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October 26, 20152:32 pm 1 Comments
Ferris Booth is not usually a place of productivity. A crowded feeding trough for busy students, it becomes even more of a pressure-cooker area during midterms. Everyone's in a rush to get into the pasta line, then everyone's hurrying to grab the silverware before it runs out, and then comes the mad dash for a seat (or maybe even multiple seats if you happen to have a friend to eat and converse with). If, by some stroke of luck, you manage to snag a balcony seat during the weekend brunch rush, you should count yourself blessed. But if, once you're out there, you happen to overhear the conversation below, you should count yourself…not as blessed.
Two young men sitting at a table on the balcony began their discourse by commenting on the mysterious ways of women—always a good place to start. "I just don't understand what they mean," one lamented. "Why can't they just say what they want?" His friend nodded in commiseration. The conversation quickly took a turn as the first boy made a suggestion to his friend. "Dude, you should really be getting it on with married women. They're so much more direct." (*Note: Yes, he really did use the phrase, "getting it on.")
Tags: eavesdropping is almost always a mistake, ferris booth, just guys being dudes what's better than this, milf-hunters is a great name for a band... or is it, oh idk some silence might be a nice alternative, overheard, overheards, scarred for life on the ferris balcony, shout out to daniel sloss, why is ferris a moral cesspool at times
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October 14, 20155:03 pm 1 Comments
We have all noticed Ferris's inconsistent music patterns—from soul-soothing piano acoustics to baby-making R&B, you have spent countless hours in the pasta line thinking, "how the hell did they come up with the playlist today?" Wonder no more. Sandy, the Ferris kitchen manager, has recently revealed the mysterious DJ's identity to me in a short interview: it's the students. She explained the Ferris staff usually asks students in line for food which genre of music is their favorite, selecting playlists based on their responses.
So, the next time you find yourself struggling through a brutal country playlist, you will have no one but your fellow peers to blame. If you want to change things up, Ferris even offers some guest DJ spots to students. I'll be DJing from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM during dinner tonight.
The dude who always reaches for the aux chord via Shutterstock
Tags: baby-making R&B, dining halls, ferris booth, have you noticed they also match the music to the weather?, just the little things in life, just tryna listen to the jumpman while grabbing some dinner, mystery, no one man should have all that power, relating to the young folk, sometimes it's nice to eat breakfast and listen to some jack johnson
January 25, 20142:01 pm 0 Comments
According to the Spectator, the swanky new tables (which, according to rumors Bwog's friends have heard, is supposed to promote community at Columbia) in Ferris are not the only changes coming to the dining hall. Spec reports that, a year following the renovations to John Jay, Ferris may be getting a new serving area and (wait for it) better stairs!
The changes to the dining hall are additionally there to provide more capacity for a trial program between Barnard and Columbia Dining that would allow Barnard students to eat breakfast in Ferris and Columbia students to have it in Hewitt. More exciting than extra space, of course, is the prospect of walking up-and-downstairs without the constant terror of getting food dumped on one's head.
Stay tuned in the fall to see if people would still rather hit the Jay.
Tags: boringside, breakfast in Hewitt yo, bwog has spilled many cups of soda on those stairs, ch-ch-changes, ferris booth, have you ever noticed how nasty and rusty those things are underneath the plastic?, here's hoping they'll actually fix it, sometimes bwog gets its photos from its staffers' instagrams
January 12, 201411:24 am 9 Comments
Ferris has made some upgrades over break and they are literally life-changing. No, not the staircase. They've given us some swanky new tables and room to breathe by adding new bar areas. So now, on your way to get more triangle hash browns, you'll only crash into four people and knock over two bags.
The downside? If you go to Ferris during peak hours, you'll probably have to sit next to your friends in a long line at the bar. Have fun playing telephone if your group is more than three people!
So, to recap, here's a list of things you can do in the new Ferris:
Tags: baby boringside, ch-ch-ch-changes, ferris, ferris booth, here's to the largest meal plan!, how it took this long to figure out that we needed smaller tables, life-changing moments at ferris, LITERALLY, missing my daily triangle hashbrowns, things that get better but also so much worse, what about that staircase tho...?
October 13, 20123:52 pm 1 Comments
There is always room for change around Morningside Heights. Bwog would like to gently point out these updates in the midst of the hustle and bustle of Columbia life. For better or for worse, several venues have led the charge with a new coat of paint or a newfound stingy sign. It's about the little things in life, you know?
April 13, 20123:27 pm 13 Comments
Though it's embarrassing to admit it any time after NSOP, we all miss Sex and the City from time to time. A lucky tipster got to relive a little bit of it in Ferris yesterday when he unwittingly sat next to two Samanthas:
Girl 1: Ew, he's like 28!
Girl 2: No, he's 26.
Girl 1: So? He's still really old.
Girl 2: 28 is creepy, 26 is endearing.
Lady in blue via Wikimedia Commons.
Tags: 20somethings, age, dating tips, ferris booth, overheard
September 27, 20114:00 pm 3 Comments
Disillusionment expressed over soggy pasta at Ferris:
Student: I thought work ended in high school…this is terrible.
Apparent derivation of LOL via Wikimedia Commons
September 13, 20112:13 pm 20 Comments
March 02, 20114:30 pm 11 Comments
Columbia's ivory tower does not exist in a vacuum after all! A hard freeze in Mexico, which forced Wendy's to offer tomatoes by request only, has struck our very own Ferris Booth.
Ferris will not serve tomatoes "until further notice."
However, it's not all bad—the tomato shortage is probably good for tomato farmers demanding one more penny per pound. But Trader Joes' doesn't want to pay that extra penny, so people are protesting at the UWS branch!
Also of note: Ferris supports the Oxford comma! So does Bwog!
December 04, 20107:30 pm 2 Comments
Things spotted by Bwog this week that were less dull, and more sparkly, in all sorts of ways:
The bookstore is now totally stocked for holiday shopping…but more
importantly there are hats with rhinestones! Thank god for Collegiate Fashionista!
Holiday lights at Westside
New light outside Greenborough
New signs at Ferris Booth proclaim the glory of food. If Virginia Woolf liked it…
October 11, 20101:00 pm 0 Comments
Grant D'Avino reports!
Last night's CCSC meeting opened with introductions, as it was the first meeting that included representatives and officers from the class of 2014. Along with his or her name and position in CCSC, each person was asked to share an adjective that described him or herself at the present. Bwog's favorites, in no particular order: dehydrated, amused, whelmed, not sad, fantabulous.
The main business of the meeting was discussion of a resolution to recommend changes to the dining plan. The proposed resolution, even once passed, will not be a mandate, and its suggestions will not necessarily be put in place. The body debated whether John Jay or Ferris Booth should remain open on weekends, with opinion strongly in favor of opening John Jay. It was suggested that John Jay provides the quintessential freshman dining hall experience, and should remain open because it is designed to hold more people than Ferris Booth and looks like Hogwarts.
Other proposals in the draft of the resolution discussed at the meeting included an option for meals to be cooked "healthy style," a new take-out window to be implemented at JJ's Place, and a reduction in the price of meals for people without meal plans. The fundamental problem that JJ's cannot exist simultaneously as a hangout, a meal swipe only dining hall, and an a la carte grill was the cause of much concern among members, especially because JJ's Place as a meal swipe only dining hall has proved more profitable than previous years' a la carte incarnation.
As debate over each issue seemed to be intense enough to warrant a number of changes in the proposed resolution, there was no vote, and a revised resolution will be introduced at next week's meeting. Other resolutions were tabled for the evening.
Image via Wikimedia Commons
August 03, 20103:21 pm 67 Comments
The Health Department is, as of this summer, requiring that every restaurant in New York display the letter grades they most recently received for cleanliness.
This is a nightmare for everyone; it's rare that any restaurant will sneak away with no health violations. The grades will be assigned during the next year, when the Health Department conducts its next rounds of inspections. The grades will be issued as follows: 0-13 points gets an A, 14-27 a B, and 28 and above a C. You know, like Calc II. This numbered rating system, however, is due to be made more lenient (after all, who cares about burned-out lightbulbs?) before the letter grades are assigned so the correlation between numbers and letters isn't accurate just yet.
