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American Douglas McAuthur McCain Killed Fighting for ISIS
He was identified by his neck tattoo.
A 33-year-old San Diego native died fighting for ISIS in Syria over the weekend, NBC reports, and was identified by his neck tattoo. Douglas McAuthur McCain was named by members of the Free Syrian Army, another opposition group, through an American passport found in his pocket. Also found with his body was $800 in cash.
On Facebook, McCain went by the name "Duale ThaslaveofAllah." Photos going back as far as four years show ISIS's signature flag of tawhid, though he apparently only crossed into Syria from Turkey a few months ago. McCain also tweeted about his conversion experience:
I reverted to Islam 10 years ago and I must say In sha Allah I will never look back the best thing that ever happen to me— Duale Khalid (@iamthetooth) May 15, 2014
Before that, classmates described the high-school-age McCain as a happy kid:
Classmates at the school – which was described to NBC News as around 75 percent white and 10 percent African American - recalled an "always smiling" joker who liked to laugh and play basketball. McCain wasn't on the high school team and didn't come across as religious, according to one basketball buddy.
"He was a goofball in high school," that classmate told NBC News. "Doug was a fun guy to be around. Played basketball, joked a lot, had a small sense of humor. Got along with most … Wasn't the best athlete, but liked to play."
Another classmate recalled going to teen nights on Fridays at the local YMCA to play basketball and dance. McCain "was a good guy who loved his family and friends," the classmate said. "He would be the light in anyone's darkness. He always made you smile with his goofy self."
His family members confirmed McCain's death, but did not comment on the circumstances. Several hundred North Americans are believed to be fighting with ISIS in Syria, along with around 500 Britons.


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Re: The Shopping Trick? No idea how to START[ Edited ]
01-06-2013 08:10 PM - edited 01-06-2013 08:16 PM
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Blazesian wrote:
I'm Gardening, so I can not use the trick just yet (although it's tempting), but I keep reading the posts saying how you get a pop up at check out...
Are you supposed to create an account first, then add items to the cart, etc? Were you already a heavy shopper with that store? I tried going to VS
and adding a bunch of things into the cart and clicking "checkout" and nothing happened..
Why not just apply for the VS card if you want it? You don't need an invitation. IMO, Store cards are great if you are a frequent customer.
I've been getting rejected lately due to having way too many inquiries, so if I haven't gotten a pre-approval at the end of my gardening (May) then I will apply. I've just gotten three new cards in a month, so I'm sure they'd deny me right now (:


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As expected, eurozone finance ministers have again postponed approving the release of the next tranche of Greece's bailout after failing to reach an agreement on how to make the country's debt more sustainable in the long term. Eurogroup chairman Jean-Claude Juncker blamed the delay on technical details and said they'll all meet again on Monday for more talks.
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A perfect bowl of pasta is a thing of glory. Here, chef Alfred Portale of Gotham Steakin Fontainbleau in Miami Beach and Gotham Bar and Grill in New York City spells out how to make two memorable farfalle and fettuccine dishes.
- 1 stick butter, room temperature
- 2 cloves garlic, mashed to a paste
- 1 pound imported Italian bow-tie pasta (farfalle)
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
- 2 cups loosely packed arugula
- 4 ounces thinly sliced prosciutto de Parma – cut into bite-size pieces
- 3/4 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (plus additional for grating at the table)
- 3 tablespoons chopped parsley
- 1 tablespoon coarse cracked black pepper
- 1/2 cup chicken broth (hot)
Baking Directions:
Combine garlic and butter, and set aside at room temperature. Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add pasta and cook until al dente. Drain and return pasta to the empty pot. Immediately add cracked pepper, garlic butter, arugula, tomatoes, prosciutto and grated cheese. Toss constantly and gradually add 3 to 4 tablespoons of the hot chicken broth as the butter and cheese melt and emulsify into a rich and creamy sauce. Add parsley and toss again. Transfer to a warmed serving bowl.Serve with extra Parmigiano for grating at the table.
- 1 1/2 pounds wild mushrooms (or exotic cultivated mushrooms like cremini and shiitake)
- 1 pound fresh fettuccine
- 2 shallots, finely minced
- 1 clove garlic, finely minced
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme, picked
- 2 sprigs fresh sage, chopped
- 3 ounces dry white wine
- 3 tablespoons freshly chopped parsley
- 3 tablespoons freshly chopped basil
- 1/3 cup toasted pine nuts
- 2 cups rich chicken stock
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- Pecorino cheese for grating
Baking Directions:
Over a medium-high heat, heat the oil in a sauce pan. Add the mushrooms and cook (making sure to stir). Add the shallots, garlic, thyme and sage, and season with salt and pepper. Deglaze the pan with wine and reduce. Add stock and cook until the broth is reduced by half and richly flavored. Stir in butter and keep warm. Cook the pasta in boiling salted water until al dente. Drain well, and then add to the mushrooms.Toss in the parsley and basil and serve in warmed pasta bowls. Finish each serving with a sprinkle of pine nuts and grated cheese.


