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The Both is the name for the duo formed by veteran singer-songwriters Aimee Mann and Ted Leo. "The Both" is also the name of their debut album. The two began performing together in 2012, when Ted Leo was Mann's opening act. Mann began joining Leo onstage during his set. They liked the sound their voices together and started collaborating. Rock critic Ken Tucker has this review of "The Both."
THE BOTH: (singing) The ball dropped in the cold like dawn on a cold eastern morning. Not shocked, can't be too (unintelligible) there were so many warnings. I hear you knock, I hear you unlock my door. But I don't want you to have, have my key anymore. Shoes on but the mailbox is empty when there could have been something. The well's dry...
KEN TUCKER, BYLINE: That's Aimee Mann and Ted Leo harmonizing on a song they co-wrote called "The Gambler." As separate acts, Ted Leo is generally considered a punk-influenced indie musician for the work he's done with his band the Pharmacists, and Aimee Mann as a sensitive singer-songwriter ever since she left the pop star life with the group 'Til Tuesday in the 1980s.
But of course both of these musicians are more than their genre categories. What their work as The Both suggests is that together they've found common ground in confidently precise, propulsive melodies and lyrics that twist with oblique cleverness.
BOTH: (singing) Over the bridge in Milwaukee past the statues of Fonz and the duck with the wind kicking in and the sparrows all running amok and the woman, your friend who was pregnant put your hand on her belly for luck, and I laughed 'cause it's you and I knew that you knew you were stuck. You can tell by your laugh in the dark and the sound of the bell. You can tell it's the nucleus burning inside of the cell. It's the nucleus burning inside of the cell.
TUCKER: That's "Milwaukee," one of the first songs Mann and Leo collaborated on in gradually hatching this plan to perform and record together as The Both. They bring out the best in each other musically: Leo gives Mann zip and vigor; she gives him poetry and hard-headedness. Sometimes one of them takes the lead vocal, at other times they trade off lines and harmonize throughout.
On a song such as "You Can't Help Me Now," they make gloomy sentiments lively.
BOTH: (singing) Any time you establish a world of your own you get thrown. Trying to (unintelligible) I wanted you to know that I put up a fight. But everything goes missing when they draw the line. The catastrophic sinking of the will is kind but even you can't help me now. You can't help. You can't help me now. You can't help.
TUCKER: In interviews, Aimee Mann has said working with Ted Leo has made her feel as though she's in a rock band for the first time, which must make her old bandmates in 'Til Tuesday feel a tad dismayed. But if anything, The Both includes some of the most Aimee Mannish of Aimee Mann songs, the way her best singing captures an urgent longing and pessimism that's redeemed by a prickly self-awareness.
BOTH: (singing) There's a shadow in the room and you let it tell you things. Yeah, you plant it on the ground but you don't make a sound. No, sir. No, sir. All the helicopters fell...
TUCKER: "The Both" works so well as an album because its songs cohere as the documentation of the ways a new creative partnership revitalizes the familiar habits, tics, tricks, and talents of the collaborators. It sets their individual talents in a new context that compels the listener to form a new appreciation for these musicians. They may begin the album singing about a gamble that didn't pay off, but their own musical collusion really has.
BOTH: (singing) You're going to make me pay for it. You're going to make me wait for it. You're going to make me pay for it now. You're going to make me pay for it. You're going to...
DAVIES: Rock critic Ken Tucker reviewed "The Both," the new album by Aimee Mann and Ted Leo from their band also called The Both.
BOTH: (singing) Well, I laid our bread and I laid out clothes and I made our bed when you finally rose and I, I was never alone. Well, you win again, you held on hold while I held your head while I caught cold and I, well, baby, I should've known. You're going to make me pay for it. You're going to make me... Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Luliang is famous for its rich colored Sand Forest. The Sand Forest was formed thousands and thousands of years ago while this landscape used to be an ocean. The current attraction covers an area of about six square kilometers.
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Yunnan Province in southwest China border, the provincial capital Kunming. Warring States period, this is the Dian tribe fowl. Yunnan, namely, "Caiyunzhinan"and the other argument is that because in the "Yunling of the South " is named. The total area of about 39 million square kilometers, accounting for 4.11% of total land area, the provincial administrative regions in the country ranked No. 8 in the area. The total population of 45,130,000 (2008), accounting for 3.36% of the population, the population ranked 13th. And Yunnan provinces adjacent to Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Tibet, Yunnan Province, three neighboring countries of Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. Tropic of Cancer crosses from the southern province.


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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook tops 1 billion users
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Facebook has topped 1 billion users, but the past few months have not been easy.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that the company is going through a bit of a rough patch following its rocky initial public offering.
Zuckerberg updated his Facebook status on Thursday to announce that the social networking site has more than 1 billion active users each month.
The company has had a difficult time lately. There were trading glitches the day it went public in May and concerns since then about its revenue potential. It's also facing lawsuits from disgruntled shareholders.
Zuckerberg said in a "Today" show interview Thursday that "we're in a tough cycle now and that doesn't help morale, but people are focused on what they're building."


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Up next, Flora Lichtman is here with our Video Pick of the Week. Hi, Flora.
FLORA LICHTMAN, BYLINE: Hi, Ira.
FLATOW: Now, we've got some digital research on this one. The other - the classic definition of digits, which...
LICHTMAN: The analog digital, your fingers.
FLATOW: Your fingers. That's what it means in Latin or something, right?
LICHTMAN: Well, they are your digits. I think digital typically refers to what we were just talking about. But yes, this week's video investigates the hard science topic of why your fingers and toes get wrinkly after a long soak.
FLATOW: That is something that we've all observed and we've all wondered, and we all think we know why for some reason.
LICHTMAN: So why do you think? What's the common prevailing sentiment?
FLATOW: My prevailing sentiment is that we have oils on our skin, right, oils on our skin that keep them smooth. And when you get soapy water, we know soap takes the oils out and so they're not smooth anymore. And for some mysterious scientific reason, they wrinkle up.
LICHTMAN: Well, that is...
FLATOW: Have we found it?
LICHTMAN: We apparently have not solved it. I thought that it was having to do with osmosis, that water entered your skin. And I'm not alone in thinking this. A quick survey of the Internet suggests that other people thought this, too. But it is not osmosis at all that is doing this. And it doesn't seem to be your theory, either, I'm sorry to say.
FLATOW: Now what? Just a thought.
LICHTMAN: No, no, exactly. So - but people have looked into this. There's, you know, a handful ever in history to have looked into this. And one is Einar Wilder Smith. He's a neurologist, and he found that what is causing the wrinkling, it's regulated, actually, by your nervous system.
