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They've mystified me since I noticed them.
Lords of Illustrator, forgive your humble servant's blatant ignorance, but searches and experimentation have come up disinsightful (possible a new word) - what do you do with these?
(Right now, I'm making a focused effort to figure out everything I can do with live Appearance Panel effects - the more I know, the better I feel I set up artwork, non-destructively. It's great. Correct Answer will manifest happy dancing.)
Using an Effect is just a way to nondestructively do the same thing as Object>Path>Outline Object or Outline Stroke. Set up two of the same objects and compare the results.
Among other things they are useful (and often required) in conjunction with Pathfinder effects.
Are you interested in some sample files for detection?
Heh, sure Kurt. Thank you for your time. And, just to be clear - what I'm interested most in is dispelling my ignorance. Anything that achieves that is a wonderful thing.
A simple example - In the case of Outline Stroke, basically it would have susequent effects operate on the resulting outlined object (the one on the right) as opposed to the stroke (left example)
It is an odd one to puzzle out, as by itself, it appears to do nothing. And yeah, the appearance panel kicks ***. I remember the epiphany when I discovered it and was like "wow - I've been doing it ALL wrong..." [edit:] Amusingly (well, now anyway) the other "oh my god" moment was finding offset path and realizing that I didn't have to do it by hand.
Ah! Excellent.
(know exactly what you mean about the Aha! moments.)
Could you also give an example of Outline Object working?
Download this and check the Outline effects example file
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Time to abscond then.
Thanks Mathias, this is one very cool illustration!
To be clear, these files are not mine and I don't know who made them, they are floating on the web and I happened to have the ftp link in my bookmarks.
The artist/engineer is Teri Pettit who's name you will find in the Credits list for Illustrator. She's been with Adobe since the early days of Illustrator and has contributed greatly to the product.
She also used to be one of the few Adobe employees who would slum it down here in with us lowly users. It's been a few years since she's been here. She taught me the awesome secret bat cave trick to determine the area of an irregular shape.
There you go, credits go to Teri then. Pasted the name in my bookmark.
My kinda lady!
That's amazing. I had no idea things this complex were possible with the Appearance Panel. If you link that file I'd love to check it out.
Okay, that is awesome. At first, I thought you just meant for the flower part, but then I realized the stem, leaves and water drops were in there too!
Yup. It's all only 1 single circle (you can see the selection highlight for the circle), then the entire image is built using only the Appearance panel.
Wireframe looks like this.... O
I think Teri is responsible for developing the Appearance Panel.
Nice Scott!
From an experimental point of view that flower is a remarkable study. No doubt.
From a pragmatical point of view it's also a remarkable study that shows how absurdly over-complicated one can construct things inside the Appearance palette which can be done easier and way more straightforward by applying "normal" transformations to simple objects.
The Appearance palette is useful, but it can also be an alluring playground that may mislead your mind.
Agreed Kurt.
The point of the exercise for me was to determine at what point is it folly to continue to alter an object via the appearance panel. As well as to study performance differences. For example, I learned the Scribble effect dramatically slows down redraw. The image I posted draws in a few seconds, add a Scribble effect anywhere and that redraw time is easily quadrupled. Glows, shadows, blurs, feathers, etc. don't have that delay which the Scribble Effect provides.
Another goal was to determine just how much transformation can you accomplish and how to get past some limitations (such as the restriction to only move an object 100px via the transform effect). While I'd never actually need anything similar to the flower for real work. It is sometimes handy to know you can create multiple objects which different via the Appearance panel. For example.... eyes or ears of a comic character. That way they stay internally connected and you have less assets to manage. Set up graphic styles for eyes... and they are then just a click away.
I once did a (rather simple, but not too simple) topographic map just by using the Appearance palette. An enlightening experience and a sportful experiment ;-)
As for the 100 px limit you mention: Isn't it 4000 px per Transform effect ?
hmm.. I only get 100px/pt in any direction.
You're used to only take the sliders, right?
Type 2798 px into the Move field and see what happens ;-)
I'll be a monkey's uncle. I had no idea. Yup 4000.. THANKS for that!
(sweet, we can link Youtube's right in the posts, never tried it)
I'm sorry man . . . I'm still mystified here . . . I can't get Outline Stroke to work like the above-linked Illy 10 Style Demo.
I took her Distort > Roughen circle, with Outline Stroke applied so that the stroke becomes an outlined path and the subsequent Roughen affects it like it's been outlined and tried to duplicate the outcome from scratch, but I can't do it!
Doesn't work me . . . yet look at the Appearance Panel and compare - they're the same.
What is going on?
Is there a difference when you click on the eye in the Appearance panel to hide the Outline Stroke effect? If yes, it is working.
Hey, emil.
No, no difference. Tried that.
As you can see - my Roughen is affecting the path with no outlining taking place, it has a constant width, unlike Teri's stroked path.
This shouldn't be that hard . . .
Hmm, works fine here.
Try this, select your path and from the Appearance panel menu choose Clear Appearance. Then take the eyedropper tool, make sure it is set to copy appearance by double clicking the eye dropper in the tool box. Then while your path without any appearance is selected click on Teri's path to see if it will copy the effect. It may be helpful to turn the smart guided on to make it easier to click on the path with the eyedropper.
Yeah, I've always been able to copy her path's Appearance to any other path. That's actually how I've been getting the effect into my files since then.
Are you able to duplicate her results from scratch?
Yes, I can do it from scratch without a problem. The point of my suggestion was when you start from scratch, after you draw the path, first clear its appearance to make sure it is not inheriting something by default. And also create it on a brand new layer.
