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8 Smart Pointers

Smart pointers are used extensively in Aspell to simplify memory management tasks and to avoid memory leaks.

8.1 CopyPtr

The CopyPtr class makes a deep copy of an object whenever it is copied. The CopyPtr class is defined in copy_ptr.hpp. This header should be included wherever CopyPtr is used. The complete definition of the object CopyPtr is pointing to does not need to be defined at this point. The implementation is defined in copy_ptr-t.hpp. The implementation header file should be included at a point in your code where the class CopyPtr is pointing to is completely defined.

8.2 ClonePtr

ClonePtr is like copy pointer except the clone() method is used instead of the copy constructor to make copies of an object. If is defined in clone_ptr.hpp and implemented in clone_ptr-t.hpp.

8.3 StackPtr

A StackPtr is designed to be used whenever the only pointer to a new object allocated with new is on the stack. It is similar to the standard C++ auto_ptr but the semantics are a bit different. It is defined in stack_ptr.hpp — unlike CopyPtr or ClonePtr it is defined and implemented in this header file.

8.4 GenericCopyPtr

A generalized version of CopyPtr and ClonePtr which the two are based on. It is defined in generic_copy_ptr.hpp and implemented in generic_copy_ptr-t.hpp.


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As you might recall my post here i am forced again to repeat:

Blasphemy laws?

Well for each case where someone is sentenced to anything else but exposure to criticism you will get a "fuck Allah" from me.

Not because i believe it (how could i anyway) but because i won't let such idiotic laws stand there and cause such harm.

This time we have a 15 year old girl in the UK arrested. Not even in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia. No, it's god old Britain. Of course there the law is not to arrest someone for insulting the holy prophet or the divine. Clever as the British are they use a better formulation: inciting religious hatred

I wonder why they didn't arrest the Pope when he linked atheism and secular world views to the Nazis.

Catherine Heseltine, chief executive officer of the Muslim public affairs committee, said burning the Qur'an was one of the most offensive acts to Muslims she could imagine.
"The Qur'an is the most sacred thing to over a billion Muslims worldwide. You can see that in the way Muslims treat the Qur'an, washing before touching it, and in many Muslim homes you will find it on the top shelf above all other books, and we will never destroy the Qur'anic texts."

Lady Heseltine doesn't get it and she has obviously no imagination. Whether the Quran is the most sacred text to Muslims or not is of no relevance for the owner of a copy of it. No matter how stupid or ludicrous a burning of a book might be, if you paid for that book it's yours and you do with it what you want to.

And don't you think that this girl did something special. You know how many books get destroyed each and every day because of negligence, boredom or disinterest. But of course the deliberate burning of one copy of the Quran in a small school by a 15 year old kid is totally different.

Here we have Muslims feeling terribly offended by a childish act that wouldn't be worth a second in the news for any other book. Is that religion so vulnerable? Are the people so vulnerable?

And why would the authority in Britain actually care for this nonsense? Is the British government so afraid that they enforce an anticipatory obedience?

But it get's even more ludicrous. If burning a book of which millions or perhaps even billions of copies exist is one of the most offensive act to Muslims that is imaginable by that Lady, then she is already living in Wonderland in the first place. Tell that to the thousands of women raped each day, tell it to the people suffering from warfare or hunger. You might be lucky and survive a few minutes before they rip you apart for that idiotic remark.

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Comment by Adrianne on November 26, 2010 at 10:23pm
Any book that promotes mass genocide in the name of a false god should be burned in my opinion and of course Britain doesn't like it because that would intefere with the morality of followers that the keep under cover with the laws of the so called holy. UGH

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What could $20 million buy? Only a little more than this small Lower East Side site

Forest City Ratner has agreed to pay just $20 million to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the portion of the Vanderbilt Yard it needs to build the Atlantic Yards arena. It initially promised to pay $100 million for the whole railyard. This series attempts to add some context.

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The segment of the Vanderbilt Yard at issue is 495' x 200', or 99,000 square feet, some 14.5 times larger than the Lower East Side site. If you multiply the Upper East Side price by 14.5, it comes out to $228.4 million.

The Lower East Side site only supports 47,706 square feet. The Atlantic Yards arena block, of which this segment (Block 1119, Lot 7) would be at least a third, would support an 800,000 square foot arena and at least 1.5 million in development rights, according to the City Funding Agreement. (The towers on the area block, as approved, were supposed to contain 2.69 million square feet.)

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    It is not a contradiction to the previous statement.

    Cut-off-date = 1 ==> PDs before 1st can file (i.e mar-01 cut-off date mean pds till apr-30 can file)
    Cut-off-date = 8 ==> PDs before 8 can file (i.e pds 1 to 7 since they are in one bucket)
    Cut-off-date = 15 ==> PDs before 15 can file (specifically pds in bucket 8-14 can file)

    Hope it helps. As others predicted, I really think the numbers will not move back. You will get your GC soon.

    yikes !!! so looks like I have to wait then... anyways I was happy for a few moments till I saw this message :)

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    How come these people do not get caught during H-1 approval process or during visa stamping at consulate or maybe later during GC process?

