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a broad example of action pose causing reaction pose
This is a super clear example of characters in a broad pose causing another character to react to the pose. It's a broad gag and the broad pose helps to drive it home and make it as funny and ridiculous as it can be.
A bland pose would weaken the effect of the gag.
Use this tool to make your characters come alive, to seem as if they are real and that they affect one another.
Opposing poses and lines of action will take your cartoon characters away from being mechanical puppets whose only function is to recite verbal nonsense that cartoon "writers" could tell you themselves in person without ever spending a nickel on a cartoon.
The poses of your characters can work together to create pleasing compositions and tell the story and define the characters emotions.. Usually one of the characters in a scene is the focus.
The character who is doing the "acting". Usually the one talking but not always.
The other characters are "reacting". Their poses are being affected by what the focused character is doing and saying.
Owen Fitzgerald below is a master of not only "girl art" but he's great at posing and composition. Look how natural and alive his poses are, and how the acting character causes reactions in the other characters' body language. Owen was an animation layout artist who worked at Disney's and for Chuck Jones, and he brought a lot of classic animation principles to his comic art and added his own wonderful style. He also influenced Bob Oksner and Mort Drucker who worked with him in the early 50s.These kinds of poses are much more interesting than characters standing straight up and down,
A subtle example of action causing reaction
Ren is not directly talking or causing a reaction from Stimpy. He is not even aware of Stimpy in this moment - but Stimpy is aware of him.
Ren is thinking about the evil fun he could have if they have a baby. Stimpy has done his best to try to convince him and he is waiting with baited breath to see if Ren decides yes.
His body pose shows him slightly leaning towards Ren, but not so much as to risk making him mad and deciding against the baby. The pose shows his eager hesitation.
On top of the clear body poses are very specific expressions also helping to tell the story.
Your poses and careful drawings can tell the audience way more information that a pile of script pages can.
A subtle example of action causing reaction
Ren is not directly talking or causing a reaction from Stimpy. He is not even aware of Stimpy in this moment - but Stimpy is aware of him.
Ren is thinking about the evil fun he could have if they have a baby. Stimpy has done his best to try to convince him and he is waiting with baited breath to see if Ren decides yes.
His body pose shows him slightly leaning towards Ren, but not so much as to risk making him mad and deciding against the baby. The pose shows his eager hesitation.
On top of the clear body poses are very specific expressions also helping to tell the story.
Your poses and careful drawings can tell the audience way more information that a pile of script pages can.
or characters that have random poses that don't relate to each other....that look like they were each drawn separately, then just pasted into the scene.
Harvey Kurtzman creates fantastic compositions and designs using his characters' poses and emotions. Look at the great positive shapes of the characters and the negative shapes between them. Harvey also uses many of the other principles I have been talking about. Can you see them?
Harvey didn't like his own drawings and it's too bad because I think he was the best of the bunch and wish he had drawn a lot more comics himself.
Here is an example of what happens so often in the crazy inefficient, wasteful animation production system we have today. There are so many steps in the animation production process, where about 5 different artists all work on the same scene and each one in succession has to draw the same pose that the previous artist drew, and each time the scene gets watered down, until the final scene is completely stiff and lifeless and has lots its original purpose and meaning.
Here's the basic process:
A storyboard artist (if he is a good one) draws rough scenes but with some life and poses that are recognizable as poses-with lines of action and specific expressions and sillos and maybe some suggestion of composition.
A BG artist takes the storyboard and draws the BGs with no regard to what actions and poses the characters have to perform in the scene. He never leaves room for the pose artist to actually move his characters around. If there is a composition in the scene or interesting BG ideas, he disregards them and pastes in drawings from the background model pack that are filled with distracting non-descriptive details.
This storyboard and BG then goes to a layout artist who has been brainwashed to draw everything "on-model". He swears under his breath at the storyboard artist for drawing off-model, swears harder at the BG artists who gave him no room to pose the characters in the scene.
Then he tones down all the poses and takes out the expressions that aren't on the model sheet.
A Prop artist (usually someone who was a security guard a couple weeks earlier) designs a separate "prop-model-pack" that's 6 feet high full of every imaginable hammer, fly, rubber chicken, blade of grass and ridiculous details-but draws them poorly and too big and wonky to actually fit into the poses and compositions that the storyboard artist and layout artist drew.
The storyboard and layouts and BGs and prop packages are then given to foreign animators who then trace all the poses from the layouts (without looking at the storyboard to see if they have been toned down) and proceed to lose another generation of life.
Then the animation drawings go to the assistant animator who traces the animators watered down drawings of the watered down layouts and waters them down again.
As if this isn't enough, after all the animation and assistant animation is done, all the scenes then go to the "on-model" department for one last check to make sure that no drawings in the cartoon stand out from each other, that nothing at all looks interesting or amusing or tells the story effectively.
The final cartoon eventually comes back to "civilization" and everyone who worked on it hates it and blames everyone in every other department.
It's no wonder artists get jaded so fast in this business. It's hard to care about your work, once you see that it never reaches the screen the way you meant it. You have to really dumb-down your expectations in order to survive.
Here is an example of the first stage of watering down, from storyboard to layout. Now imagine this happening 4 more times in 4 more departments farther and farther away from you.
I've spent 20 years designing and honing a system that tries to fight this natural watering down tendency and encourages creativity and punching-up in each successive department in the studio. Other studios like Nick and CN adopt my system and then year by year throw more monkey wrenches into it, and undo it until the time comes when they still use all the terminology and superficial play acting of pretending to make "creator-driven" cartoons, when in reality they've almost reverted to the Filmation/ Hanna Barbera factory system of the 1980s, but now all the execs and front-runners act all retro and have big wacky pitch meetings, then send the storyboards overseas -DON'T EVEN DO LAYOUTS- and use "voice-directors" and "story-editors" to make sure no director or creator has any control over the characters he created and make everyone draw "on-model" and keep all the creative people in each important creative department from communicating with each other.
