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Egypt short on options as Ethiopia dam nears completion
Cairo- Egypt is short on options to halt or circumvent the construction of Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam, which experts said will have negative effects on Egyptian access to Nile waters.
"Time is running out and the dam is about to become a fact on the ground. Egypt cannot stop it," said Talaat Musallam, a retired army general and strategic analyst.
He ruled out the prospect of a military solution to the issue, saying that, given that Ethiopia intends to start filling the dam this year, Cairo's room for manoeuvre is limited.
"The remaining diplomatic and legal options are inadequate because the project has already reached the point of no return," he said.
Ethiopia hopes to fill the dam in five years but Cairo hopes to extend that period to seven years or more.
Legal experts suggested Cairo take the issue to the UN Security Council to seek a temporary halt in the construction of the multibillion-dollar hydroelectric project until further technical studies can be completed. Egyptian political experts also recommend mediation from international players, such as the United States, China or Russia.
Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam is expected to reduce Egypt's annual water quota from the Nile from 55 billion cubic metres to 40 billion cubic metres, which would severely aggravate existing water shortages. Egypt, with a rapidly growing population, has a water deficit of 20 billion cubic metres.
The loss of an additional 15 billion cubic metres a year would have a debilitating effect on Egyptian agriculture, including the potential loss of 400,000 hectares of farmland.
Lower agricultural production would require more food imports for Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer with 12 million tonnes annually. Lower production would pressure the national budget, already showing deficit of almost 30%.
"These are all catastrophic scenarios for our country," said water and irrigation expert Ahmed Nour Abdel Monem. "Ethiopia is moving ahead with the project, although it is fully aware of the enormous harm it will cause to Egypt."
The view in Addis Ababa is that the dam will cause no harm to downstream countries such as Egypt and Sudan.
In March 2015, Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan signed a declaration of principles that included a pledge of cooperation based on "common understanding" and "mutual benefit" and to "take all appropriate measures to prevent the causing of significant harm in utilising the Nile."
The three countries had earlier hired an international firm to conduct technical and environmental studies on the dam but the results of the studies have yet to be published, even as construction of the dam nears completion.
The mood in Cairo regarding the dam is gloomy, with general calls for Egyptian authorities to take action but little hope that anything can be done.
A leaked recording purportedly of former President Hosni Mubarak emerged in June and revealed his preparedness to bomb the planned dam. Muslim Brotherhood leader and former Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi, in a 2013 strategy session with key advisers that was unknowingly broadcast live, appeared to consider throwing support to Ethiopian rebels to pressure Addis Ababa.
With the dam almost complete and a new political reality for Cairo, scenarios such as this are unlikely to play out.
"The current Egyptian administration has built bridges of trust with Ethiopia and will not resort to any violent scenario to resolve the issue," Musallam said.
Egypt will have to adapt to acute water poverty while working to alleviate that as much as possible. Cairo has begun implementing an ambitious national water desalination and treatment strategy, which is expected to cost $50 billion in the coming decade.
The strategy, which includes the construction of sea-water desalination and sewage treatment plants, aims to make up for the expected drop in Egypt's water resources.
Irrigation Minister Mohamed Abdel Aty said Egypt would need 114 billion cubic metres of water every year to meet the needs of its growing population and move ahead with agricultural expansion and food production plans.
"Adaptation will prove very costly but it is the only way ahead for us to avoid the destructive consequences of the construction of this dam," said Fawzi Diab, a researcher at the Egyptian state-run Desert Research Centre. "We must depend on desalinating seawater, treating and reusing sewage and upgrading irrigation methods to save water to be able to survive."

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Daily Telegraph Cryptic No 26770
Hints and tips by Gazza
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ****
This is a puzzle with all the hallmarks of Petitjean (my suspicions were first aroused by the Quickie pun). It has some pretty modern references (one so modern that it's not in my 2008 edition of Chambers) so those who complain about crosswords being designed for oldies should be pleased. It has some excellent penny-drop moments and I really enjoyed it. Let us know what you think.
If you want to see an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the clue.
Across Clues
7a Electronic instrument lacking mains lead in it (7)
{THEREIN} – start with an electronic musical instrument (new to me) which is played by the movement of one's hands around two antennae (so that it can be played without being touched), then remove (lacking) the leading letter of M(ains) to leave a formal adverb meaning in it.
8a Present-day Romeo in pickle with new temptation rearing its head (7)
{CURRENT} – the definition is present-day or contemporary. Insert the letter for which Romeo is used as a codeword in the Nato Phonetic Alphabet into a verb meaning to pickle or preserve. Then add N(ew) and the first letter (rearing its head) of T(emptation).
10a Russian city where one may get fleeced (9)
{ASTRAKHAN} – this is a city in southern Russia which has given its name to the dark curly fleece of young lambs and the fabric which imitates it.
11a Extravagant and atrocious act losing a grand (5)
{OUTRE} – remove (losing) A and G(rand) from an atrocious act to leave an adjective meaning extravagant or unconventional.
12a Most of queue lines to the right of crush (5)
{QUELL} – start with most (60% to be exact) of the word queue and add (to the right, in an across clue) a couple of L(ine)s.
13a 'Little Woman' makes internet reports on radio for man in street (3,6)
{JOE BLOGGS} – this is a hypothetical average man (man in street or man on Clapham omnibus). Start with one of Louisa May Alcott's young heroines, then add a sound-alike (on radio) of regularly updated features (1-5) on the internet (like this one).
15a Brain he addled is on the mend (2,5)
{IN REHAB} – an abbreviated phrase meaning on the mend is an anagram (addled) of BRAIN HE.
17a Ballerina's partner sure about pursuing level of proficiency (7)
{DANSEUR} – a male ballet dancer is created from an anagram (about) of SURE which comes after (pursuing) a level of proficiency in martial arts.
18a Bubbly creature's game, self-contained — and old (9)
{LAMBRUSCO} – a variety of Italian sparkling wine (bubbly) is made from a) a young creature found on a farm, b) the abbreviation for a fifteen-a-side game, c) the abbreviation for self-contained and d) O(ld).
20a Returned cloudy vermouth containing no mixer (5)
{TONIC} – the abbreviations for C(loudy) and Italian vermouth have NO inserted (containing) and then everything is reversed (returned) to make a mixer.
21a Ball seen rarely these days traps West Indian opener prompting expression of delight (5)
{ZOWIE} – this has nothing to do with cricket. Ball is cunningly placed first to disguise the fact that it is the surname of a female DJ and "ladette" (presumably "seen rarely these days" means that's she appears less on TV than she used to). Take her forename and insert (traps) in it W(est) and the opening letter of I(ndian) to make an informal expression of delight.
23a Previously lost Whistler's Tate's fourth (9)
{ERSTWHILE} – an old-fashioned adverb meaning previously is an anagram (lost) of WHISTLER followed by the fourth letter of (Tat)E.
