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A generator of PEG/Packrat parsers from EBNF grammars.
Project description
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. Don't have any expectations that anyone will use it, unless you hook up with some sort of organization in a position to push it hard. It's a lottery, and some can buy a lot of the tickets. There are plenty of beautiful languages (more beautiful than C) that didn't catch on. But someone does win the lottery, and doing a language at least teaches you something.
Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011) Creator of the C programming language and of Unix
Grako (for grammar compiler) is a tool that takes grammars in a variation of EBNF as input, and outputs memoizing (Packrat) PEG parsers in Python.
Grako is different from other PEG parser generators in that the generated parsers use Python's very efficient exception-handling system to backtrack. Grako generated parsers simply assert what must be parsed; there are no complicated if-then-else sequences for decision making or backtracking. Positive and negative lookaheads, and the cut element with its cleaning of the memoization cache allow for additional, hand-crafted optimizations at the grammar level, and delegation to Python's re module for lexemes allows for (Perl-like) powerful and efficient lexical analysis. The use of Python's context managers considerably reduces the size of the generated parsers for enhanced CPU-cache hits.
Grako, the runtime support, and the generated parsers have measurably low Cyclomatic complexity. At around 3000 lines of Python, it is possible to study all its source code in a single session. Grako's only dependencies are on the Python 2.7, 3.3, or PyPy standard libraries.
Grako is feature complete and currently being used over very large grammars to parse and translate hundreds of thousands of lines of legacy code.
Table of Contents
- Grako
- Table of Contents
- Rationale
- The Generated Parsers
- Using the Tool
- Using the Generated Parser
- The EBNF Grammar Syntax
- Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs)
- Whitespace
- Case Sensitivity
- Comments
- Semantic Actions
- Templates and Translation
- Examples
- Other Open-source Examples
- License
- Contact and Updates
- Credits
- Changes
Grako was created to address recurring problems encountered over decades of working with parser generation tools:
- To deal with programming languages in which important statement words (can't call them keywords) may be used as identifiers in programs, the parser must be able to lead the lexer. The parser must also lead the lexer to parse languages in which the meaning of input symbols may change with context, like Ruby.
- When ambiguity is the norm in the parsed language (as is the case in several legacy ones), an LL or LR grammar becomes contaminated with myriads of lookaheads. PEG parsers address ambiguity from the onset. Memoization, and relying on the exception-handling system makes backtracking very efficient.
- Semantic actions, like Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) transformation, do not belong in the grammar. Semantic actions in the grammar create yet another programming language to deal with when doing parsing and translation: the source language, the grammar language, the semantics language, the generated parser's language, and the translation's target language. Most grammar parsers do not check that the embedded semantic actions have correct syntax, so errors get reported at awkward moments, and against the generated code, not against the source.
- Pre-processing (like dealing with includes, fixed column formats, or Python's structure through indentation) belongs in well-designed program code, and not in the grammar.
- It is easy to recruit help with knowledge about a mainstream programming language (Python in this case). It is not so for grammar description languages. As a grammar language becomes more complex it becomes increasingly difficult to find who can maintain a parser. Grako grammars are in the spirit of a Translators and Interpreters 101 course (if something is hard to explain to an college student, it's probably too complicated, or not well understood).
- Generated parsers should be humanly-readable and debuggable. Looking at the generated source code is sometimes the only way to find problems in a grammar, the semantic actions, or in the parser generator itself. It's inconvenient to trust generated code that you cannot understand.
- Python is a great language for working in language parsing and translation.
The Generated Parsers
A Grako generated parser consists of the following classes:
A parser class derived from Parser which implements the parser using one method for each grammar rule:
def _myrulename_(self):
A semantics delegate class with one semantic method per grammar rule. Each method receives as its single parameter the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) built from the rule invocation:
def myrulename(self, ast): return ast
The methods in the delegate class return the same AST received as parameter, but custom semantic classes can override the methods to have them return anything (for example, a Semantic Graph). The semantics class can be used as a template for the final semantics implementation, which can omit methods for the rules it is not interested in.
Using the Tool
Grako is run from the command line:
$ python -m grako
$ scripts/grako
or just:
$ grako
if Grako was installed using easy_install or pip.
The -h and –help parameters provide full usage information:
$ python -m grako -h usage: grako [-h] [-m name] [-o outfile] [-t] [--whitespace characters] [--no-nameguard] [-b] [-d] grammar Grako (for grammar compiler) takes grammars in a variation of EBNF as input, and outputs a memoizing PEG parser in Python. positional arguments: grammar The filename of the grammar to generate a parser for optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -m name, --name name An optional name for the grammar. It defaults to the basename of the grammar file's name -o outfile, --outfile outfile specify where the output should go (default is stdout) -t, --trace produce verbose parsing output -w, --whitespace characters whitespace characters (use empty string to disable automatic whitespace) -n, --no-nameguard do not protect alphanumeric tokens that are prefixes of others -b, --binary generate a pickled grammar model instead of a parser -d, --draw generate a diagram of the grammar $
Using the Generated Parser
To use the generated parser, just subclass the base or the abstract parser, create an instance of it, and invoke its parse() method passing the grammar to parse and the starting rule's name as parameter:
parser = MyParser() ast = parser.parse('text to parse', rule_name='start') print(ast) print(json.dumps(ast, indent=2)) # ASTs are JSON-friendy
This is more or less what happens if you invoke the generated parser directly:
python myparser.py inputfile startrule
The generated parsers' constructors accept named arguments to specify whitespace characters, the regular expression for comments, case sensitivity, verbosity, and more (see below).
To add semantic actions, just pass a semantic delegate to the parse method:
model = parser.parse(text, rule_name='start', semantics=MySemantics())
The EBNF Grammar Syntax
Grako uses a variant of the standard EBNF syntax. A grammar consists of a sequence of one or more rules of the form:
name = expre ;
name = expre .
Both the semicolon (;) and the period (.) are accepted as rule definition terminators.
If a name collides with a Python keyword, an underscore (_) will be appended to it on the generated parser.
If you define more than one rule with the same name:
name = expre1 ; name = expre2 ;
The result will be equivalent to applying the choice operator to the right-hand-side expressions:
name = expre1 | expre2 ;
Rule names that start with an uppercase character:
FRAGMENT = ?/[a-z]+/?
do not advance over whitespace before beginning to parse. This feature becomes handy when defining complex lexical elements, as it allows breaking them into several rules.
The expressions, in reverse order of operator precedence, can be:
- e1 | e2
- Match either e1 or e2.
- e1 e2
- Match e1 and then match e2.
- ( e )
- Grouping. Match e. For example: ('a' | 'b').
- [ e ]
- Optionally match e.
- { e } or { e }*
- Closure. Match e zero or more times. Note that the AST returned for a closure is always a list.
- { e }+ or { e }-
- Closure+1. Match e one or more times.
