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In the history of the Cyc project, Cyc's knowledge base and inference engine have evolved in a direction far different from most other theorem provers. Eventually they ceased even speaking the same language; Cyc started speaking higher-order logic and was thus rendered incompatible. An unfortunate consequence of this is that up until now there has been no corpus accessible by both Cyc and the theorem proving community.
This set of challenge problems is that missing link.
The Cyc TPTP Challenge Problem Set consists of a background theory and many conjectures, expressed in the TPTP format.
The background axioms for the Cyc TPTP Challenge Problem Set are a first-order translation of a subset of the OpenCyc KB plus some additional synthetic content created algorithmically, especially for this problem set. The autogenerated synthetic content is representative of various structures in the ResearchCyc KB, and allows for arbitrary scaling. For details on the first-order translation process, see First-Orderized ResearchCyc: Expressivity and Efficiency in a Common-Sense Ontology by Deepak Ramachandran, P. Reagan, K. Goolsbey.
The conjectures were also generated algorithmically, according to criteria that are explained below. They are large-scale common sense inferences, designed to be representative of a commonly occurring subset of the queries Cyc's inference engine is asked in practice.
The Cyc TPTP Challenge Problem Set consists of two main sections: the Scaling Challenge Problem Set and the Elaboration Challenge Problem Set. Both problem sets test a theorem prover's ability to efficiently perform the types of inference that have proven most useful in the past and present of the Cyc project. The Scaling Challenge Problem Set also tests a theorem prover's ability to find the correct inference path from a vast ocean of distracting chaff. The Elaboration Challenge Problem Set tests all that, plus a theorem prover's ability to efficiently handle small changes to the background theory.
The Scaling Challenge Problem Set
The Scaling Challenge Problem Set consists of 300 problems that test a theorem prover's ability to perform large-scale common sense reasoning. It consists of 6 segments, and each segment contains 50 problems. All of them are provable. These 50 problems contain a small sampling of inference types representative of the queries Cyc's inference engine is most often asked in practice. Each segment consists of the exact same 50 problems — the only difference is that each segment contains a larger amount of distracting chaff. The Scaling Challenge Problem Set was first released as part of TPTP v3.4.0 in the CSR (Common Sense Reasoning) domain. The problem numbers are CSR025+S through CSR074+S, where S is the segment number.
Finding the needle in larger and larger haystacks
Here is a breakdown of the 6 segments:
|Segment name
|Segment description
|Axioms per problem
|Each problem contains only the exact axioms needed to prove that individual conjecture.
|The static background theory shared by all 50 problems contains only the axioms needed to prove the union of all 50 conjectures.
|As above, with some distracting "chaff" axioms added. The distracting chaff is selected from the OpenCyc KB based on similarity to the axioms that are actually required.
|As above, but with more specially-selected distracting chaff added.
|As above, but with many randomly selected chaff axioms added.
|Includes the entire OpenCyc KB as a background theory. This is a superset of the above.
Representative inference types
Each segment contains the same 50 problems. These 50 problems are broken down into 10 types, with 5 problems of each type. The problem types are designed to be emblematic of common types of inference performed often by Cyc's inference engine.
- lookup
- genls
- isa
- disjointWith
- genlPreds / genlInverse + lookup
- relationAllInstance
- relationAllExists
- transitivity / transitiveViaArg
- symmetry
- arg-type
These problem types are ordered and contiguous; the first 5 problems in a segment will be lookup problems, the next 5 will be genls problems, and so on. For example, the relationAllExists problems will be problems CSR055+S through CSR059+S, for each segment S.
Note that most of these problems are "easy" to prove by the standards of the ATP community, at least when there is no chaff. Like NP-complete problems, checking a known solution is indeed easy, and the challenge comes from finding the known solution in a sea of distraction. This is the motivation for providing a corpus with increasing amounts of chaff.
None of the problems in this problem set rely on equality reasoning. This is because Cyc's inference engine makes the Unique Names Assumption by default, and default reasoning is outside the scope of this problem set.
Maintaining state across problems
Each segment shares a background theory stored in a single axiom file. Each problem in a given segment, with the exception of segment 1, consists of a single include directive (the background theory) and a single conjecture. Hence, ATP systems which can maintain state across problems will gain a 50x speedup by loading the background theory once, bookmarking that state, and posing multiple conjectures against the pre-loaded background theory. The meta-information that the background theory is static with respect to the segment is contained in a TPTP "pragma" implemented as a defined comment as specified in the TPTP BNF. An example of the relevant section of the TPTP file is as follows:
%$problem_series(cyc_scaling_1,[CSR025+1,CSR026+1,CSR027+1,CSR028+1,CSR029+1,CSR030+1,CSR031+1,CSR032+1,CSR033+1,CSR034+1,CSR035+1,CSR036+1,CSR037+1,CSR038+1,CSR039+1,CSR040+1,CSR041+1,CSR042+1,CSR043+1,CSR044+1,CSR045+1,CSR046+1,CSR047+1,CSR048+1,CSR049+1,CSR050+1,CSR051+1,CSR052+1,CSR053+1,CSR054+1,CSR055+1,CSR056+1,CSR057+1,CSR058+1,CSR059+1,CSR060+1,CSR061+1,CSR062+1,CSR063+1,CSR064+1,CSR065+1,CSR066+1,CSR067+1,CSR068+1,CSR069+1,CSR070+1,CSR071+1,CSR072+1,CSR073+1,CSR074+1]) %$static(cyc_scaling_1,include('Axioms/CSR002+0.ax')) include('Axioms/CSR002+0.ax').
The first defined comment, beginning with %$problem_series, declares a problem series cyc_scaling_1, segment 1 of the Cyc Scaling Challenge Problem Set, which consists of the stated list of TPTP problems.
The second defined comment, beginning with %$static, declares that the stated directive, in this case an include directive, is static with respect to the stated problem series. In particular, this means that the include directive for the axiom file Axioms/CSR002+0.ax is static (i.e. will not change) with respect to each problem in the cyc_scaling_1 problem series.
