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|Applications are due August 31, 2018, and February 1, and August 1, thereafter annually.
|The ACMP Foundation supports the mission and initiatives of the Associated Chamber Music Players. The Chamber Music Workshop Grants program awards funds to support chamber music camps and workshops for amateur adult musicians. Workshops should accomplish the following goals:
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October 14, 2009
By Paul Feinberg
Kyle Martin ('97) believes that President Barack Obama's "top down" approach to fixing the national economy is a problematic continuation of the Bush-TARP approach, mainly bailing out banks and other financial institutions, and he likens the approach to President Ronald Reagan's "trickle down" economics.
In a well-received paper titled, "The Rise and Fall of Artificial Wealth" which has generated a great deal of media attention and appeared first on the much-read The Huffington Post blog, Martin and co-author Michael Intriligator, a UCLA professor of economics, political science, and public policy and a senior fellow at the Milken Institute, advocate two "bottom-up" policy initiatives. Instead of pumping billions of dollars into large financial institutions and waiting for the trickle down benefits, they believe that implementing benefits that directly affect millions of middle-class Americans will be a more effective way of speeding our economic recovery. (A version of their paper on artificial wealth, complete with new commentary and aimed at the UCLA Anderson audience is scheduled to appear in the upcoming issue of Anderson Assets.)
First, Martin and Intrilligator make the case that, "In the short-term, Americans would have more ability to spend money if the government would pass a bill that would give homeowners the opportunity to convert their current mortgages to interest-only for some duration of time, e.g. one, two, or three years. This could put several hundred dollars of disposable income back into the hands of consumers every month during the duration of the program."
Their second suggestion is for the government to facilitate the creation of new jobs by participating in new venture initiation through matching investment in venture capital funded start-ups in high-tech, biotech, and alternative energy. "There are many start-ups currently seeking to raise capital," Martin and Intrilligator opine. "There are interested investors; however, all that's needed is an entity to lead the round. If the government would take the lead on strategic investments, a multitude of companies would be created which would add wealth to America in the long term."
Martin's macroeconomic work came about almost by accident. He was, most currently, a vice president with Pulselink, a company specializing in semi-conductors. Previously, Martin's career, both before and after earning his MBA, was almost exclusively spent in similar, high-tech ventures. But when Pulselink did not receive the capital expansion it sought, Martin turned to consulting with investors in the high-tech space (including staying on in that capacity with Pulselink) and dabbling in stock trading to make ends meet for himself and his family. To facilitate these endeavors, he began developing macro-economic models that tapped into the finance education he received at UCLA Anderson.
A chance meeting with Intrilligator led to a discussion of the concepts Martin was working on and eventually the pair began to collaborate. "I thought about it, discussed it with Prof. Intrilligator and we decided to look at the vacuum caused by the fall of artificial wealth and to try and predict what type of recovery we could expect and to look at its shape in terms of GDP and employment," said Martin. "We believe it's going to be a slow recovery, not a V-shaped recovery, as some economists have predicted."
Since the publication of their first paper, Martin and Intrilligator, along with new co-author Jud Ireland, have published "Stemming the Rising Tide of Foreclosures Plaguing the Middle-Class With a guaranteed Mortgage Assistance Program (gMAP)," also on The Huffington Post. In their paper, they propose that the government grant 10-year loans to homeowners to help pay their mortgages in the form of a guaranteed Mortgage Assistance Program (gMAP). These loans would be fully repaid, the authors believe, "because they can be secured in the same fashion as a tax lien, so the program is deficit neutral, and hence at no cost to the government."
Martin says he is finding this macroeconomic work particularly rewarding and now hopes to parlay it into new ventures. After spending his career working with high tech startups from Asia to the Silicon Valley, he hopes now to transition the experience he's gained in consulting with institutional investors in the high-tech space to securing a full-time career as a tech-sector analyst. "I want to couple my passion for investments and macroeconomics with my being a veteran of the tech sector and merge those two as an analyst for an institutional investment firm," said Martin. In the meantime, he and Intrilligator plan to continue their collaborations.
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Pedigree Books has announced its 2013 range of Gaming and New Media titles will feature Augmented Reality (AR) technology—an innovation the annuals category has never seen before. This range will be sold as Super Interactive Annuals 2014, available starting August 1 this year.
AR will allow consumers to get added value by downloading a free app onto their tablets and smartphones that enables them to "read" images throughout the book and unlock "Super Interactive" features. Simply holding the device over selected pages creates brand new content, such as extended character profiles, extra stories, and activities including coloring, mazes, puzzles, and a make-your-own poster feature. Around 20 percent of the pages contact an "Exclusive Super Interactive Unlock" icon that will add an exciting new dimension to the experience for Pedigree consumers.
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Homosexual activist Dan Savage, who earlier this year told school students to ignore the "bull—-" in the Bible, now has unleashed a tirade at Family Research Council President Tony Perkins.
FRC was targeted just weeks ago when suspected gunman Floyd Lee Corkins entered the organization's headquarters and shot and injured a man serving as a guard.
The gunman reportedly had been a volunteer in a "gay" community center and made reference to the FRC's Bible-based position on homosexuality.
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At the time, Perkins said the attack came in an atmosphere created by groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, which label the FRC and others "hate groups" for their position on sexuality.
It was during a recent "Fall 2012 Lyceum Series" at Winona State University in Minnesota when Savage accused Perkins and other Christians of wanting homosexuals dead. The rant was uncovered by the investigative reporters at CampusReform.org.
"Tony Perkins and Family Research Council, they tell parents whose kids come out to reject them," he said. "Tony Perkins tells the parents of queer kids to do what he d— well knows drives those kids to suicide.
"Every dead gay kid's a victory for the Family Research Council," he said. "They argue the gay lifestyle is sick and sinful and dangerous and point to suicides … [then they] do everything in their power to make sure that suicide rate does not come down," he charged.
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"Tony Perkins sits on a pile of dead gay kids every day when he goes to work."
He charged all Christians with hatred.
"Isn't it enough God's going to roast me on a spit in hell for all eternity … You don't believe that is going to actually happen [so] you want to persecute me now … just in case. Can you just trust that Jesus hates me as much as you say?"
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Campus Reform reported he demanded, "Why would someone who calls themselves a Christian do that?"
Specifically about Perkins, he said, "I don't understand how real Christians let that little f—er get away with that."
The report said Winona school officials remained unapologetic about the administration-sponsored attack on Christianity.
"We believe that he's an important advocate for the LGBTA community and for simply young people in general to have a place, a safe place, where they can ask natural questions they have about sex and relationships," Kathleen Peterson, who heads the Lyceum Series at Winona, told CampusReform.
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Savage also attacked Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who is seeking re-election, stating, "We will always have ignorant —- like Michelle Bachmann and her faggot husband," he said.
Perkins earlier said the "reckless rhetoric" of the left-wing SPLC contributed to the atmosphere in which the FRC security officer was injured.
He said the SPLC's designation of the Family Research Council as a "certified hate group … marginalizes individuals and organizations letting people feel free to go and do bodily harm to innocent people who are simply working and representing folks from all across this country."
SPLC labeled the Family Research Council a "hate group" in 2010, attributing to the organization the characteristics of groups such as Aryan Nations 88, the National Socialist Movement and the American Aryan Reich.
A number of conservative media and political figures, including Speaker of the House John Boehner and WND editor Joseph Farah, condemned the designation and expressed solidarity with the Family Research Council.
In response, Mark Potok, editor of the SPLC's Intelligence Report, said Perkins' comments were "outrageous" and repeated the charge that the Family Research Council is a "hate group," because it "has knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people."
