many styles that do not have any "smoky" notes. Compared to other white wine grapes like Sauvignon Blanc, Gewürztraminer and Viognier-Chardonnay has a more subtle and muted nose with no overwhelming aromatics that jump out of the wine glass. The identifying styles of Chardonnay are regionally based. For example, pineapple notes are more commonly associated with Chardonnay from Napa Valley while Chablis will have more notes of green apples. While many examples of Chardonnay can benefit from a few years of bottle aging, especially if they have high acidity, most Chardonnays are meant to be consumed in their youth. A notable exception to this is the most premium examples of Chablis and white Burgundies.
Alternative Names: Morillon, Pinot Chardonnay, Feiner Weisser Burgunder
About Meursault
Meursault is a large village in the Côte de Beaune sub-region of Burgundy. Its wines are regarded as highly as those of its southern neighbour Puligny-Montrachet. This is despite Meursault not having any grand cru vineyards to speak of.
Meursault's output is almost entirely white wines, made from Chardonnay grapes. The commune's wines are renowned for being among the richer, more full-bodied Burgundy whites. Tasting notes commonly cite notes of butter, almonds and grilled hazelnuts, alongside the finer citrus fruit and mineral elements. The geological differences across the commune's vineyards are famously discernible in their wines.
Less than five percent of its vineyard area is planted to Pinot Noir destined for red wines. In fact, reds from a small cluster of vineyards at the northern end of the commune are produced under the appellation of Meursault's northern neighbour, Volnay. These sites all fall under the Volnay Santenots title for their red wines, but the Meursault Santenots Blancs, Santenots du Milieu and Les Plures titles for their whites.
Rather than any one world-class site, it is Meursault's reliably high-quality premier cru vineyards and commune-level bottlings that are responsible for its good reputation. The most famous of these wines are produced at the southern end of the commune, at the 31 hectare (77 acre) Charmes vineyard, and the Perrières and Genevrières sites.
In addition to its official premier crus, the commune has a number of well-respected lieu-dit vineyards. Their names are commonly cited on wine labels. Lieu-dit sites are those without the premier cru title, but which are nevertheless known as a source of high-quality grapes.
It is possible for these sites to be promoted to premier cru status, and for demotions in the other direction. Classification reviews are becoming more frequent; the last was in late 2001.
The commune stretches just over 5 kilometres (3 miles) from north to south – still small, but relatively large when compared to its smaller neighbour Puligny-Montrachet, which barely measures 2km (1.2 miles). There are 289 hectares (714 acres) of village level Meursault vineyard, and 105ha (259 acres) of premier cru sites. More than 200,000 cases of white wine are produced per year, plus around 4000 cased of red.
Located on the limestone-rich slopes of the Côte d'Or escarpment, Meursault's sites are blessed with classic Burgundy terroir. They occupy an area at the entrance to the Saint-Romain valley, a gap in the Côte d'Or. This leads to a variety of orientations in the local hillsides, from due south through due east. This variation is just one contributing factor in the variation of styles in Meursault wines.
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I got this cds from a friend who forced me to listen to these crap and writes my thoughts about it. Since I already ordered the second volume, I guess it's okay to hear the first volume. But I was wrong. I'll be frank, this cds annoyed me to the level of no return. (; ̄Д ̄) I warn you this review will be very very subjective. Since it's pretty short I decide to write it into one post.


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Hauser students let off some STEAM
New multidisciplinary elective focused on product design
by Bob Skolnik June 13, 2017
Steven Jones the teacher who teaches a STEAM class at Hauser Junior High in Riverside. | William Camargo/Staff Photographer
A 3D printer used at a STEAM class at Hauser Junior High in Riverside on June 1. | William Camargo/Staff Photographer
Some of the work children made at Steven Jones STEAM class at Hauser Junior High in Riverside on June 1. | William Camargo/Staff Photographer
Hauser Junior High seventh-grader Eric Rangel pitches classmates on an adjustable ladder her designed as part of the school's STEAM elective during the third trimester of the school year. "You feel independent and that you're doing your own thing," he said of the experience. | William Camargo/Staff Photographer
There was a new class, or rather series of classes, at L.J. Hauser Junior High School this year.
The class is called STEAM, which stands for science, technology, engineering, art, and math. It adds art to the popular emphasis on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) in recent years.
During the one-trimester long classes, students come up ideas to build a product, and then go through the whole design process – from drawings, to building a prototype to, ultimately, manufacturing the final product, or a miniature version of it, using a 3D printer.
"We basically teaching students different ways kind of to think, problem solve, collaborate, work together," said Jason Smit, the instructional technology coordinator for Riverside Elementary School District 96. "I feel this is a class that is not only preparing our students for their future, I feel we're hitting students maybe where they weren't educationally being reached before."
STEAM is an elective class, one of two electives Hauser students can take each trimester. During the 2016-17 school year, 70 percent of sixth-graders, 42 percent of seventh-graders, and 63 percent of eighth-graders took STEAM electives.
District 96 hired a new teacher, Steven Jones, to teach the classes. Jones has a degree in industrial design and worked for about three years in private industry mostly in information technology before deciding to become a teacher.
He brings real-world practices into his instruction, with a stress on setting goals, working as a team and constant review and feedback by and for students.
