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Nissan Leaf's slow sales don't deter CEO from doubling down
Carlos Ghosn laid a $5 billion bet in 2009 that the world's next Ford Model T would be electric, and that Nissan Motor Co. would lead a revolution embraced by nations such as Denmark. Three years later, sales of Leaf plug- in vehicles in the Nordic country: 73.
Nissan's chief executive officer has long fronted a campaign to convince the world that by the end of the decade, 1 in 10 cars sold will be electric. Customers haven't bought in, as prices remain high and charging stations are few and far between.
Sales for 2012 were half their target in the U.S.
Ghosn's response has been to double down. Last week, he put his chief operating officer directly in charge of electric cars, elevating the Leaf's importance for the future of Japan's second-biggest carmaker. With Nissan sales falling short in the U.S. and China, some investors say they'd prefer the CEO focus on more immediate concerns.
"When we see this situation of Nissan missing targets in several markets, the atmosphere of trust has begun to deteriorate a little," said Takashi Aoki, a Tokyo-based fund manager at Mizuho Asset Management Co. "As long as Ghosn meets profit targets, investors won't fret."
While Ghosn, 59, still gets the benefit of the doubt from asset managers such as Aoki, such creeping concerns are an adjustment for a man credited with turning Nissan from near bankruptcy in 1999 into the world's most profitable major carmaker five years later. Ghosn's management acumen won him offers to run General Motors and Ford Motor Co. — and a starring role in a comic book that sold 300,000 copies in Japan.
Today, Nissan's flagship Altima has been overtaken by Honda Motor Co.'s Accord as the second-best selling midsize sedan in the U.S. Deliveries in China — Nissan's biggest car market — are shrinking amid a lingering backlash against Japanese brands caused by a territorial dispute.
Shiga's Leaf
Then there's the Leaf, whose development is being pushed ahead amid sputtering demand. Days after putting COO Toshiyuki Shiga in charge of electric vehicles, a branch of China's top economic planning agency said Nissan and its local partner plan to build an electric-vehicle plant able to make 50,000 units a year by 2015, as many as Nissan does in its Leaf factory in Japan today. Nissan declined to make executives available to comment for this story.
Like Ghosn, China has grand ambitions for electric cars, targeting 500,000 EVs and plug-in hybrid vehicles to be on its roads by mid-decade and 5 million by 2020. There are now 27,800 — about 80 percent of which are public buses. Lately, some of China's top policy makers are having doubts. The nation's industry minister this month said the government should consider backing more conventional technologies, such as gasoline- electric hybrids.
Electric Denmark
While interpretations of recent government comments are speculative, "what is clear is that the Chinese government has set impressive goals," Nissan said in an e-mail.
Ghosn, who's also CEO of Renault SA, didn't immediately aim for the biggest markets with electric cars. In 2009, he singled out Denmark, Israel and Portugal as markets populated by consumers concerned about the environment, and with infrastructure that could be adapted to the needs of electric motoring. They're also small enough to suit the restricted driving range of all-electric vehicles.
"Our electric vehicles are a breakthrough because they are designed to be mass marketed," Ghosn said in Frankfurt that year, discussing the 4 billion euros ($5.2 billion) Nissan and Renault would commit to invest in the technology. "This will bring environmental soundness at a price everyone can afford."
Ghosn's Zeal
As the European Union's debt crisis and the U.S. economy's struggle to escape recession-pinched budgets, countries like Denmark haven't responded to Ghosn's zeal with the investment in infrastructure needed to stoke consumer interest.
Prices remain high. According to Nissan's U.S. website, a Leaf starts from $21,300 after federal tax rebates, comparable to the price of an Altima, which is roomier and has 70 percent more horsepower. In Denmark, Nissan's site advertises a leaf for just over 268,000 krone, or more than $46,400.
Nissan's 73 Leafs sold in the country compare to 170,770 new-car registrations last year.
"It seems way too early for mass production for electric vehicles," said Ben Williams, a London-based fund manager at GAM (U.K.) Ltd., who oversees about $300 million in Japanese equities. "The infrastructure globally isn't in place. The range issues still concern consumers."
Plugged-in Pope
In his crusade, Ghosn has presented former Pope Benedict with a plug-in 'Popemobile' at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo outside Rome and driven onstage in a Leaf at a Yokohama presentation with Former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in the passenger seat.
Regular drivers remain largely unconverted — including those who would like to be.
Take Tokuhiro Shibato. The Tokyo veterinarian was so keen to make the switch from gasoline that he hired a Leaf once a month for more than a year to try it out. He and his wife liked the car, especially the silence of the electric motor that fostered family chats.
What put them off was finding recharging stations. On a 600-kilometer (373-mile) journey from Tokyo, Shibato made sure he knew where to plug in along the way. He forgot to check when the stations closed.
Driving back at night, the alert system warned him he wouldn't make it home at his current power usage. He slowed to 50 kilometers an hour, the lowest speed allowed on the freeway.
"It took me hours to get home," Shibato said.
Natural Gas
They eventually bought a Daihatsu Hijet minivan that runs on compressed natural gas.
Shibato's not alone. Industry researcher IHS expects battery-powered cars to claim about 1 percent of global production in 2020, while rival research firm J.D. Power & Associates puts it at below 2 percent.
Ghosn has given himself leeway in the past, saying that even 5 percent penetration would be a success, and that bullish early targets reflected "passion" for the product rather than "arrogance."
Last month, Ghosn said earnings in the latest quarter missed company expectations as sales fell in China and deliveries missed expectations in the U.S.
"They need to show how they're going to focus," said Yuuki Sakurai, the president of Fukoku Capital Management Inc., which manages about $17 billion in Tokyo. "It's hard to work out which region Nissan is focusing on."
Yen Tailwind
According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, worldwide sales of all electric cars — including plug-in hybrids — more than doubled to 119,300 last year, though that was about a third of industry expectations. The Leaf was outsold by GM's Volt and a plug-in version of Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius, both of which have gasoline motors for the kind of problems faced by Shibato.
Those concerns have yet to dent Nissan shares, which have risen since mid-November, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe began a campaign to talk down the value of Japan's currency to revive the nation's export-led economy. The yen has since tumbled 16 percent against the dollar.
Over the same period, Nissan shares have climbed almost 40 percent to their highest levels since early 2008. And while the gains trail those of Toyota and Honda, the advance ensures Ghosn retains the goodwill of investors.
"I think he has done a remarkable job turning Nissan around," said Williams at GAM. "The yen wasn't his fault, and the China issue wasn't his fault. Possibly the only thing Ghosn did wrong is the EV."
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When I saw all your beautiful layouts from the iTunes inspiration, I wanted to try to make a layout too. I hope I did it right, because there was no template.
It is a photo taken at the Bonneville dam in Oregon. I think it was one of the most terrific days of our vacation. Never seen so many beautiful views, things, nature on one day. I would love to go back there. But now we go to New York and the Niagara falls first!
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Saturday, February 5, 2011
It's just about that time
I miss the game.
There's something about baseball that keeps me completely engrossed for the 8 months of preseason through playoffs and leaves me itching for more during 4 months of offseason.
Normally, this is the point where I'd joke with you all about what a sad existence I must be leading that a 30-something year old dude is pining for the return of a game. A game. But the truth of the matter is, I lead a charmed life with no complaints a reasonable person could defend. So why is it that in both times of stress and those of relaxation, I find myself thinking about the upcoming season and the myriad of possibilities that could unfold?
