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Sunday Concert in the Park
"You didn't bring your camera? I'm shocked! Why not?"
"Well, I didn't want to be obnoxious."
"Then why are you taking so many pictures?"
"Because you gave me a camera."
The band kicks off an uptempo, swinging number. Juliette and I admire a couple of Lindy Hoppers from our picnic blanket.
"Up, up!" demands Jason. I scoop him up, both of us laughing, and we bop along to the rhythm. I get a twinkle in my eye, and toss him in the air; he shrieks with joy. Here's someone I can do all of those cool swing lifts and tosses with, where my wimpy arms fail me with someone my own age. Jason loves it.
The song ends. Jason claps. "Yay!"
"What do you think about me singing in a swing band for my next hobby?"
"I think you should do it! Ha!"
"I don't know, I think maybe you should stick with this photography thing a little longer."
Stopped at a light on the way home, waiting to turn onto the on-ramp:
"The thing I don't get about these photographers I follow is that they all seem to be married, and yet they never seem to be home, and certainly never around dinnerti... Whoa. Now that would make a good picture."
"It's definitely a picture. Wow."
Ahead of us is a steel blue Cadillac convertible with fuzzy dice hanging from the mirror. The driver and passenger have leaned toward each other for a passionate kiss, their sun-kissed blond hair fluttering as a slight breeze picks up. The sun is just about to duck behind the hill behind us, the last golden light of the day making the two of them glow.
Pulling onto the freeway, the sunlight smacks Jason in the face. He yelps and claps his hands over his eyes. A few seconds pass before he lifts his hand slightly, peeking out from underneath. The sun is still there, still bright; back goes the hand. But he keeps peeking, his features taking on an expression that almost dares the sun to still be there. The sun gives up and hides behind a hill.
Morning Person
I wake up to the sound of Jason crying. It's still dark. I look over and the clock says it's a quarter past three in the morning--a bit more than an hour since I came to bed. Jason wakes up in the middle of the night somewhat frequently but usually goes back to sleep after a few seconds of rolling around. I'm just about to roll over and close my eyes again when his cries become more insistent, and he starts shouting "Poo poo! Poo poo!"
I stumble out of bed, down the hall to his room, finding him standing with his eyes closed. "Do you have a poo poo?" I ask.
"Yeah!" he moans, holding his arms out to me. "Up! Up!"
I change his diaper, noting that while it is wet, it is otherwise empty. "There was no poo poo," I inform him. "Are you ready to go back to bed?"
"No! Sit the chair!"
"You want to sit in the chair with me?"
I'm exhausted, but he doesn't ask for me often, so I humor him. I rock the chair gently and my legs complain of the effort. Jason's head rests on my shoulder and I can feel him breathing and snuggling into me as I pat his back. After a few minutes I stand up and put him back in his crib,
"Pat the back," he whines.
"OK, but just until I count to ten, and then we're all done and you have to go back to sleep." I count out the seconds as I pat his back, gently easing up so that I'm barely grazing him with my fingertips by the time I reach ten. "All done," I say. "I love you, good night." Jason whimpers a bit, but doesn't cry. I go back to bed, mumbling a thank you when Juliette tells me I'm a good dad.
It's just starting to get light when I wake up again, again to the sound of Jason crying. I glance at the clock and it's now five after six. My skin is cold from having left the window open all night; it was too hot even at 2 in the morning to close it. I gently, slowly slide the window shut, hoping that if I'm quiet enough, Jason might go back to sleep for a little while. It works. I go back to sleep.
I wake up again. It's quarter to seven now, and from down the hall I hear Jason's plaintive voice. "Jason get out the bed," he says, over and over. Juliette, groggy, wonders aloud (in a whisper) at how his language is progressing. Sentences are a new thing, maybe only a couple of weeks old now.
I heave myself out of bed and stumble to his room. He's standing again, and as soon as he sees me he cries "No, Daddy! See Mommy!"
I pick him up. "You can't see Mommy right now, sweetie, she's in the bathroom. Do you want to go in the living room?"
"No! See Mommy!"
"You can see her when she's done in the bathroom. Do you want some milk? Eat breakfast?"
"No! See Mommy again!"
I shush and bounce him a bit. After a few moments, we hear the toilet flush. Jason abruptly stops crying and leans back to look at me. "Mommy all done bathroom?" he asks.
"Yeah, all done." I carry him to our bedroom and set him down outside the bathroom door to wait for her to finish washing her hands.
A few minutes later, Juliette is getting some milk for Jason and it's my turn in the bathroom. I blearily study the wall in front of me. My eyelids feel like sandpaper and my tongue feels like a carpet. I feel like Danny Glover. I'm too old for this shit. I silently curse my mom for sending me the book that kept me up all night. Grow up, I chide myself, you were the one who decided you needed to unwind after spending two hours processing photos. I contemplate telling Juliette that I will go to spin class but actually take a nap in the parking lot, instead. No, no; be a man. I flush, wash my hands.
Rounding the corner, I'm about to tell Juliette that I will go to the gym but I'm going to skip spin class; I'll just do a short stint on the elliptical trainer or something. I mean it, too. Before I can open my mouth, she says "Look what your son did." I can hear the smile in her voice.
I look over, and Jason has taken a bunch of pieces of cantaloupe out of his bowl and arranged them in a line on the table. I pause, trying to figure it out, and Jason declares, "Choo choo!" Realization dawns.
"Did you make a train?" I ask.
"Yeah! Melon choo choo!"
My mind boggles a moment at this example of abstract thinking, then a smile spreads across my face. Jason giggles. It's a pretty good way to start the day.
Where Did Jay Jay Go?
We drove up to the Monterey Peninsula for the holiday weekend in order to visit family. As with any long car trip (this one took about 9 hours, including stops), we tried to schedule things to maximize Jason's sleeping time. We also mentally prepared ourselves for his inevitable crankiness. But, as it turned out, the ride went pretty smoothly in both directions.
In fact, Jason was surprisingly playful on the drive up. He'd do something cute, then laugh and declare "Jay Jay funny!" My favorite was when he started playing "peek-a-boo" with us. It went pretty normally at first--he'd lift his blanket over his head and Juliette or I would gasp in mock confusion. "Where'd Jason go?" we'd ask incredulously. Then down the blanket would come, and we'd start in surprise. "There he is!" we'd shout, and Jason would laugh uproariously.
This time, though, the hilarity of it all became too much for Jason to keep it together, and he'd start giggling while he was still under the blanket. He started prompting us when it was time to play, too. "Wheh dih Jay Jay go?" we'd hear, followed by a conspiratorial titter, and, sure enough, when we looked back he was covered.
"Oh no!" we'd exclaim. "Is Jason gone?"
A muffled "Yeah!" would sound from under the blanket.
"Is he in the car?" we'd ask.
"No!" he'd laugh.
Finally, he couldn't keep it in anymore, and he'd burst out from under the blanket with a happy cry.
He kept that up for a good half hour, all the while giggling at how he'd pulled one over on his old mom and dad.
Really, We Mean It This Time
Heard on the PA as I was waiting for my plane last night:
"Paging Las Vegas passenger James... Walker. James Walker, please come to the podium."
"Paging Las Vegas passenger James Walker. Your flight is now boarding."
"Passenger James Walker, please come to gate 2, your flight will be departing soon."
"Passenger James Walker, this is your final boarding call for flight [whatever] to Las Vegas. This is your final boarding call."
"Final boarding call for Las Vegas passenger James Walker at gate 2."
"This will be the final boarding call for Las Vegas passenger James Walker. Please come to gate 2 to board your flight. James Walker."
At this point I started waiting for an Ultimate Final Boarding Call or maybe a Last Final Omega Boarding Call.
Race for Literacy
Yesterday, Juliette and I walked five miles in the rain with some friends (and 2,108 strangers) in order to help find a cure for literacy. I placed fourth to last in the "Male 30-34" bracket (just barely beating out a blind woman, a woman nine months into her pregnancy, and an 89-year-old man), picked up two new blisters, and had the skin worn off the back of my left ankle by a shoe that is sorely in need of replacement. And a fun time was had by all.
All kidding aside, we had a great time. It was, indeed, raining, but it felt good to participate in something for a good cause. We opted to walk instead of run, which meant that we got wetter and colder than we might have otherwise, but it also meant that it wasn't particularly strenuous, and we spent the time talking and laughing, which is a pretty good way to spend a Sunday morning, if you ask me.
