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Rickey William Kelman, known as Ricky Kelman and later as Rick Kelman (born July 6, 1950), is a former actor who appeared in film and on television from 1954 to 1974. As a child actor, Kelman had a supporting role in two one-season situation comedies, CBS's The Dennis O'Keefe Show (1959-1960) and ABC's Our Man Higgins (1962-1963).
Early career
Kelman is adopted.[1] His first appearances were as a choirboy in 1954 and 1955 on The Red Skelton Hour. He then had an uncredited role in the 1955 film A Man Called Peter, based on the life of the U.S. Senate chaplain Peter Marshall. In 1957, he portrayed Jimmy Logan in the episode "Bentley and the Baby Sitter" on CBS's Bachelor Father series, with John Forsythe and Noreen Corcoran.[2] In 1957, Kelman played the role of Elmer in the last of the Ma and Pa Kettle films, The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm. This was the last screen appearance by Marjorie Main.[3]
In 1958-1959, young Kelman was cast in three episodes as Homer Foley on NBC's children's western series, Buckskin, with Tommy Nolan and Sally Brophy as a son and a mother living in a hotel in a small Montana town.[2]In 1958, Kelman appeared in the episode "The Unfamiliar" of Ronald W. Reagan's General Electric Theater on CBS.[2]
Kelman was cast as Randy Towne, the son of Dennis O'Keefe's character, Hal Towne, in The Dennis O'Keefe Show, which ran for thirty-two episodes. Hope Emerson played Amelia Sargent in the series.[4]
In the 1960 season premiere of ABC's 77 Sunset Strip, the then 10-year-old Kelman appeared in the role of Randolph in the episode "Attic", set in a remote mountain hideout. The episode also features Kathleen Crowley, Lee Van Cleef, and Gary Vinson.[5] He made two appearances in 1961 on NBC's Bonanza in the episodes "Many Faces of Gideon Flinch" and "The Infernal Machine."[6]
In 1961, Kelman was cast in two conflicting roles as John and Oliver Hadley in the episodes "The Bully" and "The Sissy", respectively, of NBC's National Velvet family series. On December 7, 1961, he appeared as "Butch" in the episode "The Fabulous O'Hara" of ABC's The Donna Reed Show. In 1961 and 1962, he appeared twice on CBS's Gunsmoke[2] and in 1962 as the youthful Alex in the episode "Young Man's Fancy" of CBS's The Twilight Zone, co-starring with Phyllis Thaxter.[7]
Then, Kelmane played Tommy MacRoberts, one of the children, in the 34-episode Our Man Higgins, with Stanley Holloway in the title role of an erudite English butler in the United States, with Frank Maxwell and Audrey Totter as the parents, Duncan and Alice MacRoberts.[8]
Later roles
Kelman appeared on CBS's Lassie series in 1959 and twice in 1965. In 1968, he appeared as Donny Clement in the episode "The Fatal Hours" of the ABC police drama Felony Squad, with Howard Duff and Dennis Cole. In 1969, he was cast as Josh Odam in the episode "Mexican Honeymoon" of CBS's My Three Sons situation comedy with Fred MacMurray and Beverly Garland.[9] Three years earlier, he appeared as Frankie Martin in MacMurray's film about the Boy Scouts of America, Follow Me, Boy!.[10]
Kelman played the character Mike in the 1969 coming of age film The First Time, a comedy about three inexperienced teenagers seeking their first sexual encounter in what turns out to be a nonexistent bordello near Buffalo, New York. His costar was Jacqueline Bissett.[11]
On December 31, 1969, Kelman played Quincy Rust in the episode "The Adversaries" of CBS's Medical Center. Audrey Totter, Kelman's co-star in Our Man Higgins later joined the Medical Center cast but did not appear in this episode. In 1970, Kelman appeared twice on ABC's high school comedy-drama, Room 222, and in the episode "The Boy Next Door" on CBS's To Rome with Love, another John Forsythe situation comedy. In 1972 and 1973, Kelman was cast in episodes of CBS's Hawaii Five-O and Here's Lucy. In the latter he played a 23-year-old "teenager" in the episode "Lucy and Andy Griffith."[2] A decade earlier, Kelman had portrayed John Ballantine in the acclaimed Lucille Ball and Bob Hope film, Critics Choice.[12]
Kelman's last acting appearances were in 1973 and 1974 in two episodes of the syndicated anthology series Insight.[2]
His older brother, Terry Ross Kelman (born 1947), is a former child actor whose screen appearances occurred between 1954 and 1959, with his last work on two episodes of NBC's Wagon Train.[13]
Kelman's whereabouts since 1974 is unknown.
- ↑ California Adoptees: Ricky Kelman. ifa.zoomshare.com. Retrieved on November 23, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446989/%7Ctitle=Ricky Kelman|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=August 18, 2012}}
- ↑ Synopsis of The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm. blockbuster.com. Retrieved on August 20, 2012.
- ↑ The Dennis O'Keefe Show. Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved on August 17, 2012.