It's certainly nothing I'd claim to be proud of, but it's not exactly, um....uncommon, let's say, that I may miss a question posed to me by the better half because I'm lost in thought about how Aaron Hill's statline might look by season's end.
Do I think he should have given her a rose? How in the fuck should I know, I'm trying to figure out if Rajai Davis' projected (in my mind) 53 stolen bases will be enough to compensate for his below-average OBP in the leadoff spot. Am I right?
And there's just something about this franchise today - the way decisions are being made, how one transaction can seemingly never be viewed on a standalone basis, or graded in the immediate aftermath - that screams the word "inspired". For me, anyway.
The hiring of John Farrell to run the on-field product was an inspired move. We (using the royal "we" here.....ie: me) all cried foul when names like Don Baylor or Bobby Valentine were run through the mill as potential candidates. Not prepared for the same old, same old, how could those guys even be considered? Well, speaking plainly, they probably never were.
Trading presumptive opening-day starter Shaun Marcum for Brett Lawrie was inspired. Some will tell you inspired by cost savings, still others will say it was a blatant effort to lose. But I'll argue it was inspired by a desire to win it all - eventually - versus a record 5 games better in 2011.
Trading Vernon Wells' contract was inspired.... by common sense. With an assist from west-coast lunacy.
And here we are. Two weeks away from the start of one of the most intriguing seasons in recent memory. Maybe since '93.
And I can't wait.
20 comments:
- Blandy said...
I can't wait for this season. Might be the most excited I've ever been for the jays. I moved back to Ontario from bc and I'm living in the gta for the first time so I wanna catch 20 games or so. AA is inspiring us jays fans to no end. This game isn't just a release from everyday life for some of us, but a true obsession that we need year in and year out.
- February 5, 2011 at 1:39 AM
- William J. Tasker said...
Nice post. I could feel your enthusiasm.
And the storylines abound for the Jays this upcoming season. Will Snyder take the next step. Will Farrell help hudge the OBP in the right direction. Will Bautista be a force again. Will Lind and Hill bounce back. It's going to be very interesting and fun to watch.
- February 5, 2011 at 6:46 AM
- MJK said...
And there's just something about this franchise today - the way decisions are being made, how one transaction can seemingly never be viewed on a standalone basis, or graded in the immediate aftermath - that screams the word "inspired".
one additional thing we have with this administration is a metric ton of talk to sift through. Riccardi never shied away from speaking his mind, but one always had the sense that he was motivated by his ego first, and spinning things for the organization second.
with Beeston and AA the Jays PR machine never stops. this is why it was hard to understand AA's quote about mandating playing time for John Buck. It seems to me to be the opposite of "inspired". I said on DJF that i don't believe AA, and that this is him trying to turn a Cito negative into an organizational positive. regardless if it was Cito or AA or Beeston, making late season playing time decisions based on assurances given the previous off-season seems to me to be a strategic mistake.
I want the team to make decisions based upon what's best for the team and its future. Letting departing veterans split time with young players is the right decision, and i hope they don't insist on trotting E5, Molina and Dotel out there this September out of loyalty.
- February 5, 2011 at 7:42 AM
I'd like to see more discussion from the Jays about potential platoons or at least partial platoons. For example, against lefties, Davis' OBP is actually quite good. Put Corey Patterson out there against top righties and we would have a projected top leadoff hitter. Same with Lind vs. lefties. I'd use tough lefties as an opportunity to get Johnny Mac into the lineup at 2nd or 3rd and DH Bautista or Hill. I remember the early 80's platoon of Iorg/Mullineks and Collins/Barfield which worked quite well until we got allstar production from those slots from one player. I hope Farrell is going to put the best players in the best situations rather than play to the egos demanding to play "every day".
- February 5, 2011 at 1:36 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Normally, this is the point where I'd joke with you all about what a sad existence I must be leading that a 30-something year old dude is pining for the return of a game. A game.
You're not just pining for the game, you're pining for practice, man. Practice. Not just the games that count, but practice. Practice. Not just games. Practice.
- February 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- Ian Hunter said...
Ack, I'm with you here. Like yourself, I'm a one-sport man, so there isn't the benefit of being occupied in the off-season by another sport. It's baseball or nothing.
I'm not Jewish, but Pitchers & Catchers reporting is like the first night of Hanukkah. Let's get ready for eight crazy nights!
- February 5, 2011 at 2:26 PM
Does everyone is the blue jays blogger community hate Parkes? Just read something at 1 bj way, he's not a fan.
- February 5, 2011 at 3:48 PM
- The Ack said...
I met Parkes as he was passing through town here a moon or two ago, we had lunch and a pint(s) and great conversation. Good dude in my books.
- February 5, 2011 at 4:31 PM
- Hobbes Dogs said...
I'm a lifelong casual fan, recently turned dedicated daily follower of the Blue Jays. This is the first time I've had to endure the long offseason, and can't believe how much I miss the game. I'm getting more and more excited for this season the closer it gets.
- February 5, 2011 at 7:55 PM
- MK Piatkowski said...
Ack, you're certainly not the only one. Cannot wait until spring training starts. Just wish that I was down there.
Mike, I believe the John Buck playing time decision was about the future. As AA put it, he wanted to keep his word so that future free agents would know that this organization would be true to their words. This straight shooting atmosphere could very well be the deciding factor in the future in landing a very desirable free agent. Yes, we lost out on a month to see what JPA had but it was just a month in a season where we weren't going to make the playoffs. John Buck was a player that had never had the chance to be the #1 guy and had a need to prove it. The reasoning makes sense to me and I can't see AA making a similar promise when we're in a position to contend.
And who knows, come September E5, Dotel and Molina may very well show that the faith in them have been well placed. It happened with Bautista. AA thinks E5 is about to break out. So why not hope for the best?
- February 5, 2011 at 11:09 PM
- Parker said...
I think that was me at 1 Blue Jays Way who is "not a fan" of Dustin Parkes.
Maybe he's alright in person. Since I have never met him, I can't say. However, I absolutely detest his online personality. Mainly because before they had the internet to hide behind, mouthy punks like him eventually smartened up after taking a couple of beatings.
Back on topic, I whole-heartedly agree with you, Ack. I used to follow three sports pretty religiously, but since work became such a time- and energy-consuming part of my life, I find the only sport I REALLY ever cared about was baseball. To me, there are only two seasons: baseball, and waiting for baseball.
- February 6, 2011 at 12:14 AM
I don't miss the game as much as most here, but I do love it. Baseball for me is a wonderful "background noise". i.e. the season is so long, with ebbs and flows but it's always there for 8 months. When I "take back the couch/tv" from my kids on a Sunday afternoon to watch the Jays I can watch 3 innings, sleep for 3 and awake to watch the last 3. Absolute gold for a tired dad! I love baseball on the radio, regardless of who is playing. The cadence/tempo of the game and the announcers (Scully!) is the best there is in sports. Can't wait for it to all begin again.
- February 6, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Darren Priest said...
Parker, are you sure you're not talking about Stoeten? He is the prototypical internet tough guy.
But at least he invites his readers to a pub where, theoretically, they could pound the piss out of him, so maybe he's not so bad either.
