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text: This rarely seen gem is a considerable departure for Ghibli in terms of both style and story: its comic strip-style animation (distinctly different from the traditional Ghibli style) was also created entirely on computers, making it the first Ghibli film to be made without traditional hand-drawn animation. In a series of titled vignettes such as A Family Crisis, Marriage Yamada-Style, and Patriarchal Supremacy Restored, Takahata explores the daily lives of the Yamada family. Interweaving the family's everyday life lessons with whimsical fantasy sequences, My Neighbors the Yamadas is a delightfully offbeat example of Ghibli's focus on the intricacies of human relationships and the intersections of past and present.

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The Grace Museum celebrated 75 years of fine art Thursday night.
A reception was held at the Grace, along with the opening of two new exhibits.
The exhibits are meant to help depict the effect the museum has had on the community.
"The Lasting Legacy of the Abilene Fine Arts Museum" is one. It shows off pieces from the Grace's extensive collection.
More than 1,200 pieces of work now belong to the Grace collection. Many were donated by Abileneans.


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Congrats and welcome to the club. Stay alert, stay safe, and carry where ever and when ever it is legal--including at home! (100% of home invasions occur at home.:image035::image035:)
However you're not done! :yup: We can assume during the 40 days and 40 nights you trained and took classes both legal and range?
Having the permit is only the first step in Self Defense!
Again, congrads and thank you for stepping up to protect you and your family.
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While some of Wes Hobbs' friends in the business of teaching and coaching are charting new paths in and towards retirement, the head football coach at Medical Lake High School continues to charge ahead in both of the family businesses.
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A man who escaped custody managed to elude Virginia Beach police for several days, but officers caught up with him Sunday.
A man who escaped custody managed to elude Virginia Beach police for several days, but officers caught up with him Sunday.
The new superintendent of Norfolk Public Schools, Doctor Melinda Boone, was officially sworn in to her new role Tuesday.
The suspect, shown in a surveillance photo with the batteries, allegedly stole the batteries on Oct. 28.
An altercation between the suspect and the victim ended with the victim receiving serious injuries.
The National Museum of American History is launching a new initiative exploring the ways giving is woven into American life
Police say that an adult man was struck by a vehicle that was traveling in the 3000 block of Little Haven Road.
Robert Doyle and Ronald Beasley Chaney III talked about planning attacks on Jewish synagogues and Black churches.
Police say that there were more than 20 students on board, but no injuries as a result of the accident.
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Coming off a 23-win season, Paul Rodio figured it was going to take some time before his St. Augustine Prep basketball team would be ready for prime time.
Always in the conversation as one of South Jersey's top programs, this year's team isn't as seasoned as some of the veteran coach's teams of the past. This group is relatively young but eager to listen.
"We're still in the process of learning every day," Rodio said.
But given their start, there's a bit of a buzz starting to surround the Hermits. They weren't among the top teams in the preseason, but cracked the Courier-Post Top 15 this week at No. 14 and will take a 5-0 overall record into tonight's Cape-Atlantic League game at Hammonton.
"Compared to most of the teams we play, we're not that far off," said Rodio, the winningest coach in South Jersey history. "Teams like Haddonfield, Eastern, Holy Spirit … they're all better but we're not that far behind. It's a matter of getting these kids exposed to those types of teams. It's a fun group to coach and they're having a lot of fun.
"Some of the things you normally take for granted, when you have three freshmen playing in some capacity they don't pick up on everything. What you thought was elementary before is not part of the repertoire."
One of the biggest keys to the early success has been the play of Sa'eed Nelson. The sophomore point guard is averaging around 12 points a game, distributing the ball effectively and has been rock solid at the foul line (22 of 23).
"He's come around quicker than I thought," Rodio said. "He's given is solid point guard play."
The Hermits have also received solid contributions from seniors Brian Seward and Nate Segal, as well as sophomore forward Mike Vasturia.
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How about a round of Outdoor Blog Posts that have been submitted by happy readers….
My Top Ten Land Stewardship Quotes: Reader Note ~ My Dad put together his list of top ten best land stewardship quotes (this is his website, not mine) and it really showed how people from throughout history (not just the last decade) have thought this to be important. Very inspirational.
On Being a Writer: Reader Note ~ Erin is a true jewel of a writer. This post is beautiful. She has a future in the writen word to be sure. Thoughtful content written with the sparce grace of poetry. I cannot urge you enough to read anything on her blog.
Crow Messengers: Get Back : Reader Note ~ Along with his other posts, just good writing.
Chef Gordon Ramsay in Vermont? : Reader Note ~ Hilariously funny as only Quill Gordon can do.
An Update On Illinois Department of Natural Resources Budget Cuts: Reader Note ~ I initially planned to submit Ken G's post "A Walk In The Park…" but before I could get to that on my to do list, he posted a campanion piece which does include the link to above post. – Ken has a common sense solution to the current Illinois DNR budget crisis which he explains skillfully in this post I am submitting . I guess his could be a two for submission.
Psyched About Fly Tying: Reader Note ~ As a new fly tier, this story made me so happy to know that this newfound hobby of mine is something that I can actually find excitement in after many years of doing it. It gave me the fuel I needed to dive in even deeper!
Saving the Tongass: "America's Salmon Forest": Reader Note ~ The Tongass National Forest in Alaska hosts some of last, greatest wild salmon runs in the world. And yet the areas faces threats from logging, mining, privitization efforts, and other forms of development. Trout Unlimited has launched a new campaign to protect the highest value salmon and trout watersheds in the Tongass. This blog post explains the Tongass 77 campaign and asks anglers to join the effort. It's about protecting America's salmon forest in Southeast Alaska.
New Gear, for Fishing Guides Only! : Reader Note ~ The Wit of "Quill Gordon" is so rare in the blogging world that I'm amazed he hasn't been snapped up by every book publisher in America by now.
Spawn Week 5: Reader Note: This shows warm water fisherman an up close view of bass habits, and how they attack their prey. Also, this fish has unusual black lips.
Hike Your Hike: Reader Note ~ Nice family oriented record of hiking in NJ and around the northeast.
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Bad Infographic of Mapping Emissions by Country
The Center for Public Integrity worked with Stephen Rountree to create an interactive infographic visualizing emissions of various countries, and overlays it as bubbles onto a world map. However, as datavisualization.ch points out it has some flaws:
The data is plotted as a bubble chart on the wold map which makes it basically easy to read. Unfortunately the interface isn't right where it would need to be, for example hovering over the same data twice restarts a growing animation that doesn't convey any obvious information thus slowing down the reading process.
But even more critically is a flaw pointed out by Paul of colorful-data.net. If you look closely at the map (pictured) and compare the bubbles over Brazil (meaning 1,028) and the EU (5,342), the EU has approximately 5x more emissions than Brazil right? Well why is the circle so much bigger for EU then, far more than 5x:
Now when I use a bubble chart to compare values, I should remember that every viewer will use the area of the circle as representation of that number, not the radius. Example: the circle of Brazil's current emmissions should fit about 5 times into the one of the European Union. Visually, this map is simply wrong.
Sometimes it's not sufficient to make the results mathematically correct, they need to be observationally correct.


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TC TO MARGARET A. CARLYLE; 3 November 1829; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18291103-TC-MAC-01; CL 5:e1.
