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"To tweet or not to tweet?"—that should have been the question for former U.S. representative Anthony Weiner, whose infamous social media snafu made him and his briefs-ensconced boner a household name synonymous with "moron." Not only did Weiner's foray into softcore porn (and subsequent revelations about "sexting" with numerous women) provide a wide berth for dick jokes and puns of every stripe (which he's probably endured since grammar school on account of his name), it cost him his career in politics.
The argument that what one does in one's private life should not be subject to public scrutiny went out the window when Weiner made his privates public by inadvertently posting them onto his Twitter stream rather than as a direct message to a 21-year-old Washington state woman. It begs the question, "Why are men so eager to put their penises online?"
Chatroulette, the video chat service that randomly pairs participants in a two-way tete-a-tetes, is notorious as a veritable museum of male masturbation. The site rapidly cycles through chat pairings with either user given the option to hit "next" and move on to another chat—usually within seconds. After cycling through eight live images of users in front of their web cams—bingo!—a crotch shot at the ready.
In the pantheon of paraphilias, exhibitionism is perhaps the most benign, though clinicians describe it as "coercive" since it usually involves forcibly imposing one's genitalia into another's line of sight without consent. The notion of an old-school trenchcoat-clad flasher is damn near quaint compared to the lone gunman taking aim at a webcam. Albeit, confronting an exhibitionist in the flesh is surely a harrowing experience, however, it does permit one the ability to express one's revulsion, reciprocate with bodily harm or perhaps even flash back (any of which may or may not be the offender's goal).
The online penis parader, however, uses social media to broadcast his exhibitionism from the comfort of his own home. It combines the privacy that end-users of porn expect from direct delivery of content to their laptops with the inversely proportionate ability to broadcast oneself freely, cheaply and nakedly to millions with relative anonymity and without retribution.
This is perhaps one reason that everyone from media pundits to House minority leader Nancy Pelosi came down so, um, hard on Anthony's weiner. It was as if he received the aggregate slapback awaiting all the faceless exhibitionists lurking on the internet. Consider his monkey spanked.
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There's no easy way to lead into this so we'll just come right out with it - according to The Sun one can now obtain knitting patterns to create one's very own cuddly Hitler.
Everyone's favourite inflammatory informo-rag has a lovely picture of the "grotesque" yarn-based Fuhrer, who looks snug and stylish in his army-green cardi. In fact, the 20th century's most hated figure looks a little on the camp side in this incarnation, with distinctly curvy hips and a slightly floppy Nazi salute. (We find him kind of adorable, actually. Is that so wrong?)
The Sun insists that the dictator pattern, together with instructions for making a snuggly Saddam and a plush Pol Pot, is included in the new book of guerrilla-knitstress Rachael Matthews. Sadly there's no mention of 'Knitler' on her Cast Off knitting group site, nor on her Prick Your Finger blog or main site for her shop in London's Bethnal Green. However, there are plenty other naughty knitty kits to be found in her shop including cigarettes, a grenade and um, woolly willies.
A spokesman for the Jewish Network is quoted in The Sun as saying, rather mildly: "You would hope people would have more sense than to take a cuddly Hitler into work." Well, you would.
Matthews' existing book Hookerama (step away from the quip, please) includes patterns for flip-top mittens and a daisy fascinator as well as a fig-leaf bikini, but no historical hate figures. We'll keep you posted.
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The University of Amsterdam aims to attract the world's brightest students to its international classrooms. As from September 2007, outstanding students from outside the European Economic Area can apply for an Amsterdam Merit Scholarship.
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The Bean/Tiffin Watershed Coalition has scheduled its annual planning meeting at 7 p.m. April 2 in the Hudson Community Center, 323 W. Main St, Hudson. The public is invited.
Discussions will include ideas for Earth Day events, plans for a Bean Creek Regatta and other initiatives in the watershed.
The Coalition's projects in recent years have included Bean Creek cleanups in Hudson and Morenci, stream searches for aquatic insects, work with MDOT to post signs at all Bean Creek crossings on US-127 and M-34, and an EPA Environmental Education grant involving students from Addison, Hudson and Morenci schools.
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For increased security and control, Fresno, Calif., chose on-premise file storage over a cloud-based environment, and plans to roll the system out across the enterprise.
Though cloud-based file sharing and storage is becoming an overwhelming trend in local government, one municipality is saying "no" to the cloud and "yes" to on-premise file storage.
Last year, the city of Fresno, Calif., beta tested Filr, an on-premise file storage platform by Novell, across three city departments: fire, the retirement board and attorneys. The reason? The city had concerns about sharing certain types of files in a cloud environment, since some documents are often sensitive or must be kept private to certain groups or individuals, said Paul Pedron, the city's senior network systems specialist.
"We want to keep the data close to our chest – basically being able to know where it is at all times -- so the cloud isn't really an option for us," Pedron said. "There are other liabilities that fall into the cloud: If it becomes dormant after six months, who really owns it? If you delete it, is it really deleted? Or is it out there somewhere floating around?"
According to Novell, Filr can integrate with file systems on Microsoft Windows servers and Novell Open Enterprise servers. The files can remain on existing enterprise servers so they don't need to be moved or duplicated.
Other cities like Fraser, Mich., have tested cloud-based file storage systems like Dropbox and Google Drive with the intent of selecting one for storing city documents, but Pedron says the on-premise alternative allows for the city to have more control over the files. And by having direct ownership, liability issues become less of a concern.
Pedron and employees in the three departments testing Filr are system administrators, which means they can set restrictions and distribution options on the files so access is only made available to those permitted to have it. With a user name and password, individuals may view files they've been given access to.
The three Fresno city departments currently using Filr can access the platform on mobile devices. According to Novell, Filr is compatible with iOS, Android and BlackBerry platforms, and will soon be compatible with Microsoft Windows phones. The city used a separate mobility management solution to deploy the application to these devices.
Pedron said having the Filr application available on mobile devices can be particularly useful when the Fresno Fire Department takes photos during inspections. Similar to cloud-based file storage systems like Dropbox or SkyDrive, Filr can automatically sync the photos to a device folder, which can then be shared on the back end. In the case where photos are taken for the Fire Department's inspections, the photos – after they've been synced – can be harvested off the platform and stored in a separate system for the department's internal use.
The city officially deployed Filr this spring and plans to roll out the system across 60 to 70 percent of the enterprise by the end of this year. The goal, Pedron said, is to use a phased approach to roll the system our across the entire enterprise.
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Top 10 scenic marathons of the world
Why face the streets of suburbia for 26-plus body-numbing miles when you can run through bucolic vineyards, past historic landmarks, even through an African game reserve? Here is Forbes' list of top 10 marathons worth the trip, plus the race dates in chronological order.