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    FYI .. This post is what I received in e-mail few days back.

    I would like to bring to the notice of your readers, editorial committee and leaders of
    the Indian community of a systematic way that (legally) the US Government is practicing
    legal ethnic cleansing of Indians and Chinese and other H-1B visa holders.

    While it is agreeable that the current economic downturn is the worst one has seen.
    It is time to band together with what resources we have and make it thru this perfect
    storm. However, the machinations of a few politicians and the further connivance of the
    USCIS, we are about to see a systematic 'legal ethnic cleansing of Indians and other
    foreign professionals'.

    Leaders of the ethnic Indian community should take up this issue. Leading Indian attorneys
    such as Chugh Firm, Khanna Firm, Sheela Murthy, and leaders like Dr. Romesh Japra and
    Yogi Chugh etc should do something about this with their contacts at the highest levels.

    How is this happening and why is it ethnic cleansing?

    Since 1990's every year several thousands of Indian professionals come to the US. Because of
    delay in processing of their Green Cards a vast majority of them are on H-1B.

    With the current downturn, Sen. Grassley et all have raised such a stink that companies are
    forced to lay off H-1b holders first before they lay off any other US employees. While the US
    employers may not always do this. They are being shamed into revealing how they laid off
    US Citizens before laying off others. Net Net....Indian professionals are being laid off from
    large companies (ofcourse, along with layoffs of US citizens and Green card holders as well).

    Now, having been laid off, H-1b holders are forced to leave the country within 10 days if they
    do not find another job. Now, many are forced to leave the US as they cannot sustain living
    in the US. However, some enterprising few are finding lower paying jobs or are finding so called
    'body shopping companies' to file their H-1b transfer in anticipation of staying around till the
    economy improves and they can find suitable jobs. Here is when the systematic targetting and
    ethnic cleansing is coming to the fore. The USCIS in the past which did not, out of the ordinary
    question such H-1b transfers. is raising Request for Evidence (RFE) from these companies.

    These RFEs are raised in such a way that it is impossible to answer them. They are thus
    not only targetting the H-1b candidates, they are systematically undermining the people
    (companies) who want to help out H-1b candidates out of their predicament of being stranded.

    Imagine living in the US for the past 8 years. Owning a home, then getting in line for the
    Green Card. You are close to getting the green card but because of backlog you only get
    what is called the Employment Authorization Card (EAD). So, you continue to be on H-1b status.
    Then your employer fires you....

    There are two paths here.....Technically, with a EAD card you can get employment anywhere
    with what is called US AC21 Portability.However, AC21 EAD portability comes with the need
    that a person with EAD should have another job with the exact same profile and same salary.
    In this market who is going to give you a job with this exact profile as your old job. The only
    way for a person to stay on 'legally' is to file a backup H-1b.

    Thus a person in the 'last stages' of his green card also actually ends up joining a fresh h-1b
    software professional.

    Now, what will the USCIS do? They will ensure that they find some issue with the RFE response
    provided by the 'body shopping company' and issue a denial of H-1b extension.

    The body shopping companies are trying to be the Raoul Wallenbergs (helping with visa when a
    person is in distress - However, the USCIS will
    ensure that literally hundred thousand Indian and Chinese professionals are kicked out of the
    US. The same professionals who came to US to contribute to its success will now be kicked
    out of US against their wish. The companies who are willing to help them will also be harassed
    in the bargain, some of those companies will be investigated for non-payment of wages, some
    of them will be subjected to USCIS audits for trying to help these helpless people whose lives
    are being uprooted.....I am not in any way saying that lives of US citizens is not being uprooted.
    These are very tough times and there is no reason to pick on the helpless, unrepresented people.

    This is as un-american as it gets. US is famous for its chivalry. Over 5000 lives have been sacrificed
    in Iraq to foster democracy and fairness in that part of the world. This is an un-American as it gets.
    This is a planned lynching and killing of the 'spirit' of the foreign worker who came to US dreaming
    of making it the American dream and participating/contributing to its success.

    What should the USCIS do?

    Given the tough times...They should allow people to stay on in the US as long as another
    employer is willing to keep them in status. They should not question the H-1b applications as
    everyone knows that USCIS can find issues with every single H-1b extension filed right now
    with their respective offices. As someone said - Rejecting a H1b now is like issuing speeding
    tickets at INDY 500. Even the largest companies such as Microsoft and IBM can have their
    H-1b applications rejected by the USCIS with the silliest of excuse.

    What is in it for the USCIS not to do this ethnic cleansing?

    Long term vision for America not just right now. This year the US Embassies in India issued over
    98,000 visas to students from India. These are students who are paying their way thru education
    in the US (a country with the most expensive but best education). If it turns out that US specifically
    targets Indians for 'special h-1b rejection treatment' literally half of them will never aspire to come
    to the US within the next 2 or 3 years.

    Right now the economy is bad, but it will improve: It is a 'perfect storm' right now which is causing
    this downturn. The economy will surely improve in the next few quarters. There will then be new
    sectors of the economy that will boom that will need professionals. There will be enough work by then
    for these H-1b professionals as well as US residents.