Potok also claimed that the SPLC condemns political violence from whatever source.
Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier and FBI officials praised the guard, Leo Johnson, for preventing more bloodshed.
An FBI affidavit from Special Agent Garrett Nabors said a surveillance tape showed the suspect talking with Johnson, then pulling a gun and shooting him.
After being wounded, Johnson moved toward Corkins, wrestled the firearm away from Corkins and subdued him, the report said.
The Family Research Council was founded in 1983 by a group of evangelical leaders that included Dr. James Dobson. Today, under Perkins, the group works to support conservative Christian social issues, including traditional marriage and pro-life causes.
Perkins told WND that he's never said anything that could be perceived as supporting Savage's claims.
"He does not know fact from fiction. We see every human being as created by God and deserving love," he told WND. "That doesn't mean we agree with every choice they make, or enable them to make those choices. We want to help them choose wisely."
In a recent address to the National Press Club, he said the shooting was being investigated by the FBI as an act of domestic terrorism.
He said of those who label groups such as the FRC "hate groups," "It is time for the vindictiveness to end … dial down your demonization of those who differ with you. Stop hurling labels of hate, and have a legitimate debate."
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Earlier this year Savage was in Seattle to speak about "anti-bullying." Instead, he used his podium to bash Christians so severely droves of the students fled the auditorium, some say victims of bullying themselves.
The National High School Journalism Convention, hosted jointly by the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association, was supposed to give aspiring students exposure to professional journalism workshops designed to make the journalists of tomorrow the best that they can be.
One such workshop, featuring Savage, was billed in the convention program as a discussion on how to properly report on bullying.
Savage launched into an attack on the Bible, saying, "People often point out that they can't help it. They can't help with the anti-gay bullying, because it says right there in Leviticus, it says right there in Timothy, it says right there in Romans, that being gay is wrong.
"We can learn to ignore the bulls— in the Bible about gay people," he pronounced, "the same way we have learned to ignore the bulls— in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation. We ignore bulls— in the Bible about all sorts of things."
In this video of the speech below, students can be seen streaming out a few at a time, but begin to leave in groups when Savage continues to blast the Bible as "a radically pro-slavery document."
While much of his audience walked out on him, Savage continued the Christian-bashing by lamenting the fact that the Apostle Paul didn't tell a Christian slave owner "not" to own slaves, just "how" to own them.
While proclaiming that the Word of God is flawed on issues of slavery, and "got it wrong" on "the easiest moral question humanity has ever faced", he assured his audience that the Bible is also 100 percent wrong on human sexuality and alluded to the retreating students as "pansy a–es."
WND previously reported Savage created a obscene site that redefines Rick Santorum's last name as the byproduct of anal sex.
Editor's note: The video below contains several instances of obscene language.
WND has reported on other instances of Savage's obscene tirades:
- Savage said on HBO that he "wished all Republicans were f—ing dead." (He later apologized.)
- Savage created "Santorum.com" and "SpreadingSantorum.com," redefining Santorum's surname as follows: "San-TOR-um, n. The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex."
- When Americans for Truth CEO Peter LaBarbera asked Savage to take down "Santorum.com," Savage replied, "I'm asking Peter LaBarbera to go f— himself."
At the Seattle conference, Savage also turned his remarks to the country's Republicans. He described the Old Testament custom of stoning a girl on her wedding night if she's discovered not to be a virgin and wondered if the GOP would try to pass a similar law in the U.S.


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Union says CEO makes case for independent American
DALLAS American Airlines pilots say their CEO is making his case for remaining an independent company, but the union still wants a merger with US Airways (LLC).
The union says its board will meet with US Airways' top two executives next week.
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American Airlines pilots approve labor contract
CEO Thomas Horton met for three hours on Thursday with directors of the Allied Pilots Association.
Union spokesman Dennis Tajer said that Horton detailed his plan for American's parent company, AMR Corp., to emerge from bankruptcy protection on its own. He said the union invited US Airways CEO Doug Parker and President Scott Kirby to a meeting next week and the airline accepted. US Airways didn't comment immediately.
Tajer said the union board considered Horton's comments but still thinks a merger is better for pilots and the company.
American's pilots will own 13.5 percent of AMR after it emerges from bankruptcy under a contract that they ratified last week, and this week they joined the private merger talks between the two airlines.
Mike Trevino, a spokesman for American, said in an emailed statement that AMR used Thursday's meeting to thank union leaders for supporting the contract that pilots ratified. He said Horton and other company officials also went to "discuss the next steps in our evaluation of strategic alternatives and exchange information and thoughts about how to continue the positive momentum we are creating for our people and our customers."
American is the nation's third-biggest airline and US Airways is fifth-biggest. Combined they would be about the same size as industry leader United Airlines (UAL).
There is no guarantee that the current talks will produce a deal. Either airline could try to force a merger or acquisition of the other, or both could decide to remain independent.


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Check out our exclusive interview with Kelly Osbourne where she discusses dying her hair purple and her latest mane change
It's hard for us to remember a time when Kelly Osbourne was not sporting her lavender locks (she's had the color for four years now), and she feels the same way, saying she's never felt more herself than with her brightly-hued do. She recently sat down with PEOPLE to discuss her most recent mane change and what it was like when she first debuted her purple hair.
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"Basically my color has become me. The first time I dyed it and looked in the mirror, I saw myself and I felt like me," she told PEOPLE while stopping by to promote Wheat Thins Popped. "I'll never be a natural girl. I'll never be normal or simple. The most insulting thing someone said to me was to call me 'beige.'"
It's true that Osbourne loves to be anything but ordinary (case in point: her barely-there eyebrows), and the TV personality's dedication to blazing her own trail has paid off. Nearly four years after dyeing her own do, other celebs including Nicole Richie and Ireland Baldwin (not to mention countless style bloggers) have also given the purple hair trend a chance. When asked how she feels about seeing other girls rocking the shade, she says that she is totally supportive. "They don't get that I'm not that kind of girl that will sit there and be like, "You have the same hair as me." I don't own this color; it's just become a part of me."
Recently, the Fashion Police judge shared a picture on Instagram of her latest hair update, sporting a bob with shaved sides, which she explains was a result of feeling too "sedate" with her bobbed hairstyle. "I cut it into a bob — [and] no disrespect to anyone who has a bob, but I just felt like I should be picking up my kid from soccer practice in a 15-passenger van."
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So why go for the bob in the first place? Turns out it wasn't intentional — a stylist accidentally mixed the wrong blend of hair dyes, and chunks of her hair started falling out. "I never mind when stuff like that happens because I get to be inventive and come up with something new," she said of the tress disaster. "I told [the hairdresser] that I kind of wanted to look like, 'Alien chic meets mental patient that's just had electroshock therapy. You know when people have hair burned off at the sides?' And he was looking at me like I was insane, but he was like, 'All right, we'll try it.'"
And lest you think she's found a do and sticking to it, Osbourne says that this half-shaved look may be just the beginning. "Every day I'm looking at it and thinking it needs to be more, it needs to go further back and needs to be shorter. But what I love about it is it's so diverse. When I have to be normal, I [flip my hair in front] and no one knows."
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On Thanksgiving Day, Alex Sims turned 100.
The Van Wyck man credits his long life to hard, but satisfying work on his 225-acre farm at the corner of U.S. 521 and S.C. 5. He bought the land after two stints in the U.S. military.
"It doesn't matter how much money you make if you like what you're doing. Keep it up," said Sims, who cut his own winter firewood with an axe until he was 97. "You have to love your life."
The familiar sounds of Christmas music in concert seems the perfect way to relax and unwind on a Sunday afternoon.
