text:
I've been inspired to write this post by a message I received a few days ago from a reader who is planning a move to France in about 18 months. She has three small children, and is desperate for information from experienced families who have already made the transition. In this particular family, nobody speaks French for the time being, though they're very interested in starting to learn before making the move.
While searching school options in France, there are a few options…
For those who have the financial means, the desire to do so, and the possibility of living in or near a large city with lots of expats, there are exclusive international and bilingual schools. I don't have any experience with these kinds of establishments, so I can't really comment as to whether I would send my children there. I have known American families who have come to France for work, and their companies have paid for schooling for the children. Everyone I know in this situation seems to have had a positive experience, but the kids didn't necessarily go back to the States fully bilingual. I'm assuming that's because many of their classes were taught in English, most of their friends spoke English, and the parents didn't learn French to the point where they were speaking it at home with the kids.
A much more economical solution, and the most "natural" in my opinion, is to send your children to French school. Public or private, this particular option seems like the most frightening, especially for parents, but it is the most efficient way of immersing your family into French culture and learning the language. Now, it's true that before moving to France last summer, our children were already bilingual (we'd always made a special effort to speak only in French at home while living in the U.S., and their dad is French). However, when we got married sixteen years ago, we did spend almost a year living in Béziers. At that time, my eldest son (who is now almost 23!) was only 7, and he didn't speak a lick of French when we put him in French school. He was fully bilingual (using the subjunctive correctly and everything) by January 1. Enrolling your children in French school is a way to help them integrate, find friends in the community, and it's also an excellent means by which your family can befriend other families in the area.
Depending on where your'e coming from, French "private" schools (and by that, I mostly mean Catholic schools) are a lot less expensive than you may be expecting. I'm saying that from an American point of view, but all I can say is that in St. Louis, we were paying almost $800 per MONTH for two children to attend a parochial school (yes, it's a great school, but come on). Here in France, the equivalent costs us 114€ per month for two children.
Here's a question I have for anyone reading this post who may have a response, because I personally don't know, and I haven't heard any of my anglophone friends here in France mention it. Are there FLE (français langue étrangère) resources for non-native speakers in public French schools, like the ESL resources provided in American public schools? I'll see if anyone has any knowledge on that topic, and I'll also ask around here in town to see what kind of response I can find.
I'd be very curious to hear input on this topic. Feel free to share your opinion: public, private, bilingual? Reasons why?


text:
Wolfe opines on education, health
In case you missed it, UM System President Tim Wolfe late last month penned an editorial on higher education's role in healthy living.
Here it is.
Higher education linked to longer, healthier lives
By Tim Wolfe
University of Missouri System President
Since becoming University of Missouri System President, I have been travelling the state far and wide touting the advantages of higher education, offering examples such as a more informed citizenry, higher income and more engagement in society.
Let me give you one more: an overall healthier, longer life.
As an avid runner myself, I was struck by a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control that linked higher education to a longer life. As reported in USA Today, people with a bachelor's degree or higher live about nine years longer than those who don't graduate from high school. This is a trend that has continued over the past several decades, experts say, and manifests itself in more than three times higher smoking rates among those without a college degree and more than double the obesity rates in children of parents without a college degree. Those without a college degree also have higher cholesterol levels and more prevalence of diabetes.
To me, all of this boils down to the No. 1 advantage of higher education: improved quality of life.
Whether it is because those with a higher education are more aware of healthier choices or more predominantly choose healthier behaviors—or they have better access to health care—it is definitely clear that education makes a positive impact on our personal health and wellness, which, of course, ultimately affects our health care costs as a society and helps keep Missouri an affordable place to live.
I wish I could say that Missourians were bucking these statistics, but unfortunately that's not the case. In fact, we Missourians have higher-than-average rates of chronic diseases like the ones mentioned above, which makes me wonder even more: are these statistics related to the fact that Missouri as a state hasn't placed great value on higher education as evidenced by near-bottom per capita funding?
As the product of higher education myself, the president of the premier public, research land-grant university in the state, and the father of two soon-to-be college-bound students, I can't stress enough how valuable education is. And I am extremely concerned that there are those in our state who just don't get it.
So, I'll continue to travel the state touting the advantages of higher education. And we'll continue to encourage people to visit our website to learn more about who we are, what we do and the difference we make.
But lest anyone doubt (or not hear) my message, let me be clear: higher education is a game-changer. It transforms society. It advances our state. It pays dividends to individuals. And it is related to longer, healthier lives. Who needs more reasons than that?

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Pat Ivers and Emily Armstrong continue sorting through their archives of punk-era concert footage as it's digitized for the Downtown Collection at N.Y.U.'s Fales Library.
The East Village was a very different and much more dangerous place in 1978. But it was still a shock to everyone on the Downtown scene when Johnny Blitz, the Dead Boys' drummer, was stabbed in a fight on Second Avenue. Street violence isn't quite what it was in those days, but one thing hasn't changed: the problem of musicians and medical insurance, or the lack thereof. To help meet Blitz's mounting medical bills, the CBGB community rallied with a four-day event, the Blitz Benefit (please, don't call it "Punk Woodstock"). With a t-shirt created by the Ramones' design guru, Arturo Vega, and more than 30 bands performing, it was a heartfelt outpouring of help and money for one of our own.
Billy Blitz, Johnny's brother, recalled being just a teenager when his brother was stabbed. "I was in Cleveland so it was all new to me," he said. "When I got to New York for the benefit, Stiv Bators [lead singer of the Dead Boys] and Tish Bellomo picked me up. They were shooting moons out the car window on the way to the club. I couldn't believe it!" More →


text:
I tend to be very fastidious about the WordPress plugins that I'll install. I'll often write my own simple version of a plugin rather than install one from someone else that does a bunch of stuff I don't need. Here is my philosophy behind writing WordPress plugins, best witnessed through the plugins I've written lately, like Markdown on Save, Login Logo, Monitor Pages, and WP Help.
Fewer features as a feature
There are diminishing returns as you add features. That is, the more you add, the more likely you're adding something that X % of your plugin's users won't ever use. Stick to the basics. I'll often release a "0.1" version of my plugin with really obvious features missing. When I get a flurry of "You should add Y!" messages, that validates my assumption that Y is necessary. Start with the smallest version that gets the core job done. Iterate as needed.
Code the hell out of it
The best part of starting small is that you can code the hell out of the plugin. Do it right. Make each line of code beautiful. Make sure you're using WordPress APIs properly, and while you're at it, add i18n support (WP Help 0.2 shipped with support for Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Macedonian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian!)
Reduce UI
If you can do without UI, don't make it. Make every bit of UI prove its necessity. As an example, look at my Login Logo plugin. It has zero UI. It looks for the presence of a file named
login-logo.png in the
wp-content directory. The rest is "magic." It measures the image, generates appropriate CSS, and gives you an instantly and easily customized login screen. The plugin is invisible. It's completely out of sight, and out of mind. Finally, UI screens are generally where plugin authors make security mistakes. By skipping them, you make it much more likely that your plugin is secure.
Code it for the future
Don't use deprecated APIs. Plan features in future-forward ways. Implement it in such a way that a site that is using the plugin doesn't break if the plugin suddenly goes away. One example of this is my Markdown on Save plugin, which offers per-post Markdown formatting. First, I decided that for performance reasons, I wanted to parse Markdown then the post was updated, not on display. The obvious place to store the generated HTML was in the
post_content_filtered column that WordPress provides (but does not use). But then I considered what would happen if someone deactivated the plugin or deleted the plugin. The code that accessed
post_content_filtered would not work. Their blog would spit out raw Markdown. And any exports they made would export raw Markdown. What if they were exporting to WordPress.com which doesn't support Markdown? So I decided to store the Markdown in
post_content_filtered, and store the generated HTML in
post_content. When you edit a Markdown-formatted post, it swaps in the Markdown, so you can edit that. But if you deactivated the plugin, it would fall back to the HTML. So you can feel free to use this plugin and know that if one day you wake up and you hate Markdown, all you have to do is deactivate the plugin and all of your posts are back to HTML.
Secure it
Writing secure WordPress plugins isn't hard. It just takes awareness. Take the time to do your research and code a plugin that will be an asset to its users, not a liability.


text:
727 Canton Road, Akron, OH 44312
Dance Beatz, formerly Sharon Rae Dance School, is a top notch, #1 ranked, dance school. We pride ourselves in providing a positive, professional, and fun approach to teaching dance. Your child will gain confidence, grace, determination, coordination, overall discipline, and lifelong friendships. Our modern facility provides a safe and comfortable environment for our dancers. All of our classes can be viewed on any one of our flat screen televisions, through closed circuit, in our waiting room. Parents can also enjoy free WIFI.
Please use the button below to make a payment.


