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Jack Davis, PhD, is a professor of environmental history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida. Davis is the author or editor of several books, including An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. The Wall Street Journal called The Gulf a "wide-ranging, well-told story, by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring, and chilling." Davis, who lives on future Gulf-front property in Gainesville, is working on a new book, Bird of Paradox: How the Bald Eagle Saved the Soul of America.
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Each episode is shown in 1.33:1 Full Screen format and with bright colors and a sharp picture; there are no problems to be found here and all looks perfect. Disney does a masterful job of making sure that kids aren't only entertained, but that they're getting top quality in what they watch. Colors are overly bright and the animation is crisp and sharp making for a fun viewing experience. No problems with the transfer from cable to DVD so you're getting nothing but the best here.
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The Animal Crane Game - Kids can play a virtual claw machine and grab eggs that hold animal surprises in them. The cool thing is that they can listen to different instruments after finding each animal. Simplistic yet educational and fun.
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Little Einsteins is a great way for kids to learn and enjoy the world of music, art, geography, history, zoology, and so much more. Cartoons will draw them in and without even realizing it, they will be taught so many lessons that can prepare them for their schooling in years to come. Kind of a shame that there are only four episodes included here and so few special features, but that is just a minor complaint. Personally I'm a big lover of classical music so I was kind of hoping for a soundtrack only function to have it playing in the background during my day. No such luck but still this one is worth grabbing. Recommended.
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I'm always accidentally closing windows inside of Visual Studio and forgetting how to get them back. Here's a little tip for anybody else that's having the same problem. Within Visual Studio, the concept of "windows" is managed from at least three different places that I can find:
- View menu. The logical place where you might go first. There you'll find many "explorers", several "views", a "toolbox" and even a submenu for "Other windows" (which sort of implies that the other things on this menu are also windows, doesn't it?), which contains things like a call browser and a bookmark window, things I don't think I've ever used.
- Window menu. Another semi-obvious choice. However, all this menu does is control how to manage your existing windows - shortcuts to jump to them, and various ways to tab and cascade them.
- Debug->Windows. Aha! The Debug menu has its own Windows menu. Inside that menu you'll find breakpoints, watches, locals, and all that sort of thing.
It's typically the Debug windows that I kill by mistake. Glad I finally figured out how to get them back.


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Ready for your Pinot Grande? Starbucks, the giant coffee retailer, has been undertaking a transformational experiment for the past two years. Back in 2010, on its home turf in Seattle, it began serving beer and wine and premium food in a setting that was meant to evoke a soothing nighttime experience more than a peppy morning wakeup call.
Now "Barbucks" is coming to the Southland. We don't yet know how many locations will serve alcohol along with caffeine, but we do know that the option will be available — and that Starbucks will be charging more-or-less typical prices. Wines will range from $7-9 a glass, while beer will clock in at a fairly modest $5.
We already know that Starbucks can print money, so to speak, by transforming coffee beans, milk, syrup, and other ingredients into $4 and $5 beverages. The beauty of wine and beer is that it requires much less labor to serve than producing a latte.
By-the-glass markups at most bars and restaurants of decent reputation tend to be fairly hefty. A $9 glass probably came from a $9 bottle. And while the size of a "pour" varies, you usually get something like five glasses from a standard 750ml bottle. Presto! A $9 bottle is transformed into $45 — and gross profit margin of 80 percent.
Starbucks will face some costs that it currently avoids in the coffee business. A big one is glassware. I haven't visited any of the pilot locations and don't know the quality of the "stems" that 'Bucks is using. It looks like they've contracted with somebody to create a unique Starbucks glass, stemmed and stemless, that they've been selling in Seattle for about $7 a pop. Let's assume something like a 50 percent price increase, so the stems Starbucks is using cost it about $3.50.
Paper coffee cups, of varying sizes, don't have to be washed for resuse and can head straight for landfills or recycling. Restaurants and wine bars, however, need to factor in the cost of cleaning the stems, not to mention "breakage" — wine glasses lost to minor disasters.
There's also licensing and staff training and so on. But having been around the wine business for years — and having at one time considered becoming a small-operation wine-program consultant — I can say that setting up a wine-by-the-glass program is fairly straightforward. Once you establish the selections and educate the staff, it's pretty much a simple matter of answering questions, pulling corks, controlling the size of the pours, and reporting back to mother ship the wines that are or aren't selling. You build the machine, turn it on, and then watch it make money.
Did Starbucks just become the best bar in the Southland? We'll see. Bars are bars and coffee bars are...well, there are plenty of folks who need Starbucks more than they want Starbucks and prefer other operations. However, based strictly on the financials, this could be a very good business for 'Bucks.
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Be spontaneous as a wedding photographer.
Although you may have already planned things out down to a T, there will always be in-the-moment eureka moments that will occur to you somewhere along the way. Indulge your artistic tendencies and let them show in the photos. You need the skill of adaptability and flexibility as a wedding photographer and this is something that you should strive to achieve and perfect every single day and in every single project that you are about to take on as a professional wedding photographer.
You need to be able to appropriately respond or take action upon whatever is being handed out to you in terms of circumstances and situations. More than that, you should try to go out of your way to react upon things that are on the spot and that are more or less unplanned for either by you or by your clients when it all comes down to it. Let the events happen and let them unfold and just deal with whatever you can deal with during that particular moment. You will be gauged as a wedding photographer based on how you deal with things under pressure.
Encourage a little personality from your subjects.
They don't have to be so serious all the time. Wedding photos don't always have to be so serious and they don't have to be so formal all of the time. Let your subjects have a little more fun from the photo shoot. Let them breathe a little. Allow them to go ahead and put their own spin on things as they go along. It is important that you make sure that your subjects are comfortable enough to feel as if they can go ahead and be themselves at the end of the day. It isn't at all surprising how a lot of people can get a little uncomfortable and can fee a little awkward when it comes to being the subject or the focus of attention of the camera lens all of the time. This is something that you need to be considerate about. Be a little more engaging and approaching as wedding photographers dorset. Make the vibe lax and laid back enough for them to feel as if they can really go ahead and be themselves at the end of the day.
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We have eggs!
I missed the first egg because I was in NY with the kids but now I am rewarded everyday with two fresh eggs. The eggs are still small but I hope as the chickens mature the eggs will get bigger. Kevin can't taste a difference but I can. They have a more vibrant color and I think they are creamer and just plain eggy-er.
|Fresh egg in a nest fashioned by Max out of his blankies.
Little boy loves to pull the eggs out of the box but then doesn't want to let them go. The egg pictured above is in a nest he made for it. He almost makes me feel bad for frying them up by saying things like, "Ahhh Mom, look at the baby!" and "Do you hear a baby in the egg?" While I feel momentarily bad about taking the egg out of his makeshift nest, I feel much better after taking a bite out of a delicious fresh egg served over medium.
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On a sadder, less tasty note - one of the Polish gals died. We aren't sure why but Kevin thinks it got stuck under the roost (a toddler bedframe) and couldn't figure out how to get out and panicked. I thought I would be more upset but think I was prepared after reading about all the ways a chicken can die. The sad part is now the other Polish gal (Elaine) walks around alone. Maybe next spring we can get her some more friends with silly hair dos.


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AI know that if you are on the blog it is certainly not to read about my own private life, but where else can I speak of it ? ;) So, as you may know, the Black Crowes (even if I hate them for not touring in France anymore) is one of my favorite band, "so what ? " you may think, so, I have to thanks them, not only for having wrote My Morning Song (among others), but for having introduced me to the xork of Richard Biffle a long time ago with a wonderful cat poster I never been able to make mine, even after years and years of search...too bad.. :(
Hopefiully not sirens~ Could be anything~from an audio book~NPR~Classic Rock~Grateful Dead, I like a lot of different things to listen to~ but definately the tele wont be on.
Can you tell us more about yourself, who are you, where are you from, what do you do?
