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IUCN CEM will be actively involved at the upcoming UNISDR Global Platform event in Geneva 19-25 May, 2013 as part of the Partners for Environment and Disaster Risk Reduction network (www.pedrr.net). The Global Platform is PEDRR's key event for advocacy, showcasing the latest science and practice in ecosystems based DRR and expanding networks/partnership for strengthening work in the area of ecosystem based DRR (and increasingly CCA) will be hosting a side event titled "Ecosystems, resilience and DRR: presenting evidence", a book launch for the UNU Press book "The Role of Ecosystems in Disaster Risk Reduction" a joint IUCN CEM, UNU-EHS and UNEP publication, a one day PEDRR training event (TBC) and an information booth featuring "speak with an expert". CEM members planning on attending the event are encouraged to contact Karen. The IUCN DRR thematic group takes this opportunity to welcome Jyotiraj Patra as co-lead of the DRR thematic group.
The Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability, which comprises ICSU, ISSC, the Belmont Forum, UNEP, UNESCO, UNU and WMO as an observer, is currently seeking nominations for experts to serve on the first Science Committee of the Future Earth initiative. Future Earth is a new 10-year initiative on integrated Earth system research for global sustainability, established by the Alliance. The goal of Future Earth is to develop the knowledge required for societies worldwide to face challenges posed by global environmental change and to identify opportunities for a transition to global sustainability. It will build on and extend the work that has been done by the Global Environmental Change programmes, which have been co-sponsored by ICSU. More information
In response to calls for global peatland action at the recent IUCN World Conservation Congress, a CEM Thematic Group on Peatlands has been established to help coordinate activity and share good practice. The group will be chaired by Clifton Bain, Director of the IUCN UK National Committee's Peatland Programme http://www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/
With peatlands now included as a priority within the IUCN Programme 2013-2016 the group is looking to gather examples of strategic action for peatlands from around the world and to share information on the ecosystem benefits of peatland management. Anyone interested in joining or supporting this group should contact Clifton Bain
The Ecosystem Services Thematic Group has a new lead team: Emmanuelle Shacham-Cohen (Lead), Sasha Alexander (Co-lead) and Dolf de Groot (Special Advisor).
The Lead Team will soon distribute an updated Workplan for 2013 and beyond to its members. An important activity will be to continue the creation of a global network of Ecosystem Services Assessment case studies, to develop and apply guidelines on the best use of the concept of ecosystem services for conservation, restoration and sustainable ecosystem management.
The ES Thematic Group will work closely with other CEM thematic groups on cross-cutting issues, as well as with the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) (www.es-partnership.org). ESP will hold its 6th Conference between August 26-30, 2013 in Bali, Indonesia, where the ES-Thematic Group will organise several sessions.
For more details, please visit the updated CEM-ES
Thematic Group's webpage
The National Adaptation Forum is a national event on climate change adaptation at which the latest scientific knowledge about climate adaptation and state-of-the-art practices will be presented. It combines professional development training, individual presentation, peer networking, and working group innovation opportunities, in order to create the most productive event possible in three days!
Our climate is changing. As people around the globe work to reduce carbon pollution, society also needs to plan for the inevitable changes in our climate system that will continue to occur as a result of past and expected future emissions. Anticipating and preparing for the impacts of a changing climate is called adaptation. A growing body of decision-makers, including city planners, natural resource managers, energy developers, and citizens, are incorporating climate information into their planning processes, and thus advancing our collective ability to address the challenges of climate change. The National Adaptation Forum gives this diverse community an opportunity to meet, share and learn from each other.
The Inaugural National Adaptation Forum will be held April 2-4 at the Denver Marriott City Center, Denver CO. Denver is an easy city to travel to from all over the United States, as well as globally. We hope you will make plans to attend this innovative and interactive conference, which will attract hundreds of participants and feature presentations on every aspect of Climate Change
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Dr PC Abhilash, Member of CEM & Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University has joined the Editorial Board of two Springer Journals: 'Biodegradation' and 'Environmental Management'
The Zeitz Foundation is in the process of recruiting a director for its flagship-programme - the Long Run Initiative. Please find more information on the vacancy here. "The Zeitz Foundation promotes an innovative approach to sustainable ecosystem management which aims to achieve sustainability through a balance of conservation, community, culture and commerce (the 4Cs). Founded in 2008 by business entrepreneur Jochen Zeitz." http://ow.ly/d/11cU
The Faculty of Metallurgy at University of Zagreb was awarded the license for the full time Undergraduate study "Industrial Ecology". One of the mandatory required curriculum for first academic year students is Sustainable development.The curriculum was developed through cooperation between the not-for-profit organisation ODRAZ - Sustainable Community Development and OIKON - Institute for Applied Ecology, and prepared in line with best practices and modern society requirements. This is a continuation of a long and successful collaboration between OIKON and ODRAZ in the preparation and implementation of joint educational projects and programs. The subject lecturers include Ms Lidija Pavić-Rogošić from ODRAZ, and Dr. Zdravko Spiric (Director of OIKON - Institute for Applied Ecology and assistant professor at Medical faculty in Rijeka, Croatia), subject sponsor - lecturer.
Contact details:Ass. Prof. Zdravko Spiric, Ph.D. Scientific director Oikon Ltd. - Institute for Applied Ecology; email@example.com
The Beijing Urban Ecosystem Research Station (BUERS) is the only urban ecosystem station within the Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN). Its main objectives are to integrate long-term monitoring, scientific research, and demonstrations, which not only create a convenient platform for urban ecological studies, but also provide opportunities for the public to understand urban ecology research. In order to make the public aware of the researchers' work and to raise public awareness, the researchers also pay much attention to public education. In this picture, one of the staff members from BUERS is shown interpreting his urban ecology research for Beijing primary and middle school students during the National Day holiday. In addition, the students can interact with monitoring instruments by themselves, which facilitates greater understanding. Contact: Huafeng Wang; firstname.lastname@example.com
For communities, it may be complicated to assess vulnerabilities and define adaptation strategies to improve their resilience to climate and environmental changes. Many tools exist but several remain complex and difficult to use. The Coastal Communities Challenges is a project funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada which helps communities develop strategies based on coconstruction and coproduction of adaptation strategies to improve resilience. It requires communities to work with their local organisations. One of the tools recently developed was presented at three events in the Atlantic Canada over the last six months. It can be found on line at www.coastalcommunitieschallenges.org. Over the next few years, additional tools are to be developed to help with decision making and strategic planning to improve resilience and lead to transformational changes for greater sustainability of these coastal communities which are intimately linked to the natural resources and their ecosystems. Contact: Liette Vasseur
Scotland's first urban landscape scale conservation project has started. Throughout its short history the new town of Cumbernauld (est. 1960) has seen the loss and degradation of many its important natural environments. Those that have survived have become isolated in a landscape of inappropriate development and industrialization. Unless action is taken on multiple scales these ecosystems will no longer be able to provide the clean air and water, and safe retreats that both people and wildlife need to survive in our towns and cities. By working in partnership with local organisations the Cumbernauld Living Landscape Programme aims to reinforce and expand existing green networks and reconnect the people of the town to their natural environment. In the degraded urban landscape this transformational change will benefit local people, wildlife and support the regional economy. For more details contact; Ian Mackenzie, Project Development Manager, Cumbernauld Living Landscape.
