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The COPS in Schools (CIS) grant program is designed to help law enforcement agencies hire new, additional school resource officers (SROs) to engage in community policing in and around primary and secondary schools. CIS provides an incentive for law enforcement agencies to build collaborative partnerships with the school community and to use community policing efforts to combat school violence.
The COPS in Schools program provides a maximum federal contribution up of to $125,000 per officer position for approved salary and benefit costs over the 3-year grant period, with any remaining costs to be paid with local funds. Officers paid with CIS funding must be hired on or after the grant award start date. All jurisdictions that apply must also demonstrate that they have primary law enforcement authority over the school(s) identified in their application, and also demonstrate their inability to implement this project without federal assistance. Funding will begin when the new officers are hired on or after the grant award date, and will be paid over the course of the 3-year grant period.
COPS has announced 19 rounds of funding under the COPS in Schools program, including five that were a part of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, a joint initiative between the Departments of Justice, Education, and Health and Human Services. The Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant program was developed to provide students, schools, and communities with the benefit of enhanced educational, mental health, and law enforcement services to promote a comprehensive healthy childhood development.
COPS announced the first round of the CIS program in April 1999, and the most recent in July 2005. COPS has awarded in excess of $753 million to more than 3,000 grantees to hire more than 6,500 SROs through the CIS program. COPS has provided more than $10 million to hire approximately 100 SROs through the Safe Schools/Healthy Students program.
In addition, in FY 2004 the CIS program coordinated with OJP and other DOJ components to provide funding for SROs to three agencies for 12 positions ($1.5 million in federal funding) in conjunction with OJP's Gang Reduction Project.
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SHELL ROCK - Senate Republican Leader Bill Dix, R-Shell Rock, announced his intentions this morning to seek re-election to his Iowa Senate District 25 seat
Meeting this morning with members of the Butler County Rural Electric Cooperative and Butler County Farm Bureau, Senator Dix took the opportunity to share the news with neighbors and friends in his home county.
"I hear from Iowans on a daily basis," Senator Dix said. "They share their stories and concerns about burdensome taxes, limiting the scope of government and creating exciting career opportunities to keep their children in Iowa. I couldn't agree more. I am running again for the Iowa Senate to help create a legacy of opportunity for all Iowans.
Senator Dix is running for his second term in the Iowa Senate, where he serves as ranking member of the Rules committees and on the Labor and Business committee.
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Senator Dix and his wife Gerri have three children, and operate a family farm near Shell Rock.

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Uruguay ambled into the semi-finals of the Confederations Cup with a straightforward 8-0 win over Tahiti at Arena Pernambuco.
Abel Hernandez opened the scoring with the fastest goal in the competition's history after 79 seconds and a Diego Perez goal came between his other two strikes which ensured the South Americans took a four-goal lead into half time.
Andres Scotti missed a penalty early in the second half and was then sent off for a second yellow card one minute later. Teheivarii Ludivion was also shown red for the Oceania champions before Nicolas Lodeiro, Hernandez with his fourth, and a Luis Suarez double wrapped up the win in comfortable fashion.
Having conceded 10 against Spain, Tahiti struggled could not even keep La Celeste out for two minutes. Lodeiro's corner was flicked on by the unmarked Scotti and Hernandez was also free to head home at the back post.
But Uruguay did not maintain that ruthless start to the game and lacked urgency as the Islanders held their own for a short while.
Having denied Walter Gargano and Gaston Ramirez, there was little Gilbert Meriel could do to stop Hernandez from adding his second with 23 minutes on the clock. The Palermo striker exploited the static Tahiti defence, running in behind onto a ball over the top and looping it over Jonathan Tehau before volleying into the back of the net.
Four minutes later they had their third. Perez was the next player to spring the offside trap, getting his head on Gargano's cross and tapping home from close range after his initial header hit the post.
Uruguay stepped off the gas again and Tahiti took the opportunity to get forward, however Marama Vahirua and Steevy Chong Hue were unable to make the most of the chances that came their way.
Any momentum gained was taken away in first half stoppage time, though, as Gargano released Hernandez with a cutting pass and the striker poked the ball into the bottom corner to complete his hat-trick.
After the interval it looked as though Oscar Tabarez's men would add their fifth goal when the referee pointed to the spot in the 50th minute following Nicolas Vallar's foul on Matias Aguirregaray, but things did not go to plan.
Veteran Scotti was handed the responsibility of the spot kick but his weak effort was saved by Meriel and one minute later the centre-back was shown a second yellow card following a foul on Chong Hue, reducing La Celeste to 10 men.
The referee evened the sides up in the 59th minute when he dismissed Ludivion for his second bookable offence and the South American's soon added their fifth. Gargano was again the supplier, drilling a low cross into the area which Lodeiro tapped in from inside the six-yard box.
Hernandez added his fourth with 23 minutes remaining as he showed unerring composure to slot home from the spot after Chong Hue had felled Aguirregaray inside the box.
Meriel denied Hernandez the record of becoming the first player to score five goals in a single Confederations Cup game with a great save, but Suarez was not to be kept out eight minutes from time as he turned Henri Caroine inside out and rolled the ball into the bottom corner.
Suarez then added his second with a tidy finish from the top of the box in the final minute of normal time, becoming Uruguay's all-time highest-scoring player in the process with 35 goals.
Despite the adoration and cheers of the crowd Tahiti were unable to find their second goal of the tournament. Uruguay's win sees them finish second in Group B, setting up a semi-final encounter with hosts Brazil.
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Uh... that Wikipedia article shows 3 lines of code, which it describes as "straightforward":
Straightforward code to copy items from an array to a memory-mapped output register might look like this:
do {
/* count > 0 assumed */
*to = *from++;
/* Note that the 'to' pointer is NOT incremented */
} while(--count > 0);
Then this reference implementation of Duff's device:
send(to, from, count)
register short *to, *from;
register count;
register n = (count
When numerous instances of Duff's device were removed from the XFree86 Server in version 4.0, there was an improvement in performance
Personally, I blame the compiler for failing to optimize properly.
Is this a joke? The reason Duff's Device is no longer any faster is because the modern compiler is able to optimize properly.
Manual optimizations such as Duff's Device usually prevent the compiler from doing automatic optimizations because the effects of the code becomes obscured.
According to the reference, the reason for the speed improvement had to do with the vastly different CPU architecture and specifically with getting more cache misses due to an increase in the size of the code base because of the unrolled loops.
It seems rather silly to imply that Duff's device is no longer elegant merely because it does not apply to current CPU architectures.
It's not elegant because it's a dirty optimisation taking advantage of two inadequacies of C: The horrendous fall through behaviour of switch statements, and the lack of a requirement for proper nesting of control blocks.
The original code is far more elegant than DD.
Put it another way, the only reason for using DD rather than the original is that it was quicker on non-optimising compilers. Not that it was graceful, nor stylish, nor simple.
The fact that it's slower than the original code now makes it even less of a qualifier. It's now an optimisation failure. Something that needs to be removed to optimise.
IMO elegance comes with simplicity and duffs device actually makes the simple fairly complex, at least from a syntactic point of view. Mind you, compared to the unintelligable contorted rubbish calling itself C++ that I've had to debug over the years its a masterclass in clarity. Anyone who suggests building a framework for any project that is going to take less than a week should be shot on the spot.