– Napa Valley Marathon (March 2)
– Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris (April 6)
– Virgin Money London Marathon (April 13)
– Boston Marathon (April 21)
– Big Sur International Marathon (April 27)
– BMO Vancouver Marathon (May 4)
– Great Wall Marathon, Tianjin, China (May 17)
– Marathon de la Baie du Mont Saint-Michel, France (May 25)
– Big Five Marathon, Limpopo, South Africa (June 21)
– Athens Classic Marathon (Nov. 9)
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Mandeville Councilman at large says he has the answer to post-storm gawkers
Councilman at large promotes bollards not barricades
The last thing homeowners want to see while cleaning up from a storm is gawkers.
One councilman on the Northshore said he has an idea to keep unwelcome sightseers out of storm-damaged neighborhoods.
However, his idea may have a tough time getting the green light.
The damage left by hurricanes causes people to stop and look.
Mandeville Councilman at large Rick Danielson said he has an idea to control the traffic flow after a storm.
The devices are called bollards -- removable poles dropped into the street to block traffic.
"The thought of being able to block intersections with these devices, I think, is a very efficient way to control traffic," Danielson said.
The idea would be to have bollards at every block after a storm to keep out sightseers.
"There's several ways in and out of the Old Mandeville area. You can't block off every street with patrolmen, because it's a big city to protect and there's only so many officers to go around," Danielson said.
According to Danielson, the Mandeville City Council allocated $25,000 to purchase about 50 bollards, which would be enough to block most streets leading into Old Mandeville.
While Danielson believes it's a great idea to keep out gawkers, the plan does have doubters.
"I'm not sure where that idea came from. I'm not sure that it's feasible, as far as to do," said Mandeville Mayor Don Villere.
Villere said the city has already purchase brand-new barricades that do the same thing, and the barricades are already in Mandeville, ready for use.
"Police took a look at what their needs were and decided that that was a more recognized symbol of 'don't enter,'" Villere said.
Villere says the barricades are safer and easier to see.
Danielson argues that the bollards have potential.
"Barricades could be moved. You can drive around a barricade. You can't move a bollard," he said.
Villere still doesn't buy it, saying the safety factor is better with barricades.
Danielson said it falls to the city administration to purchase and install the devices.
The councilman at large also noted that the bollards would free up police officers so they could be more efficiently allocated in the wake of a storm.
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Dow Corning offers two products that expand your options from the typical thermal-cure solventless release coatings to include new water-based silicone release coatings for filmic substrates.
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Guest Blogger: Kristina Braly, writer of the blog Pretty Shiny Sparkly
My fellow anesthesiology residents and I decided to take advantage of the ever-popular Houston Restaurant Weeks. A dinner of 14 people was expertly coordinated (clearly not by yours truly, as I have no coordinating skills whatsoever) at RDG Bar Annie, an amazingly decorated, upscale restaurant spinoff from the classic Café Annie, on Post Oak. If you're not a Houstonian and this is gibberish to you, please ignore. In short: four-course meal was superb, and it was truly remarkable how nearly unrecognizable we all were, out of our hospital-issued scrubs and scrub hats.
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Health officials report sudden surge in Salmonella cases
Iowa Department of Public Health officials are investigating a sudden surge in cases of a rare strain of Salmonella.
Over the past several weeks, health officials said they have received 26 reports from 19 counties of the illness.
"Salmonella is commonly the result of improper handling or preparation of food," said IDPH Medical Director, Dr. Patricia Quinlisk in a news release issued Friday. "This particular strain is often associated with improper cooking of poultry or eggs."
Officials said the symptoms of Salmonella infection are similar to those of Cyclospora outbreak, including diarrhea, vomiting, nausea. The recent Salmonella cases are not related to the cyclospora outbreak, officials said.
"Salmonella is one of those bacterial that they just work in a lot of different foods and there's really not a big pattern to them," said Angela Shaw of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University.
Salmonella symptoms can last for about a week.
Shaw said you can protect yourself by washing fresh produce before consumption and cooking chicken and eggs properly.
"Cooking it to 165 (degrees) is how you're actually going to kill it. Salmonella is really easily killed if it's heated properly," said Shaw.
Advice on avoiding the Salmonella includes safe handling of chicken and eggs while cooking and frequently washing your hands:
--Grill chicken to an internal temperature of 165 degrees F as measured with a food thermometer; leftovers should also be reheated to 165 degrees F. The color of cooked poultry is not always a sure sign of its safety. Only by using a food thermometer can one accurately determine that poultry has reached a safe minimum internal temperature of 165 °F throughout the product.
--When making salads containing eggs, like potato or macaroni salad, be certain the eggs are thoroughly cooked and the yolks are firm.
--Do not use raw eggs to make homemade ice cream. You can make homemade ice cream safely by using pasteurized egg products, or by tempering and cooking the eggs in a hot custard ice cream base.
--Keep cold food cold and hot food hot. Whether in your car or on the picnic table, illness-causing bacteria can grow in many foods within two hours and during the summer heat, that time is cut down to within one hour.


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Bear witness to climate change
One thing I love about the West is that so many people know their elevations. I doubt that many citizens of Atlanta take pride in their thousand-foot-high city. But everyone knows that Denver is a mile high, and most of us are well aware of the elevation of whatever high pass we have to cross in the wintertime. This knowledge of our place in the topography ties us to the land in a profound way, and soon, it will open our eyes to the progress of climate change.
My house sits at about 2,300 feet in the foothills of Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains. Over the 15 years I've lived here, I've learned that this is an elevation where things change. Most winters, there are days when the snow piles up on our street, though just 100 feet down slope, the roads are clear. Below us, the natural vegetation is oak woodland; above us, the conifers begin to close ranks into a proper forest. Every spring, the acorn-loving Scrub Jays and the conifer-dwelling Steller's Jays do battle over our yard.
This invisible ecological boundary has probably been fairly stable for centuries, wavering a few hundred feet up and down the hillsides with short-term climate fluctuations. It has remained even as the Oregon landscape has been completely transformed over the past 160 years of European settlement. It has remained because it is based not on biology, but on physics. The average temperature decreases by 3.5° Fahrenheit for every 1,000 feet of elevation gain, because the thinner air at higher altitudes can hold less heat. Cooler temperatures change both the water regime -- especially the snow level -- and the fire danger, which together do much to determine vegetation in the West. And so, physics and biology have collaborated to create a noticeable environmental transition right about where I live.
