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Some columns are easier to write than others.
This is one of them.
Providing all of my research were the "family values" Republicans.
This week, second term Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina disappeared for six days, leaving the state without a chief executive who could make decisions in an emergency. His Republican lieutenant governor didn't know where he was, and had not been given any authority to make decisions in his absence. The state police said they had not been informed. His wife told the Associated Press she didn't know where he was, wasn't worried about him, and thought he was "writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids" over the Father's Day weekend. His senior aides said he was walking along the Appalachian Trail to "clear his head."
But it wasn't his head that he was clearing. When he returned, after first lying to a reporter for the Columbia State who caught up with him on his return to the Atlanta airport, he finally admitted he went to Argentina to meet with a long-time lover. His wife, who was not by his side when he held an early afternoon press conference, later said she and the governor had separated two weeks earlier. The State later produced e-mail love letters between Sanford and his lover that it had been keeping since December.
The rising young star of the Republican party who was seen as a presidential contender in 2012, the man who was head of the Republican Governors Association until the day after he acknowledged his extramarital affair, the man who had wanted to deprive his state of $700 million in federal stimulus funds as a political message to President Obama, the man who had established himself as a beacon for the sanctity of marriage and the values of the oh-so-pure Religious right, was not only an adulterer, but for at least the second time had left his state at risk, since there were no contingency plans of how to reach him in an emergency.
Alas, Gov. Sanford isn't the only "family values" philanderer. Slightly more than a week earlier, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) admitted he had a nine-month extramarital affair with one of his campaign staff. Ensign, who was contemplating a run for president in 2012, had been chair of the Republican Policy Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Like Gov. Sanford, Sen. Ensign only admitted to the affair after information had been leaked to the media.
This is the same John Ensign who, as a congressman, had curled his lips in revulsion at Bill Clinton's affair, and demanded he either resign or be impeached. "He has no credibility," Ensign told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1998. Six years later, now a senator, Ensign supported a federal ban on same sex marriages by declaring, "Marriage is the cornerstone on which our society was founded....[M]arriage, and the sanctity of that institution, predates the American Constitution and the founding of our nation." Ironically, Ensign is active in Promise Keepers, an evangelical group.
Also vigorously calling for President Clinton's impeachment, while having had their own extramarital affairs and covering them up or lying about them, were:
Add to the list of morally bankrupt Republicans:
Republican leaders aren't the only ones who commit adultery, nor are conservatives or members of the Religious Right, including preachers, solely the ones to have violated the seventh and tenth Commandments. But, it is the "family values" Republican leaders, who have led the party of right-wing moral indignation; it is the Religious Right that has overtaken the party and wears the now-tarnished shield of righteousness to protect itself against anyone who doesn't share their own views of the world, including moderate and liberal Republicans, and anyone belonging to another political party.
The hypocrisy and moral turpitude of the party's leaders is just one reason why only 21 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans.
Walter M. Brasch is a university professor of journalism, social issues columnist, and the author of 17 books. His current book is Sinking the Ship of State: The Presidency of George W. Bush, available from amazon.com, bn.com, and other stores. You may contact him through his website, www.walterbrasch.com
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EE Students Win Robotics Contest in China, Aug. 16, 2001
Steve Wasson (third place)
Guilberto and Wasson were personally invited by Dr. Wie-Min Yun, CEO of Shanghai Grandar Electronics, sponsor of the competition, to participate in the event after Tech's exceptional showing at the International Competition in Hartford, Conn., earlier this year. The International event sanctions regional competitions in many states and countries to allow more people to participate in robotics competitions without having to travel great distances. Winners of the regional competitions will be invited to compete in next year's international competition. Guilberto and Wasson were the first and only Americans to participate in the regional contest in China, so their victory was especially significant.
All teams in the competition designed, built and programmed robots to maneuver through a maze, (simulating the hallways and rooms of a one story house), detect a lit candle, and extinguish the flame. The team that successfully put out the fire in the least amount of time was declared the winner. In addition, each team could choose various options which added to the difficulty of the task. Guilberto and Wasson selected all of the available options, improving their final scores. For instance, the robots were programmed to return to their original starting position and were able to navigate obstacles such as ramps. Dr. Stephen Bruder, assistant professor and advisor for the robotics teams explained the long range goal of the project, "In the future, life-size robots could be stationed in a closet, respond to a fire alarm, seek, out and extinguish a fire before it has a chance to spread." Wasson added that it is very satisfying to work on a project that can save lives and property.
The robots move much like the remote controlled cars that children play with, but a key difference is that the robots are autonomous. Their actions are not controlled directly by the creator, except via a computer program that tells the robot what to do. This adds to the complexity of the competition, since, as Guilberto put it, "So many things can go wrong, from a sensor to a glitch in the program, that could alter the operation of the robot. The goal is reliability, you want the robot to do the same thing every time, and that is very difficult."
When asked about their treatment in China, both students raved about how well they were received, both by other contestants and people on the street. Wasson said, " All the other participants were amazed at our robots, and there were dozens of people who wanted to look at them and talk to us about how they work." He added that before they left for China, they had heard horror stories about brutal treatment of Americans, but instead they were treated like kings. "People stopped us on the street and asked to have their pictures taken with us."
Guilberto agreed that it was very interesting to travel to a different country and see their technology, and explain our technology to the Chinese contestants. "My view of China changed after this trip," he concurred. "It is a very nice and safe place to visit. The Chinese people are very friendly to tourists." He added that he expected the competition to be something totally different from the International Competition in Hartford, Conn., but it was not so. "The only problem," he reported, "was that all of the announcements were in Chinese. It was hard to know when it was our turn, and when we were supposed to go on stage to receive our awards, but our fellow participants helped us."
Wasson said that he loved the competition, and while the event itself was very much like the competition in the U.S., one key difference was that this time they had to dismantle their robots and pack them to be able to survive the trip being checked as luggage. In the previous event, they carried the robots onboard the plane with them. Once in China, the students had to re-assemble the robots, a complication that they overcame with great success.
Guilberto wanted to share the victory with the advisors for the Tech robotics program, Dr. Stephen Bruder and Dr. Kevin Wedeward, among others. "I would like to thank many people whose support was instrumental to this accomplishment. Foremost among these are Dr. Bruder and Dr. Wedeward who were the first to introduce robotics to the electrical engineering department's curriculum. We also could not have had such success without the efforts of former student Julie Wiens, who was the main person involved in building the award-winning robots. Finally, I would like to thank Dr. Van Romero, Mr. Herb Fernandez, and Dr. Peter Gerrity for their economic assistance in making the trip to China possible. "


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VERGENNES — Vergennes police on Sunday cited a Vergennes woman for an earlier offense of credit card fraud.
Police allege that Jessica Kimball, 39, a Main Street resident, in late November stole a credit card from a Ferrisburgh resident and fraudulently charged about $1,700 of goods and services. Sunday's citation concluded an investigation that began not long after the alleged offense.
In other action between Dec. 16 and 22, Vergennes police:
ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police cited Martin Landon, 42, of Weybridge for assault, following investigation of a citizens' dispute at a Lafountain Lane home in Weybridge on Dec. 22. Police released Landon on citation to appear in Addison Superior Court, Criminal Division, on Feb. 24, 2014.
In other recent action, VSP:
• Ticketed a Whiting man for speeding after he allegedly lost control of his vehicle on Route 30 in Cornwall on Dec. 17 and struck a house.
ADDISON COUNTY — The Vermont Public Service Board on Monday gave its conditional approval to, and issued a Certificate of Public Good for, Vermont Gas Systems' proposed 41-mile natural gas pipeline from Colchester to Middlebury and Vergennes.