Mathias, I'm seeing the same problem (even after clearing the appearance), but can solve it by shifting the effects around the Appearance panel at what I think is random before putting them in their proper places. At least I have not yet determined which changes precede proper functioning. I got it to work on your "crappy" example by shifting both the outline and roughen effects a couple of times each, including applying them to the fill before shifting them back to the stroke. If there's any sense to it I haven't found it yet.
Wow . . . I still can't get it to work, even after shifting the effects around in the Appearance Panel for about a minute. No change. Very odd. I'm doomed to keep Teri's circle as a Graphic Style I'll have to apply to my own paths if I want the effect to work. What the heck.
No wonder I could never figure out what these effects did, in the past.
Maybe you would like to post an example of what doesn't work.
But in addition to that: Teri's example is from Illustrator 10. There has been a change in the appearance panel in Illustrator CS4 which affects exactly the outline stroke and outline object effects. Stuff that has been possible until Illustrator CS3 is not any more:
Did you miss the file I linked above, with the big black and white image in the post? My curvy path should show what Teri's circle is doing, but doesn't.
Your link led me to here - http://tpettit.best.vwh.net/adobe/index.html
I looked at a bunch of the webpages and files she makes available there. You speak of there being fundamental changes to how Illustrator handles basic things - like Outline Stroke. Well here in Teri's Fill and Stroke Behavior for Compound Shapes she talks about some changes. So, while it's possible that the way Outline Stroke is handled has changed it seems odd that it still works as intended on Teri's circle even in my CS6.


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Coach Petrino is exactly right. The press should stay out of this as they would any other young man who is arrested under the same circumstances. It should never become an issue for any one outside the family
Unless it's the son of a rival's coach
On the eve of SEC Media Days, Bobby Petrino's 23-year-old son, Dominic, has been arrested in Indiana. The younger Petrino was charged with driving while intoxicated, possession of marijuana, illegal possession of prescription drugs and possession of paraphernalia.
The coach issued a statement yesterday afternoon:
"Nick is our son, he is not a member of the Arkansas football team. As such, this is not a University of Arkansas issue. Instead, it is a family matter and a legal matter. My family will trust and respect the legal system and will not comment outside that process. Becky and I ask that you appreciate and respect the private nature of this issue and understand our lack of further comment."
Two questions immediately come to mind:
1. Will this be a distraction for Petrino heading into football season?
How could it not be? That said, it's doubtful that the distraction will be so bad that it impacts Petrino's ability to prepare his team. It will likely be on his mind, but it likely won't have an effect on the Razorbacks' record.
2. Will the reporters at SEC Media Days bring this up or give Petrino a pass? (Petrino will be among the first people to speak tomorrow in Hoover.)
The timing simply could not have been much worse for Petrino. Not only will he face the press in Hoover, Alabama, but some of that "press" is now made up of web writers who a) have allegiances to teams and b) have no problem wearing those allegiances on their sleeves. In other words, Petrino not only has to worry that a reporter might ask about the situation — and someone probably will — but he also must be concerned that an LSU or Alabama fan taking part in the proceedings could keep asking about the situation.
Having been to SEC Media Days on multiple occasions, there's usually a spirit of goodwill in those halls. With the exception of Clay Travis' "virgin" question for Tim Tebow a couple of years back, it's typically not a gotcha!-type setting. For that reason, we don't think — think, mind you — that the story of Petrino's son will be too hot a topic in Hoover.
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Coach Petrino is exactly right. The press should stay out of this as they would any other young man who is arrested under the same circumstances. It should never become an issue for any one outside the family
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Search costs
Regarding the article "Missing mom may be sued for search cost." She wasn't the one that made the phone call and asked to be found. It stated that she just had to get away. How can you charge her? The person that put in the complaint should be sued for the search cost, but not her.
Young hero
The Pakistani girl who stood up to the Taliban so she could continue her education is a hero. It's a recurring theme. Young women in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are quietly fighting to become educated. Oprah built her school in Africa because she saw how determined the girls were there. I just hope us men don't blow up the world before these young girls can grow up to become world leaders.
Profits over country
The 1 percent put profits over country and since the GOP is owned by the 1 percent, the GOP now puts tax cuts above country. Tax cuts for the wealthy above reducing the deficit. Tax cuts for the wealthy over health care. Tax cuts for the wealthy over helping the middle and lower classes. 12 years of Bush tax cuts for the wealthy has not produced jobs, so what makes anyone think that more tax cuts will create jobs.
During the debate, President Obama said that the day after the attack in Benghazi, he alerted our installations around the world to increase security. He was the only person in the world that did not recognize that we should have expected and prepared for attacks on the anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States of America.
Blame Hillary!
Obama must be getting panicky. He got Hillary Clinton to accept blame for the consulate killings in Libya. If he would spend more time in Washington once in awhile and be president instead of campaigning 24/7, he might just find out what's going on in the world.
Four dead
Chris Stevens and three distinguished Americans are dead in Benghazi because of incompetence in the Obama administration.
Tripped on a curb
Help, I've fallen and I can't get up! That was my thought this morning when I was walking to my post as a Waukegan crossing guard and I tripped on the curb. About 10 cars had driven by and nobody stopped. Finally, this one very kind gentlemen stopped and worked with me to rock me up on my feet. It was such a very kind gesture. I want to thank him for helping me. I'll always have him in my mind, my heart and in my prayers. Thank you.
