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John Joseph Adams asked me to contribute to an anthology wtih a theme of interplanetary communication. That was way back in summer, and I had about four other anthology requests. I didn't hear any more and essentially, I am embarassed to admit that I...um...forgot about it. Oh, I had had an initial idea of human telepathy allowing for instantaneous communication, where people emulated a machine's precision in terms of passing information. Information is control when you're talking about the vast distances to be crossed. Who would control it?
But then I put it out of my mind and forgot about it. So when John emailed me about two days before the deadline to remind me I was....to put it mildly...highly embarassed. And determined toget him a good story. This was right after I brought home my new Australian Shepherd puppy. If you read My She, you'll see the connection.
And the story, for all the time pressure, turned out to be something much more than I anticipated, a story that deals with communication on several levels. And even explores the boundary between human and nonhuman, one of my favorite topics. So, thanks, John, for including me, and next time I won't wait until the last second!
It should be available this year from Prime Books, an imprint of Wildside Press.
This has been the year of the dragon invitations for some reason. Surely it has to do with the conjunction of some stars, right? But you know what? I had a lot of fun taking a break from science and the necessary dimensions for an orbital platform to go play with dragons. Let's see, I've created ice dragons, sea dragons, and human dragons so far. The Dragon Book is a YA anthology edited by the ever-busy Gardner Dozois and will be out in November as a hardcover from Penguin Putnam. I was invited into a very nicely illustrated anthology from a new, small publisher: Rogue Blades Entertainment. They're very professional, the wrap-around cover that illustrates my story, above, by Norman Didier is lovely, and I really enjoyed working with Jason Waltz, the editor.


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2012 RICOH Women's British Open
September 16, 2012
Hometown/Birthplace – South Korea/ Atlanta, Ga.
Birthdate – April 28, 1988 – currently 24 years, 4 months, 19 days
Qualified for LPGA Tour – Won three events in 2008 as a non-member
Turned Professional – January 2005
10th career LPGA victory: 2008 RICOH Women's British Open*, Mizuno Classic*, ADT Championship*. 2009 HSBC Women's Champions, Wegmans LPGA, P&G Beauty NW Arkansas Championship Presented by John Q. Hammons 2010 Evian Masters Presented by Societe Generale, Mizuno Classic 2012 Kingsmill Championship, RICOH Women's British Open (* wins as a non-member)
Shin's 9-stroke margin of victory is the largest in the history of the RICOH Women's British Open
With Shin's victory at the RICOH Women's British Open, it means that all four of the LPGA Tour's majors in 2012 were won by an Asian-born player. Shin joins fellow South Koreans Sun Young Yoo (Kraft Nabisco Championship) and Na Yeon Choi (U.S. Women's Open) and China native Shanshan Feng (Wegmans LPGA Championship) as major winners this year.
With her $428,650 first-place prize check, Shin crossed the $1 million mark in season earnings ($1,168,932) with her victory and increased her career earnings to $5,450,128
7th victory since joining the LPGA Tour
10th career victory in 96 appearances dating back to the 2006 Mizuno Classic where she tied for fourth while on the KLPGA Tour
Becomes the first player in LPGA history to win the RICOH Women's British Open the week after capturing a victory on the LPGA Tour. Shin defeated Paula Creamer on the ninth playoff hole on Monday to capture the Kingsmill Championship
Earns 60 points toward the Rolex Player of the Year race with her win and moves into second place with 128 points
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I am 5'11 161lbs
Aight let me start off to say that I am new to this diet thing, I lift weight 3 days a week and I do cardio for 30mins for each of those days,
I am wanting to lose bodyfat, I want to be able to fit into my tanktop again in the summer ( I gained weight during a trip to the USA go figure, they got some good food)
My question is
what should my meal plan look like?
my eating habits right now is just eating everything, I eat about 8 pieces of bread per day with 2 pieces of ham and a piece of cheese on each sandwich(2 pieces of bread total of 4 sandwichs a day), 1 cups of milk, 2-3 oranges,2 bowls of rice, 4 eggs and the usual junk food 2-3 cookies, chips, and 2-3 protein shakes(Optimum nutrition mixed with a cup of milk)
I think i've gained enough weight
I know I should be eating clean, since I want to lose the bodyfat
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Breakfast Topic: Where's the best music in WoW? {WoW}
Mar 8th 2012 8:18AM Bronze Jam, Bronze Jam, and uh.....Bronze Jam
Oh and I guess the Blackhorn fight music is good too
Breakfast Topic: Thank everything for transmogrification {WoW}
Jan 16th 2012 3:41AM http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/khazgoroth/Vekslo/simple
I seem to be the only one rocking the Darkmantle set...
The Queue: Fus Ro Dah {WoW}
Nov 16th 2011 1:09AM Blizzard, there's an easy way to have the Battle for Undercity thing without changing anything. Bronze Dragonflight. Just have Chromie or someone standing next to Alextrasza at the Wrathgate, saying something like: "As a result of this betrayal, the Undercity was taken over by Varimathras. King Varian Wrynn and Thrall, who was Warchief at the time both led seperate attacks to find and punish those responsible for the treachery. Would you like to witness these events firsthand?"
Bam, the quest is back in and there's no wondering about why Garrosh isn't there.
Breakfast Topic: What's that one quirky thing you just have to do? {WoW}
Jul 12th 2011 9:27PM No matter what character I'm on, where they are, or what they're doing, I must ALWAYS jump while mounting up. If it's a ground mount then I must always jump forwards.
Encrypted Text: Dissecting rogue stats {WoW}
Apr 7th 2011 10:02PM Well I just tried reforging every bit of available expertise to more "useful" stats, and all it got me was a 1-2k DEcrease in DPS.
Encrypted Text: Dissecting rogue stats {WoW}
Apr 6th 2011 8:54PM So expertise is supposedly crap for assassination rogues because of Envenom. Well what about every other melee hit? Won't be able to do as much if your attacks keep getting dodged. And what about the damage from Envenom? I've seen it crit for upwards of 33k.
Encrypted Text: 5 tips for heroic rogues {WoW}
Dec 22nd 2010 8:35PM Don't forget Dismantle! It works on more things than you think! I found it works to completely shut down the Forgemaster in Grim Batol at his Dual Blades phase. If the boss has a visible weapon, just try using Dismantle. Hell, it worked for Toravon the Ice Watcher, and he's a raid boss.
The Queue: What's that, Deathwing? {WoW}
Oct 8th 2010 9:27PM Are we gonna be seeing more colour in Cataclysm armor? Hopefully not to the level of Outland Clown Syndrome, but more than saronite blue-black-whatever everywhere.
The Queue: Yes, kittens again {WoW}
Oct 2nd 2010 3:37AM What's going to happen to the old dungeon sets come Cataclysm? I heard Scholomance would be dropping in level, so the gear would be dropping too, yet the dungeon set 1 hat drops from Darkmaster Gandling


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Listen to some music by GERR-KENN RECORDS:
Just a little about GERR-KENN RECORDS
GERR-KENN RECORDS was started in 2004 to record my second CD and to help other artists like myself without a real budget, and that how GERR-KENN all began. As I was recording my second CD, I thought about all the red tape I went through with the first one and the money that it cost me to record which was very expensive. I knew if I was going through that, it had to be other artist that was having the same problem. So I started figuring out a way to come up with a less expensive way to do recording that would help me as well as other artists. I knew that it had to have high tech equipment and sounds that would be conducive to recording crisp and clear vocals.
