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August 6, 2014 by Sara Kreidler
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text: Jamie Reid created a poster in aid of Kensal Rise Library, which is currently in threat of being shut down by Brent Council's Libraries Transformation Project. Kensal Rise Library was first opened by Mark Twain in 1900, and has served the local community for over one hundred years. The campaign to save Kensal Rise library has gained widespread support and attention from the local community, the national press, high-profile figures including Philip Pullman, Zadie Smith, and Alan Bennett, and as far afield as the Mark Twain House and Museum in the US.

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Hey everyone, new guy here. I'm working on developing an online news feed system for my college. My idea is to have a central database wherein announcements and news from different departments is entered and stored. I'd have two frontends, one website and one android/ios app. When a user visits the website or opens the app, current news is fetched from the database and presented to the user. News in the database is organised department-wise into "channels", so the user can choose which channels they want to view or subscribe to.
I'd have to provide some kind of app or web interface for the dept people to enter info into their respective channels on the DB. The website has other content in addition to the news feed, and it's been planned to be built using Wordpress. So the news feed would be like one page or one small area of a page on the site. Also planned is to provide user accounts to students to control access to channels and save their channel subscriptions, among other stuff.
I'd be glad if you guys provide me a comprehensive walkthrough of how i might go about building such a system.


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text: On 9/27/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote: > > At 04:11 PM 9/27/2006 -0700, Brett Cannon wrote: > > > >On 9/27/06, Phillip J. Eby > ><<mailto:pje at telecommunity.com>pje at telecommunity.com> wrote: > >>At 02:11 PM 9/27/2006 -0700, Brett Cannon wrote: > >> >But it has been suggested here that the import machinery be rewritten > in > >> >Python. Now I have never touched the import code since it has always > had > >> >the reputation of being less than friendly to work with. I am asking > for > >> >opinions from people who have worked with the import machinery before > if > >> >it is so bad that it is worth trying to re-implement the import > semantics > >> >in pure Python or if in the name of time to just work with the C > >> >code. Basically I will end up breaking up built-in, .py, .pyc, and > >> >extension modules into individual importers and then have a chaining > class > >> >to act as a combined .pyc/.py combination importer (this will also > make > >> >writing out to .pyc files an optional step of the .py import). > >> > >>The problem you would run into here would be supporting zip imports. > > > >I have not looked at zipimport so I don't know the exact issue in terms > of > >how it hooks into the import machinery. But a C level API will most > >likely be needed. > > I was actually assuming you planned to reimplement that in Python as well, > and hence the need for the storage/format separation. I was not explictly planning on it. >> It > >>would probably be more useful to have a mapping of file types to "format > >>handlers", because then a filesystem importer or zip importer would then > be > >>able to work with any .py/.pyc/.pyo/whatever formats, along with any new > >>ones that are invented, without reinventing the wheel. > > > >So you are saying the zipimporter would then pull out of the zip file the > >individual file to import and pass that to the format-specific importer? > > No, I'm saying that the zipimporter would simply call the format importers > in sequence, as in your original concept. However, these importers would > call *back* to the zipimporter to ask if the file they are looking for is > there. Ah, OK. So for importing 'email', the zipimporter would call the .pyc importer and it would ask the zipimporter, "can you get me email.pyc?" and if it said no it would move on to asking the .py importer for email.py, etc. >>Thus, whether it's file import, zip import, web import, or whatever, the > >>same handlers would be reusable, and when people invent new extensions > like > >>.ptl, .kid, etc., they can just register format handlers instead. > > > >So a sepration of data store from data interpretation for > importation. My > >only worry is a possible explosion of checks for the various data > >types. If you are using the file data store and had .py, .pyc, .so, > >module.so , .ptl, and .kid registered that might suck in terms of > >performance hit. > > Look at it this way: the parent importer can always pull a directory > listing once and cache it for the duration of its calls to the child > importers. In practice, however, I suspect that the stat calls will be > faster. In the case of a zipimport parent, the zip directory is already > cached. > > Also, keep in mind that most imports will likely occur *before* any > special > additional types get registered, so the hits will be minimal. And the > more > of sys.path is taken up by zip files, the less of a hit it will be for > each > query. That's fine. Just thinking about how the current situation sucks for NFS but how caching just isn't done. But obvoiusly this could change. > And I am assuming for a web import that it would decide based on the > > extension of the resulting web address? > > No - you'd effectively end up doing a web hit for each possible > extension. Which would suck, but that's what caching is > for. Realistically, you wouldn't want to do web-based imports without > some > disk-based caching anyway. > > > And checking for the various types might not work well for other data > > store types. Guess you would need a way to register with the data store > > exactly what types of data interpretation you might want to check. > > No, you just need a method on the parent importer like get_data(). > > > >Other option is to just have the data store do its magic and somehow know > >what kind of data interpretation is needed for the string returned (e.g., > >a database data store might implicitly only store .py code and thus know > >that it will only return a string of source). Then that string and the > >supposed file extension is passed ot the next step of creating a module > >from that data string. > > Again, all that's way more complex than you need; you can do the same > thing > by just raising IOError from get_data() when asked for something that's > not > a .py. > > > >>Format handlers could of course be based on the PEP 302 protocol, and > >>simply accept a "parent importer" with a get_data() method. So, let's > say > >>you have a PyImporter: > >> > >> class PyImporter: > >> def __init__(self, parent_importer): > >> self.parent = parent_importer > >> > >> def find_module(self, fullname): > >> path = fullname.split('.')[-1]+'.py' > >> try: > >> source = self.parent.get_data(path) > >> except IOError: > >> return None > >> else: > >> return PySourceLoader(source) > >> > >>See what I mean? The importers and loaders thus don't have to do direct > >>filesystem operations. > > > >I think so. Basically you want more of a way to stack imports so that > the > >basic importers are just passed the string of what it is supposed to load > >from. Other importers higher in the chain can handle getting that > string. > > No, they're full importers; they're not passed "a string". The only > difference between this and your original idea of an importer chain is > that > I'm saying the chained format-specific importers need to know who their > "parent" importer (the data store) is, so they can be data-store > independent. Everything else can be done with that, and perhaps a few > extra parent importer methods for stat, save, etc. OK. >>Of course, to fully support .pyc timestamp checking and writeback, you'd > >>need some sort of "stat" or "getmtime" feature on the parent importer, > as > >>well as perhaps an optional "save_data" method. These would be > extensions > >>to PEP 302, but welcome ones. > > > >Could pass the string representing the location of where the string came > >from. That would allow for the required stat calls for .pyc files as > >needed without having to implement methods just for this one use case. > > Huh? In order to know if a .pyc is up to date, you need the st_mtime of > the .py file. That can't be done in the parent importer without giving it > format knowledge, which goes against the point of the exercise. Sorry, thought .pyc files based whether they needed to be recompiled based on the stat info on the .py and .pyc file, not on data stored from within the .pyc . Thus, > something like stat() and save() methods need to be available on the > parent, if it can support them. > > > >>Anyway, based on my previous work with pkg_resource, pkgutil, zipimport, > >>import.c , etc. I would say this is how I'd want to structure a > >>reimplementation of the core system. And if it were for Py3K, I'd > probably > >>treat sys.path and all the import hooks associated with it as a single > >>meta-importer on sys.meta_path -- listed after a meta-importer for > handling > >>frozen and built-in modules. (I.e., the meta-importer that uses > sys.path > >>and its path hooks would be last on sys.meta_path.) > > > >Ah, interesting idea! Could even go as far as removing sys.path and just > >making it an attribute of the base importer if you really wanted to make > >it just meta_path for imports. > > Perhaps, but then that just means you have to have a new variable for > 'sys.path_importer' or some such, just to get at it. (i.e., code won't be > able to assume it's always the last item in sys.meta_path). So this seems > wasteful and changing things just for the sake of change, vs. just keeping > the other PEP 302 sys variables. I just think the *implementation* of > them > can move to sys.meta_path, as that simplifies the main __import__ function > down to just calling meta_path importers in sequence, modulo some package > issues. > > One other rather tricky matter is that the sys.path meta-importer has to > deal with package __path__ management... and actually, meta_path > importers > are supposed to receive a copy of sys.path... ugh. Well, it was a nice > idea, but I guess you can't actually implement sys.path using a meta_path > importer. :( For Py3K, we could drop the path argument to find_module() > and manage it, but it can't be done and still allow current meta_path > hooks > to work right. Ah, true. >>In other words, sys.meta_path is really the only critical import hook from > >>the raw interpreter's point of view. sys.path, however, (along with > >>sys.path_hooks and sys.path_importer_cache) is critical from the > >>perspective of users, applications, etc., as there has to be some way to > >>get things onto Python's path in the first place. > > > >Yeah, I think I get it. I don't know how much it simplifies things for > >users but I think it might make it easier for alternative import writers. > > That was the idea, yes. :) =) -Brett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20060927/6718c9f1/attachment.html