Today, that transition is in transition. The physics that relates temperature to elevation isn't changing, but the baseline temperature is. If global warming produces a 3-4 degree increase in annual average temperature by 2100, as most models suggest, my house will find itself in the climate and vegetation now found 1,000 feet lower. No more snow to deal with, but my Douglas firs probably won't make it, and good-bye, Steller's Jays. Hello, clammy winter fog and a lot more summer days over 100 degrees. It's not a happy picture.
But the truly significant changes will be happening higher, on the 4,000-6,000 foot-high ridges that ring our valley and hold the snow that melts in the spring to feed our creeks and rivers. More than by any other change, global warming threatens the West with a seemingly simple trick: changing snow into rain. Without snowmelt, even if total precipitation remains exactly the same, we are in for a lot of trouble. The timed release of water from snow keeps forest soils moist well into the summer, buffers streams from floods, and allows irrigation districts to manage water distribution throughout the year. This January, I gaze across the valley toward the peaks, and I see no snow. I realize that this is likely a yearly anomaly, but such sights will become the norm soon enough. When that happens, will the West be able to sustain the population we have now, much less the population growth that so many boosters still promote?
This vision of the future has me looking at the topography in a new way. I spent much of the past summer climbing up and down the walls of my valley, ever mindful of the elevation. My friend Jim Chamberlain and I documented these familiar landscapes as if for the first time, collecting natural history information, making notes and taking photographs. Together, we produced a profile of our environment as it is, and a series of meditations on what is to come. This work (available at www.shiftingpatterns.org) has become a focus for community education and discussion about climate change.
Here is what I urge you to do: Look at your home topography. What is your elevation? When the talk of climate change blurs into a fog of generalizations, explore the elevations of places you know and love (Google Earth is a great tool for this). Then imagine them a few degrees hotter, with the climate now found hundreds or a thousand feet lower down the mountain.
That is our future, unless we can convince ourselves to get serious about climate change.
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April fears the dawning of her 11-year-old daughter's teen years more than most parents. The Colorado mom has worked to curb her child's violent temper since the girl was just 3 years old.
"She is better than she used to be," says April, who remembers when her daughter regularly threw plates of food, punched relatives' pets, and shouted curse words in violent temper tantrums. "But she still has outbreaks. It has been an active, ongoing process for her to master her anger." In the not-so-distant future, April worries that social and academic pressures will trigger more serious emotional outbursts.
The roots of violent and aggressive behavior can often be traced back many years. Many children with these kind of traits have a condition known as conduct disorder, which can begin in early childhood or during adolescence and is associated in some children with disorders, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, oppositional defiant disorder, and bipolar disorder.
Factors that may put youth at risk for conduct disorder include:
Certain factors increase a young person's risk of violent behavior, including:
This is not a complete list of risk factors. There are many other possible factors that contribute to youth violence. Also, having one of the above factors does not necessarily mean your child will engage in violent behavior.
Some strategies may be helpful in preventing violence before starts. These include:
Some studies have shown that early intervention programs can make a difference for children who show early signs of disruptive behavior. These studies found that disruptive boys who took part in a preventive intervention program for 2 years beginning in kindergarten had higher rates of high school graduation and lower rates of criminal behavior after 15 years.
There are some things you can do when your child is young to help them prepare for the teen years. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry recommends taking these steps:
Communicate openly with your child. If you think something might be wrong, ask your child. Don't ignore problems hoping they will go away. If you need help talking to your child or teen, don't be ashamed to ask for help. There may be problems you are not equipped to manage alone. Your child's doctor will be able to direct you to helpful resources.
Your teen may exhibit warning signs of emotional or social problems long before they actually participate in violent behavior. Teens with low self-esteem or family problems may also be more at-risk for self-destructive behavior like drug use. These warning signs could mean trouble for your teen:
If you notice any of these signs in your teen , start an open discussion. If your teen consistently exhibits these signs, talk to their doctor. These signs are also consistent with depression if they last longer than 2 weeks.
Time and again, research on teen violence also cites the importance of children feeling connected—to home, to school, to friends, to family. Parents' influence can help, but professional help is often required bridge the gaps in your family dynamic. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) helps both you and your teen face issues and learn better ways to deal with them. CBT can be done individually and as a group.
Untreated issues in childhood continue through adulthoood. Keep in mind that counseling is confidential. If you don't want to talk to your teen's doctor, you can find a psychiatrist at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry website.
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GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- The Reds weren't able to make additions to their offense after some shortcomings last season. To get a boost from within, they will be expecting contributions from all portions of the lineup, including the final three regular hitters -- Todd Frazier, Devin Mesoraco and Zack Cozart.
Manager Bryan Price believes the trio's success was pivotal for the Reds to having a good season.
"Any team that's going to be consistent throughout the course of the year and competitive has to be able to extract production from throughout the lineup," Price said on Friday. "You can't expect the middle of the order to carry us throughout the season. They're also three of the players that have most room to improve in their ceiling. I don't think we've seen the best of those three players. There is a great deal of optimism here that there is more in the tank for each one of those guys. They have to be motivated to get it, which I know they are, to get the most out of themselves. We as a staff have to be able to create the vehicle to help them reach their potential."
Price spoke individually to Frazier, Mesoraco and Cozart during the offseason.
"They know the importance of where they are in the lineup and the fact they know we're confident and have high expectations that their game is going to evolve to another level," Price said.


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Adults who were exposed to large amounts of secondhand smoke during childhood have lungs that look different on CT scans from those of people who grew up in a smoke-free environment, a new study suggests.
The harmful short-term effects of secondhand smoke are well known; the long-term consequences aren't as clear.
Specifically, their lungs have slightly more, and larger, emphysema-like "holes" than those with less smoke exposure, says Gina Lovasi, M.P.H., Ph.D., of Columbia University, and her colleagues. Although breathing tests showed that the smoke-exposed lungs were functioning just fine, Lovasi said the changes could signal an increased vulnerability to developing emphysema and other lung problems down the road. Health.com: Should smoking around kids be illegal?
Emphysema is a progressive lung disease characterized by shortness of breath, coughing, fatigue, and weight loss. About 24 million people in the United States have emphysema and/or chronic bronchitis, which together are known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however about half of those people don't realize they have COPD.
The lung condition is the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States, and smoking is a major cause of COPD. Health.com: I'm a nonsmoker, but I have emphysema due to a rare genetic condition
"The interesting part about this is that we don't know a lot about how the lungs change over time and whether they heal completely after being exposed to tobacco," says Lovasi, who is scheduled to present her findings on Tuesday at the American Thoracic Society's 105th International Conference in San Diego. "We can still see a difference even decades later."