In the meantime, that Health Department has created a website that lists the violations of every restaurant in the city after their most recent inspection. The results from Morningside are occasionally surprising (Hewitt/John Jay) and generally terrifying (there are mice everywhere). Here's a list of the most popular Columbia restaurants and bars. We note when they were most recently reviewed and pick their most notable violations. Individual links don't work, but if you want to go through every single one of them, go here for 10025 and here for 10027 and start clicking. These restaurants will probably maybe get their shit together in the next year so that they don't get big old fat B's in the window once the next round of inspections starts. We can but pray.
More listings, while we're at it: in the Princeton Review 2011 college listings, Columbia was listed as being in a "great college town." Unclear if that's Morningside Heights or New York, but you make your own guesstimate. The Princeton Review also ranked the Top 20 best college newspapers. Guess who's missing?
Update: And we almost forgot Pinnacle—21 points as of February, for evidence of mice, milk improperly dated/expired.
March 29, 20105:50 pm 20 Comments
The Study Day-Standoff: Last night's CCSC meeting saw unanimous passage of a proposal to start the academic year a week earlier when Labor Day falls on September 5th or later. The passage was the first step by the councils towards forming a united undergraduate front in advance of Friday's University Senate Plenary, in the face of what council members called "intractable" opposition from the Senate Education Committee. The proposal next goes to the other three undergraduate councils, where it's expected to be passed, before debate begins on the proposal in the Senate on Friday. Senate sources told Bwog not to expect a vote on Friday however.
The New Meal Plan: As part of his visit to CCSC, VP for Student and Administrative Services Scott Wright announced a new meal plan for next year. The important points:
Part of the reason for the change is that business at on-campus eateries like Ferris and JJ's has suffered as off-campus Flex spending has topped $2 million this year. The full plan is available at Dining's website.
Tags: ccsc, ferris booth, JJs, john jay, study days
March 23, 20104:00 pm 1 Comments
Bwog clicks its heels in the air with joy for the ability to use credit/debit at campus dining locations. Confirmed at Ferris Booth and John Jay, rumored at Carlton Lounge… we suspect there may be more. Swipe your parents' money hearts away!
February 03, 20105:17 pm 9 Comments
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WATERTOWN -- The Town Council accepted Curtiss Lane into its roster of town roads at its meeting Thursday. The lane was constructed as part of the Colden Acres subdivision.
From Litchfield Road, the new section of Curtiss Lane is 1,795 feet.
WATERTOWN -- The Town Council accepted Curtiss Lane into its roster of town roads at its meeting Thursday. The lane was constructed as part of the Colden Acres subdivision.
From Litchfield Road, the new section of Curtiss Lane is 1,795 feet.
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In this radical reexamination of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, investigative reporter Jimenez suggests that the tragedy may have been less about gay bashing, and more related to drug trafficking and methamphetamines. Drawing on 13 years' worth of interviews and investigation, Jimenez pieces together a sequence of events and motives distinctly at odds with the public record. Instead of being the innocent victim of a hate crime, Shepard becomes a complex, flawed individual involved with the drug trade and other dubious behaviors. One of the killers, Aaron McKinney, is recast as a meth-addicted bisexual. Rather than a spur of the moment incident between strangers, there's every indication that Shepard knew his murderers long before that fateful night. As he ultimately notes, "…Matthew was part of an interstate drug-trafficking circle, and that the buying and selling of crystal meth was only one of the activities he and Aaron shared." In claiming that Shepard was killed because of drugs, and the "gay panic" story was offered as a cover and heavily pushed by media and politicians as part of a larger agenda, Jimenez completely changes the meaning and impact of Shepard's death. While Jimenez's argument is thorough and convincing, the controversial aspect may be enough to alienate many readers. (Oct.)
The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepardby Stephen Jimenez
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What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American/i>
What role did crystal meth and other previously underreported factors play in the brutal murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard? The Book of Matt is a page-turning cautionary tale that humanizes and de-mythologizes Matthew while following the evidence where it leads, without regard to the politics that have long attended this American tragedy.
Late on the night of October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard left a bar in Laramie, Wyoming with two alleged "strangers," Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson. Eighteen hours later, Matthew was found tied to a log fence on the outskirts of town, unconscious and barely alive. He had been pistol-whipped so severely that the mountain biker who discovered his battered frame mistook him for a Halloween scarecrow. Overnight, a politically expedient myth took the place of important facts. By the time Matthew died a few days later, his name was synonymous with anti-gay hate.
Stephen Jimenez went to Laramie to research the story of Matthew Shepard's murder in 2000, after the two men convicted of killing him had gone to prison, and after the national media had moved on. His aim was to write a screenplay on what he, and the rest of the nation, believed to be an open-and-shut case of bigoted violence. As a gay man, he felt an added moral imperative to tell Matthew's story. But what Jimenez eventually found in Wyoming was a tangled web of secrets. His exhaustive investigation also plunged him deep into the deadly underworld of drug trafficking. Over the course of a thirteen-year investigation, Jimenez traveled to twenty states and Washington DC, and interviewed more than a hundred named sources.
The Book of Matt is sure to stir passions and inspire dialogue as it re-frames this misconstrued crime and its cast of characters, proving irrefutably that Matthew Shepard was not killed for being gay but for reasons far more complicated — and daunting.
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In this radical reexamination of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, investigative reporter Jimenez suggests that the tragedy may have been less about gay bashing, and more related to drug trafficking and methamphetamines. Drawing on 13 years' worth of interviews and investigation, Jimenez pieces together a sequence of events and motives distinctly at odds with the public record. Instead of being the innocent victim of a hate crime, Shepard becomes a complex, flawed individual involved with the drug trade and other dubious behaviors. One of the killers, Aaron McKinney, is recast as a meth-addicted bisexual. Rather than a spur of the moment incident between strangers, there's every indication that Shepard knew his murderers long before that fateful night. As he ultimately notes, "…Matthew was part of an interstate drug-trafficking circle, and that the buying and selling of crystal meth was only one of the activities he and Aaron shared." In claiming that Shepard was killed because of drugs, and the "gay panic" story was offered as a cover and heavily pushed by media and politicians as part of a larger agenda, Jimenez completely changes the meaning and impact of Shepard's death. While Jimenez's argument is thorough and convincing, the controversial aspect may be enough to alienate many readers. (Oct.)
Indeed, this book holds true to its subtitle. Readers should be prepared to encounter a radically revised version of the life and death of Matthew Shepard, a college student whose gruesome 1998 murder in Laramie, WY, galvanized gay and social activists. According to seasoned screenwriter and investigative reporter Jimenez (ABC News 20/20; Dan Rather Reports; NOVA), the myth of Matt is simply that: a hagiography unrepresentative of the all-too-human man. Jimenez spent 13 years investigating Shepard's savage death, returning to Laramie time and again in order to interview and reinterview the principal players in his life. Ultimately, Jimenez, who also is gay, demonstrates conclusively that Shepard was not a victim of a hate crime and a martyr for the gay cause but rather died because of his heavy involvement in the Colorado methamphetamine scene. Moreover, Jimenez establishes that Shepard was well acquainted with Aaron McKinney, his drug-crazed murderer, and that Russell Henderson, the other man convicted of the homicide, in fact did not actively participate in the killing. VERDICT This riveting true crime narrative will appeal to readers of books such as Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song.—Lynne Maxwell, West Virginia Univ. Coll. of Law Lib., Morgantown
An award-winning journalist uncovers the suppressed story behind the death of Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student whose 1998 murder rocked the nation. Jimenez was a media "Johnny-come-lately" when he arrived in Laramie in 2000 to begin work on the Shepard story. His fascination with the intricate web of secrets surrounding Shepard's murder and eventual elevation to the status of homosexual martyr developed into a 13-year investigative obsession. The tragedy was "enshrined…as passion play and folktale, but hardly ever for the truth of what it was": the story of a troubled young man who had died because he had been involved with Laramie's drug underworld rather than because he was gay. Drawing on both in-depth research and exhaustive interviews with more than 100 individuals around the United States, Jimenez meticulously re-examines both old and new information about the murder and those involved with it. Everyone had something to hide. For Aaron McKinney, one of the two men convicted of Shepard's murder, it was the fact that he was Shepard's part-time bisexual lover and fellow drug dealer. For Shepard, it was that he was an HIV-positive substance abuser with a fondness for crystal meth and history of sexual trauma. Even the city of Laramie had its share of dark secrets that included murky entanglements involving law enforcement officials and the Laramie drug world. So when McKinney and his accomplices claimed that it had been unwanted sexual advances that had driven him to brutalize Shepard, investigators, journalists and even lawyers involved in the murder trial seized upon the story as an example of hate crime at its most heinous. As Jimenez deconstructs an event that has since passed into the realm of mythology, he humanizes it. The result is a book that is fearless, frank and compelling. Investigative journalism at its relentless and compassionate best.
