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Fox's Ubiquitous Free Derivative
1. Regular Expressions
Every regular expression defines a language - the set of strings exactly matching the expression. Given a language L made from the symbols in S, define ∂sL, where s is a symbol in S, to be the language made by taking all of the prefixes in L that end just before an s, deleting the final s. For example, if the language were L={MADAM} then ∂ML={∅,MADA}, ∂AL={M,MAD} and ∂DL={MA}. We can write the regular expressions for these languages as 1+MADA, M+MAD and MA. So in this case, applying ∂s trivially gives another regular language. So here's a problem: is the set of prefixes of a regular language L, ending at s, also regular?
Let's use ∂s to define an operation on regular expressions that computes the regular expression for the prefixes.
Consider a regular expression of the form ab, where a and b are regular expresions. A prefix for the language ending at symbol s either ands in the 'a' part, corresponding to something matching ∂sa, or it ends in the b part in which case it matches a∂sb.
But so far I've just mentioned finite languages. What about the * operator. Well a prefix in a* must consist of a sequence of strings matching a but end as a prefix of a. Ie. we need ∂s(a*)=a*∂sa.
So it's not hard to see (I hope) that
∂ss = 1
∂ss' = 0 for symbol s'≠s
∂s(a+b) = ∂sa+∂sb
∂s(ab) = ∂sa+a∂sb
works nicely and proves that the answer to the above question is yes.
2. Dissecting types
Rather than regurgitate someone else's words, take a peek at Dissecting Data Structures. Define the operator, acting on types, ∂, by ∂ F X = Δ F X 1, where Δ is my poor man's version of del with a vertical line through it. From the definition of Δ you can see it satisfies:
∂Id X = 1
&part(F×G) X=∂F X×G 1+F X×∂G X
If you read McBride's paper, you'll see that the ∂ operator slices a type in half, throwing away the elements in the right half, keeping just the 'shape' of the right half.
3. Fox's Free Derivatives
Check out the definition of the Fox derivative in section 4 of Free Differential Calculus. The Fox derivative is used to compute the Alexander polynomial of a knot.
But I hope you can see that we have yet another definition that looks very similar. The common theme is differentiation with a twist. When you differentiate a product fg, one term is the usual one, fD(g), but the other term isn't D(f)g but the g is replaced by a drastically simplified version (either 1, or g(1)). Both versions 1 and 2 have a notion of chopping something in half at some point and keeping the left half. (Actually, you could tweak the definition in part 2 so that g is replaced by 1 too, then you'd no longer preserve the shape of the right half of the type and you'd really have a slicing operator, and the analogies would become clearer.)
I just need to relate the * operator in part 1 to the derivative of the inverse in the free derivative. Let me do this in a hand-waving manner: Conceptually, a*=1+a+a²+… which might be considered the same as 1/(1-a). ∂(1/(1-a)) = (using 4(ii)) 1/(1-a)∂a = a*∂a.
So what does it all mean? I've no idea. I'm just pointing out that the Fox derivative, or something like it, has what I think are hitherto unnoticed applications to computer science. Anyway, some of this will become clearer when I post some Haskell code implementing no less than five different types of derivatives of regular expressions (some time in the next week when I have a spare moment), and that should partially answer my question that I posed on λtU.
On further reflection, I can say something about what this means. The way to view derivatives is as an operation that chops things in 'half', destroying something in the middle. The Leibniz rules corresponds to the notion that when you chop a product you must either chop in the left side of the product or the right side. In the usual Leibniz rule you reassemble the pieces on either side - leaving a hole. With the Fox derivative you throw away what's on the right. With the ∂ operator in part 2 you keep only the shape on the right. And McBride's Δ operator gives you a choice of what do do with the left and right hand sides.
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Geneva, 31 January 2011. CERN today announced that the LHC will run through to the end of 2012 with a short technical stop at the end of 2011. The beam energy for 2011 will be 3.5 TeV. This decision, taken by CERN management following the annual planning workshop held in Chamonix last week and a report delivered today by the laboratory's machine advisory committee, gives the LHC's experiments a good chance of finding new physics in the next two years, before the LHC goes into a long shutdown to prepare for higher energy running starting 2014.
The LHC was previously scheduled to run to the end 2011 before going into a long technical stop necessary to prepare it for running at its full design energy of 7 TeV per beam. However, the machine's excellent performance in its first full year of operation forced a rethink. Expected performance improvements in 2011 should increase the rate that the experiments can collect data by at least a factor of three compared to 2010. That would lead to enough data being collected this year to bring tantalising hints of new physics, if there is new physics currently within reach of the LHC operating at its current energy. However, to turn those hints into a discovery would require more data than can be delivered in one year, hence the decision to postpone the long shutdown. If there is no new physics in the energy range currently being explored by the LHC, running through 2012 will give the LHC experiments the data needed to fully explore this energy range before moving up to higher energy.
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LONGMONT -- The Longmont City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to keep moving ahead with the city's plans for a citywide fiber-optic Internet service.
According to a business plan created by consultant Uptown Services, the network could be built out in three years and would cost about $41.1 million to develop.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Seniors Alex May and Liz Theurer were awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships following the 2009 fall season. May, an outside hitter on the women's volleyball team, and Theurer, a forward for the women's soccer squad, became the first athletes from their respective programs to earn this honor.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - The Buffalo Bills made their annual trip to Toronto on Sunday but despite appearances by the Beach Boys and Toronto's infamous crack-smoking mayor, the NFL again failed to generate any buzz north of the border.
A 34-31 overtime loss to the Atlanta Falcons added another line to a dismal record for the Bills at their home away from home.
The yearly pilgrimage north has failed to live up to the hype in Toronto where the Bills are a miserable 1-5 in their domed home, their lone victory coming against the Washington Redskins in 2011.
But for a small market franchise desperately trying to expand its fan base, the Toronto field trip is as much about dollars and cents as it is about wins and losses.
Like other cities in the Rust Belt, Buffalo has watched businesses flee and population shrink, and the original five-year $78 million deal signed in 2008 to lease one regular season game to their northern neighbors has been viewed as necessary to the franchise's long-term survival in the Queen City.
