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Marijuana Legalization Bill Clears Another Major Hurdle In New Hampshire
New Hampshire got one step closer to legalizing marijuana on Wednesday after a key committee approved a bill to tax and regulate cannabis sales.
The House Ways and Means Committee passed the legislation in a 14-6 vote, meaning the legislation will go back to the chamber's floor for another vote there and then onto the Senate. The bill was referred to the committee after the full House initially approved it last month.
The proposal would allow adults 21 and older to possess, consume, cultivate, gift and purchase marijuana from licensed retailers. A governor-appointed commission would be tasked with developing regulatory policies and issuing the licenses.
Individuals with prior convictions for possessing or growing cannabis would be able to get their records cleared under the bill.
Previous attempts to legalize marijuana in New Hampshire have stalled in the Ways and Means committee, including last year when a noncommercial legalization bill was sent there to die after being approved on the House floor. The successful passage of a broader legalization bill that allows retail sales through that same committee this year is significant.
"This is a major step forward and suggests support and momentum are growing in the legislature," Matt Simon, New England political director for the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a press release. "In previous years, this committee's negative recommendations turned out to be death sentences for legalization bills that had initially received approval from the full House. This time around, it has given its blessing to a proposal that received record-high support."
"It's time for the House to approve HB 481 and send it over to the Senate," he said.
The legislation calls for retail cannabis sales to be taxed at nine percent, while wholesale marijuana would be taxed at five percent. Medical cannabis would not be taxed.
Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has said he plans to veto cannabis legalization if it gets on his desk, but House Speaker Steve Shurtleff (D) feels there's enough support in his chamber to override a veto, and that could also be the case for the Senate.
"There is a growing sentiment that prohibition is not working and that legalization is inevitable, both in New Hampshire and the surrounding region," Simon said. "With HB 481, lawmakers have developed a sensible path forward for the state. This was evidenced by the strong majority support we saw during the initial House vote, and it was confirmed by the committee's about-face compared to previous years."
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Tulsi Gabbard Talks CBD For Military Members, Biden's Legalization Opposition And Congressional Retirement
Over her eight years in Congress, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) quickly established herself as a leading advocate for marijuana and hemp reform by introducing numerous pieces of cannabis legislation and actively working to build bipartisan support around the issue.
And while the congresswoman will be retiring after this session, she's made clear she plans to keep pushing legislative reform until her last day on Capitol Hill—and beyond. Last month, for example, she filed an amendment to allow military service members to use hemp-derived CBD at a time when multiple branches are expanding their ban. The House approved the measure, and now it remains to be seen if it can survive bicameral negotiations with the Senate.
A military veteran herself, Gabbard says the non-intoxicating cannabinoid represents a promising alternative treatment for those on the front lines and argued, contrary to military leaders, that it can actually improve readiness. And while it remains to be seen whether her measure will make it to the president's desk, she says moving leadership in that direction will be a priority in the weeks ahead.
Marijuana Moment caught up with the congresswoman, who made legalization a centerpiece of her 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, in a phone interview. She discussed her amendment, the evolving politics of cannabis reform, former presidential primary opponent Joe Biden's opposition to marijuana legalization and more.
Marijuana Moment's Patreon supporters can listen to the audio recording of our conversation with Gabbard. In addition to the topics covered in this publicly available writeup of the interview, the congresswoman also talks about whether she has plans to join the cannabis industry after leaving Congress and reacts to the Democratic National Committee's refusal to endorse legalization.
The exclusive audio clip is available for supporters who help make our cannabis journalism possible with monthly pledges of $10 or more.
This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
Marijuana Moment: I wanted to start by asking about your CBD amendment. What motivated that, and have you heard from service members about the need for this legislation?
Tulsi Gabbard: I have, and it really came about as a result of the changes that were included in the 2018 Farm Bill that really opened a lot of doors of opportunity for more research and more products to come into the market that can help people with day-to-day ailments that, as a service member, I'm very well aware are common occurrences.
Being able to have other options of alternative forms of treatment other than, 'Hey, just take another Motrin or prescription drug X, Y or Z' is something that can actually increase our service members' health and wellbeing and, ultimately, their readiness to be able to do their job.
MM: It was interesting to see just days after the House approved the measure, the Navy announced it was expanding its CBD ban, prohibiting members from using even products like hemp-infused shampoos and conditioners. What do you make of that?
TG: It seemed really strange and, frankly, almost silly. I don't know what instigated that change, and I'm not going to make any assumptions. But, you know, it just speaks, to me, a very backward way of viewing these products and the changes that are being made in both state and federal law as it relates to CBD and hemp products.
MM: Do you have any thoughts about the prospects of advancing the amendment through the House-Senate conference committee? Are you talking to leadership about that process?
TG: It's something we're working on currently. I think it's too early to say, but conference can be a place where great things go to die unfortunately so we're trying to do as much work as we can, both with senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee—those who anticipate being in the conference committee—as well as the leadership to make sure that this and a few other key amendments that we included in the House bill actually stay in the bill.
MM: Looking back at your time in Congress, what would you say about the way its evolved on this issue?
TG: It has been interesting over my eight years in Congress to see how this issue at the very beginning of my first term in office was something that, you know, you could tell the people who were for and against. It was mostly partisan, but also just based on people saying things like, "I don't want my kids to smoke pot" and therefore voting against any legislation that had anything to do with whether it was decriminalization as a whole or taking it off the [Controlled Substances Act] or even saying, "Hey, for states where it's legal, we should allow people to use our banking system."
But it's changed, I feel, too slowly, but it is changing over the years to where we've built support, as we saw even recently in some amendments to the appropriations bill to people who are saying, "Hey look, this is a states' right issue." Those who may have been opposed traditionally are recognizing that, in states where this is legal, we should be supporting the state's decision in that. And frankly, others who, whether through personal experience or through actually doing research, are seeing that there just are so many fear-based myths that have perpetuated opposition, where there's actually some incredible game-changing research being done both from a medical perspective as well as from an economic opportunity perspective, as we've seen in Kentucky obviously.
This is something that we should support more of the exploration of and the introduction into our everyday commerce and lives.
MM: Speaking of Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-CA) and other Republicans recently criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over her defense of including cannabis banking language in your chamber's latest COVID-19 relief bill. They argue it's not germane. Do you feel its a relevant provision for this legislation?
TG: I think it's relevant because, from the data I've seen, the numbers of people who've been going to their local dispensary has dramatically increased in the midst of this pandemic. By continuing to disallow anyone associated with these industries that states have deemed legal is further perpetuating serious problems and uncertainty during time when, frankly, we need as much certainty as we can get.
Marijuana Moment asked Gabbard about whether she has plans to work in the marijuana industry following her retirement from Congress early next year, as other lawmakers have done. She also reacted to the Democratic National Committee's rejection of a cannabis legalization platform plank.
The congresswoman's answers to those questions, and the full audio of our interview, are available exclusively for Marijuana Moment supporters pledging at least $10/month on Patreon.
MM: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden remains opposed to legalizing marijuana. What message would you send to the former vice president about the importance of embracing the policy change?
TG: I would speak from personal experience—just the more information that I've learned, the more research that I have done, it shows how, number one, outdated our laws are as it relates to cannabis in particular and how much opportunity there is, again from a medical perspective as well as from an economic perspective, especially related to hemp, which is you know why I introduced the Hemp For Victory Act. There's tremendous opportunity available. I would urge him to examine this information with the hopes that, with information, he would be willing to reconsider his position.
MM: A staffer to a committee chair told us recently that there are plans in the work to put House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler's (D-NY) marijuana legalization bill on the floor for a vote in September. Have you heard anything about that?
TG: I have not, about the scheduling of it. I know that the chairman has been very committed to moving this forward and that we knew from the beginning that of any cannabis-related legislation, it would likely be something like this that would have the greatest chance of actually getting a vote on the House floor. So I'm hopeful.
MM: Are you optimistic about the prospect of legalization advancing in your state of Hawaii in the near future?
TG: I don't know is the honest answer to that. This just shows that cannabis legislation is not limited to party lines because we've got a very strong Democratic legislature here in the state, obviously a Democratic governor, but there have been very strange responses, in my opinion, to some of the cannabis-related legislation. So it remains to be seen.
Just to add to that, one example that continues to perplex me is the data very clearly shown how, in states where there is some form of legal cannabis use in place, medicinal or otherwise, a direct correlation with the reduction of opioid addiction and opioid-related deaths. That's an indisputable fact. However, even with bipartisan support, bicameral support, in the passage of legislation that would make opioid addiction eligible for medicinal marijuana use in our state, that bill was vetoed by our Democratic governor, claiming a lack of evidence and information and stating that, if proponents want to push this, they should go through the Department of Health bureaucracy to do so.
