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CFP: OASIES Graduate Student Conference Deadline: January 31, 2012
The Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies at Columbia University, Princeton University, and New York University is pleased to announce the call for papers for its 6th Annual OASIES Conference
Seeing Eurasia Inside and Out: Representation, Authority, and Inequity
To be held: Friday, April 5, 2013 - Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University
Representations are always stratified: they come from different positions; they hold different valences of authority. Representations often (re)produce inequality, whether they come from the outside looking in or the inside looking out. This conference seeks to bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in the representation of authority and the authority to represent.
The scope of the conference takes in Eurasia past and present, a region spanning the Black Sea to Mongolia, from Siberia to South Asia. Stressing multidisciplinarity, submissions are welcome from a variety of departments (anthropology, archeology, art history, Central Asian Studies, East Asian languages and cultures, history, Middle Eastern Studies, Mongolian Studies, political science, religion, sociology, Slavic languages and literature, and South Asian studies, etc).
Possible approaches may include, but are not limited to:
-Ł‐ texts: literary, musical, visual, oral
-Ł‐ stratification
-Ł‐ centers and peripheries
-Ł‐ elites: intellectual, political, economic, religious
-Ł‐ diaspora: coming and going
-Ł‐ governance and citizenship
-Ł‐ negotiating belonging
-Ł‐ gender and ethnicity
Keynote: Madeleine Reeves, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
Closing Remarks: Alan H. Timberlake, Director of the Institute of East Central Europe; Professor of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
Submission Instructions
Please include the following information with all submissions:
1) Name of presenter
2) Academic position and institutional affiliation
3) Title of the paper
4) Abstract of no more than 300 words
5) Audio-Ł‐visual equipment needs
6) Contact information (please include e-Ł‐mail address and telephone number)
Send submissions to email@example.com no later than January 31, 2013 [as an attachment in pdf or doc format].
Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes in length.
For more information on OASIES and past conferences visit www.oasies.org


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How can I use thee, number balloons? Let me count the ways. You can welcome in the new year with the proper digits. You can honor a star athlete with his or her uniform number, creating an arrangement that signifies each family's table at the end-of-season banquet. You can float over the head table and proclaim the anniversary being celebrated, or you can taunt a co-worker with an impressive office arrangement that puts on display a milestone birthday he'd rather forget. For so many occasions that count, there's an underlying number. At Shindigz, we have every digit from 0 to 9, all in gleaming silver Mylar that depict the number in a stylish way. And in a big way, too. Each balloon is a can't-miss-seeing-it 40 inches tall!
At Shindigz, you'll find not only an amazing inventory of balloons in a dizzying assortment of styles, colors, materials and patterns, but you'll also find all the balloon accessories you need to make creating your decorations easy and hassle-free. Pain-free, too. Customers swear by our balloon clips. Sold in oh-so-cheap packages of 100, these little devices let you fasten balloons quickly without the punctures and finger cramps that come with hand tying. You'll also find weights to anchor bouquets to tables or floors and colorful curling ribbon to trim the arrangements. For balloons in a big way, turn to a balloon bag for a celebratory drop at the end of the evening or an arch to welcome guests at the start. Both are reusable, letting you stretch this year's decorating dollars into future years.

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Sequel Bits: 'Iron Man 3' Set Photos Offer Still More Plot Hints, Plus: 'Prometheus', 'Scary Movie 5', 'Star Trek 2'
Posted on Thursday, June 7th, 2012 by Angie Han
As production gets underway, news is coming in fast and heavy from the Iron Man 3 set. After the jump:
- Iron Man 3 to shoot in Miami; see set pics with Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle now
- Photos from the North Carolina set confirm A.I.M. will play a role in Iron Man 3
- Ridley Scott toned down Prometheus for U.K. rating, won't release director's cut
- Erica Ash will play Ashley Tisdale's BFF and rival in Scary Movie 5
- Damon Lindelof talks converting Star Trek 2 to 3D, the possibility of doing Star Trek 3


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Critical Posthumanists argue that the idea of a universal human nature has lost its capacity to support our moral and epistemological commitments. The sources of this loss of foundational status are multiple according to writers like Donna Haraway, Katherine Hayles (1999), Neil Badmington (2003), Claire Colebrook and Rosi Braidotti. They include post-Darwinian naturalizations of life and mind that theoretically level differences between living and machinic systems and the more intimate ways of enmeshing living entities in systems of control and exploitation that flow from the new life and cognitive sciences. Latterly, writers such as Braidotti and Colebrook have argued that a politics oriented purely towards the rights and welfare of humans is incapable of addressing issues such as climate change or ecological depletion in the anthropocene era in which humans "have become a geological force capable of affecting all life on this planet" (Braidotti 2013: 66).
On the surface, this seems like a hyperbolic claim. If current global problems are a consequence of human regulation or mismanagement, then their solution will surely require human political and technological agency and institutions.
But let's just assume that there is something to the critical posthumanist's deconstruction of the human subject and that, in consequence, we can no longer assume that the welfare and agency of human subjects should be the exclusive goal of politics. If this is right, then critical posthumanism needs to do more than pick over the vanishing traces of the human in philosophy, literature and art. It requires an ethics that is capable of formulating the options open to some appropriately capacious political constituency in our supposedly post-anthropocentric age.
Braidotti's recent work The Posthuman is an attempt to formulate such an ethics. Braidotti acknowledges and accepts the levelling of the status of human subjectivity implied by developments in cognitive science and biology and the "analytic posthumanism" that falls out of this new ontological vision. However, she is impatient with what she perceives as a disabling vacillation and neutrality that easily follows from junking of human subject as the arbiter of the right and the good. She argues that a posthuman ethics and politics need to retain the idea of political subjectivity; an agency capable of constructing new forms of ethical community and experimenting with new modes of being:
In my view, a focus on subjectivity is necessary because this notion enables us to string together issues that are currently scattered across a number of domains. For instance, issues such as norms and values, forms of community bonding and social belonging as well as questions of political governance both assume and require a notion of the subject.
However, according to Braidotti, this is no longer the classical self-legislating subject of Kantian humanism. It is vital, polyvalent connection-maker constituted "in and by multiplicity" – by "multiple belongings":
The relational capacity of the posthuman subject is not confined within our species, but it includes all non-anthropocentric elements. Living matter – including the flesh – intelligent and self-organizing but it is precisely because it is not disconnected from the rest of organic life.
'Life', far from being codified as the exclusive property or unalienable right of one species, the human, over all others or of being sacralised as a pre-established given, is posited as process, interactive and open ended. This vitalist approach to living matter displaces the boundary between the portion of life – both organic and discursive – that has traditionally been reserved for anthropos, that is to say bios, and the wider scope of animal and nonhuman life also known as zoe (Braidotti 2012: 60).
Thus posthuman subjectivity, for Braidotti, is not human but a tendency inherent in human and nonhuman living systems alike to affiliate with other living systems to form new functional assemblages. Clearly, not everything has the capacity to perform every function. Nonetheless, living systems can be co-opted by other systems for functions "God" never intended and Mother Nature never designed them for. As Haraway put it: 'No objects, spaces, or bodies are sacred in themselves; any component can be interfaced with any other if the proper standard, the proper code, can be constructed for processing signals in a common language' (Haraway 1989: 187). There are no natural limits or functions for bodies or their parts, merely patterns of connection and operation that do not fall apart all at once.
Zoe . . . is the transversal force that cuts across and reconnects previously segregated species, categories and domains. Zoe-centered egalitarianism is, for me, the core of the post-anthropocentric turn: it is a materialist, secular, grounded and unsentimental response to the opportunistic trans-species commodification of Life that is the logic of advanced capitalism.