text:
Major Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox has quit the Bitcoin Foundation's board of directors, the foundation said.
The move is effective immediately, the trade organization said in a brief statement issued Sunday.
""We are grateful for their early and valuable contributions as a founding member in launching the Bitcoin Foundation," it said. "MtGox Co. Ltd. (Japan) held one of the three elected industry member seats. Further details, including election procedures, will be forthcoming."
The foundation advocates for the digital currency as "non-political online money." Its mission is to standardize, protect and promote bitcoins.
Mark Karpeles, CEO of Mt. Gox and the exchange's owner Tibanne, was listed as a foundation board member and described as "the mastermind who created the current trade engine and the multi-currency platform for Mt.Gox."
Neither Mt. Gox nor the Bitcoin Foundation responded to requests for more information.
Mt. Gox did not issue any statement about the resignation. Meanwhile, all the tweets on its Twitter account have been deleted.
The foundation's announcement comes amid Mt. Gox's suspension of bitcoin withdrawals to outside addresses, which the exchange has linked to a technical issue known as "transaction malleability." The bug centers around the potential for fraudulent changes to bitcoin transaction records.
The weeks-long suspension has led to speculation in online Bitcoin forums that Mt. Gox may collapse. The price of bitcoin on the exchange touched a low of $91 last week before recovering to $206 on Monday, far below $557 on other exchanges as quoted by CoinDesk.com.
The suspension also led to a small street protest outside the offices of Tibanne in Tokyo that lasted a week. Police arrived on the scene and ended the protest on Friday evening, according to the protesters.
"I'm hoping Mark is just under pressure to step down politically, but I'm not very optimistic," protester Aaron G, who did not want his last name used, said in an email. "Everything looks like a company who's about to go under to me."
Commentators on the online forum Bitcointalk were not surprised at Mt. Gox's departure from the foundation's board. One pointed to a petition to remove Karpeles that had been mooted on the foundation's forum.
"In the long run this is definitely a positive," another Bitcointalk participant wrote. "Anyone in the community for a few months knows that MtGox has been the weakest link in the frontline of big bitcoin businesses for a long time. The issue is how the general public and media will react in the short term."
"Mark Karpeles did the honorable and right thing for the circumstances," Andreas Antonopoulos, chief security officer with Bitcoin wallet service Blockchain.info, wrote in a message on Twitter. "I hope it is followed by good news and a recovery for Gox customers."
Karpeles is the second high-profile departure at the foundation in as many months. In January, U.S. entrepreneur Charlie Shrem resigned as vice chairman of the foundation after U.S. federal prosecutors charged him with crimes including money laundering in connection with the Silk Road online bazaar. Shrem has pleaded not guilty.


text:
Our Blog
Santiago Merida for sale IMG_20230121_135544386
0 comments
Comments are closed.
Sign up for our mailing list
Yury did an exceptional job on the selling of our beach house in Sunset Shores, Yucatan Mexico. She went way overboard on clarifying a couple of technical issues that weighed pretty heavy on the sale … Read more
My partner and I recently concluded a week of intense house hunting with Yury in Merida and she did such an incredible job and took such great care of us that I simply had to write this testimonial. C… Read more
Over the years we have bought and sold several properties in the US and around the world. Thus we have met many agents good and bad. Yury is definitely one of the very best. Finding the right ag… Read more
As for making your dreams come true… here's our testimonial: We were fortunate enough to meet Yury during a quick trip to Merida from our (then) home in Toronto. We were introduced to her by a friend … Read more
We met Yury Di Pasquale in February 2013. She listened carefully to our needs and found us the perfect house. Alonso Hernandez was the attorney and the transaction was easier then buying a house i… Read more
Working with Yury has been a delight. My husband and I recently purchased a home with Yury as our realtor. She listened to our needs and never tried to show us something outside of those parameters. T… Read more
Yury was spectacular in selling our property. She knows the area and how to highlight its features. She gives every bit of professionalism and stays in contact with you every step of the way. You neve… Read more
We had a fantastic experience when we bought our house in Chuburna. Yury took care of everything and it was a smooth and pleasant experience. We love coming down to Yucatan and wish we could spend m… Read more
Dear Yury, I can't thank you enough for your attention to detail and your warm and caring unselfishness. From the beginning of the sale till the last you were on top of it. It was an easy and stress… Read more
Muchissimas gracias Yury por ayudarme a la venta de mi terreno. Eres una persona encantadora y una agente de real estate sumamente profesional, hiciste que desde tan lejos me sintiese siempre segura… Read more
Recent Posts
Our Facebook Page
Visit Our Google+ Page
Yucatan Resources
- Remixto — Property management and vacation rentals in Merida
- The Diplomat — Lovely bed & breakfast in Merida
- Villa Verde — Elegant colonial small hotel in Merida's centro historico
- Yucatan Living — Online magazine about living, working, investing and traveling in the Yucatan


text:
It's always an amazing thing to watch liberals being hypocrites. Liberalism is ABJECT personal moral hypocrisy; liberals are people who say what is always fascist for thee to do is never fascist for me to do.
Under the warped doctrine of "separation of church and state," liberals have attacked and successfully purged most vestiges of God and Judeo-Christianity from society. No Judeo-Christian practice or doctrine or belief can have anything whatsoever to do with culture. But then you take liberal's Church of the Ungodly Nazi Bureaucrat, and suddenly on their view the church IS the state and the state IS the church. So you can't have a cross representing veterans who gave their lives on public land, but you can sure force the owners of businesses to violate their most deeply held moral beliefs by exploiting the raw, naked force of government.
Liberals are either pathologically stupid people or pathologically evil people – or both, as I believe. You can surely see this again in the shrill, unhinged rhetoric flying around from the left in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision.
If I had a nickel for every liberal who came out and claimed that somehow the Supreme Court just took away birth control from women, I would be a very rich man. When the truth of the matter is that birth control is as available today as it was before yesterday. The only thing that has been taken away is the "right" of liberals to impose THEIR religious beliefs onto the owners of businesses who have different religious beliefs when it comes to abortion.
To wit, Hobby Lobby – long before this court decision – had been providing SIXTEEN different forms of birth control to female employees as part of their generous health care coverage. The only forms of "birth control" they didn't want to pay for were abortifacients which do NOT prevent a conception but kill a baby. And the members of the Church of the Ungodly Nazi Bureaucrat screamed, "Nein! Nein! Nein! You WILL cover our religious right to murder babies!!! Our god (human government) has the divine power to FORCE you to kill babies for us!!!"
You need to understand why liberals get into such an unhinged frenzy. For them, human government is God and God is human government. They have no other gods before human government. And so when they are confronted with a ruling like this one, well, their god let them down and abandoned them. And they therefore simply have to race around cursing like rabid vermin.
There are so many ways that liberals are abject hypocrites jus on this case that it is beyond unreal. Let's look at a few:
First, there's the fact that to be a liberal is to be not only a fascist but a Nazi. Take a look at the vicious threats against Hobby Lobby from the left. I apologize for the language in advance, but you have to consider the unhinged, rabid, VIOLENT, viscious, rabid hate that characterizes liberalism when one of the things that these fascists try to impose on everybody else gets taken away from them:
'Fu*k you:' Left-wingers want to 'burn down' Hobby Lobby after SCOTUS win
Posted at 10:42 am on June 30, 2014 by Twitchy Staff | View Comments
Fuck you, Hobby Lobby, you narrow-minded, anti-women pieces of shit!!!!!!
Sandra McMahan (@SandraMcMahan) June 30, 2014
Let it all out. Exhale.
I will not take my dollars or my lesser-than uterus to Oklahoma-based company #HobbyLobby ever again. FUCK YOU GUYS.—
ak huxley (@abbykate) June 30, 2014
Fuck SCOTUS. Fuck Hobby Lobby. Fuck religion. Fuck America.—
(@Ginge) June 30, 2014
Stay classy. And peaceful:
Fuck you Hobby Lobby, I hope all your stores burn to the ground. Fuck you, fuck you, FUCK YOU!!!!!!!—
Star Dust (@AtheistBrandi) June 30, 2014
RT @ttensquared burn the hobby lobby down i say.—
sergio ramos eterno. (@callejonshair) June 30, 2014
Hobby Lobby. Time to burn that shit down.—
Jeezly-Crow™ (@Obfusticate) June 30, 2014
#HobbyLobby are scum of the earth. Burn every single one down, build a homeless shelter there instead.—
Costa Koutsoutis (@costa_kout) June 30, 2014
For the record, my copy and paste didn't grab all of the hate. But you ought to get the idea.
The first one above gives you the noxious, rotten flavor that is liberalism: "F- you, you narrow-minded, anti-women pieces of feces!!!!!!" Because this person is CLEARLY "tolerant" and open to disagreeing points of view, isn't she? And as for the "anti-women" thing, I looked at the images of the gathering outside the Supreme Court taken by the reliably leftist Los Angeles Times and there were far more women cheering the decision than men. And so what Sandra McMahan is really saying is that "feminists" are so rabid and so toxic that they – like Hitler – are willing to STRIP AWAY the femaleness of pro-life women the way that the Führer rhetorically stripped away the humanity of Jews. You simply have to think exactly like these people. Period.
Liberals have pissed away the image of God in what used to be their "human natures." They fully qualify for the words of Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
The word "brutish" – most often translated as "stupid" – refers to stupid, brutish animals who lack the capacity that humans have for moral reasoning and receiving wisdom. It's what Romans chapter one teaches, "God gave them over" to their stupid, brutish natures.
That is why liberals are so often so pathologically stupid and dishonest, such as the liberals exemplify when they claim that "Scalia law is like shariah law." These people are literally that stupid and that evil, that there is no difference to them between asking a woman to pay for her own abortion-inducing drugs and stoning a woman to death. They are stupid, brutish animals who can't distinguish the difference.
So, yeah, to be a liberal is to be a violent, vicious, fascist thug. When John Roberts basically betrayed conservatives and re-wrote the damn ObamaCare law to make what was explicitly ILLEGAL and UNCONSTITUTIONAL fly, did conservatives threaten to burn down the world? Nope. When the Supreme Court voted for the wrath of God as per Romans chapter one and ruled to abandon DOMA, did conservatives threaten to burn down gay bars? Nope. Because we're not fascists like liberals are.
Here's another example of pure, unadulterated hypocrisy. Meet Harry Reid, hypocrite:
"It's time that five men on the Supreme Court stop deciding what happens to women."
I mean, Harry Reid is FINE with five men deciding what happens to women. As long as the five men think exactly like HE does.
EVERY SINGLE ONE of Harry Reid's top staffers are MEN. Which is a characteristic ENDEMIC to the left. But what can I say? When you're a Nazi, you demand that Jews be treated one way and that you as a Nazi be treated a different way. So the same rules you want to apply to "the other" should NEVER apply to you.
Liberals hate truth. Jesus said, "Everyone who is on the side of truth listens to Me." And they held their ears and began screaming f-words and shouting to burn Jesus down, to crucify Him. Jesus told us that liberals would hate us and He pointed out, "They hated Me first." And that's why they hate Jesus for describing marriage as the union between one man and one woman. It's why they despise the Word of God when it teaches that God forms the unborn child in the womb. When the Virgin Mary was pregnant with the baby Jesus, they howl in rage that she didn't abort Him and murder Him in the womb. And when the unborn John the Baptist kicked in the womb when he neared the unborn Jesus in Mary's womb, they wish that instead of the unborn John kicking in excitement both woman had instead headed to the nearest "clinic" to get rid of the parasites invading their bodies.
Liberals HATE the truth with a passion. The "truth" is a rhetorical game for them to exploit with propaganda, the way they have exploited their bogus "war on women."


