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After the devastating news yesterday that this weekend"s D23 expo – Disney"s branded answer to San Diego Comic-Con – would feature no new footage from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," fans settled in to wait. After all, the toys begin shipping next month. Surely more information was imminent, whether through official sources or leaked details.
Talk about your short wait. Entertainment Weekly just released a peek at their Fall Movie Preview issue and it is overflowing with new images and tidbits about this December"s most anticipated movie.
Fans will have to physically pick up the issue this Friday to get answers to questions such as:
Who is Adam Driver"s villainous wielder of the crossguard-lightsaber? What is his relationship with Darth Vader … and is Kylo Ren his original name?
From whom (or what) does Daisy Ridley"s character Rey rescue the ball-droid BB-8 amid the desolate sands of Jakku?
But even without the answers to some of these particular questions, there"s still plenty to chew on. Some of these reveals are just confirmation of rumors that have been percolating for months, but verification is always welcome (and the only way I"ll cover it here on Harpy).


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Ryan Leaf sent to prison after threatening drug treatment staffer
Posted by Michael David Smith on January 17, 2013, 1:58 PM EST
Ryan Leaf's life has taken another sad turn, as he was kicked out of his residential drug treatment program and sent to prison.
The Great Falls Tribune reports that Leaf, who was sent to treatment after twice getting caught stealing prescription painkillers, has been moved from a treatment center to the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge.
"The Montana Department of Corrections terminated Leaf from the treatment program and placed him in prison after he was found guilty of behavior that violated conditions of his drug treatment placement," a Montana probation and parole administrator said in a statement. "The violations included threatening a program staff member."
Leaf got a seven-year sentence for drug and burglary charges in June, but if he was able to successfully complete drug treatment he was expected to serve only about 15 months. It is unclear how much prison time Leaf will now have to serve in Montana. Leaf was previously given a 10-year suspended sentence in Texas in 2010, and he may have to serve some or all of that sentence after completing his time in Montana.
In other words, the No. 2 overall pick in the 1998 NFL draft may be in prison for many years.
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Most of the people I've had guest judge this contest over the years have been people I've known about & been fans of for a long while. But with Scott, that wasn't the case. Just recently, I saw Travis Norris tweet a link to Scott's new album, and I was hooked. Listened all the way through, and never had the urge to skip a single song. Since I hadn't gotten a guest judge for SpinTunes 7 yet, I figured I'd see if the guy was interested in judging round 4. Lucky for us...he was happy to lend us a hand.
Learn more about Scott & his music by visiting his website: scottbarkanmusic.com After you become a fan, you can also stalk him on Twitter. (@scottbarkan)
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Hey Guys,
Thanks so much for asking me to participate as a guest judge in this contest! I've decided to break down my reviews into 4 categories: Composition, Production, Performance and Concept, each worth 10 points. So, the entry with closest to 40 points wins! Here we go!
Thanks again,
COMPOSITION: This song has a cool 70's rock sound stemming from the 7th chord voicings on the jangly pianos and string arrangements, and it's clear you spent some time on the arrangement, bringing the band in and out for dramatic effect. It could potentially benefit from a change in tonality at some point, or the addition of a true bridge as opposed to just extending that final phrase of the chorus at the peak of the song. Still, it has a nice arc to it even without a true bridge, and it matches the somber tone of the lyric.
As for the lyrics, your point is coming across, but there isn't a lot of poetry in it. Many of the details are just presented as a list - "This happened, then that happened, there's this thing, there's that thing" - Some more attention to the delivery of these ideas, with some real details, could make it a bit more vivid. The final line of the tune does add some weight to things, making it all feel like theres more going on here than just reminiscing around your hometown, which I appreciate.
PRODUCTION: The recording quality is getting the job done, but is lacking overall. Sounds are somewhat dry and thin to my ears, especially the vocal. A little reverb can go a long way, along with some light compression to make it all gel together a little more.
PERFORMANCE: Similarly, the performance is covering the bare essentials, but lacking in precision and cohesiveness. Some extra time invested in perfecting your vocal and tightening up the rhythm section will make a huge difference.
CONCEPT: This photo, a run down building against a lush and vast open landscape, conveys a sense of a lost and forgotten piece of americana right off the bat. You've definitely tapped into that, but it would have been nice to see you push the inspiration from the photo a little further and see where else it could lead. It did, however, make me think specifically of a Drive In Movie as well, so I appreciated your use of that in the final verse. I also think this photo has a sense of hope about it, coming from the bursting colors, and I think your piece does manage to capture a little of that with the final line, so nice job there.
Edric Haleen - Reality - FINAL SCORE: 35/40
COMPOSITION: The scope of this is surprising and impressive. It feels like a self contained musical, and the harmonic choices are definitely capturing a sideshow/circus vibe, which really works with the lyric. It's hard to look at it in conventional terms, because of the through composed nature of the piece, but for what it is it is definitely working. The lyric is as extensive as the arrangement and your point is coming across loud and clear. The opening shouts of "Follies!" and "Foibles!" really sets the tone and lets the listener know they are in for a wild ride. And, again, you can't look at through a conventional songwriting lense, but as a broadway-style piece it really hits the nail on the head. Well done.
PRODUCTION: The production also captures the vibe very well. I'm generally someone who prefers the sound of real instruments, but you worked with what you had available very well in order to realize your vision, and it's definitely appropriate for the song. All the sounds are rich and well mixed, it feels like a polished final product.
PERFORMANCE: Again, right on the money. Everything is in tune and in time, and the singing is perfect for this style.
CONCEPT: I totally see your jumping off point of the sideshow/circus ticket booth, and it seems like you've extrapolated a similar "death of the american dream" idea as some of the other entrants, though you've pushed it well beyond the obvious tableau of run down and boarded up buildings, making it into a commentary on modern American society as a whole. Bonus points for creativity and vision, too.
RC - Home - FINAL SCORE: 30/40
COMPOSITION: This is a straight up roots/rock ballad which, I have to say, is right up my alley. Personal preferences aside, I might say it's almost too text book, as there are few surprises in the arrangement, but the melodies, chord progressions and structure are solid, so I can't fault you much for that. Lyrically, the devil is in the details, and you have some nice ones here. The sentiment of "entropy's remorseless" brought up in the bridge is particularly striking. This is text book genre songwriting.
PRODUCTION: Again, classic execution, from the carefully layered guitars to the backing vox and soaring post bridge guitar solo. The sounds are clean and well recorded. The flip side of that is, again, it's all a bit predictable. It totally works, but I would love to hear you push some of the production ideas a little bit.
PERFORMANCE: What can I say, it's solid as a rock, but..are we seeing a pattern develop here? I'd like to hear something more than just playing the parts. It's clear that you can do that, so now it's time to add some real subtlety and dynamics to the performances. I hear a lot of Buddy Miller in your voice and writing, and if I were a betting man I'd bet you know that already. Give any of his records a close listen and I think you'll hear the kind thing I'm talking about. It's hard to put into words, it's just a certain thoughtful touch, but you're clearly at the point where the next step is examining things on that level- pushing yourself to go beyond the obvious take on a part and making it more personal and unique.
CONCEPT: The loss of small town america is prevalent here again, though in more general terms, as pertaining to the image in question, than I'd like to hear. You're capturing a basic essence of the photo, but drawing more from its specifics would help in this category.
Ominous Ride - Waiting For Julietta - FINAL SCORE: 23/40
COMPOSITION: Fun tune with a real vibe to it, kind of feels like brit-pop in the old west. The central melody, while a bit monotone, works and digs its heels in deep. What I'm missing from it is a real hook in the chorus that I can grab onto. Changing the lyrics with each instance of the chorus makes it a bit more difficult to find something that stays with me after the song is over. Also, some more harmonic variation would be nice. If I'm not getting a solid singalong chorus, I might like a bit more color in the changes to keep my ears fresh all the way through. A bridge could also help with this issue.
