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People get excited by the "magic" of smartphones and tablets. Every party, conference, or event that I attend, there's always someone showing me the new wallpaper they created for their BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet or the cool case they just bought for their BlackBerry® Curve™ smartphone. When RIM® launches a new device, there are events and guest appearances, and it's a ton of fun. You can see the device, touch it, try it…and it's all very exciting. But what I'm most passionate about is all of the stuff that's invisible. I know it may not be as "sexy" as what's on the outside, but it's incredibly important – it's the networks, software, tools, and other invisible components that make a product…productivity, and turning technology toys into useful tools.
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Thesis Defense: Jesse Langdon!
Nothing gets the nervous/excited juices flowing like more faces in the crowd, so come out and support Jesse Langdon tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, April 24, as he defends his thesis, "Forecasting the impacts of climate change on terrestrial species and protected areas in the Pacific Northwest!"
Part of the Landscape Ecology and Conservation Lab, Langdon's faculty advisor is Professor Josh Lawler, and his other committee members are Professor Steve West and Elizabeth Gray. He will be giving his talk in the Forest Club Room from 1-2 p.m., with snacks and refreshments provided.
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End of July Odds and Ends
1. Two days ago, I get to work and find that I've been assigned a translation…on K*be and his Asian tour. Given the complete and utter lack of quality control at the office, you have no idea how much self-control it took to refrain from inserting the words "Colorado" and "million dollar ring" into the translation. Due to the poorly written and often ambiguous original (like I said, no quality control), one of my translated lines read, "Through a skills demonstration, Bryant proved that he is the best guard on the Los Angeles Lakers."
Thanks to idiot Asian nations/fans treating K*be like he is some kind of un-smug and likeable star, news coverage on his tour is not ignorable. So the next day, I am grieviously and thoroughly insulted by my very own father, who asks me, "Who's that basketball player you like? Is it K*be?" (This is stating the obvious, but Dad does not follow basketball–despite all the screaming, certifiably insane fanatics in the family).
2. Via TrueHoop, Basketball Reference has added transactions to player pages. Truehoop wondered whether former Jazzman and lots-of-other-teams-man Tony Massenburg's page required BBR to acquire additional server space. Let's take a look at the transaction part of his page:
Now let's take a look at Stock's page:
(Cue sappy song with the words "miss/missing" and "you" in the title.)
3. Speaking of Stock, here's what Stephon Marbury said about Stock in his ustream broadcast:
"John Stockton is a computer. He's playing chess with you. He's doing stuff to you before it even happens." (Ball Don't Lie)
4. Tell me if this sounds familiar. NBA All-Star and Olympian with close ties to Deron Williams discusses his financial fate with a highly-respected sports journalist named Chris. When the story is published, the All-Star/Olympian denies all of the quotes attributed to him, and accuses Chris of being a liar and making everything up. To defend himself, a wronged Chris is forced to release the tape of the interview, which proves that the All-Star/Olympian is, in fact, the only liar in the room. This is the story also known as:
Chris Paul pulls a Carlos Boozer.
Saying your comments were taken out of context or misinterpreted is one thing, but flat out denying that you ever said them, when they're on tape? That makes you a liar.
Calling out the reporter that printed them by name, and accusing him of making it up? That makes you a jerk, too.
Chris Paul owes Chris Tomasson an apology.
One wonders whether FB ever apologized to Chris Sheridan. Meanwhile, over in Miami, you know Carlos is rubbing his hands together and snickering to himself that CP3 is now be the freshest "f*cked it up" memory in everyone's minds.
5. Got a kick out of these quotes from LBJ's new book on his high school years:
–"We had become big-headed jerks, me in particular"
–"I was arrogant, dubbing myself 'The Chosen One'"
I love his usage of the past tense, as though "big-headed" and "arrogant" were phases he went through, as though these terms are no longer accurate depictions of him. Is that super elegant and humble "Chosen 1" tattoo not still decorating his back? (And incidentally, Nike has never looked so foolish as when it released that statement on why they were giving the dunk tapes back to their rightful owners.)
6. DWade doesn't want Carlos either: "There's a lot of excitement going on with Lamar and Carlos and even A.I.," Wade said Tuesday during his summer camp at Nova Southeastern University. "I think Lamar right now is our big focus. We want to make sure ultimately we get Lamar, and go from there."
7. Does Brev Brev feel like it's time to hang 'em up, or is he only preparing for that eventuality? According to USA Today, Brev Brev is one of six mostly old "Huh? They're still in the league?" NBA players taking part in a broadcasting career program at Syracuse that will help the players "learn and practice television studio delivery, interviews, field reporting and game coverage on and around the SU campus."


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Reflections on Sandy
I ended yesterday's post with this:
Hurricane Sandy looks to be coming through NYC at that time and I don't know what that may cause me and my family to be doing at that time. We live right on the Hudson, at the border of Zone A. So I've got a few things on my mind today that fit right into this Sustainability theme….
Stay safe everyone on the east coast today. Let's hope the hype is overblown. And let's prepare as if it isn't.
On my way back from a business breakfast, I saw folks in Hudson River Park looking at the Hudson River so I walked over and recorded this video of the Hudson breaching its banks around 10am eastern.
That was the moment I knew that our street would turn into a lake. I just felt it in my gut. Around that time my partner Albert posted this on his tumblr. We traded a few comments and he led me to this page on NOAA's website. This was the chart I was tracking all day yesterday:
At the time I took that video the water height on this chart was around eight feet. You can see that it peaked at about 14.5 feet. That's 6.5 feet higher than the time of my video.
After our monday team meeting (which we did on Google Hangouts with great success), I went downstairs and explained to the Gotham Gal and Josh that we should evacuate. I got a little pushback from both but mostly from Josh who thought we could ride out the storm in our apartment.
