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kilmo: in regards to your comments regarding the usefulness (or lack thereof) of the output of the Computer Science department. First of all, it does not invalidate my point that most students come to the Technion's CS department to learn how to program or at least to get a certificate that will show their competence as programmers. (whether it indeed does is a different question).
Secondly, in regard to the post itself: my condolences. ;-). It is highly possible that 20% of the faculty cater to 80% of the students as far as their research is concerned, while 20% of the faculty cater to 80% of the students. From what I know of the Electrical Engineering department, a larger part of their research is more down to earth and useful. Maybe that what happens when you have a department dedicated to a theoretical science.
I know that in M.I.T., for example, there's one department for both Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. This removes the duplicacy of the courses between the two faculties that we see so much in the Technion, and also possibly injects a lot of practicality to them CS researchers.
Linux in Action revisited
Well, my suggestion to turn the Haifux' Welcome to Linux series into a shorter "Linux in Action" series was rejected (possibly for a good reason), but Linux in Action could still be a good idea as a complement to it. For instance, we could have a day full of Linux demonstrations, in a similar manner to the Linux Circus that took place a couple of years ago.
A Good Reference for Perl
Eran has recently installed RedHat Linux 9.0 in order to learn how to program better. He wanted to learn Perl, having heard so many good things about it, and so started out with my "Perl for Perl Newbies" series, which he claimed was very well written. Then he wanted to look something in the perl man pages, and said he could not make heads nor tails of them.
As he wasn't the first one I heard to express this amount of unhappiness from them, it got me thinking about writing a better reference for Perl, in a similar fashion to what Python and PHP have. So I brought this on perl5-porters and received many heated responses. Apparently, many people believed that the man pages should be left in their current not-so-idiot-proof state, or that it was rightful to expect people to pay to get a better reference.
From my experience getting my patches to the documentation into bleadperl, it was a relatively painful experience. While there were many people who actually had meaningful comments, there were always those few who complained that it's making them too wordy, or loses character out of the document. Eventually, most of my patches were accepted, but it was still a painful procedure, as it seems there isn't a consensus in the perl5-porters mailing list on the exact purpose of the perl*.pod documents.
Add this to the fact that I'm not sure that the Perl POD documents can ever be made very suitable for beginners, and that their organization is a bit lacking, and I think it may be a good idea to simply start a documentation project ("Doclanx" or "Reflanx" both named after the Phalanx project) from scratch that will produce a comprehensive reference that is more suitable for beginners. Our own codebase, our own rules, our own progress.
What I would like to do first or as I start is collect user stories about the existing documentation. That way we can tell how to best organize the new one.
ISP/Phone Company Support Incident
A couple of days ago I sank into an all-time low: I called the ISP support line and he actually guided me in something. It all started when my Internet connection got hanged out and nothing I tried to do to resolve it (restarting the modem, restarting the router) helped. So I called the ISP line. A support person answered and when I told him I had a NAT, he said I should connect the computer to the modem straight or else he can't help me. So I did (I have two Internet cards). Here he guided me through the procedure (my Windows networking configuration skills got a bit rusty lately), and then it still did not work. Then he heard that the modem was configured to use PPPoE, so he said that we either need to set it back to PPTP or he can't help me. (as usual, these support people are more clueless than us hackers or power-users). I knew that my father would not like it so I gave him my father.
My father got angry, and eventually disconnected and tried to contact the Phone company support team. They eventually said that the line was probably OK, and possibly the modem mis-configured itself. So we reset the modem (with a tooth-pick), and it went back to PPTP, but we were able to connect to the Internet again. Pheewww! Now we need to set it back to PPPoE sometime, but still it wasted a couple of good hours.
