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Module Summary
Igor: the Module Merger and Renamer.
The program Igor merges the source code of one or more Erlang modules into a single module, which can then replace the original set of modules. Igor is also able to rename a set of (possibly interdependent) modules, without joining them into a single module.
The main user interface consists of the functions merge/3 and rename/3. See also the function parse_transform/2.
A note of warning: Igor cannot do anything about the case when the name of a remote function is passed to the built-in functions apply and spawn unless the module and function names are explicitly stated in the call, as in e.g. apply(lists, reverse, [Xs]). In all other cases, Igor leaves such calls unchanged, and warns the user that manual editing might be necessary.
Also note that Erlang records will be renamed as necessary to avoid non-equivalent definitions using the same record name. This does not work if the source code accesses the name field of such record tuples by element/2 or similar methods. Always use the record syntax to handle record tuples, if possible.
Disclaimer: the author of this program takes no responsibility for the correctness of the produced output, or for any effects of its execution. In particular, the author may not be held responsible should Igor include the code of a deceased madman in the result.
For further information on Igors in general, see e.g. "Young Frankenstein", Mel Brooks, 1974, and "The Fifth Elephant", Terry Pratchett, 1999.
- filename() = file:filename()
- stubDescriptor() = {ModuleName, Functions, [Attribute]}
ModuleName = atom()
Functions = [{FunctionName, {ModuleName, FunctionName}}]
FunctionName = {atom(), integer()}
Attribute = {atom(), term()}
A stub module descriptor contains the module name, a list of exported functions, and a list of module attributes. Each function is described by its name (which includes its arity), and the corresponding module and function that it calls. (The arities should always match.) The attributes are simply described by key-value pairs.
- syntaxTree() = erl_syntax:syntaxTree()
An abstract syntax tree. See the erl_syntax module for details.
Creates stub module source files corresponding to the given stub descriptors. The returned value is the list of names of the created files. See merge_sources/3 for more information about stub descriptors.
- {backup_suffix, string()}
- {backups, boolean()}
- {printer, Function}
- {stub_dir, filename()}
- {suffix, string()}
- {verbose, boolean()}
See merge/3 for details on these options.
See also: merge/3, merge_sources/3.
Equivalent to merge(Name, Files, []).
Merges source code files to a single file. Name specifies the name of the resulting module - not the name of the output file. Files is a list of file names and/or module names of source modules to be read and merged (see merge_files/4 for details). All the input modules must be distinctly named.
The resulting source code is written to a file named "Name.erl" in the current directory, unless otherwise specified by the options dir and outfile described below.
given a module m in file "m.erl" which uses the standard library module lists, calling igor:merge(m, [m, lists]) will create a new file "m.erl which contains the code from m and exports the same functions, and which includes the referenced code from the lists module. The original file will be renamed to "m.erl.bak".
given modules m1 and m2, in corresponding files, calling igor:merge(m, [m1, m2]) will create a file "m.erl" which contains the code from m1 and m2 and exports the functions of m1.
Stub module files are created for those modules that are to be exported by the target module (see options export, stubs and stub_dir).
The function returns the list of file names of all created modules, including any automatically created stub modules. The file name of the target module is always first in the list.
Note: If you get a "syntax error" message when trying to merge files (and you know those files to be correct), then try the preprocess option. It typically means that your code contains too strange macros to be handled without actually performing the preprocessor expansions.
- {backup_suffix, string()}
Specifies the file name suffix to be used when a backup file is created; the default value is ".bak".
- {backups, boolean()}
If the value is true, existing files will be renamed before new files are opened for writing. The new names are formed by appending the string given by the backup_suffix option to the original name. The default value is true.
- {dir, filename()}
Specifies the name of the directory in which the output file is to be written. An empty string is interpreted as the current directory. By default, the current directory is used.
- {outfile, filename()}
Specifies the name of the file (without suffix) to which the resulting source code is to be written. By default, this is the same as the Name argument.
- {preprocess, boolean()}
If the value is true, preprocessing will be done when reading the source code. See merge_files/4 for details.
- {printer, Function}
Function = (syntaxTree()) -> string()
Specifies a function for prettyprinting Erlang syntax trees. This is used for outputting the resulting module definition, as well as for creating stub files. The function is assumed to return formatted text for the given syntax tree, and should raise an exception if an error occurs. The default formatting function calls erl_prettypr:format/2.
- {stub_dir, filename()}
Specifies the name of the directory to which any generated stub module files are written. The default value is "stubs".
- {stubs, boolean()}
If the value is true, stub module files will be automatically generated for all exported modules that do not have the same name as the target module. The default value is true.
- {suffix, string()}
Specifies the suffix to be used for the output file names; the default value is ".erl".