The third directive is the actual include directive. A clever theorem prover could pay attention to the preceding defined comments and handle this include specially, since it has the meta-knowledge that it is static with respect to this problem series.
The Elaboration Challenge Problem Set
The Elaboration Challenge Problem Set consists of 300 problems with about 3,280,000 axioms each. The Elaboration Challenge Problem Set is designed to be more challenging than the Scaling Challenge Problem Set and to be even more representative of the problems Cyc's inference engine typically faces. Developers are advised to tackle the Scaling Challenge Problem Set before the Elaboration Challenge Problem Set. The Elaboration Challenge Problem Set tests everything in the Scaling Challenge Problem Set, and also tests a system's elaboration tolerance.
A formalism is elaboration tolerant to the extent that it is convenient to modify a set of facts expressed in the formalism to take into account new phenomena or changed circumstances. -John McCarthy[1]
The Elaboration Challenge Problem Set has not yet been released as part of the TPTP, but is available for download.
The Cyc knowledge base is dynamic, not static. It has a persistent axiom store that can be edited in real time — axioms and terms can be created or deleted without need for any global recompilation. The Elaboration Challenge Problem Set simulates this process. To perform optimally on this corpus, a system will maintain persistent state and be elaboration tolerant to changes to that state.
Each TPTP problem in the Elaboration Challenge Problem Set consists of three parts:
- The static KB
- The dynamic KB
- The conjecture
Static KB
Every problem in the Elaboration Challenge Problem Set shares the same static KB. It is the first axiom file included, and it has the same pragmas as it does in the Scaling Challenge Problem Set (see above). It contains about 94% of the translated OpenCyc KB, including the autogenerated synthetic content. The static KB is very similar to the background theory in segment 6 of the Scaling Challenge Problem Set. The only differences are that 6% of the axioms are not present and the order is different.
Dynamic KB
Each problem in the Elaboration Challenge Problem Set includes a subset of the dynamic KB. The dynamic KB is chunked into many include files, each containing about 4500 axioms, some of which are duplications of axioms in the static KB and some of which are not. Some of these dynamic KB chunks will be included for a given problem and some will not. The deltas are small between adjacent problems in the series, so a clever theorem prover could take advantage of this by caching most of the dynamic KB and only adding or deleting the contents of those include files that differ between the current problem and the previous problem. This simulates a series of queries interspersed with a series of theory revisions.
The conjectures are of the same 10 inference types as in the Scaling Challenge Problem Set, with some additions such as reflexivity. The distribution is roughly equal between the inference types, but unlike the Scaling Challenge Problem Set the order of each problem is randomized. In addition, conjectures are often repeated at different points in the series; the same conjecture with a different subset of the dynamic KB. Often a conjecture will be provable with one subset of the dynamic KB and will not be provable with a different subset of the dynamic KB; the repetition of conjectures tests such minimal pairs.
There are contradictions in the Cyc knowledge base. Cyc has safeguards in place (such as WFF-checking and tightly resource-bounded inference upon theory revision) to avoid many types of obvious contradictions, but a few unintentional contradictions still slip through. With any knowledge base so large, especially one that is revised dynamically and asynchronously by multiple users, global consistency is an unrealistic expectation. This opens the possibility of theorem provers trivially solving all these challenge problems by finding one contradiction in the static KB, caching it, and appealing to reductio ad absurdum. While this is technically a solution to the problem, it in no way contributes to the advancement of research in large-scale common-sense inference. The existence of contradictions in large-scale common-sense knowledge bases has forced Cyc's inference engine to make a different design decision — to studiously steer the search away from such contradictions and to isolate their effect on unrelated inferences as much as possible.
Cyc's inference engine isolates contradictions in three ways:
- Microtheories
- Avoiding arbitrary reductio ad absurdum (RAA) proofs
- Higher-order meta-reasoning about what inference rules to apply or forbid in certain situations
Microtheories are translated into TPTP, albeit with a loss of expressivity. Despite this, this method of avoiding contradictions does carry over to the challenge problem sets.
RAA proofs
Cyc's inference engine can perform RAA proofs, but it does not perform arbitrary RAA proofs. To perform well in a huge theory, theorem provers must necessarily do set-of-support reasoning to avoid being distracted by irrelevant background knowledge. If set-of-support is taken seriously, then most potential RAA proofs will not be encountered in the inference search.
Higher-order meta-reasoning
Cyc's inference engine performs several kinds of higher-order meta-reasoning, some of which help avoid contradictions. An important example of this is that Cyc performs WFF-checking on intermediate steps of the inference and disallows an inference step if it would result in an ill-formed result. This is part of how Cyc handles partial functions (in specific, arg-type constraints on functions). Since all functions are total in FOL, this may be a source of contradictions in these challenge problem sets, because partial functions in Cyc are translated as total functions in FOL.
Given the limitations of FOL and the imperfect translation between Cyc and TPTP, theorem prover authors are advised to solve these challenge problems in a backward, query-focused way, and to take set-of-support seriously. This will help avoid irrelevant contradictions in the background theory whenever possible.
Future Work
Cycorp intends to create a similar but richer set of challenge problems for the ResearchCyc KB. ResearchCyc contains considerably more knowledge than OpenCyc, and its knowledge is much more entangled and varied. ResearchCyc also has a much wider variety of rules, allowing for much longer chains of common sense reasoning. The ResearchCyc Challenge Problem Set will be even more challenging and even more representative of the common sense inferences faced by Cyc.
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You can also download the Scaling Challenge Problem Set (but not yet the Elaboration Challenge Problem Set) as part of the TPTP.
The Cyc TPTP Challenge Problem Set is available under the following license:
- Copyright Information Cyc(R) Knowledge Base Copyright(C) 1995-2008 Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX, USA. All rights reserved.
- OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright(C) 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX, USA. All rights reserved.
