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1:31:40 dtornabene so am I correct in thinking that Clack only uses roswell for the commandline launching script(s)?
1:37:36 PuercoPop dtornabene: if you are wondering that if you need to use roswell to use clack, then the answer is no
1:39:48 dtornabene sweet! that was indeed that implicit question, thanks for answering!
1:40:00 dtornabene PuercoPop:
2:45:09 aeth (not (mismatch #(1 2 3) #(4 5 6 1 2 3) :start2 3 :end2 6)) will generally be more efficient than this, right? (equalp #(1 2 3) (subseq #(4 5 6 1 2 3) 3 6))
2:45:43 aeth Is there another way that's even better?
2:47:36 Bike loop over the elements yourself
2:48:16 White_Flame hold these digits as a fixnum and mask
2:54:38 Bike parallelize it
2:56:57 aeth I guess I could use define-vop to SIMD it.
3:04:16 defunkydrummer aeth: equalp is overkill here, if they are fixnums i think eq would do the job. Also, i'd rather explicitely create simple-vectors of type fixnum, instead of using the #() reader macro.
3:05:35 defunkydrummer aeth: (eq if you want to loop over the elements yourself.) I might be wrong, though.
7:03:03 xificurC does anyone know how to see the contents of a Lisp_Object in gdb?
7:03:44 xificurC I'm fighting a weird emacs crash, it just stops with exit code 15. A fresh install on a freshly installed ubuntu 18.04. Pure emacs runs fine but adding spacemacs to it crashes with this weird error. I'm surfing the stacktrace in gdb to find out what's causing it. http://ix.io/1aoa
7:04:39 xificurC there's a call to call_process and I'm trying to find out what the arguments are
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7:27:01 edgar-rft xificurC, in #emacs you might have better chances for an answer than here
7:27:48 xificurC edgar-rft: hehe, autopilot made me join here. Excuse the mistake
9:22:52 jmercouris how can I hash a string in common-lisp?
9:24:29 jmercouris I'd really rather not write my own hashing function
9:24:46 _death why? it's xb
9:24:54 _death er, around 5 lines
9:25:08 jmercouris I prefer to use something in the standard lib more often than inventing something
9:25:29 jmercouris I guess I could write a hashing function, but then I'll have to consider collisions, etc
9:26:12 _death it depends on what you need the hash for
9:26:30 jmercouris I need the hash to serve as a unique identifier for elements in a survey
9:26:44 jmercouris so each survey question has a description, I would like to hash this description and treat it as an ID
9:27:10 jmercouris the survey is served on a web page, so I can't just use a hashmap
9:27:19 jmercouris I have to hash myself and then reassociate the values later
9:28:16 _death so ironclad..
9:28:44 dim http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw61/CLHS/Body/f_sxhash.htm maybe
9:28:52 jmercouris seems quite a dependency to bring in
9:29:19 dim (sxhash "string") is 3782781368
9:29:29 jmercouris Yeah, seems to work in SBCL
9:29:32 jmercouris even if I make new strings
9:29:33 dim that's the function used internally by hash-table IIRC
9:29:45 jmercouris thanks for the tip
9:30:40 _death there's no guarantee of a unique value for each string.. in fact it's quite the opposite, unless you have a bounded set of strings so you can build a perfect hash function for them
9:31:01 jmercouris agreed, but it's probably good enough for my case
9:31:19 jmercouris I will only have about 10 questions at a time per survey, the liklihood of collision is very low
9:31:20 _death sxhash is not a good idea for this case, because it's implementation dependent
9:31:37 jmercouris it is for my own application that I will deploy though
9:31:46 jmercouris though I guess others could use it with mixed results on other implementations
9:31:50 _death so what's the point of hashing them instead of just using some autoincrement
9:31:50 jmercouris damnit, maybe I should use ironclad
9:32:14 jmercouris autoincrement would require me to keep state in between the rendering and receipt of a request
9:32:28 jmercouris sorry, I don't mean receipt of a request, I mean submission of a survey
9:32:46 jmercouris though that could be fixed with some routing so that the submit button contains information about which survey the user is submitting
9:32:55 jmercouris so yeah, autoincrement could also work
9:34:10 _death how would you go from hash to question without state?
9:34:37 jmercouris I was planning on doing a search
9:34:52 jmercouris it wasn't well thought out in hindsight
9:35:04 jmercouris I just got tunnel vision, should have spent more time thinking about it instead of x-ying myself
9:35:48 _death if your questions are kept in order, an index into them would make an ID as well.. if you only append questions it could be ok
9:36:55 jmercouris that could work as well
9:37:19 jmercouris let me first do a really basic implementation that works for me, and if anyone else ever uses the software, I'll consider making it more robust
9:39:02 shrdlu68 jmercouris: sxhash
9:40:05 jmercouris shrdlu68: Indeed, but I'll be pursuing a different solution, I hadn't thought about my problem well at all, thanks anyway!
9:53:36 loke jmercouris: "unique" and "hash" are not compatible.
9:54:37 jmercouris loke: yes, when reducing the amount of data, it is not possible to be unique
9:54:55 loke jmercouris: When _increasing_ you mean?
9:54:56 jmercouris because the "hash space" is smaller than the "data space"
9:55:05 jmercouris No, I mean decreasing
9:55:11 loke I mean, for a 64-bit integer, the hash (the integer itself) is unique :-)
9:55:23 loke Expand that to arbitrary sized integers and the hashes are no longer unique.