- ↑ "Atttic", September 16, 1960. Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved on August 18, 2012.
- ↑ Boy Actors: Ricky Kelman. boyactors.org.uk. Retrieved on August 20, 2012.
- ↑ The Twilight Zone: "Young Man's Fancy" (1962). artistdirect.com. Retrieved on August 20, 2012.
- ↑ Our Man Higgins. Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved on August 18, 2012.
- ↑ My Three Sons: "Mexican Honeymoon", November 29, 1969. Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved on August 20, 2012.
- ↑ Ricky Kelman: Credits. tvguide.com. Retrieved on August 19, 2012.
- ↑ The First Time: Synopsis. fandango.com. Retrieved on August 19, 2012.
- ↑ Critic's Choice: Overview. tcm.com. Retrieved on August 20, 2012.
- ↑ Terry Kelman. Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved on August 18, 2012.


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Interestingly oil and equities are relatively correlated except over the last month or so we have seen oil prices not following the strong moves higher in the equity markets that are benefiting from QE type policies. In fact we have seen crude oil prices decline a tad over $10/bbl since the beginning of April mostly being driven by the perception or view that the global economy is slowing and thus oil demand growth may slow even further versus current projected levels. At the moment there is a divergence between the direction of oil prices and selective equity markets.
Tuesday's API report was slightly supportive for crude oil and gasoline and neutral for distillate fuel. For the first time in three weeks there was no major surprise or miss for crude oil but there was a surprise draw in gasoline inventories. Total crude oil stocks decreased by 0.8 million barrels versus an expectation for a modest build of about 1.5 million barrels even as crude oil imports decreased while refinery run rates decreased by 1.5 percent. The API reported a build in distillate fuel inventories that was within the expectations.
The entire oil complex is still in positive territory after yesterday's recovery in prices and heading into the EIA oil inventory report to be released at 10:30 AM EST on Wednesday. The market is usually cautious on trading on the API report and prefers to wait for the more widely watched EIA report due out this morning. The API reported PADD 2 stocks built by around 0.8 million barrels while Cushing stock decreased by 0.038 million barrels. On the week gasoline stocks decreased by about 2.7 million barrels while distillate fuel stocks increased by about 0.7 million barrels.
My projections for this week's inventory report are summarized in the above table. I am expecting a modest build in crude oil inventories, a small build in distillate fuel... as the weather returned to spring like temperatures over the east coast during the report period... and a build in gasoline stocks as refinery runs are expected to also show a gain.


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Jose Villarreal's Major League Soccer debut last weekend in Portland wasn't much, just a few minutes of stoppage time with not even a touch on the ball.
The Galaxy's 18-year-old midfielder made sure his second appearance was something to remember.
Villarreal played the hero in LA's 2-2 draw Wednesday night at Vancouver, coming off the bench to score a splendid 87th-minute goal that completed a late two-goal comeback and gave the Galaxy seven points from a three-game swing through Chicago and the Pacific Northwest.
Juninho lightly volleyed a David Beckham chip up the right wing to Villarreal at the top of the box, and the youngster's composure on the play – the way he halted as Gershon Koffie raced past, how he shifted the ball underneath to his favored left foot, creating space under pressure – was as impressive as the finish: an arcing ball to the upper V.
GOAL: Villarreal equalizes with stunner
"Great goal," David Beckham told media in Vancouver afterward. "He's been doing it week in and week out in training. He works hard, he's a young kid, he likes to learn, and he listens to the older players."
He listens to his coach, too.
"Bruce Arena just told me to go out there and, 'Do what you do, just score,'" Villarreal said in his postgame interview on Galaxy broadcast partner KDOC's coverage of the match. "I've been doing it in practice, and things have been going well for me. I'm happy about that."
Villarreal, who is from Inglewood, Calif., just a few miles northwest of Home Depot Center, has been a staple for the Galaxy's Reserve League team. He's played in all five matches this season and scored twice in his first start, a 3-1 win June 12 over Vancouver.
His first MLS appearance, as a substitute for Robbie Keane at the end of the victory in Portland, was 90 seconds or so of waiting around for the final whistle. This time there was purpose to his entrance.
"Jose we put in because we know he's a guy who can get a goal," Arena told KDOC. "He strikes the ball real well, he has a lot of confidence in the penalty area, and it was a heck of a finish for that goal."
Beckham halved the deficit in the 81st minute, his deflected shot soaring over Whitecaps goalkeeper Joe Cannon and into the far-post netting following a dozen-pass sequence that went through nine players, Villarreal among them.
Vancouver had nearly scored a third goal a minute earlier, when Josh Saunders tipped Koffie's shot off the crossbar, and Barry Robson hit the bar three minutes after Beckham struck.
The next chance fell to Villarreal.
"I was happy," he told media. "I finally got to get on the field. I got the chance, and I'm happy I got the goal for the team, to tie it up. ... [Scoring so impressive a goal], I don't know, man. Just training every day, I guess. It comes out. You see the ball, and I just had to cut it to my left foot, and I just bent it in the far post. ...
