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Talk:Community Updates/2009-02-20
From Openmoko
The 12th community updates will released on February 20, 2009. Before releasing , I will put the draft on TALK page. Feel free to update the new for community.
- Fyp is a Debian for Freerunner based distribution which uses LXDE and Zhone on top. It is a FreeYourPhone.de community project. Now the first beta image is released. You can download Fyp ditribution here, then uses NeoTool for installation. After you finished the installation and boot up, you can press AUX (short press) shows the keyboard, and use Power button to pops up the shutdown/suspend menu, then select the options.
New Applications
- Momtools-(momtools = MyOpenMoko tools) the idea of this tool is creating an easy-to-use application, allowing the freerunner (gta-02) to connect to wifi and gprs, and add some useful applications such as a slim media-player and a little accelerometers-game. This project now is on progress. You can check this on it's wiki page.
- Enscribi-a new handwriting recognition input method, now it only support writing Japanese and Chinese characters. You can download ipk files and install it on FSO. Then goto "setup" --> "keyboard" --> "enscribi", then you get a Chinese input method. For more inforamtion , you can check : http://olofsj.github.com/enscribi/ .
- OpenMiaoCat, like OpenMooCow, makes your phone became a cat! Simply stroke gently the lovely cat to make it purr!
Application updates
- Kustomizer-version 0.2 released. GSM works again. Many fixes done - now Kustomizer can give you two different configurations, see here. Changelog and test run log.
- Linball-Updates 0.1 version to 0.2 version. Download new version here : http://linball.sf.net/linball-openmoko_0.2_armv4t.opk
- Qwo-Version 0.4 had released on Feb, 7. The change inclueds :window can be resized dynamically, Alt key added and add page up, down, home and end plus others ...etc. You can downloads the new version here
- Yaouh!-Version 0.4 is out. This release includes bugfix and add support for multiple wget download , probably faster.
Trick and Tips
MokoGeocaching Installing-After you install MokoGeocaching , if the app won't even start, you may need to install these dependencies manually (Om2008.12):
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opkg install python-netclient python-mime python-netclient
- How to search bugs real quick , instead of using trac.openmoko.org ? You can use the Unofficial search to bugs.openmoko.org. You can type the keyword or bug number on text box , then press "search", the result will list below the text box.
- Openmoko autobuilder is back online. It is generating images for gta01 and gta02 devices. You can check images status on this site :http://tinderbox.openembedded.net/builders/openmoko/. Unstable images will auto generate in http://downloads.openmoko.org/repository/unstable/ . There are some packages that are failing consistently, Openmoko distribution maintainer is going to try and debug these and send some fixes upstream.
- Openmoko started migrating content from the Om wiki to FLOSS Manuals. Basis for the manual will be derived from Getting Started With Your Neo FreeRunner and Openmoko Developer Guide.


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Week 16: Giants Run Over Bills 38-21
Nearly 300 yard rushing day leads to another Bills loss.
by Steve Saslow
The Bills got a huge emotional lift with the visit from Kevin Everett before the game. The so called special teams, that has been less than special this year, and poor run defense gave the momentum back to the Giants as the visitors clinched a playoff spot with a 38-21 win over the Bills at rainy, windy Ralph Wilson Stadium. It was a game of many momentum shifts and the Giants pulled away thanks to three fourth quarter interceptions thrown by Trent Edwards, two were returned for touchdowns to put what had been a close game away.
Everett met with his teammates a couple of hours before kickoff and the Bills came out motivated with the wind at their back in the first quarter. They drove to back to back touchdowns to gain a 14-0 lead. Dick Jauron attributed the quick start to the visit from Everett. Once the wind went against them special teams made two huge gaffes that led to two 2nd quarter touchdowns by the Giants to tie the game.
Edwards seemed comfortable early throwing with the wind hitting Josh Reed for 21 yards on the first play to get the Bills going. Marshawn Lynch was used in the passing game on the opening two successful drives. His 30 yard completion setup a 3 yard touchdown pass to Michael Gaines. On the next possession he hit a 42 yard bomb to Roscoe Parrish to setup a four yard scoring pass to Lee Evans to make it 14-0. (Warning: You may not want to read further if you aren't a gluten for punishment.)
Things went downhill from there as the Giants had the heavy winds in the 2nd quarter and the special teams made it easy for them. A bad snap by Ryan Neill for the second straight game setup the Giants deep in Buffalo territory. Brandon Jacobs ran it in up the middle for a six yard touchdown run. They would tie the ball game one play after Donte Whitner was called for roughing the punter on the Giants next series. Jacobs made them pay for that mistake by rumbling 43 yards virtually untouched to quiet the crowd and make the Giants spell blood.
The Giants would add a field goal to take a 17-14 lead and looked for more when Aaron Schobel forced a fumble by Eli Manning and recovered it to keep the Giants from getting more as the first half expired.
The Bills knew they needed to score early and often in the third quarter since they were going against the wind in the fourth and they needed a lead going into the final period. They did score early but not often. Keith Ellison picked off a tipped pass on the first play from scrimmage in the third quarter and two plays later Marshawn Lynch was in the end zone to give the Bills the lead back.
The Giants marched down the field into the wind as they took valuable time off the clock with a fantastic running game to take up much of the quarter. The Bills managed their bend but don't break defense with a huge goal line stand stopping them on four straight runs after they had a first and goal at the one.
Any momentum the Bills had was short lived when they went three and out with the wind and a conservative gameplan from inside their own 10 yard line. The Giants had good field position and picked right back up where they left off as Brandon Jacobs started running well again as he rifled through the Bills defense most of the game on his way to a career high 145 yards. He left the field on the previous drive but his backup Ahmad Bradshaw had some nice runs himself. The Giants controlled the clock and the game in the third quarter and that was the difference as they entered the fourth quarter down by 4 but deep in Buffalo territory. The Bills likely needed a two touchdown lead entering the final period to win.
This game of momentum swings wasn't done yet. Eli Manning struggled with the snap from center all game long. His 5th fumble, 2nd lost of the game was recovered by Larry Tripplett to give the Bills the momentum back...for two plays. That is when a slant pass by Edwards was knocked into the air by Evans and picked off and returned for a touchdown. The Giants now had the lead back and the wind.
Edwards went right back to Evans after the ensuing kickoff and hit him for 18 yards. Lynch followed it with a 13 yard run but the Bills went three and out from there with the help of a non call against the Giants for what could have been called pass interference on third down. The Bills defense really stiffened in the fourth quarter to keep the team in the game. Terrence McGee picked off a pass near midfield to give the Bills another chance.
At this point the rain had turned to snow and the wind and snow was blowing in the face of Edwards who really struggled after a solid first quarter. All the Bills could try to do was run and the Giants keyed on it well enough to keep the Bills from doing anything offensively into the wind. You realized that no matter how well the defense played the Bills weren't going to find a way to score again in the weather conditions to win it.
The defense seemed to know it as well as the three and out after the big takeaway seemed to take the wind out of the sails of the defense and the little known 7th round pick Bradshaw rumbled 88 yards for a touchdown to put the game away. A 2nd Edwards pick was returned for a touchdown and a third pick allowed the Giants to run out the clock.
The Bills did play inspired ball early and never gave up until Bradshaw's back breaking touchdown The Giants finished with a whopping 291 yards rushing as Bradshaw finished 151 yards to go along with Jacobs career high. In a game with so many twists and turns and momentum changes that was the ultimate difference along with the fact that they did more with the wind then the Bills offense did.
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Don't Quit
Paul Shrier is professor of practical theology at Azusa Pacific University and a foster parent.
Several years ago I facilitated a faith-based luncheon at Azusa Pacific University to promote foster care among faith-based organizations. We invited representatives of churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious groups. We encouraged them to promote foster parenting, thinking that children need homes where they can safely live and grow.