"My big focus is on the engineering, design process," said Jones, who taught at a charter school in Chicago for a few years before coming to Hauser for the 2016-17 school year. "That involves creating sketches and making prototypes out of cardboard."
In addition to using science, math and engineering in the design process, students develop confidence and poise by making presentations to peers and they give and receive feedback. Students also learn some computer programming skills.
"I love that we're learning about engineering and 3D printing," said Maeve Wunderlich, a seventh-grader who designed a pen and pencil case in her STEAM Design class.
In her case you can see the tops of the pens or pencils, which will make the case easier to use.
"I feel like whenever we're pulling out pens or pencils when we're grading something I always like struggle with finding just the one red pen in my pencil case so I felt like if something was more open you could easily see it," Wunderlich said after presenting her final product to her class on June 1.
Wunderlich said that she rates her STEAM Design class a 9 out of 10.
"This class is one of my most favorite classes, because I have a lot of fun in it and we have a lot of freedom," Wunderlich said. "You basically just get to design what you want."
Classmate Eric Rangel designed a small prototype of an adjustable ladder that is expandable and can be set up at different angles. He thinks it would be most useful for roofing companies or other businesses that use ladders often.
Students are encouraged to have a target market in mind for their products and to build things that people would buy instead of just indulging their fantasies.
Like Wunderlich, Rangel really enjoyed the class and the freedom it offered to follow his own ideas.
"You feel independent and that you're doing your own thing, and it doesn't feel like somebody's holding your hand the whole way through," Rangel said. "You could express your creativity in different ways."
Another seventh-grader, Caroline Bittorf, took the slightly different STEAM Fusion class.
In her class students did projects such as designing a boat using only three Popsicle sticks. The goal was to get it to float while holding steel balls.
"I think that the STEAM class is very interactive," Bittorf said. "We kind of get to use our own talents to express ourselves through technology and 3D printing. I would say that STEAM Fusion is my favorite class."
In the STEAM Entrepreneur class for eighth-graders, small groups of students form their own companies and design products. This year, students designed new bathroom signs for Hauser and signs for use at other elementary schools in the district. They met with administrators, their customers, to learn exactly what the customer was looking for and to pitch their ideas.
They developed their art skills with drawing and design; used math, science and engineering to build the products; and they worked on their speaking and listening skills by making presentations, pitching the product, working in teams, and giving and receiving feedback. Students also kept weekly digital portfolios and diaries to track their progress.
Smit and Jones are looking forward to building on what they've done for next year.
"Year two I think, will be kind of a fun year," Smit said. "Just to see what we can grow and continue to expand and improve."
Jones said he will review the class and evaluate it over the summer.
"We're kind of building up right now, and I'm hoping to have some really nice projects as we go into the second year of the program, but right now we're just building the foundation," Jones said.


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puerto los cabos
Posted on August 29, 2015 in Cabo San Lucas, In this Issue, Issue 41, Safe Travel, San Jose del Cabo
Local and federal goverments are working closely to ensure Los Cabos and its famous landmarks—like Land's End—stay safe
By Fernando Rodriguez
Los Cabos remains a favorite tourist destination.
While much of México continues to battle issues—real and perceived—Los Cabos has remained a safe retreat for families, dignitaries, celebrities, and the people who live here 365 days a year. This has, in fact, long been a favorite destination, having served as a playground for Hollywood jet-setters: Bing Crosby, Desi Arnaz, and John Wayne were frequent visitors during the 1950s, and more recently Cindy Crawford and George Clooney have made homes here.
Los Cabos has blossomed into one of the most beautiful resort areas in México and continues to be one of the safest. "There are no problems at all here, except maybe the dangers of getting a sunburn if you're not careful," says Martin "Marty" Ochoa, a real estate agent who has been living in Cabo San Lucas for seven years.
Even as Cabo San Lucas, San José del Cabo, and the Tourist Corridor connecting them have grown, crime rates have stayed largely down. México's government has taken great measures to keep the area safe, and it clearly paid off: Los Cabos was selected to host the G-20 summit in July 2012.
"The violence you hear about in the media has absolutely nothing to do with events that are anywhere near Cabo San Lucas," says Agustin Sanchez, an Arizona native who moved to Cabo San Lucas more than 10 years ago.
Katherine Bitoni of San Antonio, Texas, adds: "I have been traveling to Cabo for 30 years. It's safe and always has been. I have taken my daugh
ters and grandchildren with me. I feel safer in Cabo than I do in some areas of Los Angeles and San Diego."
Tourism is big business, and it makes sense the government would work to protect a region like Los Cabos. Additionally, it's worth noting the high-profile, drug-related violence has been generally limited to the states of Sinaloa, Guerrero, and Chihuahua and near the borders in Baja California, roughly a thousand miles away. Los Cabos is geographically—and, in many ways, culturally—removed from mainland México.
"We have over 15,000 foreigners living in Baja California Sur," says Marco Ehrenberg, Baja California Sur's director of international relations. "Many of the rich and famous still choose Cabo as their number one destination. Don't you think they've done their homework? Why do we have the best hotels and the highest number of private air travel in México for a tourist destination? Because Los Cabos is safe, fun, and friendly."