"I just had to hit it. I just had to hit it, you know?"
He was mobbed by all his teammates, and Galaxy captain Landon Donovan told KDOC it was "up there with some of the better goals we've seen in a long time. Jose has trained really well. When he's been called on in reserve games, he's done real well. He looks good and he's confident, and when you're young like that, sometimes you're a little brash and you try things, and he tried it and he scored a great goal."


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On December 22, 2002, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni paid a ceremonial visit to a textile plant in Kampala, his country's capital city. That day, shoppers in faraway America were streaming down the aisles of malls and department stores in crazed search of last-minute Christmas gifts. But Museveni's mind was on supply, not demand. As dignitaries, including the US ambassador, looked on, the president loaded a cardboard box containing twelve pairs of seaweed- and stone-colored shorts onto a truck, dispatching them on a journey that was to end on the shelves of an American retail chain.
The clothes were part of the first shipment to roll off the assembly line of a new textile factory, which was set up to take advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, an American free-trade initiative. Few Americans have ever heard of the four-year-old law. But in Uganda, AGOA, as the initiative is commonly called, is a magic word, invoked by politicians and businessmen, diplomats and foreign-aid donors–and most of all by President Museveni. To hear Museveni tell it, AGOA is the first step toward breaking Africa's dependence on foreign aid and the beginning of an economic revival.
To America and other wealthy nations, which have grown tired of pumping billions in aid into Africa with little evident effect, Museveni is a godsend: an African leader who will tell them what they want to hear. Museveni's view that free trade promises a painless way to raise the continent from penury has won him admirers across the ideological spectrum and entree into rarefied circles. Most recently, he extolled the virtues of trade at the G-8 summit in Sea Island, Georgia. When President Bush signed a bill reauthorizing AGOA through 2015 in July, he praised Uganda's president. "This African leader," Bush said, "understands that…when nations respect their people, open their markets, expand freedom and opportunity to all their citizens, entire societies can be lifted out of poverty and despair."
A closer look at Uganda, however, reveals a reality more complicated than such blithe rhetoric. Two years after that first heady Christmas season, Museveni's countrymen are suffering from a serious case of buyers' remorse. The government-subsidized textile factory, built to be an exemplar for the rest of the nation, has instead suffered worker unrest, as politicians allege exploitation and government corruption. Museveni may still believe, as he once said, that AGOA is "the greatest act of fraternity towards Africa by the USA." But to many Ugandans, their country's experience has become an object lesson in the bruising realities of life in the global marketplace.
President Clinton first proposed the African Growth and Opportunity Act in his 1998 State of the Union address, arguing later that "trade and investment are the keys to African development." The bill was modest in what it promised–outside of textiles, many of the goods covered under it were already subject only to very small tariffs, or none at all–but there was still a tough fight to get it passed. Textile-state representatives and unions were bitterly opposed. Some predicted the law would only benefit sweatshop owners. Illinois Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. invoked a comparison to the slave trade in opposing the bill.


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View Movie TrailerTitle: The TudorsStarring: Jonathon Rhys Meyers as King Henry VIIIand Natalie Dormer as Anne BoleynReleased: 2008 TV SeriesProduction: Reveille Productions
We are, by the sufferance of God, King of England; and the Kings of England in times past never had any superior but God King Henry VIII'If a man shall take his brother's wife it is an unclean thing... they shall be childless' King Henry VIII (quoting The Bible, Leviticus, XX,21, as justification of seeking divorce from Catherine of Aragon who had previously been married to his brother Prince Arthur)...to wish myself (specially an evening) in my sweetheart's arms, whose pretty ducks [breasts] I trust shortly to kiss - King Henry VIII (love letter to Ann Boleyn)You have sent me a Flanders mare! - King Henry VIII (on first meeting Anne of Cleves who was about to become his 4th wife)
Henry accedes to the throne on the death of his father, Henry VII.
Henry marries Catherine of Aragon, daughter of the Spanish King and Queen, and widow of his elder brother, Arthur
Henry joins the Holy League against the French. All men under the age of 40 are required to practise archery.
The English defeat the Scots at the Battle of Flodden Field. James IV of Scotland is killed.
Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, becomes Chancellor and Cardinal.
Catherine gives birth to Princess Mary (later Mary I).
Martin Luther publishes his 95 theses against the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Pope and the Kings of England, France, and Spain pledge peace in Europe
Henry holds peace talks with Francis I of France at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, but fails to get support against Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire.
Hampton Court Palace is completed. William Tyndale publishes The New Testament in English.
Cardinal Wolsey re-establishes the Council of the North
Henry seeks permission from the Pope to divorce Catherine of Aragon but is refused.
Cardinal Wolsey is accused of high treason for failing to get the Pope's consent for the divorce, but dies before he can be brought to trial.
Sir Thomas More becomes Chancellor. Henry starts to cut ties with the Church of Rome.
The appearance in the sky of Halley's comet causes widespread panic and talk of holy retribution
Sir Thomas More resigns from the Chancellorship over the erosion of Papal authority.