24a Due to be carved as ham may be (7)
{RESTING} – double definition – what the Sunday joint is doing between its exit from the oven and being carved and the euphemism used by an actor (ham) for being out of work.
25a Hearing the outcome of people talking about you? (7)
{EARSHOT} – a word meaning hearing (the range or distance over which one can hear), is also, if split (4,3) what you may experience as a result of people talking about you. Today's old chestnut.
Down Clues
1d Spirit trapped before it gets beaten (10)
{KETTLEDRUM} – the alcoholic spirit once favoured by our sailors follows a past participle meaning trapped (used by the police for a tactic to bottle up demonstrators – a usage so modern that it's not in my 11th edition of Chambers, although presumably it is in the latest edition). The whole thing is a percussion instrument (it gets beaten).
2d German song involving a tenor turned up in chart (6)
{DETAIL} – a verb meaning to chart or set out comes from a German song with A and T(enor) inserted. The whole is then reversed (turned up, in a down clue).
3d No going back with article by patient man at work (2,3,3)
{ON THE JOB} – a phrase meaning at work or busy is generated from a reversal (going back) of ON followed by the definite article and the patient man from the Old Testament.
4d Light cake that's eaten cold (6)
{SCONCE} – a small unsweetened cake has C(old) inserted to make a flaming torch or candle (light) held in a bracket.
5d Stream left New York, returning in one of its boroughs (8)
{BROOKLYN} – a small stream is followed by abbreviations for L(eft) and N(ew) Y(ork) (the last two letters being reversed, i.e. returning).
6d Preventing core emission (4)
{VENT} – this emission comes from the core of the word preventing.
7d Mad rant by old writer associated with timeless pop is a downer (13)
{TRANQUILLIZER} – this is a downer or sedative. Start with an anagram (mad) of RANT, then add an old-fashioned writing implement and a red-coloured soft drink (pop) without its initial T (timeless).
9d Valuables found here in search trustee organised? (8-5)
{TREASURE-CHEST} – an anagram (organised) of SEARCH TRUSTEE.
14d Environment-friendly Kindle gets go-ahead (5,5)
{GREEN LIGHT} – the definition is go-ahead, i.e. a signal to proceed. An adjective meaning environment-friendly is followed by a verb meaning to kindle or set on fire. Kindle is falsely capitalised in an (I'm sure vain) attempt to make you think of the electronic e-book reader.
16d Her mobile primarily has call-back locked (8)
{HERMETIC} – this adjective means locked or totally sealed. Start with HER (from the clue) and add the primary letter of M(obile) and a verb to call or summon which has to be reversed (back).
17d Threshold where dripping may go on? (8)
{DOORSTEP} – double definition, the second being a thick slice of bread on which you may spread dripping.
19d No end of dexterity required with winter transport (6)
{SLEIGH} – a word for the sort of dexterity used by a magician loses its final T (no end) to leave a form of winter transport.
20d Cheap marble's dull (6)
{TAWDRY} – an adjective meaning cheap or tacky is a charade of a large marble (as used in the children's game) and a synonym for dull or uninteresting.
22d Police No 1 was first that features Sting (4)
{WASP} – something that features a sting (another false capitalisation) is formed from the number one letter of P(olice) with WAS first.
I liked lots of clues today, including 21a, 1d and 7d, but my clue of the day is 4d. Let us know what took your fancy.
Today's Quickie Pun: {FRANC} + {EGOS} + {TOO} + {HOLLYWOOD} = {FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD}


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I've been meaning to do this for awhile now, however hey… we have been busy! Chip and Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Market homepage is a superb example of use of coloration. Chipotle's current homepage is all concerning the forthcoming holiday, which it makes use of as a unique value proposition to get you to start out clicking by your site. With a scrolling welcome message underneath their name and a navigation bar at the backside of the web page, this homepage defines simple web design.
DTx has clearly woven their positioning statement (We're a methods integrator…") and worth proposition (We…") into a unique design structure. If your advanced homepage isn't immediately intuitive, folks will not take time to grasp it – they are going to depart. If your choices are more like Amazon — broad, quite a few and not all carefully-related — then you definately're forced to do much more together with your homepage.
As an example, we used to have the usual rollover banners front and heart on the homepage. I notably love their use of white house, contrasting colours, and customer-centric design. Design your website and not using a clear or simple to make use of navigation and you'll nail it. Unintuitive menus and odd jargon will create extra issues than they will solve.
When customers come to your site from a landing page aside from the front web page – the following motion is usually to go to the homepage to see what other things may be of curiosity and to grasp what the location is about. Calls-to-motion that compel customers to dig deeper are essential to good homepage design in addition to supporting imagery that helps inform your story.
You would not invite visitors to visit a cluttered dwelling; for the same purpose do not invite them to your homepage until you have tidied up. In 2000, Google began providing keyword promoting with simple textual content based ads that have been designed to maintain an orderly web page design and to further capitalize on page loading speed.
Visually appealing, easily understandable, clear organizational structure, and fast loading instances are the largest drivers of homepage success for my staff. To assist customers find key gadgets, hold a brief checklist of latest options on the homepage, and supplement it with a link to a permanent archive of all different homepage features.


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Basketball on the Beach: Venice Beach Basketball Courts
As one of the most popular beaches in California, Venice Beach has something to offer everyone. According to the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, over ten million people visit Venice Beach and its boardwalk each year. Not all those visitors are coming for the sand and surf, though. You will find a number of other activities and facilities along the two-mile boardwalk, including some of the most famous basketball courts in the world. Here's your guide to the Venice Beach basketball courts.Continue reading


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Today was a day of new beginnings! Foster Cats: Saying Goodbye
Three cats made their way to the adoption event today. Two cats came back. Ruby found herself a new home! I was able to meet the lady that adopted her and she was wonderful. I know that Ruby will be happy and loved in her new home.
Why did only three of the fosters go to the adoption event? I was getting ready to take them and I just had this feeling that I was not going to be able to get rid of Mittens. I didn't think I could do it. He still has a little spot of ringworm on his nose. She texted me to not bring him unless the hair was growing back. So I bought myself a little reprieve. When I got home he came up to me purring like crazy and I snuggled him and was so relieved that I didn't take him.
Two cats to still find homes for. I figure that keeping 2/5 of the cats myself is not that bad. More cats have left than stayed. I think that makes my first foster experience semi successful.
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Engebo V was a planet in the Outer Rim Territories with constant winds.
Engebo V was a planet of nerf ranches that was colonized by Outer Rim Oreworks Company, who mined most of Engebo's mineral resources and later abandoned the world. At some point afterward, the planet was infested with skekfish, which wiped out the Engebo V's population.
- "Death, Dirt, and the Nerf Rancher's Daughter" on Wizards.com (original article link, backup link)
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia (See Gall, Sheriff)
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Associated Colleges of Illinois is supported by a dedicated professional staff, including specialists in nonprofit management and finance, institutional advancement, marketing/communications, special events, and specific program areas, including student support services and teacher preparation.
