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My temporary landlord Russell Busch, who is also a good friend, just introduced me to kefir making. Kefir is a fermented milk drink that contains plenty of healthy probiotics. To make kefir from milk you need kefir grains which are a live and active culture of yeast and bacteria.
Kefir is a very common drink in Eastern Europe and the Nordic countries. I grew up with it and if I remember correctly, the Swedish kefir is thicker, more sour and has a slightly carbonated feel to it. Swedes often eat kefir (with a spoon) together with muesli, cornflakes, fruit or just with sugar and cinnamon. I like my kefir best just plain with fresh fruit or berries. Others prefer making smoothies with frozen berries and fruits as it takes off some of the strong sour flavor. Luckily Kefir has become increasungly common here in the US.
The kefir making process is super easy and you don't really need to do much as the kefir grains do most of the work.
to make kefir you will need:
- kefir grains (which you order online here or here or somewhere else)
- organic whole milk from cow, sheep or goat
- glass jar
- small piece of cheese cloth + rubber band (or similar)
- wood or plastic spoon/ spatula
- fine mesh plastic strainer (or stainless steel)
note: no metal such as aluminum etc can be used as it will react with the kefir grains. Although, for some reason stainless steel seems to be OK.
Place the new kefir grains in a clean glass jar (about two tablespoons). Pour about 1 cup organic whole milk over the grains. Cover with the cheesecloth and fasten it with a rubber band to avoid flies (I actually just use a plastic lid that is just placed on top). Leave the jar on the counter in room temperature away from any sun.
When the kefir has got thicker the kefir is probably done. It should smell pleasantly and have a mild sour taste. At this stage you will have a drinkable kefir. If it stays longer the kefir will start to separate the curdled milk from the whey. Don't worry, the kefir is still fine, however it will be slightly thicker and have a richer taste. A longer fermentation will also create more probiotics and less lactose. The fermentation will take about 12-36 hours.
When you think you are ready, give the jar a shake and drain it through the plastic strainer to separate the kefir from the grains. It's important to be gentle with the grains so don't press them too hard. The kefir grains don't have to be totally clean from curds for the next batch. The ready-made kefir can be stored in the fridge, preferably in a glass container. It will keep fresh for awhile. If you think the kefir is too loose you can strain it to reduce some of the whey. Leftover whey can be used for many things (see below).
next batch
Prepare the next batch by placing the strained kefir grains into a clean glass jar. This time you should add a little more milk and the fermenting process will probably go faster as the grains have grown larger and become more active.
The more kefir you make the bigger the grains will grow, you will therefore need to adjust the amount of milk depending on their size. At some point you need to split the grains up as there is a limit on how much kefir you can make. I suggest giving some grains to a friend or start making other things with it. You can, for example, make kefir drinks by using almond, soy or coconut milk instead of regular milk. In this kind of process the grains will not grow and therefore not last as long. I haven't tried it yet but my landlord makes coconut kefir drinks daily.
what to do with the kefir
There are many other things you can do with the kefir if you don't just want to drink or eat it. Kefir is excellent in dips, dressings, cakes and bread. It can also be used instead of yeast when baking bread or at least that's what I've heard.
Recently I made my own cream cheese or rather fresh cheese by straining the kefir from the whey through a clean kitchen towel or several layers of cheese cloth (takes about 24 hours). This creamy cheese can be served plain or flavored with fresh herbs, garlic or anything you like. Its also great to make pierogi leniwe (Polish lazy pierogi).
You can do many things with the whey such as ferment vegetables, sauerkraut (cabbage) and when diluted 5 times with water it can be used as a fertilizer for your plants. For about a week I collected the leftover whey to make ricotta. I was amazed how well it worked out as the whey just looks like cloudy water.
storing the kefir grains
At some point you may want to have a break in your kefir making and it's actually possible to store the kefir grains with some milk in your fridge. Just feed them with new fresh milk every now and again. When you start again the grains may not be as active as before the break, so you probably have to start again with just a small amount of milk.
This article was 1st published at EcoSalon, 31 July 2012


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This post has been improved and published on the ASF's website as the Governance overview of Membership – please read it there!
This is the third in a series of essays describing Apache governance. The ASF is a non-profit, membership-based corporation; as such the Members of the ASF have a role similar to shareholders in a publicly traded corporation.
In this essay, the term "member†specifically means someone who is a Member of the Foundation itself, as elected per the corporate bylaws.
The ASF is a membership corporation, so Members serve a similar role as shareholders do in publicly traded corporations. Members may propose new candidate members, may cast one vote in new candidate elections, and may cast one vote in board elections.
Members are not empowered to speak officially on behalf of the ASF as a whole, nor do they have any special rights to influence technical direction of any Apache projects that they are not otherwise elected as a committer or PMC member on. While members often volunteer and serve in many capacities both at the Foundation level and within various Apache projects, their only specific organizational rights are to vote in board and member elections.
The Apache Incubator is special: any ASF member may request to be added to the Incubator PMC without a vote. Within the Incubator PMC, members may serve as official mentors or champions to incoming podlings, as well as voting on Incubator policy and releases of podlings undergoing incubation. In this way, members work to mentor podling communities and guide them to the Apache Way and eventual graduation as a top-level Apache project.
Members act as shareholders of the corporation. As such, each member has a single vote on electing directors to the board; similarly, members may vote on new nominees to membership. Members are eligible to nominate new candidate members and to nominate individuals to the board.
Organizationally, members do not have specific standing within any Apache projects or Incubator podlings. However most members are active as individuals within multiple Apache projects on their own technical or social merits, and once elected as a member often find more ways to get involved in more Apache projects.
While the board and relevant officers are directly responsible for providing oversight to the many Apache projects, members often work within many Apache projects to help ensure projects run smoothly and follow the Apache Way.
The central place for member-focused announcements and discussions is the privately archived members@ mailing list. This is used for a wide variety of purposes: both proposing and discussing new technical or policy ideas within the ASF, announcing marriages or births within member's families or other major social events, and any formal announcements to the membership from the board or corporate officers.
By policy, members have the right to inspect and review the archives of all mailing lists at Apache. This policy is designed to ensure that every member can independently inspect all corporate operations and the operations of all Apache projects. Thus members may review all private mailing lists (for example) about internal legal affairs, fundraising, security issues, as well as any private@ lists used by our Apache projects' PMCs.
While members may send messages to any private lists, they do not automatically receive any special merit in terms of influencing the technical direction of Apache projects. Merit in Apache projects is gained within each individual project community, and membership does not convey any other special privileges.
The board typically holds an Annual Members Meeting, where a new board of directors is elected, and new member candidates may be voted upon. Meetings are currently held on a private IRC channel, as an alternative to a traditional conference call, where any reports are read and members may ask questions. The meeting has a 48-hour recess for voting, and then reconvenes to announce results and complete the meeting: this allows members who may not be able to personally attend the first portion of the meeting to attend the second half, as well as to conduct voting over email using our own secure voter tool. Members who are unable to attend any of the 2 day meeting period may provide for another member to proxy their attendance and votes.
The board often holds interim Special Members Meetings in between Annual Meetings, primarily to give members a chance to nominate new candidate members and be voted in. Members also use Special and Annual meetings to raise additional questions or issues about Foundation operations – although members usually just raise questions to the board or to any ASF officer at any time over our usual mailing lists. Members and invited guests are welcome at all Members meetings.
Given the distributed and volunteer nature of the ASF, official in-person meetings of the Membership are no longer held. All Foundation or project business is conducted on normal mailing lists – although some of the lists are private. Members do often meet in small groups in person – although this is for social reasons, and often involves a meal or drinks. Many members and committers also traditionally attend the ASF's annual ApacheCon conference.
All members have the ability to nominate new individuals as candidates for membership. The amount and types of merit that existing members look for in Apache committers varies, but always includes some significant technical or other contribution to one or more of our projects, as well as a clear interest and understanding of the Apache Way. In most cases, these contributions and traits are displayed over a significant period of time, usually over a year of engagement in one or more Apache projects.