Lyrically, some of the rhymes feel a little forced (Station/Validation, Window/Limbo) and I'm not sure what lines like "Rusted sign that says to crawl" are supposed to mean. It seems like concern for fitting into the rhyming meter you've established has taken precedence over delivering your message in a thoughtful way. The line "Whiskey led to conversation, flirting to infatuation" is a great example of what you should be striving for. It has solid rhymes, specific imagery, and emotional thrust. Let that be your benchmark.
PRODUCTION: Getting the job done but your guitars and vocals are a little thin, and the snare drum gets a little lost in the mix at points, as if your compression settings are squeezing it too hard at points, while the kick is a little too upfront. Overall it would be nice to hear a warmer sound and be careful not to over compress.
PERFORMANCE: Vocals are solid, but the rhythmic playing of the band is definitely a bit wonky. Zero in on your downbeats and make sure all the instruments are hitting together, especially your bass guitar and kick drum. You can't underestimate how important groove is, and locking in the rhythm section would improve the experience of listening to the song dramatically. I would suggest simplifying some of the parts when the whole band is going and focusing on getting that groove happening.
CONCEPT: I like how you've created this whole story that takes place specifically at the location in the photo. It's not just a passing mention, but the centerpiece. I could even see you taking it further, instead of having the initial interaction with Julietta at "a booth", wherever that is, make it at the station, too, and incorporate some more details from the photo. She has to leave, and then you're stuck there waiting for her. But what you have works.


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"Inflation's Back
Double-digit price rises are about to afflict two-thirds of the world's population
RONALD REAGAN once described inflation as being 'as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit-man.' Until recently, central bankers thought that this thug had been locked up for life. Thanks to sound monetary policies, inflation worldwide had stayed low in recent years. But the mugger is back on the prowl.
Even though America is close to recession and growth in other developed economies has slowed, inflation is rising. Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, this week gave warning about the mistakes of the 1970s, when inflation was let loose at huge cost to growth. His words were aimed at rich-country central banks, but policymakers in emerging economies are the ones who should most take heed. In countries such as China, India, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia even the often dodgy official statistics show prices have risen by 8-10% over the past year; in Russia the rate is over 14%; in Argentina the true figure is 23% and in Venezuela it is 29%. If you measure the numbers correctly, two-thirds of the world's population will probably suffer double-digit rates of inflation this summer (see article).
A 1970s reunion you really don't want to attend
Taken as a whole (and using official figures), the average world inflation rate has risen to 5.5%, its highest since 1999. The main cause has been the surge in the prices of food and oil, which briefly soared above $135 a barrel this week. But Mr Trichet's concern is that higher headline rates could push up inflation expectations, leading to bigger pay demands, and so trigger a wage-price spiral, as in the 1970s. Central bankers' mistake then was to hold monetary policy too loose, so that higher oil prices quickly fed into other prices. So it is worrying that global monetary policy is now at its loosest since the 1970s: the average world real interest rate is negative.
By slashing interest rates as inflation has climbed, has the Fed sowed the seeds of a new inflationary era?"
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ZEN MARTIAL ARTS, SACRAMENTO, CA - Willie Barnett knows the pain of being bullied. The 9-year-old West Sacramento boy said, "I got shoved to the ground, choked by my sweater, got accused of bad words, kicked and punched in the stomach."
Frustrated by what she called a lack of response from school administration, Stacey Barnett moved her son to a smaller charter school. When martial arts instructor Mike Oliver saw News10's story on Willie in March, he contacted News10 and offered to help the boy with a scholarship to karate classes.
"I saw Willie's story on Channel 10 and was moved by it," said Oliver. "I was bullied as a kid and also experienced similar things. I wanted to make sure kids like him and all kids really have the tools that they need to deal with bullies properly."
Along with the physical moves, Willie and the other youngsters in his class are learning verbal judo: language techniques to try and diffuse a tense situation.
Barnett said her son is like a totally different child, and even notices a big change in his academics. "It's completely changed him," she said. "He's not so worried about being hurt or bullied."
Oliver said his students are transformed through martial arts and other training at the Zen Martial Arts Center. "By the time it's done, they're walking like their favorite heroes, walking like Superman and feeling good about themselves," Oliver said.
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TreePath is like XPath but more general. It can be adapted to any tree
data structure. As in XPath, a tree path expression consists of a
number of steps --
<step1> <step2> <step3>
. Each step selects a set of candidates nodes in the context of the
candidates from the preceding step, the initial context being some
node, usually the root, offered as an inital parameter to the
expression. Optionally, a step has predicates which filter the
candidate set. The nodes that remain after the final step are those
selected by the expression. So, for example,
would select the
child nodes under the root node and
/foo/bar[@length = 1]
would select all the
nodes that are children of
nodes under the root, but these
nodes must have a length attribute with a value of 1. The sections
below provide more examples and explain the mechanism and usage.
a / \ b foo | / | c d e | foo
a / \ b foo | / | c d e | foo
nodes under the root.
a / \ b foo | / | c d e | foo
a / \ b foo | / | c d e | foo
In order to adapt
to a particular variety of tree, you need to extend the
class. A
then makes
objects for you by compiling tree path expressions. If you give a
the some node of a tree, it will select the nodes from the tree
corresponding to your expression.
Forester<Node> f = new MyForester(); Path<Node> p = f.path('//foo/>bar[@quux xor @corge]'); List<Node> l = f.select(root);
Foresters know about your trees. In particular, they know how to find
the children and parent of a node and whether a particular string
matches its "tag" (or tags). Optionally, they may also
know what sort of nodes you'd rather ignore and what, if anything,
constitutes a unique identifier. So, for example, if your nodes are of
and have the methods
Node Node.parent()
java.util.List<Node> Node.children()
, the following class will give you a
that can handle your trees.
class MyForester extends Forester<Node> { @Override protected List<Node> children(Node n, Index<Node> i) { return n.children(); } @Override protected boolean hasTag(Node n, String tag) { return n.tag().equals(tag); } @Override protected boolean matchesTag(Node n, Pattern p) { return p.matcher(n.tag()).find(); } @Override protected Node parent(Node n, Index<Node> i) { return n.parent(); } }
If your nodes don't know their parents, you have to override another method:
@Override protected Index<Node> index(Node root) { return new ParentIndex<Node>(root, this); }
will walk the tree from
, recording the parent-child relationship.
If your nodes don't have tags, you can still use tree path expressions, but you'll have to use the wildcard (*) in place of a tag name or pattern.
Foresters are
factories: they compile path expressions into
Path<Node> p = f.path("id(foo)//bar/*[@att = 1.5][not @quux]")
Once you have a path object -- you should reuse them when possible --
you call its select method, perhaps with an
You need to provide an index if the forester
by itself cannot generate the index from whatever node you give it.
In particular, if your nodes don't know their parent and you use a
this index assumes whatever node you give it initially is the root.
If this is false, and in particularly if it is a damaging error, then
you had best generate the true index from the root and use this. Of
course, you will gain some efficiency by reusing indexes as well.
. If you do not provide an index, one will be generated.
List<Node> list1 = p.select(n1), list2 = p.select(n2, index);
An index is an object that caches information about a tree for rapid retrieval. Minimally it caches an appropriate forester and the root node. It may also cache the mapping from child to parent and unique ids to nodes. The minimal index is cheap to construct, so there is little lost in constructing a new one with every selection. If you are doing many matches against the same tree, you can get a single index for it initially using your forester.
Index<Node> i = f.index(root);
Node tests classify nodes into types -- nodes with a particular tag or whose tag matches a particular pattern, zero-width nodes, text nodes, whitespace nodes, etc. A node test has only the node itself to examine, no selection context (other than the tree index). They are used to interpret the steps, but the chief way one will interact with them while using path expressions is in defining categories of nodes to ignore.
NodeTest<Node> t = new NodeTest() { @Override public boolean passes(Node n, Index<Node> i) { return n.someTestOrOther(); } } Forester<Node> f = new MyForester(t); // now all the nodes that pass someTestOrOther are invisible
The following sections explain the theory of tree path expressions (mostly).