The Capital City Brass Quintet will perform at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at the Olde Presbyterian Cultural Arts Center, 307 W. Gay St., topping off a weekend packed with holiday events.
This Sunday, Dec. 8, the Lancaster Garden Club will sponsor its annual Tour of Homes.
The tour begins at 2 p.m. and is part of the Red Rose Holiday Tour taking place this weekend, Dec. 6-8.
Now in its 27th year, the tour will feature three Forest Hills homes and one downtown location, all decorated for the holiday season.
David Kellin, a Kershaw transplant originally from Crandon Wis., is probably best known for his private practice at Kershaw Counseling as a 22-year trauma-focused counselor for sexually-abused youth.
Others might recognize his name as the professional photographer at Sara's Dad's Photography or a freelance photographer whose works appear in several publications.
Even still, his personal fan club of barbecue aficionados know him for "DK's worst BBQ in South Carolina," he chuckled and said.
North Corner AME Zion Church has been a cornerstone in Lancaster County for 148 years.
The congregation celebrated its anniversary Sunday, Nov. 3, with a special service including a guest choir and proclamations from the city and county. It's the first time the church has recognized the event.
When former slaves organized the church in 1865, its first services were held in an old shop near Waxhaw Presbyterian Church.
A group of Dabney family members from across the state met in late October to preview plans for a new book, "The Dabneys of South Carolina," to be published in early 2014.
The event was hosted by Doris Faye Vinson at her home in Camden.
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Handmade jewelry, woodcraft and much more will line the tables as local vendors provide the perfect opportunity for residents to get a head start on their Christmas shopping while supporting a good cause.
The Lancaster Woman's Club Mistletoe Market is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at Covenant Baptist Church,165 Craig Manor Road.
What began as a recreational sport has turned into a profession sport for Indian Land resident Ricky Wysocki.
Wysocki, 20, is now ranked No. 2 in the world by the Professional Disc Golf Association.
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INDIAN LAND – An Indian Land family has made a bike ride for charity a family tradition, with three generations riding together in the annual Bike MS: PGA Tour 150K Cycle to the Shore bike ride, held Sept. 28-29 in Florida.
Ricky Montgomery, 44, has participated in the ride six times.
His father, David Montgomery, 74, has ridden in the event for 15 years.
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Two Lancaster County Sheriff's deputies traveled to Albuquerque, N.M., to compete in the National Police Shooting Championships Sept. 13-17.
The NPSC is an annual event held in Albuquerque and features about 300 law enforcement officers from all over the country and several from foreign countries. The NPSC is comprised of a multitude of different shooting events. Competitors choose which events they participate in.
Chris McGinn
For The Lancaster News
"We are in an ever-deepening child-rearing crisis, and we need to wake up!" parenting expert John Rosemond told parents at Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church on Sept. 22.
The church invited Rosemond to deliver his "Parenting with Love and Leadership from Tots to Teens," a three-hour seminar on his common-sense approach to child-rearing. About 40 parents attended the event in the church sanctuary.
Seven years ago, Tom and Hope Davis chose Lancaster as their new home. Relocating here from Virginia, they headed south to be closer to their children who live in Belmont, N.C., and at the time, a little further away in Florida. While home searching, they found the perfect house at 4060 Flint Drive in the Shiloh Commons neighborhood.
This is a Halloween tale, especially for my friend, Bill, in Kershaw. Bill has difficulty seeing these days, but can still picture it in his mind. I'm sure someone will read it to him.
It was the last of October and the wind was whistling along Chesterfield Avenue.
Aunt Bess told me that the cold air must have been blowing in from some icy place far away.
Members of Lancaster County EMS, the Lancaster County Sheriff's Department and the city of Lancaster Fire Department are coming together for a night of fun and comedy to raise money for the Disabled American Veterans Chapter in Lancaster.
The "Tribute To Veterans – A Variety and Comedy Show" will take place on Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. in the Bundy Auditorium at University of South Carolina Lancaster.
October is Family Promise Awareness Month, when a local and national focus is put on the problem of homelessness – more specifically the homelessness of children – in Lancaster County and across the country.
Family Promise was founded in 1988 and is a national non-profit organization that mobilizes communities and existing resources to help homeless families regain their independence.
Sunday, Oct. 20, will simultaneously mark two firsts for Lancaster – the first piano-string trio performance since the Vivian Major Robinson Concert series began more than 10 years ago, and the first ever piano-string performance at the Cultural Arts Center.
Three talented musicians from different parts of the globe form the Sekino-Kim-Gruber trio.
The Springs House was alive with activity on Thursday, Oct. 10, as board members and guests gathered for a reception to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Lancaster County Community Foundation.
Debbie Jailette, immediate past chair of the foundation, played the piano as attendees chatted and enjoyed cocktails and hors d'oeuvres during the reception.
Current foundation chair Audrey Curry spoke about the foundation's beginnings and where it stands today.
Theater lovers, mark your calendars – the Community Playhouse of Lancaster County is bringing the Harper Lee classic "To Kill A Mockingbird" to the stage at the Barr Street Auditorium this month.
Directed by Chris Smith, this revised version of "To Kill A Mockinbird" by Christopher Sergel tells the story of Scout, her brother Jem and her father, the attorney Atticus Finch, who finds himself defending a black man charged with the rape of a white woman. The time is 1935, the place is southern Alabama.
The Lancaster County Community Foundation (LCCF) is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a special reception at The Springs House on Thursday, Oct. 10.
Established in 1988, the foundation was created in order to increase the charitable giving resources in Lancaster County.
An initial gift of $50,000 from the Springs Close Foundation got the foundation started.
KARE release
Kershaw Area Resource Community Exchange (KARE) announces a weekend of beauty and hope. With an eye on the future, KARE continues not only to assist neighbors in financial crisis, but also empower them to take charge of their futures.
Through educational workshops – a program that continues to expand – participants are taught various skills that will assist in money saving, further life skill development, networking and more.
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Should you stay home when you are sick?
A flu epidemic is spreading across New York City. Emergency room visits are up 150% from last year, according to city health officials. The flu is accounting for 5% of those visits, and city health officials are urging New Yorkers to get their flu shot. New York received 19,000 reports of the flu this season—more than four times the number last year at this point, according State Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah. People are being advised to stay away from those who are sick. But it's hard to do that when your office cube mate comes in sick. Continue reading
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It was really only a formality, but one that Colorado Rapids head coach Oscar Pareja wanted to announce to his players as they began the final week of preparation for the season opener.
On Tuesday, Pareja gathered the group before practice to formally announce that Pablo Mastroeni would be once again wearing the captain's armband this year, starting Saturday when Rapids kick off 2013 at FC Dallas (6:30 p.m., Altitude TV).
"Pablo has been the captain of this team, so that was not even decision," Pareja told ColoradoRapids.com. "Everyone - all the coaches and players - are aware of that. Our captain is Pablo."
Mastroeni is returning for his 16th season in Major League Soccer after missing all but the first two games of 2012 with concussion symptoms.
"The captaincy is the icing on the cake," Mastroeni said of wearing the armband again. "The most important thing is understanding that you never know a good thing until it's gone. For all these years I've had little things to complain about or gripe about. Being away for a year, you start to realize how grateful you are to train on that hard, snow-pack, synthetic turf field, because you're doing what you love to do.
Pareja on team leaders
"That type of appreciation, not only for the game, but for life, has changed the way I attack everyday. I come out here and am getting back into form, holding myself to the highest level, and hoping the guys are motivated by that - without doing anything over the top, just being who I've always been, working hard, and leading by example."
