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Prince William & Kate Will Party with British Stars in L.A.
These newcomers will hang with the royals at the BAFTA "Brits to Watch" event July 9
The British are coming – and soon!
This week's BAFTA "Brits to Watch" in partnership with Audi event, to be attended by Prince William and Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge on the California leg of their North American tour, boasts a guest list of 42 up-and-coming stars from the U.K.
BAFTA says these newcomers "highlight the incredible depth and range of great British talent," and here's who will be brushing shoulders with the royal couple at downtown Los Angeles's historic Belasco Theater on July 9:
Jessica Brown Findlay, 21
Findlay always planned on being a professional performer – just not an actress. Growing up, she wanted to be a ballerina, but an ankle injury jolted her career path, according to her IMDB bio. Best known for playing Lady Sybil Crawley on period drama Downton Abbey, Nylon magazine called her "the best thing in a bonnet since Keira [Knightley] in Pride and Prejudice."
Tom Hughes, 26
He gets Emma Watson's stamp of approval. Hughes struck a pose with the Harry Potter star in the Burberry Spring/Summer 2010 campaign. His credits include a starring role in 2010 coming-of-age comedy Cemetery Junction and BBC drama series Silk, and the actor can be seen next alongside Rachel Weisz in Page Eight, which will air on PBS this fall.
Juno Temple, 21
Leading lady alert! After earning recognition for her performances in Notes on a Scandal and Atonement, the actress has since secured her spot on the big screen. She plays Queen Anne opposite Orlando Bloom in The Three Musketeers, which arrives in theaters in October, and is currently filming The Dark Knight Rises.
Daniel Kaluuya, 21
Actor – or gangster? Kaluuya came to fame in the original cast of Skins, where he played Posh Kenneth, a teen who yearns to fit in on the other side of the tracks. He's also taken his talent to YouTube: he teamed up with pal and fellow actor Jason Lewis in 2009 to parody British band Boy Better Know's "Too Many Man" with a track they dubbed "Too Many Weave."
Harry Lloyd, 27
Talent runs in the family: Lloyd is the great-great-great-grandson of literary legend Charles Dickens. His royal connection? He plays Viserys Targaryen in HBO's Game of Thrones, where his character is teased as the "beggar king." His other credits include BBC drama Robin Hood and the recent book-to-film adaptation of Jane Eyre.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, 27
Come fall, she'll be hitting the small screen with one of TV's biggest veterans: Kiefer Sutherland. Mbatha-Raw will join the former 24 star on Fox's Touch, which debuts mid-television season. But right now she's costarring with Hollywood heavy-hitters Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts in Larry Crowne.
Talulah Riley, 25
Riley's no stranger to the States. The Pride and Prejudice actress lives with her husband, PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, in Bel Air, Calif. Riley has also worked with several Hollywood heavy-hitters, from an appearance with Leonardo DiCaprio as a blonde projection in Inception to a leading lady role alongside Robert Pattinson in the short film The Summer House.
Owain Yeoman, 32
On TV, Yeoman takes a stance against crime as special agent Wayne Rigsby on CBS's The Mentalist. In real life, he takes a stance against steak. In 2009, the vegetarian stripped down for a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ad. The Welsh actor made his film debut as Lysander in 2004's Troy and also starred alongside Bradley Cooper in Fox's Kitchen Confidential.

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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
Popular Government. Four Essays, 3rd edition (London: John Murray, 1886). https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/905,
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This lesson gives teachers resources and guidance to create Literacy Centers in their own classrooms. The lesson begins by describing the crucial teacher preparation steps for establishing four different centers: reading, listening, computer, and poetry. Implementation ideas, including suggestions for organizing and managing both centers and students, are included. Over a four-day period, the lesson then introduces students to each Literacy Center, providing the foundation for adaptable year-long literacy learning.
In her article "Literacy Centers in the Elementary Classroom," Betsy Van Deusen MacLeod describes the benefits of using Literacy Centers in the classroom as "providing both a physical and social context for learning." In their article describing the value of learning centers at the high school level, Moritz and Holmes note: "When students worked on individual and cooperative projects in the centers, they were engaged with the content at deeper, more meaningful levels. The learning centers contained multisensory and differentiated activities that helped meet the diverse range of student interests, ability levels, and needs." (69) Literacy Centers not only give the teacher an opportunity to meet with small groups for direct instruction, but they also provide meaningful learning activities for all students. Centers, combined with guided reading, offer the structure to deliver differentiated instruction, providing multiple opportunities for success for all students. Many teachers use Literacy Centers and comprehensive assessments to "drive their literacy instruction."
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MacLeod, Betsy Van Deusen. "Literacy Centers in the Elementary Classroom." Journal of School Improvement. 2.1 (Spring 2001).
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- Cluster Launcher
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- Use: Place on the ground to launch cluster rockets. Lasts 30 minutes.
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A Cluster Launcher object is used to launch Rocket Cluster Fireworks. These are associated with the Lunar Festival event.
A Rocket Cluster Firework must be used near a Cluster Launcher. Conceptually, the Firework is thrown into the Cluster Launcher, but there is no targeting involved, just right click on the Rocket Cluster in your inventory. (A Cluster Launcher is "used" in the same sense that an Anvil is "used" in WoW.)
During the Lunar Festival, Cluster Launchers can be found near the Lunar Festival Revelers celebrating in the capital cities; Darnassus, Ironforge, Stormwind, Orgrimmar, Thunder Bluff, and Undercity, but not Exodar nor Silvermoon; and in Moonglade. There are also Cluster Launchers scattered around these cities in odd locations during the event.
|Rocket Cluster Firework
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The Cluster Launcher item is used to spawn a Cluster Launcher object on the ground. These can be used anywhere "outdoors" (i.e. not in buildings), including some outdoor encounters in instances such as Supremus in the Black Temple. The Cluster Launcher object lasts for 30 minutes.
The Cluster Launcher is crafted by Engineers with a skill level of 275.
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|4x [Elemental Earth]
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|4x [Firebloom]
|4x [Volatile Rum]
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Because the [Lucky Rocket Cluster] gives its benefit to all nearby when it is launched, the Cluster Launcher item can be handy for placing a Cluster Launcher object just outside of an instance to buff a raid prior to entering the instance.
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Foursquare culls best-of city lists from billions of user check-ins
With thousands of restaurants to choose from in NYC — 24,000, according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene — narrowing down that spot for a special date or brunch with friends can feel a bit overwhelming. Add to that where to grab a drink or see the sights and the poor brain is in quite a quandary.
Foursquare has attempted to squash the chatter on social media, and in our heads, to a reasonable din with its new Best of Foursquare guides, which launched Monday.
With four categories — best of food, nightlife, things to do and speak-easies — the site lists the best of the best in 30 cities. In addition to New York, foursquare users can find out beloved spots in Boston, Philadelphia, Austin and more.
The Foursquare folks say they looked at some 3 billion check-ins to come up with the guides. Adding credibility is the amount of local places that made the cut, places that only New Yorkers might know about. For user-friendliness, you can search subcategories to target your destination. Under food, for instance, you can navigate through American, Asian, coffee, bakeries, pizza and sandwich places.
Under speak-easies you will find only speak-easies. Because we're not sure users would have voted for that category's inclusion at all.
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Everyone loves cars like the BMW E30. It's cheap, it's practical, it's a great car to drive. At some point, though, they will be too old for some broke kid to own, and they'll end up just like the old BMW 2002.
The broke hoon of the future is going to need something awesome to drive, but it's got to be affordable. At a certain point, the Toyobaru twins won't be new anymore, and you'll be able to pick up a BRZ with the kind of money that people spend on an old Impreza 2.5RS today. An FR-S is going to be your little cousin's Nissan 200SX. What car from, say, no earlier than model year 2002, will be the next great gearhead car?
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By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: November 29, 2012
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Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, especially aspirin, may help prevent serious liver problems, a large observational study suggested.
Aspirin users were 41% less likely to develop hepatocellular carcinoma and 45% less likely to die from chronic liver disease than non-users, both statistically significant differences, Vikrant V. Sahasrabuddhe, MBBS, DrPH, of the National Cancer Institute in Rockville, Md., and colleagues reported.
Other NSAIDs were also associated with reduced mortality from chronic liver disease, but not with less liver cancer, among the more than 300,000 middle-age and older participants in the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study cohort.
"These associations are prominent with the use of aspirin, and if confirmed, might open new vistas for chemoprevention of hepatocellular carcinoma and chronic liver disease," the researchers wrote in the Dec. 5 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
The findings were not unexpected based on prior results in colorectal and other cancer types, Boris Pasche, MD, PhD, an oncologist at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, noted in an interview with MedPage Today.
