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PORTLAND, Ore. — A gunman who opened fire on shoppers at a Portland mall had no connection to the two people he fatally shot and wanted to kill as many people as possible, police said Wednesday.
The shooter, who wore a mask, was a young man who fired randomly, investigators said. The only person wounded was a young woman, Kristina Shevchenko, whose age could not be confirmed. She was in serious condition at Oregon Health & Science University Hospital in Portland.
Police said they had tentatively identified the gunman but would not release his name or give any information on a possible motive.
"It really was a killing of total strangers, to my knowledge at this point and time. He was really trying to kill as many people as possible," Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts told ABC's "Good Morning America."
People at the mall were heroic in helping get shoppers out of the building, including off-duty emergency room nurses who rendered aid, Roberts said.
In response to previous mass shootings elsewhere, the first arriving officers were trained to form teams and go inside instead of waiting for SWAT. Employees at the mall also received training to handle such a situation.
"This could have been much, much worse," Roberts said.
The first 911 call came at 3:29 p.m. Tuesday. The first officers arrived a minute later. By 3:51 p.m., all the victims and the gunman and rifle had been found. Four SWAT teams spent hours clearing the 1.4 million square-foot mall, leaving shoppers and workers to hide in fear.
The mall Santa, Brance Wilson, was waiting for the next child's Christmas wish when shots rang out, causing the mall to erupt into chaos.
About to invite a child to hop onto his lap, Wilson instead dove for the floor and kept his head down as he heard shots being fired upstairs in the mall.
"I heard two shots and got out of the chair. I thought a red suit was a pretty good target," said Wilson, 68. Families waiting for Santa scattered. More shots followed, and Wilson crept away for better cover.
Witnesses said the gunman fired several times near the mall food court until the rifle jammed and he dropped a magazine onto the floor, then ran into the Macy's store.
Witnesses heard the gunman saying, "I am the shooter," as he fired rounds from a semi-automatic rifle inside the Clackamas Town Center, a popular suburban mall several miles from downtown Portland.
Some were close enough to the shooter to feel the percussion of his gun.
Police rapid-response teams came into the mall with guns drawn, telling everyone to leave. Shoppers and mall employees who were hiding stayed in touch with loved ones with cellphones and texting.
Kayla Sprint, 18, was interviewing for a job at a clothing store when she heard shots.
"We heard people running back here screaming, yelling '911,'" she told The Associated Press.
Sprint barricaded herself in the store's back room until the coast was clear.
Jason DeCosta, a manager of a window-tinting company that has a display on the mall's ground floor, said when he arrived to relieve his co-worker, he heard shots ring out upstairs.
DeCosta ran up an escalator, past people who had dropped for cover and glass littering the floor.
"I figure if he's shooting a gun, he's gonna run out of bullets," DeCosta said, "and I'm gonna take him."
DeCosta said when he got to the food court, "I saw a gentleman face down, obviously shot in the head."
"A lot of blood," DeCosta said. "You could tell there was nothing you could do for him."
He said he also saw a woman on the floor who had been shot in the chest.
Austin Patty, 20, who works at Macy's, said he saw a man in a white mask carrying a rifle and wearing a bulletproof vest. There was a series of rapid-fire shots in short succession as Christmas music played. Patty said he dove for the floor and then ran.
His Macy's co-worker, Pam Moore, told the AP the gunman was short, with dark hair.
Kira Rowland told KGW-TV that she was shopping at Macy's with her infant son when the shots started.
"All of a sudden you hear two shots, which sounded like balloons popping," Rowland told the station. "Everybody got on the ground. I grabbed the baby from the stroller and got on the ground."
Rowland said she heard people screaming and crying.
"I put the baby back in the stroller and ran," Rowland said.
Kaelynn Keelin was working two stores down from Macy's when the gunfire began. She watched windows of another store get shot out. She and her co-workers ran to get customers inside their own store to take shelter.
"If we would have run out, we would have run right into it," she said.
Shaun Wik, 20, was Christmas shopping with his girlfriend and opened a fortune cookie at the food court. Inside was written: "Live for today. Remember yesterday. Think of tomorrow."
As he read it, he heard three shots. He heard a man he believes was the gunman shout, "Get down!" but Wik and his girlfriend ran. He heard seven or eight more shots. He didn't turn around.
"If I had looked back, I might not be standing here," Wik said. "I might have been one of the ones who got hit."
Clackamas Town Center is one of the Portland area's biggest and busiest malls, with 185 stores and a 20-screen movie theater.
Holli Bautista, 28, was shopping at Macy's for a Christmas dress for her daughter when she heard pops that sounded like firecrackers. "I heard people running and screaming and saying 'Get out, there's somebody shooting,'" she told the AP.
She said hundreds of shoppers and mall employees started running, and she and dozens of other people were trying to escape through a department store exit.
Tiffany Turgetto and her husband were leaving Macy's through the first floor when they heard gunshots coming from the second floor of the mall. They were able to leave quickly through a Barnes & Noble bookstore before the police locked down the mall.
"I had left my phone at home. I was telling people to call 911. Surprisingly, people are around me, no one was calling 911. I think people were in shock," she said.


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Action Alert – Take Action Californians!
Our BDSM communities could be adversely impacted by a well-intentioned, but overly broad, piece of proposed criminal legislation that has been introduced by Senator Christine Kehoe in the California Senate. NCSF is asking all of you to sign and send to NCSF letters (a draft is attached below) that we can introduce if necessary at a hearing likely to be held in April, 2011.
The purpose of the bill, SB 430, is to permit effective prosecution of strangulation or suffocation "in domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and elder abuse cases." But the bill's application could go far beyond those situations and result in felony prosecutions for use of hoods, gags and the like in BDSM play. There would be no requirement of "an intent to kill or injure," or of "visible injuries," and there is no mention of consent as a defense.
NCSF has been in touch with Senator Kehoe's staff, which has seemed sympathetic, and has proposed modifications of the bill's language that would address our concerns. Now we need to follow up by presenting at the hearing as many letters as possible that support the goal of prosecuting domestic violence, but only if language is inserted that protects our communities.
We urge you to sign the attached letter, modified as you see fit, and send it back to NCSF.
