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> -- DrewAdams 2012-11-27 15:06 UTC
Newbies might get the impression – as I did – that Emacs was all about functional programming because all I knew back then was C, SQL, and some weird proprietary stuff at work. We're not an encyclopedia and not the One Manual, thus we can have multiple points of view, no problem. The only difficulty is presenting them well without confusing newcomers. :) – AlexSchroeder
What is important here is to characterize functional programming (briefly) and relate those characteristics to EmacsLisp. This is about Emacs Lisp, and some of it is about Lisp as a consequence, to the extent that some things true of Emacs Lisp are true of Lisp in general, and some of those things are pertinent wrt functional programming. There is not one characteristic that I listed that is not pertinent to situating Emacs Lisp wrt functional programming.
As Alex points out, there is room for multiple views. But it is absolutely incorrect to think that Lisp is not an imperative, procedural language. That is not a matter of opinion. Lisp programmers know this.
And that holds for all Lisps, including Scheme, but with the exception of something sometimes referred to in academic papers (e.g. about program transformation or proof) as "pure Lisp", which has been neutered of all possible side-effects, which includes 'set*'
, 'put*'
, etc. "Pure" Lisp is an abstraction that no one sees in normal programming life.
It is somewhat more a matter of opinion whether Lisp should be called a functional language, that I'll grant you. That's why Wikipedia finessed the question, calling it a "functional flavored language".
It is true that there are lots of people who are not very familiar with (true) functional languages, lambda calculus, or combinatory logic, and who have the vague notion that Lisp is a functional language because of its functional appearance or the fact that 50 years ago it was the only thing even close to a functional language.
That misconception does not make it so. For 30 years now we have had real functional programming languages, and nowadays it is nothing but a misnomer to refer to Lisp the same way. Lisp is to a functional language what Mock Lisp was to Lisp: it has a similar appearance and little more.
For the record, I am a strong proponent of functional languages and declarative languages generally (have been for 30 years). I also enjoy programming in Emacs Lisp. – DrewAdams
Fair enough, then I will explain the substance problems which I've previously suggested be dealt with at Wikipedia.
In the same way that multiple opinions are welcome on this Wiki, multiple paradigms are available in the Lisps. You are getting hung up on the "true" and "pure" definitions of "functional programming" (probably because you are familiar, as you say, with recent languages that enforce it). Again, pure functional languages are "an abstraction that no one sees in normal programming life". Discussing pure functional programming is of little value here as well. Wikipedia? Maybe. I'm sure you'll agree that Lisp has imperative and procedural shortcomings as features, not as bugs. I never wrote anything here that said Emacs Lisp or even Lisp was or wasn't a functional programming language. You have, however. The name of the page is "functional programming", not "functional programming language" or "pure functional programming". However, the functional programming capabilities of modern Lisps are complete. It obviously can't be said for McCarthy?'s 1959 Lisp system nor for Emacs Lisp. ObjectOrientedProgramming? considers some languages to be pure and some not, but that would also be a rather academic exercise.
I say bring back the list of functional programming features as they apply to Emacs Lisp. Let's incorporate Alex's suggestions and I welcome Drew's corrections, but have seen none of them. – AaronHawley
I specifically mentioned that Lisp "supports multiple programming styles or paradigms, including functional". You can program in a functional style to some extent. That does not make Lisp a functional language.
Pure functional languages are not "recent" (30+ years is pretty old now as programming languages go, considering that Fortran and Lisp, the oldest, are themselves only 50 years old). Nor, unlike "pure Lisp", are they "an abstraction that no one sees in normal programming life". That someone might not be familiar with functional programming does not make them an academic exercise. They let you go beyond talking the talk (functional style) and start walking the walk (functional programming).
Discussing functional programming might, as you suggest, be of little value here. That is why I removed the page and changed the (very few) existing links to it to links to the Wikipedia page for functional programming. But you didn't allow that.
In 2011 (and for a long time now), "functional programming" means what is described at that Wikipedia page. In short, it means programming using a purely functional language – or at most programming with a not-quite-pure language such as ML (which language you know, IIUC), but avoiding side effects. That's not Lisp, I'm afraid. For someone to try to really use a Lisp as a functional language is not so trivial. You can do it, but you can also use C that way, or Prolog, or even Fortran (simulated recursion - used for things like CAD/CAM).
If we must have a FunctionalProgramming page on ThisWiki, then it should clarify the relation of EmacsLisp to functional programming (duh). And that means, first and foremost, pointing out that it is not a functional language and in what ways (how) it is not. That entails briefly listing the characteristics of a functional programming language and pointing out which of them are missing/present and to what extent.
Wrt your text:
Finally, I am fine with our removing this apparently controversial page and simply linking to Wikipedia for information about functional programming. I already tried that once as a reasonable compromise, but you simply reverted everything back to your own text, for the Nth time.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts. If you nevertheless find that your opinion trumps the characteristics of functional programming as I've laid them out here, then I propose (again) that we remove this page and simply link to Wikipedia. You can take it up with them. What we should not do is mislead people by having this page indicate that Emacs Lisp is about functional programming. It is not. At all. In fact, unlike Scheme and Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp is not even very supportive of progamming in a functional "style". – DrewAdams
Ok. So we can have a list that tries to "clarify the relation of EmacsLisp to functional programming". You suggest that some of the features aren't "a necessary characteristic of functional programming". I never did nor will I say that they do, but we can agree they are qualities which bear some significance and are worth mentioning for EmacsLisp's functional programming-ness. To use the OOP analogy again: Message passing, polymorphism, inheritance these are qualities of OOP but their existence or absence do not necessarily make or break a language's OOP-ness. – AaronHawley
Those OOP features/characteristics are not so much implementation concerns/techniques as are memoization, lexical scoping, and tail-recursion optimization.
