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First of all, it features a sloped roof, floor to ceiling windows, and a deck that wraps around the house for maximum enjoyment of the peaceful view of the Muskoka ... not to mention the striking mid-century modern aesthetic.
The interiors of the cottage is also full of charm. I love the rustic nutty pine panels on the walls and chunky beams. I probably would white washed the walls just to tone down the orange slightly but leave the ceiling in natural pine.
The furnishing at the cottage may feel a little dated to some but they exert a sense of coziness. Afterall, I believe cottage living should be casual and nothing is too precious or off limit. Hence, furniture choices should induce casual living and what's more inviting than good quality flea market finds? The price point is often superb and all you need is a little imagination to up-cycled them.
Check out some of these fantastic pieces in the cottage:
This rocker passed down by Grandma just need a new dress for its cushions and this well-made dresser on casters is just something I would even put in my own house!
I love this little painted table in a bright red and this sweet lovely pendant with an antique brass finish.
Other rustic charms includes these key chains and this green porcelain vase for my peonies.
The cottage also surprised us with some trendy decorative elements. Check out the mosaic tiles as backsplash and the band in the shower stall!
The twin room has a lime green feature wall and on trend blue/white geometric print as bedding.
I have been telling you how breath-taking the view is from this cottage ... well, here is your chance to see it too!
My room also features full height windows and here is my sunrise and sunset:
Cottages also come in all shapes and sizes ... here are just a few I saw.
My only question is: which cottage is your pick?


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New York has been a leading center for the marine insurance industry for two centuries.
Home of Many Major Marine Insurers
New York is home for many major marine insurers, including underwriting and claims operations as well as managers and correspondents for P&I Clubs. These entities underwrite risks and manage and resolve claims worldwide.
Depth and Scope of Expertise
Experienced and efficient service providers supporting the insurance industry are a significant element in the New York commercial landscape. This includes many marine adjusters, surveyors, naval architects and engineers, consultants and others who are involved in marine insurance claims.
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The American Institute of Marine Underwriters and the Inland Marine Underwriters Association are based in New York.
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All of the major international brokers and many specialist marine insurance brokers are active in New York and have immediate access to underwriters and claims operations of marine insurers in New York.
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New York has a well-developed body of statutory and reasoned decisional insurance law that addresses, for example, issues of bad faith, coverage, attorneys' fees and jurisdiction and has judges who are readily conversant with marine insurance. Many aspects of marine insurance are exempt from state regulation, in part due to successful lobbying by marine interests over the years.
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A month ago, the upcoming Olympus PEN-F mirrorless camera camera already registered at Taiwan's certification authority NCC (National Communications Commission).
Now, the first image of the upcoming Olympus PEN-F mirrorless interchangeable lens camera surfaced on the web.
After viewing the leaked image, it is expected that the Olympus PEN-F Mirrorless Camera will come with a removable small grip and a large front dial.
Since we have no official information related to its specifications yet, but according to the previous rumor, the PEN-F will have 20MP sensor and a built-in Electronic viewfinder.
It is expected that PEN-F will be officially announced on January 27, 2016.
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A Wonderful Autumn Give-Away!
Ginger Doggie had her stitches out on Monday, and is pretty much back to her full-time job of being a doggie…which gave me a chance to do some blog-surfing this morning, and I ran across THIS wonderful give-away.
Brenda, from Pumpkin Patch Primitives Quilting, is having a Halloween giveaway of a whole FQ bundle of these oh-so-scrumptious fabrics. So hop on over and check it out. They are just too perfect!
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I have the pleasure again to show you some of my work.
When you look at my first layout you know it's Agnieszka Bellaidea today :)
When you look at my first layout you know it's Agnieszka Bellaidea today :)
Last time I created a layout with crackle paint and I just had to keep going and make this one too. I find the effect of white paint on dark page very interesting. Next time I need to try different color.
For my two cards below I used the same set of chipboard, Two frames on Board.
For the first card I painted with acrylic paint in mat, for the second one I used two shades of pink in mat and glossy.
Thank you so much for your visit today, don't forget to leave some comments if you would like to win a pack of lovely chipboards !
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Only the British can enjoy gathering at the side of a river in the cold, watching plastic ducks float by - but then again, it wouldn't be Christmas without the annual Kenilworth Lions Charity Duck Race.
Hundreds of onlookers lined the banks on Boxing Day as the ducks were released at the Kenilworth Ford, to see if their duck would be the winner.
Organiser Tim Lee said: "Once again, it was a great success. We sold over 7,000 tickets and we hope to collect £6,000 from the event for local charities."
The duck race is the culmination of the Kenilworth Lions Christmas charity fundraisers.
Some of the winners have yet to come forward - the winning numbers are: 519, 1209, 608 and 1018. If you are a winner, you can claim your prize by calling Dennis on 01926 859297.


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G is for Green Pepper............
We use a lot of these guys in many of our recipes, so cutting them up has become quite an easy chore.
The sun happened to be coming through the window at just right time and amount one afternoon and it lit up the inside of the green pepper on my cutting board.
Positioning it just right and washing my hands, I then went to get my camera.
My family is used to the camera appearing at the oddest times, but when all things come together just right, one has to take advantage of it.
It I had waited until the next time, that light would have never been right.
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Mission to the university, missionaries to the world:
- Empower students to thoughtful, creative, genuine and evangelistic mission to the University of Tasmania.
- Identify and cultivate Christian leaders, especially missionaries, church planters and pastors.
- We will be a large, diverse, long term and flexible ministry.
- We will have a global network of missionaries, pastors, church planters and graduates committed to our ministry.
We seek to fulfill our mission and vision with a dependence upon God's power, and according to the methods he gives us:
- Clear, persuasive Christ-centred proclamation of the Scriptures.
- Prayer according to the promises of God.
- The godly individual and community life of Christians as example, embodiment and commendation of our message.
- Loving willingness to serve, sacrifice and change for the good of others.
1. We are not consumers, we are whole heartedly committed to the mission of the University Fellowship of Christians.
- Attend all basic meetings of Uni Fellowship unless there is a major reason. Study is not a major reason.
- Make a decision for your ministry with the Uni Fellowship to take priority among other ministry commitments for the year.
2. We are not a church, we are all members of local churches.
- Become an active member of a church in Hobart.
- Ask leaders of your local church for opportunity for you to speak about Uni Fellowship at least once a year.
- Invite other students from your local church to attend Uni Fellowship at least once a year.
3. We are not activists, we rest in the grace of God and devote ourselves to prayer and meditating on Scripture.
- Regularly memorise Scripture.
- Big slabs of time devoted to prayer in public and private.
- Plan to read the whole Bible.
- Pray both for ministry here and overseas.
4. We are not a ghetto, we are active members of the social life of UTAS.
- Persue interest in non Christian culture.
- Join and participate in student societies.
- Consider joining the TUU and voting in elections.
- Read and write for Togatus.
- Listen to Edge Radio.
- Join Facebook.
5. We are not a parasite, we are dilligent in our studies and involvement in the University community.
- Hand assignments in on time.
- Attend classes and meet others in your classes.
6. We are not a youth group, we expect mature and loving adult behaviour and responsibility.
- Keep a diary and take note of all information and commitments relevant to you.
- Give apologies and renegotiate commitments and deadlines well in advance.
- Check and promptly reply to emails at least three times a week.
- Check and promptly reply to text messages.
7. We don't want total staff control nor total student freedom, but genuine long-term partnership between staff and students.
We want the Uni Fellowship to be able to have the theological depth and long-term strategy that a staff team can give.
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If you've attempted to lose weight, people have probably told you that depriving yourself is mandatory. While this is one method, it is extremely difficult and unrealistic to live by. Below, you'll learn some of the most effective tips to apply for quick weight loss without feeling a hole in your stomach.