After obtaining the necessary equipment needed, there was still a need for help to assist in recording. I began to look for help from other artists, song writers and musicians who were interested in helping me start GERR_KENN RECORDS. Just to name a few who help me with this project was Anthony Watson, formally with the Chi-lites, Cedric and Nadine Brooks, which Cedric is a top notch keyboard player and my right hand man.
The naming of the company came from using the first four letters of my two eldest son's names Gerrard C. and Kenneth A. Edwards. My third son Kellen A. Edwards also joined the company and is very interested in recording his own songs which will be done at GERR-KENN RECORDS.
It has been slow becoming a reality, but with God's help we are going to release 3 CD's by mid-year.The web site was published on March 9th of 2013 to assist in having songs recorded by GERR-KENN RECORDS heard along with having contact for the public.


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- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
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- 3/4 teaspoons kosher salt
Mix crabmeat, celery, chervil and lemon zest in a bowl. Cover and chill crab salad.
Halve and pit avocados; scoop flesh into a blender. Add vegetable stock, crème fraîche, lime juice, kosher salt, and 1 1/4 cups water. Purée until smooth. Season soup to taste with salt and pepper; chill.
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type: Quick & Easy, Soup/Stew
main ingredients: Avocado, Crab
dietary considerations: Healthy
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I know this was in jest, but in this case, unlike so many other times this joke is made, it's slightly relevant. A quick Google turned up the following incomplete info http://www.quora.com/Library-of-Congress/How-much-data-does-the-library-of-congress-actually-represent which states tape storage capacity of the Library of Congress circa 2011 at 4.5 petabytes. The answer, then, is the this is approximately ~2 Library of Congresses of data, which is just a tad bit much to fit in the trunk of your car. It's going to take a few trips to the Library and back to move that data around.


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November 6th
Here's one more historical curiosity to observe this election cycle. Since election day was standardized in 1845 there have been 6 presidential elections held on November 6th; Republicans have won all six. That means next Tuesday, the 7th Presidential election held on this date, will either break or uphold a streak that began in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln.
Starting in 1792, states had a range of dates on which to conduct presidential elections, but in 1845 Congress standardized the date so it would always be the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Since then presidential elections have been held on dates ranging from November 2nd to November 8th with each date coming up about six times in a fairly regular pattern. The date November 6th has always been a good one for Republicans:
- 1860 - Abraham Lincoln over Stephen Douglas
- 1888 - Benjamin Harrison over incumbent Grover Cleveland
- 1900 - William McKinley over William Jennings Bryan
- 1928 - Herbert Hoover over Al Smith
- 1956 - Dwight Eisenhower over Adlai Stevenson
- 1984 - Ronald Reagan over Walter Mondale
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Getting Started with Haskell
I've been having a lot of fun learning Haskell these past few months, but getting started isn't quite as straight-forward as it could be. I had the good fortune to work at the right place at the right time and was able to take Bryan O'Sullivan's Haskell class at Facebook, but it's definitely possible to get started on your own. While you can play a bit with Haskell at Try Haskell you'll eventually want to get GHC installed on your own machine.
- Install the Haskell Platform (GHC)
- Set up Cabal
- Install Cabal-dev (sandbox build tool)
- Install ghc-mod (better Emacs/Vim support)
- How to install tools with cabal-dev
- Configure GHCi
- Hackage is fragile, but there are (unofficial) mirrors
- Starting a project (with cabal-dev)
- GHCi basics
- Recommended Reading
Install the Haskell Platform (GHC)
The Haskell Platform is the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) including the "batteries included" standard library. GHC not the only Haskell compiler, but this is the one that you want to learn. Another implementation of note is Hugs, which is more for teaching than for production code.
These instructions are written for Mac OS X 10.8 using Homebrew (and a recent version of Xcode), but it should be easy to figure out how to do it on other platforms starting from Haskell Platform. The current version of Haskell Platform at this time is 2012.4.0.0.
$ brew install haskell-platform
Set up Cabal
Cabal is Haskell's Common Architecture for Building Applications and Libraries. In combination with Hackage it is similar in purpose to tools such as CPAN for Perl, pip for Python, or gem for Ruby. You'll probably be disappointed, but it's not that bad.
When you end up installing packages with cabal, it will install them
to ~/.cabal/
and the scripts will go into ~/.cabal/bin/
. You
should go ahead and add this to your PATH environment
variable now. Something like this will suffice, but it depends on how
you like to set up your shell profile:
$ echo 'export PATH=$HOME/.cabal/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
Before doing anything else with cabal, you'll need to bootstrap the list of available packages. You'll want to run this occasionally, particularly before installing or upgrading new packages.
$ cabal update
At this point you'll have a ~/.cabal/config
that doesn't have
library-profiling turned on. You'll likely want this later, and if you don't
do it now then you'll have to rebuild everything later. To turn it on edit
and change
-- library-profiling: False
library-profiling: True
$ for f in ~/.cabal/config; do \ cp $f $f.old && \ sed -E 's/(-- )?(library-profiling: )False/\2True/' < $f.old > $f; \ done
Before installing anything else, you'll need to install the Cabal installer:
$ cabal install cabal-install
Install ghc-mod (better Emacs/Vim support)
ghc-mod is what you want to install to integrate GHC with Emacs or Vim. You might also be able to use Sublime Text 2 and ghc-mod via SublimeHaskell. I've only tried the Emacs integration so far. Vim users may want to try hdevtools as it's much faster and just as accurate (see kamatsu's comment).
$ cabal install ghc-mod
You'll obviously have to configure it for your Emacs, and I'll leave that up to you (my current ~/.emacs.d for reference).
Install Cabal-dev (sandbox build tool)
Cabal-dev is a tool that helps you sandbox installation of Haskell software. It is similar in purpose to virtualenv for Python or rvm for Ruby, but the usage is quite a bit different. This is the tool that will save you from "Cabal Hell", where you can't install a package because some other package you have installed has conflicting dependencies.
Use cabal-dev
instead of just cabal
to build stuff whenever possible. The major trade-off is that you will spend (a lot) more time compiling packages that you already have installed somewhere else (and waste some disk), but this is almost certainly a fair trade.
$ cabal install cabal-dev
There's some work in progress for adding Sandboxed Builds and Isolated Environments support to cabal-install, so the cabal-dev material here will likely bit rot in a few months (years?).
How to install tools with cabal-dev
If you want to try out a tool, but don't want to pollute your Haskell installation, you can just use cabal-dev! By default, cabal-dev's sandbox is ./cabal-dev
, but you can put it anywhere. In this example I'll install darcs 2.8.2 (a distributed version control system written in Haskell) into /usr/local/Cellar/darcs/2.8.2
and have Homebrew create the symlinks for me. On other platforms you might want to use your own directory structure and manage your PATH
$ cabal-dev install -s /usr/local/Cellar/darcs/2.8.2 darcs-2.8.2 $ brew link --overwrite darcs
Bam! Now darcs is on your PATH
and you don't have to worry about version conflicts. Well, you do sadly still run into them, just not as much. Specifically, cabal-dev installs packages in such a way that they are all 'top-level' in a given sandbox. This means that if two packages have common dependencies (VERY common), then they'll stomp on each other's symlinks to things like license files and documentation of the dependencies. It's mostly harmless to use --overwrite
in this way, but you might want to check with --overwrite --dry-run
first. Annoying, but probably won't ruin your day.
