text: Typist Clerk II at Purchasing Department (District Warehouse) in Lodi Employer: Lodi Unified Date Posted: 1/25/2013 Contact: Berta Marquez Number Openings: (At time of posting) 1 Length of Work Year: 8hrs / 12 Month (Less 7 Furlough Days) Start time: 8:00 a.m. Employment Type: Full Time Application Deadline: 2/11/2013 4:30 PM Pacific Salary: $13.00- $15.80 / hr Date Posted: 1/25/2013 Application Deadline: 2/11/2013 4:30 PM Pacific Employment Type: Full Time Length of Work Year: 8hrs / 12 Month (Less 7 Furlough Days) Start time: 8:00 a.m. Salary: $13.00- $15.80 / hr Number Openings: (At time of posting) 1 Contact: Berta Marquez Email: email@example.com Phone: Job Description / Essential Elements: Print LODI UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTCLASS TITLE: TYPIST CLERK IIBASIC FUNCTION:Perform a variety of clerical support duties for an assigned school, department or program according to several specific routines and broadly defined policies and procedures.DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS:The Typist Clerk II classification performs a variety of clerical support duties involving application of broadly defined policies and procedures. The Typist Clerk II classification performs a variety of complex and diverse clerical duties involving independent judgment and action within a specific office functional area which requires a knowledge of the function served or provides sole clerical support to a major school or District office function.REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES:Individual positions may not perform all of the duties listed nor do these examples include all responsibilities of positions in this class.Type letters, memoranda, bulletins, reports, schedules, lists, handbooks, questionnaires, requisitions or other materials from straight copy, rough draft or verbal instructions; compile information from various sources and type a variety of forms. EType and perform other clerical duties for the assigned supervisor, certificated personnel, administrators and other staff members as directed. EProof documents for accuracy, completeness and conformance to established procedures. ECompile and tabulate statistical data. EDevelop and maintain a variety of files and records. EInput a variety of records and information into computer system. EAnswer telephone, greet students and the public and provide routine information and direct inquiries to the appropriate person or office; make phone calls to request or provide information as directed. EAssist in maintaining records for an assigned program. EOperate a variety of office machines including a computer terminal, typewriter, calculator and duplicating machines. EParticipate in the attendance function in a school office as assigned. EReceive and verify applications for program services; receive and review applications for completeness and accuracy according to program guidelines; recommend eligible program participants. EReview records according to program guidelines to assure continued eligibility of program participants. EEnroll students and maintain student records as assigned; assist students with information and services as necessary.Order, store and issue supplies and materials as directed.Assure the timely distribution and receipt of a variety of records, reports and bulletins as directed.Receive, sort and distribute incoming and outgoing mail as assigned.Perform related duties as assigned.KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:KNOWLEDGE OF:Modern office practices, procedures and equipment.Record keeping techniques.Correct English usage, grammar, spelling, punctuation and vocabulary.Reading and writing communication skills.Oral and written communications skills.Basic math.Interpersonal skills using tact, patience and courtesy.Operation of a computer and assigned software.ABILITY TO:Maintain accurate records and prepare reports.Understand and follow oral and written directions.Learn to operate a computer terminal.Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others.Type at 45 words net per minute from clear copy.Work confidentially with discretion.Make arithmetic calculations quickly and accurately.Operate a wide variety of office equipment.Meet schedules and time lines.Plan and organize work.Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:Any combination equivalent to: high school diploma or equivalent and responsible clerical experience. WORKING CONDITIONS:ENVIRONMENT:Office environment.PHYSICAL DEMANDS:Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer, typewriter and other office machines.Sitting for extended periods of time.Bending at the waist, kneeling or crouching.Reaching overhead above the shoulders and horizontally to maintain and retrieve files.Board Approved 11/2/99 Requirements for Applying Any combination equivalent to: High School Diploma or equivalent (MUST BE ATTACHED TO THE APPLICATION) and reasonable clerical experience. Attach to application current typing certificate (within last 6 months) for 45 NWPM (5-minute test with 5 or less errors). Original typing certificate must be verified! Internet certificates are not acceptable. Requirements for Applying Any combination equivalent to: High School Diploma or equivalent (MUST BE ATTACHED TO THE APPLICATION) and reasonable clerical experience. 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146 King Street Clarence Town
Roseneath - Circa 1860's - REDUCED BY $100,000
Rare opportunity to purchase a piece of history...... "Roseneath" is in near original condition with hand made bricks & castellated walls, 4 bedrooms with tall cedar windows, featuring fireplaces, separate lounge & dining rooms.. West wing has bathroom plus 2 extra rooms. "Roseneath" has pride of position looking over Williams River frontage on approx 4 acres of prime country. Set amongst beautiful gardens, this home is well under market value. Only 45 minutes to Newcastle.