Hiring felons
So Joe Schmitt is under fire for owning a thrift store where he hires felons and convicts. At least he's giving some people a chance to get some work history on their resume, even though they supposedly paid their debt to society. Society doesn't see it that way and nobody hires felons. What has Joe Schmitt's opponent done?
A new Hoover
I'm an independent voter and I enjoy spending time studying American presidents' philosophies. Did they work or not? I find Mr. Romney is very similar to that of President Hoover in the 1930s. If elected, I hope it works this time. In studying President Obama's philosophy, I find it's very close to that of President Roosevelt who the people liked so much they extended his term. He brought us out of the Great Depression.


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The 22-year-old Pole will move up to fifth in the world rankings when the new standings are released on
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College Football Team Helps with Largest So. Calif. Volunteer Effort to Restore Public Lands
Univ. of Redlands Athletes Plant in Fire Ravaged San Bernardino Nat'l Forest
Redlands, CA - Twenty-five football players from the University of Redlands joined Forest Aid – a partnership of the U.S. Forest Service, the San Bernardino National Forest Association (SBNFA) and L.A.-based TreePeople. During a three day period that included Earth Day on April 22, University of Redlands athletes worked on conditioning and team building while planting 1,870 seedlings in fire damaged areas of the national forest. The athletes trekked over rough terrain and carried trees and tools to areas that were inaccessible to nonathletic volunteers.
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"TreePeople and Forest Aid wish to express our thanks to the University of Redlands football players who've stepped forward to provide the muscle to help make reforestation a reality," said Jim Summers TreePeople's Reforestation Initiative Director. "Their contribution will leave a living legacy that will provide habitat, reduce erosion, help clean the air and restore the forest's beauty."
The United States Forest Service, The San Bernardino National Forest Association and TreePeople have partnered to plant 20,000 seedlings and native plants in 2009 to help restore the San Bernardino National Forest. This partnership is based on a simple belief: That a single person planting a single tree can help revitalize fire-damaged areas, curb global warming, clean the air, capture rainwater and build a sense of community. Working with local land management agencies, nonprofit organizations, volunteers and the business community, Forest Aid's mission is to replant and revitalize the mountains of Southern California.
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It didn't get any better.
The Eagles went up by double digits before the two teams reached the midway point of the first quarter — and the visitors never looked back, cruising to a 74-45 victory in Day 2 action of the High Sierra Winter Challenge, co-hosted by SSHS.
"We hoped to play a lot better in the first half, but they just came out and stomped us," SSHS girls basketball coach Christine Eckles said. "We didn't have a response for it, which isn't necessarily the personality of this team. I thought we did a much better job in the second half and played with much better intensity.
"You just can't allow a team to do anything they want to do, and part of that is because they're a good team. They executed well, so it was a good test for us. I'd give us a failing grade in the first half and at least a passing grade in the second."
The Cougars finally got on the scoreboard after 3:10 ticked off the clock on a baseline jumper by Riley Holladay. But the 8-2 score was the closest the game would be the rest of the evening.
Pleasant Grove took its first double-digit lead when Avonna Lee knocked down a jumper on the baseline, increasing its lead to 12-2 with 4:10 remaining in the first quarter.
Spanish Springs trailed 16-4 after the first eight minutes and did not make a shot from the field for about 10 minutes. The hosts knocked down a pair of free throws during that span in which Pleasant Grove built a 35-6 edge with a 23-2 run.
While Pleasant Grove showed it could score on fast breaks and with putbacks, the California school began knocking down shots from the outside in the second quarter, which helped it claim a 41-14 lead at the break. Four different Pleasant Grove players combined to make five 3-pointers in the second quarter.
The bright spot for the Cougars came in the final minute and a half of the first half. Hannah Woytek scored on a layup to end the long shooting drought and Spanish Springs outscored its opponent 8-6 during that time.
The Purple and White still needed to find a way to counter Pleasant Grove's superiority and chip away at the 27-point halftime deficit. The Cougars did score 31 points in the second half compared to only 14 in the first.
"We just talked about playing harder, stop standing around and move the basketball. They're a good team, but so are we and we needed to come out create a better intensity level," Eckles said of the halftime talk.
Spanish Springs temporarily got some momentum going, scoring five of the first eight points of the second half. However, that just fired up the PGHS coaching staff, leading to a heated timeout.
That woke up the Eagles and they matched what had been their game-high lead of 29 points, 50-21, at the midway point of the third quarter.
Neither team ended up making up any ground in the third quarter as the teams went into the fourth separated by the same 27-point margin (57-30) they started the period.
It was all Pleasant Grove in the early going of the fourth quarter.
A 12-3 run padded the cushion to the largest amount of the game, 34 points. After the Eagles went ahead 69-35 with 3:52 to play in the game, Morning Rose Tobey helped the home team cut the deficit back under 30 points. The SSHS freshman had a pair of three-point plays in the fourth quarter and scored eight of her team-high 11 points in the final eight minutes. She also swiped seven steals.
Woytek and Lyndsey Anderson both had nine points in the losing cause. Anderson pulled down seven rebounds, but Spanish Springs was still out-rebounded 44-33.
Pleasant Grove (3-0) had four players reach double figures in the scoring column led by Marissa Wimbley's 15. Dejza James chipped in 14, while both Lee and Rachel Beebe had 10.
Spanish Springs (5-1) is back in action today when it hosts Faith Lutheran at 11:30 a.m. and Lassen of Susanville at 4 p.m.


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Two kids were having a rather loud conversation, which is OK. They're kids — it's kind of their thing. And it's kind of my thing to tune people out.
Then somebody used the word, "Hitler."