BRISTOL — The chair of the Mount Abraham Facility Advisory Committee on Dec. 18 enumerated for the Bristol selectboard some of the reasons the Mount Abraham Union High School facilities should be updated.
Troy Paradee stressed that the building is by no means unsafe — rather, some school officials and residents believe it does not meet the educational needs of students in this day and age.
VERGENNES — Vergennes City Council members and planning commission chairman Shannon Haggett at this past Tuesday's council meeting discussed the city's recent award by Vermont Council on Rural Development of free facilitation for a four-month public-forum process that will be offered either next spring or fall. City Manager Mel Hawley said Vergennes was one of two Vermont towns to earn the honor for 2013.
VERGENNES — Vergennes Police Chief George Merkel spoke to the Vergennes Lions at their meeting on Dec. 4. He commented that he is working with "some of the best police officers he has ever known." He commented that they work hard and take offenses personally, trying hard to solve whatever crime has taken place. He said there are 10 officers (six full-time and four part-time) plus one dog in the department. He said a number of his officers are course instructors for many different aspects of police work.
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The 1932 Ford (also known as the Deuce) is a significant part of automotive culture because it was the first V-8 powered vehicle available at a price affordable to the common man. Quite often '32 Fords were stripped of their heavy fenders, running boards, and sometimes even headlights and windshields (on open cars) simply for the pursuit of speed. As the number of speed equipment manufacturers grew, an entire aftermarket industry was born, eventually finding a voice on the pages of Robert E. Petersen's Hot Rod Magazine.
The Petersen Automotive Museum will commemorate the 80th anniversary of this iconic automobile during Deuce Week in March, 2012. Come celebrate Deuce Week at the Petersen! Choose to participate in any or all of these fun-filled events, and know that the money is going to a good cause! All proceeds raised during Deuce Week will help fund educational programs and exhibits at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity.
In addition to the events below, historic 1932 Fords will be on exhibition inside the Petersen from February 29, 2012 through March 25, 2012. Guests will also have the opportunity to preview 1932 Ford pedal cars courtesy of Warehouse 36 customized by nine of the top hot rod shops in the country. The customized pedal cars will be sold at auction later in 2012 with the proceeds benefitting the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation.
Remember, you can participate in most of the events even if you do not bring a 1932 Ford. Only the Deuce Day car show itself is restricted to 1932 Fords. Sorry, but Model As on Deuce rails or other makes or years with Deuce grille shells will not be accepted for the Deuce Day car show.
For more information, go to www.DeuceWeek.org
Wednesday February 29th, 2012
Vintage Air Presents the Pacific Coast Highway Drive and VIP Museum Tours
Starts at 8:30 a.m.
Participants will meet at the Petersen Automotive Museum at 8:30 a.m. to receive maps and instructions for a fun-filled day of coastal driving and automotive museum viewing. The group will leave from the Petersen Automotive Museum around 9 a.m. and will drive up the scenic Pacific Coast Highway arriving at The Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California around 10 a.m.
The Mullin Automotive Museum is an homage to both the art deco and the machine ages – eras that produced exquisite art and magnificent automobiles. The museum is home to examples of the finest of historic French automobiles from prestigious marques such as Bugatti, Voisin, Delage, Delahaye, along with significant and representative decorative art from this same period.
After enjoying a guided tour through the Mullin Automotive Museum, the group will depart for Mike Malamut's Vintage Car Museum. Participants will enjoy a light lunch and a world-class collection of microcars and beautiful postwar vehicles from around the world.
Price: $25 per person (includes lunch)
Thursday March 1st, 2012
Morning: Hot Rod Shop tours with lunch provided by the L.A. Roadsters.
Starts at 8:30 a.m.
Thursday morning will find you in what many would consider to be Hot Rod Heaven. Participants will meet for breakfast at the private collection of historic hot rod collector and preservationist Bruce Meyer. After enjoying Bruce's collection, the tour will travel to Burbank to visit many of today's most influential hot rod builders.
The first stop includes Old Crow Speed Shop and Hollywood Hot Rods. Old Crow Speed Shop is a coalition of pals who got together for one reason and one reason only – to preserve and promote the art and activity of land speed racing.
Hollywood Hot Rods is a cutting-edge hot rod shop that is steeped in tradition, with owner Troy Ladd guiding nostalgia into the 21st century with style!
The tour will then head to H&H Flatheads, the specializing in building Ford's venerable Flathead V-8 in any configuration from mild to wild. H&H is now the exclusive distributor of Navarro Racing Equipment. The group will enjoy a shop tour and delicious lunch provided by the L.A. Roadsters.
Price: $25 per person (includes lunch)
Evening: Egge Machine Presents: Hot Rod Round Table/Dinner/Book Signing
Cocktails start at 6:30p.m. Cocktails / Panel Discussion runs from 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Meet hot rodding's heroes and pick up the latest hot rod books during a very entertaining and informative evening. Several hot rod authors will be on hand for the book signing. Please check back closer to the event for a list of authors.
Join noted automotive author and former Director of the Petersen Automotive Museum, Ken Gross, as he moderates the Hot Rod Round Table panel discussion: "The Past, Present, and Future of Hot Rodding". Noted panelists will include:
Tony Thacker: Automotive Author and Executive Director of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Former Marketing Vice President of So-Cal Speed Shop and the first editor of Performance Aftermarket magazine now called SEMA News.
Alex Xydias: Founded So-Cal Speed Shop in 1946 in Burbank. In 1950, he drove the first streamliner powered by a Flathead Ford to go over 200 mph. He is a member of the board of directors of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum.
Andy Brizio: Known as "The Rodfather" for his development of the "Instant T" hot rod kits, Brizio has long been a driving force and leader in the hot rodding world.
Greg Sharp: Curator of the NHRA Motorsport Museum. Called "the rod and custom trivia king" by Rod and Custom magazine. He's participated in all forms of hot rodding, from racing at Bonneville to judging custom car shows all over the country.
Roy Brizio: Owner of Roy Brizio Street Rods, Brizio has a unique "hot rod heritage" that has lead to the specialty construction of cars for celebrities, professional sports figures, famous musicians as well as for notable people throughout the automotive aftermarket industry.
Pete Chapouris: Started "Pete & Jakes Hot Rod Parts" and built the hot rod seen in the Martin Sheen movie, "The California Kid." Former VP of Marketing at SEMA. Licensed the SO-Cal Speed Shop name from his friend, Alex Xydias and opened the legendary shop once again in 1997.
Dave Lane: Dave Lane of Fastlane Rod Shop in Donahue, Iowa is known worldwide for his one-man hot rod shop. Lane is one of the true superior craftsmen in today's hot rod scene. He has won numerous awards including most recently, Goodguys Street Rod of the Year 2011.
Troy Trepanier: Started Rad Rides by Troy. In addition to building hot rods, Troy has worked closely with Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota, and sports and Hollywood celebrities. He was featured on two "Rides" feature length shows and participated on two "Overhaulin'" episodes.
Stewart Reed: Chair of the Transportation Design Department at Art Center College of Design. Creator of over 20 concept vehicles. Owns Stewart Reed Design, specializing in advanced design concepts, spanning from high-end/performance-luxury to off-road and transforming vehicles.
Troy Ladd: Hollywood Hot Rods owner Troy Ladd is steeped in tradition, but uses his keen eye to create artistic, technology-laden designs to build unique cars that are known world-wide. True to the Hollywood name, his shop is featured often on a variety of automotive television shows.
Chip Foose: Founded Foose Design. His creations have won both the America's Most Beautiful Roadster award and the Riddler award several times. Host of the TLC program Overhaulin'. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Progeria Research Foundation, California Chapter.
