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It's not like we needed any more proof the content cartel will stop at nothing to achieve its goals, that there is no argument too base and no tactic too vile for the champions of copyright abuse. But thanks to The Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property (TCOTAIP), we have it in spades.
Last week, TCOTAIP published its recommendations on what the U.S. government should do to combat the scourge of piracy. The seven-person commission is made up of professional bureaucrats and former high-tech CEOs, and it's co-chaired by former GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman and ex-director of national intelligence Dennis C. Blair. Though the report has China's counterfeiting and trade-secret thievery in its crosshairs, the implications extend easily to any file-sharing, copyright-mocking scallywag.
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The 84-page report spends most of its time outlining how we got where we are today, the methods of attack used by cyber thieves and spies, and the costs of international theft of IP. It's fascinating reading, if you also enjoy browsing phone directories and software manuals. But right around page 81 it gets interesting. That's when the Commission offers up one possible solution to copyright violations:
Software can be written that will allow only authorized users to open files containing valuable information. If an unauthorized person accesses the information, a range of actions might then occur. For example, the file could be rendered inaccessible and the unauthorized user's computer could be locked down, with instructions on how to contact law enforcement to get the password needed to unlock the account.
As Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow notes, there's already a term for that technique popular among organized gangs of cyber criminals: ransomware. He writes:
It's just more evidence that copyright enforcers' network strategies are indistinguishable from those used by dictators and criminals.
Do two wrongs make a right?
But that's just the beginning. In the next section, the Commission recommends something more heinous -- infecting cyber thieves' systems with malware:
While not currently permitted under U.S. law, there are increasing calls for creating a more permissive environment for active network defense that allows companies not only to stabilize a situation but to take further steps, including actively retrieving stolen information, altering it within the intruder's networks, or even destroying the information within an unauthorized network. Additional measures go further, including photographing the hacker using his own system's camera, implanting malware in the hacker's network, or even physically disabling or destroying the hacker's own computer or network.
Note the use of every government's favorite literary technique, the passive voice: "There are increasing calls for...." Who's calling for that, exactly? I'll give you one guess. Back in 2008, then-RIAA president (now CEO) Cary Sherman floated a similar scheme. One of the RIAA and MPAA's favorite senators is Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who hails from the same state as Huntsman. Consider the dots connected.


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Several developers reported performance issues which affected their projects during the development phase while working with the recently released Entity Framework 6. The first reported issue was about the startup time issue when the debugger is attached to the project which causes when the metadata collections use Lazy<T> in a way that triggers numerous invocations of Debugger.NotifyOfCrossThreadDependency() at model creation time. As of the time of this writing, this problem has been resolved by the product team.
Frans Bouma, Lead developer, LLBLGen Pro reported slow entity materialization in Entity Framework 6.0.1. During benchmarking, Frans ran a .NET profiling using dotTrace which spends 0.02% of its time in the GetEnumerator to fetch the actual data and the rest in the MoveNext over the result.
Few developers also reported startup performance issues without attaching the debugger. For instance, a developer had to wait for about 10-15 seconds soon after pressing F5.
You will automatically get the latest version if you install Entity Framework 6 from NuGet. However, if you make use of Visual Studio 2013 project template with Entity Framework 6 then you have to update to the latest patch by running Update-Package EntityFramework in Package Manager Console.
According to official sources, a new update will be released soon that addresses the performance issues and some other high priority bugs including new issues which are being reported by developers on a daily basis.
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During development process of a project, Frans ran a .NET profiling using dotTrace which spends 0.02% of its time in the GetEnumerator to fetch the actual data and the rest in the MoveNext over the result.
I wasn't developing a project, I was doing benchmark runs on various ORMs to see whether our own framework is still fast enough.
Microsoft has already released a patch (6.0.1) which addresses the above discussed issues.
This is incorrect, the 6.0.1. patch doesn't address the issues discussed.

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2013 Chevrolet Captiva Sport: Overview
- EPA-rated fuel economy numbers are strong
- Well-equipped, considering fleet-only status
- Good sizing for drivers who don't need an Equinox
- Lackluster performance from four-cylinder
- Unless you're a fleet buyer, you can't get one new
- Aging design now six years old
What's new: The fleet-only 2013 Chevrolet Captiva Sport receives several updates for the new model year. Last year's 3-liter V6 is gone, leaving only a 2.4-liter four-cylinder. The crossover also adds self-dimming mirrors and rear park assist to its options list.
The Captiva Sport is Chevrolet's smallest SUV. Only available to fleet buyers such as rental car agencies and the government, the Captiva Sport debuted for the 2012 model year. While most car shoppers can't buy one new, used examples will be in plentiful supply. The Captiva Sport is mechanically identical to the second-generation Saturn Vue, which was sold from 2008 until Saturn's 2010 demise.
While the 2012 Captiva Sport offered four- and six-cylinder engines, the 2013 model uses only a 182-horsepower four-cylinder. All Captiva Sport models use a six-speed automatic transmission with an "ECO" mode that's designed to save fuel. The Captiva Sport comes standard with front-wheel drive, though all-wheel drive is available. Other options include new rear park assist, self-dimming mirrors and chrome alloy wheels.
The 2013 Chevrolet Captiva Sport offers three trim levels. Base-level LS models start around $25,000. The mid-level Captiva Sport LT bumps that figure to $26,600. The luxurious Captiva Sport LTZ starts around $30,500 with shipping. Of course, most buyers will only consider the crossover on the used market.


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Impressions of events so diverse as those encompassed by the ASIS&T Annual Meeting are necessarily that impressions. My own were of more ferment than usual, especially on questions related to studying the interface between people and information a focus that seems completely appropriate for a meeting with the umbrella theme "Humanizing Information Technology." This Annual Meeting issue of the Bulletin therefore reflects this view and includes two of the three presentations from the second Plenary Session: Humanizing Information Technology: New Theoretical Approaches in Play. Pamela Sandstrom and Birger Hjørland both suggest changes in the information science research agenda and its methodology. Hjørland's approach should also prove of immediate interest to practitioners unfamiliar with his other recent publications on domain analysis.
The complementary session to the theory-oriented one above was the first Plenary Session Humanizing Information Technology: New Directions in Information Science Practice, covering robotics, asset management systems and library portals. Steve Hardin summarizes this session for us.
We also have a very inspiring overview of the conference by Simmons MLS student and first-time attendee, Caryn Anderson. Caryn filters her experience at the conference and other recent reading through the lens of how the projects and research reported might assist in building systems that can integrate information from different fields in support of those engaged in complex processes such as industrial ecology. She is already a sophisticated and astute observer, and we look forward to her continuing contributions to the field.
In addition to the Annual Meeting, we provide coverage of one session of the Council for Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP). ASIS&T delegates were current president Samantha Hastings and past-president Trudi Bellardo Hahn. At the session Trudi introduced a panel of experts, including ASIS&T member Carol Tenopir, on the topic "E-Journals: Cutting Edge? Or Cutting Off Our Future?" Sam's summary of the panel on her President's Page updates us in this critical area of electronic publishing.
Finally, Andrew Dillon discusses recent surveys of information architecture degrees and programs.