See merge_files/4 for further options.
See also: merge/2, merge_files/4.
Equivalent to merge_files(Name, [], Files, Options).
Merges source code files and syntax trees to a single syntax tree. This is a file-reading front end to merge_sources/3. Name specifies the name of the resulting module - not the name of the output file. Sources is a list of syntax trees and/or lists of "source code form" syntax trees, each entry representing a module definition. Files is a list of file names and/or module names of source modules to be read and included. All the input modules must be distinctly named.
If a name in Files is not the name of an existing file, Igor assumes it represents a module name, and tries to locate and read the corresponding source file. The parsed files are appended to Sources and passed on to merge_sources/3, i.e., entries in Sources are listed before entries read from files.
If no exports are listed by an export option (see merge_sources/3 for details), then if Name is also the name of one of the input modules, that module will be exported; otherwise, the first listed module will be exported. Cf. the examples under merge/3.
The result is a pair {Tree, Stubs}, where Tree represents the source code that is the result of merging all the code in Sources and Files, and Stubs is a list of stub module descriptors (see merge_sources/3 for details).
- {comments, boolean()}
If the value is true, source code comments in the original files will be preserved in the output. The default value is true.
- {find_src_rules, [{string(), string()}]}
Specifies a list of rules for associating object files with source files, to be passed to the function filelib:find_source/2. This can be used to change the way Igor looks for source files. If this option is not specified, the default system rules are used. The first occurrence of this option completely overrides any later in the option list.
- {includes, [filename()]}
Specifies a list of directory names for the Erlang preprocessor, if used, to search for include files (cf. the preprocess option). The default value is the empty list. The directory of the source file and the current directory are automatically appended to the list.
- {macros, [{atom(), term()}]}
Specifies a list of "pre-defined" macro definitions for the Erlang preprocessor, if used (cf. the preprocess option). The default value is the empty list.
- {preprocess, boolean()}
If the value is false, Igor will read source files without passing them through the Erlang preprocessor (epp), in order to avoid expansion of preprocessor directives such as -include(...)., -define(...). and -ifdef(...), and macro calls such as ?LINE and ?MY_MACRO(x, y). The default value is false, i.e., preprocessing is not done. (See the module epp_dodger for details.)
Notes: If a file contains too exotic definitions or uses of macros, it will not be possible to read it without preprocessing. Furthermore, Igor does not currently try to sort out multiple inclusions of the same file, or redefinitions of the same macro name. Therefore, when preprocessing is turned off, it may become necessary to edit the resulting source code, removing such re-inclusions and redefinitions.
See merge_sources/3 for further options.
See also: epp_dodger, filelib:find_source/2, merge/3, merge_files/3, merge_sources/3.
Merges syntax trees to a single syntax tree. This is the main code merging "engine". Name specifies the name of the resulting module. Sources is a list of syntax trees of type form_list and/or lists of "source code form" syntax trees, each entry representing a module definition. All the input modules must be distinctly named.
Unless otherwise specified by the options, all modules are assumed to be at least "static", and all except the target module are assumed to be "safe". See the static and safe options for details.
If Name is also the name of one of the input modules, the code from that module will occur at the top of the resulting code, and no extra "header" comments will be added. In other words, the look of that module will be preserved.
The result is a pair {Tree, Stubs}, where Tree represents the source code that is the result of merging all the code in Sources, and Stubs is a list of stub module descriptors (see below).
Stubs contains one entry for each exported input module (cf. the export option), each entry describing a stub module that redirects calls of functions in the original module to the corresponding (possibly renamed) functions in the new module. The stub descriptors can be used to automatically generate stub modules; see create_stubs/2.
- {export, [atom()]}
Specifies a list of names of input modules whose interfaces should be exported by the output module. A stub descriptor is generated for each specified module, unless its name is Name. If no modules are specified, then if Name is also the name of an input module, that module will be exported; otherwise the first listed module in Sources will be exported. The default value is the empty list.
- {export_all, boolean()}
If the value is true, this is equivalent to listing all of the input modules in the export option. The default value is false.
- {file_attributes, Preserve}
Preserve = yes | comment | no
If the value is yes, all file attributes -file(...) in the input sources will be preserved in the resulting code. If the value is comment, they will be turned into comments, but remain in their original positions in the code relative to the other source code forms. If the value is no, all file attributes will be removed from the code, unless they have attached comments, in which case they will be handled as in the comment case. The default value is no.
- {no_banner, boolean()}
If the value is true, no banner comment will be added at the top of the resulting module, even if the target module does not have the same name as any of the input modules. Instead, Igor will try to preserve the look of the module whose code is at the top of the output. The default value is false.
