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Outdated pothole funding 'puts cyclists' lives at risk'
An outdated means of allocating road repair funds is putting cyclists' lives at risk, according to a leading insurer.
Local government insurer Zurich Municipal claims that the formula used to share out funding ignores the threat potholes pose to cyclists and the need to maintain cycle paths in the same way as roads.
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It has now called for greater focus to be given to maintaining cycle paths and footways to support the boom in cycling and protect riders. It argues that while potholes can cause damage to cars, they can lead to life-threatening injuries for cyclists.
Funding for pothole repairs was boosted by 15 per cent in 2020/21 but under the government formula for allocating funds, none of the money is intended for cycleway maintenance, with 82.42 per cent going on roads, 15.4 per cent on bridges and two per cent on lighting columns.
Department for Transport data shows that 368 cyclists were badly injured in crashes caused by poor road surfaces between 2007 and 2016 and Zurich handled 2,800 claims against councils from cyclists last year.
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"We are urging the Government to reassess its allocation of transport spending to reflect the changing nature of our roads and enable local government to prioritise active travel routes. If ministers are serious about a green recovery, and protecting lives, local councils must be given the resources to allocate repair cash where it is needed most."
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Interview with Sylvia Sotomayor
Sylvia Sotomayor has been conlanging since she was 14. She has a B.A. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley. A KÄ"len grammar, dictionary, and some texts can be found at http://www.terjemar.net/kelen.php. Notes on the planet Terjemar can be found there, too. She currently lives in Claremont, California, with too many cats and not enough computers.
Sylvia is one of my favorite conlanging people, if that makes sense (for those familiar with the linguistic concept of iconicity as espoused by John Haiman, I'm not using the term "conlanger" here for a specific reason: to emphasize Sylvia's person-hood). I was glad to have met her at LCC1, ecstatic to see her again at LCC2, and am looking forward to seeing her once again at LCC3.
The nice thing about talking with Sylvia—or listening to this interview, for example—is that there's so much that's immediately recognizable. To an extent, this is true about all conlangers, but I in particular find that in many ways, Sylvia and I are on the same wavelength. For example, about John Quijada's fantastic talk at LCC1, she says (starting at around 25:04):
"John Quijada's talk was…was like, 'Oh, that's right, I know all this stuff; I'm supposed to take all this into consideration', but do I? No. Of course not… (Laughter.)
"I try to, and I will probably consciously try to a little more now, for…for a while at least, until I forget again."
Ain't that the truth! In conlanging—especially in the naturalist school—there are so many variables to keep track of, and, if you're like me, which of those variables you devote the most attention to seem to be directly related to what you're most interested in at the time. Then you're reminded of the fact that, for example, metaphor is everywhere, and if you're not careful, you'll unconsciously copy the structural metaphors of your own language, or those you know well. It's definitely something to keep in mind, but there's just so much going on all the time…
Another fascinating correspondence is something that I think is generally true of a number of conlangers. In response to Sai's question about whether or not she's fluent in Kēlen, Sylvia says (at around 10:03):
"I have basically the structure memorized. … But the vocabulary not so much. So, you know, I can like figure out, okay, this noun would go here, and that noun would go there, and I may not know exactly what they are, but I know all the little things in between."
Now, granted, there are a few exceptional conlangers who are fairly fluent in one or more of their languages (Sally Caves?), but most of us—myself included—experience exactly what Sylvia describes. For each of my languages, for example, I have a few nouns and verbs I can reliably reproduce, but for the most part, it's all structure. I know the structures of my languages even better than I know the orthographies—and I love my orthographies!
What makes this most interesting is its relationship to language-learning, in general. In one of my previous lives as a graduate student of linguistics, I served for three years as a teaching assistant for an undergraduate class on first and second language acquisition. Granted, there are a number of competing theories about everything, undergraduates don't get the full story on anything, and it seems like there's an asterisk at the end of every fact and/or universal, but when it comes to acquisition, there is a generally agreed-upon tendency amongst ordinary language learners:
- Children are great at learning rules/structures; they're not as great at learning vocabulary items.
- Adults are great at learning vocabulary items; they're not as great at learning rules/structures.
Perhaps you've seen something like this if you've attempted to learn a new language late in life. I, for example, can probably rattle off a hundred words and more in Arabic, Russian and even Middle Egyptian, but ask me to produce a grammatically correct conjunctive in German, and I'm sunk.
If this is true (let's say it is, for the sake of argument), what can we say about language creators and their languages? We should be able to rattle off hundreds of words in our languages—that's supposed to be the easy part! And yet, in Kamakawi, for example, I can sooner produce a relative clause that requires the embedded verb to be both passive and applicative than fill out what the nouns and verbs are in that same sentence (I usually end up with the same words in every sentence: "woman", "fish" and "hug").
There are a couple of things that can be said about this. First, is there some sort of inherent difference between learning natural language structures and learning invented language structures? If there's something we do that better allows us to learn the structures of our invented languages, can we isolate it, and apply it to natural language learning? And honestly, what's the deal with conlang vocabulary? Adults are supposed to be able to learn about twenty new words a day! Perhaps we should start working with flashcards… Couldn't hurt, I suppose.
Audio edited by Virgo Audio Production Services and Sai Emrys; music by Gary Shannon.
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Bright snow has transformed downtown Washington into a shimmering version of its quotidian self. The marble buildings looming behind the curtains of flakes are all the more impressive for the sudden levity swirling around their pillars.
I've just given my spiel on Richard III to about 175 people at the Shakespeare Theatre, seated on a stage so crooked that it made me seasick (the play is being intentionally performed off kilter).
A podcast of my remarks and the Q&A will be released by the theatre next week. I'll link to it in case anyone wants to work out while I descant on deformity inside their iPod.


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In forming the new Comprehensive Plan initiating committee, the Mayor studiously avoided recruiting members of the Sustainability Visioning Task Force who challenged the narrow approach foisted upon that effort by staff.
The concerns raised by those committee members (Sustainability Task Force: The Whole or The Sum of the Parts? ) are unlikely to be addressed by the currently constituted group.
Without those dissenting voices, the Comprehensive Plan Initiating Committee will most likely craft a process that is targeted towards a particular outcome rather than one that will illuminate and resolve the discrepancies and omissions in our current Comprehensive Plan discovered by that task force.
Those gaps have led to development outcomes which our community has found troubling.
December, 2008 the Neighborhoods for Responsible Growth held a forum on development density which highlighted some of the issues which have to be addressed in the new plan to meet the future needs of this community. It's a long forum but worth reviewing to get a sense of the rising tide of negative community reaction to the current "rah rah growth at any cost" approach which has failed to yield the advertised results.


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From Tony Jackson:
Blake DeWitt optioned to ABQ to make room for Castro[DeWitt will] play mostly 2B, with a few games at SS and an occasional game at 3B, according to Joe Torre. The most important thing is that he will play, every day, with regular at-bats, which will allow him to continue to develop. Guessing this move was planned from opening day, just a matter of clearing a 40-man spot.
Don't shed a tear for Blake DeWitt. Although it must sting to be sent to the minors right before the home opener, it's more important for him to get regular work. And DeWitt, 23, has ridden the majors-minors elevator before.
Juan Castro, on the other hand, is a journeyman—and that's nothing to sneeze at. In fact, Castro broke into the majors with the Dodgers in 1995 and spent five seasons with the club. He's especially useful because he can play all four infield positions. Hard to argue with these moves.
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- Outdoor vinyl.
- Permanent adhesive.
- Image cut to the outside dimension of logo.
- Full color detail is printed with a 3 yr outdoor rating.
- Supplied with a clear liner, transfer tape, and application instructions.
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So when should you use a GWTTestCase to test your view code, and when should you refactor to a design which doesn't require the GUI components at all?
When the time comes to test the view, take a moment to consider what you're testing. Should the test ensure that clicking a widget generates a click event? That would confirm that GWT behaves as expected, but I believe it was J.B. Rainsberger who said, "Don't test the framework". What about if a widget is the right shade of blue? This is subjective and a human is much better at this sort of judgment. However, a behavior that seems worth testing is that the color switches from the "OK" color to the "Error" color when a problem occurs. Another useful test would be to check that a display string is assembled properly from its underlying data.
Ultimately, all the scenarios test application logic, and these are easily testable. Here are a few strategies:
Put the logic in the model. Since the data required by the logic is usually available in the model itself, it makes sense to place it there. This is often appropriate for display-specific strings; you'll need to make sure that your widgets use this new display String, but that may be checked visually.
Put the display logic in the presenter or another testable helper. If you start getting too many view-specific methods on the model object, you can move this functionality to the Presenter itself or a display helper object. This also might be a good place for the logic that calculates a display color given an object state.
Don't use an automated test. Sometimes things are too simple to break, and you can rely on some targeted exploratory testing. For example, displaying a person's name as the display value for a radio button by using the Person object's getName() method is a pretty trivial bit of code. Whether this is acceptable to you or not depends on how worried you are that it will break. If you're worried, a test is probably warranted.
Use a GWTTestCase to instantiate the component and test its contents. While GWTTestCases can't deal with event propagation, they can handle simple widget state tests – in fact, many of the test cases for GWT itself rely on this strategy. Many people recommend avoiding writing any widget-based GWT tests, and their concern is valid – these tests are slow and depend heavily on the GWT internals. However, for a few small, targeted cases this worked well for my team. This may be the only choice if you're building a reusable widget for a component library and want to make sure that it behaves as expected.
Here are some excellent references for designing GUIs for Testability:
- Martin Fowler's bliki on GUI Architectures
- Michael Feathers' "The Humble Dialog Box"
- Jeremy D. Miller's articles on Building your own CAB for .NET
- Rob van Maris demonstrates the Supervising Controller pattern for GWT


