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If a Counter-Conciliar movement is ever going to coalesce and expunge the usurpers, perverts, and crooks which have taken over Christ's once Holy Church, it must first acknowledge and learn from the forefathers of modern traditional Catholicism. An indispensable place to begin would be the study of the works of Patrick Omlor (1931-2013), in particular his seminal monograph written a half century ago, Questioning the Validity of the Masses Using the New, All-English Canon (QTV). A collection of studies, essays, and columns including QTV can be found in the Robber Church.
The outcome of Vatican II and the New Mass has been, to say the least, a catastrophe as millions have left the Church, converted to Protestantism or other non-Christian sects, or have mistakenly stayed with the Novus Ordo.
Published shortly after the close of the Second Vatican Anti-Council, 1962-65, and prior to the Paul VI/Bugnini-inspired New Mass of 1970, Omlor was one of the few who understood and had the temerity to challenge its validity. Very few at the time, especially among the Catholic intelligentsia, who should have known better, opposed in any meaningful way the revolution which was taking place before their very eyes. The Buckleys, Bozells, and Buchanans all eventually went along (albeit grudgingly) with the changes and accepted the Novus Ordo as legitimate. It is puzzling that learned Catholics did not see the handwriting on the wall since the Conciliar revolutionaries used similar arguments and methods which Protestant reformers employed centuries before to achieve their diabolical ends.
Omlor's Argument
With concise, pointed, and unassailable reasoning, Omlor demonstrates that the English Canon of the New Mass invalidates it as a Catholic Sacrament. The New Mass's Canon is not a mere "mistranslation," but a new form – deliberately conceived which changes the very words of Christ. "Now if a specific, determined matter is required for the validity of a sacrament," Omlor writes, "greater still is the necessity of a specific, determinate form." [26] He then quotes St. Thomas on a sacrament's form:
And therefore in order to insure the perfection of
sacramental signification it was necessary to
determine the signification of the sensible things
(i.e., the matter) by means of certain words . . .
[I]n the sacraments the words are as the form, and
sensible things are as the matter. Now in all things
composed of matter and form, the determining
principle is on the part of the form. . . . [I]n the
sacraments . . . much more is there need in them
of a determinate form of words. [26-27]
Pope Pius IX when asked about the inclusion of St. Joseph's name in the Mass rejected the idea and reportedly said: "I am only the Pope. What power have I to touch the Canon." Omlor rightly admonishes that no one has the right to alter a sacrament:
And so . . . mere men may not dare usurp the right
to change the proper form of a sacrament. [27]
According to the Angelic Doctor, the proper form for the consecration of the bread is:
This is My Body.
Prior to the introduction of the all English Canon, the words for the consecration of the bread were:
For this is My Body.
The new Canon omits "for" which deliberately tampers with Tradition as St. Thomas explains: "[For this is My Body] is set in this form according to the custom of the Roman Church, who derived it from Peter the Apostle." [27] While the omission of "for" does not invalidate the sacrament, Omlor rightly contends that the Liturgical Innovators "exhibit a callous disregard for a Tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, a Tradition dating from the very beginnings of Christianity. Indeed a Tradition 'derived from Peter the Apostle.'" [28]
In his discussion of the Consecration of the Wine, Omlor quotes from the Council of Trent, published by "command" of Pope St. Pius V. The form Consecration of the Wine is as follows:
This is the chalice of my blood, of the new and
eternal testament, the mystery of faith, which
shall be shed for you and for many, to the
remission of sins. [28]
Omlor then compares the dogmatic formula with the all-English Canon:
This is my body. This is the cup of my blood,
the blood of the new and ever-lasting
covenant – the mystery of faith. This blood is
to be shed for you and for all men so that
sins may be forgiven. [32]
He notes the new phraseology and the substitution of words in the English Canon "cup" for "chalice" and "is to be shed" for "shall be shed."
While disturbing and probably sinful, these subtle changes are not as grievous as the final words of the new rite: For you and for all men so that sins may be forgiven. This clearly connotes a different meaning (universal salvation) than the original: For you and for many unto the forgiveness of sins.
While the omission of words may not invalidate a sacrament, Omlor asserts that "it goes without saying that if the substance of the form is altered by the omission, then the sacrament is invalidated." [33] He bases his claim on St. Thomas who says:
Now it is clear, if any substantial part of the
sacramental form be suppressed, that the
essential sense of the words is destroyed;
and consequently the sacrament is invalid. [33-34]
The Importance of QTV Today
Conservative and semi-traditional Catholics have willfully ignored the essential point of Omlor's argument. They understand that if they agree with his reasoning, they will be ostracized, attacked, possibly "ex-communicated" from the New Order, and may incur the wrath of the Argentine heretic who will heap upon them all sorts of nasty invectives.
The question that must be asked is who cares what the Conciliar Church authorities think, say, or do? Why would anyone of sound mind want to be affiliated in any way with the Novus Ordo? Not only are its sacraments graceless, but it is a criminal organization, populated by paedophiles and their protectors from Bergoglio on down all of whom are responsible for the destruction of the lives and souls of thousands of children along with the embezzlement of millions of dollars.
Once conservatives and semi-traditional Catholics concede that the New Mass and Sacraments are legitimate, they are then left fighting secondary battles: abortion, "same-sex marriage," or trying to decipher the "secrets" of apparitions. While abortion and homosexual marriage are certainly abominable, the fact that the Novus Ordo Mass and Newchurch Sacraments are not valid is a far worse offense to Almighty God. If the time and energy spent on the "pro-life" movement was instead directed in defense of the Traditional Mass, the Conciliar Church authorities may have been defeated long ago.
Neoconservative Catholics who are outraged at the actions of the Conciliar popes lost the battle long ago. For their efforts are grounded on the acceptance of the Novus Ordo Mass as valid and capable of producing sanctifying grace. Omlor's treatise shows that it is clearly not.
The only approach, therefore, to take if things are ever to be turned around is to reject everything that took place at Vatican II and in its aftermath along with the often overlooked, but troubling Modernist activities and changes that occurred under Pius XII/Pacelli which, in many cases, laid the groundwork for Vatican II. Newchurch should not only be rejected, but the entire rotten edifice needs to be burned to the ground! It cannot, nor should there be any attempts to salvage it.