- February 6, 2011 at 1:46 PM
- Parker said...
I guess I didn't spend enough time reading their blog to make any real distinction between the two.
Which pub? Maybe I'll pay a visit next time I'm in town.
- February 6, 2011 at 5:24 PM
- Ian Hunter said...
To me, there are only two seasons: baseball, and waiting for baseball.
Parker, I think we just found our new version of Roger Hornsby's "waiting for spring" quote.
- February 7, 2011 at 3:57 PM
- 500 Level Fan said...
Only a few more weeks. There's only so many more hockey highlights this man can take....
- February 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM
Missing the Game? I know where you are coming from, but get used to it. Once you are hooked that is it for you.
Jeez, I just turned 60, I can still remember the pure electricity of that first game in 77, againt the Pale Hose.
I've always been a Leaf fan, way longer than the Jays. But, there was something about that franchise coming from the absolute bottom, Gillick building a team by developing their own talent, then brilliant trades to add on.
They dominated baseball for a decade when they arrived. For me, the reason I admire AA and the job he does, I can see what is happening now being just like what started in 1983. These guys are young and talented and just learning how to win.
We are in for a treat, believe me.
- February 7, 2011 at 9:16 PM
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- February 8, 2011 at 4:52 PM
- catalogo puertas metalicas said...
Well, I do not really imagine this is likely to work.
- October 28, 2011 at 3:42 AM


text: The ratio of Palestinian civilian fatalities to Israeli civilian fatalities during Cast Lead was approximately 400:1 [AFP]In honour of the latest installment of homicidal Israeli behaviour in Gaza, the Twitter account of the Israel Defence Forces (@IDFSpokesperson) has played host to a flurry of activity. Thursday afternoon, after 13 Palestinians - including several children - had been eliminated, the IDF congratulated itself on its humanitarian efforts with the following tweet: "As part of effort to minimise civilian casualties in Gaza, IDF dropped 1000s of leaflets in Arabic with this message". Accompanying the tweet was a picture of a leaflet addressed to "the residents of the Gaza Strip": "For your own safety, take responsibility for yourselves and avoid being present in the vicinity of Hamas operatives and facilities and those of other terror organisations that pose a risk to your safety." Not explained in the charitable note is how Gaza residents are supposed to heed the IDF's warning given the diminutive physical dimensions of the strip and the fact that Israel is the only entity endowed with the power to determine which human beings and infrastructure qualify as terror operatives and facilities - an arbitrary activity that has been known to result in the levelling of such institutions as the Rafah zoo. Granted, the zoo was perhaps to blame for recklessly situating itself in the vicinity of terrorists. Israel's monopoly on retaliation The leaflet also informs its audience that Hamas is to blame for "once again dragging the region to violence and bloodshed" and that the "IDF is determined to defend the residents of the State of Israel". As essayist Max Ajl has pointed out in Jacobin magazine, assigning blame to Hamas for initiating the current conflict is a transparent lie. Ajl lists three reasons the assault on Gaza does not in fact constitute, as Israel claims, "retaliation" for a Palestinian anti-tank rocket fired on November 10. First of all, a quick glance at the calendar reveals that November 10 falls after November 4, when the IDF murdered a mentally unsound Palestinian man, as well as November 8, when the IDF murdered a 13-year-old boy playing soccer. Secondly, the supposed "retaliation" shattered an Egyptian-brokered truce in effect at the time. Thirdly, Ajl writes: "[T]he category of Israeli 'retaliation' does not exist. The occupation is constant terror, and it is what breeds the Palestinian violence Israeli leaders can adduce as a retroactive justification for the policies they pursue in purported pursuit of the chimera of 'security'." The same disingenuous rhetoric that is being deployed to justify the present reduction of the population of Gaza also proved helpful during Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), when Israel managed to slaughter 1,400 persons - primarily civilians - in the coastal enclave in a matter of 22 days. This particular population management effort was also advertised as retaliatory in nature, with details such as Israel's unilateral destruction of the ceasefire with Hamas excised from the official narrative. Logical acrobatics Israel's ever-upbeat government spokesman Mark Regev offered the following reaction to the Cast Lead casualty count: "Israel, during the military campaign, made every possible effort to target enemy combatants only." One can assume that, were Hamas to somehow kill 1,400 Israelis, most of them civilians, in three weeks, the organisation would not be lauded for its attentiveness to civilian life. Regev has now resurfaced with an appeal to humanity to comprehend the current conscientious killing in Gaza, and is quoted at the CNN website as remarking: "I would ask you, I'd ask any person around the planet: What would you do if your population was targeted day after day?" Seeing as the ratio of Palestinian civilian fatalities to Israeli civilian fatalities during Cast Lead was approximately 400:1, and that Israel has not in recent history been subject to an illegal and crippling blockade, it is possible that some inhabitants of the planet might more readily comprehend Regev's question were it instead posed by a Palestinian. As for Regev's claim that "you have to see our [current Gaza] operation as fundamentally defensive", I have suggested elsewhere that the audition for the position of Israeli government spokesman might consist of reciting such phrases as "The guinea pig initiated violence against the boa constrictor" and "The armadillo attacked the wheel of the car" with a straight face. Indeed, Israel's exclusive rights to the term "self-defence" and institutionalised habit of inverting logic have resulted in the construction of a narrative according to which the fatal bulldozing of American peace activists in Gaza and the murder in international waters of Gaza-bound humanitarian workers armed with construction tools, marbles and a metal pail are excused as defensive manoeuvers. Unfortunately, for the residents of Gaza who have been warned by IDF leaflets to "avoid being present in the vicinity of… terror organisations that pose a risk to your safety", this does not appear to be possible as long as the Palestinian territory exists in the vicinity of the state of Israel. Belen Fernandez is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, released by Verso in 2011. She is a member of the Jacobin Magazine editorial board, and her articles have appeared in the London Review of Books blog, Al Akhbar English and many other publications. SOURCE: Al Jazeera ABOUT THE AUTHOR Belen FernandezBelen Fernandez is the author of The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work, published by Verso. She is a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine. @ MariaBelen_Fdez


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Hi all,
Not sure if this is the right forum for this question, so if not I apologize:
I've never posted here before, but have been a longtime fan of Adafruit's store and tutorials for most of my work : ) - especially the fact that all of their boards have open schematics and .brd files. It makes it especially easy to create new boards based on existing diagrams.
I am currently working on a board for a client that incorporates the nrf8001 Bluetooth circuit, and using the files provided I was able to layout everything almost identically to the Adafruit layout. However, lacking a parts list I had to make educated guesses on some of the parts, and when the circuit was produced, the bluetooth did not initialize (I had the SMT done by a local PCB manufacturer - pcb.ng - so I trust that the soldering was done professionally).
There's a good chance I messed something up unrelated to the parts, but I was wondering if there exists a BOM somewhere to go along with these circuits, in the event that someone would like to reproduce one of these boards. It would make the process much smoother. If anyone has any advice related to this particular circuit, I would also very much appreciate it.