"A gripping read." — People magazine
"Be prepared to encounter a radically revised version of the life and death of Matthew Shepard . . . This riveting true crime narrative will appeal to readers of books such as Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song." — Library Journal (★ Starred Review)
"The extensive interviews and dogged investigative research conducted by Jimenez make The Book of Matt a model for journalistic inquiry. . . . Jimenez is revealing today what we should have read fifteen years ago. In the meantime, the media continues to report on some anti-gay hate crimes while completely ignoring others, and thousands go completely unreported out of fear of retaliation. Perhaps the main takeaway from The Book of Matt is that we should challenge ourselves to demand the truth from our media at all times, even if it costs us a tidy narrative." — Rachel Wexelbaum in Lambda Literary Review
"This is an amazing book! A painful story about a horrific event that left one man dead and many lives in pieces. . . It documents the original failure of the media, the community and the criminal justice system to find the real truth. . . . Steve Jimenez has done a remarkable job of removing himself from the story to tell it with pure, heart wrenching honesty and integrity. I know, I caught Russell Henderson the night of the murder. I recovered the gun and washed blood from my hands. . . . The only concern I have from so much more information coming out is it could possibly take away from the exceptional outcomes that have been championed in the name of Matthew Shepherd. I believe a major reason this case so quickly expanded to grab the national consciousness on the inconsistent treatment of our citizens was due to the vacuum that existed there. It is both honorable and appropriate to set the facts in proper order so the truth be known. Can we also acknowledge that vacuum and speak to the need to remedy the situation as well? I would like to believe if we you chose to, we could stop a pendulum mid swing." — Flint Waters, a former Laramie police officer and drug enforcement agent for the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation
"Mr. Jimenez's book is most useful in illuminating the power of the media to shape the popular conception of an event. It shows how a desire for Manichaean morality tales can lead us to oversimplify the human experience. . . . Mr. Jimenez's findings cast doubt on what he calls the Shepard story's function as latter-day 'passion play and folktale.'" — The Wall Street Journal
"Fifteen years ago . . . Aaron McKinney swung his .357 Magnum for the final time like a baseball bat into the skull of Matthew Shepard. Shepard was tied low to a post, arms behind his back, in a prairie fringe of Laramie, Wyoming. . . . The murder was so vicious, the aftermath so sensational, that the story first told to explain it became gospel before anyone could measure it against reality. That story was born, in part, of shock and grief and the fact that gay men like Shepard have been violently preyed upon by heterosexuals. It was also born of straight culture and secrets. . . . Now comes Stephen Jimenez with The Book of Matt, and this most detailed effort to rescue the protagonists from caricature is, with a few exceptions, being coolly ignored or pilloried for 'blaming the victim.' . . . Jimenez does not polemicize or tread deeply into the psyches of the main figures. Rather, he explores the drug-fueled world they inhabited, and evokes its thick air of violence. . . . Jimenez spent thirteen years to tell his story. . . In this story, Shepard and McKinney were neither lamb nor wolf; they were human commodities, working for rival drug circles to support their habits, and occasionally forced to pay their debts in sex. The Matthew Shepard Foundation, the whole machinery that benefited from the story of a desexualized Bad Karma Kid but otherwise happy-in-his-skin Matthew, that used his horrid death as a banner for hate crime laws, have slammed the book. Kinder reviewers have said Jimenez has made the case less political. On the contrary. What impelled McKinney to loathe his desires, and Shepard relentlessly, dangerously to test himself, and Henderson to follow orders? Violence lacerated these young men long before the murder, and it will not be diminished or resisted by myths and vengeful laws." — JoAnn Wypijewski in The Nation
"Jimenez is careful to point out that his goal is to understand Shepard as a complex human being and make the fullest possible sense of his murder, not to suggest in any way that he deserved his horrific fate. . . . Jimenez's problem is that he has trodden on hallowed ground. America, as John Ford cannily observed in his western The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, is a country that likes to build up its heroes and villains and rarely appreciates having the record corrected to restore them to the stature of ordinary, fallible human beings. By now, Shepard's story has been elevated close to legend, and Shepard himself to a near-messianic figure who suffered for the ultimate benefit of the rest of us. . . . Many of Jimenez's central contentions are shared by the prosecutor in the case, Cal Rerucha, and by police officers who investigated the murder." — The Guardian
"Jimenez takes pains to note throughout the book that no matter what led up to the murder, the event was still horrific. And the end result of his retelling is not to demonize Matthew Shepard—Jimenez is himself gay—but to point out that he was human." — Yasmin Nair, In These Times
"I will never view the death of Matthew Shepard in the same way. After finishing The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard . . . it is no longer possible to believe the myth that has grown up around the death of this young man in Laramie 15 years ago." — Wyoming Tribune Eagle
"It's been 15 years to the month since a dying Matthew Shepard was found tied to a fencepost outside Laramie, Wyoming. The narrative that quickly emerged — which Stephen Jimenez spends 360 pages debunking in The Book of Matt — was that Shepard had told two strangers he was gay, provoking the savage attack. . . . Jimenez acknowledges that the national revulsion to Shepard's murder actually helped the gay community, creating more awareness, legal protections, and a trend toward true equality. But The Book of Matt finds nothing positive in the media's handling of that case." — Seattle Weekly
"There are numerous hagiographies on the Matthew Shepard murder. [Fifteen] years after Shepard's murder, they're being challenged. Are we ready for the tale investigative journalist Stephen Jimenez, himself gay, spins? . . .Jimenez's message in The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths About the Murder of Matthew Shepard, upends a canonized narrative we all have grown familiarly comfortable with. . . .And now with Jimenez's incontrovertible evidence that Shepard's murderers were not strangers — one is a bisexual crystal meth addict who not only knew Matthew, but partied, bought drugs from and had sex with Matthew. With this 'new' information a more textured but troubling truth emerges. This truth shatters a revered icon for LGBT rights, one deliberately chosen because of race, gender and economic background. . . . The anointing of Matthew Shepard as an iconic image for LGBT rights not only concealed from the American public the real person but also it hid the other varied faces of hate crimes in the 1990's. . . . In reading Jimenez's book we shockingly learn that Matthew Shepard, Gay Icon story is a fictive narrative. . . . The cultural currency of the Shepard narrative's shelf life, might now after nearly two decades be flickering out, or it's now of no use to its framers and the community it was intended to serve. . . . I read Jimenez's The Book of Matt as a cautionary tale of how the needs of a community trumped the truth of a story." — Rev. Irene Monroe, Out in New Jersey
"In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song, this is a work of literary true crime that reaches far beyond the case itself to probe deep and troubling recesses of the American psyche." — Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Hellhound on His Trail
"The Book of Matt provides us for the first time with the real story of an American tragedy." —Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row
"No one should be afraid of the truth. Least of all gay people... Shouldn't we understand better why and how?" — Journalist Andrew Sullivan
"An award-winning journalist uncovers the suppressed story behind the death of Matthew Shepard. . . . As Jimenez deconstructs an event that has since passed into the realm of mythology, he humanizes it. The result is a book that is fearless, frank and compelling. Investigative journalism at its relentless and compassionate best." — Kirkus Reviews
"Jimenez does a masterful job of unspooling this haunted narrative like a puzzle, giving you seemingly disparate pieces that take a while to form a larger picture... Anyone interested in the Matthew Shepard case needs to read this book." – Jeff Walsh, Oasis Magazine, an online publication for LGBT youth
"What if nearly everything you thought you knew about Matthew Shepard's murder was wrong? What if our most fiercely held convictions about the circumstances of that fatal night of October 6, 1998, have obscured other, more critical, aspects of the case? . . . None of this is idle speculation; it's the fruit of years of dogged investigation by journalist Stephen Jimenez, himself gay. In the course of his reporting, Jimenez interviewed over 100 subjects, including friends of Shepard and of his convicted killers, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, as well as the killers themselves. . . . In the process, he amassed enough anecdotal evidence to build a persuasive case that Shepard's sexuality was, if not incidental, certainly less central than popular consensus has lead us to believe." — Aaron Hicklin, Editor-in-Chief of Out magazine, in The Advocate