The European Commission is to receive 'National Action Plans' (NAPs) from the 27 EU member states. The initiative aims at reducing the impact pesticides have on Europe's ecosystems but leaves it to national governments to implement steps to 'setting quantitative objectives, targets, measures, timetables and indicators' and 'encouraging the development and introduction of alternative approaches … to reduce dependency on the use of pesticides'. NGOs have repeatedly criticized drafts presented as being unambitious and insufficient to achieve the goals, which also and specifically include protected areas, yet approaches taken in the EU may be of interest also for other regions and provide insights into practical implementation of novel ideas. According to directive 2009/128/EG on sustainable use of pesticides, NAPs were to be submitted by national governments by late December 2012, however, only few member states have presented them so far. The process is monitored by Stefan Klose (CEM member). Contact; Stefan Klose
The growth of the human population of the Wider Caribbean, doubling since 1965, has driven increasingly damaging development decisions and human impacts on the marine environment. Consequently, coastal marine ecosystems (coral reefs, seagrasses and mangroves) are in continuing decline across the region as documented in 16 countries for the past 2 decades by the CARICOMP (Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity) cooperative network of marine laboratories which began in 1991 and ended in 2008. Recently, some members have proposed continuing the concept of regional cooperative research and monitoring at marine laboratories with a focus on the Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem (CLME) project now being developed by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOCARIBE) in cooperation with the newly established Caribbean Sea Commission (CSC) and the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) (Ogden 2010). To this end, an organizational meeting will be held in conjunction with the Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean (AMCL) in Jamaica in June 2013. Contact; John C. Ogden: Emeritus Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida
An international consortium of researchers led by Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU) and Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) (China) revealed in mid-January 2013 the genetic blueprint of the diamondback moth in Nature Genetics. Diamondback moth is a worldwide pest that causes over four billion dollars per year. It attacks mainly cruciferous species and can cause severe damage to agroecosystems. Its success as a pest has been linked to its capacity to develop resistance to all types of insecticides. Over millions of years, the moth has developed special detoxification genes that are highly active in the gut of the larvae, making them able to detoxify a wide range of chemicals. It appears that this same adaptation is the key for developing resistance to pesticides. This research has huge implications for agroecosystem sustainability as pests become more resistant to insecticides there is a need to develop more sustainable strategies for pest management. Contact; Liette Vasseur
Here you will find an interesting article by Sunny Shah of WWF India on their recent initiative on Western India Tiger Landscape on corridor conservation plan and concept.
Following the political crisis which has afflicted Madagascar since 2009, the situation for national parks continues to deteriorate. In the south of the island, the National Association of Protected Areas Management (ANGAP) can no longer manage the Andohahelo National Park due to a lack of financial resources. Faced with this situation, the association "Graines d'îles", with its local office in Tolagnaro, plans to implement a study to find solutions to assist park managers. With the recent development of port activities whereby cruise ship passengers can now visit this region, it would be worth developing integrated park management which contributes to local economic development. Another project would be to implement a program for the conservation of sea turtles through the development of eco-tourism activities. If you are interested in this project do not hesitate to contact Graines d'îles. Contact; Barbara Martel
The Japanese government announced on January 31 that it would add the Amami and Ryukyu island chain in southern Japan to its Tentative List to World Natural Heritage Sites. The government has been preparing for this move since 2003. In November last year, to get local people more involved, the Japanese government and Okinawa prefecture held a symposium "Road to World Natural Heritage" in Okinawa. Dr Leslie F. Molloy, an IUCN expert of the World Commission on Protected Areas, was invited to deliver his keynote speech. He emphasized that global comparative analysis is in order for Japan to make its case. Some of the audience stated that stronger measures are needed to conserve the natural resources and that various problems including rampant development and a US Military helipad construction plan in Yanbaru forest, habitat of endangered wildlife, need to be solved. The Japanese government aims to submit its Tentative List to UNESCO in 2015. Contact: Masami mel Kawamura
"Degraded lands" is a term that is increasingly used to identify priority areas for restoration or development. Yet degradation is a complex term, laden with value judgments. Triggered by a project to identify "lower risk" lands for biofuel production, where there would be 'no' competition with food production, IUCN brought together experts from governments, business and 6 IUCN Commissions to discuss the feasibility of defining degraded lands. Concluding that such a definition would be either too broad for practical use or too specific for wider applicability, the group noted that there may be interest in prioritising for biofuel production, lands that are "underperforming" in terms of their potential for provisioning ecosystem goods and services. However, when doing so an all-stakeholder process would be an essential part to understand trade-offs between different goods and services, particularly in many countries where good participatory land use planning is not present. In such countries, any development can be higher risk, regardless of whether the land is degraded or not. A technical report will be circulated for a broader consultation in February. Contact CEM member Joost Brouwer of Brouwer Envir. & Agric. Consultancy , or Nadine McCormick, Global Business & Biodiversity Programme Nadine..
Tobias Plieninger (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities) and Claudia Bieling (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) recently published a book on Resilience and the Cultural Landscape. By linking the research communities on 'cultural landscapes' and 'resilience', the book develops a new perspective on landscape changes. Based on firm conceptual contributions and rich case studies, it will appeal to anyone interested in analysing and managing change in human-shaped environments in the context of sustainability. You will find further information, including a ToC, via the online catalogue
World Commission on Protected Areas
Commission on Education and Communication
Commission on Environmental Law
Species Survival Commission (SSC)
Commission on Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy
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We have made a few changes to our Thematic Groups and will be contacting all members in March to ask them which groups they wish to join.
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Annan, A., Baldwin H.J., Corman, V.M., Klose S.M., Owusu, M., Nkrumah, E.E., Badu, E.K., Anti, P., Agbenyega, O., Meyer B., Oppong, S., Adu Sarkodie, Y., Kalko, E.K.V., Lina, P.H.C., Godlevska, E.V., Reusken, C., Seebens, A., Gloza-Rausch, F., Vallo, P., Tschapka, M., Drosten, C., Drexler, J.F. (2013): Human Betacoronavirus 2c EMC/2012–related Viruses in Bats, Ghana andEurope. Emerging Infectious Diseases 9: 13 (March 2013), doi
Drexler, J.F., Seelen, A., Corman, V.M., Fumie Tateno, A., Cottontail, V.,
Melim Zerbinati, R., Gloza-Rausch, F., Klose, S.M., Adu-Sarkodie, Y.,
Oppong, S.K., Kalko, E.K., Osterman, A., Rasche, A., Adam, A., Müller, M.A., Ulrich, R.G., Leroy, E.M., Lukashev, A.N., Drosten C., (2012): Bats worldwide
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Mori A.S., Furukawa T., Sasaki T. (2013) Response diversity determines the resilience of ecosystems to environmental change. Biological Reviews 88: in press. (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12004/abstract)
Srivastava, S., Verma, P.C., Chaudhry, V., Singh, N., Abhilash, P.C., Kumar, K.V., Sharma, N., Singh, N. Influence of inoculation of arsenic-resistant Staphylococcus arlettae on growth and arsenic uptake in Brassica juncea (L.) Czern. Var R46. Journal of Hazardous Materials (2012) doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2012.08.019.
Stanturf, J. Madsen, P. Lamb, D. (eds) 2012. A Goal-Orientated Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration. Springer (http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/book/978-94-007-5337-2)
Stanturf, J. Lamb, D. and Madsen P. (eds.) 2012. Forest Landscape Restoration: integrating Natural and Social Sciences. Springer (http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/book/978-94-007-5325-9)
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Digital effects have become a mainstay of Hollywood action movies these days and director James McTeigue's (V for Vendetta) latest movie, Ninja Assassin, is no exception. However, in a recent interview with Coming Soon, McTeigue said that many of
the weapons were real and that the movie's lead, Korean pop star Rain, trained "for five or six months," and that he had "incredible discipline."
Rain in the movie uses this blade and chain weapon, but when we're training him, it's with an actual martial arts weapon called the rope dart, so he trained with that so he knew how to swing it around, because then ultimately when you get into it, you need something for him to physically use. He'll use that, and the visual FX guys will put tracking markers on it, so that way, it gives the stunt guys something to react to and then we'll replace it later. But with swords and katanas and other things, sometimes we'll use bamboo painted silver for example, they're actually real sometimes.
Many critics have commented on how violent and bloody the movie is, but McTeigue said that he didn't have any problem with the MPAA ratings board.
When we submitted the movie, we said, "Look, it's really stylized." In no way is this Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer or one of those movies that's so extreme it's meant to make you feel sick. This is like a game, it is like anime, it is like a comic book. I think they saw it as that, so henceforth, they gave me an R-rating and if you look at the ratings card, it goes "For stylized violence and blood." I think they got it.

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A video has surfaced in Salisbury, North Carolina, reportedly showing police confronting people at a nightclub called La Bamba.
The video shows a young woman grabbed by her neck and pushed backward onto a table.
Another club patron approached the officer involved. The video shows the officer punching that patron in the face.
But a security manager at the club says the tape doesn't show the patron hitting the officer first.
Civil rights activist John C. Barnette met with Salisbury's mayor, police chief and the young woman about the alleged assault.
"We're not running with the race card," Barnette said. "This is an African American cop that we have issues with."