And OOP is far fuzzier a notion that is functional programming. At some point or another nearly everything has been called "object-oriented". Not so, for functional programming features.
Anyway, I repeat my proposal that we remove this page. Any page of ThisWiki that needs to link to an explanation of FunctionalProgramming can link to Wikipedia. That is a reasonable compromise wrt our differing points of view about this. There were only a couple pages that linked here anyway. – DrewAdams.
Indeed, the OOP analogy is less than perfect.
I'm not looking for a compromise, just a simple page explaining the orientation of Emacs Lisp to functional programming. I think it's deserving such a page on the Wiki. A shorter version of the page also lends itself to emphasizing the links to Wikipedia whose material I think we both agree is more useful. – AaronHawley
(first draft removed) – AlexSchroeder
This is an improvement, especially the intro.
That "Lisp is an imperative, procedural language, like C and Fortran but unlike C and Fortran it is also an applicative language" may be true, but it unfairly equates Lisp with these languages on a page about functional programming. I'm sorry, but Lisps' functional programming abilities are not hobbled as C and Fortran's in this category. The confusing comparison doesn't even seem worth mentioning.
Further, "What makes Lisp stand out from other procedural languages is the degree to which it uses expressions that return values and the ease of higher-order programming (in particular, 'apply'
, 'funcall'
, and 'eval'
)." This is duplicative of the previous bullet, and the last part isn't even entirely true of Lisp and especially Scheme. Keep the discussion to Emacs Lisp, no? You could change the sentence to apply to Emacs Lisp rather than just Lisp, but Elisp isn't deserving a superlative on "higher-order programming".
I'd still like to see mentions of optimized tail recursion and lazy evaluation since they're relevant to Emacs Lisp.
Also, I'd like to try using Alex's suggestion about the commonly seen style used in Emacs Lisp – with its emphasis on functional programming but reliance on imperative and procedural features. – AaronHawley
(second draft removed) – AlexSchroeder
Yes, it looks fine. – AaronHawley
Sorry, but Emacs Lisp cannot usefully be written in a declarative style (whatever "style" might mean here, which is probably nothing). Emacs Lisp is simply not declarative. Yes, you can write a purely declarative, recursive definition of fibonacci or some such in Emacs Lisp, but such toys really have little to do with programming using Emacs Lisp.
If you want to say that you can write Emacs Lisp code so as to minimize side effects, then just say so. That is clear and correct.
Things are much stronger than "nothing prevents you from using imperative, procedural style". Emacs Lisp is inherently imperative and procedural. You'll be hard pressed to use Emacs Lisp much without side effects. It's simply not how it is used (usable) as a language. Telling users, especially newbies, this kind of thing is extremely misleading.
The most important thing we can tell users about the relation between Emacs Lisp and functional programming is that there isn't any. Or there is very little such relation. Word it as you like, but anything that gives a different impression, such as it's a realistic choice to program with Emacs Lisp as if in a functional language, just leads people down the garden path and sets them up for disappointment and confusion.
Our advice to Emacs Lisp newbies should be, first of all, to learn the nature of Lisp – what's particular/special about it. We should advise newbies to avoid destructive functions (esp. list-modification functions), but also avoid pretending that Emacs Lisp is functional (cascading maps, reduces, etc., creating mountains of conses)…
You simply do not program in Lisp the same way you program in Haskell (or in C, for that matter). You cannot, at the end of the day. And you should not try, at the beginning of the day. Lisp is peculiar. Users need to know about list structure and symbols etc. In Emacs they need to know about keymaps and such.
I grant you that if someone is new to Lisp and completely unfamiliar with functional programming, learning about declarative, recursive definitions, higher-order functions, and such can be an eye-opener. But that is hardly learning Lisp; it is only a first step in learning, and it is hardly typical of Lisp programming.
I'm sorry, but it is completely misguided to give the impression that Lisp is a flavor of functional language, in the sense that you program it the way you program, say, Haskell. To do that is to do users a real disservice. They deserve better.
As for how you want to word this page, I leave it up to you. – DrewAdams
I added a stronger objection and replaced the original text. – AlexSchroeder
Yes, that's true. In order to get things done in Emacs Lisp, you need to make side effects to buffers, keymaps, window configurations, association lists, text properties – in addition to assigning values to global symbols (variables).
Off topic but, I browsed the Introduction to Emacs Lisp manual and was surprised how little functional programming and "the nature of Lisp" was revealed. It presents lists, variables, functions, commands but then launches into frobbing buffers. Clearly, the emphasis was on "Emacs" and not the "Lisp". This trade-off is unfortunate but likely more practical for teaching readers how to get things done in Emacs Lisp. – AaronHawley
I just finished reading Doug Hoyte's Lisp is not functional. I am convinced. – Alex
Never heard of him. The book looks like it's just self-published on Lulu. I have nothing against Lulu, but a questionable source. I've added quotes from David Turner and Anton van Straaten. – AaronHawley
– AaronHawley 2012-11-15 23:23 UTC
Seems to me you all basically agree what Elisp is like as a language and are arguing mainly about semantics, but the semantics of something that doesn't have a universally accepted and precise definition.
In my experience, some people use "functional" loosely, to mean that a language has functions as first-class objects (which usually also implies it has useful functions like apply, map, reduce, etc.). Other people use "functional" more strictly, to mean that the language is side-effect free. The first camp often call the latter "pure functional".
I've always thought of Lisp as a functional language, and also a procedural language, but not a pure functional language. So I guess I fall into the first camp. But I have no problem with people who prefer to reserve "functional" for languages like ML and Haskell, as long as it's clear what's meant.