"We are seeing a growing body of evidence suggesting that taking aspirin long-term prevents the development of several types of cancer" in populations taking the NSAID for cardiovascular event prevention, he explained.
However, aside from being a possible additional benefit when indicated for cardioprotection, aspirin might not be either necessary or that useful for protecting the liver, according to other experts.
For one thing, there are already good strategies that don't raise bleeding risk the way NSAIDs do, Isra G. Levy, MBBCh, MSc, and Carolyn P. Pim, MD, both of the University of Ottawa and Ottawa Public Health in Ontario, noted in an accompanying editorial.
"In practice," they wrote, "we know and understand the causes of most cases of chronic liver disease and primary liver cancer: viral infections, especially hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV), and alcohol. And we already have cheap, readily available interventions to prevent a substantial majority of such diseases."
Furthermore, the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma is low enough in the general population that chemoprevention wouldn't make sense when weighed against the bleeding risk, commented Mary Ann Huang, MD, a hepatologist at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
The higher-risk population for whom preventive strategies are needed -- those with cirrhosis -- likely wouldn't be good candidates either because they are also at higher risk of bleeding, Huang told MedPage Today in an interview.
Still the NIH-AARP study results may be good enough to warrant a prospective trial to see whether the benefit would outweigh the risk in that population, Pasche suggested.
The joint Diet and Health study included 300,504 adults ages 50 to 71 years at enrollment who reported their NSAID use on a baseline questionnaire.
The cohort was pulled from six states (California, Florida, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania) and two metropolitan areas (Atlanta and Detroit).
Among the respondents, 73% reported aspirin use and 56% used other NSAIDs.
Altogether, any aspirin or non-aspirin NSAID use was associated with reduced relative risks of:
- 0.63 for developing hepatocellular carcinoma (95% CI 0.46 to 0.87)
- 0.49 for risk of death due to chronic liver disease (95% CI 0.39 to 0.61)
The effect was even greater, with relative risks of 0.51 and 0.50, when looking at those participants who exclusively used aspirin versus those who didn't take any NSAIDs.
Other NSAID use was associated with a reduced risk of chronic liver disease mortality, with a relative risk of 0.74 (95% CI 0.61 to 0.90) that dropped to 0.66 (95% CI 0.48 to 0.91) when looking at those who used only non-aspirin NSAIDs versus no NSAIDs.
But the effect on hepatocellular carcinoma incidence wasn't significant in either case with non-aspirin NSAIDs, and the effect on death from chronic liver disease was significant only in those who used it on a monthly rather than daily or weekly basis.
Aspirin's effects were independent of frequency of use.
All the results were adjusted for age, sex, race or ethnicity, body mass index, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and diabetes.
The researchers suggested that the apparent advantage of NSAID use in the cohort may have been due to anti-inflammatory or other mechanisms.
They acknowledged, though, that the lack of dose response and finding of only monthly links to non-aspirin NSAID use "suggests that the findings should be interpreted with some caution, because they may also reflect an unmeasured confounder."
Huang pointed to the lack of data on cirrhosis and hepatitis status and the single time point of NSAID use ascertainment.
Although there wasn't any reporting of duration or indication for NSAID use, a sensitivity analysis excluding participants who said they had a history of heart disease or hypertension as "a proxy for cardiovascular indication and longer duration of NSAID use, particularly low-dose aspirin), yielded hazard rate ratios similar to those of the overall cohort and suggested minimal potential for confounding by indication."
Primary source: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Source reference:
Sahasrabuddhe VV, et al "Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Use, Chronic Liver Disease, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma" J Natl Cancer Inst 2012: 104; 1808–1814.
Additional source: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
Source reference:
Levy IG, Pim CP "An Aspirin a Day: The Allure (and Distraction) of Chemoprevention" J Natl Cancer Inst 2012: 104.


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Before making this dish, call your fish market. Octopus is available at some markets, but it may need to be ordered several days ahead.
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- Makes 12 servings
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- Total Time
- 1 hour
- 3 pounds octopus (preferably large tentacles only), thawed if frozen
- 6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 2 750-ml bottles dry red wine
- 1 large onion, quartered
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled, crushed
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 Turkish bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano
- Gigante beans
- Sprinkle octopus with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add octopus to pot and cook uncovered until octopus releases its liquid and most of liquid in pot evaporates, turning occasionally with tongs, 20 to 25 minutes. Add wine, onion, garlic, cinnamon stick, and bay leaf to pot; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until octopus is very tender when pierced with fork, about 2 hours. Using tongs, transfer octopus to rimmed baking sheet and cool. If desired, rub off outer skin from octopus and discard. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.
- Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Cut octopus tentacles crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick slices. Place on platter and brush with 2 tablespoons oil; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill octopus slices until heated through, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to bowl and add remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil, red wine vinegar, and oregano; toss to coat.
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A Wisdom Vacuum
By: Rick Boxx
June 8, 2012
A Society for Human Resource Management and AARP report discovered that nearly half of the 430 human resource professionals surveyed believe the potential loss of talent, due to Baby Boomer retirements, could be a problem for their organizations.
Our culture has conditioned us to leave the workforce at 65. Our cultural concept of retirement is not biblical and undermines the reality that God has plans for all of our life, not just a segment.
Ecclesiastes 2:21 teaches, "For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune."
In your workplace don't overlook the value of keeping wisdom around for as long as they're willing to stay.
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Organic standards define organic practices. Organic standards are sets of requirements applicable to organic operators (including farmers, processors, and traders). Operators who want to sell their products as organic must, in many cases, comply with at least one organic standard, and be verified against this standard.
A high number of organic standards exist throughout the world. It is estimated that there are hundreds of organic standards. Some are government regulations, others are private standards. Some have a very localized scope of application (e.g. one country or even one region in a given country), whereas others are applied internationally. Trade between systems that are based on different standards requires these systems recognize and accept each other.
To facilitate such acceptance, IFOAM - Organics International has developed the IFOAM Family of Standards, which is a list of all standards officially endorsed as organic by the international organic movement. In a sense, the IFOAM Family of Standards draws the line between what is organic and what is not, from a standards point of view. Standards that are approved in the IFOAM Family of Standards are organic standards and can be trusted as such. Approval is based on a detailed technical assessment of each standard, and follows a defined procedure with the IFOAM Organic Guarantee System.
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In a surprise weekend announcement, Apple and HTC report they have ended all their patent disputes. The financial terms are confidential, but HTC has been on the losing end of the legal action, so it's hard to believe the Taiwanese company didn't pay something to Apple. The new deal includes a 10-year license to current and future patents held by both companies.
The Apple-HTC battle has been going on since 2010, and it hasn't been going well at all for HTC. The company lost a case to Apple in late 2011 at the International Trade Commission, although it quickly worked around Apple's win on what it called a minor user-interface patent. HTC's own trade commission case against Apple phones failed. Despite those setbacks, less than three months ago, HTC was assuring reporters it intended to keep fighting Apple.
Assuming HTC is paying Apple something to make these lawsuits go away, it's on top of the reported $5 per Android phone royalty that HTC is already paying to Microsoft. To be sure, Apple had reasons to settle as well. Litigation is always a headache, and HTC is looking like a small-time competitor these days.
Ending its litigation against HTC isn't necessarily a sign Apple is ready to end its much larger crusade against Samsung. That company is the leading US smartphone seller and a major rival. But Apple has the edge in court right now, and it is likely to push that advantage. Apple is also sparring with Google-owned Motorola over patents.
When Apple first filed its lawsuit, HTC was somewhat patent-poor. It owned dozens of its own patents, compared to the thousands owned by Apple. HTC ultimately received patents from Google to keep up its patent fight against Apple, and also purchased a California company called S3 Graphics for $300 million (primarily to gain its patent portfolio). That didn't help matters much, either.
Apple's case against Samsung resulted in a $1 billion verdict for Apple this summer. Samsung is appealing that, while Apple tries to tack on additional damages and get Samsung products kicked off the market.
The CEOs both released short quotes about today's settlement.
"HTC is pleased to have resolved its dispute with Apple, so HTC can focus on innovation instead of litigation," said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC.
"We are glad to have reached a settlement with HTC," said Apple CEO Tim Cook. "We will continue to stay laser focused on product innovation."
In addition to its courtroom setbacks, HTC isn't doing well financially. It recently reported a dramatic 79 percent downturn in year-over-year profits, and HTC stock is down about 80 percent from its high point in mid-2011. If HTC's decline continues, the lingering question may be this: did the once high-flying Taiwanese company shoot itself in the foot with poor business decisions, or was it the first victim of the smartphone patent wars?