Note that it is not required to be a committer before being considered for membership, however as a practical matter, in the vast majority of cases any potentially worthy individual has already become a committer on some Apache project. At least two individuals have been elected as members without being committers first, in each case for non-coding contributions in mentoring on the Apache Way or other organizational work.
Many newly elected members are surprised (pleasantly!) to be told they've been elected. Typically, being nominated and elected as a new member is something that happens well after the nominee has a clear track record and a positive influence on Apache projects for some time; in hindsight, a frequent comment is "isn't So-and-So a member already? They do such good work!â€. Individuals asking to be made a member (or worse, insisting you should be elected!) is culturally frowned upon. In a perhaps counter-intuitive way, being considered for membership is something that requires real effort acting over a measurable time, but without making it obvious that you're seeking recognition.
Candidate members are voted on as a simple majority vote (more yes's than no's) at Annual or Special member's meetings. Voting is performed using custom-written voting software with secret ballots.
Within the Membership, merit is equal; all members have an equal vote and ability to propose change within the ASF. Membership is a notably helpful factor in being considered for the board or an appointment to officer positions at the ASF, although the most important factor is demonstrated merit within the particular project or the ASF as a whole.
The ability of members to influence the ASF is simultaneously major and immaterial. On one hand, members vote on new candidate members and more importantly vote on the Board of Directors, which clearly affects strategic policies of the ASF. On the other hand, membership grants individuals no other special merit within any of our projects and is not an official position within the legal corporation itself.
The perceived importance of membership is likewise a dichotomy. Many members are quite modest about their membership, and a frequently heard comment is that "oh, they really deserve to be recognized more than I didâ€. For many, being elected a member was not a goal or title that individuals were pursuing; rather, they were naturally doing their own work (at an Apache project), and were then recognized for it. Many members list their affiliation on their resume (or LinkedIn, etc.); some do not.
Recognition of membership varies widely outside of the ASF: some software companies don't seem to care what the ASF is or what membership means; a few software companies have strongly encouraged their employees to become committers or members, and gaining one of those roles is a notable prestige bonus within those companies. Likewise, a number of members or officers of the ASF are frequently sought out as speakers at open source conferences.
Members share both the community of all other members, as well as often serving as bridges across the various Apache projects they are already involved in. Many members also volunteer extra time to serve as mentors, both within the ASF working with our projects and communities, and outside of it, mentoring others or speaking at conferences.
The membership as a whole and individually does not provide technical direction for any Apache projects directly; every PMC is free to manage it's technical direction independently. PMCs are the governing body for their project and are expected to manage the project's technology in the best interest of the whole project community, independent of outside commercial influence.
This is similar to how the board does not set technical direction for projects: this is a key reflection of how the ASF is intentionally structured to provide maximum freedom to its projects. The board and the ASF membership are happy to provide a home to any software project communities that are willing to follow the Apache Way. The mission of the ASF is to provide software for the common good: we are happy to help like-minded communities to provide that software; are confident that communities will form around software that is useful, and understand that there are many different ways to effectively and collaboratively build software.
In the case of members, nearly all members participate in a number of Apache projects – as individuals based on their merit within the specific projects. Simply being elected a member does not confer any additional abilities in terms of other projects. Many members chose to serve as ambassadors of the Apache Way, and usually get involved in more projects as time goes on.


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In conjunction with my camera guide for the new Nikon D750, Nikon D750 Experience, I have created a Nikon D750 Setup Guide – a comprehensive spreadsheet with recommended settings for the applicable Menus, all of the Custom Settings, plus some shooting and exposure settings. It has complete and separate camera setup recommendations for different types of shooting, including:
General / Travel / Street
Landscape / Architecture
Action / Sports
Moving Wildlife / Birds
Studio / Portraits
Concert / Performance
Here is a detail of just a small part of the Setup Guide spreadsheet:
Nikon D750 Experience, Setup Guide Spreadsheet – a detail of the spreadsheet
Excel Version – The direct link to the Excel spreadsheet is:
alternate link:
To print the guide, you may wish to print it across several pages and then tape them together, so that the data is legible:
First, be sure to set the print area, to avoid all the blank pages. Do this by manually selecting all the cells with data in them (drag the cursor from cell A1 to G155 and they will all appear blue.) Then access the menu for File > Print Area > Set Print Area.
Then go to File > Print Preview and select the Setup button,
Then set the page for "Landscape" and "Fit To" 2 pages wide by 3 pages tall. Alternately, you can set for "Adjust to 60% Normal Size."
Either of those options should result in 6 pages to be printed (as long as you have set the print area first).
Be sure to check the preview to see that the data will print at a reasonable size, and that there are only 6 or so pages that will print.
PDF Version – You can download a PDF version below, which is divided into 2 pages, and can be perhaps more easily read and navigated on a tablet or phone with some panning and zooming. However for printing it may prove to be too tiny, and you may wish to print the XLS version instead.
In the past I have resisted requests for these types of quick-start "cheat sheets," because I prefer that readers of my Full Stop camera guides read through all of the Menu and Custom Settings options, and determine which settings suit their shooting situations and preferences. This is one of the best ways to really learn the ins-and-outs of one's new camera, so I still encourage you to do so. But I can appreciate the value and the handy reference features of this type of recommendation guide.
Please know that I am in no way an experienced expert in all of the different photography categories I have included, so take the advice of dedicated Bird or Concert photographers, for example, above mine if it differs! And for further information, explanations, justifications, and caveats for the settings I specify, please have a look at my clear and comprehensive guide Nikon D750 Experience.
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Last week, I only received one book in the mail. Uno. But that suits me fine. I'm already behind in my reading and reviews. Letter to My Daughter by George Bishop arrived in the mail on Thursday, from Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House. I can't wait to read this new book! Next month, I'll post my review as part of the TLC book tour for this epistolary novel.
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Expected inflation in the 10-year TIPS yield has declined from a recent high of 2.59% on February 13 to 2.37% yesterday. The core PCED inflation rate fell in March to 1.1% y/y, the lowest since March 2011. I don't understand why Fed officials are so convinced that lower inflation is a bad thing. They obviously view it as a sign of economic weakness. They also seem to fear that falling inflation will hurt demand for goods and services by eliminating buy-in-advance attitudes.
Are they aware that much of inflation's recent improvement (IMHO) is attributable to health care costs? That's right: The PCED medical care inflation rate was down to 1.7% in March, the lowest since April 1998. There have been significant drops in inflation rates for drugs and physician fees. Does the Fed want to see higher inflation rates in the health care industry so that people will rush to buy medical care goods and services before their prices go up? Rent inflation has rebounded during the current economic recovery, but now shows signs of peaking. The CPI and PCED data are nearly identical and show that rent of shelter is up 2.2% y/y. It was actually falling during 2010. It accounts for 17% of the core PCED and 42% of the core CPI. Do Fed officials really want still higher rent inflation? Today's Morning Briefing: Low Maintenance Bull. (1) A couple of simple wishes. (2) What's charging up the bulls? (3) Hilsenrath says it all. (4) Disinflation making a comeback. (5) Why do they want more inflation? (6) Medical care inflation falling led by drugs and doctors. (7) Rent inflation peaking? (8) Hooray for Italy. (9) ECB set to ease. (10). No bank runs in euro zone money data. (11) Consumers still spending. (12) Focusing on fun-related Consumer Discretionary stocks. (More for subscribers.) |
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I knew the photoshops would be excellent and I am not disappointed.
My favorite one is the one where he is next to Shaq as STEEL, which one is your favorite?
He is currently plotting his revenge on D Wade as we speak. By the way the Kobe Mask has its own Twitter handle @KobeMask. You didn't think a mask would slow down Bean did you?
He scored 31, dropped 7 assists and 8 board in a win over the Timberwolves.