Larry Erickson: Designed Cadzzilla and Aluma Coupe. Currently Chair of Transportation Design at College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Previously Chief Designer in Ford Motor Company's Strategic Design Group. Chief Designer on the 2005 Mustang Design Team.
Price: $95 per person (includes dinner and cash bar)
Friday March 2nd, 2012
DynaMat presents Deuce Week Celebration Concert Benefitting the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation
This event is limited to 1,200 guests and will sell out! Buy your tickets early!
Cocktails start at 6:00 p.m. / Concert goes from 7:30 -10:00 p.m.
Join us for a rock concert you'll never forget! Some shows bring you cover bands -we bring you the real legendary rock n' roll artists you know and love and put them on stage together! The lineup is top secret, but if you were at our last Deuce Week Concert in 2007, you know what kind of party it will be! You will also have the opportunity to bid on guitars provided by Fender and a 1932 Ford pedal car provided by Warehouse 36, all signed by the artists on stage.
Price: $125 per person (includes hors d'oeuvres and cash bar)
Saturday March 3rd, 2012
Deuce Week Car Show
Vehicle registration and final set-up 6:00 a.m-9:00 a.m. / Show open to the public 9:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.
This is what Deuce Week is all about! See over 400 Deuces gather in the Petersen Automotive Museum parking structure. See your favorite magazine cars on Cover Car Row and visit vendors who specialize in parts for 1932 Fords! Event participation is open to 1932 Fords ONLY. No exceptions.
Registration is only $32.00 per car. Spectator admission is included with purchase of General Museum Admission ticket.
All proceeds raised during Deuce Week will help fund educational programs and exhibits at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charity. For more information, to buy tickets, or to register your 1932 Ford for Deuce Day, go to www.DeuceWeek.org.
Special thanks to all of the sponsors including main event sponsors: Hagerty Collector Car Insurance, HotRodHotline.com, Egge Machine, and Warehouse 36, and individual sponsors: Vintage Air, LA Roadsters, and Dynamat.
The Museum is located at 6060 Wilshire Boulevard (at Fairfax) in Los Angeles. Admission prices are $10 for general admission adults, $8 for seniors, $5 for military and students with ID, and $3 for children ages 5 to 12. Museum members and children under five are admitted free. Covered parking is available for $2 per half hour with an $8 maximum for Museum visitors. Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 10am to 6pm. For general Museum information, call 323/930-CARS or visit the Museum's Web site at: www.petersen.org.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. - A three-run homerun, a walk-off home run, and a three-hit shutout were just a few of the headlines from Tennessee Tech's softball doubleheader Sunday. The Golden Eagles hosted Southeast Missouri in Ohio Valley Conference action, sweeping the Redhawks with 9-1 and 4-0 wins.
The Golden Eagles combined for 16 hits and freshman Olivia Bennett collected a team-high four hits, including a three-run walk-off home run to win game one. Bennett wasn't the only power hitter for the Purple and Gold as sophomore Angi Sakamoto blasted a three-run dinger of her own. She hit an outstanding .667 with a 1.667 slugging percentage.
In the opening end of Sunday's doubleheader, the Golden Eagles grabbed a 3-0 lead in the second inning off of Sakamoto's three-run shot. Tech grabbed another big inning in the fourth, scoring twice off of a single by shortstop Hannah Eldridge. Eldridge drove in Chelsea Burgess, who reached on a double, and Sakamoto, who drew a walk.
Bennett scored a run in the fifth, but the freshman's big inning came in the bottom of the sixth when she hammered the three-run homer over the right field fence.
Tech's momentum carried right into the second game, as Golden Eagles took a 1-0 lead in the first and stretched the lead to 4-0 in the second. Christian earned the first run after singling and stealing her 14th base of the season. Eldridge sent Chrstian home on a single up the middle. Cortney Fry, Burgess, and Sakamoto all scored thanks to Redhawk errors.
Claudia Harke (3-4) got the win, giving up just three hits. She also tied her career-high with five strikeouts in the contest. Taylor Ketchum (11-7) took the win in the first game. Both pitchers threw complete games.
The Golden Eagles return to action on the road Tuesday as they travel to Knoxville to take on the Lady Vols of Tennessee. First pitch is scheduled for 5 p.m.


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Age: 44 Family: Wife, Stacy.
Occupation: Program director and on-air personality for Rock 104.9; public address announcer for Asheville Tourists and UNC Asheville basketball.
What is your background in radio and game announcing? How did you get into it?
I went to college at Gannon University in Erie, Pa., not knowing exactly what I wanted to do, but knowing it needed to be something performance-based to satiate the right side of my brain. Gannon had a good Communications Department with the three major disciplines represented — radio, television and theater.
After participating in all three, radio seemed the best fit, being less scripted, and rewarding creativity and spontaneity. So that became my focus in school, and my pursuit upon graduation.
My first public address job was at a dirt track outside Joplin, Mo., about 20 years ago. I didn't know much about racing at the time, but enjoyed the crowd interaction, something you don't get with radio. After I moved to Fayetteville, I did the PA for the Cape Fear Crocs of the South Atlantic League, who are now the Lakewood Blueclaws. I also did PA for the hockey team, the Fayetteville Force. When I moved to Asheville in '99, I made contacts that eventually landed me with the Asheville Smoke and Asheville Tourists.
How long have you been the voice of the Asheville Tourists? UNC Asheville Bulldogs?
This is season 14 with the Tourists, and my third year with UNC Asheville.
You have to be quick on your feet — how do you develop a knack for that?
Everyone on my mom's side of the family is quickwitted, loud and fun-loving. Whenever we'd gather, it was a four-hour laugh riot with good-natured put-downs and zingers non-stop. So I guess that was my internship. If you wanted to get a word in edgewise with that group, you had to really bring it, both in volume and creativity. So it's in my DNA, and over the years, it's just been a matter of practice, practice, practice — and I get plenty of that.
What do you most enjoy about what you do, in both radio and game announcing?
With radio, no day is like the one before. Every day presents new challenges. I haven't been bored on the job in my 20-plus years in the business. There's just no time. With game announcing, it's the little things. I enjoy the camaraderie of the press box, the friends I've made.
When an on-field promotion takes a strange turn because some 6-year-old wants to play by their own rules, the ensuing moments and crowd reaction can be quite memorable. I like making people occasionally laugh, or even groan when a joke doesn't work. Mostly, I like knowing that if folks have had a good time at the game, and I played a small part in that, then I've done my job, and there's a sense of satisfaction that accompanies that.
What do you see yourself doing in 20 years?
God has blessed me with a beautiful wife, loving family, friends and neighbors, and skills that enable me to be gainfully employed in fields that are never drab. I don't need much in the ways of material things. My only 20-year goal is to pay off the mortgage, play a round of golf under 80, and see the Bills win a Super Bowl. The first two are possible.
Where do you see the future of Rock 104.9?
The radio industry is constantly changing, driven by advances in technology. When I started in the business, I actually spun vinyl records. And now, everything is on hard drive, and I can monitor the station from a laptop while sitting in my living room eating Cheetos in my underwear. Who knows where we'll be in five or 10 years. But we actually have some exciting things in the works that will give us the ability to reach more listeners than we currently do. Like I said, never a dull moment!
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Warner Archive all but exhausts their vast holdings of Tarzan movies and TV shows with the release of Tarzan - The Complete Second Season (1967-68). Other than Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959), MGM's terrible remake of the Johnny Weissmuller classic, Warner Home Video seems to have finished off the "official" Tarzan films series (1932-68) and TV series (1966-68), leaving only a few footnote-like stragglers, such as the faux theatrical features actually derived from episodes of the TV series starring Ron Ely as the Lord of the Apes.