My ears perked up. One of these 9-year-olds had to be affiliated with one political party, and he'd taken this whole "Call the other side a Nazi" thing to an entirely new level. I didn't turn around, but I was ready for a good, lively debate on economics or Obamacare.
"You don't even know who Hitler is," the other lashed back.
"Yeah, I do."
"No, you don't."
(This volleyed back and forth several times.)
"He was a famous general."
"Whatever. He was not famous. He basically started World War II."
"Oh," sheepishly retreating from his once immovable state. "When was World War II, anyway?"
"Like 1992."
Still staring into my locker, I tried to choke back the laughter, but to no avail, "I think you're a little off."
"I meant 1892," he said.
Still chuckling, I said, "Try somewhere in the middle of those two and you'll be a lot closer. But props on knowing who Hitler was."
And through this everyday example from the mouths of babes, we have the picks contest in a nutshell: Go with what you know, but don't overextend yourself.
Oxford, Anniston, Fultondale. By and large, those were the three who doomed the picking public. But not everybody.
I felt strongly about my upset special of unranked Woodland taking down 2A's top team, but I seriously doubted anyone else — outside of Randolph County — would share my strong feelings. That's why I graded from the bottom up, drawing a red line through Fultondale time after time.
But when the ballot started with a circled Woodland, things were most always crazy. They'd end up missing five or six and with the most outlandish of upsets. Childersburg over Handley (Real score: 48-18), Talladega toppling John Carroll (23-6) and Susan Moore beating Saks (28-6).
With everything in life, please enjoy in moderation.
By the way, nobody beat me. That's the first time since, like, 1992.
Fultondale is talented and was unfocused. Happens all the time. And either one of two things are about to happen: 1. Fultondale wasn't that good to begin with, but just given too much credit for having an Alabama commitment on the roster; 2. Fultondale was that good, got beat and now are really, really mad. … Fultondale 31, Wellborn 30.
Anniston at Alexandria: These first two picks will make or break most ballots. We try to put a toss-up in the first spot, making it more difficult to correctly pick the winner and a score for tiebreaking purposes. This one is truly a toss up … Alexandria 28, Anniston 22.
Cherokee County at Cleburne County: I have absolutely no idea. Neither team is anywhere close to what I thought they would be. This one is also truly a toss up … Cleburne County 21, Cherokee County 14.
Piedmont at Cleveland: The ASWA came around to my way of thinking. This one I'm sure about … Piedmont 53, Cleveland 7.
Susan Moore at Weaver: I am not sure about this one for a number of reasons. Mainly because of what both teams showed last week … Weaver 24, Susan Moore 21.
Victory Christian at Pleasant Valley: After seeing Victory Christian in person, bless their heart. They may have one of the smallest offensive tackles in the AHSAA, and for lining up and doing this for 10 games, they've got my admiration, too. But they don't have my pick … Pleasant Valley 40, Victory Christian 6.
Huntsville at Oxford: Got the call on Tuesday the game had been moved to Oxford. We weren't trying to trick anybody on the ballot. Surely, though nobody would have thought home field counted for that much … Oxford 42, Huntsville 14.
Ashville at Saks: I'm making this pick solely on the assumption that Saks will play both halves on Friday night like the Wildcats played the second half last week. If the Wildcats don't, they'll get beat by two touchdowns or more. If they do, they've got a chance. They will not be about to out-athlete this bunch … Saks 21, Ashville 14.
White Plains at Glencoe: Remember what I said about Fultondale being mad? Well, Glencoe wasn't as highly thought of, but there will be a great deal of refocus there … Glencoe 28, White Plains 7.
Ohatchee at Woodland: What will they do after a big upset? Don't ever worry about a Larry Strain-coached team losing focus … Woodland 48, Ohatchee 10.
Clay Central at Holtville: There's really no question about Clay Central's outcomes until the early October meeting with Handley … Clay Central 50, Holtville 14.
Woodville at Donoho: The Falcons' real test, however, is much sooner. Next week against Collinsville … Donoho 41, Woodville 8.
Munford at Jacksonville: Now, Jacksonville on the other hand … Last week started the meat of Jacksonville's schedule, and it passed the first test. They keep getting harder from here on out. The Golden Eagles have more wins right now than I would have thought, and while I feel uneasy about this one, I'll stick with the undefeateds … Jacksonville 35, Munford 34.
For the rest of the slate:
Wadley 35, TC Central 17; Cedar Bluff 42, Jacksonville Christian 7; Spring Garden 42, Coosa Christian 28; Randolph County 35, Reeltown 34 (OT); Vincent 28, Ranburne 14; Lincoln 35, Hokes Bluff 0; Handley 52, Dallas County 6.


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Tito Ortiz's response to Fedor loss
Tito Ortiz: Fedor finally fought somebody on a great level, and it just showed the mistakes that Fedor makes on the ground. Werdum is somebody that I actually know, and I did an interview in Dallas for ESPN Radio and I called it. I knew he was going to beat him. I just felt that once Fedor fought someone with great talent, he would finally get his loss. You cant believe the hype, as they say.
Has he ever been tested? Maybe once or twice? You cant say youre the best in the world if you havent competed against everybody in the world, and he hasnt. And I think by him not coming to the UFC put a big (stain) on his record. You can have a company back you and say youre the best guy in the world, but until you compete against the best guys in the world, youre not that guy. Theres a lot more things going on behind the scenes, and its not just Fedor making those decisions. Fedor is fighting for his country. But it is what it is, and it just proves that hes not invincible and that hes not one of the top heavyweights in the world. I think hes a decent fighter overall, but I was very proud of Werdum, though. Thats what comes with hard work.
