Heartbreaking video shows 'suicidal' deaf pensioner, 77, describe his desperate loneliness as he watches other residents talk and laugh at care home where he cannot make himself understood
by Rod Ardehali For Mailonline- John Skinner wants to be sent to a specialist home for deaf OAPs in Somerset
- The former carpenter and joiner, 77, cannot make himself understood to others
- Mr Skinner, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease, says he feels suicidal at times
Heartbreaking video shows a 'suicidal' deaf pensioner describe his desperate loneliness as he watches other residents talk and laugh at a care home where he cannot make himself understood.
John Skinner, 77, wants to be sent to one of only three specialist homes for deaf OAPs in the UK but his local council have refused the request to move him from Oak Court Residential Care Home, Wolverhampton.
The former carpenter and joiner, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease, has been in the home since September and has been feeling suicidal because of his loneliness, his son said.
The father of two and grandfather of seven cannot live at home with his wife, Linda, 72, who is also deaf because he keeps falling over and she cannot hear when this happens.
But a lack of cash means there is no place for him at a specialist home in Bath, Somerset, 105 miles away.
His furious son posted the video to social media with the caption: 'In talks with Wolves Council on my dad's nursing care.
'The council believes in integrating deaf people into mainstream care services. Seeing my dad like this breaks my heart. There are more deaf people who are in the same situation.'
In the clip John says: 'I'm lonely. No one to talk to. I watch people laugh and talk. I have to watch and wait for my moment to ask for a drink.
'I can't say to staff 'I'd like a little more or less in my drink'. I try to teach staff BSL [British Sign Language] but they don't understand.'
Professor Jemina Napier, Chair of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, wrote under the post saying: 'This is sad to see - hard for your dad and you and your family.
'My deaf grandfather was in a signing nursing home with other deaf people and deaf and hearing staff that could sign and it made such a difference to him and to us. '@WolvesCouncil do the right thing by the Skinner family'.'
John's son, Robert Skinner said today: 'My dad tried to commit suicide - he is very lonely. The council attribute my dad's mental health as related to Parkinson's. We link it to both social isolation and Parkinson's.
'For my dad at the moment it is like serving a prison sentence. He sits there watching people talk, laugh, reading the situation and has no idea of when they will stop talking so he can ask the staff for a drink.
'The care home have not the funding to provide an interpreter or employ someone fluent in BSL.
'They care for my dad but cobbled together a service that has very limited communication. It's gestures. The gestures are not always mutually understood.'
Robert explained that Labour-run City of Wolverhampton Council did provide the home with extra funding to help them cope and learn how to care for John but this only lasted 14 weeks.
He added: 'We want basic care needs to be met, and this can only be done in by a service where sign language is the primary language.
'People expect deaf people to make adjustments not normally ask of others - but they don't have to live with it.
'Our argument is that we cannot do anything about the cost. It is not our fault there is no joined up action to improve nursing care for deaf people. It is desperately needed.
'It would make such a big difference to the isolation of deaf people around the UK.
'Wolverhampton will not pay for the deaf specialist service. In their view it is too expensive.'
MailOnline has contacted Wolverhampton Council for comment.


| contrasts {stats} | R Documentation |
Set and view the contrasts associated with a factor.
contrasts(x, contrasts = TRUE, sparse = FALSE) contrasts(x, how.many) <- value
x |
a factor or a logical variable. |
contrasts |
logical. See ‘Details’. |
sparse |
logical indicating if the result should be sparse
(of class |
how.many |
How many contrasts should be made. Defaults to one
less than the number of levels of |
value |
either a numeric matrix (or a sparse or dense matrix of a
class extending |
If contrasts are not set for a factor the default functions from
options("contrasts")
are used.
A logical vector x
is converted into a two-level factor with
levels c(FALSE, TRUE)
(regardless of which levels occur in the
variable).
