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Thanks for the info Eric. I agree, it's much better to expose a simpler interface and then write a single implementation that can expose that simple interface as a Map. Otherwise, you're forcing each and every subclass to implement Map, which is a huge pain. Of course ContextBase does this, but it's better not to force an abstract class on the implementers of an interface... that way existing classes can easily be made to implement the interface without unduly polluting their implementation with random methods that will hardly be used, like entrySet() I actually already decided to take that approach you suggest in the Morph framework :-) I just updated the site in case you'd like to see. http://www.crystalcognition.com/sgarlatm/morph Specifically, this is what I added: - I created the net.sf.morph.context.ContextMapBridge which makes exposing a Context as a Map easy. The ContextMapBridge knows about HierarchicalContexts and automaticallly makes the Map implementation expose ancestor context information. - I made net.sf.morph.context.BaseContext implement both Context and Map (by delegating to ContextMapBridge), so if you extend from this class, the Context you use will implement both Context and Map. All contexts implemented in Morph will extend from BaseContext, so every Context implementation provided by Morph will implement both Context and Map. - net.sf.morph.context.ContextMap is a wrapper around any Context implementation that exposes that Context as a Map. Example: Map map = new ContextMap(myContext); - net.sf.morph.context.contexts.MapContext is a simple Context implementation that is internally backed by a Map. If you want an empty Context, then you would say Context context = new MapContext(); Matt PS - I stole Chain's MapEntry class and included a copy in Morph to minimize dependencies. The Morph core is dependent only on Commons Logging, and I intend to keep it that way. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Pugh" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: "Jakarta Commons Developers List" <email@example.com>; "Martin Cooper" <firstname.lastname@example.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 11:12 AM Subject: RE: [VOTE] Release Chain 1.0 > We had a similar discussion over in [configuration] prior to 1.0 over > having > the Configuration interface extend Map. It was great because you could do > all sorts of cool tricks with passing configurations into things expecting > Maps and still have the code work. Or, an existing application that dealt > with a Map of configuration parameters would work seamlessly with the Map > derived configuration. However, at the end of it, we felt like it ended > up > polluting Configuration, adding extra methods that didn't always map to > the > underlying implementation. So we ended up keeping Configuration the way > it > was and adding a MapConfiguration that did extend Map. > > Could a similar approach work for Context? Provide a standard Context and > then a MapContext sub interface that exposes the Map interface? In my use > of Chain I haven't had a situation where I needed the extra Map provided > methods like keySet or entrySet. But, if I did, I could just cast to > MapContext and then get them.. > > The other reason I wouldn't mind having Context NOT extend Map is that > when > I implement my own Context, I don't want user's directly putting and > getting > stuff into the context via the Map put and get methods. I want them to > use > my accessors ONLY. > > At any rate, I've been using Chain for a couple days now in my project, > and > am very happy to be replacing my own code with Chain! > > Eric > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Martin Cooper [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] >> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:14 PM >> To: Jakarta Commons Developers List >> Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Chain 1.0 >> >> >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:37:27 +1300, Simon Kitching >> <email@example.com> wrote: >> > Hi Martin, >> > >> > On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 20:39, Martin Cooper wrote: >> > > This sounds like an enhancement request to me. Are you really >> > > suggesting that Chain should not be released until your specific >> > > enhancement is endorsed and incorporated into the component? I'm >> > > afraid I, for one, can't sign up for that. >> > >> > I think Matt's comment was entirely reasonable. The whole point of a >> > 1.0 >> > release is to "freeze" the API. If the API isn't right, then people >> > certainly should speak up *before* the API freeze. >> >> You're right, of course. >> >> > Of course it is better to speak up well before then if possible, but a >> > release proposal is bound to prompt people to get around to voicing >> > that >> > concern they have had kicking around