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1. One of the reviewers of our J. Chem. Ed. paper on MolCalc included the following tutorial: Molecular Orbital Calculations of Molecules I.Diatomics, Triatomics and Reactions
2. n-Butane can exist in two different conformations called gauche and anti (Google butane and conformation). Use Molecular Calculator to estimate the fraction of molecules in the gauche conformation at 25 $^\circ$C. $\Delta H^\circ$ can be computed as the difference in heat of formation.
3. Estimate $\Delta H^\circ$ the for the following reaction at 25 $^\circ$C
NH$_2$CHO + H$_2$O $\rightleftharpoons$ NH$_3$ + HCOOH
a. Using bond energies
b. Using Molecule Calculator
4. How does the molecular structure determine the rotational entropy? Find out by constructing a molecule with the largest possible rotational entropy using Molecule Calculator. The largest value I could find was 133 J/molK. Can you beat that?
5. How well do the simple solvation models work?
a. Estimate the solvation energy of NH$_4^+$ using MolCalc?
b. What is the polar solvation energy of NH$_4^+$ in water at 25 $^\circ$C assuming that it is spherical?
6. Why do ionic compounds dissolve in water? Use MolCalc to estimate $\Delta G^\circ$ at 25 oC for the following equilibrium
N(CH$_3$)$_4^+\cdot$Cl$^-$ $\rightleftharpoons$ N(CH$_3$)$_4^+$ + Cl$^-$
a. in the gas phase
b. in aqueous solution
7. Solvent screening: charge-charge interactions are weaker in aqueous solution than in the gas phase. Compute the difference in G$^\circ$ at 25 $^\circ$C between these two molecules using MolCalc
a. in the gas phase
b. in aqueous solution
8. Build a molecule with a solvation energy that is as close to 0 as possible. The closest I got is -1.3 kJ/ How close can you get?
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"Where Shall We Turn?"
Happy Christmas!
'He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.' (Colossians 1 and 17)
Well, what a year 2021 has been! In these past months, our world has continued to face up to the challenge and the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, dealing with illness and death as well as recovery strategies and vaccination programmes.
In contrast, there has been the welcome relief of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, which provided positive engagement, something to enjoy and the opportunity to celebrate our countries' achievements. Of course, we've also been witness to both natural and manmade disasters and tragedies – wildfires in different countries, hurricanes and storms, each of them presenting significant challenges. We'll all recall Afghanistan as it continues its journey and the emerging trends and cause for concern. And who hasn't been captivated by COP26 and our interest in our planet?
In such tumultuous times, where or who do we turn to? Hebrews 13 and 8 tells us that we turn to Jesus, who is the same 'yesterday, today and for ever'. Colossians 1 and 17 describes him as 'the one in whom all things hold together', and Revelations 22 and 13 says he is 'the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End'.
We need to turn then to the one who is wiser than we are, more compassionate than we are, more powerful than we are, who is both transcendent yet with us and who is present in the midst of the tumult and the chaos and its resultant personal cost. We do this because we read in Psalm 23 and in Matthew 11:28, that he invites us to rest in him. And if ever there was a time to turn to Jesus, then it would be at this Christmas time when we pause to remember and celebrate his birth, his incarnation, his becoming Emmanuel – God with us.
What does all this mean? It means there is hope. It means we are not on our own. It means we have someone who can restore our souls when we are weary. Someone who can give us rest when we're tired. Someone who can provide an eternal perspective when the immediate is all-consuming. Someone who holds us and our world together when we and it are falling apart. That truly is something worth celebrating this Christmas time.
Why would we not want to get to know someone like Jesus?
If your relationship with Jesus has been neglected for a while, Christmas represents an opportunity for it to be reconnected, reignited. And if you don't know him already, Christmas time is also an opportunity to meet Jesus for the first time, to invite him into your heart and to discover that he can be your saviour and your friend.
Commissioner Rosalie joins me in wishing you a very happy Christmas and that God's blessing would be yours during this holy season.


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Russian officials on Thursday reported 1,459 new cases of the novel coronavirus in a single day, a record for the country, which has now surpassed 10,000 cases.
The national coronavirus crisis response center said the death toll for the day had risen by 13. In total, 76 people have died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to official tallies in Russia.
In a televised address, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday that he was ordering an extension of a national "non-working week," a measure designed to increase social distancing, until the end of the month, according to The Moscow Times.
He also signed legislation making it a crime to break coronavirus quarantine rules, with a punishment of up to seven years in prison and a sentence of up to five years in prison for spreading false information about the novel coronavirus, the newspaper said.
Putin said he would delegate decision-making to regional authorities because of the differences in infection rates throughout the country.
That announcement appears to be aimed at quelling resentment over a one-size-fits-all approach to the pandemic that has occurred until now. The capital, Moscow, has borne the brunt of the outbreak, and it accounts for the vast majority of confirmed cases in Russia. Charles Maynes, reporting from Moscow for NPR earlier this week, noted that far-flung territories with few cases so far were falling under the same tight restrictions as Moscow and other cities with higher infection rates.
"There are regions where not a single case of the disease has been identified, although there are fewer of them as time goes on," Putin acknowledged earlier this week.
Meanwhile, NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner blasted off Thursday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, bound for an orbital rendezvous with the International Space Station.
Russian officials had taken extra precautions to guard against the possibility that the crew could become infected with the coronavirus. In a video link with journalists from Baikonur, Cassidy said the three had been under "a very strict quarantine" for the past month and so were in good health ahead of their launch, according to The Associated Press.
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New Study Suggests That Belly Fat Is Worse Than Obesity For Your Heart Health
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The Body Mass Index (BMI) is generally used to assess overall fitness, however, a new study has found that weight concentrated around the middle can be more harmful than obesity itself.
The waist to hip ratio is proving to be a better predictor of heart disease and other illness than BMI alone.
Participants were divided into six groups based on which of the three BMI groups they fell into, and whether they had a normal or high waist-to-hip ratio. Men whose waist measurement was 90 percent or more of their hip measurement were considered to have a high hip-to-waist ratio. The same was true of women; those with waists that were 85 percent of their hip size were classified as having a high hip-to-waist ratio.
Participants with normal BMI but a high waist-to-hip ratio had the risk of dying of cardiovascular disease, and the highest risk of dying from any causes among the six groups.
The risk of cardiovascular death was 2.75 times higher, and the risk of death from any cause was 2.08 times higher among normal-weight people with "central obesity," compared with normal-weight people who had a normal waist-to-hip ratio.
"The high risk of death may be related to a higher visceral fat accumulation in this group, which is associated with insulin resistance and other risk factors," said study researcher Dr. Karine Sahakyan, also of Mayo Clinic.
Men can be highly susceptible to accumulating belly fat and inactivity, poor diet and stress contribute to visceral fat.
Keeping your abs toned and your middle "whittled" is the best way to avoid disease and keep your heart strong.
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...one of the most highly
regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the
— Herb Sutter and Andrei
Alexandrescu, C++
Coding Standards
Unpacking Expressions
In Boost 1.51, Proto got simple unpacking patterns. When working with Proto transforms, unpacking expressions are useful for unpacking the children of an expression into a function call or an object constructor, while optionally applying some transformations to each child in turn.
See the Unpacking Expressions section for more information.
Behavior Change: proto::and_<>
In Boost 1.44, the behavior of proto::and_<>
as a transform changed. Previously, it only applied the transform associated
with the last grammar in the set. Now, it applies all the transforms but
only returns the result of the last. That makes it behave like C++'s comma
operator. For example, a grammar such as:
proto::and_< G0, G1, G2 >
when evaluated with an expression e
now behaves like this:
((void)G0()(e), (void)G1()(e), G2()(e))
Note | |
Why the void casts? It's to avoid argument-dependent lookup, which might find an overloaded comma operator. |
Behavior Change: proto::as_expr() and proto::as_child()
The functions proto::as_expr()
and proto::as_child()
are used to guarantee that an object is a Proto expression by turning it
into one if it is not already, using an optionally specified domain. In previous
releases, when these functions were passed a Proto expression in a domain
different to the one specified, they would apply the specified domain's generator,
resulting in a twice-wrapped expression. This behavior was surprising to
some users.