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Touched by an Angel
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When Joey breaks the Christmas angel while he and Wayne decorate the Christmas tree, Wayne leaves him alone to monitor the turkey while he goes out into the snow to buy a new angel. As the storm causes the lights to go out, Monica arrives to console Joey by telling him the story of the Christmas she spent with Mark Twain in 1909. Monica begins, explaining how Twain returned on Christmas eve after a long absence to find his beloved daughter Jean, his housekeeper Katy Leary, a townswoman, Mrs. Allen with her daughter Helen. Immediately prior to Twain's arrival, Jean shows the others her Christmas gift to her father, a copy of a lost verse from her father's favorite Longfellow poem. When he arrives, Jean hurriedly hides the scroll on the tree. Mrs. Allen and her daughter Helen then leave, Twain comments that such sweetness is the stuff of Heaven. Twain reflects on the deaths of his wife, daughter and infant son and says he is too old to be cheered up. Back in the present, Edna arrives to use Joey's phone but the lines are dead. As Wayne's truck swerves off the road, Monica resumes the story with the death of Jean on Christmas Eve. While attempting to console Mr. Twain, Monica is lambasted and told to leave. In the present, Tess arrives with the sheriff who tells Joey that they found Wayne's truck but not Wayne and Joey becomes more worried. Shortly thereafter, Andrew enters and Monica continues the story. Monica is sent back to Twain by God and prays for help. At that very moment Sam arrives and approaches Twain but is soon thrown out as he topples the tree. As Joey sits listening to the story, he is now convinced that Wayne is dead and topples his own tree. Monica then manages to calm Joey down for long enough to hear the end of her story. She continues with the young girl, Helen returning to present the scroll that was to be Jean's surprise gift. As Helen finishes reading the known verse, Twain reads the lost verse. "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep. The wrong shall fail, the right prevail. With peace on earth goodwill to men. This restores Twain's faith and, in the present, Joey echoes his sentiment singing "Peace on Earth." As Joey sings, Wayne arrives and all join in and sing around the restored Christmas tree.moreless
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Monica: (to Joey) That is God's gift to you and to everyone at Christmas. Fear not, live in peace.
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Guest stars John Cullum and Helena Carroll had previously appeared together in the off-Broadway play "Three Hand Reel" and the Broadway revival and national tour of "Private Lives" (starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton).
Guest star John Cullum, who plays an aged Mark Twain in this episode, played a middle-aged Tom Sawyer, opposite George C. Scott's Huck Finn, in the two-character Broadway play "The Boys in Autumn" in 1986.
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This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #ICantEven #BigLots #CollectiveBias.
When I was growing up, my mother had "shopping habits." She went to the same four or five stores for just about everything. To my eleven year-old self, that was boring.
I'm fortunate in that I have a number of stores to choose from (and that doesn't even include the mall!), but I find myself to be just like my mother in that I tend to go to the same places time and time again.
One of those places is Big Lots.
If you know Big Lots, you know they have high style at great prices. It's a great place to buy a few pieces to change out your look, which is what I'm doing in my studio/office.
DL and I finally decided that we would not compromise on two areas of the house: the loft room and the basement. We flipped a coin, and he got the basement and I got the loft room. (This is a lie. I took the loft room and he was stuck with the basement. This is actually fine with him because the basement has a huge television and the loft room doesn't even have a spot for cable.) Because fall is here and I want to cozy things up, I headed over to see what decorative items I could add to my "new" room.
One thing I knew I wanted was a collection of frames and a shadow box. (Actually, I will probably be going back for more shadowboxes!) It was one of my goals to add some items that have meaning to me, and not necessarily to DL. The photos are of my dad as a toddler and two hometown friends of mine at a Lion's Club picnic. The dress was mine as a little girl. The simple black frames allow the pieces to shine through. (The frame selection is great, and varies by store.)
I also knew I wanted to add some autumnal bling, and Big Lots had an enormous amount from which to choose. I chose a mercury glass candle holder and ball.
(These unscented candles -- unscented because of my allergies -- were one of approximately one zillion candles available. The assortment varies.)
Along with the candle holder and ball, I chose some vase filler in a great shade of green. I put this in a basket with the mercury glass ball, and it really adds some bling to the small table inside the door.
The little black table was a Big Lots find, as well. It called to me as I walked past. I love the black against the knotty pine walls, which I'm always debating. To paint, or not to paint? That is the question. But black is good in any room, and this little table fits the bill!
I love to go to Big Lots for seasonal items as well. As you can see, they have a huge assortment. Last year I stocked up on mercury glass pumpkins, which are coming soon to a post.
Across the room, I added two pillows to the loveseat. This is the room where I do all my best thinking and writing of my soon-to-be bestseller. I needed a soft pillow and so I bought the blue one. Then I found the GORGEOUS paisley pillow in the colors (orange, green, beige, aqua) that I am using in the room. What great good luck! To those, I added a blanket just in case I get chilly.
I am lucky that I have not one but TWO Big Lots nearby, and I love them both. Depending on which direction my errands take me, I probably shop them equally. Both have pleasant folks at the cash registers and a wide assortment of fun items to decorate with. What I especially love is that I can change out all my accessories without breaking the budget. Last year I traded out a lot of my autumn decor for larger-scale items, and Big Lots was the place I went first. This fall, I'll be going back for clear jars and organizers, as I am streamlining my crafting space.