This costs a heck of a lot more than having a small crew that works together under a director who is in charge of all creative aspects of his cartoons, by the way, although they will tell you otherwise because they don't count their own salaries and the salaries of all the department heads and story editors and the years of wasted "development" and market testing that went on before anyone drew a single frame of film.
These below are not as crystal clear as the good examples of the work of my heroes above, but I try to show the best examples of a concept as I can to drive the point home. I don't expect everyone to be Harvey Kurtzman or Chuck Jones. I just hope to get artists to try things they might not have been aware of before.
To get poses this specific on the screen, through the production sytem is very hard. It is set up to undermine whatever your creative intentions are.
If you want to see this principle in action from a real sitcom check this out. Even without the sound you can see how great the acting and reacting is:
Buy the best sitcom of all time and laugh your guts out!


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Single women shopping for a long-term care policy should act now because while roughly half of the country still charges them the same rate as single men, some insurers started jacking up single women's LTC coverage costs this spring by as much as 60%.
"This spring, leading insurers started introducing new policies that charge single women an average of between 40% and 60% more than a comparably aged single man," said Jesse Slome, executive director of the American Association for Long Term Care Insurance, in a Friday statement. "It is a progressive state-by-state roll-out, however, and there are still 25 states where single women can lock in rates equal to those paid by men."
According to an Association study, policies utilizing unisex pricing are still available in 25 states, including some of the largest states like California, Florida and New York. However, Slome says, "it is just a matter of time until their State Departments of Insurance get around to reviewing and approving the 'sex distinct' policies for sale to the public. At that time, the current policies are no longer offered for sale."
As it stands now, the Association says, in states like California and New York, one large company is already charging single women more. Two other companies are waiting for their new products to be approved.


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You know what they say about great minds, right? So I guess we shouldn't have been surprised when we found out that we were both planning pillow tutorials for the Moda Bake Shop … using the same fabric line! We decided to join forces and create one mega tutorial. The Jaybirdquilts / Quilt Dad collaboration was born, and we were able to inspire one another to put forth the best collection of pillow patterns possible. Think of it like chocolate & peanut butter… great alone… but even better together!!
So today we have tutorials for you for pillows. Lots and lots (and lots) of pillows. Why? Because we LOVE pillows! They're relatively quick and easy to make, they let you integrate your favorite quilting fabrics into your home decor, they're functional and, let's face it, they're FUN! And what could be more fun that pillows made from the awesome debut line of fabric for the design team at Sweetwater, Authentic?
The best part is that these tutorials are for pillow covers — slipcovers, if you will. They're easy to change out with your decor, so imagine sets of these covers in your favorite seasonal or holiday fabrics… or even just a new set for any reason!
The other great thing is just how versatile these tutorials are. You can make multiple versions from the same tutorial…. & with different fabric selections and placement each can look totally different! We encourage you to mix & match. Most of all, have fun. We'd love to see your finished pillows. Don't forget to post them to the Moda Bake Shop Flickr pool!
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FSU's Manuel leads South to Senior Bowl victory
MOBILE, Ala. - Florida State's EJ Manuel passed for a touchdown and rushed for another on the South's first two drives in a 21-16 victory over the North in the Senior Bowl on Saturday.
Manuel and running backs Stepfan Taylor and Mike James combined to put the game for senior NFL prospects away on the South's final drive. Stanford's Taylor carried five times for 32 yards and caught a 6-yard pass from Manuel.
Manuel converted a fourth-and-1 play on a sneak to set up a 5-yard touchdown run for Miami's James with 2:41 left.
Manuel was named the game's Most Outstanding Player. Brigham Young defensive end Ezekiel Ansah received the honors for the South team while Purdue defensive lineman Kawann Short was the North's top player.
Manuel completed 7 of 10 passes for 76 yards with a 20-yard touchdown pass to Alabama tight end Michael Williams. He also scored on a 2-yard run.
He finished his Florida State career with his best season despite his mother Jackie's
battle with breast cancer. He said she will undergo surgery on Feb. 1.
Miami, Ohio quarterback Zac Dysert answered with a scoring drive that ended with his 3-yard touchdown pass to Oregon running back Kenjon Barner with 23 seconds left. The two-point conversion and onside kick both failed.
Ansah is a native of Ghana who initially was on the track team and now is a potential first-round pick. He had seven tackles, 3.5 behind the line, 1.5 sacks and a forced fumble.
Short had three tackles, one for a loss.
Taylor finished with nine carries for 53 yards for the South.
Barner led all receivers with seven catches for 59 yards and gained 13 yards on three carries.
It was an up and down day for most of the quarterbacks.
Arkansas' Tyler Wilson completed 8 of 11 passes for 40 yards for the South. Landry Jones, a four-year starter for Oklahoma, was 3-of-9 passing for 16 yards and was sacked twice.
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North Carolina State's Mike Glennon completed half his 16 attempts for 82 yards, and Syracuse's Ryan Nassib was 4 of 10 for 44 yards and threw an interception.
Southeastern Louisiana defensive back Robert Alford set up Manuel's 2-yard run with an 88-yard return of the opening kick. Then Manuel lofted an over-the-shoulder pass to Williams in the end zone.
Williams converted another third-down play with a 19-yard catch on the drive.
Glennon and the North offense finally got things going to open the second half.
He completed all three of his pass attempts for 34 yards and then UCLA's Johnathan Franklin, a finalist for the Doak
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Manuel didn't play again until the third quarter when he led the South across midfield. His fourth-down pass was deflected into the arms of Utah State defensive back Will Davis for an interception.
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Dancing's Derek Hough: I'm Really Impressed By Kellie
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Thanks for your support and votes!
We've gotten so many comments about our jazz and we're so happy you enjoyed it. I thought it came out great. When I watched it back, I was even surprised by some of it. Kellie was really good. Her control and extensions are insane. People with dance experience, who've trained for years, can do that. You look at her and you think she must have dance experience. She doesn't, but she has dance ability. She has the capacity to be a good dancer. She's flexible and she's got a good arch in her feet. Now it's up to me to bring it out. So far, she's been doing a really great job. I'm just trying to do my best to showcase her in the best way. But it is pretty remarkable. I'm really impressed at how well she's doing so early in the season. The only bad part of the routine was when I got cut! Kellie's top was made of glass, so the edges were all sharp and part of it cut me and I started bleeding. So we definitely won't have glass outfits this week!