* Eat more vegetables and drink more water. In between meals, make a nice salad with a low calorie dressing such as lemon juice, a spoon of olive oil, salt and some garlic to curb appetites and help you eat less on your next meal. A glass or two of water preceding every meal helps avoid any confusions of thirst with hunger. Another way to incorporate more vegetables is to eat some right before or mixed in with your main course. In example, if you eat mashed potatoes with steak for dinner, have a salad, some steamed vegetables, or even blend your own vegetables and simply drink them (blend for a while with plenty of water to keep thin) to fill your stomach, keep you full longer and provide nutrients.
* The feelings of deprivation in a diet result from the false belief that you're favorite foods are "forbidden" and removing them is mandatory to achieve results. An unexpected tip is to enjoy your favorite foods without feeling guilty on a regular, yet responsible basis. Be it a weekly cheat meal of your favorite food, a weekly restaurant dinner or an entire cheat day as a reward for more intense dieting. Regardless of your choice, temporary breaks from dieting are essential to renew your motivation and dedication.
* The most overlooked factor in dieting is to choose a style of eating you can live with. Otherwise, all the weight will rebound right back because there's no way to comfortably follow a diet that's too intrusive. A mainly vegetarian diet works great because all the vegetables keep you feel and there's so much low-calorie variety to choose from, keeping you full and satisfied. There are countless ways to lose weight, the obstacle is finding which comfortably works for YOU, because while someone else might be fine giving up pastas, pizza or any other foods, you might still want to enjoy those while losing weight. While weight loss is relatively quick, it must be enjoyable to work in the long run.
As you can see, weight loss isn't rocket science. In reality, it's simply eating less than you need so your body uses your energy (fat) stores. If you're finished experimenting with fad diets and finally achieve results visit http://weightlossmiss.com to discover the simplest, most realistic weight loss solutions.


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03.03.11: How we make each others' world go around
On March 8, I'll be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day at the National CARE Conference in DC. Privately, I've been celebrating the power of women to make a difference in the world, right here at home. I know many readers are experiencing the same gentle power as they move through their pregnancies. The women in their lives are quietly supporting them from thin to thick, sickness and health, through labor and birth and on into motherhood. At some point, every woman in the world, no matter her circumstances eventually finds herself asking, "What would I do without my girls?"
I've been dealing with a health issue that has, at times, been frightening and dark and through it all "my women" have helped me along. My dear friend, Janet, an obstetrician/gynecologist I've worked with for ages, is currently volunteering in a clinic in Guatemala. Before she left on her courageous trip to donate her services to women who desperately need her, she made a call to her friend, Dr. S, a doctor with exactly the specialty I needed. Janet put in a good word, so I could get an appointment quickly and so I wouldn't be a stranger to Dr. S. My condition wasn't the biggest emergency in her appointment book, and Dr. S was preparing to leave on her own volunteer medical mission to the Philippines. Still, she kindly wedged me in to her too-busy schedule and took care of me. That's the power of women. Just a call, just a kind word and Voila…it's taken care of.
Megan is entering the second trimester of a pregnancy that has felt somewhat fragile. Just when she was finally able to kiss the fear of miscarriage and her nausea goodbye, she developed a painful uterine ligament pull and the flu. She was placed on bed rest (which she's totally not cut out for) and quickly became stark raving bored. Her girlfriends dropped gifts and movies, books and baskets at her house and made sure she rested, recuperated and made it through this seesaw time with her pregnancy and wits intact.
Dylan just delivered her second son last month. Her 2-year-old, Patrick, is a sweetheart, but isn't too keen on having his reign as only son usurped by that new baby, who he says, "can't do anything good." Patrick pronounces it "tantoo anytig dood." Dylan feels bad about inadvertently kicking Patrick off the throne, and is struggling with the juggle of two-under-two. Dylan's mother recognized Dylan needed private time with Patrick and swooped in to spend a whole day with the baby.
Dylan nursed her newborn and passed him to her mom. Then she and Patrick went outside to play in the snow. When they came in for stories and a warm up, Dylan nursed the baby again, then spent another hour playing with Patrick. Dylan and her mom passed the baby back and forth all day, but Dylan made Patrick her number-one priority. By the end of the day, Patrick felt like he had his Mama back and Dylan learned how important it is to have another woman to hand off to. Dylan's mom plans on coming to the rescue every week.
While I've been recuperating, my girlfriends have picked up my slack on carpools, deadlines, errands and all the little things that make the world go around. I've received care packages from women all over the country. Sarah and Ellen, my good friends at CARE, sent not one, but four boxes of chocolates made by one of their partners, Full Circle Exchange.
I received flowers, emails and countless Facebook posts from women all over the world, wishing me well. And it's working…I am indeed getting well. Well enough, in fact, that I'll be traveling to Washington DC next week where among other things, CARE will be re-launching its' own famous CARE package. The original CARE Package was introduced in 1946 to deliver lifesaving food and much-needed supplies to Europeans after World War II. It was so widely embraced by the public, the name CARE Package became synonymous for gifts of comfort sent to family and friends. Times have changed and today, CARE's anti-poverty mission is doing a lot more than simply delivering boxes of goodies (though, frankly, I totally love getting boxes of goodies).
CARE now delivers tools and resources (like healthcare, education, employment opportunities and village savings and loan programs) that empower poor girls and women around the world to create positive change in their lives and communities. By visiting the new online interactive CARE package you can send a customized gift to women around the world. You can drag and drop a variety of tools into CARE's box, like funds to provide transportation so women can get to a prenatal clinic, or make a donation to build a birth center. Maybe you can't make a donation right now, but can add your voice and vote to the care package.
Whatever you do for another woman makes an impact. Kind thoughts, good deeds and care packages mean a lot to women struggling through health, pregnancy, and parenting challenges not unlike my own, Meghan's or Dylan's. Seriously, ladies…what would we do without our girls?
Next week I'll be blogging from the CARE conference (OK, and partying with India Arie, Michael Franti and Crystal Bowersox when I'm not hanging on every word Melinda Gates and Laura Bush have to say) so join me and people from all over the world to celebrate the power of women.
Jeanne Faulkner, R.N., lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and five children. Got a question for Jeanne? E-mail it to email@example.com and it may be answered in a future blog post.
This Fit Pregnancy blog is intended for educational purposes only. It is not intended to replace medical advice from your physician. Before initiating any exercise program, diet or treatment provided by Fit Pregnancy, you should seek medical advice from your primary caregiver.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy condition stopped worsening, the outgoing government said on Friday in a monthly report, but it remains weak enough to justify a nudge from monetary and fiscal stimulus planned by the newly elected administration.
In the last monthly assessment produced before Shinzo Abe's cabinet takes over on December 26, the government kept its assessment of the economy's condition unchanged, snapping a four-month run of downgrades that was the longest such sequence since the 2008-09 financial crisis.
It said, the Japanese economy showed "weakness recently due to deceleration of the world economy", using the same phrase as in November.
"There are some bright spots here and there, but overall, the economy remains weak and we can't be optimistic," a Cabinet Office official in charge of compiling the monthly report told reporters.
"Companies, especially manufacturers, continue to operate in a tough environment and their profits are sluggish, with a drop in exports weighing on production and business sentiment."
The report, followed the Bank of Japan's third shot of monetary stimulus in four months and its fifth this year, mainly in response to growing pressure from incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for bolder action to beat deflation.
But a further 10 trillion yen ($118.50 billion) addition to the BOJ's asset buying and lending pot also reflected the central bank's concern about sagging business confidence apparent in its latest Tankan business survey, economists said.