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What's the single biggest difference between professional authors and novices? Professionals know how to structure novels and stories for maximum dramatic effect. This course helps you develop the same story structuring skills the pros use. You will understand how your passion, theme, premise, and characters help you create the structure of your story, and discover how viewpoint, dialogue, pacing, and many other techniques are used to build scenes and move your story from beginning to end.
Each assignment in this course helps you develop your own original novel or story. As you apply each technique, your story will take shape, with a clear path from beginning to end. Before you know it, you will be prepared to write fiction like a pro.
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Gender Equality (and the Lack of it) On Car Talk
From: Dane Hawk
I have been a fan of your show for years and rarely miss it when it comes on every Saturday morning. One thing that I noticed when I started listening, that has continued to the present day, is how you two address a caller when he or she first calls in. When the caller is a female, your ears tend to perk up and the flirtation device in your loins goes into high gear. And God forbid that the female caller be a young chick in college or recently graduated. Y'all try to find out exactly where she is from, where she lives, family background, etc. I not only feel embarrassed for you, but also feel kind of nauseated as well. Now if the poor sap that calls in is a male, boy do the pleasantries go a LOT quicker. Let me give you an example:
Click ... Clack: Hello, you're on Car Talk.
Male caller: Hello, this is Joe Shmoe from Podunk, Kentucky.
C...C: Yeah, yeah, Joe, whadda ya want?
Click ... Clack: Hello, you're on Car Talk.
Female (in sexy voice): Hey, this is Jane Crane from Des Plaines.
C...C: Well, hi there. Is that Jane with a J?
FC: Well, yes it is.
C...C: HAH! I knew that! All Janes west of the Mississippi spell Jane with a J! So, Jane are you a student?
FC: No, but I graduated last year.
C...C: Any boyfriends in the picture? blah, blah, blah...
And so it goes. Frankly guys, I have seen your picture on the Web site, and I see why y'all are on the radio. I say these things only to help you. I don't want you to be under any illusions that you might have a chance with some of these callers of the female persuasion. Just face it—you're old,gray, and don't stand a chance. Keep up the good work, but snap out of that dream, fellas!
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This two-day graduate conference will investigate the intersections between visual culture and the occult tradition, ranging from the material culture of 'primitive' animism, through medieval and Renaissance depictions of witchcraft and demonology, to the contemporary fascination with the supernatural in popular culture.
The conference aims to provide a stimulating arena for the presentation of innovative research in this field as well as to offer a vibrant and thought-provoking forum for scholarly discussion and exchange. We welcome papers from current and recent graduate students from all disciplines, provided their research engages with material, visual or symbolic aspects of magic and occultism.
Acceptable topics include, but are by no means limited to, the following areas:
* The sacred and the profane;
* The material culture of magic, ritual and sacrifice;
* Objects of totemic, apotropaeic or fetishistic character;
* Aspects of mysticism in Jewish, Christian and Islamic art and architecture;
* Satanism, witchcraft and demonology; * Sacred geometry, numerology and cosmology;
* The arcane sciences (including astrology, alchemy and the tarot game);
* Art-theoretical discussions of the spiritual, the sublime, the marvellous, the numinous and the uncanny;
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* Visual aspects of occult movements such as Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Theosophy, Mesmerism, Spiritism and New Age Spirituality;
* The supernatural and the spiritual in modern and contemporary art; * Occultism and magic in contemporary popular culture.
N.B.: Presentations should not exceed a maximum of 20 minutes and will be followed by a 10-minute Q&A session. The sessions will be chaired by senior scholars within the University of Cambridge's History of Art Department. We also hope to publish selected conference papers in a book of proceedings.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to:
alongside a CV of 1-2 pages.
Deadline for submission is the 30th of September 2012.
All abstracts will be peer-reviewed and successful applicants will be notified about acceptance of their papers before the 15th of October 2012.
Early applications are strongly encouraged.
The Conference Committee
Josefine Baark, PhD Candidate, Homerton College Gabriel Byng, PhD Candidate, Clare College Imma Ramos, PhD Candidate, Pembroke College Daniel Zamani, PhD Candidate, Trinity College.
Day 1: Monday, 3 December 2012
09.30 – 10.00 Registration at
History of Art Department's Graduate Centre on 4A Trumpington Street
10.00 – 10.05 Welcome address (Daniel Zamani & Dr Alexander Marr)
10.05 – 11.00 Keynote Lecture
Dr Urszula Szulakowska (University of Leeds)
The Sexualisation of the Virgin Mary: Hieratic Religious Art in an Alchemical Context
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 1.00 Panel 1: The Christian Middle Ages Convenor: Dr Anna Gannon
Emily Goetsch (University of Edinburgh)
"Demonising the Other": Spanish Apocalyptic Images of Evil as a Way of Promoting Christianity in Tenth-Century Beatus Manuscripts
Orsolya Mednyanzky (Tufts University, Medford)
Protecting the Sacred Script: A Cross in Glory in a Late Medieval Armenian Gospel Book
Monika Winiarczyk (University of Glasgow)
'Homo Signorum': Looking to God or Looking to the Stars? The Role of Astrology in Medieval Christianity
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch Break
2.00 – 3.30 Panel 2: Islam and Hinduism Convenor: Rachel Parikh
Anja R. Dreiser (University of Bamberg)
Magic Mirrors from the Islamic World
Alexandra Plesa (Leiden University)
Pots That Bless: Pious Inscriptions on Samanid Pottery in Dutch Collections
Shandra E. Lamaute (University of Edinburgh)
A Printed Islamic Amulet
Imma Ramos (University of Cambridge)
Impurity, Auspiciousness and Power: The Tantric Transformations of Lajja Gauri at Kamakhya
3.30 – 4.00 Coffee Break
4.00 – 5.00 Panel 3: Early Modern Europe I Convenor: Prof. Jean Michel Massing
Liliana Leopardi (Hobert and William Smith Colleges, NY)
Renaissance Magic Precious and Semi-Precious Stones: the Fetish as a
path to Pyschological Integrity
Nikola Piperkov (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Et procul in tenuem ex oculis euanuit auram: Natural Magic and Divine Word in Giambologna's Statue of Mercury
Day 2: Tuesday, 4 December 2012
10.00 – 11.00 Panel 4: Early Modern Europe II Convenor: Dr Alexander Marr
Alexandra Marraccini (University of Chicago)
Open Secrets: Alchemical-Hermetic Iconography in the Ripley Scrolls
Marthe Kretzschmar (Technische Universitaet Hamburg)
Waxwork. Aby Warburg's "Bildzauber" between materiality and resemblance
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 1.00 Panel 5: Great Britain Convenor: Josefine Baark
Stephanie Churms (Aberystwyth University)
"Drawn by the Magician's Wand": The Occult Culture of Revolutionary Caricature
Lauren Greer (University of Saint-Thomas, MN)
Glamour: A Dissection of John Anster Fitzgerald's Fairyland
Heather Carroll (University of Edinburgh)
'Art not without ambition': Lady Melbourne, the Duchess of Devonshire and Mrs. Damer as The Three Witches from Macbeth
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch Break
2.00 – 3.30 Panel 6: Surrealism Convenor: Dr Karolina Watras
Daniel Zamani (University of Cambridge)
Alchemy & Empowerment in Victor Brauner's Appropriation of the Tarot Magician
Kristina Rapacki (Courtauld Institute, London)
Deicide, Regicide, Suicide: Bataille, Acephale and the Sovereign
Victoria Camblin (University of Cambridge)
Ritual and the Wagnerism of Acéphale (1936-1939)
3.30 – 4.00 Coffee Break
4.00 – 5.30 Panel 7: The 20 th Century Convenor: Elizabeth Upper
Adele Gardener (University of Bristol)
Art, Invocation and Alchemy: The Tarot Paintings of Lady Frieda Harris
Lisa Hanstein (Art-Historical Institute, Florence)
Unseen Spirits? Occult Aspects of Italian Futurist Art & Theory
Judith Noble (Arts University College, Bournemouth)
Ritual and Invocation: Occultism in the Films of Maya Deren and Kenneth Anger
5.30 – 5.35 Closing Remarks (Gabriel Byng)
5.35 – 7.00 Wine reception
Close of conference


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Early reports say that Kate Beckinsale will be donning her leather cat suit once again for "Underworld 3D". The same reports also say she's trying to find a way to get out of the film as well.
Michael Rooker will be coming back once again to face off against monsters, this time in an ice fishing trip turned beast battle in "Hypothermia". Let's hope he fares better this time than he did in "Slither".
Hammer Studios continues its rise from the dead by acquiring its next film, a big screen adaptation of Susan Hill's "The Woman In Black".
