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Tucson, Ariz. – Robin Chou was on his way to winning his first match of the dual season, but it wasn't enough as USC validated their No. 2 ranking on Friday, defeating Arizona 5-0. The loss drops Arizona to 11-13 on the year.
"USC is a good team and has a shot to win the national championship," head coach Tad Berkowitz said.
Chou won his first set, but was unable to finish the match before the Trojans clinched the team victory.
The Wildcats dropped the early doubles point, as Matt Dunn and Will Kneale fell to Roberto Quiroz and Nick Crystal 8-2 while Dominic Bermudez and Trevor James fell to Michael Grant and Jonny Wang by the same score.
"I was a little disappointed with the doubles," said Berkowitz. "We came out tentative and didn't go after them. Singles was a little better. Our guys fought as hard as they could, but USC got us today."
Arizona's deficit grew in singles, as Kneale lost to Eric Johnson 6-2, 6-1 and Carlos Bermudez lost to Nick Crystal 6-3, 6-4.
The Trojans came away with the team victory as James fell to Grant 6-1, 6-1.
Arizona has another tough opponent on Sunday, Apr. 13 as they host No. 3 UCLA at 12 p.m.
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I've been off sp for quite a while...I always mean to come on, but it is hard. Not because I don't have time (I am on disability and time is what I have most). It is just hard to admit that I need to lose weight. I have been very heavy since around 12 y/o and every time I've tried to lose weight, I've been a miserable failure...so I came to believe, over the last 27 years, that I was meant to be obese. Not that I necessarily WANT to be, just that it was who I am. I don't want to be that person anymore...And now that I will be going on a trip to meet my stepmother's family, in July, I really don't want to meet them at around 260 pounds on a 5'4" frame... I know I need this website to help me stay accountable. I will be having shoulder surgery on June 4, 2012(postponed until August 20th)...barring any unexpected/unforeseen problems. I am right-handed and it is my right shoulder, so it will be hard in more ways than one. I am a little bit worried that it will throw me further off track on my weight loss and exercise. I am on my exercise bike right now, and every few days or so I go on it...but it probably isn't enough to lose weight. I have always had trouble breathing with any exertion at all and 2 stress tests have shown that my heart rate can jump into the 150's within 2 minutes of exertion...so it is slow go on the bike or any other exercises. I have no appreciable heart defects or heart diseases, and I have been labelled as having unconditioned heart and lungs...so there is no real physical reason I should have problems with exertion, but I do and I don't know how to exercise enough to make a real difference if I can't push myself when exercising.... I feel like I am behind the 8-ball all the time with trying to lose weight. Between my under active thyroid, the rods in my back/neck, my Diabetes, my gluten intolerance, and the tics/seizures...and now the exertion problems, I am like a walking/talking science experiment in the making... And it gets very discouraging, so hard to stick with any program. Even this one. I start out so strong for a week or two, then I get a setback, and poof, all my faith in myself is gone and I just stop trying. I don't like feeling this way, but I end up feeling like a real failure and am afraid to try again. I REALLY want to do it this time. I was on sp back in 2006 and went from 320 pounds down to 260. I reset my set point to 260, and have not gone above that in 6 years...but it might have been partly from my undiagnosed Diabetes, at that time. Some of it had to be from eating better and exercising...I had a great sp weight-loss buddy...I just hope I can lower my set point again...to under 220 would be great. 100 pounds off in 6 years would be a great thing... Maybe someday I can even get down to 150 pounds...? Well, I have done 60+ minutes on my bike. A few more minutes and I'll hit the shower and find something creative to do. Maybe I'll do some research or something... God Bless Us All
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I'll remember that.
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That's awesome that you have kept the weight off for all those years!
Does sound like you are fighting against a lot of things, but my advice to you would be, don't put the faith in yourself, put the faith in God, and He will see you through!
You can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens You! Just remember that! (Philippians 4:13) and say it out loud in times of weakness! It works!
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Hi Nixy,
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Oh, and I postponed my surgery until August 20, 2012...so at least that's off my mind for now...I will definitely go read your blog :)
And I'll try to keep in touch... Going to go read your blog right now
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Firstly, I'm so glad you're still here. I was getting worried!!
Challenges can be overwhelming and it's easier to push things we need/want to do for ourselves into the corner and forget about them. If you have a moment please please read my latest blog entry. I wrote all about "letting go of expectations" and dealing with all the "stuff" that gets in the way.
I know that we can do this. You will be/look amazing going to visit your family in July.
Good luck with surgery.
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Thanks REDSHOES,
I appreciate the support...
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Thank you DLDEEMS,
Good luck to you. I believe in you. I know we can both do it
Keep me posted how you are doing and maybe you can help me stay motivated :)
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Like you I am starting back again on this website. I stopped eating right and exercising around the holidays and gained to 253 . It can be discouraging, but taking baby steps is a start. I hope you do very well - you sound like you have the motivation.
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I feel that the readme for strucjure does a reasonable job of explaining how to use the library but not of explaining why you would want to. I want to do that here. I'm going to focus on the motivation behind strucjure and the use cases for it rather than the internals, so try not to worry too much about how this all works and just focus on the ideas (the implementation itself is very simple but liable to keep changing).
The core idea is that strucjure (and the OMeta library on which it is based) is not just yet-another-parser, but is instead a concise language for describing, manipulating and transforming data structures. The VPRI folks have done some amazing things with OMeta. My goal with strucjure is to see how much further this idea can be taken.