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Lumsing sent us a bluetooth speaker and keyboard – we love it! The speaker is so convenient – we keep it in our bathroom so we can listen to music or podcasts when we're getting ready.
The speaker is small, lightweight and has a little stand that holds your phone or tablet.
The keyboard is perfect size – fits in my purse, very lightweight and connects quickly to my iPad. I've been bringing it with me everywhere I go. Instead of bringing a heavy laptop, my iPad + Lumsing keyboard serves me well.
Lumsing—Keep connecting, keep simple. Time is limited, but things needed to be done are so many. Lumsing aims at helping you release your time and enjoy wonderful life. Want to be always on the go? Lumsing can help!
Lumsing® has always devoted itself to providing fashion and superior products with the end-users, so that you could enjoy the leisure shopping experience at the same time. Moreover, we have been working hard to seek out various funny products together with unique customer service, to make the customers gain more happiness.
Prophet Portable Bluetooth 10W Speaker
This portable speaker has a battery life up to 15 Hours playtime. Providing clear and crisp sound quality. Fast pairing with NFC functionality. It also has a built in microphone for phone calls and works with iPhone iPad iPod, mp3 players, tablets, laptops, computers and any bluetooth enabled device. Also supports a 3.5mm Audio Cable Connection.
- Faster and more stably transfer , transmission distance10M ( withnot obstructions between them) , paired with convenience ( no need to enter a passcode) , better compatibility with bluetooth devices
- NFC function allows fast pairing with NFC-enabled mobile phones and tablets
- 2 5W speakers
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We absolutely love these two products. The speaker sits in our bathroom and holds our iPad or iPhone while we are getting ready in the morning. Great for listening to start the day right music or a podcast or two. The keyboard gets used often at the kitchen table. This ultra light weight keyboard is remarkable. It's great for those times when you want to surf the net easier on your iPad or tablet instead of jumping on a computer. Nice size and comfortable keys.
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- 1 Prophet Bluetooth Speaker
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Deviant Art
-BOY BY THE MEADOW-Pretty flowered sprinkled spring,
By flower bed and cottage sings,
Dearest clouds spread here and there,
As rays of sun fall everywhere.
It was but she that called to he,
It was but she that searched for love,
It was but dreams so old and free,
That set her footing astray once more.
Dancing like a butterfly, hopping by the warm,
The flourished green and flowered spring,
She hopped,
A young girl far from home.
By the meadow she would skip,
So young a soul so still asleep,
Materialising her very last breath,
Passing to life from one past death.
Now alive and young and free,
Sweet as a fairy winged she'd be,
Calling forth into the plain,
So voice may reach past doubt and pain.
She sheds a tear for loss of love,
Wonders still to find a path,
What a world so drenched with drought,
To which she's born to fear and doubt.
She calls in shadows, no one hears,
She calls in echoes, no one sees,
She reaches far but not within,
With all her efforts, all her tears.
Her darkness brings so much a pain
-TO COMFORT ME-Sending out into the void,
Words of soul and heart,
Who will hear my weakened voice,
Who can hear my calling heart?
Await I do for one reply,
But nought I see nor hear,
To call on thee I wish to try,
But none their way they come to here.
Patient still as wait I do
For just a sign that one recalls,
Of words my heart now speaks so bold
And sends to all the ends of worlds.
And learn I do for teacher is
The sun the wind the land,
Comforting an aching pain
That wrong tis not to have.
By waiting doors and dancing feet I now recall the sound,
Of friends and those of family,
Being just to me and bound.
And now alone I joyfully,
Walk the woods and plains,
My patience taught me much indeed,
Even more they did my pains.
For comfort seek I do of late within my sacred heart,
It calls to me and sings me songs
And paints it's work of art.
My soul it seems with heart as one they speak to me so clear,
I've searched outside for answers dear but now within I hear.
And yes I see of seas so far
-A SAILOR-The mellow winds from rushing seas in deeping skies with blue,
They sing to thee a melody so sweet in heart and pure,
The fish of pearl they swim and swirl in ponds of oceans deep,
With mermaids near of loves so dear they come to chant to thee.
Shells on sands and summer lands that know of only fair,
The sweet the breeze the cool and warm the freshest lusting air.
The sailors make each wish they weave with joy now by the sea,
Longing for the mermaids song with eyes that cannot see,
And all the nets that fish the waters to fill the sailors void,
Dive through and through the waves of clouds with dreams as only bait.
Of nymphs do they recall and how their hearts rejoice at once,
At tales that sing and bring by them the memoirs of their lust.
And sing they do and wave away the moons on hindered sea,
Sleep all so tight within the night with eyes that cannot see.
Morning breeze by masts and deck awakes them far and out,
And all along both mermaid nymphs they danced and sang about.
The sailor
-ROUND THE SUN-Of manna myth and legend tales,
Of folk beyond the woods,
And those in mountains those at sea,
Above below the moors.
