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Memorial Day, also known as Decoration Day, was created after the American Civil War to honor soldiers who had died in the war. Waterloo, New York was the first town to officially observe Memorial Day, celebrating it first on May 5, 1866 and each year thereafter. General John A. Logan, the commander in chief of the veteran's organization Grand Army of the Republic, issued a proclamation on May 5, 1868 that "Declaration Day" be observed as a national day, so the first Declaration Day was observed on May 30, 1868 nationwide. This date was importantly not the anniversary of a battle.
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Phyllo ideal for Christmas party treats
No mixing or rolling is required, but it must be handled with care
Eric Akis, Times ColonistPublished: Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Christmas party season will soon be here and folks will be in search of appetizing ideas for bites to serve while sipping holiday cheer.
Today, I offer two such recipes. Both are made with phyllo, that Greek-style ultra-thin pastry you can buy in the freezer section of most supermarkets.
I'm a fan of it for two reasons.
Sausage, Feta and Olive Phyllo Rolls. Italian sausage, feta and olives fill these tasty, bite-sized phyllo rolls.
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It's convenient - no mixing or rolling required, just thaw and unfold and it's ready to use. Second, you can fill it with all sorts of delicious things that once baked, are surrounded by light and crispy pastry - a very good thing!
That said, phyllo is delicate and some struggle when using it because of that. If that's you, below are some tips on using this pastry.
The best way to thaw phyllo pastry is to place the unopened package in the refrigerator the day before you need it. It will be thawed and ready to use the next day. If you forgot to do that, I have thawed it at cool room temperature before, which will take a few hours. If you do the latter, don't thaw the pastry in a warm kitchen, as it can cause it to thaw too quickly, moisture can collect, and some sheets may stick together, causing them to tear when you separate them.
Because phyllo pastry is delicate, ensure you have a clear, large workspace to easily move and fold it without tearing it. You'll need a space to unpack and unfold the sheets, and another location to transfer the unfolded sheets and layer them together.
Carefully unfold the sheets and remove and set aside the number you require, covering them with plastic wrap or a tea towel.
Refold the remaining sheets and tightly seal the package. Refrigerate any unused sheets for up to two weeks. Phyllo pastry can also be refrozen. What I like to do is to divide it into packages that contain the number of sheets you will most likely use each time.
Use a soft, bristled brush to butter or oil the sheets, not a firm one that can cause tears. When you start to butter or oil the sheets, brush the outer edges first, as they are more prone to drying and cracking. Evenly and lightly coat the remainder of the sheet; do not overdo it with the butter or oil it or the layered sheets will become greasy and heavy.
When layering the sheets, do so as neatly and evenly as possible, but do not worry if they are not perfectly aligned. If too much time is taken fussing around, the sheets could dry out or break.
Also, once you fold the phyllo, most of your imperfections will be sealed inside.
Phyllo pastry is best baked on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet in the middle of the oven. The parchment paper will prevent sticking even if some of the filling leaks out. Being centrally located in the oven will promote even baking.
Flaky, sausage-filled rolls strewn with bits of olive and feta cheese.
Preparation time: 25 minutes Cooking time: 20 to 22 minutes Makes: 24 rolls
500 grams mild, medium or hot Italian sausage
100 grams feta cheese, finely crumbled
1/3 cup black or green pitted olives, chopped
1 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley
3 Tbsp olive oil for brushing
4 sheets phyllo pastry
1 cup tomato-based pasta sauce, warmed
Remove sausage from its casing and place in a medium howl. Add feta cheese, chopped olives and parsley and mix to combine.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Place olive oil in a small bowl.
Place a sheet of the phyllo pastry on a large work surface, with widest side horizontally in front of you. Brush the sheet lightly with olive oil, and then top it with another sheet of phyllo pastry. Brush the top sheet lightly with olive oil.
Take half of the sausage mixture and make a lengthwise row of it at the bottom end of the pastry closest to you. Carefully - and tightly - roll the pastry up into a long cylinder. Brush the top of the roll lightly with olive oil. With a very sharp knife, carefully cut the phyllo sausage roll into 12 pieces and set them on the baking sheet. Cover the prepared rolls with plastic wrap.
Layer, fill, roll and cut the last two sheets of phyllo as you did the first two. (At this point, the rolls can be tightly covered and refrigerated for several hours until ready to bake. They can also be frozen, and baked from frozen (don't thaw - they'll become too soggy), adding a few minutes more to the cooking time, if needed.)
Place an oven rack in the middle position. Preheat the oven to 375 F. Bake the rolls for 20 to 22 minutes, or until puffed and golden. Arrange rolls on a serving platter and serve with a bowl of warm pasta sauce for dipping.
Phyllo pastry replaces the knead-and-roll-your-own pastry usually used to make samosas. These make a fine appetizer when served with mango chutney.
Preparation time: 40 minutes
Cooking time: 15 to 17 minutes, per sheet
Makes: 28 samosas
2 cups white-skinned potatoes, peeled and cut into small (1/4-inch) cubes (about 2 to 3 small to medium potatoes)
1 Tbsp vegetable oil
1/3 cup finely diced onion
1/3 cup finely diced red bell pepper
1 tsp finely chopped ginger
2 tsp mild curry powder
1 Tbsp lime juice
1 Tbsp brown sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup frozen peas
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro or mint, or 1/4 cup thinly sliced green onion
1/3 cup melted butter
8 sheets phyllo pastry
mango chutney for dipping
Boil the potatoes until quite tender, but still holding their shape. Drain potatoes well using a fine strainer (so don't lose any) and then place in a bowl.
Place the oil in a skillet set over medium to medium-high heat. Add the onion, bell pepper and ginger and cook until tender, about 4 minutes. Mix in the curry powder, lime juice and brown sugar and cook 1 minute more. Spoon this mixture over the potatoes. Add the salt, peas and cilantro, mint or green onion, and mix to combine. Cool filling to room temperature.
Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.
Place a sheet of the phyllo pastry on a large work surface, with widest side horizontally in front of you. Brush the sheet lightly with butter, and then top it with another sheet of phyllo pastry. Brush the top sheet lightly with butter.