The TV series isn't bad at all, though in fashioning a more realistic and family-friendly Tarzan it perhaps unwisely eschewed elements from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels and recent Sy Weintraub-produced Tarzan movies of the late-1950s and '60s that might have helped. The Tarzan of the Ron Ely television series lacks the mythical, majestic qualities present in the best Tarzan adaptations, and the series probably could have benefited had its scripts incorporated fantasy elements that might have created a sense of wonder the series profoundly lacks. Instead, the TV Tarzan, while quite good in other respects, is weighed down by standard jungle adventure plots, a limited genre, especially for a weekly series.
Warner Archive released the first season of Tarzan across two volumes in April 2012. The Complete Second Season dispenses with that, culling all 26 one-hour episodes into a compact six-disc set in a standard DVD-size case. Actor Ron Ely is still around and it's a shame he wasn't invited to do an interview or episode introductions, which might have enhanced what amounts to a bare-bones release.
Sister Act: Tarzan Meets The Supremes
As before, a bit of history is in order: The Tarzan film series appeared to have run its course by the mid-1960s, when Tarzan the television series made its 1966 debut. The official film series got off to a good start in 1932, with Tarzan the Ape Man, famously starring Johnny Weissmuller, five-time Olympic Gold Medal-winning swimmer. The next film, Tarzan and His Mate (1934), remains a pre-Code masterpiece, a picture as exciting, innovative, violent, and sexually explicit (more so in the latter case) as the contemporaneous but more widely remembered King Kong (1933). The third film, Tarzan Escapes (1936), might have been its equal, but that one was heavily edited and reworked after audiences found much of it too intensely horrifying.*
After that, MGM wholesomeness quickly seeped in, seriously undercutting what had come before, particularly in Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) and Tarzan's New York Adventure (1941). Tarzan's Secret Treasure (released earlier in 1941) is somewhat better, and might have been great had the original ending, in which Tarzan's love Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) was to have tragically died, been retained. (Weissmuller's moving performance for this scene was basically retained, however.)
While no great actor, Weissmuller nonetheless was a great Tarzan. His was a monosyllabic character with a deep distrust, usually justified, of "civilized" man. He was uncompromising and unhesitatingly violent when he needed to be, but he treasured his freedom and his animal friends, while Jane, with whom he had the most overtly sexual relationship among 1930s and '40s Hollywood characters, further humanized him. (O'Sullivan's Jane was cultured but sexy, at least at first, while Brenda Joyce's equally fine Jane in the later films was intuitive and sensitive yet assertive toward her common- [jungle-] law husband.)
From here Weissmuller and Tarzan moved over to RKO, in films considered slightly inferior, but which this reviewer vastly prefers to the later MGM ones. Like other Hollywood stars, Tarzan fought Nazis for a couple of years, but then returned to more traditional, sometimes fantasy-laced adventures. As with the first two MGMs, the RKO Tarzans had moments bordering on poetry. In one film, ruthless hunters across the river from Tarzan's territory insist they have a right to slaughter as many animals as they damn well feel like. Tarzan responds with his classic jungle cry - and all of the endangered animals diligently cross the river en masse into Tarzan's domain, and safety.
Director Kurt Neumann brought a lot of style to these later Weissmullers, which were all pretty good until the last one, Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948), at which point Weissmuller hung up his loincloth and became African hunter Jungle Jim for Monogram, basically Tarzan with his clothes on.**
Lex Barker replaced him for the next five movies, from Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949) through Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953). He was more conventionally handsome yet somehow regal, a fine Tarzan overall, and in some respects more like the Tarzan of author Edgar Rice Burroughs's novels, but he lacked Weissmuller's unspoiled innocence. The series, still at RKO, was generally good, though dipping slightly if steadily throughout the Barker years.
Next came bodybuilder Gordon Scott, who debuted in Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955) alongside future wife Vera Miles. The Gordon Scott Tarzan films were far and away the most schizophrenic. Tarzan's Hidden Jungle was much like Barker's later, cheaper ones, but the next movie, Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957), was not only the first in color, it also was the first to be shot in England with a mostly British cast, and it featured fairly extensive second unit footage filmed in Africa.
However, the next film, Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958), made back in Hollywood, was incredibly cheap and stillborn, shot almost entirely on phony soundstage "jungle" sets. In these same spartan surroundings Scott also starred as Tarzan in an even worse unsold television pilot eventually released to television as Tarzan and the Trappers.
But then, something happened that changed the entire course of the franchise. Rights to the series were acquired by producer Sy Weintraub, and a half-century before the term "reboot" defined a completely revamped continuing film series, Weintraub did just that. Though Gordon Scott continued in the role of Tarzan, he was suddenly an educated, cultured and grimmer ape-man closer to Burroughs's original, and not limited to "Me Tarzan. You Jane" type dialog. Further, Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959) was filmed almost entirely on location in Kenya, and featured two formidable actors playing the villains: Anthony Quayle and relative newcomer Sean Connery. It was easily the best Tarzan movie since Tarzan and His Mate (1934).
After that Scott made just one more, Tarzan the Magnificent (1960), but that was nearly as good and featured stuntman and actor Jock Mahoney as an equally vile, memorable villain. However, as popular as Scott was and as good as his last two entries were, Scott himself was a limited actor and for all his muscles had a boyish face not really suited to more adult, darker Tarzan envisioned by Weintraub. When Mahoney took over the part for Tarzan Goes to India (1962) that actor was already 42 years old, the oldest rookie Tarzan ever. Further, while athletic he was lanky and a startling contrast to Scott, his leanness stretched further by illness while on location, where he lost even more weight.
But Mahoney proved the best Tarzan since Weissmuller, and so different that comparisons are pointless. His was a more world-weary, experienced Tarzan than Scott's, instead more like the John Wayne of She Wore a Yellow Ribbon or The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, or the outcast Wayne played in The Searchers. Mahoney's two Tarzans, Tarzan Goes to India and Tarzan's Three Challenges are superb. Featuring spectacular, almost other-worldly locations (in India and Thailand), large-scale action set pieces, and rich, sometimes even unexpectedly moving characterizations, they represent the post-Weissmuller Tarzan series at its peak, even over the more widely acclaimed Tarzan's Greatest Adventure. Although they've been released to DVD via Warner Archive's MOD program, they're really ripe for rediscovery and a Criterion Collection-type remastering loaded with extra features.
After nearly dying while making Three Challenges, Mahoney left the role and was replaced by Mike Henry for the last three Tarzan movies. Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) is quite good, furthering the series' James Bond-like stylings, which dated back to the pre-Bond Greatest Adventure. Like the two Mahoneys, it used its location, this time Mexico and its Teotihuacan ruins, to excellent advantage. However, Tarzan and the Great River (1967) and Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968), filmed back-to-back in Mexico and Brazil, and in an unwise move released during the TV series' run, were fair at best and Henry soured on the role after he was bitten in the chin by the (much too adult) chimpanzee playing Cheeta.
And so Weintraub moved Tarzan to TV. Ron Ely became the latest in the long line of Tarzans. Like Mahoney, Ely was lithe and less muscular than either Scott or Henry, and he was much younger (just 28) with handsome, sculpted, even Romanesque facial features.
Clearly, Weintraub wanted to retain as many of the same qualities of his feature films for the series, but was up against impossible odds in terms of time and money. Unusual for a prime-time network (NBC) show, it began shooting entirely on location in Brazil, flying guest stars all the way to South America. However, the logistics proved impossible and the unit relocated to Mexico. All of season two was filmed there.
