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- A Sundered World: Cosmology-ish
Though I initially wrote it for 4th Edition, Josh and I have been going over the notes and trying to create a largely system-neutral world bible, as I want it to be usable by people using 4th Edition, Dungeon World, D&D Next, and probably other fantasy role-playing games that we do not play.
During this process we have been revamping the world, such as it is, quite a bit. At least part of the premise--that the gods and primordials fought, but no one won--is still there. The other part, which could be summed up as, "Dungeons & Dragons, but in the Astral Sea", is where we diverged: we felt that sticking everything in the Astral Sea, though visually awesome, was limiting, and made it difficult to rationalize where people obtained things like food and materials.
Also you needed a very expensive, magical ship to get around.
The world now is the result of every plane collapsing into each other after the Sundering. A lot of it is covered in ocean (mostly because of the Elemental Chaos/Inner Planes grossly upsetting the balance of everything), but now it is easier to explain how people grow food, get water, and find materials to make things, though there are still crazier elements, such as the shattered trunk of the World Tree in the center of existence, flying islands and celestial dominions, god-corpses, and so on.
Elements from other planes get mixed in, too, so where the dark influence of the Shadowfell settled, it created Shadowlands that draw in undead and restless spirits. Undead kings, which could be death knights or liches, rule kingdoms of undead vassals, occasionally sending forth black ships to claim lingering souls and bodies to expand their ranks. On the other hand, the verdant light of the Feywild causes plants to flourish where none should, animals and plants to possess uncanny intelligence (and sometimes speech), and in some cases time to flow differently.
Some choose to remain on the world, protecting worshippers both alive and dead from the many threats that abound, not least of which are devils, because the Nine Hells is a place on a Sundered World: a massive iron sphere, it floats above twisted spires of iron that jut from the ocean like black, jagged teeth. A lattice of iron bridges connect the sphere to the towers, which teem with slaves, infernal citizens, and souls of the damned (or unlucky enough to get picked up by fiendish or undead raiding parties before the angels found them, though how unlucky that is depends on the angels).
And at the furthest edges of reality is the Far Realm. Creatures that venture too close often attract the attention of eldritch horrors, though even those that escape are often driven insane or mutated.
So, that is one part of the bigger picture. There really are not other planes, which might be a feature or a bug depending on how you look at it (I remember there being a huge uproar at 4th Edition's cosmology). I think that by moving the setting from the Astral Sea to something a bit more normalish makes it a lot more accessible; when I first ran A Sundered World I just gave Josh's character an astral vessel, because if I did not then it would have made things a lot harder for them to get around and adventure.
The only part that I am a bit fuzzy on is how the days and nights work. Originally there was no day or night because the Astral Sea just kind of had a default luminescence, but I am thinking that maybe it could lighten or darken regularly, giving some semblance of night and day. Some regions could also just be lighter or darker (having bits of Feywild or Shadowfell layered on, but not too much), or even go with something a bit crazier like having angels that formerly served the sun god keep towing it across the sky.
What do you think?
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- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2013 at 12:03 PM
This post makes 'a Sundered World' almost no different from any cliche fantasy world. Shadow lands, Magical forests, Heavenly Skies? WHAT?!?!ReplyDelete
I like the idea of angels towing the sun around the sky. That already screams adventure! What if they were assassinated at night so there was no more day (or vice versa)?
The 'vast shadow lands' thing doesn't quite cut it for me. It's already a cliche. Instead, I think it would be more interesting if it were something more like a patchwork of everything. I think that the Astral Sea and Elemental Chaos should have a bit more prevalence(not in the sky, mind you, but the ocean could drift off into the Astral), since they were the homes of the warring parties, and the world+mirrors should be dotted about randomly. There could be some interesting combo areas where both the Feywild AND Shadowfell are present... Void zones where the Far Realm holds sway, etc.
Your version of hell is interesting. I always imagined it as this vast underground kingdom with fiery chasms (except for the colder regions of course), but yours could well be a popular adventure site.
If A Sundered World isn't a good place for more Far Realm shenanigans, I don't know what is. More Reality Rips!
I will be really sad if such a great concept becomes a cliche fantasy world. The posts made me want to buy MotP (low budget DM), and almost made me dump my Nentir Vale campaign. The floating islands, the corpse stars, god-husks, feywild-is-the-moon, all that made A Sundered World come alive for me will disappear into the paragon/epic tier!
On a side note, what is a good source book for low-level planar baddies?
-A big fan of yours
Whoops, I forgot to mention that the Feywild-as-a-moon would still be there.ReplyDelete
A lot of these changes came about from, after actually running the campaign and thinking about it, that I was not entirely sure where people got the stuff for food and basic supplies. Like, how do you grow food if there is no steady supply of water?
I am not sure what you mean by something being a patchwork of everything, but what I think you are talking about is having zones of like, "normal" world adrift in the astral sea, with water and such.
I could see something like that as kind of like going from pocket to pocket like traversing the dominions of 2nd Edition's Ravenloft.
- AnonymousFebruary 10, 2013 at 5:28 PM
Exactly. Sort of like Discworlds, only less round and without the turtles and elephants.ReplyDelete
Planar Dromonds might be a slightly more common way of going places in the Astral, especially for the more prosperous 'disks'.
I can dig it. I'll run it by Josh and see what he thinks. Thanks for the idea, and glad you at least like some of what I mentioned above. :-DReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 11, 2013 at 3:36 PM