Of course, if anything can be co-opted for any function that its powers can sustain, one might ask how zoe can support a critique of advanced capitalism which, as Braidotti concedes, produces a form of the "posthuman" by radically disrupting the boundaries between humans, animals, species and technique. What could be greater expression of the zoe's transversal potential than, say, Monsanto's transgenic cotton Bollgard II? Bollgard II contains genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis that produce a toxin deadly to pests such as bollworm. Unless we believe that there is some Telos inherent to thuringiensis or to cotton that makes such transversal crossings aberrant – which Braidotti clearly does not – there appears to be no zoe-eyed perspective that could warrant her objection. Monsanto's genetic engineers are just sensibly utilizing possibilities for connection that are already afforded by living systems but which cannot be realized without technological mediation (here via gene transfer technology). If the genes responsible for producing the toxin Bt in thuringiensis did not work in cotton and increase yields it would presumably not be the type used by the majority of farmers today (Ronald 2013).
Cognitive and biological capitalists like Google and Monsanto seem to incarnate the tendencies of zoe – conceived as a generalized possibility of connection – as much as the" not-for-profit" cyborg experimenters like Kevin Warwick or the publicly funded creators of HTML, Dolly the Sheep and Golden Rice. Doesn't Google show us what a search engine can do?
We could object to Monsanto's activities on the grounds that it has invidious social consequences or on the grounds that all technologies should be socially rather than corporately controlled. Neither of these arguments are obviously grounded in posthumanism or "zoe-centricism" – Marxist humanists would presumably agree with the latter claim, for example.
However, we can find the traces of a zoe-centered argument in Deleuzean ethics explored in the essay "The Ethics of Becoming Imperceptible" (Braidotti 2006). This argues for an ethics oriented towards enabling entities to actualize their powers to their fullest "sustainable" extent. A becoming or actualization of power is sustainable if the assemblage or agency exercising it can do so without "destroying" the systems that makes its exercise possible. Thus an affirmative posthuman ethics follows Nietzsche in making it possible for subjects to exercise their powers to the edge but not beyond, where that exercise falters or where the system exercising it falls apart.
To live intensely and be alive to the nth degree pushes us to the extreme edge of mortality. This has implications for the question of the limits, which are in-built in the very embodied and embedded structure of the subject. The limits are those of one's endurance – in the double sense of lasting in time and bearing the pain of confronting 'Life" as zoe. The ethical subject is one that can bear this confrontation, cracking up a bit but without having its physical or affective intensity destroyed by it. Ethics consists in re-working the pain into threshold of sustainability, when and if possible: cracking, but holding it, still.
So Capitalism can be criticized from the zoe-centric position if it constrains powers that could be more fully realized in a different system of social organization. For Braidotti, the capitalist posthuman is constrained by the demands of possessive individualism and accumulation.
The perversity of advanced capitalism, and its undeniable success, consists in reattaching the potential for experimentation with new subject formations back to an overinflated notion of possessive individualism . . ., tied to the profit principle. This is precisely the opposite direction from the non-profit experimentations with intensity, which I defend in my theory of posthuman subjectivity. The opportunistic political economy of bio-genetic capitalism turns Life/zoe – that is to say human and non-human intelligent matter – into a commodity for trade and profit (Braidotti 2013: 60-61).
Thus she supports "non-profit" experiments with contemporary subjectivity that show what "contemporary, biotechnologically mediated bodies are capable of doing" while resisting the neo-liberal appropriation of living entities as tradable commodities.
Whether the constraint claim is true depends on whether an independent non-capitalist posthuman (in Braidotti's sense of the term) is possible or whether significant posthuman experimentation – particularly those involving sophisticated technologies like AI or Brain Computer Interfaces – will depend on the continued existence of a global capitalist technical system to support it. I admit to being agnostic about this. While modern technologies such as gene transfer do not seem essentially capitalist, there is little evidence to date that a noncapitalist system could develop them or their concomitant forms of hybridized "posthuman" more prolifically.
Nonetheless, there seems to be a significant ethical claim at issue here that can be used independently of its applicability to the critique of contemporary capitalism.
For example, I have recently argued for an overlap or convergence between critical posthumanism and Speculative Posthumanism: the claim that descendants of current humans could cease to be human by virtue of a history of technical augmentation (SP). Braidotti's ethics of sustainability is pertinent here because SP in its strong form is also post-anthropocentric – it denies that posthuman possibility is structured a priori by human modes of thought or discourse – and because it defines the posthuman in terms of its power to escape from a socio-technical system organized around human-dependent ends (Roden 2012). The technological offspring described by SP will need to be functionally autonomous insofar as they will have to develop their own ends or modes of existence outside or beyond the human space of ends. Reaching "posthuman escape velocity" will require the cultivation and expression of powers in ways that are sustainable for such entities. This presupposes, of course, that we can have a conception of a subject or agent that is grounded in their embodied capacities or powers rather than general principles applicable to human agency. Understanding its ethical valence thus requires an affirmative conception of these powers that is not dependent on overhanging anthropocentric ideas such as moral autonomy. Braidotti's ethics of sustainability thus suggests some potentially viable terms of reference for formulating an ethics of becoming posthuman in the speculative sense.
Badmington, N. (2003) 'Theorizing Posthumanism', Cultural Critique 53 (Winter): 10-27.
Braidotti, R (2006), 'The Ethics of Becoming Imperceptible", in Deleuze and Philosophy, ed. Constantin Boundas, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, 2006, pp. 133-159.
Braidotti, R (2013), The Posthuman, Cambridge: Polity Press.
Colebrook, Claire 2012a.), "A Globe of One's Own: In Praise of the Flat Earth." Substance: A Review of Theory & Literary Criticism 41 (1): 30–39.
Colebrook, Claire (2012b.), "Not Symbiosis, Not Now: Why Anthropogenic Change Is Not Really Human." Oxford Lit Review 34 (2): 185–209.
Haraway, Donna (1989), 'A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s'. Coming to Terms, Elizabeth Weed (ed.), London: Routledge, 173-204.
Hayles, K. N. (1999) How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Roden, D. (2010). 'Deconstruction and excision in philosophical posthumanism'. The Journal of Evolution & Technology, 21(1), 27-36.
Roden, D. (2012). 'The Disconnection Thesis'. In Singularity Hypotheses (pp. 281-298). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
Roden, D. (2013). 'Nature's Dark domain: an argument for a naturalized phenomenology'. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 72, 169-188.
Roden, R (2014). Posthuman Life: philosophy at the edge of the human. Acumen Publishing.
"Unlike physical or chemical dissipative structures, in which patterns of dynamic order form spontaneously, but whose stability relies almost completely on externally-imposed boundary conditions, autonomous systems build and actively maintain most of their own boundary conditions, making possible a robust far-from-equilibrium dynamic behavior."
"A big stone in the river holds water from flowing, and some bacteria ferment milk to produce yoghourt. Although both systems do something, we do not call the stone an agent. The difference between the two cases is not in the degree of change operated by one or the other, but in the consequence of that change: only in the latter case does the change contribute to the maintenance of the performer of the action."
Ruiz-Mirazo, Kepa & Moreno, Alvaro (2012). "Autonomy in evolution: from minimal to complex life". Synthese 185 (1), 33-34.
Dark Chemistry has an interesting and thought provoking post about autopoiesis and objects here. This is not an area I know well and I'm happy to be put right, but I've a few newbie thoughts and questions about some of the concepts applied by fans of Luhmann, Varela, etc.