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Jewish Partisans
Jewish Partisans Some Jews who managed to escape from ghettos and camps formed their own fighting units. These fighters, or partisans, were concentrated in densely wooded areas. A large group of partisans in occupied Soviet territory hid in a forest near the Lithuanian capital of Vilna. They were able to derail hundreds of trains and kill over 3,000 German soldiers.
Life as a partisan in the forest was difficult. People had to move from place to place to avoid discovery, raid farmers' food supplies to eat, and try to survive the winter in flimsy shelters built from logs and branches. In some places, partisans received assistance from local villagers, but more often they could not count on help, partly because of widespread antisemitism, partly because of people's fears of being severely punished for helping. The partisans lived in constant danger of local informers revealing their whereabouts to the Germans.
Many Jews participated in the partisan units formed in France and Italy to help regular Allied forces defeat German forces. They forged documents and identity cards, printed anti-Nazi leaflets, and assassinated collaborators.
Twenty-three-year-old Hannah Szenes, a Hungarian Jew who emigrated to Palestine in 1939, was one of the thirty-two Palestinian parachutists the British dropped behind German lines to organize resistance and rescue efforts. Before crossing the border in Hungary on June 7, 1944, to warn Hungarian Jews about the extermination camps, Szenes, a poet, handed a poem to one of her companions. It ended with these lines: "Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor's sake. Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame." Szenes was captured the next day and executed as a traitor to Hungary.
Key Dates
July 20, 1941
Ghetto ordered in Minsk, sparks resistance
On July 20, 1941, the Germans order the establishment of a ghetto in Minsk. Within days of the ghetto's establishment, thousands of Jews are killed. Jews in the ghetto form an underground resistance network in August 1941. Members of the underground set up a printing press and newspaper to distribute information to the ghetto population. The underground also contacts partisan units outside the ghetto to find hiding places for Jews in the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans carry out an action in the Minsk ghetto in which thousands are killed. Shortly thereafter, members of the underground begin leaving the ghetto for the forests where they form partisan units and fight the Germans. The partisans in the forests work to rescue Jews from the ghetto and bring them to the forests, where they establish partisan bases. Approximately 10,000 Jews flee the Minsk ghetto for the forests by 1944. Many lose their lives in the attempt.
January 1942
Jewish Army in France
The Jewish Army (Armee Juive; AJ), is established by Zionist youth groups in Toulouse, France. The AJ operates throughout France, but is particularly active in the southern regions. Members are recruited from both Jewish and non-Jewish youth and resistance groups and are trained in military and sabotage activities. AJ members smuggle money out of Switzerland to France to distribute to Jewish relief agencies. This money helps thousands of Jews in hiding. The AJ assassinates some of those who cooperate with the Germans and smuggles about 500 Jews and non-Jews across the border into neutral Spain. In 1943 and 1944, the AJ establishes close ties with Allied forces—including General Charles de Gaulle's Free French of the Interior (FFI) forces. In 1944, during the liberation of France, the AJ participates in uprisings in Paris, Lyon, and Toulouse against the German occupation.
January 21, 1942
United Partisan Organization in Vilna
After reports of mass killings of Jews at Ponary, outside Vilna, members of Zionist youth movements establish the United Partisan Organization (Fareynegte Partizaner Organizatsye, FPO) in the Vilna ghetto. The organization prepares to resist the Germans in the event that the ghetto is threatened with destruction and establishes contact with other ghettos to acquire weapons and encourage resistance. In early September 1943, the Germans deporting Jews from the ghetto and are confronted with resistance by FPO members. The FPO decides to abandon the ghetto and flee to the nearby forests to fight the Germans from the outside. The last group of resistance fighters escapes the final destruction of the ghetto on September 23, 1943. They leave the ghetto through the sewers and join partisans in the Rudninkai and Naroch forests.