Things like that, frankly, scientifically it makes no sense. And in the way of people in a state like ours where just under, I think last time I checked, just under like 500,000 active opioid prescriptions in a state with a population of about 1.3 million people. There's clearly an issue here, and by providing this, you give people an alternative form of treatment.
MM: Looking back at your eight years in Congress, what are you most proud of in terms of advancing cannabis reform?
TG: You know, I've introduced a number of pieces of legislation, amendments, provisions in larger bills throughout my time in Congress, and I appreciate having played a role in helping to build bipartisan support for some of the changes that we've actually seen take place.
It may sound like, "Well, that's not much," but when you work in a place where too many members of Congress on both sides of the aisle are unwilling to have real dialogue and conversations with one another purely because of prejudging them based on their partisan affiliation, this is exactly the only way how we'll actually make change around these and other important issues that impact all Americans, not just those of one party or another.
MM: Is there anything else you want to add?
What's going to be interesting is whether the Pentagon, obviously, whether officially or unofficially weighs in on [the NDAA CBD and hemp amendment]. That is going to be an issue of contention with that. We'll see.
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Texas Lawsuit Challenges State's New Ban On Smokable Hemp
Four Texas companies are suing to overturn the state's new ban on the manufacture and sale of smokable hemp products, which they warn will shut Texas companies out of a multibillion-dollar industry and lead to inaccurately labeled products on store shelves.
In a lawsuit filed in Travis County District Court on Wednesday, the companies are asking a judge to declare the ban unconstitutional and allow hemp products intended for smoking or vaping to be produced and sold legally across the state.
"At a time when the Texas economy is reeling from the fiscal impact of COVID-19, it is unfortunate that the State chose to foreclose such a large economic opportunity for our state and instead chose to force long-standing Texas businesses and jobs across the border to neighboring states, such as Oklahoma," said attorney Chelsie Spencer, counsel for lead plaintiff Crown Distributing LLC.
"Crown Distributing, which manufactures the popular Wild Hemp brand of smokable products, stands to lose $59.6 million in revenue over the next five years if the bans are upheld," Spencer told Marijuana Moment in an email. "The state of Texas stands to lose $2.9 million in sales tax revenue alone."
Texas legalized hemp in 2019, in large part to capture a piece of an industry that is booming following the federal legalization of the crop through the 2018 Farm Bill. Hemp, a category of cannabis that contains less than 0.3 percent THC, has a variety of uses: Its seeds are a nutritious food source, its fibrous stalks can be made into textiles or building materials and its flowers can produce a variety of cannabinoids, most notably cannabidiol (CBD).
Texas's hemp law as passed by the legislature specifically prohibited the manufacture of hemp products intended for smoking or vaping, though it left open the door for selling products made out of state. But a year later, regulators at the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) issued rules extending that ban to forbid the retail sale of any smokable hemp products. That restriction took effect on Sunday.
Plaintiffs in the lawsuit argue that both those provisions should be overturned. The state legislature's ban on processing and manufacturing smokable products violated the state constitution's protection of economic freedom, they say, while DSHS lacked the authority to extend lawmakers' ban to include retail sales.
"DSHS characterizes banning distribution and retail as 'a logical extension' of banning manufacturing," the lawsuit says. "But even if this were true (it is not), agencies have no authority to enact rules that they deem to be a 'logical extension' of law."
Cannabis advocates in the state agree, calling the change a regulatory overreach.
"Hemp regulators are over-stepping their authority and encroaching on the economic liberty of Texas business owners," Heather Fazio, director of Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy, told Marijuana Moment. "It's absurd to forbid the in-state sale of products that are completely legal in Texas and across the country. Consumers can simply make their purchases online and have it shipped, legally. Cutting local entrepreneurs out of this thriving market is bad for business and bad for Texas."
Joining in the lawsuit are America Juice Co. LLC, a Crown affiliate that also manufacturers smokable products; Custom Botanical Dispensary LLC, an Austin-based retailer that sells smokable hemp products; and 1937 Apothecary, also based in Austin, which makes and sells consumable hemp products including tea, smokables and gummies.
"If allowed to move forward, these bans on smokable hemp products will shutter businesses across the state, resulting in a loss of jobs and tax revenue," the companies said in their complaint. "They impede the economic liberty of Texas businesses, pose an existential threat to Texas hemp manufacturers, farmers, and retailers, and are sure to stifle growth of a budding Texas industry."
As for the ban on producing and manufacturing smokable hemp products, the companies say it violates the state constitution's protections against arbitrary economic restrictions.
"There is no plausible law enforcement benefit from banning the Texas manufacture and processing of smokable hemp products," the lawsuit argues. "Imposing an arbitrary constraint here is particularly perverse because the law does not ban the use or consumption of smokable hemp products. As such, Texas consumers will simply buy smokable products made out-of-state."
"Stated differently," it continues, "if Texas had banned the processing and manufacture of cheese in Texas, Texans wouldn't stop eating cheese."
Banning in-state sales are also problematic from a practical standpoint, the lawsuit argues. Because smokable hemp flower is indistinguishable from hemp flower intended to be used for other purposes, the companies argue, marketers will be encouraged to mislabel products in efforts to skirt the ban.
"The retail ban—especially in view of DSHS's public comments—has no more logic to it than the ban on processing and manufacturing smokables," the lawsuit says. "Texans can still purchase and use smokable hemp products manufactured out-of-state. Texans can also purchase hemp that is not labeled or marketed 'for smoking'—for example, hemp marketed as 'tea'—and they can use that hemp to make their own smokables or with the vaporizing devices shown above. If anything, the Rule and DSHS commentary encourages Texas farmers and retailers to mislabel hemp flower so that consumers will still be able to purchase hemp flower grown in Texas."
While Texas's legalization of hemp last year was met with considerable fanfare, its rollout has been bumpy. In addition to industry frustration over bans on smokables, legalization has also sparked unintentional disruptions in marijuana enforcement across the state.
Because hemp—whether as flower or vape liquid—is virtually indistinguishable from marijuana without testing, law enforcement agencies across the state say they're now unable to bring sound criminal cases without analyzing seized cannabis for THC. Facing backlogs and high costs of private labs, prosecutors have dropped hundreds of low-level cases. The situation has led to a patchwork of marijuana enforcement policies across the state and uncertainty for consumers, who still risk arrest for hemp products that are perfectly legal.
In February, state officials announced a crucial caveat to a long-awaited test to help determine whether samples were hemp or marijuana: State labs wouldn't perform testing in misdemeanor cases. The Texas Department of Public Safety "will not have the capacity to accept those," a letter from Director Steve McCraw said.
In the meantime, Texas hemp companies that once saw the state as a business-friendly environment are considering whether to set up shop elsewhere. The new lawsuit says that Crown is already weighing a move to Oklahoma, citing concerns of more than $50 million in lost revenue during the next five years and as many as 60 lost jobs.
It's not just about profits, the companies insist. "To the extent the Legislative Ban purports to address law enforcement concerns or health related concerns," they argue, "it does nothing."
"The Legislative Ban cannot rationally be understood to reduce the prevalence of smokable hemp in Texas. On the contrary, it works against promoting safe and effective products for consumers," the lawsuit says. "Rather than keeping the manufacture and processing of smokable hemp products in-state, the products will be manufactured and processed out-of-state and shipped into Texas outside its full regulatory reach for consumer safety. The state of Texas will have little to no regulatory oversight over these products."
Read the full lawsuit challenging Texas's ban on smokable hemp below:
Texas Smokable Hemp Lawsuit by Marijuana Moment on Scribd
Texas Marijuana Prosecutions Have Dropped By More Than Half Following Hemp's Legalization
Vermont Will Advance Marijuana Sales Legalization Bill Within Weeks, House Speaker's Office Says
A bill to legalize marijuana sales in Vermont is set to advance during a special session this month or next, a top lawmaker's office confirmed to Marijuana Moment on Wednesday.
While Vermont legalized cannabis possession of up to one ounce and cultivation of two plants in 2018, there is currently no regulatory system in place that allows for retail sales. A bill to establish that program, S. 54, cleared both the House and Senate in differing forms, but now it must move through a bicameral conference committee charged with reconciling the versions into a single proposal to send to the governor.
The panel was appointed in March but has not met yet. Advocates have grown frustrated over the delay, questioning when the committee will be authorized to convene.
"S.54 is currently in a committee of conference and we expect that committee to meet during the August/September legislative session," the chief of staff to House Speaker Mitzi Johnson (D) told Marijuana Moment in an email. "That's consistent with what the leader said during a June telephone town hall, where she said they were 'aiming to get in passed in August.'"