I accept that some processes can have the appearance of formal closure insofar as each stage requires a result of some earlier or later stage of the process (chicken-egg-chicken). Social processes and some biochemical processes exhibit this property (Collier 2006). Moreover, they depend on the maintenance of boundaries between inside and outside while also contributing to that maintenance in certain cases. However, there seem to be obvious cases where system maintenance depends on boundary permeability as well. E.g. Merleau-Ponty's blind man has extended the boundaries of his self when he uses his cane (self seeps into exo-self). So complex systems need boundary maintenance and process closure up to a point, but they also need to be open enough to exploit resources and couple with other systems. So I'm not quite ready to buy the idea that process closure is the only ontologically salient fact when thinking about whether object-hood implies absolute closure and separation or something messier and by degree like Collier's notion of 'cohesion' (Ibid.).
DC's references to object-oriented programming is interesting – I think Robert Jackson has also discussed this from time to time over at Algorithm and Contingency. My Java is a bit rusty, but isn't computational encapsulation an artifact at the level of code – a convenient way of thinking about computational structures by allocating proprietary methods to objects? Any algorithm that can be written OO style can be written procedurally (more messily and less debuggably) without encapsulating objects and their methods. So the unity of computational objects is notional and practical, not ontological.
Finally, I'm not clear about the free use of terms like 'recursion' and 'self-reference' in discussions of autopoiesis. If I define something recursively using a successor relation – e.g.:
1) If fx, then f(s(x))
2) f(0)
This tells us that 0 is f and that any successor of an f is an f. By mathematical induction, then, we can show that all entities – 0, s(0), s(s(0)), s(s(s(0))), etc. – in the domain of quantification for which the successor relation is defined are f.
There is obviously a sense in which the recursive part of the definition defines fx in terms of itself. But this is not a case of self-reference. No part of the definition mentions another part.
True, the I could append a clause using quotes saying that this is a definition of 'f' – "Df 'f'" – but this would be a way of informing someone that this is a definition of a predicate f, and is not part of the recursion.
Self-reference and recursion are different. The one is a semantic relation between a thing and itself while the latter is a syntactic relation whereby a composite contains instances of itself (self-similarity).
I suppose the obvious rejoinder to this is that I should get round to reading Luhmann, et al. at some point!
Collier, John (2006), 'Autonomy and Process Closure as the Basis for Functionality', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 901, 208-290.


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First time hearing those words? The little bumps under your feet are picking the city's pocket.
Truncated domes - also known as "tactile warning strips" - are those bumps the size of elevator call buttons that blister the surface of recently installed ramps at street corners, by order of the feds. The cost to the city - meaning you, the taxpayer - is astronomical.
The outlay is required by changing federal regulations, according to Terry Gillen, director of federal affairs for the city of Philadelphia. She is, in effect, the liaison to President Obama from Mayor Nutter, who has been a ferocious advocate for the president's re-election.


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Lenovo 3000 N500
Average of 12 scores (from 13 reviews)
Reviews for the Lenovo 3000 N500
Source: Techradar
A good laptop from Lenovo, but lacks adequate performance and features compared to rivals. While the 3000 N500 offers quality and affordability, it's lacking in performance and features compared to other machines around this price. Ultimately, this makes it hard to recommend and, at this price, we'd suggest looking elsewhere.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 05/30/2009
Rating: Total score: 60%
Source: Techradar
A great all-rounder, boasting superb quality, usability and performance. While Lenovo's ThinkPad range is aimed at business users, its cheaper N-series is a better choice for small businesses and users on a budget. The 3000 N500 is a great example of this design philosophy. Overall, the Lenovo 3000 N500 is a fantastic all-rounder. Quality matches that of laptops costing twice as much and, despite the use of a budget Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor, performance also proved outstanding.
80, Leistung 90, Verarbeitung 90, Ergonomie 90
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 04/12/2009
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 90% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 90%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Magnus.de DE→EN
Comparison, online available, Long, Date: 09/17/2009
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: PC Magazin - 9/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 08/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 61% price: 70%
Source: c't - 8/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 07/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 73% price: 90% performance: 100% features: 77% display: 75% mobility: 28% ergonomy: 79%
Source: Com! - 8/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 07/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 83% price: 70% performance: 16% features: 23% mobility: 25% ergonomy: 19%
Source: Computerbild - 6/09
Comparison, , Long, Date: 05/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 84% price: 90% performance: 84% features: 84% display: 88% ergonomy: 84% emissions: 93%
Source: Chip.de
Single Review, , Short, Date: 05/01/2009
Rating: Total score: 60% price: 80% performance: 80%
Source: Chip.de DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 01/15/2009
Rating: Total score: 69% price: 88% performance: 60% features: 74% display: 77% mobility: 57% ergonomy: 80%
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 01/09/2009
Rating: Total score: 80% price: 80% performance: 50% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 50% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70%
Source: Notebookjournal DE→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 12/05/2008
Rating: Total score: 80% performance: 50% features: 50% display: 30% mobility: 70% workmanship: 90% ergonomy: 70%
Source: Laptopy.info.pl PL→EN
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 02/17/2009
Rating: Total score: 55% performance: 30% display: 80% mobility: 40%
Source: Laptopkalauz HU→EN
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 04/20/2009
Rating: price: 90% emissions: 70%
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 4500MHD: Onboard (shared Memory) GPU built in the GM45, GE45 and GS45 chipset (Montevina). Because of two more shaders and a higher core clock, much faster than the old GMA X3100. Still not advisable for gamers (DirectX 10 games not playable or only with very low settings). The integrated video processor is able to help decode HD videos (AVC/VC-2/MPEG2) , e.g., for a fluent Blu-Ray playback with slow CPUs.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Core 2 Duo: This is the Core Duo and Core Solo successor with a longer pipeline and 5-20% more speed without more power consumption. As an addition to the Core Duo design there exists a fourth decoder, an amplified SSE-unit and an additional arithmetical logical unit (ALU).
The Core 2 Duo for laptops is identical to the desktop Core 2 Duo processors but the notebook-processors work with lower voltages (0.95 to 1188 Volt) and a lower Frontside bus clock (1066 vs 667 MHz). The performance of equally clocked notebooks is 20-25% lower than Desktop PCs because of the lower Frontside bus clock and the slower hard disks.
T5800: Entry level dual core processor based on the Merom core without Virtualization support and a low maximum temperature.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
2.7 kg:
This weight is representative for typical laptops with a 14-16 inch display-diagonal.
Lenovo: Lenovo Group Limited is China's largest and the world's fourth largest personal computer manufacturer. Lenovo produces desktops, laptops, servers, handheld computers, imaging equipment, and mobile phone handsets. Lenovo also provides information technology integration and support services, and its QDI unit offers contract manufacturing. Its executive headquarters are located in China and USA. It is incorporated in Hong Kong. Lenovo was formed in 1984 as a spin-off of the Chinese Academy of Sciences new technology unit. The company initially began as a reseller, distributor and later CM for foreign brands, including IBM, entering the Chinese market. In 1990, Lenovo started to manufacture its own PCs and by 1997 became the market leader in China. In 2004, Lenovo bought IBM's PC business for $1.25billion. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
71.25%: This rating is bad. Most notebooks are better rated. This is not a recommendation for purchase.
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The Detroit Tigers didn't want to see Game 4 postponed on Wednesday night, not considering the wave of momentum they currently are riding. But they will get their chance to sweep the New York Yankees out of the postseason in Game 4 of the ALCS this afternoon at Comerica Park.
"We played in spurts during the season," manager Jim Leyland told The Detroit News. "And I said all along that this was a good team that, at some point, was going to play good—and we are playing pretty good right now. We also caught a couple of breaks, and that's part of it, as well."
