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It takes just a few minutes to walk to the centre of Braunlage with its small shops and all the amenities offered by a climatic health resort. A number of walking trails and the cable car up Mount Wurmberg pass close to the hotel. Rest and recuperation are guaranteed in the spa and beauty salon.
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A study aimed at identifying the source for discolored water experienced by a large swath of Port St. Joe water customers will be longer, broader and more complex than originally expected.
David Kozan with CDM Smith, the company that designed the $21 million surface water treatment plant that went online some three years ago and has been plagued with issues of water quality since, said initial sampling had shown a wider range of potential problem sources and potential solutions.
What was initially expected to be a study completed in the fall is now 8-12 weeks away from the intensive pilot testing, Kozan said. Two months ago, the hope was that intensive testing would not be needed.
For city commissioners, it was not the news they had hoped for while awaiting a report on the initial testing undertaken by researchers at Virginia Tech University.
Kozan said he would not have the report completed for another two weeks.
Commissioners, city staff and city engineers Preble Rish have variously expressed frustration with the flow of information from CDM Smith.
"We are moving slower than we thought," Kozan said. "The testing data was more complex. The pilot testing will be more extensive than we originally thought.
"We cast a broad net and we caught more than we thought we would. We don't want to do it and not do it right."
The initial testing involved taking existing small sections of pipe from 10-12 locations from water plant to households/businesses.
The hope was that the testing would show the primary culprit to be corroded iron breaking away from aging pipes – some dating to the Great Depression – due to the caustic nature of the surface water and the new treatment protocol required.
That would have likely required little more than a tweaking of the chemical treatment protocol to address.
However, Kozan said the initial testing showed a more varied array of issues.
"We found there are multiple sources of iron and also sources for manganese," Kozan said, noting both iron and manganese could be causing the discoloration and would also account for the various hues and intensity of the discoloration experienced throughout the distribution system.
"The discoloration could be performed by a variety of factors. We have so much variation in the data."
Kozan said the manganese is not coming from water entering the plant. Whether the source is rainfall or from the distribution system – the city is nearing phase two of a three-phased project to replace some 20 miles of aged pipe – or another source is unknown.
"We were a little surprised to see as much manganese," Kozan said. "(Identifying the source) is a very complicated problem to solve."
City manager Jim Anderson said manganese had also been a significant problem with city officials in Dalton, GA, the site of a water plant and microfiltration that in the entire country most closely mirrors the Port St. Joe plant and system.
Kozan said he was unaware of that and asked Anderson for additional information.
Kozan said the study was also somewhat hamstrung by the lack of historical data.
The plans for the pilot study have now changed, Kozan added. The company will now likely harvest just one existing pipe section to send to Virginia Tech. Beyond that, the university will use "metal blanks" or unused pipe as comparison for a variety of chemical tests.
Kozan said he was looking to take a section of two-inch galvanized iron pipe from the area of Avenue A-Avenue B.
Publics Works director John Grantland wondered about that selection. He noted that that area's pipe would soon be replaced as the final component of the first phase of pipe replacement and wondered why a section of newer PVC pipe would not be used as PVC was replacing the old iron pipe throughout the city.
"We suspect a fair amount of water (problems) in (PVC) areas is manganese from the plant or a disturbance in the system," Kozan said, such as a fire hydrant open.
The pipe from Avenue A or B would be representative of the system, Kozan added.
"We need to look at taking care of the manganese and look at taking care of iron breaking off and potential future sources," Kozan said. "This is a multi-pronged effort."
Commissioner Rex Buzzett said he was not trying to be confrontational but wondered about the end game.
A pilot study that appeared headed in one direction and with an estimated window of completion was taking on the look of a much longer process with the potential fixes more complex and potentially more costly.
"There has to be an end point," Buzzett said.
Kozan said CDM Smith would have to change the scope of the work "completely."
Broadband lease
The city approved a lease agreement with a company that will mean more broadband capabilities in the county.
The move is specifically aimed at the Port of Port St. Joe, said Jim Brook of the Florida Rural Broadband Alliance, LLC.
The port has a potential customer which has interest in broadband capabilities.
"Companies looking to relocate here are going to look at broadband capacity," said Mayor Mel Magidson. "If we don't have that, they will look elsewhere."
The Broadband Alliance is not a retailer of broadband service – it provides a "larger pipe", Brook said, for broadband capacity and provides the services free to schools and libraries who wish to connect.
The lease would allow the Alliance to erect towers on the Shark Tank water tower and Highland View water tower. The estimated value would be applied to the local match of a federal grant to increase broadband access to rural communities.
The city could begin realizing revenue from the lease in four or five years, Brook said.
There is no cost to the city.

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November 23, 2010
To Mark One Year Since Massacre In Philippines
Dear friends and colleagues,
We write to you on behalf of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) to alert you to activities around the world to commemorate the world's single biggest atrocity against journalists - the brutal murder of 32 journalists and media workers in a massacre of at least 58 people in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao, in the southern Philippines on November 23, 2009.
At the request of colleagues attending the IFJ Asia-Pacific regional meeting in September 2010, the IFJ Asia-Pacific office is working with our friends in the Philippines to prepare a Global Day of Action on November 23, 2010, to mark the one-year anniversary of the massacre.
The IFJ and many other international organizations are coordinating global activities, while the NUJP and its local partners in the Philippines will run an intense program of events throughout the Philippines before and on November 23.
IFJ Asia-Pacific will join the NUJP in the Philippines for an international mission in the week of November 23 to provide solidarity to the families and colleagues of those murdered, to support the NUJP in its tireless campaigning for justice, and to conduct advocacy with the Government of Benigno Aquino III to demand justice and an end to the culture of impunity that has gripped the Philippines for far too long.
The overwhelming support shown for the NUJP last year by fellow IFJ affiliates from around the world meant a great deal to all media personnel across the Philippines. Let's remind our colleagues there that we remain firmly committed to supporting them in their difficult struggle for justice and protection.
Noting that all the required letter templates and fact sheets are attached to this email, we request your support and participation in the following ways:
November 23, 2010: Global Day of Action
Organise for a delegation from your organisation to meet with Philippine Ambassadors and consular officials in your home countries, to alert them to your concerns for journalist colleagues in the Philippines and to demand that all those responsible for the Ampatuan town massacre are brought to justice.
Deliver a letter to the President of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino III, via the Philippines consulate or embassy in your country (a template letter is attached). Please adapt the letter according to your organisation's preferences.
The attached fact sheet outlines details of events in the Philippines since the massacre. Include this fact sheet with your letters to President Aquino. Also use it to inform media in your country of the situation in the Philippines.