"I realized as soon as I saw it that it was something that would need to be investigated," said Susan Kluttz, Salisbury's mayor.
Barnette says the video is causing more people to come forward with complaints about police officers.
"It saddens me to know that I get emails every night about police harassment," Barnette said.
"I was disappointed to hear that," the mayor said, "Because I think people in this community have great respect for our police chief."
The SBI and the Salisbury police are investigating the alleged attack while the officer in the video, Kareem Purando, has been suspended with pay.


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Saturday News, March 15
County Cadidates File Nomination Papers
(Le Mars) -- Several candidates have filed their nomination papers for the primary election scheduled for June 3rd. Jack Guenthner has announced he intends to retire from the board of supervisors, which creates an opening. So far, two candidates have submitted their papers for the position. John Meis and Harold Hadden, both republicans, are running for the District 1 supervisor position. Craig Anderson is seeking re-election for District 4 supervisor, and Don Kass is seeking re-election for the supervisor position representing district 3. Both are republicans. Shelly Sitzmann has filed her name as a republican candidate for the county treasurer position. Darin Raymond is seeking re-election for the county attorney as a republican.
City To Flush Water Lines
(Le Mars) -- The City of LeMars Water Department will start flushing water mains in the Northeast part of town Tuesday at 8:00 AM. This will take approximately 2 days. On Wednesday afternoon & Thursday, the 19th & 20th, the city water department will start the Northwest and finish on Friday the 21st if needed. The following week on Monday, March 24th at 11:00 AM the water department will start in the Southwest. Businesses and residences may experience discolored water and should refrain from washing clothes during flushing times in your area. If you need to do laundry you can monitor your cold hard water faucet or outside hose bib to check the incoming water for clarity. If you do experience discolored water limit your use on running hot water. If you have a hard water faucet or hose bib this would be the best place to check and flush water.
Anderson Upset Silver Alert Bill Fails In House
(Sioux City) -- A bill from Republican State Senator Bill Anderson of Pierson that would have created a statewide "Silver Alert" warning system for missing elderly people with dementia has been killed by the Iowa House. Anderson's bill passed the Senate 49-0 and was proposed because of a request by the family of Dale Robinson of Moville. Robinson suffers from dementia and has been missing since last August 3rd. The bill didn't survive this week's "funnel deadline" and the lack of action by House Republicans has angered Anderson.
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Joel Robinson, the grandson of the missing man, says his family is also frustrated by the House failing to advance the bill.
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Le Mars Republican State Representative, Chuck Soderberg says he was also disappointed the Silver Alert Bill did not go through the House of Representatives.
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Soderberg is still hopeful the bill may be introduced through the leadership. He says he has spoken with both Speaker Kraig Paulson and Majority Leader Linda Upmeyer, and according to Soderberg, both legislative leaders are interested in the premise of the bill, but want to refine it before acting upon the Silver Alert bill.
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Soderberg says the advisory committee would consist of media and law enforcement officials. The Department of Transportation would use electronic message boards along Iowa roadways to post a "Silver Alert" to help locate an elderly person with dementia. The billboards are used for "Amber Alerts" when children are abucted. Anderson credits House members Ron Jorgensen and Matt Windschitl with trying to help get the bill to the floor. He says he will fight to get the bill passed again next year.
Funnel Deadline Takes Out Abortion Webcam Bill
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Friday, marked the second self-imposed deadline for the state legislature regarding the passage of bills. Bills surviving a legislative deadline include those that would crack down on bullying in schools, allow fireworks to be sold in Iowa, and regulate the use of unmanned aerial drones.
Many other proposals will not be considered this year including a Democratic-backed bill to crack down on wage theft, a Republican effort to outlaw telemedicine abortion, and the Democrats' proposal to give schools 6 percent more funding for 2015. State Representative Chuck Soderberg says he was disappointed the "telemedicine abortion" bill did not get through the Senate.
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Lawmakers impose deadlines twice a year to narrow the number of policy bills under consideration. The first so-called funnel deadline was in February and the second ends Friday.
Leaders from both parties say the focus now will be to find compromise on the bills that remain and continue work to complete the state budget.
Iowa Below Normal For Precipitation
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Even though it seems it's been a snowy winter, a new report says Iowa is below normal for precipitation this year.
An Iowa Department of Natural Resources update on the state's water resources says the state received an average of 2.2 inches instead of the normal 2.6 inches of precipitation between January 1st and March 12th.
The wettest area of the state is extreme southeast Iowa which has received 5 inches, and the driest areas are portions of the I-29 corridor in western Iowa when only about an inch has been measured.
Stream flows are normal except in the Iowa River watersheds, which are above normal.
The area of extreme drought in Iowa is now 7 percent of the state down from 20 percent at the beginning of the year.
Hatch Files Nomination Papers As Democratic Governor Candidate
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Iowa Senator Jack Hatch has made his campaign for governor official.
The Des Moines Democrat filed his nomination papers Friday before the 5 p.m. deadline.
Hatch's campaign says he obtained 10,655 signature on nomination petitions to put him on the June Democratic primary ballot. He needed at least 4,113 signatures to qualify for the ballot
Hatch says in a statement he looks forward to campaigning hard throughout the next eight months.
Republican Governor Terry Branstad filed his nomination papers last month with 10,745 signatures to seek his sixth non-consecutive term. He needed 3,654 signatures.
The number of signatures required to be on the ballot is based on the number of votes cast for the party's candidate for president in the 2012 general election.
Two Juveniles Charged With Arson On Playground Equipment
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Authorities say two juveniles have been charged with starting the fire that damaged playground equipment at a Des Moines elementary school.
Police Sgt. Dan Blom says the juveniles were charged Friday with second-degree arson and turned over to their parents.
Des Moines fire officials said they responded shortly before 11 a.m. Friday to Park Avenue Elementary.
Firefighters found the playground equipment engulfed in flames and quickly put out the blaze. School was not in session, so no students were at the playground. No injuries were reported.
Des Moines fire inspector Ted Jefferson says it was brand new equipment that had only been played on a few times.
School officials estimated the damage at between $50,000 and $100,000, promising to replace the equipment.
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EBox Server in 1.0
The eBox project integrates web server, proxy, DNS, LDAP, Postfix, OpenSSL, load balancing and more in their server, which should provide small and medium size businesses comprehensive network infrastructures, and is now available in version 1.0.
EBox is the jack-of-all-trades among open source servers. The box integrates numerous useful services that should help small to medium businesses in their network needs. It is based on Ubuntu, is under GPL and is now downloadable as version 1.0.
The eBox project sanctioned the product in their announcement as being "deemed good enough to deserve the 1.0 badge" based on the number of integrated components. Among them are DHCP and NTP servers, traffic shaping and load balancing, DNS and email servers and many more. The changelog points to bugs developers fixed so that modules can seamlessly interact.
Also among the new eBox features are a dashboard to centralize service data and the possibility to make and secure full configuration backups. Along with them are disk usage information and RAID status. A reporting function keeps admins continually informed and generates detailed summaries.
The project meanwhile doesn't want to rest on its laurels and presents a roadmap for future development and releases. Soon to come should be integration of the Asterisk telephony engine and a captive portal. Captive portals are familiar at airports and other locations as authentication devices: after wireless access, users land at a website and need to register (usually at a cost) to gain Internet access.
Ebox is available as Ubuntu packages, but you can also download as ISO and install it on Live CD for testing. A comprehensive user's guide describes the important configuration steps. Developers can also take a look at the developer's guide.
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Linux is the Largest Software Development Project in History
But if you are not using the latest Linux kernel, your system is insecure.
Linksys Says Yes to Open Source Firmware
Home routers will give room for custom firmware but still comply with FCC rules
OwnCloud Founder Resigns
Frank Karlitschek will continue to lead the open source ownCloud project
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS released
"Xenial Xerus" comes with a new packages format and several improvements for the enterprise.
MS Visual Studio Code Editor is Available for Linux
Linux users can now download and install the Windows code editor
Open Container Initiative announces Image Format Project
New initiative will address security and interoperability concerns around container technology.
Red Hat Lures Developers with Free RHEL and Container Development Kits
Developers can use RHEL as a development platform without a subscription fee.
Microsoft Brings the Linux Command Line to Windows
Windows users will soon have native access to the Bash shell.