Between the event and the weather, Jason had to stay in the stroller the entire time, and all things considered he stayed in a pretty good mood the whole time. Maybe he found the prospect of walking on the freeway as exciting as the rest of us did, I don't know. But for the most part he seemed pretty content, though he did keep trying to find ways to stick his feet out from under the big umbrella that we propped up in between him and his friend Amalea (our race partners' daughter). For her part, Amalea wisely chose to spend most of the race asleep.
Two years ago if you'd asked me if I would ever participate in an event like this I'd have looked at you like you were out of your mind. At breakfast after the race yesterday, though, I was talking about training for a marathon or a century bike race. Most likely I won't be doing either any time soon, since the training requires a bit too much of a regular time commitment for me at the moment. Still, old me would likely be smacking new me upside the head.
Anyway, I'd just like to say thanks to our friends James and Melanie for getting us to come along and walk with them (and to congratulate Mel for doing this just five months after having had a fibrosarcoma removed from her thigh). Also thanks to Emily and Ari for the loan of their stroller. Right on!
The Joys of Home Ownership
There's a little dent in my forehead just about the size of the corner of a 5/8" wrench. And, as it happens, I have a 5/8" wrench in my toolkit. This would probably be a more interesting story if the two were unrelated, but unfortunately you get to read a relatively mundane story of frustration.
Let me back up a bit. This morning I was going about my usual morning business--feeding Jason, emptying the dishwasher, and so on. I had just given his high chair tray a quick rinse and when I went to shut off the faucet, the handle came off in my hand. "No problem," I thought, "I'll just pop over to Home Depot on my lunch break and pick up a new fixture." After all, how hard could it be? A couple of turns of a wrench, take the old one off, throw the new one on, and voila.
You can see where this is going already, can't you?
First off, I ended up having to go to three different stores to find a faucet I liked, which took almost two hours. And even then, I couldn't find anything exactly right so I ended up buying three with the intention of returning two of them. At that point I was annoyed, but relieved that it was mostly over. Which it wasn't, but I didn't know that at the time.
See, the boxes that the fixtures came each had a list of the required tools--a short list, all of which I owned. (It would have to be a short list for that to be true, but that's another story.) For some reason, though, I wasn't bargaining on it being quite so cramped under the sink. Nor was I expecting the retaining nut to be rusted tight. I struggled with different wrenches and drivers and levers for almost an hour, pulling with my fingertips, scraping my knuckles, and, of course, cursing. I cursed at great length and with a great number of obscenities. I was like the dad from A Christmas Story--and when that occurred to me I very nearly called that nut a "mundane noodle," just to complete the effect.
I kept at it for a good ten minutes after I dropped the wrench on my face before I gave up. When I came out, Juliette gasped "You're bleeding!" Sure enough, when I went into the bathroom to look in the mirror, there was a line of blood running across my forehead. It was a pretty small wound, though, once I got it cleaned up. Just a little dent now. I still can't believe I dropped a wrench on my face, though. It was like I was in a cartoon or something.
Tomorrow I'm headed back to the Home Depot to see if I can find a metal driver to get that nut loose. (The driver included in the box was plastic and no match for that rust.) Maybe I'll manage to drop a hammer on my face in the afternoon.
Tom McLeod Slept Here
On the drive back from Sonoma county this past weekend--Juliette and I went to a friend's wedding--I noticed a bunch of roadside signs on I-5. The whole stretch of road between the East Bay and the Grapevine is pretty much a wasteland when it comes to anything that will attract your attention, so the odd signs really stand out. A bunch of them are little micro-political tracts, which gets extra interesting when you see a series of them on two sides of an issue. It's kind of like watching an old married couple engaging in a very passive-aggressive argument. The sign that really sparked my curiosity, though, was just south of the Highway 46 junction, and it proclaimed "Tom McLeod slept here."
I had no idea who this Tom McLeod was, but I figured there must be some story there so I had Juliette jot down a quick note so I could remember to look it up when I got home. As it turns out, this is one area where the Internet is unfortunately inadequate to the task--Googling the phrase just turns up a handful of blogs pondering the same question as me: "Who is Tom McLeod and why should I care that he slept there?"
It seems like anyone going to the trouble of putting up a sign for such an event must be showing a certain sense of pride. I mean, as far as I know, nobody goes around at the motels I've stopped at and put up a sign about my visit. And we're not even talking about the man's birthplace, or the site of his most famous accomplishment. No, this is just a place he slept once. So my first guess was that Mr. McLeod must have been some old celebrity, possibly an early Western film star like Gene Autry or Tom Mix. Of course, it would have had to have been someone a little less famous--a second-string star, if you will--as I've clearly heard of those men but am quite clueless about Mr. McLeod. Which sort of makes the sign pathetic, even a little tragic. Here's a place whose only claim to fame, what they've decided to proudly display to the world, is that some B-lister that we've all long since forgotten once decided that he couldn't make it all the way to San Francisco or Los Angeles that day and tucked in there instead.
Of course, if there were some famous Tom McLeod like that, that's surely a person that some site somewhere would have taken note of. As far as I can tell, that's not the case here. Oh, I turned up a few names, but a Texas museum curator and a New Zealand composer don't seem quite the types to inspire such a monument.
My best guess right now is this guy, the CEO of McLeod Software, which makes and distributes trucking logistics software. I-5 is, as most Californians know, one of the major trucking arteries in the state, so it's possible that the man behind these truckers' dispatching software is a big name in those circles. Maybe he's the Bill Gates of truckers, I don't know. Except, I don't know that Bill would rate a sign if he stayed in some motel out in the middle of nowhere, so either I just don't understand celebrity in the San Joaquin Valley, or this isn't the guy.
I'm left with a mystery. So, if anyone out there knows which Tom McLeod slept there, please do get in touch and let me know.
At the Car Wash
This past Sunday I finally made it in to get my car washed, which was long overdue. I have this tendency to put off going to the car wash since it seems so lazy to pay someone to wash my car, but this is what we're advised to do in this drought. And, really, who am I kidding? I am that lazy.
Anyway, as often happens when I get my car washed, Juliette and I were sorely tempted by the donut shop that's in the same building, and we both caved and bought some completely unnecessary sweets. We then had to take turns distracting Jason so we could eat our donuts in peace. When it was my turn to distract him, I walked him around and sang Rose Royce's "Car Wash" to him.
The first thing that occurred to me, singing that song, was that I don't really know many of the words. The second was that it's kind of weird that someone felt he had to write a song about a car wash, of all things. I later found out that it was written as the theme song for a blaxploitation movie of the same name, but that strikes me as even weirder. I mean, were car washes some kind of cultural touchstone back in the seventies? Was working at a car wash some kind of common rite of passage for young black people? And why did that song get so popular, anyway? Certainly, it's much more well known than the movie. What gives?
These are the things that keep me up at night, folks.
Post-Birthday Shopping Hangover
On Saturday, Juliette and I went up to LA to see a performance by a friend of ours. On the way, we stopped at the Grove to have dinner at the Farmer's Market. For those of you who are unfamiliar with LA landmarks, the Grove is a swanky shopping mall that was built about 5 or 6 years ago around the site of the historic LA Farmer's Market. The market portion of the Farmer's Market is still there, and is home to some excellent food stands as well as some neat little specialty shops and grocers.
Anyway, we had hardly gotten out of the parking lot before I was wrinkling my nose at the overwhelming consumerism and image consciousness displayed by the mall patrons. It's been over a year now since we left Orange County and I guess I've gotten re-sensitized. It seemed like everyone I saw was wearing designer clothes or huge sunglasses or had perfectly styled hair and nails, and I couldn't stop thinking "Ew!" every few seconds. Plus, the place was packed; you could hardly walk ten feet without bumping into someone. I kept thinking of that line from Rent: "When you're living in America, you're what you own."
The irony is, of course, that the very next day I went on a shopping rampage because I was flush with birthday cash that was burning a hole in my pocket. We spent more or less the entire afternoon looking for stuff for me to buy. And now I'm not sure if the funk I'm feeling myself entering is self-disgust or just regret that I can't keep spending. I'm trying to keep my self esteem intact by reminding myself that I only shop for myself twice a year.
But, on to the purchases.
One of my birthday purchases was a pair of Philips SBC HN050 Noise-Cancelling Headphones. I was a little hesitant about buying a set of headphones that requires a battery, but I've been intrigued by active noise cancelling for a while now. Unfortunately, I've discovered that activating the noise cancelling function messes with my ears in a very odd way. Even without music turned on, I feel a strange "pressure" in my left ear that quickly spreads to my left temple. After thirty seconds or so, that's followed by a disoriented, dizzy feeling and mild nausea that's reminiscent of being ever so slightly carsick. It's quite disappointing, because this sensation makes it more or less impossible for me to use that feature. Still, the earpieces are reasonably comfortable when positioned properly and the sound quality is more than adequate to my non-audiophilic ears, so it's not a total loss.