I didnt think hed submit him that quickly, but once Fedor gets on top of you, he gets kind of messy and (throws) looping punches, and a lot of triangles and arm locks come into position. Werdums a big guy and hes got some great triangles. When I rolled with him, he got me in a triangle, too. Hes a big guy who moves well and his jiu-jitsu game just shows how good he really is. Hes a former Abu Dhabi submission champ.
(Fedors wins over Cro Cop and Nogueira) were a long time ago. That was when he was in his prime, I guess you can say. He hasnt fought anybody on the UFCs level, and the best guys are in the UFC. Werdum was in the UFC. They let him go, and he signed with Strikeforce and I think its kind of bad, you know, because Werdum is still a young guy whos coming up and still getting better and better by the month.
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What's That in Your Mouth?
Cyclocross season is party time for me. Beer, bikes, babes and whiskey. It's my favorite time of the year. I love it.
But all that partying really takes a toll, man. I'm tired! And I look like hell! And Sal has started calling me "Janice" again (this is a Goodfella's reference). That's never a good thing.
So as the season winds down, I have to start thinking about what happens over the winter. Which can be called "pulling my shit together" or any term of your choice that involves boring gym crap, intervals on the trainer, and – well – about 97% less whiskey.
Whenever I get back to trying not to be a complete glut when it comes to food, I turn to Precision Nutrition. It's smart, straight-forward, balanced, easy to customize, extremely well organized, and it just works for me. I bought the program last year and refer to the program overview binder and two PN cook books all the time. In fact, when I cook, I usually make something out of Gourmet Nutrition. It totally kicks ass and has some super pretty food photography to boot.
I went back today and re-read Berardi's Ten Rules for Good Nutrition article to make sure that it didn't say something like, "Whiskey is great for fat loss." or "Whiskey is the single best thing that you can drink all winter."
It didn't.
Goddamit. Anyway, the point of this was that if you happen to be looking to really attack your fitness and accomplish some fat loss this coming year, the kids over at Precision Nutrition are doing a nutrition coaching program that looks pretty cool. There are only a few spots left, and it closes today, but it's an interesting idea. They have one for boys and one for girls.
In the meantime, I'm going to go find some whiskey. Only three more weeks of irresponsible drinking left!!
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i'm going to make sunday a very very abundant beer day since its the last CC.
you've been warned.
Will you make me the happiest lemming alive and be my minion?
After yesterday, I can tell you exactly what's in your mouth. Horse poo.
I'm a Nutritional Expert, and let me assure you: Whiskey IS Good For You.
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Annual to tree, sometimes monoecious or dioecious, glandular or with bead-like hairs that collapse with age, becoming scaly or powdery
Stem often fleshy
Leaves generally alternate, entire to lobed; veins generally pinnate
Inflorescence: raceme, spike, catkin-like, or spheric cluster, or flower 1; bracts 0few
Flower: sepals 15, often 0 in pistillate flowers, free or fused, generally persistent in fruit; petals 0; stamens 05; ovary generally superior, chamber 1, ovule 1, styles 13
Fruit: generally utricle
Seed 1, vertical (fruit compressed side-to-side) or horizontal (fruit compressed top-to-bottom)
Genera in family: 100 genera, 1300 species: worldwide, especially deserts, saline or alkaline soils; some cultivated for food (Beta , beets, chard; Chenopodium , quinoa)
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated in expanded Amaranthaceae
Annual or perennial herb, glabrous, glandular, or powdery
Stem: branches 0 to generally ± spreading
Leaves generally petioled, linear to deltate, entire to lobed, reduced upward; base generally tapered
Inflorescence: spheric clusters, spikes, or panicle-like, generally dense; bracts generally 0; flowers generally sessile
Flower: calyx segments generally 5, fused or not, persistent, flat to keeled; stamens generally 5; ovary lenticular to spheric, stigmas 25
Seed vertical or horizontal, red-brown to black; wall very thin
Species in genus: ± 150 species: temp; some cultivated for food or grain
Etymology: (Greek: goose foot, from leaf shape of some)
Reference: [Wahl 1954 Bartonia 27:146; Crawford 1975 Brittonia 27:279288]
Fr generally required for identification.
Annual 1665 cm
Leaves: blades 1030 mm, thin, narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, densely powdery below, glabrous to sparsely powdery above; lower blades generally 12-lobed or -toothed
Flower: sepals not enclosing fruit, back keeled, moderately to densely powdery
Fruit 11.5 mm diam; wall free from seed
Seed horizontal
Chromosomes: 2n=18
Ecology: Open, dry places
Elevation: < 2500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Great Central Valley, e San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges, Western Transverse Ranges, East of Sierra Nevada, Desert
Distribution outside California: to c US
Flowering time: JunSep
Synonyms: C. desiccatum Nelson var. leptophylloides (Murray) Wahl
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Biographical Note
Singin' Sam Agins was born in Denver, Colorado, on June 14, 1919. He was born with a congenital paralysis of both legs and only weighed 2 lbs. at birth. Agins was limited to using crutches or a wheelchair for mobility from childhood. Despite his disability he led an active life, playing guitar, making poetry, and writing and collecting music. In addition he was a leather craftsman, stringed instruments mechanic, and a maker of hand-tooled silver buckle jewelry and violins. Agins passion was writing, collecting and singing American folk songs, particularly of the West. During the 1940s and 1950s he entertained disabled youth, veterans, and children in hospitals, acting as an Ambassador of Goodwill Industries. In addition, he entertained prisoners in New Mexico, guests at dude ranches, and taught classes about folk singing throughout the American West. Agins was also the United States representative in 1976 at the Smithsonian Institution's Montreal Expo and also served as an expert on early American folk songs in Washington D.C. During the 1970s and 1980s he participated in the Festival of the American West and the Western Writers Conferences held in Logan, Utah. On November 19, 1957 he married Frederica Agins (born May, 1938) and they had two sons, Judd and Joseph Agins. Sam Agins died in Sun City, Arizona, on March 28, 1996.
