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iPhone gripes
But of course I have complaints.
- It never seems to delete mail from the server. I'm using Pop3s, and I have the iPhone mail client set to "Deleted messages: remove after 1 day"; "Delete from server: when removed from Inbox" (and I've also tried "Seven days"). The mail client itself only shows me about a day's worth of messages, but they are never expired from the server, even when they've expired off the phone's list. I don't understand how I'm expected to keep my mail server from filling up. From earlier experiments, I do not believe that "deleting" messages on the phone does anything other than move them to a phone-side Trash folder. But if I'm expected to do that, that's just impractical. That would mean that the first thing I'd have to do every morning when I woke up was swipe away the 200+ messages that arrived during the night.
Since there's no sane way to delete or mark messages read on the phone, because I'm not willing to click 200 times to do it, the way I use the mail reader is to just leave all of the messages unread and in Inbox, and when I'm out and about and want to check my mail, I just read until I've seen a message that I have read already. This is stupid, but it's the only way I've found that is even remotely practical.
When the phone is sleeping and a notification appears (SMS, alarm, etc.) there is no way to dismiss / acknowledge that notification without typing my password to unlock the phone first. Why can't I just double-click it or something? And if I don't dismiss it, then it thinks I haven't seen it and keeps reminding me. That's really annoying. (The repeating reminders are good, the hoops you have to jump through to ack them is bad.)
Entering new events in the calendar is insanely convoluted. On PalmOS (and WebOS) you went to the calendar, clicked on the hour where you wanted the event, typed the event name, and you were done. Zero superfluous clicks. On the iPhone, you have to click New Event, click Edit Date, select the time off of an annoying scrolly wheel, click Done, click Edit Name, type, click Done, and then click Done again. WTF!
Why is there still no "iChat" on the iPhone? BeejiveIM seems to be the best option, but it kind of sucks. Constant "your screen name is signed in from 2 locations" messages. Frequent "connection reset by peer" messages. I often discover that it decided to hang up on all of my accounts, so I haven't been getting messages sent to my phone.
There's no "attach" button when you're sending mail. The only easy way to send a photo is to initiate that action from the Photos or Camera app (in which case the photo is scaled down to 800x600, and you can only send exactly one photo). If you go into Photos and copy a photo, you can paste it into Mail and it will send it full sized; but you can only copy one at a time, by switching back and forth between the Photos and Mail apps for each one, which is really tedious.
It takes too much clicking to tell it to forget a WiFi network, after you have connected to one that turned out to be useless. (Which happens quite a lot in this town.) Every "connection failed" dialog should have a "Forget this WiFi network" button on it.
There's no way to use a custom ring tone for SMS messages, calendar alerts, or in fact anything except voice calls. WTF.
Every time you sync, the music player turns off "Shuffle". WTF.
The whole cut-and-paste mechanism really is insanely janky.
The on-screen keyboard is bullshit.
Other than that, it's pretty good. It's fast, and it mostly just works.
Apps I like:
- BeejiveIM (best IM client of a bad bunch)
- Edge (like marble madness)
- Eyegore's Eye Blast (like Bubbels with spinny inertia)
- I Love Katamari
- iBART (faster than the web site)
- iSSH (the way it handles keys is very nice)
- Now Playing (movie listings)
- OpenTable
- Photoshop Mobile
- Remote (controls iTunes)
- Shazam (music identifier)
- Sol Free (solitaire)
- Taxi Magic
- Wikipanion (faster than the web site)


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Aleppo Dispatch: The Dark Side of the Syrian Opposition
Why civilians are turning from the Free Syrian Army -- and into the arms of Islamist groups.
Ibrahim al-Halabi was confused by my questions. He could neither tell me how he landed himself in a makeshift prison cell nor respond to even simple queries, like what job he held. The 27-year-old had been picked up at a routine checkpoint in the city of Aleppo by rebels from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighting the Syrian regime. When he could not provide identification papers, they arrested him.
My broken Egyptian Arabic was probably not to blame for the troubled communication, because another inmate offered logical responses to the same routine questions. But with Ibrahim, they only elicited a bewildered gaze.
On the rare occasion when he did speak, Ibrahim provided contradictory responses. At times he said he worked in a textile factory. Other times he said he was unemployed. Once he even admitted that he had worked for the regime's paramilitary, known as the shabiha, albeit for only two days. Ibrahim was clearly scared. His left hand never stopped shaking. Red spots on his forehead and nose covered the marks where his captors had beaten him. When Ibrahim refused to speak, a fighter yelled at him "Liar! Shabih! Dog!" before intensifying his pain with several slaps to the face.
After a fruitless hour, I gave up trying to talk with Ibrahim, concluding that the man the rebels accused of iniquitous deeds was a harmless patsy who likely suffered from a mental illness that impeded his ability to communicate with any precision. The handicaps that hinder interacting with others probably rendered FSA fighters suspicious and accounted for his unfortunate incarceration, for Ibrahim did not appear to know how to hold a Kalashnikov let alone even use one.
Ibrahim's plight is indicative of the growing anarchy gripping Syria's liberated areas. In a country where the rule of law is vanishing as the state increasingly recedes, every fighter is policeman and prosecutor. Some have embraced their newfound powers judiciously. Most, however, have abused it. This exploitation of the war has reduced support for nationalist FSA units. Instead, Syrians are increasingly backing Islamists who largely eschew the material spoils of war.
One man who has enriched himself is Ahmad Afash, leader of the Free Syria Brigade from the village of Anadan, just north of Aleppo. At the mention of his name, rebels from neighboring hamlets either curse it or fall silent out of embarrassment. "Afash steals everything from grain to cars," an FSA fighter says. "He justifies this by saying no one wants to give him money to fund his battalion."
Rebels lament that men like Afash have taken up arms for spoils and glory rather than a national duty to topple the regime bombarding civilian areas daily. His name has become notorious for the FSA's excesses, tarnishing its image throughout the province of Aleppo.
When fighting was confined to the countryside, far from the city of Aleppo, local resident Hamdi Kaka was not sure which side to support. But when the FSA inched closer to the town, he heard stories of how Afash fleeced unfortunate civilians who ventured into his territory. "Why don't I support the FSA?" the 34-year-old household fixtures salesman asks rhetorically. "One name - Afash." With each new story of FSA excesses, the group's stock slides further in Kaka's eyes.
Afash is doing far more damage to the war effort than merely exploiting civilians. He is frustrating the FSA's military strategy as well. For months, the province's largest brigade, al-Tawhid, was focused on liberating urban areas in Aleppo that were still under regime control in order to ease the strains on the civilian population. But Afash was instead bent on taking the Air Force Intelligence base on its northern outskirts. "He wanted to take the base for media publicity, so that the people funding the war would give him more money," explains a fighter on the military council of a neighboring village. "To get money, you need to carry out operations and then put them on the internet."
When fighters from an al-Tawhid reconnaissance platoon scoped out the base several months ago, Afash's men briefly skirmished with them, marking their territory. "They don't want anyone else to get credit for its capture," says an al-Tawhid member.
Afash's antics have exasperated fighters from his home village as well. Last month, rival rebels there created the Anadan Brigade in hopes of peeling off disgruntled members of his unit and thus weakening his grip on power.
Creating new brigades is increasingly becoming the preferred option to weed out corrupt rebels, even in respected units such as al-Tawhid. "There are too many people who joined us for the wrong reason," explains Abu Dharr, a member of the brigade's military council who is trying to form his own detachment. "We need to focus on those fighters whose motives are pure."
The problem goes far beyond dubious buccaneers such as Afash. Provincial FSA commanders complain that when the battle began tipping their way this summer with their entry into Aleppo, pro-regime elements joined their units, thus diluting both the caliber and motives of their fighters. "It's tough to tell the good guys from the bad ones," Abu Dharr laments. In private conversations with his staff, al-Tawhid leader Abd al-Qadir Salih has estimated that up to 25 percent of FSA fighters are rotten apples.
It is these rebels who are increasingly sullying the FSA's reputation. After a fighter slapped a doctor at the Dar al-Shifa hospital several months ago, the medical staff decided to cease providing care for a day.
Such troubled encounters explain why Syrians are increasingly gravitating toward Islamist brigades, such as Jabhat al-Nusra. "Before only a few people here supported them," explains a village council chief known locally by his patronymic Abu Umar. "But all the problems with the FSA have made them very popular."
The United States recently labeled Jabhat al-Nusra a terrorist organization, claiming that it is a front for al-Qaeda in Iraq. But if Washington hoped the move would persuade other FSA units to distance themselves from the group, it grossly miscalculated. For in the Arab world, whatever America thinks is bad must be good. During my time in Aleppo, I was accosted daily by fighters and civilians demanding to know why the United States has blacklisted an organization that has done so much good in society.
When I shared these experiences with Abu al-Hassan, a Jabha fighter, he smiled approvingly. "Civilians are fed up with the FSA. There is lots of stealing, lots of bad treatment of civilians," he said. Abu al-Hassan then listed off the reasons why his organization is so popular. One stood out among his litany. "The FSA just accuses people of being shabiha and takes them away without proof. We require two witnesses."
The organization did not haphazardly choose the number. Islamic law requires two able-bodied male witnesses to prosecute someone, in order to protect innocent people from being wrongly accused for personal or financial motives.
Islamic justice would likely have spared Ibrahim, the mentally challenged prisoner I interviewed, his anguish in the room across the hall from me. Though his captors offered me no proof of his crimes, during the night they continuously humiliated him to the point of tears. Behind thick steel doors the sounds of a grown man crying were all I could make out. And his torment has left Ibrahim just one more Syrian whom the FSA lost from their dwindling role of supporters.