I was adamant that we should leave. I told them that our street was going to become a lake (or worse a river) and that we would lose power and things would be a mess. I finally won them over and we headed out around 4pm. We went uptown to stay at a friend's house on higher ground. Before we left, the Gotham Gal and I went to the basement storage room and removed all family heirlooms and anything we couldn't replace easily and took them upstairs to our apartment. But we forgot to empty the ice makers in our apartment (which caused me to wake up in the middle of the night last night with an "oh shit" moment).
We spent the rest of the day following events on Twitter and TV. The Mayor's regular updates on TV were helpful, but by far the best coverage of Sandy was on Twitter, with links out to blogs and Instagram. That led me to tweet this out yesterday night.
Twitter owns times like this. Images, important news, quotes, videos, and lots of humor #sandy
— Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) October 29, 2012
Our street in the west village did in fact become a lake with somewhere around 5 feet of water at the height of the storm surge. Our building's basement was submerged and our ground floor apartment which houses the Gotham Gal's office took many feet of water. The building lost power and I suspect it won't have it back for a while. It was a disaster from which we will be impacted for months I suspect.
But as bad as our street and building had it, much of NYC had it worse. Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn were flooded way worse than the west village. The subway system took the most severe flooding of anytime in its history. Many of the subway tunnels between Manhattan and Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn are flooded. And some of the automobile tunnels are flooded too. There have been power plant explosions, fires, and all sorts of other Sandy related calamaties.
It was a big storm and it wreaked much damage on NYC last night. But the loss of life was relatively low and from what I can tell, city officials and the first responders in the fire and police department did their usual heroic job. We will get through this the same way we have gotten through other disasters.
I may take the week off. I have a lot to tend to on the home front and NYC is not going to be the easiest place to live and work this week. My son's school is almost certainly closed for the next few days.
But I'll likely keep blogging. It helps to be able to talk about this stuff, to get it out, and to discuss it. So we can start doing that while my family and I start digging out.


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Boulevard Brewing responds to Anheuser-Busch controversy
KC brewer says law requires careful monitoring of alcohol content
In a response to a class-action lawsuit claiming Anheuser-Busch waters down its beer, the company said it does its own alcohol testing at its facilities and is confident it will win the case in court.
The lawsuit, which was filed in several states, accuses the brewer of cheating customers out of the advertised alcohol content by adding water just before bottling.
Kansas City's Boulevard Brewing Company, the 10th largest craft-brewing company in the country, said it takes steps to make sure the alcohol content advertised on the bottle is accurate.
"The more sugar you have for the yeast to eat, the more alcohol you're going to have in the beer," said Jeremy Danner of Boulevard Brewing Company.
The company said it tests the alcohol levels at several stages during the operation. Danner said the brewery is required by law to make sure its labels are accurate. There can be a .03 margin of error, but larger samples need to average out to what the bottle says.
"You can make whatever alcohol percentage you want, and they don't regulate that," he said. "But once you decide to put that on the label, you are held to a pretty strict tolerance of alcohol by volume."
"For all of our beers, we have a target alcohol percentage we are trying to hit," said senior chemist Joe Palauski.
Fellow brewers said they think the trouble for Anheuser-Busch is probably more of a misunderstanding than a scandal.
"If you were to dilute any product, obviously you could sell more of it for a lower cost," Danner said. "A company that big, there really is no potential upside because they are a gigantic multinational corporation. They are being watched and are highly visible."


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It's been 8 years since the mega successful Xbox 360 was revealed, and finally its scion is born! Sony revealed the specs and controller of its new PS4 3 months ago, though it's keeping mum on the design of the box until E3. Today it was Microsoft's chance to show off. Here is my by no means exhaustive take on the event.
After 15 minutes or so of some seriously epic pump up music and a countdown clock, Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb briefly appeared to welcome us. Next Bill Gates started out a montage of developers and creatives touting the new system. Interestingly, it was rounded out with J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg (more on him later).
The montage left us with the quote, "For the first time you and your TV are going to have a relationship." Which, however squicky sounding, was pretty much the crux of the presentation. This new Xbox aims to be your one and only living room destination and the tech Microsoft came up with in this gambit is impressive.
Let me first get the burning questions out of the way:
The Specs:
So it looks like the Xbox One is essentially on par with the PlayStation 4 as far as its horsepower. It's based off an x64 architecture, has an 8-core CPU, 8GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, slot-loading Blu-ray drive, and 802.11n and Wi-Fi Direct. It also has an HDMI in/out and USB 3.0 ports.
The controller is similar in design to its 360 forebear, but features an improved (read: usable) D pad, and programmable triggers with their own feedback, among some other refinements. I'm shocked (SHOCKED!) that there's no "share" button.
All those powerful guts do seem to make for a fat box. It sort of looks like a shiny VCR to me, especially watching the presentation on my slim Xbox 360 S! But the original Xbox was a big, ugly behemoth and that didn't stop millions of gamers from loving it. The box has nice lines, and the aforementioned shiny-ness. I doubt Sony will be able to do much better with its similar, bulky hardware (its original, fat PS3 was certainly no beauty contest winner).
Either way, the consoles are basically matched evenly so the exclusive games, extra features, and other factors will determine the winner this time around.
Improved Kinect and Voice Recognition:
One of those factors is certainly Microsoft's Kinect Sensor, and it's getting a major upgrade for the Xbox One. The new Kinect recognizes both the user and the controller and features a 1080P RGB camera, 30FPS sensing and 'time of flight' measurement that takes into account how long it takes for light to get from the Kinect to the user and back. It can also measure things like heartbeat rate, which is huge for fitness titles if it works. It will have an increased angle of view as well since most people's living rooms aren't the size of concert halls.
