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When I was walking home a car of sooper kewl teenz drove by and rolled down their window and this one dude was like "NICE HAIR! Har har har!" and I think I just smiled but at that point I was all grumbly because of the snow so it's possible I attacked him or something. I can't remember. We'll have to look for injured and unconscious bodies once all the snow melts away.
I treated myself to the McQueen top when Browns had that big summer sale on its site but haven't worn it much because it's so hard to do justice. It didn't even occur to me until yesterday afternoon that it's soon the one year anniversary of McQueen's death. Even though I found it appropriate that his very last collection whispered instead of screamed, the Atlantis he created for Spring 2010 will always be his swan song to me. And even though it's not news to anyone, the graphics in that collection were crazy beautiful, so I scanned my shirt and all its detailed glory like they do in Elle Collections.

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Samsung takes on iPad Mini, expands lineup pen-based tablets with Galaxy Note 8.0
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Samsung Electronics is beefing up its tablet range with a competitor to Apple's iPad Mini that sports a pen for writing on the screen.
The Korean company announced on Sunday in B'arcelona that the Galaxy Note 8.0 will have an 8-inch screen, putting it very close in size to the Apple's tablet, which launched in November with a 7.9-inch screen. It's not the first time Samsung has made a tablet that's in the Mini's size range: it's very first iPad competitor had a 7-inch screen, and it still makes a tablet of that size, but without a pen.
Samsung will start selling the new tablet in the April to June period, at an as yet undetermined price. It made the announcement ahead of Mobile World Congress, the wireless industry's annual trade show, which starts Monday in Barcelona, Spain.
The Note 8.0 fills a gap in Samsung's line-up of pen-equipped devices between the Galaxy Note II smartphone, with its 5.5-inch screen, and the Galaxy Note 10.1, a full-size tablet. Samsung has made the pen, or more properly the stylus, one of the tools it uses to chip away at Apple's dominance in both tablets and high-end smartphones. Apple doesn't make any devices that work with styluses, preferring to optimize its interfaces for fingers, mice and touchpads.
On Samsung's Note line, the pens can be used to write, highlight and draw. The screens also sense when the mouse hovers over the screen, providing an equivalent to the hovering mouse cursor on the PC. However, few third-party applications have been modified to take full advantage of the pens.


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Now say that twelve times real fast after after one too many glasses of Champagne!! These Yule Logs are the desserts I served the family on Christmas dinner and between the 12 of us there were barely enough left for a midnight snack! I did not intend to double the work and make two "just" for fun but between the ubber chocolate fans and the "I ate too much but I still want dessert" peeps, and for my sake of a stress free meal where everybody was happy, I knew that making two was a necessity. Interesting how I belong to both groups…Let's face it, it's dessert, it's mousse, it's chocolate and it was delicious!
It was also the dessert chosen by the adventurous Hilda from Saffron and Blueberry and Marion from Il en Faut Peu Pour Etre Heureux for the December Daring Bakers' Challenge: a French Yule Log by Flore from Florilege Gourmand. I loved the traditional cake Yule Log we made last year but this entremet version suits me perfectly…if there is mousse and creme brulee and anything contrasting in texture such as a layer of crisp or feuillantine….I am coming running!!
I loved that even with the rules laid out to make a log filled with 6 different components, we still had plenty of room to use our favorite combos and flavors. Each log had to include a dacquoise layer, a feuillantine insert, a creme brulee insert, a ganache insert, a mousse and an icing. Yes…both my logs have 7 components…Again, not trying to be special….just playing with aesthetics and visuals by splitting the mousse component in two and flavoring differently.
The dark chocolate Yule Log had hazelnut dacquoise layer, a milk chocolate feuillantine, a milk chocolate and chesnut mousse, a vanilla mousse, a chestnut creme brulee, a dark chocolate ganache and a dark chocolate icing.
The white chocolate Yule Log had an almond dacquoise, a white chocolate feuillantine, a raspberry mousse, a a vanilla mousse, a Meyer Lemon creme brulee, a white chocolate ganache and a white chocolate icing.
Because I was working with two logs at the same time, (and getting Christmas together) it was easier for each log to make the vanilla mousse recipe, divide it in half and add milk chocolate and chesnut puree to one part and do the same for the other log adding pureed raspberries to half the mousse. I used the traditional French gavottes for the feuillantine part in the chocolate log as the recipe stated but I ate too many (!) to have enough for the other one so I subbed with cereals like I had done in the Poire D'Eve cake last month. The chesnut puree was from a can sent by mom in one of her care packages and the Meyer lemon addition to the creme brulee in the second log was a last minute addition after a neighbor gave us a couple….but I can't ever turn those down!
I also went very DIY with the inserts and molds (just ask Lisa, she's got pixel proofs!). The rounded vanilla insert in the chocolate log was creating by pushing a foil covered pvc pipe down the chocolate-chestnut mousse, freezing that part and then taking the insert out, brushing the ganache on and then filling it with the vanilla mousse. The mold was a traditional French loaf pan I brought with me when I moved here…a girl's gotta have her necessities, right?!!
The rounded mold for the white chocolate log was made by cutting an aluminium foil pan and molding it around a wine bottle and setting it in the bottom of another loaf pan. The mousse set up was created by using another foil wrapped pvc pipe but a foil wrapped paper towel insert-roll thingie works the same. Since I did not have the right size of rhodoids sheets used to line up the loaf pans I cut sheet protectors (you know the ones used to protect your important documents during presentations) and used them the same way…but plastic wrap works just as well.
For the sake of keeping this post to less than a mile and not losing your attention too long, I am only writing down the instructions for the chocolate log with the changes I made in italics for the raspberry one.
Chocolate Chesnut Yule Log:
Note: You can use the Dacquoise for the bottom of your Yule Log only, or as bottom and top layers, or if using a Yule log mold (half-pipe) to line your entire mold with the biscuit. Take care to spread the Dacquoise accordingly.
2.8 oz (3/4cup + 1Tbsp / 80g) ground hazelnuts
1.75 oz (1/2 cup / 50g) confectioner's sugar
2Tbsp (15g) all-purpose flour
3.5oz (100g / ~100ml) about 3 medium egg whites
1.75 oz (4 Tbsp / 50g) granulated sugar
Finely mix the hazelnuts and the confectioner's sugar. (If you have a mixer, you can use it by pulsing the ingredients together for no longer than 30 seconds)
Sift the flour into the mix. Beat the eggs whites, gradually adding the granulated sugar until stiff. Pour the hazelnut mixture into the egg whites and blend delicately with a spatula.
Grease a piece of parchment paper and line your baking pan with it. Spread the batter on a piece of parchment paper to an area slightly larger than your desired shape (circle, long strip etc…) and to a height of 1/3 inches (8mm).
Bake at 350°F (180°C) for approximately 15 minutes (depends on your oven), until golden. Let cool and cut to the desired shape.
For the raspberry log I used almonds instead.
Vanilla Mousse: (divided in half before the end to add the chocolate and chesnut)
2/3 cup (160g) heavy cream (35% fat content)
2/3 cup (160g) whole milk
1 vanilla bean
4 medium-sized egg yolks
3 oz (6 Tbsp / 80g) granulated sugar
3 Tbsp (25g) cornstarch, sifted
4g / 2 tsp powdered gelatin or 2 sheets gelatin
1 cup (240g) whipping cream (35% fat content)
Pour the milk and 2/3 cup cream into a saucepan. Split the vanilla bean in half, scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean halves into milk and put the vanilla bean in as well. Heat to boiling, then turn the heat off, cover and let infuse for at least 30 minutes. Then remove the vanilla bean. Beat the egg yolks with the sugar until white, thick and fluffy. Add the cornstarch, beating carefully to ensure that there are no lumps. While whisking vigorously, pour some of the milk into the yolk mixture to temper it. Put infused milk back on the stove on medium heat. Pour yolk mixture back into the milk while whisking vigorously. Keep whisking vigorously until mixture thickens considerably. As soon as the mixture starts to boil, leave on for only 2 more minutes. (The recipe says you should remove the vanilla bean at this time but in the interest of no one getting burned, that can be done after you take the pastry cream off the stove.) Add the gelatin and let it melt completely, stirring once or twice. Divide the batter in two equal parts.
For the milk chocolate-chesnut variation: add 1/4 cup melted milk chocolate and 1/4 cup chesnut puree to one half of the cream.
For the raspberry log: add 1/2 cup pureed raspberries to half the cream.
Whip the 1 cup whipping cream until stiff and add gradually to the pastry cream. Blend delicately with a spatula.
