Blog: We Seek Safe Harbor Meaning

Well as they say, the fastest instruction is the one that is never executed.
Though sure, I was totally lacking an explanation of an alternative.

So in effect you want GetField() to get a value from the correct outer vector, and from the inner vector position corresponding to how many times GoToNextRecord() has ben called, right?

Well then you're duplicating a lot of work. Each time through the loop you're constructing several strings from string literals, and essentially looking up the index of of the outer vector to find which inner vector corresponds to that field.
The best thing you can do then is to resolve the field name to an outer vector index before the loop, and then inside the loop, just use the index.

Then, as I've hoped, there wont be any such lookups by name, inside the loop at all. Not quite "not doing it at all", but "not doing it in the loop" is the next best thing.

For the actual lookup, you could have a vector< pair<string, int> > and use std::lower_bound, which will be a tad faster than a map lookup.

DaSicilian said:
@in my humble opinion
Get your facts straight…The dems, fanny and freddie blew up the housing market by forcing banks to give loans to folks that couldn’t afford them. There was a time when you had to put 20% down to buy a house…that went away and folks were getting homes for 0% down and no proof of income. This enabled folks that couldn’t normally afford homes and people that bought up into homes they couldn’t afford purchase ‘the dream.’ Bush warned Congress back in 2003 that things were going to blow up because of Clinton/Frank/Dodd policies. But hey accused him of stifling the dream. So..he’s gotten the blame…his fault to the extent that he should have been continually hammering these policies publicly…and didn’t. Frank, Dodd and the like are still pushing for these loans and are hiding the fact that fanny and freddie are near collapse. You think the re market is bad now? Wait….and don’t forget…we haven’t even begun to hear from the commercial re folks. The way this admin is throwing small bizs under the bus…the commercial re is ripe to blow up, too.

YES, GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT LIARS -

BUSH’S BLIND FAITH IN UNREGULATED MARKETS STOKED ECONOMIC CRISIS

“No one wanted to stop that bubble,” Mr. Lindsay (Mr. Bush’s first chief economics adviser) said.
“It would have conflicted with the president’s own policies.”

“There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems,” said Al Hubbard, Mr. Bush’s former chief economics adviser, who left the White House in December 2007. “Had we, we would have attacked them.”

The Bush administration took a lot of pride that homeownership had reached historic highs,” Mr. Snow (Bush’s former secretary of the Treasury) said in an interview. “But what we forgot in the process was that it has to be done in the context of people being able to afford their house. We now realize there was a high cost.”

THE RECKONING:
White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire (12-20-2008)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/21admin.html?hp

REALITY <– embrace it delusional in denial wingnuts!

I am looking back through my posts because I can't remember what I have said the past couple months about what God has been teaching me and didn't want to repeat myself. I am now remembering how little I have blogged but instead just sat in my thoughts this summer. 

I usually puke them out to you all the moment I have a thought but have been in a season of just sitting and listening.  It has been refreshing.  I realize how often I run ahead of God.  A quick prayer and I am off and running without waiting for the response, one of the many things God was talking to me about this summer.

I was going to start at the beginning but as I was reviewing my journal I can't really see where there is a beginning just a process.  So I guess you will receive each thought individually as I decide to share.

Boy! That introduction really is setting me up to tell you alot of deep stuff.  It really isn't that deep but it has been meaningful to me to sit with God and find a peace I really needed during a time in life full of transition.

This summer God led me to what is going to be our family verse for the next year.  Matthew 6:33, "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well."

It isn't an original verse but I really have been feeling lately that the impact of some of the popular verses gets lost because of how often it is referred to.  Yet they are common verses because of the powerful truths contained in them.  So this year as a family we are going to study some of the scriptures that you hear so often you don't even think about them.  But I am getting ahead of myself.  I will tell you about that some other day.

Our family talked about the Matthew 6:33 seek first scripture during our weekend away this summer.  We spent time really looking at the context of the scripture, before it Jesus is asking the people why they are worrying so much.  Jesus points out how clearly he provides for all his creatures and reminds the people (us) of how much more he loves them (us) and so will clearly provide for them (us) as well.  My sister had an amazing experience recently to further emphasize that point.