Mick Weltman
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312-263-2391, ext. 1
For more than 30 years, Mick Weltman has served local, national and international nonprofits and associations as executive director, interim executive director and consultant. He has led Associated Colleges of Illinois as executive director for the past four years. Drawing on substantial skills in leadership development, building collaboration, mentoring, professional development and communications, he created the model for and facilitated executive director roundtables engaging more than 275 nonprofit leaders in more than 300 meetings during the past 15 years. These roundtables support participants' professional growth, improve their leadership effectiveness and positively impact the communities they serve. Mick earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts, an M.A. in International Development Administration and an MBA in Finance.
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John Brooks joined Associated Colleges of Illinois in 2015, and is responsible for ACI's communication strategy and messaging. He has worked in communication roles in several higher education institutions and with the churchwide organization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. John is an adjunct instructor in public relations at Loyola University Chicago, and taught previously at Concordia University Chicago and DePaul University. He formerly served as a board member for the Public Relations Society of America, Chicago chapter, and the Publicity Club of Chicago. John earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas Christian University and a master's degree in journalism from Louisiana State University.
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Lauren Holhut comes to Associated Colleges of Illinois as the director of advancement with extensive experience in the nonprofit sector. Lauren's professional background encompasses experience in several industries–higher education, the arts, social services, and health care–where she has utilized strong skills in philanthropy, management, and strategic planning. Lauren earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and a Master of Business Administration.
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Barbara Jolliff brings to ACI a wealth of experience in accounting and human resources management, including managing grants, developing budgets, forecasting and planning, preparing financial reports, and supervising HR operations. She joined ACI in 2011 after more than a decade managing the financial and human resources functions of The Inner Voice, a Chicago social service agency addressing the needs of homeless individuals. At ACI, Jolliff maintains the financial records associated with donor and member relations, ensures compliance with all donor reporting and grant requirements, oversees payroll and benefits for ACI staff, and coordinates documentation for ACI's annual audit.
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Leslie Joan Millenson has worked with Associated Colleges of Illinois for nearly two decades. Millenson is founding principal of The Millenson Collaborative, a consulting practice dedicated to strategic and hands-on marketing/communications for nonprofit organizations. Millenson established that practice in 1998, after a decade as a founding partner at Lipman Hearne Inc. Her assignments address strategic planning for program development, institutional marketing and advancement, institutional identity, grant writing, web development, video production, print materials and special events. Currently, Millenson manages ACI's signature Peer Mentoring Program and provides counsel for a variety of special projects.
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Cindy Morales joined ACI at the beginning of 2020. Cindy earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Augustana College and is currently enrolled in a Masters of Arts program at Concordia University Chicago. Cindy previously worked as a FMLA and ADA claims expert and as a student worker, where she gained a strong administrative background and event planning skills.
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Tom Rubey has more than 30 years' experience in accounting, finance, and administration for small-to-mid-sized nonprofits and has served as ACI's chief financial officer since 2013. Rubey is a principal with Thomas Rubey & Associates, the accounting and financial management practice he established in 1999. Previously, he held financial and administrative positions at various organizations, including American Red Cross of Greater Chicago and Northwestern University. Rubey earned both a bachelor's in accounting and an MBA from DePaul University, in Chicago. He is a registered Certified Public Accountant in Illinois and a member of the Illinois CPA Society.
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Constance Willoughby joined ACI in early 2016. With a strong administrative background, she manages ACI's Scholarship Program, organizes ACI's professional development conferences and coordinates a variety of member services. Constance earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication Science and Disorders from Howard University, Washington, D.C.


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HARROD — One person was killed in a crash at state Route 309 and Napoleon Road Saturday night.
According to the Lima post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol, at approximately 7:46 p.m., troopers responded to the scene.
A 2002 Ford Explorer, operated by Jackie G. Manns, 60, of Ada, was westbound on state Route 309.


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We offer differnet activities in and around Nairobi as halfday of fullday tours.
Nairobi City Tour Ask for your individually tailored Nairobi City tour according to your interests. The following list offers some suggestions. We provide a trained guide as a driver and a minibus or 4x4 Toyota Land Cruiser for a day or half day tour.
The Kiambethu Tea Farm is located in Limuru, 40 minutes aways from Runda. It is one of the oldest Tea farms in Kenya. The farmhouse, built in 1900, is surrounded by a beautifully landscaped garden overlooking the spectacular Mount Kilimanjaro and the Ngong Hills. Your hosts are pioneers in tea cultivation in this region. You will learn about the production and the cultivation of Tea firsthand. On a walk through the tea plantations and the local forest, you get an interesting insight on the practice of tea production and the traditional use of plants. The visit of the farm ends with a delicious lunch with many homemade specialties. Of course, you have the opportunity to enjoy the tea produced here, which is also available for purchase.
Try a selection of Brown's award-winning cheeses, including some seasonal varieties.
You can take a tour of the garden and the factory, and see a demonstration of cheese making.
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The park opened in 1946 and has a unique skyline of Nairobi in its background. With a size of 117 km2 Nairobi National Park is one of the smaller parks in Kenya, but still has an impressive biodiversity. You can spot white and black rhinos, hippos, giraffes, buffalos, zebras, Antelope and sometimes even lions and leopards.


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When I go to the farmer's market on Saturday's I get a little over zealous buying berries. I buy way more strawberries than I know we'll use, but I also get a little nuts with the blue, black and little red ones, too. May is our peak month but, here in California, we are fortunate to enjoy beautiful berries all year long. I get really frustrated when my berries go bad before we have a chance to eat them. So now I make jam! Sometimes just strawberry, other times I mix it up. The point is I make a lot of jam!
Making jam is one of those arts that is actually pretty easy. If you make it with lots of love, like I do, it's a great gift. I have been trying to keep some in my freezer and take it as a hostess gifts.
The basic recipe is always the same, but you can get creative with flavors. You can play around with spices. How about adding some ginger? Then use it as a glaze over pork tenderloin as it's grilling. Adding a little fresh ground black pepper gives a surprising flavor profile when used in a Croque Monsieur. I sometimes stir in 1 or 2 tablespoons of butter for a creamier texture. If you're, really, looking to jazz it up, try adding orange liqueur or champagne. Be sure to remove the jam from the heat to add liquor. Just stir in about 1/3 cup, then boil again for about 5 minutes to set-up.
Homemade jam is always appreciated and what can be better than a dab of fresh jam on toast in the morning or even a midnight snack.
- Wash and hull strawberries. Give them a rough chop.
- Place all ingredients in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil, over medium heat.
- Reduce heat and simmer 30-40 minutes. Use a brush dipped in water to brush down any sugar crystals on side.
- Once jam has thickened, remove from heat. I use a immersion blender to puree it a little.