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom
822 Guilford Avenue, Box 127
Baltimore, MD 21202-3707
Dear NCSF:
I fully support the worthy goal of Senator Kehoe's proposed legislation, to ensure that strangulation and suffocation can be effectively prosecuted in cases of domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse and elder abuse. But I am very concerned that SB 430 as now worded might be used to prosecute elements of non-harmful, consensual BDSM (Bondage, Domination/submission, Sadomasochism) activity between adults, such as the use of gags or hoods. This could subject millions of tax paying, law-abiding Americans to criminal prosecution, merely for engaging in erotic, mutually pleasurable conduct.
Therefore I and thousands of other Californians would be able to support this otherwise valuable legislation only if it is modified by specifically excluding non-assault activities.
I join you in urging Senator Kehoe to incorporate in this bill the language NCSF has proposed.
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Did you look at the lists of the bookies' favorites for the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature and think, "There's no way Philip Roth or Amos Oz is going to get the award this year"? I did for an obvious reason: The Swedish Academy said it was going to announce the winner on Yom Kippur. And I couldn't believe the Academy would be so religiously tone-deaf as to ask a Jewish writer to take a call from the judges — and face the ensuing media onslaught — on a high holy day. The judges would have looked like cretins even if the winner had been too overjoyed to object. In naming the day of the prize, the Academy all but told Roth and Oz to forget it.
The question is: Why did the Academy decide to announce the winner on Yom Kippur in the first place? To my knowledge no important literary prizes are awarded on major religious holidays. That timing may reflect a literary reality as much as a respect for people's spirituality: Writers get so few prizes that they deserve to be able enjoy them when they do.
To much of the world, the Nobel Prize in literature represents high culture and Hollywood stands for low. But even the Academy Awards presenters don't hand out the Oscars on Easter. By deciding to award the literature prize on Yom Kippur, the Swedish Academy has made Hollywood look like a pillar of good taste.
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ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, MO – According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a car crash on US-67 left one woman injured after her car hit an embankment. The crash happened just after 2:30 p.m. Monday near Cash lane.
The accident occurred after the driver of a Chevrolet 1500 tried to evade police in pursuit and lost control of her vehicle. The Chevrolet swerved off the side of the road and hit an embankment.
The driver sustained moderate injures and was transported to Mercy Hospital Jefferson.
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People like to joke that it's not fair when someone extraordinarily beautiful also has a great personality. Life's gifts should be handed out more equitably: The pimply faced loser should not also have to bear the burden of being a total drip, the supermodel should not be blessed with razor-sharp mind. A similar sort of thought wandered through my head as I devoured the first five episodes of the new, second season of FX's The Americans, but instead of decrying the unequal allotment of resources, I was too busy enjoying them. The Americans is a spy series, an action show, a romance, a period piece, and a love story with plot that would be fun to watch if it had not one thought in its badly bewigged yet still extremely pretty little head (I always liked Alias)—but instead of no thoughts it has many. It is a kicky, swift-moving ride that uses its double agent protagonists to explore the divided loyalties and self-delusions that plague all humans, not just extremely attractive and bad-ass Soviet spies. The extremely attractive and bad-ass Soviet spies do, of course, help make the show's headier messages go down very easy.
In the first season, we were introduced to Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Phillip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), two deep cover double agents enjoying a comfortable life in Reagan-era America (living outside D.C., working at a travel agency) while also operating on the very front lines of the Cold War. Moscow had placed them in an arranged, fraught, long-term marriage that time, children, and enforced intimacy had rendered almost indistinguishable from a real one. Over the course of the season, Phillip and Elizabeth made their marriage, for the first time, entirely real to one another. They finally fell in love. The cover became the truth.
The new season tackles another cover that has never been just a pretense for Phillip and Elizabeth: parenthood. The show picks up a few months after it left off, with Elizabeth finally returning home to her husband and two children, fully recovered from the gunshot wound she sustained in the season finale. Almost immediately, Elizabeth and Phillip are forced to confront the extent to which their spy duties conflict with their parental responsibilities, the extent to which they have already, unthinkingly, put Mother Russia before their American children.
Meanwhile, Philip and Elizabeth's daughter Paige (Holly Taylor) is increasingly suspicious of her parents, both because she is intuitive (there's a lot to be suspicious of) and because she is adolescent (parents are strange!). The show has previously winked at the ways that being a KGB agent is not so dissimilar from being a sort of organic-products-obsessed parent—No TV! War on the mall! It now highlights the ways that living with a teenager, even a regular one, is not so dissimilar from living with a burgeoning double agent, an intimate who is often hostile to and suspicious of the regime of parental authority, and ready to carve out an identity all her own.
Just about every character on The Americans is some kind of double agent, whether they know it or not. Martha (Alison Wright), Phillip's other wife—Elizabeth and Phillip's marriage is solid, but not uncomplicated—thinks she's just helping her government-employee husband do his job by sneaking a microphone into the head of FBI-counterintelligence's office, but she's also committing a treasonable offense. FBI agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) may be doing everything he can to catch Russian spies, but he lies endlessly at home. He's cheating on his wife with a Soviet attaché Nina (Annet Mahendru), whom he only thinks he is running, but is actually running him—she's the show's first triple agent.
The Americans is one of the few series on TV that has accrued, over time, not more male characters, but more female ones. Nina and Martha were both deservingly added to the cast as regulars in the off-season, and with Elizabeth they illustrate the power and dangers of using and being used by sex. Elizabeth, who was once raped and emotionally shut down with Phillip for decades as a result, still regularly works as a honey pot. Nina uses sex to control Stan, but then has to contend with the way her reports, full of the nitty-gritty details of her espionage work, read to her all male bosses at the embassy. Martha is completely lovesick over her husband, and his prowess in bed. One of my favorite scenes from the new season has Martha and Elizabeth, in disguise as Phillip's sister, talking about Phillip as a lover: It's quintessential Americans, psychologically astute, pleasingly tawdry, and fundamentally twisted.
All of these characters—however flawed, however Russian—are presented sympathetically. The Americans is not particularly interested in telegraphing a judgment of its protagonists to the audience. Elizabeth and Phillips really are ruthlessly waging war on America; in one of the show's first sequences, Phillip, imitating a Southern-fried Texan, kills a number of people, one in cold blood. But the show treats them with understanding, as people motivated not by psychosis but principle and family. Watching, it is almost impossible not to root for these two Communists as they do any and everything they can to undermine America. In this regard, The Americans works its American audience as effectively as its heroes work their marks: It makes double agents of us all.