Cut the layered phyllo, widthwise, into 7 strips, each about 2 1/2 inches wide. Place 1 Tbsp of the potato mixture at the bottom end of each strip.
Fold 1 corner of the phyllo over the potato mixture so bottom edge meets the side edge and forms a loose triangle (see photo above). Continue folding the triangle sideways, and upward, to the end of strip. Set the triangle on one of the baking sheets. Fold the other 6 strips of phyllo into triangles and set them on one of the baking sheets.
Layer, cut, fill and fold the remaining phyllo sheets as you did the first 2. (You should end up with 28 samosas). Keep the completed samosas covered with plastic wrap until all are made.
When done, brush the tops of all the samosas with a little melted butter. (At this point, the samosas may be tightly covered and refrigerated for several hours until ready to bake. They can also be frozen, and baked from frozen (don't thaw - they'll become too soggy), adding a few minutes more to the cooking time.
Place an oven rack in the middle position. Preheat the oven to 375 F.
Bake the samosas, one sheet at a time, 15-17 minutes, or until puffed and golden brown. Cool slightly before serving with some mango chutney for topping or dipping.
Eric Akis is the author of the just-published hardcover book Everyone Can Cook Everything.


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Greetings! Over some time in my life, I've been looking for a way to cure hemorrhoids – a very embarrassing and painful condition. And I should know, I've been there. And I wouldn't wish it on anyone at all.
I'm not a doctor, but I've gathered all of these from my months of research. Of course, I have the disclaimer again for you. Try these things out at your own risk, and consult your doctor before doing so.
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Make sure that you're trying to cure hemorrhoids. Well, it might be something else. And there's nothing worse than spending time and money trying to cure something that doesn't even have a problem in the first place. After all, would you go and fix something that isn't even broken
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- Use Vitamin E. Vitamin E is widely known for its healing and relieving properties, and can be bought over the counter. It comes in cream or ointment form. There are also Vitamin E gel capsules which you can break apart and use the gel inside.
- There is also another remedy for hemorrhoids you can use at home, and you don't have to use any product at all for this. All you have to do is assume a certain pose for a couple of minutes a day. You perform this pose by lying on your back. Then you bring your knew up to meet your chest, and then raise your hips. Put your hands on your back to support it. Then, you finish off by stretching your feet. Hold that position for a couple of minutes to get immediate relief from hemorrhoids.
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Roughly speaking
1% hit will increase your TPS by about 1%.
I think it stops being useful on raid bosses at 8.6% hit (110 ish rating?)
For my own tastes I like to weight 1% hit at around 30 block value / 60 AP
I'm sure it's located somewhere... I just couldn't find it. Can someone explain Hit Rating for a tank? It's usefulness, increase in DPS, and what the cap is. My main problem right now is my SS is missing my target, and that's really annoying.
Roughly speaking
1% hit will increase your TPS by about 1%.
I think it stops being useful on raid bosses at 8.6% hit (110 ish rating?)
For my own tastes I like to weight 1% hit at around 30 block value / 60 AP
In the long run hit rating is really great for a tank because of three reasons:
1) Less misses equates into more threat output
2) Less misses equates to less 'wasted' rage from missing
3) Rage generation is incresed from white attacks due to less misses
From what I know +1% Hit = +1% Threat, -1% Wasted threat, +1% Rage generated from white damage.
Hmm, but it also affects Yellow dmg, right? Cause man, when my SSs miss, I feel like only half a tank.
130 hit rating is about 8.6% hit.
The only problem is.. to get that high in hit rating, you're giving up a lot of stamina.
I've talked alot with other wars in my guild about this. As syana mentioned the loss of stam atm is my concern. What do ya'll suggest gear wise to get a decent amount of +hit?
1) 8 hit gem on engineering gun
2) Engineering tanking helmet
3) When you feel like you need the extra hit replace you're rings/neck/trinket with something with stamina and hit.
4) Prot warriors 41pt should be 5% hit on sunder/revenge/shield slam.
As far as comparing stats in terms of equal threat-gen, there is actually a much, much bigger difference in overall threat generation. Assuming an encounter that allows the optimum threat cycle (SS, Rev, Dev, Dev) and Heroic Strike every swing, the rough conversions are: 1% hit = 65 block value (50 from gear + shield mastery) = 100 AP. The less you're able to use heroic strike, the larger portion of your threat shield slam and devastate will take up, meaning block value will become a little more valuable, taking about 52 after shield mastery to be equivalent to 1% hit, while AP still does little for your overall threat.
So, the gain vs. the cost (in terms of itemization cost) in comparing the 3 stats is pretty enormously different. If you're in need of more threat, + hit (and more than likely weapon skill, though this is harder to obtain) is the way to go.
Edit: These conversions were done (and rounded slightly) using the warrior tps spreadsheet plugging in my stats (average t4 tanking gear), posted on EJ by Punscho: threatdown-beta-3.xls
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Though, points about enough hit to ensure your instants land being more important than getting all of your auto-attacks to land are probably still equally valid.
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Right now my hit rating is a lowly 36 (2.28% and I've been wondering about this a lot too. Seems like I'm trying to juggle keeping AP and hit up, along with all the defense stats, and it's tight. But if I read everything right, the one to sacrifice would be +crit. It doesn't matter if we crit, as long as we land the blows. So I think I need to swap out some gems to increase my hit rating. Does that sound right?
1) The ratio for hit makes hit easier to come by (hit is 15.8:1, rather than crit's 22.1:1).
2) A warrior generally gets somewhere between 50% and 60% of their threat from actual damage, and the rest from innate threat (this was estimated in EJ through several WWS parses from BT-level tanks--warriors in earlier raid instances probably generate less of their threat from damage).
A crit Shield Slam, for example, does not do twice the threat of a regular Shield Slam, owing to Shield Slam's innate 300-some threat. Same with Devastate, Heroic Strike, etc.
Crit has no affect at all on Sunder Armor, but Hit does.
And so on.
Crit isn't useless for threat generation, but it is surpassed by Hit.
For similar reasons, I'd think that AP isn't a terribly useful threat stat, either, at least not compared to Hit (Shield Slam doesn't generate any extra damage off AP, for example).