The harmful short-term effects of breathing other people's cigarette smoke are well known, but the long-term consequences aren't as clear. To investigate, Lovasi and her team looked at CT scans of the lungs of 1,781 nonsmoking 45- to 84-year-olds taking part in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) trial. Health.com: 5 celebrities who had -- or are at risk of -- the lung disease COPD
About half of the study participants said that no one with whom they lived during childhood smoked cigarettes at home, 31 percent lived with one person who smoked at home, and 17 percent lived with two or more smokers.
Lovasi and her team checked the lung CT scans for large areas where the density was similar to air (lung tissue is naturally denser than air), and also calculated what percentage of their lungs was made up of these "holes." Health.com: My smoker's cough turned out to be emphysema
"The lungs are supposed to have air in them, but it's important that the air is interspersed with blood vessels so that we can get the oxygen out of the air," she says. "Small holes can expand over time and merge to form larger holes."
For people who hadn't grown up with smokers, 17 percent of their lung tissue had this air-like density, while "holes" made up 20 percent of the lung area of people who had lived with at least two smokers during childhood. The more heavily smoke-exposed study participants also had more relatively large holes in their lungs. In comparison, "someone with emphysema would typically have between 30 percent and 60 percent of the lungs classified as air-like (or emphysema-like) using the threshold we used for our study," says Lovasi. Health.com: 1 in 3 smokers would kick habit to protect pet
Lovasi says she and her colleagues will be following the MESA participants over time to see how their lungs change, and whether people with more early smoke exposure are indeed more vulnerable to lung problems later on.
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Pilot valves are often used in larger refrigeration plants with many consumers. A pilot valve is an add-on to the in-line valve. It enables a small force to operate the larger valve like in a hydraulic piston.
In the illustration, the pressure inside the temperature sensor and coil enables the main valve to operate. The control is mechanical.
Two pilot valves are also added to a large in-line valve in the illustration as well. One is an external thermo element for controlling an injection. This makes the valve work as an expansion valve. The other is a pressure control valve securing that the evaporating pressure does not fall under a certain temperature.
The pilot valve system enables an application to use standard in-line valves, adding on pilots for specific use or modification of functionality. This is done with ease at a small cost. Pilot valves come in standard sizes and can operate in in-line valves from 3/8" to 6/8".


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The Historical Diving Society, USA is an educational, non-profit (501C3) whose mission statement is: "To preserve, study, compile archive and disseminate information relating to the history of human underwater activities and to promote public awareness of and participation in underwater activities". The HDS is supported by a membership base as well as sponsors who understand the importance of our mission. Their tax deductible donations help make this all possible. If you would like to make a tax deductible donation to the Historical Diving Society USA using your Credit Card or Paypal account, you may do so here. To become a member of the Historical Diving Society, please enroll here.
The HDSUSA prides itself on the accurate investigating and recording of diving history. These high standards have attracted the support of the world's leading divers, many of whom sit on the HDSUSA Advisory Board. Among these are oceanographer Sylvia Earle; pioneering diver, photographer, filmmaker, scientist and author Hans Hass; the First Lady of the Sea Lotte Hass; ocean explorer and environmentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau; Diving Systems International founder and equipment developer Bev Morgan; Newtsuit inventor Phil Nuytten; Divers Alert Network founder Peter Bennett; astronaut /aquanaut Scott Carpenter; renowned underwater photographer Ernie Brooks II; American diving legend E.R. Cross; French diving pioneer Andre Galerne; Oceaneering founder Lad Handelman; D.U.I. founder Dick Long; Body Glove founders Bob and Bill Meistrell; leading British medical authority Sir John Rawlins; deep-ocean scientist Andreas Rechnitzer; Scubapro founder Dick Bonin; and hyperbaric specialist J. Thomas Millington.
The HDSUSA logo depicts a helmet manufactured in London around the middle of the 19th century by Augustus Siebe, who is generally considered "the father of deep sea diving." In much the same way that Cousteau and Gagnan's Aqualung launched world recreational diving, the designs incorporated in Augustus Siebe's equipment provided a safe and efficient means for man to work under the sea. It was the Augustus Siebe helmet design and its accompanying apparatus that launched the trade of the diver.
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Travel & Outdoors
Down on the Farm
During fall harvest time, bring a bit of the season home.
At harvest time, people are naturally drawn to the fields. We can't
help it, says Steve Weber, a third-generation farmer in Baltimore
"It was explained to me a number of years ago," he says. "People have
an inborn need to get back to the farm in the fall." It's a throwback,
he says, "to a time when everyone worked during the harvest." The source
of this insight, he points out, "was a farm wife and also a
psychologist—so I put some stock in it."
But the thousands who, each weekend, visit Weber's Cider Mill Farm—a
stone's throw from Perring Parkway—aren't coming just for the
agri-vibes: most take a bit of the scene home with them. Along with
selling bales of hay and cornstalks popular for dressing up houses,
Weber's has become famous for its scarecrow-making classes. Each year,
Weber buys stacks of flannel shirts and old denim jeans from a
not-for-profit for his workshop participants to stuff with straw.
Weber may be onto something: There's something about the fall, the
transitional time of both lush produce and nascent decay, that inspires
people to decorate their front stoops with ripe orange pumpkins and
their lamp posts with brittle stalks of corn.
Local farmers understand this attraction, and are happy to indulge,
throwing open barn doors, hitching up the teams for horse-drawn wagon
rides, letting us wander their fields in pursuit of fall décor.
Sharp's at Waterford Farm in Brookeville is all about pumpkins, says
Cheryl Nodar, manager of the country store there. Farmer Chuck Sharp has
been growing pumpkins in western Howard County for more than 40 years,
she says, and sells not only to the visitors who come on fall weekends
but also to local farms and festivals. Along with the pale-hued,
oversized fruits favored for jack-o'-lanterns, says Nodar, the farm
sells plenty of pumpkins for cooking—though she remains somewhat
perplexed at the number of people who buy all manner of squashes and
gourds "with no intention of cooking them."
Nodar herself bakes a mean pumpkin pie and helps to educate the
pumpkin-patch amblers about the fleshy fruit's culinary potential. The
farm sets up grills in October, offering slices of grilled pumpkins and
squash, and Nodar likes to describe the centerpiece of her own
Thanksgiving table: a squat, green Jarrahdale pumpkin, its seeds
removed, stuffed with walnuts, honey, chopped apples, and apple cider.
The recipe comes with the purchase of a pumpkin, she says.
Harman's Farm Market is recognizable by the mural on the side of the
wooden building in Churchville. Local zoning restrictions prohibit
lettering on agricultural buildings, explains farmer Paula Harman, so
the larger-than-life images of two happy farm boys (her sons) beckon
travelers on Churchville Road. The farm's fall activities tend to be
low-key. "We've intentionally kept an old-fashioned touch," says Harman,
with activities like a straw-bale maze and wagon rides, plus a special
pumpkin patch designed for families with small children. As for
decorations, says Harman, "Except for the apples, everything we sell is
grown here," including straw bales, ornamental gourds and pumpkins, and
corn shocks.