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♫ fast music playing ♫ Ohaiyogozaimasu and welcome to this edition of the Russell Brown Show. I've gone Japanese in this version. Of course I'm going to demonstrate how to create this Samurai poster that you see here. Of course this is going to be a two-part series. I'm going to first start off in this tutorial discussing how to extract something from a green screen background as you see here, right here. Now there's a few techniques for doing this and of course green screen is the easy way to extract something from a background. It's not always this easy, but I've got some tips and techniques that will help show you how to make a really nice extraction. Now of course the images you're looking at now are of a good friend of mine Sugo Wata, in LA who just happened to show up and appear at my MAX Conference event this last week here. And he showed up and I put on a course where the students in class created Samurai posters. And I thought I would bring to you some of the tutorials that I did at my MAX 2009 Conference. Okay, let's get started. Let's target right here on this image. Here I'm in Adobe Bridge. The first thing I'm going to do, of course is open this up into Adobe Bridge. Double clicking on this raw image it appears here. I just want to show you some of the techniques that I start out with before I bring this into Photoshop to extract the mask. One of the things I like to do is right over here. Under my Hue and Saturation adjustments the HSL adjustments many times I'll go in and adjust the saturation of the greens. Notice here I've increased the saturation of the greens. That's almost like putting an additional green light on the background. What a great idea. I should patent that. A green light to enhance the green saturation in the background. So I bring up the saturations here of the green. So this is a little bit of processing to help out in the end results. You can also go into the Luminance and bring up your luminance a bit. Wow. That's great too. So a little bit of targeted adjustments. That's about all I'm going to do for right now because I can come back and work on this later. Because what I'm going to do now is use a great feature here inside of CS4 that allows me to export this as a smart object. Holding down the Shift key on the Mac and the PC check what happens over here where it says "Open Image" it says "Open Object." It's opening up a smart object. If I click on that now it opens up inside of Photoshop as a smart object. A smart object, of course is directly linked back to the original camera raw image. So I can mask this, but if I double-click on this image, right here I can go back into the camera raw settings. Amazing. Keep that in mind. The Shift key always lets you bring this in as a smart object. Okay, let's get started. One of the great new tools here and in fact great new panels in CS4 is the masking panel. Right here. Of course I'm clicking on the masking panel here but you can also go to the masking panel here from the Window menu and down to Masks. Right here. Now once in this panel you've got everything you need to mask this out. In the past you had to move around and find different tools in different locations. Check it out. Without even having to double-click on that layer to turn it into a layer with transparency. I can just click once on this icon and I've added a mask. As you can see over here. Then let's go quickly into Color Range because that's what really going to help us out in this project, Color Range. I'm going to select Gray Scale here for my color range on the left and I want to see the color image here on the right. I want to have Localized Color Clusters on. New feature in CS4. Great capabilities. The answer is, without this on bad results. With this on really great results. Okay, you got that. Now we click in the green once. I can click in the green here in this image to the right within the window or I can click over here within the gray scale. I prefer to work here in the gray scale. I hold down my Shift key and I can add to my selection. I'm clicking and dragging over the shades. Now you can see how it was nice that I opened up some of those colors. I made them lighter. There's a little bit of trouble down here. I just have to work with those lighting people. You can never trust someone who does lighting. You just can't trust them. They didn't quite light this lower section of the green down here. But I can go in here and open this up clicking on this. Now check this out. If I hold down the Shift key I get a plus sign. If I hold down the Option or Alt key I get a minus sign. So I can click on Shades if I go too far. So I can go through here and start to add and subtract the different shades that I want on my image. Then I can go over here and adjust my fuzziness. So here's my work flow. First I get a pretty good looking silhouette. Then I move my fuzziness all the way to the right. Now you can probably see now on your screen that I'm seeing the show through on my Samurai. I'm going to pull it back and here's my secret. I pull it back until the show through disappears. Because I want to have a nice, soft edge around the Samurai. I don't want to lose some of the detail in his hair. I want to have good quality and having this too far to the left is going to give you jaggies. It's going to have stair stepping. Too far to the right and you see through him. There's this just-right point right there. And then...That looks great. We can click OK. So we've got our first start to this. Oh my gosh, goodness. This always happens. I always make the mask backwards and I have to go through all sorts of trouble to solve this, but wait. Right here. The Invert button is waiting for us. Just click on the Invert button right here in the masks panel and poof, you've solved the problem. Let's go in here and do some adjustments to this. I'm going to target my mask and let's move to the next adjustment which is the Mask Edge. If I mask my edge like this I can go through and I can contract and expand on my mask down here. In fact, let's turn on this preview right here. Just like this. I'm selecting this preview and notice I have different ways of previewing this. I can preview this against transparency against this quick mask against black against white or I can view the mask itself right here. In this case I'm going to view this against transparency, like this. And I'm going to select the Command H on the Macintosh or the Control H on the PC to hide that selection. And then I'm going to zoom in a bit, right in here. Now my mask is looking a little bit transparent here. Could I have made a mistake? Let's increase the contrast a bit. That's better. I'm increasing the contrast because my mask was a little bit transparent there and that helped fill in the transparency. Um, I have all these controls for adjusting the mask and the mask is fairly abrupt right now and you can see my hair really doesn't look like good quality hair. Maybe the jacket here and the sword are looking okay but the hair is not looking to the best of quality. So I'm going to show you a tip and technique here for adjusting this. And it all has to do with Radius. So Radius is the secret to success with anything that has hair, its fuzzy it has to do with Samurai, polar bears cute puppies, hair blowing in the breeze you use Radius. If you're strictly dealing with something that has hard edges don't adjust your radius at all. But Radius is all about getting the fine detail to return. Now if I'm lucky, and I'm normally lucky if I increase my radius here and bring this value up I should start to see some detail come back here in the hair. Let's wait for it. It processing and thinking. There it is! See this value over here? Let's continue moving the Radius up. I'm going to move the Radius up and it's intelligently looking at the edges of the hair. And combining this.. Let's take it a little bit farther. There's a point, though, at which your hair will start to look good and you might get some fuzziness around the edges of the hard edges of your subject. But let's bring the Radius up let's adjust the Contract and Expand let's see if we can get a little bit more hair to appear here. Notice I'm selecting the Expand to expand the search radius a bit right down here. I don't think I want any feathering and I don't want any smoothing. What I think I want is a little bit of contrast. Let's try...That's the wrong way. A little bit of contrast to the right. Ah, some of the detail is starting to appear with a little bit more contrast. I'm getting a little bit more finer detail to the hair here. As I can see here. Let's do a little bit of an expand just to expand this a bit more. Ah, even better. So I'm starting to pull in some of the details around the hair. But, you know, I'm starting to now see some of this green fringe this green spill coming in. Let's solve that next and finish this all up. So once again, just to review make your adjustments here to your mask. Radius for detail with hair. Click OK. And to finish this all off I want to get rid of the deadly green fringe. And that's going to be done with yet one more tool here. Right here, this is my Adjustments panel tool here in CS4. I can target nondestructive adjustments. Check it out. I'm going to click on Hue and Saturation I'm going to zoom right in here to the offending problem of our hair. This green fringe right here. I'm going to use this new tool right here that allows me to target my adjustments directly here in Photoshop. Clicking on this tool Targeted Adjustments I can go right in here and I can click on the offending green. Then if I move to the left the green disappears. If I move to the right I saturate it. To the left I desaturate. And I can click on the different green values and start to desaturate that along the edge. Just like that. That's incredible, by the way. (whispering) This is cool! Targeted green spill removal. Wait, there's a little bit more green. I can target that. Double-click on our Hand tool to finish this all off. Great. We've got a great start to our silhouette our mask of our Samurai warrior. And in the next episode of the Russell Brown Show I'm going to take this and apply some lighting effects to this as we combine this with a poster. There it is. Green Screen Extraction. Here, from the Russell Brown Show. ♫ fast music playing ♫