So here's what happens: You dip your hand in a bath of warm water, and your nervous system, for some reason - and just exactly why is not clear, he said. But it tells the blood vessels in your hand to constrict, and they get smaller. And he thinks that what is happening is that when those blood vessels get smaller, the volume in your fingertip goes down. You get a pressure differential. And basically, your skin just, like, sucks in, like a balloon deflating. But imagine that there is some structure there, so you have - you get the wrinkles.
FLATOW: I'm Ira Flatow. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY, from NPR, talking with Flora Lichtman, our multimedia editor about our Video Pick of the Week. And in our Video Pick, you actually spoke - videoed him, right?
LICHTMAN: Yeah. I spoke with him via Skype. He's in Singapore. But I went everywhere. I just had to know. I, like, went down the rabbit hole of wrinkly fingers this week. So that was the first...
FLATOW: You got into the research.
LICHTMAN: Yeah, big time. So the first was a mechanism, right?
FLATOW: Right.
LICHTMAN: But then the question is: If this is controlled by our nervous system, if this is not just chemical thing, why is it happening? And it only happens on your fingers and your toes. So this guy, Mark Changizi, who's a neuroscientist, suggested last year - 2011, so a couple of years ago - that the reason we have these wrinkles is to grab a hold of things when we're in a wet condition, that it's easier to grab a hold when you have the wrinkly skin. And, in fact, the wrinkles are like little channels, sort of like rain treads on your tires that take the water and channel it out so that you have a better grip. And the way that he made this argument, which is ingenious, is that he looked at mountains which have the same topography, he argues, as your fingertip.
FLATOW: Hmm. Sure.
LICHTMAN: And if you look at the way the water channels off of a mountain, the pattern is just like the wrinkle pattern on your finger. So he actually said that when he's flying now, he just - whenever he sees a mountain, he just sees pruney fingers everywhere.
FLATOW: And they are the same pattern in everybody, right?
LICHTMAN: Yes. There's sort of standardized pattern that looks like these mountain channels. So this week, there's more. There's more, everybody. If you could...
FLATOW: Yes, there's more?
LICHTMAN: ...if you can imagine. This week, Tom Smulders took up this hypothesis and tested it. So you basically made people pick up wet objects and move them from bin to bin. And he found that people with wrinkly fingers versus people with unwrinkled fingers, those people with wrinkled fingers actually moved the objects more quickly than the unwrinkled finger.
FLATOW: The unwrinkled finger. But, as you say, but it all starts in our nervous system, which I found to be the most fascinating part of the (unintelligible).
LICHTMAN: That is, for me, also kind of the biggest ah-ha here.
FLATOW: Yeah. You know, it's not like your skin reacting by itself, like you say, through osmosis or something. But your brain - something in your brain is saying, I'm in water now. I better do this.
LICHTMAN: Yeah. And this raises some interesting questions - like, for instance, if you submerge your whole body in water, except for your hand, will your hand wrinkle? You could try this at home. Let us know.
FLATOW: Wow.
LICHTMAN: I haven't done this experiment.
FLATOW: Put that out...
LICHTMAN: If you have a bathtub, you could try this experiment.
FLATOW: Maybe if you're a scuba diver and you're always in the water, maybe you've noticed this already about being...
LICHTMAN: That's true. You might know. Also, do other animals get wrinkly fingers? Mark Changizi looked into this via Google image search, and he found the faintest glimmer of evidence that these Japanese macaques, which spend a lot of time in hot springs, seem to get wrinkly fingers. So that would - he thinks that aids his hypothesis about the gripping.
FLATOW: I think we need more research.
LICHTMAN: Yeah.
FLATOW: Let's seek a research budget.
LICHTMAN: I think everyone would agree. But it's interesting that you say that, because, you know, Mark Changizi, who just had his theory, his hypothesis sort of validated this week, seems to have some mixed feelings about this whole field.
MARK CHANGIZI: I mean, I was joking. I was saying, oh, God. I hope that I don't get remembered for this, because I have a lot of things I've done. And I can imagine my tombstone: Here lies Changizi, and here's this tombstone that has been carved into the shape of a wrinkled thumb.
LICHTMAN: I understand.
FLATOW: I did all this - yeah, but it's a fascinating...
LICHTMAN: (unintelligible)
FLATOW: That's right. I spent my whole life, and all I got was this tombstone. (unintelligible)
LICHTMAN: But, no, but it is - it's really - it's this kind of amazing thing, where it's something that happens to all of us, and yet there's been almost no research to try to figure out why or how.
FLATOW: Yeah. Well, there's no money to be made on it.
LICHTMAN: That is exactly (unintelligible).
FLATOW: I'm sure that's why...
LICHTMAN: It's, like, how do you think you get this funded if you don't?
FLATOW: Well, maybe our listeners - it's Video Pick of the Week. It's up there on our website. You can see the experiment that's done and the explanations and wonderful graphics that Flora's put together. And maybe you can then tweet us back and see - maybe you can do the experiment with - you're holding one hand above the water?
LICHTMAN: Yeah, one hand above the water. The rest of you submerged. Does that hand wrinkle?
FLATOW: Does - yes. Does one hand wrinkle, and would not one hand wrinkle?
LICHTMAN: Right.
FLATOW: Because the body's telling your hands to wrinkle, does it know which hands in the water?
LICHTMAN: Yeah. That's right.
FLATOW: Ooh, I like that. Thank you, Flora. Flora, wow.
LICHTMAN: It wasn't my idea. Thank you, Mark Changizi.
FLATOW: So, Flora Lichtman, our multimedia editor, our Video Pick of the Week and it's up there on our website at sciencefriday.com - up there on YouTube, also. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Two and a half years before her death in 1897 at the age of 24, as Therese de Lisieux began writing down her childhood memories at the request of her blood sisters in the Lisieux Carmel, few could have guessed the eventual outcome. Yet this Story of my soul, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual classic, read by millions and translated into dozens of languages around the world.
Decades later, in response to growing requests from scholars and devotees of the Saint, a facsimile edition of the manuscripts appeared, along with more popular French editions of what the Saint had actually written. Here, expressed with all of Therese de Lisieux's original spontaneity and fervor, we rediscover the great themes of her spirituality: confidence and love, the little way, abandonment to God's merciful love, and her mission in the church and world today.
Father John Clarke's acclaimed translation, first published in 1975 and now accepted as the standard throughout the English-speaking world, is a faithful and unaffected rendering of Therese de Lisieux's own words, from the original manuscripts. This new edition, prepared for the centenary of the Saint's death, includes a select bibliography of recent works in English on Therese de Lisieux, along with a new referencing system now widely used in studies of her doctrine.