Director Russell Mulcahy has been tapped to direct the pilot for MTV's recently announced "Teen Wolf" reboot. When you consider Mulcahy directed the classic "Highlander", there is some reason to grow excited. Then you remember he also directed "Highlander 2: The Quickening" and that all goes out the window.
Lakeshore Entertainment and Kevin Grevioux, the team up that brought you "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" are preparing to bring you more of the unique brand of action horror with an adaptation of Grevioux's comic, "I, Frankenstein". At this time, it is still unclear how they will be working in Kate Beckinsale in tight leather.
Bruce Willis to star in "Grimm", a ghost story with one of the longest synopses I've ever seen... which can be found at the link. Directed by Russel Mulcahey, who also helmed 2007's "Resident Evil: Extinction".
Lars Von Trier's controversial film "Antichrist" has been picked up by IFC films. Hot off the controversy it caused at Cannes with its graphic violence, the film will now be coming to US shores as early as this summer. No word on what type of release IFC will give the film, but they are known for non-traditional theatrical/on demand models.
New Platinum Dunes blog on their "Nightmare on Elm St." shooting. Of course they're going to be positive, but word is that Jackie Earle Haley's rendition of Krueger is just as kick-ass as most of us have anticipated. Don't get me wrong, I'm still withholding excitement, but consider my curiosity peaked.


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UIW police officer involved in fatal shooting
SAN ANTONIO — Just before University of the Incarnate Word senior Robert Cameron Redus was fatally shot in a struggle with a UIW police officer Friday morning, a neighbor overheard what may have been his last words.
"I heard (a man) say, 'Oh, you're gonna shoot me?'" in a surprised voice, said Mohammad Haidarasl, 22, who was on his couch in his ground-floor unit at the Treehouse Apartments in Alamo Heights at about 2 a.m.
Less than a minute later, Haidarasl heard four to six gunshots.
"I jumped up and hid in my closet," he said.
Haidarasl didn't look out the window until he heard emergency vehicles converging on the quiet apartment complex. It wasn't until later that he realized the person shot was his upstairs neighbor, whom he described as "the nicest guy."
Redus, 23, would have graduated from UIW in May, university officials said. He was on the dean's list in fall 2012 and spring 2013, the university's website noted.
Videos from UIWTV.org, a campus television station operated by students in the Communication Arts Department, showed Redus anchoring news segments last year.
He had four brothers and grew up in Baytown, where he graduated as co-valedictorian from Baytown Christian Academy, friends said.
A statement released by the family said, "We are understandably devastated by the death of our dear son Cameron and we ask for your prayers as we deal with our tragic loss. We trust that God is faithful and will see us through this most difficult time."
As details of the shooting were slow to emerge Friday, friends had questions about what exactly occurred when UIW police Cpl. Christopher J. Carter tried to pull Redus over for a traffic violation, and whether the use of force was necessary.
Sara Davis, 20, and her sister Annie Jones, 22, both of Baytown, described Redus as kind, intelligent, compassionate and well-loved within the community.
"He was not an aggressive person at all, so the story doesn't make sense," Davis said.
Alamo Heights police Lt. Cindy Pruitt said Carter, in a marked UIW pickup, told officials he noticed Redus speeding and driving his Ford Ranger pickup erratically on Broadway.
He was not on campus, Pruitt said, and officials did not give an exact location where Carter first spotted Redus.
Pruitt said both vehicles, with Carter's emergency lights on, drove north on Broadway until they pulled into the parking lot of the Treehouse Apartments at Broadway and Arcadia Place.
Once in the parking lot, they both got out of their vehicles and became involved in a struggle, Pruitt said. The officer radioed for help during the struggle and Redus was shot multiple times.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Carter has been placed on paid administrative leave during the investigation, the university announced Friday afternoon. He was described by university officials as having an "extensive law enforcement background."
Over the course of Carter's eight-year law career in Texas, he has held nine jobs at eight agencies, including two stints at the Bexar County Sheriff's Office, files kept by the state agency for licensing peace officers show.
He rarely was at an agency more than a year and his shortest job was for seven months as a reserve officer for the San Antonio Municipal Court Marshals Division. So far, the two years and seven months he's spent at UIW is the longest stretch of employment, the files show.
The University of the Incarnate Word employs 17 police officers who all are licensed and trained as state-certified peace officers, university spokeswoman Debra Del Toro said. None of the officers carries a Taser.
A state-licensed peace officer working for a private institution can enforce state and municipal laws outside the campus jurisdiction in a variety of instances, says the Texas Education Code, which governs the agencies.
That includes "whether the officer is on property under the control and jurisdiction of the institution, but provided these duties are consistent with the educational mission of the institution and are being performed within a county in which the institution has land," the code states.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the student and officer involved in this incident," UIW President Dr. Lou Agnese said in a news release.
Police were investigating whether Redus had a weapon or was threatening the police officer's life, Pruitt said. The Texas Rangers are assisting in the investigation.
"This is really in its preliminary stages," Pruitt said. "This investigation will go on for days."
Haidarasl said no one from the Alamo Heights Police Department had tried contacting him, other than Friday morning when he went outside and officers told him he wouldn't be able to move his truck for a while.
Friday afternoon, he stood and chatted with neighbor Bea Perry, who lives in the same building. She, too, expressed surprise that Redus was the one shot by officers.
"He was such a nice kid; he had so much potential," Perry said, adding that she hoped someone would be around to care for Redus' fluffy black cat.
"So did you see anything?" she asked Haidarasl.
He launched into his story again, explaining that he heard the officer say more than once, "Stop resisting, stop resisting."
He thought he heard a struggle, he said.
"Then the cop said, 'I'm going to shoot,'" Haidarasl said.
And that, Haidarasl added, was what garnered the off-handed, sarcastic comment from their neighbor.
Then the silence, followed by gunfire.
Staff Writer Alia Malik contributed to this report.
An earlier version of this story mischaracterized a statement from witness Mohammad Haidarasl.


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Manipulate the default connectome provided with TVB to see how structural lesions effect brain dynamics. In this hands-on session you will insert lesions into the connectome within the TVB graphical user interface. Afterwards the modified connectome will be used for simulations and the resulting activity will be analysed using functional connectivity.
This lecture covers an introduction to neuroinformatics and its subfields, the content of the short course and future neuroinformatics applications.
The ionic basis of the action potential, including the Hodgkin Huxley model.
Introduction to the course Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Function.
The ionic basis of the action potential, including the Hodgkin Huxley model.
Introduction to the course Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Function.
The composition of the cell membrane.
Spatiotemporal dynamics of the membrane potential.
Action potential initiation and propagation.
Synaptic transmission and neurotransmitters
Neurotransmitter release in the presynaptic specialization.
Presynaptic short-term dynamics and plasticity.
Synaptic modulation through diffusing neurotransmitters.
Investigating the structure of synapses with electron microscopy.
Glutamatergic transmission.
Glutamate release after an action potential. Resulting post-synaptic potentials in a biophysically realistic situation.
Glutamatergic excitatory neuronal circuits.
The mechanisms behind changes in synaptic function created by learning.
Dendritic spines and their function.
GABAergic inhibition and its receptors.


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LEGO Space: Building the Future by Peter Reid and Tim Goddard, 2013, No Starch Press
Please note that I'm posting this same review across all my blogs, but I'm appending some blog-specific information at the end of each one.
My next review in my journey through the LEGO books that have come out recently is LEGO Space: Building the Future, by Peter Reid (aka Legoloverman) and Tim Goddard (aka Rogue Bantha). This book plays a dual role. On the one hand it is a science fiction story in the genre of future history. On the other it is a showcase for Pete and Tim's amazing models. The book starts out with a few pages of real space history, with some description of Sputnik, the Apollo program, and subsequent unmanned probes, with accompanying LEGO illustrations. I really loved this, and part of me wanted this to go on. I'd really love for these guys, or some other builder like Stephen Pakbaz, Dave Shaddix, or one of the other great builders of 'real space' would do a book dedicated to the actual space program.
That said, I'm not going to fault this book for failing to be something they never intended. LEGO Space quickly jumps ahead, skipping through the centuries of space colonization, and ultimately landing in a more detailed story set in the 26th century, which takes up 90% of the book. The story itself is good but not great. There was some good development, but I was left at the end wanting a little more. The plot surrounds the first contact between human space colonists and a sinister force of aliens. I read the whole thing in a sitting, so it moved along at a good pace, but it's not a story I would go back to again and again.
However, I didn't get this book for the story, and so I don't want that to taint my review. It is the LEGO that is the real draw here. Pete and Tim have created a whole series of spaceships, bases, robots and aliens, and woven them together in a visually stunning landscape. The models come in four distinct color schemes that fit together like the sub-themes of Space that LEGO came out with in years past. Both fig-scale and microscale models fit in, and they seem to mesh really well, like the microscale MOCs are truly just smaller images of the fig scale. The book includes sets of instructions (intermediate to advanced level) for many of the smaller MOCs (mostly the microscale ships and also the robots), so you can build your own micro fleet.
