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11 things we'd like to see in the iPad mini - the launch of the iPad mini is nearly here. Apple has been teasing the tech world with little leaks here and there, but now it looks as if the wait is nearly over and the world will soon get a look at the iPad mini.
Which of these features would you like to see in the iPad mini? Have your say in our poll.
So what we have got in store for you here, is '11 things we'd like to see in the iPad mini'. As you can probably tell from the title, this isn't a confirmed list of iPad mini specs - far from it in fact - it's merely an unassuming collection of features that would be nice if the iPad mini included. See also iPad Mini release date, specs and rumours.
11 features we'd like to see in the iPad mini
A lot was made about the iPad mini's big brother being 4G compatible, and it was a great feature. The only problem was that the 4G LTE that the iPad proper came with was the wrong frequency to work in the UK. So we'd love to see the iPad mini beat the odds and come equipped with superfast 4G. Take a look at out iPad review too.
Likeliness: 3/10
Apple has been drawn into the smaller tablet market thanks to the likes of the very cheap Google Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle Fire HD. While, we expect Apple's iPad mini to be a class above both of these tablets, we still expect the iPad mini to be a slightly more affordable tablet than previous iPads, and the only way Apple can achieve this is by excluding non-essential features, something that 4G certainly is. In fact, we'd be impressed if 3G was even available in the iPad mini, as we expect it to come equipped with Wi-Fi only. See iPad mini tablet said to be Wi-Fi only.
It was a bit of a shock that last month's iPhone 5 launch didn't see the inclusion of NFC as one of its main attributes. Instead, Apple opted for championing its new iOS 6 feature, Passbook, which uses barcodes displayed on its screen, and in all honesty is probably a poor man's work-around for not having NFC. Having near field communication technology in the nearly pocketable (certainly handbag-able) iPad mini would be a nice and almost Steve Jobs-eque touch. Visit iPad Mini price in UK.
Likeliness: 3/10
Apple are likely to stick with its new iOS 6 feature Passbook in the iPad mini, and try and champion that instead of the need for NFC. It's almost as if this is a mini VHS vs Betamax war developing here. Watch this space.
3. Retina display
We're into familiar Apple territory now. All of Apple's new products are coming equipped with stunning 'retina' displays, be it a smartphone, tablet, laptop, it's as if it's now part of the Apple's own magna carta. A reasonably priced iPad mini with a retina display would really be giving the V's to the competition.
Likeliness: 7/10
This one could be a goer. Apple has always prided itself on being the best in the business and a 7-inch tablet with a dashing display really would make it stand out from the crowd. It's certainly not beyond Apple's reach either as the Californian company has made retina displays for both smaller and larger screens in the past. Whether this feature is included or not will all boil down to what price Apple decides to charge for the iPad mini - if they are aiming to make it more affordable, then you can kiss chance of a retina display goodbye, however if they opt for a more Apple price tag, then it's a distinct possibly.
4. 30-pin to Lightning adaptor
Once again, Apple ruffled a lot of feathers by changing the data/charging port of the iPhone 5. The reason Apple gave for its introduction was because technology has moved on and it could now achieve the same results with a smaller port as it used to with the old 30-pin port, thus freeing up room in the device to squeeze in more clever stuff. This logic means that the iPad mini would surely follow suit (as probably all future iOS devices will). An adaptor to make sure all old iOS docks would still work with new Apple Lightning ports would be a thoughtful addition. See our Lightning to 30-pin Adaptor review.
Likeliness: 5/10
It would be a nice touch if Apple were to include at least one 30-pin to lightning adapter with the iPad mini, as without it all previous iOS compatible docking gizmos become redundant. But this means nothing, and Apple is set to make a pretty penny (and the rest) off the back of 30-pin to Lightning adaptors alone, so this very much hangs in the balance. Don't get your hopes up.
Ah Siri. This feature is a bit of an odd one as it's something that everyone wants, but those that are lucky enough to have it, don't really use it in the way that it was designed to be used. Rather, it is used by the masses as a little test to try and catch it out with questions like "Which horse will win the 3:30 at Ascot?" to which Siri will probably fetch the latest odds for the race. Anyway, we're going ever so slightly off topic here. What we mean in a nutshell is, an iPad mini with Siri will be better than an iPad mini without Siri.
Likeliness: 6/10
There is not an awful lot of complicated hardware needed for Siri to work on iOS devices. In fact, the main thing that it needs to work is a microphone designed to pick up a human voice from over a foot away, something that isn't beyond Apple's reach. So bearing this in mind there's a good chance the iPad mini will have Siri.
6. MicroSD card slot
Apple has been unwaveringly rigid on the inclusion of expandable memory slots in its iOS devices. It just doesn't do them. That doesn't mean we don't want Apple to buck its trend with the iPad mini.
Likeliness: 1/10
We hope this comes back to bite us, because we'd really like to see expandable memory in the iPad mini (and future iOS devices). However, we really can't see it happening. Apple has an extremely successful pricing model that is based around the storage on offer in each device, so introducing expandable memory to its devices would ruin a tried and tested moneymaker.
7. Google Maps
The loss of Google Maps is a big deal. It was one of the most widely used and appreciated apps on previous iOS', but now it's gone. I think we're all agreed that having an iPad mini with at least the choice of having Google Maps would be a nice feature. However, Apple and Google aren't really the best of friends at the minute.
Likeliness: 3/10
The good news is that if Apple and Google kissed and made up, then it wouldn't take an awful lot to get a sound Google Maps app on the iPad mini. The bad news is that Apple and Google seem to be growing further apart and therefore Google Maps on future iOS' isn't very likely.
8. Flash web browsing
Ok, this one is a bit of a pipe dream considering Apple mobile devices and Adobe Flash has been a complete non-starter. However, the thought of having a tablet with a truly capable web browser is pretty appealing, so needless to say, we'd love to see it in the iPad mini.
Likeliness: 1/10
Unfortunately, this just isn't going to happen. The iPad Mini is going to be a less specced version of the iPad and the thought of the 'mini' holding the trump card of Flash over its big - and more expensive - brother is laughable. We could be wrong on thisbut we won't be.
9. Stylus
Steve Jobs himself said a smaller tablet than the iPad would require people to file down the width of their fingers to use it properly (or something similar). So with a smaller iPad on the way, one would naturally think that Apple has thought of a way to let people use its new tablet without the need to file down fingertips. The most feasible solution to this would be to include a stylus.
Likeliness: 7/10
This one could happen. Simply because Apple has belittled the idea of smaller tablets for years, and now that they're about to make U-turn and enter the smaller tablet market a Stylus would allow Apple to have a new feature to shout about while saving a little bit of face at the same time.
10. HDMI output
We all know that Apple loves to have its own unique ports, but wouldn't it be great if the iPad mini came equipped with HDMI output. Picture this, you buy a movie on iTunes at work, download it, watch it on your commute home and then plug it in to your big TV at home and continue watching it with no added hassle. Very Apple isn't it?
Likeliness: 3/10
Remember when we said that this would be very Apple? Well forget it. It's not. It is, but it's not. Apple has made the decision that any iOS TV connectioning gizmos will be performed on it's own terms, which makes the likeliness of the iPad mini including a generic HDMI output pretty slim. It's more likely that Apple will want you to 'mirror' your iPad mini via Apple TV.
11. Phone calls
We know, that this would technically make the iPad mini more of an iPhone biggy(?), but if the iPad mini is going to have cellular connectivity, then why not go the whole nine yards and have it able to make phone calls as welleven if it only worked with a headset it would be a nice feature, wouldn't it? Yeah, we think so too.
Likeliness: 2/10
The idea of adding simple phone call making technology to the iPad mini is certainly within Apple's grasp, and it would be a very cool thing to do. But Apple doesn't really like blurring the lines between its products, and this is yet another features that would unnecessarily up the price of the iPad mini.


