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Was Ted Bundy the Product of Hardcore Pornography?
History has shown that during their teenage years, the majority of serial killers avoided social events, such as parties, which did not let them experiment with sexual activities among their peers. Without having any solid social structure in their lives, the killers were unable to embark on healthy sexual relationships. The lack of motivation to engage in social interaction caused them to prefer auto-erotic activities, such as masturbation and pornography. Many serial killers did not stick to these activities and became intensely interested in voyeurism, fetishism, and other paraphilias from an early age.
In 1977, Richard Ramirez moved in with his older sister, Ruth, and her husband, Roberto, an obsessive "peeping Tom" who took Ramirez along on his nocturnal exploits (AP Photo)
A person may start to display his deviant behavior by starting out as a harmless peeping tom, but usually, it doesn't end at this point. In most paraphilias, bondage and dominance feature so strongly that it may cause a killer to move on to housebreaking, rape and finally, start a killing career.
Most serial killers indulged themselves in violent and sadistic fantasies. One of the studies by the FBI has shown that 81 percent of the sexual or serial killers surveyed listed pornography as their primary sexual interest. It was also noted that the killers were "characteristically immersed in fantasy." Another study, conducted by the North Carolina State Police have found that 75 percent of defendants in violent sex crimes "had some kind of hardcore pornographic material" in their homes or vehicles.
Special Agent John Douglas, head of the FBI's Investigative Support Unit, holding folders w. crime file folders as he peruses file shelves at the FBI Training Facility; he was a consultant for the film Silence of the Lamb's. (Photo by Robert Sherbow/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
In his book Journey Into Darkness, a former special agent and unit chief of the FBI, John Douglas, reported that serial-rape murderers are commonly found with an extensive pornography collection, either store-bought or homemade. He also states that FBI research has shown that certain types of sadomasochistic and bondage-oriented material can fuel the fantasies of those already leaning in that direction.
Ted Bundy – the Product of Pornographer?
Just before his execution on January 24, 1989, serial killer Ted Bundy granted an interview to a psychologist and famed fundamentalist Christian author James Dobson. In the interview, Bundy revealed the agony of his addiction to pornography. The killer went back to his roots, explaining the development of his compulsive behavior and addiction to hardcore pornography, which, in his opinion, fueled the terrible crimes he committed.
When he was thirteen years old, Bundy discovered "dirty magazines" in a dump near his home and was instantly captivated by them. As time passed by, the killer became more and more addicted to violence and torture in pornography. The only way he could climax was making by his fantasies become a reality.
In his interview, Ted Bundy felt the need to warn others of the dangers of hardcore pornography and explain its relationship with his murders:
"The most damaging kind of pornography – and I'm talking from hard, real, personal experience – is that that involves violence and sexual violence. The wedding of those two forces – as I know only too well – brings about behavior that is too terrible to describe.
"Before we go any further, it is important to me that people believe what I'm saying. I'm not blaming pornography. I'm not saying it caused me to go out and do certain things. I take full responsibility for all the things that I've done. That's not the question here. The issue is how this kind of literature contributed and helped mold and shape the kinds of violent behavior.
"In the beginning, it fuels this kind of thought process. Then, at a certain time, it is instrumental in crystallizing it, making it into something that is almost a separate entity inside.
"Once you become addicted to it, and I look at this as a kind of addiction, you look for more potent, more explicit, more graphic kinds of material. Like an addiction, you keep craving something which is harder and gives you a greater sense of excitement, until you reach the point where the pornography only goes so far – that jumping-off point where you begin to think maybe actually doing it will give you that which is just beyond reading about it and looking at it."
When Dobson asked how long did Bundy stay at that point before actually assaulting someone, he answered:
"A couple of years. I was dealing with very strong inhibitions against the criminal and violent behavior. That had been conditioned and bred into me from my neighborhood, environment, church, and schools.
"I knew it was wrong to think about it, and certainly, to do it was wrong. I was on the edge, and the last vestiges of restraint were being tested constantly, and assailed through the kind of fantasy life that was fueled, largely, by pornography."
Bundy remembered what pushed him over the edge and motivated his decision to "go for it":
"It's a very difficult thing to describe – the sensation of reaching that point where I knew I couldn't control it anymore. The barriers I had learned as a child were not enough to hold me back from seeking out and harming somebody.
"That's one way to describe it – a compulsion, a building up of this destructive energy. Another fact I haven't mentioned is the use of alcohol. In conjunction with my exposure to pornography, alcohol reduced my inhibitions and pornography eroded them further.
"Those of us who have been so influenced by violence in the media, particularly pornographic violence, are not some kind of inherent monsters. We are your sons and husbands. We grew up in regular families. Pornography can reach in and snatch a kid out of any house today. It snatched me out of my home 20 or 30 years ago.
"I'm no social scientist, and I don't pretend to believe what John Q. Citizen thinks about this, but I've lived in prison for a long time now, and I've met a lot of men who were motivated to commit violence. Without exception, everyone of them was deeply involved in pornography – deeply consumed by the addiction. The F.B.I.'s own study on serial homicide shows that the most common interest among serial killers is pornographers. It's true.
"As we have been talking, there are forces at loose in this country, especially this kind of violent pornography, where, on one hand, well-meaning people will condemn the behavior of a Ted Bundy while they're walking past a magazine rack full of the very kinds of things that send young kids down the road to being Ted Bundys. That's the irony."
The killer was executed at 7:15 a.m. the day after this interview.
The body of Ted Bundy arrives at the Medical Examiner's office after he was executed in Florida's electric chair.
Once Ted Bundy was apprehended, Brad Keirns, the vice president of the anti-pornography organization "Citizens For Decency Through Law," had stated that "Bundy is the product of the pornographer." His statement became controversial and enraged critics, especially American Civil Liberties Union member Barry Lynn, who had claimed that "even without the pornography, Bundy's mind would have continued being consumed with perverse thoughts."
Stephen Michaud, who had personally interviewed Ted Bundy and written a few books about him, immediately debunked this Keirns' claim:
"Look," Michaud had stated." The last time Bundy was caught, you know what he had in his car? A stack of well-thumbed pamphlets for cheerleader training schools. He was into cheerleader pamphlets, and he wasn't using them for scratch paper. He also got off on his college physiology text, which had diagrams of female genitalia."
Ted Bundy was not the only serial killer to blame the pornography for his actions. Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer, who had murdered at least 53 women and children, suffered from obsessive masturbation. He even had awful scarring on his penis due to the aggression that accompanied his masturbation. In his prison cell, Chikatilo had pictures of naked women and blamed pornography as the cause of his troubles.
Prison photo of Andrei Chikatilo.
Does Pornography Have Any Impact on Serial Killers?
It should not be a surprise that people who are obsessed with sex and fantasies have some link to pornography. For example, John Wayne Gacy's wife had stated that she filed for divorce because "Gacy's moods had become erratic, and she had found Gacy's pornographic magazine collection which was all centered around young boys."
Pornographic magazines found in Gacy's house.
Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, kept meticulous records of his fantasies and crimes in what he called his 'mother lode' collection of pornography. A serial killer and necrophile Edmund Kemper, also known as the Co-ed Killer, used pornography and detective magazines for erotic stimulation.
The list could go on and on, including other serial killers, such as Arthur Gary Bishop, David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, Ottis Toole and, although technically not a serial killer, it's worth mentioning Ed Gein, who had accumulated a library of anatomy books, porn magazines, horror and adventure novels.
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Various forms of media, such as detective magazines, have obscene stories of sex and murder that can also serve as an additional form of arousal – linking sex and killing together. Dietz, Harry, and Hazelwood (1986) have suggested the contribution of detective magazines to the development of sexual sadism. They have stated that detective magazines facilitate sadistic fantasies and that they might serve as training manuals and equipment catalogs for sex criminals.
A collection of 1970s pulp magazines.
Despite all these findings, most researchers agree that a correlational relationship between pornography and murder does not prove anything. In their opinion, pornography or detective magazines not likely incite someone to murder.
Almost two weeks after Ted Bundy was executed and his last interview was aired on TV, Dr. William Wilbanks published an article, named "Expert Warns: Don`t Swallow Bundy`s Line," saying:
"I have been surprised and disturbed by the ready acceptance of the Bundy interview "message." The public seems to believe that a great deal of criminological significance should be given to statements "straight from the horse`s mouth," especially when the words are part of a "death-bed confession." As a criminologist, I would like to issue some notes of caution to those who swallowed whole the Bundy interview.
"First, criminologists know that when one goes "straight to the horse`s mouth" one is more likely to get what comes out of the other end of the horse than some objective truth. The naive view that Bundy`s interview reveals the true causes of his murderous behavior wrongly assumes that Bundy knows the "real reasons" for his behavior and that he would reveal those reasons to us if he knew them.
"The criminal`s view of the causes of his own behavior is likely to be far less accurate than that of observers since his own view is biased by an elaborate set of rationalizations. Bundy wanted to believe that some alien force (pornography) was responsible for his killings rather than that he was an evil person who chose to do wrong. By placing the blame on porn, Bundy absolved himself of personal responsibility and portrayed himself as a victim of porn. His suggestion that he was not trying to avoid responsibility was either a self-deception or a final "con" on the public he so despises. Bundy`s failure to look the interviewer in the eye during his "confession" would lend support to the "con" explanation.
"Second, the interviewer had a clear bias that distorted the interview. Bundy had been corresponding with Dobson for a year and was receptive to Dobson`s suggestion that his violent acts were caused by pornography. The correspondence between the two likely was similar to the "coaching" of a witness by an attorney. I am not suggesting that Dobson consciously coached Bundy, but his crusade against porn clearly biases his view of cause and makes it likely that he elicited and reinforced the responses from Bundy that would promote his cause and absolve Bundy of responsibility. The message of the interview thus was a quid pro quo (tradeoff) for Bundy and Dobson.
"Third, the research literature does not support the Bundy message about the danger of porn. Clearly, depictions of violence can lead (in some individuals) to violent acts, but violent pornography is dangerous only because it is violent. There is no evidence that porn (i.e., "dirty pictures"), apart from depictions of violence, causes violence. Dobson was simply trying to tie his "pet evil" (porn) to the violent acts of Ted Bundy to promote his crusade against soft-porn. The "porn leads to violence" theory was promoted by the Reagan/Meese Commission on Pornography (of which Dobson was a member) but has been rejected by the very researchers quoted by the commission.
"Fourth, the Bundy message about the dangers of porn carries the label of "addiction" to the point of absurdity. Bundy told Dobson he was "addicted" to porn, thus suggesting that somehow his behavior was uncontrollable. The term "addiction" first was used to describe the drug habit, but now we are being told that there are gambling addicts, sex addicts, food addicts, shopping addicts, chocolate addicts, etc. It is to be hoped that the extension of the term to Bundy`s preoccupation with porn will lead the public to re-evaluate the accuracy of this label."
Stephen J. Giannangelo, the author of Real-Life Monsters: A Psychological Examination of the Serial Murderer, supports this theory and comes to a brilliant conclusion in the relation of pornography and serial murder in his book:
"The matter of pornography deserves a study of its own. It might be believable that pornographic addiction could relate to a sexual offender. In considering the needs of a pattern murderer, the person who kills, not just sexually assaults, there's a missing link in the argument. It would appear that pornography is to the serial killer as gasoline is to the arsonist. Both are tools of the sexual criminal. Both are immersed in fantasies and have the motivation to fulfill their erotic desires. Magazines and movies definitely help fuel the fire. However, without gasoline, the arsonist still finds a match. Without the pornography, Ted Bundy kills scores of women anyway."
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Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Colombia, briefs the Security Council.
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12 April 2022 Peace and Security
Colombia's dynamic peace process – which saw fresh strides with the holding of a largely peaceful parliamentary election last month – will succeed or fail based on efforts to halt the deadly violence faced by former combatants, social leaders and human rights defenders, the senior UN official in the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.
Carlos Ruiz Massieu, the Secretary-General's Special Representative and Head of the UN Verification Mission in Colombia, said armed groups in some parts of the country are targeting the very communities who were most victimized during the half-century-long civil war, which officially ended with the signing of a historic Final Peace Agreement in 2016.
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"Violence is also exacting a particularly high toll on indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in the form of killings, displacements and the increasing recruitment of minors," he said.
Landmark election
Mr. Massieu briefed the Council on the results of the recently concluded election, noting that Presidential elections are set to follow in May.
"For the second time since the signing of the [2016 Peace Agreement], elections were mostly free of violence," he said, adding that the successful laydown of arms by members of the now-defunct FARC-EP militia group – verified by the UN – significantly reduced the chance of clashes.
The election featured, for the first time, the opportunity for Colombians to elect representatives of 16 new electoral districts established under the Peace Agreement, in conflict-affected regions.
In addition, the recent vote saw a notable increase in the number of women candidates and women elected to Congress.
"The current electoral cycle helps illustrate some of the dividends of peace," said the Special Representative.
Former combatants
A major component of Colombia's peace process remains the social reintegration of former FARC-EP members, as well as former combatants from other armed groups, who have agreed to lay down their arms in return for State protection.
Today, more than 13,000 accredited former fighters – including almost two-thirds of all former FARC-EP members – are reintegrating, and remain engaged with the peace process.
However, the lingering violence spotlighted by the Special Representative continues to jeopardize former combatants' plans to build a new life.
Against that backdrop, Mr. Massieu stressed the responsibility of the Colombian Government to fully implement the security guarantees laid out in the 2016 Agreement.
He added that those provisions will have the added benefits of boosting political participation and transitional justice, and are closely linked to rural reform efforts and the success of voluntary crop substitution programmes.
Truth and justice
The Special Representative also updated the Council on the historic first hearings of "acknowledgement of responsibility" sessions, to be held by the Government's Special Jurisdiction for Peace, in the coming weeks.
In those hearings, former FARC-EP commanders, members of the public security forces and civilian third parties, will have a platform to demonstrate their commitment to the truth and the rights of victims.
The process is an important part of Colombia's restorative justice initiative, which is being led by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.
Meanwhile, in another important development, Colombia's Truth Commission – established under the Peace Agreement to collect and analyse the testimonies of thousands of victims who suffered violence during the 50-year long civil conflict – is poised to release its final report in June.
Urging Colombia to "make wise use" of the report, Mr. Massieu said the UN stands ready to support the Commission in its crucial work of disseminating that text.
Passing the baton
Describing Colombia's peace as invaluable – as well as a poignant example of a successful peace process "in a world of geopolitical divisions, endless wars and the multiplying of conflicts" – the Special Representative urged the Council to continue to support the Government in protecting it.
While the baton will soon be passed to a new administration, he expressed his hope that Colombia's future leaders will continue to assume the responsibility of implementing the Peace Agreement.
Political parties, civil society and other stakeholders must also commit to advance on the agreement's pending elements and face challenges decisively, said Mr. Massieu.
"Colombia reminds the world that even an armed conflict of more than five decades, with a painful toll of millions of victims can be resolved through dialogue, laying the foundations for reconciliation and non-repetition."
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...the single greatest weakness of Western culture: its ability to draw a moral equivalence between anything and everything; between a terrorist camp with explosives and machineguns and a summer camp in North Dakota. It is really an inability to see anything in due proportion. Kofi Annan's assertion of "disproportionate response" by Israel against Hezbollah really makes no sense in world where an equivalence operator can be inserted between any two operands of whatever value. And the consequence of the fallen calculus of international relations is the tactical and strategic equivalence between a democratic state and terrorist non-state; the parity between barbarism and civilization.