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Jun Mao, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at Penn Medicine, responds:
Good question. We ran a clinical trial of black cohosh for hot flashes and found it did not help. These results were similar to a study done by another group at Washington University. We are currently running a clincial trial on acupuncture for the treatment of hot flashes in women with breast cancer. If you live around Philadelphia, this may be something you would be interested in trying (contact Rana Leed: 215-349-5647). There is also some evidence that hypnosis may help hot flashes as well. Stay Cool!
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The patients, one adult and one juvenile, drove to the Hastings fire station around 5 p.m. with burn injuries, said St. Johns County Fire Rescue spokesman Lt. Jeremy Robshaw. They were flown to Shands Gainesville in stable condition.
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CHARLESTON — In more than two years as president and CEO of the South Carolina State Ports Authority, Jim Newsome has worked to get funding for a study of deepening the Charleston Harbor shipping channel, watched the on-again, off-again efforts with Georgia in building a joint port on the Savannah River and dealt with controversy, and a lawsuit, over Charleston's expanded cruise industry.
But Newsome says his main concern from the time he started has been growing business and regaining Charleston's position among East Coast ports.
"I would never have come here if I thought it was an easy job," Newsome, who left his job as president of the American division of container line Hapag-Lloyd in the summer of 2009. "I expected our major challenge was to regrow our volume. That remains the case and that is where we are focused."
Newsome, who had 30 years of experience in the industry, came at a time when Charleston had slipped behind the competition. Once the second-largest container port on the East Coast, Charleston fell to fourth behind New York-New Jersey, southeast Virginia and its fierce competitor Savannah.
"We lost our competitiveness," Newsome said in a wide-ranging interview last week with The Associated Press. "We became a bit inward looking."
Back in the 1990s, the authority announced plans to build a massive $1.2 billion Global Gateway shipping terminal on Daniel Island. But there was public opposition and state lawmakers directed the agency to build a smaller terminal, now under construction, at the old Charleston Naval Base in North Charleston.
"I think people were confused as to how we could declare such grandiose plans and then pull back on them," Newsome said. "I think it sent a message that we weren't serious about being in the port business more so than anyone else."
At the same time, Savannah aggressively brought in distribution centers that could be served by its port.
"They did a great job of targeting certain segments and speaking with one voice and not really accepting no for an answer at a time when we were a bit fractured in how we looked at the port," Newsome said.
"We lost our competitive focus but we have it back now. We are competing very diligently for all segments of business. I think we have corrected that," he said.
Still, the troubled economy is affecting port business. During the first quarter of the fiscal year that began last July 1, the volume of cargo moving through Charleston and Georgetown increased although container volume in Charleston was flat.
Last year residents and environmental groups who want limits on the cruise industry in Charleston sued Carnival Cruise Lines alleging the company's vessels are a public nuisance, amount to illegal hotel operations and that their signature red, white and blue smokestacks violate city sign ordinances.
Newsome called the suit "disgusting" and said that while he understands some people are concerned about the cruise ships, most people in Charleston support the industry and the jobs it means.
He said the authority has voluntarily agreed that about two ships a week is appropriate and will consult with city residents if the industry were to expand more. He doesn't think that will be needed because the cruise industry is a niche market in Charleston.
The industry attracts about 200,000 passengers a year, less than 4 percent of the city's tourism industry. Tourism is about a $14 billion industry in South Carolina, most of it generated on the state's coast.
"I really don't want the port to be defined by the cruise issue," Newsome said. "It's only a small part of our business and I think it's a shame, honestly, that it takes such an overriding perspective with the public."
On other issues Newsome repeated that Charleston, with its deep natural harbor, is the best choice among Southeastern harbors to be deepened to 50 feet to handle larger ships that will be calling after the Panama Canal is widened in 2014. A study on the Charleston deepening is now under way.
As for a terminal on the Jasper County side of the Savannah River, Newsome said that, with port authorities in both South Carolina and Georgia each investing around $1 billion at existing locations, such a new terminal would not be needed, at the earliest until 2035.
Last month, the South Carolina ports board said it won't spend any more money to develop a Jasper port until the state can work out key details with Georgia, including when the federal government will release an easement on the terminal site now used for putting silt from dredging the river channel.


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Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS)
"According to a recent news story, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may have violated federal privacy laws by using American citizens' data without providing legally-required notice to the public. Reportedly, the data was used to test out a new data-mining program entitled Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement (ADVISE), that could take effect as soon as 2008. ADVISE is being tested via several DHS pilot programs, including one at the Office of Intelligence and Analysis."
Any and all activities of the Federal Government to implement the proposed component program of the Citizen Corps known as Operation TIPS (Terrorism Information and Prevention System) are hereby prohibited.
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- FBI in Your Library
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- An ACLU news release on the Total Information Awareness program
| In the News: TIA | American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU): TIPS | ALA Policy on Governmental Intimidation | FBI in Your Library | The USA Patriot Act in the Library | Confidentiality and Coping with Law Enforcement Inquiries: Guidelines for the Library and its Staff | Privacy: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights | Questions and Answers on Privacy and Confidentiality | In Defense of Freedom | Bill of Rights Defense Committee | Resolution Reaffirming the Principles of Intellectual Freedom in the Aftermath of Terrorist Attacks |
"Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."—Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, "The One Un-American Act." Nieman Reports, vol. 7, no. 1 (Jan. 1953): p. 20.
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."—Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. U.S. (1928)
"What happened was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to be governed by surprise, to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believe that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. ~ The crises and reforms (real reforms too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter. ~ To live in the process is absolutely not to notice it — please try to believe me — unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted.' ~ Believe me this is true. Each act, each occasion is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. ~ Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we did nothing) . . . You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair."—A German professor describing the coming of fascism in They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer
In the News: Terrorist Information Awareness
New Name of Pentagon Data Sweep Focuses on Terror (May 21, 2003)
"Saying they are worried about Americans' privacy, Pentagon officials announced in a report today that they were changing the name of a projected system to mine databases for information to help catch terrorists to Terrorist Information Awareness from Total Information Awareness."
Terrorism Information Awareness Program (formerly "Total Information Awareness Program") Guide to the Report to Congress
Press Release: Report to Congress Regarding the Terrorism Information Awareness Program
Executive Summary: Report to Congress Regarding the Terrorism Information Awareness Program
Report to Congress Regarding the Terrorism Information Awareness Program
"That is, the system will arrest almost 3 million innocent people, about 3,000 times the number of guilty ones."
"We've now let fear of terrorism make us forget our history, and we've surrendered accountability and privacy."
The Legal Twists in Securing a Homeland (posted here, December 5, 2002)
"You have to question the wisdom of legislation that encourages private citizens to share information they've collected with our federal government. Offer them immunity from civil prosecution for their information and you're asking for a witch hunt. Prevent the press from gaining access to the information and source materials, and you've got a formula for framing innocent citizens and a prescription for a cover-up."
Total Information Awareness for the Ages (December 3, 2002)
"The Pentagon assures us we have nothing to fear from its new Total Information Awareness (TIA) counter-terrorism project, a colossal effort to assemble and "mine" massive databases of our credit card purchases, car rentals, airline tickets, official records and the like. The aim is to monitor the public's whereabouts, movements and transactions to glean suspicious patterns that indicate terrorist planning and other shenanigans. Well, we shouldn't always trust the assurance of the Pentagon."