There is no better place to start the counter revolution and eventual destruction of the Novus Ordo Church than with a wide dissemination of Patrick Henry Omlor's Questioning the Validity of the Masses Using the New, All-English Canon and his other magnificent uncompromising works . Those who read them with an open mind will be led to renounce the Conciliar Church forever. This, of course, is Omlor's greatest legacy, for there have undoubtedly been thousands awakened by his writing and have abandoned, for the good of their immortal souls, the New Mass.
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Title IX, included as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, is justly credited with creating a revolution for women and their access to sports. Yet the work of eradicating discrimination in sports is far from over. Commentators lament that progress has slowed and even stagnated in recent years as the percentage of women engaged in intercollegiate sports has remained steady rather than increasing. Female college students participate in intercollegiate athletics at a rate significantly below that of their male counterparts. Nationally, women comprise approximately fifty-five percent of all college students, yet they represent only about forty-three percent of all intercollegiate athletes. But the myopic focus on achieving proportionality at the university level has narrowed our focus to a numbers game that impacts a relatively small percentage of college students. This Article presents a broader and more nuanced discussion of the relationship among gender, sports, and discrimination. A more thoughtful (and less dogmatic) consideration of this issue is long overdue. This continued emphasis on participation rates in universities as the primary, if not the sole, evidence of discrimination masks a host of complex and interrelated issues that are largely ignored. Women's lower level of interest in sports is far more than a stereotype; it has been repeatedly confirmed in social science research. The gender gap in sports participation is well established long before these students reach college. Rather than dismissing such findings as sexist stereotypes, we need to pay closer attention to the reasons for such choices in order not only to eradicate discrimination, but also to identify the multiple factors that produce this outcome. Equality of opportunity is only part of a much larger set of issues concerning how we structure our sports programs and what underlying values those programs are or should be promoting.
Recommended Citation
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By water volume it is also the largest lake in South America. Lake Titicaca is fed by rainfall and meltwater from glaciers on the sierras that abut the Altiplano.
The lake is located at the northern end of the endorheic Altiplano basin, high in the Andes. The western part of the lake lies within the Puno Region of Peru, and the eastern side is located in the Bolivian La Paz Department.
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I am seeking to revolve the are between the functions function $d(x) = Exp(x)$ and $e(x) = 4 - x^2$ around the line $x = 2$. I am using
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d[x_] := E^(x + 2)
e[x_] := 4 - (x + 2)^2
RevolutionPlot3D[{{d[x]}, {e[x]}}, {x, -1.96464 - 2, 1.05801 - 2},
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My first run-in with coroutines was with Python's generators.
def ints():
i = 0
while True:
yield i
i += 1
This is a function that never returns. Instead it runs in an infinite loop over all natural numbers. But it yields every number. This means it actually stops and "returns" the number to the caller but is available for more execution. Kind-of like implementing an
Iterator but the control flow is reversed. Now you don't produce a value on demand but rather you run and output values at will while the runtime system stops and resumes you.
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yield how would you implement it? I think I would hack up the runtime. I would add support for suspending a function. Effectively creating delimited continuations. A function could request that it current scope(and "program counter") be stored on the heap. I personally find this a bit nasty. Even more so in a statically compiled language.
Monads to the rescue
yield is in its essence an effect. Monads are a way to implement effects. Let's try to use them to create suspendable computations. But let's start with something simpler and work our way up.
Trampolines for free
A trampoline is a system to implement function calls effectively trading stack for heap. This allows for some nifty tricks like implementing a tail recursion in a system that doesn't optimize for it or doing deep recursive calls that would otherwise result in a stack overflow. In Haskell it just provides explicit boundary between results and thunks.
This is quite trivial to implement. Consider this definition.
data Trampoline a = Return a | Bounce (Trampoline a)
runTrampoline :: Trampoline a -> a
runTrampoline (Return a) = a
runTrampoline (Bounce t) = runTrampoline t
a -> b now becomes
a -> Trampoline b. It can wrap up its result in a
Return or bounce by wrapping up a thunk(Haskell is non-strict!) in a
runTrampoline is implemented with tail recursion but could be done with a
while loop in languages that don't optimize it.
But now comes the important trick! Consider the
Free monad from package
data Free f a = Pure a | Free (f (Free f a))
This looks very similar but with an additional layer
f - a functor. Using the
Identity functor we can very simply implement the trampoline.
type Trampoline = Free Identity
bounce :: Trampoline a -> Trampoline a
bounce = Free . Identity
runTrampoline :: Trampoline a -> a
runTrampoline = runIdentity . retract
And we get a trampoline for free! Also a
Monad and
Applicative instances(and more) that make composition of trampoline-using code very easy. This would else require some boilerplate code. I've also included a utility function
bounce that is now analogous to the
Bounce constructor from before.
If the underlying functor is a monad too(which
Identity is)
Free knows how to collapse itself - we get
runTrampoline for free.
Finally! Keeping trampolines in mind let think about generators. We could write one as a normal function but with explicit notion of generator in the return type. A generator function return a signal that it's done or a value and the next generator function - continuation.
data Producer a = Done | Yield a (Producer a)
Again we see structure similar to
Free. And in fact we can implement this with
Free if use use the
((,) a) functor. What is this cryptic type signature? It's a tuple with one missing type parameter. Think of it like
(a,). We fix the first member and our
Functor instance maps over the second member.
But there's an additional catch. When we're done we don't return anything but
Pure has a parameter
a. We just fix this to
type Producer a = Free ((,) a) ()
yield :: a -> Producer a
yield a = Free (a, return ())
yield function only takes a value, it doesn't know about the continuation, it always users
return () which is essentially "I'm done". But if we use monadic(or applicative) style we can substitute it with our continuation - the function passed to bind.
But before looking at an example let's look at the original definition(the one without
Free) again. It looks a lot like list! In fact it's exactly the same. This means we can simply convert to list just by substituting constructors.
consumeProducer :: Producer a -> [a]
consumeProducer (Pure ()) = []
consumeProducer (Free (a, c)) = a : consumeProducer c
This is exactly the thing
Free is meant to do. We described our computation in a pure way and then written an interpreter.
Now the promised example.
producerExample = consumeProducer $ do
yield 1
yield 2
yield 3
The semantics is quite trivial and you should immediately see this produces
[1,2,3]. More importantly it inverts the control allowing us to do arbitrary computations(like recursion) between yields.
In fact we even did better than Python! Inside a
Producer you can call to other producers. And they can yield directly! No need for nasty loops like
for e in helper_function():
yield e
You just write
But we also did worse. This approach does not allow for any other effects inside producers. This can be easily mitigated using transformers. But I'll show this in another post.