text:
With regard to the Microsoft Exchange vs. Google poster in the library…
Snow Leopard takes full advantage of Exchange. It's so good, it's not worth giving up: global address book (LDAP inclusive), synced academic calendar (if there was one), full iPhone support, and all remarkably fast.
I'd prefer to see academic/events calendars inputted to Exchange than reconfigure everything to Google.
From Jacob


text:
With the Windows interface still highly disputed, we wondered whether a future version of Windows might change the controversial elements. "I think when you are asking people to learn new things, whether it's Start or the ribbon in Office, you have to be committed to your course. But being committed to your course also means you continue to take input and feedback and react to it the appropriate ways.
"When you have as many users as we do, you get phenomenal feedback. [Sometimes] they say how much they love you! And then some of it is feedback like, 'Jeez, have you thought about this?' Sometimes we have thought about it and sometimes we should take a look at what we can do in that specific case. We don't ever want to say we're not taking feedback any more."
The amount of feedback Microsoft has been getting about Windows 8 is a question of scale, he points out. "The thing that people miss sometimes: we sold 60 million licenses to Windows users and if 1 per cent of those users are disgruntled in some way, that's a big overall number. The beauty of the world today is that everybody has a voice. In the past some of those conversations took place for any product but they weren't visible. And now we live in this transparent world where everything is visible and people with a concern can express it very loudly. And that's good! It's good to have input - but you always have to calibrate. Is this universal input, is this an edge case? How do we think about this? All our products have many, many users and so we get lots and lots of feedback that we have to judge."
Taking on Google
One thing we'll definitely see more of this year is Microsoft giving Google a hard time. It's no accident that Shaw calls new developments in Bing "provocative". Remember the Gmail Man video? "There are places where we are underdogs," he says. "And we're either real underdogs, as we are in Bing, or we're perceptual underdogs. There are people out there who think we are not doing as well as we are."
Being the underdog forces Microsoft to innovate: "If you have an entrenched market leader like Google is in search and you have a different point of view, you have to break through on that.
"And you can't just break through against people who already use you; you have to break through against people who use the other guy. And to do that have to say why you are different and why you are better. And that also means that you have to be willing to be more comparative in how you do that. You've seen that with the Bing it on Google challenge. We know that when people do this in a blind test that they like what we've done and we have to break the habit that people have built up and show them there is a different way."
And that's where the Google+ rowboat comes in: "There's the work we've done with Facebook and real social search." Facebook chose Bing over Google when choosing a search partner for its new Graph Search, and Facebook is where you probably have your real friends, Shaw suggests - and rather more of them than on Google+. (Although he notes, "Google is working very hard to pull people into that Google+ ecosystem. They are committed to getting people to sign up to that thing…")
Will we get more of the self-deprecating Internet Explorer ads? "The best thing about the Internet Explorer ads is reading the comments and the stories. It was like, 'Are we paying these people to make these comments? Because they are making our point way better than we did.' We were not. People liked it and they responded to it."
A refreshed MS
It's not just that the ads are funny. It's that they show how Microsoft has changed. "The thing is - we have learned some lessons. Every company makes mistakes, every single company in the world. We aspire to be a learning company. We look at decisions we made and they might have been good decisions at the time but they weren't over time the right decisions and we say we're going to do it differently. IE is a great example of that."
Not everyone takes those changes at face value, leading to some interesting gymnastics as supporters of the open web find themselves on the same side as Microsoft. "I think it's interesting that we are advocates of the open web and people are like 'huh?' People are having some trouble with that but it's true. People should be willing to accept we're doing this because we've learned and we've grown and it's good for everybody."
Is it frustrating for Microsoft to do the right thing and still have people be suspicious? "It's understandable. Perceptions change over time. We've been pretty consistent and hopefully people will look at us in what we're doing and not necessarily why they think we might doing that."


text:
EA is quickly discovering the joys of free-to-play games as web-based Battlefield Heroes surpasses the one million player mark right out of the gate.
The cartoon version of DICE's award-winning combat sandbox game slipped quietly into open beta last month, and the lure of the word 'free' worked it's magic, bringing in the hungry, tired, huddled masses yearning for something they didn't have to pay for if they didn't want to.
"The team is really proud to have hit 1 million registrations at this early stage," said Ben Cousins, General Manager, Battlefield Heroes Team. "Creating a character and gameplay experience that is totally yours is what sets this game apart – your hero can be anything from a bazooka-toting pirate, a grenade-throwing ninja or even a mime assassin!"
Now that the reviews have begun trickling out and EA has seen fit to issue a press release, those numbers will only grow.


text:
Word Frequencies
March 10, 2009
Write a program that takes a filename and a parameter n and prints the n most common words in the file, and the count of their occurrences, in descending order.
14 Responses to "Word Frequencies"
March 10, 2009 at 4:41 PM
perl -ne 'while (/([a-z]+)/gi) {$words{$1}++} END{ map { print "$_ $words{$_}\n"} sort {$words{$b} $words{$a}} keys %words}'
March 10, 2009 at 7:04 PM
A straightforward (though probably not very efficient) Haskell solution:
import System.Environment
import Control.Arrow
import Data.List
import Data.Ord
main = do [n, fileName] <- getArgs
content String -> [(String, Int)]
findMostCommonWords n = take n . reverse . sortBy (comparing snd) . map (head &&& length) . group . sort . words
March 10, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Sigh… gotta love forms that don't escape html characters. Let's try that again.
import System.Environment
import Control.Arrow
import Data.List
import Data.Ord
main = do [n, fileName] <- getArgs
content <- readFile fileName
mapM_ print $ findMostCommonWords (read n) content
findMostCommonWords :: Int -> String -> [(String, Int)]
findMostCommonWords n = take n . reverse . sortBy (comparing snd) . map (head &&& length) . group . sort . words
March 10, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Interesting challenge, here's my solution in python.
March 12, 2009 at 5:47 AM
Action CountWords = (filename, top) =>
foreach (var kv in
.GroupBy(w => w,
(w, c) => new
{ Word = w, Count = c.Count() })
.OrderByDescending(a => a.Count)
Console.WriteLine(kv.Word + " – " + kv.Count);
June 26, 2009 at 9:05 AM
[…] Dictionaries are a common data type, which we have used in several exercises (Mark V. Shaney, Word Frequencies, Dodgson's Doublets, Anagrams). Hash tables are often used as the underlying implementation […]
May 12, 2010 at 8:10 PM
import qualified Data.Map as M import Data.List import Data.Char import Data.Function import System.Environment isWord :: String -> Bool isWord s = length s > 2 buildFrequencyMap :: String -> M.Map String Int buildFrequencyMap content = foldl' insertWord M.empty mots where insertWord m word = M.insertWith' (+) word 1 m mots = filter isWord $ map (map toLower . takeWhile isLetter) (words content) sortByFrequency :: M.Map String Int -> [(String, Int)] sortByFrequency m = reverse $ sortBy (compare `on` snd) (M.toList m) displayWords :: Int -> [(String, Int)] -> IO () displayWords n frequencies = mapM_ (putStrLn . format) (take n frequencies) where format (w, x) = (show x) ++ " -> " ++ w main = do args <- getArgs case args of [n, f] -> displayWords (read n) . sortByFrequency . buildFrequencyMap =<< readFile f _ -> error "Deux arguments requis"
November 11, 2010 at 2:34 AM
Here it is in ruby (commented so I don't have to do it elsewhere) …
# Write a program that takes a filename and a parameter n and prints the n most # common words in the file, and the count of their occurrences, in descending # order. # Require for the command line options processor. require 'getoptlong' # Set up the command line options opts = GetoptLong.new( ["--number", "-n", GetoptLong::REQUIRED_ARGUMENT], ["--verbose", "-v", GetoptLong::NO_ARGUMENT] ) # Set the default values for the options number = 10 $verbose = false # Parse the command line options. If we find one we don't recognize # an exception will be thrown and we'll rescue with a message. begin opts.each do | opt, arg| case opt when "--number" number = arg.to_i when "--verbose" $verbose = true end end rescue puts "Illegal command line option." exit end # Create the word frequency hash. word_freq = Hash.new(0) # Loop through the remaining arguments which we'll assume are # file names. ARGV.each do |file_name| File.open(file_name) do | file | # Loop through each line of the file while line = file.gets # Split on non-words or digits. This will throw out punctuation and # numbers. If numbers are to be included, remove the \d from the regex. words = line.split(/[\W\d]/) words.each do |word| # For some reason we're getting empty strings (probably a bad regex above) so # just toss them out here. word_freq[word] += 1 if word != "" end end end end # Print out the n most frequent words. First we'll sort which normally # will sort on the key, we'll pass a block so that we can sort on the # value. Then we'll reverse to get the largest values first, and finally # we'll pull out the first n. word_freq.sort{|a,b| a[1]<=>b[1]}.reverse[0, number].each do |v| puts "#{v[0]} #{v[1]}" end
September 28, 2011 at 8:30 AM
Clojure library has an handy frequencies function.
(defn word-frequencies [filepath n] (let [wrds (.split (.toLowerCase (slurp filepath)) "[^a-zA-Z]+")] (take n (reverse (sort-by second (frequencies wrds))))))
December 20, 2011 at 3:34 PM
Hello guys,
Check my solution in Python. I went a bit further I cleaned the source from punctuation characters.
It brings more relevant output.
from operator import itemgetter from string import punctuation def countWords(filename, n): all_words = (word.strip(punctuation).lower() for line in open(filename) for word in line.split()) words = {} for word in all_words: words[word] = words.get(word, 0) + 1 #sort by number and slice sort_words = sorted(words.iteritems(), key=itemgetter(1), reverse=True)[:int(n)] for index, words in enumerate(sort_words): print "%d. %s - %d" % (index + 1, words[0], words[1]) if __name__ == "__main__": from optparse import OptionParser parser = OptionParser() parser.add_option("-f", "--file", dest="filename", help="Select a FILE", metavar="FILE") parser.add_option("-n", "--num", help="Number of words to display") (options, args) = parser.parse_args() countWords(options.filename, options.num)
April 7, 2014 at 9:58 AM
#! /usr/bin/env python def word_frequencies(filename): g = open(filename, "r") f = g.read() g.close() words = {} f = ''.join((c.lower() if c in "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" else " ") for c in f) for w in f.split(): if w == '': continue if w in words: words[w] += 1 else: words[w] = 1 return words if __name__ == "__main__": from sys import argv words = word_frequencies(argv[1]) words = [(w, words[w]) for w in words] words.sort(key=lambda w: w[1]) words.reverse() for i in xrange(min(len(words), int(argv[2]))): print words[i][0], words[i][1]
June 4, 2016 at 1:49 PM
# In Ruby
text = File.read(ARGV[0])
n = ARGV[1].to_i
puts text
.map { |k, v| [k, v.count] }
.sort_by { |_, v| -v }
.map { |k, v| "#{k}: #{v}" }