There is, however, skepticism over how quickly Abe's promised mix of a public spending splurge and aggressive monetary stimulus can translate into a pick-up in growth.
With the yen just above 20-month lows and a 10 percent stock market rally in the past month, markets have already factored in further, possibly intensified BOJ easing in coming months. On Thursday, the central bank signaled it would raise its price goal next month in response to Abe's call for a binding 2 percent inflation target.
Abe's cabinet is expected to draft the extra budget by mid-January, with markets looking for 10 trillion yen in new spending, part of which would need to be covered by new borrowing.
So far there is little evidence that the latest retreat in the yen, a boon for struggling exporters, and a rise in stocks, have began dispelling entrenched pessimism of Japanese businesses and consumers.
The central bank's Tankan survey published just before the December 16 election that swept Abe's party back to power showed business mood soured in the current quarter and companies remained pessimistic about the next three months.
In addition, 15 years of falling wages have discouraged consumers from spending, reinforcing a deflationary spiral, and it remains to be seen if or when additional government spending and the BOJ's monetary stimulus will change that.
In the longer run, economists want to see other ideas from the new government to sustain growth after the initial shot in the arm.
"The policy mix that Abe is pushing for could close the output gap temporarily," said Shuji Tonouchi, senior fixed income strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.
"It's possible for prices to rise approaching fiscal 2014, but once the public works spending stops, the output gap will widen again and prices will fall. We cannot rely on public works spending forever."
While many economists say a spending splurge may give Japan a temporary boost, the harshest critics of Abe's prescription, dubbed by media as "Abenomics", say it is plain wrong.
"For two decades, Japan has acted as if fiscal "stimulus" must eventually work, running up the biggest peacetime debt in history at over twice the size of annual output," said Derek Scissors, a research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based conservative think-tank.
"The result? Japanese GDP in 2011 was no larger than in 1992. Mr. Abe wants to do more of the same, and he will receive more of the same in return."
The proposed remedies are free trade deals that would give Japanese exporters better access to major markets but also boost competition at home, deregulation, incentives for home-grown entrepreneurs and family-friendly policies to bring more women into the workforce.
In the meantime, relief for the world's third-largest economy should come from an expected improvement in global economic conditions, the monthly report said, allowing Japan to pull out of a brief and shallow recession and start growing again early in 2013.
But it warned that lingering uncertainty over the U.S. "fiscal cliff" budget crisis, the euro zone debt problems and a slowdown in China remained major risks.
($1 = 84.3900 Japanese yen)
Writing by Tomasz Janowski; Editing by Alex Richardson


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Eggplant and Onion Steamed Omelette
For me, the joys of grilling involve grilling vegetables. The leftover grilled vegetables are perfect for the next day's meal (or meals). This recipe is inspired by the Korean steamed egg dish, Gyeranjjim 계란찜 – but instead of steaming it, just use your dutch oven. Much easier!
- Grilled vegetables (or any leftovers that you want to revive which will be good in an omelette)
- 3 Eggs
- Water, equal amount to the eggs
- Cooking oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Paprika (optional, but I like paprika in eggs.)
Special Equipment:
- Dutch oven (this is what I personally own)
- Korean Clay pot with cover (Only if you have one, if not, then dutch oven.)
- Stick Blender (optional, but the eggs are smoother with the use of a blender.)
- Beat eggs with equal amount of water. If you're feeding more people, add more. Set aside.
- In the dutch oven, pour a small amount of oil and saute the grilled vegetables in medium heat until it's heated up.
- Add egg and water mixture to pot, turn heat to lowest setting. Cover and let the dutch oven do its magic.
- Leave it alone, checking about every 5 mins. Should be ready in about 15-20 mins. You'll find it to be "wet" and will have water on top. This is okay. Let it rest for another 10 mins covered. It should look similar to the photo below after it has rested.
- Serve with bread & cheese or fried rice!
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The Calafia
In 2009, Charlie Ayers leased nearly 5,000 square feet of space in the Town & Country Shopping Plaza across from Stanford University, realizing his dream of owning a neighborhood spot serving organic, sustainable, healthy, delicious food.
Calafia Café & Market A Go-Go was an instant hit, and today still has crowds lining up to get a seat. This casual restaurant has an energetic vibe, and serves food inspired by the incredible bounty that is available in California. Calafia continues to bring the Silicon Valley community and its visitors together around fresh, farm-to-table cuisine in an always festive atmosphere.
The Calafia
We cook and serve California cuisine, foods that are exciting, foods that are familiar, foods that nourish the body and mind.
Forward hospitality thinking comes first. We support the local food ecosystem as often as financially possible.
We are an environmentally and socially conscious restaurant group which operates a full service restaurant and grab & go market, creating and selling high quality hand crafted foods and beverages at a reasonable price.
Working in harmony and with respect for the human spirit, we are committed to sharing our enthusiasm about the enjoyment of great tasting food and wine and spirits in today's modern day active lifestyle.
We are dedicated to the continuous growth and development of our culture and our business. Our most valued assets are our people.
Charlie Ayers
Executive Chef/Proprietor
Chef Charlie lives by the creed "eat, drink, and be merry." For the past 25 years, he has embodied this ideal as a chef, providing eclectically inspired food and drink in an atmosphere of music and fun.
Chef Charlie was born in Chicago, grew up in Brooklyn and attended culinary school in New England at Johnson & Wales University. He worked at some of the best restaurants in the Providence and Boston areas until a desire to travel and experience new flavors led him to California.
Charlie is best known as, "the chef who fed Google." It was a job he won in a cook-off in 1999, judged by the company's then 40 employees. By the time he left Google in 2005, his team of five chefs and 150 employees were serving 4,000 lunches and dinners a day at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
After six years at Google, Charlie left to open Calafia Café & Market A Go-Go in Palo Alto, CA. His concept epitomizes the idea that "being green" is good for the producer, consumer, environment and local community.
A former private chef and personal chef to the Grateful Dead, Charlie continues to consult for startup companies, cater private events, and coordinate food service and backstage catering teams at open air music festivals. Charlie has published a cookbook, Food 2.0: Secrets from the Chef that Fed Google, that exemplifies his culinary vision. In May, 2014 Charlie received an honorary doctorate degree from his alma mater, Johnson & Wales University, for his contributions to the culinary arts.
In his free time, Charlie serves on advisory boards for several nonprofits, enjoys relaxing at home, and cooking for friends and family.
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Book Review: Rubicon, The Last Years of the Roman Republic
From the opening stage that set the scene with Caesar perched on the bank of the river Rubicon with his 13th Legion massed and waiting for the order to cross, this book was gripping and forceful. I had difficulty setting it down as some of history's most recognizable names were paraded across the stage: Caesar, Cicero, Cato, Pompey, Antony, Cleopatra. The primary focus of the narrative was the political and cultural currents that lead to the fall of the Roman Republic, with only a nod to the famous military campaigns that were taking place at the time. Because of this focus, the mighty men of the Republic are laid bare and made to look slanderous, whining, plotting and weak as they jockey for position, prestige and wealth within the political arena. These were not the Great Men that I had learned about through a basic understanding of their stunning military accomplishments. While this new perspective was certainly entertaining, it left me wanting to go in search of additional material that could restore some of the greatness of the Republic.
And that is one of the things I enjoy most about my wargaming projects - the chance to read, research and learn about topics and histories that I didn't know before I started. This hobby not only entertains me, but it allows me to grow. I highly recommend Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic to anybody interested in this era of history. Rubicon is well written and passionate, but I suggest having a follow-up book ready to clear the palette when you are done.
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Good review. Will have to read this. I enjoyed (with some reservations) the Colleen McCullough First Man in Rome series which, as you no doubt know, is similar era.ReplyDelete
A lot of the recommended ancient historical fiction I don't like - Pressfield, for example - but I did very much enjoy the Mary Renault books on Alexander once the first one got into its stride.