Doug Hoyte's argument is premised entirely on the assumption that "functional" means functions are side-effect free. That's fine in a book, where you can choose to define it that way explicitly. But a wiki like this should try to reflect common usage, not get bogged down in religious wars over definitions. The fact that there's no broad consensus about what "functional" means makes this harder. But a significant proportion of people use "functional" in a looser sense, to mean a language with first-class functions. (Otherwise Doug Hoyte wouldn't have needed to write his rant in the first place!) And those people might come looking for a discussion of functional-flavoured Elisp features on this wiki.
The current FunctionalProgramming page is terrible. Most of it is pointless evangelizing about what "functional" should mean, based largely on appeals to authority. If the page is going to be a useful addition to this wiki, it needs to get the semantics out of the way in a sentence or two (acknowledging that different people mean different things by "functional"), and then go on to explain something useful. Like some of the functional-flavoured features of Elisp which people more used to C or Fortran might not be so familiar with. Bonus points if there are examples showing how to do the same thing in both a procedural and a more functional style.
Personally, I'd delete everything except the first sentence (if necessary replacing it with links to Wikipedia and other more appropriate discussion forums for debating the definition of "functional"). Then we could put some useful content here.
Just my 2c.
– TobyCubitt 2012-11-21 12:45 UTC
Sounds good to me! :)
– AlexSchroeder 2012-11-21 12:52 UTC
Deleting all but the first sentence sounds good to me too. Alternatively, keep the first two sentences. And I agree that the appeals to authority here are silly.
But if we keep just those one or two sentences, there is perhaps even less reason to keep the page at all. I say we just delete the page and let folks google to find out about "functional programming" (and even "Emacs Lisp"). Just one opinion. Let them explore and learn in their own directions and to the extent that they are interested.
FWIW, both of the camps you mention, Tobi, refer to the purely functional languages as "purely functional." In fact, that term is used more by the purely functional camp (you have it backwards) – they are the ones who care most about the difference. The term itself was first used by those who developed such languages, to emphasize what was different (and new at the time) about them compared with what it had already been the practice to call functional languages (e.g. Lisp).
– DrewAdams 2012-11-21 14:13 UTC
Thanks Drew, I stand corrected.
I agree we could delete the whole page and not lose much at the moment. It seems like there's scope for useful content, though, if someone was prepared to take the time to write it… (This is not me volunteering ;-)
– TobyCubitt 2012-11-21 18:22 UTC
Useful content, sure. But should it be on Emacs Wiki? Perhaps the general discussion of what functional languages are and aren't should happen elsewhere. Emacs Wiki might be more appropriate when talking about "useful functions like apply, map, reduce, etc." or closures or the lack of tail recursion etc.
– AlexSchroeder 2012-11-21 19:08 UTC
I completely agree. I was proposing getting rid of the discussion about what are functional languages, and replacing it with content demonstrating the functional aspects of Elisp: e.g. using mapcar instead of a loop, what closures are useful for (now that we finally have them!), etc. Unlike a debate over the definition of "functional", I think this type of thing could be useful to people, and would be appropriate for the Emacs Wiki. But since I'm not volunteering to write it, my opinion counts accordingly :-)
– TobyCubitt 2012-11-27 10:29 UTC
FWIW, I agree with both of you.
– DrewAdams 2012-11-27 15:06 UTC


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A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, husky-voiced British actress
Samantha Bond
has an all-too-fitting surname for her onscreen career. She is most known stateside for her repeat performance as Miss Moneypenny, associate to
Pierce Brosnan
's James Bond. Her first appearance was in
1995, and she repeated the role for
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World Is Not Enough
, and
Die Another Day
. She is the fourth actress to play the small yet established super-secretary role, most notably played by
Lois Maxwell
's acting credits are predominately on the stage, however, ranging from touring companies to Broadway to London's West End. She has shared the stage and screen with veterans like
Claire Bloom
Maggie Smith
, and
David Suchet
, although she has gained more high-profile roles in her television career. Mostly appearing in British murder mysteries and thrillers, she gained a starring role as Detective Sergeant Maureen Picasso for the BBC series NCS: Manhunt.