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Turmeric known as Haldi in Hindi and Halud in Bengali, is another spice omnipresent in Indian culture, not only in cooking but also as a part of various other rituals.
It is a member of the Ginger family and is native to South East Asia. The root is dried and ground to a fine bright Yellow Powder which is used extensively to flavor and color Indian curries. The Sanskrit word for Turmeric is Haridra which means "Yellow Wood" and that is what the dried root looks like. The spice has an earthy, bitter flavor, and it is added to Indian curries in a very small proportion as an excess of it ruins the taste
Turmeric is also used extensively in Indian rituals and signifies prosperity and fertility. In Indian Hindu weddings, applying turmeric paste to the bride and groom on the morning of the wedding is an important part of the wedding ceremony. In Bengali weddings its the grooms side who send this turmeric paste along with several other gifts for the bride on the morning of the wedding and these gifts are known as "Gaye Halud er Tatwa"
In the Southern Part of India, Turmeric is also a offered to married women as part of a ritual called "Haldi Kumkum". Please correct me as I am not much aware of this ritual.
Why Turmeric Is Good For You
In Ayurveda Medicine, turmeric is considered to have numerous medicinal properties. It was considered as an antiseptic and antibacterial agent in India and was used for cuts and burns. It was also said to purify blood and my Ma insisted that a small ball of turmeric paste & jaggery (fresh turmeric was used for this and not the powder) eaten every morning would purify the blood and alleviate all stomach problems. Its another thing that the pungent taste of freshly grated or ground turmeric didn't actually salivate my taste buds and so I would keep away from those tiny balls of goodness
Turmeric contains Curcumin which is anti-inflammatory and used for psoriasis treatment.Recent studies have shown that turmeric reduces cholesterol, blocks progression of neurological diseases like Alzheimers and works wonder in short
A very nice and appetizing way to include fresh Turmeric in my diet other than the powder which I simply cannot live without is something I learnt from M (not a Bong but a Marathi), a cousin of my cousin M. So say M1 is my cousin and M2 is M1's cousin. Now M2 (an excellent cook) has been very kind and has fed me delectable food on two occasions, but stupid me has lost her number and since M1 has moved back to India, have never been able to call M2 since.
Now once when we were at M2's for dinner she declared "I have to have green chillies with my meal, I love munching on them and I always do this", saying which she took out a pretty flat container from the refrigerator where in there were sliced vibrant green chillies and slivers of bright orange carrot like thing floating in lime juice. Very happily I too took some of the chillies and the "orange" thing thinking all the time "why the carrot tasted different". On finally giving voice to my thought, M2 said the weren't carrots but juliennes of fresh turmeric and I was hooked.
Turmeric in Lime Juice
Since then I buy fresh yellow turmeric from the Indian Grocery Store when ever I remember to do so, peel the outer skin, cut them up in juliennes, slit some green chillies, squeeze some lime juice and let the slivers of turmeric and green chillies soak in the lime juice with a little salt.
Refrigerate them and they stay good for couple of weeks. As the days go by the pungent flavor of turmeric is mellowed down and they taste better. So if you do not like them on Day One give them a try couple of days later.
Have it with your meal as a substitute for the pickle or let the pickle be and have it as one more thing with your meal.
Turmeric Info source: Me and my family, Wiki & this
Update: From all the comments I wanted to make a few updates which I think would be useful for everyone
Shilpa of Flog&Rosbif said she doesn't like the "staining" part which is true. I forgot to say, chopping up the turmeric may stain the chopping board so put a plastic wrap on your chopping board and then chop. Hands can be cleaned with rubbing lime on them, and even simple soap & water is fine. But if you have a French Manicure...
Maheshwari of Beyond The Usual said they use Turmeric for removing odor of meat while cooking
KitchenFairy of Secret of Taste and Gini of Salt & Pepper said that turmeric paste was used for cosmetic purposes. Yeah applying turmeric paste on your face etc. is one of the many popular uses in India
Supriya of Spice Corner says even the leaves are used to make some dishes for Ganesh Chaturthi.
Sunita of Sunita's World said they have a custom similar to Bengali Weddings called "mah-halodhi"
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The White House on Wednesday rolled out a high-profile plan to help farmers and ranchers adjust to climate changes that have already begun to upend growing seasons and threaten livestock.
The "climate hub" initiative was praised by environmentalists, though they were quick to warn President Obama that it would not provide him cover on another environmental issue in the headlines: the Keystone XL pipeline.
"This is a great step, but it would be the height of irony to create climate hubs to help farmers adapt to climate impacts, and then approve a giant tar sands pipeline that would only make those impacts worse," says Jamie Henn of 350.org, a climate organization at the forefront of opposition to the Keystone XL.
"There's nothing this administration can do that would give them a pass on Keystone XL," Henn says.
A new State Department report downplayed the potential effects the TransCanada pipeline from Alberta to Nebraska would have on climate change, arguing the fuel would still be extracted and transported without Keystone. Obama is expected to decide on its fate in coming months.
At the Natural Resources Defense Council, international program director Susan Casey-Lefkowitz gave Obama — who created the U.S. Department of Agriculture hub program by executive order — credit for "speaking out on climate change a lot in recent months."
The seven hubs situated in existing USDA labs are poised to address, she says, the "very real harm and impact of climate change on our farmers, who are on the front lines, and are suffering."
"This is not cover for the president — he has to start saying no to dirty energy projects like Keystone – but it's an important step in a package of actions that the administration is committed to taking and still needs to take," she says.
Weeds, Diseases, Insect Pests
Just how important a step it could be is illustrated in graphic detail in a new federal assessment of climate change.
"We're moving into a period of extreme climate variability," says Jerry Hatfield, a co-author of the assessment's chapter on agriculture and director of the National Laboratory for Agriculture and Environment in Ames, Iowa. His federal Agriculture Department facility will serve as the "corn belt" hub.
The assessment outlined a list of troubles farmers will be confronted with as climate change accelerates:
Hatfield, who has a doctorate in agricultural climatology and has worked in the field for four decades, says farmers in Iowa are now becoming used to unusual weather variability.
"Over the last four years across Iowa, it's been wet, dry, wet, dry — nothing close to normal," he says.
The purpose of the hub is to get scientific information on climate change out to those farmers, and to work with them to adjust to wetter springs, shorter growing seasons, accelerated planting seasons and extreme heat spikes.
Good Effort, Not Enough
The administration's goals are all good, says Elijah Zarlin, a senior campaign manager at CREDO Action, an organization that helps fund progressive nonprofit organizations, including opponents of the Keystone XL.