Write to Foreign Ministers and officials of your home countries to request that your Government demand that the Philippines administration takes action to address the massacre and achieve justice. A template letter is attached. Please adapt the letter according to your organisation's preferences. Include the fact sheet.
Participate in online protest actions which will be organised through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. We will provide more detail on these actions shortly.
Lead-up to November 23:
Affiliates, partners and colleagues are encouraged to begin a series of actions that will build up to the Global Day of Action on November 23. Here are some suggestions:
Prepare a condolence register or book which can be signed by members of your union and all concerned individuals and organizations. Share the signatures with the NUJP and IFJ.
Write letters of support and solidarity to the NUJP. Send them to the IFJ at firstname.lastname@example.com or to IFJ Asia-Pacific at email@example.com to be delivered to the NUJP.
Encourage your colleagues working in the media to prepare and run news and feature reports on the Maguindanao atrocity and the continuing efforts to secure justice – do not let this issue fade.
Let everyone know about the Global Day of Action on November 23, and continue to express your outrage at the Maguindanao atrocity.
Please send photos and information about your protest actions to the IFJ at firstname.lastname@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com. Your reports will be compiled and shared publicly by the IFJ and the NUJP to show solidarity with our colleagues in the Philippines and the strength of a united global demand for justice.
In the Philippines:
See attached draft summary of activities to be conducted by the NUJP in the Philippines.
Please be aware that all letter templates and fact sheets attached to this email can also be accessed at: http://asiapacific.ifj.org/en/pages/global-day-of-action-to-mark-one-yea...
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BONIFAY — Holmes County Board of County Commissioners called a special session on Friday, March 1 in order to purchase 500 tons of rock to repair county maintained roads after the recent heavy rains and flash floods devastated the roads during the course of the previous week.
BOCC approved to pay Junction City Main for 500 tons of rock at $28 per ton and approved of hiring Wayne Powell to haul the rock for $6.50 per ton.
Commissioner Kenneth Williams said he came in contact with three possible local haulers with one telling him no, the other said he'd get back with him and never did and the last being Powell.
Commissioner Bill Parish inquired about labor, asking if his road crews could work late Friday and some of Friday to help fix the county roads quickly.
"We've got roads that are in dire need of repair and soon," said Parish.
All those present agreed that as long as it stayed within the required procedures that it should be fine to do what is necessary to complete repairs as needed.
While the commissioners were together, Parish asked that they consider a local vender to address the needs of emergency vehicles.
"We had an ambulance down for two days," said Parish. "One day the ambulance got a flat and went to the shop to get another one, but had to wait an additional day so that it could get balanced. That is unacceptable for an emergency vehicle."
Williams explained that the county shop had a balancer but there is a part that went out on the equipment and the previous board denied the request to purchase a new part.
"I'm find with the idea of using a local vender for emergency use on emergency vehicles, I just think we should wait until the attorney is present before we take this discussion further," said Williams.
Parish agreed and requested that the board think on the matter so that it could be further discussed at the next regularly scheduled meeting.
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Holmes County Board of County Commissioners is set for 9 a.m. on Tuesday, March 12 at the BOCC Chamber located beside the Holmes County Court House in Bonifay.
Road Closures for Holmes County as of 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 1:
|Bonifay Gritney Rd
|Bridge at Creek
|Blue Springs
|Camp Sites
|River Road
|Camp Sites
|Tony Parsons Ln
|Bridge Creek
|Spring Valley
|W end of Int.79 & Gavin Rd
|Howell Williams
|Cane Mill Rd
|Spears Rd
|Sheffield Dr.
|Hwy 177 to Whitehead Road
|Adolph Whitaker Rd
|Wrights Creek Bridge
|Hoovers Mill Road
|At bridge of inter. of Adolph Whitaker Road
|Beall Packing Road
|At Shoefly Bridge
|Horse Shoe Loop
|Wrights Creek Over Flowing
|Commander Road
|Baker Landing
|Tram Road
|Landing Cove
|Long Round Bay Rd
|Bush Road
|Valee Rd
|Soft spot in the road / boggy
|Buddy Gilley Rd
|New Effort Road
|From Short Drive to Wilcox Crossing D#5
|Bonifay Gritney Road
|From 177A to Boswell Crossroads
|Bonifay Chipley
|Water crossing @ Co Line
|Tri-County Airport
|Robbins Bridge Road
|North Holmes Creek
|Alford Rd
|Trainee Rd
|Woodham Rd
|Spears Rd
|Boney Bridge Rd
|Steverson Rd
|D#3 / S End offf Hwy 79 / Spring Hole
|Creek Rd
|Off Hwy 79 / water crossing is deep
|Malcom Taylor Rd
|S End -Water Over Rd where it joins Adolph Whitaker
|Canee Branch Rd
|Washed Out At Bridge D#5
|A J Steverson
|Sink hole /middle ways of the rd
|Harris Steverson Rd
|3 Mile Road
|Just E of Joe French
|Reddick Mill Rd
|Water over Holmes Creek Br @ Co Line
|Franklin Rd
|Closed where Eleanor and Whitaker Rd Intersect
|John Marsh Rd
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|Buddy Gilley Rd
|Tobe Retherford Rd
|Wrights Creek Rd
|Wrights Creek Rd to Spring Valley Intersection
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The Adventure Park at Sandy SpringRead MoreThe Adventure Park at Sandy Spring's 13 courses are color-coded by difficulty level, from yellow for beginners to double black diamonds for experts. They aren't ski trails, though?they're climbing challenges. More than 150 platforms adorn 5 acres of trees, which participants trek among by way of cable, wood, and rope bridges, as well as ziplines. A short safety briefing precedes all excursions, covering how to use the included gear and harnesses. The park's main courses aren't the only place to test climbing skills. Over in the Monkey Grove, visitors can scale 10 trees fastened with the footholds and grips of a classic rock wall. Younger climbers, meanwhile, can explore The Labyrinth, a small, contained structure featuring more than 40 junior-sized versions of the park's other challenges. The courses illuminate on select Glow-in-the-Park evenings, when food, live music, and hoot-owl choruses await climbers upon their return to terra firma.16701 Norwood Rd.Sandy Spring, MD US
The Go-Kart TrackRead MoreDrivers rev their engines across three separate raceways at The Go-Kart Track, where thrill seekers can split their time between high-speed chases and rounds of mini golf. The family-oriented entertainment center's three distinct go-kart tracks cater to drivers young and old. The junior track safeguards youngsters with an automatic braking system every time they release the gas pedal, and the family track, recently expanded and made more challenging, lets people ride shotgun in double-seater cars. Finally, the drift track—coated in a special powder—allows drivers 54 inches and taller to slip and slide around turns, drifting like their favorite racecar driver or continent. Aside from its automotive pursuits, The Go-Kart track features a mini-golf course with nine professionally designed holes peppered with obstacles such as cacti and tires.10907 Pulaski HighwayWhite Marsh, MD US


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Xavier faculty and staff often play an important role in a student's career development - engaging students in career related conversations in many settings - classrooms, residence halls, academic departments, within student organizations and countless other places.