(shrug) You asked what your readers thought.ReplyDelete
Sorry if I came across as, like, sarcastic. I really do appreciate the feedback and suggestion.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 12, 2013 at 5:09 AM
You didn't. At least not to me. But then again, I always have trouble with that sort of thing...ReplyDelete
I stumbled across your blog recently and really enjoyed what I've seen so far. I was originally brought here because I was looking for Ravenloft stuff -- I once ran a 3.5 Ravenloft campaign that ended in complete disaster, and have been designing a "revisit" for the original players with new characters -- but I stuck around because of the transcripts from your Sundered World campaign. It's very cool that you're taking the time to flesh out the world enough to put together a comprehensive "campaign guide" -- I'm certainly intrigued to see the final product.ReplyDelete
The changes sound interesting but, in some ways, I find them unnecessary. From the transcripts, I was given the impression of a living, breathing world where everything simply happened and could be explained away because of the nature of the "sundered" world.
In the grand scheme of things, I think worrying about where food and water come from is nothing to be concerned with; the Feywild was torn asunder and now resides on the moon, but it's influences are still felt elsewhere, so who's to say that there can't be patches of Feywild all over the "main" world, where plants grow and thrive? Heck, in that sort of world, the patches of the world where food can be found are most likely would end up being important territory that races would war over (because whoever controls food has the happier populace).
Or, alternatively, perhaps the people from the Feywild planet are tolerated specifically because the rest of the races rely on the existence of their "planet" to provide all of the food that they eat. That could bring its own set of conflicts and some racial tension that could play marvelously into that sort of world, especially given the already existing conflict that seemed to be present during the transcripts.
Access to water could be explained by hotly-contested pockets of the Elemental Chaos where water bleeds through. Perhaps you could revert back to how 3.5 approached the different elements -- each element received its own plane of existence -- and have the different planes torn asunder and permeating the world, explaining the existence of the "water pockets", and then add things like "fire pockets" or "earth pockets" where the raw elements take over from time to time (I'm imagining an Ol' Faithful-type geyser, only it gushes flame instead of steam).
Alternatively, the "water pockets" could have manifested in waterfalls that spout from nowhere (where the Elemental Chaos has broken through) and pool in places that the different races vie to control. Or you could have it so that powerful sorcerers from each major city have managed to puncture holes in the fabric of reality to bring the Elemental Chaos to their city, in order to provide the populace with water. That alone creates all sorts of adventure ideas where the party has to make sure a villain doesn't stop the flow of water, or travel to the Elemental Chaos to find out who (or what) has stopped the water.
(There's more but it cut me off. Sorry for the length!)
I also think changing the nature of the world from a more "astral" sort of expanse to water was unnecessary. Part of the charm of the entire universe was being part of an airship crew and sailing the high skies and discovering the far reaches of sundered planes bleeding into each other; to take that away does, unfortunately (as Anon mentioned above), turn the world from a wholly original and unique experience into something that seems more run-of-the-mill. The planes bleeding into each other is certainly an interesting twist on it but reverting their placement (and normalizing the access to each) to a more mundane focus makes the world exactly that -- more mundane.ReplyDelete
I think, to truly capture the nature of the world as it was originally presented, you need to come up with equally fantastical explanations for things. Simply saying "There's water everywhere, and the world looks mostly the same as you would imagine, except for the occasional flying island and the odd 'planet'" just makes it seem like a slightly different take on every other world. Don't be afraid to break the expected conventions for fear of something "not making sense". It's a fantasy world; things only make sense if you say they do!
Please don't take my comments as hateful; I thoroughly enjoyed the world as you presented it before, and am excited to see what sort of depths the world holds! I just don't want you to sacrifice the wonderful uniqueness and originality you had to make things "make sense", y'know?
I look forward to what you share with us in the future! (And, again, sorry for the excessive length.)
- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2013 at 5:51 AM
I totally agree 100% with Nick.ReplyDelete
@Anon: That is good. I have been told that I can sound cross or sarcastic when I do not mean to. :-)ReplyDelete
@Nick: Thank you for the massive, two-post response! It is great that I wrote something that people appreciated enough to warrant that sort of reaction. :-D
When I first started, I ran with the idea of Water Guilds mining water from the Elemental Chaos, and groves where people prayed to nature spirits in return for food (and sometimes water). It never came up in the campaign, so I did not give it much thought until we decided to write up an actual world bible for public use.
I agree with you and Anon that my original vision had a much more unique flavor and style working for it, and I expect that we will change course, say "fuck the rules", and just make an Astral Sea that normal boats can traverse (though Astral vessels would be better at it).
Thanks to both of you guys for the extensive pep talk. :-)
I share your readers' concerns that the whole waterworld thing seems a bit more mundane than what we initially set out to do with Sundered World. Traversing the ruined heavens and ravaged, disembodied motes of land is definitely a cool and unique backdrop.ReplyDelete
However, you'll remember that we discussed the Astral Sea setup and how it necessitates players being railroaded into attaining magical conveyance in order to proceed to further adventures.
In the end, though I understand and agree with much of your reasoning in regards to "normalizing" the setting, I think that I have to agree with your readers that we should just go for broke and make it as gonzo as we can while still clutching a semblance of logic.
It's called "fantasy" for a reason, afterall.