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Home price appreciation continues to accelerate. Today, prices are driven by the simple concept of supply and demand. Pricing of any item is determined by how many items are available compared to how many people want to buy that item. As a result, the strong year-over-year home price appreciation is simple to explain. The demand for housing is up while the supply of homes for sale hovers at historic lows. Let's use three maps to show how this theory continues to affect the residential real estate market. Map #1 – State-by-state price appreciation reported by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) for the first quarter of 2021 compared to the first quarter of 2020: As the map shows, certain states (colored in red) have appreciated well above the national average of 12.6%. Map #2 – The change in state-by-state inventory levels year-over-year reported by realtor.com: Comparing the two maps shows a correlation between change in listing inventory and price appreciation in many states. The best examples are Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Though the correlation is not as easy to see in every state, the overall picture is one of causation. The reason prices continue to accelerate is that housing inventory is still at all-time lows while demand remains high. However, this may be changing. Is there relief around the corner? The report by realtor.com also shows the monthly change in inventory for each state. Map #3 – State-by-state changes in inventory levels month-over-month reported by realtor.com: As the map indicates, 39 of the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) saw increases in inventory over the last month. This may be evidence that homeowners who have been afraid to let buyers in their homes during the pandemic are now putting their houses on the market.
We'll know for certain as we move through the rest of the year. Bottom Line Some are concerned by the rapid price appreciation we've experienced over the last year. The maps above show that the increases were warranted based on great demand and limited supply. Going forward, if the number of homes for sale better aligns with demand, price appreciation will moderate to more historical levels. SOURCE KCM #Pricing #HousingMarketUpdates #ForSellers #ForBuyers Leave a Reply. |
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We give maximum emphasis on producing "quality software" and guarantee the complete satisfaction of our clients.
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Params::Check - A generic input parsing/checking mechanism.
use Params::Check qw[check allow last_error];
sub fill_personal_info {
my %hash = @_;
my $x;
my $tmpl = {
firstname => { required => 1, defined => 1 },
lastname => { required => 1, store => \$x },
gender => { required => 1,
allow => [qr/M/i, qr/F/i],
married => { allow => [0,1] },
age => { default => 21,
allow => qr/^\d+$/,
phone => { allow => [ sub { return 1 if /$valid_re/ },
id_list => { default => [],
strict_type => 1
employer => { default => 'NSA', no_override => 1 },
### check() returns a hashref of parsed args on success ###
my $parsed_args = check( $tmpl, \%hash, $VERBOSE )
or die qw[Could not parse arguments!];
... other code here ...
my $ok = allow( $colour, [qw|blue green yellow|] );
my $error = Params::Check::last_error();
Params::Check is a generic input parsing/checking mechanism.
It allows you to validate input via a template. The only requirement is that the arguments must be named.
Params::Check can do the following things for you:
Convert all keys to lowercase
Check if all required arguments have been provided
Set arguments that have not been provided to the default
Weed out arguments that are not supported and warn about them to the user
Validate the arguments given by the user based on strings, regexes, lists or even subroutines
Enforce type integrity if required
Most of Params::Check's power comes from its template, which we'll discuss below:
As you can see in the synopsis, based on your template, the arguments provided will be validated.
The template can take a different set of rules per key that is used.
The following rules are available:
This is the default value if none was provided by the user. This is also the type strict_type
will look at when checking type integrity (see below).
A boolean flag that indicates if this argument was a required argument. If marked as required and not provided, check() will fail.
This does a ref()
check on the argument provided. The ref
of the argument must be the same as the ref
of the default value for this check to pass.
This is very useful if you insist on taking an array reference as argument for example.
If this template key is true, enforces that if this key is provided by user input, its value is defined
. This just means that the user is not allowed to pass undef
as a value for this key and is equivalent to: allow => sub { defined $_[0] && OTHER TESTS }
This allows you to specify constants
in your template. ie, they keys that are not allowed to be altered by the user. It pretty much allows you to keep all your configurable
data in one place; the Params::Check
This allows you to pass a reference to a scalar, in which the data will be stored:
my $x;
my $args = check(foo => { default => 1, store => \$x }, $input);
This is basically shorthand for saying:
my $args = check( { foo => { default => 1 }, $input );
my $x = $args->{foo};
You can alter the global variable $Params::Check::NO_DUPLICATES to control whether the store
'd key will still be present in your result set. See the "Global Variables" section below.
A set of criteria used to validate a particular piece of data if it has to adhere to particular rules.
See the allow()
function for details.
This function is not exported by default, so you'll have to ask for it via:
use Params::Check qw[check];
or use its fully qualified name instead.
takes a list of arguments, as follows:
This is a hashreference which contains a template as explained in the SYNOPSIS
and Template
This is a reference to a hash of named arguments which need checking.
A boolean to indicate whether check
should be verbose and warn about what went wrong in a check or not.
You can enable this program wide by setting the package variable $Params::Check::VERBOSE
to a true value. For details, see the section on Global Variables
will return when it fails, or a hashref with lowercase keys of parsed arguments when it succeeds.
So a typical call to check would look like this:
my $parsed = check( \%template, \%arguments, $VERBOSE )
or warn q[Arguments could not be parsed!];
A lot of the behaviour of check()
can be altered by setting package variables. See the section on Global Variables
for details on this.
The function that handles the allow
key in the template is also available for independent use.
The function takes as first argument a key to test against, and as second argument any form of criteria that are also allowed by the allow
key in the template.
You can use the following types of values for allow:
The provided argument MUST be equal to the string for the validation to pass.
The provided argument MUST match the regular expression for the validation to pass.
The provided subroutine MUST return true in order for the validation to pass and the argument accepted.
(This is particularly useful for more complicated data).
The provided argument MUST equal one of the elements of the array ref for the validation to pass. An array ref can hold all the above values.
It returns true if the key matched the criteria, or false otherwise.
Returns a string containing all warnings and errors reported during the last time check
was called.
This is useful if you want to report then some other way than carp
'ing when the verbose flag is on.
It is exported upon request.
The behaviour of Params::Check can be altered by changing the following global variables:
This controls whether Params::Check will issue warnings and explanations as to why certain things may have failed. If you set it to 0, Params::Check will not output any warnings.
The default is 1 when warnings are enabled, 0 otherwise;
This works like the strict_type
option you can pass to check
, which will turn on strict_type
globally for all calls to check
The default is 0;
If you set this flag, unknown options will still be present in the return value, rather than filtered out. This is useful if your subroutine is only interested in a few arguments, and wants to pass the rest on blindly to perhaps another subroutine.
The default is 0;
If you set this flag, all keys passed in the following manner:
function( -key => 'val' );
will have their leading dashes stripped.
If set to true, all keys in the template that are marked as to be stored in a scalar, will also be removed from the result set.
Default is false, meaning that when you use store
as a template key, check
will put it both in the scalar you supplied, as well as in the hashref it returns.
If set to true, Params::Check will no longer convert all keys from the user input to lowercase, but instead expect them to be in the case the template provided. This is useful when you want to use similar keys with different casing in your templates.
Understand that this removes the case-insensitivity feature of this module.
Default is 0;
If set to true, Params::Check will require all values passed to be defined
. If you wish to enable this on a 'per key' basis, use the template option defined
Default is 0;
If set to true, Params::Check will sanity check templates, validating for errors and unknown keys. Although very useful for debugging, this can be somewhat slow in hot-code and large loops.
To disable this check, set this variable to false
Default is 1;
If set to true, Params::Check will croak
when an error during template validation occurs, rather than return false
Default is 0;
This global modifies the argument given to caller()
by Params::Check::check()
and is useful if you have a custom wrapper function around Params::Check::check()
. The value must be an integer, indicating the number of wrapper functions inserted between the real function call and Params::Check::check()
Example wrapper function, using a custom stacktrace:
sub check {
my ($template, $args_in) = @_;
local $Params::Check::WARNINGS_FATAL = 1;
local $Params::Check::CALLER_DEPTH = $Params::Check::CALLER_DEPTH + 1;
my $args_out = Params::Check::check($template, $args_in);
my_stacktrace(Params::Check::last_error) unless $args_out;
return $args_out;
Default is 0;
Thanks to Richard Soderberg for his performance improvements.
Please report bugs or other issues to <email@example.com>.
This module by Jos Boumans <firstname.lastname@example.com>.
This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.


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[Troy] recently got his hands on a greengoose starter kit and like any HAD reader would do, proceeded to probe it mercilessly.
The greengoose appears to be some sort of location-tracking device which reports back to a server on the position and location of radio transmitters relative to it. [Troy] managed to not only get the base-station's firmware, but to also hack it and greengoose's data to his own server. As if that wasn't good enough he broke down the packet structure for us. Good job [Troy].
Looks like the greengoose could be a fun tool for anyone interested tweeting the whereabouts of their cat, or checking if the toilet seat lid is down. Let's see what people come up with.


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It did take me one day to make it and it was so much fun. For those of you who would like to make a similar hat, you should go and get yourself the "Slip-Stitch Knitting" Color Pattern The Easy Way book by Roxana Bartlett. I've got it used on Amazon.com There is a hat in there, which is called "Reindeer in the snow hat" and it's just too cute. After seeing it, I slept on it and was thinking of making something like it, but not quite the same. They use an invisible cast-on and sew the hem up after, which is one thing I'd like to avoid, as you all know! ;o) I made the "LatvianTwist". I found a tutorial for this on Carolyn's blog. Thank god for pictures! She used it for a pair of socks, but it works here as well.
Oh, and I made my first Pom-Pom. It's rather ratty looking, but it's O.K. The hat fits my head, just. Because of the slip-stitch it holds together well, but it gives more warmth too.
For yarn I've used Knit Picks Wool of the Andes (100% Peruvian Wool) in the colors cranberry - fog - mist and it's knit on 4.5mm needles.
David couldn't see the howling dogs at first, but here they are. I could have made any other design, but I didn't want to. I like dogs, why should I put a Reindeer on it? Or flowers? Or cats? You know what I mean.
Heike wanted to see what the Magic Mosaic squares looked like on the back side.
Sam is doing well. He's alert and even playful from time to time. He's chewing on the nylabone, because he's bored out of his mind. Recovery is slow, but steady.