- {no_headers, boolean()}
If the value is true, no header comments will be added to the resulting module at the beginning of each section of code that originates from a particular input module. The default value is false, which means that section headers are normally added whenever more than two or more modules are merged.
- {no_imports, boolean()}
If the value is true, all -import(...) declarations in the original code will be expanded in the result; otherwise, as much as possible of the original import declarations will be preserved. The default value is false.
- {notes, Notes}
Notes = always | yes | no
If the value is yes, comments will be inserted where important changes have been made in the code. If the value is always, all changes to the code will be commented. If the value is no, changes will be made without comments. The default value is yes.
- {redirect, [{atom(), atom()}]}
Specifies a list of pairs of module names, representing a mapping from old names to new. The set of old names may not include any of the names of the input modules. All calls to the listed old modules will be rewritten to refer to the corresponding new modules. The redirected calls will not be further processed, even if the new destination is in one of the input modules. This option mainly exists to support module renaming; cf. rename/3. The default value is the empty list.
- {safe, [atom()]}
Specifies a list of names of input modules such that calls to these "safe" modules may be turned into direct local calls, that do not test for code replacement. Typically, this can be done for e.g. standard library modules. If a module is "safe", it is per definition also "static" (cf. below). The list may be empty. By default, all involved modules except the target module are considered "safe".
- {static, [atom()]}
Specifies a list of names of input modules which will be assumed never to be replaced (reloaded) unless the target module is also first replaced. The list may be empty. The target module itself (which may also be one of the input modules) is always regarded as "static", regardless of the value of this option. By default, all involved modules are assumed to be static.
- {tidy, boolean()}
If the value is true, the resulting code will be processed using the erl_tidy module, which removes unused functions and does general code cleanup. (See erl_tidy:module/2 for additional options.) The default value is true.
- {verbose, boolean()}
If the value is true, progress messages will be output while the program is running; the default value is false.
Note: The distinction between "static" and "safe" modules is necessary in order not to break the semantics of dynamic code replacement. A "static" source module will not be replaced unless the target module also is. Now imagine a state machine implemented by placing the code for each state in a separate module, and suppose that we want to merge this into a single target module, marking all source modules as static. At each point in the original code where a call is made from one of the modules to another (i.e., the state transitions), code replacement is expected to be detected. Then, if we in the merged code do not check at these points if the target module (the result of the merge) has been replaced, we can not be sure in general that we will be able to do code replacement of the merged state machine - it could run forever without detecting the code change. Therefore, all such calls must remain remote-calls (detecting code changes), but may call the target module directly.
If we are sure that this kind of situation cannot ensue, we may specify the involved modules as "safe", and all calls between them will become local. Note that if the target module itself is specified as safe, "remote" calls to itself will be turned into local calls. This would destroy the code replacement properties of e.g. a typical server loop.
See also: create_stubs/2, rename/3, erl_tidy:module/2.
Allows Igor to work as a component of the Erlang compiler. Including the term {parse_transform, igor} in the compile options when compiling an Erlang module (cf. compile:file/2), will call upon Igor to process the source code, allowing automatic inclusion of other source files. No files are created or overwritten when this function is used.
Igor will look for terms {igor, List} in the compile options, where List is a list of Igor-specific options, as follows:
- {files, [filename()]}
The value specifies a list of source files to be merged with the file being compiled; cf. merge_files/4.
See merge_files/4 for further options. Note, however, that some options are preset by this function and cannot be overridden by the user; in particular, all cosmetic features are turned off, for efficiency. Preprocessing is turned on.
See also: compile:file/2, merge_files/4.
Equivalent to rename(Files, Renamings, []).
Renames a set of possibly interdependent source code modules. Files is a list of file names of source modules to be processed. Renamings is a list of pairs of module names, representing a mapping from old names to new. The returned value is the list of output file names.
Each file in the list will be read and processed separately. For every file, each reference to some module M, such that there is an entry {M, M1} in Renamings, will be changed to the corresponding M1. Furthermore, if a file F defines module M, and there is an entry {M, M1} in Renamings, a new file named M1.erl will be created in the same directory as F, containing the source code for module M, renamed to M1. If M does not have an entry in Renamings, the module is not renamed, only updated, and the resulting source code is written to M.erl (typically, this overwrites the original file). The suffix option (see below) can be used to change the default ".erl" suffix for the generated files.
Stub modules will automatically be created (see the stubs and stub_dir options below) for each module that is renamed. These can be used to redirect any calls still using the old module names. The stub files are created in the same directory as the source file (typically overwriting the original file).
- {backup_suffix, string()}
- {backups, boolean()}
- {printer, Function}
- {stubs, boolean()}
- {suffix, string()}
See merge/3 for details on these options.