The following
grammar specification defines the set of valid tree path expressions.
treepath = <path> [ <s> "|" <s> <path> ]* and_cnd = <condition> [ <s> /&|(?<!\/)\band\b(?!\/)/ <s> <condition> ]+ (and_precedence) arg = <treepath> | <literal> | <num> | <attribute> | <attribute_test> | <condition> args = "(" <s> <arg> [ <s> "," <s> <arg> ]* <s> ")" attribute = <aname> [ <args> ]? attribute_test = <attribute> <s> <cmp> <s> <value> | <value> <s> <cmp> <s> <attribute> condition = <term> | <not_cnd> | <or_cnd> | <and_cnd> | <xor_cnd> | <group> first_step = [{segment} <separator>?+ <step> ] group = "(" <s> <condition> <s> ")" not_cnd = /!|(?<!\/)\bnot\b(?!\/)/ <s> <condition> (not_precedence) or_cnd = <condition> [ <s> /\|{2}|(?<!\/)\bor\b(?!\/)/ <s> <condition> ]+ path = <first_step> [ <subsequent_step> ]*+ predicate = "[" <s> [ <signed_int> | <treepath> | <attribute_test> | <condition> ] <s> "]" step = [ <full> | <abbreviated> ] [ <predicate> ]*+ subsequent_step = [{segment} <separator> <step> ] term = <attribute> | <attribute_test> | <treepath> value = <literal> | <num> | <attribute> xor_cnd = <condition> [ <s> /^|(?<!\/)\bxor\b(?!\/)/ <s> <condition> ]+ (xor_precedence) abbreviated = !-[ "//" | "/>" ] [ "." | ".." | <id> ] full = [ <axis> ]?+ <forward> num = <signed_int> | <float> axis = !-[ "//" | "/>" ] <axis_name> "::" float = /[+-]?+/ <int>?+ /\.\d++/ [ /e[+-]?+/i <int> ]?+ forward = <wildcard> | <specific> | <pattern> id = "id(" /(?:[^)\\]|\\.)++/ ")" literal = <squote> | <dquote> signed_int = /[+-]?+/ <int> aname = /@(?:[\p{L}_$]|\\.)(?:[\p{L}_$\p{N}]|[-:](?=[\p{L}_\p{N}])|\\.)*+/ axis_name = /(?>s(?>ibling(?>-or-self)?+|elf)|p(?>receding(?>-sibling)?+|arent)|leaf|following(?>-sibling)?+|descendant(?>-or-self)?+|child|ancestor(?>-or-self)?+)/ cmp = /[<>=]=?|!=/ dquote = /"(?:[^"]|\\.)*+"/ int = /\b(?:0|[1-9][0-9]*+)\b/ pattern = /~(?:[^~\\]|\\.)++~/ s = /\s*+/ separator = /\/[\/>]?/ specific = /[\p{L}_](?:[\p{L}\p{N}_]|[-:](?=[\p{L}_\p{N}])|\\.)*+/ squote = /'(?:[^']|\\.)*+'/ wildcard = "*"
This grammar contains a few conditions; e.g.,
. These conditions all govern the precedence of logical operations,
ensuring that only valid parse trees for these operations are
returned. The class that implements this grammar, including the
conditions, is
Every tree path expression is a sequence of steps. Each step begins with a collection of nodes and chooses a new set, taking each node in the context set and selecting a new set and filtering it. For example, a step might take a particular context node, select all its children, and then filter these down to those with a particular tag or those with a particular index -- a single node. Some examples:
tag, then filter these down to those whose
property has the value "bar".
tag, then drop the first 3, then filter the remainder down to those
property has the value "bar".
A step consists of a separator --
, or
--, a node type -- e.g.,
--, and zero or more predicates.
, otherwise it is
, the expression
would select the
element immediately under the root but not the nested element -- the
latter element is screened from the root by the first.
This separator is unique to tree path expressions. I have included it because I often find myself wanting to define this sort of path for a tree.
The latter two separator types cannot be followed by an explicit axis specification. The last cannot be followed by the wildcard node type.
Node type expressions select an initial candidate set of nodes. There
are three varieties, all defined relative to a node's
"tag" or tags. A node's tag, in turn, is simply a string
type label. Unlike in XPath, tree path expressions do not assume a
node has a single tag, or any tag, though in the latter case
expressions will be less efficient and one cannot use the
/a //foo />bar corge ...
Literal node type expressions require that a selected node have precisely the type specified.
/~a~ //~foo~ />~bar~ ~corge~ ...
Pattern node type expressions require only that the pattern -- the bit between the tildes -- match some part of one of the node's tags. The pattern must compile into a Java regular expression or an error will be thrown when the path is compiled.
/* //* *
The wildcard node type expression matches every node.
Each step has an implicit or explicit axis -- a set of candidate nodes
chosen by their graphical relationship to a context node. The default
axis is
-- all the children of the context node. If the separator preceding
the current step is
, the understood axis is
, if it's the first step in the path) . For a thorough understanding
of axes try Googling "axis xpath". For the most part, the concepts are
the same. There are some differences in the axes available in tree
path expressions, however. Most importantly, tree path expressions
provide a
axis, which is the list of nodes at or under the context node that
have no children.
for the full list of axes.
Predicates are filters which take a candidate set and eliminate nodes
that fail to pass some test. A step may have zero or more predicates.
A predicate is a function from a node and the other nodes it was
selected with given a particular context node to the values
. If it evaluates to
, the node is retained, otherwise it is discarded. As in XPath,
predicate expressions are always enclosed in square brackets.
/a[0] //a[1] />a[2] a[3] ...
Indices are the simplest predicate. They simply pick the node with the
appropriate index from the collection being evaluated. NOTE:
the index is zero-based, unlike in XPath. Why? Because I find
one always uses these path expressions while programming in a language
that uses zero-based indices, and switching back and forth is
confusing, particularly since, unlike in SQL, the formalism *looks*
the same in the expression language and the programming language. In
picks the first element in the
array, so one expects
to be the expression that picks the first
node immediately under the context node. Also note that
is going to pick
nodes that are the first node of that type immediately under some
node -- that is, it will not pick the first such node. The collection
selected from is that picked by one of the context nodes selected by
the preceding step, not the collection of all nodes selected by all
the context nodes together.
One may use negative indices in tree path expressions. If you add a negative index to the size of the collection indexed you get the corresponding positive index, so -1 is the index of the last node in the collection, -2, the index of the second to last node, and so forth. For example in
a /|\ c d e
we have the following correspondences:
a /|\ c d e /a/*[0] or /a/*[-3] a /|\ c d e /a/*[1] or /a/*[-2] a /|\ c d e /a/*[2] or /a/*[-1]
If you overshoot the end of the collection in either direction you simply get no nodes.
/a[foo] //a[//bar] />a[sibling::quux | ancestor::corge] a[/>nef[2]] ...
Evaluates to true if the collection of nodes it selects is not empty.
For the XML document
, the path
will select the root node but
will select nothing.
/a[@foo] //a[@bar(1)] />a[@quux(//corge, @true)] a[@nef('a', 3, -1.5)] ...
Attributes are described in more detail below, but briefly, they are functions from candidate nodes, and perhaps other parameters, to values. The following values all evaluate to false:
Everything else evaluates to
/a[@foo = @bar] //a[@bar(1) < 2] />a[@quux(//corge, @true) > 'mim'] a[@nef('a', 3, -1.5) == @pick(//twee, 0)] ...
Attribute tests allow you to override the default boolean
interpretation of attributes.And note that
there must be an attribute on one or the other side of the operator
in a test.
//a[1 < 2] and
//a[foo = bar]
and the like will not parse as tree path expressions. However, one
can convert anything into an attribute with the
attribute, so this in the end is no limitation. In general there is
little value in predicates like
[@echo(1) < 2] that
evaluate the same way for all nodes, but
@echo lets you
construct them.