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[Sbcl-commits] CVS: sbcl/doc/manual beyond-ansi.texinfo,1.4,1.5 compiler.texinfo,1.3,1.4 debugger.texinfo,1.2,1.3 efficiency.texinfo,1.5,1.6 intro.texinfo,1.3,1.4 sbcl.texinfo,1.6,1.7From: Christophe Rhodes <crhodes@us...> - 2004-04-16 14:17:52
Update of /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/doc/manual In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv9931/doc/manual Modified Files: beyond-ansi.texinfo compiler.texinfo debugger.texinfo efficiency.texinfo intro.texinfo sbcl.texinfo Log Message: 0.8.9.48: Just documentation ... make the compiler messages in the Compiler chapter match reality slightly more; ... Slightly Less Capitalization All Over The Place When It's Not Really Necessary (I realise this may be controversial :-) ... more index entries, etc; ... annotate various bits with FIXMEs Index: beyond-ansi.texinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/doc/manual/beyond-ansi.texinfo,v retrieving revision 1.4 retrieving revision 1.5 diff -u -d -r1.4 -r1.5 --- beyond-ansi.texinfo 14 Apr 2004 08:55:42 -0000 1.4 +++ beyond-ansi.texinfo 16 Apr 2004 14:17:39 -0000 1.5 @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ 0.7.6, the master record of known bugs is in the @file{BUGS} file in the distribution. Some highlight information about bugs may also be found in the manual page. The recommended way to report bugs is -through the sbcl-help or sbcl-devel mailings lists. For mailing list -addresses, @ref{More SBCL Information}. +through the sbcl-help or sbcl-devel mailing lists. For mailing list +addresses, @xref{More SBCL Information}. @node Idiosyncrasies @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ Declarations are generally treated as assertions. This general principle, and its implications, and the bugs which still keep the -compiler from quite satisfying this principle, are discussed in the -chapter on the compiler, @ref{The Compiler}. +compiler from quite satisfying this principle, are discussed in +@ref{The Compiler}. SBCL is essentially a compiler-only implementation of Common Lisp. That is, for all but a few special cases, @code{eval} creates a @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ standard, but leads to some oddities, e.g. collapsing @code{functionp} and @code{compiled-function-p} into the same predicate. +@findex defconstant SBCL is quite strict about ANSI's definition of @code{defconstant}. ANSI says that doing @code{defconstant} of the same symbol more than once is undefined unless the new value is @@ -57,11 +58,9 @@ annoying because, in SBCL, @code{defconstant} takes effect not only at load time but also at compile time, so that just compiling and loading reasonable code like - @lisp (defconstant +foobyte+ '(1 4)) @end lisp - runs into this undefined behavior. Many implementations of Common Lisp try to help the programmer around this annoyance by silently accepting the undefined code and trying to do what the programmer probably @@ -82,10 +81,10 @@ @itemize @item -@...{defmethod} without @code{defgeneric} +@code{defmethod} without a preceding @code{defgeneric}; @item -multiple @code{defun}s of the same symbol +multiple @code{defun}s of the same symbol in different units; @item special variables not named in the conventional @code{*foo*} style, @@ -393,9 +392,9 @@ @include fun-sb-ext-purify.texinfo -@...{sb-ext:truly-the} special form declares the type of the result -of the operations, producing its argument; the declaration is not -checked. In short: don't use it. +The @code{sb-ext:truly-the} special form declares the type of the +result of the operations, producing its argument; the declaration is +not checked. In short: don't use it. @include special-operator-sb-ext-truly-the.texinfo Index: compiler.texinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/doc/manual/compiler.texinfo,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -d -r1.3 -r1.4 --- compiler.texinfo 9 Apr 2004 16:04:49 -0000 1.3 +++ compiler.texinfo 16 Apr 2004 14:17:39 -0000 1.4 @@ -57,15 +57,15 @@ When processing this program, the compiler will produce this warning: @example -file: /tmp/foo.lisp - -in: DEFUN FOO -(ZOQ Y) ---> ROQ PLOQ + -==> -Y -caught WARNING: -Result is a SYMBOL, not a NUMBER. +; file: /tmp/foo.lisp +; in: DEFUN FOO +; (ZOQ Y) +; --> ROQ PLOQ +; ==> +; (+ Y 3) +; +; caught WARNING: +; Asserted type NUMBER conflicts with derived type (VALUES SYMBOL &OPTIONAL). @end example In this example we see each of the six possible parts of a compiler @@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ @enumerate @item -@...{File: /tmp/foo.lisp} This is the name of the file that the +@findex with-compilation-unit +@samp{file: /tmp/foo.lisp} This is the name of the file that the compiler read the relevant code from. The file name is displayed because it may not be immediately obvious when there is an error during compilation of a large system, especially when @@ -91,6 +92,7 @@ @code{foo}. @item +@cindex Original Source @samp{(ZOQ Y)} This is the @dfn{original source} form responsible for the error. Original source means that the form directly appeared in the original input to the compiler, i.e. in the lambda passed to @@ -99,19 +101,21 @@ for the error. @item -@...{--> ROQ PLOQ +} This is the @dfn{processing path} that the +@cindex Processing Path +@samp{--> ROQ PLOQ} This is the @dfn{processing path} that the compiler used to produce the errorful code. The processing path is a representation of the evaluated forms enclosing the actual source that the compiler encountered when processing the original source. The path is the first element of each form, or the form itself if the form is not a list. These forms result from the expansion of macros or source-to-source transformation done by the compiler. In this -example, the enclosing evaluated forms are the calls to @code{roq}, -@...{ploq} and @code{+}. These calls resulted from the expansion of -the @code{zoq} macro. +example, the enclosing evaluated forms are the calls to @code{roq} and +@code{ploq}. These calls resulted from the expansion of the +@code{zoq} macro. @item -@...{==> Y} This is the @dfn{actual source} responsible for the +@cindex Actual Source +@samp{==> (+ Y 3)} This is the @dfn{actual source} responsible for the error. If the actual source appears in the explanation, then we print the next enclosing evaluated form, instead of printing the actual source twice. (This is the form that would otherwise have been the @@ -119,10 +123,13 @@ with the evaluation of the reference to the variable @code{y}. @item -@...{caught WARNING: Result is a SYMBOL, not a NUMBER.} This is the -@...{explanation} of the problem. In this example, the problem is that -@...{y} evaluates to a symbol, but is in a context where a number is -required (the argument to @code{+}). +@samp{caught WARNING: Asserted type NUMBER conflicts with derived type +(VALUES SYMBOL &OPTIONAL).