One of those breaks is that the Tigers caught the Yankees at a time when they mysteriously have gone ice-cold offensively. New York is hitting .182 and has scored only five runs in the first three games of this ALCS. In eight games this postseason, the Yankees are hitting .200 and averaging 2.6 runs per game.
The Tigers' Max Scherzer, originally scheduled to start Wednesday night against Yankees ace CC Sabathia, will be the next pitcher aiming to shut down a Yankees lineup that likely will be without third baseman Alex Rodriguez and center fielder Curtis Granderson. Both superstars were benched in the lineup posted before the rainout Wednesday. In addition, shortstop Derek Jeter is out for the series because of the ankle injury he suffered in Game 1.
Scherzer will be on a week's rest this afternoon, not having pitched since Game 4 of the ALDS against the Oakland A's last Wednesday. And that time off should be beneficial for the righthander, who battled shoulder discomfort late in the season.
"We all wanted to play (Wednesday), but MLB wanted to cancel it, so it is what it is. … We have a chance to go to the World Series (Thursday). That's the exciting part," Scherzer told the newspaper.


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MOVIES: Opening Friday, "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" (PG), "The Tourist" (PG-13); opening Dec. 17, "TRON: Legacy" (PG), "How Do You Know" (PG-13), "Yogi Bear" (PG); Dec. 22, "Gulliver's Travels."
DVD: Released Tuesday, "Inception" (PG-13), "Shrek Forever After" (PG),
ON TV: Nick Cannon hosts special that honors real-life teens who are "Helping And Leading Others" (HALO), 8 p.m. Friday on TeenNick.
THEATER: "A Christmas Carol," 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Alden Christian Theatre Society, 1470 Chruch St., Alden.
"Dance Theatre of Niagara," 7 p.m. today, 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Niagara University.
POETRY: An Evening with Irving Feldman, 7:30 tonight, Hallwalls, 341 Delaware Ave.
CONCERTS: Sparks the Rescue with Amely, You Me and Everyone We Know and Chasing Adrium, 6 p.m. Friday, Xtreme Wheels, 356 Hertel Ave.
Larrabe with Venona, Keeping Quiet, I Am Angelo, Start the Fight, Rescue Dawn and Tonight Tonight, 5 p.m. Saturday, Xtreme Wheels.
Dimmu Borgir with Enslaved, Blood Red Throne and Dawn of Ashes, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Town Ballroom, 681 Main St.
Great Performers Series with Esperanza Spalding, 8 p.m. Saturday, Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Ave.
Tom Stahl and the Dangerfield's X-Mas, Kwanza, Hanukah, Festivus Extravaganza, 8 p.m. Saturday, Tralf, 622 Main St.
Nashville Unplugged featuring Keith Anderson, Brady Seals and Aaron Benward, 9 p.m. Saturday, Page's Paradise Island, 4701 Transit Road, Depew.
Lorrie Morgan, 5 p.m. Sunday, Seneca Allegany Casino and Hotel, 777 Seneca Allegany Blvd., Salamanca.
Pat Shea Christmas Show, 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, Lancaster Opera House, 21 Central Ave., Lancaster.
Rockin' with Santa provides Christmas presents for underprivileged children. The entry fee is simply one gift for a child anywhere between the ages of newborn to 16 years old. The party will be held from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday in the Elks Club, 21 Main St., North Tonawanda. The event will feature music by Michael Bly, Envy and Inner Chyld. The gifts collected at the party will be distributed to children in the community on Sunday.
-- Allison Franz, Sacred Heart Academy
Winter beanies are, by their nature, uncool. Even the word beanie is lame. If you can't make it through the cooler months without a cap, check out the AE Striped Mohawk Trapper. It's made from a chunky wool blend with a mixed yarn Mohawk down the center made out of colorful striped knit fabric. You can choose from black, red or blue.
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If you were a fan of "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist" (book or movie version), pick up "Dash and Lily's Book of Dares" by the same pair of authors, Rachel Cohn and David Levithan. This book has already been optioned for a movie.
"Dash and Lily," (Random House, $16.99) their third book together (after "Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List"), is a treasure hunt through New York that begins when normally cautious, sweet Lily leaves a scavenger hunt in a red moleskin notebook on a shelf of the Strand bookstore. It's a ploy her brother devised to help her meet boys, but Dash, a much more cynical, "snarly" type, becomes intrigued and responds with his own puzzle.
The book is sweet and smart. Just like in their other books, their characters are sharply drawn and colorful. If you need something to read over your own Christmas break, "Dash and Lily" will get you through the holidays.
"What an incredible position to be in, to be able to follow my own path and live my life just doing things I care about. It's liberating."
-- Emma Watson in Marie Clarie magazine, on the benefits of becoming internationally famous at such a young age for her work in the Harry Potter movies.
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China on Wednesday opened the world's longest high-speed rail line, which more than halves the time required to travel from the country's capital in the north to Guangzhou, an economic hub in southern China.
The opening of the 1,428-mile line was commemorated by the 9 a.m. departure of a train from Beijing for Guangzhou. Another train left Guangzhou for Beijing an hour later.
China has massive resources and considerable prestige invested in its showcase high-speed railways program.
But it has in recent months faced high-profile problems: Part of a line collapsed in central China after heavy rains in March, while a bullet train crash in the summer of 2011 killed 40 people.
Mom who lost daughter fights to save others
In the private hell of a mother's grief, the sounds come back to Judy Neiman. The SUV door slamming. The slight bump as she backed up in the bank parking lot. The emergency room doctor's sobs as he said her 9-year-old daughter Sydnee, who previously had survived four open heart surgeries, would not make it this time.
The 53-year-old woman has sentenced herself to go on living in the awful stillness of her West Richland, Wash., home, where she makes a plea to the government and automakers to help people from accidentally running over children, as she did a year ago this month.
There is, in fact, a law in place that calls for new manufacturing requirements to improve the visibility behind passenger vehicles to help prevent such fatal backing crashes, which the government estimates kill some 228 people every year -- 110 of them children 10 and younger.
Congress passed the measure with strong bipartisan backing, and Republican President George W. Bush signed it in 2008.
But almost five years later, the standards have yet to be mandated because of delays by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Higher prices show bump in U.S. housing market
U.S. home prices rose in most major cities in October compared with a year ago, pushed up by rising sales and a decline in the supply of available homes. Higher prices show the housing market is improving even as it moves into the more dormant fall and winter sales period.
The Standard & Poor's Case-Shiller national home price index released Wednesday increased 4.3 percent in October compared with a year ago.
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The Montreal Canadiens acquired defenceman Mike Weaver from the Florida Panthers on Tuesday in exchange for a fifth-round pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.
The five-foot-10, 183-pound blue-liner has six assists in 55 games this season.
Weaver, a 35-year-old native of Brampton, Ont., has 86 points (seven goals, 79 assists) and 213 penalty minutes in 585 career NHL games with the Panthers, Atlanta Thrashers, Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues.
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Laura Venezio's second grade class at the Frank K. Hehnly School in Clark celebrated the 100th day of school earlier this week.
When students came in this morning they were greeted with a sticker and a bracelet that read "I am a 100 day smart cookie". Their classroom door had a sign in the doorway that said "we are 100 days smarter" it had streamers hanging down that the kids walked through. Our activities for the day 100 minutes of reading, writing and spelling 100 kind words, writing 100 word stories, completing an I'm a smart cookie activity where they wrote down what they could now do compared to the first day of school.
They completed 100-piece puzzles in groups and read a 100th day story and completed math problems that equaled a 100. Everyone had a great day.


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Following a strong practice on Friday, Katie Ruesterholz felt she and her teammates were ready to get back to playing games.