Incidentally, you really need to read "Abarat" by CLive Barker...I just finished it and the world really reminds me of Sundered World.
@David: I'm happy to share my thoughts! I don't have decades of table-top experience under my belt or anything -- I've only been playing since high school, which is probably about eight years ago now -- but I just couldn't sit idly by while you were going to make such massive changes to a beautifully unique setting!ReplyDelete
I like the idea of "Water Miners" and "Food Groves". There are plenty of interesting adventure ideas that go along with both and I think it is a suitably "sundered" representation of the ecology present. You could have corrupt miners trying to corner the water market, or a fire archon appear that has gone mad and wants to burn all the food groves. There are lots of ideas that spawn from those! Run with that!
@Josh: The railroad of magical conveyance is certainly an issue, though it's not necessarily that uncommon. Every campaign requires parties to go from point A to point B; it's the journey that makes it interesting, y'know?
That being said, I understand that getting a vessel to traverse the Astral Sea might seem like a daunting task, but there are ways around it. The beginning of the campaign could have them joining a crew of an astral-faring vessel, ready to journey the high skies and visit strange new worlds, only for the ship to be attacked and most of the crew killed. It then falls on the party to take control of the ship and strike out across the skies, looking for the men (or creatures) that killed the captain.
(More below. Again. :P)
Still @Josh: Alternatively, you could have the characters hired by a wealthy patron to perform a task, and he gives them an astral-faring vessel complete with crew and the like. Perhaps in the course of the first adventure, however, the party discovers that the patron is evil and can either confront him (and take the ship afterwards) or simply escape into the skies (and then have the patron on their heels the rest of the campaign).ReplyDelete
Or, on the flipside, you could introduce other means of transportation. Sure, astral-faring vessels are the shit, but there are plenty of other magical means of getting around. Transportation circles, magical gates, even winged creatures could be ridden across the skies from place to place.
Think about supply-and-demand, right? 100 years ago, cars were a brand-new thing and people considered them little more than novelty, instead relying on the railways and basing our civilization around that form of transportation. Nowadays, we couldn't survive as a race if we didn't have our automobiles to get us from place to place, and trains are almost obsolete. Our civilization has changed so drastically, simply focusing on one means of transportation over another.
Apply that same sort of logic to a fantasy world and, suddenly, horses are a useless race of hooved mammals that are only useful for manual labour. And even that capability is limited when compared to the brute strength that can be harnessed by larger creatures, such as griffons and hippogriffs. Further, because griffons and their kin can fly, they are doubly useful as a means of transportation -- especially because there is so much of the world that is only reachable from the air.
In simple terms, in the sundered world, the races didn't breed horses into a labouring species -- they bred griffons and their kin instead. There may still be wild horses present in the wilderness, and maybe the elves and eladrin (and other fey) still use great horses on the Feywild planet, but the vast majority of the races could use griffons instead (or other suitable races -- I'm thinking wyverns or other draconic-type creatures, for the dragonborn living on Bahamut). This creates an interesting flip from the regular fantasy worlds, where horses are commonplace and griffons are rare; change that supply-and-demand and suddenly horses are one of the rarest domesticated animals around.
Now, of course, you could limit the effectiveness of griffons and wyverns, so as not to make things too simple -- perhaps winged creatures can travel all across the "material plane" planet but cannot cross the Astral Sea without proper training and perhaps some magical wards to protect them -- but it would allow a semblance of freedom without forcing the party into getting an astral-faring vessel.
Of course, the same supply-and-demand logic can be applied to the regular ship/astral-faring vessel situation -- If there is no water present, why would anyone even bother creating a sailing vessel when astral-faring vessels are the necessity? And, if that is the case, would the astral-faring vessels be any more difficult to acquire than a regular sailing vessel in your stock fantasy world? -- but perhaps you want to give the impression that not everyone can travel the high skies. I get that; it would somewhat normalize the characters, when you want them to seem special in the world you have created.
It creates a balance to be found but there are plenty of options available, so don't worry about "railroading" characters, necessarily. Speaking from experience, sometimes if you railroad them just a little with the intent of getting to something awesome, they won't mind so much afterwards.
- AnonymousFebruary 16, 2013 at 5:45 PM
If astral vessels are suddenly the norm, then there should be ways to mass-produce them. For instance, what if smaller god-fragments hurl through the astral in the form of comets or asteroids? These can in turn be mined and serve a similar purpose to Eberron's Dragonshards.ReplyDelete
Here's another approach: If astral vessels are like aircraft, than Spelljammers are like space shuttles, able to travel very fast at the cost of incredible need for fuel. Of course, can't forget the Planar Dromond...
The vehicle conventions can be very intersting.
- AnonymousFebruary 18, 2013 at 6:15 AM
I just realized that, what with all the dead gods, what is the convention for playing Divine classes? Could such characters gain power from the god-husks? Or are there a few that remain in hiding? Or are they completely removed from play, like in Dark Sun?ReplyDelete
Hey, just found this page randomly and as a potential Pathfinder DM and fantasy fan, found it very interesting.ReplyDelete
Just wanted to say, re: the flying ships etc. Wouldn't there be commercial vessels on which the common man (with sufficient wealth, so perhaps not so common then)could simply purchase a passage?
Surely there would be some route which were so popular and valuable, for trade or even something like pilgrimages, that there would be regular passenger services. Just like ocean steamers before aircraft become ubiquitous. Though they could be smaller and relatively more expensive to travel on.