Thomas Cranmer is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury and annuls Henrys 24-year marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
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Pope Clement VII excommunicates Henry
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Sir Thomas More is executed after refusing to recognize Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England.
Thomas Cromwell is made Vicar-General and starts plans to seize the Church's wealth.
First complete English translation of the Bible by Miles Coverdale
Anne Boleyn is executed and Henry marries Jane Seymour
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Kanye West + Britney Spears Assaulted the Same Creepy, Greedy Paparazzo
Kanye West and Britney Spears don't have much in common (aside from massive fame, fortune and notoriety), but the two do share a particular thing in common: the assault of the same jerk paparazzo.
West's assault (or technically, attempted robbery) of a paparazzo last night (July 19) was on the same overly aggressive photographer that Spears lunged at with an umbrella in the midst of her infamous breakdown.
TMZ reports that the photographer, who refers to himself as Dano, has a history of harassing the celebs he shoots. When Spears shaved her head in 2007 and banged up Dano's car with the umbrella in 2007, sources say Dano was being belligerent and cruel to the singer, as well as aggressively intruding on her personal space.
What's more, Dano often attempts to profit from his harassment of celebs. He reportedly auctioned his banged up SUV on eBay for over $30,000 -- as well as the umbrella itself. Dano earned even more from his video of the whole disaster going down.
Dano is reportedly looking to press charges against Yeezy, which would likely net him more cash in a settlement. Perhaps West was onto something when he muttered about "$250,000" in that video.


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In the wake of the demise of Chandler personal information management project, a discussion has occurred on TSS about the scalability potential of dynamic languages. Ted Neward attempted to go beyond language quarrel in order to provide some structured insights on this issue.
First of all, Neward emphasizes that a language scaling can be understood in terms of "size of project, as in lines-of-code" or in terms of "capacity handling, as in "it needs to scale to 100,000 requests per second"". The two need to be delineated because even though both are important, they do not always go hand in hand: assembly languages or C, for instance, are conducive to capacity scalability but not to size scalability.
Neward defines size scalability in terms of "a language's ability to extend or enhance the complexity budget of a project". He refers to Mike Clark's concept that implies that "every project has a fixed complexity budget, and the more you spend on infrastructure and tools, the less you have to spend on the actual business logic." And according to Neward, this point is at the core of the debate about the scalability capacity of static and dynamic languages.
The adherents of static languages argue that type-safety check results in fewer work for the programmer "as an automated tool now runs through a series of tests that the programmer doesn't have to write by hand". Moreover IDE support that exists for these languages provides powerful tools for refactoring that are "widely believed to be impossible on dynamic language platforms." Dynamic language proponents, however, put forward the fact that "the dynamic nature of these languages means less work during the creation and maintenance of the codebase, resulting in a far fewer lines-of-code count […] thus implicitly improving the scale of a dynamic language".
According to Ted Neward, it is true that "dynamic language programmer can typically slam out more work-per-line-of-code than his statically-typed compatriot", but he will most probably need to produce more unit tests given that dynamic languages do not use a compiler that, in a way, ensures a certain number of systematic tests.
As for IDE refactoring, Neward references Dave Thomas who admits that refactoring support of Eclipse, for example, is limited for dynamic language platforms given that type information is missing until runtime. Thomas highlights, however, that "simple search-and-replace across files, something any non-trivial editor supports, will do many of the same refactorings as Eclipse or IntelliJ provides, since type is no longer an issue." And Neward emphasizes that he expects IDE vendors develop tooling specifically designed for dynamic languages:
[… ]it's relatively easy to imagine that the IDE could be actively "running" the code as it is being typed, in much the same way that Eclipse is doing constant compiles, tracking type information throughout the editing process.
Moreover one should not forget that "the original refactoring browser was an implementation built for (and into) Smalltalk, one of the world's first dynamic languages", as it was highlighted in the TSS debate.
With respect to capacity handling scalability, Ted Neward stresses its importance because "a project that cannot handle the expected user load during peak usage times will have effectively failed just as surely as if the project had never shipped in the first place."
Dynamic language opponents argue that these languages cannot scale in terms of capacity handling, because they are "built on top of their own runtimes, which are arguably vastly inferior to the engineering effort that goes into the garbage collection facilities found in the JVM Hotspot or CLR implementations." Dynamic language supporters respond that "there are plenty of web applications and web sites that scale "well enough" on top of the MRV (Matz's Ruby VM?) interpreter that comes "out of the box" with Ruby".
Ted Neward, at his turn, points out that "with the release of JRuby, and the work on projects like IronRuby and Ruby.NET, it's entirely reasonable to assume that these dynamic languages can and will now run on top of modern virtual machines like the JVM and the CLR":
While a dynamic language will usually take some kind of performance and memory hit when running on top of VMs that were designed for statically-typed languages, work on the DLR and the MLVM, as well as enhancements to the underlying platform that will be more beneficial to these dynamic language scenarios, will reduce that.