    Confident and free people contribute positively:
    If the word spreads that even in bad times this society did not turn on them then the US people
    will be appreciated. But, if the message is, when you are down they will kick you where it
    hurts, then this society will not succeed. Just imagine, there are at least 250,000 (maybe more) people of Indian
    and Asian origin who would end up buying a house if they knew for sure that they could continue
    to live without the fear of being 'ethnically cleansed'. Most Indians and Asians save money and do
    not splurge. Just this measure of confidence will ensure that they will spend money in the US
    economy. Just their contributions will ensure that there is a bump in the housing sector.

    Finally, As they say - "Those who do not learn from history are forced to repeat it". The US
    is perpetrating a betrayal of people who could contribute to its success in the long run. But, what they are
    getting is a form of 'systematic and legally driven ethnic cleansing' - they are being identified and
    driven out of the country which they have loyally served for varying periods of time.....

    God Bless America....God Save America from 'some' of its own people.

    This is called natural correction. Read other posts and you would realize that for last 10 yrs majority of these so called IT programmers didn't even go to proper engineering college. More than half of them weren't even qualified to do the jobs. And than most of them came here and sat on bench, even though their actual jobs were still being searched or finalized. This system was mis-used and abused. Now it's time to pay for it!

    So thank God this is happening and hope USCIS does good job this time.

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    I did not find Point Number 2 in their website that you mentioned here. Can you post link to it? It may be that they removed it now, or you might understood something differently.

    Following up on the NYTimes article about the NumbersUSA group, I visited their website and saw that they have a free FAX program where they can easily send faxes to their senators.

    One of their fax letters is below, which is a complete mis-representation of truth - look at point #2.

    Dear [This fax will go to Your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative ]

    I oppose any increase in the annual H-1B visa cap, including those in the SKIL Act. I am counting on you to oppose it.

    Here are just a few reasons why I hope you will oppose the SKIL Act:

    (1) The six-year visas allow foreign workers to bring in their families, and guarantee thousands of anchor babies.

    (2) H-1B salaries are tax-exempt - no FICA, no federal or state income taxes. They can live at the same level as tax-paying Americans at a lower cost. Therefore, Congress allows foreigners to "low-ball" American workers.

    (3) H-1Bs can leave the job they came to fill and seek other jobs, not necessarily in the "hard to fill" category.

    (4) Most H-1Bs are of a "protected" ethnic group, so H-1Bs have an affirmative action preference when competing with Americans for the same jobs.

    The result of the SKIL Act would be to further depress the wages of Americans working in high-tech and scientific fields and to cause additional job displacement for those workers.

    Sincerely, [Your Name Will Appear Here]

    Is there any way we could let the senators know that this is complete lie, misinformation and mis-representation of facts?. We should also let the senators know that the credibility of these organizations are questionable and following the news/faxes from these organizations would in turn put the credibility of these senators at a BIG RISK. We also should let the senators know that these groups are artificially "hiking" up the count by sending in duplicate faxes.

    Also, I recommend creating a similar page in IV website, where we can have an automated 1-2-3 STEP fax facility where we can automatically fax a letter to senators. It should be as simple as selecting the state and pressing the Send Fax button. Please let me know if you need any programming help from me.

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    09-18 09:49 AM
    It is not end of the world. But end of the economy as we know it. People smarter than me and you have said this is turning into an armageddon.

    Economy is falling, people are losing jobs, fuel prices are rising, depressing is coming, housing market is going down. Look at the brighter side, if you invest in constructing industry building apartments you can make money now.

    Jokes apart, what were the people smarter than me and you doing to prevent all this from happening?. Weren;t they smart enough then?.

    07-11 08:44 PM

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Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Another Perth restaurant with attitude

I find that the sort of bad service described below is actually rather common in fancy restaurants everywhere.  The staff are too often up themselves.  But it seems to be particularly bad in Perth.

I eat out frequently and have long done so.  But these days I eat almost exclusively  at ethnic restaurants, where both the service and the food are almost invariably good.

I ordered Peking Duck at a local Chinese restaurant last week and the duck was being carved in front of us within 15 minutes.  It was perfectly done too.  In my experience, you can't beat Chinese restaurants for service.  It's always been a mystery to me why other restaurants can't seem to emulate them.

Hint:  Avoid like the plague any restaurant that advertises "innovative" cuisine. The egos you are likely to find there will be elephantine and the food will likely be small serves on large plates

The debate over customer service in Perth has been renewed after a disgruntled customer posted his email chain with a restaurant owner online.

Hadyn Green, a retired police superintendent, was disappointed after waiting more than an hour without receiving his meal or an apology at Northbridge restaurant Positano, but was more shocked with the response from its managing director when he complained via email.

Instead of receiving an apology, Mr Green was told "If you wanted fast food you should have gone to McDonald's" and "I don't need you or want you to come back".