appeared opposite
Dame Judi Dench
in the award-winning play Amy's View, and also shared a bill with her for
Die Another Day
in 2002. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi
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Bond Girls Are Forever
First screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival, the 60-minute documentary Bond Girls Are Forever made its cable TV debut a mere 16 days before the premiere of the newest James Bond theatrical feature, 2002's Die Another Day. (Coincidence? We don't think so) Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ursula Andress and Diamonds Are Forever's Jill St. John), the documentary traced the evolution of the typical James Bond heroine from decorative damsel in distress to gutsy (but still decorative) participant in the action. In addition to the provocatively named romantic partners enjoyed by the various movie Bonds over the past 40 years, the viewer is treated with the input of Judi Dench, the most recent actor to play 007's no-nonsense superior officer, M. Bond Girls Are Forever was co-produced and narrated by Maryam d'Abo, who appeared opposite Bond number four, Timothy Dalton, in The Living Daylights. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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At the turn of the century, a widow decides to set her dead husbands business back in the black column. Her efforts to get the mill going again, however, are somewhat submarined by problems with an employee who is accused of murder and her sister who has married a spoiled rich boy. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi
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Pierce Brosnan makes his fourth appearance as suave super-spy James Bond in this espionage thriller, the 20th film in the official Bond series. While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond finally wins his freedom, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job, but after Zao (Rick Yune), the North Korean operative who snared Bond, is discovered to be in cahoots with unscrupulous entrepreneur Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens), Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world. As Bond hops from England to Cuba to Korea to Iceland in pursuit of his quarry, he (as usual) makes the acquaintance of two beautiful and mysterious women, Jinx (Halle Berry) and Miranda Frost (Rosamund Pike). Judi Dench and John Cleese return in Die Another Day as, respectively, Bond's superior M and gadget-master Q; Madonna contributes the film's theme song and makes a cameo appearance as a fencing instructor. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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In this made-for-TV adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel, Emma Woodhouse (Kate Beckinsale) is a clever young woman from a wealthy family who fancies herself a matchmaker and tries to find a husband for her shy friend Harriet (Samantha Morton). However, Emma's skills in bringing romances together are not all she imagines them to be, which causes no small annoyance for Harriet. What's more, Emma's interest in the affairs of others nearly causes her to miss out on the love of her life. This adaptation of Emma was first shown in the U.S. on the A&E cable network; it followed both Douglas McGrath's acclaimed film version starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and Amy Heckerling's considerably updated variation on the story, Clueless. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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An unusually principled young Viking becomes increasing uncomfortable with all the killing and plundering that goes with the job, and sets out on a magical journey in order to bring about world peace. Former Monty Python member Terry Jones attempts to have his story of Erik's seemingly hopeless quest operate as both witty, lunatic satire and sincere children's fantasy. However, despite a good cast and some interesting design elements, the film fails to completely succeed at either of its goals. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
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Pierce Brosnan made his first appearance as James Bond in this action thriller, the 17th in the series (excluding the 1967 Casino Royale and the 1983 Never Say Never Again) featuring the suave British super-agent. As the story begins, Agent 007 and his partner, Agent 006 (Sean Bean), pull a daring raid on a chemical weapons plant in the Soviet Union; however, they are captured by Russian troops, and while Bond is able to escape, 006 is not so lucky. Several years later, the Soviet Union and the Cold War are a thing of the past, but Bond is still at work ferreting out evildoers everywhere. Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), a beautiful but vicious villain working with the Russian Mafia, spearheads the theft of the controls to GoldenEye, a high-tech satellite weapons system, and with her gunmen, she kills most of the soldiers and guards at a top-secret military facility in the process. Bond joins forces with Natalya Simonova (Izabella Scorupco), one of the base's few survivors, to help track down Onatopp's minions and the controls to GoldenEye, which can destroy all electronic circuits in a given area in a matter of seconds; however, in time, Bond discovers the true identity of the criminal mastermind who is behind this bid for unholy power and world domination -- none other than Alec Trevelyan, the man Bond once knew as 006. In addition to Brosnan, GoldenEye also marked another significant cast change for the Bond series -- Judi Dench made her debut as M, Bond's superior. Minnie Driver also has a cameo as a nightclub singer. Sadly, this was the last film in the Bond series for special-effects supervisor Derek Meddings, who died in the midst of production; the film was dedicated to him. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Coronation Street scribe John Fay pens this three-part conspiracy thriller concerning a mobile phone engineer who blames his job for giving him an inoperable brain tumor, and who becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when a drug dealer is shot dead and a mobile phone mast is destroyed. Set against the backdrop of the Iraq War, the film opens as mobile phone engineer Eddie (Neil Fitzmaurice) is diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor. Though his wife Donna (Julie Graham) and their two children vow to make his final days truly memorable, all vengeful Eddie can think about is making sure that someone pays. Eddie's efforts to track down the responsible party backfires though when a murdered drug dealer and a destroyed cell phone mast lead police to suspect that he may be responsible for a series of murders around the city. Also hungry for vengeance is broken soldier Maurice Stone (Jamie Draven), whose wife and son were killed by a driver that was talking on their cell phone. That driver has never been found, and Maurice won't rest easy until he's gotten his revenge. Later, when the identity of the hit-and-run driver is finally revealed, the true mastermind behind this mobile phone terror plot finally steps out from the shadows as a labyrinthine conspiracy slowly comes to light. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Anders Ronnow Klarlund's fantasy-action film Strings tells the tale of Hal Tara, the son of a slain ruler who sets out to settle the score with those who dispatched his father. Interestingly, all of the characters in the film are marionettes, explaining the title of the film to some degree. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