I am From Marin~ Raised in Virginia Beach, grew up there and the outher Banks. I went to Art institute of Atlanta in early 80's~ Lived in Japan and throughout the southern states most of my life~ recently lived with my beautiful wife and Muse at 9,000 feet in the colorado rocky mountains. Ready tpo go where the climate suits our clothes~ I have a 6 year old son the 3rd~ and a Step son who is 11~ I love to create~ all i need is food and creative love~
At about my sons age now~ 6
Did you follow any course or did you improve by drawing in the margins of your schoolbooks?
totally impoved my skills by tagging the covers and margins of every book I owned~ even rentals~
Today are you living from your art, or do you do somethingelse for a living ?
I make my living on my art only~
Where does your influence come from? Is there any artists/graphists you particularly like, what are your influences?
older influnces are of course Beardsley,Mucha,LauTrec~ More contemporary influences are Rick Griffin,Alton Kelly,Robert Venosa,Jeff Wood~
Do you do everything by hand or on computer?
mostly tablet now~ I oil paint regulary for myself, but not for jobs and work.
How long does it take you to do a poster?
Completely varies~ on entusiasim. I have done a great poster in 3 hours~and I have taken a ridiculous amout of time and had none of it show.
You have a very distinctive style, are you doing only what you feel like or if tomorrow somebody asks you an oil painting with horses running out of water with a sunset backdrop, is it a problem or are you up for it ?
For which band have you already worked for?
Grateful Dead, Black Crowes, Santana,Jeff Beck, Mule, Blues Traveler, Keller Wiliams, Widespread Panic~ etc.
For which band would you love to work?
right now~ the Original Black (MF) Crowes
What is the most difficult part in designing a poster ?
When theres too much informaton you gotta put on it. Can really trash a great design.
Yeah, I guess? in my jam band kinda way~
A bit of self-promotion, take advantage of it, it's free, where can we see your work , on the web or in real life?
We will be set up at Broomfield at the Phil Lesh shows inside. You can comeby and meet and greet~ we will have as much possible available. the website is olcrowstudio.com~ it was richardbiffle.com but someone stole it and it was biffle.com but someone stole that too. you can order new realeases there and look further into the portfolios over the last 25 years. Setting up gallery shows now for 2012 and will be posting that info on FB and the website.
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Tues., PM. Wells, Bierstecker, Minter v. BrandtSeptember 29, 2004 7:00 am by Gene Borio
After lunch, Wells attacked Brandt's Direct Testimony on Philip Morris' Helmut Wakeham. He made the point that 3 of the documents Brandt cited do not support the conclusion that Wakeham "recognized in numerous internal memoranda the cancer-causing effect of cigarette smoke"
In a 1962 document, Brandt identified Wakeham as the author of a 1962 document that recommended the diversification of Philip Morris "at a greater rate due to the reporting of evidence that smoking leads to disease."
Wells showed that the document was actually written by Mace TO Wakeham. Wells emphasized the beginning of the memo, wherein Mace says that due to recent reports there may be a chance that smoking may cause cancer, "slight though that chance may be." Wells repeated the word "slight."
The end result is that the document clearly can be summed up as, "Though there might be only a slight chance smoking causes cancer– we'd better hurry up and diversify the entire company."
Wells listed 20088, a diagram which Brandt said, "Wakeham identified 84% of the more than 400 gas and particulate compounds in cigarette smoke, including those that he specifically recognized as carcinogens, in sidestream, or secondhand, smoke."
I thought the diagram did indeed show that, but Wells had a kind of odd phrasing of why that interpretation was wrong, and it seemed to confuse Brandt, who had been on the stand about 4 hours, plus lunch (Not to mention Wells' punchy montone, which seemed to be putting the people around me to sleep too). Brandt seemed a bit tired at this juncture, a kind of brain-lock seemed to set in, and after trying to make sense of the document in Wells' terms, said, "That's (his original assessment) what this document seems to say to me."
Wells said the chart said nothing about Wakeham's own personal view.
Wells then produced the famous Wakeham document wherein he said,
"A medically acceptable low-carcinogen cigarette may be possible. Its development would require
Wells tried to make the point that all Wakeham was doing was picking out information that was in the literature at the time, that the document reflected the industry's activities to produce a medically-acceptable cigarette. "That's natural and appropriate," Wells said.
Wells recalled the beginning of testimony wherein he asked Brandt, what he meant by the Direct Testimony that Wakeham "recognized in numerous internal memoranda the cancer-causing effect of cigarette smoke" Wells had asked if that meant what Wakeham wrote about, or if it reflected Wakeham's personal view. Brandt had said "Both," and now couldn't remember his exact response. Wells certainly pounced on that.
The third document Wells cited referred to giving smokers a "psychological crutch" to continue smoking in the face of medical data. Wells claimed Wakeham had gotten the term from the '64 SG Report, which, under "Beneficial Effects of Smoking" said smoking can give smokers a "psychological crutch." And Wakeham knew of and did refer to that very page of the SGR's summation.
Brandt made the point that "psychological crutch" was a catchphrase of the time, and that in his reading of the document Wakeham was using the term far differently than the SG.
Peter Bierstecker from RJR then rose to address his company's issues with Brandt's testimony.
He said that most of the ingredients in cigarette smoke had actually been identified by RJR scientists, and that the constituents in cigarette smoke were publicly available.
Bierstecker brought up a Rodgman document wherein Rodgman states, "Obviously the amount of evidence accumulated to indict cigarette smoke as a health hazard is overwhelming. The evidence challenging such an indictment is scant," and says that evidence should not be taken by RJR at face value.
Bierstecker brought up Rodgman's Minnesota testimony, wherein he said that he meant, (paraphrasing), "If you look at the literature, it would appear overwhelming. But we at RJR knew differently. Our scientists knew more that the literature. And indeed, much of the literature has been proven wrong since."
Brandt said this testimony did not change his view of the document.
Bierstecker, "So you know better than the author."
Minter (sp?), the Lorillard attorney rose to attack Brandt's testimony on a Kent ad that claimed health benefits for Kent.
He wanted to show the "Information Environment" that consumers were in at the time. He produced a series of articles JAMA had done 1953-57 on the tar content of cigarettes. However, the articles did not name the brands they had tested. A "Brand B" was listed as the very lowest.
Minter produced a Reader's Digest from the day, making the point it was a very popular magazine. In one article, the author (unnamed) claimed that "Brand B" was Kent.
So, Minter seemed to be saying, consumers were getting accurate information about Kent's health benefits(!). The caveat to this was, Sure, if they pored over technical JAMA articles, and also read and believed this one Reader's Digest code-breaking article.
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The Cupping Room is a firm brunch favourite when I go back to Canberra. Judging by the lines on any given weekend, I'd say it's also pretty damn popular with the locals.
I've probably mentioned this before, but the coffee at The Cupping Room is either ordered with milk or black, no choice different varieties eg. latte, piccolo etc
Soul shake
This is honestly the best shake I've ever had. The vegan soul shake consisted of a fruity and refreshing blend of watermelon, lychee, coconut and chia. Usually I have a few sips of a shake and start feeling full, but this was so bloody good I had to refrain from finishing it in two seconds - fingers crossed this shake is a regular feature on their menu.
Salmon tartare
Crumbled haloumi burger
The salmon tartare comes with beetroot puree, a poached egg, creme fraiche with salmon roe and thin slices of crispbread. The haloumi burger comes with a batch of hot chips - can't go wrong with chips. I would've preferred the slice of haloumi to be less thick or pan fried instead.
The food is always consistently good and it's never too much of a wait for a table, despite the occasional long line.
Check out the blog post on my previous visit here: http://missklicious.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/the-cupping-room-civic-canberra.html


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The Stigmata of Lilian Bernas
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Joe Nickell
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 28.2, March / April 2004
Canadian Lilian Bernas claims to exhibit—"in a supernatural state"—the wounds of Christ. On March 1, 2002, I observed one of a series of Bernas's bleedings. It was the eleventh such event that "the Lord allows me to experience on the first Friday of the month," she told the audience, "with one more to come" (Bernas 2002). But was the event really supernatural or only a magic show?
Popularly associated with saintliness, stigmata refers to the wounds of Christ's crucifixion supposedly reproduced spontaneously on the body of a Christian. Following the death of Jesus, about a.d. 29 or 30, the phenomenon waited nearly twelve centuries to appear (putting aside a cryptic Biblical reference to St. Paul [Galatians 6:17]). St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is credited with being the first "true" stigmatist (after a man with the crucifixion wounds was arrested for imposture two years earlier).