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For proof of the fractured history of sidewalks in suburbia, look no further than Katherine McManus' block of Zarthan Avenue in St. Louis Park.
On a street where children and parishioners walk to the school and church at the end of the block, the sidewalk simply stops at her property line and starts up again three homes down the street. Pedestrians veer into the sometimes-busy street to avoid walking on the grass.
"Walking dogs or having kids in the street seems ridiculously dangerous," McManus said.
Once, cities had sidewalks and suburbs had lawns. Not anymore. Next week, the St. Louis Park City Council is expected to approve a 10-year plan to put a sidewalk within a quarter mile of every resident (fixing the Zarthan gap in 2016). Hopkins and Edina have programs to add sidewalks. This summer, Hennepin County is expected to approve a pedestrian plan that will make the county a more active partner in planning and helping to pay for sidewalks.
The sidewalk movement is linked to a drive to make communities more walkable and is usually paired with efforts to add bikeways. John Archer, a University of Minnesota professor who is an expert on suburbs, said that suburbs are reinventing themselves in response to residents who want to "walk to the fitness center, the coffee shop and the grocery store.
"This is a lifestyle asset, and cities are hip to that," he said. "What St. Louis Park and Edina are doing is saying, we really have to keep up. We have to keep attracting people who want to move here, and make this an attractive place, because people who are moving in don't have the same affections that the old people did.
"Suburbs are evolving with the times. The trick here is not that these places are no longer suburbs. They are not the suburbs they were when people moved there 40 years ago."
St. Louis Park's program to link residents to destinations through a one-quarter mile sidewalk grid is based on feedback from a citizen committee. Sean Walther, a senior planner for the city, said the city wants to connect people to transit stops, schools and major commercial centers.
"Not everyone is driving, or wants to drive, so we want to provide opportunity and choice for that," he said.
Walther said the gaps in St. Louis Park's sidewalks are the result of changing policies and the fact that most sidewalks were added by development when homes were built.
The city has 111 miles of sidewalk; the plan would add about 10.5 miles more. The estimated cost of building sidewalks as well as trails over a decade is $17 million to $24 million, which would be paid for through bonding.
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Edina, which traditionally asks property owners to pay for street improvements, has set up a sidewalk construction fund financed with franchise fees, thus avoiding billing individual residents for new sidewalks. The fund is expected to collect $1.1 million to $1.2 million each year. The city also is hiring a transportation planner whose duties will include coordinating sidewalk projects.
In Hopkins, which recently approved a pedestrian and bike plan, the city historically had many sidewalks. But from the 1950s to the 1980s, residents were responsible for maintaining them. City Engineer John Bradford said that when homeowners got letters from the city asking them to repair the panels, some people removed parts or all of the sidewalk in front of their homes.
"Seventy-five percent of it is there, but we have the dead-end legs," he said. "We are try to fill the gaps now."
Hopkins officials also want to create sidewalk network that connects to business areas, schools and parks.
"Sidewalks are difficult projects," Bradford said. "Everybody loves the sidewalk — on the other side of the street. That makes for contentious projects."
Wayne Houle, city engineer in Edina, remembers his first sidewalk project more than a decade ago as "a huge fight." Attitudes are changing, he said, but there's often diverse views on a street when a sidewalk is proposed.
"The majority of the city was developed post-World War II, when car was king," he said. "Trying to retrofit for sidewalks is difficult to do in the existing right of way. You have the room, but you're disturbing a lot of infrastructure."
Often people don't want to shovel a sidewalk. But many residents also forget that the city usually owns a 10- or 15-foot strip of the front yard next to the street. Over the years, trees, gardens and other landscaping crowd that right of way, and people don't want them removed.
When St. Louis Park asked residents who could be affected by the pedestrian plan what they thought, one replied, "We have lived here for 50 years and have never needed a sidewalk. The lawn stretching to the street is a lovely sight."
Wrote another, "I don't want my taxes to go up to pay for a completely unnecessary lark, dreamed up by a bunch of local politicians trying to figure out a way to spend money. ... Save the trees, dump the concrete somewhere else, maybe your neighborhood."
St. Louis Park ended up paring its sidewalk priority list by about 20 percent because of objections from residents or physical barriers, according to City Engineer Scott Brink.
Sidewalks as meeting places
But then there are residents like Katherine McManus and Rita DeBrobander, neighbors on Zarthan Avenue, who are campaigning for a complete sidewalk on their street to be completed sooner than 2016. Sidewalks were built when the older homes on the block were built, but their newer homes never got a walkway.
DeBrobander worries about the safety of children who detour into the street while walking to the parochial school down the block. In the winter, she said, the interrupted sidewalk means everyone simply walks in the street.
"I walk in the street and I feel very safe, but I'm quite conscious of it," she said. "When the sidewalks are there, I use them."
McManus, whose family moved to Zarthan a couple of years ago from another St. Louis Park house just a few blocks away, cites not only safety concerns but social reasons for a complete sidewalk.
"To me, this is a first inner-ring neighborhood of the city, and the sidewalk allows you to meet neighbors and people going by," she said. "It helps neighbors meet neighbors."


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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that Elaine Greenberg, chief of the Enforcement Division's Municipal Securities and Public Pensions Unit and associate director of the Philadelphia Regional Office, is leaving the SEC after 25 years to join the private sector.
Greenberg, who will step down at the end of July, has served in dual roles at the SEC for the past three and a half years, leading the Municipal Securities and Public Pensions Unit since its creation in January 2010 and heading the Philadelphia Regional Office's enforcement program since December 2006.
The Municipal Securities and Public Pensions Unit, consisting of staff in ten SEC offices, oversees enforcement in the $4 trillion municipal securities market and the $3 trillion public pension market.
SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter, who led the commission's recent review of the municipal securities market, said in a statement that "Elaine's leadership of the unit and her efforts on behalf of investors have been groundbreaking and have had a tremendous impact on the behavior of participants in the municipal securities and public pensions markets."
Andrew Ceresney, co-director of the SEC's Enforcement Division, added in the same statement that "Elaine has had a distinguished career at the SEC and the depth and breadth of her knowledge and experience is impressive. Through her expert lawyering, creativity and tenacity, she has made major contributions to the agency by bringing numerous significant enforcement actions."
As the unit's inaugural chief, the SEC says Greenberg determined its objectives, recruited, selected, and trained staff members, set priorities and established five areas of focus—offering and disclosure fraud, tax and arbitrage-driven fraud, pay-to-play and public corruption violations, public pension accounting and disclosure violations, and valuation and pricing fraud.
Under Greenberg's leadership, the agency brought unprecedented actions against states and municipalities—namely the states of New Jersey and Illinois as well as the city of Harrisburg. New Jersey and Illinois, the first and second SEC enforcement actions against states, were charged with misleading bond investors about the funding of the states' pension systems. Harrisburg was charged with fraud for misleading statements made outside of its securities disclosure documents.
Greenberg, a Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate who received her B.A. and J.D. degrees from Temple University, joined the SEC's Philadelphia office in 1987 as a staff attorney and later was promoted to be a branch chief and then assistant director.
As an assistant director, Greenberg headed an SEC enforcement initiative that exposed undisclosed conflicts of interest in payments from mutual funds to broker-dealers for "shelf space" arrangements, resulting in cases against Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Global Markets and Capital Analysts, along with mutual fund investment advisers including Massachusetts Financial Services Co., Putnam Investment Management and PA Fund Management, advisor to PIMCO.
Check out Former SEC Compliance Chief Tells White: Stop Suing Compliance Officers on AdvisorOne.