Internet Research Group Proposes Better Email Standard
Improvements to SMTP will provide better guarantee of confidentiality
New Nvidia Driver Offers Wayland Support
Graphics vendor embraces new reality in Linux graphics


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Alberto Bacchelli and Christian Bird
May 2013
Code review is a common software engineering practice employed both in open source and industrial contexts. Review today is less formal and more "lightweight" than the code inspections performed and studied in the 70s and 80s. We empirically explore the motivations, challenges, and outcomes of tool-based code reviews. We observed, interviewed, and surveyed developers and managers and manually classified hundreds of review comments across diverse teams at Microsoft. Our study reveals that while finding defects remains the main motivation for review, reviews are less about defects than expected and instead provide additional benefits such as knowledge transfer, increased team awareness, and creation of alternative solutions to problems. Moreover, we find that code and change understanding is the key aspect of code reviewing and that developers employ a wide range of mechanisms to meet their understanding needs, most of which are not met by current tools. We provide recommendations for practitioners and researchers.
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For patches with plastic backs or no exposed fabrics, you must use the following directions before you apply the Fun Patch Attach to the back of the patch. With a sharp knife or razor, score the plastic backing to expose the fibers of the patch. Be careful not to cut into the patch.
Apply Fun Patch Attach along the edge of the entire patch back.
Let glue dry for 10 minutes.
Preheat iron on cotton setting (no steam).
Position patch on garment.
If you cannot iron the reverse (back) side, cover patch with old T-shirt or the pillowcase to avoid scorching. Iron for about 90 to 120 seconds moving the iron around to avoid scorching. Thicker patches may require longer ironing times. If you need to iron longer than 90 seconds verify you are not scorching the patch or garment.
If possible, iron on reverse (back) side of garment for 90 seconds for best results.
Patch backs come in different forms: plain fabric, plastic coated with an exposed embroidered edge, and a completely coated plastic back with no exposed embroidery.
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Learn the Tech to Trace Your Roots: California Family History Expo
Learn the tech to trace your roots at the California Family History Expo, October 8-9 at the Alameda County Fairgrounds, 4501 Pleasanton Avenue, Pleasanton, California. "Family History Expos can be a beacon in a dark sea of confusing documents and information,†founder and president Holly Hansen said. "We want to be a guiding light.†The Expo begins at 8 a.m. on Friday with a keynote address by Beau Sharbrough. Houston native and graduate of Texas A&M, Beau is presently selfâ€employed, maintains the RootsWorks.com website and is the author of Gene's Anniversary Scrapbook. He was the founder of the FGS and GENTECH web sites, former president of GENTECH, Product Manager at Ancestry.com and VP of Content at Footnote.com. "He is an amazing speaker and we can't wait for him to open the show,†Hansen … Read entire article »
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Meet our Bloggers of Honor for the California Family History Expo
We are very excited to introduce you to our Bloggers of Honor for the California Family History Expo. Our Bloggers report on all things Expo related, from the vendors they meet to the classes they attend. Check out their blogs for some great genealogical reading! Elizabeth O'Neal Little Bytes of Life The Graveyard Rabbit of the California Central Coast Craig Manson Geneablogie Sheri Fenley The Educated Genealogist Leah Allen The Internet Genealogist Stay tuned as we announce the names … Read entire article »
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'Twas the night before kickoff, in two-thousand and ten,
And the Cyclones and Hawks would do battle again.
The experts were crowing, There isnt a chance,
For the Cyclones to do the Cy-Hawk victory dance.
The Hawkeyes were confident, and ranked very high,
And their fans saw the limit as only the sky.
But the Cardinal and Gold were a much improved bunch,
They show up to work with their hard hats and lunch.
The players were tucked away snug in their beds,
As the next days game plans danced in their heads.
The Hawks had just feasted on ribs by the slab,
But Clayborn was late, he couldnt get a cab.
As game day arrived all the tailgaters kicked in,
Hollering loudly, Let the party begin!
There was lemonade, iced tea and all different pops,
Hey, you didnt dare drink, there were too many cops.
Then the stadium filled, the one named after Nile,
The big game would begin in just a short while,
The rain, it had ended and the sun filled the sky,
As the mascots went at it, ol Herky and Cy.
Both the teams hit the field, the Hawks in their swarm,
As Coach Herman got ready to outsmart old Norm.
Paul Rhoads led the Cyclones out on the field,
And their swagger said, Iowa, we will not yield.
"Now Arnaud, Now Franklin, Now A.J and Knott!
Lets give the Hawkeyes all that we got!
On Money, On Sed, On L.J. and Hicks,
Lets go toe-to-toe, and lets beat those ******!"
"To the flip of the quarter,
To the kick of the ball!
Now dash away! Dash away!
Dash away all!"
The Cyclones called tails, and the coin flip agreed,
And the Hawkeyes would be the team using the tee.
It was Leonard who grabbed the opening kick,
With a return to the forty, he looked pretty slick.
The offense was clicking, just dunking and dinking,
And slowly the Hawk defenses heart began sinking.
This was not the new offense they had faced just last year,
No, this one was moving in a whole different gear.
Eleven plays later the Clones scored a TD,
15 fruitless quarters the streak would not be.
That first score was huge, to quiet the crowd,
But the Hawks would soon return them to loud.
Their first offensive series proved to be just as pretty,
as they scored and gave energy back to Iowa City.
It was 7 to 7 at the end of the first,
And now the Big Game was fully immersed.
The second was quiet, as the defenses got tight,
Both kickers missed field goals, they were off to the right.
But just before halftime, the Cyclones would strike,
23 yards to Franklin, touchdown! , we like!
It was Cyclones by 7 as they went to the break,
And the Hawkeyes were starting to look like a fake.
When the third quarter began, the Hawks had the pig,
And they came out as sloppy as a three dollar wig.
It was Stanzi to Simms
thats right, hes a Clone,
but the Hawkeyes would hold ground inside the red zone.
The Cyclones would settle for an 18 yard kick
And Mahoney would boot it between the sticks.
It was 17-7 midway through the fourth,
As the Cyclones defended the goal to the North.
The Iowa offense would find it a groove,
And a touchdown by Hampton showed he could still move.
Now the lead is just three, and State has the ball,
But the game-winning drive would frustratingly stall.
A punt, then a play, and a TD
we thought,
But for pass interference, McNutt just got caught.
So a moderate field goal was the next play they would try,
If Mossbrucker would make it, the game would be tied.
He lined up from 40 and stared at the post,
And drilled it to give a big boost to the hosts.
OVERTIME! Thats what the announcers proclaimed,
Iowa State won the flip, and their defense was named.
The first play was a pass, Ricky to D.J.K.,
But Dutch got penetration, got a paw in the way.
The pass was a duck because it was tipped,
And Simms jumped in and put the ball on his hip,
In a play reminiscent of Lamarcus Hicks,
The Clones win dramatically, on a freakin pick six!
The Cyclone fans screamed, the Hawk fans were hushed,
Their delusional dream of a championship crushed.
It was the most amazing ending this series has seen,
Iowa State 23, Iowa 17
Its a beautiful thing to beat the black and the gold,
Its one of those things that will never grow old.
In the grand scheme of things, its just one of 12 games,
But the Cy-Hawk Trophy
its back home, in Ames.
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And old GC was there, 12-pack in tow,
And he smiled widely, as the Hawkeyes ate crow.
He stumbled into the distance, as the sun set on the day.
"**** Iowa City, you're all so ******* gay."
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GC, he's obviously all man. And I don't think Ellen would go *****, even for GC...
That. Was. Awesome.
Nice job.
hehehehe. Seneca Wallace.
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Honestly this is one of the best parts of the game every year, thanks Illini.
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Honestly this is one of the best parts of the game every year, thanks Illini.
Agreed. Definitely look forward to it.
This was sweet!
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
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Originally Posted by GeronimusClone
And old GC was there, 12-pack in tow,
And he smiled widely, as the Hawkeyes ate crow.
He stumbled into the distance, as the sun set on the day.
**** Iowa City, youre all so ******* gay.
What a freaking crime.... I can't rep it...
great job.
What if this all came true?
read this post quickly - it might not last long
Very nice job. I'm so pumped for tomorrow.