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18-year-old Babacar came to the Canary Islands by boat from Senegal | Photo: Marco Wolter/InfoMigrants
Leaving Senegal: 'Three of my friends died at sea. I set off the day after they died.'
By Marco Wolter Benjamin Bathke Canary Islands Senegal Spain Published on : 2020/12/08
18-year-old Babacar is one of more than 8,000 African migrants who made his way to the Canary Islands archipelago in November 2020. When InfoMigrants spoke to him, Babacar had just been taken in by a Canary Islands resident who decided to help him.
"Hello... hello, Ousmane? Oh, he put the phone down…" Babacar is trying to get in touch with his uncle. The young Senegalese man is waiting in front of a round, eight-story hotel tower in Maspalomas that has become home to some 1,000 migrants who arrived on the Canary Islands recently when they found that places in reception facilities were rare, or impossible.
Babacar believes his uncle Ousmane is staying in the hotel. When they arrived together by boat on Gran Canaria, Babacar was separated from his relative.
"He has left his wife, his two children and his mother in Senegal," Babacar tells InfoMigrants. "He was a fisherman. But life is difficult in Senegal and he wasn't able to feed his family with the money he could earn. That's why he decided that he would try his chances in Spain instead."
Babacar and his uncle arrived on the Canary Islands at the beginning of November. "It took us five days," explains Babacar while he is busy writing a text message, his eyes concentrated on his smartphone. He has already got a Spanish SIM card so he can make telephone calls more easily.
Babacar says that the two of them began their crossing by boat in Saint Louis, a northern Senegalese port city where they lived. The distance from there to Gran Canaria is more than 1,300 kilometers.
Map showing northwestern Africa and Spain's Canary Islands. The distance between Saint Louis and Gran Canaria is over 1,300 kilometers | Source: Google Maps
There were 75 other passengers on their boat. "When we were getting ready to leave, we found that there was a young lad, just 14 years old, in our boat. We didn't want him to come with us. We told him that the sea is really dangerous and that he could die. But he begged us to let him come with us. So we helped him. We gave him our clothes when he was cold, and we gave him our food when he was hungry."
In fact, all of the passengers on board their boat arrived safe and sound on the Canary Islands. "We were lucky with the weather. We managed to make it from Senegal without one death or injury," Babacar told us.
Also read: Migration on the Canary Islands: A convenient scapegoat for social problems (Part I)
The dangers of the Atlantic
That said, the risks of crossing the Atlantic are very high. The ocean has strong currents, and attempting to cross it is a lot more dangerous than crossing the Mediterranean. Since the beginning of 2020, close to 600 people have died or dissapeared in their attempt to reach the Spanish archipelago, according to the UN migration agency IOM.
And those figures don't include the boats that disappeared without a trace, which the IOM calls "invisible shipwrecks."
It is a danger about which Babacar is very aware. He, too recently lost friends who attempted the crossing.
"Three of my friends died at sea, when I was still living in Saint Louis. It was the day after their death that I decided to make my attempt. I found out about their death in the morning and in the evening, I left."
Babacar explains that one of his friends was no longer able to pay his rent in Senegal, and that is what pushed him to set off to sea. "I am not a fisherman. I have never been to sea. I remember, at one point during the crossing, after about two days, I was so scared. I thought I was going mad. But then I calmed myself down again. I told myself, if I am to die, then I will die, if that is what Allah wishes. If I am destined to arrive in Spain, then I will arrive."
Babacar says he is not worried about the possibility of being sent back to Senegal | Photo : Marco Wolter/Infomigrants
Babacar is a Muslim and explains that he is very religious. "If they repatriate us, I would think that is also destiny. If they let us stay here, then I will try and fight for a good life. I am here to work, not to beg or mess around and do whatever. I am just here to work."
Babacar says that he graduated school with a baccalauréat [French high school certificate students take at 18 that allows entry to university] specializing in scientific subjects. He also says that he played football and hopes to be able to make some money out of his talents in Europe. "Spain has some good players, but I too play very, very good football."
In Africa, says Babacar, "we say that those that rule us are vultures. They are selling off all our resources. Our young people are being sacrificed because of them. They send their own children to study in the US or other places. We, on the other hand, just stay there. We might have qualifications, but we can't find work."
Also read: Boat migrants instead of holidaymakers -- how is Canary Islands' tourism industry coping? (Part II)
Help from a Canary Islands resident
At the hotel in Maspalomas on Gran Canaria, things start getting busy. Migrants start coming out onto the balconies to see what is happening on the street. Babacar is not the only migrant there searching for friends or relatives. There are several people, many of them Moroccans, trying to get into the hotel. But they are being blocked from entering. The Red Cross is in charge of all migrant accommodations and has imposed strict rules.
A woman wearing a Correos uniform, the Spanish postal service, comes up to Babacar. The 49-year-old is a local who decided to help Babacar. They met near the beach. "I was working when I met him. I was delivering letters and parcels to the hotel where he was staying. Now I am going to give him a place to stay at my house," she tells us.
As she doesn't speak French and Babacar doesn't speak Spanish, communication between the two is difficult.
"We haven't yet spoken much because of the language differences, but I know that he dreams about having a better future, that he wants to work and study and support his family. You know, it is not easy in the hotels. I think when he comes to my house, he might feel a bit better, more comfortable. He might be able to open up and speak about his feelings."
Babacar has been able to phone his father a couple of times today. It turns out that he hadn't confided to his father his plans for departure. "I couldn't tell him I wanted to leave. He would never have let me. I have brothers and sisters and I am the eldest in the family. I am responsible for them."
Note: InfoMigrants spoke to Babacar in November 2020.
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Q: Synchronizing rest async responses to a collection in Java Didn't find similar question here so decided to ask for help.
In Java 8 I have method getEmployees with list of employee ids as input. Within this method I'm sending async rest-api requests to another service to get each employee information by its id. And I'm trying to save responses as dto to list and return this list as a result of getEmployees. Here is the code:
private List<EmployeeDto> getEmployeeDtos(List<String> employeesIds) {