} This is the @dfn{explanation} of the +problem. In this example, the problem is that, while the call to +@code{+} requires that its arguments are all of type @code{number}, +the compiler has derived that @code{y} will evaluate to a +@code{symbol}. Note that @samp{(VALUES SYMBOL &OPTIONAL)} expresses +that @code{y} evaluates to precisely one value. @end enumerate @@ -143,7 +150,7 @@ @item The actual source form is indented like the original source, but is marked by a preceding @samp{==>} line. - +@comment no it isn't. @item The explanation is prefixed with the error severity, which can be @@ -159,21 +166,23 @@ first. For example: @example -file: /tmp/foo.lisp - -in: DEFUN FOO -(ZOQ Y) ---> ROQ -==> -(PLOQ (+ Y 3)) -caught STYLE-WARNING: -undefined function: PLOQ - -==> -(ROQ (PLOQ (+ Y 3))) -caught STYLE-WARNING: -undefined function: ROQ +; file: /tmp/foo.lisp +; in: DEFUN FOO +; (ZOQ Y) +; --> ROQ +; ==> +; (PLOQ (+ Y 3)) +; +; caught STYLE-WARNING: +; undefined function: PLOQ + +; ==> +; (ROQ (PLOQ (+ Y 3))) +; +; caught STYLE-WARNING: +; undefined function: ROQ @end example +@comment fixing that weird blank line might be good In this example, the file, definition and original source are identical for the two messages, so the compiler omits them in the @@ -192,6 +201,8 @@ @node The Original and Actual Source @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection The Original and Actual Source +@cindex Original Source +@cindex Actual Source The @emph{original source} displayed will almost always be a list. If the actual source for an error message is a symbol, the original @@ -221,10 +232,15 @@ gives this error message @example -in: DEFUN BAR -(LET (A) (DECLARE (FIXNUM A)) (SETQ A (FOO X)) A) -caught WARNING: The binding of A is not a FIXNUM: -NIL +; file: /tmp/foo.lisp +; in: DEFUN BAR +; (LET (A) +; (DECLARE (FIXNUM A)) +; (SETQ A (FOO X)) +; A) +; +; caught WARNING: +; Asserted type FIXNUM conflicts with derived type (VALUES NULL &OPTIONAL). @end example This error message is not saying ``there is a problem somewhere in @@ -249,13 +265,14 @@ Compiling results in this error message: @example -in: DEFUN FOO -(DOTIMES (I N *UNDEFINED*)) ---> DO BLOCK LET TAGBODY RETURN-FROM -==> -(PROGN *UNDEFINED*) -caught STYLE-WARNING: -undefined variable: *UNDEFINED* +; in: DEFUN FOO +; (DOTIMES (I N *UNDEFINED*)) +; --> DO BLOCK LET TAGBODY RETURN-FROM +; ==> +; (PROGN *UNDEFINED*) +; +; caught WARNING: +; undefined variable: *UNDEFINED* @end example Note that @code{do} appears in the processing path. This is because @@ -305,7 +322,7 @@ @emph{note}, is used for problems which are too mild for the standard condition classes, typically hints about how efficiency might be improved. - +@comment mention sb-ext:compiler-note @node Errors During Macroexpansion @comment node-name, next, previous, up @@ -327,12 +344,15 @@ gives this error: @example -in: DEFUN FOO -(DO ((CURRENT L #) (# NIL)) (WHEN (EQ # E) (RETURN CURRENT)) ) -caught ERROR: -(in macroexpansion of (DO # #)) -(hint: For more precise location, try *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*.) -DO step variable is not a symbol: (ATOM CURRENT) +; in: DEFUN FOO +; (DO ((CURRENT L (CDR CURRENT)) +; ((ATOM CURRENT) NIL)) +; (WHEN (EQ (CAR CURRENT) E) (RETURN CURRENT))) +; +; caught ERROR: +; (in macroexpansion of (DO # #)) +; (hint: For more precise location, try *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*.) +; DO step variable is not a symbol: (ATOM CURRENT) @end example @@ -341,9 +361,9 @@ @subsection Read Errors @cindex Read errors, compiler -SBCL's compiler (unlike CMUCL's) does not attempt to recover from read -errors when reading a source file, but instead just reports the -offending character position and gives up on the entire source file. +SBCL's compiler does not attempt to recover from read errors when +reading a source file, but instead just reports the offending +character position and gives up on the entire source file. @c <!-- FIXME: How much control over error messages is in SBCL? @@ -408,22 +428,23 @@ (@pxref{Efficiency}), the use of appropriate type declarations can be very important for performance as well. -The SBCL compiler, like the related compiler in CMUCL, treats type -declarations much differently than other Lisp compilers. By default -(@emph{i.e.}, at ordinary levels of the @code{safety} compiler -optimization parameter), the compiler doesn't blindly believe most -type declarations; it considers them assertions about the program that -should be checked. +@findex safety +The SBCL compiler treats type declarations differently from most other +Lisp compilers. By default (@emph{i.e.}, at ordinary levels of the +@code{safety} compiler optimization parameter), the compiler doesn't +blindly believe most type declarations; it considers them assertions +about the program that should be checked. +@findex satisfies The SBCL compiler also has a greater knowledge of the Common Lisp type system than other compilers. Support is incomplete -only for the @code{not}, @code{and} and @code{satisfies} -types. +only for types involving the @code{satisfies} type specifier. @c <!-- FIXME: See also sections \ref{advanced-type-stuff} @c and \ref{type-inference}, once we snarf them from the @c CMU CL manual. --> +@c Also see my paper on improving Baker, when I get round to it. @menu * Type Errors at Compile Time:: @@ -462,13 +483,15 @@ Compilation produces this warning: @example -in: DEFUN RAZ -(CASE FOO (:THIS 13) (:THAT 9) (:THE-OTHER 42)) ---> LET COND IF COND IF COND IF -==> -(COND) -caught WARNING: This is not a FIXNUM: -NIL +; in: DEFUN RAZ +; (CASE FOO (:THIS 13) (:THAT 9) (:THE-OTHER 42)) +; --> LET COND IF COND IF COND IF +; ==> +; (COND) +; +; caught WARNING: +; This is not a FIXNUM: +; NIL @end example In this case, the warning means that if @code{foo} isn't any of @@ -484,7 +507,6 @@ executed), so it compiles the erroneous code (which will always signal an error if it is executed) and gives a warning. - Type warnings are inhibited when the @code{sb-ext:inhibit-warnings} optimization quality is @code{3}. @xref{Compiler Policy}. This can be used in a local declaration to inhibit type warnings in a code @@ -566,12 +588,11 @@ @cindex Compatibility with other Lisps @c (should also have an entry in the non-ANSI-isms section)--> -Since SBCL's compiler, like CMUCL's compiler, does much more -comprehensive type checking than most Lisp compilers, SBCL may detect -type errors in programs that have been debugged using other -compilers. These errors are mostly incorrect declarations, although -compile-time type errors can find actual bugs if parts of the program -have never been tested. +Since SBCL's compiler does much more comprehensive type checking than +most Lisp compilers, SBCL may detect type errors in programs that have +been debugged using other compilers. These errors are mostly incorrect +declarations, although compile-time type errors can find actual bugs +if parts of the program have never been tested. Some incorrect declarations can only be detected by run-time type checking. It is very important to initially compile a program with @@ -806,7 +827,7 @@ whether to inline operations, which tend to increase the size of programs. Use the value @code{0} with caution, since it can cause the compiler to inline operations so indiscriminately that the net effect -is to slow the program by causing cache misses or swapping. +is to slow the program by causing cache misses or even swapping. @c <!-- FIXME: old CMU CL compiler policy, should perhaps be adapted @c _ for SBCL. (Unfortunately, the CMU CL docs are out of sync with the @@ -963,7 +984,9 @@ redefine standard functions, users sometimes want to implicitly redefine these functions when they are debugging using the @code{trace} macro. Special-casing of standard functions can be -inhibited using the @code{notinline} declaration. +inhibited using the @code{notinline} declaration, but even then some +phases of analysis such as type inferencing are applied by the +compiler. @item The compiler can have multiple alternate implementations of standard Index: debugger.texinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/doc/manual/debugger.texinfo,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -d -r1.2 -r1.3 --- debugger.texinfo 9 Apr 2004 16:04:49 -0000 1.2 +++ debugger.texinfo 16 Apr 2004 14:17:39 -0000 1.3 @@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ abbreviated by any unambiguous prefix: @command{help} can be typed as @samp{h}, @samp{he}, etc. For convenience, some commands have ambiguous one-letter abbreviations: @samp{f} for @command{frame}. +@comment FIXME: what does that last bit mean? The package is not significant in debugger commands; any symbol with the name of a debugger command will work. If you want to show the value of @@ -152,15 +153,15 @@ @itemize @item -@...{Variables} (@pxref{Variable Access}), which are the values being operated -on, and +@dfn{variables} (@pxref{Variable Access}), which are the values being operated +on; @item -@...