It's pretty crazy to get 9s in the second week. I was really happy with the performance. With the scores, I take them with a grain of salt. It's great, but it's also like, "Oh, crap! We can only go one point higher." Thank goodness for Len giving us an 8! The scores are important, but I really feel like people remember the performances. I doubt people really remember the scores of their favorite routines.
We have the jive next. It's a hard dance. It's a lot different from the jazz, which definitely played to Kellie's strengths. The jive is so fast and the technique in it is so difficult. There are a lot of different elements. This is the first week where the pressure's really on since we only have five days to do a routine going forward. It's tough because the jive is so fast, so that means more steps. There's more choreography within that minute and 15 seconds. You could do six steps in one second in the jive, whereas in the rumba, you probably do, like, two steps in five seconds.
The way I choreograph is I choreograph from the spot. I don't really come in with a routine ready to go and teach it to my partners. I like to create with my partner. I like to play with ideas. I could have an idea that I think it's great, but I could try it with them and they might not feel great doing it, so I like to experiment with my partner to try to maximize getting the best out of them.
It's also Prom Week. I never went to prom and Kellie never went to prom either, so I'm trying to figure out a way to ask her to prom. I'm nervous! I didn't go to prom because I grew up in England and they don't really have proms there. I was also traveling and competing, so I didn't have a normal social life. I didn't go to school parties and dances. I never felt like I missed out on that type of stuff. Now I get my first prom with Kellie!
We were all sad to see Dorothy withdraw. We had no idea she was going to. We learned with the audience. We were completely in the dark about it. I think it was a very mature and smart thing to do on her part. It's important to look after your health. That's it. Nothing is worth sacrificing your health. I love what the Dalai Lama said - it doesn't really go into her situation - but he said, "Mankind surprised me about humanity. Because we sacrifice our health for money and we sacrifice our money to gain back our health." You always have to put your wellbeing first. But it was obviously very sad that she pulled out. You never want anyone to pull out. I think only, like, four people have pulled out during the show from injury. We have a lot of injuries on the show of varying degrees and I think we all are used to seeing people push through on the show. Dorothy's an athlete and I think if she could, she would've pushed through, but it was too serious.
Jennifer Grey and I were very close to withdrawing many, many times. I had a doctor literally in a rehearsal saying to me, "You can do that move. You can't do that move. If you do that move and you drop her, she can be paralyzed." I was like, "OK..." No pressure, right? Actually on the very last show, she blew a disc in her lower back and she had surgery the next day after we won. We won a trophy and she's in the hospital getting surgery less than a day later. It was crazy, but we were so close to pulling out that season.
Luckily, my neck is OK so far. I'm taking care of it. I'm working out to create support around my bones and I'm eating better. It's amazing how eating prevents injury. People think it's a physical thing, but what you put in your body to feed your muscles and your bones is important. People wonder why they get sick when they eat fast food all the time and it's because there's zero nutrients in that food. It takes more energy to break down that food than it's giving you. That's why it makes you more tired and sluggish. I've been really trying to educate myself about food and what to put in your body and it's been inspiring. It's amazing how ignorant I was.
See you all on Monday!
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When Sandra Bullock and Matthew McConaughey were together, she'd always say they were "friends". Not "just friends", but "friends". And still. Here are Sandy and Camila Alves in New Orleans yesterday on a play date. I love this. I love that this is possible. I also love that she is actually NICE. That she's always been nice, and real nice as opposed to Hollywood fake America's Sweetheart nice. Reese Witherspoon and Julia Roberts have America's Sweetheart nice reputations. This... doesn't exactly match up with their personalities.
You know who else Sandy did the "friends" but not "just" thing with?
God I wish we spent more time on that back then. Sandy and Ryan Gosling, GOD I wish we followed that more closely.
Here's Sandy in an interview with Cosmopolitan in 2003:
Cosmo: So are you friends with Ryan Gosling, your Murder By Numbers costar?
S: Let me see if I can answer that politically and correctly. We're friends.
C: So if I were to add the word just…
S: If you were to add the word just, it would probably be a bit of a lie. So I'd say were friends. [laughs]
C: What have you learned from Ryan?
S: To chill. I live my life at a manic pace, and he's taught me to disregard all that isn't important. He's like a little Buddha. (Source Sandra Bullock Interveiw February 2003 - Cosmopolitan)
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I've spent a lot of time writing about new breweries opening in the past few years, but today I am sad to be writing about a brewery closing.
Bull Jagger Brewing Company, a wonderful lager-only brewery from Portland Maine, announced today on its Facebook page they are closing.
People began talking about this after their equipment and brewery were put up for sale on Craigslist.
"As some of you know, the brewery is for sale," the statement said. "Bull and Jagger are going their separate ways, and under the circumstances, we have no choice but to close the company. In the coming weeks, we will have fresh beer to package and sell. Our lagers are and will be available in Maine through our distributor, retailers, and to the public while supplies last."
Tom Bull, the co-owner, will work with another local brewer to brew continue to brew the Big Claw Pilsner, so at least you'll be able to get your hands on that if you're in Maine.
Bull Jagger was not available here in Massachusetts, but when Tom Bull was on the Seacoast Beverage Lab Podcast a few months ago, he said Bull Jagger planned on expanding to Massachusetts. I was looking forward to it because the beers were quite good.
Goodbye Bull Jagger and hopefully something develops in the future for all those involved.


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"In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race."
— Justice Harry Blackmun, 1978
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
— Chief Justice John Roberts, 2007
WASHINGTON — Blackmun was concurring in the Bakke decision, which created the higher education "diversity" exception to the equal protection principle: Racial preferences in admissions to a public university do not violate the principle of equal protection of the law if they serve the supposedly compelling interest of achieving the educational benefits of a diverse student body.