Following St. Francis, a few hundred people have exhibited stigmata, including several saints-most recent Padre Pio (1887-1968). He was canonized in 2002, although not for his stigmata, the Catholic Church never having declared the alleged phenomenon miraculous (D'Emilio 2002; Tokasz 2003).
Indeed, in addition to its copycat aspect, stigmata is suspect on other grounds. It appeared in mostly Roman Catholic countries, notably Italy, until the twentieth century. Also, the form and placement of the wounds has evolved. For example, those of St. Francis (except for his side wound) "were not wounds which bled but impressions of the heads of the nails, round and black and standing clear from the flesh" (Harrison 1994, 25).
Subsequently, stigmata have typically been bleeding wounds, albeit with "no consistency even remotely suggesting them as replications of one single, original pattern" (Wilson 1988, 63).
It is well established that many stigmatics were engaging in trickery. For instance, Magdalena de la Cruz confessed, during a serious illness in 1543, that her stigmata had been faked. In 1587, Maria de la Visitacion, known as the "holy nun of Lisbon," was caught painting fake wounds on her hands. Pope Pius IX privately branded as a fraud Palma Maria Matarelli (1825-1888), stating that "she has befooled a whole crowd of pious and credulous souls." And more recently, in 1984, an Italian court convicted stigmatic Gigliola Giorgini of fraud (Wilson 1988, 26, 42, 147).
The twentieth century's two best-known stigmatics-Theresa Neumann and Padre Pio-were suspected of deception. A Professor Martini who conducted a surveillance of Neumann observed that blood would flow from her wounds only when he was persuaded to leave the room, as if something "needed to be hidden from observation" (Wilson 1988, 53, 114-115). And a pathologist who examined Padre Pio concluded that his wounds were superficial at best and that the side "wound" had not penetrated the skin at all (Ruffin 1982, 146-154, 305).
Catholic scholar Herbert Thurston (1952, 100) found "no satisfactory case of stigmatization since St. Francis of Assisi." He believed the phenomena was due to suggestion, but attempts to duplicate it experimentally through hypnosis have ranged from the doubtful to the unsuccessful. As to St. Francis, his extraordinary zeal to imitate Jesus may have led him to engage in a pious deception (Nickell 2000).
A New Stigmatist
Enter Lilian Bernas, a Catholic convert (in 1989) and one-time nursing-home worker. She first exhibited stigmata during Easter of 1992, having previously received visions of Jesus. According to one of her two self-published booklets, Jesus appears frequently to her, addressing her as "My suffering soul," "My sweet petal," and "My child" (Bernas 1999).
The Archdiocese of Ottawa, Ontario, where she then lived, established a commission to investigate Bernas's claims. "The inquiry did not make a judgment on the authenticity," stated a spokeswoman for the Archdiocese, Gabrielle Tasse. Tasse told The Buffalo News, "It doesn't really concern the general public. It just creates propaganda." The Catholic Church often resists publicity regarding supernatural claims, noted the Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest who edits the weekly Catholic magazine, America. "The church is very skeptical of these things," Rev. Reese explained (Tokasz 2003).
Bernas now resides in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, living with a retired couple whom she asked to take her in in 1996, supposedly at Jesus's request. They are impressed with Bernas whom they regard as a "victim soul" (one who suffers for others). In 2001 the Ottawa Citizen published a profile of Bernas (Wake 2001), apparently provoking displeasure from her home archdiocese of Ottawa. Their policy (according to a spokesman for the Buffalo Diocese) is "that she is not to speak publicly because her faith journey is private" (Tokasz 2003).
However, Bernas does speak publicly, addressing the faithful and the curious at various churches. I attended a talk she gave, for example, at Resurrection Church in Cheektowaga, New York. Although she claimed Jesus guided her in her talks (she sometimes departed from her prepared text), she said that "the Devil" was at her elbow at all times and that she had to struggle with pride and self will. She spoke of Lent, of praying the Rosary, and other Catholic topics, and claimed that Jesus had given her "a vision of aborted babies" (Bernas 2002a).
Afterward, she answered questions from those who gathered around her. Asked what Jesus looked like, she said he appeared as we did, solid. She added that he had shoulder-length hair with a beard and a mustache, and wore a white robe. In other words, he exhibited the conventional likeness of Jesus as it has evolved in art. Bernas's devotees exhibit a portrait of Jesus, "drawn under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit on May 20, 1994, By Lil Bernas."
The Wounds
I asked Bernas about her wounds, noting that there were reddish scars on the backs of her hands. She replied that she had also bled from the palms on occasion, but that no marks were left in those instances. She told me she was "permitted" to retain those on the backs of her hands and also on the tops of her feet. Someone asked about cross-shaped wounds (she has, for example, an apparent cruciform scar on her right jaw near the ear), and she stated that such stigmata were of the Devil, that before her genuine stigmata came she had periods of possession (Bernas 2002a).
I found the absence of wounds on the palms and soles highly suspicious. A sham stigmatist might well avoid those areas which would be subjected to additional pain-and made more difficult to heal-whenever one walked or grasped something. But a person truly exhibiting the nail wounds of Jesus should have his or her hands and feet completely pierced.
When I subsequently attended an exhibition of Lilian Bernas's stigmata (at Navy Hall, Niagara-on-the-Lake, March 1, 2002), my suspicions were increased. Not only was the bleeding already in progress when she appeared, but there were only the most superficial wounds. These were limited to the backs of the hands and tops of the feet, in addition to small wounds on the scalp, supposedly from a crown of thorns (John 19:2). The latter were only in the front as if merely for show. (See figure 1.)
Figure 2: Although Bernas attracts the credulous, her stigmata do not convincingly replicate the wounds of Christ's crucifixion.
Significantly, there was no side wound, like that inflicted on Jesus by a Roman soldier's lance (John 19:34; 20:25, 27). Such a large wound would represent a real commitment by a fake stigmatist. It rarely appears, and then usually in a questionable fashion. Bernas exhibits a photo of an alleged wound in her left side, but it lacked rivulets of blood and- conveniently-was claimed to have soon disappeared without a trace. Bernas did say she was to receive a side wound later in the day (Bernas 2002b), but of course the crowd would not be there to witness the alleged happening.
The side wound was not the only one of Bernas's stigmata reputed to have unique properties seemingly best displayed in photographs. Bernas exhibits other photos that depict a squarish nail head emerging from a hand wound (harkening back to St. Francis); a thorn in her forehead that supposedly emerged over a week's time; even an entire crown of thorns that allegedly materialized around Bernas's head-believe it or not!
As we watched Bernas bleed, I regretted that we were not getting to see such remarkable manifestations. I observed that her wounds soon ceased to flow, consistent with their having been inflicted just before she came out. After she had spoken to the audience for about an hour, people gathered to speak to Bernas (figure 2). (While shaking hands with her, one man attempted to get, rather surreptitiously, a sample of her blood, presumably as a magical "relic." He clasped his other hand, containing a folded handkerchief, against the back of her hand. Unfortunately the blood had dried, and even rubbing did not yield a visible trace.)
Although I shook Bernas's bloody hand, I obtained a better look at a wound shortly before, when she hugged the woman in front of me and thus placed her hand virtually under my nose. I noticed that the actual wound looked like a small slit, but surrounding that was a larger red area; this appeared to have been deliberately formed of blood in order to simulate the appearance of a larger wound, like one formed by a Roman nail. (For my demonstration of a similar effect see Nickell 2000, 27-28.)
Bernas makes still other supernatural claims. For example, she says towels from her stigmata sessions, put away in plastic bags, allegedly "disappear within 48 hours" (Wake 2001). (I will wager they would not vanish while in my custody.)
Such outlandish and unsubstantiated claims should provoke skepticism in all but the most gullible. Yet a professor of philosophy at a Catholic college took exception to my views. I had told The Buffalo News that, on the evidence, I regarded stigmatics as "pious frauds," and I said of Lilian Bernas' stigmata: "Everything about it was consistent with trickery. Nothing about it was in the slightest way supernatural or intriguing" (Tokasz 2003).