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text: Processus vaginalis; Patent processus vaginalisA hydrocele is a fluid-filled sac in the scrotum.Hydroceles are common in newborn infants.During a baby's development in the womb, the testicles descend from the abdomen through a tube into the scrotum. Hydroceles occur when this tube does not close. Fluid drains from the abdomen through the open tube and gets trapped in the scrotum. This causes the scrotum to swell.Most hydroceles go away a few months after birth. Sometimes, a hydrocele may occur with an inguinal hernia.Hydroceles may also be caused by:Buildup of the normal fluid around the testicle. This may occur because the body makes too much of the fluid or it does not drain well. (This type of hydrocele is more common in older men.)Swelling or injury of the testicle or epididymis Symptoms The main symptom is a painless, round-oval shaped swollen testicle, which feels like a water balloon. A hydrocele may occur on one or both sides. However, the right side is more commonly involved. Exams and Tests You will have a physical exam. The health care provider will find that the scrotum is swollen, but not painful to the touch. Often, the testicle cannot be felt because of the fluid around it. The size of the fluid-filled sac can sometimes be increased and decreased by putting pressure on the abdomen or the scrotum.If the size of the fluid collection changes, it is more likely to be due to an inguinal hernia.Hydroceles can be easily seen by shining a flashlight through the swollen part of the scrotum. If the scrotum is full of clear fluid, the scrotum will light up.You may need an ultrasound or CT scan to confirm the diagnosis. Treatment Hydroceles are not harmful most of the time. They are treated only when they cause infection or discomfort.Hydroceles from an inguinal hernia should be fixed with surgery as soon as possible. Hydroceles that do not go away on their own after a few months may need surgery. A surgical procedure called a hydrocelectomy (removal of sac lining) is often done to correct the problem. Needle drainage does not work well because the fluid will come back. Outlook (Prognosis) Simple hydroceles in children often go away without surgery. In adults, hydroceles usually do not go away on their own. If surgery is needed, it is an easy procedure with very good outcomes. Possible Complications Risks from hydrocele surgery may include:Blood clotsInfectionInjury to the scrotumLoss of the testicleLong-term (chronic) painContinuous swelling When to Contact a Medical Professional Call your provider if you have symptoms of hydrocele. It is important to rule out other causes of a testicular lump.Pain in the scrotum or testicles is an emergency. If you have pain and your scrotum is enlarged, seek medical help right away to prevent the loss of the testicle.ReferencesAiken JJ, Oldham KT. Inguinal hernias. In: Kleigman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW, Schor NF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 20th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2016:chap 346.Elder JS. Disorders and anomalies of the scrotal contents. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW, Schor NF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 20th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2016:chap 545.Ferri FF. Hydrocele. In: Ferri FF, ed. Ferri's Clinical Advisor 2018. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2018:640-640.Germann CA, Holmes JA. Selected urologic disorders. In: Walls RM, Hockberger RS, Gausche-Hill M, eds. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 9th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2018:chap 89.Katz A, Richardson W. Surgery. In: Zitelli BJ, McIntire SC, Nowalk AJ, eds. Zitelli and Davis' Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis. 7th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2018:chap 18.Palmer LS, Palmer JS. Management of abnormalities of the external genitalia in boys. In: Wein AJ, Kavoussi LR, Partin AW, Peters CA, eds. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 11th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2016:chap 146.BACK TO TOP


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Courteney Cox and Josh Hopkins may play lovers on the small screen, but according to the actor, they are just friends in real life.
The 40-year-old "Cougar Town" star stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Monday and shot down rumors that he and his co-star were more than just friends, but did admit to understanding why some might have thought their relationship had a little more to it.
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"I would admit if I saw that somewhere, I would be like, 'Those two must be dating. They're in St. Barts,'" the hunky actor told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover when shown a photo showing the actor and his co-star vacationing together earlier this month. "I get it, I get that!"
Josh, who plays Grayson Ellis on the hit ABC comedy, broke down how he ended up in the islands with Courteney and her daughter Coco.
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"The way it happened, we were all getting ready to finish hiatus, [and I said,] 'I wanted to go to the beach,' she said, 'You should come with me to St. Barts.' I was like, 'Maybe, you know, I don't know,'" he explained. "And then the creator, Bill Lawrence, was like, 'If I'd go anywhere, I'd go to St. Barts.' Courteney heard it, I said, 'This sounds great. Let's do it' Plus, I'll get her access, I probably couldn't get into a restaurant in St. Barts, but with her, I was everywhere."
The actor said the media created a story out of the innocent trip.
"There was a lot of people with us, but [we're] the only ones you see, they just frame us two, so it's a story," he told Billy and Kit. "It's not true."
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Adding, "It's not like a terrible story to have out there. It's not like I'm so upset about it. I mean, she's really hot, but it's just not true."
"Cougar Town" returns tonight at 9:30 PM for a special Monday episode after "Dancing with the Stars" and also on Wednesday at 9:30 PM. Josh will also be seen on the big screen in "Lebanon, PA," opening on April 29 in select cities. CLICK HERE to find out where the movie is playing near you!
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Officer shoots, kills Germantown man suspected in armed robbery
Veteran officer placed on administrative duty
A Germantown man was shot by a Milwaukee police officer on the city's south side Saturday afternoon.
Milwaukee police said 28-year-old Daniel J. Kleinmann had met another man in the area of 17th and Layton streets just before 4 p.m. to sell him car parts.
According to the victim, Kleinmann was armed with a handgun and robbed the man who came to meet him, then drove away, crashing his car at 3rd Street and Tripoli.
Police said Officer Shawn Pecoraro, who was in full uniform and in a marked squad car, tracked the man down and tried to interview him. Police said that "during the encounter, the officer had reason to believe his life was in danger and he discharged his weapon, striking the suspect."
Police said Kleinmann was on probation and had been wanted on charges of felony escape and a probation violation.
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Barak Marshall's Monger. Photo by Gadi Dagon.
This summer has already been so packed with festivals and performances that I have barely had time to reflect, but I figured it's high time that I post an article I wrote at the end of Suzanne Dellal's Big Stage.
I've been to numerous festivals since moving to Israel, but the Big Stage stands head and shoulders above many others in my mind. There was something magical about the festival's outdoor setting, and each impressively large-scale performance brought its own theatrical marvels to the already enchanting space. Further adding to my enthusiasm about the festival was the dual reason for its existence: Tel Aviv's centennial and Suzanne Dellal's 20th anniversary. It's pretty hard to top that!
I first published the article below as "Big Performances" in the Forward on June 19, 2009. Read on to get a sense of what this spectacular festival was like – or to refresh your own memories of this momentous event.
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Big Performances
An eager crowd took its seats high above the Suzanne Dellal Center's plaza for the opening of the three-week festival Habama Hagdola — The Big Stage. Two majestic palm trees framed the large outdoor stage, and the center's main building provided a picturesque backdrop. A glance around revealed the impressive scenery of the first century of Tel Aviv: quaint red-roofed homes of the Neve Tzedek neighborhood overtaken within a few blocks by modern skyscrapers.