(Note to self: size 36 belts are not meant for people who wear size 36 pants. And, for crying out loud, try stuff on before you buy it!)
I also bought a ridiculously expensive remote control. So far, I like it, but I have to say, for $250 it should really be easier to set up. It took me the better part of an hour to program two activities, mostly due to the cumbersome web interface. What would be most intuitive to me is to have an activity represented as an editable list of actions. Perhaps you could throw in some AJAX for some drag-and-drop functionality, and add some smarts to fill in a default sequence. Instead, you get an only partially configurable list that comes after a rather convoluted wizard. I was less than impressed, even factoring in Best Buy's $50 instant rebate. On the bright side, once I did manage to beat it into submission, it seems to work pretty well.
By the way, I mentioned that we were up in LA to see a friend's performance--well, if you're in the LA area and you're intrigued by avant-garde theater, the friend's name is Elke Luyten and she's doing a corporeal mime performance called "Here Is Someone" For those of you unfamiliar with corporeal mime--I imagine that's pretty much everyone--it's quite a bit different from the "guy trapped in an invisible box" shtick you're probably imagining. Corporeal mime is a variety of movement-based performance art developed by Étienne Decroux in the early part of the 20th century as a modern (in the sense of "modernism") redefinition of the mime artform. The actor uses a codified series of movements involving the entire body as his or her medium of expression. Often times text or music is added, but this is done subsequent to the choreography and in many ways the choice of words and sounds is almost incidental. Meaning, in the traditional sense, is not made explicit, instead arising out of the synthesis of movement, text, and the audience's subjective experience.
If that sounds esoteric and "artsy fartsy" to you, well, it is. But it's also quite beautiful, just in terms of pure visual aesthetics. It can also be unsettling, confusing, intense, serene, or even playful. Elke's performance in this piece definitely falls into the "intense" category, but, lacking a more developed critical understanding of this sort of art, I'm not sure how much better I can describe it.
If you're interested, the performance is at the Son of Semele theater (3301 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles) at 10 PM on Friday and Saturday nights from now until July 15. The performance runs about 15 minutes and admission is $5. Elke's show follows a 90-minute play by the hosting company, called King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free. If you want to see both shows, admission to the mime show is free if you buy a ticket to the play. Incidentally, the play is interesting if you like your theater on the experimental (and low budget) side--Juliette and I liked the style and performances, although not really the text. So you know, King Cat Calico is not family-friendly.
One more note: the theater is in what looked to me like a really sketchy neighborhood and street parking is all that's available. Juliette and I were a little concerned about leaving our car and even though everything turned out all right for us, I feel like I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it.
License Plate Holders, Sudoku, The Fair, Tony's
As I was on my way to work the other day I noticed that the car in front of me had one of those personalized license plate holders. The slogan on it read, "Her car, his payment." For the life of me, I couldn't figure out whether that was meant as a complaint from him or a boast from her. I don't know which one would bother me more.
Why is it that so many people have trouble pronouncing the word "sudoku"? It's completely phonetic and not even very long. I mean, I've gotten used to people mangling my quite phonetic last name, but that's also ten letters and five syllables. Sudoku? Three syllables. What's so hard about that? And yet, for some reason, not one person in ten that I've heard say that word gets it right, preferring "suduko" or "soduku" or "sudoku."
Wait a minute...
This past weekend, Juliette and I went to the San Diego County Fair. The first time we went to the fair was just after we moved to San Diego, so it was a little surprising that a year had already gone by. This year's fair wasn't nearly as entertaining for me as last year's, mainly because I wasn't hungry. Usually the prospect of eating a hot dog, a gyro, kettle corn, ice cream, a caramel apple, roasted corn-on-the-cob, a tri-tip sandwich, and a plate of vegetables that has been deep-fried until any semblance of nutrition is long gone all on the same day would be something that would put me in quite a good mood. But this time I just didn't have much of an appetite, so I had to content myself with looking at student art and champion livestock.
Speaking of livestock, Juliette and I were both shocked to hear a woman exclaim "Oh, look at the horsies!" as we passed through the barn that held the cows, sheep, and goats--with nary a horse in sight. After exchanging incredulous looks, we both resolved to make sure when we have a family to get them out of the city from time to time.
Later in the weekend we had a friend from out of town in on business, so we went out to dinner with him and some mutual friends to Tony's Jacal. We'd only been once before, about a year before--for that same friend's birthday, as it happens. I'd nearly forgotten about the place in the intervening time, which is odd considering how good it is. In fact, I think that it may be my new favorite Mexican restaurant, since the closing of the Casa de Bandini last year. One of the odd things about San Diego is that although there are plenty of great little taco shops, there are hardly any good Mexican restaurants--not, at least, in the parts of the city with which I'm familiar. Tony's may not actually disprove that observation, considering that it's actually in the neighboring city of Solana Beach, but it's close enough that I'm willing to overlook such technicalities, especially in light of the awesome food. The prices are pretty decent as well--the five of us all ate quite well for less than $70, including tax and tip. I heartily recommend it if you're ever in the area.


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2110316 Programming Languages Principles 3(3-0-6)
1st semester 2011
Prabhas Chongstitvatana
official course description
Principal lecturer: Twittee. This course is divided into three equal parts. Three parts are taught by three different lecturers.
1) Programming Language concepts, Twittee
2) Non-imparative programming language, Vishnu
3) Language and implementation, Prabhas
The goal of this course is to make you understand the languages you use. To make you appreciate diversity of ideas in programming and prepare you for new programming methods and paradigms. Theoretical foundations will be presented. You will know properties of language, not just syntax. Moreover, you will recognize the cost of presenting an abstract view of machine and understand trade-offs in programming language design.
Each part will be taught separately and independently. It is logical that the assessment will also be arranged according to this structure. There is no midterm exam (besides whatever assess by the lecturer at that time) and the final exam will contain all materials taught in the course.
each part 20% by 3 = 60%
final exam 40%
the lecture schedule:
section 1: T, V, P
section 2: V, P, T
section 3: P, T, V
Language and implementation
This part concerns a compiler for a programming language. There are two aspects of learning this part: theory and practice. The theory will be given in the lectures. The practice is carried on as homework and classwork. To teach effectively and to enrich your C programming skill, I choose to design a toy language and implement its compiler in C. You will be studying an actual compiler and modify it.
old lecture
4 August 2011 The quiz of section 2 will be on Thursday 11 August, 9:30 sharp. There are three questions in 30 minutes.
4 August 2011 Section 2 will change the classroom to Eng. Building 3, 407 starting 9 August.
1 September 2011 A new Rz compiler is uploaded
Study Plan
plan for 4 weeks, with one week to spare
each week has 2 sessions of 1 1/2 hrs. each.
a homework will be handed out each week.
one project will be issued on week 3.
one small project
one in-class exam
weekly homeworks, running the code
Lecture sessions
1 structure of a compiler
Overview of the course
(from Stanford slide)
HLL to LLL to processor architecture
2 lexical analyser
actual code Session on how to use the tools
3 parser
4 grammar
Context Free Grammar
5 recursive descent
(ppt) top-down parsing
6 actual parser project announcement
7 code generator
Code Generation
recursive evaluator
8 actual code generator How to do code generation
9-10 spare additional topics
submit project
Assessment for this part
homework 5%
one project 5%
exam 10%
total 20%
Section 3
1. Practice recursive programming. Let ax[n] be an array of integer, size n. Write a recursive program (in your favourite language) to find the maximum value in this array without using global variables or static variables.
Section 2
1. Write a grammar of the following language (you should generalise it a bit):
a = b + c
b = x[2]
x[3] = 10
2. Give a grammar, write a pseudo code parser. The grammar is:
asg := id = e
e := e op e | vec | num | id
op := +
vec := id [ num ]
Section 1
1. Have a feel of Rz programming language. Using this tool
to compile and run programs:
a) Write a program to find a maximum element of an array ax[.] of integer.
b) Write a recursive version of the program in a).
Section 3
1. Familiarize with the compiler tool. Use
to compile and run your find-max recursive in the classwork1.
2. Practice writing a program to emulate a Finite State Machine. Draw a FSM of 4 states. Write in Rz, a program that perform as an automata of that FSM. (that read input and do state-transition etc.). You can assume the input to be an array of 0/1.