Professor John Zeis (2003) replied with the astonishing statement that "Trickery is consistent with any reported miracle (including Jesus' resurrection) but that is no reason to reject belief in the miracle." He found more reasonable a priest's statement that "It is up to each person to believe or not."
CSICOP Public Relations Director Kevin Christopher (2003) responded: "Zeis is suggesting that objective evidence is irrelevant. What, in fact could be a more unreasonable conclusion?" Christopher also replied to Zeis's claim that "the Skeptical Inquirer is biased against claims concerning faith in the miraculous." Stated Christopher: "The magazine's mission is to inform its readers about the state of the evidence for paranormal and supernatural claims. When the evidence is poor or nonexistent, it is not 'biased' to report that fact. It is, in fact, a moral duty."
I am grateful to Martin Braun for advising me of a lecture by Lilian Bernas. Benjamin Radford (Skeptical Inquirer) and Jenny Everett (Popular Science) accompanied me to witness Bernas's stigmata and shared valuable notes and observations. I also received very useful material from John Zachritz.
- Bernas, Lilian. 1999. This Is the Home of the Father. . . . Privately printed.
- —. 2002a. Talk at Resurrection Church, Cheektowaga, N.Y., Feb. 17.
- —. 2002b. Remarks to audience at Navy Hall, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, March 1. (Transcript by Jenny Everett, Popular Science magazine.)
- Christopher, Kevin. 2003. Letter to editor, The Buffalo News (Buffalo, N.Y.), July 7.
- D'Emilio Frances. 2002. Italian monk and mystic raised to sainthood. The Buffalo News (Buffalo, N.Y.), June 17.
- Harrison, Ted. 1994. Stigmata: A Medieval Phenomenon in a Modern Age. New York: St. Martin's Press.
- Nickell, Joe. 1993. Looking for a Miracle. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books.
- —. 2000. Stigmata: In imitation of Christ. Skeptical Inquirer 24(1), July/August: 24-28.
- Radford, Benjamin. 2002. Visit to see stigmatic Lilian Bernas (typed notes), March 7.
- Ruffin, C. Bernard. 1982. Padre Pio: The True Story. Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor.
- Thurston, Herbert. 1952. The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism. Chicago: H. Regnery Co.
- Tokasz, Jay. 2003. In apparent stigmata, a question of belief. The Buffalo News (Buffalo, N.Y.), June 15.
- Wake, Ben. 2001. The crucifixion of Lilian Bernas, The Citizen's Weekly (magazine of The Ottawa Citizen [Ottawa, Ontario]), July 8, C7-C9.
- Wilson, Ian. 1988. The Bleeding Mind. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
- Zeis, John. 2003. Letter to editor, The Buffalo News (Buffalo, N.Y.), June 27.


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Convocation 2014: meet honorary grad Mychael Danna
Oscar-winning composer known for collaborations with fellow alumnus Atom Egoyan
Mychael Danna is an Academy Award-winning film composer recognized for his evocative blending of non-western traditions with orchestral and electronic music.
His highly awarded works include the Oscar-winning score for Ang Lee's Life of Pi, and his many Genie Award-winning scores for director and longtime collaborator, Atom Egoyan.
"The most gratifying filmmaking experiences are ones that take effort to unpeel the layers surrounding the heart of the story, and to find the best musical expression of that heart," says Danna. "Those are always the film scores that I am most proud of."
On June 13, at the Convocation ceremony for students of the Faculty of Music and OISE, the University of Toronto recognized the extraordinary accomplishments of its illustrious alumnus with a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa.
Danna's passion for presenting complex ideas in a musically accessible way began as he learned his craft at U of T. There, he was exposed to early- and world-music that later influenced his style. Danna earned the school's inaugural Glenn Gould Composition Award in 1985 and also began scoring for student theatre groups, as he launched his artistic partnership with Egoyan. Danna has scored all of Egoyan's films since 1987's Family Viewing.
Danna's work on Egoyan's films Ararat (2002), Felicia's Journey (1999), The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and Exotica (1994) secured him Genie awards from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television; as did his score for Deepa Mehta's Oscar-nominated film, Water (2005). In addition, Danna earned the 2013 Golden Globe and 2013 Oscar for scoring Ang Lee's Life of Pi, following his collaborations with Lee on The Ice Storm (1997) and Ride with the Devil (1999).
Life of Pi's rich soundscape reflects a deeply transnational story with inventive cross-cultural arrangements: Indian sitars play French melodies, European accordions play South Asian motifs, a church choir sings in Sanskrit, and a variety of other musical combinations soar alongside a full studio orchestra. This highly awarded work embodies Danna's approach to composition—creating rich soundscapes to be appreciated by a wide audience.
Danna describes his approach as "making music an integral part of the storytelling, not simply repeating what is happening onscreen, but adding unexpected dimension and insight that enrich the experience of the director's vision."
Other celebrated collaborations include those with Bennett Miller on his multiple Oscar-nominee Moneyball (2011) and his Oscar-winning drama Capote (2005); with Terry Gilliam on his Oscar-nominated The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) and Tideland (2005); with Mira Nair on Vanity Fair (2004), Monsoon Wedding (2001) and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996); and with Billy Ray on Breach (2007) and Shattered Glass (2003). Further credits include the Oscar-winning Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which he shared a Grammy Award nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album; Marc Webb's acclaimed romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer (2009); and James Mangold's Oscar-winning film, Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Danna himself notes, "I have had exactly the career that I want for many years now. I've been fortunate enough to work alongside many of the world's best directors, telling challenging and compelling stories. I hope to continue doing exactly this."


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Happy Wednesday!!! I'm patiently waiting for it to be Survivor Wednesday.... but till then I at least look forward to Younger season 2 on Wed nights.
Today I am sharing with you a half reveal of the cards that I created using the latest Apron Strings Jan All Year Cheer Kit. The kit has some American Crafts, Crate and MME papers in the kit to play with, along with TONS of embellies. The kit has a bit of a "love" theme to it, but lots of blues in the kit to make guy cards too.
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Outrage, criticism, and calls for the resignation of Michigan's Republican Governor Rick Snyder have emerged in the wake of the failure by all levels of government to adequately address the water crisis in Flint. National Guard units, state troopers, and charitable organizations are fanning out in the stricken city to distribute bottled water and filters to the city that has had unacceptably high levels of toxic lead in its drinking water. Calls for Snyder's resignation have come from celebrity activists such as Hollywood movie director Michael Moore, the American Civil Liberties Union, and others.
Moore, who was born in Flint but does not reside there, is circulating a petition calling on the Obama administration to undertake a federal investigation of Gov. Snyder. Moore states in his appeal to supporters, "What's happening in Flint, Michigan, is disastrous—and it's personal for me: Flint is my hometown and the community at the forefront of my first major documentary film, 'Roger & Me.'
Flint Council Member Wantwaz Davis and activist Michael Moore
"I've been demanding justice, especially for the children of Flint, and it's progress that President Obama has now declared our lead-poisoning crisis a federal emergency—but much more needs to be done, starting with holding Governor Rick Snyder accountable for poisoning our children. Please sign my petition to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch calling on her to hold Gov. Snyder accountable, which says: We demand an investigation and, if warranted, the arrest and prosecution of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.
"The governor must be held accountable for poisoning the children of Flint, for fraud and political corruption, and for covering up the actions of his administration. Gov. Snyder violated federal law by cutting off clean drinking water to the city of Flint, impacting more than 100,000 people. Instead of safe, clean drinking water, the people of Flint had polluted water piped into their homes from the Flint River—water that was then contaminated with lead."
Moore goes on to declare that Snyder did this "to save money. He knew he could get away with it, because Flint is one of the poorest towns in the country." Accusing the state government of a cover-up, Moore said that Flint's children "will now have to endure a life of pain, irreversible brain damage, and lower IQs because of Gov. Snyder's actions and the ensuing cover-up. Justice must be served—and other elected officials must be put on notice that people's lives are more important than balancing a budget."
Gov. Snyder has held himself accountable, and pointed out that all levels of government had lost the confidence of the people. On January 21, for instance, a controversial regional director of the federal Environmental Protection Agency resigned over allegations that she had spiked a report from her staff in 2015 that showed problems Flint officials had with lead levels. Also, the state's director of Environmental Quality has resigned. There are several investigations now going on, while at least three class action suits have been filed against the governor and the state government.