"What's truly remarkable about this book is not that, like many before it, it exposes the truth behind a useful myth. It is the reaction of the gay establishment to these difficult truths. The Book Of Matt insists on the horrifying nature of the crime; it had no pre-existing agenda; it's written by an award-winning reporter who is also a gay man. (The Wyoming Historical Society also gave it an award.) What it does is expose a real problem in the gay male world – especially at the time of the murder: the nexus of sex and meth that destroyed and still destroys so many lives." — Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish
"Stephen Jimenez makes a compelling case that this horrific murder was not a hate crime at all. . . . No doubt Jimenez will face criticism for his powerful book. Why did he have to dig around and stir things up? Won't people who are opposed to equal rights for LGBT people use his exposé for their reactionary purposes? How do these revelations harm those who built programs teaching tolerance based on the Shepard murder? How will Shepard's family feel? . . . The movement for equality for gay people is important, not because of what happened to Matthew Shepard on an October night 15 years ago, but because no one should be less valued as a human being because of who they are or who they love. . . . When combating hatred and bigotry, the truth is always important." — The Jewish Daily Forward
"This is not a left-wing or a right-wing thing. It is not a gay or straight thing, it is not a religious versus atheist thing. It's a human thing. . . . I admire Stephen Jimenez so much for the courage it took to stick with this story for 13 years, and to report facts that apparently destroy the narrative that he expected to find when he first went to Wyoming to look into the Shepard case. There will be a number of people who will hate him for what he's done, especially because he himself is a gay journalist. May we all find the courage to follow the truth and to deal with it, no matter where it leads. I aspire to be as brave in my work as Jimenez has been in his. All of us should learn a lesson from his book. It is important to stand up for what we believe is right. But it is more important for us to stand up for the truth.." — Rod Dreher, author of The Little Way of Ruth Leming, in The American Conservative
"I am persuaded by The Book of Matt that we will learn more that is more valuable if we demand the facts, and not a case that is cut to fit a particular agenda... We need a Steve Jimenez to take up the [Trayvon Martin case, to which the book is compared] and devote to it the energy and attention that he devoted to the Shepard murder, to enrich us with the truth." — Marci A. Hamilton, Justia
"The popular image of this event as one where two drug-using homophobic thugs murdered Matthew because he was gay is overly simplistic. . . Matthew Shepard's memory is ill served by those who wish to present him as a saint and who urge us not to read this book. The narratives are contradictory; read the book and make your own mind up. What is clear is that Matthew was as complicated and flawed an individual as we all are – and that in no way invalidates his humanity, his right to life or the reaction to his murder." — The James Morgan Brown Review
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"Stephen Jimenez's tireless investigation uncovers a shocking new perspective on the murder of Matthew Shepard. A sympathetic but fearless account of what happened on that terrible night outside Laramie, The Book of Matt provides us for the first time with the real story of an American tragedy." —Kevin Baker, author of Strivers Row
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Stephen Jimenez is an award-winning journalist, writer and producer. He was a 2012 Norman Mailer Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced programs for ABC News 20/20, Dan Rather Reports, Nova, Fox, Court TV and others. His accolades include the Writers Guild of America Award, the Mongerson Award for Investigative Reporting, an Emmy, and fellowships at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. A graduate of Georgetown University, he has taught screenwriting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and other colleges. He lives in New York and Santa Fe.
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Jimenez is bold and detailed in this gripping account of the Shephard case. As a graduate of the U. of Wyo only a year before this crime occurred, I always felt personally invested. The "facts," as they initially given, never added up. Jimenez dared to dive deeply into this case and expose the craftfully hidden truth. Thank you, Stephen Jimenez, for telling the truth.
I lived in the area when this horrible crime occurred, and saw the media hype travesty pushed by the gay rights activists and the liberal media. This book is a refreshing study (written by a gay man) over years following the tragedy, to dig deeper into the people, places, motives and actualities of the Matthew Shepard case. I truly appreciated his willingness to pursue people, build relationships, find truth and take the time to write this book setting many things straight. I hope that many who were propagandized and influenced by the media's lies will read this book and see "the rest of the story."
I did not finish this book. I got about halfway through and realized I was not really interested in the outcome of the story. Matthew Shepard was murdered and those responsible for his death are behind bars. The motive of the perpetrators is not really that interesting.
Book jumps all over the place and puts out things that really aren't new, but wants the reader to think so. Not well written and bored me early on. Finished it, but was not capturing my interest. Didn't like it but had nothing to do with the topic. I think this author's facts are not documented well and not backed up but seemed to be chasing random characters. Wonder if they are really affiliated with Matthew. Anyone can say anything after years and author seems to disregard everything that was done in the past by reports and law enforcement, like what he says is the "Gospel" on Matthew's murder. I agree mainstream media went on a blitz and the story was misreported by many.
This Book Could Have Been Better I have only visited Laramie a few times. I never thought it fair to paint the entire place as a bunch of gay hating rednecks. Mr. Jimenez started the book with an interesting premise and interviewed many interesting characters. I can't remember Russell's last name, but it was interesting how he delved into this character's life and how even prison officials feel he doesn't belong there. He spends way too much time, though, on methamphetamine users, "methheads", who are basically boring people. I left the book with a dislike for the Shepherd family, basically feeling bad for the lesser known younger brother. I would be willing to give the author a second try, though.


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text: @node The Compiler, The Debugger, Introduction, Top @comment node-name, next, previous, up @chapter The Compiler This chapter will discuss most compiler issues other than efficiency, including compiler error messages, the SBCL compiler's unusual approach to type safety in the presence of type declarations, the effects of various compiler optimization policies, and the way that inlining and open coding may cause optimized code to differ from a naive translation. Efficiency issues are sufficiently varied and separate that they have their own chapter, @ref{Efficiency}. @menu * Error Messages:: * Handling of Types:: * Compiler Policy:: * Open Coding and Inline Expansion:: @end menu @node Error Messages, Handling of Types, The Compiler, The Compiler @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section Error Messages @cindex Error messages, Compiler @cindex Compiler error messages The compiler supplies a large amount of source location information in error messages. The error messages contain a lot of detail in a terse format, so they may be confusing at first. Error messages will be illustrated using this example program: @lisp (defmacro zoq (x) `(roq (ploq (+ ,x 3)))) (defun foo (y) (declare (symbol y)) (zoq y)) @end lisp The main problem with this program is that it is trying to add @code{3} to a symbol. Note also that the functions @code{roq} and @code{ploq} aren't defined anywhere. @menu * The Parts of the Error Message:: * The Original and Actual Source:: * Error Severity:: * Errors During Macroexpansion:: * Read Errors:: @end menu @node The Parts of the Error Message, The Original and Actual Source, Error Messages, Error Messages @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection The Parts of the Error Message When processing this program, the compiler will produce this warning: @example file: /tmp/foo.lisp in: DEFUN FOO (ZOQ Y) --> ROQ PLOQ + ==> Y caught WARNING: Result is a SYMBOL, not a NUMBER. @end example In this example we see each of the six possible parts of a compiler error message: @enumerate @item @samp{File: /tmp/foo.lisp} This is the name of the file that the compiler read the relevant code from. The file name is displayed because it may not be immediately obvious when there is an error during compilation of a large system, especially when @code{with-compilation-unit} is used to delay undefined warnings. @item @samp{in: DEFUN FOO} This is the definition top level form responsible for the error. It is obtained by taking the first two elements of the enclosing form whose first element is a symbol beginning with ``@samp{def}''. If there is no such enclosing ``@samp{def}'' form, then the outermost form is used. If there are multiple @samp{def} forms, then they are all printed from the outside in, separated by @samp{=>}'s. In this example, the problem was in the @code{defun} for @code{foo}. @item @samp{(ZOQ Y)} This is the @dfn{original source} form responsible for the error. Original source means that the form directly appeared in the original input to the compiler, i.e. in the lambda passed to @code{compile} or in the top level form read from the source file. In this example, the expansion of the @code{zoq} macro was responsible for the error. @item @samp{--> ROQ PLOQ +} This is the @dfn{processing path} that the compiler used to produce the errorful code. The processing path is a representation of the evaluated forms enclosing the actual source that the compiler encountered when processing the original source. The path is the first element of each form, or the form itself if the form is not a list. These forms result from the expansion of macros or source-to-source transformation done by the compiler. In this example, the enclosing evaluated forms are the calls to @code{roq}, @code{ploq} and @code{+}. These calls resulted from the expansion of the @code{zoq} macro. @item @samp{==> Y} This is the @dfn{actual source} responsible for the error. If the actual source appears in the explanation, then we print the next enclosing evaluated form, instead of printing the actual source twice. (This is the form that would otherwise have been the last form of the processing path.) In this example, the problem is with the evaluation of the reference to the variable @code{y}. @item @samp{caught WARNING: Result is a SYMBOL, not a NUMBER.