If you want to see what versions of a darcs are available, use cabal info darcs
and look for the Versions available:
Other fun Haskell tools to try (in no particular order):
- pandoc - the swiss-army knife of markup format converters (markdown, reStructuredText, org-mode, LaTeX, etc.)
- gitit - a wiki backed by a git, darcs or mercurical filestore
- pronk - a HTTP load testing tool, like ab or httperf, only more modern and simpler to deal with
For packages like pronk that aren't currently in Hackage, a cabal-dev installation will look more like this:
$ git clone https://github.com/bos/pronk.git /tmp/pronk-src && \ (cd /tmp/pronk-src; \ cabal-dev install -s /usr/local/Cellar/pronk/$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)) && \ rm -rf /tmp/pronk-src
Configure GHCi
is the GHC interactive interpreter (REPL, similar to typing python
or irb
in a shell). For real documentation, see the GHC Users Guide (Chapter 2. Using GHCi) . You'll be spending a lot of time there playing with your code, you probably want to set up a shorter prompt. It starts off looking like this:
Once you start importing modules the prompt keeps getting longer and you really just don't need that in your life.
Prelude> :m + Data.List Prelude Data.List> :m + Data.Maybe Prelude Data.List Data.Maybe>
The configuration file for this is the .ghci file. I use a very simple ASCII prompt, some people like to make theirs look like λ>
echo ':set prompt "h> "' >> ~/.ghci
You could also issue the :set prompt "h> "
command each time you use GHCi, but that gets old.
$ ghci h> putStrLn "Hello World!" Hello World! h>
Hackage is fragile, but there are (unofficial) mirrors
Sadly, Hackage isn't currently the pinnacle of reliability. I don't know what the problem is, but hopefully they do something about it soon. There is a workaround (see also Working around Hackage Outages), you can just use the repo from hdiff at hdiff.luite.com or from hackage.csc.stanford.edu.
Change this line in ~/.cabal/config
<pre class="light plain literal-block">
remote-repo: hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive
To something like this:
-- TODO When hackage is back up, set back to hackage.haskell.org! -- remote-repo: hackage.haskell.org:http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive remote-repo: hdiff.luite.com:http://hdiff.luite.com/packages/archive -- remote-repo: hackage.csc.stanford.edu:http://hackage.scs.stanford.edu/packages/archive
After you've changed your remote-repo setting, you'll need to update the package list
$ cabal update
Don't forget to change it back later!
Starting a project (with cabal-dev)
You'd figure this out eventually, but a quick way to start out a project is to just go ahead and start off with cabal-dev. Here's how you would do that for a trivial program.
For your own projects, you may want to remove the -n
option and let cabal
ask you which options you want to choose. The -n
option uses all the
defaults without any prompting.
$ mkdir -p ~/src/hs-hello-world $ cd ~/src/hs-hello-world $ touch LICENSE $ cabal init -n --is-executable
This will generate a Setup.hs
and hs-hello-world.cabal
. The next step is to
change the main-is:
line so it knows what source file to build your
executable from. The end result should look something like this:
-- Initial hs-hello-world.cabal generated by cabal init. For further -- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/ name: hs-hello-world version: 0.1.0.0 -- synopsis: -- description: license: AllRightsReserved license-file: LICENSE -- author: -- maintainer: -- copyright: -- category: build-type: Simple cabal-version: >=1.8 executable hs-hello-world main-is: HelloWorld.hs -- other-modules: build-depends: base ==4.5.*
Then create a HelloWorld.hs, maybe something that looks like this:
main :: IO () main = putStrLn "Hello, world!"
You can build and "install" it into a local sandbox like this:
$ cabal-dev install Resolving dependencies... Configuring hs-hello-world-0.1.0.0... Building hs-hello-world-0.1.0.0... Preprocessing executable 'hs-hello-world' for hs-hello-world-0.1.0.0... Installing executable(s) in /Users/bob/src/hs-hello-world/cabal-dev//bin Installed hs-hello-world-0.1.0.0 $ ./cabal-dev/bin/hs-hello-world Hello, world!
The executable is large for what it does, but it's also statically linked. You can copy that file over to any other machine with the same OS and architecture and it'll Just Work.
You might save a tiny bit of time by skipping the install step:
$ cabal-dev configure Resolving dependencies... Configuring hs-hello-world-0.1.0.0... $ cabal-dev build Building hs-hello-world-0.1.0.0... Preprocessing executable 'hs-hello-world' for hs-hello-world-0.1.0.0... [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( HelloWorld.hs, dist/build/hs-hello-world/hs-hello-world-tmp/Main.o ) Linking dist/build/hs-hello-world/hs-hello-world ... $ ./dist/build/hs-hello-world/hs-hello-world Hello, world!
Since this project has no dependencies that you want to install locally, you can take some shortcuts.
Run it interpreted, no compilation step needed:
$ runghc HelloWorld.hs Hello, world!
$ ghci GHCi, version 7.4.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> :load HelloWorld [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( HelloWorld.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: Main. *Main> main Hello, world!
And you can build it without cabal-dev (or cabal) at all:
$ runghc Setup.hs configure Configuring hs-hello-world-0.1.0.0... $ runghc Setup.hs build Building hs-hello-world-0.1.0.0... Preprocessing executable 'hs-hello-world' for hs-hello-world-0.1.0.0... [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( HelloWorld.hs, dist/build/hs-hello-world/hs-hello-world-tmp/Main.o ) Linking dist/build/hs-hello-world/hs-hello-world ...
But for a more complicated project, you can use cabal-dev ghci
(after cabal-dev configure && cabal-dev build
Note that it loads your executable's source into the interpreter automatically:
$ cabal-dev ghci on the commandline: Warning: -O conflicts with --interactive; -O ignored. GHCi, version 7.4.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Ok, modules loaded: Main. h> main Hello, world!