text:
Extra security added to high cost of Keith Luke's murder trial
Three years before the trial of convicted killer Keith Luke, which ended last month, Superior Court officials laid out an extensive security plan for the Belmont Street courthouse.
Nearly a dozen court officers were in the courtroom and they surrounded Luke every day during his three-week trial, which ended with his conviction on murder and rape charges on May 30. Typically, two court officers preside during a trial, officials said.
The extra courtroom muscle and security added to the estimated high tab of Luke's trial, which included several medical experts who testified for the prosecution and defense, the work of four prosecutors who prepared for four years leading up to the trial, and a defense attorney who cost $100 per hour, officials said.
"He brought certainly a lot of issues to the table that had to be addressed and dealt with," Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said.
Luke, 26, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, went on a hate-filled rampage in Brockton that left two dead and a third critically wounded on Jan. 21, 2009. He later confessed to police that he committed the crimes.
On May 30, before an emotionally charged and packed courtroom that included a surviving victim, Luke was convicted in the shooting deaths of Selma Goncalves, 20, and Arlindo Goncalves, who are not relation, and in raping and shooting a third victim. All three victims were of Cape Verdean descent.
Court officials said they began to plan the extra security measures in 2010, after Luke tried to kill a psychiatrist, who is Jewish, during a mental evaluation at a Plymouth jail. Luke had planned to end his 2009 rampage by killing bingo players at a synagogue.
At the request of defense attorney Joseph Krowski Jr., Judge Frank Gaziano allowed Luke to stand trial unrestrained, not wearing handcuffs and leg shackles. Court officers, authorities and others were concerned Luke would act out during the trial, and that his notoriety could draw other white supremacists to Brockton for the trial, authorities and court officials said.
To prepare for the worst, officials brought in a special chair and table, that were both weighted down, and at which Luke sat during the trial. Two vans and a cruiser from the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department transported Luke to court every day. One van carrying Luke would park inside the courthouse garage, then another van and cruiser would block the garage door at the courthouse as Luke went inside.
Brockton police cruisers were parked outside the courthouse during the trial. Inside the courtroom, at least three members of the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department and Brockton police, wearing plain clothes, sat behind Luke every day he stood trial.
When asked about the cost of Luke's trial, court officials revealed no amounts, saying a final tab could not be immediately determined since costs come out of various public budgets.
"We just don't keep statistics on the cost of murder trials," said Erika Gully-Santiago, Massachusetts Trial Court spokeswoman.
But Cruz, the district attorney, cited an old court estimate of a murder trial costing "$1,500 or $1,600 bucks an hour."
On May 21, the second week of Luke's trial, one juror failed to show up on time. The judge admonished the juror that the entire court had been held up by his tardiness.
The cost for Luke's trial is "thousands and thousands of dollars," Cruz said. "But it will be nothing compared to the (Whitey) Bulger case."
Luke's trial saw a security plan the Brockton Superior Court had never seen before, said Plymouth County Clerk of Courts Robert Creedon. Typically, two court officers preside over a trial, but Luke's trial brought in court officers from other county courthouses, Creedon said.
A 10-page security plan went out to Brockton and state police, the sheriff's department, and court officers and personnel, he said.
The plan intended to keep court employees and the public safe during Luke's trial, Creedon said.
"We had clerks in there, and stenographers and folks who could get hurt," Creedon said. "The security folks were prepared in spades."
Creedon declined to release the security plan because it will be used for future trials. The plan "involved aspects that weren't readily discernible if you walked into the court," Creedon said.
"A trial like that doesn't come down the road every other month, it's unusual," Creedon said. "Thank God."
Maria Papadopoulos may be reached at email@example.com or follow on Twitter @MariaP_ENT.


text:
BETHESDA, Md. — Few holes on the PGA Tour offer a more difficult opening shot than the par-3 10th at Congressional, which is 220 yards over the water.
For Adam Scott, it was even tougher — because it really was his first swing of the day.
Scott had an 8:02 a.m. tee time Thursday in the AT&T National, so imagine his surprise when he awoke at 7:20 a.m. Worse yet, he is staying this week in Georgetown, which can be a 45-minute drive to the course depending on the traffic.
"Luckily, I had ironed my clothes the night before," Scott said with a big enough smile to make it clear he was kidding.
He wasn't smiling when he woke up. Typically a calm Aussie, Scott said he was "jumpy" rushing out to his car and didn't think he had any chance of making it. He arrived at 7:55 a.m., just seven minutes before his tee time. He didn't have time to warm up on the range. He might have been late to the tee, a two-shot penalty, except for starting at the 10th. Because it's a par 3, and a tough one at that, there was a five-minute delay that helped him.
Scott hit 4-iron into the right bunker, blasted out to 4 feet and escaped with par.
"It was probably a 5-iron, but being my first shot of the day, I thought a 4-iron was a better choice," he said.
Before walking up to the tee on the 11th hole, Scott raced into a portable bathroom, another reminder of how much he had rushed to get to the course.
Scott said he usually doesn't need an alarm clock. He has the uncanny ability of telling his body when he needs to wake up the next morning. This time, he says he forgot to tell his body when to wake up because he had set his alarm — or so he thought.
The AT&T National gave players a new phone as a gift, so Scott decided to switch over from his regular phone.
"Obviously, it was a bit more complicated," he said. "I don't know if I didn't hear it or if I didn't set the alarm right."
The good news is he made it to the golf course on time, and after a rugged start, played even par over the last 11 holes for a 75.
LEISHMAN'S WAIT: Marc Leishman didn't bother going through British Open qualifying last month because he had no intention of going. With an American wife and the recent birth of their first child, he has applied for a green card, which takes time.
"It was looking like I wasn't going to be able to leave the country, so I didn't do it," he said.
But after winning the Travelers Championship last week, he has gone to the top of a special money list from which the top two players not already exempt will get into the British Open. He is likely to get a spot, and he would love to play.
But one of the conditions of applying for a green card is not leaving the country until it's approved. Thus the quandary.
"It's a good thing to have to worry about," he said.
He has spoken to immigration lawyers, and he has been approved for advanced parole, which would allow him to travel to England for the Open. Trouble is, that takes 30 days to come through, and the next major starts in 21 days.
"Hopefully, it gets here before the British," he said. "Otherwise, I'm not sure what we're going to do."
WEEKEND WEATHER: Tiger Woods felt the fairways and greens were plenty firm in the opening round. What really makes him wonder is the weekend.
The forecast is for increasing heat, perhaps into the 100s, over the next several days.
"It'll be interesting to see what happens, what they do on the weekend, if it's supposed to be hot again," Woods said. "You can water the greens all you want in the morning, and they're going to obviously dry out as the day goes on. I don't see how this course is going to play easier in the afternoon."
Then again, the scoring average was slightly higher Thursday morning than in the afternoon.
BEAU KNOWS: Davis Love III ran into Beau Hossler and told the 17-year-old, "You're sure playing a lot of tough courses."
Hossler was briefly leading in the third round of the U.S. Open at Olympic Club two weeks ago. He played in the U.S. Open last year at Congressional. And he was given a sponsor's exemption into the AT&T National, which felt like a U.S. Open.
No matter. The kid bogeyed his last hole and still had an even-par 70.
"I'm starting to feel pretty comfortable out here, so I feel like I belong," Hossler said. "Obviously, my game needs to get better before I'm out here all the time, I feel pretty comfortable out here, feels like I can make the adjustment from junior to amateur to professional golf. I feel like I've made some progress."
DIVOTS: With the hot weather, Robert Garrigus said the ball is going even farther. "For you," said Jim Furyk, who was walking by when he heard the big-hitting Garrigus offer such an assessment. ... Congressional matched the highest score to par among first-round leaders this year with Bo Van Pelt at 4-under 67. Michael Thompson led the U.S. Open at 4-under 66; John Merrick and Jeff Maggert were at 4-under 66 at the St. Jude Classic; and Colt Knost, Vaughn Taylor and Chad Campbell were at 4-under 67 in the Heritage at Hilton Head. ... Robert Garrigus, who opened with a 70, has only shot over par only three times in 17 rounds at Congressional.