Disclosure: The Americans was created by Joe Weisberg, brother of The Slate Group's editor-in-chief, Jacob Weisberg.


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Mick Jagger
Yearly Forecast for 2023
" A good thing never ends."
Mick Jagger is an English singer, songwriter and actor, and the lead singer and a co-founder of the Rolling Stones, whose career has spanned over 50 years, and been titled "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of Rock & Roll".
He was born on Monday July 26th 1943, in Dartford, Kent, England.
2023 is a year to be organized and practical. Mick Jagger has to take care of details, while committing himself entirely to his goals. Mick's concentration and ability to focus will be much improved over last year. He will have an attitude of realism and determination.
There can be a sense of limitation and some frustration during 2023. However, it is a year of important opportunities that must be seized. There can be considerable work-related travel. Sir Jagger must be flexible this year to make full use of the opportunities that present themselves. It will require a combination of perseverance, hard work, and versatility. Mick Jagger will receive recognition for his efforts and support from his friends and family.
2023 is a good year to buy real estate or remodel his home. It is also a good time to take care of projects which have been postponed for to long. Mick ought to fulfill his obligations and not be afraid to spend some of that hard earned money. Selling and trading during this year usually is quite successful. 2023 is the year to work on his foundation and prepare himself for the many changes that will undoubtedly come next year. As a result of his hard work, there will be much satisfaction and a feeling of accomplishment.
January and February 2023 will bring some important change, a new opportunity perhaps. March 2023 requires self-reflection and reshaping of Sir Jagger's plans. It is a good time to meditate on what lies ahead. June 2023 brings a new and important step - a breakthrough, perhaps - in his work. October 2023 brings changes and a sense of chaos. Mick Jagger may feel threatened by the changes that are on the horizon. But November 2023 brings assistance in the form of a promotion or additional financial support.
Let's take a look now at Mick's monthly forecast for February 2023.
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About Mick's Personal Year Cycle
In numerology, each year of Mick's life is part of an evolving pattern that can be described as a nine-year cycle or epicycle. These cycles begin at Mick Jagger's birth and progress, one by one, through nine steps that complete an epicycle, and then begin again.
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Lyndon Johnson
Maturity Number 3
Lyndon Johnson was the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969) who designed the "Great Society" legislation upholding civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to education, urban development, public services, and his "War on Poverty".
He was born on Thursday August 27th 1908, in Stonewall, Texas, United States.
In later years Lyndon Johnson will be surrounded by loyal friends and have ample time to explore his creative talents. This is founded on Lyndon's earlier years of spending much time bringing his creative talents and ability to bring the best in others to the forefront, and learning to put the color and thrill into his and the lives of those around him.
As Johnson matures, he will find himself becoming increasingly extroverted and optimistic about his future. His self-expression and creativity improve markedly. Lyndon Johnson may become inspired to take up some type of artistic endeavor, such as writing, acting, or music, if he is not already involved in one of these areas.
His ability to communicate will substantially improve. Lyndon is naturally more fluent and may find himself dressing with a certain flair. He must be careful though not to fall victim to superficial appearances, or chasing after glamour and extravagance.
With a 3 Maturity Number Lyndon can look forward to a pleasant and social latter part of life. His attitude will be increasingly positive and his popularity will rise.
If Lyndon Johnson already has several 3s in his chart, especially in his core numbers, he may have a tendency to scatter his energies and take his responsibilities less seriously, but if he has few 3s, Johnson will experience a great relief from the tension and seriousness of life, and will be more relaxed and capable of enjoying life.
With the promise of enjoyment, close friendships, and much happiness, Maturity Number 3 is a blessing in the latter part of Lyndon Johnson's life.
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About Lyndon's Maturity number
Lyndon Johnson's Maturity number indicates an underlying wish or desire that gradually surfaces around age thirty to thirty-five. This underlying goal begins to emerge as Lyndon gains a better understanding of himself.
With self-knowledge comes a greater awareness of who Johnson is, what his true goals in life are, and what direction he wants to set for his life.
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When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20, 2010, 11 workers tragically lost their lives and the Macondo well began gushing crude oil—and it would continue to do so for nearly three months. A parade of attempts to shut down the flow taught the public just how difficult it was to tame a wild well 5,000 feet beneath the surface of the sea.
The various techniques had oddly colloquial names considering the engineering feats they represented— names like "top hat," "top kill," and "junk shot." One by one, they failed to do the job. Then, on July 15, a new cap was placed over the top of the damaged wellhead under the direction of the US government—and it held. That was the end of the 24/7 camera footage showing black billows of oil rocketing upward.
While that description may make it sound like a simple operation, it was anything but. A mad scramble and some gutsy decisions were going on behind the scenes. The story of the science and engineering that drove that success was published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
An all-star team
In June, the government pulled together a "Well Integrity Team"—an all-star group of experts tasked with helping bring the marathon oil spill to an end. Both BP and the government scientists wanted to cap the well in some way, even as BP worked on drilling the precision "relief well" that would intercept the Macondo well deep below the surface and permanently close it off. Capping involved some big risks, though.
The only thing worse than oil spewing out of a hole 5,000 feet underwater would be oil spewing out of lots of holes 5,000 feet underwater—especially given that those extra holes wouldn't be tidy pipes with only one outlet. That was the dreaded subsurface blowout scenario, where the last vestige of control would be lost.
The fear went like this: Beneath the surface, the Macondo well contained a number of what were essentially emergency pressure relief valves. Those valves prevent catastrophic failure of the well casing in case the pressure inside or outside got too high. When the "top kill" (pumping heavy drilling mud into well in the hopes it would act as a stopper) failed, BP became concerned that those pressure relief valves had opened, allowing the mud to escape out through casing instead of blocking up the well. (Later, it became apparent that they had simply underestimated the flow rate of the oil.)
If the well were capped, pressure inside would increase, and oil would escape through those openings. The pressure would eventually reach the point where it would actually fracture the sediment around the well, creating a myriad of uncontrollable flow paths to the surface—a subsurface blowout.