Other copyrights may be found in various files. The OpenCyc Knowledge Base The OpenCyc Knowledge Base consists of code, written in the declarative language CycL, that represents or supports the representation of facts and rules pertaining to consensus reality. OpenCyc is licensed using the Apache License, Version 2, whose text can be found at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html. The OpenCyc CycL code base is the "Work" referred to in the Apache license. The terms of this license equally apply to renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the Knowledge Base (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language.
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LOS ANGELES -- Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced that the Homeowner Bill of Rights, which will protect homeowners and borrowers during the mortgage and foreclosure process, was signed into law today by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.
The Homeowner Bill of Rights prohibits a series of inherently unfair bank practices that have needlessly forced thousands of Californians into foreclosure. The law restricts dual-track foreclosures, where a lender forecloses on a borrower despite being in discussions over a loan modification to save the home. It also guarantees struggling homeowners a single point of contact at their lender with knowledge of their loan and direct access to decision makers, and imposes civil penalties on fraudulently signed mortgage documents. In addition, homeowners may require loan servicers to document their right to foreclose.
The laws will go into effect on January 1, 2013, and borrowers can access courts to enforce their rights under this legislation.
The Homeowner Bill of Rights builds upon and extends reforms first negotiated in the recent national mortgage settlement between 49 states and leading lenders. Attorney General Harris secured up to $18 billion for California homeowners in that agreement, and has also built a Mortgage Fraud Strike Force to investigate crime and fraud associated with mortgages and foreclosures.
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The California Homeowner Bill of Rights was introduced February 29, 2012 at a press conference featuring Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez and Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and bill authors from the Assembly and Senate.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The often-controversial president of the College of William & Mary resigned Tuesday, amid outrage for allowing a pornographic show to be performed on campus.
Gene Nichol announced his resignation, effective immediately, after learning that the school's board had decided not to renew his contract due in July. Nichols had often came under intense criticism for making decisions that some claimed suppressed Christian expression.
Last week, Nichol outraged several students for allowing a sex show on campus featuring porn actors, strippers and other sex workers. He said Tuesday that he would have violated the First Amendment had he banned the show from the student-governed speaker series.
In his most notable decision, however, Nichol sparked protests for having an historic cross removed from permanent display in the school's Wren Chapel. The move, he said, was made in an effort to make students and visitors of non-Christian faiths feel more welcome at the nation's second-oldest college.
The cross was returned to the chapel in August in a locked, Plexiglass-like case near the altar. It can be removed from the case and placed on the altar by request.
Calls for His Removal
But subsequent decisions by the president prompted some to call for Nichol's removal from office. One donor rescinded pledges to give $12 million to the school. Angry state lawmakers also held a hearing about the matter.
Nichol's resignation was outlined in an e-mail to the university community.
"Mine, to be sure, has not been a perfect presidency," Nichol wrote. "I have sometimes moved too swiftly, and perhaps paid insufficient attention to the processes and practices of a strong and complex university. A wiser leader would likely have done otherwise."
In response to the resignation, Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, applauded Virginia leaders for helping to "bring that institution back on track to focus on education, not de-moralizing the students."
"Universities have pushed the envelope in censoring Christianity and promoting pornography," Wright said. "Under the leadership of Gene Nichols, the College of William & Mary, a respected, historic institution, became the poster child of the degradation of higher learning,"
State Lawmakers Step in
Last week, the Virginia House Privileges and Elections Committee questioned nominees to the William and Mary Board of Visitors on recent decisions made by Nichol.
Nichol said he and his family had been the target of a "committed, relentless, frequently untruthful and vicious campaign" on the Internet and in the media. He also said a House of Delegates Committee had effectively threatened board appointees if he had not been fired.
Virginia delegate Mark Cole denied the allegation.
"We never threatened anybody, never made his job removal a litmus test," Cole said. "To say we did this just to try to get him fired is ridiculous. It's just sour grapes."
Board officials said the decision not to renew Nichol's contract was not based on "ideology or any single public controversy."
"He is a truly inspirational figure who has enjoyed the affection of many," the board wrote of Nichol. But the board said it believed there were "a number of problems that were keeping the college from reaching its full potential and concluded that those issues could not be effectively remedied without a change of leadership."
The college will begin a search for a new president immediately. In the meantime Law School Dean W. Taylor Reveley will take the post until a replacement is found.
Nichol will remain on faculty in the law school.
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An oversimplification, perhaps, but the result can be divided communities, resulting in diluted votes. Or in bizarrely gerrymandered districts that take in part of one population base, then extend a narrow corridor to a distant area and encircle another population of like mind.
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The Democratic districts move farther left and the Republican districts farther right.
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Satellite-based global data communications company OrbComm Global LP this afternoon said it and seven of its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy but expected its satellite network meanwhile would remain in full operation. The Dulles, Va., company said it took the action as part of its efforts to restructure and reorganize its business.
Scott Webster, chairman and chief executive officer of OrbComm, told Washtech.com that the company has been in discussions with an informal bondholders committee, representing more than 60 percent of the outstanding principal amount of OrbComm's senior notes. Webster also said no other layoffs are planned as part of OrbComm's new business and operating plans.
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Under the restructuring, OrbComm said an affiliate of Canadian company Teleglobe Inc. [NYSE:TGO] has agreed to extend to OrbComm a total of $17 million in interim debt financing as previously announced, $8 million of which has already been provided through a secured loan. The balance of this financing will provide the company with short-term liquidity for the next few months and should be provided as debtor-in-possession financing, OrbComm said.
Webster said the move positions the company as a more attractive investment as it works to restructure debt to equity. OrbComm's owners and partners, Teleglobe and Orbital, have indicated that they are prepared to convert their outstanding debt into equity in OrbComm in connection with the completion of new equity investment, OrbComm added.
OrbComm said it expects that the restructuring, coupled with the financial stability it hopes to achieve during the Chapter 11 process, will enable the company to address the current challenges and "emerge from Chapter 11 as quickly as possible." OrbComm said it believes the measures will put the company in a position to continue to capitalize on the fast-growing international market for satellite-based global data communications.