Twenty-five years later, in a 2003 case upholding the constitutionality of racial preferences in admissions to a state law school, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor declared — citing no data or other reasons — that in 25 more years preferences would be unnecessary. What Blackmun did not anticipate, and O'Connor did not appreciate, is that the diversity rationale for racial preferences appeals to the diversity industry in academia precisely because it makes no reference to compensation for prior injustices. Therefore it does not aim to "get beyond" race.
Tinkering with diversity in a student body could, the court said in Bakke, be regarded as a First Amendment right: the exercise of academic freedom. So, the court's acceptance of a "compelling" government interest in diversity, and of an educational institution's entitlement to deference in defining diversity, was a license for universities to base actions on race forever.
Liberals abhor stereotyping but say minorities necessarily make distinctive — stereotypical? — contributions to viewpoint diversity, benefiting campuses forever. Campus conservatives know how much liberal academics hunger for viewpoint diversity.
As condign punishment for the wrong turn it took in Bakke, the court has been entangled for 35 years in a thicket of preferences that are not remedial and hence are not temporary. Preferences as recompense for past discrimination must eventually become implausible; the diversity rationale for preferences is immortal. And litigation about it will continue longer than forever.
On Monday, the Supreme Court thrashed around in the thicket it has cultivated and fertilized for more than three decades. In a case from the University of Texas at Austin, it instructed a lower court to square this circle:
Because the 14th Amendment guarantees "equal protection of the laws," universities wishing to ignore that guarantee in order to use racial classifications in admissions must be accorded "some" deference in their exercise of academic freedom. But the court thinks suspensions of constitutional guarantees are kind of important, so the court has decided to pretend that the guarantee is somehow not really being truncated. So an academic institution's use of race must withstand "strict scrutiny," meaning it must be narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling government interest.
What a tangled web the court weaves when first it practices to deceive itself about what it is doing to the equal protection guarantee. The 14th Amendment stops guaranteeing equal protection when the court defers to the "experience and expertise" of public universities in fine-tuning the racial and ethnic compositions of their student bodies in order to attain a "critical mass" of certain government-approved minorities.
In 2008, Abigail Fisher, who is white, was denied admission to the University of Texas under a baroque process the university has evolved in an attempt to make taking some account of race compatible with court's rulings regarding racial preferences. These rulings have said, among much else, that race or ethnicity must not be the "defining feature" of a student's application.
The Supreme Court said on Monday that the Fifth Circuit was too deferential to the university: The lower court did not properly apply strict scrutiny to judging whether the university's use of race was sufficiently narrowly tailored. This clarified the fact that clarity is incompatible with the Supreme Court's prior decisions carving out a higher education exemption from the Constitution's marvelously clear guarantee of equal protection of the laws.
In an opinion concurring with the majority's conclusion that strict scrutiny was required but not applied to Texas' use of race, Justice Clarence Thomas says of "racial engineering": There is no compelling governmental interest in whatever educational benefits supposedly flow from racial diversity that must be achieved by racial discrimination. Thomas should tell the chief justice that the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop pretending that strict scrutiny of such discrimination somehow makes it something other than what it is.
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NEW YORK – It may feel like summer outside, but many stores are showing styles for cooler weather. Here are some tips and trends to help your wardrobe look "clean and fresh for fall," according to Lucky magazine's style editor, Laurel Pantin.
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Boots and shoes
Look for ankle booties and combat boot styles with a "punky vibe," including a short heel and fun colors, Pantin says. The perfect example: a metallic pair from Saint Laurent.
Just as summer sandal trends included thick slides, genuine Tevas and what some fashion-watchers called the "ugly shoe" look, Pantin predicts winter footwear will include the "frumpy boot" and genuine hiking boots.
"Hiking boots are going to be a thing," Pantin predicts. "A solid leather pair of hiking boots is something I'm personally on the hunt for — solid leather, with a '70s shape, rounded on the front. I like when the trend is something you can buy the authentic version of — when it's snowy and nasty and they're built for that."
As for shoes, flats remain "a big thing," but not the over-the-top flats with straps and zippers from past seasons. This time, it's "simple ballet flats, dialed down a little bit." Heels, she predicts, will be "simple, classic shoes rather than the insane statement shoe," such as "pumps and things that don't have a platform and aren't so crazy-high."
Aside from the ever-popular Converse, sneakers are going a little frumpy, too: think Stan Smith shoes from Adidas and "New Balance dad shoes."


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Update, Thursday, 2:50 p.m.: I've learned since writing this post that when juror Michael Cunningham was an unknown, nominee Denis Johnson helped to launch his career by providing a blurb for his first novel, Golden States (Crown, 1984). Johnson helped Cunningham again more recently by allowing Cunningham to reprint his work in an anthology he edited, Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown (Crown, 2002). Juror Maureen Corrigan says in today's Washington Post that the jurors "unanimously agreed" on the books they nominated for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. If she is right, Cunningham failed to recuse himself from the judging as would be required by many other awards, including the National Book Critics Circle awards. Cunningham's conflict of interest in promoting the career of someone who promoted his work is all the more reason why the Pulitzer Prize Board acted correctly in rejecting Johnson. Jan Harayda
The Pulitzer board angered people when it gave no fiction award Monday, but it made the right call
By Janice Harayda
My newspaper nominated me for a Pulitzer when I was the book critic for the Plain Dealer, and I didn't win. Many of my colleagues who have done worthy work have failed to earn a medal. And Pulitzers have often gone to books that, as a critic, I saw as less deserving than those that went unrecognized.
So I know that the loss of a prize can hurt. And I know that the Pulitzer Prize Board, the ultimate arbiter of the awards, has at times appeared to wield its power with the neutrality of a Soviet-era figure-skating judge.
But the board made the right call when it said on Monday that for the first time in 35 years, it would give no fiction prize, a decision that caused an uproar in the publishing industry. Choosing a winner sounds straightforward: Every year a three-member Pulitzer jury selects three finalists for the award, and from among those nominations, the Pulitzer board picks a winner. Or it rejects all candidates and gives no prize. That's what happened Monday when the board declined without explanation to give a medal to any of the jury's choices: Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, David Foster Wallace's The Pale King, and Karen Russell's Swamplandia!, all books by authors much-honored for their work.