The Well Integrity Team's job was to monitor the well after it was capped for the first sign of trouble and remove the cap (a much larger version of the "top hat") before a subsurface blowout occurred. Armed with model simulations of how the well would behave in various scenarios, they carefully watched the pressure inside the well slowly build after the cap was put on. If it climbed to 7,500psi within six hours, they knew the well was intact and would hold. If the pressured stayed below 6,000psi, they knew the well was leaking and they would need to abort to avoid a blowout.
A veil of uncertainty
Of course, the measurements came up smack in between those two scenarios—a no-man's land of uncertainty. The only thing they knew is that they had 24 hours to figure out what was going on before the risk of a blowout was too great. They needed to work with the data they had gathered and do some more modeling. Quickly.
The paper describes that work very matter-of-factly. "This additional analysis was carried out overnight from July 15 to July 16 in the form of independent reservoir modeling by the Well Integrity Team to see if capping stack pressures measured immediately after shut in could be explained without invoking leakage below the seafloor." Hidden in that sentence is a remarkable story.
That additional analysis was largely carried out by Paul Hsieh, a United States Geological Survey hydrogeologist who wasn't on site at the time. BP's instruments weren't set up to allow the pressure measurements to be downloaded and sent to Hsieh. Instead, Hsieh received a smartphone photo of the data on a monitor and instructions to supply an answer by morning.
Tweaking equations developed for groundwater flow to accommodate crude oil, and navigating a labyrinth of archaic unit conversions, Hsieh worked on model simulations throughout the night. His quick and dirty simulation, which matched the data admirably, showed there was a good chance the well's behavior did not signify a leak or impending subsurface blowout. Despite reservations among some of the other advisors, Energy Secretary Steven Chu decided to keep the cap closed and continue the test past the 24-hour decision point.
In addition to a lot more analysis and modeling of the ongoing well pressure measurements, a swarm of BP ships performed periodic seismic imaging (which works like sonar) of the subsurface around the well, looking for any signs of leaking oil.
In the end, no blowout occurred and the Macondo well remained intact until the relief well intercepted it. The leaking well was cemented shut on August 3. Television news coverage moved on, the work in the Gulf turned to assessing the fate and ecological impact of the spilled oil, and the fight over fines and responsibility for the accident intensified.
The Well Integrity Team describes a number of factors that led to their success. Most relate to "an unprecedented level of collaboration and coordination among scientists, engineers, and emergency response officials from public and private sectors," including access to BP's data and experienced personnel. They also highlight the terrific and timely analysis supplied to decision makers by the scientists who were brought in—scientists like Paul Hsieh, whose contributions throughout the project earned him recognition as the 2011 Federal Employee of the Year.
PNAS, 2012. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115847109 (Open Access) (About DOIs).


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Research papers/Data structures
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- Functional pearl: Trouble shared is trouble halved
- Richard Bird and Ralf Hinze. In Johan Jeuring, editor, Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2003 Haskell Workshop, Uppsala, Sweden, August 28, 2003, pp 1-6.
- Manufacturing datatypes
- Ralf Hinze. In Chris Okasaki, editor, Proceedings of the Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Advanced Programming Languages, WAAAPL'99, Paris, France, September 1999, pp. 1-16.
- Designing Data Structures Alternative Link
- A. Reid, Proceedings of the 1989 Glasgow Functional Programming Workshop, Workshops in Computing series, Springer Verlag, pp 170-181, 1989.
- Google's MapReduce Programming Model -- Revisited
- Ralf Lämmel, Draft; Online since 2 January, 2006; 26 pages
- A probabilistic approach to the problem of automatic selection of data representations
- Tyng-Ruey Chuang and Wen L. Hwang, In Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, pages 190-200. Philadephia, Pennsylvania, USA, May 1996.
- An Overview of Edison
- Chris Okasaki. Haskell Workshop 2000. September 2000
- Benchmarking Purely Functional Data Structures
- Graeme E. Moss. PhD. Thesis. York University. YCST-2000-01. July 1999.
See also papers on list fusion
- The concatenate vanishes
- Philip Wadler. Note. December 1987
- Purely Functional Random-Access Lists
- Chris Okasaki. Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture, June 1995, pages 86-95.
- Polymorphic string matching
- Richard S. Bird. Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Haskell, Tallinn, Estonia. 110 - 115, 2005 ISBN 1-59593-071-X
- The Under-Appreciated Unfold
- Jeremy Gibbons and Geraint Jones, Proceedings 3rd ACM SIGPLAN Int. Conf. on Functional Programming, ICFP'98, 34(1), ACM Press, New York, 273--279, 1998
- When is a function a fold or an unfold?
- Jeremy Gibbons, Graham Hutton and Thorsten Altenkirch (2001). In Coalgebraic Methods in Computer Science, April 2001 (Volume 44.1 of Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science).
- Program optimisation, naturally
- Richard Bird, Jeremy Gibbons, and Geraint Jones. In J. W. Davies, A. W. Roscoe, and J. C. P. Woodcock, editors, Millenial Perspectives in Computer Science. Palgrave, 2000.
- Concatenate, Reverse and Map Vanish For Free
- Janis Voigtländer, International Conference on Functional Programming, Proceedings, vol. 37(9) of SIGPLAN Notices, pp. 14-25, ACM Press, 2002.
- Enumerating the rationals
- Jeremy Gibbons, David Lester, and Richard Bird. Journal of Functional Programming, 16(3):281-292, 2004.
- An Approach to Fast Arrays in Haskell
- Manuel M. T. Chakravarty and Gabriele Keller. In Johan Jeuring and Simon Peyton Jones, editors, lecture notes for The Summer School and Workshop on Advanced Functional Programming 2002. LNCS 2638, Springer-Verlag, pages 27-58, 2003.
- Functional Array Fusion
- Manuel M. T. Chakravarty and Gabriele Keller. In Xavier Leroy, editor, Proceedings of the Sixth ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming, ACM Press, pp205-216, 2001.
- Bootstrapping One-sided Flexible Arrays
- Ralf Hinze. In Simon Peyton Jones, editor, Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Functional Programming, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 4-6, 2002, pp. 2-13.
- Numerical Representations as Higher-Order Nested Datatypes
- Ralf Hinze. Technical Report IAI-TR-98-12, Institut fr Informatik III, Universitt Bonn, December 1998.