The argument contrasts
is ignored if x
has a matrix
contrasts
attribute set. Otherwise if contrasts = TRUE
it is passed to a contrasts function such as
contr.treatment
and if contrasts = FALSE
an identity matrix is returned. Suitable functions have a first
argument which is the character vector of levels, a named argument
contrasts
(always called with contrasts = TRUE
) and
optionally a logical argument sparse
.
If value
supplies more than how.many
contrasts, the
first how.many
are used. If too few are supplied, a suitable
contrast matrix is created by extending value
after ensuring
its columns are contrasts (orthogonal to the constant term) and not
collinear.
Chambers, J. M. and Hastie, T. J. (1992) Statistical models. Chapter 2 of Statistical Models in S eds J. M. Chambers and T. J. Hastie, Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
C
,
contr.helmert
,
contr.poly
,
contr.sum
,
contr.treatment
;
glm
,
aov
,
lm
.
utils::example(factor) fff <- ff[, drop = TRUE] # reduce to 5 levels. contrasts(fff) # treatment contrasts by default contrasts(C(fff, sum)) contrasts(fff, contrasts = FALSE) # the 5x5 identity matrix contrasts(fff) <- contr.sum(5); contrasts(fff) # set sum contrasts contrasts(fff, 2) <- contr.sum(5); contrasts(fff) # set 2 contrasts # supply 2 contrasts, compute 2 more to make full set of 4. contrasts(fff) <- contr.sum(5)[, 1:2]; contrasts(fff) ## using sparse contrasts: % useful, once model.matrix() works with these : ffs <- fff contrasts(ffs) <- contr.sum(5, sparse = TRUE)[, 1:2]; contrasts(ffs) stopifnot(all.equal(ffs, fff)) contrasts(ffs) <- contr.sum(5, sparse = TRUE); contrasts(ffs)


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1-Wire API for .NET Version 4.00
|
Class to provide read/write cache services to a 1-Wire memory device. More...
Public Member Functions | |
| MemoryCache (OneWireContainer device) | |
| Construct a new memory cache for provided 1-wire container device. | |
| MemoryCache (OneWireContainer[] devices) | |
| Construct a new memory cache for provided 1-wire container device. | |
| int | getNumberPages () |
| Gets the number of pages in this cache. | |
| int | getNumberPagesInBank (int bankNum) |
| Gets the number of pages in the specified bank number. | |
| int | getPageOffsetForDevice (int deviceNum) |
| Gets the page number of the first page on the specified device. | |
| int | getMaxPacketDataLength () |
| Gets the maximum number of bytes for data in each page. | |
| boolean | isWriteOnce () |
| Check if this memory device is write-once. | |
| int | readPagePacket (int page, byte[] readBuf, int offset) throws OneWireIOException, OneWireException |
| Read a page packet. | |
| void | writePagePacket (int page, byte[] writeBuf, int offset, int buflen) throws OneWireIOException, OneWireException |
| Write a page packet into the cache. | |
| void | sync () throws OneWireIOException, OneWireException |
| Flush the pages written back to the 1-Wire device. | |
| void | addOwner (Object tobj) |
| Add an owner to this memory cache. | |
| void | removeOwner (Object tobj) |
| Remove the specified owner of this memory cache. | |
| boolean | noOwners () |
| Check to see if there on no owners of this memory cache. | |
| void | removeWriteOpen (String filePath) |
| Remove the provided filePath from the list of files currently opened to write. | |
| boolean | isOpenedToWrite (String filePath, boolean addToList) |
| Check to see if the provided filePath is currently opened to write. | |
| boolean | handlePageBitmap () |
| Check to see if this memory cache should handle the page bitmap. | |
| void | markPageUsed (int page) |
| Mark the specified page as used in the page bitmap. | |
| boolean | freePage (int page) |
| free the specified page as being un-used in the page bitmap | |
| int | getFirstFreePage () |
| Get the first free page from the page bitmap. | |
| int | getNextFreePage () |
| Get the next free page from the page bitmap. | |
| int | getNumberFreePages () throws OneWireException |
| Get the total number of free pages in this Filesystem. | |
| int | getBitMapPageNumber () |
| Gets the page number used in the remote page bitmap in an OTP device. | |
| int | getBitMapNumberOfPages () |
| Get the number of pages used for the remote page bitmap in an OTP device. | |
| PagedMemoryBank | getMemoryBankForPage (int page) |
| Get's the memory bank object for the specified page. | |
| int | getLocalPage (int page) |
| Get's the local page number on the memory bank object for the specified page. | |
| void | clearLastPageRead () |
| Clears the lastPageRead global so that a readPage will not try to continue where the last page left off. |
Class to provide read/write cache services to a 1-Wire memory device.