Browser Wars
I read the beginning of the Browser Wars II: The Saga Continues article. It was quite entertaining, but short of useful information. But it got me thinking: as Mozilla (and browsers based on its engine, like Firebird) is mature and usable and MSIE is buggy as hell, and will only ship with new versions of the operating system, we can expect the user-base of Mozilla and similar alternative browsers to actually grow, at least not if it weren't for all those MSIE-only sites. But I thought of a way to accelerate it: start creating clean, standards' compliant web-sites that may or may not look well in Internet Explorer. I'm not saying that we should break them on purpose. Just not test them on it, and if people complain that they break tell people to switch to Mozilla or whatever. (as it will be good for them).
The question naturally rises why it is not equally as worse as web-sites that are MSIE-only. There are several reasons:
- MSIE 5.5 and above are specific to a certain operating system and architecture. Mozilla and similar browsers are truly cross-platform. - as such MSIE may not be available on the development platform of the web designer. I design all my sites and have tested them on MSIE by using the laptop. Now, I'm not going to bother.
- MSIE is not open source. Mozilla is - I cannot fix the bugs there even if I wanted to. If bugs exist in an open source project I can either fix them myself, hire someone else to do it, or blame myself for not doing either. With MSIE, I have every right to blame Microsoft for their incompetence. And I can have them eat their own arrogance.
- Users can always switch to Mozilla or whatever - I can always tell them to do so. On the other hand, I cannot switch to Internet Explorer if I'd like to use Linux (which I do).
- MSIE is not standards compliant while other browsers are - in fact, a prominent Microsoft engineer said standards-compliance is not a high priority for the MSIE team. Since I design according to web standards, I don't want the new Netscape Navigator 4 to be in my way.
- MSIE is not going to be maintained independently - the only prospect of getting a browser upgrade for MSIE is to buy a new OS. Buy a new OS just to get a new version of the browser? That's the joke of the month. Other browsers come with periodic upgrades with many improvements - all for free.
So that's it. I'm going to use such cool stuff such as CSS child selectors (html > body), max-width, Alpha-transparency PNGs, and :hover on elements besides links, as well as the full XSLT specification. I'm not going to break compatibility on purpose, but I certainly won't prevent a cool standards-complaint feature from inhibiting my pages. And I can't run MSIE on my choice of system, so Microsoft have themselves to blame if it doesn't work.
Finally, I may put the no-MSIE icon on each and everyone of my sites. With a link to a page explaining this new WWW order. No more Mister Nice Guy! Microsoft: adapt or perish!
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The tea party is is made up of puppets being run by an elite group to serve their needs and not the needs of the people
By: SayNoToTea , 4:10 PM GMT en Abril 07, 2012
Not that the tea party members will understand this, nor will they care that a majority of their peers have spoken and said, "we don't like you, go away!"
Polls: Tea party falling our of favor with Americans
BY Aaron Blake
The Washington PostSaturday, April 7,
The tea party may have won Republicans the House of Representatives in 2010, but in 2012 it's looking like it could help Democrats retain the White House.
Now nearly three years old, the tea party has fallen out of favor with Americans, and Democrats are prepared to use it against Republicans in this year's elections.
A recent Fox News poll showed just 30 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the tea party, compared with 51 percent who viewed it unfavorably.
A recent Washington Post/ABC News poll may be more illustrative though. It showed Americans were more evenly split on the tea party, with 44 percent supporting it and 43 percent opposing it.
But just 15 percent of Americans supported the tea party "strongly," while 26 percent were "strongly" opposed to it.
That suggests that opposition to the tea party is more strident than the tea party itself, which means the movement may be doing the GOP more harm than good.
The numbers are similar to the ones that were seen during the health-care debate, when both sides had about the same number of supporters, but the opponents were much more motivated.
In addition, the fervor and enthusiasm spurred by the tea party in 2010 appears to have dissipated, with no major tea party rallies taking place this year and fewer Republican candidates latching on to the label. On the presidential campaign trail, the tea party is rarely mentioned.
In contrast, Democrats are starting to wield the tea party label as a tool in their campaigns.