- A new array operation
- Philip Wadler. Proceedings of the Workshop on Graph Reduction, Santa Fe, New Mexico, J. Fasel and R. Keller, editors, Springer-Verlag, October 1986.
- A randomized implementation of multiple functional arrays
- Tyng-Ruey Chuang, In Proceedings of the 1994 ACM Conference on Lisp and Functional Programming, pages 173-184. Orlando, Florida, USA, June 1994.
- Rewriting Haskell Strings
- Duncan Coutts, Don Stewart and Roman Leshchinskiy. PADL 2007.
- Constructing red-black trees
- Ralf Hinze. In Chris Okasaki, editor, Proceedings of the Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Advanced Programming Languages, WAAAPL'99, Paris, France, September 1999, pp. 89-99. The proceedings appear as a technical report of Columbia University, CUCS-023-99.
- Perfect trees and bit-reversal permutations
- Ralf Hinze. Technical Report IAI-TR-99-4, Institut fr Informatik III, Universitt Bonn, March 1999.
- Functional Pearl: A fresh look at binary search trees
- Ralf Hinze. Journal of Functional Programming. 2001
- Upwards and Downwards Accumulations on Trees
- Jeremy Gibbons (1993). In LNCS 669: Mathematics of Program Construction, ed. R. S. Bird, C. C. Morgan and J. C. P. Woodcock, Springer-Verlag, p. 122-138. Revised version appears in Proceedings of the Massey Functional Programming Workshop, ed. E. Ireland and N. Perry, 1992.
- Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Tree Accumulations
- Jeremy Gibbons, Wentong Cai and David Skillicorn (1994). Science of Computer Programming 23 p1-18.
- Linear-Time Breadth-First Tree Algorithms: An Exercise in the Arithmetic of Folds and Zips
- Geraint Jones and Jeremy Gibbons (1993). University of Auckland Computer Science Report No. 71, and IFIP Working Group 2.1 working paper 705 WIN-2.
- Polytypic Downwards Accumulations
- Jeremy Gibbons (1998). In LNCS 1422, Proceedings of Mathematics of Program Construction, Marstrand, Sweden, June 1998.
- Diets for Fat Sets
- Martin Erwig. Journal of Functional Programming, Vol. 8, No. 6, 627-632, 1998.
- Asymptotic Improvement of Computations over Free Monads
- Janis Voigtländer. Mathematics of Program Construction (MPC'08), Proceedings, LNCS 5133:388-403, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
- Fast Mergeable Integer Maps
- Chris Okasaki and Andy Gill, Workshop on ML, September 1998, pages 77-86.
- Generalizing Generalized Tries
- Ralf Hinze. Technical Report IAI-TR-98-11, Institut fr Informatik III, Universitt Bonn, November 1998.
- A Simple Implementation Technique for Priority Search Queues
- Ralf Hinze. In Xavier Leroy, editor, Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Functional Programming, Firenze, Italy, September 3-5, 2001.
- Simple and Efficient Purely Functional Queues and Deques
- Chris Okasaki. Journal of Functional Programming, 5(4):583-592, October 1995.
- Optimal Purely Functional Priority Queues
- Gerth Stlting Brodal and Chris Okasaki, Journal of Functional Programming, 6(6), December 1996.
- Functional Pearl: Explaining binomial heaps
- Ralf Hinze. Journal of Functional Programming. 9(1). January 1999.
- Structuring Depth First Search Algorithms in Haskell
- David King and John Launchbury. Proc. ACM Principles of Programming Languages, San Francisco, 1995.
- Graph Algorithms with a Functional Flavour
- John Launchbury, Advanced Functional Programming, First International Spring School on Advanced Functional Programming Techniques, Bastad, Sweden, LNCS 925,p. 308-331, 1995 (editors: J. Jeuring, E. Meijer).
- Inductive Graphs and Functional Graph Algorithms
- Martin Erwig, Journal of Functional Programming Vol. 11, No. 5, 467-492, 2001
- Random Access to Abstract Data Types
- Martin Erwig. 8th Int. Conf. on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology (AMAST 2000), LNCS 1816 , 135-149, 2000
- Fully Persistent Graphs - Which One to Choose?
- Martin Erwig. 9th Int. Workshop on Implementation of Functional Languages (IFL'97), LNCS 1467, 123-140, 1997
- Functional Programming with Graphs
- Martin Erwig. 2nd ACM SIGPLAN Int. Conf. on Functional Programming (ICFP'97), 52-65, 1997
- Bulk types with class
- SL Peyton Jones, Electronic proceedings of the 1996 Glasgow Functional Programming Workshop, Ullapool, July 1996.
- Strongly typed heterogeneous collections
- Oleg Kiselyov, Ralf Lämmel, and Keean Schupke. Haskell '04: Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Haskell, Snowbird, Utah, USA, 96--107, 2004
- Sparse matrix representations in a functional language
- P.W. Grant, J.A. Sharp, M.F. Webster and X. Zhang, Journal of Functional Programming, 6(1):143-170, January 1996.
- Heap Compression and Binary I/O in Haskell
- Malcolm Wallace and Colin Runciman, Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Haskell Workshop, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 1997.
- The Bits Between The Lambdas: Binary Data in a Lazy Functional Language
- Malcolm Wallace and Colin Runciman. proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Management, Vancouver, Canada, Oct 1998.
Nested Datatypes
- Finger Trees: A Simple General-purpose Data Structure
- Ralf Hinze and Ross Paterson, Journal of Functional Programming
- De Bruijn Notation as a Nested Datatype
- Richard Bird and Ross Paterson. Journal of Functional Programming, vol. 9(1), pp. 77-91, 1999.
- Generalised Folds for Nested Datatypes
- Richard Bird and Ross Paterson, Formal Aspects of Computing, vol. 11(2), pp. 200-222, 1999.
- Polytypic Functions Over Nested Datatypes
- Ralf Hinze. In Rafael Dueire Lins, editor, 3rd Latin-American Conference on Functional Programming (CLaPF'99), March 1999.
- Disciplined, efficient, generalised folds for nested datatypes
- Clare Martin, Jeremy Gibbons and Ian Bayley (2004). Formal Aspects of Computing 16(1):19-35, 2004.