OrbComm also said it has implemented a new business plan that involves reduced operating and capital expenditures and a simplified distribution strategy that focuses on its top-tier customers in key vertical markets and the distribution of its services through indirect sales channels, including its value-added resellers and international licensees.
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At the time, OrbComm also said it was exploring a variety of financing alternatives, including selling various assets and restructuring or reorganizing its outstanding debt as well as its business.
At the end of June, OrbComm announced a staff reduction of 112 employees to cut costs. That move came two weeks after OrbComm announced that it had hired New York City-based investment banker Bear Stearns to search for new funding sources and partners.
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By Dr. Christopher R. Paparone and George L. Topic Jr.October 9, 2013
In the turbulent environment in which we expect to continue operating, the top-down habits of hierarchical organizations will suffice less and less because they cannot respond to changing circumstances in a timely manner. This environment, characterized as "chaoplexic" in our July-September 2013 Army Sustainment article, demands the simultaneous, holistic, and continuous adaptation of entire organizations rather than individual responses to directives that trickle too slowly from higher authorities.
The military has adopted the philosophy of mission command to address the decentralization of initiative needed to operate effectively as a networked organization. Logistics organizations are driven by small teams tied together as one of the most networked organizations in the military.
We contend that the Army logistics community has not studied in detail how emerging demands and philosophical changes call for us to transform how we think about military logistics as a profession and the corresponding adaptive role of the professional logistician.
The industrial age Army of mass production is slowly losing its applicability. Today we still have remnants of the Army's early 20th century scientifically managed design that includes an assembly-line method of creating units and preparing Soldiers, a competency-map approach to creating military occupational specialties, and commissioned officer classification systems that pair outputs with matching coded authorized positions. In this age of global interconnectedness and fast-changing operational environments, we cannot expect this mechanistic system to keep pace with the complexity faced by our logisticians.
Instead, we need to reframe the very idea of what professionals do when confronted with novel situations in which our old knowledge structures do not work. We must shift from a view of a mechanized competency production line to an organic, complex view of people and organizational methods.
We feel there is a need to reshape the definition of our profession and place a higher value on the ability of logisticians to figure things out "on the fly."
Professor Donald A. Schön called this "reflective practice" in his 1987 book, "The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action." Schön wrote, "The nonroutine situations of practice are at least partly indeterminate and must somehow be made coherent. Skillful practitioners learn to conduct frame experiments in which they impose a kind of coherence on messy situations and thereby discover consequences and implications of their chosen frames. From time to time, their efforts to give order to a situation provoke unexpected outcomes--'back talk' that gives the situation a new meaning. They listen and reframe the problem. It is this … that constitutes a reflective conversation with the materials of a situation--the design like artistry of professional practice."
Schön proposes that professional education and practice should be recast as a matter of crafting divergent knowledge. In other words, education that targets creating knowledge through action, coupled with critical retrospection of that knowledge. Expertise comes from adapting actions based on what one knows to be the situation at hand rather than relying on preordained solutions.
In his 1995 book, "Educating the Reflective Practitioner," Schön proposes that "if you are dealing with a unique situation, then by definition you cannot apply to it standard categories of analysis and action. Because if it's unique, just that about it which is unique does not fit those categories. And therefore, you have to do something on the spot in such a situation, something that involves invention, which involves reconfiguring the problem, which may involve redesigning categories so that they fit it."
We argue that Schön's framework of reflective practice is sound. To implement the philosophy of mission command our concept of the profession of military logistics needs to change. We need leaders at all levels who continuously develop acumen for quickly and effectively adapting to complex environments.
We are not suggesting that the logistics community ignore the science that has been developed during the past century of modern military operations. We suggest that it acknowledge that this science promotes the mass production of Soldier skills. If we want highly adaptive logisticians, they need a highly adaptive sense of the continuum of knowledge as the current and future operational environments demand.
Dr. Christopher R. Paparone is the dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Education at the Army Logistics University at Fort Lee, Va.
George L. Topic Jr. is a retired Army colonel and the vice director for the Center for Joint and Strategic Logistics at the National Defense University at Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.
This article was published in the October-December 2013 issue of Army Sustainment magazine.


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oh and while im here if anyone is primal around Birmingham England let me know would be nice to discuss mutual stuff!!
My story is that when I was 14 i played football ( soccer ) at a pro level - i gave up, ate shit, and did nothing for the next 5 years after mom/dad broke up... now im 19 and tried boxing, turns out im quite good and naturally lucky as i have abnormally long arms.
I have decided that if i dont make it by the time im 21 its over, so from now on I am going strictly primal and will train for 4 hours a day even with a full time job - I will be keeping a full diary picture / blog
I have a few things that really limit me i need help with.
1. I just cant breathe through my nose, occasionally I can breathe through one nostril but thats a gift, its always really dry up there and just feels like my nose hole is TINY. I think nasal breathing will help me loads, but what can I do!??! I have never been allergic to anything - so i doubt its that, but heard milk dont help? I love a cup of tea though.
2. I am not sure how much carbs i will need either - I do need to be FIT - but i like to train explosively - sprinting etc rather than jogging. So i will be doing 4 hours of lifting, stretching and spriting a day - i currently only have cabbage broccoli carrot etc as my only carbs - what is the best I can introduce and how much of it?
3. Sometimes when I go to train outside - the air is so cold it burns my lungs - cant breathe through my nose - puts me off - makes me wimp out - what to do?
Thanks for looking
oh and while im here if anyone is primal around Birmingham England let me know would be nice to discuss mutual stuff!!
1. Is this year-round, or more of a winter thing? Get yourself a humidifier to use during the winter. Air that's too dry causes sinus problem.
See an Ear/Nose/Throat specialist doctor about it. There might be something medical that can be done.
Dairy can definitely be a problem sometimes. I get really mucousy from dairy (and sugar sometimes).
2. As much as your body needs. I would even say that you shouldn't worry about it. Just eat primal foods, and you'll be okay.