In January, Canadian communications giant Rogers Communications and the Bills renewed their agreement for another five years leaving Buffalonians to fret that their beloved Bills are simply laying the ground work to do what so many other hard-hit businesses have done - leave town.
While cosmopolitan Toronto, now North America's fourth largest city, has had long flirted with the idea of an NFL franchise to stand alongside its NHL, NBA and MLB teams, the city's support of American gridiron has been tepid.
The NFL has never quite received the warm embrace it expected in the Great White North, Sunday's contest attracting just 38,969 customers, leaving large swaths of empty seats despite deeply discounted ticket prices.
The Beach Boys provided the half-time entertainment but could not get the cavernous stadium into a party mood, only the arrival of Toronto's notorious mayor Rob Ford generating any type of buzz.
"We're beating a dead horse," said Bills defensive tackle Kyle Williams when asked about the atmosphere at Rogers Centre. "It's always the same question but at the end of the day we were in a perfectly good position to win the ball game no matter where we were."
A game featuring the Falcons (now 3-9) against the Bills (4-8), who are all but guaranteed to miss the post-season for a 14th consecutive season, on a cool, drizzly afternoon was hardly the type of matchup to prompt Canadians to open up their wallets even if it was being played in the climate controlled comfort of the Rogers Centre.
The Bills have seldom brought their best north with them and again returned home disappointed after Matt Bryant booted a 36-yard field goal to seal the Falcons' overtime victory.
Buffalo may be the only one of 32 teams not to make a playoff appearance since 1999, heaping more misery on a franchise that has just once in the last 14 seasons won more games than they have lost, yet there is no lack of interest in putting up the $1 billion plus it will take to acquire the team when 95-year-old owner Ralph Wilson passes on.
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Me: "May I speak to the person who is responsible for the disaster that is the McCallum Street Bridge closure and West Allens Lane?"
Woman: "That's not us. Call the Water Department."
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Woman: "Nope. Call PWD or Traffic Engineering."
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Man: "I think we underestimated how much disruption would be caused by closing the McCallum Street Bridge. I'm not admitting to anything, mind you."
Me: "Wouldn't it have been a good idea to put up signage ahead of time, alerting people to find alternate routes and using detour signs?"
Man: "Um, yeah. Call PennDOT and the City Traffic Engineering Office. It's their fault. They issue the permits."
Woman's voice: "PGW construction."
Me: "Did you know that while you guys are ripping up the only through street in Mt. Airy to Wissahickon Avenue, PWD has closed off all other avenues to center city except Germantown Avenue? Do you know what a traffic disaster this is for all of Northwest Philadelphia and anyone coming in from the suburbs?"
Woman: "No, I didn't. And anyway, it's not our job. It's the PWD contractor' job to put up signs. And don't forget to call the Traffic Engineering office. They issued the permits."
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I bought my kindle a while ago with that in mind. Turns out still not to be very convenient for pdfs. My finding is this: the kindle is great to scan a bunch of articles to see which are worth reading closely. But once you decide on those, you'll still want a printed version. You can highlight passages which the device then stores for easy recall, so that's nice.
Should you buy a kindle? I'd say yea. My new hobby is downloading sample chapters. I download maybe 15 a week, read through them, occasionally buy the book.
Short point: the kindle is great for casual reading, not so much for serious work.
- April 19, 2011 at 12:24 PM
given your needs, I'd suggest getting an iPad 2. much better for PDF stuff
- April 19, 2011 at 12:34 PM
I downloaded "Kindle for PC" (free software) and a couple of free books from Amazon, just to try it. So far, so good.
I haven't tried it with an article yet. I never thought to -- I've been thinking of it mainly in terms of novels -- but I guess I will now.
- April 19, 2011 at 12:47 PM
What do you want the Kindle to do with the PDF file?
I have a Kindle and I love it -- in fact, I think it is the most valuable devise I've bought since my first computer. However, I wouldn't read philosophy on it because the underlining and note-taking features aren't that useful. If you want to just read through articles, it'll meet your needs just fine. If, on the other hand, you want to be able to put a lot of notes on the article and then access them easily later, the Kindle won't really meet your needs.
- April 19, 2011 at 12:54 PM
This youtuber has a helpful series of videos about the Kindle and pdfs. She's looking at a JoP pdf taboot.
- April 19, 2011 at 1:14 PM
I have have the same question for Kindle. So far, I can think of the following:
1) Kindle (or any ebook reader) is better in reading than i-pad because of the e-ink technology.
2) Kindle is good if you need to buy ebooks from amazon.
3) But if you just want to read pdf for philosophy articles, may be other ebook readers (Sony, ezbook reader, etc.) are better. Kindle is not good in adjusting the size of the font of a pdf file.
- April 19, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- Mr. Zero said...
Thanks everybody.
The thing about ipads is that the cheapest ones are like $500. The cheapest Kindles are like $140. And as 1:35 points out, ebook readers are easier on the eyes.
Also, yes, I want to underline and make (usable) notes in my PDFs.
But I'm open to non-kindles, especially since the Amazon people seem to be DRM fascists. Which off-brand ebook readers should I look into?
- April 19, 2011 at 1:43 PM
One positive thing about the Nook (Barnes and Noble's e-reader) is that it also works for ePub format. That means anything in the Google Books catalog is downloadable and readable on the Nook. If I recall, the Kindle can't do that. But that's a nice feature for us historians--who read a lot of original texts long out of copyright.
- April 19, 2011 at 1:55 PM
Despite its backlit screen, I think the iPad is best for e-reading. The application GoodReader, for example, allows easy highlighting, underlining, and note-taking all with the stroke of your fingers. (GoodReader also gloriously links up with DropBox and GoogleDocuments). I loaded up all of the readings for my entire semester on my iPad and its been great. Since i'm not reading anything longer than a journal article or two, the screen never irritates my eyes.
Throw in the TeX editor app, the Blackboard app, and, of course, AngryBirds, and the iPad clearly outpaces standard e-readers.
With the release of iPad 2, prices for iPad 1 should go down (esp. used and refurb). So, unless you're set on buying new, an iPad might still be an affordable option.
- April 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM
For the price of a kindle you might be able to get a good netbook. PDF your heard out, get kindle books from amazon, nook books from barns and noble, download books and articles from libraries, etc.