"I'm Bill Pascrell, and this is why I'm running: To stop the tea party," the Democratic congressman from New Jersey said in a new ad.
The tea party also is being used against Reps. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) and Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), two stalwart tea partiers in tough districts for the GOP, and was used in ads run by special-election-winning Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) this year.
Democrats say the issue works for them as they continue to define a Republican Party whose brand is already struggling.
"It's no longer viewed as a populist, grass-roots organization, but a dangerous group with extremist views that don't reflect the mainstream values of America's middle class," Democratic media strategist John Lapp said.
The tea party was mostly a blessing for Republicans in 2010.
Some less-electable tea party candidates beat Republican establishment candidates in primaries and went on to defeat in the general election, but on the whole the tea party spurred enthusiasm against President Barack Obama and helped Republicans overcome an emerging problem with their own brand, a problem that persists today.
The Washington Post/ABC poll showed just 40 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the GOP, a new low.
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It's interchangeable on defense too. (as all positions essentially are) You just go with the best matchups..
Well obviously the wing positions are interchangeable on defense. Paul George guards the better offensive player, whether that guy is a 2 or a 3. Lance/Danny guards the other one.
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So far those who are arguing against Danny are the ones who didn't watch the preseason.
I certainly don't think if you had two Danny Grangers, even though both are wings, that either one of them could even guard DWade.
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If this is what you mean by "relying on Granger" then you shouldn't disagree with my posts on this issue.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
This is something that is a pet peeve with me. For some reason in the NBA we are not honest about what position players play. In the NBA if you play 5 PGs one of them must be considered the C, one must be the PF, etc. That just isn't reality. If you play West and Scola together you are playing two PFs at the same time, West doesn't magically turn into the C. When Lance and OJ play together you are playing two SGs. Lance doesn't suddenly become a SF. College has this right, when a team is playing 3 guards and 2 forwards they don't pretend one of those guards is a SF and one of those forwards is a C. On offense you play in a way to take advantage of the players skills you have out there, not to what "position" each player is play, and likewise on defense you defend based on what is the best match-up for your team not based on what "position" everyone plays.
Certainly. Defense is about matchups, no matter who the coach is. Paul's great for matchups because he can guard the 1, 2, or 3.
But in Vogel's offensive system, there's no difference between the 2 and 3. It's just "wing." PG, Lance, and Danny all play "wing."
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No. I'm just saying that when the Bulls come to town BLF tends to become United Center East.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
The results do not matter. How a player looks on the floor matters a bit.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
I'm just going in circles with you. So you know what I'm done with you. If you actually brought intelligent arguments you might actually bring something worth while to this board.
No. I'm saying that with the Bulls we will not have home court even if we are the higher seed.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
DRose was icing his knees in the sidelines when he got benched every single time.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
If they have home court, that means they will more easily beat us.
If the only question you're asking is "What happens when Danny/Paul play against LeBron/Wade" then my answer is "I don't know, we'll have to find out." Last time that combo played against Miami, Danny/Paul had decent success at guarding Miami's wings. We chose to shut down Wade with Paul George and let Danny guard LeBron, even though LeBron scores slightly more on Danny than on Paul. We won the games where Paul kept Wade under control and lost the games where he didn't.
If Wade loses another step, it might be possible to guard him with Danny. I haven't seen Miami play yet this year, so I can't say. Regardless, all I'm saying is the conversation about Danny "pushing Paul George to the 2" is off. On offense, they're interchangeable. And on defense, Paul George has always guarded the best wing player, both last year (when Danny was out) and the year before (when they played together).
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Anthem - I fully agree with that. I just don't agree with people attempting to claim that a wing is a wing is a wing.
So we're down to "Danny should only play in garbage time" and that we have to go 82-0 to get home court. O. K.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
But I'm the one saying a wing is a wing is a wing.