Time. Good point. Many building architects defend bad designs with, "but that's all the time we had."
Either the original developers have time to iterate to a cleaner design, or the maintainers have to do it, or the original developers had lots of experience with similar frameworks that they already have better designs in mind—acquired over time.
I don't think that's what he meant. I think he says that anybody who manages to add complexity to something simple and straightforward (a project that would only take a week to do) by adding "beautiful" layers that provide abstractions for the sake of abstraction, should be shot. Personally, I would happily set fire to the remains after the firing squad had its turn.
Aha, right you are, thanks. Yeah, funny thing about abstraction, somewhere somehow, there still has to be an implementation anyway.
do {
/* count > 0 assumed */
*to = *from++;
/* Note that the 'to' pointer is NOT incremented */
} while(--count > 0);
Compared to Duff's optimization:
send(to, from, count)
register short *to, *from;
register count;
register n = (count + 7) / 8;
switch(count % 8) {
case 0: do {
To me, elegance at code level means succinct and readable code. Optimizing for performance usually comes at a lower level of readability.
Therefore, first write the code in the most elegant way.
Then, write an optimizer that optimizes that code. Of course, the optimizer itself should be elegant, but it need not be efficient.
Fail. Elegant != Complicated.
This is a common fallacy which makes many programmers think they are great but they are really are abysmally bad. Code has to be readable! Here is something that gives the idea:
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it
so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to
make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first
method is far more difficult. --Tony Hoare
Most programmers considering themselves "good" fail this test and go for the second option.
Wish I had mod points. In seems to be a badge of honour for some coders to make their code as obfuscated as possible. I'm not sure who they're trying to impress but it sure as hell isn't the poor maintenance coders a few years down the line.
...I'm not sure who they're trying to impress but it sure as hell isn't the poor maintenance coders a few years down the line.
I write simple code. I am primarily a C/C++ coder and in the "Obfuscated 'C' contest", I wouldn't even make the cut.
My code was described as very "simple" in a patronizing tone. My code works, has very very few bugs, it is done on time, and looking back at it after year, you can see exactly what it's doing - even without reading the many many comments.
I was treated as the dullard of the team. It's like if you don't use all the tricks and shortcuts, somehow you don't really know the language that you are programming. And if your code is too easy to understand, then you are not as smart or good.
I started in this business in 1992 and I have never been in a shop that did not have the attitude.
Many moons ago I refactored a complex function by a much respected 'Master Programmer'. "It's going to take you a good few years before you're at his level", they told me. After I had finished refactoring his function, a page and a half of heavily nested if/else statements had boiled down to a single CASE statement, 4 lines long, doing the exact same thing that his original code did.
In my book, this guy wasn't a Master Programmer at all. He overcomplicated things. His code was unmaintainable to anyone but him - and evidently he had a pretty hard job maintaining his own code.
Elegant code is code that correctly solves a particular problem in the simplest possible way. Bonus points if minimal CPU/Memory resources are used to achieve that.
The common definition for elegant code is. "Anything not written by someone else."
In general code tends to be an ugly patchwork until you refactor it, introduces a couple of bugs, fixes the bugs and ends up in the starting position. The big change is that you now realize why the "ugly patches" were an elegant solution to the problem.
Or to phrase it differently; elegant code is code that has enough comments to explain why it isn't possible to make it simpler.
I strongly disagree with this. While I admit that elegant code can have ugly portions refactoring will often be an improvement but the trick is to learn when refactoring will help and when it will be a waste of time. The worst programmers I know are the ones who say that "I don't have time to go back through my code". I have cleaned projects where the original coder did the same thing three different times or reinvented the wheel when there were better libraries. In fact, I have been also guilty of this and even in my own projects I have come across places where the requirements changed out from under me mid project or I simply see better ways of doing things as I gain experience.
Elegant code:
1 Handles errors gracefully
2. Only reinvents the wheel when there is a measurable benefit in doing so.
3. Has consistent naming conventions.
4. Has comments around ugly code explaining why it is ugly.
5. Compiles (or runs if interpreted) without warnings.
I've been coding for the fun of it again in my spare time, and have a fair bit of code up on GitHub [github.com] now. I've only been seriously using C++ for the last couple of years, and you can see a bit of a progression from my early code (fr_demo) to more recent code like the data library and resumetron. Stuff like cppxml which I use frequently gets updated more often than the old demo code.
I particularly like my factories. I have a relative going through a CS program right now and he's had some questions on a couple of his assignments and got a look at a piece of code with data readers provided by his professors. They always look like C code that was written 15 years ago. I know this because I also very recently was digging through some C code that was written 15 years ago. I like to think they're doing that on purpose, but they're not. So his introduction to design patterns could have been a nice clean data factory that requires three lines of code to write, but instead it's the singleton pattern, which every design review board on the planet will now reject immediately after the word leaves your mouth, whether it's actually justifiable or not.
One of these days real soon now I'm going to need to go back and replace all my std::string throws with std::logic_errors or other appropriate std::exception errors, and I'm kicking around the idea of building up a simple rest server around my old socket server code one of these days. That sounds like fun to me!
or is the OP requesting us to hunt down a piece of code that fulfills his project specs (and does it elegantly, gosh darnit!)?
Is the OP's real name Tom Sawyer?
The request is oddly specific.
It might be more prudent to ask for particularly nice before- and after refactoring examples in general.
I love the elegance of object oriented parser frameworks (disclaimer; I've made several myself), but that elegance is rather in the model than the code.
Elegance purely in code I can only really remember seeing in small functions and snippets. Mostly elegance seems to be in the structure and interaction between functions or objects.
The request is oddly specific.
Yes. Very odd...
Almost like a code request.
The correct thing to do would be to find one then add a very sneaky flaw. Find out if all he really wanted was to "read" it.
It might be more prudent to ask for particularly nice before- and after refactoring examples in general.
I once saw a Java class with pages of complex multi-threaded code to update the horizontal offset of the ticker in a GUI. Not counting the usual minimum content of a class file, I replaced it with a single line along the lines of "return velocity * getCurrentTime();". So satisfying! 8)
or is the OP requesting us to hunt down a piece of code that fulfills his project specs (and does it elegantly, gosh darnit!)?
Is the OP's real name Tom Sawyer?
OP Here: I am a retired Assembler 360 programmer. I have no project needs or other reason for my specific example, which was merely an example of what I suspect/hope is an elegant program. I could be wrong about that. Feel free to discard your understandable cynicism.
Ha HA! Ya got me.
At this stage in the game I don't know where the cynic ends and the human begins.
"Probably at the asshole," a voice whispers in my ear.
or is the OP requesting us to hunt down a piece of code that fulfills his project specs (and does it elegantly, gosh darnit!)?
Is the OP's real name Tom Sawyer?
Do we have to pay to join in?
if code is 'elegant', it can be read well after at most after brief explanation of how the algorithm is supposed to work
exactly my thoughts as well.
all "code" is symbols arranged to communicated **instructions** to a machine
it's all instructions...the variation is the way the instructions are delivered
knowing this, and having some experience coding, elegant code will be understandable to even novices once the basic "language differences" are learned
Writing code can be like explaining something or teaching. You can give an explanation that is logically correct but difficult for a human to follow. Programmers tend to neglect this in their code because it can be difficult to construct something that reads well and even if it doesn't read well, it can still be executed by a computer.