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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Tax Time: You do the Math
"Oh, the rest of my clients could take lessons," my accountant gushes. "This is beautifully organized." But for all my hard work, the only thing I seem to get back is gratitude. When it comes to the income tax returns themselves, we don't, by mutual agreement, cheat, fudge, or even snicker. As for his fee, I don't think my accountant really cares much whether my records are in a leather portfolio or jammed inside a pair of old tube socks. He charges the same -- a lot -- one way or the other.
I kind of resent paying the accountant so much money to simply transfer the arithmetic from my forms to his. I feel particularly resentful as he typically finishes early and we spend the rest of the hour discussing the progress of his vineyard in Napa.
So this year, rather than fork over my hard-earned pennies to learn more about the growth habit of the California pinot grape, I decide to take matters into my own hands. I'll file my own taxes. When it comes to numbers, I'm not a half-wit. I'm not a full wit either; I fall solidly within the three-quarter wit range. Besides, and not to get too personal about this, I didn't exactly win the lottery last year. My 2011 financial escapades make for some pretty dull reading.
When handling your own tax returns, the first decision is whether to e-file or paper-file. As I haven't time for the e-file learning curve right now, I sharpen a pencil and plan to party like it's 1999.
Using last year's return as a template, I go in search of forms. Which, in spite of the Internet, turns out to be surprisingly difficult. Of course, making fun of any dot gov site is like shooting fish in a barrel, but the IRS site is particularly incoherent, sporting old-school links scattered all over one ugly home page. Apparently I'm not the only one partying like it's 1999.
Some of the forms I need do not appear when I click on FORMS, and they still don't appear when I click MORE forms. I try for some navigational advice by clicking TAX MAP, which turns out to be a map in name only, so then I move to the FAQ.
I hate FAQ's, with their perky, disingenuously stupid pretense that we're conversing in-person. "Where can I …" and "Why do I …" Spare me this antiquated attempt at warm and fuzzy, which couldn't have fooled anyone even back in that party year of which the IRS and I are both so fond. (More on Patch)
27 comments:
- Kalei's Best Friend said...
You're braver than I am.. I e-file via my accountant who sends me an e-org and I fax him via email statements, k-1's etc... The amount I pay, is worth it cuz I have not a clue... My plate is full enough w/a gen X son, parents who are getting old and dealing w/everyday crappy drivers...
- March 20, 2012 at 8:56 AM
- Pasadena Adjacent said...
Can you take the old form and pull out a little 1999 white out - change the date? party like it's 2011
- March 20, 2012 at 9:17 AM
- Desiree said...
PLEASE check out Turbo tax/home business.
I'll bet it makes your life easier.
You can even test drive it for free before you file
- March 20, 2012 at 10:14 AM
- March 20, 2012 at 10:22 AM
- TheChieftess said...
Nothing better than a good tax man (person) in our book!!! We go to a guy who personally I don't particularly like (you know the type, male chauvinist tendencies...) but he does a great job!!! Well worth the expense...besides, his fees are tax deductible the next year!!!
- March 20, 2012 at 1:11 PM
- Paula said...
Your library no longer has them on display? Ours always, or used to, have them on a table near the front door. And then, and then, there's going to the local Senior Center and getting help for free. You're from California so you could be 80+ for all they know. I'll bet you could pull it off if you wear white cotton gloves - hands are a dead give away for age.
- March 20, 2012 at 2:29 PM
- Katie said...
I do my own taxes and also do them by hand. And I keep all my old tax returns in manila envelopes. Not sure why I haven't gone the online route yet, but I guess I'm just an old-fashioned gal. (However I do have the Feds deposit my refund, if any, directly into my checking account.) But I'm a form wizard, so if you tell me what forms you need I'll happily send them to you in PDF!
- March 20, 2012 at 3:33 PM
- altadenahiker said...
No, I guess I just wanted to know whether I was getting my money's worth. And in my case, I was. And am. And will be.
- March 20, 2012 at 6:30 PM
- Ms M said...
Hahaha! Great article!
And exactly why we have an accountant do our taxes....
- March 20, 2012 at 6:54 PM
- Bellis said...
Did Paula just say you could pose as an old woman if you wore white gloves? I'm sure she didn't mean it.
Our accountant charges a lot but saves us even more. We got our file to him last week and he did it the next day. We balked at the amount of extra tax we owed the IRS (because of our pensions, not because we're rich) and he came up with a way to pay it in instalments. I don't care how many vineyards he owns, so long as I get a bottle of wine from him now and again.
- March 20, 2012 at 7:31 PM
- altadenahiker said...
Ah, it's ok Bellis, Paula is my virtual friend and we've never met. But I'll keep the white gloves in mind because, scratched and abused, my hands looked like an 80 year old's from the time I was 10.
But you're right about the accountant -- seems he would give me a bottle of pinot every other year or so.
Ms M, we aren't surprised Katie does her own taxes, are we?
- March 20, 2012 at 7:46 PM
- Paula said...
I meant that you look too young for the Senior Center but that they couldn't bust you for crashing the help table cuz, well you're in Lotus Land so, who knew?
- March 20, 2012 at 8:34 PM
- BaysideLife said...
I feel deprived. No accountant = no pinot. But no worries, when we finish our taxes, we break out a bottle (whatever's in the rack)to ease the pain of writing that check to IRS.
- March 20, 2012 at 10:44 PM
- Mister Earl said...
I laughed out loud when I read your post!
- March 21, 2012 at 5:15 AM
- Rob said...
Um, so, why are you not using TurboTax? Oh, that's right, your laptop was stolen.
- March 21, 2012 at 7:50 AM
- Marjie said...
Ah, the accountant....and all of his assistants...did I ever tell you about the time his assistant called me to ask what depreciation schedule to use for the holly bushes we had planted around the office?
I was a little floored by that one. Then I told her that since half were already dead - done in by the Tennessee sun - maybe she should double deduct them.
And what's a refund? No matter how much we pay, it's never enough.
- March 21, 2012 at 2:57 PM
- Cafe Pasadena said...
So you're not using Tax software?
I look 4ward to the next installment of your taxing adventure, KB.
- March 21, 2012 at 3:10 PM
- Mister Earl said...
But, Karin, do you know how to fill out an NCAA tournament bracket? Could have used the help.