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The heir to London's Dupayne Museum has died in a suspicious fire and it's up to Commander Dalgliesh (Martin Shaw) to crack the case in this mystery based on the best-selling novel by author P.D. James. It seems that the infernal crime bears a striking resemblance to a notorious case from the Murder Room, and though Commander Dalgliesh soon begins to make headway in solving the difficult crime, the strain that the case is having on his relationship with Emma (Samantha Bond) is only exceeded by the endless hours he's been putting into the investigation. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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A five-part miniseries spanning the life of Queen Elizabeth Windsor, and featuring five actresses (Emilia Fox, Samantha Bond, Susan Jameson, Barbara Flynn, and Diana Quick) portraying the monarch through times of war and peace. Co-directors Edmund Coulthard, Patrick Reams, and Marion Milne merge docudrama-style storytelling with vintage archival footage and candid conversations with royal insiders to offer a comprehensive, and entertaining, look back at the life of her royal highness. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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James Bond, the world's greatest secret agent, is sent once more into the breach in the name of Queen, Country, and a dry martini. In the 19th Bond adventure, 007 (Pierce Brosnan) must resolve a potentially deadly power struggle between two unstable nations, with control of the world's oil supply as the ultimate prize. Bond is assigned as bodyguard to Elektra King (Sophie Marceau), the daughter of a petroleum magnate who was brutally murdered, and is trying to foil the fiendish plot of Renard (Robert Carlyle), a villain who was shot in the head with an unusual result: he cannot feel physical pain, an apparent failing that proves to be a considerable asset. Denise Richards appears as Dr. Christmas Jones, an expert on nuclear weapons, alongside Desmond Llewelyn as Q, Judi Dench as M, Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny, and John Cleese as R. Alternative rock band Garbage performs the theme song. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Roger Spottiswoode (Air America) directed this film, the 18th chapter in the 35-year-old James Bond series (excluding Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again). James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) learns billionaire media mogul Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) is manipulating world events via an exclusive flow of information through his satellite system reaching all corners of the planet. With a stealth battleship sinking a British naval vessel, Carver sees that the Chinese are blamed. Crashing Carver's party in Hamburg, Bond meets "journalist" Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh), later revealed as a Chinese agent. In a brief tryst, Bond renews his past relationship with Carver's wife Paris (Teri Hatcher). Carver dispatches Stamper (Gotz Otto) and other goons to cancel Bond, who eludes attackers with some of his new gadgets. In Southeast Asia, after Bond and Wai Lin scuba dive into the sunken British ship, they are captured by Stamper, handcuffed, and taken to Saigon where they make a motorcycle escape. To thwart Carver's plans for WWIII, the two agents head for Carver's stealth ship where a cruise missile is aimed at Beijing. Principal photography began April 1, 1997 in the new Eon Productions studio facility at Frogmore, northwest of London, and on the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios. Locations included the UK, Hamburg, Southeast Asia, Mexico, and off the Florida coast. The trademark Bond pre-title sequence was filmed in the French Pyrenees snowfields, centered around one of the few high-altitude operational airfields in Europe. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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Directed by Richard Loncraine, Wimbledon follows the plight of aspiring tennis-star Peter Colt (Paul Bettany), whose bad luck seems to manifest itself just about everywhere. Professionally, Peter is near the very bottom of the world tennis ranks, and personally, he can't find love despite his best efforts to do so. In a rare turn of events, however, Peter is chosen as a wildcard to play at Wimbledon, the tennis world's most prestigious competition. While there, he meets American tennis ingénue Lizzie Bradbury (Kirsten Dunst), and his confidence on the court and off improves tenfold as he falls further in love with her. Driven by his newfound luck, Peter climbs to the top of the tournament players at record speed, until he actually has a fighting chance of winning the men's singles title -- the question is whether or not his good fortune will hold out long enough for him to get the trophy. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
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Filmmaker Sally Potter directed this artful meditation on the dynamics of the romantic and sexual relationship. She (Joan Allen) is an intelligent and gifted genetic scientist of Irish-American heritage who feels smothered in her marriage to a British politician (Sam Neill). While dining at a friend's house, She meets He (Simon Abkarian), a handsome Lebanese exile who was a respected surgeon in his homeland but now supports himself in London as a cook. He flirts with her, and She is pleased with his advances; weeks later, she contacts him, and an affair begins. However, despite their mutual attraction, He and She find it difficult to set aside their political and national differences for very long, as love and lust wage a quiet war against the conscience and the intellect. Yes also features supporting performances from Shirley Henderson and Sheila Hancock. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Wooden boat traditions live on in Australia
On the banks of the Huon River, a small Australian boat building school is looking to the past to keep a centuries-old tradition of local boat-building alive, producing unique Tasmanian timber boats that shipwrights hope will last hundreds of years.
48 hours in Marseille
Founded in 600 BC by the ancient Greeks, Marseille is the oldest of France's cities, as well as its second largest metropolis after Paris and its biggest port.
Top 10 hotels with a heart
If you like the idea of a luxurious holiday while salving your conscience, you might be enticed by eco-chic getaways, hotels twinned with community projects or those which support shelters for children and animals. Boutique hotels expert Mr & Mrs Smith (www.mrandmrssmith.com) provides a list of its top 10 hotels with a heart.
Watch out for road closures!
Celebrations for the 558th anniversary of the May 29th Conquest of Istanbul this weekend will be resulting in a number of road closures throughout the metropolis.
Two German airports shut as volcanic cloud drifts
Two German airports halted flights on Wednesday as ash from an Icelandic volcano drifted across northern Europe, with parts of Scandinavia also facing a risk of disruption.
Beaches, parks off limits to New York smokers
New York City took its smoking prohibition outdoors on Monday, adding the city's parks and beaches to the list of places where smoking is banned as part of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign to promote healthy habits.
Bird Language festival held on May 29th
Every year a Bird Language festival is held in Giresun's Çanakçı district to celebrate the regional whistling dialect. This year's festival will be held May 29th.
Paul Theroux on the art of travel
Author Paul Theroux began globetrotting 50 years ago which led to the publication of his first travelogue "The Great Railway Bazaar" in 1975, considered by many as a classic in travel writing.
Affordable Boutique Hotels for Solo Travelers
Looking for an affordable hotel for a solo traveler? It's a sad but inevitable fact that a solo traveler's budget can suffer serious dents when it comes to accommodation. Nice, comfortable, single rooms are either not available at all or cost an arm and a leg. Many hotels will rent you a double room for use as a single, but they don't cut the price in half!
Unrest boosts tourism in more stable Gulf states
Gulf Arab states least affected by regional turmoil are likely to see a boost in tourism, analysts said on Tuesday, with the United Arab Emirates outperforming other destinations.
Şanlıurfa expects one million tourists
A fast-growing Şanlıurfa has set its sights on getting a piece of the tourism cake. The city, which is an important tourism center due to its historical and cultural make-up, aims to draw in one million tourists a year.
Where (and What) To Eat in Athens
Greek food can be bizarrely good; and following is a guide to some of the best restaurants in Athens, Greece. The flavors of Greek food have been shaped over thousands of years, and the history of Greek food includes Middle Eastern as well as Italian influences. Common cooking ingredients include feta cheese, olive oil, yogurt, olives, fresh fruit and vegetables, fish, and lamb. From breakfast pastries and Greek street food to horiatiki salata and roasted octopus, I can't get enough.