Also very impressive was the improved voice recognition. In his part of the presentation Microsoft CVP of Marketing & Strategy, Yusef Mehdi was talking to his Xbox One about as easily and conversationally as anything I've seen, including Google's impressive voice functionality shown at I/O. He began by simply saying "Xbox On", which powered on the Xbox and logged him in automatically. He went on to chat with his Xbox, navigating between games, live TV, Internet explorer and other features quickly, and with no hiccups whatsoever.
All In One System
As rumored, the Xbox One aims to usurp all of your entertainment streams and present them in one unified (and beautiful) package. There was segment after segment about these features. The new Xbox One will take over as your cable box as well as Guide. It's all voice controlled and you can switch between a movie, game, live TV, etc. on. Mehdi showed off this "Instant Switching" live and it's practically instantaneous. Also, gestural controls allowed you to "grab" whatever content you were watching and minimize it to the Home screen.
There's a picture in picture mode that allows you to do two things at once, called Snap Mode. Mehdi popped open an Explorer window while watching Star Trek and looked up times and trailers for Into Darkness. He then opened a Skype window and chatted with is friend while watching a live game.
All of this switching is enabled by 3 separate systems running concurrently: Xbox OS, Windows Kernel, and a special system that allows for switching between the two.
The final piece of Microsoft's entertainment domination puzzle is exclusive content. First it showed a new IP that spans both a game and TV show that will inform each other's content, Quantum Break. Sounds like it could be cool, and will hopefully have more crossover than Defiance.
Then it announced a new, live action Halo TV series to be produced by none other than Steven Spielberg! Spielberg had a short pre-recorded blurb "For me, the 'Halo' universe is an amazing opportunity to be at the intersection where technology and storytelling meet," he said. I'm not a Halo fan, but I'll admit this is pretty exciting.
Final Thoughts
As far as an all in one entertainment box, the Xbox One is impressive. The functionality is great and it seems to be wholly capable of unifying your living room experience into one machine. But I'm quite happy using the few boxes I have in my living room and I'm not about to spring for anything new. What will sell me on a console, is the games.
EA sports and Infinity Ward stopped in to declare partnerships with Microsoft. They showed off some lovely gameplay footage of EA Sports titles and Call of Duty: Ghosts. There are some screen grabs in the gallery below, but unfortunately they don't really do the graphics justice. But there was little other focus on the games. The head of Microsoft Studios showed off the new Forza and promised 15 more titles but left it at that. Instead that can was kicked down the road to E3, where part 2 of its presentation takes place.
I haven't focused much on the games here, because there wasn't much focus on them at the event.
Also, there was no mention of a release date or a price point. Xbox Chief Don Mattrick simply said it would be available, "later this year."


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The wierdness one sees @ 0530
by, January 4th, 2013 at 07:23 AM (1843 Views)
A lot of my swimming has been done at 5:30 AM. This is a different world from the lunch time swims, or the early evening after work swims. Unlike other times of the day swimming at sparrows fart is part getting out of bed and getting to the pool, then seeing all the weirdness in between.
Here is a brief list of oddities....
1/ driving to the pool and seeing people doing the walk of shame from the night before.
2/ getting into the pool and waiting a good 15 min for the lifeguard to saunter up to their post.
3/ the territorial behavior of picking a lane. it usually is a first come first serve. But certain lane mates are "hard to swim with."
4/ the lapper... that one person who is oh so fast and they tend to try to pass you when you are less than 1 foot from the wall
5/ people who actually steal your kick board.... really you can't walk the extra 5 steps to get your own
6/ the half awake lane hog. love how they drift over
7/ the gaggle of swimmers who all are practicing the same workout and belong to some phantom team who take up half the lane space. I also love how they all gather in the deep end and chat for a good 5 min. It's early in the morning, go swim and then go to work.


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Someone said that it may be due to the 'plate on plate' building techniques, so a seperator is provided to avoid frustration or damage!
In other news Brickset is reporting that the 2013 Castle sets are in the wild!
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Steven Pinker on Language & Thought
I've just found the following video in which Steven Pinker looks at language, and the way it expresses the workings of our minds. By analysing common sentences and words, he shows us how, in what we say and how we say it, we're communicating much more than we realise.
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Last edited by Red5; 15-Oct-2007 at 19:27.
Thanks Tdol for this video
Here are some examples he gave and people laughed at but I couldn't understand why did they laugh
Steven says that there is another intention or meaning in these sentences.
Well, I didn't get the point,Tdol
1- I was just thinking that may be we could take care of it here in Fargo.
2- If you could pass the guacamole,that would be owesome.
3- Would you like to come up and see my etchings
Please Tdol explain me what is the very meaning which makes the audience laugh
Thanks in advance
1 Far too much hedging and hesitation- was just + maybe + could- three tentative expressions.
2 Awesome- over the top, exaggerated expression for such a small favour
3 This sentence has a sexual undertone- it implies that person is inviting the other into their house to do one thing, while they are planning a seduction.
Got it!
Thank you Tdol
YouTube - [email protected]: Steven Pinker
I just stumbled upon it. I haven't watched it yet, but I'll bet it's good.
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Umm....I was reading my original post and realized I forgot a few.
And also.....
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(MORE: 15,000 Crocodiles Escape from South Africa Farm)
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DURHAM — Damon Doyle wasn't asking for much — just a chance for redemption. The Coe-Brown Northwood Academy guard had just missed a layup and Oyster River answered with a basket to cut a once 13-point lead to one. Doyle then drove the lane and dished to as open Eric Rolser for a bucket and a three-point lead. Doyle also hit a late foul shot that made it a two possession game with under 10 seconds to play as the Bears held on for the 49-43 Division II boys basketball win over the Bobcats.