in the back of their mind for a >> > while. Anyone raising the prospect of a release should be expecting >> > this >> > sort of thing. >> >> I was (over)reacting to exactly that. Chain was promoted out of the >> sandbox almost 6 months ago, so seeing such a fundamental change being >> proposed at this point was a bit like a bolt from the blue. >> >> Matt, I apologise for jumping down your throat. >> >> > It looks to me, as an outsider, like the concensus is that the existing >> > interface *is* ok, but as a commons committer I hope that everyone will >> > give it serious consideration, and not ignore it as "too late". It is >> > perfectly valid to change APIs before 1.0 (keeping compatibility is >> > *desirable* but not mandatory). It's certainly better than being stuck >> > with the wrong API post-1.0. >> >> Agreed. I have first hand experience of dealing with a poor API being >> exposed in a release... >> >> -- >> Martin Cooper >> >> >> > Regards, >> > >> > Simon >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com >> > For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com >> > >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com >> For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com > For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: email@example.com
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Deceptively simple: the shopworn phrase of the blurbing alchemist who would gild a leaden text with an effortless attribution of hidden complexity. Deceptive simplicity is often attempted and often diagnosed but rarely achieved. The world has many more Rod McKuens than Robert Frosts. Deceptively simple is deceptively hard. So when Goran Simić announces that he "would like to write poems which resemble newspaper reports," the connoisseur of poetry is apt to balk. Why ever would anyone want that? Should not the rich, deliberate language of poetry oppose the rushed, plain, fact-obsessed prose of journalism? Isn't this asking of poetry something that it cannot and should not be made to do?
Nine times out of ten, the connoisseur is probably right. But the majority of British or North American poetry readers bring to a book a privileged set of assumptions forged in relative peace, security and prosperity. For most Western poets, writing about war and genocide is a voluntary act and can only be done abstractly. But for a poet who has witnessed a period of horrible violence—and the florid rhetoric that invariably accompanies such tumult—the exigencies of her craft are radically different. As Theodor Adorno famously said, "writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."
Paul Celan, a Holocaust survivor writing in the language of that atrocity's perpetrators, responded by writing poems of hyper-compressed indirection. As a Bosnian Serb who lived through the siege of Sarajevo and whose brother was killed by a sniper, Simić, now resident in Toronto as a PEN writer in exile,[1] takes a radically different tack: "I simply wrote what I saw." Indeed, "What I Saw" is the title of one poem and vision is one of several leitmotifs that give From Sarajevo, with Sorrow its form.
Twenty-nine of the forty-four poems in this new collection appeared in 1997 in very different English translations. These versions were written by David Harsent, who worked from "cribs" prepared by Amela Simić. Reading Harsent's adaptations, published by Oxford University Press as Sprinting from the Graveyard, beside these new/old versions (as translated by Amela Simić alone), one quickly gets the sense that Harsent was uncomfortable staying true to what Goran Simić saw and to the poet's own stated aims. Harsent writes in his foreword that he used Amela Simić's "literal texts … to get what I wanted. My purpose was to make new poems in English from this raw material. … I made changes, some extravagant; excisions, some radical; and additions, some substantial. … There's nothing particularly new about this technique, though I think I may have taken it further than most."
There's nothing inherently wrong with such a technique. The loose adaptation of extant texts is a literary staple and poets such as Robert Lowell, Robert Bly and Peter Van Toorn have created wonderful poems in English by taking liberties with a text in another language. But context matters. The spirit of the original poem matters. When the subject of a work to be translated is the very "raw material" of an actual war zone, as witnessed firsthand by the poet himself who is still living—pace a newspaper report to the contrary published during the siege—then greater sensitivity to formal intention is required of a translator, lest he be guilty of the sort of lyrical barbarism of which Adorno is rightfully leery. "Taking it further" in such a context is nothing to brag about; "extravagant" changes are unforgivable. What the translator wants must be secondary to what the source poem demands.