- Nested Datatypes
- Lambert Meertens and Richard Bird. Mathematics of Program Construction, MPC'98 (Johan Jeuring, editor), LNCS 1422, pp. 52--67, 1998.
- Representing cyclic structures as nested datatypes
- N. Ghani, M. Hamana, T. Uustalu, V. Vene. In H. Nilsson, ed., Proc. of 7th Symp. on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2006 (Nottingham, Apr. 2006), pp. 173-188. Univ. of Nottingham, 2006.
- Iteration schemes for higher-order and nested datatypes
- A. Abel, R. Matthes, T. Uustalu. Theor. Comput. Sci., v. 333, n. 1-2, pp. 3-66, 2005. - ( Elsevier Science) // Conf. version Generalized iteration and coiteration for higher-order nested datatypes in A. D. Gordon, ed., Proc. of 6th Int. Conf. on Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures, FoSSaCS 2003 (Warsaw, Apr. 2003), v. 2620 of Lect. Notes in Comput. Sci., pp. 54-69. Springer-Verlag, 2003.
Systems-level Data Structures
- Strongly Typed Memory Areas -- Programming Systems-Level Data Structures in a Functional Language
- Iavor S. Diatchki (OGI) and Mark P. Jones (Portland State University), Haskell Workshop 2006
Probablistic Programming
- Probabilistic Functional Programming in Haskell
- Martin Erwig and Steve Kollmansberger. Journal of Functional Programming, Vol. 16, No. 1, 21-34, 2006
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Project title:Gurus and Greenhorns: Mentoring the Next Generation of School and Youth Services Librarians
This project is meant to create a mentoring plan for millenials in order to:
- get younger individuals more involved in ALA, AASL, and YALSA. More specifically:
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- transfer the experience and knowledge of other generations of librarians to the newer millenials, and
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Team Members
Group members Jeff DiScala, Deborah Smith, Bethany Lafferty, and Sarah Krygier.
Project Timeline
Tentative schedule:
February 1
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- Select articles, books, and websites for research on mentoring. Share with other group members.
February 22
- Share summaries of mentoring research.
March 1
- Have answers from liasons and contact persons to continue further project planning.
March 22
- First online chat
April 5
- First Drafts completed
- Suggested Project Titles submitted
April 12
- Survey feedback compiled
April 26
- Second online chat 1PST/2MST/4EST
- Agenda
April 30
- Final Drafts of Project Plan and Survey Feedback due
May 5
- Final Formatting and Project Plan Posted (one master document)
June 22
Pages and Resources
Project Design and Planning
- Program Parameters and Design
- Program Management
- Other
Mentoring: An Annotated Bibliography
ALA Contacts
Julie Walker
Beth Yoke
Audra Caplan
Fran Roscello
Project Sponsors
American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)


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John Dillinger
Soul Urge (Heart Desire) Number 11
John Dillinger was an American gangster and bank robber in the Depression-era United States, whose gang robbed twenty-four banks and four police stations, making Dillinger the most notorious of all outlawed criminals of the era..
He was born on Monday June 22nd 1903, in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
John Dillinger has wisdom beyond his years. Even as a child, his understanding of life was considerable, though it likely went unrecognized by others.
John is a born peacemaker. He is driven by a desire to settle conflicts and create harmony. Dillinger is a healer and a visionary. He longs to make the world a better place, and cannot rest until he has dedicated his life to some worthwhile cause.
John Dillinger's realm is ideas and philosophy. He is attracted to the world of energy more than to the mechanical or material planes. Philosophy, religion, and less traditional forms of healing are among his specialties. John is obsessed with the quest for enlightenment.
He is extremely sensitive and possesses a high degree of intuition. Subtle messages and feelings of others do not escape his attention. John Dillinger is powerfully aware of the thoughts and feelings of others. Unless he is well grounded, this can throw John about emotionally. His awareness can be both a gift as well as a problem, because Dillinger so deeply desires to please others and keep harmony in his environment.
Many 11s were born into extremely hostile or turbulent families. This often resulted in psychological pain, lack of confidence, and shyness during childhood. Somehow, the child with an 11 Soul number and Heart's Desire recognized the sources of his family's problem. This created an internal conflict for the child, who naturally loved the troubled parent, but could not cope with that parent's behavior. Therefore, many 11s are scarred early in life. They understand the sufferings of others and seek to be of service in some way. This is, in fact, the easiest way for John to heal himself and find his greatest satisfaction.
John Dillinger understands the importance of close, loving relationships. Therefore, he is selective in choosing his friends and spouse. Dillinger is a romantic, idealistic, but somewhat impractical person. Unless he has other balancing characteristics, it is wise to team up with a more practical and realistic partner.
John has a magnetic and charismatic personality. He likes pondering abstract matters. Dillinger's intelligence is electric. Ideas, solutions to problems, and inventions seem to come to him as if out of the blue.
He is highly charged and intense. This can cause nervous tension. John Dillinger needs to care for his nervous system with ample amounts of rest, a peaceful environment, and proper diet - avoiding extreme foods and drugs.
John is often more concerned with universal justice than with the individual.
The 11 is a master number, possessing great potential. It has been entrusted to Dillinger as a gift that he is worthy of. The key is to maintain a hold on his ideals and seek ways to practically implement them.
John Dillinger has a specific role and gift to give to the world. This requires time and maturity to fully comprehend. But with patience and perseverance, he will discover why he felt different and even unique as a child. At that time, John will discover that what made him feel weak as a child will make him strong and confident as a mature adult.
You and John
About John's Soul Urge (Heart's Desire) number
John Dillinger's Soul Urge number represents his inner self. The Soul Urge number, also called Heart's Desire, shows John's underlying urge - his true motivation.
It reveals the general intention behind many of Dillinger's actions. Consequently, it dramatically influences the choices John Dillinger makes in life.
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CHICAGO — The jockeying to replace Jesse Jackson Jr. began before the ink was dry on the former congressman's resignation letter.
Among those expressing an interest: Chicago aldermen, a former NFL linebacker and a defense attorney who represented R&B singer R. Kelly and former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
But as the field of would-be successors grows to a dozen or more names — one of whom may be another member of the Jackson family — party leaders and political analysts say a stampede of candidates could pose risks for the Democratic stronghold. Spread the field of candidates too thin, they say, and it becomes easier for a more conservative candidate — or anyone else party leaders don't want — to pull off a win.