List<EmployeeDto> result = new ArrayList<>();
for (String id : employeesIds) {
    String empUrl = dataUrl.concat(id);

    ListenableFuture<ResponseEntity<String>> futureResponse = asyncRestTemplate.exchange(
                    empUrl,
                    HttpMethod.GET,
                    StringUtils.isEmpty(token) ? createRequest() : createRequest(token),
                    String.class
                );
    futureResponse.addCallback(new ListenableFutureCallback<ResponseEntity<String>>() {
                    @SneakyThrows
                    @Override
                    public void onFailure(Throwable throwable) {
                        result.add(null);
                    }

                    @SneakyThrows
                    @Override
                    public void onSuccess(ResponseEntity<String> stringResponseEntity) {
                        ResponseEntity<String> response = futureResponse.get();
                        EmployeeDto dto = objectMapper.readValue(response.getBody(), new TypeReference<EmployeeDto>() {
                        });
                        result.add(dto);
                    }
                });

    while (result.size() != employeesIds.size()) {
    }
    return result;
}

I don't really like that while loop for synchronizing result collection before return result. Is there any ideas how to return whole result collection properly without while loop in this case?

A: Count callback calls using CountDownLatch:
CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(employeesIds.size);
....
result.add(null);
latch.countDown();
....
result.add(dto);
latch.countDown();
...
if (!latch.await(20,  TimeUnit.SECONDS)) {
   throw new TimeoutException();
}
return result;

Besides, result must be a synchronized collection, or callback methods must be synchronized.

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Paper, pencil and the right technique – that's all it takes to produce the "House of St. Nicholas". At the Bielefeld Christmas Market, though, there is a creation which offers much more than such a line drawing: there, the man in the red suit has a Feuerzangenbowle (a hot winter drink of wine, rum and fruit juices, served in an earthenware bowl) stand , a grill and a room with a fireplace -- a home with many comforts. And this popular stand run by the Schneider family has, for some time, had an international twin.
The little house and its popular features -- or rather, an exact copy -- now brings a Christmas mood not only to the Bielefeld historic inner city but also to "Winter Wonderland" in London's Hyde Park. This is how it came about: in 2007 one of the promoters of the London attraction was visiting in Bielefeld. He was searching the country for the typical German Christmas Market experience. At the house with the traditional tile roof, steaming drink from an earthenware pot, and beechwood-fired grill, he knew he had struck it rich.
Both stands are operated by the Schneider family, whose roots in the exhibitor stand tradition go back to the 17th Century. With hard work and talented artisanship they manufactured the houses in the Tyrol style with the support of a stall builder from Kiel. A special feature of the "House of St. Nicholas" is the wooden floor, which prevents feet from getting too cold in the winter. Loaded onto six semi-trailers, the "House of St. Nicholas" first went on tour to the British metropolis in 2008.
There, the German specialties are also offered – authentically reproduced, with no subtitles. Only with the talking elk's head, which adorns the cottages in both Bielefeld and London, is there a small discrepancy: the representative of this species at "Winter Wonderland" speaks only English.