- At this point you can add 1/3 cup of your favorite liqueur (I like Grand Marnier). Just be sure to remove from heat before adding. You may need to bring it back to a boil for 5-10 minutes, if it thins out too much.


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Wearing simple and plain colors is always my idea of ultimate style. That's why I adore Scandinavian street style and lifestyle. Finding something interesting in simplicity and enhancing it by minimal touch up is somewhat my ultimate goal. This time, I wanted the coat to speak for itself and skirt to dazzle you with it's feminine shape. Have I succeeded? I don't know, but I will continue to try, and each time I will learn from my mistakes so I can be better tomorrow. Enjoy your week!
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Concrete doesn't need any introduction. Because, wherever we go, we see many concrete structures around us. Concrete is a composite material with changeable properties. The ingredients mixing ratio of concrete is variable and depends on the properties of ingredients and mix design. A popular measuring method of concrete ingredients during mixing is by volume. But the weight measuring method is more accurate. However, concrete is prepared by mixing three basic ingredients.
1. Binding material – cement,
2. Aggregate, and
3. Water.
1. Binding material: Most commonly used binding material for concrete is Portland cement. Other binding materials used for this purpose, are lime, fly ash, silica fume etc. The selection of cement for concrete depends on the "cement properties".
You can Read more about cement:
* Cement ingredients and their functions
* Types of cement
2. Aggregate: Two types of aggregates are used in concrete. Coarse aggregate and Fine aggregate.
Coarse aggregate: Big sizes aggregates in concrete are coarse aggregates. The size of it varies between 1/2″ to 1.5″ depending on concrete mix design. Generally, crushed stone or brick chips are used as coarse aggregate.
Fine aggregate: The smaller size aggregates in concrete are Fine aggregates. The FM (Fineness Modulus) of fine aggregates can be between 1.2 to 2.5 depending on mix design. We use sand as fine aggregate in concrete.
Also Read:
* Properties of aggregate
3. Water: The most important concrete ingredient is water. Water can decrease and increase the concrete strength. Water just starts and continues the chemical reaction of cement. The high water content in the concrete mix increases the workability of concrete but decreases the strength. On the contrary, low water content increases the concrete strength but makes concrete less workable.
Other than these, there are some other ingredients used in the concrete mix such as Admixture. Those are secondary ingredients and added to give concrete a certain property.
Read more:
Admixture and purposes of their using in concrete.
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Good news! The House passed two bills that protect children from toxic chemicals. We're expecting the Senate to vote on them any day, then they'll be off to Governor Dayton for his signature. On this website you can see how your representative voted. And be sure to let your Senator know what you think so they're voting for you and your family!
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The environment budgets have passed both the House and Senate, and because they're different, a small group of 5 Representatives and 5 Senators have been appointed to meet and work out the differences. They are: Sen. David Tomassoni (co-chair), Rep. Jean Wagenius (co-chair), Sen. Tom Saxhaug, Rep. Rick Hansen, Sen. Jim Metzen, Rep. Jeanne Poppe, Sen. Dan Sparks, Rep. David Dill, Sen. Torrey Westrom, and Rep. Andrew Falk.
If you see your legislator's name on this list, keep reading. If you don't see your legislator's name on this list…keep reading! Although the conferee list is small, they make decisions based on what they're hearing from the rest of their members. Here are a couple of similarities between the bills, and a few key differences.
BOTH bills allow for the state to study what a recycling refund program for beverage containers would look like if we decided to have one in Minnesota. Other states, like Iowa, already have this type of collection mode. Since we're way cooler than Iowa, we wouldn't necessarily just do it the way they do it, we'd want to come up with our own thing.
The HOUSE bill contains new revenue in the form of water rate and permit fee increases. Most homeowners will see an added cost of 50 cents to $4.00 a year for water use. Lake shore property owners had their concerns addressed when the House agreed to place a cap on how much they'd be charged for removing plant vegetation on their shorelands. The fees are now reasonable, and the House uses this money to fund groundwater management and grants to lake associations and local governments to deal with aquatic invasive species (AIS). In fact, the HOUSE bill directs a lot more money towards dealing with AIS. A LOT more.
The SENATE bill offers stronger protection from frac sand mining, including additional steps in the permitting process for mines over a certain size, new rules they'll have to follow, and allowing communities to extend a moratorium if they have one in place.
The HOUSE bill gets us on the way to better collection of discarded carpet, batteries and paint. The SENATE bill deals only with paint, but the committee could certainly add the other two products.
New language in the HOUSE bill says that someone can't build a new well unless they tell the state how much water they're going to use and what they're going to use it for. They may also be required to monitor their water use to make sure they're not draining us dry. Those seem like pretty reasonable asks. The HOUSE bill also adds new criteria around issuing groundwater permits, namely that they can't be issued unless the state decides that the new diversion or consumption won't cause the area to run low on (or out of) water.
So what can you do? Our goal is obviously to end up with the strongest bill possible. Call or email your legislator and share your views. Simple messages such as, "Please tell the conference committee that the House bill covers carpet, paint and battery collection programs, and they should make sure that's in the bill," or, "The Senate offers better protections from the risks of frac sand mining. Please make sure that's covered in the bill," are easy for them to pass on.
If you have priorities that aren't mentioned here, feel free to email me. I can either respond, or if I get multiple requests for the same information, put out another edition of the Line. Thanks so much!
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Archive for July, 2010
Managing the Game: Red Dust Studios Closed
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As of July 23, 2010 Red Dust Studios is closed. Which also means as of July 23, 2010 I am looking for work. I would appreciate any leads for game designer, associate producer or project manager positions in the game industry. Recruiters welcome.
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The following information was compiled by the Drone Research Team (DRT) who are members of the Drone Research Team Forum and consist of...
* Tomi01uk (UK)
* Onthefence (Canada)
* Nemo492 (France)
* Raska (France)
* Elevenaugust (France)
This document explains away the many claims of hoax against the drone case. Generally, hoax claimers are using fact-free opinions, and or ignorance of photography etc. Hundreds of people have devoted thousands of hours to the answers found in here.
You can submit your own comments to
By, OnTheFence
Starting from the bottom, and working upwards at an event paced journey (not time based).
1. Servant of Information: The witness thinks of them self as an everyday person who fits into a society were people serve each other. This witness serves his information to society for the purpose of sharing and understanding, thinking that all people are equal and will understand what he saw as well as he understands what he saw.
2. Defender of account: Depending on the incredulity of the sighting (drones=high, fuzzy spots/lights in sky = low), the witness must defend his sighting to that degree. The witness will get little negative reaction when telling a story about a saucer or fuzzy light in the sky, it has been reported millions of times before him. A witness to something as spectacular as a California drone will take a lot of heat since there has been no path paved for such reports.