The new behavior of these two functions is to always leave Proto expressions alone, regardless of the expressions' domains.
Behavior Change: proto::(pod_)generator<> and proto::basic_expr<>
Users familiar with Proto's extension mechanism have probably used either
or proto::pod_generator<>
with a wrapper template when defining their domain. In the past, Proto would
instantiate your wrapper template with instances of proto::expr<>
In Boost 1.44, Proto now instantiates your wrapper template with instances
of a new type: proto::basic_expr<>
For instance:
// An expression wrapper template<class Expr> struct my_expr_wrapper; // A domain struct my_domain : proto::domain< proto::generator< my_expr_wrapper > > {}; template<class Expr> struct my_expr_wrapper : proto::extends<Expr, my_expr_wrapper<Expr>, my_domain> { // Before 1.44, Expr was an instance of proto::expr<> // In 1.44, Expr is an instance of proto::basic_expr<> };
The motivation for this change was to improve compile times. proto::expr<>
is an expensive type to instantiate because it defines a host of member functions.
When defining your own expression wrapper, the instance of proto::expr<>
sits as a hidden data member function in your wrapper and the members of
go unused. Therefore,
the cost of those member functions is wasted. In contrast, proto::basic_expr<>
is a very lightweight type with no member functions at all.
The vast majority of programs should recompile without any source changes.
However, if somewhere you are assuming that you will be given instances specifically
of proto::expr<>
, your code will break.
New Feature: Sub-domains
In Boost 1.44, Proto introduces an important new feature called "sub-domains".
This gives you a way to spcify that one domain is compatible with another
such that expressions in one domain can be freely mixed with expressions
in another. You can define one domain to be the sub-domain of another by
using the third template parameter of proto::domain<>
For instance:
// Not shown: define some expression // generators genA and genB struct A : proto::domain< genA, proto::_ > {}; // Define a domain B that is the sub-domain // of domain A. struct B : proto::domain< genB, proto::_, A > {};
Expressions in domains A
and B
can have different
wrappers (hence, different interfaces), but they can be combined into larger
expressions. Without a sub-domain relationship, this would have been an error.
The domain of the resulting expression in this case would be A
The complete description of sub-domains can be found in the reference sections
for proto::domain<>
and proto::deduce_domain
New Feature: Domain-specific as_expr() and as_child()
Proto has always allowed users to customize expressions post-hoc by specifying a Generator when defining their domain. But it has never allowed users to control how Proto assembles sub-expressions in the first place. As of Boost 1.44, users now have this power.
Users defining their own domain can now specify how proto::as_expr()
and proto::as_child()
work in their domain. They
can do this easily by defining nested class templates named as_expr
and/or as_child
within their domain class.
For example:
struct my_domain : proto::domain< my_generator > { typedef proto::domain< my_generator > base_domain; // For my_domain, as_child does the same as // what as_expr does by default. template<class T> struct as_child : base_domain::as_expr<T> {}; };
In the above example, my_domain::as_child<>
simply defers to proto::domain::as_expr<>
. This has the nice effect of causing
all terminals to be captured by value instead of by reference, and to likewise
store child expressions by value. The result is that expressions in my_domain
are safe to store in auto
variables because they will not have
dangling references to intermediate temporary expressions. (Naturally, it
also means that expression construction has extra runtime overhead of copying
that the compiler may or may not be able to optimize away.)
In Boost 1.43, the recommended usage of proto::extends<>
changed slightly. The new usage looks like this:
// my_expr is an expression extension of the Expr parameter template<typename Expr> struct my_expr : proto::extends<Expr, my_expr<Expr>, my_domain> { my_expr(Expr const &expr = Expr()) : proto::extends<Expr, my_expr, my_domain>(expr) {} // NEW: use the following macro to bring // proto::extends::operator= into scope. BOOST_PROTO_EXTENDS_USING_ASSIGN(my_expr) };
The new thing is the use of the
macro. To allow assignment operators to build expression trees, BOOST_PROTO_EXTENDS_USING_ASSIGN
overloads the assignment
operator. However, for the my_expr
template, the compiler generates a default copy assignment operator that
hides the ones in proto::extends<>
. This is often not desired
(although it depends on the syntax you want to allow).
Previously, the recommended usage was to do this:
// my_expr is an expression extension of the Expr parameter template<typename Expr> struct my_expr : proto::extends<Expr, my_expr<Expr>, my_domain> { my_expr(Expr const &expr = Expr()) : proto::extends<Expr, my_expr, my_domain>(expr) {} // OLD: don't do it like this anymore. using proto::extends<Expr, my_expr, my_domain>::operator=; };
While this works in the majority of cases, it still doesn't suppress the
implicit generation of the default assignment operator. As a result, expressions
of the form a =
could either build an expression
template or do a copy assignment depending on whether the types of a
and b
happen to be the same. That can lead to subtle bugs, so the behavior was
brings into scope the assignment operators defined in BOOST_PROTO_EXTENDS_USING_ASSIGN
as well as suppresses the generation of the copy assignment operator.
Also note that the proto::literal<>
class template, which
uses proto::extends<>
, has been chaged to use
The implications are highlighted in the sample code below:
proto::literal<int> a(1), b(2); // two non-const proto literals proto::literal<int> const c(3); // a const proto literal a = b; // No-op. Builds an expression tree and discards it. // Same behavior in 1.42 and 1.43. a = c; // CHANGE! In 1.42, this performed copy assignment, causing // a's value to change to 3. In 1.43, the behavior is now // the same as above: build and discard an expression tree.
Boost 1.44: Proto gets sub-domains and per-domain control of proto::as_expr()
and proto::as_child()
to meet the needs
of Phoenix3.
Proto v4 is merged to Boost trunk with more powerful transform protocol.
Proto is accepted into Boost.
Proto's Boost review begins.
Boost.Proto v3 brings separation of grammars and transforms and a "round" lambda syntax for defining transforms in-place.
Boost.Xpressive is ported from Proto compilers to Proto transforms. Support for old Proto compilers is dropped.
Preliminary submission of Proto to Boost.
The idea for transforms that decorate grammar rules is born in a private email discussion with Joel de Guzman and Hartmut Kaiser. The first transforms are committed to CVS 5 days later on December 16.
The idea for proto::matches<>
and the whole grammar facility
is hatched during a discussion with Hartmut Kaiser on the spirit-devel
list. The first version of proto::matches<>
is checked into CVS 3 days
later. Message is here.
Proto is reborn, this time with a uniform expression types that are POD. Announcement is here.
Proto is born as a major refactorization of Boost.Xpressive's meta-programming. Proto offers expression types, operator overloads and "compilers", an early formulation of what later became transforms. Announcement is here.
Proto expression types are PODs (Plain Old Data), and do not have constructors. They are brace-initialized, as follows:
terminal<int>::type const _i = {1};
The reason is so that expression objects like _i
above can be statically initialized. Why is static
initialization important? The terminals of many embedded domain-specific
languages are likely to be global const objects, like _1
and _2
from the Boost Lambda
Library. Were these object to require run-time initialization, it might
be possible to use these objects before they are initialized. That would
be bad. Statically initialized objects cannot be misused that way.
Anyone who has peeked at Proto's source code has probably wondered, "Why all the dirty preprocessor gunk? Couldn't this have been all implemented cleanly on top of libraries like MPL and Fusion?" The answer is that Proto could have been implemented this way, and in fact was at one point. The problem is that template metaprogramming (TMP) makes for longer compile times. As a foundation upon which other TMP-heavy libraries will be built, Proto itself should be as lightweight as possible. That is achieved by prefering preprocessor metaprogramming to template metaprogramming. Expanding a macro is far more efficient than instantiating a template. In some cases, the "clean" version takes 10x longer to compile than the "dirty" version.
The "clean and slow" version of Proto can still be found at http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/branches/proto/v3. Anyone who is interested can download it and verify that it is, in fact, unusably slow to compile. Note that this branch's development was abandoned, and it does not conform exactly with Proto's current interface.
