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Who was/is Lee Dorsey ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Lee Dorsey
Ride Your Pony
Lee Dorsey
Ride Your Pony
In a lot of ways, Lee Dorsey was Allen Toussaint's vocal alter ego. As architect of the early '60s New Orleans R&B sound and A&R man for Minit and Instant Records, Toussaint wrote, arranged, produced, and played splendid piano on hits by a host of Crescent City luminaries, but Dorsey was a personal favorite. "He had such a unique voice that you could go to subjects and humor that you never would dare try with another type of vocalist or a debonair personality," says Allen. "He was just such a high-spirited guy, and such a unique voice that always sounded like it had a smile in it. It was just a pleasure to hear his voice, for one thing. And we spent lots of time together, and he loved singing so very much. So that was always quite gratifying."
Born December 4, 1926 in the Big Easy, Lee's family moved to Portland, Oregon when he was 10. After being wounded in World War II, Dorsey boxed as Kid Chocolate, then returned to New Orleans and learned auto repair. Lee was singing beneath talent scout Renald Richard's car one day, and Richard offered him $50 to record at Cosimo Matassa's studio, resulting in his '59 debut single Rock for Matassa's Rex label. Toussaint played on Lee's Valiant encore Lottie Mo, writing the flip, Lover Of Love.
When Fury Records promo man Marshall Sehorn swung through town and heard Lottie Mo on the radio, he thought it was Ray Charles. Learning otherwise, he hipped his Harlem-based boss, Bobby Robinson, to his discovery. Robinson came down to check Lee out, the two penning the playful Ya Ya on Dorsey's porch after hearing a gaggle of nearby kids singing bawdy rhymes. Since Toussaint was contracted to Minit, he couldn't play the date. "Marshall brought that to me to make a demo for him, to take it to Harold Battiste so they could record it," says Allen. "So I made the demo, and I played it like that. And Marcel played it like that as well. So of course it sounds like me, because it's my idea. But that's Marcel Richardson playing." Ya Ya paced the R&B charts and climbed to #7 pop in 1961, and Lee's Earl King-penned encore Do-Re-Mi hit the next year. But when Allen was drafted, Dorsey's hits dried up.
Toussaint came back home in 1965. Sehorn enlisted his production savvy to get Lee back on track; they cut the dance workout Ride Your Pony, owing no small debt to Jr. Walker & The All Stars' Shotgun. "It was the only time that I tried to write a hit song," says Allen. "I really tried to write a hit. I had been in the military for a couple of years, and I was getting out, and I figured everyone was all the way around the track and here I am just at the restarting gate. And so with 'Ride Your Pony,' I tried to write a hit song. And I mentioned states in it and cities and various things, really trying to reach people. And I must say, I had fun doing it." Written under Toussaint's Naomi Neville alias, Ride Your Pony galloped to #7 R&B and #28 pop on Larry Uttal's New York-based Amy logo. That Crescent City collaboration would continue on Lee's 1966 hits Get Out Of My Life, Woman, Working In The Coal Mine, and Holy Cow.
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Unfortunately it's finally here….the FINAL episode of Degrassi in 2010. Halo, Part 1 was really good…all of the plots are similar, but at the same time different in their own right.
*Every central character's acting (Jenna, Adam, Wesley) was great. Jessica Tyler is so far improved from the days of being ho hum about Jenna's weight during The Boiling Point.
*It's super sweet that Adam wants to recreate a NYC party for Fiona, though I'm still not sure how into him Fiona really is. EClare works great in a supporting role.
*Wesley has a wet dream during the middle of class? HAHAHAHAHAHAH…that is all. I already feel terrible for him though (almost to the point of tears) because he has a 0% chance with Anya.
*Jenna doesn't stand a chance with Sav either…I just need SOMETHING to pan out as far as her and KC is concerned. I can't be the only one that thinks it's so freakin bizarre that she's dealing with the pregnancy by herself, while KC is over here thinking "I like her, but I don't want to be a father." Their interaction is just so weird to me.
*On a random note, Jess is kinda cute, but with the whole braces/awkwardness going on she doesn't seem like the kind of girl Drew would go for, given he's gone after girls considered hot (Alli, Fiona). I guess he's just a horndog in general.
I'll be out of town this weekend, but hopefully I'll have the review up sometime Sunday! So sad….what are we supposed to do for the next three months? :(

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ESA appoints Ogilvy Brand Relations to help market European assets on the ISS
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Ogilvy Brand Relations in Brussels, Belgium, to help it develop a branding and communications strategy for the International Space Station (ISS). ESA's objective is to raise commercial demand for use of the European assets on the International Space Station.
The International Space Station is one of the world's most sophisticated research laboratories. It offers facilities and manpower for organisations and companies to carry out cutting-edge research in such fields, among others, as biochemistry, pharmacology, physiology, materials science, physics, astronomy and environmental science. It is also a unique platform for marketing, sponsorship and other less conventional space activities. And yet, outside the aerospace community, many companies are still unaware of this potential.
Mr Antonio Rodotà, ESA's Director General, said: "In the ISS, ESA is offering a platform for new activities. We are convinced that through the ISS, we can help European companies convey compelling messages to their markets and increase their competitive advantage around the world."
Although its assembly in orbit still has some years to go, the station is already operational and houses three full-time residents. It is open for business. Regular Russian and American flights keep it supplied, bring visitors, and ferry scientific and commercial payloads to orbit and back to earth.
"In the past, human spaceflight has wrongly retained an exotic and elitist image. With the ISS, this is changing. Human spaceflight will become an everyday experience," explains Mr Jörg Feustel-Büechl, ESA's Director of Manned Spaceflight and Microgravity. "The station offers companies and organisations the opportunity, for the first time, to exploit manned spaceflight for commercial purposes. By opening a unit exclusively devoted to marketing the station's facilities, ESA is leading the ISS commercialisation effort."
Mr Feustel-Büechl added: "ESA and its commercial partners can offer tailored packages to interested companies, taking care of everything from space certification of payloads to launches, flying and running programmes on board the station, and delivering results and payloads back to customers on Earth. ESA can arrange favourable financing deals and guarantees that its clients' intellectual property is fully protected at all stages of a programme. Ogilvy will help us explain these opportunities to a wide audience."
Ogilvy will help ESA develop the station's brand image and design a communications strategy to put the ISS in the public eye in Europe and to raise its potential among the European business community. In hiring Ogilvy, ESA is demonstrating its commitment to understanding and meeting the needs of its business partners.
Although the communications programme will focus on the R&D community, it will also reach out to newer kinds of space entrepreneurs, active in marketing, entertainment and tourism. The R&D effort will concentrate on health, biotechnology, environment, food, and new materials.
The fact that most companies lack experience in the commercial exploitation of space, combined with the state of today's economy, will make this a complex and challenging programme.
"Ogilvy's unique branding and marketing skills, combined with its keen understanding of the unusual challenges of space-based marketing and an outstanding international network, makes it ESA's ideal partner for this exciting new initiative," explains Maurizio Belingheri, ESA's Head of ISS Commercialisation. "The network will enable us to reach our target audiences in all ESA Member States".
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by Kate King
Kate King, one of our USA Farm Share members on Capitol Hill, writes the awesome blog "Lettuce Eat Together." Over the weekend she whipped up a number of delicious meals using ingredients that she and her husband, Casey, got in their share from us.
Check out this vegan edamame and butter bean dip recipe . We still have plenty of edamame from Epic Gardens and butter beans from Tara and William Fowler, so you can replicate it! Enjoy.
And here is Stout Braised Goat Rib Stew, featuring goat ribs from Goats R Us in Blackstone, VA. They make the most heavenly chevre, camambert and feta. We have recently gotten goat ribs in stock, and people are curious about how to cook them. Let us know how you have done your goat ribs, so we can share.


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Tip Tap 2
Tip Tap is back! Just like its beloved and highly addictive predecessor Tip Tap 2 is a fast paced skill game that is all about perfect timing. Your character bounces back and forth on a bar and with a single click you can change its direction and take a turn. In the beginning you can take your time to do so as the walls are solid and you can take all the time you need. But soon the walls will start to crumble when bumping into them and you need to take the turn fast. Play Tip Tap 2 now for free and find out how far you can go!
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struggling to get back to healthy eating.
Hi everyone. I am trying to get back to eating my vegetables. I used to eat really healthy and be really healthy. I really miss those days. I started emotional eating, because I gave birth to a son 18 months ago who was stolen out of the hospital at birth due to my sexual assualt victim status. Social workers are very ruthless oppressors and have written lies on almost all of their documents, and so I started eating stuff I never ate before. Including chocolate and soda. I had gotten myself down to 127 lbs there for a bit, but now Im back upto 138 and feeling god aweful broken down and weak. Im also on the computer for hours a day when before my son was stolen I was very active and lived a healthy and sustainable outdoorsy lifestyle. I have to get myself better again. Anyone have any tips? Ive been trying to get myself back for like 9 months now, and it's not working. For those of you living on $100 of foodstamps a month, what kinds of food do you eat when you are having to eat many times a day due to stress?