"The administration has a clear interest in learning how to mitigate ongoing climate change," he says. "But if the president wants to prove he's serious about climate change, and moving the country in a new direction, rejecting Keystone would be a start."
"It's a very simple decision, and it's his and his alone," Zarlin said.
One much more difficult, however, than ordering up a climate change education program for the nation's farmers.
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Free structure
This article attempts to give a relatively informal understanding of "free" structures from algebra/category theory, with pointers to some of the formal material for those who desire it. The later sections make use of some notions from category theory, so some familiarity with its basics will be useful.
What sort of structures are we talking about?
The distinction between free structures and other, non-free structures, originates in abstract algebra, so that provides a good place to start. Some common structures considered in algebra are:
- Monoids
- consisting of
- A set
- An identity
- A binary operation
- And satisfying the equations
- consisting of
- Groups
- consisting of
- A monoid
- An additional unary operation
- satisfying
- consisting of
- Rings
- consisting of
- A set
- A unary operation
- Two binary operations
- Distinguished elements
- such that
- is a group
- is a monoid
- consisting of
So, for algebraic structures, we have sets equipped with operations that are expected to satisfy equational laws.
Free algebraic structures
Now, given such a description, we can talk about the free structure over a particular set (or, possibly over some other underlying structure; but we'll stick with sets now). What this means is that given , we want to find some set , together with appropriate operations to make the structure in question, along with the following two criteria:
- There is an embedding
- The structure generated is as 'simple' as possible.
- should contain only elements that are required to exist by and the operations of the structure.
- The only equational laws that should hold for the generated structure are those that are required to hold by the equational laws for structures of that type.
So, in the case of a free monoid (from here on out, we'll assume that the structure in question is a monoid, since it's simplest), the equation should not hold unless , or . Further , for all , and , and (and these should all be distinct, except as required by the monoid laws), but there should be no 'extra' elements of in addition to those.
For monoids, the free structure over a set is given by the monoid of lists of elements of that set, with concatenation as multiplication. It should be easy to convince yourself of the following (in pseudo-Haskell):
e = []
* = (++)
i : S -> [S]
i x = [x] -- i x = x : []
[] ++ xs = xs = xs ++ []
xs ++ (ys ++ zs) = (xs ++ ys) ++ zs
xs ++ ys = ys ++ xs iff xs == ys || xs == [] || ys == []
-- etc.
The category connection
Free structure functors
One possible objection to the above description (even a more formal version thereof) is that the characterization of "simple" is somewhat vague. Category theory gives a somewhat better solution. Generally, structures-over-a-set will form a category, with arrows being structure-preserving homomorphisms. "Simplest" (in the sense we want) structures in that category will then either be initial or terminal, [1] and thus, freeness can be defined in terms of such universal constructions.
In its full categorical generality, freeness isn't necessarily categorized by underlying set structure, either. Instead, one looks at "forgetful" functors [2] from the category of structures to some other category. For our free monoids above, it'd be:
The functor taking monoids to their underlying set . Then, the relevant universal property is given by finding an adjoint functor:
- , ⊣
being the functor taking sets to the free monoids over those sets. So, free structure functors are left adjoint to forgetful functors. It turns out this categorical presentation also has a dual: cofree structure functors are right adjoint to forgetful functors.
Algebraic constructions in a category
Category theory also provides a way to extend specifications of algebraic structures to more general categories, which can allow us to extend the above informal understanding to new contexts. For instance, one can talk about monoid objects in an arbitrary monoidal category. Such categories have a tensor product of objects, with a unit object (both of which satisfy various laws).
A monoid object in a monoidal category is then:
- An object
- A unit 'element'
- A multiplication
such that:
- and are the identity isomorphisms for the monoidal category, and
- is part of the associativity isomorphism of the category.
So, hopefully the connection is clear: we've generalized the carrier set to a carrier object, generalized the operations to morphisms in a category, and equational laws are promoted to being equations about composition of morphisms.
One example of a class of monoid objects happens to be monads. Given a base category , we have the monoidal category :
- Objects are endofunctors
- Morphisms are natural transformations [3] between the functors
- The tensor product is composition:
- The identity object is the identity functor, , taking objects and morphisms to themselves
If we then specialize the definition of a monoid object to this situation, we get:
- An endofunctor
- A natural transformation
- A natural transformation
which satisfy laws that turn out to be the standard monad laws. So, monads turn out to be monoid objects in the category of endofunctors.
Free Monads
But, what about our intuitive understanding of free monoids above? We wanted to promote an underlying set, but we have switched from sets to functors. So, presumably, a free monad is generated by an underlying (endo)functor, . We then expect there to be a natural transformation , 'injecting' the functor into the monad.
In Haskell, we can write the type of free monads over Haskell endofunctors as follows:
data Free f a = Return a | Roll (f (Free f a))
instance Functor f => Monad (Free f) where
return a = Return a
Return a >>= f = f a
Roll ffa >>= f = Roll $ fmap (>>= f) ffa
-- join (Return fa) = fa
-- join (Roll ffa) = Roll (fmap join ffa)
inj :: Functor f => f a -> Free f a
inj fa = Roll $ fmap Return fa
This should bear some resemblance to free monoids over lists. Return
is analogous to []
, and Roll
is analogous to (:)
. Lists let us create arbitrary length strings of elements from some set, while Free f
lets us create structures involving f
composed with itself an arbitrary number of times (recall, functor composition was the tensor product of our category). Return
gives our type a way to handle the 0-ary composition of f
(as []
is the 0-length string), while Roll
is the way to extend the nesting level by one (just as (:)
lets us create (n+1)-length strings out of n-length ones). Finally, both injections are built in a similar way:
inj_list x = (:) x []
inj_free fx = Roll (fmap Return fx)
This, of course, is not completely rigorous, but it is a nice extension of the informal reasoning we started with.
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For those looking for an introduction to the necessary category theory used above, Steve Awodey's Category Theory is a popular, freely available reference.
Universal constructions
Initial (final) objects are those that have a single unique arrow from (to) the object to (from) every other object in the category. For instance, the empty set is initial in the category of sets, and any one-element set is final. Initial objects play an important role in the semantics of algebraic datatypes. For a datatype like:
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we consider the following:
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- F-algebras which are:
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- Algebra homomorphisms
- These are given by such that
The datatype T
is then given by an initial F-algebra. This works out nicely because the unique algebra homomorphism whose existence is guaranteed by initiality is the fold or 'catamorphism' for the datatype.
Intuitively, though, the fact that T
is an F-algebra means that it is in some sense closed under forming terms of shape F---suppose we took the simpler signature FX = 1 + X
of the natural numbers; then both Z = inl () and Sx = inr x can be incorporated into Nat. However, there are potentially many algebras; for instance, the naturals modulo some finite number, and successor modulo that number are an algebra for the natural signature.