But it was the action onstage that captured the audience's gaze. Rooted in a wide stance, five women grabbed their heads and raised their arms in exasperation. Rocking vigorously in place, they performed a series of intricate gestures. Even the smallest motion — a lift of the hip, a tilt of the chin — was delivered with attitude. The movement grew, the pace quickened, and the tension built as five men approached the women.
This nuanced, lively dance — Barak Marshall's Monger — was only part of the excitement onstage. The popular band Balkan Beat Box lent its infectious rhythms and hypnotic vocals to the choreographic excerpts. As the dance and live music mixed, Marshall recounted, "the energy on the stage was explosive and surprising."


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Kenya's Prime Minister will be the first world leader to sign a ground-breaking Charter that would make deadly food crises like the one gripping East Africa a thing of the past.
The document, A Charter to End Extreme Hunger, will be launched on Saturday as heads of state and other delegates at the United Nations General Assembly in New York focus on the East Africa crisis.
The Charter outlines five key actions that governments of rich and poor countries should take to stop widespread starvation as a result of drought, high food prices and conflict.
Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga, whose country is suffering from the effects of the current crisis, will help launch the charter in New York on Saturday. He will sign the document and call on others to do so.
The launch will also be attended by campaigner Sir Bob Geldof and Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.
The Charter was drafted by a coalition of aid agencies and civil society groups who are asking for key commitments from world leaders to prevent future hunger disasters, while at the same time calling for the emergency response for East Africa to be properly funded and scaled up.
Fran Equiza, Oxfam's Regional Director for Horn, East and Central Africa said: "World leaders know what they have to do to prevent this level of suffering – now they must actually deliver. The Charter gives achievable solutions to extreme hunger so we're asking governments to act now for people suffering across East Africa."
ONE's Africa Director, Dr Sipho Moyo, said: "While drought is inevitable, there can be no excuse for letting people die of starvation. We have a collective responsibility to do whatever we can to end this untold suffering, and this responsibility falls most heavily on the shoulders of the world leaders in New York this week. They need to show the millions of people affected by this terrible crisis that they will not be forgotten."
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• Supporting local food production: Supporting local, small-scale farmers and livestock owners is one of the best ways to protect against hunger crises and mitigate against a changing climate and soaring food prices. Governments must make sure that local food producers are supported to protect against price and environmental shocks.
• Making food affordable: Spiralling food and oil prices have complicated the current crises, leaving thousands of people unable to afford basic foods. Governments must stockpile emergency food reserves and limit the use of food export bans to prevent spikes in food prices.
• Protecting the poorest and most vulnerable: Millions of people around the world are living on the edge of survival. Governments should build social safety nets and invest fairly to ensure the poorest sections of society enjoy the same protections and services as the richest.
• Reducing armed conflict: Violence is one of the principal causes of mass starvation. Governments must commit to allowing and providing access for humanitarian aid to regions where conflict is hampering development, and engage in vigorous diplomacy to help end conflict.
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When I read that the Westminster MA Conference Interpreting course had been shut down, I was struck dumb. Should I offer my condolences to all who had worked hard to make it a premier choice among post-grad interpreter training programs? Or should I feel vicariously relieved that a group of hard-working colleagues would no longer have to deal with bureaucrats incapable of grasping the import of what they were doing?


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Special shout-out to boys' soccer Player of the Year Renee Resendez, and Coach of the Year honors for Jory Shene, boys' soccer and Assistant Coach of the Year for Don Rutschman, football.
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Michael Abeyta
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Honorable Mention
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Grace Bliven
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Cooper Bousquet, Senior, Offensive Guard
Wyatt Smith, Senior, Quarterback
Cedric Agcaoili-Ostrom, Senior, Running Back
Colton Ramos, Senior, Kicker
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NHL Game Night: 10-26-13 Sabres at Lightning
Lightning end the home stand with another two points the hard way.
Ben Bishop allowed 2 goals on 22 shots for the victory.
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12:48 TB Johnson (3), (Filppula, Carle)(PP)
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15:55 TB Palat (3), (Johnson)
Ondrej Palat and Martin St. Louis were the game's first and second stars.
I Tweeted (I have one of those now) Friday night that beating teams like Chicago is nice, but it doesn't do you any good if you drop points to teams like Buffalo and Florida. The Lightning responded really well in terms of effort tonight, but ran into a quality, experienced, franchise goaltender in Ryan Miller, who made them work hard for their win. The First Period was a clinic, and most of the Third Period was, as well, but Miller had the forcefield up and denied numerous quality chances by the Lightning. The Sabres capitalized by taking advantage of some sloppiness by the Lightning in the Second Period and an ill-advised Radko Gudas forecheck in the Third Period coupled with a sleepy Stamkos backcheck to build a 2-1 lead late in the Third Period.
What you had to like is that Gudas and Stamkos made great plays to atone for their mistake, setting up St. Louis for the tying goal. And, then, Jon Cooper decides, "What the hey?" He puts Palat/Johnson/Panik back together and they reply by getting the winning goal.
14 points in the first 10 game segment of the season is 2 more than what I thought they needed to set pace. It's wonderful. It should prove to them, athletically, they're capable of competing at this level. But, being athletically good enough doesn't get you to the playoffs. To get to the playoffs, you've got to consistently master the grind of the season and churn out those points. You got the minimum 12 you needed in the first segment? Awesome. Now you've got to do it seven more times to get to the tournament. And, that challenge starts immediately in South Florida tomorrow.
Gudas had a helper, 2 hits, and 1 blocked shot in 16:11. Minutes were down a bit with the Lightning rotating 7 defenders.
Mark Barberio was +1 with 2 shots and 1 blocked shot in 12:03. In the offensive third he looked dangerous. In the defensive third he looked... also dangerous (in a bad way). I saw improvement tonight and I'd be less scared to put him out the next game than I was after the Boston opener. He can be a useful player for the Lightning if he can just develop into an average player in the defensive zone. He showed the offensive instincts tonight.
Tyler Johnson had 1 goal and 1 assist, 3 shots, 1 hit, and was 55% on draws in 21:09. I think that stat line and that ice time figure pretty much sums it up.
Alex Killorn played 17:33. I'm a little worried, given the nature of his game, that he's not getting shots although he's working very hard on the forecheck.
Palat had the game winning goal and was +1 with 4 shots and 3 hits in 15:25. He's magical with the puck. He's responsible without the puck. He's the straw that stirs the drink on whatever line he plays. You wonder if Cooper will start to creep his minutes up now that Palat seems to have his legs underneath him in the NHL.
Richard Panik had 4 shots and 1 hit in 13:39. He's become the man on PP2 in front of the net and showed good hands deflecting pucks all night. You get the sense his breakthrough could come at any time. I say, why not tomorrow?
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"geophf!" You exclaim, horrified, "you don't really use combinators to write working production code, do you?"
Well, yes, and I also proposed a new one in addition to the ones covered by Smullyan in To Mock a Mockingbird, and have studied the make-up of the "void" combinator of Unlambda, so I'm one of those kinds of programmers.
In short, when I was working with Prolog, I shoe-horned a Haskell interpreter into to be able to write map and fold when I wished to write map and fold. Since Prolog has DCGs (Definite Clause Grammars), I lived a monad-free and worry-free life. Ah, yes, those were the days.