"Coach Smith always say be a next-play player," Doyle said. "Once I missed the layup, I need to make another play fast. I grabbed the ball and saw No. 4 Eric (Rolser) down low and I fed it to him for the easy basket."
Coe-Brown's defense held OR down in he first half as the Bears led 19-12 at the break. They led by as many as 13 in the third quarter and were up 10 in the fourth quarter, before surviving a withering Oyster River comeback that twice cut the lead to one in the final 3:30.
OR junior guard Nick Lazar orchestrated his team's comeback with all 19 of his points in the second half, including 13 in the final quarter.
Coe-Brown built its largest lead of the game in the third quarter when Chris Laurion's 3-pointer made it 31-18 with 2:17 to play.
The Bobcats got the lead down to eight (32-24) after three stops.
Lazar, who scored his team's first 12 points of the fourth quarter, hit a trey to cut the lead to 32-27.
Coe-Brown got it back to 10 (39-29) at 5:22 when Eric Rolser fed Beau Pingree for an inside bucket.
OR rattled off the next nine points to cut the margin to 39-38. Lazar scored seven and fed Chris Gallant for an inside bucket with 3:30 to play that sliced the lead to one.
"Everyone else was struggling, so I put it on my shoulders and I wanted to show everyone I could still play after a first half that was the worst first half I have ever had," Lazar said.
OR couldn't get over the hump.
"We didn't shoot well and we didn't defend well," said OR coach Stuart Mitchell. "A lot of things just weren't going the way they were supposed to go."
A foul and a technical foul led to two more Bear points to make it 41-38 at 3:02.
Each team turned the ball over twice and Doyle missed his layup, setting the stage for Sam Lewis to score for OR from a Jake Smith pass to cut the lead to one once again, 41-40, with 2:20 to go.
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"The key thing was our defense," Langdon added. "We went to a 2-3 this week. We really worked hard on the zone, so we were able to get out on their big shooters like Lazar and Shea."
Langdon and Pingree led the Bears with 11 points apiece, while Laurion added 10.
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Coe-Brown, 49-43
COE-BROWN (49) — Langdon 4-3-11, Doyle 1-3-5, E. Rolser 2-1-6, Laurion 2-5-10, Zollman 0-1-1, Jackman 1-1-3, Pingree 5-0-11, N. Rolser 1-0-2, Schlim 0-0-0. Totals: 16-14-49.
OYSTER RIVER (43) — Lazar 6-3-19, Gallant 5-0-11, Smith 3-0-6, Clancy 1-0-2, Lewis 1-0-2, Shea 0-1-1, Runk 0-2-2, Mullin 0-0-0, Leslie 0-0-0, Klewicki 0-0-0. Totals: 16-6-43.
Coe-Brown (4-1) 11 8 13 17 — 49
Oyster River (4-2) 4 8 12 19 — 43
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A nice catch by Charlie Spiering and a rare "I told you so" opportunity for me. A few days ago, Mickey Kaus argued that it'd be tough for the GOP to pass an immigration bill next year or in 2016 without sinking Rubio's presidential chances. I disagreed, just because I assume Rubio will end up opposing any new amnesty bill that emerges from a deal between the House and Senate. Specifically:
If Rubio decides this year he's running, he'll stay far away from the next immigration reform effort. The Gang of Eight bill that he quarterbacked will be officially dead once this congressional session ends so he won't be stuck defending that anymore if he doesn't want to. What I expect, in fact, is that once Obama makes a move this year to reduce deportations, Rubio will seize it as an excuse to throw up his hands and declare that reform is pointless as long as O's in charge. He's now come to realize, he'll say, that the current president simply can't be trusted to enforce the laws responsibly and therefore reform should be postponed until 2017 at the earliest. (Never mind that in the past Rubio's used Obama's unilateralism as a reason for why Congress should hurry up and pass reform right away.) That'll ease some fears on the right about him, no matter what the House ends up doing.
Was I right? Here's what he told the Texas Tribune yesterday, via Spiering. Skip to 41:30 of the clip below for the key bit.
"I think this administration has probably reached the point of irreconcilable differences with regards to trust, particularly among Republicans," Rubio explained during a conversation at a Texas Tribune event on Tuesday.
Rubio pointed out that Obama's abuse of executive power, particularly in the decision not to enforce immigration laws, was a crucial error. He characterized it as "extremely problematic" to any consensus.
Rubio admitted that the comprehensive approach to immigration reform had failed, stating that in the current political climate, it would be difficult to get any comprehensive approach to anything done.
He doesn't say explicitly that he can no longer support immigration reform until O's out of office but that's clearly the upshot of the point about trust and "irreconcilable differences," no? If you don't trust the chief executive to enforce the laws you've passed and there's no way to rebuild that trust, then logically you're a no on reform until 2017. That's how I'm reading this. My pal Karl adds a sly caveat, though:
@allahpundit I'd bet Rubio is a no on any immigration deal that emerges until Jeb is officially out.
— Just Karl (@justkarl) April 18, 2014
Right now Rubio needs to impress the right, in case he decides to run for president as a compromise choice between the establishment and tea partiers. And the first order of business there, naturally, is to make amends with conservatives over immigration. That means voting no on anything that comes down the pike on immigration — not because it'll fully convince righties that he's changed on immigration but because such ostentatious pandering to them might make him tolerable as an alternative to, say, Jeb Bush and Rand Paul. If, however, Jeb decides not to run, then Rubio might try to fill his niche as the establishment champion, in which case the "vote no" plan is out the window. As the donor class's candidate of choice, he'd have to vote yes.