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Warren, Charles
Warren, Charles, 1868–1954, American lawyer and historian, b. Boston. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1892. An assistant U.S. Attorney General (1914–18), he served as a special master in important cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. He drafted the Espionage Act (1917), which was used to censor and imprison radicals. Warren is noted for his scholarly studies of constitutional history, especially The Supreme Court in United States History (3 vol., 1922; rev. ed., 2 vol., 1926, repr. 1960), which won the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote Congress, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court (1925, repr. 1969) and The Making of the Constitution (1928, repr. 1967).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2023, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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With practically every level of American government in a deep fiscal hole and profound issues of liberty and justice requiring attention, what are lawmakers doing to govern us? As Reason's Nanny of the Month feature routinely reminds us, mostly climbing on hobby horses and doing their best to ignore the real issues. In their March roundup, the great news is that the enormously serious issue of properly-clothed baristas is finally under control:
Lawmakers are no longer loco for just one brand of energy drink. Illinois State Rep. Luis Arroyo (D-Chicago) has penned a bill that would make it illegal "to sell, offer for sale or deliver" just about any kind of energy drink to anyone under age 18 (Arroyo's championing another top-tier issue–outlawing lion steaks).
Meanwhile, dog lovers in Oklahoma are sounding off against a plan cooked up by State Sen. Patrick Anderson (R-Enid) to allow cities to ban specific breeds of dogs (stay tuned for the surprise twist!).
But this time the Nanny of the Month comes to us from Shelton, WA where city commissioners and townspeople alike have united against a threat of bikini baristas!
The truly sad part of this month's winner is that this fight has been going on for five years, at least in the state of Washington. No, seriously. Five years ago next month, this made network news, oh-so-coincidentally during sweeps month:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
While I sympathize with the viewpoints of local residents, government intervention is hardly the answer. If the dress code doesn't violate any other laws (which might be the case with the pasties), then the proper response is to raise awareness and organize a free-market response that fails to reward that kind of marketing strategy. Emphasizing the demeaning aspect of being put on display in this manner to the young women in the local area might also make the hiring costs steep enough to curtail the profit potential of bikini baristas. If residents can't win those arguments, then a resort to government force would be illegitimate anyway, at least in an ethical sense.
Which of these deserve to be the winner? Take the poll:


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It's all fine and dandy to go outside pre-dawn with Mom for a walk but it was beyond cold out there this morning. Brrrrr……so of course when we got back inside, Mom fixed some hot chocolate for herself and while she was doing that, she wrapped me up like a little sausage (pig in a blanket??) on her recliner so I could get warmed up.
I look good enough to eat – right? Well, maybe not but there's one thing for sure……..I look cozy.
Here's the thing though……while I'm certainly warm on TOP of me, I'm not warm NEXT to me or UNDER me. That takes one very important ingredient which was missing while Mom made her hot chocolate. Her LEGS! My own personal hot water bottle!
You've seen enough pictures of me on Mom's lap or legs to know that's my favorite spot – especially on a chilly day. She's my Mom and I love her dearly but she's also my source of WARMTH….she's my cozy spot. I'd probably sit on Dad's lap too but he's too squirmy for me. Mom can sit still with me on her legs for HOURS while she reads or watches a movie or something…..and I stay nice and warm and toasty. A guy learns these things from kittenhood you know – where the best place in the world is to take a snooze. Yeah, sure – the sunny spots are fine, the window perches are great, Mom and Dad's bed is nice and soft and yummy, even the front porch on a warm summer morning is grand but – quite honestly – the BEST place is with Mommy the Human Hot Water Bottle!!!
Oh goodie – here she comes – she's about to read the Sunday paper…..that means she'll be here for a while…..I can relax…..I can snooze….zzzzzzz
Happy Sunday Morning Peeps!
Sammy, One Cozy Pig In A Blanket……….


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Today's Daily Million 2PM results are in. Here are the winning numbers for Sunday March 19, 2023
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If there's one universal truth its that winning the lottery is a rare event. Not impossible, but not a common occurrence either. No matter how much you spend your time investigating strategies on how you can do better, that golden ticket will always seem out of reach. And that's because the lottery, for all its glory, is a game of chance.
And when it comes to chance, you have to be prepared to take advantage of any leads, such as the following:
- Consider a lottery pool: Playing is always a risk, either by yourself or with others. Joining a pool is ideal if you want to increase your resources and improve your odds via a combined ticket.
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Did you know that?
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- According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, up to 70% of all lottery winners lose it all within a few years after winning their windfall. 44% of the winners of the UK National Lottery go bankrupt within a few years according to research firm The Camelot Group.
- Winning the lottery does not necessarily make you any happier. According to researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Massachusetts, the findings are as follows: "Eventually, the thrill of winning the lottery will itself wear off. If all things are judged by the extent to which they depart from a baseline of past experience, gradually even the most positive events will cease to have impact as they themselves are absorbed into the new baseline against which further events are judged."
- It may be a good idea to never talk about your lottery winnings. One New York state trust attorney puts it best: "The bigger problem arises when there is an oral (usually flippant) promise to share the proceeds."
The lottery has always generated a healthy dose of humor and cynicism among the who's who. A couple of salient examples for today:
"I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not." (Fran Lebowitz)
"There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund." (Robert Kiyosaki)