9:55:48 jmercouris Imagine this, every hash should ideally return a unique item with no collisions
9:56:02 jmercouris if the sequence of possible hashes is less than the amount of possible items, it is impossible
9:56:07 _death the pigeonhole principle
9:56:15 shrdlu68 Principle of bijection.
9:56:16 loke jmercouris: Exactly.
9:56:35 loke jmercouris: Which means as you _increase_ the amount of data, the likelyhood of collisions goes up
9:56:38 jmercouris anyways, I think we could count on no collisions for around 10 items
9:56:50 jmercouris loke: I am talking about the LOSS of information when hashing
9:56:52 loke jmercouris: I wouldn't.
9:57:07 jmercouris so, I said, if we have some large piece of data, the more we reduce it during hashing, the more likely a collision
9:57:09 loke jmercouris: So terminologyu configusion then. I kinda suspected tha.
9:57:37 jmercouris yeah, abstract conversations can be difficult
10:04:08 loke If SXHASH returns a 32-bit number, you're going to have a roughly one-in-3000 chance of collision on a 4-element list.
10:05:40 jmercouris I think that's acceptable
10:11:38 _death I don't understand that statement.. what is a "chance of collision on a 4-element list"
10:12:17 jmercouris Imagine (list "abc" "def" "hij" "klm")
10:12:23 jmercouris now imagine hashing each of those values in the list
10:12:23 _death if there are more than 2^32 possible 4-element lists, the probability of a collision is 1
10:12:38 jmercouris Oh I see your question now
10:13:28 jmercouris _death: no, because the lists may all be duplicates
10:13:56 jmercouris I am referring to a collision within the list, that is, of the elements in the list, will there be a collision amongst themselves, not amongst all members of all lists
10:14:29 jmercouris so if I have 2^32 lists that are all (list "a" "b" "c" "d"), and it is known that the set "a" "b" "c" "d" does not produce a collision, then it would be fine
10:14:38 _death jmercouris: next time I will M-x pedantic-mode
10:14:53 jmercouris _death: are you calling me pedantic?
10:15:05 _death jmercouris: I think it's reasonable to assume that I meant distinct lists..
10:15:23 jmercouris That's fine, but my problem spaces does not involve this many distinct lists
10:15:28 jmercouris s/spaces/space
10:15:40 jmercouris so, within the context of my problem, what are you suggesting, is *not* an issue
10:15:56 _death jmercouris: at this point we're not talking about your problem?.. I guess we've reached offtopicness
10:16:09 jmercouris If we are talking about a generalized problem, then your response make sense
10:16:22 jmercouris if we were talking about my actual problem, we can assume that no survey list will ever reach 2^32 questions long
10:16:37 jmercouris which was my whole point
10:17:21 _death jmercouris: but that's only for the best-case scenario where SXHASH is does its best to be a uniform hash
10:17:37 jmercouris Still, do you think any reasonable survey will be over 100 elements?
10:18:08 _death jmercouris: well, I already explained the issue with sxhash
10:19:41 shka jmercouris: benchmark on real data
10:19:51 _death better off using crc32 or something :)
10:19:52 jmercouris I don't need to benchmark, I'm not going to use any hashing
10:20:01 jmercouris I'm going to use _death's later suggestion, incrementing
10:20:15 shka ah, good
10:29:00 loke jmercouris: Actrually, accroding to the birthday paradox, the probability of two elements colliding is arougly sqrt(N). And remember that if you have more than two elements, you have to didivde that by (N-1)!
10:31:12 loke so for a 10-element list you have an overwhelming chance of collision
10:31:23 loke oops.I I'm getting the numbers wrong
10:31:27 jmercouris Yes, you definitely are
10:31:29 loke but the chanche is still high
10:31:35 jmercouris otherwise hashmaps would be useless over 10 elements
10:31:44 jmercouris they would constantly be cherry picking or whatever to deal with that
10:31:52 jmercouris nobody would ever use them and just stick to arrays
10:32:16 jmercouris is it called cherry picking? I can't remember the strategies for dealing with collisions, it's been so long
10:32:20 loke jmercouris: The probability of a collision for _two_ elements is definititely on the order of sqrt(2^32) for a 32-bit hash
10:32:40 loke where I got it wrong was how this changes for more elemnts.
10:33:08 loke ah
10:33:34 loke exp((-k*(k-1)) / (2*N))
10:33:39 loke http://preshing.com/20110504/hash-collision-probabilities/
10:33:55 loke That page even has a graph for 32-bit hashes
10:34:46 loke jmercouris: Plug your numbers in there, and you'll see that the chance of collision is much higher than you might think.
10:36:51 jmercouris seems to be 1 in 100 million
10:36:52 jmercouris I should be okay
10:37:16 jmercouris at any rate, I'm not using a hash
10:38:07 loke jmercouris: Isn't that the probability that it's _unique_?
10:40:04 jmercouris I probably read the table wrong :\
10:40:09 jmercouris I'm sorry I'm distracted with something else
10:40:46 jmercouris No, it seems I've read the table correctly
10:41:15 jmercouris http://preshing.com/images/small-probabilities.png
10:41:42 jmercouris if you have 10 32 bit hash values, your probability of collision is 1 in 100 million
10:42:14 jmercouris if I had 77163, in a 32 bit space, it is 1/2
10:42:29 jmercouris assuming even distribution
10:46:57 _death wouldn't use the term "odds" there
10:56:20 flip214 jmercouris: I#
10:56:39 flip214 jmercouris: I'm not sure that SXHASH stays constant when the lisp is restarted...