- {comments, boolean()}
- {preprocess, boolean()}
See merge_files/4 for details on these options.
- {no_banner, boolean()}
For the rename function, this option is true by default. See merge_sources/3 for details.
- {tidy, boolean()}
For the rename function, this option is false by default. See merge_sources/3 for details.
- {no_headers, boolean()}
- {stub_dir, filename()}
These options are preset by the rename function and cannot be overridden by the user.
See merge_sources/3 for further options.
See also: merge/3, merge_files/4, merge_sources/3.


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The shocker of the season finale of Downton Abbey, which aired in the U.S. last weekend, was the death of handsome, floppy-haired, formerly death-defying Downton heir Matthew Crawley. But a stranger moment played out in the scene before that, when Matthew joins Lady Mary in the hospital delivery room to cradle their newborn son. He vibrates with emotion; she radiates business. "We've done our duty," she tells the love of her life, handing him the baby. "Downton is safe."
Mary isn't royalty, but her house always comes first. That bit of dialogue came back to me Tuesday morning, as two-time Booker Prize–winning novelist Hilary Mantel took heat from Prime Minister David Cameron and the English tabloids for remarks she made about the Duchess of Cambridge in an essay published in the London Review of Books. Kate is England's most precious commodity, especially with Downton in hiatus, and the media stance on her is relentlessly positive. So when Mantel, in a piece titled "Royal Bodies," suggested that Kate appears "precision-made, machine-made," and wrote of royal persons that "at the most basic, they are breeding stock, collections of organs," she was accused by the Sun and Daily Mail of attacking the defenseless Duchess. Cameron weighed in from India, where he was traveling, to say that Mantel's comments were "completely misguided."
(MORE: 'A Plastic Princess'? Award-Winning Author Hilary Mantel Attacked over Kate Middleton Comments)
Never mind that Mantel is dealing not in pronouncements but perceptions: her piece discusses not who Kate is (how could she know?) but what she seems to be. It's an essay less about actual royals than the way they've been presented to us. And it travels from the coverage of Kate to the death of Diana to the discovery of the skeleton of Richard III to the possible blood type of Henry VIII, with a detour through a couple of Stevie Smith quotations and Mantel's own encounter with the Queen. Which is to say, it's a saturated, highly dexterous piece of writing, exactly the sort of thing that begs to be misinterpreted. But what's strange about the tempest over it is that Mantel actually provides a compelling rationale for both the press's and the public's undeniable, salacious interest in Kate's body. The Duchess's ability to produce an heir is what ties her to monarchs past; it literally put her in line with them. This is, along with the real estate holdings, probably the most traditional aspect of the monarchy left. Without it, there is no monarchy. Why not point it out?
"In looking at royalty we are always looking at what is archaic, what is mysterious by its nature," Mantel writes. Perhaps what ruffles the critics of her piece is that the woman lauded for her accounts of Tudor England brings that historian's eye to a figure of our own time. Can you write about contemporary royals as if they are already consigned to history? Maybe the better question is: Is there any other way to write about them? In a sense, their distance from the trappings of regular life requires that approach. In Mantel's version of Kate, her interior life is rendered even more remote than that of Anne Boleyn. There's curiosity about what occupies her thoughts, but no presumption to know it. There's no mention of her family. There's no mention, even, of William. This would be more bothersome if it didn't accord with mainstream coverage of Kate, which tends to focus exclusively on her clothing and weight and will soon shift to her maternity clothing and weight, followed almost certainly by her baby's clothing and how quickly she loses her weight. Yet somehow that's respectful, whereas Mantel's ultimate argument — that we back off the royals, leave them to puzzle out their modern status at a cool, historical remove — registers as an attack.
(PHOTOS: Great Expectations: Kate Middleton's Maternity Style)
We in the U.S. are not unfamiliar with the idea of one's body being one's duty, possibly even one's destiny. This is Oscar week, culminating in our most concentrated public display of professional beauty and professional grooming. It's a week when scores of our prettiest women — some who look (as Mantel might write) as if they'd been designed by a committee and built by craftsmen, and who bear (as Mantel might write) the strained smile of women who really want to tell reporters to bugger off — get asked who they're wearing, as if they bear the carcasses of designers down the red carpet. Talent vies with wardrobe for attention, and increasingly, a baby bump trumps both. The House of Jolie-Pitt is not yet as historically significant as the House of Windsor. But the pregnant-celebrity industrial complex that Simon Dumenco wrote about on AdAge.com this week is hard at work convincing us that these bloodlines too must be cultivated and celebrated. It's enough to make you nostalgic for a time when only real royal babies mattered.