But I'm not saying any wing player is interchangeable with any other wing player, and neither is anybody on here, nor is Vogel. All I'm saying is that there's no difference between the 2 and the 3 in our offense, and on defense Paul's gonna guard the better player anyway. So Paul George isn't actually "playing out of position" when he's on the court with Danny.
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(Failure in Iraq and the prospect of fascism)
Stan Goff, From The Wilderness
...The strategy of Cheney's Centurions was to kill two birds with one stone: Establish a large and permanent military presence in the biggest global oil patch by repositioning US military forces from their now anachronistic Cold War dispositions, and thereby put the imperial hand on the Earth's oil spigot as leverage to use against China and others…but especially China...
. . . it didn't work.
Now the class upon whose shoulders the Cheney Centurions ride is grown restive, and they are figuring out how to send them home with the least disruption, so someone can try and figure out how to un-fuck the mess they've made.
Elevating the position and status of Iran, allowing the breakaway of Latin America, building the basis for a resurgent American left along with a growing sector of secessionist-minded libertarians, stimulating around a billion Muslims into a sullen fury, destroying the myth of American military supremacy, degrading the armed forces, de-legitimating the US state itself, and raising the price of oil on top of an historic debt overhang… wasnot what they'd bargained for.
...Lest anyone grow giddy over these developments… or complacent, I would remind readers that this does not present us with a resolution, but with an immanent re-formulation of the problem. First, I will note that those elites who are alarmed will inherit the same contradictions faced by the Centurions. Finally, I will note that a "middle class" in crisis is a dangerous beast, and we now find the country that I live in expressing an ominous outburst of xenophobia. Bush's recent deployment of the National Guard to the US-Mexican border – while serving to take the public's eye away from other matters for a moment – was also his capitulation to the demands of fascists...
. . . the US is not immune to real fascism, which historically is a phenomenon of a "middle-class" thrown into deep economic crisis.
Bush and Cheney are failing, but the conditions they have created, and those created by longer-term secular trends, are nothing about which to be complacent. The dangers we face in our next period could be even worse than those of the Centurions.
(July 2006)
Final article in a series. "From the Wilderness" membership is required to see the entire article.
An Imperial Defeatist-- And Proud of It
Michael T. Klare, Tom Dispatch via Common Dreams
Just recently, I was accused by a writer for the ultra-Right Washington Times of being a "defeatist" when it comes to America's expansionist military policy abroad. The giveaway, it seems, is that I penned a book for the American Empire Project -- a series of critical volumes published by Metropolitan Books. Contributors to the series, the article claimed, want "a retreat from Iraq to be the prelude to a larger collapse of American preeminence worldwide." My initial response on reading this was to insist -- like so many anxious liberals -- that no, I am not opposed to American preeminence in the world, only to continued U.S. involvement in Iraq. But then, considering the charge some more, I thought, well, yes, I am in favor of abandoning the U.S. imperial role worldwide. The United States, I'm convinced, would be a whole lot better off -- and its military personnel a whole lot safer -- if we repudiated the global-dominance project of the Bush administration and its neo-conservative boosters.
Supposedly, the U.S. military has expanded its presence and combat role around the world to foster democracy and prevail in the President's War on Terror; and, without a doubt, many brave Americans have risked their lives -- and some have died – in the pursuit of these noble objectives. But this is not, I believe, what has motivated Messrs. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld in their pursuit of global supremacy. Rather, they appear driven by a messianic determination to impose American dominance on large swaths of the planet and to employ this hegemonic presence to gain control over global energy supplies. In attempting to do so, they are bankrupting the nation and exposing American citizens to a higher, not lower, risk of terrorist attack.
...[This is a] a neo-imperial strategy not even faintly aimed at "democracy," but rather at the procurement of energy sources -- or the control over the distribution of oil and natural gas to other energy-hungry nations.