Of pious joy their merry hearts,
Knew not of pain and fear,
Though many walked in peril and doom,
These kept unburdened all through the year.
Among them was a fairytale,
Her face was pure and gay,
She danced and sung with fate and faith,
Yond the realms of day.
And to her voice a boy would seek,
And listen to her call,
To capture moments pure in heart,
To learn the rise and fall.
He forged his way with will he did,
And counselled with the wise,
Held his footing warrior he,
Before his great demise.
With blade in hand he took defence,
And promised his last fight,
Beheading shadows from within,
Allegiance sworn to light.
Yet she danced and on she went,
Free amongst the winds,
She told of tales his heart would hear,
But ears where blocked with sins.
His eyes would look but to the left,
He did not know of truth,
He stumbled onwards back and forth,
And searched beyond his you
-TO ETERNITY-Your song is the wind that rushes and your book is our own life,
Your beauty is the joy we see and guidance is your light.
Your breath is breath for our own lungs and we are here for you,
Exist we do for we now owe each day each night to you.
Time weaves now your very clothes the ages comb your sorrow,
Eternal you are and thus you flow and we shall try to follow.
Like threads the moments pass and go each one it spreads about,
Each moment creates eternity and you are there no doubt.
Your beauty lies within the sun and from it comes your light,
To remind us of our truer way to seek for you in night.
The stars are lit like candle flames and dance beside the moon,
They sing and keep on as they do for sun will rise up soon.
The joy we feel is that of yours and in the stars we gaze,
To hear your voice to sing to us to teach us of your ways.
With your breath we roam the lands and claim what's ours by right,
Forgive us please for we can't see through all our blurry sight.
For every step we cho
-FINDING THEE-I swear of it I saw her face,
Long before the great divide.
I swear of it I saw her eyes,
Long before the demon stride.
Of lips pearl red and hair like silk,
She came with me along my side.
And hand in hand we held until,
The stars would fall and sun would rise.
Ethereal touch that heals the dead,
With voice that calms the grim.
A heart of gold that loves the sun,
Through a past of peril and sin.
I thought I saw her as of old,
Through shadows in a dream.
For now I wake I cannot see,
But past her shadowed grin.
Where is the smile that was of old,
The gentle kiss you gave.
The simple touch of which I long,
Before I met my grave.
The promise you made now broken seems,
Yet still for you I search and pray,
For one more chance to say to thee,
Of everything I saw and made.
Empty now is the shell of thee,
But mine no more has left and gone.
Deer precious bride forgive me now,
For two are mends to make a wrong.
And though your soul may seem too far,
I swear I'll tend your wounds to rights.
I ca
-NEW BIRTH-The shadow crumbles as of old,
My debt I have repaid,
For now my doom I see,
Is the very doom I made.
From death I'll bring the life I lost,
From birth the death I'll take,
And onwards we shall march along,
The sleepers we shall wake.
Anew shall be the lores of old,
Rebuilt the Temple of Man,
And with foundation and with song,
We'll feed the hungry land.
From pain we find our wisdom,
And from patience we find duty,
With understanding to remain awake,
Live with our love all truly.
Seek not to lies from here on forth,
Our past is that of sorrow,
Let's take from it what good we can,
And build a bright tomorrow.
-WHAT DO YOU FEEL?-What do you feel my fellow friend,
Never more precious before your eyes,
Silver is the silk that runs her hand,
Smooth is the skin on which it lies.
And smother still the breath that fills,
Her lungs with air, your heart with thrills.
Tell me old friend or foe you be,
Before your eyes what do you see?
How do you feel my fellow kin,
Golden jewels before your reach,
Pearl blue eyes to fill your sin,
And wine and ale for poor and rich.
How many souls do her curves flatter,
How many men or does it not matter.
Say now quick and think more not,
Is the silk more smooth or her skin more hot.
What do you feel when she's in your sight,
Does she light up the room,
Or is the room her light.
Tell me old friend now what burns you more,
The men she has seen,
Or that she's not your own.
-A FLEE FROM LIGHT-Her face of fear knows not to love but only that of shade,
She wears the mask of tremor now to hide her former way,
She lurks in shadowed corners of the earth,
The wind turns tail and leaves,
None shall cross her bosoms nest,
As she turns pale and flees.
She is but cornered in her thoughts bewildered by the strange,
That burning deep within her sting that calls to her not pain,
It is but soothing now she thinks,
Trying to place her mind,
To understand of all that is,
But dear she is but blind.
Challenged by the fate of pasts that dwelled far from beyond,
She looks at last past her own nose and sees the light of dawn,
But dear of mine she cannot speak,
Of words her tongue knows not,
To soothe the heart of those she meets,
And pain she gives, of all she's got.