Attribute tests always involve a pair of expressions separated by an
operator. The available operators are
; collections use equality of cardinality; numbers use equality of
but requiring the opposite order.
but also returning true if the two arguments cannot be sorted.
but also returning true if the two arguments cannot be sorted.
/a[@foo or @bar] //a[not />corge[3]] />a[@quux != 3 ^ @nef] a[not @foo and (//bar or @chuzzle > 1)] ...
All the other predicate types aside from index predicatesOne can use the
@index attribute to
duplicate the functionality of index predicates with attributes.
is equivalent to
//a[@index = 0].
can be combined with boolean operators.
//a[b | c] will
parse to a different path from
//a[b || c]. In this
case, the two paths are logically equivalent -- both select
nodes that have either
b or
c nodes as
children, though the first collects all such nodes into one pool
whereas the other collects them into two and returns true if either
pool is non-empty. But consider
//a[b | c & d]
//a[b || c & d]. The first will be
equivalent to
//a[(b | c) & d] whereas the second
will be equivalent to
//a[b || (c & d)].
I have provided both concise and long versions of all the operators to suit varying tastes, but I tend to use the long operators myself to prevent confusion.
In tree path attributes are functions that return some property of a
node in a selection context. For example, there might be an attribute
that returns the tag value of a node, or
that returns its index in the candidate list it is found inThis is not to say that internally candidate sets
are always instances of
java.util.List. Rather, they are
collections that maintain the order of node discovery. The index of
an item in such a collection is just the number of times one must
iterate over the candidate collection to find it, counting the first
iteration as iteration 0.
Attributes are implemented as methods in some
with a particular signature and bearing the
anotation. For example, here is the implementation of the
@Attribute(description = "converts anything into an attribute") protected final Object echo(N n, Collection<N> c, Index<N> i, Object o) { return o; }
The first three parameters in the method signature are required. The rest can be whatever you want them to be, though they must correspond to one of the types understood by path expressions. Here is the relevant line from the grammar:
arg = <treepath> | <literal> | <num> | <attribute> | <attribute_test> | <condition>
Tree path expressions correspond to a
of nodes; literals -- single- or double-quoted strings --, to
; nums to
, or just
; attributes to arbitrary objects; and attribute tests and conditions,
. You can use primitive types in lieu of
and so forth. You may also use variadic methods. For example, here is
the implementation of the
@Attribute(description = "records parameters to a log stream") protected final Boolean log(N n, Collection<N> c, Index<N> i, Object... msg) { for (Object o : msg) loggingStream.println(o); return Boolean.TRUE; }
Attributes are discovered by reflection, which is complicated code to write and inefficient but gives us incredible flexibility. All attributes in a forester's inheritance tree will be discovered aside from private attributes, and these won't be found even in the terminal class. I could handle accessibility modifiers differently, and perhaps I will in the future, but for now this is how things work. The reflective code gathers attributes the first time an instance of the class is created. This reduces the reflection overhead. Some checking of method signatures is done at this time, but it's best to create unit tests for any attributes you define. Type erasure limits the extensiveness of the signature checking ()as does my laziness).
The base
class provides a small number of attributes to all extensions:
, by default.
is the
of the second child of the first child of the root node.
@pick(/*, 0)
will return the first child of the root node.
selects 3 nodes, then
will return 3.
//foo/bar[@index = 1]
will select the same nodes as
will return 1. This attribute is chiefly useful as a wrapper to
convert anything into an attribute that can be used in an attribute
//*[@leaf & @tsize = 1]
is equivalent to
, while
//*[@leaf & @tsize = 2]
will always return an empty collection.
//*[@leaf & @width = 1]
is equivalent to
, while
//*[@leaf & @width = 2]
will always return an empty collection.
//*[@root & @depth = 0]
is equivalent to
(which is equivalent to the more efficient expression
) , while
//*[@root & @depth > 0]
will always return an empty collection.
of a leaf is 1. The height of
a / \ b foo | / | c d e | foois 4.
class is a library of additional attributes, many of them copied from
XPath. A forester that extends
, for instance, gets access to all these attributes.
An attribute is created by annotating a method in a
with the
annotation, optionally providing a name and/or a description.
@Attribute String foo(Node n, Collection<Node> c, Index<Node> i) { return "foo"; } @Attribute("short") String reallyReallyLongMethodName(Node n, Collection<Node> c, Index<Node> i, int j) { return "short" + j; } @Attribute(value = "longer", description = "has a longer name than short") String alsoLong(Node n, Collection<Node> c, Index<Node> i, String... bar) { StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder(); for (String s: bar) b.append(s); return b.toString(); } @Attribute(description = "a roundabout way of putting a number into an expression") Number num(Node n, Collection<Node> c, Index<Node> i, Number num) { return num; }
parameter is useful to avoid namespace collisions, use Java keywords
as attribute names, and dodge Java naming conventions. If no
parameter is given the attribute name will be the method name.
provides a bit of metadata about the attribute. This is visible in the
code and javadocs, where it is largely redundant, but it is also
exposed through the
method. The latter returns an alphabetized map from the names of
attributes available to the forester to two-member arrays of
meta-data: the attribute description and an abbreviated description of
the corresponding method signature. The main method of
uses this method to summarize all the attributes available to that
public static void main(String[] args) { int length = 0; for (String s : MatchPath.standard().attributes().keySet()) length = Math.max(length, s.length()); String format = "@%-" + length + "s : %s%n%" + length + "s %s%n"; for (Entry<String, String[]> e : MatchPath.standard().attributes() .entrySet()) { System.out.printf(format, e.getKey(), e.getValue()[0], "", e.getValue()[1]); } }returns
@assertion : whether node is an assertion public boolean dfh.treepath.MatchPath.assertion(...) @depth : the number of steps between node and root protected int dfh.treepath.Forester.depth(...) @echo : converts anything into an attribute protected final Object dfh.treepath.Forester.echo(...,Object) @explicit : whether the rule generating this node is explicitly defined public boolean dfh.treepath.MatchPath.explicit(...) @false : the false value protected final Boolean dfh.treepath.Forester.False(...) @group : group matched public String dfh.treepath.MatchPath.group(...) @height : the longest path between node and a leaf; 1 if node is a leaf protected int dfh.treepath.Forester.height(...) @id : the nodes string id, if any protected String dfh.treepath.Forester.id(...) @index : the index of the context node in the context collection protected int dfh.treepath.Forester.index(...) @label : rule generating match public String dfh.treepath.MatchPath.label(...) @leaf : whether the context node is a leaf protected boolean dfh.treepath.Forester.isLeaf(...) @length : length of group matched public int dfh.treepath.MatchPath.length(...) @log : records parameters to a log stream protected final Boolean dfh.treepath.Forester.log(...,Object[]) @m:abs : absolute value protected Number dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.abs(...,Number) @m:ceil : round up protected Number dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.ceil(...,Number) @m:floor : round down protected Number dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.floor(...,Number) @m:int : integral portion protected Integer dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.integralPortion(...,Number) @m:max : maximum value protected Number dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.max(...,Number[]) @m:min : minimum value protected Number dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.min(...,Number[]) @m:prod : product of values protected Double dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.product(...,Number[]) @m:round : round to nearest whole number protected Number dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.round(...,Number) @m:sum : sum of values protected Double dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.sum(...,Number[]) @null : the null value protected final Object dfh.treepath.Forester.Null(...) @pick : picks a node from a collection protected final Object dfh.treepath.Forester.pick(...,java.util.Collection,int) @root : whether the node is root protected boolean dfh.treepath.Forester.isRoot(...) @s:cmp : compare string order protected Integer dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.compare(...,String,String) @s:concat : string concatenating items protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.concatenate(...,Object[]) @s:contains : whether the string contains a particular infix protected boolean dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.contains(...,String,String) @s:ends-with : whether the string parameter has a particular suffix protected boolean dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.endsWith(...,String,String) @s:find : look for pattern in string protected boolean dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.find(...,String,String) @s:index : the index of an infix in the string protected int dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.index(...,String,String) @s:join : concatenate items with separator protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.join(...,Object,Object[]) @s:lc : lowercase protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.lowercase(...,String) @s:len : string length protected Integer dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.length(...,String) @s:looking-at : match prefix protected boolean dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.lookingAt(...,String,String) @s:matches : whether the string parameter matches a pattern protected boolean dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.matches(...,String,String) @s:nspace : normalize whitespace protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.normalizeWhitespace(...,String) @s:replace : replace all occurrences of infix protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.replace(...,String,String,String) @s:replace-all : replace all occurrences of pattern protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.replaceAll(...,String,String,String) @s:replace-first : replace first occurrence of pattern protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.replaceFirst(...,String,String,String) @s:starts-with : whether the string parameters as a particular prefix protected boolean dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.startsWith(...,String,String) @s:substr : select substring protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.substring(...,String,Integer[]) @s:trim : trim whitespace protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.trim(...,String) @s:uc : uppercase protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.uppercase(...,String) @s:ucfirst : capitalize only first letter protected String dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.ucFirst(...,String) @size : the size of the node collection protected int dfh.treepath.Forester.size(...,java.util.Collection) @this : the context node protected final Object dfh.treepath.Forester.This(...) @true : the true value protected final Boolean dfh.treepath.Forester.True(...) @tsize : the size in nodes of the tree rooted at node protected int dfh.treepath.Forester.tsize(...) @u:def : whether the parameter value is non-null protected final Boolean dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.defined(...,Object) @u:millis : current time in milliseconds protected Long dfh.treepath.FunctionalForester.millis(...) @uid : unique id of context node representing its position in its tree protected final String dfh.treepath.Forester.uid(...) @width : the number of leaves under node; 1 if node is a leaf protected int dfh.treepath.Forester.width(...) @zero : whether node is zero-width public boolean dfh.treepath.MatchPath.zero(...)