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Morten Kromberg - Parallel Programming in Dyalog using Futures and IsolatesMorten KrombergCXODyalog
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Dyalog is an array first multi-paradigm language based on an APL language kernel. In APL, it is common for the application of primitive functions to arrays of conforming shape to imply a map; the function is applied item-wise to corresponding elements of the arguments, producing a result of the same shape. APL also provides a variety of explicit operators that provide different mappings of user-defined functions, or more generally functional compositions, to multi-dimensional and nested arrays.
One might expect that such language features would provide a complete framework for parallel programming. In practice, writing programs that can be efficiently executed in parallel on current hardware is extremely difficult, if implicit or explicit maps are the only parallel language feature available and an interpreter or compiler needs to deduce where to introduce the asynchronicity that is required in order to take advantage of the hardware.
This talk will present Futures and Isolates, and related parallel operators constructed upon them, which were added to Dyalog version 14.0 in 2014. The goal has been to provide explicit forms of deterministic asynchronous execution, designed to be very familiar to APL users, and continue to allow them to view the language as an executable mathematical notation, while taking advantage of parallel hardware that is now readily available.
Viral B. Shah - Why Julia?Viral B. ShahCo-inventor of JuliaJulia Computing Inc.
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
60 Mins
In this talk, I will talk about our motivation for creating Julia. Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. Julia's Base library, largely written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed open source C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, signal processing, and string processing. In addition, the Julia developer community is contributing a number of external packages through Julia's built-in package manager at a rapid pace. This is why Julia is seeing rapid adoption in universities for teaching and research, as well as in businesses.
I will discuss what makes Julia fast. Julia's ability to combine these levels of performance and productivity in a single language stems from the choice of a number of features that work well with each other:
- An expressive parametric type system, allowing optional type annotations;
- Multiple dispatch using those types to select implementations;
- A dynamic dataflow type inference algorithm allowing types of most expressions to be inferred;
- Aggressive code specialization against run-time types;
- Metaprogramming;
- Just-In-Time compilation using the LLVM compiler framework; and
- Careful design of the language and standard library to be amenable to type analysis;
I will also touch upon how the language design has made it possible to explore many parallel programming models in Julia, completely within the language.
Amit Rathore - Functional Programming and the Battle for SurvivalAmit RathoreFounder & CEOQuintype
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
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Startups are hot. They're fun. They're exciting, challenging, and romantic. They're also brutal. Only 1 in 20 startups succeed.
This talk is about how functional programming gives startups an advantage. Because every advantage is critical, in the fight to survive. And then to scale up, and thrive.
Mushtaq Ahmed - Introduction to Reactive StreamsMushtaq AhmedMr ScalaThoughtWorks
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
90 Mins
Organising code as chained combination of data processing steps is a common pattern. Functional programming has made it ubiquitous due to concise lambda notations. But there are wide variations in how these pipelines are implemented. In this talk we will explore important properties of lazy data streams such as: push vs pull, hot vs cold, linear-flows vs graphs, perishable vs reusable, unicast vs multicast, synchronous vs asynchronous back-pressured etc.
We will then explain "reactive-streams" protocol which guarantees asynchronous back-pressure for push based data streams. We will conclude with a demo using Akka-Streams which is an implementation of this protocol. The demo will involve a) streaming images from server to the browser over websockets, b) transferring large files from one source server to multiple destination servers.
Morten Kromberg / Jay Foad - Array Oriented Functional Programming with DyalogMorten KrombergCXODyalogJay FoadSoftware DeveloperDyalog Ltd
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
480 Mins
Dyalog is a modern, array-first, multi-paradigm programming language, which supports functional, object-oriented and imperative programming based on an APL language kernel. During the morning and early afternoon, Dyalog's functional language guru John Scholes will introduce the fundamentals of functional programming in APL. At the end of the day, Dyalog CTO Morten Kromberg will round off with an application development session, showing how a simple web application with a HTML5/JS front-end and a RESTful web service can be used to deliver the power of APL to end users, or as embeddable components for other application tools. The "hands on" sections of the workshop can be followed under Mac OS X, Linux, or Microsoft Windows.
Naresh Jain / Dhaval Dalal - Live Code JugalbandiNaresh JainFounderXnsioDhaval DalalSoftware ArtisanCalixir Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
90 Mins
In Indian classical music, we have Jugalbandi, where two lead musicians or vocalist engage in a playful competition. There is jugalbandi between Flutist and a Percussionist (say using Tabla as the instrument). Compositions rendered by flutist will be heard by the percussionist and will replay the same notes, but now on Tabla and vice-versa is also possible.
In a similar way, we will perform Code Jugalbandi to see how the solution looks using different programming languages and paradigms.
During the session, conference attendees will take turns at coding the same problem using different languages and paradigms. There would be multiple such attempts by different participants during the Jugalbandi.
Brian Lee Troutwine - Fault-Tolerance on the Cheap: Making Systems That (Probably) Won't Fall OverBrian Lee TroutwineSr. Software EngineerAdRoll
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Building computer systems that are reliable is hard. The functional programming community has invested a lot of time and energy into up-front-correctness guarantees: types and the like. Unfortunately, absolutely correct software is time-consuming to write and expensive. Fault-tolerant systems achieve system-total reliability by accepting that sub-components will fail and planning for that failure as a first-class concern of the system. As companies embrace the wave of "as-a-service" architectures, failure of sub-systems become a more pressing concern. Using examples from heavy industry, aeronautics and telecom systems, this talk will explore how you can design for fault-tolerance using functional programming techniques, type theory, monitoring, instrumentation and effective team dynamics.
Naresh Jain - Balancing Object-Functional Design Guided by TestsNaresh JainFounderXnsio
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
120 Mins
When we think of OO, most people think of modeling THE real world in software by mapping every real world object (nouns) to entities in software. These entities are then modeled using Is-A-Has-A relationship to build complex, polymorphic hierarchies with deep object graphs. State is stored and mutated in-place inside the object to achieve the desired functionality. This paradigm leads to a fairly convoluted design and encourage imperative style of programming.
Not everyone who has designed large complex systems, think of OO the same way. For instance, people who Test Drive, do not have the luxury of a big-up-front design, instead they focus on small and incremental design. IME, TDD facilities a design that is side-effect free and encourages a declarative style of programming. While decoupling and composing objects in a functional style with the right granularity of abstraction.
Let's assume we've to build a web commenting and discussion feature (like Disqus). And we've a requirement to implement this as a jQuery Plugin. Can we apply pure functional principles to design this? Or will the design be better if we try a classical OO JS approach? In this live demo, we'll build this plugin from scratch and see how TDD will help us drive an object-functional design to strike a pragmatic balance between the 2 paradigms.
Dhaval Dalal - DRYing to Monads in Java8Dhaval DalalSoftware ArtisanCalixir Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
If you thought Monads are a mystery, then this demonstration would show you how to evolve your code towards a Monad without knowing about it. This demo will neither go into any Category Theory nor begin with monadic laws. Instead, we will start with typical code that you see in your daily life as a developer, attempt to DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) it up and eventually use Monad to remove duplication and verbosity. You'll also see how Monads make your code more declarative and succinct by sequencing the steps in your domain logic.
Also, we know in Java8 Checked Exceptions + λ == Pain! To be more precise, we will evolve a Try (exception handling monad) which is missing in Java8, similar to one found in Scala. Finally, map back Try to the 3 monad laws.
Rudraksh MK - A(n) (un)comfortable introduction to HyRudraksh MKCommunity EvangelistWingify
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
This talk is an introduction of sorts to Hy, a Lisp dialect embedded in Python. We'll explore the semantic designs of Hy from a Lisp programmer's perspective, and we'll look at how Hy gives you the best of Lisp-style functional programming, with the ability to hook into Python's ecosystem.
Brian Lee Troutwine - Instrumentation and Monitoring for Functional ArchitecturesBrian Lee TroutwineSr. Software EngineerAdRoll
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
480 Mins
Using a hands-on format, this workshop will address the design and construction of a well-understood back-of-house system found in larger organizations: a resource-consumption based billing system. We will focus on multi-group collaboration to build a service-oriented architecture with individual groups being responsible for a service vertical. Basic infrastructure tools and specific goals for each service vertical will introduce and teach functional concepts that will be immediately useful in existing production environment. Each service vertical and the total integrated system will be exercised by a tool that I will provide. Intra-component protocols will be well-specified and groups will be free to meet their goals as they see fit. No specific language will be used. Participants are encouraged to use languages they are comfortable with. The principles being taught in this workshop will require functional architectures and this will be covered explicitly. Special emphasis will be placed on designing for instrumentation and monitoring using functional principles and the goals of the workshop will support this emphasis.
Yeshwanth - Building a REST API with ScalazYeshwanthPlatform EngineerMegam Systems
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Experience Report
When we were building our cloud orchestration platform, we were looking into writing our API Gateway server in scala and strictly functional because we knew the API is going to be doing lot of heavy lifting and it will be constantly extended. We stumbled upon scalaz, a brilliant library for scala to write functional programs. It was indeed a pleasure for the whole team to write the API since then.
I will be talking more about how we designed and built the REST API that powers megam cloud platform(megam.io). Developers with scala experience will be able to take away on getting started with scalaz library.
Abhinav Sarkar - Introduction to Concurrency in HaskellAbhinav SarkarSenior Software Engineer
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Haskell is widely known as a functional programming language which is great to write pure (non I/O) code and immutable data structures. But it is not well known that it has a great support for a wide variety of concurrency models too.
In this talk we shall explore the various concurrency models and primitives supported by Haskell including green threads, mutable variables, channels and software transactional memory. We shall see how the purity, laziness, and the strong type system of Haskell come together, and help write clean and modular concurrent code. We shall explore these by writing a mutli-user chat server with support for private and channel chatting.
Nilanjan Raychaudhuri - You say big data, I say Fast dataNilanjan RaychaudhuriSoftware DeveloperTypesafe Inc.
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
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BeginnerNowadays most of the "Big Data" problems are dealing with speed not size. Folks want "Fast Data". Speed is the problem to solve, not size. Most organizations today actually face smaller big data problems that they are trying to address through in-memory cached real-time processing of data. In this presentation we will explore architectures used for solving "Fast Data" problems.We will be using Spark Streaming and Scala for code examples.
Tanmai Gopal - Haskell In ProductionTanmai GopalEngineering Head, Founder34 Cross
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Experience Report
From the perspective of one of the few companies in the country using Haskell in production (hasura.io), we will talk about the journey of using Haskell as a programming language to build and maintain real world software.
From the burden of choosing a language that probably has a single digit number of active developers in the country, to
the joys of a small team churning out code that just keeps on working.
We'll go over how we created a team, organized work ("software development practices"), architecting code, tooling up, testing, performance tweaking and finally deploying a Haskell codebase. We hope that Haskell developers with some prior experience will be able to take away
something new about the Haskell ecosystem, and those interested in just functional programming will see tangible value in how certain features unique to Haskell have an impact.
Expect a case study, a review of some cutting-edge tools and how to use them, and some Haskell code samples that will make you grunt in geeky approval.
Shantanu Kumar - Production Clojure: An Experience ReportShantanu KumarPrincipal EngineerConcur
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
45 Mins
Experience Report
This talk is about our experience of using Clojure in production at Concur for building a SaaS platform.
To set the perspective, Concur is a 22 years old, USD 8.3 billion enterprise, now a part of SAP. More than 70% of Fortune 500 companies use Concur for travel and expense solutions. Concur's SaaS platform serves 25,000 customers with 25 million users. The Concur SaaS platform was reaching its limits and needed "re-architecting". This talk is about why we chose Clojure at Concur and how we are building one of the world's largest B2B SaaS platforms in Clojure.
We will discuss the practices we established, experiments we did and the lessons learnt. We have now built a platform that follows open standards, is rigorously tested, tolerates failure and performs well. We will go over how we reached there, how we deployed the code to production and how we monitor those today.
If you are considering using Clojure in production or even simply interested in Clojure, you may get useful insights to take away from this talk.
Sudipta Mukherjee - Practical Machine Learning in F#Sudipta MukherjeeCompiler EngineerRaincode Labs
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
90 Mins
Machine learning is more popular than ever because there are several dataset available and we can use several tools at our disposal to learn an insight from this data.
In this session I shall show how F# can be used for several machine learning tasks and I will be using industry standard APIs
During this session participants will be solving several machine learning challenges from Kaggle like handwritten digit recognizer (https://www.kaggle.com/c/digit-recognizer)
During this session participants will write code in F# to solve real challenges like this one
and they will get to understand the process of machine learning system design pipeline.
Naresha K . - Rethinking HTTP Apps on JVM with RatpackNaresha K .ConsultantIndependent
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45 Mins
HTTP application programming model on JVM traditionally has been based on the thread per request model. However increasing scale and complexity of applications are forcing the developers to think in new directions. Ratpack is one of such efforts. Ratpack is a collection of libraries glued with Java 8 and makes use of Netty, Guava and Reactive Streams. Ratpack also provides a Groovy DSL, helping developers to use declarative style.
In this demo, I will explore the asynchronous programming model leveraged by Ratpack. Composition, immutability, laziness are the core techniques used in building an application, which in fact are the ideas from functional programming. Though Ratpack has a variety of features, my focus for this presentation is asynchronous, reactive and functional aspects of Ratpack.
Pratik Patel - A Sip of ClojureScriptPratik PatelCTOTripLingo
schedule 7 years agoSold Out!
240 Mins
This is an introductory level workshop on ClojureScript. Attendees should have working knowledge of Clojure and should bring a laptop with the ability to install and run development software.
- Installing the ClojureScript platform
- Setting up the interactive browser REPL
- Building web apps with ClojureScript
- Persisting to a database in ClojureScript
- Fast single page applications using Om
Louis-Philippe Gauthier - Building an Erlang microservice from A to ZLouis-Philippe GauthierDirector, Product EngineeringAdGear
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480 Mins
Microservices are the new black, but what are they and why should you use them? This workshop's goal is to demonstrate the advantages of microservice architecture and teach you how to build your first production-ready Erlang microservice! Together we will build a simple distributed key-value store with a RESTful API and go over all aspects of an Erlang project (from build tools to scaling out our microservice).