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perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
Along with the Perl interpreter itself, the Perl distribution installs a range of utilities on your system. There are also several utilities which are used by the Perl distribution itself as part of the install process. This document exists to list all of these utilities, explain what they are for and provide pointers to each module's documentation, if appropriate.
The main interface to Perl's documentation is perldoc
, although if you're reading this, it's more than likely that you've already found it. perldoc will extract and format the documentation from any file in the current directory, any Perl module installed on the system, or any of the standard documentation pages, such as this one. Use perldoc <name>
to get information on any of the utilities described in this document.
If it's run from a terminal, perldoc will usually call pod2man to translate POD (Plain Old Documentation - see perlpod for an explanation) into a manpage, and then run man to display it; if man isn't available, pod2text will be used instead and the output piped through your favourite pager.
As well as these two, there are two other converters: pod2html will produce HTML pages from POD, and pod2latex, which produces LaTeX files.
If you just want to know how to use the utilities described here, pod2usage will just extract the "USAGE" section; some of the utilities will automatically call pod2usage on themselves when you call them with -help
pod2usage is a special case of podselect, a utility to extract named sections from documents written in POD. For instance, while utilities have "USAGE" sections, Perl modules usually have "SYNOPSIS" sections: podselect -s "SYNOPSIS" ...
will extract this section for a given file.
If you're writing your own documentation in POD, the podchecker utility will look for errors in your markup.
splain is an interface to perldiag - paste in your error message to it, and it'll explain it for you.
The roffitall
utility is not installed on your system but lives in the pod/ directory of your Perl source kit; it converts all the documentation from the distribution to *roff format, and produces a typeset PostScript or text file of the whole lot.
To help you convert legacy programs to Perl, we've included three conversion filters:
a2p converts awk scripts to Perl programs; for example, a2p -F:
on the simple awk script {print $2}
will produce a Perl program based around this code:
while (<>) {
($Fld1,$Fld2) = split(/[:\n]/, $_, 9999);
print $Fld2;
Similarly, s2p converts sed scripts to Perl programs. s2p run on s/foo/bar
will produce a Perl program based around this:
while (<>) {
print if $printit;
Finally, find2perl translates find
commands to Perl equivalents which use the File::Find module. As an example, find2perl . -user root -perm 4000 -print
produces the following callback subroutine for File::Find
sub wanted {
my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid);
(($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_)) &&
$uid == $uid{'root'}) &&
(($mode & 0777) == 04000);
As well as these filters for converting other languages, the pl2pm utility will help you convert old-style Perl 4 libraries to new-style Perl5 modules.
There are a set of utilities which help you in developing Perl programs, and in particular, extending Perl with C.
perlbug is the recommended way to report bugs in the perl interpreter itself or any of the standard library modules back to the developers; please read through the documentation for perlbug thoroughly before using it to submit a bug report.
Back before Perl had the XS system for connecting with C libraries, programmers used to get library constants by reading through the C header files. You may still see require 'syscall.ph'
or similar around - the .ph file should be created by running h2ph on the corresponding .h file. See the h2ph documentation for more on how to convert a whole bunch of header files at once.
c2ph and pstruct, which are actually the same program but behave differently depending on how they are called, provide another way of getting at C with Perl - they'll convert C structures and union declarations to Perl code. This is deprecated in favour of h2xs these days.
h2xs converts C header files into XS modules, and will try and write as much glue between C libraries and Perl modules as it can. It's also very useful for creating skeletons of pure Perl modules.
Perl comes with a profiler, the Devel::DProf module. The dprofpp utility analyzes the output of this profiler and tells you which subroutines are taking up the most run time. See Devel::DProf for more information.
perlcc is the interface to the experimental Perl compiler suite.
perldoc, pod2man, perlpod, pod2html, pod2usage, podselect, podchecker, splain, perldiag, roffitall, a2p, s2p, find2perl, File::Find, pl2pm, perlbug, h2ph, c2ph, h2xs, dprofpp, Devel::DProf, perlcc


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Update #2: The Nikon Df and 50mm f/1.8 kit will cost $2,996.95. The body only is $2,746.96. See the full details on Amazon.com and in this post.
Update #1: more Nikon Df images are available here.
Those are the first images of the Nikon Df camera that will be announced in few hours (see specs, controls, LCD):


text: A recent Twitter poll asked What is your favorite upcoming feature of PostgreSQL V10? In this admittedly unscientific survey, "better parallelism" (37%) beat out "logical replication" (32%) and "native partitioning" (31%). I think it's fruitless to argue about which of those features is actually most important; the real point is that all of those are amazing features, and PostgreSQL 10 is on track to be an amazing release. There are a number of already-committed or likely-to-be-committed features which in any other release would qualify as headline features, but in this release they'll have to fight it out with the ones mentioned above.


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Caroline has an exclusive giveaway just for readers of this blog. If you leave a comment one lucky commenter will win a copy of THE RELUCTANT WIFE. Caroline also has a major prize on offer to celebrate the book's release. Scroll down further for details!
But first... I like to ask my guests what interesting fact they discovered in researching their book that they would like to share with their readers... so here is Caroline to talk about...
Honey and Healing...
I discovered, in fact, that medicinal honey (for preference, but good raw honey will do) is still recommended for burns. Honey has been shown to have antibiotic and anti-inflamatory properties. It also keeps a burn wound moist, which promotes healing. There is even a Wiki-How article with step by step instructions.
The thing is, I should have known. You see, I married into a family of beekeepers, four generations of them. My husband's grandfather kept bees (and we suspect his great-grandfather as well). His father inspected bees for the State of Ohio. The health of bees is vital to agriculture and inspectors make sure diseased hives are destroyed so problems don't spread. My husband, some of his brothers and several of his nephews have kept bees at various times. Our daughter had her own hive, leather gloves and bee veil at nine. Our son was known to "suit up" and assist is Dad as young as three. We once had four stands of bees in our backyard apiary in the city.
I know from honey and its health benefits, at least I thought I did. My father-in-law introduced me to the joys of honey in all its rich variation from dark, almost black, fall honeys to buttery-light ones so clear they look like water. He taught me the health benefits of a tablespoon of raw honey a day. No one explained its use in wound care, however. Or, if they did, I missed that lesson. Sigh. Once again writing has enriched my life with new information.
What is the most suprising fact you've learned from fiction? (leave your comment below and go in the draw to win a copy of THE RELUCTANT WIFE)
About THE RELUCTANT WIFE
When all else fails, love succeeds…
Captain Fred Wheatly's comfortable life on the fringes of Bengal comes crashing down around him when his mistress dies, leaving him with two children he never expected to have to raise. When he chooses justice over army regulations, he's forced to resign his position, leaving him with no way to support his unexpected family. He's already had enough failures in his life. The last thing he needs is an attractive, interfering woman bedeviling his steps, reminding him of his duties.
All widowed Clare Armbruster needs is her brother's signature on a legal document to be free of her past and enable her to establish an independent existance as an herbalist and healer. After a failed marriage, and still mourning the loss of a child, she's had it up to her ears with the assumptions she doesn't know how to take care of herself, that what she needs is a husband. She certainly doesn't need a great lout of a captain who can't figure out what to do with his daughters. If only the frightened little girls didn't need her help so badly.
Clare has made mistakes in the past. Can she trust Fred now? Can she trust herself? Captain Wheatly isn't ashamed of his aristocratic heritage, but he doesn't need his family and they've certainly never needed him. But with no more military career and two half-caste daughters to support, Fred must turn once more—as a failure—to the family he let down so often in the past. Can two hearts rise above past failures to forge a future together?
About Caroline Warfield
Caroline is a RONE award winner with five star reviews from Readers' Favorite, Night Owl Reviews, and InD'Tale. She is also a member of the writers' co-operative, the Bluestocking Belles. With partners she manages and regularly writes for both The Teatime Tattler and History Imagined.
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Read an Excerpt from THE RELUCTANT BRIDE...
"Is Charles safe up there?" she asked, flicking a quick glance in his direction.
"H— heavens no. He's having the time of his life, though. I think he just gets bored sometimes and is thrilled to have a problem he can attack." Fred suspected his cousin had little room in his life for physical action. Between sick room, boardroom, and the war department, that's probably true.
He grimaced at the sight of the injured guard whose singed hair rose over a damaged ear and neck. Thank God, his face was untouched. Poultices covered his right arm and side as well. She had splinted the other arm.
"Can he speak?" he whispered.
"He spoke to Charles earlier, but I dosed him with laudanum. Questioning will have to wait."
"It's a good thing you came," he told her. "But I'm sorry you were pulled into this. It isn't what you agreed to do."
She peered up at him under thick lashes from where she continued her work. "Healing is exactly what I set out to do before I met you," she retorted.
A sweet, vaguely familiar odor permeated the area. "What do I smell?" he asked.
"Honey. I used it for wound care. I found a large supply in the kitchen, thank goodness. We need a wagon to transport this man."
"I sent someone for ladders. Should be here soon. Ah— There he is. Am I not a miracle worker?"
By the time he helped unload the ladders and two more men were on their way up to the roof, Fred breathed a sigh of relief. The barn had begun to subside, sad in itself, but it meant fewer embers reached the roof of the house. The bucket brigade kept two pulleys moving to supply the two ladder crews.
They'll have the entire pile of thatch soaked soon. I can get Clare and the injured out of here, and we can all rest.