Originally Posted by GeronimusClone
And old GC was there, 12-pack in tow,
And he smiled widely, as the Hawkeyes ate crow.
He stumbled into the distance, as the sun set on the day.
**** Iowa City, youre all so ******* gay.
Haha, at first I read this as "And old Gene Chizik was there..." I was wondering what the hell you meant by that.
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Mil's Mailing List Mail #35
You know what my girlfriend
is? Well - yes: but I was referring to another thing she is. She's this: fractal.
I mean this in the sense that, sometimes, peering into her eyes in an attempt to see the reasoning lying on the other side of them is like zooming in on the Mandelbrot set. You just keep going deeper and deeper; falling into yet another level of bewildering complexity, without there being any chance at all of ever reaching a stable conclusion.
For example, she was telling me the other day that she's getting fat. Now, she's not remotely getting fat - she can add about 10% to her overall body weight simply by using a heavier eyeliner - but that wasn't the issue: the crucial thing was her telling me that she's getting fat, as:
a) She had to be saying something anyway - just as a shark must swim or die, so she has to talk relentlessly during all her waking hours or place her life in the most terrible peril.
b) By telling me she's getting fat, she clearly felt, my position in the matter would rapidly progress - during the course of a couple of sentences - through these three stages: Told - Implicated - Responsible.
It turns out (and I'm a fool not to have seen this on my own, really), that her imagined weight gain was due to my not spontaneously informing her what she should eat.
Margret: 'You should say to me, "Don't eat that cake".'
Me: 'Fff. Not likely. If I said, "Don't eat that cake," you'd be right back with, "Why? Are you saying I'm fat?" And then you'd go into a huff. And then you'd run around to your friends saying, "Mil has been calling me fat." And you'd all sit in the living room, drinking wine and hating me. I say, "Don't eat that cake," and, within three days, I'm the embodiment of male oppression and the Women's Soc at the uni are throwing kitchen waste over me every time I step out of the door. All because I said, "Don't eat that cake," when I couldn't care less whether you eat that cake or not, and I don't think you're fat.'
Margret: 'I shouldn't eat crisps either.'
[Hold on: crisps. I should probably clarify this for the American Listers. What are actually 'crisps', you'd call 'chips'. Um, and what are actually 'chips', you'd call 'fries'. Which, as far as I can see, leaves you with nothing to call 'fries'. I fear you rather painted yourselves into a corner with that one.]
Margret: 'I shouldn't eat crisps either.'
Me: 'So - don't.'
Margret: 'But you sit there eating them.'
Me: 'Erm, well - yes. But I've never said I felt that I shouldn't, have I? In fact, I feel that I should sit here eating them - I feel that really quite passionately. And, anyway, I'm not even vaguely fat.'
Margret: 'Which I am, is what you're saying? You swine.'
Me: 'Ugh. I didn't sa-'
Margret: 'So, you've said I'm fat.'
Me: 'I d-'
Margret: 'And it'd be a lot easier for me not to eat stuff if you didn't as well. Yet you just don't want to help, do you? Typical.'
Me: 'Look, do you think you could talk about this later, at all?'
Margret: 'When later?'
Me: 'When I'm not here.'
So, that's the background. Then, the following evening, I'm standing in the kitchen and she comes in to get something to eat. She opens the fridge and peers inside, at length. I'm under orders to point it out when she's eating needlessly, but have no doubt she'll berate me for doing so. As a compromise, I say nothing, but just flick a glance at the side of her head. Even though it lasts for only a quarter of a second, and she's looking away from me into the fridge, she spots this glance instantly and says, 'What?'
'Fff... Hmmm - celery. Celery's OK, isn't it?'
'Sure. It takes more energy to digest than you get from it. Eat enough celery and you'll actually starve to death.'
She begins to take some celery out.
'As long,' I add, 'as you don't have any dips or anything. Celery's fine, but dips are bad.'
I go into the other room and sit down in front of the TV.
A few minutes later, Margret comes in and sits beside me. She's got a plate - with no dips on it. No. It merely has two, ungarnished, sticks of celery, and a buttered pikelet with a heap of smoky bacon on top.
[Oh, right - pikelet]
Unfathomable as this kind of reasoning is, it's not really Margret at her fractal best. For that, you need to have something that - skidding past, at speed, while your attention is really elsewhere - appears unremarkable, but once you give it the tiniest amount of thought... that's it: you're plunging disorientatingly into a deforming vortex where trying to formulate a definitive theory of What The Hell Is Going On In Her Mind is like trying to put the wind in a box.
So, here's yesterday, then. Blink, and you'll miss it. Think about it, and that's the rest of your day, if not your life, gone.
Margret and I are sitting on the sofa. I get up to make a cup of tea. A moue swirls her face as I walk by. 'Fwww,' she says, looking at me and wriggling a little to convey discomfort. 'Turn the heating up, or down.'
PS. Emily is doing another book and is again looking for 'research' (i.e. anecdotes, stories, personal illustrations, etc.). If you fancy contributing, or simply like clicking links, then the info is HERE.
PPS. Now, this is fab. The Croatian translation of TMGAIHAA came out recently (HERE) - which was rather surprising, as I'd forgotten they were doing one. But then, yesterday, I came home to find a box of the Japanese editions lying in the hallway. The Japanese have clearly approached the cover with the same 'To hell with everything else - what looks cool?' attitude that drives all their artistic endeavours. There's a picture on Amazon Japan HERE, but I folded the jacket out for full effect HERE. I get the feeling that, had the artist been given the job of producing a cover for, say, John Stuart Mill's Considerations on Representative Government, then he'd still have said, "You know... I'm thinking, 'a woman wearing a tasselled, cowboy bikini shooting lipsticks at a sexually-delirious junior sales executive' yes?"
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Yesterday, the New York Post reported that the Alavi Foundation, an alleged front company for the Iranian government, has given "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to the Middle Eastern and Persian studies programs at Columbia and Rutgers universities, which employ "anti-Israel, pro-Iran" professors.
According to the Post, the Alavi Foundation gifted $100,000 to Columbia after the university agreed to host Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2007. Additionally, between 2005 and 2007, the foundation donated over $250,000 to Rutgers' Middle East department headed by Hooshang Amirahmadi. Amirahmadi does not believe Hezbollah and Hamas are terrorist organizations.
As Michael I. Krauss notes in the winter 2008 issue of inFOCUS, many American universities' Middle Eastern studies programs are corrupted by "Gulf state petrodollars." As a result, those programs' professors openly engage in "America-bashing, Israel-bashing" and apologetics for Islamist ideology.
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Grizzlies win 106-93, Lakers lose 4th straight
MEMPHIS, Tenn. A team meeting didn't help stop the losing, and this season just keeps spinning away from the Lakers.
Darrell Arthur scored a season-high 20 points and Mike Conley added 19 as the Memphis Grizzlies beat Los Angeles 106-93 Wednesday night, handing the Lakers their fourth straight loss and 10th in 12 games.
"I do think they play as hard as they can play, and that's what's scary," coach Mike D'Antoni said of his Lakers, who are now 2-10 in January. "I mean I don't know how we can play harder or blame something else. We just didn't play well."
Kobe Bryant said he felt comfortable with what he said in a team meeting before the morning shootaround. He said he doesn't know if his message to Dwight Howard got across. When asked if he hoped it did, Bryant simply answered with a seemingly sarcastic "No." And Bryant said this season certainly is getting up there when asked if it was his toughest in the NBA.
"That Rudy T (Tomjanovich) one was a pretty hard one, too," Bryant said.
That was 2004-05, when the Lakers last missed the playoffs when Tomjanovich was coach part of a 34-48 season.
These Lakers are 17-25 after losing their seventh consecutive road game. D'Antoni had talked before the game about having an All-Star team with players not having learned their pecking order. Then Howard missed the second half after aggravating his sore shoulder just before halftime. D'Antoni said the center will be re-evaluated in Los Angeles.
Memphis got to celebrate a big win, a day after trading three reserves to Cleveland. That meant, even with the signing of D-League player Chris Johnson, Memphis only dressed 10 players before clinching the season series over the Lakers with one game left in Los Angeles on April 5.
"It was just a great team win," Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said.