(Note: For the purposes of this post I'll use the terms pattern and view interchangeably. There is a difference, but the line between the two is not yet clear to me and will probably change in future implementations)
Pattern matching
Pattern matching is a concept found in many functional languages. The basic idea is something like a switch statement, combined with a mini-language for describing patterns which the input should be tested against. The first pattern which matches has its corresponding branch executed.
As a very simple example, we can use strucjure to write fizzbuzz like this:
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This is a concise, readable description of the various cases and replaces a chain of if-statements.
If we stopped there, you could be forgiven for not caring. Simple examples don't really demonstrate the power of pattern matching. Let's instead look at a more complicated example – red-black trees. An important operation on red-black trees is re-establishing the balance invariants after inserting a new node. Here is a java implementation of the balance operation (from this implementation):
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This pile of if-statements obscures the intent of the code, which is to re-arrange the tree so that no red node has a red child. What we really want to see is 'if the tree looks like foo, replace it with bar'. Using pattern matching we can express this directly (code based on this implementation):
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(Note that this isn't exactly the same operation as the code above, because the corresponding implementation has a slightly different insert algorithm too. Nevertheless, converting this operation to java would result in the same grotesque expansion of if-statements).
Strucjure is not very optimized yet, but if you use a more mature pattern-matching library then this code would be as fast as what you would write by hand. For complex patterns core.match often does a better job of optimizing the decision tree than I can manage by hand, in much the same way that GCC does a better job of writing assembly code than I ever could.
Strucjure patterns are first-class values and can call other patterns or recursively call themselves, so they can express much more complex patterns than other pattern matchers. For example:
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This is a pattern which only matches balanced red-black trees, by recursively matching against each branch and returning the number of black nodes per path (see property 5 here).
Strucjure supports patterns which only consume part of the input and can chain these patterns together. Combine that with pattern matching and you can very easily write back-tracking recursive-descent parsers.
We can use this for traditional text parsing (you have to be feeling a little masochistic at the moment because strucjure can't directly handle strings yet, only sequences of \c \h \a \r \s). For example, strucjure parses its own readme to ensure all the examples are correct.
Parsing doesn't have to be limited to text. We can apply the same techniques to any sequential data structure.
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Since we live in lisp land, code is data too. We can use strucjure to easily and readably (hopefully) operate over sexps.
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No more death-by-polish-notation!
(The operators above really ought to bind to the left but, unlike ometa, strucjure doesn't yet support left-recursion and I'm too lazy to manually transform the grammar. It's a temporary limitation.)
Taking this to its logical conclusion, the syntax for patterns and views in strucjure is itself defined using views. This is a fairly complex DSL but with strucjure it's was very easy to write, read and modify the parser.
Generic programming
Clojure has some great facilities for generic traversals in the form of clojure.walk:
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Essentially, all this is doing is specifying how to take apart clojure data structures and how to put them back together again. Strucjure supports passing optional :pre-view and :post-view functions to modify the input to or output from any named view encountered during parsing, so we can do something very similar:
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The problem with using this (or clojure.walk) for generic traversals is that it loses context. When a given sub-form is encountered, the function f is given no indication of where in the data structure that sub-form is or how it is being used. If we apply the above idea to domain-specific views we can do generic traversals with context. The motivating example for this was a simple game I was porting called l-seed (I haven't yet updated l-seed to use strucjure, but you can see a precursor to it in l-seed.syntax). In l-seed, players submit programs defining the growth of their plant species and compete with other player's plants for sunlight and nutrients. The plant language can be defined like this:
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(Note that we specify both how to take apart a data structure and how to put it together. Really, the latter should be derived from the former. I think strucjure will eventually feature reversible patterns for this purpose.)
We can then operate on these programs in a generic way. For example, deciding which rule to execute next:
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Writing code like this allows us to separate the shape of the data from the computation we perform over it.
We're also not limited to just walking over data structures. We can perform more complex operations in the same generic fashion.
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I originally learned to code in haskell. One of the things I miss about strong static typing is it that it automatically provides documentation about the data structures used in your program. Strucjure patterns can fulfill the same role. In l-seed, if you are confused about what a rule should look like you can just go look at the +rule+ pattern.
We can't quite get static typing out of this, but we do get runtime checking for complex typedata-structures:
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In theory, it should also be possible to generate random data structures satisfying a given pattern. This would be useful for providing examples and for generative testing. In erlang, proper allows using type-specs directly alongside hand-written generators. I haven't yet implemented this in strucjure but I think it should be reasonably easy once reversible patterns are implemented.
State machines
One can think of parsers in general as state machines with look-ahead and backtracking. OMeta takes this idea and runs with it:
Most interesting ideas have more than one fruitful way to view them, and it occurred to us that, abstractly, one could think of TCP/IP as a kind of "non‐deterministic parser with balancing heuristics", in that it takes in a stream of things, does various kinds of pattern‐matching on them, deals with errors by backing up and taking other paths, and produces a transformation of the input in a specified form as a result.
Since the language transformation techniques we use operate on arbitrary objects, not just strings (see above), and include some abilities of both standard and logic programming, it seemed that this could be used to make a very compact TCP/IP. Our first attempt was about 160 lines of code that was robust enough to run a website. We think this can be done even more compactly and clearly, and we plan to take another pass at this next year.
I haven't yet tried doing anything like this in strucjure, but all the machinery is there. It would make an interesting complement to droplet.
Moving forward
There are of lot of different directions for improvement and experimentation.
One of my top priorities is better error reporting. This sucks:
I have some ideas about how to improve this but nothing totally concrete. I could, at the very least, return the bindings that existed at the point of failure along with some kind of failure stack. If I can figure out a reasonable way to implement cut that will also help.