What if we don't want to convert our producers to list but just consume them immediately? We need some sort of consumers.
I'll skip a few steps of reasoning and jump straight to the conclusion. We can use the same approach. A consumer is just a function that returns a result or a continuation that takes a value and returns another consumer. This means it can consume an arbitrary amount of values and stop when it wants. It's very similar to folding but with the added control of stopping. Again we inverted the control. It's usually the fold that controls the "looping" not the function we pass into the fold. This concept is called an iteratee.
data Consumer a b = Result b | Await (a -> Consumer a b)
And yet again we see the familiar structure. And yet again our functor is a bit funky:
((->) a). It's a function that takes a known parameter but we map over it's result. Think of
a -> .
type Consumer a = Free ((->) a)
await :: Consumer a a
await = Free return
await function might me a bit unintuitive at first. But take a close look at it's type signature. It consumes
as and produces an
a. And it seems reasonable to say it should consume exactly one
a and then return it. And that's exactly what it does. Function
return takes one element and packs it up into a
Pure completing our consumer.
Then we use monadic(or applicative as I'll show) style to consume more than one.
(+) <$> await <*> await
This consumes two values and returns their sum.
Now we could feed it a list(being dual to our producers) but I'll skip this and write a more interesting function. One that feeds a producer into a consumer. The code for feeding a list is almost exactly the same and you should try to write it as an exercise.
pipe :: Producer a -> Consumer a r -> Maybe r
pipe _ (Pure r) = Just r
pipe (Free (a, c)) (Free f) = pipe c $ f a
pipe _ _ = Nothing
What's going here?
- If our consumer is done we're done too.
- If producer is yielding and consumer is awaiting we feed that value into consumers continuation and recurse.
- Else it's not possible to continue.
And now we can directly consume. But one problem remains. We cannot compose
Producer and
Consumer together and get something composable again. We get a
Maybe. I argue that is is a smell of bad design. We should be able to compose again and again as this will greatly simplify the design of the system using these components. It turns out we can do this but since this is getting a bit long I'll cover this topic in another post.
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EUGENIE JONES | Want to live longer? Here are some tips
In Justin Timberlake's 2011 movie, entitled "In Time," the life spans of all people were determined by the government — a world in which people were terminated and not permitted to live beyond 26 years. People went through extreme measures to buy more time, to live longer … theft, murder, whatever it took.
Outside the fantasies of Hollywood, however, our choices for living longer don't require such extremes. A good diet, proper sleep and exercise — yes, exercise — can positively impact not only the quality of your life, but also how long you live.
Numerous studies, including those completed at the University Medical Center in Rotterdam, have proven that people who exercise regularly really do live longer. Researcher Oscar Franco was quoted in The Washington Post explaining, "Being more physically active can give you more time.
It reduces the risk of being overweight and of developing many illnesses, improves overall quality of life, and lowers the mortality rate."
Franco's study — the first to actually quantify the impact of physical activity — went a bit beyond the routine assertions that if you exercise you live longer by actually quantifying physical activity's impact on life spans.
The study showed that you can add nearly four years to their life spans with moderate to high levels of activity; living 1.3 to 3.7 years longer than those who got little exercise; largely because they put off developing heart disease — the nation's leading killer.
You can start experiencing these benefits, too, by first simply increasing your physical activity every day. Next, begin to add in 30-minute daily periods that you commit to exercise. Do some strength, balance and stretching work such as:
Cardiovascular work … by walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, or any continuous movement activity that uses your large muscles for a sustained period of time. You'll burn fat, control weight gain, keep your cardiovascular system in shape, lower your blood pressure, and bad cholesterol levels, eliminate emotional blues, lift your spirits and elevate your self-esteem.
Resistance work ... 8-12 exercises that hit your major muscle groups will do the trick as well as reshape your body, make you stronger, protect against muscle tissue loss, increase your metabolism, protect bone density, and enhance your cardiovascular workout ability.
Flexibility work ... stretch your muscles, 20 seconds or more of static lengthening will improve your ability to move freely through a complete range of motion and protect you from the muscular pulls and strains associated with tight, restrictive muscles.
Find a time every day and commit to consistency. No murder or theft required, but the gains of an improved quality of life and an extended life span, definitely make it worth the effort.
Now go be great!
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Jun 01, 2017
This is a great class. I learned / re-learned a ton. The assignments were challenge and left a definite feel of accomplishment. The programming environment and automated grading system were excellent.
Jun 03, 2018
Good contents and the logic of the whole course structure is very clear for a novice like me. The weekly homework is also awesome. Would recommend to anyone who wants to learn about computer science.
创建者 clayton w•
Mar 16, 2019
Want to listen to a boring old man incoherently mumble and say "UM" every 5-10 words? This course is definitely for you!
创建者 1nas•
Jan 16, 2020
Personally, I think that the assignments in this course (not in the Algs textbook) did negligible improvement in solving problem. On the other hand, writing assignments feels like doing a Java project on your own. This feels not bad since it's not easy for programming noob like me to explore and participate in projects on GitHub owing to lack of confidence : (. BTW the autograder is so awesome that it even examines your Java code style! This is pretty good for students who had learned C/C++ before to form a better code style in Java. For the videos, it's pretty good for novice (I've been confusing for a long time to find a good way to start and learn Data Structure). However, in other words, the CS knowledge taught in this course is far beyond needed. It's still necessary to drill yourself on other sites like LeetCode, and learn the relevant mathematical algorithm analysis (maybe by reading Introduction To Algorithm).
Still, I will definitely proceed with the Part 2! Genuinely appreciated, Mr. Sedgewick!
创建者 Natsu O•
May 27, 2020
The content was easy to understand. However, the professor is not as enthusiastic as I expected him to be, and the programming assignments are focused more on applying an already implemented data structure to a problem rather than writing algorithms from scratch.
创建者 Vaibhav P•
Jun 04, 2020
One of the best courses I did. I am guilty of not finishing many courses on coursera, but this one kept me hooked and motivated enough to keep coming back at regular intervals and actually finish. The actual learning from the course is more than just algorithms as we get detailed feedback on style and even some design aspects of the code we submit. The only downside of such depth assessment review system is that we are forced to use Java for the solutions, sometimes which can have its own learning curve, and hard to get 100% score because of some nitpicks which are not worth spending time to fix for a course assignment (they would be for actual production code though). Also, the specs provided are sometimes missing requirements which we only find out by submitting once and reading the assessment with failed tests.