Craigenputtoch 3rd Novr 1829
We have a gay noisy time of it at Craigcrook,1 dining and seeing dine. For me such things have of old done little; and I heartily rejoiced when it was over. Pleasant I have found it, and wholesome to see so many people kindly disposed to me, and thinking well of me; useful also to observe how the busy world is moving, and on what side one is to attack it and address it from his hill-top; but for the rest I find little benefit in Edinburgh talk. At best it is but a shallow matter. Even Jeffrey's, however well-meant, is but an attempt to take from me my highest principles and advise me to exchange them for a piece of perishing money. A vain attempt; for as my Father says, "Did he talk till the tongue turned sma' in his head,["] it were to no purpose for convincing me. As soon, says poor Werner, could a soul in Heaven return back to the dark damp of the Grave, as one that has found Truth return into the Error it has left.2 I know that worldly wise philosophy too well, and what it can do for me. Shall I not get food and raiment while they are needed for me? and if God give me light to see my way what matters it whether I walk on smooth greens, or over thorns and rugged crags. So I will hold fast my integrity let the people chatter as they will. After all, Edinburgh is Edinburgh and the Universe is the Universe. The vote of the Outer-house3 may be one thing, and that of Eternal Truth another and far better.


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On Saturday, Barack Obama was slammed for a tweet that focused on a basketball game instead of jobs, the economy or the crisis in Ukraine.
"Congrats to the @DaytonFlyers on a huge upset win! Devin Oliver, I may need to take you up on that pick-up game one of these days. -bo," Obama tweeted, using the signature "-bo" to indicate the president sent the message himself.
A number of people, however, thought the president's priorities were somewhat misplaced.
"Are you watching #Ukraine? Congrats, @DaytonFlyers! but folks are dying in Ukraine," one person said.
"You have bigger issues to be worrying about," another person added.
"Get back to work -je," tweeted "Jeff Engen."
One person suggested Obama invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the game so they could work out the situation in Crimea while another person said Obama should solve problems instead of making them.
Another Twitter user asked Obama to "please" fix the economy and the gridlock in Washington, D.C., instead of watching basketball.
"You seem to follow college hoops more than Russian troops," added Twitter user "Razor."
Another person observed that "between golf, vacations, basketball, hanging out with talk show hosts, and campaigning who's got time to run the nation?!?"
Oliver responded to Obama's tweet, appearing eager to take the president on.
"Mr. President, I appreciate the love for me and my teammates! I would love to play that 1v1 game with you ASAP! Just let me kno! (sic)" he wrote.
At least, MSNBC's Al Sharpton won't have to worry anymore about the president being alone while First Lady Michelle Obama is in China.
- President Obama fiddles as the world burns
- Op-ed excoriates Barack Obama on Crimea, calls president 'Putin's patsy'
- Oliver North at CPAC: Obama 'draws phony red lines with a pink crayon'
- The 'Russian Bear' vs. the man in 'mom' jeans
- Sarah Palin: Putin known for wrestling bears, Obama known for 'mom jeans'
- Marco Rubio: Obama 'emboldening the Taliban' with weak foreign polic
If you like this article, you can follow Joe on Twitter @jnewby1956, visit and like his Facebook page, or subscribe to receive email updates when a new article is published.
For hard-hitting conservative commentary, please visit Joe's blog, the Conservative Firing Line. You can also find Joe's articles at Right News Now, Liberty Unyielding and PolitiCollision.
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- UK paper asks: Is Barack Obama the weakest President in history?
- Egyptian media portrays Barack Obama as Satan, U.S. media silent
- Obama meets with Magic Johnson, snubs Congress on Syria
- Retired General calls for forced resignation of Obama, administration officials
- Oprah Winfrey: Obama's critics motivated by racism, death is the answer


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This season you can celebrate every day and from A to Z with A Merry Little Christmas by Mary Engelbreit. This newly released title by author and illustrator Mary Engelbreit is sure to be a wonderful Christmastime story to share.
From cover to cover there is a "little" Christmas joy as Gregory Mouse and his family get ready for the big day. Open the pages of this wonderful book and join Gregory and the rest of his family as they set the angel atop the tree…aglow with the light… or cookies, candies, cakes and cups of hot cocoa. There areletters to Santa, presents, sleighbells, tinsel and wreaths. Each day has a zillion ways and words to focus on the Christmas time theme.
Little twos and threes, will enjoy the pictures and rhymes of the story and older children can spot the words for each letter. There are a dozen activities that can be drawn from this little holiday learning book – words, numbers, group games, decorating, taking turns, family and more. Share this little holiday book with your students, children, family and friends. And have A Merry Little Christmas by Mary Engelbreit.
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Walking, Ab-Machines, and Gyms
simply walking an hour a week can cut colon cancer risk. Reuters reports:
While just an hour of walking a week seemed to protect against the disease, the more strenuously women exercised, the lower their risk, Dr. Kathleen Y. Wolin of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and colleagues found.An hour a week seems pretty skimpy to me, but don't go turning to a over-hyped infomercial ab-machine. Diet Blog thinks they're bupkis. Take a look:
"Our findings suggest that participation in lower intensity activities may be sufficient to reduce risk though more vigorous activity provides comparable or perhaps additional risk reduction," they write in the International Journal of Cancer.
Research showing that exercise reduces colon cancer risk has been "consistent and convincing," Wolin and her team say, but questions remain about the intensity of exercise necessary to reduce risk.
Not true. Here's a reality check.Now, if you're a gym-rat like me. You'll never give up the gym for an hour of walking or the latest ab-blaster. So for us, Poked & Prodded shares tips for finding the right fitness club. Check it out:
What the ab machine will NOT do:
To gain the above things, you will need a combination of; months to years of diligent cardiovascular and strength training, a powerful commitment to maintain a fairly strict diet (often with different goal phases of 'bulking' and fat loss), and possibly some cosmetic surgery and other cosmetic work.
- Give you a fake tan.
- Reduce your body fat percentage to single digits.
- Make you look pretty.
- Give you white teeth.
- Build massive biceps and pecs.
- Build muscular thighs and calves.
- Build shredded deltoids.
- Increase overall strength.
- Give you a slender waist.
- Give you large perky breasts.
If you are looking to join a new club, keep these smart-shopping tips from CR in mind.If you can swing it, joining a gym is well worth the cost. Think of it this way, you're investing in your health.
- Get a free trial. You'll likely have to listen to a sales pitch, then can work out for one day, or even one week.
- Ask about membership choices. Seniors or students can usually get special rates; many chains have levels of membership based on club access or amenities.
- Ask about payment options. You might pay more for a month-to-month plan, but it offers more freedom than a full-year contract.
- Don't get pressured by a 'special.' Clubs run promotions all the time; about half the clubs had specials on the day Consumer Reports' survey respondents visited.
- Try bargaining. Haggling down enrollment fees and even monthly dues worked for some of the Consumer Reports shoppers at big chains.


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Cellfire has an awesome promotion just in time for Holiday Meal Shopping. They are offering 10,000 coupons for $1, $5, or $10 off your next shopping trip at Kroger and Kroger-owned stores! The promotion will run for 24 hours starting this TODAY at Noon (Pacific time) and run to Noon Friday.
Here's the fine print: By simply logging in here, Cellfire members WITH A KROGER OR KROGER-OWNED STORE LOYALTY CARD will randomly be chosen as winners of a $1, $5, or $10 coupon. Everyone who logs into Cellfire during this period (with a Kroger loyalty card) gets ONE chance to win—additional log-ins won't count. Winners will immediately see the coupon and be able to save it to their Kroger card.