text: The capital, perched on a bluff at the confluence of the Pétrusse and Alzette rivers, goes by the same name as the country—Lëtzebuerg in Luxembourgish. When Luxembourgers themselves refer to visiting the capital, they merely say they are going en ville (to the city). Ranging from southern European blue-collar workers to international bankers and European civil servants, half of Luxembourg's modest population of 88,000 are foreigners. This has given the city a cosmopolitan sheen and enriched it with a variety of ethnic restaurants, but the Luxembourgers themselves remain essentially homebodies, who go home for lunch if they can and see no point in hanging about in town after dark.


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Pastor Hedley Clemo - December 1, 2019
John 3v1-16 - #1 Regeneration - Death to Life
From Series: "The Tube Map Of Salvation & The Journeys We Get To Take"
This series covers the topic of Salvation as we find it described in the Bible.
Salvation is like a precious diamond with many different facets.
Here we use the picture of the London Tube Map with its various different lines and we recognise that Salvation takes us from one place to another e.g. Death to Life; Rejection to Acceptance; Guilty to Acquitted etc.


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Time Outside May Reduce Nearsightedness in Kids
Aug. 3, 2012 — Spending more time outside may help protect children's eyesight.
New research suggests that increasing the amount of time children spend outdoors may reduce the risk of developing myopia, or nearsightedness.
Nearsightedness is a common vision problem in which objects in the distance appear blurred and out of focus. The condition can usually be corrected with eyeglasses, contact lenses, or eye surgery.
Although nearsightedness is easily corrected, researchers say there is currently no widely used method to reduce the risk of developing the condition or slow its progression.
Researchers say that encouraging children to spend more time outside may be a new way to protect their eyesight and reduce the risk of myopia. Their findings would need to be confirmed by further studies.
The results also suggest that environmental factors, like the amount of time spent in front of TVs or reading books, may help explain rising rates of myopia in certain groups.
"Even though a substantial proportion of myopia cases can be explained by inheritance, this does not exclude strong environmental influences being the driving force behind the rapid increases in the prevalence of myopia over time, especially in East Asia," researcher Justin Sherwin, of the University of Cambridge in the U.K., and colleagues write in Ophthalmology.
Outside Time Protects Eyes
In the study, researchers reviewed a total of 23 studies on myopia in children and teens up to 20 years old.
Using information from seven studies that included population-wide data on the risk of nearsightedness, they estimated the impact of spending time outdoors on the risk of myopia.
"We found a significant protective association between increasing time spent outdoors and prevalent myopia in nearly 10,000 children and adolescents," write the researchers. "Each increase in hours per week of time spent outdoors was associated with a 2% reduced odds of myopia."
Another three studies that followed children over time showed that increasing the amount of time they spent outdoors slowed the progression of myopia.
"The overall findings indicate that increasing time spent outdoors may be a simple strategy by which to reduce the risk of developing myopia and its progression in children and adolescents," they write.
Researchers stress that these studies were observational and can only show an association between time spent outside and the risk of myopia, not a cause and effect. Future randomly controlled studies are needed to confirm the role of outdoor time in the development of nearsightedness.
They say there are a variety of potential explanations for the protective effect of spending time outside on eyesight.
For example, spending time outdoors may help protect against myopia by increasing the release of dopamine in the eye in response to sunlight. Or, as stated, it may reduce the amount of time spent on other work requiring near vision, like watching TV or reading.


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Some of the genea-bloggers are listing a "Year in Review" of their blogs for 2008. Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings discovered this meme at John Newmark's Transylvanian Dutch blog. The idea is to take the first sentence from the first blog of each month. There will end up being 12 sentences. (Since I didn't start my blog until April, I'll only have 8 sentences!) So here we go . . .
- April: Welcome to "All My Branches" – my blog on genealogy.
- May: If I haven't mentioned it here before, then I will now.
- June: Back in the mid 1960's during a reunion trip to Coshocton, my parents had discussed finding a house that my dad's mother had grown up in (or was born in).
- July: Please go to Destination: Austin Family to read the 51st Carnival of Genealogy post.
- August: To my faithful readers – just a note that I will be posting new stuff soon!
- September: Yes, I've felt like I've taken a long commercial break!
- October: The theme for the 6th edition of Smile for the Camera is "Funny Bone".
- November: Glen Roy Johnson, Jr. being held by his mom (my grandmother), Vesta Wilt Johnson
- December: Miriam Robbins Midkiff, of Ancestories2 and Ancestories issued a new word prompt on her Ancestories2 blog.
So there you have it!