The Career Development Office (CDO) greatly appreciates faculty and staff who partner with us and encourage students to utilize our services. We encourage you to share these available online resources and refer your students to our office for additional coaching.
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As in almost all other Lisp dialects, lists in Common Lisp are composed of conses, sometimes called cons cells or pairs. A cons is a data structure with two slots, called its car and cdr. A list is a linked chain of conses. Each cons's car refers to a member of the list (possibly another list). Each cons's cdr refers to the next cons -- except for the last cons, whose cdr refers to the nil value. Conses can also easily be used to implement trees and other complex data structures; though it is usually advised to use structure or class instances instead. It is also possible to create circular data structures with conses.
Common Lisp supports multidimensional arrays, and can dynamically resize arrays if required. Multidimensional arrays can be used for matrix mathematics. A vector is a one-dimensional array. Arrays can carry any type as members (even mixed types in the same array) or can be specialized to contain a specific type of members, as in a vector of integers. Many implementations can optimize array functions when the array used is type-specialized. Two type-specialized array types are standard: a string is a vector of characters, while a bit-vector is a vector of bits.
Hash tables store associations between data objects. Any object may be used as key or value. Hash tables, like arrays, are automatically resized as needed.
Packages are collections of symbols, used chiefly to separate the parts of a program into namespaces. A package may export some symbols, marking them as part of a public interface. Packages can use other packages.
Structures, similar in use to C structs and Pascal records, represent arbitrary complex data structures with any number and type of fields (called slots). Structures allow single-inheritance.
Classes are similar to structures, but offer more dynamic features and multiple-inheritance. (See CLOS.) Classes have been added late to Common Lisp and there is some conceptual overlap with structures. Objects created of classes are called Instances. A special case are Generic Functions. Generic Functions are both functions and instances.
The Common Lisp library relies heavily on such higher-order functions. For example, the
sort function takes a relational operator as an argument and key function as an optional keyword argument. This can be used not only to sort any type of data, but also to sort data structures according to a key.
The evaluation model for functions is very simple. When the evaluator encounters a form
(F A1 A2...) then it is to assume that the symbol named F is one of the following:
If F is the name of a function, then the arguments A1, A2, ..., An are evaluated in left-to-right order, and the function is found and invoked with those values supplied as parameters.
defun defines functions.
A function definition gives the name of the function, the names of any arguments, and a function body:
Function definitions may include declarations, which provide hints to the compiler about optimization settings or the data types of arguments. They may also include documentation strings (docstrings), which the Lisp system may use to provide interactive documentation:
Anonymous functions (function literals) are defined using
lambda expressions, e.g.
(lambda (x) (* x x)) for a function that squares its argument. Lisp programming style frequently uses higher-order functions for which it is useful to provide anonymous functions as arguments.
Local functions can be defined with
flet and
There are a number of other operators related to the definition and manipulation of functions. For instance, a function may be recompiled with the
compile operator. (Some Lisp systems run functions in an interpreter by default unless instructed to compile; others compile every entered function on the fly.)
defgeneric defines generic functions.
The macro
defmethod defines methods. Generic functions are a collection of methods.
Methods can specialize their parameters over classes or objects.
When a generic function is called, multiple-dispatch will determine the correct method to use.
Generic Functions are also a first class data type. There are many more features to Generic Functions and Methods than described above.
defmethod and
To pass a function by name as an argument to another function, one must use the
function special operator, commonly abbreviated as
#'. The first
sort example above refers to the function named by the symbol
> in the function namespace, with the code
Scheme's evaluation model is simpler: there is only one namespace, and all positions in the form are evaluated (in any order) -- not just the arguments. Code written in one dialect is therefore sometimes confusing to programmers more experienced in the other. For instance, many CL programmers like to use descriptive variable names such as list or string which could cause problems in Scheme as they would locally shadow function names.
Whether a separate namespace for functions is an advantage is a source of contention in the Lisp community. It is usually referred to as the Lisp-1 vs. Lisp-2 debate. These names were coined in a 1988 paper by Richard P. Gabriel and Kent Pitman, which extensively compares the two approaches.
Like programs in many other programming languages, Common Lisp programs make use of names to refer to variables, functions, and many other kinds of entities. Named references are subject to scope.
The association between a name and the entity which the name refers to is called a binding.
Scope refers to the set of circumstances in which a name is determined to have a particular binding.
The circumstances which determine scope in Common Lisp include:
To understand what a symbol refers to, the Common Lisp programmer must know what kind of reference is being expressed, what kind of scope it is uses if it is a variable reference (dynamic versus lexical scope), and also the run-time situation: in what environment is the reference resolved, where was the binding introduced into the environment, et cetera.
Some environments in Lisp are globally pervasive. For instance, if a new type is defined, it is known everywhere thereafter. References to that type look it up in this global environment.
One type of environment in Common Lisp is the dynamic environment. Bindings established in this environment have dynamic extent, which means that a binding is established at the start of the execution of some construct, such as a LET block, and disappears when that construct finishes executing: its lifetime is tied to the dynamic activation and deactivation of a block. However, a dynamic binding is not just visible within that block; it is also visible to all functions invoked from that block. This type of visibility is known as indefinite scope. Bindings which exhibit dynamic extent (lifetime tied to the activation and deactivation of a block) and indefinite scope (visible to all functions which are called from that block) are said to have dynamic scope. Common Lisp has support for dynamically scoped variables, which are also called special variables. Certain other kinds of bindings are necessarily dynamically scoped also, such as restarts and catch tags. Function bindings cannot be dynamically scoped (but, in recognition of the usefulness of dynamically scoped function bindings, a portable library exists now which provides them).
Dynamic scope is extremely useful because it adds referential clarity and discipline to global variables. Global variables are frowned upon in computer science as potential sources of error, because they can give rise to ad-hoc, covert channels of communication among modules that lead to unwanted, surprising interactions.