...This is not likely to be a passing phenomenon. The United States is becoming ever more dependent on imported energy -- most of which will have to come from what the neoconservatives of the Bush administration term the "arc of instability" -- and our military strategy is being reshaped accordingly. At present, we obtain nearly 60% of our petroleum from foreign sources; before long, it will be 70% or more. To ensure that these imported supplies safely reach our shores, the Department of Defense is devoting an ever increasing share of its troops and resources to the defense of foreign pipelines, refineries, loading platforms, and tanker routes. Essentially, the U.S. military is being converted into a global oil-protection service -- at great risk to the lives of American servicemen and women.
In response to all this, I say: repudiate empire, overcome our oil addiction, and bring the troops back home. This will save lives, save money, and restore America's democratic credentials. Even more significant, it will help us prevail in any long-term struggle with small, stateless groups that employ terror as their weapon of choice.
...So yes, I'm a "defeatist" when it comes to imperial expansion. But I'm a hawk when it comes to overcoming terrorism, saving American lives, averting environmental collapse, and promoting core American values. This is the only truly patriotic course that any of us can espouse.
Michael T. Klare is the Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College and the author, most recently, of "Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependence on Imported Petroleum" (Owl Books) as well as "Resource Wars, The New Landscape of Global Conflict."
(19 July 2006)
It's not just liberals who are disenchanted with the neo-conservative project. There's a similar revulsion against empire building and oil dependence on the part of some U.S. conservatives and centrists. -BA
The geopolitics of oil gains a new constituency
Yankee, The Oil Drum
The issue of Ms. Magazine that just hit the newsstands has a cover story called "Crude Awakening: How US war policies sell out women in favor of Big Oil". The main thrust of the article is that in order to gain control of the oil supplies in many Middle Eastern countries, the United States is willing to overlook how these countries consistently violate women's rights. The article isn't online, but here are some snippets to give you an idea.
Whether or not this blood-for-oil scenario is the whole story, the new Iraqi constitution and laws already passed there contain far stronger guarantees for major U.S. oil interests than they do for the women of Iraq. Women's rights deteriorated rapidly after the first Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein sold them out to religious fundamentalists in order to consolidate power. The U.S. had the opportunity to restore much of what was lost after the 2003 invasion. But in the period leading up to the election of the National Assembly, our government ignored demands by Iraqi women's organizations to create a women's ministry, appoint women to the drafting committee of Iraq's interim constitution, pass laws codifying women's rights and criminalizing domestic violence, and uphold U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325-- which mandates that women be included at all levels of decision-making in situations of peacemaking and postwar reconstruction.
The author, Martha Burk, goes on to say:
In contrast, Big Oil is well protected in the constitution and through laws. The constitution guarantees the reform of the Iraqi economy in accordance with "modern economic principles" to "ensure...the development of the private sector"--essentially abolishing Iraqi state dominion over its petroleum reserves. Corollary laws guarantee that foreign companies will have control over at least 64 percent of Iraq's oil, and possibly as much as 84 percent.
I'm very glad to see the issue of the geopolitical implications of oil spread to as many new constituencies as possible, but I just find the link between American oil lust and the trampling of women's rights a little tenuous. The author doesn't convince me that there's a direct connection between oil policy and the US turning a blind eye to women's issues...
While any magazine has the right to take any angle they want on their articles, I can't help but feel that this is a missed opportunity. Peak oil is an issue with a feminist angle, and it would have been more valuable for there to be an argument pointing these links out and giving readers material to work with. A couple of months ago, Energy Bulletin reran an article original published in Adaptation Blog called "Post Petroleum Woman". The article, written by Carolyn Baker, is a different flavor of feminism to be sure. It's also considerably more alarmist than the Ms. article, but Baker, as well as a blog post by jewishfarmer at Relocalize.net, bring up some points that I would like to see raised by a more mainstream feminist magazine. For example, from jewishfarmer:
The way women live now in the Western world is almost entirely a result of cheap energy and its byproducts. I think it would be easy to lose track of how much contemporary feminism, with its focus on women in the workplace, and on the politics of equality is shaped by cheap energy in the forms of birth control, easy access to medical care, formula, breast pumps, drive-to daycare, Social Security, etc... I am a feminist, and enormously grateful for what feminism has given me, but I also feel that women have not carefully enough interrogated the degree to which their options are dependent on carbon exploitation.