- April 19, 2011 at 2:24 PM
About adjusting when you change the font size: actually this works just fine, but you have to convert the pdf files to Kindle format. The way you do this is by sending the files you want converted as attachments to a special server; it converts them and returns them in a minute or so. It sends them to your Kindle, or you can get them on your computer and upload them. (Hm, maybe it's uploading.)
If the pdfs are images (like JSTOR articles), then it's bad. When you 'zoom', you can only see 2/3 of a page, and it's the left or right 2/3, so you have to scan back and forth. Okay in a pinch, but not satisfactory. But pdfs with the text embedded convert nicely.
The main obstacle to annotating is that the keys are very small.
On the whole, I like it a lot, actually. I load a few articles and pull them up on bus rides and other waiting around times. And I'm looking forward to using it at workshops and conferences when I can load all the conference papers onto it.
I can't compare it to other readers in usefulness, but the Barnes & Nobel one seems seriously overpriced to me.
- April 19, 2011 at 3:09 PM
I like my kindle. My dad wasn't using his, so he gave it to me. It's not great for pdfs unless it is a pdf you create (change in font size is a pain). One thing that I do like is that it has a decent text to voice feature that I can use on walks and during my commute. A bunch of ebooks and articles I've converted using calibre to a format that my kindle can read to me while I drive or walk. I don't think the other ereaders can do that yet. When I asked at the Sony store, they laughed at me. Fuck them. It's the 21st century and it wasn't like I was asking for a flying skateboard.
- April 19, 2011 at 3:22 PM
the kindle is great to scan a bunch of articles to see which are worth reading closely. But once you decide on those, you'll still want a printed version.
Inquiring minds want to know: Why will you still want a printed version? Is the underlining/commenting capability lame? Or is there some other problem?
What annoys me is that it seems like a good reader only needs four things: (1) read .pdfs, (2) save comments in a transferable format, (3) allow commenting with a touchscreen, and (4) be large enough to read .pdfs.
For some reason, the readers that do all of this are not being sold in the US. I assume it's an anti-academic conspiracy. (Except for the dualbook, which is expensive, but cheaper than an iPad. Also: don't the iPad and other tablets have a battery life problem? I mean, I don't want to have to recharge every few hours. And in my experience, computer batteries are good for a year at most before you have to shell out a few hundred for a new one.)
- April 19, 2011 at 3:33 PM
I've been using my Kindle since Christmas. It's not perfect for PDFs, though some journals reflow better than others. But since I do everything in LaTeX, it's been very easy for me to make my own PDFs (teaching notes, my entire dossier, notes for talks), and for that's it's been very, very nice to have. It's also been good for skimming through articles -- I find I eventually need a hard copy anyway, but it's nice to be able to take a "stack" to a coffee shop to breeze through, and then find what's useful. For me, it's worth it for its price point.
I don't find it to be great for note-taking. The keyboard isn't really up to it.
- April 19, 2011 at 4:40 PM
- zombie said...
Do you have an iPod Touch or iPhone? The screen is small, but you can read most formats of ebooks on the Touch, and it's hella portable. There's a PDF ReaderPro that lets you highlight and annotate, and there's a free Kindle app for when you wanna buy one of those convenient Kindle books.
I find the small screen to be a bit of a bother -- lots of virtual page turning. But if you already have one, it's a couple bucks to get the PDF reader app, which beats buying a Kindle.
Personally, I still need to print philosophy texts on paper to read them competently, and highlight with a pen. I have lousy eyesight, and computers distract me with all their fancy interwebs and funny cats and eaglecams.
- April 19, 2011 at 5:14 PM
Another vote for iPad. I held out for the 2, but for my budget-conscious friends I have been suggesting a used first generation. Price isn't that much more than a Kindle and a real PDF annotator (I use iAnnotate, but there are several of them) seems to be what you actually want. Plus when it comes to looking for books you can have your library reader if they have one, and iBooks, and Kindle, and Nook, and any of the GoogleBooks readers you want. (One disappointment for me: newspapers for the Kindle won't work on the iPad.)
- April 19, 2011 at 5:43 PM
Wow. I am jealous of this discussion. I just got tenure and can't afford such devices!
- April 19, 2011 at 6:51 PM
- CTS said...
I'm curious about the whole e-book thing.
I can understand wanting to be able to read/access something when not at a desk, but don't laptops permit that with plenty of apps and few problems of proprietary interface with your desk computer? All the e-books are smallish, it seems to me, and they are limited in many ways.
Like A158, I downloaded the Kindle for PC (free) and can now access a number of things that are available in e-format on Amazon but otherwise out of print.
- April 19, 2011 at 7:48 PM
Funny timing--I actually bought a Kindle this morning for the exact same purpose, and had the same question about pdfs that you ask. I did some research, and basically came to the conclusion that one might draw from this thread--it is not ideal but works ok.
I decided to get the kindle for the following reasons: It seems to work at least ok for native (non-image) pdfs. It has the conversion possibility Jamie Dreier notes. It is lighter, much cheaper (first gen iPads are still way more than the wifi Kindle), and easier on the eyes than an iPad. And lots of philosophy books that I might buy are available in the kindle format.
As for the iPod Touch (or iPhone)--I have one, and have tons of pdfs loaded on it, but it is horrible for reading (way too small).
- April 19, 2011 at 8:04 PM
- Bradley said...
I have a Nook, which I got primarily to read .pdfs. It sucks for that purpose. I purchased it because it supposedly had better pdf support (though I don't know where I got that idea) and because the navigation is iPod-like rather than button-pushing.
My Kindle-owning friends have differing opinions, but the general consensus is that if you don't mind reading a third of a page at a time in landscape format, then you should get one. Also if you get the 3G version, you can check your email from anywhere, including overseas.
I will say, however, that the Nook is one of the best purchases I've made. I have a ton of books on there, and rather than bringing a few books on a trip, I can bring a library. Also, I can format my own papers and notes (written in TeX) to display perfectly. For $140, it was a great purchase. Just don't kid yourself that you'll be reading philosophy papers on it.
- April 19, 2011 at 8:07 PM
I read a lot of papers on my Kindle. It's not perfect, but it's not bad. What you can do to make the experience better is rotate the screen. Just hit the font size button and rotate the screen horizontally and you probably won't need to zoom unless it's a multi-columned article. You can also in some articles highlight and comment without converting them to Kindle format. I'd probably spring for an iPad if I had the money, but the Kindle works well to replace printing a hundred articles (or at least slow it down).