Nevertheless, the show succeeded in retaining its movie look to a point, offering viewers scenery not limited to what was driving distance from Los Angeles. Weintraub does resort to scads of stock footage from his earlier Tarzan movies, but this is not too intrusive, and some of the second unit and stock shots are used effectively, especially during the opening titles. Initially these begin with an incredibly impressive backward tracking shot of a charging African elephant, an image similar to the famous Tyrannosaur chase in Jurassic Park. The music accompanying this was likewise highly evocative, but that opening was replaced nine episodes in with much less interesting, more conventional opening titles.
To his credit, Ely, like other Tarzans before him, was fully committed. He insisted on doing most of his own stunts, and mercilessly abused his body in the process. During the first season alone he broke his nose, dislocated his jaw, separated one shoulder and broke another, broke ribs, pulled a hamstring muscle, sprained both ankles and was bitten in the head by a lion, requiring seven stitches. Some of these injuries were caught on camera (notably Ely's fall from a swinging vine) and retained for use on the TV show.
Appropriately there's no Jane domesticating this Tarzan (as television Standards & Practices would have insisted upon), nor is Cheeta the all-purpose cutaway/comedy relief of all the '30s through '50s films. Instead, for most shows excellent child actor Manuel Padilla, Jr. (American Graffiti), who co-starred in the final two Mike Henry films, appears as Jai, whom Tarzan sort of adopts, but who roams the jungle pretty much on his own, unsupervised.
Unfortunately, Tarzan the series follows the well-worn path of convetional jungle stories, opting mostly for conventional, not very interesting plots, and it tends to confine the action to generic locations where nothing is more than a few vine-swinging minutes away. There's not much in the way of quest or search-type stories like some of the better movies, nor are there explicitly fantastical scripts.
Episode titles indicate this general lack of imagination: "Tiger, Tiger," "Voice of the Elephant," "The Pride of a Lioness," "Jai's Amnesia," etc.
Nonetheless, the series attracted a much higher caliber of guest stars than the usual hour action-drama, actors who generally avoided episodic television or who at least were highly selective. This season set includes, among others, James Whitmore, Yaphett Kotto, Sam Jaffe, Brock Peters, mother and son Helen Hayes and James MacArthur, Ethel Merman, James Earl Jones, the Supremes (Diana Ross, Cindy Birdsong and Mary Wilson), Maurice Evans, and Julie Harris. That's a pretty distinguished line-up, and on top of more conventional but still welcome guest stars including Anne Jeffreys, Oscar Beregi, Michael Pate, Murray Matheson, John Doucette, George Kennedy, Lloyd Haynes, William Marshall, BarBara Luna, Simon Oakland, Diana Hyland, Antoinette Bower, John McLiam, Harry Townes, Strother Martin, John Anderson, John Dehner, Clarence Williams III, Karl Swenson, Malachi Throne, Raymond St. Jacques, Robert J. Wilke, Robert Loggia, Morgan Woodward, Michael Ansara, Henry Jones, Woody Strode, Chill Wills, Ted Cassidy, Fernando Lamas, Booth Colman, John Vernon, Nehemiah Persoff, and Neville Brand.
Video & Audio
Tarzan looks quite good, considering. The episodes source what appear to be old transfers but are reasonably bright and sharp, with good color and contrast, though they show a lot of damage and dirt, some inherent due to the mixing and matching of stock shots. It should also be noted that the review copy sent to us was a pressed DVD, and not a DVD-R. The mono audio is okay, and the discs are region-free, unlike MGM's MOD titles. No Extra Features.
Parting Thoughts
For Tarzan fans that, like this reviewer, enjoyed catching up with the film series chronologically on DVD and later as Warner Archive releases, the TV Tarzan is a welcome release. Recommended.
* Reader (and Tarzan authority) Sergei Hasenecz notes, "Horrifying, perhaps, but the full story of Tarzan Escapes is complicated. Oddly enough, the Hays Office made no request for cuts of the legendary and infamous Devil Bat sequence. Supposedly the reaction at previews caused MGM to self-censor their movie, although, again oddly, nothing shows up in the press at the time about horrified mothers and terrified children. Ron Hall writes at length about Tarzan Escapes in ERBzine, the online magazine dedicated to Edgar Rice Burroughs and his creations here. Hall claims to have seen an uncensored re-release print in 1954."
** More from Sergei: "This is the usual (and unimaginative) way Weissmuller's Jungle Jim is described, but there are significant differences between the two characters. First, except for his companion chimp, Jim has no control over the animals he protects. To get a herd of elephants to cross a river, Jim couldn't simply give a command. He'd have to stage a pachyderm rodeo (if he'd have had the budget to do it). Second, and perhaps more importantly, Jim has none of Tarzan's sexuality. Even with the latter 'domesticated' Tarzan movies, you knew why Jane was hanging around 'that bally jungle' (as Lord Greystoke's cousin once put it), and it wasn't unusual for Tarzan and Jane to still discreetly slip off together. Lastly, because he had his clothes on, one knew Jim was not a feral man, not an ape man. He was civilized, even if he lived in the jungle. He was an outsider who came in, no matter how well versed he was in the ways of the jungle. Tarzan was born to the life. The difference between Tarzan and Jungle Jim is the difference between a demi-god and a mortal."
Stuart Galbraith IV is the Kyoto-based film historian and publisher-editor of World Cinema Paradise. His credits include film history books, DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries and special features.


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Five Valleys Crimestoppers is asking for the public's help in locating a handgun that was stolen from a private vehicle while it was parked at the National Guard Armory at the Wye on Friday, June 7.
Missoula County Sheriff's Department Public Information Officer Paige Pavalone said on Monday, that a National Guardsman believes he may have left his personal vehicle unlocked while at the armory last Friday.
"He locked his car and went inside for his training, but returned to his car later in the morning and believes he may have left the vehicle unlocked," Pavalone said. "When he returned to his vehicle at about 5:00 p.m. that evening, he discovered that his seat had been moved up. He immediately looked under the seat where he stored his pistol, and it was gone. The theft happened during daylight hours, sometime between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m."
Pavalone provided a description of the missing weapon.
"The missing weapon is a .45 caliber Springfield Armory XDS semi-automatic pistol, black in color," Pavalone said. "Our detective unit constantly follows up with pawnshops and looks at pawn slips to see if items that have been stolen ever surface in local pawnshops."
According to a local gun shop, the approximate value of the weapon is between $600.00 and $640.00. Anyone with information about this stolen handgun, or the suspect in the case, is asked to call Five Valleys Crimestoppers at 721-44-44.


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Five days into a multistate Amber Alert for a teenage girl in "grave danger," San Diego officials confirmed that the second body found in a burned-out home is that of the missing girl's 8-year-old brother.
The San Diego County Sheriff's Department Friday night confirmed that a second body found in the burned-out home is that of Ethan Anderson, whose 16-year-old sister Hannah remained still missing, believed to have been abducted by family friend James Lee DiMaggio.
Initially, investigators believed the boy was also traveling with DiMaggio and Hannah. He was described as 4 feet 11 inches tall, weighing 65 pounds, with sandy blond hair.
Due to the condition of the body, Ethan's identity was determined using DNA analysis of his bone marrow, the sheriff's department said.
Before Friday night's confirmation, family members – including the children's father Brett Anderson – had implied that Ethan was found dead along with his mother, Christina Anderson, in DiMaggio's home Monday.
Emergency personnel were called to the 2000 block of Ross Avenue in the unincorporated community of Boulevard east of San Diego about 8 p.m. Sunday for a structure fire. DiMaggio's log cabin-style home and detached three-car garage were engulfed in flames.