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There are some restaurants in Houston open only for lunch. You may leave with a box of tarts, or the chair you were sitting on.
By Felicia Coates and Harriet Howle
In the scramble for the attention of Houston's ever-increasing number of our appetites by its ever-increasing number of restaurants, there is a genre of restaurant that seems to be steadily, if unobtrusively, gaining a foothold. It serves lunch only.
Restaurants that fall into this category survive for one of two reasons: Low overhead (cafeteria-style manned by volunteers for a good cause or cafeteria-style with high volume) or something else to sell (antiques, clothes, gifts, take-out food, etc.) They are appealing because they are "in," attractive, convenient, or economical, and sometimes even because they have good food. For the sake of expediency we have considered them by price (what it takes to get you out).
THE BROWNSTONE: 2738 Virginia (528-2844), Monday through Friday, 11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. Valet parking
Currently the place in which to see, be seen and even eat (if you have a reservation) is the Brownstone. Actually a renovated brownbrick, it is in a section of town fast being reclaimed by architects' offices and townhouses. The Brownstone's front rooms, which formerly housed Wilds and Canon Design shop, are salesrooms devoted to a collection of distinctive antiques and au courant accessories (it's the natural look this year: mounted antelope horns, pheasant feathers en vase, compotes of bleached seashells, and pots of bromeliads, orchids, and dracaenas). At the back of the building is an attractive, spacious dining area which accommodates a jam of well-coiffed, well-dressed, well-heeled ladies (and some equally spiffy gentlemen) who are probably not on their lunch hours.
For a fixed price of $3.75 (plus tax and service) you may choose from among three entrees. The selection 40 TEXAS MONTHLY Photography by Nicki Parker changes from day to day. Our favorite, to date, is the flounder with artichoke hearts and Mornay sauce. Veal-stuffed zucchini, shrimp-stuffed bell pepper, and sweet and sour meatballs have also been successful choices. Each entree is accompanied by a vegetable (often exceptionally good) and a fruit salad. A salad plate is usually one of the three offerings and we have found the chicken salad-stuffed tomato on a king size bed of assorted lettuce leaves to be as tasty as it is spectacular. Dessert is extra and the cheesecake with blueberry sauce, the fruit crisp, and the coconut ice cream sundae have each been worth the added price and calories.
Incidentally, this is obviously an equal employment opportunity endeavor. On our last visit our car was parked by a cute young woman in a fur coat and our table was served by a cute young man in a beard.
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER: 303 Jackson (Addicks exit on IH 10) (493-2253), Monday through Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
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The Ant and the Grasshopper is also a combination antique shop and lunch room and it offers you not only the food on your table but the table and chairs as well. Quaint surroundings, attractive hostesses in long skirts, and personal touches make this luncheon spot popular with ladies in the Memorial (and maybe even the San Antonio) area.
Unless you make an advance request for a special dish you are served a pot luck lunch consisting of a hot entree, a fruit salad, fresh bread, a dessert, and a glass of house wine. On Monday the fare is usually quiche, while Tuesday through Friday feature dishes such as chicken "Alabam," ham Mornay, or seafood casserole. The fixed price is $2.75 on Monday and $3.75 the rest of the week.
Ever attractive, the Ant and the Grasshopper has not always lived up to the menu's boasts of "artists" in the kitchen and the "finest available ingredients." However, we are delighted to report that the quality of the food had, on our last visit, improved markedly. The homemade cinnamon bread came to our table directly from the oven. The quiche, served with crisp bacon on top and sausage on the side, was as fresh, interesting, and tasty as promised. The fruit salad served with it made a nice foil. Even the bread pudding was good for bread pudding. We commend the notable improvement here and hope that it is maintained.
ESP (ST. JAMES RESTAURANT): 1885 St. James Place (626-4393), Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Valet parking
The feminine leg of the St. James Restaurant, ESP is a courtyard surrounded by a multi-level collection of boutiques. Skylighting, tiled floors, Schumacher print table skirts in earthy colors, greenery, and the attractive merchandise itself make ESP visually appealing. When it opened a year or so ago, ESP was the rage. Innovative luncheon treats, mostly in the salad realm, featured splendid assortments of fresh sprouts, water cress, raw mushrooms, and even artichoke mousse. A self-served chef salad in a goblet was one of our favorites. Even the more standard hot entrees were served with verve. Recently, however, ESP seems to have gone through the change of life. The once princely menu is now a frog and is used both at ESP and at The Court of St. James next door-they share a kitchen. Luncheon specials are mundane (scallops in a white sauce flanked with canned kernel corn) and the chef's salad with its strips of rubbery American cheese was hardly worth the $3.75 tariff.
Fortunately, there may yet be a happy ending. A new manager, Robert Lloret (formerly of Brennan's), is taking the reins as we write and we understand that there will be a new menu for ESP. Hopefully the frog will again become a prince.
ANDRE'S: 2515 River Oaks Blvd (at Westheimer) (524-3863), Monday through Thursday 11 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Andre's does double duty as a restaurant and a patisserie. With a central kitchen, it offers both an extensive bakery counter laden with breads, candies, chocolates, and pastries and a small cozy tearoom. Its popularity at noon is based upon three factors: freshly prepared food, surroundings made cheerful with Swiss canton flags and wooden settles, and luncheon prices still at a pre-Phase I level. (Maybe they don't have phases in Switzerland.) For $2.42 (tax included) you have a choice of three entrees served with salad, bread, beverage, and dessert. Quiche is usually one of the choices and if you find it to your liking, which you will, you can purchase a whole one to take home. (With salad it makes an ideal "busy day" supper.) Cheese crouton, a hunk of crusty bread with melted cheese, is another pleasant entree. Even a green pepper stuffed with ground meat has been good.
Dessert is the real treat here. You take your choice from the waitress' pastry tray. There are cakes, tarts, tortes, etc. Our favorite is the Linzer-torte, and somehow we always give in to it.
You pay your check at the pastry counter. This is a cagey maneuver on the management's part as you inevitably fall prey to the luscious merchandise and go home with several bags and boxes under your arm.
OLD EUROPE: 5418 Bellfort (721-0345), Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
The Old Europe began life several years ago as a gift shop, and has, in the last year, added a tearoom which has gone almost unnoticed save by a fortunate few. Located across from Westbury Square, the tearoom is so tiny (it has five tables for two) that its staff of proprietress, cook, baker, dishwasher, waitress, cashier, and saleslady is actually one lovely German lady, Sigrid Schreiber. Her menu features soups, sandwiches, salads, entrees, cheeses, and desserts each of which is executed with flair, care, and quality ingredients. Even gazpacho, hardly standard Deutsche fare, is exquisitely seasoned and garnished. Her quiche made with Gruyere and Emmanthaler is not the usual stiff cheese pie, but a moist, rich, creamy delight. It is served with a salad of choice greens in an herb dressing and is given color with a bit of grated egg. The homemade dessert du jour features Linzertorte on Monday, strudel on Tuesday, etc. You'll find yourself going every day just to see if the next can be as good as the last. There are a variety of coffees available to add to your enjoyment: German filter, Greek mocha, espresso, Viennese, etc. If sweets aren't for you, try the cheeses: Brie with horseradish cream and cantaloupe, or Gorgonzola with banana.
We hate to be too effusive in our praise of the Old Europe, not because we fear that Ms. Schreiber won't live up to our touts but because we hate to see her establishment overrun and perhaps pushed too rapidly beyond her capacities. Therefore, we ask that you go in small groups and give her name only to your most discriminating friends.
SCHWARTZBERG'S: 2617 Chenevert (222-1772), Monday through Saturday 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Among the most economical restaurants in every way is Schwartzberg's Not much has been spent on the building itself either inside or out and you won't have to spend much on the food. Here in seen-better-days surroundings you join a host of regulars who have been coming to Schwartzberg's since Montrose was suburbia.
To participate you must first get in the line that is forming in front of the meat counter and moving along slowly toward the steam table. As you move forward, make your selection from a huge blackboard menu. Having reached the steam table, give your order to the butcher-baker-sandwich maker, and then abandon your food to the system while you find a table. Big Brother (or is it Sister) knows, and the waitress miraculously puts the right plate before the right mouth regardless of numbers in the party, table changes, or musical chairs. Not being regulars, we were agape when a waitress returned to us a ball point pen that we had left on our table several weeks earlier.