GHCi Basics
Some essential GHCi tricks you'll want to know, you'll find more in Chapter 2. Using GHCi.
shows the type of an expression
h> :t main main :: IO () h> :t map map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] h> :t map (+1) map (+1) :: Num b => [b] -> [b]
shows information about a name (function, typeclass, type, …)
h> :i Num class Num a where (+) :: a -> a -> a (*) :: a -> a -> a (-) :: a -> a -> a negate :: a -> a abs :: a -> a signum :: a -> a fromInteger :: Integer -> a -- Defined in `GHC.Num' instance Num Integer -- Defined in `GHC.Num' instance Num Int -- Defined in `GHC.Num' instance Num Float -- Defined in `GHC.Float' instance Num Double -- Defined in `GHC.Float' h> :info map map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b] -- Defined in `GHC.Base' h> :info Int data Int = ghc-prim:GHC.Types.I# ghc-prim:GHC.Prim.Int# -- Defined in `ghc-prim:GHC.Types' instance Bounded Int -- Defined in `GHC.Enum' instance Enum Int -- Defined in `GHC.Enum' instance Eq Int -- Defined in `ghc-prim:GHC.Classes' instance Integral Int -- Defined in `GHC.Real' instance Num Int -- Defined in `GHC.Num' instance Ord Int -- Defined in `ghc-prim:GHC.Classes' instance Read Int -- Defined in `GHC.Read' instance Real Int -- Defined in `GHC.Real' instance Show Int -- Defined in `GHC.Show'
add a module to the scope
h> :m + Data.List h> sort [10,9..1] [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
load a module, :r
to reload
h> :! echo 'hello = print "hello"' > Hello.hs h> :l Hello [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Hello.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: Main. h> hello "hello" h> :! echo 'hello = print "HELLO"' > Hello.hs h> :r [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Hello.hs, interpreted ) Ok, modules loaded: Main. h> hello "HELLO"
Recommended Reading
These are the books and sites that I found particularly useful while trying to learn Haskell myself.
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!: A Beginner's Guide
I found this one to be a great starting point, I would recommend that you
read it first. It doesn't go so deep that you feel like you REALLY understand
GHC works, but I felt pretty comfortable reading and writing Haskell after
getting through this.
Real World Haskell
This book is massive in size and scope, but is still very accessible for
beginners. It'll teach you how to do Real World things with Haskell:
writing tests, profiling, IO, concurrency, etc. I'm still working through
this one, but it's a must-read.
- CS240h: Functional Systems in Haskell was a Haskell class at Stanford taught by David Mazières and Bryan O'Sullivan. It's similar (but larger in scope) to the class I took at Facebook. The lecture notes and syllabus here are fantastic, go through them!
- Real World Haskell
- Learn You a Haskell
- haskell.org is a great entry point, you can find all of the links in this list and MANY more from there. Plan to spend a lot of time browsing this wiki!
- H-99 has a bunch of little problems to work on, much like the Euler project. These should be pretty straightforward to do after reading LYAH.
- Typeclassopedia is a great resource for learning about many of the prominent typeclasses in the Haskell Platform
- Hoogle is a Haskell API search engine that supports searching by type signature! I spend a lot of time with this one
- Hayoo! is another Haskell API search engine, worth a shot if you can't find what you're looking for on Hoogle
- HWN is a weekly Haskell newsletter that gives you the highlights of the mailing lists, stackoverflow, reddit, etc.
- Haskell :: Reddit is the subreddit for Haskell
- stackoverflow - haskell The questions tagged Haskell on stackoverflow are often worth reading (although to be honest I usually end up here from HWN)
- C9 Lectures: FP Fundamentals 13 lectures on Functional Programming Fundamentals (in Haskell) by Dr. Erik Meijer (I haven't watched them yet, but they were suggested by Adam Breen).
haskell on Freenode is where you'll find a few hundred people
interested in Haskell at any given time. Great place for help.
I plan to try and keep this current based on suggestions. Let me know if I'm missing anything of note! I'm not trying to be comprehensive, I think the Haskell wiki does a far better job of that. These are just intended to be highlights.


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Sorry, Brian, I hate to be that guy, but...
Their mostly in it because they hired South Carolina's DL coach and Hand likes him.
I think you meant "they're."
/that guy
Happens to the best of us.
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Yeah all that stuff about VA DE Da'Shawn Hand changing his stuff all around with the exception of Michigan was posted yesterday because EXPLOSIONS. One follow-up from the M Block catching up with Hand's coach:
So really, all it came down to was that Virginia Tech didn't have the degree he was looking for?
"Yeah. This was the thing. With Michigan, I'm telling you, one of those coaches owes that guy lunch man. I mean, he blew us all away. He had us raising our hands, asking questions and everything, it was crazy. I think he was the dean or something? I don't want to misquote it, I'm not exactly sure, but this guy was amazing. He just made it really interesting, Da'shawn was already kind of interested in that program, but after talking to him he was like, 'Wow, that's exactly what I want to do.' "
Hand's never been to Florida, FWIW, so they have to be regarded as the #3 team right now. They're mostly in it because they hired South Carolina's DL coach and Hand likes him. As much as Professor Needs A Raise? Probably not.
Usually the school that is the constant in an otherwise shifting picture is in good shape. If Hand was pulling the trigger today it would be M, with those officials the main barrier remaining.
New highlights of Michigan's QB commit:
Michigan has two and is definitely looking for a third. Chase Winovich is a SAM, Ferns likely a MLB, so they're probably looking for a weakside guy, right? Well… Furbush complicates things since he is definitely a SAM, but in general it looks like it. Michigan is chasing CA LB Dwight Williams—who is planning to come in for the Notre Dame game—FL LB Darrion Owens, and has just offered MO LB Jimmie Swain. Swain is an inside type, as is Williams. Owens just moved down from safety so he could be a fit at WLB despite playing what looks like SAM in his team's spring game—at 6'4", 215 he could also grow into a college-level SAM.
Swain is a consensus three star with some decent offers (Nebraska, K-State, TCU, MSU, Tennessee and the terrifying recruiting machine that is Northwestern). He was on the verge of releasing a top five($) a couple days ago, but his plans may be changing with an influx of offers from Michigan, Oregon, and a couple others.
Meanwhile, Owens just picked up a Georgia offer at their camp, causing some Crystal Ball predictions to roll in for the Dawgs. FWIW, Michigan may be the main challenger right now:
The Georgia offer was "a big one" according to the Oakleaf coaching staff. Owens, who camped at Auburn Sunday, is believed to be a Georgia lean over Michigan and others.
A report from Auburn's camp($) also suggested M and Georgia are having a rare recruiting battle over the kid. FWIW, I ended up watching his hudl video and he's the guy I want. He brings a load when he tackles and cuts through traffic well. Michigan wants Owens to take his time, as he hasn't been to campus yet.
Commissioner Peppers is getting in with Williams, who has his own iphone app. He's got a top 16 that seems like a top-two-and-friends consisting of Florida (official also scheduled) and Michigan. Three other schools who grab officials will likely comprise a top five going into fall. Onetime favorite USC never offered and Williams said he was no longer considering them, so if he stays local it will be with UCLA. Williams is a teammate of Adoree' Jackson, FWIW.
IL OL Jamarco Jones was scheduled to roll through M, MSU, and OSU this weekend; instead he will stay home and play MarioKart:
Won't be making any of my planned visits
— Jamarco Jones (@jjones_73) June 13, 2013
With Ohio State the presumed, if narrow leader that's not good. Visits shake up the status quo more than MarioKart. Mitigating that a bit: Jones apparently posted some madface emoticons—they just show up as boxes for me—afterwards, indicating he's not happy with that development.
Well, it's not like anyone's banking on M picking up OH CB Marshon Lattimore, a Glenville kid reputed enamored with Ohio State, but here's a Wolverine Nation profile anyway. Michigan is scheduled for an official visit along with Alabama, USC, Tennessee(?!), and OSU. That does not constitute a top five according to Lattimore despite obviously being a top five.