However, initiality constrains what Nat can be. Consider, for instance, the above modular sets 2 and 3. There can be no homomorphism :
- but
- but
- but
This is caused by these algebras identifying elements in incompatible ways (2 makes SSZ = Z, but 3 doesn't, and 3 makes SSSZ = Z, but 2 doesn't). So, the values of an initial algebra must be compatible with any such identification scheme, and this is accomplished by identifying none of the terms in the initial algebra (so that h is free to send each term to an appropriate value in the target, according to the identifications there). A similar phenomenon occurs in the main section of this article, except that the structures in question have additional equational laws that terms must satisfy, so the initial structure is allowed to identify those, but no more than those.
By the same argument, we can determine that 3 is not a final algebra. Nor are the naturals (for any modular set M, S(h(M-1)) = S(M-1) = M, but h(S(M-1)) = h0 = 0). The final algebra is the set {0}, with S0 = 0 and Z = 0, with unique homomorphism hx = 0. This can be seen as identifying as many elements as possible, rather than as few. Naturally, final algebras don't receive that much interest. However, finality is an important property of coalgebras.
Forgetful functors
The term "forgetful functor" has no formal specification; only an intuitive one. The idea is that one starts in some category of structures, and then defines a functor by forgetting part or all of what defines those structures. For instance:
- , where is any category of algebraic structures, and U simply forgets about all of the n-ary operations and equational laws, and takes structures to their underlying sets, and homomorphisms to functions over those sets.
- , which takes a group and forgets about the inverse operation to give a monoid. This functor would then be related to "free groups over a monoid".
Natural transformations
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Immerse yourself in the work of Yuriko Yamaguchi this winter at the Figge Art Mseum. A native of Japan and longtime resident of Washington D.C., Yamaguchi creates organic, web-like sculptures from nets of wire and resin forms cast from dried curls of potatoes, onion ends, leaves and seed pods found in nature. Through her art, she seeks to explore the constantly fluctuating but ever-present "interconnections" that bind us to one another and to the natural world.
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Oates, the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities and professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has been a Princeton faculty member since 1978. She has written more than 50 novels, as well as books of short stories, plays, poetry, literary criticism and essays. Some of her most acclaimed novels are "We Were The Mulvaneys," a portrait of a family's fall from grace; "Blonde," which portrays the life of Marilyn Monroe; "The Falls," a haunting story about Niagara Falls; and "The Gravedigger's Daughter," which is based on the life of Oates' grandmother.
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Pagels, the Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion, has been a Princeton faculty member since 1982. An authority on the religions of late antiquity, she is the author of "The Gnostic Gospels," which won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was selected by the Modern Library as one the best 100 English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. "The Gnostic Gospels" also provided the building blocks for Dan Brown's best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code," which borrowed — and then fictionalized — several elements of Pagels' work.
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Phillies pick up a game on the Mets, after a head-to-head win. Padres pick up a game on the D'backs in a similar way. The Cubs came back to hold off the Brewers, and the Cards took over second place in the NL Central. The Angels came back to hold off the Mariners, pushing
And, oh right: The Yankees beat the Red Sox. But with all of these other (more) compelling division races, this one is the least dramatic of them all – by far the least competitive division race of the six. How great is that?
(I'm not sure why the Yankees would focus AT ALL on the division title, when they should be concentrating on winning the Wild Card. The mantra should be: Make the playoffs, however it happens. In the Wild Card Era, who cares about division titles?) And, for now, the Yankees are 1 GB the Mariners, with
Yi signs with the Bucks: Well THIS was an unexpected development, but kudos to the team for closing the deal (even if it took owner Herb Kohl going to
MLB Stud (and Dud): Ian Kennedy (and Mike Mussina). The MLB vet was booted from the Yankees rotation in favor of rookie sensation Ian Kennedy. The future is now for the Yanks.
NFL Fantasy Watch: Is Jesse Chatman about to displace Ronnie Brown as the Dolphins starting RB? (Was it so long ago that Brown was a hot pick to be in the Top 5?) At the very least, sounds like they will split carries, making Brown's fantasy value proposition all the more shaky. (Will Chatman be this season's Maurice Jones-Drew?)
CFB: How bad is Erik Ainge's finger injury? And how much will it hurt the Vols when they play at
Meanwhile, USC Running Backs coach Todd McNair has a history with dog-fighting, convicted of cruelty to animals a decade ago. In the current environment, will that embroil him in a scandal that could cost him his job? If he was coaching in the NFL, definitely.
But under the shield of the college system – where a coach like Pete Carroll rules with no restriction (from either the NCAA or even the leaders of his own institution) – unlikely. Carroll will cover for one of his own.
Artest supports Vick: Sort of. He says "I want to support him and be there for him." To his credit, Artest also says, "I don't support the dog fighting. I can't watch it. I can't imagine another dog biting a dog. It makes me nauseous." (via NY Post)
NBA Scandals: The refs get a lawyer. (Why: Do they NEED one?)
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Tim Couch coming out as having used HGH shouldn't come as too much of a surprise: The pressure to use steroids or other PEDs has always been felt greatest at the margins. Oh, I'm sure the superstars do it too, but it's the guys who need the artificial boost just to get to the point where they stay be on the margins that must feel the greatest temptation.
Equipment Watch: Given the court ruling upholding a ban on metal bats in high school games, I think we're seeing the beginning of the end of the "ping."
CFB: By mistake, I didn't post my Heismania post yesterday. It'll go up today. Sorry about that.
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Here's one of my favorite parts of the Blog Poll: The weekly roundtables off the poll results. This week's is: Who's overrated? Who's underrated? Lots of great stuff here. (None from me, this week.)
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Weekend Confirmed 150 - Ni No Kuni, Skulls of the Shogun, Proteus
On this week's episode of Weekend Confirmed, Garnett and the two Jeffs are joined by Nikole Zivalich to discuss the likes of Ni No Kuni, Skulls of the Shogun, and Proteus.
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Nokia announces Music+ subscription service: unlimited downloads, higher quality, lower price
Nokia surprised a lot of people this morning by announcing Nokia Music+, an upgraded version of their current Nokia Music service available on Lumia Windows Phones. Music+ looks to compete directly with Microsoft's Xbox Music both in terms and features but with a lower price point: €3.99/$3.99 per month.
The service is expected to rollout "in a few weeks" and users can access their music via a web-app which "gives you the ability to play Mixes on your computer, smart TV or other connected screens". What's not clear at this point is whether this will be open to other Windows Phones or just Lumias. Also, the language about accessing Mixes suggests that individual tracks and albums may not be available across devices, though that remains to be seen.