Ted Neward seems to believe that there is a window of opportunity for improving scalability of dynamic languages in terms of both project size and capacity handling by adapting tools and optimizing runtime environments to their specificities. More generally speaking, he rather opposes the dichotomy between static and dynamic languages. He highlights the fact that some applications, Excel for instance, successfully combine the two "by creating a core engine and surrounding it with a scripting engine that non-programmers use to exercise the engine in meaningful ways." Neward sums up rephrasing Karl Marx: "From each language, according to its abilities, to each project, according to its needs."
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Why not have best of both worlds ?
Cedric Vivier
Boo Programming Language is one of them, built on the CLI (.NET / Mono), you have python-inspired syntax with the choice of static-typing (with performance comparable to C#) OR dynamic-typing (still quite fast) for each of the variables or members _you_ decide.
Re: Why not have best of both worlds ?
Cedric Vivier
So easy to imagine, its almost like it already exists....
Francois Ward
it's relatively easy to imagine that the IDE could be actively "running" the code as it is being typed(...)
Thats exactly how VS2008's javascript intellisense works. Not completly perfect however, since if you do something too weird, or the code isn't compiling, everything goes down...maybe in the years to come it will be better.
C# is Briding the Gap to Dynamic Languages
Faisal Waris
However, one the most useful features for me is Partial Classes. This is a very simple, almost overlooked feature where the source of one class can be split into multiple files. The most useful effect is that it allows generated and handcrafted code to co-exist peacefully. For example, if I want to add my own GetHash() method to a generated class (such as by processing a WSDL or XML Schema), I can simply do that in a separate file from the generated one. The generated file may be overwritten many times through the course of evolving the interface, model, UI, etc. without affecting the handcrafted code. Visual Studio exploits this feature extensively.
I would put type inferencing and partial classes on top of the list of features that Java should add support for.
Re: Why not have best of both worlds ?
Sadek Drobi
I guess it is like security, you can't have a small security hall. Either a system is secured, or not!
A mixed model of typing can break type inferrence model . I like C#'s dynamic block i guess, at least it offers a nicer syntax for doing dynamic programming and reflection (without passing method names as strings for example). However, it doesn't break, as far as I know, the strongly statically typed system and the type inference.
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Kevin Teague
I find it deeply ironic that the news piece TSS cited at the top of the discussion claims that the Chandler project failed due to mismanagement, not its choice of implementation language. It doesn't even mention what language was used to build Chandler, leading me to wonder if anybody even read the piece before choosing up their sides and throwing dirt at one another.
Chandler has both a Python client and a Java server side component! Then the TSS article says in the introduction:
Using the Eclipse project as its baseline and Plone for comparison, the author begins to lay the foundations for discussions on issues projects face as they grow: code evolution, modularization, refactoring, etc.
The linked article in this case is contains muddled nonsense such as, "Plone, Zope and Python doesn't have a sophisticated module system (this may have been fixed with the Archetypes system)".
There are of course fascinating stores from all of these projects in regards to size-of-project scaling: Eclipse, Chandler, Zope and Plone. Some interesting technical comparisons could be made -a comparison of the Eclipse's use of Interfaces and Adapters to the those used in the Zope Component Architecture would make for interesting discussions in size scalability and comparisons of dynamic/static languages.
But perhaps more interesting is comparisons of project management. Eclipse came from a focused team of experienced developers with a well designed architecture and goal, Chandler faltered because it had "no objective basis for decision making" (dirtsimple.org/2008/01/programming.html), Zope's interesting project management story comes from how you do (and don't!) migrate a large user base from a web framework designed in 1996 to re-invent itself to stay relevant im 2008, and Plone is a story of large project with a very wide scope (Content Management) made entirely from contributors working in their spare time and how the leaders of the project do (and don't!) attempt to herd the community in productive directions (plone.org/events/2008-summit).
Re: Why not have best of both worlds ?
Jim Leonardo
One thing I think we should avoid is making any one language so complex that no one can possibly understand all the implications of all the features. If that happens, I see no reason to not just use C++.
Dynamic languages now superseded?
Kieron Wilkinson
If your argument against static typing is the amount of code you have to type (fair enough! though not good enough for me personally), then it is worth giving Scala a try - there is really very minimal type information you need to type - and it is completely statically type checked.
With the advent of static typing with type inferencing now shown to work very well, I personally don't see the point creating more dynamic languages...
Note to Faisal Waris: You might have known this, but all of your desired features are present in Scala including partial classes (well, kind of, they are quite a clean way of doing that, called Traits).


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BRUSSELS (AP) — A long-planned summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the European Union leadership has been reduced to a short meeting in the wake of their confrontation over Ukraine's future.
The summit was initially meant to feature a joint dinner and to last until the following afternoon, but now the meeting with Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and others in Brussels on Jan. 28 will only last about 2 ½ hours, according to the EU.
The format has been changed "in light of the recent developments," and participants will have an "in-depth reflection" about the EU-Russia relationship rather than a discussion about specific issues, Commission spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said.