I like to think that if code is 'elegant', it can be read well after at most after brief explanation of how the algorithm is supposed to work, because code alone is sometimes difficult to interpret.
Similar to my thoughts. There are levels of elegance. The minimum requirement is that it does what it's supposed to, that something is non-trivial, and the code is fairly easy for anyone familiar with the language to understand. Better is when it does all that without any prior explanation of what it's supposed to do. Even better is when the something it's doing is actually quite complex, but still easily understood.
And then there's just plain awesome, where it uses a language feature that the reader ha
A lot of "real world" code out there has not been designed, it has grown, and that's part of the problem. Think of cities that have grown (London?) rather than be designed according to some grand master plan (New York?) and major reengineering exercises need to be undertaken (in the case of London, as one example, sewage pipes were fitted in underneath). Inevitably there's some shortcuts taken or real reasons that you could not quite do the best job.
Codewise, the oldest running code probably lives in the banking system or the telephony system. Typically code that has grown over time and can't just be shut down for an upgrade -- "what do you mean close the bank for a week?". Now whatever code runs there has been kept running (bodged?) for decades, but pretty it probably isn't.
Think of cities that have grown (London?) rather than be designed according to some grand master plan (New York?)
I've never been to London, but I work in NY. It's almost the exact opposite of what you're saying, or maybe the middle ground that you didn't cover. Someone designed it to a master plan.... a long time ago. And then it grew. Nowadays I joke that if you're designing a city and your major highways look anything like NYC, it's time to fire the designer.
I consider code elegant if I can read it and understand it on the first try, personally.
This is a good barometer.
When I write code, my goal is to create an accurate design with the proper abstractions that will make the complex business problem look like it was trivial to solve. The easier that I made my job look, the higher the quality of my deliverables, in my mind. The next person to look at my code should say, "Of course he solved the problem that way. I would have done the exact same thing."
By the way, given the sheer volume of WTFs I encounter, the next person to look at my code probably
Some engineers consider code "elegant" if it's factored to the smallest possible form, which generally means all repetition possible is factored out.
But such code has at least two problems. First, is that it may not be easy for a good portion of developers to read and understand. Factoring out all possible duplication often results in a lot of indirection (reference levels), and indirection can slow down and complicate reading because you have lots of small parts referencing (using) lots of other small part
Most code will not fall into the "elegant" category. The reason is that real-life software has to deal with exceptions, language crocks, patches/modifications and bug-fixes. It is also subject to the constraints, limitations and ugliness of whatever it has to run on and interface with (no program is an island entire of itself Every program is a piece of the continent, A part of the main() [ John Dunne] ).
Therefore the only place you'll find elegant code is in a book about algorithms, where the idea is presented in isolation and not subject to the practicalities of real-world environments
Most code will not fall into the "elegant" category. The reason is that real-life software has to deal with exceptions, language crocks, patches/modifications and bug-fixes.
And those damn users. I can write what I (and seemingly others) consider "elegant" code. But that's usually only possible down in the bowels of a microprocessor where you have known constraints and no meat bags randomly typing shit at you that you have to parse and decipher and then present a myriad of exception messages back to, etc., etc.
Yes, but try to explain that to a manager, or to a user!
At the code level, elegance means readability and ease of understanding what is being done
And maintainability. People often forget that one.
I once had a co-worker who wrote a component he thought was elegant, because it had a nice lovely modelling and abstraction and matched how he thought the problem should be solved.
The problem was, his solution was rigid, brittle, and kinda wrong. The things he turned into elegant objects didn't behave that way, and the things he didn't were the actual meat of the problem.
Every time he had to fix a bug or add a change, he spent time trying to understand how his code worked, where he'd have to make changes, and then bitching about how the change violated his nice 'elegant' code.
On another project, he was writing a component which consumed stuff from a component I and another co-worker had built (they were built concurrently).
By the time we were ready to do integration testing, his nice elegant code had been built on the assumption we would implement all of the semantics for his part (which we couldn't possibly have known). He had structured his code in such a way as to be 'elegant' as long as the library he was using had behaved in a way that nobody would have modeled unless it had been written to precisely implement his semantics.
And, again, his 'elegant' code was rigid, brittle, and wrong and had to be significantly changed to work with an interface he knew about in advance, because we'd agreed upon it before writing both pieces.
At the data / object model level, there are good real-world examples of elegant coding. At this level, elegance affords the ability to make smaller changes or bug fixes without having to resort to major refactoring or adding a lot of messy code in many different places in your program.
And if you start with a terrible object model and then write elegant code around that terrible object model, you get the exact opposite.
And then don't get me started on trying to make your 'elegant' code go faster because you've created more work with how you've structured your code.
Once had a coder tell me we shouldn't optimize because computers are Really Fast and we probably can't do any better. Then I threw away a large chunk of his code and replaced it with something which wasn't doing silly things, and we got a giant speedup.
Some people get so damned focused on writing what they think is 'elegant' code that it is neither useful to the task, well written, nor maintainable.
http://www.gpstk.org/bin/view/... [gpstk.org]
http://www.rtklib.com/ [rtklib.com]
http://gnss-sdr.org/ [gnss-sdr.org]
Next time do your own google search.
I don't know if it counts as "elegant code", but I find it really useful that code is fully commented. Speaking for myself, it's useful to come back months or years after originally writing code, and knowing why I wrote such a routine the way I did, and what it does, making changes easier and quicker.
My rule of thumb is, "if the first implementation of this didn't work, and I had to change it, then it needs comments" on the principle that if the "obvious" solution turns out not to work, then the problem is not as obvious as I'd thought.
http://www.ioccc.org/ [ioccc.org]
You may have been joking, but this one is fantastic: http://www0.us.ioccc.org/1988/... [ioccc.org]
It calculates pi by measuring the area of an ASCII circle, which is an incredibly direct encoding of the problem. Other than that there are two lines of supporting boilerplate and a couple of braces.
You always have to keep in mind that code will be changed by serveal peopale, and your 'elegant' intention may not be understood or followed through by the next guy. So go for simple rules of thumb that not only keep your code readable and clear, but can accommodate future change while ramaining so.
My number one rule for keeping code both readable and robust is this: Reduce state.
I don't mean everything needs to be purely functional, but consider state a general liability to both correctness, readability, testability and maintainability. Less is more..
* Whatever state you have should be focused and serve to explain/model the actual problem domain, not just 'keep stuff for later'.
* Keep state as local as possible - most code is litered with instance variables that should have been locals and params.
* Just because an object _can_ bundle state with its functions doesn't mean it _should_.
* If it can be done in a static method and still make sense, do so.
In general, the best you can do in terms of simplicity is to write code that computes the result (e.g., the "current" observable state of an interactive program) from scratch at every instant. However, this would make the code needlessly slow. You are then forced to cache stuff, etc., and things become ugly...
True. But bear in mind that one shouldn't optimise early. So if one took the idea that state is bad, one could always compute the result rather than cache for the initial implementation. Then only cache where profiling indicates there's an issue.
This depends. if there is no idiot manager breathing down the neck and allows the programmer to take the needed time to test, rewrite, test, rewrite... then the output is good code.