Because this is NOT first come first serve, but randomly given away during a 24 hour period, Cellfire shouldn't have difficulties meeting the traffic demand regardless of the number of visitors.


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The danger with this up-and-coming but largely unregulated treatment is that you can easily waste a lot of time and money—or even suffer side effects that, while mostly mild and temporary, are unnerving. (In one documented case, a patient was so dazed when she left a neurofeedback session that she drove her car into a nearby light pole.)
To avoid problems and have successful treatments, you obviously need a good therapist. Most important: She or he should be a licensed health or mental health professional. (That may also help you with insurance coverage.)
Check if your therapist has been certified by the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA), which requires classroom training, mentoring and a nationally recognized examination. Only about500 of the estimated 7,500 neurofeedback practitioners in the United States have taken the time to fulfill this requirement, according to the BCIA's certification director, Judith Crawford. Two websites that can help you find a qualified therapist are eegspectrum.com and eeginfo.com. A big temptation, considering the high cost of this therapy, is to buy or rent equipment to use at home. As neurofeedback grows more popular, manufacturers are starting to mass-market gizmos on the Internet, making extravagant claims. But keep in mind that the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve any of these devices for uses other than relaxation training.


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What You Won't See in the Alleged Joe Jonas Sex Tape
OK, first of all, this is clearly a fake photo of Joe Jonas that we dug up. Hot, right?
If you follow aging teen heartthrob news, you've probably heard rumors that a raunchy sex tape allegedly starring Joe Jonas may soon be released. According to Blind Gossip, the video features explicit footage of the 23-year-old Jonas Brother and model girlfriend Blanda Eggenschwiler "drinking, doing drugs, and engaging in sex using a number of sex toys and BDSM devices, including dildos, a gag ball, and a slapper paddle." Whaaaaat?!
According to "multiple tips," the sex tape's release is being orchestrated by Eggenschwiler, who basically wants to be the next Kim Kardashian. "The couple is very vocal and there is a lot of overly dramatic screaming and moaning," the report continues. "The sex is explicit, and there are multiple close-up shots of Joe's face, penis and testicles."
Say it ain't so, Joe! Better yet, please say that it is!
"There is no truth or validity to the story," a rep for Joe Jonas tells TMZ. "It is completely false."
Boo. Even Joe himself has tweeted about the ridiculousness of the rumors:
ball gag? really? me? come on guys.
— joe jonas (@joejonas) March 21, 2013
If you're man enough to take it, find another JoBro bondage fake on the following page.
For the uncensored versions... well, you can read the photo credits and find your way there.


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Xbox Live Service for Original Console Axed
DailyTech - Xbox Live Service for Original Console Axed
Does anyone even use the original XBOX anymore (for gaming I mean) let alone use it on XBOX live?
Well mixed feeling on this one. I don;t think it's fair to not support the older machine especially if anyone is still using it.
Hey maybe that's what they can use those extra points (money) for.
XBOX upgrade to a 360.
Is the PS2 network still being supported?
The PS2 network is the same network as the PS3 so I guess that means yes.
BUT.............I heard form an EBGames guy that development on games for PS2 would stop in January. Haven't seen anything more on this.
You can still play the compatable games (original Xbox) on the 360 after the Xbox live service is finished ... You just cannot plkay any of the 'Live' features (multiplayer ect) ...
It is gooing to affect a lot of Halo players out there :(
Not fair is it. If they are going to stop the original XBOX then they should have added support for multiplayer on compatable games (original Xbox) on the 360 network.
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Leins, Stefan; Hertz, Ellen (2012). The "Real Economy" and its Pariahs: Questioning moral dichotomies in contemporary capitalism. Durham: Cultural Anthropology Online.
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The artist and author is a lawyer, and artist and a writer. She studied painting with the Belgian painter Roger Servais at the art school Etage in Berlin parallel to attending law school at the FU Berlin, acquired her law degrees and - with an artist's logic - relocated to New York City in 1997. Her work brings together the mandates of art and law by teaching and educating both fields as instruments for a self-directed, meaningful life. Her art project Circus Utopia Art Press is a cooperation with young artist from both Germany and the US to foster self-confidence and the establishment of hope for addressing environmental and humanitarian issues in a peaceful way.
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Colorado Rapids striker Deshorn Brown headed to Norway, sources say
After leading the Colorado Rapids in scoring in his first two MLS seasons, Jamaican striker Deshorn Brown will transfer to Valerenga IF in Norway's Tippeligaen, according to multiple sources.
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MICHAEL C. L. HODGSON prides itself as a Professional, Independent General Practice governed by the regulations of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
We aim to provide a competent and efficient service with the emphasis on a personal approach and professionalism.
Although specialist Auctioneers, the firm provides a comprehensive range of property related services working in close liaison with other professional businesses such as Solicitors, Accountants, Architects, Banks and Building Societies, Insurers and Financial Advisors.
Based in Kendal and Grange-over-Sands, the practice covers a large area from the West Cumbrian coast through the Central Lakes across to the Yorkshire Dales in the east and south into North Lancashire.
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Inspiring Landscape Architecture based on the English Garden
There are various sections of the world that inspire art and architecture. When considering the landscape design component of a home and its exterior, the multiple forms of landscape and architecture design become a major factor.
The English garden landscape design was inspired in the 18th century in Europe and was recognized as the more formal garden that people acknowledged and could recognize during the 17th century.
This type of garden and landscaping includes the use of bridges, ponds, lakes, large trees and more. The usage of the lake and other water elements in addition to rolling greens places the lawn at the epicenter of the English landscape design model.
We often times see examples of the English inspired architecture design on large areas of land that includes farmland, temples, homes, manners and even golf courses. The most important component of this to consider is that English landscape design often requires a lot of land so that they can effectively lay out their image.
This is also true because the usage of water and lakes are integral components of this landscape design work. In fact, it is said that the English garden inspired other areas of the world including Russia and France to adopt these principles and to implement into their architecture considerations as well.
There are, although some small homes and manners that can also include this design. Again, understanding the important fact that land is heavily required to properly lay out this design, we oftentimes see this amongst larger properties.
This model can be applied in smaller areas of land however not on such a grand scale. The English garden transformed into a smaller scale which would be more eye-catching and attractive to the average person dated back to the early 19th century. This started to include the heavy usage of shrubbery, walks, large trees and flowers.
When people think of modern-day English gardens and English design of landscapes, we often think of a more modernize form that we commonly see amongst everyday life. This includes flowers, shrubbery and other small and simple components.
These modern elements allow for a small-scale English garden to be included in everyone's home given the small size. Similar to Asian inspired and other types of external architecture, the English inspired has a more simple and classic feel to it and does an excellent job in complementing the natural beauty of the home.


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Oct. 18, 2002
The 2002-2003 UCLA women's basketball season is just around the corner with the first exhibition game on November 9. With ten returning letter-winners and five talented newcomers, the Bruins are ready for a great season. Please join us for a special pre-season event on Sunday, November 3. It's going to be a great day - meet the team, hear from the coaches, win cool prizes and enjoy brunch with us.
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If schools openly discussed parental rights and opting out of Common Core Testing, what would be the impact on testing? In NYC, 3 schools had a 70% opt out rate. The statistic is stunning. It's hard to imagine in Upstate NY. Our schools have incorporated the culture that testing is required and opt outs are highly discouraged. Schools have carefully implied that testing is mandatory. If a parent objects, they can be marginalized as a "trouble maker."