AFOLs will certainly recognize Pete and Tim's building styles, and even a few MOCs that they've shown before (sometimes reworked for this book). Of course we all know Pete's amazing Exo-Suit, that has been chosen as an upcoming Cuusoo set. That set, when it comes out, would be perfectly paired with this book as a great gift for the LEGO fan in your life, or just for yourself. Many (all?) of the characters are based on AFOLs, and the world that is colonized was originally a Brickish Association display a couple of years ago. Many of the models reflect Classic Space color schemes, and even reinterpret specific official sets, so old-time space builders will find much to love. There's also a variant on the popular Vic Viper meme. So in all this is a very community-focused book, though not in any way that would leave non-community members scratching their heads.
All in all, this is one of my favorite LEGO books of the year. The audience is pretty much anyone who like space at any level, from a young kid up to an advanced AFOL. I'm a little less thrilled by the writing, but I have to qualify that by saying that I pretty much judge future history by Clarke, Asimov, etc, so I set a pretty high bar for my science fiction reading.
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text: Thanks to Corey Goldberg, one of my colleagues @ Canonical, the page performance report can now be used on regular Apache log files, rather than just the zserver trace log files that Launchpad's middle tier generates. We use this report to identify poorly performing pages and get insight into the timing patterns of bad pages. The code lives in the Launchpad dev-utils project – instructions for checking it out and configuring it are on the wiki. If you don't have aggregate data for your web application, I highly recommend grabbing PPR and checking it out – its very lightweight, and data is extremely useful.


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Oh it's on! Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been confirmed to be in the next installment of the Batman saga currently titled "The Dark Knight Rises". Which character he will play has yet to be released but if I know my Batman trivia, which I think I do, I assume he'll be playing the role of King Tut. Google it, trust me it's funny.
Jodi Foster will step behind the camera for a new sci-fi flick that she's developing. No real details on the movie but apparently it'll have a nice warm family feel to it. So maybe something like "ET 2". The world demands it!
"The Seventh Son" has added Julianne Moore to its cast list which already includes Jeff Bridges. Moore will play the most bad ass of all witches who uses blood magic, whatever the hell that is. This is funny because I've always assumed Julianne Moore was a witch in real life because she looks exactly the same as she did 20 years ago. In days of old she would have been burned at the stake for being in her 50's and still being pretty hot.
Everyone and their mother has joined the cast of "Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters 3D" including Derek Mears who you might remember as Jason from the "Friday the 13th" remake. Fans of the "MacGruber" movie may also recognize him as "Large Henchman" which I believe got him an Oscar nomination.
Derek Mears, your current "Jason Voorhees", joins the cast of Robert Rodriguez's "Predators". Which makes sense, because he's just about the most terrifying human being I've ever seen. In real life that is, not so much in "Friday the 13th".
Paramount is Throwing 10 parties to celebrate this weekend's success of "Paranormal Activity". Find out how you can attend at the link.
Check out these early images from John Carpenter's big screen return "The Ward".
Scott Derrickson, director of "The Exorcism of Emily Rose", has signed on to direct the supernatural thriller "The Living".
Follow me on this one. A script that's been floating around called "Nightcrawlers", has officially gotten a director in Mike Mitchell. It also has a new name... "Monster Squad". Apparently the horror/comedy is being turned into a psuedo/not really remake of Fred Dekker's 80's classic. Here's more info.


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- Stocks To Watch
DryShips Drops 5% After Earnings, Outlook Disappoint
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Shipper and offshore contract driller DryShips (DRYS) is having a rough morning, with its shares down about 5%.
The move is likely due to the fact that DryShips last night reported its sixth straight quarterly loss and gave a fairly gloomy outlook for the rest of the year:
Rates for dry bulk ships, which carry commodities such as coal, ore andgrains, have been on a relentless decline in the last five years due to an oversupply of vessels and weak demand.
As a result, several shippers have been forced to restructure their businesses and reduce capital spending.
"Even though there has been a recent spike in some drybulk charter rates, we continue to be defensive about the short-term prospects of the shipping markets," Chief Executive Officer George Economou said.
"... We do not expect any positive sustainable development in charter rates this year."
In the wake of earnings, analyst Omar Noktar at Global Hunter Securities wrote:
Maintaining Neutral rating.
We believe DRYS has options to enhance its liquidity and we expect it will likely sell down another portion of its
Ocean Rig
) stake within the next few quarters, as it did in Q1, raising $123 million of cash. We remain Neutral on the shares, however, as we expect its ongoing negotiations with its lenders [about $941.3 million of debt repayments are due in 2013] to remain an overhang.
Shares of Eagle Bulk Shipping (EGLE) and Excel Maritime Carriers (EXM) are also falling, down 2% and 5%, respectively.


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birthday party
A few images from Israel's party. Israel cried for most of the gift opening but was
happy to have his first cake. I will try to post more later, maybe.
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Love the decorations! Love the silver lanterns and the yellow bunting.ReplyDelete
Wow, really nice decoration !! and once more congrats : )ReplyDelete
What an amazing party! Congrats to the little one! Love this to bits!ReplyDelete
I love your cut out Happy Birthday sign. WHERE DID YOU GET THOSE LITTLE SILVER AND YELLOW ANIMALS???? Happy Birthday to you and Israel!ReplyDelete
such a charming party! lucky israel!ReplyDelete
- christineOctober 04, 2010
so cool and not cute at all! (and i mean that in a good way. a very good way)ReplyDelete
Is that a silver gorilla I spy? What little kid doesn't want one of those at their party?!ReplyDelete
Looks amazing!! Soooo bummed that we couldn't make it:(ReplyDelete
you did such a beautiful job. i love your aesthetic. what a charming party for a child. artfully done!ReplyDelete
I love this decoration it´s so nice. I will keep in mind it becasue i will love to give to my 2 month old baby this kind of party when he grow upReplyDelete
looks beautiful!! happy birthday to your little man!ReplyDelete
Love everything that i see! Can't wait to see more:-) Zion cried a bit throughout the festivities too(for his 1st b'day party)because he was so tired. I didn't even open the presents the same day and i had to put him down for a nap(well as the party was ending). I'm sure it was a spectacular day for Israel! xxReplyDelete
What a darling birthday party Israel had!ReplyDelete
What a sweet birthday! LOVE the decor!ReplyDelete
These are magnificent! I wish we could see more!ReplyDelete
Happy birthday to Israel! This party looks like some serious fun. I love the silver lanterns and the letters pegged to the trees :) This certainly makes me wish I had a little one so I could create such a fun party!ReplyDelete
Congratulations!! Looks like such a great party ;-)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 06, 2010
what a lovely party!!!! and the pictures and everything. Looks so great!!!ReplyDelete
Everything looks beautiful, congratulations!ReplyDelete
ohhhh..i ove the silver....the writing is not on the wall...it is in the trees....you could sell that photo!ReplyDelete
very nice..xo
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Advanced search provides
the capability of combining multiple searches of specific types of data
in a logical AND or OR. The result is a list of structures that comply
with ALL or ANY search criteria, respectively. More complex logic will
be provided in a later release of the RCSB PDB. The easiest way to
understand how to use advanced search is to work through an example:
This will produce a long
list of possible query types organized by category. If you are not sure
of what one to pick select one and a brief description will appear.
Once a query type is selected you can also select the question mark to
get more help on that query. If it was not what you were seeking,
select a different query type.
In the above example a query type of UniProt Accession Number(s) is selected and a brief prompt is provided.
Click the button that says
Result Count. This will provide the number of PDB structures that match the query.
In this example 183 structures are found to contain
this UniProt identifier P69905. Note that this query is matching a
sequence, but it is structures that are returned. That is, the
structure may contain not only this single sequence but other different
sequences as well. All structures will be listed that contain the
selected sequence, irrespective of what else they contain.
The result count provides a
sense of how focused the query has become and whether it needs to be
refined further. At this point the user may select
Submit Query to list the 183 structures that match the search criteria or further refine the query.
By selecting the + a search criteria can be added.
Here we have added a search (query type deposition
date) for all structures deposited between January 1, 2008 and November
1, 2009. As previously the result count indicates the number of
structure that match the single criteria. In this example 10008
structures were added in that period.
At this point additional search criteria could be added if desired. Alternatively the
Submit Query
button will return all structures deposited in the selected time period
AND which contain the designated protein sequence from UniProt.
While not relevant here since structures are selected
that match a specific sequence, in other circumstances you may reduce
the number of sequence redundant structures returned by using the
Remove Similar Sequences option.