Russia in November year lured Ukraine with financial incentives, including a $15 billion bailout loan, to snub the 28-nation bloc and seek closer cooperation with Moscow instead. The Ukrainian leadership's last-minute decision to side with Russia sparked weeks-long anti-government protests in Kiev and elsewhere in the country. The protests drew hundreds of thousands in the early weeks, and most recently still drew more than 20,000 into the streets on Sunday.
EU leaders have also been upset by Russia's efforts to lure other eastern European neighbors like Armenia back into its political and economic orbit and by what they say is the use of trade policies to discriminate against the EU's easternmost members along Russia's borders.
Still, Russia and the European Union have very close economic ties and at times shared political interests, so neither side apparently wanted to outright cancel the summit, the 31st such meeting since the late 1990s. Russia also remains a very important player on many international matters, such as Syria or Iran, and the EU wants to keep the door open.
But Europeans will insist on voicing their concerns regarding the treatment of gay people, human rights issues and mounting pressure from Moscow on the EU's eastern neighbors, a Brussels-based diplomat from an EU nation said. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't allowed by his government to discuss the matter publicly.
The EU with more than 500 million citizens is Russia's largest trading partner. While the EU's exports are dominated by machinery, vehicles, chemicals and medicine, the bloc imports mostly raw materials, especially oil and gas, from Russia.
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Earlier, I posted about Mike Gualtieri's recent Forrester paper (I should credit his co-author also, Mary Gerush), titled "Business Analysts: Seize The Opportunity To Deliver Compelling User Experiences". From reading the initial abstract, I challenged the thesis that a Business Analyst can truly deliver the value that a user-experience designer can and committed to reviewing the paper in greater detail. I have, and I've engaged in some really interesting and thought-provoking dialogue with Mike, that I want to open up here a little.
First and foremost, if you are working in the enterprise, where I believe that user-experience designers have the opportunity to fundamentally unlock the value inherent in the digital enterprise, then I highly recommend subscribing to and following Mike's research. I have spoken with many enterprise customers, where internal advocates for user-experience struggle to articulate value within a technology-centric organization, and Mike's work is most definitely going to help you address the impedance mismatches that recur.
As I read Mike's paper, I really enjoyed the setup; he does a great job articulating the importance and value of the design process, as well as the traits and characterists of the value that a user-centered approach brings to the enterprise.
My initial contention still remains (though I'll also represent Mike's position here, which softens my pushback a little) however.
Traditionally, Business Analysts would be responsible in an organization for creating business requirements for software products, these requirements would be captured in a specification/business requirement document, and these would be passed to an engineering team for estimation and implementation. Oftentimes, there is zero design featured in the process – and what design is involved is often "small d design", that focuses more on adherence to style guides and templates, than the more fundamental value of (big D) Design that really seeks to deliver a product that more ergonomically meets the needs of users, as well as the needs of a business. The Design process hinges on user-centered design methods, most notably observation methods that inform the solution.
Mike proposes that to address this shortcoming, of little or no Design in the process, is to "give UX eyes" to Business Analysts, to encourage the armies of business analysts in the industry to learn to "see the world as UX designers see it", to employ user-centered design methods (ethnographic research, user interviews, understanding personas, etc).
Here's my concern; I think the value of the above-mentioned activities isn't in their execution, but in the environment they create for a Designer to Design. While a business analyst might employ these methods, without Design in their DNA, I don't believe they are going to get to the same solution and innovation as a designer…they may observe pains through the lens of a user, but it's what they then do with them that concerns me. Or more specifically, what they don't.
This process of Discovery is where I believe most of the magic happens in our application developments; it's where we uncover the insights that reveal the "soul of the application". These soul searchers are designers however, able to translate insights and observations into ideas.
Furthermore, I believe and advocate that "Requirements inform Design, but Design informs Requirements". Innovation rests upon prototyping and "failing early", and where we are most successful I believe, is where we immediately act upon insights with Design prototypes…as we test the success of these design concepts, they in turn drive features in the requirements. Rarely do these innovations emerge as interpretation of a requirement.
However, this is where I think Mike and I agree more than we disagree! I asked Mike if I could open up some of our dialogue here, I think the key comment he made back to me that opens up my thinking is this:
"Our premise here is that most application development teams don't know anything about UX design. But, they are the very people who end up "designing" the user experience, usually by accident. So we are just trying to turn the dial a little bit in the right direction by getting app dev pros (in this case BAs) to start thinking about how they can pragmatically contribute to better UX in applications that their team develops. If we tell them it is important and to go hire a UX team, it won't always happen."
I think this really sums up my philosophical difference; I've been doing some work recently with Geoffrey Moore, and a phrase he often uses is "Crossing the Chasm in the Belly of the Whale", which I would paraphrase as untethering an approach temporarily from the desired (ideal ?) end-state until you can drive it to scale, and then fold it back into the process.