Rudy Gay, Zach Randolph and Tony Allen added 12 points apiece as Memphis improved to 12-0 when scoring at least 100 points. Randolph also grabbed 10 rebounds. The Grizzlies scored a season-high 60 points in the paint, compared to 34 for the Lakers with Howard out the second half.
Bryant scored 29 points for the Lakers, Metta World Peace added 15, Pau Gasol 13 and Earl Clark 11.
Los Angeles came in as the NBA's fifth-best scoring team, averaging 102.6 points. But it was the Grizzlies topping 100 points for the first time since Jan. 11 against the Spurs, and they scored their most points since getting 113 against Sacramento on Jan. 7.
Pau Gasol, coming off the bench again, believes defense remains the Lakers' biggest problem.
"We make these teams look a lot better offensively than they really are," the Lakers forward said. "That's something that's pretty negative. Pretty alarming."
The Grizzlies had a short bench after trading three players to the Cavaliers on Tuesday, only getting Jon Leuer back in a move freeing up Memphis from the luxury tax. But the paperwork hadn't cleared on the physicals of the trio going to Cleveland in time to have Leuer available against the Lakers.
Then Marc Gasol, Randolph, Hamed Haddadi and Jerryd Bayless all picked up two fouls each in the first quarter. That forced Hollins to rotate his Grizzlies to keep them fresh, and rookie Tony Wroten, who has gotten most of his playing time in the D-League in Reno this season, had a career-best nine points by halftime.
"When we are faced with adversity, we show that we can win," Allen said. "When adversity comes, when guys get hurt, we pull together."
The Lakers started quickly, scoring the first six points of the game and forced four turnovers. They looked like they had listened to D'Antoni's plea for better defense.


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Nov. 10, 2006
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - Jennifer Humphrey scored 15 points, and Samantha Mahoney added 11 more as No. 15 Kentucky opened its season with a 80-51 win Friday night against Washington State.
The Wildcats advance to play Indiana on Sunday in the final of the four-team Women's Sports Foundation Tournament. The Hoosiers defeated Wake Forest 75-53 in the other semifinal.
Kentucky's pressure forced the Cougars into 22 turnovers, which the Wildcats converted into 34 points.
The Wildcats jumped out to an early 6-0 lead in the first half. After taking a 37-19 lead at halftime, Kentucky scored the first 14 points of the second half for a game-high 53-19 lead. All 12 Kentucky players scored.
Kentucky senior forward Humphrey paced the team in the first half, draining all four of her shot attempts and adding a free throw to lead the team with 9 points at the break.
Freshmen Lydia Watkins and Brittany Edelen each added eight points for Kentucky, and sophomore guard Moe Gamble scored seven.
Nakejia Kelly and Adriane Ferguson each scored 12 points to lead Washington State, which lost its season opener for the first time in four years.
Kentucky now has won nine consecutive season-openers.
Note: Washington State's Kate Benz eclipsed the 700 career rebound mark becoming the fourth person in Washington State history to reach that milestone. Benz current total stands at 701. The WSU all-time leader in career rebounds is Cassandra Overby, who pulled down 875 rebounds from 1981-84.


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I have read that Scala's type system is weakened by Java interoperability and therefore cannot perform some of the same powers as Haskell's type system. Is this true? Is the weakness because of type erasure, or am I wrong in every way? Is this difference the reason that Scala has no typeclasses?
The big difference is that Scala doesn't have Hindley-Milner global type inference and instead uses a form of local type inference, requiring you to specify types for method parameters and the return type for overloaded or recursive functions.
This isn't driven by type erasure or by other requirements of the JVM. All possible difficulties here can be overcome, and have been, just consider Jaskell - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JASKELL/Home
H-M inference doesn't work in an object-oriented context. Specifically, when type-polymorphism is used (as opposed to the ad-hoc polymorphism of type classes). This is crucial for strong interop with other Java libraries, and (to a lesser extent) to get the best possible optimisation from the JVM.
It's not really valid to state that either Haskell or Scala has a stronger type system, just that they are different. Both languages are pushing the boundaries for type-based programming in different directions, and each language has unique strengths that are hard to duplicate in the other.
Scala's type system is different from Haskell's, although Scala's concepts are sometimes directly inspired by Haskell's strengths and its knowledgeable community of researchers and professionals.
Of course, running on a VM not primarily intended for functional programming in the first place creates some compatibility concerns with existing languages targeting this platform. Because most of the reasoning about types happens at compile time, the limitations of Java (as a language and as a platform) at runtime are nothing to be concerned about (except Type Erasure, although exactly this bug seems to make the integration into the Java ecosystem more seamless).
As far as I know the only "compromise" on the type system level with Java is a special syntax to handle Raw Types. While Scala doesn't even allow Raw Types anymore, it accepts older Java class files with that bug.
Maybe you have seen code like
Scala's type system does support type classes, although in a more verbose way than Haskell. I suggest reading this paper, which might create a different impression on the relative strength of Scala's type system (the table on page 17 serves as a nice list of very powerful type system concepts).
Not necessarily related to the power of the type system is the approach Scala's and Haskell's compilers use to infer types, although it has some impact on the way people write code. Having a powerful type inference algorithm can make it worthwhile to write more abstract code (you can decide yourself if that is a good thing in all cases).
In the end Scala's and Haskell's type system are driven by the desire to provide their users with the best tools to solve their problems, but have taken different paths to that goal.
another interesting point to consider is that Scala directly supports the classical OO-style. Which means, there are subtype relations (e.g. List is a subclass of Seq). And this makes type inference more tricky. Add to this the fact that you can mix in traits in Scala, which means that a given type can have multiple supertype relations (making it yet more tricky)
Scala does not have rank-n types, although it may be possible to work around this limitation in certain cases.
I only have little experenice with Haskell, but the most obvious thing I note that Scala type system different from Haskell is the type inference.
In Scala, there is no global type inference, you must explicit tell the type of function arguments.
For example, in Scala you need to write this:
instead of
This may cause problem when you need generic version of add function that work with all kinds of type has the "+" method. There is a workaround for this, but it will get more verbose.
But in real use, I found Scala's type system is powerful enough for daily usage, and I almost never use those workaround for generic, maybe this is because I come from Java world.
And the limitation of explicit declare the type of arguments is not necessary a bad thing, you need document it anyway.
Well are they Turing reducible?
See Oleg Kiselyov's page http://okmij.org/ftp/ ... One can implement the lambda calculus in Haskell's type system. If Scala can do that, then in a sense Haskell's type system and Scala's type system compute the same types. The questions are: How natural is one over the other? How elegant is one over the other?


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William Nicholson, the British screenwriter of last year's Nelson Mandela biopic - Nelson Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom, which starred Idris Elba in the title role - is apparently devastated that his film wasn't quite the critical and commercial hit that he obviously expected it to be, telling the attending audience at The Hays Festival (an annual literature & arts festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Wales for ten days, from May to June) that Oscar voters ignored his film because "12 Years a Slave sucked up all the guilt about black people."
In other words, according to Nicholson, what we call "white guilt" is a finite thing, and there's only so much of it to go around - especially when it comes to Oscar-bait movies that tell stories about black people during prolonged periods of cruel and unjust treatment at the hands of whites.
But all kidding aside (somewhat), the UK's Telegraph says that the 66-year-old Nicholson (whose resume includes critical faves like Gladiator and Shadowlands), who spent 15 years working on his Mandela screenplay adaptation, expected it to do as well as Steve McQueen's slave drama.
"12 Years a Slave came out in America and that sucked up all the guilt about black people that was available [...] They were so exhausted feeling guilty about slavery that I don't think there was much left over to be nice about our film. So our film didn't do as well as we'd hoped, which was a bit heartbreaking [...] We showed it to test audiences very extensively and it got astounding responses. These things are measured in percentages and it was in the high 90s every time. So, honestly, we thought we had a winner. And when it didn't become a winner it was devastating, actually, it was very distressing [...] I really thought it was going to win lots of awards, partly because it's a good story but also because I thought I'd done a really good job and the director had done a really good job. So it has been very tough for me."
Heavy, Mr Nicholson. Heavy.
Forget that the film was quite disappointingly ordinary, considering the extraordinary life lived by its subject, as it kept audiences at an arm's length, serving as not much more than a 2 1/2-hour highlight reel, as if his Wikipedia page was the source material, all-too flattering of the man. Surely Mandela deserved better than what was essentially a walk around the block.