Sorry to hear about your heartache! Dont give up. Id say try to eat snacks like popcorn or nuts. Comforting for me when I just want to stuff my face.
Food items deemed "healthy" might be pure meals, normal meals, total meals, and also at times dietary supplements. These kinds of merchandise can be purchased within wellbeing meals stores or perhaps inside health/organic parts of grocery stores. "Health food" may also talk about practical meals that designed to address certain health issues, such as deterrence of disease.
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Weather News
Forecasters warn Atlantic to come alive with tropical cyclones again
After a sudden pause in tropical activity, factors are pointing to some trouble spots emerging in the basin -- and one of the developing systems could track toward the U.S.
Northern Lights may be visible over the US early this week
Did you see the Northern Lights the past couple nights? If not, you may have another chance on Tuesday night as a geomagnetic storm continues to spark the radiant lights.
Planets to align next month among trio of celestial sights
A meteor shower, a blue moon and a glowing orange object standing out among a sea of white stars will dazzle October skies -- and sky gazers don't even need a telescope to witness it all.
The best weather for stargazing
When it comes to stargazing, cloud cover isn't the only weather condition that matters to astronomy. Let's explore ideal conditions to see the stars at night.
Home air purifiers that can help filter out wildfire smoke
With air quality plummeting in some parts of the country, it's wise to have a device that can help clean the air you and your family breathe in your home.
AccuWeather School: Why do hurricanes never seem to threaten California?
There are beaches along the West Coast of the United States, but why do you never see hurricanes hit California the way they do to states along the Gulf of Mexico or East Coast?


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Former VP Receives SUNY Canton's Distinguished Citizen AwardWednesday, April 29th, 2009
A retired college vice president and founding member of the SUNY Canton Foundation will be recognized as the 2009 Distinguished Citizen at the College's 101st Commencement Ceremony.
Charles F. Goolden will be among the honorees and award recipients to be recognized with the 2009 graduating class at 10:30 a.m. on May 16th outdoors across from French Hall.
"Chuck provided years of dedicated service to the College and was meticulous in managing the College's finances," said SUNY Canton President Joseph L. Kennedy. "Now he's taken his tremendous work ethic and dedication out into the community and helped charitable organizations in ways that go beyond measure."
During his tenure at SUNY Canton Goolden chaired the committee that developed and implemented student identification cards that are still utilized by most SUNY campuses. Goolden also lead the College's move to computerize the accounting and record keeping at the college.
"Chuck's service to SUNY Canton is well known to almost everyone," noted SUNY Canton President Emeritus Earl W. Mac Arthur. "It is marked with innovation and long range thought and planning, coupled with his far-reaching influence with the State University of New York."
The Vice President Emeritus was a founding member of the SUNY Canton Foundation Board of Directors and has served for more than 35 years. He created the Goolden Family Endowed Scholarship, which is awarded annually to incoming freshmen in the Mortuary Science or Business programs.
He has served tirelessly as a member and officer of the Canton-Potsdam Hospital (CPH) Board of Directors, according to Laura Cordts, Executive Director of the CPH Foundation. He and his wife, Linda, co-chaired the largest campaign in the hospital's history, which lead to extensive upgrades at the hospital.
"Charles Goolden is a community treasure," Cordts said. "Canton-Potsdam Hospital is a bigger and better place thanks to him."
Charles joined SUNY Canton in 1966 after graduating from St. Lawrence University. Prior to his post as Vice President for Administration, he was the Executive Director of the College Association, Inc. Goolden retired from SUNY Canton in August 2001 after 35 years of service.
Charles and Linda also operated a family funeral business in Madrid for 20 years.As a licensed funeral director, he leant his insight and business sense to create the SUNY Canton Mortuary Science program. He continues to serve on the program's advisory committee.
The Gooldens have two children, Andrew and Susan.
SUNY Canton offers a wide variety of career-driven bachelor's, associate, and certificate programs, as well as three master's degrees in conjunction with SUNYIT, Utica. Most of SUNY Canton's new four-year programs are designed so students can take them on-campus, online, or both. SUNY Canton OnLine features more than 100 courses online each semester. The College offers a four-day academic week allowing students greater flexibility for work, family, or other obligations. The College's athletic teams belong to the NAIA's Sunrise Conference, enabling students to compete in their respective sports for four years.


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The monastery of Sumela
At the start of the Byzantine era, a large number of monasteries sprang up in the mountains behind Trabzon. The most important and prestigious – and today the best preserved – was Sumela (increasingly signposted as Sümela), which clings to a cliff-face nearly a thousand feet above the Altındere valley, 46km south of Trabzon, in precisely the sort of setting that has always appealed to Greek Orthodox monasticism. Despite the usual crowds, often rainy or misty weather, and the rather battered condition of its frescoes, Sumela still rates as one of the mandatory excursions along the Black Sea.
If you don't have your own vehicle, you can make the hour-long journey to Sumela from Trabzon by taxi or on a tour. However you arrive, aim to spend at least three hours at the site, allowing for a good look around and a spot of lunch by the rapids which flow through the valley below. The monastery itself is linked to the valley floor by a newly paved road, as well as a commonly used, recently widened and often slippery woodland trail (30min).
Brief history
The name "Sumela" is a Pontic Greek shortening and corruption of Panayia tou Melas or "Virgin of the Black (Rock)". She has been venerated on this site since at least 385 AD, when the Athenian monk Barnabas, acting on a revelation from the Mother of God, discovered an icon here said to have been painted by St Luke. He and his nephew Sophronios found the holy relic on a site that matched the one in his vision – a cave on a narrow ledge, partway up the all-but-sheer palisade – and installed it in a shrine inside.
A monastery supposedly grew around the image as early as the sixth century, but most of what's visible today dates from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Over the centuries the icon was held responsible for countless miracles, and the institution that housed it shared its reputation, prompting even Turkish sultans to make pilgrimages and leave offerings.
Six years after Sumela was hastily evacuated in 1923, along with all other Greek Orthodox foundations in the Pontus, it was gutted by fire, possibly started by careless squatters. In 1931 one of the monks returned secretly and exhumed various treasures, including the revered icon of the Virgin, now housed in the new monastery of Sumela, in northern Greece. Since 1996, the monastery has been undergoing restoration. The work done thus far is in reasonable taste, extending to proper ceramic canal-tiles for the roof. Most important of all, the surviving frescoes have been consolidated and cleaned.
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Coconut and Pumpkin Jelly Eggs with Gula Melaka Soy Sauce
(Makes 12 eggs)
Egg yolk
150g pumpkin, peeled and cut into thick chunks
1 teaspoon agar agar powder (I prefer Thai Pearl Mermaid Brand)
20g caster sugar
150ml water
Egg white
400ml water
50g caster sugar
2 ½ teaspoons agar agar powder (I use Thai Pearl Mermaid Brand)
50ml thick coconut milk
Gula Melaka Soy Sauce
20g gula Melaka, shaved
6 tablespoons water
1 ½ teaspoon soy sauce
To prepare egg yolk: Steam the pumpkin over high heat for 10 minutes or until soft. Remove from the steamer. Mash steamed pumpkin while hot. Place steamed pumpkin, agar agar powder, sugar and water in a pot. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring continuously. Remove and pour into mould. Cool and refrigerate to set.
To prepare egg white: Bring all ingredients to the boil in a small pot over medium heat. Stir continuously. Pour into a measuring cup.
To assemble egg: Take a clean egg shell. Make a hole on top that is big enough to fit the yolk. Pour a little egg white mixture into the egg shell. Place an egg yolk on top. Pour remaining egg white mixture until the top. Continue for the remaining egg shells. Place in an egg carton. Refrigerate until set.
To prepare sauce: Melt gula Melaka in a small pot. Add water and soy sauce. You can adjust the water to get the consistency you wish.
To serve: Crack the egg shells. Dip the eggs with the sauce.


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News & Notes: Game 48
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TODAY'S GAME: Tonight, the Buffalo Bisons face the Durham Bulls in the third game of a four-game series at Durham Bulls Athletic Park (5:05 p.m.). The series is tied at a game apiece after the Herd won 9-3 on Friday night and Durham collected a 10-2 victory yesterday. After this series, the Bisons will travel to Norfolk for a four-game series against the Tides, June 2-5.
UP IN ARMS: The Bisons pitching staff got a boost today as two new arms have joined the team. RHP Lance Broadway was acquired by the Mets in a trade after going 0-1 with a 5.65ERA with the Chicago White Sox this year. LHP Adam Bostick has been promoted from Binghamton (AA). He was 3-0 with a 2.60ERA in 11 relief outings with the B-Mets (17.1IP, 16H, 20K).