- &e
- Positive lookahead. Try parsing e, but do not consume any input.
- !e
- Negative lookahead. Try parsing e and fail if there's a match. Do not consume any input whichever the outcome.
- 'text' or "text"
Match the token text within the quotation marks.
Note that if text is alphanumeric, then Grako will check that the character following the token is not alphanumeric. This is done to prevent tokens like IN matching when the text ahead is INITIALIZE. This feature can be turned off by passing nameguard=False to the Parser or the Buffer, or by using a pattern expression (see below) instead of a token expression.
- ?/regexp/?
The pattern expression. Match the Python regular expression regexp at the current text position. Unlike other expressions, this one does not advance over whitespace or comments. For that, place the regexp as the only term in its own rule.
The regexp is passed as-is to the Python re module, using re.match() at the current position in the text. The matched text is the AST for the expression.
- rulename
- Invoke the rule named rulename. To help with lexical aspects of grammars, rules with names that begin with an uppercase letter will not advance the input over whitespace or comments.
- ()
- The empty expression. Succeed without advancing over input.
- !()
- The fail expression. This is actually ! applied to (), which always fails.
- >>
- The cut expression. After this point, prevent other options from being considered even if the current option fails to parse.
- name:e
- Add the result of e to the AST using name as key. If more than one item is added with the same name, the entry is converted to a list.
- name+:e
- Add the result of e to the AST using name as key. Force the entry to be a list even if only one element is added.
- @:e
The override operator. Make the AST for the complete rule be the AST for e. If more than one item is added, the entry is converted to a list.
The override operator is useful to recover only part of the right hand side of a rule without the need to name it, and then add a semantic action to recover the interesting part.
This is a typical use of the override operator:subexp = '(' @:expre ')' .
The AST returned for the subexp rule will be the AST recovered from invoking expre, without having to write a semantic action.
- @+:e
Like @:e, but make the AST always be a list.
This operator is convenient in cases such as:arglist = '(' @+:arg {',' @+:arg}* ')' .
in which the delimiting tokens are of no interest.
- @e
- A convenient shortcut for @:e.
- $
- The end of text symbol. Verify that the end of the input text has been reached.
- (* comment *)
- Comments may appear anywhere in the text.
When there are no named items in a rule, the AST consists of the elements parsed by the rule, either a single item or a list. This default behavior makes it easier to write simple rules:
number = ?/[0-9]+/? .
without having to write:
number = number:?/[0-9]+/?
When a rule has named elements, the unnamed ones are excluded from the AST (they are ignored).
Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs)
By default, and AST is either a list (for closures and rules without named elements), or dict-derived object that contains one item for every named element in the grammar rule. Items can be accessed through the standard dict syntax, ast['key'], or as attributes, ast.key.
AST entries are single values if only one item was associated with a name, or lists if more than one item was matched. There's a provision in the grammar syntax (the +: operator) to force an AST entry to be a list even if only one element was matched. The value for named elements that were not found during the parse (perhaps because they are optional) is None.
When the parseinfo=True keyword argument has been passed to the Parser constructor, a parseinfo element is added to AST nodes that are dict-like. The element contains a namedtuple with the parse information for the node:
ParseInfo = namedtuple('ParseInfo', ['buffer', 'rule', 'pos', 'endpos'])
With the help of the Buffer.line_info() method, it is possible to recover the line, column, and original text parsed for the node. Note that when parseinfo is generated, the buffer used during parsing is kept in memory with the AST.
By default, Grako generated parsers skip the usual whitespace characters (whatever Python defines as string.whitespace), but you can change that behaviour by passing a whitespace parameter to your parser. For example:
parser = MyParser(text, whitespace='\t ')
will consider the tab (\t) and space characters to be whitespace, but not so with other typical whitespace characters such as the end-of-line (\n).
If you don't define any whitespace characters:
parser = MyParser(text, whitespace='')
then you will have to handle whitespace in your grammar rules (as it's often done in PEG parsers).
Case Sensitivity
If the source language is case insensitive, you can tell your parser by using the ignorecase parameter:
parser = MyParser(text, ignorecase=True)
The change will affect both token and pattern matching.
Parsers will skip over comments specified as a regular expression using the comments_re parameter:
parser = MyParser(text, comments_re="\(\*.*?\*\)")
For more complex comment handling, you can override the Parser._eatcomments() method.
Semantic Actions
There are no constructs for semantic actions in Grako grammars. This is on purpose, as we believe that semantic actions obscure the declarative nature of grammars and provide for poor modularization from the parser execution perspective.
Semantic actions are defined in a class, and applied by passing an object of the class to the parse() method of the parser as the semantics= paramenter. Grako will invoke the method that matches the name of the grammar rule every time the rule parses. The argument to the method will be the AST constructed from the right-hand-side of the rule:
class MySemantics(object): def some_rule_name(self, ast): return ''.join(ast) def _default(self, ast): pass
If there's no method matching the rule's name, Grako will try to invoke a _default() method if it's defined:
def _default(self, ast):
Nothing will happen neither the per-rule method nor _default() are defined.
The per-rule methods in classes implementing the semantics provide enough opportunity to do rule post-processing operations, like verifications (for inadequate use of keywords as identifiers), or AST transformation.
For finer-grained control it is enough to declare more rules, as the impact on the parsing times will be minimal.
If pre-processing is required at some point, it is enough to place invocations of empty rules where appropriate:
myrule = first_part preproc {second_part} ; preproc = () ;
The abstract parser will honor as a semantic action a method declared as:
def preproc(self, ast):
Templates and Translation
Grako doesn't impose a way to create translators with it, but it exposes the facilities it uses to generate the Python source code for parsers.
Translation in Grako is template-based, but instead of defining or using a complex templating engine (yet another language), it relies on the simple but powerful string.Formatter of the Python standard library. The templates are simple strings that, in Grako's style, are inlined with the code.
To generate a parser, Grako constructs an object model of the parsed grammar. Each node in the model is a descendant of rendering.Renderer, and knows how to render itself. Templates are left-trimmed on whitespace, like Python doc-comments are. This is an example taken from Grako's source code:
class LookaheadGrammar(_DecoratorGrammar): ... template = '''\ with self._if(): {exp:1::}\ '''
Every attribute of the object that doesn't start with an underscore (_) may be used as a template field, and fields can be added or modified by overriding the render_fields() method. Fields themselves are lazily rendered before being expanded by the template, so a field may be an instance of a Renderer descendant.
The rendering module uses a Formatter enhanced to support the rendering of items in an iterable one by one. The syntax to achieve that is:
All of ind, sep, and fmt are optional, but the three colons are not. Such a field will be rendered using:
indent(sep.join(fmt % render(v) for v in value), ind)
The extended format can also be used with non-iterables, in which case the rendering will be:
indent(fmt % render(value), ind)
The default multiplier for ind is 4, but that can be overridden using n*m (for example 3*1) in the format.