"México is a big, incredibly diverse country, so violence along the border does not have any effect on a vacation in Los Cabos," adds Miroslava Bautista
Cabo San Lucas Marina and harbor. Photo by Joseph A. Tyson
Sánchez, the Los Cabos secretary of tourism. "Thousands of flights, cruise lines, and private yachts choose Los Cabos as their travel destination. Why? Because Los Cabos is a symbol of a peaceful place to visit and to live."
Quintana Roo Gov. Roberto Borge says the violence in México needs to be viewed with perspective: "México has 112 million citizens," he is quoted as having said. "Are there more good Mexicans than bad? Yes. There are more than 2,500 municipalities in México, and the majority of violence is in 12 of them." Just looking at homicide rates, it's easy to see Cabo San Lucas is safer than most travel destinations in the world.
Puerto Los Cabos in San José del Cabo. Photo by Francisco Estrada
Local government continues to work to protect visitors and locals. Authorities, for example, do not tolerate excessive drinking and disorderly behavior. It is illegal to disturb the peace, act in a lewd or indecent way, litter, drive drunk, or make foul or insulting remarks to others. The penalties for drug possession and use are especially severe in Los Cabos: Authorities can hold someone in jail for up to a year before a case is even tried.
The local government created a tourism police force as a means to better serve English-speaking visitors to the area and whose focus is maintaining the decades-long safety of tourists and their families.
You will see military checkpoints along the highway to and from Todos Santos and La Paz. This is yet another means to solidify the peace, tranquility, and safety of this Southern Baja California region.
Military police were dispatched to Los Cabos during the Hurricane Odile natural disaster and have remained in the area to maintain order and safety.
The Navy also works in conjunction with the military peace officers to ensure the safety within the waters that populate the Cabo San Lucas area.
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JBU ANNOUNCES $2 MILLION GIFT FOR CHARLES PEER ENDOWED CHAIR IN VISUAL ARTS
John Brown University announced today an anonymous $2 million gift to establish the Charles Peer Endowed Chair in Visual Arts and a $1 million matching challenge for endowed art scholarships.
The endowed chair and new scholarships are part of JBU's $125 million Campaign for the Next Century: A Hope and a Future, which was also announced today.
The new endowed chair is a part of the new $10 Million Endowment for Academic Excellence project in the Next Century Campaign. "It is a great privilege to honor Charles Peer for his incredible contribution to JBU," said Dr. Chip Pollard, JBU president. "These funds will support Charles, the first holder of the chair, in his teaching, painting and curating as well as the growth in the Visual Arts Department at JBU."
Peer started teaching at JBU in 1987 and, together with colleague Dave Andrus, founded JBU's Visual Arts Department in 1990. Today, the Visual Arts department at JBU is the largest program with almost 250 students studying in eight different fields.
Peer works primarily with soft pastels and explores the interaction of colors in landscapes. A few of his accolades include his receipt of the President's Award at the Northwest Pastel Society 28th Annual International Open Exhibit, several "Best in Shows" at Ozark Pastel Society Competitions, and Best of the Show at the Richeson75 International Competition for Landscapes, Seascapes and Architecture. He has been the Summer Artist in Residence at the Buffalo River National Park and was selected to be included in "Best of America Pastel Artists, Volume 2" by Kennedy Publishing.
"Charles is an incredible asset to the Visual Arts department at JBU," said Dave Andrus, professor and visual arts department chair at JBU. "He is everything you want in a faculty member: strong character, excellent professionalism, kind attentiveness and prolific talent. I consider it a great honor to have come to work every day for 25 years with Charles Peer."
The $1 million challenge will be matched dollar for dollar when JBU raises $1 million toward endowed scholarships for JBU Art Students. The scholarships will be awarded to art students throughout their four years at JBU.
"We are deeply grateful to the anonymous donor that has sought to honor Charles and support art students through this generous endowment gift," said Pollard.


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Mid-Century Garden Daybed by Richard Schultz for Knoll, 1966
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Hans Knoll was born in 1914 in Stuttgart, Germany, into the successful manufacturing family behind Walter Knoll & Co. Early-20th-century Germany was an epicenter of modernist design theory—most notably expressed in the products and practices of the Deutscher Werkbund association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists, as well as the influential Bauhaus school—which advocated for design rooted in the principles of rationality, functionalism, and mass production. This milieu had a profound influence on Hans and inspired him to produce furniture for the new age. In 1937, after a stint in London, he moved to the United States and brought his modernist vision with him.
Florence Knoll (neé Schust) was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1917 and from an early age exhibited a strong interest in architecture. After graduating from the Kingswood School for Girls in 1934, she moved across campus to the newly formed, Bauhaus-inspired Cranbrook Academy of Art to study architecture under recent émigré, Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. There she befriended future design luminaries Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen. She went on to Columbia University's School of Architecture to study town planning. In 1937, she apprenticed under former-Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a few years later, enrolled at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe became a life-long mentor to her.