- April 19, 2011 at 8:39 PM
I've used a Kindle and a netbook for pdfs, and I didn't like either. The Kindle is super clunky for pdfs (but great for other things). You have the option to keep the pdf format, and then slowly zoom to different quadrants of the paper (or zoom out so far that, for your eyes's sake, you might as well be using the ipad screen). Alternatively, you can have Amazon or Calibre convert the file, but then you lose the formatting and get, for instance, footnotes in apparently strange places.
Like a poster above, I've found that the second option (the conversion) is great for skimming articles. You want a computer or printout, though, for deeper reading (it's more convenient) and for citing page numbers (it's more accurate).
All that said, I love my Kindle, for these only tangentially academic-life reasons:
1. I can have my computer send the kindle, through various convenient plugins, nicely formatted versions of webpages (html, not pdf). This is great for the newspaper, New York Review of Books, Atlantic monthly, blogs like Crooked Timber, etc. It takes like two clicks to get something interesting from your RSS feed onto your Kindle, and it's free. It makes the Kindle a kind of digest of articles that you want to read all at once (again, not pdfs). AND it keeps me more productive at my computer. I can browse the internet when distracted, but easily send the article, news story, etc, to my kindle to read over a real break, subway ride, etc. It helps keep me from drifting too far from work.
2. I think it's fantastic for reading before bed to shut my mind off and fall asleep. There are enough good free books (and of course not-free books) to make for a good selection, and there's something lulling about simply clicking the little page turner at a regular pace. It's different than a book-- the motion is so regular and minimal that I drift off right away (frequently dropping the thing on my face as I do...) .
None of that replaces the joy of actual books, but when you've got too many of those (and you feel it when you move from job to job), a kindle's nice for the non-work stuff.
An ipad would be great for going to conferences, especially ones where you are expected to have copies of everyone's paper on hand. I might be able to afford an ipad one day, but I certainly can't afford to drop/lose/leave it. The Kindle's a little easier in that regard.
- April 19, 2011 at 8:55 PM
- Alex Gregory said...
Another vote for the Kindle being helpful. I get through a lot more philosophy reading now than I did before. It's true that converting files or reading in landscape is a necessity, and it's true that it's difficult to make notes, but these problems aren't enough to outweigh the benefit the kindle brings.
- April 19, 2011 at 11:40 PM
I have been using the nook color,and it has been pretty great with pdfs. I have actually read complete ebooks on it. It is not perfect, but I think it is better than most alternatives.
- April 20, 2011 at 6:42 AM
- Elizabeth said...
@8:55: Can you say what plugins you use to get webpages into your Kindle?
Work-wise, I use my Kindle for PDFs that can convert well, which requires them to be in the right format and not rely on many equations (these often don't render correctly after conversion). This is helpful in getting me to sometimes read things that I wouldn't otherwise -- not my core texts for work, where I'm going to take extensive notes, but interesting stuff outside my area. Better than reading a blog!
I also use it for equation-heavy documents that I write and format so that they'll render well on the Kindle screen. But I didn't even know about the landscape option until reading this thread! Thanks, everyone.
- April 20, 2011 at 6:55 AM
- Feggy said...
With Calibre, you can convert the pdf:s to Kindle format...works better for some, worse for some. In general, I would recommend the DX-version which is of the same size as Ipad.
- April 20, 2011 at 7:53 AM
I use my kindle only for PDFs and I'm happy with it.
Over ipad: easy on the eyes, just like paper, not like computer reading at all.
Over photocopies: very portable, carry every pdf you own, no lost, folded, or torn pages. No losing articles and forgetting you lost them. Easily find old articles when you need them.
1. Reading endnotes is a severe hassle (menu, jump to page, symbol, page #, hunt around, then do it all again). I've quit reading them.
2. Not good for photocopied double-paged articles, since you have to select part of the page and zoom in, a function that is inconvenient and not very user friendly.
1. Use kindle to store articles and to quick read to find which are useful, then printout the ones you'll be closely reading.
2. Most journal pdfs work great. If you photocopy your own articles, just copy one page at a time.
I find I read a lot more journal articles and more efficiently now that I have the kindle. Worth it, if imperfect.
- April 20, 2011 at 8:43 AM
Apparently back issues of e-magazines disappear when you don't continue your subscription. Not sure if it works the same with academic journals.
- April 20, 2011 at 10:08 AM
anon 6:51,
Amazon has a "trade-in" program that allows you to sell textbooks, dvds, and video games in exchange for store credit. Many of the academic books sitting on your shelf will qualify. You almost certainly have enough for a low-level Kindle on your shelf right now.
- April 20, 2011 at 5:09 PM
- Matt W said...
@ Elizabeth (8:55 here):
I use Instapaper, which gives a bookmarklet you click whenever you want to save something, and then sends a daily digest of saved pages to your Kindle. There is another bookmarklet, called Kindebility,which is supposed to be even more streamlined, sending each article by itself.
- April 21, 2011 at 6:37 AM
For my grad classes this semester that were entirely articles, I used my Kindle pretty much exclusively rather than printing. I never converted any of my PDFs, but I got pretty handy with the zooming features. Overall, for something that I need to underline and read through several times, I'd still print the article out, but for everything else, I use my Kindle. I also get more fun reading in as well, simply because I'm able to redeem the time I used to just be waiting around, so it's a win-win. My Kindle is definitely one of my favorite gifts I've ever received.
- April 21, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- Ron said...
Love my Kindle for non-PDF content of all kinds -- very easy on the eyes, and I find the note-taking much better than many here. PDFs with the text embedded convert very nicely, but ones that are scanned in, not so much. Newer journals via JSTOR, etc., are mixed -- sometimes a nice conversion, sometimes not.
Also, I recommend Instapaper and a browser extension like "Send to Kindle" for Chrome.
- April 21, 2011 at 6:21 PM
Has anyone tried tablets that are not iPads? Are there decent ones? I would guess that tablets generally are better for annotating pdfs and such, but my worry is that battery life: if I can't read it through even a full 8-hour flight, or during a long stint at a cafe and on the trip back home, it isn't really worth much. Especially since computer batteries tend to degrade pretty quickly.