The food here leans to kosher with small unfortunate sorties into Creole. The knackwurst and sauerkraut, the pea soup, and the duck are all worth your gastronomic attention.
AUTRY HOUSE: 6265 Main (in the Esplanade) (524-3168), Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m
Autry House is salvation for those in the Medical Center-Rice area. Stranded between Main and Fannin and looking like a stuccoed wing of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church, Autry House hosts an amazing variety of neighborhood folks: doctors, nurses, cleric Montessori teachers, Rice professors and students, zoo personnel, businesmen, and hungry local housewives. Line up for soup, simple meat dishes, vegtables, desserts, coffee, and tea. Then take your tray to a table in the high ceilmged dining area. (A stage, choir loft, and theatrical lights attest to Autry House's "other" life as Roger Glade's weekend Playwrights' Showcase.) The fare is basic, but you won't find a thriftier, more cosmopolitan spot on the Fannm-Main esplanade.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: 1001 Bissonnet (526-1361), Sunday through Saturday noon-2 p.m.
The Museum of Fine Arts' new addition by Mies van der Rohe includes a small, pleasant tearoom. Here in a magnificent building housing the great names in art, you can enjoy a sandwich or cup of soup while perhaps rubbing shoulders with visiting museum directors and artists.
Lunch is served through a window and has a homemade appearance and taste. Pea soup has been exceptional and the chicken salad sandwich has had more chicken than salad. Our only negative message to the management is that they have missed a golden opportunity in the naming of the dishes. How about Chillida chili, Audubon chicken salad della Robbia fruit salad, or Giuseppe Arcimboldo vegetable soup?
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"JUSTICE FOR ALL: Staff, campers at Camp Moshava take social justice to heart"- Baltimore Jewish Times
3/10/13 by Simone Ellin- While most Jewish summer camps share a commitment to the transmission of Jewish values such as tikkun olam, sustainable living, social justice and inclusivity, Habonim Dror Camp Moshava may be in a class by itself.
A Jewish Socialist Zionist youth movement founded 78 years ago, Habonim Dror has seven kibbutz-style summer camps across North America. Camp Moshava, affectionately known as "Mosh," engages youngsters in typical camp activities such as swimming, sports, creative arts, Shabbat programming, Israeli dancing and campfires, but it also immerses them in an environment where they "live" the values of kibbutz life — cooperation, shared labor, pioneering, social justice, Zionism and Judaism. In this spirit, campers take part in dailyavodah (community chores), tzofiut(outdoor living), anafim (projects) andsadnaot (educational programs).
Hebrew language is integrated into the campers' daily lives, and leadership development is an important part of the camp milieu, with all members of the community encouraged to take on leadership roles. Each individual is valued for his or her unique qualities and talents as well as his or her contributions to the community.
Avi Edelman of Silver Spring, 23, has been Mosh's director or rosh for the past two summers. "I've been involved with Mosh for 12 or 13 years," says Edelman. "I grew up there as a camper and a counselor ran the junior counselor program, and then I became the director. What's true for me is true for most of the staff: Attending Mosh as a child played a big part in my identity development and my commitment to social justice."
With guidance from the camp's education director and input from campers, the counselors — all Mosh alumni — create activities and informal learning opportunities for the community based on their own social justice concerns and interests.
"Each summer, the staff creates a curriculum focusing on what they're passionate about. When they're passionate, it really translates to the kids," says Jen Silber, Mosh's new executive director, who is also an alumnus and a camp parent. "There's a lot of ruach at camp."
Sharon Krever-Weisbaum of Canton is a Camp Moshava board member whose husband and three grown sons grew up at the camp. "It's a really powerful environment for kids. My boys loved the Israel focus, the politics, the youth leadership and empowerment. There's adult supervision and involvement but not in the traditional way; the adults are sort of behind the scenes."
Although they're bunked by age, Krever-Weisbaum says that part of each day is spent in mixed age groups. "I liked that as a parent. There was a lot of mentoring; role modeling and nurturing that went on."
"It's informal education infused with social activism and tikkun olam," Silber explains. "Counselors might facilitate a discussion or activity about gender identity or Israeli social issues or consuming media with a critical eye. It's not dogmatic; we're not pushing an agenda. We're just teaching them to analyze social issues. It's a safe place for people to share different opinions, and when they do, we have a thoughtful discussion about it."
"Every session we take the kids out of camp to do a project," Silber adds. "They might volunteer at a soup kitchen or work with adults with developmental delays. During the year, our Noar Tzedek group [an arm of Moshava's year-round social justice programming], continues to work on social action projects.
"This year, the group chose to work on the passage of the Dream Act and the marriage-equality act. They studied the issues and made action plans. They were so excited to see both laws pass after all their work. A group of campers from the D.C. area are involved in the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Challenge. The kids have to try living on $5 per day – the average food stamps benefit. This semester, they'll pick another project.
Moshava's emphasis on social justice is not limited to projects outside the camp. The community itself has taken a significantly progressive stance on LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning) issues, making Mosh an extremely safe and comfortable environment for children, teens and families regardless of gender identification and sexual orientation.
"We provide a lot of gender-empowerment education," says Edelman. "People are receiving messages early on from parents, schools and the media about what a man or a woman should be, and at a time of life when kids are confronted with these messages, we try to provide a safe space to process them. We have "safe space" signs [indicating that discrimination toward LGBTQ people won't be tolerated] around camp, and each summer we have a Take Back the Night program [based on the international march and rally that raises awareness about sexual violence] and a gender-empowerment evening."
In fact, Camp Moshava received the highest rating from the Human Rights Campaign's Jewish Organizational Equality Index, a tool that evaluates organizations' programs, policies and practices for their inclusiveness of LGBTQ people. Mosh was highly rated for inclusion, because it uses gender-neutral language on camp health and registration forms and provides age-appropriate programming on gender identity, and for its efforts to create safe spaces for all campers and families.
Of the 94 agencies serving Jewish youth surveyed, the HRC also found that Moshava was one of only five that had an anti-bullying policy that specifically mentioned sexual orientation and gender identity. To make camp even more comfortable for transgender or shy community members, Moshava soon will break ground on a new bathhouse to include a gender-neutral toilet, changing area and shower.
"Because Mosh is not affiliated with any one sect of Judaism, it is also a comfortable place for interfaith and agnostic families, who want their children to learn Hebrew and develop an appreciation for Israeli culture," says Silber.
Krever-Weisbaum says that the new policies and initiatives for LGBTQ campers and staff are all part of Mosh's emphasis on making everyone comfortable.
"We were already doing many of these things, but now they've been formalized. Mosh is a very accepting place for kids with different strengths and talents," she says. "I have three sons, two nephews and one niece who all have very different personalities. All of them thrived at this camp. It's not one size fits all. It's for all different types of kids – they all find their place."
Silver agrees: "This is an environment where we celebrate what's special about each camper. There's no pressure to look or act a certain way. Each kid is given the message that he or she is valued for his or her unique qualities and his or her inner beauty. "I'm not saying there aren't problems between kids. But if we find out that someone is being bullied, we support the kid who is being bullied, and we also work with the kid who is doing the bullying to see what is causing the behavior. Whenever possible, we try to make it a growth experience for both of them."
"Almost 100 percent of the staff grew up here, so there's an ingrained standard of how to create an inclusive community," says Edelman.
At Camp Moshava, he adds, "a big goal is meeting the needs of each individual. Our mission is to create a community of engagement and love, where every camper can be their truest self."
Habonim Dror Camp Moshava is located at 615 Cherry Hill Road in Street, Md. The camp's year-round office is in Rockville, Md., at 6101 Montrose Road.
For more information and registration, email Jen@CampMosh.org, call 301-348-7339 or visit campmosh.org.
http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/article/justice_for_all/