In 1938, Hans Knoll established The Hans G. Knoll Furniture Company as a furniture exporter in a small space on East 72nd Street in New York City. As the company quickly grew, it evolved into a manufacturing business. In 1941, he opened his first plant in a former dance hall in East Greenville, Pennsylvania and hired Danish designer Jens Risom, who eventually helped him develop the first, original Knoll furniture designs. That same year, Hans met Florence on an interior design project and, recognizing her exceptional taste and eye, hired her to bring in business with architects and interior designers and, later, to provide in-house planning and interior design expertise for a growing corporate clientele. In 1946, Hans and Florence married and renamed the company Knoll Associates. That same year, the Knolls formally established the Planning Unit, solidifying the company's role in the design of interior spaces. In 1951, Knoll International was launched as the German and French arms of Knoll, producing Knoll designs for the European market. Sadly, Hans died in a tragic car crash in 1955, but Florence remained actively involved until she retired in 1965.
Knoll's signature pieces include Breuer's Wassily Chair (1925), Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair (1929/1948), Harry Bertoia's Diamond Chair (1952), Eero Saarinen's Tulip Armchair (1957), as well as Florence's own furniture collection developed through the 1950s. Knoll's impressive catalogue includes a who's-who list of midcentury modern and contemporary design figures, including Jens Risom, Alexander Girard, George Nakashima, Isamu Noguchi, Richard Schultz, Warren Platner, Charles Pollock, Andrew Morrison & Bruce Hannah, Vignelli Associates, Richard Sapper, Maya Lin, Frank Gehry, and Rem Koolhaas. As of this writing, Knoll's most recent collaboration is with David Adjaye, who designed the Washington Collection for Knoll and the Adjaye Collection for KnollTextiles. Today, the company is particularly focused on meeting the evolving needs of the 21st-century workplace.
In 2011, Knoll received the National Design Award for Corporate and Institutional Achievement from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. The award recognized Knoll's legacy in American modern design and the company's commitment to promoting the relationship between good design and quality of life. Knoll designs can be found in the permanent design collections of institutions around the world, including more than 30 acquired by New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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Why election changes nothing in Nigeria
Tayo Oke
By Tayo Oke
It is generally believed in Western democracies that elections have consequences, and in many instances they do. Take, for instance, the election of Boris Johnson, the Conservative British Prime Minister, in 2019, under the slogan, Get Brexit Done. Following a huge parliamentary majority, Brexit indeed happened and it has resulted in a remarkable turnaround in the ordinary lives of the UK citizens and their relationship with the rest of Europe in particular. New trade deals are still being negotiated between the UK and many countries around the world, a new UK passport has come into being and Britain is, once again, trying to re-assert itself as an influential power within the Western alliance. All tied to the election. Another example is the election of the current president, Joe Biden, in the US, whose Democratic Party's own catchy slogan was Build Back Better coupled with a new direction in both domestic and foreign policy. An economic stimulus package worth $1.9 trillion has since been pushed through Congress and new multilateral diplomacy to deal with international crises has taken the centre stage in contrast with the isolationist and unpredictable atmosphere of Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump. Similar scenarios can be identified in Canada, Germany, France, Japan, Australia etc. All pointing to the consequential nature of elections. By contrast, elections change nothing in Nigeria, though not for the reasons you think.
The cynic in the average Nigerian often leads him to write off elections as nothing but a charade. "It is all manipulation," "Votes don't count," "Winner is known even before the vote," "Too much ballot stuffing," etc. These heartrending lines, and more, have become the received wisdom for many Nigerians disillusioned about the possibility of politics as a tool for advancing change. But, none of the above is the real reason why elections don't have consequences in Nigeria. The received wisdom in Western democratic systems is that the opposition does not win elections; the government loses it. In other words, a government's record in office, not the opposition's manifesto, is the decisive factor. It is what motivates the electorate to cast their ballot. There is a connection; a symbiotic relationship between government record and electoral mandate. The social security system has seen to it that hunger and empty belly can no longer be used to bait the electorate. So, there is a substantial focus on governance and nation-building during elections than it is in less affluent, less developed economies such as Nigeria. Be that as it may, it is still not the whole story.
The present APC regime campaigned under the mantra, Change, in 2015, which people interpreted to mean a change from bad to good governance. Although the substance of 'change' was not spelt out by the party, the electorate could not have imagined that it meant anything other than the promise of a marked improvement in their standard of living. So, when the electorate was called upon to render a verdict four years later, in 2019, it was widely thought that four years were not enough to judge a regime given that the previous one was in power for sixteen consecutive years. Another opportunity to render a verdict now beckons next year, in 2023. This time, there is no question that the electorate is entitled to ask whether they are better off in 2023 than they were in 2015 when the APC first came into office. For that, let us have a quick glance at a few "bread and butter" issues. A bag of rice (50kg) was N10k in 2015, it is now N30k+. Petrol was N87/Ltr in 2015, it is now N165/Ltr and rising. Diesel was N151/Ltr in 2015, it is now N650/Ltr. Cooking Gas (12.5kg) was N2,800 in 2015, it is now N8,500. Inflation was 9.3% in 2015, it is now 15.7%. Foreign Debt was $10bn in 2015, it is now $38bn. Domestic Debt was N12tn in 2015, it is now N22.4tn. The stimulus package in the US has helped stabilise the people's economic well-being in general but has led to consumer price inflation currently standing at 7.5%. Still a relatively low (single digit) compared to Nigeria's double digits inflation. You would think, what is the big deal in a 7.5% inflation rate when the rest of the economy is turbo-charging? No big deal except that it was 1.23% when Biden took office in January 2021.