So blind within she is with hot and gaping fiery chasms,
Her heart in void now searching still in painful tearful spasms,
She came and faced the truth she did,
And crumbled from her throne,
Her darkness broke and in it shone,
One r
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Simon Rose (author)
Simon Rose (born February 23, 1961 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England) is a Canadian author of science fiction and fantasy novels for children and young adults. He currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.[1]
Simon Rose's first novel for young readers, The Alchemist's Portrait, published in 2003, was nominated for the Golden Eagle Award.[2] The Sorcerer's Letterbox, published in 2004, was also nominated for the Golden Eagle Award, along with the Silver Birch Award (Ontario Library Association) and Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice Awards).[3] His other novels are The Clone Conspiracy (2005), The Emerald Curse (2006), The Heretic's Tomb (2007), The Doomsday Mask (2009) and The Time Camera ( 2011). He is also a contributing author to The Complete Guide to Writing Science Fiction, Volume One, (2007), has written several books for younger readers with educational publishers, and his articles have appeared in newsletters, magazines and online publications.[4]
Simon has served as a juror for numerous literary awards, conducts a wide variety of workshops for both children and adults, including school visits, and author in residence programs. He is an instructor with the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University, works with writers as an editor and coach and offers copywriting services for businesses for websites, blogs and social media.
- ^ "Simon Rose". Tradewind Books. Retrieved 26 March 2010.[dead link]
- ^ "Golden_Eagle_Award_Finalist". goldeneagleaward.com. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ "Golden_Eagle_Award_2004". goldeneagleaward.com. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ "Author bio". Author's official website. Retrieved 26 March 2010.
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On July 17, 2013, Major League Baseball held its 84th annual All Star Game at Citi Field in Queens, New York. It was a day that would become special for the LGBT community: Bud Selig, then commissioner of MLB, challenged homophobia in the clubhouse.
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Call for contributions: Haskell eXchange 2015 | 8th - 9th Oct 2015 | London
Noam Lewis: In Python, don't initialize local variables unnecessarily
A common pattern:def foo(): x = some value # but do we need this? (short answer: no) if something: # ... do stuff ... x = 'bla' else: x = 'blo'
The variable x is being initialized before the if/else, but the intention of the programmer is that its value will actually be determined by the if/else itself. If somebody later comes around and mistakenly removes one of the assignments (inside 'if' or 'else'), no runtime error will occur and x will remain initialized to a probably wrong value.
Leaving out the initialization is better – in that case, forgetting to set x in one of the branches will cause an UnboundLocalError:>>> def foo(): ... if False: ... x = 0 ... return x ... >>> foo() Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "", line 4, in foo UnboundLocalError: local variable 'x' referenced before assignment
Errors are good! (when they flag buggy code)
Now, what if we also have an x declared in the global scope? Because of how Python handles variable scope, the error will still happen (which is good).>>> x = 1 >>> def foo(): ... if False: ... x = 0 ... return x ... >>> foo() Traceback (most recent call last): .. UnboundLocalError: local variable 'x' referenced before assignment
Summary: In Python, don't initialize variables until you know what value to assign to them.
Ghc 7.10.1 Alpine packages
Ok so I figure I might as well release this to the world. It works decently enough for my purposes the past week or so.
So voila, ghc 7.10.1 alpine packages. I'm pestering the Alpine developers to get this into the testing repository proper but in the interim, have fun. Note this is compiled with -O2, when you recompile ghc a lot binary size starts to seem a minor problem.
The readme should cover things I found/know about. The examples directory has everything you'd need to use these packages in a Dockerfile. The stage1/2/3 directories have a mostly working setup on how I got to native packages within alpine linux.
Consider it alpha grade though. I can compile things like idris with it and they work. But I haven't validated its correct. Only that things compile and don't segfault straight away.
Also not entirely sure if having a ghc/ghc-dev package split makes sense to be honest.
Next up on my list is automating rebuilds for cabal-install and ghc itself so that when 7.10.2/next cabal version is out I'm set to update this jazz.
Also many thanks to everyone in #ghc that helped me with this as well as anyone I may be missing/forgetting about. Have to go help debug a problem.
Enjoy!submitted by saudade
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FP Complete: stack 0.1 released
A few weeks ago, we announced the first public beta of stack, a new build tool for Haskell. Since then we've seen a huge amount of work on stack: code contributions, feature requests, bug reports, and design discussions. In other words, the response we've had from the community has been amazing. Thank you for helping us push forward with improved Haskell tooling.
Today we're announcing a new milestone: we believe that stack is now stable enough to be the standard build tool for most Haskell development. We're taking the beta label off of stack, and recommending people dive in. Please keep in mind that stack is still young software, and there are likely corner cases that haven't been worked out fully. However, the feedback we've received from other users has indicated that stack is ready. The stack team itself (both inside and outside of FP Complete) has been using stack for months now as its primary tool. And at FP Complete, we've already moved our biggest projects over to it.
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One question which I've personally held off on addressing until now is a direct comparison between stack and other build tools, cabal being the most obvious comparison. Expect a blog post on the subject in the near future. For now, my recommendation is: try out stack, and see if you like it.Bringing Haskell to the masses
While stack started with the needs of existing Commercial Haskell users, the goal we've always had in mind for it is a tool that lowers the barrier to entry for non-Haskellers. As we've discussed before, FP Complete has done quite a bit of research on this topic, and the data shows that build tool issues have been an obstacle to adoption. We want stack to solve that, and we want your help.