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The Vision of the Management to have the School's own website
becomes a reality due to the unfailing persistent efforts of the PTA
2010. www.nhsbahrain.com is the only authorized gateway to the
various portals of the School. The NHS is just a click away-the
website reaches out as the most authentic source of information.To
the Management the website is the compendium of all we have been
during the past ten years since its inception in 2000.The website
venture is the mile stone event that mark the commencement of the
decennial celebration.
The Management, Staff and students shall register the names of PTA
2010 as the brain behind making the long cherished dream a reality.
The NHS Vision unravels a transparent triangular community -perhaps
the most active and unique among the Indian Private Schools in
Bahrain expressing a greater interest in investing time on their
children and turning the school into a laboratory where minds are
well trained to rebuild one's own personality and shape the future
The institution has at present over 1900 students on roll.Though NHS
at present functions in two different branches at hired premises plans
are underway to establish a full fledged school within the next two
We do not believe in short term efforts or passing glories. We believe
in an education that is complete in itself.Therefore sustainenance of
an accomplished glory is laid emphasis on.
Here in this school children feel that education must be a
pleasurable pursuit where the parent -teacher and child enjoy the
fruits of mutual respect and happy and meaningful co-existence.
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Liberty Frank
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Liberty Frank is a recent transfer student and sophomore at Washington College, majoring in Anthropology. She intends to study abroad in South Korea and wishes to study international adoption. At GIS, she works on web development and design projects. She also works for the Historical Society of Kent County.


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SISD announces dress code
The Sweetwater Independent School District completed a process last year which included public input, surveys and a committee of students, parents, teachers, principals and administrators to come up with an improved dress code for Sweetwater ISD schools. "We began with a public forum months ago where the students modeled standard attire. Although standard attire did not receive the majority of votes, a definite majority supported change," stated Assistant Superintendent Kathy Smartt. "The committee worked diligently to address the specific concerns of sagging and cleavage. The key will be consistent enforcement which has been addressed by the leadership team."The updates to the school dress code for next year have been finalized and adopted by the SISD Board of Trustees and are as follows.Pants, shorts, slacks, skorts and skirts: • Must be worn at the natural waist (no more than one size larger than the natural waist size). • Belts must be worn appropriately in belt loops and at the natural waist. • Extremely torn/unhemmed clothing will not be permitted. • Pants may have no holes showing skin. All holes revealing skin must be mended with a like-colored material patch. • Shorts, skorts, dresses and skirts may end no more than 3 ½ inches above the top of the kneecap. If garments have slits, the top of the slit must not be more than 3 ½ inches above the top of kneecap. • Sleepwear, including pajama pants, is not permitted. Tops, Shirts: • NO halter tops, tube tops, or tops with the shoulder straps less than 1 inch wide. • NO tops that show cleavage, which is defined by the Webster's Dictionary as the depression between a woman's breasts especially when made visible by a low-cut neckline. • NO nude or see-through tops, including sheer garments, without proper underclothing that meets the dress code. • All racer/razor back tops must have all other straps covered beneath the shirt, unless the undershirt follows the dress code. • Tops and bottoms must meet at the waist and can not reveal bare skin, or midriff, while the student is sitting. • No tall t-shirts, unless deemed size appropriate by the principal or designee. • All boys' shirts must have sleeves. • No clothing or jewelry is allowed that advertises, depicts or advocates tobacco, alcohol, drugs, illegal substances, gangs, has sexual representations or connotations or displays lewd or offensive statements. References to death, murder or suicide are prohibited. Shoes: • Specifically prohibited footwear is bathroom slippers (without a hard sole) or footwear not intended for outdoors wear. • Any shoes that are deemed unsafe are prohibited. Accessories: • NO hats, caps, sweat bands, visors or any other type of head covering, including hoodies. • NO visible piercing of the body except for girls' ears. Boys are not allowed to wear earrings or studs. • NO visible gauging or spacers. • NO visible tattoos. • NO dog collars, choker-chains, any spiked metal necklaces, wallet chains, wrist bands, or safety pins. Chains on pants or other garments are prohibited. • Bandanas are not allowed on campus. Hair and Grooming: • Students must wear their hair clean and well groomed at all times. • Extreme modes of hair design, including Mohawks or color, will not be permitted. • Faux-hawks must not exceed 2 inches. • Hair must be styled so that eyebrows are visible and hair does not hide the eyes. • Only natural hair colors will be permitted. • Facial hair, including beards, mustaches and sideburns, extending below the earlobes is prohibited. Any style in hair or dress that is extreme or inappropriate to the point that causes undue or critical attention to the wearer is subject to question and approval by administration. Students who violate the Dress Code will be referred to the Principal's office. The final decision regarding a dress code violation is at the discretion of the campus Principal or designee. Employee Dress Code Employees will be expected to adhere to the student standard of dress or higher, with the exception of facial hair.


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Trailer released for "Anchorman: The Legend Continues"
The trailer is here, so the countdown to the holiday release of "Anchorman: The Legend Continues" begins. Will Ferrell looks as funny as ever as Ron Burgendy, and with the beautiful Meagan Good (check out our slideshow!) as a new love interest, the trailer gives a glimpse of how Ron is totally incapable of handling an interracial relationship. The results predictable but hilarious. Comedy sequels are tough to pull off, so hopefully the amount of time that's passed since the original "Anchorman" has helped them come up with enough fresh material to make this one work.
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1. While in college, I played the "screaming-chick-who-gets-axed" in a horror flick with the words "Night" and "Dead" in the title (no, it wasn't Night of the Living Dead). I'm sure you can find it on someone's Top 100 Worst Movies ever made meme.
2. I have an affinity for all things Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra.
3. I have never eaten a PB & J sandwich. Ever.
4. I have seen "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" every year of my life.
5. I once stood up in a banquet hall full of people and bellowed, "Up your nose with a rubber hose!" I was 5 years old, and I loved Vinnie Barbarino.
I've been in Washington, DC this week, where the outside temp was 32 degrees and my body temp was 102 degrees. But, don't feel bad for me. Feel bad for the poor guy who was seated next to a hacking and sneezing me for the 5 and 1/2-hour-long flight across the continent.
So, if you have not been tagged and wish to tell us about you, then you're it. I'll be back posting this week.