Another blaze of Michigan business on 2015 FL WR George Campbell's twitter account, with Campbell exhorting Michigan fans to show fellow 2015 Floridian Jacques Patrick the proverbial love (Patrick is a Derrick-Green-like RB, FWIW) and follow Wilton Speight. Along the way he retweeted TomVH's manual retweet of his original tweet. WE HAVE TO GO DEEPER.
Then Mason Cole's brother started blowing him up with exhortations to head to AA. Twitter, being the iron-clad arbiter of all things, means Campbell will end up in Ann Arbor. Yea, it is in stone.
2015 OH/Denmark TE/DE Hjalte Froholdt is interviewed by ESPN and compares the schools that he's been to in his whirlwind summer:
"All of them stuck out," Froholdt said. "It's amazing how big they are. It's all about family at each school. They're all very nice people.
"They all have a great stadium, a great locker room and great facilities. There's not a facility where you ask if they have something and they say, 'No, I'm sorry we don't.' Everyone has four practice fields; it's hard to compare. I'm happy for everything that has happened."
This has been your moment of zen.
Michigan is trying to get involved($) with TN WR Josh Malone, a consensus top 100 guy. He's going to narrow to five and take officials; bet this is the only time we hear about him before a Happy Trails is issued.
The M Block confirms that OSU is leading with NJ RB Jonathan Hilliman; Hilliman will be at the BBQ.
Here's 2015 MI WR Brian Cole running routes and such at the NFTC. Cole is probably the top kid in the state next year, but since he doesn't have giant Mickey Mouse hands like Ian Bunting I cannot recommend actually watching the video.
Terrifying recruiting machine Northwestern has interest in 2015 Michigan legacy Tyriq Thompson. Everyone who is going to be at camp. It's a long, long list. M is after 2015 UT LB Osa Masina, who will visit this summer($), possibly for camp. His brother just signed with Utah, FWIW.
Have we mentioned that Chase Winovich got a fourth star from Scout? Well, he did. Moe Ways remains Sleeper Of The Year By Default.
Sorry, Brian, I hate to be that guy, but...
Their mostly in it because they hired South Carolina's DL coach and Hand likes him.
I think you meant "they're."
/that guy
Happens to the best of us.
i caught that a second after it was posted, but i was at the deli. Sorry. Sorry all. Copyeditor was at the deli. Tony's Deli. Had a turkey reuben.
Most butchered words online have to be:
definitely (I dry heave every time I see definAtely)
I know I'm missing some other common gems.
Yeah your missing alot of them. I realize you would of put them down if you remembered, but the ones you got really bother me, to.
and yet you write "would of" instead of "would have" or "would've"....Now if I'm not mistaken, I would say someone spelling a word wrong in a post in which they are complaining about people spelling things wrong is.......ironic....TIMMMAY, can I get clarification here please? (That's serious by the way).
There are a few others in there, champ.
I was so close to getting that joke that it gave me a buzz cut as it flew over my head! Sorry dude!
I would like to moderate your comment with "over your head," but you see, that just is not an option.
Brian, get on this please.
Do I have OCD if I can't truly enjoy this post? I get the satire, but dammit...
This is a dominate post.
Acrossed... Not a word
Am I the only one who thought Wilton Speight's highlight tape was rather good for an "non-athletic 3 star"?
When Speight committed, I was thinking the coaches may have jumped too quick, because we had others that may have come on board had we waited. But man, he is really looking good in that highlight film, and he's a pretty good recruiter too. You know what they say........."Real recognize Real"
No, you're not.
don't forget the weak arm!
there might be a nice battle for the starting QB spot. Should hopefully make both Morris and Speight better, and allow UM to hopefully have a viable backup should the starter get hurt.
I like that he always puts some air under the ball and just doesn't try and throw darts. Navarre was tall like Speight, but he had a lot of passes knocked down because he tried to just throw darts. Henne had his share of knock downs, too. Gotta know how to throw it over the defenders.
And the opportunities we still have out there are kinda amazing. With all the anticipation its hard to even think about how long it will be before most of these guys actually even are making an impact on the field for Michigan.
Sleeper of the Year by default you say? My, my, my...how recruiting has changed for UM in the last few years.
is important and meaningful.
I think Alabama is in the process of hiring an actor to do their sports management presentation, after they get the department created.
I think he throws alot of touch passes too. That's probably why there were questions regarding his arm strengh early on. I think also because he's so tall he doesn't appear to be throwing as hard as others.
Is there a general feeling yet on who the third LB is likely to be?
but if I had based my expectations of any science program on how much I liked one particular professor...I would have been sorely disappointed. Unless you do research--which I kinda doubt Hand will have much time to do--you're not gonna get all that much interaction with any given professor...and a lot of professors in a lot of departments suck at any school
Edit: To clearly state my point...I bet the professor he spoke to at UofM was awesome, but I hope for Hand's sake that he was getting pumped about the department/program and not just excited to work with the professor. That's why the whole "the Alabama engineering professor is a football guy" thing sounds kinda irrelevant.
But Kinesiology in general and Sport Management in particular are pretty small programs. There is more personal interaction with professors than in many other departments.
My opinion is that Hand was amazed at what the professor (dean?) had to say about the SM program not exactly that he was enamoured with that partcular professor who gave the presentation.
When he announces his commitment, I would like to see it televised on one of those home shopping networks; and he should be standing outside a large circular table on which will sit the hats of every FBS and FCS school in the country. Music will start, and he will begin to walk around the table. When the music stops, he'll pick up the hat nearest to where he stands and throw that hat in a large barrel. Last hat remaining on the table will be his college choice. . . . And I'd like Michael Buffer to introduce him.
I think Sam Webb has said that the coaches told Furbush they are recruiting him as a MIKE, despite his size.
"super buddy" class, where we get two good players from multiple schools. We already have JBB and Peppers, Cole and hopefully Scott, and if we could get Owens and Jackson, I would be like dang.
The coaches don't actually think things like "We need to find a SAM." or "Who is the best WIL prospect out there?". Instead, they look around and offer LINEBACKERS they like when and if they think they need more linebackers.
I don't know if that's true or not, but it sure seems like it.
Consider; our projected starting SLB was a WR and then a safety and now lines up at DE at times. Our projected starting MLB was our starting WLB last year. We just moved a safety recruit over to SLB.
Until they get into a situation of competing for a starting spot, and sometimes even later, linebackers are linebackers and all this overanalysis of positions and physical metrics is pretty silly.
I think in the coahces minds there is a pretty distinct difference between the SLB and the WLB and MLB. They clearly crave different body types when playing people in those roles. I'm no expert by any means but from what I have read on the board many times is that you need a bigger (taller and longer arms as well as heavier) player as the SLB because they are often taking on pulling linemen and bigger blockers in general. They like the longer arms to keep blockers from getting into their bodies and physically bigger players at the spot to better handle the size of theplayers who will be blocking them.
From everything I have read on the others you can pretty much interchange them (WLB and MLB) with one another. In other words agreeing with what you said in your post. So I guess what I am saying is to me (from what I have read) there is a clear differentiation between SLB and the other two spots.