A friend disagreed with the idea of inviting leaders of other faiths. He said he'd rather children bounce around between families or stay in group homes than go to stable homes with foster parents of non-Christian faiths. I suggested that since he felt so strongly, he should become a foster parent. He had no response.
The same principle applies here. There has been a lot of solid, reliable research on outcomes for children fostered or adopted by stable gay couples. The studies show that these children are no more likely to become gay than the general population, and they have a somewhat better chance of finishing high school and thriving in other ways than they do even in heterosexual foster homes. Children flourish in safe, stable environments, no matter what the sexual orientation of the parents.
It would be great if Christians would foster and adopt all of the children in need. Since they don't, the safety and welfare of the child ought to trump our theological and social beliefs. As an adoptive parent and a former foster parent who still helps other foster parents and kids, I have a firsthand understanding of children's needs. They need love and safety. The beliefs of those who provide it are secondary; the Bible shows that God can use even non-believing parents to accomplish ...1


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MUCH ABOUT HISTORYWorldNetDaily Exclusive
Latest Noah's Ark 'just wood planted on Ararat'
Archaeologists make astonishing claim about alleged discovery of Bible boat
Has the real Noah's Ark spoken of in the Bible truly been found?
At least two seasoned archaeologists who have made numerous expeditions to Mount Ararat in search of Noah's Ark are throwing cold water on this week's claim the Old Testament vessel has finally been discovered, saying it's a hoax involving wood hauled in from the Black Sea region.
In this photo from Noah's Ark Ministries International, an explorer is purported to be investigating a wooden structure on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey that it says may be the remnant of Noah's Ark mentioned in the Bible.
"To make a long story short: this is all reported to be a fake," said Randall Price, director of Judaic Studies at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va.
"This is not Noah's Ark," adds Bob Cornuke of the Bible Archaeology Search and Exploration Institute. "This is a fake. It's a fraud and it's of the highest caliber according to what I can assess from the evidence and talking to eyewitnesses and people from Turkey."
WND reported yesterday that Chinese and Turkish explorers with Noah's Ark Ministries International said they were "99.9 percent sure" they found the remnants of the legendary biblical vessel high up on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
The 15-member team claims it recovered wooden specimens from a structure at an altitude of 13,000 feet and that carbon dating suggested it was 4,800 years old.
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Several compartments, some with wooden beams, are said to be inside and could have been used to house animals, the group indicated.
"The search team has made the greatest discovery in history," declared Prof. Oktay Belli, an archaeologist at Istanbul University. "This
finding is very important and the greatest up to now."
Some video has been posted on YouTube and can be seen here:
But Dr. Price, who is spearheading efforts to explore two competing locations for Noah's Ark, sent an e-mail dispatch to supporters with his personal take on the alleged find, asserting the structure is a hoax perpetrated by a Kurdish guide and his partners to extort money from Chinese evangelical Christians.
"I was the archaeologist with the Chinese expedition in the summer of 2008 and was given photos of what they now are reporting to be the inside of the Ark," he wrote in his message dated April 26.
The photos were reputed to have been taken off site near the Black Sea, but the film footage the Chinese now have was shot on location on Mt. Ararat. In the late summer of 2008 ten Kurdish workers hired by Parasut, the guide used by the Chinese, are said to have planted large wood beams taken from an old structure in the Black Sea area (where the photos were originally taken) at the Mt. Ararat site. In the winter of 2008 a Chinese climber taken by Parasut's men to the site saw the wood, but couldn't get inside because of the severe weather conditions.
During the summer of 2009 more wood was planted inside a cave at the site. The Chinese team went in the late summer of 2009 (I was there at the time and knew about the hoax) and was shown the cave with the wood and made their film. As I said, I have the photos of the inside of the so-called Ark (that show cobwebs in the corners of rafters – something just not possible in these conditions) and our Kurdish partner in Dogubayazit (the village at the foot of Mt. Ararat) has all of the facts about the location, the men who planted the wood, and even the truck that transported it.
To my knowledge, the Chinese took no professional archaeologist or geologist who could verify or document the wood or the structure.
In the wake of the e-mail's circulation online, a subsequent statement was issued tonight, which stated, "While Dr. Price does not retract his statements, he wants the public to understand that these only represent his opinion as informed by his experience with the Kurdish guide and the Chinese and other sources in eastern Turkey."
It went on to say Price "urges the Chinese-Turkish team to make their collected samples from the structure available to scientists and scholars for comparative analysis.While he has reservations about the nature and procedure of the Chinese-Turkish expedition and the artifacts related to it, he believes that a decision concerning this matter must wait until independent examinations of the site and the structure can be made and published."
Another ark-hunter, Richard Rives of Tennessee-based Wyatt Archaeological Research, said while he's skeptical of the new alleged find, he's not completely ruling it out it just yet.
"Just because Randall Price says something doesn't make it so," Rives told WND. "We don't know what it is until we get a little more information. It is something of interest. I can't wait to find out to find out the real truth."
Rives noted one thing that seemed strange was the wood reportedly discovered appeared in excellent condition.
"The wood's in too good a shape to be that old," he said.
Is this a beam from Noah's Ark? Explorers with Noah's Ark Ministries International have released this photo of a wooden structure it says it has documented at an altitude of 13,000 feet on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
Regarding some of the photos published online, Cornuke told American Family Radio, "There are cobwebs up in the beams. You're not going to have wood at
14,000 feet in a glacier to have cobwebs in it. It's impossible to have
that situation."
This photo of what is alleged to be wood inside a possible site of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat reveals apparent cobwebs, which archaeologist Bob Cornuke says would be impossible in a glacier at high altitude (photo: Noah's Ark Ministries International).
He agrees with Price about wood being transported up Ararat, saying "a lot of the beams that you see were actually imported into the mountain probably in 2008."
Cornell archaeologist Peter Ian Kuniholm, who has focused on Turkey for decades, called the alleged discovery a "crock."
"There's not enough H2O in the world to get an ark that high up a mountain," Kuniholm said.
Archaeologist Paul Zimansky of Stony Brook University in New York said he'd welcome learning more about the site. "It would be nice to know what they have found – if there's a scientific publication in the offing," he told MSNBC.com. "Press releases are not the way archaeology advances."
He added: "It's not inconceivable to me that they've found pieces of wood at that level, but that doesn't mean they've found an ark."
If the latest proclaimed find of Noah's Ark does indeed turn out to be false, it certainly would not be the first time phony claims have been floated.
Among the best-known scams is one from 1993, when California actor George Jammal deliberately duped CBS Television and the filmmakers of "The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark" into believing he saw and touched the vessel on Mount Ararat.
According to the Internet Movie Database, Jammal "made the hoax as blatant as possible, making up persons with names such as 'the Armenian friend, Mr. Allis Buls Hitian' or 'my dear Polish companion Vladimir Sobitchsky,' and cooking a piece of pine in sauce to present it as 'a piece of the Ark' – and yet his story was presented as the real thing and shown as the key testimony in the video; after some time, humiliating its makers, Jammal publicly revealed the details of his hoax."
The Press-Telegram of Long Beach, Calif., was among those documenting a Noah's Ark hoax perpetrated by Southern California actor George Jammal in 1993. Jammal admitted cooking railroad tracks in sauce to create "sacred wood" he claimed he had retrieved from the biblical vessel on Mount Ararat.
With attention refocused on the vessel mentioned in the Book of Genesis, Rives says there are several key points about a well-known alternate site he has explored some 15 miles from Mount Ararat, featuring an object that resembles a boat on a smaller mountain in Dogubayazit, Turkey.
Many believe this might be Noah's Ark, already found on a mountain next to Mount Ararat (courtesy: wyattmuseum.com).
It was first
photographed in 1959 by a Turkish air-force pilot on a NATO mapping mission, and gained worldwide attention after its image was published in a 1960 issue of Life Magazine. Rives summarized evidence for the possibility that site could be the resting place of the ship, indicating:
- A boat-shaped object 300 cubits in length can plainly be seen in the mountains of Ararat or Urartu. Visible, equable, and symmetrical features can be examined. Subsurface interface radar scans reveal buried features which, once again, are equable and symmetrical.