3. Wrap a loosely-knit scarf over your face.
Your best friend for carbs as an athlete should be sweet potatoes...find a good roasting recipe and you'll be in love. I used to hate sweet potatoes and I they are quickly becoming one of my favorites, I eat them 4-5 times a week. Sinus issues can be cleared up by a primal diet, but you may need to get that checked out...I live in a northern state and often run outside in the winter. The burning sucks, but it WILL increase your lung capacity for endurance..it usually becomes less of an issue as you run more..
If you don't make it by the time you're 21, keep trying. Physical improvement can continue well into your 20s, 30s, and 40s, as many on here are finding out. Personally, a lot of goals have actually come back into focus in the past six months or so.
Keep reaching!
1. As others said - get with a doctor. If you do have a "TINY" nose hole (whatever the hell that is - LOL), then they should be able to help you. A paleo/primal diet should help with this as well.
2. I am not a pro, but I do play lacrosse and you will need carbs from primal sources. Potatoes and squash should be your main go to sources. However, especially after a significant amount of anaerobic training, white rice can be used as long as you don't have some weird reaction to it. I would still stay away from other grains and legumes to help with item #1.
3. You aren't a wimp, you just act like one. Just train in the cold and breathing when it's not cold will seem much easier.
Also, don't think that you have to quit by the time you are 21. I didn't go back into lacrosse until I was 39 (now 41) and I play against guys in their early 20s (some are in their 30s too) and I can still hang with most of them.
Look at Vitali Klitschko who is 39 years old. He just knocked the piss out of Chisora and I don't think Chisora is even 30 yet. Boxers get better with age dude.
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The Olympus ?[mju:]-III Wide 100 is an advanced compact camera with a wide 28mm-100mm zoom lens, autofocus system with 11 autofocus-points, 3-way Auto Exposure (AE) system for accurate exposure of images and six different flash modes. With a retail price of ?169.99, the Olympus ?[mju:]-III Wide 100 is positioned at the more expensive end of the compact camera market. Do all those features justify that cost? Read my review to find out.
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Anybody actually find this review? The photo-i website doesn't seem to have it. I'm thinking the link was wrong.
A gold star for you Chris! You're the first person to spot this, ahem, small mistake on my part (blush).
The link should be working OK now - enjoy my review!
BTW, if I'm ever this stupid again, there are direct links to every product review in the Reviews section.
Whoot! Gold star! Gold star!
Thanks for the pointer & the review.
What did you think of the review? Was it helpful? Are you looking to buy this kind of camera at the moment?
As it happens, I *am* looking to buy a pocket-sized 35mm camera. Honestly, I'll probably end up with an old Rollei off eBay--scale-focusing and fixed 35mm focal length. Your review helped confirm that inclination. I'm probably most appalled at the speed of the lens.
Funny thing is that my local camera shops--even the small, pro-oriented ones, don't carry small film cameras any more. They're all digital.
Anyway, thanks for the review. I love your site--it's among the first ones I visit every morning. Keep up the great work!
I bought an Olympus Mju II fulm compact with a fixed 35mm lens a couple of years ago, but I haven't used it as much as I thought I would, although I do carry it round all the time. The Olympus Mju 400 Digital that I recently reviewed would make a great pocket camera, but it's a bit on the expensive side.
Glad you like the site - positive feedback like yours encourages to keep things going. I've got some big plans in the pipeline as well, so keep visiting!
This review makes a fundamental error of assessing the camera's image quality through using print film. The reviewer then draws the conclusion that the camera has exposure error problems. Print film has a latitude of 2-3 stops either way. The camera is probably excellent in its exposure, most P&S cameras are. The problem is with the decision at the mini-lab, not to mention the chemicals, paper, calibration etc. You can only assess a film camera properly with good slide film such as Provia 100f then view the trannie with a lupe. All P&S cameras will exhibit some difficulty with hi contrast situations, but so do many SLRs. Please test the camera with transparency film next time, otherwise all you are doing is testing the mini-lab.
Fair point Michael, except for one small point - the test film from this camera was developed at the same time and lab as another Olympus film camera that I reviewed - see http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews_olympus_is500.php - which had no exposure problems. I guess the lab could have processed them differently anyway?
Hi Mark,
with this camera, what is the max aperture by 50mm? Is it already f11.9 or is it progressive like maybe f5.8 or f8?
thanks for the review
If I recall correctly is was a progressive aperture as you suggest. The slowest aperture was reached at full tele-photo.
very useful - many thanks
I agree with the comment about photo labs, especially Jessops. They're the worst I've ever used which was very disappointing considering they are supposed to be the pro's! I would agree they can seriously affect the review. I have a Mju II and love it. It's the best camera I have ever used! I wanted something a little more powerful and bought an EOS300, but on full auto mode it couldn't compare to the little Mju in a variety of siutations. So now I'm considering the Mju III. It's got the features I love about the Mju II with a handy zoom. I've seen it on the net for just £110 from Camera Depot so I'll give it a go!
Great job! Thanks a lot for the review!
You really can't get much impression of a camera at all by flat-bed scanning high-street, bulk-processed film / prints. Anyone used to producing high quality prints themselves will explain umpteen reasons why. The fact that one st of prints seems OK and another doesn't is most likely due to any of a dozen factors to do with the automatic processing. Even if everything about the processing equipment (e.g. freshness of chemicals, temperature, frequent calibration of several key components) were perfect (far from teh case in my experience) you then get into the average-the-image-to-mid-grey assessment of the processing equipment, working ranges of sensors, chemicals, paper, etc. - the vast majority of high-street prints do much less than justice to a negative.
At the very least, you need to start with a well-developed film and a high quality scan - not a print, which is then scanned again.
This cam is fabh for what it does!
It is all about the shot and all about how it looks in the end!
If you are a good TOG you can use any cam to get a great shot. This cam gives you tones and depth and you can pop it out just when you need it.


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From its alluring, retro cover to the last strains of steel guitar on the closing song, Raiatea Helm's latest CD embraces us in a sea of nostalgia.
Following her brilliant collaboration with Keola Beamer, Molokai's young female falsetto star has set her sights on a bygone era, evoking the romance and magic of a simpler time.