When Mr Green said he would post the email chain on Facebook and restaurant review website Urbanspoon, the response from Positano was: "It's only miserable people like yourself who write pathetic reviews. Get a life mate and if it makes you feel better to write a review then go right ahead... Your threats don't worry me at all. If you think you are smarter then me why don't you come and try to run my restaurant".

Mr Green isn't alone in expressing his distaste on Urbanspoon; of 78 reviews listed for the restaurant, 38 were negative and Positano has just a 51 per cent approval rating.

However, Positano managing director Anthony Brekalo called the complaint "ridiculous" and said it was rare they received a complaint.

"He's misunderstood what I've said to him," said Mr Brekalo.  "He's taken this too far, he's come in at 8 o'clock on a busy night and expected to sit down, get his main and get out by 9 o'clock."

Mr Brekalo admitted he had regrets about his emails since they had been posted online, but stood by what he said.  "I didn't think the guy would be as spiteful as that," he said.  "I tried to be nice to him at the beginning, but I don't want customers like that."

"That happens quite a bit, people will say things, they'll find a long black hair in their food and my chefs don't have long hair, they've all got short hair," he said.

He believed the incident was representative of a trend in people expecting too much from restaurants.

"Customer service to me: we're in the business to make money, we're not there just to be a convenience to people who want to eat out," Mr Brekalo said.  "We're also trying to make a living, it's not a Hollywood lifestyle.

Google claims victory in court battle with Australian watchdog

This was a stupid prosecution from the beginning that has cost the Australian taxpayer a lot of money for no apparent reason.  But the ACCC is something of a bully organization.  Most  businesses settle with them rather that wear the expense of court proceedings.  Getting into the High Court was no strain on Google's funds, however

Internet search giant Google has won its legal battle with the consumer watchdog, after the High Court overturned a ruling that the company had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission had taken legal action against Google over sponsored links its search engine delivered in response to searches for particular companies. The sponsored links took the user to the websites of rival companies.

The full court of the Federal Court found Google had engaged misleading and deceptive conduct by publishing these links.

Google appealed to the High Court which today unanimously found in its favour.

The High Court found that Google did not create the sponsored links and ordinary reasonable users of Google would have understood that the sponsored links conveyed the representation of advertisers, and Google's conduct was not misleading or deceptive.

John Swinson, technology partner with law firm King & Wood Mallesons, said the 5-0 judgment in Google’s favour, after it had previously lost 3-0 on an earlier appeal, would be welcomed by tech companies as it limits their liability for actions by users of their technology.

Strict new hygiene rules for childcare will wrap kids in a bubble, says AMA

KIDS will be banned from blowing out candles on communal birthday cakes, under strict new hygiene rules for childcare.  But doctors warn the latest National Health and Medical Research Council guidelines go too far in "bubble-wrapping" children.

The NHMRC is urging childcare centres to stand up to parents who insist on sending a sick child to daycare - even if they have a medical certificate.

And daycare staff will now have to wash toys, doorknobs, floors and cushion covers every day.

The new guidelines state that kids who want to blow out a candle on their birthday should bring their very own cupcake - to avoid blowing germs all over a shared cake.

"Children love to blow out their candles while their friends are singing 'Happy birthday'," the document says.

"To prevent the spread of germs when the child blows out the candles, parents should either provide a separate cupcake, with a candle if they wish, for the birthday child and (either) enough cupcakes for all the other children ... (or) a large cake that can be cut and shared."

The NHMRC says children who play in the sandpit must wash their hands with alcohol sanitiser before and afterwards.

But the Australian Medical Association warned the clean-freak regulations place "kids in a bubble".

"If somebody sneezes on a cake, I probably don't want to eat it either - but if you're blowing out candles, how many organisms are transferred to a communal cake, for goodness' sake?" AMA president Steve Hambleton told News Ltd.

He also criticised the rule requiring children to wash their hands before and after playing in a sandpit.  "Just wash your hands before you eat," he said.

"It's normal and healthy to be exposed to a certain amount of environmental antigens that build up our immune systems.  "If you live in a plastic bubble you're going to get infections (later in life) that you can't handle."

The NHMRC document sets out the "exclusion periods" for sick children to stay home, depending on the illness.  It states that centres "will not be influenced by letters from doctors stating that the child can return to care".

"Parents may find an exclusion ruling difficult, and some parents may put pressure on educators to vary the exclusion rules," it says.  "These parents are often under pressure themselves to fulfil work, study or other family commitments."

The NHMRC says the best way to "avoid stress and conflict between parents and educators" is to have a written policy setting out when children must stay home.

But Dr Hambelton said a child's GP was in the best position to clear a child for daycare.

"You don't want to put kids into childcare with infectious diseases but at times you find a child has a post-viral cough that is not infectious, and I'm very happy to certify they can go to school," he said.

Australian Childcare Alliance president Gwynn Bridge yesterday said she was certain that parents did not disinfect the door handles at home every day, as the new rules will require of centres.

"We want children to be healthy but world research is now saying a little bit of dirt is healthy," she said.

Health Minister Tanya Plibersek, who launched the guidelines yesterday, said the advice was "if you're sick you should stay home".