Writes are only performed when this classes sync()
method is called. Provides page bitmap services for OTP devices.
Objectives:
| MemoryCache | ( | OneWireContainer | device | ) |
Construct a new memory cache for provided 1-wire container device.
| device | 1-Wire container |
| MemoryCache | ( | OneWireContainer[] | devices | ) |
Construct a new memory cache for provided 1-wire container device.
| device | 1-Wire container |
| void addOwner | ( | Object | tobj | ) |
Add an owner to this memory cache.
This will be tracked for later cleanup.
| tobj | owner of instance |
| void clearLastPageRead | ( | ) |
Clears the lastPageRead global so that a readPage will not try to continue where the last page left off.
This should be called anytime exclusive access to the 1-Wire canot be guaranteed.
| boolean freePage | ( | int | page | ) |
free the specified page as being un-used in the page bitmap
| page | number to mark as un-used |
| int getBitMapNumberOfPages | ( | ) |
Get the number of pages used for the remote page bitmap in an OTP device.
| int getBitMapPageNumber | ( | ) |
Gets the page number used in the remote page bitmap in an OTP device.
| int getFirstFreePage | ( | ) |
Get the first free page from the page bitmap.
| int getLocalPage | ( | int | page | ) |
Get's the local page number on the memory bank object for the specified page.
This is significant if the Filesystem spans memory banks on the same or different devices.
| int getMaxPacketDataLength | ( | ) |
Gets the maximum number of bytes for data in each page.
| PagedMemoryBank getMemoryBankForPage | ( | int | page | ) |
Get's the memory bank object for the specified page.
This is significant if the Filesystem spans memory banks on the same or different devices.
| int getNextFreePage | ( | ) |
Get the next free page from the page bitmap.
| int getNumberFreePages | ( | ) | throws OneWireException |
Get the total number of free pages in this Filesystem.
| OneWireException | when an IO exception occurs |
| int getNumberPages | ( | ) |
Gets the number of pages in this cache.
| int getNumberPagesInBank | ( | int | bankNum | ) |
Gets the number of pages in the specified bank number.
| bankNum | bank number to retrieve number of pages |
| int getPageOffsetForDevice | ( | int | deviceNum | ) |
Gets the page number of the first page on the specified device.
If the device number is not valid then return 0.
| deviceNum | device number to retrieve page offset |
| boolean handlePageBitmap | ( | ) |
Check to see if this memory cache should handle the page bitmap.
| boolean isOpenedToWrite | ( | String | filePath, |
| boolean | addToList | ||
| ) |
Check to see if the provided filePath is currently opened to write.
Optionally add it to the list if it not already there.
| filePath | file to check to see if opened to write |
| addToList | true to add file to list if not present |
| boolean isWriteOnce | ( | ) |
Check if this memory device is write-once.
If this is true then the page bitmap facilities in this class will be used.
| void markPageUsed | ( | int | page | ) |
Mark the specified page as used in the page bitmap.
| page | number to mark as used |
| boolean noOwners | ( | ) |
Check to see if there on no owners of this memory cache.
| int readPagePacket | ( | int | page, |
| byte[] | readBuf, | ||
| int | offset | ||
| ) | throws OneWireIOException, OneWireException |
Read a page packet.