- Note
- Using a newline (\n) as separator will interfere with left trimming and indentation of templates. To use newline as separator, specify it as \\n, and the renderer will understand the intention.
The file etc/grako.ebnf contains a grammar for the Grako EBNF language written in the same language. It is used in the bootstrap test suite to prove that Grako can generate a parser to parse its own language.
The project examples/regexp contains a regexp-to-EBNF translator and parser generator. The project has no practical use, but it's a complete, end-to-end example of how to implement a translator using Grako.
The project examples/antlr2grako contains a ANTLR to Grako grammar tanslator. The project is a good example of the use of models and templates in translation. The program, antlr2grako.py generates the Grako gramar on standard ouput, but because the model used is Grako's own, the same code can be used to directly generate a parser from an ANTLR grammar. Please take a look at the examples README to know about limitations.
Other Open-source Examples
- Christian Ledermann wrote parsewkt a parser for Well-known text (WTK) using Grako.
Grako is Copyright (C) 2012-2014 by ResQSoft Inc. and Juancarlo Añez
You may use the tool under the terms of the BSD-style license described in the enclosed LICENSE.txt file.
If your project requires different licensing please contact email@example.com.
Contact and Updates
To discuss Grako and to receive notifications about new releases, please join the low-volume Grako Forum at Google Groups.
The following must be mentioned as contributors of thoughts, ideas, code, and funding to the Grako project:
- Niklaus Wirth was the chief designer of the programming languages Euler, Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, Oberon, and Oberon-2. In the last chapter of his 1976 book Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, Wirth creates a top-down, descent parser with recovery for the Pascal-like, LL(1) programming language PL/0. The structure of the program is that of a PEG parser, though the concept of PEG wasn't formalized until 2004.
- Bryan Ford introduced PEG (parsing expression grammars) in 2004.
- Other parser generators like PEG.js by David Majda inspired the work in Grako.
- William Thompson inspired the use of context managers with his blog post that I knew about through the invaluable Python Weekly newsletter, curated by Rahul Chaudhary
- Jeff Knupp explains why Grako's use of exceptions is sound, so I don't have to.
- Terence Parr created ANTLR, probably the most solid and professional parser generator out there. Ter, ANTLR, and the folks on the ANLTR forums helped me shape my ideas about Grako.
- JavaCC (originally Jack) looks like an abandoned project. It was the first parser generator I used while teaching.
- Grako is very fast. But dealing with millions of lines of legacy source code in a matter of minutes would be impossible without PyPy, the work of Armin Rigo and the PyPy team.
- Guido van Rossum created and has lead the development of the Python programming environment for over a decade. A tool like Grako, at under three thousand lines of code, would not have been possible without Python.
- Kota Mizushima welcomed me to the CSAIL at MIT PEG and Packrat parsing mailing list, and immediately offered ideas and pointed me to documentation about the implementation of cut in modern parsers. The optimization of memoization information is thanks to one of his papers.
- My students at UCAB inspired me to think about how grammar-based parser generation could be made more approachable.
- Gustavo Lau was my professor of Language Theory at USB, and he was kind enough to be my tutor in a thesis project on programming languages that was more than I could chew. My peers, and then teaching advisers Alberto Torres, and Enzo Chiariotti formed a team with Gustavo to challenge us with programming languages like LATORTA and term exams that went well into the eight hours. And, of course, there was also the pirate patch that should be worn on the left or right eye depending on the LL or LR challenge.
- Manuel Rey led me through another, unfinished thesis project that taught me about what languages (spoken languages in general, and programming languages in particular) are about. I learned why languages use declensions, and why, although the underlying words are in English, the structure of the programs we write is more like Japanese.
- Marcus Brinkmann has kindly submitted patches that have resolved obscure bugs in Grako's implementation, and that have made the tool more user-friendly, specially for newcomers to parsing and translation.
- Grako would not have been possible without the vision, the funding, and the trust provided by Thomas Bragg through ResQSoft.
- BUG Incorrect recursion made all model nodes wind up as children of the root node.
- BUG Incorrect invocation of overriden methods in DelegatingRenderingFormatter.
- BUG The whitespace parameter was not being passed consistently, and its interaction with the nameguard parameter was not well thought-out (whitespace=='' must imply nameguard==False).
- Added –whitespace parameter to generated main().
- Tested on Python 3.4.
- The aim of this release is to make the minimum changes necessary to allow downstream translators to have different target languages with as little code replication as possible.
- There's new functionality pulled from downstream in grako.model and grako.rendering. grako.model is now a module instead of a package.
- The Visitor Pattern doesn't make much sense in a dynamically typed language, so the functionality was replaced by more flexible Traverser classes. The new _traverse_XX() methods in Traverser classes carry a leading underscore to remind that they shouldn't be used outside of the protocol.
- Now a _default() method is called in the semantics delegate when no specific method is found. This allows for producing meaningful errors when something in the semantics is missing.
- Added compatiblity with tox, and now tests are performed against the latest releases of Python 2.7.x and 3.2.y, and PyPy 2.2.x.
- There are no bugs detected or fixed in this release. All efforts have been made to maintain backwards compatibility, but only testing will tell.
- Now the @ operator behaves as a special case of the name: operator, allowing for simplification of the grammar, parser, semantics, and Grako grammars. It also allows for expressions such as @+:e, with the expected semantics.
- Refactoring The functionality that was almost identical in generated parsers and in models was refactored into Context.
- BUG! Improve consistency of use Unicode between Python 2.7 and 3.3.
- BUG! Compability betweein Python 2.7/3.x print() statements.
- BUG! The choice operator must restore context even when some of the choices match partially and then fail.
- BUG! Grammar.parse() needs to initialize the AST stack.
- BUG! AST.copy() was too shallow, so an AST could be modified by a closure iteration that matched partially and eventually failed. Now AST.copy() clones AST values of type list to avoid that situation.
- BUG! A failed cut must trickle up the rule-call hierarchy so parsing errors are reported as close to their source as possible.
- Optionally, do not memoize during positive or negative lookaheads. This allows lookaheads to fail semantically without committing to the fail.
- Fixed the implementation of the optional operator so the AST/CST generated when the optional succeeds is exactly the same as if the expression had been mandatory.
- Grouping expressions no longer produce a list as CST.
- BUG! Again, make sure tha closures always return a list.
- Added infrastructure for stateful rules (lambdafu, see the pull request ).
- Again, protect the names of methods for rules with a leading and trailing underscore. It's the only way to avoid unexpected name clashes.
- The bootstrap parser is now the one generated by Grako from the bootstrap grammar.
- Several minor bug fixes (lambdafu).
- Grako no longer assumes that parsers implement the semantics. A separate semantics implementation must be provided. This allows for less poluted namespaces and smaller classes.