Just out of interest, what would you recommend as a palette cleanser?
Thanks again for a good review.
Aaron - I am starting to become intrigued by some of the Roman historical fiction written by Ben Kane, particularly his Forgotten Legion series of books. He also wrote a historical fiction novel set in the Second Punic War called _Hannibal: Enemy of Rome_ that I would be reading right now but it appears to be unavailable in the U.S. for some odd reason.Delete
I also highly recommend the Warrior of Rome series by Harry Sidebottom if you haven't already read those. It is Imperial Roman stuff, but very good and very inspirational.
On my to read list - it came up on Hardcore History, among other places. Nice to hear someone I "know" recommending it.ReplyDelete
I loved this book! It helped spark my Mithridates of Pontus project, which lead to the Sertorius project. It is an AMAZING period of history with so many great figures.ReplyDelete
The author's description of the silver mines in Hispania was superb. He said birds fell dead out of the sky if they flew into the toxic smelting clouds. That is some smelting operation the Romans had going!
Nice review, I'll probably pick it up since I quite like his writing (having read some smaller articles by his hand).ReplyDelete
I'm currently reading 'Carthage must be destroyed' by Richard Miles after having read 'The fall of Carth' by Adrian Goldsworthy. They both have their own take on the subject. Miles really goes into detail about the society itself whereas Goldsw mostly talks about the Punic wars themselves. Personally I'd recommend Miles' book because you really get an in depth look at what Carthage must have been like.
I found the Forgotten Legion to be quite fun to read (against all my expectations) though as a historian I'm always bothered by the fact that it's fiction. It was my first hist fiction book and I wasn't put off entirely so I'll probably go back for part 2 and 3 (and his Hannibal books do look intriguing).
Lol sorry for the rant!
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Amplify Battery Extender PRO -Root
Amplify puts you in control of how your device uses your battery by controlling how often your device can wake up, and how long it can stay awake. Use the recommended settings for easy battery savings, or dig in and customize every alarm, service, and wakelock on your device.
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- A stable blocking engine
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RAMPURA AGUCHA ( Rajasthan): Improvement of livestock breed through artificial insemination is a modern tool for farmers' prosperity & empowerment. Artificial insemination of the local and high yielding species will help increase local milk production.
Realizing the importance of livestock Rampura Agucha Mine, a unit of Hindustan Zinc Limited has undertaken Breed improvement programme on PPP model. Artificial insemination programme is implemented in collaboration with District Veterinary Department. There are at present about 14 Hospital/Sub centers in Hurda & Shahpura Block providing services to the farmers in region covering 22 panchayat of Hurda and Shahpura tehsil. Through these center more than 7000 AI were done annually.
This is first kind of its initiative of the in Rajasthan on Public Private Partnership. All centers are running with Government Doctor and Hindustan Zinc Limited Rampura Agucha Mine provides the cost of Artificial Insemination Rs.30 per AI. CSR team of Rampura Agucha Mine also working to sensitize the farmer to adopt the AI.
Indigenous cows are artificially inseminated by semen of Gir breed &Holstein breed which is the world's highest production dairy animal and buffaloes are artificially inseminated by semen of Murrah breed. Conception rate for AI is 55% in cows and little lower in buffaloes.
More than 500 cross breed calves were born after Artificial Insemination in this region. Besides this HZL also providing framers training, fodder demonstration programme, 100% vaccination in to animals, Menger construction, Insurance of cross bred cattle and regular cattle camp with District Veterinary department. Mortality rate and seasoned specific disease is not occurring since 2 years because of regular intervention.
Animals born through artificial insemination can yield up to 10 to 15 liters of milk per day as against the local average milk yield of 2-5 liters. Likewise indigenous cow breeds have comparatively short lactation period 6 months as against the cross bred cows which has lactation period of 15 months. Improvement in per animal productivity through artificial insemination will not only increase farmers' income but will also help in raising the area as a livestock rich region and meeting the rising demand of milk in the country .
"HZL ki wajah se aaj aas pass k animals ki nasal me kafi sudhar hua hai. Ab pure tehsil me 100% Artificial Insemination kia ja raha hai." Parmod Tailor, Livestock Officer, Sub center- Bhojras


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Everyone's laughing at United! Opposing fans rejoice at glorious, calamitous and hilarious decline of Red Devils
Let's start with a spoiler alert, to be fair to all those who have alighted on this article in the hope of reading some reasoned football argument.
No, this one's written with all the prejudice of someone who pays for his season ticket, and it concerns the subject that has bound us all so tightly this season, whether we wear the red-tinted specs of Arsenal or Liverpool, Man City, Everton or Chelsea-blue, or prefer to watch our football in black and white at Newcastle or white and navy blue at Tottenham: The glorious, calamitous and hilarious decline of Manchester United.
Kevin Keegan once intimated he'd love their downfall but, honestly, did anyone really think we'd enjoy it quite as much as this? One of the pleasures of my job on the golf circuit has become gathering in some bar with the ex-pats wearing their team colours. We've all been united - pun intended - in finishing the night in a state of collapse, not through too much drink but at the latest episode of haplessness.
Crestfallen: Manchester United have struggled this season - to the delight of opposing fans across the country
Loving it! Former Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan must surely be enjoying United's struggles this season
Mock up: Some argued that David Moyes also took a wrecking ball to Old Trafford during his time at the club
One fan dialled 999 to call for Fergie
A drunken United fan called 999 and asked police to talk to ex-manager Sir Alex Ferguson about the crisis in form.
'The result is all wrong. They had extra time and it was a total and utter load of rubbish,' the male caller moaned.
'I wanna report a crime,' the caller added. 'The crime is that Manchester United ... Manchester United ... were absolutely knackered.'
United have become so bad their away fans continue to sing when they're 3-0 down. That's the last resort of away fans who support rubbish teams, who do it to congratulate themselves on their loyalty.
We keep being told this transition period was inevitable given the mediocre squad with which David Moyes was bequeathed. Well, excuse me, but didn't this mediocrity win the league by 11 points last season?
Man United, as usual, lapped my team Liverpool several times before settling for finishing just the 38 points ahead. One point per game! This season they're six points behind. That's not transition, that's the most precipitous 22-game decline in football history. Indeed, 'Moysie' is looking like the parting gift from Sir Alex Ferguson to fans outside Old Trafford that keeps on giving. It's certainly the first thing Sir Alex ever did for Liverpool.
Tough tenure: Champions United, under new boss David Moyes (centre), should be performing far better
Making fun: As United's poor form continues, more and more jokes aimed at the Red Devils are going viral - Moyes and Marouane Fellaini (right) and a mock up of the recent documentary 'The Class of '92' (left)
What must he be thinking in his executive seat? Could you imagine a Ferguson side playing counter-attacking football at the soon-to-be-renamed Theatre of Dreams against the side sitting 19th in the Premier League, for heaven's sake, as they did against Sunderland?
Of course, it's not just the red half of Merseyside that's doubled-up with laughter. Over at Everton, the School of Science, abandoned for so long, has finally re-opened for lessons and rediscovered a spirit for adventure. Line of the year surely came from the bluenose who proclaimed: 'Well, it took 13 years, but finally Moyes has lifted Everton above Manchester United.'
It's true Moyes has been dogged by horrendous luck. Who knew overrated ref Howard Webb would stop giving penalties to United the day Sir Alex left? Last week at Chelsea, they were undone by Samuel Eto'o scoring a hat-trick. He wouldn't have been on the pitch if Webb had sent him off against Liverpool, as he assuredly should have done for his disgraceful tackle on Jordan Henderson.