If the page is available in the cache then return that data.
| page | page to read |
| readBuf | buffer to place the data in |
| offset | offset into the read buffer |
| OneWireException | when the adapter is not setup properly |
| OneWireIOException | when an 1-Wire IO error occures |
| void removeOwner | ( | Object | tobj | ) |
Remove the specified owner of this memory cache.
| tobj | owner of instance |
| void removeWriteOpen | ( | String | filePath | ) |
Remove the provided filePath from the list of files currently opened to write.
| filePath | file to remove from write list |
| void sync | ( | ) | throws OneWireIOException, OneWireException |
Flush the pages written back to the 1-Wire device.
| OneWireException | when the adapter is not setup properly |
| OneWireIOException | when an 1-Wire IO error occures |
| void writePagePacket | ( | int | page, |
| byte[] | writeBuf, | ||
| int | offset, | ||
| int | buflen | ||
| ) | throws OneWireIOException, OneWireException |
Write a page packet into the cache.
| page | page to write |
| writeBuf | buffer container the data to write |
| offset | offset into write buffer |
| buflen | length of data to write |


Note that the command button actions raise events (e.g. "revise") instead of specifying method expressions. The events result in transitions on the server side (see reviewBooking state in booking-flow.xml).
#{booking.creditCard}


| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| NotionalPaymentPeriod |
A period over which interest is accrued with a single payment calculated using a notional.
|
| PaymentEvent |
A payment event, where a single payment is made between two counterparties.
|
| PaymentPeriod |
A period over which interest is accrued with a single payment.
|
| RateCalculation |
The accrual calculation part of an interest rate swap leg.
|
| SwapIndex |
A swap index.
|
| SwapLeg |
A single leg of a swap.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| FixedRateCalculation |
Defines the calculation of a fixed rate swap leg.
|
| FixedRateCalculation.Builder |
The bean-builder for
FixedRateCalculation . |
| FixedRateCalculation.Meta |
The meta-bean for
FixedRateCalculation . |
| FixedRateStubCalculation |
Defines the rate applicable in the initial or final stub of a fixed swap leg.
|
| FixedRateStubCalculation.Meta |
The meta-bean for
FixedRateStubCalculation . |
| FxReset |
An FX rate conversion for the notional amount of a swap leg.
|
| FxReset.Builder |
The bean-builder for
FxReset . |
| FxReset.Meta |
The meta-bean for
FxReset . |
| FxResetCalculation |
Defines the calculation of an FX rate conversion for the notional amount of a swap leg.
|
| FxResetCalculation.Builder |
The bean-builder for
FxResetCalculation . |
| FxResetCalculation.Meta |
The meta-bean for
FxResetCalculation . |
| FxResetNotionalExchange |
An exchange of notionals between two counterparties where FX reset applies.
|
| FxResetNotionalExchange.Builder |
The bean-builder for
FxResetNotionalExchange . |
| FxResetNotionalExchange.Meta |
The meta-bean for
FxResetNotionalExchange . |
| IborRateCalculation |
Defines the calculation of a floating rate swap leg based on an Ibor index.
|
| IborRateCalculation.Builder |
The bean-builder for
IborRateCalculation . |
| IborRateCalculation.Meta |
The meta-bean for
IborRateCalculation . |
| IborRateStubCalculation |
Defines the rates applicable in the initial or final stub of an Ibor swap leg.
|
| IborRateStubCalculation.Builder |
The bean-builder for
IborRateStubCalculation . |
| IborRateStubCalculation.Meta |
The meta-bean for
IborRateStubCalculation . |
| ImmutableSwapIndex |
A swap index implementation based on an immutable set of rules.
|
| ImmutableSwapIndex.Builder |
The bean-builder for
ImmutableSwapIndex . |
| ImmutableSwapIndex.Meta |
The meta-bean for
ImmutableSwapIndex . |
| InflationRateCalculation |
Defines the calculation of a swap leg of a zero-coupon inflation coupon based on a price index.
|
| InflationRateCalculation.Builder |
The bean-builder for
InflationRateCalculation . |
| InflationRateCalculation.Meta |
The meta-bean for
InflationRateCalculation . |
| KnownAmountNotionalPaymentPeriod |
A period within a swap that results in a known amount.