One thing that I think should be improved is the hint system for quizzes. After we submit, in most cases the hints are not enough to understand how to solve the problem. So it leaves you less fulfilled than ideal, knowing there is unsolved problem out there and no real help.
Overall, totally recommended.
Aug 13, 2020
The course is just awesome. The course is taught by an expert in the field, and that fact reflects in the content of the course. The assignments are well designed and very involving, which helps the learner think deep, come out with a solution, improve the solution as much as possible after autograder evaluation, which is really good. That way, the learner consolidates the concept which he/she learned in the video lectures.
Also I see there are many people complaining about enforcement of the Java as the programming language for assignment submission. In my opinion, that is not a probelm at all, if you are strong in some other language, say C++, it is very easy to adapt and in the process you end up learning, not just Data Structures and Algorithms, also a new language, Java, which is a very widely used language. People should see it as a boon, since it gives double returns for your efforts. I feel very bad, because it is only because of the enforcement of Java, some people gave bad rating for the course.
创建者 Benjamin W•
May 11, 2019
I have taken several online courses, mostly on Coursera, which I've enjoyed and learned a great deal from. However, I would have to say that this is the best online course I've taken so far. The subject matter revolves around some of the most fundamental algorithms for computer science and emphasizes the importance of data representation. The choice of Java as a programming language for this course helps emphasize the distinction between data structures and abstract data types. The lectures relate the material to concrete and interesting real-world applications but also occasionally mention related open problems in computer science. The instructor is very clear in his explanations, which often make use of excellent and helpful visualizations. Lastly, the assignments are challenging but rewarding and the feedback provided by the automated grader, which accounts not only for correctness of the submitted APIs and their implementations, but also for coding style, timing, and memory use, is an invaluable learning tool.
创建者 Henry L•
Aug 28, 2020
I thoroughly enjoyed this course and learned a lot about algorithms and data structures. Before taking this course, I found algorithms to be a very dry topic but somehow this course made it very interesting. The lectures covered a lot of real-world applications, which gave insights into some of the things which happen 'under-the-hood' of computers and databases. The 'war stories' were particularly entertaining. The assignments were at the right difficulty level (although there was the initial hurdle of learning Java from scratch).
创建者 Ajinkya D V•
Jul 04, 2020
Pretty dope course. A lot of knowledge about DS and Algorithms contained along with a few Java things here and there. Fairly challenging assignments as well. Would recommend building the Data Structures & Algos up before having a look at the codes provided in the lectures for thorough understanding. This part will help with the actual implementation of Data Structures since the assignments are application centric. Ample resources available for debugging and identification of flaws in interpretation.
创建者 Kevin J•
Jul 20, 2020
Excellent course that covers both the implementation and use cases of common algorithms and data structures, as well as the mathematical theory and analysis of run-time. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in learning more about algorithmic design, and I look forward to taking part II.
创建者 Edward A R C•
Jul 20, 2020
I love this course. From its content until its assignments I used many algorithms and data structure that was new for me. Honestly, I didn't know anything about Tilde Approximation, Percolation (Dynamic connectivity), when a sorting algorithm is Stable, Geometric Algorithm, and so. Thank you so much!
创建者 Scott W•
Jun 21, 2020
All is great except that there are too many "um"s in lecture videos. But that's totally tolerable considering Professor's age.
Anyway, I've learned a lot from this course, especially those fabulous PROGRAMMING ASSIGNMENTS!
创建者 shobhit g•
Jun 24, 2020
I believe the most exciting part of this Course was the superb assignments given after each week .Solving them really posed a challenge and it was fun to resolve them ,which bears the fruit of improvement in the marks.
创建者 Kyle K•
Jun 25, 2020
Really enjoyed this course, the instructor, the explanations, and visuals are fantastic. The homeworks are challenging but the course provides great resources for visualization and testing and I learned a ton.
创建者 Gabriel A P S•
Jul 21, 2020
It's a very good course! I've learned Java and I had to think outside the box to get the most efficient solutions! It has many interesting and complex problems to solve.
创建者 pradeep v•
Jul 24, 2020
excellent. exceptional way of teaching. the student needs to listen carefully all the words spoken, as the lecturer pinpoints every detail or touches them.
创建者 Erik U•
Jul 21, 2020
Challenging, but informative. I learned a lot and will think about programming algorithms and data structures much more carefully now.
创建者 Mohammed A S•
Jan 19, 2020
Awesome course. The instructor is one of the best in the business. It gives you a proud feeling to be taught by someone who himself has contributed so much to the tech world in terms of Algorithm and Data structures. Though sometimes it does get a little frustrating as the topic is so hard. My only complain about this course is as the course is in java for people trying to implement the Algorithms in other languages like c++, python it gets a little hard to find the alternatives of language specific features in other languages so i wish some help was given on that regard. Overall great course. A big thanks to the instructor for making this course.
创建者 Gavin F•
Jul 01, 2020
A very well made and informational course. However, it is quite difficult, specifically the projects. Even as a CS undergraduate, this really was not easy at all. This certainly also requires a lot more time dedicated to it than suggested.
创建者 Justin C•
Aug 13, 2017
Lectures are pretty good and material is fairly well explained. Be warned that significant knowledge of Java is expected and it isn't taught here.
创建者 Serhiy•
Mar 28, 2017
Topics are interesting, explanation is boring
创建者 Bhavya B•
Jun 12, 2020
No certificate issues after lot of hardwork
创建者 Alex E•
May 21, 2017
Great course with appropriately challenging assignments! Clearly a lot of effort was put into designing them in such a way that the API and code-tester forces you to implement precisely the algorithm they're talking about, but you still have to write all the interesting code from scratch. Difficult, but a ton of test clients and other resources are provided to help you out. I felt really rewarded for each assignment completed.
I was taking this as a refresher (took Algorithms in college), and found the lectures much more interesting this time around. For example, the way Red-Black trees were explained as an implementation of 2-3 trees, made the algorithm much easier to understand than how I learned it before, which was that a red-black tree is a binary tree maintaining such-and-such invariant blah blah blah. As a result I retained more about how the algorithm works, and the invariant actually makes sense to me now.
创建者 Rui D•
Jan 10, 2018
This course is designed so well that it is the best as an introduction for algorithm beginners. It does not include any obscure maths formulas, but it has a lot of propositions and properties that build up the rigorous analysis framework, teaching us how to think systematically in terms of designing, analyzing and choosing algorithms. Leveraging Java, you can learn the algorithm implementations and applications by experiments. This approach makes algorithms learning very practical. The course also advocates for good programming style which is very important in software construction in the industry. This is assured by using some good tools such as FindBugs and so on. Last but not least, this course provides very rich learning materials, especially the high quality assignments with good auto-graders which provide us invaluable feedback, and high quality example source code and standard library.