Another short-term priority is some form of tail call elemination. Many patterns and views are naturally implemented in a recursive fashion:
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But in the current implementation of strucjure this will quickly overflow the stack. The current workaround is to define such views by hand:
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This is gross. I don't have any ideas on how to overcome this.
I've already briefly mentioned reversible patterns. At the beginning of this post I warned that I would use the terms view and pattern interchangeably. The line between them in strucjure is currently blurry but I think that the distinction should be that patterns must be reversible while views are allowed to destroy information.
Lastly, there will eventually be a need for some level of optimization. Given the extra flexibility in strucjure I don't expect to ever be as fast as core.match but there is certainly lots of room for improvement on the current code. Originally, strucjure patterns were compiled into efficient clojure code but the implementation was complicated and it was difficult to rapidly iterate around it. I will probably return to compilation once the semantics and interface settle down.
For now, I'm going to dogfood strucjure in various projects while ruminating on improvements. I'm already very happy with how much leverage can be had from such a simple idea, especially if I can fix the problems above. Hopefully the examples here might get other people thinking along the same lines.


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6. Woburn Buildings, Tavistock Square, London / 11th August, 1831—
Dearest and Wife,
I have got a frank for you, and will write from the heart whatever is in the heart. A blessing it was that you made me give such a promise; for I feel that an hour spent in speaking with my own will do me infinite good. It is very sweet in the midst of this soul-confusing phantasmagoria to know that I have a fixed possession elsewhere; that my own Jeannie is thinking of me, loving me, that her heart is no dream like all the rest of it. O love me, my Dearest, always love me! I am richer with thee than the whole world could make me otherwise.
But to the Practical. Expect no connected or even intelligible narrative of all the chaotic sights, sounds, movements countermovements I have experienced since your lips parted from mine on our own threshold; still less of all the hyper-chaotic feelings that have danced their wild torch-dance within me: I have not time for it; and shall find long winter nights enough to go thro' it all. For the present I must content myself like Sir W. Hamilton with 'stating a fact or two.'1 Understand then, Goodykin, that after infinite confusions I arrived at Liverpool about eight o'clock on the morning after I left you:2 quite sleepless, and but for your dinner (which I parted with a certain 'Esbie,'3 whom Alick knows well, whom I found in the Boat and preached mysticism to for six hours) quite victualless. The Maryland Street people were not up but soon rose and received me well. Delightful it was to get into a room and—have my face washed; and then on opening my trunk, to find everywhere traces of my kind good Coagitor's care and love: the very jujube-box with its worsted and darning-needle did not escape me; it was so beautiful I could almost have cried over it. Heaven reward thee, my clearhead, warmhearted, dearest little Screamikin! If I were there I would kiss thee fondly, and whisper that thou wert mine forever.— John Welsh was the same substantial honest fellow whom we have always known him: he is close prisoner in the house till dusk when he ventures out a little. Without glasses his eye rests: with glasses he can see anything. He and I got along, as we always do beautifully together. Dr Carson4 also I saw: one of the veriest Hashes [Blockheads] I ever set eyes on; civil enough, but to me almost frightful and a hideux reptile when I fancied him as your Lover. He is a Hash. George Johnstone5 (on Brownlow Hill) was also once there, and treated very kindly, which I felt gratefully: he is succeeding in his small plain way; and his honesty of aspect seemed to please your uncle. The Auntie was loud, talkative, argumentative, infinitely bustling, but also very assiduous in showing me kindness. To make a long tale short I left them on monday morning at half past seven, with many blessings; and two cups of sufficient coffee which the good housewife would not be prevented from making me at that early hour.
Which last hospitality I may well say was doubly blest; for it so turned out that this was the last [Carlyle writes "only" above "last"] refection I received till my arrival at London on the following day about ten o'clock!6 I must except a penny-loaf snatched from the Landlady of an inn in Shropshire; and a cup of hot sugar-and-water (as the whole time proved only 15 minutes) for which I had the pleasure of paying half a crown in the village of Birmingham. How all this happened, and I was sent circulating over the whole West of England, set my Watch by the Shrewsbury clock, and saw portions of Wales; and had the delightfullest drive, only no victual or knowledge by what route I was bound: all this depended on the Art of the Liverpool Coach Agents, at which villainous as it was I could not help laughing horselaughs when after leaving Birmingham I came to see into the mystery. There are men in Liverpool who will book you to go by any Coach you like, and to enter London at any place and any hour you like; and then send you thither by any Coach or combination of Coaches they like. I was booked for a certain imaginary Tallyho, went by seven successive vehicles, none of which had that name, and entered London three hours later and by quite the opposite side than I had appointed John to wait at. Sulphurous enough! However, now I have had sleep and am well. The only mischief done was the breakage of the Eggs; which however the Washerwoman has now made good again: so do not gri[e]ve thyself Dearest; the broken eggs are dearer to me than the whole would have been; there is a pathos in them, and I love Jeannie more.
With little difficulty I conveyed myself and luggage to Jack's old Lodgings and there learned his actual address; at no great distance; and, to my astonishment, in the upper floor of George Irving's house, who also lets lodgings. It is a very beautiful sitting room, an immense bedroom above (and John sleeps with George) for which we are to pay 25/ weekly. Quiet and airy and among known people, all is right in this respect.