HOMER HAPPY: C Rene Rivera has punctuated his recent hot streak with home runs in back-to-back games. Rivera has now hit in six straight games, averaging .333 (8-24) with five runs, five doubles, two home runs and three RBI. The six-game stretch has raised Rivera's average 88 points to .231.
CRAZY 8s: Two of the hottest bats in the Bisons lineup belong to OF Cory Sullivan and INF Javier Valentin. Both veterans are coming into tonight's game on eight-game hit streaks. Sullivan has hit .452 (14-31) during his stretch to raise his average 57 points since May 21. He has scored five runs with three doubles and four walks during his streak. Valentin has hit .333 (10-30) during his streak with three doubles, a home run and four RBI. He has hit in 13 of his 15 starts since joining the Bisons on May 14.
THE WRONG REY: Just prior to yesterday's game, the Bisons lost INF Argenis Reyes to the disabled list with a groin contusion. Reyes has been one of Buffalo's most consistent hitters and goes on the DL on a nine-game hit streak. Reyes has reached base in 11 straight and leads the Bisons with a .380 on-base pct.
UNHAPPY LIST: The Bisons now have seven players on the disabled list: RHP Dillon Gee, INF Andy Green, INF Mark Kiger, OF Bobby Kielty, RHP Carlos Muniz, C Mike Nickeas and INF Argenis Reyes. On the year, the Bisons have already lost 133 man-games to injury.


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- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 5 large eggs, separated
- 2 cups bleached all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup ground pecans
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 cups frozen unsweetened flaked coconut, defrosted
- One 8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
- 1 1/2 pounds confectionersí sugar (about 6 cups), sifted
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 cup pecan pieces
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Lightly grease and flour three 8-inch round cake pans.
- In a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer, cream the granulated sugar with 1/4 pound (1 stick) of the butter. With the mixer running, add the oil in a steady stream. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Sift the flour and baking soda together into a medium-size mixing bowl. Add the ground pecans and mix. Alternately add the flour mixture and the buttermilk to the batter, mixing well. Fold in 1 cup of the coconut.
- With the electric mixer, in another large mixing bowl (wash and dry the beaters well first), beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form, then fold them into the cake batter. Pour the batter evenly into the prepared pans. Bake until the center springs back when touched, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and cool on wire racks. After the cakes have cooled, invert them onto sheets of parchment paper. Set aside.
- With an electric mixer, in another large mixing bowl (wash and dry those beaters), cream the remaining 1/4 pound (1 stick) butter with the cream cheese. Add the sifted confectioners' sugar, about 1/2 cup at a time, mixing after each addition. Add the vanilla and milk and mix well. Fold in the pecans. Spread a thin layer of the frosting on top of each cake layer. Place the layers of cake on top of each other and ice the sides of the cake with the remaining frosting. Sprinkle the top of the cake with the remaining 1 cup coconut.
Recipe Details
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- Dish Type: Dessert
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Mahsa Varshosaz
From CERES
Mahsa Varshosaz, Ph.D. Candidate, M.Sc.
Family Name: Varshosaz
Given Name: Mahsa
Role: Ph.D. Candidate
Title: M.Sc.
Subject: Computer Science and Engineering
Organization: Center for Research on Embedded Systems
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Research Interests
- Model-based testing
- Formal analysis of software product lines
- Verification of probabilistic and stochastic systems
- Modeling and verification of distributed systems
- Mahsa Varshosaz, Lars Luthmann, Malte Lochau, Mohammad Reza: Expressive Power and Encoding of Transition System Models for Software Product Lines. Submitted for journal, 2018.
- Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Mahsa Varshosaz: Telling Lies in Process Algebra. Submitted for conference, 2018.
- Mahsa Varshosaz, Mustafa Al-Hajjaji, Thomas Thüm, Tobias Runge, Mohammadreza Mousavi and Ina Schaefer: A Classification of Product Sampling for Software Product Lines. Submitted for conference, 2018.
- Nauman Bin Ali, Emelie Engstrom, Masoumeh Taromirad, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Nasir Mehmood Minhas, Daniel Helgesson, Sebastian Kunze, Masha Varshosaz: On the search for industry-relevant regression testing research, Submitted for journal, 2018.
- Mahsa Varshosaz, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Harsh Beohar: Basic behavioral models for software product lines: Revisited. Accepted in Science of Computer Programming Journal.
- Harsh Beohar, Mahsa Varshosaz, Mohammad Reza Mousavi: Basic behavioral models for software product lines: Expressiveness and testing pre-orders. Science of Computer Programming Journal 123: 42-60, 2016.
- Sofia Larissa da Costa Paiva, Adenilso Simão, Mahsa Varshosaz, Mohammad Reza Mousavi: Complete IOCO test cases: a case study. A-TEST@SIGSOFT FSE 2016: 38-44.
- Sebastian Kunze, Wojciech Mostowski, Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Mahsa Varshosaz: Generation of failure models through automata learning. Workshop on Automotive Systems/Software Architectures (WASA), 2016.
- Mahsa Varshosaz, Harsh Beohar, Mohammad Reza Mousavi: Delta-Oriented FSM-Based Testing. ICFEM 2015: 366-381.
- Mahsa Varshosaz, Ramtin Khosravi: Model Checking of Software Product Lines in Presence of Nondeterminism and Probabilities. APSEC (1) 2014: 63-70.
- Mahsa Varshosaz, Ramtin Khosravi: Discrete time Markov chain families: modeling and verification of probabilistic software product lines. SPLC Workshops 2013: 34-41.
- Mahsa Varshosaz, Ramtin Khosravi: Modeling and Verification of Probabilistic Actor Systems Using pRebeca. ICFEM 2012: 135-150.
- Data Security for Embedded Systems (Undergraduate course), Halmstad University.
Winter 2017, Winter 2018
- Real-Time Embedded Systems (Graduate course), Halmstad University.
Fall 2014, Fall 2016, Fall 2017
- Advanced Object-Oriented Programming (Undergraduate course), Halmstad University.
Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017
- Formal Modeling and Verification (Graduate course), University of Tehran.
Fall 2012, Fall 2013
Supervised Theses
- Bachelor Thesis: Embedded System Design for Autonomous Drones. (As a part of 2018 Student CPS Challenge.) Halmstad University, Jan 2018-Current.
Students: Emil Johansson, Patrick Karlsson
- Master Thesis: Generating Test Adapters for ModelJunit. Halmstad University, 2017. (Co-supervised)
Student: Ardalan Hashemi Aghdam
- Bachelor Thesis: On Efficiency and Effectiveness of Model-based Test Case Generation Techniques by Applying the HIS Method: An Experimental Research. Gothenburg University, 2016. (Co-supervised)
Students: Mahsa Abbasian, Sali El Masri
Work Experience
Visit to TNO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April-June 2018
Presentations in Conferences / Workshops
ICFEM 2012, FMSPLE 2013, APSEC 2014, NWPT 2014, AVOCS 2014, ICFEM 2015, iFM PhD symposium 2016, NWPT 2016, WADT 2016, FOSD 2017, NWPT 2017
Summer/Winter Schools
- Halmstad Testing Summer School 2014, 2015, 2017
- Marktoberdorf Summer School 2015
- Autumn School on Cyber-Physical Systems 2015
Reviewer for Journals and Conferences
- Science of Computer Programming Journal (Outstanding reviewer, September 2017), PeerJ Journal
- CILC 2013, ACSD 2014, FOR-MOVES 2014, FSEN 2015, FormaliSE 2015, Coordination 2015, FSEN 2015, TTCS 2015, ICFEM 2015, TASE 2016, ACSD 2016, SEFM 2016, ICFEM 2016, FM 2016, FSEN 2017, ICTAC 2017, ICFEM 2017, HLDVT 2017, VAMOS 2018


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With the new year comes new... problems.
Crosby (Dax Shepard) and Jasmine (Joy Bryant) just decided to try for another baby on Parenthood, but unfortunately when the NBC drama returns, the newlyweds are going to have a much more pressing matter to deal with: Jasmine's mom.
Catch up on full episodes of Parenthood
In this exclusive sneak peek from the next new episode (Tuesday, Jan. 1 at 10/9c), Jasmine reveals to Crosby that her mom lost her job and needs to borrow money — to the tune of $5,000. Crosby is initially shocked, but will Jasmine's butter-me-up pancakes do the trick?
Watch the exclusive clip from the episode, which also marks Shepard's Parenthood directorial debut:
Parenthood returns with new episodes on Tuesday, Jan. 1 at 10/9c on NBC. Do you think Crosby and Jasmine should loan her mom the money?


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Ke$ha's former managers say the pop star squeezed them out of her career under pressure from hit songwriter Dr. Luke, but her lawyer said Friday she simply exercised her rights to fire the managers when they didn't perform.
Ke$ha, who had the No. 1 song in the country with "TiK ToK" earlier this year, signed up with ex-managers DAS Communications Inc. when she was an up-and-comer in 2006. Their agreement called for her to pay the New York-based firm 20 percent of her music income, but it gave her the option of ending the relationship if DAS didn't get her a major-label record deal in a year, according to a copy of the contract attached to a lawsuit DAS filed Wednesday.