- Much of the material found at the site is fossilized and contains organic carbon, demonstrating that it was once associated with living matter. The presence of organic carbon has been verified by multiple scientific laboratories. Plant and animal fibers have also been found within the object and have been documented by way of forensic testing.
- In addition, metal artifacts found at the site are composed of a combination of metals such as modern day sophisticated alloys – once again, verified by metallurgical laboratories.
His museum's website features on-location photographs and charts, making its case with
physical evidence including radar scans of bulkheads on the alleged vessel, deck timber and iron rivets and large "drogue" stones, which may have acted as types of
However, there's been no shortage of critics
from both scientific and Christian circles who think the Dogubayazit site is
Lorence Collins, a retired geology professor
from California State University, Northridge, joined the late David Fasold, a
one-time proponent of that site, in writing a scientific summary claiming the location is
"Evidence from microscopic studies and photo
analyses demonstrates that the supposed Ark near Dogubayazit is a completely
natural rock formation," said the 1996 paper published in the Journal of
Geoscience Education. "It cannot have been Noah's Ark nor even a man-made model.
It is understandable why early investigators falsely identified it."
Today's interactive WND poll focused on the purported discovery, and 32 percent of respondents said, "I don't know if this is the Ark, but I have no doubt Noah and his flood are reality, as all civilizations tell a similar story."
Another 26 percent indicated, "It may be that in this increasingly faithless age, God is unearthing some bits of faith-enhancing evidence."
Some reader comments about the issue include:
- "To be realistic, it was a boat made of wood. It was abandoned, almost certainly exposed to the elements, before the rise of Egypt [some] 5,000 years ago or more. If that was the case, it would almost certainly have rotted away to nothing, probably before Christ."
- "I don't need tangible evidence that Noah's Ark existed. I have 100% faith in God and the Bible. If God said it happened, it happened. God does not lie."
- "I'm a dummy, so somebody has to tell me how kangaroos and Tasmanian devils made it to the Ark and back at just the right time."
In both the Old and New Testaments, the Bible speaks of Noah's Ark, and
Jesus Christ and the apostles Paul and Peter all make reference to Noah's flood
as an actual historical event.
According to Genesis, Noah was a righteous man who was instructed by God to
construct a large vessel to hold his family and many species of animals, as a
massive deluge was coming to purify the world, which had become corrupt.
Genesis 6:5 states: "And God saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil continually."
Noah was told by God to take aboard seven pairs of each of the "clean"
animals – that is to say, those permissible to eat – and two each of the
"unclean" variety (Genesis 7:2).
Though the Bible says it rained for 40 days and 40 nights, it also mentions
"the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days."
Genesis 8:4 does not say the ark rested on "Mount Ararat," but rather the "mountains of Ararat," and it was still months
before Noah and his family – his wife, his three sons and the sons' wives – were
able to leave the ark and begin replenishing the world.
Note: Media wishing to interview Joe Kovacs, please contact him.
If you'd like to sound off on this issue, please take part in the WorldNetDaily poll.


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Following criticism earlier this week from the Belarusian government for the United States government's suppression of the Texas' independence movement, the State Department responded urging Belarus to reflect on its own government.
"The United States is always open to discussing human rights, both in the United States and abroad. In the spirit of open discussion, we remind the government of Belarus that enhanced respect for democracy and human rights in Belarus remains central to improving bilateral relations, and we repeat our call that Belarus immediately and unconditionally release all political prisoners and restore their political rights," a State Department official said in an email to the Houston Chronicle.
The Belarusian government issued a report blasting the United States for human rights violations, citing the Texas petition to secede and other dealings with Occupy Wall Street and drones.
Belarus – the last authoritarian government in Europe – has often been criticized by Western nations for its own repression of free markets, free speech and free press under President Alexander Lukashenko. However, the Belarusian government blasted the U.S. in a recent report for not responding favorably to a petition signed by 125,000 Americans asking that Texas be allowed to secede from the U.S.


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(CNN) -- Smartphones are perpetually blamed, ironically, for our lack of communication. Incessant text messaging, constant "Words with Friends" games and endless Facebook updates often distract us from face-to-face conversation.
As Gizmodo's Sam Biddle wrote, "Phones, for the first time in their history, are being designed to undermine their primary function ... actually facilitating a world in which I never have to talk to anyone."
It's not mobile phones alone that are stopping us from interacting, Richard Ling, author of "New Tech, New Ties: How mobile communication is reshaping social cohesion," argues. In fact, his research shows cell phones actually improve communication between you and your closest companions; while waiting for the bus it's easier now to text a friend or call up your mom.
However, when people have the ability to surf the web from their smartphones, they're distracted from that connection opportunity.
"Yet it's interesting that you can also bring it full circle," Ling added. "Smartphones can give you an interesting way to start a conversation or chat up a girl. It's not surprising -- there's an app for that."
So it's not all bad acronyms and lack of eye contact with smartphones? We did a search for apps designed to help you improve your communication skills. If you're feeling tongue-tied, check these out for the right thing to say.
Stood up a date? Forgot a friend's birthday? Insulted your boss? Fix it with the perfect apology using the "iPology" app on the iPhone. Answer the questions "What did you do?" "Who did you do it to?" and "Are you being sincere or sarcastic?" for several automated responses guaranteed to get you out of the doghouse. Send the message via spoken word (you know, like in person), email or text.
And if "You trusted me, big mistake" doesn't quite solve your problem, the app allows you to send a bouquet of virtual flowers her way.
Excuses, excuses
Along the same lines, "Excuse List" is available on both the iPhone and Android phones. Pick the activity you wish to avoid -- work, church, sports, school -- and scroll through a list of excuses. Some are believable, others not so much. The one we're trying out next? "I saved so much money by switching to Geico, I don't have to work today."
%#^$# profanity
The iPhone app "Profanity" has more than 3 million phrases available to help you find the right words to describe your enemies. Shake the phone to reveal them as the lint-naveled, goo-gargling, fart-flingers they are. Then share the new label on Twitter for all to see.
There's also the "iSwear" app on Android for simple profanity in other languages. Or if you're finding it too hard to constantly spell out all those %#@# words in an angry text message, use the "Swearing Sailor" app to insert the vulgar vocab into your auto complete function.
Pick-up lines
It's not easy to walk up to a stranger in a bar and open the conversation with something more original than "um, hi." The "Pick-Up Lines" app gives you nine categories to choose from -- cheesy, sweet, plain lame -- in the hopes of enticing that special someone into a conversation and out of their clothes. Find it in iTunes or on the Android Market.
If you're tired of being on the receiving end of lines like "Baby, I'm no Fred Flintstone, but I can make your Bedrock!" download the "Anti Pickup Lines" app. Or buy pepper spray.
Translation, please
Online translators have been around forever, so don't expect us to identify the best English-to-Spanish apps for your midterm. We will, however, list some of the funny translator apps that have helped us avoid any resemblance of work today.
"Translator for Cats" gives pet owners an idea of what their furry friends are saying -- although we're not sure why you'd want to know. If you're not sure whether their eternal disdain for you is because of your lack of hygiene or if you're just not feeding them enough, record a few mews to find out. (Also available in "Translator for Dogs").
The "Men Translator" interprets more than 100 common phrases that men say. Example: When he says "Take a break honey, you're working too hard," he really means, "I can't hear the game over the vacuum." (Not available in "Women Translator" because, well, there's no app for that.)
Or laugh it up with the Android "Speakin' Tongues" app that translates standard American English into Aussie, British, Leet, Gangsta, Pirate, Redneck, Jamaican and more. Ahoy matey, it'll cost you a pretty penny, but yea mon, it done did good.
Conversation starters
Still having trouble coming up with something to say? Use the "What If" iPhone app to ask interesting questions on a first date or the "Did You Know" Android app to offer up intellectual tidbits in an awkward group setting. If nothing else, people will ask you where you came up with that lame idea and you can tell them about this story.