3. Disillusioned with reactions: Because of all the negative reaction (despite some positive acceptance), most witnesses will become disillusioned by popular reaction they receive from their story. Some will reply in anger, or separate themselves from the event and stop there because they are no longer welcome by the society they thought that they fit into before. There is no reason to share information with the public at this point; they are no longer a servant of the public. I suspect that this is where most of the drone witnesses are right now.
4. Contemplation of event: If the witness made it past the previous stage without blocking the event from their life. They will have time to contemplate what has transpired. If given enough resources, they may come to new conclusions on their own.
5: Enlightenment: At some point the witness may come to this stage of knowing that what they saw was in fact real and has meaning beyond the rat race of human existence. If compelled, they may once again open up and share their story, but not for the purposes of serving the public, more for the purposes of helping the public become aware.
REACTIONS TO OnTheFence's COMMENTS
By, Alien_Contactee
I have a theory why they don't stick around for your constant prodding:
The human is easier to figure out then most know or realize. You just happen to know, you naturally sense those things where most others do not. Your explanations are more an example of the psychology of man and how we think.
We pick up information through our life that is so basic that we don't really pay attention to it. This pertains to commonplace information more so. However, when need be, simply by taking any particular subject and looking at it while asking, "what ifs" like 'what would I do if that were me', you'll always find your answers. They might not always be 'dead on' but you'll find answers.
I would also like add a thought here that was not found in 1-5, which is certainly a harsher criticism. This is regarding a blatant betrayal by others involved, originally involved as well and the witness was Isaac. Actually, over the past year I have witnessed two incidents regarding the drones where the witness asked the original individual they reported to, not to divulge their personal information but did it anyway. Consequently, the witnesses saw that such had been passed on to another. They witnessed such simply by reading any of the UFO forums.
When this happens, witnesses completely lose faith in whomever it was they originally divulged said information to. We take such things too lightly sometimes because we're anxious for information ourselves so we tend to allow it because of our 'need to know'. However, such things are done while not considering the witnesses personal life, job, friends, etc., that are all on his/her mind, which is why they did not want their personal information divulged to begin with. In the case of Isaac, it could have easily become a legal matter with the U.S. Government. In the process of such, others see this and decide not to come forward either.
Regarding (1)
Exactly, and the key word here is 'thinks'. We all assume that everyone thinks like us so we react accordingly.
Regarding (2)
And the worst part of it is that most do not realize how hurtful their words can be to such an individual who has done nothing but come to share, only to have eggs thrown at him/her. Ridicule, embarrassment and guilt are three of the most powerful human emotions and they dictate how we act in a given situation. Technically, those emotions literally take over the psyche due to specific chemicals being dispensed by the brain when such things occur. If they stand in the forefront of any such conversation, that conversation will go south like a duck in winter.
Regarding (3)
Very well said and I can only imagine how many people have been disillusioned by the comments of others. Words hurt, even when they're not necessarily hurtful words. Worse yet is the 'acceptance' part. Imagine not feeling wanted or accepted when you know you have something that's real and you have more than a handful telling you otherwise, while at the same time you've been shunned or worse yet, exiled by your peers.
Regarding (4)
That's the problem though; they lose much of the event over time. If they have the immediate resources - good for them but they're not the big numbers.
The bigger numbers of individuals don't think past the thought of what they witnessed. Over time the event becomes vague unless it is brought forward in their mind frequently as to renew the picture in their head in order to keep it alive in their long term memory.
Quite often and over the years I have heard the words, "I had a sighting a long time ago and". Rule of thumb, they didn't run over the event enough times to hold all of that visual information in their long term memory and it's somewhat dissipated. The only thing that tends to remain is the basics like the color, where they were when they saw it and approximately what year it was.
Regarding (5)
And we all wish for that and hope that everyone ends up there.
While typing (and in my head), what keeps coming to me is how we react to the witness and not how we react to our own experiences. We have to treat the witness with kid gloves and that means everything that comes out of our mouths must be something we wouldn't mind having said to ourselves. (Yes, I will exclude those who have premeditated hoaxes designed only to upset Ufology. They have it coming to them actually, some just don't get it.) You know what I mean.
This is why I like having my own forum. I have control, I have the power of the 'delete' and/or 'edit' button when someone decides to be a smart ace to another or even just snide. Some would say that that is going a bit too far but that only means that they can probably take it because they also probably dish it out. What they don't realize is that most can't take it and they are also rarely ever the ones to dish it out. What the witness may become though is someone who retaliates since that is a natural human reaction. The witness just had their feelings hurt and isn't that the first reaction we have to such pain, we retaliate.
Some forums have just a profanity filter or a warning, I have a special filter in my mine that says, "Read what was just said and pretend it was said to you" (as in me). That's my filter and its fine tuned.
More simply stated, which also encumbers everything you have portrayed here, which is that none of us 'think' like the rest nor do we 'feel' like the rest. It's all about feelings and thoughts.
That was a very nice and overdue statement OnTheFence. You basically said all of those things that everyone needs to read and comprehend. Wouldn't that be nice? Comprehension that is.


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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Keep it ticking over
Nice little 10 miler today with a half-decent 8:33 average pace. This is a bit of a leap into the unknown right now as my prescribed training plan finished with the first race and with the first three races pretty … Continue reading
Training back on track
Well that's my first post-marathon speedwork session out of the way. A 5 mile run with 3 miles at a sub-8:00 pace which I found no trouble at all to maintain so I'm feeling pretty much back to normal. The … Continue reading
Why am I not doing London?
A few people have asked me why I didn't apply for one of the many charity places in the London Marathon when I was rejected from the public ballot and this has become the subject of several arguments so I thought I … Continue reading
Gloucester Marathon Official Result
Just picked up the official results for yesterday, which you can download here. My official time was 3:54:53 in the end, which probably equates to the fact that I didn't hear the start call so my watch began when I … Continue reading
Gloucester Marathon Complete
Well that's the first one out of the way and I managed to do it in 3:54:50 so I achieved the sub-4:00 time I was hoping for. The race overall was good, quite well organised and we certainly had good … Continue reading
Getting Ready
Well tomorrow is the big day! Last night I went for a short, easy run just to keep things ticking over and to get my head around tomorrow's race. It's like a step into the unknown now as this will … Continue reading
Counting Down
Just a 5 mile tempo run tonight, counting down to the weekend and the first of the 12. Pacing was spot-on target and I felt there was plenty left in reserve in the last mile when I slowed it down. … Continue reading


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Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Set in Hong Kong, two lovelorn police officers find themselves drawn to two very different women: an alluring woman on the other side of the law and a quirky takeout waitress.
1997 | Nominee: Best Foreign Film
Feels now like the preeminent piece of 90s nostalgia. Few films seem to so stridently encapsulate a cultural moment, and indeed this is a very significant moment, the many best-before-dates on cans of perishable food reminding us of the waning days of British colonial rule over Hong Kong. The visual style maintains a balance between the frenetic and the restive. Life happens in a flash. Occasionally we must breathe.