In Bring Up the Bodies, Mantel describes the beheading of Anne Boleyn in a single, masterful stroke: "The body exsanguinates," she writes — the blood spills from it and marks its passage from life to death. Of course, Anne's blood had its revenge. Her daughter Elizabeth took the throne, outlasting and outmaneuvering her rivals, and led England through four decades of military and cultural glory.
What will Kate's blood accomplish? Mantel opens her piece with the idea (prompted by an unwelcome interview question) of giving Kate a book called Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. "It's not that I think we're heading for a revolution," she writes. "It's rather that I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung. In those days she was a shop-window mannequin, with no personality of her own, entirely defined by what she wore. These days she is a mother-to-be, and draped in another set of threadbare attributions." It would be interesting to know, her argument goes, whether the jointed doll would agree with that perception of her. It would be interesting to know what she makes of the role of fashion and fertility in the fortunes of queens before her, whether she sees any lessons that apply. Odds are slim that we'll find out. But it doesn't seem so misguided to wonder.
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The Promise Of Payments
Payments are a classic illustration of a long-standing paradox around technology's role in banking. Technology has enabled banks to process payments more quickly, efficiently and securely, to profitably offer payments products and services (such as credit and debit cards) to a wider array of consumer and corporate customers, and to make effective payments handling a foundation of multifaceted and revenue-generating client relationships.
Transformed At The CoreThe September 2013 digital issue of Bank Systems & Technology examines eight big stories transforming the payments landscape, including the mainstreaming of virtual currencies, new forms of payments fraud, and adoption of cloud-based payments. To read more, download our September 2013 digital issue now.
However, payment technology also has created many challenges for banks. It has contributed to the commoditization of payment offerings, which hurts their market share and profitability. At the same time technology has helped make transactions more secure, it also has been a big factor in the rise of payment fraud and related crimes.
This paradox is only going to become more pronounced as mobile, social and analytics technologies provide banks with new opportunities to expand their payment businesses. Meantime, technology firms (such as Google, Apple and now Facebook), startups and other nontraditional competitors -- as well as hackers, criminals and unfriendly governments -- will seize those same opportunities.
It's likely that the next battle for payments dominance will be waged over the "unbanked" (poor people in developing markets, immigrants, students, etc.) and people of all incomes and demographics with a variety of options, many of them involving nonbank entities. According to recent FDIC research, the number of U.S. households managing their finances without a bank rose from 7.7% in 2009 to 8.2% last year.
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The promise of payments is that it can bring disenfranchised individuals into the financial system, a proposition that SWIFT will address at its 2013 Sibos conferencein Dubai. Along with the expected focus on standards, infrastructure, regulation and security will be a panel session addressing "Financial inclusion: Is payments the answer?" featuring executives from MasterCard International, Punjab National Bank, the Al Fardan Exchange, the Alliance for Financial Inclusion and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Although banks have done more than dabble in areas such as remittances, peer-to-peer payments, mobile money and stored-value cards, it's not at all clear that they'll be the dominant players (or even want to be) as those businesses expand. But with Gartner forecasting that worldwide mobile transaction value will exceed $235 billion this year (up 44% from the $163 billion spent via mobile devices in 2012), it seems more critical than ever for banks to pursue the promise of payments -- the technology paradox notwithstanding.
There's no question that others are willing to take on the costs and risks to realize that promise.
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"They do not chase after it. Rather they take things slowly. Jamie says, "You must cultivate your own 'secret garden'. That place where you can refresh your senses and recoup.
Jamie says, "Learn the Galic shrug when presented with a difficult situation.
Simply shrug your shoulders casually, "C'est la vie."
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ROME: The UN has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.
May 13, 2013
ROME: The UN has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.
This undated photo provided by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows a plate with insects during an insect cuisine competition in Laos.
The Food and Agriculture Organization on Monday hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilized food for people, livestock and pets.
A 200-page report, released at a news conference at the UN agency's Rome headquarters, says 2 billion people worldwide already supplement their diets with insects, which are high in protein and minerals, and have environmental benefits.
Insects are 'extremely efficient' in converting feed into edible meat, the agency said. On average, they can convert 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of feed into 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of insect mass. In comparison, cattle require 8 kilograms (17.6 pounds) of feed to produce a kilo of meat.
Most insects are likely to produce fewer environmentally harmful greenhouse gases, and also feed on human and food waste, compost and animal slurry, with the products being used for agricultural feed, the agency said.
Currently, most edible insects are gathered in forests and what insect farming does take place is often family-run and serves niche markets. But the UN says mechanization can ratchet up insect farming production. The fish bait industry, for example, has long farmed insects.
Insect farming is "one of the many ways to address food and feed security," the food agency said.
"Insects are everywhere and they reproduce quickly," the agency said, adding they leave a "low environmental footprint." They provide high-quality protein and nutrients when compared with meat and fish and are "particularly important as a food supplement for undernourished children," it said.