{Arguments} to the call (which are really just particularly +@dfn{arguments} to the call (which are really just particularly interesting variables), and @item -A current location (@pxref{Source Location Printing}), which is the place in +a current location (@pxref{Source Location Printing}), which is the place in the program where the function was running when it stopped to call another function, or because of an interrupt or error. @@ -288,6 +289,7 @@ then @samp{#<unavailable-arg>} will be printed instead of the argument value. +@vindex *debug-print-variable-alist* Printing of argument values is controlled by @code{*debug-print-variable-alist*}. @xref{Controlling Printing in the Debugger}. Index: efficiency.texinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/doc/manual/efficiency.texinfo,v retrieving revision 1.5 retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -d -r1.5 -r1.6 --- efficiency.texinfo 9 Apr 2004 16:04:49 -0000 1.5 +++ efficiency.texinfo 16 Apr 2004 14:17:39 -0000 1.6 @@ -231,10 +231,9 @@ (here---expressions @code{x} and @code{y}) are also of type @code{(unsigned-byte 32)}, 32-bit machine arithmetic can be used. - As of SBCL 0.8.5 ``good'' functions are @code{+}, @code{-}; @code{logand}, @code{logior}, @code{logxor}, @code{lognot} and their combinations; and @code{ash} with the positive second -argument. ``Good'' widths are 32 on HPPA, MIPS, PPC, Sparc and X86 and -64 on Alpha. While it is possible to support smaller widths as well, -currently it is not implemented. +argument. ``Good'' widths are 32 on HPPA, MIPS, PPC, Sparc and x86 and +64 on Alpha. While it is possible to support smaller widths as well, +currently this is not implemented. Index: intro.texinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/doc/manual/intro.texinfo,v retrieving revision 1.3 retrieving revision 1.4 diff -u -d -r1.3 -r1.4 --- intro.texinfo 9 Apr 2004 16:04:48 -0000 1.3 +++ intro.texinfo 16 Apr 2004 14:17:39 -0000 1.4 @@ -8,24 +8,28 @@ Lisp. @menu -* More Common Lisp Information:: -* More SBCL Information:: -* Overview:: +* More Common Lisp Information:: +* More SBCL Information:: +* Overview:: @end menu @node More Common Lisp Information @comment node-name, next, previous, up -@... Where To Go For More Information about Common Lisp in General +@section Sources of information about Common Lisp Regardless of your ability level, two very useful resources for -working with any implementation of Common Lisp are the ILISP package -for Emacs at @uref{http://ilisp.cons.org} and the Common Lisp HyperSpec -at @uref{http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/index.html}. +working with any implementation of Common Lisp are the SLIME +package@...{Historically, the ILISP package at +@uref{http://ilisp.cons.org/} provided similar functionality, but it +does not support modern SBCL versions.} for Emacs at +@uref{http://www.common-lisp.net/project/slime} and the Common Lisp +HyperSpec at +@uref{http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/index.html}. If you're not a programmer and you're trying to learn, many introductory Lisp books are available. However, we don't have any standout favorites. If you can't decide, try checking the Usenet -comp.lang.lisp FAQ for recent recommendations. +@uref{news://comp.lang.lisp} FAQ for recent recommendations. If you are an experienced programmer in other languages but need to learn about Lisp, three books stand out. @@ -58,7 +62,7 @@ @node More SBCL Information @comment node-name, next, previous, up -@... Where To Go For More Information About SBCL +@section Sources of more information about SBCL Before you read this user manual, you should probably read two other things. @@ -87,17 +91,18 @@ @itemize @item -The SBCL home page at @uref{http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/} has some +The SBCL home page at @uref{http://www.sbcl.org/} has some general information, plus links to mailing lists devoted to SBCL, and to archives of these mailing lists. @item +@findex help Documentation for non-ANSI extensions for various commands is available online from the SBCL executable itself. The extensions for functions which have their own command prompts (e.g. the debugger, and @code{inspect}) are documented in text available by typing @command{help} at their command prompts. The extensions for functions -which don't have their own command prompt (like @code{trace} does) are +which don't have their own command prompt (such as @code{trace}) are described in their documentation strings, unless your SBCL was compiled with an option not to include documentation strings, in which case the doc strings are only readable in the source code. @@ -113,7 +118,7 @@ @node Overview @comment node-name, next, previous, up -@... Overview Of SBCL, How It Works And Where It Came From +@section History and Implementation You can work productively with SBCL without knowing anything understanding anything about where it came from, how it is @@ -143,24 +148,17 @@ storage. @item -A word is a 32-bit quantity. The system has been ported to many -processor architectures without altering this basic principle. Some -hacks allow the system to run on the Alpha chip (a 64-bit -architecture) but even there 32-bit words are used. The assumption -that a word is 32 bits wide is implicit in hundreds of places in the -system. - -@... The system is implemented as a C program which is responsible for supplying low-level services and loading a Lisp @file{.core} file. @end itemize - + +@cindex Garbage Collection, generational SBCL also inherited some newer architectural features from CMUCL. The most important is that on some architectures it has a generational garbage collector (``GC''), which has various implications (mostly -good) for performance. These are discussed another chapter, +good) for performance. These are discussed in another chapter, @ref{Efficiency}. SBCL has diverged from CMUCL in that SBCL is now essentially a @@ -175,15 +173,15 @@ evaluated by calling @code{compile} and then calling @code{funcall} on the returned result. - -The direct ancestor of SBCL is the X86 port of CMUCL. This port was in +The direct ancestor of SBCL is the x86 port of CMUCL. This port was in some ways the most cobbled-together of all the CMUCL ports, since a number of strange changes had to be made to support the register-poor -X86 architecture. Some things (like tracing and debugging) do not work +x86 architecture. Some things (like tracing and debugging) do not work particularly well there. SBCL should be able to improve in these areas (and has already improved in some other areas), but it takes a while. -On the x86, SBCL like the X86 port of CMUCL, uses a +@cindex Garbage Collection, conservative +On the x86 SBCL -- like the x86 port of CMUCL -- uses a @emph{conservative} GC. This means that it doesn't maintain a strict separation between tagged and untagged data, instead treating some untagged data (e.g. raw floating point numbers) as possibly-tagged Index: sbcl.texinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/sbcl/sbcl/doc/manual/sbcl.texinfo,v retrieving revision 1.6 retrieving revision 1.7 diff -u -d -r1.6 -r1.7 --- sbcl.texinfo 11 Apr 2004 21:10:53 -0000 1.6 +++ sbcl.texinfo 16 Apr 2004 14:17:39 -0000 1.7 @@ -16,13 +16,11 @@ * sbcl: (sbcl). The Steel Bank Common Lisp compiler @end direntry - - @copying @quotation -This manual is part of the SBCL software system. See the @file{README} file -for more information. +This manual is part of the SBCL software system. See the +@file{README} file for more information. This manual is largely derived from the manual for the CMUCL system, which was produced at Carnegie Mellon University and later released @@ -36,7 +34,7 @@ @titlepage @title SBCL User Manual -@... 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An unusual step from Darden Restaurants (DRI +1.3%): The company released a video message from CEO Clarence Otis. Mainly a rally-the-troops message, the key lines are on the threat of promotional activity in the sector. "While we can't control what competitors do, we can change our approach to get one step ahead. Look for us to do more of that in the future."