3. Project: Design a "domain specific language". Describe your motivation, the application of the language. Write a grammar of the language. The whole report should be around 3-4 pages.
Section 2
1. Explain the meaing of the following regular expression:
/* ([^*]*[^/]*) * */
2. Write FA for the set (size of five) of the name and id of your friends.
3. Project: Compute LL(1) parser table of a subset of a programming language. Select a language from this set {Verilog, Java, C, C#, HTML}. Write some examples of sentences of the subset language. Write CFG from that subset. Compute First set, Follow set and Parsing Table. Make all necessary decisions such that your subset language is neither too big or too trivial. The report is about 2-4 pages (real paper only please, I need to keep track of your work). Hand-in by 15 Aug 2011.
Section 1
1. Hand-on using the scanner of Rz compiler
) by modifying "mylex( )" that is used by the function "testlex( )" (the scanner part of the compiler) to output all capital letter of the tokens. Here is an example of an original output on the screen (compiling "fac.txt"):
d:rz\rz31\test>rz31 fac.txt
fac ( n ) { if ( n == 0 ) return 1 ; else return n * fac ( n - 1 ) ; } main ( )
{ print ( fac ( 10 ) ) ; }
Use rz31.zip dir comp and test. Here is the "makefile" generated from Dev-C++
). You may need to edit it somewhat for your C compiler.
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-- Aho, Sethi, Ullman, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools. Addison-Wesley, latest edition.
-- Louden, K.C., Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice. PWS Publishing Co., 1997.
The first one is the standard text book on compiler. It has been used in more than 100 universities in North America. It is a bit difficult to read as it contains a lot of theory. The second one (Louden) is much easier to read. I will update some chapter from my textbook from time to time as necessary.
Extra reading
A chart of genealogy of programming languages
(pdf) (You need to zoom to 100% to see it)
Programming Recursion
(to familiar yourself with recursive programming)
My other programming language and its virtual machine: Som
As promise, here is
my "extremely small" compiler
(in 128 lines). You can get the fulltext paper describing it at:
John Backus
, the father of FORTRAN compiler. He invented Functional Programming. I have a discussion
(include the link to the original paper)
1977 ACM Turing Award lecture, John Backus, "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs", Communication of the ACM, vol.21, no.8, August 1978, pp.613-641.
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a new version of Rz use indentation as { } and \n as ";"
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Hyderabad, Sep 14 (IANS) Pharma major Dr. Reddy's Laboratories on Monday announced the signing of a multi-million dollar commercialisation deal with Hatchtech, an Australian pharmaceutical company developing an anti-headlice Xeglyze lotion.
The exclusive rights for this product are applicable for the US, Canada, India, Russia and the CIS, Australia, New Zealand and Venezuela.
Hatchtech also announced that it will be filing its New Drug Application for Xeglyze with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
If approved, the product will be marketed in the US by Promius Pharma, a wholly-owned specialty company of Dr. Reddy's.
As part of the agreement, Dr. Reddy's will pay Hatchtech an upfront amount of $10 million, up to $50 million based on pre commercialisation milestones and an undisclosed amount based on post commercialization milestones, linked to achievement of annual net sales targets, said a statement by Hyderabad-based firm.
Hatchtech last year announced positive results from its two pivotal Phase 3 clinical studies evaluating Xeglyze lotion as a potential treatment for head lice infestation.
The active drug substance was developed in collaboration with Dr. Reddy's Custom Pharmaceutical Services (CPS) business unit.


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Here's some interesting stats you should know – stats that tell us things.
The Seattle Seahawks ran 72 offensive plays on Sunday against the Chicago Bears. Seattle got off an average of 44 offensive plays per game throughout 2008.
Seattle possessed the ball for 29 minutes, 36 seconds against Chicago. A middling figure, but the average was 26:38 per game in 2008.
Seneca Wallace passed 44 times on Sunday. That's 15 more than the 2008 average, and it's also the most single-game passing attempts by one Seahawks quarterback since, interestingly enough, the last time Seattle played the Bears – November 18, 2007.
Despite the fact that Seattle's 25-19 loss to Chicago ended differently than the 2007 episode, these are stats that should not be ignored. They may offer the most revealing glimpse yet into the true potential of the 2009 Seahawks.
I'm almost tempted to apologize for my article title. It sounds like a worn-out head coach slumping at the podium after a tough loss, feeling around for carefully stated positives to give the press, while millions of heartbroken Seattle fans scream at their televisions: "HELLO? You just lost the game!"
That might be me under most circumstances. But when I compare our nailbiter against the Bears to the debacle last week against the 49ers…I gotta say, this is the kind of loss I feel weirdly positive about.
And I mean that. You should know that I'm hardly a blind optimist; show-me-first pessimism is more my game. I'm very aware that we're 1-2 and that a road win next week against the Colts is unlikely. Nothing changes that.
But the fact is, we didn't lose to the Bears like we did to the 49ers. Not at all.
From looking at our players in Candlestick Park, last week felt like much more of a blowout than the 23-10 score implied. Frank Gore was breaking off runs that made our defense look incompetent to a man. Their passing game needed only a meager 144 yards to keep the Seahawks pinned down. Our offense was overwhelmed. It was a disheartening defeat. Demoralizing. Debilitating. And it showed on the field.
This week was a different story.
Scroll back up and look at those game stats. They indicate that the Seahawks defense did what dominant defenses do: pressured Chicago QB Jay Cutler and got him off the field on third down. Consider what this pressure accomplished:
* Two sacks, a fumble recovery, and a interception induced by pressure from DT Darryl Tapp.
* Limiting Jay Cutler to 247 passing yards and 3 scores that would have been meaningless had our kicker done his job.
* Forcing the Bears to adjust on offense.
* Holding Matt Forte to a very pedestrian 66 yards on 21 carries, defying the trendy prediction by analysts that our running D was the perfect cure for Forte's early struggles.
* Five three-and-outs. Seattle hasn't pulled that off in 11 games, not even against the Rams.
Yes, the result was a loss. Yes, the Seahawks are still trailing the 49ers by a game within the division, and should rightly be trailing by two games.
But I place the blame for this loss almost exclusively with two players. Neither guilty party is on the defense, and one has a massive caveat attached to him.
Our defense played scrappy and determined football, folks. For them to keep the game as close and winnable as they did, for as long as they did, is probably the strongest, most unqualified, most positive single statement this 2009 team has yet made about itself. For the moment, them burgers smell good.
The first culprit in this loss is QB Seneca Wallace. The massive caveat attached to him is the fact that he's the backup quarterback.
I mean, what were we expecting? Backups are backups for a reason. When a backup mans a position in place of an injured starter, it's common sense to expect a dropoff in quality. Vegas wasn't stupid when it favored the Bears once Seneca was finally declared the starter for this game.
Seneca made strides last year. He improved his accuracy. He stopped throwing dumb interceptions. He threw some spectacular highlight-reel deep bombs of the kind that Seattle fans were thirsting for after years of the methodical Matt Hasselbeck.
On Sunday, Seneca's flaws were exposed. He tried to throw off his back foot and overthrew receivers who had beaten coverage. He ran when he should have thrown, and he threw when he should have run. He panicked and sidearmed an easy interception to Bears LB Lance Briggs – from his own end zone – and several other throws should have met the same fate, including the ill-advised scrambling throw that WR T.J. Houshmandzadeh spectacularly bailed him out on. Nate Burleson shed his case of the drops with flair (possibly transferring it to Housh in the process – it's always somebody on this team, it seems) and had himself a 9-catch, 109-yard day*.
The defense was also trying to come to Seneca's rescue, keeping Cutler off the field and giving Seneca his 44 attempts. Julius Jones, who I was close to dismissing, kept pressure off Seneca by propping up the run game with 98 rushing yards and by slipping a poor Charles Tillman tackle for Seattle's only touchdown.
Heck, even the Bears tried to help Seneca out, first by losing LB Brian Urlacher to injury and then losing his replacement, Hunter Hillenmeyer.
And with all that assistance, Seneca Wallace did almost enough to win. His 261 passing yards were a career best (his previous record, ironically, was his very first career start in 2006). I expected he'd find success against a depleted Bears back seven, and he did. It was pretty close to being enough – Seneca did get them to the Chicago 21 on that final, desperate drive.
In the end, it was his decision-making and lack of composure on the field that undid his efforts just enough. Seneca kept several games achingly close during the lost cause that was our 2008 season, but he didn't have the decision-making and the crunch-time poise to finish games, not quite. Those qualities are what make Matt Hasselbeck the best starter for any Seahawks team that wishes to contend.