As I relate these ideas, I think my position of "user-centered methods belong to user-experience designers" is the crossing of the chasm, while "business analysts should embrace user-centered design methods" is a tactic (and perhaps not the only tactic..) that can be employed today, while we are in the belly of the whale…
What's interesting for me with Mike's approach, is the scale that it offers…there are many more business analysts inside enterprise IT organizations than there are unfortunately user-experience designers. While I believe it compromises the end-product, is it worse than having no design sensibility at all ? I'm wrestling my own conscience here…
This whole dialogue has caused me to pull up some old presentations and papers that I started writing some time ago, as I was helping system integrators think about how they might bring user-experience design into their technology and business consulting practices. It was the idea of a "User Experience Capability Maturity Model", that describes the spectrum of "UX maturity" within a team or organization, similar to the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) from Carnegie Mellon, formerly prevalent in software development.
I'm going to think more about that in the weeks ahead, as I think Mike and I may just be plotting a couple of points along the same curve.
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Researchers with an experiment based at the South Pole have discovered the long-sought "smoking gun" for inflation.
Researchers with the BICEP2 experiment have set the world's cosmologists buzzing with the announcement that they've detected the fingerprints of inflation — the exponential expansion that put the "bang" in the Big Bang.
About 10 teams of researchers around the world have been actively looking for this signal, called primordial B-modes. But I have to admit that, of all the announcements that might have hit the air waves St. Patrick's Day morning, the discovery of this polarization signal was not at the top of my list. Two teams did reach an important stepping point in this hunt several months ago, by finding another signal that could muck up the primordial data. But from work presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting this past January, I figured astronomers were at least a year away from the announcement made today.
I'm glad to be wrong.
B-modes are a particular pattern of polarization. As a wavelength of polarized light travels through space, it wiggles at a preferred angle to its direction of motion. If inflation happened, it should have sent gravitational waves rippling through spacetime. These waves would have imprinted the B-mode polarization pattern on the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB).
There's one other way to create a B-mode pattern in the CMB: when the gravity of large-scale cosmic structures works as a lens on the CMB, distorting its polarization pattern. But these lensed B-modes exist at an angular scale only one-tenth of the primordial ones. With a lot of careful analysis, researchers can weed these out.
The discovery of the primordial B-modes comes from the second round of the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) experiment. It's among one of several projects observing the CMB in what's called the Southern Hole, a patch of sky visible from Antarctica that's a direct sightline out of our galaxy and into the cosmic depths. (See the sky map.)
The BICEP2 scope has an aperture of less than 30 centimeters (12 inches), but it doesn't need to be big. Cooled to 4 kelvin, it gazes at a 20° patch of sky 24/7, detecting the CMB's faint microwaves — and, crucially, how they're polarized.
Using 3 years of data, the BICEP2 team meticulously analyzed their polarization measurements. They also compared their data with observations from BICEP1 and from the team's new Keck Array, which is basically like five BICEP2s in one. It was this ability to combine three data sets that ultimately allowed the team to make the discovery.
After a year of intense work — including ruling out more than a dozen alternate explanations — the team is confident that they're seeing the signal of inflation, on a scale of about 2° on the sky. In statistical terms, their signal is better than 5 sigma, which is the gold standard a detection has to meet before physicists accept it as a discovery.
"We are convinced that the signal is really coming from the sky, and that it's coming from the cosmic microwave background," says Clem Pryke (University of Minnesota), who headed up the analysis.
The other researchers present at the technical briefing were also swayed. "This looks as solid as any result that I've seen," says Alan Guth (MIT), co-developer of the inflation paradigm. He and everyone (including the team) want other groups to confirm it, but the signal sure looks like it's from inflation.
"I am extremely excited," said gravitational waves physicist Scott Hughes (MIT), beaming. "Of course there are these implications for cosmology and inflation — just as a scientist it's bloody awesome."
The So What
Until now, astronomers have really only had one line of evidence to investigate whether inflation happened: the CMB's speckled pattern of temperature variations. Studies of these patterns — particularly as seen by ESA's Planck satellite — support the simplest version of inflation.
But having B-modes in hand is another ballgame. "This is not something that's just a home run, but a grand slam," says Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University), one of the theorists who first suggested inflation-triggered B-modes might be detectable in the CMB. "It's the smoking gun for inflation."
The B-modes carry with them specific information about the size of the gravitational waves, when inflation happened, and how much energy inflation involved. So having an actual detection in hand shrinks the theoretical playing field — and not just a little, both Kamionkowski and Guth stress.
From the BICEP2 results, it looks like inflation happened roughly 0.5 × 10-37 second after the Big Bang, says Kamionkowski — but he cautions that's from a quick calculation he did on a scrap of paper.
The measurement also suggests that inflation might have had something to do with the unification of three of the four fundamental forces of nature — the strong, weak, and electromagnetic. The energy level implied by the BICEP2 data — we're talking 2 × 1016 GeV, according to Guth, or roughly a trillion times the energy of the Large Hadron Collider — matches the energy of grand unified theories, or GUTs. That's an idea theorists have toyed with since the 1970s, but the BICEP2 result is the missing link they've sought for decades.