The torrent of protests that followed gushed with the strongest force from publishers and others who would have profited from the sales bump the award provides. One of the more bizarre outbursts came from Ann Patchett, the novelist and Nashville bookseller. Patchett said in a New York Times op-ed piece that she "can't imagine" a year that had more "need" of a fiction Pulitzer even though none was given in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was bombed.
Was the board's decision so terrible? Consider the books nominated by the jury. Johnson's Train Dreams is a long short story that appeared in the Paris Review, that had about 50 pages when reprinted in a PEN/O. Henry Prize anthology, and that its publisher repackaged to look like a novel by using a large font. Foster Wallace left The Pale King unfinished, and his editor, Michael Pietsch, completed it after his death. Russell's Swamplandia!, the strongest candidate, is a B/B-minus novel substantially less deserving of an award than many previous winners.
Whatever their merits, these three books comprised a seriously flawed shortlist. Should the board have honored a single short story by Johnson, however good, when it gave the Pulitzer to an entire book full great ones in The Stories of John Cheever? Should it have rewarded Foster Wallace for a novel written partly by someone else? Should it have given a medal to Russell's B/B-minus book instead of to the A/A+ work that a Pulitzer implies?
Choosing any of those books would have had drawbacks that outweighed benefits such as a sales boost for the winner. Rewarding unworthy books fosters cynicism among readers and devalues literary prizes. In this case, it would also have lent the imprimatur of the board to nominations that seemed almost willfully perverse, given that the list ignored a host of more deserving candidates, including Edith Pearlman's Binocular Vision (a National Book Award finalist that won the National Book Critics Circle prize for fiction) and Pulitzer winner Steven Millhauser's We Others (which won the Story Prize for short fiction).
Ann Patchett rightly notes that reading fiction matters because it allows us to imagine lives other than our own. But no evidence shows that the failure to award a Pulitzer will keep people from doing that. On the contrary, research has found that by adulthood, people generally have a habit of reading or they don't. Those who have it won't give it up because the Pulitzer board fails to pick a winner. They will instead get literary recommendations from friends, bookstores and libraries, reviews in print and online, and other sources. That process will lead some people to fiction they will enjoy more than the three books nominated by the Pulitzer jury. For that, we should be grateful.
Janice Harayda is a novelist and award-winning journalist who has been the book columnist for Glamour, the book editor and critic for the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, and vice-president for awards of the National Book Critics Circle. You can follow her on Twitter by clicking on the "Follow" button.
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Nuclear industry eyes disaster plans
ATLANTA — If disaster strikes a nuclear power plant in the U.S., the utility industry wants the ability to fly in heavy-duty equipment that could avert a meltdown.
That capability is part of a larger industry plan being developed to meet new rules that emerged since a 2011 tsunami struck the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan, flooding its emergency equipment and causing nuclear meltdowns that sent radiation leaking into the environment. The tsunami exceeded the worst-case scenario the plant was designed to withstand, and it showed how an extreme, widespread disaster can complicate emergency plans.
The effort, called FLEX, is the nuclear industry's method for meeting new U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules that will force 65 plants in the U.S. to get extra emergency equipment on site and store it protectively. As a backup, the industry is developing regional hubs in Memphis, Tenn., and Phoenix that could truck or even fly in more equipment to stricken reactors. Industry leaders say the effort will add another layer of defense in case a Fukushima-style disaster destroys a nuclear plant's multiple backup systems.
"It became very clear in Japan that utilities became quickly overwhelmed," said Joe Pollock, vice president for nuclear operations at the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry lobbying group that is spearheading the effort.
Nuclear industry watchdogs are concerned that by moving first, the utility industry is attempting to head-off more costly and far-reaching requirements that might otherwise be set by the NRC, which oversees commercial nuclear power plants in the U.S. Plants started buying the new equipment even before NRC regulators approved the concept. Industry officials say they are not certain yet how the equipment would be moved in a crisis.
"That presented essentially facts-on-the-ground for the NRC and essentially gave the industry the upper hand in how this is going to play out," said Edwin Lyman, the senior scientist for the Union of Concerned Scientists, who criticized FLEX as a "window-dressing exercise."
U.S. nuclear plants already have backup safety systems and are supposed to withstand the worst possible disasters in their regions, including hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes. But planners can be wrong.
The Japanese utility TEPCO dismissed scientific evidence and geological history showing that the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant was susceptible to being struck by a far bigger tsunami than it said was possible. Dominion Virginia Power's North Anna Power Station was struck by a 2011 tremor that caused peak ground movement at about twice the level for which the plant was designed. It did not suffer major damage and has resumed operations.
The FLEX program is supposed to help nuclear plants handle the biggest disasters. The equipment is meant to assist in the most critical tasks during a crisis: keeping nuclear fuel cool, keeping radioactive barriers intact and making sure old stores of used nuclear fuel don't overheat. If a cooling system fails and nuclear fuel gets too hot, the heat and pressure can rupture a reactor or even cause explosions that send radiation into the environment.
Utility companies must tell federal regulators early next year what equipment they are buying as part of the effort. Those supplies could include portable pumps, generators, batteries and chargers, compressors, hoses, tools and temporary flood barriers, according to industry plans filed with the NRC. Plant operators started buying some of this supplemental equipment to comply with disaster rules stemming from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The cost for individual plants is not yet clear.
Under the plan, plant operators can summon help from the regional centers in Memphis and Phoenix. Both centers are near transportation hubs and spread out so a single disaster would be unlikely to cripple them both. In addition to having several duplicate sets of plant emergency gear, industry officials say the centers will likely have heavier equipment. That could include an emergency generator large enough to power a plant's emergency cooling systems, equipment to treat cooling water and extra radiation protection gear for workers.