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Matariki is the Maori New Year which is a time of celebration and the remembrance of ancestors.
It is based on the rising of the Pleiades. In astronomy the Pleiades are the seven sisters, a star cluster in the constellation of Taurus, appearing in mid winter. It is the nearest cluster to earth and you can see it with your naked eyes.
In the Pacific it was very important for navigation and it was also used as weather forecast.
The story goes that Matariki, the mother was surrounded by her six daugthers. They are there to assist the sun "Te Ra" who has become weakened by the winter jouney.
Matariki means the Eyes of Rā (Mata a Ariki), Rā being the Sun God. Another translation is 'little eyes' (mata riki).
Another legend goes that Ranginui the sky father and Papatuanuku the earth mother were separated from their children. Tawhirimatea, the god of the winds, was so angry that he tore out his eyes in rage and flung them into the heavens, where they now exist as Matariki, from Mata Ariki, the eyes of god.
Ngai Tahu is the main iwi (tribe) in the South of New Zealand. My friend at work, Reita is from the Ngai Tahu and I wish her and everyone else Hara matariki, Happy maori New year


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I have a lot of opinions about the whole thing with the "food stamps challenge," where a usually well off, usually white individual takes the challenge to live like a person on food stamps for some arbitrary period of time.
Half of the time they seem to be doing it to prove that it's doable. They go into it with the attitude that it's easy, and so chipper about it.
Then, they're surprised when they can't do it.
Let me tell you about the real food stamp challenge.
The food stamp challenge is having a job that barely covers the bills, so you NEED them or you don't eat.
It's being grateful that you don't have to pick between your prescription and a week worth of food.
It's the sudden realization that you can afford to have meat with this meal—and it doesn't have to be from the dubious "this is a day away from the sell by date" section.
It's realizing that the only thing keeping you from this meal is the bone crushing exhaustion of the job—or jobs—that still don't raise you up high enough to not need the assistance.
People are out here taking this "challenge" like it's some kind of game. But for millions of us, this ain't no game.
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America has lost its voice and a piece of its soul.
With apologies to Don Maclean, the music died at 7:30 AM on January 19, 2008.
John Stewart (September 5, 1939 – January 19, 2008) was an American songwriter and singer, best known for being a member of the Kingston Trio (1961–1967). He was much more than that.
He wrote about America from the viewpoint of the "wingless angels," those who drove the trucks and did the jobs that kept the country alive.
I will say that I did not know John Stewart except through his songs and brief encounters. In 1971 (my oh my how the time does fly), I (and others) talked with him when he came to Santa Monica College to talk about the songwriting experience. Still, I went to some of his concerts and shook his hand every chance I got. I'm not a fully-fledged "Bloodliner" (named after his California Bloodlines album), but I have about half of his albums and named my golden retriever "Stewart" as a tribute.
According to Tom DeLisle on Chillywinds.com, "He recorded over 45 solo albums following his seven years in the Kingston Trio, 1961-67" and in a career that spanned over fifty years he "wrote more than 600 songs."
John told the story of how The Monkees wanted to record a song he wrote in 1968 before leaving the Kingston Trio. The Monkees wanted to record Daydream Believer. But, the song had a problem—a word. See if you can find it.
As a white knight on his steed
But now you know how funky I can be
And our good times start and end
Without dollar one to spend
But how much, baby, do we really need
The Monkees wanted to substitute "happy" for "funky." John didn't know if he wanted to do that; he'd written "funky" in the lyrics after all. As we know, he finally allowed "happy" to be used instead. Daydream Believer is still being played today and in his words after getting his first royalty check, "happy's working real good."
For more about John Stewart:
Appleseed Recordings
John Stewart's Lyrics Database at CaliforniaBloodlines.com
Chilly Winds
Clack's Cellar
Associated Press Obituary
Chicago Tribune Obituary
CNN's Obituary
Or better still, play one of his songs. That's what I'm doing. Every single one I have. Here's John's hit, Gold.
Footnote (08/10/08):
After posting this in January I went looking for more music for my library. Years ago I had listened to a live recording of the Kingston Trio featuring John. The double album was called Once Upon a Time. I finally found it at the Kingston Trio Store. You can order it and other Trio songs here.


