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|Diana Abramo
Saeed Arida
Stephen Balzac
Sarah Breslau
Arika Cohen
Mika Gustavson
P. Sue Jackson
Caryn Johnson
Alexa Kay
Kathi Kearney
Carolyn K
Raisa Lardie
Susan Eiseman Levitin
Erick Medina
|Nancy Norton
Josh Shaine
Lorel Shea
Adrielle Stapleton
Sean Stevens
Melinda Stewart
Persis Thorndike
Eric Van
David Wang
Louise Waugh
Mary Ellen Wessels
Catherine Williams
Daniel Wilder
Aimee Yermish
Climbing up a Narrow Path: Guidance on advanced development and the authentic life for the highly gifted adult
P. Sue Jackson is the Founder and Therapeutic Director of "The Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted" in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada.
She is a poet, nature lover and mother of two exceptionally gifted children.
2E & 3E: Accomodations Looking Forward to College and Career from Homeschool or School
How do we modify educational settings and programs so they work for students with uneven profiles of strengths and relative weaknesses (2E)? What if there are also medical or physical disabilities, which I call 3E? This is hard enough, but how do we do so in a way that increase the student's ability to adapt to college and career, rather than making them dependent on an specialized environment? I will present schema for adding this to your educational planning. It's never too early, or too late, to start
|Diana Abramo, M.Ed., CAGS is an educational therapist in NYC and Medford, MA. She focuses on helping children (and their parents) identify their neurological preferences, strengths, and weaknesses in learning, then using them to modify and prioritize a learning program. She holds an M.Ed. degree from Harvard's program in Mind, Brain and Education (advisor: Howard Gardner) and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities with Dr. Susan Baum. She completed Dr. Mel Levine's Schools Attuned professional training course; all the course work for a Ph.D. in Community Psychology with a research minor; and has studied at the National Center for the Study of Gifted and Talented Children. Her prior professional work included counseling, research, and program development. She is the mother of two gifted children, one in a gifted school, and another whom she has homeschooled for the last 14 years.
|Insights into Studio-based Pedagogy
How does studio-based pedagogy work? How does mixing students with different stages of their growth affect the studio environment? How do we train our coaches to be effective teachers? What are the challenges encountered in a studio-based environment? In this talk, Saeed will be addressing these questions based on his experience running NuVu for the past year and a half. Every term, the NuVu team designs eight studios around a theme, such as Brain, Government, and Science Fiction. Each student goes through at least four consecutive studios. Each studio lasts for two weeks and culminate in a final review where students have to present their work to a panel of judges.
Saeed Arida is the founder and Chief Excitement Officer at NuVu Studio. He recently completed a PhD in Design and Computation at the Architecture School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Saeed's doctoral research focused on teaching creativity and ultimately developed into NuVu. Saeed, along with the NuVu team, has been working for three years to bring his vision of innovative education to reality. Prior to NuVu, he taught graduate architectural design studios at MIT and advised students' theses projects. His portfolio of products and solutions includes Hugah, an online home exchange service, a limited series MIT Gradrat Ring, and product commercials for LG, Samsung and Microsoft.
How to Sell (Almost) Anything (C)
No chocolate bars will be harmed in the course of this session.
Stephen R. Balzac is a consultant, author, and speaker. He is the president of 7 Steps Ahead (www.7stepshead.com), an organizational development firm focused on helping businesses get unstuck and turn problems into opportunities.
Steve has over twenty years of experience in the high tech industry as an engineer, manager, entrepreneur, and consultant. He is a popular speaker on topics ranging from leadership, innovation, learning, sport performance, and game design. He has been a guest lecturer at WPI and MIT. Steve is the author of The 36-Hour Course in Organizational Development, published by McGraw-Hill and is a contributing author to Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values Through Play. His articles have appeared in many journals, including The CEO Refresher, Corp! Magazine, Performance & Profits, The Journal of Interactive Drama, The IBM Systems Journal, The Lincoln Journal, Mass High Tech, Analog, Journal of Corporate Recruiting Leadership, and the Worcester Business Journal.
No stranger to the demands of maintaining peak performance under highly competitive and stressful situations, Steve is a fifth degree blackbelt in jujitsu and a former nationally ranked fencer.
|Comedia dell'Arte (C)
Commedia dell'Arte is improvisational comedy from 16th century Italy, the source for countless characters and jokes in modern-day drama (and Shakespeare!), and a lot of fun! Come play some improv games, take on the role of wacky characters, and learn how failing is funny! Open to anyone who's a kid at heart.
Sarah Breslau is an unschooler pursuing areas of the arts ranging from writing to chain maille to theater, leaving all too little time to simply read. She is an actress in i Sebastiani (The Greatest Commedia dell'Arte Troupe in the Entire World).
Improvisation Games (C)
We're Going On A Quest! (C)
Arika Cohen is absurdly delighted to be teaching and learning again at Beyond I.Q.! Arika spends her days in Jamaica Plain, MA, making -and frequently tasting- mud pies with the infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged kiddos at Horizons for Homeless Children. Her past gigs include teaching Lower, Middle, and Upper School Drama, designing costumes for children's theatres, and, in general, making a great deal of mess and noise.
Conversation on Current Events (C)
|Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and the Gifted: One Therapist's Experience
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – is it good for the gifted? As always, your mileage may vary. This workshop will focus on the work of Dr. David Burns, and his TEAM therapy model (TEAM= Treatment Empathy Agenda-Setting Methods), from the multiple perspectives of the therapist, the gifted individual and the parent.
|Mika Gustavson, MA, MFT, is a psychotherapist, author, speaker, gifted person and parent of a homeschooled 2e child. She has co-authored, with her writing partner Corin Barsily Goodwin, many articles and the 2011 book Making the Choice: When Typical School Doesn't Fit Your Atypical Child. She serves as co-chair of the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum's Professional Outreach Committee. In her spare time, she's a yarn (crochet only) and music (jazz and baroque performance practice) geek. She lives in California's Silicon Valley with her husband, son, and an ever-evolving menagerie.
Puzzles and Pasttimes (C)
|Caryn Johnson is a very large kid disguised as a homeschooling mom. She has a great love for geometry and physics, particularly when they manage to arrive disguised as toys. Rather a long while ago, she used this love of geometry and physics to work as an electronic engineer, but then discovered that she had more fun being an artist, and teaching. When she had kids, she discovered that was the most fun of all. She currently tries to combine being a parent, being a teacher, playing with geometry, and playing with physics in as many ways as possible.
|Indoor Cloudwatching (Entertaining Yourself When You're Bored) (C)
Ever get bored or have nothing to do? Indoor cloudwatching uses everyday materials or no materials at all to keep your mind occupied when you have nothing to do. Come try it!
|Alexa Kay is graduating this semester with a M.Ed in Mathematics from Penn State University. She is summering in LA teaching at CTY, and waiting to hear back from a variety of positions teaching high school or college math. She will be interested in going back to school in a few years for Ed Psych, or Psych, or Math Ed, or...
|This Isn't Your Grandmother's Classroom: Expanding the Theory of Developmental Differentiation for 21st Century Citizens
In 1990, the Columbus Group defined giftedness as asynchronous development. Yet two decades later, approaches to differentiation seldom consider complex multiple layers of individual developmental asynchrony. Many modifications differentiate curriculum, but do not match the wide-ranging asynchronous development of the individual child. This session expands the theory of "developmental differentiation," focusing on the asynchronous developmental paths of gifted individuals. Drawing upon theorists Vygotsky, Dabrowski, Hollingworth, and Feldman, we explore the wider and deeper development of the gifted individual required in the 21st century, and how "developmental differentiation" differs from common practice in today's schools. Practical implementation strategies will be provided.