These corals would find global warming a snack

Hoagy and his friends screech about a 2 degree temperature rise killing off Australia's coral reefs.  In the Persian gulf, however an extra 8 degrees doesn't bother corals. And the Warmists below admit their confusion

We tend to associate coral reefs with tropical seas of around 28 degrees, where even slight warming can have devastating effects on corals. But in the Arabian/Persian Gulf, corals survive seawater temperatures of up to 36 degrees Celsius every summer, heat levels that would kill corals elsewhere.

In their study, the NOCS team worked closely with NYUAD researchers to select and characterise model corals from the Arabian/Persian Gulf, which will facilitate future molecular-scale investigations into why they can tolerate heat stress.

“We have established successful laboratory cultures of Gulf corals,” said Dr Jörg Wiedenmann, Head of the Coral Reef Laboratory and Senior Lecturer at University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science, both of which are based at NOCS. “This will greatly accelerate the progress of unravelling the mechanisms that underlie their surprising heat resistance.”

Reefs are made up of many species of coral, each of which have a mutually beneficial, or “symbiotic”, relationship with algae living in their tissue. These algae supply vital nutrition to the host but are sensitive to environmental changes including increases in seawater temperature.

Even a temperature rise of just one degree Celsius can harm the symbiotic algae, which in turn can increase mortality in corals. The associated loss of symbiotic algae is known as “coral bleaching” because the white skeletons of the corals become visible through the tissue depleted from the algal pigments.

“In Gulf corals, both the coral host and the associated algal partners need to withstand the high seawater temperatures,” said Dr Wiedenmann who led the study.

But the scientists were surprised to discover that the algae in Gulf corals belong to a group not known for its thermal tolerance.

“We see that the algae are indeed special but in a way that we did not expect,” said Dr Wiedenmann. “The algae that we found in most of the corals in Abu Dhabi reefs were previously described as a ‘generalist strain’ that is usually not found in corals exposed to high levels of heat stress.”

“The system seems to be more complex than it is commonly thought but now we are in an excellent position to tackle these important questions.”

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has recently granted funding to Dr Wiedenmann and the Coral Reef Laboratory, so that the team can do just that. The researchers will build on their previous findings and use their model corals to investigate the molecular mechanisms that allow corals to thrive at extreme temperatures.

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The Children of Avatar and the Children of Today

MateyY March 13, 2012 User blog:MateyY

Let me begin this blog post by saying that I lived ten years of my live (K-4th grade) in a foreign country in Europe called Bulgaria. It was a tough place to live in, and tough places come hand by with troubles and disappointments. Bulgaria was a place in which the so-called Honorary system was considered an easy way to steal something. The kids were out of control and had no respect for elders and teachers. And elders and teachers responded the same way - no respect towards children. It was a place where the teacher would say the name of a person and yell out their grade when passing out papers. And teasing the person was encouraged by the lack of correction from the teacher's side. The fact is teachers sometimes used the fear of their students from being embarrased against them.

Then, when I was ten, I moved to the United States of America. It was a place that was the very opposite of Bulgaria. Sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way. The children were very different, but it wasn't because they had "grown up". It was because they were living in a much more advanced country. I had never heard of eleven year olds going out on a date in my life. And if I had a list of what I wouldn't let my children do when they were in 5th grade, that would have never even crossed my mind to put that on there. And it seems that now, if I am to ever make such a list, it will be the subtitle of it, written in all caps. But why? Because children this age lack the maturity, understanding and continuation of their feelings - you like someone today, you break up with them tomorrow.

This is also followed by the mania of being cool - boys making sure they looks special (buying expensive shoes etc.) so girls can like them (they want fake and temporary feelings toward them), 12 year old girls putting on make-up for their everyday life (goes on my "DO NOT LET DO" list), making fun of other kids brutally and pushing them to become like you, and many other things.

Another of showing their "maturity" is calling teenagers a category, but not a subcategory that falls under children. Reworded: Teenagers think they aren't children anymore, but extremely cool because they aren't 12 years and 364 days old, but 13 years old (":o Wow. You're so cool!"). Then being a nerd. So studying makes you a nerd? Not drinking or smoking makes you a soft whiny? Not cussing like it's an everyday thing makes you a coward? Telling an adult of an injustice makes you a whiny? I don't think I ought to continue on this topic, because I'll list a lot of things parents don't want to hear.

And now for the kids of the world of Avatar: The kids of the world of Avatar may have many faults and misfortunes, but they are, by far, more mature than many of the adults we see these days. They have felt the loss of some of the most important people in their life (Aang looses the Air Nomads; Katara and Sokka loose their mother, and their father goes away; and more examples can be found). They have felt the lack of much, and the responsibility of saving the world. And, honestly, I do not envy them, but I have to admit that if I am ever to choose friends, I would choose the type that has been through more. The ones that are honest, clever, stand their ground, understanding, realistic, and most importantly like you for who you are (not what you wear, what you look like etc.). Many of these traits are seen in the characters of Avatar, especially the last one. And this is my idea of the differences.