Or … would he? Is it really true, at this point, that establishment Republicans would reject Rubio if he voted no on a new immigration deal this summer? I don't think so. On the contrary — so long as passage was assured I think they'd encourage him to vote no, precisely because they realize that he needs to rebuild his conservative cred. Beltway Republicans might hate the base but they hate low turnout in elections even more. And by quarterbacking the Gang of Eight bill in the media last year, Rubio's already proved to them that he'll be a loyal ally on amnesty if/when he's president. Having proved his good faith, he's now free to oppose future immigration deals in the name of protecting himself politically, provided as his opposition doesn't put any deal at risk. Otherwise he really will have to suck it up and vote yes.
Ultimately, I think what the donor class really requires in a nominee in 2016 is a guy who can draw a sharp contrast with Mitt "Self-Deportation" Romney on this issue. They want to be able to show Latino voters that they've changed on immigration since 2012, even if that change hasn't produced anything tangible in Congress. Rubio can do that for them no matter how he votes on amnesty going forward. Between his sponsorship of the Gang of Eight bill, his rhetoric encouraging legalization, and of course his heritage, he can sell the "different kind of Republican" angle even if (especially if?) nothing passes the House.


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Enter SPARK 2014, an open-source subset of Ada 2012 specifically designed to achieve this goal. It includes a complete contract facility, enabling the programmer to prove that all contracts both the implicit ones (like no integer overflow) and the explicit ones written into the program are guaranteed to be obeyed under all conditions. In fact, with SPARK, we won't even need the runtime checks because we will know in advance, with the security of a mathematical proof, that such checks could not fail in any case.
People have been talking about the idea of proving programs correct for many decades. One perspective is that you write a giant formal specification of your program, and then you prove your program correct in the sense that it is guaranteed to meet this specification. However, there are several weaknesses in this approach. First, producing such a formal specification is a huge amount of work. Second, carrying out the necessary verification on that scale is a very tough proposition. But most importantly, this won't guarantee the absence of errors, since the specification itself may be wrong. In fact, it most likely will be wrong, since a formal specification for a realistic system is essentially an enormous program in its own right.
SPARK 2014 takes a more conservative approach; it tries to prove only the contracts that are included in the program. Basically, programmers can decide which requirements are important enough to capture as contracts. Even if none are explicitly included, a lot can still be achieved by proving that the implicit contracts inherent in the language semantics are satisfied; for example, it can be proved that buffer overruns (out-of-range array indexes) cannot happen. If OpenSSL had been written in SPARK 2014, then the bug simply could not have survived the compilation/proof processes.
SPARK in Practice
All this is easy to say, but is it really practical? The answer is yes, with some impressive large scale examples from earlier versions of SPARK. For instance, the latest set of software tools supporting air traffic control in the U.K., iFACTS, is a very large and complex program; most of it is written in SPARK, and has been proved to be free of all runtime errors.
How was this goal achieved? First of all, designers had to worry about those features that make trouble for a proof-based approach. One issue, noted earlier, is undefined behavior. This can arise in most languages through a reference to an uninitialized variable, as an example. SPARK 2014 avoids all undefined behavior; all variables in SPARK must be initialized before they are referenced. In addition, features that make life entirely too difficult for automated proofs are omitted. In particular, pointers are excluded since they are a huge menace. If a C program contains something like:
int *a; … *a = 3;
then the assignment could clobber any
int variable anywhere. Because a proof depends on carefully tracing possible values, that introduces a significant complication. Things are somewhat better in Ada, since only those variables explicitly marked as aliased are susceptible to modification through such indirect assignments. Nevertheless, the ability to modify variables indirectly makes the proof of program properties more difficult because of the additional complexity of the data flow analysis, so SPARK 2014 bans pointers completely. That requires the programmer to use an alternative style, perhaps less convenient than pointers; but this is a worthwhile tradeoff to obtain a guarantee of no runtime errors in the program. Similarly, the SPARK language eliminates exceptions (we don't really need them if we prove they can't happen anyway). Even after removing these troublesome features, SPARK 2014 is an expressive language, significantly larger than previous versions in the SPARK language series, supporting the development of high-integrity systems of significant size and complexity.
Suppose we write a large program in SPARK 2014, and click the Prove button; and the output shows that most but not all the contracts have been proved. What now?
There are several reasons why we might fail to prove something:
- The error can't occur, but the prover cannot see that this is the case. In this situation, we can add additional assertions to help. In really difficult cases, we might have to provide a manual proof.
- The error can't occur, but that's because there are assumptions that we know about that are unknown to the prover. For example, perhaps an error can occur only if the outside air temperature is greater than 1000 degrees. In this case, we can add an assumption stating that the outside temperature is in some known safe range. An assumption differs from an assertion in that the prover will believe it and not try to prove it. We have to be very careful with such assumptions to make sure they are legitimate.
- The error can occur. This is a real bug in the program, and it is no surprise that the prover fails to prove that the error cannot occur. In this case, the bug, which may either be in the contract itself or in the code, must be fixed.
A major goal of the SPARK 2014 design is to minimize the number of cases in the first category. One advantage programmers today have over those trying to do proofs thirty years ago is that we have much faster machines and greatly superior proof technologies. Our experience so far with SPARK 2014 indicates that its proof technology is practical for the programmers who typically develop critical software and who tend to be domain specialists rather than experts in mathematical logic. There is a bit more effort up front, but it's worth it to avoid more Heartbleeds and to ensure that the software in critical systems (such as automotive control) is safe and secure enough for us to trust our lives to it.