Any thoughts on tablets that are decent for reading and have good battery lives?
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- April 22, 2011 at 8:52 PM
- Elizabeth said...
@MattW: Thanks!
- April 22, 2011 at 10:18 PM
if I can't read it through even a full 8-hour flight, or during a long stint at a cafe and on the trip back home, it isn't really worth much.
Really? 8-hour flights make up at most 10% of my trips. I don't have a tablet, but I have a laptop, and although it most definitely does not last eight hours it's still worth a lot to me on these trips.
And if you have a long sting at a cafe, try sitting next to an electrical outlet.
- April 23, 2011 at 5:07 AM
Has anyone tried the large Kindle? (The DX). It is more expensive, but bigger, and is supposed to be better for reading PDFs.
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There's nothing better on a warm day than crunchy and soft pavlovas married with homemade strawberry jam, fresh strawberries, and velvety whipped cream.
These individual pavlovas are very elegant, but indeed deceptively simple assemblages of basic items: soft, chewy meringues, homemade strawberry jam, fresh strawberries, and whipped cream. They do require several steps, but you need not accomplish them all at once. You can prepare the jam days ahead of time and cut the strawberries and bake the meringues hours before you use them. The latter will keep for several days, but the characteristic soft, chewy centers will become firm the longer they sit. As for the whipped cream, prepare it last as it will lose volume and smoothness the longer it waits in the refrigerator. If you are traveling with this dessert, carry the parts separately and assemble them on site.
Serves 8
4 large egg whites
1 teaspoon vinegar
Pinch of salt
1 cup sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
16 ounces fresh strawberries, hulled and roughly chopped
3/4 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Whipped Cream
1 1/4 cups heavy (whipping) cream
Sugar (optional)
16 ounces fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
To make the meringues, preheat the oven to 250 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Put the egg whites in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and begin whipping on medium-high speed. When the whites are very frothy, add the vinegar and salt. Begin incorporating the sugar, about 2 tablespoons at a time, whipping for about 30 seconds to 1 minute after each addition. When all of the sugar has been added, continue whipping the meringue to stiff but supple peaks and until thick and glossy, about 5 minutes more. Spoon the meringue into 8 mounds onto the prepared baking sheet. Shape them into about 3 inch rounds, pressing the centers a bit to make shallow nests. Bake until firm (the meringues might color slightly and crack a bit), 50 to 60 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside on a wire rack to cool completely on the pan. (At this point, the meringues can be carefully removed from the baking sheet and stored between sheets of parchment paper in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. Be advised that the moist, chewy centers will become firm the longer they sit.)
To make the jam, combine the strawberries, sugar, and salt in a large saucepan and, using your hands or a potato masher, crush the ingredients together until syrupy and mushy. It's okay if you still see some pieces of berries. Cook the mixture over low heat, gently simmering and stirring occasionally, until thickened and reduced, about 25 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla extract. Transfer to a bowl to cool, or pour into jars and seal with airtight lids. The unsealed jam will keep in the refrigerator for several days and the sealed jam will store well in the refrigerator for up to 4 weeks.
To make the whipped cream, whip the cream in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment to soft peaks. Whip in sugar, if desired.
To assemble the pavlovas, toss together the sliced strawberries with about 1/3 cup of the jam. Arrange the meringues on serving plates or a large platter. Fill each one with a dollop of whipped cream and spoon the strawberries and jam mixture evenly on top. Serve immediately.


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This lovely pumpkin pie was supposed to grace my dessert table on Thanksgiving . . . but we had a little problem. When I came home from work last Wednesday I had a headache, and took an unexpected nap. Well, I was now 4 hrs. behind schedule with my Thanksgiving preparations.
Fast forward to 10:00 p.m. I decided to make a double batch of pumpkin pie. I was finished by 10:15! Pop it in the oven, 15 minutes at 450 degrees, 50 minutes at 350 degrees! No problem, I'll be in bed by before midnight!
Fast forward to 15 minutes after midnight . . . OH NO, I dozed off with my pie in the oven at 450 degrees for 1 hr. 55 minutes!!!! I flew out to the kitchen and opened the oven door with a swift pull - then sadly put my charcoal pumpkin pie in the trash and promptly went to bed!
We went to Maine on Saturday and I made the second pie there - it was delicious! I hope you enjoyed my kitchen disaster!
Pumpkin Pie
Sift Sugar, Cornstarch, Salt, Cinnamon, Ginger, & Nutmeg together. Mix this with contents of one can ONE-PIE Pumpkin. Add Eggs, beaten, Melted Butter, Molasses, & Milk. Add a dash of Lemon Juice (if desired). Line a 9-inch pie plate, pour in contents. Preheat oven & bake at 450 for 15 minutes. Then reduce temp. to 350 & continue to bake for 50 minutes.


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DENVER (CNN) — A year ago, 42-year-old runner Victor Carlos never thought he'd be excited just to see the starting line. But that was before he almost died.
In fact, the father of two girls didn't breathe for a month; a machine pushed oxygen through his body.
Now he's training for another marathon.
It all began in December with a bad bout of the flu that led to an acute bacterial infection. By the time he checked into the hospital, Carlos was barely hanging on.
"We walked into the triage, and his oxygen level was only 57 percent, and everybody turned a corner," Carlos' wife, Brenda Voglewede, told CNN. Healthy blood oxygen levels are higher than 95 percent.
Carlos was in deep trouble. He had developed acute respiratory distress syndrome, also known as ARDS. It was slowly killing Carlos by attacking his lungs.
"Not only that, but he had multiple organ failure related to the infection. So his kidneys were not working. His liver was not working. And his bone marrow was failing as well," said Dr. Ashok Babu, a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Colorado Hospital.
Babu had no time to spare. He knew trying to force air into Carlos' lungs would do more harm than good. But without oxygen, Carlos' organs would soon shut down. Babu had one shot: a procedure called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO.
With this treatment, doctors turn down the patient's respirator, then insert a special tube through the heart. A pump draws blood from the body, flushes it through an oxygenation machine that removes the carbon dioxide and delivers oxygen back to the heart. It functions as an external lung, without the patient taking a single breath.