- March 21, 2012 at 6:48 PM
- altadenahiker said...
And then there was the year I walked into the office and got shoved to the B-team accountants when a guy and 10 handlers came in. The guy had won the lottery. Really. $28 million. So much for my leather-bound portfolio and plastic page protectors.
- March 21, 2012 at 7:30 PM
- Kaori said...
You are a brave brave woman to take on the IRS. We even hear horror stories about them here in Tokyo.
- March 21, 2012 at 8:17 PM
- Petrea Burchard said...
I did my own taxes 'til I got married.
This is one of your best, Karin, and that's saying something.
- March 21, 2012 at 9:23 PM
- Trish said...
KB...never knew you went to Laird out in the valley! Or did another CPA win $28M too?
My mother was a CPA. I've done my own taxes since I was 10. I HATE doing taxes. I *STILL* think the IRS should send a bill. Seriously. They are going to tell me what they think I owe ANYWAY, why get into this business of them threatening me with legalese if I transpose a number? Send me a bill, if I disagree, we'll talk.
But, that does pose the problem of a few billion CPAs, their handlers, their assistants and oh yeah, ALL those IRS employees who would be out of a job!
Eh, not my problem, MY tax headache would be gone! ;-)
- March 22, 2012 at 9:29 AM
- Banjo52 said...
You know, I was actually thinking, by about para. 4, this would make a good Patch piece.
I'm surprised that a wildcat like you fills out their form for them. I don't put mine in an old sock, but I do just stick the stuff in an envelope, with their form left blank, and say, "Here," with a smile. It's a present I give myself--I'd like to say the only one, but . . . I figure if I'm gonna pay for anything, they're gonna do everything. Otherwise, I'd make the choice you've just made, which for quarter-wit me, would be a working definition of masochism.
- March 22, 2012 at 1:46 PM
- Ken Mac said...
I am so organized at tax time. it let's Uncle Sam take my money all that sooner...
- March 22, 2012 at 4:34 PM
- Susan Campisi said...
I started using an accountant a few years ago and I've never looked back. Every year he gets annoyed with me for sending in my info so late. Every year I promise myself it will be different - but it never is. I could definitely take lessons from you.
- March 22, 2012 at 11:50 PM
- Vanda said...
I've been e-filing using Turbotax for years. It takes me half a day, but actually it's rather easy, the software walks you through every step.
I went to an accountant once and he told me I didn't need him, I could do it myself. o.O
- March 24, 2012 at 9:32 AM
- Soilman said...
You did your own tax return??
OMG. I only dared do this once, when I was self-employed, and I nearly had a breakdown. Was ready to shoot myself at 3am after 24 hrs of wrestling with forms, numbers and Inland Revenue (=IRS in the UK) gobbledegook.
Whatever the accountant charges, it's cheap.
- April 1, 2012 at 9:10 AM


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Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of monads, let's recapitulate what defines a monad (see part 1 and part 2 for explanations):
- A data structure that represents the result of a computation, or the computation itself. We haven't seen an example of the latter case yet, but it will come soon.
- A function
m-resultthat converts an arbitrary value to a monadic data structure equivalent to that value.
- A function
m-bindthat binds the result of a computation, represented by the monadic data structure, to a name (using a function of one argument) to make it available in the following computational step.
Taking the sequence monad as an example, the data structure is the sequence, representing the outcome of a non-deterministic computation,
m-result is the function list, which converts any value into a list containing just that value, and
m-bindis a function that executes the remaining steps once for each element in a sequence, and removes one level of nesting in the result.
The three ingredients above are what defines a monad, under the condition that the three monad laws are respected. Some monads have two additional definitions that make it possible to perform additional operations. These two definitions have the names
m-zero and
m-zero represents a special monadic value that corresponds to a computation with no result. One example is
nil in the maybe monad, which typically represents a failure of some kind. Another example is the empty sequence in the sequence monad. The identity monad is an example of a monad that has no
m-plus is a function that combines the results of two or more computations into a single one. For the sequence monad, it is the concatenation of several sequences. For the maybe monad, it is a function that returns the first of its arguments that is not
There is a condition that has to be satisfied by the definitions of
m-zero and
m-plus for any monad:
(= (m-plus m-zero monadic-expression) (m-plus monadic-expression m-zero) monadic-expression)
In words, combining
m-zero with any monadic expression must yield the same expression. You can easily verify that this is true for the two examples (maybe and sequence) given above.
One benefit of having an
m-zero in a monad is the possibility to use conditions. In the first part, I promised to return to the
:when clauses in Clojure's for forms, and now the time has come to discuss them. A simple example is
(for [a (range 5) :when (odd? a)] (* 2 a))
The same construction is possible with
(domonad sequence [a (range 5) :when (odd? a)] (* 2 a))
Recall that
domonad is a macro that translates a
let-like syntax into a chain of calls to
m-bind ending in a call to
m-result. The clause
a (range 5) becomes
(m-bind (range 5) (fn [a] remaining-steps))
remaining-steps is the transformation of the rest of the
domonad form. A
:when clause is of course treated specially, it becomes
(if predicate remaining-steps m-zero)
Our small example thus expands to
(m-bind (range 5) (fn [a] (if (odd? a) (m-result (* 2 a)) m-zero)))
Inserting the definitions of
m-result, and
m-zero, we finally get
(apply concat (map (fn [a] (if (odd? a) (list (* 2 a)) (list))) (range 5)))
The result of
map is a sequence of lists that have zero or one elements: zero for even values (the value of
m-zero) and one for odd values (produced by
concat makes a single flat list out of this, which contains only the elements that satisfy the
:when clause.
As for
m-plus, it is in practice used mostly with the maybe and sequence monads, or with variations of them. A typical use would be a search algorithm (think of a parser, a regular expression search, a database query) that can succeed (with one or more results) or fail (no results).
m-plus would then be used to pursue alternative searches and combine the results into one (sequence monad), or to continue searching until a result is found (maybe monad). Note that it is perfectly possible in principle to have a monad with an
m-zero but no
m-plus, though in all common cases an
m-plus can be defined as well if an
m-zero is known.