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Nordic racing | Local Far West products named to World Cup teams
Sports | December 6, 2012
Mark Nadell
Courtesy Mark Nadell / www.macbethgraphics.comMatt Gelso, a former Far West Nordic skier and 2006 Truckee High grad, was named to the World Cup racing team for the upcoming FIS events in Canada. Fellow Far West products Russell Kennedy and Chelsea Holmes also were named to their respective World Cup teams. Kennedy has dual citizenship and skis for Canada.
In its history, Far West Nordic has produced many skiers who have gone on to success on the college and national stages. However, one aspect that has eluded skiers from California and Nevada has been on the international front, at the very highest level of skiing.
Although some Juniors have been successful enough to race internationally, for example at the World Juniors Competition and in the junior Scandinavian Cup, Far West has produced only one skier in memory (John Downing in 1999) who has been able to race on the World Cup circuit.
For the first time in over 20 years, that situation has been rectified – in triplicate.
Named to the World Cup racing teams for the upcoming FIS events in Canada (Quebec and Canmore) are former Far West Nordic skiers Matthew Gelso and Chelsea Holmes (racing for the United States from the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation) and Russell Kennedy (racing for Canada from the Alberta World Cup Academy).
Gelso and Kennedy are both graduates of Truckee High School (Classes of 2006 and 2009, respectively), and were both top Juniors racing for Auburn Ski Club, with many top placings at the Cross Country Ski Junior National Championships (Junior Olympics).
Gelso went on to race successfully at the University of Colorado (including an NCAA National Championship in 2010), and is now associated with the Sun Valley Foundation Gold Team. Kennedy took an alternate route, choosing to use his dual citizenship and has been training in Canmore for the Alberta World Cup team.
Holmes, although a native of Girdwood, Alaska, came to Far West via the University of Nevada Nordic Ski Team, where she impressive results on the NCAA circuit during her four winters there. After skiing for the Far West Nordic Farm Team and Sugar Bowl Academy for two seasons, Holmes has gone on to ski for two years with the Sun Valley Gold Team and has achieved national success in numerous races.
The Canadian World Cup races will be held this weekend, Dec. 7 and 8, in downtown Quebec, and in Canmore, Alberta, on Dec. 13, 15 and 16.
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Pick's Theorem
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Pick's theorem gives a way to find the area of polygons in a plane whose endpoints have integer vertices.
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Lattice points are points whose coordinates are both integers, such as (1,2),(−4,11)(1,2), (-4, 11)(1,2),(−4,11), and (0,5)(0,5)(0,5). The set of all lattice points forms a grid. A lattice polygon is a shape made of straight lines whose vertices are all lattice points and Pick's theorem gives a formula for the area of a lattice polygon.
First, observe that for any lattice polygon PPP, the polygon contains some lattice points on its boundary edges (((including the lattice points that are the vertices of P)P)P) and may contain some lattice points in its interior (not counting the points on the boundary). Let
B(P)= number of points on the boundary of the polygonI(P)= number of points in the interior of the polygon.\begin{aligned} B(P) &= \mbox{ number of points on the boundary of the polygon}\\ I(P) &= \mbox{ number of points in the interior of the polygon}. \end{aligned}B(P)I(P)= number of points on the boundary of the polygon= number of points in the interior of the polygon.
Let PPP be a lattice polygon, let B(P)B(P)B(P) be the points on the boundary of the polygon, and let I(P)I(P)I(P) be the number of points in the interior of the polygon. Then
(Area of the polygon P)=I(P)+12B(P)−1.(\mbox{Area of the polygon } P) = I(P) + \frac{1}{2} B(P) -1.(Area of the polygon P)=I(P)+21B(P)−1.
Notice that Pick's theorem applies to any polygon, not only convex polygons.
For a rectangle RRR of length lll and height h,h,h, there are B(R)=2l+2hB(R) = 2l + 2hB(R)=2l+2h points along the boundary of the rectangle, and I(R)=(l−1)(h−1)=lh−l−h+1I(R) = (l-1)(h-1) = lh - l - h + 1I(R)=(l−1)(h−1)=lh−l−h+1 points in the interior of the rectangle. Applying Pick's theorem gives
Area(R)=I(R)+12B(R)−1=lh−l−h+1+12(2l+2h)−1=lh−l−h+1+l+h−1=lh.\begin{aligned} \mbox{Area}(R) &= I(R) + \frac{1}{2} B(R) - 1\\ &= lh - l - h + 1 + \frac{1}{2} (2l + 2h) - 1\\ &= lh - l - h + 1 + l + h - 1\\ &= lh. \end{aligned}Area(R)=I(R)+21B(R)−1=lh−l−h+1+21(2l+2h)−1=lh−l−h+1+l+h−1=lh.
Without Pick's theorem, we might calculate the area of a lattice polygon by decomposing the lattice polygon into triangles, computing the area of each triangle using the sine rule, and then summing the resulting triangle areas to obtain the area of the lattice polygon. As a powerful tool, the Shoelace theorem works side by side finding the area of any figure given the coordinates. Pick's theorem gives a way to find the area of a lattice polygon without performing all of these calculations. Pick's theorem also implies the following interesting corollaries:
The area of a lattice polygon is always an integer or half an integer.
Proof: By Pick's theorem, the area of a lattice polygon PPP is given by Area(P)=I(P)+12B(P)−1. \mbox{Area}(P) = I(P) + \frac{1}{2} B(P) - 1.Area(P)=I(P)+21B(P)−1. In a lattice polygon, the number of points in the interior of PPP and the number of points on the boundary of PPP are both integers. Then Area(P)=I(P)+12B(P)−1 \mbox{Area}(P) = I(P) + \frac{1}{2} B(P) - 1Area(P)=I(P)+21B(P)−1 is an integer if B(P)B(P)B(P) is even and is half an integer if B(P)B(P)B(P) is odd. □_\square□
It is impossible to draw an equilateral triangle as a lattice polygon.
Proof: Suppose we could draw an equilateral triangle as a lattice polygon with lattice vertices AAA, BBB and CCC with side length sss. By distance formula and Pythagorean theorem, s2s^2s2 represents the square of distance between any of these 2 vertices, and must be an integer. Also note that the area of an equilateral triangle can be expressed as Area=s234 \text{Area} = \frac{s^2 \sqrt3}4 Area=4s23, thus the area must be irrational.
On the other hand, the area of △ABC\triangle ABC△ABC must be an integer or half an integer by the previous theorem, which means the area must be rational, a contradiction. Therefore, it is impossible to draw an equilateral triangle as a lattice polygon. □_\square□
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An integer lattice point is a point with coordinates (n,m) (n, m) (n,m), where nnn and mmm are integers. As NNN ranges from 1 to 905, what is the maximum number of integer lattice points in the interior of a triangle with vertices (0,0), (0,0),(0,0), (N,907−N),(N, 907-N),(N,907−N), and (N+1,907−N−1)?(N+1, 907-N-1)?(N+1,907−N−1)?
Note: The point (0,0) (0,0) (0,0) is not in the interior of any of the triangles described above.
We can prove this using the following sequence of steps:
It is true for rectangles whose sides are parallel to the axes: This is obvious. An a×b a \times b a×b rectangle has 2a+2b2a+2b2a+2b points on the boundary, (a−1)(b−1) (a-1)(b-1) (a−1)(b−1) points in the interior, and an area of (a−1)(b−1)+12(2a+2b)−1=ab (a-1)(b-1) + \frac{1}{2} (2a+2b) - 1 = ab (a−1)(b−1)+21(2a+2b)−1=ab.
It is true for right triangles whose bases are parallel to the axes: We can double the triangle to form a rectangle and track the points that lie on the hypotenuse.
It is true for an arbitrary triangle: We take the rectangle whose sides are parallel to the axes that contains this triangle and then subtract off the right triangles whose bases are parallel to the axes.
It is true for any polygon: We triangulate the polygon.
The main idea here is to show that the sum and difference of polygons still obey Pick's theorem, which is what allows us to glue/detach triangles.
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Q: When catching a general exception, how can I determine the original exception type? When catching an exception in .NET, you can have as many type-specific exception blocks as needed. But I usually try to have at least one "general" exception catch block. But is there a way to get the type of the "real" exception thrown that is caught by the generic exception handler, perhaps using reflection?
For example, if I have
Catch ex As System.ServiceModel.FaultException(Of InvalidUser)
     ProcessModuleLoadException(Me, ex)
Catch ex As System.ServiceModel.FaultException(Of SQLExceptions)
     ProcessModuleLoadException(Me, ex)
Catch ex As System.ServiceModel.FaultException(Of DataNullReference)
     ProcessModuleLoadException(Me, ex)
Catch ex As System.ServiceModel.FaultException
     ProcessModuleLoadException(Me, ex)
Catch ex As Exception
     ProcessModuleLoadException(Me, ex)