Ruesterholz scored four goals and added three assists to lead Pingry over Metuchen, 8-2, in the quarterfinal round of the NJSIAA North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 tournament in Martinsville yesterday.
"We came to practice on Friday, and we really were on," said Ruesterholz, who scored a hat trick in the first half. "I think we were just all pumped up and ready to play."
The offensive onslaught started early and often for Pingry as it scored four goals in the game's first six minutes and seven in the first half. Erin Butrico began the scoring, taking a pass from Nicole Arata and putting it in the back of the cage just 39 seconds into the contest to give Pingry a 1-0 lead.
Thirty seconds later, Ruesterholz scored her first goal, beating Metuchen goalkeeper Maggie Gossiaux to the short side to make it 2-0. Butrico scored her second goal just under three minutes later off of a pass from Ruesterholz for the 3-0 lead. Ruesterholz rifled in a shot off a corner in the sixth minute of the game to make it 4-0. Pingry tacked on another goal a few minutes later when Ruesterholz found Emery Sorvino in front for the score to extend the lead to five and begin a running game clock.
Nikki Witte and Ruesterholz each scored goals towards the end of the first half to make it 7-0 at the half, leaving no doubt that Pingry would advance.
"We really didn't know what to expect today, but we were hoping we would come out fast," said Pingry coach Judy Lee. "They're a team, and they've played together for 17 games already. The skills might be a bit rusty, but you're hoping that the teamwork is still there because it's the same group of girls out there. Our ideal situation was that they come out and play like a team, and they did."
Olivia Volpe got Metuchen on the board in the second half, scoring on the left side of the circle four minutes into the second half. Tara Ali-Khan tacked on another goal for Metuchen to cut the deficit to five. Ruesterholz scored her fourth goal with 30 seconds remaining to cap the scoring and send Pingry on to face Shore Regional in the semifinals.
"I think we're ready for some tough competition," said Ruesterholz. "It'll be nice to play at home. We're always comfortable here."


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I wonder what RF is thinking that Kovtun will be 19th after the sp.
Did Daisuke change his program again?
Chan's costume is so incredibly bad. I can't believe that anybody actually thought that old curtain pattern on his back was a good idea.
I preferred Daisuke's blue costume at 4CC But I am scared Patrick, Yuzuru or Daisuke may bomb...
Let's go last flight! I'm strangely anxious for them too after some of the weird happenings of the last group...
I loved Kevin program! His combination was amazing! The 3A was OK, not bad at all. There were some problems with the 4T landing. the program is very well constructed, great interpretation.
Now it's Brezina, good luck!
Given everybody has been bombing so far, it'll be one fall each for Takahashi and Hanyu and two falls for Chan?
Criminy. Chan's still wearing that hideous ladies' lacy blouse from Victoria Secret collection.
Mrs. P, I agree it was a maybe. But once he got scored how he did at 4CC, its clear that clean + quads = solid PCS, even without the stuff that PCS should reward. Ditto Reynolds - that he's almost assured a spot in the final group is just ridiculous.
Brezina's program is completely empty.
I don't like Michal's sp, but he's landing the jumps (taking his time cautiously) aside from the turnout on 3-axel. He doesn't have much of anything presentation-wise and he's not interpreting the music, much less skating to it, but again judges don't really care.
Michal BREZINA (CZE)
Music: In the Hall of a Mountain King performed by Epica
3A - turnout
CCoSp - bit shaky
Hardly any choreo, but he did manage to land the big jumps
In 3rd (out of 29)
Nice quad sal from Michal but his set up was extremely long and awkward to watch. The music at the end is a little too messy but nice effort. I believe his FS will be nicer to watch.


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A curated list of indie news and recommendations from ITVS's Rebecca Huval.
POV is drumming up excitement over the results of its "Greatest Documentaries of All Time" poll. Filmmakers are discussing the documentaries that mean the most to them, including Marshall Curry on Sherman's March: "It pulled back the curtain on the filmmaking process and revealed the filmmaker not as a slick magician but as a human being trying to sort through the mess of life."
Get excited! The lineup for Sundance 2013's U.S. and World Documentary sections have been announced.
Before you rush to happy hour this Friday evening, learn the science behind how alcohol affects your brain in this upbeat animated short.
This looks promising: Looking@Democracy will give $100,000 in total awards to creative media pieces (films under three minutes) about "strengthening American democracy." (via @Kartemquin)
Think you can learn history from feature films like Lincoln? Best to leave that to the documentaries, says history professor Gary Gutting.
Lucky New Yorkers! You always have the best events. At the American Museum of National History, the Margaret Mead Film Festival started yesterday, showcasing stories about underrepresented populations.
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YOUNGSTOWN - Mahoning County commissioners voted 2-1 Tuesday to increase the county's bed tax for hotels and motels from 3 percent to 5 percent.
Commissioner Chairman John McNally said 3.5 percent will be given to the Western Reserve Port Authority and the remainder will go into the county's Convention and Visitors Bureau.
The increase goes into effect Oct. 1.
Commissioners earlier tabled the opportunity to table the tax increase after their Feb. 28 meeting following boisterous opposition from representatives of the county's hotel and motel industry.
McNally and colleague Carol Rimedio-Righetti voted in favor of the increase. Commissioner Anthony Traficanti has opposed the increase and voted against it.
Those in opposition have said the move would give parts of the county one of the highest taxes in the region at 14.75 percent.
Mike Naffah of Hampton Inn & Suites in Canfield, who is on the Mahoning CVB, is also opposed to the tax. He said bed tax revenue is up 36 percent in the county so far this year, and he is afraid that the higher rates will drive business down, especially with tour groups, who will go a little bit farther to save 5 percent.
''That's not enough for them. They want more of it,'' Naffah said.
McNally and Rimedio-Righetti said they think the area is poised to capitalize on the shale boom and the extra money to the port authority will ensure that economic development efforts in the area can stay aggressive.
Earlier this summer, Trumbull County commissioners rolled back 1 percent of their bed tax because they were unhappy with a bonus offered to the airport director at the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport.
Director Dan Dickten declined to take the bonus and it has since been rescinded.
In 2010, Trumbull raised its bed tax to 5 percent, with 3 percent dedicated to the authority. Mahoning's rate was 3 percent before Tuesday's vote, which was split evenly between the authority and the convention and visitors bureau.


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We have reached the point in the MLB season were we know who the contenders are. With August right around the corner, all 30 franchises are making plans for the rest of 2013 based on where they stand.
For some, that will mean trading some valuable assets heading into free agency in order to get back in the postseason race as soon as 2014. Others have a long-term rebuild in mind and want to add pieces that will play an integral role in their success over the next five-to-seven years.
The remaining teams are making plans for October this season, but only 10 teams are going to make it that far. There are, by our calculations, 14 teams that can be classified as legitimate contenders as of right now.
Instead of making trade proposals that probably won't amount to anything, we want to look at an X-factor on each contender who must step up to give his team a chance to play deep into the postseason.
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It may only be one game, but I saw all I needed to see Wednesday night in the Pistons' season-opening loss in New Jersey.
Snapping defeat from the jaws of victory, Detroit squandered a seven point lead over the final 1:40 to lose 101-98. The Nets out-scored the Pistons 13-to-3 down the stretch. This is a Jersey team that won 12 games last season, and they won't be much better this year.
So what is the biggest problem with this Detroit team? Talent.
When they really need a hoop, they don't have the horses to score. When they really need a stop, they don't have the talent to stop anyone.
In order to have some semblance of rebounding and defense in the paint down the stretch, they have to play Ben Wallace. All the team's opponent will have to do is what the Nets did: Foul the Fro.