In the US as in Nigeria, the effect of inflation is not something the government can easily sugar-coat. In a recent "CBS/YouGov" opinion poll of Americans, 58% said Biden was not focused on the economy enough. And, in a CNN poll, 7 in 10 Americans think the Biden administration is not doing enough to bring inflation down. After just one year in office, the electorate is already impatient. Only 40% approve of the job Biden is doing as president, 54% disapprove, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos survey. There is a midterm Congressional election coming up next year. Biden's party, the Democrats, are likely to lose their slim majorities in both Houses, making him a lame duck for the rest of the term. And, in Nigeria, has anyone conducted a survey to find out exactly what the public is feeling and thinking across a whole range of economic issues? The answer is no, otherwise, references would have been made to it in this write up as well. There is no scientific measure of public opinion in the way that plugs straight into governance in Nigeria as it is in Western democracies, where such surveys dominate the headlines and provide the rallying point for political debate and policy choices.
Consequently, the political elites in Nigeria are shielded from accountability in any meaningful way. What is dominating the headlines in the run-up to the 2023 elections in Nigeria are the spurious "zoning formulas" of APC and PDP, in addition to the religious and ethnic colouration of the respective candidates for office. For those who have their fingers on the pulse of the electorate, they would find that condemnation of the government for its numerous failings is almost universal. But, wait, three months to the election, however, the aggrieved citizens will be offered (and accept) bags of rice, gallons of vegetable oil and N5k in exchange for their votes. That then constitutes their own dividends of democracy. Put another way, the citizens become 'co-conspirators' in their own slow death. They become active enablers of fly-by-night politicking as they, too, rationalise acceptance of election bounties as emanating from the collective purse: It is our money after all. The party that manages to disburse such largesse in larger quantities wins. Never mind the groaning and suffering the same citizens will come back to endure for the duration of the electoral cycle.
You see, direct electoral fraud at polling stations play some part in winning and losing but it has never been the decisive factor in any event, at least, not as potent as the careful manipulation of the hungry belly. It is only the poor politician that hones his political strategy on voter fraud; the smart politician understands the psychology of the poor and destitute, as such a person does not have the luxury of waiting for tomorrow and for grandiose programmes for nation-building. As Nigeria faces the biggest fall in living standards since independence, the focus for the transactional voter nonetheless, remains today, here and now. This needs not to be so though; things could be different. Edmund Burke once noted, "the only condition necessary for the triumph of evil is for men of goodwill to do nothing."
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The alarm bell is ringing out for the good men and women in Nigeria to step up to the plate, to stand up and be counted now.


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Contribute selflessly and constructively in politics, PM Modi urges youth
admin Posted on January 13, 2021
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the New National Education Policy focuses on development of better individuals and from better individuals to a better country. Addressing the valedictory function of the Second National Youth Parliament Festival yesterday through video conferencing, Mr Modi said, this policy gives priority to our youth's understanding, their decisions and beliefs.
The Prime Minister said, the new National Education Policy is a step towards nation-building and the Government is building an eco-system which will give better opportunities to the youth. Mr Modi said that our youth should come forward and write the destiny of our country. He exhorted the Youth to contribute selflessly and constructively in politics.
The Prime Minister has lauded the winners and final panelists of the second National Youth Parliament Festival. Mr Modi said, as he was hearing them speak, a thought came to him and he decided that he will tweet their presentations from his twitter handle, not just of the three winners but, if recorded material is available, he will tweet the speeches of all those who were on the final panel. Later, he tweeted the speeches of the winners and final panelists of the second National Youth Parliament Festival from his twitter handle.
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Q: How do I know what the exception is in Eclipse, Android SDK? The biggest annoyance so far is that I just cannot see what the heck happened if there is an exception. In Visual Studio if an exception happens, even if it happened somewhere in the underlying libraries, the last executed line of my code is highlighted yellow, and I can see what the exception is.
I know I'm missing something basic, but Eclipse just shows me the "Source Not Found" message, I have a stack trace with a bunch of functions that are useless because none of them are mine, but the main bummer is that I'm just unable to find any information about the exception being thrown, and it frustrates the hell out of me.
The LogCat panel has nothing about the exception in it, the console window has nothing about the exception in it, but I know it should be there somewhere, please help me find it.

A: You can try here. It is asked a related question.
Android Stack Trace - Where is error shown?
I recommend you using the LogCat.You activate it in
Window --> Show View --> Other --> Android --> LogCat.
If an exception is thrown, the log show it in red. In my experience, the real problem never appear at the beginning of the exception, it appears after the line
"Caused By"
There you will see in which line in your code the exception was generated and be able to go there by simply double clicking it.

A: go through the stack trace from top to bottom. it's very likely, that at some point you will find a reference to your code, which triggered an exception.
generally, if you are going to program java it's very important to understand how exceptions work and how to read stack traces.