The first day I did little; yet walked over to the Duke's7 (for Napier's Letter) found him out and left my card, with a promise for next morning. (It is between two and three miles from this). On arriving there, I was asked my name, and then instantly ushered in; and welcomed in their choicest mood by the whole family. A Doctor Baron was there (the same as I afterwards understood whom I had written to at Glo'ster about Eichthal's Cowpox matter):8 Mrs Jeffrey was as kind as ever; Charlotte too came simpering in, and looked as if she would let me live. The Advocate retired and reentered with your picture (glorious moment! cries the female character) which was shown round: for little I could have grat [wept] over it. After a time by some movements I got the company dispersed and the Advocate by himself, and began to take counsel with him about Teufelsdreck. He thot Murray (in spite of the radicalism) would be the better publisher; to him accordingly he gave me a line saying that I was a genius and would likely become eminent; farther that he (Jeffrey) would like well to confer with him about that Book. I directly set off with this to Albemarle Street; found Murray out; returned afterwards and found him in, gave an outline of the Book (at which the Arimaspian9 smiled), stated also that I had nothing else ado here but the getting of it published, and was above all anxious that his decision should be given soon. He answered that we would begin this very afternoon; that on Wednesday next he would give me an answer. I then went off; despatched my Teufk with your tape round him; agreeing to all their stipulations: on Wednesday I am to go there and get an answer of my Ms.— Of the probable issue I can form no conjecture: only Murray seemed to know me; and I daresay is very anxious to keep well with Ministry, so will risk what he dare.— I will see the Duke again ere long.
Napier's Letter also is come, with a Note to Rees, which I think I shall perhaps not deliver (perhaps too I may) till after next Wednesday. The Nas[o] has also a Note, still more enigmatic than the former; explains that Johnson was given to 'a distinguished' &c long ago, apologizes, wishes &c; but nowhere says in so many words whether he wishes me to write to him or not. I will show it to the Duke; and see it brought to some sort of bearing. For the rest I care not a snuff for Naso.
Badams called here an hour after I came; he brought his wife next day; I was out, but saw them in the eve[n]ing. She is a good woman and goodlooking whom I think you will like: he is in no good way I doubt, yet not without hope. I have also seen Mrs Montague; talked longer with her than I shall speedily do again: for she seems to me embittered and exasperated; and what have I to do with her quarrels? Jack she seems positively to have cut: because he would not turn with her in a day from transcendental apotheosis of Badams, to excommunication. 'All things go round and round.' For me, as I told her, I would continue to love all parties and pity all, and hate or quarrel with none.—
Alas dearest the hour is come, and I finish while but beginning O write, write. I feel great want of your 'prophetic faculty';10 how safe I should feel in your bosom, safe, safe, and at home. However, I will do what I can to get soon back, and with an olive leaf—
Of Jack I have said nothing. He is as I expected, and perhaps better: looks unhappy, is greyish-haired: I am very wae for him, and have scolded and advised: something must and will be done.
Another thing dearest I must ask you to do: to write a little Note to my Mother on Wednesday first to tell her that I am arrived, and what I have told you here. Say also that I will write myself, by the next frank[.] Do this, my Love: I meant to write today, but absolutely could not get away from Mrs Montague's catalogue raisonnee of Badamiana—
O why have I not a word that will express what I feel! Believe always that you are inexpressibly dear to me.
I am forever / Your Husband /
T. Carlyle
Jack stands glowering o'er me, urging me as you know is his wont. Tell Alick all my news; read him the Letter (so much of it as you can read); and give to every one my kindest brotherly love.
"There is no time to read it over I believe," murmurs the Doctor: so away it must go. Good Night my own! May God always bless you.


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Postcards From Alaska - Day Four
Oct. 16, 2004
Matt Anderson Journal Entry
Overall mission accomplished! We have become a better team at the end of the weekend. Once again positively we have a long way to go. Our potential is endless. As a team it has been a great experience to play in such a unique part of the world. These trips are great team building and this trip has done that. This will pay dividends as we enter league play next week.
Thanks for keeping up with us all week in Alaska. Tomorrow is going to be a long day as it will take all day to get home but we are ready to come back and look forward to seeing you all at the Mullins Center on Friday night!
- Matt
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Zayn Starts TWITTER WAR With 'Chlamydia Boy' Max George!
Man this has to be the most exciting story we've posted on OneDirection.net for a while!
For whatever reason, @ZaynMalik decided to send @MaxTheWanted some pretty hard-hitting tweets, and also sent one to @TomTheWanted as well. Read the following series of Tweets and make your own minds up, but something certainly seems to have rattled their cages
The Twitter war started back on November 20th when Zayn replied to a Tweet of Max's:
"Me and usher getting messy!!! pic.twitter.com/bRb9yzmF"
"@MaxTheWanted geek…"
At first, it all seemed to be just a bit of banter, but after Zayn replied to another tweet of Max's, again calling him a "geek", things starting taking a turn for the worse:
"@zaynmalik does that mean I'm 'in'?"
"@MaxTheWanted I'm not sure why your still talking to me mate conversation ended when I called you a geek."
"@MaxTheWanted p.s your display just how's how much of a wannabe you are :)"
Zayn and Tom then started on each other too:
"@zaynmalik @maxthewanted I think "1 stripes" got his knickers in a twist bro"
"@TomTheWanted mate if I had a face like yours my hair would be the last thing I'd worry about :)"
Things then escalated even further, where the Twitter war starting going off proper!
"@zaynmalik that's not very nice. I was just starting to like you and your RnB hits."