In Common Lisp, a special variable which has only a top-level binding behaves just like a global variable in other programming languages. A new value can be stored into it, and that value simply replaces what is in the top-level binding. Careless replacement of the value of a global variable is at the heart of bugs caused by use of global variables. However, another way to work with a special variable is to give it a new, local binding within an expression. This is sometimes referred to as "rebinding" the variable. Binding a dynamically scoped variable temporarily creates a new memory location for that variable, and associates the name with that location. While that binding is in effect, all references to that variable refer to the new binding; the previous binding is hidden. When execution of the binding expression terminates, the temporary memory location is gone, and the old binding is revealed, with the original value intact. Of course, multiple dynamic bindings for the same variable can be nested.
In Common Lisp implementations which support multithreading, dynamic scopes are specific to each thread of execution. Thus special variables serve as an abstraction for thread local storage. If one thread rebinds a special variable, this rebinding has no effect on that variable in other threads. The value stored in a binding can only be retrieved by the thread which created that binding. If each thread binds some special variable *X*, then *X* behaves like thread-local storage. Among threads which do not rebind *X*, it behaves like an ordinary global: all of these threads refer to the same top-level binding of *X*.
Dynamic variables can be used to extend the execution context with additional context information which is implicitly passed from function to function without having to appear as an extra function parameter. This is especially useful when the control transfer has to pass through layers of unrelated code, which simply cannot be extended with extra parameters to pass the additional data. A situation like this usually calls for a global variable. That global variable must be saved and restored, so that the scheme doesn't break under recursion: dynamic variable rebinding take care of this. And that variable must be made thread-local (or else a big mutex must be used) so the scheme doesn't break under threads: dynamic scope implementations can take care of this also.
In the Common Lisp library, there are many standard special variables. For instance, the all standard I/O streams are stored in the top-level bindings of well-known special variables. The standard output stream is stored in *standard-output*.
Suppose a function foo writes to standard output:
It would be nice to capture its output in a character string. No problem, just rebind *standard-output* to a string stream and call it:
-> "Hello, world" ; gathered output returned as a string
Common Lisp supports lexical environments. Formally, the bindings in a lexical environment have lexical scope and may have either indefinite extent or dynamic extent, depending on the type of namespace. Lexical scope means that visibility is physically restricted to the block in which the binding is established. References which are not textually (i.e. lexically) embedded in that block simply do not see that binding.
The tags in a TAGBODY have lexical scope. The expression (GO X) is erroneous if it is not actually embedded in a TAGBODY which contains a label X. However, the label bindings disappear when the TAGBODY terminates its execution, because they have dynamic extent. If that block of code is re-entered by the invocation of a lexical closure, it is invalid for the body of that closure to try to transfer control to a tag via GO:
When the TAGBODY is executed, it first evaluates the setf form which stores a function in the special variable *stashed*. Then the (go end-label) transfers control to end-label, skipping the code (print "Hello"). Since end-label is at the end of the tagbody, the tagbody terminates, yielding NIL. Suppose that the previously remembered function is now called:
This situation is erroneous. One implementation's response is an error condition containing the message, "GO: tagbody for tag SOME-LABEL has already been left". The function tried to evaluate (go some-label), which is lexically embedded in the tagbody, and resolves to the label. However, the tagbody isn't executing (its extent has ended), and so the control transfer cannot take place.
Local function bindings in Lisp have lexical scope, and variable bindings also have lexical scope by default. By contrast with GO labels, both of these have indefinite extent. When a lexical function or variable binding is established, that binding continues to exist for as long as references to it are possible, even after the construct which established that binding has terminated. References to a lexical variables and functions after the termination of their establishing construct are possible thanks to lexical closures.
Lexical binding is the default binding mode for Common Lisp variables. For an individual symbol, it can be switched to dynamic scope, either by a local declaration, by a global declaration. The latter may occur implicitly through the use of a construct like DEFVAR or DEFPARAMETER. It is an important convention in Common Lisp programming that special (i.e. dynamically scoped) variables have names which begin and end with an asterisk. If adhered to, this convention effectively creates a separate namespace for special variables, so that variables intended to be lexical are not accidentally made special.
Lexical scope is useful for several reasons.
Firstly, references to variables and functions can be compiled to efficient machine code, because the run-time environment structure is relatively simple. In many cases it can be optimized to stack storage, so opening and closing lexical scopes has minimal overhead. Even in cases where full closures must be generated, access to the closure's environment is still efficient; typically each variable becomes an offset into a vector of bindings, and so a variable reference becomes a simple load or store instruction a base-plus-offset addressing mode.
Secondly, lexical scope (combined with indefinite extent) gives rise to the lexical closure, which in turn creates a whole paradigm of programming centered around the use of functions being first-class objects, which is at the root of functional programming.
Thirdly, perhaps most importantly, even if lexical closures are not exploited, the use of lexical scope isolates program modules from unwanted interactions. Due to their restricted visibility, lexical variables are private. If one module A binds a lexical variable X, and calls another module B, references to X in B will not accidentally resolve to the X bound in A. B simply has no access to X. For situations in which disciplined interactions through a variable are desirable, Common Lisp provides special variables. Special variables allow for a module A to set up a binding for a variable X which is visible to another module B, called from A. Being able to do this is an advantage, and being able to prevent it from happening is also an advantage; consequently, Common Lisp supports both lexical and dynamic scope.
Macros allow Lisp programmers to create new syntactic forms in the language. For instance, this macro provides the
until loop form, which may be familiar from languages such as Perl:
All macros must be expanded before the source code containing them can be evaluated or compiled normally. Macros can be considered functions that accept and return abstract syntax trees (Lisp S-expressions). These functions are invoked before the evaluator or compiler to produce the final source code. Macros are written in normal Common Lisp, and may use any Common Lisp (or third-party) operator available. The backquote notation used above is provided by Common Lisp specifically to simplify the common case of substitution into a code template.
Variable capture can introduce software defects. This happens in one of the following two ways:
The Scheme dialect of Lisp provides a macro-writing system which provides the referential transparency that eliminates both types of capture problem. This type of macro system is sometimes called "hygienic", in particular by its proponents (who regard macro systems which do not automatically solve this problem as unhygienic).
In Common Lisp, macro hygiene is ensured one of two different ways.
One approach is to use gensyms: guaranteed-unique symbols which can be used in a macro-expansion without threat of capture. The use of gensyms in a macro definition is a manual chore, but macros can be written which simplify the instantiation and use of gensyms. Gensyms solve type 2 capture easily, but they are not applicable to type 1 capture in the same way, because the macro expansion cannot rename the interfering symbols in the surrounding code which capture its references. Gensyms could be used to provide stable aliases for the global symbols which the macro expansion needs. The macro expansion would use these secret aliases rather than the well-known names, so redefinition of the well-known names would have no ill effect on the macro.