But ultimately it comes down to being a good football player. Jordan Paskorz maybe closer to prototypical size for a SAM, but James Ross is going to play the position better.
You're talking about a position where position transfers have occured from both the secondary and the DL - just this year. Even though Beyer and Gordon were inhereted from Rodriguez this coaching staff thinks they're the best two options despite having very different bodies.
I do agree that SAM is the outlier to an extent because the other two are identical, but when you're talking about people like Ferns and McCray, I don't think the coaches think things are locked in stone about where these kids end up.
Just because James Ross is an amazing player at WLB, doesn't mean he will do the same at SAM.
AFAIK, SAM requires some length so OL can't latch on. I think Ross' size and length will limit how effective he is at SAM.
Agreed. There is a big difference between SAM and the other two backers. We rarely see guys switch between the two. SAM might be closer to WDE, in fact.
But our starter is a converted WR and Safety and we just moved another DB there.
WDE may be more like SAM, but it's just another position where there is great flexibility. The 2-deep at WDE last spring was Beyer and Black. One is now a DT and the other a LB.
Nickelback is another spot - we've have Courtney Avery there, a small corner, and we've had Thomas Gordon there, now a strong safety.
The prototypical height/weight for these positions is secondary to ability and circumstance. The best players will see the field and the coaches have said as much.
Our starter is actually a guy who played SAM, then moved to WDE, then moved back to SAM.
Nickel corner is just about the worst example you can find, because it's not a full-time position and we had basically nobody to play that position. We were very thin at safety/corner, and despite starting there for two years, now the coaches seem to be moving Avery away from nickel corner because he's not their prototype. They want somebody who can blitz there, which is why Dymonte Thomas seems to be usurping the position. If Gordon played that position, who was supposed to play FS? The coaches were in a position they really didn't like.
So yeah, while people PLAY based on need and the coaches are willing to rearrange, that doesn't mean the coaches RECRUIT without a prototype in mind.
Is different than recruiting with a predetermined destiny. I don't think the coaches think Bolden has to be a MIKE for example. I don't think they think Braden or Kalis have to be OG, as they've already worked at both. Gant moved away from safety.
When the coaches see Peppers I don't think they're too worried about if he ends up as a safety or cornerback, ditto for Stribling.
I'm sure they have an idea or vision for some kids, but they're flexible enough to recognize that things change, there is no certainity, and there is no point in overthinking it.
Well, of course they're flexible enough to adjust, move guys around, etc. If they had three WILLs, one MIKE, and three SAMs, would you expect them to just say "Well, if our starting MIKE gets hurt, I guess we'll just play with ten guys"?
What is a rational response when they see, time and time again, that recruits don't pan out as expected? Some they get totally wrong, not even talking about positions, but their ability to contribute to special teams even. Others they move around. Every year we get a dozen position switches from the coaches. Do you really think they're still going to peg guys into very specific positions when they don't have to? To continue to plan in a way that has shown to not be accurate?
I think the coaches recognize that their crystal balls aren't perfectly clear. I really find it hard to believe they do any sort of exercise as detailed as the depth chart by class on MGoBlog. I'm sure they do it for position groups, but for slot WR, boundary corner, LG, WILL -- I really doubt it.
In your example, I think they say, we have 7 LBs - let's start our best 3, one at each spot. If the one MIKE is not as good of a player as the 2nd SAM on your list, they'll move the 2nd SAM over. In other words, if Beyer or Gordon don't play up to their potential and Bolden excels as a backup - he'll be moved to SAM, even if he's not the prototype.
You're talking about two different things.
One is recruiting.
One is coaching.
You seem to be mixing up the two. You said earlier that you think they recruit "linebackers" and then slot them into positions later, but there's no evidence that they do that. I totally agree that they'll put a backup MIKE at SAM if the backup MIKE is the best player for the SAM position at the time, but that has nothing to do with recruiting.
And the coaches recruit to fit the needs of the team. I think they recognize and value flexibility, because they know they'll need it.
They've specifically said that WILL and MIKE are all but identical - yet people continue to project a high school player as one or the other. Others may not agree that the flexibility extends to SAM but it certainly applies to the ILB spots.
The current recruiting strategy - offers out to LBs of all types and sizes - supports my argument more than it supports the view that coaches have a specific position pegged for every guy and determine needs at specific spots to determine recruiting strategy.
While I'm sure they tell kids - we see you at X position doing ___ things as a recruiting tool, they also know that plans change all the time and they prepare themselves for that uncertainty as best they can.
"They've specifically said that WILL and MIKE are all but identical - yet people continue to project a high school player as one or the other."
No, they haven't. They have said that the MIKE is usually a bigger guy, and the WILL is usually a quicker guy. They are somewhat interchangeable because they have similar responsibilities, but there's a reason that Demens played MIKE and not WILL, that Ross is playing WILL and not MIKE, that Morgan bumped from WILL to MIKE, etc.
Does Morgan fit in the middle better becuase of his still set?
"Well, he was in the middle all the time. I've had that question asked a number of times. Is he a better MIKE than a WILL? the MIKE and the WILL are almost the exact same player. They're the same thing. there's not much that separates the two. it just allows us to get guys on the filed quicker. He was the most experienced of the guys --so if there are any subtleties -- to move there. And age. he's got [two years] of being out there in the big games, where James [Ross] has had one year. Joe Bolden showed be some very good things, too. Royce [Jenkins-Stone] did some very good things. It's just again, who keeps improvign this summer."
So please explain why they changed Morgan's position and inserted Ross at WILL instead of keeping Morgan there and just inserting Ross at MIKE.
Well Mattison seems to suggest that if there are any subtleties it is that you put the more experienced guy in the middle.
Is Desmond Morgan back inside?
"Somebody mentioned that, they said, 'You changed Morgan.' I don't ever look at it as being a change. Inside linebackers are inside linebackers. A team can trade a tight end or shift and they can end up getting you in that position anyhow. I always look at those two guys as inside linebackers, especially with now the guys we have. They're all about the same kind of players. If you have a real big guy, then sometimes he plays a MIKE linebacker and the other guy doesn't, but now I think our backers are all kind of the same body type, same ability to run and that kind of thing, so we put them both at the same [position]."
Is that by design?
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At the time of their Grammy gig in February, the folk-rock veterans stated explicitly that their awards-show performance was a one-time-only event that would not lead to a tour. Also, both artists are going to be busy for a while; Art Garfunkel has solo tour dates booked through mid-November, while Paul Simon is in the studio working on a new solo album, Billboard reports. Still, there is renewed interest in their music, not just from their Grammy appearance, but also thanks to a fan named Clay Aiken who was born nine years after Simon & Garfunkel released their last studio album. The ''American Idol'' runner-up put his cover of the duo's 33-year-old ballad ''Bridge Over Troubled Water'' on the B-side of his single ''This Is the Night,'' which is expected to debut atop Billboard's singles chart this week. Now, if ''Idol'' winner Ruben Studdard would just cover ''Feelin' Groovy,'' Simon & Garfunkel could pre-sell tickets to those winter shows in no time. Or at least serve as guest judges on ''Idol'' next January.