Asked about minutes from a recent Vermont Department of Health Substance Misuse Prevention Oversight and Advisory Council meeting—in which participants said the tax-and-regulate legislation "is not currently slated to be discussed in this special session"—the staffer said "I do not see anyone who speaks for the legislature listed as attending the meeting, nor do I see that opinion credited to a person."
"I'm really not sure why that was said or where that information came from," she said.
Marijuana Moment reached out to the Health Department for clarification, but a representative was not immediately available.
Johnson has repeatedly said that the legislature will get around to moving the cannabis commerce bill this year, but she said in May that she felt lawmakers and the administration are appropriately focused on responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
In terms of the economic impact of the health crisis, it stands to reason that taxing and regulating marijuana could represent one method of generating needed revenue. According to a new analysis from Vicente Sederberg LLP, the state could take in more than $175 million in cannabis revenue through 2025 if it allows sales starting 2021.
Dave Silberman, a pro bono drug policy reform advocate and candidate for the elected office of high bailiff in Addison County, told Marijuana Moment that beyond that revenue, "an adult-use cannabis market will provide an economic lifeline to thousands of Vermonters by creating new, well-paying jobs that support our rural economy."
"Continued foot-dragging on this bill, which has passed both chambers by overwhelming margins and which could be quickly reconciled by legislators acting in good faith, makes no sense," he said. "Creating a well-regulated cannabis economy should be a centerpiece of our statewide COVID recovery plans, instead of the afterthought that House leadership has so far made it out to be."
Matt Simon, New England political director for the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a press release about the new economic analysis that "Vermonters overwhelmingly supported the effort to regulate cannabis sales prior to COVID-19, and the sense of urgency has only increased in light of the economic downturn."
"It's time for advocates to stand together and support legislators as they determine the best path forward for the state," he said.
One potential complication down the line concerns Gov. Phil Scott (R), who reluctantly signed the earlier noncommercial legalization bill into law and has voiced concerns with adding legal sales to the mix.
In particular, he is worried about road safety issues. However, top lawmakers and an administration official indicated earlier this year that the governor is "at the table" in discussions about the current legislation and would be open to using cannabis tax revenue to fund an after-school program he's pushing.
As the tax-and-regulate bill awaits conference committee action, the Senate approved a bill in June that would double the amount of marijuana that can be possessed and grown without the threat of jail time.
DEA Reveals Details Of Investigation Into California Marijuana Companies With Latest Court Filing
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Just some random twitter pics and instagrams peaking my curiosity today. Not that they mean anything, but, hey, just a small 'just in case'…especially for the future. Yes, I'm desperate, but, they are cool pics never the less, right?
First up, Gleb Savchenko gives Carly Steel an Argentinian Tango lesson. Why? Not sure, but, wouldn't she be a cool get for Dancing With The Stars now or in the future ….and with Gleb?!
Next, Karina posted this instagram saying, "Well, now that we know @ShemarfMoore can do lifts, who wants to see him on the next season of @dancingabc ?". Mmmm yes, Karina. A Hot "young and the restless" thought in fact!! 😀
Lastly, our beautiful Sharna Burgess posted this instagram last night with the quote: @celebrityblackcardllc at our @dancingabc gifting suite last season! Looking forward to an amazing season 19!!! #dwts Hmmmm….this is killing me softly, but, it's ok. ADDING: and speaking of Sharna, is it not awesome Charlie White and Meryl Davis asked her to choreograph a new ice routine for them?! Like when they asked Derek, they know talent when they see it, don't they?!
So, have you seen anything out there peaking your curiosity? If so, tell us in comments and let us know what you think as always.

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Newscasters Reenact Final Four Moments Rather Than Wait For Game Highlight Rights To Clear
from the much-more-enjoyable-than-defending-fair-use-in-court dept
Pervasive and extensive copyright law is damage. Route around it. This team of newcasters did (even though it really didn't need to), resulting in something much more entertaining than the content being withheld.
WCJB TV20 in Gainesville, Fla., couldn't legally show highlights of the University of Florida Gators' win over the University of Dayton on March 29. Instead of waiting for footage rights to recap the game, sports anchor Zach Aldridge recruited his coworkers to recreate the game's biggest moments in an office conference room.Here are the highlights, as recreated using only classically-trained newscasters, a small hoop and a ball. Even the game-ending tears of a Florida Gators player are reenacted for posterity.
In his introduction, Aldridge claims the station would be unable to play the highlights until the following day unless it "broke a whole bunch of laws." Clearly, the use of highlight clips would be covered under fair use (hello, criticism, commentary and NEWS REPORTING).
But you know what? Screw the restrictive IP climate that surrounds every major sporting event. Why play by those rules? Route around it while highlighting the restrictive stupidity that prevents you from showing viewers what they came to watch. Have that clip go viral (388,000 views and counting), rather than the NCAA-approved clips handed out to local broadcasters like gifts from a begrudging God.
I guess this is what maximalists mean when they say strict IP enforcement encourages creativity and innovation.
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Books and Bucks came together at the Milwaukee Public Library Monday afternoon as the team kicked off its annual library reading challenge.
"When I was a kid, my favorite book was 'Goodnight Moon.' I used to read that every night before I went to bed. My parents read it to me, and now I read it to my kids," Milwaukee Bucks guard Mike Dunleavy said.
Dunleavy and Bucks forward John Henson met with kids from Bruce Guadalupe and Roosevelt schools to kick off Read to Achieve, a reading contest sponsored by the Bucks and the Northwestern Mutual Foundation.
Kids earn points for every page they read. The goal is to read enough pages to earn a free ticket to a Bucks home game.
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Prum, January 16, 1919
Dear Mother and Father:
I missed writing to you last Sunday because I was away. On Thursday I heard that one of our ambulances was going into Coblenz to get some new parts or repairs so I asked permission to go in which was granted. We left Friday morning about eight o'clock. The country around here is very hilly and we went up and down pretty much until we got to Cochen on the Mosel and then we went right along the Mosel River for about thirty miles into Coblenz. About ten o'clock the sun came out and we had a very nice day for the trip. The country around here is very beautiful, there are so many hills and little woods. In the summer time it must be much prettier than it is now. The trip along the Mosel was fine. Just now all the rivers are very high owing to the unusually warm and rainy winter. We have had snow only two or three times and then just enough to show a little white on the ground. Christmas we had an inch or so which was the most we have had.
The ambulance came back from Coblenz Saturday morning but my pass was good until Monday so I stayed over. Uncle August lives in Metternich which is a suburb of Coblenz so the first thing I did was to look him up. He lives about fifteen minutes ride on the street car from the center of town. I didn't have his address so I had to enquire and nobody seemed to know much about him or his whereabouts. Finally we found the mailman and he told me where to find him. He was surprised but very glad to see me. I had told him that I would try to visit him but would write him before hand but this time I couldn't do it as I didn't know that I could go until the night before. His wife was in town when I got there, the first time she has gone out, he says, in the year or more they have lived there. She came back soon and seemed a little embarrassed to have company come so unexpected, especially when there is so little food to be had and people don't have much extra in the house. They were very nice indeed and killed the fatted calf for me but of course he isn't so fat now as he used to be.
My aunt made potato and other kinds of pancakes and a couple of kinds of coffee cake and I enjoyed those things more than meat and the other things we have plenty of but the Germans don't have. She is a very good cook and everything she made tasted good to me. Saturday was the day that meat was given out so they went to the butcher shop to get their weekly allowance of a quarter of a pound for each person. They told the butcher that their American nephew was visiting and they would like a little extra so he let them have about a pound and a half altogether.
None of the children were home. One son, I think, is still in the army and the other is in business in Dusseldorf. The daughter is married and lives somewhere quite a ways off. Uncle August has the little girl from one of the sons, the one that is still in the army. The mother is working and has three other children so the Bickels are keeping this one. She is six years old and they have had her over four years, ever since the war began.
They have a very nice little house there in Metternich. It is not very fancy or elaborate but it is kept up very nicely. There is a little bit of ground around it on which are fruit trees and currant bushes. This last summer they made enough from the fruit and currants they sold to pay their years rent. They have a little garden and a few chickens so they have a little food supply of their own in addition to what they can get elsewhere. They are right on the edge of the city so they can go to the farmers and get things and of course they can afford to pay whatever the price is. They are pretty comfortably fixed, financially and have property in several places. Things are very uncertain in Germany now and nobody knows just where he stands. With the riots and revolutions Germany is about as badly off as Russia.
I bought a little new music in Coblenz so I have some things to work on. Miss Schwarz also borrowed some music from her teacher so we are busy practicing on those.