Maybe the lesson from NYC is, when parents demand that schools behave democratically, school boards will discuss learning standards that are more beneficial to student achievement. When parents demand that the truth about standardized testing is discussed as a community, change can happen. A powerful lesson can be learned by parental control and testing. Parents have the right to opt out, and should make an informed decision without the influence of the district impacting their decision.


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Afternoon tea time special: Pumpkin muffins
With Halloween coming soon, I decided to soak in the festive mood by cooking with pumpkin, starting with these adorable pumpkin muffins. Because I don't really have a sweet tooth, I always like the idea of having a savoury ingredient like pumpkin in something sweet like a muffin. If you want to prepare this in advance before Halloween, you can freeze the muffins in the freezer and toast them for about 5 minutes in the oven to warm them up before serving. This is always a huge time saver for me when I want a quick and fuss free breakfast.
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I'm pretty inexperienced at baking. For those who are experienced, could you tell me honestly if my muffins look ok? Are nicely baked muffins supposed to look like that? Also, they rise nicely when they are in the smaller cupcake cases as shown in the photos, but if I use the taller and bigger muffin cases, the batter do not cook well, and they will sink in the middle and then collapse. Does anyone know the reason for this? Your expertise is much appreciated.
On to the recipe now, if you still dare to follow a recipe shared by a noob hehe :)
Pumpkin muffins (with pumpkin smoothie in the background)
(Makes about 16 small muffins)
Adapted from 500 Cupcakes & Muffins by Fergal Connolly
– 200g plain flour
– 1 tsp cinnamon
– 1 tsp baking powder
– 250g caster sugar
– 110ml vegetable oil
– 2 lightly beaten eggs
– 110ml milk
– 150g pumpkin flesh, blended to a puree
1. Flour mixture: In a bowl, sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon and sugar together, and mix well.
2. Pumpkin mixture: In a large bowl, beat the oil, eggs and milk. Stir in the pumpkin puree.
3. Combine the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture. Stir until just blended (and lumpy). Be careful not to over mix as it will result in a tough texture.
4. Place baking cases in muffin tins. Spoon the mixture into the cases (each slightly more than 2/3 filled).
4. Bake for about 20 minutes in preheated oven of 175C (350F). Remove the muffins and cool on a rack for several minutes before serving.
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I baked a mini one for my hamster Mario.
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Arsenal [2] shareholder Alisher Usmanov [3] has said that foreign ownership of Premier League [4] clubs is good for the English game.
According to SportsMole.co.uk, critics have suggested that the increasing influence of overseas shareholders is stripping the country's sport of its identity, but Usmanov, Britain's richest man with a personal fortune of 13 billion pounds, has stressed that foreign ownership is only criticised when clubs are not successful.
Usmanov has also repeated his public desire to take full control of Arsenal, if the club's majority shareholder, American Stan Kroenke, decides to sell his stake in the Emirates Stadium outfit, the report said.
Non-English benefactors, including all of those sides currently occupying the top six places in the table, own half of the top flight's teams, the report added. (ANI [5])
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Wow. This video had us glued to the screen until the very end. The Knocks and Fred Falke today premiered their new video for their pulsing dance track "Geronimo" and it's definitely something special. Inspired by rave culture, the video features a young Native American man out in the desert getting his dance on like nobody's business.
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa -- The deadline for Iowa disaster survivors to register for federal disaster assistance is Nov. 12, 2010, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division (HSEMD) announced today.
Homeowners, renters, and business owners who suffered losses in the June 1 to Aug. 31, 2010 severe storms, flooding, and tornadoes, who live in one of the 38 declared counties may be eligible for disaster assistance. The counties included in the declaration are: Appanoose, Black Hawk, Boone, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clayton, Decatur, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Franklin, Hamilton, Howard, Humboldt, Ida, Jackson, Jasper, Jones, Kossuth, Lee, Lucas, Lyon, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe, O'Brien, Osceola, Polk, Ringgold, Shelby, Sioux, Story, Taylor, Union, Wapello, Warren, Webster, and Wright counties.
"The deadline to register for disaster assistance is rapidly approaching," said State Coordinating Officer Pat Hall of Iowa HSEMD. "We urge all disaster survivors to register before it's too late."
To date, more than 13,000 individuals have registered for federal assistance in the declared counties and more than $25 million has been approved through FEMA's individual and households program. More than $12 million has been approved in low-interest disaster loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Disaster loans up to $200,000 are available to homeowners to repair or replace their damaged or destroyed primary residence through the U.S. Small Business Administration. Homeowners and renters are eligible for up to $40,000 to repair or replace damaged or destroyed personal property.
Businesses of any size and private non-profit organizations may borrow up to $2 million to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory, and other business assets. SBA can also lend additional funds to help homeowners and business owners with the cost of making improvements that protect, prevent, or minimize the same type of disaster from occurring in the future.
For small businesses and most private, non-profit organizations of any size, SBA offers Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) to help meet working capital needs caused by the disaster. EIDL assistance is available regardless of whether the business suffered any property damage.
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perlsub - Perl subroutines
To declare subroutines:
sub NAME; # A "forward" declaration. sub NAME(PROTO); # ditto, but with prototypes sub NAME BLOCK # A declaration and a definition. sub NAME(PROTO) BLOCK # ditto, but with prototypes
To define an anonymous subroutine at runtime:
$subref = sub BLOCK;
To import subroutines:
use PACKAGE qw(NAME1 NAME2 NAME3);
To call subroutines:
NAME(LIST); # & is optional with parens. NAME LIST; # Parens optional if predeclared/imported. &NAME; # Passes current @_ to subroutine.
Like many languages, Perl provides for user-defined subroutines. These may be located anywhere in the main program, loaded in from other files via the
require, or
use keywords, or even generated on the fly using
eval or anonymous subroutines (closures). You can even call a function indirectly using a variable containing its name or a CODE reference to it, as in
$var = \&function.
The Perl model for function call and return values is simple: all functions are passed as parameters one single flat list of scalars, and all functions likewise return to their caller one single flat list of scalars. Any arrays or hashes in these call and return lists will collapse, losing their identities--but you may always use pass-by-reference instead to avoid this. Both call and return lists may contain as many or as few scalar elements as you'd like. (Often a function without an explicit return statement is called a subroutine, but there's really no difference from the language's perspective.)
Any arguments passed to the routine come in as the array @_. Thus if you called a function with two arguments, those would be stored in
$_[0] and
$_[1]. The array @_ is a local array, but its values are implicit references (predating perlref) to the actual scalar parameters. The return value of the subroutine is the value of the last expression evaluated. Alternatively, a return statement may be used to specify the returned value and exit the subroutine. If you return one or more arrays and/or hashes, these will be flattened together into one large indistinguishable list.