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text: Jonathan Hop's "So You Want to Play Go?" is now out. Targeted at single digit dan players, the new publication – the fourth in Hop's series — contains sections on joseki, positional judgment, and professional games, "and simulates my time studying at a professional dojo in Korea." The book has been reviewed by Alexandre Dinerchtein and contains information about his insei league on KGS. Available on the Kindle and on Hop's Sunday Go Lessons website. Click here for a free sample.


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From: Dan Nelson <dprimary@x??????xxxxx.xxxx
Date: Fri Oct 22, 1999 5:09 pm
Subject: attachments
How does everyone feel about allowing attachments on the list. At this
point I have the list set to allow attachments, but that was more to
help set up the list. Attachments are nice for the people with high
speed connections, but they are also a problem for people with slow
connection. And then there is always the virus problems. Let me know
what you think. I am about 60% in favor of turning attachments off.
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I'm the illest rapper to hold a cordless
Patrolling corners
Looking for hookers to punch in the
mouth with a roll of quarters
I'm meaner in action
Than Rosco beating James Tart Senior
And smackin his back with vacuum cleaner attachments
I grew up in the wild hood
As a hazardous youth
With a fucked up childhood
That I use as an excuse
And ain't shit changed
But kept the same mindstate
Since the third time that I failed 9th grade
You probably think that I'm a negative
person don't be so sure of it
I don't promote violence I just encourage it
I laugh at the sight of death
As I fall down a cement flight of steps
And land inside a bed of spider webs
So throw caution to the wind
You and a friend
Can jump off of a bridge and if
you live, do it again
Shit, why not? Blow your brain out
I'm blowing mine out
Fuck it, you only live once you
might as well die now
It's only fair to warn
I was born with a set of horns
And metaphors attached to my damn umbulical cord
Warlord of rap that'll bash you
with a two by four board
And smash into your Honda Accord
With a 4 door Ford
But I'm more toward droppin an accapella
To chop a fella
To mozarella
Worse than a hellacopta propella
Got you locked in the cella
With your skeleton showing
Developing anorexia
While I'm standin next to ya
Eating a full course meal
watching you starve to death
With an IV in your veins
Feeding you liquid darvicet
Pumping you full of drugs
Pull the plugs
On the gunshot victims full of bullet slugs
Who were picked up in an ambulance
And driven
To receiving with the asses ripped outta they pants
And given
A less than 20 percent chance
Of living
Have a possible placement
as a hospital patient
Storing the dead bodies in grandma's little basement
Doctor Kevorkian has arrived
To perform an autopsy on you while you
scream "I'M STILL ALIVE!"
Driving a rusty scalpel in
through the top of your scalp
And pulling your adams apple out through your mouth
Better call the fire department
I've hired a arson
To set fire to carpet
And burn up your entire apartment
I'm a liar to start shit
Got your bitch wrapped around my dick
So tight you need a crobar to pry her apart wit
Met a retarded kid named Greg with a wooden leg
Snatched it off and beat him over the
fucking head with the peg
Go to bed with the keg wake up with the 40
Mixed up with Alka Seltzer and Formula 44D
Fuck an acid tab I'll strap the
whole sheet to my forehead
Wait until it absorbed in and fell to the floor dead
No more said case closed end of discussion
I'm blowin up like spontaneous human combustion
Leaving you in the aftermath of
holocaust and traumas
Cross the bombas (?)
We blowin up your house killing your parents
and coming back to get your foster mommas
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Jacqueline Winspear
It was almost four years ago that Patty emailed me to ask if I would be interested in this idea she'd had for a blog – nakedauthors.com: The Naked Truth About Literature and Life. Now, you know I'm the in-house techno-phobe, and I wasn't really sure I knew how to blog – I'm not exactly a big presence in cyberspace (except through online ordering of equine-related products), and it seemed to me that many blogs took the form of glorified text messages. But I liked the idea and she'd pulled together a great team, so I said, "OK, I'm in." Being of the, "No, you go first" school of new experiences, I bagged the Friday slot so I could see what my fellow nakeds did with their posts.
And what a ride it's been from that first week. We've covered just about every issue to do with the writing, reading and publishing of books; we've shared our laughs, our losses, our good times and bad with you, and you've been left in no doubt where we all stand on everything from the Bush administration, to healthcare, elder care and teen care. We've shared our thoughts on gun control, global warming and hair color, and you probably know more about my horses than you ever wanted to know. And along the way we gathered quite a following – yes, we know you're out there, the lurkers on the sidelines as well as our regulars who comment. Thank you for turning up at the house of Naked Authors every day. And thank you for this great experience. Many blessings to you all.
James O. Born
A couple of years ago my buddy, Paul Levine, convinced me to join Naked Authors after reading my blog on Amazon. In all the time since then I have really enjoyed the chance to share my views and point out fine writing (usually by my friends). I hope to keep in touch with those of you who always left comments. It will be a few weeks before I start realizing I don't have to come with something for the blog each Thursday. I can't complain about having too many projects to work on and needing to pare down my load. So I'll check out on a high note and say, "Hope to see you soon."
Ridley Pearson
Well, it's time to put the clothes back on. I have to say, being Naked as been a blast -- not so much the writing part, but the reading. I've been really honored to be a part of this group for the past year, and to read the daily contributions. But duty calls. I've been writing four books a year for the past three or four years, and this year is looking to be much the same. The regular deadline of writing copy for the blog proved to be the straw that broke my back.
Writing is such an honor -- that is, making a living at it -- that I want to honor the reader by putting all my energies into the various books and projects I have ahead of me in 2010. To Paulie, Patty and the gang: hats off for a job well done! The Naked Authors blog has been entertaining, educational, and something I looked forward to reading each day. I feel I've made four new friends. Close friends. I will miss you all.
Paul Levine
We're done? Already?
I will likely say the same thing on my deathbed. Which brings to mind Woody Allen's philosophy of life, told as a joke in "Annie Hall."
Two women are discussing their vacation in a Catskills hotel. "The food here is just horrible," one complains.
"And such little portions," the other says.
"That's my theory of life," Woody says. "Full of loneliness and misery and suffering....and it's all over too quickly."
I hope that brightened your day.
I will miss my fellow naked scribblers' posts and all your witty and wise comments. As for my blatherings, please feel free to "friend me" on Facebook where I'm pontificating on popular entertainment, crime fiction, and college football. That's everything that interests me, other than Thai foot massage.
Well, as Woody used to say in his stand-up, I'd like to leave you with something positive. But not having anything, would you take two negatives?
Patricia Smiley
Some say all good things must come to an end, but that doesn't make it any easier. Thanks to everyone who has read our posts and contributed words of wisdom. Some of you have been with us since the beginning and we now consider you part of our family. We'll miss you. This blogging thing has been a learning experience and a great deal of fun. Cheers to all. I'll leave you with this:


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Migs has this to ask:
I'm very curious as to how you get so much done with a console based (?) text editor. Like do you have sort of summary view of your calendar, tasks, etc in emacs? Maybe you can post a few screenshots of what you look at everyday. Personally, I'd be lost without an app like Evolution or Korganizer. I can't imagine how you manage all that with emacs.
Migs, that is precisely it. planner.el is an Emacs module that gives me a summary view of my tasks, schedule, and notes inside Emacs (which incidentally has a nice graphical interface, too). Together with Muse, it lets me easily manage my website. Another ultra-handy thing is M-x remember from remember.el, which pops up a buffer asking me what I want to remember and stores a note in my daily planner page. For example, this is one such note created by remember.el. A patch contributed by Thomas Gehrlein allows easy navigation of planner pages - simply select dates from M-x calendar.
Personally, I prefer this text-file-based system to Evolution or Korganizer. I remember dropping down to M-x grep to quickly search for something in my daily planner files. I can backup my data files in a .tar.gz. I can perform diffs and version control (although I haven't gotten around to doing so yet!). I can even run it in conjunction with the Remembrance Agent.
My tasks and notes can be linked to my address book through BBDB integration with Planner, and I've modified the BBDB url support to take advantage of certain fields in my database. For example, typing [[bbdb://Sacha.Chua][Sacha Chua]] results in the following link: Sacha Chua. Locally, this brings up the address book record that matches that regular expression. On the Web, it is transformed into a URL following these rules of preference: blog, web, e-mail. That allows me to link to other people and even sites much more easily than HTML or the usual blogging systems might let me do, since HTML and http://www.blogger.com still require me to type the URLs to which I want to link.
Because all of these things run inside GNU Emacs, I can easily access all of my data. I can embed Emacs LISP code into my planner files and have them automatically evaluated and displayed. I can switch to my planner file easily from my IRC chat session or from my mail. I can hook into built-in Emacs functionality or make use of modules developed by other people. It's tons of fun!