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Desigual Spring/Summer 2014 Collection " New York Fashion Week
The Desigual spring/summer 2014 collection landed at New York Fashion Week yesterday loaded with colors, prints and brightness as ever! This was the first time the Spanish label has cast an RTW line during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and it was all done in a confident and fresh manner that only Desigual could do! Titled "For Everybody', the Desigual spring/summer 2014 collection has a share of vibrancy and flirtiness not only for the brand's two iconic faces of the moment, Tali Lennox and Amber Le Bon, but also for any fashioniser, who is feeling kind of "irregular' and unique and is looking for smart ways of differing from others.
We are so in love with the slogan of Desigual, "La Vida es Chula' (Life is Cool), which was beautifully summarized at the brand's debut show in New York. The Desigual spring/summer 2014 collection is all about passion, love for life, enthusiasm and an independent feel that come defined through an unlimited color pattern and unexpected combinations of different patterns, a technique that has made the Barcelona-based brand stand out for years.
Think all the possible rainbow hues, as you say Desigual this spring! The new Desigual spring/summer 2014 collection brings lots of shades of red, blue, green, yellow, orange, white, purple, sand, gold, black… Simply impossible to enumerate them all! Mixed with lots of irregular graphic prints, florals, stripes and paisley patterns, they look way too emphasized to ever go by unnoticed!
While colors and prints have always defined the Desigual style, the new Desigual spring/summer 2014 collection doesn't forget about other details and brings frills, waist-enhancing scarf belts and stunning accessories that perfectly complete the sun-kissed looks. Spanish passion can be felt in every detail in this collection, whether we are talking about the shimmery short shorts, the A-line mini dresses, crop tops, pants, blouses or the wide-brimmed colorful sun hats, vibrant sandals, cool sunglasses and bags! Simply irresistible, designed "For Everybody'!
If you have managed to fall in love with the Desigual spring/summer 2014 collection, yet you can't find enough courage for going that bright this upcoming season, make sure to at least invest in those eye-popping accessories and spice up your summer looks with an enviable Spanish vibe!
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Hey There Penguins,
Check it out the sky on club penguin isn't orange anymore.
Also the Volcano is Still Smoking And The Dojo Is close to being done
The new room on the dojo is going to be awesome. Let me know what you think?!?
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Greetings everyone,
As 2014 comes to a close, we must look back at this year as having been one of the most significant in ham radio. Among the outstanding events, we recognize the ARRL's 100th Anniversary as the lead item. It brought with it a wonderful National Convention with renowned speakers on timely subjects. It brought us the W1AW Portable Operating Events, allowing the average ham across the USA and possessions to operate "our club station" from their own home QTH as W1AW/x. Each state and territory took to the air and we all reached out to work them on multiple bands and modes.
It brought us the ARRL Centennial Challenge QSO Party sparking thousands of hams into getting active and working towards achieving Challenge Points.
We also hosted the 2014 IARU Radiosport Championship and 2014 also brought a matching fund Challenge to us all to offer further financial support to our ARRL, insuring its future.
Combine this Anniversary Year with new product introductions by several manufacturers, new developments in software designed radios, advances in weak signal programs, and we have experienced a truly great 2014.
We must also offer our special thanks to the ARRL HQ staff for hosting the 100th Anniversary National Convention and for developing and managing the scoring systems for this year's operating events all intertwined with the rest of their routine and daily duties. Great Job, well done.
From a purely personal note, this year has allowed me to meet thousands of different hams on the air in operating the Challenge. My log has filled with wonderful QSOs and along with that, many new friendships have formed. Everyone has been polite, courteous and understanding, all typical of what we inspire to be as Radio Amateurs. I also thank all for being so very tolerant of me as I stumbled through getting all the call signs and signal reports accurately recorded. There is still plenty of time left to rack up a lot more Qs, so keep at it. Things will close with another "Red Badge Day" on December 31.
HB 4969 Progress Report: I currently count 67 Co-sponsors for our House Bill 4979, the Amateur Radio Parity Act. This bipartisan effort would direct the FCC to extend the "reasonable accommodation" provisions for Amateur Radio antennas to include all types of land-use regulation, including deed restrictions and restrictive covenants, not just those covered by PRB-1. Details and updates are posted at http://www.arrl.org/hr-4969. Time is now very short, please write to your Congressperson and encourage his/her support, or offer your thanks if he/she has already signed on to co-sponsorship.
Vice Director, Tom Delaney W8WTD offers these comments: Early December, being between major holidays, is a time when we normally don't focus as much on ham radio, with all the busy rush of other things. And in spite of the old saw about antennas working better when they are installed in bad weather, I really don't like working on antennas in cold weather.
But there's still the interest in the Centennial QSO party, with many people vying to get more contacts for that high score they hope to achieve. What a great motivation to get on the air. It turned out far better than anyone probably imagined when they came up with the idea. Now we have to find something else like it to generate an equal amount of interest.
As I was thinking about the Centennial effort, I realized how important the Logbook of the World has been in this effort. And so my thoughts turned to the internet and how much it has affected ham radio. In some ways, writing about the internet is so obvious. Of course it has affected just about every aspect of life. What's new about that?
However, the story here is how amateur radio has adapted the internet. In some ways, it could have been like the predictions in the early fifties of how that new thing called television was going to do away with the movies. We learned how good a prediction that was. And it's logical that a new form of communications would do away with old forms of communication--except that didn't happen either. Some aspects of ham radio aren't what they were. But because hams are resourceful, they saw the possibilities in making use of the internet to enhance ham radio, and that's what we have today. Logbook of the World is a simple adaptation of the paper QSL cards, but it has made awards and contests so much better--and provides the "leader board" for the Centennial QSO Party. Spotting DX was not possible to the extent it is today without the internet. And so many of our interconnections for Echolink, IRLP, D-Star and DMR depend on the internet. New forms of communications, hybrid, maybe, but still offering some of the magic of a ham radio contact.
Operating a radio still requires skill. These new operating aids are always nice to have. So keep operating, make those contacts, whether you're going for a standard award, or that higher place on the leader board. See you on the air.
Tom W8WTD
Vice Director
Great Lakes Division
Hamfesting: Here is the current Great Lakes Division ARRL Sanctioned Hamfest Schedule for the next few weeks. These swaps have received their sanctioning approval from ARRL HQ at the time of this publication.
Dec 6 - Fulton County Winterfest, Delta, OH
Dec 7 - Lanse Creuse, Harrison Twp, MI - WB8R
Jan 11 - Hazel Park, MI - WB8R - WA8EFK
Jan 18 - SCARF, Nelsonville, OH
Feb 1 - NOARS, Elyria - N8SY
Feb 7 - HARA, Negaunee, MI - WB8R
Feb 14 - Cherryland, Traverse City, MI - WB8R
Feb 15 - Mansfield, Mansfield, OH - N8SY - WA8EFK
Feb 15 - Livonia, Livonia, MI - WB8R
Mar 7 - Cave City, Cave City, KY - KY4Z
A note about hamfest attendance by your ARRL elected officials. We want to be at your events and we strive for insuring that the ARRL is properly represented at every ARRL Sanctioned Hamfest. Conflicts can arise, such as hamfests which might occur on the same day. It is always a good idea for your hamfest chairman to contact the Section Manager, Vice-Director or Director early in the planning stages to insure his attendance at the activity. This will allow time to prepare for alternate representation in the event of time conflicts.
Club Visits: Thanks to the Arrow Comm. Assn., CRES ARC, and the Branch County ARC, for recently hosting your Director at their club meetings. My next outing is to the Livingston County ARC on December 11. Your Director, Vice Director and Section Managers are available to visit local radio clubs and give presentations about ARRL and what is happening in the Section or Division. Please feel free to invite any of us for an ARRL Night at your club. Most of the talks are prepared in a video presentation format and can include a Q&A session as well. Advance scheduling really helps and gives you an opportunity to publicize the event. See pages 15 & 16 of a recent QST for contact information.
And, from Judy and me, the very best wishes to you and your family as we celebrate this Holiday Season.
73, see you on the bands.
Dale Williams WA8EFK
Great Lakes Division