Even so, the guys over on FOX's "Fringe" would tell you that there's an alternate universe in which the debut of Seattle's new lime green jerseys is not being remembered as the game where Seneca Wallace proved he'll never be a franchise QB. That's because, in that universe, Olindo Mare didn't shank two field goals, and the Chicago 21 was easily close enough for a last-minute game-winning upright-splitter. Result: Seneca, though an ugly winner, is hailed as a winner nonetheless.
So Mare's the other culprit. I don't think I need to say anything more about him. I'm sure Seattle fans will prove more than adequate for that task, and I like that Jim Mora isn't mincing words about it either.
This loss really was a shame, because individual performances abounded on this team. Rookie LB Aaron Curry had his first big play, forcing a fumble on his very first NFL sack (*sniff*…growing up so FAST!). Burleson had his 9 catches and also prevented an interception. MLB David Hawthorne shook off last week's Goring and racked up an extraordinary 16 tackles and an interception. Jon Ryan's punting remained solid and, more importantly, he wasn't being seen every five minutes.
The defense was stifling all the way through, despite some important miscues. The secondary allowed enough big plays to keep Cutler confident, and not just in coverage. I remember seeing Kelly Jennings get brutally blocked out of a play, Jordan Babineaux in tissue-soft coverage allowing a big catch, and Ken Lucas losing containment on a run – all in the same drive. If this defense has an Achilles' heel, I still worry it's the secondary, and that doesn't bode well for next week's journey to the den of Peyton Manning.
Oh, and whose idea was it to cover Bears TE Greg Olsen with a defensive end on the goal line? Worse yet, an old defensive end who's not even supposed to be playing end, but tackle? Ugly.
On offense, Seattle got off to just the strong start it needed, and made precious progress in running the ball. The value of Julius Jones' success here cannot be understated. It allowed Seattle to be multi-dimensional, leaning back and forth between run and pass, keeping the Bears on their toes, and helping the defense keep Cutler on the bench. Our offensive line was solid, benefiting hugely from the return of center Chris Spencer. I hope guard Rob Sims isn't out too long; there was an immediate drop-off in pass protection once he was replaced by Mansfield Wrotto. I suppose it wouldn't be a Seahawks game if nobody got injured.
Let me tell you the one thing that drove me nuts: the running call on 3rd and 13 from the Bears' 26 right before the half, Seattle up 13-7. Instead of going for the throat of the Bears' secondary, which had proven porous already, and extending the lead beyond a single touchdown (an easy matter with a gunslinger like Cutler), Knapp decided not to risk blowing the lead by throwing, instead calling a 1-yard run that could have had no likely result other than a field goal attempt. It looked almost timid.
Well, they blew the lead. Mare shanked the attempt from 43 yards out, and you could almost feel the momentum bleed lime-green from the Seahawks. Knapp treated the field goal as an automatic thing, and Seahawks, of all teams, should know better. Tony Romo, anyone?
Football is a game of momentum. Missed field goals are the stuff that comeback wins are made of. A six-point game and a nine-point game are completely different animals, with their own separate philosophies and playbooks. One big play, one missed scoring opportunity, can reverse the morale of a team and alter the landscape of a game quicker than Peyton Manning can accept a TV commercial offer.
Maybe Knapp didn't trust Seneca. Maybe he didn't trust Housh. Maybe that's understandable. I don't know. Nor do I know why Nate Burleson vanished on that last drive, or why our own defense chose Chicago's go-ahead drive to start letting rushers through.
What I do know is that fans expected Mike Holmgren's departure to mark the end of conservative play-calling at Qwest Field, and they don't see it yet.
What I do see is a defense that played its heart out and managed to achieve that elusive combination of speed, awareness, and hard-nosed attitude. I saw receivers on the field working their routes like paperboys to bring Seneca home. I saw Julius Jones showing the good-old-boy versatility and everyman production that we've been hoping for since his signing. I saw the team keeping its cool, coming back from long Chicago drives, and playing 60 minutes of football.
That, Seattle, is a much better way to lose.
* WR Nate Burleson is now 2nd in catches among NFC wide receivers and 5th in receiving yards. He's also Seattle's receiving leader after a quiet day from TE John Carlson, leaving Houshmandzadeh in third.


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Funeral Services to be Held for Legendary Basketball Coach "Spider" Thurman
"He was the greatest leader, winner and competitor I have ever known." – Coach Bobby Keith
Legendary basketball coach James Wyatt "Spider" Thurman passed away February 28 just as the Clay County Tigers were preparing for another run at a regional title. Spider was the coach of the very first Clay County team to win a regional championship in basketball. (See a related story on page B-1).
Smith charged with arson in St. Ann's fire
A Manchester man has been arrested for arson and is the main suspect in two suspicious fires Sunday night according to Manchester Police Department (MPD) Assistant Chief Patrick Robinson. Dustin Dewayne Smith, age 20 of Manchester was arrested for arson (third degree), criminal mischief (first degree) and alcohol intoxication in a public place (first and second offense).
Oneida man charged with leaving woman to die in blizzard
An Oneida man has been charged with wanton endangerment in the death of a Clay County woman who was missing nine days following a record breaking snow fall and low temperature readings.
Henson arrested after being on run since Christmas
Daniel Henson, age 22 of Manchester was arrested after he had been on the run since Christmas Day, when he escaped custody while being arrested for a misdemeanor warrant for terroristic threatening and a probation violation. Manchester Police Officer Logan Wolfe who had obtained a warrant made the arrest.
Smallwood reports "major dent" in drug use at jail
Clay County Jailer Linda Smallwood addressed the February Fiscal County meeting and announced a new program has put a major dent in drug use at the jail. A metal detector has been installed and all inmates are checked anytime they leave and enter the jail.
Water – Water: Too Little
"This is the largest crisis our county has faced" was how Assistant Clay County Emergency Management Director Brian Jackson described the current water outage suffered by county residents.
Water – Water: Too Much
"Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink." When Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wrote these words in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" he was not thinking about Clay County but those words certainly apply.
Taco Bell Now Open
Council votes to refinance Y-Hollow debt
Manchester City Council and Mayor James Garrison discussed taxes, Y-Hollow, cell phones, board members, water and trail town during their February meeting.
Snowed In!
While Clay County residents are digging out from under the largest snowfall of this century they are also keeping their eyes on a weather forecast that is predicting temperatures below freezing until the weekend with a possible -15 to -20 on Thursday morning with additional snowfall possible. Long-range forecasts call for a high in the forties Saturday with freezing rain changing to all rain by the afternoon.


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JERUSALEM, April 24 (UPI) -- Israeli President Shimon Peres will meet with Pope Francis on Peres' three-day visit to Rome next week, a report says.
Peres and the Pope offered each other invitations to visit after Peres congratulated the pontiff on his election to the papacy in March, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday, adding Peres also would meet with the President of Italy, business leaders and representatives of the Italian Jewish community when in Rome.
Peres also plans to travel to Assisi to be welcomed by the mayor, the newspaper said.


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RIP to the Godfather Of House, Frankie Knuckles
He lives on through the music.
I'm not gonna sit here and flood this post with numerous reasons as to why Frankie Knuckles should be considered one of the most influential DJs of all time. If you know, then you know. However, I will say that his passing will leave a major void in house music, (shit, music in general) that will never be filled. Rest in peace, Frankie Knuckles (January 18, 1955 – March 31, 2014).


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Leaked National Security Agency documents on classified programs have garnered a lot of attention lately, but feds and contractors are not reading about them on any of the Department of Defense's unclassified networks.
As it did in 2010 during the Wikileaks saga, DOD is using automated software to block web pages that could contain classified information, like the PowerPoint slides first published by The Guardian and Washington Post that depict the NSA's PRISM program.
That DOD can filter and block content for its employees, service members and contractors has been public knowledge since at least 2010 when Wikileaks began revealing classified cables to the world. But media reports in late June initially claimed that some agencies within DOD were blocking access to specific websites of certain news outlets. Those were followed by more reports – including a story from The Guardian, which first broke the NSA story – that claimed only content from the Guardian website was being blocked.
DOD spokesman Damien Pickard, however, told FCW that such reports are inaccurate, and emphasized that all of DOD's unclassified networks – millions of computers – are under the same preventative measures to mitigate unauthorized disclosures of classified information.
"The Department of Defense is not blocking any websites," Pickart said. "We make every effort to balance the need to preserve information access with operational security; however there are strict policies and directives in place regarding protecting and handling classified information. Until declassified by appropriate officials, classified information – including material released through an unauthorized disclosure -- must be treated accordingly by DOD personnel."