10:56:54 jmercouris It's fine, it doesn't matter, I am not using SXHASH
10:56:59 flip214 so you're giving out some HTML, restart the server, and the clients' values can't be associated any more
10:57:03 flip214 oh, okay
10:57:31 _death clhs sxhash
10:57:31 specbot http://www.lispworks.com/reference/HyperSpec/Body/f_sxhash.htm
10:59:11 dim does that ring a bell to anyone here: The symbol "*SYSTEM-DEFINITION-SEARCH-FUNCTIONS*" is not external in the ASDF/FIND-SYSTEM package.
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I'm wondering if this is a bug or maybe just doesn't work in Project Cars?
Using crew chief in project cars during a race in the rain, I asked "what tires am I on" and got the answer "slicks" when I was on wets. I also asked what tires is the leader on, and got the same answer - slicks.
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Postcards from America: Trips I, II & III
November 20, 2012
by Magnum Photographers
"As the traditional support systems for producing photo documentary projects - such as canvassing editorial commissions - are in decline, a different method of working is now emerging. This often combines internet platforms, print sales and even self financing publications. Rather than being daunted by these shifts, within Magnum a loose group of photographers have started working together to explore the many platforms currently available."
Martin Parr, "Taking back the Agenda"
The Story so Far:
Initiated by Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg and Susan Meiselas in 2011, Postcards from America evolved from the desire amongst a group of Magnum's photographers to refocus creatively, by producing an independent project based on shared experience.
"We knew each other through Magnum, obviously, but we'd never actually tried to work together," says Soth. "We wanted to see what that would be like, to see if we could create a kind of polyphonic sound". Alec Soth
Postcards 1 harnessed the enthusiasm of the online photographic community to fund and feed into a DIY road trip for five photographers (Soth, Goldberg, Meiselas, Paolo Pellegrin and Mikhael Subotsky) and the writer Ginger Strand, from Austin Texas to Oakland. Postcards 2 took a trip East with Jim Goldberg and Alessandra Sanguinetti's in the group's RV van. Postcards 3, "The House of Pictures", pitched camp in Rochester, New York.
A location steeped in photographic history, Rochester is both home of Kodak, an ailing giant of traditional, photographic production and George Eastman House, venue for the "New Topographics", William Jenkins's exhibition of 1975 which redefined landscape photography. Over two weeks, ten Magnum photographers worked in concert with the Visual Studies Workshop, George Eastman House and Rochester Institution of Technology to create a documentary archive of Rochester's culture and landscape.
"It felt almost like being in a band…. The 'house' was our recording studio, Rochester city was our subject; yet we individually had to find ourselves, our own voices, in respect of the city. That was probably the hardest part, but it felt magic trying to work that out together". Donovan Wylie
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NEWS- Job jockeying: Local notables don new hats
January is typically a time for fresh starts, and some high-profile locals are starting fresh in a big way, with fancier new jobs– or in one case, a highly publicized firing.
Former city councilor Rob Schilling is back on the air. The lone Republican on City Council from 2002 to 2006 put in nine months on WINA's Morning Show, leaving in September when Rick Daniels took the permanent slot once held by Dick Mountjoy.
At the time, Schilling wanted to focus on real estate and had signed on with Roy Wheeler, but January 7 marked the debut of the Schilling Show Monday through Friday from 1 to 2pm and on Saturdays from 6 to 9am.
Schilling sees the new program, which will be sandwiched between conservative talkmeisters Neil Boortz and Bill O'Reilly, as an "advocacy" show. "I'm looking to give a voice to people who don't get enough voice," he explains. "It won't be a partisan show."
After his term on council, "Certainly I have a different perspective," says Schilling. "I was an outsider who was an insider for four years. No one else has that unique position and perspective."
He believes a lot of people in Charlottesville have "given up" under Democratic rule and would like to see a more nonpartisan City Council. "My contention is, if Peter Kleeman had a 'D' after his name and [Satyendra] Huju didn't, Huja would have lost," says Schilling.
Clearly, Schilling doesn't shy from strong opinions, and as a result, he says, "I've had a lot of blow-back from City Hall."
City spokesman Ric Barrick acknowledges speaking up when Schilling was on the Morning Show.
"My job is to make sure the city is being fairly portrayed on their morning show, which I consider a news program and not an opinion show," says Barrick. "I had issues with the fact that the city was being portrayed without the option for us to defend ourselves. Mr. Schilling having his own show, which is opinion, is certainly their right. He's actually a friend of mine, and I wish him the very best. I just have to do my job from time to time, and that's one of the instances when I was called into action."
Schilling, who has been selling real estate for 20 years, says that career complements his radio show. One other thing to keep him busy in 2008: a new baby is on the way.
Top-gun litigator Matt Murray, who won Virginia's largest defamation award ever– $10 million against NBC29 over a botched drug possession story (later reduced to $1 million)– leaves the firm of Richmond and Fishburne to open a local branch of the hefty-monikered Allen, Allen, Allen and Allen, the largest personal injury law firm in the state.
"They made me an offer I couldn't refuse," says Murray, who's vice president of the Virginia Trial Lawyers and past president of the Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association. "They have resources so deep, it's a plaintiff lawyer's dream."
"We want him, and he wants us," says Allen firm president Doug Barry. "It's a match made in heaven." An added bonus: the law firm has long sought a branch in Charlottesville. "A lot of us went to school there," says Barry. "I love Charlottesville."
Murray will be shareholder and managing partner of the Charlottesville office located at the former Albemarle Veterinarian Hospital at the corner of Seminole Trail and Rio Hill Shopping Center.
He describes the split with Richmond and Fishburne as amicable. "I've left one of the greatest groups of lawyers in Charlottesville," he gushes. "They're lawyers' lawyers."