That was quite a trip down memory lane. Looking back, I marvel at my fortune, not only have I professionally programmed in those languages (and VisualWorks Smalltalk; that was fun when I presented the boss a solution in two weeks that he was expecting in two months — he was so impressed that he bought the VisualWorks system for the contract, made me mentor a junior programmer on Smalltalk (Chris Choe, a good guy to work with), and had me teach a brown bag course at work on Smalltalk, but I digress, again), but it looks like Haskell is now part of our solution at my current place of work.
Life is good.
Of course, it would be so much better if I had access to the primitive combinators in Haskell (did Miranda allow that kind of low-level access, I wonder). I mean, why should one write out 'const', a whole FIVE characters, when one simply wishes to use the
K combinator. I felt that very pain all too recently. I had that freedom using my combinator library when I was working on Prolog ... goodness, even MITRE fabricated the Curry Chip.
So, I could not put it off any longer, I pulled out my dog-eared copy of Mockingbird and wrote the CL module, as I didn't see one in the Haskell standard library. It went surprisingly quickly and easily. There were a few snags, Prolog, being dynamically-typed, allowed me to define the reoccuring combinators of
M, and
U (definitions of the combinators are available in my combinator library or tabled form or as graphical notation (which includes a very nice write up of propositional logic in CL)), but Haskell's type system complains of an occur-check error. I have the hack to define the
Y combinator ...
fix f = let x = f x in x
... but I'm having difficulty hacking the other self-applying combinators; any suggestions on how to implement those? I'm particularly interested in implementing Turings' universal combinator ...
Uxy = y(xxy)
... because of its interesting properties I'd like to explore.
Anyway, here's the ones I do have.
> module Smullyan where
It was pointed out to me in the comments that if you make the ((->) a) type a Monad, then some of the combinators simplify to monadic operators.
> import Monad
> import Control.Monad.Instances
These are some of the combinators presented in Smullyan's To Mock a Mockingbird. Some have direct Haskell equivalents, e.g.:
I ≡ id,
K ≡ const,
C ≡ flip,
(.), but then that just makes my job easier here. I also admit a preference to the Schönfinkel combinators over the renamed Haskell equivalents, so here is the library.
We will not be defining combinators here that cause an occurs-check of the type system, e.g.
U, but we can define some interesting ones, such as
O and
Y by using work-arounds.
If we wish to start with λI, then its basis is formed from the
J and
I combinators.
> -- identity (I have no idea to which species belongs the 'identity' bird)
> i :: a -> a
> i = id
> -- jay: jabcd = ab(adc)
> j :: (a -> b -> b) -> a -> b -> a -> b
> j a b c d = a b (a d c)
I actually spent quite a stretch of time building the other combinators from the JI-basis, e.g., the
T combinator is
JII, the
Q1 combinator is
JI, etc. When I attempted to define the
K combinator, I ran into a brick wall for some time, until I reread the section in Mockingbird about how the noble basis has no way to define that abhorred combinator. Since that time I've fallen from grace and have used λK, but I've always wondered since if a complete logic could be reasonably expressed in λI, and if so, how would that logic be implemented? I haven't come across any papers that address these questions.
Musing again, let's define the basis of λK which is founded on the
S and
K combinators.
> -- starling: sfgx = fx(gx)
> s :: Monad m ⇒ m (a → b) → m a → m b
> s = ap
> -- kestrel: kab = a
> k :: a -> b -> a
> k = const
... okay, that wasn't too hard, so,
SKK should be
I, right?
--- :t (s k k) :: a -> a ... oh, yeah!
let's continue with some of the other combinators:
> -- bluebird: bfgx = f(gx)
> b :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c
> b = (.)
> -- cardinal: cfgx = gfx
> c :: (a -> b -> c) -> b -> a -> c
> c = flip
Now we start defining combinators in terms of simpler combinators. Although, we could have started doing that once we've defined
S and
K, as all other combinators can be derived from those two.
> -- dove: dfghx = fg(hx)
> d :: (d -> b -> c) -> d -> (a -> b) -> a -> c
> d = b b
> -- thrush: txf = fx
> t :: a -> (a -> b) -> b
> t = c i
> -- vireo (pairing/list): vabf = fab
> -- e.g. v 1 [2] (:) -> [1,2]
> v :: a -> b -> (a -> b -> b) -> b
> v = b c t
> -- robin: rxfy = fyx
> r :: a -> (b -> a -> c) -> b -> c
> r = b b t
> -- owl: ofg = g(fg)
> o :: ((a -> b) -> a) -> (a -> b) -> b
> o = s i
> -- queer: qfgx = g(fx)
> q :: (a -> b) -> (b -> c) -> a -> c
> q = c b
-- mockingbird: mf = ff
m = s i i
... ah, well, it was worth a try ...
> -- warbler: wfx = fxx
> w :: Monad m ⇒ m (m a) → m a
> w = join
> -- eagle: eabcde = ab(cde)
> e :: (a -> b -> c) -> a -> (d -> e -> b) -> d -> e -> c
> e = b (b b b)
With the above definitions, we can now type-check that my
JI-basis is correct: the type of
I already checks, and the type of
J should be equivalent to
:t (b (b c) (w (b c e)))
(b (b c) (w (b c e))) :: (d -> e -> e) -> d -> e -> d -> e
and it is ... yay!
-- lark (ascending): lfg = f(gg)
l = ((s ((s (k s)) k)) (k (s i i)))
l :: (a -> b) -> (c -> a) -> b
a b = a (b b)
... ah, well, another one bites the dust ...
but we can define
Y, albeit with a let-trick, thanks to Dirk Thierbach, responding to the thread "State Monad Style" on comp.lang.haskell:
> fix :: (a -> a) -> a
> fix f = let x = f x in x
> -- sage/why: yf = f(yf)
> y :: (a -> a) -> a
> y = fix
So, there you go, 15 combinators to get you started; now you can program a functionally pure and mathematically sound version of Unlambda (which exists and is called Lazy-K, by the way) using your very own Haskell system.
After all, why should someone ever be forced to write
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He's gone. So, now what?
How do those who clogged the streets of Egypt on Wednesday wanting so desperately to oust Mohamed Morsy, the now-deposed president of Egypt, feel about the future now it appears to be wide open?
Violence erupts in Egypt
Earlier this week, CNN spoke to four protesters about their hopes, demands and expectations, from a veteran demonstrator in Cairo who has marched in crowds since the beginning of Egypt's revolution in 2011 to a first-time protester in the port city of Alexandria.
We spoke to them again Friday about how they felt when Morsy was toppled, their thoughts on what should happen next and their concerns for the future of a country they are fighting so hard to change. This is what they had to say:
Ahmed Raafat
I was at Tahrir Square during the announcement of the army's statement. [The] square exploded with joy once protesters knew that Morsy was no longer the president. People were singing, chanting, singing and waving Egyptian flags. Fireworks were all over the square. Military helicopters flew over the square for hours.
I was happy that Morsy was toppled, but I was concerned, too. The fact that the army is back on the political scene makes me worry. The road map is what we have been calling for since [former Egyptian president] Mubarak's ousting. I wish Morsy had called for early presidential elections and saved the whole situation.
The situation is very complicated and, to be honest, I'm not sure if the army's intervention was the right thing to do. I would personally prefer that we achieve our goals and demands without any interference from the military.