And what team could cope without combined talents such as Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney?
Theatre of Dreams? Former manager Sir Alex Ferguson (pictured) would never have played counter-attacking football against a team struggling at the wrong end of the table
Main men: Most teams would struggle without the combined talents of Robin van Persie and Wayne Rooney
Moyes wasn't spot on...
David Moyes penned this for the Sunday Times during the World Cup in 2010. Oops...
Take Suarez and Sturridge out of my team, and they'd probably finish below Newcastle. But whenever fans of all clubs gather, it's not these things we talk about.
Most of us have a sneaking admiration for Arsenal, and City taking over their neighbour's mantle as the great entertainers; for Tim Sherwood in exposing AVB as the footballing pseud he appeared and the brilliant job Roberto Martinez is doing at Everton. When it comes to Man U, alas, all sympathy seems to get left at the door.
Is it because of a manager who proclaims he tells his players not to dive and yet all of them selected in a forward position have adopted the Tom Daley position at some point this season? Or is it euphoria at seeing the Ferguson jackboot finally freed from the throat of referees?
Perhaps it is just the lot of the biggest club, when finally knocked from their effin' perch, although I don't recall such gloating outside the M62 corridor when Liverpool finally met this fate.
Flying high: Most football supporters have a sneaking admiration for table-toppers Arsenal
Goals galore: A shift in power has seen City take United's mantle as the great entertainers in Manchester
High praise: Spurs boss Tim Sherwood (left) and Everton boss Roberto Martinez are impressing this season
'Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse…' has become a well-used refrain among the football-writing fraternity and it's hard to see how it could, following the comical penalty shootout against Sunderland.
But we mustn't give up hope just yet. After all, next up is the bottom club Cardiff at home… managed, lest we forget, by former United player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
That would do it, wouldn't it?
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I was lucky enough to have gotten a beta invitation a couple months ago, but I haven't really used it. It's not that iwantsandy is bad or anything, it just doesn't fit my style of organization. I prefer spending the extra time to personally organize my tickler files and to-do list. However for the average busy student who doesn't want to spend time with to-do lists, iwantsandy is an amazing tool.
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It's not been without its complications. A few weeks back, I posted about the new sewing room painted in purple and peach. I was thrilled with the natural light from the big slider. However, as far as functionality..., well the room simply wasn't big enough. Too many windows and doors, and not enough wall space.
The sewing room went back to the basement where there is plenty of room for any configuration. I am really quite pleased.
Sincerely enjoying those purple walls, I decided to move my bedroom into the former sewing room. I am really liking it. But I need a new quilt - and like yesterday. I don't really have anything that coordinates with the purple.
An old UFO came to save the day.
Even better, it was nearly done when I stopped working on it back in 2011. I am down to quilting the outer green border and the butterflies.
As to the one peach wall in the purple room? Well, it's soon going to be a lime green.


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(excerpts from Why God Wont Go Away, Brain Science and the Biology of Belief, by Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Eugene DAquili, M.D., PhD. 2001 Ballantine Publishing Group; pages 143-149.)
We can most likey agree that there are two kinds of reality: the solid, objective external reality that we think of as "the world," and the inner, subjective sense of reality that we attribute to "the self." Based on everyday experience, we can't really dispute the realness of either one. Nor can we dispute the fact that one is essentially different from the other. If we agree athat they are fundamentally different, however, and if they are the only two ways in which reality can exist, then logically only one of them can represent reality in its more fundamental form. In other words, either the objective external world or our subjective awareness of that world and the sense of self must be the real realitythe primary, ultimate reality. By definition, ultimate reality must be the source of everything that is real, so subjective and objective reality cannot both be true. One must be the source of the other.
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In simplest terms, scientific, or objective, reality is based on the belief that nothing is more real than the material world. In this view, external realitythe physical, material universeis primary fundamental reality. Everything that is real, exists in, or has risen from, the material elements and forces of the universe. Even the human brain, and the subjective mind it makes possible, are material in nature, having evolved, like all biological systems, from some primordial ooze.
Mystics, however, have different ideas about what is fundamentally real. They believe they have experienced a primary reality that runs deeper than material existencea state of pure being that encompasses the lesser realities of the external world and the subjective self. Science rejects this claim, not only because it holds that nothing in existence is more real than the reality of matter, but also because it cannot accept that something other than science, especially something as subjective and unmeasureable as mystical experience, can yield useful truth about what is fundamentally real.
The organizing principle of science declares that everything that is real can be measured, and scientific methods are the only measurements that count. So whatever cant be measured, weighed, counted, scanned, or otherwise analytically understood by scientific methods cannot, with any confidence, be called real. Science alone can recognize reality; Sigmund Freud said as much when he wrote, Scinece is not an illusion! An illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give we can get elsewhere. [quoted in Armstrong, K. 1993. A History of God. New York: Ballantine Books.]
In other words, the reality of the mystics cannot be considered real because it cannot be verified scientifically. We authors, as scientists, might have readily embraced this same conclusion had we not been convinced, by our own research, that the claims of the mystics just might be true. Science and mysticism, of course, are strange bedfellows, so lets retrace the steps that led us to this iconoclastic conclusion.
Gene and I began, as all scientists do, with the fundamental assumption that all that is really real is material. We regarded the brain as a biological machine, composed of matter and created by evolution to perceive and interact with the physical world.
After years of research, however, our understanding of various key brain structures and the way information is channeled along neural pathways led us to hypothesize that the brain possesses a neurological mechanism for self-transcendence. When taken to its extreme, this mechanism, we believed, would erase the minds sense of self and undo any conscious awareness of an external world.
This hypothesis was later supported by our SPECT scan studies, which began to shed light on the neurological correlates of spiritual experience. In the narrowest scientific view, it would be possible to believe that we had reduced all spiritual transcendencefrom the mildest case of religious uplift, to the profound states of union described by mysticsto a neurochemical commotion in the brain.
But our understanding of the brain would not allow us to rest with that conclusion. We knew, after all, that everything the mind experiences is tracked in the brain. A SPECT scan of an opera lover listening to Puccini, for example, would reduce Nessun Dorma to multicolored blotches, but that would not diminish the beauty of the aria. The music, and the enjoyment it provided, would still be very real. The memory of the music, too, and the emotional pull of the tragedy of Turandot, are real. Even if you were to play the music and drama again only in your mind, many of the same parts of the brain would be reactivated. Perhaps even your body would get the same goose bumps evoked by Puccinis heart-breaking lyrical melody, its crescendos and pianissimos. You would clearly be hearing the music, but only inside your head. Yet the existence of the music and its nonverbal power are still, neurologically, quite real.
All perceptions exist in the mind. The earth beneath your feet, the chair youre sitting in, the book you hold in your hands may all seem unquestionabley solid and real, but they are known to you only as secondhand neurological perceptions, as blips and flashes racing along the neural pathways inside your skull. If you were to dismiss spiritual experience as mere neurological activities, you would also have to distrust all of your own brains perceptions of the material world. On the other hand, if we do trust our perceptions of the physical world, we have no rational reason to declare that spiritual experience is a fiction that is only in the mind.
At this point in our research, science had brought us as far as it could, and we were left with two mutually exclusive possibilities: either spiritual experience is nothing more than a neurological construct created by and contained within the brain, or the state of absolute union that the mystics describe does in fact exist and the mind has developed the capability to perceive it.
Science offers no clear way to resolve this question. But we knew that at least we had found a new framework for understanding the phenomenon of mystical experience, no matter what reality these brain states ultimately represent.
The transcendent state we call Absolute Unitary Being refers to states known by various names in different culturesthe Tao, Nirvana, the Unio Mystica, Brahman-atmanbut which every persuasion describes in strikingly similar terms. It is a state of pure awareness, a clear and vivid consciousness of no-thing. Yet it is also a sudden, vivid consciouness of everything as an undifferentiated whole.