Meanwhile, he's going to be practicing saying, "Allen, Allen, Allen and Allen."
In the Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney Office, Darby Lowe gets a promotion to deputy commonwealth's attorney, taking the job recently held by Rick Moore, whose firing under the new Denise Lunsford regime has sparked some controversy.
"It is a poor decision to fire such a top-notch, well-respected, and time-tested asset of our community in favor of hiring a far less experienced assistant commonwealth's attorney," blasts former Charlottesville prosecutor Fran Slayton in a letter to the Daily Progress. She also takes Lunsford to task for refusing to allow Moore to stay until he found another job.
Melinda Harlow calls herself a victim aided by Moore in a January 4 letter. "It is my feeling that Denise Lunsford came to her decision from political and professional trepidation about Mr. Moore, giving little to no regard to his constancy and fidelity to those whom he serves," she writes.
"I don't have a reaction," says Lunsford about the controversy, sticking to her original statement when the firing was reported in the Progress: "I will say that I had to feel completely comfortable with and confident in every attorney who is going to be staying in that office."
Moore also declines to comment on his pink slip but says he has several possibilities that will allow him to remain in the area and in prosecution.
"Rich has been personally supportive to me in the new position," says Lowe, who prosecuted the so-called school bombers in 2006, a case that brought no shortage of controversy, particularly after the one case that went to trial ended in acquittal.
Besides the bombless bombers, Lowe has prosecuted over 100 child abuse cases, and she says people may not know she also enjoys document-driven, white collar cases. One she's particularly proud of from last fall involved elder-care fraud, and she obtained convictions when the victims couldn't speak for themselves.
"I love pieces of paper because they don't lie," she says.
Other new jobs and tasks that have come with the new year: attorney and former City Councilor-turned-Miller School headmaster Lindsay Barnes Jr. will say aloha in June and head west to lead the Hawaii Preparatory Academy. Former UVA treasurer Alice Handy, who runs an investment fund for colleges, will chair the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Board of Trustees for the next two years. And Crozet-based county growth critic Tom Loach takes a seat on the Albemarle Planning Commission.
Matt Murray changes firms, the better to sue you with, my dear insurance company.
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By DAVID GREEN
Fayette's sidewalk inspection program got underway April 12 when Public Safety committee members walked Main and Fayette streets looking for safety concerns.
Other sections of the town will be inspected during the next four years in the annual inspection effort, however, if a complaint is received about a safety issue, the sidewalk will be inspected within 48 hours.
Village officials inspected the entire village in 2008 and learned there was about 2.8 miles of sidewalk meeting code and another 10 miles of either substandard walk or no sidewalk at all.
Plans call for the village to be divided into quadrants for future inspections: southwest quadrant in 2011; northwest in 2012; northeast in 2013; and the southeast in 2014.
Police chief Jason Simon joined the committee for the inspection walk and said the first step is to look at repair and replacement needs for existing walks.
Eventually walks should be installed where none currently exist, he said. He believes a public meeting should be scheduled to explain the long-term goals of the committee.
There are three or four areas zoned as subdivisions that don't require sidewalks and those neighborhoods would be exempt from constructing walks.
When the current sidewalk policy was approved by council in 2008, there was talk of a $20 refundable permit fee, but village administrator Amy Metz said that a fee would not be charged because Public Safety committee members will handle the inspection.
Specifications call for walks to be four feet wide and four inches deep, poured over a compacted aggregate base. Driveway approaches must be thicker. Walks must have a one-inch traverse slope toward the street.
Walks ruled not in compliance must be repaired within 60 days of notification.
CLEAN-UP—Council voted to schedule a spring clean-up beginning at 7 a.m. May 1. The curbside service must be paid in advance at village hall, with a minimum charge of $20.
Residents must pay $20 a hopper load which is about two cubic feet or a pickup truck load.
Loose items must be bagged or in containers weighing less than 30 pounds each. Certified trash cans with handles must be used rather than 55-gallon drums. Loose items that won't fit in a container must be bundled.
Paint cans must be dry and with the lids removed. Liquids are not allowed.
A complete list of guidelines is available at the village hall.
BRUSH—Curbside brush chipping started this week and continues through May 28. Each property will be passed at least twice during the six-week period.
A list of guidelines for brush pick-up is also available at the village hall. Residents may also transport brush on their own to the village garage near the water tower.
PROJECT PRIDE—Mayor Ruth Marlatt intends to get the Project Pride program going again for 2010. Marlatt started the effort in 2009 and wants to expand this year.
"Basically we're trying to restore some pride in our community, mostly with home and property improvements," she said. "I'm trying to set up some dates so we can get things rolling again."
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Adafruit: LED Strip LPD8806
The offical page can be found at Digital Addressable RGB LED w/ PWM waterproof flexi strip
This is an LED strip housed in waterproof material with 32 LEDs per meter. The LEDs are controlled by shift registers using LPD8806 controller that controls two LEDs at a time with pulse width modulation. This chip has built in 1.2 MHz high speed 7-bit PWM for each channel which relates to 21-bit color. At each end is a 4-pin JST connector which is sealed in the 5 meter version. This needs to be powered by a 5V power source and should not go above 5.5V.
When I got the LED strip, it did not work as expected. Only the first two lights would stay lit and would only change based on random values that they would get when initialized with noise. After reading this thread on the Adafruit forums http://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?t=32825 we were able to get a working strip of LEDs.