Loser managers that cut in half or worse in third the time it takes to actually write good code cause most of the horrid crap you see out there. I guarantee that everything written by Bioware is an unholy mess. The sheer number of bugs I see in every one of their releases means they dont care about good code, they care about th
allows the programmer to take the needed time to test, rewrite, test, rewrite...
Real developers ship. You are working for a business; you are not doing an academic study.
The sheer number of bugs I see in every one of their releases means they dont[sic] care about good code
And here we have another problem. You think that good or elegant code means bug-free. It doesn't. There's lots of pretty code out there that doesn't do what it's supposed to do.
Maybe you've been lucky enough to have that once in a lifetime great teacher. The kind of teacher who somehow explains stuff in such a way that everything makes sense to you; things follow logically from one another and it all seems obvious when he explains it. (And you may not even realize it until he falls sick and the substitute trying to explain the exact same stuff leaves you confused and baffled.)
Elegant code has the same property of apparent obviousness. You read it and just nod because it makes sense and flows logically. There isn't one single way to achieve this, of course. It's not about functional vs. imperative vs. object oriented, but how you employ them for clarity.
Needless to say, such clarity is a very hard property to achieve, and a lifetime of experience will only let you approach it asymptotically. It's still worth the attempt, though.
Elegant code is code you can look at and understand what its doing and then audit easily.
That is the real point of elegant code. You ACTUALLY know precisely what it is doing. No guess work. The best code can be understood with a casual glance and any mistake in the code stands out brightly because the pattern and elegance of the code is beautiful in its way. And any imperfection is ugly.
Code that does the job in the simplest possible way. This means that the writer went through several prototypes before they settled on the code they liked instead of the normal..."it works SHIP IT!"
No obfuscated crap, it's clear simple and concise.
If you follow the principles and practices in Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship: Robert C. Martin [amazon.com] you won't go far wrong. It also includes a worked through example of refactoring a piece of bad code into clean code.
Code written to do one thing is inherently elegant.
No code ends up ever having to do one thing.
The job of requirements gathering is to determine what are the constants and what are the variables. In the case of, say, GPS, the constants should be the protocol of the satellites, the max and min # of sat's that can be found at any given time, the grid representation of the earth, and the system clocks.
Nice and easy, right?
Now change all of those to a variable: you have satellites speaking to you in different protocols based on their age. You end up with only one sat connection so no triangulation due to mountain or building blockage. The grid representation of the earth is inherently distorted at the north and south extremes (and whenever you're above 5,000 feet). Oh, and the you forgot to time-distort your own clock for the rotation of the earth, so a tiny offset is being caused by General Relativity.
Suddenly code that was nice and simple is now full of ifs and switch loops and complex adjustments and bits of guess work and comments that say "oh, well, we'll just have to ignore that last part...but we'll only be off by 30 feet or so".
The first bug in software happens when something that was presumed in the requirements to be a constant has to be changed into a variable. Every bug that follows is a result of trying to fix that first bug.
Because of that requirements problem, no working production code can ever be elegant.
Unfortunately my employer thinks it belongs to the corporation, because they paid me something they call salary to me when I wrote it. They would not let me show it to you all. But this much I can tell you. The key to writing such wonderfully elegant code is to avoid exaggeration, stay away from bragging, and most importantly e
A complete highly extensible interpreted language with a built-in editor, macro assembler, etc in under 10k lines of code which did everything any modern scripting language does, except they all require at least 200KLOC to do it in.... This is the most elegant piece of software ever written, bar none. It isn't even a contest.
Elegant code is...
There are also some languages that I view as inherently elegant, and others that I consider not to be so. C, Python, and Ruby all allow breathtaking elegance in their own way. C with its spartan manner of managing the machine, Python with its ridiculously readable pseudocode-like syntax, and Ruby with its pure object system and powers of abstraction. On the other hand, some other languages like C++, Java, Haskell, Javascript, PHP, BASIC, and Erlang will never be languages that lend themselves to true beauty and elegance. All of those languages either have serious flaws, or they do not allow programmers to express their ideas eloquently in code. In a good language, your ideas should pop out as the most important thing, not the language itself.
Fantasic example of code written in a procedural language (C) in an object-oriented way,with clear separation of responsibilities.
http://www.postfix.org/ [postfix.org]
The framework that Wietse created to structure Postfix is, from my perspective, a thing of beauty. I don't doubt that this has been done elsewhere, but Postfix is the first real example that I came across of a somewhat-large application structured in a very clean and understandable way.
Well worth spending some time perusing the code.
I have long said I preferred elegant to clever code. When I get a phone call on Friday, at 16:15, or 02:00 some night, I want to leave on time, or go back to sleep that night, *NOT* spend hours figuring out how this bit of cleverness is broken, or how someone's "the code's more compact!" is suitable for entry in the Obfuscated C contest.
But to write elegant code, you need to a) know what you're trying to accomplish; b) tell your manager, or whoever, that no, you can't make that kind of major change without their $$$ signoff on a change to the schedule, complete with specing out the change, and its affects on everything else; c) having the time to write, test, and debug the code, and this does *NOT* include drinking a six-pack of Mountain Dew a day, and doing 80+ hour weeks.
Yes, I *have* had jobs like that. And 70+ or 80+ hour weeks result in a *lot* less "productivity" than the old 40-hour week (and try looking up where that number came from... the name Ford may surprise you in that....).
mark "as opposed to managers w/ MBA, who think that you can point and click a good system"
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Well I've been kind of stalling on putting a more powerful engine in my 79 brat. It just runs fine as is it. But I was looking on ebay for subaru motors and came across a nice STI 555 Version 2 engine. About 275 hp would be nice (the second and third digit on that number is already more than the stock horse power of my brat), and if it won't fit in there I'll just put it in my 87 GL. Thats of course if I want to buy this engine (more like if I can afford this engine ).
Heres the ebay link. I think its a nice engine a bit pricey for me. But hell if I can't pay my rent I can always live in my car.
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Subaru STI 555 VERSION 2 engine in a brat?
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Posted 26 October 2004 - 10:37 AM
we use a stand alone ecu for $1300, that way you wont need to spend 20 hours of cuostom wiring... thats a good one.
id wire that up in 5 hours, and keep my 1300 bucks.
these guys say anything to sell you stuff
id wire that up in 5 hours, and keep my 1300 bucks.
these guys say anything to sell you stuff
Posted 26 October 2004 - 01:08 PM
Very interesting, the engine shown is out of a 95 or 96 WRX STi, but the car that they show is at least a 97 or newer GC8. The horse power is correct for that engine. If I remember correctly, there was a special 555 model sold, in 96, so it might be the correct engine for that, but it is the same engine as any other 95 or 96 JDM WRX STi engine. That price is a little high for just the engine. Archemitis, I appreciate your enthuiasm, but if that engine doesn't have the right ECU or a programable ECU, wiring it in 5 hours wouldn't do you any good. I have done one of these conversion, and stating 5 hours to do the wiring is pretty sporty, unless you have done many of these. But in review the data for my conversion, I found that you'll need to have the wiring diagram for both car to do it correctly.