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Snap o' the Day: 'Commish' steps down
Bob Schotta, outgoing president of McIntire Little League, accepts some fan acclaim Saturday, May 30, on Korbon Field. Known as the "Commissioner" of the baseball program for four years, Schotta is shown with wife, Carter, and two of his three children, Claire and John.
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Snapshotting: A neat problem and solution in Haskell
I solved an interesting problem recently in Haskell.
Now, I'm no expert at Haskell, and this may not even be a very good solution. I got where I did through a lot of weird side paths, a lot of help from more experienced Haskellers on IRC, but I also made a lot of my own mistakes. It is, though, definitely an interesting solution. So I'll describe it here.
Of course, this all came about to solve a particular problem. In this case, the problem was a multi-user dungeon (MUD). These programs are text-based network applications that allow users to connect and interact with a common virtual world.
I chose to represent the "world" using a nifty module called "software transactional memory" in the Haskell core library. STM is a great thing, and you should learn about it if you don't know about it already. I found Simon Peyton-Jones' paper at http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/tmp/beautiful.ps very useful. The general idea, though, is that mutable variables are encapsulated with a type constructor TVar, and can only be modified in a transaction.
I wanted to preserve a little of the pure functional flavor, minimize the use of TVars, and generally follow the philosophy of avoiding premature optimization; so the (incomplete) beginnings of the world look something like this:
data World = World { worldStartRoom :: TVar RoomId, worldNextRoomId :: TVar RoomId, worldNextPlayerId :: TVar PlayerId, worldNextItemId :: TVar ItemId, worldRooms :: TVar (M.Map RoomId Room), worldPlayers :: TVar (M.Map PlayerId Player), worldItems :: TVar (M.Map ItemId Item), worldPlayerNames :: TVar (M.Map String Player) } deriving Eq
Now, occasionally, it is also necessary to occasionally save the state of the world out to disk. That data is being constantly accessed and updated by bazillions of threads, and I need an internally consistent state. Great, because STM solves exactly that problem! This transaction will read the whole world, so it will certainly have its costs — but at least it'll be correct, right?
Here's where it gets ugly: STM transactions may not perform I/O operations. In other words, the code will need to first do all its STM stuff, save it off in memory somewhere, and only then begin writing to a file. After defining a bunch of data structures containing TVars (okay, only one for now, but that might change), it now appears that I would need to define an identical set of data structures that provide access to a copy of the world from outside of an STM transaction. In other words, it now looks like I need a SWorld, as follows:
data SWorld = SWorld { sworldStartRoom :: RoomId, sworldNextRoomId :: RoomId, sworldNextPlayerId :: PlayerId, sworldNextItemId :: ItemId, sworldRooms :: (M.Map RoomId Room), sworldPlayers :: (M.Map PlayerId Player), sworldItems :: (M.Map ItemId Item), sworldPlayerNames :: (M.Map String Player) } deriving Eq
I immediately don't like this, because it looks identical to the definition of the earlier World, and in fact it is a requirement of the application that the two remain identical. That's a lot of manual maintenance. Fortunately, we get type polymorphism to the rescue!
data World a = World { worldStartRoom' :: a RoomId, worldNextRoomId' :: a RoomId, worldNextPlayerId' :: a PlayerId, worldNextItemId' :: a ItemId, worldRooms' :: a (M.Map RoomId Room), worldPlayers' :: a (M.Map PlayerId Player), worldItems' :: a (M.Map ItemId Item), worldPlayerNames' :: a (M.Map String Player) } deriving Eq
So now World is a parametric type, with a type parameter a. But a is not just any old type parameter! It has a kind of (* -> *). The earlier World type is now just World TVar. The snapshot type is a little uglier, but not much. It would be nice to have a simple identity type constructor, but such a thing doesn't exist. (In the course of looking for it, I did come across a discussion about adding it into a forthcoming release of Haskell on the haskell-prime mailing list; but there are substantial arguments against it.) So in lieu of a true identity type constructor, I can just use the Identity monad. The snapshot type is now World Identity. Instead of having to make sure they both have the same fields, I know they do because they are the same type!
(One interesting change is that if I want to derive the Eq type class for World, I have to enable undecidable instances in GHC. I don't really understand why, but it doesn't confuse me; I'm doing some fairly bizarre stuff here.)
Now it is convenient to have a way to put things in and out of a TVar or Identity without worrying too much about which kind of World I'm using. A type class does the trick! Because dealing with TVar values must be done in STM, the operations are defined in the STM monad.
class Wrapper a where extract :: a b -> STM b inject :: b -> STM (a b) instance Wrapper TVar where extract = readTVar inject = newTVar instance Wrapper Identity where extract = return . runIdentity inject = return . return
Admittedly, that last instance for Identity looks odd. In inject, for instance, I want to take a value, wrap that in the Identity monad, and then wrap that in an STM block (not because it's necessary, but because it's part of the type signature for the class.) The extract function uses runIdentity to get the value out of the Identity monad, and then returns is in the STM monad to satisfy the type class. A little more boilerplate…
mkWorld a b c d e f g h = do a' <- inject a b' <- inject b c' <- inject c d' <- inject d e' <- inject e f' <- inject f g' <- inject g h' <- inject h return (World a' b' c' d' e' f' g' h') convertWorld (World a b c d e f g h) = do a' <- extract a b' <- extract b c' <- extract c d' <- extract d e' <- extract e f' <- extract f g' <- extract g h' <- extract h mkWorld a' b' c' d' e' f' g' h' worldStartRoom = extract . worldStartRoom' worldNextRoomId = extract . worldNextRoomId' worldNextPlayerId = extract . worldNextPlayerId' worldNextItemId = extract . worldNextItemId' worldRooms = extract . worldRooms' worldPlayers = extract . worldPlayers' worldItems = extract . worldItems' worldPlayerNames = extract . worldPlayerNames'
These functions handle the grunt work of dealing with various kinds of worlds. The first one defines a constructor that takes simple values, and automatically wraps them up in TVars or the Identity monad. The second gets these things out of one kind of world and into another. The third through tenth extract the values of fields automatically, so that code isn't littered with readTVar and runIdentity statements all willy nilly. (It may look like this overhead is worse than the cure. That would be wrong, because that last block of code would have to have been written even if I'd used a completely separate type for the snapshot. The only real added overhead is the class and instances for Wrapper, and that's independent of type! That means if I change Player to have some TVar fields later on, there's no extra code to write.)
So this accomplished my goal. And sure enough, it basically does what I want. In the end, though, the boilerplate was too much for me. I ended up turning to Template Haskell to handle it for me. The code now looks like this:
data World a = World { worldStartRoom' :: a RoomId, worldNextRoomId' :: a RoomId, worldNextPlayerId' :: a PlayerId, worldNextItemId' :: a ItemId, worldRooms' :: a (M.Map RoomId Room), worldPlayers' :: a (M.Map PlayerId Player), worldItems' :: a (M.Map ItemId Item), worldPlayerNames' :: a (M.Map String Player) } deriving Eq $(snapshottingType ''World)
And that looks to me like an elegant, maintainable piece of code.
6 CommentsLeave a Comment
Anonymous / Jun 3 2007 1:09 am
Please share some of the Template Haskell as well.
Ganesh Sittampalam / Jun 3 2007 4:28 am
I don't follow why you use the Identity monad for your non-TVar instantiation of a. You certainly don't need a monad, as TVar isn't one, and you never make any interesting use of the monad operations. You do use "return", but all that does is wrap up the value in a constructor.
Of course, Identity is defined already, so otherwise you'd have to define your own type. But nonethless I think it's important to realise that you aren't using it as a monad, just as a simple wrapper.
thomas hartman / May 23 2008 7:17 am
demo url is now
darcs get http://cdsmith.twu.net/demos/mud/ (I had to hunt around a bit to get it)
thomas hartman / May 23 2008 7:18 am
meh, what am I saying. it's the same url. was there a wrong address somewhere else on the blog? never mind.