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By Jeff Dunbar
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|I've only done the 5.7 South Face route so far, but I've listed all the other original routes (along with the original overview photo showing all the routes) from the old Steve Tucker / Kevin Steele guidebook for reference.
By andy patterson
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|Let's hear it for the KEVIN STEELE GUIDE BOOK!
By Jeff Mahoney
From: Santa Barbara, CA
Aug 25, 2007
|Let's hear it for KEVIN STEELE! He, Laura Bylund and I were up there yesterday. (Bring a weedwhacker....)
By Matthew Fienup
From: Ventura, CA
Feb 1, 2008
No where in the preceding description does it say it, so let me be the first: "HELLISH BUSHWHACKING."
I seriously considered devoting myself to sport climbing during the first 1/4-mile of this approach.
By andy patterson
From: Carpinteria, CA
Feb 9, 2008
|Heh, heh... Matt does have a point. I've always hiked from the bottom (Tunnel Trailhead) to do the route, so I can't vouch for the hike in from the top. I will say that the hike from the bottom, while not a bushwack, makes for a big day nonetheless.
By Jeff Mahoney
From: Santa Barbara, CA
Feb 11, 2008
|Oh Matt, it's not that bad. (I DID say bring a weedwhacker, though).
By Matthew Fienup
From: Ventura, CA
Feb 20, 2008
I must be getting old :)
Can anyone recommend a good, tightly bolted, multi-pitch 5.7?
By Chris DeWitt
From: Sacramento, CA
Jun 3, 2010
|Too much bushwacking. Even after the fire. I got cuts all over. Make sure you bring LOTS of water. I drank 2 liters myself. The climbing on the rock wasn't worth the god awful hike to me. I'll take a strenuous hike, but bushwacking in shorts and a T-shirt is NOT my cup of tea.
By Mike Zinsley
Oct 27, 2010
We did the 5.7 lieback route on Cathedral Peak above Santa Barbara. Nice, but more importantly some tips for the approach:
1. Take a GPS and map your approach. It is easier to find your way to the climb than back from it. DON'T do what we did in the dark on the way back.
2. From the "Shannon" bench at the La Cumbre lookout asphalt road, walk west 100 yards to the boulders and then down to an obvious cleared "trail." NOT toward the ocean and the mini crag below and south of the bench.
3. If you are over 4 feet tall, take a machete.
4. Watch out for the poison oak in the saddle.
5. Plan on a 3 hour round trip NOT including climbing time.
6. If you have curly hair, wear a hat. The branches in the tree tunnels will try to eat you.
7. Watch out for rattlesnakes. We had one little dude refuse to budge from the trail. Climb should be renamed "I'm tired of these mother effin snakes on this mother effin climb."
8. For the whiners who posted, There, There, I'm sure your boo-boos are healed by now. If it makes you feel any better, I got scratched up and cussed on the approach also.
9. We did this in October 2010 and did plenty of sweating. I can't imagine attempting this in the summer.
By Brian Paden
From: Goleta CA
Nov 27, 2010
|Long hike, lousy climb... biggest adventure in SB. A must do for any local. Rock quality is surprisingly good. Took us 6 hours car to car after two laps on the face.
By Joseph Stover
From: Batesville, AR
Apr 24, 2011
|The hike was pretty tough. The trail was actually nicely maintained and easy to follow... there were a good few sections of ducking, but only a couple crawling moves. It would suck with a large bag. It's all the uphill parts that killed me. The info here on MP is enough to get you there and back. During the "tree-tunnel" section (about 2/3 the way to the peak), there are a few large poison oak plants that reach across the trail, they can mostly be avoided if you are careful (as of 4/24/2011).
By Mike Stearns
Jul 29, 2013
|Trail is a breeze currently. Some generous person(s) cut a nice tunnel with (almost) no ducking.
By steve edwards
From: SLC, UT
Jan 16, 2014
|Well, since someone's gone up here to boulder I would suggest the front side approach. It's a lot longer but has very little bushwhacking (depending upon how recently someone's trimmed it but it gets used as a hike and is mainly manicured every so often). Unlike the hellish back side approach, it's a great hike and, sheesh, based on how long it's taking people here to burrow through the manzanita and poison oak it might even be shorter. Granted, I'm a fast hiker, but I've gone car to car with a solo lap on the face in 3 hours. More importantly, there's a pretty good boulder field most of the way up the hillside. Did a few things here but could never get a crew psyched enough on hiking to establish its potential. The rock is a frickload better than Potter's Point. Landings do tend to need a lot of work.