A final point is that it's hardly practical to expect projects to start from scratch using SPARK 2014. Although this may be possible in some limited cases, real-world systems are generally a mixture of legacy code and new code. A very important part of the SPARK 2014 approach is to accommodate programs written in multiple languages (SPARK 2014 mixed with C and full Ada, for example). In these cases, we can combine traditional testing approaches for the non-SPARK parts of the program with proof of contracts applying to the SPARK sections. This involves some subtle language design to get things to mesh reliably. SPARK 2014 has a comprehensive solution for this kind of mixing of approaches, and thus, it is potentially applicable to a far wider class of problems than previous SPARK versions.
The SPARK 2014 technology is available as GPL-licensed software. At this writing, the 2014 version is a near-final technology preview, while earlier versions are fully validated releases.
Dr. Robert Dewar is cofounder and President of AdaCore and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at New York University. He has been a major contributor to Ada throughout its evolution and is a principal architect of AdaCore's GNAT Ada technology. Dr. Rod Chapman is a Principal Engineer with Altran, specializing in the design and implementation of safety and security-critical systems. He currently leads the development of the SPARK language and its associated analysis tools.


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SINGAPORE (AP) -- Felipe Aguilar thought a birdie on the final hole might give him a chance to win. He did one better Sunday by holing out a pitching wedge from 142 yards for eagle, capping a remarkable 28 on the back nine to win The Championship at Laguna National.
Aguilar closed with a 10-under 62 and wound up winning by one shot over Anders Hansen of Denmark and American David Lipsky, who were two groups behind and couldn't catch him.
"Yesterday I thought I had no chance," Aguilar said. "Today I said to my caddie on the 17th after I made a birdie, 'If we can make a birdie on 18 we can put some pressure on the leader,' and he said 'What about making a 2?' I said to him the way I had been hitting the ball I could well do 2 and I did. It's very, very special."
The flagstick was to the left toward the water on the 18th green. Aguilar's pitching wedge landed about a yard short of the hole and rolled into the center of the cup.
Hansen, who shared the 54-hole lead, was the last player who had a chance to force a playoff with Aguilar, who finished at 22-under 266. Hansen failed to birdie the 17th or 18th hole and wound up with a 67.
Hansen, who recently returned to the tour after a six-month layoff due to wrist surgery, had led by three shots after a birdie on the 12th hole but struggled on the final holes with a bogey on the 16th to fall out of a share of the lead, and two pars at the finish.
"What can you say? I heard (Aguilar) finished 2-2. It's just one of those days," Hansen said. "It's just really, really disappointing."
Lipsky also tried to keep pace with three birdies on his back nine, but he fell just short of capturing his first European Tour title.
"I was still trying to give it a run even on the last hole," he said. "I was still trying to do everything I can to win."
Aguilar started the day four shots back in a tie for seventh, but started to climb into contention with four straight birdies to start the back nine. After a birdie on the par-5 15th, he then sank a 10-footer for another birdie on the 17th and holed his approach shot for eagle on the 18th.
"I got a bit lucky," he said. "I hit one of my best shots on 17 and then again on 18."
The Chilean, who's been dealing with a sore wrist he injured while mountain biking, won for just the second time on the European Tour, his previous title coming in Indonesia in 2008.
"It's been a bit of a drought for six years. I've lost a couple of times in play-offs and had a couple of top-3s and top-5s, but never was able to get the round going on the last day, so it is nice to finally do it," he said.
Hansen was aiming for his first title since the Joburg Open in 2009. He was playing in just his fourth event since surgery last year and was coming off a tie for fifth last week in the China Open.
"Obviously, the last two weeks have been really, really good," he said. "I've hit the ball really well and putted nicely so there is not much to say. I can't really blame myself for this."
India's Rahil Gangjee birdied his final five holes to finish in fourth place at 19 under, a stroke ahead of England's Chris Wood (67) in sole fifth.
Panuphol Pittayarat of Thailand couldn't keep up the form that saw him lead after the first two rounds and share the lead with Hansen after the third. He slumped to a 74 on Sunday after two bogeys and a double bogey, falling into a tie for 11th.


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Andre Ethier jammed the pinky on his right hand during batting practice and was scratched from the lineup. Garret Anderson moves into his place…
On a happier note, by the time this blog posts to Facebook, we'll probably be at 200,000 fans so nice work, people! We're about 30 fans short but it never ceases to amaze me how many people out there love the Dodgers. Just looking around the ballpark here in SD tells you that.
And as a response to 636566cy's post about tickets to the Yankees series, I'm glad you asked about why we aren't putting individual tickets on sale. Here's the deal.
Every year, for games like Opening Day and the Postseason, we offer our Season Ticket holders the opportunity to purchase additional seats prior to the public on sale. It's a very common practice for sports teams across the country. As we stated in our news release, the volume of requests that we've already received from our season ticket holders has been extremely high. Obviously there are a lot of people who want to come to this series. While we have Opening Day every year and we've been fortunate enough to be in the postseason in four of the last six, the Yankees don't come to down that often. Demand for these tickets is quite large.
At this point, we can already tell that once we give those season ticket holders the opportunity and take care of our internal ticketing needs, there will not be seats available to put on sale for the public. We obviously can't sell what we don't have and we have to take care of those who commit to season seats.
A side benefit that this also helps assure is that we will have Dodger fans in the house for those three games and that the ticket brokers won't snap up every seat in the house. If we were to put them on sale to the individual public, I think it's fairly safe to say that an enormous portion of those seats available would wind up on eBay or other such sites and begin selling for four or five times face value, if not more. And a huge portion of the people who will buy them will be Yankee fans in Los Angeles, whereas Dodger fans are much more interested in seeing seven games over the course of the season.
The seven-game plans start for as little as $9 per game, or $63 for an entire week's worth of games. We believe that's a very fair price, and there are plenty of other options, too (including some that have food included in the right field pavilion).