- A last_node protocol allowed the removal of all mentions of variable _e from generated parsers, which are thus more readable.
- Refactored closures to be more pythonic (there are no anonymous blocks in Python!).
- Fixes to the antlr2grako example to let it convert over 6000 lines of an ANTLR gramar to Grako.
- Improved rendering of grammars by grammar models.
- Now tokens accept Python escape sequences.
- Added a simple Visitor Pattern for Renderer nodes. Used it to implement diagramming.
- Create a basic diagram of a grammar if pygraphviz is available. Added the --draw option to the command-line tool.
- BUG! Trace information off by one character (thanks to lambdafu).
- BUG! The AST for a closure might fold repeated symbols (thanks to lambdafu).
- BUG! It was not possible to pass buffering parameters such as whitespace to the parser's constructor (thanks to lambdafu).
- Added command-line and parser options to specify the buffering treatment of whitespace and nameguard (lambdafu).
- Several improvements and bug fixes (mostly by lambdafu).
- BUG! Sometimes the AST for a closure ({}) was not a list.
- Semantic actions can now be implemented by a delegate.
- Reset synthetic method count and use decorators to increase readability of generated parsers.
- The Grako EBNF grammar and the bootstrap parser now align, so the grammar can be used to bootstrap Grako.
- The bootstrap parser was refactored to use semantic delegates.
- Proved that grammar models can be pickled, unpickled, and reused.
- Added the antlr example with an ANTLR-to-Grako grammar translator.
- Changed the licensing to simplified BSD.
- Important memory optimization! Remove the memoization information that a cut makes obsolete (thanks to Kota Mizushima).
- Make sure that cut actually applies to the nearest fork.
- Finish aligning model parsing with generated code parsing.
- Report all the rules missing in a grammar before aborting.
- Align the sample etc/grako.ebnf grammar to the language parsed by the bootstrap parser.
- Ensure compatibility with Python 2.7.4 and 3.3.1.
- Update credits.
- Lazy rendering of template fields.
- Optimization of rendering engine's indent() and trim().
- Rendering of iterables using a specified separator, indent, and format.
- Basic documentation of the rendering engine.
- Added a cache of compiled regexps to Buffer.
- Align bootstrap parser with generated parser framework.
- Add cuts to bootstrap parser so errors are reported closer to their origin.
- (minor) BUG! FailedCut exceptions must translate to their nested exeption so the reported line and column make sense.
- Prettify the sample Grako grammar.
- Remove or comment-out code for tagged/named rule names (they don't work, and their usefulness is doubtful).
- Spell-check this document with Vim spell.
- Lint using flake8.
- BUG! Need to preserve state when closure iterations match partially.
- Improved performance by also memoizing exception results and advancement over whitespace and comments.
- Work with Unicode while rendering.
- Improved consistency between the way generated parsers and models parse.
- Added a table of contents to this README.
- Document parseinfo and default it to False.
- Mention the use of context managers.
- First feature-complete release.
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It's all the government's fault we can't have hoonage here in the land of the stars n' stripes. Or at least that's the argument "Maximum" Bob Lutz makes to Jim Mateja of the Chicago Tribune today for why the General's looking to suspend — err, "pause" — development of RWD platforms. Lutz claims
"It's too late to stop Camaro, but anything after that is questionable or on the bubble," said Lutz, noting that also means Camaro derivatives — along with a big Impala sedan, "if we call it Impala."
Ooh, sorry — what was that about the Impala not being called the Impala? Interesting, but we digress. What it...
...comes down to is
"We don't know how to get 30 percent better mileage from RWD cars."
Got it, so — what's it going to take to get 'er done for all of us out there looking for the rear-wheel action?
"We'll decide on our rear-drive cars when the government decides on CO(-2) levels and CAFE regulations...Carbon dioxide is a natural byproduct of burning gas and directly proportional to the amount of fuel burned. If we legislate CO(-2) from cars, why not legislate we take one less breath per minute since humans release capricious amounts of CO(-2) each time they exhale?"
Wait a second — is "Maximum" Bob advocating breathing less? But no Bob, you can't do that — then we'd lose out on all of these priceless quotes.
GM puts brake on rear-drive vehicles [Chicago Tribune via Winding Road]
Frankenstein Continues To Go Greek: GM's New RWD Platform To Be Named Alpha, Get Pieces Of Kappa And Zeta [internal]


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Winchester, town's former finance director, agree to 'prejudgement remedy' in court; freezes but does not repossess assets and home
LITCHFIELD >> Attorneys reached a pre-judgement agreement in the $7.5 million civil suit against Winchester's former finance director, Henry Centrella Monday morning.
Centrella was in the courthouse along with his attorney Robert Dwyer. Centrella's wife, Gregg, who is named in the lawsuit, was not in court, but her attorney, Denise Cloutier of Winsted, was there to represent her.
Officials believe Centrella stole at least $2.25 million from Winchester and Winsted coffers over the course of his 35-year career in the municipality. The lawsuit was filed earlier this month. He told reporters, "No comment," when asked about the stipulated agreement, and what many believe are pending criminal charges. State police said a warrant for Centrella's arrest has not been completed.
Centrella appeared quiet throughout the proceeding, where he was represented by Dwyer, who is also from Winsted. He thumbed through a copy of the stipulated agreement, as Litchfield Superior Court Judge Wilson Trombley approved the agreement freezing Centrella's assets and requiring disclosure of his finances within 60 days.
In the agreement, known as a "prejudgment remedy," town officials agreed not to pursue a civil case before any possible criminal proceedings are completed. The agreement requires disclosure of Centrella's assets within 60 days, but agrees not to repossess his home, cars, or garnish his pension.
Centrella told reporters, "No comment," when approached about the agreement and widespread belief that criminal charges are pending. Dwyer said he would, "In all likelihood" represent Centrella in a criminal proceeding.
Following the proceeding, Winchester Town Manager Dale Martin and town attorney Kevin Nelligan walked out with prosecutor and Litchfield Superior Court State's Attorney David Shepack.
Centrella stayed in the courthouse for several hours before eventually leaving with Dwyer during the court's lunch break, around 1 p.m.
Centrella is being sued by the town of Winchester to recover taxpayer dollars officials believe he embezzled during 35 years of working in finance management for the town. Officials believe Centrella stole at least $2.2 million, although audits by two public finance firms, Blum-Shapiro and King and King, are ongoing. The lawsuit against Centrella was filed July 11.
Until 2012, Centrella was the first and only person to serve as finance director for the town. Though he had no training as a CPA he worked his way through the ranks into his position as finance director.
In his 35-year tenure with the town, Centrella was given several commendations for his work. Throughout the years he was given awards for excellence in record-keeping. His personnel file is riddled with certificates of achievement from the Government Financial Officers Association for financial reporting.