Although mystics report that this state of ultimate being cannot be understood through reason, or even rationally described, that hasnt stopped legions form trying. Most written accounts, while intriguing, are hopelessely perplexing and often contradictory. This does not mean that they are not true, however, or that they do not describe reality accurately.
Consider, for example, the words of the modern Zen master Huang Po, describing the ultimate state of being he calls One Mind:
All the Buddhas and all sentient beings are nothing but One Mind, beside which nothing exists. This Mind, which is without beginning, is unborn and industructible. It is not green or yellow, and has neither form nor appearance, it does not belong to the categories of things which exist or do not exist, nor can it be thought of in terms of new or old. It is neither long nor short, big nor small, for it transcends all limits, measures, names, traces, and comparisons. Only awake to the One Mind. [quoted in Blofield, J. 1970. The Zen Teaching of Huang Po. New York: Grove.]
It is difficult for the rational mind to accept these cryptic pronouncements as fact: the One Mind is uncreated; it is not nonexistent, but at the same time cannot be said to exist; it transcends all limits and comparisons; and, outside of this One Mind, nothing else is real.
To anyone who has not experienced such a unitary state mentally and physically, the meaning of these concepts may be difficult to grasp. Ironically, the state must be felt to be believed by both body and mind, even though both body and mind are transcended by it. But mystics insist that it is completely possible to understandand attainif we set aside our subjective disbelief. Absolute Unitary Being is described as a state without time, space, and physical sensations; with no discrete awareness of any material reality at all. Ironically, again, the attainment of absolute unitary being requires a mental journey into the deepest parts of the self, yet those who have reached this ultimate state agreee that subjective self-awareness utterly vanishes once Absolute Unitary Being has been achieved. So, to get to this state we have to use the mind to get beyond the mind. The mind has to get out of its own way.
This obliteration of the self may be the most difficult concept for the rational mind to comprehend. We are so at home in the state of subjective awareness that we find it hard to fathom how a mind that does not contain a specific self can be much of a mind at all. It is possible, however, for awareness to exist without the subjective focus of a self. In fact, we all begin life with selfless minds.
All human babies are born with the neurological potential to form a self, but they do this through living and experiencing the world as they grow older. The development of the self also requires the development of certain neural connections in the brain.


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An enforced hospital stay helped Paddy O'Brien to realise just what music he really wanted to play
Irish country music singer Paddy O'Brien was yet to hit 30 when he was involved in a devastating road accident., writes Adam Sha.
Carrying out a delivery for the meat factory where he worked, he got caught up in a heavy collision which was to put him in hospital for almost a year. He suffered several breaks, his ankles were severely crushed and his kneecap had to be removed.
This experience, though traumatic, forced Paddy to work hard in his recovery and he has since forged a long and successful career doing what he loves. And he considers himself fortunate. After all, the accident could have been fatal and his injuries have failed to keep him away from the stage.
"It put me off the scene for some time and the factory where I worked also closed, which was common in Ireland at the time," Paddy says.
"It affected me in the short term in that I was out of the band and out of work, but I spent the time listening to a lot of music.
"I'd spend hours listening to my favourites and thinking about the songs I could perform in the future; things by Slim Whitman and Marty Robbins – I still play their songs today."
Losing your job and being confined to a hospital bed can be demoralising but Paddy always had his first love to hand to help him through. He also had great support from his fellow factory workers and bandmates. A group of them had got together a few years before to set up 'Telstar'. They played the local pub scene and would travel around various counties on most weekends, entertaining crowds and trying to make a name for themselves.
"My friends from the band would come to visit me in hospital and they'd tell me that we'd get back on the road quickly.
"At the time, I couldn't see it, but we did manage to get out for one night. One night became two and then two became three – I guess they were right to be so positive."
Paddy moved into recording, releasing three cassettes – CDs were "way off in the distant future" – while maintaining his work on the live circuit. His break came when RTÉ DJ Paschal Mooney played one of his tracks on his popular show 'Keep it Country'.
"The response was really positive, better than I imagined, and so Paschal asked me to come back and do various guest spots for established bands. Then I was nominated to take part in the 'Irish Gold Star Awards' and was lucky enough to win that.
"I went on to represent Ireland in Holland in what can only be described as the Eurovision of country music."
Since then, he hasn't looked back. His performances in both Ireland and the Netherlands meant he was now a well-known name in the industry. He quickly put together a five-piece band and hit the road, something he had thought about since singing in local competitions in Co. Waterford. A trip to Nashville and a string of country music number ones in Ireland cemented his position further and he branched out across into Britain.
"We found that our music was becoming appealing to all sorts of people and there would be those who were born and bred in England with no Irish connections who would come out to see us.
"And the great thing about country is that all the songs can tell a story. Whether it's about emigration or a local town, there's always something people can associate with.
"This worked particularly well outside of Ireland because people could relate to the places they knew or were from originally."
Paddy has spent over 30 years in the business and while he might not traverse the highways and byways in the same manner he used to, he's not finished yet. Age and the scars of his injuries are beginning to take their toll but he's still a familiar face in Ireland and regularly makes trips across to Britain.
"Things have caught up on me, the years as much as the ailments. There are times where I might struggle to stand on stage for two hours but I can still do it, that's for sure.
"And I can't complain. I can still do everything I want to and that extends to recordings and performing. I have to thank God for that as well as so many people in the industry who have supported me through the years."
His body might just about be holding up, but it is also his mind, which plays a part. The emotions he experiences up on the stage are enough to keep him going.
"It's all about the people who come to see the shows. When they keep coming back and you see them enjoying themselves, that's all the motivation you need.
"You still get a buzz when you're up on stage and you see them all dancing on the floor in front of you.
"You also get to meet so many people in so many different places because that's what these concerts are – they're meeting places for the Irish community and the wider community in general."
That painful accident threatened to derail Paddy's ambitions when his career was in its infancy, and there was a time where even he thought things could be over. But he continued to battle on and, with the support of music and friends and family, he was back out doing what he loved.
This developed in a way he once thought unimaginable and it is this which contributes towards his desire to carry on performing. But there's also the support of his loyal legion of fans who bring him as much joy as he does to them; something for which he is forever grateful.
Paddy will be performing in Ireland throughout spring and will be in Hayes, Middlesex, in July. For more information, visit paddyobrien.com


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Ugh. I'm sitting in this Genetics lecture and the only thing that caught my attention was when the lecturer mentioned Africa and then I just looked up and smiled and went right back to learning how to write a haiku.
Haiku writing is just something I want to do, as a sort of creative release, to tide me over until I get my mojo back.
I have to run away now, I have my First Aid test in half an hour.
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We still feel Android's interface is less user-friendly than iOS. We've also seen several problems with the XOOM crashing in the operating system's built-in modules. Android's built-in browser also has noticeable screen lag when inputting data via the virtual qwerty keyboard. Despite flash support, several multimedia websites such as Hulu and Netflix won't run on the XOOM due t copyright agreements.
Some of the major benefits we saw when shopping for the XOOM are quickly fading. SD external storage, for example, seems much less useful when you can sync files over wifi. I've had my XOOM for about 2 months now and never saw the need to use this feature.
Hopefully Android will step up and make their operating system more robust. Presently it seems it was rushed into the consumer market before a stable OS environment existed.