Dark Chocolate Ganache insert:
1.75 oz (4 Tbsp / 50g) granulated sugar
4.5oz (2/3 cup – 1 Tbsp/ 135g) heavy cream
5 oz (135g) dark chocolate, finely chopped
3Tbsp + 1/2tsp (45g) unsalted butter softened
Make a caramel: Using the dry method, melt the sugar by spreading it in an even layer in a small saucepan with high sides. Heat over medium-high heat, watching it carefully as the sugar begins to melt. Never stir the mixture. As the sugar starts to melt, swirl the pan occasionally to allow the sugar to melt evenly. Cook to dark amber color (for most of you that means darker than last month's challenge).
While the sugar is melting, heat the cream until boiling. Pour cream into the caramel and stir thoroughly. Be very careful as it may splatter and boil.
Pour the hot caramel-milk mixture over the dark chocolate. Wait 30 seconds and stir until smooth. Add the softened butter and whip hard and fast (if you have a plunging mixer use it). The chocolate should be smooth and shiny.
For the white chocolate ganache insert: change the chocolate and skip the butter, proceed the same way.
Feuillantine insert:
3.5 oz (100g) milk chocolate
1 2/3 Tbsp (25g) butter
2 Tbsp (1 oz / 30g) praline (or bring 1/2 cup of sugar to an amber caramel and spread it on 1/2 cup almonds and ground until fine)
2.1oz (60g) lace crepes(gavottes) or rice krispies or corn flakes or Special K
Melt the chocolate and butter in a double boiler.Add the praline and the coarsely crushed lace crepes. Mix quickly to thoroughly coat with the chocolate. Spread between two sheets of wax paper to a size slightly larger than your desired shape. Refrigerate until hard.
For the raspberry log: replace the milk chocolate with white.
Chestnut Creme Brulee:
1 cup (230g) heavy cream
4 medium-sized (72g) egg yolks
0.75 oz (2 Tbsp / 25g) granulated sugar
1/2 cup chesnut puree
Heat the cream to just boiling. Whisk together the sugar and egg yolks (but do not beat until white). Add the chestnut puree. Pour the cream over the sugar/yolk mixture. Mix well. Wipe with a very wet cloth and then cover your baking mold (whatever shape is going to fit on the inside of your Yule log/cake) with parchment paper. Pour the cream into the mold and bake at 275°F (100°C) for about 1 hour or until firm on the edges and slightly wobbly in the center.
For the raspberry log: replace the chestnut puree with 1 tablespoon of Meyer lemon juice and zest of a whole one.
Dark Chocolate Icing:
Note: I recommend doubling it to make eaiser to spread evenly.
4g / 2 tsp powdered gelatin or 2 sheets gelatin
¼ cup (60g) heavy cream
2.1 oz (5 Tbsp / 60g) granulated sugar
¼ cup (50g) water1/3 cup (30g) unsweetened cocoa powder
Soften the gelatin in cold water for 15 minutes. (if using powdered, use 2 tablespoons of water) Boil the rest of the ingredients and cook an additional 3 minutes after boiling. Add gelatin to the chocolate mixture. Mix well. Let cool while checking the texture regularly. As soon as the mixture is smooth and coats a spoon well (it is starting to gelify), use immediately.
For the raspberry log: use 100 gr of white chocolate, milk instead of cream and no cocoa.
For the chocolate fans: everything is explained very well by Alice Medrich with Julia Child in this tutorial.
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This information is not confirmed, meaning it is not officially admitted by the national government's agencies and commissions or by TEPCO.
The worker who's been tweeting from Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, after watching the late night/early morning TV program on New Year's Day (that I mentioned in my post here) about the plant accident, tweets, as a matter of fact, that:
If the blowout panels in the reactor buildings at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant had opened as designed, there would have been no hydrogen explosion, as one expert on the TV program said.
But at Fukushima, they didn't open except for the one on Reactor 2. Why?
Because all the other blowout panels in other reactor buildings had been welded shut by the order of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency after the earthquake in Niigata Prefecture in 2007, when the blowout panels of the reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant opened.
What's wrong with the blowout panels opening?
From a blogpost and the comment to the post in August, I learn that:
In the Niigata earthquake in 2007, the blowout panels for the Kashiwazaki reactor opened, and that was unacceptable to the government's nuclear regulatory agency NISA. So NISA ordered TEPCO to alter the blowout panels so that they would not open. After the earthquake of 2007 (Chuetsu earthquake), all the blowout panels at nuclear power plants that TEPCO operated were welded shut.
After the March 11 accident, the workers at the plant tried to open the holes to serve as blowout panes that didn't open any more, taking on great risks, but their effort was too late, and the reactors exploded.
The comment to the post was supposedly written by a TEPCO employee who remained at Fuku-I plant after the March 11 earthquake (one of "Fukushima 50"). He also said he feared for his safety and couldn't speak up. The post was written on March 14, 2011, and the comment was written on August 4.
He is saying the same thing as the worker who tweets from Fuku-I. (Maybe they are one and the same? But their writing styles are completely different.)
I still didn't get why it was bad that blowout panels opened, so I asked someone who used to work at a nuclear power plant. He said he didn't know either, except that "if a blowout panel is open, it may look unsightly, giving the wrong impression that radioactive materials may be leaking". If that's the case, it is a pure cosmetic and political reason.
(UPDATE) from the report by NISA (12/19/2007):
The blowout panel was dislocated by the earthquake when the metal hinge that was holding the panel was bent by the quake. The negative pressure necessary to contain radioactive materials from escaping couldn't be maintained because of that, and Reactor 3 of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa was shut down. A cold shutdown was achieved within 13 hours.
Any way to verify this? I am looking to see if I can find any press release from TEPCO or NISA to that effect.
According to TEPCO, on July 16, 2007, the blowout panel of Reactor 3 at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuke Plant was "dislocated" (opened), about 5 hours after the earthquake that day.
Regarding the blowout panels at Fukushima I Nuke Plant, TEPCO's explanation has been:
There were blowout panels installed in Reactors 1, 2 and 3, but the reactor buildings were getting filled with hydrogen without raising the pressure enough to open the panel. The earthquake didn't open the panel either, and hydrogen explosions took place. As for Reactor 2, a shockwave from Reactor 3 explosion blew open the blowout panel of Reactor 2, according to TEPCO. (From Shukan Friday 5/27/2011 issue, taken from this blog.)
If what the anonymous workers at the plant say is true, TEPCO was lying through the teeth.
This is a man-made disaster made worse by the incompetence and ignorance of the government regulators and the timid acquiescence of the plant operator who should have known better, at least better than the government regulators. Still, it is to be totally expected from the plant operator who couldn't say no to then-Prime Minister Kan's performance of visiting the plant on the very next morning after the March 11 earthquake, as the reactor cores were melting down and people were scrambling to contain the accident. Following the authority has been quite profitable, so why change, even in the face of the biggest nuclear accident in the Japanese history?
Still, the mystery still remains why Reactor 2, whose blowout panel worked as designed and didn't blow up, released the most amount of radioactive materials.
Or did it? If it's true that Reactor 3 blew up twice in two days and TEPCO/NISA have been hiding it, there may be more radioactive materials escaped from Reactor 3.
Or if Professor Takashi Tsuruda of Akita Prefectural University is correct and the suppression chambers of both Reactor 1 and Reactor 3 were damaged by the explosions, there may be a gross underestimation of the total amount of radioactive materials released from the plant.
Some happy new year... And Japan is being rocked by the first earthquake of the year.


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From now until Election Day, the U.S. might as well consist of just eight or so states, not 50.
Those are the battleground states where President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, their running mates and spouses will be spending much of their time in what remains of the 2012 race for the White House.
It's all about amassing the 270 electoral votes required to be elected president. NPR's analysis of the race at this point suggests the eight states that are most in play are Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Both presidential campaigns are looking for the combination of those states that helps them reach the almighty 270.
You can search for that combination, too, using NPR.org's new interactive "Swing State Scorecard" (npr.org/scorecard). Summon up your inner political consultant by figuring out the available routes to 270.
Our interactive scorecard lays out in a table all the combinations that get each candidate over the top. Assuming, as we do, that Obama begins with 237 electoral votes from blue states that can be safely placed in his column, a quick glance at the table tells you Obama could win by adding a combination of just two additional states, such as Ohio and Florida, to his column. Those two would give him a total of 284 electoral votes.
On the other hand, if you start out as we do by assuming Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, begins with 206 electoral votes from safely or likely red states, then he needs to add a combination of at least four states to get to 270.
For instance, winning Florida, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin would give Romney a total of 276 electoral votes and make him the 45th president.
Play around with our scorecard yourself and share your results with us and your friends.