"At the beginning of my musical journey when I was 15, my dad had given me two CDs, one by Lena Machada and by Leinaala Heine," she explains the project's inspiration. "And I fell in love with Leinaala's sound because she had these cool arrangements with the (percussive) brushes and vibes and piano and cool jazz guitar. She had one song 'Namolokama,' and I fell in love with it. So from then on to now it was all about planning and preparing and being able to do justice to that sound."
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Surrounded by a stellar group including Bobby Ingano on steel guitar, Jeff Peterson on guitar, Noel Okimoto on drums and vibes, Kit Ebersbach on piano, Dean Taba on acoustic bass, Bryan Tolentino on ukulele and Kapono Band's Lopaka Colon on percussion, Raiatea eloquently re-imagines the Hawaiian club music of '50s and '60s Waikiki.
"This particular period was called club music and it was performed in Waikiki," she continues. "I've always wanted to do an album like this. I love to sing old Hawaiian songs. It makes people happy."
Beginning with Leina'ala Haili's "Namolokama," she contacted Harry B. Soria Jr., a fount of vintage Hawaiian repertoire, searching out songs that would fit the project. Then she brought in Kit Ebersbach to craft imaginative arrangements of the familiar material.
Mixing classic Hawaiian, hapa haole and pop songs, Raiatea weaves her vocal magic on a classy collection of compositions that enhance her artistry and further cement her reputation as one of Hawaii's most gifted artists.
We're immediately swept back to the past with the opening " 'Aina 'O Molokai," a sweet homage to her home island, accented by the evocative sound of Ingano's steel guitar and Okimoto's tropical "exotica" vibes.
Next, she visits Kauai with a cover of Peter Kai Davis's "Nani Hanalei," holding impossibly long notes. Later she mesmerizes with a gorgeous version of "Ka Punahou."
English language songs include a jazzy take on the classic "The Cockeyed Mayor of Kaunakakai" (giving a chance for the band to stretch out); while she sings both Hawaiian and English lyrics on the title track, "Sea of Love." Accompanied simply by ukulele she delivers a charming version of this late '50s hit by Phillip Baptiste, which was later reinterpreted by Robert Plant and the Honeydripppers in 1985, and by Cat Power in the cult movie "Juno."
The one contemporary tune, the beautiful "Ka Beauty Mahiehie," was composed for her by her uncle, kumu hula Frank Kawaikapuokalani Hewett.
To close the album, Raiatea reaches back to the 1930s and a celluloid vision of tropical romance with "Moonlight and Shadows," originally recorded by Dorothy Lamour for the movie "The Jungle Princess." It's one of the CD's highlights, that recalls her work on Matt Catingub's "Return to Romance" project.
"I really admire the romance side of old Waikiki," she says. "I love looking at old pictures of Hawaii. The music was more vivid than today. You could see and feel the water and sand and palm tress. They were so classy and dressed nice. And all of a sudden it went away."
A twice-Grammy nominated, multi-Na Hoku award winner, Raiatea decided to buck contemporary recording techniques and have all the musicians playing live in the studio.
"We had all the band members plugged in one time, like how it was 40 or 50 years ago," she explains. "It's definitely my favorite album, because this is all me. I came up with the song list, I chose the people to work with, and I was my own producer. It's like a fresh, new start."
Joe Caro's new CD is a marvel of modern recording techniques. Now happily living on Maui's east side, this former New York-based ace guitarist created his instrumental tour de force, "Home Alone," on his laptop.
But this is no garage vanity project, for Joe's extensive credits include recording and/or touring with the likes of Aretha Franklin, the Eagles, Bon Jovi, Bette Middler, Crosby, Stills and Nash and Michael McDonald.
"This is the first time I stepped out and did the whole thing myself," Joe explains. "In New York I had my own studio and now I live out in the jungle. I literally tried to keep it down to just a laptop, and all my guitar stuff was plugged directly into the computer. I'm usually allergic to that, because I have all kinds of vintage guitars and amps and I love going into the studio."
While his first solo album highlights his remarkable guitar prowess, he's joined through the wonders of technology by such A-list buddies as keyboardist Ricky Peterson, bassist Will Lee and drummers Steve Ferrone, Anton Fig and Shawn Pelton.
Peterson is best known for his 20-year association with saxophone legend David Sanborn, and having played with Prince, Billy Joel, Sting and James Taylor. Currently touring with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ferrone's credits include time with Eric Clapton, George Benson and Chaka Khan.
When he's not playing nightly on the "Late Show with David Letterman," over the years Fig has played with scores of great artists including Miles Davis, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Winwood. "Letterman" show bassist Lee has recorded with the likes of James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Mick Jagger.
"We all used to play on each other's records, and now it's, 'You want me to play on your record, email me the track,'" he notes.
A few years back Joe was part of the brilliant "A New York Minute" jazz concert at the MACC. Living here for five years, he sometimes jams at a few Maui settings when friends visit, and he was a member of the group Acid Reign, which revived the glory of Jimi Hendrix one night.
The all-instrumental "Home Alone" echoes more the phenomenal fusion techniques of Jeff Beck than Hendrix's sonic mastery. Like Beck, he doesn't waste a note, effortlessly coaxing a gamut of sounds out of his guitar from pastoral to boldly muscular.
"When we were in the studio it was all about playing every different style and trying to be really good at every different style," he continues. "Some friends wanted me to do a blues record and others, this or that, and it ended up having a lot of different elements. In the end I called it 'bluesion,' blues guitar with a lot of different musical influences."
Enhanced with subtle orchestration, the relaxed, dreamy tone of "Clear" opens the CD, reflecting the influence of our islands' beauty. Then, with a sampled Arabic lyric, this virtuoso guitarist erupts with the explosive fusion of "The Calling," propelled by Fig, Lee and Peterson.
And so it goes - reflective works like "Dawn" with its Hawaiian chant, and the lovely ballad "Going Home," balanced with grinding blues-flavored rockers like "Sludge" and the power-crunching "Drill Baby Drill."