Spring mass held in Cappadocia
Patriarch Bartholomeos led the traditional Spring and Sunday Mass in Cappadocia yesterday.
Bursa: City of Silk, Mosques and Shadow Theatre
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After Barack Obama put it on the map by downing a gulp of Guinness, residents of the U.S. president's tiny ancestral home of Moneygall have spent the past week greeting busloads of tourists.
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5. Come Together
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What is off-label use?
Why is off-label use of drugs so common in cancer treatment?
Can off-label drug use be harmful?
Will my health insurance cover drugs used off label for cancer treatment?
What questions should I ask my doctor about off-label drug use?
What states require insurance coverage of off-label cancer drugs?
What is off-label use?
Off-label use refers to the use of an approved treatment for any purpose, or in any manner, other than what is described in the treatment's labeling. Off-label use of an approved treatment is not the same as expanded access or special exemption, which are mechanisms allowing patient access to investigational treatments not yet approved by the FDA. (See Access to Investigational Drugs: Questions and Answers for more information.)
New treatments can be legally marketed in the United States only after approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Approval is the final stage of a multi-year process of study and testing to establish that the new treatment is safe and effective for the proposed use.
A cancer treatment rarely receives approval for general use against cancer. Instead, a treatment is approved for use in treating a specific stage of a particular kind of cancer, for which it has been tested in patients. The specific approved use is called an indication. The indication is described in the labeling for the drug or biologic, which consists of a printed insert included in the treatment's packaging. The insert also describes in detail the chemical composition of the treatment, how it works in the body, and the possible adverse effects of taking it.
However, the FDA - although responsible for ensuring that a treatment is safe and effective for the specific approved indication - does not regulate the practice of medicine. This means that once the FDA approves a treatment, licensed physicians can prescribe it for any purpose they consider medically appropriate.
Off-label uses may include giving an approved treatment:
- for a disease other than the disease it is approved for,
- at a different dose or frequency than specified in the product's labeling, or
- to treat a child when the product is approved to treat adults.
An off-label use of a product can cease to be off label if the product's maker submits a supplemental application and obtains FDA approval for the new use. The FDA encourages, but does not require, drug makers to do this.
To submit a supplemental application, the drug maker must conduct studies to show that the product is safe and effective for the proposed new use. Unless the drug company expects to gain a significant commercial benefit from expanded approval of a drug already on the market, it may decide not to invest time and money in such additional studies.
Why is off-label use of drugs so common in cancer treatment?
A 1991 study by the U.S. General Accounting Office found that one-third of the drug treatments performed by cancer doctors were off-label; more than half of cancer patients received at least one drug for an off-label indication. A 1997 survey of 200 cancer doctors by the American Enterprise Institute and the American Cancer Society found that 60 percent of them prescribed drugs off-label. Frequently the standard of care for a particular type or stage of cancer involves the off-label use of one or more drugs.
Off-label use of drugs is widespread in cancer treatment for several reasons.
- Some cancer drugs are found to be effective against a variety of tumor types.
The mechanism of action of a drug or biologic (the way it works in the body) often suggests that it might be effective against tumor types other than those for which it is approved.
For example, cisplatin (brand name, Platinol®) works to halt the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells by interrupting the copying of DNA in growing cells. Because uncontrolled cell growth is part of most cancers, cisplatin is often used in the treatment of thyroid and lung cancers although it is only approved to treat bladder, testicular and ovarian cancers.
Some cancer drugs are approved because they effectively act on a specific biological target present in a particular type of tumor. Examples of such targeted drugs include:
- imatinib mesylate or STI571 (brand name Gleevec™), which blocks the bcr-abl protein in chronic myelogenous leukemia,
- trastuzumab (brand name Herceptin®), which blocks the HER 2 protein in breast cancer, and
- tamoxifen (brand name Nolvadex®), which blocks the estrogen receptor in breast cancer.
However, once a drug is on the market further research may show that it also acts on different biological targets present in other kinds of cancer. Doctors may then begin to use the drug off label to treat those other cancers.
- Cancer chemotherapy often involves the use of multiple drugs.
Multiple-drug treatment regimens have been shown to be effective in several types of cancer, including lymphoma, leukemia, bladder, testicular, and breast cancer. The regimens might include one or more drugs not approved specifically for that disease. Also, the FDA generally does not approve multidrug regimens themselves, in part because such regimens are so numerous as to make separate approvals impractical. Multidrug regimens change over time as doctors try different combinations and observe which regimens seem to produce the greatest benefit for patients.
- Cancer treatment is always evolving.
Researchers continually conduct studies to determine new uses for already marketed drugs and to find effective combinations of drugs for new indications. The results of these studies are published in peer-reviewed medical journals. When a new treatment approach seems to produce better outcomes for patients, other doctors adopt it and it may become a new standard of care.
Can off-label drug use be harmful?
Use of a drug off label may cause harm when the drug's effect against a kind of cancer has not been demonstrated and there is no medical reason to believe the drug might be an effective treatment for that kind of cancer. All drugs have side effects; the side effects of cancer drugs vary depending on the kind of cancer being treated. When a drug's effect against a type of cancer has not been demonstrated, and its side effects are unknown, the possible risks of giving the drug may outweigh the possible benefits.
For example, the FDA approved the use of Gleevec to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). However, as of November 2001, its effect against chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) had not been studied. The biological process that leads to the development of CLL is quite different from that which causes CML. Currently, there is little scientific data to support using Gleevec to treat CLL. Furthermore, it is not known what side effects the drug might cause in patients with CLL. For these reasons, the off-label use of Gleevec to treat CLL is generally not advised.