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Wouldn't you like to write code like this:
reading "ebooks/345.txt" ( lines |> skip_until (matches "^\\*\\*\\* START OF") |> skip |> filter is_empty |> words |> fmap String.uppercase |> take 20 |> to_list )
and have it spit:
- : string list = ["DRACULA"; "BY"; "BRAM"; "STOKER"; "1897"; "EDITION"; "TABLE"; "OF"; "CONTENTS"; "CHAPTER"; "1"; "JONATHAN"; "HARKER'S"; "JOURNAL"; "2"; "JONATHAN"; "HARKER'S"; "JOURNAL"; "3"; "JONATHAN"]
(yes, it's the Project Gutemberg ebook for Bram Stoker's Dracula, text version; a suitably large corpus to run tests with). That would read: "Safely open the named file as input; parse it into lines, skip until finding the line that matches the regular expression; skip that line. Avoid empty lines, and split the remainder into words. Change the words to upper case, and take the first twenty and make a list of those." Well, this can be done with very nice code. But first, I'd like to do away with the somewhat "normal" bits.
Regular expressions in OCaml live in the
Str module; they're low-level and inconvenient to use. A little wrapping-up makes them more palatable:
let matches patt = let re = Str.regexp patt in fun str -> Str.string_match re str 0
Note that I close over the compilation of the regular expression, so that repeated calls to
matches with the same regexp don't waste effort. Of course,
is_empty is simply:
let is_empty = matches "^[\t ]*$"
The mysterious "piping arrow" is nothing more than function composition in disguise:
let (|>) f g x = g (f x)
This is the reverse (or categorical) composition; its more popular sibling (one could say, its twin) is:
let (%) f g x = f (g x)
The magic sauce in the program is the use of OCaml's imperative streams. They are like lists, but with a lazy tail which is accessed by destructively taking the head. Like lazy lists, they allow for computation with infinite data, and they use just as much as they need. Unlike lazy lists, they don't support persistence, that is, the ability to keep reference to arbitrary versions of a value. For stream processing of text files they're a perfect match. The idea is to work with functions from streams to streams, or stream transformers. This is made very pleasing by the CamlP4 syntax extension for streams and stream parsers. To use it, you must compile your code with camlc -pp camlp4o, or
#load "camlp4o.cma" (or
#camlp4o if you're using
findlib) in your source file, as explained in the manual.
By far the simplest transformer is the one that skips the head of a stream, and returns the (now headless) result:
let skip str = match str with parser | [< '_ >] -> str | [< >] -> [< >]
Here the single quote indicates that we're talking about a concrete stream element, as opposed to a substream. It's natural to extend this to a transformer that keeps dropping elements as long as they satisfy a test or predicate p:
let rec skip_while p str = match str with parser | [< 'x when p x >] -> skip_while p str | [< >] -> str
This is the first pattern common to all transformers: return the passed in stream once we're done consuming, or chopping off, elements at its head. This is signalled by the use of the empty pattern
[< >] which matches any stream. Of course the opposite filter is also handy and comes for free:
let skip_until p = skip_while (not % p)
We now know how
skip_until (matches "^\\*\\*\\* START OF") |> skip works. A variation in the beheading game is to
drop a number of elements from the stream:
let rec drop n str = match str with parser | [< '_ when n > 0 >] -> drop (pred n) str | [< >] -> str
(note that this function is purposefully partial). The converse is to
take a finite number of elements from a stream:
let rec take n str = match str with parser | [< 'x when n > 0 >] -> [< 'x; take (pred n) str >] | [< >] -> [< >]
(note that this function is also purposefully partial). This is the second pattern common to all transformers: insert a substream on the right side of a matching by recursively invoking the transformer. Similar to this code is the
filtering of a stream to weed out the elements satisfying a predicate:
let rec filter p str = match str with parser | [< 'x when p x >] -> filter p str | [< 'x >] -> [< 'x; filter p str >] | [< >] -> [< >]
The fact that in the first matching the recursive call to
filter is outside a stream bracket pair means that it will eagerly call itself recursively until it finds an element not matching the predicate.
It's not too difficult to devise a
fold over the elements of a stream:
let rec fold f e str = match str with parser | [< 'x >] -> fold f (f e x) str | [< >] -> e
Of course, infinite streams cannot be folded over in finite time, but that's to be expected. This lets me write useful operations in a really concise way:
let length str = fold (fun n _ -> succ n) 0 str let to_list str = List.rev (fold (fun l x -> x :: l) [] str)
With this, a pipeline like
skip_until (matches "^\\*\\*\\* START OF") |> skip |> filter is_empty |> take 20 |> to_list just works, if only we had something to feed it. It could be handy to
zip two streams together. Unfortunately, I can find no straightforward way to synchronize the advance of both streams, as there isn't a parallel match of two stream parsers. If you run camlp4o on a file containing the definitions so far, you'll see that the syntax gets rewritten (or expanded) to direct OCaml code that calls into the functions marked
For system use only, not for the casual user in stream.mli. It is possible to emulate the result of a hypothetical stream parser doing the
zipping by writing directly:
let rec zip str str' = match Stream.peek str, Stream.peek str' with | Some x, Some y -> Stream.junk str; Stream.junk str'; Stream.icons (x, y) (Stream.slazy (fun () -> zip str str')) | _ -> Stream.sempty
With a simple stream like:
let nat () = Stream.from (fun i -> Some i)
(why is it a function? Also, note Conal Elliot's remark in his recent post about streams being functions over the natural numbers), a transformer for numbering a stream is as easy as
(nat |> zip) (). Another way to build streams is to use the syntax:
let rec repeat e = [< 'e; repeat e >]
Stream expressions are not only used in parsers, as the right hand side of the matchings in the preceding functions hint at. This is possibly the simplest infinite stream you can have.
As it is well-known to Haskellers, streams have algebraic and categorical structure. For instance, they are functors; in other words, they can be mapped over their elements with a function that transforms them pointwise:
let rec fmap f str = match str with parser | [< 'x >] -> [< 'f x; fmap f str >] | [< >] -> [< >]
In this case, the call to
f is lazy, and not performed until the head of the resulting stream is requested. This can be good or not; for a strict evaluation of the head, a
let binding must be used.
Streams also form a monad, entirely analogous to the
list monad. The unit simply
returns the one-element stream:
let return x = [< 'x >]
bind concatenates the streams resulting from the application of a function to the each element in turn:
let rec bind str f = match str with parser | [< 'x >] -> [< f x; bind str f >] | [< >] -> [< >]
Note that the difference between
fmap and
bind is a single quote! This is a direct consequence of the fact that every monad is a functor, via the identity
fmap f x = bind x (return . f). Now
words is straightforward:
let words = let re = Str.regexp "[\n\t ]+" in fun str -> bind str (Str.split re |> Stream.of_list)
It only remains one last piece of the puzzle: how does an input channel get transformed into a stream of lines? With a transformer (a parser, actually), of course. This is a rather simple one (especially compared to the imperative monstrosity it replaced; you don't want to know), once you dissect it into its components:
let lines = let buf = Buffer.create 10 in let get () = let s = Buffer.contents buf in Buffer.clear buf; s in let islf = parser | [< ''\n' >] -> () | [< >] -> () in let rec read str = match str with parser | [< ''\n' >] -> [< 'get (); read str >] | [< ''\r' >] -> islf str; [< 'get (); read str >] | [< 'c >] -> Buffer.add_char buf c; read str | [< >] -> [< >] in read
The characters in a line are accumulated in the buf buffer. Once a line is complete,
get resets the buffer and returns its contents. The sub-parser
islf tries to eat the LF in a CRLF pair. Since it includes an empty match, it cannot fail. The recursive parser
read scans for a LF, or for a CR or CRLF terminator, accumulating characters until a complete line is included in the result stream. Invoking
islf it in the right-hand side of the CR match in
read is safe, in the sense that it cannot lead to back-tracking.