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Scala Collections for the Easily Bored Part 2: One at a Time
Posted By Daniel Spiewak On July 28, 2008 @ 12:00 am In Scala | 20 Comments
As I hinted previously [1], this series is intended to delve into Scala's extensive collections API and the many ways in which it can make your life easier. Probably the most important operations you could ever perform on collections are those which examine each element, one at a time. After all, what's a more common array idiom than looping over all values?
In that vein, this article starts by looking at
foreach, the imperative programmer's bread-and-butter when it comes to types like
Array and
List. But rather than just stopping there, we also will look at more powerful, higher-order operations like fold,
map and the ever-mysterious:
As I said above, looping over every item in a collection is probably the most heavily used operation in a programmer's repertoire. In fact, this pattern is so common in imperative languages that Java 5 saw the introduction of a special construct at the language level, just to make things a little easier. For example:
String[] names = { "Daniel", "Chris", "Joseph" }; for (String name : names) { System.out.println(name); }
This code should be old hat to anyone coming from a Java background. Under the surface, this code is compiled into a
while-loop with an iterator and an increment operation. The code steps through the array, assigning each successive element to
name. Most statically typed languages have a construct similar to this. For example, C# offers the
foreach statement, which is almost precisely similar to Java's enhanced for-loop, but with a slightly different syntax. However, some languages (like Ruby) idiomatically eschew loops and rely instead on higher-order methods. Translating the above into Ruby yields the following:
names = ['Daniel', 'Chris', 'Joseph'] names.each do |name| puts name end
In this case, we aren't using a loop of any kind, but rather creating a block (Ruby's name for a closure) which takes a single parameter and passes it to the built-in
puts method. This block is then passed as an object to the
each method of class
Array, which calls the block once for each element in series. Certainly, there is a language construct which encapsulates this, but using the
each method directly is considered more "Ruby".
The same approach is taken in Scala. Rather than define a special construct for iteration, Scala simply provides the syntactic tools needed to construct higher-order methods like Ruby's
each. Every collection in Scala's library defines (or inherits) a
foreach method (taking after its C# ancestry) which behaves precisely like Ruby's
each. To show how, we will translate our example once more, this time into Scala:
val names = Array("Daniel", "Chris", "Joseph") names.foreach { name => println(name) }
Here we define an anonymous method (Scala's name for a closure) which takes a single parameter. As in Ruby, this closure is passed to
foreach and invoked for each array element. In this way, foreach is a a so-called "higher-order" method, due to the fact that it accepts a parameter which is itself another method. Scala's implementation of this concept is actually a bit more general than Ruby's, allowing us to shorten our example into the following:
val names = Array("Daniel", "Chris", "Joseph") names.foreach(println)
This time, instead of creating an anonymous method to pass to
foreach, we simply pass the
println method itself. The only criterion that
foreach imposes on its parameter is that it is a method which accepts a single parameter of type
String (the element type of the array). Since we already have just such a method (
println), there is no need to define another simply for encapsulation.
Unfortunately, despite its flexibility, foreach is not always the most syntactically concise way to iterate over a collection. There are times that we just want to use a syntax which is similar to the for-loops available in other languages. Well, fear not! Scala's for-comprehensions are more than capable of providing just such a syntax. Consider the example of imperatively summing the values of a list:
val nums = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) var sum = 0 for (n <- nums) { sum += n }
At compile-time, the above is actually translated into an equivalent call to
foreach, passing the body of the loop as the anonymous method. This means that any class which correctly declares a
foreach method may be used in a for-comprehension in this way, greatly reducing the syntactic overhead.
Looping is nice, but sometimes there are situations where it is necessary to somehow combine or examine every element in a collection, producing a single value as a result. An example of this could be our previous example of summing a list. Using
foreach, we had to make use of a mutable variable (
sum) and produce the result as a side effect. This is fine for hybrid languages like Scala, but some languages actually lack mutable variables altogether. In the previous post, I mentioned ML, which is a pure-functional language (almost). Since pure-functional languages lack mutable state, the gods of computing needed to come up with some other way to accommodate this particular case. The solution is called "folding".
Folding a collection is literally the process of looking at each element in addition to a current accumulator and returning some value. To make things more clear, let's re-write our list summing example in a functional style:
val nums = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) val sum = nums.foldLeft(0) { (total, n) => total + n }
It may seem a bit disguised, but this too is a loop, just like
foreach. For each element in the list (starting from the left), the
foldLeft method will call the anonymous method we passed to it, providing both the current element, as well as the total accumulated from the previous call. Since there was no previous call when the first element is processed, we must specify an initial value for
total – in this case, 0. Literally, the above can be flattened into the following:
val sum = 0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5
Of course, we would never want to hard-code a list in this fashion, but it serves as a sufficient illustration of the functionality. I know from experience that when you first discover fold it's difficult to see why anyone would want to use a construct so limited. After all, doesn't it just serve to obscure the true meaning of the code? Well, take my word for it, fold is an almost indispensable tool…once you get to know it a little better. Try keeping an eye out for times in your own code where a fold might be useful instead of a conventional loop. You'll be surprised how often it can be used to solve a problem, sometimes one not even intuitively related to accumulation.
There's no special language-level syntax for fold, but Scala's powerful operator overloading mechanism has allowed the designers of the collections API to create a special operator of rather dubious readability. To illustrate, here's our "summing a list" example once more:
val nums = List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) (0 /: nums) {_+_}
Yeah, I can't read it either. This example is semantically equivalent to the previous fold, but its meaning is a bit obfuscated by a) the bizarre right-associative operator, and b) a mysterious cameo by Scala's ubiquitous underscore. While I don't have a problem using the underscore syntax [2] in my own code, I don't think that the fold operator improves anything other than number of characters. I suppose it's a matter of taste though.
Fold has a closely related operation in Scala called "reduce" which can be extremely helpful in merging the elements of a sequence where leading or trailing values might be a problem. Consider the ever-popular example of transforming a list of
String(s) into a single, comma-delimited value:
val names = List("Daniel", "Chris", "Joseph") val str = names.foldLeft("") { (acc, n) => acc + ", " + n } println(str)
If you compile and run this code, you will actually arrive at a result which looks like the following:
, Daniel, Chris, Joseph
This is because folding a list requires a leading value, but this means that we have an extra separator running wild. We could try a
foldRight, but this would merely move the same problem to the tail of the string. Interestingly enough, this problem of leading/trailing separators is hardly specific to folding. I can't tell you how many times I ran into this issue when constructing highly-imperative query synthesis algorithms for ActiveObjects [3].
The easiest way to solve this problem in Scala is to simply use a reduce, rather than a fold. As a rule, any collection which defines
foldLeft will also define
reduceLeft (and the corresponding right methods). Reduce distinguishes itself from fold in that it does not require an initial value to "prime the sequence" as it were. Rather, it starts with the very first element in the sequence and moves on to the end. Thus, the following code will produce the desired result for our names example:
val names = List("Daniel", "Chris", "Joseph") val str = names.reduceLeft[String] { (acc, n) => acc + ", " + n } println(str)
There are of course a few small problems with this approach. Firstly, it is not as general as a fold. Reduce is designed primarily for the iterate/accumulate pattern, whereas fold may be applied to many problems (such as searching a list). Also, the reduce method will throw an exception if the target collection is empty. Finally, Scala's type inference isn't quite clever enough to figure out what's going on without the explicit
[String] type parameter (since our result is of type
String). Still, even with all these shortcomings, reduce can be a very powerful tool in the right hands.