Perl does not have named formal parameters, but in practice all you do is assign to a my() list of these. Any variables you use in the function that aren't declared private are global variables. For the gory details on creating private variables, see "Private Variables via my()" and "Temporary Values via local()". To create protected environments for a set of functions in a separate package (and probably a separate file), see "Packages" in perlmod.
sub max { my $max = shift(@_); foreach $foo (@_) { $max = $foo if $max < $foo; } return $max; } $bestday = max($mon,$tue,$wed,$thu,$fri);
# get a line, combining continuation lines # that start with whitespace sub get_line { $thisline = $lookahead; # GLOBAL VARIABLES!! LINE: while ($lookahead = <STDIN>) { if ($lookahead =~ /^[ \t]/) { $thisline .= $lookahead; } else { last LINE; } } $thisline; } $lookahead = <STDIN>; # get first line while ($_ = get_line()) { ... }
Use array assignment to a local list to name your formal arguments:
sub maybeset { my($key, $value) = @_; $Foo{$key} = $value unless $Foo{$key}; }
This also has the effect of turning call-by-reference into call-by-value, since the assignment copies the values. Otherwise a function is free to do in-place modifications of @_ and change its caller's values.
upcase_in($v1, $v2); # this changes $v1 and $v2 sub upcase_in { for (@_) { tr/a-z/A-Z/ } }
You aren't allowed to modify constants in this way, of course. If an argument were actually literal and you tried to change it, you'd take a (presumably fatal) exception. For example, this won't work:
It would be much safer if the upcase_in() function were written to return a copy of its parameters instead of changing them in place:
($v3, $v4) = upcase($v1, $v2); # this doesn't sub upcase { my @parms = @_; for (@parms) { tr/a-z/A-Z/ } # wantarray checks if we were called in list context return wantarray ? @parms : $parms[0]; }
Notice how this (unprototyped) function doesn't care whether it was passed real scalars or arrays. Perl will see everything as one big long flat @_ parameter list. This is one of the ways where Perl's simple argument-passing style shines. The upcase() function would work perfectly well without changing the upcase() definition even if we fed it things like this:
@newlist = upcase(@list1, @list2); @newlist = upcase( split /:/, $var );
Do not, however, be tempted to do this:
(@a, @b) = upcase(@list1, @list2);
Because like its flat incoming parameter list, the return list is also flat. So all you have managed to do here is stored everything in @a and made @b an empty list. See "Pass by Reference" for alternatives.
A subroutine may be called using the "&" prefix. The "&" is optional in Perl 5, and so are the parens if the subroutine has been predeclared. (Note, however, that the "&" is NOT optional when you're just naming the subroutine, such as when it's used as an argument to defined() or undef(). Nor is it optional when you want to do an indirect subroutine call with a subroutine name or reference using the
&$subref() or
&{$subref}() constructs. See perlref for more on that.)
Subroutines may be called recursively. If a subroutine is called using the "&" form, the argument list is optional, and if omitted, no @_ array is set up for the subroutine: the @_ array at the time of the call is visible to subroutine instead. This is an efficiency mechanism that new users may wish to avoid.
&foo(1,2,3); # pass three arguments foo(1,2,3); # the same foo(); # pass a null list &foo(); # the same &foo; # foo() get current args, like foo(@_) !! foo; # like foo() IFF sub foo pre-declared, else "foo"
Not only does the "&" form make the argument list optional, but it also disables any prototype checking on the arguments you do provide. This is partly for historical reasons, and partly for having a convenient way to cheat if you know what you're doing. See the section on Prototypes below.
my $foo; # declare $foo lexically local my (@wid, %get); # declare list of variables local my $foo = "flurp"; # declare $foo lexical, and init it my @oof = @bar; # declare @oof lexical, and init it
A "my" declares the listed variables to be confined (lexically) to the enclosing block, subroutine,
eval, or
do/require/use'd file. If more than one value is listed, the list must be placed in parens. All listed elements must be legal lvalues. Only alphanumeric identifiers may be lexically scoped--magical builtins like $/ must currently be localized with "local" instead.
Unlike dynamic variables created by the "local" statement, lexical variables declared with "my" are totally hidden from the outside world, including any called subroutines (even if it's the same subroutine called from itself or elsewhere--every call gets its own copy).
(An eval(), however, can see the lexical variables of the scope it is being evaluated in so long as the names aren't hidden by declarations within the eval() itself. See perlref.)
The parameter list to my() may be assigned to if desired, which allows you to initialize your variables. (If no initializer is given for a particular variable, it is created with the undefined value.) Commonly this is used to name the parameters to a subroutine. Examples:
$arg = "fred"; # "global" variable $n = cube_root(27); print "$arg thinks the root is $n\n"; fred thinks the root is 3 sub cube_root { my $arg = shift; # name doesn't matter $arg **= 1/3; return $arg; }
The "my" is simply a modifier on something you might assign to. So when you do assign to the variables in its argument list, the "my" doesn't change whether those variables is viewed as a scalar or an array. So
my ($foo) = <STDIN>; my @FOO = <STDIN>;
both supply a list context to the righthand side, while
my $foo = <STDIN>;
supplies a scalar context. But the following only declares one variable:
my $foo, $bar = 1;
That has the same effect as
my $foo; $bar = 1;
The declared variable is not introduced (is not visible) until after the current statement. Thus,
my $x = $x;
can be used to initialize the new $x with the value of the old $x, and the expression
my $x = 123 and $x == 123
is false unless the old $x happened to have the value 123.
Some users may wish to encourage the use of lexically scoped variables. As an aid to catching implicit references to package variables, if you say
use strict 'vars';
then any variable reference from there to the end of the enclosing block must either refer to a lexical variable, or must be fully qualified with the package name. A compilation error results otherwise. An inner block may countermand this with "no strict 'vars'".
A my() has both a compile-time and a run-time effect. At compile time, the compiler takes notice of it; the principle usefulness of this is to quiet
use strict 'vars'. The actual initialization doesn't happen until run time, so gets executed every time through a loop.
Variables declared with "my" are not part of any package and are therefore never fully qualified with the package name. In particular, you're not allowed to try to make a package variable (or other global) lexical:
my $pack::var; # ERROR! Illegal syntax my $_; # also illegal (currently)
In fact, a dynamic variable (also known as package or global variables) are still accessible using the fully qualified :: notation even while a lexical of the same name is also visible:
package main; local $x = 10; my $x = 20; print "$x and $::x\n";
That will print out 20 and 10.
You may declare "my" variables at the outer most scope of a file to totally hide any such identifiers from the outside world. This is similar to C's static variables at the file level. To do this with a subroutine requires the use of a closure (anonymous function). If a block (such as an eval(), function, or
package) wants to create a private subroutine that cannot be called from outside that block, it can declare a lexical variable containing an anonymous sub reference:
my $secret_version = '1.001-beta'; my $secret_sub = sub { print $secret_version }; &$secret_sub();
As long as the reference is never returned by any function within the module, no outside module can see the subroutine, since its name is not in any package's symbol table. Remember that it's not REALLY called $some_pack::secret_version or anything; it's just $secret_version, unqualified and unqualifiable.
This does not work with object methods, however; all object methods have to be in the symbol table of some package to be found.
Just because the lexical variable is lexically (also called statically) scoped doesn't mean that within a function it works like a C static. It normally works more like a C auto. But here's a mechanism for giving a function private variables with both lexical scoping and a static lifetime. If you do want to create something like C's static variables, just enclose the whole function in an extra block, and put the static variable outside the function but in the block.
{ my $secret_val = 0; sub gimme_another { return ++$secret_val; } } # $secret_val now becomes unreachable by the outside # world, but retains its value between calls to gimme_another
If this function is being sourced in from a separate file via
require or
use, then this is probably just fine. If it's all in the main program, you'll need to arrange for the my() to be executed early, either by putting the whole block above your pain program, or more likely, merely placing a BEGIN sub around it to make sure it gets executed before your program starts to run:
sub BEGIN { my $secret_val = 0; sub gimme_another { return ++$secret_val; } }
See perlrun about the BEGIN function.