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In 2011, InfoLawGroup began its "Legal Implications" series for social media by posting Part One (The Basics) and Part Two (Privacy).
In this post, we explore how security concerns and legal risk arise and interact in the social media environment.
Again, the intended audience for this blogpost are organizations seeking to leverage social media, and understand and address the risks associated with its use.
As might be expected criminals view social media networks as fertile ground for committing fraud. There are three main security-related issues that pose potential security-related legal risk.
First, to the extent that employees are accessing and using social media sites from company computers (or increasingly from personal computer devices connected to company networks or storing sensitive company data), malware, phishing and social engineering attacks could result in security breaches and legal liability.
Second, spoofing and impersonation attacks on social networks could pose legal risks. In this case, the risk includes fake fan pages or fraudulent social media personas that appear to be legitimately operated.
Third, information leakage is a risk in the social media context that could result in an adverse business and legal impact when confidential information is compromised.
Social Media = Social Engineering
One of the biggest social media security risks reveals itself in the name of the medium itself: social media yields social engineering. In short, when it comes to social media attacks, an organization's own employees may be its worst enemy.
Fraudsters leverage the central component of social media that makes it so attractive: trust between "friends." Social media users may be tricked into downloading applications infected with malware because a posting was "recommended" by a friend.
For example, almost immediately after Osama Bin Laden was killed by U.S. troops, one Facebook scam inserted malware on computers using a malicious (and false) link to the "real" Osama Bin Laden dead body photo that looked like it was posted on a friend's wall. In addition, some scams have used messaging capabilities within social media platforms to initiate computer attacks.
Unfortunately, if a company's employee is scammed and downloads malware from a social media network to the company network, it may be the company that faces legal liability.
In addition, fraudsters use the trust users place in the social media platform itself to effectuate security breaches. For example, most would feel fairly comfortable clicking on an advertisement displayed on Facebook. However, in some cases that click could result in a "malvertisement" infection.
Another common attack technique is phishing. Criminals create fake email notices that appear to come from social media sites. Unsuspecting users that click on links in these emails may end up providing sensitive information to fake websites that look like the social media site they belong to, or downloading malware onto a company's system.
Unfortunately, even an employee just giving up his or her personal social media passwords can be risky for a company. Many individuals use the same passwords at multiple sites and disclosing a social media password could also amount to providing the password to the network of an employee's employer.
There is increasing evidence that criminals are using social media to target key company personnel in order to burrow into company networks and steal trade secrets and other sensitive information. The wealth of personal information users share on social media sites provides ammunition for such attacks.
Fraudsters can gather details about a user before engaging in an attack (e.g. employer, address, phone number, friends, affiliated companies, etc.) and then use the details to target the attack specifically at the individual(s) (such as a phishing email). In fact, this very technique appears to have been used in one of the biggest breaches of 2011, the RSA breach.
With regard to legal risk, companies suffering a breach arising out of social media face the same risks for any security breach. If malware infects a system or an employee is tricked into providing his or her login-credentials, and confidential or personal information is stolen, the employer may face lawsuits or regulatory scrutiny.
Actions alleging breaches of NDAs may also come from third parties whose trade secrets or other confidential information a company holds. Moreover, if personal information is accessed or acquired due to the social media security breach, notification may be necessary and related costs would have to be incurred by the employer.
Social Media Spoofing and Hijacking
Companies may also face legal liability for failing to detect and notify social media users of scams associated with the company's social media site or key personnel with social media presences. If an organization becomes aware of a spoofed fan page that looks like its own, or a criminal disseminating a malware-infested social media application that looks like it is sponsored by the organization, legal repercussions could arise. Similarly, fraudsters could create fake profiles of key company personnel in order to commit crimes.
Security and legal risks can also arise if hackers are able to take over a company's fan page or social media profiles of key company personnel. By creating a fake fan page or profile, or hijacking an existing fan page or profile, fraudsters could send out messages with malware to all of the individuals who joined the fan page or trick customers into disclosing sensitive information.
From the legal risk perspective, while case law is sparse, companies that fail to have fake fan pages removed or that fail to warn their customers of scams that look like they come from the company, could face legal liability.
Confidential Information Leakage
Another important business and legal risk arises out of potential confidential information leakage on social media sites.
Imagine a company that is heavily reliant on traditional sales methods and has built up a customer list (a trade secret) with key, difficult-to-find contacts. Oftentimes, companies like this rely on key sales people to bring in large portions of their revenue.
Perhaps seeking to be on top of modern marketing practices some of these salespeople establish LinkedIn accounts, and naturally begin linking to dozens or perhaps hundreds of friends, colleagues and customers. On LinkedIn, if settings are not set properly, all of the contacts related to these key salespeople could be publicly viewable.
That being the case, it would not be difficult for a competitor to simply view and record those contacts, thereby potentially exposing the company's customer list and key customer contacts.
Take it one step further. Suppose one of the key sales persons leaves with the customer list and the company sues alleging misappropriation of trade secret. One of the elements for establishing a trade secret are efforts to keep the secret confidential. However, by allowing the sales person to display all of his contacts on LinkedIn, has the company effectively failed to maintain that confidentiality and lost its trade secret protection?
In 2010, we saw an Eastern District of New York case that looked at this issue and ruled that trade secret protection was unavailable for a company where the customer list information at issue could be readily ascertained using sites like Google and by viewing LinkedIn profiles. In contrast, in 2011, the court in Syncsort Incorporated v. Innovative Routines, International, Inc., looked at the issue of whether a trade secret posted on the Internet loses its protection.
While the court ruled that trade secret protection was not lost under the facts of Syncsort (where only a portion of the trade secret was available for a limited time), it appears that a different set of facts could yield a decision going the other direction.
The inadvertent disclosure of confidential information by employees may also be problematic for organizations. This problem can arise when employees mistakenly or unknowingly disclosing sensitive information.
For example, in September 2011 a Hewlett-Packard executive updated his LinkedIn status and revealed previously undisclosed details of HP's cloud-computing services. If he had instead posted confidential information about one of HP's clients it may have resulted in legal liability. Moreover, for publicly-traded companies, certain inadvertent disclosures of financial information could lead to violations of securities laws and regulations.
Even if confidential information is not directly put into a single status update or other post, the aggregated social media postings of multiple employees could yield valuable competitive information. Companies (on their own or through third party service providers) are actively data mining social media sites with the hope of gathering enough bits and pieces of information to provide a competitive edge.
Employees may be unwittingly posting what they think is a single piece of non-sensitive data. However, when combined with multiple data points from other employees and sources, those innocent disclosures could suddenly reveal company or client confidential information.
In summary, the key security-related legal concerns associated with social media start with the fact that social media provides a rich target environment for criminals. Social media users are literally volunteering information that may be sensitive, and the disclosure of which could lead to legal risk.
The culture of sharing present on social media sites itself can lead to over-disclosure by employees, and the pure volume of data that can be mined from social media sites may allow competitors and criminals to connect-the-dots to reveal confidential or sensitive information. Moreover, the sense of trust that comes with social media environments provides an opportunity for criminals to breach security.
People may be tricked into providing certain information or downloading malware because they think they are having legitimate communications with colleagues or friends. Finally, the ability to easily spoof or create fake sites or pages in social media sites that look legitimate can lead to increased security risk.
With this increased security risk, comes increased legal and liability risk (in an area of law that is very unsettled in terms of who can be liable for a security breach, and to what extent).
How can these risks be addressed and mitigated? First, it is key to understand the social media environment and how the various social media platforms work. The unique characteristics of a particular social media platform may present risks specific to that platform.
Second, organizations need to develop a social media strategy to maximize their leveraging of social media while minimizing risk (Are employees allowed to use their social media sites from work computers? Can they talk about the company and its plans on social media sites? What company information can they share on social media sites? Should only a handful of marketing-oriented employees be allowed to post about or on behalf of an organization? Can the company monitor social media usage?)
Once strategy is developed, social media policies need to be drafted to reflect the strategy and address risks. In the security context, a big part of minimizing risk is educating and training employees and providing guidance on how to avoid or minimize it.
Technology solutions may also exist that can allow for monitoring and tracking of social media usage by employees. Ultimately, however, like social media itself, it comes down to people -- risk can only be addressed appropriately if the individuals using social media are equipped to identify and mitigate against it.
Cross-posted from InfoLawGroup