We've seen how fold can be an extremely useful tool for applying a computation to each element in a collection and arriving at a single result, but what if we want to apply a method to every element in a collection in-place (as it were), creating a new collection of the same type with the modified elements? Coming from an imperative background, this probably sounds a little abstract, but like fold, map can be extremely useful in many common scenarios. Consider the example of transforming a list of
String(s) into a list of
val strs = List("1", "2", "3", "4", "5") val nums = strs.map { s => s.toInt } nums == List(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) // true
The final expression in this snippet is just to illustrate what really happens to the list elements when
map is called. Literally, the map method walks through each element in the list, calls the provided method and then stores the result in the corresponding index of a new list. (list is immutable, remember?) If you think about it, this is very similar to looping with
foreach except that at each iteration we produce a value which is saved for future use.
Another common application of this technique might be to cast an entire array from one type to another. I often make use of XMLRPC, which has the unfortunate property of stripping all type information from its composite types. Thus, I often find myself writing code like this:
public void rpcMethod(Object[] params) { String[] strParams = new String[params.length]; for (int i = 0; i < params.length; i++) { strParams[i] = (String) params[i]; } }
It's a lot of trouble to go through, but I really don't know any better way. We can't just cast the array to
String[], since the array itself is not of type
String[], only its elements match that type. Java doesn't support higher-order operations such as
map, but fortunately Scala does. We can translate the above into a functional style and gain tremendously in both readability and conciseness:
def rpcMethod(params: Array[Object]) { val strParams = params.map { _.asInstanceOf[String] } }
For the sake of brevity, you'll notice that I made use of the underscore syntax as a placeholder for the anonymous method parameter. This syntax works remarkably well for short operations like the above, where all we need to do is take the input value and cast it to a new type.
As it turns out, mapping over a collection is a phenomenally common operation, perhaps even more so than fold. For that reason, the creators of Scala decided that it was worth adding a special syntax sugar built into the powerful for-comprehension mechanism. With a little bit of tweaking, we can transform our casting example into an arguably more readable form:
def rpcMethod(params: Array[Object]) { val strParams = for (p <- params) yield p.asInstanceOf[String] }
At compile-time, these two forms are literally equivalent. In some ways it is a matter of taste as to which is better. I personally tend to favor directly calling
map for simple, non-combinatorial operations like this, but to each his own.
Actually, the name "bind" comes from Haskell. Scala's term for this operation is "flatMap" because the operation may be viewed as a combination of the
map and
flatten methods. Of all of the techniques discussed so far, this one probably has the richest theoretical implications. Coming straight from the menacing jungles of category theory and the perplexing wasteland of monads,
flatMap is both intriguing and apparently useless (at first glance anyway).
flatMap walks through every element in a collection and applies a given function, saving the value for later use. However, unlike
flatMap expects the return type of the specified function to be the same as the enclosing collection with an optionally different type parameter. If we look at this in terms of our number-converting example from previously, this means that our anonymous method must not return a value of type
Int, but rather of type
List[Int]. Once
flatMap has all of the resultant
List[Int] values, it flattens them into a single list containing all of the elements from each of the inner lists.
Ok, that was utterly un-helpful. Maybe the method signature would be more illuminating:
class List[A] { // don't try this at home def flatMap[B](f: (A)=>List[B]): List[B] }
Other than forcing order of evaluation [4], I can't personally think of too many common cases where this sort of operation is useful. However, one contrived example does spring to mind. Consider once more the example of converting a list of
String(s) into a list of
Int(s), but this time assume that some of the
String elements might not nicely convert into integer values:
val strs = List("1", "two", "3", "four", "five") val nums = strs.flatMap { s => try { List(s.toInt) } catch { case _ => Nil } } nums == List(1, 3) // true
Recall that in Scala, everything is an expression – including
catch blocks – therefore, everything has a value. This code literally walks through the entire list and tries to convert each element into an integer and wrap the result in a
List. If the conversion fails (for whatever reason), an empty list is returned (
Nil). Because we return an empty list for those elements which cannot be converted,
flatMap literally resolves those results out of existence, leading to a
List which only contains two
Int(s). For the monadically uninclined among us, this is precisely the reason why
Nil is referred to as the "zero" of the
List monad. However, that's a topic for an entirely different series [5]…
Ok, so this article was a bit longer than I really wanted to run, but there's a lot of material to cover! Scala's collections framework shows how even operations steeped in mountains of theory can still prove useful in solving common problems. Now, every time I use collections in Java (or even Ruby), I find myself reaching for many of these same methods, only to find them either unavailable or less powerful than I would like. Scala provides a welcome refuge for all those of us who desire more powerful collection types in our daily programming.
Be with us next time [6] for
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[2] underscore syntax: http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/quick-explanation-of-scalas-syntax
[3] ActiveObjects: https://activeobjects.dev.java.net
[4] forcing order of evaluation: http://sigfpe.blogspot.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html
[5] an entirely different series: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2007/09/monads-are-elephants-part-1.html
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Jon Voight defends Brad Pitt's mom
Mother of Hollywood star quaking in fear since slamming Obama
The battle over Brad Pitt's mother and her comments slamming Barack Obama while supporting Mitt Romney is collecting another member of the Brangelina clan: actor Jon Voight.
Voight, known for his roles in "Midnight Cowboy," "Deliverance," "National Treasure" and TV's "24," is the father of actress Angelina Jolie, who is married to actor Brad Pitt.
As WND reported this week, Jane Pitt, mother of actor Brad Pitt, has been scared into silence by the hate-filled, vulgar and even violent reaction to her public assertion that Barack Obama is "a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage."
Pitt has even been the subject of death threats following her letter to the editor of Missouri's Springfield News-Leader in which she asserted failure to vote for Republican presumptive presidential candidate Mitt Romney constituted a vote for Obama.
"All hell has descended on this woman," said radio host Rush Limbaugh this afternoon.
WND spoke briefly with Pitt and asked about the media assault against her for her comments as a private citizen supporting Romney. With inflections in her voice that conveyed fear and despair, she quietly and politely said she was not interested in talking to anyone in the media about the incident.
When she was told WND supported her right to speak her mind and is appalled by the threats against her life, Pitt expressed gratitude to WND for being one of the few news agencies doing so. Even her thank you, however, was said in a subdued manner laden with heaviness of heart.
Now, Fox News is reporting Mrs. Pitt has at least one high-profile supporter on her daughter-in-law's side of the family: Jolie's father, Jon Voight.
"Good for her," Voight told FOX411's Pop Tarts column, adding he agrees with the points-of-view expressed by Jane.
A representative for Obama supporter Brad Pitt did not respond for further comment.
Jane Pitt also received some family support from her son Doug this week on NBC's "Today."
"I think moms and dads and kids agree to disagree all over the world. So why would our family be any different? There can be healthy discussion when people disagree with you," he said. "The bad thing is when it turns to venom and negativity, and we don't have that in our family. It's open discussion. We can learn from each other and, if anything, it solidifies your point. Or maybe you learn something."
The media firestorm has given Mrs. Pitt every reason to be frightened. Following her letter to the editor in her local newspaper, mainstream news agencies have painted her comments in a vilifying light.
The Hollywood Reporter published a story headlined, "Brad Pitt's mother pens anti-gay, anti-Obama letter to local newspaper." The New York Daily News went further, penning an article originally titled, "Brad Pitt's mom unleashes anti-gay, anti-Obama fury in letter."
She Knows Entertainment reported that Pitt actually "hates Obama, 'gay' people."
These slants on the story, however, are mild compared to comments posted on Twitter.
Editors of the Twitter-scouring news site Twitchy exclaimed sarcastically, "Time for the left's self-proclaimed arbiters of tolerance to teach her a lesson with their hateful, misogynist slurs and death wishes."
Twitchy then spotlighted some of the tweets it found.
"Brad Pitt's mom, die," wrote Twitter-poster Sandy Kownacka.
A tweet from "I Bleed Gaga" echoed similar sentiments, saying, "Brad Pitt's mom wrote an anti-gay pro-Romney editorial. Kill the b—-."
Other comments included, "F— you, brad pitt's mom, the gay community made your kid a star, you whacko," and, "Brad Pitt's mom is a dumb c—."
