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Everything That Rises Must Converge. By Flannery O'Connor. Introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 269 pp., $16, paperback.
By Janice Harayda
Flannery O'Connor raised peacocks, a symbol of immortality in Christian art. Her stories rank among their American literary equivalents, a sign and example of timeless fiction about sin and redemption in an age of ephemera.
O'Connor once said that all of her stories were about "the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it" – typically because of pride, envy, sloth, gluttony or another of the seven deadly sins. This is not to say that her work is abstruse. Everything That Rises Must Converge has nine of her later stories, and all are taut, clear, linear and free confusing shifts in point of view or time frame. They are among the most reliable antidotes to the disjointed, postmodern fiction that is so popular today.
All of the stories in Everything That Rises Must Converge are tragicomedies that expose a spiritual void in the lives of their characters. The gap is typically thrown into relief by the convergence of races, classes or generations in the newly integrated South. One of the best stories is "Revelation," which involves a self-satisfied churchgoer brought low partly by an assault that occurs in a doctor's waiting room after a patient hears her alternately praising Jesus and talking about sending blacks back to Africa. Another of the finest is "Parker's Back," which deals with an ex-sailor who tries to ease his spiritual emptiness by marrying a preacher's daughter and filling his body with tattoos but who suffers cruelly when those efforts intersect. In all of the stories in Everything That Rises Must Converge, redemption comes through divine grace after tragedy or great sorrow. Six of the nine end in violent death – they reverse the pattern of contemporary mysteries that serve up a corpse in the first pages – and in those in which everyone lives, an inner cataclysm unfolds.
For all their tragedy, these stories brim with humor. O'Connor keeps tragedy and comedy in an equipoise that few American writers can match. In the title story, a bitter and ungrateful college graduate lives at home and sells typewriters because he can't earn a living as a writer. Julian mocks his widowed mother's reverence for her prominent ancestors even as he benefits from the family pride that keeps her from tossing him onto the street: "She lived according to the laws of her own fantasy world, outside of which he had never seen her set foot. The law of it was to sacrifice herself for him after she had first created the necessity to do so by making a mess of things." The humor modulates in this and other stories from deadpan wit and droll irony to much more satirical commentaries that fall equally on whites and blacks.
O'Connor died of lupus at the age of 39 and won a posthumous National Book Award for fiction her Complete Stories. Few winners of that prize have deserved it more, and her stature has grown since she received it. In 2009 the sponsor of the award asked the public to vote for the first "Best of the National Book Awards" winner. O'Connor won for her Compete Stories, which includes all nine that appear in Everything That Rises Must Converge.
Best line: Two from "Greenleaf": "Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought that this was what had caused him to be an intellectual." "She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true."
Worst line: At times O'Connor uses a perhaps too heavy-handed verb, such as "hissed" or "groaned," instead of "said" or another that sits more lightly on the page.
Published: 1965 (first edition).
Caveat lector: Everything That Rises Must Converge doesn't include two of O'Connor's best stories, "Good Country People" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," which appear in the 555-page The Complete Stories. But it stands on its own and has an excellent 21-page introduction by Robert Fitzgerald.
Book clubs: If you can't read one of O'Connor's books, try reading three or four of her best stories, such as "Greenleaf," "Revelation," "Parker's Back" and the title story in Everything That Rises Must Converge.
Furthermore: One-Minute Book Reviews has also reviewed O'Connor's Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. It posted quotes from that book on symbols in fiction and on "compassion" in writers. Jonathan Yardley reviewed a collection of O'Connor's letters in the Washington Post. One of the best resources about her work is the Flannery O'Connor Repository. Andalusia, the Georgia farm on which O'Connor raised peacocks, has a peafowl aviary open to visitors.
You can also follow Jan (@janiceharayda) on Twitter at www.twitter.com/janiceharayda.
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Q: My husband had a blood clot in his leg last year and the doctor recommended the kids be tested for some condition having to do with "factor five." At first my daughter did not want to be tested, but now she says she will. Can you tell me what this condition is?
A: Many of the systems in the human body maintain proper balance by having mechanisms that "turn on" certain pathways while at the same time having other mechanisms that "turn off" the same (or competing) pathways. This is true of the coagulation system, responsible for controlling the clotting of our blood. There are different proteins that tend to make the blood clot (pro-coagulants) counterbalanced by proteins that tend to reduce/dissolve the blood clots (anti-coagulants). Today's discussion will focus on the pro-coagulant called factor V, a protein that plays a role in stimulating the production of thrombin (an enzyme that leads to clot formation).
Factor V Leiden (FVL) is a gene mutation that may upset the balance of the coagulation system by reducing the ability of activated protein C to cleave (inactivate) factor V (decreasing the anti-coagulant role protein C plays), as well as increasing the pro-coagulant role of activated factor V. Through both these mechanisms people with FVL have a propensity to have their blood form clots. In fact FVL is the most common cause of inherited thrombophilia (the increased propensity to form blood lots).
Inheriting one copy of FVL mutation is very common, affecting up to five percent of Caucasian Americans, two percent of Hispanic Americans, one percent of African Americans and half percent of Asian Americans. Those with one copy of the mutated gene (inherited from only one parent) have a seven-fold increased risk of developing a blood clot, equating to a lifetime risk of one in twenty; so the large majority of people with FVL do not develop any problems. Having two copies of the FVL mutation increases the risk of developing a blood clot to 80-fold that of a non-affected person.