(19 July 2006)
The article in Ms. is titled "Crude Awakening and is the cover story for the month.
(18 July 2006)
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[2] http://www.fromthewilderness.com/members/071706_encroachment_part4.shtml
[3] http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0719-22.htm
[4] http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/7/19/2196/19689
[5] http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2006/
[6] http://www.marthaburk.org/index.html
[7] http://blog.adaptationzine.com/
[8] http://www.energybulletin.net/16580.html
[9] http://www.relocalize.net/node/4109
[10] http://Relocalize.net
[11] http://www.msmagazine.com/summer2006/crude_intro.asp


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We shall walk along, Sister … making country …
Our heads are grey; we sway our hips as we walk …
Carefully, we leave the sacred basket within the shade …
Let us hang this shining basket upon the tree …
Yes we are walking along … making country …
With hips swaying.
What is that, Sister? Show me? I see a mangrove shell.
Come, pour them in here; put them as sacred, within the mat!
There I saw another of them!
Come, put them into the mouth of the sacred mat.
There is another mangrove shell! ... they are sacred to us!
Here is another Sister, a black periwinkle. Put it within, sacred to us!
The Djan'kawu song cycle — song 138
Berndt RM Djanggawul: An Aboriginal religious cult of North-Eastern Arnhem Land, New York: Philosophical Library, 1953, Song 138 , pp.230–231
Instead of seeking to tell the 'whole story' of the Djan'kawu in one picture plane or depict these Ancestors in human form (as could be read in the Gurrmirringu works of Mulanga country), Malangi told their story through traces of their existence.
To find a nonda [a long-bum mussel] in the mud is to find food collected, eaten and created by the Djan'kawu. More than this, the mussel is the essence and spirit of the Djan'kawu. To paint the nonda is to paint the Djan'kawu in a manifestation other than human form.
Painting the Djan'kawu represented both an expression of the everyday and an exploration of Yolngu religious knowledge.


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Richard P. Nee, age 80, of Baltimore, MD, died on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at St. Joseph Hospital. Richard was the son of Thomas E. and Ann Powell Nee.
Survivors include: his significant other: Suzanne Moran, six children: Marguerite (Meg) Lobus of the Chicago area, Michael Nee of the Chicago area, Mary Beth McNulty of Atlanta, GA, Timothy Nee of Salt Lake City, UT, Catherine (Katie) McKew of Baltimore, MD, Carrie Nitka of Rumson, NJ, three siblings: Nancy Smessaert, Peggy McInerney, Thomas Nee.
In addition to his parents, Richard was preceded in death by his brother Dennis, January 8, 2004.
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I'm pulling for Wisconsin the rest of the way. Really don't want Kentucky in the final.
I'm pulling for Wisconsin the rest of the way. Really don't want Kentucky in the final.
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For the first time in NCAA Tournament history, TWO underdogs will play for the National Championship.
How great is that.
The little guy DOES have a chance.
It's an intriguing matchup with two little people trying to prove they belong.
I'll have to tune in and see what the hype is about.
I hate underdog stories. Always reminds me of really bad Disney movies I grew up watching.
I was hoping for a Florida-Kentucky final, but this isn't bad.
I'm not even going to watch the final. Our bitter rival who we had all but beat in the Sweet 16 game versus a team that couldn't even touch us the three times we played this season, losing to U of L by a combined total of 2,597 points (it was really 55 points, but still)? This could have easily been Louisville's championship to lose.
Oh and this final just validates the crap bracket that Wake AD Ron Wellman put together.