The ellipsis represents arguments you do not provide in tree path expressions. A final array represents a varargs argument.Rationale
The rationale behind the
method and the
parameter of
that feeds it is just that attributes are not easily discovered in
javadocs or code, particularly when they may be added ad hoc, but they
are particularly important to tree path expressions. So I made
attributes self-documenting.
If you wish to define a particular attribute you can add it to an anonymous inner class:
Forester<N> f = new MyForester() { @Attribute boolean foo(N n, Collection<N> c, Index<N> i) { return bar(n) > quux(n); } }; Path<N> p = f.path(//*[@foo]);
This is useful mostly for rapid exploratory hacks. Once you find something that works, you can move your ad hoc attributes into your forester class or an extension.
The typical way to provide attributes to an extension of tree path is
to implement them in a class extending
. This isn't done for any principled reason arising from the logic of
tree path expressions, however, but because Java's implementation of
inheritance and reflection make this easy. It would be more natural to
put attributes into libraries and load them into a Forester class as
needed. This mixin structure and Java are an uncomfortable fit, but I
have implemented it as an experimental improvement of TreePath.
A library of attributes to be mixed in orthogonally to the inheritance
hierarchy must extend the class
, must be public, and must have a public zero-argument constructor.
For example:
public class TestLibrary extends AttributeLibrary<Node> { public TestLibrary() { super(); } @Attribute String foo(Node e, Collection<Node> c, Index<Node> i) { return "foo"; } }
To load the attributes provided by this library in a class, you call
Forester.mixin(Class<? extends
. You can load libraries in at any time, but if you want the new
attributes to persist through serialization it is recommended that you
add them in by overriding the
method like so:
@Override protected void init() { if (attributes == null) { super.init(); mixin(Library1.class, Library2.class); } }
Note that this method can be used only to supplement the attributes
obtained from the class hierarchy. If
provides attribute
and we try to mix an identically named method in from a library, the
will win out.
The only dependency of this library is my
library, which has no dependencies.
All the classes in this library are thread safe.
All the classes in this library aside from
are serializable, though you have to take care if you use mixins.
I use my grammar library,
, a lot. Generally when I match something with a grammar I'm not
satisfied simply to know a match is possible, what was matched, or
where the match starts and ends: I want the entire parse tree, and
given the tree, I want to find particular parts and do things with
them. If I'm parsing a date, I want to find the year part and the
month part and so on. If I'm parsing an email address, I want to
separate the user name from the domain and I want to know the
subdomains. For many purposes the methods provided by the match object
itself suffice, but often enough I found myself writing the same sort
of picky code that basically drilled down a particular path in a
particular sort of parse tree. If this were XML I'd use XPath. If it
were HTML I'd use CSS (or perhaps XPath after converting it to XHTML).
So I thought I'd make something like XPath for my parse trees. I
didn't want it to be precisely the same as XML, however, because my
parse trees weren't precisely like XML trees. The notion of
"attribute" wasn't native to the problem, nor were
namespaces. While I was thinking about this it occurred to me that I
could make a generic library that could handle any sort of tree,
adapting the attribute idea to represent callbacks.
Having started along this path, I figured I would add features to the
expression language that I often wanted: an easy way to obtain leaves
or nodes near to a particular node but not screened from it by other
nodes of the same type -- what the
expression represents. I found I could make it trivial to adapt the
library to a new sort of tree and trivial to add attributes, both of
which were very nice. So here we are.
I may add mathematical expressions to the things that can occur in predicates.
If I find the time I might implement the tree path specification in other languages, starting with Perl. I find this useful. I'd like someone else to as well. If I make it available to someone who prefers to work in another language, particularly one that facilitates code sharing as Perl does, then I increase the odds that someone other than myself will use it.


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You will also be given the latest information on how Facebook is chanigng this year, and what you must do if you want to still be found by your customers once these changes take place. (Instagram is also due to change later in the year).
The workshop will be from 9.30 - 12.30pm and free tea and coffee will be provided, but please feel free to bring anything else you feel you might need to sustain you throughout the morning. There is free parking onsite which is accessed via Windmill Street as well as free street parking. Our suite can be found on the bottom carpark to the right of the Citibase access.
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Read my March 2010 interview with Jenny Luray about the Susan B. Komen's international work battling cancer.
Can you talk about how breast cancer affects women across the globe?
In too many countries today, ignorance, fear and hopelessness still prevail, and women still have little or no access to care. Countries and cultures look the other way and women are dying needlessly. This year, cancer is projected to overtake heart disease as the worlds leading killer. Its far more devastating than we think because there is no accurate picture of its impact. In fact, thirty countries have no cancer registry. Less than 5% of the cancers in the Africa are counted by public health officials.
How did Nancy Brinker come to found Susan G. Komen for the Cure?
Thirty years ago, Nancy promised her dying sister, Suzy, that she would do all she could to end breast cancer. In those days in the U.S., people discussed the disease in whispers. Ignorance, fear and hopelessness prevailed. There was little access to screening and a diagnosis was almost a death sentence.
What policies would you like to see implemented in both the developed and developing world to address breast cancer?
First, we need global leaders to acknowledge that breast cancer and cancer overall is a crisis that we must address. Something is wrong when the deadliest disease on earth isnt mentioned in the public health reports of many countries, when cancer is hidden away in the category of other diseases as it is in the UN Millennium Development Goals. In the developed world, we continue to have enormous challenges as well. 100 days ago, a U.S. task force questioned the benefits of breast cancer screening. Women were confused and outraged and already, were seeing states deny poor women access to screening programs which save lives.
Are we doing enough to prevent breast cancer, and for that matter, other cancers?
Definitely not. Forty percent of all cancers are preventable, but were still losing ground. Tobacco use among girls aged 13-15 worldwide is increasing and smoking among women is on the rise in many parts of the world.
What more should we be doing?