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- 7 tablespoons (3 1/2-ounces) butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1/3 cup self-rising flour
- 1/4 cup ground almonds
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 cup 2% reduced-fat milk
- Finely grated zest of 1 lime
- 3/4 cup fresh blueberries
- Coarse sugar
- 1 cup whipped cream
- Preheat oven to 350F. Grease 6 muffin cups with butter. Line bases with rounds of parchment paper to prevent sticking.
- Combine butter and granulated sugar in bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well.
- Fold in flour, almonds and baking powder. Gently stir in milk and lime zest.
- Place 2 tablespoons blueberries in bottom of each muffin cup. Spoon batter on top of blueberries.
- Bake about 25 minutes, until cakelets are springy to the touch. Remove from oven and cool. Run a sharp knife around edge of each cakelet, then invert pan. Remove parchment paper, and serve, topped with coarse sugar and whipped cream.
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Sentencing scheduled for 1981 shooting rampage | News
BARTOW, Fla. (AP) - A 64-year-old man is expected to learn whether he will receive life imprisonment or be sent back to Florida's death row for a 1981 shooting rampage that left three people dead, including a Polk County sheriff's deputy.
The Lakeland Ledger reports that Paul Beasley Johnson's sentencing will be held May 7. Deputy Theron A. Burnham, Winter Haven taxi driver William Evans and Darrell Ray Beasley, a Lakeland man who agreed to give Johnson a ride, all died during the rampage.
Prosecutors say Johnson was trying to get money for drugs and was willing to kill to evade capture. Johnson's lawyers say he suffers from brain damage, which causes him to be violent. Johnson has been successful twice in having his sentences overturned on appeal.


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First Look: New Drinks at Empellón Cocina, NYC
The spirit of Alex Stupak's Empellón Taqueria and Empellón Cocina is one of invention, but heavily steeped in the traditions of Mexican cuisine—"always-impressive original takes on regional Mexican classics," as we noted in our first look at Cocina.
It's little surprise, then, that the bar program, run by Mat Resler, is the same way. There's a great deal of attention to agave spirits—Empellón Cocina's list numbers 47 mezcals (which he thinks is the most in the city) plus another 13 or so that aren't even listed. An appreciation for these traditionally made spirits is obvious, but Resler goes far beyond the traditional in creating agave-based cocktails that express the full range of mezcal and tequila, be they fruity or peppery, grassy or smoky.
The five new drinks on his menu vary widely. There's a pistachio milk punch with the "salted caramel, toffee notes" of Dos Tequila Reposado. There's a pomegranate-vinegar cocktail bright with acidity, with the peppery notes of Espolón Blanco backing it up. And there's a stirred cocktail of nothing but mezcal—five different iterations playing off each other for a drink that's surprisingly bright and easy to sip. "On paper, that's the scariest cocktail I've ever made, but it's different once you taste it."
Come take a look at the five new drinks on Resler's fall menu at Empellón Cocina—plus a bonus drink from Taqueria—including Mayan liqueurs, smoked bananas, and a neon-green syrup that might surprise you.
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
52 Weeks to Better Genealogy - Challenge 3
A goal I set, both for myself and for the materials/information/photos I have for my self, my parents materials, and even my grandparents stuff, was to organize by decades, as a starting point, to make very large projects more manageable.
With this Challenge, I am going to modify handling my own materials by shifting to to seven period groups, rather than decades. What do you think about this?
1. Childhood: 1939-1952 (through country school)
2. Teens to Marriage: 1952-1959 (eighth grade, high school, F-S college)
3. Kids and Career Start: 1960-1969 (three daughters, work, no time)
4. Urbandale: 1970-1983 (Governor's staff, kids in teens, own business)
5. Tucson: 1983-1994 (work, family, PhD)
6. Emporia: 1994-2009 (assistant, associate, professor and chair; grandkids)
7. Retirement: 2009-forward (Nancy and I; Austin, Utah, and MO)
It does look a bit like decades, but with better definition. It may not seem like much, but I think I can make it work. I'll bet we'll revisit this later in the 52 weeks, what do you think?
Families are Forever! ;-)
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Looks like a plan to me; I may adopt your approach for a timeline, and then just link the memories I have written up to each period. Thanks for the idea - that simplifies things!ReplyDelete
Thanks,... and I appreciate the reminder to use links. I have so much material on line over the years, already, this would be a good way to tie it together. Thanks for stopping by. ;-)ReplyDelete
I like your categories and may do something similar with my own records. Thanks for sharing your plan with us!ReplyDelete
This makes lots of sense. It's much more useful than decades because it relates directly to telling stories about your life.ReplyDelete


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The post below first appeared on the Index Ventures blog and formed the basis for articles in the Telegraph and City AM
At Index and TAG we feel strongly that a healthy IPO market is an important element of maintaining the strong tech startup momentum that has been building in Europe over the past 5 years.
Together we can get the Tech IPO market going in London
From our vantage point at Index, the centrality of the Tech sector to economic growth -- particularly during the economic slowdown of the last few years -- is all too clear.
A recent piece in the FT reiterated this point. Ed Hammond, the paper's property correspondent reviewed the shifting make-up of the City and the steady transformation of the tenant mix in the Square Mile.
Examples Ed quotes of recent office moves help to illustrate the point:
- Bloomberg: 500,000sq ft on Walbrook Square
- Skype: 88,000 sq ft on Waterhouse Square
- Expedia: 81,000 sq ft on St John St
Those of us working in the tech world or, more accurately, the tech-enabled sectors, have known for some time that the Old Economy is being slowly replaced by the New Economy. Retail is being replaced by eCommerce, Old Media by New Media, enterprise software by SaaS. While industries like law and finance have experienced sluggish growth over the past 5 years, companies in the tech sector are seeing revenue growth of at least 30%/annum, and frequently upwards of 100%/annum. Both start-ups and larger companies like Moshi Monsters and King.com are beneficiaries of this explosive growth. In fact, one of our portfolio companies, Moo.com, has moved or expanded office space seven times in as many years to accommodate its rapid and continuous expansion.