The town of Coblenz has been almost completely taken over by the Americans. Their government buildings are used for our army headquarters, the hotels are taken for our officers and men. The big Fest Halle is run by the YMCA and they have concerts, movies, boxing or dancing every night of the week. We are allowed to go there on one day passes and the town is just filled with our men. They get along well with the Germans wherever they go and the people are very glad that they have them instead of the French or English.
I got a few films in Coblenz to fit my camera so I may be able to get a shot or two now but it is so rainy and dark that it is impossible to do very much. The German films are much slower than the American and don't work as well with our cheap lenses. I took a couple of the Bickel family which I have not had developed yet.
I have lost my home here for a few days. The mother of the two milliners died this morning and as there will be other children coming here for the funeral they will need all their rooms. I have a little room in the hospital where I practice and I can fix up a bed in there for awhile.
My Christmas package came a week or so ago. It didn't get here on schedule time but perhaps it is just as well as we had so much cake and candy around Christmas time that it was enjoyed all the more for coming at a time when there wasn't so much sweet stuff around. The cake was in perfectly good condition and was mighty fine cake. There wasn't enough to pass it around so I ate it all myself. It makes one feel a bit queer to eat something made in his own kitchen at home and by loving hands.
The razor blades will afford me a good deal of comfort. I haven't been able to get any Gen blades over here at all. Toilet things are pretty scarce. A while ago I thought I wasn't ever going to get anything to brush my teeth with but I have bought some paste here in Germany and one day the YMCA had some French paste that was a little better so I laid in a little. We can't buy soap but there is always plenty around the hospital and those of us that work here can easily get some when we need it.
I have two American dollars to put in the billfold Gladys sent me. All the rest of my money is French and German and doesn't fit. I have a pocket book which fits the European money. All the money over here is paper. There are paper bills as low as twenty-five pfennigs and for smaller change we use postage stamps.
I shall write to Mrs. Roberts and Mrs. Ballam and thank them for the candy. The other things haven't come yet and I haven't yet received the strings. -I am afraid that they are lost by this time. I couldn't get any good strings in Coblenz and I am just about out, and especially need As and Gs. I am sure that if a couple were sent in a letter, so they wouldn't bulge out too much, that they would get here.
I have had a couple of surprises this week. A couple of nights ago the man in charge of the mail said there was a Christmas package for me. I looked it over and couldn't recognize the handwriting and finally I found the address in the corner. It was from Mrs. Hannah, in Altrincham, England. I am not sure of the names of all my English relatives but I think she must be my Aunt Sarah Ann. I remember hearing of Bob Hannah but I am not certain which aunt it is that married him. I shall acknowledge the package and say "Dear Aunt" without mentioning any names so I won't make any bad blunders. The box contained half a dozen little mince pies or tarts as we call them and some almonds. Today I had a letter from my cousin Joe Wright who is a sergeant in Royal Engineers in France. If I remember right he is a brother to Isabella and is a couple of years younger than I.
There is just a little possibility of my going to Coblenz to do a little playing for the YMCA. I don't know whether anything will come of it or not so I am not laying any plans. I am having a good time here and don't care very much. Last night I had a fine supper of roast chicken, brussels sprouts, potatoes, apples and other things.
I am playing quite a little and have some time to practice so I am pretty well satisfied here except that I am so sick of the hospital and operating room work. It just seems like filling in the time until we go home and it looks as though that would not be for some time.
Love from
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Each day, blogger Katy Elliot, 30, brings thousands of people from all over the world to her home. From her snug third-floor office, she types post after post, and each month, nearly 70,000 people visit her Web site.
Each day, blogger Katy Elliot, 30, brings thousands of people from all over the world to Marblehead. From her home's snug third-floor office, she types post after post, and each month, nearly 70,000 people visit her Web site.
Originally from Maine, Elliot moved from New York City with her boyfriend in September. The two purchased an older home on Mugford Street and started a major home-renovation project.
Through her blog, Elliot shares stories about the trials and tribulations of remodeling a home from scratch, as well as tips on everything from textiles to table mats. In terms of decorative styles, the writer calls herself "English bohemian."But she said writing is her true passion.
She got her start blogging while working for several different home-décor magazines in New York City. When she moved to Marblehead, she found blogging to be a fun way to share her new adventures.
"I just started blogging more, and if I didn't blog for a couple of days I would get e-mails from people, they'd be like, 'Are you alright? Are you sick? Is something going on?'" she said. "So it kind of pushed me to blog more and more every day."
Elliot, whose full-time job ended when the magazine for which she was working went under, is hoping to eventually turn her blog into full-time work by finding advertisers.
In the meantime, Elliot recently sat down to discuss her blog.Q: How would you characterize your blog?
A: I guess it's a personal journal about my likes and interests. As I've blogged over the years, it's kind of changed with my style. As I've grown up, I tend to be drawn toward more traditional furniture, where a couple of years ago, I was into mid-century modern furniture and much more bright colors. But basically, I talk about things for your home, from recipes to decorating to art. But I pretty much stay in the zone of what I know about. I try to promote other artists in stores and other people that I really enjoy that maybe aren't getting that attention online.
Q: You write short posts and post a lot of pictures — is there a reason you choose to write in that particular style?
I try not to get too into the story. I kind of give the reader an idea of what I saw and kind of my opinion and try to link to someone else's Web site or give them more information to contact the store so they can investigate it further. … It's just kind a little chat with someone, like, 'This is what I saw today and how cool is it,' you know?
Q: How do you choose the pictures you want to post? I noticed that you seem to try and show people the good and the bad side of home remodeling.
I hear this from other friends that are bloggers, that we tend to only take photographs of what we really want you to see. It's really hard to show everyone the truth because it's everywhere; everyone in the whole world can see these images and it's out there forever. Even if you delete a photo there are ways for people to find them again, so you have to be careful of what you put up online. So there is a little back and forth. I try to show photos where the house is a total mess and where there is stuff everywhere and you wouldn't want anybody to walk in your house that day. So I try to show those moments as well as the prettier things.
Q: Since moving to town, have you incorporated any local businesses into what you write about?
I started to reach out to some people in town. I guess I was a little shy at first. I didn't know how receptive people would be. … But the one thing I put on recently was the Arnould Gallery. I've had a couple things framed by the owner, and I went in one day and he was talking about the wood whales that they have and the golden cods that you see in town.
In some of the new shows that are happening in New York, there have been a ton of sperm whales on pillows and on artwork. It's become the new "it" animal of the year. I told him about this and he thought it was very exciting.
So I put the whales on my blog and I got a lot of people coming to my blog just to read about that. A lot of people said it reminded them of their time up in New England, and a lot of people were excited about them. I hope that people called and ordered these things from him, and that it helps to promote his business because he doesn't have an online store.
Q: How do you divide your time between blogging and working on your home-renovation project?
I get up every morning and I work on my blog until about 1 p.m., and then usually after that I do some house chores, and in the afternoon I start working on the house. I should be working on it more but it's so cold down here that it hasn't gotten done.
Q: What is one of the things you like best about being a blogger?
I paint, I sew, I take photographs. … Out in the real world, you are typically hired for that one thing that you do, so it's nice to be able to have a place where you can show off all your talents.
Q: I hear from a lot of bloggers that posting online helps one from feeling isolated. Is that true in your experience?
It's helped me meet other people like myself. ... When you have a blog, other people find you that also have the same interest as you. There are so many different blogs out there, and each one has a particular personality. And you end up kind of reading the one that you are familiar with — that person has the same voice or style as you.
People all over the country and all over the world send you e-mails. You see people from Romania reading your blog, or New Zealand. I started taking photographs here in Marblehead during our first snowstorm; somebody left a comment on my blog from South Africa and she said she had never seen snow before and "thank you so much for posting these pictures," because she had never seen snow, which was just amazing.Q: Have people in Marblehead taken notice of your blog?
Yes. Other people who have bought homes and are renovating have e-mailed me. I got an e-mail from someone who lives just a street back from me last week. Usually their e-mails say they've never done this before. They've never sent an e-mail to somebody they've never met before but they just wanted to reach out and say hello, which is so sweet.Q: What do you think your blog can bring to the town?
Part of me would like to give the town more exposure, but at the same time it's kind of nice that it's so hidden and a lot of people don't know about it. So I get again a little hesitant sharing too much because I don't want everybody to come here (laughs).
Q: What is the biggest challenge for you keeping a daily blog?
I can't say there are any challenges. I enjoy writing everyday. I sometimes get so giddy about a new product or artist that I feel like I can't wait until the next day to post, even though it's 1 a.m. Blogging has been an extremely positive experience.Q: Do you have any advice for those hoping to start their own blogs? It's super easy to start a blog. There are a number of free blogging platforms that are available for free. Try blogger.com or typepad.com. You don't have to be technology geek. Seriously, you could set up a blog in about five minutes. Have fun with it.