Another approach is to use packages. A macro defined in its own package can simply use internal symbols in that package in its expansion. The use of packages deals with type 1 and type 2 capture.
However, packages don't solve the type 1 capture of references to standard Common Lisp functions and operators. The reason is that the use of packages to solve capture problems revolves around the use of private symbols (symbols in one package, which are not imported into, or otherwise made visible in other packages). Whereas the Common Lisp library symbols are external, and frequently imported into or made visible in user-defined packages.
The following is an example of unwanted capture in the operator namespace, occurring in the expansion of a macro:
UNTIL macro will expand into a form which calls
DO which is intended to refer to the standard Common Lisp macro
DO. However, in this context,
DO may have a completely different meaning, so
UNTIL may not work properly.
Common Lisp solves the problem of the shadowing of standard operators and functions by forbidding their redefinition. Because it redefines the standard operator
DO, the preceding is actually a fragment of non-conforming Common Lisp, which allows implementations to diagnose and reject it.
Common Lisp includes a toolkit for object-oriented programming, the Common Lisp Object System or CLOS, which is one of the most powerful object systems available in any language. Originally proposed as an add-on, CLOS was adopted as part of the ANSI standard for Common Lisp. CLOS is a dynamic object system with multiple dispatch and multiple inheritance, and differs radically from the OOP facilities found in static languages such as C++ or Java. As a dynamic object system, CLOS allows changes at runtime to generic functions and classes. Methods can be added and removed, classes can be added and redefined, objects can be updated for class changes and the class of objects can be changed.
CLOS has been integrated into ANSI Common Lisp. Generic Functions can be used like normal functions and are a first-class data type. Every CLOS class is integrated into the Common Lisp type system. Many Common Lisp types have a corresponding class. There is more potential use of CLOS for Common Lisp. The specification does not say whether conditions are implemented with CLOS. Pathnames and streams could be implemented with CLOS. These further usage possibilities of CLOS for ANSI Common Lisp are not part of the standard. Actual Common Lisp implementations are using CLOS for pathnames, streams, input/output, conditions, the implementation of CLOS itself and more.
Common Lisp is a general-purpose programming language, in contrast to Lisp variants such as Emacs Lisp and AutoLISP which are embedded extension languages in particular products. Unlike many earlier Lisps, Common Lisp (like Scheme) uses lexical variable scope.
Most of the Lisp systems whose designs contributed to Common Lisp—such as ZetaLisp and Franz Lisp—used dynamically scoped variables in their interpreters and lexically scoped variables in their compilers. Scheme introduced the sole use of lexically-scoped variables to Lisp; an inspiration from ALGOL 68 which was widely recognized as a good idea. CL supports dynamically-scoped variables as well, but they must be explicitly declared as "special". There are no differences in scoping between ANSI CL interpreters and compilers.
Common Lisp is sometimes termed a Lisp-2 and Scheme a Lisp-1, referring to CL's use of separate namespaces for functions and variables. (In fact, CL has many namespaces, such as those for go tags, block names, and
loop keywords.) There is a long-standing controversy between CL and Scheme advocates over the tradeoffs involved in multiple namespaces. In Scheme, it is (broadly) necessary to avoid giving variables names which clash with functions; Scheme functions frequently have arguments named
lst, or
lyst so as not to conflict with the system function
list. However, in CL it is necessary to explicitly refer to the function namespace when passing a function as an argument -- which is also a common occurrence, as in the
sort example above.
CL also differs from Scheme in its handling of boolean values. Scheme uses the special values #t and #f to represent truth and falsity. CL follows the older Lisp convention of using the symbols T and NIL, with NIL standing also for the empty list. In CL, any non-NIL value is treated as true by conditionals such as
if as are non-#f values in Scheme. This allows some operators to serve both as predicates (answering a boolean-valued question) and as returning a useful value for further computation.
Lastly, the Scheme standards documents require tail-call optimization, which the CL standard does not. Most CL implementations do offer tail-call optimization, although often only when the programmer uses an optimization directive. Nonetheless, common CL coding style does not favor the ubiquitous use of recursion that Scheme style prefers -- what a Scheme programmer would express with tail recursion, a CL user would usually express with an iterative expression in
loop, or (more recently) with the
iterate package.
See the Category Common Lisp implementations.
Common Lisp is defined by a specification (like Ada and C) rather than by a single implementation (like Perl). There are many implementations, and the standard spells out areas in which they may validly differ.
In addition, implementations tend to come with library packages, which provide functionality not covered in the standard. Free Software libraries have been created to support such features in a portable way, most notably Common-Lisp.net and the Common Lisp Open Code Collection project.
Common Lisp has been designed to be implemented by incremental compilers. Standard declarations to optimize compilation (such as function inlining) are proposed in the language specification. Most Common Lisp implementations compile source code to native machine code. Some implementations offer block compilers. Some implementations can create (optimized) stand-alone applications. Others compile to bytecode, which reduces speed but eases binary-code portability. There are also compilers that compile Common Lisp code to C code. The misconception that Lisp is a purely-interpreted language is most likely due to the fact that Lisp environments provide an interactive prompt and that functions are compiled one-by-one, in an incremental way. With Common Lisp incremental compilation is widely used.
Some Unix-based implementations, such as CLISP, can be used as script interpreters; that is, invoked by the system transparently in the way that a Perl or Unix shell interpreter is.
Commercial implementations include:
Freely redistributable implementations include:
Historical implementations include Vax Common Lisp - Digital Equipment Corporation's implementation that ran on VAX systems running VMS or ULTRIX.
See the Category Common Lisp software.
Common Lisp is used in many commercial applications, including the Yahoo! Store web-commerce site, which originally involved Paul Graham and was later rewritten in C++ and Perl. Other notable examples include:
There also exist open-source applications written in Common Lisp, such as:


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Winter storm slams regionBy Lucia Suarez
STAFF WRITER | December 28,2012Vyto Starinskas / Staff Photo
Skiers from Massachusetts push their vehicle out of a snowbank on a road leading to Stratton Resort late Thursday evening.Vermonters had to dust off their snowplows and shovels Thursday when the storm that gave them the first real taste of winter in close to two years dumped double-figure inches of snow.
Rutland resident Julie Fox said she enjoyed going out to shovel the snow that accumulated in front of her house by the afternoon. She said it gave her an excuse to get some fresh air and exercise after putting away Christmas decorations.
Last year I didnt shovel once, Fox said Thursday afternoon as snow continued to fall steadily in the city. Last year it was like an extended fall.
It has been 658 days since March 2011 since Vermonters had more than 6 inches of snowfall from one storm. The storm began in southern Vermont and moved across the state before morning. The storm should be off the Gulf of Maine today.