By George Gradinaru
Sep 10, 2015
climb: 08/10/2015
Reading all the comments is quite entertaining (considering our group went thought the same thing), but my main pet-peeve with the description is:
For a Trad route and all the equipment and water that comes with this, what Olympic hiker thought that this is a 45 minute approach?
I'll be the first to admit that hiking wise we are not in the greatest of shapes - but the whole group did it in more like 1h and 45 minutes.
BTW: the trail was riddled with Yucca plants and to top it all off i had to lie sideways in one on the wall - that was awesome :))
By Jeff Dunbar
From: Charlotte, NC
Sep 13, 2015
Ok, folks, sorry if I sandbagged a few of you by downplaying the challenges of the approach in my original description above, but for the record I am just delighted to see that so many people have now used this page to plan for (or whine about) a real adventure day at this almost-forgotten frontcountry crag.
At this point, let's just all agree that the hike to/from this crag can either be a piece of cake or a heinous bushwacking nightmare depending on the local trail conditions at the time you attempt it, your direction of travel, your level of fitness, your navigation skills, the heat, the humidity, the weight of your pack, the skinniness of your ankles, the thinness of your skin, the strength of your spine, and so on and so forth. Regardless, this is not your local sport crag, so be prepared for some adventure no matter what!
Finally, to those who are tempted to whine about their tough day climbing moderate multi-pitch trad in the gorgeous Santa Barbara hills overlooking the gorgeous Channel Islands, just think: You could be stuck living in Ohio right now, like I am.
By Matthew Fienup
From: Ventura, CA
Oct 2, 2015
|Wait a minute I like my ankles. What are you saying about my ankles, Jeff?
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Jun 5, 2016
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Editor Dr. A.C Banerjee
Vol. XXI
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y. CONTEMPORARY BOOKS ON INDIAN HISTORY
A most significant Collection in the Library are rare and contemporary works on India and its history going back to the 17th century, which are valuable sources for research Some of the titles are listed below:
z. JANAK DULARI COLLECTION
This is a unique Collection comprising the Inaugural issues of as many as 300 magazines and journals going back to the late 19th and 20th centuries. A brainchild of late Sh.Annapurnanad,a resident of Varanasi., the Collection was gifted to the National Archives by his wife Smt. Janak Dulari These journals were .published from different places including Delhi,Bombay, Lahore,Varanasi,Allahabad,Calcutta,Patna etc,and are primarily in Hindi with a few being in Sanskrit and Urdu They contain articles and features on issues like social ills, women emancipation, world history, national movement, patriotism, politics, etc. Naari Agrasar, Achoot, Janmat, Rashtrapati, Asha, Hans, Tapobhoomi, AdarshBharat, Harischandra, and Hunter are some of the titles found in the Collection.Many notable personalities like Premchand, Madan Mohan Malaviya, Banarsidas Chaturvedi, D.P. Mishra Madame Cama were associated with these journals.
Provincial Gazettes in National Archives of India Regional Office, Bhopal
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SET THE EXAMPLE: Florida's schools need to get out of the junk food business — including handing out candy and sugary snacks as treats in class, columnist Dan DeWitt writes. (Photo from vanderbilt.edu)
THIS MIGHT HURT: Schools in Florida and elsewhere expect the next round of budget cuts to hurt in the classroom as federal stimulus funds run out, the AP reports.
THE FUNDAMENTALS OF FUN: Florida music and art teachers increasingly include math and reading lessons in their classes, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
STAYING PUT: Collier schools see a spike in out-of-zone attendance requests as the district changes several boundaries, the Naples Daily News reports.
LOTS OF LOST STUFF: Schools in northeast Florida have a huge volume of items in their lost and found boxes, the Florida Times-Union reports.
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On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Anatoly Yakovenko <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