Kathi Kearney is the founder of the Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children, a national resource and support network for exceptionally gifted children and their families. She has worked with gifted children as a teacher and administrator in a wide variety of settings, urban and rural, in public, private, religious, and home schools. Kathi is a recognized expert on homeschooling exceptionally gifted children. An excellent diagnostician, she works primarily in New England.
|Topics We'd Like to See
Off times, BIQ attendees say: "I wish there was a session on...". Well, this is your chance. Come and tell us what you want to hear. We have a critical mass of experts and we will do our best to present one session each done on exactly what you want to talk about. What's on your mind? What are the two most important topics to you at this time? NACG's philosophical change from "Gifted" to "Talent Development", Early College Entrance from teh student's perspective, Knitting for Gifted folks, What are Overexciteabilities with Strategies to help calm them...what topics would you like to explore this year? (It's a good reason not to arrive late this year!)
|Carolyn K is the founder and director of Hoagies' Gifted Education Page (www.hoagiesgifted.org). She also serves on the Board of Directors for SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted) (www.SENGifted.org).
There is a lot more to be said about her. You could look it up!
Introduction to Linguistics (C)
Egyptian Mythology (C)
Raisa Lardie is a senior at Hofstra University's Honors College, pursuing a double major in anthropology and linguistics, with a minor in Japanese. She's currently in the process of completing a senior thesis on nonrecognition for American Indian nations and publishing an article on the environmental effects of the oil/gas industry on the Nentsy reindeer-herders of Siberia, and will be going to Russia for two months this summer to continue her Russian studies.
Outside of school, her interests include traditional archery, color guard, gaming, foreign language acquisition, cosplay, history and a host of other topics too numerous to list here. (She's also recently become interested in world politics, to her dismay and curiosity!)
Arts & Crafts (C)
Susan Eiseman Levitin comes to BIQ from a long background of art and education. This is her fifth year attending and presenting. Currently, she homeschools her 12, 14 and 18 year olds, and is an active member of a number of homeschooled communities.
|Unravelling Psychological Testing: What Tests (Really) Measure & Scores (Really) Mean
Psychotherapy of the Gifted Child, Adolescent, & Adult: Pitfalls & Promises
Erick Medina Psy.D. is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he majored in philosophy, and Rutgers University, where he obtained his doctorate in clinical psychology. He did post-doctoral training at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Vanguard, and at the Integrated Center for Child Development in Canton, MA, and has taught at the high school as well as college level. He currently does psychotherapeutic as well as neuropsychological work with children, adolescents, and adults, and also works with couples and groups.
|Think About Thinking (tm 2012) (C)
In a fast-paced game format (with prizes!) have fun while you…
…identify thinking tools you use every day
…investigate your favorite thinking tools and your sneakiest thinking pitfalls
…explore putting thinking tools to work for you to solve problems, relate to others and get things done.
Nancy Norton is a psychologist who does therapy/coaching and learning/neuropsychological assessments with kids and adults. She is interested about how people think and what can get in the way, especially in the area of executive functions! In her practice Think About Thinking, Nancy is passionate about helping students, parents and teachers work together as a team to bring out kids strengths while building up any skills that need improvement. Nancy and her husband home school their ten year old daughter.
First Time BIQ Attendees
Underachievement: A Matter of Definitions
Josh Shaine is a migrant teacher, working for homeschool families, public and private schools, and whatever else comes down the pike. He works predominantly with gifted children, with a focus on underachievers and hg/pg issues. He is also slowly researching non-linear thinking styles.
|Inventing a Language (C)
Investigate the basics of creating a new language, including how languages are different from codes, how language can be shaped by a message or culture, tips for making your new language sound unique, and the easiest ways to start using a language with friends. We'll collaborate to invent and test out a group language, and then you'll have time and resources to get started on your creating own language.
|Adrielle Stapleton enjoys learning about all languages, including the ones that are "dead" or invented. Teaching Latin & and reading authors like Tolkien are both to blame for her interest in language creation. She's currently works with Learning Unlimited, supporting their efforts to create opportunities for middle school & high school students to connect with engaging topics of study.
|Gifted Children in Literature (C)
Readers of all ages are welcome to join us for an energizing, interactive discussion of gifted children in literature. Books we might discuss include A Wrinkle in Time, Chasing Vermeer, A Mango Shaped Space, Millicent Min-Girl Genius, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, and Matilda, among others.
Lorel Shea is geeky enough to admit that she met her husband in Mensa and that they have two boys named after sci-fi characters and two girls named after literary characters. She lives with her husband and kids in Connecticut's "quiet corner" where she presides as headmistress of Shea Academy.
Bumblebots (C)
Sean Stevens Since Sean was six years old, he has always taken things apart to see how they worked. This innate curiosity about how things work lead him to explore computer programming, human perception, robotics, alternative energy, Sound, lighting, LASERs, Interactivity, the internet, and how it can all tie into community. He discovered that most complex systems can be considered to be made of modules. With the right input and output, these modules can be made to act independently.
|Necessary Failures
This talk is part of my ongoing project documenting normal psychological development in the intellectually gifted population. We will focus on the necessary limits and boundaries that one must experience in order to develop a cohesive and resilient personality.
We will address the following questions: How is psychological development impacted by extraordinary intellectual ability? How does asynchronous cognitive development affect emotional and psychological development? How can we, as parents and teachers, facilitate normative developmental crises for highly gifted children in ways that are constructive and produce a positive, realistic sense of self?
I will present some of my thinking and some case material. Workshop participants will be asked to provide examples of their own and we will think together about strategies for facilitating health development as well as providing good primary prevention of emotional and psychological difficulties in the children with whom we live and work.
Melinda Stewart Currently the Director of Counseling at Groton School in Groton, MA, Ms. Stewart has worked with gifted children and adolescents in a variety of settings over the last 28 years. She is the founder and former director of Voyagers, Inc., and has been on the staffs of the Stone Center at Wellesley College and McLean Hospital. She is the mother of two PG children, one currently in college and one currently homeschooled.
Free Style Costuming & Art (C)
Persis Thorndike has been running Children's programming at science fiction conventions, home schooling, and gifted and talented conferences for the past 7 years, and has assisted in the activities room at the New England Folk Festival for over 10 years. Mother of a home-schooled 13-year-old, Persis draws from a broad range of interests to plan captivating and entertaining children's activities to keep kids in the 6-12 age range happy and occupied at conferences and conventions.
Forests & Trees: How the Asperger's Brain Thinks
Eric Van entered Harvard in 1972 as one of future Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow's particle physics tutees and graduated in 1978 as one of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop's students. He has spent the last six years back at Harvard, as a Special Student affiliated with the Graduate Department of Psychology, taking 20 undergraduate courses in the field in preparation for an eventual Ph.D. He lives in Watertown, Mass.
|Bumblebots (C)
Description: Build a bitty toy that buzzes like a bug! Work with a partner to design where to place the motor and legs before attaching them to a base. Then skitter your critter over tricky terrain to see which bumblebot is the most a-maze-ing! (All supplies are provided for this hands-on studio and each pair of participants decides who takes home the bumblebot.)
David Wang is a PhD student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at MIT, where his current research focuses on planning for autonomous systems. The goal of which is to be able to command a system via high level commands such as goals it must accomplish and have the system determine the appropriate course of action. For his Masters, he studied techniques for improving software-reliability. Outside of work, he pursues a wide variety of interests, from building robots and planes to teaching. He was an organizer for the 6.270, Lego Robotics Competition for 3 years, and helped teach a variety of computers, programming, and algorithm courses over 5 years. He holds degrees in Aeronautics/ Astronautics and Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from MIT.
|Making Stuff and Making Stuff Up (C)
2 hours
Make *stuff* out of *stuff*. (paper towel tubes, buttons, egg cartons, feathers....) Play some drama games. Make up improvised skits using the props you made!