Its pretty moderate to heavy snowfall, said forecaster Brooke Taber with the National Weather Service in Burlington midafternoon Thursday. Its going as expected.
At 4:30 p.m. Thursday, snow accumulation in Rutland City reached 6.5 inches and Rutland-Southern Vermont Regional Airport reported 13 inches. In other areas it reached double digits. Danby reported 10.6 inches while Killington Ski Resort reported 15 inches. In other places, Salisbury had 13 inches, Waterbury 16.5 inches, and Chester had 10 inches.
Taber said the numbers were pretty close to what they expected. He said the snow was expected to taper off Thursday night with some snow showers and flurries expected today.
Even before the brunt of Thursdays storm hit with full force, local hardware stores reported a spike in business. LaValley Building Supply on Route 7 in Rutland was doing a brisk business in shovels, rock salt and sand.
Were still in good shape on the roof rakes and the snow melt, said store manager Pat St. Lawrence.
With the storm keeping people off the road, customers who braved the weather and the road conditions were shopping for items they couldnt do without.
The few people who have come in are buying shovels and salt and sand and all that kind of stuff, said David Dutton, who manages the Aubuchon Hardware store on South Main Street in Rutland.
Large storms can often mean a rush on rock salt, shovels and even snow blowers. But with last seasons below average snow fall stores had more than enough inventory left over to meet demand.
At the Home Depot on Route 4, operations manager Jenny Bates said the store was fully stocked. She said the store sold a number of snow blowers the day before the storm.
Bates said the snow blowers are lined up like soldiers, assembled, ready to go. She said prices range from $99 for a power shovel to more than $1,000 for one with all the bells and whistles.
Snow removal equipment wasnt the only items moving out the door.
We have sold quite a few wood pellets ... people are stocking up on those to keep warm, Dutton said.
Across the state, road conditions were jeopardized by the consistent snow fall. Larry Dodge, a spokesman for the state Agency of Transportation Operations Center, said although all roads were open during the day, limited visibility caused many delays.
A lot of slide offs, said Dodge in the afternoon on Thursday. Nothing major. Nothing that is closing roads.
In Bennington, Lt. Lloyd Dean of the Bennington Police Department said there were no major problems by midafternoon. Dean said since late Wednesday night there had only been three cars off the road and two crashes. None of the incidents involved any serious injuries.
A lot of people are staying home and theyre driving much safer with this snowfall than they did Dec. 22 (when) there were nine crashes on the dayshift during a several hour period. People are now heeding the warnings and not driving and driving slower, Dean said.
Elsewhere Vermont State Police reported several vehicles off the road including a crash on Howe Hill Road in Sharon where a womans vehicle slid into a snow bank and hit a tree.
Dorcas Freeman of Woodstock said she felt her car being pulled into a snow bank after she drove too close to the road edge, according to police.
Rutland City Public Works Commissioner Evan Pilachowski said the roads in the city were not good and that car traffic impeded them from clearing the roads as quickly as they wanted.
Earlier in the day Thursday, he asked local residents to not park on the roads if they could or to not drive at all because it would be easier to clear the roads.
Its snowing harder than we can get ahead of it, said Pilachowski on Thursday afternoon. Its pretty bad out there.
He said they prepared an overnight plowing crew after the storm tapered off to clear the roads for todays morning commute.
Air travel was also impacted by the storm as all commercial flights into and out of the Rutland-Southern Vermont Regional Airport were canceled Thursday, said airport manager Dave Carman.
Carman said Cape Air hopes to resume its three daily flights to Boston this morning.
He said the daily inbound UPS flight arrived Thursday morning. However, Carman said he was unsure whether the evening UPS flight would take off.
The airport remained open Thursday, but he said poor visibility is a factor, even with the airports new instrument landing system.
Although the snow storm brought with it a lot of headaches of having to plow and clear streets and sidewalks, for others it was an opportunity to hit the slopes.
Sherry Morse and her 10-year-old son Declan of Westford, Mass., decided to take several trips down the hill behind the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church off of Woodstock Ave.nue
We have not had any snow yet, Morse said. We came (Wednesday) to make sure we made it before the storm.
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It was a vision that would eventually grow into what is now one of the most respected and comprehensive cardiovascular surgery programs in the mid-Mississippi Valley.
The year was 1982
Southeast Missouri Hospital, under the leadership of Administrator O.D. Niswonger, had recently observed its 50th anniversary of service to the region and the "Hospital on the Hill" was preparing to embark on a journey of growth that would bring several new services to the region, not the least of which was "open heart" surgery.
Responding to the Region's Need
By 1980 the southeast region of Missouri was the only part of the state which did not offer a heartsurgery program. At that time, this area was also home to the largest percentage of elderly Missourians and had the dubious distinction of having the highest death rate in the state due to cardiovascular-related diseases.
This combination of facts led to a study by the Area Five Health Systems Agency which revealed that a large number of cardiovascular cases were being referred out of Southeast Missouri at a rate that could easily justify establishment of a local heart surgery program.
Referral out of the area was not only an inconvenience for patients and families, but a matter of life and death as well. Dr. Talbert commented at the time that a certain number of deaths could be directly attributed to the lack of heart surgery here. "We just can't stabilize some patients and get them to the city in time," he explained more than 20 years ago.
Armed with this information, Southeast began building the foundation of its comprehensive cardiovascular surgery program. The Hospital's new Robert D. Harrison Annex would provide ample room for spacious and modern surgical suites, new intensive care and cardiac care units, and other components for a complete Cardiovascular Services Department.
A group of local cardiologists -- including C.R. Talbert, Jr., M.D., W. Kirk Bowman, Jr., M.D., Charles DeFelice, M.D., and Allen Spitler, M.D. -- were part of the initial discussions as the Hospital prepared to bring heart surgery to the region. Several anesthesiologists were also key participants in the early planning including Riley R. Adams, M.D., R. Blaine Russell, D.O., and Huey D. Tewis, D.O.
From the physicians' perspective, many of the necessary elements for a comprehensive cardiovascular services program were falling into place including a cardiac catheterization lab, intensive care, anesthesia and nursing care. In addition, the Southeast Auxiliary was involved by raising funds to expand the heart program.
In October of 1983, Dr. Talbert and Dr. DeFelice were joined by Medical Staff President J. Stephen Whitten, M.D., Board of Trustees President Stanley Grimm, and members of the Hospital administration in support of Southeast's heart surgery Certificate of Need application before the Missouri Medical Facilities Review Committee.
According to Mr. Niswonger, "We were prepared to answer any questions they might have had; but apparently our certificate of need application more than substantiated the region's need for the service because the Committee's vote was swift and unanimous."