Though Centrella was regularly recognized for his excellence, he was suspended in fall of 2012 pending the completion of the 2010-11 audit that was months late.
His lack of cooperation with the town to supply information needed to complete the audit raised enough suspicion to suspend Centrella who had filed for retirement one month before his unpaid leave.
Winsted Town Manager Dale Martin said the prejudgment remedy will also prevent Centrella from collecting the accrued time he earned while working with the town.
Centrella's accrued time has been an on ongoing issue for the town since he was hired in 1977. Over the course of his employment, several town managers urged him to stop working overtime in an effort to accrue comp pay.
Centrella regularly requested to be compensated for his overtime though management continuously sent him, and other employees, memos stating that workers outside of a union will not be paid for overtime work. Centrella was not a union worker.
Along with his frequent requests to be paid for what the current finance director, Robin Manuele, has called and "unrealistic" amount of overtime, Winsted officials are looking into a W-2 tax scheme that yielded the former director more than $187,000.
In an address to the public during the July 15 Board of Selectmen meeting, Nelligan said between the txw scheme and the statuary theft of taxpayer money, the town lost a total of $2.25 million dollars.
Centrella has been describe by his coworkers and neighbors as "standoffish" and "recluse." One neighbor mentioned never seeing him or the family. However she remembered the extensive work the Centrella's had done on the retaining wall outside of their home.
Dale Martin said Monday's hearing went as expected and that the civil suit will be put on hold pending the criminal trial.
Detective Mike Fitzsimons of the State Police Western District Major Crime Squad said Monday a criminal investigation is ongoing.
It could take several months for the criminal probe to be completed. In a similar case in Oxford, then-tax collector Karen Guillet was accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the town. She was suspended in 2009 and not charged by state police for nearly two years. In 2012 she was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to four years in prison.
While the civil case and ongoing criminal investigation signal some progress in the case, it could take even longer for the town to recover any or all of the money officials claim Centrella stole.
The town and auditors are attempting to locate any other assets Centrella may have and through the civil suit have frozen his pension and back pay owed to him. In addition to a civil judgment, a criminal conviction could mean Centrella would owe Winchester restitution, but it remains unclear to what extent he could pay back any funds he possibly stole.
Centrella's Gilbert Avenue home is valued at around $140,000. It's not yet known what other assets he has in his, or his wife's, name.
The prejudgment remedy agreement is limited to the allegations in the initial filing, but both parties can file modifications in the future.


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Born Ronald William Artest Jr. on Nov. 13, 1979, in Queensbridge, New York, Artest changed his name to Metta World Peace in September 2011, in an effort to encourage dialogue over physical violence and promote good will toward all. He is the father of four children. World Peace signed with the New York Knicks in July 2013 and has been playing professional basketball in the NBA since 1999. He was selected to the 2005-06 NBA's All-Defensive Team, was voted by the media as 2003-04 NBA's Defensive Player of the Year, and was the only man with 271 steals in his first two seasons in the NBA, breaking Michael Jordan's record. He won his first NBA World Championship with the LA Lakers in June, 2010, and received the J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award - the NBA's highest citizenship and community service honor - in April 2011. World Peace was selected by the Chicago Bulls as the 16th pick of the 1999 NBA Draft. In his career he has also played for the Indiana Pacers, Saramento Kings, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Lakers, and now the New York Knicks. World Peace is known as a colorful, fun and entertaining persona. His off-court activities include several entertainment-related projects and a significant amount of charitable work in the community. In August 2007 he formed his nonprofit, "Xcel University," to officially organize and streamline his charitable contributions and community endeavors under one umbrella. In fall 2010, World Peace raffled off his 2010 NBA World Championship Ring. The online ring raffle, which concluded on December 25, 2010, raised over $650,000. Funds raised through the ring raffle were donated to nonprofits that provide mental health therapists and mental health services to their communities, in cities including Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Cleveland, New York, Little Rock, and the central Tennessee region. World Peace helped Congresswoman Napolitano launch "The Mental Health in Schools Act" and made a visit to Washington, D.C. in February 2011 and again in February 2013 to encourage congressional members to vote for the Act, which would increase mental health services for children. World Peace has visited dozens of community centers and schools in low income areas of numerous cities throughout his career, speaking to kids about the virtues of education and a life devoid of violence and drugs, and the importance of asking for help when one needs it. He has sponsored numerous summer basketball tournaments in the Queensbridge Projects in New York City and continues to pay for private school tuition for kids from Queensbridge who show academic promise.
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While the typical procurement process has been around for decades, three states are breaking the mold when it comes to how vendors can respond to requests for proposals.
The Request for Proposal, or RFP, a tool used to solicit business from the private sector, has long been a staple of government procurement offices. Typically, they receive lengthy responses, often in the form of large binders holding hundreds of pages detailing how a company would tackle a project.
While the typical procurement process has been around for decades, three states are breaking the mold when it comes to how vendors can respond to RFPs.
Montana, Utah and Colorado are experimenting with allowing companies to submit their project proposals on iPads, instead of the traditional method of printing and mailing multiple copies of documents. The change is saving vendors production costs and making the proposal review process a lot easier for state agencies.
Montana seems to have started the trend. Sheryl Olson, deputy director for the Montana Department of Administration, said a technology vendor initially posed the question of using iPads for proposal submissions in December 2010, during the question and answer period of the state's RFP process for its Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS), one of the more complex and expensive data systems run by state government.
At the time, the vendor estimated it would save $50,000 if it didn't have to submit its proposal in notebooks as the RFP originally required. Ultimately, the request was granted and all three responses to Montana's RFP arrived on Apple's popular tablet device.
Since then, Montana has done a total of four RFPs with tablets, not paper, as the preferred medium. The first three RFPs made the iPad proposal submission optional. The fourth made it mandatory. Olson said the immediate benefit was no longer having cumbersome binders for evaluators to haul around to their desks, homes and public meetings.
"It is just a more practical idea to have an iPad in your fist to review instead of two feet of documents," Olson explained. "That's beside the obvious benefit that it's greener and we like that."
Utah tried the iPad proposal idea earlier this summer. Similar to Montana, Utah's health department was seeking a vendor for an MMIS project. A vendor recommended the iPad option and both responses Utah received for its RFP came in on iPads. Pam Rugg, purchasing agent in the Utah Department of Administrative Services, said the team that reviewed the proposals were thrilled with the convenience iPads provided them.
"They liked the idea the proposal was all in one place and they didn't have to be carrying paper and loose leaf [notebooks]," Rugg explained. "It was nice that they had it in a smaller document and just carried it wherever they went. So if they had any downtime they could look and study it."
Colorado is about to give iPad proposals a try too. The state is redesigning its MMIS and will require any company bidding on the project to submit proposals on seven Apple iPads or newer tablets.