At Baugher's Orchard & Farm store in Westminster, along with the
pick-your-own pumpkin patch and tractor-pulled wagon rides to get you
there, the cavernous farm store sells planters of mums in autumnal hues,
dried corn, gourds, and home items such as pottery and candles. The
place is also fully stocked with canning and preserving supplies, in
case you're inspired by the bins of apples and piles of produce for
Finally, while decorating for fall, Maggie Wiles, nursery manager at
Greenstreet Gardens in Lothian, suggests you should still be thinking
spring. "Fall is the best time to plant anything and everything," she
points out. "A lot of people don't believe that." The fall plants she
stocks at the nursery have thick roots, so once spring rolls around,
"you'll be amazed by the color," she says. And, of course, lots of folks
know enough about fall planting to put in some bulbs.
In our search for local farms that offer the goods for fall
decorating (and more), we found lots of other destinations, too. Here
are the ones we think are more than worth the drive:
Applewood Farm
Look for hay rides, pumpkin picking, a petting zoo, train rides, a
corn maze, cider, and fall decorations. 4435 Prospect Rd., Whiteford
Baugher's Orchard & Farm
Pick your own apples and pumpkins. There's also a petting zoo, market
with homemade ice cream, fresh-baked goods, jellies, jams, and produce,
plus flowers and home décor items. 1015 Baugher Rd., Westminster,
Brad's Produce
There's a corn maze, wagon rides to pick-your-own pumpkins, scarecrow
making, pumpkin painting, apples, apple cider, and fall
decorations. 550 Asbury Rd., Churchville, 410-734-4769,
Greenstreet Gardens
Shop for pansies, mums, pumpkins, cornstalks, and ornamental
cabbages. Weekend entertainment includes a dog Halloween costume contest
this month, live music, and corn maze. 391 West Bay Front Rd., Lothian,
Harman's Farm Market
Great place for local produce, hay rides to the pumpkin patch, straw
maze, gourds, decorative winter squash, corn shocks, Indian corn, mums,
and straw bales for fall decorating. 2633 Churchville Rd. (Rte. 22),
Churchville, 410-734-7400,
Sharp's at Waterford Farm
Take hayrides to pick-your-own pumpkins, then check out the country
store, farm animals, corn and cotton maze, and scarecrow making. 4003
Jennings Chapel Rd., Brookeville, 410-489-2572.
Spring Meadow Farms
Enjoy playground, pony rides, and a farm market including cider,
food, scarecrow making, and corn bundles, as well as outdoor and indoor
decorations. 15513 Hanover Pike, Upperco, 410-239-8505.
Weber's Cider Mill Farm
Don't miss the apple cider, baked goods, fudge, and ice cream, then
check out the fall festival, wagon rides, hay maze, and scarecrow
workshops. 2526 Proctor Ln., Parkville, 410-668-4488.


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As companies expand their operations globally, managers increasingly need to interact and communicate effectively with colleagues, employees, employers, vendors, and others whose cultural background is different from their own. Success in communication, interaction and influence depends on having insight and understanding of differences in values, assumptions, expectations, and behavioral styles. Participants will study various models for understanding behavior within a cultural context and learn to interact appropriately for positive impact.
This seminar will use discussions, exercises, case studies, videos, simulations and group examples to help participants explore a conceptual framework for understanding their own culture, behavior and communications styles, as well as how those affect relationships with others of different backgrounds. Participants will develop a behavioral repertoire for effectively communicating cross culturally, with focus on developing skills for effective communications and interactions.
- Understanding one's personality and culture—and those of others—and how they affect communication style
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- Developing skills for successful cross-cultural communication
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As a result of attending this program, participants will:
- Build confidence in successful and effective communications with people of diverse cultures and personalities
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Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler: The World's Best (and Cheapest) Sous-Vide Hack @ Serious Eats via Kottke.
By this point, there is absolutely no question that the method of cooking foods at precise low-temperatures in vacuum-sealed pouches (commonly referred to as "sous-vide") has revolutionized fine-dining kitchens around the world. There is not a Michelin-starred chef who would part easily with their Polyscience circulators. But the question of when this technique will trickle down to home users—and it certainly is a question of when, and not if—remains to be answered.
The Sous-Vide Supreme, introduced last winter, and of which I am a big fan, is certainly a big step in the right direction. But at $450, for most people, it still remains prohibitively costly. In an effort to help those who'd like to experiment with sous-vide cookery without having to put in the capital, a couple weeks ago I devised a novel solution to the problem: Cook your food in a beer cooler.


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http://mmajunkie.com It has almost become a Monday morning ritual.
After every UFC event, fans clamor to the Internet to see which fighters' weekend loss resulted in a pink slip.
And while it's sometimes rather simple to predict what moves the UFC brass will make, occasionally the roster cuts come as a surprise. In our latest MMAjunkie.com/"Inside MMA" poll, we asked readers which fighter's release they felt was most surprising.
The results were revealed on Friday's new episode of HDNet's weekly MMA news show.
Thousands of votes were cast, and four-time UFC veteran Gerald Harris (17-3 MMA, 3-1 UFC), who was released by the promotion this past November, earned the greatest response with 32 percent of the vote – the same figure as the second and third place results combined.
Harris, of course, was released following UFC 123 after suffering his first loss in four UFC fights. Two of his octagon wins also netted "Hurricane" the evening's "Knockout of the Night" award. Nevertheless, a sub-par performance in a loss to UFC newcomer Maiquel Falcao resulted in Harris' release.
The second-most surprising release according to MMAjunkie.com readers? Two-time UFC veteran Todd Duffee (6-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC).
Duffee made a splash in his UFC debut by recording the fastest official knockout in UFC history with a seven-second shellacking of Canadian behemoth Tim Hague. But after suffering a shocking UFC 114 loss to Mike Russow, Duffee was sent packing.
Which recent UFC release
most surprised you?
32% – Gerald Harris
18% – Todd Duffee
14% – Marcus Davis
10% – Brandon Vera
9% – Efrain Escudero
7% – Gabriel Gonzaga
7% – Jamie Varner
3% – Chris Horodecki
Adding to the confusion was the timing of the release, which came four months after the loss. Just 24 years old at the time of his release, Duffee appeared to have tremendous upside, but the UFC elected to pass.
Despite the cutthroat nature of the UFC's roster management, featherweight Mark Hominick, who was a guest on this week's edition of "Inside MMA," said the moves are understandable.