(I have broken them out for debugging, even though I do the same thing with each exception).
In short, in "Catch ex As System.ServiceModel.FaultException" I want to examine "ex" and get the base "real" type of the exception, either as a type (mostly for debugging so I can add another catch block) or as a string (for logging).
But, inside the Catch block, "ex" has already been cast to it's parent class, so any original properties and information about the original exception seem to be lost.
Suggestions?

A: Even though the Exception has been cast to its parent class, you can still call GetType  to obtain its underlying concrete type (pardon my C#):
try {
    // Do stuff
}
catch(Exception ex) {
    Type exceptionType = ex.GetType();
}

If this is just for diagnostic purposes, you can log ex.ToString(), which includes the underlying type by default (in addition to the stack trace, etc.) like this:
System.ArgumentException: lastName
   at Tests.Program.Main(String[] args) in ...\Program.cs:line 22

A: .GetType will still return its actual type.

A: This only a slight modification from Jeff's answer:
I was looking for something like what Chris is describing, and specifically I wanted to handle the original exception after it had been thrown again by a few generic exceptions, and have only one handler that I could call for all entry points. And since re-throwing an exception will wrap it with its own exception type, we need to add loop to go through the inner exceptions, and check the first exception thrown.
So here's the code I ended up with:
Public Sub HandelException(myEx As Exception)
    Try
        Dim InnerEx As Exception = myEx
        Do Until InnerEx.InnerException Is Nothing
            InnerEx = InnerEx.InnerException
        Loop

        If InnerEx.GetType = GetType(Exception1) Then
            'Handle exception type 1
        ElseIf InnerEx.GetType = GetType(Exception2) Then
            'Handle exception type 2
        ElseIf InnerEx.GetType = GetType(Exception3) Then
            'Handle exception type 3
        ElseIf InnerEx.GetType = GetType(Exception4) Then
            'Handle exception type 4
        ElseIf InnerEx.GetType = GetType(Exception) Then
            'Handle generic system exception
        End If
    Catch ex As Exception
        'Handel unlikely exception in exception handler LOL.
    End Try
End Sub

The advantage of this is that you could have an extensive range of exception types you handle throughout the program, with lots of handling code, but you could handle them all in one place.
I know this reply is a little late for this question, but I thought I would share, if perhaps to help anyone looking for the same thing I was looking for.