In the above example the 10008 structures deposited
between January 1, 2008 and November 1, 2009 are filtered such that if
any one of the polypeptide chains in a given structure matches any
polypeptide chain in another structure at 90% or greater sequence
identity, only one of those structures will be displayed. For this
query this has the effect of reducing the number of structures
resulting from the query from 10008 to 5523. A variety of sequence
identities can be selected as cutoffs.
The default is a AND condition between individual components of the query which is defined by the
Match all condition shown below.
The alternative is
Match Any which is a logical OR operator.
Several types of searches that are related with Chemical Components like "Chemical Name" or "SMILES", provide
the option to retrieve Ligand (short term for chemical components) results instead of the default "Structure" results.
By selecting "Ligand" from the "Results" drop box for a Chemical Name search, for the word "adenosine" for example,
one may retrieve the Ligands that match the search criteria - instead of the PDB Structures that contain such Ligands.
It is possible to use this option even in composite searches as long as one of the sub-queries relates to chemical components.


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|Safe Haskell
Special type combinators for specifying binding structure.
- data GenBind order card p t = B p t
- type Bind p t = GenBind StrictOrder StrictCard p t
- type SetBind p t = GenBind RelaxedOrder StrictCard p t
- type SetPlusBind p t = GenBind RelaxedOrder RelaxedCard p t
- data Rebind p1 p2 = R p1 p2
- data Rec p = Rec p
- newtype TRec p = TRec (Bind (Rec p) ())
- newtype Embed t = Embed t
- newtype Shift p = Shift p
- module Unbound.LocallyNameless.Name
- rGenBind :: forall order card p t. (Rep order, Rep card, Rep p, Rep t) => R (GenBind order card p t)
- rRebind :: forall p1 p2. (Rep p1, Rep p2) => R (Rebind p1 p2)
- rEmbed :: forall t. Rep t => R (Embed t)
- rRec :: forall p. Rep p => R (Rec p)
- rShift :: forall p. Rep p => R (Shift p)
data GenBind order card p t Source
The most fundamental combinator for expressing binding structure
Bind. The term type
Bind p t represents a pattern
paired with a term
t, where names in
p are bound within
Bind is also abstract. You can create bindings
bind and take them apart with
unbind and friends.
|B p t
|(Rep order0, Rep card0, Rep p0, Rep t0, Sat (ctx0 p0), Sat (ctx0 t0)) => Rep1 ctx0 (GenBind order0 card0 p0 t0)
|(Rep order, Rep card, Subst c b, Subst c a, Alpha a, Alpha b) => Subst c (GenBind order card a b)
|(Alpha a, Alpha b, Read a, Read b) => Read (Bind a b)
|(Show a, Show b) => Show (GenBind order card a b)
|(Binary p, Binary t) => Binary (GenBind order card p t)
|(Rep order0, Rep card0, Rep p0, Rep t0) => Rep (GenBind order0 card0 p0 t0)
|(Rep order, Rep card, Alpha p, Alpha t) => Alpha (GenBind order card p t)
type SetPlusBind p t = GenBind RelaxedOrder RelaxedCard p tSource
Rebind allows for nested bindings. If
p1 and
p2 are
pattern types, then
Rebind p1 p2 is also a pattern type,
similar to the pattern type
(p1,p2) except that
scopes over
p2. That is, names within terms embedded in
may refer to binders in
|R p1 p2
|(Rep p10, Rep p20, Sat (ctx0 p10), Sat (ctx0 p20)) => Rep1 ctx0 (Rebind p10 p20)
|(Subst c b, Subst c a, Alpha a, Alpha b) => Subst c (Rebind a b)
|(Alpha p1, Alpha p2, Eq p2) => Eq (Rebind p1 p2)
Compare for alpha-equality.
|(Show a, Show b) => Show (Rebind a b)
|(Binary p1, Binary p2) => Binary (Rebind p1 p2)
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p is a pattern type, then
Rec p is also a pattern type,
which is recursive in the sense that
p may bind names in terms
embedded within itself. Useful for encoding e.g. lectrec and
Agda's dot notation.
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TRec is a standalone variant of
Rec: the only difference is
that whereas
is a pattern type,
Rec p
TRec p
is a term type. It is isomorphic to
Bind (
Rec p) ()
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TRec corresponds to Pottier's abstraction construct
from alpha-Caml. In this context,
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Embed t
inner t, and
corresponds to
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outer t.
Embed allows for terms to be embedded within patterns. Such
embedded terms do not bind names along with the rest of the
pattern. For examples, see the tutorial or examples directories.
t is a term type, then
Embed t is a pattern type.
Embed is not abstract since it involves no binding, and hence
it is safe to manipulate directly. To create and destruct
Embed terms, you may use the
Embed constructor directly.
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embed and
unembed, which
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module Unbound.LocallyNameless.Name
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Boston Lisp Meeting: Monday 2010-09-20 Hari Prashanth on Functional Data Structures for Typed Racket
A Boston Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday, September 20th 2010 at 1800 at NEU WVH 366. Hari Prashanth will speak about Functional Data Structures for Typed Racket.
Additionally, we will have two Lightning Talks. Speakers to be announced.
|1 Hari Prashanth on Functional Data Structures for Typed Racket
Scheme provides excellent language support for programming in a functional style, but little in the way of library support. In this talk, I present our experience developing a comprehensive library of functional data structures in Typed Racket a typed variant of Racket, which allows us to maintain the type invariants of the original definitions.
Hari Prashanth is a Master's student at Northeastern University. He is working with Sam Tobin-Hochstadt for his thesis. His advisor is Matthias Felleisen. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/krhari/
|2 Lightning Talks
At every meeting, before the main talk, there are two slots for strictly timed 5-minute "Lightning Talks" each followed by 2 minutes for questions and answers.
The slots for next meeting are still open. Step up and come talk about your pet project! Contact me at fare at tunes.org.
|3 Time and Location
The Lisp Meeting will take place on Monday, September 20th 2010 at 1800 (6pm) at NEU WVH 366.
This is at Northeastern University, in the Computer Science building WVH (West Village H, see http://tmp.barzilay.org/wvh.jpg this picture) when you arrive from the T on Huntington Avenue near to Parker St (Green E line, stop at Northeastern Station, or possibly Museum of Fine Arts; you can also walk from Ruggles on the Orange line). As the number indicates, the room is on the third floor.
Northeastern maps and direction:
Many thanks go to Eli Barzilay for arranging for the room, and to Northeastern University for welcoming us.
|4 No Dinner
We haven't been able to renew sponsorship from our usual partners for 2010, and are not planning to have after-meeting buffet anymore at this point. An informal group will probably gather to have dinner within walking distance of the venue.
|5 More about the Meeting
The previous Boston Lisp Meeting on Monday, July 26th 2010 had about participants. Slava Pestov spoke about Factor: an interactive, dynamic, stack-based programming language. http://fare.livejournal.com/157280.html
We're always looking for more speakers. The call for speakers and all the other details are at: http://fare.livejournal.com/120393.html Volunteers to give Lightning Talks are also sought. http://fare.livejournal.com/143723.html
For more information, see our web site http://boston-lisp.org/ For posts related to the Boston Lisp meetings in general, follow this link: http://fare.livejournal.com/tag/boston-lisp-meeting or subscribe to our RSS feed: http://fare.livejournal.com/data/rss?tag=boston-lisp-meeting
Please forward this information to people you think would be interested. Please accept my apologies for your receiving this message multiple times. My apologies if this announce gets posted to a list where it shouldn't, or fails to get posted to a list where it should. Feedback welcome by private email reply to fare at tunes.org.


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Of course, morons are everywhere.
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
Maybe she was trying to get to a birthday party where they show porn...
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"alcohol wasn't a factor" ... don't hear that too often
Even "better" was this just a day or so earlier, and even closer to where I live, http://www.petaluma360.com/article/20120513/COMMUNITY/120519807/-1/community?Title=Hurrying-to-get-the-kids-to-soccer-8212-at-104-mph
That's a recurring nightmare I've had since before I was even old enough to drive. I get pulled over and I can't control the car because I was somehow driving from the back seat.
Said they bumped something, I did not know that it was possible to hit anything in Fargo. Learn something new every day.
As to mom she made the party albeit 30 days late.
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Halloween Costume Idea: Nicki Minaj
The costume: Nicki Minaj
Looking for a Halloween costume that incorporates bright colours, larger-than-life makeup, and over-the-top outfits? Then Nicki Minaj may be the perfect look for you.
Hair and makeup: Pick a colour, any colour. Nicki always opts for a veritable rainbow of hues in both her hair and makeup. A fluorescent palette is best for your eyes and lips, and don't be afraid to mix and match. False eyelashes are a must, too. Nicki is best known for her blonde and pink hair, so pick up a wig in either of those colours.