"You're at the top of the game," Hominick said. "You've got to expect it. It's a strong food chain that's there, and you've got to be at the top of it. You've got to go out there and prove it, and that's the reality of the sport.
"Fighters have to go in there and lay it on the line every time. I think this is going to help that."
Meanwhile, MMA legend and "Inside MMA" co-host also said the moves help keep the talent level in the UFC at its greatest potential and that releases don't necessarily mean the end of the line for fighters.
"The good part is it doesn't close the door on you," Rutten said. "Go somewhere else, build back up your record, and then you can always come back."
Other fighters receiving a significant response include Marcus Davis with 14 percent, Brandon Vera with 10 percent and Efrain Escudero with 9 percent.
Gabriel Gonzaga and former WEC lightweight champion Jamie Varner each took 7 percent of the vote, while Canadian Chris Horodecki netted 3 percent of the response.
So what do you think? Did the voters get it right?
State your case below.
Additionally, don't forget to vote in this week's new poll on the MMAjunkie.com homepage. We want to know if you think Anthony Pettis is doing the right thing by taking a fight instead of waiting for the winner of Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard III.
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While learning commutative algebra and basic algebraic geometry and trying to understand the structure of results (i.e. what should be proven first and what next) I came to the following question:
Is it possible to prove that $\mathbb A^2-point$ is not an affine variety, if you don't know that the polynomial ring is a unique factorisation domain?
It seems to me, that this question has some meaning, since when we define affine variety, we don't need to use the fact that the polynomial ring is an UFD. Don't we?


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LOS ANGELES — A fire prompted a pilot to shut down an engine on a Boeing 737-800 jetliner that had just left the gate area at Los Angeles International Airport today, and the flames went out, authorities said.
The problem affected American Airlines flight 1060, said Ian Gregor of the Federal Aviation Administration. No injuries were reported.
The plane was on its way to Chicago. It had "just pushed back from the gate … when fire was seen coming out of the left engine around 5:50 a.m.," Gregor said.
"The crew shut down the engine, and the fire went out," Gregor said. "The aircraft was towed back to the gate."
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When Jesus Christ Was Baptized (Friend)
1. When Jesus Christ was baptized
Down in the River Jordan,
Three members of the Godhead were present there that day.
I wish that I had been there
When Jesus Christ was baptized,
To see the heavens open
Above the earth that day.
2. I wonder what John felt like,
Who baptized by immersion,
To hear a voice from heaven approving of the way.
Although I was not present
When Jesus Christ was baptized,
I always will remember
It was a sacred day.
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Check out our latest casting round-up featuring old veterans, up-and-comers and fresh faces. Here's the news in brief:
- Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws) has joined Cas & Dylan, the directorial debut of Jason Priestly (90210). The Oscar winner will star opposite Tatiana Maslany (Eastern Promises).
- Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) is set to star in the Paschal Chaumeil-directed Long Way Down, along with Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette and Imogene Poots.
- Maria Howell (The Blind Side) is the latest addition to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the Francis Lawrence-directed sequel starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth.
- Sasha Barrese will reprise her role from the first two installments of The Hangover in Todd Phillips' The Hangover Part III.
Hit the jump for details on each project.
First up from THR comes word that Dreyfuss will star in Cas & Dylan as "Dr. Cas Pepper, a dying man whose plans to check out on his own terms takes a reluctant detour when he winds up on the lam with a young woman (Maslany)." The Canadian indie, scripted by Jessie Gabe (Being Erica), will be Priestly's directorial debut.
Deadline reports that Paul will replace Emile Hirsch in Long Way Down, a drama about a foursome who plan to commit suicide on New Year's Eve and all meet each other on the rooftop of a tall building. Paul stars as a pizza delivery guy while the others play a struggling TV show host, a teenage girl and a mother of a disabled son. Jack Thorne scripted the adaptation of the Nick Hornsby novel. Long Way Down starts shooting this September in London.
THR reports that Howell is the latest tribute to join The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. She'll play Seeder, a former victor from District 11 who returns to participate in the Quarter Quell, the 75th annual Hunger Games. Her character plays an important role in informing Katniss (Lawrence) of conditions back in her home district. Look for Catching Fire in theaters November 22nd, 2013.
Finally, Variety confirms that Barrese, who plays Doug's wife Tracy, will return for the third installment of The Hangover. The new film sees the boys getting into trouble in Tijuana, but few other plot details have been released. The Hangover Part III also features Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong and Mike Epps. Look for it in theaters on May 24th, 2013.


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Four ex-Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MS) advisors moved to RBC Wealth Management (RY) on Tuesday, while eight moved to Wells Fargo Advisors (WFC) over the past two weeks, according to company sources. The former Morgan Stanley advisors expect to move more than $865 million in assets and $6 million in production.
While the move partly reflects ongoing dissatisfaction with the Morgan Stanley-Smith Barney integration, some experts say, it doesn't reflect any new spike in advisor movement.
"I don't see this as a trend," saidthe recruiter Rick Peterson, of Peterson & Associates in Houston, in an interview with AdvisorOne. "Advisors are leaving everywhere. And a regional Morgan Stanley manager contacted me to say they were talking to lots of Wells Fargo advisors, for instance." (UBS, for instance, said it had recruited a three-member team in Illinois from Wells late on Tuesday.)
Other recruiters agree. "Retention deals continue to amortize, and the market has been good," said Mark Elzweig, a New York-based executive-search consultant, in an interview. "We'll continue to see increased movement this year."
Still, Peterson says, RBC—though it doesn't have offer the largest recruiting package on the Street today—is sharing a good-sized deal with new reps. Plus, RBC's recruiter in the Southwest, Darryl Trewig, does a "great job" at attracting wirehouse reps to the firm.
Morgan Stanley, which reported its first-quarter results on Thursday, saw its advisor headcount shrink by about 300 reps. "But in terms of recruiting from the other wirehouses, it is positive territory on a net basis so far this year," Peterson explained.
Joining RBC in Houston from MSSB is the team of Gene Theobald, Otho Evans and Teresa Castillo, who managed about $330 million in client assets and had yearly fees and commissions of $2.6 million; their primary focus is on tax-free municipal bonds.
Also joining RBC from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney in Houston is Tim Hudnall, who has had about $90 million in assets under management and $525,000 in production. His practice focuses on fee-based asset management.
"At RBC Wealth Management, our goal is to bring on the best financial advisors who are a good fit with our firm's culture," said Jeff Heberling, director of the firm's Houston Center branch, in a statement. "These four new advisors bring a wealth of knowledge and industry expertise, as well as a dedication to providing superior service to their clients."