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Everyone get in a circle (hands connected or arms linked), someone that is not playing needs to set the trash can in the center of the circle. I would use a trash can about half the size of the tallest person.
When everyone is ready, you start spinning clockwise in a circle. As you are doing that, you want to try to get others near the trash can so they touch it. If you touch the trash can, you are out.
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Tasting Salt
In his classic speech "The Candle of the Lord," Boyd K. Packer1 tells the story of an encounter he once had with an atheist (a "professed" atheist, actually; like many believers, Elder Packer finds it cute to turn the tables on religious skeptics by doubting their existence). In the story, Mr. Packer bears his testimony to the atheist, saying that he "knows" God lives, and the atheist (who, naturally, is a lawyer and speaks "in a sneering, condescending way") asks him how he knows. Finding himself unable to give a good answer, he challenges the atheist to explain just what salt tastes like ("assuming I have never tasted salt"). When the atheist is of course unable to do this, Mr. Packer declares victory: "I know there is a God. You ridiculed that testimony and said that if I did know, I would be able to tell you exactly how I know. My friend, spiritually speaking, I have tasted salt. I am no more able to convey to you in words how this knowledge has come than you are to tell me what salt tastes like. But I say to you again, there is a God! He does live! And just because you don't know, don't try to tell me that I don't know, for I do!" The atheist, having been well and truly pwned, can only walk away, muttering bitter anti-religious cliches under his breath.
The moral of the story is clear: If you've tasted salt, you know something that those who have never tasted it cannot know, and which you can never explain to them in words. The salt-skeptic can waste his time arguing and discussing the matter with you, but what he really needs to do is just take some of those little white crystals and put them in his mouth. Until he has tasted salt himself, all explanation is futile; after he has tasted it, no explanation is necessary. The same goes for one who questions the existence of God: rather than attempting to answer the question via rational thought or argument, he should focus on trying to "feel the Spirit" for himself.
And what of someone like myself, who has undeniably "felt the Spirit" and yet denies that there is any such thing as a Spirit? Well, such a person belongs in the same category as one who has tasted salt but denies that it exists, or (to use a more popular analogy) who can look up at the sky on a bright sunny day and say there is no sun. To deny what experience has made undeniable is perverse — unforgivably perverse, as it turns out. "If ye deny the Holy Ghost when it once has had place in you, and ye know that ye deny it, behold, this is a sin which is unpardonable."2
Is that really how it works, though? Let's go back to Elder Packer's example and imagine a person who has never tasted salt and knows nothing about it. He sees me putting some tiny white stones in my mouth and asks what I'm eating.
"This is salt," I say.
"Salt? What's that?"
"Salt — you know, sodium chloride. It's a common mineral."
"Wait a minute," he says. "How can you possibly know that? Those little white stones could be anything. What makes you so sure of their chemical makeup?"
"I can taste them," I say.
He tries to get me to explain what the salt tastes like, which of course I can't do. After a lengthy and fruitless discussion, I finally convince him to taste some of the salt himself. "Interesting," he says. "It does have a very distinct flavor, quite different from anything else I've ever tasted."
"That flavor is called saltiness," I tell him. "Now you've tasted it, and you know for yourself that these stones are salt."
"I do?"
"Well, they taste salty, don't they? And salt is what makes things taste salty, obviously."
"I don't see how that's so obvious. I tasted something very distinct, but how do I know that flavor has anything to do with sodium chloride?"
"Because, as I just told you, that flavor is a salty flavor, and it's caused by salt!"
"So I just have to take your word for it?"
Our imaginary salt-skeptic has a point. You don't directly perceive salt (a mineral); you perceive saltiness (a flavor) — a distinction which would seem less pedantic if English had separate words for the two, as it does for sugar and sweet or acid and sour. Saltiness is an elementary sensation that cannot be analyzed or explained, but the hypothesis that saltiness indicates salt is not a direct perception. It can and should be backed up with evidence just like any other hypothesis. Even someone who has never tasted salt should be able to understand the chain of reasoning that leads us to conclude that the "saltiness" sensation is caused by sodium chloride, just as it is possible for a colorblind person to understand how scientists know that the sensations "red" and "green" are caused by differing wavelengths of light.
The same goes for the spiritual experiences for which tasting salt is a metaphor. Just as with salt and saltiness, English unhelpfully conflates the experience itself ("spiritual experience," "feeling the Spirit") with a hypothesis about what causes it (communication from an actual Spirit); and just as with salt and saltiness, there is no self-evident connection between the two. When I was a Mormon missionary, my training emphasized the importance of "helping others feel and recognize the Spirit." Why help them recognize it? Because you have to. Because it's not self-evident. Because otherwise many people would feel warm fuzzies without automatically concluding that such feelings constitute a revelation from God. The church-run website mormon.org, under the heading "How can I know this is true?", quotes from Galatians 5 ("The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace," etc.) and then helpfully explains, "These feelings from the Holy Ghost are personal revelation to you that the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is true. You will then need to choose whether you will live in harmony with the knowledge you have received." Knowledge? That's right; if you've felt love, joy, and the other good things listed in Galatians, you know Mormonism is true. One is tempted to respond, like our salt-skeptic, "I do?"
So far, I've gone along with Elder Packer in emphasizing the similarities between tasting salt and receiving a "revelation" that a particular religion is true. However, it should be clear by now that while I accept saltiness as a pretty reliable indicator of the presence of sodium chloride, I do not accept "the Spirit" as a reliable indicator of the doctrinal truth of a religion, so it is now time to discuss the disanalogies between the two cases. Fortunately, unlike Elder Packer and his atheist friend, both of whom confuse inferences with raw sensations, I am able to explain my reasons for accepting the one conclusion and rejecting the other.
Let's start with salt. How do I justify the conclusion that if something tastes salty it probably contains sodium chloride?
- There is a certain kind of stone with a number of distinctive properties — clear or whitish color, cubic crystal structure, a particular density, solubility in water, etc. Everyone calls this "salt." Scientists have determined that this "salt" is sodium chloride. I have only the vaguest idea of how scientists reached that conclusion, but I know of no scientist who disputes it. The success of advanced science-based technology is strong evidence that modern scientific theories are very close approximations of the truth, and this is particularly true of chemistry. I therefore trust the scientific consensus unless I have some good reason not to.
- Salt consistently tastes salty.