NOTE: In general, you should be using "my" instead of "local", because it's faster and safer. Exceptions to this include the global punctuation variables, filehandles and formats, and direct manipulation of the Perl symbol table itself. Format variables often use "local" though, as do other variables whose current value must be visible to called subroutines.
local $foo; # declare $foo dynamically local local (@wid, %get); # declare list of variables local local $foo = "flurp"; # declare $foo dynamic, and init it local @oof = @bar; # declare @oof dynamic, and init it local *FH; # localize $FH, @FH, %FH, &FH ... local *merlyn = *randal; # now $merlyn is really $randal, plus # @merlyn is really @randal, etc local *merlyn = 'randal'; # SAME THING: promote 'randal' to *randal local *merlyn = \$randal; # just alias $merlyn, not @merlyn etc
A local() modifies its listed variables to be local to the enclosing block, (or subroutine,
eval{} or
do) and any called from within that block. A local() just gives temporary values to global (meaning package) variables. This is known as dynamic scoping. Lexical scoping is done with "my", which works more like C's auto declarations.
If more than one variable is given to local(), they must be placed in parens. All listed elements must be legal lvalues. This operator works by saving the current values of those variables in its argument list on a hidden stack and restoring them upon exiting the block, subroutine or eval. This means that called subroutines can also reference the local variable, but not the global one. The argument list may be assigned to if desired, which allows you to initialize your local variables. (If no initializer is given for a particular variable, it is created with an undefined value.) Commonly this is used to name the parameters to a subroutine. Examples:
for $i ( 0 .. 9 ) { $digits{$i} = $i; } # assume this function uses global %digits hash parse_num(); # now temporarily add to %digits hash if ($base12) { # (NOTE: not claiming this is efficient!) local %digits = (%digits, 't' => 10, 'e' => 11); parse_num(); # parse_num gets this new %digits! } # old %digits restored here
Because local() is a run-time command, it gets executed every time through a loop. In releases of Perl previous to 5.0, this used more stack storage each time until the loop was exited. Perl now reclaims the space each time through, but it's still more efficient to declare your variables outside the loop.
A local is simply a modifier on an lvalue expression. When you assign to a localized variable, the local doesn't change whether its list is viewed as a scalar or an array. So
local($foo) = <STDIN>; local @FOO = <STDIN>;
both supply a list context to the righthand side, while
local $foo = <STDIN>;
supplies a scalar context.
[Note: The mechanism described in this section was originally the only way to simulate pass-by-reference in older versions of Perl. While it still works fine in modern versions, the new reference mechanism is generally easier to work with. See below.]
Sometimes you don't want to pass the value of an array to a subroutine but rather the name of it, so that the subroutine can modify the global copy of it rather than working with a local copy. In perl you can refer to all objects of a particular name by prefixing the name with a star:
*foo. This is often known as a "type glob", since the star on the front can be thought of as a wildcard match for all the funny prefix characters on variables and subroutines and such.
When evaluated, the type glob produces a scalar value that represents all the objects of that name, including any filehandle, format or subroutine. When assigned to, it causes the name mentioned to refer to whatever "*" value was assigned to it. Example:
sub doubleary { local(*someary) = @_; foreach $elem (@someary) { $elem *= 2; } } doubleary(*foo); doubleary(*bar);
Note that scalars are already passed by reference, so you can modify scalar arguments without using this mechanism by referring explicitly to
$_[0] etc. You can modify all the elements of an array by passing all the elements as scalars, but you have to use the * mechanism (or the equivalent reference mechanism) to push, pop or change the size of an array. It will certainly be faster to pass the typeglob (or reference).
Even if you don't want to modify an array, this mechanism is useful for passing multiple arrays in a single LIST, since normally the LIST mechanism will merge all the array values so that you can't extract out the individual arrays. For more on typeglobs, see "Typeglobs" in perldata.
If you want to pass more than one array or hash into a function--or return them from it--and have them maintain their integrity, then you're going to have to use an explicit pass-by-reference. Before you do that, you need to understand references as detailed in perlref. This section may not make much sense to you otherwise.
Here are a few simple examples. First, let's pass in several arrays to a function and have it pop all of then, return a new list of all their former last elements:
@tailings = popmany ( \@a, \@b, \@c, \@d ); sub popmany { my $aref; my @retlist = (); foreach $aref ( @_ ) { push @retlist, pop @$aref; } return @retlist; }
Here's how you might write a function that returns a list of keys occurring in all the hashes passed to it:
@common = inter( \%foo, \%bar, \%joe ); sub inter { my ($k, $href, %seen); # locals foreach $href (@_) { while ( $k = each %$href ) { $seen{$k}++; } } return grep { $seen{$_} == @_ } keys %seen; }
So far, we're just using the normal list return mechanism. What happens if you want to pass or return a hash? Well, if you're only using one of them, or you don't mind them concatenating, then the normal calling convention is ok, although a little expensive.
Where people get into trouble is here:
(@a, @b) = func(@c, @d); or (%a, %b) = func(%c, %d);
That syntax simply won't work. It just sets @a or %a and clears the @b or %b. Plus the function didn't get passed into two separate arrays or hashes: it got one long list in @_, as always.
If you can arrange for everyone to deal with this through references, it's cleaner code, although not so nice to look at. Here's a function that takes two array references as arguments, returning the two array elements in order of how many elements they have in them:
($aref, $bref) = func(\@c, \@d); print "@$aref has more than @$bref\n"; sub func { my ($cref, $dref) = @_; if (@$cref > @$dref) { return ($cref, $dref); } else { return ($dref, $cref); } }
It turns out that you can actually do this also:
(*a, *b) = func(\@c, \@d); print "@a has more than @b\n"; sub func { local (*c, *d) = @_; if (@c > @d) { return (\@c, \@d); } else { return (\@d, \@c); } }
Here we're using the typeglobs to do symbol table aliasing. It's a tad subtle, though, and also won't work if you're using my() variables, since only globals (well, and local()s) are in the symbol table.
If you're passing around filehandles, you could usually just use the bare typeglob, like *STDOUT, but typeglobs references would be better because they'll still work properly under
use strict 'refs'. For example:
splutter(\*STDOUT); sub splutter { my $fh = shift; print $fh "her um well a hmmm\n"; } $rec = get_rec(\*STDIN); sub get_rec { my $fh = shift; return scalar <$fh>; }
If you're planning on generating new filehandles, you could do this:
sub openit { my $name = shift; local *FH; return open (FH, $path) ? \*FH : undef; }
Although that will actually produce a small memory leak. See the bottom of "open()" in perlfunc for a somewhat cleaner way using the FileHandle functions supplied with the POSIX package.
As of the 5.002 release of perl, if you declare
sub mypush (\@@)
then mypush() takes arguments exactly like push() does. The declaration of the function to be called must be visible at compile time. The prototype only affects the interpretation of new-style calls to the function, where new-style is defined as not using the
& character. In other words, if you call it like a builtin function, then it behaves like a builtin function. If you call it like an old-fashioned subroutine, then it behaves like an old-fashioned subroutine. It naturally falls out from this rule that prototypes have no influence on subroutine references like
\&foo or on indirect subroutine calls like
Method calls are not influenced by prototypes either, because the function to be called is indeterminate at compile time, since it depends on inheritance.
Since the intent is primarily to let you define subroutines that work like builtin commands, here are the prototypes for some other functions that parse almost exactly like the corresponding builtins.