This movie is like my best friend. I wish I could give it a friendship bracelet so the whole world would know the deep connection we share.
It's so stylistic; everything from the cinematography, to the acting, and direction. The frenetic atmosphere makes this a highly enjoyable film. The two halves seem as an homage to classic Hollywood genres; the first half is shaped as a neonoir and Brigitte Lin is the femme fatale. The second half as a romantic comedy is priceless as Faye Wong, in a very Ameliesque way breaks into Leung's apartment So sweet, so good.
Oh goodness, I loved it when he talked to the soap bar and the rag and the apartment. Like poetry, giving inanimate things feelings:
"Did I leave the tap running or is the apartment getting more tearful? I always thought it would cope okay. Didn't expect it to cry so much. When people cry they can dry their eyes with tissues. But when an apartment cries it takes a lot to mop it up."
Wong Kar Wai's best film, even alongside the masterpieces of In the Mood for Love and 2046. Characters feel earthly real, you can feel them and know them. His combination of the musical and the visual is superb as always. His treatment of the moment, which can define two people, I also found a little less harsh than in later movies, even if the undercurrent of melancholy which define his films remains
Possibly the only movie I've ever seen that never fails to make me happy regardless of my mood. One of my favorite films ever made.
The search for the beautiful picture, the perfect color, the right framing hardly covers the weaknesses of both script & dialogue. So the urban romance becomes a long - but still enjoyable - ad clip ....
La recherche de la belle image, la parfaite couleur, le bon cadrage masquent mal les faiblesses du scénario et des dialogues. Du coup le romantisme urbain du film devient un clip de pub, mais qu'on peut aimer.
To me personally watching Wong Kar Wai film is like a mental torture in the process. I can't be patient and somehow I'm lost with the characters that are seem out of my spectrum. But his film has post watching effect, followed by unusual life-changing realization. It's so weird.


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Anshen + Allen Uses ARCHICAD to Transform Shipping Containers Into Clinics for the Developing World
BOSTON, February 22, 2010 – In a pro bono effort to help increase health-care access in developing countries worldwide, award-winning San Francisco architecture firm Anshen + Allen is using ARCHICAD building information modeling (BIM) software to transform run-of-the-mill shipping containers into rapid-deployment health clinics.
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Anshen + Allen is an international leader in the design of healthcare, academic and research buildings, with a conviction that "good design can transform lives." The firm's client is Containers to Clinics (C2C), a non-profit organization committed to delivering primary health care to women and children in underserved areas of the developing world. Anshen + Allen architects started its design with two empty 8-foot-by-20-foot containers and created two modern exam/consultation spaces, a laboratory and a pharmacy.
"Space, heat, hygiene and security were our main design challenges," said Mali Ouzts, lead designer for Anshen + Allen. "GRAPHISOFT's ARCHICAD helped us visualize alternatives, explore them virtually, collaborate with the client, make sound design decisions, and complete a prototype in a matter of a few weeks. The project took just one-third of the time that it would have if we had used two-dimensional software. The final design is an ultra-efficient use of space and resources."
Spearheading the project and consulting on the final design was Elizabeth Sheehan, C2C executive director, who has devoted her career to medical care for women and children in the developing world. She has worked as a physician's assistant in clinics and hospitals in Cambodia, India, Tibet, Nepal and several countries in Africa.
The final clinic design includes examination beds, ample ventilation, insulation to retain cool air, and a false wall with an automatically locking door, enabling the clinic to revert to a locked-down container during off hours. Anshen + Allen relied heavily on ARCHICAD material, profile, window and rendering tools.
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The first clinic is scheduled to be shipped to the Dominican Republic and will be installed in a rural community 90 minutes outside of Santo Domingo. As with all the container clinics, it will be a fully functional health facility with medicines and will be locally staffed to ensure integration with the local culture. The containers are easily shipped by sea and on flatbed trucks. C2C is also actively working to help Haiti in the wake of its devastating January 12 earthquake.


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September 07, 2014
"Why I like Common Lisp"
"An important reason why I like Common Lisp a lot is that the language has a layered design that supports incremental development. The language provides very high-level programming abstractions, such as object-oriented programming, dynamic multiple dispatch, garbage collection, a meta-object protocol, and so on. These abstractions are typically open implementations, built on top of more efficient low-level abstractions the user can also choose to access directly.
Common Lisp is typically implemented as a compiled language, compiling directly to machine code. The runtime components are sparse, the garbage collector being an important one. Common Lisp provides the means to steer the compiler and runtime components to do low-level optimizations. Examples of this include: type declarations to remove type-checking at runtime; inline declarations to avoid dispatch; dynamic extent declarations to perform stack allocation instead of heap allocation; disassembly of code snippets; tuning of the garbage collector to switch between collection strategies; and so on. Optimizations such as these are optional and localized. Hence it is very easy in Common Lisp to rapidly prototype and then incrementally optimize the code by identifying the hotspots through profiling. This way you can often be as efficient as with C code, without being forced to program in a low-level style from the start throughout your whole program.
Hence in contrast to C/C++, Common Lisp allows you to optimize code incrementally and locally for a particular snippet of code. In contrast to Java - or any other language with an implementation that performs optimization at runtime through tracing or JIT compiling or so - Common Lisp implementations employ in a sense a more classic compilation approach. In this sense, Common Lisp makes it easier to 'control' what you are measuring when profiling programs.
The Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) is a library in Common Lisp for object-oriented programming. Common Lisp is a multi-paradigm language, so it depends on your problem whether it is a good idea to use object-oriented programming or not. That said, CLOS is very different from mainstream object-oriented programming. It allows multiple inheritance, multiple dispatch, and is based on generic functions, i.e. classes define types, and methods are defined separately as part of generic functions. The CLOS implementation performs a lot of clever optimizations at runtime, for example for method lookup. What is of course special about CLOS, is that it has a meta-object protocol, which allows you to extend/modify CLOS in an organized way. For example, you have hooks into the method dispatch protocol, the slot (= field) access protocol, etc. If you want to know more about the CLOS implementation and the meta-object protocol, read 'The Art of the Meta-Object Protocol' by Kiczales, des Rivieres, Bobrow.
Common Lisp just has a lot of advanced language features that you just don't find in other languages.
From a practical point of view, I can recommend LispWorks as a Common Lisp implementation. LispWorks is very user-friendly because it comes with an integrated development environment. This means you get Smalltalk-like features such as code browsers and inspector tools. Another user-friendly implementation that is free is Clozure Common Lisp. The most widely used open-source implementation is SBCL, which is very stable and very efficient. There are lots of other Common Lisp implementations out there, but I recommend one of these three.