The fact that not everyone with FVL develops a blood clot speaks to the fact that there are many other things that modify the risk; not all of these modifiers are known or understood. One that is identified is that those with FVL who have non-O blood types (blood type A, B or AB) have a higher risk of developing a blood clot than those with O-type blood.
The blood clots in people with FVL occur in the veins, most commonly those in the legs but sometimes in other locations. The clots can be in the superficial veins, in which case the symptoms are usually warmth, tenderness and/or redness in the affected area. If the deep veins are affected (called deep vein thrombosis or DVT) there can be similar symptoms as with superficial clots but swelling distal to the clot may also occur. If a piece of the blood clot breaks off and travels to the lungs (called a pulmonary embolism), the patient may develop shortness of breath, chest pain (often worse during inspiration) and/or rapid heart rate and could potentially die from this serious condition.
Testing for FVL involves a check of the overall coagulation pathway, with more specific testing looking for the specific gene mutation possibly being done as well.
The acute treatment of someone with a blood clot depends on the location of the clot and the symptoms. It may involve medicines to break apart the clot (thrombolysis) or medications to minimize further blood clots from forming. Oral medications to minimize blood clot formation (sometimes colloquially called 'blood thinners') may be prescribed.
People who have FVL that also have other medical conditions, such as deficiencies of certain other proteins, cancer or other conditions, may be at an even higher risk of developing blood clots. When a woman with FVL gets pregnant she may also be at an increased risk of developing blood clots and even certain complications of her pregnancy. Situations that increase the risk of developing a blood clot, such as sitting with no movement during long car of plane trips, may also increase the risk.
Since FVL is an inherited condition, family members of someone diagnosed with it should consult their healthcare provider to see if they should be screened. Everyone should do certain things to minimize developing a DVT, such as quitting (or better yet never starting) smoking, doing exercises/moving around periodically during long car or plane trips and maintaining a healthy weight (obesity is also a risk factor for developing DVT's).
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email@example.com?HILLSDALE — Another delay in the case involving former Hillsdale Board of Public Utilities (HBPU) water/wastewater superintendent Benjamin Anspaugh III has pushed proceedings back until March 20.?
Anspaugh, 61, of Jonesville was scheduled for an examination in Hillsdale County District Court on Wednesday, but the date was pushed back as lawyers on both sides continue to try to work out a plea bargain in the case.?
District Prosecutor Neal Brady confirmed on Thursday that both sides are still discussing a deal, but it's taking more time than he thought it would. Brady hopes a deal will be reached by the March 20 court date.?
Anspaugh is accused of killing Consumers Energy worker Jeffrey Henry Creel, 56, of Reading last June when he accidentally struck Creel with his vehicle on Homer Road near Blackmer Drive in Fayette Township. Creel was called to the area after reports of a downed power line. He was preparing to assess damages caused by a fallen tree limb during a recent storm, according to Consumers Energy. Anspaugh was driving southbound and swerved to go around the truck when he hit Creel, who was at the back on the driver-side of the truck.?
According to Consumers Energy, Creel was called to the area to assess damages caused by a fallen tree limb during a recent storm. Creel was flown to Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, where he later died following surgery.?
Anspaugh has been charged with one count of of a moving violation causing death in a work zone and faces 15 years in prison or $7,500 in fines.?
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It is our opinion, that quite often bad things happen to good people because they are naive. By educating potential cruise ship passengers on the various topics within this site, we hope that the passenger will be more aware of their surroundings, and careful how, when, and where they conduct themselves.
It is our opinion that with the major expansion into the cruise travel industry, that more people are cruising now than ever, and with the lower pricing, the passengers on cruise ships now come from all social histories and economic levels. This can create two scenarios with the new category of passenger, those who are inexperienced and naive in the large scope of world travel, and those who might take advantage of that fact.
In the past it was considered appropriate to socialize with the hire help on a ship, and it may have been romanticize by television, such as The Love Boat, creating the illusion to the less savvy traveler that cruise ships are safe places, and contact with the staff on a personal level is acceptable.
But, this is not the case any more. At no time should any passenger engage on a personal level with any hired help. Personal interaction with crew members, staff and officers are prohibited by the corporation employee's contract and may result in the employee facing penalties and or being terminated.
At worst, the cruise ship, in the middle of the night, is only as safe as walking through an inner city at 3 am, alone, half dressed, with money hanging out of your pockets. Passengers do not go through rigorous background checks, and therefore anyone and everyone may, and will be on the cruise with you.
It is important to use the buddy system at ALL times on a cruise and in port. Women are of particular risk for crime when they travel abroad and should not travel alone, go into port alone, or use the ship's facilities alone. No passenger unable to make rational decisions, physically disabled, mentally disabled, under the influence of alcohol or legal mind altering drugs should use the facilities on board alone. Do NOT let children out of your site, EVER.
Do not assume that the people on a cruise are intelligent, affluent, honest, respectable, sane people. You are cruising with a wide cross section of society. Remember this or you might be cruising for a bruising. The term cruising for a bruising is defined by us, as unknowingly placing yourself in a scenario that is likely to produce a negative experience. You can cruise safely and have a good time, without doing that, in most instances.