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It is a total scam to buy from DHgate because it does not credit you anything, it is in vain. You file the claim and wait 3 months, so that at the end they tell you that it does not proceed. a piece of crap
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I spend €100 and they return €1 in cashback, it also says that it cost me €70 and the purchase was €95, quite bad
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I bought through letyshops on dhgate and they have not credited me with anything, they just extend the store's response time more and more. I'll think about using the app again.
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I have already left a comment but hey, the reimbursement time is about to run out and they have not given it to me :( I also told my boyfriend about this app and I also bought on dhgate and they have not reimbursed him either
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I caught a HOT campaign here at letyshops for up to 52% cashback. Maximum €5 cashback. I searched but I didn't understand which categories, if any in fact made the 52%. I ended up placing an order for €5.14. And I have a €0.35 cashback pending, so a 6.80% cashback. Not bad, but a bit disappointing considering you think you could buy at half price. These campaigns should have the description of the articles and/or categories and what cashback % corresponds.
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Of the € 120 that I have spent they have given me back € 1, it is absurd to use letyshops
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Cashback comes in and does not come in. But there is very little of it. 1-2% on the phone.
Also delivery by new mail. These creatures open each phone and require documents. In short, each phone will be cleared for customs over $ 109. It's just ... ah. Sellers do not respond to messages, but goods are sent 2-3 days after ordering.
Good day!
If you have any difficulties with cashback, you can always contact the care service.
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It's just a disaster. I made three orders, one is hanging in an unknown place for 45 days, the track number is not being tracked, I opened a dispute. The second seller cannot send the order within the specified time frame. Sellers do not respond to messages. Now I'm waiting for the third order. I really hope that at least he will come. I doubt very much that I will order anything else from this store!
Good day!
Eugene, we hope the issue will be resolved in the near future.
LetyShops team