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How about selling better food at lower prices?!!!!. DRI just got HAMMERED this week by comments online on MSN money -- read 'em and weep! I thought this was a good restaurant chain. I am beginning to wonder about the execution here -- unfortunately long DRI for the past couple of years.
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T-Mobile "JUMP" unlimited upgrades and what it means for consumers
When you sit down and read the rules involved in the current web of oddities known as smartphone contracts, it's easy to find surprisingly complex ins and outs. T-Mobile has suggested several times over the past several months that they will be aiming to take an axe to tradition, making way for their own, much more "consumer friendly" rules. Here with what they're calling "Jump", T-Mobile says they'll be turning the upgrade process on its head, allowing consumers to upgrade from their current smartphone to a new phone with the same prices a new customer would pay.


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Strawberry flavors have undergone several generational changes since the advent of GC/MS analyses allowed flavorists to use nature more liberally as a source of inspiration and ideas. Many of the ingredients used in more modern strawberry flavors were newly developed as a result of their analytical discovery, but some of them were familiar raw materials for which analysis simply indicated new uses. Methyl cinnamate (FEMA# 2698, CAS# 103-26-4) belongs very firmly in the latter category. It is not exactly a modern flavor ingredient, but the discovery of this chemical's interesting fruity, guava, balsamic aroma in fresh strawberries has sparked renewed interest. Today, it would be very difficult to find a strawberry flavor on the shelf of any laboratory that does not contain high levels of methyl cinnamate. I would never advocate using nature as a cast-iron template for flavor creation, but it is sometimes at least worth using nature as a reality check. Unfortunately, the use of methyl cinnamate fails that reality check by a wide margin. The levels of methyl cinnamate that are often used in strawberry flavors far exceed the levels of this ingredient that normally occur in real strawberries. This imbalance seems not to be too problematic at first, but it carries with it several subtle drawbacks. Most commercial strawberry flavors are a little too cloying because of the unnaturally high levels of methyl cinnamate, and they are also relatively inflexible in respect of dose rates. Excessive levels of methyl cinnamate also impose some cost penalties, especially in natural with other natural flavors (WONF) flavors.
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he will make a top 50 mc countdown blogspot in about 5 minutes if you keep that shit up
he will make a top 50 mc countdown blogspot in about 5 minutes if you keep that shit up
6/27 - Anderson Paak - The Theatre at the Ace Hotel - LA
crosslink it to his fucking myspace friendster profile
"i spent so much time on the html i don't wanna give it up"
give it all up.
6/27 - Anderson Paak - The Theatre at the Ace Hotel - LA
I think xanman is taking the bumblebee approach to responding.
August 12-14 - Migration Fest
August 16 - Monolord
August 26-28 - Psycho LV
September 7 - Cobalt
September 12 - Kraftwerk
September 17 - Melvins
September 20 - Wolves In The Throne Room
September 21 - Kanye West
September 30-October 2 - ACL wk.1
October 7-9 - ACL wk.2
October 11 - Failure
October 21 - Sleep
October 22 - Sleep
October 23 - Sleep
November 6 - Sia
November 12 - Black Sabbath
Can we not turn this into the View? I no care bout Kanye nor Kim and their sexual activity. Unless a home made sex tape comes out and Kanye is the executive producer and does the soundtrack. But outside of that I don't care. Someone post Sigur Ros tour dates
Beach House tour dates:
04-08 El Paso, TX - Tricky Falls
04-09 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
04-16 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore
04-17 Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library
Also, is Spooks a racist?
Home made sex tape of Kim with Kanye as executive producer and does the soundtrack: Confirmed.
Top 5 MC's:
1. The RZA
2. Trugoy
3. Humpty-Hump
4. Mistachuck
5. Duke Bootee
Blue Ivy's dad is ok, I guess
And so the Alias War began.
1. Dylan
2. Dylan
3. Dylan
4. Dylan
5. Dylan
I'm surprised there haven't been any post MCA Beastie Boys featuring various artists rumors yet.... or did I miss that lump of pre-Christmas coal? Maybe 2014...


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I know that sadly we have already lost a few of our angels so I think it's time to start this and tell everyone's story:
Official March 2012 Birth Announcements
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*This is for anyone who is/was expecting in March 2012. If you are a mommy/daddy to an angel, please still include your story here.
