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Now, this past Sunday, Mitt Romney's campaign reserve a school gym in Exeter, New Hampshire. The details of that event tell you the style in which the Republican candidate is presenting himself. The campaign selected a small gym, far too is small for the crowd had arrived.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: The next president of the United States, Mitt Romney.
INSKEEP: Romney stepped up on stage, with a gigantic American flag on the wall behind him. He wore jeans and an open-collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up.
MITT ROMNEY: I never imagined I'd get a chance to run for president of the United States, and to see the people across the country. But this welcome tonight, this excitement, this tops it all. Thank you so very much.
INSKEEP: Every moment in this event seemed designed to project both patriotism and sincerity. Romney, whose father ran for president before him, has developed a polished stump speech over the years. He argues that President Obama has a negative view of the nation.
ROMNEY: Because, as we look at the country - you know I've written a book called "No Apology" - I've watched the president not just apologize to the world as he visited foreign places, but I thought I saw in him someone who didn't have the same level of passion about the founding principles of the country that I imagined that many of us have. And Iâ¦
INSKEEP: His book, "No Apology," rests at the heart of Romney's rationale for running. Romney repeatedly accuses President Obama of apologizing for America in speeches abroad. Independent fact-checkers, like Politifact.com, have found that Obama did not apologize, and rate Romney's claims false. On Sunday, after suggesting the president doesn't stick up for America, Romney proclaimed his own love of country.
ROMNEY: And we have today extraordinary challenges around the world, but I'm convinced that you, like me love this country. The Democrats, independents, Republicans love this country and are only waiting for leaders to step forward who are willing to live with integrity and speak the truth, who know how to lead and who will call on the American people and their patriotism.
I will do that with your help. I want to be one of those leaders. We're going to win this thing, I hope coming down the road I count on you. Thank you.
INSKEEP: It's the style of a campaign front-runner that he can bring along political stars to vouch for him. On this night, Romney had New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at his side. Romney also had his wife along.
Though it's common to say that Mitt Romney has been seeking the presidency for years, Ann Romney contends there was a moment, one year ago, when he almost decided not to run.
ANN ROMNEY: And we knew there would be challengers and there would be issues and there would be problems. And then if you even got the nomination, we knew how difficult it is, but I asked him one question, and this is why we decided to run. I said, Mitt, can you save America? And his answer was yes.
INSKEEP: Protesters slipped inside the Romney event and briefly disrupted it. More protesters stood outside the event, accompanied by a trio of trombone players and supporters of one of Romney's rivals, Ron Paul. Romney's well-organized campaign has been working, in a more symbolic sense, to keep all of his opponents on the outside of this race. Those candidates are trying to fight their way back in.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: So with that, please give a warm New Hampshire welcome to Speaker Gingrich. Speaker...
INSKEEP: Newt Gingrich spoke at a town hall meeting yesterday in Manchester, New Hampshire. His wife Callista stood beside him, smiling at his jokes. Gingrich is the candidate who ripped Romney's style on Sunday, accusing Romney of serving up, quote, "pious baloney." Yesterday, Gingrich displayed his own style, which relies more on superlatives. Rather than call President Obama wrong, or in over his head, Gingrich calls himâ¦
NEWT GINGRICH: â¦probably the most radical president in American history.
INSKEEP: And a follower of a radical leftist.
GINGRICH: I think that makes this in some ways the most important election in modern times because eight years of Barack Obama will fundamentally change the nature of America.
INSKEEP: Gingrich pledges to eliminate taxes he considers profoundly wrong, and says a rising American economy will help, quote, "literally everybody on the planet." For all the vivid language, the candidate's most enthusiastic moment was not during his town hall meeting but afterward when he met with reporters. He's been attacking Mitt Romney, questioning Romney's role years ago running an investment firm. Romney's rivals have increasingly attacked the front-runner because his corporate buyouts eliminated jobs as well as created them.
GINGRICH: It's pretty clear to me that at some point in the next week or so, Governor Romney is going to have to have a fairly long press conference, and he's going to have to answer a lot of questions.
INSKEEP: Gingrich's frustration is that as the nation's first primary arrives, Mitt Romney has not yet had to do any such thing. Mitt Romney has maintained the style of a presidential front-runner, forcing his opponents to try anything they can to knock him out of it.
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It's that time of year again….Opening Day for Atlanta Braves baseball….. and my husband and two of the kids were at the game (April 5) …. Atlanta Braves vs Chicago Cubs….sitting out in right field at Turner Field…..
They saw an impressive opening ceremony…..
Travis Tritt sang National Anthem…..
Hank Aaron threw out the first pitch…..
He's looking pretty good for 76 years old…..
and Bobby Cox had his last opening day as Atlanta Braves manager (sad) …… we will miss him…..
a view of the field…..
Eddie Perez (bullpen coach) and Roger McDowell (pitching coach)……
Brian McCann (catcher)….