Declared as Called as sub mylink ($$) mylink $old, $new sub myvec ($$$) myvec $var, $offset, 1 sub myindex ($$;$) myindex &getstring, "substr" sub mysyswrite ($$$;$) mysyswrite $buf, 0, length($buf) - $off, $off sub myreverse (@) myreverse $a,$b,$c sub myjoin ($@) myjoin ":",$a,$b,$c sub mypop (\@) mypop @array sub mysplice (\@$$@) mysplice @array,@array,0,@pushme sub mykeys (\%) mykeys %{$hashref} sub myopen (*;$) myopen HANDLE, $name sub mypipe (**) mypipe READHANDLE, WRITEHANDLE sub mygrep (&@) mygrep { /foo/ } $a,$b,$c sub myrand ($) myrand 42 sub mytime () mytime
Any backslashed prototype character represents an actual argument that absolutely must start with that character. The value passed to the subroutine (as part of
@_) will be a reference to the actual argument given in the subroutine call, obtained by applying
\ to that argument.
Unbackslashed prototype characters have special meanings. Any unbackslashed @ or % eats all the rest of the arguments, and forces list context. An argument represented by $ forces scalar context. An & requires an anonymous subroutine, which, if passed as the first argument, does not require the "sub" keyword or a subsequent comma. A * does whatever it has to do to turn the argument into a reference to a symbol table entry.
A semicolon separates mandatory arguments from optional arguments. (It is redundant before @ or %.)
Note how the last three examples above are treated specially by the parser. mygrep() is parsed as a true list operator, myrand() is parsed as a true unary operator with unary precedence the same as rand(), and mytime() is truly argumentless, just like time(). That is, if you say
mytime +2;
you'll get mytime() + 2, not mytime(2), which is how it would be parsed without the prototype.
The interesting thing about & is that you can generate new syntax with it:
sub try (&@) { my($try,$catch) = @_; eval { &$try }; if ($@) { local $_ = $@; &$catch; } } sub catch (&) { @_ } try { die "phooey"; } catch { /phooey/ and print "unphooey\n"; };
That prints "unphooey". (Yes, there are still unresolved issues having to do with the visibility of @_. I'm ignoring that question for the moment. (But note that if we make @_ lexically scoped, those anonymous subroutines can act like closures... (Gee, is this sounding a little Lispish? (Nevermind.))))
And here's a reimplementation of grep:
sub mygrep (&@) { my $code = shift; my @result; foreach $_ (@_) { push(@result, $_) if &$code; } @result; }
Some folks would prefer full alphanumeric prototypes. Alphanumerics have been intentionally left out of prototypes for the express purpose of someday in the future adding named, formal parameters. The current mechanism's main goal is to let module writers provide better diagnostics for module users. Larry feels the notation quite understandable to Perl programmers, and that it will not intrude greatly upon the meat of the module, nor make it harder to read. The line noise is visually encapsulated into a small pill that's easy to swallow.
It's probably best to prototype new functions, not retrofit prototyping into older ones. That's because you must be especially careful about silent impositions of differing list versus scalar contexts. For example, if you decide that a function should take just one parameter, like this:
sub func ($) { my $n = shift; print "you gave me $n\n"; }
and someone has been calling it with an array or expression returning a list:
func(@foo); func( split /:/ );
Then you've just supplied an automatic scalar() in front of their argument, which can be more than a bit surprising. The old @foo which used to hold one thing doesn't get passed in. Instead, the func() now gets passed in 1, that is, the number of elments in @foo. And the split() gets called in a scalar context and starts scribbling on your @_ parameter list.
This is all very powerful, of course, and should only be used in moderation to make the world a better place.
Many builtin functions may be overridden, though this should only be tried occasionally and for good reason. Typically this might be done by a package attempting to emulate missing builtin functionality on a non-Unix system.
Overriding may only be done by importing the name from a module--ordinary predeclaration isn't good enough. However, the
subs pragma (compiler directive) lets you, in effect, predeclare subs via the import syntax, and these names may then override the builtin ones:
use subs 'chdir', 'chroot', 'chmod', 'chown'; chdir $somewhere; sub chdir { ... }
Library modules should not in general export builtin names like "open" or "chdir" as part of their default @EXPORT list, since these may sneak into someone else's namespace and change the semantics unexpectedly. Instead, if the module adds the name to the @EXPORT_OK list, then it's possible for a user to import the name explicitly, but not implicitly. That is, they could say
use Module 'open';
and it would import the open override, but if they said
use Module;
they would get the default imports without the overrides.
If you call a subroutine that is undefined, you would ordinarily get an immediate fatal error complaining that the subroutine doesn't exist. (Likewise for subroutines being used as methods, when the method doesn't exist in any of the base classes of the class package.) If, however, there is an
AUTOLOAD subroutine defined in the package or packages that were searched for the original subroutine, then that
AUTOLOAD subroutine is called with the arguments that would have been passed to the original subroutine. The fully qualified name of the original subroutine magically appears in the $AUTOLOAD variable in the same package as the
AUTOLOAD routine. The name is not passed as an ordinary argument because, er, well, just because, that's why...
AUTOLOAD routines will load in a definition for the subroutine in question using eval, and then execute that subroutine using a special form of "goto" that erases the stack frame of the
AUTOLOAD routine without a trace. (See the standard
AutoLoader module, for example.) But an
AUTOLOAD routine can also just emulate the routine and never define it. For example, let's pretend that a function that wasn't defined should just call system() with those arguments. All you'd do is this:
sub AUTOLOAD { my $program = $AUTOLOAD; $program =~ s/.*:://; system($program, @_); } date(); who('am', 'i'); ls('-l');
In fact, if you preclare the functions you want to call that way, you don't even need the parentheses:
use subs qw(date who ls); date; who "am", "i"; ls -l;
A more complete example of this is the standard Shell module, which can treat undefined subroutine calls as calls to Unix programs.
Mechanisms are available for modules writers to help split the modules up into autoloadable files. See the standard AutoLoader module described in AutoLoader and in AutoSplit, the standard SelfLoader modules in SelfLoader, and the document on adding C functions to perl code in perlxs.
See perlref for more on references. See perlxs if you'd like to learn about calling C subroutines from perl. See perlmod to learn about bundling up your functions in separate files.


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College Hockey:Pickin' the Big Ten: Feb. 7-8, 2014
Drew Claussen and I are already each 0-1 for this week, each of us having picked last night's Minnesota-Wisconsin game incorrectly. We posted those picks yesterday and we'll include our record from that series in next week's running total.
Last week
Drew: 4-1-1 (.750)
Paula: 4-0-2 (.833)
Drew: 69-32-9 (.668)
Paula: 69-31-11 (.672)
This week
Another blissful week of all-conference play. The Golden Gophers and Badgers finish their series tonight in Madison. The other two series are Friday-Saturday. The times for games vary but are all local.
Michigan at Penn State
Drew: Michigan is rolling after sweeping Michigan State and taking five points from Wisconsin. On the other side, Penn State is not rolling by any stretch of the imagination. That's my preview for this series. It probably changed you life.
Paula: It's hard to come up with something meaningful to say about this match, given that the Wolverines are second in the conference and riding a four-game unbeaten streak (3-0-1) into Hockey Valley and the Nittany Lions have yet to win a Big Ten conference game. The teams have never played each other, so there's no mutual history to discuss, although PSU coach Guy Gadowsky was 4-8-0 all-time against Michigan as Alaska's coach when the Wolverines and Nanooks were both CCHA teams.
I am sure that the Wolverines will not overlook the Nittany Lions. I am equally sure that Michigan is looking at this weekend as an opportunity to gain ground on first-place Minnesota, especially since the Gophers lost to the Badgers last night. Friday's game is untelevised and begins at 7:00 p.m.; Saturday's game begins at 5:00 p.m. and is carried by ESPNU.
