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When Ezekiel spoke of wheels within wheels, he might have had a vision of Illinois state politics in 2008. The legislature returns to Springfield today to sort out the mess created by Governor Rod Blagojevich and his pay-for-play attempts to sell Barack Obama's open Senate seat. While the legislature debates impeachment and special elections, the Chicago Tribune points out the underlying political game between Pat Quinn and Lisa Madigan that may be driving their public positions on the scandal:
Illinois lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday with plans to disarm and dislodge Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose arrest in an alleged attempt to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat has thrown state government up for grabs.
But with Republicans looking to turn the tables on Democrats who control the Statehouse, and disagreement among leaders over whether to proceed with impeachment and how to handle the Senate dilemma, the only certainty on the agenda is chaos.
While that drama plays out, the Lieutenant Governor and the Attorney General have started their own pas de deux. Lt. Governor Quinn staked out his third position in the last week on the solution to the crisis yesterday. After first backing a special election and then deciding that he wanted to make the appointment himself, Quinn decided to have it both ways:
Quinn said he is considering legislation that would allow for a temporary appointment to the Senate to fill the Obama vacancy until a special election could be held. That's somewhere between his first position in support of a special election and his second position that he should make the appointment if Blagojevich resigns or is tossed out through impeachment proceedings in the legislature.
Why make a temporary appointment at all, then? The entire process could piggyback on municipal elections and finish by April. The seat could remain vacant that long — hell, it remained all but vacant for the previous two years while Obama ran for President — and that would avoid any hint of back-room deals of the kind favored by Blagojevich for this "f*****g valuable thing".
It turns out Quinn has someone in mind for the spot — and it's none other than the AG who wants Blagojevich declared politically incompetent by the state Supreme Court. Quinn wants Blagojevich's job for a much longer time than as a succession after impeachment, and Madigan might be his toughest opponent in the primaries:
Appointing Madigan to the Senate could give Quinn a clearer shot in the 2010 race for governor, in which she is expected to be a strong candidate with the backing of her father.
As long as he has the interests of Illinois voters in mind, eh? Illinois needs a special election for the Senate seat just to get the fingers of Machine politics off of it. Afterwards, Illinois needs to clean house entirely, getting rid of their entrenched political interests and starting over. Calling this sewer "The Land of Lincoln" is a bad joke. If Illinois voters aren't inclined to make the kind of necessary changes, can they change the license plates to read, "The Land of Capone"? It's certainly a more accurate description.


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I don't know about your children, but mine love popping bubble wrap. So, when I was looking around for a last minute toy, or game to stick into their chair backers for this morning, I turned the recycle bin, rather than to the cheep plastic trinkets in the Valentine's aisles of the local stores.
The toys there are flashy and cute, but don't last any longer, or grant broader grins than these hearts, cut from old padded envelopes, will.
I traced around a large, heart shaped cookie cutter on the outside of the envelope, and cut through both sides of the envelope at once, giving me two hearts at a time, and making the whole process very fast and easy. The trick is to leave the envelope backing on the hearts. It helps keep the bubbles intact, but does not interfere with the popping fun.
And yes, I tried it out for myself with the left over scraps. The children aren't the only ones who enjoy popping bubble wrap around here.
It's great to be a homeschooler.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Last Minute Valentine's Toys for Children
Posted by An Almost Unschooling Mom at 5:57 AM
Labels: holidays, homemade games
8 comments:
- Marcia said...
Great idea and soooooo much fun! Happy Valentine's Day!
Marcia :)
- February 14, 2012 at 6:01 AM
- Christy said...
LOVE it!!!! I like to pop the bubbles too; we especially like jumping on a big sheet of bubble wrap.
- February 14, 2012 at 6:05 AM
- Phyllis said...
That is way cute! Yes, all us kids love bubble wrap!
- February 14, 2012 at 7:12 AM
- Wonder Mom said...
Poppable fun is not stoppable!
- February 14, 2012 at 7:26 AM
- LeeanneA said...
Who wouldn't love to pop the bubbles - great idea!
- February 14, 2012 at 5:13 PM
- MamaTea said...
I don't know if I have ever met a person who doesn't get sucked into popping bubble wrap. ;) Great idea!
- February 14, 2012 at 7:40 PM
- Debbie said...
I love this! Selena would be in heaven!
- February 14, 2012 at 7:47 PM
- Raising a Happy Child said...
Love it! What an awesome idea to reuse old envelopes. We all love popping bubble wrap too.
- February 15, 2012 at 6:27 PM
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Hadoop Analytics 101
Apache Hadoop by itself does not do analytics. But it provides a platform and data structure upon which one can build analytics models. In order to do that one needs to understand MapReduce functions so they can create and put the input data into the format needed by the analytics algorithms. So we explain that here as well as explore some analytics functions.
Hadoop was the first and most popular big database. Products that came later, hoping to leverage the success of Hadoop, made their products work with that. That includes Spark, Hadoop, Hbase, Flink, and Cassandra. However Spark is really seen as a Hadoop replacement. It has what Hadoop does not, which is a native machine learning library, Spark ML. Plus it operates much faster than Hadoop since it is an in-memory database.