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Bayonetta is more than just a fun, sexy, angel-slaying romp that's managed to become 2010's first major hit – it's also crammed to the gills with references to other games and media. Some of these are subtle and some are blatant, but either way there are an awful lot of them, and seeing as Bayonetta is the winking brainchild of some of the most cultish developers in the industry, it's hardly a surprise.
In the interest of pointing out some of the references for those who didn't catch them while playing through Bayonetta (and to reaffirm the observation skills of those of you who did), we combed through the game and came up with 30 distinct nods to past videogame glories and pop-culture giants.
WARNING: Minor spoilers ahead!
1. The development team
It's no secret that Bayonetta's developer, Platinum Games, is largely made up of refugees from Capcom's sadly defunct Clover Studios. What's slightly less well-known is that a lot of those same people also worked on the first Devil May Cry, something that's alluded to in the name of Team Little Angels, the dev team behind Bayonetta.
Fans with long memories will recognize this as a direct callback to DMC, which was created by an internal team at Capcom then known as Team Little Devils.
2. Eggman is dead (maybe)
Bayonetta opens with a funeral for an apparently reviled individual named Eggman the Destroyer. And unless you haven't played a Sonic game since the early '90s, you should already know that Eggman is another name for Dr. Robotnik, nemesis of Sonic the Hedgehog. Who now apparently is dead and about to be forgotten, with nobody but a gravedigger and a nun to attend his services.
Is it the same Eggman? Does Bayonetta take place in Sonic's world? Will we eventually have to see them kiss?
Probably not (seeing as his body isn't even present), but it's a nice, unsubtle shout-out to publisher Sega's most iconic villain.
Above: SO, SO DEAD
3. Viewtiful Joe's dead, too (probably)
Nothing confirms a beloved character's death quite like a tombstone, especially if it's glimpsed briefly in the background of a cutscene. And because Platinum/Clover (which adorned the headstone with the words "Red Hot") was behind the Viewtiful Joe series, this is both an obvious reference and a sad reminder that old Joe probably won't be coming back again.
4. Home Run God
A split-second after Joe's tombstone is revealed, Bayonetta's arms dealer/partner-in-crime Rodin puts a couple of idle angels to good use by swatting them into the stratosphere with a bat that he just suddenly has.
This is a call-out to yet another Clover-developed game, the wonderfully silly brawler God Hand, which features a near-identical super-attack called Home Run God.
It's really better if you see it in motion, though:
5. Sonic's rings
Oh, and speaking of Rodin, you know those halos he covets so fiercely? The ones that scatter everywhere whenever you kill an angel? He can pretend all he wants that they have some angelic significance, but anyone with eyes can see they're the same things Sonic's been collecting for decades.
6. Rodin, bald space marine
And speaking of halos, this is one of the messages you'll hear from Rodin on entering his shop:
It might seem like a cryptic, clumsy reference to generic space marines, but think for a second: what do you know of that features space marines, space, and halos? Hmmmm…
Yeah, we can't think of anything, either.
7. You're not getting a chainsaw arm
Rodin's just full of references to other games. Here's another one:
Tempting as it might be to think that this is a shout-out to the Evil Dead movies, it's far more likely that what Rodin's actually referencing here is Platinum Games' previous effort, Madworld, in which protagonist Jack sported a trendy, retractable wrist-chainsaw.
8. Whadya buyin'!?
And of course, unless you play videogames under a rock, you'll recognize what this is from:
That's right: it's another Capcom reference, this time to our old friend, the gravelly voiced merchant from Resident Evil 4 who probably has leprosy.
If you'd like to compare Rodin's delivery of the classic line to the original, check out the video below:
9-10. Who does he think he is?
Rodin doesn't just hint at other games in his dialogue – he does it visually, too. Take, for example, the way his demonic red eyes occasionally glint right through his sunglasses:
This could be seen as a reference to Resident Evil's Albert Wesker, which itself could have been seen as a reference to Terminator. So hey, double score. Also, when he disappears into Inferno to make new weapons for Bayonetta, he always returns exhausted and covered in blood.
Above: Nothing strange about that, right?
However, the unusual position of the blood splash kind of reminds us of a certain other bald terror of the battlefield…
Above: HMMMMM…
11. Let's rock, baby!
This next quote comes courtesy of Bayonetta herself, although if you're not aware of the context for it, a line like "Let's rock, baby!" probably seems way too generic to be considered a "reference." But there's a history here…
… and that history is that "Let's rock, baby!" was actually the first line ever spoken by Devil May Cry's Dante, just before the game's title screen popped up.
Don't believe us? See the video evidence yourself:
12. Flock off, feather face!
This line, meanwhile – spoken when Bayonetta faces off against the giant boss creature Fortitudo in Chapter IV – is way too weird to be generic, or a coincidence.
In fact, it wouldn't surprise us if Bayonetta and Devil May Cry were the only two instances in history when it was actually spoken by human beings.
See these two rare, weirdly appropriate lines together below:
13. Henshin a go-go, baby!
There's bound to be some contention over this next "reference," but we're including it anyway because it seems too good to not be true. In Chapter III, Bayonetta shouts an unsubtitled line while surfing down a rushing wave of lava on the back of a hapless angel.
To us, it sounds a bit like "Dancing a-go-go, baby!" But others have sworn up and down that it's actually Viewtiful Joe's iconic line, "Henshin a-go-go, baby!" Granted, they're awfully close, and it's a strange thing to say if she's not making a pointed reference. That, plus a healthy dose of wishful thinking, makes us side with the Joe fans on this one.
Give them both a listen and decide for yourself:


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HM is destroying Springbok rugby, still using his 1990`s game plan, and taking one of SA`s best fly half's and making him play like that idiot Morne Steyn, Pat is being destroyed by this stupid game plan. HM should get FIRED, as I think he does not know what the hell he is doing with the Springboks, it is like he has no plan of action for the future of Springbok rugby and just want to win, "does not matter how or who he destroys on the way" he is trying to save his job that is all he is doing. HM is picking players that can run with the ball in hand then tells them to kick and kick and kick the ball away, Zane should not even be a Springbok, but gets picked every game this year, Morne is in my eyes the number 6 fly half in SA, even Demetri is better the him, where is Bash, why was he not picked at all.
Why is HM playing players that are injured, and then picks a loose head to play tight head, it is like he has not learnt from the mistakes made by previous Bok coaches, wrong, wrong; everything he is doing is wrong for the Springboks, HM is living in the past, I feel he is still upset no angry that he was over looked 5 years ago when PDV got the job, I do feel that a neutral coach, someone like Eddie Jones will be the best option to coach the Springboks as he will have no loyalties to any SA player or franchise.
I want HM to be FIRED, after what happened this weekend, I know how Pat plays for the Sharks and on Saterday the first time he got the ball he KICKED it, and KICKED it, that was instructions send to him, he does not play like that that is how HM wants him to play, wrong again.


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Taking the Wheel
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By Sumayyah Meehanm, TMO
Most women in America don't think twice about hopping in their cars and hitting the open road to run errands, pick the kids up from school or simply enjoy a long leisurely drive. However, in Saudi Arabia, women are still banned from driving despite several high profile incidents over the years that has thrust the global media's attention on the issue. This past week the issue was once again brought into the limelight as a female Saudi Arabian citizen took to the wheel and later posted the video on the popular social-networking site YouTube.