Looking at the differences between two translations of one poem is a good way to get a sense of how Harsent went wrong and why the "new" version, if less polished, is superior. The first poem in From Sarajevo is "The Beginning, After Everything." In Sprinting, this is the thirteenth poem and Harsent has shorn the definite article from the title to accommodate the move. Opening with this poem is crucial because it contains the programmatic statement of artistic intention I quoted above; this is the beginning, not merely a beginning, setting the stage for what follows.
Most of the poems that were published in Sprinting are typeset in From Sarajevo as columnar prose paragraphs "which resemble newspaper reports." They look more like cribs than poems. Harsent breaks prose into verse lines and paragraphs into stanzas, so that the poems are now only "like newspaper reports" (emphasis added). In From Sarajevo, Simić wants his poems to be "so bare and cold that I could forget them the very moment a stranger asks: Why do you write poems which resemble newspaper reports?" Harsent, bareness be damned, has jazzed this up with emphatic repetitions to read "so heartless, so cold, / that I could forget them, forget them / in the same moment that someone might ask me, / 'Why do you write poems like newspaper reports?'" Elsewhere, a "hungry dog licking the blood of a man lying at a crossing" becomes a "ravenous dog / feasting on blood / (just another corpse in snipers' alley)." The melodramatic phrasing—ravenous, feasting, corpse—and loaded place name are so patently opposed to the chilled restraint Simić espouses that one feels embarrassed for Harsent's enthusiastic adornments. It's regrettably ironic that Harsent changed Amela Simić's "stranger" to "someone" because it reinforces the message of the poem that strangers can't possibly understand the situation and the poet's response to it.
Comparative reading suggests that some of the "radical excisions" Harsent has permitted himself function to cleanse the poems of references that might be particularly offensive to outside observers. This is most evident in "Love Story," a poem about two lovers from opposite sides of a bridge who are killed trying to cross it. The new English version contains the following paragraph:
Newspapers from around the world wrote about them. Italian dailies published stories about the Bosnian Romeo and Juliet. French journalists wrote about a romantic love which surpassed political boundaries. Americans saw in them the symbol of two nations on a divided bridge. And the British illustrated the absurdity of war with their bodies. Only the Russians were silent. Then the photographs of the dead lovers moved into peaceful Springs.
But we should be careful of taking Simić's stated intention too literally. A poet's manner of seeing is not the same as someone else's vision. The poet has "X-ray eyes"; he sees in metaphors, in images, in allegories. And he sees not so much in pictures as in words. There are references in these poems to a gremlinesque angel who "rewrote the prescription for my glasses" and "officers with gold buttons for eyes [who] enter my back door and look for my glasses." For Simić, keeping his vision clear is crucial and constantly threatened by partisan propaganda and the psychological trauma of life in a combat zone. Besides the cold bare facts of war, Simić's poems, as the above-quoted lines illustrate, are full of hallucinatory, paranoid nightmares. Which are also facts of war.
Simić is never aloof or self-righteous in his role as witness. In his preface, he sounds like Joseph Conrad's Marlowe when he writes that, for all the "horror that I went through … as a poet, I would be deeply sorry if I hadn't stayed, in the middle of horror, a witness to how cheap life can be." There is inevitably something parasitically self-serving and self-consuming in the poet's transformation of life into art, regardless of how noble that art ends up being, an irony to which Simić, ever clear-sighted, is not blind. He captures it with sangfroid in the very unjournalistic sonnet, "I Was a Fool":
I was a fool to guard my family house in vain
watching over the hill somebody else's house shine,
and, screaming, die in flames. I felt no sorrow and no pain
until I saw the torches coming. The next house will be mine.
If I wasn't somebody else, as all my life I've been,
I wouldn't say to my neighbour that I feel perfectly fine
upon seeing his beaten body. I should offer my own skin
as a tarp. Will the next beaten body be mine?
I was a fool. I love this sentence. Long live Goran and his sin.
There is no house or beaten man. There is no poetry, no line,
there is no war, there are no neighbours. There's no tarp made of skin.