Detroit went just 16-for-30 from the foul line. Seven of those misses came in the fourth quarter, with plenty of those coming off the hands of Ben the Bricklayer.
In addition, rookie Greg Monroe didn't make it on the court. Not for a single minute.
Also Detroit's "big" free agent acquisition this off-season - Tracy McGrady - went scoreless in 14 minutes of play. Sure he's coming off an injury, but you can say that about his entire carer.
More head-shaking and frustration.
Not everything was part of the downward spiral against the Nets:
- The bench exploded for 49 points, with Ben Gordon, Charlie Villanueva, Jason Maxiell and Will Bynum all scoring in double digits.
- The team had 21 assists on 37 hoops.
- They only turned the ball over six times. Rodney Stuckey did not have a single giveaway.
I was pretty optimistic about the Pistons early in the pre-season. Not that they would return to a championship-caliber team, but one that could be around .500 and make a run at the post-season.
When Jonas Jerebko went down, I lost all hope. He is the energy guy who plays tough defense and has a nose for the ball. Without his D and rebounding, this team has no way to get an important stop against a quality team.
They couldn't even get one against a bad Nets team Wednesday night.
When they start facing the top half of the NBA, things are going to get very ugly for the Pistons. That's why this team will be lucky to go 32-50 this season.
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The Sunshine Garden Club lost one of its rays of sunshine recently, and and all the members and I are a little sadder for that loss.
I received word of the going Home of Donna Gibbs, and my heart is heavy. This is the second death of a friend of more than 30 years whom I have known from Aiken in the past week.
Donna was not only a lively and cherished member of the Sunshine Garden Club, but was also my neighbor when I lived in Aiken, and gave me so much encouragement when my son David died.
I was privileged to be made an honorary lifetime member of Sunshine when I moved to Beaufort, and tried to make it back for at least the Christmas gathering. Donna was always at her best.
I will miss my friend, and Sunshine will miss one of its best rays of sunshine. Heaven has a tricolor arrangement today in Donna Gibbs.
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A friend of mine jokingly says that when she dies she wants this epitaph on her gravestone: There was always something!
And there always is! All of us appreciate her frustration. Invariably, there's always something, big or small, that casts a shadow and somehow keeps us from fully entering the present moment and appreciating its richness.
There is always some anxiety, some worry about something that we should have done or should be doing, some unpaid bill, some concern about what we need to face tomorrow, some lingering heartache, some concern about our health or the health of another, some hurt that is still burning, or some longing for someone who is absent that mitigates our joy.
There's always something, some loss, some hurt, some anxiety, some bitterness, some jealousy, some obsession, or some headache, that is forever draining the present moment of its joy.
Henri Nouwen once gave a very simple, poignant expression to this: "Our life," he writes. "is a time in which sadness and joy kiss each other at every moment."
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HUDSONVILLE, MI -- West Michigan Community Bank announced Friday, Nov. 1, that it will be closing the bank's North Holland branch, 3493 West Shore Dr., in Holland Township on Jan. 30, 2014.
In a news release, bank President and CEO Philip Koning said the firm is seeking new branch locations in the Holland area to reposition itself in a market that has seen significant growth in the past three years.
"It is our intention to continue the growth strategy that we're on, but after reassessment of the market, we feel there are better locations to place our branches," Koning said in the news release.
"We recognize that banking is changing, and how we deliver products and services is changing," Koning said. The bank is looking for locations in the Holland area that are "better suited to how our customers will use the bank in the future," he said.
"We are committed to expanding our franchise throughout the West Michigan area, including the Holland market," Koning said, adding he hopes to announce a new location in the coming year.
The bank also has an office on East Eighth Street in downtown Holland. The bank's two Holland offices combined have seen deposits more than double over the past two years, from $13.5 million in June 2011 to $29.3 million as of June, Koning said.
West Michigan Community Bank also has a Zeeland branch under construction that is scheduled to open in mid-December at the corner of Washington Avenue and State Street.
The bank also opened a new office in the Waters Building in downtown Grand Rapids in April 2012 and completed a remodeling of its Hudsonville branch in August, 2012.
Established in 1976, West Michigan Community Bank has total assets of approximately $200 million.
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As this newspaper reported, last week, the Colorado Reapportionment Commission approved a map redrawing this state's legislative districts. Not only does the map deprive Jefferson County of its allotted number of whole House seats, it carves up significant natural, cultural and administrative communities of interest.
A short time ago in a county very, very nearby, a group of small weekly newspapers launched an investigation into a land deal that the Jeffco empire presented as a routine open-space purchase.
It's that time of year again when everyone is out looking at aspen leaves. Nothing makes Colorado's scenery more beautiful than the gold of aspen leaves. We have aspen bowls through mile upon mile of our mountain country, nestled among the dark green of pines, spruces and firs. They are golden treasure for everyone to admire and share.
I am amazed that Denver has not long since built and sponsored an Aspen Bowl where it could host and play major football games.
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Lakewood architect Jim Powers opted to run against District 4 school board candidate Lesley Dahlkemper at virtually the last possible minute, filing an affidavit with the state on Aug. 29, the day such documents were due.
Jeffco Board of Education candidate Preston Branaugh slipped into the previously uncontested race in District 3 just hours before filing deadlines, registering with the secretary of state on the last possible day.
Saturday's weather was the perfect accompaniment to a family day at the 11th annual Community Safety & Family Fun Day.
Under Colorado blue skies, young children and their parents browsed through booths at the Evergreen Fire/Rescue Administration Building in Bergen Park that taught the tots about safety. They played games, made simple first-aid kits and participated in the annual Bicycle Rodeo. They could practice dialing 911 on fake phones.
Corbi Sayler, a Conifer resident who grew up skating on Evergreen Lake, won the refurbished "Love Bug," a 1970 silver Volkswagen with a sporty stripe, in the raffle at the third annual Oktoberfest at Evergreen Lake on Sunday.
Kristina Halstead, the Evergreen Chamber of Commerce's 2010 youth of the year, drew Sayler's winning ticket, which was one of a package of three Corbi bought at the Big Chili Cook-off for $10. (Single tickets cost $5 each.)
A small church on Lookout Mountain is seeking permission from Jefferson County to expand its footprint from 5,000 to 24,000 square feet and accommodate 900 people as opposed to the current 350. But neighbors are taking a dim view of the plans.
Any expansion still has to be considered by the planning commission and approved by the Board of County Commissioners.
The church is currently operating as a non-conforming use in a residentially zoned area.
Colorful pinwheels stood like silent sentries in the planters surrounding the parking lot of Evergreen Country Day School on Sept. 21 as a reminder of childhood and a simpler time when life is peaceful.
The pinwheels, created in art class by students in kindergarten through fifth grade, were part of International Day of Peace, when kids around the world are asked to make pinwheels and place them in public places to promote peace.
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CapIDL Language Specification
Version 0.1
February 13, 2006
Copyright 2006, Jonathan S. Shapiro and Mark Miller.
Legal Notice
CapIDL is an interface definition language for capability-based systems. It is loosely derived from the CORBA IDL language, and specialized for the needs of capability-based systems.
This document provides an English-language specification of the CapIDL input language and its intended meaning. CapIDL intentionally does not include any specification of transport-level data layout or application-layer serialization rules. It is solely a specification of the interface layer.
Table of Contents
1 Overview
5 Structure of a Compilation Unit
6 Types
6.1 Basic Types
6.3 Composite Types
6.4 Sequence Types
6.5 Exceptions
6.6 Typedef
A.1 Version 0.1
1 Overview
This document is the reference definition for CapIDL. CapIDL is a language for the specification of interfaces between subsystems. It is somewhat based on CORBA IDL. In contrast to CORBA IDL, CapIDL is specialized for interfaces where:
Interfaces are designated by capabilities. An interface name is therefore a CapIDL type.