After this bit of theory, let's get acquainted with more monads. In the beginning of this part, I mentioned that the data structure used in a monad does not always represent the result(s) of a computational step, but sometimes the computation itself. An example of such a monad is the state monad, whose data structure is a function.
The state monad's purpose is to facilitate the implementation of stateful algorithms in a purely functional way. Stateful algorithms are algorithms that require updating some variables. They are of course very common in imperative languages, but not compatible with the basic principle of pure functional programs which should not have mutable data structures. One way to simulate state changes while remaining purely functional is to have a special data item (in Clojure that would typically be a map) that stores the current values of all mutable variables that the algorithm refers to. A function that in an imperative program would modify a variable now takes the current state as an additional input argument and returns an updated state along with its usual result. The changing state thus becomes explicit in the form of a data item that is passed from function to function as the algorithm's execution progresses. The state monad is a way to hide the state-passing behind the scenes and write an algorithm in an imperative style that consults and modifies the state.
The state monad differs from the monads that we have seen before in that its data structure is a function. This is thus a case of a monad whose data structure represents not the result of a computation, but the computation itself. A state monad value is a function that takes a single argument, the current state of the computation, and returns a vector of length two containing the result of the computation and the updated state after the computation. In practice, these functions are typically closures, and what you use in your program code are functions that create these closures. Such state-monad-value-generating functions are the equivalent of statements in imperative languages. As you will see, the state monad allows you to compose such functions in a way that makes your code look perfectly imperative, even though it is still purely functional!
Let's start with a simple but frequent situation: the state that your code deals with takes the form of a map. You may consider that map to be a namespace in an imperative languages, with each key defining a variable. Two basic operations are reading the value of a variable, and modifying that value. They are already provided in the Clojure monad library, but I will show them here anyway because they make nice examples.
First, we look at
fetch-val, which retrieves the value of a variable:
(defn fetch-val [key] (fn [s] [(key s) s]))
Here we have a simple state-monad-value-generating function. It returns a function of a state variable
s which, when executed, returns a vector of the return value and the new state. The return value is the value corresponding to the key in the map that is the state value. The new state is just the old one – a lookup should not change the state of course.
Next, let's look at
set-val, which modifies the value of a variable and returns the previous value:
(defn set-val [key val] (fn [s] (let [old-val (get s key) new-s (assoc s key val)] [old-val new-s])))
The pattern is the same again:
set-val returns a function of state
s that, when executed, returns the old value of the variable plus an updated state map in which the new value is the given one.
With these two ingredients, we can start composing statements. Let's define a statement that copies the value of one variable into another one and returns the previous value of the modified variable:
(defn copy-val [from to] (domonad state-m [from-val (fetch-val from) old-to-val (set-val to from-val)] old-to-val))
What is the result of
copy-val? A state-monad value, of course: a function of a state variable
s that, when executed, returns the old value of variable to plus the state in which the copy has taken place. Let's try it out:
(let [initial-state {:a 1 :b 2} computation (copy-val :b :a) [result final-state] (computation initial-state)] final-state)
We get {:a 2, :b 2}, as expected. But how does it work? To understand the state monad, we need to look at its definitions for
m-result and
m-bind, of course.
m-result, which does not contain any surprises: it returns a function of a state variable
s that, when executed, returns the result value
v and the unchanged state
(defn m-result [v] (fn [s] [v s]))
The definition of
m-bind is more interesting:
(defn m-bind [mv f] (fn [s] (let [[v ss] (mv s)] ((f v) ss))))
Obviously, it returns a function of a state variable
s. When that function is executed, it first runs the computation described by
mv (the first 'statement' in the chain set up by
m-bind) by applying it to the state
s. The return value is decomposed into result
v and new state
ss. The result of the first step,
v, is injected into the rest of the computation by calling
f on it (like for the other
m-bind functions that we have seen). The result of that call is of course another state-monad value, and thus a function of a state variable. When we are inside our
(fn [s] ...), we are already at the execution stage, so we have to call that function on the state
ss, the one that resulted from the execution of the first computational step.
The state monad is one of the most basic monads, of which many variants are in use. Usually such a variant adds something to
m-bind that is specific to the kind of state being handled. An example is the the stream monad in
clojure.contrib.stream-utils. (NOTE: the stream monad has not been migrated to the new Clojure contrib library set.) Its state describes a stream of data items, and the
m-bind function checks for invalid values and for the end-of-stream condition in addition to what the basic
m-bind of the state monad does.
A variant of the state monad that is so frequently used that has itself become one of the standard monads is the writer monad. Its state is an accumulator (any type implementing th e protocol
writer-monad-protocol, for example strings, lists, vectors, and sets), to which computations can add something by calling the function
write. The name comes from a particularly popular application: logging. Take a basic computation in the identity monad, for example (remember that the identity monad is just Clojure's built-in
let). Now assume you want to add a protocol of the computation in the form of a list or a string that accumulates information about the progress of the computation. Just change the identity monad to the writer monad, and add calls to
write where required!
Here is a concrete example: the well-known Fibonacci function in its most straightforward (and most inefficient) implementation:
(defn fib [n] (if (< n 2) n (let [n1 (dec n) n2 (dec n1)] (+ (fib n1) (fib n2)))))
Let's add some protocol of the computation in order to see which calls are made to arrive at the final result. First, we rewrite the above example a bit to make every computational step explicit:
(defn fib [n] (if (< n 2) n (let [n1 (dec n) n2 (dec n1) f1 (fib n1) f2 (fib n2)] (+ f1 f2))))
Second, we replace
let by
domonad and choose the writer monad with a vector accumulator:
(with-monad (writer-m []) (defn fib-trace [n] (if (< n 2) (m-result n) (domonad [n1 (m-result (dec n)) n2 (m-result (dec n1)) f1 (fib-trace n1) _ (write [n1 f1]) f2 (fib-trace n2) _ (write [n2 f2]) ] (+ f1 f2)))) )
Finally, we run
fib-trace and look at the result:
(fib-trace 3) [2 [[1 1] [0 0] [2 1] [1 1]]]
The first element of the return value, 2, is the result of the function
fib. The second element is the protocol vector containing the arguments and results of the recursive calls.
Note that it is sufficient to comment out the lines with the calls to
write and change the monad to
identity-m to obtain a standard fib function with no protocol – try it out for yourself!