Turns out, far too much has been written about great men and not nearly enough about morons. Doesn't seem right.
Figured there would be more discussion about this since the little people finally made it to the title game.
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Finally, I am there! the coding session started.
I received the lost book yesterday morning and I have already finishes this second reading (first was during my thesis given up in 1994 to focus on my very first startup). By bits, I remember the explanations of the mechanisms. A true pleasure.
So, I started to code these mechanisms in Python by using the same approach as the author : implement a very basic filtering engine then incrementally add more complex features (kind of roadmap) :
- filter0: the very basic filter,
- filter1: with a catch-all filter,
- filter2: to be able to filter a filter (the lisp quote),
- filter3: a data driven implementation,
- filter4: filter but also extract the data,
- filter5: filter segments of data,
- filter6: use explicit continuation to manage nondeterminism,
- and so on ...
The final version of this work will be branded "pyfilter". Parking to sourceforge dot net with a GPL v3 license is envisaged.
For now, this experimental development can be followed here. Do not hesitate to make comments or proposals, the long term objective being to obtain a good usable and used library to filter information.


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- Doors Options
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Entertainment & Communication: 12-speaker audio system, Bluetooth voice control system, iPod interface, Navigation module, GSM quad-band telephone module with Bluetooth functionality, Universal audio interface for connecting external audio devices, Bose surround sound system (digital), Integrated single disc CD/DVD player, Apple CarPlay connectivity, PCM (Porsche Communication Management)
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Interior: Cruise Control, Steering wheel heated, Steering wheel, multi-function, Rear view mirror with automatic dimming function, A/C automatic, Instrument cluster with central rev counter & 4.6in TFT VGA display, Several interior parts in Galvano Silver, A/C with active carbon filter, Full leather interior upholstery
Lightning: Bi-Xenon headlights with PDLS (Porsche Dynamic Light System)
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- Torgue: 450 Nm @ 1700 Min RPM, 5000 Max RPM
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Seatbelts front, 3-point ALR x2
POSIP Porsche Side Impact Protection system
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Vitra has manufactured furniture designs by Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson since 1957. Building on this foundation, Vitra has developed a wide range of furnishings for the office, for the home and for public spaces in collaboration with progressive designers. Yet Vitra is more than just a design-oriented manufacturing company. The name also stands for the Vitra Design Museum, for a collection of modern furniture and its accompanying archive, for workshops and publications on topics of design, and for an architectural concept that unites buildings by Frank Gehry, Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Alvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron and SANAA at the Vitra Headquarters in Birsfelden (Switzerland) and on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany).
Product longevity is central to Vitra's contribution to sustainable development; short-lived styling is avoided at all costs. This can be seen most clearly in the classical pieces of furniture that have been used for decades, had several owners and have then even ended up as a part of a collection. For Vitra, the manufacture of sustainable products means intense pre-production development, where the highest-grade materials are selected and tests are carried out that simulate 15 years of use. In order to enforce and monitor sustainable development in all business activities of the company, a work group was formed in 1986 by the name of 'Vitra and the Environment'. Because of this, Vitra can proudly claim that it has been dedicated to sustainability for nearly a quarter of a century.
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Oracle Releases New Diagnostic, Monitoring, Security and Deployment Capabilities for Java SE 7
Redwood Shores, CA – September 10, 2013
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The latest features and enhancements to Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) 7 include: advanced monitoring and diagnostic capabilities that enable customers to gather detailed runtime information and perform efficient data analysis, without impacting system performance; a new security policy that gives system administrators greater control over Java running on desktops; improved performance and efficiencies for Java on ARM servers and support for Mac OS X retina displays.
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Oracle today announced the availability of JDK 7 Update 40 (JDK 7u40).
Oracle will highlight this and other Java technology updates at JavaOne San Francisco 2013, September 22-26 in the Zone (the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, Hotel Nikko, Parc 55 Wyndham and the Taylor Street Café). Register now.