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The evening was cool but the rain held off as the Fort Bragg community turned out in quiet tribute to fallen hero Ricky Del Fiorentino, the Mendocino County deputy sheriff who was killed in the line of duty in Cleone just north of town March 19 while attempting to apprehend Ricardo Antonio Chaney, wanted for kidnapping, assault and other crimes.
Those who came to pay their respects at tonight"s candlelight vigil arrived in twos and threes, but soon they were together in a mass that extended clear across the street from the Fort Bragg Justice Center, easily exceeding the 400-person estimate given by Police Chief Scott Mayberry. Flowers, photos and mementos were placed around the courthouse entry doors, and the sidewalk in front was lined with lit candles in cups. Candles were also provided to those attending.
The smell of candle wax wafted on the breeze with impromptu gospel songs and brief but heartfelt outpourings of grief, remembrance and appreciation, not just for an extraordinary cop, but for an exceptional man. Again and again the words used to describe Del Fiorentino, were "gentle, helpful, trusting, trustful, loving, caring." More than one said they were a better person for having known him.
Trena Harris said, "He touched the community. He was happy and loving and kind and gentle. He is a hero and will be missed."
Debbie Beard said, "He used to come up to me in Safeway and give me bear hugs and lift me up off the floor. We have truly lost a great man. He is irreplaceable."
Sheriff Tom Allman thanked those gathered for the respect shown by the community.
He said, "Were it not for Ricky, Sheriff Lt. Greg Stefani, Fort Bragg Police Lt. John Naulty and Chief Scott Mayberry, the man they stopped would have done a lot more damage to our community. Ricky did what he was trained to do – step into the line of fire to do his duty, which was to protect his community. He understood what the badge meant. He was the biggest hero I have ever met."


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The Movie Train Cafe
501 Santa Clara St.
$3.95- $18.95
A while back, a fairly upscale restaurant opened in Fillmore, and it appeared the foodie revolution was extending to the easternmost rural ends of Ventura County. Sadly, that restaurant has closed, but now, in its place (at Santa Clara and Central Street) is the delightful Movie Train Cafe. Chef Sassy Wright claims to have learned her trade from "down-home southern cooking," and many menu options reflect this heritage: buttermilk biscuits with bacon inside, topped with bacon gravy and pepper; chicken and dumplings; and cinnamon roll pancakes.
The décor of the Movie Train Cafe is trains, trains and more trains. Movie posters from any movie mentioning or about trains line the walls, a cabooselike structure at one end of the patio, welcoming bright red awnings outside, and an open/closed sign that was a train signal in a previous incarnation. None of this is surprising since the cafe's owner is David Wilkinson, who is the co-owner of the Fillmore & Western Railway Co., which offers riders a glimpse of the heyday of the American rail travel era.
Breakfasts are hearty and old-fashioned; I like the chicken fried steak, but the previously mentioned buttermilk biscuits with bacon are a particular standout. Eggs are perfectly cooked to order, and the very friendly and sometimes over-attentive staff makes sure one's coffee cup is never empty.
Lunches are not particularly inventive in design or description, but certainly reflect the chef's attention to flavor and preparation. There is a grill on the patio whose succulent smoky barbecue aroma almost forces the diner to order the tri-tip sandwich. It is a delicious sandwich (I'm not sure if the sauce is homemade) and at $6.95 is a great bargain. On my last visit I opted for the patty melt —good but not overwhelming (it could have used a few more grilled onions) and the ordinary bread made me wish a heartier bakery could be found.
Chef Sassy is known for her soups, and I have not been disappointed in that area. The vegetables in the minestrone were fresh, succulent and not overcooked. The broth was full flavored and the addition of rice made it a good filling, soup option. On several visits I've noticed lots of diners ordering the hot wings, which are served either atomic hot, mild, honey, barbecue, teriyaki or garlic parmesan; they certainly appear appetizing and a crowd pleaser.
The sides are not plentiful, but adequate and tasty nonetheless. A very creamy potato salad, a small bowl of mixed greens, pasta salad and a side of chili beans are the only options. I had fries with my patty melt, and they were crisp and freshly cooked. It is always a good idea for a restaurant to build options as the restaurant grows and settles into its space; I look forward to chef Sassy's additions to her salad menu.
I've yet to go to the Movie Train Cafe for dinner, but glancing at the menu the rib eye steak looks great (at $16.95), and given the great taste of the tri-tip (in the sandwich), I'm sure the beef is cooked exactly to the diner's specifications. Other dinner options include pork chops, garlic shrimp scampi, a 14-ounce prime rib (at $18.95, the most expensive item on the menu), and a garlic Alfredo chicken. Vegetable offerings include fries, mashed potatoes, rice pilaf and seasonal vegetables.
While the menu is not vast, and the style is down-home cooking, the Movie Train Cafe is a fun and interesting dining option in the eastern end of the county. For train buffs the décor is right on the mark. In fact, I recently had lunch there and a Hollywood production was filming the charming exterior and inviting design. If you choose to sit in the upholstered maroon settee, you might even think you are in a dining car of yesteryear heading to the wild, Wild West for a great adventure.


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Mobile Commerce Concerns
- On May 21, 2012
Today The Official Merchant Services Blog turns its tech-obsessed eyes once again to the Mobile Payment Solution sector. Recently, Host Merchant Services became fully mobile and able to offer a mobile payment solution for Android and iPhone devices. This expansion continues, and HMS now also provides a payment processing solution for iPads as well. You […]Read More


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State oil and gas regulators passed new groundwater testing rules Monday that we think should reassure Coloradans that contamination of drinking water in this era of hydraulic fracturing would be discovered and dealt with.
The new rules require testing water wells both prior to drilling new oil or gas wells and twice afterwards, a requirement the nine-member Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission says is "unprecedented among other states."
The Colorado Oil & Gas Association, a trade organization, agrees that they're unprecedented, but quickly criticized their adoption as "excessive and unnecessary." We think COGA is off base, and that the commission made every effort to protect the health of citizens without unfairly burdening industry.
And by the way, environmental groups aren't thrilled with the new testing rules, either, which they don't think go far enough.
We were also glad to see the commission reject an industry attempt to suppress much of the written testimony and exhibits submitted by critics of their operations regarding the even more contentious issue of drilling setback requirements. The question of whose testimony to allow had to be settled because the commission will consider new setback rules Tuesday and Wednesday.
Industry groups maintained that critics' testimony was replete with hearsay as well as scientific and medical claims made by non-experts and was thus barred under Colorado rules of evidence.
But as the commission hearing officer, Casey Shpall, pointed out, the panel is not a court of law and the most rigorous standards for evidence needn't apply.
She also reminded the commission that its hearings are an attempt to "address some of the nuisance impacts associated with existing setbacks for oil and gas operations that are affecting the public's welfare and quality of life." Yet how could the commission properly assess those impacts without hearing the full range of opinion about them?
One witness the industry objected to, for example, contends that her sons' ailments, including asthma and migraine headaches, are related to nearby oil and gas development. Another claims that her daughters' nose bleeds are related to drilling.
We can't imagine why the commission, in its effort to be fair, wouldn't want to hear such critics out. That doesn't mean it has to accept their opinion as medical fact. It would signal, however, that commissioners are determined to understand what some people think nearby oil and gas development is doing to them — an important insight for regulators to keep in mind even if they don't agree.
At Monday's hearing, an industry official told the commission, "This may not be a court of law, but it shouldn't be a free-for-all." He's right, of course, but as the commission recognized, those aren't the only options.