Louise J. Waugh has no advanced degrees and over 20 years experience with children of all ages. She probably knows some things and never eats children - even small, cute ones that would make a great snack.
|Making Stuff and Making Stuff Up (C)
2 hours
Make *stuff* out of *stuff*. (paper towel tubes, buttons, egg cartons, feathers....) Play some drama games. Make up improvised skits using the props you made.
Songs for Geeky Kids (C)
30 minutes of weird, goofy, and geeky songs.
(May or may not occur during ice cream social)
Mary Ellen Wessels has a double M.Ed. in Curriculum and Arts Integration but that doesn't stop her from wanting school to be more joyful , playful and creative. She is also a musician, a mother of two sons (2E) and 3 grown up step daughters and has far too many interests for the time available!
|Comedia dell'Arte (C)
Ages 9-12
Commedia dell'Arte is improvisational comedy from 16th century Italy, the source for countless characters and jokes in modern-day drama (and Shakespeare!), and a lot of fun! Come play some improv games, take on the role of wacky characters, and learn how failing is funny! Open to anyone who's a kid at heart.
Daniel Wilder is a philosophy major at UMass Boston, with more books than time and a passion for music and theater. He is an actor in i Sebastiani (The Greatest Commedia dell'Arte Troupe in the Entire World) and is in the process of developing his own scenario for the troupe.
In Motion (C)
Taking inspiration from words and music, we will create movement phrases following the themes of imitation, improvisation, and exploration. We will work individually and in small groups.
Catherine Williams is a visual artist and dancer, who has been teaching dance for over 20 years.
Straight Talk about Testing and Assessment
Avoiding the Strange Attractor: Giftedness as a Cultural Experience
Aimee Yermish, Psy.D. is an educational therapist specializing in work with children who are gifted, learning-disabled, or twice-exceptional, providing assessment, enrichment, remediation, mentoring, individualized program development, and parent and teacher guidance. She draws upon her analytical background as a research scientist and her practical background as a classroom teacher in order to create individualized strategies for each child. (firstname.lastname@example.com)


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module Scanf:Formatted input functions.
Scanf provides formatted input functions or scanners.
The formatted input functions can read from any kind of input, including
strings, files, or anything that can return characters. The more general
source of characters is named a formatted input channel (or scanning buffer) and has type
Scanf.Scanning.in_channel. The more general
formatted input function reads from any scanning buffer and is named
Generally speaking, the formatted input functions have 3 arguments:
Scanf.bscanf is
bscanf ic fmt f, where:
ic is a source of characters (typically a formatted input channel with type
fmt is a format string (the same format strings as those used to print
material with module
Printf or
f is a function that has as many arguments as the number of values to
read in the input.
bscanf ic "%d" f reads a decimal
n from the source of characters
ic and returns
f n.
For instance,
stdin as the source of characters (
Scanf.Scanning.stdin is
the predefined formatted input channel that reads from standard input),
f as
let f x = x + 1,
bscanf Scanning.stdin "%d" f reads an integer
n from the
standard input and returns
f n (that is
n + 1). Thus, if we
bscanf stdin "%d" f, and then enter
41 at the
keyboard, we get
42 as the final result.
module Scanning:
('a, 'b, 'c, 'd)scanner =
('a, Scanning.in_channel, 'b, 'c, 'a -> 'd, 'd) format6 -> 'c
('a, 'b, 'c, 'd) scanner
is the type of a formatted input function that reads from some
formatted input channel according to some format string; more
precisely, if
scan is some formatted input function, then
ic fmt f applies
f to the arguments specified by the format
fmt, when
scan has read those arguments from the
formatted input channel
For instance, the
scanf function below has type
('a, 'b, 'c, 'd)
scanner, since it is a formatted input function that reads from
scanf fmt f applies
f to the arguments specified by
fmt, reading those arguments from
Pervasives.stdin as expected.
If the format
fmt has some
%r indications, the corresponding input
functions must be provided before the receiver
f argument. For
instance, if
read_elem is an input function for values of type
bscanf ic "%r;" read_elem f reads a value
v of type
t followed
by a
';' character, and returns
f v.
Since 3.10.0
exception Scan_failure of
val bscanf :
Scanning.in_channel -> ('a, 'b, 'c, 'd) scanner
bscanf ic fmt r1 ... rN f reads arguments for the function
f, from the
formatted input channel
ic, according to the format string
fmt, and
f to these values.
The result of this call to
f is returned as the result of the entire
bscanf call.
For instance, if
f is the function
fun s i -> i + 1, then
Scanf.sscanf "x= 1" "%s = %i" f returns
r1 to
rN are user-defined input functions that read the
argument corresponding to a
%r conversion.
f (see Conversion specifications in format strings),
' ' or ASCII code
32) and the line feed character (
'\n' or ASCII code 10).
A space does not match a single space character, but any amount of
``whitespace'' in the input. More precisely, a space inside the format
string matches any number of tab, space, line feed and carriage
return characters. Similarly, a line feed character in the format string
matches either a single line feed or a carriage return followed by a line
Matching any amount of whitespace, a space in the format string
also matches no amount of whitespace at all; hence, the call
bscanf ib
"Price = %d $" (fun p -> p) succeeds and returns
1 when reading an
input with various whitespace in it, such as
Price = 1 $,
Price = 1 $, or even
Conversion specifications consist in the
% character, followed by
an optional flag, an optional field width, and followed by one or
two conversion characters. The conversion characters and their
meanings are:
d: reads an optionally signed decimal integer.
i: reads an optionally signed integer
(usual input conventions for decimal (
0-9+), hexadecimal
0x[0-9a-f]+ and
0X[0-9A-F]+), octal (
0o[0-7]+), and binary
0b[0-1]+) notations are understood).
u: reads an unsigned decimal integer.
x or
X: reads an unsigned hexadecimal integer (
o: reads an unsigned octal integer (
s: reads a string argument that spreads as much as possible, until the
following bounding condition holds:
S: reads a delimited string argument (delimiters and special
escaped characters follow the lexical conventions of OCaml).
c: reads a single character. To test the current input character
without reading it, specify a null field width, i.e. use
%0c. Raise
Invalid_argument, if the field width
specification is greater than 1.
C: reads a single delimited character (delimiters and special
escaped characters follow the lexical conventions of OCaml).
G: reads an optionally signed
floating-point number in decimal notation, in the style
F: reads a floating point number according to the lexical
conventions of OCaml (hence the decimal point is mandatory if the
exponent part is not mentioned).
B: reads a boolean argument (
true or
b: reads a boolean argument (for backward compatibility; do not use
in new programs).
lo: reads an
int32 argument to
the format specified by the second letter for regular integers.
no: reads a
nativeint argument to
the format specified by the second letter for regular integers.
Lo: reads an
int64 argument to
the format specified by the second letter for regular integers.
[ range ]: reads characters that matches one of the characters
mentioned in the range of characters
range (or not mentioned in
it, if the range starts with
^). Reads a
string that can be
empty, if the next input character does not match the range. The set of
characters from
c1 to
c2 (inclusively) is denoted by
%[0-9] returns a string representing a decimal number
or an empty string if no decimal digit is found; similarly,
%[\\048-\\057\\065-\\070] returns a string of hexadecimal digits.
If a closing bracket appears in a range, it must occur as the
first character of the range (or just after the
^ in case of
range negation); hence
[]] matches a
] character and
[^]] matches any character that is not
%% and
%@ to include a
% or a
@ in a range.
r: user-defined reader. Takes the next
ri formatted input
function and applies it to the scanning buffer
ib to read the
next argument. The input function
ri must therefore have type
Scanning.in_channel -> 'a and the argument read has type
{ fmt %}: reads a format string argument. The format string
read must have the same type as the format string specification
fmt. For instance,
"%{ %i %}" reads any format string that
can read a value of type
int; hence, if
s is the string
"fmt:\"number is %u\"", then
Scanf.sscanf s "fmt: %{%i%}"
succeeds and returns the format string
"number is %u".