My advice for successful blog? Blog often and make your posts short and scannable. Remember most people are reading your blog at work! Sad but true. Every blog out there has a jump in traffic at 9:30 a.m., 1:30 and 4:30 p.m.To learn more about Elliot and to read about her home-decorating adventures, visit www.katyelliott.com/blog/


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Page size
Since a while the Linux/MIPS kernel support page sizes other than 4kB.
- Large compute workloads benefit sometimes dramatically from the increased TLB reach. Downside: the memory overhead can be significant and at times prohibitive for small systems or workloads that use a large number of small memory mappings.
- Large page size eleminates cache aliases and the overhead and potential for bugs associated with them.
- SPECbench numbers have been shown to be boosted significantly by 16kB pages and yet somewhat more by 64kB pages.
Hardware restrictions
- R2000 (MIPS I) processors only support 4K page size.
- The R6000 processor only supports 16kB page size.
- The R8000 processor supports 8kB page size as it's smallest page size.
- Every MIPS III, MIPS IV, MIPS32 and MIPS64 processor supports 4kB, 16kB and 64kB page sizes. Probably a few more larger sizes but these are the sizes supported by the Linux kernel. Support for the intermediate sizes of 8kB and 32kB is optional in the MIPS architecture and only a few, notably Cavium cnMIPS cores, support them.
- NEC VR41xx processors also support 1kB and 2kB page sizes. These are very small for a modern operating system such as Linux which is why Linux does not support these page sizes.
Addressable virtual address space
The size of the usable address space depends on the number of levels of the page tables, page size and the kernel model used. It always is 4GB for 32-bit kernels. Note that these 4GB are split into 2GB of userspace and 2GB of kernel addressing space. This split is hardwired in the MIPS architecture and (with the exception of the R6000) cannot be changed. The following table gives an overview over the situation on the 64-bit kernel.
The combinations marked red are nonsenical because XUSEG limits the user address space to 62 bits / 4EB.
This table is mostly meant to show how the numbers work out if all page table levels are one page in size.
- For 3 level page tableswith 4kB pages Linux uses two pages for the page directory so the actual virtual address space capacity is 40 bits / 1TB.
- The largest virtual address space supported by any MIPS processor is 48bits on the old and rather odd R8000 processor. Typical 64-bit MIPS processors support 36-bit, 40-bit or 44-bit address spaces but other sizes are permitted by the MIPS64 architecture.
- Address spaces of less than 2GB are not likely to be very useful either.
- Only 3-level tables are supported by 64-bit MIPS kernels. The exception are 64kB pages where the resulting 55 bits 32PB address space would be so large that cropping it to 42 bits / 4TB appeared more practical for the time being.
- 32-bit kernels only support 4kB and 16kB page size
Software support
Hugetlbfs is a special magic filesystem. Any file mmapped from hugetlbfs will use huge pages. The problem with hugetlbfs is that it software will need to be modified to use it and memory to be used for huge pages with hugetlbfs needs to be put aside manually.
Cavium's SDK is able to put away with the need to modify software by using an special preload library that wraps malloc. This method works for most but not all applications.
Transparent Huge Pages
Transparent Huge Pages allows normal unmodified software to use huge pages. Other than possibly having to enable THP support there is no administrative activity required. The price for this is a slight overhead.


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Already renewed for Season 8, the Fox drama series Bones returns in a new timeslot on Mondays with all-new episodes, starting with a very untraditional arrival of Booth (David Boreanaz) and Brennan's (Emily Deschanel) baby daughter. In "The Prisoner in the Pipe," a neighborhood is on edge when remains are found in the sewer, identified as a male fugitive who escaped from the penitentiary for financial fraud, and Booth and Brennan turn to an inmate for clues about the murder.
During this recent interview to promote the return of the show, executive producers Hart Hanson (who is also executive producer of The Finder) and Stephen Nathan talked about what it will be like for Booth and Brennan to work together and have a baby together, how they decide when a recurring character will come back for a specific episode, how the arrival of the baby will change things (or not) for the characters, the decision to skip over showing the development of the Booth and Brennan relationship before skipping straight to the pregnancy, what's to come for the other characters, what might happen to the four stand-alone episodes that are in limbo with the shortened season, and whether other cast members might appear on The Finder, if that series gets another season. Check out what they had to say after the jump:
Question: Will the FBI become an obstacle for Booth and Brennan at work, especially now that they're going to have the baby and be living together?
HART HANSON: We're not planning a storyline in which the FBI says, "You can't be partners." We discussed it and then we thought, "God, if we tell that story, there isn't a single audience member who's going to go, 'Oh, my God, I wonder if they'll never be allowed to work together again.'" So, we just decided not to do that. It may come up, from time to time, especially from Sweets, that it's odd to have a couple working together, but it's not the oddest thing in the world.
STEPHEN NATHAN: I think the most important thing for us is to keep the show on the same footing it's been on for seven years, which is that this is a murder show, and Booth and Brennan are always going to be working together to solve these murders. We don't ever intend to take that away. That's not to say that it won't be incredibly difficult for them, but it won't be because of any bureaucratic nonsense that will make it difficult. It'll just be them working together, and the difficulties they have working together, as they always have.
In the spring premiere, Daisy (Carla Gallo) is back. And then, in the following episode, it looks like Finn Abernathy (Luke Kleintank) returns. When you're working on an episode, when in the process do you decide which intern you want to use?
HANSON: We figure out who we haven't seen for a while, we figure out who would best fit the story, and then we find out if that person is available. Usually, all three of those things don't occur, at the same time.
NATHAN: Sometimes we have finished a script and are very, very excited that the intern of our choice is going to be in it, only to find out that they're unavailable, so we have to rewrite the script. But, we've been very fortunate because these stories were very, very specific. We definitely wanted Daisy to be in the episode where the baby is born. And things are starting an arc in the episode following that, so we were glad that worked out, too.
With the arrival of the baby, can we still expect the same format, primarily focusing on a case of the week, or will there be more time spent showing the new parents and what it's like for them at home?
NATHAN: There's always been that balancing act, in the show, of their personal life and the cases. We're a murder show, so that will not change, but when we do go home, they have a new arrival, which changes their lives. The baby will be a part of the show because it's a part of their lives. But, somebody is still going to be murdered, in a heinous and cruel way, and we will be revolted at the beginning of the show, as we always have been, and hopefully we'll catch them.
HANSON: The balance won't change, but the context will.
How will the arrival of the baby change Brennan?
HANSON: Well, we've always seen Brennan as a character who, because of her upbringing, was afraid of life, did not want to engage with life, or had to be protected by a veneer of rationality, logic and science. The first thing to come and breech those walls was Booth, who made her confront that and lead a more dangerous life, at least emotionally, in that her happiness is contingent upon another person's happiness. You might be able to avoid a lover, as someone whose happiness and your happiness is contingent upon, but definitely not a child. So, that's what she is contending with. She is now a big, open bruise because of another human being, and she will find that very disorienting.
NATHAN: Brennan is so objective, even about herself, that she is caught off guard by all these new feelings. I think that's what's great for us, in terms of writing the show. We get to see a character who is as astonished by these new feelings and this new behavior, as the audience is. We saw that, in the first six episodes, when the hormones were going crazy and she was crying, which she had never done before, she has different emotions that she's unaccustomed to. All of that will continue.
NATHAN: In the second episode back, it's the first time she is going back to work, and she has to deal with leaving Christine, for the first time. Emily just did a wonderful job. It's a great new area for us to explore.
Can you talk about the decision to reveal Brennan's pregnancy before you revealed that she and Booth had a relationship?
HANSON: We always knew that the end of Season 6 would be the reveal that Booth and Brennan had slept together. We knew that they were going to sleep together. What changed everything was when Emily confided in us that she was pregnant, and we decided to adjust the storyline for Season 7, accordingly. So, Season 7 would have been the story of how Booth and Brennan came to grips with the fact that they are now intimate and sexually involved. We probably threw out half a season there, perhaps more, and inserted that they were going to have a child. So really, the only thing that changed in Season 6 was the very last scene where she turns to Booth and says, "I'm pregnant, and you're the father." That scene, of course, would not have existed. Otherwise, mostly that season would have been intact, as it was. What we have to do now is show the romance in a couple that's been together and has a child. What America is going to miss is the unfolding courtship of Booth and Brennan, and we could not be happier to avoid that.
How much time will have passed when Brennan returns to work after her maternity leave?
HANSON: It's actually a short amount of time.
NATHAN: There's probably six or maybe eight weeks, between the time the baby arrives and she goes back to work.