But Nicholson didn't stop there. He must have been drinking that night, because he certainly wasn't shy about much apparently. He also shared his process in writing the biopic, telling the audience that he had to "make up" most of Mandela's speeches used in the film because, according to him, the real speeches were too dull.
"All but one of the speeches were made up by me because his own speeches are so boring. I know it sounds outrageous to say a thing like that, but when he came out of prison he made a speech and, God, you fell asleep. It's a sadness. In all the speeches there's always a good line, but they're not very good."
Now, I can't claim to be an expert orator, nor am I an authority on the power (or lack thereof, according to Nicholson) of Mandela's speeches. But even if I were, I'd say that it takes a certain amount of gall to dismiss the speeches of a man whose words and actions inspired and influenced many, as "boring" and "not very good."
And even if he felt that way, was it necessary to vocalize? Or is he just bitter about the film's lackluster reception in the USA, despite all the hard work he put into it, including having to write all of Mandela's speeches for the film from scratch?
Listen to Mandela's iconic 1964 impassioned speech - "An ideal for which I am prepared to die" - which he gave before the trial whose verdict would see him imprisoned for nearly 3 decades (a speech considered by some of those who rank these things, as one of the greatest of the 20th century).
Unfortunately the speeches Nicholson says he wrote for the film, as spoken by Idris Elba, were maybe also considered too "boring" and "not very good" by Academy voters and audiences alike, which contributed to the film's humdrum Stateside reception.
But some questions for you folks: is there enough "white guilt" to go around when it comes to voting on Oscar-bait movies that tell stories about blacks during periods of oppression at the hands of whites? Or is there only so much available for just one of that movie type? And if you're white, and you're reading this, did 12 Years A Slave suck up all the guilt you felt over past injustices against blacks in this country, as Nicholson argues, so much that you simply had none left to give when you saw Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom?
Or do you agree (no matter what your ancestry is) with Nicholson's theory?
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7. College of Fine Arts
The faculty has approval to offer the following courses in the academic years 2002-2003 and 2003-2004; however, not all courses are taught each semester or summer session. Students should consult the Course Schedule to determine which courses and topics will be offered during a particular semester or summer session. The Course Schedule may also reflect changes made to the course inventory after the publication of this catalog.
A full explanation of course numbers is given in General Information. In brief, the first digit of a course number indicates the semester hour value of the course. The second and third digits indicate the rank of the course: if they are 01 through 19, the course is of lower-division rank; if 20 through 79, of upper-division rank; if 80 through 99, of graduate rank.
School of Music
The University of Texas at Austin is an institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music, approved for both its undergraduate and its graduate degrees in music. The requirements for entrance and for graduation given in this catalog are in accordance with the published regulations of the association.
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The College of Fine Arts offers courses in several areas of music. The undergraduate courses available in music performance, music literature, music studies, and music theory are listed below; complete descriptions of these courses are given in the following section.
Music Performance
All students who take Music 420R or 460R or instrument course 201, 202, 210, 412, 260, or 462 must file an Application for Instruction in Music Performance before each semester or summer session. Students must obtain the Student's Card portion of their application at the School of Music Student Office before attempting to register for a music performance course. The card indicates the faculty member to whom the student has been assigned and also serves as the student's Practice Room ID Card.
All students enrolled in an instrument course must fill out a Music Performance and Jury Report at the end of each semester or summer session for each course taken.
Students who receive a grade of D or F in any music performance course may not register for that course the next semester until the requests of other students for such work have been met.
Any of the following courses may be repeated for credit on the recommendation of the appropriate music performance jury.
101G. Beginning Music Performance.
Music Literature
302L. An Introduction to Western Music.
Music Studies
115D. String Instrument Fundamentals.
Music Theory
605. Musicianship.
Unless otherwise stated below, each course meets for three lecture hours a week for one semester.
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Lower-Division Courses
101G. Beginning Music Performance.
201J. Beginning Class Piano for Nonmusic Majors.
201K. Second-Semester Class Piano for Nonmusic Majors.
201M. Beginning Music Performance: Class Piano.
201N. Beginning Music Performance: Second-Semester Class Piano.
201S. Beginning Music Performance: Class Harp.
201T. Beginning Music Performance: Second-Semester Class Harp.
302L. An Introduction to Western Music.
302P. Introductory Topics in Western Music.
303M. Introduction to Traditional Musics in World Cultures.
303N. Introduction to Popular Musics in World Cultures.
303P. Topics in Music of World Cultures.
605. Musicianship.
606. The Elements of Music.
307. Topics in Popular Music.
Topic 1: Music of Black Americans. Same as African and African American Studies 317 (Topic 2: Music of Black Americans).
210J. Beginning Instruction in Music Performance: Third-Semester Class Piano.
210K. Beginning Instruction in Music Performance: Fourth-Semester Class Piano.
411. Ear Training and Sight-Singing.
612. Structure of Tonal Music.
313. Fundamentals of Music.
313M. History of Western Music: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.
313N. History of Western Music: Nineteenth Century to the Present.
214C. Beginning Composition.
115D. String Instrument Fundamentals.
115E. Brass Instrument Fundamentals.
115F. Woodwind Instrument Fundamentals.
115G. Guitar Fundamentals.
218J. Beginning Jazz Improvisation.
219. Diction.
Upper-Division Courses
420R. Junior Recital.
221J. Musical Analysis.
221K. Musical Analysis.
222J. Instrumental Conducting.
222K. Instrumental Conducting.
223J. Choral Conducting.
223K. Choral Conducting.
224G. Intermediate Composition.
224J. Advanced Composition.
325L. Counterpoint.
325M. Counterpoint.
226G. Orchestration and Arranging.
226J. Orchestration and Instrumentation.
226K. Orchestration and Instrumentation.
226N. Choral Arranging.
228G. Jazz Theory.
228J. Intermediate Jazz Improvisation.
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James Ray "Jim" Mabry, 80, passed away Thursday, May 29, 2014, in Franklin. He was a longtime resident of Morgantown.
He was born on May 21, 1934, to Fred Weaver and Elsie Mae (Curtis) Mabry. He married Patricia Ann (Kinnett) Mabry. She preceded him in death in 1977.
Jim is survived by one son, Tracy Mabry of Morgantown; one daughter, Trella (Doug) Stahl of Franklin; and three grandsons, Jonathan Stahl, Kevin Stahl and Trent Mabry.
He also was preceded in passing by his parents.
He was a graduate of Union High School and was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
He was a self-employed farmer. Jim was a security guard for Uniroyal in Indianapolis for many years. Later he worked as a security guard at Community Hospital South and as a delivery driver for Skelgas.
Jim so enjoyed spending time with his three grandsons.
A service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at Flinn & Maguire Funeral Home, 2898 N. Morton St. (U.S. 31 North) in Franklin. Friends may call from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Forest Lawn Memory Gardens in Greenwood.
The family would like to thank the Homeview staff for their kindness and excellent care they provided Jim.
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|Kansas rejects decision on N-CORPE arbitration
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|Thursday, 03 July 2014 15:43
Nebraska seeking
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By Russ Pankonin
The Imperial Republican
It came as no surprise when Kansas officially rejected an arbiter's findings on the N-CORPE augmentation project in Lincoln County.
In May, Arbitrator Jeffrey C. Fereday issued his decision on whether Nebraska should receive full credit for pumping of the Lincoln County project.
Just as he ruled in the arbitration over the Rock Creek augmentation project in Dundy County, Fereday said Nebraska should receive full credit for the augmentation pumping in Lincoln County.
The Lincoln County project was developed as a joint venture of four natural resource districts (NRD), that formed a joint public agency often referred to as N-CORPE. That stands for Nebraska Cooperative Republican Platte Enhancement Project.
The NRDs include the Upper, Middle and Lower in the Republican Basin and the Twin Platte in the Platte Basin.
Full credit heart of the issue
Nebraska and N-CORPE sought full credit for the augmentation pumping on the project. The water flows from the well field into Medicine Creek and then into Harry Strunk Lake northwest of Cambridge.
Presently, the state only receives 53.5 percent credit towards compact compliance with Kansas.