\( fmt %\): scanning format substitution.
Reads a format string and then goes on scanning with the format string
read, instead of using
The format string read must have the same type as the format string
fmt that it replaces.
For instance,
"%( %i %)" reads any format string that can read a value
of type
Returns the format string read, and the value read using the format
string read.
Hence, if
s is the string
"\"%4d\"1234.00", then
Scanf.sscanf s "%(%i%)" (fun fmt i -> fmt, i) evaluates to
("%4d", 1234).
If the special flag
_ is used, the conversion discards the
format string read and only returns the value read with the format
string read.
Hence, if
s is the string
"\"%4d\"1234.00", then
Scanf.sscanf s "%_(%i%)" is simply equivalent to
Scanf.sscanf "1234.00" "%4d".
l: returns the number of lines read so far.
n: returns the number of characters read so far.
N or
L: returns the number of tokens read so far.
!: matches the end of input condition.
%: matches one
% character in the input.
@: matches one
@ character in the input.
,: does nothing.
% character that introduces a conversion, there may be
the special flag
_: the conversion that follows occurs as usual,
but the resulting value is discarded.
For instance, if
f is the function
fun i -> i + 1, and
s is the
"x = 1", then
Scanf.sscanf s "%_s = %i" f returns
The field width is composed of an optional integer literal
indicating the maximal width of the token to read.
For instance,
%6d reads an integer, having at most 6 decimal digits;
%4f reads a float with at most 4 characters; and
returns the next 8 characters (or all the characters still available,
if fewer than 8 characters are available in the input).
%s conversion always succeeds, even if there is
nothing to read in the input: in this case, it simply returns
'_' characters may appear
inside numbers (this is reminiscent to the usual OCaml lexical
conventions). If stricter scanning is desired, use the range
conversion facility instead of the number conversions.
scanf facility is not intended for heavy duty lexical
analysis and parsing. If it appears not expressive enough for your
needs, several alternative exists: regular expressions (module
Str), stream parsers,
ocamllex-generated lexers,
ocamlyacc-generated parsers.
%[ range ] to delimit the end of the token. A scanning
indication is introduced by a
@ character, followed by some
plain character
c. It means that the string token should end
just before the next matching
c (which is skipped). If no
character is encountered, the string token spreads as much as
possible. For instance,
"%s@\t" reads a string up to the next
tab character or to the end of input. If a
@ character appears
anywhere else in the format string, it is treated as a plain character.
% characters must be escaped using
%@ is equivalent to
@; this rule still holds within range
specifications and scanning indications.
For instance,
"%s@%%" reads a string up to the next
% character.
Scanf format strings, compared to those used for the
module. However, the scanning indications are similar to those used in
Format module; hence, when producing formatted text to be scanned
!Scanf.bscanf, it is wise to use printing functions from the
Format module (or, if you need to use functions from
Printf, banish
or carefully double check the format strings that contain
Scanf.Scan_failure if the input does not match the format.
Failure if a conversion to a number is not possible.
End_of_file if the end of input is encountered while some more
characters are needed to read the current conversion specification.
Invalid_argument if the format string is invalid.
%s conversion never raises exception
End_of_file: if the end of input is reached the conversion succeeds and
simply returns the characters read so far, or
"" if none were ever read.
val fscanf :
Pervasives.in_channel -> ('a, 'b, 'c, 'd) scanner
Scanf.bscanf, but reads from the given regular input channel.
Warning: since all formatted input functions operate from a formatted
input channel, be aware that each
fscanf invocation will operate with a
formatted input channel reading from the given channel. This extra level
of bufferization can lead to a strange scanning behaviour if you use low
level primitives on the channel (reading characters, seeking the reading
position, and so on).
As a consequence, never mix direct low level reading and high level
scanning from the same regular input channel.
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You spent a lot of money on that fancy new Mac Pro—now's the time to make sure that investment stays safe and secure. Earlier this week, Apple quietly started selling the Mac Pro Security Lock Adapter for just such a purpose.
Keep in mind, the $49 attachment isn't itself a lock; it merely adds a standard Kensington lock port to the Mac Pro. According to Apple, you won't need to modify the enclosure or even use tools to apply the adapter, which not only lets you physically secure the desktop computer to something (your desk, for example), but also prevents anyone from opening the computer and, say, removing your SSD or memory.
Apple says the adapter is compatible with most standard Kensington locks, as well as those from other third parties that use the same system. And if $49 seems like a steep price tag, well, just remember how much you paid for that Mac Pro.


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Lawmakers call for criminal investigation
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two Republican state lawmakers are calling for a criminal investigation of a Middleton foster care agency of misusing nearly $5 million in taxpayer money.
Sen. Leah Vukmir of Wauwatosa and Sen. Rob Cowles of Green Bay on Monday called for the state Department of Justice to investigate Community Care Resources.
The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families has revoked the license of the foster care agency following its own audit that found the agency inflated salaries and spent taxpayer money on luxury cars, personal travel and other inappropriate expenses between 2009 and 2011.
Owner Dan Simon has vigorously denied the allegations.
Cowles says in addition to the criminal investigation he is calling for a full review by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau.


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Hear How A Song Takes Shape
Did you want to hear how a song evolves? How a single spark of inspiration transforms into words and then melody and finally a fully produced complex production?
Jordon Gieger, known by the moniker Hospital Ships, has unveiled his journey as a songwriter for us. "Desolation Waltz" is a song Geiger began writing in Columbus, Ohio after "listening to a very fiery preacher on the radio, who would break into little melodies in the middle of his sermons. I decided to write songs a capella, in my car."
He recorded a short demo of "Desolation Waltz" right into his laptop, just an acoustic guitar and his voice. Below you can hear the evolution of the song from that acoustic demo to the version you'll hear on Destruction in Yr Soul, the album from Hospital Ships that came out this summer. It's a surprising evolution from simplicity to complex production done with the help of famed producer John Congleton. Jordan Geiger provided us with this SoundCloud, a mix that cuts back and forth between three different demo versions of "Desolation Waltz" and the finished full-band version, as well as commentary on how the song evolved.
:00-:35: Original vocal/guitar demo. No chords.
"My original inspiration for this song came at a time I was living in Columbus, Ohio and listening to a very fiery preacher on the radio, who would break into little melodies in the middle of his sermons. I decided to write songs a capella, in my car. One of the songs that came out of this experiment was 'Desolation Waltz,' originally a 1:36-long demo recorded into my laptop. I had only a melody and words, no chords, so I played my guitar along in order to stay (somewhat) in tune." (see also 1:39 - 1:48)
:35- :55: A cappella melody added over electronic drum beat, with chords added later.
"A few weeks later, I was playing with my drum machine and made a beat I liked, and decided to sing this song over the beat, more or less in free time, with no underlying chords.After that, I went back in improvised a synth part to make an impromptu harmonic structure for the song." (see also 1:20 – 1:27)
:55-1:12: "Folk" demo given to rest of the band
"About a year later, I decided to revisit the concept once I had returned to Lawrence, Kan., so I learned the improvised chords and transposed them to acoustic guitar, because I was playing a lot of folk music at the time." (see also 2:45 – 2:55)
1:12- END: Final full-band version tracked live on tape in studio and produced by John Congleton
"Once the rest of the band became involved, we returned to a more aggressive repeating drum beat, and added all the attendant bells and whistles you hear with the full band playing, including a drone section in between verses, and a long build which leads into the end section. We tracked the principal instruments live to tape in the studio, and added vocals and the overdubs:(1:28-1:39) Taylor's backwards/harmonized vocals — my favorite overdub on the whole record! — and(1:48-2:25) the synth tone which rises over many octaves, simulating a plane taking off."