HANSON: We did not want to do a story where our main crime-solver was at home for a number of episodes. That seemed to us to be a really good way to lose a ton of viewers and momentum, so it's right back into the fray. Mind you, we do contend with who's going to take care of the baby, and how is Brennan going to juggle being a mom living with Booth and how Booth is going to juggle her and the baby, and do their jobs. But, they're still doing their jobs.
NATHAN: Yes, we didn't want to turn the show into some sort of domestic show, where the murder was a secondary aspect. The murder is still the primary focus of the show, and their domestic lives are crucial and important and what we love about the show, but people are still dead.
With the shortened season and four episodes that now have to stand alone, where there any character arcs or more serialized storylines that you had to push off until next year?
NATHAN: The four actual episodes will not be arc-related. They have to be able to stand on their own, so with those four episodes, we were able to do stories that we wouldn't have normally done in a regular line-up of episodes.
HANSON: They are very, very stand-alone, and maybe even a bit odd with the gags to them.
NATHAN: Yes, they're more stylized than we normally would do, and we were able to try to tackle stories that we might not normally have tackled because we don't know how old the baby is going to be. We don't know what's going to happen with the relationships between people, so these really were stand-alone.
HANSON: We have to hope that Hodgins' (T.J. Tyne) hair doesn't change too much.
NATHAN: And, the baby could be in college.
HANSON: We knew what was coming when we started the season, so it's not like we started something and then withdrew it, but we have many, many arcs and ideas that we simply didn't pull out because it wasn't going to go in this year. I'm pretty sure the one that we would've gotten to, had we had a normal length of a year, would be some more Booth family stuff. I still want to do a Hodgins family surprise. But, those just went away because of the shortened season and because we had these strong B stories connected to the baby.
NATHAN: There are five fewer episodes, so that's a lot of missing arcs. But, they'll be back if we're back.
When people have babies, usually it brings in extended family. Are viewers going to be seeing any of that, on the show?
NATHAN: Yes, we will. We'll certainly see some of those people. We're going to see Brennan's dad. He'll return. We've already seen Booth's grandfather this year, under sad circumstances. Certainly, going into next year, we're going to see the extended families.
Is Pelant going to scare the crap out of people in the season finale?
HANSON: Pelant is going to scare the crap out of people in the season finale.
NATHAN: Yes, there will be no crap in people anymore, after Pelant's episode. He really is going to turn the series on its head for a little bit. He has much more power than any of our serial bad guys have had, in the past.
What can you say about Cam's (Tamara Taylor) storyline coming up?
NATHAN: She's been very heavily involved this season, in the lab with our people, as the boss. She's taken that role, which has been expanded a bit, and you'll see that in subsequent episodes. We have a lot planned for Cam, personally, but our hands were a little bit tied this year because of the five fewer episodes. We weren't able to give some of the other characters that we love, like Hodgins and Cam, more extensive arcs. We will be doing that next season.
Will Brennan and Angela (Michaela Conlin) have any more heart-to-hearts, now that they're both in the same place in their life, as new mothers in very strong relationships?
HANSON: There are two episodes that we've done in the last month that have good Angela and Brennan stuff in them. It's not all over the baby, or the fact that they are moms, by the way.
NATHAN: We've had a few, especially one where Angela and Brennan leave the lab and play hooky. And Cam is also now involved in that relationship. She's become a bit closer to Angela and Brennan.
HANSON: Angela has her own issues with how she's changed, being a married woman with a child, that we explore a little bit. She is better situated to understand what Brennan is going through, feeling that she's changed, although Angela is more nostalgic for who she used to be than Brennan is. She's more reflective. It's come up at least three times in the last six episodes, and there's at least one really strong storyline. I think, in the season ender, the audience will get a very good feeling for how close Angela and Brennan are. Angela knows Brennan better than Booth does, in that way that another friend of the same sex can understand you more than your partner.
NATHAN: And she knows Brennan better than Brennan does.
How did you decide where Brennan would give birth?
NATHAN: I think Jon Collier came up with that. We had many, many, many discussions. There were so many things thrown into the hopper, and Jon Collier wrote that episode. It's so funny, after doing 713 episodes now and it's very difficult to remember who comes up with a specific idea.
Hart, did the cast of Bones feel concerned that your attention would not be 100% focused on the original show, since you also have The Finder?
HANSON: Yes. Bones is a pretty tight theatre company. We're a pretty tight bunch. We've been together a long time, and there was concern, but it was of that nature. I don't think they thought the show was going to fall apart. Stephen Nathan has been here since the first episode. It's not like if I died, the show wouldn't go on. There might be more jokes in it and more references to bagels, but otherwise, Stephen is perfectly capable. So, they weren't worried on a professional level. It's mostly a pleasure to work on Bones and we like each other, so I think it was more as if I was moving a block away or something. But, my office is in the same place. Both shows are shot on the lot. Stephen and I share this ugly little porch. We cannot get away from each other. The actors are just a stage away, so they wander into my office. I think they mostly realized that since I wasn't physically going anywhere, so they had nothing to worry about. And, Stephen Nathan is a very confidence-inspiring guy. He just stepped into the gap that I left. Now that The Finder hasn't been shooting for a month now, maybe more, we're enjoying working more closely again.
Why have you only had John Francis Daley and T.J. Thyne guest starred on The Finder?
HANSON: Bones shut down for a period of time and wasn't shooting, and it was during that time that we could use Bones actors on The Finder. We figured out very quickly that John was the first one because the story of having someone down to look at Walter's (Geoff Stults) mental competency was a good storyline for us and a really natural fit. And then, the story that suggested T.J. was a conspiracy theorist story. If it had been another kind of story, then we would have brought down Cam or Angela. Of course, Emily couldn't be in it because she was busy having a baby. We could have had David in an episode, but he very much wanted to direct an episode, so that's when he directed. I'm knocking on wood that we have an uphill climb, but if The Finder comes back, then eventually everybody will be on it.


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data Expr =This is okay, except that functions expecting certain annotation info have no guarantee it is actually present, or might receive annotations of the wrong type. (Also, how do we know what order the annotations are nested in, if multiple are expected to be present? The types don't tell us anything.)
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data Annotation = TypeAnnotation Type | FreeVariables [Name] | ...
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data Expr a =Slightly better... now we can at least guarantee that the annotation is of a certain type. But we still don't have any assurance that the annotation is attached to the expected nodes.
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Going one step further, we have:
data Expr a =This guarantees the annotation is present, and has a definite type, but there's no uniform way to pull out the annotation info from each constructor. We could write a function,
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Variable a Name |
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annotation that pattern matches on the
Expr to retrieve the annotation. But, it turns out we can do one better:
data Expr a = Expr a (ExprImpl a)This is the technique described by SPJ. All nodes in the ADT are guaranteed to have the annotation, and access of the annotation is uniform.
data ExprImpl a =
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Variable Name |
App (Expr a) (Expr a) |
Lambda Name (Expr a)
Expr can even just be a type alias for
(a, ExprImpl a).


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Candidates For Markey House Seat Ramp Up Campaigns
U.S. Sen.-elect Edward Markey hasn't resigned from his House seat yet, but the campaign to replace him is already on.
On Monday, Democratic state Sen. Karen Spilka formally kicks off her campaign at her headquarters in Framingham.
She's not the only candidate hoping to represent the 5th Congressional District.
Fellow Democrats Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian, state Sens. Katherine Clark and William Brownsberger and state Rep. Carl Sciortino are also eyeing Markey's seat.
All five have opened accounts with the Federal Election Commission, a critical first step to raising money.
The district includes cities and towns to the west and north of Boston, including Framingham, Waltham, Medford and Malden.
Under state law, the election will be held within 160 days of Markey resigning his House seat.
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Police and accident reports for
Thursday, Nov. 8:
Oct. 30, 2:15 p.m.
Location: 400 block of South Jefferson Street
Drivers and vehicles:
Kramer, Keith A., 49; 1994 Ford F-150
Cathers, Rickey R., 47; 2003 Ford F-150
Citations: Kramer was ticketed for failure to yield to merging traffic and driving with a revoked license.
Oct. 31, 1:33 p.m.
Location: South Kickapoo at Frorer Avenue
Graber, Lester W., 65; 1995 Chevrolet Conventional Cab pickup
Cannon, Lee A., 35; 1990 Chevrolet owned by U.S. Postal Service
Contributing factors: improper backing; failure to yield the right of way
Citations issued to: Graber
Oct. 31, 2:30 p.m.
Location: South McLean at Broadway
Prince, Betty J., 70; 2006 Dodge Stratus
O'Donohue, Judy K., 56; 2000 Pontiac Grand Am
Contributing factors: improper backing; failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident
Citations issued to: no one
Nov. 2, 9:30 p.m.