Department of Homeland Security (November 25, 2002)
"On November 25, 2002, President Bush signed the "Homeland Security Act of 2002" into law. The Act restructures and strengthens the executive branch of the Federal Government to better meet the threat to our homeland posed by terrorism. In establishing a new Department of Homeland Security, the Act for the first time creates a Federal department whose primary mission will be to help prevent, protect against, and respond to acts of terrorism on our soil. "
Big Brother's big win (November 20, 2002)
"This week's closed-door ruling by a secretive court will give the feds unprecedented domestic spying powers, a constitutional expert says."
A Snooper's Dream (November 18, 2002)
"The threat of terrorism has created a powerful appetite in Washington for sophisticated surveillance systems to identify potential terrorists. These efforts cannot be allowed, however, to undermine civil liberties. There is a program now in the research stage at the Pentagon that, if left unchecked by Congress, could do exactly that. Ostensibly designed to enhance national security, it could lead to an invasion of personal privacy on a massive scale."
ACLU Calls on President Bush to Disavow New Cyber-Spying Scheme That Seeks to Put Every American Under Scrutiny (November 14, 2002)
"The American Civil Liberties Union today called on President Bush to disavow a new system being developed at the Pentagon that would be able to track every American's activities."
You Are a Suspect (November 14, 2002)
"If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:
Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as 'a virtual, centralized grand database.'"
Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans (November 9, 2002)
"The Pentagon is constructing a computer system that could create a vast electronic dragnet, searching for personal information as part of the hunt for terrorists around the globe — including the United States."
Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision (August 15, 2002)
"Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be 'enemy combatants' has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace."
Joe Lieberman Joins Big Brother: The Return of the Thought Police (August 12, 2002)
"By directing Americans to conduct illegal searches—searches the police would not have the authority to conduct without a warrant—on their fellow Americans, the U.S. Government is essentially turning the average citizen into an extension of the thought police."
Antiterror tipster plan to be overhauled (August 10, 2002)
"The Operation TIPS program being instituted by the Justice Department initially was to have been launched this month. But on Friday, officials said it will not be put into effect until Congress returns in September. The idea is to allow time for consultation with lawmakers, they said. In the meantime, the department modified the plan to exclude as would-be tipsters people from industries and government agencies that often have access to people's homes. The Terrorism Information and Prevention System will focus instead on workers who operate on the highways, such as truck drivers, and at the ports of entry, officials said."
TIPS Watch
"John Ashcroft and the Bush Administration's insatiable appetite for new powers in the wake of 9/11 has taken on an alarming dimension — the recruitment of American workers, including your meter reader and your cable technician among them — to spy on their fellow Americans."
Ashcroft's Master Plan to Spy on Us (August 2, 2002)
"But Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich, ranking Democrat on the Government Oversight Committee's National Security Oversight Subcommittee, told Bill Berkowitz in The Progressive: 'It appears we are being transformed from an information society to an informant society.'"
This Delivery Guy Won't Spy (July 31, 2002)
"After the World Trade Center attack, my fellow workers and I — along with my company's management — donated time and money to support the victims of this crisis. We will be there for our country — and our customers — anytime we are needed. But a program that asks people like us to do surveillance is a dangerous overreaction. It threatens the trust we've built in the communities we serve every day. After all, part of being free in America is knowing that the people who live and work in your neighborhood are not reporting on your activities. To surrender that freedom is to give a victory to the terrorists who thought they could intimidate an entire nation. As for me, I won't live in fear and I won't foster it, either."
The Societal Costs of Surveillance (July 26, 2002)
"But today in America, I wonder what can get a person into trouble. What if the exterminator, whose monthly visits keep my house pest free, suddenly registers my last name as unusual? I'm a transplant to Hawaii and not a member of its common ethnic groups. What if the person who fixed my window screens tells someone about the Islamic-style plaque in my kitchen, the one with the 99 names of God written in Arabic script, a beautiful reminder of a short tourist trip to Pakistan before all this started? What if the man who delivered some furniture the other day reports the phone call he heard me take from my father, the one in which I commiserated with him about the stock market and said nasty things about people in power? What will happen when the snooping begins?"
War on Terrorism or Police State? (July 25, 2002)
"For, if we win the war on terrorism, but create a police state in the process, what have we won?"
Stop the Government from Turning Neighbor Against Neighbor!
"In one of the most misguided responses to the terrorist attacks, President Bush is proposing a program to recruit one million volunteers to act as spies and informants against their neighbors."
The Furor Over TIPS (July 23, 2002)
"'The notion that you would actually encourage people who are not empowered or trained to do so, to snoop on their fellow citizens and report [on] them is particularly spooky,' says Joan Bertin, Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship. 'There seems to be no limits, no controls, no guidelines, no rules, no nothing.'"
A chill in the library (July 23, 2002)
"Under the USA-Patriot Act, passed by Congress in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, librarians have been made unwitting partners in the FBI's search for potential terrorists. Any records a library might retain on a patron's reading choices or Internet use are now retrievable by federal law enforcement with an easily obtainable court order. Librarians, traditionally defenders of intellectual freedom, are being pressed to become extensions of law enforcement, and many are balking at the new job description."
Cops, not mailmen, should hunt terrorists (July 23, 2002)
"Americans have enough to fear from terrorists. They shouldn't have to fear their neighbors, too."
Republican Majority Leader Armey Rejects White House Plans for Operation TIPS, National ID (July 18, 2002)
"'Majority Leader Armey has taken a courageous step in insisting that we protect our privacy in the fight against terror,' said Rachel King, an ACLU Legislative Counsel. 'There is no place in America for either an internal passport or for utility workers and cable technicians to become government-sanctioned peeping toms.'"
Terrorism Information and Prevention System (TIPS)
"Operation TIPS — the Terrorism Information and Prevention System — will be a nationwide program giving millions of American truckers, letter carriers, train conductors, ship captains, utility employees, and others a formal way to report suspicious terrorist activity. Operation TIPS, a project of the U.S. Department of Justice, will begin as a pilot program in 10 cities that will be selected." See also What Is Operation TIPS?, Planned volunteer-informant corps elicits "1984" fears, and ACLU Says Bush Administration Should Not Allow Operation TIPS To Become An End Run Around Constitution.
Links to non-ALA sites have been provided because these sites may have information of interest. Neither the American Library Association nor the Office for Intellectual Freedom necessarily endorses the views expressed or the facts presented on these sites; and furthermore, ALA and OIF do not endorse any commercial products that may be advertised or available on these sites.


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October 11, 1921 - March 24, 2013
Middletown, NY
Salvatore C. Napolitano, of Middletown, NY, passed away Sunday, March 24th, at Orange Regional Medical Center. He was 91.
Sal was born in Middletown, NY on October 11, 1921, a son of the late Dominick and Jennie Morreale Napolitano. He was the widower of Mary Distefano Napolitano.
He served in the U.S. Army Air Force as a Sergeant in World War II. He owned and operated Napp Pontiac on Fulton Street, Middletown for 20 of his car dealership 36 years. His last 16 years was with Orange County Buick in Middletown.