Firstly: keep doing what you've been doing! Using stack, testing it, providing feedback, reporting bugs; all of these make stack better for both our existing community and for newcomers. But the next step is marketing Haskell outside of our community. All of us Haskellers already know how wonderful a language Haskell is. Let's send a clear message to the rest of the world that it's time they try Haskell. stack's aim is to remove those initial barriers. But now we need to tell people what Haskell has to offer.
If you're interested in getting involved in this kind of a push, please join and discuss on the Commercial Haskell mailing list. There's no preexisting formula for how this should be done. But the basic idea I have right now is:
- Give users a clear message on how to get up and running with Haskell based on stack
- Give a good example of a strength Haskell has
- Make it easy for people to play around with the concept with some sample code
I'm sure others will have better ideas than I on how to accomplish this. If you want to see Haskell take off as not only a successful, powerful language (which it is now), but as a more popular language too, come get involved!
Erik Meijer: The Curse of the Excluded Middle — "Mostly functional" programming does not work
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An ERP in Haskell (last commit Nov'14)
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Stack, the Haskell Build Tool [Bayhac video]
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Haskell Generics and Java Reflection
I stumbled on Haskell's Generics and it kind of reminds me of Java's Reflection mechanism. Not exactly the same mechanics in play, but both are trying to "solve" the same problem. Did I get it right?submitted by evohunz
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RebindableSyntax on individual do blocks
Functional Programming and Safety
In general, does what Functional Programming and Haskell teach result in safer code in other imperative or procedural programming languages? (less bugs etc)submitted by pragm
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Turning Monoids into Categories
Powerset implementation - help with IO system
Im doing some cold-golf challenges (program should be as short as possible) and im stuck now. I have 3 powerset implementations :powerset [] = [[]] powerset (x:xs) = xss ++ map (x:) xss where xss = powerset xs main = print $ powerset([1,2]) import Control.Monad(filterM) p = filterM(const[True,False]) main = p[1,2] import Data.List; main = (readLn :: IO [Integer] ) >> = print . subsequences
For now it takes an input in this form : [1,2,3]. Any advice how to change it so it takes every number in list in this form :
1 <enter>
2 <enter>
3 <enter>
IO system of haskell is super hard for me, so can someone show me how to make input possible in first and second function ?
Extra question IS it possible to change those function so they compute power set when as one parameter I will pass [1,2] ?submitted by Cosaquee
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In what ways does Haskell support intersection and union types?
I read that there was some work about adding support for intersection and union types done in ML (refinement intersection types) and also work on unrestricted intersection types.
Also, I am aware about LiquidHaskell and Dana Xu's work.
However, how much of that can be used in Haskell today (with 7.10)? Anything planned for the future?
Are Haskell's typeclasses one implementation of refinement types?
EDIT: A quote about using intersections and unions for overloading: "In its present form, this idiom is less powerful than type classes (Wadler and Blott 1989)".
Indeed, adding multiple class constraints creates an intersection (Eq a, Show a) => ... means having both Eq and Show.submitted by mallai
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Free monads?
I would like to understand what a free monad actually is, and who invented the idea, and when.submitted by concatintersperse
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Philip Wadler: How badly will Audible misuse my contact list?
In today's world, where our books, music, and photos belong to the Cloud rather than to ourselves, one problem we face is commercial concerns insisting on increased access to personal data.
I received the following note from Audible:
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Help to model similar/shrinkable records.
I'm working on a simple PAYROLL tool to help my company. At the moment we have a matrix on sheet of paper where every member of write it's time attendance down. The payroll department process manually those sheets and feed our different system (PAYE, Accounting software) also manually. This is time consuming and error prone, so I dediced to a write a tool which allows to enter the data in a file in a "fast format" and generate different reports and csv which can be used to feed the different systems.
So far so good, I've finished the parser I need to generate the different reports/csv which are nearly the same but slightly different. Usually I have an "extensible record" problem, (.i.e how to extend a record). Today I have the opposite the "shrinkable record" problem , how to shrink it down.
The result of the parsing gives a list of Shiftdata Shift = Shift { employee :: Employee , day :: Day , startTime :: Maybe TimeOfDay , duration :: Double , hourlyRate :: Double }
startTime is a Maybe because it might be on original sheet or not (people might write 08:00-12:00) or just 4.00 (for 4 hours).
The first task is to get the number of hours per employe/per day. It seems easy, just group by employee/day and aggregate everything else. The grouping is easy, that's the aggregating which causes problem : I know how to solve the problem in lots of dirty way but I haven't found a neat and practical solution.
The first thing I'm thinking is to use a Monoid and do reduce all the similar shifts using mcat. Can I write a valid instance of Monoid for Shift ? Let's focus on the mappend first.