} This is the @dfn{explanation} of the problem. In this example, the problem is that @code{y} evaluates to a symbol, but is in a context where a number is required (the argument to @code{+}). @end enumerate Note that each part of the error message is distinctively marked: @itemize @item @samp{file:} and @samp{in:} mark the file and definition, respectively. @item The original source is an indented form with no prefix. @item Each line of the processing path is prefixed with @samp{-->} @item The actual source form is indented like the original source, but is marked by a preceding @samp{==>} line. @item The explanation is prefixed with the error severity, which can be @samp{caught ERROR:}, @samp{caught WARNING:}, @samp{caught STYLE-WARNING:}, or @samp{note:}. @end itemize Each part of the error message is more specific than the preceding one. If consecutive error messages are for nearby locations, then the front part of the error messages would be the same. In this case, the compiler omits as much of the second message as in common with the first. For example: @example file: /tmp/foo.lisp in: DEFUN FOO (ZOQ Y) --> ROQ ==> (PLOQ (+ Y 3)) caught STYLE-WARNING: undefined function: PLOQ ==> (ROQ (PLOQ (+ Y 3))) caught STYLE-WARNING: undefined function: ROQ @end example In this example, the file, definition and original source are identical for the two messages, so the compiler omits them in the second message. If consecutive messages are entirely identical, then the compiler prints only the first message, followed by: @samp{[Last message occurs @var{repeats} times]} where @var{repeats} is the number of times the message was given. If the source was not from a file, then no file line is printed. If the actual source is the same as the original source, then the processing path and actual source will be omitted. If no forms intervene between the original source and the actual source, then the processing path will also be omitted. @node The Original and Actual Source, Error Severity, The Parts of the Error Message, Error Messages @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection The Original and Actual Source The @emph{original source} displayed will almost always be a list. If the actual source for an error message is a symbol, the original source will be the immediately enclosing evaluated list form. So even if the offending symbol does appear in the original source, the compiler will print the enclosing list and then print the symbol as the actual source (as though the symbol were introduced by a macro.) When the @emph{actual source} is displayed (and is not a symbol), it will always be code that resulted from the expansion of a macro or a source-to-source compiler optimization. This is code that did not appear in the original source program; it was introduced by the compiler. Keep in mind that when the compiler displays a source form in an error message, it always displays the most specific (innermost) responsible form. For example, compiling this function @lisp (defun bar (x) (let (a) (declare (fixnum a)) (setq a (foo x)) a)) @end lisp gives this error message @example in: DEFUN BAR (LET (A) (DECLARE (FIXNUM A)) (SETQ A (FOO X)) A) caught WARNING: The binding of A is not a FIXNUM: NIL @end example This error message is not saying ``there is a problem somewhere in this @code{let}'' -- it is saying that there is a problem with the @code{let} itself. In this example, the problem is that @code{a}'s @code{nil} initial value is not a @code{fixnum}. @subsection The Processing Path @cindex Processing path @cindex Macroexpansion @cindex Source-to-source transformation The processing path is mainly useful for debugging macros, so if you don't write macros, you can probably ignore it. Consider this example: @lisp (defun foo (n) (dotimes (i n *undefined*))) @end lisp Compiling results in this error message: @example in: DEFUN FOO (DOTIMES (I N *UNDEFINED*)) --> DO BLOCK LET TAGBODY RETURN-FROM ==> (PROGN *UNDEFINED*) caught STYLE-WARNING: undefined variable: *UNDEFINED* @end example Note that @code{do} appears in the processing path. This is because @code{dotimes} expands into: @lisp (do ((i 0 (1+ i)) (#:g1 n)) ((>= i #:g1) *undefined*) (declare (type unsigned-byte i))) @end lisp The rest of the processing path results from the expansion of @code{do}: @lisp (block nil (let ((i 0) (#:g1 n)) (declare (type unsigned-byte i)) (tagbody (go #:g3) #:g2 (psetq i (1+ i)) #:g3 (unless (>= i #:g1) (go #:g2)) (return-from nil (progn *undefined*))))) @end lisp In this example, the compiler descended into the @code{block}, @code{let}, @code{tagbody} and @code{return-from} to reach the @code{progn} printed as the actual source. This is a place where the ``actual source appears in explanation'' rule was applied. The innermost actual source form was the symbol @code{*undefined*} itself, but that also appeared in the explanation, so the compiler backed out one level. @node Error Severity, Errors During Macroexpansion, The Original and Actual Source, Error Messages @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Error Severity @cindex Severity of compiler errors @cindex compiler error severity There are four levels of compiler error severity: @emph{error}, @emph{warning}, @emph{style warning}, and @emph{note}. The first three levels correspond to condition classes which are defined in the ANSI standard for Common Lisp and which have special significance to the @code{compile} and @code{compile-file} functions. These levels of compiler error severity occur when the compiler handles conditions of these classes. The fourth level of compiler error severity, @emph{note}, is used for problems which are too mild for the standard condition classes, typically hints about how efficiency might be improved. @node Errors During Macroexpansion, Read Errors, Error Severity, Error Messages @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Errors During Macroexpansion @cindex Macroexpansion, errors during The compiler handles errors that happen during macroexpansion, turning them into compiler errors. If you want to debug the error (to debug a macro), you can set @code{*break-on-signals*} to @code{error}. For example, this definition: @lisp (defun foo (e l) (do ((current l (cdr current)) ((atom current) nil)) (when (eq (car current) e) (return current)))) @end lisp gives this error: @example in: DEFUN FOO (DO ((CURRENT L #) (# NIL)) (WHEN (EQ # E) (RETURN CURRENT)) ) caught ERROR: (in macroexpansion of (DO # #)) (hint: For more precise location, try *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS*.) DO step variable is not a symbol: (ATOM CURRENT) @end example @node Read Errors, , Errors During Macroexpansion, Error Messages @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Read Errors @cindex Read errors, compiler SBCL's compiler (unlike CMUCL's) does not attempt to recover from read errors when reading a source file, but instead just reports the offending character position and gives up on the entire source file. @c <!-- FIXME: How much control over error messages is in SBCL? @c _ How much should be? How much of this documentation should @c _ we save or adapt? @c _ @c _ %%\node Error Message Parameterization, , Read Errors, Interpreting Error Messages @c _ \subsection{Error Message Parameterization} @c _ \cpsubindex{error messages}{verbosity} @c _ \cpsubindex{verbosity}{of error messages} @c _ @c _ There is some control over the verbosity of error messages. See also @c _ \varref{undefined-warning-limit}, \code{*efficiency-note-limit*} and @c _ \varref{efficiency-note-cost-threshold}. @c _ @c _ \begin{defvar}{}{enclosing-source-cutoff} @c _ @c _ This variable specifies the number of enclosing actual source forms @c _ that are printed in full, rather than in the abbreviated processing @c _ path format. Increasing the value from its default of \code{1} @c _ allows you to see more of the guts of the macroexpanded source, @c _ which is useful when debugging macros. @c _ \end{defvar} @c _ @c _ \begin{defvar}{}{error-print-length} @c _ \defvarx{error-print-level} @c _ @c _ These variables are the print level and print length used in @c _ printing error messages. The default values are \code{5} and @c _ \code{3}. If null, the global values of \code{*print-level*} and @c _ \code{*print-length*} are used. @c _ \end{defvar} @c _ @c _ \begin{defmac}{extensions:}{define-source-context}{% @c _ \args{\var{name} \var{lambda-list} \mstar{form}}} @c _ @c _ This macro defines how to extract an abbreviated source context from @c _ the \var{name}d form when it appears in the compiler input. @c _ \var{lambda-list} is a \code{defmacro} style lambda-list used to @c _ parse the arguments. The \var{body} should return a list of @c _ subforms that can be printed on about one line. There are @c _ predefined methods for \code{defstruct}, \code{defmethod}, etc. If @c _ no method is defined, then the first two subforms are returned. @c _ Note that this facility implicitly determines the string name @c _ associated with anonymous functions. @c _ \end{defmac} @c _ @c _ --> @node Handling of Types, Compiler Policy, Error Messages, The Compiler @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section The Compiler's Handling of Types The most unusual features of the SBCL compiler (which is very similar to the original CMUCL compiler, also known as @dfn{Python}) is its unusually sophisticated understanding of the Common Lisp type system and its unusually conservative approach to the implementation of type declarations. These two features reward the use of type declarations throughout development, even when high performance is not a concern. Also, as discussed in the chapter on performance (@pxref{Efficiency}), the use of appropriate type declarations can be very important for performance as well. The SBCL compiler, like the related compiler in CMUCL, treats type declarations much differently than other Lisp compilers. By default (@emph{i.e.