Building Southeast's Heart Team
With the support of the Board of Trustees, the Medical Staff, and the community and the approval of the Hospital's certificate of need, the next step was to identify a team of heart surgeons to lead the cardiovascular surgery program. Southeast's Cardiac Surgery Planning Committee embarked on an exhaustive nationwide search and recruited highly talented and skilled heart surgeons to the staff.
And on October 1, 1984, a 33-year-old mother of two from Portageville underwent the first coronary artery bypass surgery at Southeast Missouri Hospital.
In the years since, Cathy Haven has been joined by nearly 6,500 other heart surgery patients from throughout Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois (as well as parts of eight other states) whose lives have been enhanced -- and in many cases saved -- by the surgical team of the Regional Heart Center.
Looking Back
Two decades after helping lay the groundwork for the Regional Heart Center, former Southeast Administrator O.D. Niswonger smiles with pride when asked about the cardiovascular surgery program. "In all my years with Southeast, there wasn't any other project that was more gratifying to me than our heart surgery program," he remarked.
The program's success, he said, required the perfect combination of staff dedication, physician involvement, medical technology, financial resources and a commitment on the part of the Hospital's lay leadership and administration. "It took teamwork, a 'can do' attitude by everyone involved and a leap of faith to make it happen," he reflected. "And it all came together...without missing a beat!"


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NXT "Robot Wars" at NI Week
Pictured above is the NXT "Robot Wars Challenge" board at NI Week in Austin, TX.
Several of our blog contributors attended the event this week. We're looking forward to pictures, information and impressions of NI Week, courtesy of the blog contributors who attended. (Hint, Hint.....).
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- Micah said...
The picture looks like the same course as last year... didn't they mix it up a little? Or better still, come up with a new challenge?
- Aug 11, 2007, 1:08:00 AM
- Rick Rhodes said...
I took this picture from the 2007 NI Week Program. The organizers may have put the 2006 picture in the 2007 program. Or, the course may indeed be the same as last year's.
The conference attendees can clarify this when they return.
- Aug 11, 2007, 2:00:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Pics and commentary are coming, I promise. Brian Davis, Chris Smith, and myself were present and will provide some details. I'm extremely tired and need to catch up on email and some work.
Brian took a LOT of pictures, and he has plans to post some (or all) of them when he gets a chance, so please be patient and we promise to talk about our experience.
- Aug 11, 2007, 2:04:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
"Brian took a LOT of pictures..." Yeah, I was pretty annoying, wasn't I ;-) ? I've got around 200 pictures to sort and filter, but I kicked off the subject in a post above. The table and challenge were very different from last year, and a good bit of fun (in the "crashed robot" shot in the first NI Week '07 post, you can see some of the table in the background... no tearing up robots was not part of the challenge :-) ). It allowed for head-to-head four-team rounds, which were a lot of fun to watch. DAZLR was a huge hit (running down the batteries completely at least once) as were LNE, and a number of creations from Steve Hassenplug and Bryan Bonahoom.
PS- Huge rock-crawling vehicles do not do well in RoboSoccer... until they literally crush or disable all the competition, anyway ;-).
Brian Davis
- Aug 11, 2007, 3:51:00 AM


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Leica: Beauty in the hand of the beholder
A Leica camera is a powerful thing. One touch can change your life. Just ask the company's director of production management, photography, Stefan Daniel and he'll tell you.
Daniel was just 8 years old when he was first introduced to these classic cameras courtesy of his cousin, whose parents both worked at the Leitz factory - the pre-1986 name of the company behind the Leica brand. As part of Style Week on Pocket-lint, there really was no better man to talk to about what makes a gadget look great.
"I was always fascinated in taking pictures; always keen. I don't know why; to express myself, to have something to show someone, to record stuff? The first time I touched a Leica, I was overwhelmed. It was the magic moment of the product itself. I've heard it happened to many with Leica and it also happened to me. I was so inspired that I thought 'why not work for them?'"
Growing up Solms, Germany, where the company is based, it perhaps wasn't quite the far out idea it might seem. Leitz had a superb reputation and naturally accounted for the employment of a large part of the community, and it was in 1984, at the age of 16, when Daniel made the decision to begin an apprenticeship in the precision mechanics division rather than attend university. It was a decision that would ultimately see him as the man responsible for the look, feel and inner workings of the Leica M cameras for the last 12 years and even their glassware two; everything from the Leica M7 onward.
"It's my job to collection opinions," he tells us happy to talk from his desk in Germany. "I collect what people like about the M6 and M8, for example, and write down a product concept. It's total production management; everything from the idea - whether internal, external or from customer feedback - until the last piece is sold onto the market; the whole life cycle."
It might seem like a far cry from the agonising tests of creating and ensuring that the working parts of a camera fit together perfectly, to exceptionally low tolerances, through thousands upon thousands of shutter releases, aperture changes and speed settings but, for Daniel, it's the lessons behind the key to Leica's design success.
"Engineering at this level gives you a feel for the materials. Filing, turning, grinding surfaces gives you a feel for internal workings and how materials fit together. They're the basics for the further steps of design and we aim for quality.
"How something is built and how it's worked down to its moving elements - exactly how the shutter dial clicks to make sure it feels good and that there's no play at all - that is what we do. So when you pick up a Leica camera, it feels as if you have a precision instrument in your hand. I'm not a musician but I'm told that if you look at Fender guitars it's the same as people say about them. They feel perfect."
It's small wonder that the manufacture times on some of the lenses can be up to 6 months. If you want the very best that money can buy, then there's a waiting list of over a year before some of the more select lenses can reach the hands of a consumer.
It's not in the construction itself though. With all the raw materials in front of an engineer, it might only take up to 6 hours to actually build a Leica M camera or lens but sourcing some of precise parts are where the bottlenecks can occur. For example, Leica has its own recipe for a certain type of glass that manufacturers will melt for them but for only two weeks each year. Miss the week by a day and there's a long time until the next one comes around.
Of course, all the wait on the customer's side helps go towards that special feeling of owning a Leica camera, whether the company intends that to happen or not.
"Sure, it might make you feel exclusive but we feel we stretch it a little too far," Daniel jokes. "We've added capacity, new employees and machines over the years but, still, the demand is overwhelming."
So, what makes these cameras so desirable? According to Daniel, it goes even beyond the idea of merely function, more than the joy of this precision instrument. Its beauty comes across by simply holding it. Pick one up and many, like Daniel, mysteriously fall in love.