Much has already been written about dispatching on type traits using SFINAE
(Substitution Failure Is Not An Error) techniques in C++. There is a Boost
library, Boost.Enable_if, to make the technique idiomatic. Proto dispatches
on type traits extensively, but it doesn't use enable_if<>
very often. Rather, it dispatches
based on the presence or absence of nested types, often typedefs for void.
Consider the implementation of is_expr<>
. It could have been written as
something like this:
template<typename T> struct is_expr : is_base_and_derived<proto::some_expr_base, T> {};
Rather, it is implemented as this:
template<typename T, typename Void = void> struct is_expr : mpl::false_ {}; template<typename T> struct is_expr<T, typename T::proto_is_expr_> : mpl::true_ {};
This relies on the fact that the specialization will be preferred if T
has a nested proto_is_expr_
that is a typedef for void
All Proto expression types have such a nested typedef.
Why does Proto do it this way? The reason is because, after running extensive
benchmarks while trying to improve compile times, I have found that this
approach compiles faster. It requires exactly one template instantiation.
The other approach requires at least 2: is_expr<>
and is_base_and_derived<>
, plus whatever templates is_base_and_derived<>
may instantiate.
In several places, Proto needs to know whether or not a function object
can be called with
certain parameters and take a fallback action if not. This happens in
and in the proto::call<>
transform. How does
Proto know? It involves some tricky metaprogramming. Here's how.
Another way of framing the question is by trying to implement the following
Boolean metafunction, which checks to see if a function object Fun
can be called with parameters of
type A
and B
template<typename Fun, typename A, typename B> struct can_be_called;
First, we define the following dont_care
struct, which has an implicit conversion from anything. And not just any
implicit conversion; it has a ellipsis conversion, which is the worst possible
conversion for the purposes of overload resolution:
struct dont_care { dont_care(...); };
We also need some private type known only to us with an overloaded comma operator (!), and some functions that detect the presence of this type and return types with different sizes, as follows:
struct private_type { private_type const &operator,(int) const; }; typedef char yes_type; // sizeof(yes_type) == 1 typedef char (&no_type)[2]; // sizeof(no_type) == 2 template<typename T> no_type is_private_type(T const &); yes_type is_private_type(private_type const &);
Next, we implement a binary function object wrapper with a very strange conversion operator, whose meaning will become clear later.
template<typename Fun> struct funwrap2 : Fun { funwrap2(); typedef private_type const &(*pointer_to_function)(dont_care, dont_care); operator pointer_to_function() const; };
With all of these bits and pieces, we can implement can_be_called<>
as follows:
template<typename Fun, typename A, typename B> struct can_be_called { static funwrap2<Fun> &fun; static A &a; static B &b; static bool const value = ( sizeof(no_type) == sizeof(is_private_type( (fun(a,b), 0) )) ); typedef mpl::bool_<value> type; };
The idea is to make it so that fun(a,b)
always compile by adding our own binary function overload, but doing it
in such a way that we can detect whether our overload was selected or not.
And we rig it so that our overload is selected if there is really no better
option. What follows is a description of how can_be_called<>
We wrap Fun
in a type that
has an implicit conversion to a pointer to a binary function. An object
of class type can be
invoked as fun(a, b)
if it has such a conversion operator,
but since it involves a user-defined conversion operator, it is less preferred
than an overloaded operator()
, which requires no such conversion.
The function pointer can accept any two arguments by virtue of the dont_care
type. The conversion sequence
for each argument is guaranteed to be the worst possible conversion sequence:
an implicit conversion through an ellipsis, and a user-defined conversion
to dont_care
. In total,
it means that funwrap2<Fun>()(a, b)
will always compile, but it will select our overload only if there really
is no better option.
If there is a better option --- for example if Fun
has an overloaded function call operator such as void
operator()(A a, B b)
then fun(a, b)
will resolve to that one instead. The
question now is how to detect which function got picked by overload resolution.
Notice how fun(a, b)
appears in can_be_called<>
: (fun(a, b), 0)
Why do we use the comma operator there? The reason is because we are using
this expression as the argument to a function. If the return type of fun(a, b)
is void
it cannot legally be used as an argument to a function. The comma operator
sidesteps the issue.
This should also make plain the purpose of the overloaded comma operator
in private_type
. The return
type of the pointer to function is private_type
If overload resolution selects our overload, then the type of (fun(a,
is private_type
. Otherwise,
it is int
. That fact is used
to dispatch to either overload of is_private_type()
, which encodes its answer in the size
of its return type.
That's how it works with binary functions. Now repeat the above process for functions up to some predefined function arity, and you're done.
I'd like to thank Joel de Guzman and Hartmut Kaiser for being willing to take a chance on using Proto for their work on Spirit-2 and Karma when Proto was little more than a vision. Their requirements and feedback have been indespensable.
Thanks also to Thomas Heller and again to Hartmut for their feedback and
suggestions during the redesign of Phoenix. That effort yielded several valuable
advanced features such as sub-domains, external transforms, and per-domain
Thanks to Daniel James for providing a patch to remove the dependence on deprecated configuration macros for C++0x features.
Thanks to Joel Falcou and Christophe Henry for their enthusiasm, support, feedback, and humor; and for volunteering to be Proto's co-maintainers.
Thanks to Dave Abrahams for an especially detailed review, and for making a VM with msvc-7.1 available so I could track down portability issues on that compiler.
Many thanks to Daniel Wallin who first implemented the code used to find the common domain among a set, accounting for super- and sub-domains. Thanks also to Jeremiah Willcock, John Bytheway and Krishna Achuthan who offered alternate solutions to this tricky programming problem.
Thanks also to the developers of PETE. I found many good ideas there.


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Science, in 3 to 5 minutes
Students shoot videos to showcase the work of 4 scientists
There are the arts, and then there are the sciences. There is literature, language and film, and then there is calculus, physics and experiments. Jes Therkelsen, filmmaker-in-residence at the College of William and Mary, wants to bring together those two poles of academia, instilling in his students a fusion between the humanities and the natural sciences.
A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation brought Therkelsen to William and Mary almost two years ago as a post-doctoral teaching fellow based in the Environmental Science and Policy Program (ENSP). Therkelsen launched a curriculum to provide students with the foundational basics of communicating science to the general public. In the fall of 2011, he teamed up pairs of his students with a scientist and said to them, "communicate."
"We had concentrated on video and the visual realm. The idea was for the students to start visually explaining complex scientific findings and ideas in a creative way," says Therkelsen. The students worked to convey the ideas and concepts behind the research of their partner professor by creating a short film.
The researchers become the subjects
Therkelsen enlisted four William and Mary professors as subjects: Chuck Bailey, professor and chair of geology; Wouter Deconinck, assistant professor of physics; John Swaddle, professor of biology; and Kristin Wustholtz, assistant professor of chemistry. Each of these scientists came to Therkelsen's class to speak about their science, research and current projects. From these sessions evolved a larger project in which students prepared short videos to highlight an aspect of a professor's research activity.
"The professors would try to work with the students to communicate how they might be able to use that information to determine who the audience is—and what is the purpose of actually creating the media," explains Therkelsen, "The students were able to learn the very important process of asking those questions before we even start on the video."
The students had six to seven weeks to complete their videos, which were to be five to eight minutes in length. One common challenge was to communicate advanced scientific concepts to a lay audience accurately, succinctly—and through the medium of video.
"It's difficult to show science in the visual realm" Therkelsen says. "For instance, Wouter works with the Standard Model of physics. He works with quarks. So how are we going to show quarks visually?"
This ping-pong ball is the nucleus
show quarks visually, Erin Hayes and her partner Carlos Quintela
started with the atom. They placed a ping-pong ball in the center of
William & Mary's football field to represent the nucleus of an
atom and to show the relative space between the nucleus and the
electron shells, represented by the grandstands of Zable Stadium.
The video goes on to explain, mixing voice-over narrative and
on-camera interviews with Deconinck, the difference between atomic
particles believed to be fundamental (such as electrons) and the
protons and neutrons of the nucleus, which has a substructure made of
different quarks.