He was a communicant of St. Joseph Catholic Church; Member and Past President of Middletown Auto Dealers Assn.; Director, Past President of Orange County Chamber of Commerce; Past President Greater Middletown Industrial Fund; Past President Greater Industrial Expansion Corp., Middletown; Distinguished Past President, Middletown Kiwanis Club; Past Distinguished Lt. Governor, Hudson River West Division, Kiwanis New York District; Life Member BPO Elks Lodge 1097; Life member American Legion Post 151.
He is survived by his brother, Dominick Napolitano and his wife, Jean; niece, Jeri Lynn Napolitano; sister-in-law, Anna Dragone, all of Middletown. He is also survived by cousins and several nieces and nephews -in-law.
Sal was predeceased by his long time companion, Jackie Terwilliger.
Friends are invited to call on Wednesday, March 27th from 4 to 8 p.m. at Morse Funeral Home Inc., 33 Railroad Ave., Middletown, NY with Kiwanis services at 7p.m. and Elk services at 7:30 p.m. Funeral Services will be at 11 a.m. at the funeral home on Thursday, March 28th with Louis W. Morse officiating as celebrant. Interment will follow at St. Joseph Cemetery, Middletown, NY with Military and American Legion honors.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Middletown Kiwanis Scholarship Fund, PO Box 752, Middletown, NY 10940 or to The Elks National Foundation Scholarship, BPO Elks of the USA, 2750 N. Lakeview Ave., Chicago, IL 60614-1889
Arrangements are under the guidance of Morse Funeral Home Inc., 845-343-6918, www.morsefuneralhome.com.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Sep 2005 11:44 UTC
Support for mouse gesture recognition has been implemented. By using the System Manager "Gesture" plugin you can add, remove and configure your own mouse gestures. Whenever SkyOS recognizes a conigured mouse gesture, the desired action is performed. You can select from many pre-configured actions like: maximize/minimize window, close application, launch application, etc. The entire gesture recognition is fully intergrated into SkyOS/SkyGI as a service application which can easily be enabled/disabled. The obligatory screenshot.


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Park And Pipe
You'll find Stevens Pass, not surprisingly, on the top of Stevens Pass- two hours east of Seattle (about 78 miles) on U.S. Highway 2. Like most Northwest resorts, its more of a daytrip area. Get an early start; grab some yellow goggle lenses, a latte, and some friends. With over 450 inches of annual resort snowfall, if its raining in Seattle, its probably snowing at Stevens.—Annie Fast
You're looking at probably the best park in Washington. Teamriders Marni Yamada and Elan Bushell jib their sticks through this park daily. The Brooks lift runs the length of the 25 acres of tabletops and rails, which leads into the only Superpipe in Washington State. The pipe is located on the lower half of Waterfall. Marni Yamada says, "It's definitely fun enough to lap through all winter long, and the jumps really progress through the winter." There're also minirails and a minipipe by the Daisy lift.
Stevens is basically two mountains encompassing five different areas, including the lower frontside, Big Chief Mountain, Tye Bowl, 7th Heaven, and Mill Valley on the backside. Locals don't know the names of the runs any better than you, so just choose the frontside or backside, depending on the wind. The terrain is classic Northwest: steeps, chutes, rollers, and snow-ghosted fir trees—it's all here.
Try taking Big Chief to the Double-Diamond triple and dropping into Big Chief Bowl, or off the backside to Mill Valley. The backside has wide-open meadows, gulches, and steep glades (Corona Glades). Local rider Joey McGuire says, "The park at Stevens is fun, but the terrain getting to the park is even more fun." He's talking about the super steep Bobby and Nancy Chutes off the three-minute 7th Heaven chair. Ah, Northwest riding. Now, squeegee those goggle lenses, shake out that Gore, and do it all again.
Good Times
Take a time out at dusk in the Soft Landing Bar for fresh local drafts, live music, and cute bartenders, then head back out for a night session. You can also hit the Whistling Port down in Skykomish.
Don't Miss
Stevens Pass isn't messin' around when it comes to the Snowskate Park. The 4,000-square-foot park comes complete with rails, boxes, tables, and a quarterpipe. Five bucks will get you in.
Also, be on the lookout for the Sound Strait Productions crew filming their follow-up to this year's local hit Couching Tiger.
You've only got a few options. The Tye Creek Deli has sandwiches, soups, nachos and baked potatoes. The Iron Goat Pizza Station has pizza. If you're in a hurry, grab a burger from the Outer Limits Grill on the west end of the Pacific Crest Lodge. Chill out in the Bull's Tooth with adult beverages and pub food.
The closest lodging option (besides snuggled up with your malamute in the bed of your truck in the parking lot) is sixteen miles west down the road in Skykomish or about an hour east in Leavenworth. Otherwise, Stevens has an RV overnight parking area above Lot A with electrical hook-ups for 30 dollars a night on weekends and holidays and ten dollars a night the rest of the time—they're available on a first-come, first-served basis (unless you have an RV season pass).
Nightime Quarterpipe Jam, Friday Night Jam Series, Stomp Games, and the Mama Fest.
Average annual snowfall: 450 inches
Summit elevation: 5,853 feet
Vertical drop: 1,800 feet
Number of lifts: 12 (Two high-speed quads, one quad, four triple chairs, three double chairs, two rope tows.)
Shreddable acres: 1,125
Minipipe: One
Superpipe: One
Parks: Two
Snowskate park: Yes
Lights: 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.—weather permitting
Local shops: Revolution (Wenatchee) (509) 665-6662; Hillbillies (Gold Bar) (360) 793-0221
Adult ticket price: $45 (9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.), $36 (12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.), and $28 (4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.).
Info: (206) 812-4510, stevenspass.com
Best day ever at Stevens, or just another day? Go find out. Joey McGuire will probably be there busting smooth Indys just like this. Photo: Chris Owen
Oh hell yeah! Barrett CChristy boosts a clean one. Who needs a park when the freeriding is this good? Photo: Chris Owen


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Aug 2008 05:57 UTC, submitted by Kaj de Vos
Kristian Van Der Vliet tracked down and fixed the bug that prevented Syllable from booting off a USB device. The project published a new development build that will boot from a USB CD player. This means Syllable can now be installed in a regular way on machines that don't have an IDE CD player, such as the Asus Eee PC and other small laptops. Installing to a USB device, such as a memory stick, is not possible yet, due to further USB bugs that lock up the installation process. These are being investigated. The new development build also has the new Webster browser included.
Go Syllable
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Thanks for the insightful, interesting and above all useful feedback.
I most certainly agree, Vanders. The referred comment is indeed extremely insightful, full of valuable information, and I'm sure that you and the res tof the Syllable team will be able to greatly improve Syllable due to the interesting suggestions and heartfelt criticisms in the above comment.
I nominate the comment for Comment Of The Year 2008.
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Go Syllable, Go !!!
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Paper by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold published in "Software-Practice and Experience", 20 (1990), pagg. 899-928. It provides a unified algorithmic presentation of major calendars, and includes Common Lisp source code for calendar conversions and holiday computations.
Document location: http://emr.cs.iit.edu/~reingold/calendar.ps
Nachum Dershowitz | Edward M. Reingold
Calendrical Calculations, II: Three Historical Calendars | Calendrical Calculations (source code)
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A decade of declining state funding for the University of Missouri enhanced the appeal of switching conference alignments from the Big 12 to the more financially stable and lucrative Southeastern Conference, the university's chancellor said Monday.