The Braves won 16-5 and everyone got a good look at Jason Heyward who hit a 3 run homerun his first major league at bat. Yes, my family was among the crowd chanting "Let's go Hey-ward" before he even got up to the plate to bat
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While you probably know the basics of winter driving, you might not always sweep the snow off your car. But you really should.
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- Windshield and rear window: Clearing both (not just the windshield) increases your visibility. Be sure to break up snow and ice buildup around your windshield wipers and washer fluid nozzles, too.
- Side windows and side view mirrors: Removing snow from these areas can be just as important as removing it from your windshields since this will enable you to have clear vision to traffic both from the side and rear.
- Head and taillights: Uncovering your headlights and taillights will help other drivers see you—and that's especially important in poor winter weather conditions.
- License plate: It's often against the law in many states to have your license plate obstructed in any way. (Plus, it literally takes just one swipe to clear it.)
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- Give yourself time. Depending on how long your car has been sitting, or how much snow or ice is piled on the windshield – clearing it off can take some time. If it's a real tough job, you may need a break or two after scraping away at ice for a long stretch of time. Make sure you leave ample time to clear your car before you have to drive your vehicle.
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- Avoid hot water. Pouring hot water on ice-cold glass can cause the glass to break. (Plus, the puddle it leaves behind can cause someone to slip and fall.)
- Use a proper snow brush. Shovels and other brushes not marketed for safe use on cars can leave behind scratches. Whether you prefer a foam brush, or an extended reach brush,here's a guide to help you find the best snow brush to fit your needs.
- Start from the top. Clear snow off of the roof of the car first and work your way down: clearing the top part of the car later could undo the work you did on the bottom half. Make sure you don't neglect the roof. It helps keep you and other drivers safer on the road.
- Consider using a deicing spray. Save yourself some time by spraying a thin sheet of deicer over all windows of your vehicle. Commercial-grade sprays can make the job faster and easier. You can even make a simple homemade spray with a mixture of water and isopropyl alcohol.
Of course, the best way to deal with winter is to park your car in a garage or carport if you can.
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- Put plastic bags over your mirrors. Grab a couple rubber bands to help secure them into place.
- Spray a little cooking oil on rubber seals. This will help prevent them from sealing doors shut.
- Cover your windshield with a piece of cardboard, towel or folded sheet. This can help prevent ice from forming in the first place.
- Face your car east when you park at night. The rising sun can help get a jump start on melting the snow and ice.
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import Control.Monad.ST |
The monadic ST
type provides support for strict state threads.
A discussion on the Haskell irc
From #haskell (see 13:05:37 in the log ):
- TuringTest: ST lets you implement algorithms that are much more efficient with mutable memory used internally. But the whole "thread" of computation cannot exchange mutable state with the outside world, it can only exchange immutable state.
- TuringTest: chessguy: You pass in normal Haskell values and then use ST to allocate mutable memory, then you initialize and play with it, then you put it away and return a normal Haskell value.
- sjanssen: a monad that has mutable references and arrays, but has a "run" function that is referentially transparent
- DapperDan2: it strikes me that ST is like a lexical scope, where all the variables/state disappear when the function returns.
An explanation in Haskell-Cafe
The ST type lets you use update-in-place, but is escapable (unlike IO
actions have the form:
ST s α
Meaning that they return a value of type α
, and execute in "thread" s
. All reference types are tagged with the thread, so that actions can only affect references in their own "thread".
Now, the type of the function used to escape ST
runST :: forall α. (forall s. ST s α) -> α
The action you pass must be universal in s
, so inside your action you don't know what thread, thus you cannot access any other threads, thus runST
is pure. This is very useful, since it allows you to implement externally pure things like in-place quicksort, and present them as pure functions ∀ e. Ord e ⇒ Array e → Array e
; without using any unsafe definitions.
But that type of runST
is illegal in Haskell-98, because it needs a universal quantifier inside the function-arrow! In the jargon, that type has rank 2; Haskell-98 types may have rank at most 1.
See http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-July/028233.html
A few simple examples
In this example, we define a version of the function sum
, but do it in a way which more like how it would be done in imperative languages, where a variable is updated, rather than a new value is formed and passed to the next iteration of the function. While in-place modifications of the STRef
are occurring, something that would usually be considered a side effect, it is all done in a safe way which is deterministic. The result is that we get the benefits of being able to modify memory in-place, while still producing a pure function with the use of runST
import Control.Monad.ST
import Data.STRef
import Control.Monad
sumST :: Num a => [a] -> a
sumST xs = runST $ do -- runST takes out stateful code and makes it pure again.
n <- newSTRef 0 -- Create an STRef (place in memory to store values)
forM_ xs $ \x -> do -- For each element of xs ..
modifySTRef n (+x) -- add it to what we have in n.
readSTRef n -- read the value of n, and return it.