创建者 Xinyuan Z•
Jun 13, 2017
I can't measure how important this course is to me. I am a graduate student in the field of Theory & Engineering of Control, which is actually a domain related half with theory and mathematics and half with engineering, coding and application. I have involved in some international competitions before, responsible for C++ coding. After I struggled to finish this course and all the assignments, however, I find that I have a better understanding of programming. What I should do is definitly not just finish the functions raised by a project, but to analyse my codes, to optimise them and maintain them as something can be reused. Also I got to know the fields of robot path planning (A* algorithm) and so on. I will take another part of this course in the next month cause it really takes my a lot of time, but there are something crutial to deal with. Thank all the friends I've met in the forum.
创建者 shan h•
Jul 05, 2020
This course is great. The lecturer explains the ideas and illustrate them with animation crystal clearly. The effort put into the walk-through of the material can be clearly felt, which get the job done very well. The only thing that i felt somehow missing is the philosophy behind those algorithms, like what makes one algorithms faster than the other? Is it because slower algorithm does extra job than goal? The course might be more intriguing if that part can be covered to some extend.
The assignments really impressed me, especially how the design of auto-grader. This course can really be standalone without any instructor with this auto-grader. The assignments themselves are really useful in consolidating the covered material. Beside the design of the APIs give me a good lesson what a good encapsulation is and how convenient they could be, which is really useful experience.


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Yale hockey team's season ends with OT loss to UMass Lowell
ALBANY, N.Y. >> Three years ago, a Yale overtime goal at the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh ended UMass Lowell's season and catapulted the Bulldogs to an eventual national championship.
In the first meeting between the teams since that historic goal by Andrew Miller, arguably the biggest in the 121-year history of the program, the RiverHawks turned the tables.
Joe Gambardella's goal at 1 minute, 37 seconds of overtime capped UMass Lowell's come-from-behind victory, ending Yale's season in the opening round of the NCAA East Regional on Saturday night before 5,326 at the Times Union Center.
UMass Lowell (25-9-5) will meet Quinnipiac in the East Region final tonight at 7:30 (ESPNU), with the winner advancing to the Frozen Four in Tampa, Florida on April 7.
Gambardella, who scored midway through the third period to send the game to overtime, was the recipient of a backhanded pass through the crease from John Edwardh. He snapped one from close range past defenseman Ryan Obuchowski and through the pads of Alex Lyon, Yale's All-American goaltender.
The loss marks the end of Yale's accomplished eight-man senior class, the final tie to the program's national title. Among the departing are All-American defenseman Rob O'Gara, captain Mitch Witek and Ryan Obuchowski, forwards Stu Wilson and Carson Cooper, all of whom played during the title run of 2013.
"It's my 27 best friends in the world," O'Gara said. "Mitch said it best in the locker room that every day you put on this jersey, it's a new best day. That's how I'll remember this team."
Said Yale coach Keith Allain, "This is a unique group of seniors. They won a national championship as freshmen. They carried that banner long and proudly for the next three years. It's a group that came to work every day and did whatever I asked them to do. I think they maximized their potential as hockey players and as people. I know that they'll value the Yale experience and Yale values."
Yale (19-9-4) lost its first-round game in overtime to a Hockey East opponent for the second successive season, losing in a similar fashion to Boston University last March.
Thanks to a first-round ECAC Hockey playoff bye and two losses in the quarterfinal series, Yale had only played two games in the previous 27 days. It also entered riding a three-game losing streak that dated back to the regular season finale at Quinnipiac on Feb. 28.
UMass Lowell was coming off a busy Hockey East tournament in which it beat Providence in triple overtime before losing last Saturday to Northeastern in the championship game.
Yale led 2-1 after two periods, missing its best chance to extend the lead in the opening seconds of the third when freshman Joe Snively was denied on a breakaway by UMass Lowell goalie Kevin Boyle.
There were other chances in the opening minutes that proved costly, as the RiverHawks got the equalizer with 13:48 remaining, capitalizing on a Yale turnover and transitioning into a 2-on-1 break. Lyon stopped the initial shot by C.J. Smith, but Joe Gambardella was perfectly positioned to tuck the rebound into an open net.
Yale and UMass Lowell entered the game as the top two defensive units in the country, anchored by their respective goaltenders. Lyon is still leading the nation in goals-against average; Boyle third.
The RiverHawks would strike first, a puck popping out to Michael Fallon, who sent it home at 4:27 of the first period.
Frankie DiChiara tied it with 4:41 remaining in the first, getting a puck in the slot and sending it through the pads of Boyle.
In the second period, Yale took the lead on a beautiful two-man rush by Ted Hart and Ryan Hitchcock, with Hitchcock finishing a give-and-go with 7:42 remaining in the period.
Yale killed an extended 5-on-3 penalty while trailing 1-0, and another late in the first, to extend its streak of successful penalty kills to 37. The Bulldogs finish the season with a 94.4 success rate, which breaks the all-time NCAA record of 92.0 percent set by Michigan State in 1999.
"It's tough to digest right now, especially with our class," Wilson said. "It never gets easier. It's something that tears your heart out every time. I hope we're remembered as a team that worked our bags off and giving everything they had."


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This workshop module is better known to our students as "The Great Requirements Showdown!"
Agile evangelists claim that extensive written requirements can be dispensed with in favor of lighter-weight 'stories'. It sounds easier, certainly, but can it really be as good? Won't all of the important details get lost? We stage a showdown between traditional and Agile requirements. Participants will form teams, create requirements documents, do development (no technical skill or computers needed), and then evaluate the results. May the best requirements win!


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Perl Best Practices
Damian Conway
O'Reilly, 2005
This book is hard to summarize. There is much good advice in this book. Unfortunately, there's also some advice that I found questionable. Conway covers some of important Perl and general programming best practices, including consistent formatting, use of
strict and
warnings, and the use of version control software. Unlike my standard book on best practices, Code Complete, Conway does not provide much independent support for his assertions. On the obvious best practices (meaning those you agree with), this is not a big issue. However, I did find it difficult to accept suggestions to change coding practices I've developed over almost two decades without any supporting evidence.