Insects can also be rich in copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, selenium and zinc, and are a source of fiber.
The agency noted that its Edible Insect Program is also examining the potential of arachnids, such as spiders and scorpions, although they are not strictly speaking insects.
University biologists have analyzed the nutritional value of edible insects, and some of them, such as certain beetles, ants, crickets and grasshoppers, come close to lean red meat or broiled fish in terms of protein per gram (ounce).
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The report noted that some caterpillars in southern Africa and weaver ant eggs in Southeast Asia are considered delicacies and command high prices.
And some people who might not entertain the thought of consuming insects might already be eating them. Many insects are ingested inadvertently.
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As national attention continues to be focused on the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., last month and the questions it resurrects about race relations in the U.S., The Orlando Sentinel today adds to what's known about George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old man who pulled the trigger.
Painted as "a racist, a vigilante and a murderer" for killing the African-American boy in what Zimmerman claims was self defense, the Sentinel notes that the "embattled neighborhood watchman" has had few defenders so far.
A former neighbor in Manassas, Va., says Zimmerman was "a good-enough kid" when he was younger. But, "in 2005 [he] was twice accused of either criminal misconduct or violence."
In one case, Zimmerman allegedly pushed a state alcohol agent who was arresting one of Zimmerman's friends. He "avoided conviction by entering a pretrial-diversion program, something common for first-time offenders." In the other case, he was accused by a woman of domestic violence. Zimmerman "responded by filing a petition of his own the following day." Injunctions have kept the cases' outcomes sealed, the Sentinel says.
Zimmerman has not been arrested. As we reported Tuesday, though, the local prosecutor is taking the case to a grand jury for it to investigate.
Meanwhile, as NPR's Kathy Lohr reported on Morning Edition, tensions remain high in Sanford, where Martin's family and supporters accuse the local police of not being interested in investigating the case because of the boy's race.
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And it's so nice to say time for sports.
SIMON: Just a day left to the end of regular baseball season. The Cardinals clinched a playoff spot last night. Of course they were playing the Cubs. But those rampaging Cleveland Indians won their eighth game in a row to move a game closer to a wildcard spot. They're knotted up with the Tampa Bay Rays, trying to keep the Texas Rangers in the rearview mirror.
And over at the National League, the Pittsburgh Pirates made the Reds walk the plank last night to get a game up to host the first game of the post season. For more we're joined by Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. Howard, this is exciting and it's the wildcard races.
HOWARD BRYANT: Good morning, Scott. This is the end, the end of the baseball season. This is the reason why you play 162 games and now we are at the end.
SIMON: I found a wonderful quote overnight from, of course, Terry Francona, the manager of the rampaging Cleveland Indians. He says, "This to me is the soul of baseball." He says, "I just want to keep playing. I don't want to go home. I just want to keep playing. I don't care where we play, when we play, I just want to keep playing."
BRYANT: Well, it's a great season for Terry, especially come back after being out a year after leaving the Red Sox back in 2011. And the Indians are a great story. This is a thing where when you're in Boston, in New York, in Philadelphia and some of these cities where you expect to win and expect to win, winning doesn't mean that much because all you're doing is what you're supposed to do.
This was a team that stared the season expecting to lose 90 games. Nobody gave this team a chance at all, and they've won 90 games and they've got a chance to go to the playoffs, and as we say these days, once you get as chance to get into that tournament, you've got a chance to win and then start thinking big.
And the Cleveland Indians haven't won the World Series since 1948, and they haven't been to the World Series since '97, so this is a great opportunity for them. You've got the old man, Jason Giambi hitting walk-off home runs, and this is what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to be fun and this is exactly the kind of summer that, I think, the Cleveland fans needed too.
SIMON: Well, I don't want to put my Cubby curse on the Tribe, so...
BRYANT: You already did.
SIMON: So before we leave the American League, Mariano Rivera doffed his cap over his shaved head for the last time at Yankee Stadium, and it was a great thing to see.
BRYANT: Yeah, and very emotional. The last 42 to wear that number in Major League Baseball history. he's the greatest postseason closer, maybe, obviously, the greatest closer of all time. A bit ironic that the greatest postseason closer is going to end his career by not making the playoffs. But he was a great, great source for me, a real inspiration to watch play, and real classy player. He's one of the guys that just did it right.
He's going to be one of those guys, when we walk into the clubhouse, going to miss having him there because he's a true professional, and anybody, whether you're a Yankee fan or a Red Sox fan or any fan, if you're a fan of baseball, watching Mariano Rivera was a real pleasure.