At last we get to the point where we can read from a file. For that
Stream.of_channel directly and efficiently turns the contents of a file into a stream of characters:
let reading file k = let inch = open_in_bin file in try let res = k (Stream.of_channel inch) in close_in inch; res with e -> close_in inch; raise e
where k is the continuation that is safely wrapped in an exception handler that closes the file even in the event of an error. Safe input-output in the face of exceptions is an idiom borrowed from LISP, the well-known
You could find various ways to exercise this small DSL; by way of example, a word count:
reading "ebooks/345.txt" ( lines |> skip_until (matches "^\\*\\*\\* START OF") |> skip |> filter is_empty |> words |> length ) - : int = 163718
Numbering the first lines in the book:
reading "ebooks/345.txt" ( lines |> skip_until (matches "^\\*\\*\\* START OF") |> skip |> filter is_empty |> fmap String.uppercase |> zip (nat ()) |> take 10 |> to_list ) - : (int * string) list = [(0, "DRACULA"); (1, "BY"); (2, "BRAM STOKER"); (3, "1897 EDITION"); (4, "TABLE OF CONTENTS"); (5, "CHAPTER"); (6, " 1 JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL"); (7, " 2 JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL"); (8, " 3 JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL"); (9, " 4 JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL")]
Which of course is not very accurate, as the first line should be numbered 1, not 0, and the line numbers don't correspond to the text but to the filtered stream. Let's try something else: define the arrow parts of the pair projection functions:
let first f (x, y) = (f x, y) and second g (x, y) = (x, g y)
Now, number the lines as read, and then apply the processing to the second component of the paired-up lines:
reading "ebooks/345.txt" ( lines |> zip (nat ()) |> skip_until (snd |> matches "^\\*\\*\\* START OF") |> skip |> filter (snd |> is_empty) |> (fmap % second) String.uppercase |> take 10 |> to_list ) - : (int * string) list = [(34, "DRACULA"); (36, "BY"); (38, "BRAM STOKER"); (41, "1897 EDITION"); (46, "TABLE OF CONTENTS"); (49, "CHAPTER"); (51, " 1 JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL"); (52, " 2 JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL"); (53, " 3 JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL"); (54, " 4 JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL")]
I hope this helps in reducing Haskell envy a little bit.


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In SUSE, there are three major places where you can customize your system. There are countless other ways, but the three easiest and most common are YaST, the KDE Control Center (assuming you are using KDE), and the "Configure Desktop" tool.
Many tasks can be accomplished in several of these places, in fact, most of YaST is avaialble through the KDE Control Center. I still recommend opening YaST itself to perform a YaST task because you'll only need to enter your root password once and the interface seems a little simpler.
Linux also uses text files called config files to control various aspects of the software. Accessing these files directly is one of the things that makes Linux great, however it can also make things more complicated for new users; so I suggest sticking with the GUI tools until they are more comfortable using Linux.
In this following section, I am going to list some of the most common tasks new SUSE Linux users will want to perform to configure their computer the way they want it, then try to point out where these tasks can be accomplished. In nearly each case there are multiple places where each task can be accomplished, not to mention modifying the files themselves; but I'm not going to get into that now.
Later in this section, I'm going do describe a few other "adventures" that I have found myself in and share them as suggestions and experiences. While some of these things may not be your "cup of tea", some may get you on the right track for something you are trying to accomplish. As always, remember to back up your data frequently to ensure that minor headaches don't become tragedies.
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Everyone is ready for springtime and that was very apparent at the Philadelphia Flower Show. So instead of more snow pictures I will share a few more of the sights I saw there last Friday. This is what I wish my outdoor Wednesday looked like.
But it still looks the same outdoors here, even though our weather is improving.
Actually I do have a few brave sprouts trying to emerge to spite the snow all around them, but looking at these pretty flowers is much more pleasing to my eyes in the middle of March.
The warmer temperatures we have been having are melting the white stuff but more importantly they are lifting the winter doldrums.
It won't be long and there will be scenes like these out in our very own backyards.
I can't wait!
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NOTE: The following is the homily prepared by The Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Ph.D., D.D., Bishop of Brooklyn, for the Evening Prayer and Blessing of Pontifical Insignia for The Most Reverend James F. Checchio, Bishop-elect of Metuchen, on May 2.
The Word of God which we hear tonight are probably the thoughts of Peter the Apostle put into words by a faithful disciple, most probably Silvanus. These words contain advice for presbyters, good advice to priests who are also gathered here tonight to welcome a new Bishop to be ordained tomorrow. He will become your chief shepherd and follow the advice given in our reading tonight.
The shepherd must tend the sheep. He must answer the call, as Monsignor Checchio as answered, to be a shepherd in today's world with a multitude of problems. In a shepherd's terms, the sheep seem to stray and there are many wolves that are out there to threaten the sheep. But it is the shepherd who must protect the sheep. Our secularized world and the anti-authority mindset that we find in our world today demands extraordinary leadership. Those who follow, scrutinize very carefully every word and action of the shepherd.
But Peter's advice is as valid today as it was two millennia ago. This shepherd is to oversee and govern, not by constraint, but rather by willing acceptance by those whom he guides. In other words, if you want a good leader, you must be a good follower. How important it is in our Church today that priest and bishop, religious, deacons and laity work together for the common good of the Church. Peter reminds the shepherd that it is not for personal gain or profit, but with eager love for others that he must serve. It is the love of the flock that inspires the shepherd to lay down his life for the sheep, that is to give his wholehearted service for the sake of those whom he is to lead. Peter goes on to remind us, "Do not lord over those assigned to you, but be examples to the flock." The best leaders are those who do not require anything from those who follow, anything that they themselves would not do.
I have known Monsignor Checchio for the last 16 years, and I know that there is no task too small for this really big man. His leadership at the Pontifical North American College has proven this to be true. No detail of his administration there was left undone. He was certainly a leader during his tenure as rector. He increased the enrollment of seminarians for formation after a period of decline in the number of men studying for the priesthood in Rome. As an administrator, Monsignor Checchio renovated the North American College on the Janiculum from top to bottom. He oversaw the building of the newly completed tower, the renovation of a convent to be utilized as a place for sabbaticals and the raising of funds to renovate the Casa Santa Maria for the graduate priests. And yet, with all of this, he left a substantial endowment for the future of the College.
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With all of these wonderful qualities Monsignor Checchio has obtained from his formation days leading up to today, he came to them by the strong foundation given to him by his parents, Helen and Jim, and his two sisters and brother, who thanks be to God are here with us tonight for this joyful celebration. With the love and support of his parents and his family, Monsignor Checchio has been able to do many things in his priestly ministry. How fortunate it is, after so many years of study and ministry in Rome, that he now lives only a short ride down the Turnpike from his family.
Bishop Bootkoski, you have a worthy successor, as you are a worthy predecessor. You can pass on the crozier, the symbol of pastoral authority, with confidence to Bishop-elect Checchio. I am sure he can rely on you for advice and a smooth transition.
Today, the Church celebrates the Feast of St. Athanasius. Athanasius, in the 4th Century after the Council of Nicaea, became a great defender of the faith and implemented the decrees of that Council. He was able to understand and preach the consubstantiality of the Incarnate Word of the Father and defended the divinity of Christ. Athanasius suffered much for his steadfast defense of the faith.
Likewise, today a Bishop must be ready to suffer much for his defense of the faith. In the 50 years after the Second Vatican Council, the challenge is still left to implement its central teaching regarding the faithful, which is the common priesthood of the faithful, framing the proper place of the laity in the mission of the Church.
Bishop-elect Checchio will be a great leader for the Diocese of Metuchen. This "Jersey Boy", from the "other New Jersey" understands this great State of New Jersey and will bring to the Church of Metuchen the leadership required.