An implementation of foldl
using ST
(a lot like sum
, and in fact sum
can be defined in terms of foldlST
foldlST :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a
foldlST f acc xs = runST $ do
acc' <- newSTRef acc -- Create a variable for the accumulator
forM_ xs $ \x -> do -- For each x in xs...
a <- readSTRef acc' -- read the accumulator
writeSTRef acc' (f a x) -- apply f to the accumulator and x
readSTRef acc' -- and finally read the result
An example of the Fibonacci function running in constant¹ space:
fibST :: Integer -> Integer
fibST n =
if n < 2
then n
else runST $ do
x <- newSTRef 0
y <- newSTRef 1
fibST' n x y
where fibST' 0 x _ = readSTRef x
fibST' n x y = do
x' <- readSTRef x
y' <- readSTRef y
writeSTRef x y'
writeSTRef y $! x'+y'
fibST' (n-1) x y
[1] Since we're using Integers
, technically it's not constant space, as they grow in size when they get bigger, but we can ignore this.
- Lazy Functional State Threads, John Launchbury and Simon Peyton Jones (the authors of State in Haskell).
- Control.Monad.ST in the base libraries


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And as long as I'm venting a bit here, what is it with Europeans and compass points? Their road signs tend to be gloriously well designed and easy to decipher, but they never include the words north, south, east, or west. So when you get to a crossroad, all the sign tells you is that one direction takes you to, say, Chard, and the other direction takes you to Axminster. Unless you've memorized the map, or happen to be a local who doesn't really need the sign in the first place, you don't know which direction to go. (If you're lucky, one of the cities on the sign is the one you want to go to, which makes things easy. Usually it's not.) But although I might not know every town and village in the area, I always know from a quick look at a map which general direction I want to go. So why not add the words north and south here? Some sort of EU-wide directive to banish directional notation, or what?JHM writes to ask:
Does the linked article ring true to you? If it is true that road signs tend not to indicate compass direction, I find this very odd indeed (even though (in New England at least) six or seven times out of ten the posted compass direction has a very low correlation to an actual compass point).JHM often writes to ask if things that he's read about Britain ring true for me, and I think I always say "yes, it's ringing". I suppose that illustrates the extent to which we get so accustomed to things being one way that we never imagine them being another way. In this case, I have to say "yes, it rings true, but..."
When I lived in South Africa (and had a car), I don't remember ever seeing a sign on a (BrE) motorway/(AmE) highway* with a direction on it. This got me lost in the (AmE) boondocks when I needed to get from a rural hotel in the Northern Province to Swaziland. None of the signs said which way was north or east, and none indicated how to get to the major towns in the province (or to the border). Instead, at each (chiefly AmE) intersection there were signs pointing toward(s) the next town on the road. One thus needed to know every single town along one's route in order to make sense of the signs. I imagine GPS is very useful there these days.
While I don't drive in the UK, on occasions I'm a passenger for a longish car journey (Americans would usually say trip, but that tends to be reserved for shorter journeys in BrE). Initially, I was only travel(l)ing for southeastern Scrabble league matches, and thus only experienced the A-roads (trunk roads), which are so-called because they are designated by A + a number, e.g. the A27. (There are also B-roads, which are more local.) A-roads are roughly comparable to state routes, like New York State Route 31, which goes through my hometown.** But unlike the US roads, the British roads are not called by different names depending on the direction you're driving in. So, if I give you directions out of my town, I'll talk about 31 East or 31 West . A friend of our family lives on a different route, just outside the village, and her address is "[house number] Route 88 South, Newark, NY", meaning she lives on the stretch of Route 88 that lies south of Newark. (Before you think "hey, I've been to Lynneguist's hometown, note that it's not the Newark that has the big airport you've been to. That one, despite its pretensions, is not in the state of New York. My hometown doesn't have a travel agency, let alone an airport. It has apple orchards. And cows.)
In Britain, people don't talk about "the A27 West" (though Google the phrase, and you'll think me a liar; but really, no one says it! At least not with the same name-like intonation that one says "Route 31 West"). When you join the A27, the sign will tell you about upcoming towns, not whether you're going east or west. If you're on that road driving east from Portsmouth, you have to get past Chichester before you start seeing signs for Brighton, if I remember correctly. So, if you want to get from Portsmouth to Brighton, you'd better know that Chichester is on the way. You need to constantly make decisions about which town to head toward on roads like the A27, since for the most part, they are not limited-access roads with on-ramps and off-ramps. They have roundabouts (often called traffic circles in the US, but rarely seen there--though I believe New Hampshire has quite a few). Lots of them. The signs on the roundabout exits will indicate the number of the routes and some number of upcoming towns/landmarks, as in the picture below.