With the release of JDK 7u40, Oracle is continuing its work to merge the Oracle HotSpot Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Oracle JRockit into the Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK), which will include the best features from each of these leading implementations.
Oracle Java Mission Control and Oracle Java Flight Recorder are now available as commercial features in the Oracle Java SE Advanced product (they are freely available for download for development and evaluation purposes as part of JDK 7u40, but require the Oracle Java SE Advanced license for production use under the Oracle Binary Code License Agreement)
Oracle Java Mission Control and Oracle Java Flight Recorder continuously collect detailed runtime information, with virtually zero overhead, from the JVM and other event producers, such as application servers. Customers can use the advanced graphical tools for profiling and after-the-fact incident analysis to rapidly understand and resolve issues and for monitoring and fulfilling service level agreements (SLAs).
Deployment Rule Set is a new security feature in JDK 7u40 that allows a system administrator to control which applets or Java Web Start applications an end user is permitted to execute and which version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is associated with them. Deployment Rule Set provides a common environment to manage employee access in a controlled and secure manner.
JDK 7u40 is fully certified for ARM v7 and includes new support for "hard-float", which is designed to improve performance and responsiveness for GUI applications and Java server applications running on ARM servers.
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JDK7 is now the default Java version for the latest generation of Oracle Fusion Middleware products.
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Rick Roufus Challenges Evander Holyfield to a Boxing Match
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When I saw this bad boy hit my inbox I was a bit stymied at first, as a quick read while walking the dog led me to believe that Rick Roufus and Evander Holyfield were going to be fighting. Both men are accomplished in their own ways, but Evander Holyfield is very much a household name for his Boxing career while Rick Roufus was without a doubt one of the best American Kickboxers in history, but Kickboxing never saw the level of success that Boxing did here in the United States.
It turns out that Rick Roufus is challenging Evander Holyfield to a fight, as both men are getting older and Roufus believes that the fight could be a huge draw between two "classy gentlemen."
The fight is being assembled by the folks at Push Kick Promotions right now, who claim to be in talks with people within Holyfield's camp, but nothing is set in stone yet. The plan would be for it to go down in Las Vegas around the time of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Olympia.


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First of all i would like to say how trilled i am to find such a good site as this and will post whenever i have time.
Dont see many Europeans but anyway good way to cover Us sports.
Have been betting for almost 10 years and betting on tennis almost everyday.
First of all you should try to watch as many matches as you can....not just chase stats but truly understand sport.
-Always look at form...many tennis players just take foot of padal at some time of season and just go travelling and collect 1. round exit checks.
Dont just look if they lost to somebody but look how did they lost, was it clear defeat or was it down to few balls in and out.
Take care for LL(lucky looser rule) at all tournaments except GS( rule in witch No1. favorit in qualification rounds gets automaticly in draw if someone withdrew....many times they just loose when they are heavy favorites just because they know some other player from main drew will not play.
Look at players list of tournaments they intend to play coz there is big possibility to tank some less important events if they have points to defend in upcoming tournament.
Look at previus record of player at that event(as Raonic in San Jose..(too bad for him that S.Jose is no longer in atp)
Be careful in first round as players coming from qualis are already accustomed to surface.
Look at H2H record with players that have simillar style of play....some players like to play against serve&volley....for example you have Playerxxx against F.Lopez(you should check how he played against players like llodra, stepanek,isner,muller,karlovic,roddick) especially if it fast indoors or grass.
GL to all
Kenny De Schepper - Bradley Klahn
The Frenchmen has better ranking but the American enters the
match as a favorite.Klahn was brilliant past weeks on American hard court and
behind him there are 17 victories in five challengers. De Schepper is in
opposite rhythm since he was knocked out four times in first round.
Odds: @1.60
What do you think?
Philipp Kohlschreiber - Rafael
Can this match go over 31.5 games? Odds @ 1.85 seems quite