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Reel-to-reel tapes recorded by Singin' Sam Agins, largely from the 1970s, (and one from 1991), with Sam Agins and others performing cowboy songs, jazz, bluegrass, and cowboy poetry, recorded during sound recording sessions, performances, folk festivals, and interviews.
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Sam Agins collection: reel-to-reel tapes, 1985-1996. (FOLK COLL 30d). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.
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Arrangement :
Reel-to-reel tapes arranged numerically by assigned record number.
Acquisition Information :
The Sam Agins Collection: Reel-to-Reel Tapes (Folk Coll 30d) was donated by the Sam Agins Family and originally arranged and numbered by Mr. Agins. Original numbers in brackets [].Processing Note :
Originally processed by John Powell and Randy Williams. Finding aid created by Randy Williams, 2 August 2005; updated by Randy Williams, March 2012.
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Higher-order functions are functions that take other functions as arguments. We have already met some of them, such as
map, so there isn't anything really frightening or unfamiliar about them. They offer a form of abstraction that is unique to the functional programming style. In functional programming languages like Haskell, functions are just like any other value, so it doesn't get any harder to deal with higher-order functions.
Higher order functions have a separate section in this book, not because they are particularly difficult – we've already worked with them, after all – but because they are powerful enough to draw special attention to them. We will see in this section how much we can do if we can pass around functions as values. Generally speaking, it is a good idea to abstract over a functionality whenever we can. Besides, Haskell without higher order functions wouldn't be quite as much fun.
The Quickest Sorting Algorithm In TownEdit
Don't get too excited, but
quickSort is certainly one of the quickest. Have you heard of it? If so, you can skip the following subsection and go straight to the next one.
The Idea Behind
The idea is very simple. For a big list, we pick an element, and divide the whole list into three parts.
The first part has all elements that should go before that element, the second part consists of all of the elements that are equal to the picked element, the third has the elements that ought to go after that element. And then, of course, we are supposed to concatenate these. What we get is somewhat better, right?
The trick is to note that only the first and the third are yet to be sorted, and for the second, sorting doesn't really make sense (they are all equal!). How to go about sorting the yet-to-be-sorted sub-lists? Why... apply the same algorithm on them again! By the time the whole process is finished, you get a completely sorted list.
So Let's Get Down To It!Edit
-- if the list is empty, we do nothing -- note that this is the base case for the recursion quickSort [] = [] -- if there's only one element, no need to sort it -- actually, the third case takes care of this one pretty well -- I just wanted you to take it step by step quickSort [x] = [x] -- this is the gist of the process -- we pick the first element as our "pivot", the rest is to be sorted -- don't forget to include the pivot in the middle part! quickSort (x : xs) = (quickSort less) ++ (x : equal) ++ (quickSort more) where less = filter (< x) xs equal = filter (== x) xs more = filter (> x) xs
And we are done! Even if you have met
quickSort before, perhaps you thought recursion was a neat trick but difficult to implement.
Now, How Do We Use It?Edit
quickSort at our disposal, sorting any list is a piece of cake. Suppose we have a list of
String, maybe from a dictionary, and we want to sort them; we just apply
quickSort to the list. For the rest of this chapter, we will use a pseudo-dictionary of words (but a 25,000 word dictionary should do the trick as well):
dictionary = ["I", "have", "a", "thing", "for", "Linux"]
We get, for
quickSort dictionary,
["I", "Linux", "a", "for", "have", "thing"]
But, what if we wanted to sort them in the descending order? Easy, just reverse the list,
reverse (quickSort dictionary) gives us what we want.
But wait! We didn't really sort in the descending order, we sorted (in the ascending order) and reversed it. They may have the same effect, but they are not the same thing!
Besides, you might object that the list you got isn't what you wanted. "a" should certainly be placed before "I". "Linux" should be placed between "have" and "thing". What's the problem here?
The problem is, the way
Strings are represented in a typical programming settings is by a list of Unicode characters. Unicode (and almost all other encodings of characters) specifies that the character code for capital letters are less than the small letters. Bummer. So "Z" is less than "a". We should do something about it. Looks like we need a case insensitive
quickSort as well. It might come handy some day.
But, there's no way you can blend that into
quickSort as it stands. We have work to do.
Tweaking What We Already HaveEdit
What we need to do is to factor out the comparisons
quickSort makes. We need to provide
quickSort with a function that compares two elements, and gives an
Ordering, and as you can imagine, an
Ordering is any of
To sort in the descending order, we supply
quickSort with a function that returns the opposite of the usual
Ordering. For the case-insensitive sort, we may need to define the function ourselves. By all means, we want to make
quickSort applicable to all such functions so that we don't end up writing it over and over again, each time with only minor changes.
quickSort, Take TwoEdit
quickSort will take two things this time: first, the comparison function, and second, the list to sort.