So far, so much like my South African experience. But then I graduated from southeastern Scrabble events to national ones, and got to be a passenger on the M-roads, the national motorways--which are more comparable to American Interstate highways. M-roads are dual-carriageways with limited access--ramps rather than roundabouts--and they tend to be used for longer journeys. When one approaches an M-road, one may see compass point names on it--except that they're not really describing the direction of the route, they're describing the destination. That is, instead of saying, for instance "M3 North", they say "The NORTH", along with whatever cities you might get to along the way. (So, in the sign here, it's not saying that Nottingham is in 'The North' so much as it's saying that this road goes to The North, and it goes to Nottingham too.) What's interesting in this picture are the (N) and (S) in parentheses/brackets after M42. You see this in places where you need to take different routes to different entrances to a motorway. Once you're on the M42 going south, there will be no signs along the way that say M42(S), whereas in the US, signs telling you what route you're on and what direction you're going in are planted regularly along the right side of the road. The reason why (M6) in this photo is in parentheses/brackets after M42(S) is to indicate that this roundabout is not taking you to the M6 but to the M42 which takes you to the M6 , which will get you to 'The S. WEST'.
Incidentally, in England people talk about the East (meaning the east of England, not 'the Orient') a lot less than the other directions. There are two reasons for this, I think. (1) There's a lot more West than East here--in that the island juts out, particularly in the Southwest. (2) London is treated (rightly or wrongly, depending on where you live) as the hub of the universe (sorry, Boston), and it's fairly eastward. So, striking out from London, there's very little to the East. Well, there's Essex (Americans: that's where Jamie Oliver is from. English folk: make it a new joke if you're going to make it). So, while you hear/see the North, the South and the West, and the Northeast/west and Southeast/west, you rarely hear about the East.
Back to the American side... as JHM notes, the directions on particular routes may bear little resemblance to the compass direction when you're on the road. Routes are not perfectly straight lines, and non-Interstate routes can involve a number of different roads that add up to a route in the right direction. For instance, if you look at the map for US Route 20, you'll see that, in spite of its status as an east-west coast-to-coast route, there's a bit in Idaho that runs north-south. Still, we'd instruct people in Idaho to take Route 20 West if they want to get to Oregon, because 20 West is, in essence, its name.
Rather than designating the different types of route by letter, American route types are distinguished by the shapes of the shields on their signs (images/links courtesy of Wikipedia):
Interstate Highways | |
U.S. Routes | |
State Routes |
Side notes:
* Highway is probably the most dialect-neutral term in the US, and can apply to various types of routes--the key is that there's no stopping and starting on a highway. On the west coast, one tends to hear freeway. For limited-access roads in/around cities, I'd say expressway. Major toll roads, run by individual states, have their own names. In New York, it's the Thruway. Several other states have turnpikes, which is sometimes shortened to pike, as in the Mass Pike--that is, the Massachusetts Turnpike.
** Two things to know about AmE regionalisms when it comes to routes:
- Some Americans say route like root, others say it like rout. I grew up with the former, but the latter sometimes creeps into my speech because of other places I've lived. These dialect survey maps indicate that the 'rout' pronunciation is more common in the South and Midwest. In a forum on Canadian English, someone named Kirk says:
About "route," I use both pronunciations of the word depending on context. For instance, I've never heard anyone say "rowt 66"...it's always "root 66" for "route 66." So, if I see an official route as in a state route I definitely pronounce it "root." When I was younger I had a paper route and I almost always pronounced it "rowt" in that context. In other, general usages of the word, I use "root" and "rowt" pretty interchangeably.
My pattern and Kirk's pattern are the same. I grew up saying 'paper root', but now tend to say 'paper rout'.
- Southern Californians (and perhaps others) prefix route numbers with the, but Northeasterners like me don't. So, I'd say Take (Route) 5 but an Angeleno would say Take the 5.


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Posted by John p. (email@example.com) on July 02, 2001 at 05:28:21 PM MDT:
In Reply to: MAKE MONEY FAST, EASY, AND LEGALLY posted by Belle Anastasia jablonsky on April 08, 2000 at 04:50:59 AM MDT:
Subject: Re: make money fast
Body of Message:
: MONEY Turn $6 into $6000.00 in two weeks
: I found this on a bulletin board and decided to
try it. A little
: while back, I was browsing through newsgroups,
just like you are now,
: and came across an article similar to this that
said you could make
: thousands of dollars within weeks with only an
initial investment of
: $6.00! So I thought, "Yeah right, this must be a
scam", but
: like most of us, I was curious, so I kept
reading. Anyway, it said
: that you send $1.00 to each of the 6 names and
address stated in the
: article. You then place your own name and
address in the bottom of
: the list at #6, and post the article in at least
200 newsgroups.