Federal regulators must still decide whether to approve the plans submitted by individual plants. The NRC wants to see enough planning to make sure equipment such as emergency pumps could be transported and effectively used.
"They need to show us not just that they have the pump, but that they've done all the appropriate designing and engineering so that they have a hookup for that pump," NRC spokesman Scott Burnell said. "They're not going to be trying to figure out, 'Where are we going to plug this thing in?'"


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The Boss, Billy Joel, Kanye West and More Band Together for Sandy Relief Concert
Jersey boy Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band got 12.12.12: The Concert for Sandy Relief off to a rollicking start Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden with a poignant opening set that included "Land of Hopes and Dreams," "Wrecking Ball" and "My City of Ruins."
The concert donated 100 percent of its proceeds to the Robin Hood Relief Fund, a large-scale relief effort launched specifically to aid people in the tri-state area whose lives were impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The concert was telecast commercial-free on 37 television networks in the U.S., as well as on radio stations and streaming sites around the country and around the world.
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The evening was jam-packed with famous faces, including performers like Springsteen, emcees such as host Billy Crystal and even manning the benefit's telephone phone bank backstage - which at one point boasted an impressive Sopranos reunion. Many of the celebrities were New York and New Jersey natives themselves. Long Island's Billy Joel performed moving versions of "Miami 2017″ and "New York State of Mind" while Garden State natives Brian Williams and Jon Stewart shared their memories of going down to the Jersey Shore as kids. "When I grew up, the Jersey Shore was everything," Stewart recalled. "It was the only place in the world I couldn't wait to share with my kids." Added Sopranos star James Gandolfini: "It's a whole way of life."
The night featured several memorable collaborations, such as not one, but two duets by famous Jersey rockers Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi on their respective hits "Born to Run" and "Who Says You Can't Go Home." Roger Waters and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder performed "Comfortably Numb" together, while Chris Martin and a post-REM-breakup Michael Stipe joined forces for a powerful take on "Losing My Religion." However, the most original duet of the evening came courtesy of New Yorker Adam Sandler and Late Show with David Letterman bandleader Paul Shaffer. They unveiled an entirely new take on Leonard Cohen's famous "Hallelujah" with lyrics about the strength of the city (sample lyric: "Hal-le-lu-jah, Sandy screw ya").
In by far the most anticipated - and most unusual - collaboration of the night, headliner Sir Paul McCartney joined with the surviving members of Nirvana (Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear) to perform "Cut Me Some Slack." The former Beatle closed the show with earlier act Alicia Keys for "Empire State of Mind (Part II)."
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Other performers included Eric Clapton, The Who, Kanye West, and The Rolling Stones, whose frontman Mick Jagger joked, "If it rains in London, you gotta come help us." Other presenters and guests included Kristen Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, P. Diddy, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, Chris Rock, Jake Gyllenhaal, Blake Lively, Jason Sudeikis, Katie Holmes, Christoph Waltz, Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx.
Also in attendance were many of the local police officers, firefighters, nurses and other volunteers who were helped in the immediate wake of Sandy.
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CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian security forces backed by water cannons fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Friday while demonstrators clashed with riot police in cities across the country in marches against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
The protests are part of a wave of opposition-led demonstrations over the past two weeks that have frequently devolved into street clashes. The violence has left more than 70 people dead and hundreds wounded, and plunged the country into a fresh cycle of bloodshed and political turmoil.
Egypt's opposition is demanding Morsi form a new coalition government, open an investigation into the killings of protesters over the past months and give guarantees that upcoming parliamentary elections will be fair and free. They also want him to form a commission to amend the country's newly adopted constitution, which was drafted by an Islamist-led panel and approved last December in a contentious referendum.
Some of the protesters go even further, demanding Morsi be removed from office. They also accuse the Muslim Brotherhood, the fundamentalist group from which Morsi hails, of monopolizing power and failing to deal with the country's mounting woes.
Thousands took their demands to the streets in cities across the country on Friday, carrying Egyptian flags and pictures of slain protesters and chanting "down with the rule of the Guide," referring to Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohammed Badie, who critics allege is calling the shots for Morsi from behind the scenes.
At the presidential palace in Cairo, the scene of repeated violent clashes since late last year, protesters tried to remove the barbed wire at the front gate of the palace and fired flares at its perimeters. Riot police swiftly responded with water cannons and tear gas while protesters hurled stones.
Violence also broke out in Kafr el-Sheik, some 180 kilometers (110 miles) north of Cairo, where riot police clashed with protesters in front of the office of governor Saad el-Husseini, who is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, protesters tore down a Brotherhood sign and burned it in front of the group's office while security forces used tear gas to disperse demonstrators in front of the governor's office.
Morsi and his allies accuse the opposition of trying to incite street violence to seize power after failing at the ballot box.
In a statement on Friday, Murad Ali, a spokesman for the Freedom and Justice party - the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm - warned the opposition that it would be responsible for any acts of violence that occur during protests. He also called them "losers."
The clashes over the past two weeks have fueled a sense that Egypt is coming unglued, while also raising concerns that the country could be hit by more - and greater - political violence.
Those worries sharpened after the assassination of a prominent anti-Islamist opposition leader in Tunisia on Wednesday, a killing that touched off a new wave of unrest there.
Tunisia was the birthplace of the region's so-called Arab Spring uprisings in 2011 that brought an end to the rule of several autocrats including Egypt's own Hosni Mubarak, clearing the way for Morsi's election last summer. Egyptians have warily watched the events unfolding in Tunis, which many here look to as a bellwether for their own country.
Much of the public anxiety in Egypt following the killing in Tunis stems from religious edicts, known as fatwas, recently issued by extremist clerics calling for the killing of Morsi's political opponents.
Egypt's leading democracy advocate and opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei sounded the alarm this week about the edicts.
The opposition says it will continue protests despite the fatwas, which the presidency and the government condemned as "terrorism." Morsi called the rhetoric "hate speech cloaked by religion."
Hamdeen Sabahi, a leader of the opposition National Salvation Front, said in a message posted on his Twitter account: "We will continue our peaceful struggle with the Egyptian people and revolutionary youth to continue our revolution."
CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian security forces backed by water cannons fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Friday while demonstrators clashed with riot police in cities across the country in marches against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.


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Last week, a majority in the U. S. Supreme Court rubbed salt in a decades-old wound. It denied John Thompson, a man who spent 18 years in prison – 14 on death row – for crimes he did not commit, $14 million in damages awarded him after he was exonerated. Thompson's case sounds like something that took place in the 1920's and 30's, not the 1990s.
In 1984, Thompson was arrested in the murder of a man from a prominent New Orleans family. According to NPR, another man, Kevin Freeman, also was arrested for the murder, but he made a plea deal in exchange for testimony that he saw Thompson commit the crime. Prosecutors in the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office, then run by Harry Connick Sr. (Yes, the singer's dad) needed more ammunition to seek the death penalty against Thompson, who had no violent felonies on his record. So they trumped up a carjacking charge against him and railroaded that case through. Once Thompson had a violent felony on his record, the carjacking conviction, prosecutors were able to convict him of the murder and send him to death row.
A team of lawyers from the law firm Morgan Lewis, took on his case. They thought they had exhausted every one of his appeals. (A date for Thompson's execution was set seven times.) He was just weeks away from execution when a legal team investigator found evidence (on microfiche!) that ultimately resulted in Thompson's exoneration, not only for the murder but in the carjacking case as well.
Here's the legal background on the case described by Dahlia Lithwick in Slate: "In 1963, in Brady v. Maryland, the Supreme Court held that prosecutors must turn over to the defense any evidence that would tend to prove a defendant's innocence. Failure to do so is a violation of the defendant's constitutional rights. Yet the four prosecutors in Thompson's case managed to keep secret the fact that they had hidden exculpatory evidence for 20 years. Were it not for Thompson's investigators, he would have been executed for a murder he did not commit."
Once exonerated, Thompson sued the district attorney's office arguing that it was liable for failing to properly train its employees on the requirements of Brady. A jury awarded him $14 million, which was upheld by federal district and appeals courts. Connick, Sr. was among the petitioners who challenged the lower court rulings in the Supreme Court.
In writing the majority opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas acknowledged that prosecutors have an obligation to see that justice is done, and agreed that in the case of John Thompson they fell short. However, Thomas, who once portrayed himself as a victim of high-tech lynching, said prosecutors should not be held responsible for training – and thus the corrupt conduct – of the attorneys under their authority.
Thompson is coming out the better man in all of this. He says what bothers him most is that the Supreme Court decision opens the door for district attorneys to turn a blind eye to misconduct on their staffs.
"My life was spared despite the efforts of many prosecutors from Harry Connick's office who sought my conviction and execution over 18 years. They're the criminals they made people believe I was," Thompson told the Associated Press.
"If I'd spilled hot coffee on myself, I could have sued the person who served me the coffee," he told The New York Times. "But I can't sue the prosecutors who nearly murdered me."
My father, Ebenezer Ray, would have inveighed against Justice Thomas' cruel and convoluted decision. He would, however, have stood with the female justices on the court, particularly Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who, in an unusual move, read her dissent aloud:
"From the top down, the evidence showed, members of the District Attorney's Office, including the District Attorney himself, misperceived Brady's compass and therefore inadequately attended to their disclosure obligations. Throughout the pretrial and trial proceedings against Thompson, the team of four engaged in prosecuting him for armed robbery and murder hid from the defense and the court exculpatory information Thompson requested and had a constitutional right to receive. The prosecutors did so despite multiple opportunities, spanning nearly two decades, to set the record straight. Based on the prosecutors' conduct relating to Thompson's trials, a fact trier could reasonably conclude that inattention to Brady was standard operating procedure at the District Attorney's Office.
"What happened here, the Court's opinion obscures, was no momentary oversight, no single incident of one lone officer's misconduct. Instead, the evidence demonstrated that misperception and disregard of Brady's disclosure requirements were pervasive in Orleans Parish. That evidence, I would hold, established persistent, deliberately indifferent conduct for which the District Attorney's Office bears responsibility . . . "
Ginsburg was joined in her dissent by fellow justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, (Who also took the lead in the discussion of the merits of the gender discrimination class-action suit against Walmart this week.)
When my father was writing his columns and covering the courts in New York, the idea of female justices serving on the highest court in the land would have been a fantasy. In fact, he wrote a column published Feb. 22, 1936, in support of women serving as jurors in New York:
"Women's fight for equal suffrage was a desperate and historical one. She won it," he wrote. He credited Jane Todd, a Westchester County assemblywoman, with securing passage of a bill in the state assembly that would enable women to serve on juries in New York state.
"Negroes are not barred from jury duty in New York, yet there is almost total absence of men of color in jury panels. Should Assemblywoman Todd's bills become law colored women might exhibit a different tendency. We could well appreciate a few colored faces in the present all-white atmosphere of the criminal courts jury box," Ebenezer wrote.
Unfortunately, having "a few colored" faces in the jury box or even on the highest court of the land guarantees nothing.
In 1991, after Thomas was nominated to the Supreme Court, I wrote an editorial for the Boston Globe titled "A question of compassion." I had written extensively about the sexual harassment charges made by Anita Hill, however, this editorial was about how he had publicly and dishonestly, castigated his own sister and her children for their "dependence" on public assistance.
"As the Senate Judiciary Committee conducts hearing on Thomas' confirmation, questions regarding his dishonest portrayal of his sister will not come up," I wrote. "But his failure to appreciate the difficulties of overcoming racism, poverty and male privilege – difficulties he has witnessed firsthand – suggests that he will have even less compassion on the bench for strangers who appear before him."
Almost 20 years later, Connick v. Thompson stands as a reminder that Justice Thomas has not changed.


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One measure of a lakes health is the trophic state, which relates to the amount of algae in the water. The average summer trophic state for the last 5 years was 45 (Mesotrophic) and was determined using chlorophyll data. For a Two-Story lake, this is considered Good.