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First seen in Virginia Woolf's novel, Clarissa Dalloway (Vanessa Redgrave) looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator (John Standing) and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith (Rupert Graves) reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh (Michael Kitchen). In flashbacks, young Clarissa (Natascha McElhone) explores her possibilities with Peter.
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Remembering Paul Samuelson and his ideas4 min read . Updated: 31 Dec 2009, 09:21 PM IST
Remembering Paul Samuelson and his ideas
Remembering Paul Samuelson and his ideas
The year 1941 was a placid one for economics. John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior was three years away. Kenneth Arrow's Social Choice and Individual Values 10 years distant. Gerard Debreu's Theory of Value lay 18 years in the future. The senseless blurring of lines between mathematics and economics, a distant dream. In a sense, Samuelson unleashed this storm. But all along his career, he never indulged in mathematics as an end in itself. To the end, he remained a careful consumer of mathematical ideas.
So what should he be remembered for? The Nobel committee statement said it best when he was awarded the prize in 1970 "for the scientific work through which he has developed static and dynamic economic theory and actively contributed to raising the level of analysis in economic science".
That is a general statement. There are four areas of Samuelson's work for which he will always be remembered.
Generations of students have learnt their first faltering lessons in economics from his book Economics: An Introductory Analysis. First published in 1948, it has been translated into 40 languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide. It is currently in its 19th edition. It is a model of clarity and careful exposition of ideas for those on a journey of discovering economic ideas. It did more to convince people about the value of free markets (and ideas) than anything else.
There is an interesting story about the book. Alexander Gerschenkron, a Harvard economist, recounted how Economics was translated into Russian. Impressed with its success, Soviet authorities secretly had the book translated. An undergraduate text, it was elevated to a graduate one so as to protect the students from "false" ideas. Many parts of the book (especially on classical thinkers such as Malthus and Marx) were censored. Copious notes were added to "clarify" matters and Samuelson declared a bourgeois thinker. In the end, the book survived, not the Soviets.
Most economists find it hard to fathom Marxian economics. Apart from a very different worldview, Marx's texts are a study in denseness. But a one-line version of it is this: Workers create "surplus value" that is "appropriated" by capitalists, leaving the former high and dry. His original explanation is in terms of "values", a somewhat metaphysical concept (Amartya Sen said as much). He promised to later show how values could be converted into prices, the modern metric of measurement. He never could. Despite this grave weakness in his schema, Marxists have clung to his framework.
Enter Samuelson. In two papers, Wages and Interest: A Modern Dissection of Marxian Economic Models (1957) and Understanding the Marxian Notion of Exploitation: A Summary of the So-Called Transformation Problem Between Marxian Values and Competitive Prices (1971), he laid bare the fatal weakness of Marxian economics. Marx's procedure to "transform" values into prices was nothing more than an "eraser theorem". One simply wiped off the wrong values that were obtained because of an erroneous calculating procedure. Samuelson showed that equality between values and prices was possible only in very rudimentary economies such as those of hunters and gatherers.
In developing countries, the distinction between public and private goods is lost sight of during the development process. By definition, one person's consumption of a public good does not reduce its availability to others. Examples include clean air, equality of opportunity and security of life and property, among others. This is different from consuming a loaf of bread: One person's consumption will only reduce what is left for another person. Governments often forget that. Electricity, potable water, public transport, fuel and a large number of other goods are transformed from private into public goods.
In three papers in the 1950s, Samuelson showed how this distinction could not be erased. There were fundamental barriers in eliciting the preferences of citizens. There is no market-based mechanism to find these preferences. In its absence, voting with one's feet is the only way to find this out. This is what governments assume when they come to power with votes. But because price discovery is well-nigh impossible, losses, shortages and discontent are the result.
No discussion of Samuelson's life can be complete without his work on international trade. If there is one truth in economics,?it is that trade between countries is beneficial. His work along with Wolfgang Stolper led to a famous result. A relative rise in the price of a product will lead to higher returns to the more intensively used input in making the product. A higher price for Toyota cars can lead to higher wages for Japanese workers. Techies in India get more money as the demand for IT services goes up.
He also showed that gains from globalization could be had without moving from one country to another. In that sense, he is the father of some powerful motivating ideas behind globalization.
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Those Microsoft "Laptop Hunter" ads are creating more stir.
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner reports fielding a call from Apple legal, asking that the company to pull them, citing updates and price drops in Apple's computer lineup.
Will Microsoft comply?
As Borat would say, "not so much." "We're just going to keep running them and running them and running them," Turner told the audience at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference.
But should they pull them?
PC World's Mitchell Ashley doesn't think so, but he would like to see new ads that better reflect the current lineup.
Ars Technica's Emil Protalinski agrees. He isn't necessarily down on the Laptop Hunters spots, but would like to see them phased out. "These are the best ads Microsoft has run in a while; they're clearly working, but we're not sure Microsoft should keep them going for much longer," he writes. "Hopefully the software giant will think of something fresh once Windows 7 rolls out."
Howdy, neighbor!
In the same speech, Turner let on that Microsoft has plans this fall to open its own retail stores next to existing Apple stores.
Microsoft's official line on the new stores goes like this, according to ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley: "As we progress on our retail strategy there will be scenarios where we have stores in proximity to Apple. We are on track to open stores in the Fall timeframe. Beyond that we have no additional details to share."
Anyone else thinking Apple and Microsoft won't exactly be Tim Taylor and Wilson? Or here's one – what if the rumored "Microsoft phone" or its successor releases the same day as a new iPhone? As Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters (1984) so perfectly put it, "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together ... mass hysteria!"


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Students of the Chopin Academy of Music belong to an elite group of people who share the bond of music. The following pages detail important information and valuable considerations for prospective students, whether one is a child or an adult, as well as a place to display the merits and accolades of our many talented students.
What Makes Us Different?
It is obvious to us that when one takes into account our faculty, accomplishments, and facilities, that the number one answer is quality. All our teachers are carefully chosen to provide the highest level of education and service to each student. Our instructors must have the minimum credentials of a master of music in instrumental performance, while most have the highest possible education (doctorates in music). We are not a collection of rooms that are rented out to anyone who is willing to pay the fee, as most facilities are. We have a unified music program in which all teachers work together to build a comprehensive music education for everyone. Instrumental lessons, group performance classes, and musicianship classes make it possible for every student to attain his or her potential, regardless of age, talent, or level.
All of our instructors excel in teaching from the earliest beginners to the most advanced university-level students. When comparing us with others, notice that we do what we preach. We are active performers, known in the stages of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, as you will discover by reading our faculty biographies. Instrumental lessons, for centuries, have always been a relationship of pupil and master, who will always be able to demonstrate the artistic and technical aspects of any piece of music. A sensible student or parent should be wary of a teacher who has not touched the instrument for years.
Furthermore, Chopin Academy of Music provides rooms and instruments that are spacious, elegant, and inspiring with comfortable seating for parents or listeners. We work closely with local instrumental stores and halls, reserving venues for students to display they skills and artistry frequently throughout the year.
If the quality of the education that you seek matters to you, the Chopin Academy of Music is the obvious choice.
Did You Know That…
Currently in the United States, no legislation exists to control who is teaching private music lessons to the community. By comparison, one needs certification and licensing to open a hair salon. However, anyone can put up a sign saying "Violin Lessons"
or "Piano Lessons," get a business license and legally run a studio. In the state of Washington, anyone may obtain a business license for $15 annually regardless of credentials, qualifications, or background and call himself or herself a music business.
In such situations, all the responsibility lies on the shoulders of the adult student or parent to find a qualified teacher. Many think that anyone can teach beginners, or that they do not need the most qualified teacher to have fun learning a new instrument.
WRONG! By saving a few dollars with an unqualified teacher, you are imposing poor habits that will likely be impossible to change later and that may even lead to injuries and diseases including Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, Tendinitis, and Focal Dystonia that have the potential to plague a student for a lifetime.
As an example, do not think that piano playing is like typing and learning to wiggle the fingers. The entire body must be seated and positioned precisely, from the feet to the neck, in order to develop healthy, injury-free technique. A graphic manual on posture will not suffice, since every student has unique body proportions. If taught correctly, piano playing should never cause any pain or discomfort and can bring hours of daily fun and satisfaction while experiencing the art of music. Furthermore and most importantly, only correct technique may bring a truly beautiful sound to the instrument; and isn't sound the most important aspect of music?
A Word About Frederic Chopin…
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was a legendary romantic composer of Polish origin. Throughout his entire life, his concert appearances numbered less than forty. Showcasing himself was not his primary concern, as was the case for many other virtuosi of the day. When performing, he often improvised and preferred smaller gatherings over large public venues. His main focus was teaching and composing.
"…it was with veritable joy that he devoted all his strength to teaching several hours a day…His demands, so difficult to satisfy, the feverish passion with which the Maestro tried to raise his disciples to his level, the obstinacy he used to make a passage repeated until it was understood, were proof of how much he took to heart the progress of a student…A holy artistic zeal burned in him, and every word from his lips was stimulating and a source of enthusiasm."
-Mikuli, pupil of Chopin; found in Tad Szulc's Chopin in Paris, The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer, Da Capo Press, New York, Scribner, 2000, p. 239-40.
His approach to technique was perhaps one of the most revolutionary in the history of piano performance, emphasizing flexibility, fluidity, suppleness of the wrists, all of which contributed to his sublime world of sound and expression.
The founders of the Chopin Academy, throughout their extensive international education, had the privilege to study with some of the world's top Chopin interpreters. The knowledge, insight, and skills that they learned from such masters as Professor Andrzej Stefanski (a grand-pupil of Ignace Jan Paderewski), Tatiana Shebanova (a prize-winner of the international Chopin competition in 1980), Marek Jablonski (a legendary Canadian Chopin artist), and Dr. Henri-Paul Sicsic (a powerful pianist and grand-pupil of Alfred Cortot), heavily influenced their own performing and teaching styles.