}, at ordinary levels of the @code{safety} compiler optimization parameter), the compiler doesn't blindly believe most type declarations; it considers them assertions about the program that should be checked. The SBCL compiler also has a greater knowledge of the Common Lisp type system than other compilers. Support is incomplete only for the @code{not}, @code{and} and @code{satisfies} types. @c <!-- FIXME: See also sections \ref{advanced-type-stuff} @c and \ref{type-inference}, once we snarf them from the @c CMU CL manual. --> @menu * Type Errors at Compile Time:: * Precise Type Checking:: * Weakened Type Checking:: * Getting Existing Programs to Run:: * Implementation Limitations:: @end menu @node Type Errors at Compile Time, Precise Type Checking, Handling of Types, Handling of Types @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Type Errors at Compile Time @cindex Compile time type errors @cindex Type checking, at compile time If the compiler can prove at compile time that some portion of the program cannot be executed without a type error, then it will give a warning at compile time. It is possible that the offending code would never actually be executed at run-time due to some higher level consistency constraint unknown to the compiler, so a type warning doesn't always indicate an incorrect program. For example, consider this code fragment: @lisp (defun raz (foo) (let ((x (case foo (:this 13) (:that 9) (:the-other 42)))) (declare (fixnum x)) (foo x))) @end lisp Compilation produces this warning: @example in: DEFUN RAZ (CASE FOO (:THIS 13) (:THAT 9) (:THE-OTHER 42)) --> LET COND IF COND IF COND IF ==> (COND) caught WARNING: This is not a FIXNUM: NIL @end example In this case, the warning means that if @code{foo} isn't any of @code{:this}, @code{:that} or @code{:the-other}, then @code{x} will be initialized to @code{nil}, which the @code{fixnum} declaration makes illegal. The warning will go away if @code{ecase} is used instead of @code{case}, or if @code{:the-other} is changed to @code{t}. This sort of spurious type warning happens moderately often in the expansion of complex macros and in inline functions. In such cases, there may be dead code that is impossible to correctly execute. The compiler can't always prove this code is dead (could never be executed), so it compiles the erroneous code (which will always signal an error if it is executed) and gives a warning. Type warnings are inhibited when the @code{sb-ext:inhibit-warnings} optimization quality is @code{3}. @xref{Compiler Policy}. This can be used in a local declaration to inhibit type warnings in a code fragment that has spurious warnings. @node Precise Type Checking, Weakened Type Checking, Type Errors at Compile Time, Handling of Types @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Precise Type Checking @cindex Precise type checking @cindex Type checking, precise With the default compilation policy, all type declarations are precisely checked, except in a few situations where they are simply ignored instead. Precise checking means that the check is done as though @code{typep} had been called with the exact type specifier that appeared in the declaration. In SBCL, adding type declarations makes code safer. (Except that remaining bugs in the compiler's handling of types unfortunately provide some exceptions to this rule, see @ref{Implementation Limitations}). If a variable is declared to be @code{(integer 3 17)} then its value must always be an integer between @code{3} and @code{17}. If multiple type declarations apply to a single variable, then all the declarations must be correct; it is as though all the types were intersected producing a single @code{and} type specifier. Argument and result type declarations are automatically enforced. If you declare the type of a function argument, a type check will be done when that function is called. In a function call, the called function does the argument type checking. The types of structure slots are also checked. The value of a structure slot must always be of the type indicated in any @code{:type} slot option. In traditional Common Lisp compilers, not all type assertions are checked, and type checks are not precise. Traditional compilers blindly trust explicit type declarations, but may check the argument type assertions for built-in functions. Type checking is not precise, since the argument type checks will be for the most general type legal for that argument. In many systems, type declarations suppress what little type checking is being done, so adding type declarations makes code unsafe. This is a problem since it discourages writing type declarations during initial coding. In addition to being more error prone, adding type declarations during tuning also loses all the benefits of debugging with checked type assertions. To gain maximum benefit from the compiler's type checking, you should always declare the types of function arguments and structure slots as precisely as possible. This often involves the use of @code{or}, @code{member}, and other list-style type specifiers. @node Weakened Type Checking, Getting Existing Programs to Run, Precise Type Checking, Handling of Types @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Weakened Type Checking @cindex Weakened type checking @cindex Type checking, weakened At one time, CMUCL supported another level of type checking, ``weakened type checking'', when the value for the @code{speed} optimization quality is greater than @code{safety}, and @code{safety} is not @code{0}. The CMUCL manual still has a description of it, but even the CMU CL code no longer corresponds to the manual. Some of this partial safety checking lingers on in SBCL, but it's not a supported feature, and should not be relied on. If you ask the compiler to optimize @code{speed} to a higher level than @code{safety}, your program is performing without a safety net, because SBCL may at its option believe any or all type declarations with either partial or nonexistent runtime checking. @node Getting Existing Programs to Run, Implementation Limitations, Weakened Type Checking, Handling of Types @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Getting Existing Programs to Run @cindex Existing programs, to run @cindex Types, portability @cindex Compatibility with other Lisps @c (should also have an entry in the non-ANSI-isms section)--> Since SBCL's compiler, like CMUCL's compiler, does much more comprehensive type checking than most Lisp compilers, SBCL may detect type errors in programs that have been debugged using other compilers. These errors are mostly incorrect declarations, although compile-time type errors can find actual bugs if parts of the program have never been tested. Some incorrect declarations can only be detected by run-time type checking. It is very important to initially compile a program with full type checks (high @code{safety} optimization) and then test this safe version. After the checking version has been tested, then you can consider weakening or eliminating type checks. @emph{This applies even to previously debugged programs,} because the SBCL compiler does much more type inference than other Common Lisp compilers, so an incorrect declaration can do more damage. The most common problem is with variables whose constant initial value doesn't match the type declaration. Incorrect constant initial values will always be flagged by a compile-time type error, and they are simple to fix once located. Consider this code fragment: @lisp (prog (foo) (declare (fixnum foo)) (setq foo ...) ...) @end lisp Here @code{foo} is given an initial value of @code{nil}, but is declared to be a @code{fixnum}. Even if it is never read, the initial value of a variable must match the declared type. There are two ways to fix this problem. Change the declaration @lisp (prog (foo) (declare (type (or fixnum null) foo)) (setq foo ...) ...) @end lisp or change the initial value @lisp (prog ((foo 0)) (declare (fixnum foo)) (setq foo ...) ...) @end lisp It is generally preferable to change to a legal initial value rather than to weaken the declaration, but sometimes it is simpler to weaken the declaration than to try to make an initial value of the appropriate type. Another declaration problem occasionally encountered is incorrect declarations on @code{defmacro} arguments. This can happen when a function is converted into a macro. Consider this macro: @lisp (defmacro my-1+ (x) (declare (fixnum x)) `(the fixnum (1+ ,x))) @end lisp Although legal and well-defined Common Lisp code, this meaning of this definition is almost certainly not what the writer intended. For example, this call is illegal: @lisp (my-1+ (+ 4 5)) @end lisp This call is illegal because the argument to the macro is @code{(+ 4 5)}, which is a @code{list}, not a @code{fixnum}. Because of macro semantics, it is hardly ever useful to declare the types of macro arguments. If you really want to assert something about the type of the result of evaluating a macro argument, then put a @code{the} in the expansion: @lisp (defmacro my-1+ (x) `(the fixnum (1+ (the fixnum ,x)))) @end lisp In this case, it would be stylistically preferable to change this macro back to a function and declare it inline. @c <!