But there's a pain in my stomach as I write this. It's only mine,
this sentence, the one I swallowed, whose every word
is each of the flames I saw, every scream a sword.
Here, the poet looks back on the conflict—both external and internal—and manages simultaneously to damn and praise his role in it. It is significant that he does this in a form more conspicuously poetic than the prose columns that predominate in From Sarajevo. This marks the poet's transition from a poetry of immediate witness to a poetry of reflection and recollection, inhabiting traumatic spots of time. It also marks the migration from one home and language to another, the Shakespearean sonnet being a quintessentially English form. Simić tells us in his acknowledgments that sixteen of the poems in this book he "either wrote in English or translated into English himself." Coyly, he doesn't specify which ones and I would have a hard time trying to guess them all. If, as I suspect, "I Was a Fool" is an original English poem, then I would have to say that Canada and the English language are the recipients of a great blessing improbably born of a brutal war.
[1] Review originally published in 2005; republished in Career Limiting Moves, Biblioasis 2014.
Zachariah Wells is the author of the poetry collections Unsettled and Track & Trace; co-author, with Rachel Lebowitz, of the children's book Anything but Hank!; and editor of Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets and The Essential Kenneth Leslie. Over the past decade, his critical reviews and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies in Canada and the US and he has won Arc Poetry Magazine's Critic's Prize four times. Originally from Prince Edward Island, Wells now lives with his family in Halifax, where he works as a freelance Zach-of-all-trades.


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Id like to ask if anyone knows what the meaning of white feathers mean please.
now it's time to redirect some of my good intentions into other persuits that are for ME.
I pray with all my heart and soul that our Creator keeps us in His Circle of Love and gives each and everyone of us the wisdom to understand that our good intentions are what lead us ever closer to His Mercy.....His Vision.
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Six residents were interviewed for seats on the building committee for the proposed police station and DPW facility at the selectmen's meeting Monday night. It was part of a somewhat disorganized first round in the process, with selectmen deciding to re-open the application period to garner a larger pool of applicants.
Six residents were interviewed for seats on the building committee for the proposed police station and DPW facility at the selectmen's meeting Monday night. It was part of a somewhat disorganized first round in the process, with selectmen deciding to re-open the application period to garner a larger pool of applicants.
The original advertisement for applicants closed on April 17 and seven people responded, "the original seven," as they were referred to several times. After the deadline, however, selectmen received more applications, and at the beginning of the agenda item they voted to re-open the application period until Thursday, May 10, and do interviews at their May 14 meeting. The building committee will have five regular members and one alternate.
There was some discussion about whether they should interview any of the applicants prior to then, given the upcoming local election on May 1. Selectmen David Bedard is running against Erik Yingling and, should Yingling win, there would be a different board. In the end they left it up to the applicants present, and all wanted to proceed with the interviews.
The six people who interviewed were Rick Murray, Clarence Walker, Paul DeRuyter, Leif Hamquist, Sheila McGuiness and Donald Murphy. Candace Nagle, who submitted her application before the deadline, was unable to attend.
In their interviews, selectmen questioned the applicants on what they thought the process should be for the building committee, with most of the applicants saying that the selectmen should determine what it wants from the committee before appointing members.
"The true mission is not defined," said Walker, mentioning that there was a wish list from the police and DPW, but no one defined the goal. Walker also told selectmen he didn't think there was enough time for the building committee to do its job for a special town meeting in the fall. "We're going to need more time."
Murphy said that he thinks the police chief should be involved, to establish the requirements for a station — not a wish list, he said, but requirements. "Once we establish those requirements, then we develop a proposal to meet those requirements." He said that the building committee's proposal would be presented to voters for approval. After that, Murphy said the committee would "drive the project and make sure it stays under budget."
DeRuyter, a former banker, said his main focus is finance. "The biggest challenge is that the board of selectmen needs to think about what they want from the building committee, how it can best be deployed. What is the need to be met?" he asked. He said he was on a building committee once before and went to one meeting because no one knew what their role was.