Gov. Rick Snyder
But the wrath from the left appears to be directed solely at Snyder and Republicans in general. Critics cite Michigan law that allows broad powers for state-appointed managers for cities where mismanagement and financial woes have been noted. Two of the managers appointed by Snyder, Darnell Earley and Jerry Ambrose, were in that position during the decision to switch from water supplied from Detroit to water sourced from the Flint River. The city council approved by a 7-1 vote the switch from Detroit-supplied water to water from the Flint River. When adequate corrosion controls were not put into place, the river water thus leached lead into the water system as local, state and federal officials wrangled over the science involved and their respective responsibilities.
Activist/film-maker Michael Moore
Flint had city managers in the past. The departure of much of the auto industry from the area in the 1990s brought about a demographic collapse. Homes and businesses were abandoned, schools and infrastructure deteriorated, and local politics was at times divisive. Accusations of racism have been rife. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D) recently said in a television interview that race did play a part in the debacle but did not say to which race she was referring.
Darnell Earley - former state-appointed administrator, City of Flint
During his recall over his mismanagement of city funds in 2002, former mayor Woodrow Stanley said that his critics were motivated by racism. Even though he departed the mayor's office, he remained a fixture on the local political scene since he was elected later to the post of Genesee County Commissioner and later to the Michigan legislature. The state appointed a financial manager to deal with the fiscal crisis in Flint. While he is not in office now, Stanley was a key supporter of the current Mayor Karen Weaver, who defeated the incumbent mayor and fellow Democrat Dayne Walling. For her part, according to CNN, Weaver claimed that there are no grocery stores in Flint. Spero News did a Google Map search and found several grocery stores, in addition to a farmer's market and smaller stores in Flint, contrary to Weaver's claim.
The city has a debt in excess of $30 million and still has considerable pension obligations for retired civil servants. Even before the water crisis, local officials were calling for Michigan's National Guard to patrol the streets to control crime. Flint had the highest murder rate of any city of its size in the country. Currently, the Flint police force is at about half its former compliment. Gov. Snyder has deployed state troopers to put a lid on the murder rate. Numerous schools have closed their doors and have been torn down, while hundreds of abandoned structures await their turn for the wrecking ball.
City of Flint Mayor Karen Weaver PhD
Flint's city council is made up entirely of Democrats, the majority of whom are African-American.
Among the council members is Wantwaz Davis. Davis was elected in 2013, after having served 19 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in 1991. His conviction was never publicly reported during Davis's campaign. He has touted the experience as evidence that people can change. Citing the story of St. Paul, who was converted from his persecution of Christians to become a Christian himself. "We cannot cast aspersions against people who went down the same path as Paul," said Davis, "I was not notorious like Paul. Some men sexually assaulted my mother when I was a kid and I defended my mother. And unfortunately, a murder ensued." The victim, Kenneth S. Morris (27) was reportedly shot three times: one tap each in the hip, abdomen and mouth. In 2015, he said that the water crisis amounted to "genocide."
On the council is Eric Mays, who has also been visible in protests over the water crisis. In 1987, Mays pleaded guilty to felonious assault and served a year of probation. He claimed that he brandished a gun at a man who had threatened his life. Mays said a man had been threatening his life before Mays threatened him with a gun. Unfortunately, he may be absent from council chambers. On January 5, 2-15 he was sentenced to jail for 28 days for impaired driving. Police say that they had found him outside a disabled automobile facing the wrong way on an expressway two years ago. A prosecutor accused Mays had crashed his car in Flint before driving almost three miles on the I-475 freeway. Police said that Mays confessed to excessive drinking.
Councilwoman Jackie Poplar filed for Chapter 13 protection in a federal bankruptcy court, one year before her election. It took her over six years to repay her creditors the $21,000 owed. She claimed that much of the debt was due to funeral expenses following her mother's death. In 2008, prosecutors said that they could conclude whether or not Poplar intended to spray several people with insecticide following a council meeting. Four of Poplar's fellow council members said they saw nothing. According to an aide to the mayor, and a citizen, Poplar laughed as she sprayed them at close range with insecticide, crying "Pests, pests, we've got to get rid of these pests."
And Councilwoman Monica Galloway and her husband, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 1999.
U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee was elected in 2012 and took office on January 3, 2013. He has been in office throughout the water crisis. In addition, he has served on the Genesee County Board of Commissioners and was elected to the office of Genesee County Treasurer, serving from 1996 to 2009. He founded the Genesee County Land Bank, which administers hundreds of abandoned properties that it acquired through tax foreclosure. His uncle, Dale Kildee (D) served the area as U.S. Representative from 1977 until 2013. The elder Kildee was known as a strong advocate of labor unions, regularly receiving support from the United Auto Workers.
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Multi-Contextual Return Values
When there is no "obvious" scalar context return value, consider Contextual::Return instead.
Sometimes no single scalar return value is appropriate for a list-returning subroutine. Your play-testers simply can't agree: different developers consistently expect different behaviours in different scalar contexts.
For example, suppose you're implementing a get_server_status() subroutine that normally returns its information as a heterogeneous list:
# In list context, return all the available information…
my ($name, $uptime, $load, $users) = get_server_status($server_ID);
You may find that, in scalar contexts, some programmers expected it to return its numeric load value:
# Total load is sum of individual server loads…
$total_load += get_server_status($server_ID);
Others assumed it would return a boolean value indicating whether the server is up:
# Skip inactive servers…
next SERVER if ! get_server_status($server_ID);
Still others anticipated a string summarizing the current status:
# Compile report on all servers…
$servers_summary .= get_server_status($server_ID) . "n";
While a fourth group hoped for a hash-reference, to give them convenient named access to the particular server information they wanted:
# Total users is sum of users on each server…
$total_users += get_server_status($server_ID)->{users};
In such cases, implementing any one of these four expectations is going to leave three-quarters of your developers unhappy.
At some point, every subroutine will be called in scalar context, and will have to return something. If that something isn't obvious to the majority of people, then inexperienced developers—who might not even realize their call is in scalar context—will suffer. And experienced developers will suffer too: ham-strung by the limitations of scalar context return and forced to work with your arbitrary choice of return value.
Perl's subroutines are context-sensitive for a reason: so that they can Do The Right Thing when used in different ways. But often in scalar contexts there is no one Right Thing. So developers give up and just pick the One Thing That Seems Rightest… to them. All too often, a decision like that leads to confusion, frustration, and buggy code.
Surprisingly, the underlying problem here isn't that Perl is context-sensitive. The problem is that Perl isn't context-sensitive enough.
Perl has one kind of list context and one kind of void context, so simple list-context and void-context returns are the perfect tools for those. On the other hand, Perl has at least a dozen distinct scalar subcontexts: boolean, integer, floating-point, string, and the numerous reference types. So, unless one of those return types is the clear and obvious candidate, simple scalar context return is totally inadequate: a sledgehammer when you really need tweezers.
Fortunately, there's a simple way to allow subroutines like get_server_status() to cater for two or more different scalar-context expectations simultaneously. The Contextual::Return CPAN module provides a mechanism by which you can specify that a subroutine returns different scalar values in boolean, numeric, string, hash-ref, array-ref, and code-ref contexts. For example, to allow get_server_status() to simultaneously support all five return behaviours shown at the start of this guideline, you could simply write:
use Contextual::Return;
sub get_server_status {
my ($server_ID) = @_;
# Acquire server data somehow…
my %server_data
= _ascertain_server_status($server_ID);
# Return different components of that data, depending on call context…
return (
LIST { @server_data{ qw( name uptime load users ) }; }
BOOL { $server_data{uptime} > 0; }
$server_data{load}; }
STR { "$server_data{name}: $server_data{uptime}, $server_data{load}"; }
HASHREF { %server_data; }
Now, in a list context, get_server_status() uses a hash slice to extract the information in the expected order. In a boolean context, it returns true if the uptime is nonzero. In a numeric context, it returns the server load. In a string context, a string summarizing the server's status is returned. And when the return value is expected to be a hash reference, get_server_status() simply returns a reference to the entire %server_data hash.