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| Receiving the Crown of Life
artist: Karl Parsons
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Tenby, Pembrokeshire
north wall of the north aisle
| The Crucifixion with Panels from the Seven Sacraments
restorer: Charles Eamer Kempe
about 1500, restored in 1876
Church of St Tyrnog, Llandyrnog, Denbighshire
east wall of the north nave
| St Michael with Crucifixion
firm/studio: Burlison & Grylls
about 1916
Church of St Paul, Grangetown, Cardiff
east wall of the north aisle
| The Crucifixion with St Francis
artist: Bryony Benwell
artist: Petri Anderson
about 2009
Church of The Immaculate Conception, Flint, Flintshire
| Crucifixion with Angels
artist: Charles Clutterbuck
Church of St Ffraid, Llansanffraid Glan Conwy, Conwy
south wall of the nave
| Crucifixion
from Christ Crucified and the Good Shepherd
firm/studio: Burlison & Grylls
about 1914
Church of St James, Cardiff
| The Crucifixion with St Paul and St Luke
firm/studio: C.E. Kempe & Co Ltd
Church of St Peter, Pwllheli, Gwynedd
east wall of the north aisle
| Crucified Christ with Chapels
artist: Catrin Jones
about 1980
Seion Newydd, Morriston, Swansea
| The Crucifixion with The Supper at Emmaus and The Nativity
firm/studio: Clayton & Bell
about 1859
Church of St David, Llanfaes, Brecon, Powys
west wall of the north aisle
| The Risen Christ with Saints and Scenes from the Gospels
firm/studio: Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd
designer: James Hogan
Church of St David, Llanfaes, Brecon, Powys
east wall of the chancel
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Deceptive love and stark betrayal form the icy core of this dark 12th novel from Oprah-anointed (The Pilot's Wife), Orange Prize finalist (The Weight of Water) Shreve. Set adrift at 29 by the sudden death of her second husband (her first divorced her), smart, underemployed Sydney (no last name) signs on for a quiet New England oceanfront summer of tutoring 18-year-old Julie, the intellectually slow but artistically talented and strikingly beautiful daughter of the fractious Edwards clan. The family includes Julie's brothers�35-year-old Boston corporate real estate man Ben and 31-year-old M.I.T. poli-sci professor Jeff�and the three children's parents. Sydney is half-Jewish, and Mrs. Edwards is anti-Semitic. Family tensions escalate when Julie disappears, then resurfaces in Montreal as the lesbian lover of 25-year-old Helene (a body surfer who frequented the beach near the Edwardses' home). Jeff and Sydney bond during their search for Julie, nights of passion leading to plans for a joyous wedding, which get very complicated when the couple returns to Edwards central. Shreve's devastating depiction of the family's dissolution�the culmination of sublimated jealousies suddenly exploding into the open�is wrenching. Shreve's omniscience is asserted with such ease that it often feels like she's toying with her characters, but her control is masterful, particularly in the sure-handed and compassionate aftermath. (Apr.)Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information
At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she has signed on to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwardses' two grown sons arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web
At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing, she has signed on to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwardses' two grown sons arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has rebuilt is threatened. With the subtle wit, lyrical language, and brilliant insight into the human heart that are the hallmarks of her acclaimed fiction, Shreve weaves a novel about marriage, family, and the supreme courage it takes to love.
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Already once divorced and now recently widowed, 29-year-old Sydney Sklar looks at a tutoring job at a New Hampshire beach house as the perfect escape from pain and grief. Helping 18-year-old Julie Edwards prepare for the SATs becomes a complex undertaking as Sydney realizes that Julie is slow and, as hard as she tries, will never be accepted at the prestigious colleges Mrs. Edwards prefers. Mr. Edwards loves his garden and his daughter, and he makes Sydney yearn to be part of a family. With the arrival of Julie's much older brothers, Ben and Jeff, the path for Sydney becomes as precarious as the shoreline where she revels in body surfing. Shreve's beautifully drawn tale of family and connection is a winner; highly recommended. [LJ 2/1/07]
Already once divorced and now recently widowed, 29-year-old Sydney Sklar looks at a tutoring job at a New Hampshire beach house as the perfect escape from pain and grief. But the Edwardses offer more�and less�than she would have hoped for, in this latest from Shreve (A Wedding in December). Helping 18-year-old Julie Edwards prepare for the SATs becomes a complex undertaking as Sydney realizes that Julie is slow and, as hard as she tries, will never be accepted at the prestigious colleges Mrs. Edwards prefers. Mr. Edwards loves his garden and his daughter, and he makes Sydney yearn to be part of a family. With the arrival of Julie's much older brothers, Ben and Jeff, the path for Sydney becomes as precarious as the shoreline where she revels in body surfing. An activity Sydney finds both distracting and exhilarating, body surfing requires precision timing that means the difference between a perfect ride and getting slammed. When both brothers show an interest in her, Sydney finds herself caught up in a giant�and unpredictable�wave that has devastating consequences. Shreve's beautifully drawn tale of family and connection will leave readers feeling a bit slammed themselves: against the vagaries of life and the rocky shoals of love. A winner; highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, LJ12/06.]
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Body Surfing
By Anita Shreve
Little, Brown and CompanyCopyright © 2007 by Anita Shreve
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Chapter OneThree o'clock, the dead hour. The faint irritation of sand grit between bare foot and floorboards. Wet towels hanging from bedposts and porch railings. A door, caught in a gust, slams, and someone near it emits the expected cry of surprise. A southwest wind, not the norm even in August, sends stifling air into the many rooms of the old summerhouse. The hope is for an east wind off the water, and periodically someone says it.
An east wind now would be a godsend.
The energy of the morning has dissipated itself in fast walks and private lessons, in vigorous reading and lazy tennis. Even in a brief expedition to a showroom in Portsmouth to look at Audi Quattros. Mrs. Edwards, Sydney has been told, will need a new car in the fall.
There are guests in the house who must be attended to. One hopes for visitors with initiative, like a refreshing east wind. They are not Sydney's concern. Her afternoons are free. Her entire life, but for a few hours each day of overpaid tutoring, is disconcertingly free.
She changes into a black tank suit, the elastic sprung in the legs. She is twenty-nine and fit enough. Her hair is no color she has ever been able to describe. She is not a blonde or a brunette, but something in between that washes out in January, comes to life in August.Gold highlights on translucence.
Sydney has been married twice: once divorced and once widowed. Others, hearing this information for the first time, find it surprising, as if this fact might be the most interesting thing about her.
On the porch, red geraniums are artfully arranged against the lime-green of the dune grass, the blue of the water. Not quite primary colors, hues seen only in nature.
Knife blades of grass pierce the wooden slats of the boardwalk. Sweet pea overtakes the thatch. Unwanted fists of thistle push upward from the sand. On the small deck at the end of the boardwalk are two white Adirondack chairs, difficult to get out of, and a faded umbrella lying behind them. Two rusted and immensely heavy iron bases for the umbrella sit in a corner, neither of which, Sydney guesses, will ever leave the deck.
Wooden steps with no railing lead to a crescent-shaped beach to the left, a rocky coastline to the right. Sydney runs across the hot sand to the edge of the water. The surf is a series of sinuous rolls, and when she closes her eyes, she can hear the spray. She prepares herself for the cold. Better than electroshock therapy, Mr. Edwards always says, for clearing the head.