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Final Word: Pull up a box and have a minimalist holiday
- If you can't indulge on Thanksgiving, when can you?
- Minimalism brings about a better life, or so say authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus
- Craig likes his stuff, which took decades to accumulate
Since we're heading into the more-is-more season, perhaps it's a good time to sit back and look at how we can all live with less.
Then again, why? If you're not going to go to excess during the holidays, when are you?
Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, however, have built a large following with their little book, Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life. The two lay out their want vs. need mantra on their website, aptly called Theminimalists.com, and are kicking off a nationwide holiday tour in New York on Monday. Don't expect an open bar.
Unhappy and feeling empty even with their successful careers and garages full of fancy cars, they ditched all their "stuff" a couple years ago and now tell their followers how they can do the same.
They even recommend throwing a "packing party" in which you box up all your possessions and ship them out of your life. I can only hope drinks are served at these parties. My tip: Pack up wine glasses last.
What you get in trade for that stemware, your flat-screen TV and your Bose sound system is better health, better relationships and a newfound passion for life. Or so they say.
I'm sure they mean well, but I'm glad I'm not going to their place for Thanksgiving. Do they have chairs? A table? What about a kids' table? Are there even kids, or did they go the way of the china?
As for the meal, I fear seconds would be frowned upon and the gravy rationed. I've always believed in the less-is-more mantra, but these guys make me nervous.
I just wandered around the house and looked for things to gather up during my "packing party." So far, I have a couple of paperbacks and the dog's bed, which has seen better days. I like my stuff. It took me decades to accumulate this much junk.
Maybe come New Year's I'll revisit this minimalism thing, during my annual urge to purge when the tree comes down. Maybe.
Right now, I'm heading to the kitchen, where I'm going to make my mother's famous apple pie for our Thanksgiving feast tomorrow. Actually, I'm making two.
Unlike fancy cars, you cannot have too many apple pies.
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Feb. 27, 2013— -- A key House Republican lawmaker is softening his stance against a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, a positive sign for comprehensive immigration reform's chances of passing Congress.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) told reporters in Washington on Wednesday that he won't rule out legislation that would permit undocumented immigrants in the United States to eventually earn citizenship.
See Also: Obstacle to Immigration Reform?
Goodlatte explained that he would allow lawmakers in both parties to come to a "consensus" on how many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. could obtain legal status, and eventually citizenship.
When asked by a reporter at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor if undocumented immigrants would be forever precluded from becoming U.S. citizens under his vision for immigration reform, Goodlatte responded, "No, I don't think that."
"Everybody has a different point of view, and everyone has a different definition, by the way, of what a pathway to citizenship is," he said. "So to me, rather than getting bogged down in the semantics we ought to look at what actually would enable us to find common ground to enable us to pass legislation."
Just last week, Goodlatte said that he did not support allowing undocumented immigrants in the U.S. to earn full citizenship. Should the House follow its regular procedure, an immigration bill would have to pass through Goodlatte's committee. So his comment provoked fears from supporters of comprehensive immigration reform that a bill would have little hope of passing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
President Barack Obama, Democrats and immigration activists have all demanded that a "real" pathway to citizenship be a part of any bill.
On Wednesday, Goodlatte said he is open to considering a number of ways for people in the country unlawfully to earn legal status and citizenship, though he said none of those paths should be "easy" or "special." For many people who have entered the country illegally, there is virtually no existing path to citizenship.
"Now once you have that status, you can qualify like anyone else," he said. "So having a system where, if you have now a lawful status and then you have another opportunity -- whether it's employment-based or whether it's family-based -- to be able to legalize your status in the future, those are good opportunities."
Goodlatte said he would look at changing the three-year and ten-year re-entry bars for immigrants who are in the country illegally but want to enter the U.S. and seek legal permanent residency, commonly known as obtaining a green card.
"Maybe you have to still go home, but you don't have the bar," he said. "Maybe you adjust here. Look, we shouldn't prejudge all the things, all I'm saying is we ought to find that common ground where we can actually pass something. And that's key."
The Virginia Republican made it clear that other provisions must be a part of a bill, including tough interior enforcement of immigration laws, including mandatory E-Verify for employers to check the immigration status of potential workers and ramped-up border security measures. He also said that legislation should include a legal way for lower-skilled immigrants to work in the U.S. and a clearing of visa backlogs.
"There are millions of people who are not U.S. citizens who are in long lines waiting to avail themselves of those opportunities who have followed the legal process," he said. "So focusing on where we can find that common ground on legal status would be a good step."
Goodlatte also did not rule out a bipartisan plan being drafted in the Senate that includes an earned pathway to citizenship, but requires federal immigration authorities to meet a "trigger" for border security before a pathway could go forward. But he did say he still has "concerns" about various immigration-reform proposals that have been floated in public.
"We would like to see what they produce. We'll then take that and at the same time take the temperature of the members of the committee, the members of the House and see what we can find as a common ground," he said. "I do have concerns about a lot of the different proposals that I've seen. Rather than negotiate those concerns in public, I think it's better to let the process work and see what kind of consensus we can develop."


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Theodore ROOSEVELT, Congress, NY (1858-1919)
ROOSEVELT, Theodore, (great-great-grandson of Archibald Bulloch, nephew of Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, father-in-law of Nicholas Longworth), a Vice President and 26th President of the United States; born in New York City, October 27, 1858; privately tutored; graduated from Harvard University in 1880; studied law; traveled abroad; member, New York State Assembly 1882-1884; moved to North Dakota and lived on his ranch; returned to New York City in 1886; appointed by President Benjamin Harrison a member of the United States Civil Service Commission 1889-1895, when he resigned to become president of the New York Board of Police Commissioners; resigned this position upon his appointment by President William McKinley as Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1897-1898, when he resigned to enter the war with Spain; organized the First Regiment, United States Volunteer Cavalry, popularly known as Rooseveltâs Rough Riders; Governor of New York 1899-1900; elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket headed by William McKinley in 1900 and was inaugurated March 4, 1901; upon the death of President McKinley on September 14, 1901, became President of the United States; elected President of the United States in 1904, inaugurated March 4, 1905, and served until March 3, 1909; unsuccessful candidate of the Progressive Party for President of the United States in 1912 and 1916; engaged in literary pursuits; died at Oyster Bay, Nassau County, N.Y., January 6, 1919; interment in Youngâs Memorial Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Blum, John Morton. The Republican Roosevelt. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977; Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1979; Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex. New York: Random House, 2001.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present