Note that each of those alternative return values is lazily evaluated. That means, on any given call to get_server_status() , only one of the five contextual return blocks is actually executed.
Even in cases where you don't need to distinguish between so many alternatives, the Contextual::Return module can still improve the maintainability of your code, compared to using the built-in wantarray . The module allows you to say explicitly what you want to happen in different return context, and to label each of those outcomes with an obvious keyword. For example, suppose you had a subroutine such as:
sub defined_samples_in {
if (wantarray) {
return grep {defined $_} @_;
return first {defined $_} @_;
Without changing its behaviour at all, you could make the code considerably more self-documenting, and emphasize the inherent symmetry of the list and scalar cases, by rewriting it with a single contextual return:
use Contextual::Return;
sub defined_samples_in {
return (
LIST { grep {defined $_} @_ }
SCALAR { first {defined $_} @_ }
Besides producing more explicit and less cluttered code, this approach is more maintainable, too. When you need to extend the return behaviour of the subroutine, to more precisely match the expectations of those who use it, you can just add extra labeled return contexts, anywhere in the return list:
|use Contextual::Return;
|sub defined_samples_in {
|return (
|grep {defined $_} @_
|# All defined vals
|first {defined $_} @_
|# One defined val
|{ scalar grep {defined $_} @_
|# How many vals defined?
|[ grep {defined $_} @_ ] }
|# Return vals in an array
Regardless of the order in which the alternatives appear, Contextual::Return will automatically select the most appropriate behaviour in each call context.
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Don't use subroutine prototypes.
Subroutine prototypes allow you to make use of more sophisticated argument-passing mechanisms than Perl's "usual list-of-aliases" behaviour. For example:
sub swap_arrays (@@) {
my ($array1_ref, $array2_ref) = @_;
my @temp_array = @{$array1_ref};
@{$array1_ref} = @{$array2_ref};
@{$array2_ref} = @temp_array;
# and later…
swap_arrays(@sheep, @goats); # Implicitly pass references
The problem is that anyone who uses swap_arrays() , and anyone who subsequently has to maintain that code, has to know about that subroutine's special magic. Other wise, they will quite naturally assume that the two arrays will be flattened into a single list and slurped up by the subroutine's @_ , because that's what happens in just about every other subroutine they ever use.
Using prototypes makes it impossible to deduce the argument-passing behaviour of a subroutine call simply by looking at the call. They also make it impossible to deduce the context in which particular arguments are evaluated. A subtle but common mistake is to "improve" the robustness of an existing library by putting prototype specifiers on all the subroutines. So a subroutine that used to be defined:
use List::Util qw( min max );
sub clip_to_range {
my ($min, $max, @data) = @_;
return map { max( $min, min($max, $_) ) } @data;
is updated to:
sub clip_to_range($$@) { # takes two scalars and an array
my ($min, $max, @data) = @_;
return map { max($min, min($max, $_)) } @data;
The problem is that clip_to_range() was being used with an elegant table-lookup scheme:
my %range = (
normalized => [-0.5,0.5],
greyscale => [0,255],
percentage => [0,100],
weighted => [0,1],
# and later…
my $range_ref = $range{$curr_range};
@samples = clip_to_range( @{$range_ref}, @samples);
The $range{$curr_range} hash look-up returns a reference to a two-element array corresponding to the range that's currently selected. That array reference is then dereferenced by putting a @{ … } around it. Previously, when clip_to_range() was an ordinary subroutine, that dereferenced array found itself in the list context, so it flattened into a list, producing the required minimum and maximum values for the
subroutine's first two arguments.
But now that clip_to_range() has a prototype, things go very wrong. The prototype starts with a $ , which looks like it's telling Perl that the first argument must be a scalar. But that's not what prototypes do at all.
What that $ prototype does is tell Perl that the first argument must be evaluated in a scalar context. And what is the first argument? It's the array produced by @{$range{$curr_range}} . And what do you get when an array is evaluated in a scalar context? The size of the array, which is 2, no matter which entry in %range was actually selected.
The second argument specification in the prototype is also a $. So the second argument to clip_to_range() must also be evaluated in a scalar context. And that second argument? It's @samples . Evaluating that array in scalar context once again produces its size. The second argument becomes the number of samples.
The final specification in the prototype is a @ , which specifies that any remaining arguments are evaluated in list context. Of course, there aren't any more arguments now, but the @ specifier doesn't complain about that. An empty list is still a list, as far as it's concerned.
Adding a prototype didn't really improve the robustness of the code very much. Before it was imposed, clip_to_range() would have been passed the selected minimum, followed by the selected maximum, followed by all the data samples. Now, thanks to the wonders of prototyping, clip_to_range() always gets a minimum of 2, followed by a maximum equal to the number of samples, followed by no data. And Perl doesn't complain at all, since the prototype was successfully matched by the given arguments, even though it hosed them in the process.
Prototypes cause far more trouble than they avert. Even when they are properly understood and used correctly, they create code that doesn't behave the way it looks like it ought to, which makes it harder to maintain code that uses them. Furthermore, in OO implementations they engender a completely false sense of security, because they're utterly ignored in any method call.
Don't use prototypes. The only real advantage they can confer is allowing array and hash arguments to effectively be passed by reference:
swap_arrays(@sheep, @goats);
But even then, if you need pass-by-reference semantics, it's far better to make that explicit:
sub swap_arrays {
my ($array1_ref, $array2_ref) = @_;
my @temp_array = @{$array1_ref};
@{$array1_ref} = @{$array2_ref};
@{$array2_ref} = @temp_array;
# and later…
swap_arrays(@sheep, @goats); # Explicitly pass references
Note that the body of swap_arrays() shown here is exactly the same as in the prototyped version at the start of this guideline. Only the call syntax varies. With prototypes it's magical, and therefore misleading; without prototypes it's a little uglier, but shows at a glance exactly what the code is doing.
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Always return via an explicit return.
If a subroutine "falls off the end" without ever encountering an explicit return, the value of the last expression evaluated in a subroutine is returned. That can lead to completely unexpected return values.
For example, consider this subroutine, which is supposed to return the second odd number in its argument list, or undef if there isn't a second odd number in the list:
sub find_second_odd {
my $prev_odd_found = 0;
# Check through args…
for my $num (@_) {
# Find an odd number…
if (odd($num)) {
# Return it if it's not the first (must be the second)…
return $num if $prev_odd_found;
# Otherwise, remember it's been seen…
$prev_odd_found = 1 ;
# Otherwise, fail
When that subroutine is used, strange things happen:
if (defined find_second_odd(2..6)) {
# find_second_odd() returns 5
# so the if block does execute as expected
if (defined find_second_odd(2..1)) {
# find_second_odd() returns undef
# so the if block is skipped as expected
if (defined find_second_odd(2..4)) {
# find_second_odd() returns an empty string (!)
# so the if block is unexpectedly executed
if (defined find_second_odd(2..3)) {
# find_second_odd() returns an empty string again (!)
# so the if block is unexpectedly executed again
The subroutine works correctly when there is a second odd number to be found, and when there are no numbers at all to be considered, but it behaves—there's no other word for it—oddly for the in-between cases*. That anomalous empty string is returned because that's what a failed boolean test evaluates to in Perl. And a failed boolean test is the last expression evaluated in the loop. No, not the conditional in:
if (odd($num)) {
or in:
return $num if $prev_found;
The last expression is the (failed) conditional test of the while loop. What while loop? The implicit while loop that the Perl compiler secretly translates every for loop into.
That's the problem. In order to predict the implicit return value of anything but the simplest subroutine, you not only have to understand the control flow within the sub routine and how that flow may change under different argument lists, but also what sneaky manipulations the compiler is performing on your code before it's executed.