The bodies of an adult, child and dog were found in the charred rubble.
DiMaggio, 40, is accused of killing Christina and Ethan Anderson, then abducting Hannah Anderson. Detectives have not released the cause of death.
DiMaggio's blue Nissan Sentra was found Friday in a rural community in Idaho known as the River of No Return Wilderness.
The sedan -- the description of which has been published in nationwide media reports -- was found covered in brush with its license plates removed about 15 miles east of Cascade, Idaho, approximately 80 miles north of Boise and roughly 400 miles from the Canadian border.
DiMaggio and Hannah have been spotted near Morehead Lake, officials said Friday. A horseback rider had a brief conversation with the pair, but saw no reason to be alarmed. He told officials they appeared to be hikers or campers, which are common in the area.
Initially, investigators believed Ethan was also traveling with DiMaggio and Hannah.
Friends and family have been holding vigils for Ethan, calling the young boy a great kid with lots of friends who love him.
Friends have also said Ethan and Hannah had a strong sibling bond, with little fighting and lots of love between them.
As a family, friends say the Andersons were very happy and seemingly had a great relationship.
Officials have not released how Christina Anderson and her son were killed. They also have not identified a possible motive.
"We all have come up with a theory but really it is speculation and we wont know until we get Hannah and DiMaggio back here for further questions," San Diego County Sheriff William Gore said.
Christina's father, Christopher Saincome, said his daughter went to visit DiMaggio's home to say goodbye to the family friend before he moved to Texas.
Hannah Anderson attended El Capitan High School in Lakeside, where friends described DiMaggio as having a crush on the 16-year-old girl.
A memorial fund has been set up to help the family with burial costs.
Go to WePay and search for "San Diego Anderson Family Support Fund."
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CHANHASSEN, MN -- Despite the continued struggles of the economy that have affected most of the club industry, Life Time Fitness continues to experience steady growth, reflected in the second-quarter results that the company announced today.
Life Time's revenue grew 18.7 percent to $192.4 million in second quarter 2008 compared to $162.1 million during the same period last year. Net income in second quarter 2008 grew 20.3 percent to $19.8 million, compared to $16.5 million in second quarter 2007.
"We saw further proof of our ability to perform in a challenging environment in the second quarter," Life Time CEO Bahram Akradi said in a conference call today.
Life Time's increased revenue is driven by growth in membership dues, which experienced an 18.2 percent increase compared to the same period in 2007, and in-center revenue, up 22 percent in second quarter 2008 than in the same period last year. The in-center increase is spearheaded by the growth of personal training.
Memberships, which were at 489,489 on June 30, 2007, increased 11.9 percent to 547,497 on June 30, 2008. That's ahead of the company's initial plan for a 10 percent increase during that time, Akradi said in the call.
"This positions us very well to accomplish our goal of 13 to 14 percent membership growth in the second half of the year," Akradi said.
However, Life Time did experience a 38 percent attrition rate, according to Life Time Chief Financial Officer Michael Robinson, which was slightly higher than anticipated.
"We've seen a few more people leave our centers in the current environment, but at the same time, we're seeing more people join," said Robinson. Life Time experienced a net membership increase of 26,000 in the second quarter 2008 compared to 15,000 during the same time last year.
Akradi told analysts on the call that the attrition rate was due to increased activity in membership price changes in the first half of the year as well as economic factors. When asked if Life Time planned to implement one- or two-year membership contracts to combat the attrition, Akradi was emphatically against the notion.
"Philosophically, we think that's a very, very bad way of doing business with the customer," Akradi said. "The customer should be at your club because you are keeping them satisfied and they want to be there, not because their ankles are tied up because of a contract."
Factoring in membership growth, the construction of new centers and presale activities, the total operating expenses for Life Time during second quarter 2008 totaled $152.5 million compared to $128.6 million in second quarter 2007. The year-to-date operating expenses totaled $301 million compared to $253 million for the same period last year.
Robinson recounted in the call that in June, Life Time brought in $104 million in variable rate funding by increasing a borrowing facility from $400 million to $470 million and by obtaining a $34 million mortgage loan to provide financing for its headquarters in Chanhassen, MN, as well as a club in Overland Park, KS. The company is expected to close deals with two companies in the third quarter to acquire additional capital with financing of $160 million, Robinson said.
Life Time had 74 open centers on June 30, 2008, compared to 64 open on June 30, 2007. Three new facilities and one acquired club are expected to open in the third quarter.
Of the 74 centers, 54 are owned by Life Time. Akradi was asked in the call about the advantages of owning club locations compared to leasing property.
"All along, we told our shareholders that we like to own our real estate for flexibility and to give us equity in our company that gives us the ability to grow in just about any type of economic challenge," Akradi said.
And in these challenging times, Akradi is aware of the struggles other companies are having. Akradi said the full effects of those struggles may not show up for another year.
"Typically, during the prolonged, tougher consumer environment, it takes maybe as much as a year or so for some of the clubs that are struggling to actually come to the grips that they want to close their doors or quit going through the struggle," Akradi said. "We are seeing some of that around the country. Occasionally, we talk to those people to see if we can help them out in any shape or form by providing a place for their members. Because this tougher consumer environment has been longer than initially expected, I think we're going to see more of those start to surface in the next six to 12 months. We're well prepared to do what we can to benefit from it."
Some of the new features Life Time plans to introduce in the third quarter include a member communication program, an LTF Vision in-house television network, a new member connectivity program and a member advantage program. Robinson said the company expects 20 percent growth in net income and 20 percent growth in revenue during the third quarter.


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The Texans are sticking with Case Keenum as their starting quarterback, owner Robert C. McNair said Friday.
McNair made the announcement at the press conference in which the club confirmed it had fired coach Gary Kubiak.
Keenum was pulled in favor of Matt Schaub in the Texans' 27-20 loss at Jacksonville on Thursday night. However, the club needs to further evaluate Keenum, McNair said.
"Case is going to be the quarterback, and we're going to give him a chance to see how he can perform," McNair said. "I think the jury is still out, and he's got a lot of ability, and he's shown some flashes of brilliance, and he's shown some rookie mistakes.
"We've got to see if we can improve or eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes, and continue some of the outstanding play that we've seen, and see whether we think he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really don't know."
If the 2014 NFL Draft were held today, the 2-11 Texans would hold the No. 1 pick, making closer study of Keenum a sensible move.