SIMON: Yeah. Let me ask you about the National League quickly. Do you know three teams clinched their playoff spots against the Cubs? You've been saturated with champagne at this point coming from the other locker room?
BRYANT: Exactly.
SIMON: In any event, what do you see the storyline there? Pirates, the Pirates.
BRYANT: It's the Pirates. The Pirates hadn't won since 1992, since Barry Bonds was there. It's a great, great story for them. It's good in Pittsburgh as it's been in Cleveland. And obviously you've got the Los Angeles Dodgers out there. The National League has been set for a while now. You're going to get Pittsburgh and Cincinnati playing for that one game, you're going to get the Dodgers playing the Cardinals in the first round and then the winner of that one game between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati is going to play Atlanta.
Good stories for everybody. Obviously, the return of the Dodgers is big. But I think that individually, if you like the underdog, the Pittsburgh Pirates is the team to watch. And if you're the networks, I don't know if you're really that into a Pittsburgh-Cleveland World Series, but I think for the underdogs I think that would be a lot of fun.
SIMON: Quick college sports question because on Thursday there's a video game maker who settled with student athletes in a lawsuit, said they deserved to be paid for having their likenesses run on the field in video games. They're going to get, players will get $40 million total. Is this a deal that opens some kind of door in college sports?
BRYANT: Well things are changing and they should change, and I was very disappointed with Jim Delaney, the Big Ten commissioner, who essentially tried to blame the players to say, look, go to the minor leagues; we're not a minor league if you don't want to be here. But that's really not the issue. The issues is, is that you can't take the likenesses of these kids and not compensate them, penalize them for having lunch with someone and make a billion industry out of it.
The players deserve better, times are changing. And I have to say, it is about time.
SIMON: Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. Thanks so much, Howard.
BRYANT: My pleasure, Scott.
SIMON: You're listening to WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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BRUSSELS (AP) -- Two European science projects — one to map the intricacies of the human brain, the other to explore the extraordinary carbon-based material graphene — won an EU technology contest Monday, getting up to €1 billion ($1.34 billion) each over the next decade.
The projects were selected from 26 proposals.
"European's position as a knowledge superpower depends on thinking the unthinkable and exploiting the best ideas," European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes said in a statement. "This multi-billion competition rewards home-grown scientific breakthroughs and shows that when we are ambitious we can develop the best research in Europe."
The Human Brain Project will use supercomputers 1,000 times more powerful than those today to create the most detailed model ever of the human brain. Then the project plans to simulate the effects of drugs and treatments on the brain, for a better understanding of neurological diseases and related ailments.
In addition, the increased knowledge about how the brain works — and how it manages billions of processing units and trillions of synapses while consuming no more power than a light bulb —may lead to "a paradigm shift for computing," the European Commission, the European Union's executive branch, said in a statement.
"The economic and industrial impact of such a shift is potentially enormous," the commission said.
The leader of the project, Henry Markram, a professor of neuroscience at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne in Switzerland, said earlier this month that it could not be undertaken without this kind of funding.
"The pharmaceutical industry won't do this, computing companies won't do this — there's too much fundamental science," Markram said. "This is one project which absolutely needs public funding."
The other project will investigate the possible uses of graphene, the thinnest known material, which conducts electricity far better than copper, is perhaps 300 times stronger than steel and has unique optical properties. A sheet of it is one atom thick; scientists call it the first known two-dimensional material.
Important future uses include the development of fast, flexible and strong consumer electronics, bendable personal communication devises, lighter airplanes, cars that use less energy and artificial retinas.
The project will be led by professor Jari Kinaret of the Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden.
"The story of graphene shows there is still wonder in science," Kroes said Monday at a news conference. "It's like a miracle."
In 2010, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two scientists at the University of Manchester in Britain "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene."
"So, you've heard of Silicon Valley," Kroes said. "'Where in Europe wants to be known as 'Graphene Valley?' That's the billion-euro question I am putting to you today."
Each of the projects will initially receive €54 million ($73 million) from the European Union's research budget, an amount that will be matched by national governments and other sources. Further funding will depend on whether they reach certain milestones within the first 30 months, but over a decade it could total €1 billion ($1.34 million) each.
In this age of government austerity, the commission promised to monitor the projects carefully so they continue "to be an efficient use of taxpayers' money."
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Mr. President, at the end of January, something remarkable happened: Slovak Deputy Prime Minister Rudolf Chmel made a positive statement about Roma. Saying something nice about Europe's largest ethnic minority may not seem newsworthy, but it is and here is why.
The Deputy Prime Minister reacted to an escalation of anti-Roma rhetoric in the run-up to Slovakia's March 10 parliamentary elections by calling on political parties not to play the "Roma card." But more than that, he welcomed a landmark decision of the European Court on Human Rights holding that the sterilization of a Slovak Romani woman without her consent had been cruel and inhuman. He welcomed the findings of a Slovak court that concluded Romani children had been placed in segregated schools in eastern Slovakia. And he commended the human rights organization that had helped litigate both these cases.