Many of the comments told her to commit vulgar sexual acts with the commenter.
These statements stand contrary to Pitt's own statements about his mother. In January, Pitt told the Hollywood Reporter that his mother was a very loving person.
"She's very, very loving – very open, genuine, and it's hilarious because she always gets painted in the tabloids as a she-devil," the actor said. "There's not an ounce of malice in her. She wants everyone to be happy."
Jane Pitt originally penned her letter to the editor responding to another reader, Richard Stoecker, who stated that Christians should not vote for Romney based on his Mormonism.
In her rebuttal letter, she acknowledged that there were doctrinal differences between Mormonism and Christianity, but she took issue with the rest of Stoecker's reasoning.
Pitt wrote, "I think any Christian should spend much time in prayer before refusing to vote for a family man with high morals, business experience, who is against abortion and shares Christian conviction concerning homosexuality just because he is a Mormon."
Pitt went on to say, "Any Christian who does not vote or writes in a name is casting a vote for Romney's opponent, Barack Hussein Obama – a man who sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for years, did not hold a public ceremony to mark the National Day of Prayer and is a liberal who supports the killing of unborn babies and same-sex marriage."
Her statements on Obama's record, however, are not opinions, but established facts. Obama himself has come out and said he supports the rights of homosexuals to marry. He has repeatedly backed legalized abortion. While he was a state senator in Illinois, Obama opposed a bill that would have required medical care to be given to infants who survived an abortion.
Unlike his mother, Hollywood actor Brad Pitt has taken a strong stand for same-sex marriage and supports Obama.
Brad Pitt has a long history of support for homosexual causes. He once famously declared he would refuse to marry Angelina Jolie until same-sex marriages were made legal in America in every state.
Following New York's legalization of same-sex marriage, Pitt said, "It is each American's constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot."
In 2008, he donated $100,000 to help fight passage of Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment in California that recognized marriage as being between one man and one woman. In March, he portrayed homosexual Judge Vaughn Walker in "8," a play that re-enacted the trial where Walker overturned the amendment.
Additional reporting by WND's Jack Minor.


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Some New Yorkers look at what is happening on the waterfront in Manhattan, with its ring of continuous public parkland, and think with glee: Some day the rest of New York will have this too.
But it is only in Manhattan that the public owns most of the shoreline, thanks to the claims of ownership by the early Dutch and English governments. Outside Manhattan, there is significantly less publicly owned waterfront land. As a result, absent the ability to attract $10 million or so to acquire a site for public use, each community must rely on the city's waterfront zoning rules to ensure that private waterfront development includes public access.
Waterfront zoning can be a powerful tool. It controls the placement of buildings on waterfront sites and requires public space along the water's edge and visual access to the water. But, despite the supposed force of law that zoning carries, there is little available for the city to enforce the rules once the buildings are built and occupied. There are many worst-case scenarios of public waterfront on private property - the poor maintenance along the Shore Parkway and virtually every pier in the City; the lack of security on every bridge walkway and beneath every elevated; and the locked gates at Shore Towers in Astoria and Waterside Plaza in Manhattan. On the waterfront, the economic instinct of the owner is to cater to the paying clientele, not the folks jogging past in knee high socks and tank tops. What good is foot traffic if they can't afford to buy anything?
Thus the enormous reaches of green space at the blue water's edge may remain out of reach.
This may be what happens at Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Much has been written about the rezoning of much of Greenpoint and Williamsburg, primarily along the waterfront. (See, for example, Tom Angotti's articlesin Gotham Gazette's land use topic page). To me, it represents everything that's right, and everything that's wrong, with land use planning for waterfronts in New York City.
It is right because the city is looking ahead to make better use of the waterfront, our most underutilized asset. It intends to commit $100 million upfront to the plan for the Greenpoint and Williamsburg waterfront, and hopes to create 2,500 affordable apartments.
But it's also wrong, for several reasons.
It ignores the history of the neighborhood as a manufacturing center, once home to a famous shipbuilding industry; the USS Monitor was built near Bushwick Inlet during the Civil War. A massive rope factory built around the same time on Newtown Creek is now the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center, a world-renowned incubator for small woodworking and related crafts. The plans should do more to ensure that "Made in Brooklyn" is recognized around the world.
The rezoning plan for Greenpoint and Williamsburg neglects the potential uses of the water itself, doing little to encourage potential uses such as marinas and boat launches. While there is now greater access of water taxi-style ferry service, the rezoning plan does not recommend where those water taxi stops happen, or where connecting bus service might be made. For a waterfront land use plan, the transportation component seems largely unaddressed.
In a city where even enormous projects get reduced to a single angle - the West Side Stadium gets the press, the 59-block rezoning area around it gets ignored - the debate in Greenpoint and Williamsburg has focused almost exclusively on the affordable housing. Yet this may never come even close to being realized. "The incentives for developers to include affordable housing units may be so negligible to their bottom line," Councilmember David Yassky pointed out recently, that Bloomberg's expectation for 25 percent of the new housing to be affordable may be extremely optimistic.
Meanwhile, little has been made of the failure of this plan to ensure some public entity will address the maintenance needs and operating potential of this public space in the future. But to me, this is very telling. It means the plan is really designed for the real estate developers of the present moment, not for the future generations of community dwellers.
What most New Yorkers don't know is that when the city created sweeping waterfront zoning rules in 1993, most waterfront areas in residential neighborhoods were placed in low density zoning categories that will never have public access. Looking ahead, the huge expectations on the private sector to provide and maintain public amenities at the water's edge, will go just as unrealized as the affordable housing. Without a dedicated entity to oversee development, operating and maintenance, to ensure the waterfront gets rebuilt and remains public, this plan will fail to make sure that the waterfront belongs to the people, not simply those who can afford to live along its banks.
Carter Craft, an urban planner, is program director of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance.Â


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New Videos
Yes, video*s*. Plural. With me beginning a week-long hiatus from baseball games starting with the game in the entry I published right before this one, so too did I end a streak of about 17 consecutive days. Now I didn't want to just take those days off, so I made a couple of videos. Well more like one-and-a-half videos.
So this first video is just me explaining what I plan to do with my YouTube channel going forward. I feel as though it's slightly confusing, so if you have any clarifications you need me to make, leave a comment asking me to clarify whatever it is you need clarifying:
So yeah, I'm going to be making videos much more regularly now. I even plan to make videos while I'm in Spain June 27th-July 8th, but I also don't know what my internet situation will be over there, so I don't know if I'll yet be able to get them out on time, but I'll try my hardest to do so.
This second video has an intro that kind of explains the rest rest of the footage, but again, if I was unclear on anything, ask me in comment form:
So yeah, there's that. If you want to go ahead and subscribe to the YouTube channel, click on this sentence, as it is linked to the channel. From here on out, I might mention in a ballhawking entry that I uploaded a new video, but I won't do entries like this solely to announce that I've uploaded a video, so if you subscribe you'll be notified every time I make a new video. My next game is this upcoming Thursday at Nationals Park when the Nationals take on the Rockies, so expect an entry out within a couple of days of that game. I'll also be going the day after, and I won't spoil the surprise yet, but some interesting people will be at both the Thursday and Friday games. Also, just to clarify, there will no longer be the "Before The Gates Opens" videos. I'll leave the ones that are up there on my channel, but I'll just include the stuff I would have normally put in those videos in my day-to day vlogs. I think that's all I have to say here, so again, if you need clarification on anything, leave a comment. But besides that, I'll see you–but not really–when the next entry comes out in a day or two.


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Pgreenies5 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 133 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
Dry Ridge Farm
We are an equestrian facility that has been up and running for about 3 years now, and would like to complete our busniess approach with a logo for a new web page, apparel, invoices, letter head, road sign, or anything else to start a professional marketing approach. We are mainly a boarding and tranining facility, and would one day move into the area of training and selling horses. I like a unique, but professional look. The farm has a new barn, with all the top amenities for rider and horse.