But none of those complications will ever trouble you if you simply ensure that your subroutines can never "fall off the end". And all that requires is that every subroutine finishes with an explicit return statement—even if you have to add one "gratuitously":
sub find_second_odd {
my $prev_odd_found = 0;
# Check through args…
for my $num (@_) {
# Find an odd number…
if (odd($num)) {
# Return it if it's not the first (must be the second)…
return $num if $prev_odd_found;
# Otherwise, remember it's been seen…
$prev_odd_found = 1;
#Otherwise, fail explicitly
Now the subroutine always behaves as expected:
if (defined find_second_odd(2..6)) {
# find_second_odd() returns 5
# so if the block is executed, as expected
if (defined find_second_odd(2..1)) {
# find_second_odd() returns undef
# so if the block is skipped, as expected
if (defined find_second_odd(2..4)) {
# find_second_odd() returns undef
# so if the block is skipped, as expected
if (defined find_second_odd(2..3)) {
# find_second_odd() returns undef
# so if the block is skipped, as expected
That extra return is a very small price to pay for perfect predictability.
Note that this rule applies even if your subroutine "doesn't return anything". For example, if you're writing a subroutine to set a global flag, don't write:
sub set_terseness {
my ($terseness) = @_;
$default_terseness = $terseness;
If the subroutine isn't supposed to return a meaningful value, make it do so explicitly:
sub set_terseness {
my ($terseness) = @_;
$default_terseness = $terseness;
return; # Explicitly return nothing meaningful
Otherwise, developers who use the code could misinterpret the lack of an explicit return as indicating a deliberate implicit return instead. So they may come to rely on set_terseness() returning the new terseness value. That misinterpretation will become a problem if you later realize that the subroutine actually ought to return the previous terseness value, because that change in behaviour will now break any client code that was previously relying on the "undocumented feature" provided by the implicit return.
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Use a bare return to return failure. Notice that each final return statement in the examples of the previous guideline used a return keyword with no argument, rather than a more-explicit return undef.
Notice that each final return statement in the examples of the previous guideline used a return keyword with no argument, rather than a more-explicit return undef.
Normally, relying on default behaviour is not best practice. But in the case of a return statement, relying on the default return value actually prevents a particularly nasty bug.
The problem with returning an explicit return undef is that—contrary to most people's expectations—a returned undef isn't always false.
Consider a simple subroutine like this:
use Contextual::Return;
sub guesstimate {
my ($criterion) = @_;
my @estimates;
my $failed = 0;
# [Acquire data for specified criterion]
return undef if $failed;
# [Do guesswork based on the acquired data]
# Return all guesses in list context or average guess in scalar context…
return (
LIST { @estimates }
SCALAR { sum(@estimates)/@estimates; }
The successful return values are both fine, and completely appropriate for the two contexts in which the subroutine might be called. But the failure value is a serious problem. Since guesstimate() specifically tests for calls in list context, it's obvious that the subroutine is expected to be called in list contexts:
if (my @melt_rates = guesstimate('polar melting')) {
my $model = Std::Climate::Model->new({ polar_melting => @melt_rates });
for my $interval (1,2,5,10,50,100,500) {
print $model->predict({ year => $interval })
But if the guesstimate() subroutine fails, it returns a single scalar value: undef. And in a list context (such as the assignment to @melt_rates), that single scalar undef value becomes a one-element list: (undef). So @melt_rates is assigned that one-element list and then evaluated in the overall scalar context of the if condition. And in scalar context an array always evaluates to the number of elements in it, in this case 1 . Which is true.
What should have happened, of course, is that guesstimate() should have returned a failure value that was false in whatever context it was called, i.e., undef in scalar con text and an empty list in list context:
if ($failed) {
return (
SCALAR { undef }
But that's precisely what a return itself does when it's not given an argument: it returns whatever the appropriate false value is for the current call context. So, by always using a bare return to return a "failure value", you can ensure that you will never bring about the destruction of the entire planetary ecosystem because of an expectedly true undef .
Meanwhile, Chapter 13 presents a deeper discussion on the most appropriate ways to propagate failure from a subroutine.
* Yep, that's the sound of alarm bells you're hearing.
† And if that sample happens to be an integer, then $found will be assigned a numeric value, exactly as expected. It will be the wrong numeric value, but hey, at least that will make the bug much more interesting to track down.
* They'd be the "edge-cases", except that, in this instance, they're conceptually in the middle of possibilities.
* And here "Oops!" means: the if block executes despite the failure of guesstimate() to acquire any meaningful data. So, when the climate model requests a numerical polar melting rate, that undef is silently converted to zero. This dwimmery causes the model to show that polar melting rates have absolutely no connection to world climate in general, and to rising ocean levels in particular. So mankind can happily keep burning fossil fuels at an ever-greater rate, secure in the knowledge that it has no effect. Until one day, the only person left is Kevin Costner. On a raft.


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Colombians vote on historic peace deal
Colombians voted in a referendum Sunday on whether to ratify a historic peace accord to end a 52-year war between the state and the communist FARC rebels.
The accord will effectively end what is seen as the last major armed conflict in the Western Hemisphere. The war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions.
The government of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says it has no Plan B if voters reject the accord — but polls indicate it will pass by a wide margin.
"Colombia is betting everything on this plebiscite, socially, economically and politically," said Jorge Restrepo, director of conflict analysis center CERAC.
Colombians are sick of war, even though many resent making concessions to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which has carried out killings, kidnappings and extortion.
Now citizens will vote on the question: "Do you support the final accord to end the conflict and to build a stable and lasting peace?"
Polls opened at 1300 GMT across the country and were due to close at 2100 GMT, with a result expected soon after.
Around 35 million of Colombia's 48 million people were eligible to vote.
– Resistance –
Opinion surveys by pollsters Datexco and Ipsos Napoleon Franco, published on October 26, indicated the 'Yes" vote would win by a margin of around 20 percent.
Both polls indicated a 'No' vote of about 35 percent.
"October 2 is the only opportunity to correct these accords that Santos has rewarded the FARC with," wrote the leader of the 'No' campaign, former president Alvaro Uribe on Twitter.
"For my country, vote 'No.'"
Santos insisted that "for the peace to be stable and lasting, it needs the seal of legitimacy and approval of the Colombian people."
The government's chief negotiator in the peace talks, Humberto de la Calle, told AFP: "Voting 'No' and thinking that we can correct whatever we want (in the accord) is an illusion."
– Disarmament, politics –
The deal signed on October 26 by Santos and FARC leader Rodrigo Londono, known as "Timochenko," calls for the rebels to disarm and convert into a political group.
It will have at least 10 seats guaranteed for it in Colombia's Congress.
The accord's main points include justice and compensation. There is an amnesty for some FARC members but not for those accused of the worst crimes such as massacres, torture and rape.
In the face of skepticism in the 'No' camp, the FARC promised in a statement on Saturday that it would provide "material compensation for victims" out of the force's collective assets.
The peace plan aims to replace the fields of coca in FARC territory with other crops. The South American nation of 48 million people is ranked by the UN as the world's biggest cocaine producer — a trade that has fueled the conflict.
If voters approve the accord, FARC fighters must demobilize and disarm over the coming six months, monitored by the United Nations.
The force said on Friday it had 5,765 members.
The accord is seen as virtually ending the conflict, even though the government has so far failed in efforts to start peace talks with a smaller leftist rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN).
– Reconciliation –
The FARC launched its guerrilla war on the Colombian government in 1964, after a peasant uprising that was crushed by the army.
Over the decades, the ideological and territorial conflict drew in several leftist rebel groups, right-wing paramilitaries and drug gangs.
Colombian authorities estimate the conflict has left 260,000 people dead, 45,000 missing and nearly seven million displaced.
The FARC have apologized to their victims and held emotional face-to-face reconciliations over recent days.
One such encounter took place on Friday in La Chinita, northwestern Colombia, where a FARC massacre at a fundraising party in 1994 left 35 dead.
"Today this district has an opportunity to mend its social fabric," said Ciro Abadia, president of the victims' association Asovima.
"We have to show the world that although we were massacred, we are here today in a state peace."
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Yesterday, I finished inking the 161th page, which is the last one in book 1 of Sword Princess Amaltea. Yaaay for me!!
Now I just have to text and screentone like hell to meet the deadline, but as things are going according to keikaku (=plan), I know I will make it!
Here's a sneak peek from the book. And no, I won't tell you what's going to happend, haha. You'll all have to wait till September when the Swedish book is out.
Oh, right, there's some big news aswell!
Sword Princess Amaltea will be published in the Italian online manga magazine Doreaetos Manga!