text:
MINNEAPOLIS—They're an endangered species in many state legislatures as more Americans move to urban centers or suburban cities: the rural lawmaker who knows what it's like to care for a herd, plant a crop or drive on gravel roads.
Indiana Rep. Bill Friend, a pork producer, said it's challenging to explain modern farming to colleagues who no longer have personal connections with agriculture. He calls it an annual educational project, as he knows of only one other state legislator who makes his living primarily from farming.
"They're one, two, three generations removed from food production and agriculture. It's kind of a foreign topic to them," said Friend, the Republican majority floor leader in the Indiana House.
Lawmakers and political experts say the dwindling numbers of farmers, ranchers and others who make their living off the land affects not just agricultural policy but other rural concerns—highways, health care, schools and high-speed Internet access. Urban and suburban lawmakers might be sympathetic, but they're often unfamiliar with particular concerns.
One Colorado legislator, a rancher, has even gone so far as to suggest each of his state's 64 counties have a single House seat instead of awarding representation according to population.
In ag-centric Nebraska, more than half of the legislators now come from the Omaha and Lincoln areas. Similarly, South Dakota's legislators are bunched near Sioux Falls or Rapid City—only 11 of South Dakota's 105 legislators as of last year were involved in agribusiness; in 1987, the figure was nearly three times higher.
It was once the opposite.
Rural interests had outsized influence in state capitols back when districts were often based on geography rather than population, said Tim Storey, a senior fellow with the National Conference of State Legislatures. That changed when a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the 1960s said legislative districts must have roughly equal populations to ensure the principle of one person, one vote.
"That just makes it more difficult for the rural voice to be heard. It doesn't mean it can't be heard. It's just more challenging," according to Doug Farquhar, the conference's program director for agriculture and rural development.
Colorado state Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg's radical idea of one representative per county comes out of his frustrations over not being heard—he is the only rural voice in the House. Currently, the state legislature's votes are heavily concentrated in the greater Denver and Colorado Springs areas.
He concedes the idea is constitutionally dubious, and follows a mostly symbolic ballot initiative in 11 rural Colorado counties last year to secede and form a 51st state amid disagreements over gun control, renewable energy mandates and other issues.
"I think it is an argument worth having," said Sonnenberg, who represents a sprawling district in the northeastern plains. "But I have no illusions this would ever go into effect."
Illinois was the nation's top soybean producer in 2013, and ranks No. 8 in the U.S. for number of farms, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Census of Agriculture report release this week. But Democrat John Sullivan is the only active farmer in the Illinois Senate, with 200 acres of grain and a few cows.
Sullivan, an assistant majority leader, lamented that the Senate agriculture committee's chairman and other members don't have agricultural backgrounds. He expects a struggle to make the farming opinion heard as the chairman pushes legislation to require labeling of foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients.
"It just makes it more difficult to explain and talk to my colleagues when they're only hearing one side of it from opponents of GMO crops," Sullivan said.
In Minnesota, Rep. Rod Hamilton has long argued that rural concerns get neglected in St. Paul, where the number of farmers in the House stands at six—down from 14 as recently as 1995.
Hamilton, a Republican and pork producer, said he plans to work with other rural lawmakers from both parties in both chambers this session to protect shared interests against a leadership that's mostly from the Twin Cities area.
"You don't need that many votes to make an impact," he said.
Forming partnerships has been key for the only full-time farmer in the Maryland Senate, Thomas McLain "Mac" Middleton.
Maryland has some of the country's richest counties, but its poor, rural areas share many of the same problems as urban areas such as Baltimore—poverty, unemployment, teen pregnancies and lack of opportunities, Middleton said.
So he's made common cause with his urban counterparts to ensure that rural communities have access to education funding as well as high-speed Internet service.
Though his 250-acre farm has been in his family since the 1600s and his ancestors grew tobacco, Middleton converted the property mostly to agritourism. He hosts school groups and families to visit barnyard animals, take hay rides, navigate a corn maze or pick strawberries and pumpkins.
Broadband has been important to the growth of his and many other businesses in rural Maryland.
He said: "I fight real hard to make sure that rural communities don't get left behind."


text:
Splendid aacov Agam Bright Multi color on White Screenprint - Signed
Artist: Yaacov Agam
Title: Agam Bright Multi colors on White Screenprint
Year: 1981
Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 51/144
Size: 31 x 33 in. (78.74 x 83.82 cm)
Condition: MINT
YAACOV AGAM BEAUTIFUL MULTI COLORS - SIGNED. This is a wonderful exciting print. Featured in several important published works on the artist. Limited Edition features sophisticated brilliant color tones in this print, excellent!
Made of the very Finest Archival Museum quality MINT CONDITION is highly desirable for collectors. This item selling in Upscale Art Galleries and Museum galleries when and if it can be found. This item is subject to availability. This is perfect for any elegant home, office, restaurant or place of business. WE CARRY SEVERAL Yaacov Agam works in our inventory.
Yaakov Agam was born Yaakov Gipstein on 11 May 1928, in Rishon LeZion, then Mandate Palestine. Agam trained at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, before moving to Zürich, Switzerland in 1949, where he studied under Johannes Itten at the Kunstgewerbe Schule, and was also influenced by the painter and sculptor Max Bill. In 1951 Agam went to Paris, France, where he still lives. Agam's first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Graven in 1953. He established himself as one of the leading pioneers of kinetic art at the Le Mouvement exhibition at the Galerie Denise René in 1955. In 1964, Agam wrote his artistic credo, unchanged since then.
"My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages. He is also known for a type of print known as an "Agamograph", which uses lenticular printing to present radically different images, depending on the angle from which it is viewed.
Agam is the highest-selling Israeli artist. In a Sotheby's New York auction in 2009, when his "4 Themes Contrepoint" was sold for $326,500. He has participated in shows worldwide including many one-man exhibitions, including the retrospective exhibition held at the Musee National d'art Modeme in Paris in 1972.
We ship Internationally! Contact Us for details


text:
Hey ZswaggersZendaya'sAMAZINGhake It Up
, did you check out performance on last night's dancing with the stars? The S star along with fellow dancer and Olympic Gold Medalist Aly Raisman totally stole the show!
According to the judges scores, we weren't the only ones who loved their moves! With a contemporary dance and a more up-beat number, these two definitely took the spotlight–and had a blast doing it! Did you catch that Aly's dance to One Direction's "Live While We're Young"?! LOVE!
Will you be watching Zendaya and Aly next week? Take the poll below and tell us in the comments!
More From Seventeen
Are You Watching Dancing With The Stars?
- Yes
- No
Created on Mar 19, 2013


text:
Fox just dropped off one of our favorite documents of the year – its May Sweeps round-up – and suffice it to say, high drama is in plentiful supply as House, Bones, Glee, Fringe and the rest of the network's scripted series sew up their seasons. We've boiled the 5,000-word press release down for you, show-by-show (in alphabetical order). But be warned: This promises to be a mighty download of scoops, teasers and outright spoilers.
Bones | Each of the team members attempts to be more forthcoming in their relationships (April 28)…. Angela keeps Hodgins in the dark regarding the details of her pregnancy (May 5)…. When Jacob Broadsky claims another victim – and then a bullet meant for Booth strikes an innocent victim – Booth makes it his mission to catch the sniper once and for all (May 12)…. When the remains of a bowler are found in the automatic pinsetter of a bowling alley, Booth and Brennan go undercover in a competitive bowling league (May 19).
Bones Boss: Emily Deschanel's Pregnancy May Result In a 'Curtailed' Season 7
Breaking In | Oz's team is assigned to safeguard the sequel to The Goonies at Comic-Con (May 4)…. After botching a gig protecting KFC's secret recipe, Oz organizes a team-building exercise (May 11)…. Tracking a cyber-bully, Cameron finds himself back at his former high school; Mike Tyson guest stars (May 18).
The Chicago Code | Teresa's plan to make her case against Alderman Gibbons takes an unexpected turn (May 2)…. Teresa risks tipping Gibbons off to her big-picture plan; Jarek faces reality when an anonymous package reveals more about the Wysocki family (May 9)…. As the case against Gibbons escalates, Teresa, Jarek and Caleb scramble to locate a star witness (May 16)…. Jarek confronts family issues that have haunted him for years; Teresa's case against Gibbons comes to a climactic conclusion (May 23).
Fringe | Olivia must trust Sam Weiss (guest star Kevin Corrigan) during a race against time (April 29, "The Last Sam Weiss")…. Peter confronts his destiny; a beloved team member meets an untimely demise (May 6, "The Day We Died").
Fringe Spoiler Alert: Apocalypse, Sex and Doomsday Devices – Oh My!
Glee | Sue revives the school paper, if only to plant inflammatory blind items (where does she get such an idea?); April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth) invites Will to hit the road with her (May 3, "Rumors")…. The competition for prom king and queen intensifies (hush, random extra!); Jessie St. James (Jonathan Groff) returns (May 10, "Prom Queen")…. New Directions strategizes for Nationals; an unexpected loss rocks the world of one of McKinley's own (May 17, "Funeral")…. Nationals in New York City! (May 24).
Ask Ausiello: Spoilers on Glee, Bones and More
House | Cuddy's mother (Candice Bergen) threatens to sue the hospital for malpractice, jeopardizing Cuddy and House's medical licenses; Donal Logue (Terriers) also guest stars (May 2, "Changes")…. The team begins to suspect House may have another type of drug problem (May 9, "The Fix")…. Thirteen gets a visit from a friend/fellow ex-con (Amy Landecker); House deals with devastating information (May 16, "After Hours")…. Shohreh Aghdashloo (24) makes like Franco as a performance artist who just may be involving PPTH in her latest work; a situation prompts House to do something very unexpected that could change his relationship with Cuddy and Wilson permanently (May 23, "Moving On").
Robert Sean Leonard Declares: 'This Is My Last Season on House'
Raising Hope | The entire family experiments with flirting (May 3)…. Hope's baby monitor starts picking up the conversations of troubled neighbors played by My Name Is Earl's Ethan Suplee and Jaime Pressly (May 10)…. The fam flashes back to when Jimmy, then a Goth, turned 18 (May 17).
And last but not least….
Traffic Light | Liza uses the GPS trackers on their cell phones to keep tabs on Mike (May 3)…. The guys go on a hunting trip (May 17)…. Mike and Lisa hire a scantily clad babysitter (Carlson Young; start Googling!) for Tommy (May 17).
Ready, set… OMG!