If you want to learn about Common Lisp, I can recommend "Ansi Common Lisp" by Graham. Maybe also interesting: 'Pascal Costanza's highly opinionated guide to Common Lisp' ;-). If you want a funny introduction to Common Lisp, check out the Lisperati. A good place to snoop for Common Lisp war stories is Planet Lisp. If you want to get an idea about libraries, see quicklisp."
July 20, 2014
A Lisper's first impression of Julia
Julia is closest to Dylan in many regards. It uses a somewhat mainstream syntax rather than s-expressions. Unlike Dylan, you can nevertheless write 'full' macros, since macro definitions are implemented in Julia, not some template language, and backquote/quasiquote is integrated with the Julia syntax. Julia is a Lisp-1 (like Scheme or Dylan) rather than a Lisp-2 (like Common Lisp or ISLISP), which makes it necessary to add macro hygiene features. Fortunately, this does not mean you have to deal with the rather painful syntax-case construct of some Scheme dialects, but you can still use far simpler backquote/quasiquote constructions, just with macro hygiene taken care of by default. Julia also allows you to selectively break hygiene. Although I usually strongly prefer the simplicity of Common Lisp's non-hygienic macro system, the fact that Julia is a Lisp-1 turns macro hygiene into a real problem, so I guess this is a reasonable design.
Julia provides object-oriented programming from the ground up, similar to Dylan. It centers on generic functions rather than classes, where methods are defined outside classes and allow for multiple dispatch, just like in Dylan and Common Lisp. Like Dylan, and unlike Common Lisp, it does not distinguish between functions and generic functions: All functions can have methods, you do not have to make up your mind whether you want methods or plain functions. Unlike in Common Lisp, there are no method combinations, no before/after/around methods, and call-next-method is not directly supported, but has to be done manually. This is probably to simplify method dispatch, maybe to have some performance advantages, though I find it hard to imagine that adding method combinations would make things substantially worse.
You still need a class hierarchy to drive method dispatch. Unlike in Common Lisp, there is no multiple inheritance, only single inheritance. In fact, there is actually no real inheritance, because in Julia, only leaf classes of the class hierarchy are allowed to define slots/fields. All superclasses are required to be "abstract," without any slot definitions. Also, Julia classes cannot be redefined at runtime, so in fact Julia classes are much closer to Common Lisp's structured types rather than classes.
Julia's execution model is based on dynamic compilation. As a user, you don't have to compile your code at all, source code is just compiled on the fly (similar as in Clozure Common Lisp). Julia inlines functions on the fly, including generic functions, and can de-optimize when function definitions change at runtime. This is more flexible than in Common Lisp, where inlined functions can get out of sync with their potentially changed definitions. Also, while the Common Lisp specification does not say anything with regard to being able to inline generic functions or not, there are aspects in the CLOS MOP specification that prevent generic functions from being inlined, at least for user-defined extensions of generic functions. Julia definitely seems more "modern" here.
In Julia, there is no distinction between variable binding and variable assignment. If you assign to a variable that has not been used before in the same lexical environment, it is silently introduced. In Common Lisp/Scheme/Dylan, there is a distinction between 'let forms that introduce variable bindings, and assignments (setq/setf/set!) that perform assignments. I'm highly skeptical of Julia's design here, because this potentially leads to bugs that are hard to find: A simple typo in your source code just may go unnoticed.
In Julia, all variables are lexically scoped (except for some seemingly quirky scoping semantics for global variables, see below). There are no special / dynamically scoped variables in Julia, which is a major omission in my book. Some academics don't like special scoping, but their presence in Common Lisp is incredibly useful in practice, especially but not only for multi-threading!
Julia's default representation for integers is either 32-bit or 64-bit integers, depending on the target architecture, which silently wrap around. Julia also supports "BigInts" that can be arbitrarily large, but you have to ask for them explicitly. In Common Lisp, integers are by default arbitrarily large, which I think is an advantage. Due to type tagging in Common Lisp implementations, even "big" integers are typically allocated as immediate values rather than on the heap when they fall into the "fixnum" range. I didn't find anything in the Julia documentation that discusses this aspect of "BigInt."
In Julia, all mathematical operations are generic functions and can be extended by user-defined methods. This is a strong advantage for Julia. In Common Lisp, mathematical operations are "plain" functions which cannot be extended. Due to some aspects in the design of Common Lisp's generic functions, it's hard to inline (or open-code) them, which is why for performance reasons, it's better to express mathematical (and other such performance-critical functions) as "plain" functions. Apart from that, the support for number types seems to be on par between Julia and Common Lisp (complex types, rational numbers, floating point numbers, etc.)
In Julia, strings are unicode strings by default. My knowledge about unicode support in Common Lisp implementations is limited, so I cannot really make any comparisons here. One interesting aspect in Julia's string support is that there can be user-defined macros to parse them and construct other syntactic entities out of them. This feels somewhat similar to read macros in Common Lisp, although with a slightly different scope.
Julia's support for functions is similar to Common Lisp: They can be first class and anonymous (lambda expressions). There are varargs (&rest), optional and keyword arguments. In Common Lisp, optional and keyword arguments cannot be dispatched on in methods. In Julia, optional arguments can be dispatched on, but not keywords. (This is a pity, dispatch on keyword arguments would be very interesting, and is something I wanted to add as part of Closer to MOP for a long time!)
Julia's support for control flow is much more limited than in Common Lisp. There are equivalents for progn, cond/if, for and while loops. Unlike Common Lisp, there is no support for a full loop facility, or even for a simple goto construct. Common Lisp clearly wins here. Julia's support for exception handling is also limited: No handler-bind, no restarts, unlike in Common Lisp, which are also really useful features.
Julia's type system has some interesting differences to Common Lisp: There is a distinction between mutable and immutable classes. Immutable classes disallow any side effects on their fields. This seems to be primarily directed at enabling stack allocation as an optimization. In Common Lisp, you would use dynamic extent declarations when allocating structs (or other data types) to achieve similar performance improvements. I'm not sure why it would matter that the fields need to be read-only for such an optimization, but if this covers most cases, maybe this is good enough.
Julia allows for returning and receiving multiple values from function calls, similar to Common Lisp. This is a feature I like a lot in Common Lisp, so I'm happy it's also in Julia. In Julia, this is achieved by an explicit tuple type representation which doesn't exist in this form in Common Lisp. In Lisp, you could also return/receive lists instead of multiple values, which would correspond to this kind of tuple type, but lists add an additional performance overhead, which multiple values and, presumably, tuples in Julia don't have.
Julia supports parametric types. I don't see at the moment why this is relevant. You could achieve similar functionality also with some macrology. Maybe I'm missing something here.
There is a whole section on constructors (make-instance / make-struct) in the Julia manual. This makes me suspicious, this should be an easier topic.