"We have a philosophy of high authenticity of materials. If something looks like metal, it is metal. If it's plastic, then it's a very high class plastic. Everything must be done properly. There must be an authenticity of materials so that when it's in the customers hand, they don't feel cheated.
"Take the shutter speed dial numbers. They're not just painted on. They're engraved and then filled in with our own paint. You can it feel in whole product even 20 years after when normal paint would have gone away on other cameras. It's very, very expensive but worthwhile for authenticity."
Start thinking about the solid blocks of brass that the top and bottom of the Leica M9 is milled from and it begins to make sense why this authenticity of materials equates to a camera that you'll need a second mortgage to afford, and that's before you've bought a lens to go with it.
Even for those that will have never the pennies, though, nor a wealthy enough acquaintance to ever get to hold a Leica camera, there is an undeniable attraction. It goes beyond the ergonomics. It can even be love at first sight, let alone touch. The reason is because Leica cameras look classic; how photography ought to be which is rather odd considering that there was absolutely zero thought for aesthetics put into Leica when it was originally dreamed up.
"When Barnack conceived that first Leica, he didn't think about industrial design. He just thought about what he needed to make it work. Put two rolls of film and a shutter and lens in between and you end up with the shape of a Leica M camera.
"Like all Leicas in 1930s, 40s and 50s, there was no industrial designer. It was made by engineers. That's what the attraction is from. Not a fancy fashion designer making a finish for a camera like putting on a hat it. It speaks for itself. We always try to maintain that even though we have industrial designers these days. We're careful not to over design."
But with retro a big part of photography at the moment, both in camera design and in the photography itself, is there a fear from Daniel that Leicas will simply go out of fashion? Apparently not.
"I don't think of our cameras as retro looks. We try to make timeless, not retro. Some manufacturers go retro with no attachment to the past. We just follow our heritage. Look at the M9. It's a Leica M camera first and foremost. It's not so much retro. It could be confused with retro but it's not a retro object."
Not retro then, "classic" seems to be the aesthetic watchword here even if the lines between the too styles can blur but, with a range that stretches back nearly 100 years, there's plenty of models to admire all the same.
Daniel himself is a proud owner of 10-12 of them. He loses count as he tries to name them all but insists that he's not a collector. Every one was bought to use even though these days 99 per cent of his photography is digital leaving his M3, M6, M5, R62 et al to fight for the one or two rolls of film he shoots each year. The pride of his non-collection? The Leicaflex SL2, the same that belonged to his cousin and took his heart all those years ago. One of the pre-war screwmount cameras would be next on his shopping list with the Leica IIIc or IIIf most likely.
Daniel's only "mistake", as he jokingly puts it, is his Leica R62 which he bought in silver rather than his preferred black finish but, of course, silver or black isn't the only choice with Leica cameras even if it is the most usual. Every now and then, the company releases a limited edition device with runs of just 500 or so and price tags obviously through the roof. The olive green Leica M8.2 safari edition with matching Billingham bag or M7 Hermes edition finished in orange or taupe calf skin are two from recent history, but it's the most recent of all that's the one that Daniel likes best.
"The Titanium M9 is my favourite. That's absolutely clear. It was just great fun working with Walther de'Silva and his team. The product itself is fantastic and it's not just about the external design. It's truly different. Much more than a limited edition."
Yours for £20,000 (just look down the back of the sofa), the camera was a collaboration with the Volkswagen Group's chief designer and his Audi design team who added scratch resistant sapphire crystal glass to the monitor, premium Audi car leather to the camera's trim and even an LED guide line illumination through the viewfinder as well as the obvious construction of every single piece of visible metal from solid Titanium.
"I wasn't so much in favour of working with a car designer to begin with but it turned out really great," admits Daniel. "He understood the core values of the brand immediately."
"We have worked with them on some designs since, so maybe there'll be another limited edition with them one day, yes."
It's unlikely, of course, that we'll see another titanium Leica any time soon but there are other materials that Daniel and his team would be interested in working with.
"Kevlar and carbon could be nice additions because they're very lightweight, sturdy and solid. Also coating materials with PVD to make them hard like diamond could be done too."
One could certainly see the appeal of a bullet proof camera for photojournalists, and just how much of this design focus spills over to the rest of Daniel's lifestyle?
"It's very important to me. Always. I would rather buy nothing than something that was no fun. I've never found that in a TV, so I'm not part of the flatscreen revolution. I still have an old tube."
Like most designers you'll find, the one area where Daniel can go to town collecting objects with almost no end of fun is with cars.
"I own four classic cars," he confesses, caught out by Pocket-lint's prediction on the matter.
"The first is the Jaguar E-Type which is the most beautiful car ever made. Then there's my Triumph TR6 which, for me, is the archetypal roadster. It's just great. Then I have two old Volvos - the 164 and then the 264. People say the 264 is the ugliest car ever built but I like it. Everything apart from the tyres and the steering wheels are square. Even the speedo is square."
So, beauty in industrial design can be square, plastic, titanium or simply in something's heritage but there is a formula, says, Daniel, to connecting them all; a way of making sure that whatever product you create is beautiful.
"Beauty is about the perfect combination of when you look at it, when you touch it and when you handle it. The camera with no buttons looks best but you just can't use it, and you must expect that, as life gets more complicated, people will look to ease of use. So we have to concentrate on products they love to use as much as they like to hold and to look at them too. It's not about engineer driven design, especially the interface, but more for simplicity."
A tall order and something which, of course, comes to only those who can afford in the case of Leica, but there are other cameras out there which Daniel appreciates for their design direction which might be more achievable.
"I like the Fuji X100; not so much for the industrial design - that is a retro-look camera - but the viewfinder is excellent. The old Hasselblad U system machines are also beautiful. For actual production cameras though? That's difficult for me. They're not focused on the simplicity of photography. They're a good example of that can be done with electronics but not about the needs of the photographer."
All the same, it's the latter group of cameras - DSLRs with high burst rates and hyper-granular exposure and control, and compacts with super-zoom lenses and a million scene modes - that fill the space and the hands of a growing population of photographers the world over. Will the world cease to be interested in what a pretty looking German camera with a back to basics manual approach can do or will Leica continue to fight the fight?
"Of course," is Daniel's breezy response.
"Market share for Leica is so small that there'll always be a space for people who want to be different and not take photos like all the others. It's the same as hi-fis compared to pianos and violins. The market is smaller but it will always be there. That's how we see our cameras; like instruments. You need to know how to use them but, if you can, it's better than playing a record."
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Bonner, a longtime Campo resident, was indicted last year in San Diego federal court on conspiracy and wire fraud charges. Prosecutors said that he billed personal expenses for wages, travel, meals, tickets to sporting events and other items to the union.
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