In electoral math, as in math class, it's important that you show your work. So here's how NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving assigns the states:
8 Tossups
Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin
3 Lean Republican
Arizona, Montana, North Carolina
6 Likely Republican
Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Tennessee
15 Strong Republican
Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming
3 Lean Democratic
Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania
6 Likely Democratic
Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Washington
10 Strong Democratic
California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont
*** We plan to update this list by reassigning states as polls and other information warrant.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Reports: J.J. Abrams to helm next "Star Wars" movie
LOS ANGELES Another universe of sci-fi fans has been put in the hands of J.J. Abrams.
According to multiple trade reports, Abrams, 46, is set to direct the next installment of "Star Wars," which Disney has said will be "Episode 7" and due out in 2015. Disney bought "Star Wars" maker Lucasfilm last month for $4.06 billion.
The Emmy-award-winning director of the TV show "Lost" also captained the reboot of "Star Trek" for rival studio Paramount Pictures, with the next installment in that series, "Star Trek: Into Darkness," set to hit theaters May 17.
Citing unnamed sources, the news was reported earlier by Hollywood trade outlets The Wrap, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety.
- J.J. Abrams says he won't direct new "Star Wars" film
- Disney buying Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion, slates new "Star Wars" movie for 2015
Messages left by The Associated Press for Abrams' representatives as well as Disney and Lucasfilm were not immediately returned.
Soon after the news broke Thursday afternoon, websites were flush with chatter. On Twitter, "J.J. Abrams," "Star Wars" and "(hash)Star Trek" were all trending topics.
Roberto Orci, a producer and writer who has worked with Abrams on "Star Trek," "Star Trek: Into Darkness," and "Mission: Impossible III," appeared to confirm the reports on Twitter. In response to a question about Abrams' involvement, Orci tweeted back "True!" He also responded to a Spanish-speaking questioner, "Creo que si!" ("I think so.")
Despite denying his interest in directing the next "Star Wars" following The Walt Disney Co.'s October announcement, many people pegged Abrams as the most obvious choice.
Abrams spoke about the plot of the original "Star Wars" in the lecture series "TED Talks" in March 2007, and reportedly became enamored of "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof partly because Lindelof was wearing a "Star Wars" T-shirt when they first met.
In 2009, Abrams told the Los Angeles Times: "As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was."
Abrams also worked with Lucasfilm's Industrial Light and Magic special effects division for "Mission: Impossible III."
He is the second big name associated with the new "Star Wars" films to be launched under the Disney umbrella. Late last year, Lucasfilm confirmed that Michael Arndt, who wrote "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Toy Story 3" would pen the screenplay for "Episode 7."
Adam Frazier, a staff writer for the entertainment website GeeksofDoom.com, said Abrams should be able to make the next "Star Wars" original but at the same time appease longtime fans.
"He took the 'Star Trek' franchise, which was just drowning in misery, and he was able to bring that back to life," Frazier said. "If there's anyone that can do it with 'Star Wars' I think it's him."


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UPDATE: Under the wire, A&M (20) over at Miami tonight. Complete CFB and NFL picks coming tomorrow morning!
McNabb QB-Race Debate: McNabb weighs in with his own blog post over at YardBarker, which has found a nice little niche offering itself as a p.r. outlet for athletes. (And I'm not saying that to diminish it. As long as the athletes play it straight with readers, that's great. Look what it did for Greg Oden's cachet.)
Kudos to Dan Steinberg on the insightful take on this story I should have had on Tuesday morning. (I'm happy to admit it: Those who say the "Rex Grossman Example" is a poor one might be right.)
I think it's important to point out that white columnists are ripping McNabb while black columnists are saying, "Well, obviously." That's as intriguing as the original sentiment, because if anything is "obvious," it's that there's a racial-perspective issue among sports columnists. As usual, mainstream sports columnists, in general, are – across the board – overly shrill and mostly over-simplified to the point of inanity. But that's the job description.
Today's Must-Read: With Leather's Matt Ufford (aka KSK's Captain Caveman) is one of the most talented writers ever created by the enema that is the sports-blog universe. There are moments, however, when he absolutely crushes a topic. He's like vintage Lewis Black. Recently, KSK had a post putting a bounty on Tom Brady's knees. Ufford comes back with a "counterpoint" that is dazzling. (The only problem is that he seems to think that Pats fans haven't yet reached the level of insufferableness of, say, Yankees fans. He's wrong; they have, but it's a total "
By the way, Belichick responded to the talk about 16-0 (shouldn't that be 19-0, Boston Herald?): "That's so ridiculous."
Here's the new meme about this story: That the presumed whistle-blower Eric Mangini has blown himself out of a future in the NFL, because teams won't trust he won't go blabbing. Nothing like encouraging the league's cult of secrecy. Cripes: It's a GOOD thing, not a bad thing, that he turned in his mentor. It's like the NFL team front-offices are poster guys for the "Stop Snitching" campaign.
T.O. fined $7,500 for TD celebration, when he pretended to "videotape" the cameraman, using the football as a mock camera. I actually thought it was pretty clever of him (it topped Chad Johnson's leap into the Dawg Pound, although that was ballsy if nothing else).
Indians sweep Tigers:
Yankees: 1.5 GB Red Sox.
MLB Milestone Watch: Pettitte 200.
Is Albert Pujols' season over?
Dale Earnhardt Jr to drive car No. 88: I've mentioned a lot that numbers in NASCAR matter more than numbers in any other sport; they are part of the drivers' iconography. What makes Junior's new number so inspired is that -- unable to use his old No. 8 -- he simply co-opted it, even doubling it up.
More MLB: Here's a first-hand (I guess it's second-hand... now, through me, third-hand) account of Mark Cuban at the Cubs game on Monday night. God, I wish I was there for that. It's like the baseball-fan equivalent of hearing that LeBron has shown up at
That Sabres super-sell-out for the Rich Stadium game: I leave it to the best and most astute hockey analyst I know – Eric McErlain – for the definitive take. The sell-out is good. Even great. It might be the Event of the Year in the NHL and the template for future "event"-style options for a league reduced to mainstream irrelevancy. But there were some ticket problems that real Sabres fans ran into.
CFB Top 25 BlogPoll analysis: Every week, I eagerly anticipate BlogPoll impresario Brian Cook's analysis of the latest Top 25 results from the bloggers involved in the poll. Here are the results, and as he points out, the BlogPoll's ranking of LSU at No. 1 (proud to be part of that group) where the AP and Coaches do not is a source of pride.
Speaking of Cook, Zach over at The Big Picture continues his terrific interview series with bloggers with a Q&A with Cook.
CFB: Notre Dame should be ashamed of themselves for not releasing Demetrius Jones from his scholarship so he can play elsewhere. (Cripes: This team could use all the good karma it can get. This is the opposite.)
CFB Recruiting: Apparently, I wasn't the only one blown away by the gameday atmosphere at the Swamp on Saturday. Five-star recruit Will "The Thrill" Hill of New Jersey, who will play strong safety in college, committed to
(Dovetailing recruiting with the McNabb story: In recruiting circles, there is a non-specific positional designation known as "athlete," which turns out to be code for "Black QB who will be forced to switch positions." It also turns out that the vast majority of these "athletes" are black.)
Sonny Vaccaro speaks at
Talk Like a Pirate Day... was yesterday! And I missed it in the usual a.m. blog post. I'm sorry about that. Yarr. (What... too late?) Anyway, to make up for it, here's a must-read post from Orson Swindle of EDSBS, who has a fetish for wannabe-pirate Mike Leach of Texas Tech and an ear for pirate talk like he was Johnny Depp's stunt-double in POTC.
Finally: Epic Carnival has put together the "10 Types of Sports Bloggers." Wait: Where's the "Formerly Mainstream Media But Now Exposed For The Shallow Fraud That He Was" blogger type?


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XDrawLines(display, d, gc, points, npoints, mode)
Display *display;
Drawable d;
GC gc;
XPoint *points;
int npoints;
int mode;
XDrawSegments(display, d, gc, segments, nsegments)
Display *display;
Drawable d;
GC gc;
XSegment *segments;
int nsegments;
The XDrawLines function uses the components of the specified GC to draw npoints-1 lines between each pair of points (point[i], point[i+1]) in the array of XPoint structures. It draws the lines in the order listed in the array. The lines join correctly at all intermediate points, and if the first and last points coincide, the first and last lines also join correctly. For any given line, XDrawLines does not draw a pixel more than once. If thin (zero line-width) lines intersect, the intersecting pixels are drawn multiple times. If wide lines intersect, the intersecting pixels are drawn only once, as though the entire PolyLine protocol request were a single, filled shape. CoordModeOrigin treats all coordinates as relative to the origin, and CoordModePrevious treats all coordinates after the first as relative to the previous point.