I hope that helps you understand the reasoning behind our approach…and now here's to another win tonight in San Diego! First pitch is a minute away…
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Nice Loney, got that run right back! Now settle down Kersh!
Bear, allow me………..
Me too, Bear…..SELL THE TEAM FRANK!!!!!
Now I really feel sorry for the suckers who bought the mini plans. I bet they will be ticked off when the individual tickets go on sale .
That's getting it even LONEY.
Nice shot Loney!!! I feel the power surging!!
Dang 1 out triple with Loney scoring with 1 out and Blake and Dewitt have to k's. Blake needs to get an offday. I hate strand runner at 3rd bases with less than 2 outs.
Dang 1 out triple with Loney scoring with 1 out and Blake and Dewitt have to k's. Blake needs to get an offday. I hate strand runner at 3rd bases with less than 2 outs.
Good going CARROLL.
I'm not sure I want Furcal back. This team is gelling!!!!!
Josh, if it walks like a duck and looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it's probably a duck.
No matter how you paint it, it's still extortion.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it!!!!! Going really well right now. I'm sorry, but, Ferk, until this roll is over, I wouldn't mess with it.
Hey Beav!!! Well said!!! Quack,quack!!!!
jhall, my son! How the heck are ya?
Gotta agree with you about rockin' the boat, buddy!
Hi'Ya Chevelle!!! You've made my night. I'm doing well my father/friend. How about you? I just can't see upsetting the balance right now by trying to force feed Furcal back into the lineup. This team is just fine without him.
Hey Wally!!! How are you doing?
Wasn't me Wally. Beavers don't quack. They bite. 🙂
Many people think I'm a little too much like bear as it is…
Hey Wally!!! How are you doing?
I'm doing just fine! I've got your mother in my living room tonight, watching the game. She says she hopes you're behaving yourself tonight.
Although Furcal was doing pretty decent before he was injured, there sure isn't any rush to get him back. They are indeed playing too well to mess with the combo.
Didn't see you come in Beaver!!! How is it up in the hills?
LMFAO Beav!!!! Hi'Ya Nelly!!! Doing well bon mon amie!!!
Nice day today Mom. The creeps next door haven't given me the business much lately. I did my chores and stained the back deck too.
Beav? BEAV? Although I usually find myself either agreeing with The Beav, one of us should be insulted! LOL!
………and I thought beavers nibbled……..
Ummm……. make that "Although I usually find myself either agreeing with OR BEING AMAZED BY The Beav"………
OMG, the entire Cleaver Clan together again!!!!
They do wannabe, but don't piss one off!!!
I am glad those bad neighbors are not being so bad?
LOL, iwannabelikebear! That makes you just like the rest of us!
Hey e! You didn't stain your deck with their blood, did you??
Hiya tru!!
I really, really, really, really, really, really, really don't wanna put the whammy on the poor kid, but you don't think he's learned something do you?
Iwannabelikebear too!
I find the explanation on the Yankee tickets a bit weak. All it tells me is that Frank sidles up to the season ticket holders who have the money. The rich get the spoils, while Joe average gets the shaft.
I also find it interesting that its OK for Frank to rip you off for 6 more games of ticket costs, but its not OK for someone to get them to sell on eBay for their own profit at whatever the market will bear.
And that's a bunch of crap about filling the stadium with Dodger fans rather than Yankee fans. I'm sure a good third of the crowd will be cheering on the team from the Bronx.
ANDERSON triple.
Not yet Dad, but the summer's young 🙂
I'm wondering how many people actually bought the 13-game plan just to get Yankee tickets. They ought to sue.
While we are complaining, I don't like the fact that ITD has become more important to Facebook than to us!
It looks like Troncoso is warming up, so the kid is probably done for the night.
In his last two starts, Kersh has put this together:
15IP, 5 hits, 1 earned run, 5 walks, 16 Ks
Let's go Troncoso!!!!!!!!
I can hear someone out there in ITDland right now going "uh-oh, it's the four dead horsemen of the apocalypse."
Question – who do you take out for defensive purposes in the bottom of the 9th? Manny or Anderson?
Where'd everybody go? What? Is it my deodorant?
Those look like ace numbers Eric lol.
Sorry e! Just went to the Bahamas for a while.
The best answer is…… this wouldn't have been a problem if they'd have DFA'd Anderson and kept Paul.
Blake 0/10 with 4 k's please sit his butt down he need a day off tomorrow.
Atta way TRONCO
LET'S GO BIG JON, it your turn again.
I was just looking at Oswalt's and Lee's numbers. Oh, if only we had a real live owner instead of one made of clay…………
Can we get Carlos Santana back?
Here'sssssss Johnny!!!
The Padres should PH Eckstein for Stairs lol. I know this time Broxton would get him.
This without a doubt the BIGGEST WIN of the year.
The answer was easy Manny.
I have to admit, I never thought this team was capable of winning six in a row.
lol I thought last night was.
Can't argue with you there, that's business. But it's not the Dodger Way I remember, and I'm only 29.
I remember well into the 1990's buying single game tickets for Opening Day, having gone to more than I can remember. It was almost a tradition for my family growing up. And we've filled sections of Dodger Stadium with groups many times over the O'Malley years. That was also at least a once-a-year tradition.
One of the things that made the O'Malley Dodger Way great is that THEY DID NOT DO BUSINESS LIKE OTHER TEAMS, THEY DID BUSINESS THEIR WAY, THE DODGER WAY, AND THEY KEPT THE FANS HAPPY.
And that is why the Dodgers have inherited 3.5 million + fans every season to this day.
That is why the McCourts have inherited Dodger fans who were happy to buy 14 game plans for a chance to see the New York American League Baseball Club. The ones who were soon to be shot in the foot less than a month later when the 7-game plans came out.