Posted 26 October 2004 - 01:58 PM
i have done a few efi swaps, and i think 5 hours would be fine, considering, i just hook up the wires i need and bundle the rest and hide it somewhere(like the floorboard:lol: ). but without a computer, yes all the wiring in the world wont help.
if i had the cash, i would be looking at badass motors like this one, but since im extra cheap/poor, i have only had the privelidge, of mpfi ea82s. and resently er27!
if i had the cash, i would be looking at badass motors like this one, but since im extra cheap/poor, i have only had the privelidge, of mpfi ea82s. and resently er27!
Posted 26 October 2004 - 04:55 PM
Here's the thing that gets me, these guys pay between $700 to $1000 for these engines in Japan, have them shipped over by the container load to lower shipping cost per engine, then try to sell them fo over twice what they paid for them. I'm trying to get in with one of these guys who really doesn't like shipping Subaru engine over here because that don't sell as well as the Hondas, Toyotas and Nissans. If I can, I'm trying to get to be able to pick them up for what he would pay for them, then pay for the shipping (whatever portion of the container the engine takes up). This should lower the price on these engine considerably. The bad news is that I'm not going to ship any engine I get, it will be sold locally.
Posted 26 October 2004 - 06:11 PM
alright, im close to local, kind of, i would come pick one up if i ever get the cash and you could get it.
Posted 26 October 2004 - 10:07 PM
Well, I'm not sure about that, I'd like you to get a few more years of driving under your belt before I sell something like this to you. Sorry, but at age 17, it is my feeling that you are not ready for this.
alright, im close to local, kind of, i would come pick one up if i ever get the cash and you could get it.
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Eddie Motorsports released a complete line of Chevrolet one-piece billet aluminum valve covers. Precision CNC-machined in the United States from a single piece of premium 6061-T6 aluminum, the Eddie covers are available in a short and tall configuration with a smooth or ball-milled surface for conventional small-blocks as well as the LS series of engines. The billet valve covers come with a single oil fill hole and screw-in billet cap. They can be ordered with a machined finish, highly polished, or any of the many Eddie Motorsport Fusion coated colors. Suggested retail prices start at $430 per pair. Contact Eddie Motorsports at 888.813.1293 or visit them on the web at www.eddiemotorsports.com.
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"The holidays are a challenging time on the highways," said Share the Road Professional Driver Dion Saiz (FedEx Freight). "Between motorists visiting families or finishing up last minute shopping there is nothing better than patience and safe driving practices behind the wheel," he added.
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The Share the Road Professional Drivers would like to remind the motoring public that from driveway to highway, safety requires patience and dedication.
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I'm not arguing or bashing Dusty....just want other's thoughts.
To me this team really started kicking at the point when Dusty started staying with guys like Homer and Latos when he normally would've taken them out. He's trusted Cueto all year and Homer, Latos and both others more often than expected (except for Leake....he's pulled him every time but once when we figured)....today Latos thru 7 inn gave up only 3 hits and struck out 8...with 97 pitches. There is simply no was to know but Latos in the 8th and Chappy in the 9th was very possible.
Do you think the wear of innings on the starters played a role with the decision?
***Latos may have told Dusty he was gassed. (guessing not but you don't know)
I hope the wear of innings had a play in the decision....even though I don't agree.
Obviously if Broxton has better fortune this thread never happens....but I'm always a fan of the starter staying in when possible.


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Recent evidence suggests that the risk of severe muscle toxicity with simvastatin may be higher than that with other statins, particularly when used in combination with cytochrome P450 isoenzyme inhibitors. However, the lack of direct comparative clinical trials assessing the risk of myotoxicity among the statins in equivalent doses precludes definitive conclusions. Data sources examining low-to-moderate doses of simvastatin suggest that myotoxicity with this agent is infrequent, with rates similar to those seen with other statins. Conversely, findings from clinical trials using the maximum daily dose (80 mg) and a clinical trials database of varying doses of simvastatin suggest a possible increase in rates of myotoxicity with the 80-mg dose compared with lower doses and a higher incidence rate when compared with maximum doses of other statins.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Does simvastatin cause more myopathy than the other statins?
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Why does no one look at the genetic mutations of the SLCO1B1 gene which encodes the transport protein responsible for movement of statins into the liver for detoxification? There are 2 neighboring mutations in this gene that are predicted to occur in 20% to 36% of caucasian pop. (more in asian and less in african american, though no specific #'s are given) that have been implicated in cases of myopathies and myalgias. Couple of studies have noted increases in plasma statin levels from 100 to 400 times higher than "normal plasma statin levels". Following provides an indepth study of the population genetics of mutations of the SLCO1B1 gene https://oa.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/42771/pharmaco.pdf?sequence=1
Abstracted fromthe above study:
2.5 Atorvastatin (V)
The SLCO1B1 genotype was significantly associated with the pharmacokinetics of atorvastatin.
In subjects with the variant c.521CC genotype, the mean AUC0-48 of the parent atorvastatin
(acid) was 144% (P < 0.001) larger than that in subjects with the reference c.521TT genotype
and 61% larger (P = 0.049) than that in subjects with the heterozygous c.521TC genotype
(Figure 12). The Cmax and AUC0-48 of atorvastatin varied 17-fold and 7-fold between individual
For those individuals who do not develop severe myalgias and continue on with the statin, think of all those pleiotrophic effects that are intensified with increased levels of statins that reach the "toxic" threshold.
I was on a low dose of Zorcor but when given with certsin antiobiotics I walked the floor all night. Then I read on internet about not mixing this antibiotic with statins. I stopped both immediately. Still have serious leg and feet cramps after day of activity. I refuse to tske anymore statins or the antibiotic that caused this serious and apparently permanent complication.


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In the past few years talk of a European Super League has been a source of underlying concern for UEFA, with Karl Heinz Rummenigge and the European Club Association talking an aggressive game in suggesting that breaking away from UEFA was an option for Europe's top clubs.
This morning it has emerged however, that the concept of a breakaway could be closer to reality than suspected. A report in The Times today proposes that the Qatari royal family are interested in creating a tournament bringing the world's best clubs together in a competition that could pose a real threat to the Champions League.
The proposition will presumably come as a shock to both UEFA and the ECA, and will doubtlessly face a great deal of criticism and fight from European parties with a great deal to lose. And with good reason.
Increasingly in recent decades it has become clear that money talks in the game. With a reported £175 million on the table for participation, the Champions League would seem like the European equivalent of the Captial One Cup in terms of potential revenue.
The biggest clubs in the world are those with the greatest money at their disposal. Joining the upper echelons of European football requires a great deal of capital, whether that is self-generated through marketing and fans through the turnstiles or through a wealthy investors.
Therefore the threat is that the large sums of money promised by the Qatari backers will be an enticing offer to clubs that European football bodies can't compete with.
With Financial Fair Play rules on the cusp of being put into action in the immediate years to come, the worry for UEFA will be that clubs potentially affected by the rules will have a significant bargaining tool at their disposal.
With an alternative competition in a different constituency proposed, clubs would have considerably less reliance on UEFA, whose main asset has been the power of the Champions League – any club interested in breaking away from UEFA would sacrifice participation in the world's most attractive tournament.
Information on the "Dream Football League" is relatively scarce at this point, and only time will tell the extent to which it is possible. But regardless of the outcome, the notion of a breakaway from UEFA has been brought to the fore, and with that in mind there may be more potential investors rubbing their hands together.
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ONTARIO, OH -- Ohio Sen. Rob Portman on Tuesday called recent attacks against him by President Obama's campaign "desperate" and further proof they do not have a record to run on.