The full feature list though is quite impressive.
- Unlimited skips. Whether you like to skip from track to track, or just want extra control over what you hear. There's no stopping you with Nokia Music+.
- Unlimited downloads. The free service allows you to download up to four Mixes (each of which contains hours of music) and play them without an Internet connection. The paid service removes this limit – you can download a massive supply of offline music you can swap as you wish.
- Higher quality. We were surprised by the high quality of streaming music from Nokia Music, even over a 2.5G connection. Nokia Music+ allows you to download music at eight times the existing quality. Plus, you can set rules to only download high quality when you're on WiFi, for example.
- Lyrics. Words to the songs you're listening to, right on your Nokia Lumia. Either in a scrolling list, Karaoke-style format, or a display you can scroll up and down.
At least when it comes to the lyrics options, Xbox Music does not have an option while the rest of the features are mirrors of what Microsoft is currently doing. Another question arises as to the size of the music catalog, but details are not revealed.
Nokia has been more aggressive about entering the services arena, much like Samsung and HTC for Android. It's a good source of extra revenue and dare we say Nokia will probably do a much better job of it than those other two companies.
However, like all new services there will be some missing options at first and limitations that may keep some users at distance. But that low price of €3.99/$3.99 per month may persuade quite a few people to go for it over other music subscription services.
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A jury of six women was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager, in self-defense.
Prosecutors have said Zimmerman, 29, racially profiled the 17-year-old Martin as he walked back from a convenience store on a rainy night in February 2012 wearing a dark hooded shirt.
Race and ethnicity have played a prominent role in the case and even clouded jury selection. While the court did not release the racial makeup of the jury, the panel appeared to reporters covering jury selection to be made up of five White women and a sixth who may be Hispanic.
After Thursday's hearing, Zimmerman's attorney Mark O'Mara was asked what he would say to people concerned there were no Black jurors.
"People can look at it and have this response — that there's no Blacks on the jury, or no this or no that, or no men on the jury," he said. "Tell me that we did something wrong in the process and I'll agree with you."
Prosecutors refused to comment for the duration of the trial.
Two of the jurors recently moved to the area — one from Iowa and one from Chicago — and two are involved with rescuing animals as their hobbies.
One juror had a prior arrest, but she said it was disposed of and she thought she was treated fairly. Two jurors have guns in their homes. All of their names have been kept confidential and the panel will be sequestered for the trial.
Opening statements are scheduled for Monday.
The central Florida community of Sanford is in Seminole County, which is 78.5 percent White and 16.5 percent Black.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys chose the panel of six jurors after almost two weeks of jury selection. In Florida, 12 jurors are required only for criminal trials involving capital cases, when the death penalty is being considered.
If convicted, Zimmerman could face a potential life sentence.
On Feb. 26, 2012, Zimmerman spotted Martin, whom he did not recognize, walking in the gated townhome community in Sanford where Zimmerman lived and the fiancee of Martin's father also resided. There had been a rash of recent break-ins at the Retreat, and Zimmerman was wary of strangers walking through the complex.
The two eventually got into a struggle and Zimmerman shot Martin in the chest with his 9mm handgun. He was charged 44 days after the shooting, only after a special prosecutor was appointed to review the case.
Martin's shooting death and the initial decision not to charge Zimmerman led to public outrage and demonstrations around the nation, with some accusing Sanford police of failing to thoroughly investigate the shooting.
The six jurors were culled from a pool of 40 candidates who made it into a second round of jury questioning. Two men and two women also were picked as alternate jurors.
Before selecting the jurors Thursday, O'Mara explored potential jurors' views on guns, self-defense and justifiable use of force.
Under Florida law, Zimmerman could shoot Martin in self-defense if it were necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm. O'Mara previously decided not to invoke a "stand your ground" hearing in which a judge alone would decide whether to dismiss the case or allow it to proceed to trial.
After the jury was picked, Judge Debra Nelson continued a hearing on whether to allow experts to testify about screams heard on 911 calls made during the struggle. Prosecutors want their expert to testify it was Martin screaming on the calls. An expert for Zimmerman's defense has said there is not enough audio to determine who the screams are coming from.
The judge said she would rule Friday on whether the prosecution's expert can testify.


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In addition to Sam Smith surprising everyone with his US debut performance, 'Saturday Night Live' opened with a hilarious skit featuring President Obama (played by Jay Pharoah) trying to figure out new ways to get people to sign up at Healthcare.gov. With the help of a White House social media expert, he finds himself taking photos with parody versions of Justin Bieber, Harry Styles of One Direction, Kim Kardashian and posing wearing Pharrell's now famous Grammys hat.
Spoofing the real-life obstacles that the Obama administration are experiencing with Healthcare.gov, the skit opens with an advisor to Obama proclaiming that the 'Between Two Ferns' with Zach Galifianakis was a success, and that the President needs to do similar viral stunts in order to attract more sign-ups before Monday's deadline. The social media advisor insists on taking photos for the White House Instagram, Twitter and Vine feeds.
We don't want to spoil the jokes for those of you who haven't seen it, so check out the sketch from last night's episode above. Louis C.K. was the guest host and much like his stand-up shows, the rest of the episode featured some pretty funny skits.
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10 steps for creating a successful business plan
Any business, whether it is just starting out or is considering the next stage in its development, will need a business plan.
A business plan serves several important purposes.
Perhaps the most obvious is to help raise funding. A business plan is the document that banks or investors will use to judge whether an idea or a business is viable and whether to lend money to or invest in the enterprise.
However, a well thought out business plan has advantages besides persuading others to give their support. It can, for example, identify and anticipate possible business problems; it can introduce a realistic perspective to a project; it can provide an enterprise with a coherent financial structure; it can add definition to a strategy; and it can be used to gauge the progress that a business is making.
Although it should be as strong on detail as space will allow, a good business plan should also be flexible. That is, it should be open to amendments and shifts in emphasis as circumstances change, and the plan reshaped to accommodate them.
A business plan, therefore, is less a blueprint than a map by which a business charts its successes or setbacks.
1. Attracting capital
When reading a business plan, different audiences will be looking for different things.
A bank, for example, will wish to be reassured that any borrowings made by the business can be repaid. This reassurance is most likely to come from a plan that shows steady growth and a reliable, regular cashflow capable of maintaining the loan repayments.
An investor, on the other hand, will be looking for signs of strong, fast growth. This is because the return on an equity investment will depend on the value and profitability of the company rather than on the repayment of a sum of money.