The XDrawSegments function draws multiple, unconnected lines. For each segment, XDrawSegments draws a line between (x1, y1) and (x2, y2). It draws the lines in the order listed in the array of XSegment structures and does not perform joining at coincident endpoints. For any given line, XDrawSegments does not draw a pixel more than once. If lines intersect, the intersecting pixels are drawn multiple times.
All three functions use these GC components: function, plane-mask, line-width, line-style, cap-style, fill-style, subwindow-mode, clip-x-origin, clip-y-origin, and clip-mask. The XDrawLines function also uses the join-style GC component. All three functions also use these GC mode-dependent components: foreground, background, tile, stipple, tile-stipple-x-origin, tile-stipple-y-origin, dash-offset, and dash-list.
XDrawLine, XDrawLines, and XDrawSegments can generate BadDrawable, BadGC, and BadMatch errors. XDrawLines can also generate a BadValue error.
typedef struct { short x1, y1, x2, y2; } XSegment;
All x and y members are signed integers. The width and height members are 16-bit unsigned integers. You should be careful not to generate coordinates and sizes out of the 16-bit ranges, because the protocol only has 16-bit fields for these values.


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The Blog Hop begins at Kim Hughes' blog. She will have the complete list of all blogs that are participating in case there is a glitch along the way. If you would like to play along, just follow along the blog path. I am linking to one of the Zva designers and that designer is linking to the next and so on. Be prepared to be inspired along the way. Hidden on FIVE of the blogs is a Zva Creative prize package ...YAY! Winners will be randomly chosen after the hop is over, so it's important to leave a comment on as many blogs as you can along the way.
The Blog Hop starts today, July 25th and runs through midnight US Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, July 26th and the 5 winners will be announced on Wednesday, July 27th on each of the five winning blogs. The full list will be found on Kim Hughes's blog as well (linked above). We will do our best to notify each winner, but it's best if you can pop in to all of the blogs once again on Wednesday...plus, you never know what kind of inspirational creation that you may find there. All you need to do is leave a comment on this Zva Blog Hop post...you do not need to leave a comment on each and every designer's blog post to qualify. The more times you leave a comment along the blog hop path though, the more chances you will have to be one of the lucky winners.
Your next stop is here: Benedicte Raphalen
Thank you SO MUCH for joining us!


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The film Pina is Germany's official entry at the 84th Academy Awards — and a collaboration between two famous Germans of the postwar generation. The filmmaker Wim Wenders captures the groundbreaking modern-dance choreography of the late Pina Bausch, in what many critics are calling a groundbreaking use of 3-D film.
Wenders is best known in the U.S. for such 1980s dramas as Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire. He's also published several books of his art photographs, and Wenders' interest in music led him to make the much-loved 1999 documentary Buena Vista Social Club. But modern dance was never one of his particular interests.
"Dance — include me out. It was not for me," Wenders says. "And the first time I ever saw the Pina Bausch company perform, my girlfriend really, literally dragged me."
It was a 1985 performance by Bausch's company, the Tanztheater Wuppertal, or Dance Theater of Wuppertal, Germany. Bausch was already world-famous and controversial in 1985 for intensely dramatic choreography that was wildly unconventional — even by modern-dance standards. Wenders came prepared for tedium.
"And then I found myself on the edge of my seat, crying like a baby after five minutes, and crying through the entire thing," he recalls, amazement still in his voice after 27 years. "I was hopelessly, helplessly crying, and didn't know what was happening. It was like lightning struck me."
He says it changed his life.
"Pina Bausch showed me in 40 minutes more about men and women than the entire history of cinema."
Wenders says he sought out Bausch the next day, and immediately they began to plan a film together. She set two ground rules for the film: no biography of her, no interview with her.
"She was modest about herself," Wenders says. "Immodest in her work, but modest about herself."
The film they planned would consist of just the dances — the choreography that won her nearly every major global prize in a career that began in the 1970s and continued through four decades.
The performance that Wenders had seen was one of Bausch's signature pieces, Cafe Muller. Wenders ultimately filmed it for his documentary. The stage is set with tables and chairs. To the plaintive Baroque music of Henry Purcell, a woman blindly plods across the cafe. An anxious-looking man pushes chairs out of her way to clear a path across a space usually thought of as a gathering spot. People do not connect easily at the Cafe Muller, however, and their jerky, hesitant attempts become a social metaphor.
Bausch and her company first performed Cafe Muller in 1978. Some critics and audiences claimed that it (like Bausch's work in general) was too ugly to be called dance. But in 1988, Bausch defended Cafe Muller to NPR with a bit more heat than usual for the notoriously shy and soft-spoken choreographer. She addressed specifically the movement in which a woman throws herself against a wall and sticks to it in awkward poses.
"What kind of feeling must this woman have, to do something like this?" Bausch demanded. "It's not so difficult to think this, no? If people are very sad or something, it does not look so pretty. In ballet, usually you speak about certain kind of people. You have a different story [in ballet] — it's almost like a fairy tale, it's a fable, it's like princes. In this, we speak about us; we are the heroes on the street."
"She had changed the whole notion of what dance was," says Mark Swed, classical music critic for The Los Angeles Times. He says Bausch opened the door for modern choreographers in terms of subject matter and staging, with her use of nudity and her feminist portrayal of sexual aggression.
"She dealt with themes of destruction, and it could feel very nihilistic, except that she always put the pieces back together," Swed says. "You didn't come out depressed — ever — from the work. You could come out a little confused, a little bewildered, but also inspired."
Bewildered, perhaps, because you never knew what Bausch might do to a stage. As Swed points out, dancers could be pounding through several tons of peat covering the floor, as in Bausch's harrowing staging of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which is also seen in part in Pina. Or they might be dancing in sand. Or among 4,000 pink carnations.
They might swim on a river created on an opera-house stage, or in rain — real water and lots of it. Wenders wanted to capture it all in his documentary. The only obstacle, he says, was finding the right way to film dance.
"Between dance and film, there was a difficulty. And there was always like an invisible wall. And I couldn't break that wall," he admits. It took him nearly 20 years to find the answer, at a U2 concert film. He would shoot dance, he decided, in 3-D.
"For the first time, we had a tool as flmmakers that allowed us to actually be in space, to be in the same element as the dancers," he says exultantly.
But the bulky camera and heavy rigs required lots of planning. Wenders says he needed "a dinosaur" of a crane to film stage performances. He worked with 3-D experts for more than a year, and by June 2009 he was ready to shoot rehearsals and show Bausch the results.
And then, just a few days before the cameras were to roll, the choreographer died. It was a horrible surprise to nearly everyone; she had been diagnosed with lung cancer less than a week earlier and had, with her usual reticence, kept it to herself.
"I immediately canceled the film, because we had wanted to make this together for 20 years," says Wenders. "And the fact there is a film after all, I strictly owe to the dancers."
The troupe decided to continue performing for three years to fulfill their contracts. (They will appear at the London Olympics this summer.) They wanted Wenders to go ahead with the film, not only because it was something Bausch wanted, but also because they felt "her eyes," as Wenders puts it, were still fresh on their dancing. It would preserve Bausch's choreography in a form that reflected her direction of the pieces.
"We could no longer make a film with Pina," Wenders says, "but we realized there was a film to be made for Pina."
Wenders followed her wishes and concentrated on the dances, but he did weave among them some of the dancer's thoughts about Bausch. We see what he calls "silent portraits" of the troupe, as each sits quietly before the 3-D camera. We hear the performers' interior monologues.
One of the dancers says of the choreographer: "Pina was like finding a language, finally. Before, I didn't know how to talk. And then she suddenly gave me a way to express myself. A vocabulary. When I began, I was pretty shy; I still am. And after many months of rehearsing, she called me and said, you just have to get crazier. And that was the only comment in almost 20 years."
Following most of these monologues in the film are short solo or duet performances, set all around Wuppertal: at its famous monorail, in traffic, on slag heaps in the industrial wasteland that rings the city. These sequences were filmed with the lightweight 3-D camera rigs that became available after 2009. It made shooting easier — but for Wenders the biggest challenge of 3-D was always how to make it support the story he wanted to tell. This was no sci-fi epic.
"I figured from the beginning we had to invent a different kind of 3-D," the director says." The film could not be effect-driven, because the attraction of our film was the dance itself and Pina's work, and not the technology with which we shot it. I wanted to invent a 3-D that was all natural and was gentle to the eyes, and that you would almost forget after a few minutes. And you'd really forget that you ever saw dance differently."
That may be true for the people lucky enough to see Pina in 3-D in a theater. But though the distributor of Pina required reviewers to see it in a 3-D screening, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences required regular DVD screeners for the members who nominate Best Foreign Language Film and Best Documentary Feature. And, of course, millions will see the film at home on their flat screen — which is overwhelmingly likely to be really flat when it comes to 3-D. So Wenders says his crew and he gave special attention to preparing the 2-D version.