With her brother in the passenger seat, 32-year-old Manal al-Sharif, took a short spin that landed her in the slammer. The drive was deliberate as al-Sharif herself revealed in a recent interview in which she lamented her frustration for not being able to find a taxi one night, "I had to walk on the street for half an hour looking for a cab. I was harassed by every single car because it was late at night and I was walking alone. I kept calling my brother to pick me up, but his phone wasn't answering. I was crying in the street. A 32-year-old grown woman, a mother, crying like a kid because I couldn't find anyone to bring me home." Al-Sharif learned to drive in the United States and holds a driver's license from America. However, in her homeland, only men are issued driver's licenses.
According to Saudi Arabian authorities, al- Sharif broke several laws after she got behind the wheel including, "bypassing rules and regulations, driving a car within the city, enabling a journalist to interview her while driving a car, deliberately disseminating the incident to the media, incitement of Saudi women to drive cars, and turning public opinion against the regulations." Scores of Saudi citizens have rallied behind al-Sharif and begun to question the veracity of the driving ban on women especially when there is nothing on the books that legally bars a woman from driving.
Soon after her incarceration, a Facebook page was erected entitled 'We are all Manal al-Sharif: a call for solidarity with Saudi women's rights' The page has already garnered 19,000 likes. Another fan page related to the women's driving ban in Saudi Arabia is also getting a lot of support, to the tune of 6,000 likes so far, albeit for all of the wrong reasons. The page encourages Saudi Arabian men to beat their female relatives with a heavy brocaded rope known as the "Iqal", which adorns the Saudi Arabian men's headdress, should any of the women demand driving rights.
Al-Sharif remains in prison and her fate is yet to be determined. Some analysts have predicted she will stay in prison for five days, however it remains to be seen if she will face further penalties for deliberately flaunting the driving ban. Meanwhile, another Saudi Arabian woman copied al-Sharif's drive this week and was swiftly arrested at a local supermarket. However, she was only held for a few hours and released.
Pushing Freedom
May 19, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Sumayyah Meehan, TMO
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves".
~Abraham Lincoln
The word "freedom" is one that is being heard more and more often in the Middle East whether it is in the media or brought up in simple conversation. Countries like Egypt and Tunisia have already tasted the sweet tang of freedom in recent months. Other countries, like Bahrain and Libya, are still waiting to savor even a morsel of freedom in their countries. While certain parts of the Middle East have yet to provide full throttle freedom for its denizens there is one country that has been a beacon of light for a primary liberty, freedom of speech, in the Middle East for many years.
The State of Kuwait has topped the annual Freedom House "Freedom of the Press Survey" for several years running and has been heralded as having one of the most free media sectors in the region. However, this year, Kuwait was toppled from first position by Israel and further pushed down a notch by Lebanon to take third position.
It's not surprising that Kuwait lost the top spot given that the past several months have seen quite an amount of political turmoil in the country with some media outlets not only reporting the news but also becoming part of it. At least one television station was ransacked in the pasts several months and one writer jailed over public statements they made which were deemed to be inflammatory.
Members of the public in Kuwait have also been prone to having their freedom of speech impugned as of late. This past January a Kuwait-based blogger was sued by an international eatery over writing a negative food review. Fortunately, the blogger proved victorious as the case was thrown out of court. However, this past week a group of Kuwait University students found themselves simmering in a pot of "hot water" over comments made about one of their teachers on the social-networking site Facebook.
According to the teacher, who chose to press charges, the students posted derogatory comments about her teaching methods on a personal page. Other students chimed in about their experiences and it snowballed from there. Authorities investigated the incident and the case was seemingly closed until the teacher demanded punitive measures from the university's governing panel. All of the students, some of which are set to graduate in the coming month, involved in posting the comments online face expulsion. In a counterclaim, a spokesman for the student union known as 'The Democratic Circle' has retorted, "Freedom of speech is a fundamental right granted by the Constitution. The fact that a university instructor does not respect this premise signifies the existence of a larger issue and jeopardizes the university's reputation as an educational institute."
Only time will tell if Kuwait can regain its status as the exemplar for free speech in the region. But one thing is for sure, censorship and transgressions against freedom of speech are both meals best served up cold.
June 27, 2009 by TMO · 2 Comments
By Sumayyah Meehan MMNS
She stepped out of the car for just a moment to catch her breath. And in the blink of an eye she was shot dead by government forces in the middle of an Iranian street. The lone bullet hit Neda Agha-Soltan right in the chest. The 26-year-old university student began bleeding from her nose and mouth as her eyes rolled back into her head and her body became still. The woman whom friends have described as a loving friend and engaging companion was buried the next day. Her family was not even allowed to hold a memorial service or hang a black banner on the front door because the government feared it would only further incense protestors and cause more havoc on the Iranian streets.
Neda's death was captured on a cell phone video camera and uploaded to the Internet before her body was even removed from the street. Millions of Internet users have viewed the footage of Neda's final moments online and her death has served as a catalyst for the continuation of protests against perceived voting irregularities, which resulted in the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
For thousands of Iranians, Neda has become the symbol of the fight against the oppressive Iranian regime. She was an innocent victim who was targeted simply because she attended a public protest against the government. There have been many innocent victims of the Iranian government's crackdown on so-called unlawful protests. Both men and women alike have been beaten by merciless government forces, with many losing their lives in the battle.
Neda's death has, specifically, reached out to the hearts and minds of Iranian women who have been emboldened to let their voices be heard. Some women walk down the streets adorned with the Islamic headscarf while holding placards skyward. Others throw stones and chant anti-government slogans. While others yet have used themselves as human shields to protect the injured from further atrocities or helped the wounded get off the streets and away from government forces.
The current protests in Iran have been likened to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, however there has been a drastic change that runs along gender lines. The revolution that took place 30 years ago was comprised almost exclusively of male protestors whereas today female protestors are clearly outnumbering the men on the Iranian streets. It has taken years for Iranian women to find their voices. Their coming of age can be seen in screen grabs from cable news program and in video footage uploaded to the Internet.
No matter what the outcome of the current protests turns out to be or how many innocents are beaten and battered. There is one thread of truth that runs through it all and makes Neda's assassination anything but in vain. And that truth is that the Iranian women are the new pioneers for change in their country. With every step that they take or stone that they hurl, Iranian women are fighting the good fight for change, democracy and freedom in their country.


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Yagoda, Genrikh (Grigoryevich)
Yagoda, Genrikh (Grigoryevich)
biographical name(born 1891, Lodz, Pol., Russian Empiredied March 15, 1938, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) Soviet politician. A leader of the Cheka secret police (1920–24) and its successor, the OGPU (1924–34), and a close associate of Joseph Stalin, he organized the Soviet's forced-labour camps from 1930 and became a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee in 1934. As head of the Commissariat of Internal Affairs, or NKVD, he prepared the first of the purge trials (1936). In 1937 he was replaced as police chief by Nikolay Yezhov and himself became a victim of the widespread purges. Accused of being a member of a Trotskyite conspiracy intent on destroying the Soviet Union through sabotage, he was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed.
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