Without that evidence, I found some of Conway's arguments to be less than convincing. For example at the beginning of Chapter 2, he states that consistent layout is important, but which particular layout style you use does not matter at all. So far I agree with him completely. Then, he goes on to spend over 25 pages describing his preferred layout style, listing each point as a best practice and spending time justifying his choices. If the particular layout style does not matter, shouldn't we have had one best practice, use a consistent layout style instead of 22 individual layout suggestions elevated to best practice status?
I was also interested to find that more than 10 of the recommended modules were written by Damian Conway. Some of these appear to have been updated on CPAN relatively recently. That makes me wonder how they have had time to become best practice.
Some of his rules appeared to be somewhat contradictory. For instance, we shouldn't use
unless because it is not as familiar to many programmers and it is harder to understand complicated boolean expressions in an
unless. But, we should use
redo to restart a
for loop without incrementing the variable when we need more complex flow control. And we should prefer
\A and
\z in regular expressions, because
They're likely to be unfamiliar to the readers of your code, in which case those readers will have to look them up, rather than blithely misunderstanding them.
Although these suggestions may be good practice and may actually help in writing maintainable code, I find it impossible to detect an underlying philosophy driving this particular set of suggestions.
If you've read this far, you probably have gotten the impression that I hated this book. That is very far from the truth. Damian Conway is a prolific Perl programmer with loads of experience. Much of his advice parallels my own philosophy in writing code, in Perl and in other languages. As I was reading the book, I installed several of his suggested modules and have even modified a few of my Perl programming practices based on his arguments. However, I would be uncomfortable suggesting that a new Perl programmer use this book as the reference on how to program in Perl.
In general, I believe that my biggest problem stems from the expectations I had from the title. If it had been called Damian Conway's Recommended Practices for Perl, I would have been a bit more forgiving. However, by setting itself up as the book on Perl best practices, I feel that the practices in the book need to be more than Conway's recommendations. Supporting evidence or studies would have made it easier to swallow his suggestions where they disagreed with my own practice. Less inconsistency between different rules would have made me more comfortable that he has an underlying strategy instead of listing the part of the language that he, personally, likes. Better disclosure about the modules he wrote and their age, would have made the book feel less like an infomercial in spots.
All in all, I think I would recommend this book to more senior Perl programmers or senior programmers coming to Perl. I would be a little leary of recommending it to novice Perl programmers without some strong suggestions that they take this as one person's view. The really frustrating thing is that I really wanted a book to be the standard I could use to counteract the myth of write-only Perl. Unfortunately, I don't think this book will do that.
All that being said, there is a large amount of good advice in this book. As long as you take the advice with an appropriately-sized grain of salt, this book could improve your Perl code.
Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
Ian Langworth and chromatic
O'Reilly, 2005
This is the first book I have read from the new O'Reilly Developer's Notebook series. Although the style of these books probably won't work for every topic, it works particularly well for a book on testing. Each chapter is organized as a set of labs. These labs walk through some portion of the topic with the goal of developing practical skills.
Each lab revolves around a task. They don't delve into theory, they focus on describing how you perform the task. Unlike O'Reilly's Cookbook series, this is a directed set of tasks. Much like labs in a class, the labs in this book start with basic testing skills and work to build more advanced testing skills. The goal of this set of labs is to help you become proficient in the skills needed for doing quality unit testing of Perl code.
I have been doing testing with Perl for some years now, so the first few labs were review. But, the labs swiftly escalated to more advanced topics that I was either light on or had not explored at all. In addition to labs about
Test::More, and
Test::Harness, the book covers:
and many more topics related to testing. This little book is packed with practical information and labs that help you improve the skills you need to build quality testing for your Perl code.
I really don't expect this book to become a well-worn reference book that stays near my desk at all times. However, I don't expect to let it get far away. Since few of us need to use all of our testing skills on every project, some skills become rusty over time. Anytime I find some of my testing skills have gotten rusty, I expect to grab this book and run through the appropriate labs to sharpen the skills I need.
If you want to know why you should be unit testing your Perl code, there are many books out there that will explain. If you are looking for an explanation of Test Driven Development, this is not the book to read. Once you have decided that testing is important to you and your projects, this is the book you need. I would not say that there are no other resources for learning this material, but this may be the fastest way to build the appropriate skills that I've seen.
It also helps that the authors have a very relaxed style that helps you feel more like they are working along side you than lecturing at you. The titles of the sections are very casual (How do I do that?, What just happened?, etc.) This makes it easy to read the next part and get back to working on the meat of the lab.
I would recommend this book to anyone writing Perl code. We all need to be doing testing to improve our code and our designs. The key difference between good testing and bad testing is the skills to make every test count. This book teaches those skills.
Perl for Web Site Management
John Callender
O'Reilly, 2002
This book may be one of the best books I've ever seen for getting Perl used in a place where it is sorely needed.
Many people developing web-based applications are not programmers. They learned to use some HTML authoring tool and progressed from there. Many of them never quite get the idea of automating the grunt work of their jobs. This book tries to introduce these people to Perl as a labor-saving device.
If you are doing any form of web site maintenance, this book is worth a read. If you are a programmer working on web sites, you are probably doing most of what this book teaches. But, if your background is not in programming, this book will probably increase your productivity dramatically.
Mastering Regular Expressions
Jeffery E. F. Friedl
O'Reilly, 1997
If you use regular expressions on a regular basis, or if you've used them a little but want to get better, this is a book you need. I had been working with regular expressions for over ten years when I first read this book. I was used to helping other people debug their regular expressions and thought I knew them very well. This book improved my regular expressions tremendously.
The book covers multiple regular expression implementations, including AWK, grep, Tcl, GNU Emacs and Perl 5 regular expressions. Friedl does a good job of covering basic regular expression concepts before going on to more advanced topics. Some of these include different types of regexp engines and their effects on the expressions you write, and greediness. He covers some regexp gotchas including regular expressions that may never terminate.
Throughout the book are a number of useful techniques that will improve your daily use of regular expressions.
Mastering Regular Expressions is highly recommended.
perl.com: Maintaining Regular Expressions [Jan. 16, 2004]
Aaron Mackey does a wonderful job of suggesting more maintainable regular expression idioms. His use of
(?{}) to assign the results of capturing parenthesis inline was particularly interesting to me. I may have seen it before, but this is the first time it made sense.
The article goes into some serious magic later including deferred execution of the
(?{}) blocks and
I was doing a little research on the Java JUnit test framework and ran across the article The Third State of your Binary JUnit Tests.