What to wear: Leopard print, leather, tutus . . . the world is your oyster when it comes to your Nicki costume. Slap on your highest heels, slink into a full-on bodysuit, or pull some neon fishnets out of the back of your closet. There really are no limits when it comes to this ensemble.
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Here's a brain teaser: Your task is to move a single line so that the false arithmetic statement below becomes true.
Did you get it? In this case, the solution is rather obvious – you should move the first "I" to the right side of the "V," so that the statement now reads: VI = III + III. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of people (92 percent) quickly solve this problem, as it requires a standard problem-solving approach in which only the answer is altered. What's perhaps a bit more surprising is that nearly 90 percent of patients with brain damage to the prefrontal lobes – this leaves them with severe attentional deficits, unable to control their mental spotlight – are also able to find the answer.
Here's a much more challenging equation to fix:
In this case, only 43 percent of normal subjects were able to solve the problem. Most stared at the Roman numerals for a few minutes and then surrendered. The patients who couldn't pay attention, however, had an 82 percent success rate. What accounts for this bizarre result? Why does brain damage dramatically improve performance on a hard creative task? The explanation is rooted in the unexpected nature of the solution, which involves moving the vertical matchstick in the plus sign, transforming it into an equal sign. (The equation is now a simple tautology: III = III = III.) The reason this puzzle is so difficult, at least for people without brain damage, has to do with the standard constraints of math problems. Because we're not used to thinking about the operator, most people quickly fix their attention on the roman numerals. But that's a dead end. The patients with a severe cognitive deficit, in contrast, can't restrict their search. They are forced by their brain injury to consider a much wider range of possible answers. And this is why they're nearly twice as likely to have a breakthrough.
Of course, this doesn't mean you should take a hammer to your frontal lobes. Being able to direct the spotlight of attention is a crucial talent. However, the creative upside of brain damage – the unexpected benefits of not being able to focus – does reveal something important about the imagination. Sometimes, it helps to consider irrelevant information, to eavesdrop on all the stray associations unfolding in the far reaches of the brain. We are more likely to find the answer because we have less control over where we look.
This helps explain a new study led by Mareike Wieth at Albion College. The scientists surveyed 428 undergrads about their circadian habits, asking them whether they were more productive and alert in the morning or evening. As expected, the overwhelming majority were night owls, which is why they studiously avoided 9 a.m. classes. Then, the scientists gave the students a series of problem-solving tasks. Half of these tasks were creative insight puzzles, in which the answer arrives suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere. Here's a sample insight puzzle:
- A man has married 20 women in a small town. All of the women are still alive and none of them are divorced. The man has broken no laws. Who is the man?*
And here's another classic puzzle:
Marsha and Marjorie were born on the same day of the same month of the same year to the same mother and the same father, yet they are not twins. How is that possible?
Did you solve these brain teasers? (The answers are, respectively, priest and triplets.)
The other half of the problems given to the students were standard analytic problems, such as long-division and pre-algebra equations. These questions don't require insights. Instead, they benefit from ordinary focus, as people grind out the answer and check to make sure it's right. The subjects were given four minutes to solve each problem. Half of them were tested early in the morning (8:30 a.m.) and half were tested in the late afternoon (around 5 p.m.).
The results are a testament to the creative virtues of grogginess. When people were tested during their "least optimal time of day" – think of that night owl stumbling into the lab in the early morning – they were significantly more effective at solving insight puzzles. (On one problem, their performance increased by nearly 50 percent.) Performance on the analytic problems, meanwhile, was unaffected by the clock.
The larger lesson is that those sleepy students, like a brain-damaged patient, benefit from the inability to focus. Their minds are drowsy and disorganized, humming with associations that they'd normally ignore. When we need an insight, of course, those stray associations are the source of the answer.
One last piece of evidence: A brand-new study by scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago compared performance on insight puzzles between sober and drunk students. (They were aiming for real intoxication, giving students enough booze to achieve a blood alcohol level of 0.075.) Once the students achieved "peak intoxication" the scientists gave them a battery of word problems – they're known as remote associate tests – that are often solved in a moment of insight. Here's a sample problem. Your task is to find the one additional word that goes with the following triad of words:
Cracker Union Rabbit
In this case, the answer is "jack." According to the data, drunk students solved more of these word problems in less time. They also were much more likely to perceive their solutions as the result of a sudden insight. And the differences were dramatic: The alcohol made subjects nearly 30 percent more likely to find the unexpected solution.
Once again, the explanation for this effect returns us to the benefits of not being able to pay attention. The stupor of alcohol, like the haze of the early morning, makes it harder for us to ignore those unlikely thoughts and remote associations that are such important elements of the imagination. So the next time you are in need of insight, avoid caffeine and concentration. Don't chain yourself to your desk. Instead, set the alarm a few minutes early and wallow in your groggy thoughts. And if that doesn't work, chug a beer.
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Congrats Verizon
Verizon has out done itself with the push to talk option. Finally they got it right this time. The initial push to talk when connecting with a person for the first time can take up to 3 seconds. After your initial ptt it takes only about 1 second to reach the other person. My dad was in chicago and i'm in New york and we connected instantly without any problem.
- PTT works great
- Speaker is loud
- Batter life is great
- Reception
- size
- call volume is loud
- Side buttons Get rid of them
- Alert sound is almost impossible to hear
I can't think of anything else. I gave this phone a 4.5 because of the side buttons and the alert sound. The side buttons just need to go they press while on calls and while in pocket. Alert sounds speak for itself.
You can check my other reviews for LG 8000 and a few more phones.
LG VX4650 I owned 2, as well as the 4700
These phones definetely deserve a 5.0 HONESTLY Well I will describe them in the way that i owned them what happened and then pros and cons.
1. The first phone was a big upgrade then what I had before. My dad had one and then I had one as well. It was cool and worked. It continued to work until I dropped it on the hinge and the screen went on and off a lot. So I got a replacemement model.
2. I owned this phone for about a year. I got tired of the frequent shut downs and restarts and all that, and i tossed it and i broke the screen. I almost took off a lot of the rating because of that, but was given a 4700, that COMPLETELY blew this cons away. It was an automatic 5.0
3. After my 4650 was having issues, they had an updated version which was the LG VX4700. I purchased it because, it was rugged and since I worked with people that had this phone I could use the PTT. i heavily dropped this phone. It seems sometimes that the screen went out and the battery wasn't that great after dropping it repeatedly etc. It never gave up and it finally shut off for the last time in 2008 like 3 years after I got the phone. It was an amazing update over the 4650. I'm glad that verizon convinced me to get that one.
PROS: for the first 4650, it died a lot with full charge, I considered getting the extended battery. When it broke all of the answers of battery issues were resolved as it must have been the phone in some way.
Durable: I cannot tell you/or count, how long I dropped this phone. All of them were heavily scraped. 4650 first one even got dunked. It didn't work for 4 days after and I was convinced I would have to switch. Tried to power it on again and if it didnt work was going to go get a different phone, well it turned on and I used it right after that.
I miss that Verizon stopped giving all of the accessories to you with the new phones like they did with the LG phones. I wish that they'd do that again. It was a very good phone though! Go get it today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Awesome phone!
GREAT basic telephone. I've never had any problems with this phone. Reception is great and I would buy this phone again. This is a basic phone with text messaging capabilities and a speaker phone; no camera or anything special. If you want a no frills phone that won't break down... get this phone.
Nice phone for the money
I'm with Verizon Wireless and have an LG VX4650. I've had this phone for two years. It was an emergency replacement for an LG VX4500 that had, what I call, a "screen wash" on the inside screen rendering the phone useless. I love the speaker on this phone because I often have my headphones on when i'm on the computer, and the speaker ensures me that i definitely hear the phone when it rings. It also supplies exelent speaker phone quality, which is good because sometimes (depending on who's on the other end) i have trouble understanding them through the ear piece. Sometimes I use the speaker phone more than my ear piece. Also I was surprised when the phone started to support the Verizon Wireless Extended Network when I was traveling this summer. As I said I've had this phone for a few years and plan to upgrade soon, but for the money I absolutely love it. Aside from a slight blemish caused by me, and a battery that has gotten rather weak over the 2,800 call amount & 280 hour talk time, nothing bad has happened to the phone. Definitely worth the bucks if you can find one used. One thing this phone has is a voice command set which includes an announce mode with partial TTS (Text to speech) capabilities. As I have limited vision this has major benefits.
Not So Good
Ok I got this phone as a loaner . I sent in my RAZR to get a repair and I got this phone as a loaner so i thought I'd put my Review on it.