In "Colorful Collaborations," Molly Bashay and Lily Rubino used an animation they created with a computer program to explain and show how a laser is used to study the chemistry of paint used in historical portraits in the collections of Colonial Williamsburg. Bashay and Rubino go into the studio of Colonial Williamsburg conservator Shelly Svoboda to show how the surface-enhanced raman spectroscopy techniques of William & Mary chemist Kristin Wustholz provide a minimally invasive approach to paint analysis and its importance to the restoration and preservation of art.
One foot in science, another in art
Like the project depicted in "Colorful Collaborations," Therkelsen has roots in the world of science as well as the world of art—he holds a bachelor's degree in geology as well as an M.F.A. in film and media arts. He sees the value of a more permanent presence of the combination of science and the humanities.
"It's the dialogue that is so crucial," Therkelsen says. "It's just phenomenal that a school like William & Mary is able to offer a class like this. I think that's extremely rare in higher education. William & Mary has a small feel, but we have big research projects where professors are bringing in a lot of grant money to do large projects and bring students to be involved."
Erin Hayes has embraced the foundation the class provided, and is already taking a more advanced filmmaking class. Therkelsen says he's glad to see such continuity in his students.
"Teaching these science students to think about communication, and visual communication especially, will help to prepare them for successful science careers, if that's the direction they choose to pursue," he said. "And if they choose to travel down other paths, then the skills they learned might prove useful there as well.


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Nearer To Thee Book
by Marianne MonsonSeries: The Mima Journals
Published by CreateSpace on February 24, 2016
Genres: Historical Fiction, LDS
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Source: The Author
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Nearer to Thee continues the beautifully written account of young musician Mima Hough, based on the true story of a nineteenth century pioneer from England. In this thrilling sequel to The Water is Wide, Mima and her mother turn their eyes westward to the Salt Lake Valley, but to get there, they must follow a trail marked with cholera graves, treacherous rivers, and Native American tribes weary of invaders. Mima's journey across the plains is one of courage and self-discovery, of heartache and love. This long-awaited sequel continues the epic adventure of a young woman who experiences the life of a Mormon pioneer as an outsider.
Since she was a very young child, Marianne Monson has been fascinated by the power of words (and even tried inventing her own language for a time). After earning a bachelor's degree in English Literature from BYU, she continued her study at Vermont College of Fine Arts, earning an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Since then, she has worked as an editor/art director of children's books, authored eight books and counting for children and adults, and continues editing and writing for a variety of audiences, including magazines, books, blogs, and other publications.
She teaches Creative Writing and English at Portland Community College. Her two children are often featured in her work (and are self-confessed logophiles as well).


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RSC Model 1917 rifle, right side.
RSC Model 1917 rifle, left side.
RSC Model 1917 rifle, close-up view on receiver, showing integral magazine, operating rod and bolt handle.
Caliber: | 8x51R mm Lebel | |
Action | Gas operated, rotating bolt | |
Overall length | 1331 mm / 52,4" | 1100 mm / 43,25" |
Barrel length | 798 mm / 31,4" | 580 mm / 22,85" |
Weight | 5,25 kg / 11,6 lbs | 4,8 kg / 10,5 lbs |
Magazine capacity | 5 rounds |
French army began the search for a semi-automatic military rifle as early as about 1900. It was a secret "government-only" program with the goal of replacement of obsolescent Lebel M1886 rifle. After much development, conducted at four government arsenals, and extensive trials that included as much as 20 different designs, in 1910 French army selected a Meunier Rifle, chambered for the new 7×59 rimless ammunition. Only about 1000 of Meunier rifles were produced before the start of the Word War One, and further production was ceased to avoid complication of supply, because main body of French army was still equipped with weapons firing old 8mm Lebel ammunition. Still, French army wanted a self-loading rifle, and in 1917 it adopted a new weapon, designed by Ribeyrolle, Sutter and Chauchat (hence the RSC acronym), authors of the infamous CSRG M1915 "Chauchat" light machine gun. The new rifle used "old" ammunition and made a good use of available parts, produced for obsolete Lebel rifles, including stock parts, barrel and tubular magazine. This rifle, officially known as Le fusil automatique de 8 mm RSC modele 1917 or RSC Mle.1917 in short, was produced and issued to French troops in significant numbers. Some 80 thousands of RSC M1917 rifles were produced at MAS (Manufacture d'Armes de St.Etienne) armory during 1918, using some parts supplied from MAT and MAC factories. After the Armistice, the basic pattern of rifle was slightly changed – barrel was shortened, some parts modified, and magazine was altered to accept standard 5-round clips produced for Berthier bolt-action rifles. This became the RSC M1918, which was also produced in some numbers (about 10 thousands) shortly after the war, although the main body of French army was still equipped with bolt-action rifles when World War Two broke. It is also interesting to note that during late 1930s many of RSC M1917 and M1918 rifles were converted by French army to manually operated, bolt action rifles by blocking the gas port.
It must be noted that before and during WW1 French army was in many ways well ahead of its time in tactical and technical concepts. In fact, France was the only major world power that attempted to arm its infantry with mass-issued semi-automatic rifle (as opposed to "specialist" weapons issued by Russian army in the form of Fedorov's Avtomat, or very limited use of Mondragon semi-automatic rifles by Germans).
RSC Model 1917 rifle is gas-operated, magazine fed weapon that fires in semi-automatic mode only. It uses conventional gas piston system with long stroke piston, located in the gas cylinedr below the barrel (formed by the former magazine tube of Lebel rifle). return spring is located behind the gas piston, in the rear part of same ex-magazine tube. Gas piston is connected to the bolt group by the bent operating rod, which runs toward the cocking handle on the bolt at the right side of receiver and stock, below the removable steel cover. Locking is achieved by rotating the bolt head, which has two sets of radial lugs that engage respecive cuts made on the inner wall of tubular receiver. Feed is from integral box magazine, using proprietary en-block clips which hold 5 rounds of ammunition in single row. Clips are loaded into magazine through the bottom of the gun, by unlatching the magazine cover and opening it down and forward. On M1918 rifles magazine was changed to accept standard issue Bertheir M1916 en-block clips, and las shot bolt hold-open device was added. Manual safety was located on the left side of the gun, above and in front of trigger guard. Either version of rifle was capable of mounting standard French M1896/15 bayonet.


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Talking to and guiding children is one of the beauties and responsibilities of parenting. It's also the most challenging, if not terrifying, area of parenting–a monster-in-the-closet for moms and dads. What do you say when little 4-year-old Raksha decides she wants to keep a pet hamster in her bed, next to the teddy bear? Or how do you explain to 8-year-old Makunda that grandmother has just died–what is death, where did she go after death, what is reincarnation? These situations and questions demand good skills (and knowledge) in talking with your children. Therefore, in Hinduism parents are understood as the child's first guru: an awesome responsibility. How do you do handle it?
Two months ago Hinduism Today reviewed a book by parenting expert Dr. Fitzhugh Dodson called How to Discipline with Love. He makes the crucial point that discipline is really teaching. To make discipline an opportunity for teaching takes real communication skills–not beyond any parent's ability, but you have to understand the process, and then take the time to use it.
Several of Dodson's methods focus on talking with children. The first is called rapport: cultivating an emotional connection which demonstrates that you, on a feeling level, want to understand your child. It is a "mutual liking and respect," as Dodson puts it. It means you want to share in your child's world through talking and expressing positive emotion. Rapport is not a corrective measure, but a bridge of interest and friendship that makes the road to guidance and correction smoother. Dodson calls this an "emotional foundation."
We cannot teach through positive discipline without establishing rapport. Rapport may seem obvious, even built into the parent's inborn love for their children. It's not. You have to work at creating rapport. Most parents, according to Dodson's thousands of case experiences, do not establish rapport with their children or they ignore the need for it. Dodson says: "Parents believe their children should obey requests and commands simply because children should obey parents. This is like a teacher assuming the class will want to work on a history lesson simply because the teacher tells them to. Not so. The child has to feel good about the teacher in order to fulfill the teacher's wish. It is the same whether we are talking about a school teacher or a parent-teacher."