Komen is starting a new global push involving governments, non-governmental organizations, academia and the private sector. For example, we are convening a special session at the G-8 of health and finance ministers to discuss not only the public health impact of cancer but the economic impact as well. We want to partner with other global disease movements to leverage existing resources. We will build an international advocacy movement to keep pushing us forward. In the U.S., we are continuing to push for better access to breast cancer screening services because 1/3 of women who should be screened are not. We are also working hard to make sure that health care reform includes better, more equitable insurance coverage for women with breast cancer.
Can you give us some good examples of successful programs and advocacy efforts in this arena?
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Have you ever noticed that as our society moves forward, and technology advances that we are faced with an overwhelming amount of choices? The internet alone has opened up a whole wide world of choices for anything we want to purchase or do, right in our living rooms. This of course is a great invention and one that most of us can not even imagine living without; it's the reason you are able to read this post. But sometimes having an amazingly large number of choices available to us makes life much more complex.
I've been pondering this issue in my own life, and asking myself this question. "How do I know if I am making the right decisions when it comes to choices that will direct and define my life?" It's easy to discern the correct choice when it's just a matter of right and wrong: truth vs. lie, honesty vs. cheating, peace vs. violence. But we mostly face choices between seemingly good things. Should we take job A or job B, date Mike or Tom, or attend Central University or State University? Neither choice would be wrong, but is there one that would be better and how do we get it right?
There are many great choices out there, but they aren't all right for us. What is good for the goose isn't always good for the gander, because God has specific plans for each of us. Look at Romans 12:2:
" Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect."
You will not be short of other people's advice, and of course you should consider sound counsel. But the point of the passage is that we shouldn't make a decision based solely on what others have done or think we should do. We have to do what is right for us and the best way to find that out is to include God in the decision making. There are so many scriptures where God says He will lead us if we let him. On our own we can certainly make good choices, but when we get God involved our choices go from good to BEST!
Proverbs 3:5-6: Trust the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths smooth.


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Hey! English major here also. I've always loved music. Played various band instruments (not well). For me, also, the uke was a perfect excuse to sing songs that I have enjoyed throughout the many decades of my life and continue exploring new music. I don't sing well, but I think I'm a little above God-awful and I certainly enjoy it. I don't think I'll ever be a real picker, though I am working on a simple chord/melody version of "Europa" by Santana. If I'm always just a strummer though, that will be fine. It gives me a perfectly good excuse to sing my fool head off.
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Les Ailes Du Madawaska will be hosting their annual "Eastern Canada Fun Fly" at the Edmundston municipal airport on August 23, 24 & 25th.
It's the perfect meeting place for hobbyists and pilots. Airplanes, Jets and Helicopters are welcome. Free flight day on Friday the 23, and Fun Fly open to the public on the 24 and 25th. Concessions, hangar for night storage (with electricity).
Camping on site with no services. Motels and Provincial Camping at less than 10km.
The airport is located on side of the Trans Canada hwy #2 at the Quebec / New-Brunswick Border.
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Sister Psychosis
"Stay together… Slay together!"
Directors: Pete Jacelone & Michael L. Raso / Writers: Pete Jacelone & James L. Edwards / Cast: Theresa Lynn, J.J. North, Anthony Bruno, Mac Winslow, John Knox, Nancy Alison, Edward Burrows, Michael Devin, Stacy Mathewson, Matthew Fisher.
Body Count: 28
Dire-logue 1: "These bikers have been killing all these kids and sacrificing their dorks to some kind of penis god!"
Dire-logue 2: "Just because I hate men does not mean I wanna munch carpet!"
A man confesses to his Mrs that he once raped somebody so she shoots him and then cuts off his dick before turning the gun on herself.
Their three daughters, Jane, Jackie and Janice, are later gang raped and Janice is killed by one of the assailants, sending her older sisters off to the asylum for X years.
Jane and Jackie are eventually released and pass their time by kidnapping and killing college-age boys and keeping their cocks in jars in a cupboard. All goes well until Jackie begins to develop feelings for some of the captives and, under the advice of the ghost of Janice, decides to give a chance to nice guy Todd, who she meets at the sperm bank where a sign reads: "We're glad you came."
Jane is less than happy about this and will do anything to ensure that the sisters who stay together, slay together. Meanwhile, local cops trying to solve the College Boy Slasher case (which, at the beginning of the film has amassed 35 victims!) and a group of greasy bikers are out to avenge the deaths of two of their own.
Psycho Sisters is a rubbish film. Really, it sucks some big castrated cock – but I think it knows that. At the beginning I went in under the assumption-slash-fear that it was going to play it straight or attempt to make me laugh with crap Scary Movie-level comedy. Fortunately, it soon became an amusing so-bad-its-good film with the genuinely amusing moments, such as Jane abusing a neighbour who is aroused by being beaten by a woman ("what the hell is wrong with you!?") and a scene where the girls can't decide what weapon to pull out of Jane's handbag to off a couple of horny bikers.
There's a hack reporter who keeps calling the cops to inform them that they've solved the case and it's the ghost of a sitcom character and Jane's attempts to get the attention of a victim who can't hear her are also pretty funny. Meanwhile, the bodycount goes ballistic, with a huge shootout between bikers and cops at the end and a foreseeable but fun twist ending.
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Recently EA Mythic released new media showcasing a zone called The Bastion Stair. Brand new screenshots and a movie can be seen below, I must say this place looks pretty cool and the lore behind it makes me even more curious, this is a place I will explore with my friends for sure.
The foul winds whipping across the Chaos Wastes carry with them a faint charnel scent and tortured screams. Those who in their madness or lust for power follow the winds to their source will eventually come to the horned gate of the Bastion Stair, and gaze at last upon the insane creation of a violent god.
Erected by the malicious will of the Lord of Skulls, the Bastion Stair towers over a twisted and torn landscape, walls stained red with the blood of countless sacrifices. Stairs never meant for human feet climb toward burning skies where the vague outline of the Bastion itself can barely be seen, and beyond, the faint flickering light of the Rift of Rage. For it is the rift itself which draws both Order and Destruction to this place, a source of Chaos power with which the servants of Tzeentch could remake the world in the twisted image of their dark god... if the defenders of the Empire cannot find some way to close the portal first.
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I can't watch anythingPosted: December 22, 2010 Filed under: Thoughts Leave a comment
I have a real problem watching things.
I've seen a lot of films, probably more than you unless you're a real afficionado. It comes with the territory of having an older brother who consumes them like you or I consume Pringles. If he can't think of anything to watch, he will simply watch one again. This is something I can't fathom.
I've never really watched tv, but with the advent of DVD boxsets and *cough* digital distribution, I've powered my way through a couple of shows over the past five years. The Sopranos, The X Files, That 70s Show, Friends, The Simpsons, Breaking Bad, The Wire, Entourage, House, Futurama, South Park… that's a whole lotta watchin'. I didn't even finish most of them (I didn't even like Entourage that much), and yet I still want to watch Star Trek: The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica, Boardwalk Empire and The West Wing from start to finish. Where does it end?
I'm so spoiled for choice, in fact, that I haven't really thrown myself into a movie or tv show properly in a year, with the exception of House. I've got thousands of hours of high-quality entertainment at my fingertips, just waiting to be enjoyed, dissected and made fun of, yet I seem to spend my leisure time looking up dogs on Youtube. Cats are neither funny nor cute, and thus can go fuck themselves.
It doesn't stop with things you can watch either. My CD collection is at least over 100 albums strong, with more downloaded. Spotify, Youtube, Myspace and Bandcamp have opened up whatever I can't be bothered downloading or buying. I'd rather just stick "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel on in the background.
I bought Okami, Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XII the other day because it was only a tenner for all three. That's at least 100 hours of the finest entertainment the old warhorse PS2 has to offer. Fallout 3 remains unexplored. I grabbed a copy of Split/Second months and months ago, and my friend completed it 100%. I didn't even start it. I've got about 30 games for my DS. The only one I've finished recently? Trauma Centre, and I'd already completed that 3 years ago. That's right, I replayed it rather than try something new.