|
| KnownAmountNotionalPaymentPeriod.Builder |
The bean-builder for
KnownAmountNotionalPaymentPeriod . |
| KnownAmountNotionalPaymentPeriod.Meta |
The meta-bean for
KnownAmountNotionalPaymentPeriod . |
| KnownAmountPaymentPeriod |
A period within a swap that results in a known amount.
|
| KnownAmountPaymentPeriod.Builder |
The bean-builder for
KnownAmountPaymentPeriod . |
| KnownAmountPaymentPeriod.Meta |
The meta-bean for
KnownAmountPaymentPeriod . |
| KnownAmountSwapLeg |
A fixed swap leg defined in terms of known amounts.
|
| KnownAmountSwapLeg.Builder |
The bean-builder for
KnownAmountSwapLeg . |
| KnownAmountSwapLeg.Meta |
The meta-bean for
KnownAmountSwapLeg . |
| NotionalExchange |
An exchange of notionals between two counterparties.
|
| NotionalExchange.Builder |
The bean-builder for
NotionalExchange . |
| NotionalExchange.Meta |
The meta-bean for
NotionalExchange . |
| NotionalSchedule |
Defines the schedule of notional amounts.
|
| NotionalSchedule.Builder |
The bean-builder for
NotionalSchedule . |
| NotionalSchedule.Meta |
The meta-bean for
NotionalSchedule . |
| OvernightRateCalculation |
Defines the calculation of a floating rate swap leg based on an Overnight index.
|
| OvernightRateCalculation.Builder |
The bean-builder for
OvernightRateCalculation . |
| OvernightRateCalculation.Meta |
The meta-bean for
OvernightRateCalculation . |
| PaymentSchedule |
Defines the schedule of payment dates relative to the accrual periods.
|
| PaymentSchedule.Builder |
The bean-builder for
PaymentSchedule . |
| PaymentSchedule.Meta |
The meta-bean for
PaymentSchedule . |
| RateAccrualPeriod |
A period over which a fixed or floating rate is accrued.
|
| RateAccrualPeriod.Builder |
The bean-builder for
RateAccrualPeriod . |
| RateAccrualPeriod.Meta |
The meta-bean for
RateAccrualPeriod . |
| RateCalculationSwapLeg |
A rate swap leg defined using a parameterized schedule and calculation.
|
| RateCalculationSwapLeg.Builder |
The bean-builder for
RateCalculationSwapLeg . |
| RateCalculationSwapLeg.Meta |
The meta-bean for
RateCalculationSwapLeg . |
| RatePaymentPeriod |
A period over which a rate of interest is paid.
|
| RatePaymentPeriod.Builder |
The bean-builder for
RatePaymentPeriod . |
| RatePaymentPeriod.Meta |
The meta-bean for
RatePaymentPeriod . |
| RatePeriodSwapLeg |
A rate swap leg defined using payment and accrual periods.
|
| RatePeriodSwapLeg.Builder |
The bean-builder for
RatePeriodSwapLeg . |
| RatePeriodSwapLeg.Meta |
The meta-bean for
RatePeriodSwapLeg . |
| ResetSchedule |
Defines the schedule of fixing dates relative to the accrual periods.
|
| ResetSchedule.Builder |
The bean-builder for
ResetSchedule . |
| ResetSchedule.Meta |
The meta-bean for
ResetSchedule . |
| ResolvedSwap |
A rate swap, resolved for pricing.
|
| ResolvedSwap.Builder |
The bean-builder for
ResolvedSwap . |
| ResolvedSwap.Meta |
The meta-bean for
ResolvedSwap . |
| ResolvedSwapLeg |
A resolved swap leg, with dates calculated ready for pricing.
|
| ResolvedSwapLeg.Builder |
The bean-builder for
ResolvedSwapLeg . |
| ResolvedSwapLeg.Meta |
The meta-bean for
ResolvedSwapLeg . |
| ResolvedSwapTrade |
A trade in a rate swap, resolved for pricing.
|
| ResolvedSwapTrade.Builder |
The bean-builder for
ResolvedSwapTrade . |
| ResolvedSwapTrade.Meta |
The meta-bean for
ResolvedSwapTrade . |
| Swap |
A rate swap.