Part 4 will show you how to define your own monads by combining monad building blocks called monad transformers. As an illustration, I will explain the probability monad and how it can be used for Bayesian estimates when combined with the maybe-transformer.


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The first movement of the trio opens confidently, with assertive octaves played by all three instruments, answered delicately and questioningly by the piano. Soon there are flamboyant runs in both piano and violin suggesting that, despite the opening exchange, this trio is going to be uncomplicated in tone. The central development draws out rather a different story. The contrasts of the opening return, the assertive octaves are now in minor keys and alternate with sighing phrases and chromatic shifts. The piano attempts to introduce more flamboyant arpeggios, but the sighing phrases persist, and when the assertive opening theme returns, one is left with the feeling that there is an element of bravura in the confidence. This sense is reinforced by the occasional hesitant touch of minor keys during the reprise and the return of the sighing phrases as the overtly cheerful movement works towards its conclusion.
Similar dark hints also colour the slow movement. The calm of the opening theme is disturbed by sudden accents. A second, more expansive theme, is taken up yearningly by the cello, and a delicate third theme is coloured by dark chromatic touches in its harmonies. It is the middle of the movement that takes us furthest away from the calm decorations of the opening melody. The three instruments combine in octaves once more, but now fiercely. Florid runs from the beginning of the movement are answered by snatches of the expansive second theme, but now combined with shifts of harmony that create a more searching and unsettled impression.
The third movement has the innocent charm of several of Mozart's piano concerto finales. There are more little chromatic touches in the principal theme, but by now they are playful rather than serious. There is a central episode in C minor, in which variants of the opening figure call to each other from instrument to instrument, and the movement begins to take on a suggestion of Beethoven-like urgency. But this is short lived, and Mozart works back to C major, side-stepping the first theme to plunge straight into the middle of the opening material. When he does eventually return to the first theme, it has acquired witty little decorations, which take on a mock-clumsy air when imitated by the violin. And at the end of the movement, one of the hesitant chromatic moments from the early part of the movement is reiterated, delaying the music in its tracks. But the emphatic conclusion, with the three instruments combining cheerfully in octaves for the last time, makes it clear that any dark elements have by now been thoroughly vanquished.
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Q Why is Shield Block included in the list of emergency buttons again?
A As explained in the text, in the right circumstance, Shield Block can be a very significant damage reducing ability - possibly up to 100%. Even if you're not in that sort of circumstance, the extra damage reduction can make a difference.
Q Why isn't Intervene/Safeguard in there then?
A Mainly because chopping 10% threat off of the tank every 30 seconds (assuming one Intervene only) isn't a very good idea at the best of times, not to mention have the chance of killing the Intervening warrior. Beyond that, if you don't have Safeguard then Intervene is a crap shoot whether it hits in time or not.
Q Where did the 15-30% reduction numbers come from?
A Assume 1500 BV x 2.4 (Shield Block+Glyph+Shield Mastery) = 3600 BV during Shield Block. 30% chance for a Critical Block makes the maximum 7200 BV. On bosses that hit for 50 000 (Malygos and other hard hitters in T7 content) to 100 000 damage (Hodir, possibly other hard hitters in T8 content) which averages out to the neighbourhood of 15-30% reduction on the hit you would have taken after armour and stance. Lower hits are not included for the fact that they will never have the chance to burst you down. Higher hits are not included because there is no currently known boss that hits harder than Hodir.
Q What about the paladin Holy Shield - that's just like Shield Block!
A Holy Shield is not included for its damage reduction function because it only reduces 5%-10% on bosses (Hodir and Malygos, respectively; 1500 BV assumed). Also, the Paladin has it up all the time anyway so it doesn't fit into the definition of a cooldown.
Q Enraged Regeneration? Seriously?
A Call it a political inclusion to try and stave off the cries of biased warriors trying to make warriors look worse off than they are.
Q What's this about crushing blows? They were removed from the game!
A Not removed, just promoted to mobs "4 levels higher". In any case, the point under discussion is Thorim's Unbalancing Strike attack (-200 defense skill). Here's how that factors into things:
If nothing has changed, for every point of defense skill under the crushing blow cutoff point, you add 2% chance of being crushed. In TBC, you started with a 15% chance for a mob "+3 levels above you". However, testing showed that it wasn't actually the level difference that did it, but a differential of 15 between the boss' weapon skill (365 for 73) and your level maximum defense (350 for 70), so that was easy to figure. However, you can't have crushing blows at 400 defense these days as there are no 84 mobs. However, we're looking at a -200 defense penalty, which will drop you under that cutoff point. If we assume that "+4 levels" still really means "differential of 20 defense skill", then we reach the 15% base chance to crush when you are 20 points under the boss' weapon skill (415 for an 83) - at 395 defense. (It's possible that you get a base 20% chance at -20 defense skill rather than 15%, but that's neither here nor there as shown below.)
Under that assumption, for your player starting at 540 defense and ending at 340, you would get to your initial 15% from the first 145 defense skill removed to get you to 395, leaving 110% chance to be crushed from the remaining 55 skill removed. As the combat table priority goes, your avoidance (and block) is preserved and any excess crush is discarded. You'd have only miss/dodge/parry/block/crush on the table, then.
Q Won't Thorim's Unbalancing Strike really gimp Icebound Fortitude?
A Yes. Unless you use the glyph.
Q What is "moderate/high RP"?
A Several Death Knight abilities cost runic power to activate. Contrast with the warrior abilities which are simply triggered and do not cost rage. While Divine Protection costs mana, and Frenzied Regeneration costs rage, a Death Knight will sometimes have to take a break from maximum threat rotation to "build up" the resources necessary for using cooldowns. Note that runic power is not as plentiful as rage is and, additionally, in a max threat rotation you're essentially spending it as fast as you get it. Add to this that some of the cooldowns also cost runes which have their own cooldowns. It's very possible, that you have a situation where you want to use your cooldown, but due to the demands of trying to retain threat you don't have the available resources, be it runes or runic power, to activate it.
Q Isn't Divine Protection's cooldown 3 minutes now?
Q Isn't Last Stand's cooldown 3 minutes now?
Q Isn't X's cooldown Y minutes now?