Julia has a module system. It supports export and automatic import of explicitly exported identifiers. You can also still access non-exported identifiers with additional syntax. This is good, because module designers may not always perfectly anticipate what users actually need to access. Common Lisp's package system supports a similar distinction between external and internal definitions that can be accessed in different ways. I slightly prefer Common Lisp's ability to use the package name as a prefix even for explicitly exported definitions. There is no feature in Julia to rename imported identifiers, which is something where Common Lisp's support for explicit package name prefixes can come in very handy. I would like to see something like Oberon's support for renaming identifiers on import in some Lisp dialect someday, because I believe that is the most complete solution for dealing with potential name conflicts.
In terms of meta-programming, apart from macros, Julia also supports (top-level) eval, like Common Lisp. Julia's support for "reflection" is much weaker than Common Lisp's CLOS MOP: You can only inspect types at runtime, but you cannot modify them (and language designers should stop calling something "reflection" that is clearly just "introspection").
Both Julia and Common Lisp support multi-dimensional arrays. Common Lisp's arrays are in row-major order, starting at index 0 in every dimension. Julia's arrays are column-major order, starting at index 1 in every dimension. Julia's support for multi-dimensional arrays is a library feature, whereas Common Lisp's support is built into the language. Julia supports both dense and sparse matrices, where Common Lisp supports only dense matrices out of the box.
There are a lot of libraries that ship with Julia targeted at scientific computing.
Julia supports parallel programming with a model built on top of message passing: If you want to run parallel algorithms, you essentially start several instances of Julia that communicate with each other. The model does not support shared memory, and there is no multi-threading within a Julia instance (although there seem to be discussions among the Julia designers to add this in the future). The model is built on top of MPI as an implementation backend. However, the actual programming model supports single-sided communication: You can ask a function to be executed in some other Julia worker process, and can later synchronize with it to fetch results. On top of that, there are some high-level constructs provided as library features, such parallel maps and loops. Julia's message passing model ensures that within a Julia instance, only one task is executed at a time, so there is yet no need to provide low-level synchronization mechanisms, such as locks or atomic operations. The lack of shared-memory parallelism is problematic because many parallel algorithms that are very easy to express with shared memory become quite complicated in a distributed memory setting. On the other hand, Julia's model easily supports true distributed programming: You can configure Julia to run several instances across a cluster, and use them in a quite straightforward way: substantially easier than what you have to do with, say, MPI, and much closer with regard to ease of use to modern PGAS languages like Chapel or X10.
The ANSI specification for Common Lisp does not mention anything about multi-threading or parallel programming at all, but many Common Lisp implementations add support for shared-memory parallelism. I will not go into details here, but let me just briefly state that, for example, the LispWorks implementation of Common Lisp provides excellent support for symmetric multiprocessing that is at least on par with what you can find in most other language implementations in terms of parallel programming support. However, unfortunately, support for true distributed memory models seems almost non-existent in Common Lisp, apart for some basic support for MPI in a library that was maintained only for a very short period of time a couple of years ago. Julia looks like a good source of inspiration for adding such features to Common Lisp.
However, one aspect of Julia's message passing approach seems problematic, as far as I can tell: You can pass closures between different instances of Julia, but it's not clear how free variables in a lambda expression are bound. It seems that lexical variables are bound and serialized to another process, but global variables are not serialized and need to be present in any presence that may execute the closure. Experiments with adding side effects to free variables in lambda expressions that are passed to other processes seem to suggest that the semantics of this combination of features are unpredictable. At least, I have not been able to figure out what happens when — sometimes variables seem to be updated at the sender's side, sometimes not — and I didn't find a discussion of this topic in the Julia manual.
Anyway, as you can tell, there are a lot of interesting features in Julia, and it's definitely worth a try.
September 06, 2013
Parenthesis can be tricky...
August 18, 2013
The Human Consequences of Dynamic Typing
I agree with Jay McCarthy that static typing is anti-human. I think I can give a slightly more elaborate example of a program that every static type checker must reject, but that is nevertheless correct. Everything below is valid Common Lisp:
(defclass person () ((name :initarg :name :accessor person-name)))
(defmethod display ((p person)) (format t "Person: Name ~S, address ~S." (person-name p) (person-address p)))
A static type checker must reject this program because there is no address field defined in the class person that person-address presumably refers to. However, below is a run of the program in a Lisp listener that runs to a correct completion without fatal (!) errors:
CL-USER 1 > (defvar *p* (make-instance 'person :name "Pascal")) *P*
CL-USER 2 > (display *p*)
Error: Undefined function PERSON-ADDRESS called with arguments (#<PERSON 4020059AB3>). 1 (continue) Try invoking PERSON-ADDRESS again. 2 Return some values from the call to PERSON-ADDRESS. 3 Try invoking something other than PERSON-ADDRESS with the same arguments. 4 Set the symbol-function of PERSON-ADDRESS to another function. 5 (abort) Return to level 0. 6 Return to top loop level 0.
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CL-USER 3 : 1 > (defclass person () ((name :initarg :name :accessor person-name) (address :initarg :address :accessor person-address))) #<STANDARD-CLASS PERSON 4130371F6B>
CL-USER 4 : 1 > :c 1
Error: The slot ADDRESS is unbound in the object #<PERSON 41303DD973> (an instance of class #<STANDARD-CLASS PERSON 4130371F6B>). 1 (continue) Try reading slot ADDRESS again. 2 Specify a value to use this time for slot ADDRESS. 3 Specify a value to set slot ADDRESS to. 4 (abort) Return to level 0. 5 Return to top loop level 0.
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CL-USER 5 : 1 > :c 3
Enter a form to be evaluated: "Belgium" Person: Name "Pascal", address "Belgium". NIL
CL-USER 6 > (display *p*) Person: Name "Pascal", address "Belgium". NIL
The "trick" is that the Lisp listener allows for interactive modification of a program while it is running. No static type checker can anticipate what modifications will be performed at runtime.
This is not a toy feature of Common Lisp, but something that many Lisp developers rely on. For example, my own ContextL library crucially relies on the very class redefinition feature I demonstrate above. Joe Marshall provides another account how such features can solve real-world problems.


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I'm Vincent D. Cat and here to make you happy! You are HEROES! You work hard every day and you deserve to smile every day! Those of you working to save us animals hear so very many very sad things. And there's lots of very glad things too and that's what we talk about here! All pawsitive all the time! I want my friends to be happy and smile and know there's a lot of good - including YOU - in this world!! Be kind and pass it on! Please send me your Good New and Fun Stuff to share, personal or global. Let's keep it fun and interactive!! After all, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane! email@example.com
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The Animal Rescue Site has decided to share more this year than before. So that means that we got named WINNER for Week 9 and then have to let somebody else win the rest of the prizes. Oh well. I'll be a good sport and not merooowww.
It gives me an idea for next challenge that starts on April 4th!!! If we get the most votes in weeks one, we can either go on to be top three in the nation - and then win more money. Or we can pick who we want to win and start voting for them !!! Gotta work out the details but maybe we can help others win too who need help!!! isn't that wonderful???
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