"Bradford Bad Boi" pic.twitter.com/19WWYRmg
"@TomTheWanted @MaxTheWanted let's not even start discussing vocal ability boys 😉 would love to chat gotta run though rehearsals"
"@zaynmalik enjoy rehearsals. Stay off the bud… It clearly makes u cranky."
Then Zayn sent a Tweet which sent Twitter into overload, and ended up turning into a worldwide trend, with Directioners jumping on the back of it all to trend #Replace1DLyricsWithChlamydiaBoy
"@MaxTheWanted Alright chlamydia boy ;)"
"@zaynmalik tell me you're problems without the 8 security in NYC.. The only problem I have with you is the shit banter. Grow up son."
"@maxthewanted id fucking love to, see you in new York big man ha u clown"
Gees, what the hell was all that about!?
It seems that Zayn might have started a full-scale war of the bands between One Direction and The Wanted here!
Directioners, what do you make of it all?


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Achillea millefolium has a long history of cultural and medicinal uses. In some eastern cultures it has been used in the mystical practice of divination. A. millefolium can be distilled to form an oil that possesses known anti-inflammatory and blood-staunching abilities. It has been used to treat internal bleeding, excessive menstrual bleeding, high blood pressure, fever reduction and more. The leaves have been used, both fresh and dry, as a garnish and in salads. (Morgenstern, 2010.)
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Anti-Catholic Oliphant Cartoon
January 12, 1994 by Bill
Filed under Catalyst Online, Features
Accusations of pedophilia against pop-star Michael Jackson prompted several cartoons with Catholic clergy tie-ins, most notably this widely published Oliphant effort. Dr. John Dillon of Gaithersburg, Maryland sent along a copy he saw in the St. Petersburg Times (Florida). What made his submission stand out was a copy of several good "letters to the editor" which appeared several days after the cartoon's publication together with (will wonders never cease?) a published note of apology from the editor!


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The holiday season is a time when families spread all across the nation come together to celebrate. If you are planning on welcoming a new one to the family at this time, you are especially lucky. Your child will get the chance to meet the whole family and be showered with love soon after birth. In preparations for your infant's arrival, you will want to plan on sending birth announcements to all your family members and friends. Start your planning early by picking out holiday themed birth announcements. You will want to include a seasonal picture of your new family member in these cards, so get a jump on the season by planning a holiday photo shoot. Here are some ideas for making the photo shoot, and subsequent announcements, a huge success:
Santa hat
Chances are your newborn will be sleeping during the photo shoot, so the picture will no doubt be cute. Add an additional bit of fun with a Santa hat. For those looking forward to celebrating Christmas, consider your infant as an early gift. Any Santa hat will do, but it may be even better to have your child's name sewn into the hem for a keepsake. If possible, seat your baby in a miniature sleigh, or have him or her hold onto a large bag of presents.
Cozy knits
Regardless of what holiday you plan to celebrate, you can seasonally coordinate your photos with some warm knit hats and jackets. Use an outfit you have knit yourself, or select an outfit that was sent from a relative. Continue the wintry theme with a little bit of fake snow falling in the background. If you don't want your little one too close to fake snow, an alternative could be to situate your child on a soft, white, wool blanket.
Little ornament
If you have the opportunity, do the photo shoot while you are setting up your family Christmas tree or Menorah. Display your infant as either a cute ornament, or as the littlest helper. This photo idea is a wonderful way to involve the whole family in the shoot.
You will want to choose cards that will complement your photo themes. For the pictures of your newborn in a Santa hat, Pear Tree Greetings' Precious Holiday Ornament birth announcement is ideal. This card is also a great keepsake, and can be hung on the tree each year. Or, keep to the Santa theme by choosing Pear Tree's Candy Cane Stripes Ribbon Booklet. This card allows you to include multiple photos and features the clever phrase, "Santa came early this year."
Couples looking to avoid any holiday affiliation can send a winter-themed announcement, such as Pear Tree's Round the Evergreen birth announcements. These cards feature pine trees and pine cones. For your pictures, have your child wear a cozy knit outfit, or consider taking a picture that will have your child surrounded by stuffed versions of some winter animals.
If your family celebrates Hanukkah, choose Pear Tree's Snowflake Kaleidoscope card. This note is in blue and features a few symbols of winter.


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We have a SQL Server 2005 (64-bit Std) on Win2k3 R2. We're seeing a disproportionate number of ASYNC_NETWORK_IO waits that (seem to) result in unavailability of the database, which slows or hangs our customer-facing (dynamically generated, database-dependent) website.
We're reasonably certain these waits are caused by slow/non-optimized back-end apps -- MS Access forms and ASP pages that make lots of requests for lots of data but don't consume the results quickly enough. Obviously it would make sense to optimize or replace the offending apps, and/or decouple them so they aren't constantly and inefficiently hammering the website's data source. We're doing those things, but it's very time consuming.
In the meantime I'm looking for a temporary/short-term palliative, and I ran across this helpful article, from which I gather that ASYNC_NETWORK_IO waits are really a network buffer problem: if the clients aren't consuming data quickly enough, the SQL Server's network buffers fill up and the server becomes unavailable.
So: Can we simply increase the network buffer size, so even if the naughty apps are running slowly, the SQL Server remains available to the website?
And if yes, how do we do that? For the life of me I can't find any resources that say how to increase network buffer size. I don't know whether this is a NIC issue, a Windows issue, or a SQL Server-specific issue. (We're not short on RAM or disk space, and are fine with throwing hardware/money at the problem.)
If no, then any other suggestions for the short-term, while we're busy rewriting all the old code, would be greatly appreciated.