Green Lake was monitored by volunteers between 1986 and 2018. Volunteers monitor water clarity with a black and white Secchi disk. Some also collect water samples, which are sent to the State Lab of Hygiene to be analyzed. Volunteers are the source of the majority of Wisconsin's lake water quality data, and their dedication is greatly appreciated. Additional monitoring has been done through projects funded in part by DNR Lake Grants and Aquatic Invasive Species Grants. Reports and graphs featuring data collected by volunteers, DNR staff and others can be viewed below.
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Morning Minutes: July 30
Word of the Day
poetaster POH-it-as-ter (noun) an inferior poet; a writer of indifferent verse. - www.dictionary.com
Website of the Day
Check out presentations made by successful people on a wide range of topics, including technology, entertainment and design. TED markets "ideas worth spreading."
Number to Know
4: "Million Dollar Baby" received the award for "Best Picture" in 2004 during the 77th Academy Awards, along with Best Director, Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Leading Role, which went to Hilary Swank.
This Day in History
July 30, 1956: A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing "In God we trust" as the U.S. national motto.
Today's Featured Birthday
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class X::Mixin::NotComposable
Error due to using an ineligible type as a mixin
is Exception
Thrown when a mixin with infix
does or
but is done with a composer that cannot be used for mixin.
For example
;1 but A;CATCH ;# OUTPUT: «X::Mixin::NotComposable: Cannot mix in non-composable type A into object of type Int␤»
The compile-time equivalent of this error is X::Composition::NotComposable
method target
method target()
Returns the target of the failed mixin operation.
method rolish
method rolish()
Returns the thing that could not act as a role for mixing it in
Type Graph
Routines supplied by class Exception
X::Mixin::NotComposable inherits from class Exception, which provides the following routines:
(Exception) method message
Defined as:
method message(Exception: --> Str)
This is a stub that must be overwritten by subclasses, and should return the exception message.
Special care should be taken that this method does not produce an exception itself.
try die "Something bad happened";if ($!)
(Exception) method backtrace
Defined as:
method backtrace(Exception:)
Returns the backtrace associated with the exception in a
Backtrace object or an empty string if there is none. Only makes sense on exceptions that have been thrown at least once.
try die "Something bad happened";with $!
(Exception) method throw
Defined as:
method throw(Exception:)
Throws the exception.
my = X::AdHoc.new; # Totally finetry .throw; # Throwsif ($!) ; # Suppress the exception
(Exception) method resume
Defined as:
method resume(Exception:)
Resumes control flow where
.throw left it when handled in a
CATCH block.
# For example, resume control flow for any exceptionCATCH
(Exception) method rethrow
Defined as:
method rethrow(Exception:)
Rethrows an exception that has already been thrown at least once. This is different from
throw in that it preserves the original backtrace.
my = X::AdHoc.new(payload => "Bad situation");sub f() ;sub g() ;g;CATCH ;
(Exception) method fail
Defined as:
multi sub fail(*)multi sub fail(Exception )method fail(Exception:)
Exits the calling
Routine and returns a Failure object wrapping the exception
$e - or, for the
*@text form, an X::AdHoc exception constructed from the concatenation of
@text. If the caller activated fatal exceptions via the pragma
use fatal;, the exception is thrown instead of being returned as a
# A custom exception definedis Exceptionsub copy-directory-tree ()# A Failure with X::AdHoc exception object is returned and# assigned, so no throwing Would be thrown without an assignmentmy = copy-directory-tree("cat.jpg");say .exception; # OUTPUT: «cat.jpg is not a directory␤»# A Failure with a custom Exception object is returned= copy-directory-tree('foo');say .exception; # OUTPUT: «This directory is forbidden: 'foo'␤»
(Exception) method gist
Defined as:
multi method gist(Exception:)
Returns whatever the exception printer should produce for this exception. The default implementation returns message and backtrace separated by a newline.
my = X::AdHoc.new(payload => "This exception is pretty bad");try .throw;if ($!) ;# OUTPUT: «This exception is pretty bad# in block <unit> at <unknown file> line 1␤»
(Exception) sub die
Defined as:
multi sub die()multi sub die(*)multi sub die(Exception )method die(Exception:)
Throws a fatal Exception. The default exception handler prints each element of the list to
die "Important reason";
If the subroutine form is called without arguments, the value of
$! variable is checked. If it is set to a
.DEFINITE value, its value will be used as the Exception to throw if it's of type Exception, otherwise, it will be used as payload of X::AdHoc exception. If
$! is not
.DEFINITE, X::AdHoc with string
"Died" as payload will be thrown.
die will print by default the line number where it happens
die "Dead";# OUTPUT: «(exit code 1) Dead␤# in block <unit> at /tmp/dead.p6 line 1␤␤»
However, that default behavior is governed at the
Exception level and thus can be changed to anything we want by capturing the exception using
CATCH. This can be used, for instance, to suppress line numbers.
CATCH;die "Dead" # OUTPUT: «Dead␤»
(Exception) sub warn
Defined as:
multi sub warn(*)
Throws a resumable warning exception, which is considered a control exception, and hence is invisible to most normal exception handlers. The outermost control handler will print the warning to
$*ERR. After printing the warning, the exception is resumed where it was thrown. To override this behavior, catch the exception in a
CONTROL block. A
quietly {...} block is the opposite of a
try {...} block in that it will suppress any warnings but pass fatal exceptions through.
To simply print to
$*ERR, please use
note instead.
warn should be reserved for use in threatening situations when you don't quite want to throw an exception.
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Morning Minutes: Oct. 24
Word of the Day
snollygoster SNOL-ee-gos-ter (noun) a clever, unscrupulous person. — www.dictionary.com
Website of the Day
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Number to Know
5 million: Drake has sold more than 5 million albums worldwide. He is one of two artists (the other being 50 Cent) that has simultaneously occupied the Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart's top three positions.
This Day in History
Oct. 24, 1977: Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on Nov. 11 beginning the following year.)
Today's Featured Birthday
Rapper Drake (27)
Daily Quote
"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." — Theodore Roethke