There's a strong debate on whether what happened was a coup or a revolution. I think the military sided with the people after [they] took to the streets. Egyptians prefer to call it a revolution.
Those in power [now] should stick to the demands of the people. They should return Egypt to civilian rule as soon as possible. They should respect human rights and apply the law fairly without any extraordinary measures. They should keep the transitional period as short as possible.
[The] people must keep a close watch on those in power and take action if there's any deviation from their demands and goals.
Mohamed Boraie
It was such an interesting day. I went to [Tahrir] Square around 4 p.m., as I wanted to see how people would react to the speech. People started shaking hands and celebrating after hearing [the] news [of] Morsy's ousting. I sat down in a corner of the square and observed people celebrating and tried to capture it on camera.
The army acted very quickly to meet the increasing demands of the protesters to protect the country from slipping into violence and civil war between pro- and anti-Morsy protesters.
The army ... is very keen to make sure that their interests are protected before the country becomes uncontrollable. This army made it clear, by choosing a civilian to lead the interim process ... that the masses of people would not revolt back at the army as before.
It is sad to see Morsy destroy the political future of the Muslim Brotherhood [Islamist movement backing Morsy that rose to power after the fall of Mubarak] by sticking to power and not allowing a smooth transition. The Brotherhood has a great grassroots structure that should be utilized to build Egypt.
Those in power now should focus on economic reform to reach the demands of the lower income brackets. Also, education and gender equality should be a priority to empower youth and women -- two factors any economy depends on to progress.
Maged Eskander
We have finally relaxed now this bad group [of rulers] has finally ended [their time in power] -- my wife told me it's the same feeling you have after cleaning your house.
All the army's [actions] until now are great, [they've not made] a single mistake. They learned a big lesson from January 25, 2011, [when the Egyptian revolution began]. They just protected the people's demands and put the country on the right track.
Morsy should step back, and face legal matters if there any [and] we [will] steadily build our country. We should write a good constitution that fulfills all Egyptians, [have] elections and select a capable government.
The people can do a lot to support their leaders -- they just need a guide, and the people will do miracles.
Marwan Osman
I was following the news from home in front of the television and on my laptop on social networks, along with my family. When the news was announced -- it was like Egypt had just won the World Cup in soccer. Everyone was happy and my parents cried from joy. [People in] cars in the street began cheering for the news.
I'm one of the people who does not want the army to rule the country, so the interim president is the most suitable solution to avoid having the army ruling.
Nothing should happen to Morsy. He should be free to live wherever he wants and however he wants. Whoever is in power now should prepare fast for presidential elections and complete the transitional period as early as possible.
The people should observe the progress done [so far] -- and protest again if something goes wrong against their will.


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While INMI supports those with mental illnesses and their families, the organization also serves as an advocate for healthy mental support for people of all backgrounds and abilities.
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Participants can walk the labyrinth, sit in silent contemplation and choose an Angel Quality — characteristics such as compassion, grace and gratitude, which some New Age or other spiritual groups consider to be positive aspects — to celebrate the year ahead.
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This is my post/message Number 23!! :D
Discuss this movie. Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
Lol. Seriously though, I DARE everyone, in the faith of Jim, to see any number or whatever down the street... and see if it adds up to the number 23 85% of the time I think it probebly would lol if not 100%
Okey guys! Look at that
Name: George Guimerá Valladares (23letters)
Age: 23
Birthdate: 10/01/1983 (1+1+1+9+8+3= 23)
Studies: Comunicación Audiovisual (23 letters)
I live in: Paseo Juan XXIII, Room 623
My girlfriend birthday 11 December (11+12=23)
This is my end... f$%cking number 23... today I got 323 mails on my e-mail... In two days I can´t stop watching the number 23 everywhere. Now I can understand to Jim and Sparrow...
it's ture! the number 23 IS everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
everyone's thought it through and found it out for them selves! some people are going crazy here! everyone has this # in them if you listened to that clip in the movie!
It's coming after us!!!!!!!!!!
::gets up and runs into the glass door... falls...dead now....bye::
"No time outs. Only DEATH!"
"I don't like to brag and I won't cuz I don't have to!"
Sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night thinking that the number 23 may be under my bed, waiting for me!
Since I know about the number 23 it's all over my life ... I see the number everywhere these days. And why? Because I want to see it. If the title of the movie was numer 12 I would notice 12 everywhere, just because it's the number in my head.
12 is an easier number, 23 is just divisible for itself.. not so easy to be in reality and there it is, did you see my other post it´s really interesting!! You are in truth but.. what the hell is happening to me? it´s a non stop!!!
I was suppose to be born today or a few days later
but my sister was getting married and they wanted me born
before the wedding, so I was born earlier.
Remember today is Rememberance Day!
it's true you remember whatever the number is in question....it's all a matter of mind games. plus you have to remember that the higher the number, the more ways there will be to make it work out by combining other numbers, adding them, etc.....it's all a big mind trick on yourself.
Jim scarrey!!!
anyone notice that the bookshops notice board is 599, i cant wait for this film
the number 23 came up 4 times in "Stranger Than Fiction" which i just went to see! It really makes you think!
"No time outs. Only DEATH!"
"I don't like to brag and I won't cuz I don't have to!"
Yeah I posted that on the first page
Lol see it's wierd isn't it???
I wonder if theres anymore pictures of the number 23, im really dying for some right now
Ever since I heard that Jim likes 23 cause its everywhere, I look everywhere to find 23, and it is everywhere! I just look around and there it is.
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it has been a heck of a few weeks. I have been at work for three weeks straight, including saturdays and sundays, while battling death-flu and dealing with people who are great believers in admitting mistakes and moving on, as long as it isn't them that has to do it. I was housesitting, and actually had to organise another housesitter WHILE I WAS LIVING THERE as working 16 hour days is not very conducive to taking care of pets. And to bring me flu-meds.
Anyway I found these today:
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They made me a little teary, that's for sure... I miss Calvin and Hobbes, thinking of looking to get all of the books at some point, it will be good to read them again.


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U.S. experiences its warmest Spring on record
June 9, 2012
CLIMATE – The continental United States experienced the warmest spring on record this year, with temperatures far above the average over the past century, government scientists said Thursday. The United States, excluding Alaska, Hawaii and overseas territories, had an average temperature of 57.1 degrees Fahrenheit (13.9 Celsius) from March through May, 5.2 degrees (2.9 Celsius) above the average from 1901 to 2000, the data showed. "Spring 2012 marked the largest temperature departure from average of any season on record for the contiguous United States," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a statement. This year's spring was up 2.0 degrees (1.1 Celsius) from the previous warmest spring in the United States which was recorded in 1910, the agency said. The year from June 2011 through May also marked the warmest 12-month period on record after a hot summer and warmer winter. The average temperature was 3.2 degrees (1.8 Celsius) above average, the agency said. In terms of monthly figures, the United States experienced the warmest March, the third warmest April and the second warmest May, the agency said. Scientists have repeatedly warned that emissions of greenhouse gases, largely through industrial activity, are heating up the planet and could spell serious long-term problems, including the extinction of plant and animal species and the flooding of low-lying islands. UN-led efforts for a new global climate agreement have moved slowly. Climate change remains a controversial topic in the United States, with many prominent members of the Republican Party casting doubt on the science. –Terra Daily