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Battle for Color TV I
Program InformationSeries: A Moment in Time
Duration: 00:03:39
Year Produced: 2009
If Peter Goldmark had had his way, television would never have been broadcast in black and white.
A Moment in Time is a brief, exciting and compelling journey into the past. Created to excite and enlighten the public about the past, its relevance to the present and its impact on the future, A Moment In Time is a captivating historical narrative that is currently broadcast worldwide.For more information visit: http://amomentintime.com
Lead: If Peter Goldmark had had his way, television would never have been broadcast in black and white.
Intro.: A Moment in Time with Dan Roberts.
Content: By the late 1920s most of the technical problems of TV broadcasting were solved. A way had been found to convert light into electricity. The transmission of this electrical signal would be done just like radio, but the major obstacle proved to be the way in which the signal would be picked up or scanned.
Television is in many ways similar to a motion picture. Characters in a movie don't move. Motion picture film is simply a series of still photographs put end to end and run so fast across the screen that the mind of the viewer gets the impression of movement. Television operates in basically the same way. Hundreds of frozen images per second are picked up or scanned by the camera, converted to electricity, and then sent on to the TV set which sits in the next room, or fifty miles away, and it reconverts the signal.
There are basically two ways of scanning: mechanically, shining light through a spinning disk with tiny holes or spirals that would let the light through to be converted, or using an electron gun that fires a signal across the photosensitive background which then converts the signal. The spinning disk was simpler to use. The electron gun was more complicated but produced a clearer picture.
From the 1930s to the early 1950s advocates of these two ways of scanning were engaged in one of history's great technological debates. Whoever prevailed would make millions. On one side was NBC, its parent company the Radio Corporation of America, and hard-driving Chairman David Sarnoff. NBC backed the electronic system. On the other side was CBS, which under Chairman William Paley advocated the spinning disk.
RCA and Sarnoff were the pioneers. By 1940, using electronic scanning, it had launched commercial black-and-white TV but, as early as 1936, CBS's chief engineer Peter Goldmark had convinced Paley that the network should skip black and white and go directly to color using a spinning disk.
Next time: Color wars.
At the University of Richmond, this is Dan Roberts.


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What does a group of indie filmmakers do when they're finished filming their biggest project to date? First, they sleep. Then they celebrate with a film festival showcasing their work. Running Wild Films along with 5J Media filmed one short film per week during 2013. The culmination of their hard work is a three day festival February 7-9.
The 52 Films 52 Weeks project is one of the most ambitious projects in Arizona independent film making, based on the massive dedication of resources, as well as the subject matter. Each film is an adaptation of a classic work, such as Edgar Allen Poe's Berenice and Dostoevsky's A Little Hero. The stories are worked into the format of a modern day short film. At its core, each film honors the spirit of the original work while translating its story for today's film-goer.
Director Travis Mills has made it his priority to create a sustainable independent film movement in Arizona sourcing only local talent and crew. He specializes in making films on a shoestring budget, leveraging creativity and resolve instead of dollars. Mills set out to make the 52 Films to show that with the means at hand - talented actors, affordable equipment, and creativity - great quality films can be made anywhere.
To accomplish its goals, Running Wild Films went to the local film community. Their Kickstarter campaign reached the $12,000 mark, giving them about $200 per film to use for equipment, food and props. The majority of cast and crew volunteered their time. What they lacked in funds, they made up for in determination.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this project is that many film making careers were born in its course. Under Mills' supervision, student filmmakers as well as seasoned experts have expanded their abilities and learned different roles, with the project serving as an intensive filmmaker training. Several of the crew are seasoned, and the rookies were able to learn from them – and from their mistakes. Near the conclusion of filming, Mills admitted that even he learned more than expected.
The 52 Films 52 Weeks project would not have happened without the involvement of well-known local talent like Michael Hanelin, James Alire/5J Media, Michael Coleman, and Amber Michelle Davis.
Mills hopes to put Arizona on the film making map with this project. He reflects that "There have been some really difficult productions to get through, but I believe this kind of project is possible for anyone to take on, whether they're in Atlanta or India." Maybe it could be done anywhere, but this time it was done in our home state, showcasing our own talent. The 52 Films / 52 Weeks Festival is a celebration of ambition in the independent film community. It is open to the public, with ticket sales and more information found here.


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www.nagauniv.org.in: Nagaland University official website
www.nagauniv.org.in is the official website of Nagaland University. Nagaland University was established in 1994 with campuses at Kohima, Lumami and Medziphema. There are 47 colleges affiliated to it, with a total student enrollment of about 18,000. It is accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council, with the latest grade of C++.
Nagaland University has 25 departments in its various campuses, viz., Lumami Hqrs. Has 7 departments: Botany, Chemistry, Economics, Geography, Political Science, Sociology and Zoology. Kohima campus has 6 departments: Commerce, Education, English, Geology, History and Archaeology. Medziphema has 12 departments: Agricultural Chemistry & Soil Sciences, Agricultural Economics & Statistics, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Extension, Agronomy, Animal production & Management, Entomology, Genetics & Plant Breeding, Horticulture, Plant Pathology, Rural Development & Planning and Soil Conservation. The University has started 4 centres on Tribal Studies, Bio-diversity, Mass Communication (IIMC-NU) and Gandhian Peace Studies. Visit www.nagauniv.org.in for more information.
For more information, please visit the official website of Nagaland University – www.nagauniv.org.in.