The data also tell us something about the size of the gravitational waves. This information comes in the form of the ratio of gravitational waves (which are a type of density perturbation) to the run-of-the-mill density fluctuations in the CMB. The technical term for this number is the tensor-to-scalar ratio, where the gravitational waves are tensors and the "normal" density fluctuations are scalars.
The BICEP2 team came up with a ratio of about 0.2, which means the gravitational waves were "pretty big," Kamionkowski says. (Sorry, I don't have an ironclad number for you.) The Planck team had come up with an upper limit of 0.11 from their data, but Pryke says that, while there's a bit of tension here with his team's result, the discrepancy is not much to worry about. It could be solved by simple extensions to the standard cosmological model, for example. They don't know yet.
The results do not tell us what set inflation in motion, only that it happened. Nor do they answer the question of whether inflation is eternal, setting off an endless series of big bangs and creating pocket universes. This cosmological landscape is usually referred to as the multiverse. (You can read my in-depth discussion of the search for evidence of multiple universes in the December 2012 Sky & Telescope.) However, it's hard to tune inflation such that pocket universes don't happen, Guth points out.
A few "smaller" results that have been lost in the inflation hubbub:
1. This is the first hard evidence that gravity is quantized, or comes in discrete packets as light does. The gravitational waves that produced the B-modes were born as quantum fluctuations in gravity itself, then stretched during inflation's faster-than-light-speed expansion. "I think this is the only observational evidence that we have that actually shows that gravity is quantized," says cosmologist Ken Olum (Tufts University). "It's probably the only evidence of this that we will ever have."
2. This is the first detection of gravitational waves' action on matter other than their source. Astronomers have observed neutron stars spiraling inward toward each other just as they should if the system was radiating gravitational waves, but they've never seen these waves affecting other matter in the cosmos.
3. This is the first detection of Hawking radiation. Hawking radiation is usually associated with the slow evaporation of black holes, as photons emitted from the event horizon. But the observable universe also has a horizon. Hawking radiation should be coming from this horizon, and also from every horizon in the universe — in other words, from every point in the universe, says cosmologist Max Tegmark (MIT). Today the cosmic horizons are huge and their Hawking radiation is utterly insignificant. But in the universe's first fraction of a second, the horizons were tiny and sharply curved. The gravitational waves announced today are these horizons' Hawking radiation.
Other teams will be working arduously to confirm the BICEP2 result. Planck's polarization measurements aren't expected until later this year, and the last word from the team was that those results wouldn't include primordial B-mode analysis. But Planck's all-sky coverage might reveal B-modes on larger angular scales than BICEP2 can, and also show something called the "reionization bump," a result of primordial B-modes being rearranged by intervening ionized material, says Planck scientist Charles Lawrence (JPL). Whether Planck can do it at all, though, is for now uncertain.
In the meantime, the excitement is palpable. As Tegmark put it, "I think this is one of the most important discoveries of all time." (See his blog post from the event for why.)
Here is the BICEP team's website for their papers, detailed information about the data, explanations, images, and videos.
Senior editor Alan MacRobert contributed to the reporting for this news article.


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Don't know if this counts, but I once was called to take care of a rabid dog that was trapped in a barn (no, I am not an Animal Control Officer - just a friend). This was a big German Sheppard, and had been a very loyal dog to my friend for many years. He had a racoon incident. This was very Old 'Yellerish, and my buddy couldn't bring himself to drop his old friend. Well, I agreed to undertake this grim task. Making a judgement for quick incapacitation Via Strausburg results... I loaded a six pack of Magsafes into the Delta Elite and went to task. We didn't have a long gun at hand (long story there). I entered the barn from the back side which comes in at the second floor, above the dogs level. I know dogs can't climb ladders. Duke was insane and raged. This was not a pretty scene - spent many a saturday with my kids over here playing with Duke... Duke was in a corner crouched and snarling, ready to leap once I came into his range. I thumbed off the safety and placed my sights on Duke's Chest and touched the trigger. When the front site came back down, Duke was on the ground, one twitch of his rear leg - and Duke was in peace. My friend didn't want the Delta Elite back - so he had me take it... I sold it, gave the money back to my buddy. Duke was great dog and his horrid end was not the way to remember him.
|October 26, 1998, 10:35 PM
Join Date: October 6, 1998
Location: My wife's house...
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Take it easy on the Ole Yeller stories will ya, I'm running low on Kleenex(tm). Putting down a trusting and loyal canine friend rates as one of the hardest and most painful things a man can do in this life. I've been there too many times over the years and it still hurts to remember their knowing eyes looking into mine...
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|October 29, 1998, 07:40 PM
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Join Date: October 23, 1998
Location: ATL
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I have no personal experience hunting with the 10mm. Chuck Taylor relates that he took a mulie at 100 yards with a 155-grain .40, so I can't see taking a deer with the 10 as being a problem, with a decent bullet and proper placement. ...No, I've never shot a dog with it.
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