Despite the public's limited ability to see 3-D now, Wenders has no plans to shoot in 2-D ever again. "That would be like returning to something ancient," he says.
In fact, he's already at work casting a family drama — to be filmed in 3-D.
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New revelations from leaker Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency has overstepped its authority thousands of times since 2008 are stirring renewed calls on Capitol Hill for serious changes to NSA spy programs, undermining White House hopes that President Barack Obama had quieted the controversy with his assurances of oversight.
An internal audit provided by Snowden to The Washington Post shows the agency has repeatedly broken privacy rules or exceeded its legal authority every year since Congress granted it broad new powers in 2008.
In one of the documents, agency personnel are instructed to remove details and substitute more generic language in reports to the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — reports used as the basis for informing Congress.
Obama has repeatedly said that Congress was thoroughly briefed on the programs revealed by Snowden in June, but some senior lawmakers said they had been unaware of the NSA audit until they read the news on Friday. The programs described earlier vacuum up vast amounts of metadata — such as telephone numbers called and called from, the time and duration of calls — from most Americans' phone records, and scoop up global Internet usage data.
White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest said Friday that the NSA documents showed that NSA's Compliance Office established in 2009 "is monitoring, detecting, addressing and reporting compliance incidents," and that "the majority of the compliance incidents are unintentional." In a statement from the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard, where the president is vacationing, he added that the administration is "keeping the Congress appropriately informed of compliance issues as they arise."
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy announced he would hold hearings into the new disclosures.
"I remain concerned that we are still not getting straightforward answers from the NSA," the Vermont Democrat said in a statement.
Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein said her committee had been notified of compliance problems — not by seeing the internal audit but through legally required reports to her committee.
"In all such cases, the incidents have been addressed by ending or adapting the activity," the California Democrat said in a statement." She added, "The committee has never identified an instance in which the NSA has intentionally abused its authority to conduct surveillance for inappropriate purposes."
But she said that committee would be asking for additional reports in future, and members would start making routine trips to the NSA to oversee its activities.
Her Republican House counterpart, Intelligence chairman Mike Rogers, said human error was inevitable and "there was no intentional and willful violation of the law."
But the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland, called the new disclosures "incredibly troubling." He said he had instructed his staff "to thoroughly review and evaluate these allegations."
Another Democratic member of the Intelligence Committee, Rep. Mike Thompson of California, said: "Reports that the NSA repeatedly overstepped its legal boundaries, broke privacy regulations and attempted to shield required disclosure of violations are outrageous, inappropriate and must be addressed."
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who generally supports the programs, said in a statement Friday that the new revelations "are extremely disturbing."
And two senators who have consistently raised red flags about possible privacy violations stemming from NSA programs indicated there is more to be revealed.
"We believe Americans should know that this confirmation is just the tip of a larger iceberg," said Democratic Sens. Mark Udall of Colorado and Ron Wyden of Oregon in a statement. Both declined to provide details, citing Senate rules about discussing classified information.
Proposed legislation to dismantle the programs was narrowly defeated last month in the House. The July legislative effort brought together Libertarian-leaning conservatives and liberal Democrats who pressed for change against congressional leaders and lawmakers focused on security.
A week ago, Obama sought to soothe concerns by promising to consider reforms to NSA surveillance.
"It's not enough for me to have confidence in these programs," he said at a White House news conference. "The American people have to have confidence in them as well."
He announced changes such as convening an outside advisory panel to review U.S. surveillance powers, although it is unclear how that would differ from the existing U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, mandated by Congress to monitor surveillance and constitutional concerns. Obama also said the NSA would hire a privacy officer — though the NSA already has a compliance office. None of those measures would seem likely to stop the kind of inadvertent collection of information that was described in the NSA audit.
Most of the infractions revealed late Thursday involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order, according to the May 3, 2012 audit, and other top-secret documents.
The May audit counted 2,776 incidents in the preceding 12 months of unauthorized collection, storage, access to or distribution of legally protected communications. Most were reported to be unintended, and many involved failures to take sufficient care or violations of standard operating procedure. They ranged from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interceptions of U.S. emails and telephone calls.
The most serious incidents included a violation of a court order and unauthorized use of data about more than 3,000 Americans and green-card holders.
In the typographical error category, the Post cited a 2008 example of the collection of a "large number" of phone records from Washington, D.C., when a programming error confused the District of Columbia area code 202 for 20-2, the international dialing code for Cairo, according to a quality assurance review that was not distributed to the NSA's oversight staff.
The NSA also saw a spike in the number of "roamers," or overseas, phone calls wrongly tracked in the first quarter of 2012, when those roamers traveled into U.S. territory, which is outside NSA's authority. The report said the errors may have been due to tracking Chinese who were visiting friends and relatives for the Chinese lunar new year.
In another case, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which has authority over some NSA operations, did not learn about a new collection method until it had been in operation for many months. The court ruled it unconstitutional.
The FISC's chief judge told the Post that the court could rule only on the material it was given.
"The FISC is forced to rely upon the accuracy of the information that is provided to the Court," U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said in a written statement to the Post. "The FISC does not have the capacity to investigate issues of noncompliance, and in that respect the FISC is in the same position as any other court when it comes to enforcing (government) compliance with its orders."
The Associated Press made a request to Walton for that statement. A court official said the judge had no response.
The White House declined Friday to comment on the latest revelations. It directed questions to the National Security Council, and NSC spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden directed questions to the NSA.
NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines said the number of incidents in the first quarter of 2012 was higher than normal, and that the number has ranged from 372 to 1,162 in the past three years, due to factors such as "implementation of new procedures or guidance with respect to our authorities that prompt a spike that requires 'fine tuning,' changes to the technology or software in the targeted environment for which we had no prior knowledge, unforeseen shortcomings in our systems, new or expanded access, and 'roaming' by foreign targets into the U.S., some of which NSA cannot anticipate in advance but each instance of which is reported as an incident."
"When NSA makes a mistake in carrying out its foreign intelligence mission, the agency reports the issue internally and to federal overseers — and aggressively gets to the bottom of it," Vines said.
When asked why the Post did not publish the story earlier, though the paper said it had the documents for months, spokeswoman Kris Coratti emailed Friday that "it has taken some time to study them and understand the information they contain."
The AP filed a Freedom of Information Act request to the NSA on June 17 asking for all copies of "minimization procedures" the agency uses to avoid collecting Internet and telephone data from U.S. citizens. That request sought documents that would also detail how the government purges records that may have been accidentally collected. The AP has yet to receive responsive material, though the NSA agreed to fast-track its request.
Associated Press writers Jesse J. Holland and Jack Gillum in Washington, Nedra Pickler from Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and Darlene Superville in West Tisbury, Mass., contributed to this report.
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How to read Haskell
This tutorial is aimed at the non-Haskeller who probably doesn't care too much about trying to write code, but wants to understand it. Our adopted format is a collection of tips and tricks broken down by category. It probably isn't very important what order you read it in, but it might be good to start with the general advice. Please feel encouraged to make any complaints about Haskell on the discussion page! It will help us to improve this tutorial.
Note: you should also consider having a look at Haskell for C Programmers. It might be a good way to get over the culture shock.
General advice
Tip: it's just very very concise
One thing that can make Haskell hard to read is that Haskell code is extremely succinct. One tiny little piece of code can say a lot, so many times, when you are faced with something you don't understand, the best thing you can do is to think about it for some time. It will usually make sense after a while. The good news is that because of this succinctness, Haskell functions tend to be very small, which means that when you're trying to understand a difficult piece of Haskell, you normally do not have to look very far. It's just two sides of the same coin:
- bad news: high density == spending more time per line of code
- good news: succinctness == fewer lines of code to spend time on
Spending on this time to get one tiny line of code may be frustrating, but it's well worth the effort, because the fact that a very small code is hard to understand probably means that it's very abstract, and the fact that it is abstract probably means that it's going to be used in many places. So understanding that one tiny line code, as painful as it may have been initially, can pay off in a big way.
Trick: use the haddock
When reading a long piece of Haskell code, one which is broken up into many modules, you should consider keeping a browser window open with the auto-generated API documentation on the side (if any).
What does this function do?
Trick: use type signatures
When you see stuff like this
map :: (a -> b) -> [a] -> [b]
...don't fight it! These are type signatures and they are an incredibly useful way of getting a rough idea what a function is supposed to do.
For example, the function above takes any function of type (a -> b)
and yields a function that takes a list of a
's and produces a list of b
's. So, if sqrt
takes a number and returns the square root of that number, map sqrt
takes a list of numbers and returns a list of their square roots.