We are more geared toward the eventing and dressage disciplines. We provide top care for the horses. Have lesson and training programs. would like to move more into the training of horses, than people. And then selling the trained horses. Horse people are a little different! most of my boarders are either kids, or professional ladies. Like to have communication (like a picture of their horse sent to them in an text, or text that "he looks great today", etc... hand holding!!)
Well this is going to be hard, because I am not creative! That is why I am doing this. For a farm, you are sort of limited on elements to use in a logo. Are there other ways to portray an equestrain faciltiy without it being a horses head?? or a barn?? Looking for this, but to still get the point across that horses are involved with this facility. What kind of elements are used to get the attention of this market, and if using on a web page, does it first thing they notice(this logo), lead them to keep reading the rest of the page?? That is what i am looking for!
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quarta-feira, 29 de agosto de 2012
Never thought the life of a photographer would be so hard and wearing.
Long before the day before the wedding I did a huge research on this type of photography, even though I had done this before.
Nothing new have I learnt when it comes to shoot, everything that I needed to know was already given to me through experience: capture the heart and soul of the moment, just capture all the feelings.
So there I was at 15:00 sitting in the wide highly decorated in gold hallway, waiting for someone to lead me. I was completely lost and every minute I was feeling smaller and smaller, realizing how important my job should be, and how professionally should I act. 40 minutes later a man (who was working there) lead me to all empty and prepared rooms so I could picture them before all the guests would come.
Once all the people arrived, I had to be ready to photograph every single detail. A few minutes later I was called by the bride, to picture her getting out of the car. Once finished, I got back to the ceremonial room to capture her getting in, and to capture the main event.
Hugs and kisses after, we went to the cocktail room where smiles were framed, and speeches were held. Then was the bride and groom's turn where places were picked and pictures were taken, and so it was glamorously done!
When it came to speeches after dinner, more hugs and tears were captured, even when the cake was getting cutted and dances were getting twirled.
A few minutes mixed with laughter later it was time to go home, and 9 continuous hours were over.
It was hard and stressful, but the bride and groom made it easier as they were just the sweetest to me! I was a bit looked aside at first, but at the end when we get to look at the results, the feeling of self-accomplishment is definitely rewarding.
I guess this is the lifestyle I chose to live from now on.
Beatriz Mariano © 2012
sexta-feira, 24 de agosto de 2012
|Kurt Cobain
Yesterday I got the most wonderful surprise from my boyfriend.
I've been reading and searching around about these magnificent vintage cameras from the 60's/70's that, through a chemical error, would result an accidental passionate photo style that we now call the art of lomography.
When he stretched his hand to me and said I found this at home, I thought you'd might like it, I couldn't believe I was actually holding an original Agfa Isomat-Rapid from the 60's (bought in the 60's)!
This 35mm fixed lens camera was given in 1873 to a company that was founded in Berlin in 1867. The AGFA, abbreviation for Aktien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation, became more popular hitting its peak in the 60's, conquering the world-wide population with its warm colors and vintage aspect, being produced for over 115 years.
This example from Agfa (and many more) gave birth to a new movement called The 10 Golden Rules Of Lomography that is still infecting every Don't Think, Just Shoot generation:
#1 Take your camera everywhere you go.
#2 Use it anytime, day and night.
#3 Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it.
#4 Try the shot from the hip.
#5 Approach the objects of your Lomographic desire as close as possible.
#6 Don't think.
#7 Be fast
#8 You don't have to know beforehand what you captured on film.
#9 Afterwards either.
#10 Don't worry about any rules.
Beatriz Mariano © 2012
quarta-feira, 22 de agosto de 2012
The old loved in glory of fifty stars red white and blue american flag is now becoming more popular and fashionable than even in the 60's. Let's go back to the time when this red white and blue pattern was adopted by the young hippie culture showing astonishment for the "cool country", admiring the cradle of rock n' roll, and the home and land of the free, where opportunities were anywhere to be found.
Oh say, can't you see what this new youth culture from the XXIst century has done? Inspired by the vintage clothing from (again) the 60's, 70's, 80's and even 90's, teenagers got into their parents' trunk and found out a not-so-new style of trashy ripped jeans and large t-shirts with old dad-no-one-listens-to-that-anymore bands where red, white and blue represents the red from the lips, the white from the shirts and the blue from the ripped denim jeans we now found so cool and trendy.
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Red Cafe - Shakedown Houseparty (Over Meek Mill's Track)
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Light Table is now open source!
Today's a big day for LT. Not only is it going completely open source, but we're also releasing 0.6.0 which includes the plugin infrastructure!
Learn more here: http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/01/07/light-table-is-open-source/
Light Table is growing!
Hey folks,
I put up a new blog post about all the ways in which LT is growing, including a new hire!
Light Table 0.5.0 is out!
Full details here: http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/08/22/light-table-050/
Light Table 0.4!
Hey Everyone,
I'm proud to announce that as of today, Light Table has Python eval and one of the best JS workflows out there: http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/04/28/light-table-040/
Blog post up!
Hey folks,
I just put up a blog post http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/04/12/light-table-survey-results/
Quick survery
Hey folks,
As I'm plowing through stuff for 0.4.0, I wanted to do a quick survey to see what people are thinking about LT these days. Most importantly I'm trying... Read more
0.3.0 released with JS eval
Hi folks,
I'm happy to announce the latest version of Light Table is out and includes a *ton* of updates to the experience and Javascript eval! For the highlights, check... Read more
New blog post
Hey everyone,
Happy New Year! I just put up a blog post about the architecture underlying Light Table: http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/
Don't forget about the LT discussion and announcement lists:
Announcements: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/light-table
Discussion: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/light-table-discussion
Issues: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues?state=open... Read more
Big stability update
Hey folks,
I just pushed a big stability update for LightTable that addresses the crashes and various other small brokennesses people have run into. It is now much snappier and... Read more
Last Call for Shirts
Hey everybody,
We've gotten the shirts finalized and they're ready to be printed and shipped! If you haven't already filled out your survey, you still have 5 more days to... Read more
Meet the new Light Table
As promised, here's a big update for Light Table! http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/11/05/meet-the-new-light-table/
Light Table T-shirts
Good news everyone! We've started collecting info for t-shirts, and the final shirt design will be released soon. Once the design is released, you'll still have a little time to... Read more
Strange Loop
Hey Folks,
I just did a talk yesterday at Strange Loop about dev tools and how Light Table is out to change things. I put up a blog post just... Read more
Playground 0.1.0
Hey folks!
I'm happy to say that we just pushed a massive update to the playground that enables real work!
Check it out here: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/08/17/light-table-reaches-010/
Talk at OSCON today will be live streamed.
I'll be talking about dev tools and how Light Table came to be at 1:40pm.
The Playground Levels up
Check out the latest stuff here:
Official release of the playground!
Hey everyone,
I'm happy to say that as of this morning the playground is available for Mac/Linux/Windows. Announcement here:
Video from the Bay Area Clojure meetup
Hey folks,
I recently had the chance to speak at the bay area clojure meetup about Light Table. You can see the video here: https://vimeo.com/44085543. There's a long Q&A at the... Read more
Our sponsors
I want to officially announce and thank the people who sponsored Light Table at the highest level. These are the folks that really helped us push through every milestone:
- RedGate... Read more
We've done it!
With more than 7000 backers, we broke the $300k mark to include Python in our final release. You've proven many of the naysayers wrong and I'm truly astounded by the... Read more
Survey results
The reason the survey is now closed is because of a limitation with the platform we used for it - getting 2000 results in < 4 hours is an amazing... Read more
Little operating system survey
Hey everyone,
We're trying to get a sense of what OS's people are going to want to use light table on so we can focus on the most important ones... Read more
A second demo!
Hey Folks,
I've released a second demo showing how Light Table can create domain specific tools that enable a host of experiences we haven't even thought of yet :)
http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/05/21/the-future-is-specific/... Read more
How does YC change rewards?