Yet a disconnect remains between the economic vigor in the tech world and the dynamism of the City. My partner, Neil Rimer, wrote an interesting and challenging post recently decrying the fact that the door to London's IPO market is shut tight for tech companies. Little wonder, then, that despite London's place as a global financial centre, so many European tech companies like Yandex and Qlik Technologies ended up listing in New York.
What makes this trend even more remarkable, and even more regrettable, is the fact that the UK's internet economy is one of the most vibrant in the world. Online retail accounts for 13.5% of total UK retail sales, a higher percentage than in any other G-20 country, according to a recent BCG report. The UK is also dominant in online advertising, which accounts for 28.9% of total advertising spend in the country. By comparison, in the G-20 country with the next most developed online advertising market, Japan, only 21.6% of the advertising market has gone digital.
It just does not seem right to me that the City of London, with all its smart investors, would allow the largest seismic shift in the economy to take place without their active participation. Particularly when evidence of this shift can now be found in the buildings outside their back door.
Our sense at Index is that a collective effort needs to be made to kick-start the IPO season for tech companies. And so, in an attempt to invigorate companies, policymakers and the City alike, we've put together some recommendations. All it will take is a three-pronged attack from policy-makers, entrepreneurs, and the City alike to make this happen, but it will only work if all the pieces come together.
For the companies capable of listing:
- An approach to an IPO needs to be one which recognises that the listing is a fund raising and liquidity event on the way to building a large and great company. It is NOT an exit.
- It is important to be IPO ready. This means having the right governance structure in place: an appropriate board with an independent head of audit committee, and well-established remuneration and nomination committees. A well-drilled quarterly rhythm to re-forecasting and a good history of hitting the numbers is also essential.
- It is important to communicate a company's story to the market with clarity and precision.
- Ideally VCs will help their company get ready, and be willing and able to hold the stock post float for at least one year. It is the price one year from the float that is most relevant to inside shareholders, so the pricing of the floatation shouldn't be optimized to the nth degree.
For the policymakers:
- The minimum public float requirement of 25% is too high to create a healthy IPO market. Entrepreneurs don't want to give away so much of their company, particularly when equity is given to the bankers hired to help list the company as well. It would behoove both Europe's tech companies as well as the public markets if the minimum threshold either dropped to 10%, or a minimum valuation was assigned to companies interesting in listing. The public float is likely to grow over time as early investors (VCs and others) sell their shares.
- The stamp duty on shares should be revoked, given that the UK has the joint highest rate of stamp duty in the world. This puts London at a competitive disadvantage when it is competing with New York.
For the Institutional Shareholders and Fund Managers:
- It is important to understand the fundamental difference between PE-backed companies and VC-backed companies. PE houses are generally seeking to exit their investments through an IPO or replace debt in the company. VCs generally fund their portfolio without debt and a listing is often seen as a way of raising the company's profile and providing access to further capital.
- Strategic investments by city firms are needed to build up specialist analysis and the research required to properly evaluate hyper-growth tech companies and become familiar with the diverse business models and KPIs.
- There is a big difference between 2000's tech stocks and 2010's growth stocks. Whilst many of the tech companies will not offer sufficient market liquidity and be sub scale at this stage, it is not hard to see that this situation will not pertain for too long.
Finally, I should add that the motivations for investors like Index in helping strengthen the London IPO market is very similar to those we applied when we began to help build the European start-up ecosystem ten years ago. We believe that a healthy tech sector needs funding at all stages of a company's life. Without an active IPO market, there is bound to be less capital for startups and early stage businesses.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Face-Lift 811
Guess the Plot
Walk the Broken Road
1. It's not easy to get to Ambercross. Mostly because it's a fictional world created by author Casey Winter. But Casey's ex-husband, a well-known pastor, has gotten there, and he's planning to destroy the place with C4 and Napalm. Which will pretty much ruin Casey's writing career. Can she find her way to Ambercross in time to save her novel ? Also, a cannibal.
2. Isolated since 1917, when floods washed the road out, everyone in Ridgeville is paranoid of the Outside. But 14-year-old hillbilly genius Buddy Boone is determined to take his banjo to Nashville and embrace modernity. First he must invent an inflatable raft using pigskin glued with tree sap. Or maybe he'll just . . . walk the broken road.
3. Hunter Jones is on the verge of country music stardom with an album about growing up on a farm in Kentucky. Only one problem: Hunter is actually part of the British peerage. How long can he keep up the charade before that cute reporter digs up the truth?
4. Road worker Melanie is having a bad day. Her civil engineering degree hangs useless on the caravan wall as the sun blazes down on her. A bunch of drunk and disorderly giants have stolen all the road signs on route 43. And as Melanie fills another foot-shaped pothole, she fails to notice the spaceship descending toward her.
5. One day Josh oversleeps and wakes up to find zombies attacking the city. What's worse, his brain has already been eaten, yet somehow he's still walking around. Being dead feels great! He decides to help others find the same undead bliss he's discovered--while at the same time satisfying his craving for grey matter.
6. With Dorothy gone you'd think Oz had been set straight. But with her sisters out of the way, the good witch Glinda has become the wicked bitch of the South, and she's ruling Oz with an iron wand. Can the once-cowardly Lion convince the Scarecrow to stop waxing philosophic as he wanders the poppy-fields, and to drag Tinman away from crying over his tv-soaps and rusting himself, so they can finally free Oz from the last despotic witch-sister?