Developing rapport means spending time doing things together and simply talking with your children at their level, or what they want to talk about. Often it's just being together silently, simply feeling the good bonding of parent and child while enjoying an activity. Rapport is always a good feeling. It can easily be broken. Speaking sharply can break it. Then it needs to be repaired. With rapport maintained, the next step of talking with your children–called feedback–can be learned and used. We will discuss feedback in next month's parenting column.


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Our History
The Chateau Apres lodge was built in 1964, just as Park City Ski Area was opening (1963-64). Its location was just steps from the resort and ideal for skiers as we were the closest hotel to the lifts at that time.
Ed Hosenfeld came to Park City from Corning, New York, by way of California. He met his wife, Susan, in California and it was her family who owned and built the hotel. Ed invested some money in the hotel and started working there with his wife in 1966. When they came to town the only paved street was Park Avenue. The city employees would come by and pick up the trash in an old flat bedded truck, and 'I remember I use to ride my dirt bike over where Prospector Square and Deer Valley Ski Area are now. The growth in Park City was gradual for many years, but we knew it had potential. The proximity to the Salt Lake Airport and great powder snow was bound to get Park City recognized.*
It has been hard work keeping the hotel open, but being your own boss has made it worthwhile. You find yourself doing things you probably wouldn't do for someone else. You scrub floors, clean bathrooms and all the dirty work. Of course, without the help of family–my wife, Susan, and our six children born in Park City and raised at the Chateau, it wouldn't have been much fun operating the lodge. Even today after all the children have left home, they help us out in cleaning, painting, and fixing things when we need them . . including sons and daughter-in-laws–who have the modern technology skills we lack. Working for yourself is great, but there are also drawbacks . . working Christmas, no days off during winter. You can't lock the door and go home at six o'clock.
For the past 25 years our oldest son, Jason, has been manager of the Chateau–working with Ed during the ski season and busiest part of summer season. It is a joy to have a member of the family want to keep the tradition going. Of course without Jason's help Ed would have to learn how to use the computer.
In addition to the hotel's 32 private rooms, large inviting lobby with fireplace, and eating area, there is a male and female dormitory.
The dorms are still used for the economically minded skier in the winter and opened into one large room in the summer for meetings and banquet area for groups and family reunions. The thirty-two rooms are our main priority.While stepping into the Chateau Apres may be like taking a step back to the early day of Park City skiing, we still look to the future making plans to keep the hotel around for guests looking for a clean, well kept room that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Renovations are constantly in motion, whether it be new mattresses, fresh coat of paint, new carpet, furniture, etc to make guests comfortable and anxious to visit us again.
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What Is Yoga Helping US Military Soldiers Fight Against?
Yoga. Whether you can't get enough of it or can't get away from it, there's no denying its peaceful approach to connecting one's body and mind. Who'd have thought that this practice is now more and more becoming the method of choice for relieving PTSD symptoms in US soldiers?
"Historically, PTSD has been overwhelmingly treated as a mental health condition with psychological treatments, and the body has been ignored," said Harvard researcher Sat Bir Khalsa, who continues to conduct yoga trials on military personnel. "But PTSD is a mind-body disorder with both mental and physical components. So, yoga, in its blending of physical postures with conscious breathing, adds a strong dimension for the existing treatment of PTSD."
One downside to the treatment is a yoga master's potentially conflicting perspective on teaching yoga to a trained fighter. The practice is meant to build inner peace, not facilitate any country's ability to battle another.
"As you make a more functional human being, you also have the potential to make a more functional warrior. So the question arises: Are you teaching yoga to help soldiers kill better? There certainly are people who have an ethical qualm about this," said Khalsa.
Yoga was originally practiced by ascetics in India to help them endure long periods of sitting and meditation. Many people use it today to build physical strength and inner peace, and so far, the effects on the soldiers seem to be promising. "Our results are preliminary, but they do show a statistically significant improvement in the severity of PTSD with yoga," said Khalsa.


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(Latin creatio).
(1) In the widest sense, the doctrine that the material of the universe was created by God out of no pre-existing subject. It is thus opposed to all forms of Pantheism.
(2) Less widely, the doctrine that the various species of living beings were immediately and directly created or produced by God, and are not therefore the product of an evolutionary process. It is thus opposed to Transformism.
(3) In a restricted but more usual sense, the doctrine that the individual human soul is the immediate effect of God's creative act. It is thus opposed to Traducianism. The first two acceptations of the term are treated in the article CREATION; the third alone is here considered. The proposition that the human soul is immediately created by God is a corollary of the soul's spirituality. Certain psychical phenomena, viz. intellectual and volitional especially when they regard immaterial objects indicate that their radical principle subsists essentially and intrinsically independent of the purely corporeal organism. This transmaterial subsistence supposes a corresponding mode of origin; for that the soul must have had a beginning follows obviously from its finitude and contingency. That origin cannot be:
The only other intelligible source of the soul's existence is God; and since the characteristic and exclusive act of the Divine Cause is creation, the soul must owe its origin to that operation.
As regards the time when the individual soul is created, philosophical speculation varies. The ancient Platonic doctrine of the pre-natal existence of souls and their subsequent incarceration in bodies may be passed over as poetic fiction and not scientific theory. The same may be said of the ancient hypothesis of transmigration, which, however, still survives in Buddhism and is revived by recent Theosophy. Besides being entirely gratuitous, metempsychosis rests on a false view which conceives of body and soul as only accidentally, not essentially, combined in the unity of the human person. The traditional philosophy of the Church holds that the rational soul is created at the moment when it is infused into the new organism. St. Thomas, following Aristotle's embryology, taught that the human foetus passes through progressive stages of formation wherein it is successively animated by the vegetative, sensitive, and rational principles, each succeeding form summing up virtually the potencies of its predecessor. Accordingly, the rational soul is created when the antecedent principles of life have rendered the foetus an appropriate organism for rational life, though some time is required after birth before the sensory organs are sufficiently developed to assist in the functions of intelligence. In this view the embryonic history of man is an epitome of the stages through which the upward march of life on our globe is now held by palæontologists to have passed. On the other hand, most neo-Scholastics hold that the rational soul is created and infused into the incipient human being at the moment of conception. It should be noted that the doctrine of Creationism is not an appeal to the supernatural or the "miraculous" to account for a natural effect. The creation of the soul by the First Cause, when second causes have posited the pertinent conditions, falls within the order of nature; it is a so-called "law of nature", not an interference therewith, as is the case in a miracle.