Our intent is to honor the rewards we've set out, but we'd like to adjust our time table a little bit. As we work toward demo day, we want to... Read more
Light Table was accepted to YCombinator
The official announcement is over on my blog:
As I said there, this means the project's safety is secure. If that was your main motivation feel free to lower... Read more
We made it!
After an amazing showing from all you, Light Table has hit its goal of $200,000 with 20 days left to go! I want to extend my sincerest thanks to all of you... Read more
Blog post talking more about the goal
In case you missed it through other channels, I wrote a blog post the other day talking more about the goals for the project and we'll work to make sure... Read more
Point of clarification on dates
Unfortunately kickstarter doesn't let me fix things, so this is the only way for me to get information across :( Here are the rough time frames for the project:
- Earliest... Read more
New reward structure
EDIT: Also, these changes will take effect for everyone who has already pledged at these levels. Though if you could, please switch - if the old ones have 0 pledges... Read more
Clarification on closed source plugins
That bit of text was misleading, the plugins that would be closed source are not the ones that would result immediately from this project, but instead domain specific plugins that... Read more
Why 200k?
While I can put together a prototype on my own, I certainly can't build an entire IDE in any reasonable amount of time on my own. 200k helps me put... Read more


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Hagel may regret lack of Senate pals
Chuck Hagel probably never thought he'd have to win a popularity contest in the Senate.
Maybe that's why he wasn't terribly careful about whom he confronted or whom he offended. He popped off on the "Jewish lobby" and a gay Clinton nominee. His fellow Republicans will never forget the relish with which he lectured them on the flaws of the Iraq War — after he voted to authorize it.
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( PHOTOS: What they're saying about Hagel)
Policy aside, Hagel's bedeviled by his own abrasive personality. In a chamber known for back-patting and elbow-rubbing, the former Nebraska senator mostly rubbed people the wrong way. Now, on his path to the Pentagon, he has to hope that irritation doesn't come back to bite him.
"He was respected as a colleague in the normal Senate tradition but was somewhat of a lone wolf and did not forge the deep personal relationships with his fellow Republicans that would translate into a ready reservoir of support for his nomination," said John Ullyot, a former Marine intelligence officer who was the spokesman for the Senate Armed Services Committee under Chairman John Warner from 2003 to 2007. "On top of that, his outspokenness and blunt criticism of several Republican priorities at a critical time, including Iraq and Iran, while sincere and heartfelt, have left him without a natural platform of enthusiasm for his confirmation."
( VIDEO: Top 5 controversial Hagel positions)
Those hurdles "are not insurmountable," Ullyot added. "But he starts the process with a long and uncharted road ahead."
In the past, a former senator could count on getting a gentleman's confirmation vote from his old club. But Hagel can't even count on a fellow Republican Cornhusker to give him a hand.
One vote that will be tough for Hagel to win: that of fellow Nebraska Republican Deb Fischer. Hagel crossed party lines to back Fischer's Democratic opponent, former Sen. Bob Kerrey, in 2012. Now, Fischer sits in judgment of Hagel as a freshman member of the Armed Services Committee, the panel that will handle his confirmation hearing.
In a statement released Monday, Fischer hinted at what could be the ultimate spectacle of a Hagel confirmation hearing: her chance to question him directly from behind the dais.
"I plan to closely review Senator Hagel's record and look forward to meeting with him to discuss his views on America's role in an increasingly dangerous world. As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, I will also have the opportunity to publicly question Senator Hagel during his confirmation hearing in the coming weeks," she said. "This process will be thorough and fair, and I look forward to participating in it."
( Also on POLITICO: Hagel brothers still burdened by Vietnam War)
President Barack Obama acknowledged Hagel's rougher edges in praising his independence during a White House ceremony on Monday afternoon.
"In the Senate, I came to admire his courage and his judgment, his willingness to speak his mind, even if it wasn't popular, even if it defied the conventional wisdom, and that's exactly the spirit I want on my national security team — a recognition that when it comes to the defense of our country, we are not Democrats or Republicans, we are Americans," Obama said.


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I was sitting at the very lively bar in Amor y Tacos, which is a bit hidden away on the side of a Cerritos shopping mall, talking football with some rough-and-ready characters bending an elbow with me.
A chill mist wafted down South Street that evening, and it turned out that these fellows had been warming their seats since early afternoon. One of them, wearing a well-worn denim jacket, told me they had come in to see the first game of the day and before they knew it, that game was over — a real nail-biter, with the tiebreaker coming in the final seconds — and then the next game was underway.
Long story short, they had been at the bar at Amor y Tacos for more or less six hours. They were nursing Dos Equis on tap. They were chewing on the occasional taco. The denim jacket guy told me, "This is better than a sports bar. You got to try the tacos. They kill chicken wings. And they got a dog — you got to see this one, man. The dog weighs a pound, with chili on top. It's crazy. And the girls behind the bar — they're sharp. I'll be sorry when football is over."
Heck, I'm always sorry when football is over. But even though the season is almost over, at Amor y Tacos they'll still be serving some of the most remarkable Mexican food — or perhaps I should say Mexican-fusion cooking — well into the future.
Just like the dishes served at Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken's Border Grill chain, at Rick Bayless' Red O, and of course at John Sedlar's Rivera, this is Mexican cooking that goes well beyond Mexican cooking. This is the fine food of Mexico, filtered through the sensibility of Southern California. This is food on the edge.
Amor y Tacos is the creation of Thomas Ortega, who set a new standard for Mexican cooking at Ortega 120 in Redondo Beach. (The "120" refers to the number of tequilas originally on hand, though by now it may be more than that.) It is not an easy jaunt from Redondo to Cerritos, though the 91 Freeway does connect the two communities, more or less, when traffic is moving. But by opening in Cerritos, Ortega adds one more flavor to one of the most ethnically diverse sections of SoCal — at least based on the restaurants in the surrounding malls. There's a bit of everything, but there's only one Amor y Tacos.
You want to grab a drink at the bar? I'd suggest the Michi, a Michelada variation of Modelo Especial, spicy sangrita fresca, lime and chili salt — essentially a beery Bloody Mary that goes down very well, and mixes with just about everything on the menu.
If you're of the mixology persuasion, check out the Mescal Mule, a Moscow Mule made with Monte Alban Mescal, Skyy Ginger Vodka, ginger beer, lime, agave and, of all things, Squirt. There are plenty of beers on the menu too, including Chupacabras Pale Ale, a tasty oddity from Mexicali. Check it out.
Or at least, try some in between bites, for there's much to chew on at Amor y Tacos. Take the Mole Tots, for instance. They are Tater Tots slathered with the house 21-ingredient mole, along with Mexican queso panela (also known as "basket cheese"). It's ridiculously good, a silly dish that you'll inhale — along with piles of Nachos Libre, nachos made with ground Kobe beef and queso Oaxaca.
And have you ever had Doritos Chilaquiles? At Amor y Tacos, they take real Doritos chips and top them with a sunny-side up egg and queso fresco. Eating here is an education in Mexican cheeses — and so many flavors.
That hot dog my bar friend mentioned is far more than a hot dog. It's a variation on the Doyer Dog served at Dodger Stadium, topped with short rib chile colorado and crispy chicharrones, served on a brioche bun.
Of course, there are the tacos. Nine kinds to be exact, five of which can be tasted on the $14 Tour de Taco, which includes the short rib taco, a master stroke of life in Tacolandia.
There are also 14 big plates, one of which is Peking duck filtered through a Mexican kitchen, with Korean kimchee added for good measure. There's also the Mexican Coca-Cola Glazed Pork Belly, which I expect to be one of the best dishes I eat all year.
For the heck of it, there are sugary churros with salted caramel for dessert. If there's a game on, you can keep on eating and drinking. Parking in the mall lot is easy and free. Here, it's all about amor y tacos.
Merrill Shindler is a Los Angeles-based freelance dining critic. Send him email at firstname.lastname@example.com.