Will my health insurance cover drugs used off label for cancer treatment?
Some managed care organizations and health insurance providers decline to reimburse the cost of drugs used off label to treat cancer. Some insurers argue that when a drug is used for an unapproved indication, the use is experimental and therefore, excluded from coverage.
However, because changes frequently occur in the standard of care for cancer treatment, some insurance providers may be unaware of new combination drug regimens or new uses for approved drugs. In some cases, insurers may attempt to limit a doctor's choice of drugs to those that are lower in cost.
Since drugs used off label are often the standard of care for a particular kind of cancer, insurers' denial of coverage for such treatment means that patients may not receive what their doctors consider the best available treatment for their disease. To address this problem, federal and state lawmakers have passed laws that require coverage of off-label drug use for cancer treatment when the use is documented in certain authoritative drug reference books or in the medical literature.
The U.S. Congress passed a law in 1993 requiring Medicare (http://www.medicare.gov/), the federally funded health care program for elderly and disabled people, to cover off-label drugs used in cancer treatment when the use is supported by:
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There was once a time, not really that long ago, when the corner of 18th and Boston was a hotspot for live music. With one stop you had three clubs and a variety of live bands at your fingertips. While Mercury Lounge is still packing them in and arguably booking even better talent all the time, the other locations have changed hands and identities, gradually losing touch with the live music audience.
The room formerly known as Boston's has changed management multiple times and evolved into The Treehouse, which features a new stage and killer new sound system, but caters -- very well -- to the dance rather than live music crowd.
Just across the corner, at 112 E. 18th St. -- the location that has changed identities multiple times over the past 20 years -- established itself as a solid room called The Venue, but this also changed management and moved away from live music, first transforming into RocBar 18 and then Pink. When I initially got word that the room was changing hands again, I'll admit I wasn't surprised. What did stir my attention, however, was when I got a call to let me know that the room was going back to a live music format with some old names and faces returning.
As it turns out, former manager and talent buyer for The Venue, Donnie Rich, is returning to the live music circus with a little prodding from friends. When speaking with Rich recently, I asked how he ended up being pulled back into the club scene and he shared that "Jason Martin, from Urban Tribe, called me out of the blue to see what I was doing and what club I was working with. I told him I wasn't, I'd been out of it for almost two years now and he started talking about getting a new venue going."
"Then, within two days I got a call from the property manager, saying that the location was coming available and asking if I'd be interested," he continued. "So I called Jason back. He had this idea in his head for 'The Shrine' to do all things and all types of music and if I'd want to be a part of it."
"To be honest, if it wasn't that particular location, I wouldn't be interested," Rich said, "but it's kind of like going home."
The transition on this room has gone swiftly, with the change from dance bar to live venue happening in a matter of weeks. When asked just how quickly it all came together, Rich said, "Negotiations went pretty quick because everyone involved is really excited about it, especially with Jason's idea and what he had pictured in his head. He sees a cool, laid back atmosphere where you can do all kinds and sizes of shows and still have it be fairly intimate. With everything involved, we got it going in right around two months."
Shrine isn't pulling any punches or dragging its feet in getting off the ground. The room is scheduling a soft opening next Friday night, August 17 with O.T.S.B. (featuring X-Cal and Wil Sutherland) and a couple other bands to get the room jump started and work out any minor details.
The official opening will then be the following week with shows scheduled on the August 24-26. Rich indicated that Friday night, August 24, will feature Tony Romanello & the Black Jackets, Fiddlebacks and Jon Malone. "We're going back to all the old-school hitters and bringing them back," he said. "We've even got a New Science show coming up."
Saturday, August 25 will feature Dallas-based headliner Nothing More with The American Tragedy and The Bourgeois opening the show, for a big night of rock. The following night, Le Purple Dragon promotions brings in The Sex with Alan Doyle and DJ Oreo for a big rock and dance party on Sunday, August 26.
When speaking with Rich about plans for the venue and upcoming shows, he shared that he's had his head buried in the calendar and reaching out to many of his old contacts. "Once I started getting back into it and going through my old phone numbers, I found out that a lot of the old bands are no longer bands," he shared. "I only took a break for two years, but it's been hard on everyone and a lot of bands have broken up. After I started digging, though, a lot of bands started calling me and saying 'I love that room.' And when I started calling agents, I didn't have to sell the room, I just gave them the address and they knew, because it's still in their records and has a reputation as a great live room."
Although the transition from dance club back to live venue has gone swiftly, it hasn't been without its challenges. Among other things, the room had to be reconstructed to accommodate live bands instead of the dance club crowd.
"Yeah, we had to take out the DJ booths and build a new stage and a few other things," Rich said. "That's why I've been buried in the calendar. Jason has been in there with Steve Lidell and they've been putting their construction skills to work, getting the place ready. We also called in Russell Law to help us with the sound system and Mark Matheos for the stage, so we could get this thing ready to go."
Looking forward, Rich says the plan is to do all types of shows, from local bands to regional and touring acts. Some nights may include four or five acts while others may only call for one or two. The plan, however, is to make the room a home for live music at the corner of 18th and Boston once again, with bands playing five or six nights a week.
"There's something cool about that room," Rich said. "We've got the size, so it can be anything you want it to be. You can do small shows or bigger ones and they all work in there, so we're looking forward to it."
He also shared, "We're going to start bringing bands back through that need to be playing Tulsa but stopped playing here and started going to Oklahoma City, Kansas City or Wichita instead. And (hopefully) we'll get bands trading shows with other bands from Dallas and other locations again."
As for now, things are looking up again for Tulsa's local music scene as we gain another live venue and another opportunity for local bands to showcase their talent. Only time will tell, but this one promises to turn back the clock and help the corner of 18th and Boston reclaim its identity as the place to go for live music. We'll be keeping our eyes and ears peeled as Shrine firms up its calendar and starts announcing more shows.