I know you know what the Dodger Way was, Josh. I also understand why you have to toe the line. I appreciate everything you've done here and likely will continue to do here at Inside The Dodgers.
But everytime McCourt puts out a Press Release saying that they must do business this way because other teams do it, that the reason they Gerrymandered the seating sections and ripped out foul territory for more expensive tickets was because other teams do it, THAT WE HAVE TO KOTOW TO THE IMAGE OF THE ALMIGHTY NEW YORK AMERICAN LEAGUE BASEBALL CLUB BECAUSE OTHER TEAMS DO IT, I can't help but be confused over whether to shed a little tear, get a little sick, or both.
That being said, great win tonight! Glad to see the Dodgers doing great, kicking the Padres and reminding them who owns the gold in Southern California. 3 more games to go (with two against Houston inbetween)… GO DODGERS
Come on crash you can take the bpb3 bag off now lol
Great game tonight, glad to see Kersh and Co. only put up a 1 in the first, followed by a whole lot of zeroes. Let's show the Pads back to their rightful place in the division.
Mighty Madres no mas? Thaz right Dodger Faithful, SIX STRAIGHT WINS now as Los Doyers go for another NL West rival sweep tomorrow… can't believe I'm saying it (again) but TIME TO BUST OUT THE BLUE BROOMS! 😉
Please get better soon Andre! the mvp and an all star start are there for the taking. Maybe the club is just setting up for Andre to pinch hit tues on his bobblehead night a la Manny last year. Come back soon! Go Dodgers!!!
Darn it Dre! Get better soon! I was hoping to see you on Tuesday, hopefully a miracle happens and you can play! Either way, get better and get back soon!
That's about right. You're having the season of a life time and your finger breaks in batting practice. Guess that shows you how good he is. He generates that much force, but it looks so effortless.
None-the-less, break out the brooms.
The best quote last night after the Andre news was "We proved we can win without him. We proved that tonight."
Josh – I appreciate the fact that you actually tried to address my comment. While the explanation was about what I expected, at least you did make an effort.
I'm going to tag onto northstateblues theme a bit here and question why the Dodgers feel like they need to follow what every other team in baseball does. Frank continues to give lipservice to Dodger Tradition, but this decision flys in the face of Dodger Tradition. As pointed out earlier, Dodger Tradition is that every fan had equal access to tickets and it was first come first serve.
The other flaw in the the explanation is the whole season ticket holder thing. While I understand that season ticket holders get the opportunity to buy extra game tickets (I'm a season ticket holder myself), the real problem is that there are plenty of single game tickets available. The front office has made the awful decision to bundle those tickets into packages to sell more tickets to other games instead of just offering them to the public. If there weren't tickets available, then those ridiculous mini plans wouldn't be available. The front office has just decided that bilking non-season tickets holders out of more money is the McCourt Way.
One last thing: the eBay arguement. Let's just get off the soap box please. MLB fully endorses the use of StubHub to get a piece of the secondary market pie. The front office could care less who buys the tickets as long as their are butts in the seats (that was a great attempt on your part thought to try to use that emotional plea to make your case). In fact, the front office probably fully realizes that if tickets get bought and then get put on StubHub that they actually make something out of it twice, but since the evil eBay isn't a partner of MLB, heaven forbid that some tickets end up there. Do you even realize that the reason some of your deep pocket season tickets holders (not me unfortunately) like the extra games option is so they can buy tickets to what they think will be the big ticket games so they can resell them on the secondary market to recoup some of their ticket costs? Either the front office is blind to that fact or you were just trying to sell us a bill of goods (I thinking it is the latter).
Josh, either the front office needs to hire some people that have the real pulse of the fans out here or you guys are going to be wallowing in public backlash until the McCourts are forced to sell the team. Good luck!
I don't think we will many games without Andre in the lineup. We need him to play!
Note to self……..don't buy tickets for Sundays or day games! Manny and Casey out of lineup, along with Andre, but that is different today. It is not like traveling back to LA from San Diego is such a big feat. With that said…….best of luck to Andre. I hope the doctors do what is best for you. Take care of the problem now because we will need you more in June, July and August…….and beyond!!!
Nellyjune ~ I would not go to a Sunday game either. Charlie mentioned last night night that Msnny & Casey woukd probably have the day off….but, when Andre got hurt, I though Joe would change his mind. i don't think it is fair to do this to Billz every time he goes out there. And, most of all, it's not fair to the FANS!!!!!
*Manny would
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The fact that StubHub is MLB endorsed really is a HUGE point. Not to mention the fact that ANY TICKET ON STUBHUB FOR THE NEW YORK AMERICAN LEAGUE BASEBALL CLUB SERIES WILL HAVE BEEN ORIGINALLY OWNED BY A SEASON TICKET HOLDER OR A MINI-PLAN BUYER.
The Dodgers aren't keeping tickets out of the single-ticket-minded / out-of-town fan's hands, they're keeping FACE VALUE TICKETS out of the single-ticket-minded / out-of-town fan's hands.
Single ticket buyers will get into Dodger Stadium. Ironically, it'll be by getting fleeced by the very people the Front Office is bending over backwards to accomadate. Not the season ticket holding fans or mini-plan buying fans. The green-hued Franklin, Grant, Jackson and Lincoln. (Washington is probably valued very little and doesn't sleep there anymore) Guess if one's sold 7-14 additional tickets, one could really care less what becomes of the other ticket.
Once again, good business sense. But it's not the Dodger Way I remember.
I'm not dead set against the teams management, but I've got to say again, this mini-plan business has an unpleasant odor to it. Last time the Yanks came, I was able to get the single game ticket. Had to do it at 4:00 am, but it was worth it. Buying seven games to do it now is out of the question. I live too far.


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