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A: I found out the name of the exception from the stack trace, but it's all I could get, still no clue to what's causing it and where it happens. So here's what I'm doing (lstItems is a ListView control in my activity:
cursor = adapter.fetchAllItems();   //that's a simple database adapter
            int a = cursor.getCount();
            if (cursor.getCount()!=0)
                {
                    startManagingCursor(cursor);
                    String[] from = new String[] { adapter.KEY_NAME};
                    int[] to = new int[] { R.id.listView1 };
                    for (int i = 0; i < cursor.getCount(); i++)
                    {

                        SimpleCursorAdapter cursorAdapter = new SimpleCursorAdapter(this,
                                R.layout.manageItems, cursor, from, to);
                        lstItems.setAdapter(cursorAdapter);  //that's what causing the exception, if I comment this line out, everything's fine, but the list is not updated either.

                    }
                }

So the code runs, and when the activity with the updated ListView is supposed to show up, the debugger stops with  the following stack trace:
Thread [<1> main] (Suspended (exception IllegalStateException))
    ListView.layoutChildren() line: 1662
    ListView(AbsListView).onLayout(boolean, int, int, int, int) line: 1147
    ListView(View).layout(int, int, int, int) line: 7035
    LinearLayout.setChildFrame(View, int, int, int, int) line: 1249
    LinearLayout.layoutVertical() line: 1125
    LinearLayout.onLayout(boolean, int, int, int, int) line: 1042
    LinearLayout(View).layout(int, int, int, int) line: 7035
    FrameLayout.onLayout(boolean, int, int, int, int) line: 333
    FrameLayout(View).layout(int, int, int, int) line: 7035
    LinearLayout.setChildFrame(View, int, int, int, int) line: 1249
    LinearLayout.layoutVertical() line: 1125
    LinearLayout.onLayout(boolean, int, int, int, int) line: 1042
    LinearLayout(View).layout(int, int, int, int) line: 7035
    PhoneWindow$DecorView(FrameLayout).onLayout(boolean, int, int, int, int) line: 333
    PhoneWindow$DecorView(View).layout(int, int, int, int) line: 7035
    ViewRoot.performTraversals() line: 1045
    ViewRoot.handleMessage(Message) line: 1727
    ViewRoot(Handler).dispatchMessage(Message) line: 99
    Looper.loop() line: 123
    ActivityThread.main(String[]) line: 4627
    Method.invokeNative(Object, Object[], Class, Class[], Class, int, boolean) line: not available [native method]
    Method.invoke(Object, Object...) line: 521
    ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run() line: 868
    ZygoteInit.main(String[]) line: 626
    NativeStart.main(String[]) line: not available [native method]

I figured that happens because I'm doing something wrong with the UI thread, but I have no idea what. I'm not using multiple threads at all.

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Post by shpalman » Fri Dec 24, 2021 8:26 am
Boris Johnson has invoked the teaching of Jesus Christ
... the prime minister celebrated members of the public who were "getting jabbed not just for themselves, for ourselves, but for friends and family and everyone we meet".
"That, after all, is the teaching of Jesus Christ, whose birth is at the heart of this enormous festival – that we should love our neighbours as we love ourselves," he said.
His words echoed the message from the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who said earlier this week: "I would say, go and get boosted, get vaccinated. It's how we love our neighbour. Loving our neighbour is what Jesus told us to do. It's Christmas, do what he said."
Boris telling us what he thinks Jesus would want us to do makes me feel a bit uncomfortable for a couple of reasons.
Trinucleus
Post by Trinucleus » Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:04 am
Remind me what the bible says about committing adultery....
Post by Bird on a Fire » Fri Dec 24, 2021 10:34 am
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's ass?
Well after deliberately sacrificing hundreds-thousands of people on the altar of "no restrictions before national Jesus day" at least he's bothering to emphasise the socially worthwhile bits of Jesus rather than the hollow capitalistic overconsumption of modern Christmas.
warumich
Post by warumich » Fri Dec 24, 2021 5:01 pm
I'm generally enjoying the debate but I'm also trying to maintain some focus.
Ok, sorry - suppose it's sometimes a bit difficult to read tone off a post. It's just that I don't think what I'm trying to say should be that controversial.
It feels like I've spent too much energy in here defending science, for example.
, for example - defending religion, or religious people, is not the same as attacking science, so I don't see why science needs defending, at least not from me. (As a sociologist of science I suppose I have a slightly less deferential view of it because I know that both in historical and contemporary examples science very often is not quite as rational as it likes to portray itself. But that's a different debate than what we've been having and in any case that doesn't diminish science as a whole. Or have anything to do with religion).
Well, conjuring up a perfectly harmless person to demonstrate that a person can be perfectly harmless is also begging the question.
Begging the question because I am presupposing a premise? Do you mean the premise that perfectly harmless, non-bigoted Anglican tea lady can exist? I don't think that's too unreasonable? Or I don't understand your point at all. My point was that perfectly harmless, non-bigoted religious people exist (and they're even very common, though I didn't say that), and that therefore judging them because of what some other people of their religion have done, said or believed is not on. Not sure how that point is countered by saying that bigoted members of that religion also exist. Or maybe more likely, I really don't understand what you're saying.