The University of Missouri-Columbia plans to join the SEC in July under an arrangement announced with much fanfare last month by university and conference officials. The golden financial opportunities associated with the SEC's powerful football programs were a much-publicized part of the deal. Chancellor Brady Deaton acknowledged Monday that repeated state funding cuts to the university also played a role his decision to make the switch.
"Had state funding stayed up and we were in real solid shape financially, there would still be the issues that we were dealing with trying to gain some sense of stability and surety with the Big 12. But the fact that there was pressure financially there, certainly accentuated our attention to that set of issues," Deaton said while answering questions at the annual Missouri-Kansas Associated Press Publishers and Editors Meeting in Kansas City.
Deaton added: "Looking at more stable and perhaps lucrative long-term conference alignment, the attractiveness was enhanced by the financial uncertainty that we were facing."
State funding for Missouri's higher education institutions has failed to keep pace with inflation. In fact, it remains below the levels that colleges and universities were budgeted to receive in 2001, before the first round of many state cuts -- something noted by Deaton during his presentation to the media Monday. This year, the Missouri Department of Higher Education is budgeted to receive $834 million from state general revenues, much of which goes to colleges and universities. In the 2001 budget, that figure was $960 million, according to figures provided by the state Senate Appropriations Committee.
The University of Missouri Board of Curators, which oversees a four-campus system that includes the flagship Columbia site, has pushed for the athletic department to become self-sufficient financially, Deaton said. Given the state funding cuts, the university "simply cannot ask our students and taxpayers to provide the kind of funding needed by a major athletic program," Deaton said.
Missouri ranks 11th among the 14 current and future SEC schools in overall athletics revenue, bringing in $59 million in the 2010-11 academic year. Missouri still has to negotiate its exit fees for leaving the Big 12, which could place a multimillion dollar hit on the university. But Deaton said Monday that the university expects a long-term financial advantage by switching to the SEC, gaining between $2 million to $4 million annually in television revenues, "with some possibility that it could be even greater than that."
Missouri's college and university leaders struck a deal with Gov. Jay Nixon's administration in each of the two previous budget years to freeze tuition in exchange for flat or minimized state funding cuts, though no such agreement was made this year. Deaton said he is not aware of any such discussions for the upcoming year. A Nixon spokesman said he also was unaware of any such possibility.
Deaton said the state's financial pressures have increased the importance of private fundraising for the university. Ideally, he said, donations would help to "create a margin of excellence" for the university provide scholarships and keep up with other top-ranked research institutions around the nation, he said.
But "we're worried, clearly, that if the funding picture doesn't change at the state and national level, that it's going to take all that private fundraising effort just to sort of stay abreast of the very significant needs educationally that are there," Deaton said.


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Duane Allman's Tone Quest and gear Guide
Duane Allman is widely regarded as one of the best guitarists from the late 60's/ 70's. His untimely death in 1971, aged 24, prevented him from achieving the same popularity as pal Eric Clapton...but even as recently as 2003, Rolling Stone magazine voted him number two in their '100 Best Guitarists Of All Time'.
Duane Allman: One of the best guitarists ever.
Duane Allman was born in Nashville, Tennessee, 1946. He started his career as a session player, and in November 1968 he was hired to play on an album with Wilson Pickett. Allman's work on that album, Hey Jude (1968), got him hired as a full-time session musician at Muscle Shoals studios and brought him to the attention of a number of other musicians, such as guitar great Eric Clapton, who later said, "I remember hearing Wilson Pickett's 'Hey Jude' and just being astounded by the lead break at the end. ... I had to know who that was immediately — right now."
Allman's performance on "Hey Jude" blew away Atlantic Records producer and executive Jerry Wexler when Hall played it over the phone for him. Wexler immediately bought Allman's recording contract from Hall and wanted to use him on sessions with all sorts of Atlantic R&B artists.
While at Muscle Shoals, Allman was featured on releases by a number of artists, including Clarence Carter, King Curtis, Aretha Franklin, Otis Rush, Percy Sledge, Johnny Jenkins, Boz Scaggs, Delaney & Bonnie and jazz flautist Herbie Mann.
Shortly after he recorded his lead break in "Hey Jude", he recorded all of the lead guitar in Boz Scaggs' "Loan Me A Dime." His soloing in the song is noted as some of the best he ever laid down on record. For his first Aretha sessions, Allman traveled to New York, where in January 1969 he went as an audience member to the Fillmore East to see Johnny Winter and prophetically told fellow Shoals guitarist Jimmy Johnson that in a year he'd be on that stage; the Allman Brothers Band indeed played the Fillmore that December.
Duane knew the importance of having the right gear, and like all truly great guitarists spent his too-few years searching for the right tools to produce the tones he heard in his head.
Although Duane's best known for playing a '59 Cherry Sunburst Les Paul or his Cherry SG through a 50-watt Marshall head riding atop a matching 4 x 12 cabinet – the iconic instruments he was photographed playing on stage most often – arriving at that combo took years of real hunting and experimentation, both live and in the studio.
His first notable guitar, other than the Silvertone acoustic he'd swipe from his brother Gregg until he traded a pile of motorcycle parts for his initial electric ax, was a Telecaster with a Stratocaster neck, which then yielded to a '54 Strat. At the start, Duane was a Fender man, running those six-strings through a variety of that company's amps. The Twin-Reverb was his favorite. But Duane hungered for more beef, so he drove his signal with a Fuzz Face distortion box. Legend has it he'd only use run-down batteries to power his pedal, believing their low voltage yielded a warmer sound.
Much of his early, pre-Allmans studio work with Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and others was accomplished with that mix of equipment. But when he formed the Allman Brothers Band in 1969, Duane's quest for tone kicked into high gear. If nothing else, he needed to step up his game sonically with Dickey Betts as his guitar partner and foil. Dickey already had a fatter, more aggressive sound generated via his Gibson ES-345 and '68 SG.
So Duane also got an ES-345, soon followed by a '57 Les Paul Gold Top with PAF pick-ups, and then a Cherry Sunburst Les Paul. He kept the Gold Top's pickups, however, and swapped them into the Sunburst.
The Allman Brothers Band went on to become one of the most influential rock groups of the 1970s, described by Rolling Stone's George Kimball in 1971 as "the best damn rock and roll band this country has produced in the past five years." After months of nonstop rehearsing and gigging, including fondly remembered free shows in Macon's Central City Park and Atlanta's Piedmont Park, the group was ready to settle on the Allman Brothers Band name, and to record. Their debut album, The Allman Brothers Band, was recorded in New York in September 1969 and released a couple months later. In the midst of intense touring, work began in Macon and Miami (Atlantic South - Criteria Studios), and a little bit in New York, on the ABB's second album, Idlewild South. Produced mostly by Tom Dowd, Idlewild South was released in August 1970 and broke ground for the ABB by quickly hitting the Billboard charts.