A comparison function will be a function that takes two things, say,
x and
y, and compares them. If
x is less than
y (according to the criteria we want to implement by this function), then the value will be
LT. If they are equal (well, equal with respect to the comparison, we want "Linux" and "linux" to be equal when we are dealing with the insensitive case), we will have
EQ. The remaining case gives us
GT (pronounced: greater than, for obvious reasons).
-- no matter how we compare two things -- the first two equations should not change -- they need to accept the comparison function though -- but the result doesn't need it quickSort _ [] = [] quickSort _ [x] = [x] -- we are in a more general setting now -- but the changes are worth it! -- c is the comparison function quickSort c (x : xs) = (quickSort c less) ++ (x : equal) ++ (quickSort c more) where less = filter (\y -> y `c` x == LT) xs equal = filter (\y -> y `c` x == EQ) xs more = filter (\y -> y `c` x == GT) xs
Almost all the basic data types in Haskell are members of the
Ord class. This class defines an ordering, the "natural" one. The functions (or, operators, in this case)
(==) or
(>) provide shortcuts to the
compare function each type defines. When we want to use the natural ordering as defined by the types themselves, the above code can be written using those operators, as we did last time. In fact, that makes for much clearer style; however, we wrote it the long way just to make the relationship between sorting and comparing more evident.
But What Did We Gain?Edit
Reuse. We can reuse
quickSort to serve different purposes.
-- the usual ordering -- uses the compare function from the Ord class usual = compare -- the descending ordering, note we flip the order of the arguments to compare descending x y = compare y x -- the case-insensitive version is left as an exercise! insensitive = ... -- can you think of anything without making a very big list of all possible cases?
And we are done!
quickSort usual dictionary
should, then, give
["I", "Linux", "a", "for", "have", "thing"]
The comparison is just
compare from the
Ord class. This was our
quickSort, before the tweaking.
quickSort descending dictionary
now gives
["thing", "have", "for", "a", "Linux", "I"]
And finally,
quickSort insensitive dictionary
["a", "for", "have", "I", "Linux", "thing"]
Exactly what we wanted!
insensitive, such that
quickSort insensitive dictionary gives
["a", "for", "have", "I", "Linux", "thing"].
Higher-Order Functions and TypesEdit
quickSort has type
(a -> a -> Ordering) -> [a] -> [a].
Most of the time, the type of a higher-order function provides a good guideline about how to use it. A straightforward way of reading the type signature would be, "
quickSort takes a function that gives an ordering of
as, and a list of
as, to give a list of
as". It is then natural to guess that the function sorts the list respecting the given ordering function.
Note that the parentheses surrounding
a -> a -> Ordering is mandatory. It says that
a -> a -> Ordering altogether form a single argument, an argument that happens to be a function. What happens if we omit the parentheses? We would get a function of type
a -> a -> Ordering -> [a] -> [a], which accepts four arguments instead of the desired two (
a -> a -> Ordering and
[a]). Furthermore none of the four arguments, neither
a nor
Ordering nor
[a] are functions, so omitting the parentheses would give us something that isn't a higher order function.
Furthermore, it's worth noting that the
-> operator is right-associative, which means that
a -> a -> Ordering -> [a] -> [a] means the same thing as
a -> (a -> (Ordering -> ([a] -> [a]))). We really must insist that the
a -> a -> Ordering be clumped together by writing those parentheses... but wait... if
-> is right-associative, wouldn't that mean that the correct signature
(a -> a -> Ordering) -> [a] -> [a] actually means...
(a -> a -> Ordering) -> ([a] -> [a])?
Is that really what we want?
If you think about it, we're trying to build a function that takes two arguments, a function and a list, returning a list. Instead, what this type signature is telling us is that our function takes one argument (a function) and returns another function. That is profoundly odd... but if you're lucky, it might also strike you as being profoundly beautiful. Functions in multiple arguments are fundamentally the same thing as functions that take one argument and give another function back. It's OK if you're not entirely convinced. We'll go into a little bit more detail below and then show how something like this can be turned to our advantage.
The following exercise combines what you have learned about higher order functions, recursion and IO. We are going to recreate what programmers from more popular languages call a "for loop". Implement a function
for :: a -> (a->Bool) -> (a->a) -> (a-> IO ()) -> IO () for i p f job = -- ???
An example of how this function would be used might be
for 1 (<10) (+1) (print)
which prints the numbers 1 to 9 on the screen.
Starting from an initial value
Some more challenging exercises you could try
I hope you followed the reasoning of the preceding chapter closely enough. If you haven't, you should, so give it another try.
Currying is a technique[1] that lets you partially apply a multi-parameter function. When you do that, it remembers those given values, and waits for the remaining parameters.
quickSort takes two parameters, the comparison function, and the list. We can, by currying, construct variations of
quickSort with a given comparison function. The variation just "remembers" the specific comparison, so you can apply it to the list, and it will sort the list using that comparison function.
descendingSort = quickSort descending
What is the type of descendingSort?
quickSort was
(a -> a -> Ordering) -> [a] -> [a], and the comparison function
descending was
a -> a -> Ordering. Applying
quickSort to
descending (that is, applying it partially, we haven't specified the list in the definition) we get a function (our
descendingSort) for which the first parameter is already given, so you can scratch that type out from the type of
quickSort, and we are left with a simple
[a] -> [a]. So we can apply this one to a list right away!
Note: This will not work in newer compilers without either applying a pragma or adding a definition:
descendingSort :: Ord a => [a] -> [a]
descendingSort dictionary
gives us
["thing", "have", "for", "a", "Linux", "I"]
It's rather neat. But is it useful? You bet it is. It is particularly useful as sections, you might notice. Currying often makes Haskell programs very concise. More than that, it often makes your intentions a lot clearer. Remember
less = filter (< x) xs
from the first version of
quickSort? You can read it aloud like "keep those in
xs that are less than
x". Although
(< x) is just a shorthand for
(\y -> y < x), try reading that aloud!