You can imagine, before going into the hospital you are this active person. Then you go in, they put you under, and when you wake ... you can't sit up, you can't move your arms up and you look at your legs, and they're just not there anymore. Then you realize it's far worse than you ever expected it to be.
–Victor Carlos
"So (oxygenated blood) could pass through the lungs, and the lungs didn't have to do anything to it because it was already processed," Babu said. "And what we see on the X-ray is the lungs basically collapse down to nothing. ... They are just resting. We support the patient until the lungs can heal on their own."
Carlos' family was told he had a 40 to 50 percent chance of survival.
"Dr. Babu initially said he thought he'd be on ECMO for a week," Voglewede recalled. "Then the week turned into two weeks. And then he's just like, 'Well, sometimes you just have to wait these things out.' "
Babu said, "Two weeks into it we were all pretty worried that we had this young guy whose lungs just didn't seem to be coming back. At the time, he was the patient we had had on ECMO the longest in the history of our program."
Two weeks became four. Carlos didn't take a single breath for a month.
Then a breakthrough came.
"Somewhat miraculously, his lungs just started to open up on their own," Babu said.
By that time, Carlos was a shadow of his former self. He had lost more than 30 pounds.
"You can imagine, before going into the hospital you are this active person. Then you go in, they put you under, and when you wake ... you can't sit up, you can't move your arms up and you look at your legs, and they're just not there anymore," Carlos said. "Then you realize it's far worse than you ever expected it to be."
Still, he was determined to make a full recovery. Seven weeks after entering the hospital, Carlos got to go home.
"I started out just walking a block and then pushing that out the following day to a block and a half, or two. Then it was like walking to school with the girls," he said.
Remarkably, just six months later, Carlos is running.
"My goal at the time was to be able to jog nonstop for three miles. And I didn't think that was going to happen until November. That happened in May," he said.
Once he was able to cover three miles, the distance he usually started out at to train for a marathon, "that's when I knew it was just a matter of time."
Carlos has set his sights on completing the Denver Rock 'N Roll Marathon on October 20. He's already covered the 26.2 miles in a training run.
Carlos isn't running for time. He's running just because he can.
"Every long run gets a little emotional for me this time around. I think of all the people who were there when I couldn't do it for myself. I think of the nurses, people at work, my boss who sent cards ... neighbors, friends, family, all praying for me," he said.
The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2013 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.


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From Worms Knowledge Base
|Pisto, Kawoosh
|Latest version:
|RubberWorm3x (18.104.22.168):
Original by Pisto (126.96.36.199):
|Supported games:
|Supported W:A version:
|18.104.22.168, 22.214.171.124, 3.6.31–28.0
|Supported W:A editions:
|Partially open-source
RubberWorm (or wkRubberWorm) is a module for WormKit that can modify parts of the Worms Armageddon physics to create Wormpot-like effects, and adapts some features of wkMagic to the 126.96.36.199, 126.96.36.199, 188.8.131.52, 220.127.116.11 and 22.214.171.124 versions. It was originally released by Pisto on 6 April 2008, and then ported by Kawoosh to the latest W:A update with several new features.
RubberWorm's effects are applied to the game when certain scheme settings are set to certain values. These settings are normally unused, such as crate probabilities for superweapons. As such, only an external scheme editor can create schemes that will enable RubberWorm effects, though RubberWorm does also provide a chat command interface allowing a host to enable RubberWorm effects in the lobby of a WormNET game. The scheme can then be extracted from the replay afterwards.
For a complete and safe online play, all players should have the same version of the RubberWorm dll file.
- 1 General Info
- 2 Features
- 2.1 Bouncing worms
- 2.2 Gravity modifications
- 2.3 Central gravity (black hole mode)
- 2.4 Air viscosity
- 2.5 Wind influence
- 2.6 Anti-worm sink
- 2.7 Crate finder
- 2.8 Friction modifications
- 2.9 Shot doesn't end turn, Loss of control doesn't end turn, Fire doesn't pause timer, Improved rope, Continuous crate shower
- 2.10 Version override
- 2.11 Crate rate variability
- 2.12 Crate limit variability
- 3 Chat command interface
- 4 Future plans
- 5 See also
General Info
Installation and use
As any WormKit module, it has to be placed in the W:A main folder (or you can use the installer), and you need to enable Loading of WormKit modules in the W:A's Advanced Settings. Changes to the game are applied only when any feature of RubberWorm is enabled.
Source code
Original wkRubberWorm is written in C, and a part of the source code, lacking of addresses and structs (as wkMagic), is public for demonstrative purpose. The RubberWorm3x by Kawoosh was done by reverse-engineering the original RubberWorm, and its code is in C++.
Kawoosh's version of RubberWorm
Since 18.104.22.168, Kawoosh has been updating RubberWorm with new features and support for newest W:A updates. It has all basic features of old RubberWorm, KaosMod, TrastulloPerAtrox and some of LaserFix and will not make desynchronizations when playing with an older WA+RubberWorm user*. The same concerns replays—you can safely view older RubberWorm replays (made before 3.7.2) using this version. Read more here.
*If none of the new features, listed here, are enabled. Some of them were also part of old LaserFix module, and so they are compatible. 220.127.116.11 version users cannot play against 188.8.131.52 online, but the replays are perfectly compatible.
Features added by Kawoosh can be seen on the download page.
Bouncing worms
The original purpose of RubberWorm. Every time a worm hits an object or the terrain (in any direction), it bounces off of it. If it's during a rope roll, it can continue roping, and it never takes fall damage or loses the turn. The feature is always off if the worm is flying for a jump.
The worms' "boing" sound can switched on/off typing in the in-game chat /boing (not in RubberWorm3x).
- Worm bounciness (or technically, the coefficient of restitution) is determined by the quotient of the value for the Armageddon crate probability divided by 255. For example, if the value is set to 0, the coefficient of restitution is 0, resulting in no bounce. If 255, the coefficient is 1, resulting in a perfectly elastic collision (the worm bounces with the same speed with which it hit the object or terrain).
Gravity modifications
Gravity can be made stronger or weaker, eliminated or even reversed. When reversed, a worm can stand on its head and shoot, but walking is obviously buggy. Also, should an object encounter no obstacle and fall into the sky, it will be sent to water when it reaches a certain height, otherwise it would block the game indefinitely.