I've had the phone going on 3 weeks now, and it's awful! The second say i had the phone it froze when trying to send a text message and i had to take the battery out. Just recently i went to go to the menu and it never responded so i pressed menu again and the screen turned a dark black but the button were still lit up and the outter clock was still on. SO i had to take the battery out to fix it. Also recently i flipped open the phone and it didn't respond the screen stayed black and the buttons wouldn't light up, so i had to take the battery out once again. I'm glad it's just a loaner.
My grandparents purchased this phone and they love it. The speaker phone is loud ans so are the ringers. The only complaint I have s the belt clip that they bought from verizon broke, but the replaced it.
Easy to use
Let me say the this 4700 is the worst phone that I have ever had. I do not like flip phones to begin with but VZW only has flips. The side buttons drive me CRAZY every time that I sit into a car seat I turn the speaker phone on or off, this also happens during calls because that is were you naturally hold on to the phone. If it is not the speaker button then it is the volume or the voice record/drive mode button. This thing will also make calls by its self. I sit into a seat and the next thing that I hear is a ringing from the speaker phone because it has called the last number that I called. The audio quality is just plain bad. I spend most of my time asking the people that I am talking to to repeat them selfs because they sound like Charlie Browns teacher. It has become a running joke with my wife of how many time the call will be dropped during our conversations. I can have full scale service and the call will just drop. Also I can have full scale service and not be able to make a call. It will just sit there trying to connect. When the person standing with me that also has VZW but a Motorola can make a call with no problem. I was recently on a trip where we had full scale VZW service ans was only able to make calls after turning the phone off and back on and dialing while it had analog service before logging into digital. Once it went to digital, no calls in or out. I tried swapping the phone out because it was still under warranty, but the new phone has the exact same problems. The only reason that this phone is still alive is that I need to have a phone at all times. I will however replace this phone soon at my upgrade and make sure that it meets with a VERY VIOLENT DEATH. Like a .44 mag through the heart. The one thing that I do like it the multiple ring tones that are assigned to my contacts so I know who is calling. I also forgot to mention the pain of having to end the call twice before making another call or you just make a redial of the last call.
Great Basic phone!
I got this phone for my mother who seems to break or drop all of her cell phones. She has dropped them off the boat, or out the car window or in the toilet, or the best one she baked in the oven! Anyways i bought this one since it seemed very sturdy! This phone is indeed one of the sturdiest phones i have used that is a flip phone! She has since dropped it out a second story window and dropped it down the cement basement stairs a few times but it still works like a charm. This phone is nothing fancy, but she does like the simple easy to use UI! LG has great ringtones and the phone only has a few minor scratches!
Pros- loud rigntones
many ringtones to choose from
- large buttons
-large screens
-great battery life
Cons- a little large, especially with holster clip and extendend battery it makes my NOkia 6255i seem small!
-No camera
OVeral this is a great phone with great reception the only reason i gave it a 4.5 was because it was so large and had no camera!
All I care about is reception. My wife and I live out on the edge of digital coverage. Her 4700 is horrible compared to my Motorola V60p or Motorola T300P when on the edge of digital coverage.
VX4650 - not happy
Unfortunately, we have two of these phones and are not happy. Salesperson touted the speakerphone when I said I always use headset, but I find it is not adequate to be hands-free in the car. Reception seems very poor--people are always saying "You're cutting in and out" even when it sounds clear to me. I never had dropped calls on my old phone, now frequent. And if my husband and I try to talk to each other (both on our 4650s)--forget it! At least one of us has to find a landline in order to have any conversation.


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No servo on the market has been able to fully live up to the expectations of today's 1/5-scale community or the performance demands of vehicles like the Losi® 5IVE-T. Servo fade, weak holding power and the crowbar effect are just a few of the issues found with even the most expensive large scale surface servos, until today!
Paul Beard, the person who brought 2.4GHz to the world of RC has done it again. The new Spektrum™ S9010 servo represents a new era in large scale servos and completely changes how 1/5-scale vehicles perform.
The S9010 incorporates features not found in any servo on the market today. Starting with patent-pending Back EMF technology, drivers no longer have to be concerned with servo fade after just a few minutes of run time and inferior holding power. The S9010 HV servo maintains optimum performance levels throughout the entire run while providing speed and torque ratings that put it in the ranks of servos that cost twice as much.
Dynamic breaking technology assures the vehicle maintains the heading demanded thanks to the servos brute level of holding power. An improved integrator design virtually eliminates the crowbar effect while keeping the servo temps low through even the most grueling of runs. Using Back EMF technology, position lock exponentially improves the servos ability to keep its position while greatly increasing holding power. In addition, the S9010 offers virtually zero servo fade, no matter how much is thrown at them. Forget about doubling up on expensive and heavy dual servo mounts. The S9010 won't fade under any condition.
Digital and analog servos have very similar construction and components. They both use the same type of motors, gears, cases, and have a potentiometer. A digital servo is different in the way it processes the incoming signal and converts that signal into servo movement.
An analog servo when it receives a command to move, takes that signal and sends pulses to the servo motor at about 50 cycles per second, which in turn moves the motor to its required position determined by the potentiometer.
A digital servo has a micro-processor that receives the signal and then adjusts the pulse length and amount of power to the servo motor to achieve optimum servo performance and precision. A digital servo sends these pulses to the motor at a much higher frequency which is around 300 cycles per second. This helps eliminate deadband, provides a faster response to the servo motor, smoother motor movement, and has higher resolution and holding power than an analog servo.
There are some disadvantages to digital servos, but the disadvantages are not in any way close to out weighing the advantages. A digital servo will have a higher power consumption (Around 10 to 15 mAh per servo at idle) than an analog servo due to its higher pulse frequency, so larger capacity battery packs are recommended. Digital servos also are more expensive than analog servos which can get very costly in applications that require many servos.
For JR servos we recommend Tamiya ceramic grease (TAM87025).
There are several scenarios which may attribute to this problem.
1. The servo arm fit on the output spline may be loose.
2. There may be slop or wear in the gear train.
3. There may be slop or binding in the linkages.
4. You may have a faulty servo saver.
5 The push rods may be too flexible.
6. Improperly mounted servo (screws too tight, mounting rail too tight against the servo)
7.Faulty extention, damaged lead or dirty connector.
8. Worn or dirty pot.
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I must admit, I just love this. Talk about taking one for the boys!
Following an internet campaign by England fans, Chris Kamara, one of the most positive men in English football has taken up the challenge to change his name to help bring the cup home this summer. Fans who believe a scientifically proven chant, Cabanga, will have a positive effect on our boys in South Africa have called for Kamara to be the movement`s ambassador and become Chris Cabanga for the duration of the tournament.
Chris Kamara has accepted their challenge but has called for 20,000 people to join England`s cause at www.facebook.com/ThinkCabanga before he changes his name to Chris Cabanga.
The man soon to be called Cabanga said, 'These crazy people want me to change my name to Chris Cabanga. They say it will help the boys win the World Cup. It looks like fun and I`ll do anything that helps England bring home the cup but I'm not going to change my name unless I know that the public are behind England and show that they want me to become Chris Cabanga!'
Having witnessed the results of Cabanga at www.youtube.com/user/cabanga Chris has become a believer in the power of the 12th man.
He added: 'I have seen the effects of the word Cabanga on performance, it seems clear we can use it to help cheer our lads to victory. With everyone chanting Cabanga it could make a very real difference. It could even be the crucial, deciding factor if a match goes to the dreaded penalties – I think if we all believe it, it could happen.'
Full quotes: www.england.vitalfootball.co.uk
And no article would be complete without the classic Kamara clip, hopefully Sky won't mind this being linked from YouTube. The great thing about Kamara, sorry, Cabanga…!… is he takes football but not himself seriously! Top notch.


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SUNY Canton Students Giving Back this Holiday Season
Several SUNY Canton clubs and organizations are inviting members of the local community to help fill local food pantries for the upcoming holiday season.
"SUNY Canton Gives Back" will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 30 in the College's Richard W. Miller Campus Center Woodcock Conference Suite. Country radio station 95.3 The Wolf – WLFK, one of the event's sponsors, will be broadcasting live.
Community members are encouraged to bring canned goods and non-perishable food items to the event. Photos with Santa Claus and the SUNY Canton Roo will be available for free with a donation of canned goods. Free hot chocolate and cookies will be provided.
Drop boxes have been placed throughout the College's campus for those unable to attend or for additional donations. The food donated will be collected and brought to the Community Development Program for distribution to local pantries following the event.
Parking will be available in the Miller Campus Parking Lot #13.
Media inquiries should be directed to Gregory Kie, Media Relations Coordinator, or call 315/386-7528.
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