Speaking to reporters after touring a farm in Shelby, OH, Portman responded to emails from the Obama camp slamming him and other potential Republican vice presidential picks.
"Rob Portman has been our senator for two years now, but the most damning pieces of his record involve choices he made as a senior member of the Bush-Cheney administration and conservative congressman, the consequences of which still reverberate on a national scale," said an email sent to Ohioans from the Obama For America state director. "As one of the architects of the top-down Bush budget, Portman practically invented the policies that punished middle-class families while exploding the deficit, and crashing our economy."
"I think the Democrats are getting kind of desperate," Portman said in response. "They don't want to talk about their record, and gosh, you can't blame them."
His connection to the George W. Bush administration has been one of the most talked about drawbacks of adding Portman to a national ticket. The former Office of Management and Budget chief is quick to defend his record, today saying "I'm proud of my service in the Bush administration."
The junior senator from Ohio has kept a busy schedule since Congress began its August recess. He's done a a mix of events in his home state -- both in his capacity as a senator and as a Romney surrogate. But regardless of whether he's out on his own behalf or that of the presumptive nominee, nearly all his appearances these days feature Portman going on the offensive against the current administration and defending Romney.
And as speculation has grown about his chances of being named VP nominee, Portman has found himself spending more and more time defending his own record. He points to his work for a balanced budget and deficit only a fraction what it is today as his ready answer to questions about his connection to Bush.
After touring the farm, Portman headed over to Ontario, OH to help open a Romney Victory Office there. Though he said he plans to attend the Republican Convention in Tampa later this month, he said he has not had any communication about a speaking slot.
He did say, however, he is looking forward to some social events thrown by another member of the Ohio delegation, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).
"The Boehner parties are always the best parties," said Portman. "I mean, come on, let's face it."


text: Featured Billy's Custom Gun Works has new sling designs David Reeder August 21, 2013 0 COMMENT Billy "Bacon-Eater" Shea has some new sling designs up on his Facebook page, if you're looking for a different approach (but practical) approach to your weapon sling. Shea runs Billy's Custom Gun Works, a family business in White Cloud, Michigan. Most everything he does revolves around paracord (as in Type III mil-spec 550c cord), though he also does some work with firearms. Shea is a US Army disabled veteran who makes everything by hand. Perhaps the most unique piece of gear Billy makes (all of it is done by hand) are his long gun slings. For instance, below are an Operator and a Defender sling. Above you see the adjustable, QD operator single point made with OD webbing, black hardware and black PALS panel. It's knotted with black inner/OD outer paracord and features a matching dog tag. Below you see the adjustable, QD, single point Defender shotgun sling. It's made with black webbing and Coy hardware, and a Coy shot shell panel. It's knotted with coyote inner and black out paracord wrap. This one is the adjustable, single point Survivor 550 cord sling. It's made to carry SOF-T, C.A.T. or similar tourniquets in a readily accessible and easily deployable configuration. (The red paracord is to indicate a medical device and is optional). D-Rings from ITW Nexus, webbing and elastic TQ carrier from TAREINCO, Quick Detach using 80′ or more Type III 7-strand paracord in one or two colors as desired. Multiple webbing, hardware and cord colors are available. HK style ITW C.L.A.S.H. hook or QD swivel are options as well. Note: some will obviously wonder about placing a TQ on the sling. This isn't for everyone and certainly isn't ideal for every environment; that doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. Read more on different sling types and instructions on how to order here. There is no website for Billy's Custom Gunworks, just his Facebook page. However you can e-mail him directly at billy_22_mi(at)yahoo.com. If you're interested in a particular sling (these, or the B.A.M.F., not shown) then you'll need to list your choice of model, webbing/hardware color/ panel color (if applicable), right/left hand panel placement and preference of inner/outer 550 cord color. Explore RECOILweb:Blade Tech's Newest IWB Concealed Carry Holster OptionsOutta The Closet - Diversion Wax Canvas RucksackWild Boar Patty MeltRECOILtv Transport: San Felipe Baja 250


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You probably remember the online outrage over the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) copyright enforcement proposal. Last week, the Department of Commerce's Internet Policy Task Force released a report on digital copyright policy that endorsed one piece of the controversial proposal: making the streaming of copyrighted works a felony.
This man has been such a deception.
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Government should be reducing the copyright laws not expanding it. There is too much copyright even without SOPA, now that the major ISPS have implemented their six-strike policy.
They could shorten copyright law to 20 years, abolish the DMCA, legalize piracy, anything to make the copyright laws less bureaucratic. The US should get rid of their IP policies with other countries since it violates their state sovereignty (the US actually dictates policy in other countries when it comes to IP law).


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Six former employees filed suit with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Food and Drug Administration alleging the agency monitored their personal emails warning Congress that risky medical devices had been approved, The Washington Post has reported.
The scientists and doctors claimed the information gathered on them contributed to harassment and wrongful termination by FDA, the Post reported Sunday.
All six former employees worked in the office of device evaluation and beginning in 2007 brought concerns about FDA approval of potentially ineffective medical devices to Congress, the White House, and the Health and Human Services Department's inspector general.
FDA monitored their correspondence and twice asked the HHS inspector general to launch an investigation, stating doctors and scientists had improperly disclosed confidential business information about the devices, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the former agency workers.
"We have obtained new information confirming the existence of information disclosures that undermine the integrity and mission of the FDA and, we believe, may be prohibited by law," Jeffrey Shuren, director of FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, wrote in a document in June 2010.
The HHS IG declined to pursue the investigation, finding no evidence of criminal conduct both times it was requested.
The six former employees denied sharing information improperly, but still did not have their contracts renewed, suffered harassment or were fired.
An FDA spokewoman told the Post the agency does not comment on litigation.


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Has anyone else heard of this? I work at a liquor store, and customers started coming in with these new looking phones. Naturally I thought they were the new boost model oe somerhing, so I ask a lady and she said obama sent it to her. I left it at that and asked someone else and sure aa shit the feds are sending out trac phones by motorola for poor people (I don't know the requirements). I guess it fills back up every month, like their food stamp cards.
I really don't know how to feel about this. It kinda pisses me off I think... Any thoughts?:261:


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|7 years ago :: Oct 06, 2011 - 2:56PM #1
Once upon a time, there was a man who loved the world so much that he gave birth to his eldest son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Unfortunately, his family did not approve of the action considering it filthy and a disgrace to womanhood. They shunned him to the point where he and his father were barred from family gatherings. Being so upset at this betrayl, the man sought counseling to help him cope with his hardships.
"Why did your family disown you?" asked the counselor.
"Because I adopted my eldest son when he was a baby. My family wants a blood child and would be ashamed if the parent cannot conceive." The man held the truth away from the counselor lest worsening the situation.
"It sounds like there has been a grudge in the family and they are projecting it out on you."
After the man left the counselor, a member of his family came to him and asked, "May I spend the night with you?"
"Why?" the man asked.
"Because he told me that New Agers would go to Hell and I am a New Ager," the relative replied.
"That shouldn't be a problem," the man said. "What is wrong with your father?"
The relative responded, "In a past life, he used to be a woman who gave birth to a baby out of wedlock. Of course, she said that if I was a man, that baby will serve me right."