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As truth is most precious, so all men confess it to be so. And yet, since God alone is the source of all good, you must not doubt, that whatever truth you anywhere meet with, proceeds from Him, unless you would be doubly ungrateful to Him;
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Letter CCXXXVI.—TO BUCER, Letters of John Calvin, Volume 2 (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2009), 198–199.
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Poll of British public says only one in three would vote to stay in EU block
UK PM bowed to pressure last month, promising a Tory government would hold referendum in 2017
Allies concerned about risk of a Tory government accidentally finding itself outside the EU
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg have an uphill struggle before any EU referendum according to a poll that says only one in three would vote to stay in the bloc.
The findings, which are likely to spark alarm in pro-European circles, suggest that anti-Brussels sentiment is sweeping through the British public.
Given an in-out referendum on EU membership tomorrow, 50 per cent would vote "out" against 33 per cent "in" and 17 per cent who would not vote either way, according to the poll by Harris Interactive for the Financial Times.
Mr Cameron, who had resisted calls to hold a referendum, finally bowed to pressure last month by promising that a Tory government would do so in 2017.
The Conservative leader said if his party won the next election he would seek to repatriate various powers from Brussels before putting EU membership to the public.
The prime minister, who would campaign for an "in" vote, said he had "no illusions about the scale of the task ahead", a comment borne out by the Harris poll of 2,114 adults, conducted between January 29 and February 6.
The promise of a plebiscite is very popular with the electorate, with 50 per cent supporting the decision and only 21 per cent opposing it.
Mr Cameron has delighted his backbenchers with the move, designed in part to stave off a potential electoral threat from a resurgent UK Independence party.
It would be the first national referendum on Europe since 1975 when Harold Wilson, the Labour prime minister, put membership of the European Economic Community to the public.
But Mr Cameron has also stoked nervousness in Paris, Berlin and Washington from allies concerned about the risk of a Tory government accidentally finding itself outside the EU.
The prime minister believes that he will be able to convince the public of the merits of staying in the EU so long as he can renegotiate the relationship.
Yet of those who would vote "out", only 12 per cent said they would "definitely" change their minds if there was a successful renegotiation. Another 47 per cent said "yes, possibly" to the idea that they could alter their vote. But 41 per cent of those wanting Britain to leave would definitely not change their point of view.
David Cameron is under pressure from all sides and faces a delicate balancing act to try to renegotiate an acceptable UK membership settlement with the EU
There is no certainty that Mr Cameron would be able to repatriate all, or even most, of the powers he wants – such as fisheries, business regulation and policing.
Immigration and justice are the two policy areas a large majority, 70 per cent, of Britons see as either very, or extremely, important to repatriate from the EU, according to the poll findings.
The British establishment would unite behind a "yes" campaign if a vote occurs in 2017, with the unions and CBI employers' group signalling that they would join the Tory, Labour and Lib Dem leaderships in doing so.
Some 45 per cent of voters believe Britain still benefits from its EU membership while only 34 per cent think it does not, according to the poll. Likewise, 86 per cent are at least somewhat concerned that the economy will be undermined by uncertainty over membership.
Yet only 31 per cent believe the UK's economy would be weaker outside the organisation, according to Harris.
In theory the overall findings should put a spring in the step of Ukip, which hopes to come second or even first in the European elections in 2014. Yet only 10 per cent of those polled were "very or extremely confident" that Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, could get the best deal for the UK in the EU – compared to 16 per cent for Mr Cameron.
Meanwhile only 11 per cent of voters were more likely to back Ukip since the promise of an in-out referendum – while 25 per cent were less likely to support the party.
Harris found that voters ranked the EU at only 14th in a list of 15 priorities for the UK, with healthcare, education and economic growth in the first three slots.


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Woof Woof: Hi, I'm Pace',
|Along The Crag's trail
That's me hiking The Crag's trail up the Western side of Pikes Peak with Matty (Shirley & Don's grandson). It was a couple of summers ago and Matty has grown a bunch since then. He's got a cochlear implant now and soon to get the 2nd one. He signs (ASL), reads lips, talks all the time, hears almost perfectly and is, in every way, a typical 5 year old. Disability? What disability!?! We should all have the abilities this kid has.
Anyway, speaking of disabilities. We had our first Service Animal stay with us last week-end. A cute (well, not as cute as me) puppy name Penny. It was a challenge for an old dog like me but I handled it pretty well if I do say so myself. You see, Service Animals are the only exception to the GuestHouse's no pet policy. By statute, if your place is handicap accessible you have to accommodate Service Animals as well. The wording is loose and there's room for interpretation but Don & Shirley believe it would be unkind (and inhospitable) to turn away a person who needs, and benefits from, a highly trained Service Animal. Penny was a great guest, never barked and didn't soil the room. I guess I'm OK with Service Animals after all.
Well, other than that, and some guests with food allergies (gluten and dairy), it's been a quiet time at the GuestHouse. The summer has returned to normal, warm days, cool nights and the occasional afternoon shower - I'm lovin' it!
Woof! Bye For Now!


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In Britain in 1963, when a by-election was held to choose a replacement for John Profumo, the disgraced Secretary of State for War, who had been obliged to resign over his relations with a call girl, one of the candidates was a young man named David Sutch. Sutch's platform, such as it was, included lowering the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen, presumably on the ground that teen-agers were no less responsible than adults, and the dismal number of votes he received, two hundred and nine, might have discouraged any further pursuit of office. But Sutch—who was better known as the rock musician Screaming Lord Sutch—went on to have one of the longest careers in British politics, as the head of what eventually became known as the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, which serves in the U.K. as a kind of institutional satirical protest movement. Sutch ran for office forty-odd times, always in high-profile seats, always without success, and always with substantial publicity. (His biggest victory came in 1990, when he outpolled the candidate from the Social Democratic Party, which for almost a decade had been attempting to provide an alternative to the Labour and Conservative Parties. The S.D.P. folded shortly thereafter.) Sutch died in 1999, but his legacy continues: in this year's British election, the Party fielded twenty-seven candidates, including one who promised to stick juvenile delinquents together with Super Glue and one who campaigned on an anti-gravity platform.
The recent primary elections in this country have brought to the public's attention several candidates who also appear to be running on anti-gravity platforms, most notably Christine O'Donnell, who, with the backing of the Tea Party, won Delaware's Republican senatorial primary, defeating Mike Castle, the establishment candidate, in an upset. O'Donnell, who is forty-one, and is formidably telegenic in a Palinesque mold—she has been known to wear her chestnut hair in a modified beehive—has a past so colorful that it might make even a sixties rock musician blush. She was an evangelical activist in the nineteen-nineties, when she founded a youth organization called the Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth, under whose auspices she argued in favor of saving sex for marriage, and against sex that does not require a partner. O'Donnell also proved herself game for the pseudo-conflict with which cable television and talk radio fill their empty hours. She was a frequent guest on Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect," telling him on one now notorious occasion that she had "dabbled into witchcraft" and had concluded a date with a "picnic on a satanic altar." [#unhandled_cartoon]
Last week, O'Donnell was on Sean Hannity's show on Fox, downplaying the dabblings by calling such activities "teen-age rebellion," and asking, "Who doesn't regret the eighties to some extent?" (Quite right: think of that hair, those clothes, that President.) She also defended herself against charges of financial irresponsibility, including her default on a mortgage in 2008. She had fallen behind in her payments, she explained, as the result of devoting too much time to a pro-bono public-relations client, a disabled woman whose feeding tube was to be removed by a court order. "When her father came to me, he said, 'I can't pay you, but will you help me save her life?' and you can't say no to that," she added.
In the interview, O'Donnell criticized her opponents for attacking her personally, rather than for challenging her on her political beliefs, which would be a fair complaint were it not for the fact that she has built a career on suggesting how others should live their lives: in the nineties, as a spokesperson for a conservative-values group called Concerned Women for America, she sent out press releases condemning the "unhealthy life style" of homosexuals, and describing AIDS education as "a platform for the homosexual community to recruit adolescents." She suggested that her critics should focus instead on the flush hand of G.O.P. positions she holds: extending the Bush tax cuts, with a view to making them permanent; granting a two-year holiday on the capital-gains tax; eliminating the estate tax; repealing health-care reform.
O'Donnell's fellow primary winners this season include, in Nevada, Harry Reid's opponent, Sharron Angle, who is in favor of eliminating the Department of Education and the Department of Energy; Joe Miller, the G.O.P. senatorial candidate in Alaska, who would outlaw abortion even in the case of rape or incest; and Carl Paladino, the businessman running for the governorship of New York, who is best known for forwarding off-color e-mails, and who would use eminent domain to prevent the construction of an Islamic community center—the so-called Ground Zero mosque. The insurgence of these protest candidates is understandable, up to a point, given the parlous state of the economy and the failure of the Democrats (and, for that matter, the establishment Republicans) to assure the public that they have matters in hand: in August, twenty-one states reported a rise in unemployment, and the number of houses repossessed by banks was up twenty-five per cent over last year. (O'Donnell would have had no trouble finding an audience sympathetic to her mortgage problems.) Meanwhile, A Pledge to America, which the House Republicans released last week, is essentially a retread of the 1994 Contract with America, and seems unlikely to calm many nerves.
But there are indications that the Administration is finally making an effort to respond to the discontent. Last week, in a televised town-hall meeting, Velma Hart, a middle-class veteran and Obama supporter, told the President of her fear of returning to "the hot-dogs-and-beans era of our lives." Obama acknowledged Hart's frustration, and went on to cite the various measures that his government has enacted—student-loan, credit-card, and health-care reform—to help ease the burdens of people like her. Later in the meeting, the President also noted that the Tea Party arose from a noble American tradition of skepticism about government. "That's in our D.N.A., right?" he said, to applause. "I mean, we came in because the folks over on the other side of the Atlantic had been oppressing folks without giving them representation." Skepticism about government is indeed an essential element of democracies, as Screaming Lord Sutch demonstrated. But the Administration still has to make a more persuasive case that anti-government rhetoric of the Tea Party sort must be met with an equal skepticism—that to take such protest and turn it into policy would be nothing less than loony. ♦


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Laurie Anderson remembered her late husband Lou Reed in a short obit for the East Hampton Star, a small newspaper from a town on Long Island that Reed and Anderson often visited. Read the full text below:
To our neighbors:
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we're city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
— Laurie Anderson
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate has given initial approval to legislation abolishing the statute of limitations on prosecuting rape.
The measure debated Wednesday also changes the time limits for prosecuting a sexually violent crime. Final Senate action is scheduled Thursday.
Kansas is among 10 states that now require a rape to be prosecuted within five years. The legislation does away with that limit.
The bill also allows for prosecution of a sexually violent crime to begin within 10 years if the victim is at least 18 years old.
For younger victims, prosecution would begin within one year of the date the suspect is identified through DNA testing, or within 10 years of the victim's 18th birthday, whichever is later.