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text: freenode/#lisp - IRC Chatlog Search Monday, 16th of April 2018, 13:48:36 UTC 13:51:38 Shinmera makomo: I'm glad you enjoyed my talk demo! 14:14:37 makomo Shinmera: :-) 14:21:15 warweasle ** NICK warweasle_afk 14:26:35 shka what "Known attributes" in sbcl documentation means? 14:29:58 puchacz hi, I would like to give unique identifiers to threads. 14:30:35 puchacz I know they can have names, but names are not unique and they exist only for threads I create. 14:31:00 puchacz in Java, there is something called ThreadLocal variable 14:31:11 puchacz can I have something similar? 14:33:14 shka puchacz: you can bind dynamic variables when thread starts 14:33:32 puchacz I am not sure about semantics of special variables; (let ((*special-var* (random-string))) ....) for example ? 14:33:51 shka for instance, but i would rather use (gensym) 14:34:07 shka instead of string 14:34:24 puchacz shka: ok... thanks 14:34:36 shka should be simple enough 14:35:21 shka puchacz: does that answer your question? 14:36:06 puchacz shka: yes, it will work. however I was hoping I could have a mechanism that works for all threads I can encounter, not only these I create or control somehow 14:36:15 shka hmmm 14:36:43 puchacz for truly ThreadLocal variables, I could just (unless (threadlocal :name) (setf (threadlocal :name) (gensym)) 14:36:48 shka i don't know way to do that 14:37:07 puchacz without any locking or anything like this, because they would be thread local 14:37:08 shka myself, i almost always try to use lparallel whenever it makes sense 14:37:29 puchacz I know lparallel, btw it names all threads "lparallel" :) 14:37:42 shka yup 14:39:13 shka anyway, i don't run into thread issues, mostly because i am really good at avoiding explicit synchronization :P 14:39:23 puchacz :) 14:39:34 puchacz I am poor at multithreading 14:40:54 shka everybody is, just don't try to be smart, keep things simple and separated and you are fine 14:42:04 shka so share very little between threads (mutable stuff), and explicitly mark those things 14:42:19 shka it makes life so much easier 14:43:55 puchacz yes, I agree with the theory 15:21:04 deng_cn1 ** NICK deng_cn 15:35:38 warweasle_afk ** NICK warweasle 16:52:39 deng_cn1 ** NICK deng_cn 16:59:42 jjkola hi 17:01:41 equwal hi 17:02:35 edgar-rft ho 17:28:13 puchacz hi, in unwind-protect, will cleanup body be executed even if return-from the whole function? 17:41:57 Baggers puchacz: yup 17:52:05 deng_cn1 ** NICK deng_cn 18:08:21 makomo i would like to use conses as keys into my hashtable but i would like a special equality test for them 18:08:46 makomo two keys would compare equal if the stuff in the cons itself is EQ/EQL 18:08:55 makomo i don't want EQ/EQL to be performed on the cons itself 18:09:15 makomo what are my options? i don't think the standard hash table allows me to do this 18:20:26 cage_ maybe: https://github.com/metawilm/cl-custom-hash-table 18:22:31 shka_ makomo: just use equal 18:22:44 makomo shka_: but that will recursively use EQUAL right? 18:22:50 shka_ yes 18:23:02 makomo but i can guarantee that the car and cdr can be compared using just EQ/EQL 18:23:28 shka_ use equal, benchmark 18:23:36 shka_ if it matters, optimize 18:23:40 shka_ i don't think it will 18:24:04 makomo that's also a good point i guess 18:24:11 makomo i mean, it certainly won't matter, i'm pretty sure of that 18:24:18 makomo just wanted to see if there's some other nice way 18:27:33 shka_ makomo: custom-hash-table, if you really want to 18:27:52 makomo mhm, ok 18:28:05 shka_ but honestly, it is not really practical 18:28:31 shka_ in your case, that's it 18:28:58 shka_ if you need to use a vector as a key, well, it makes things very different! 18:29:08 shka_ but it is not your case 18:30:27 shka_ makomo: i mean, your time can be used in better way 18:30:32 makomo shka_: could you describe the situation with the vector a little more? 18:30:35 makomo yeah, true :D 18:30:42 makomo if i had lots of elements or something? 18:30:49 shka_ heh 18:30:52 shka_ check this out 18:31:20 shka_ (sxhash #(1 2 3 4 5)) 18:31:28 shka_ 1193941381096739655 18:31:38 shka_ (sxhash #(1 2 3)) 18:31:53 shka_ 1193941381096739655 (in sbcl) 18:32:18 makomo ohh 18:32:21 shka_ yup 18:32:27 makomo hm well, that's "just" a collision 18:32:31 makomo stuff like that happens i guess? 18:32:31 sjl If you want to use vectors as keys based on their contents, you need to use #'equalp, but that will also make strings ignore case 18:33:02 shka_ makomo: sxhash will always return same number for vector 18:33:14 makomo oh LOL 18:33:18 shka_ so let's say you want to hash binary blobs 18:33:23 shka_ you are screwed :P 18:33:33 shka_ and sure, hashtable will work 18:33:39 shka_ because that's just collision 18:33:46 shka_ but i degenerates to O(n) 18:33:58 sjl sxhash doesn't always return the same number for vectors 18:34:06 sjl (sxhash "foo") (sxhash "bar") 18:34:27 shka_ oh gosh 18:35:10 sjl SBCL's does seem to do it for non-string vectors, which is odd 18:35:37 shka_ sjl: actually, if you want to be so anal about sxhash, standard allows returning same number for every string as well 18:35:44 sjl sure 18:35:58 shka_ and sbcl does that for non-string vectors 18:36:17 shka_ it won't matter if you use 'eq as comparsion 18:36:28 sjl (defun sxhash (o) 1) 18:36:28 shka_ but anyway, it is something to remember 18:37:09 shka_ makomo: and if you want to use some sort of objected defined with defclass 18:37:44 shka_ there is plenty of use cases for custom hashtables, but it is not worth to use it if you can simply use equal 18:37:58 makomo mhm, got it 18:38:08 shka_ yay 18:38:13 shka_ i feel so useful 18:38:20 makomo haha :-) 18:38:43 makomo i mean, it would definitely be overkill, but using the chance to explore other options is always nice 18:39:00 shka_ i guess 19:00:03 puchacz Baggers: ok, thanks 19:04:46 puchacz shka: you said you use lparallel for multithreading, anything else please? 19:40:17 doesthiswork (OPERATE 'TEST-OP :CFFI-TESTS) don't match lambda list (O C) 19:40:35 doesthiswork version 0.19.0 of CFFI 19:48:19 Baggers doesthiswork: a bit quiet here today, maybe due to ELS. If you have time it could be worth reporting this on the mailing list. 19:48:36 doesthiswork thank you 20:55:14 spm_ ** NICK _spm 22:24:57 comborico1611 What is the company/project with the gecko in lightgreen and blue? 22:32:56 edgar-rft comborico1611, you mean this one? <https://web.archive.org/web/20060105182921/http://www.normal-null.de/lisp_logo.html> 22:33:42 comborico1611 edgar-rft: Yes! What is this? 22:36:14 edgar-rft comborico1611, it once was designed by a guy named Manfred Spiller, AFAIK it was never used by any paricular project, it just was a suggestion how a Lisp Logo could look like. There are several copies of that logo on various GitHub etc. repositories. 22:36:50 comborico1611 It is a great logo. 22:40:49 edgar-rft It's the best Lisp Logo I know of :-) think it first appeared in context of this comp.lang.lisp discussion: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/dOS2dMSSTHg> 22:41:25 comborico1611 It's a very regretable it isn't being used far and wide. 22:41:50 pierpa the professional hand shows through 22:42:36 comborico1611 I am very convinced that logo will be copied and used for something major. 22:42:52 pierpa the alien logo is cute too 22:43:03 comborico1611 It is very 90s. 22:43:13 cgay It was used on my coffee mug. 22:44:02 pierpa http://lisperati.com/logo.html 22:48:32 comborico1611 I need some help with this. https://hastebin.com/aquzakacat.lisp 22:49:22 comborico1611 I can't understand the error message. I'm just doing this for a quick fun thing. I've been away from Lisp for a month or so. 22:50:15 comborico1611 You'll need to ignore the perl-ish stuff. Just experiementing with readability a bit. 22:51:46 pillton The (list form) is not within the lexical scope of the (let* ..) form. 22:51:55 pillton The (list..) form sorry. 22:52:24 comborico1611 So I'm not adhering to the structure of let*? 22:53:04 pillton comborico1611: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/variables.html 22:53:31 comborico1611 Heh. Alright. Yeah, I've been away and it's taken its toll. 22:53:47 comborico1611 Other than that, does it look like i'm on the right track? 22:55:21 pillton I suggest you read a bit more of the book I linked. 22:56:09 comborico1611 Roger that. Thanks for taking a look at the post! 23:12:32 pillton You are welcome. 23:21:21 kukuruznik Anyone here know about linking C++ files in Emacs? Both the C++ and Emacs IRC channels require this authorization thingy. 23:21:34 kukuruznik This seems like the next best place to ask about Emacs. 23:24:31 theemacsshibe hi 0:18:09 iqubic kukuruznik: you should really just authorize yourself, as this is not the right channel for that. 0:18:17 iqubic I recommend #emacs.