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Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Child Poets - Clementine Beauvais

‘The ink was in the baby, he was bound to write a tale
So he wrote the first of stories with his little fingernail’

Nathalia Crane was nine years old when, in 1924, she wrote ‘The First Story’ and many other poems, published in a collection called The Janitor’s Boy. She was one of many child poets in the 1920s, which saw a spate of precocious poetry and prose in the UK and the US. In the 19th century already, a cult of poetic precocity in children had erupted with the rediscovered works of Marjory (/Marjorie) Fleming, a little Scottish girl who wrote everyday from the age of six and conveniently died before she was nine, in 1811 - embodying forever the vision of glorious, pure and doomed childhood genius for the Victorians (this is a great article on the subject)

a rather haunting sketch of Marjorie Fleming by (?)Isa Keith
I’m currently looking at those works by child poets and at the adult discourse which developed around them, and it’s fascinating to see the extent to which such works were simply not allowed to be on their own: they were relentlessly explained, explored, excused, by the adults who read, published and critiqued them (another great article).
We get, of course, the usual amount of ‘how cute they are!’, and the associated Romantic claims that they were ‘close to nature’, ‘close to God’, ‘close to universal truth’. Not coincidentally, references to classics of children’s literature recur when critics analyse those poems: they talk of Alice in Wonderland and Rudyard Kipling, and James Matthew Barrie prefaced a novel by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford. This was around the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of children’s literature, at a time when children and childhood already had cult status; the verbal abilities of the precocious poets gave hope that their word might be interpreted, and ‘teach’ adults about the beyondness to which childhood supposedly had access.
But those poets were also thought of as dramatically unstructured and lacking technical skill. In 1926, an academic reviews ‘some child poets’ and gives Marjorie Fleming the kind of review anyone would cringe to see written about oneself:
‘An affectionate little soul, with a real joy in nature, and a strangely precocious taste for books, she found her surroundings prosy, though her heart expressed itself in bursts of pitifully inadequate song.’
He goes on to expose Marjorie Fleming’s ‘limitations’ by indicating that she often invents words to make up for a lack of rime (heaven forbid!) and:
‘Another shift which she found useful was the introduction of a purely irrelevant line:
At supper when his brother sat
I have not got a rhyme for that.’
Purely irrelevant indeed. Thankfully, George Shelton Hubbell reassures us that young Shelley was also a ‘juvenile blunderer’ in matters of poetry.
A strong concern of much of the general audience at the time was whether the children were actually writing those poems, or if adults were sneakily doing so. A passionate correspondence developed in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in 1919, concerning little Hilda Conkling, who dictated poems to her mother:
‘Dear Poetry: Could you not give your readers more explicit information as to just how those poems of Hilda Conkling’s are done: To what extent does her mother select, rearrange and give form? Is it all actually improvised as given?… What a delightful little genius!… (E. Sapir.)’
‘I do not change words in Hilda’s poems,’ replied her mother, ‘nor alter her word-order; I write down the lines as rhythm dictates. She has made many poems which I have had to lose because I could not be certain of accurate transcription.’
The ‘accurate transcription’ of childly thoughts, the ‘authenticity’ of the child’s poetry needed to be ascertained at all costs, to the extent that Nathalia Crane, perhaps the most controversial of all child poets, was asked to produce a poem in the same room as a journalist.
Nathalia Crane was quite unique in that her poetry got published in a newspaper without the editor’s knowledge that it was a child’s. The editor, Edmund Leamy, wrote an afterword to her collection, in 1924, in which he talked about his astonishment when he discovered the ‘imposture’:

My surprise is excusable. So many times I had received “poems” from youngsters who were careful to give their ages in addition to their names; so often I had received visits from doting parents or relatives requesting publication of verses by their children or sisters or cousins that I never dreamed any child would ever submit any work from his or her pen without adding the words “Aged — years”. But little Nathalia was the exception — and there was nothing in her poems that I received to indicate her age. The poems bought were accepted on their merits and on their merits alone.

‘On their merits alone’, with no ‘child-loving’ bias (to quote Kincaid’s famous study); this was, therefore, proper poetry. Yet it made adults feel relentlessly uncomfortable. Her poetry was more structured, more sexualised and more aware of the constraints of the adult world than other child poets, and adults didn’t know how to tackle it. Louis Untermeyer, in 1936, prefacing Crane’s new collection ‘Swear by the night’ (she was 22 by then), talks about the uncanny feeling he had when the poet was a little girl:
‘She was ten and a half years old and she puzzled me. She puzzled me as a person even before she puzzled me as a poet. … There was even then a queerness about her, an almost too pronounced childishness coupled with a curious vocabulary.’
The blending of categories is always troublesome, the difficulty to draw lines between adulthood and childhood always a problem. Adults then, but still now, find it difficult to make sense of moments when the presence to the world of children is felt literally, fully, rather than wrapped in layers of symbols.
Nathalia Crane died in 1998 and I’ll leave you with one of her early poems, because it’s fair, after contributing myself to obscuring the works of those child poets with my own, to let her have the last words. I think the work might still be under copyright, so I'll only put the first stanza here; click to redirect to her collection on the Internet Archive.