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This basket is so sweet and it is quickly becoming one of my favorites!
This is my Half Egg Bunny Basket and it comes sized at approximately 7-3/4" x 5-1/2" x 3-1/4" and it is compatible with both the 8x12 and 12x12 mats. The file comes with the box base, the handle, the handle mat, the side mats, the half egg pieces, the grass border pieces, the bunny silhouettes, and the bow pieces.
Here is the tutorial:1. Cut out your pieces. Fold on the score lines.
2. With the box base, place adhesive on the four tabs. Adhere the tabs to the box sides.
3. Adhere the grass pieces to the top edge of the half egg shapes. Adhere the shapes on to the box base, lining up the bottom edges.
4. Adhere your handle mat in the center of the handle cut.
5. Place the handle in the slots on the box.
6. Adhere the side panels on the box.
7. Adhere your bunnies on each side of the box behind the half egg shapes.
8. Assemble your bows.
9. Attach your bows on each side of the box as shown.
This card is approximately 6-3/4" x 4" and comes with the bunny shaped card base, the inside bunny mat, the two tail pieces, the inner ear pieces, the eyes, the nose, and the whisker cuts. The file is compatible with both the 8x12 and 12x12 mats.
Here is the tutorial:1. Cut out your pieces. Fold the bunny card in half.
2. Adhere your pieces on as shown, using foam adhesive under the small tail pieces.
3. Adhere your mat inside.
4. Your finished card will look similar to this.


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Jon you are doing GREAT work so far. I love your style of writing and really look forward to more.
Jon you are doing GREAT work so far. I love your style of writing and really look forward to more.
Thanks Juke!
Updated with Chapter 4!!
Chapter 4 was very well written. I can't see anything that I woul change. If I were to say anything at all it would be to slow down some of the action in general, it seems that somethings happen slightly to quick and the feel isn't there. So maybe some more description of what the character is thinking and feeling in some situations would be good. I'm not saying you aren't because you are doing it perfectly when the zombies attack but you could have done it a little bit when the 2 people broke in to his house atbthe very end. Keep it up I really want to read more!
Cheers Juke!
Anymore comments would be appreciated
Ok so I have been slowly plugging away at this. Decided I'd update you all with chapter 5, hope some people read it and leave some comments
Chapter 6 is up.


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Classic Mode's format is much closer to the physical version of Superfight: the winner of a round continues on to fight the next player. At game creation, players decide on how many round wins determine the game winner. With more players, and more traditional rules - this modes allows you to include more friends in a game and play the game in a way most are used to.


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Hi all,
I have written about the Fong Lee case in previous posts from earlier
this summer--this Sat I have the honor of performing in a benefit concert
to help raise money for Fong Lee's family as they prepare
continue with their case against the Minneapolis police force. Special
thanks to my friend Bao Phi, one of a group of wonderful folks organizing
this event. I'm posting the announcement that he has sent out
about the event b/c I couldn't say any of it any better.
I am also posting my public statement on the case below.
Peace & Blessings,
PS--If you can't make the show but would like to contribute, please
make checks payable to "Fong Lee Memorial Trust" and mail to Bao
at the address at the end of this post.
Public statement on the Fong Lee case.
Because of the myth of the "Model Minority," APIA people are
constantly being told that we don't have it so bad--that we come
to this country and prosper, sometimes at the expense of other
people of color. But what fails to be known or acknowledged is
that most APIA people can speak to a history and experience of
unimaginable oppression--we come from countries where we and/or our
parents and grandparents have witnessed and suffered through war,
brutality, starvation, death, rape, genocide. Families have risked
everything to come to the United States, chasing the American
Dream and the promise of a better life. The tragedy is that when
we get here, it's like we exchanged one form of oppression for another,
from poverty to prejudice to violence. Our people still suffer, and the
injustice is that we're told to "Shut up and deal" because we supposedly
have it so good and because the perception is that we are perpetual
foreigners who can never be fully American. The Fong Lee case joins
a list of others such as Mike Cho, Kuan Chung Kao, Cao Tran,Marlo
Custodio, and Karen Chen, where police brutalized and, in many of
these instances, killed Asian Americans, only to be exonerated and
congratulated on a job well done. Time again, police are continually
held above the law while racism and violence cast a shadow over the
badge which supposedly symbolizes their vows to serve and protect.
In refusing to fall under that shadow, APIA's must continue to speak up
and unite with other communities of color to combat police corruption
and brutality. And we must remember: The time to resist is always now.
I know, I know - I'm always writing about must-see shows. Well, before
you hit delete, I hope you humor me a bit with this one. Even if you're
not in Minnesota and you can't attend, please consider reading and
passing this along, posting it, spreading the word. The family of Fong Lee
was offered millions of dollars to stay quiet, and they turned it down because
they wanted truth and justice for their slain son, and because even if they
collected that payday, the man who killed their son would still be out on
the streets.
For those of you who don't know about the case, details are below.
The officer was recently fired from the police force, months after the courts
ruled in favor of the police, and as the family moves to push the case further.
The police department is refusing to release the details of why the
officer was fired, as he was also recently acquitted in a domestic assault case.
So, I tell you this in case you heard the officer was fired and think that the
struggle is over for the family/community. It is not.
Regarding this show, a group of us have been working hard to organize it.
And the artists involved are all donating their performances to be here.
This is no small thing. None of them are rich, and some of them are
traveling long distances away from their homes, jobs, kids and families in
order to be here, for no money. All because they believe this is an important
issue. All proceeds go to the family of Fong Lee.
And of course, this event is powerful because it attempts to represent Asian
Americans standing up for fellow Asian Americans, while also building alliances
across different communities that have also suffered from police brutality.
The amount of talented people performing is truly breathtaking. And the
generosity of the artists is inspiring. There have been several artists
who have offered to step down in order to make room for more artists
and more inclusiveness.
Please come support, and help us spread the word.
Up In Arms: A Night of Hip Hop and Spoken Word to Honor Fong Lee
and End Police Brutality
Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009
Show starts 8:00pm (doors open 7:30pm)
Location: Macalester College
Kagin Commons
1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
Suggested Donation: $5-$10 (all proceeds will to go to the family of
Fong Lee to assist with attorney's fees)
Up In Arms: A Night of Hip Hop and Spoken Word to Honor Fong Lee
and End Police Brutality seeks to raise awareness and support of Fong
Lee's case while also uniting and activating communities around
the issue of police brutality.
In July 2006, un-armed Fong Lee was killed by a Minneapolis police
officer in front of a north Minneapolis elementary school. Last May,
an all-white federal jury exonerated officer Jason Anderson of using
"excessive force" on the teenager who was shot eight times in the back.
Allegations that a gun was planted near Lee's body were ruled irrelevant
to the case. (For more information about the trial
http://www.hmongtoday.com/page11504436.aspx and
The Lee family's quest for truth does not end with the ruling given in
May, and the family has continued the long path towards legal justice.
The evening will be emceed by Tou Ger Xiong and Amy Hang. DJ Nak
will be on the one's and two's with performances by Magnetic North
(from New York City), Nomi of Power Struggle (from the Bay Area),
Michelle Myers of Yellow Rage (from Philadelphia), Maria Isa,
Blackbird Elements, Guante, Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, e.g. Bailey,
Tou Saiko Lee with PosNoSys, True Mutiny, Shá Cage, Kevin Xiong with
Pada Lor, Tish Jones, MaiPaCher, Logan Moua, Bobby Wilson,
Poetic Assassins, Hilltribe, and special guests.
This event is sponsored by: Speak!, Lealtad-Suzuki Center, Asian Student
Alliance, Ua Ke, DJ Club, History Department, Coalition for Community
Relations, The Loft Literary Center, Minnesota Immigrant Freedom Network,
Shades of Yellow,Take Action Minnesota, Communities United Against
Police Brutality, and Minnesota Poor People's Economic Human Rights
For more information please visit Coalition for Community Relations on
Facebook or contact Tou Ger Xiong @ 651-738-0141 or
Jose Luís @ 612-986-0832.
Thien-bao Thuc Phi
Associate Program Director
Spoken Word and Community Collaborations
The Loft
1011 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55415