Function manipulationEdit
We will close the chapter discussing a few examples of very common and very useful general-purpose higher-order functions, beginning with
flip is a handy little Prelude function that has the following type:
flip :: (a -> b -> c) -> b -> a -> c
It takes a function of two arguments and returns a version of the same function with the arguments swapped, so that:
Prelude> (flip (/)) 3 1 0.3333333333333333 Prelude> (flip map) [1,2,3] (*2) [2,4,6]
We could have used flip to write the
descending comparing function from the quickSort example point-free, as simply:
descending = flip compare
flip is particularly useful when we want to pass a function with two arguments of different types to another function and the arguments are in the wrong order with respect to the signature of the higher-order function.
(.) composition operator is, as should be clear by now, just another higher-order function. It has the signature:
(.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c
(.) takes two functions as argument and returns a new function, which applies the second argument and then the first.
Composition and higher-order functions provide a range of powerful tricks. For a very small sample of that, first consider the
inits function, defined in the module
Data.List. Quoting the documentation, it "returns all initial segments of the argument, shortest first", so that:
Prelude Data.List> inits [1,2,3] [[],[1],[1,2],[1,2,3]]
With the higher order functions
(.) and
map we can, using only functions in Prelude, provide the following one line implementation for
inits (written point-free for extra dramatic effect):
myInits :: [a] -> [[a]] myInits = map reverse . scanl (flip (:)) []
Swallowing a definition so condensed may look daunting at first; so slowly analyse it bit by bit, recalling what each function does and using the type signatures as a guide.
Note that the definition of
myInits is not only very concise but also clean, in particular with parentheses usage kept to a bare minimum. Naturally, if one goes overboard with composition by writing mile-long
(.) chains things are bound to get confusing, but when deployed reasonably this is a very attractive style. Furthermore, the implementation is quite "high level": we do not deal explicitly at all with details like pattern matching or recursion; the functions we deployed - both the higher-order ones and their functional arguments - take care of such plumbing.
Finally, we will present a very curious higher-order operator,
($). Its type is:
($) :: (a -> b) -> a -> b
It takes a function as its first argument, and all it does is to apply the function to the second argument, so that, for instance,
(head $ "abc") == (head "abc").
By now, it would be entirely justified if you thought that
($) was completely useless! However, there are two interesting points about it. First,
($) has very low precedence[2], unlike regular function application which has very high precedence. In effect, that means we can write a non-point-free version of
myInits without having to add any parentheses in spite of the intricate expression at the left of the argument:
myInits :: [a] -> [[a]] myInits xs = map reverse . scanl (flip (:)) [] $ xs
Furthermore, as
($) is just a function which happens to apply functions, and functions are just values, we can write intriguing expressions such as:
map ($ 2) [(2*), (4*), (8*)]
(Yes, that is a list of functions, and it is perfectly legal.)
Function manipulation through higher-order gives us a great deal of power. As we continue throughout this book we will see many examples of such power being harnessed.
- ↑ named after the outstanding logician Haskell Brooks Curry, the same guy after whom the language is named.
- ↑ Precedence here is meant in the sense that
+has lower precedence than
*, and therefore
2 + 3 * 4equals 14 and not 20.


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As a former heart broken and soul choked Chinese football fan and if you ask me, I say Chinese football is totally hopeless for now no matter how many big names money can buy. Call me in another 20 years, being an optimist in me.
"management of the game must be removed from the state-run sports bureaucracy before Chinese football, for all its money and enthusiasm, can win the acclaim it wishes for"
I can't agree more with that .
A man being paid 300,000 a week. My mind cannot fathom this.
Unless it's Drogba. Ask any Chelsea fan about it and he/she would say the amounts sounds meagre.
Lift your head a bit out of the context of Football, and into a larger context.
It's a man getting paid for kicking a ball into a net, 26 times more than the President of the United States.
But the president would have never pulled off that header, in the closing minutes of the Champions League final against Bayern Munich! ;)
I agree that there are many similarities between the Japanese J-League of the early 1990s and the current Chinese Super League, especially regarding big name signings.
In my opinion this is all tied up with a grander Chinese ambition of hosting the world cup eventually. First of all get in some big name players, raise the profile of their league, get stadiums filled with 60,000 fans every week then make a credible bid.
There is always a slightly patronising criticism that these clubs buy players past their best but realistically is Messi going to quit Barcelona for Beijing Guo'an or Cristiano Ronaldo quit Real Madrid for Guangzhou Evergrande? No, no matter how much money is offered. This is no slur, as they probably wouldn't quit those clubs for any other club right now - even historical greats like AC Milan or Bayern Munich wouldn't tempt them. But don't be surprised if they are playing in China in 10 years time and China is the host of the world cup in 20 years time.
Right now, it is about the only chance they would have to participate in a world cup.....
This article seems to suggest Chinese football is a good fit for FIFA.
Chinese football scenes today reminds me of the very early days of Japanese professional football in 1992, with the only (and probably crucial) difference being the amount of corruption involved: Chinese Football makes Sumo wrestling look clean by comparison... :P
Chinese football will have arrived when it can sign current stars at the peak of their careers. Drogba was good, perhaps even the best, but would any top clubs sign him now? Doubt it.
Actually he had some interest from big European clubs, but you're right none of the giants (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, etc.)
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