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Restorative Justice
Restorative Justice - A Worthy Approach
Restorative Justice (RJ) helps meet the needs of people faced with crime and conflict in an inclusive and meaningful way. RJ practices provide voluntary opportunities for those who have been harmed and those who have caused harm to be active participants in their journey for justice, accountability, and reparation.
CSC supports the advancement of RJ as it contributes to CSC's priorities and public safety. In addition to CSC's most reputable work in providing victim-offender mediation services, RJ approaches are used to develop collaborative partnerships, address conflict, and assist offenders in their exploration of RJ values and principles.
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Interviews and guest posts from the writers and artists of Versal 10. This week, we hear from Dora Malech he author of Say So (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011) and Shore Ordered Ocean (Waywiser Press, 2009). Her poems have appeared in publications that include The New Yorker, Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, and Poetry London. A graduate of Yale and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has been the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, a Writer's Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Center in Italy, and inclusion in the International Writing Program's "Life of Discovery" creative exchange in China. She has taught writing at institutions that include the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop; Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand; and Saint Mary's College of California, where she served as a Distinguished Poet-in-Residence. She lives in Iowa City, where she writes, creates visual art, teaches, and directs the Iowa Youth Writing Project, an arts outreach program for children and teens.
Have you been to Amsterdam? What did you do while you were here? If you've not been yet, what do you think you'd do in our fair town?
I have. I visited the amazing Jane Lewty and Wade Geary at Thanksgiving 2011, and it was most likely the best Thanksgiving of my life. I ate my weight in stroopwafel, had my mind blown across the spectrum of human emotion and ideas by art and history (visiting the Anne Frank house, going to the Rijksmuseum, taking a tour of the canals), and met some incredibly welcoming and brilliant writers and artists (including the Versal crew!). I also gave a reading at the English Bookshop and gave a Q&A with Jane's students at Universiteit van Amsterdam. I felt so grateful to have had the chance to see Amsterdam through the eyes of a tourist, but I felt even more grateful that Jane and others allowed me to simply live their Amsterdam lives with them for a few days.
I was also on a deadline to finish a piece as part of an International Writing Program collaborative exchange and performance. I went to Amsterdam with all of my thoughts and notes, and I spent most of my mornings there writing and revising in Jane and Wade's spare room. I ended up finishing the piece there and reading it for the first time at the English Bookshop reading. The piece is not "about" Amsterdam, but it deals with travel and flight and distance, and it will forever be linked to Amsterdam for me.
What is the first creative thing you ever did?
I know that when I made colorful crayon scribbles as a very small child, and my mother asked me to tell her what I was drawing (a house? a dog?), I would cryptically tell her that they were "designs." I hope that doesn't make me sound like I was a pretentious toddler. I also think that playing pretend was (and still is?) a big part of my creative life. I have an older sister, so for a long time, my creative life was collaborating with her on imaginary identities and worlds.
What is the dumbest thing anyone has ever said to you about being a writer?
I can't say the dumbest, but I can say the most obnoxious. When I finish giving a reading, I always feel very raw and pretty vulnerable and dazed. Whether or not it shows to the audience, I feel like I put it on the line emotionally when I read. It is, therefore, the worst possible moment for someone to play weird power games with me (intentionally or not), because I am off balance and overly receptive. Multiple times, someone (and yes, it's usually a man, and yes, he's usually older than me) comes up to me and says "Can I give you some advice?" Rather than saying, "Buzz off. Who just gave a reading, me or you?" I say "Sure." Then I get a lecture on what he would have done differently (I've gotten everything from "Don't give any context for your poems; leave the audience wondering" to "Don't look at your watch; it's distracting.") I always wonder if these folks give lectures to everyone, or if I have some kind of "kick me" sign on my back. Perhaps they're well-intentioned, and it's obviously not a huge deal in the greater scheme of things, but I keep hoping I'll come up with a witty retort for the next such occasion. I suppose it falls right into Rebecca Solnit's "Men Explaining Things" paradigm.
If you were an angle, what kind of angle would you be?
I would be my Chihuahua mutt. Backstory: I named my dog "Angel" in a moment of pure, unadulterated sentimentality when she came into my life. She was a puppy that fit in my hand, and I was a weepy 20-year-old college student. She is my favorite creature on earth, but she is not angelic. At a certain point, we stopped calling her "Angel" and started calling her any number of different names, including "Angle," which is a much more accurate name. So, yeah, I'd be that Angle.
If you could meet a writer from the 15th, 16th or 17th centuries, who would it be? And what would you talk about?
Oh lord it would be Shakespeare. We'd talk about everything. Everything. Everything. And then we'd spoon for a while.
Tell us something few people know about you.
Well, I just told you that I want to spoon with Shakespeare, so my fantasies about other dead writers won't seem that revelatory now. I'll go less personal: I have an extra vertebra in my spine.
Other than Versal (which has clearly been awesome), what's one great place you've been published?
I've loved being published in Anti-, because it seemed like the editor, Stephen D. Schroeder, really believed in my work at a point when I didn't necessarily believe in it myself. I'm also just in great company with the other writers and artists he publishes, and I was psyched that Anti- included both my poetry and my visual art at different points.
Why did you send work to Versal? Be honest.
I met the Versal editors in Amsterdam and also got to spend some quality time with Versal 9. I felt like it was an aesthetically gorgeous and exciting publication, and it felt "curated" like a good art show, not just kind of thrown together. Megan Garr encouraged me to send work, and I was more than happy to do so.
What has lasted you ten years?
My red Schwinn bicycle. A brown corduroy jacket with a fake-fur hood from TJ Maxx. Some amazing friendships (I started grad school in 2003, so I'm coming up on the ten-year anniversary of some of my dearest poetry-friendships).
Tell us what you're working on right now.
I'm working on a third book of poems that's still in flux, and on a number of other projects. Bringing my visual art and text together. Exploring anagrams as heuristics. Working on longer poems. Trying to find my way from one word to another.


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Cars We Remember: The Saga of Young Joe: Distracted driving
Part two of two safe driving holiday articles.
Last week, we reported on "The Saga of Young Joe," a vibrant 23-year-old who lost his life in an alcohol related single car accident in his '70 Dodge Challenger R/T.
This week, we follow up with how Joe also became a statistic in the National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) new group of fatalities and crashes directly related to cell phone and texting use behind the wheel.
Because Joe was answering his smart phone when he "missed" making that sharp curve at high speed, he'll add to the new statistic that involves vehicle deaths related to distracted drivers (cell phone, texting, etc.). This new statistic centering on cell phone use and texting while driving causes somewhere near 20 percent of all accidents reported, not just the fatal ones.
The NHTSA's "distraction-affected crashes" data is very upsetting. The organization lists "distracted driving" as any driver the texts, uses a cell or smart phone, eats and drinks, grooms oneself, reads, uses a navigation system, watches a video or adjusts a car stereo system.
NHTSA also stresses that sending and receiving text messages requires visual, manual and cognitive attention, and is by far the most alarming distraction drivers engage in on a regular basis.
Further, NHTSA informs us that an estimated 71 percent of teens and young people say they have composed/sent SMS messages while driving and 78 percent of teens and young adults say they have read an SMS message while driving. Today, every driver on the road has probably seen people texting and weaving on the road while driving. It is also important to realize that texting is here to stay as people communicate daily with smart phones in this modern era. Currently, Distraction.gov estimates that every month close to 170 billion text messages are sent in the U.S., Guam and Puerto Rico and this figure is expected to rise.