I'm looking forward to hearing from Italian artists and readers about what they think of the manga~
Right now, I'm mentally preparing for the trip to Japan next week, to participate in the drawing tournament Robopic, courtesy of Baron Yoshimoto.
I have also, as I mentioned in my last entry, tried to get some meetings with manga editors while I'm there, and so far I have not only one but two meetings booked! This is so exciting!!
To finish this energetic blog entry off, let's show the latest issue of Banzai, that just arrived from Portugal!
It's so fun to read your own manga in another language! My kittens from Mjau! is really learning that language so fast~ *proud mother*
Thank you for reading, and hope you get an awesome weekend!
The weather is way too nice to sit inside, so I will catch some sun and beach before returning to work again. See ya'!


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Here is our betting preview as New York City FC welcome Colorado Rapids on 30th/07/2016 to the Yankee Stadium. We will bring you all the latest team news along with the match stats and bet predictions. New York City FC will be licking their wounds having been humped 4-1 by local rivals New York Red Bulls in their last fixture. Colorado Rapids remain unbeaten in six now as they drew with FC Dallas.
New York City FC was yet again on the wrong end of a thrashing as New York Red Bulls tore them apart with ease. Having already suffered a humiliating 7-0 demolition previously this season they didn't want a repeat performance. However, before half time New York City found themselves three goals behind as Bradly Wright-Phillips, Ronald Zubar and Sacha Kljestan all scored. City did manage to sneak a goal back just before half-time as Thomas McNamara hit home in the forty-third minute. The second half was a more levelled affair, but Bradley Wright-Phillips popped up again to bag his second of the game and put the final nail in City's coffin. Next for City is Colorado, a team they have only played once and that game ended up a draw.
Colorado Rapids shared the points with fellow table toppers FC Dallas in what was a conservative game as neither team looked to push forward and made sure they kept a strong back line. The first half was very tight, and the fans had to wait until the forty-forth minute before Colorado's Marlon Hairston gave them the lead. The game looked to be going Colorado's way, and that was until Victor Ulloa managed to level the game in the eight-second minute. Colorado has not lost a game in their last six outings having drawn four and won two. Next up is New York City, which in their current form should pose little problems for Colorado.
Team News
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New York City FC is missing Connor Brandt (bilateral hip arthroscopy), Shannon Gomez (ruptured ACL), Khiry Shelton (hamstring strain) and possibly Ronald Matarrita (high ankle sprain), Steven Mendoza (core injury) and Andoni Iraola (ankle injury). RJ Allen and David Villa both have four Yellow cards to their name.
Team News
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Colorado Rapids is without Dillon Serna (right knee surgery), Sean St. Ledger (knee injury) and Jermaine Jones (undisclosed injury). Shkelzen Gashi and Axel Sjoberg both have four Yellow cards to their name.
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Games of exploration, adventure and war using miniature figurines, pencil and paper, and many-sided dice
With their magic the Greater Race remade
The surface of the earth to their own purpose.
Cities and citadels and bridges
And tall towers reaching above,
Not one part of the earth they left un-made.
The whole world, above and below,
Even the dust and the stones
From the hollows of the earth they remade.
— from The Song of the World Dragon
The Greater Race was destroyed in the Rending. Now, only their magic and the ruins of their civilization remain.
DONJON LANDS is a far-future fantasy role-playing game setting.
A game of exploration and adventure using rules from Source of the Nile, Chainmail and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS on the Outdoor Survival map board
A chronicle of treasure and treachery
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This chapter is in preparation for the final project for this module, we have to make a finished item developed from ideas we have developed so far, in the form of a book or port-folio-type structure.
We have to think imaginatively as books can come in all shapes and forms but we need to consider some mock-ups of our ideas and how our embroidery techniques could be incorporated upon at least one embroidered panel within the structure.
I haven't used my best hand made papers as I need to keep them for later but I found some yellow and purple card and papers to practice with. Although these were great for getting to grips with the techniques I decided I wanted to use some more interesting papers for effect. Along with less precious hand made papers I found some old ones I'd used for transfer printing which were great – never throw anything away!
I've included both sets here so it may look as if I've repeated myself but I had loads of fun working through this chapter. This is new to me and I've always wanted to learn how to make books so I seized the opportunity full on!
1. Pamphlet books. These are simple books made by folding pages and inserting them into a firmer outer cover. Each set of pages is known as a pamphlet and is held in pace by stitching. These are hand stitched using 3 or 5 holes depending on the size of the book. Accurate folds are made with the aid of a bone folder and the holes for stitching accurately measured and pierced to ensure that the cover and pages are in alignment.
2. Multiple books have been made from a longer outer cover to accommodate more sets of pamphlets in the folds. It was interesting to play around with different textures of paper.
3. Here the outer cover and pamphlets are in the shape of a leaf and have been secured by machine stitching.
4. Extra folds in the spine allow for insertion of extra pamphlets
5. The addition of an external spine with cover and pamphlets secured by thread or ribbon
6. Decorative stitching has been used to secure the pages. Again accurate folds and placing of the holes for stitching are necessary. A fold adjacent to the stitching allows for the book to be opened easily. I was interested in the edgings we looked at in a previous chapter so experimented more with this on the right hand sample.
7. These books have been made out of 2 flat covers inside which the pamphlets have been secured with a decorative chain stitch which weaves horizontally across the spine. I love this technique and spent extra time on it to make some books from some precious collaged boards I'd already made. I use some machine wrapped threads to add colour and texture
8. Pamphlets secured by stitching into the spine
9. Pamphlets turned into books in the absence of a cover by using strips of paper glued in place and stitched in place as before and incorporating the strips of paper
10. Variations on a theme – One book with stitching into the spine [left] , exposed spine and pamphlets stitched and woven together [centre]. I made the one on the right at Summer School about 4 years ago, the pamphlets are stitched individually and then needle woven together. In all three ends of thread are left on the outside and beads added.
11. Multiple book with cover and pages joined with blanket stitch as separate entities and then brought together with insertion stitch. Love this!
12. Unusual bindings . Left to right: needle woven sticks, rubber band with it's ends held in place by stiff card at the back and single stick all used with an exposed spine.
13. Pamphlet stitch used to incorporate sticks at their centre with a cork base and button fastening on the left and same book opened up on the right
14. Concertina book. Long piece of paper folded in concertina fashion and two ends glued to cover. It folds in nicely or stretched out as shown.
15. Clever folding and cutting. An A4 sheet has been folded in half lengthwise and then across the length three times before being cut along the centre as shown.
16. Pages threaded together with beads to separate them and hung horizontally
17. Wrap around book and experiments with closures
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Producer: Bodegas El Grifo, s.a.
Volume bottle: 50 cl.
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Brand: El Grifo
Producer: Bodegas El Grifo, s.a.
Volume bottle: 50 cl.
Area: Lanzarote
Region: Canary Islands
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You Don't Live in a Mansion? You Still Need an Estate Plan
Even if you aren't wealthy or even near retirement age, you still need an estate plan. If you own anything, including a home, any financial accounts or even a car, you have an estate.
As Vanguard's recent article, "5 estate planning facts you need to know now" explains, your estate includes both tangible and intangible personal possessions and real property.
An estate plan is a set of legal documents used, if you become incapacitated or die. The documents detail your wishes when you're unable to communicate on your own behalf.
A typical estate plan contains the following:
- A will: it says who'll get your assets and in what manner and who is in charge;
- A durable power of attorney: designates a person to look after your financial needs, if you become incapacitated;
- A healthcare power of attorney: designates a person to make healthcare decisions for you, if you become incapacitated or are otherwise unable to do this for yourself; and
- An advance directive for healthcare (or living will): this states your wishes, if you can't make decisions for yourself.
Before you sit down with an estate planning attorney to create your estate plan, look at the whole picture, including both assets and liabilities. Make a personal financial inventory that includes details about your holdings as well as your debts.
Remember that if you die without an estate plan, your assets will be distributed according to your state's intestate laws, and if you have minor children, the court will determine who will care for them.
Once you have your estate plan, it's important to keep it up-to-date. Review your estate plan—especially your beneficiary designations—every three or four years. You'll need to make changes after a major life event, like a marriage, divorce, death, adoption or a birth, or substantial increase or decrease in assets.
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