2. Content
Most business plans follow a common structure, not least because there is a set, minimum amount of information that readers will require.
The overall narrative of a business plan should demonstrate how the enterprise is to develop, how its goals are to be achieved, how it is going to be managed and how its financial structures are to work.
While a plan should sound bullish about the enterprise's prospects, it must also be realistic, cogent and unambiguous. No one is going to be convinced by over ambition or generalities. What's more, in committing to an honest and detailed plan, the business will also be giving itself a sharp, focused picture of just how successful the enterprise is going to be.
A business plan should include an executive summary, and a number of sections that between them cover the nature of the business, the marketing strategy, the people involved in the business, the way the business is to be managed, and the finances.
3. Executive summary
The executive summary, which should preface the document, provides, as its name suggests, an overview of the business and synopsis of the whole plan.
Since it heads up the plan, the summary will be the first section to be read, although it should be the last section to be written. A good, succinct, compelling summary will cover the main points to be found in the document but not duplicate them in detail.
At the end of the summary, the reader should have a clear idea of the nature and aims of the business and the opportunities it offers. They should also feel interested enough in the proposition to want to know more details. For that reason, the summary must be involving, clear and persuasive, and no longer than two pages. On the other hand, it should not be an extended list of contents, or just a description of the business, or a series of over claims.
4. The business
The job of this section is to communicate precisely what the business is, what the business does, the nature of the product or service, and how viable the enterprise is. The people involved in the business should also be introduced here.
It should begin with a brief outline of the structure of the business – is it a partnership, for example, or a limited company – and who owns it. If the business is already trading, a brief history of its progress to date can be included.
The owner should also set out their vision for the future development of the business.
Next, there should be a description of the product or service. This will need to cover not only the nature of the product or service, but also how it is different to the competition, how it will benefit customers, why customers will buy it, how it will make money and how it will develop and evolve.
Although it is understandable, nobody putting a business plan together should assume the reader knows as much about the product or service as they do. Concise, accessible explanation is, therefore, vital.
5. The market
Almost as important as the product or service is the marketplace in which it is competing. The plan will need to define the market, look at the competition and mark the position of the business. Readers will expect an intelligent, properly researched understanding of the current status of the marketplace and of any trends that are likely to influence its development in the future.
The plan should describe the size and history of the market, and should show why customers within it will want to buy the business's product or service. Rivals should be identified and assessed for their share of the market, as well as for their comparative strengths and weaknesses. It is also helpful to set out ways in which the market may change and how the business intends to handle or exploit those future developments.
6. Marketing
Many plans tend to treat marketing as peripheral, but they should not. No matter how good or how innovative the product or service, readers will want to be told exactly how the business intends reaching its customers.
This section, therefore, needs to demonstrate a well-considered strategy for promoting the product or service in a way that targets the greatest number of the right sort of customer.
Here it is necessary to indicate how the product or service is to be positioned in the market (that is, how it is to achieve a distinct identity).
A customer profile will help show who will be interested in buying the product or service and why. (This, in turn, will allow the business to produce an accurate, realistic pricing policy.)
The next step is to include the outline of a promotional campaign, and the methods of communication – direct marketing, above the line advertising, PR, telemarketing, emails – to be used. This needs to be complemented by a sales strategy that describes where and how the product or service will be sold (retail, online, etc).
7. The people
Obviously, the role and calibre of the managers and employees will have a significant bearing on the operation and the running of a business. As well as outlining the structure of the business team, the plan should also detail the talents, experience and strengths of the people who make up the team. If there are any weaknesses or gaps in the collective skill set of the business, there should be an indication of how this might be remedied.
A quick biography of the management team should include background information on qualifications and past experience and how these suit the person for their role in the enterprise. The broader the range of skills, from product development to financial expertise to marketing know-how, the better equipped to succeed the business will appear.
Any professional advisers that have been consulted should also be mentioned.
Proof of commitment can be just as persuasive to would-be funders as expertise or qualifications. So it is useful to make clear how much time various members of the management team will be devoting to the business.
If there are plans to recruit additional employees, then readers need to be told how many, the level of salaries and benefits that are to be offered, and, if possible, the intended productivity rates for each employee. Any staff training schemes also need to be outlined.
8. Business operation
This is the part of the plan that describes how the business is going to be run and managed.
Depending on the nature of the enterprise, this may mean detailing the location of the business (and any advantages this may bring), the sort of premises that are to be used (are they owned or rented?) and the duration of any lease.
Any plant or equipment should be itemised and assessed for its capacity to cope with the production process. Some businesses will have to offer reassurances about such ongoing measures as quality control and such daily practices as stock management.
The ability of the enterprise to make effective use of the latest information technology should be mentioned here too.
9. Finance
The purpose of the financial section is to buttress the plans and strategies with hard economics.
If the business has already been trading, then it will be necessary to provide information about existing sets of accounts and about any debts or assets.
The plan should make clear exactly how much funding the business is seeking and should make how it intends to repay any loans equally clear.
Financial forecasts should provide estimates for revenue and expenditure covering at least the next three and possibly the next five years. It will be expected that the first year will be the most detailed. The numbers should be accompanied with an explanation of the thinking behind them.
The forecasts need to include: a cash flow statement that charts the amount of money in the business on a month by month basis (a viable business requires enough working capital to meet regular costs such as wages); a profit and loss forecast that establishes the amount of profit the business expects to make, calculated on the balance between sales on one hand and costs on the other; and a sales forecast that shows the sort of income that sales are going to generate.
10. Presenting the plan
One of the biggest mistakes is to include too much detail in a business plan. The most effective plans are those that are concise and relevant. If it is too long, it will run the risk of going unread; if it is too caught up in minutiae, it will run the risk of snowing all the salient, persuasive facts and ideas under an avalanche of peripheral detail.
As well as manageable, the plan needs to be well written and logically ordered. It should have a correctly numbered contents page and an appendix where data or balance sheets can be referred to. Before it is bound, it should be exhaustively edited; read and checked by people who have not been involved in writing it (nothing works so well at spotting the vague, ambiguous or plain incomprehensible than a cold, objective eye); and scrutinised by any expert consultants such as a Chartered accountant or financial adviser.
Bottom Line
Above all, however, the document must ring true to expectations and experience. Enthusiastic optimism, though admirable, is finally no substitute for hard-headed realism.
If a business plan receives knock backs, it always pays to find out why it was rejected. The cause may not necessarily be fundamental but remedial; a matter of a financial or marketing adjustment here, a tempering of ambition there.
Which raises the last important point about a business plan. It is organic, not written in stone. It should have the flexibility to adapt as business circumstances change. Indeed, revisiting and updating a business plan is one of the more worthwhile exercises an enterprise can perform.