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Julie Ann Boydston
MARION — Julie Ann Boydston, 92, passed away Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, at Parkside Homes in Hillsboro, Kan.
She was born July 6, 1920, to Harry and Esther (Jensen) Jean in Black Hawk County, Iowa, and grew up in Waterloo, Iowa. She married Glenn L. Boydston on Dec. 29, 1944, in Topeka. They lived their early married life in Iowa, and later moved to a farm near Valley Falls, Kan. There they raised their two children, Harry and Glenna.
After retirement, they moved to Caldwell, Kan., then to Mountain Home, Ark., and then back to Valley Falls. After Glenn's death in 1999, Julie moved to Olathe, and then later to Marion, to the September Apartments.
She was a stay-at-home mom, loved gardening and canning, and always enjoyed relatives stopping by. Their home was the site of many family reunions. She was active and very supportive of her kid's lives in all their school activities. She was a wonderful cook — especially of wild game. She cherished the time she spent with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She loved to fish, read, do crossword puzzles, play pitch, and watch K-State ballgames.
Survivors include a son, Dr. Harry L. Boydston and his wife Karen of Louisburg; a daughter, Glenna Jean Newkirk and husband Jim of Marion; a sister-in-law, Mary Irwin of Bedford, Texas; four grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
There will be a family memorial service at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Marion City Library, in care of Zeiner Funeral Home, 205 Elm, Marion, KS, 66861.
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Adam Jones looks like he's staying in Cincinnati.
On Thursday morning, the veteran cornerback / punt returner wrote on his verified Twitter account that he had reached a three-year contract agreement with the Bengals, with whom he has played the last three seasons.
Jones played all 16 games (five starts) for Cincinnati in 2012, defending nine passes and recording 40 tackles. Pro Football Focus, which grades player performance, rated Jones as its sixth-best cornerback in coverage last season. He figures no worse than the Bengals' third cornerback in 2013.
Jones also adds value as a punt returner. He racked up 301 yards on 26 returns a season ago and brought back a punt for a score against Cleveland.
A series of off-field incidents threatened to derail Jones' NFL career in its early stages. And there is no doubt that his past is a material part of his legacy. However, he has appeared to find some professional stability in Cincinnati in the last few seasons. And now, as he approaches his 30th birthday in September, he continues to have a spot in the league — and he looks to have garnered a multi-year contract, too.


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Big questions remain after Patriots' win
Before he headed to the podium Sunday, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady spritzed himself with cologne. There was a lot of verbal cologne being sprayed and spouted in the Patriots' locker room after their fingers-crossed 29-26 victory over Rex Ryan and the New York Jets.
This was a malodorous win if there ever was one. You've heard the expression putting perfume on a pig. The 4-3 Patriots put perfume on the pigskin Sunday at Gillette Stadium. It was Eau de Victory.
The upshot of the sentiment from the Patriots after they blew a 10-point, fourth-quarter lead for the second consecutive week and were forced to kick a tying field goal with no time left in regulation was that winning is all that matters. Hand out 20-yard passes like they're Halloween candy and it doesn't matter. You won. Fail to execute your four-minute offense and it doesn't matter. You won. Continue to look shakier than that old wooden roller coaster at Coney Island in the fourth quarter, letting the Jets score every time they touched the ball, and it doesn't matter. You won.
"At the end of the day we made more plays to win the ballgame. That's the only thing that matters," said nose tackle Vince Wilfork, part of a defense that allowed the Jets' previously 30th-ranked offense to rack up a season-high 403 yards.
That's a rosy outlook, but it's not reality.
It doesn't matter until it does matter. The aforementioned issues are all traits that will get you beat in January because the goal around here isn't simply to win regular-season games, division games, or rivalry games. It's to win a Super Bowl.
It may seem unfair to criticize, analyze, and critique a team in victory, but the Patriots are held to a higher standard because for more than a decade they've been playing at one. You can't lower the bar simply because it's become harder to reach.
The hallmark of a Bill Belichick team was always "situational football." Now, you have the Patriots struggling to close out games and allowing touchdowns with 10 guys on the field. The latter was the case on New York's first score, a Shonn Greene 1-yard run with 8:51 left in the first quarter.
The one thing you can usually say about Belichick teams is that the more games they play the better they get. Yet, that doesn't necessarily seem to be the case with this bunch, especially on defense.
The Patriots allowed (Off the) Mark Sanchez, who came into the game completing an NFL-worst 49.7 percent of his passes, to connect on 68.3 percent (28 of 41) and throw for 328 yards and a touchdown.
Only Sanchez's own ineptitude prevented him from throwing for more. He grossly underthrew a potential 36-yard touchdown pass to Stephen Hill in the second quarter that was intercepted at the New England 2 by Alfonzo Dennard. The infield fly rule could have been in effect on the throw.
"Certainly, some things were better. Was everything better? Probably not," said Belichick.
Brady putting on cologne in the Gillette locker room was fitting because he acts as the ultimate masking agent for his team.
This team has worrisome issues, the most salient of which is a secondary that allowed six more pass plays of 20-plus yards, but the quarterback isn't one of them.
Brady guided the Patriots to a tying Stephen Gostkowski field goal as time expired after the franchise quarterback got the ball back down, 26-23, on his own 21 with 1:37 to play. Then in overtime he put Gostkowski in position to boot the 48-yarder that became the winner when Rob Ninkovich coaxed then recovered a Sanchez fumble with 7:35 left in the extra session.
TB12 was 9 of 13 for 95 yards on the two drives, part of a day in which he didn't make any poor decisions, when just one would have skunked his team. Brady finished 26 of 42 for 259 yards with two touchdown tosses to Rob Gronkowski.
The myth of Brady being at the center of this team's issues in the fourth quarter was put to rest.
"I think he put it to rest a long time ago," said wide receiver Wes Welker. "Nothing has really changed. He's still Tom. I don't think anybody needs to waver on whether he's going to be there or not."
Brady said while the Patriots got the job done, they have to be better.
"We can't really put ourselves in that position," said Brady. "There is no easy way out. There is not like there is a magic, special play you save for those situations. It's about doing your job, and doing it better.''
The Patriots led, 23-13, entering the fourth. The score wasn't the same, but the 10-point differential was identical to the one they possessed last week in Seattle at the start of the final frame. The Jets took their first possession of the fourth and drove 92 yards in 6 minutes and 58 seconds to pull back within 3 points. Sanchez hit Dustin Keller with a 7-yard touchdown pass.
The Patriots had the ball for all of 1:25. Then the Jets got it back and tied the game with 2:06 to go on Nick Folk's third field goal of the game.
Devin McCourty, who returned a kickoff 104 yards for a touchdown in the first quarter, fumbled on the ensuing kickoff and the Jets recovered at the Patriots' 18. Folk hit his fourth field goal of the game, a 43-yarder, with 1:37 left to give the Jets a 26-23 lead.
The Patriots were staring at their second two-game losing streak of the season, instead they nosed ahead of the Jets to take the top spot in the AFC East.
"You can't be pissed off at how you won," said Wilfork.
You can't be happy about it either, when you know that all you're doing is masking problems with the scent of victory, instead of cleaning them up.
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