Mastroeni has been the team's captain on September 23, 2004 when John Spencer handed it to him with three games to go that year. In his absence last year, the captaincy was assigned to defender Drew Moor.
"I know I was wearing it, and stepping in and serving as the captain," Moor said of giving the band back to Mastroeni. "But the way Pablo is around this locker room and this organization, he deserves to have the armband as long as he's playing. I'm certainly happy that he's back and that he's going to be on the field. As long he's playing, he's the leader of this group."
On a team that include many young or new players to MLS, Pareja is comforted in having "6-7 other important veterans" in addition to Mastroeni and Moor as leaders on his team.
"I've always felt that the captain's armband is a symbol, a difference on the field," Pareja said. "But there are players that don't wear it that have as much if not more influence than the one that wears it. We have many players that can be the captain, that are our leaders."


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Adobe Illustrator and touch computing
When Illustrator was first launched in 1987, it was a revolution. For the first time, designers had the freedom to create complex art on screen, thanks to Illustrator and the Macintosh computer. The traditional tools wielded by designers and illustrators — pencils, inking pens, French curves, and rulers — could now by replaced by keyboard, mouse and Illustrator!
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With the move from traditional to digital tools, design became less of a struggle: Production is less of a barrier. Making changes doesn't mean starting from scratch and redoing it all. Sending designs to a client only takes the click of a button. The same design that's used for a magazine ad can be scaled up to billboard size without loss of quality.
But design is also less tactile now. You cannot wield a brush or touch your canvas. You cannot immerse yourself in the design process in the same way as before the computer. The computer has become both the design and the production tool. Mice and keyboards are now the primary interface; you cannot use your hands and fingers in a direct way.
Adobe believes that design, while a professional art which needs rigor and practice, should also be an exhilarating experience. One should be able to dive into it whenever inspiration strikes. It shouldn't matter if you are in your design studio in front of your desktop computer or in a park under the sun with a portable device in your hand.
Microsoft Surface Pro 3: a powerful, portable device
We are excited about the touch-based 2-in-1 computer revolution gaining momentum around us. And we thought, what could be a better use of touch screens than letting designers push through the boundaries of mouse and keyboard and indulge physically in their creative work. Illustrator has been experimenting with touch for some time now; the Touch Type and Free Transform tools, along with support for the touch gestures that surfaced in Illustrator CC, were the result of a long-term vision to make Illustrator touch friendly.
Touch tools in Illustrator
However, Illustrator is not just a set of tools, but a complete design environment. To make Illustrator "touch friendly" meant more than enabling its tools for touch. It requires a complete touch-friendly design experience. Our customers must be able to complete their designs on touch devices without having to rely on a mouse or a touchpad. This also means packaging the overwhelmingly rich user interface of Illustrator into a simple and contextual workspace so it fits onto a screen portable enough to be carried around. And all of this without losing the richness and power that Illustrator offers today.
We wanted Illustrator to be simple yet powerful, touch friendly yet precise, and to fit on a portable device without losing any of its richness. This problem statement has formed the basis of all our touch efforts in Illustrator.
The solution is a touch workspace.
The Illustrator team has been working on a Touch Workspace, or TWS. It's a special workspace in Illustrator that provides touch friendliness on a touch-enabled device, whether it's stylus support, pressure sensitivity or cool gestures to manipulate art and canvas. It will also have simplified UI which must fit beautifully on a portable device.
TWS is a workspace within Illustrator itself, so we are sure that we are not compromising on the power or richness of Illustrator. Beneath a simple and playful touch-friendly interface, it's the same Illustrator that we all trust. And, since it is a workspace, our customers are able to switch to and from it without having to close or save their documents.
See more at Adobe MAX
The Illustrator team will be at Adobe MAX in a few weeks with a special session: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard: The Future of Touch and Adobe Illustrator. If you're heading to MAX this year, be sure to sign up for this session and get an inside look into plans for the future.


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Huge dust storm envelops Phoenix area
Watch a huge dust storm darken skies as it rolls through Mesa, Arizona in this time-lapsed video. VPC
Thousands of utility customers in the Phoenix area were without power for up to several hours Friday evening following a massive dust storm, but a temporary "ground stop" for all incoming flights at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has been lifted.
The Salt River Project tweeted that at least 8,800 customers were without power as of 8:08 p.m. local time, the bulk of whom are in the southeast Valley and Apache Junction area.
An outage map on SRP's website, www.srp.net, indicated less than 150 were still experiencing outages as of 9:15 p.m.
Up to 12,000 were originally without power.
As of 8:10 p.m., Sky Harbor lifted a temporary "ground stop" on inbound air traffic.
The temporary order issued at 6 p.m. meant that no new flights would be routed in from other airports until the ground stop was cleared. It affected departure times for flights heading to Phoenix and, because of connections here, delayed some outbound flights as well.
From about 5:30 p.m. until 12 News went off the air at 6:30, the Sky 12 helicopter was capturing video of a wall of dust beginning to cover parts of Casa Grande and moving north into the Valley.
Video from a news team just west of Casa Grande on Highway 84 showed extremely dark skies, rain and lightning.
Radar showed rain moving north behind the dust, said 12 News meteorologist Caribe Devine, as the dust storm continued to move north into the Valley. By 5:45, storms were active north and west of Casa Grande, with scattered rain storms and lightning south of the Valley, but little rainfall for the Phoenix area.
Visibility on the roads in the affected area was very low. Reports ranged from no visibility to 1/2 mile just south of the Valley before the storm hit the Phoenix area.
Officials advise anyone encountering blowing dust or blowing sand on the roadway to pull off the road as far as possible and put the vehicle in park. Turn the lights all the way off and keep your foot off the brake pedal.


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We had a busy weekend. Saturday morning we went out early for breakfast at a nearby taqueria. Caroline and I had been anticipating "Mexican breakfast" all week: in a stage of our lives where both of us are carrying around expired passports, we get our cultural thrills where we can. The restaurant was empty the whole time we were there which allowed us to relax a little but detracted from the voyeurism we'd hope to enjoy along with our eggs and beans (which were themselves, delicious).
And Saturday night we went out with our friends John and Hallie to The Ravens Club in downtown Ann Arbor (New American small plates, fussy cocktails). The highlights were housemade charcuterie and a rye-based cocktail called the Ill Fashioned. For Jay, though, there was little redeeming about the evening. We left him with a babysitter— a very capable German exchange student named Ronja who lives just down the road from us. Jay turned in his typical babysitter performance: He fell into hysterics as soon as it became clear we were leaving, and then soon after we left he pulled it together just long enough to tell Ronja that he wanted to proceed directly to his crib. (We wonder why he's so bad at being left for the night—it could just be his constitution, or maybe it's that we started him too late on babysitters.)
But the experience that had me thinking this morning took place on Sunday at a one-year-old's birthday party. There I met a pair of Olympic-level marathoners who were there with their two-year-old daughter. The wife, Zuzana, ran in Beijing for Slovakia and the husband Alex's best time so far, 2:18:58, is 58-seconds short of earning him an automatic qualifying spot on the Serbian national team.
I talked with both of them for awhile—about their running careers, her Olympic experience, and about the type of training schedule they'd recommend if I want to try and significantly improve on my marathon time from two-years ago. In our conversation she alluded to the fact that her Olympic run had ended up being very disappointing. After I got home I found a blog that she'd kept during the '08 games which contained the details. She had stomach problems which necessitated two pit stops and she got hit with two huge hamstring cramps in the final miles, which pushed her to the back of the pack and resulted in a 2:49 finish, which was 10 minutes off her best time.