Moving from MSSB to Wells Fargo's independent brokerage arm, Financial Network or FiNet, is the Robbins/Farley Group, comprising Robert Robbins and Colleen Farley in Bedford, N.H. Combined, their trailing 12-month fees and commissions are $1.5 million, while their AUM is $89 million.
Jamie Waldren in Columbia, Md., has joined Wells Fargo Advisors' traditional private-client channel from Morgan Stanley with about $1.1 million in production and assets of $96 million,
This channel also is welcoming John Peterson from MSSB in Memphis, Tenn. He has a decade of experience in the industry and AUM of $93 million.
In Oklahoma City, Okla., Leonard Bernstein, Robyn Fain, Tim Ridley and William Link are joining Wells from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. They have a combined AUM of $168 million and they have 68 years of combined industry experience.
Other advisors joining Wells Fargo's various channels recently include:
- Three advisors from UBS with total production of $2.6 million and assets of $318 million in New York and Charleston, S.C;
- Three advisors from Merrill Lynch with combined assets of $253 million in Jacksonville, Fla., and Seattle; and
- Two reps from RBC in Annapolis, Md., with $1.1 million in production and $92.5 million in assets.


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The Root: Aw, Nuts! Weiner Doesn't Trump ACORN
Jack White is a frequent contributor to The Root.
It's a pity that the 19th-century Austrian novelist Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach was not still around this week to witness a spectacular vindication of her most famous aphorism: Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
That old adage applies to Andrew Breitbart, the right-wing-media hit man previously best known for manufacturing a charge of racism that forced the heroic Shirley Sherrod to resign from the Department of Agriculture and for publicizing a highly edited sting videotape supposedly showing employees at the now defunct community organization ACORN advising a prostitute on how to avoid paying taxes. His track record establishes that Breitbart's grasp of the facts is no firmer than Sarah Palin's command of American history.
But in, er, exposing the eponymously named Rep. Anthony Weiner, Breitbart finally managed to hit his target. It will be a relief when Weiner finally realizes that he should resign from Congress and devote himself to his pregnant wife. He is an embarrassment.
But does bagging Weiner mean that Breitbart has restored his credibility, or that his numerous liberal and journalistic critics owe him an apology for writing him off as a purveyor of sleaze, as some conservative bloggers have maintained? I don't think so.
I'm all for giving the devil his due, but such forbearance has definite limits. If you will pardon yet another old cliché, one sparrow does not make a spring. And being right in this instance does not negate Breitbart's outrageous behavior toward Sherrod, who is suing him for defamation, or balance out the fact that despite his sensational claims, investigators have found no proof that anyone at ACORN actually committed a crime.
Weiner is hardly the first liberal politician to be caught with his pants down by a dubious news source. He's not even the only prominent Democrat whose case is currently making headlines. Former U.S. senator and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards has been indicted for allegedly using campaign funds to cover up the love child he fathered with his campaign videographer. The story that led to his troubles was broken several years ago by the National Enquirer.
And Edwards is just the latest example of this strange phenomenon. It was also the Enquirer that revealed, more than a decade ago, that the Rev. Jesse Jackson had done the same with one of his aides. Before that, another supermarket tabloid, the Star, paid Arkansas hairdresser Gennifer Flowers for details about her affair with Bill Clinton. And before that, the Enquirer published photos of former Sen. Gary Hart with model Donna Rice on his lap.
And, for whatever it's worth, the tabloid breathlessly reported in 2008 that Sarah Palin had an extramarital affair while she was mayor of the town of Wasilla, Alaska.
Despite that string of scoops, it would be downright foolhardy for the rest of the media or anyone else to accept any claim by the Enquirer and its ilk as the truth without strong independent verification. For one thing, such publications pay snitches for information, and if you pay enough, you can always get what you pay for. It may or may not be true.
But questionable as the supermarket tabloids' journalistic practices may be, they look transparent and aboveboard compared with the little we know about Breitbart's techniques. Plus, what the tabloids report often checks out.
Not so with Breitbart. In both the Sherrod and ACORN cases, independent analysts have concluded that he or his colleagues deliberately distorted the facts to reach sensational conclusions. In short, his reports were propaganda masquerading as journalism. He's still not to be trusted, even though, like Ebner-Eschenbach's stopped clock, this time he was right.
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BY foxsports • July 23, 2013
The Big Ten Conference will have a team in either the Heart of Dallas Bowl or the Armed Forces Bowl each year through the 2019 season.
As part of an extension with the Heart of Dallas Bowl announced Tuesday, the Big Ten will also send teams to the Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth, rotating between the two games over a seven-year period.
This season, the Big Ten will play a team from Conference USA in the Heart of Dallas Bowl. That game is on New Year's Day at the historic Cotton Bowl stadium.
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany says the league looks forward to continuing the tradition of playing a bowl game annually in Texas like it has since 1995.
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This is about continuations, really.
This is the continuing series of articles of continuing on continuations. Really.
And State. Oh, and State. Ugh.
So, the State monad is a monad on a 'stateful-like' function.
Still with me?
So I have this beautiful implementation in Java — No, really. I do. — and, so ... how do I test that it works?
Well, you know I have to use it. I have this State monad transformer example, but I want something really, really simple, so:
> inc :: State Int Int
> inc = do x <- get
> put (x + 1)
> return x
But the thing is, we don't have the do-notation in Java, so we have to unwind this as a set of monadic binds, so:
> inc1 = get >>= \x -> put (x + 1) >> return x
Cool! But we don't have (>>) ('then') in Java, we have (>>=) ('bind'), so one more transformation:
> inc2 = get >>= \x -> put (x + 1) >>= \_ -> return x
AND we're done! Now, an example:
> runState (inc2 >> inc2 >> inc2) 2
and we get:
(4, 5)
as expected.
Shoot, do we have to write (>>) ('then') as a convenience function? We still have to take the argument and declare the type of the function, but the function itself simplifies. Let's see the Java implementation first as:
> runState (inc2 >>= \_ -> inc2 >>= \_ -> inc2) 2
(still works...)