To say that statements like these are few and far between is an understatement. On the contrary, officials at the highest levels of government frequently perpetuate the worst bigotry against Roma.
For example, after four perpetrators were convicted and sentenced for a racially motivated firebombing that left a Romani toddler burned over 80 percent of her body, Czech President Vaclav Klaus wondered if their 20-plus-year sentences were too harsh. Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi suggested that Roma were "physiologically" disposed to crime. Last year, President Silvio Berlusconi warned the electorate of Milan to vote for his party lest their city become a "Gypsyopolis." And French President Nicolas Sarkozy has explicated targeted Roma –from EU countries–for expulsion from France. The common thread in most of this rhetoric is the portrayal of Roma as inherently criminal.
Nearly 20 years ago in the New York Times–Dec. 10, 1993–Vaclav Havel described the treatment of Roma as a litmus test for civil society. Today, Europe is still failing that test miserably. As Hungary's Minister for Social Inclusion Zolton Balog has argued, Roma are worse off today than they were under communism. While a small fraction of Roma have benefited from new opportunities, many more have been the absolute losers in the transition from the command-to-a market economy, and vast numbers live in a kind of poverty that the United Nations Development Programme described as more typically found in sub-Saharan Africa than Europe. Endemic discrimination has propelled economic marginalization downward at an exponential pace, and the past 20 years have been marked by outbreaks of hate crimes and mob violence against Roma that are on the rise again.
In the current environment, those who play with anti-Roma rhetoric are playing with a combustible mix.
In the near term, there is the real prospect that fueling prejudice against Roma will spark interethnic violence. Before Bulgaria's local elections last October, the extremist Ataka party parlayed an incident involving a Romani mafia boss into anti-Romani rioting in some 14 towns and cities. In the Czech Republic, the government has had to mount massive shows of law enforcement to keep anti-Roma mobs from degenerating into all-out pogroms; its worked so far, but at a huge cost.
Significantly, Roma are not always standing by while the likes of the Hungarian Guard mass on their doorsteps; they have sometimes gathered sticks, shovels, scythes, and anything else handy in an old-school defense.
Even without the prospect of violence, there is a longer term threat to many countries with larger Romani populations: if they fail to undertake meaningful integration of Roma, they will find their economies hollowed out from within. More than a decade ago, then-Hungarian Minister of Education Zolton Pokorni said that one out of every three children starting school that year would be Romani. Some economic forecasts now suggest that by 2040, 40 percent of the labor force in Hungary will be Romani. A number of other countries face similar trajectories.
A desperately impoverished, uneducated, and marginalized population will not serve as the backbone of a modern and thriving economy. But several studies have shown that the cost of investing in the integration of Roma –housing, education, and job training and the like–will be more than offset by gains in GNP and tax revenue. In order to undertake those integration policies, somebody has to build popular support for them. And that is where Mr. Chmel comes in.
Until now, most popular discourse about Roma seems predicated on the ostrich-like belief that perhaps they can be made to go away. Few politicians have shown the courage and foresight to reframe public discourse in any way that acknowledges Europe's future will definitely include Roma. Mr. Chmel has taken an important step in that direction. I hope he will inspire others.


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North Korea on Thursday says it is ready to resume talks with the U.S. and South Korea if they end joint military exercises and the United Nations drops sanctions.
The official KCNA news agency carried the statement from North Korea's National Defense Commission calling for a resumption of dialogue.
"The first step will be withdrawing the U.N. Security Council resolutions cooked up on ridiculous grounds," the statement said.
"Second, you need to tell the whole world that you will not get involved in any rehearsal for a nuclear war that threatens our nation. Dialogues and war games can never go together," it added.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry dismissed the demands as "absurd," the BBC reports.
"We strongly urge the North to stop making such incomprehensible demands and to make the wise choice we have repeatedly urged," Foreign Ministry spokesman Cho Tai-young said.
UPDATE at 2:30 p.m. ET:
The New York Times reports that the slight ratcheting down of North's rhetoric is a sign that Pyongyang wants to ease tensions:
"That assessment, gaining credence among policymakers in recent days, does not mean that North Korea will soon agree to talks or that the long-term threat posed by its weapons program has been reduced. But officials say they are encouraged by a shift over the past week in Pyongyang's rhetoric, which, though still venomous, now includes hints about reconciliation.
'The tensions should gradually decrease from here, but we cannot lose ourselves' to complacency, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to convey government thinking. 'We do still have to be prepared for any provocations.'"
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