|
| Swap.Builder |
The bean-builder for
Swap . |
| Swap.Meta |
The meta-bean for
Swap . |
| SwapIndices |
Constants and implementations for standard swap indices.
|
| SwapTrade |
A trade in a rate swap.
|
| SwapTrade.Builder |
The bean-builder for
SwapTrade . |
| SwapTrade.Meta |
The meta-bean for
SwapTrade . |
| Enum | Description |
|---|---|
| CompoundingMethod |
A convention defining how to compound interest.
|
| FixingRelativeTo |
The base date that each rate fixing is made relative to.
|
| FxResetFixingRelativeTo |
The base date that each FX reset fixing is made relative to.
|
| IborRateAveragingMethod |
A convention defining how to average floating rates.
|
| NegativeRateMethod |
A convention defining how to handle a negative interest rate.
|
| OvernightAccrualMethod |
The method of accruing interest based on an Overnight index.
|
| PaymentRelativeTo |
The base date that each payment is made relative to.
|
| PriceIndexCalculationMethod |
Reference price index calculation method.
|
| SwapLegType |
The type of a swap leg.
|
A swap takes place between two counterparties who agree to exchange streams of payments. In the simplest vanilla interest rate swap, there are two legs, one with a fixed rate and the other a floating rate. Many other more complex swaps can also be represented.
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| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogManagement
Service for retrieving, creating, updating and removing blogs/topics.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogData
Value object holding the data of a blog/topic.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogManagement
Service for retrieving, creating, updating and removing blogs/topics.
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| BlogTO
Transfer object holding the details of a blog.
|
| BlogValidationException
Base exception for for all validation errors of blog attributes.
|
| CreationBlogTO
This is a variant of the BlogTO with special fields need only for creation of new topics.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| NoBlogManagerLeftException
Thrown to indicate that an action would lead to a topic/blog that does not have an active user
with management rights.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| NoBlogManagerLeftException
Thrown to indicate that an action would lead to a topic/blog that does not have an active user
with management rights.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| NoBlogManagerLeftException
Thrown to indicate that an action would lead to a topic/blog that does not have an active user
with management rights.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| NoBlogManagerLeftException
Thrown to indicate that an action would lead to a topic/blog that does not have an active user
with management rights.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogManagement
Service for retrieving, creating, updating and removing blogs/topics.
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| Class and Description |
|---|
| BlogAccessException
Thrown if a user has not the required permission or role to access or modify a blog.
|
| BlogData
Value object holding the data of a blog/topic.
|
| BlogIdentifierValidationException
Thrown to indicate that the blog alias is not valid.
|
| BlogMemberNotFoundException
Thrown if a member of a blog/topic member does not exist
|
| BlogNotFoundException
Thrown if a blog/topic does not exist.
|
| BlogTO
Transfer object holding the details of a blog.
|
| BlogValidationException
Base exception for for all validation errors of blog attributes.
|
| CreationBlogTO
This is a variant of the BlogTO with special fields need only for creation of new topics.
|
| MinimalBlogData
Value object holding the minimal info about a blog/topic.
|
| NoBlogManagerLeftException
Thrown to indicate that an action would lead to a topic/blog that does not have an active user
with management rights.
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Wishmaster * * * * out of * * * * Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, and for language. Wes Craven produced this stylish, well-made, and extremely gory, and great movie. When I first saw this, my expectations were low, because people had said it was pretty bad. But I must say, it exceded my expectations, and was a good, scary, and gory movie. Well-worth the watch, Wishmaster has become to me, a camp classic, and one of my favorites.