Certain things are outside your control such as mechanical breakdown, sudden poor weather, and catching a virus on board. But, even then, there are trends, and with experience and education, you will begin to see the trends, and learn how to avoid many of those unpleasant scenarios.
More importantly, we have tried to show you how to resolve problems, if you do have them, by giving you resources within our website. Take careful note that you are NO longer in the United States of America once you embark on a cruise. If you OR somebody in your party does anything at all that is considered unacceptable by the cruise line and their cruise ship captain, they AND you can and most likely will be ejected at the next port of call.
The cruise line will NOT pay for your hotel, meals or transportation home. It is considered prudent to travel with enough resources to maintain a decent existence if this happens. You will be subject to the laws of that country, where English may not be spoken, and there may be very little the United States can do to help you. To avoid those problems, see our Cruise Safety Tips.
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Descarga is a small, Brooklyn, New York based business that was founded in 1991 because I felt that there was a lack of accessible information relating to this music, and that the market that was interested in this music, including myself, was mostly ignored in all but a few special-ty stores – and these few stores were hardly predictable with respect to complete back-catalog items. I remember my conga drum teacher and mentor, the late Frankie Malabe, suggested I listen to some specific titles. He wrote them down on paper and I went out shopping. Some Papines, some Los Muriequitos, some Mongo, some classic Puente, etc.
Found about one-third of what I needed -and that was here in New York- arguably the best place on the globe to find this stuff. So, I figured that if I'm having trouble finding the material I wanted here, imagine what it would be like for the guy in Peoria or Kansas or Ann Arbor or Utah or Greece.
We focus specifically on Afro-Latin music ranging from salsa and Afro-Cuban Latin jazz to rumba and folkloric lucumli/santeria. Over the years we have amassed a selection consisting of thousands and thousands of CDs. We also offer books, videos, instructional material, and the renowned LP drums and percussion instruments. We specialize in hard to find material, from Cuba and elsewhere, and are always expanding our offerings.
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== Shapes ==
== Shapes ==
To build values of `shape` type, we can use the
To build values of `shape` type, we can use the Zand :.constructors:
> Z -- the zero-dimension
> Z -- the zero-dimension
For arrays of non-zero dimension, we must give a size.
For arrays of non-zero dimension, we must give a size. common error is to leave off the type of the size
> :t Z :. 10
> :t Z :. 10
Z :. 10 :: Num head => Z :. head
Z :. 10 :: Num head => Z :. head
leading to annoying type errors about unresolved instances, such as:
leading to annoying type errors about unresolved instances, such as:
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To select the correct instance, you will need to annotate the size literals with their concrete type:
To select the correct instance, you will need to annotate the size literals with their concrete type:
> :t Z :. (10 :: Int)
> :t Z :. (10 :: Int)
Z :. (10 :: Int) :: Z :. Int
Z :. (10 :: Int) :: Z :. Int
is the shape of 1D arrays of length 10, indexed via Ints.
is the shape of 1D arrays of length 10, indexed via Ints.
Given an array, you can always find its shape by calling extent.
Given an array, you can always find its shape by calling extent.
== Generating arrays ==
== Generating arrays ==
Revision as of 22:50, 11 May 2011
Repa is a Haskell library for high performance, regular, multi-dimensional parallel arrays. All numeric data is stored unboxed and functions written with the Repa combinators are automatically parallel (provided you supply "+RTS -N" on the command line when running the program).
This document provides a tutorial on array programming in Haskell using the repa package.
Note: a companion tutorial to this is provided as the vector tutorial.
- 1 Quick Tour
- 1.1 Importing the library
- 1.2 Index types and shapes
- 1.3 Shapes
- 1.4 Generating arrays
- 1.5 Indexing arrays
- 1.6 Operations on arrays
- 1.7 Changing the shape of an array
Quick Tour
Repa (REgular PArallel arrays) is an advanced, multi-dimensional parallel arrays library for Haskell, with a number of distinct capabilities:
- The arrays are "regular" (i.e. dense and rectangular); and
- Functions may be written that are polymorphic in the shape of the array;
- Many operations on arrays are accomplished by changing only the shape of the array (without copying elements);
- The library will automatically parallelize operations over arrays.
This is a quick start guide for the package. For further information, consult:
- The Haddock Documentation
- Regular, Shape-polymorphic, Parallel Arrays in Haskell.
- Efficient Parallel Stencil Convolution in Haskell
Importing the library
Download the `repa` package:
$ cabal install repa
and import it qualified:
import qualified Data.Array.Repa as R
The library needs to be imported qualified as it shares the same function names as list operations in the Prelude.
Note: Operations that involve writing new index types for Repa arrays will require the '-XTypeOperators' language extension.
For non-core functionality, a number of related packages are available:
and example algorithms in:
Index types and shapes
Before we can get started manipulating arrays, we need a grasp of repa's notion of array shape. Much like the classic 'array' library in Haskell, repa-based arrays are parameterized via a type which determines the dimension of the array, and the type of its index. However, while classic arrays take tuples to represent multiple dimensions, Repa arrays use a richer type language for describing multi-dimensional array indices and shapes.
Index types consist of two parts:
- a dimension component; and
- an index type
The most common dimensions are given by the shorthand names:
type DIM0 = Z
type DIM1 = DIM0 :. Int
type DIM2 = DIM1 :. Int
type DIM3 = DIM2 :. Int
type DIM4 = DIM3 :. Int
type DIM5 = DIM4 :. Int
Array DIM2 Double
is the type of a two-dimensional array of doubles, indexed via `Int` keys, while
Array Z Double
is a zero-dimension object (i.e. a point) holding a Double.