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Dear Evil Ed.,
Fantasy novelist Casey Winter isn't a hero. She just writes about them. Jack, her violent ex-husband, is the famous pastor of a powerful mega-church and wants her to defend his abusive history on national television. [My husband abused me throughout our miserable marriage, Oprah, but I defend to the death his right to do so.] [He wants her to defend his abusive history? What does that mean? I can only guess that instead of "defend" you mean "disavow." Or maybe "forgive." Either way, if she does this on national television, won't that just call more attention to his abusive history? Is that what he wants? You wouldn't think a guy with a widely known abusive history would have enough parishioners to fill a mega-church.] [Which is bigger, a mega-church or a humongo-mosque?] He attempts legal blackmail, threatening to seize her house if she doesn't co-operate. [If they're divorced, surely the ownership of the house has been settled. If it's her house, how can he seize it?] [Also, if I were Jack, I would be seriously worried that Casey would go on national television and say, "Jack has threatened to seize my house if I don't disavow his abuse, but I can't lie, he brutalized me like Mike Tyson brutalizes his cellmate," and then pastor Jack loses whatever reputation he had. I'd feel safer buying her a new house in New Zealand than putting her on television.] When she contacts his former lawyer, [Why not contact his current lawyer? What's in it (whatever "it" is) for his former lawyer?] she receives a letter from a younger, saner Jack. He left Casey a set of magical paintings in the event of his death, and his artwork and letters lead to a startling discovery: her fictional world, Ambercross, is real and in need of her help. [You've lost me. If the paintings go to Casey when Jack dies, and he's still alive, how has his artwork led anywhere? Presumably she hasn't inherited it yet.] [Also, it's a little late in the query for such a radical turn of events. If your main character is a mermaid, reveal it up front.]
Her novel's protagonist is framed for an attack on the King of the Faeries and can't defend himself, as he's currently stuck in the villain's body. The King is MIA. His temporary regent is in her ex's employ and will gladly trade the treasury for a chance to turn humans into slaves (and the occasional snack). When the King's attacker appears in Casey's living room, she realizes fairy-tale bad-guys don't wear Nikes or carry .45s. [That makes no logical sense. Well, it makes sense if what you mean is that Casey used to think fairy tale bad guys wore Nikes and carried .45s, but now that a fairy tale bad guy who's not wearing Nikes and carrying a .45 has appeared before her, she realizes she's been wrong all these years; but what I think you mean is that someone claiming to be the fairy tale bad guy has appeared before her, except he's wearing Nikes and carrying a .45, so he can't possibly be the fairy tale bad guy, in which case you might tweak the sentence to read, When the King's attacker appears in Casey's living room, she quickly realizes he's an impostor--fairy-tale bad-guys don't wear Nikes or carry .45s.] Pastor Jack's on the prowl, and she's the only one who can warn Ambercross before he introduces it to C4 and Napalm. And when Jack reveals that he's actually the disembodied villain, Casey realizes she must fight for more than just her fiction. The fate of two worlds hangs on her choices, and whatever happens, it had better make one hell of a book.
WALK THE BROKEN ROAD is complete at just under 85,000 words. It is intended as the first of a trilogy. This is my first novel. I am a commercial baker in the trenches of a large grocery chain. I also do digital, fantasy themed artwork and have done several covers for a small press. Thank you for your time.
Not part of query: (The title comes from the main theme of faith, and the MC's realization that no matter how nasty things get, she has to keep going.) [The title and its origin sound like literary fiction. The plot summary sounds more like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.]
The first paragraph sounds like a bunch of random backstory plot threads about a woman whose violent ex-husband is making her life miserable. Then suddenly she's tasked with saving the king of the Faeries from her ex while saving humanity from cannibals. That may work in the book, but in the query it's a bit much. I'd base the query mainly in one world, starting:
Fantasy novelist Casey Winter isn't a hero; she just writes about them. But that all changes when she discovers that her "fictional" world of Ambercross suddenly exists, and her despicable ex-husband Jack is plotting to blow it up.
The second paragraph is a list of the absurd things that are happening in Toon Town, but I think you can work some of that in without losing the main thread. Perhaps by finishing up something like:
This is not the Ambercross Casey created. Her protagonist is stuck in her villain's body. The King of the faeries is MIA. And his temporary replacement is a cannibal working for Jack! She can't write her way out of this one; she's going to have to go to Ambercross if she wants to save her world . . . and her book.
In between those paragraphs you can have the character show up in Casey's living room to tell her what's happening in Ambercross (I assume that's how she finds out?).
16 comments:
- Anonymous said...
One of the difficulties of writing query letters is the figuring how to best describe the story for clueless readers. You took on some major logic challenges and the real/false/real world thing is complicated.
With the query structured like this we fear the first 300 pages are all about coping with this domestic violence guy, then you make an abrupt excursion to Oz to solve things. It might all be brilliant in the book, but after reading this query we FEAR your plot was hijacked mid-story. We're afraid the manuscript reads like two half books of different genres.
Dorothy had domestic issues before she went to Oz, too, but they didn't take half the book. So maybe the query will work better if you barely mention the X and mostly tell about the rest of the story.
- Anonymous said...