DOD networks make use of software that scans sites for potential malware threats or content concerns through keyword and other filters. Any website flagged by the system that could contain classified information is blocked to users "so long as it remains classified," Pickart said.
The measure is a department-wide directive. While the automated filters are not entirely failsafe, they mostly do what they are designed to do: Keep feds from viewing classified information before it is officially declassified, even if widely reported in the media. It is not clear, though, whether employees found intentionally accessing classified information on DOD's unclassified networks would face consequences, or what those consequences would be.
Pickart said it is costly when classified information is accessed on unclassified DOD networks because policy dictates unclassified computers must be scrubbed of unauthorized or classified material. A single viewing of the PRISM images, for instance, could require an IT team response -- and might even merit a computer's entire hard drive being wiped.
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All of you folks that are gaily spouting off about how wrong it is that people aren't allowed to access information on the web from their computers at work obviously don't work for the government.
I learned about Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in my first training class before I was even allowed to touch a government owned system. While employees of the commercial sector may be able to surf to whatever they want, and mix work with personal activities on the computer their job provides them, that is not acceptable on a government machine. A lot of people sit with bated breath to catch a government employee doing personal, non-work related tasks on their tax payer funded computer, so that they can prove how those that work for the government abuse the tax money that pays their bills and funds their work.
Browsing to (as an example) wikileaks and perusing the information there may constitute a breach of information security rules, but it most certainly constitutes a violation of most waste, fraud, and abuse policies.
So, no. Military personnel, as well as pretty much every other branch of the government, have no business even visiting the site, much less downloading classified information from such a site, from their job provided computers. If they want to do so, it should be done on non-government owned systems, off the clock.
And yes, this was sent from a personally owned computer.
I work for the Navy and we were told that it would be considered a security violation of we accessed this information on our home computers; though I doubt many people would turn themselves, or their families, in. I asked if we needed to bring in our paper copies of the Washington Post to be properly to be properly destroyed, but never did get an answer.
they truely are NOT in the real physical world where humans are!
A key question is whether their software blocks access to all articles relating to the leaks or only to the information therein which is classified. If the DOD is attempting to prevent its members from knowing what their government (the one they are putting their lives on the line for) is doing, it would seem that such censorship could be used to deprive members of the armed forces of the knowledge necessary to conclude that an order which involved a violation of the law or the constitution was not a valid as it was not a lawful order. Given the questions which have arisen about the illegal and apparently politically actions of the IRS, is there reason to believe that the DOD could not also be used for a political agenda by restricting the troops access to knowledge of current events?
...and this is why the archaic data classification system used by the Feds is so woefully inadequate. If properties of the data itself -- such as where it is stored, or in this case, whether it has already been publicly disclosed - cannot be taken into consideration when managing access, then we're going to continue tun into this ridiculous wasting of public resources, rather than addressing real security.
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A fine, mid-height traverse of this exciting area all the way from Varina to finish right of Arapiles Syndrome. It can be done in rough seas. Before starting you need to pre-place a rope on the twin stakes above the Lean Machine area, for the last belay.
This route can be climbed in pouring rain with no change in grade!
Exciting route but pitch 1 feels a bit artificial and has groundfall potential. It could easily be missed out.
serious route and a bit different. pitch 1 is very bold. gull's nest there again in may 2003 - a lower traverse will avoid it, though not the dive-bombing gulls.


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The Jim Joseph Foundation invests in promising Jewish education grant initiatives. We partner with effective organizations that seek to inspire young people to discover the joy of living vibrant Jewish lives.
By on November 21st, 2012
Over recent decades, demographic reports on Jewish life have indicated declining numbers of young Jews choosing to opt into Jewish life. This phenomenon is especially notable among teens, college students and twenty-somethings. In response to these concerning trends, Jewish innovators across the country have developed a wide array of new programs and initiatives targeting these age cohorts.
For those funders interested in supporting efforts with the potential to reverse the demographic trends, a persistent challenge is to identify strategies that provide both breadth and depth. At the Jim Joseph Foundation, we are following the progress of a number of efforts designed to address this very issue. Three specific models – implemented by Hillel, Moishe House, and Jewish Student Connection (formerly Jewish Student Union) – are producing impressive results by deploying innovative Jewish educators within social networks.
Examples of Models that Work
Through a pilot program in which senior level Jewish educators work closely with student interns, Hillel has brought meaningful Jewish learning experiences to many more students by leveraging existing campus networks and cultivating one-on-one relationships. The recently released Two Year Evaluation Summary Report of Hillel's Senior Jewish Educators and Campus Entrepreneurs Initiative and accompanying Case Study by the Monitor Institute document the results of this work. These two reports also indicate that during the past seven years since Hillel began expanding its broader peer-to-peer engagement strategy to a network that now includes 62 campuses, student involvement across the nation has increased from 35 to 48 percent.
Post-college, Moishe House has developed a parallel approach to engage 20-something young adults through Jewish learning experiences hosted in the homes of their young adult peers. Similar to Hillel, Moishe House's strategy achieves both breadth and depth by deploying a small group of talented Jewish educators who train and empower residents in 51 Moishe Houses around the world to offer learning experiences to their friends.
And in the teen space, Jewish Student Connection has developed a model for Jewish teen education that is advancing the Jewish journeys of high school-aged teens. Jewish Student Connection's approach is to build a network of Jewish culture clubs in public and private high schools that are guided by full-time Jewish educator-advisors who focus their attention on building one-on-one relationships with participants. Unlike other Jewish education offerings for teens, their network of 65 school-based clubs meets conveniently on their high school campuses and require no membership or up front commitment.
What can the successes of these three organizations--Hillel, Moishe House and Jewish Student Connection--teach us about how we might achieve the ambitious goal of enriching the lives of the majority of Jewish teens, college students and young adults with meaningful, ongoing Jewish learning experiences?
Achieving Breadth of Reach
Independent evaluations of these organizations indicate that they are reaching participants from diverse Jewish backgrounds. In each case, between one-half to two-thirds of survey respondents fit the profile of having "weak" or "moderate" Jewish backgrounds. To penetrate this market of harder-to-engage young Jews, the organizations utilize strategies designed to appeal to a broad range of potential participants, regardless of their previous Jewish experiences:
Fostering Jewish Learning and Growth
Evaluations of Hillel, Moishe House and Jewish Student Connection demonstrate that participants value experiences that are meaningful, substantive learning opportunities. Participants from all Jewish backgrounds--whether strong or weak--experienced measurable Jewish growth as a result of ongoing participation. Although they serve different age cohorts, Hillel, Moishe House and Jewish Student Connection rely upon similar core strategies for delivering Jewish learning:
Advancing the Conversation
The three organizations discussed here are by no means the only pioneers achieving both breadth and depth through new approaches to Jewish engagement and education. What has caught the attention of the Jim Joseph Foundation is how these three organizations are operating at a scale that reaches tens of thousands of diverse participants across multiple communities. And we are impressed that their evaluation findings clearly demonstrate that Jewish learning outcomes are being achieved.
We welcome a dialogue with other funders and practitioners who are also exploring strategies to achieve both breadth and depth in Jewish learning. Sharing lessons learned and best practices will advance the field and ensure that the most successful models are adapted and scaled.
TAGS: Hillel, Jewish learning, Jewish Student Connection, Moishe House, Networks


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SOLANA BEACH, CALIF. January 17, 2013: The Recon Tour presented by Monster Army kicked off Saturday January 12th at Park City Mountain Resort in Utah. The ski and snowboard slopestyle contest drew over 130 total entrees from Utah, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and as far back as the Northeast who all made it out for the inaugural Winter Recon Tour series.
The top 3 from every division over the two days were rewarded with cash and prizes, including hand-crafted Winter Recon Tour medals, a $3,000 cash purse for the Open Men and Open Female divisions, Monster Army Paid to Podium in select divisions for Monster Army members and prizes from tour partners Mophie, Freestyle, Coal, Fuel, EVS, Yea.Nice, Pant Saggin Dezignz Surface Sun Systems, Transworld Snowboarding and Freeskier magazine.
The Recon Tour is a championship series that is heading to Mountain High on January 26-27 and concludes at Mammoth Mountain on March 2nd. Points from each round are tallied for an overall winner in each division. The first two stops are open to everyone. The final round at Mammoth Mountain will be an invitational for top finishers from the first two stops worth 1.5X points towards the overall. Overall winners in each division will receive a GoPro camera and overall winners in the open class will be rewarded with an additional $2,500 in prize money at Mammoth.