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ANTHONY GREENWALD: In 1900, mathematician David Hilbert made a list of 23 recognized questions that the field of mathematics should regard as important unanswered questions and, lo and behold, many mathematicians decided to work on those questions. We psychologists do not have such widely agreed-upon lists of questions, but we do have a continuing good source of questions—the questions often come to us from society.
Our study of prejudice, for example, comes out of trying to deal with policy questions that leaders deal with and that we think need to be informed by science. Prejudice was a topic I discovered relatively late in my career. My dissertation advisor, Gordon Allport, may be best known for his 1954 book on prejudice, The Nature of Prejudice. However, when Allport was my advisor, in the early 1960s, he was no longer interested in the topic. I eventually came to an interest in prejudice because the work on attitudes that Mahzarin and I were doing in the mid 1990s produced a technique that turned out to shed new light on phenomena related to prejudice. The new technique, the Implicit Association Test, was so generative of research that it produced a much more active collaboration than we had prior to that point.
MAHZARIN BANAJI: We straddle a few different worlds within the science. We are interested in the mind as all psychologists are in one sense or another. We are interested in the social world outside the individual's mind. And we are interested in building a science of what these two do and say to each other. We are specifically interested in these questions as they pertain to the topic of group membership: how does our thinking change because of who the "other" is? Does it matter that the other is male or female, black or white? Does this change if I'm myself male or female, black or white? In what ways, and why? To do so requires us to figure out new ways to peer inside the mind and these days, we have the possibility of looking at the brain directly.
We are at the same moment in our science that the older sciences were many generations ago when they first began to test the nature of the physical world. We've studied the mind only for the past 100 years but we are already at the stage of designing instruments that can look much farther than before. I have become fascinated with the history of the development of the telescope in part because I think we are at that moment where we are developing techniques that allow us to use tools , turn them inward, and look at the universe between our ears. To find that it is just as vast, just as complex, and just as tractable. This of course is immensely pleasing to people who want to be able to understand something as ephemeral and seemingly intractable as the mind.
My personal story is that I was a student in India who had studied some psychology, but veered off to questions of history and society. I ended up at a Marxist university where I learned a lot about sociology, but found its theories and methods unappealing. That is when I discovered that there was a field called experimental social psychology that its headquarters were located in the United States, in Columbus Ohio. . I packed my bags, showed up at Ohio State, and was fortunate to end up in the particular lab that I did, where I learned what I know and use today.
One of the oldest questions in social psychology is the one that interested Stanley Milgram when he asked: Why is it that reasonable ordinary Germans did what they did? I think we are asking a similar kind of question, but with a different set of methods. Ultimately the interest here is in how our behavior is out of line with our conscious intentions. By demonstrating that dissociation, between our conscious and less conscious views, we tap into fundamental aspects of the mind.
GREENWALD: At various points in my career I have worked on some very interesting questions, such as: How is voluntary action controlled? What is the self? How does the mind function unconsciously? On that last one, I surprised myself by discovering that visual stimuli, flashed so briefly as to remain consciously unseen, can influence behavior. In starting this research I had no idea that was true. In doing the research, I found that we can learn new things by creating new methods. I had created new methods for studying subliminal perception, and shortly after than Mahzarin and I started working on developing methods to investigate things going on outside of awareness that could influence social behavior.
We were very influenced by cognitive psychologists' work on implicit cognition—which is the label for knowledge expressed implicitly in behavior even when the person performing the behavior was unaware of having the knowledge. We were looking for ways to study the implicit aspects of social behavior. An important moment came in 1995, when we performed an experiment that we had conceived a few years earlier and written into one brief paragraph of a proposal to the National Science Foundation.
In that experiment subjects gave a response on a computer keyboard with the index finger of the right hand to words that named pleasant things and to names of flowers. With left hand they were to respond to another two categories—words that named unpleasant things and insect names. This was a very easy task. Then we made one minor change: We switched hands for the flower and insect names. Now subjects had to give the same response to pleasant words and insect names and a different response to unpleasant words and flower names. Immediately the task became hugely difficult. The slowing on a response-by-response basis was on the order of 300 milliseconds, which was a magnitude of impact nobody could have expected. We certainly did not expect it.
I was the first subject in this experiment. When I experienced this slowing I found to my surprise that I could not overcome it—repeating the task did not make me faster. If I tried to go faster, I just started making errors when I was trying to give the same response to flower names and unpleasant words. This was a mind-opener.
About a month later, I modified the task by replacing the flowers and insects with the names of famous White and Black people. My thought was, if this works for flowers and insects, maybe we could use the same task to measure something that we had not yet begun to call implicit race attitudes. To my dismay, but also with some excitement, I discovered that the names of famous Black people were functioning much like the names of insects. I had a difficult time responding rapidly when I had to give the same response to famous Black people and to pleasant words. Shortly thereafter, I persuaded Mahzarin to start using this task in her lab at Yale. One of the students whom she brought along on this work was Brian Nosek, who ever since has been a very important collaborator in this research.
BANAJI: What is remarkable about this test, which is called the Implicit Association Test—the IAT—is that it allows you to be a subject in your own experiment. Most scientists do not have the remarkable experience of being the object of study in their own research.
If you are a physicist, you cannot be the material object that you are studying. If you are a psychologist, you cannot be the subject because you know the hypothesis. But when you study the unconscious aspects of the mind, you can! You can have the experience of having your hand NOT do what your mind is willing it to do. That may be part of the appeal of the test.
How does the test work? Well, I intend to associate white with good as quickly as I associate black with good—that is my conscious goal—but I fail to do that. It has to be fascinating to anybody to discover that they cannot do something simple that they will themselves to do. When we failed our own tests, we decided that this was of course for the scientific journals, but also for wider access. When in 1998 we decided that this was probably worth sharing with a wider audience than our own students, we asked, What would Galileo do, and we put it on the web.
We were stunned that within the first month with no advertising on our part, just media coverage — we had 40,000 completed tests. We had clearly struck a chord or a nerve (depending on the participant's response!).
The test is unusual in that it provokes a reaction of surprise, even astonishment. It is both a tool to understand what goes on invisibly in our minds but it is also a catalyst for insight. And once it has suggested to us and we may contain the views of multitudes, we can ask "Am I leading my life the way I want to?" It is a unique test in that regard.
GREENWALD: The race IAT was critical. It is the version of the IAT that got the widest attention, and it is the one we would most often demonstrate in lectures. That is another of the IAT's virtues: you can give a group demonstration and show a room full of people all at the same time that they have this shared difficulty in giving the same response to Category A and to Category B, but if you the switch the sides of the two categories, it becomes very easy.
We, and also many of our colleagues, have been very motivated by the discovery that the IAT reveals these associations with race effect in our own heads. The effect does not show up in everyone, but in perhaps 70 to 75 percent of those who have tried the test. Some are upset by this observation. They are concerned that the test is, in effect, accusing them of being prejudiced. That reaction has led us to take pains to distinguish what this test measures from what is ordinarily meant by prejudice.
Prejudice is ordinarily understood as a state of mind that leads to intentionaldiscriminatory behavior. People who have no intent to discriminate and no dislike of a racial group might think that their IAT result was characterizing them as prejudiced. We have repeatedly said, no, that it is not what the result means. In describing what the IAT measures, we have been careful to use phrases such as 'implicit attitude,' 'implicit preference,' and 'automatic preference,' while avoiding the unqualified word 'prejudice'. Incidentally, if we did describe the test as measuring prejudice, then we would be accusing ourselves of being prejudiced.
BANAJI: One of the great insights this test has provided for me is the ability to look at what might be evolutionarily "old ways" in which we tend to behave when left to our own devices. Our social preferences must have some roots in our early social groups and interactions. From having evolved in a world where people on the other side of the river were either people you killed or people who would kill you. We now live in a world where we have to outsource to those same people on the other side of the river! We have to be friends enough with them to understand their culture so that we can get them to do things with us and to think about our common fate.
It is one thing to say, "The law says you should do this or that." It is quite another thing to say, Well, if we are really smart, and if we are really the adaptive creatures that we are, we are going to look at the ways in which we behave and see that they are not necessarily to our advantage. And as we learn we will change. And we will change in all of the ways in which we are going to need to. Like the work we need to do and will do to solve our environmental problems. Or our health problems. Eating too much is a problem because our bodies evolved in a world where food was far less abundant that it has come to be (for many people in the world). We cope by thinking about calorie intake and output in new ways. I think one of the tests of human intelligence will be whether we can take insights that are inconvenient truths about our minds, turn them around, and use such knowledge to create a better society – by which I mean, one that is line with our consciously chosen aspirations, rather than one we are being driven toward out of ignorance of who we are and our past.
GREENWALD: The IAT provides a useful window into some otherwise difficult-to-detect contents of our minds. In some cases, we find things we did not know were there. It may be "an inconvenient truth" that what's there is not what we thought was there or want to be there. But I think it is generally something we can come to grips with.
BANAJI: We have to believe that everyone is to blame, or rather everybody is responsible. It is not just the media. It is not just your parents. Instead, we find to be attractive those metaphors that come from air borne pollutants. What our minds acquire comes from the stuff that is hanging around in the atmosphere. It is in the water. It is in the air. When that is the case, you cannot hold individual people responsible. You can hold larger units and larger groups of people responsible in the same way that we do in order to solve the problem of environmental damage.
To come back to the test, I think an intuitive way to understand what it does is to imagine working with a deck of playing cards. If I ask you to sort the cards into two piles—red cards on one side; black cards on the other—you should be able to do so relatively easily. Let's say I measure the time it takes you to put the red cards to the right and the black cards to the left and use a stopwatch to time you. Then I say, "All right, I am going to time you again. This time put the hearts and clubs to one side, and the spades and diamonds to the other", and I start the stopwatch again. . We would all understand intuitively that the second sorting should take longer than the first. And the difference in time is indicative of the cognitive ease of the first relative to the second.
Like that, the IAT is trying to capture the difference between two sortings. When we encounter two things that have not been paired together very much in our experience, it takes a little longer to put them together because they are strangers to each other, making the task difficult. Working from this assumption, the IAT requests pairings of say Obama and good and Hillary and good and looks at the relative speed of judgment and the error rates. What is nifty is that you can replace Obama and Hillary with anything you want. If you are interested in looking at your preference for Coca-Cola versus Pepsi-Cola, you can adapt the test to do that.
GREENWALD: We have of course written quite a few papers reporting our research with the IAT, but those papers now represent only a small fraction of the total research literature on the IAT. This is because the technique has captured the interest of many of our colleagues. The question many are asking is, "Do these associations that the IAT measures have any impact on behavior?" This has been the number one question in the research almost since the IAT's creation, and now, after ten years, there are over a hundred publications that have reported relations of IAT measures to behavior.
As many as a third of these publications have focused on the race test. What they have found—and this is not something we could have confidently predicted beforehand—is that the implicit race attitudes measured by the IAT predict behavior better than do the standard methods of measuring racial attitudes—the self-report methods of survey questionnaires.
In one type of experiment that has been done a few times, researchers video-recorded the behavior of a White person, who had previously taken the IAT, talking to a Black person in an ordinary conversation. The videotapes were then scored for indicators of discomfort, such as speech errors, maintaining distance, and turning away. The remarkable finding is that these indicators of discomfort are better predicted by the race IAT than by the same person's self-reported race attitudes. And now, with more than one hundred studies looking at "predictive validity"—the relation of what the test measures to behavior—we know that the test usefully predicts behavior.
BANAJI: Our paramount interest is the science. If it has positive social value, that is great, but in our daily lives what we spend our time on is to find ways to understand the nature of this phenomenon we've discovered – that our minds do things that we don't intend to, can't always control, may even be embarrassed about and deny. The questions we ask as scientists are very ordinary. First of all, what is being measured? Statistically speaking, how large are the effects of the biases we are observing? Should we take them seriously? (If they are tiny, we need not bother with them; but if they are large, perhaps we should pay heed) Who and how many people are implicated? Is this a universal phenomenon? What does it predict? Does one's own group membership matter? Can a bias be changed?
The question of prediction has been an important one. One could argue this way: Let's see, I am sitting in front of a computer and pressing two little keys. You are measuring something in milliseconds and telling me that I should take this seriously as a measure of how good a person I am? Of who I like and dislike? How I will behave as a doctor, a judge, a police officer?
To answer the question of what the test predicts, we needed studies that included the gold standard measure. The real thing. For example, if you have money or other resources, whom will you give it to? Whom will you cooperate with? Who will you hire to be on your team? If you are a doctor, to whom will you prescribe a particular medical procedure? Do you prescribe it equally? These are the real behaviors to which the test needs to speak What if if the test is simply picking up some random set of mental associations that have no value in the real world?
That piece of research on predictive validity has been done largely by people other than ourselves. There is now a robust body of work showing that in certain domains, this test outpredicts the usual questions about human behavior that are directly posed to respondents on a survey-type measure.
GREENWALD: We have tried to make the IAT method easily available to other researchers. The instructions and the stimuli are under copyright, but we have made it clear to any researcher who asks that they are entirely free to use the test in their scholarly research. For uses in commercial applications, like diversity training, market research, polling, etc. where people want to use the test to generate income, we license uses of the test.
BANAJI: I think we have taken the position that this test is useful for two purposes: as a scientific tool, and for education, at the individual level and at the level of communities discussing its meaning and its use. We have taken the quite firm position that this test is not to be used in the selection context, and we say so very explicitly at our website and whenever we have the opportunity. We do not believe that this is the kind of test you give somebody and then say, for example, "Ah-ha! We see that you have a larger-than-average race bias, so you cannot serve on a jury."
Is it possible, that our warning notwithstanding, that the test will be misused in this way? Yes, as it is with anything. An AIDS vaccine could be misused in some way, but we would not suggest that we not develop one for that reason. There is always potential, when you discover something new, for it to be misused. But this is why when the scientists who know most about it take the position that it cannot be used in certain contexts, we are building in a strong protection.
GREENWALD: One of the considerations prompting us to say that, ordinarily, the test should not be used for selection—such as of jurors or employees—is that we know we would not qualify for many responsible positions if a selection criterion were absence of implicit bias on an IAT measure. But we do not think we should be disqualified from such positions just because we have these associations in our heads. At the same time, we do think that it's useful for us to be aware of the associations measured by the IAT and to recognize that they can influence our behavior in ways we may not be happy with.
BANAJI: Liberals sometimes have trouble with this test. Thy have put themselves into a separate category where they do no harm but everybody else, say those who live south of the Mason-Dixon or whatever, are the really prejudiced people. When we show that self-professed liberals are biased too, there is some squirming.
GREENWALD: The test has critics, but of about 500 scientific publications on the IAT so far, perhaps two or three percent are critical. This criticism has sometimes been very useful in guiding research. In some cases, the research has shown that the criticism was not valid. In other cases, the criticism has been found to be valid and has led to improvement of the IAT's design.
BANAJI: But there is a response from the scientists which has parallels in the older sciences. Our methods are certainly critical of older methods in the sense that we believe that for a hundred years psychology relied extensively on self report, on asking people, "What do you think about this or that?". Just as with hypertension, where I no longer ask "What do you think your blood pressure reads right now?"—I would measure it with an objective tool—here is a situation in which asking people may not always lead to the useful answer.
Confirmation from other measures of what the IAT is tapping can be useful and we have such research, adding newly to our interpretations. One tool that I have found to be helpful in this regard is the use of fMRI to observe neural activity in predefined brain regions known to have particular capacities and to relate the IAT measure to it.
GREENWALD: To this point, there have been relatively few studies lining up fMRI imaging results with the IAT. Whereas the IAT can be administered in less than five minutes and costs very little to administer, obtaining the imaging data usually requires at least an hour, 20 or 30 minutes of which is spent inside an MRI scanner that makes a huge racket.
BANAJI: It has been ten years since the test went up on the Web—it went up in 1998—and we may have surpassed the six million mark in terms of completed tests. This makes it probably the largest such data collection on the Web. In terms of the research, it is very gratifying to see groups of people just picking it up and doing whatever they want to with it, including high school students.
One area of great interest to me personally is the question of where these biases emerge from, especially the intergroup ones. Both in terms of evolution and in terms of our development from birth to adulthood. A large part of my lab's work right now is focused on understanding how these biases operate in the minds of young children. Can we develop analogs of this test so that we can use it with infants? (Don't know yet). We'd like to figure out how early in life babies become fascinated by what is familiar, what sounds like their mother, and from which a sense of self versus other, us versus them emerges.
I am very interested in the connections to the neuroscientific evidence. Can we converge, with different types of evidence on understanding how we treat others who are not like ourselves? Members of other species, members of our own species who have different beliefs (Hindu vs Muslim). Research by my colleague Jason Mitchell shows that indeed we may not engage the same brain region when thinking about somebody who is say asocial democrat (similar to self) versus somebody who is different (a fundamentalist Christian). Judges need to know that. All of us need to know that.
GREENWALD: Within the next ten years, we expect a few uses for the IAT to become well established. One already developed use is educational, providing new ways to achieve what diversity training programs now try to achieve. There is much interest in using the IAT in this way to give people some self-insight that might help them improve how they function in their jobs. Another developing use is for clinical psychological diagnosis. Imagine someone taking an IAT on a handheld computer in the waiting room of a hospital or clinic, rapidly providing information that can help the clinician to understand something that the patient may be unable to describe to the clinician. Clinical psychologists have recently been adapting the IAT for such uses, although we have yet created the technology needed to administer it in the waiting room.