"That does not sound so bad," the man said. "Everyone thinks I gave birth to my eldest son."
"That's the problem. In his past life, he refused to breastfeed."
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|7 years ago :: Oct 11, 2011 - 11:21AM #2
There was a woman into whom was not able to conceive a child. She tried every method in the book ranging from fertility treatment to multiple lovers, but sadly she was still barren. She blamed God for being infertile and came to the point where she believed that God did not exist.
One day, without knowing, she became pregnant. Thrilled by this news, she arranged her room to make way for the new baby. Her parents were thrilled when they heard the news. As a matter of fact, they arranged a baptism with the church minister.
One day, after the baby was born, the woman had a dream into which she was standing right in front of a man claiming to be the father of the baby.
She asked, "What is your name, sir?"
The man said, "Mew."
The woman thought, How could this man have a feminine name. Then again, it must be bigender. Then she asked him, "How did you become the father of my baby?"
The man replied, "I will not tell how, but I will tell why. I wanted you to be a mother."
At that point, the woman spoke to her mother about the dream. When she mentioned the name of the man, the mother laughed so hard she could barely breathe.
"Mom, what's so funny?" the woman asked.
"Mew is gender feminine. She is the God of the New Age."
The woman was flabbergasted. "You mean that I had sex with a woman?"
"Oh, my God," her father said. "You are lesbian."
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Chamberlain and 20th Maine, Gettysburg reunion, 1889Item 4163 info
Maine Historical Society
The 20th Maine regiment was mustered out of service on June 16, 1865. Out of a total enlistment of 1,621 men, nine officers and 138 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded and one officer and 145 enlisted men died of disease, for a total of 293 lost.
The war had a profound affect on many soldiers and transition back into civilian life was not always easy. Abner R. Small summed up the war well when he wrote in a letter to a friend, "War and heroes sound well in history but the reality is known to but the few that survive the strife."
Sources: John J. Pullen, The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War, Dayton, Ohio: Morningside House, 1984.
Thomas A. Desjardin, Stand Firm Ye Boys From Maine: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign, Gettysburg, Pa.: Thomas Publications, 1995.


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At the recent Online Marketing Summit in San Diego I caught up with Charlotte Blank, Manager of Social Media at General Motors to talk about digital marketing. In this short interview I asked Charlotte a few fundamental questions about digital and social media marketing related to customers:
1. How does GM segment digital marketing activities between customer acquisition and retention?
Follow up: Does GM follow a social media editorial calendar according to customer buying cycles and personas?
2. With all the shiny objects of social media in the world, how do you go about deciding what to test and what to implement?
Take a look at the video and I think you'll be interested in the customer-centric approach GM takes with social media and how time is allocated towards new customers, activating current customers as evangelists and their approach to filtering shiny social objects.


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Well, despite the recent unseasonably warm temperatures, I think it's fair to say it feels as if winter has arrived. Single-digit temperatures these past few days, mixed with the elusive wind chill factor, slapped me in the face rather quickly — reminding me how brutal a Midwestern winter can be. I guess I don't mind the cold temperatures too badly, however, I'm not a fan of snow and ice ... or driving in it.
That last statement seems so out of character for me, for I was one of those invincible teenagers who along with my friends used to go out in the deep and drifting snow ... just to see if we could make it. My how times have changed! Would you call that getting older ... or maybe getting more sensible ... or maybe just realizing broken bones don't heal very quickly now and car insurance claims ultimately cost a lot of money in the long run?
Oh well ... just be safe out there on the roads ... and even in the parking lots and on the sidewalks, since they can be pretty slick. Dress warmly, and make sure you check on older neighbors, friends and family. Your four-legged friends need extra attention during the winter too.
What's the BigDeal? Every week, the Bureau County Republican partners with an area business(es) to offer you, our readers, an opportunity to save some cash. You can take advantage of our BigDeals! on our website at www.bcrnews.com. Following are this week's BigDeals!:
• Do you need to pamper yourself or could someone you know use some tender loving care? For only $40, get an aloe wrap at Sophisticuts Salon and Spa in Princeton. Regularly priced at $80, an aloe wrap helps you lose inches, while helping you tone, tighten and nourish your skin.
• Keep that New Year's resolution by getting a 20-punch fitness card at the Bureau County Metro Center in Princeton for only $50. Regularly priced at $100, this fitness card is good for land, water and spin classes only.
Have any plans on Thursday? Try and carve out some time to attend the Friends of the Princeton Public Library Used Book Sale at the library on East Peru Street. The sale is from 2 to 8 p.m., and you're bound to find a stack of used books you'd like to read. Paperbacks and hard-back books will both be on sale, and with the winter weather, you'll find a myriad of titles perfect for curling up with during those cold winter days and nights. Go green and help the library by bringing your own bag to carry your new titles home.
Thought for the day: "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." Anne Dudley Bradstreet.
Thought for tomorrow: "We can do no great things — only small things with great love." Mother Teresa.
There are lots of fundraisers on the calendar. If you can, make sure you attend these worthwhile events. Your attendance and participation is essential in helping these organizations continue to thrive.
I attended a freshman basketball game the other day between Princeton High School and LaSalle-Peru High School. It was really fun, and I so enjoyed watching these young athletes play. If you get a chance, check out the local sports calendar and make a date to attend a game or match. Our area young people are so talented, and I'm sure they enjoy seeing a crowd in the stands.
The same thing goes for musical events, plays, Scholastic Bowls, etc. Even if you don't know any of the participants, these talented young people sure help put life into perspective.
It's difficult to believe January 2013 is already half finished. I hope you're taking some time for yourself and treating yourself kindly. Breathe. Exhale. Relax. And remember ... you are important to me and the BCR.


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United Nations General Assembly
What happened to the human right to education?
States vote overwhelmingly for ground-breaking Arms Trade Treaty
The Control Arms Coalition today say the vote for the first ever global treaty to regulate the international arms trade marks 'an incredible moment' signalling the dawn of a new era.
UN Diplomats agree to conclude Arms Trade Treaty negotiations in 2013
Governments pass UN resolution to hold major diplomatic conference next year with an unprecedented 157 'yes' votes, including China for the first time, 18 abstentions & 0 votes against.
Oxfam reaction to the High-Level meeting in New York on Sahel
On the proposed ECOWAS force to Mali:
Mamadou Biteye Oxfam's West Africa Regional Director said :


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The 24-team field is comprised of 13 squads who earned an automatic berth by winning their respective conference/independent/unaffiliated group tournaments, 10 at-large selections and one host berth, which went to Mobile (Ala.). The 10 at-large selections were determined by the final NAIA Men's Tennis Coaches' Top 25 Poll released Monday.
The single elimination, head-to-head tournament will commence with eight first-round matchups on May 14 starting at 9 a.m. CDT. The top-eight seeds received a first-round bye and will begin action on May 15 at 9 a.m. The event concludes on May 18 with the championship final slated for 9 a.m.
Second-seed Auburn Montgomery (Ala.) leads all qualifiers with nine national championships all-time. Besides Auburn Montgomery, Mobile and Belhaven (Miss.) are the only other teams to own one national title in this years field. Auburn Montgomery's 37-6 mark in national championship play is the best among this year's qualifiers.