Since the birthday party I've been thinking about my conversation with Zuzana and Alex in the context of my own life, and what I hope for Jay and Wally in terms of how they understand hard work and excellence. Personally, I don't have a particularly strong understanding of the relationship between hard work and achievement. I've worked decently hard at a bunch of things, but I've never applied myself with complete commitment to any one goal or task. As a result, I don't really know what it takes to go beyond basic proficiency in any realm.
By disposition I'm close to the opposite of a Tiger Parent. As I've written many times, I think healthy child development is too complex to be actively managed and it's more important to me that Jay and Wally be well-rounded than that they're excellent in any particular area.
But…I do want Jay and Wally to have a deep understanding, developed from experience, about the relationship between hard work, excellence, and personal fulfillment. I want them to learn what it's like to push through the discomfort of intensive practice, and to come out on the other side with pride in their accomplishments and an ingrained understanding of what it takes to be successful in whatever realm they choose to apply themselves. I don't really know yet how I can help them develop this understanding. I just know that I want to.


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PSU technology students to present 'The Amazing Race'
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
Byron McKay has long been a huge fan of the hit reality show "The Amazing Race."
"With the exception of a few in the first season," he said, "I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode of every season. It's such a great show."
On Thursday, April 25, McKay and several other Pittsburg State University technology education majors will host their own version of the show at Liberal (Mo.) Elementary School. The project, set to run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., is the latest of the annual, elementary-school-based spring programs for technology education majors.
As part of the project, the Liberal students will visit several stations that represent different countries around the world, each stop including a task and an educational lesson designed by the PSU students.
"Just like in the show, the students will go through a series of tasks and adventures in a variety of places," Mike Neden, associate professor in department of technology and workforce learning, said. "Our PSU students have designed and built all of the different stations, as well as the games and lessons that will be presented."
McKay, who graduated from Liberal High School in 2002 and whose daughter is a kindergarten student in Liberal, said he's excited to see the PSU version of "The Amazing Race" in action.
"I've been hoping to get a technology education program started in Liberal, so I kind of pushed for this to take place there," he said. "It's very important that students in these rural schools have these types of opportunities. It's a fun concept, and I'm excited to see the students go through it."
Neden said these projects give the PSU students an opportunity to teach in fun and interesting ways.
"What it does is give them the chance to break out of the traditional classroom mold and present lessons in ways that are both fun and educational," he said. "The elementary students have a blast going through these projects, and they're learning a lot at the same time. It's a new way of teaching and one that we're very excited to present."


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Organic washes did nothing for me and I had a brief foray into the oil cleansing method. By brief, I mean it lasted a week... which was possibly not long enough to really get it to work, but nonetheless, I gave up. I bought another bottle of facial wash and then read that they are often filled with plastic beads that wind up in the oceans. Fantastic. Back to the drawing board! Then, I discovered a mention of using honey instead of soap and since a friend of mine has bees, I bought an extra jar and decided to give it a try.
- Honey is a natural substance, so you and the environment are safe and healthy. And there aren't any plastic blobs that you contributed to our waterways.
- Honey itself is antibacterial AND antimicrobial. Gunk in your pores from dirt and bacteria? Smear that honey on!
- For centuries, honey was used to treat wounds as a salve. Tender skin, new eruptions, rashes and burns can all benefit from a sweet scrub.


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Casting institute draws professionals from around the world
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
Thirty investment casting professionals from around the world are at Pittsburg State University this week for the annual Investment Casting Institute certification course.
The course, in its 13th year at PSU, is conducted at the Kansas Technology Center and is hosted by Russ Rosmait, PSU faculty member and director of the Investment Casting Training Center. The course gives industry professionals a chance to hone their skills in investment casting techniques and processes.
"Some of what we discuss is a refresher for many of the students, and some of it is brand new methods that are available because of new technology," Rosmait said. "The professionals come from all over because they want to be the best they can be and stay on top of advancements in their field."
Lewis Reid, of Supreme Steel in New Zealand, said he signed up for the course as part of his company's focus on growth.
"In this facility, we get to go through the entire investment casting process," Reid said. "We get to see and learn how it should be done. That's a wonderful opportunity for us to have, and we get to have it in a world-class facility."
Jenny Schmitz, of Mercury Marine in Oshkosh, Wis., said she enjoys meeting and networking with other industry professionals.
"This course is extremely valuable because it's so hands-on," she said. "You get to actually do the things you're taught. It really is learning by doing, and to be among peers in the industry is a wonderful bonus. It's nice to bounce ideas off one another and learn about what others are doing."
Scott Mosher, of NALCO in Minneapolis, Minn., is in his 8th year as a course instructor. He said the KTC is the premier site for this type of class.
"This is the only educational institution in the world that I know of that has the complete process application in the labs," Mosher said. "A lot of actual foundries will have these capabilities, but it's rare to find a training facility where the entire investment casting process can be done. This building is a gem in our industry and in many others. We can teach everything the professionals need to know in a student-safe environment."
For more information on the course and ICI, visit www.investmentcasting.org.


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The Republican race dwindled down to three candidates today, with Rick Santorum's announcement that he is suspending his presidential campaign.
With Santorum's departure from the race, Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney appears to have a very clear path to the Republican nomination. The former Pennsylvania Senator has presented the biggest threat to Romney over the past two months, while the other remaining candidates, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, struggled to mount significant challenges in most of the nominating contests.
But there is no indication that either Gingrich or Paul plan to follow Santorum's lead.
In a statement emailed to reporters following today's announcement, Paul's campaign chairman Jesse Benton congratulated Santorum and reiterated Paul's pledge to carry his campaign — and pick up delegates — all the way to the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
"Congratulations to Senator Santorum on running such a spirited campaign," Benton writes in the statement. "Dr. Paul is now the last - and real - conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. We plan to continue running hard, secure delegates, and press the fight for limited, constitutional government in Tampa."


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[UPDATE 2012-03-08: since this post was written eff has changed considerably. For updated information, please visit the eff page.]
I just returned from Paris where I was visiting the INRIA ?r² team. It was a great visit, everyone was very hospitable, the food was great, and the weather was nice. I spoke at their seminar where I presented a new programming language eff which is based on the idea that computational effects are algebras. The language has been designed and implemented jointly by Matija Pretnar and myself. Eff is far from being finished, but I think it is ready to be shown to the world. What follows is an extended transcript of the talk I gave in Paris. It is divided into two posts. The present one reviews the basic theory of algebras for a signature and how they are related to computational effects. The impatient readers can skip ahead to the second part, which is about the programming language.
A side remark: I have updated the blog to WordPress to 3.0 and switched to MathJax for displaying mathematics. Now I need to go through 70 old posts and convert the old ASCIIMathML notation to MathJax, as well as fix characters which got garbled during the update. Oh well, it is an investment for the future.
Algebras and homomorphisms
An algebra $(A, f_1, \ldots, f_k)$ is a set $A$ together with maps $f_i : A^{n_i} \to A$ for $i = 1, \ldots, k$, called the operations. The number $n_i$ is the arity of operation $f_i$. The quintessential example of an algebra is a group, which is a set $G$ together with three operations $u : 1 \to A$, $i : A \to A$, and $m : A^2 \to A$ of arities 0, 1, and 2, respectively. These are of course the unit, the inverse, and the multiplication, and for $G$ to really be a group they have to satisfy the usual group axioms.