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Folk Psychology: more than nationalist pseudo-science?
By Sean L Hanley, on 23 September 2013
Egbert Klautke talks about his new book, which re-evaluates the historical discipline of 'Folk Pyschology' in Germany. It was, he argues, more than nationalist pseudo-science.
BB: How would you define 'Folk Psychology' and what drew you to the study of it?
Egbert Klautke: 'Folk Psychology' is an awkward translation of the German term Völkerpsychologie. Originally, it referred to attempts to study the psychological make-up of nations, and as such is a forerunner of today's social psychology. However, in today's common understanding, Völkerpsychologie equals national prejudice: it is seen as a pseudo-science not worth considering seriously.
My first book dealt with perceptions of the U.S.A. in Germany and France, and much of these views could be described as Völkerpsychologie: clichés and stereotypes about a foreign nation, which were of a surprisingly coherent nature. Back then, my rather naïve idea was that there must be a general theory behind these perceptions, and I embarked on a study of Völkerpsychologie.
BB: Did any perceptions on the subject change from the time you started your research to the time you completed the book?
EK: When I started my research, I shared the general view of Völkerpsychologie as a flawed attempt to present national stereotypes as academic research, and was suspicious of its nationalist agenda and racist undertones. I also considered it typically German. Having completed the book, I have a much more sympathetic view of 'folk psychology,' at least of the early attempts by [Moritz] Lazarus, [Heymann] Steinthal and [Wilhelm] Wundt. Despite its flaws and shortcomings, Völkerpsychologie was a serious and honourable attempt to introduce a social science to the university curriculum. As such, it influenced pioneers of the social sciences not only in Germany, but also around the world.
BB: What are some of the factors that led to the demise of this kind of psychology?
EK: Most importantly: the Third Reich. Even though the Nazis were not particularly interested in 'folk psychology' after 1945 this approach was quickly associated with Nazi theories and race ideologies. The genuine weaknesses of 'folk psychology' contributed to its demise, but it was mainly the assumption that Völkerpsychologie was part of Nazi thinking that contributed to this process. By the 1960s, the very term had become a taboo in the social sciences. (more…)


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Stanton has released a new controller peripheral for laptop DJ's. DaScratch is a USB connected MIDI device designed to emulate record interactions. It features a large touch area where the user can make scratching, sliding, and button pressing motions. The compact device has presets for software like Traktor, Serato, and Ableton Live, but can work with anything that supports MIDI. Multiple units can be paired together using magnets.
As the video below shows, there are quite a few different interactions possible. We really want to see a teardown of this device though. We get the distinct feeling that it's designed to look more impressive than the underlying hardware actually is.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PUVHgKnrts]
We've covered quite a few homebrew alternative music controllers recently: the Stribe, Monome, Aurora, and Machinecollective.
[via Gizmodo]


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We are looking to purchase a home at the new development by Summerhill homes at Las Palmas, and came across your blog when we were searching for environmental issues in new developments in Sunnyvale. Are you aware of any environmental issues with this location and any information that we should we aware of regarding soil/water contamination at this site? There used to be an auto dealership and orchards before that on this site, so we were wondering about any possible contamination. The address is 660 W El Camino Avenue, Sunnyvale, 94087.
Soil, water and environmental issues can investigated a few ways. The first step would be to visit the City of Sunnyvale Planning Department and request to view the files for the Summerhill Las Palmas project. Ask specifically about soils, water and any other required studies that were needed for submission in order to approve this development. Continue reading