One program, top-seeded Embry-Riddle (Fla.), has made the field every year since the championship moved to a team format in 2000, while Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) has only missed one - 2012 national championship. A total of nine schools will be appearing at the national championship for at least the 10th time since 2000. Eighteen of the 24 qualifiers also made the field in 2012.
On the other hand, Doane (Neb.) and Northwestern Ohio will be making its first appearance at the National Championship. A total of six teams will be seeking their first wins at the national championship.
The Southern States Athletic Conference leads all conferences with four members in the field of 24. The Golden State Athletic Conference and The Sun Conference follow with three teams each.


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I just finished adding a bunch more new blocks of dyed & stabilized Maple Burl to our web store.
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LONGMONT -- It was too good a deal to pass up, even though they know it won't last forever.
Two shop owners have opened what they're calling "pop-up" stores at Twin Peaks Mall, even as the mall is scheduled for demolition before the end of the year.
"They made me a screaming deal," said Jill Cutler, the co-owner of Fabulous Furnishings, a furniture consignment store.
A friend of a friend, who owns a business in the mall, suggested opening her new store in the mall. She had left her previous shop, Fabulous Finds, in November, but had continued to acquire inventory and warehousing it with the intent of opening up a new shop somewhere at some point.
"Home décor and consignment really is my passion," Cutler said. "I wanted to continue to do that and I was going to auctions and people were still wanting to consign with me."
While the extremely low lease rate is what first attracted her attention, Cutler said having the shop also allows her to get her feet wet in her new store and to build up a bit of a financial track record she can show to a bank when it's time to move out of the mall and find a new location.
It was Cutler who told "Rockin'" Robin Abb about her experience opening her store in early April, so Abb visited the mall shortly after to check it out. Abb said she saw "real opportunity" for opening her own store.
"It took me about 48 hours to put together a game plan and move on it," said Abb, whose store is scheduled to open Saturday. "I haven't stopped moving since in trying to get this thing open."
Abb, who opened her clothing consignment store, Rockin' Robin's, in Niwot 11 years ago, said new her store will be strictly retail. She won't have the capability to do consignment at her Twin Peaks Mall store, although the Niwot store will operate business-as-usual.
"It'll be my inventory, and it'll have the same look and feel, the same funky, fabulous clothes, that I have (in Niwot)," she said.
Ken Dahl, owner of sports memorabilia store K&D's Helmets, said his business has dropped off significantly in recent weeks and he's hoping having the new pop-up stores can drive some new customer traffic to the stores, such as his, that remain open.
"Anything that will bring in more foot traffic will help us -- absolutely," Dahl said.
According to Cutler, many of her customers have told her they came to the mall only to visit her store but are open to exploring what remains of the other tenants.
Abb is hoping that other small businesses will follow her and Cutler's lead, so the mall can "go out with a bang, not a whimper," she said.
Luke McFetridge, regional property manager for mall owner NewMark Merrill Mountain States, said he's thrilled to have the addition of the new stores and would welcome others considering the same move, even if it is only temporary.
He said in advance of the property's redevelopment into Village at the Peaks, the owners are committed to being engaged with the community, whether it be in adding new stores, hosting an American Cycling Association-sanctioned race every Thursday night, or the weekly gathering of food trucks on Saturday evenings.
Tony Kindelspire can be reached at 303-684-5291 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Conor Orr @ConorTOrr
At WF Bohanon, caught 23 passes for 7 TDs senior year. Morninweg uses FB as pass catcher often. Schlesinger (DET) had big numbers in MM off
The terminator with hands?
Conor Orr @ConorTOrr
At WF Bohanon, caught 23 passes for 7 TDs senior year. Morninweg uses FB as pass catcher often. Schlesinger (DET) had big numbers in MM off
Kiper, Polian and McShay all love it
You can line the kid up at TE as well
Like this dude, adds a nice dimension to the offense. Basically the H-back type role that they tried to shoehorn Tebow into.
They showed video of him at TE and in the slot. That's pretty good. Great lead blocker too.
StrengthsSees snaps from single back, I formation, and pistol. Decisive upfield cuts to continue forward momentum. Sees front side lanes even if run calls for different gap. Determined runner, little wasted movement, makes a choice and sticks to it. Refuses to go down on first contact, takes some big hits because of it. Patient on zone read and sticks with mesh point. Always churning his legs, that's his best quality, never stops. Rarely anything fancy. Protects the football confidently and absorbs contact. Has enough long speed to sustain.
Weaknesses Runs a bit upright, arms flailing to keep balance on occasion. Rarely looks back side for cut back lanes. Eyes can be bigger than stomach in terms of hurdling tacklers in the open field. Does not possess break away speed. Lacks creative quickness to create when stopped behind the line of scrimmage.
NFL ComparisonAlfred Morris
NFL Comparison Alfred Morris
Well, that's certainly worth getting excited about . . .
Someone please take Matt Scott. If he ends up in Seattle or SF I am going to need an asprin.
the most encouraging part about the offensive selections is that there appears to be an offensive system in place to draft players to fit the system. not only is it clear that rex isn't picking the players, but marty's blueprint is all over rounds 2 through 7. the FB they draft can catch. the linemen are smart and tough. the qb has a quick release. the two new rbs can catch and have speed. every single piece they added on offense fits the WCO.
and ironically, this reality is basically the only thing that can save rex's job. if rex were smart he'd monitor the offense but let the offensive staff do its thing and mentor smith. kudos to idzik for getting the qb they wanted but also shoring up the offensive line and getting some rbs who can get yards. now the rbs and fb can catch, and i have to say having greene and connor hurt sanchez as much as the wr/te injuries b/c defenses didn't have to account for them in the passing game.


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"... The most significant change is moving gold from its tier 3 status to tier 1 capital as 100% loan-backing reserves, the same as cash and bonds. For the first time in 42 years, gold is being brought back into our financial system as money. All the world's banks are now storing this metal, not as some 3rd rate "asset," but as all the world's working capital - its money. So it's not just any voice, it is the ultimate voice on what is money that has spoken. Gold was removed from our system by Nixon in 1971, when he took us off the gold standard by disallowing foreign governments to exchange their dollar reserves for US-held gold. Ironically, they were doing this in great volume because of Washington's lack of fiscal discipline. Now, as gold has appreciated from $35 to $1700 in the unofficial gold standard interim, Washington's lack of fiscal discipline is again an issue, and we are now being forced to recognize gold as official money again.
"You probably were not aware of any kind of return to gold as official money, but these Basel III rules are set to go into effect January 1, 2013 and have prompted Brian Hicks to call it "The Secret Return to the Gold Standard." Brian Hicks is the managing editor and chief investment analyst of The Wealth Advisory. In addition, Brian is a contributor to Wealth Daily and Crisis And Opportunity. He has been a keynote speaker at international investment conferences, as well as a guest commentator on the financial television networks, CNBC, and others. Hicks was part of a small minority opinion (including me) years ago, the peak oil nuts, saying that with oil going to a then shocking $70, we were entering a new age of higher oil. This was in the face of the prevailing opinion verbalized best by Steve Forbes when he said that market forces would fix the oil "spike," and we would soon be back to a normal $40. Now we are paying $110 Brent in a really bad global economy. He was right about oil, and so far, he has been right about what is happening with gold. ..."
hat tip to www.grandich.com