Caller and callee are firmly separated. CapIDL intentionally lacks any means to define interfaces that rely on shared memory or by-reference argument transmission.
Because accurate reference documentation for interfaces is critical, CapIDL provides mechanisms for the definition of interface and method documentation, and provides XML as an output language. This XML can be post-processed to HTML, OSDOC, or (presumably) other desired forms. The reference interface documentation for the Coyotos kernel is generated this way.
CapIDL is intended to provide a specification that is neutral with respect to source language, but it attempts to tread the line between being ``neutral'' and being ``naive.'' As a concrete example of this, consider the definition of the POSIX read() function. In languages that allow preallocation of buffer storage, it is desirable to express the fact that the output of the read can be placed directly into this buffer. CORBA provides no means of saying this.
2 Specification Conventions
The primary conventions used in this document concern the presentation of grammar rules. In grammar rule specifications, non-terminals are presented in lowercase italics, categorical terminals are shown in normal face, and literal terminals appear in bold face or within single-quote characters. White space is permitted between tokens. CapIDL is case sensitive; all CapIDL keywords are lowercase.
Except when quoted, the characters { and } indicate meta-syntatic grouping following the customary representation of EBNF grammars. The superscript characters *, +, and ? indicate, respectively, zero or more, one or more, or an optional item or group. Except when quoted, the character ``:'' indicates the separation between a non-terminal and its EBNF definition. For categorical terminals, sets of input characters are abbreviated by enclosing them within square brackets. Within such a set, the character '-' denotes an inclusive lexical sequence according to the usual conventions of regular expressions.
3 Theory of Operation
Examples in this section are non-normative.
Conceptually, an interface definition language specifies two things:
A collection of (versioned) interfaces, each of which defines constants, types, and methods.
A set of name spaces that define containing scopes for these interfaces.
In practice, matters are slightly complicated by pragmatics. It is desirable to be able to specify two (or more) interfaces in separate input files that reside in the same name space, and it is necessary to be able to specify independent name spaces that ultimately can be unified into a single conceptual hierarchical space of identifiers. The CapIDL package defines an ``open'' name space that allows both objectives to be satisfied. The recommended usage pattern follows the Java convention for package names: the defining entity uses a reversed, dotted domain name, as in:
package org.coyotos;
as its top-level name space.
Logically, packages and the identifiers they contain are defined to occupy a single, unified namespace. It is an (unreliably checked) error for a single identifier a.b to refer ambiguously to both a package and a declared element within a package. This restriction is validated by CapIDL when possible. Since interfaces are simultaneously being defined by multiple, non-communicating organizations, it is impossible for a CapIDL implementation to check this requirement in general. In practice, the use of domain names as package names means that most such errors occur within a single, localized group of cooperating developers and are detected.
Coyotos interface definitions may make use of single inheritance. The inheriting interface extends its parent interface, providing all methods of the parent plus additional methods unique to the extending interface:
interface parent { ... declarations ... }; interface child extends parent { ... additional declarations ... }
Interfaces may make use of types defined on other interfaces, provided this does not result in static circular dependency among the interfaces involved. For this purpose, the use of an interface name as a type does not create a dependency: an interface name used as a type is conceptually a reference type. In practice, such ``lateral'' interface cross-references are rare; the more common pattern is for an interface to make general use of other interface names as types, but to rely only on data types defined by itself and its ancestor interfaces.
When used as a type name, an interface name denotes that a capability argument is expected, and that the passed capability is expected to be of the specified interface type (or an extension). The CapIDL design assumes that capabilities are dynamically typed, and does not emit code to type-check capability arguments.
4 Lexical Matters
Character Set The CapIDL input character set is the UTF-8 encoded UNICODE character set.
Comments CapIDL supports two comment formats derived from C and C++. Any sequence beginning with // and ending with the next newline is a comment. Any character sequence beginning with /* and ending with the next */ is a comment. No beginning of comment appearing within a comment is considered lexically significant. For purposes of input tokenization, a comment is considered to be whitespace, and terminates any input token. Comments therefore cannot be used for ``token splicing.''
Documentation Comments Certain comments have no significance for purposes of programmatic interface specification, but have significance to the humans who use these interfaces. Any comment beginning with /*** followed by a space or a newline begins a documentation comment that is terminated by the next appearance of */ in the input. Similarly, any consecutive sequence of comments beginning with /// and terminating with the next newline is a documentation comment. For this purpose, a ``consecutive sequence'' of documentation comments is deemed to include any sequence of /// comments that are separated only by white space.
Many productions in the CapIDL grammar include an underlined Ident in a production that defines that identifier. The appearance of this underlined terminal in the indicates that the nearest preceding documentation comment will be associated with the symbol being defined by the present production provided that comment has not already been associated with some other symbol.
Identifiers A CapIDL identifier consists of a leading alphabetic character followed by zero or more alphanumeric characters. For this purpose, the underscore character is considered alphabetic:
Ident: [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*
Identifiers beginning with two leading underscores are reserved. In general, a use-occurrence of an identifier may be a ``dotted name''
dotted_name: Ident {'.' Ident}*
With the intended meaning ``search for the leftmost identifier according to the usual lexical scoping rules, treat the resolved name as a scope, and search (recursively) within that scope for the succeeding identifiers, but in no case should this search resolve to any identifier definition that lexically follows the use-occurence in any incompletely defined scope in the current unit of compilation.
While the CapIDL input character set is UTF-8 encoded UNICODE, CapIDL identifiers are restricted to the ISO-LATIN-1 subset of the UNICODE identifier specification. In principle, the identifier specification could be extended to UNICODE characters more generally, and we expect that it eventually will be extended in this fashion. For the moment, there remain many programming languages whose source code character set is restricted to the ISO-LATIN-1 subset. CapIDL adopts this restriction for the sake of broad compatibility.
Integer Literals An integer literal IntLit consists of a sequence of decimal digits:
IntLit: [0-9]+
Constant Expresions CapIDL allows the use of an arbitrary arithmetic expression using the operators ``+'', ``-'', ``*'', and ``/'' with their usual meanings and precedence. Parenthesization is permitted. Both unary negation and binary subtraction are supported. Constant expression values are computed using arbitrary precision arithmetic. The associated grammar rules are:
const_expr: const_sum_expr const_sum_expr: const_mul_expr | const_mul_expr '+' const_mul_expr | const_mul_expr '-' const_mul_expr const_mul_expr: const_term | const_term '*' const_term | const_term '/' const_term const_term: dotted_name | literal | '(' const_expr ')'
with the restriction that a dotted_name must reference some previously defined constant. Note that for purposes of expression computation, character literals are considered to denote their corresponding code points as integers.
To Do The specification will soon, but does not yet, specify an input syntax for character, string, and floating point literals.
5 Structure of a Compilation Unit
A CapIDL unit of compilation consists of a package declaration followed by one or more declarations:
UOC: package_dcl decl* package_dcl: package dotted_name decl: const_dcl ';' | typedef_dcl ';' | enum_dcl ';' | bitset_dcl ';' | except_dcl ';' | struct_dcl ';' | union_dcl ';' | namespace_dcl ';' | interface_dcl ';'
Every declaration defined at package scope is defined within the namespace defined by its containing package. The package and declaration namespace are unified: it is an error for a single identifier a.b to refer ambiguously to both a package and a declared element within a package. This requirement is validated by CapIDL when possible, but in the absence of complete input it is not possible for CapIDL to universally detect this error.