And I didn't even write planner.el. Ubercoder John Wiegley did. I discovered planner.el around 2001.11.03. I liked it so much I e-mailed John Wiegley to volunteer tech support and bugfixing for it, and he suggested that I take over maintaining planner.el instead. (2002.11.21) I've since then turned it over to Michael Olson and the totally awesome Planner community. Open source is so much fun!
People interested in duplicating my setup may want to check out my configuration files. They are all found in my notebook/emacs/ directory. Files of interest are planner-muse-config.el and remember-config.el. Please write to me at email@example.com if you have any comments or suggestions, and don't hesitate to ask for help in setting up a wonderful personal information management system in Emacs.
I use a PHP hack to display a monthly calendar, comments, and previous/next day links. These files are relevant:
- ../wiki/.header - ../wiki/.footer - ../wiki/include/header.inc.phps (rename to header.inc.php) - ../wiki/include/footer.inc.phps (rename to footer.inc.php) - today.php - planner-include.php - calendar.php
It currently requires a lot of hand-hackery. Please e-mail me at email@example.com or find me on irc.freenode.net#emacs if you're interested in using something like it; I can help you install it, and your comments and suggestions can help me improve it.
Note: This script currently rescans all files in the wiki directory every time it's loaded. Maybe we should generate a dates listing after publishing?
Note: I use PHP because I didn't want to have to figure out which files I needed to modify, although that's easy enough - you can traverse two lists in a merge, and you can iterate through all the ones in the same month... If efficiency is important, we might be able to move the date index creation into the wiki publishing process.echo "And yes, you can include PHP in the body, too."; ?> In fact, you can gleefully mix LISP and PHP code, like I'm doing in these pages, but you should be warned that it can be quite difficult to debug. The LISP code gets evaluated when you publish, the PHP gets xparsed when served - keep that in mind and make sure all your tags match...
Clair Ching has posted a wonderful guide to Planner, complete with screenshots. Check out the following links:
- http://eclair.bizhat.com/emacs/plannernewbie.html - http://eclair.bizhat.com/emacs/plannerscreen1.html - http://eclair.bizhat.com/emacs/plannerscreen2.html
To get the initial commit: darcs get -m "Initial commit" http://sacha.sachachua.com/notebook/darcs/dev/planner/ To get succeeding patches: darcs pull http://sacha.sachachua.com/notebook/darcs/dev/planner/ And then afterwards: darcs pull If you want to be picky darcs pull --interactive
remember-el is also available at http://sacha.sachachua.com/notebook/darcs/dev/remember/
Niklas Morberg sent me an e-mail about planner.el support for Dave Allen's "Getting Things Done" method. This is the first time I've heard of it, but it'd be nice to see if we can hack planner to support it.
The Coach's Corner on the linked site has well-thought articles.
I archive as much of my mail as possible because it's easy to search through information. Creating tasks from e-mail messages allows me to quickly deal with e-mail associated with actions. I can create vague tasks and refine them as necessary, although the associated task is usually clear. Gnus hides old messages, so my Inbox view shows me only unread messages unless I specifically ask for archives.
I prefer to archive everything instead of making keep/no-keep decisions for my e-mail. I have false positives (mail that I thought might be important but which I never referred to again) and false negatives (mail I hardly looked at, but needed to find afterwards). I rely on search and filtering tools to quickly pull relevant messages out of my archive. I think that this is more effective than frequent review and selection of messages to be kept.
I remember reading a paper about e-mail archiving strategies. I ran a full-text search for a phrase I remembered from the mail, and I turned up the PDF that the author sent me. You can look up Richard Boardman's paper on "'Stuff goes into the computer and doesn't come out': A Cross-tool Study of Personal Information Management"--it's an informative survey of different e-mail filing techniques.
The GTD method suggests determining what the successful outcomes are ("projects"), what my next action is and what I am waiting for. planner.el supports "next action" and "waiting for" with unfinished and pending tasks. I specify desired outcome in the task description. I don't have a concept of "Project" yet, unless you count the plan pages.
- Moving through procrastination easily
Visualizing the expected outcome makes it easier to plan tasks and overcome procrastination. planner.el has no explicit support for reminding the user of the positive outcome associated with the task, but it can be included in the task description or on the linked project page. A better approach, however, might be to have the expected outcome show as a tooltip or minibuffer message in order to provide better positive reinforcement.
John Wiegley's essay on planning uses top-down stepwise refinement to break general tasks down into smaller and smaller tasks until they can be scheduled. This overcomes procrastination by making planning a semi-mechanical process and simplifying the tasks until they are no longer intimidatingly complex.
In contrast, the GTD method suggests starting with the immediate next step--a bottom-up approach. This is similar to the way I use planner.el, planning one or two tasks in advance. Occasionally, however, I find it useful to create overview tasks. This gives me an overview of the entire project and allows me to get a handle on my timeframe.
I've used other personal information managers before, but Emacs+planner+remember makes it easy for me to keep track of my work. If I think of something to be done, a few keystrokes will put it on my TODO list.
I capture a lot of information. remember.el makes it easy for me to create short blog entries linked to the current context and associated with a date and planner page.
So yes, I do 'this' for everything. Being able to reschedule tasks for future dates means I don't have to worry about things until then. Of course, I tend to procrastinate a fair bit (specifying tomorrow with +1 comes in handy!), but it's nice to know that I'll eventually run into those tasks again. If planner.el reminded me of the benefits of completing the task, I'll probably be more motivated to finish them. (More description text?)
- The "I'll do it later" Conundrum
Oy, here we go with that procrastination thing. Guilty! Being able to reschedule tasks does make it all too easy to push things onto a pile of things to be done later. However, having all these actions floating around does mean I have no excuse to slack off (unless scheduled in). This particular essay is a bit on the fluffy side, though.
This article points out the need to examine how we work, not just make superficial changes to our space.
- Having a Complete Inventory of Your Projects
Ah. "Projects" are like plan pages in that they are collections of tasks. However, plan pages can also be roles or contexts.
planner.el needs a good way to review active projects. Right now, people can manually maintain a list. However, one needs to visit all the individual project pages in order to visualize the end results or see how far one has gotten based on the tasks.
A graph would be nice. It could show only active projects (projects with at least one unfinished task) or all projects (possibly limited by date or regexp.) Progress could be measured by ratio of unfinished tasks to all tasks, or manually indicated by a #progress directive or some kind of progress marker in each task.
I review tasks every day, but maybe I could also review the end results every week as part of an accomplishment report. The accomplishment report could list statistics for tasks finished (grouped by project) and allow easy viewing of current projects (all projects mentioned in tasks/notes this week). How can we modify planner.el to support that?
- The GTD Methodology for Emotionally Charged Relationships
Hmm. Maybe we should phrase our tasks and notes in a positive manner. =)
- From the FAQ
How can I can remember things that are on my calendar but aren't time-specific?
Sounds like the problem I have with un-dated tasks. GTD gets around this by having people review pages based on their context. After going through all of your day-specific tasks, you can then go through your context-based action lists to find out what to do next.
Context-based action lists is probably more efficient if most of your work is guided by context. It can be simulated in planner.el by associating the tasks with plan pages for each context. However, since most of my work centers on the computer, I like seeing a list of all my tasks. I prefer to sit down and plan my day beforehand, rearranging tasks so that I put similar tasks together. If the opportunity arises, I can do tasks out of sequence.
I can also use planner.el to see other tasks in the same context. For example, when I want to do more PlannerMode work, I can just look at my PlannerMode page to see... a heck of a lot of tasks.
In GTD, day-specifics are tasks that MUST be done on that day. I prefer having my low-priority tasks still visible, using high-priority tasks and deadlines in task descriptions to mark the things I should do by today. Some people plan their tasks the GTD way, though. Specifying 'nil' for a task date allows you to associate it with a plan page but no date page. Scheduling only day-specific tasks makes sure you don't ignore your task list, so I guess that's a good thing.How do you handle weekly tasks that are not specific to a particular day of the week?
I assign weekly tasks to a particular day. Makes it easier to get into the rhythm of things.Most of the day I am dealing with actions I am expected to do. Most of them have a due date. Where should I place my reminder?
Okay, I'm starting to get the hang of the next-action thing. To support GTD, I'd need a way to get a quick overview of the next-step tasks as part of the list of active projects. I'd also need to be able to look at today's schedule and today's day-specific task list.
Tech note: It looks like planner.el can be extended to do this by adding a tag that gets replaced by project outcome and the first task. The main problem we need to solve is that tasks can appear on more than two pages. I think this can almost be done with existing tools. However, planner-copy-or-move-region shouldn't mess with these tasks. It's probably better to create new markup rules for them...Is it true that David Allen uses the generic Palm Desktop and handheld software, and doesn't particularly recommend any add-on programs?
I find remember.el an excellent way of tracking events, as it gives me a historical log as well as a topic-tracked one. I need to find a way to reassign topics and add multiple topics to a note. This depends on getting note IDs to work.Areas of focus vs. someday/maybe
Tech note: Hmm. This sounds like a good candidate for automatic rewriting. People can manually maintain a list of projects, and have outcomes and next tasks automatically filled in.How do you recommend keeping project notes and/or support material?