> Though I don't fully understand what you are doing (specifically what you
 > mean by "specific order"), but in a lazy language, traversals are usually
 > simply encoded as lists. ĀJust write a function which returns all the leaves
 > as a list, and filter over it.

yea, i know, i am trying to learn how to use the Cont monad. or
 continuation in haskell. ĀThe idea is that while i am processing some
 data i may hit a point whree some dependency isn't met and i want to
 take a different branch via continuation. ĀI expect that branch to
 furfill my dependency and when its done i want to continue down the
 original branch

Ah I see. ĀWell, in my opinion, Cont is almost never the right answer. ĀOthers, who have an easier time thinking about continuations, may differ.

In any case, you are stating your problem very imperatively, which may be why you feel inclined to use continuations. ĀE.g. "when it's done I want to continue down the original branch" is talking about control flow.

Maybe you really just want to do a topological sort of some data in your tree?

How is the tree structure related to the dependencies? ĀHow is the tree structure related to your traversal? ĀE.g. are you using a combining function on each branch to a value over its subtrees?

Basically I think "do a traversal" is not enough information to answer your question. ĀWhat is the relationship of the contents of the tree to the contents of the traversal?

Luke

 >> module TestCont where
 >> import Control.Monad.Cont
 >> import Control.Monad.Identity
 >> import Control.Monad.State.Lazy
 >>
 >> --our stupid tree
 >> data Tree a = Tree [Tree a]
 >> Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā| Leaf a
 >>
 >> --traverse all the branches
 >> search (Tree ts) next = do
 >> Ā mapM_ (\ ti -> (callCC (search ti))) ts
 >> Ā next $ ()
 >>
 >> search tt@(Leaf a) next = do
 >> Ā cur <- lift get
 >> Ā case ((cur + 1) == a) of
 >> Ā Ā ĀTrue -> do --the current leaf is what we want, update the state and return

this is where i succeed in my current branch, so i can just do my thing and exit

 >> Ā Ā Ā Ā lift $ put a
 >> Ā Ā Ā Ā return $ ()
 >> Ā Ā ĀFalse -> do --the current leaf is not what we want, continue first, then try again

this is where i fail, so i want to take the "other" branch first
 expecting it to fulfill my dependency.

 >> Ā Ā Ā Ā next ()
 >> Ā Ā Ā Ā search tt (\ _ -> error "fail")
 >>
 >> t1 = Leaf 1
 >> t2 = Leaf 2
 >> t3 = Tree [t1,t2]
 >> t4 = Leaf 3
 >> t5::Tree Int = Tree [t4,t3]
 >>
 >> run = ĀrunIdentity (runStateT ((runContT $ callCC (search t5)) return) 0)