: (There are thousands) No catch, that was it. So
after thinking it
: over, and talking to a few people first, I
thought about trying it. I
: figured: "what have I got to lose except 6
stamps and $6.00,
: right?" Then I invested the measly $6.00. Well
: within 7 days, I started getting money in the
mail! I was shocked! I
: figured it would end soon, but the money just
kept coming in. In my
: first week, I made about $25.00. By the end of
the second week I had
: made a total of over $1,000.00! In the third
week I had over
: $10,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now
my fourth week and I
: have made a total of just over $42,000.00 and
it's still coming in
: rapidly. It's certainlyworth $6.00, and 6
stamps, I have spent more
: than that on the lottery!! Let me tell you how
this works and most
: importantly, WHY it works... Also, make sure you
print a copy of this
: article NOW, so you can get the information off
of it as you need it.
: I promise you that if you follow the directions
exactly, that you
: will start making more money than you thought
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: something so easy!
: Suggestion: Read this entire message carefully!
(print it out or
: download it.) Follow the simple directions and
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: in!
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only $6.00 (Plus
: postage)
: IMPORTANT: This is not a rip-off; it is not
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: illegal; and it is 99%no risk - it really works!
: If all of the following instructions are adhered
to, you will receive
: extraordinary dividends.
: Please follow these directions EXACTLY, and
$50,000 or more can be
: yours in 20 to 60 days. This program remains
successful because of
: the honesty and integrity of the participants.
Please continue its
: success by carefully adhering to the
: You will now become part of the Mail Order
business. In this business
: your product is not solid and tangible, it's a
service. You are in
: the business of developing Mailing Lists. Many
large corporations are
: happy to pay big bucks for quality lists.
However, the money made
: from the mailing lists is secondary to the
income which is made from
: people like you and me asking to be included in
that list.
: Here are the 4 easy steps to success:
: STEP 1: Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write
the following on
: each piece of paper "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR
MAILING LIST." Now
: get 6 US $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH
of the 6 pieces of
: paper so the bill will not be seen through the
envelope (to prevent
: thievery). Next, place one paper in each of the
6 envelopes and seal
: them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes,
each with a piece of
: paper stating the above phrase, your name and
address, and a $1.00
: bill. What you are doing is creating a service.
: LEGAL! You are requesting a legitimate service
and you are paying for
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a little worried
: about the legal aspects of it all. So I checked
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: legal. Mail the 6 envelopes to the following
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: 85 Atherton Circle
: Pittsburg, CA 94565
#2)A. Young
: 5560 Hillcrest Dr.
: Union City, GA 30291
#3)J. Alderson
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: Danville, VA. 24540
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#5)C. Bishop
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220 Chestnut Ridge Rd.
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STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that
you see above, move
: the other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4,
etc...) and add YOUR
: Name as number 6 on the list.
: STEP 3: Change anything you need to, but try to
keep this article as
: close to original as possible. Now, post your
amended article to at
: least 200 newsgroups. (I think there are close
to 24,000 groups) All
: you need is 200, but remember, the more you
post, the more money you
: make! You won't get very much unless you post
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: Sec. 1302 & 1341 of the Postal lottery laws.
: Keep a copy of these steps for yourself and,
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: you can use it again, and again.
: PLEASE REMEMBER that this program remains
successful because of the
: honesty and integrity of the participants and by
their carefully
: adhering to the directions. Look at it this way.
If you are of
: integrity, the program will continue and the
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: others have received will come your way.
: NOTE: You may want to retain every name and
address sent to you,
: either on a computer or hard copy and keep the
notes people send you.
: This VERIFIES that you are truly providing a
service. (Also, it might
: be a good idea to wrap the $1 bill in dark paper
to reduce the risk
: of mail theft.)
: So, as each post is downloaded and the
directions carefully followed,
: six members will be reimbursed for their
participation as a List
: Developer with one dollar each. Your name will
move up the list
: geometrically so that when your name reaches the
#1 position you will
: be receiving thousands of dollars in CASH!!!
What an opportunity for
: only $6.00 ($1.00 for each of the first six
people listed above) Send
: it now, add your own name to the list and you're
in business!
: Step 1) You do not need to re-type this entire
letter to do your own
: posting. Simply put your cursor at the beginning
of this letter and
: drag your cursor to the bottom of this document,
and select 'copy'
: from the edit menu. This will copy the entire
letter into the
: computer's memory.
: Step 2) Open a blank 'notepad' file and place
your cursor at the top
: of the blank page. From the 'edit' menu select
'paste'. This will
: paste a copy of the letter into notepad so that
you can add your name
: to the list. Step 3) Save your new notepad file
as a .txt file. If
: youwant to do your postings in different
settings, you'll always
: have this file to go back to.
: Step 4) Use Netscape or Internet explorer and
try searching for
: various newsgroups (on-line forums, message
boards, chat sites,
: discussions.)