Drew's picks: Michigan 4-2, 5-1.
Paula's picks: Michigan 4-2, 3-1.
Ohio State at Michigan State
Drew: The Spartans have fallen into the trend of playing good teams close and then folding. Two close games against Minnesota last weekend and two against Michigan the week before. These two teams opened up 2014 with a two-game series in Columbus. The Buckeyes picked up a 5-3 victory in game one and the second game ended in 1-1 tie. I like the way Ohio State has played since that series more than the way the Spartans responded, so I'm going to go with a similar result in this series.
Paula: What impressed me most about that earlier MSU-OSU series was how hard each team played. While the Buckeyes have more weapons on offense, the Spartans have an edge defensively and they're home — and each team will play hard, again. Michigan State is 82-30-9 against Ohio State, all-time, in this series that dates back to 1964; the Buckeyes are 5-4-1, though, in their last 10 games versus the Spartans, including a 3-0-1 mark in the last four. Friday's game begins at 6:30 p.m. and is carried by the Big Ten Network; Saturday's contest starts at 4:00 p.m. and will be televised by both Fox Sports Detroit and Sports Time Ohio.
Drew's picks: Ohio State 4-2, 2-2.
Paula's picks: Michigan State 3-2, Ohio State 4-2.
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- 'Ayların Parıltısı' at AKM
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- The Walls
- Exhibition on campus
- Getting down to work
- Nook and cranny Turkey
- Canvases from Yeşilçam
- 'Collected Visions'
- 'Under the Influence'
- Evenings after dinner...
- 'New Works'
- Fractal 2
- Ebristanbul
- The poetics of space
- A journey from London to Anatolia
- Growing interest in Turkish Airlines
- Turkish Airlines takes best customer award
- Change in Cologne flights
- Special 'Teachers Day' discount from Turkish Airlines
- 111's of the month
- Turkish Airlines' 2007-2008
- Osaka familiarization tour
- Important announcement for passengers to Japan
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Osaka familiarization tour
An Osaka Fam Trip was organized from 14 to 19 October this year in a joint effort by Turkish Airlines' Tokyo Office and Istanbul Department of Sales Growth, with contributions by Kansai International Airport officials, the Kishimoto Municipality, the Osaka Chamber of Commerce, and Wakayama Regional Province.
At a workshop held on 16 October, Japan's leading tourism companies and agents had an opportunity to meet agents from Istanbul and hold talks aimed at developing tourism between the two countries. The fam trip, which enabled the two countries' largest tourism firms to exchange information and ideas, was also an important opportunity for boosting the tourist traffic between them.


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Should Nokia have Killed Symbian?
History has it that when Stephen Elop took over as CEO of Nokia, Symbian was already dead, the company's smartphone business was dying thanks to Apple's iconic iPhone and there was nothing else Mr. Elop could have done.
Not so fast says a controversial blog post by Tomi Ahonen in his blog Communities Dominate Brands. Mr. Ahonen has crunched the figures and come up with a rather different interpretation.
The Nokia investors appreciated the first five months of Elop's leadership so much, that the Nokia share price had climbed 11% since he took charge! Previous CEO Kallasvuo had seen Nokia share price drop 55% over a 3 year period (and was fired for that).
In just five months, and while the world was still recovering from the global economic crisis, Elop had already recovered back one tenth of the share price losses, what Kallasvuo had lost. Elop was a 'hero'. The Nokia credit ratings by all three ratings agencies were one notch from the best possible. Nokia's brand was rated 8th most valuable on the planet. Nokia's new phones were winning awards.
But, and here is the controversy, Mr. Ahonen claims that by adopting the course he did, abandoning Symbian and shifting to Windows Phone Mr. Elop threw all of that away. Mr. Ahonen has christened this the "Elop Effect".
Since the Elop Effect, Nokia has now lost more than 60% of its share price value in only 14 months. Elop's predecessor lost 55% value in 3 years and was fired. Now Elop has lost 60% in half the time! Nokia's credit ratings have been cut many times and now on all three credit rating agencies, Nokia is at the last level just above 'junk' status. Nokia's brand value dropped out of the global Top 10 for the first time since the ratings were reported globally.
Read the post and make your own mind up. Mr. Ahonen clearly finds fault with Mr. Elop's strategy, or is the commentator who defends Mr. Elop correct: "Nokia was falling already, shop stocks being full of N8s that were not selling. Elop saw that and acted."
Communities Dominate Brands: Paging Truth Police: One Last Time – the Reality of Nokia when CEO Elop Took Charge as CEO, and What Was Not Broken


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This post was not sponsored or perked in any way. I paid for my Kitchit service in full. Just wanted to pass along a cool thing.
When I was young and pictured myself as a woman, one of the things I envisioned was hosting glittery dinner parties where I floated around in chiffon, my arms full of gold bangles. (Auntie Mame was and is one of my favorite movies, if you want insight into my aspirations.)
But evenings dripping candles and cocktails have not been my hostess reality. The Gorilla and I entertain a lot, all kinds of gatherings, but the intimate dinner party has eluded me. I get tripped up over the food. And what is a dinner party without dinner?
I'm a decent cook, but you know what I am? A stage fright cook. Dishes I've made a zillion times will fall apart if there's a guest at the table. I simply can't saute under pressure.
But a few weeks ago I had several new-ish friends that I wanted to introduce to one another and I was in the mood to really tackle the whole dinner party thing. I decided on Wednesday to host ten people for dinner on Saturday. And I didn't want to cook. Naturally I turned to facebook for suggestions on this conundrum and Rachel from Club MomMe recommended Kitchit.
I went to the Kitchit site and GENIUS. You register, then input the style of gathering you want to host: size, fancy or casual, food restrictions, etc. Kitchit gives you personal chef options that you can browse and then choose your best fit. You can also add customizations like having a server for plated food (although I didn't do that, we opted to eat family style).
Kitchit normally asks for at least 3 days notice, but maybe they heard the desperation in my plea. On Thursday before my event on Saturday, I was paired with Chef Ronnie Woo. We spoke on the phone and as soon as I realized we were on the same page, I booked him with a deposit.
Over the next couple of days, Chef Ronnie and I tweaked the menu via email and text. He was easy to work with and very friendly, even accommodating a last minute request. On Saturday he arrived two hours before my party with all the groceries and made himself at home in my kitchen. We used my pots and pans and serving pieces, and he was completely self-sufficient.
My guests arrived and we had cocktails for a bit before wandering over to the dinner table. Before each course, Chef Ronnie introduced the food and answered any questions. He left quietly during dessert, as previously arranged. All payment and gratuity is taken care of through Kitchit, so there's no awkward host moment where you must leave the table to settle up.
When I went into the kitchen after dinner, it was spotless, the dishwasher was running, and the leftovers were in containers in the fridge. Shopping, cooking, serving, cleaning, DONE. It was like there hadn't just been a party of ten wining and dining on the patio. I could focus fully on my guests and not worry for a moment about the quality of the main event.
Okay, so, having a personal chef come into your home isn't something you'd want to do weekly or anything, but for a special occasion, I can't recommend Kitchit highly enough. The cost is comparable to taking a group to dinner at a nice restaurant, but the atmosphere of the evening was so much better. The Gorilla and I have already come up with new dinner party ideas and Kitchit's service makes me so much less afraid of pulling them off.
Kitchit is available in LA, the Bay Area, New York, and Chicago.