Many operations over arrays are polymorphic in the shape / dimension
component. Others require operating on the shape itself, rather than
the array. A typeclass,
Shape, lets us operate uniformally
over arrays with different shape.
To build values of `shape` type, we can use the
Z and
:. constructors:
> Z -- the zero-dimension
For arrays of non-zero dimension, we must give a size. Note: a common error is to leave off the type of the size.
> :t Z :. 10
Z :. 10 :: Num head => Z :. head
leading to annoying type errors about unresolved instances, such as:
No instance for (Shape (Z :. head0))
To select the correct instance, you will need to annotate the size literals with their concrete type:
> :t Z :. (10 :: Int)
Z :. (10 :: Int) :: Z :. Int
is the shape of 1D arrays of length 10, indexed via Ints.
Given an array, you can always find its shape by calling
Additional convenience types for selecting particular parts of a shape are also provided (
All, Any, Slice etc.) which are covered later in the tutorial.
Generating arrays
New repa arrays ("arrays" from here on) can be generated in many ways:
$ ghci GHCi, version 7.0.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Loading package ffi-1.0 ... linking ... done. Prelude> :m + Data.Array.Repa
They may be constructed from lists:
A one dimensional array of length 10, here, given the shape `(Z :. 10)`:
> let x = fromList (Z :. (10::Int)) [1..10] > x [1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,6.0,7.0,8.0,9.0,10.0]
The type of `x` is inferred as:
> :t x x :: Array (Z :. Int) Double
which we can read as "an array of dimension 1, indexed via Int keys, holding elements of type Double"
We could also have written the type as:
x :: Array DIM1 Double
The same data may also be treated as a two dimensional array:
> let x = fromList (Z :. (5::Int) :. (2::Int)) [1..10] > x [1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,6.0,7.0,8.0,9.0,10.0]
which would have the type:
x :: Array ((Z :. Int) :. Int) Double
x :: Array DIM2 Double
Building arrays from vectors
It is also possible to build arrays from unboxed vectors:
fromVector :: Shape sh => sh -> Vector a -> Array sh a
by applying a shape to a vector.
import Data.Vector.Unboxed
> let x = fromVector (Z :. (10::Int)) (enumFromN 0 10) [0.0,1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,6.0,7.0,8.0,9.0]
is a one-dimensional array of doubles, but we can also impose other shapes:
> let x = fromVector (Z :. (3::Int) :. (3::Int)) (enumFromN 0 9) > x [0.0,1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,6.0,7.0,8.0] > :t x x :: Array ((Z :. Int) :. Int) Double
Reading arrays from files
Using the repa-io package, arrays may be written and read from files in a number of formats:
- as BMP files; and
- in a number of text formats.
With other formats appearing. For the special case of arrays of Word8 values, the repa-bytestring library supports generating bytestrings in memory.
An example: to write an 2D array to an ascii file:
writeMatrixToTextFile "/tmp/test.dat" x
Yields a file containing:
In turn, this file may be read back in via
To process .bmp files, use Data.Array.Repa.IO.BMP, as follows (currently reading only works for 24 bit .bmp):
Data.Array.Repa.IO.BMP> x <- readImageFromBMP "/tmp/test24.bmp"
Results in this being read:
as a 3D array of Word8.
Indexing arrays
To access elements in repa arrays, you provide an array and a shape, to access the element:
(!) :: (Shape sh, Elt a) => Array sh a -> sh -> a
> let x = fromList (Z :. (10::Int)) [1..10] > x ! (Z :. 2) 3.0
Note that we can't, even for one-dimensional arrays, give just a bare literal as the shape:
> x ! 2
No instance for (Num (Z :. Int)) arising from the literal `2'
as the Z type isn't in the Num class.
What if the index is out of bounds, though?
> x ! (Z :. 11) *** Exception: ./Data/Vector/Generic.hs:222 ((!)): index out of bounds (11,10)
an exception is thrown. An altnerative is to indexing functions that return a Maybe:
(!?) :: (Shape sh, Elt a) => Array sh a -> sh -> Maybe a
An example:
> x !? (Z :. 9) Just 10.0
> x !? (Z :. 11) Nothing
Operations on arrays
Besides indexing, there are many regular, list-like operations on arrays.
Maps, zips, filters and folds
We can map over multi-dimensional arrays:
> let x = fromList (Z :. (3::Int) :. (3::Int)) [1..9] > x [1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,6.0,7.0,8.0,9.0]
since `map` conflicts with the definition in the Prelude, we have to use it qualified:
> Data.Array.Repa.map (^2) x [1.0,4.0,9.0,16.0,25.0,36.0,49.0,64.0,81.0]
Maps leave the dimension unchanged.