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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
~ reconnecting ~
We turned everything off in Fiji.
No phones, no email, no blog, no (wasteofspace)book, no IG, no TV.
For days we read, we talked, we kayaked, swam and snorkelled, we lazed and revelled in all the time we had to just be ourselves.
Time to think and dream.
Feeling no obligations.
It felt like more than just a tropical escape, a blip in our lives.
I want it to be more.
I'm finding it so hard to come back and re-establish where I want to be in this crazy, busy, totally connected world we live in.
I'm still on Fiji-time.
(and wishing it was still Fiji-warm)
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Welcome back - enjoy reconnecting with the real world. Maybe just don't do it too quickly, so you can cling on to that lovely Fiji time a little longer xReplyDelete
The best thing about holidays is leaving the craziness and unbearable pressure behind. I wish I knew how to translate that wonderful holiday feeling to everyday life. If you find out, will you please share?!ReplyDelete
More than a little envious of your fiji-style x.ReplyDelete
Oh that sounds blissful! I hope you can hold onto that holiday feeling for a while longer xxReplyDelete
Sounds absolutely wonderful. Hope you're now feeling refreshed and recharged.ReplyDelete
It's always hard to come back isn't it? I had a week of because I was sick and really felt it coming back into the real world, everything was quieter, calmer at the hut.ReplyDelete
sounds amazing, welcome back :)ReplyDelete


text: Feeling festive 12/31/2017 It has been wonderful watching Instagram unfold daily with festive decor from all around the world. It's interesting to see how we all prepare our houses for the Christmas period. I particularly enjoyed Christmas this year I think due to the fact that my own house was finally complete and felt cosy. I was keen to entertain as a result and it was a very busy boozy time! Happy New Year everyone. Click to see more festive pics.


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Haskell 2017 – Proceedings
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Quantified class constraints have been proposed many years ago to raise the expressive power of type classes from Horn clauses to the universal fragment of Hereditiary Harrop logic. Yet, while it has been much asked for over the years, the feature was never implemented or studied in depth. Instead, several workarounds have been proposed, all of which are ultimately stopgap measures.
This paper revisits the idea of quantified class constraints and elaborates it into a practical language design. We show the merit of quantified class constraints in terms of more expressive modeling and in terms of terminating type class resolution. In addition, we provide a declarative specification of the type system as well as a type inference algorithm that elaborates into System F. Moreover, we discuss termination conditions of our system and also provide a prototype implementation.
Previous work has demonstrated that it is possible to generate efficient and highly parallel code for multicore CPUs and GPUs from combinator-based array languages for a range of applications. That work, however, has been limited to operating on flat, rectangular structures without any facilities for irregularity or nesting.
In this paper, we show that even a limited form of nesting provides substantial benefits both in terms of the expressiveness of the language (increasing modularity and providing support for simple irregular structures) and the portability of the code (increasing portability across resource-constrained devices, such as GPUs). Specifically, we generalise Blelloch's flattening transformation along two lines: (1) we explicitly distinguish between definitely regular and potentially irregular computations; and (2) we handle multidimensional arrays. We demonstrate the utility of this generalisation by an extension of the embedded array language Accelerate to include irregular streams of multidimensional arrays. We discuss code generation, optimisation, and irregular stream scheduling as well as a range of benchmarks on both multicore CPUs and GPUs.
Software transactional memory (STM) has made it significantly easier to write correct concurrent programs in Haskell. Its performance, however, is limited by several inefficiencies. While safe concurrent computations are easy to express in Haskell's STM, concurrent data structures suffer unfortunate bloat in the implementation due to an extra level of indirection for mutable references as well as the inability to express unboxed mutable transactional values. We address these deficiencies by introducing TStruct to the GHC run-time system, allowing strict unboxed transactional values as well as mutable references without an extra indirection. Using TStruct we implement several data structures, discuss their design, and provide benchmark results on a large multicore machine. Our benchmarks show that concurrent data structures built with TStruct out-scale and out-perform their TVar-based equivalents.
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The CIVSEC Industry Workshop and Forum was held at Hotel Realm in Canberra, Monday 24th July 2017.
A number of experts and industry leaders in protecting Australia's national security came together last month at the inaugural CIVSEC Industry Workshop and Forum.
Held in Canberra, over 100 government, industry and academic delegates attended this valuable event designed to assist in engagement with the civil security sector.
The workshop provided insight for Australian industry representatives on how to engage with key security bodies in Australia, with speaker representatives including: Australian Federal Police, Australian Cyber Security Growth Network, Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Australian Civil-Military Centre and the National Security Science & Technology Centre.
The forum gave insight into the key issues plaguing security bodies both in Australia and Internationally with moderator Associate Professor Nick O'Brien from Charles Sturt University chairing a panel of experts as they provided insight from each of their speciality fields.
The CIVSEC Industry Workshop and Forum was a prelude to the CIVSEC 2018 Congress and Exposition to be held in Melbourne in May next year.
Industry Workshop speakers included:
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In light of today's event and tonight's recipe, I'm going to try and keep this as decadently simple a Nutella indulgence can ever be.
Two years ago, Ms. Adventures in Italy and Bleeding Espresso declared this day, the 5th of January, World Nutella Day; a day to unite Nutella lovers all over the world to celebrate with a jar in one hand, and thousands of serving ideas in another.
A quick run to the supermarket to get me a jar of Nutella (they're on sale today, what are the odds!), and a random mish-mash of what's in the fridge later in the evening, saw the Nutella-lover in me rejoicing the day with a ramekin of comforting Nutella bread pudding.
Nutella Bread Pudding
(serves one, or two if you really wanna share)
2 slices of day-old bread
1 egg
1/2 cup soy milk
1/8 cup white sugar (basically 1/2 of the 1/4 cup)
- Preheat oven to 170C.
- Spread Nutella over a slice of bread, and sandwich it with the other slice. Cut the sandwich into small cubes.
- In a bowl, whisk egg, milk and sugar.
- Soak the bread cubes in the milk mixture.
- Pour the mixture into a greased ramekin.
- Go crazy and slather more Nutella on top.
- Bake at 170C for 20-25 mins. Leave to cool for about 5-10mins.


text: I was approached by a man named Lee who told me he had a business setting up and he needed a graffiti artist. His business was based of a small bus in which he had converted the inside into a recording studio. He will be travelling all over Europe recording live acoustic bands in his bus. But He wanted something to make it stand out and be more appealing so he asked me to paint the bus for him. He gave me a good some of money to painting what I wanted but maybe around the theme of music. It still has a fair amount of work that needs doing to it but I asked Luke to come help me out with the other side to save some time. We will finish it on the next available sunny day.