As another example,
swap :: (a,b) -> (b,a)
This takes a tuple of (a,b)
and gives back a tuple of type (b,a)
Here are some more things you might see in Haskell type signatures:
fn :: (b -> c) -> Foo -- fn is higher order; it takes a function from b -> c as input
fn :: x -> IO Int -- fn is an input/output action that returns an Int
fn :: x -> [y] -- fn returns a list of ys
fn :: x -> (y,z) -- fn returns a tuple of (y,z)
fn :: x -- fn is just a value
Tip: Haskellers love pattern matching
head [x] = x
This says that if 'head' is followed by a list containing only 1 item, label that item as 'x', and then return 'x'. Another example might be
fst (x,y) = x
snd (x,y) = y
These functions fetch the first and second items in a tuple, respectively. It should be fairly obvious how they work.
- elaborate
Tip: a function may be defined in more than one piece
Remember math class, where functions would be defined like abs(x) = x if x >= 0 or -x otherwise? It's a bit like that in Haskell too. Sometimes, rather than writing one big if-then-else, Haskellers find it more convenient to define a function separately for each case, such as...
abs x | x >= 0 = x
abs x = -x
What gets confusing is when you look at a definition like this...
foo x | blah =
some enormous long thing
foo x =
some other enormously long thing
Especially looking at the bottom bit, it's hard to remember that foo
might have a another definition lurking around. Luckily, you never have to look very far, either immediately above or immediately below the other definition.
(Note: some programmers will perhaps write something like foo x | otherwise = ...
. The otherwise
is redundant (and equal to True
), but useful as reminder that this isn't the entire definition of foo
Tip: pattern matching and guards can be mixed and matched
- elaborate: what does this function do? Is the period for function composition?
combine ((f,a,b,r):(f',a',b',r'):ss)
| f == f' = combine ((f,a.+a',b.+b',r+r'):ss)
combine ((f,a,b,r):ss) = (f,a,b,r) : combine ss
combine [] = []
What the heck is xyz?
One problem you might face when reading Haskell code is figuring out some cryptic entity like xyz
Tip: the smaller the name, the smaller the scope
Do you hate the way Haskell code is littered with short, meaningless name like x
and xs
? When Haskell programmers use names like that, it's often for good reason.
First, typically, the short, "meaningless" names are contained within a very small space. Consider this typical (and inefficient!) implementation of a prime number generator:
primes :: [Integer]
primes = sieve [2..]
sieve (p:xs) = p : sieve [x|x <- xs, x `mod` p > 0]
The where block contains a function with strange variables like x
and xs
and p
. In a more verbose language this could be difficult to read simply because it's difficult to actually find the definitions of small variables in long blocks of code. In C, for example, these would usually be defined at the top of a function which could have dozens (if not hundreds) of lines of code. Thus you might want to see p
named as known_prime
and xs
named as candidate_primes
or the like.
In this code, however, there is no such need for it. p
is (implicitly) defined in the same line of code that uses it. xs
, too, is defined there, as is x
. Further all three variables use a popular naming convention which appends 's' to the names of lists (or equivalents) and uses single letters for singular values. The only unusual part is the selection of the pattern (p:xs)
in the arguments over the more common (x:xs)
. Here the programmer is signalling (subtly) that this list head is somehow different from a normal list. Quick inspection demonstrates that p
is guaranteed to be a prime number.
The reason coding can be expressed this way in Haskell without undue confusion is because of its extreme conciseness. The habits you've had to learn to manage more verbose languages simply don't apply anymore. It takes some getting used to, but it becomes a joy one you reach that point.
This, however, is not the main reason for such "meaningless" names. The real reason for such names is even deeper. The Haskell language allows for unparallelled levels of abstraction through functional composition and higher-order functions. Where in most imperative languages a "function" (or, more often, a procedure masquerading as a function) is a pretty low-level entity with very specific, tangible functionality, Haskell functions can be extremely abstract. Consider this canonical implementation of foldl
from the Prelude:
foldl :: (a -> b -> a) -> a -> [b] -> a
foldl f z [] = z
foldl f z (x:xs) = foldl f (f z x) xs
This function is a highly-abstract one. It is, in fact, an abstraction of iterating over a list and computing an aggregate result. What kind of list? Pretty much any kind. What kind of computation? Anything you'd care to name. What kind of result? Anything that matches the type of the priming value. What "meaningful" names can you apply to the variables here? Should it look something like this (elided and formed to fit a reasonable screen)?:
foldl binary_operation priming_value (list_head:list_body) =
(binary_operation priming_value list_head)
Knowing a few simple conventions of Haskell variable naming (functions progress, typically, as f, g, etc. for example) makes the first, terse version far more readable as an abstract definition than does the second, verbose version—once you get used to it.
Tip: types, functions and values
Type variables in Haskell are typically named starting at a
, b
, etc. They are sometimes (but not often) decorated with numbers like a1
or b3
Functions used as higher-order arguments are typically named starting at f
, g
, etc. They will sometimes be decorated with numbers like type variables and will also be decorated with the '
character like g'
. You would read this latter example as "Jee-prime" and it is typically a function that is in some way related to g
used as a helper or the like. Occasionally functions may be given names that are not on this continuum as an aide memoir, for example a function parameter used internally as a predicate may be given the name p
Arguments to functions, or variables used exclusively inside short functions, are often given names starting at x
, y
, etc., again occasionally decorated by numbers. Other single-letter variable names may be chosen if they can act as a mnemonic for their role such as using a variable named p
for a value known to be prime.
Note that these are guidelines and not rules. Any of them can and will be ignored, modified and/or abused in any given piece of Haskell code. (A quick look at the Standard Prelude as provided in the Haskell 98 Report should be convincing enough for this.)
Tip: the -s and m- habits
There is a variable name habit that sometimes comes with short names. Typically, if you have a thing you want to name x
, you'll sometimes want to name lists of these xs
. As in the plural of x
. So if you see a name like as
or bs
or foos
, it's often good to mentally read that as "aeyes" (the plural of a), "bees" (the plural of b), and "foohs" (the plural of foo). It might seem obvious to some, but it took me a while to stop asking myself in situations like this, "as
? What the heck is aey-ess?"
Similarly, another habit you might see is people who begin variable names with m-. This is probably less common, but if you see a lot of m-, it might be because of the Maybe type. Sometimes we have foo
of type Whatever
, and mfoo
of type Maybe Whatever
. Relax, this isn't Hungarian notation. It's not something that's used systematically, or rigidly in any way.
Both of these conventions are just helpful when you have both variants floating around in the same place, that is, when you have both Whatever and [Whatever] (that would be list of whatever), x
and xs
is a good way to indicate that they are both the same thing, except one comes in a list. Likewise, when you have both Whatever and Maybe Whatever in the same function, x
and mx
are too.
Finally, library functions are sometimes suffixed with "l", "r", "_", "M" or "'" (a single quote). What do these mean?
mapM -- the 'map' function lifted into a monad. An 'M' suffix implies that the function is a
-- monadic version of an equivalent pure function
mapM_ -- the '_' suffix indicates that the result of this computation is discarded, and () is
-- returned (by analogy with the _ pattern).
foldl -- a fold that traverses its structure left to right
foldr -- a fold that traverses its structure right to left
foldl' -- a fold that is strict in its accumulator, "'" is used to indicate a strict variant of
-- a function
Tip: order mostly doesn't matter
It doesn't matter what order functions are defined in. This:
foo x y z = ...
bar a b = ... foo b ...
is exactly equivilent to this:
bar a b = ... foo b ...
foo x y z = ...
Functions further up can call functions that are defined lower down, and vice versa. Functions can be written in any order at all. It doesn't matter.
- scope in a nutshell
Tip: order does matter for pieces of functions
Very important: whilst the order that you define individual functions does not matter, what does matter is the order that you define its individual pieces.
For example, these two versions of abs do NOT mean the same thing!
-- the right order
abs x | x >= 0 = x
abs x = -x
-- the wrong order
abs2 x = -x
abs2 x | x >= 0 = x
Trick: use grep
(This might seem really obvious, but it's sometimes easy to forget)
Or use the search feature of your favourite text editor. It's probably defined right there before your eyes, and if it's true to Haskell style, the definition is probably so small you blew right through it. In vi, for example, you could do /= *xyz
which searches for =, an arbitrary number of spaces, and then xyz.
Barring that, xyz
might be defined in some different module in the code you downloaded. You can look for telltale signs like
import Manamana (xyz)
But note that sometimes programmers get lazy, and they don't specify that xyz
should be imported. They just let rip with
import Manamana
So solution number 3 would be do something like
grep xyz *.lhs *.hs
(Note that literate programs sometimes use non-literate code, so search in both lhs AND hs)
A fourth idea, if you can't find something, is to look it up in Hoogle
A fifth idea, for Hugs/WinHugs users, is to use the ":find" command, ":find xyz" will open up your text editor with the appropriate module, jumped to the correct place. GHCi users can use ":i xyz" to get the place "xyz" is defined. (It won't open an editor, though.)