Folding reduces the inner dimension of the array.
fold :: (Shape sh, Elt a) => (a -> a -> a) -> a -> Array (sh :. Int) a -> Array sh a
So if 'x' is a 3D array:
> let x = fromList (Z :. (3::Int) :. (3::Int)) [1..9] > x [1.0,2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0,6.0,7.0,8.0,9.0]
We can sum each row, to yield a 2D array:
> fold (+) 0 x [6.0,15.0,24.0]
Two arrays may be combined via
zipWith :: (Shape sh, Elt b, Elt c, Elt a) => (a -> b -> c) -> Array sh a -> Array sh b -> Array sh c
an example:
> zipWith (*) x x [1.0,4.0,9.0,16.0,25.0,36.0,49.0,64.0,81.0]
Numeric operations: negation, addition, subtraction, multiplication
Repa arrays are instances of the
Num. This means that
operations on numerical elements are lifted automagically onto arrays of
such elements. For example,
(+) on two double values corresponds to
element-wise addition,
(+), of the two arrays of doubles:
> let x = fromList (Z :. (10::Int)) [1..10] > x + x [2.0,4.0,6.0,8.0,10.0,12.0,14.0,16.0,18.0,20.0]
Other operations from the Num class work just as well:
> -x [-1.0,-2.0,-3.0,-4.0,-5.0,-6.0,-7.0,-8.0,-9.0,-10.0]
> x ^ 3 [1.0,8.0,27.0,64.0,125.0,216.0,343.0,512.0,729.0,1000.0]
> x * x [1.0,4.0,9.0,16.0,25.0,36.0,49.0,64.0,81.0,100.0]
Changing the shape of an array
One of the main advantages of repa-style arrays over other arrays in Haskell is the ability to reshape data without copying. This is achieved via *index-space transformations*.
An example: transposing a 2D array (this example taken from the repa paper). First, the type of the transformation:
transpose2D :: Elt e => Array DIM2 e -> Array DIM2 e
Note that this transform will work on DIM2 arrays holding any elements. Now, to swap rows and columns, we have to modify the shape:
transpose2D a = backpermute (swap e) swap a where e = extent a swap (Z :. i :. j) = Z :. j :. i
The swap function reorders the index space of the array. To do this, we extract the current shape of the array, and write a function that maps the index space from the old array to the new array. That index space function is then passed to backpermute which actually constructs the new array from the old one.
backpermute generates a new array from an old, when given the new shape, and a function that translates between the index space of each array (i.e. a shape transformer).
backpermute :: (Shape sh, Shape sh', Elt a) => sh' -> (sh' -> sh) -> Array sh a -> Array sh' a
Note that the array created is not actually evaluated (we only modified the index space of the array).
Transposition is such a common operation that it is provided by the library:
transpose :: (Shape sh, Elt a) => Array ((sh :. Int) :. Int) a -> Array ((sh :. Int) :. Int)
the type indicate that it works on the lowest two dimensions of the array.
Other operations on index spaces include taking slices and joining arrays into larger ones.
Example: matrix-matrix multiplication
A more advanced example from the Repa paper: matrix-matrix multiplication: the result of matrix multiplication is a matrix whose elements are found by multiplying the elements of each row from the first matrix by the associated elements of the same column from the second matrix and summing the result.
if and
So we take two, 2D arrays and generate a new array, using our transpose function from earlier:
mmMult :: (Num e, Elt e) => Array DIM2 e -> Array DIM2 e -> Array DIM2 e
mmMult a b = sum (zipWith (*) aRepl bRepl) where t = transpose2D b aRepl = extend (Z :.All :.colsB :.All) a bRepl = extend (Z :.rowsA :.All :.All) t (Z :.colsA :.rowsA) = extent a (Z :.colsB :.rowsB) = extent b
The idea is to expand both 2D argument arrays into 3D arrays by
replicating them across a new axis. The front face of the cuboid that
results represents the array
a, which we replicate as often
b has columns
(colsB), producing
The top face represents
t (the transposed b), which we
replicate as often as a has rows
(rowsA), producing
bRepl,. The two replicated arrays have the same extent,
which corresponds to the index space of matrix multiplication
Optimized implementations of this function are available in the repa-algorithms package.


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Building Cultures of Peace
By Riane Eisler
We stand at a critical point in human cultural evolution. Going back to the old normal where peace is just an interval between wars is not an option; what we need is a fundamental cultural transformation.
As Einstein said, we cannot solve problems with the same thinking that created them. If we think only in terms of the conventional cultural and economic categories—right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, capitalist vs. socialist, and so on—we cannot move forward. What we need is to look at social systems from a new perspective that can help us build not only a nuclear-free world but also the better world we so urgently want and need. I believe we must change our underlying social configuration: We must transition from a system of domination to one of partnership.
My Passion and My Work
We've been taught to think of courage as the courage to go out and kill the enemy. But spiritual courage is a much more deeply human courage. It's the courage to stand up against injustice out of love.
I was born in Europe, in Vienna, at a time of massive regression to the domination side of the partnership/domination continuum: the rise of the Nazis, first in Germany and then in my native Austria. So from one day to the next, my whole world was rent asunder. My parents and I became hunted, with license to kill. I watched with horror on Crystal Night—so called because of all the glass that was shattered in Jewish homes, businesses, synagogues—as a gang of Gestapo men broke into out home and dragged my father away. As a little girl, I witnessed brutality and violence.
But I also witnessed something else that night that made an equally profound impression on me: what I today call spiritual courage. We've been taught to think of courage as the courage to go out and kill the enemy. But spiritual courage is a much more deeply human courage. It's the courage to stand up against injustice out of love. My mother could have been killed for demanding that my father be given back to her; many people were killed that night. But by a miracle she did obtain my father's release—yes, some money eventually passed hands, but it would not have happened had she not stood up to the Nazis. So we were able to escape to Cuba, and I grew up in the industrial slums of Havana, because the Nazis confiscated everything my parents owned. And it was there that I learned that most of my family—aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents—were murdered by the Nazis.