According to NHTSA, distraction-related deaths (3,450 fatalities) decreased by 2.2 percent in 2016, something we can applaud. However, nearly 396,000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver, which is an increase from the estimated 387,000 people injured the prior year (2015). As sobering as these numbers are, expect the numbers to go higher when the 2017 numbers are released next December as more and more young drivers join the driver database already addicted to smartphones.
Additionally, NHTSA information indicates that driver distraction continues to be a significant problem given the difficulty of proof and a driver's reluctance to admit texting/phone distractions, lack of witnesses, or death of the driver. NHTSA believes the actual number of distracted crashes could be much higher than the estimated 396,000-plus injured in distraction-affected crashes the last few years.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is also leading the effort to stop texting and cell phone use behind the wheel. Since 2009, several national distracted driving seminars have been held resulting in banning texting and cell phone use for commercial drivers and encouraging states to adopt even tougher laws.
According to the NHTSA, the age group that produces the highest number of distracted drivers is the under-20 age group, where 16 percent of all drivers younger than 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported to have been distracted while driving. Of those drivers involved in fatal crashes who were reportedly distracted, the 30- to 39-year-olds surprisingly had the highest proportion of cell phone involvement.
Here are more disturbing facts about distracting driving:
1. Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55 mph, that's enough time to cover the length of a football field blindfolded.
2. Ten percent of all drivers 15- to 19-years-old involved in fatal crashes were reported as distracted at the time of the crashes. This age group has the largest proportion of drivers who were distracted at the time of the crash.
3. At any given daylight moment across America, approximately 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or manipulating electronic devices while driving, a number that has held steady since 2010. Experts feel this number will rise.
4. More than half (53 percent) of all adult cell phone owners have been on the giving or receiving end of a distracted walking encounter.
5. Drivers in their 20's make up 28 percent of the distracted drivers in fatal crashes. Experts feel this number will rise as more teens receive their driver license.
In summary, distracted/texting while driving is now just as serious as driving while intoxicated. More and more campaigns, starting in grade school, must be implemented to help curb the obsession with the modern day smartphone. Educators are urged to contact the NHTSA as campaigns and videos are available to address the problem before students receive their driver permits.
Further, this writer again calls on all auto manufacturers to eliminate options that can take a driver's eyes off the road, like touch screen video/stereo displays and cumbersome to operate climate and navigation systems.
Drive safely and have a very happy New Year. Thanks to the NHTSA and Distraction.gov for important statistics and estimates for this yearly holiday season column.
— Greg Zyla writes weekly for More Content Now and other Gatehouse Media publications.


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BMX biker back flips around the world
It's been two and a half years since Ben Snowden has made it back to his hometown, and oh, the places he's been.
The Hornell native and pro BMX rider recently returned from a trip to China, where he represented extremely well in the X Games Asia BMX vert and street competitions. He was the only rider from Southern California to qualify for the event, aired on ESPN in 150 countries.
Snowden notched a third-place finish in the street event, scoring a 91 to trail winner and fellow American Garrett Reynolds by just less than four points. Sergio Layos of Spain had the second-place slot with a score of 92 in the competition, which pitted the 30 best BMX riders from all over the world against one another at the Shanghai, China venue.
Snowden registered 84.67 points in the vert competition — good enough for eighth place in the event, which was won by Aussie Tim Wood.
He spent a week in China, his sixth visit to the country and his third time to the X Games in Asia.
For those unfamiliar with the different types of BMX events, Snowden gave a short and sweet explanation to clarify.
"The vert is a 13.5-foot tall half pipe, just a real basic ramp with two walls to do tricks on in a one-minute run," he said. "BMX street is a course set up to resemble a street — there are a lot of stairs, handrails, ledges, gaps. It's a more urban-style course."
Apparently the urban-style course agrees with Snowden as he walked away with a bronze medal in his first year competing in the discipline in China. It may have a bit to do with his roots, as he recalled when he first started out on BMX on the streets of Hornell.
"I grew up with a lot of guys that still ride bikes around Hornell: Matt Miller, Johnny Buckley. Here, me and Matt used to get kicked out of everywhere," Snowden said with a laugh. "I left Hornell when I was 17 and I had the opportunity to go to California to visit my brother. I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but apparently it worked out. At that time, I was big into retail and had the experience of riding.
"I saw the scene, so I called Matt and said, 'Dude, if we come out here to California, we can do the same thing and get paid for it.'"
The two worked for a company and did exhibitions at schools. Snowden even picked up a gig simply by wearing a ratty old pair of shoes to ride. One day, he encountered a rep from the shoe company who hooked him up with a pair of shoes. The meeting ended up turning into the beginning of a lifestyle for Snowden.
He now travels around from his home base in Santa Ana, Calif., going to shows and competing in competitions. Coming up soon, he's got the Dew Action Sports Tour, which will be aired on NBC starting in June and running through October. Meanwhile, he's got the Summer X Games coming up in Los Angeles (an event which will be televised on ESPN), so this summer will be a busy one.
Snowden will get some down time at home, but just because he's not on the road doesn't mean he's not on his bike. He has the most ridiculously decked-out backyard, chock full of ramps and usually swarming with BMXers.
His Santa Ana home was the site of the Nike 6.0 Banksgiving event, at which Nike premiered ramps developed and built specifically to fit into Snowden's already-existing labyrinth of fun. Over 500 people attended the event, including many of the top riders from the So-Cal circuit and surrounding states to boot.
Being so close to the Hollywood action, Snowden has even been recruited to do stunts for music videos and has appeared on the silver screen more than once. If you check out Avril Lavigne's 'Sk8er Boi' video, you can see his two-wheeled stylings in the background. Snowden's also done stunts in the movies 'Accepted' and 'Stick It'.
He's already had one signature bike produced: 'The Disciple' and is currently working with Hitman, a So Cal bike company, on a new signature model.
Ben Snowden is the son of Mike and Susie Snowden of Hornell, and is one of 12 children, a fact that has doubtlessly led to his curiosity about how the other half lives.
"My favorite part is going to the different cities and meeting the different riders," he noted." I love coming here and meeting the new kids who have started riding BMX since the last time I was here. Just seeing everyone's local spot where they practice — their skate park, sometimes they'll have dirt jumps. That's the most fun is going and checking out everybody's local scene, because that's where I came from.
"We did this because it was something fun that we could do with our time that is not harming to ourselves, it wasn't damaging. It kept us away from drugs; it kept us busy so we weren't just at home looking for trouble. That was the most fun ever. I specifically met most of the people in my life because of bikes. We were basically just kids who met who had something in common, so we became really good friends."
His advice for anyone out there looking for a new hobby, whether it be BMX, the entire X Games spectrum or just life in general: "Find people that you have things in common with and have fun and have fun together, and do what you can to expand and push each other to do the best that you can do."
The Evening Tribune


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Wikileaks Thriller Headed to Big Screen
The production company behind the TV series Bones has announced a biopic on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. It will be a thriller—a "suspenseful drama with a global impact". But who's going to play Julian Assange?
According to Variety, the screenplay will be based on The Most Dangerous Man in the World, an upcoming biography by Australian journalist Andrew Fowler. Here are our handicapped guesses for the role of Assange, the hacker-turned-global-provocateur:
- British Comedian Chris Morris: 12-1. The genius behind the satirical British series Brass Eye and the new film Four Lions really, really looks like Assange.
- Jesse Eisenberg: 8-1. Played one socially inept nerd, played them all.
- John Malkovich: 6-1. Mystery writer Martin Cruz Smith pegged Malcovich for Assange last month in Newsweek because of his "icy cool."
- Leonardo DiCaprio: 3-1. Leo has experience playing all sorts of foreigners. Assange's vaguely Australian accent should be a cinch.
Suggestions in the comments, please.