A We shall see if that sticks.
Q No Death Knight gets all those cooldowns. Why not give sample specs?
A We discussed exactly that. In the end, given the pages and pages of arguments of "nobody would do THAT" in previous tanking topics, we decided it would be less than more useful to the discussion. Besides which, I'm not sure we could have indicated more clearly that many Death Knight cooldowns are talent based as it is, between the text explanations and listing the various talent points for abilities.


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The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) administers several important health benefit laws covering employer-based health plans. They govern your basic rights to information about how your health plan works, how to qualify for benefits, and how to make claims for benefits. In addition, there are specific laws protecting your right to health benefits when you lose coverage or change jobs. EBSA oversees health care laws covering special medical conditions. For more information on the laws that protect your benefits, see EBSA's website at www.dol.gov/ebsa. Or, call the agency's toll-free help line at 1.866.444.3272 to reach a regional office near you. These 10 tips can help make your health benefits work better for you.
1. Realize that Your Options are Important
There are many different types of health benefit plans. Find out which one your employer offers, then check out the plan, or plans, offered. Your employer's human resource office, the health plan administrator, or your union can provide information to help you match your needs and preferences with the available plans. If your employer offers a high deductible health plan, look into setting up a Health Savings Account to save money for future medical expenses on a tax-free basis. The more information you have, the better your health care decisions will be.
2. Review the Benefits Available
Do the plans offered cover preventive care, well-baby care, vision or dental care? Are there deductibles? Answers to these questions can help determine the out-of-pocket expenses you may face. Matching your needs and those of your family members will result in the best possible benefits. Cheapest may not always be best. Your goal is high quality health benefits.
3. Read Your Plan's Summary Plan Description (SPD) for the Wealth of Information It Provides
Your health plan administrator should provide a copy. It outlines your benefits and your legal rights under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Federal law that protects your health benefits. It should contain information about the coverage of dependents, what services will require a co-pay, and the circumstances under which your employer can change or terminate a health benefits plan. Save the SPD and all other health plan brochures and documents, along with memos or correspondence from your employer relating to health benefits.
4. Assess Your Benefit Coverage as Your Family Status Changes
Marriage, divorce, childbirth or adoption, or the death of a spouse are life events that may signal a need to change your health benefits. You, your spouse and your dependent children may be eligible for a special enrollment period under provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Even without life-changing events, the information provided by your employer should tell you how you can change benefits or switch plans, if more than one plan is offered. A special note: If your spouse's employer also offers a health benefits package, consider coordinating both plans for maximum coverage. Read Your Health Plan and HIPAA…Making the Law Work for You.
5. Be Aware that Changing Jobs and Other Life Events Can Affect Your Health Benefits
Under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act — better known as COBRA — you, your covered spouse and your dependent children may be eligible to purchase extended health coverage under your employer's plan if you lose your job, change employers, get divorced, or upon occurrence of certain other events. Coverage can range from 18 to 36 months depending on your situation. COBRA applies to most employers with 20 or more workers and requires your plan to notify you of your rights. Most plans require eligible individuals to make their COBRA election within 60 days of the plan's notice. Be sure to follow up with your plan sponsor if you don't receive notice and make sure you respond within the allotted time. Get the facts by getting a copy of An Employee's Guide to Health Benefits Under COBRA.
6. Remember to Consider HIPAA If You are Changing Jobs
HIPAA generally limits preexisting condition exclusions to a maximum of 12 months (18 months for late enrollees). HIPAA also requires this maximum period to be reduced by the length of time you had prior creditable coverage. You should receive a certificate documenting your prior creditable coverage from your old plan when coverage ends. To find out more, read Your Health Plan and HIPAA…Making the Law Work for You.
7. Look For Wellness Programs
More and more employers are establishing wellness programs that encourage employees to work out, stop smoking, and generally adopt healthier lifestyles. HIPAA encourages group health plans to adopt wellness programs but also includes protections for employees and dependents from impermissible discrimination based on a health factor. These programs often provide rewards such as cost savings as well as promoting good health. To find out more, read Your Health Plan and HIPAA...Making the Law Work for You.
8. Plan For Retirement
Before you retire, find out what health benefits, if any, extend to you and your spouse during your retirement years. Consult with your employer's human resources office, your union or the plan administrator, and check your SPD. Make sure there is no conflicting information among these sources about the benefits you will receive or the circumstances under which they can change or be eliminated. With this information in hand, you can make other important choices, like finding out if you are eligible for Medicare and Medigap insurance coverage. To find out more, read Taking the Mystery Out of Retirement Planning.
9. Know How to File an Appeal if Your Health Benefits Claim is Denied
Understand how your plan handles grievances and where to make appeals of the plan's decisions. Keep records and copies of correspondence. Check your health benefits package and your SPD to determine who is responsible for handling problems with benefit claims. Contact EBSA for customer service assistance if you are unable to obtain a response to your complaint. Also, read Filing a Claim for Your Health or Disability Benefits.
10. Take Steps to Improve the Quality of the Health Care and Health Benefits You Receive
Consider the quality of health care in deciding among the health plans or options available to you. The quality of health care services varies but it can be measured. Look for quality reports that contain consumer ratings and clinical performance measures and check to see that accredited organizations meet national standards. To find out how you can measure quality, visit the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Note: The Affordable Care Act (ACA) adds important protections related to employment based group health plans that will improve health coverage for you and your family. Many of these protections are available now including extending dependent coverage until age 26, prohibiting preexisting condition exclusions for children under 19, and banning lifetime limits on coverage for essential health benefits. Additional protections will be available in 2014. This publication does not reflect the provisions of the Affordable Care Act. For more information, visit the Employee Benefits Security Administration's ACA web page at www.dol.gov/ebsa/healthreform.
These Laws Can Help
- The Employee Retirement Income Security Act offers protection for individuals enrolled in retirement, health, and other benefit plans sponsored by private-sector employers, and provides rights to information and a grievance and appeals process for participants to get benefits from their plans.
- The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act contains provisions giving certain former employees, retirees, spouses, and dependent children the right to purchase temporary continuation of group health plan coverage at group rates in specific instances.