These traumatic experiences led me to questions most of us have asked at some time in our lives: Does it have to be this way? Why is there so much injustice, cruelty, violence, and destructiveness, when we humans also have such a great capacity, as I saw in my mother, for caring, for courage, for love? Is it, as we're often told, inevitable, just human nature? Or are there alternatives—and if so, what are they?
We Are Hard-Wired to Care and Connect David Korten: "Those of us who choose to cooperate rather than compete are not fighting human nature. We are, instead, developing the part of our humanity that gives us the best chance, not merely for survival, but for happiness."
These questions eventually led to my research. I found very early I simply could not find answers to them in terms of the old social categories (right vs. left, religious vs. secular, Eastern vs. Western, capitalist vs. socialist, and so forth). These categories just look at this or that aspect of a social system, never its fundamental configuration. None of them answer the most critical question for our future: the question of what kinds of beliefs, values, and institutions support our enormous human capacities for caring, for consciousness, for creativity, for sensitivity—the capacities that are most developed in our species, that make us uniquely human—and which promote capacities we also have for cruelty, selfishness, and violence. Neuroscience teaches us that we humans are genetically capable of many different kinds of behaviors, but our experiences profoundly affect which of those genetic possibilities are expressed.
Connecting the Dots
I look for patterns, drawing from a large set of data that cuts across cultures and periods of history. It then becomes possible to see social configurations that had not been visible looking at only a part of social systems—configurations that kept repeating themselves. There were no names for them, so I called one the Domination System and the other the Partnership System.
It is in our primary human relations—within our families and friendships, the relations that are still not taken into account in most analyses of society—that people first learn (on the most basic neural level, as we today know from neuroscience) what is considered normal or abnormal, moral or immoral, possible or impossible.
If we are to build cultures of peace we have to start talking about something that still makes many people uncomfortable: gender.
If children grow up in cultures or subcultures where violence in families is accepted as normal, even moral, what do they learn? The lesson is simple, isn't it? It's that it's OK to use violence to impose one's will on others, both in intimate relationships and international ones.
I want to illustrate this with two cultures. One is Western, the other is Eastern; one is secular, the other religious; one is technologically developed, the other isn't: the Nazis in Germany and the Taliban in Afghanistan. From a conventional perspective, they are totally different. But if you look at these two cultures from the perspective of the partnership/domination continuum, you see a configuration. Both are extremely warlike and authoritarian. And for both, a top priority is returning to a traditional family—their code word for a rigidly male-dominated, authoritarian, highly punitive family.
Now, this is not coincidental. Nor is it coincidental that these kinds of societies idealize warfare, even consider it holy. Neither is it coincidental that in these kinds of cultures masculinity is equated with domination and violence at the same time that women and anything stereotypically considered feminine, such as caring and nonviolence, are devalued.
I want to emphasize that this has nothing to do with anything inherent in women or men, as we can see today when more and more men are fathering in the nurturing way mothering is supposed to be done, and women are entering what were once considered strictly male preserves. But these are dominator gender stereotypes that many of us—both men and women—are trying to leave behind.
If we are to build cultures of peace, we have to start talking about something that still makes many people uncomfortable: gender. We might as well put that on the table; people don't want to talk about gender, do they? But let's also remember what the great sociologist Louis Wirth said: that the most important things about a society are those that people are uncomfortable talking about. We saw that with race: Only as we started to talk about it did we begin to move forward. We're beginning to talk more about gender, and starting to move forward, but much too slowly.
This is important for many reasons, including the fact that it is through dominator norms for gender that children learn another important lesson: to equate difference (beginning with the most fundamental difference in our species between female and male) with superiority or inferiority, with dominating or being dominated, with being served or serving. And they acquire this mental and emotional map before their brains are fully developed (we know today that our brains don't fully develop until our twenties), so they then can automatically apply it to any other difference, be it a different race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation.
The Economics of Domination and Partnership
The roles and relations of the two halves of humanity can no longer be considered "just a women's issue" (though we're half of humanity, that phrase again shows how we've been conditioned to devalue women and anything associated with women). In reality, gender roles and relations affect everything about a society from its institutions (for example, whether families are more democratic or authoritarian) to its guiding system of values.
Let me give you an example from economics. Most of us would never think economics has anything to do with gender. At most, we think this refers to the workplace gender discrimination we're finally beginning to talk about. But actually it goes much, much deeper. Economics has huge systemic effects.
Have you ever wondered, for instance, why it is that so many politicians always find money for weapons, for wars, and for prisons, but when it comes to funding health care, child care, and other "soft" or caring activities, they have no money? Nor do they have money for keeping a clean and healthy natural environment—rather like the "women's work" of keeping a clean and healthy home environment.
Underlying these seemingly irrational priorities is a gendered system of valuations we've inherited from earlier, more domination-oriented times. To meet the challenges we face, we must make this visible.
Neoliberalism is actually a regression to dominator economics: to a top-down economic system where trickle down economics is really a continuation of dominator traditions, where those on the bottom are socialized to content themselves with the scraps dropping from the opulent tables of those on top.