All the employes and days are supposed to be the same (within my list) so I could cheat and just keep the first one. The start time doesn't really make any sense so I could just put Nothing or get the earliest one. Duration it's easy .Hourly rate is fine if each employe always have the same hourly rate. However it might be not the case with extra hours etc .
mempty is even more tricky. However I probably can cheat again and use a dummy Employe or even undefined and set it back at the end. That's not really satisfying.
So, first deception: Shift is not a Monoid, in fact not even a Semigroup, even though I could write it easily in SQL ... so let's try the SQLSELECT employee, day, sum(duration) AS duration, sum(duration*hourlyRate) AS cost FROM shifts GROUP BY employee, day
That was easy, why is it so hard to do the same in Haskell ? (disclaimer : I don't want to use SQL, I just want to parse a file, and generate a CSV).
Hey, I have changed the type without noticing it (I have dropped startTime and mutate hourlyRate to cost).
So I do modelize this newtype ? Here are my optionstype ShiftT = (Employee, Day, Double, Double) data Shift' = Shift' { employee :: Employee , day :: Day , duration :: Double , cost :: Double } data ShiftF f = ShiftF { employee :: f Employee , day :: f Day , duration :: Double , cost :: Double } data ShiftK k = ShiftK { key :: k , duration :: Double , cost :: Double } type ShiftEmpDay = ShiftK (Employee, Day) data Shift'' = { duration :: Double, cost :: Double } type ShiftEmpDay' = ((Employee, Day), Shift'')
etc ...(There is also a solutions using lenses and makeClassy to embed a Shift'' inside a ClassyShift)
Shift' seems fine but It's not a Monoid either, because of Employe and Day (neither than ShiftT). This is frustrating because it's the equivalent to the SQL query but their is not safe way in haskell to guarantee that the Employee/Day will be unique. ShiftK and ShiftF can be a Monoid providing k or f are. ((Employee, Day), Shift'', is not but Shift'' this solution is sort of the easier to implement.
Writting I probabaly would go now for ShiftK, but which approach would you recommend (knowing that once I've done that I'll need also to shrink it again and discard day to get the number of hours/cost per week) ? Is there a better solution ?submitted by maxigit
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Am I the only one dissatisfied with the new Hayoo?
I always preferred Hayoo to Hoogle as my go-to haddock search engine. But after the new upgrade I feel that it is just broken.
Example given, searching the documentation for Data.Sequence:
- First Try: "Seq"
- Second Try: "Sequence"
- Third Try: "Data.Sequence"
Now I see that "seq" and "sequence" are quite overloaded here ... but seeing that there are results like Bio.Core.Sequence and Sequence :: ASN1ConstructionType on the first page I just can wonder. The third try is especially dissatisfying ... after spelling out the complete name of the thing I am searching for I don't get any link to the correct module.
I feel that compared to the "old hayoo" this is just wrong ... is there a good reason for this?submitted by goliatskipson
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Daniil Frumin: Darcs binaries for OSX with Homebrew
Recently I've updated my Darcs homebrew build to Darcs 2.10. You can install it withbrew install http://darcs.covariant.me/darcs.rb
The formula contains a context (--exact-version) and it is a static binary.
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Mark Jason Dominus: My week at Recurse Center
In late April I served a residency at Recurse Center, formerly known as Hacker School. I want to write up what I did before I forget.
Recurse Center bills itself as being like a writer's retreat, but for programming. Recursers get better at programming four days a week for three months. There are some full-time instructors there to help, and periodically a resident, usually someone notable, shows up for a week. It's free to students: RC partners with companies that then pay it a fee if they hire a Recurser.
I got onto the RC chat system and BBS a few weeks ahead and immediately realized that it was going to be great. I am really wary about belonging to groups, but I felt like I fit right in at RC, in a way that I hadn't felt since I went off to math camp at age 14. Recurse Center isn't that different from math camp now that I think about it.
The only prescribed duty of a resident is to give a half-hour talk on Monday night, preferably on a technical topic. I gave mine on the history and internals of lightweight hash structures in programming languages like Python and Perl. (You can read all about that if you want to.)
Here's what else I did:
I gave a bunch of other talks: two on Git, one on calculating with continued fractions, one on how the Haskell type inferencer works, one on the topology of data types, one on the Unix process model, one on Alien Horrors from the Dawn of Unix. This was too many talks. I didn't have enough energy and time to prepare all of them properly. On the other hand, a lot of people were very complimentary about the talks and said they were very glad that I gave so many. Also, giving talks is a great way to get people familiar with you so that they won't be shy about talking to you or asking you to work with them. But I think I'll cut it down to one per day next time.
Alex Taipale was inspired by my hash talk to implement hashes synthetically in Python, and I paired with her on that for the first part and reviewed her code a couple of times after. It was really fun to see how she went about it.
Libby Horacek showed me around the text adventure game she wrote in Haskell. I had the first of several strokes of luck here. Libby had defined an input format to specify the room layout and the objects, and I observed that it was very similar to Asherah, a project that another Recurser, Michelle Steigerwalt, had done a couple of years before. I found this out because I read everyone's self-posted bio ahead of time and browsed the interesting-sounding links.