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Somehow people got the idea that a chicken nugget was supposed to be a solid piece of chicken. That's not a nugget. That's just a too small piece of fried chicken. A real nugget, at least in the fast food context, is more of a deep-fried, mostly-chicken sausage patty, fabricated from various parts of the bird, such as, every legal part.
I love any and all types of fried chicken, but the typical nugget, when made from a piece of breast, just makes me want to get a bucket of the full-sized stuff. No, as far as party food goes, I'll take the classic, seems-bad-for-you version every time. Plus, since we're making a paste out of the meat, we get to flavor it any way we want.
I loved the Buffalo approach, and it allowed me to dip something in blue cheese dressing, which is always nice, but there are lots of directions you can go with this. So, whether you make these as directed, or come up with your own game plan, I really hope you give these delicious chicken nuggets a try soon. Enjoy!
Ingredients for 24 Buffalo Chicken Nuggets:
1 1/2 pound chicken thigh
2 tablespoons fine dry breadcrumbs
1 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon Old Bay seasoning (here is a link to a copy cat recipe)
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
1 tablespoon Franks hot sauce
1 tablespoon melted butter
For the starch coating:
1/2 cup corn starch
1/3 cup self-rising flour (or mix 1/3 cup all-purpose flour with 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/8 tsp salt)
1/4 teaspoon salt
- After coating, let sit in fridge until starch on surface is absorbed. For best results, flip over once while in fridge.
- Fry for 1 minute at 300 F., then chill, and finish when ready to serve by frying for 2 minutes at 375 F., or until cooked through. Exact time depends on size and shape of your nugget.


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Vintage-inspired Fashion, Not Vintage Email Marketing TechniquesAll Stories
The Goal
- Support multi-channel growth.
- Reduce the use of batch-and-blast emails.
- Notify customers of new products and new stores.
The Approach
- Trigger emails to inform customers about new additions to the line.
- Create geotargeted segments to alert customers to new stores.
- Add transactional and cart recovery emails to grow revenue.
The Result
- Email is the greatest generator of traffic and sales for the website.
When she joined women's retailer JOHNNY WAS more than 2 1/2 years ago, Frederique Meijer knew a lot about retail, but she didn't know much about ecommerce. She had to learn quickly.
At that time, the retailer had only a handful of company stores showcasing its vintage-inspired clothing. Email was its highest single revenue-producing channel, but the approach was crude: send a daily email to everyone on the list.
The company had switched to Bronto when Meijer arrived. "I just jumped in and taught myself." She's not only seen solid results, but has gradually convinced the marketing organization that less (email, that is) can actually produce more revenue. "We've shown that you can maintain, even increase, revenue without sending a daily message to everyone on the list."
Two years later, email is the greatest generator of traffic and sales to the 25-year-old Los Angeles- based company's website.
Cart Recovery Delivers Huge Results
Meijer has experimented with multiple approaches to segmenting customers and personalizing sends. By far, the biggest success has come from cart recovery. "Our cart recovery messages are opened at a rate of 59%, with 40% of customers clicking through and 17% converting.
"Our cart recovery emails account for about 2% of our email traffic, but 10.4% of our email- generated revenue. As email marketers, these are numbers you just dream about," says Meijer, the Ecommerce Marketing Manager.
The success was so solid, the company has decided to use Bronto's Cart Recovery app to make it faster and easier.
"Our cart recovery messages are opened at a rate of 59%, with 40% of customers clicking through and 17% converting."
Meijer's experience with fashion photo production, a women's boutique and a global retail consulting firm have given her a range of expertise perfect for broadening the message of a fashion brand that appeals to women of all ages. Celebrities as varied as Kendall Jenner and Joely Fisher have been photographed in JOHNNY WAS designs. And Meijer's other email marketing campaigns speak to the different ways JOHNNY WAS is engaging its broad customer base:
Re-Engagement With a Twist
Meijer's first efforts at a re-engagement series didn't net much lift, but when the company added an XXL size to its offerings, she saw an opportunity. Sure enough, some of their disengaged audience were shoppers who stopped shopping because they couldn't find their size. The campaign brought in several thousand in revenue, but more importantly to Meijer, it gave a disengaged group of customers a reason to come back to JOHNNY WAS again and again.
Revenue-Boosting Transactional Messages
Meijer added a tile to order confirmation emails to highlight best-selling scarves. Sixty percent of recipients opened the tile, and the company netted nearly $50,000 in additional revenue.
A Win for Geolocation
When the retailer made plans to open a new store in Palm Beach, Meijer quickly segmented their list by zip code, inviting recipients within a 50-mile radius to the new store. Tracking the success of multichannel projects can be difficult, but Meijer heard back directly from the store management. As the first shopper was buying $2,000 worth of clothing, she told the store manager the email had alerted her to the opening.
"Layering in custom messages has been huge. It's just squeezing more revenue out of the existing list."
Coordinating Social Media and Email
Rather than a generic social media buy, or even a buy that targets the entire email list, Meijer's next project is to take the disengaged customer list and load that into Facebook for ads that will showcase items related to the customer's most recent purchase.
Gaining Sophistication
Meijer sees her role as gradually moving the dial away from batch-and-blast to a more personalized approach that better reflects the needs of JOHNNY WAS customers. When she started, the marketing department was hesitant to stop sending a daily email to the entire list, so the switch to more segmented sending was gradual.
Their segments are now designed to reflect click-throughs and conversions, with more frequent shoppers still getting daily emails, while Meijer teases out what types of messages will resonate with the less engaged.
"Layering in custom messages has been huge. It's just squeezing more revenue out of the existing list," Meijer says.
With an easy, flexible Magento ecommerce platform, Meijer can reshape the discussion. "Email has been a golden goose for us. For a while, every time we sent a message, more revenue would magically appear. But to grow, we need to think about this from a customer- centric point of view. What do they want to hear about? What will continue to make them loyal JOHNNY WAS shoppers?"
About JOHNNY WAS
Since its inception in 1987, JOHNNY WAS has been embraced by free-spirited and confident women who are drawn to the brand's unique signature aesthetic: a juxtaposition between vintage and modern, reserved and unrestrained, traditional and innovative. Inspired by world cultures, the arts, and historical dressmaker techniques, the JOHNNY WAS brand transcends fashion trends with its beautifully crafted clothing and accessories. Embracing the quintessential California lifestyle, JOHNNY WAS appeals to the modern bohemian.