A seizure of frigid water, a roiling of white bubbles. The sting of salt in the sinuses as she surfaces. She stands and stumbles and stands again and shakes herself like a dog. She hugs her hands to her chest and relaxes only when her feet begin to numb. She dives once more, and when she comes up for air she turns onto her back, letting the waves, stronger and taller than they appear from shore, carry her up and over the crest and down again into the trough. She is buoyant flotsam, shocked into sensibility.
She body surfs in the ocean, getting sand down the neckline of her suit. As a child, when she took off her bathing suit, she would find handfuls of sand in the crotch. She lowers herself into the ocean to wash away the mottled clumps against her stomach, but then she sees a good wave coming. She stands and turns her back to it and springs onto the crest. The trick always is to catch the crest. Hands pointed, eyes shut, she is a bullet through the white surge. She scrapes her naked hip and thigh against the bottom.
She crawls onto the sand, the undertow carving hollows beneath her shins. A wave she hasn't braced for hits her back and neck. She wipes the tangle of hair from her face, the water from her eyes. She sees a shape on the beach that wasn't there before. A tanned chest, a splotch of red. A man in bathing trunks is holding a pink cloth, wide and lurid, before her.
"I've been sent with a towel. You're Sydney, right?"
How extraordinary if she weren't. Not another body in the water for a thousand yards.
Inside the house, the furniture is white, a good idea in theory, not in practice. The slipcovers on the two sofas are marked with faint smudges and worried stains, navy lint from a woolen sweater. Fine grains of sand have repeatedly scratched the surface of the maple floor as if it had been lightly scoured.
On the stairs down to the basement sits a basket of old newspapers, a wicker catchall for objects that are not part of the neutral decor but might prove useful. A sparkling purple leash. A neon pink pad of Post-it Notes. A Day-Glo orange life vest. Practicality and sports rife with unnatural color.
Although Mrs. Edwards gives the impression of having inhabited the cottage for decades, perhaps even generations (already there are family rituals, oft-repeated memories, old canning jars full of sea glass used as doorstops), they have owned the house only since 1997. Before then, Mr. Edwards confided, they simply rented other cottages nearby. In contrast to his wife, he seems a man incapable of deceit.
Sydney shares a bathroom with the guests, a couple from New York who have come in search of antiques. In the mornings, there are aqua spills of toothpaste in the sink, pink spots of makeup on the mirror. Used tissues are tucked behind the spigots. Sydney routinely washes out the sink with a hand towel before she uses it. She stuffs the towel into the hamper in the hallway on her way back to her room.
It was obvious immediately to Sydney that the Edwardses' eighteen-year-old daughter, Julie, was slow, that no amount of tutoring would adequately prepare her for the stellar senior year of high school Mrs. Edwards hopes for, a year that is almost certain, in Sydney's opinion, to defeat the girl. Mrs. Edwards speaks knowledgeably of Mount Holyoke and Swarthmore. Skidmore as a safety. Sydney can only blink with wonder. Julie is pliant, eager to please, and extraordinarily beautiful, her skin clear and pink, her eyes a sea-glass blue. Sydney can see that the girl, who seems willing to study all the hours of the day, will disappoint her mother and break her father's heart, the latter not because she won't get into the colleges Mrs. Edwards seems so knowledgeable about, but because she will try so hard and fail.
Salt encrusts the windows of the house on the diagonal, as if water had been thrown against the glass. The windows out to the porch have to be washed twice a week to provide any appreciation of the view, which is spectacular.
Sydney sometimes senses that her presence has upset the family equilibrium. She tries to be available when needed, present but silent when not.
The brothers will sleep in a room called the "boys' dorm." Julie has a room on the ocean side of the house. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards's bedroom looks out over the marshes. The guests, like Sydney, have been relegated to a room with twin beds.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards have invited Sydney to call them by their first names. When she tries to say Anna or Mark, however, the words stick in her throat. She finds other ways to refer to the couple, such as your husband and he and your dad.
Sydney's first husband was an air racer. He flew through trees at 250 miles an hour and performed aerobatic stunts over a one-mile course. If he were to graze a gate or become momentarily disoriented by the Gs, he would hurtle to the ground and crash. When she could, Sydney went with Andrew to these races-to Scotland and Vienna and San Francisco-and watched him twist his plane in the air at 420 degrees per second. At air shows, Andrew was a star and signed autographs. He wore fireproof clothing and a crash helmet and was equipped with a parachute-not that a parachute would have been at all helpful thirty feet off the ground. For a year, Sydney found the air races exotic and thrilling. During the second year, she began to be afraid. Contemplating a third year and the possibility of a child, she pictured Andrew's fiery death and said, Enough. Her aviator, who seemed genuinely sad to see the marriage end, could not, however, be expected to give up flying.
Sydney met her second husband when she was twenty-six. Her right front tire blew on the Massachusetts Turnpike, and she pulled to the side of the road. A minute later, her Honda Civic was hit from behind. Because she had been standing at the front of the car and looking down at the tire, she was hit and briefly dragged along the pavement. Daniel Feldman, who had to cut the clothes off her body in the emergency room of Newton-Wellesley Hospital, chided her for pulling to a stop on a bridge. A week later, he took her to Biba in Boston.
Eight months into their marriage, and during his residency at Beth Israel, Daniel suffered a burst aneurysm in his brain. Receiving the news by telephone, Sydney was stunned, bewildered, wide-eyed with shock.
Most people, mindful of the sensitivities, do not point out to Sydney the irony of having divorced a man she was afraid would die only to marry a man who perished in the very place he ought to have been saved. But she can tell that Mr. Edwards is eager to discuss the situation. Despite his kindness and his affability, he cannot help but flirt with the details.
"Is the aviator still flying?" he asks one night as they are washing dishes. "Did you say your husband interned at the B.I.?"
Mrs. Edwards, by contrast, is not afraid of the blunt question.
"Are you Jewish?" she asked as she was showing Sydney to her room.
It wasn't clear to Sydney which answer Mrs. Edwards would have preferred: Jewish being more interesting; not Jewish being more acceptable.
The doctor was Jewish. The aviator was not.
Sydney is both, having a Jewish father and his cheekbones but a Unitarian mother, from whom she has inherited her blue eyes. Even Sydney's hair seems equal parts father and mother-the wayward curl, the nearly colorless blond. Sydney became Bat Mitzvah before her parents separated but then was strenuously raised to be a WASP during her teenage years. She thinks of both phases of her life as episodes of childhood having little to do with the world as she now encounters it, neither religion at all helpful during the divorce and death.
Not unlike a parachute at thirty feet.
For a week last summer, Sydney went to stay with Daniel's parents in Truro. The experiment was a noble one. Mrs. Feldman, whom she had briefly called Mom, had had the idea that Sydney's presence would be comforting. In fact the opposite was true, the sight of Sydney sending Mrs. Feldman into contagious fits of weeping.