As with any change brought on by the adoption of technology, early adopters sometimes face early challenges. Montana has placed a moratorium on the submission of tablets for the near future. According to Olson, staff have been hesitant to use them and raised a number of questions that remain to be answered.
A chief concern is a need to change the procurement template Montana uses. Right now, it reads whatever items are submitted becomes the property of the state. Montana wants to make sure the tablets go back to the vendors so there's no public perception of state agencies inheriting the devices. The other issue has to do with deleting content from the iPad after the RFP process has ended.
"We're having our attorney and IT people take a quick look so that when we scrub them or return them to factory settings, there's no chance residual information is going to be left on there," Olson said. "Our people are writing their crib notes on there about the proposals."
Utah decided to send the two iPads it received to the state surplus department after wiping the devices' memories clean. Rugg said the vendors didn't want them back, so the iPads will be sold. Colorado is undecided about what to do with the iPads it expects to receive.
Williams said Colorado anticipates receiving numerous responses and is concerned about the cost of returning them and the liability in the event an iPad was mistakenly returned to a wrong vendor. They haven't yet decided whether to return or keep the devices.
Montana is also seeking to develop some best practices before making iPad submission a permanent possibility with future procurements. Olson said some of the issues the state is considering is whether to open up to other types of tablet devices and if so, what the standards are going to be.
Other concerns have to do with the digital format vendors should use. Should there be just one or more?
"We don't want mixed media as you would imagine," Olson said. "We're just plowing new ground and we want to get it right."
This story was originally published on governing.com.
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To the half million of you who have visited in the past 48 hours: Welcome! Thanks for coming. As I've stayed awake watching you all leave comments and links, reposting and retweeting, I've pondered not only such grandiose matters as the smallness of the world and the ability of the internet to connect us, but have also grappled with practical issues: What Would Sudeep Do (WWSD)?
I have decided that intrepid commenter Sudeep would now ask you all to do your part to keep up the madness and send me photos of the fake Apple stores you've seen.
Before we get into the intricate nest of issues around intellectual property rights in general, and specifically in China, let's take a moment and admit that all of this ripoff junk is amazing. When it's poorly done, it's hilarious and a little sad. When it's brilliantly done, it makes you stand back and wonder – the attention to detail, the belief that customers can be fooled, the willingness even to hire people and taken them unknowingly along with you on your little ruse.
Have you seen Apples stores that you think are fake in another part of China? Tonga? Dar es Salaam? Send your photos to me at birdabroadblog [AT] gmail [DOT] com. The higher quality the fake, the better. A few people have already sent in photos – if good ones keep rolling in, I'll put them up here. Please include the location (as specifically as possible), the date you took the photo and how you'd like to be credited. Do yourself a favor, and check Apple's website first to see if it's an actual Apple reseller.
Speaking of which, to address the main issue that people have been getting all bent out of shape about: the stores I photographed do not appear to be authorized Apple sellers. The list of resellers in Kunming that Apple's website has published does not include the locations that I photographed. An employee at the main store photographed has confirmed that it is not an authorized reseller. Apple itself has confirmed that it is a fake.
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It is hard to decide who to pity more these early August Dog Days, the frustrated saltwater angler who hasn't seen a live fish in three weeks, the bait and tackle shop owners who haven't seen many live customers, or the subject-challenged fishing columnist who hasn't heard a positive report since June.
Call me biased, but I choose the last one.
When I stopped at Harborside Bait & Tackle Monday afternoon, counterman Bill Blotney put up his hands like a traffic cop trying to keep a car from driving into a sinkhole.
"I hope you aren't looking for any fishing reports," he said, "because there isn't any."
I had no reason to doubt this assessment having just returned from a four-hour voyage that covered perhaps a 20-mile triangle from the mouth of the Housatonic to Middleground Light, to the breakwaters outside Bridgeport Harbor, and back to the Housy. The result: one bread loaf-sized striper and a very sweaty shirt.
I could have spun on a heel and headed for the nearest suds dispenser for a cool one, but I decided to stick around and shoot the breeze (read: commiserate) with Blotney.
Once we exhausted our exasperation with the local fishing, Blotney's face brightened a bit.
"I took a nice 30-pound striper up in Clinton last week," he admitted.
Really. Clinton is not all that far away. Maybe all is not lost.
Friday, as I made my usual info-collection rounds, all indications were that the fishing had not improved one whit in the succeeding four days. Anglers I spoke with generally just rolled their eyes when the inevitable question about how they had been doing lately popped up. Then I hit Jimmy O's Bait & Tackle in Black Rock. Anyone who knows Jimmy knows that he's not known for pessimism when it comes to the subject of the availability of fish.
"It's a night fishery right now," he said. "The guys who are willing to put in the time and lose a little sleep will catch fish. There is even some fluke around -- not a lot -- but some. It's in the shallow water. The shore guys are getting them."
As if on cue, Paul Sidoriak, a Fairfielder who is temporarily living in Stratford while his house, damaged in Hurricane Sandy, is being repaired, walked in the door. Sidoriak is the current president of the Westport Striped Bass Club and is paired with Jimmy in today's Interclub Bluefish Tournament. After making sure Jimmy was ready for the 5 a.m. tournament starting time, Sidoriak told of his Sunday fishing trip in local waters that had netted one large striper and two bluefish in addition to several exciting runoffs.
Later, the weekly emailed report from River's End Bait & Tackle in Old Saybrook had good news for fishermen thinking about a trip to Connecticut's Eastern Coast: "We're pretty much on the typical August schedule, slow start and hopefully a strong finish with bigger bass. Still, a fair number of bass and some good-sized ones on the local reefs, mostly on live bait. Bunker days, eels night."
That's good advice for Western Long Island Sound anglers, too.
If the bass and big blues are not cooperating, the blue crab season is just about at its peak. Try trapping or netting in the little devils in the daylight or grab a flashlight and a pole for after-dark work.
So there it is. Pity not the subject-challenged columnist, the prayer is in the boat.


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The Finest Traditions of My Calling One Physician's Search for the Renewal of Medicine Abraham M. Nussbaum
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Patients and doctors alike are keenly aware that the medical world is in the midst of great change. We live in an era of continuous healthcare reforms, many of which focus on high volume, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. This compelling, thoughtful book is the response of a practicing psychiatrist who explains how population-based reforms have diminished the relationship between doctors and patients, to the detriment of both. As an antidote to failed reforms and an alternative to stubbornly held traditions, Dr. Abraham M. Nussbaum suggests ways that doctors and patients can learn what it means to be ill and to seek medical assistance.
Using a variety of riveting stories from his own and others' experiences, the author develops a series of metaphors to explore a doctor's role in different healthcare reform scenarios: scientist, technician, author, gardener, teacher, servant, and witness. Each role influences what a physician sees when examining a person as a patient. Dr. Nussbaum cautions that true healthcare reform can happen only when those who practice medicine can see, and be seen by, their patients as fellow creatures. His memoir makes a hopeful appeal for change, and his insights reveal the direction that change must take.