Personally I waver between two points of view. The first would be that people are what they are, and the belief systems they construct are only reflections of that, so religion itself has little influence on what sort person a person is; they'll pick the bits of the belief system which go along with what they think is right and not worry about the other bits. The second would be that groups of people can form an echo chamber which reinforces certain views beyond what an individual might have arrived at, causes them to accept beliefs which they aren't really comfortable with because it's "part of the package", and lead to an ingroup/outgroup mentality.
Well yes, it's a well known phenomenon (your second point of view), and yes peoples' beliefs are influenced by those around them and what comes as a package. What I've been trying to say is that this has nothing to do with religion - anywhere where you have clearly formed social group identity this phenomenon will manifest itself. To the extent that religions tend to be social identities that then holds true of religion as well (though, if you want to include personal idiosyncratic spiritual beliefs as religion, then this doesn't hold). But social identities form around many things that you'll be unlikely to label religion - I gave examples earlier of football and Star Trek fandom, and nationalism, we can also have social identity formed around sports you play, around your kids or "motherhood", around political parties you support, and around your profession or job (and that then includes scientist as an identity - and in fact part of my own research involved the social psychology of identity formation around scientists and how that influences their beliefs because science-identity beliefs also come as a package).
And also, being a badscience or now scrutineer member is an identity, as is the "skeptic" identity that formed around science fandom and that intersected with that of the badsciencers at least in the early days. What I see as a really scary transphobic bigotry that has developed within that group (not so much here these days, but I know plenty of ex-badsciencers who fell in with that crowd and now spout b.llsh.t Tory "freedom of speech" anti woke b.llsh.t on twitter. Most of them are really nice people, people I count(ed) as friends, but who invested in a sceptic with a k identity so wholesale that they had to take on the whole b.llsh.t transphobia along with it...
I digress, but what I meant to say is that I don't think these good people would describe themselves as religions and I would agree with that.
Anyhoo, merry Christmas everybody.
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Post by Millennie Al » Sat Dec 25, 2021 1:17 am
warumich wrote: ↑
defending religion, or religious people, is not the same as attacking science
This is why I said above that if there isn't an agreed definition of something, it's impossible to have a sensible discussion about it.
For people, such as myself, who regard religion as belief regardless of evidence and science as belief dependent on evidence, defending religion is inherently attacking science (and, of course, the reverse).
Post by Gfamily » Sat Dec 25, 2021 1:54 am
Do you consider that you may be mistaken in your thinking? Do you have absolute rock solid evidence for everything you believe? And do you consider that you may be mistaken in your thinking?
Post by warumich » Sat Dec 25, 2021 7:28 am
bl..dy hell dude, you can't just use your own definition of a group of people just because membership is otherwise not well defined and then use your definition to mock them.
Like, there is no clear definition of what a Scottish person is (is it based on parentage? Residence?), so you just take one sh.tty stereotype as your definition (idk, a Scot has red hair and eats unhealthily), and then use your definition to mock Scottish people on an Internet forum.
And before we go on to a sidetrack discussion about Scots and deep frying, it's a bl..dy analogy. Merry Christmas
Post by shpalman » Sat Dec 25, 2021 7:57 am
In the Telegraph: some Christians who think that non-Christians are incapable of tackling moral questions. They are so convinced of their moral and intellectual superiority. What an objectionable headline.
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No true Scotsman?
Post by Bird on a Fire » Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:24 am
You must really struggle with the huge numbers of entirely competent religious scientists, then.
Post by warumich » Sat Dec 25, 2021 10:27 am
Can't argue with that tweet. What a sh.tty thing to say, can't (won't) read the telegraph, but going by the headline thats just awful. I'm not against criticism when it is justified.
Yes that was my thinking here, or a variation of that at least
Post by Millennie Al » Sun Dec 26, 2021 1:43 am
Gfamily wrote: ↑
Of course. No. And of course.
But note also that if I'm wrong, and it is reasonable to believe in something regardless of evidence, then there is no reason for me not to believe in science.
If you can then I can too. That's the point I'm trying to get across about an agreed definition of something. You have some idea of what you mean by religion, but if you don't define it then when you desribe some property of religion people with a different definition will disagree because they don't realise they have misunderstood what you're talking about.
Not in the slightest. A person can be both religious and a scientist because people are not abstract concepts. They can simultaneously believe contradictory things. A person might sincerely pray for their illness to be cured while also working scientifically for a cure. They may reconcile this contradiction by claiming that any cure they find was guided by divine inspiration, or they may refuse to consider the issue. Generally, when someone believes two contradictory things they get quite agitated if you can show them the contradiction.
Woodchopper
Post by Woodchopper » Sun Dec 26, 2021 8:48 am
The point being made is that one can't simply define religion because religions don't have any shared characteristics that are exclusive to religion (aside from being called religions by some people).
We've been playing this game for years. Someone claims that all religions share a characteristic and then someone else points out the religions which don't. Arguments about religion are based upon 'facts' which only apply to a handful of them and ignore the rest.
A systematic and rigorous approach to the subject concludes that there is very little that one can say about religion as a phenomena.
People can, of course, take a systematic and rigorous approach to examining individual religions, or sub-sets of them which do share characteristics.
Post by shpalman » Sun Dec 26, 2021 10:42 am
The personal beliefs of a competent scientist don't matter, because the whole point of how science works is to remove subjectivity. I personally don't understand how a scientist can be objective and atheist when doing science but then in the rest of their life let those attitudes slip, but that's just me.