--FIXME: <xref>inline-expansion, once we crib the @c relevant text from the CMU CL manual.--> Some more subtle problems are caused by incorrect declarations that can't be detected at compile time. Consider this code: @lisp (do ((pos 0 (position #\a string :start (1+ pos)))) ((null pos)) (declare (fixnum pos)) ...) @end lisp Although @code{pos} is almost always a @code{fixnum}, it is @code{nil} at the end of the loop. If this example is compiled with full type checks (the default), then running it will signal a type error at the end of the loop. If compiled without type checks, the program will go into an infinite loop (or perhaps @code{position} will complain because @code{(1+ nil)} isn't a sensible start.) Why? Because if you compile without type checks, the compiler just quietly believes the type declaration. Since the compiler believes that @code{pos} is always a @code{fixnum}, it believes that @code{pos} is never @code{nil}, so @code{(null pos)} is never true, and the loop exit test is optimized away. Such errors are sometimes flagged by unreachable code notes, but it is still important to initially compile and test any system with full type checks, even if the system works fine when compiled using other compilers. In this case, the fix is to weaken the type declaration to @code{(or fixnum null)} @footnote{Actually, this declaration is unnecessary in SBCL, since it already knows that @code{position} returns a non-negative @code{fixnum} or @code{nil}.}. Note that there is usually little performance penalty for weakening a declaration in this way. Any numeric operations in the body can still assume that the variable is a @code{fixnum}, since @code{nil} is not a legal numeric argument. Another possible fix would be to say: @lisp (do ((pos 0 (position #\a string :start (1+ pos)))) ((null pos)) (let ((pos pos)) (declare (fixnum pos)) ...)) @end lisp This would be preferable in some circumstances, since it would allow a non-standard representation to be used for the local @code{pos} variable in the loop body. @c <!-- FIXME: <xref>ND-variables, once we crib the text from the @c CMU CL manual. --> @node Implementation Limitations, , Getting Existing Programs to Run, Handling of Types @comment node-name, next, previous, up @subsection Implementation Limitations Ideally, the compiler would consider @emph{all} type declarations to be assertions, so that adding type declarations to a program, no matter how incorrect they might be, would @emph{never} cause undefined behavior. As of SBCL version 0.8.1, the compiler is known to fall short of this goal in two areas: @itemize @item @code{Proclaim}ed constraints on argument and result types of a function are supposed to be checked by the function. If the function type is proclaimed before function definition, type checks are inserted by the compiler, but the standard allows the reversed order, in which case the compiler will trust the declaration. @item The compiler cannot check types of an unknown number of values; if the number of generated values is unknown, but the number of consumed is known, only consumed values are checked. @item There are a few poorly characterized but apparently very uncommon situations where a type declaration in an unexpected location will be trusted and never checked by the compiler. @end itemize These are important bugs, but are not necessarily easy to fix, so they may, alas, remain in the system for a while. @node Compiler Policy, Open Coding and Inline Expansion, Handling of Types, The Compiler @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section Compiler Policy As of version 0.6.4, SBCL still uses most of the CMUCL code for compiler policy. The CMUCL code has many features and high-quality documentation, but the two unfortunately do not match. So this area of the compiler and its interface needs to be cleaned up. Meanwhile, here is some rudimentary documentation on the current behavior of the system. Compiler policy is controlled by the @code{optimize} declaration. The compiler supports the ANSI optimization qualities, and also an extension @code{sb-ext:inhibit-warnings}. Ordinarily, when the @code{speed} quality is high, the compiler emits notes to notify the programmer about its inability to apply various optimizations. Setting @code{sb-ext:inhibit-warnings} to a value at least as large as the @code{speed} quality inhibits this notification. This can be useful to suppress notes about code which is known to be unavoidably inefficient. (For example, the compiler issues notes about having to use generic arithmetic instead of fixnum arithmetic, which is not helpful for code which by design supports arbitrary-sized integers instead of being limited to fixnums.) @quotation Note: The basic functionality of the @code{optimize inhibit-warnings} extension will probably be supported in all future versions of the system, but it will probably be renamed when the compiler and its interface are cleaned up. The current name is misleading, because it mostly inhibits optimization notes, not warnings. And making it an optimization quality is misleading, because it shouldn't affect the resulting code at all. It may become a declaration identifier with a name like @code{sb-ext:inhibit-notes}, so that what's currently written. @lisp (declaim (optimize (sb-ext:inhibit-warnings 2))) @end lisp would become something like @lisp (declaim (sb-ext:inhibit-notes 2)) @end lisp @end quotation In early versions of SBCL, a @code{speed} value of zero was used to enable byte compilation, but since version 0.7.0, SBCL only supports native compilation. When @code{safety} is zero, almost all runtime checking of types, array bounds, and so forth is suppressed. When @code{safety} is less than @code{speed}, any and all type checks may be suppressed. At some point in the past, CMUCL had a more nuanced interpretation of this (@pxref{Weakened Type Checking}). However, SBCL doesn't support that interpretation, and setting @code{safety} less than @code{speed} may have roughly the same effect as setting @code{safety} to zero. The value of @code{space} mostly influences the compiler's decision whether to inline operations, which tend to increase the size of programs. Use the value @code{0} with caution, since it can cause the compiler to inline operations so indiscriminately that the net effect is to slow the program by causing cache misses or swapping. @c <!-- FIXME: old CMU CL compiler policy, should perhaps be adapted @c _ for SBCL. (Unfortunately, the CMU CL docs are out of sync with the @c _ CMU CL code, so adapting this requires not only reformatting @c _ the documentation, but rooting out code rot.) @c _ @c _<sect2 id="compiler-policy"><title>Compiler Policy</1000 @c _ INDEX {policy}{compiler} @c _ INDEX compiler policy @c _ @c _<para>The policy is what tells the compiler <emphasis>how</emphasis> to @c _compile a program. This is logically (and often textually) distinct @c _from the program itself. Broad control of policy is provided by the @c _<parameter>optimize</parameter> declaration; other declarations and variables @c _control more specific aspects of compilation. @c _ @c _\begin{comment} @c _* The Optimize Declaration:: @c _* The Optimize-Interface Declaration:: @c _\end{comment} @c _ @c _%%\node The Optimize Declaration, The Optimize-Interface Declaration, Compiler Policy, Compiler Policy @c _\subsection{The Optimize Declaration} @c _\label{optimize-declaration} @c _\cindex{optimize declaration} @c _\cpsubindex{declarations}{\code{optimize}} @c _ @c _The \code{optimize} declaration recognizes six different @c _\var{qualities}. The qualities are conceptually independent aspects @c _of program performance. In reality, increasing one quality tends to @c _have adverse effects on other qualities. The compiler compares the @c _relative values of qualities when it needs to make a trade-off; i.e., @c _if \code{speed} is greater than \code{safety}, then improve speed at @c _the cost of safety. @c _ @c _The default for all qualities (except \code{debug}) is \code{1}. @c _Whenever qualities are equal, ties are broken according to a broad @c _idea of what a good default environment is supposed to be. Generally @c _this downplays \code{speed}, \code{compile-speed} and \code{space} in @c _favor of \code{safety} and \code{debug}. Novice and casual users @c _should stick to the default policy. Advanced users often want to @c _improve speed and memory usage at the cost of safety and @c _debuggability. @c _ @c _If the value for a quality is \code{0} or \code{3}, then it may have a @c _special interpretation. A value of \code{0} means ``totally @c _unimportant'', and a \code{3} means ``ultimately important.'' These @c _extreme optimization values enable ``heroic'' compilation strategies @c _that are not always desirable and sometimes self-defeating. @c _Specifying more than one quality as \code{3} is not desirable, since @c _it doesn't tell the compiler which quality is most important. @c _ @c _ @c _These are the optimization qualities: @c _\begin{Lentry} @c _ @c _\item[\code{speed}] \cindex{speed optimization quality}How fast the @c _ program should is run. \code{speed 3} enables some optimizations @c _ that hurt debuggability. @c _ @c _\item[\code{compilation-speed}] \cindex{compilation-speed optimization @c _ quality}How fast the compiler should run. Note that increasing @c _ this above \code{safety} weakens type checking. @c _ @c _\item[\code{space}] \cindex{space optimization quality}How much space @c _ the compiled code should take up. Inline expansion is mostly @c _ inhibited when \code{space} is greater than \code{speed}. A value @c _ of \code{0} enables indiscriminate inline expansion. Wide use of a @c _ \code{0} value is not recommended, as it may waste so much space @c _ that run time is slowed. \xlref{inline-expansion} for a discussion @c _ of inline expansion. @c _ @c _\item[\code{debug}] \cindex{debug optimization quality}How debuggable @c _ the program should be. The quality is treated differently from the @c _ other qualities: each value indicates a particular level of debugger @c _ information; it is not compared with the other qualities. @c _ \xlref{debugger-policy} for more details. @c _ @c _\item[\code{safety}] \cindex{safety optimization quality}How much @c _ error checking should be done. If \code{speed}, \code{space} or @c _ \code{compilation-speed} is more important than \code{safety}, then @c _ type checking is weakened (\pxlref{weakened-type-checks}). If @c _ \code{safety} if \code{0}, then no run time error checking is done. @c _ In addition to suppressing type checks, \code{0} also suppresses @c _ argument count checking, unbound-symbol checking and array bounds @c _ checks. @c _ @c _\item[\code{extensions:inhibit-warnings}] \cindex{inhibit-warnings @c _ optimization quality}This is a CMU extension that determines how @c _ little (or how much) diagnostic output should be printed during @c _ compilation. This quality is compared to other qualities to @c _ determine whether to print style notes and warnings concerning those @c _ qualities. If \code{speed} is greater than \code{inhibit-warnings}, @c _ then notes about how to improve speed will be printed, etc. The @c _ default value is \code{1}, so raising the value for any standard @c _ quality above its default enables notes for that quality. If @c _ \code{inhibit-warnings} is \code{3}, then all notes and most @c _ non-serious warnings are inhibited. This is useful with @c _ \code{declare} to suppress warnings about unavoidable problems. @c _\end{Lentry} @c _ @c _%%\node The Optimize-Interface Declaration, , The Optimize Declaration, Compiler Policy @c _\subsection{The Optimize-Interface Declaration} @c _\label{optimize-interface-declaration} @c _\cindex{optimize-interface declaration} @c _\cpsubindex{declarations}{\code{optimize-interface}} @c _ @c _The \code{extensions:optimize-interface} declaration is identical in @c _syntax to the \code{optimize} declaration, but it specifies the policy @c _used during compilation of code the compiler automatically generates @c _to check the number and type of arguments supplied to a function. It @c _is useful to specify this policy separately, since even thoroughly @c _debugged functions are vulnerable to being passed the wrong arguments. @c _The \code{optimize-interface} declaration can specify that arguments @c _should be checked even when the general \code{optimize} policy is @c _unsafe. @c _ @c _Note that this argument checking is the checking of user-supplied @c _arguments to any functions defined within the scope of the @c _declaration, \code{not} the checking of arguments to \llisp{} @c _primitives that appear in those definitions. @c _ @c _The idea behind this declaration is that it allows the definition of @c _functions that appear fully safe to other callers, but that do no @c _internal error checking. Of course, it is possible that arguments may @c _be invalid in ways other than having incorrect type. Functions @c _compiled unsafely must still protect themselves against things like @c _user-supplied array indices that are out of bounds and improper lists. @c _See also the \kwd{context-declarations} option to @c _\macref{with-compilation-unit}. @c _ @c _(end of section on compiler policy) @c _--> @node Open Coding and Inline Expansion, , Compiler Policy, The Compiler @comment node-name, next, previous, up @section Open Coding and Inline Expansion @cindex Open-coding @cindex inline expansion @cindex static functions Since Common Lisp forbids the redefinition of standard functions, the compiler can have special knowledge of these standard functions embedded in it. This special knowledge is used in various ways (open coding, inline expansion, source transformation), but the implications to the user are basically the same: @itemize @item Attempts to redefine standard functions may be frustrated, since the function may never be called. Although it is technically illegal to redefine standard functions, users sometimes want to implicitly redefine these functions when they are debugging using the @code{trace} macro. Special-casing of standard functions can be inhibited using the @code{notinline} declaration. @item The compiler can have multiple alternate implementations of standard functions that implement different trade-offs of speed, space and safety. This selection is based on the compiler policy, @ref{Compiler Policy}. @end itemize When a function call is @emph{open coded}, inline code whose effect is equivalent to the function call is substituted for that function call. When a function call is @emph{closed coded}, it is usually left as is, although it might be turned into a call to a different function with different arguments. As an example, if @code{nthcdr} were to be open coded, then @lisp (nthcdr 4 foobar) @end lisp might turn into @lisp (cdr (cdr (cdr (cdr foobar)))) @end lisp or even @lisp (do ((i 0 (1+ i)) (list foobar (cdr foobar))) ((= i 4) list)) @end lisp If @code{nth} is closed coded, then @lisp (nth x l) @end lisp might stay the same, or turn into something like @lisp (car (nthcdr x l)) @end lisp In general, open coding sacrifices space for speed, but some functions (such as @code{car}) are so simple that they are always open-coded. Even when not open-coded, a call to a standard function may be transformed into a different function call (as in the last example) or compiled as @emph{static call}. Static function call uses a more efficient calling convention that forbids redefinition.


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âJersey Godsâ #1 is a charming read, but not quite what was promised â- yet. The solicitation for this issue promotes the story of a cosmic god thatâs married to a Jersey girl and lives three doors down from his in-laws. The high concept pitch screams Jack Kirby meets âEverybody Loves Raymond.â The actual first issue is all set-up and getting to the point where Barock (the god) and Zoe (the Jersey girl) marry and live the wacky sitcom life of the solicitations. Not that thereâs anything wrong with that.
Zoe has just been dumped by her boyfriend prior to the Christmas holidays and soon finds herself in a mall, about to be killed by a giant, grey, hairy space god called Minog. Barock is patrolling space with Helius, a brash superficial young god, when the call comes in to stop Minog from killing humans. Itâs not a bad set-up, but it seems more concerned with establishing who everyone is than just jumping into the story.
Dialogue between Barock and Helius is purposeful in establishing that there are two groups of gods, the Orbiters and the Walkers, and that the former is corrupt and superficial, while the second is honorable and responsible. Thankfully, Glen Brunswick doesnât allow it to degenerate into obvious detail-dropping, and uses the dialogue to also establish that Barock is very in line with his Walker heritage, while Helius is rebellious and finds himself drawn to the Orbiters.
The building upon Jack Kirbyâs New Gods is obvious and itâs smart that Brunswick and artist Dan McDaid acknowledge it early. âJersey Godsâ wears its Kirby influence on its sleeve and makes no apologies, but seems more interested in the interaction between the gods and humans -â particularly since the gods are just as âhumanâ in their actions as humans. Helius is superficial and lecherous, allowing Barock to fight Minog alone while trying to pick up Zoe.
McDaidâs art, as is evident in the preview, has a strong Kirby influence, but is also very fluid and rougher. There are elements of simpler cartooning here with eyes that are just dots and a heavy use of shadow that also recalls Erik Larsen. Heâs very adept at facial expressions, making it clear exactly whatâs going on inside each characterâs head.
McDaidâs action is very energetically drawn, using âspeed linesâ to help convey movement and dynamic poses. I also really like the designs of the gods here, like Minog looking like a rocky creature, but also having a hairy chest and arms.
I do wish that the series began with Barock and Zoe already married and the details of how they met given in flashbacks or even saved for later in the series. The concept for this book is so intriguing that starting off slowly instead of in medias res seems an odd choice, and maybe not the best.


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Fluorescent nanocrystal quantum dots (QDs) have been applied to a wide range of biological studies by taking advantage of their fluorescence properties. Here we show that QDs conjugated with antibody against neutrophil peroxidase, myeloperoxidase (MPO). We designed a novel method to conjugate QDs to antibody without losing any antibody function including their antigen recognizing and Fc-receptor binding activities. When we applied anti-MPO antibody (Ab) with conventional organic probes in the case of immunostaining of living cells, the antibodies lost their fluorescence because of MPO enzymic activity to produce reactive oxygen species. Our QD-conjugated anti-MPO (alpha-MPO-QDs) can detect MPO on the surface of activated neutrophils. In addition, anti-MPO-QDs did not react to the inactivated neutrophils. In conclusion, we demonstrated that antibody visualized the expression of MPO on the neutrophil surface after stimulation with proinflammatory cytokines. Taken together, these techniques have the possibility that QDs can reveal the activation of neutrophils by immunostaining and flow cytometric analysis as a powerful tool for diagnosis of the neutrophil activation in vitro.
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