And to close, he features the one cover in this primarily original project, an amazing instrumental version of the Beatles' psychedelic classic "Strawberry Fields Forever."
Joe Caro will perform with drummer Anton Fig at Charley's on Dec. 2.
You might expect a recording of the sophisticated caliber of "Soulfire Radio" to emanate from London or L.A. but Haiku?
Maui's Freeradicals Projekt marries elements from hip-hop, classic soul, funk, jazz and dance music into an irresistible, fresh brew that favorably compares with the work of American ensembles like The Fugees and the U.K.'s Brand New Heavies and Incognito.
Led by Argentinean guitarist Rama Covarrubias, the Projekt fields emcee Francisco "Frankie" Perez, vocalist Shea Derrick, saxophonist Ami Schorr and percussionist Michael Lawton.
With Rama conjuring up the music, Frankie crafts most of the lyrics.
"I had a body of work and Rama had a body of work and we married the two together," Frankie explains. "It worked really well."
Moving bodies and uplifting spirits, the Projekt aims high with potent lyrics, combining Frankie's positive rapping and Shea's classic soul vocalizing, all laced with funky guitars, sax and percussion.
"I listened to a lot of rap growing up and salsa music, and I love the old soul stuff," Frankie says.
"Rama was into punk in Argentina and bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Shea loves the old soul, R&B and Motown."
Among the highlights, the moody, hypnotic beat-drive, "Real Recognize Real," exposes right wing-media distortions, declaring: "The media is pumping fear in the hearts of the youth, Spreading that wack news, propaganda, libel, slander."
Quoting Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me," "Better Days" expresses the struggles of modern time, while on the Latin-flavored "Isla," Frankie reflects his Cuban and Puerto Rican roots singing in Spanish and English. And they close with their most groovilicious, dance-floor-directed tunes, "Suite Galactic" and "Pipe Smoke."
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Recently diagnosed with liver cancer, Hagman is in his fourth week on the Los Angeles-area roster of 127 patients eligible for a transplant. At their mountaintop home in Ojai, Calif., Hagman and his wife of 40 years, Maj, are on alert for a signal from the beeper he now wears constantly. That signal will tell him that a liver is available and that he should head immediately to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, 110 miles away, where a team of almost 20 doctors and nurses will perform the operation.
Hagman's wait could be a few weeks—or a few months. To keep the cancer from spreading in the meantime, Hagman checked into the hospital overnight on Aug. 5 for treatment to block the blood vessel feeding the malignant tumor in his liver. At the same time, a catheter delivered a dose of chemotherapy. "It's extra insurance," says Dr. Leonard Makowka, the center's director of transplant services. "It keeps the odds in our favor."
Hagman, who has admitted that he used to drink heavily, was diagnosed with cirrhosis in 1992. A small tumor was discovered two months ago during a routine follow-up exam. Because the tumor was found at such an early stage, says Makowka, the actor's prognosis after a transplant will be "great."
Hagman has already met the surgical team and other transplant patients. His response, Makowka says, has been "very positive." That confidence is typical. Soon after the cancer was diagnosed, Hagman set out on a fishing trip to Vancouver, B.C., with former Dallas costar Patrick Duffy, a close friend. The mood, Duffy reported afterward, was upbeat. "I didn't stop laughing for four days," Duffy said.
Since his illness was disclosed, Hagman has received more than 1,000 letters from fans, says his publicist Richard Grant, along with calls from "virtually everyone he's known throughout his career." Now, all he needs is one more call.
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A lakefront sunset added to the eclectic experience of partaking wines paired with gourmet cuisines from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States. Hostesses from each country wore regional outfits.
Mesdames poured flutes of French champagne and served patés, crabmeat crepes, quiche, pesto loaf, marinated shrimp and baked brie with fruit.
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October 5, 2006, 10:57 AM
Another poll -- this one on a proposal to arm school teachers and staff. Scroll down to the lower right corner. Vote away!
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October 5, 2006, 10:59 AM
apparently not everyone from the high road is awake yet:) ...12% yes, 88% no
October 5, 2006, 11:00 AM
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Do you agree with the Wisconsin lawmaker who thinks schools should arm teachers, principals and janitors?
Yes 12% 92 votes
No 88% 675 votes
Keith Wheeler
October 5, 2006, 11:08 AM
Interesting that it hasn't changed seven minutes later....makes you wonder if they "votes" are real.
October 5, 2006, 11:09 AM
stupid poll, stupid question. Its the same line of crap with "arming the pilots".
Americans!!! Can we stop thinking that giving surtain powers to some people and not others is the right way to solve a problem!!!! Cant we just have CCW legal EVERYWHERE!!! Courts, public schools etc. Cant we give power to the common man and woman that wishes to carry....and who will stand their ground (to protect life) if a badguy entered???
October 5, 2006, 11:11 AM
Interesting that it hasn't changed seven minutes later....makes you wonder if they "votes" are real.
I've voted in hundres of CNN polls over the years. They don't show realtime results. The accumlate the votes and update the results a few times an hour.
October 5, 2006, 11:15 AM
It's an idiotic idea to have the school arm teachers and staff.
Allowing legal CCW by staff and faculty is an excellent idea, but having the school system arm teachers is moronic. It would require every employee at a school to be provided with weapons, receive annual training and have annual evaluations. Very expensive and not practicable since some would be opposed on ethical grounds to going armed. Allocating funds and resources to have armed security would be a better idea, but the best idea would be to allow CCW.
Standing Wolf
October 5, 2006, 11:22 AM
I just tried to vote yes, but couldn't. I'm sure I could have voted no with the greatest of ease.
The Communist News Network is laughably predictable.
October 5, 2006, 11:29 AM
I just voted yes. right now at 16%. Schools are an easy target because they are weaponless. This reaction makes a lot of sense.
October 5, 2006, 12:06 PM
Just voted.
Do you agree with the Wisconsin lawmaker who thinks schools should arm teachers, principals and janitors?