On the other hand, if a scientist's science is driven by their personal beliefs (for example, insisting that you're going to find a new way to date linen fibres so that you can get around the C-14 results for the age of the Shroud of Turin, or analysing Maria Valtorta's writing as if she really were channeling Jesis) then eventually they aren't really doing science anymore.
Woodchopper wrote: ↑
Or, someone points to a thing which has been done by a person because of their religion and there then follows an argument about whether they would have done it anyway or how according to their religion they should actually have done something else or how not every single religion in the whole world or not every single religious person in the whole world is exactly the same and therefore a single counterexample has invalidated the whole point or something.
Post by Bird on a Fire » Sun Dec 26, 2021 11:15 am
So they'd be simultaneously attacking science and contributing to it?
Anyway, it's probaby would indeed be helpful to say which religion(s) we're talking about.
At a guess it's largely Christianity as practised in Western Europe (plus its colonies and diaspora), Islam-according-to-mass-media and a few other tidbits and factoids thrown in occasionally.
If nobody is intending to comment authoritatively on, say, Yoruba animism or Papuan ancestor-worship then there's no harm in walling them off.
Post by Millennie Al » Mon Dec 27, 2021 12:45 am
That depends on how honest the scientist is. If they are suffuciently honest with themselves, then they will either keep up a futile search until they die, or get tired searhcing, or it will break their faith. Many religious people lose their faith as a result of studying it too closely and realising it is flawed.
And the futile search for something based on prior incorrect belief is not exclusive to religion - the search for a proof of Euclid's fifth postulate has examples of that - including people who claimed to have found the proof.
Post by shpalman » Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:51 am
Mathematical proof relies on a chain of logic, and it's usually clear to everyone else in the field where the flaw in the logic is in a case like that. Or, for example, there's a plenty futile search for supersymmetric particles based on the prior incorrect belief that there should be some "naturalness" in the values of the parameters in particle physics. But the experimental results are clear: there's nothing there. Theorists who refuse to give up might suggest that the particles would be just out of reach and the next generation of accelerator should see them, just as they say every time.
But what they don't do, is say "of course you can't see them, that's the point, you need to believe that they're there but you're not allowed to check" while simultaneously claiming that all of our current results exists because whatever they're claiming is true.
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Post by dyqik » Mon Dec 27, 2021 3:01 pm
There's a particular problem with all religions with a cosmogony (up to and including deism) in studying cosmology. The belief in a prime cause/creator is awkward when you are studying whether or not the universe has a beginning in any meaningful sense. If you have to give up on the time ordered flow of cause and effect, then prime causes are pretty suspect, and teleological reasoning about the universe being created just so to give rise to certain effects are right out. Obviously, beliefs in anything stronger than deism are problematic for cosmology even after the big bang.
OTOH, I don't know any religious theoretical cosmologists that strongly believe in their religion's cosmogony. And that "strongly believe in <specific tenets>" distinction is necessary, because there are plenty of people that observe a religion without believing all of the dogma and tenets of that religion. Most people are fully capable of compartmentalizing religious beliefs, political beliefs and scientific thoughts, without even thinking about the tensions between them. And much personal religious thinking is more about "contemplate the mysteries" than "this is what happened".
nezumi
Post by nezumi » Mon Dec 27, 2021 3:59 pm
I would like to massively oversimplify the issue in the same way I did when I was 8. I haven't thought about it an awful lot since then as I quickly did an overview of the literature* and came up with Nezumi's Principle** - "If it sounds like wishful thinking. It is."
When I think about it that way, it's no longer about mocking religion, it's about being compassionate to people who feel the need to think wishfully.
* The usual 8-year-old type topics: Dinosaurs, Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Sumerian mythology and a quick reading of very simplified bible stories.
** It's Occam's Razor really but I'm extremely vain.
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Post by Imrael » Tue Dec 28, 2021 10:46 am
I thought this was called the "2 magesterium" approach, but casual googling suggests otherwise. Basically says religion and science are about different topics/domains and there isnt really a clash. Attempts to insert religion into science ( as opposed to scientists) get you Intelligent Design, attempts to insert science into religion get you - dunno - Descartes wager?


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Whether you were at pitch/ring/track/poolside or shouting your champion(s) on from the comfort of your armchair, some moments of sporting history stay with you forever. Signed sports memorabilia can help you recapture those moments.
Sports Legends helps fans relive the moments of glory that matter with authentic sports collectibles that let you touch sporting history, and hang a piece of it on your wall.
It's a record that you were there. A signed picture, programme or shirt lets you connect with a moment you'll never forget. You can touch it, display it and show it off again and again.
Sports memorabilia can add to a valued collection. It could be a thoughtful gift. And sports collectibles can make an effective investment when interest (and value) increase over time.
We're fans too. We know how much getting close to your sporting heroes matters. And we believe genuine fans should be able to find autographed sports memorabilia they can trust at sensible prices.
That's why all our sports collectibles are signed and 100% authentic. It's why we care about the way they are mounted and framed. And it's why we offer the UK's best value in sports memorabilia. Find your perfect piece now, or contact us and ask us to source a specific sports collectible.