"It's such a great feeling to bring the Recon Tour to snowboard and ski," said Scott Tilton, CEO of Hookit, which runs the Recon Tour. "We set out last summer to support the athletes by focusing the Recon Tour on sports where up and coming athletes need every opportunity for exposure and recognition to prove themselves. The feedback from the athletes, tour partners and venues is proving we're doing just that."
Special thanks to the crew at Park City Mountain Resort, the coaches and media who made the first stop a huge success. Below is a recap and final results from the first round in each division. For a complete list of results and overall standings or to view photos, videos and athlete profiles, visit www.theReconTour.com.
Sunday 1/13/13 Snowboard Results
The weather Sunday cleared up with sunny skies all day, but the the temperature event even cooled off more to a balmy -15 degrees that morning and never getting over five degrees during the day. Riding for Volcom and Smith, it was sixteen year-old Jack Herald from Tooele, UT who won the Open Men division claiming the $500 cash purse. He was followed by Ryan Flaska out of Park City, UT and Gabe Ferguson from Bend, OR who rounded out the podium in the premiere division.
Lynn Neil of Heber City, UT won the Open Female division and took home $300 cash purse. Michigan native Adam Giola made the trip to win the 15-17 Male division ahead of nearly 20 other entrees. Top finishers from all divisions include:
Open Male Snowboard Results
1st – Jack Herald – Tooele, UT
2nd – Ryan Flaska – Park City, UT
3rd – Gabe Ferguson – Bend, OR
Open Female Snowboard Results
1st – Lynn Neil – Heber City, UT
2nd – Hailee Mattingley – Sandy, UT
3rd – Taelor Mattingley – Sandy, UT
18+ Male Snowboard Results
1st – Andrew Tassell – Park City, UT
2nd – Bardy Durgin – Salt Lake City, UT
3rd – Mitch Wayment – Roy, UT
15-17 Male Snowboard Results
1st – Adam Giola – Clarkston, MI
2nd – Tyler Kulich Harrison – Township, MI
3rd – Jacob Hunsaker – Park City, UT
12-14 Male Snowboard Results
1st – Chandler Hunt – Park City, UT
2nd – Colin Cummins – Park City, UT
3rd – Mathew Grant – Park City, UT
12-14 Female Snowboard Results
1st – Hope Mayernik – Park City, UT
11 & Under Male Snowboard Results
1st – Parker Giblin – Park City, UT
2nd – Wyatt Blake – Park City, UT
3rd – Hunter Goulet – Park City, UT
11 & Under Female Snowboard Results
1st – Lauren Mattingley – Sandy, UT
For a complete list of results, photos, videos and athlete profiles or to register for round 2 of the Recon Tour at Mt. High, visitwww.theReconTour.com.
About the Recon Tour
The Recon Tour was started by Hookit and Monster Energy as is an intelligence-gathering mission to find the best up and coming athletes in the nation through contests for Snowboard, Ski and BMX. We work closely with key partners to support the future of action sports and provide a better platform for the athletes to advance in their sports. For more information on the Recon Tour, visit www.theReconTour.com. You can also follow the tour on Facebook at www.facebook.com/recontour, on Twitter @recontour, and on instagram @recontour. To get involved as a sponsor or partner, please contact us at 888-874-3374 ext. 111 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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My WW's A lasted a year, yet she finds a ONS disgusting. Huh? This BS wishes it was a single ONS and it was only about the sex versus the attention and affection that continued for a period of time.
Your WH needs to be in counseling and discover why he felt it was necessary for him to explore outside the marriage.
Also, the person you thought you married does not exist. You need to learn who this person is and how they make choices and should be part of your decision process on whether to stick around.


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Sudoku for Eclipse is a Sudoku game built on Eclipse. It generates, solves, and prints Sudoku grids (sizes from 4 to 12).
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Release Notes: You can now play with numbers, letters, symbols, or icons.
Release Notes: This release adds new mouse behavior and strong links detection. It runs with Fedora.
No changes have been submitted for this release.
A Fluent OpenStack client API for Java.
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As Chris Hughes prepared his Richmond Academy team for Friday night's pivotal region matchup with Grovetown, he had a single goal above all others.
"We were going to stack the box … because they haven't thrown the ball well all season," the coach said. "We were going to stop (Jamal) Cummings."
The plan worked, as visiting Richmond Academy bottled up the standout junior back in a 21-0 shutout of Grovetown.
In what Hughes called his team's "best game all year," particularly on defense, the Musketeers limited Cummings to 20 yards on 12 carries and sophomore Terrell Hughes to 31 yards on six carries.
"Cummings and Hughes are both deadly running backs," Chris Hughes stressed. "So our plan was to stop them and make them beat us throwing the ball."
Richmond Academy (4-4, 3-1) vaulted into a tie with Grovetown (6-2, 3-1) in Region 3-AAA North.
The Musketeers limited Grovetown to 144 rushing yards, with 101 coming on a pair of long runs by quarterback Travon Biggers.
He played the entire game under center in place of Hunter Peace, who was out with an undisclosed injury.
While Biggers ran for a total of 93 yards after losses, the Warriors passing game struggled. He finished 4 of 11 for 23 yards, and a last-ditch pass by Cummings on a halfback pass play was intercepted.
Grovetown committed nine second-half penalties for 68 yards.
Despite out-gaining the Warriors 199-36 in total yardage before halftime, the Musketeers scored only once in the half.
The second-quarter score came on a 16-yard touchdown pass from Thomas Allison to Anthony Williams.
With its defense dominating, Richmond Academy was content running the clock and relying on big ground gains. The Musketeers totaled 282 yards on 39 carries.
Diquan Washington, who also plays defensive end, had 94 yards rushing and 26 receiving.
"Richmond played a great football game tonight," Grovetown head coach Rodney Holder said. "They beat us on our home field. They took it to us."


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Mountain climbing with an Oculus
Subject: General Tech | December 16, 2015 - 12:58 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, Oculus, crytek, the climb
Crytek announced their designed for Oculus game yesterday, The Climb. As you might infer from the title of the game you will be scaling cliffs and mountains using either an Xbox One controller or Oculus Touch with your Oculus to experience something that would not be anywhere near as interesting on a computer monitor. The disembodied hands are a little disturbing, though perhaps not as much as the heights will be for those who suffer from vertigo, though perhaps this would be an interesting way to try to conquer your fears. The video below shows off the graphics, though not as immersive as it would be in VR it still looks rather interesting. Many developers are looking to space sims to be the killer app for Oculus, for instance EVE Valkyrie come as part of the pre-order bundle shipped with the first consumer model.
Crytek might have just found the other style of game to interest people in the Oculus, extreme sports could be very compelling with the new VR headset.
"The Climb invites thrill-seekers to experience the ultimate in extreme sports by going beyond the point of no return and scaling deadly cliff faces unaided. The game boasts hyper-realistic climbing locations from around the world, and players will discover the freedom of gaming with the Rift using either an Xbox One controller or Oculus Touch controllers as they soak up their awe-inspiring surroundings."
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Now that's a Golf game!
Subject: General Tech | December 9, 2015 - 01:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, no goblin, 100ft robot golf
Developers No Goblin have come up with a golf game that actually looks like a lot of fun to play and if Tiger Woods is in there somewhere he will end up smooshed under the foot of a 100' tall robot. Instead of taking a pro golfer in funny pants you instead romp through the world as an incredibly destructive giant mech with a penchant for whacking everything around them, up to and including a golf ball. Is there a skyscraper in the way of your shot? No worries, wander over and smash it down before hitting the ball. A competitor getting ahead of you? Why not handicap them, in a rather literal sense! Check out the video below or head over to Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN for a link to the game page.
"100ft Robot Golf – there's a fantastic game name for you. Pretty much everything it is can be deduced from that name. The second game from Roundabout folks No Goblin, it'll see giant golfbots playing on – and smashing through – courses across cities, mountains, and moons."
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- Total War: Warhammer's Greenskin Campaign Detailed @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Fallout: New Vegas 5-Years Later Review @ OCC
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Blow stuff up Just Cause ... 3
Subject: General Tech | December 2, 2015 - 01:51 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, just cause 3
When a reviewer mentions that they utterly forgot about the first mission for 12 hours after completing ye old mandatory game beginning you know something is up. From how Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN describe Just Cause 3 it is not because the storyline is so bad you want to ignore it but because there is just so much stuff to blow up and it is a lot of fun doing it. That describes the first two Just Cause games and it looks like the third will be no different, apart from what is described as a more reasonable escalation of enemy forces in the later parts of the game. If the random violence of maliciously attaching people to various objects and generally causing chaos is up your alley then the latest installment of this series should not disappoint.