A group date in Miami, also that August, gave Allman the chance to participate in Eric Clapton's Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Clapton had long wanted to meet Allman; when he heard that the Allman Brothers were due to play in Miami, where he had just started work on Layla with producer Tom Dowd, he insisted on going to see their concert, where he met Allman. After the show the two bands—the Allman Brothers Band and Derek and the Dominos—returned to Criteria, where Allman and Clapton quickly formed a deep rapport during an all-night jam session. At one point, Allman cautiously asked Clapton if he could come by the studio to watch. Clapton refused, telling Allman to bring his guitar because, "you got to play." Allman wound up participating on most of the album's tracks, contributing some of his best-known work. Allman never left the Allman Brothers Band, though, despite being offered a permanent position with Clapton. Allman never toured with Derek and the Dominos, but he did make three appearances with them on December 1, 1970 at the Curtis Hixon Hall and the following day at Onondaga County War Memorial, and one appearance {exact date in 1970 uncertain} at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Calif.
Z.Z. Top's Billy Gibbons found Duane's most significant guitar acquisition for him in 1971: a '58 Tobacco Sunburst Les Paul. He used it on the classic Eat a Peach and The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East albums. As he'd switched to Gibson guitars he also switched to Marshall amps, and those discs in particular capture the thick, buttery, distortion-colored tone that became his signature. Late in '71 Duane got his Cherry SG, too – from Dickey – thus completing the essentials of his sonic arsenal.
Of course, there are fine points. For example, Duane's and Dickey's Marshall cabinets were modified. They were half-open-backed and, instead of the 25-watt Celestion "greenback" speakers that gave Clapton his distinctive Cream-era howl, boasted JBL-D120s for a cleaner sound. Duane also used circular picking to soften his attack and increase his speed.
Then there's Duane's beautiful slide technique. He most often played in standard tuning, which begs a more melodic approach. And his choice of a coricidin bottle – too short to cover all six strings at a time – precluded Elmore James–style full chords, so Duane favored triads. He also muted the strings with his middle finger behind the slide, which he wore on his fourth digit, to remove any unwanted or random harmonics.
And speaking of Elmore, when Duane did play in open tuning he typically opted for E (E-B-E-G#-B-E), also James' open tuning of choice, yielding masterpieces like "Statesboro Blues" and "One Way Out."
The rest was pure mojo and monster technique.
Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident only months after the summer release and great initial success of At Fillmore East.
Duane Allman's Gear:
Early years:
- Fender Telecaster w/ Stratocaster neck
- Vox Super-Beatle amp
- '54 Fender Stratocaster
- Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face (used old 9V batteries because "they make a special sound")
- Fender Twin amp w/JBL speakers
Allman Brothers Band, Layla, Later Session work
- '58-'62 Gibson ES-345 Semi-hollow body (1st album)
- '57 Gibson Les Paul Standard goldtop
- '59 Gibson Les Paul Standard cherry sunburst
- '58 Gibson Les Paul Standard tobacco sunburst
- '61 Gibson Les Paul (SG)[11], formerly belonging to Dickey Betts, who gave it to Duane to use as a slide guitar; the SG's double-cutaway allowed for easier access to the higher frets often used in slide guitar.
- Marshall Bass 50 heads, Marshall Bass 100 cabinets
- Fender Champ combo amps (Layla)
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Compaq Evo N1015v Notebook Review
AMD and The Push in the Mobile Market
This content was originally featured on Amdmb.com and has been converted to PC Perspective's website. Some color changes and flaws may appear.AMD has been attempting to get into the mobile market of sales for as long as I can remember. Their initial attempts were less that successful with the K6 line of processors. Yes, they did make a slight dent in the otherwise impenetrable armor of Intel, but their products were never looked at in the same light. They were big, bulky and not as powerful or fast as their Intel powered counterpart machines.
With the release of the first Athlon XP processors based on the Palomino core back in October of 2001, AMD has been touting their readiness to enter the mobile market. The process of their entry has been slow and tedious, to say the least. With each processor release from AMD on the desktop market, a corresponding release of the mobile processor was also usually announced – but we rarely saw any products available to users for months at a time.
The reason was simply because AMD didn't have the same number of companies wanting to use AMD processors in the laptops. When Intel releases a new mobile chip, the infrastruture is already there and the necessary research and development is very fast. But in AMD's case, system builders nearly had to start from scratch and that is why we see such a long delay between product releases and product availability.
Just another point in the same manner is that the laptop review that you are reading today is based on the Athlon XP 1800+ processor – one that was released to the mobile market on July 15th, 2002.
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Interview by Christian Feuerstein '94
Bart Leib '00 and his independent science fiction publishing company, Crossed Genres, have had successful Kickstarter campaigns before. "We [funded] our first anthology and our first book" through the crowdfunding site, he says. However, for Crossed Genre's third Kickstarter campaign, to fund the publication of six titles through 2013, he asked renowned author Neil Gaiman for a mention on his Twitter feed—and Gaiman went to the campaign's website, read all about it, and enthusiastically promoted it to his 1.7 million followers on Twitter. The attention from Gaiman meant that the project was fully funded quickly, and now Crossed Genres is also bringing back Crossed Genres magazine and is well on its way to its second stretch goal of "going pro"—paying authors according to the standards set by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). [Editor's note: In the week before publication, Crossed Genres met this goal.] Bart chatted about Antioch co-ops, Amanda Palmer's Kickstarter success, and ill-advised changes in majors.
What brought you to Antioch College? How did you first hear of it?
When I found out that my best friend's mother had gone there in the '50s, I did my research and I felt that it would be a good fit.
What was your major?
I started out as a creative writing major. I then started doing theater. I decided I wanted to write for the theatre, and [laughs] I made an ill-advised major swap.
Who were some of your favorite professors?
Louise Smith was my advisor—she was great. She really empowered me. Bob Devine. Faculty member Scott Warren was great—I took a philosophy course from him.
Tell us about some of your favorite co-ops.
Oh man! I did a theater co-op in Minneapolis. I had a lot of fun. The whole experience was great … working backstage on shows. I did a six-month co-op in London. I spent the entire time working as a bartender. I got to do side trips to Amsterdam and Prague.
What is your advice for the current students?
Their situation is so different from ours; the culture is very different. However, universal advice that would still apply—the most important thing you could do in college is figure out who you are. There's a lot of trial and error involved in that, and that is what they should be pursuing.
On his publishing company, Crossed Genres, and its success using Kickstarter:
We started in September 2008. We went to Worldcon [the World Science Fiction convention] in Denver that year, and we got the chance to talk to authors and agents about the idea of a magazine that had a different theme every month. The magazine lasted until December of 2011. We did our first anthology after the first twelve issues of the magazine—we published a story from each issue. The first book was a novel we had serialized, A Festival of Skeletons. That came out in December of 2010. The anthology and the novel were both funded through Kickstarter.
I've been amazingly impressed with Amanda Palmer's Kickstarter. [Editor's note: Amanda Palmer recently had one of the highest-grossing Kickstarter projects, raising over $1 million for her next album and book.] What makes the biggest difference between a successful Kickstarter project and an unsuccessful one is doing your homework. With our first two projects, no one had any idea about the correct way to do it, and what you can expect to bring in. By the time we did this Kickstarter, there's a wealth of information out there and there's a lot more data to work with.
Neil Gaiman retweeting us was great, but, looking at the numbers, it's really at most about one-quarter of the money we brought in [through Gaiman's Twitter following]. We met our first stretch goal—bringing back the magazine—in four days.
Any possibility of you using Kickstarter to fund a co-op position at Crossed Genres?
I would love to do that, but I'm not sure how to convince backers to support it—showing them the direct benefit would be difficult.