text:
The Word of God says Jesus is coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle. I want to be part of that and I expect all followers of Christ do too! So why is it we see so many in the body of Christ more concerned about watching the next big game, or episode of their favorite tv show than they are about being ready for our Kings return? We need to be like the virgins with their lampstands and be ready! Sadly we have allowed our minds to become too preoccupied with temporal things and have shelved eternal things, thinking we can always get back to them.
I feel a stirring in my heart that I need to lay aside the things that easily distract me and move into a deeper walk with Jesus. I have spoken to many people lately that have that same stirring. So how do we go about doing that? We need to start by changing what we are feeding our minds. If we haven't been reading our Bibles it's time to get back to doing that. It's our love letter from our Father and without it we will not grow spiritually. We need to humble ourselves and ask for forgiveness for putting anything and or everything before Him. We need to renew our minds on truth. Our walk with Christ is a journey from glory to glory. In order to grow more like our Savior we need to spend time with Him in prayer and spend time in His Word renewing our minds.
As much as I like to watch and read current news, I realize though it informs me of the troubles of the world, it can't offer any real solutions. And though I like to educate myself on issues like health, food, gardening etc.. I need to bear in mind that these things too are temporal. Good to know but if I am spending more time on them than time with the lover of my soul, my walk with Him will begin to suffer. The things we spend the most time feeding our minds on are the things that will grow and flourish within us. What we feed grows and what we neglect dies that's why it is so critical to keep our minds set on eternal things. Otherwise, our walk with Christ will suffer greatly and our growth will stop. We will find ourselves stumbling around in the dark wondering what happened? We lose our peace, joy, spiritual discernment and so many other things that God freely gives us when we don't abide in Him.
If you find yourself in that place now, cry out to Jesus. Ask Him to forgive you for putting anyone or anything before Him, confess your sins to Him. His Word tells us that, If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from ALL unrighteousness. ( 1John 1:9) He longs to have fellowship with you again! Get back into the Word of God. Just as your body needs food daily, so does your spirit. Begin to renew your mind on the things of God through His Word. Aim to spend less time on the temporal and more on the eternal, where the fruit born is eternal.
Romans 12:2 NIV2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.
2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Phillipians 4:8 NIV 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.


text:
This week I finally received complimentary copies of my book, Red Circle Days. I can't begin to express what it feels like to hold my published book in my hands, see my words in print, my face on the back cover!
We all have dreams, and as we strive to make those dreams a reality the road is ever-changing. The smoothly paved stretches can be encouraging yet also deceiving at times, causing us to relax a bit and slow our pace, never anticipating the mountainous climb that awaits just around the bend. As we turn the corner and come face to face with yet another obstacle on our path, another winding twist, we take pause and wonder if we have what it takes to continue the journey.
In light of this reality, we question our very dream, the dream that at one time energized, lit a fire in us that we vowed nothing and no one would ever extinguish. It is when the climb is the steepest, that we allow the thought of quitting to enter our mind, overshadowing all the visions we spent so much time playing and replaying in our mind, like the reel on an old plastic viewfinder…each click an indicator that we've left one image behind for our eyes to focus on another, yet each image is part of the bigger picture we must always keep in our line of vision.
In that moment, the moment of doubt, the moment of questioning, the moment of fear, we may slow down or even come to a complete stop – weighed down with insecurity. The important thing is to take a deep breath, revisit that technicolored dream and allow ourselves to believe once more.
Those of you who have expressed an interest in a signed copy of the book, please contact me directly to place your order. Those who have already purchased a copy, I thank you for making me one of the Publisher's Top Sellers right now, but even more for your support!
If you haven't gotten a copy, here are a few options: Amazon, Kindle, Nook, the Apple iBookstore, and Sarah Book Publishing.


text:
Now showing items 1-1 of 1
A mathematical model development for simulating in-stream processes of non-point source pollutants.
In coming years, chronic water stress is inevitable owing to the unavailability of fresh water. This situation is occasioned by rapid urbanisation, climate change, rising food demand, and production. The increasing rate ...


text:
(CNN) – Some of the most heartbreaking images to emerge from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash scene have been those of passengers' belongings.
A guide book, a stuffed toy monkey, a passport – items that remind us that those traveling on the Boeing 777 were, in many ways, just like us.
Which is why many Sky News viewers watching the network's live broadcast Sunday were shocked to see a reporter begin picking through the contents of an open suitcase lying among debris in the east Ukrainian field where the passenger plane went down.
Immediately realizing his error while on air, correspondent Colin Brazier said, "We shouldn't really be doing this, I suppose."
But the damage had already been done. A flurry of messages posted to social media decried the segment as "sickening" and "disrespectful."
Both Brazier and Sky News have apologized "profusely" for any offense caused, in a statement released by the network.
Meanwhile, anger over the handling of the crash site in the rebel-controlled area of eastern Ukraine is growing amid allegations of looting, tampering with evidence and investigators being stopped from examining the wreckage.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry described reports of "drunken separatists piling the remains of people into trucks in an unceremonious fashion."
The rebel's local leader, Alexander Borodai, has refuted accusations that his forces removed the bodies and denied responsibility for reports of stolen bank cards that were taken from the crash victims being used.
Borodai said he could not rule out the possibility that "some local residents could have searched the bodies."


text:
Now showing items 1-1 of 1
Corpus Callosum Defects Associated with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
(Arizona State University. School of Life Sciences. Center for Biology and Society. Embryo Project Encyclopedia., 2012-05-10)
Prenatal exposure to alcohol (ethanol) can result in a continuum of developmental abnormalities that are highly variable depending on the severity, duration, frequency, and timing of exposure during gestation. Defects of ...


text:
New England Insurance Solutions
Agency Contact Details
About New England Insurance Solutions
MAPFRE Insurance Products Offered
Auto Insurance
As the number one auto insurance provider in Massachusetts for over two decades, MAPFRE Insurance offers affordable car insurance that helps save you money and provide peace of mind. MAPFRE offers:
- Rewards for safe driving like Disappearing Deductible credits
- Accident Forgiveness for drivers of all experience levels
- Savings of up to 15% on your car insurance when you bundle auto and home
- Easy concierge car repairs with Car EZ®
- Fast, hassle-free claims resolution through e-Pics®, a 100% digital appraisal tool
- Discounts for AAA members, students, Pan-Mass Challenge donors and riders and more.
Since MAPFRE Claims Service averages 4.7/5 customer satisfaction rating, you can trust MAPFRE to be there for you when you need it most.
Property Insurance
MAPFRE Insurance offers tailored property insurance in your hometown. Local MAPFRE insurance agents at A&B Insurance Group offer a variety of solutions to meet your home, condo, rental, restoration or multi-family home insurance needs. MAPFRE offers:
- Property protection, repair / replacement coverage, and home systems protection
- e-Pics®, a 100% digital appraisal option that offers fast, hassle-free claims resolution with a quality guarantee
- Select Home Restoration, an expedited home repair program for unexpected incidents
- Coverage and services for distinctive homes through the Premier Living program
- Discounts when you insure your home and vehicle with MAPFRE
As the number one home insurance provider in Massachusetts, MAPFRE Insurance offers coverage and protection you can trust.