Clementine Beauvais writes in French and English. She blogs here about children's literature and academia.

Catherine Butler said...

Really interesting, Clementine. That was 'imposture' is especially telling, isn't it?

The line about not having a rhyme naturally brought to mind the lyrics of Alice Cooper (supposed rock god, but perhaps in fact a young girl in pigtails) in "School's Out":

Well we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes

After a certain age, you see, people stop knowing how to rhyme. They seem to forget how, or why it matters.

Clémentine Beauvais said...

Hehe, I didn't know this one - well I'm glad the lack of rhyme has been reclaimed like this...

Trish Lunt said...

Makes me think of the many poems by young people (most often young women) published in school magazines (in Australia from around the turn of the century)...and then that reminds me of 1970s Dolly magazine poetry!

Trish Lunt said...

Makes me think of the many poems by young people (most often young women) published in school magazines (in Australia from around the turn of the century)...and then that reminds me of 1970s Dolly magazine poetry!


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Thursday, 2 June 2016

Sicilian oranges
lemons in Liguria
I’m reading a book called The Land where Lemons Grow by Helena Attlee and so many other things are popping into my head. Are writers more guilty of having their thoughts go off at tangents? Perhaps an inner curiosity brings on a heightened awareness of things seemingly unrelated but yet with a thread of connectivity?

About a month ago I was at the Sharjah Children's Reading Festival in the UAE where illustrator, Alexis Deacon, Julia Eccleshare, Sophie Hallam and I were guests of IBBY (or UAEBBY as its called there). More recently I went to hear John Julius Norwich speak on Sicily at the National Geographical Society and went to the British Museum's exhibition, Sicily. (Don’t miss it… even if only to stand and stare in amazement at the minute coins with perfect intaglios of goddesses and dolphins) With these last two events fresh in my head, I understand how a book on citrus can take me on a journey through Sicily and even along the Amalfi coast, but how did it get me back to the Sharjah Children's Book Festival?

On a morning break from the Festival, we slipped out to the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization and I found myself alone behind a door that slid silently shut, surrounded by the world’s most famous Arab inventions, amongst them giant sextants and astrological devises, notes on stills for extracting and distilling rose oil and drawings and models of ancient machinery with pulleys and scoops driven by long suffering oxen that delivered water in huge quantities. How odd that four weeks later I should be reading a book that mentions two of these exact inventions.

Notes and drawings for distilling rose oil.
drawings of an early Arabic irrigation system
There’s little about Sicily’s natural climate to make it suited to growing tender oranges and lemons. It has a limited winter rainfall and citrus need heat and dampness together. When the first Muslim farmers arrived in Sicily they found the existing Roman irrigation systems limited to capturing and distributing what little water there was at a certain time. Arab methods were much more sophisticated. They captured every river and spring with interconnected tunnels through rock, so water could be delivered the entire year and they set about developing beautiful gardens of flourishing citrus trees that were known as paradisi.

Citrus farming in Sicily changed forever.  Bal’tarm on the north-west corner, now known as Palermo, was the capital of Muslim Sicily. And when the Normans arrived in 1060 and conquered the Saracens, they adopted the same methods of Arab irrigation and agriculture. And later it was the citrus industry of Sicily that fuelled the Mafia wars behind the high walls of the paradisi, and that has also given the world the best blood oranges ever known, the tarocco, from the base of Mount Etna. The original citrus stock came from China via the Middle East and were known as naranjiya. Easy to see how the Italian word arancia came from this. Maybe even the Afrikaans word for mandarin – naartjie – can be traced back to this origin.
the Sicilian blood orange, tarocco
On my visit to the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization, alone in that quiet room, I could almost smell the rose oil from those evocative drawings of the distilling process. Then four weeks later in my book, The Land where Lemons Grow, the fact is mentioned again that the complex art of distilling was first discovered by Arabs in North Africa. Distilling hasn't much changed since the days of the earliest rose oils. In Calabria, in the toe of southern Italy, the bergamot groves provide the oil that is the base of many French perfumes and is also the oil that adds the edge to Earl Grey Tea. But bergamot oil is never distilled... always cold pressed.
the bergamot looks like a lemon but is in fact a bitter orange

Now I’m off at another tangent... to bake a cake I once ate for breakfast on a farm outside Perugia, torta all’ arancia, made with creamed boiled oranges, ground almonds and eggs (no flour) – the flavour so intense that it almost fizzes in your mouth.

Funny how the simple action of reading a book, can spur on a baking urge. And later today I might just have to indulge in a shopping spree … some citrus soaps from Sicily made by Ortigia, not only for their heady scent but for those beautiful boxes. And the words zagara and chinotto and tarocco will roll around my tongue for a while longer and I'll remember that quiet room in Sharjah and I’ll read The Land Where Lemons Grow a second time and see what new tangents it takes me on. It’s called interconnectivity. Or did I make that up?
bottles of lemoncello lining a wedding table at Ravello on the Amalfi coast
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Sue Purkiss said...

I've very much enjoyed Helena's book, too. It sorted out a puzzle for me about Much Ado: why was Don Pedro Spanish? (Because the Spanish used to rule Sicily.) And it was very interesting about scurvy...