The movie starts out about 3,000 years ago, and gives us a message on what Djinn's are. What is a Djinn? Read on and you will learn. In the opening sequence, an ancient king has wished to have the best party in history. Well the Djinn (Played devilishly good by Andrew Divoff) is best described as a smarta--, and the wishes he grants backfires on the people who are wishing it. In this case, all the people at the party come to gruesome deaths, some turn into lizards, another has his skeleton come completely out of his skin, and his skeleton walks around attacking people. Another has something coming out of his stomach, and one gets smacked against the wall. The wizard, comes in and tells the king to stop before he makes his last wish, which would make the Djinn be able to take over the world. The wizard takes the jewel (too which the Djinn lives) and commands he goes back in, he does, and stays there for 3,000 years.
Then we see a statue, being delivered to a man named Raymond Beaumont (Robert Englund, best known as Freddy Kruegar). He has bought a new statue to put in his collection at his museum-house. While the statue is being lowered, the crane operator spills his coffee on the controls, and drops the statue on a man below, causing it to bust in pieces. One of the construction workers spots a jewel, and takes it out and puts it in his pocket.
The man brings the jewel to a museum to which Alexander Amberson (Tammy Lauren) works. She investigates the jewel, and tries to find out how old the jewel itself is. She asks her friend Chris Lemmon (Nick Merrit), a jewel anologist to find out how old, and what kind of jewel it is. When he puts the jewel into the computer to be analyzed the laser hitting ther jewel causes the jewel to explode as well as the cpu, and injures Chris. The Djinn is now released, and asks Chris, if he wants the pain to go away, Chris wishes it away, and it does, but so does Chris's life. The Djinn is now free to find the one that released him to which that is Alexandra.
He takes human form as Nathaniel Demerest, and goes out to ask people what they wish to do or not to do. And if they wish, they die.  A woman, wishes that she would have eternal beauty, and turns into a manequinn.
The Djinn, who was released by Alexandra, makes her see all that he does. If he kills she sees, if they wish she sees, and has to live it all up. She has to proctect herself, as well as her sister from this evil Djinn, and try to make him not take over the world. Nathaniel, then goes to the party to which Raymond is at, and of course Raymond wishes to have a party that will go down in history, and he does (I wont spoil it). Alexandra must now, find out how to defeat this Wishmaster without dying herself, or her friends. Her final thought of defeating him is brilliant.
As is the movie, I found myself entertained to the limit.  Andrew Divoff who plays Wishmaster, and Nathaniel Demerest, does a brilliant performance, and w wicked one at that. And really gets into his performance, mixing wit with terror. As does Tammy Lauren, she does a great job as her character, and gets realistically into it. Robert Englund (Who as always) plays his character well.
As the movie itself? It had some great suspense sequences, most coming toward the end, and a really high count of graphic violence/gore. But what got me the most, was how fun the movie was.  The make-up effects on Andrew Divoff, spectacular. And the gore effects, with people being ripped open, and one gets his mouth ripped off, this is definately not for the squeamish. But, But, If you are a horror fan, who loves fun movies, this is one for you, believe me, I dont think youll be let down.
Just great!!
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Stress is a natural part of life; in fact it helps us to survive! But when we have too much stress, it can be dangerous to our health. Even positive change brings on stress.
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Lviv has many "miracles" but only 7 were elected worthy: Boim Chapel, Opera House, House of Scientists, St. George's Cathedral, Bernardine monastery, Potocki Palace, Lviv Art Gallery.


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Welcome to the wonderful lego world of programming! We can build anything with Ruby. Let's take over the world with a zombie army.
A class is a blueprint for an object. It's a startup pack that holds all the instruction to build an object and all the actions you call on it. We'll give it a name. Zombie is the obvious choice.
Super! Now we've got an empty Zombie class. It'd be great it if we could set it up with some basic, across-the-board zombie info. All of our default zombie setup goes inside of an initialize method.
Things that are true for every zombie everywhere get put into class variables. That's why they have the @@ at the start of their name. These are variables that are accessed in any part of the class, and are not changed between each instance of zombie. For things that are unique to each individual snowflake of a zombie, we use instance variables.
Cool, instance variables start with one @. Each zombie has it's own name, and it's own decomposition level. We need to give that information for every zombie we make. Now we can start building our army!