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His regular diet of worms and other non-religious fare
The Cage, Bali
Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017
WE had a little giggle this week when we read that the Minister for National Development Planning, Professor Bambang Brodjonegoro, had wondered why more Australian investment was directed to Mexico than to Indonesia. Mexico, as he pointed out on an invest-with-us road show in Australia, was a long way away. It is. They wear sombreros there too, at least in cartoons, but that's also totally beside the point.
An interesting article in the Fairfax press reported the issue, and included some commentary from Australian superannuation funds, from which Indonesia would apparently like a hand with projects. We note of course that such investments are indeed part and parcel of the global money round. The key to such investments is their legal security and actuarially based rates of return (ROI). Indonesia is making progress towards some measure of transparency and certainty in these matters, but a cautious superannuation investment fund manager would probably wait a little while. It's different with company-level investments. They only depend on directors' confidence levels. Or Chinese investments, which despite the official outbreak of pretend capitalism that the mandarins in Beijing have permitted, are still effectively State (and therefore Party) subscriptions, and hence political. They are all about building the next Chinese empire.
Minister Bambang made a direct pitch for Australian investment in a "new Nusa Dua" in the "eastern islands". To decode that for the uninitiated, the Nusa Dua development in Bali is the manicured tourism precinct at the southern tip of the island full of international hotels that these days struggle to compete against the low-cost appeal, to the new market, of cheaper products elsewhere; and "eastern islands" means Labuan Bajo in Flores. We'll return to Flores in a moment.
He also suggested that Australians might consider investing in tourism-related developments in the "new Nusa Dua" and instanced water sports and related fun things as examples of where they might choose to do so. How this might be done effectively and profitably is a conundrum. Indonesia's restrictions on foreign workers, the country's prevailing low productivity and skills levels, and the promiscuous practice of local and national regulators in deciding that their noses are out of joint and that they will therefore without notice inspect the paperwork and deport anyone found holding a spanner, is one among many other unresolved questions.
In the early booster stages of economic promotions directed at specific targets, in this case Labuan Bajo in western Flores, near where the real komodos roam on their eponymous island, the chief effect is to raise land values and pour cash into the pockets of title-holders. Often this is a relative thing, which can benefit siblings and more distant relations of those doing the boosting. As someone with whom we spoke recently on these matters noted, perhaps such people are looking to family connections for an opportunity to upgrade from a canoe to a cruiser.
We'll All be Rooned (Well, No We Won't)
ROONED is what that eternal Jeremiah, Hanrahan, said would happen, in the lovely poem published in 1921 and written by the Australian bush poet John O'Brien, the pen name of a Roman Catholic priest, Patrick Joseph Hartigan. "We'll all be rooned, said Hanrahan" – Hanrahan was a pessimistic man of Irish descent – now has an honoured place in the Australian English lexicon.
Pessimists and their jeremiads are fixed elements in any society, of course, though here in Bali, they are mostly of the imported variety. Foreigners who have lived here for a long time, or who have frequently visited for what to them probably feels like eons, fondly remember times past when the island was a pristine paradise. That is, except for the natives, who were poor and deprived of most of the benefits of modern life, and who, it is said by some, preferred it that way.
According to that primarily self-serving confected legend, Bali's unique culture is now facing deadly risk. There's an alternative view of this. This is that Bali's culture and its unique religion is just as capable as any other of changing with the times. The island is not a Petrie dish and its culture is not an arcane scientific experiment managed by others. The archipelago survived the introduction of the chilli after all – by the Portuguese, who got them from someone else, naturally, centuries ago – and has made it its own. That's just a small example of how change is welcomed and quietly managed by human societies.
There's another aphorism that seems apt: The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The British writer Tim Hannigan – who describes himself as a pop historian, just by the way – would probably share this view. He writes from a post-colonial perspective. This is sensible, since except for references to that sometimes beneficial but predominantly pernicious plague by politicians everywhere in former empires who want to display their nationalist credentials, the age of European empire has long gone.
Hannigan is in Indonesia at present on a book tour, which will now take him to Jakarta. He was in Bali this week and we caught up with him twice, once at the Periplus bookstore at Samasta in Jimbaran and again over one of Asri Kerthyasa's fine high teas at Biku in Seminyak.
He wrote some finely tuned polemic in his brilliantly researched book Raffles and the British Invasion of Java, and a very readable A Brief History of Indonesia, among others. He has also edited A Brief History of Bali which is now on the bookstore shelves and is a must read, a revision with additional chapters version of the American Willard Hanna's original. Hanna's ended in the 1970s, ancient history now; Hannigan's mediates Hanna's Cold War perspective and takes the story on to current time.
Telephone Cheek
THE leaked transcript of the telephone call between American President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull shortly after Trump assumed office early this year is interesting. It confirms Trump as a president who doesn't read his briefs, or perhaps doesn't even ask for them, and underlines the worrying fact that he's a real estate shyster whom American voters have elected to an office that is far beyond his moral, ethical and administrative capacities. It shows that a phone conversation with him, leader to leader, isn't necessarily one that will produce an effective outcome or indeed connect with rational thought.
The call, which was terminated early, by Trump, turned on the Obama era plan proposed by the Australians that the U.S. take as many of Australia's detainees on offshore foreign islands as its vetting processes would permit. There are (or were at the time) around 1,200 of these poor souls, held in limbo because they had attempted to reach Australia by boat from Indonesia. The call confirmed the depravity (in the correct sense of the word) of Australian policy towards foreign people who have committed no crime. There is no morality in denying human rights to others – whoever they are – and detaining them indefinitely in camps on islands in other countries.
It cannot be justified on the basis that it has "stopped the boats" and people drowning at sea. It is simply a profane political process whose effectiveness (undeniable in the short term) is determined by refusing to recognise the real problem: an unstoppable global population movement. It screams "Australia's for Australians" and wins votes for doing so. That's an Australian problem. It mirrors Trump America's mad Mexican Wall idea.
Turnbull deserves some credit for talking to Trump in a mannered and diplomatic way: for not interjecting "WTF, Donald?" That's the only creditable element in the event – well, that and the fact that someone had the moral fortitude to leak the transcripts (there were others) to the media. These are sorry days.
Hector writes a diary in the Bali Advertiser newspaper. The next will appear on Aug. 16.