What the hell is wrong with me?


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One of Ron's major accomplishments recognized by Unilever was with coupon deductions. Ron and his department reduced deductions by several million dollars while maintaining excellent trade relations. In 1996, RPR introduced this service to Ocean Spray. Some of our other larger clients have been Kimberly-Clark, S.C. Johnson, and Gerber. For most of our clients, we have collected considerably more than we charged.
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Twin Pines Golf Course is an 18-hole regulation length golf course in Russellville, Alabama. This short layout has adequate length for a regulation course. Wide fairways and not too difficult approach shots and greens await golfers looking for low scores here. Online tee times may be available at Twin Pines Golf Course or at nearby golf courses, often at a substantial discount from the going green fees rate.
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text: David Draper - September 25, 2018 Can-Am Outlander: New ATVs for Every Season Can-Am's Outlander series of ATVs are made to be rugged and powerful, and this year's models are no different The Outlander Mossy Oak Hunting Edition 1000R houses a powerful 976cc V-twin engine, winch, heated grips and throttle control, and a Kolpin Gun Boot. (Photo courtesy of Wheels Afield Magazine) Among hunters, ranchers, and others who demand hardworking machines, Can-Am is probably best known for its Defender UTVs and Commander series of side-by-sides. It builds several more-than-serviceable ATVs as well, with the Outlander series best suited to meet the needs of trail riders and outdoorsmen who want to get into – and out of – the backcountry in nearly all conditions.Outlander Mossy Oak Hunting Edition 1000RFor 2018, Can-Am has introduced a 1000-series Outlander covered in Mossy Oak Break-Up Country camouflage. But the 2018 Can-Am Mossy Oak Hunting Edition 1000R is more than just an Outlander with a camo treatment. The purpose-built machine takes into account all the factors hunters want and need.An ATV is only as good as its suspension, and Mossy Oak's Outlander is off-road ready. The beefy yet maneuverable chassis is fitted with dual A-arm front suspension that offers a rock-clearing nine inches of travel and stiffer springs that won't bottom out under heavy loads. A set of 26-inch Carlisle A.C.T. HD 6-ply radials delivers increased ground clearance and a smoother ride over all types of terrain. Can-Am is well known for its Rotax engines, and the 1000R continues the tradition with a growly 976cc V-twin powerhouse. The liquid-cooled, 89-hp, 976cc unit is powerful and responsive, delivering thrust that's a bit surprising for such a big machine. It easily speeds on the straightaways and grinds up steep climbs. The blown-out Can-Am XT package includes a winch and upgraded bumpers, but the Mossy Oak Hunting Edition also offers up user-friendly controls, heated grips and throttle control, and a reinforced seat for butt-saving comfort on those long rides to the stand. Kolpin added its leading 6.0 Impact Gun Boot, which attaches via an integrated bracket. The Outlander North Edition is available in two different variations, pushing either 62-hp or 78-hp V-twin engines. (Photo courtesy of Wheels Afield Magazine) Outlander North EditionCan-Am's North Edition ATV is built for the wilds of winter, but it's just as capable all year long. The snow beast is available in either 650 or 850 series machines. The former features a 62-hp motor, while the bigger machine gets fitted with a 78-hp V-twin engine. What sets these machines apart are the creature comforts designed to make riding and working in wintry conditions not only tolerable, but also pleasurable. A high windshield screen keeps wind and snow at bay, but is easily removable when conditions improve. The grips and thumb throttle are fully heated through four different settings, while an accessory outlet lets the rider plug in to keep fog from clouding up his visor. Full mudguards protect both the machine and rider from debris. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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Briefing: Design a space based on actual trends popular for a massive public for a mayor distribution chain using their own products.
Solution: We designed a space based on one of the most popular trends at this moment, ethno chic, using furniture available in the distribution chain's catalogue. On the other hand we decided to play with another trend. That way through DIY we added a range of decorative elements that customers could make at home to personalize their interior, including a 'Do It Yourself Manual'. Adding this trend the aim of this project also was to maximize the hardware sales.


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To commemorate the Vintage and Classic Cars, Sri Lanka Post issued a set of four stamps feature the old fashioned cars on October 2011.
The Classic Cars depicted on stamps are Morris Minor 1949, Jaguar SS 100, Roll Royce 20/25, Austin 12-1928.
The Morris Minor is a British economy car which has designed under the leadership of Alec Issigonis, and more than 1.3 million were manufactured between 1948 and 1971.The Minor was manufactured in three series: the MM (1948), the Series II (1952) and finally the 1000 series (1956).
Initially available as a 2-door saloon and tourer (convertible), the range was subsequently expanded to include a 4-door saloon in 1950, and in 1952 a wood-framed estate (the Traveller), panel van and pick-up truck variants.
The Jaguar SS100 is a British 2-seat sports car built between 1936 and 1940 by SS Cars Ltd of Coventry, England. The last one is thought to have been delivered in 1941.
The SS Cars Ltd Model 100 "Jaguar" was so named as the '100' reflected the capability of the 3.5-litre model to exceed 100 mph - then a remarkable speed for a production vehicle.
The Rolls-Royce 20/25 built between 1929 and 1936 succeeded the 20 hp as Rolls-Royce's "small car". It was intended to appeal to owner drivers.
The in-line 6-cylinder overhead-valve engine was similar to that used in the 20 hp but was enlarged to 3699 cc.The larger engine allowed the top speed to increase to 75 mph (121 km/h).
The Austin 12/4 was introduced by the Austin Motor Company in 1921. It was the second of Herbert Austin's post World War I models and was in many ways a scaled-down version of the 20/4, introduced in 1919.
Initially available as a Tourer, by 1922 three body styles were offered, these being the four-seat tourer, the two/four-seated and the coupé . (Source: Wikipedia)


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Belarusian Steel Works (BMZ trademark), the managing company of the holding company Belarusian Metallurgical Company will get the remaining funds from the Belarusian centralized innovative fund to launch the production of rolled steel and build a wire-rod mill. A corresponding decree was signed by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
This document will help implement the abovementioned project, raise
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Remember the times when we were little girls and we loved looking at these cartoon characters and imagining ourselves to be them.. I particularly loved Rapunzel for her hair while Barbie's curls left me amazed every time she'd dance and her hair would unfurl like a blossom!
Even as I grew up and my mother never allowed me to keep long hair, my dreams never ceased to end. I dreamt of being a princess with those wonderful locks of hair as I tugged at my mushroom-cut hair ruefully.
Dreams don't die easily, do they? They were as strong as my hair were to be.
Finally my mum allowed me to keep my hair long when I passed 10th std.
And then started my journey with my hair as I oiled it, shampooed it, being very careful about the products. Maybe it is a teenage thing, but for me, my hair was like a gift I had to prepare for my own self.
And this is how I look today...
Well yes, like I said...My hair is really very important and thus maintaining it while experimenting it is top priority, which also means I sort of become obsessive about it.
Colored hair and highlights have recently become the hot trend and how could I leave myself behind? Thus, got brunette-red highlights done, with an ultra-cool layered haircut.
What length, which color, what products- these are fundamental questions one must constantly be aware of, in the quest of hair-care.
Hair- a thing of beauty and a matter of pride
That determines how much you love yourself
Whether a groom or a bride.
The twists in turns personified in the locks and curls
One straight strand running softly through your fingers, my love
And I know you are mine.
When I am serious, and I mean every word
Know my mood through my locks,
They'd be neat and prettily tied up.
But when I have the music pumped up high
And a naughty smile tucked between my cheeks
It is time to let my hair down.
For that perfect bridesmaid
Some occasions demand a sazzy style
With a neatly tucked bun or a pretty knot
At the back of my head
If I choose to wear a saree instead!
We don't give our hair much credit
How incomplete our lives are
without them, being our perfect partners
In every beautiful crime. Hence,
A bad hair day and our days go haywire
And luscious hair is like a dash of self-confidence.