Ooh, planner hyperlinking is great for that. I keep most of my support materials in my planner wiki and hyperlink out when I need to refer to external sources or files on my hard disk.
- How David Allen uses his Palm
Hey, this agenda idea is interesting.
Sounds like a good idea too. Hmm. I can page through the week easily, but it would be nice to have an accomplishment report.
Time to borrow a Palm...
Package: multisync Description: A program to synchronize PIM data Synchronize calendars, addressbooks and other PIM data between programs on your computer and other computers, mobile devices, PDAs or cell phones. Currently it has client plugins for Ximian Evolution and IrMC mobile clients (cell phones such as
SonyEricsson T39/T68 and Siemens S45i) via Bluetooth, IR and cable. To get all plugins install libmultisync-plugin-all. . To get all Homepage http://multisync.sourceforge.net
Can someone write a plugin for PlannerMode? =)
A friend and I were thinking of papers to submit to the Loyola Schools Review. I joked, "What could I write about PlannerMode?" It's an organizer that I happen to really like, but which I don't think I can get other teachers to adopt (Emacs'll scare the heck out of them!).
I thought about why I liked PlannerMode. Planner as a TODO manager isn't particularly special. Although I can assign tasks to categories and so see a breakdown of what projects are taking up my time, Evolution and Microsoft Outlook provide more powerful task support. In other task managers, you can e-mail tasks, assign multiple categories and fill in all sorts of metadata. You can even synchronize your tasks with devices like a phone or PDA. So why use Planner?
I realized that integration into my way of life and automatic context clues are what really make planner tasks worth it for me. I don't have to switch to another application to create a task. I can just hit a keyboard shortcut. Planner uses a minibuffer to get the task description. My windows are not rearranged in any way, and I can look at the data that's relevant to a task. Not only that, tasks automatically pick up context clues, like whom I'm talking to on IRC or the file I'm editing at the moment. This cuts down on the explicit context I need to include and makes it easier for me to bring up the task again.
As a scheduler, PlannerMode is also not particularly distinguished. Sure, it can display my ~/diary, but for that matter so can M-x diary. Evolution and Outlook can give me a more graphical view of my time, sync with my PDA, and coordinate my schedule with other people. Those applications support detailed schedule entries with powerful cyclic options. On the other hand, PlannerMode gives me a personal, plain text view and (at least the way I use it) requires me to edit a separate file to add new appointments. However, it does have one advantage - my schedule is always loaded. I used to use Outlook on Windows, but having my schedule in a separate application meant that I actually looked at it very rarely, as I had turned off reminders because they got annoying.
PlannerMode's notes, however, are what really convinced me. I can hit a keyboard shortcut from anywhere and type my notes into a buffer which automatically keeps context information. After typing the note, I can then categorize it. I think that the critical thing here is that interruptions--fleeting thoughts--don't break my flow. I can just pop up a remember buffer, stow that thought away somewhere, and go back to it whenever I want. In contrast, creating a note in Outlook means switching out of my application, making a couple of keystrokes, typing the note in, and then switching back. The context switches make it hard to keep track of where I am and what I'm supposed to remember. Not only that, I need to enter context by hand. Even though I can color my notes and reorganize them in Outlook, I find the context switch too expensive. I used to keep notes in other knowledge management tools as well. Some applications allowed me to drag-and-drop links into the current note, and that was cool. But that required a manual action, and those applications didn't feel integrated into my way of working.
I guess that's why I like PlannerMode. Unlike other organizers which don't know anything about the applications I use, PlannerMode tries its best to integrate into the way I work, and it's easy to extend. Fortunately I do almost all my work in Emacs, so I can think of my organizer as integrated into my e-mail client, Internet Relay Chat client, web browser, file editor and even games. It automatically picks up context clues from these applications and allows me to easily jump back to relevant files. It doesn't distract me. It allows me to key in data and then it gets out of my way.
The processing that happens in the background (publish to RSS and PHP for me) is a bonus, and publishing my task list and notes online has greatly helped me. It gives other people a way to see what I'm working on and what I've planned for the future. Occasionally people write in with additional resources and helpful tips.
This made me wonder how to integrate it with more applications and make it available to more people. Yes, even the vi users and the non-Linux/Un*x geeks. Here are some of the thoughts that went through my head.
- What if everyone could have the equivalent of M-x remember even if
they're not using Emacs?
- What if we could capture context from any application?
- What if remembered thoughts could have multiple categories and
could be reorganized later?
- What if we could use statistical methods to suggest categories for
text and find related items?
- What if whenever you interacted with the system, related notes would
show up? When you open a file, browse a page or look at a contact, a sidebar could allow you to quickly jump to related topics.
- What if you could visualize your remembered thoughts to see how
they cluster around certain topics?
- What if you could perform powerful search operations on
remembered thoughts?
- What if it could pick up even more context clues, tying together
different applications? For example, if you do your e-mail in Eudora but keep your main contact information in Outlook, wouldn't it be nice if remembering from an e-mail also linked in the business card from Outlook?
- What if we could select some of these remembered thoughts and
publish them in different formats, automatically or manually?
- What if we could share our stream of remembered thoughts with other
- What if computers could generate remembered thoughts as well, and
we could select which ones we'd like to include in our streams?
The more I think about it, the more I feel that this is worth studying further. If we develop this idea, other people can benefit from it - not just those who incidentally use it in the course of using PlannerMode! John Wiegley was onto something good here, and it'd be a shame to keep it only within a niche community. I'd like to make it easy for my mom to use this. =)
For my MS degree, I want to develop a framework for remembering thoughts from different applications. This means separating the front-end, the back-end, and the context gathering functions. Right now, everything is within Emacs. I'd like to split it up so that people using windowing environments like GNOME or KDE can get a nice dialog box if they want and people using other editors on the console can use their favorite editor to add notes. I'd like to split the backend up so that people can remember to SQL databases, plain text files, mail--anything and everything. I'd like to split the context gathering up so that application developers can easily hook into the system.
For my PhD, I want to look into managing all of this information. How do I find relevant documents now that I'll be capturing vastly more information? How can I make browsing my personal data store easier? How does it change my work style? Can I think of interacting with my computer--working on e-mail, writing documents, etc.--as interacting with a stream of remembered thoughts? Can it be my primary interface? If we shared our remembered thoughts with other people, how would that affect the way we work?
Related projects and concepts:
- Yale's Lifestreams project (concept of interaction with
time-ordered data in streams) - MIT's Remembrance Agent (implicit queries for relevant files) - MIT's Haystack - Zoe - Personal information managers - Knowledge managers - Information retrieval - Intertwingularity - Web logging
Following the specifications at http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/draft-mirashi-url-irc-01.txt , planner-erc.el now creates links of the form
[[irc://orwell.freenode.net/delYsid,isnick][Chat with delYsid on orwell.freenode.net%23emacs]]
Travis B. Hartwell wrote:
Hi all,
I patched what I hope is the most recent version of planner-diary.el from tla to optionally utilize cal-desk-calendar. cal-desk-calendar is an add-on for diary-mode which displays the day's events in a neat "desk calendar" like way. I wanted to be able to have this pulled into my day planner pages instead of just a list of the scheduled event. To do this, I added a variable 'planner-diary-use-cal-desk-calendar', which when set to non-nil will cause cal-desk-calendar to be used. I patched planner-diary-get-diary-entries to handle this.
A screenshot of this in action: http://www.travishartwell.net/planner.png
To get cal-desk-calendar.el: http://sacha.sachachua.com/notebook/emacs/cal-desk-calendar.el
My changed planner-diary.el: http://www.travishartwell.net/planner-diary.el
My elisp skills aren't the greatest, so I'm open for corrections or enhancements. I hope others can find this as useful as I have.
E-Mail from Travis B. Hartwell
From Rainer Volz:
In case anybody has the same problem, I (probably) found the source and a workaround.
The error "Symbol's function definition is void: TeX-add-style-hook" is caused by the footnote-mode, which in turn is loaded by muse-mode, as a default minor mode in "Muse/Muse Mode/Muse Mode Hook".
Turning footnote-mode off lets me enter muse-mode (and planner-mode) without the error. Since I rarely use footnotes I can live without footnote-mode.
If you can't: several messages found on the net seem to indicate that the real source of the problem is a path/duplicate file problem between the normal texinfo.el and a texinfo.el supplied by Auctex. footnote-mode tries to load the normal texinfo.el but gets the Auctex version, which then tries to run the function "TeX-add-style-hook". A solution could be to change the load-path for Emacs libraries or to deinstall Auctex.