Aditya Mukerjee was implementing Git in Go. He wanted help deciphering the delta format. Later I paired with Aditya again and we debugged his implementation of the code that expanded the deltas back into complete files. I hadn't known any Go but it's easy to pick up.
Geoffrey Gilmore had read my ancient article on how to write a regex matcher. He had written his own implementation in Scala and wanted to show it to me. I didn't know any Scala but the code was very clear. Geoffrey had worked out a clever way to visualize the resulting finite automaton: his automaton object had a method that would dump out its graph in the "dot" language, and he could feed that to Graphviz to get it to draw the graph.
I had a conference with Ahmed Abdalla and Joel Burget about SML. The main question they wanted me to answer: Why might they want to look at SML instead of Haskell? This was a stroke of luck: I was unusually well-prepared to answer this question, having written many thousands of lines of SML since about 1993. My answer was unequivocally that there was no reason, SML was obsolete, because it had big problems which had never been solved, and Haskell had been introduced in part to solve, avoid, or finesse these problems.
For example, nobody knows how to incorporate references into a Hindley-Milner type system. SML has tried at least three methods for doing this over the years. They all suck, and none of them work right. Haskell avoids the whole issue: no references. If you want something like references, you can build a monad that simulates it locally.
I could probably write a whole blog article about this, so maybe another time.
Libby wanted to pair with me again. She offered me a choice: she was building an e-reader, controlled by a Raspberry Pi, and mounted inside an antique book that she had hollowed out. I would have been willing to try this, although I didn't know anything about Raspberry Pi. But my other choice was very attractive: she was reviving KiSS, an ancient Windows paper-doll app that had been current in the 1990s. people had designed hundreds or thousands of dolls and costumes, which were all languishing because nobody wanted to run the app any more. She wanted to reimplement the dress-up program in Javascript, and port the doll and clothing cels to PNG files. Here I had another stroke of luck. I was already familiar with the program, and I think I have even been into its source code at some point.
Libby had found that Gimp could load a KiSS cel, so we looked at the Gimp source code to figure out the file format. She had been planning to use libpng to turn the cel into a PNG, but I showed her a better way: convert it into a PPM file and feed to to ppmtopng. This saved a lot of trouble! (I have written a little bit about this approach in the past.) Libby hacked in the Gimp code, grafting her PPM file writing code into the Gimp cel reading code in place of Gimp's internal pixmap operations. It worked!
I talked to Chris Ball about his GitTorrent project. Chris wants to make a decentralized github that doesn't depend on the GitHub company or on their technical infrastructure. He spent a long time trying to make me understand why he wanted to do the project at all and what it was for. I think I eventually got it. It also transpired that Chris knows way more about BitTorrent than I do. I don't think I was much help to Chris.
Jesse Chen paired with me to fix the layout problems that have been troubling my blog for years. We redid the ancient table-based layout that I had inherited from Blosxom ten years ago, converting it mostly to CSS, and fixed a bunch of scrolling problems. We also fixed it to be legible on a phone display, which it previously wasn't. Thanks Jesse!
I had a discussion with Michelle Steigerwalt about big-O notation and how you figure out what an algorithm's big-O-ness is, either from counting lines in the source code or the pseudocode, or from running the algorithm on different-size inputs and timing it. It's fun that you can do the static analysis and then run the program and see it produce the results you predicted.
There was a lot of other stuff. I met or at least spoke with around 90% of the seventy or so Recursers who were there with me. I attended the daily stand-up status meetings with a different group each time. I ate lunch and dinner with many people and had many conversations. I went out drinking with Recursers at least once. The RC principals kindly rescheduled the usual Thursday lightning talks to Monday so I could attend. I met Erik Osheim for lunch one day. And I baked cookies for our cookie-decorating party!
It was a great time, definitely a high point in my life. A thousand thanks to RC, to Rachel Vincent and Dave Albert for essential support while I was there, and to the facilitators, principals, and especially to the other Recursers.


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I have not stayed in Methven myself, as it is so close to my home.
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Angels Rest cots, in a range of attractive colors, initiated the concept that "institutional doesn't have to be ugly". And, the Cot Activity Center recognizes that space in the classroom is precious, and it turns storage space into play space.
Baseline Furniture sets new standards for appearance and safety in classroom furniture. For the first time, tables, chairs, and furniture come in coordinated colors for the total classroom look. The Angeles-developed laminates are highly durable and very attractive. The soft edges on tables, bookcases, and lockers help protect children.
Every Angeles product comes with a generous warranty – in case they inadvertently goof. Spare parts are always available to help you maintain your valuable Angeles products – and Angeles does mean always; they can still fix your 1958 trikes.
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good not great Chad from Waxhaw, NC on 10/01/2014 – Verified Buyer
This bike is sturdy. However, it ids definitely for older children. My 3 yr is too small to operate this alone.
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