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The primary role of education gazettes was to provide instructions and information to the staff of government schools. The education departments in Australian states were very large organizations with schools spread across the colony/state from the most remote settlements to the inner city. They were large employers of a highly structured hierarchical government department headquartered in capital cities and to maintain authority needed to have effective lines of communication and the gazette provided this. You will find individual teachers and staff named in sections headed:
Gazettes are published by governments and their agencies as a means of communication to officials and the general public. As such they are useful, not only to monitor the actions of the government, but also as far as family historians are concerned, they are valuable primary source documents.
This ebook is a the same as the CD version from Archive Digital Books Australasia which is available from Gould Genealogy & other retailers. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole original volume, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.
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Sure, celebs are celebs. But, they're country fans, too. Especially Blake Shelton . Because when he put together his playlist of Grammy-winning songs , it's packed with country. Not necessarily the current stuff but still very country. He definitely has tastes that lean a little 1980 something, with Rodney Crowell 's "After All This Time" from 1987, Merle Haggard 's "That's the Way Love Goes" from 1984 and George Jones ' "He Stopped Loving Her Today" from 1980. But Shelton even went back as far as 1975 when he put the classic Willie Nelson "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" on the list. And maybe in the name of keeping the peace at home — or just because it's one of the best country songs we've heard in ages — he has his wife Miranda Lambert 's "The House That Built Me" on his list, too. The other songs Shelton loves include artists Kelly Clarkson , Stevie Wonder, Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. What Grammy winning songs would make your playlist?


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Lets make this question a bit clear.
If you're playing Bach's music, it shows you that its' key is E minor, or A major or anything. But, when you play something like: He add sharp in his notes. First it's G major, and then down to E minor, and then straight to B major(?) then back to A minor and to G major again.
How can he composed that, I mean, is there any technique or it's the style of Baroque music?


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Austria's Archbishop: We Pray for Middle East Christians in Their Plight
Archbishop of Austria Cardinal Christoph Schonborn stated that the Catholic Church is concerned for Christians living in the Middle East after the recent wave of attacks throughout the region.
"We are deeply saddened by the attacks on churches in Egypt, and are anguished by the situation in Syria and threats received by the Church there, as well as the kidnapped Aleppo Archbishops Youhana Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi," Cardinal Schonborn told Mideast Christian News.
He explained that cooperation and understanding between the Catholic and Orthodox churches has existed for a long time and that the Catholic Church has close ties with all other Christian sects.
Pope Tawadros II's visit to the Vatican was a historic one and that it was a great pleasure for him to visit the Pope for his first destination outside of Egypt.
He added that the patriarch's meeting with Pope Francis I is a sign of friendship between the two churches' new leaders while commemorating the 40 years since the agreement was signed between Pope Shenouda III and Pope Paul VI.
It was "a new historic agreement between both churches, and one that ensures the continued cooperation between these glorious churches," the archbishop said.
"The Coptic Church in Austria is a blessing to the people," he added, "As well as having faced much persecuted, the church contributes to the strengthening of faith in Christ, as it decreases across the rest of Europe."
He continued: "It is painful for a person to leave his homeland and be forced to live abroad for social, sectarian or political reasons, but here we are happy and blessed with the existence of a Coptic Church."
Speaking on the future of Christian unity, Cardinal Schönborn said: "Christ wanted us to unite, and we hope with the election of new leaders in various churches; Pope Tawadros at the Orthodox Church, Pope Francis at the Catholic Church, and other new leadership that is close to the Evangelical Church, Christian unity will, hopefully, see the light of day."


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Wow! Beautiful.
I LOVE the poem.
Thanks very much, Nin.
This is, as Nin says, very beautiful. You and Petros have hit a home run here. I'm also tempted to say something kind of simplistic and idiotic like "nice myth." What I mean by that is that the poem and story take me back to my first experiences of Greek myths, which were in two books of my youth -- one was intended for children and was written and illustrated by a French couple named D'Aulaire and the other was a collection of black and white plates of Renaissance paintings from my mother's college days rendering classic Greek and Roman myths. The point is that, like this, they seemed natural and real and for that reason imprinted themselves in my imagination forever. Curtis
Wonderful poem!!! Fresh glimpse moment!!!
Many thanks, Curtis and Red.
Indeed this poem appears to take the meaning or idea of myth back to childhood (if not for that matter to second childhood, but who's counting any more).
The obscurity and/or mystery in it is perhaps the equivalent of the obscurity and/or mystery in and about the photos.
(I've spent quite a bit of time wondering about this very interesting photographer's procedures, particularly as regards the element of "staging" -- in the lower shot here, as in the images we saw earlier on Styx.)


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The first trailer and poster for the comedy 3, 2, 1… Frankie Go Boom have landed online. Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy), Chris O'Dowd (Bridesmaids), and Lizzy Caplan (Party Down) star in the pic which is described as "a comedy about two brothers a girl with a broken heart, a sex tape, an angel and a pig." Though this could very well delve into farce territory, the ridiculous situations in the trailer are actually pretty funny thanks to the innocent charm of Hunnam and overall stupidity of O'Dowd. We also get the chance to see Ron Perlman playing a transvestite, so there's that.
Hit the jump to watch the trailer. Written and directed by Jordan Roberts, the film also stars Chris Noth, Whitney Cummings, and Nora Dunn. 3, 2, 1… Frankie Go Boom will be available on iTunes starting September 10th and will have a limited release on October 12th.
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Here's a synopsis for 3, 2, 1… Frankie Go Boom:
3,2,1 … FRANKIE GO BOOM follows Frank Bartlett (Charlie Hunnam) who has been tortured embarrassed and humiliated by his brother Bruce (Chris O'Dowd) – usually on film – for his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not. 3,2,1 … FRANKIE GO BOOM is a comedy about two brothers a girl with a broken heart, a sex tape, an angel and a pig.