"A less ambitious writer would have contented himself with the details. But Dr. Nussbaum steers his narrative directly to the hard questions about 21st-century medicine, a profession just about as variously troubled as his patients. . . . He writes beautifully, in a lucid prose as notable for its process as its conclusions: The reader can actually watch him think. . . . Many medical memoirs are one-shot deals, offered to the public purely to unburden the author. From these books, readers and writer all move on with some relief. In Dr. Nussbaum's case, we will eagerly await the next volume in the set."—Abigail Zuger, M.D., New York Times
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Mindfulness practice is one of the best-validated and practical methods by which the brain can modify its own functioning in a positive way. BMW Summer Institute students will learn not only the practices but also the theoretical background behind mindfulness practices in the Mindfulness Practice and Theory (MPT) course. Then the neuroscientific bases of these exciting practices will be examined further in the course Personal Brain Management (PBM); the PBM course will also survey research on mindfulness and how it effects brain structure, functions and neuroplasticity. The core mindfulness practices are taught in a secular way in the MPT course, yet these practices derive from ancient methods that were cultivated and refined in Asian religious, philosophical, and medical systems. The core principles of traditional Chinese medicine that are linked to mindfulness practices will be reviewed in the companion course Integrative East/West Medicine (IEWM).
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Every payday, you have Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) and Self-Employed Contributions Act (SECA) taxes deducted from your paycheck. Nearly all of these contributions are used to pay Social Security benefits to more than 60 million retired, disabled, and widowed workers and their children, as well as to Medicare beneficiaries. A very small amount also helps pay for the work it takes to manage Social Security programs.
Providing Social Security services to the public is a big job. We have fewer than 64,000 employees in offices across the country handling millions of transactions yearly — taking applications, answering questions in person and on the phone, verifying benefit amounts, and reviewing appeals, among other things. The cost of doing these services is less than one penny out of each dollar paid in FICA and SECA taxes, which is a very good value.Lawmakers in Congress decide each year how much money we can use to manage our programs and pay our staff. Because that hasn't been settled yet, we're operating under a continuing resolution (CR) with less funding than last year. This is not new for us. In fact, the amount we have to run our programs is 10 percent lower than it was in 2010, after adjusting for inflation. At the same time, the number of beneficiaries we serve has gone up by 13 percent. So, we have fewer resources to serve more people.
We made some difficult decisions because of these latest budget limits. During the past year, we began a hiring freeze that will reduce our staff to the lowest level since FY 2013. We use a lot less overtime now, which affects our ability to reduce critical backlogs. Over a million people are waiting for a hearing to see if they are eligible for disability benefits.
Today, we are taking another cost-saving step. We will mail fewer paper Social Security Statements. Paper Statements will only be sent to people age 60 and over, who are not getting benefits and don't have a my Social Security account. This will bring down the costs of processing and mailing paper Statements by $11.3 million in FY 2017.
We know that our cutbacks will affect many of you, but we have no choice. We will continue to serve you and work for you as best we can. Congress has until April 28, 2017, to pass a spending bill for the full year or pass another CR. While we can't predict our budget level for the rest of the fiscal year, we think there may be more bumps in our journey together. We'll do our best to get through them so you will have a secure today and tomorrow.


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Reports have confirmed actress Sophia Loren will be returning to the big screen in a short film by her son Edoardo Ponti being filmed in Naples. After a nearly decade long hiatus, news of Loren's return to acting reminds us how well the celebrated Italian star embodies old Hollywood glam, from her bombshell beginnings all the way to her most recent red carpet appearances.
Even at 78, Loren still stuns with her signature pout and glowing skin. And while gone may be the days of short dresses and sultry shots, she still knows how to flaunt her assets in bold dresses and bling.


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Bing: Microsoft Launching New Rival to Google?
Microsoft, acknowledging its weakness in the web search market, plans a major ad campaign and rebrand for its Live Search product this Spring, essentially mounting an ad war against Google and Yahoo.
While the name of the new challenger has yet to be confirmed, an AdAge article published today suggests the rebrand might include a name change to "Bing", along with an $80 to $100 million ad campaign. Google, by comparison, spent a total of $25 million on ads in 2008. Ads will appear on the web, TV, radio, newspapers and magazines.
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People with knowledge of the planned push said the ads won't go after Google, or Yahoo for that matter, by name. Instead, they'll focus on planting the idea that today's search engines don't work as well as consumers previously thought by asking them whether search (aka Google) really solves their problems. That, Microsoft is hoping, will give consumers a reason to consider switching search engines, which, of course, is one of Bing's biggest challenges....
Indeed, data show that about 65% of people are satisfied or very satisfied with online search. But Microsoft sees an opening on its own proprietary search data: 42% of searches require refinement, and 25% of clicks are the back button.
We'd like to think that what matters in search is the results: Google wins simply because it provides a better experience, serving up the information we want faster and with less effort than rival search engines.
Ads versus Better Products
Microsoft has enjoyed success with recent ad campaigns: the "Laptop Hunters" ads have lowered young people's value perception of the Apple brand while increasing the perception that PCs offer good value, AdAge reported previously. This hit, however, followed a major flop with Microsoft's "Seinfeld" ads.
And yet the Laptop Hunter ads highlighted Apple's weakness at a time of economic struggle: Apple products are indeed more expensive (although Mac supporters would argue that they still offer greater value). By contrast, to make the case that Microsoft's new search engine is somehow better than Google - a feat they're unlikely to achieve any time soon - is essentially misinformation.
Can Microsoft advertise its way out of its web search rut? It seems unlikely.


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The Citizen's Clean Election Commission would be consolidated with the Arizona Secretary of State's office and take on added responsibilities for overseeing election law violations and lobbyist reporting under a bill approved by a Senate committee Tuesday.
The proposal approved by the Appropriations Committee would allow the voter-created commission to still do its work independently but add some responsibilities and bring operational efficiencies, Secretary of State Ken Bennett said. The bill also would restore a so-called "tax checkoff" included in the law creating the commission that was eliminated by the Legislature last year.
The bill would require any extra money the commission has to be turned over to Bennett's office to help pay for replacing election equipment. The state needs millions of dollars to buy new voting equipment in the coming years.
"We're not trying to change anything about what works well in the commission, which are many, many things," Bennett said. "What we're trying to do is create some synergies, create some funding mechanisms for the monies to help improve the elections systems as a whole, which is consistent with what the voters originally passed when they created the commission."
Bennett and commission executive director Todd Lang said the merger will strengthen the commission's role by adding oversight of lobbyists and other election laws to its current campaign finance oversight. It also would eliminate problems that have occurred when competing candidates hold powerful elected office. For example, Bennett's office now refers elections law issues to the Attorney General's Office, creating a potential conflict if that person is subject to a probe.