6 Types
The types of CapIDL are defined by:
type: | param_type | seq_type | buf_type param_type: simple_type | string_type | array_type | object | dotted_name
Where object indicates any capability type. Note that certain types may appear within structure, union, and typedef declarations, but may not appear directly as parameter types. This restriction exists to ensure that the CapIDL code generator has a name for certain types that may not be natively expressable in certain target languages.
6.1 Basic Types
The simple types of CapIDL consist of the integer types, floating point types, character types, and boolean. The character type wchar includes an optional size specifier giving the character code point size in bits. Legal values are 8, 16, and 32. If unadorned the wchar type defaults to a 32-bit UNICODE code point.
The integer type may carry an optional size qualifier giving the representation size of the integer type in bits. The representable range of the corresponding value is [-2n-1,2n-1-1]. The types byte, short, long, and long long are convenience syntaxes for signed integer types of (respectively) 8, 16, 32, and 64 bits.
The unsigned type similarly may carry an optional size qualifier in bits. The representable range of the corresponding value is [0, 2n-1]. The types unsigned byte, unsigned short, unsigned long, and unsigned long long are convenience syntaxes for unsigned integer types of (respectively) 8, 16, 32, and 64 bits.
Note that the unadorned type integer indicates an arbitrary precision integer value. Such a value has no statically known size. In general, the use of a dynamically sized type requires additional data copying in the stub code generated by CapIDL.
simple_type: boolean | char_type | integer_type | float_type char_type: char | wchar | wchar '<' const_expr '>' integer_type: signed_integer_type | unsigned_integer_type signed_integer_type: integer | integer '<' const_expr '>' | byte | short | long | long long unsigned_integer_type: unsigned '<' const_expr '>' | unsigned byte | unsigned short | unsigned long | unsigned long long
The float type may carry an optional size qualifier giving the representation size of the floating point type in bits. All floating point values use IEEE format. Legal values for the floating point size are 32, 64, and 128. The types float, double, and long double are convenience syntax for floating point types of (respectively) 32, 64, and 128 bits.
float_type: float '<' const_expr '>' | float | double | long double
6.2 Enumeration Types
CapIDL supports two enumeration types: enumerations and bit sets. An enumeration declaration takes the form:
enum_dcl: integer_type enum ident '{' enum_def { ',' enum_def }* '}' ';' enum_def: ident enum_def: ident '=' const_expr
In the absence of a provided const_expr, the enumeration value of an enumeration element takes on the sequentially next greater value. If the first element of an enumeration does not have a provided const_expr, it is assigned the value zero.
The enumeration declaration introduces both new constant definitions and a new type definition.
A bitset takes the form:
bitset_dcl: unsigned_integer_type bitset ident '{' enum_def { ',' enum_def }* '}' ';' enum_def: ident enum_def: ident '=' const_expr
Bitsets are semantically equivalent to enumerations, with the caveat that they may generate different type declarations in some emitted languages. For example, in C++, the following code generates a type error:
enum enum_t { one = 1, two = 2 }; int foo(enum_t arg); ... foo(one|two);
If this enumeration is declared in CapIDL using a bitset, the code will be emitted to use a typedef of an unsigned integer type rather than an enumeration, which evades the warning.
6.3 Composite Types
A structure declaration takes the form:
struct_dcl: struct ident '{' member+ '}' ';' member: struct_dcl ';' | union_dcl ';' | enum_dcl ';' | bitset_dcl ';' | namespace_dcl ';' | const_dcl ';' | element_dcl ';' element_decl: type ident enum_def: ident '=' const_expr
A union declaration takes the form:
union_dcl: union ident '{' switch '(' switch_type ident ')' '{' case+ '}' ';' '}' switch_type: integer_type | char_type | dotted_name | boolean case: case_label+ case_def* element_dcl ';' case_label: case const_expr ':' | default ':' case_def: struct_dcl ';' | union_dcl ';' | enum_dcl ';' | bitset_dcl ';' | namespace_dcl ';' | const_dcl ';'
Note that structure and union declarations implicitly define a name space.
6.4 Sequence Types
CapIDL provides three classes of sequence types: arrays, sequences, and buffers. An array describes a fixed-length vector of some type, and may appear only in a typedef, structure, or union. Arrays are value types. A sequence describes a dynamically sized (possibly statically bounded) vector of some type. The ``content'' of a sequence type is generally indirect. A buffer describes a dynamically sized (possibly statically bounded) vector of some type.
The difference between a sequence and a vector lies in their use as parameters. an ``out buffer'' is actually an ``in'' parameter describing the size (the limit) of the buffer, and a compound ``out'' parameter describing the number of elements actually received (the new length) and the location into which they should be received. Sequences should be used when the destination storage for the out parameter should be allocated by the CapIDL-generated stub procedure. Buffers should be used when the destination storage for the out parameter is preallocated by the caller.
array_type: array '<' type ',' const_expr '>' seq_type: sequence '<' type '>' | sequence '<' type ',' const_expr '>' buf_type: buffer '<' type '>' | buffer '<' type ',' const_expr '>'
6.5 Exceptions
An exception defines an alternate return value for an interface method. Generally, the return value of a method is a union of several exception types plus a ``normal'' return type. Exceptions may have member fields to carry additional information about the exceptional condition. Use of such fields is rare.
except_dcl: except ident | except ident '{' member+ '}' ';'
Where member is defined above in the discussion of struct_dcl.
6.6 Typedef
A new name may be introduced for an existing type using a typedef declaration:
typedef_dcl: typedef type ident
7 Constants
A constant declaration takes the form:
const_dcl: const simple_type ident '=' const_expr ';'
A declared constant may be used in any subsequent const_expr wherever a dotted_name is expected.
8 Name Spaces
A namespace provides a means for wrapping a series of declarations in a common containing scope:
namespace_dcl: namespace ident '{' decl+ '}'
9 Interfaces
All of the preceding exist for the purpose of defining interfaces and their methods. An interface is a (versioned) namespace of methods and other declarations.
interface_dcl: interface ident { extends dotted_name }? { raises '(' exceptions ')' }? '{' if_def+ '}' exceptions: dotted_name { ',' dotted_name }*
Where if_def consists of:
if_def: struct_dcl | union_dcl | except_dcl | namespace_dcl | enum_dcl | bitset_dcl | typedef_dcl | const_dcl | opr_dcl
Note that an interface raises clause may refer to exceptions that are declared within the raising interface.
The important production here is the one for opr_dcl, which is used to describe methods of interfaces. The general form of opr_dcl is:
opr_dcl: { nostub | client }? oneway void ident '(' inparams? ')' { raises '(' exceptions ')' }? | { nostub | client }? ret_type ident '(' params? ')' { raises '(' exceptions ')' }? | inherits ident ret_type: void | type inparams: param_type ident { ',' param_type ident }* params: inout_param_type ident { ',' inout_param_type ident }* inout_param_type: out? param_type
A oneway method has no expected reply, and must therefore always have a return type of void.
The qualifier nostub indicates that the stub procedure has been generated by hand, and CapIDL should not generate a stub for this method.
The qualifier client indicates that a method is entirely implemented in a client library, and is not actually part of the interface protocol. Such a method may be included either for descriptive completeness or for backwards compatibility. Note that client implies nostub.
A method may raise exceptions as indicated in it's raises clause. In addition, every method may raise any exception identified for the interface as a whole.
An inherits declaration indicates explicitly that an operation is inherited from a parent interface. this declaration has no semantic effect. Its purpose is to allow additional, interface-specific documentation to be added to an inheritor's implementation of a function.
Appendix A: Change History
This section is an attempt to track the changes to this document by hand. It may not always be accurate!
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