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Raped Twice: Marriage, Memory Assaulted Too
Apr 28, 2022
Inshah Malik
"Rape is not merely an assault on a body. Every such violation is an assault on memory which often forces women to shift from living to merely existing."
The gruesome gang rape that happened recently in the capital city New Delhi has shocked the Indian nation. The young woman, a 23-year-old college student, was gang raped on a private bus, and six men reportedly in a drunken state were involved in the heinous crime. The barbarity of the incident of shoving iron rod into the private organs of the girl has sent waves of horror down the spines of conscious young people across the country. I know it sent waves of horror down mine. I turned to social media to pour out messages of condemnation, with much emotion, and I remembered Shabnam.
Shabnam was standing near the bus stop when I arrived in a small local car. She was somber in her presence, and her face was pale and wrinkled, though she was only in her late thirties. In the north of Kashmir, a twin village site, Konan-Poshpora, known for the mass rape of some 62 women in early 1990s by the Indian army, every woman has a gruesome story to share. But Shabnam, she is a symbol of existence. She exists, attracting no attention, though easily singled out as different from the rest.
Shabnam escorted me to her tiny little house by the edge of the green fields that belong to the farming villagers. As I entered, a strange sense of distress overwhelmed me, Shabnam's five-year-old son sat across the room. The room was cold, dark, and a repugnant smell engulfed it. This is one room, where Shabnam has lived all her married life. As I was sensing it, Shabnam intervened, "I hate this house, I never wanted to live here. Last year, I had a terrible fight with my husband and first thing I wanted to do is burn this house down. I almost did." She laughs and continues, "Just five minutes on this straight road from here is an army camp." And she abruptly fell silent, staring at the road from the hole in her wooden window. I wasn't sure how to continue the conversation, and I asked, "You fight with your husband?" She replied in an irritated way, "Of course, men never understand what happens to us," and in the same breath, "but my husband is an angel, if he was not there for me, I would have killed myself. No man can accept his wife back, after she is raped."
I was silent for a while, trying to imagine, what must have happened in this place, when in late hours the Indian army men entered each and every house, when there were shrieks of women coming from all the corners. Women were calling all the higher spiritual forces to come to their aid, as I am thinking now of the helplessness of a Delhi girl clutched by six barbarians, alone in a moving bus.
Shabnam continued sharing her ordeal, "How can a man be happy with a woman who can no longer satisfy his sexual urges, a woman whose genitals are electrocuted?" This detail surprised me, because in the mass rape there were no reported instances of torture. She continued, "I was interrogated and raped again, a year after the mass rape happened in this village. They arrested me because my husband's brother was a militant. Twelve army men raped me and after that gave electric shocks in my genitals. Even after this my husband took me back. For me, isn't he a prophet? But, I am no longer an able person; he earns little and pays all for my medical treatments."
I was speechless; this was first time for me to face the reality of our political situation as well as my feminine self. I had by now forgotten all lessons of research and knowledge generation that my university prepared me with. I sat unmoving, thinking and listening.
Kashmiri women protesting, Konan-Poshpora. Photo Credit: Hindustan Times
She continued, "That year when the mass rape happened, it was my second year of marriage. A day before that my husband brought me some gifts and we were still in love; now perhaps I don't know what we mean by love, it has become such a grave realization. That night they dragged all the men of the village out in a crackdown to hunt militants fighting them for freedom, and they dragged my husband out of the house. It was winter, they made him sleep on a six feet high heap of snow. I was watching from the window, I could not see my husband in this condition. I came out of my house and told the army men to leave my husband. My husband became furious and shouted at me, "Don't you see what they are doing to women? Get inside and lock the door. Let me die."
"A strange realization dawned on me. My sister who was still unmarried was in the house. I asked her at once to leave the house from the window. This irritated the army men. I ran inside and closed the door, they broke open the door, they were ten or twenty or more, I have no consciousness of that, I just remember, I was bleeding all through the way to hospital. I wish they assaulted my memory too so I did not have the burden to remember it or narrate it," she said.
I slowly made my way out of that room, a hole of dingy darkness. I walked slowly, leaving behind Shabnam, left in a constant struggle with her memory.
The recent incident in Delhi has perturbed us all. Rape is not merely an assault on a body. Every such violation is an assault on memory which often forces women to shift from living to merely existing. When a woman is raped in a patriarchal society, she is often raped twice: once of her body and again by the silence of her community. Today, the conscious young women of India must ask questions for Shabnam too, because a uniform does not remove the barbarity of the masculine militaristic state nor its patriarchal mind.
Inshah Malik is a PhD student at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Born and raised in the tumultuous years of armed insurgency in Kashmir, Inshah has been actively engaged in highlighting the problems of Kashmiri people, especially issues faced by Kashmiri women. She published research on Kashmiri women in 2011 and also runs a women's collaborative aimed at highlighting the issues of Kashmiri women.


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For the past several years, I've covered the Rainforest Alliance (RA) Cupping for Quality awards, a competition for RA-certified farms. In its first year, 2003, eight countries submitted 40 coffees for consideration. There is now so much participation, and to accommodate the variable seasonality of the world's coffees, that two cuppings are held each year: May for Central America and India, and December for the southern hemisphere including Brazil, Peru, East Africa, and Indonesia.
My last report was for the December 2009 cupping, and just recently RA announced the winners of the May 2010 cupping. There were 68 coffees submitted, mostly from Central America, but with India and the Dominican Republic competing for the first time.
Here are the top ten winners and their scores.
- El Injerto (Guatemala) — 89.73. Four time winner of the Guatemalan Cup of Excellence. 470 of the 720 ha of this farm in Huehuetenango (15.564794, -91.941574) is forested.
- El Cashal (El Salvador) — 86.95 Located in AhuachapÁ¡n in the western part of El Salvador (map here).
- Coopranaranjo R.L. (Costa Rica)* — 86.45. A cooperative/mill in Naranjo, Central Valley. Markets coffee under five different brands. There isn't any mention of which/how many producers are RA certified.
- La BendiciÁ³n (Guatemala) — 86.38. Located in Chimaltenango (14.486317, -91.004567). An allied farm, Santa Elisa Pachup, came in second place a couple of years ago.
- San Diego Buena Vista (Guatemala) — 86.37. Acatenango, Chimaltenango (14.543416, -90.975137).
- Coopedota R.L. (Costa Rica) — 86.20. A large cooperative and mill, marketing at least eight brands. One, Cafe Hermosa, is marketed as RA certified. The mill also has facilities for separating micro-lots from individual producers.
- La Hilda (Costa Rica) — 85.95. A single estate. A look at this video, which I believe to be the correct place, shows that the production area is primarily sun coffee, as is typical in much of Costa Rica. You can look at it in Google Earth as well (10.093514, -84.216667). It looks like the production area is sun, but that there is adjacent forest. Portland Roasting works directly with this farm more info at their site.
- El Zapote (Guatemala) — 85.78. There are multiple farms with this name in Guatemala, but I am pretty sure this is the finca in Acatenango, Chimaltenango (14.547683, -90.968283).
- Cafetalera TirrÁ¡, S.A. (Costa Rica) — 85.13. Processes and markets the coffee grown in Poas and Alajuela.
- Jesus MarÁa (Nicaragua) — 85.13. I think this is near Matagalpa.
*Aside from #7, the Costa Rican winners are cooperatives and/or mills. Coffee from Costa Rica is often named or branded by the mill, which processes coffee from farms in the surrounding region, so farm source can sometimes be difficult to determine. These are pretty large entities, and Rainforest Alliance explained to me that while not all members/suppliers of the named winner are certified, the mill or co-op submits a representative sample of 100% certified coffee from a RA-certified farm or farms. RA requires segregation and traceability of their certified coffee from the rest of the coffee moving through the supply chain.Revised on March 4, 2021


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StereoLithography(StL) is something that is widely used in CAD/CAM, RapidPrototyping etc. The concept is that any surface or solid is exported to StL format by data exchange packages after they are modeled in commercial CAD packages. This data consists of triangulated facets that approximate the surface of the solid. No topological or geometric information is exported. The surface is subdivided into small triangles. The approximation uses chordal deflection for curved surfaces to smoothen the surface. More the smoothening required, more number of smaller triangles are generated by subdivision resulting in larger size of data file. Now, along with triangles, their facet normals are also generated. The data is written both in ASCII and binary formats. The data in ASCII is written like this:
facet normal 0.000000e+000 -1.000000e+000 0.000000e+000
outer loop
vertex -1.499999e+002 -1.000000e+002 0.000000e+000
vertex -1.500000e+002 -1.000000e+002 0.000000e+000
vertex -1.500000e+002 -1.000000e+002 -5.000000e+001
The facet normal tells the three components of the facet normal followed by three vertices of one triangle, enclosed by the statements.
facet normal
facet normal 0.000000e+000 -1.000000e+000 0.000000e+000
Thus all the triangles are written one after the other. This data can be then used as input for generating Rapid Prototype models as well as for NC toolpath generation. The Normal data helps to compute tool offsets etc.
Here, for displaying the data in the OpenGL viewer, I have written the code for reading the data and displaying each triangle using glBegin(GL_TRIANGLES) and the normals for lighting. The viewer and geometry coding is same as my earlier project CadSurf. You can read as many StL (ASCII only) files into the viewer zoom, pan, rotate the views, select the objects, change attributes like color and material. The viewer provides object oriented context menus. I.e., when you click the right mouse button in the view with no active selection, you get a context menu for setting the viewer attributes, whereas with StL object selected, you get menu for the object attributes. Some sample StL data is also provided in the Data folder of the project.
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