So, State is a straight transliteration from Haskell to Java. It's a monad of a function:
public class State<STATE, DATUM> implements Monad<State, DATUM> {
protected State(Arrow<STATE, Tuple<DATUM, STATE>> f) {
state = f;
// get and put are straight from the haskell standard library:
// get = State $ \x -> (x, x)
// so is x <- get the same as get >>= State $ \state -> (x, state1)
public static <STATE1> State<STATE1, STATE1> get(STATE1 basis) {
return new State<STATE1, STATE1>(Tuple.dupF(basis));
// put :: a -> State a ()
public static <STATE1> State<STATE1, Unit> put(final STATE1 s) {
Arrow<STATE1, Tuple<Unit, STATE1>> putter =
new Function<STATE1, Tuple<Unit, STATE1>>() {
public Tuple<Unit, STATE1> apply(STATE1 ignored) throws Failure {
return Tuple.pair(Unit.instance, s);
return new State<STATE1, Unit>(putter);
// eval/exec/run State functions are yawn-worthy:
public DATUM evalState(STATE s) throws Failure {
return state.apply(s).fst();
public STATE execState(STATE s) throws Failure {
return state.apply(s).snd();
public Tuple<DATUM, STATE> runState(STATE s) throws Failure {
return state.apply(s);
// now here comes the fun stuff. Functor:
// Functor override --------------------
instance Functor (State s) where
fmap f m = State $ \s -> let
(a, s') = runState m s
in (f a, s')
public <A, B> Arrow<Functor<A>, Functor<B>> fmap(final Arrow<A, B> fn) {
return new Function<Functor<A>, Functor<B>>() {
public Functor<B> apply(final Functor<A> functor) throws Failure {
// TODO: implement -- uh, fmap and >>= are the same for state
// ... almost
Arrow<STATE, Tuple<B, STATE>> stater =
new Function<STATE, Tuple<B, STATE>>() {
public Tuple<B, STATE> apply(STATE s) throws Failure {
State<STATE, A> m = (State<STATE, A>)functor;
final Tuple<A, STATE> tup = m.runState(s);
return Tuple.pair(fn.apply(tup.fst()), tup.snd());
return new State<STATE, B>(stater);
// and monad bind and return and then:
// Monad overrides ---------------------
public <X> Monad<State, X> unit(final X d) {
Arrow<STATE, Tuple<X, STATE>> lifter =
new Function<STATE, Tuple<X, STATE>>() {
public Tuple<X, STATE> apply(STATE st) throws Failure {
return Tuple.pair(d, st);
return new State<STATE, X>(lifter);
// state >>= f = State $ \st ->
// let (x, st') = runState state st
// in runState (f x) st'
public <B> Monad<State, B> bind(final Arrow<DATUM, Monad<State, B>> fn)
throws Failure {
final State<STATE, DATUM> status = this;
Arrow<STATE, Tuple<B, STATE>> binder =
new Function<STATE, Tuple<B, STATE>>() {
public Tuple<B, STATE> apply(STATE st) throws Failure {
Tuple<DATUM, STATE> tup = status.runState(st);
return ((State<STATE, B>)fn.apply(tup.fst()))
return new State<STATE, B>(binder);
// join() ???
public Monad<State, ?> join() throws Failure {
throw new Failure("Okay, why are you joining on state?");
public <A, B> Arrow<A, Monad<State, B>> liftM(Arrow<A, B> fn) {
return Monad.Binder.lifter(this, fn);
public <B> Monad<State, B> liftThenBind(Arrow<DATUM, B> fn)
throws Failure {
return bind(liftM(fn));
public <T> Monad<State, T> then(final Monad<State, T> m) throws Failure {
return bind(new Function<DATUM, Monad<State, T>>() {
public Monad<State, T> apply(DATUM ignored) throws Failure {
return m;
// just capture types here -----
private final Arrow<STATE, Tuple<DATUM, STATE>> state;
... and with that we have (functional) state!
Now, to test it with our inc2 function(al):
// So we need to test the hell out of this ...
public static void main(String args[]) throws Failure {
// TODO: test me! well a simple test is monadic succ, so ...
// inc2 :: State Int Int
// inc2 = get >>= \x -> put (x + 1) >> return x
Monad<State, Integer> inc2 =
State.get(0).bind(new Function<Integer, Monad<State, Integer>>() {
public Monad<State, Integer> apply(final Integer x)
throws Failure {
return State.put(x + 1)
.then(new State<Integer, Integer>(
Tuple.mkWithFst(x, 0)));
System.out.println("runState (inc2 >> inc2 >> inc2) 2 is (4,5): "
+ ((State<Integer, Integer>)
System.out.println("runState (inc2 >> inc2 >> inc2) 17 is (19, 20): "
+ ((State<Integer, Integer>)
And the results output are as expected. YAY!
You see that I did implement the (>>) ('then') operator in Java. It was very easy to do: just a bind-ignore-return.
Now. (Now, I'm going to stop saying 'now.' Really.)
Now that we have state, we can use it along with continuations to create a threading or coroutining model of computation without having to use the (dreaded/revered) call/cc.2
Tune in next week, Ladies and Gentlemen, for another thrilling chapter on our continuing saga of continuations!
(2) "Oh, you code with call/cc?" the awed neophyte whispers reverentially, then bows down and worships.3
(3) Thus spake the Zen Master: "Why are you in awe of those who use call/cc and similar parlor tricks? The real miracle is that when I wish to sum, I use (+), and when I wish to 'continue' I hit the carriage return." Then he concluded his lesson with the cryptic utterance: "One bowl of rice" and departed their presence for Nirvana (he likes Soundgarden, as well).
Chapter Postlude
The problem that this chapter addresses is what I've had in my java categories library for some time now. I've had this thing called 'MutableBoxedType<T>' with a very easy implementation:
@Effectual public class MutableBoxedType<T>
implements Functor<T>, Copointed<T> {
public MutableBoxedType(T val) {
this.value = val;
@Effectual public void put(T newval) {
this.value = newval;
@Effectual public final Effect<T> putF = new Effect<T>() {
@Override protected void execute(T obj) throws Failure {
// Functor implementation -----------------------------------
public <X, Y> Arrow<Functor<X>, Functor<Y>>
fmap(final Arrow<X, Y> fn) {
return new Function<Functor<X>, Functor<Y>>() {
public Functor<Y> apply(Functor<X> obj)
throws Failure {
MutableBoxedType<X> mbt =
return new MutableBoxedType<Y>(fn.apply(mbt.extract()));
// Copointed implementation --------------------------------
public T extract() {
return value;
private T value;
Simple enough, we just put a box around a mutable type. The problem is all those @Effectual annotations and the very mutability-ness of the type itself. Once we make the guts of an instance mutable we lose all provability as 'equals' and '==' now have been reduced to meaningless, vis:
MutableBoxedType<Integer> five = new MutableBoxedType<Integer>(5);
oldFive= five;
five.equals(oldFive); ... is true
Yes, five and oldFive are equal, but their shapes have changed during the course of the program and we need deep copy semantics here to sniff that out.
The (functional) state monad doesn't 'change' ... not via mutation, anyway. What happens instead is that when the state gets updated, we have a new state. It just makes sense (provably so) and gives us our beloved 'mutation' (by all appearances) even in the functional domain.