So much for the philosophical or purely rational aspect of Creationism; as regards the theological, it should be noted that while none of the Fathers maintained Traducianism the parental generation of the soul as a certainty, some of them, notably St. Augustine, at the outbreak of Pelagianism, began to doubt the creation by god of the individual soul (there was never any doubt as to the created origin of the souls of Adam and Eve), and to incline to the opposite opinion, which seemed to facilitate the explanation of the transmission of original sin. Thus, writing to St. Jerome, St. Augustine says: "If that opinion of the creation of new souls is not opposed to this established article of faith [sc. original sin] let it be also mine; if it is, let it not be thine" (Ep. clxvi, n.25). Theodorus Abucara (Opusc. xxxv), Macarius (Hom. xxx), and St. Gregory of Nyssa (De Opif., Hom., c. xxix) favoured this view. Amongst the Scholastics there were no defenders of Traducianism. Hugh of St. Victor (De Sacr., VII, c. xii) and Alexander of Hales (Summa, I, Q. lx, mem. 2, a. 3) alone characterize Creationism as the more probable opinion; all the other Schoolmen hold it as certain and differ only in regard to the censure that should be attached to the opposite error. Thus Peter Lombard simply says: "The Catholic Church teaches that souls are created at their infusion into the body" (Sent. II, d. xviii); while St. Thomas is more emphatic: "It is heretical to say that the intellectual soul is transmitted by process of generation" (I, Q. cxviii, a. 2). For the rest, the following citation from the Angelic Doctor sums up the diverse opinions: "Regarding this question various opinions were expressed in antiquity. Some held that the soul of a child is produced by the soul of the parent just as the body is generated by the parent-body. Others maintained that all souls are created apart, moreover that they are united with their respective bodies, either by their own volition or by the command and action of God. Others again, declared that the soul in the moment of its creation is infused into the body. Though for a time these several views were upheld, and though it was doubtful which came nearest the truth (as appears from Augustine's commentary on Genesis 10, and from his books on the origin of the soul), the Church subsequently condemned the first two and approved the third" (De Potentiâ, Q. iii, a. 9). Others (e.g. Gregory of Valencia) speak of Generationism as "certainly erroneous", or (e.g. Estius) as maxime temerarius. It should, however, be noted that while there are no such explicit definitions authoritatively put forth by the Church as would warrant our calling the doctrine of Creationism de fide, nevertheless, as a recent eminent theologian observes, "there can be no doubt as to which view is favoured by ecclesiastical authority" (Pesch, Præl. Dogm., V, 3, p. 66). Leo IX (1050), in the symbol presented to the Bishop Peter for subscription, lays down: "I believe and profess that the soul is not a part of God, but is created out of nothing, and that, without baptism, it is in original sin" (Denzinger, Enchir., n. 296). That the soul sinned in its pre-existent state, and on that account was incarcerated in the body, is a fiction which has been repeatedly condemned by the Church. Divested of this fiction, the theory that the soul exists prior to its infusion into the organism, while not explicitly reprobated, is obviously opposed to the doctrine of the Church, according to which souls are multiplied correspondingly with the multiplication of human organisms (Conc. Lat. V, in Denzinger, op. cit., 621). But whether the rational soul is infused into the organism at conception, as the modern opinion holds, or some weeks subsequently, as the Scholastics suppose (St. Thomas, Q. i a. 2, ad 2), is an open question with theologians (Kleutgen, Phil. d. Vorzeit, II, 657). (See also MAN; METEMPSYCHOSIS; SOUL; TRADUCIANISM.)
MAHER, Psychology (New York, 1903); MIVART, Origin of Human Reason (London, 1889); DRISCOLL, The Soul (New York, 1898); MERCIER, La Psychologie (Louvain, 1905); GUTBERLET, Psychologie (Munich, 1896).
APA citation. (1908). Creationism. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04475a.htm
MLA citation. "Creationism." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04475a.htm>.
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After a ridiculously sweaty summer, we're embracing darker hues and wearing makeup without fear of it melting off by midday. Here, the latest beauty trends for your hair, skin, and makeup this season.
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20s: Skin and Makeup
Just because summer is over, it doesn't mean you have to retire your favorite vibrant shades for the season. "Color is still in!" says Makeup Forever West Coast educator David Hernandez. Just be careful what you do with that color: Pick an area you want to punch up and mute the rest. Try a bright lip, like Revlon Color Burst Lip Butter in Candy Apple. If it's the eyes you're kicking up, go for NARS Palladium Soft Touch Shadow Pencil paired with your favorite sheer gloss like Essence XXXL Shine in Rising Star.
When it comes to your skin, you should be taking preventive measures to ward off aging and spots from sun damage, says celebrity skin-care guru Sonya Dakar. Start early with a two-in-one foundation and SPF like Hissyfit Saving Face.
Revlon Color Burst, $7.49; ulta.com
NARS Pallidum Soft Touch Shadow Pencil, $24; sephora.com
Hissyfit Saving Face, $29; dermstore.com
Essence XXXL Shine in Rising Star, $1.99; ulta.com
MORE: 15 Fall Makeup Trends We're Looking Forward To
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If you have long hair, you'll want to pump up the volume this fall, says celebrity hairstylist Jessica Tingley. To do this, blow-dry hair upside down using a root-lifting spray like mark Mega Volume Root Lifting Spray with Geranium. Flip your head back when your hair is dry and tease the base of your hair all over, not just the crown. For those with short hair, take a little more length off for this season's trendiest cut — the pixie.
Pantene Pro-V Fine Hair Style Root Lifter Spray Hair Gelm, $3.99; pgestore.com
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"Keep this tidbit in mind as you age," says Pur Minerals resident makeup artist Jackie Gomez: "The older you get, the more natural you want to look." Play up a smoky eye by mixing light and dark shades with a palette like Chanel Les 4 Ombres Smoky Eye or L'Oréal Studio Secrets Professional Color Smokes in Blackened Smokes. Top off the look with a classic red lip like Illamasqua's Lipstick in Maneater.
To nip early signs of aging, Hernandez recommends using a hyaluronic acid like Makeup Forever HD Elixr to keep your skin hydrated and radiant. To strip off dead skin, Dakar suggests exfoliating — but stay away from invasive ingredients like glycolic acid so you don't cause any added irritation. Try Flash Facial Exfoliating Gel for a gentle peptide treatment three times a week.
Chanel Les 4 Ombres Smoky Eye, $56; chanel.com
L'Oréal Studio Secrets Professional Color Smokes in Blackened Smokes, $7.49; walgreens.com
Illamasqua Lipstick in Maneater, $22; sephora.com
Makeup Forever HD Elixr, $38; sephora.com
Flash Facial Exfoliating Gel, $95; sonyadakarclinic.com
30s: Hair
Keeping your look fresh is important, says Tingley. Long hair is still considered sexy, but it's time to give it some movement and volume with layers.
The big updo of the season is a Bridget Bardot-inspired style easy to create at home. Tease your crown and twist your hair into French braid. Secure with bobby pins and pull out some face-framing pieces for a quick, sophisticated look.
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This is the period in your life when you should be taking the time out of your day to do your makeup, Hernandez says. In order to create the illusion of depth, it's important to contour and highlight in a soft, subtle way. Use a bronzer-blush duo like Pur Minerals Perfectly Natural Pink Marble Powder. Gomez says to switch it up by keeping the eyes light with a pastel palette, and pairing pink cheeks with a neutral lip. To lighten up, opt for Givenchy Le Prisme Pastel Model paired with Bobbi Brown Pot Rouge in Blushed Rose.
To counteract gravity when it comes to your skin, Dakar suggests splurging once a month on an LED treatment. For a thriftier option, try CoverGirl & Olay Simply Ageless Serum Primer before putting on your makeup.
Pur Minerals Perfectly Natural Pink Marble Powder, $23.50; purminerals.com
Givenchy Le Prisme Pastel Model, $53; sephora.com
Bobbi Brown Pot Rouge for Lips & Cheeks $25; visit bobbibrowncosmetics.com
CoverGirl & Olay Simply Ageless Serum Primer, $13.99; ulta.com
MORE: Healthy Fall Skin Tips
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If you haven't already, it might be time to find yourself a great colorist, says Tingley. With a few face-framing highlights and some layers placed strategically, you won't be forced to resort to the soccer-mom bob. If a salon visit isn't in your busy schedule, try at-home highlights with these tips.
50s and Beyond: Skin and Makeup
This is when you want your makeup to look as natural as possible, says Gomez. Using neutral tones on your eyes will naturally contour your face. Play around with Too Faced Naked Eye Collection to keep a muted look paired with a deep red lip like Mary Kay Crème Lipstick in Boysenberry.
If you see fine lines beginning to set in, use a skin-care formula with vitamin C, like La Roche Posay Derm AOX, which helps slow the aging process, diminishes wrinkles, and firms up skin.
Too Faced Naked Eye Collection, $35; ulta.com
Mary Kay Crème Lipstick in Boysenberry, $13; marykay.com
La Roche Posay Derm AOX, $55; laroche-posay.us
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50s and Beyond: Hair
If you've always had long hair, it's perfectly fine to keep it that way. Just make sure you bring the length up somewhere past the shoulders, recommends Tingley. If you want to perk your eyes up, start by getting a few layered pieces above the cheekbone. Once you enter your 60s, you can go for trends but you should also know what classic style looks works for you.
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