The possibility so worried Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush, a close friend of the Jacksons, that within hours of the resignation he had these words for anyone thinking of running: "Cool your jets."
"My fear is that there is going to be so many wannabes blinded by ambition … that we could find a tea party (candidate winning)," he said during a news conference. "That would be a travesty."
In a resignation letter sent Wednesday to House Speaker John Boehner, the 47-year-old son of a famed civil rights leader cited his ongoing treatment for bipolar disorder and admitted "my share of mistakes." He also confirmed publically for the first time that he is the subject of a federal probe and is cooperating with investigators.
Federal authorities are reportedly investigating Jackson's possible misuse of campaign funds. The House Ethics Committee is investigating his dealings with Blagojevich, who is serving a prison sentence for trying to sell President Barack Obama's former Senate seat.
Jackson has not been charged with wrongdoing.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat, is expected to schedule a primary and general election in the coming days.
Whenever it happens, the Democratic primary will be the race to win. The district, which stretches from Chicago's south side to several southern suburbs and rural areas, is heavily Democratic. Earlier this month, voters there easily re-elected Jackson, who faced lesser-known Republican and independent candidates, despite the allegations swirling and the fact that he barely campaigned due to a leave of absence that began in June.
Longtime Chicago political strategist Thom Serafin said that makes Rush's doom-and-gloom prediction of a split field leading to a tea party victory highly unlikely.
Serafin said that because of the truncated election process, candidates who already are in office, are organized, and have shown they can raise money have the advantage. Those include longtime Chicago Alderman Anthony Beale, whose ward is in the district, and Alderman Will Burns, a former state representative.
"There's little doubt based on the district's history that a Democrat will be elected here," Serafin said. "The big question is who can organize and 'show me' they're the real deal? It's much simpler for someone who has been in the game for some time to put that together."
State Sen. Toi Hutchinson said she is weighing a bid. So is former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson, who represented another district in Congress for one term before losing re-election in 2010. Halvorson was Jackson's first credible challenger in years when she ran a spirited campaign against him in the March primary.
"It looks like a lot of egos are jockeying for positions right now," Halvorson said. "I'm the only one who had the nerve to run against him. They need someone who is going to step in from day one."
Chicago attorney Sam Adam Jr. also has said he'd be interested. Adam is a recognizable face and name, having represented Blagojevich in his first trial in 2010, when the former governor was convicted on one count and the jury deadlocked on the remaining counts. Adam also was R. Kelly's lawyer when the singer was acquitted on child pornography charges.
Jackson's brother, Jonathan Jackson, and his wife Sandi Jackson — who currently serves as an alderman representing a part of the district — also have been mentioned, though neither has commented on a possible run.
Serafin said the Jackson name could draw a strong base of voters to the polls. If roughly 135,000 to 200,000 voters turn out and the field is split between multiple candidates, that base could be enough, he said.
Among the other possibilities are Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle and state senator-elect Napoleon Harris, who played in the NFL and owns two pizza franchises. His campaign aide, Curtis Thompson, told The Chicago Sun-Times Harris was taking the holidays to think about it.
Associated Press reporters Michael Tarm and Sophia Tareen contributed to this report.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Johnny Manziel certainly has the statistics worthy of a Heisman Trophy winner. He plays in the powerful Southeastern Conference. He has a signature win – all things Heisman voters typically look for.
The only question is whether the voters will give the award to a freshman for the first time.
Adrian Peterson, star running back for the Vikings and the only freshman to finish second in voting, is hoping the jinx ends Saturday night.
'Hopefully they don't rob him like they did me,' Peterson, who lost by 328 votes to junior Matt Leinart in 2004, said in an interview with The Associated Press. 'I hope he wins.'
Manziel may a favorite this year, but who knows? Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein and Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o are the other finalists and both can make strong cases, too. But neither caught the attention of the fans quite like Johnny Football, who led the Aggies to an upset of off No. 1 Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Manziel accumulated 4,600 yards of total offense in 12 games to break the Southeastern Conference record for total yards in a season. The record was previously held by 2010 Heisman winner Cam Newton, who needed 14 games to pile up 4,327 yards.
The Aggies, who went 10-2 in their first season in the SEC after moving from the Big 12, certainly hope Manziel is the one to finally break the freshman curse (Manziel is a redshirt freshman, not a true freshman).
On a website the school created to promote Manziel for the award, they point out that he's different than many freshman. Manziel enrolled in college in January 2010 and will be a junior academically this spring. He turns 20 on Thursday, making him older than Mark Ingram was when he took home the Heisman as a sophomore in 2009.
He would also be just the second Aggie to win the award and the first since John David Crow in 1957. Crow got a push from his famous coach before the voting was done that season.
'If John David Crow doesn't win the Heisman Trophy,' then-A&M coach Paul 'Bear' Bryant said, 'they ought to stop giving it.'
Crow got a good laugh this week when asked if he believed the same was true of Manziel.
'I don't have near the audience that coach Bryant had,' he said, still chuckling. 'I'm not sure how big that would go over.'
Then the 77-year-old former halfback got serious.
'He is very, very deserving,' Crow said. 'I don't care what age he is, whether he is right-handed or left-handed, wears a 17 shoe or nine shoe, he is very, very deserving of being named the outstanding player in college this year.'
Manziel's whirlwind season had a modest beginning with him having to beat out two other quarterbacks to win the starting position in mid-August.
As his numbers grew, so did the legend of Johnny Football, a nickname Aggies bestowed him with as he settled in at College Station. When the Aggies beat the defending champion Crimson Tide on national television behind an outstanding performance by Manziel, the phrase seemed to be everywhere.
It's a name that still amuses him.
'I don't know if I really see it as a legend,' he said. 'It's more of a folk tale, I guess.'
His numbers alone seem like the stuff of some exaggerated Texas football folk tale. He has thrown for 3,419 yards and 24 touchdowns and run for 1,181 yards and 19 more scores to become the first freshman, first SEC player and fifth player overall to throw for 3,000 yards and run for 1,000 in a season.