Location: 1100 block of Pulaski Street
Unknown driver and vehicle
Phillips, Robert C., 45; 2001 Chevrolet Silverado
Hit-and-run incident
Nov. 4
Location: 1200 block of North Ottawa
Cook, Tyler, J., 25; 1985 Chevrolet El Camino
Elkins, Candice M., 25; 2003 Ford Escape
Contributing factors: under the influence of alcohol/drugs; driving on the wrong side of the road, driving the wrong way
Citations issued to: Cook, for improper lane usage and leaving the scene of a vehicle-damage accident
Nov. 5, 5:59 p.m.
Location: Pulaski Street near South Sherman
Cunningham, Elsie C., 74; Buick Park Avenue
Slayton, Carolyn F., 51; 2002 Ford Taurus
Contributing factors: failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident; improper lane usage
Citation: Cunningham was ticketed for driving too fast for conditions.
Lincoln Police Department
Cook, Tyler J., 25, Atlanta, arrested Nov. 4 in the 1800 block of 1250th Avenue, Lincoln, on charges of driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a property-damage accident.
Isaiah, Darius L., 23, Decatur, arrested Nov. 3 in the 300 block of Keokuk on a Logan County warrant for failure to appear in answer to charge of possession of cannabis less than 2.5 grams.
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Lancaster, Torey
A., 20, Lincoln, arrested Nov. 6 at the Logan County Safety
Complex on charges of mob action, aggravated battery, vehicular
invasion, criminal damage to property over $300 and aggravated
Lyle, Jaci L., 38,
Lincoln, arrested Nov. 2 at the Logan County Safety Complex on a
Logan County warrant for failure to appear in answer to charge
of driving with a suspended license.
McCray, Larry G.,
49, Lincoln, arrested Nov. 2 at the Logan County Safety Complex
on a DeWitt County warrant.
Minder, Mark A., 57, Lincoln, arrested
Nov. 3 at his residence on charge of domestic battery.
Logan County Sheriff's Department
Burham, Mathew L.,
19, Pleasant Valley, Iowa, arrested Nov. 3 in the 100 block of
Cobblestone Avenue, Lincoln, on charges of obstructing
identification and illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor.
Donovan, P.V. Dye,
24, Lincoln, arrested Nov. 5 on Logan at Tremont in Lincoln on
charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Christopher P., 20, Petersburg, arrested Nov. 3 on 100th Avenue
at 550th Street, Elkhart, on charges of illegal
Williams, Derrell
M., 20, Lincoln, arrested Nov. 3 in the 100 block of Cobblestone
Avenue, Lincoln, on charge of illegal consumption of alcohol by
a minor.
Woods, Andrea A.,
18, Waterford, Mich.., arrested Nov. 4 in the 100 block of
Cobblestone Avenue, Lincoln, on charge of illegal consumption of
alcohol by a minor.
Yard, Jake D., 18, Sherman, arrested
Nov. 2 on 200th Avenue at 500th Street, Elkhart, on charge of
illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor.
Atlanta, Elkhart, Mount Pulaski, San
Jose, Illinois Department of Natural Resources
No arrest reports.
Illinois State Police
Dunbar, Todd A.,
43, Springfield, arrested Nov. 2 on Interstate 55 on a Tazewell
County warrant.
Miller, Lindy J., 30, Moweaqua,
arrested Nov. 2 on I-55 on a Macon County warrant.
The public is reminded that anyone is presumed
innocent until charges are proven in a court of law.
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HTC One X+, One VX Coming to America Via AT&T
In the wee hours of the morning, HTC introduced its latest flagship Android smartphone, the One X+, and now we have word that it, along with the HTC One VX, will be headed to AT&T in the coming months.
The One X+ is the follow-up to the One X, which was released only in May, and is the first AT&T smartphone to feature the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system and a quad-core processor. The new processor by Nvidia touts battery-saving features and more power for demanding apps like video and gaming.
The camera was a highlight of the One X and it's no different on the One X+. The smartphone has a main eight-megapixel camera on the back and promises quick performance; it also boasts technology to help minimize noise and improve color quality.
Plus, there's a new self-portrait mode that enhances the appearance of your skin and eyes when taking pictures using the front-facing 1.6-megapixel camera. And as part of the new HTC Sense user interface, the photo gallery now surfaces all photo-related apps for easier access.
Other features of the One X+ include a 4.7-inch HD touchscreen and 64 gigabytes of internal storage.
If you don't need all that power, the HTC One VX offers more of a mid-range feature set, with a 4.5-inch touchscreen, a rear five-megapixel camera and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The smartphone will be upgraded to Jelly Bean and the new version of HTC's Sense user interface, but no specific timeframe for the upgrade was provided.
In addition to the new One models, AT&T said that it will launch the Windows Phone-based HTC 8X in November.
Pricing and availability dates for all three smartphones were not announced at this time.


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Power from the underground
The West is just beginning to tap its potential for clean, renewable geothermal energy
The thought of Nevada's cities - lighting up the desert landscape with neon lights, all-you-can-eat buffets and noisy slot machines - makes most environmentalists cringe. It's not just aesthetic: These gambling hubs are seen as gluttonous resource gulpers. One of them, however, is gaining praise for its production of renewable energy.
The city of Reno, north of Las Vegas, is a "hotspot" for geothermal power production. Geothermal plants now provide enough electricity to serve all 200,000 residents. And energy analysts say Reno's success barely scratches the surface: Projects slated for the West could nearly double the nation's geothermal generating capacity in the next few years, according to a new survey from the Geothermal Energy Association.
Geothermal sources now generate nearly 3,000 megawatts per year in the U.S. - more than any other nation, but still only 0.4 percent of total energy use, roughly equivalent to two large coal-fired power plants. The investment risk is still too high for a commercial-scale geothermal industry to flourish, according to Jefferson Tester of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the projects take years of planning and construction and don't get the large government subsidies that other energy producers do. But adequate federal funding for research and development would smooth out operational kinks, slash the risk and give investors more confidence, he says.
"We know the resources are there,
it's just a matter of developing them," says Karl Gawell, executive
director of the Geothermal Energy Association. "The solution isn't
black-and-white, and we have a long way to go, but we have all the
pieces - they just have to be put together."
The West is prime for geothermal development because its underground reservoirs of steam, hot water and hot rocks tend to lie close to the surface, especially in places like the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountains and Southern California's Imperial Valley. Half of all geothermal energy production in the nation is in the West, and 90 percent of the identified geothermal resources are on Western public lands.
In its infancy, geothermal electricity production required extremely hot water, over 360 degrees Fahrenheit. New technology, however, allows the use of water as cool as 165 degrees, greatly expanding opportunities for power production. Geothermal energy can also be tapped directly as a heating source. In some places, geothermal heating districts have been established; one such system uses hot water pipes to heat 37 buildings in San Bernardino, Calif.
More than 80 geothermal power projects are in the works across the West, in every state except Montana and Colorado. In Nevada, Idaho, Utah and California, geo-thermal plants already supply power to the grid. By 2050, advances in geothermal technology could supply 100,000 annual megawatts of power, according to a 2006 MIT study - 10 percent of U.S. energy consumption.
And by 2015, the cost of geo-thermal electricity should be competitive with that of coal, which currently provides about half of the country's energy, according to the Department of Energy. Consumers generally pay between 3 and 5 1/2 cents for a kilowatt hour of coal power and between 5 and 8 cents for a kilowatt hour of geothermal power. Not only will geothermal costs come down as technology improves, coal costs will continue to rise, due to the cost of transporting coal and complying with eventual greenhouse gas legislation.
Unlike other renewable energy sources that depend on the vagaries of wind or sun, geothermal plants produce consistent power. "Geothermal plants generate power 24 hours a day, year-round, and don't face hazards like tropical storms that plague other energy industries," says Paul Thomsen of Reno-based geothermal developer Ormat. "And the plants release hardly any carbon emissions."
But no energy source is entirely free of environmental impacts. Although geothermal development is prohibited in national parks and wilderness areas, development on other public lands could alter viewsheds and geothermal features and pollute surface water. A typical natural-gas-fired plant sucks up 361 gallons of freshwater per megawatt hour, compared to less than 5 gallons for geothermal plants - but even that could cause conflicts with other water users in drought-stricken areas. Vents around geothermal operations can release objectionable gases such as ammonia, methane and hydrogen sulfide, which smells like rotten eggs, and some projects have induced small earthquakes. Still proponents say these side effects are minimal when stacked against the environmental costs of traditional energy production.
To help developers unleash geothermal potential on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service are jointly investigating the environmental impacts of expanding geothermal leasing. (The BLM issues all geothermal leases and permits.) Once the final assessment comes out this fall, the agencies will allow additional leasing on lands with high potential. Currently, there are about 420 geothermal leases on federal land, 55 of which are producing geothermal energy.