Our army is starting to come together. Let's add some code to check the status of each of our zombies.
attr_accessor lets us look up info on a zombie, and change it if we want to. attr_reader lets us look up info on a zombie, but won't let us change it. Remember what I said about class variables staying the same? That's why we used attr_reader and not attr_accessor.
Looks pretty solid. But our zombies aren't doing anything. Let's get to taking over the world already! From here we can add any other methods to give our zombies some, uh, life.
Of course, these methods should be filled in. We can get to those another time, and add more if we want to! But here we have a fairly complete Zombie class, and we can use it to make as many zombies as our hearts desire. Aren't ruby classes wonderful?


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FARGO A film review by Mark R. Leeper Copyright 1996 Mark R. Leeper
Capsule: This is a real winner of a crime film from the Coen Brothers. It has some violence, a little comedy, and a fair amount of realism in this story of the ever-widening chaos that results from a mock kidnapping. The story is structured a lot like an episode of "Columbo" with Frances McDormand as a pregnant police chief whose kindergarten teacher mannerisms and attitudes conceal a razor- sharp mind. Rating: high +2 (-4 to +4)
Joel and Ethan Coen have gone slightly eccentric in their last two films. With the exception of some work with Sam Raimi, they initially came to the public's attention with BLOOD SIMPLE in 1984. Since then they made RAISING ARIZONA, MILLER'S CROSSING, BARTON FINK, and THE HUDSUCKER PROXY. One after another was both a popular and critical success. But THE HUDSUCKER PROXY was just a little too weird, like a surreal, cartoonish imitation of Frank Capra films, and it was their first critical failure. To prove that they still have what it takes they have returned with a film similar in style to BLOOD SIMPLE with the same realistic approach but with more style. FARGO is likely to be a real winner for the Coen Brothers.
Our story takes place in Minnesota and North Dakota. Jerry Lundegaard (played by William H. Macy) is an unsavory wheeler-dealer who cheats on every human transaction he can manage, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. As the film opens he is arranging to have his wife Jean (Kristin Rudrud) kidnapped so his wealthy father-in-law will pay the ransom. Lundegaard expects to split the ransom with the kidnappers and have the money for a land deal. Hired for the job are two thugs, the irascible Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and the quiet but violent Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare).  Police chief Marge Gunderson (Francis McDormand) gets involved investigating.
In a film of interesting characterizations, McDormand's Gunderson stands out. It is strange to see a pregnant woman as a police chief. It is even stranger to find a police chief with cloying over- enthusiastic mannerisms as if she is teaching Ding-Dong School. She is the sort of woman who answers a simple how- are-you? with "I'm doing REALLY SUPER!" But put her at the scene of a crime and that is just what she does, super. In moments she has a sophisticated forensic analysis. Her straight-arrow approach is in stark contrast to the habitually scamming character played by William H. Macy, everybody's worst nightmare of a car salesman. Somewhat more familiar is Buscemi's irascible and nasty smalltime hood getting a shot at bigger things. But the Coen Brothers have a talent for creating memorable characters even from people in small walk-on parts. A cashier with an odd smile and a rubber-faced prostitute each make unexpectedly interesting camera studies.
And not just the characters are interesting. Even a lunch pulled from a buffet adds texture to the film. Joel Coen gambles he can make interesting some unconventional subjects of shots and more often than not he is right. The Coen Brothers seem to have wanted to make a real document of life in a deep, cold Minnesota winter. It is as if the two Texas-born filmmakers wanted to get it all on film once so they would never have to return. It is hard to blame them. The cold of the snowy environment pervades the whole film. People are walking through snow, constantly tripping, trying to get to their cars and scrape windshields. People talk to each other from inside cave-like fur hoods.
Carter Burwell's score works, but seems strangely unconventional. The main theme sounds more appropriate for some sort of historical epic, though perhaps it could also fit the epic struggle of against the elements in the cold Northern winter. This is a film with some heavy violence and some good humor. (One of the best laughs is in the closing credits. Be warned, early risers.) Also notice that there seems to be a little study of how different people use and react to profanity. This is an audience-pleaser that rates a high +2 on the -4 to +4 scale.
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