For our purposes we need to make two adaptations to the classical view of algebras. Given an $n$-ary operation $f : A^n \to A$ and elements $t_1, \ldots, t_n \in A$, we can form the element $f(t_1, \ldots, t_n) \in A$. The $n$-tuple $(t_1, \ldots, t_n)$ is equivalent to the map $\lambda i . t_i$ where $i \in \{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$. So instead of $f(t_1, \ldots, t_n)$ we shall write $f(\lambda i . t_i).$ Now one quickly gets the idea that there is no need to restrict arity to sets of the form $\{1, 2, \ldots, n\}$. Thus we allow any set $N$ to be the arity of an operation $f : A^N \to A$. (I am using $A^N$ and $N \to A$ as two different notations for the same thing.) The $\lambda$-notation neatly accommodates general arities: given a map $k : N \to A$ and an operation $f: A^N \to A$ we can form the element $f(k) \in A$. An example of an operation with a strange arity is integration $\int_0^1 : \mathbb{R}^{[0,1]} \to \mathbb{R}$ which takes a (measurable) map $k : [0,1] \to \mathbb{R}$ to its integral. Its arity is the closed unit interval.
We shall need operations that take parameters, too. An example of a parametrized operation is scalar multiplication $m : \mathbb{R} \times V \to V$ which takes a scalar and a vector and returns a vector. The arity of $m$ is 1, but $m$ also takes an additional parameter from $\mathbb{R}$. In general a parametrized operation on a set $A$ is a map
$$f : P \times A^N \to A$$
where $P$ is the set of parameters, $N$ is the arity and $A$ is the carrier. We call the pair $(P,N)$ the type of the operation $f$.
A signature $\Sigma$ is a list of operation names together with their types:
$$f_1 : (P_1, N_1), \ldots, f_k : (P_k, N_k).$$
For example, the signature for a group is $u : (1,0), i : (1,1), m : (1,2).$ A $\Sigma$-algebra is an algebra which has operations prescribed by $\Sigma$. The category of $\Sigma$-algebras has as objects the $\Sigma$-algebras and as morphisms maps which preserve the operations, also known as homomorphisms. The free $\Sigma$-algebra $F_\Sigma(X)$ generated by a set $X$ is defined inductively by the rules:
- for every $x \in X$, $\mathtt{return}(x) \in F_\Sigma(X)$,
- if $f$ is an operation name of type $(P,N)$, $p \in P$, and $k : N \to F_\Sigma(X)$ then the symbolic expression $f(p,k)$ is an element of $F_\Sigma(X)$.
The reason for writing $\mathtt{return}(x)$ instead of just $x$ is that it should remind you of $\mathtt{return}$ from Haskell's monads. The elements of $F_\Sigma(X)$ are best thought of as well-founded trees whose leaves are labeled with elements of $X$ and whose branching types are the operations from $\Sigma$.
Given a $\Sigma$-algebra $A$ and a map $r : X \to A$ there is a unique homomorphism $h : F_\Sigma(X) \to A$ such that, for all $x \in X$,
$$h(\mathtt{return}(x)) = r(x)$$
and for every operation $f : (P, N)$ in $\Sigma$, $p \in P$, and $k : N \to F_\Sigma(X)$,
$$h(f(p,k)) = f_A(p, h \circ k).$$
Here $f_A : P \times A^N \to A$ is the operation on $A$ corresponding to $f$. You may view these two equations as a recursive definition of $h$.
Two examples from programming languages
Let us consider two examples of algebras from programming languages.
The first one is mutable store, i.e., a program computing a value of type $T$ with access to one mutable memory cell of type $S$. The content of the cell can be read with operation $\mathtt{lookup}$ and written to with operation $\mathtt{update}$. The situation is modeled with an algebra whose carrier is $T^S$, i.e., a program that computes the result, given the content of the memory cell. The operations
$$\mathtt{lookup} : (T^S)^S \to T^S,
\mathtt{update} : S \times T^S \to T^S$$
are defined as
$$\mathtt{lookup} (k) = \lambda s . k \; s \; s,
\mathtt{update} (t, k) = \lambda s . k \; t.$$
Thus $\mathtt{lookup}$ accepts no parameters (in other words, the parameter space is the singleton 1) and has arity $S$, while $\mathtt{update}$ accepts a parameter of type $S$ and has arity $1$. The two operations satisfy various equations, for example
$$\mathtt{update} (t, \mathtt{update} (u, k)) = \mathtt{update} (u, k)$$
$$\mathtt{lookup} (\lambda s . \mathtt{update} (s, k)) = k.$$
The first one says that writing $t$ then $u$ to the memory cell is the same as writing just $u$. The second one says that writing the value that has just been looked up is the same as doing nothing. You may try writing down all the relevant equations for $\mathtt{lookup}$ and $\mathtt{update}$ before you look them up in papers of Gordon Plotkin and John Power, or Matija's thesis.
Observe that $\mathtt{lookup}$ and $\mathtt{update}$ are polymorphic in the type $T$ of the result. This means that we can use them anywhere in the program, no matter what happens afterwards. Many operations are like that, but not all (we shall see examples later on).
In my experience, two points of confusion arise:
- What is $k$ in $\mathtt{lookup}(k)$? Answer: it is the rest of the program, it is what happens after lookup, it is the continuation.
- Does $\mathtt{update} (t, \mathtt{update} (u, k))$ mean that we update with $t$ and then with $u$, or the other way around? After all, in $\log(\cos(\pi/4))$ we have to compute the inner cosine first and the logarithm second. Answer: update with $t$ happens before update with $u$ because the argument of an operation is the stuff that happens after the operation.
As a second example we take exceptions. To make things simple and familiar, we shall consider just one exception called $\mathtt{fail}$ which takes no parameters. In Haskell such a thing is modeled with the Maybe monad, so let us use Haskell-like notation. The type of $\mathtt{fail}$ is
$$\mathtt{fail} : \mathtt{unit} \to \mathtt{Maybe}\; T,$$
and its action is $\mathtt{fail}() = \mathtt{Nothing}$. This is a bit mysterious but if we write the type of the operation out in full,
$$\mathtt{fail} : 1 \times (1 + T)^0 \to 1 + T,$$
we see that $\mathtt{fail}$ takes no parameters, is a nullary operation, and that a (possibly) aborting program returns either $\mathtt{Nothing}$ or a result $\mathtt{Just}\;x$. How do we model exception handlers? Gordon Plotkin and Matija Pretnar had the important idea that a piece of code with unhandled $\mathtt{fail}$ amounts to an element of the free algebra for the signature $\mathtt{fail} : (1,0)$, while handled $\mathtt{fail}$ corresponds to some other algebra for the same signature. The unique homomorphism from the free algebra to the other one is the handling construct. To see this, consider the following piece of (pseudo)code:
handle: a = 1 b = 2 fail() return (a + b) with: operation fail(): return (42)
The code between
handle and
with is an element of the free algebra, namely the element $\mathtt{fail}()$. Ok, you are wondering where the rest went, but consider this: either the program raises $\mathtt{fail}$, in which case it is equivalent to $\mathtt{fail}()$, or it returns a result $x$, in which case it is equivalent to $\mathtt{return}(x)$. Or to put it in a different way: we can delete all the stuff that comes after $\mathtt{fail}$ because it will never happen, while things before it have no effect on the end result either (provided they are free of computational effects). The
with part tells us that $\mathtt{fail}()$ should be interpreted as $42$. But this is precisely what an algebra for the signature $\mathtt{fail} : (1,0)$ is: a set with a chosen element, in our case the set of integers with the chosen element $42$.
All of what we have just said about exceptions generalizes to arbitrary signatures and handlers: every algebraic computational effect has an associated notion of handlers. In eff you can handle (intercept, catch) not only exceptions, but also input, output, access to memory, etc. Let us look at the theoretical background for this idea.