This is an ancient economics of domination, which transcends labels like capitalism and socialism. Indeed, the two large-scale applications of socialism, the USSR and China, also turned into domination systems, highly authoritarian and violent, with horrendous environmental problems, because the underlying social system did not shift from domination to partnership.
That's not to say we should discard everything from capitalism and socialism. We need to retain and strengthen the partnership elements in both the market and government economies and leave the domination elements behind. But we need to go further to what I have called a "caring economics."
Now, isn't it interesting that when we put "caring" and "economics" in the same sentence, people tend to do a double take? We've been told that caring policies and practices may sound good, but they're just not economically effective. In reality, study after study shows that investing in caring for people and nature is extremely effective—not only in human and environmental terms, but in purely financial terms.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, and Finland suffered from poverty and famine. Today, these nations are invariably in the highest ranks not only of United Nations Human Development Reports but of the World Economic Forum's annual Global Competitiveness reports. This is largely due to the fact that their norm became a more caring economics, a more caring society.
These nations have government-supported childcare, universal healthcare, stipends to help families care for children, elder care with dignity, generous paid parental leave. In short, they economically support caring work in both the market and the household. As a result, they have very long life spans, very low poverty rates, very low crime rates, and a generally high standard of living for all. They are also in the forefront of moving toward sustainable energy and invest a larger proportion of their GDP in helping people in the developing world than other nations.
They are not ideal nations, but they have moved farther than most contemporary nations to the partnership side of the partnership-domination continuum. They have more democracy and equality in both the family and the state. They have been in the forefront of trying to leave behind traditions of violence inherent in domination systems. For example, they pioneered the first peace studies and the first laws prohibiting physical discipline of children in families. And, in contrast to domination systems that subordinate the female half of humanity to the male half, they have a much more equal partnership between women and men. For example, approximately 40 percent of their national legislators are female.
As the status of women rises, men no longer find it such a threat to their status, to their masculinity, to also embrace more caring practices and policies. These nations also have a strong movement to disentangle masculinity from its dominator equation with conquest and violence, including a strong movement for men to take responsibility for violence against women and children.
Between child-battering, wife-beating, sexual abuse of children, rape, bride burnings sexual mutilation of girls and women, so-called honor killings, and other horrors, the number of lives taken and blighted by intimate violence worldwide are much greater than those taken by armed conflict. And yet this violence is still largely invisible.
Our job is to make it visible. If we really want a more peaceful world, we can't just tack that on to a system that idealizes violence as "masculine" and devalues caring and nonviolence as "feminine."
Building Cultures of Equity and Peace
Let's join together and move into that second phase of the peace movement: that integrated phase that takes into account the whole of human relations, from intimate to international. Let us muster the spiritual courage to challenge traditions of domination and violence in our primary human relations – the formative relations between women and men and parents and children.
Let us work for systemic change, for the new norms that will enable a future where all children, both girls and boys, can realize their enormous human potentials for consciousness, creativity, and caring.
Source: http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/building-cultures-of-peace?b_start:int=1


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Teeth whitening done in a professional dental setting is a safe, effective way to brighten your smile. It's also perhaps the most economical cosmetic dental procedure. Depending on the whitening method you choose, results can be dramatic: in-office whitening, for example, can lighten teeth three to eight shades in a single hour.
Professionally supervised whitening will work faster, and protect sensitive gums and tooth-root surfaces better, than over-the-counter whitening products. Having an oral exam before you begin any whitening process is an important first step to make sure your tooth discoloration is not the result of a dental condition in need of treatment. Also, please be aware that it can be risky to have whitening solutions applied to your teeth by untrained personnel in shopping malls. If you have any questions about which whitening method would be best for you, talk to us first.
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There are lots of things you can do to make sure your whitening results last as long as possible, and this will vary from person to person (six months to two years or even longer). First of all, please maintain your usual, conscientious routine of brushing and flossing every day, and keep up with your regular schedule of professional cleanings at the dental office. Avoid foods and beverages that stain, including red wine, tea and coffee. If you smoke, use your newly whitened teeth as an impetus to quit — a good idea in any event! A minor touch-up every so often, either at home or at the dental office, can keep your smile bright and beautiful for years.
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Tradition has long driven the popularity of the trout opener.
Trout season officially starts on the last Saturday of April, but fishing action usually doesn't pick up until the spring waters warm a little and sediment from snow melt washes out. If an early spring develops over the next few weeks, area waters should be primed for a fast start to fishing season.
If the weather and water warm during the coming six weeks, trout fishing could be more productive in the early season than is typical.
According to Neal Godby, Department of Natural Resources Fisheries biologist, in years when stream temperatures warm for opening day, fish are more aggressive early on.
Even aggressive trout can be tough to dupe into striking, especially early in the year, when everyone with a rod and reel gives trout fishing a go or two. Using the right bait and a natural presentation will go a long way in landing spring trout.
"For fly fishermen, Hendrickson's flies are the first big mayfly hatch of the year," Godby noted. "Sub-surface nymphs and streamers always work good as well."
Fly fishing is the most traditional method for pursuing trout, but casting spinners doesn't rank far behind.
For spin fisherman, the usual colors and sizes will work just fine early in the season. In streams where its allowed, live bait is also effective.