So we don't have to worry because God provides for all our needs.  And lest we are worried He doesn't know what we need Jesus assures us He does, v32 "and your heavenly Father knows that you need them."

Apparently Jesus was worried we wouldn't know how to properly spend all the free time we would have if we stopped worrying, a valid concern since we had been wasting it worrying before, so in the next verse he tells us what to do, "seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things (all our needs that we have been worrying about) will be given to you as well."

But then we (OK me but I drag the whole family along on my journeys) wondered what the word Seek really meant.  How exactly do you go about Seeking God?  I copied that page out of the old dictionary we have as John was packing the car for the weekend so we could answer this burning question I knew my family would have when we discussed this verse.

Seek: To make search or enquiry for; to look for; to strive after

My men were rivoted to their seats as I read the definition of "seek" to them.  Still we did have wonderful discussion about what that would mean for us both as a family and individually to seek God in our lives.  We talked about finding time, reading scripture and devotionals, priorities and prayer. 

Of course we can't ignore the word "first" in this discussion.  I figured we knew what that meant so I didn't copy that definition out of the dictionary.  But I did have Jake read the story of Jehoshaphat.  I didn't know exactly where in the bible it was but figured somewhere in the history of Israel.  Lucky for us God knew where it was and had Jake open his bible right to it.

The weekend before I had been at She Speaks and one of the main speakers had focussed on this story from the old Testement.  I will let you go read it yourself (In 2 Chronicles 20 in case you don't open right to it as well.)  The basic story is that Judah is under attack (again) and it isn't looking good (as usual).  When Jehoshaphat hears about this impending doom he...Seeks First!

"Alarmed, Jehoshaphat resolved to inquire of the Lord, and he proclaimed a fast for all Judah.  The people of Judah came togeher to seek help from the Lord; indeed, they came from every town in Judah to seek him."

OK so lets say I am lounging around the house on a typical morning preparing to have my queit time when a friend calls and asks if she can come over in an hour.  The first thing I will do when I get off the phone is...start picking up the house, get dressed because I am still in PJ's, wipe down the bathroom and wonder if I have any food to serve her.  When even a slight change in my schedule occurs I do not think to stop and seek God before I prepare.  When problems come into my life do I first seek God or do I first start solving the problem?  More often than not the answer is solve the problem.

Yet with a "vast amy" bearing down on Jehoshaphat what does he do?  Gather the troops?  Sharpen the blades?  Reinforce the city? Map out a battle plan?  NO.  He first seeks God.  And upon doing so discovers what a waste of time getting ready for a battle would have been since God tells him they won't have to fight.  So instead he puts together a choir to sing praises to God and sends them out in front of the troops.  This of course would make no sense to anyone else but Jehosphaphat and the people of Judah had sought God first and they knew there was nothing to worry about.  Sure enough by the time they reached the other army everyone was dead and Judah's army never lifted a finger.

So that is what we are doing this year as a family.  Seeking God.  Seeking Him first.  Seeking to discover what he has for us when we let go of our worry, stop thinking about our own needs and turn our eyes and our hearts toward God.

Sayang

Maybe you live in a shielded world, one shielded from the pains of our country, one shielded from the truth of the sufferings of patriots of our country like Rosli Dahlan. Maybe, your family is so protective of you that whatever information reaches you have been distorted, filtered to the point that you do truly believed that Musa saved our country from danger.

It is no secret amongst the minorities, that there are three underground casinos operating in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. The amazing part is that most of the clientele are not minorities. Of course it is none of my business whatever haram activities the majority wishes to do during their time off work. But if almost every minority knows about such casinos, how come our elite police force, that can catch kids splashing red paint in some obscure suburb, cannot even pin point these casinos.

I lived in KL for a while in my younger days, and also a few years ago. I used to work for a guy whose business was really illegal four digits, and my job was to market construction products that make no commercial sense but we got contracts because of his connection. Everyone knew he was the Big Brother. And his brothers are all buang negeri, but this guy was inside MCA, and was also able to have license for a hand gun, which he displayed with impunity. One of my responsibilities was to go and make payoffs and ensure the pretty girls in various condominiums around KL got their allowances. His connection to Bukit Aman was his protection and no one could bother him.