The author points out that in many test sets there are ignored tests as well as the passing and failing tests. As the author says, you may want to ignore tests that show bugs that you can't fix at this time. He makes a pretty good case for this concept.
The Perl Test::More framework takes a more flexible approach. In this framework you can also have skipped tests and todo tests in addition to tests that actually need to pass. These two different types of tests have very different meanings.
Skipped tests are tests that should not be run for some reason. Many times tests will be skipped that don't apply to a particular platform, or rely on an optional module for functionality. This allows the tests to be run if the conditions are right, but skipped if they would just generate spurious test failures.
Todo tests have a very different meaning. These tests describe the way functionaly should work, even if it doesn't at this time. The test is still executed. But, if the test fails, it is not treated as a failure. More interestingly, if a todo test passes, it is reported as a failure because the test was not expected to pass. This allows bugs and unfinished features to be tracked in the test suite with a reminder to update the tests when they are completed.
Unlike the idea in the referenced article, these two separate mechanisms don't ignore tests that cannot or should not pass. Instead, we can document two different types of non-passing tests and still monitor them for changes.
Someone asked a question about updating SVG dynamically from a server on the SVG Developers list this morning. One of the (many) responses pointed to an article on SVG server-side.
As usual, I went to check it out to see if it might hold some tidbits I could use. Or maybe, it could be a resource I might recommend. While scanning the article, I found this little quote
Perl is the dinosaur among web scripting languages, its market share (when it comes to server side web scripting) getting smaller...
They go on to point out that in Perl you have to manually set the header.
I find it amusing that people that want to show Perl in a bad light ignore modules like CGI.pm that help to give Perl most of the support you need for web scripting. CGI.pm has been out there for a long, long time. It's been part of the standard distribution since version 5.004.
To give the authors credit, they do mention the SVG.pm Perl module for generating SVG using Perl objects.


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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (Nov. 28, 2014) - The holiday shopping season is in full swing but those busy mall parking lots are a prime target for crime. Last week police investigated a series of car break-ins at a popular Indianapolis mall and in the surrounding area.
IMPD officers will work a special overtime detail to patrol mall parking lots on bicycles. The bikes let police maneuver around all the holiday shopping traffic and allow for a unique vantage point.
"We can see above all of the cars and we can see people walking around and we can hear things running, we can see cars running and if somebody's window does get broken out you can hear that," said Patrolman John Wall with IMPD.
The bike patrols started on Black Friday and run through the entire holiday shopping season. Police will use bikes at The Castleton Square Mall, The Fashion Mall at Keystone and Glendale Town Center. Police say their presence has a powerful deterrent effect.
"We're looking for people that are just meandering about the parking lot, looking more interested at the cars around them instead of making a beeline for their own personal car, that's a good indication," said Patrolman Wall.
Police have utilized the holiday bike patrols for about five years. Patrolman Wall, an avid cyclist, came up with the idea because he would spend the first hour or two of his shift responding to vehicle break-ins at the mall. He said the patrols have decreased crime. Wall said during the first year there were no reported vehicle break-ins while the officers were out patrolling on their bikes.
IMPD recently released this list of holiday shopping safety tips:
- Shop during daylight hours and with a friend
- If you must shop after dark, park in a well lit location
- Avoid parking next to vans, trucks or cars with dark tinted windows
- Do not leave any valuables or packages in the vehicle where they can be seen
- Lock your car doors
- Keep control of your wallets and purses, do not leave them unattended
- To discourage purse-snatches, don't overburden yourself with packages
- Avoid carrying large amounts of cash
- Be sure to locate your keys before getting to your car
- Be aware of your surroundings at all times, especially while walking to your car


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In too many revolutions, the brave, proud, freedom seeking demonstrators we admired and watched with awe, are pushed to the background, replaced by gun toting, faction ridden, agenda pushing so called "free" armies, who are little better than those the unarmed heroes marched against in the beginning.
A successful revolution is one where the sound of marching feet, is permanently replaced by the oh so sweet sound of free hearts beating as one, not a never ending repetitive chorus of guns, bombs and the weeping of the bereaved.
Wherever you may be - be safe
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Birding in Evergreen Cemetery
Evergreen Cemetery is one of Greater Portland's premier birding sites. From late April through the end of May, the cemetery is the place to see migratory songbirds up-close and often in great numbers. Vireos, thrushes, warblers, sparrows, tanagers, and orioles, many of them brightly colored, vocal, and conspicuous, can be found around the small ponds on the cemetery's northwest side.
The Maine Audubon Society hosts an annual Warbler's Week in Evergreen Cemetery every May.
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Evergreen is also a great location to practice your tree identification skills. The City of Portland's Forestry Division is currently working on a survey of the trees growing in Evergreen Cemetery which will eventually be available online. The Friends of Evergreen occasionally sponsors guided walks that focus on wild and cultivated plants in and around the cemetery. Watch the Upcoming Events section of our website, or join our mailing list for updates on these and other events.
Portland Trails in Evergreen Cemetery
Portland Trails, a local land trust, maintains trails that are accessible from Evergreen Cemetery. Read more here.


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A Cape Cod Times article written on May 23rd discusses legislation to add carfentanil to the state's controlled substances and drug trafficking laws.
Political Notes: Whelan Seeks to Regulate Carfentanil
Cape Cod Times
Geoff Spillane
May 23, 2017
BOSTON — State Reps. Timothy Whelan, R-Brewster, and Paul Tucker, D-Salem, have filed legislation to add carfentanil to the state's controlled substances and drug trafficking laws.
Carfentanil, which is used to tranquilize large animals such as elephants, is a synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than fentanyl and 10,000 times more potent than morphine. It already has been found on the streets of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, according to a statement from Whelan's office.
The proposed act, which has yet to be assigned to a committee, would classify carfentanil and its derivatives as a class A controlled substance, with 5 or more grams being subject to the criminal drug trafficking statute and punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Whelan and Tucker also teamed in 2015 to co-sponsor legislation to add fentanyl, another potent synthetic opioid, to the list of class B drugs subject to prosecution under the state's narcotics trafficking laws.
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Although voters in eight Cape towns went to the polls last week, there still remains one town that has yet to cast ballots for local elected offices this year, and it's a biggie.
Barnstable, the Cape's largest municipality, holds its elections in the fall. This year, six Town Council seats in even numbered precincts will be up for grabs. Representatives on the 13-member town council serve four-year terms.
In addition, Barnstable voters will be electing a town clerk, two School Committee members and two Housing Authority representatives — all for four-year terms.