text:
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
Posted on:
Views:1,222 views
Tagline:Accidents happen. He can guarantee it.
Year: 2018
Duration: 101 Min
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Jesse V. Johnson
Cast:Aaron Thomas Ward, Akash Prasad, Amy Johnston, Amy Liette Hunter, Andrew Barton, Ashley Greene, Brittany Ashworth, Brooke Johnston, Chris Kenyon, Clara Perez, Dan Styles, David Paymer, Duncan Casey, Ekran Mustafa, Ellen Rix, Hannah Banks, Harry Wills, Jackson Kai, Jag Patel, Jamie Long, John Whitby, Jonathan Spodofora, Kerrieanne Booker, Lee Bagley, Lee Byford, Lee Charles, Lee Shone, Leon Finnan, Mackenzie Thorpe, Marcus Shakesheff, Mark Sears, Martyn Ford, Matt Routledge, Michael Jai White, Natasha Rose Mills, Nick Moran, Perry Benson, Peter Stanford, Ravi Aujla, Ray Park, Ray Stevenson, Roger Yuan, Ross O'Hennessy, Scott Adkins, Simon Maroulis, Sonnyboy Skelton, Stephen Donald, Stu Small, Taylor Tay, Tiago Silva, Tim Man, Toni Beard


text:
Buzz Advertising & Marketing Group
BAM! Web Design and Digital Marketing
Buzz Advertising & Marketing Group can help you get the word out about your Boston business. Our team of internet marketing professionals has years of experience developing effective online marketing strategies for businesses in the local area. We can help you reach more people and grow your business through search engine optimization and social media advertising.
Business Name:
Buzz Advertising & Marketing Group
176 Newbury StBoston MA 02116USA
(877) 626-7866
About Boston
Boston (US: , UK: ), officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States and 24th-most populous city in the country. The city proper covers about 48.4 sq mi (125 km2) with a population of 675,647 in 2020, also making it the most populous city in New England. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to some 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States.Boston is one of the oldest municipalities in the United States, founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from the English town of the same name.
Neighborhoods in Boston, MA
Aberdeen, Adams Village, Allston, Ashmont, Back Bay, Bay Village, Beacon Hill, Blackstone Block Historic District, Boston Theater District, Bowdoin North / Mount Bowdoin, Bulfinch Triangle Historic District, Bunker Hill, Central Square, Central-Maverick Square / Paris Street, Chestnut Hill Neighborhood Association
Things to do in Boston, MA
Our Newest Profiles


text:
NBA Lockout: What Are We Going to Do Without Pro Basketball?
Prospects for next season are looking dim. Our panel ponders what to watch instead of LeBron, Kobe, and co.
Every week, our panel of sports fans discusses a topic of the moment. For today's conversation, Hampton Stevens (writer, ESPN and The Atlantic), Emma Carmichael (writer, Deadspin), Patrick Hruby (writer, ESPN and The Atlantic), and Jake Simpson (writer, The Atlantic), talk about life without the NBA.
Hey, guys,
To paraphrase the pride of Hannibal, Missouri, what if they had a lockout and nobody came?
Oh, how the nation agonized over the slightest chance of a shortened NFL season. Oh, how we moaned and bewailed our cruel, cruel fate. Now, with the prospects of even having a 2011-2012 NBA season getting dimmer all the time, the only sound you'll hear is a collective national yawn.
And those next-season prospects surely are fading fast. This month, the league filed suit against the NBA Players Union, accusing them of not bargaining in good faith. Shortly afterward, union chief Billy Hunter called out NBA Commissioner David Stern—by expressing backhanded sympathy. Hunter claimed that Stern's negotiating options are limited by hardline new owners that are "holding his feet to the fire." Ouch.
Lordy, how the mighty have fallen. Remember back in the day, when shorts were short, and a pudgy young lawyer rode Bird, Magic and Michael to greatness? Stern's face was all set for carving, right next to Pete Rozelle and Kenesaw Mountain Landis on the Mount Rushmore of sports commissioners. These days, though, it's starting to look like Gary Bettman is the smart one.
We can all recite the NBA's problems by heart. Too many games in the regular season to eliminate too few teams, and guaranteed contracts that practically guarantee lackluster effort until the playoffs. My question is why no one has tried to bring this paper tiger down? New football leagues pop up every few years, either as off-season alternatives to the NFL, like Arena ball, or as rivals like the AFL, USFL, or XFL.
In basketball, nada. We've had an alphabet soup of underfunded minor leagues and/or alternatives like the CBA , IBL, and USBL go bust in this decade, and no serious challenge to the NBA's preeminence since the merger with the ABA. Isn't it about time there was one? And can they please bring back those sweet, sweet ABA red, white, and blue balls?
I can't imagine a nation without its National Basketball Association. Except for a brief spell in the winter of '98 to '99, I've never known a sports scene without it. Not to get all Millennial on you, Hampton, but I actually don't remember back in the day when shorts were actually short and when Bird, Magic and Michael all shared one lawyer, because I've only seen it on grainy YouTube clips and read about it in books like "Breaks of the Game." A significant portion of the NBA's most committed fan base is in this same category. It's the only league that has ever mattered. So why would we care if there even was an alternative?
Still, the lockout should provide some other HD arena for us to fixate on during the next year. It will be fascinating to see where fans of the sport—and not necessarily the league—decide to turn. For a few weeks, at least, the Chinese Basketball Association seemed like it might make for a promising distraction. Then, last week, the league announced that it would only allow unrestricted free agents (meaning, essentially, players who wouldn't take off mid-season for the delayed start to the NBA season) to sign with its teams. Some have even speculated that Stern played a role in the CBA's decision. It wouldn't have been a good look for NBA sponsors if Kobe and Carmelo had taken all of the league's marketing power to China.
The only viable alternatives to the NBA in this country is men's—and to a lesser degree, women's—college basketball (meanwhile, somewhere in Tulsa, the WNBA season drags on). Leagues like the CBA, IBL, and USBL go bust because the NBA has such a committed fan base that knows that at the foundation of this dispute are a lot of rich men who want to stay rich. It's mind-boggling enough that the league and the players are (likely) going to forgo the 2011-12 season. We'll get distracted for a few months, and follow the players to whatever ragtag gym the Drew and Goodman Leagues take them, but I'd wager that most of us are frustratingly allied with the one we won't see play.
I guess there's always some '70s highlights to catch up on on YouTube.
Patrick, where will you get your basketball fix? Do you see any alternative I might be ignoring? I am, admittedly, rather one-sided.
At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, let me clear something up: Hampton wasn't claiming that Jordan, Bird, and Magic once shared the same lawyer. (Though that would be kind of amazing.) He was talking about Stern, a Columbia law school grad who served as the NBA's general counsel before becoming the longest-running commissioner in league history.
Lately, I've been wondering if his tenure has gone on too long. Much like the staler-than-communion-wafers Real Housewives of Orange County franchise. (There: a somewhat more contemporary reference. Is that better?)
Look, I have to give Stern credit: He built on the foundation laid by his underrated predecessor, Larry O'Brien, and played a major role in making the NBA the successful, mega-bucks, multinational enterprise it is today. That said, something seems increasingly amiss, with Stern coming across less as an elder pro basketball statesman than an aging mafia don—petty, vindictive and obsessed with power for power's sake.
Take the league's oddly draconian, possibly-Republican-pollster-driven adoption of a sideline dress code. Or its ill-fated attempt to shove a new, universally-loathed synthetic ball down players' collective throats. Or its Oz-like, ignore-the-man-behind-the-curtain response to its self-commissioned, post-Donaghy scandal Pedowitz report, in which the NBA discovered that nearly all of its referees had violated anti-gambling rules ... and responded by changing said rules. None of that happens without the direct or tacit approval of Stern—the same Stern whom half the league seems scared to death of crossing; who silences public dissent with the subtlety of the Chinese Army at Tiananmen Square; who lets definite snake/ probable monorail salesman Clay Bennett swipe a franchise from Seattle with nary a disapproving peep; who hammers players for offensive speech but istotally cool with Donald Sterling, who possibly makes more money than any of the NBA's players, despite having no discernable jump shot to speak of; who in advance of the current labor-management dispute reportedly told a room of NBA All-Stars that he "knows where the [league's] bodies are buried" because he buried some of them himself; whose owner-backed insistence on reducing the players' slice of the league's over economic pie - instead of adopting additional revenue sharing—is the driving force behind the lockout in first place.
As long as Stern is in charge, I'm afraid the need for alternate hoops fix will prove inevitable. So, Emma, to answer your question: I'll be playing "NBA 2K12"—featuring Magic, Bird, and Jordan, plus a bunch of other pre-Millennial icons.
Jake, do you think the upcoming NBA season is doomed? If so, are you looking for an alternative?
Patrick, I already have an alternative—and so do you. I had to reread all your posts to believe it, but college basketball was only mentioned once, a cursory acknowledgment by Emma. But in many ways, men's college hoops (and women's, though not as much) is more fun to follow than the NBA. Instead of 30 teams competing for 16 playoff spots, it's more than 300 fighting for 68 March Madness slots (please God let there be no expansion to 96 teams). Instead of a preponderance of isolation sets with too much dribbling and too little ball movement, there are a plethora of motion offenses that make even the most unathletic school dangerous (see: Cornell 2009-10). And of course there's the Big Dance itself, for my money the most exciting postseason in all of sports, and its workplace productivity-killing first two rounds.
College hoops even has its own built-in fan base: alumni. You don't have to be a Duke or UNC grad to love your alma mater's basketball program and follow it religiously. Even at my beloved Northwestern, the Brooklyn Dodgers of NCAA hoops (we're the only major conference team that's never made the tournament... but wait 'till next year!) there's a rabid fan base that will undoubtedly grow larger if there's no NBA season.
So let Stern, Hunter and the rest of them fritter away what could be the league's most exciting season in a generation. I'll be counting the days until the Preseason NIT.