: Step 5) Visit these message boards and post this
article as a new
: message by highlighting the text of this letter
and selecting paste
: from the edit menu. Fill in the Subject, this
will be the header that
: everyone sees as they scroll through the list of
postings in a
: particular group, click the post message button.
You're done with
: your first one! Congratulations...THAT'S IT! All
you have to do is
: jump to different newsgroups and post away,
after you get the hang of
: it, it will take about 30 seconds for each
newsgroup! **REMEMBER, THE
: YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200** That's it!
You will begin receiving
: money from around the world within days! You may
eventually want to
: rent a P.O.Box due to the large amount of mail
you will receive. If
: you wish to stay anonymous, you can invent a
name to use, as long as
: the postman will deliver it. **JUST MAKE SURE
: Now,
: each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00
make the MINIMUM 200
: postings, each with my name at #5 and only 5
persons respond to each
: of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for
me, now those 25 each
: make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #4 and
only 5 replies each, I
: will bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those
125 persons turn
: around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at
#3 and only receive 5
: replies each, I will make an additional $625.00!
OK, now here is the
: fun part, each of those 625 persons post a
MINIMUM 200 letters with
: my name at #2 and they each only receive 5
replies, that just made me
: $3,125.00!!! Those 3,125 persons will all
deliver this message to 200
: newsgroups with my name at #1 and if still 5
persons per 200
: newsgroups react I will receive $15,625,00! With
an original
: investment of only $6.00! AMAZING! When your
name is no longer on the
: list, you just take the latest posting in the
newsgroups, and send
: out another $6.00 to names on the list, putting
your name at number 6
: again. And start posting again. The thing to
remember is: do you
: realize that thousands of people all over the
world are joining the
: internet and reading these articles everyday?,
JUST LIKE YOU are
: now!! So, can you afford $6.00 and see if it
really works?? I think
: so... People have said, "what if the plan is
played out and no
: one sends you the money? So what! What are the
chances of that
: happening when there are tons of new honest
users and new honest
: people who are joining the internet and
newsgroups everyday and are
: willing to give it a try? Estimates are at
20,000 to 50,000 new
: users, every day, with thousands of those
joining the actual
: internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and
this will really
: work .


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FSFE Newsletter - December 2010
This edition covers the current developments in Open Standards policy, some basic information about software patents, an update from FSCONS about distributed computing, and how you can support us in the end of the year.
This month was the first time in FSFE's history that we had a booth at three conferences at the same date: the Brandenburger Linux Infotag (BLIT) in Potsdam/Germany, the Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit (FSCONS in Göteburg/Sweden, and T-DOSE Eindhoven/The Netherlands. Our PDFreaders campaign is quite successful: 31 public administrations already removed advertisements for non-free PDF readers from their websites, 8 of them added links to pdfreaders.org. FSFE's sysadmins updated the Fellowship blog software, and we gave several presentations to politicians, parties, the public administration, and the Berlin Debating Union. This month Fellowship interview is with Brian about free documentation, emacs org mode, and his understanding of software as a tool. And finally we would like to congratulate Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson, Free Software developer and community builder from Iceland, who has received the Nordic Free Software Award.
Open Standards: India - Europe 1:0
This month India's government announced its Open Standards policy, which is a huge success for the Free Software movement. The advantages for Free Software in India were definitely worth the three-year struggle with the proprietary software companies. When reading the government's papers you will recognise several points that were included in our Open Standards definition, especially the ones already covered in the October edition of the newsletter: that patents on standards should be available on a royalty-free basis. This policy will foster innovation in India's IT market, it will lead to smaller costs for the public administration, and will enable programmers to be more innovative.
The European Commission is also setting out to reform Europe's standardisation system. Standardisation in Europe is currently dominated by a small number of organisations, mainly big companies. At the same time, much innovation is done by small and medium-sized companies. Although numerous, they do not really have a voice in standardisation. When having the opportunity to participate they often struggle because of a lack of time, money or expertise. So while the Indian document improved between revisions, the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) has only got worse . But with your ongoing support we can continue to explain the importance of Open Standards to the European Commission and the member states, so they can provide us the same advantages as the Indian government. This month by participating at an joint event from the European Commission and the European Patent Office.
Software patents: Not another monopoly on software
Another topic we highlighted at the meeting from the European Commission and in a radio interview (in German) were software patents.
To begin with, a patent is a monopoly on an idea, whereas copyright is a monopoly on a concrete implementation. While Bach's II symphony is covered by copyright, a patent would give a monopoly on the idea to combine bowed and wind instruments. Software falls under the copyright. This makes sense, with software you have little research costs, but you have to spend a lot of time implementing the ideas to make sure there are no security problems, and you can easily maintain and adapt it in future. The idea to combine bowed and wind instruments is not a big challenge, the challenge is how to combine them so it still sounds good in the end.
More and more people understand that software patents are a problem for everybody , no matter if big or small companies, individual software developers, users, non-free or Free Software.