McGuiness said it was the initial $14 million price tag that got her concerned, and she applied because she is passionate about the subject and feels that she "could bring a certain calm" to the process.
Hamnquist, an architecture student and Provincetown native, said he applied " because of the nebulous nature of the proceedings that occurred before Town Meeting. The information wasn't being processed the right way," he said. "That's why there was so much animosity. Making everything clear for the taxpayers is my biggest mission."


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Sunday during an intro at the Potter House Church Bishop Jakes told his congregation that he had enough of certain preachers always claiming the limelight like movie stars and so-called Christians supporting them:
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House v. Price Case Threatens Health Care for Millions
Neither Congress nor the Trump administration has said whether it will continue to fund cost-sharing reductions (aka "subsidies") this year. If they do not quickly agree to fund this program, premiums will rise, and insurers may pull out of the market leaving consumers without help paying for health care.
This suit was filed by Republican members of the House of Representatives in 2014. It charges that the Obama administration lacked authority to pay for cost-sharing reductions (also called cost-sharing subsidies) – even though these cost sharing reductions are an explicit part of the law.
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House v. Price concerns the ACA's cost-sharing reductions. Right now, people who buy marketplace plans and have incomes below 250 percent of the poverty line ($29,700 for an individual; $50,400 for a family of three) get help that reduces the most they will have to pay for covered medical care in a year if they get really sick (that is, it reduces their out-of-pocket maximum cost sharing). About 6.4 million people get these cost-sharing reductions, called "extra savings on out-of-pocket costs in silver plans."
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House v. Price is a dispute about whether or not the federal government is allowed to spend money for the cost-sharing reductions. The House argues that the administration should not be reimbursing insurers for these cost-sharing reductions without a formal and explicit appropriation; the Obama administration argued strongly that the law provides for that spending, because it is tied to the permanent appropriation for premium tax credits.
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- The law requires marketplace insurers to reduce costs for low- to middle-income consumers, so would they do that without reimbursement? No. Insurers point out that if they had to depend on uncertain annual congressional appropriations for cost-sharing reductions, they could not feasibly participate in the marketplaces.
- If insurers stayed in the marketplace, they would likely have to raise premiums to recoup the cost of providing cost-sharing reductions, but this is probably not feasible: Many consumers who are above the income limits for premium assistance would drop coverage rather than pay higher premiums, especially if they felt healthy enough to risk going uninsured. This would leave marketplace insurers with fewer enrollees and a higher proportion of enrollees with high medical claims.
- To avoid this scenario, many insurers would likely leave the marketplace instead, terminating plans for the millions of consumers who buy marketplace coverage and leaving some areas of the country with no plans that provide premium assistance or cost-sharing reductions.
- A mid-year decision not to reimburse for cost-sharing reductions would wreak even further havoc. As insurers point out, laws and regulations prohibit them from raising premiums mid-year. A sudden loss of funds to insurers to pay for health care could destabilize the entire individual health insurance market.
Besides leaving consumers without health insurance and throwing insurers into crisis, this sort of chaos would affect health providers. For instance, under long-standing laws, hospitals must provide at least life-saving emergency care to patients before asking about payment. Hospitals do not have the resources to suddenly care for millions more uninsured consumers, as they explained in their brief.
What can consumers and their advocates do?
Besides the threats in House v. Price, the future of cost-sharing reductions is also jeopardized by repeal and replace proposals. Proposals advanced so far don't include robust programs to lower deductibles and other cost-sharing for consumers with low to middle incomes. You can tell your representative in Congress that the financial help low- and middle-income consumers get to reduce their deductibles, other cost-sharing, and premiums is essential. You can send a clear message to the Trump administration that health care and coverage must continue and must be affordable, including for low and middle income consumers. You can share your stories about why premium credits and cost-sharing reductions, called "extra savings" on HealthCare.gov, are important.