- Activated by the crate probability of the Mail Strike, if the high bit (eighth bit) is clear. The other bits control the strength of gravity, from −63 to +63 in one's complement format (the seventh bit is the sign bit); a value of 0 or 12 results in default gravity. The value is one's complement in order to make it possible to set zero gravity; to do this, you make the gravity "negative zero" (which is −1 in two's complement), ie 0x7F
Central gravity (black hole mode)
Gravity points towards the center of the map, or away from it (anti-gravity). These modes can either be proportional, where gravity is stronger near the center of the map, or constant, where gravity is the same strength for all locations.
In black hole mode, the object may either start a steady orbit or fall in the middle of the map and never stop flying: to avoid the first case objects that don't explode after some seconds (like worms, mines, crates and barrels) have a very small air viscosity value (see below); for the second case, objects nearer than 15 pixel to the center are sent to water.
Anti-gravity has a similar safeguard to reversed gravity (see above).
The strength of the gravity can be adjusted.
- Activated by the crate probability of the Mail Strike. The high bit (eighth bit) enables black hole mode; the seventh bit enables proportional mode; the other bits control the strength of the black hole's gravity, from −32 to +31 in two's complement format (the sixth bit is the sign bit).
Air viscosity
Objects flying through the air lose speed up to a steady velocity, determined by gravity and wind (imagine throwing a rock in the water). Some objects, such as crates, graves, barrels, parachuting worms, and Mail Strike letters, will not experience this effect. It is adjustable: a value of 63 makes the air pasty as water.
- Activated by the crate probability of the Concrete Donkey. A higher value produces a stronger effect. If the value is odd, the effect will apply to worms as well as objects.
Wind influence
Like air viscosity, it can be applied to only objects or worms too, but never to those objects (like bazooka) that are already influenced by wind or crates, graves, barrels. How much the wind moves the objects is adjustable.
- Activated by the crate probability of the Suicide Bomber. A higher value produces a stronger effect, with the highest value (255) corresponding to the wind susceptibility of the Bazooka. If the value is odd, the effect will apply to worms as well as objects.
Anti-worm sink
If activated, a worm that hits the water is prevented from drowning and instead teleported to the last location where it has been motionless. The turn does not end. If the teleport results in the worm falling and hitting water again (for example, if the terrain has since been destroyed by a weapon), it drowns normally.
- This feature is activated by a non-zero value for the crate probability of the French Sheep Strike.
Crate finder
Arrows point to crates, as they do in certain missions. This feature can give a player an advantage if other players do not have RubberWorm, so a chat message is used to alert other players to its use.
- Type /arrows in the in-game chat to activate this.
Friction modifications
Currently, the velocity of a worm is slowed by 4% each frame that a worm slides along the terrain. This is given by multiplying velocity by F*0.01, where the default F value is 96. A lower value results in a higher degree of friction, with F=0 reducing velocity to zero immediately (infinite friction). Values between 96 and 100 give slippier terrains, while a value of 100 results in no friction. Values above 100 will result in the worm's velocity actually increasing as it slides.
- The friction value is stored in the crate probability of the Salvation Army.
Shot doesn't end turn, Loss of control doesn't end turn, Fire doesn't pause timer, Improved rope, Continuous crate shower
To edit these options, start with a value of zero and add the corresponding number for each option you want to enable (listed below). Then set the crate probability of the Mole Squadron to the resulting sum.
Shot doesn't end turn
Firing a weapon doesn't end the player's turn. There's no retreat time and you can't control any weapon (such as Sheep or Supersheep) when turn time runs out.
- Controlled by the first bit of the crate probability of Mole Squadron (add 1 to enable).
Loss of control doesn't end turn
When activated, control of the active worm will not be lost in any circumstances (fall from a great height, weapon explosion, etc) except death.
- Controlled by the second bit of the crate probability of Mole Squadron (add 2 to enable).
Fire doesn't pause timer
The timer doesn't pause while firing any weapon. Useful with Shot doesn't turn, because without it one could extend his turn time for a very long time using drill or blow torch, for example.
- Controlled by the third bit of the crate probability of Mole Squadron (add 4 to enable).
Improved rope
Changes the rope physics to simulate Worms 2 (higher accelleration, 162 degrees of shooting)
- Controlled by the fourth bit of the crate probability of Mole Squadron (add 8 to enable).
Continuous crate shower
Normally, the game checks between turns the crate probability settings, and determines if and which crate must be spawned. With this feature, you can force the game to do this job every 5 seconds, also during turns. If you want a crate shower like Worms World Party, use SchemeEddy to check that the probability of no crate falling per turn is 0%. Keep in mind that the WWP crate shower spawns a completely random crate, that is it doesn't check the probability of each single weapon (that's why you can grab even Surrender).
- Controlled by the fifth bit of the crate probability of Mole Squadron (add 16 to enable).
Version override
- There are many engine version that come with the last update, and some of them may be interesting for their different behaviour. You shouldn't emulate the earliest versions of the 3.x, as they may lead to crashes (like, for not supporting the new scheme format, colored/big maps).
- Version is set by the crate probability of Select Worm.
For version numbers, see WA versions list.
Crate rate variability
Controls the number of crates that appear per turn. When a value of Crate Rate exists, the Crate Count automatically will be turned on.
- Set by the crate probability of the Indian Nuclear Test. The value 1 only will turn on the Crate Count
Crate limit variability
Controls the number of crates that can exist on the map at any one time (five at default)
- Set by the crate probability of the Magic Bullet.
Chat command interface
These commands can be used in the host/join lobby. Omitting the parameter either activates the feature with a default value, or sets it off.
|Displays list of commands in the chat window.
|Displays a list of all enabled features to all players.
|Displays a dialogue box with all enabled features to the host only.
|Disables all features.
|/sdet or /multishot
|Enables the shot doesn't end turn feature.
|/ldet or /stoicworm
|Enables the loss of control doesn't end turn feature.
|/fdpt or /nopause
|Enables the timer doesn't pause while firing feature.
|/ir or /rope+
|Enables the improved rope feature.
|/rubber### [0–255]
| Enables the bouncing worms feature.