Hope that helps, Raine
E-Mail from Rainer Volz
E-Mail from Gary V. Vaughan
btw i've been using it a week, and I've definitely found it to be a big help when things are hectic. for example, right now we are hiring several people, and there's a lot of paperwork involved, so plannermode helps me keep track of how much I've gotten done and what remains to do. also, I have to put together computers for them, and often the request comes in suddenly in an email, or someone just shouts it to me (which is where my remember-keybinding comes in) I also use remember-planner to keep track of phone calls, to record the time when I called this or that vendor, and to jot down what they said. very good recordkeeping.
Chat with tang^ on niven.freenode.net%23emacs
(defcustom planner-publishing-markup '(["^#\\([A-C]\\)\\([0-9]*\\)\\s-*\\([_oX>]\\)\\s-*\\(.+\\)" 0 planner-markup-task] - ["^\\.#\\([0-9]+\\)" 0 "** "] + ["^\\.#\\([0-9]+\\)" 0 "** "] sachac: an id="1" is just not allowed in XHTML 1.0 Strict
PlannerMode now supports cyclic tasks through planner-cyclic.el . Not bad for an hour of hacking. Comments welcome!
johnsu01: What kind of stuff do you do every Tuesday, anyway? =) johnsu01: I've been thinking of adding cyclic task support to planner-id... =) sachac: that would make me happy. cyclic tasks are what I have been using the diary for. obviously not perfect because they are not actually tasks :) sachac: I like to have the recurring tasks pile up, so i know how far behind I am in my German, reading, etc :) You'll be interested in planner-find-task and planner-create-task-from-info. You'll need to hook into something that gets run whenever you open a file - look at planner-diary for ideas. Create a task based on the page name, search forward for it, and if you don't find it on the page, create it. Something like that?
ajk on the #emacs channel wants to know if anyone is working on Palm sync for planner-diary. "I know there's one that just writes diary stuff to your Palm and removes duplicates, but I was thinking of writing something that truly syncs the two."
I don't have a Palm, but I think this feature would be really cool.
In related news, toppy (also subscribed to the list) is thinking of working on Nokia phone support using the gnokii toolkit. If you're interested in getting planner to sync with the other gadgets in your life, here's your chance to make that happen! =)
Planner tasks from notes should update the notes page that they link to while maintaining the special links. This means that planner-jump-to-linked-task needs to be smarter.
Let us look at case 1: Link to plan page note
The plan page has a date link, no anchor. The date page has a plan link with an anchor. Example:
#A1 _ Foo (2004.03.11)
#A2 _ Foo ([[SomePage#1][SomePage]])
Problem! The plan page does not contain enough information to reconstruct the link if necessary. I can't think of a neat way to fix this yet. Can anyone?
As we now mostly use ~/.diary for our schedule entries, Outlook schedule import is not PlannerMode's problem any more. ;) It would be kinda nice for RememberMode, though.
Yvonne Thomson contributed Wanderlust mail client support for PlannerMode. Check out http://sacha.sachachua.com/notebook/emacs/emacs-wiki/planner-wl.el .
dto on #emacs suggested a way to create tasks associated with planner pages. Arch repository and dev snapshot should have working version of this.
Adding a prefix argument to M-x planner-create-task-from-buffer will make it prompt for the plan page. If the plan page is different from the current annotation, it will move the annotation into the description of the task. Any other suggestions? =)
If you're having problems with emacs-wiki not highlighting the first time you view a buffer, you're probably set to use jit-lock or lazy-lock. Don't. Use (setq font-lock-support-mode nil) instead, so full font-locking will always be performed. You may want to use the list so that this is only done for planner-mode and emacs-wiki-mode. =)
Global planner IDs should be hyperlinks in their own right. They are of the form
plan://id-number or plan://id-number/page,page,page,page
But then how do we define anchors and references?
Reference: plan:///id-number or plan:///id-number/page,page,page,page (note: triple-slashes)
Or maybe
plan:id-number[/page,page,page] for the anchor. Double-slashes will not be updated.
I want IDs because I'd like to e able to update notes in case of typos.
Then this is no longer emacs-wiki-id, but really just planner-id.
Yikes, I will so break the existing planner-id support with this... There must be a better way. At the very least, I should offer a conversion function.
Actually, subcategories are already handled by separate plan pages, so I don't need subtopics any more. I would, however, like to see all the note headlines, possibly bounded by certain dates. That would be fun. In which case, I don't need to merge anything in from planner-notes - I can just work with the export functions I already have in planner-experimental.
- A list of all the notes related to a BBDB contact. I'd have to parse
out all the bbdb links, covert them into canonical names and match them against the records, but it would be fun.
- General emacs-wiki hyperlinks.
- Recurring tasks.
- Ongoing projects and the next task in them. Upon task completion,
the next task in the project would be scheduled. Actually, this is already handled by future tasks, but this flexibility might be fun. Forces you to think of the next step.
- Monthly headlines in a calendar.
- Notes index by month, by year.
- timeclock integration into my Schedule.
I wonder if it might not be worth implementing this for PlannerMode...
It should compile cleanly under Emacs 21.3 (CVS). I'm still trying to figure out how to install the fsf-compat package under XEmacs so that I can get it to compile cleanly there.
WARNING! Many user-visible changes. In particular, you will now need to require a bunch of other things in order to get the old behavior. I should figure out how to set up the appropriate autoloads. In the meantime, add some variant of the following to your .emacs:
(require 'remember) (require 'planner) (require 'remember-planner) (require 'planner-experimental) (require 'planner-bbdb) ;; (require 'planner-diary) (require 'planner-gnus) (require 'planner-id) ;; (require 'planner-notes) (require 'planner-rss) ;; (require 'planner-schedule) ;; (require 'planner-timeclock) (require 'planner-w3m)
This will no doubt break a number of things. Please complain loudly. If you want the old version, you can get a tar.gz from http://sacha.sachachua.com/notebook/emacs/planner/planner-current.tar.gz .
I've added `planner-rss-category-feeds' to planner-rss. This examines the text of the note and copies it to different RSS feeds depending on the regular expression match. In the future, I might actually just run a lot of hooks on the thing.
If this works, I should have a new entry in http://sacha.sachachua.com/notebook/wiki/planner.rdf
planner-rss.el should now be ready for (almost) general use. You can get it from http://sacha.sachachua.com/notebook/emacs/emacs-wiki/planner-rss.el . To use it, add
(require 'planner-rss) (add-to-list 'remember-append-to-planner-hook 'planner-rss-add-note t)
to your .emacs, and use M-x remember-to-planner.
A really hairy hack promises to let me do RSS export of blogged entries. It's in rss.el right now. Warning - it's absurdly nasty.
in reaction to http://www.sfu.ca/~gswamina/BlogsAreDead.html
I've had a blog for roughly a year and a half now, and I think I'm pretty much settling into the routine. Reading Ganesh's BlogsAreDead post, I think about how I use Emacs to keep track of my notes.
Linearity - Blogs are linear, ie usually in chronological order. My knowledge/experience is non-linear (fortunately). There is an obvious mismatch here. I don't see how I can write coherently about recursive functions, pipelines, privacy and chicks in the same post.
I split this up into several remember-to-planner-plan-page-dwim posts, usually cross-linking them with a topic page.
Lack of time - Everybody seems to be bringing this up. I don't post very often, but when I do, they are long ones. If you've noticed, my titles are usually one or two words - "Skills", "04-1 Registered", "Talks", "Its Tuesday", $(rand dict). Not very descriptive. Often, I remember writing about something, but not able to track it down. Sad, really.
My titles aren't all that descriptive either, but that's what M-x planner-search-notes in planner-experimental.el is for. And yes, I really hate it if I know I blogged about something but I can't remember how to bring it up.
Non-conformance to standards - When you put together an entry, do you check if it confirms to W3C standards every time ? Honestly, that's insane. A standard transformation mapping will make life so much easier. I now face a problem, how do I convert my old entries ? I seem to have used three to four different ways to post my code, all of them every inelegant, except for the last.
I work with plain text.
Immature - Blogging software is not powerful enough. What if I want to quote an email message, or a news thread ? Or simple syntax highlighting ? Or even on the fly spell checking (known as flyspell-mode in emacs, BTW). Couple this with my non-descriptive titles, how do I cross reference things ?
Emacs is wonderful!
Not cool - Blogs aren't cool anymore, since every kid happens to have his own. When you come across somebody's blog which appears to be very interesting, do you take the time to read through his archives ? Ofcourse not. More bit bricks.
I often read through other people's archives. I hope that the cross-references with plan pages make it easier for people to see related stuff, but I plan to have some kind of search someday.
Stagnant - "The only thing that is constant is change." Spring->Summer->Fall, so many things change around you. About 28.5% (eh !) of your content is stale. Your views on life constantly change (you may deny it). Going back and changing stuff just doesn't make sense when your entries are chronological.
I frequently go back and post updates. I also tend to reorganize the plan pages fairly often, although that does mean semi-broken day links. (Must get those GUIDs up and running!)