Sayang, you dont really know what is going on. Your blind faith in UMNO and BN is perhaps due to the environment that you are enclosed in. The situation in Malaysia is exactly the opposite of what you are trying to tell us. I am not accusing you of lying, and I dont think you are. But you are living in a world completely different from what most of the people in this blog knows. It is so different that there must be a logical explanation and I think it is because you are so protected that you dont really know. It cannot be ignorance. It must be you live in a Palace of some form. If my hypothesis is wrong, tell me.

james - September 5, 2010 at 10:38 pm

by Laura Schaefer is the author of Man with Farm Seeks Woman with Tractor: The Best and Worst Personal Ads of All Time


So you’ve mastered the art of eye contact and can beckon a romantic prospect with just a few coy glances… but do you really know all there is to know about the fine art of flirting? Just to make sure you’re up to speed, we culled some very surprising information that you can use to your advantage. Read on for some juicy tidbits that may up your meet-cute quotient in no time. 

1. Flirting is good for you. Studies show that people who flirt have higher white blood-cell counts, which boost both immunity and health. 

2. Think batting your eyelashes is enough? Wrong! All told, scientists say there are 52 “flirting signals” used by humans. Of these, the hair-flip technique is the most common. 

3. In some places, flirting is illegal. In Little Rock, AR, an antiquated law is still on the books warning that engaging in playful banter may result in a 30-day jail term. In New York City, another outdated law mandates that men may be fined $25 for gazing lasciviously at a female; a second conviction stipulates the offender wear a pair of blinders whenever he goes out for a walk. 

4. Why wait for Friday? Lots of people get their flirt on during their morning commute. A full 62 percent of drivers have flirted with someone in a different vehicle while on the go, and 31 percent of those flirtations, it turns out, resulted in a date.


5. Flirting need not occur face to face. According to the Pew Research Center, 40 percent of people who look for love online say they can easily flirt with someone via email or IM.

6. In the Victorian era, fans were the ultimate playful props that could communicate all sorts of messages. A fan placed near the heart meant “You have won my love.” A half-opened fan pressed to the lips was an invitation, saying, “You may kiss me.” Hiding the eyes behind an open fan meant “I love you,” while opening and closing the fan several times was a chastisement, implying, “You are cruel.” Given how much a fan could come in handy, it’s a shame they ever invented air conditioning.

7. These days, cell phones do the flirting for you. In one survey, half of all mobile phone users have texted flirty messages to keep things interesting while separated from their amour.

8. Watch out; you can overdo it. According to the Social Issues Research Centre, the most common mistake people make when flirting is maintaining too much eye contact.

9. Sometimes, flirty gestures aren’t what they seem to be. Research has shown that men tend to routinely mistake friendly behavior for flirting.

10. Flirting is universal. A woman living in New York City and one in rural Cambodia may not have much in common, but when it comes to attracting a little attention, they both employ the very same move: smiling, arching their eyebrows, then averting their gaze and giggling. Animals flirt, too: birds, reptiles, and even fish have their own way of making romantic advances. The moral of the story: If the simple sea bass can act cute in order to further a romantic agenda, you can, too — so give it a go!

Laura Schaefer is the author of Man with Farm Seeks Woman with Tractor: The Best and Worst Personal Ads of All Time

New Delhi, Aug 31 (PTI) The Delhi High Court has sought a response from the Centre as well as city government on a petition filed by a woman, who lost her son in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in November 1984, seeking compensation for the loss suffered by her. Justice S Muralidhar issued a notice to the Centre and NCT government, Delhi, and the Deputy Commissioner, North West Kanjhawala, and sought their replies by October 20 on a petition filed by Ratan Kaur claiming compensation of Rs 7 lakh.

Filing the petition through counsel Manohar Singh Bakshi, Kaur said her son Satnam Singh was killed by a mob during the riots, that followed the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, and so far she has got only Rs 10,000 as compensation. Her counsel submitted the Centre had announced a rehabilitation package for the victims and their family members in January 2006 and Kaur has been running from pillar to post but got nothing so far.

Seeking a direction to the Deputy Commissioner, Kanhjawala, to consider her application for compensation, the lawyer submitted she deserved the compensation with 18 per cent rate of interest. The lawyer told the court that under the rehabilitation package his client had also applied for a flat or a job to a family member but the pleas have not been considered as yet.

Souce: IBN Live