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There is more to security than installing alarms. There are quite a few options available to you that will help your home be more secure. Remember these guidelines in order to make you house secure. Change all of your locks when you move in. You're not aware of any copies that have been made by the previous owners of the house. Changing the locks will give you peace of mind that you and your family are the only ones who have access to your home. Also, if you lose your keys, change the locks.
What are the things that you know when it comes to security systems? If you are having trouble making the decision on home security, you should do some more research. An alarm system is a significant investment and you need to know what you are buying. Put motion-sensor lights into your home. When a person walks by your home too closely, these lights will go on. You will be alerted when there is activity outside, and any potential burglars will be deterred because they do not want to be seen. Test the bulbs frequently, though. Your house must be a safe haven for you and your family at all times. Whenever the family is away from home, it is important that they home be safe upon their return. Reading the following piece and gaining knowledge is the ideal way to protect your home.
External wiring is sometimes all that a thief is after. The price for copper is through the roof, which makes it attractive to thieves. Keeping your wires hidden prevents the thieves from seeing them and wanting to take them. Never hide keys in obvious locations. Fake rocks are easy to spot. The first place a person will look is a doormat. You should just give a spare key to a trusted neighbor instead. When this isn't an option, you should at least use your imagination when choosing a hiding place. Change all of the locks in your new residence. While the person that previously had the home may seem okay, you don't know who they actually are. If the previous owners have never changed the locks, there could be people out there who owned the house before them and still have keys to your house.
Home security systems offer other triggering features besides having an alarm sound. Modern systems are often capable of detecting any open door or window and announcing that fact. This is important if you have small kids. The walls are a perfect hiding place. If you own small valuables that require protection, try hiding them in the walls. Simply take advantage of an unused switch plate, electrical outlet, or phone jack. If you have no unused plates, you can easily install false ones. Avoid spring latch locks. These locks are very easy to pick with something as common as a credit card. A thief only needs to skip the credit card in between the lock to make it open. If your locks are spring latch, either replace them or put in a deadbolt to protect yourself.
If your home has skylights, don't neglect to secure them. Though skylights bring light into your home and look nice, it is also a very common way for burglars to get into your home. Your skylights should have strong components that can withstand tampering. Before leaving for vacation, turn off the ringers in your house. If your phone is ringing while you are out, burglars will realize that no one is home, making your home very vulnerable to an attack during your time away. You never want to open up a door to a stranger without proper identification. You never know who they might be, despite their story. You should only open the door to people you were expecting.


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, Volume 40, Issue 3, pp 651-662
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On the effect of decreasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere
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In the present paper the effect of an abrupt change of the atmospheric radiative forcing is investigated by means of a global climate model that includes a mixed layer ocean. In assessing if, under such a change, the model response has a bifurcation point, the steady solution is studied for a sudden decrease of CO2 concentration from its actual value. It is found that there is a critical threshold for CO2 content below which the model ends up to a snowball Earth. It occurs for a few percentage changes of CO2 concentration around the threshold because the model strongly depends on the relationship among atmospheric temperature, water vapor content and the sudden ice-albedo feedback activation, even in the subtropical regions. Moreover, results suggest that the transition to ice-covered Earth is clearly favoured when Q-flux corrections (i.e. the parameterization of ocean heat transports) are removed.
KeywordsRadiative forcing change Hysteresis cycle Global climate model Energy balance model
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- Title
- On the effect of decreasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere
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Climate Dynamics
Volume 40, Issue 3-4 , pp 651-662
- Cover Date
- 2013-02
- 10.1007/s00382-012-1581-z
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- 0930-7575
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- 1432-0894
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- Springer-Verlag
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- Radiative forcing change
- Hysteresis cycle
- Global climate model
- Energy balance model
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- Isabella Bordi (1)
- Klaus Fraedrich (2)
- Alfonso Sutera (1)
- Xiuhua Zhu (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
- 2. Universität Hamburg, KlimaCampus, Hamburg, Germany


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Il Trovatore
by Giuseppe Verdi
Directed by Ellen St. Thomas
Conducted by Maestro Robert Ashens
Only two more performances this weekend!
Friday, February 7 at 7:30pm
Be "in the know" before the show!
6:45pm in the Lobby
Join Maestro Robert Ashens for insider info on the making of a Verdi monument
and prepare for audience participation during the opera!
Sunday, February 9 at 2:00pm
at The Elks Ballroom, 2255 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda
Opening weekend audiences are singing Virago's praises:
"No one I talked to could have expected such a poignant and exceptional performance. It was magnificent and worthy of being staged at the Met!! The audience was very enthusiastic and there were moments of extraordinary sensitivity…A night to remember!"
"I have not been a season ticket holder to any venue but if [Virago Theatre Company] offers such quality opera, I may have to start. Bravo! and thank you for saving me a trip to the SF Opera House."
"This was an outstanding opera experience not to be missed!
The vocals, chorus & orchestra were amazing!"


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West Indies vs South Africa Live Cricket Score, Streaming Ist ODI Live
WI vs SA Live Cricket Streaming: South Africa will take on West Indies in the first ODI of the five match ODI series at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua.
The start of the match is being delayed due to rain. The T20 series was won by South Africa.
Match is scheduled to begin at 19:00 IST on Saturday 22nd May 2010. It will be telecast live on Ten Sports in India.
West Indies: C Gayle, R Sarwan, A Fletcher, N Deonarine, K Pollard, D Bravo, D Ramdin, D Sammy, J Taylor, R Rampaul, N Miller.
South Africa: G Smith, J Kallis, D Miller, AB de Villiers, J Duminy, H Amla, J Botha, R McLaren, M Morkel, D Steyn, L Tsotsobe.