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The New Map of the Middle East
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The January/February 2008 cover of The Atlantic magazine.
Read the article here: The New Map of the Middle East
The British-French Sykes-Picot agreement that carved up the remnants of the Ottoman Empire after WWI is now breaking down.
This is as it should be.
The artificial lines they drew on the map back then did not succeed in creating functional, successful states.
An obvious result of the changes now taking place is the dismemberment of Iraq and the recreation of Kurdistan.
The Kurds, 50 million strong, have for generations been the largest nation in the world without its own state.
Back in 1916, the British and the French carved it into pieces that were incorporated into modern day Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq.
The old legends says that King Solomon sent emissaries to Europe to bring back 500 beautiful European women.
When they arrived, king Solomon had died, but the women were all married to prominent Jews, and their children (who were not true Jews, since Jewish orthodoxy requires that a Jew must be born from a Jewish mother) formed the basis for the tribes that today are known as Kurds.
Modern science backs up the legends, in that DNA testing has confirmed that the Kurds most likely originate from millennium old European and Jewish stock.
They are not Arabs.
The Israelis have been supporting the Kurds in their struggle for independence for more than 50 years.
This has included translating modern schoolbooks for all grades into Kurdish, and supplying them to the Kurds.
It also includes military training for the Kurds by elite Israeli paratroopers.
The Israelis have also trained and supplied Kurdish units with firearms, anti-tank weapons and anti-aircraft artillery.
There is very strong support for the Kurds in Israel.
The greater Jerusalem metropolitan area is home to more than 100,000 Kurdish Jews.
Iraq: Kurdish president proposes independence referendum
The fighting in the middle East will go on for many more generations.
But in the end, the national borders will in all likelihood coalesce around the ethnic and religious groups that are fighting each other.
This would be similar in principle to what happened back in the 1990s with the territories within the former Yugoslavia.
The middle East will then probably end up looking like this:
(This post was last modified: 07-03-2014, 06:24 PM by velvetfog.)
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
The Iraqi government, led by al-Maliki, has now pushed the Kurds a step closer to independent statehood.
Al-Maliki yesterday accused the Kurds of sheltering ISIL fighters.
The result of this has been that the Kurdish ministers and officials of the Iraqi state have declared al-Maliki to be hysterical, and have withdrawn their services.
The Kurds have also found out that the Iraqi government had given their Shiite Arab oilfield workers orders to sabotage and destroy oilfield facilities if they were forced to withdraw as a result of ISIL attacks.
Concern over this has resulted in Kurdistan's army, the Peshmerga, to occupy and take control of the Kirkut and Bai Hassan oilfield production facilities yesterday.
This adds 400,000 barrels per day to Kurdistan's oil production capacity, enough to finance a viable state.
The Kurds are now planning to hold two referendums.
The first one will be held in the city of Kirkut, to decide if the city wants to become part of Kurdistan.
The second referendum, to be held later, is the independence referendum for all of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Iraqi Kurds Warn Baghdad While Moving Toward Independence Vote
Iraqi Kurdistan's Barzani presses for independence at parliament
Why Israel is backing Kurdish independence
It's the oil, stupid! #IraqatWar
Who won Iraq? #IraqatWar
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The defendant pled guilty to driving while intoxicated, second offense, possession of marijuana and felony hit and run. The trial court sentenced the defendant to a maximum sentence of five years, but the court also stated that it would reconsider the sentence if the defendant found an in-house treatment center to attend after serving one full year in detention.
The trial court's written order under appeal appears to state that the trial court reserved jurisdiction to act on the defendant's sentence after he served a year in the Virginia Department of Corrections. However, the trial court lacked authority to modify or suspend the sentence once he was transferred to the Department. The presence of an ultra vires provision in a sentencing order renders the entire order void ab initio. Accordingly, the sentencing order is a nullity.
Cox v. Commonwealth (U), No. 171380, Mar. 28, 2019. SCV (per curiam) from CAV.


De Caraïben? Nope, de Outer Hebrides.
Deze foto werd genomen vanop de top van Ben Nevis, de hoogste berg in wat nu nog Groot-Brittannië is.
5. Dunnottar Castle of Dùn Fhoithear. Of Winterfell?
9. Fingal's Cave, Isle of Staffa.
11. Dugald Stewart Monument, Calton Hill, Edinburgh.
12. The Fairy Pools, Isle of Skye.
15. Buachaille Etive Mòr, Highlands.
16. Old Man of Hoy, Orkney.
17. Callanish Standing Stones, Isle of Lewis.
18. Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe.
19. The Red Cuillin (Red Hills), Isle of Skye.
21. The Three Sisters, Highlands.
22. Tobermory, Isle of Mull.
23. Ring of Brodgar, Orkney.
24. Bow Fiddle Rock, Moray.
25. Glenfinnan Viaduct, Highlands. Jawel, de trein naar Hogwarts.
27. The Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye.
33. St Cuthbert's graveyard, Edinburgh.
35. River Affric, tussen Loch Affric en Loch Beinn a' Mheadhoin.
39. Bass Rock, Firth of Forth.
41. Castle Stalker (het kasteel uit Mont Python and the Holy Grail).
42. The Quiraing, Trotternish ridge, Skye.
43. The mighty Suilven, Inverpolly.
44. Camusdarach (waar Local Hero werd gefilmd).
45. Crail harbour in de East Neuk of Fife.
48. The Secret Waterfall, Argyll.
49. Strome Castle, Loch Carron.
51. Loch Lochy, Great Glen.
54. Seilebost Beach, Outer Hebrides.


Thanks to the author of an anonymous comment, who pointed out that Brill is advertising a new book by Bart Ehman entitled Studies in the Textual Criticism of the New Testament. See here. Before we all go out and purchase a copy (at just 139 USD or 105 Euros) it might be worth calculating how much of it we each individually possess.
I paste below the Brill advertising with a comment by Eldon Jay Epp. Thereto I append my own comments.
From the Brill blurb and Epp's comments it is not at all clear whether there is any substantial new material in this volume. Moreover, according to the Brill website Ehrman and Metzger are still the series editors for the series New Testament Tools and Studies. Ehrman may therefore have used his editor's prerogative to commission some of his own essays for republishing. The Schaffer Lectures would cost $32 (here) but the Kenneth W. Clark lectures are freely available: Lecture 1; Lecture 2. What we need is a contents page so that we can identify the 15 previously published essays.
Perhaps it's my computer (or connection), but I'm unable to connect to the link for the Kenneth W. Clark lectures. Not sure if anyone else is having this problem.
I've just accessed them both again using the blog's links.
They are working fine for me as well.
Pete, I don't see any particular reason to be so churlish about Bart publishing a collection of his essays. It seems a perfectly plausible activity.
Sorry to hear that I am being heard as 'churlish'. I certainly have no objection to author's publishing collections of their essays, nor even to series editors taking advantage of their position to do so. However, value for money is still an issue for consumers.
The Americanisation of the Bible?
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Early Wittgenstein) - Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics does not ascribe ontological status to his grammatical categories. Maybe that's a problem.
Greek for a week – 1 John 2:28-29 - This week's Greek for a week looks at all the verbal forms in these two verses, parses and translates them.


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Q: Large Nested Defaults in TypeScript? I have code similar to the following:
export type Bar = {
    baz: number
};

export type FooConstructorArguments = {
    config: Bar
};

class Foo {
    construction({
        config: {
            baz = 1
        }
    }: FooConstructorArguments) {
        let c = config;
        let b = baz;
    }
}

But neither config nor baz are accessible.  What is the proper way to utilize nested typed argument defaults within TypeScript?

A: baz is accessible. config isn't because it's just part of the destructuring path to baz, not a target of the destructuring pattern. If you want both config and baz, you'll need to just pick out config in the parameter list, then pick baz from it after:
class Foo {
    construction({ config }: FooConstructorArguments) {
        const { baz = 1 } = config;
        let c = config;
        let b = baz;
    }
}

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or if you don't really need baz and just need b:
class Foo {
    construction({ config }: FooConstructorArguments) {
        let c = config;
        let b = config.baz ?? 1;
    }
}

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Side note: I've left construction in the above in case it's meant to be a method, but suspect you meant constructor.