text:
WOOD v. U S(1912)
Messrs. George A. King and William B. King for appellant.
Assistant Attorney General Thompson and [224 U.S. 132, 133] Mr. Frederick De C. Faust for appellee.
Mr. Chief Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:
The office of Admiral of the Navy was re-established by the act of March 2, 1899, 30 Stat. at L. 995, chap. 378, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 981, re-enacted in identical terms by a portion of the naval appropriation act of March 3, 1899, 30 Stat. at L. 1045, chap. 421. By another provision of the same act (30 Stat. at L. 1024, 1025, chap. 421, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 1073), the Admiral was given the same pay and allowances as had been received by the last General of the United States Army.
From October 17, 1904, until February 29, 1908, the claimant performed the duties prescribed by an order of the Secretary of the Navy, dated October 1, 1904, which directed him to 'report to the Admiral of the Navy, . . . President of the General Board, . . . for duty as aid to the Admiral of the Navy, and for duty in connection with the General Board.' During the period within which these services were performed the claimant received the pay belonging to his rank in the Navy, which, for the earlier portion of the time, was that of Lientenant Commander, and during the remainder of the time that of Commander. He demanded the pay and allowances [224 U.S. 132, 134] of a Captain of the Navy, upon the theory that the Admiral of the Navy corresponded in rank with the General of the Army; that by Rev. Stat. 1096, the General of the Army was entitled to aids, who received increased compensation as such aids by reason of the pay attached to the higher rank conferred upon them while serving as aids to the General, which higher pay the aid to the Admiral became entitled to receive by virtue of the clause of 13 of the naval personnel act of March 3, 1899, 30 Stat. at L. 1007, chap. 413, U. S. Comp. Stat. 1901, p. 1072, assimilating the pay of officers of the Navy to that of officers of the Army.
Section 1096, Rev. Stat., relied upon in connection with the assimilating provision just referred to, is as follows:
This appeal was taken from a judgment of the court of claims dismissing the claim.
Putting aside immaterial considerations, the question upon which the controversy turns is this: In March, 1899, when the office of Admiral was re-created, were the provisions of 1096, Rev. Stat., existing, or had they been repealed, thereby causing it to come to pass that there was no lav concerning aids to the General of the Army upon which the assimilating provisions of the act of 1899 could operate? We say this is the fundamental question, because it is patent that the act of 1899, which recreated the office of Admiral, did not, in and of itself, provide for aids to that officer, or fix extra compensation for such services, and therefore the right here asserted must depend exclusively upon the existence of some law providing for aids to the General of the Army and their pay, which, in virtue of the application of the assimilating statute, became operative as to aids to the Admiral. [224 U.S. 132, 135] While by 1094, Rev. Stat., it was provided that the Army of the United States should consist, among other officers, of 'one General,' the section concluded with the following:
It is not questioned that 1096, Rev. Stat., was a regulation concerning the office of General of the Army, and it is not disputed that that section was repealed prospectively by the proviso to 1094, above quoted,-a repeal which became operative when the event provided for the cessation of the office of General occurred. It is, further, not disputed that years before the recreation of the office of Admiral, in 1899, the result provided for in the proviso to 1094 had taken place, and hence that 1096, concerning aids to the General of the Army, had ceased to exist, as the result of the nonexistence of the grade of General of the Army to which the provisions of that section applied.
The primary contention is that 1096 was revived as the result of the act of June 1, 1888, 25 Stat. at L. 165, chap. 338, by virtue of which Lieutenant General Sheridan was made for life the General of the Army. The secondary proposition is that the provisions of the section which it is contended were thus revived remained in force (although in abeyance) after the death of General Sheridan, and despite the fact that the act of 1888, which provided for his appointment as General, declared that the grade should cease on his death. The contention, however, in reason rests upon a plain misconception of the act of 1888, since it but insists that while the provisions of that act only revived the grade of General for a limited and specified purpose, nevertheless the effect of the act was to revive incidental provisions of law concerning that [224 U.S. 132, 136] office, so as to cause them to continue to exist after the period during which alone the statute contemplated they should be in existence. But so to construe the statute would divide it against itself,-would presuppose that it contemplated that an effect should arise from its enactment plainly at war with the purpose which its text manifests Congress intended to accomplish by its adoption. When it is considered that the grade of General of the Army had ceased to exist long prior to the act of 1888, and that the statutory incidents regulating that office, including 1096, Rev. Stat., had also passed out of existence, we think it results that the provisions of the act of 1888, reviving the office of General, and the incidents relating to that office, were all controlled by the limitation of time which that act imposed. In other words, we think that the office and its incidents were but revived for the sole purposes and for the limited period specified, and none other, and therefore no subject to which that act related can be said to have been generally re-enacted so as to survive the limitations which the act itself expressly contemplated.
The failure by Congress during the many years which have elapsed since the re-creation of the office of Admiral to make any provision concerning the pay of aids to that officer gives rise to the assumption of a legislative construction in accord with the view which we have expressed. The matter is not, however, left to mere inference resulting from silence, since, although Congress, in what is known as the new Navy pay act of May 13, 1908, 35 Stat. at L. 128, chap. 166, in terms specifically provided for the pay of every officer in the Navy, including the Admiral, and embracing extra compensation to aids to Rear Admirals, made no provision whatever for compensation for services which might be rendered by an officer acting as aid to the Admiral. The incongruity, if any, which it is suggested must result from providing for extra com- [224 U.S. 132, 137] pensation for an aid to a Rear Admiral and none for aids to the higher officer, the Admiral, if admitted, would be but the consequence of legislative omission, and would not justify the exertion of judicial power for the purpose of recreating a provision of law concerning aids to the General of the Army, which has long since ceased to exist, in order to afford a subject upon which the assimilating provision of the naval personnel act of 1899 might operate. Affirmed.


text:
Use of language extensions
From HaskellWiki
Haskell compilers are full of experimental features. However, when it comes to designing libraries one should carefully think about which extensions to use and which not. Every required language extension and every imported library which on its own depends on such an extension, causes some of the following problems:
- It limits the range of Haskell compilers you can use.
- According to the availability of compilers on different platforms, it will also limit the range of machines it can be run on.
- It complicates the installation, if a user has to install a particular compiler to use your library.
- Many extensions are complicated enough to produce even more incomprehensible error messages, than errorneous Haskell 98 programs.
- Even with the same compiler, in a year or two your code might need fixing if the extension or implementation is sufficiently experimental (for example, the rules for what type-signatures GADTs require, has changed from GHC 6.4 to 6.6 to 6.8 to 6.10). People who depend on your library may be impatient to upgrade to the newest version of GHC.
We suggest the following hierarchy of complexity with respect to types:
- Simple algebraic types
- H98 type classes
- Fancier instance heads (but still single-parameter, non-overlapping)
- Existential and local universal quantification
- GADTs (I'm still uncertain about this judgement, but they seem to be less troublesome than...)
- Multiparameter type classes with functional dependencies
- Multiparameter type classes including undecidable instances, overlapping instances
We recommend to explicitly switch on language extensions that are needed using the LANGUAGE pragma
instead of switching them on all at once using the
-fglasgow-exts compiler flag.
See also
- Initiating mail on Haskell Cafe: When to use fancy types
- GHC ticket on warn about language extensions that are not used
- Haskell Cafe on List and description of language extensions


text:
A new national laboratory for researching and diagnosing foreign animal diseases should be built on the U.S. mainland in an area with small livestock and wildlife populations, says the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) in congressional testimony recently.
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing on a replacement facility for the 54-year-old Plum Island Animal Disease Center located just off the coast of Long Island, NY, where foreign animal disease work is done.
Five sites on the mainland for the new National Bio and Agri-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas are under consideration.
In its testimony, NPPC told the subcommittee that each area should be screened for:
- Susceptible animal populations that could be exposed to an outbreak should disease organisms escape from the facility;
- The ability of state and federal governments to quickly control and eradicate a disease;
- The impact of an outbreak on the local environment and the wildlife population; and
- The economic consequences to an area's livestock industry if an outbreak were to occur.
NPPC asked that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Plum Island, coordinate with the livestock industry to define a scope of work for the NBAF.


text:
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL): An acute (sudden onset), rapidly progressing form of leukemia that is characterized by the presence in the blood and bone marrow of large numbers of unusually immature white blood cells destined to become lymphocytes. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is also called acute lymphocytic leukemia and is abbreviated ALL (spoken not as the word "all", but as the three letters A-L-L). ALL is the most common cancer occurring in children, representing almost 25% of cancer among children. There is a sharp peak in the incidence of ALL incidence among children ages 2 to 3. This peak is approximately fourfold greater than that for infants and is nearly 10-fold greater than that for youths who are 19 years old.
For unexplained reasons, the incidence of ALL is substantially higher for white children than for black children, with a nearly threefold higher incidence at 2 to 3 years of age for white children compared to black children. The incidence of ALL appears to be highest in Hispanic children.
Factors associated with an increased risk of ALL have been identified. The main environmental factor is radiation, namely prenatal exposure to x-rays or postnatal exposure to high doses of radiation. Children with Down syndrome (trisomy 21) also have an increased risk for both ALL and acute myeloid leukemia (AML). About two-thirds of acute leukemia in children with Down syndrome is ALL. Increased occurrence of ALL is also associated with certain genetic conditions, including neurofibromatosis, Shwachman syndrome, Bloom syndrome, and ataxia telangiectasia.
The malignant lymphoblasts from a particular ALL patient carry antigen receptors unique to that patient. There is evidence to suggest that the specific antigen receptor may be present at birth in some patients with ALL, suggesting a prenatal origin for the leukemic clone. Similarly, some patients with ALL characterized by specific chromosome translocations have been shown to have cells containing the translocation at the time of birth.
Seventy-five to 80% of children with ALL now survive at least 5 years from diagnosis with current treatments that incorporate systemic therapy (e.g., combination chemotherapy) and specific central nervous system (CNS) preventive therapy (i.e., intrathecal chemotherapy with or without cranial irradiation). Ten-year event-free survival of multiple large prospective trials conducted in different countries for children treated primarily in the 1980s is approximately 70%.
Since nearly all children with ALL achieve an initial remission, the major obstacle to cure is bone marrow and/or extramedullary (e.g., CNS, testicular) relapse. Relapse from remission can occur during therapy or after completion of treatment. While the majority of children with recurrent ALL attain a second remission, the likelihood of cure is generally poor, particularly for those with bone marrow relapse occurring while on treatment.