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Israel TV reports Netanyahu is 'determined to attack Iran before US election'
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "is determined to attack Iran before the US elections," Israel's Channel 10 News claimed on Monday night, and Israel is now "closer than ever" to a strike designed to thwart Iran's nuclear drive.
The TV station's military reporter Alon Ben-David, who earlier this year was given extensive access to the Israel Air Force as it trained for a possible attack, reported that, since upgraded sanctions against Iran have failed to force a suspension of the Iranian nuclear program in the past two months, "from the prime minister's point of view, the time for action is getting ever closer."
This comes only days after Israel's game plan of a 30 day war with 500 casualties was detailed and leaked to the public.
Asked by the news anchor in the Hebrew-language TV report how close Israel now was to "a decision and perhaps an attack," Ben-David said: "It appears that we are closer than ever."
He said it seemed that Netanyahu was not waiting for a much-discussed possible meeting with US President Barack Obama, after the UN General Assembly gathering in New York late next month — indeed, "it's not clear that there'll be a meeting." In any case, said Ben-David, "I doubt Obama could say anything that would convince Netanyahu to delay a possible attack."
The report added that Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak believe Obama would have no choice but to give backing for an Israeli attack before the US presidential elections in November.
There is considerable opposition to an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, the report noted — with President Shimon Peres, the army's chief of the General Staff and top generals, the intelligence community, opposition leader Shaul Mofaz, "and of course the Americans" all lined up against Israeli action at this stage.
But, noted Ben-David, it is the Israeli government that would have to take the decision, and there Netanyahu is "almost guaranteed" a majority.
Other Hebrew media reports on Tuesday also said Netanyahu had despatched a senior official, National Security Adviser Yaakov Amidror, to update the elderly spiritual leader of the Shas ultra-Orthodox coalition party, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, on the status of the Iranian nuclear program, in order to try to win over Shas government ministers' support for an attack.


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A funny section from late in Roberto Bolaño's novel 2666; lapsus calami is Latin for "slip of the pen," indicating a mistake or miswriting (although, as the characters discuss later, some of these examples may be purposeful):
. . . . and then they started to talk about lapsus calami, many of them collected in a book published long ago in Paris and fittingly titled Le Musee des erreurs, as well as others selected by Max Sengen, hunter of errata. And one thing led to another and it wasn't long before the copy editors got out a book (which wasn't the French Museum of Errors or Sengen's text), whose title Archimboldi couldn't see, and began to read aloud a selection of cultured pearls:
"Poor Marie! Whenever she hears the sound of an approaching horse, she is certain that it is I." Vie de Ranee, Chateaubriand.
"The crew of the ship swallowed up by the waves consisted of twenty-five men, who left hundreds of widows consigned to misery." Les Cages flottantes, Gaston Leroux.
"With God's help, the sun will shine again on Poland." The Deluge, Sienkiewicz.
" 'Let's go!' said Peter, looking for his hat to dry his tears." Lourdes, Zola.
"The duke appeared followed by his entourage, which preceded him." Letters from My Mill, Alphonse Daudet.
"With his hands clasped behind his back, Henri strolled about the garden, reading his friend's novel." Le Cataclysme, Rosny.
"With one eye he read, with the other he wrote." On the Banks of the Rhine, Auback.
"Silently the corpse awaited the autopsy." Luck's Favorite, Octave Feuillet.
"William couldn't imagine the heart served for anything other than breathing." Death, Argibachev.
"This sword of honor is the most beautiful day of my life." Honneur d'artiste, Octave Feuillet.
"I can hardly see anymore, said the poor blind woman." Beatrix, Balzac.
"After they cut off his head, they buried him alive." The Death of Mongomer, Henri Zvedan.
"His hand was as cold as a snake's." Ponson du Terrail. And here there was no indication of the source of the lapsus calami.
The following unattributed quotes from Max Sengen's collection were particularly notable:
"The corpse stared reproachfully at those gathered around him."
"What can a man do who's been killed by a lethal bullet?"
"Near the city there were roaming whole packs of solitary bears."
"Unfortunately, the wedding was delayed fifteen days, during which time the bride fled with the captain and gave birth to eight children."
"Three- or four-day excursions were a daily occurrence."
And then came the commentary.


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Airmen Missing In Action from WWII IdentifiedAirmen Missing In Action from WWII Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of five Army Air Forces servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and returned to their families for burial with full military honors.
Capt. Leonard E. Orcutt, Alameda, Calif., was buried on May 5 in Oakland, Calif; Tech. Sgt. Louis H. Miller, Philadelphia, was buried on June 17 in Arlington National Cemetery; Staff Sgt. George L. Winkler, Huntington, W.Va., was buried May 5 in Arlington National Cemetery; 2nd Lt. Harry L. Bedard, Minneapolis, will be buried on June 25 in Dayton, Minn.; and 2nd Lt. Robert S. Emerson, Norway, Maine, will be buried July 9 in his hometown.
On April 3, 1945, Orcutt and his crew took off in their B-25J Mitchell bomber from Palawan Field, Philippines. The pilot of another aircraft in the flight reported seeing Orcutt's plane stall out and crash about one mile northeast of the village of Consolacion in a swampy area. There were no survivors.
In early 1947, personnel from the Army's Graves Registration Service recovered additional remains from the crash site and buried them as unknowns in Leyte, Philippines. Later that year, they were exhumed and transferred to Manila for possible identification. In 1949, a military review board declared these unknown group remains to be those of the aircrew and re-buried them at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Mo.
Two years later, the Graves Registration Service returned to the crash site and recovered additional remains. The case was reanalyzed and a recommendation was made that the group remains at Jefferson Barracks be disinterred for individual identification. All remains from the crash site were examined with no resulting identification. They were reburied at the same location. A sister of one of the airmen contacted the Army in 2001 upon learning of the recovery of additional remains in the 1950s. The Army then disinterred the group remains at Jefferson Barracks in 2008 which were taken to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) in Hawaii for identification.
Among forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists from JPAC used dental comparisons and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory used mitochondrial DNA -- which matched that of relatives of the aircrew -- in the identification of these airmen.
At the end of the war, the U.S. government was unable to recover and identify approximately 79,000 Americans. Today, more than 73,000 are unaccounted-for from the conflict.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for missing Americans, visit the DPMO website at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call 703-699-1169.
We do not have information on individuals beyond what is listed on this site.
For more information, visit www.dpaa.mil or call 703-699-1420.
We are not associated with any government agency.


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DeSABLA — Fire crews discovered three dead bodies in a stolen, burned car on the Skyway early Thursday, the Butte County Sheriff"s Office said.
Two of the bodies were found in the trunk and a third in the back seat, according to Undersheriff Kory Honea.
The burned vehicle was a green 2000 Acura TL reported stolen by the Sacramento Police Department. Honea wasn"t sure when it had been stolen.
Just after 12:15 a.m., fire units were dispatched to a vehicle fire just above Powellton Road between DeSabla and Stirling City, threatening the vegetation on the Skyway at Hupp Coutolenc Road, according to Capt. Scott McLean, Cal Fire-Butte County spokesman.
On arrival, the firefighters discovered a car engulfed in flames. The fire had extended a short way into the surrounding vegetation.
The fire was quickly extinguished and in the process of finishing the job, the firefighters "popped the trunk," explained McLean.
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They heard no screaming and saw no movement. She said she did not hear any other vehicles at the time of the incident.
Maehl said the sedan"s driver-side tires were still in the roadway.
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Maehl said the fire seemed to emanate from the back seat to the front.
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Meagan May commented on the social media site in September that she did not consider the military heroic and said military personnel should stop "demanding a military discount everywhere you go."
"Saying no to violence and solving problems peacefully is heroic," she wrote. "So no, I will not thank those who choose on their own free will to go kill themselves in battle. Get a real life and a real job."