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I got the URL to the tracking information page (courtesy of the OLPCNews forums) shortly after Christmas - December 26 or 27 - and was puzzled to see that apparently my XO had shipped on December 13th, but never made it any further than arriving in Chicago.
Now, many calls to (and much misinformation from phone people at) OLPC later, I'm still no nearer to having my XO. I went to FedEx and had a package trace done - they confirmed it was lost, no longer present in the Chicago center, and gave me a case number, which I provided to OLPC. Today I discovered that all that information had apparently been lost by OLPC - it wasn't part of my record at all! It seems that whoever I had given it to before had neglected to enter or save it anywhere.
The person I spoke to at OLPC handling FedEx claims also stated rather flatly that they can't cross-ship another laptop, which sounds rather like I'll have to wait out the claim, and I won't be receiving an XO in timely fashion, if at all.
I'm very close to the end of my rope at this point - my next step will be to dispute my transaction with Paypal, for an item never received. OLPC's own January 15th 'deadline' seems like a good line to draw in the sand for that.
(Do actual OLPC employees read this forum? I hope so.)


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Investigators looking for clues to the motives behind the Chadha family shootout in Chattarpur might get some leads in Ministry of Corporate Affairs filings of the Wave group of companies.
The filings show the stakes involved could be much more than just the Chattarpur farmhouse.
Gurdeep Singh Chadha aka Ponty Chadha and his younger brother Hardeep Singh Chadha were killed in the shootout on Saturday.
In a filing on March 18, 2012, Wave Industries, a key Chadhaa group company that controls its sugar and distilleries businesses, said Hardeep had vacated the office of director under Section 283.
Section 283 of the Companies Act deals with 'removal of a director' under specific circumstances.
The company also filed a copy of the board resolution explaining the circumstances of the removal.
The copy of the resolution was signed by Ponty Chadha, managing director.
The resolution passed on February 28 said, "Resolved that Hardeep Singh Chadha, director of the company, having absented himself from meetings of the board of directors held during a continuous period of more than three months as well as more than three consecutive meetings of the board of directors. . . without obtaining leave of absence from the board, be and hereby is deemed to have vacated his office of director the company. . . wef 28 February, 2012."
According to the resolution, the junior Chadha, some 11 years younger to the 52-year-old Ponty, did not attend three meetings held in November and December 2011.
The resolution authorised Manpreet Singh Chadha, Ponty's son and director, to file the necessary forms with the registrar, indicating Hardeep's removal.
The filing also showed the disparity in the lifestyles of the two camps.
Hardeep lived in an upper middle class New Friends Colony house, whereas the elder brothers Ponty and Rajinder and Ponty's son Manpreet called farmhouses in the upmarket Oak Drive in DLF Chattarpur their respective homes. Six months later, Ponty relinquished his position of managing director of Wave Industries. On the same day, August 29, Rajinder and Manpreet also ceased to be directors.
Ponty's resignation letter to the company does not give away much.
He simply says he 'is unable to continue as managing director due to personal reasons.
So, you are requested to please accept my resignation wef August 29, 2012.'
Wave Industries, originally incorporated as Chadha Sugars in 1997, is a key group company and has an integrated sugar-cum-power plant in Uttar Pradesh.
In place of these three family members, two UP-based directors were appointed to the board the same day.
They were Davinder Singh Bindra of Lucknow and Kailash Nath Singh of Rampur.
While the latter's name corresponds to that of a prominent politician in UP, Business Standard could not independently verify if he was the person listed as a director in Wave's books.
Not much is known about Bindra, designated as a whole-time director.
It is not clear what prompted Ponty and his kin to step down from the board of this key company, leaving it to outsiders.
"If there were any liabilities, just by resigning from the board, they could not escape those. They would have known that.
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Indentation sensitivity: a post-mortem?
Things went fairly smoothly at first. I read a short description of how Python's lexer works and in no time banged out an equivalent one with leex. Inspired by this, I proceeded constructing my grammar, largely defaulting to Ruby or Erlang in cases I was uncertain of and hardly ever looking at the Python grammar. I wanted Reia to have a purely expression-based syntax where everything returns a value, as opposed to a Pythonic grammar with both expressions and statements which return no value. This would prove to be my undoing.
At the time I didn't understand the beautiful set of compromises Guido van Rossum managed to make when designing the Python grammar. I became curious as to why my language had multi-line lambdas and Python did not. The answer to that question would lay in a problem with my grammar I would soon discover and could not come up with a good solution to.
I first discovered the problem with Reia's multi-line blocks. I had used them in the past in small 1-2 liner functions without issue, and all had seemed well. Then some time later I tried to add more to a function after a multi-line block. I ran into an unexpected syntax error... I couldn't put any additional expressions after a multi-line block.
Blocks are more or less lambdas, so it would seem as if I had hit the infamous multi-line lambda problem. I compared the output of my lexer to Python's and found the two to be identical. The answer would lie in the grammar. Looking at the tokens there was no statement separator between multi-line statements in Python.
From Python's grammar.txt:
statement ::= stmt_list NEWLINE | compound_stmt
What does this line mean? All ordinary statements (i.e. stmt_lists), such as expressions, and anything that fits on a single line must be terminated by a NEWLINE. The "compound statements", ones which span multiple lines, were self-contained. There was no statement separator between them and the next statement. In the Zen of Python they just are, with no explicitly delineated boundaries.
This underlies the magic of Python's "indent consistently and your code will be valid" syntax. I could not duplicate this using a Python-style lexer. The best I could come up with was modifying the lexer to accept a few different cases of empty lines as being syntactically significant, which meant indentation sensitivity would be more obtrusive.
Reading Guido van Rossum's rationale against multi-line lambdas in Python, Language Design Is Not Just Solving Puzzles, he lays out his case: any solution that embeds an indentation-based block in the middle of an expression is unacceptable, and an alternate way of grouping syntax besides indentation is unacceptable. I certainly agree with the latter... it's silly to have some expression/statement groupings indentation based and some grouped by enclosing tokens. The former was a bit more subtle... I didn't realize what separating out statements from expressions afforded in the grammar (specifically in regard to the self-contained "compound statements").
I started noticing other mismatches between indentation sensitivity and an expression-based grammar which aren't present in Python. Implicit line joning in Python removes tokens which are useless in the given context (which much be inside an expression) since expressions can't contain statements. In Reia's previous form implicit line joining would rule out a whole host of otherwise gramatically valid constructions embedding expressions with indent blocks inside other expressions. But without implicit line joining, the programmer is very limited in terms of splitting up function arguments, lists, dicts, and tuples across multiple lines.
I also started to notice all sorts of strange syntactic oddities which emerge in a grammar which embeds indentation blocks in statements. This is exactly the kind of ugliness I believe Guido sought to avoid by disallowing indent blocks within expressions.
Unhappy with that direction, I looked to alternatives which preserve indentation sensitivity. The Haskell approach to indentation seemed interesting, and I found a expression-based Python-like language with Haskell-like indentation: Logix. It turned out to be by Tom Locke, who would go on to author Hobo, the web application builder for Rails. (Edit: Tom Locke mailed me back saying he doesn't like indentation-based syntaxes any more and now prefers Ruby)
This seemed like a potential direction to go in, but at this point, I was sick of indentation sensitivity. My conclusion is it works very well in Python, and if you're content to separate your grammar into statements and expressions and only have indent blocks in statements, it's a great way to go with a language.