but i think next doesn't do exactly what i think it does


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Back in 1985, on the recommendations of an obscure committee, the government set up a "special" group – whose sole task was to protect the Prime Minister. This was done in the aftermath of Smt. Indira Gandhi's assassination which had revealed security lapses that authorities felt could only be fixed by a "special" security group. This was the beginning of SPG – the "Special Protection Group".
Like all good "ideas" from the government, the SPG too started expanding. Initially limited to protecting the Prime Minister, its mandate was extended to former Prime Ministers (for a period of five years from the date on which the former Prime Minister ceased to hold office) after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. Somewhere along the line, this five years period became ten years.
In 2002, an amendment in SPG act was introduced to reduce the duration of protection accorded to former PMs to one year, with the proviso that this period could be extended based on the level of the threat. "However, an exception was made in the case of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her family, who are being given SPG protection continuously of the scale of the Prime Minister".
This is the act that gives "special" security to five people at present – the current Prime Minister, former PM (Sh. Vajpayee), Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Sh. Rahul Gandhi and Smt. Priyanka Vadra. This "special" protection does not come cheap. It costs more than Rs 1 crore each day.
Not that it was always so. More than five years back, when UPA-I came to power, the total expense was almost a fourth of this amount (Rs 97 crores). It was even lower before that, back in 1999, when the NDA came to power. At the time, this elite unit was responsible for the security of nine people (the then PM, five former PMs and Smt. Sonia Gandhi & her family). Its annual expenditure then was around Rs 75crores (by the way, none of the children of any former PMs or current PM enjoy SPG cover save one exception).
What explains the steep rise from Rs 97 crores in 2004-2005 to Rs 386 cores in 2010-2011?
It surely cannot be the addition of just one person (present PM). Nor do I think inflation can be an excuse.
Can it be the cost of ultra-modern equipment – including "special" helicopters for SPG protectees? Helicopters which reportedly cost Rs 110 crores each? or could it be the special counter-assault vehicles that cost Rs 51cr each?
And is it alright to feel somewhat uneasy that we pay Rs 1 crore every day just to provide "security" to these five people? Which, by the way, the vast majority of those who are reading this piece do not have?
Does a government which has repeatedly failed in its fundamental duties – of protecting life & property and delivering justice – have the moral right to spend such extraordinary amounts on the security of one family and two others?
But do you know what bothers me even more, far more, than the expenditure? It is the unstated, implicit assumption that Prime Ministers (current and former and in one case, their family members) are some "special" class of people who are incapable or being protected by our "normal" security forces. Ergo, we need a "Special Protection Group" for them.
Just why? I wonder. Do you?
P.S. By the way, being married to an "SPG" protectee has a little known additional advantage (beyond the usual ones of being able to sleep without worrying about burglars & such and being surrounded by "Top Gun" style commandos wherever you go). It exempts you from the "Pre-embarkation" security checks at all civil airports in the country!
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April 1, 2013 – Congratulations and welcome to all the members of this year's PASS Program Committee! Guided by Program Director Adam Jorgensen and co-Program Managers Amy Lewis and Lance Harra, the Program Committee is responsible for organizing a world-class PASS Summit educational program that equips SQL Server and Business Intelligence professionals for today's fast-changing world of data.
The 58-member group – PASS's largest volunteer committee – reviews and selects speakers and sessions for PASS Summit, builds guidelines and resources for creating top presentations, ensures all PowerPoint slide decks meet the highest standards, and works to improve processes for developing and evaluating speakers and encouraging participation in all PASS speaking opportunities, from local and Virtual Chapters to SQLSaturday and 24 Hours of PASS to the Business Intelligence Conference and Summit.
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|Sanil Mhatre
|Andy Eggers
|Markus Ehrenmuller-Jensen
|BI Platform Architecture, Development & Administration
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|Roberto Finger Fonseca
|Mark Chisholm
|Patrick Keisler
|Venkata Krishna Chintapalli
|David MacLean
|David Peter Hansen
|Jeremy Marx
|Reza Rad
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Tell the House: Pass Juvenile Justice Reform Now!
The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), was first enacted in 1974 and provides federal funding to states that comply with a set of best practices aimed at avoiding the detention and incarceration of young people in juvenile and adult facilities. However, this law is three years overdue for reauthorization and the U.S. House of Representatives has yet to introduce or act on new reauthorization legislation!
It's a good law, and is needed now more than ever to end the over-incarceration of young people of color in the justice system and stop the inappropriate use of adult jails for warehousing children charged as adults.
If you believe that it is urgent to stop putting youth in adult jails and prisons, to end the over-incarceration of youth of color in the justice system, and instead to devote more resources to effective juvenile justice programs such as alternatives to detention and incarceration, contact the House now and urge them to introduce and move a bill on the House floor this year!
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On Sep 30, 2009, at 11:35 AM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:50:06AM -0500, Jon Brassow wrote:As long as we are on the topic of mirror logs (and this is unrelated toyour patch), I'd like to complain about the current behavior of log allocation vs the log policy. I don't think it should take'alloc_anywhere' for a log to be placed on the same disk as one of themirror legs... that should be 'alloc_normal'.It was assumed that performance would be better this way, but I havenever seen any tests to prove or disprove that. Maybe someone could runsome? One way we could handle this is by creating a new policy between NORMAL and ANYWHERE that does this, then renaming the old NORMAL to something else and the new policy to NORMAL.
In addition to performance, I would also think that "preserving hardware" might be a minor priority. You don't want to go banging around the heads of your hard-drives if you don't have to.
However, the user will get these benefits if they have 1 more device than the mirror images they are trying to create... If not, it should naturally fall back to allowing the overlap of images and logs.
Inserting a new allocation level is a possibility. I don't think it's necessary to solve (what I see as) the problem. Do you have a reason for this? (Remember, the change would only affect how mirrors behave with the various allocation policies. If the user wanted the old behavior, they could get it with ALLOC_CONTIGUOUS.... However, the user would be stupid to choose that, because if they have enough disks, they will get CONTIGUOUS, and if they don't it would fail... Perhaps they would rather have the command fail then allow them to do what they are trying?)