Nomination papers for all offices will be available from June 13 to July 18 and must be submitted to the registrar of voters for certification by July 25.
Preliminary elections in any precinct where more than two candidates are running for councilor, or townwide if there are more than two candidate competing for other offices, will be held Sept. 19.
The general election will be held Nov. 7.
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Former Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman John Walsh will offer a "master class" tonight in Centerville on grass-roots activism and campaigning at the local level.
The free "Let's Get Local" program is sponsored by Cape & Islands Stronger Together and will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Centerville Recreation Building. On-site assistance is available for those interested in learning which open committee and board seats in towns where they live could be a good match with their skills and experience.
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As the Cape and Islands gear up for the summer season, here's what some local elected officials were tweeting about last week.
State Rep. Timothy Whelan, R-Brewster (@TRWhelan), on May 20:
"Today is Armed Forces Day. Please offer thanks & respect to the brave women and men serving in our nation's defense."
State Rep. Dylan Fernandes, D-Woods Hole (@RepDylan), on May 17:
"Joining advocates from the C&I in the fight for women's rights. Every woman should have access to safe & affordable reproductive health care."
State Rep. William Crocker, R-Centerville (@WillCrockerJr), on May 17:
"Meeting with the Barnstable Youth Commission and discussing the #opioidepidemic in Ma & how we can work together to make substantial change."


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(Lanka-e-News -09.Aug.2019, 11.30PM) From the inception of Islam, each and every groups and sects of Islam has been threatening and oppressing the people who do not accept the conditions imposed by Islam. Still we can hear the war drums perpetrated during the past centuries imposed on the people who rejected, denounced and did not accept the philosophy of Islam. Those who were patronized and trained by Thawheed and Jamathe Islami organizations involved in Easter Sunday attacks while they were operating as a separate unit was one example for the continuity of the above said despicable activities
It is of paramount importance that several discourses and discussions took place in the aftermath of this attack. Those who were affected by the violence and oppression in the name of Islam and Islam's so called holiness came out openly and commenced to talk about the necessary changes in respect of Islamic preaching and rules. The important factor that contributed to this new phenomenon is the voices expressed by people who were seriously affected Islamic Chauvinism and radicalism. The government and other social organizations have condemned this radical trend and that is the reason why there is a change in the attitude of the Muslims.
A few days ago several Muslim Women's Organizations conducted a media conference and emphasized the need for changes in the Muslim Marriages and Divorce Act (MMDA) and they continue to express these views through the media and social. We can see the Islamic radicalists are expressing their venomus opposition to the views expressed by the women's organizations. The local Islamic radicalists are coming with very violent propaganda against these women in the public fora without any guilty feelings. On the other hand, All Ceylon Jamiyaththul Ulama ( ACJU ) has rejected the reforms put forward by Muslim Women's organizations and went on to control Muslim politicians in this regard. Under these circumstances the radical criticism against the Muslim women who are demanding reforms has become a major threat in the social media.
Council of Ex-Muslims of Sri Lanka (CEMSL) would like to point out that as long as radicalism, violence fundamentalism, gender discrimination and religious fanaticism are preached and taught according to Qur'an, Hadees and other Islamic scriptures, Islamic terrorism cannot be eradicated. Experiences form the past have taught us the lesson that the growing Islamic extremism can be transformed in to terrorism at any moment, so Council of Ex-Muslims of Sri Lanka urges the government to take the matter in to serious consideration to prevent future catastrophes. The government that selected by the people should not allow the fundamentalist organisations such as All Ceylon Jamaythul Ulama, which was not selected by the people, to interfere and pressurize in to the matters related to the law of the country and the matters of the Muslims and further the government should bring an immediate end to this interference. Council of Ex-Muslims of Sri Lanka calls the government and the representatives of the people to establish one law for all and completely abolish personal laws and acts such as Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act. Further CEMSL request the government to take necessary measures to tackle down the re-emergence of the Islamic extremism.
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Key Considerations for Parkinson's Disease Trials
Parkinson's Disease (PD), a common neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system, is the subject of much R&D in the Life Sciences industry, given that there are currently no disease-modifying agents on the market. Yet, the therapeutic area poses significant challenges for clinical development— ranging from biomarker development to study design and patient recruitment and retention.
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|Asia Argento
|General information
|Asia Argento
|Aria Argento; Asia Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento; Az; Silver Gems
|Place of birth
|Rome, Italy
|Date of birth
|September 20th, 1975
|Date of death
|First appearance
|Demons 2 (1986)
Asia Argento is an Italian film actress, director and screenwriter born in Rome on September 20th, 1975. Asia hails from a family of filmmakers beginning with her grandfather Salvatore Argento, a noted produer. Her father is famed giallo director Dario Argento and her mother is actress Daria Nicolodi. Her uncle, Claudio Argento, has worked on many giallo films as well.
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A neglected child during her youth, Asia turned towards acting as a means of earning her father's attention. Her first work in the horror genre however was the 1986 film Dèmoni 2, directed by a contemporary of her father's, Lamberto Bava, where she played a character named Ingrid Haller.
Asia's next genre project was the 1989 Michele Soavi film, The Church. Dario Argento wrote the script for the movie and it is the first film in which father and daughter share screen credit.
The first film that she appeared in that was actually directed by her father was Trauma in 1993. Asia played a character named Aura Petrescu and received second billing in the movie after lead actor Christopher Rydell. In 1996, Asia had her first leading role playing Detective Anna Manni in The Stendhal Syndrome.
In 1998, she took on another leading remale role, that of Christine Daaé in her father's adaptation of Gaston Leroux's famous 1909-1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera.
In 2001, she played Violaine Charlier in the horror film Love Bites and in 2005, she played Slack in George Romero's Land of the Dead.
Body of work[edit | edit source]
Film[edit | edit source]
|Dèmoni 2
|Ingrid Haller
|The Church
|Aura Petrescu
|The Stendhal Syndrome
|Detective Anna Manni
|The Phantom of the Opera
|Christine Daaé
|Love Bites
|Violaine Charlier
|Land of the Dead
Notes & Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Asia Argento has several tatoos, the most notable of which is an angel on her lower abdomen.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
External Links[edit | edit source]
- Asia Argento at AMG
- Asia Argento at IMDB
- Asia Argento at Wikipedia
- Asia Argento Official Website
- Asia Argento at Ode to Azia
- Asia Argento at The Brimstone Pit
References[edit | edit source]
|Dario Argento.
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