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I've been absent from these forums for a good while, and sadly circumstances dictate that I must clear space and get rid of some books. I thought I'd offer the following here first and am open to reasonable offers!
Time and Two Seats - Janos Wimpffen
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Spiders and Silhouettes - Janos Wimpffen
Monocoque and Ground Effects - Janos Wimpffen
The Ford that beat Ferrari - Gordon Jones & John Allen (2005)
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Ferrari: A Champion's View - Phil Hill
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Whereabouts in the world are you? Your profile doesn't say.
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Whereabouts in the world are you? Your profile doesn't say.
Sorry. I'm in Bristol, UK
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Hi Chaz, if you still have them how much would you like for the Wimpffen books? Mark


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Florida State is a university that has seen its fair share of famous alumni, but two of the most iconic past students at FSU never officially graduated and serve as symbols of the largely unknown ways that our school is indeed special.
Burt Reynolds and Jim Morrison each left their own distinct mark on the university, and each went on to achieve different degrees of success.
Of the two, Reynolds is by far the goodie-two-shoes.
He attended Florida State on a football scholarship, playing halfback before being injured on the field and then in a car accident, leading to the loss of his scholarship.
While at FSU, Reynolds became a member of the fraternity Phi Delta Theta, something they are still proud of to this day.
Though Reynolds never officially graduated, he eventually did receive a n honorary degree in 1987. Reynolds went on to act in movies and television shows, with varying success, with acting roles in Boogie Nights, both versions of The Longest Yard and a role doing voice-acting in All Dogs Go To Heaven.
Though he was long plagued with financial troubles, Reynolds shared another link with Morrison, besides their separate stints as Noles: substance abuse.
Reynolds battled an addiction to morphine and antidepressants, and checked in to rehab in 2009 for an addiction to painkillers following back surgery.
Jim Morrison, meanwhile, while famous for other reasons, was legendary for his addiction to alcohol and multiple drugs, which culminated in his death in 1971 at the age of 27.
Prior to his unfortunate demise, Morrison was a student at FSU. He transferred to the school in 1962 and appeared in a recruitment film before becoming relatively notorious for his arrest over a prank after a football game.
Morrison, and his band, The Doors, went on to blaze a trail of musical excellence in Rock and Roll, writing and performing classics that live on in many forms, including their rather appropriate use in laser shows at a planetarium in Miamilaser shows that have been run since the 1960s.
The two men are examples of the seemingly random ways that Florida State can continue to surprise you, whether you are a student, alumni or observer.
It could easily be argued that Reynolds and Morrison became washed up drug addicts, but I believe it is much more fair to speak to their positives.
I would say that each experienced the perils of substance abuse, and that while Morrison paid the ultimate price because of it, the two have left impressive marks on American culture, especially Morrison.
Perhaps next time you see a Burt Reynolds movie or listen to a song by The Doors, you will stop to think about what other greatness Florida State holds that you might not know about.


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Judith Ann (Folk) Sheriff, daughter of Ellen Grace (Poffenberger) and Clair Albert Folk, was born July 15, 1937, in Des Moines.
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I have been working in two research projects aiming at helping historical documents enter the digital age. The first is included in the PlaIR project, and is focuses on improving accessibility to the archives of Le Journal de Rouen, one of France eldest local newspaper: it was published from 1762 to 1947. We have tried to push beyond the too usual "let's just put our scans online, it will be good enough", by providing more confortable functionalities:
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Our second project is DocExplore. The aim is similar, but with older and more diverse documents. We created a software suite into which you may input your collection of digitized manuscripts. The software provides basic collection management tools, but its strength is in the possibility to create Region Of Interests. ROI are zones of an image, of any shape and number, to which are associated augmenting data: text (transcription, annotations), image, video, hyperlink (including to other ROI).
From this collection of augmented pages, non-linearly connected, a virtual book can be extracted, mapped on a 3D representation, which can be browsed classically or through a tactile or gestural interface.
We wrote a new article on urban traffic simulation, with an additional angle of simulating emergency or crisis situations, in the Journal of Nonlinear Systems and Applications (JNSA). It's so far probably the best article on what we did, less detailed but more synthetic than the ones in ICCSA. We describe how we build a graph then a trafic network from shapefiles, so as to have a geographically correct simulation. We explain the way we modeled each car with an agent, with a quite sophisticated behavior, reactive when everything is fine, switching to more cognitive when it's not. Despite the details, it runs faster than real time on a real urban agglomeration, with tens of thousand of vehicles. We finally describe the new family of tactics aimed at modeling the behavior of drivers in times of crises.
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Jeanne Robbins Twaskas, of Longboat Key and formerly of Rahway, N.J., died July 4. She was 95.
Mrs. Twaskas was born Jan. 16, 1917, in Franklin Lakes, N.J., to John and Julia Robbins. She grew up in Elizabeth, N.J., with her sister, Mary Robbins, and her half-sisters, Ann and Kathryn Chezik, and her half-brother, William Chezik. She married Anthony Twaskas in 1940 and moved to Linden, N.J., where she gave birth to Robert and Judy.
She dabbled in real estate and the stock market and kept herself busy working various jobs. In later years, the Twaskases moved to Daytona Beach but later returned to New Jersey. She integrated the Linden Retired Men's Club in 1989 and saw the creation of both a men and women's club at Linden's Gregorio Recreation Center. She moved in 1999 to Longboat Key and lived in a condo until January 2012, when she moved into an assisted-living facility, Alderman Oaks.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 44 years, Anthony, and by her son, Robert.
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