Let $\Sigma$ be the signature $f_1 : (P_1, N_1), \ldots, f_k : (P_k, N_k)$. An element $t$ of the free algebra $F_\Sigma(X)$ is a well-founded tree whose nodes are the operations $f_i$ and the leaves are elements of type $X$. We think of $t$ as a piece of inert source code of type $X$ with unhandled operations $f_1, \ldots, f_k$. In order to give $t$ a computational interpretation we need to explain how the operations $f_i$ are interpreted. We might write something like this:
handle: t with: operation f_1(p,k): t_1(p,k) operation f_2(p,k): t_2(p,k) ... return (x): r(x)
This means that in $t$ the operation $f_i(p,k)$ is interpreted as $t_i(p,k)$, and that $\mathtt{return}(x)$ is interpreted as $r(x)$. We have seen this before in a different guise. Namely, the above handler is precisely the unique homomorphism $h : F_\Sigma(T) \to A$ into the $\Sigma$-algebra $A$ whose operations are $t_1, \ldots, t_n$, and such that $h(\mathtt{return}(x)) = r(x)$.
A handler may handle only some operations and leave others alone. Let $\Sigma = (f,g)$ be a signature with two operations $f$ and $g$, and we do not bother to write down their types. Let $t \in F_{(f,g)}(X)$ be a term of type $X$ with unhandled operations $f$ and $g$. The handler
handle: t with: operation f(p, k): u(p, k) return (x): r(x)
only handles $f$ and leaves $g$ alone. How should we interpret this? Well, we could say that both operations are handled, except that $g$ is handled by itself:
handle: t with: operation f(p,k): u(p,k) operation g(p,k): g(p,k) return (x): r(x)
Now it is clear that the handler corresponds to the unique homomorphism $h : F_{(f,g)}(X) \to F_{(g)}(Y)$ such that $h(f(p,k)) = u(p, h \circ k)$, $h(g(p,k)) = g(p, h \circ k)$ and $h(\mathtt{return}(x)) = r(x)$. As an exercise you should figure out the types of $u$ and $r$ and write down precisely the algebra that is the codomain of $h$.
Generic effects and sequencing
We have seen that an operation accepts a parameter and a continuation. We cannot expect programmers to write down explicit continuations all the time, so we switch to an equivalent but friendlier syntax known as generic effects and sequencing (or "do notation" in Haskell). An operation applied to parameter $p$ and continuation $\lambda x . c$,
$$f(p, \lambda x . c),$$
is written with generic effects and sequencing as
$$\begin{split}&x \leftarrow f_\mathrm{gen}(p) \\ & c.\end{split}$$
Read this as: "First perform generic effect $f_\mathrm{gen}$ applied to parameter $p$, let $x$ be the return value, and then do $c$."
If $f$ is an operation of type $(P,N)$ then $f_\mathrm{gen}$ is a map $f_\mathrm{gen} : P \to F_\Sigma(N)$ defined by $f_\mathrm{gen}(p) = f(p, \lambda x . \mathtt{return}(x))$.
Sequencing is a special kind of handler. If $t \in F_\Sigma(X)$ and $u : X \to F_\Sigma(Y)$ then sequencing
$$\begin{split}&x \leftarrow t \\ & u(x)\end{split}$$
denotes the element $h(t) \in F_\Sigma(Y)$ where $h : F_\Sigma(X) \to F_\Sigma(Y)$ is the unique homomorphism satisfying
$$h(\mathtt{return}(x)) = u(x)$$
and, for every operation $f_i$ in $\Sigma$,
$$h(f_i(p,k)) = f_i(p,h \circ k).$$
What these equations amount to is that sequencing passes the operations through and binds return values.
A minor complication ensues when we try to write down handlers for generic effects. A handler needs access to the continuation, but the generic effect does not carry it around explicitly. Eff uses the
yield keyword for access to the continuation.
Instances of algebras
Mathematicians often take an algebra $A$ and consider two instances of it, for example in order to form a product $A \times A$. While such a move requires no special notation in mathematics, we need to be more careful about it in a programming language. Each instance of an algebra represents an instance of a computational effect which may require its own resources. For example, if $R$ is an algebra modeling a mutable memory cell, then having two instances of $R$ will be like having two mutable memory cells. In eff instances of algebras are created with the
with keyword:
with E as x: ...
The above code creates an instance of effect $E$ and calls it $x$. The scope of the instance is local, i.e., it only exists inside the block marked with "…".
Without further ado, let us now look at eff proper.


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I just learned today that in classical linear logic, the following type isomorphism holds: $$ (!A \multimap R) \multimap R \qquad\simeq\qquad R^\bot \multimap (!A \otimes R^\bot) $$
So linear CPS and linear state are the same thing, up to a dual notion of observation, and this is the fundamental reason why SSA and CPS are equivalent program representations.
Apparently, this is the observation that prompted Egger, Møgelberg and Simpson to invent the enriched effect calculus, which is a reformulation of Paul Levy's call-by-push-value to make the linear nature of control more apparent. I guess this is also why Møgelberg and Staton were able to prove that linear state is a universal effect.
Now I'm curious how all this fits with the story of the algebraic theory of effects, such as Pretnar and Plotkin's effect handlers.


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Apple equips iMac with next-gen Wi-Fi?
Even more extreme AirPort Extreme
Do Apple's latest iMacs ship with an 802.11n Wi-Fi card? Photos of the Core 2 Duo-based all-in-one consumer computer certainly imply as much, but users will have to install and run Windows Vista to see it for themselves.
That's what a MacRumors.com forum-poster did, and sent the site a photo of Vista's Device Manager showing the presence of a Broadcom 802.11n network adaptor on the iMac's PCI bus.
It's not clear whether the card - assuming it's not a hoax, of course - operates at 802.11n speeds under Vista. Apple certainly doesn't advertise the iMac's Wi-Fi add-in as such. It states the machine has an AirPort Extreme card supporting the 802.11g standard.
802.11n, which boosts 802.11g's raw maximum speed from 54Mbps to 540Mbps, isn't now expected to be ratified as a standard until 2008. That said, the Wi-Fi Alliance has said it will begin certifying 802.11n product interoperability in March 2007, even though it normally shies away from kit based on draft, pre-standard versions of Wi-Fi. Presumably it senses pent up demand for the next-generation wireless technology.
That may well be why Apple's getting in early, equipping new machines with the faster technology in preparation for turning it on with a firmware update once its kit gets the Wi-Fi Alliance's thumbs up or it decides to unveil 'AirPort Extreme 2' in its own good time. ®
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Super 14 - Game of the Week
Waratahs to face tough Crusaders test
April 8, 2010
The Waratahs are confident of having captain Phil Waugh back © Getty Images
A string of upsets allowed the Waratahs to shoot to the top of the Super 14 table last weekend but they face their sternest test of the season on Saturday when they visit Christchurch to face the Crusaders.
The Crusaders, led by points machine Dan Carter, are on a five-match unbeaten run after their draw with the Hurricanes last week, and with six rounds left look a strong proposition to finish in the top four this season.
The Waratahs, meanwhile, capitalised on Carter's missed conversion at the end of that match and the Bulls' first loss of the season to edge into top spot on points difference with an easy win over the Cheetahs.
The New South Wales outfit turned a corner with their thrashing of the Lions in the second of their five straight wins, a run that has seen them become the competition's top try-scorers.
But AMI Stadium has never proved a happy hunting ground for the Waratahs, and they will be desperate to welcome back Phil Waugh - should the flanker pass a late fitness test as expected - to take on All Blacks skipper Richie McCaw in one of Super Rugby's best individual rivalries.