"Crawlers always work good in the streams where you can use them," Godby noted. "Worms and wax worms will work too."
One of the typical challenges of early season trout fishing is the water itself, but its yet to be determined is that will be the case this year.
When trout season opens, stream water levels are usually high, the result of runoff from snow melt. The weather over the next six weeks will determine is that's the case in late April.
Winter runoff also fills streams with sediment, making they murky and tough to navigate.
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Police & Fire: March 14, 2013
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Sault Police are investigating a Wednesday drive-off complaint where an individual pumped $30.01 in gas into his vehicle before leaving a W. Easterday Avenue gas station without providing financial reimbursement.
Police are seeking the driver of an older-model blue Jeep Cherokee. The driver is described as a male in his 40s wearing jeans, a Carhartt jacket and brown work boots.
The case remains open pending identification of the suspect.
Hit and run
City police are also investigating a hit and run incident outside an I-75 Business Spur retail store.
A vehicle, which was parked from roughly 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday, sustained damage on the rear passenger side from a second vehicle.
There are no suspects in this incident.


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The main event featured Kevin "Kimbo Slice" Ferguson's 43-second knockout of David "Tank" Abbott. Additionally, in the night's co-main event, Antonio Silva defeated former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez via split decision.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has a full recap of the event available, but other newsworthy items coming out of Saturday's show include:
Record Gate: EliteXC Live Events President Gary Shaw confirmed that Saturday's sold-out event created a record live gate for the BankUnited Center. He wouldn't go into specific dollar amounts, but Shaw did confirm that the 6,187 attendees created a gate of more than a half-a-million dollars.
Fighter of the Night: EliteXC's traditional fight of the night trophy went to Slice. He narrowly beat out Yves Edwards, who defeated Edson Berto via first-round flying knee. The award is voted upon by EliteXC staffers.
Kimbo Returns: Shaw didn't have an exact date for Slice's return to the cage, but he said the heavyweight will likely next fight at an April or May EliteXC event.
Return to Florida: Shaw, a University of Miami graduate, said the organization will definitely return to Florida sometime in the near future. He mentioned Miami's American Airlines Arena but also said he could see the organization staying on campus and returning to the BankUnited Center.
Kimbo vs. Shamrock: EliteXC broadcasters mentioned a possible Slice vs. Ken Shamrock fight. Was it pure speculation or a calculated plug? It's hard to tell. Regardless, though, Shamrock — who recently signed a multi-fight deal with EliteXC — will first battle Robert Berry at a March 8 Cage Rage/EliteXC show in London.
Injured Silva: Silva confirmed after the fight that he had suffered a torn MCL two weeks before the fight. He felt that it hindered his performance at Saturday's event.
All-Star Posse: Preliminary-card fighter Rafael Feijao had perhaps the most star-studded corner of any fighter at Saturday's event. UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva and interim heavyweight champ Antonio Nogueira Rodrigo were in his corner leading Feijao to victory. After the fight, both Silva and Nogueira spent nearly an hour walking through the stands to sign autographs and pose for photographs.
Still Undefeated: Slice (2-0), Brett Rogers (8-0), Yosmany Cabezas (5-0), Dave Herman (10-0), Lorenzo Borgameo (3-0) and Moyses Gabin (2-0) all kept their undefeated streaks alive.
Upcoming MMA Movie Release: Previews for the upcoming MMA-themed movie "Never Back Down" were played on the big screens throughout Saturday's event. The movie, set to hit theaters March 14, is about a rebellious teen who's lured into an underground fight club, where he finds a mentor in an MMA veteran. The movie's star, Sean Faris, was in attendance at Saturday's show, and MMAjunkie.com spent some time talking to him about the project and his fascination with MMA. We'll have an interview with the Faris — who's a true MMA fan — posted later this week. (The movie co-stars Djimon Hounsou, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in "Blood Diamond.")
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As visiting President Barack Obama offered South Koreans his condolences Friday for the ferry disaster, the South Korean government conceded that some bodies have been misidentified and announced changes to prevent such mistakes from happening again.
There have been several reports in South Korean media this week of bodies going to the wrong families, with the error sometimes caught only after the remains were taken to a funeral home. An "action plan" released by the government-wide emergency task force acknowledged that "there have been cases where the victims were wrongly transferred."
Remains will be transferred to families when there is a match using DNA testing or fingerprint or dental records, the task force said. The transfer will be temporary when a body is matched though identification or physical description, and authorities will wait for more authoritative evidence before making the transfer permanent.
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Search officials including a navy spokesman and a diver said 35 of the ferry's 111 rooms have been searched so far, Yonhap news agency reported. They said 48 of the bodies recovered were found were in a single large room built to accommodate 38. - AP
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It may already be liberally seasoned with the f-word, and feature more naked breasts than your average copy of Nuts magazine, but The Wolf of Wall Street is set to become even more explicit for its DVD release. As well as the three-hour theatrical version, there will also be a four-hour director's cut, featuring longer versions of various scenes. Speaking at the Director's Guild of America awards, its producer Riza Aziz said 'the sex scenes run a little longer but nothing extreme', while fellow producer Joey McFarland added: 'To be honest with you, the movie is not much different in its longer form, it's just longer versions of scenes.' Its director Martin Scorsese was forced to make cuts to his original film to avoid the NC-17 rating that would harm its commercial chances – but the cut version still nevertheless has the
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