Jasper Fanning, manager of the Upper Republican NRD, said if Nebraska was getting 100 percent credit for the pumping on both the Rock Creek and Lincoln County projects, compact compliance would have already been met for 2014.
However, since Kansas has rejected the arbiter's decision in both instances, Fanning said they have to operate the projects as if they only receive the current credits. Credit for the Rock Creek project is 69.3 percent.
That means they must pump 20,000 acre feet of water from the Rock Creek project and 42,000 acre feet (AF) from the Lincoln County project to meet the necessary 36,000 AF to stay in compliance with Kansas.
With 100 percent credit, Fanning said only 15,000 AF of water would have to be pumped from Rock Creek and 21,000 AF from Lincoln County.
Two options available
Colorado and Kansas also went to arbitration over Colorado's augmentation project in northeast Colorado.
After the arbitration, Kansas did agree to let Colorado pump the project at 10 percent credit for one year only.
Fanning said that since Kansas has rejected the crediting of the augmentation projects, only two options remain at this point.
One would be for the three states to come to some out-of-court settlement based on the arbiters' rulings.
The other would be for Nebraska and Colorado to bring an original action against Kansas in U.S. Supreme Court. That would mean the appointment of another special water master and two to three years of continued litigation.
High court to hear arguments on water master rulings
There's still pending action before the U.S. Supreme Court over the ruling by the special water master dealing with a lawsuit Kansas filed against Nebraska in 2010.
In November, 2013 Special Master William Kayatta, Jr. ruled that Kansas was only entitled to $5 million in damages versus the $80 million they sought from Nebraska for non-compliance.
In addition, he said the compact accounting did not account for imported water that comes into the Republican River Basin as seepage from Platte River irrigation canals.
He also ruled that Kansas was responsible for all of the evaporation of water stored for their use in Harlan County Dam near Alma.
He also ruled that Kansas' demand for Nebraska to permanently shut down 302,000 irrigated acres should be rejected.
The U.S. Supreme Court just began its summer recess. Fanning said it's likely the arguments by the three states before the high court will take place sometime this fall.
He doesn't expect any ruling by the high court until sometime in 2015.
The imported water calculations could result in Nebraska getting credit for somewhere between 6,000 and 8,000 AF annually.
The evaporation calculations could provide up to another 8,000 AF annually. These amounts of water would be counted towards Nebraska's compliance if the Supreme Court rejects Kansas' arguments.


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As we've noted a number of times, Republicans have used their majority to pass these ridiculous "suspension" bills that are often bad policy instead of exclusively bringing conservative legislation to the floor. The latest misfire is an attempt by a number of Republicans to pass a bill granting The National Women's History Museum (NWHM) a physical location on the National Mall. One of the biggest | Read More »
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Billy Graham turns 95. One of the most influential person in the world.
Billy Graham turned 95 on November 7th. Why was that important? Most people don't know who he is. Graham rose to prominence in the 1940's by speaking to large groups of people. Graham is an influential spiritual leader; he has had sitting meetings about faith with presidents ranging from Truman to Obama. He was also Spiritual advisor to presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. Although Graham himself is a Democrat he is influential across political lines with his work in the civil rights movements and as a spiritual leader.
Graham has Minnesota connections, and even more surprisingly a connection to The College of St. Scholastica. In 1947 the North Carolina born Graham became the youngest president of an American University at the age of 30. That university, is none other than The University of Northwestern- St. Paul who happen to be the College of St. Scholastica's athletic rivals in the UMAC conference.
Throughout his now close to millennium of spreading his message through large revivals and outdoor gatherings, Graham has reached countless millions of Americans. He has been given countless awards and been the Christian spiritual voice for the nation since World War II. He has also been often mentioned as "the greatest living American." Although he retired in 2005 due to his fragility and Parkinson's, Graham continues to be a spiritual leader through his countless media outlets and outreach programs throughout the country.
Graham's birthday was a star studded affair and showed how important the legacy he has created in America is: "A guest list that included former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Rev. Rick Warren, and businessmen Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump came to pay tribute to a man beloved for his humility and faithfulness." Although he could not muster the strength to preach from the pulpit as in his younger days, he did address the crowd momentarily, to loud applause.
Although he may be a saint in some people's eyes, he has also had his controversies making anti-Semitic remarks while Richard Nixon recorded it. He has been criticized for his Ecumenism in the past as well. Ecumenism is the religious belief that only people of the Christian religion can be included in the afterlife, this of course doesn't usually mesh well with other religions.
Billy Graham is one of the most influential living people in the world. He has had more influence over more people than arguably any other Protestant leader in the history of the world. Although we go to a Catholic school it doesn't hurt to know theological history, and Billy Graham is a living example of exactly that.


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The Churches of Britain and Ireland
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Beaconsfield Spiritualist Church. SK 555 418. © Michael Bourne. Link.
The long-demolished Christ Church (Unitarian) on Peas Hill Road. According to this link, the church was built in 1863-4, closed in 1932. © unitarian.co.uk. This, and many other old engravings on this website, are reproduced from the downloadable books on the Unitarian Church Headquarters website here. The books are Pictures of Unitarian Churches by Emily Sharpe (1901) and the 1914 edition of Nonconformist Church Architecture by Ronald P. Jones M.A, (Oxon), and the images are reproduced by kind permission of James Barry of Unitarian Church Headquarters. My appreciation also to Mike Berrell for his efforts in this regard.
Congregational Church (1863). Another view. The congregation of St. Nicholas is currently meeting here (see St. Nicholas, below). Congregational services are held in the adjoining Cleaves Conference Centre. SK 573 397. All © Howard Richter (2011). Link. Some history. Grade II listed - link.
First Church of Christ, formerly English Presbyterian Church. SK 570 410. © Michael Bourne.
Grangewood Methodist Church at Wollaton. © Janet Gimber (2014). Link.
The former High Pavement Church. © Aidan McRae Thomson.
Mansfield Road Baptist Church. SK 567 415. © Michael Bourne. Link.
St. Andrew. SK 570 411. © Michael Bourne. Link.
St. Mary. © Aidan McRae Thomson. This old postcard dates to no later than 1918 (it has a 1/2d. stamp - the postal rate increased to 1d. in June 1918). From Shayne van Rensburg's Collection. Link.
St. Nicholas. Two further views - 1, 2. Currently (2011) closed, and undergoing re-ordering, the congregation is meeting in the nearby Congregational Church (see above). St. Nicholas is also home to Nottingham's Chinese Christian community. The church is of ancient foundation (some argue pre-Conquest), but the present building dates from the 1670's, replacing one destroyed in the English Civil War. SK 571 396. All © Howard Richter (2011). Link1. Link2. Grade II* listed - link.
St. Peter. © Aidan McRae Thomson. Link.
Ukrainian Catholic
Church of St. Alban on Bond Street, Sneinton (built as the Anglican
St. Albans in 1866-7).
Interior view.
Both ©
Mike Forbester.
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Physics Colloquium - Muons as a Probe of Condensed Matter: a Powerful Complement to Neutron Scattering
Gregory MacDougall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Muons as a Probe of Condensed Matter: a Powerful Complement to Neutron Scattering
Muon spin rotation (μSR) is a technique which uses the parity violating decay of the muon to measure magnetic fields and fluctuations inside condensed matter systems. Over the past forty years, it has made meaningful contributions to the fields of magnetism, superconductivity, quantum diffusion, semiconductor physics, and chemistry. The recent development of low-energy muon beams, make μSR one of the only depth-resolved probes of magnetism at surfaces or in thin films. Partially as a result of this new development, the construction of new μSR facilities is being discussed in China, Korea and the United States, while capacity is being expanded in existing sources. I will give an introduction to μSR, and discuss the scientific questions that can be address with the technique. Example data will be given, with particular attention paid to questions of interest to the neutron scattering community and the complementary information obtained by muons and neutrons.
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Wanted to post this for shits but also to try get some advice. I know how dire the filming and shit is but thats not what its about. In the edit especially near the start its really choppy and you see like cuts/lines kinda as if your filming on a phone. I know its the way youtubes compressing or whatever cause the files of the edit i have on the mac are perfect and smooth and detailed but as soon as it gets to youtube it looks dire even in Hd. Anyone got any advice? I kinda let it slide before but seeing those lines annoying me after spending time making an edit is utter shit so yeah, help?
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