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Not many people may have heard of former Wisconsin and Kansas University offensive lineman Brad Thorson until now. According to OutSports Monday, Thorson decided to use the Fourth of July holiday to declare his own independence as a gay man. Although an NFL team never drafted Thorson, he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Arizona Cardinals and was with the team for their 2011 training camp before breaking his foot and being placed n injured reserve.
At 6-foot-4, 300 pounds, Thorson was ranked as the 24th best center going into the draft, but because of his injury he never got the chance to actually play in a regular season game and eventually decided to leave football and pursue future endeavors. Although he is not currently playing in the NFL, his story is still one he felt was worth sharing. In his blog post titled "Seeing Through the Fog," Thorson talks about his struggle with uniting his two identities as a athlete and a gay man.
In his blog he wrote, "I've been told many times that the process of coming out is cathartic. Yet since coming to terms with my sexuality, I found it arduous and unnecessary. At least that's what I kept telling myself. So today, I'm putting it in writing and not looking back. I'm gay. I'm also an athlete. For years, I struggled to unite these two identities in my own mind. Not until after my professional athletic career came to an end did I allow myself to understand my sexuality. Now, three years later, I'm finally ready to share that with people."
The 26-year-old Thorson cited that his inspiration to come out was influenced by St. Louis Rams rookie defensive end Michael Sam and NBA veteran center Jason Collins. The stories they shared revealed emotions and fears he was familiar with and their coming out process fueled his own bravery to share with the world who he is. Sam is currently the only openly gay player in the NFL and could be the first to play in a regular season game, but as Thorson proved, there could be others who are keeping quiet. According to some former NFL players like Dion Sanders, those players do exist.
Thorson, who also played on the 12-1 Wisconsin team before transferring to Kansas, said he hopes his story reaches other athletes find their own acceptance. He told Outsports, "I didn't know there was anyone else like me when I was growing up. Reading about Brian Sims talking about being out to his teammates and playing for the national championship, it made me feel like there was someone out there who was like me. I know there are other kids out there struggling, and I hope some of them can relate with me on some things and make them feel more comfortable with who they are."
The former NFL prospect said that he did receive support from former teammates once he revealed his sexuality and said that his only regret was not coming out sooner. If it wasn't for a foot injury in the summer of 2011, Brad Thorson could be an active openly gay NFL player. Why does this matter? Because every story helps someone out there living in a closet of fear and every journey helps a person realize that there is a world of acceptance out there waiting for them.


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*Olympian Destinee Hooker, who made headlines this summer because of her first and last name, married her fiancé at a Texas courthouse last week, according to TMZ. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The volleyball player, who won a silver medal at the London 2012 Games, exchanged vows with Steven Coulter on Sept. 13. Hooker will … Continue reading Olympian Destinee Hooker Gets Married, Keeps Last Name
*It's a name that causes some people to snicker and some to outright laugh at, but Olympic volleyball star Destinee Hooker could give a you-know-what. She believes it's a "blessing." Hooker — who's CRUSHING it in London right now (indoor team is undefeated!) — tells TMZ, "When it comes to my name, I honestly find … Continue reading Olympian Destinee Hooker Says Her Name is a 'Blessing'


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A Smyrna man was arrested on heroin and marijuana charges this morning, Thursday, May 8.
At approximately 6 a.m., officers from the Smyrna Police Department Special Tactics and Response (S.T.A.R.) team used a search warrant at a residence in the unit block of Locust Street in Smyrna, with assistance from the Clayton Police, Delaware Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement (D.A.T.E.), and the Kent County Paramedics.
The search warrant was issued following an investigation into illegal drug activity at the residence, Smyrna Police said.
Officers arrested Jessie Mahoney III, 38, of Locust Street, on charges of maintaining a drug property, possession of marijuana, possession of heroin, possession of drug paraphernalia, and three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, police said.
Mahoney was processed at the Smyrna Police Department and arraigned by video phone at Justice of the Peace Court 2. He was issued an $8,500 unsecured bond and is awaiting a court date at Kent County Court of Common Pleas, police said.
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During the February 27th, 2014 WallBuilders Live program, David Barton responded to a question from a listener asking if he thought that President Obama might declare a state of emergency so that he could cancel the 2016 elections and serve a third term in office.
Barton freely admitted that there is nothing to suggest that Obama might actually do such a thing, but insisted that the fact that people are actually asking these questions is proof enough that Obama is "lawless."
"It's interesting that this is the question that is asked by people when they find their presidents to be lawless," Barton declared. "If you have a president who is not lawless, you don't ask the question. You know that Ronald Reagan is not going to do a third term; he followed the Constitution. You know that George Bush, you may not like all that he did but he stayed with the Constitution in a very public way.
"Nobody debated that he was going to change the Constitution for himself, for his own benefit. The fact that you have this question indicates something of the nature of the presidents with whom you're dealing ... Asking the question is the character of the leader who is in office at the time."
This is grasping at straws to the extreme.
People have also suggested that the 1969 moon landing was faked, that snake-headed aliens are giving people syphilis disguised as vaccines, that the 2nd Amendment entitles people to own tanks and fighter jets, and that Jesus Christ was a velociraptor.
The fact that a single nimrod thinks something might be true should never be taken as absolute proof, and David Barton should be absolutely ashamed of himself for stooping to that level.


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The mission of the Bonaire National Marine Park (BNMP) is to protect and manage the island's natural, cultural and historical resources, while allowing ecologically sustainable use, for the benefit of future generations.
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