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Seven Group Data Privacy Notice
The Seven Group in the UK is made up of a number of companies.
Seven Asset Limited
Seven Property Ltd
VII Ltd
Seven Project Ltd
Seven Logistics Ltd
Used Trucks Limited
When dealing with any one of these companies, the 'controller' of your personal information will be from the company in our group that you are interacting with or with whom your information has been shared. A 'controller' is a company that decides why and how your personal information is processed.
Seven Group – Data Privacy Notice
The following Data Privacy Notice (DPN) explains the circumstances in which Seven Group will collect personal data from you, why it is being collected, how we will use it and to whom we might disclose it to if necessary.
The data controller
Seven Group is committed to complying with the UK's Data Protection law and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the protection of personal data, as well as the principles of data security in the configuration of our services. If you have any questions about this privacy notice or how we use your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Administrator:
In Writing:
Seven Group
Cardinal Court
35-37 St Peters Street
By Phone: 01473 261777
By Email: email@example.com
What data is being collected and processed?
We will collect, store and use elements of your personal data. The processing of this personal data may be a contractual requirement and therefore necessary for us in order to provide the products and services you have requested from us.
Failure to provide personal data may mean we will be unable to prepare or execute a contract and potentially may result in termination of our services.
We may also monitor, record, store and use any telephone, email or other electronic communications with you for training purposes so that we can check any instructions given to us and to improve the quality of our customer service.
Any personal data we collect from you will not be transferred outside the European Economic Area.
Website Cookies
When you access our website, temporary data about your visit is stored and processed in a protocol file for a certain period of time via the use of cookies. This information is anonymised and is used by us to better understand the use of our site, including the number of visitors we have, the pages viewed per session and time exposed to particular pages. This in turn helps us to provide you with a better experience, since we can evaluate the level of interest in the content of our website and tailor it accordingly.
The following data is collected and stored by Seven Group until its automated deletion:
• IP address of the accessing computer/device
• Date, time and duration of your visit
• Name and URL of the accessed pages
• Identification data of the browser and operating system used
• Website from which the data was accessed
• Name of your internet access provider
The nature and content of the information collected via cookies differs, as does the period for which this information is retained. In line with our data protection obligations, we will ensure that this retention period is not excessive, and that the data is only retained for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
If you wish to know more, or if you wish to identify the exact retention periods, please contact our Data Protection Administrator:
In Writing:
Seven Group
Cardinal Court
35-37 St Peters Street
By Phone: 01473 261777
By Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The data listed above is only analysed for statistical purposes and for improving our internet presence, then it is deleted. We will not attempt to personally identify you from your IP address unless required to as a matter of law or regulation or in order to protect our, or our other customers' rights.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies but you can set your browser options so that you will not receive cookies and you can also delete any existing cookies from your browser. Should you wish to opt out of Google Analytic tracking across all websites please visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Please note, you may find that some parts of the site will not function properly if you refuse cookies.
Direct Marketing Communications
If you have chosen to opt-in to our direct marketing communications, we will use your information to tell you about products and services available from us which may be of interest to you. We may also use your information to tell you about products and services which we can introduce from selected businesses.
To help make our emails more interesting and relevant, we often receive a confirmation when you open an email from Seven Group if your computer supports such capabilities.
You have a right to opt-out of our direct marketing communications at any time. You can opt-out by following the Unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the communication or by emailing email@example.com
Links to websites of other providers third parties
Please note that this data privacy notice only applies to Seven Group and we are not responsible for, and have no control over, information that is submitted to or collected by third parties, such as those where our website may provide links and banner advertisements to third party sites. Since we do not control those websites, you are responsible for reviewing and abiding by the privacy policies of these third party sites to ensure they comply with the applicable data protection regulations.
How long will the data be stored for?
Seven Group will take steps to erase any personal data that is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it is collected or otherwise processed, or if you have withdrawn consent for its processing and retention.
As a general rule, if you enter into or took steps to enter into a contract with Seven Group, we will store the data for period of seven years for compliance with our general legal obligations and for the exercise or defence of any legal claims.
Under the GDPR, you have the right to 'block' or request the deletion or removal of personal data to prevent further processing. This right to erasure is also known as 'the right to be forgotten'. Specific circumstances in which you can request the deletion or removal of personal data includes:
• Where the personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it is collected or otherwise processed
• Where you withdraw consent
• When you object to the processing and there is no overriding legitimate interest for continuing the processing
• Where the personal data was unlawfully processed (i.e. otherwise in breach of the GDPR)
• Where the personal data has to be erased in order to comply with a legal obligation
• In case a deletion is not possible due to legal, statutory or contractual retention periods, or if it requires disproportionate efforts or prejudices your legitimate interests, the data will be blocked instead of deleted.
Sharing of data with other data controllers
Here at Seven Group we respect your privacy and the information we hold about you is confidential. We will only disclose it outside Seven Group when:
• you have given us your consent to do so
• it is necessary for the performance of an agreement of which you will be made aware
• in order to obtain professional advice (e.g. legal advice)
• we or others need to investigate or prevent crime (e.g. to fraud prevention agencies)
• the law permits or requires it
• regulatory or governmental body requests or requires it, even without your consent, or
• there is a duty to the public to reveal the information
In order to administer a contract on your behalf, we may need to share some of your personal information with other data controllers. This processing is necessary for the purposes of delivering specific services to you. You agree that we can share or use your personal data with any of our appointed agents or suppliers to allow us to provide you services and products you have asked us to provide you under this agreement.
Credit reference agencies
In considering your application, we will search your record with credit reference agencies. They will add to your record details of our search and your application and this will be seen by other organisations that make similar searches. On occasion, we may request a credit check with more than one finance provider.
Information held about you by the credit reference agencies may already be linked to records relating to other people with whom you have a financial association. In connection with your application you may be treated as financially linked with them and assessed with reference to any such associated records. Searches may also be made in respect of directors and partners of firms applying for credit.
If you are a joint applicant or if you have told us of some other financial association with another person, or a director of a firm which is applying for a facility you are declaring that you are entitled to:
• disclose information about your joint applicant, fellow directors and anyone else referred to by you
• authorise us to search, link or record information at credit reference agencies about you and anyone else referred to by you
The credit reference agency will use a credit scoring system when assessing your application. They will also add to your record details of your agreement with us, specifically the payments you make under it, any default or failure to keep to its terms and any change of address you fail to tell us about where a repayment is overdue.
These records will be shared with other organisations and will be used by us and them to help make decisions about credit and credit related services such as insurance for you and members of your household, trace debtors, recover debt and to manage your accounts. We and the credit reference agencies will also use the records for statistical analysis about credit.
You have a legal right to know the details of credit reference and fraud prevention agencies we use and to whom we pass information about you. To obtain this information, please contact our Data Protection Administrator on 01473 261777
Fraud Prevention
If you give us false or inaccurate information and fraud (in any form) is identified, details will be passed to the fraud prevention agencies. We and other organisations may also share, access and use this information to prevent fraud and money laundering, for example when:
• checking details on applications for credit and credit related or other facilities
• managing credit and credit related accounts or facilities
• recovering debt
• checking details on proposals and claims for all types of insurance
• checking details of job applicants and employees
In addition, law enforcement agencies may access and use this information.
Protecting your privacy
In order to protect the personal data collected from you by Seven Group against accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction or the access of unauthorised persons, technical and organisational security measures are constantly improved as part of our technological development. In addition, our employees, subcontractors and other support staff are obligated to observe confidentiality and data privacy.
Any access to your data that is stored at our company only takes place through an encrypted connection. By using the most up-to-date firewall systems, we provide the best possible protection for your data.
Wherever possible, we have tried to create a secure and reliable website for our users. However, you recognise that your use of the Internet and our website is entirely at your own risk and we have no responsibility or liability for the security of personal information transmitted via the Internet.
You must not use the services and/or network systems or any part thereof for fraudulent activities, or to breach another organisation's security (cross-network hacking). This is an illegal act and prosecution under criminal law may result. You must not use any computers, computer equipment, network resources or any services provided by us for any illegal purpose, or for accessing, receiving or transmitting any material deemed illegal, indecent, offensive or otherwise unacceptable under UK law.
If at any time we become aware that your data has been compromised, or that a breach of our systems and controls has occurred, which has an impact on the security of your data, we will notify the Information Commissioner's Office, and you, without undue delay.
Subject Access Requests
You have the right to request access to a copy of the personal information that we hold about you. This is also known as a 'Subject Access Request'. This information is provided to you free of charge however, we can refuse to respond or charge a 'reasonable fee' of £10 inc. VAT when a request is manifestly unfounded, excessive or repetitive.
If you would like to submit a Subject Access Request, please contact our Data Protection Administrator in writing to:
Data Protection Administrator
Seven Group
Cardinal Court
35-37 St Peters Street
Email: email@example.com
We will response to your request without delay and at the latest, within one month of receipt of your request.
Rectifying or updating personal data
If you believe the personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to rectification. You can let us know about any changes to. Where possible, we will also inform any third parties to whom we have disclosed the personal data in question to so they can rectify their records.
We will typically respond to your request within one month, although this can be extended by two months if your request for rectification is complex.
Request erasure of personal data.
This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Request restriction of processing of personal data.
This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Request the transfer of personal data to you or to a third party.
We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
Withdrawing Consent
Where we are using consent as our legal reason for processing your data, you have the right to withdraw your consent for us to collect, process and store your data at any time. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please confirm this in writing to our Data Protection Administrator:
By Post:
Data Protection Administrator
Seven Group
Cardinal Court
35-37 St Peters Street
Email: email@example.com
Please note, by withdrawing consent, Seven Group may be unable to execute the contract that you have entered into with us and will result in termination of our services. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Right to complain
If you have a complaint about any aspect of data protection or if you feel your privacy has been breached by us, we would like to hear from you. To help us investigate and resolve your concerns as quickly as possible, please contact our Data Protection Administrator:
By Post:
Data Protection Administrator
Seven Group
Cardinal Court
35-37 St Peters Street
Email: email@example.com
If you are unhappy with the final response you have received from Seven Group, you have the right to complain to the supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) within three months of your last meaningful contact with us. You can call the ICO on 0303 123 1113 or by visiting their website: https://ico.org.uk/.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
Due to the further development of our website, government regulations or the implementations of new technologies, this policy will be reviewed, and may change, from time to time. Seven Group reserves the right to change this data protection information at any time with effect for the future. The revised policy will be posted to this page so that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it. We therefore recommend you read the current data protection information again from time to time.
Last updated: 22 May 2018