0 .............. no bounce
|/version### [1–255]
|Enables the arbitrary version override feature.
|/version or /fr or /ts3
|Enables the teststuff3 feature.
|Enables the antisink feature.
|/visc### [0–255]
| Enables the air viscosity feature.
odd number ..... affects worms too
|/wind### [0–255]
| Enables the wind response feature.
1 to 255 ....... low sensitivity to wind
|/jetpack### [1–255]
| Sets value of jetpack fuel.
no value ............ infinite fuel
|/friction### [1–100]
| Sets terrain friction.
1 to 95 ........ high friction
|Alias for friction1
|Alias for friction99
|/gravity### [−64 to 63]
| Sets gravity strength.
-64 ............ reversed gravity, strength 5.3x
|/pbh### [−32 to 31]
|Proportional black hole (variable is gravitational strength)
|/cbh### [−32 to 31]
|Constant black hole (variable is gravitational strength)
|Disables all gravity modification features.
|/cratelimit### [1–255]
|Sets maximum number of co-existing crates.
|/craterate### [1–255]
|Sets number of crates spawned per turn and enables the crate counter.
|Alias for /craterate1 (just enables the crate counter).
|Enables the continuous crate shower feature.
Future plans
Pisto gave up coding RubberWorm, though version 1.0 has been developed inconstantly for over a year. He lost interest in Worms, but also in programming in general. The source code of Kawoosh's RubberWorm31 0.0.1.11, RubberWorm 0.7 (a version compatible with the old 22.214.171.124 update), and of the never going to be 1.0 has been given to Deadcode: his aim is to add the emulation of RubberWorm in the official updates. This is going to happen in the next update after 3.7.2.
Pre-release with aliased-bounces
On 26th August 2009 a test build of RubberWorm 1.0 has been released. The reason for sharing it is to show some of the new features, mainly aliased-bounce. It allows to emulate the real behaviour of an object colliding with an object with a slope, a great lack of the Worms Armageddon default engine.


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David Dortort, the creator and producer of "Bonanza," the long-running television western that was untraditional in its emphasis on relationships over violence and that helped spur public demand for color TVs, has died. He was 93.
FOR THE RECORD: A news obituary in Wednesday's LATExtra section on "Bonanza" creator and producer David Dortort said the TV show was set in Nevada City. It was set in Virginia City, Nev.
Dortort died in his sleep Sunday at his Westwood home after a period of declining health, said his business manager, Mads Bjerre.
David Dortort obituary: The obituary in Wednesday's LATExtra section of David Dortort, the creator and producer of "Bonanza," said that the television series was set in Nevada City. The show was set in Virginia City, Nev. —
"Bonanza" was the first prime-time western to be broadcast in color when it made its debut on NBC in 1959. With the scenic wilderness around Lake Tahoe as the setting for the fictional Ponderosa Ranch, the show starred Lorne Greene as patriarch Ben Cartwright and Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker and Michael Landon as his three sons.
The longest-running TV western after "Gunsmoke," it aired for 14 seasons and was one of television's highest-rated shows during the 1960s, including three seasons at No. 1. Since the last new episode aired in 1973, it has continued to draw audiences in syndication.
"Not only did David Dortort provide entertainment but he influenced how people viewed the American West. He created a vision of the American West that showed how people can get along … and how the western could take on cultural and social issues facing America in the 1960s and 1970s," said Jeffrey Richardson, associate curator for film and popular culture at the Autry National Center, the museum and research institute in Los Angeles where Dortort recently donated his production records and other "Bonanza" memorabilia.
Dortort also created and produced "The High Chaparral," a grittier western that was notable for its culturally diverse cast and frank treatment of conflicts between whites, Native Americans and Mexicans on the Arizona frontier. It ran on NBC from 1967 to 1971.
Born in New York City on Oct. 23, 1916, Dortort graduated from City College of New York in 1936. After completing his military duty stateside during World War II, he wrote two novels, including "Burial of the Fruit" (1949), which brought an invitation from actor Burt Lancaster to turn it into a screenplay. Dortort labored alongside another young novelist and CCNY graduate, Norman Mailer, who was trying to turn his debut work, "The Naked and the Dead," into a movie.
Both screenplays were rejected. "To hear David tell the story, Norman said to hell with Hollywood and went back to New York … but David said, 'I'd like to stick around and see if I can learn the art of screenplay writing,' " said Andrew J. Klyde, an attorney who knew Dortort for 20 years and oversees licensing and merchandising for "Bonanza."
Dortort's perseverance paid off with his first credit as a writer, with Horace McCoy, for "The Lusty Men" (1952), a rodeo drama directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Robert Mitchum.
He soon moved into television work, writing three episodes of "Fireside Theatre," an anthology series on NBC and later ABC. One of his "Fireside" stories about the discovery of gold and silver in Virginia City, Nev., inspired the show that became his most enduring success.
"Bonanza," which was set in Nevada City around the time of the Civil War, sought to counter the popular image of the gunslinger by showing the role families played in taming the frontier. After initially struggling in the ratings, it caught on by its third season with strong cross-generational appeal.
Dortort often said the popularity of "Bonanza" was largely due to its universal themes and family values.
"At a time when the dysfunctional family was becoming a current way of life in this country, this was a functional family," he said of the Cartwrights in a 2001 interview with The Times. "There was always a morality in this show. Yes, there are difficulties, but we can overcome them by working together."
A letter in the Autry archives showed how the program also reached across international boundaries. "It was from a man who lived in divided Berlin" years before the Berlin Wall came down, Richardson said. "He told how he was whispering the tune of 'Bonanza.' From the other side of the wall, someone started whistling it back to him. In the darkest days of the Cold War, these two individuals, divided by so much more than this wall, were able to find a common bond."
Dortort took pride in the show's impact on the rise of color TV sets in the 1960s. It became a marketing tool for savvy dealers, who began to hold open houses when the show came on. "People would react in astonishment, with delight, and then," Dortort recalled in a 2005 interview for the Autry National Center magazine, "buy a set."
Dortort's wife of 67 years, Rose, died in 2007. He is survived by a daughter, Wendy Czarnecki, of Petaluma, Calif.; a son, Fred, of Berkeley; a brother and a granddaughter.


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