That our hair don't matter,
We accidentally curl a strand between our fingers
And our secrets are revealed.
Every strand of hair has a story to tell
With the likes of Monroe and Madhubala
Who added spice to their expressions
When their khol-struck eyes and pouty lips
Added beats to their bouncy hair and hips.
How Megan Fox steals the show
With her luscious glow.
And when talking of highlights and colored hair,
How can one not mention J-Lo!
But one must find their beauty
in themselves and how
they make life so beautiful.
Be it with flowers, or the hint of smile
the freshly carved curls or the wild hair let free
Ah Hair! What a thing of beauty and a matter of pride!
But one must find their beauty
in themselves and how
they make life so beautiful.
Be it with flowers, or the hint of smile
the freshly carved curls or the wild hair let free
Ah Hair! What a thing of beauty and a matter of pride!
With friends who have beautiful hair and great sense of hair-styling. Above is a picture with Akanksha Dureja, a dear blogger friend who regularly nourishes her hair with mehendi that gives the texture, bounce and color in her hair.
In red is Preeti Singh, an author friend whom I fondly call Phoolwati, because of her individualistic and awesome sense of hair styling. She loves accessorizing her hair with flowers and add ons.
We even did a ramp-walk together with another author friend, Rachit Bhushan, during his book release.
Below is a picture with Rohit Sharma, an author friend with whom I have clicked in the famous Srk-Kajol pose. Who can forget the evergreen pair and the luscious black hair that webbed in the character, Raj in the movie Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge!
Where else but Indiblogger meets can you flaunt your smile and let your hair down! I love the meets and look at my gorgeous girlfriends and Vineet Ranjan, of course like the bhawra in the garden of flowers!
Interestingly, in here all of us girls are wearing different ensembles, and the hairstyles are different too. NOTHIING EXOTIC, but utterly complimenting their personalities and their beauty of course!
Whoever said that Indians cannot stylise never met us! I was wearing a suit while Jyotsna Gandhi (in the Golden-colored saree) and Preeti Singh (in lemon & green colored saree)
Another person I'd like to mention is a poet-author friend, Sujata Parashar who keeps changing her hairstyles and color often and I am in awe every time she does that!
Here, she's shortened her hair and colored it into a dark auburn which wonderfully gives shape to her face cut and looks lovely on her!
Here me and my friend Krupa Devadiga are wearing different ensembles; I am wearing a kurti and she a tee and yet we are flaunting the same hair cut. The dimples do add to the good looks though, no doubts! :)
Farewells mean Sarees, Photoshoots and most importantly, Looking Good!
A set of light curls at the ends and a bouncy bout of hair is enough to make heads turn, don't you agree? ;)
We're more than 7 billion people on this earth and each one of us is supposedly a 'Unique'. And I believe that our hair greatly emphasises upon the person that we are- everything about it, the color, the length, the way we tie them or let them loose, the way we accessorize them, everything matters and makes us a little different, and a little special in our own ways.
So,what hair are you?
WHaT's YouR HaiR-wIRe?
This post has been written as an entry under Get Your Hair Ramp-Ready, on Indiblogger in association with TRESemme .


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There is nothing quite like a line-art rabbit running frantically in two-dimensional space while avoiding musically-synchronized obstacles to really light up the crowd at Music Hack Day, as the above video demonstrates.
Robert Böhnke's homage to the Japanese cult classic PlayStation game Vib Ribbon, which he cunningly named "Vib Riboff," uses HTML5 to make a browser-based videogame out of music. His creation runs (or, rather, will run) songs stored on SoundCloud through The Echo Nest's API to find out when the rhythmic elements occur (The Echo Nest publishes Evolver.fm), which is how it knows where to place obstacles for the line-art rabbit.
The result: a mind-bending, blindingly fast game that runs entirely in the browser, that asks you to navigate obstacles in real time and rates your performance as you do so with pithy text messages below the action.
The demonstration to which Böhnke treated the crowd at Music Hack Day New York ran only one predetermined track, although it was streaming live from SoundCloud. Once Vib Riboff is ready for the public, he plans to allow users to play any track on that service within the game.
While this game offers some short-term amusement, it also shows what's possible with HTML5 and media engines like the ones available to participants at Music Hack Day. Guitar Hero this is not, but then again, the world already has one of those (actually, two, if you count Rock Band), and people already seem to be growing bored of those. However, one can easily imagine bands uploading songs into Vib Riboff or something like it, and tweeting it to their fans as a simple, addictive way to promote new singles.


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LocationSouth Austin - Buda
Buda, TX 78610
Used 2018 Heartland Road Warrior 429
Heartland Road Warrior toy hauler 429 highlights:
- Bath and a Half
- Loft
- 13' Garage
- Two Entry Doors
In this Heartland Road Warrior you can have it all, a place for your toys and gear, plus space that provides the comforts and conveniences of home! This toy hauler fifth wheel model 429 features triple slide outs and one and a half bathrooms with the half bathroom in the garage so you can easily clean up after playing outdoors. The 13' garage has plenty of room for any off-road toys that you want to bring along, and after your gear is unloaded then there is an electric bed which can be used for additional sleeping space as well as the split bench/optional bed. In the combined kitchen and living area you can relax while watching TV or enjoy a fire in the fireplace. The loft is a nice hang out place for your kids, and at night mom and dad can retreat to the private front bedroom.
Whether you are taking your off-road toys to the sand dunes or to a competition, you will want a luxury Road Warrior toy hauler! These models are available with the Road Warrior Suite Package which includes items such as hardwood cabinet doors and drawers, solid surface counter tops, LED lighting, plus an exterior stereo with HDMI and two speakers. The Ultimate Warrior Package has a heated and enclosed underbelly, a universal docking station, a rear garage screen, plus a painted fiberglass front cap and more!
Stock# P2694
Exterior Color: 20000
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|Fresh Water Capacity
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|Grey Water Capacity
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|Black Water Capacity
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|35000 btu
|Number Of Bunks
|Available Beds
|Refrigerator Type
|Stainless Steel Refrigerator
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|18 cu ft
|Convection Cooking
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|TV Info
|LR LED TV, BR LED TV, Opt. Ext. 40" TV
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Heartland Recreational Vehicles LLC, Elkhart, Ind., was founded in 2003 by a quintet of RV veterans. Their philosophy is lower numbers mean a better market and better dealers. That was one of the reasons why all of them left their previous companies to bring Heartland RV to the public.
The first product created by Heartland was a high-end fifth wheel. The LANDMARK which was aimed at extended-stay RVers who spend a lot of time in their coaches at one location was picked to create first on purpose because it was going to be the hardest to build and they wanted to prove that they could do it and do it right.
In 2006, Heartland broke ground on a new 110,000 sq. ft. production facility with a new corporate office structure attached. By the spring of 2006, Heartland had moved into the Top Ten 5th wheel manufacturers, and by the end of the year were solidly #8 with their eyes toward the #5 spot. Heartland was again poised for growth and launched the BIG COUNTRY 5th wheel and RAZOR toy hauler.


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The Riot – Episode #79on July 6, 2014 at 11:41 am
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An emotional Riot episode this week, as Big Fat John and Judo Larry M take a look back a very busy and controversial week:
- Adam Richman loses 70lbs, uses a hashtag, gets fired;
- Liberal Logic: Getting assaulted is OK, just don't rant about it using salty language;
- Questioning race issues WILL NOT be tolerated, unless you're in the minority;
- In the name of diversity, please follow these liberal talking points– or be fired;
- Anthony Cumia gets lynched by SiriusXM;
- Joan Rivers proves she doesn't give a shit what YOU think;
- Calm down feminists, no one took away your contraception;
- The first step in bringing down coerced union membership?
- Liberal outlets make up their own facts, narratives to bring down Anthony Cumia;
… and more! If you believe in freedom of expression and speech, don't miss this week's episode of the Riot!
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