Penny Dolan said...

Interesting to see that green bergamot orange illustration, being a fan of Early Grey tea. What a delight of a post, Dianne, especially on a partly-grey day here!

Dianne Hofmeyr said...

Thank you both... and yes until I saw the exhibition at the British Museum never realised Sicily had had so many different rulers. And Penny a very happy belated Birthday. Hope your day was good.

Anonymous said...

Di I am looking forward very much to reading the book you are discussing. But may I say that your interlinking of the information in the book with your travels and experiences were a joy to read. I hope that the book is able to match your wonderfully evocative descriptions. Bev


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The name Taji is a baby boy name. The name Taji comes from the Japanese origin. In Japanese The meaning of the name Taji is: Silver and yellow color.

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written by courtney, October 23, 2007
it is a cute name,i'd use it. but i guess the child has to "look the part".
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This is my sons name but I spell it differently (Tygee). I always get complements on his name.
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PLYMOUTH, Mass. — New England fishery managers have agreed to consider allowing fishermen back into areas that have been closed to them for decades.

Such a move would give fishermen more access to healthy fish stocks and boost their businesses next year, when they face cuts in their catch so severe that it threatens the industry.

The unanimous vote Thursday at a meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council came amid concerns about the environmental effects of reopening the three closed areas, located in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank.

The year-round closures are intended to protect species of bottom-dwelling groundfish, such as cod, haddock and flounder.

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By Marty Maciaszek

Cameron Korab delivered the perfect birthday gift to St. Viator teammate Kevin Walsh on Friday night.

With time winding down in overtime, Korab got the ball from D.J. Morris in traffic in the lane in the East Suburban Catholic Conference boys basketball game with visiting Nazareth at Cahill Gym in Arlington Heights.

Korab then found Walsh open on the baseline and his short floater dropped through the net just before the buzzer sounded in a 62-60 victory for the Lions (10-4, 3-1).

"We needed this one," said Walsh, who was serenaded with "Happy Birthday" from the Viator student section after his game-winning shot. "We've lost some close ones lately and we wanted to get back on the winning side."

Viator didn't make it easy as it rallied from a 12-point deficit but blew a 58-52 lead in the final 1:11 of regulation. Nazareth (13-4, 3-2) went ahead 27 seconds into overtime on a short turnaround by A.J. Ryan (11 points).

But the Roadrunners had turnovers on their final three possessions. The second led to a tying 360-degree spinning drive down the lane at 1:26 by D.J. Morris, who equaled his career high of 28 points by hitting 13-of-16 free throws and three 3-pointers.

Brian Wilhite then drew a charge to set up Viator's final possession as Morris had the ball near midcourt and four teammates along the baseline. Nazareth's defense collapsed on Morris as he drove and he dished it to Korab.

"We had never run the 1-4 in practice and it shows how the team came together on the play at the end," Korab said. "I was supposed to set a screen for Kevin to pop out and shoot, but I ended up with it and thought (time ran out). But the buzzer didn't sound and I dished it to him."

Walsh then lofted the ball over 6-foot-5 Ryan Powers (20 points, 9 rebounds, 4 blocked shots) to start a wild 17th birthday celebration.

"We just have a nice connection that's really working for us," Korab said of Walsh.

"Right when I let it go I saw (Powers') arm come up and I thought he was going to get it," Walsh said after finishing with 13 points. "He got me before in the game."

Nazareth hit 4-of-5 from 3-point range in the first quarter en route to a 23-11 lead. Patrick Kelly (17 points) went 5-for-7 behind the arc and the team finished 9-for-18.

"I told them to not see them give up at that point and fight back early was a real key," said Viator coach Joe Majkowski.

But Danny Forde provided a defensive spark off the bench as Viator trailed 28-27 at halftime. Morris hit 10-of-12 free throws in the second quarter as Nazareth was hit with two of its three technical fouls.

Morris' 3 capped a 24-5 tear for a 35-28 lead but Nazareth answered and went ahead 49-46. Viator came back with a 12-3 spurt where Forde hit a 3 and scored off a miss.

But four extra chances on 2 turnovers and 2 offensive rebounds helped Nazareth tie it at 58-58 on Powers' short baseline turnaround with 20 seconds left in regulation.

"We have to be able to close out games better," Walsh said as Viator goes to Northridge Prep tonight and then visits unbeaten Benet on Tuesday.

"Having to go to overtime -- we weren't poised there at the end," Majkowski said. "We could have been down going to overtime but we kept battling."

Palatine 49, Vernon Hills 44: Palatine (7-10) rallied from a 6-point deficit after three quarters for the nonconference road win. Egan Malley scored 15 points and hit two 3s, Tom Hauert scored 14 and Peter Bony added 13.

Highland Park 38, Maine West 26: Conor Hart scored 13 points and Odera Eneogwe added 9 points for Maine West (9-6, 3-2) as it was outscored 16-4 in the fourth quarter of the Central Suburban North loss to the Giants (8-8, 2-3).


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