What Evil said. I mean WHAT Evil said. Please review what Evil SAID. I wish you clarity. You touched one of Evil's nerves. Not a bad thing, rooting through nerves, but when it grates like a root canal, do what the Evil says. I would like to see exactly how schizo this goes. Please send me a recipe. Very best, and I think you can fix the problems. Congrats, you got our mighty Evil going big time. Phoenix Sullivan Dare to Dream waits for the revision as I do. Best,
- angela robbins said...
i was thrown for a loop with this one. i agree, why would he want to drudge up a past that will only harm him, unless it's already come into light and he's wanting her to deny it.
ee's brought up some valid points that i think need taken into consideration not only with the query but the storyline as well.
- Anonymous said...
Anon put it beautifully. Best again, Bibi
- Anonymous said...
What happened to the "younger, saner Jack"? Was he killed and his body possessed by the abusive pastor? Please un-dangle that thread.
The fate of two worlds hangs on her choices, and whatever happens, it had better make one hell of a book.
I get that Ambercross might end, but is the fate of our world hanging on her choices? If so, how? All Jack has is C4 and napalm. And why had it "better" make one hell of a book? Has her publisher told her one more midlist snoozefest and she's out?
- M. G. E. said...
What they said, and I'll add this:
Your bad-guy reads like "super-bad-guy." He has no redeeming qualities, he's one-dimensional:
He's an ex-husband, a hypocrite, a liar, a blackmailer, extortionist, a wife-beater(!), and now getting ready to commit mass literary murder by introducing explosives, etc.
In short, he's a cartoon. So, it's pretty good that you make him one by saying he basically came out of her mind.
But, my question is, how far are you taking this? Is the book actually about how Casey is quite literally insane and the final shot of the book is a pan away from her tied down, drooling, to a hospital bed? >_>
This plot just isn't appealing to me -unless- it's actually about her struggle to regain her sanity and end the hallucinations. But if that's the real plot you can't leave that out of the query.
- vkw said...
Again, I think it's the query monster.
"So what's your story about?" the man asked in the elevator.
"Well it's about this woman who is a victim of domestic violence and her ex is still making her life miserable by trying to exploit her into making a national television appearance saying it didn't happen and he's. . . . wait, er the door's opening, don't you want to hear the plot?" the query monster says.
"Well I wanted to hear about the plot that's why I asked. But I'm sorry I don't have time to hear about the character." The man walks out of the elevator.
In the query we want to know the PLOT not the details of the characters.
Start with the plot, then tell us about the characters.
It's a story about an evil villian taking over a fairy tale world that was developed by an author in this world.
The villain does this in the fairy world by . . for the purpose of.
The author has to save the world by doing this.
Failure to solve the plot will result in . . . .
- Adam Heine said...
When you start with an abusive pastor blackmailing his wife, it makes it really hard for me to care about what happens to Fairyland. It doesn't help that I know nothing about the characters there.
- St0n3henge said...
Whoever wrote #2 was no doubt thinking of Walk Hard. Yeah, it was a stupid movie, but I laughed all the way through it.
Author: What M.G.E. said. I had a hard time believing Casey's books sell if she creates such unrealistic characters. Then again, I'm assuming Jack started out as a good guy or she wouldn't have married him. Unless she was abused as a child and this is part of the vicious cycle.
I, also, was confused about the former lawyer, and why a lawyer would betray his client's confidence, etc. Basically, none of this makes sense the way it's written.
You seem to have forgotten how to plot a story in writing this letter. The plot of this story would go something like this:
First, MC. Who she is and why we should care. Second, Villain introduction. Important choice MC must make, or goal she must achieve. Villian gets in the way of her achieving her goals how? MC then- what? Confronts and fights, hides and makes a plan, recieves help from a magical source, another character intervenes, or what? Some instances described, leading to the final confrontation, and the ending.
Definitely leave out the part about this being your first novel, you being a baker, etc. All the agent wants is the word count and generic thank you.
EE- A mega-church is bigger, until the congregation finds out the pastor is gay, and then it isn't.
- Stephen Prosapio said...
What they all said AND my normal rant about titles. Go to the bookstore. Read the titles there. Go to netflix. Read the titles there in your genre. Then dump "Walk the Broken Road" into the bin with "Wear the Smelly Shoes" "Sing the Discordant Song" and "Meet the Disgruntled Postal Worker"
- Unrepentant Escapist said...
I like ee's version. I'd definitely be interested.
Verification: spaslym. Greatest fake word ever.
- St0n3henge said...
"Meet the Disgruntled Postal Worker" would be the bestest children's book EVAR.
- _*rachel*_ said...
I might try starting with the novel itself: Roger's the protagonist of an unfinished fantasy novel. He's been framed for murder, had his soul stuck in the villain's body, and been fed popcorn-flavored jelly beans. All this and he's got to beat a "humans make great snacks" sort of guy, the faery king.
Then the author's ex-husband shows up in the novel with C4 and napalm, planning to destroy the one thing Casey, the author, still loves. Things have gone from bad to worse--but if Casey and Roger team up, they might just win.
- Joe G said...
Um, for the record, I am actually intrigued by this book. There's a lot of imagination on display and I'm fond of outside of the box fantasy stories. I agree that it's a scatterbrained query but there's a story there. It sounds like a bizarre Murakami Haruki novel. I think E.E.'s got it right... you don't need to throw all the crazy at us at once.
"So and so is a popular fiction writer, the creator of Ambercross, who is being harrassed by her evil ex husband. But when she finds herself in the magical world she created..." etc.
But I like the combination of domestic issues with fantasy.
Megachurches don't care if you're gay, they only care if you get caught more than two or three times ;P
- M. G. E. said...
Well, at the least, the fantasy aspects should be frontloaded much more. They really take the reader by surprise in this query.
- batgirl said...
The GTP makes this sound like a fascinating book. Maybe use that as the basis for your query?