The non-partisan, five-member Commission created by voters in 1998 provides funding for state office candidates who agree to forego private financing. It was intended to increase participation and voter confidence in the election system and elected officials, Lang said.
"And this would allow us to enforce all the lobbying, all articles of election law and financial disclosure with that non-partisan commission," Lang said. "I think that builds voter confidence. At the same time it allows us to upgrade election equipment that's really important to Mr. Bennett and the Secretary of State's office."
The Commission is a regular target of opponents in the Legislature, who dispute that and say public money should be used for campaigns and have tried to have it eliminated. Proponents contend that public campaign funding reduces the influence of special interests in elections and government.


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Penang Toy Museum
Located on the Penang Island, the Toy Museum is definitely one of the attractions available. I've always wanted to visit this museum ever since I heard about it.
An entrance costs Malaysian citizens RM10 while it's sightly higher for foreign visitors. I wonder why. Hmm…
Anyway, I personally think this museum is boring and I hope this entry won't bore you. I just wanna share some insights about this museum.
The museum has a few categories, but they are not divided into different sections. In fact, all the toys are displayed in one big hall.
Once you enter the museum, you'll feel that it's like a maze. The routes are quite messy.
As expected, you get to see cool superhero figurines.
My favourite Iron Man, with Superman. I don't understand why they put Mickey Mouse in the same exhibition compartment. So not cool.
Besides that, they have Barbie dolls as well.
My beautiful girlfriend, in the middle, with her hot girl friends!
Mini Godzilla. Rawr!
For the Star Wars fans, this is Darth Vader unmasked.
Seeing him reminds me of this…
It's a Darth Vader condom. It means "I will NOT be your father!" in French.
Next, some cool Ultramans!
I used to love watching them when I was a little kid.
This is Lara and Stitch. Yes, Lara Croft is so much hotter – move aside Lilo.
Besides all that I've shown here, there are actually plenty of other toys on display. It's said that the museum houses over 100,000 toys, dolls and others fun collectibles.
Anyway, regarding the place – it's quite obvious that the museum is quite badly maintained.
Especially the footpaths inside the museum. Some places are squeaky, some are bouncy and the protruding edges of the glassed tiles are pretty dangerous.
All they do is just stick yellow tapes as a caution sign. Some improvements should be done right?
And by the way, there's also the Chamber of Horror.
Frankly, it's neither horrifying nor scary. But if Chucky and his friends are "alive", then I'll sure run away lah!
Alright, overall – the place is not bad. If you've never been there, visit it. But one visit is sufficient, really.
Oh yeah, I would like to mention the section I like the most – the Japanese Anime Dolls section. Just look at the cool collection of anime dolls.
I like the bow and arrows. And her white hair is cute. So kawaii!
This one, her hair style very nice hor? Cute face too!
This girl's hair is so brown, also very nice!
Tell me, don't you just adore their cool hair styles? I do! ;)


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Since 2011, Lafayette General and Cardiovascular Institute of the South have pioneered a partnership to create a hospital-physician co-management agreement. The purpose of the agreement was to allow CIS cardiologists to be the decision makers in developing and achieving the high standards of heart and cardiovascular care Lafayette General strives to achieve. Remaining authority for clinical, budgetary, technology and quality decision-making remains with the Lafayette General administration.
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This mutually beneficial partnership has had tremendous results. It has fostered drastically better patient outcomes, stronger quality measures, shorter lengths of stay, reduced readmissions and higher patient satisfaction surveys for cardiology patients.
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News about healthcare and medicine in China | An independent site by Michael Woodhead
Saturday, 22 December 2012
China will drive growth in interventional cardiology
Most of this growth will come from increased numbers of procedures in China and India, while procedural growth in Australia and South Korea will be flat, according to Millennium Research Group. Competition and reimbursement restrictions will push average selling prices (ASP) down in all national markets.
The United States and Europe will also see flat procedural growth and declining ASPs. As a result, manufacturers are looking to India and China for market expansion and revenue growth. Both countries have a large population base with increasing disposable incomes and increasing rates of diseases such as coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes and hypertension that increase the number of required coronary interventions.
There are a number of obstacles to expansion in these markets, however. China, for example, has a number of strong local competitors, with the majority of revenue going to local companies such as Ji Wei and Lepu Medical. Local companies tend to offer considerably cheaper devices, and have good long-term relationships with hospitals and doctors. Foreign companies are increasingly making attempts to level the playing field in China by creating local manufacturing, local training centers, expanding their sales force, or through mergers and acquisitions.
"China is a particularly strong adopter of drug-eluting stents (DES)," said MRG Analyst Mirel Giugaru. "DES are the biggest revenue earners in any interventional cardiology market. Patients are becoming highly aware of DES, and perceive them as the best available treatment option, creating strong demand. A number of local competitors offer DES in China, so penetration of the technology is high. In India, by contrast, DES adoption is lower, because the price of the devices is unaffordable for a large segment of the population."
Prices in China will continue to drop as the government increasingly relies on local tendering systems to control costs. Sources indicate that it is planning to cut DES prices by about 15 percent in the near future.
Millennium Research Group's Asia Pacific Markets for Interventional Cardiology Devices 2013 report includes unit, installed base, average selling price and revenue information, along with market drivers and limiters and competitive landscape for coronary stents, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) balloon catheters, and accessory devices sold in Australia, China, India and South Korea.
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If you thought porcupines were nothing but prickly blobs who stick their quills in you, think again! They're actually very cute—though those claws are a little intimidating—and not shy about telling you what they think. For instance, Teddy Bear the North American porcupine has a lot to say on the topic of corn! True, he comes off like a cuddly (if you could get past the pokes) curmudgeon, but who can blame him for not wanting to give up his corn on the cob? That stuff is delicious.
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The revival of the abandoned law of stoning
Shadi Sadr gives a brief background on stoning cases in the last 10 years. She then explains how adultery is proven in Iranian courts using "judges finding" (see narrative), instead of witnesses or confession. She also explains how in many cases, the execution of stoning is carried out before the execution of other punishments such as imprisonment, contrary to Article 98 of the Islamic Penal Code stating that lighter punishments must be carried out before more severe sentences.
Sadr, Shadi (Translated by Meriyam)
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The BikeBrand Your Biz program focuses on increasing the number of bicycle-friendly organizations in the city in order to reduce traffic congestion and fuel consumption and improve the overall quality of life for those who live and work in the District.
Elements of a successful bike-friendly program may include the installation of streetside bicycle racks, secure bicycle parking Capital Bikeshare corporate memberships, education and information for employees, transportation fringe benefits for bicycle commuters and more.
Visit the goDCgo, for more information on how goDCgo and DDOT can help you reach your bike-friendly goals.
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Program Title: BikeBrand Your Biz
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