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Herschel helps find elusive signals from the early Universe
Using a telescope in Antarctica and ESA's Herschel space observatory, astronomers have made the first detection of a subtle twist in the relic radiation from the Big Bang, paving the way towards revealing the first moments of the Universe's existence.
The elusive signal was found in the way the first light in the Universe has been deflected during its journey to Earth by intervening galaxy clusters and dark matter, an invisible substance that is detected only indirectly through its gravitational influence.
The discovery points the way towards finding evidence for gravitational waves born during the Universe's rapid 'inflation' phase, a crucial result keenly anticipated from ESA's Planck mission.
The relic radiation from the Big Bang – the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB – was imprinted on the sky when the Universe was just 380 000 years old. Today, some 13.8 billion years later, we see it as a sky filled with radio waves at a temperature of just 2.7 degrees above absolute zero.
Tiny variations in this temperature – around a few tens of millionths of a degree – reveal density fluctuations in the early Universe corresponding to the seeds of galaxies and stars we see today. The most detailed all-sky map of temperature variations in the background was revealed by Planck in March.
But the CMB also contains a wealth of other information. A small fraction of the light is polarised, like the light we can see using polarised glasses. This polarised light has two distinct patterns: E-modes and B-modes.
E-modes were first found in 2002 with a ground-based telescope. B-modes, however, are potentially much more exciting to cosmologists, although much harder to detect.
They can arise in two ways. The first involves adding a twist to the light as it crosses the Universe and is deflected by galaxies and dark matter – a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing.
The second has its roots buried deep in the mechanics of a very rapid phase of enormous expansion of the Universe, which cosmologists believe happened just a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang – 'inflation'.
The new study has combined data from the South Pole Telescope and Herschel to make the first detection of B-mode polarisation in the CMB due to gravitational lensing.
"This measurement was made possible by a clever and unique combination of ground-based observations from the South Pole Telescope – which measured the light from the Big Bang – with space-based observations from Herschel, which is sensitive to the galaxies that trace the dark matter which caused the gravitational lensing," says Joaquin Vieira, of the California Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the Herschel survey used in the study.
By using Herschel's observations, the scientists mapped the gravitational lensing material along the line of sight, and then searched for correlations between that pattern and the polarised light coming from the CMB, as measured by the South Pole Telescope.
"It's an important checkpoint that we're able to detect this small lensing B-mode signal and it bodes well for our ability to ultimately measure an even more elusive type of B-mode created during the inflationary Big Bang," adds Duncan Hanson of McGill University, Montreal, Canada and lead author of the paper published this week in Physical Review Letters.
Scientists believe that during inflation, violent collisions between clumps of matter and between matter and radiation, should have created a sea of gravitational waves. Today, those waves would be imprinted in a primordial B-mode component of the CMB.
Finding such a signal would yield crucial information about the very early Universe, well before the time when the CMB itself was generated, and would provide confirmation of the inflation scenario.
In 2014, new results will be released from ESA's Planck, and the most eagerly anticipated is whether primordial B-modes have been detected. In the meantime, Herschel has helped to point the way.
"It is great to see this ingenious use of Herschel data in achieving the first detection of gravitational lensing B-modes in the CMB polarisation," says Göran Pilbratt, ESA's Herschel Project Scientist. "This work displays yet another use of the treasure trove of Herschel data."
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Read an in-depth version of this story on ESA's Science & Technology website: Herschel throws new light on oldest cosmic light
"Detection of B-mode Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background with Data from the South Pole Telescope," by D. Hanson, et al., is published in Physical Review Letters 30 September 2013.
The study is based on data from SPTpol, the polarisation-sensitive instrument of the South Pole Telescope, and from the SPIRE instrument of ESA's Herschel Space Observatory.
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Email: markus.bauer[@]esa.int
Duncan Hanson
McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Email: dhanson[@]physics.mcgill.ca
Joaquin Vieira
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Email: vieira[@]caltech.edu
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"I am your father."
Those are words that many children love to hear, but maybe not from Darth Vader.
One of the more terrifying fathers in the history of all fathers. Darth Vader from "Star Wars" kicks of our list of badass dads.
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Played by Bryan Cranston, Walter White from the hit TV show "Breaking Bad" is one of those dads you don't want to mess with -- he started an entire meth empire so that he could provide for his family.
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Tywin Lannister from "Game of Thrones," played by Charles Dance, is one of the more conniving, power-hungry dads.
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There are dads that will do anything for their kids, like Liam Neeson's character in the 2008 movie "Taken." He showed no mercy when it came to rescuing his daughter.
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Denzel Washington's character in the 2002 movie "John Q" held up an entire hospital for his son who was in desperate need of a heart transplant in order to live.
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Marlon Brando played mafia boss Vito Corleone in "The Godfather." He was a very loving and caring father and husband that knew how use a gun with no problem.
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Jack Bauer in the TV series "24" was the Director of Field Ops for the Counter-Terrorist Unit of Los Angeles.
Played by Kiefer Sutherland, the race was always against time as Jack Bauer tries to save his country and his family.
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51.6% of new houses go rural
School board member and bossman of growth-group "Charlottesville Tomorrow" Brian Wheeler reports that a new County study indicates that 51.6% of all new single-family dwellings last year went into the rural areas. As any growth-watcher knows, that is not what the County wants. The County wants to steer growth into the designated growth areas to ease the impact on roads, views, utilities, etc. Some developers have contended that County red tape pushes developments into the rural areas.
Here are the 2005 figures for where single family dwellings went:
• 210 (37.8%) in White Hall
• 122 (21.9%) in Scottsville
• 89 (16%) in Samuel Miller
• 82 (14.7%) in Rivanna
• 43 (7.7%) in Rio
• 10 (1.8%) in Jack Jouett
(These are the County's magisterial districts.)
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If the supervisors really want less growth in the rural areas then they need to change the zoning for a LOT of the land close to the urban core from agricultural to growth area. That is extremely unlikely without a court order but if they do enlarge the growth areas, a couple of things will happen: There will be a greater total number of homes built in Albemarle as people who would have only been able to afford a home in the outlying counties discover that they can afford one in the MUCH LARGER growth areas of Albemarle. Then there will be an increase in school costs as enrollment goes up. The last place to feel the impact of larger growth areas will be Albemarle's rural areas so I doubt that the supervisors will increase the growth areas in any significant way. They will very likely try to make it even more difficult to build in Albemarle's rural areas and then even more of the Charlottesville/Albemarle/UVa work force will buy homes in Fluvanna, Greene, Nelson, Buckingham, Orange, Louisa and even Madison. Sprawl is fine with the supervisors as long as it's in another county.
As Albemarle continues to grow houses with commercial farmers (developers) for an increased tax base, is it any
wonder why the comprehensive plan is a failure? I for one would prefer lower density housing than the concentrated urban mess the BOS seem to favor and shove on us. The award winning flop that Crozet has become is a testiment that houses continue to go up in rural zones. Other than allow thousands of new houses where before there would be far fewer the BOS has screwed us. How will Albemarle get off its addiction for growth?
Why was the scenic highway designation quietly allowed to expired on 250 west? Who is accountable for NOT doing their job? Was this planned behind the scenes so Crozet can become a developer's gold mine and a burden for the taxpayer and community?
Isn't "The County" composed of the people? If 51.6% of people buying new homes are buying them in rural areas, how can we say that is not what "The County" wants. Clearly, it is what they want, but the "The County" government hasn't caught on yet. To be be more precise, it is what they want until they get it; then they don't want any more of it. A conservationist is the last guy who got his cabin in the woods.
Kevin points out a major failure, and as far as I'm concerned a point of idiocy in growth planning. The reason large agricultural areas are maintained around the growth areas is to maintain a supposed green belt to contain the growth areas. But growth areas, as Kevin points out need area and growth. Promoting a growth area and then discouraging growth because of school costs and whatever, is just promoting growth NIMBY.
Agricultural areas and growth areas ought to be defined in terms of need. If we compare the prices of agricultural goods vs housing goods, then it is pretty clear that we don't need to promote more agriculture to keep prices low. We can't say the same for housing. On the other hand, if agricultural zoning is a proxy for retaining open space, then we ought to figure out how much open space we need, and where it should be, and then go buy it. Apparently, that is what those 51.6% are doing.


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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Eni (ENI.MI) plans to invest $8 billion in Libya over the next 10 years to develop its upstream business as it moves to strengthen its grip as the leading international oil and gas producer in the country.
In a statement on Sunday, Eni said its Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni had presented the plan to Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan and Minister of Petroleum Abdelbari al Arusion in Tripoli.
The investments are designed to develop ongoing production as well as new exploration activities, it said.
Eni, which has operated in Libya since 1959, had to halt production early in 2011 after civil war broke out.
Some analysts expressed concern at the time a new Libyan government could punish Eni because of lukewarm support offered by the then centre-right government of Silvio Berlusconi to the opponents of the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
Eni said the Libyan prime minister had also asked Eni at the meeting if it was prepared to develop new projects in the downstream sector "in conjunction with the new branch of the National Oil Corporation, which will be based in Benghazi".
The city of Benghazi was the stronghold of the former Libyan rebels in their struggle against the Tripoli-based Gaddafi regime.
Eni, which produces about one third of Libya's total output, was the first international company to resume production in September last year and currently produces 80 percent of pre-war output of roughly 280,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day.
The state-controlled major has oil production contracts in Libya that are in force until 2042 and gas contracts in force until 2047.
Eni also said a social sustainability agreement, worth about $400 million, had also been discussed, adding it could be signed during Ali Zidan's visit to Rome in late January next year.
Eni is the leading foreign oil and gas producer in Africa, an area of the world it expects will help it achieve its goal of a rise in oil and gas production of around 3 percent per year.
Reporting by Francesca Landini and Stephen Jewkes; Editing by David Holmes and Mark Potter