But his eye-popping numbers don't tell the whole story. The improvisation is what really sets him apart. Manziel has a knack for evading defenders, staying on his feet and finishing plays that seem impossible. Kind of like Robert Griffin III, the Baylor star who won the Heisman last year. Or Fran Tarkenton, another wizard at avoiding defenders.
'I don't think there's many people in this world that could do some of the things he did,' Crow said. 'He was born to run around back there – at least it looks that way to me.'
Manziel was so disappointed when he came out of spring practice as a backup that he enlisted the help of quarterback guru George Whitfield to refine his skills this summer. He spent a week at Whitfield Athletix in San Diego, training up to five hours a day with Whitfield, who has worked with scores of players including Newton, Vince Young and Andrew Luck.
Whitfield was struck by Manziel's competitiveness and his desire to soak up every bit of knowledge that the coach had for not just him, but all of the quarterbacks in training.
Whitfield said the only other quarterback he's seen who can improvise like Manziel is Newton. But he said the 6-foot-1 Manziel might be tougher to deal with than the 6-5 Newton.
'Cam poses a lot of problems because he's so imposing,' Whitfield said. 'Johnny, on the other hand, causes as many problems and it's more overwhelming to defensive players because they think: `If I can just catch him, I can get him on the ground.' But you can't get him.'
He's enjoyed watching Manziel develop this season, and saw some flashes of what he could be when the pair worked this summer.
'He's got this great sense of awareness and vision. He's so creative,' said Whitfield, who then offered a James Bond analogy. 'There's always some kind of 007 escape route in mind. If Cam is Superman, I would say that Johnny is like 007.'
Growing up in Kerrville, Texas, Manziel didn't dream of football stardom. He always pictured his path leading to a baseball diamond.
'I always thought since I was a little kid that I would play pro baseball,' said Manziel, who also starred on his high school baseball team. 'My biggest dream was that I wanted to play in the MLB. I wanted to play for the Rangers and wanted to play shortstop.'
But fate stepped in and altered his dream.
'Then football came along and took center stage,' he said.
Manziel's success on the field seems almost too good to be true. And when he rescued a kitten from the middle of a busy, four-lane road near Kyle Field earlier this season, it only added to the mystique of Johnny Football. (The semi-daring rescue is referenced on his Heisman page.)
'Just rescued a kitten from the middle of Wellborn Rd,' Manziel tweeted in September when he wasn't allowed to talk to the media because of coach Kevin Sumlin's ban on freshmen interviews. He added a picture of a scared-looking black cat to prove his story.
Things haven't always been rosy for Manziel. In June, he was arrested in town after police said he was involved in a fight and produced a fake ID. He was charged with disorderly conduct and two other misdemeanors.
'It was a critical mistake in my life,' Manziel said. 'It was something that I learned a lot from. It had consequences with coach Sumlin and my teammates and everyone here in Aggieland. From that I've had to make changes in my life.'
Less than six months after his arrest, Manziel has helped the Aggies to their best season since 1998, and made Texas A&M one of the top teams in the nation after last year's disappointing 7-6 finish.
He's proud to have helped put the Aggies back in the spotlight and knows winning the Heisman would only add to it.
'To bring a Heisman Trophy back to Aggieland for all these fans since it's been so all these years since we've had a Heisman Trophy winner … to really bring the excitement and really bring something positive back to Aggieland would be something that is truly an ultimate goal,' he said.
He's got a fan in Peterson, who ran for an NCAA freshman record 1,925 yards at Oklahoma in 2004 and believes the only reason he didn't win the Heisman was because he was a first-year player.
'It's sad when you think about it, because the Heisman goes to the best player in the country so the voters shouldn't look at it and go over what they've done over their career,' Peterson said. 'If he's the best player that year? Then that's what it needs to be.'


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the New Anti Semitism Part II
A few weeks ago, Rick commented that the AP handbook was being less than politically correct in how it referred to various spouses in same-gender marriages. On the other hand, I have yet to hear any condemnation of anti semitic slurs from the AP. We heard the news this week of the tragic accident in Brooklyn in which a young man, his wife and their baby were killed in a car accident. We also had the story about the man swallowed up by a sink hole in Florida. But the story about the young family made mention that they were "ultra orthodox Jews" and what they wear and their "curious" cultural habits and so forth. We have yet to hear about the religious affiliation, belief system or creed of the Florida man, notwithstanding that his unfortunate end was remarkably biblical. The term "Ultra Orthodox Jew" is grossly offensive, inaccurate and just plain insulting. The religion of the victim is also irrelevant to the story. If we referred to Bernie as the Ultra Reform Jewish Senator from Vermont, everyone would scratch their hands and inquire why that terminology mattered. i don't know what an "ultra Orthodox Jew" is, but the phrase is used to indicate exclusivity, insularity and a sense of the "other" and it is clearly used to bring to mind negative stereotypes. I have absolutely no idea what it means, but I know what it means to others–that these people are weirdos. If we are going to live in our new era of hypersensitivity to labels, and criticize the AP for lacking sensitivity and focus, let's at least be consistent and recognize that Jews have a right to be free of slurs as well.


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TRENTON, N.J. – Former "Saturday Night Live" star Tracy Morgan has sued Wal-Mart over a highway crash involving one of its drivers that left him seriously injured and a fellow comedian dead.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, claims Wal-Mart was negligent when a driver of one of its tractor-trailers rammed into Morgan's limousine van June 7. The complaint claims the retail giant should have known that its driver had been awake for over 24 hours and that his commute of 700 miles from his home in Georgia to work in Delaware was "unreasonable." It also alleges the driver fell asleep at the wheel.
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Morgan's lawsuit seeks a jury trial and punitive and compensatory damages.
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Morgan, the former "30 Rock" star, suffered a broken leg and broken ribs in the crash and is now in a rehabilitation center. Fuqua is recovering from crash-related injuries.
The actor and comedian was returning from a performance at Dover Downs Casino in Delaware.
Truck driver Kevin Roper, 35, of Jonesboro, Georgia, has pleaded not guilty to death by auto and assault by auto charges. A criminal complaint also accuses him of not sleeping for more than 24 hours before the crash, a violation of New Jersey law.
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Morgan, a New York City native, was returning from a standup performance at Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Delaware when the crash occurred.
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