The Crusaders have two changes after their failure to beat the Hurricanes, one of them enforced with Kahn Fotuali'i coming in for concussion-victim Andy Ellis in what has been a constant rotation in the No.9 jersey. Chris Jack has been injected into the second row at Sam Whitelock's expense for a starting debut since his return to New Zealand.
Crusaders coach Todd Blackadder had kind words for the Waratahs in the Australian press this week, saying they deserve to be in top position and applauding their mental strength this season.
He said of his own team: "We will be looking to improve on last week's effort against the Hurricanes and try to exert pressure whenever possible. Chris Jack has earned his start with his experience and work ethic. In saying that, Sam Whitelock has been excellent for us all season.
"It's a real shame that Andy has been ruled out but Kahn has taken his opportunities well and I'm sure he'll do so again on Saturday night. We have enjoyed some good crowds at AMI Stadium this season and we hope for the biggest yet against a team at the top of the points table. We'll need all the support we can get."
Kieran Read and possibly replacement Thomas Waldrom will make their 50th appearances for the Crusaders and in Super Rugby respectively on Saturday, while Carter is closing in on Stirling Mortlock's all-time Super Rugby point-scoring record, although that record is not set in stone given Mortlock's continued participation in the competition.
For the Waratahs, Wycliff Palu is a step ahead of Waugh in the recovery process after being cleared to play at No.8, while his fill-in from last week, Ben Mowen, stays in the back-row at the expense of blindside Dave Dennis. If Waugh fails to make it, his impressive debutant replacement Chris Alcock will retain his place.
Coach Chris Hickey was delighted with the level of depth building in his squad.
Hickey said: "Cliffy's good to go which is great news, and we're really confident with Phil as well. Phil's injury is one which is hard to play through so we need to be assured he'll be ok to take the field before we finalise the team. At this stage though, we're pretty sure that will be the case.
"We have no hesitation whatsoever in taking Chris [Alcock] with us to Christchurch and it's certainly a great reward for his match last week.
"Both Benny and Dave have been playing well and there's not much between them at all," said Hickey. "Ben made the most of his opportunity to start last week when Cliffy was out injured and deserves another chance in the starting side and we know Dave Dennis will provide plenty of punch from the bench."
Crusaders: Colin Slade; Sean Maitland, Robbie Fruean, Ryan Crotty, Zac Guildford; Daniel Carter, Kahn Fotuali'i; Wyatt Crockett, Ti'i Paulo, Owen Franks, Chris Jack, Brad Thorn, Richie McCaw (capt), George Whitelock, Kieran Read
Replacements: Daniel Perrin, Ben Franks, Sam Whitelock, Thomas Waldrom, Willi Heinz, Adam Whitelock, Jared Payne.
Waratahs: Kurtley Beale; Lachie Turner, Rob Horne, Berrick Barnes, Drew Mitchell; Daniel Halangahu, Luke Burgess; Benn Robinson, Tatafu Polota-Nau, Al Baxter, Dean Mumm, Kane Douglas, Ben Mowen, Phil Waugh (capt) / Chris Alcock, Wycliff Palu
Replacements: Damien Fitzpatrick, Sekope Kepu, Will Caldwell, Dave Dennis, Josh Holmes, Tom Carter, Sosene Anesi
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Just for the sake of having a few links to race reports for posterity sake:
Massanutten 100 Mile, 2008, (first 100)
Grindstone 100 Mile, 2009, "Just Don't Quit"
A collection of personal thoughts and experiences - mostly centered around running.
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Welcome to the blog world, Adam! We can all learn a few things from an elite runner such as yourself. Looking forward to seeing what you have in store for us in 2010!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comment. I'm far from "elite", but I'm excited to share my running adventures with others. I have some great adventures planned for '10 and some even bigger ones for '11. Merry Christmas!
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I upgraded from a smaller HD to a larger HD, for now I have both HD's, but plan on getting rid of the older HD... also the newer drive is a dual boot with windows.
I waited for the import settings and files part of the new install on the new HD to come up, and it did come up, but it showed absolutely nothing.
So now I need to figure out a way to import all those settings and files and etc... so I can take the older/smaller drive off of this box.
I now have two copies of Ubuntu 12.04, one on the older/smaller drive and one on the newer/larger drive.


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10 Tips for Effective Prevention
Good ergonomic design is the solution to prevent musculoskeletal injuries.
Ergonomics helps employers design jobs or workplaces to match workers' capabilities and limitations.
Making adjustments to protect workers need not be costly, difficult or frustrating. Here are ten tips employers can use to protect their workers and their company's bottom line:
- Educate and involve employees.
- Take a look at all of the available data to find problems.
- Encourage early reporting of problems.
- Find quick fixes to get momentum going.
- Some problems are more complex than others.
- Focus on effective solutions.
- Don't just throw money and equipment at the problem.
- Make ergonomics part of purchasing and planning.
- Expect results, but be patient.
- Ask for help.
Educate and involve employees
Employees are the real experts when it comes to their jobs. They are often the best source for pointing out problems. Chances are they have a solution to offer as well. Educating employees on ergonomics helps them to offer more meaningful suggestions and feel that they are a part of the solution. Keep employees involved for more meaningful results.
Take a look at all of the available data to find problems
Use your workers' compensation claims data, OSHA 300 logs, safety committee meeting minutes, absenteeism and turnover records, employee suggestions and any other data you have available to identify where the biggest problems are. Follow this up by observing the jobs and talking to the employees and supervisors about the problems.
Encourage early reporting of problems
If employees feel comfortable about coming forward with symptoms of injury early on, you have an opportunity to take care of the problem before it results in a workers' compensation claim. The net result is less pain and suffering for the employee and considerable cost savings for the employer.
Find quick fixes to get momentum going
Don't get caught up in "analysis paralysis." It's easy with ergonomics to start looking at every little task and movement. Sometimes there are simple solutions that could be implemented quickly, with little analysis, like rearranging a storage area to reduce lifting, or raising a countertop to reduce bending. Putting these solutions into place will generate enthusiasm by demonstrating to employees, supervisors and management how effective and simple ergonomics can be.
Some problems are more complex than others
For some work environment problems, a careful analysis is in order. By keeping your options open at this stage, you often can find alternative solutions to the problem that you would have missed if you had moved too quickly.
Focus on effective solutions.
Too often, businesses focus only on solutions like training employees and rotating them in and out of hazardous jobs as a fix. Training in proper work practices is an important part of ergonomics and should accompany any new equipment or procedures that are implemented. But training alone isn't very effective in reducing injuries. Changes to work practices and equipment often can eliminate or substantially reduce the risk factors for injury.
Don't just throw money and equipment at the problem
Purchasing equipment, such as a hoist, is often a very good solution to an ergonomics problem. However, changing the way something is done, such as eliminating the need to lift, is often the most effective way to prevent injury.
Make ergonomics part of purchasing and planning
By taking advantage of opportunities to make changes during the planning stage, you may be able to reduce your equipment and facilities costs. Any equipment with an obvious problem should be replaced quickly with something designed to eliminate or reduce the problem. Then, make sure that any old equipment that wears out is replaced with ergonomically designed equipment, where appropriate.
Expect results, but be patient
Ergonomics tools and practices keep workers healthy and increase productivity, quality and employee morale. However, you shouldn't be discouraged if these results are not immediate. The important thing is to consider all of the benefits when calculating your return, not just reduced claims costs.
Ask for help
Ergonomics isn't rocket science; most problems can be solved using in-house expertise. However, there will always be a few problems that will be easier to solve with a little help from someone with more experience. The Department of Labor & Industries offers free workshops and consultations in ergonomics to employers.
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