Yes 17% 2919 votes
No 83% 14098 votes
M2 Carbine
October 5, 2006, 12:15 PM
Can't vote Yes.:(
October 5, 2006, 12:16 PM
Anyone should be able to carry anywhere, anytime, any way they like. Teacher, pilot, shouldn't matter. If I need to pick my kid up from school, I should be able to carry a gun. If I am flying as a passanger, I should be able to carry a gun. If I am going anywhere I should be able to carry a gun. If private organization wants to restrict it then you have a gray area and my rights vs their rights comes into play. But as a public issue of being legal or not it should be 100% legal to carry anywhere anytime and the only legal infrindgment of that being property owners having a say in what someone can't have on their property.
October 5, 2006, 12:19 PM
I voted Yes. No is still ahead. What a surprise to the Communist/Clinton News Network. :rolleyes: When will we take a lesson from Israel or Thailand and have guns in schools ? If I heard correctly, this is the case in UT ?
October 5, 2006, 12:25 PM
It would be an interesting school system indeed that actively looks for and hires teachers who are familiar with firearms and capable of defending their students.
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October 5, 2006, 12:26 PM
Yes, another poll.
Are ABC and CNN sub polling sites like THR to gather voting information as to the "solidarity" of the shooting enthusiasts?
I guess it's time to replace tin foil with aluminum foil, but I wonder if it works as good?
October 5, 2006, 12:27 PM
Yes 17% 4073 votes
No 83% 19301 votes
Total: 23374 votes
I just voted YES.
October 5, 2006, 12:30 PM
Yes 17% 4073 votes
No 83% 19301 votes
Do you agree with the Wisconsin lawmaker who thinks schools should arm teachers, principals and janitors?
I wonder if these are the same lawmakers that have done nothing for Wisconsin's CCW laws? Of course I am not from Wisconsin, so maybe it is their govenor. But it makes you wonder.
October 5, 2006, 12:48 PM
I don't think schools should take on the responsibility of arming teachers, principals, and janitorial staff. Think of all the training that would be required. Now, if they simply said that these people could be armed on school grounds if they have a CCW permit; yes.
October 5, 2006, 12:52 PM
Of course, the poll isn't worded perfectly.
I don't want them handing out guns to people with the wrong mindset, who could be more of a problem than a help. I don't think people who want to be teachers should be fired because the refuse to carry a gun. I don't think gun access in schools should be restricted to teachers and support staff, parents should have the opportunity to be armed.
That being said, I try to reverse engineer the poll to make it less complex, and even more general, to wit.
More guns, good or bad?
to which I answer, yes, more guns = more safty!
October 5, 2006, 12:54 PM
I voted NO, for reasons I have outlined in other threads.
With over 80% of the votes against arming teachers, this idea, as I have pointed out, is silly to seriously discuss.
October 5, 2006, 01:22 PM
Yes 18% 7481 votes
No 82% 34191 votes
October 5, 2006, 01:24 PM
I don't think that these folks should be "issued" guns, or anything, but I think a teacher, with the proper license, should be permitted to carry if they choose.
Maybe an armed guard or two would be a better solution than armed teachers in most situations.
October 5, 2006, 01:28 PM
"I don't think that these folks should be "issued" guns, or anything, but I think a teacher, with the proper license, should be permitted to carry if they choose."
October 5, 2006, 01:32 PM
I think there are some assumptions going on...
The real question is should we have public schools? :scrutiny:
October 5, 2006, 01:35 PM
Results now read: 18% Yes.
82% No
47000 + Votes. Arm the teachers I say.
October 5, 2006, 01:36 PM
I don't think that these folks should be "issued" guns, or anything, but I think a teacher, with the proper license, should be permitted to carry if they choose.
I'm no longer a teacher. I've spent about a third of my working life as a public school classroom teacher and I am planning on going back within a few years. I have a NC CHP. I would welcome the idea of carrying concealed. I would even use a thumb break, though I don't like them, if that was a requirement as one additional protection from someone attempting to take my handgun. Of course, I doubt I'll get the option to carry.
October 5, 2006, 01:46 PM
They do it in Israel, and it works. I think that qualified teachers who WANT to carry should be allowed. People think that guns around kids are bad (an emotion more than real thought as it happens everyday)-the theme of these massacares is that THERE IS NOBODY THAT CAN STOP THESE NUTS. Guns in the hands of qualified individuals MAY CHANGE THAT. Columbine was a "gun free zone". I guess Clebold didnt get the memo.
I dont like the idea of guns being needed at schools. I dont like the idea of school shootings. The fact remains that this happens and we must prepare for it. To not address this means we are burying our heads in the sand for next time.
Rev. DeadCorpse
October 5, 2006, 01:51 PM
There are a couple of these polls floating around today. Threads have been opened on them on both AR15.com and FreeRepublic.com as well.
Methinks the DUmmies and Brady Bunch are resorting to chicannery. Again. :barf:
October 5, 2006, 02:14 PM
We're still getting crushed! :cuss:
October 5, 2006, 02:17 PM
The question sucks.
Sheeples: Janitors? Oh noes!!!!!111ELEVEN :what: Creepy! And with guns!
Hey CNN! Try asking the real questions in your polls:
"Do you think that teachers who are licsensed to carry concealed weapons should be prevented from doing so when they enter a school?"
October 10, 2006, 01:19 PM
This was on the Colbert report last night. Of course he made the idea of arming qualified and willing teachers sound crazy. One subtitle said "No gun left behind"
October 10, 2006, 02:16 PM
Perhaps I should start a new thread. If so, Moderator(s) please take appropriate action. That said, here's a thought to shove down the liberal medias throat:
There are about twice as many guns in these United States as there are automobiles.
How many children (use the media description of children to be anyone under age 21) die by automobile, by drowning, by electrocution, by fire, and finally, by firearms? I know, it's a gruesome attitude to play on the sensless deaths of innocent children (even the gang bangers who are 19 yrs old and shoot each other) but I believe if the liberal press pushes the "statistical" argument we need to point out the absurdity of their positions.
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