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Rays look for 2008 magic
The Tampa Bay Rays often look up at the rest of baseball.
They finished last in the American League East in 2016.
They finished last in attendance in the majors last year, averaging only 15,878 fans per home game at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg. By comparison the Los Angeles Dodgers led the majors with an average of 45,719 fans per game.
The Rays also were last in payroll in 2016, at $71 million. The Dodgers led the major leagues in that category also, at $279 million. The No. 2 and No. 3 teams on the 2016 payroll list were American League East rivals of the Rays.
The New York Yankees were second at $227 million and the Boston Red Sox were third at $215 million.
So, what about the 2017 Rays? Can they compete against the boys with the big wallets? Can they attract more fans to their ballpark on the western edge of downtown St. Pete?
Can they regain the magic of the franchise's brief golden age?
Tampa Bay is coming off three consecutive losing seasons. Their 2016 record of 68-94 was their worst since 2007, when they were 66-96.
But they followed up the 2007 season with the greatest in franchise history. Tampa Bay won the American League pennant in 2008 and lost the World Series to the Philadelphia Phillies.
Will it be more of the past three years in 2017 or will they compete again?
The experts say no. A recent Fox Sports power ranking had Tampa Bay listed No. 23. An ESPN ranking had the Rays at No. 24.
But the season isn't played on power rankings in the winter.
The hope for a franchise revival likely begins with pitcher Chris Archer. The 2016 season was a disaster for Mr. Archer, who was 9-19 with a 4.02 ERA. His 19 losses led the league. In his previous three seasons his combined record for those years was 31-29 and he was astoundingly consistent, posting earned run averages of 3.22, 3.32 and 3.23.
Tampa Bay likely needs a return to form from Mr. Archer to climb in the standings.
Overall, Tampa Bay's pitching in 2016 was fair, ranking 16th in the majors in ERA, 4.20.
The starting rotation is promising. Jake Odorizzi was 10-6 with a 3.69 ERA. Rookie Blake Snell had a losing record (6-8) but a good ERA, 3.54. Alex Cobb missed most of the 2016 season because of elbow surgery but if he is what he was before the surgery it will be a great boost to the team.
In 2013 Mr. Cobb was 11-3 with a 2.76 ERA and the next year he was 10-9 with a 2.87 ERA. Matt Andriese and Jose De Leon will likely round out the rotation. Mr. De Leon was acquired from the Dodgers in a trade for second baseman Logan Forsythe.
Closer Alex Colome certainly did his job in 2016, converting 37 of 40 opportunities and posting a 1.91 ERA. He also struck out 71 in 56 2/3 innings.
He and the rest of the staff will throw to a new catcher this year at some point. The Rays signed Wilson Ramos but he probably won't be ready to play until June as he recovers from October knee surgery.
Until then Luke Maile and Curt Casali will likely split catching duties.
The offense needs to pick up the pace. Its .243 batting average ranked 28th in the majors and the Rays were 24th in runs scored, 24.
That low production was no fault of veteran third baseman Evan Longoria, who hit .273 with 36 homers and 98 RBI. The reliable Mr. Longoria has played 160 or more games every year since 2013.
To bolster the offense the Rays recently acquired free agent outfielder Colby Rasmus. The veteran has had four seasons of more than 20 homers.
He could fit into an outfield that includes Gold Glove centerfielder
Kevin Kiermaier, who missed a large chunk of the 2015 season. Steven Souza, Jr., who had 17 homers in 120 games, should return to play right.
Joining Mr. Longoria in the infield will be shortstop Matt Duffy, second baseman Nick Franklin and first baseman Brad Miller, who was previously the shortstop. Mr. Miller hit .243 with 30 homers and 81 RBI last year.
DH Corey Dickerson, who hit 24 homers last year, has reportedly lost 25 pounds through an offseason workout regimen.
That's what the Rays have lost.
What will they gain this year?
Will they gain in the standings?
The winter power rankings are fun, of course, but don't really matter. All that matters is how well they play. ¦


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Early last week Words With Friends out of the blue disappeared from the Market for Honeycomb tablets, but right before that they had pushed an update. Many users myself included could not get the game to work and it would instantly force close after that. Zynga claimed to have no idea why it was no longer in the market, we aren't sure if that is true or not but the game is now back today.
Today Words With Friends appeared in my list on my Motorola Xoom and had an update available. After updating it still would instantly close like before but at least it was showing up in the Android Market when I search from my tablet. I uninstalled and re-installed the game and now all is working great. Words With Friends looks great on my Xoom and the panel view sure is nice.
We aren't sure what the deal was, nor why it was pulled in the first place although it was pretty glitchy and had a few problems. From the looks of things you can now download Words With Friends again for your Honeycomb tablet and enjoy the amazingly addicting game. It is showing compatible with all my devices now, and previously all the Honeycomb tablets were greyed out. Things look to be much more stable but the refresh times still need a little work. Now lets just hope people don't keep cheating with all those apps in the market.
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Cheezy Crackers
I first had these crackers at a vegan bake sale in Los Angeles last year. They were made by the adorable Celine Steen of Have Cake Will Travel. I'm around sweet stuff all the time, so I opted for one of the savory options on the table, and then I proceeded to inhale the entire bag once I got them home. As Celine points out, these are truly addictive. They have the perfect amount of pepper, and they're also nice and cheesy from the addition of nutritional yeast.
Celine calls them "cheesy quackers", because she uses a duck shaped cutter. I only have round ones so mine are just crackers. Not as fun without that "quack" but just as delicious! I never thought I'd make homemade crackers, but these are super simple and very comparable to making biscuits. They're the perfect little party snack, great for Super Bowl Sunday, or any get together you might have. I'd recommend making a double batch, because they'll disappear quickly!


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