"Avalanche's Just Cause 3 is officially released Tuesday morning online and in something called "shops". "Officially", because it was apparently released early in a few naughty nations, prompting the developers to make a list of planned Day 0 fixes. Of course, that means the code we've been reviewing from for the last week also lacks that patch, making it tricky to know how many of the issues I encountered – in an otherwise stupendous game – will affect you. Bearing this in mind, here's wot I think."
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Bringing mods to the post-nuclear wastelands of Massachusetts
Subject: General Tech | November 25, 2015 - 01:41 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: fallout 4, mod, gaming
The modders over at the Nexus community are already hard at work creating mods for Fallout 4 and Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN have compiled a list of the best ones currently out there. After a quick tutorial on how to apply mods they jump into the list and of them all the first one may be the most useful as it allows you to tweak your display resolution, mouse sensitivity, field of view and the many other settings you might have expect to be changeable in the game itself. From there they move onto improved lighting, longer death cam viewing, a higher settlement budget and even dialogue expansion. Check out what is there or head over to Nexus Mods to see what others catch your interest.
"While official mod support for Fallout 4 [official site] hasn't arrived just yet, Nexus Mods have opened their proverbial gates. Their community is fast at work creating handy customisations and helpful leg-ups to see you right as you dive head first into the irradiated unknown."
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- Machinimagic: Valve Announce Saxxy Award Winners @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
- Wot I Think: Hard West @ Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN
Hard West is here; get your eldritch western fix
Subject: General Tech | November 18, 2015 - 01:35 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: hard west, Unity, gaming
If you backed the Kickstarter then you have had a chance to watch Hard West evolve from a single silent map to the recent update which added significant content and changed the beginning of the game significantly. You are a dead gunslinger, brought back to an undead state in a western setting which incorporates not only natives and townsfolk but dark supernatural creatures and powers as well. The game plays like the recent XCOM releases, with a similar turn style and cover system but also incorporates unique features such as the ability to ricochet bullets of some items on the map to shoot around corners and a shadow system designed to give you hints about who might be standing around a corner.
Nighttime changes the game dramatically and the optional permanent injury system is the exact opposite of the recent Warhammer games, severely injured members your posse will suffer negatives in the short term but possibly gaining strength once their wounds have fully healed. You can see what Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN thought of the game here or just pick it up on Steam for $22.
""Wild West XCOM" is about as good an elevator pitch as you could wish for. After a short delay, as of today we can find out whether Hard West can possibly live up to its glorious high concept. I played an earlier build a few weeks back – some thoughts, plus a launch trailer, below."
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Fallout 4 performance at the high end
Subject: General Tech | November 11, 2015 - 06:36 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: R9 FuryX, nvidia, GTX 980 Ti, gaming, fallout 4, amd
[H]ard|OCP tested out the performance of the 980 Ti and FuryX in single card configurations as multiple GPU support is non-existent in Fallout 4, some have had moderate success with workarounds which [H] mentions at the end of the review. At launch it seems NVIDIA's card offers significantly better performance overall, hopefully that delta will decrease as patches and drivers are rolled out. As far as features go, enabling godrays has a huge effect on performance for both cards and FXAA is the best performing AA when displaying a wide variety of terrain, close forested areas allowed TAA to narrow the gap. As to the game itself, as of yet they do not sound overly impressed.
"Fallout 4 is out on the PC, in this preview we will take a look at performance between GeForce GTX 980 Ti and Radeon R9 Fury X as well as some in-game feature performance comparisons. We'll also take a look at some in-game feature screenshots and find out what settings are best for an enjoyable gaming experience."
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Welcome to the Inner Sphere; Battletech makes it
Subject: General Tech | November 4, 2015 - 01:53 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, battlefield, harebrained schemes
This will not be the Mechwarrior of old, the new Battletech game will be turn based and resemble the tabletop version of the game in more ways than the faster paced Mechwarrior and Mech Commander series. As mentioned in the interview by Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN with Jordan Weisman, the main creator of this world the turn based play allows you to delve far deeper into managing your mechs heat, ranges, and armor exposure in combat . Battles will also focus more on mixed forces with crunchies and quite possibly air support present on the theater in addition to your mechs. Read the full interview for more information on what this game will look like. It has been fully funded and all the extra tiers were reached, including an extended single player campaign and PvP battles in the Arenas of Solaris VII, you can still get in on the action on their second chance pledge page.
"This is a turn-based game, and that allows us to dive a little deeper into what makes a mech a mech. When you're real-time, you have to kind of… not allow the player to dive into that kind of depth because there'd be too much information overflow and decision paralysis," Weisman said."
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Here's a launch trailer for you, watch it instead of pre-ordering
Subject: General Tech | October 28, 2015 - 02:04 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: Star Wars Battlefront, gaming
EA continues to tease us before the November 17th launch date of Star Wars Battlefront, now with a brand new launch trailer which you can watch below. Enjoy the trailer, fondly remember the open beta and put that credit card down! If you don't want Day 1 DLC, games that are only mostly ready for Primetime at launch and Deluxe Pre-order Editions that cost over $100 then don't pre-order games! If you don't encourage them by buying things sight unseen then the problem will go away.
"This is the News You Are Looking For."
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Sword Coast Legends; more Dungeon Siege than Dungeons & Dragons?
Subject: General Tech | October 21, 2015 - 02:35 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, sword coast legends
Sword Coast Legends was just released and you should probably take a look at this quick preview of the game at Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN if you are hoping this will fill your time until Baldurs Gate: Siege of Dragonspear is released. They have not yet had time to complete a full review including the multiplayer and Dungeon Master modes but the overall initial impression that this game feels more like Dungeon Seige than previous D&D games. You can still pause the game to order your party in combat but it seems less necessary as you are using a small pool of abilities to hack and slash your way to victory. The review is not primarily negative and it sounds like there is fun to be had but if you were hoping for something more intricate and involved then you may be disappointed. Then again, it may prove that the multiplayer mode with a DM overseeing a custom adventure may make this title worth picking up.
"We'll have some thoughts on the multiplayer portion of just-released, latter-day Dungeons & Dragons RPG Sword Coast Legends [official site] – including the all-important DM mode – very soon, but while RPS gathers its party to sally forth, I thought I'd share some initial impressions on singleplayer."
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Bringing new life to J.C. Denton; Deus Ex: Revison
Subject: General Tech | October 14, 2015 - 01:31 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, retro, deus ex revision, mod
Have you tried to play the original Deus Ex in the past few years only to find the resolution and overall quality of the textures so painful that you stopped after the first mission? Have you though about doing it but never quite managed to start it up? Perhaps this new revamp of the game will change your opinion, with all new assets, music and graphics tweaks. Rock, Paper, SHOTGUN would like you to know about Deus Ex: Revision, a mod available on Steam for those who own the game which brings new life to the old classic. Thanks to the Stealth Sale the GotY version is a steep $1.55(ish) on Steam, so pick it up and see if this update is enough to convince you to replay or to introduce you for the first time to the game which was significantly better designed than its sequel.
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Students Twerk During Christmas Parade In Grand Coteau, La. [VIDEO]
Tis the season to… twerk?!? Apparently so in Grand Coteau, Louisiana. Teens and tweens twerked to Sissy Nobby's "Crazy Bout My Boifriend" at the Grand Coteau Alive Annual Christmas Parade this past Saturday, December 7 in St. Landry Parish.
And yes, the song does talk about 'making that a$$ go loop.'
I'm personally not sure that songs with profanity belong in a Christmas parade — or twerking at all, for that matter. Am I being to conservative? What do you think? Did they make Miley Cyrus proud? Would you want your kids exposed to this? Is it simple matter of pop culture making it's way into public events?


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Jurors in the trial of a former San Jose principal accused of failing to report suspected sexual abuse of a child by a teacher are set to resume deliberations Monday after getting the case Friday.
The San Jose Mercury News reports ( http://bit.ly/TBUocy ) that jurors deliberated for about six hours Friday, before being ordered to return after the weekend.
Lyn Vijayendran, the former principal of San Jose's O.B. Whaley Elementary School, is charged with failure to report child abuse, a misdemeanor.
If convicted, she could be sentenced to up to six months in jail.
Vijayendran testified Thursday that teacher Craig Chandler appeared forthright when he told her an incident during which he allegedly blindfolded a second-grade girl and put something in her mouth was part of a lesson plan.
Chandler is facing charges of committing lewd and lascivious acts on five children.
Information from: San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, http://www.mercurynews.com