- The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act includes protections for millions of working Americans and their families who have preexisting medical conditions, prohibits discrimination in health care coverage, and guarantees issuance of individual policies for certain eligible individuals.
- The Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act offers protections for breast cancer patients who elect breast reconstruction in connection with a mastectomy.
- The Newborns' and Mothers' Health Protection Act provides rules on minimum coverage for hospital lengths of stay following childbirth.
- The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act prohibits discrimination in group health plan premiums based on genetic information. Also, generally prohibits group health plans from requesting genetic information or requiring genetic tests.
- The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the Mental Health Parity Act prohibits lifetime or annual limits on mental health/substance use disorder benefits that are lower than lifetime or annual dollar limits on medical/surgical benefits. Requires parity in financial requirements and treatment limitations for mental health/substance use benefits with those for medical/surgical benefits.
- The Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act allows special enrollment in a group health plan if an employee or dependents lose coverage under CHIP or Medicaid or are eligible for premium assistance under those programs.
To Find Out More…
Visit the Employee Benefits Security Administration's website at www.dol.gov/ebsa to view the following publications. To order copies or to request assistance from a benefits advisor, contact EBSA electronically at www.askebsa.dol.gov or call toll free 1.866.444.3272.
- Your Health Plan and HIPAA...Making the Law Work for You
- An Employee's Guide to Health Benefits Under COBRA
- Your Genetic Information and Your Health Plan – Know the Protections Against Discrimination
- Filing a Claim for Your Health or Disability Benefits
- Retirement and Health Care Coverage...Questions and Answers for Dislocated Workers
- Can the Retiree Health Benefits Provided by Your Employer Be Cut?
- Life Changes Require Health Choices...Know Your Benefit Options
- Work Changes Require Health Choices...Protect Your Rights
- Taking the Mystery Out of Retirement Planning
Also, visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services. Or, contact your State Insurance Commissioner's Office.


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All this week Grazia is at Couture Week, swooning at the collections, staring at the AMAZING Couture clients and having a gossip or two (which we will bring to you as soon as we can type it into our phones). From the fashion front lines we will bring you our top 5 favourite things about each show - from the clothes, to the front rows, to the music, right down to the press releases if they prove worthy!
First up yesterday was Dior and it firmly and brilliantly kicked us into Couture. Dita von Teese was there looking gorgeous as ever, while Mischa Barton arrived ten minutes into the show and had to be escorted to her seat - not sure if that is still fashionably late, or just late late?
Anyway, here are our Top 5 Dior Couture moments...
1) Mouthwatering summer colours: powder blue, lemon, dusty pink, parma violet. (The sky was grey. The news was gloomy. And the audience was dressed in black, as usual, which only made everyone hanker after the colours even more).
2) Ribbons and frills: trim a bodice, a sleeve, a hem. It's feminine free-for-all.
3) Lace collars and cuffs: just in case you didn't get that girly thing? Huge lace collars and cuff trims leave no one in any doubt.
4) Neck-fulls of tumbling pearls. Pile on the pearls girls and make a couture statement with a simple neckline.
5) The soundtrack. Get it on your iPod now. Françoise Hardy and Carla Bruni ballads get you into breathless romantic mood. But the designer, John Galliano, took his bow to the thumping Bangra beat of the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack.
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First goal get your CTC to 102.4%, thats get your dodge% +Parry%+Block%+5 to equal 102.4% or slightly above it. Ideally refored any non tanking stat to mastery, and try to keep both odge and parry ratings about equal. if a peice has parry and dodge refre whichever will give you the most mastery.
Gear wise, Chain run LFR and LFG for the valour points and pick up some 397 valour gear, Trinket wise get some static Mastery ones, DMC: Earthquake is a horrible trinket. The Black Heart form ToC normal is a better trinket and thats an ilvl200. the valour trinket is good as is the the one from the Tal Barad vendors; Mirror of broken images.


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Christmas is right around the corner, but Onkyo is already thinking ahead to the New Year—and next month's Consumer Electronics Show. The company just announced a little show preview, teasing some of its new A/V receivers.
According to the announcement, Onkyo is working with Silicon Image to deliver the world's first receivers with SI's InstaPrevue and MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) technologies.
So what exactly does that mean to you? InstaPrevue allows for a live picture-in-picture preview of HDMI and MHL inputs connected to the receiver That way, you can switch between a Blu-ray player, game console or other MHL-enabled connected devices. You won't need to cycle through inputs or text-based menus, such as HDMI1, HDMI2, and so on.
MHL, on the other hand, is a growing HD audio/video connectivity standard. This allows mobile devices to transmit 1080p uncompressed video with up to eight channels of digital audio over five pins, while also supporting HDCP content protection. It also means you can power that portable when connected via MHL, as well as control it using the receiver's remote.
"The 2012 Onkyo AVRs add to the growing MHL ecosystem of DTVs, smartphones and tablets, and are the first to support InstaPrevue technology," said Alex Chervet, senior director of marketing at Silicon Image. "InstaPrevue technology offers a simple and seamless viewing experience by taking the guesswork out of switching between HDMI sources. With InstaPrevue technology, consumers see a live preview of each active HDMI or MHL input connected to an AVR, making it easier and more intuitive to switch between a Blu-ray Disc player, set-top box, DVD player, game console, MHL-enabled smartphone or other MHL or HDMI-connected devices."
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WASHINGTON - The mysterious and threatening notes have returned to some doorsteps in and around Manassas, and there's still no clue as to who is leaving them.
Two more of the notes were left in the Sumner Lake Boulevard area of Manassas the week of March 2, bringing the total number of notes to 18 since December.
Manassas Police Sgt. Lowell Nevilll says the notes, which say disparaging things about one local resident, are short, and sometimes incoherent.
"There's a lack of grammatical correctness. The spelling sometimes is a little off, and there's a certain type of rambling nature to them," he says.
"We're not talking about long treatises. We're talking about 15 to 20 words."
Nevill says there doesn't seem to be any connection between the man targeted in the notes and the homes where they have been left or the people who live in those homes.
The notes started showing up in December, then stopped until this past weekend. No one has seen the person leaving them.
Police have talked to the person criticized in the notes. Nevill says the man has no idea why the notes are being left. The man is not a public figure.
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