Emacs is way cool.
http://www.sfu.ca/~gswamina/EmacsWikiPatches.html . Check this out sometime and steal all the cool ideas (with appropriate credit, of course). ;)
Check out ../emacs/emacs-wiki/planner-experimental.el's advice for emacs-wiki-generate-index and the new function planner-generate-index for smarter indexing of day pages. To see the results, check out the WikiIndex.
Notes should probably have GUIDs so that I can do update-notes as well. However, note updating does not really make sense with remember-planner-copy-on-xref set to nil...
This is what I need in terms of version control:
- I definitely need version control on my own system. I make a lot of
changes I need to keep track of.
- People occasionally e-mail me contributions, usually as a diff. The
contributions are small enough for me to manually review and merge, and I frequently get cool ideas when they do that.
- The easier it is for me to do version control, the more likely it is
for me to actually use it.
- I want to provide an easy way for people to get all the latest
Maybe I can hitch onto emacs-wiki's arch repository.
The emacs-wiki-discuss mailing list can now be used to discuss tips, features and bugs! =) You can find it and other details on http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/emacs-wiki/ .
In other news, checked my BBDB for everyone who ever wrote me about planner.el. Warm and fuzzy feeling. =)
PlannerMode Xref: 2003.12.01#2
I think we've figured out how to make dates selectable from the calendar. Please check out this module. If you like it and there are no major problems, then we'll include it into planner.el .
Add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://richip.dhs.org/~sachac/notebook/emacs/planner ./ deb-src http://richip.dhs.org/~sachac/notebook/emacs/planner ./
and run
apt-get update apt-get install planner-el
I should make it easy for people to subscribe to planner pages they're interested in, so that they can be e-mailed notifications when I add something new. Or maybe I can cookie it...
I'd like to be able to parse planner files as a tree, taking advantage of the outline structure. This will allow me to produce XML documents more readily. Do I really need this? Well.. Hmm.
I want to be able to
- make it easy for people to comment on particular sections. This can
be done at the start, when parsing the .# entries - I can insert a comment link right after. That's good for planner day pages, because journal entries are second-level. As for normal pages, I'd prefer to have a full-fledged comment box at the bottom. Or should I have a comment box on normal pages too?
- publish planner day entries as separate items in an RSS feed. Who
would find that useful? I have no idea. Not that anyone aggregates my site...
So I guess this is a non-necessary feature.
Wait, I can put it into remember.el ...
Con: I don't really like the output of
Pro: It would be nice to find out how to get cyclic schedule entries,
though. Right now I'm relying on cp to do that.
chrisb says he likes
Hmm. PlannerMode has no notion of topics except for planner pages, and there's no way to get an integrated view of the different day entries in scattered planner pages because the format's pretty free.
(2003.11.11: Perhaps my newly-added planner-search-notes may be of some use.)
chrisb uses records-mode to keep track of his contacts, though, and that seems like a good thing. He can keep together his notes, his tasks related to that person...
I should try it out again.
Con: Requires a lot of discipline, because you have to categorize everything.
Hmmm. This does not look like something I can borrow ideas from, since planner pages might not even be organized by date. Ph104 is as close to a date-organized planner page as you can get, but even then I sometimes break from the format.
Jody Klymak writes in with a tip:
(emacs-wiki-complete-alist)) in the
remember-append-to-planner-plan-page-with-timestamp function allows
you to complete on wiki pages.
This code works with the stuff in ../emacs/remember-config.el - need to ask John Wiegley before I merge...
Cross-reference: 2003.03.30#7
http://emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DailyJournalMode has an interesting note; might be nice to collect "Week views". Cross-reference: 2003.04.04#11
Perhaps I should use a list of functions like the way remember does it. The first one that returns non-nil will be used as the annotation. If the annotation points to a planner wiki page, update the task, too. Cross-reference: 2003.04.11#8
Testing by Brent Goodrick:
That works wonderfully! For your/our records, I did the following manual tests:
On second thought, this is not particularly urgent. I can continue breaking it down into tiny pieces and then just marking the major task as done when all of the smaller pieces are.
PlannerMode Xref: 2003.11.30#1
Cross-reference: 2003.10.08#1
Jody Klymak contributed a fix to ../emacs/remember.el that made it work better with ../emacs/planner/planner.el. I haven't merged it into ../emacs/remember.el because I'm keeping my copy as vanilla as possible, but I've added it to my remember-config.el.
This adds annotations at the bottom of remembered information.
(defun remember (&optional initial) "Remember an arbitrary piece of data." (interactive) (window-configuration-to-register remember-register) (let ((buf (get-buffer-create remember-buffer))) (switch-to-buffer-other-window buf) (remember-mode) ;; Insert only when empty (when (= (point-max) (point-min)) (insert (or initial ""))) (goto-char (point-min)) (message "Use C-c C-c to remember the data."))) (defun planner-remember-to-plan-page-from-buffer () "remember info from this buffer" (interactive) (let ((remember-mode-hook (append (lambda () (add-hook 'remember-handler-functions 'remember-append-to-planner-plan-page-with-timestamp nil t)) remember-mode-hook)) (msg (or (run-hook-with-args-until-success 'planner-annotation-functions) ""))) (remember (concat "\n\n" msg))))
../../notebook/emacs/remember-config.el Cross-reference: 2003.11.10#3
One of the things I like about having my remember entries show up on my main blog page is that it's easy to browse through my journal and see what's actually happening instead of having to click on half a dozen links.
I think I'll return to blogging on the main page, then.
Cross-reference: 2003.11.10#5
(Posted to emacs-wiki-discuss some time back.)
Me, I started by using Planner+Remember to scribble down random thoughts and put them somewhere publishable. It's kinda funny. Here's the very first entry I have on 2001.11.02:
.#1 Playing with planner (linux, emacs) Today's been a busy day. I don't suppose I can get planner to nicely work with all the rest of emacs, can it? I rather like emacswiki... Alright, seems to be fine. Planner's actually pretty nifty. I'll pop the description into my remembrance agent index on the next scan, I suppose; maybe it'll be useful. I wonder if I can get the wiki to recognize non-wiki words. That would be pretty nice. Off to dinner with me now.
Used it for a week, then stopped using it. Resumed on 2002.06.20, having discovered remember-mode and the joys of blogging. For two months, used planner as a blog.
Then my 2002.08.17 epiphany note:
.#1 Planner is actually quite useful. So is emacs-wiki.
That was when I started really using tasks. They were linked to
project pages, but I didn't have Gnus integration then. The first time
I created a task based on an e-mail message seems to have been
2003.07.31. Almost a year of using Planner as just a blog, and that
was before planner-rss.el!
It took me another 8 months to realize that it would be a good idea if I could make a task from an e-mail message _and_ assign it to a plan page. My first such task is on my 2004.03.12 entry. (That's this year!)
Somewhere along the way, we added a few modules for integrating with other parts of Emacs, so we moved to more flexible URL handling. The number of modules increased even more. People add stuff to link to whatever they use frequently. For example, I added the planner-erc module so that I could keep track of who asked for what planner feature on #emacs... ^_^
So don't worry, you don't have to start with a really funky Planner config. Use whatever you feel like using. Feel free to ask questions. If something is missing, we'll try to see if we can hack it in. =)
By the way, you don't need to remember the history of planner. I didn't realize I took _that_ long to come up with obvious tweaks until I, err, reviewed my planner files in the course of writing this message. That's why this community is such a wonderful, wonderful resource. People come up with all the coolest things... =)


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Shane Butcher, 29 is the owner of R U Game, an independent retailer with stores in Gainesville, Brandon, and Tampa, Fla. Though he tells The Baltimore Sun that his chain is profitable—and even promises to hang around for six months to advise the new owner—he's getting out of the business. The $3.5 million price tag, considering it comes with a ton of other stuff, including three automobiles (one a low mileage Lotus Elise), a waterfront townhouse in Tampa, a rental condominium and, well, three kayaks, sounds a little low. But then, most people don't have $3.5 million, so it's not like we can list this in The Moneysaver as the week's big hardware bargain.
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Re-speccing your life with $3.5 million in cash sounds great, but it sounds to me like there's more going on here. Obviously, buying an entire business on eBay, to say nothing of the real estate, carries the highest of buyer-beware advisories.
Florida video game store owner selling off entire life on eBay for $3.5m [Baltimore Sun]


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We want to inspire you to research the past of your forbears in order to discover your place in your own Family Tree.
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Marketing Strategy - Modeling
Modeling data allows marketers to fine-tune their campaigns to reach the exact customers most likely to respond to their promotions.
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- Good Customer Match that identifies consumers on the file who have characteristics similar to your customers.
- Mailed Regression Modeling providing a means of mailing and analyzing a quantity of names on a specific file to build a mailed regression model.
- TargetReady Models apply Infogroup data with every possible variable to capture demographic, lifestyle and census data with specific categories selected based on consumer behavior and attitudes. Read More >
- Pre-Mailing Modeling is also available and used on most B2B mailing to prequalify prospects before mailing.
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