- The companies have to spent more money for their legal department, to register patents, to negotiate patent crosslicensing, and to defend themselves against patent claims. While for some time software patents are a nice tool for big companies to prevent newcomers to compete with them, they also have to face companies who only sue others on software patents, and never do any software development by themselves. Against them, any software company can only loose.
- For software developers software patents mean legal uncertainty: whenever you start programming you might violate law. You will never be able to find out if you violate a patent. Even if you read a software patent you might not realise it covers what you are currently implementing. With patents, we have to pay money to register them. On the other hand with copyright, everybody of us even those who just program as a hobby can write a program, and afterwards this falls under copyright without any additional costs. In fact, software patents can dispossess us as they can prevent from using the rights we get from copyright, e.g. to distribute the program to others.
- Users would have to pay for all those costs. Some people estimate that the patent costs for smartphones are about 20% of the actual price payed by the customer.
We will continue to get rid of that problem. In the US our sister organisation is working to build awareness to the harm caused by software patents and in New Zealand the government understood the problem and recommended in April to include computer programs amongst inventions that may not be patented. In Europe the legislation has decided that software is not patentable. But laws are always interpreted by people, and in this case interpretations of the law differ. So the European Patents Office (EPO) grants software patents by declaring them as "computer implemented inventions". We will continue to work with our sister organisations , our associated organisation FFII , and others to inform people about the dangers of software patents. We will explain the legislative that they have to make the laws more precise so that the patent offices have to act as intended.
Distributed computing at FSCONS
We know that distributed computing is not a brand new topic. In fact there is a 7:21 minutes commercial from 1959 about it, and some of the ideas might still be relevant for the current "cloud computing" discussion.
Our part here was to host a track a this year's FSCONS called Divide and Reconquer , which focused on the problem of the trend towards centralised non-free Internet services, and possible solutions. Thanks to Sam's work and our speakers, all five talks went well, each generating extensive discussion in the question and answer sessions.
For example this month Fellowship interviewee Brian Gough even said to me after Michael Christen's demonstration of the peer to peer search engine Yacy, that by the end of next year he only wants to use distributed search engines for his web searches. Sounds like a good New Year's resolution. We will continue to work on this topic and animate more people to think about it, discuss it with others and work on solutions.
Get Active: Buy presents and donate - our support programs
End of the year often means buying presents and donating money. There are some ways to combine those two things, for example our support programs. So if you or some of your friends already use Libri or Amazon to buy presents, please inform them about the possibility to support us.
- If you buy books from bookzilla.de we will receive around 5% of the sales as a donation.
- If you have installed our plugin around 5% of your sale from amazon is donated to FSFE.
You can read Maëlle's blog post to find out how much was donated through those ways. If you buy your books and other presents from other shops, you can of course support FSFE through a one time donation or on a regular basis by becoming a Fellow of FSFE .
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Whereas the traditional story has a beginning, a middle and an end, the serial novel is often characterized by the never-ending middle. The author starts the story, and then releases new installments over time.
I wonder what Charles Dickens would think of serialized ebooks. The topic is on my mind today because when I woke up this morning and looked at the Smashwords home page, it was dominated by five installments of a single ebook, each about 10,000 words.
The other day, I asked another author to stop posting his series of 2,000 word ebooks.
At Smashwords, we have a strict policy of only publishing complete, finished works. If you want to publish a partial book, or a work-in-process, we don't want it, because it doesn't fit with our mission of connecting a reader's eyeballs and wallet to the finished works of our indie authors and publishers. If a customer purchases an unfinished, incomplete or partial work, they feel ripped off.
Yet we face a quandary with serialized books. They occupy a grey area. They technically don't comply with our terms of service, unless each serialized chunk can stand alone as a complete story. But whose job is it to judge whether a story is complete or not, or long enough to qualify as a standalone work?
I created Smashwords to eliminate gatekeepers, not to become one. I don't want to stand in the way of an author's creative expression, or fail to serve a reader's desire for serialized works.
So I wondered, are readers interested in serials? Am I wrong to discourage serials on Smashwords?
To gauge reader interest, I posted a short query over at Smashwords Site Updates, inviting Smashwords customers to share their opinions. Concurrent with that post, I posted an online poll at MobileRead, where I asked readers to share their opinions on serialized ebooks.
The early results surprised me. With only 36 votes recorded so far, 91% of respondents claim they either avoid reading serialized ebooks, or they never read them. It'll be interesting to watch how the numbers shake out once the vote count approaches a more statistically significant sample size.
The comments at MobileRead are even more interesting. Many readers there are passionately opposed to serialized ebooks.
The initial results indicate I'm probably correct to continue discouraging serialized ebooks at Smashwords. We're unlikely to outright ban them, because we don't want to get into that gatekeeper role of determining what's complete, and what's not.