May told WIBW-AM that she was fired by Carmike Cinemas in Manhattan after posting the comment. She said she had been promoted to manager a week before she was fired.
Carmike officials posted on May's site that the comments did not reflect the company's beliefs.
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"I'm gonna let people know that I can post what I want on my Facebook. That's the entire point of Facebook, and if they don't like it, they don't have to look at it. I'm not hurting anybody and I guess what I said may have been rude and that wasn't my intention but I'm not doing anything wrong by posting on my Facebook," she said.


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Monday August 8 2011 witnessed a truly impressive financial spectacle—a natural experiment of the kind we see only once a century or so. The S&P downgraded US debt, and the price of US Treasuries skyrocketed.
Many pundits were left scratching their heads. Professional traders tripped over themselves trying to get out of the way. Macroeconomists at least had an explanation, arguing that the downgrade meant substantially lower growth, and this forced people to shift into Treasuries since bonds rise when growth projections diminish.
While some macroeconomists have an inkling of what is going on, I suspect they got their causation backwards. Why would an increase in a risk rating on debt directly lower growth projections? Usually, the increases in risk ratings cause increases in interest rates, and it's the rate hikes that harm growth. But, um, nominal interest rates went down, right? Shouldn't that have helped growth? More sophisticated economists will note that when they talk about rates, they mean the real rate (adjusted for inflation), and that if inflation expectations drop more than nominal interest rates, then real interest rates go up and this will slow growth. However, this did not happen—real interest rates actually declined about 0.2% along most of the yield curve between Monday the 8th and Tuesday the 9th. And if real rates declined, how would this cause lower growth? Instead, I suspect the decline in real rates was the outcome of lower expected growth. It's all very circular and confusing, but at least I'm not alone. Others seem even more confused.
For example, Dick Bove said: "We have people buying Treasury securities because they're worried about the Treasury. We've got people selling banks stocks, taking the cash and putting into the banks for safety. It doesn't make sense. What you're seeing is this adjustment is occurring and people are not sure how to react to this adjustment."
While it all seems confusing, I would argue there's a very simple explanation, and that people are behaving rationally. Money (and by extension, US debt), is a Giffen good. This is an argument I made to Scott Sumner in 2009 here and in emails. Recently Eric Falkenstein made it here. Simply, as the price goes up, consumption increases. This is because the income effect (people getting poorer) dominates the substitution effect (people want to shift to other assets). This is a pure microeconomic explanation of the drop in Treasury rates after the downgrade, and unlike the macroeconomic explanation does not require a circular argument with uncertain directionality in the causation. Let me explain . . .
Wealth, at the simplest level, is expected future consumption. Rational people try to preserve and increase future consumption (let's pretend we're all rational). Generally speaking, we have decreasing marginal returns to wealth. (The future consumption purchased by your billionth dollar isn't as valuable to you as your thousandth dollar.) Wealth is volatile, and depends on the future state of the world and one's current asset allocation. Specifically, it depends on future price uncertainty (inflation), expected asset price growth, and perceived asset risk.
Most models tend to treat money like a normal good. Thus, when price of money goes up (in terms of other goods and assets), people shift out of money and buy other assets. Likewise, when the risk of holding money increases, they shift assets out of money. I'm arguing here that in certain cases (e.g., in the presence of a deflationary environment) this does not happen because the utility of wealth is massively nonlinear. This non-linearity is ubiquitous. In finance, it takes the form of margin calls, bank covenants that require posting collateral, credit liquidations, and similar liquidity events. Among private actors, it takes the form of default threats on major debts (notably, home mortgages).
What effect does this nonlinearity have? Allow me to illustrate. Imagine Mr. Midd L. Class owns an asset portfolio that has as projected wealth profile as described in the picture below. The blue dashed line is his expected wealth trend line (the average return on investments). The dashed grey lines represent the upper and lower bounds for Mr. Midd L. Class' wealth at any given point in time. The solid red line is a level at which his wealth MUST not decline below, lest he face a major liquidity event or possibly even a subsistence event. (All of this can be expressed mathematically, but the math doesn't add anything to the argument.)
At the start of time, Mr. Midd L. Class has a typical investment portfolio, let's say 40% stocks, 40% bonds, 10% cash, and 10% other. Each of these investments contributes to the expected return and to the variation in the return (which we will call risk). Let's say one of these asset classes (the riskiest) suddenly loses value. This can be reflected by shifting the trend line down, as in Image 2:
Note that this asset allocation is no longer acceptable to Mr. Midd L. Class because at some point in the future he runs the risk of dropping below the red line. Likewise, imagine that the expected wealth path remained stable but there was a sudden increase in the perceived risk of the safest of his investments (which increases the perceived risk of the entire portfolio). This might look like Image 3 below:
In either case (decrease in current wealth or an increase in risk of safe assets), Mr. Midd L. Class will seek an alternative asset allocation that meets his criteria (maximizes expected future wealth without risking a negative liquidity event). This will generally be accomplished by shifting the balance of his portfolio from high risk/high yield assets to low risk/low yield assets—in other words, selling stocks and buying Treasuries. In the case of Image 2 (caused by a decrease in wealth, such as a stock market crash), this will force increased selling even if the average expected return on stocks becomes higher. In the case of Image 3 (caused by an increase in the default risk of bonds), Mr. Midd L. Class will shift assets away from his riskiest assets (stocks) to his least risky assets (bonds and cash), even though the cause of the problem was the increasing risk of bonds. In both cases, as the effective price of bonds increases (when price is measured using risk-adjusted return), Mr. Midd L. Class will actually buy more bonds.
The income effect derived from the risk of falling below the red line (where utility is highly non-linear) dominates the substitution effect (the incentive to shift to higher yielding assets). Mr. Midd L. Class's expected wealth trajectory now looks like Image 4, low yielding but safe. Mr. Midd L. Class also probably responds by reducing his overall consumption (which at the aggregate level reduces overall demand).
Macroeconomists might observe that none of this is inconsistent with some macroeconomic models, and this is true. If everyone simultaneously experiences a wealth decline and shifts out of riskier (higher yielding) assets, this decreases investment in riskier high return enterprise, and growth slows. Slower growth means less expected future supply, and less expected future supply means less present demand . . . and the vicious circle we all know and love. Macroeconomics reinforces this dynamic, but the natural experiment we all observed when the S&P downgraded US debt shows that it's not just macro- but also microeconomic behavior that explains much of the pro-cyclicality in highly leveraged capital markets. Without the presence of massive leverage, the macroeconomic problems would still exist, but the pro-cyclical microeconomic factors would at least be dampened. This pro-cyclicality augments macroeconomic risk, and creates a very real cost to using a massively leveraged credit-based monetary system.


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"Hold fast," I called to anyone who could hear above the squall as salt bit into my scarred lips. Safety an afterthought, I gripped the nets to pull in our catch and feed the crew.
"Jacob," Mom interrupted, "out of the aquarium, you're scaring the fish again." So embarrassing – why can't she be like other moms and catch me masturbating?
And just like that, we finally have a story with nobody dying.
Writer's note: The original story for F was called Frain and I fell from a ladder and broke my skull while drinking whisky — 'twas the drop that killed him, the first officer on the scene says. But since some people were getting worried about my mental health — not to mention my physical health after falling from a ladder — I did a last-second lineup change. And besides, it's only your imagination that kills the editor in our previous story!
How did this all start? Blame Hemingway who crafted the six-word story ("For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."), which led me to give a shot at six-sentence stories.
Gee, why don't you come back tomorrow! Also, this just in … during the all-request lunch hour, you can suggest occupations for any of the upcoming letters. In other words, I didn't plan at all and haven't written a thing yet for the rest of April
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