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My favorite biscuit to have around is a cardamom-wheat version, they're called kleeja and they're from Iraq. You can find similar biscuits all over the Middle East but I like to think that they are uniquely Iraqi. Northern Iraq is believed to be the first place wheat and barley were cultivated and planted as crops, and wheat continues to be a staple grain and a symbol of prosperity and fertility. Sheaves of wheat are hung from balconies in Baghdad and their image imprinted on the dinar. I like the slight coarseness of the wheat in these biscuits, and I love the liberal use of cardamom, so particularly Iraqi: Iraqis scent their coffee, rice pilafs, soups, cookies and breads all with heaping spoonfuls of cardamom.
Kleeja are quite popular in the Gulf where they are mass-produced and packaged to be sold all over the Middle East. That's where I first tasted them, but now I've discovered they are just as easy to make at home, and I do, quite often. I've served them with coffee, tea, or wine, sent them in care-packages, and people always love them. I know the recipe by heart, which is good, because people often ask me for it. I've put them here as well so friends don't have to read my recipes scribbled on the back of paper napkins. I think it's the cardamom that gives them that special air, and their satisfying crunch. I hope you'll think they're just as good to have around as I do.
As you can see, I've varied the size and thickness of these cookies, and my favorite version is that rolled 1/4" thick and cut with a biscuit cutter. Feel free to play around, but make sure not to roll them too thinly, as the thickness contributes to their charm.
Kleeja (Cardamom-Wheat Cookies)
3 cups whole wheat flour.
1/2 cup vegetable oil or 9 tbl melted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 egg, beaten
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cardamom
1 egg beaten with 2 tbl water, for glazing
1. Preaheat oven to 350 F. Grease 2 baking sheets or line with parchment. Combine sugar and milk in small pan, stir over heat without boiling until sugar dissolves, set aside to let cool.
2. Combine flour with baking powder, salt, cardamom in a bowl. Mix in the oil/butter until crumbly and well combined, then add egg, sugar and milk, mix well to form a dough. Set aside to rest for 15 minutes.
3. Roll out the dough with a floured rolling pin (you do not need to flour your work surface) to 1/4" thick. Cut out rounds with a biscuit cutter, rerolling until all the dough is used. Make a cross-hatch pattern on the cookies with a knife if desired. Transfer to baking sheets and brush the cookies with egg wash. Bake 15-20 minutes, or until just golden and firm on top (the bottoms will brown, but keep an eye that they don't burn). Cool on a rack, store in a cookie tin.
I should mention that the term "kleeja/kleicha" is used widely in the Middle East to refer to an array of things- it can also refer to a brioche roll stuffed with dates or other kinds of cookies.


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Ask Andrew Bocarsly about the innovation behind Liquid Light, a New Jersey startup company that turns carbon dioxide into fuels and industrial chemicals, and the Princeton University chemistry professor smiles ruefully. "The project goes back to the early '90s," he said. "But nobody cared about carbon dioxide at that time."
Today, carbon dioxide (CO2) is a hot topic. Scientists around the globe are searching for ways to store, dispose of, or prevent the formation of the greenhouse gas, which is a major driver of global climate change. Liquid Light hopes to take this concept one step further and harness waste CO2 as a source of carbon to make industrial chemicals and fuels.
The technology behind the process is simple: Take CO2 and mix it in a water-filled chamber with an electrode and a catalyst. The ensuing chemical reaction converts CO2 into a new molecule, methanol, which can be used as a fuel, an industrial solvent or a starting material for the manufacture of other chemicals.
Liquid Light's founders include Bocarsly and his former graduate student Emily Cole, who earned her Ph.D. from Princeton in 2009. Cole helped revive efforts in Bocarsly's lab to study the conversion of CO2 into usable fuels, which led to the launch of Liquid Light and an ongoing collaboration that Bocarsly said has been extremely positive for his research team at the University.
"We've made some discoveries that wouldn't have been made in a university setting, and this has really accelerated the research," Bocarsly said. "It is a very productive relationship."
Back in the 1990s, a former Ph.D. student of Bocarsly's named Chao Lin conducted some of the earliest experiments on turning CO2 into methanol. He used palladium metal as the electrode and pyridinium, an inexpensive ring-shaped molecule, as the catalyst. By plugging the electrode into an electrical outlet, he could drive an electrochemical reaction that converted CO2 into methanol.
As Bocarsly recalled, Lin was quite excited about his success. However, said Bocarsly, "We published that finding in 1994 and there was approximately zero interest in it."
The work languished until 2005 when Cole, then a new graduate student, told Bocarsly she wanted to work on a clean-energy project. She took up the challenge of reproducing Lin's results, but this time using sunlight instead of electricity to drive the reaction.
Cole set up a flask containing a solution of CO2 and a pyridinium catalyst dissolved in water. In place of sunlight, which emits a broad spectrum of wavelengths of light, she shined on the flask a blue light-emitting diode (LED) because it gives off certain wavelengths that are highly efficient at driving the reaction. In the flask she placed an electrode that is activated by particles of light, or photons. "We used a semiconductor electrode that would allow us to substitute light for electricity," said Cole.
In Cole's setup, photons hit a gallium phosphide semiconductor and excite its electrons to travel to the semiconductor's surface and into the surrounding water. The catalyst then shuttles the electrons to the CO2. Those electrons attract hydrogen from the surrounding water to turn CO2 (one carbon and two oxygens) into methanol (one carbon, one oxygen and four hydrogens) with the release of oxygen.
Bocarsly likes to call the process "reverse combustion" because it is like running a burning reaction backwards. Instead of burning fuel and oxygen to produce CO2, the CO2 converts back into fuel and oxygen. This time, when the team published in May 2008 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the results generated a lot of interest.
Taking the idea into industry
One person who read that paper was Kyle Teamey, an entrepreneur who was representing a venture capital firm that wanted to invest in clean-energy technologies. He was attracted to the idea that waste CO2 could be put to use as a starting material for making fuels and industrial chemicals that could be sold at a profit.
"Everyone had been talking about burying CO2 underground," said Teamey. "Why not instead turn carbon dioxide into something valuable?"
After months of talks with Bocarsly and Cole as well as other advisers, Teamey and Cole co-founded Liquid Light. The company licensed the technology from the University. Teamey serves as company president, while Cole and her team of chemists tackle the practical issue of how to scale up a laboratory invention to an industrial scale. Bocarsly serves as chair of the company's scientific advisory board.
The research has received funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFSOR), the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy (DOE). The collaboration between Liquid Light and the University was supported by the DOE Small Business Innovation Research program and the AFOSR Small Business Technology Transfer program.
Princeton's agreement with Liquid Light allowed the company to continue to collaborate with Bocarsly and his research team. Before long, new discoveries were emerging. "They started noticing interesting chemistry that we wouldn't have predicted," said Bocarsly.
The Princeton scientists did some additional studies, and made a surprising discovery: They could turn CO2, which contains only one carbon, into a compound with a carbon-carbon bond, which vastly increases the possibilities for creating commercial applications. This was radical because although the reaction is certainly possible, it is highly unlikely to happen because so many other competing reactions are occurring.
"Everyone who electrochemically reduces CO2 today makes compounds with only one carbon," said Bocarsly. "Nobody makes things with carbon-carbon bonds." He paused. "But we can."
"That was a very 'wow' moment," recalled Cole, "because we thought that our process could only make methanol. But now we were finding that we could make a variety of products, and that is what makes this technology commercially interesting." She said Liquid Light scientists can now make more than 20 different products from CO2.
One of the chemicals Liquid Light can make is isopropanol, commonly known as rubbing alcohol and an important industrial chemical. Another is butanol, which could be commercially important as a fuel. Liquid Light's technology offers the potential to make these chemicals at lower cost than today's methods, which involve starting with fossil fuels such as petroleum and natural gas.
Back in the Princeton lab
While Liquid Light is developing the technology commercially, back in the chemistry department at Princeton, Bocarsly and his team are tackling a question that has puzzled the chemist since the 1990s: Why does pyridinium work so well as a catalyst for the reaction? Based on its structure, the ring-shaped molecule is an unlikely catalyst for this reaction because it shuttles just one electron at a time. But to convert CO2 to methanol requires six electrons, and to make higher-carbon molecules takes even more electrons.
Bocarsly and his team — in collaboration with Steven Bernasek, professor of chemistry — are doing studies to understand the steps in the chemical reaction, and they are making rapid progress. "There are clearly some intermediate products formed during the reaction that do not sit around for a long time and are not there in very high concentrations," said Bocarsly.