My hunch is that Darwin's natural selection, powered by reader preferences, will prevent serialized ebooks from catching on. Most writers write to attract readers, not repel them.
Why do most readers hold serialized books in such disdain, as my unscientific poll appears to indicate? If I distill the essence of the initial MobileRead comments, as well as the private emails I've received today, it boils down to these four reasons:
- Lack of immediate gratification - If you enjoy a book, you want to finish it now, not later.
- Risk - You fear investing money in the serials, only to have the author abandon the project and leave the story unfinished.
- Cost - A serialized book can be much more expensive than a complete book.
- Inconvience - It's easier and more convenient to download a single file than multiple files.
If serialization of ebooks is permitted, it should only be after the author submits the entire book: then, and only then should the online publisher allow the chapters to be sold piecemeal... possibly on some standardized/automated periodical basis, like once a week.If we were ever to embrace serialized books at Smashwords, I think his approach is equitable to all and makes sense. It would free us from gatekeeping and allow us to enable distribution and merchandising with a fully automated, author-opt-in technology solution. We like automation. However, given the apparent lack of interest in serialized ebooks, for the time being we have bigger fish to fry. And on that count, stay tuned. Cool stuff in the works.
Click here to cast your vote in my MobileRead serialization poll. The poll will close in two months.
Image credit: Wikipedia, photo of a young Dickens. For more on Charles Dickens, see his Wikipedia page. Click here for the Wikipedia page on serialized literature. Learn about Stephen King's well known ebook serialization experiment on the Wikipedia page for his book, The Plant.


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We aim to ensure that all stock levels listed online are accurate; however, there may occasionally be a discrepancy between stock listed online and our physical stock. In the unlikely event that you order an item online which we do not have physical stock of we will refund your money immediately and contact you to let you know when the item will be back in stock.
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Let's turn now to the urgent diplomatic efforts underway. Secretary of State Clinton is now in Cairo, meeting with Egyptian leaders in efforts to reach a ceasefire. NPR's Leila Fadel joins us from Cairo to discuss the latest.
Good morning.
LEILA FADEL, BYLINE: Good morning.
MONTAGNE: So what do you know about what's happening on the diplomatic front today there in Cairo?
FADEL: Well, at this point, actually, not much. Hillary Clinton arrived here earlier in the afternoon, but we still haven't heard anything from those meetings. They seem to be continuing. We're expecting a statement at some point from her and from the president of Egypt, who have been major players in the media negotiations, the only ones in touch with the Palestinian side - Hamas and Islamic Jihad and others - and the ones that are relaying their message and their side of this idea that there will be a truce. But it's really unclear if it's actually going to happen.
MONTAGNE: Now, as we mentioned earlier, as you heard Anthony say, a bomb exploded on a bus in Tel Aviv today, injuring at least 10 people. Hamas is not taking credit for the bombing, but it has called the attack a natural response to the Palestinians wounded in Gaza. Still, could this attack on an Israeli bus be game-changer in these efforts to negotiate some sort of truce?
FADEL: Yes, it could be a game-changer. I mean, not only a thousand people were wounded in Gaza, but more than 130 killed in these really punishing airstrike campaigns in land and sea campaigns against the Gaza Strip. And I think that the bomb on the bus - more than 10 people injured - could be something that hardens the Israeli line. And a lot of public sentiments are shifting in Israel, and people are really concerned about not only the rockets, but now possible bombs on vehicles in Israel, and more behind the idea of a ground invasion. This is a terrifying idea for Palestinians living inside the Gaza Strip under siege.
MONTAGNE: Beyond that Tel Aviv bus bombing, what are the other likely sticking points on each side?
FADEL: Well, from what we're hearing, I mean, basically, both sides have preconditions for the idea of a truce to happen. Hamas is saying: You have to lift the Gaza blockade immediately - which basically doesn't allow a lot of aid and building materials and other things into the Gaza Strip - and also stop assassinating our leaders. Israel is saying: You have to stop the rockets into our land.
One of the main sticking points that we're hearing, at least from the Hamas side, the Hamas side is saying Israel doesn't want to agree to the lifting of the blockade for the troops. This is a major sticking point.
MONTAGNE: And, Leila, where does Secretary of State Clinton go from here?
FADEL: Well, this is her last stop on what has been a sort of emergency, two-day tour where she spoke to Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. She spoke to Mahmoud Abbas in the Palestinian - in the West Bank. But now she comes to Egypt. Egypt are the major regional mediators. They're the - as I said, the only ones talking to both Hamas and the also Israeli officials. They have a long history of communication between their security apparatuses. This also is actually one of the major problems, analysts say, that there is a missing element at the table. Hamas has no direct contact with the United States, nor with Israel.
MONTAGNE: Leila, thanks very much.
FADEL: Thank you.
MONTAGNE: That's NPR's Leila Fadel, speaking to us from Cairo. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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