Many hard-working business plans are never intended for an external audience at all, but are used by the owners to help them guide their business through its growth and development.


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Greater Self Discipline for Kids
Children should be encouraged to take up martial arts classes because the art not just helps with self defense, but offers much more. Greater self-confidence and self discipline are the major advantages of martial arts for kids. Learning martial arts is difficult and calls for a lot of dedication and commitment. It takes years of practice to master the nuances of the art, which requires a lot of self discipline on the part of the learner.
Self discipline with martial arts
The first step of martial arts training is commitment, which means your kid will have to lead a disciplined life to stick to the rules set out as per the course. It teaches them to lead a devoted, disciplined life because while learning any form of martial arts like karate or kung fu, certain principles have to be followed. Apart from practicing hard, children will have to follow an exercise and diet regimen to keep their body fit. Martial arts for kids also focuses on mental training, which can be achieved through meditation. Improved mental strength leads to better self control in children, preventing them from acting on impulse or making hasty decisions. It also helps them distinguish between good and bad, building a strong ethical foundation from the early years of their life.
Self discipline cannot be achieved in a few days. It comes with a strong will and the desire to achieve something. Martial arts training is given to children in an organized setting. It is not about forcing the trainee to follow rules, but to motivate him/her to do it.
Kids who take up martial arts benefit from improved concentration power, boosted confidence and greater attentiveness. Together, they help kids develop a positive approach towards life, which reduces stress greatly.
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On Nov. 27, a clip appeared on YouTube of a Russian-made Syrian military helicopter apparently being hit by Syrian rebels using a surface-to-air missile. The footage of the gunship, smoking as it turns and flies away, suddenly made the most effective killing machines in Syrian President Bashar Assad's military look very vulnerable, as the brutal war between the Syrian government and anti-Assad rebels continues. Luckily for Assad, help appears to be on the way.
One day before the clip appeared, hackers from the group Anonymous leaked what they claim is a cache of documents stolen from the Syrian Foreign Ministry. As first reported by the non-profit investigative news organization, ProPublica, one set appears to detail shipments from Moscow to Damascus of 240 tons of newly printed Syrian money, which the Russian government has publicly acknowledged printing for the Assad regime. Another document looks to be a flight plan for four shipments of refurbished helicopters, also going from Moscow to Syria. The shipments, whose cargo the document lists in English as "old copter after overhauling," include one delivery on Nov. 21, a second one on Nov. 28, and two more planned for the first week of December. According to the document, the payment for these shipments was made "in cash," and their circuitous route through the skies above Iran, Iraq and Azerbaijan would circumvent the airspace of all the countries that have imposed a weapons embargo on Syria.
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"It's getting to Syria by the back door," says Hugh Griffiths, an arms trafficking expert at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which operates an air-trafficking surveillance project on behalf of the European Union. Griffiths, who says the leaked flight plan appears to be genuine, sees it as the latest step in Russia's effort to repair and then deliver Assad's fixed-up helicopters by any means necessary. This effort has already come up against some major hurdles, with the U.S., the E.U. and Turkey making extensive efforts to stop such deliveries from crossing their airspace or territorial waters.
In June, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized Russia for shipping attack helicopters to Syria; a week later, after British officials joined her calls for the shipments to stop, the Russian ship that was making the delivery—the Alaed—was forced to turn back after its British insurance company pulled its coverage. The Alaed reportedly made another attempt to fulfill the shipment in July, this time in the company of a flotilla of Russian warships. Senior U.S. officials have repeatedly warned Russian counterparts over the pattern of their arm sales to the Syrian regime.
According to the documents leaked by Anonymous, Russia has since begun transporting Syria's patched-up helicopters by air. TIME emailed copies of the documents to the spokesman of Russia's state arms dealer, Rosoboronexport, who declined to comment on them. But the company has previously said that it is repairing helicopter gunships for Syria under an old contract, which it says it is legally obligated to carry out regardless of the sanctions imposed by the U.S., E.U. and various Arab states. "None of these events will influence our relationships with our traditional markets in any way," the head of Rosoboronexport, Anatoly Isaykin, told TIME in June.
And under international law, there is nothing to stop them. Russia and China have used their veto power three times in the U.N. Security Council to block sanctions against Syria over the past two years. Russia's helicopter deliveries to Syria may be politically sensitive but they are perfectly legal.
According to the hacked documents, the helicopters were picked up from Ramenskoe airport, also known as Zhukovsky, a military facility outside Moscow that houses the fleet of Russia's secret police, the FSB. That is the same airfield that hosts the biennial Russian arms bazaar, where TIME found and photographed Syrian officials shopping for weapons this summer
(MORE: Russian Realpolitik: Inside the Arms Trade with Syria)
The Syrian Airlines plane that is apparently ferrying the helicopters to Syria is registered under the code YK-ATA and has been on SIPRI's watch list for two years, Griffiths says, ever since it started flying refurbished helicopter gunships to Syria. During one such shipment in 2010, Griffiths says, the government of Lithuania, an EU member, learned the nature of the plane's cargo and refused to allow it into Lithuanian airspace. Since then, the E.U. and Turkey have banned all Syrian aircraft from flying over their territory. In October, that led to a diplomatic spat between Ankara and Moscow when Turkish fighter jets forced down a Syrian airliner flying from Moscow to Damascus. Turkish authorities searched the plane for weapons, and Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said they had found munitions and "military tools" inside. The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that the plane was carrying radar equipment, not military hardware.
Still, Turkey's vigilance seems to have forced Russia to cobble together a new route for the helicopter gunships, says Peter Danssaert, an expert at the International Peace Information Service, an Antwerp-based organization that tracks the weapons trade. He also says the flight plan released by Anonymous looks genuine. "It looks like [Syria and Russia] are trying to avoid a repeat of the Turkish situation," Danssaert says. "It's a classic example of clandestine arms movement," says SIPRI's Griffiths. "The avoidance of more rigorously monitored airspace in favor of Iraq and [Syria's] regional ally Iran."
But these shipments seem a lot less clandestine after the leak of the documents, which may create new problems for both Russia and Syria. The U.S. could put pressure on Iraq, for example, to refuse overflight clearance for the Russian shipments, and that would again force Russia to scramble for a new route to Damascus. Given the determination it has shown so far, it is unlikely that Moscow will give up on its helicopter contracts with Syria altogether. So even as the Syrian rebels learn to shoot the Russian-made choppers down, Moscow will likely be there to patch them up again.
—with reporting by Mark Thompson / Washington, D.C.
MORE: Military Intervention Still Unlikely After Syria Shoots Down Turkish Jet


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