The Princeton team also is studying the factors that determine which products can be made from CO2. The researchers have found that very subtle changes in the electrode surface can lead to production of different chemicals. For example, CO2 plus a pyridinium catalyst and a platinum electrode make methanol. However, the same catalyst and a different electrode give a different product. The team published its findings on how the reaction is affected by catalyst concentration, temperature and pressure in the journal ChemSusChem last year.
Meanwhile, scientists at Liquid Light are overcoming the practical hurdles inherent in converting laboratory findings to commercial technologies. One finding is that using sunlight to drive the reaction is not as efficient as using standard electricity from a wall outlet, so the researchers are exploring ways to harness electrical power generated from green technologies such as wind or hydroelectric power.
Citing government statistics that the United States generates about 5.5 billion metric tons of CO2 per year, Teamey said it will not be hard to obtain the starting materials for this new industry. However, the CO2 needs to be relatively pure, a requirement that rules out gasoline tailpipes and coal-fired power plants. Instead, said Teamey, the CO2 could come from manufacturing facilities, such as fertilizer manufacturers and cement plants, which according to Teamey emit some 100 million tons of high-purity CO2 each year.
Cole said her transition from Princeton Ph.D. graduate to startup employee has been a smooth one. "Startups can be very exciting because you are taking work from the academic setting and trying to make it work economically in the marketplace," she said. "It is rewarding because you can see your project from graduate school become an actual technology that impacts people."


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The icy grip of winter holds us firmly. Just as I was thinking we were going to get the mildest winter in years, things took a turn and we are now facing the coldest winter in decades. It totally amazes me how we are at the mercy of Mother Nature.
The temperatures have dropped drastically and the record was -20 degrees C, which I noted yesterday morning as I left to work. At such temperatures it's hard to get out of bed and face the cold. Each day we are facing new issues that the arctic cold brings with it. Frozen water-pipes, flocculation of diesel fuel in Tom's car, coughs, fever and the sniffles.
I am taking it in good stride as I am gathering new experience with each hurdle. Our frozen pipes are getting the luxury warmth treatment - wrapped in blankets warmed with their own little heater called … wait for it "the frost guard". I wish I had my own personal frost guard warming me every time I go out.
Unfortunately though, I tried to brave the fever and sniffles both Soeren and Tom have carried around for the past week and alas - it looks like I am coming down with it. First Soeren who was out for a whole week and then Tom came home from Stockholm feeling feverish and weak.
It's been lots of heartwarming soups and comforting stews around here lately topped off with plenty of Vitamin C. And special little treats - because how better to get them smiling and fit again than with divine sweet desserts.
One of Soeren's favorite treats are the nostalgic and traditional quarkkeulchen. He's been asking me for several months to put up the recipe on the blog and share it with my readers. He does not do this often but every now and then he is convinced you all will enjoy a recipe and suggests that I put it up.
We made these the week he was at home ill. He had lost a lot of his appetite and I really needed him to get some nourishment into him as he was surviving on liquids, antibiotics and cough syrup!
"Oh no!" he exclaimed looking at the menu planner for the school cafeteria for the day. "I am missing quarkkeulchen at school today!"
That was all the motivation I needed. Quarkkeulchen are easy to make with simple pantry ingredients. They are soothing and satisfying and I knew Soeren would devour them.
Tom's family comes from the German region of Saxony and quarkkeulchen are one of the specialties of this region. I adore Tom's grandmother's cooking, who at the awesome age of 90 still lives alone, baking and cooking some incredible dishes. She has a wonderful knack of serving Saxonian specialties, like lentil soup with hearty sausage or dumplings made of yeast and served with stewed cherries (also something I have been told several times to share) and quarkkeulchen smothered with cooked prunes.
It's always an attraction for me to watch her cook. Her silver hair gleaming in the sunlit kitchen and her small hands kneading or chopping as she tells stories, sometimes happy but often sad, of how they fled the Nazis during the second world war. Both Soeren and I can listen for hours, my eyes often welling up at the courageous lady standing in front of me making one of her specialties for her great grandson and me.
Quarkkeulchen are typically made of boiled potatoes, quark cheese, flour and raisins and served with generous dollops of applesauce. Fritters, flat dumplings, pancakes - they have been called all sorts of names but they are and will always be quarkkeulchen and there is no mixing them with the other dishes. They are generally eaten during lunch time or as a afternoon snack.
My recipe is based on Tom's grandmother's recipe with a few of of my minor adjustments. I prefer adding dried cranberries or cherries to the quarkkeulchen and usually make either fruit compote or stewed fruit, spiced with cinnamon, cardamom or nutmeg. I also hang the quark overnight to make it thicker and cheesier, which gives the quarkkeulchen a great consistency.
Soeren and I wish you Guten Appetit.
Printable version of recipe here
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Serves: approx. 4
- 500g jar of blueberries in own juice
- 2 tablespoons icing sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 120g potatoes, boiled
- 2 eggs, separated
- 80g sugar
- 150g quark, hung overnight in a cheesecloth
- 50g all-purpose flour
- 100g dried cranberries
- Zest of one organic lemon
- Pinch of salt
- 4 tablespoons butter
- Place a sieve over a small saucepan and pour the blueberries, allowing them to drip, making sure to reserve the blueberry juice. Add cinnamon stick and icing sugar to the juices and simmer for approx. 5 minutes. Dissolve the cornstarch in a tablespoon of water and then pour it into the blueberry juice. Continue to simmer until the sauce begins to thicken, then add the blueberries and allow to warm through. Steep and keep warm, making sure the compote does not cook. Discard cinnamon stick before serving.
- Peel boiled potatoes, discarding the skins and mash finely with a potato masher or using a potato ricer. Place mashed potatoes in a mixing bowl, add quark, sugar, egg yolks, flour, cranberries, lemon zest and mix with a wooden spoon to a silky smooth batter.
- In a separate clean bowl whisk egg whites with the pinch of salt until stiff. Make sure not to overbeat the egg whites. Using a metal spatula gently fold the egg whites into the quark batter. Allow the batter to rest n the fridge for 20 minutes.
- Melt some butter in a pan. Using two tablespoons drop about a tablespoon of batter into the hot pan and gently flatten with the back of a spoon. Fry the quarkkeulchen on each sides for 2 minutes until they are a gorgeous golden color.
- Serve the quarkkeulchen with the warm blueberry compote.
Make double portions of these because I guarantee you, plates will be licked cleaned and you'll be begged for more. They freeze easily and can be quickly defrosted in the microwave or in the oven on a low heat. Hanging the quark overnight makes the quarkkeulchen creamier, and adds a lovely tangy note to the dish. Quark is very much like fromage frais and with the consistency of cream cheese.The Saxonian quarkkeulchen however are not to be confused with the quarkkeulchen from Berlin. What gets sold in Berlin as quarkkeulchen is something quite different to the quarkkeulchen from Saxonia. They still contain quark, but there's no potato in the dough and they are deep fried as balls. The result is more like a donut.
My blueberry compote provides the perfect sweet balance adding a fruity highlight and the cinnamon provides a wonderful sweet warmth.
Hope for all those also fighting the icy frost - stay warm and stay well. For those who are basking in the summer's sun - send us some of that warmth mate ;o)
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Prosecutor: Lowell Cop In Crash Discussed Leaving Scene
A veteran Lowell police officer charged with killing a man while driving drunk was overheard on his cellphone attempting to flee the scene of the weekend accident, a prosecutor said Monday during his arraignment.
Eric Wayne, 41, pleaded not guilty in Lawrence District Court to charges that included motor vehicle homicide while under the influence of alcohol.
Police say Wayne was driving west on Route 110 in Methuen at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday when he crossed the center line and struck an SUV head-on. The driver, Briant Paula, 26, of Lawrence, was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Paula's sister, who was in the passenger seat, was injured.
In court Monday, Assistant District Attorney Michelle DeFeo said witnesses reported overhearing Wayne talking on his cellphone shortly after the accident, allegedly saying, "I have to get the (expletive) out of here."
DeFeo also said Wayne gave a false name and stated his date of birth when a police officer asked him for his address.
"He stated he didn't know it was going to happen like this," DeFeo said.
Prosecutors asked Judge Lynn Rooney to set bail at $500,000, while defense attorney Carmine Lepore asked that his client be held on $10,000 bail. Lepore did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Rooney revoked Wayne's bail on a 2013 drunken driving arrest and set a $100,000 cash bail in the motor vehicle homicide case.
Lowell police said Wayne was placed on administrative leave after the earlier arrest but was reinstated in June.
Wayne also is an amateur boxer who made a cameo appearance in "The Fighter," a 2010 film about Lowell boxer Mickey Ward.
This article was originally published on August 23, 2014.