I simply wasn't content to abandon an expression-based grammar. I needed multi-line expressions, specifically for Ruby-style blocks, if nothing else. In a totally unscientific poll of Rubyists I put together, the #1 feature with a 75% approval rating was blocks. I couldn't have multi-line expressions in an indentation sensitive language where I desperately deisred them for blocks. So something had to give...
Last night I pushed a new "indentless" branch for Reia. Without indentation sensitivity the Python influence is starting to wane and it's beginning to look a lot like Ruby. I spent tonight cleaning it up and making sure it can build itself from scratch, as well as converting all the code examples and remaining parts of the standard library.
This is quite likely the direction Reia is going to go. So far the response to abandoning indentation sensitivity has been overwhelmingly positive. It will certainly be a boon for people making template languages as now it will be quite easy to put together something like ERb or a template language which embeds Reia syntax with little worry.
Short of someone making an impassioned plea for preserving indentation sensitivity, it will soon be gone from Reia.
12 comments:
- Brian Ford said...
The force is strong in this one; he will join the dark side. :)
Thanks for the explanation, Tony. I never bothered to understand it at this level.
- March 5, 2009 at 9:57 AM
- Reid Kleckner said...
So I was considering a similar problem, since I'm also trying to design a programming language as a small side project. It's much less serious, and more of a playground for ideas.
For our language, we went the statements/expressions route, but I think you can hack blocks back into a statement grammar. We came up with a syntax something like this:
my_dict.items().each(&) func(k, v):
The idea is similar to the Ruby innovation of putting the block code outside of the parenthesis as one would have in Lisp. Here, you go further, and just use s simple syntactic placeholder (I picked & since we weren't using it for bitwise and), and just put it at the end of the line. You could nest blocks, but you could not have more than one per statement. It seems like you can't do that in Ruby either, and I think having multiple blocks stuffed into the same statement would be super confusing.
Of course, in your case you'd have to abandon things like:
x = if b
But we didn't want that syntax anyway.
- March 5, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- Matthew said...
You could extend into a second dimension. By that I mean that a line of code is a horizontal sequence of terms, but some of those terms could extend vertically. You would need an editor which would let you insert a multi-line section of text into a line. A bit tricky in normal editors, though...
- March 5, 2009 at 6:33 PM
- tav said...
Hey Tony,
While it doesn't suit the expressions-only approach you desire, I came up with a Pythonic way to do Ruby blocks:
* http://tav.espians.com/ruby-style-blocks-in-python.html
Hope it's useful.
Let me know what you think and keep up the great work with Reia!
-- Thanks, tav
- March 8, 2009 at 8:37 AM
- Ian Bicking said...
If you want to support templating languages, then you really should support some kind of AST that template languages can compile down into. Generating source code from a template is half-assed at best.
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English language is really not among the easiest languages in the world, even for native speakers. That's why there is a demand and ask for English grammar check software, a technology that has evenhandedly new and getting more sophisticated day in and day out. See more corrector grammar
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Irecently attended two large fruit and vegetable meetings. At both the dominant source of discussion by guest politicians, keynote speakers and farmers was labor. More precisely, discussions centered around a shortage of labor.
Nationwide it is estimated that fruit and vegetable growers will lose $3 billion to $8 billion in 2007, due to lack of labor to plant, maintain and harvest crops. This loss is more tragic considering the increase in U.S. demand for fresh food and the weak U.S. dollar, which make exporting vegetables, especially to western Europe, a viable marketing option.
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Georgia Senator Johnny Isaakson probably has the most realistic approach to solving the farm labor crisis, and make no mistake, it is a crisis in the Southeast. Sen. Isaakson says the problem is a Federal problem and the U.S. Congress should pass legislation to establish a worker visitation program that is affordable and understandable for both farmers and foreign workers, and we should enforce these laws.
It sounds simple enough, but the farm labor problem has more twists and curves than a winding country road. Farmers don't want cheap labor, they want fair labor and most are willing to pay a premium price for good workers. Working 60 hours a week, skilled field and packing house labor in the fruit and vegetable industry can easily make $10,000 per quarter.
Without a meaningful visiting farm worker program, the biggest management problem for vegetable and annual fruit growers in the Southeast will be how much to plant based on how much labor will be available to harvest the crop. When most of their labor force leaves in October and November, and all a farmer has to base planting decisions on is a handshake, a smile and a promise in broken English that they will be back next year, it's tough to invest well over a thousand dollars an acre to put down plastic, irrigation lines and seed.
One North Carolina grower recently told me he would give me $1,000 for every U.S. citizen I brought to work on his farm, and who stayed there and worked for six consecutive months. He said he had made that same offer to hundreds of people over the past few years and no one has ever taken him up on it.
Clearly, building houses and landscaping yards and golf courses is perceived by foreign workers to be more lucrative and culturally rewarding than picking peaches or packing strawberries. That may be the case, I don't know. It seems simple enough to recruit farm workers, give them a labor card, swipe the card when they cross the border, and if it isn't swiped again in the allotted amount of time, find them and send them back home or to jail.
Except for a few native Americans, all our ancestors came here from somewhere. For the first 200 years or so, our immigration policy seems to have worked just fine. Being an illegal alien had consequences back then, now it seems to come with full benefits, as long as you don't get caught.
Whatever the answer, a solution to our farm labor problem must come quickly, and it must be affordable and enforceable. Otherwise, the potential offered by expanded U.S. demands for fresh fruits and vegetables will realized by farmers outside the U.S.


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In some ways the very idea of a reading disorder makes little sense; particularly in light of the "all things being equal" paradigm – i.e. that reading teachers and curriculum materials are usually adequate vehicles by which to impart this skill. To some extent, this is also true with regard to neuro-developmental factors.
For example, assume a given child has average intelligence, which, according to a study conducted by the Council of Exceptional Children (2011) is typical of most students with reading disorders. The fact that intellectual tests measure many of the same skills needed to learn to read, i.e. auditory memory, visual perception, visual computation and spatial perception suggests the reading disabled child's cognitive and perceptual faculties are functioning well enough to absorb a wide variety of inputs from various sources (school, family, the general environment). This is especially relevant in light of the fact that the evidence for a specific, neurological dysfunction is varied and questionable. For example while some MRI studies have pointed to prefrontal cortical and executive function deficiencies (Beneventi, Tonessen et al. 2010) other studies have suggested cerebellar dysfunction (Nicolson, Faucett et. al 2001) while still another implicated working memory – presumably arising from temporal left hemispheric roots (Berninger, Raskind, 2008). These assumptions are mostly based on brain activity levels – as derived from MRI studies and do not point to pathologies per se. In fact Berninger cautioned against drawing conclusions of neuro-pathological roots to reading disorders due to the fact that unusual brain activity patterns can arise from behavioral compensations learned by the child, resulting in skewed shifts in brain blood flow rather than from neuropathy. The idea that various brain sites could be involved in producing the disorder – as it often asserted with regard to more severe learning disorders such as autism, seems somewhat specious. Children with reading disorders are usually normal in every respect, which runs contrary to the global brain dysfunction hypothesis inferable from these various research and theoretical sources. Read the rest of this entry →