Interest in leasing has increased sharply in the last decade; the BLM has issued nearly 300 geothermal leases since 2001, compared to only 25 between 1996 and 2001. Last summer, the agency launched an effort to speed up the leasing process. Of the approximately 100 geothermal lease requests pending as of January 2005, the BLM has pledged to process at least 90 percent of them by August 2010.
But even after a
geothermal company leases public land, the process of actually
acquiring a permit to develop the resource remains painful. The BLM
is so overrun with oil, gas and coalbed methane permit requests
that geothermal interests get pushed to the back burner. "The BLM
doesn't have adequate resources or personnel to deal with
geothermal, so permits get delayed for years," says Gawell. "I
literally know people who have died waiting."
Geothermal development has benefited from bipartisan support in the House and Senate, but the Bush administration's commitment has been less than robust. The Energy Act of 2005, touted as renewable-friendly, created the Geothermal Technologies Program in an attempt to boost the industry. The administration requested $26 million for the program the first year and $23 million the next - but for 2007 and 2008, it didn't request a dime, leaving industry experts, environmentalists and policymakers angry and confused. The 2009 budget, though, asks for $30 million.
Questioned by Congress, the Department of Energy justified the 2007 budget cut by saying that geothermal was a "mature technology" that didn't need additional funding. The department also cited an Office of Management and Budget grading system in order to claim that the geothermal program wasn't performing well enough to justify extra dollars. But funding for the clean-coal technology program was upped, even though its performance was rated lower than that of the geothermal program. Meanwhile, federal subsidies for the nuclear and fossil fuel industries still range in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
In 2005, federal production tax credits previously tied to wind and solar power were expanded to include geothermal projects. But the credits are set to expire at the end of this year, even though over 100 geothermal development companies recently sent letters to the White House calling for an extension. By one vote, the Senate recently declined an extension that would have lasted through 2012.
Those tax credits have been the deciding factor as to whether developers can afford to break ground on new geothermal projects, says Lisa Shevenell, director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy. For 10 years after plant construction, the tax credits pay geothermal developers 2 cents for every kilowatt-hour of electricity generated. That substantially lowers the cost of generating power, leading to lower costs for consumers and lower risks to investors. "Without an extension of the tax credit deadline, most likely, projects will be downsized or put on hold altogether," says Gawell.
But geothermal may get a boost from the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which Bush signed in December. The legislation includes the Advanced Geothermal Energy Research and Development Act, which directs the Department of Energy to authorize up to $95 million annually for research and development. And most of the Western states, with the exception of Wyoming, Utah and Idaho, have established renewable portfolio standards, which require electric utilities to produce a certain percentage of their energy (usually 10 to 15 percent) from renewable sources, including geothermal, by a certain date.
As with any power source, access to transmission facilities is key. In November 2007, the Bush administration proposed 6,000 miles of "energy corridors," rights of way for distributing oil, gas, hydrogen and electricity. Although some environmentalists disapprove of corridors in national parks and monuments, others welcome the plan because it could minimize the time it takes to site and approve projects.
Success stories like Reno prove that, although geothermal is by no
means a cure-all for the nation's energy problems, it is definitely
part of the solution. "Interest in geothermal has really
blossomed," says Shevenell. "And in the next few years, I think
that the industry will, too." Tapping energy from underground could
make the barren Nevada desert a land of plenty - and someday soon,
it could power millions of households in the West.
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One's-self I sing, a simple separate person,
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse.
Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say
the Form complete is worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.
Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing.
Whitman's astonishingly great 1855 magnum opus Leaves of Grass is opened by this short but incisive introduction, which lays out the themes and buzzwords for the entirety of the text to follow: one's self, democracy, and the tension between individuals and the collective; the body and the sensual coupling of male and female; the enjoyment of life and the holiness of personal agency; and, of course, singing, music.


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It's once and always Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals hockey, all day, all night, all the time . . . or when I get around to it
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Congrats, Bruce...Nice Game, Jakub
Bruce Boudreau won his 100th game as coach of the Hershey Bears last night -- a 6-4 win over the Albany River Rats in Albany.
And Jakub Klepis -- who started the season without a goal in his first ten games -- broke out in a big way with a hat trick.
Of those six clubs behind Washington in these rankings, half of them (NY Islanders, Pittsburgh, and Atlanta) have been in the playoffs; Chicago would make the top eight in the Western Conference if the season ended today. It is entirely possible, given the Caps' play so far this year, that three of those teams will pass Washington in this ranking by this season's end.
* Through games of November 16, 2007
A NO point night: Lightning 5 - Caps 2
44 seconds.
That's what it has come to…44 seconds. That's how much time Caps fans had to cheer in last night's 5-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning. That was the time in which the Capitals scored their two goals in this contest, the first from Brooks Laich on a deflection and the second on a wrist shot from Alex Ovechkin.
That was it.
The rest was a story of lack of ability…to kill penalties when they had to be killed, to finish plays when they had to be finished, and to make a smart play when a smart play was called for.
With respect to the first – killing penalties – Jeff Schultz was whistled for a cross checking foul 1:11 into the contest. It took the Lightning 20 seconds to capitalize as Vincent Lecavalier wired a slap shot off the post and behind goaltender Brent Johnson. The Caps, even when they would scramble to a lead later, were looking up at the Lightning for the rest of the night.
As to the second – finishing plays – the Caps had excellent scoring chances all night…
- There was the chance off a rebound of an Ovechkin drive that Viktor Kozlov had on his backhand with a yawning net and a sprawled goaltender in front of him…he couldn't lift the puck over goalie Johan Holmqvist, and Holmqvist smothered it.
- There was Ovechkin circling into the zone with speed and the puck on his stick…after showing "slap shot" he changed his shooting angle and launched a shot over Holmqvist's shoulder, but the goalie gloved it.
- There was Tomas Fleischmann, providing some effective forechecking, taking the puck away from Shane O'Brien and steering it to Viktor Kozlov circling out from behind the net. Kozlov could not steer the puck in from the top of the crease.
- There was Ovechkin, stealing a bouncing puck at the
- There was Kozlov in the high slot on a power play, taking a feed from the side board and in one motion sweeping a laser at Holmqvist, who sticked it away.
- There was Ovechkin, eight minutes into the third period, in the low left-wing corner sending a crisp pass to Nicklas Backstrom left alone in front. Backstrom fired at Holmqvist, who stopped the first shot and then the backhand by Chris Clark off the rebound.
Finally, there was the back-breaker of a play – another lapse in judgment. Barely 90 seconds after Ovechkin gave the Caps a 2-1 lead, Milan Jurcina collected a loose puck in front of Brent Johnson and circled into the right wing circle in his own zone. Looking to spring someone going the other way, he sent a pass up the middle of the ice. It was a play seen by Caps fans too often in the past by the likes of Sergei Gonchar, and much too often this year by…well, it could be anybody. It ended up on the stick of Jan Hlavac at the Caps' line. Hlavac skated in and, using Shaone Morrisonn as a screen, snapped the puck far side over Johnson's right pad. The play effectively ended Jurcina's night. He skated two more shifts to close the first, then sat for the last 40 minutes without his blades touching the ice.
The line of the night belonged to, as it usually does these days, Alex Ovechkin…
29:40 in ice time
One goal (fourth game in a row with a goal)
Nine shots
Three hits
Three blocked shots, including two "saves" late when the Lightning were looking for the empty netter
Looking at that ice time – the fourth game in a row in which his ice time has increased – he'll be spending goalie time out there in a few games. There are mutually reinforcing events happening here…Ovechkin gets more ice time – because he's the only one producing reliably – the puck goes through him on just about every possession when he is on the ice, he takes most of the shots, and no one else is getting (or perhaps getting themselves) involved in the offense. Take away Ovechkin's shots on goal last night, and the other 17 skaters had 21 shots on goal. Five of the 12 forwards had no shots on goal, including Chris Clark.
This isn't selfishness on Ovechkin's part, by any means. This is what the Caps have been reduced to on offense…Alex Ovechkin and…
If you're looking for other rays of sunshine in this game, good luck. Viktor Kozlov had all those chances, but failed to convert any of them and finished -3. Mike Green ended up with some of the ice time that Jurcina forfeited and played well…almost 25 minutes, three shots on goal (including an excellent chance not described above), three blocked shots. He was -1, but that was the empty netter at the end. After that…
…the Caps still find themselves 6-12-1. That is a pace for 56 points. If that is what they finish with, it will be the fewest points they earned since the 52 they earned in the 1994-1995 season.
Of course, they only played 48 games that season.