For days following Daniel's death, Sydney's own mother refused to believe in the simple fact of the event, causing Sydney to have to say, over and over again, that Daniel had died of a brain aneurysm.
"But how?" her mother repeatedly asked.
Sydney's father came up from New York by train for the funeral. He wore a taupe trench coat, put on a yarmulke for the service, and, astonishingly, he wept. Afterwards, at dinner, he tried to reassure her.
"I think of you as resilient," he said over steak and baked potato.
The double blow of the divorce and death left Sydney in a state of emotional paralysis, during which she was unable to finish her thesis in developmental psychology and had to withdraw from her graduate program at Brandeis. Since then, she has taken odd jobs created by friends and family, jobs for which she has been almost ludicrously overqualified or completely out of her depth: a secretary in the microbiology department at Harvard Medical School (overqualified); a dealer's assistant at an art gallery on Newbury Street (out of her depth). She has been grateful for these jobs, for the opportunity to drift and heal, but recently she has begun to wonder if this strange and unproductive period of her life might be coming to an end.
"You must be the tutor."
"And you are?"
"Ben. That's Jeff on the porch."
"Thank you for the towel."
"You're quite the body surfer."
Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.
"So you answered the ad?"
"I did."
Sydney wraps herself in the bubble-gum-pink towel. In the distance, she can see another man rising from a chair on the porch. He puts his hands on the railing.
"Are you a teacher?"
"No. I'm not much of anything at the moment."
Sydney cannot read the really. Dismissive? Disappointed? Intrigued?
Sydney has an impression of lighter hair, a slighter body. The man who is Jeff shuffles down the first set of stairs from the porch to the boardwalk, and, for a few seconds, he is out of sight. When he emerges onto the deck, she can see that he has on bathing trunks and a navy polo shirt.
Jeff waits for them at the head of the stairs. Sydney greets his feet first (in weathered boat shoes), his legs next (lightly tanned with golden hairs), and, finally, the faded bathing trunks (grayish with purple blotches; she guesses navy originally, an unfortunate wash with bleach). He steps back to make way for the two of them, and there's an awkward introduction in a small space. Sydney's nose begins to run with salt water. She shakes Jeff's hand. Hers, she knows, must feel icy.
"We've heard a lot about you," Jeff says.
Sydney is dismayed. She expected more.
Jeff's face is loose and open, the green eyes guileless. Sydney thinks it is probably not possible to be his age and guileless, but there it is. The family dog, Tullus (short for Catullus?), trots down the boardwalk and plants himself directly below Jeff's hands. This confirms her impression. Animals can always tell.
"Hey," Jeff says, bending to the golden retriever and ruffling him affectionately.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards and Julie come out onto the porch, a nucleus intact. Ben wraps his arms around Julie and rocks his sister from side to side. Six glasses of iced tea have been set upon a teak table. Jeff picks up a glass and hands it to Sydney, smiling as he does so. She notices that he, like his brother and sister, has remarkably even teeth, and she imagines many thousands in orthodontia. Sydney, whose mother could barely remember to schedule regular checkups, has an imperfect smile, a slightly misaligned eyetooth its distinctive feature.
Ben has brown eyes like his mother. Jeff, Sydney can see, takes after his father.
Sydney leans against the railing and tugs the towel tighter. Her hair, she guesses, must be a horror of Gorgonlike dreads from the salt water.
Mrs. Edwards, who has previously seemed cold, is animated with her sons. On the porch, she is possessive, never still, touching them often, making it easy for them to touch her. She wants to be seen as the perfect mother. No, Sydney decides, she wants Sydney to understand that her sons love their mother best.
Sydney knows these facts about the brothers. Ben, who is thirty-five, works in corporate real estate in Boston. Jeff, thirty-one, is a professor of political science at MIT. Sydney half expects this information to be repeated on the porch, but Mrs. Edwards exercises unusual restraint in front of her sons.
Mrs. Edwards wears khaki culottes and a white polo shirt that reveals an intractable swell between her midriff and her waist. Sydney would advise tailored white shirts left untucked over longer pants-but it is not for her to say. Mr. Edwards dresses like a man who never thinks about his clothes: baggy khakis and even looser golf shirts that droop from his shoulders. Sometimes he puts his hands flat against the stomach that hangs like an adjunct on his tall frame as he lightly bemoans the doughnut he had at breakfast or the piece of coconut pie he gave into at dinner. One senses, however, that he enjoyed these treats, that he is not a man to forgo a fleeting pleasure in favor of vanity. Unlike Mrs. Edwards, who counts her carbs religiously and seems to be hastening herself to an early death with the eggs and meats and cheeses she eats in quantity. Even the low-carb ice-cream bars she snacks on at night seem, with their slick, viscous shine, to be depositing cholesterol molecules directly into her bloodstream.
Mrs. Edwards wears her blond hair below her chin line and often pulls it back in a banana clip that ought to be pretty but instead accentuates the square shape of her head and the half inch of gray roots at the scalp. Sydney would advise a haircut in the same way she might mention the tailored white shirts, but then again, it is not within her job description.
Jeff leans against the porch railing a few feet from Sydney. His slighter frame and its concavities suggest exposure, whereas Ben's body, comfortably on display, seems fully covered.
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I honestly will buy the console and the game if they put her in " Super Smash Bros: Universe" Game. I did the same thing when Sonic The hedgehog was introduce, why not Twilight.
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Ger hind leg looks a bit iffy. xD
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Twilight, what's wrong with your legs xD
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I actually love MLP:FIM. But unfortunately, she's ineligible. Only Video Game characters (who must appeared in Nintendo consoles) should be in Smash.
Dude. I imagined the Mane 6 appering in Super Smash Bros. Universe, with complete movesets and Final Smashes. We should ask Masahiro Sakurai to add them. I mean, he should be a brony first in order to do that.
Nope, it will never happen, depite how much you desire it. Only Nintendo characters and at least 1 guest character from another game with relevance to Nintendo (Sonic appeared because of the M&S@OG games, while Snake appeared on the NES [Metal Gear; Metal Gear 2: Snake's Revenge] and the Gamecube [Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes].
your welcome (: i just didn't know if i should've said something or not.. I don't know if I'd offend people.
No sweat someone would of point it out later on. I'm just glad you point it out earlier thanks
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The man poured a can of gasoline on himself in the center portion of the mall Friday afternoon. He then set himself on fire, with passing joggers taking off their shirts to help douse the flames. Police had said he was conscious and breathing at the scene, but he was airlifted to MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
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