Regarding analytics packages that work natively with Hadoop – those are limited to Frink and Mahout. Mahout is on the way out so you should not use that. So your best options are to use Flink either with Hadoop or Flink tables or use Spark ML (machine language) library with data stored in Hadoop or elsewhere and then store the results either in Spark or Hadoop.
Analytics defined
In order to understand analytics you need to understand basic descriptive statistics (which we explain below) as well as linear algebra, matrices, vectors, and polynomials, which you learn in college, at least those who pursued science degrees. Without any understanding of that you will never understand what a K-Means classification model or even linear regression means. This is one reason regular programmers cannot always do data science. Analytics is data science.
Analytics is the application of mathematical, statistics, and artificial intelligence to big data. Artificial intelligence is also called machine learning. These are mathematical functions. It is important to understand the logical reasoning behind each algorithm so you can correctly interpret the results. Otherwise you could draw incorrect conclusions,
Analytics requires a distributed scalable architecture because it uses matrices and linear algebra. The multiplication of even two large matrices can consume all the memory on a single machine. So the task to do that has to be divided into smaller tasks.
A matrix is a structure like:
[a11, a12, a13,...,a1n A21, a22, a23, … a2n … A i1, ai2, ai3, …, ain]
These matrices are coefficients to a formula the analyst hopes will solve some business or science problem. For example, the optimal price for their product p might be p = ax + by + c, where x and y are some inputs to manufacturing and sales and c is a constant.
But that is a small example. The set of variables the analyst has to work with is usually much larger. Plus the analyst often has to solve multiple equations like this at the same time. This is why we use matrices.
Matrices are fed in ML algorithms using Scala, Python, R, Java, Python, and other programming languages. These objects can be anything. For example, you can mix and match structures:
Tuple(a,b,a) Tuple(int, float, complex number, class Object) Array ("employees:" "Fred", "Joe", "John", "William)
So to use Hadoop to do analytics you have to know how to convert data in Hadoop to different data structures. That means you need to understand MapReduce.
MapReduce is divided into 2 steps: map and reduce. (Some say combine is a third step, but it is really part of the reduce step.)
You do not always need to do both map and reduce, especially when you just want to convert one set of input data to a format that will fit into a ML algorithm. Map runs over the values you feed into it and returns the same number of values that you fed into it but changing that to a new output format. The reduce operation is designed to return one value. That is sort of a simplification, but for the most part true. (Reduce can return more than one output. For example, it does that in the sample program we have shown below.)
MapReduce example program
Here is the Word Count program copied directly from the Apache Hadoop website. Below we show how to run it and explain what each section means.
First you need a create a text file and copy it to Hadoop. Below shows its contents:
hadoop fs -cat /analytics/input.txt Hello World Bye World
The program will take each word in that line and then create these key->value maps:
(Hello, 1) (World, 1) (Bye, 1) (World, 1)
And then reduce them by summing each value after grouping them by key to produce these key->value maps:
(Hello, 1) (World, 2) (Bye, 1)
Here is the Java code.
package com.bmc.hadoop.tutorials; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.StringTokenizer; import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration; import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path; import org.apache.hadoop.io.IntWritable; import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text; import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job; import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper; import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Reducer; import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat; import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat; public class WordCount { public static class TokenizerMapper extends Mapper<object , Text, Text, IntWritable>{ private final static IntWritable one = new IntWritable(1);
// Text is an ordinary text field, except it is serializable by Hadoop.
private Text word = new Text();
// Hadoop calls the map operation for each line in the input file. This file only has 1 line, // but it splits the words using the StringTokenizer as a first step to createing key->value // pairs.
public void map(Object key, Text value, Context context ) throws IOException, InterruptedException { StringTokenizer itr = new StringTokenizer(value.toString()); while (itr.hasMoreTokens()) { word.set(itr.nextToken());
// This it writes the output as the key->value map (word, 1).
context.write(word, one); } } }
// This reduction code is copied directly from the Hadoop source code. It is copied here // so you can read it here. This reduce writes its output as the key->value pair (key, result)
public static class IntSumReducer extends Reducer { private IntWritable result = new IntWritable(); public void reduce(Text key, Iterable values, Context context ) throws IOException, InterruptedException { int sum = 0; for (IntWritable val : values) { sum += val.get(); } result.set(sum); context.write(key, result); } } public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Configuration conf = new Configuration(); Job job = Job.getInstance(conf, "word count"); job.setJarByClass(WordCount.class);
// Here we tell what class to use for mapping, combining, and reduce functions.
job.setMapperClass(TokenizerMapper.class); job.setCombinerClass(IntSumReducer.class); job.setReducerClass(IntSumReducer.class); job.setOutputKeyClass(Text.class); job.setOutputValueClass(IntWritable.class); FileInputFormat.addInputPath(job, new Path(args[0])); FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, new Path(args[1])); System.exit(job.waitForCompletion(true) ? 0 : 1); } }
To run this you need to create the /analytics folder in Hadoop first:
hadoop fs -mkdir /analytics
Run the code like this:
yarn jar /tmp/WordCount.jar com.bmc.hadoop.tutorials.WordCount /analytics/input.txt /analytics/out.txt
Then check the output. First use hadoop fs -ls /analytics/out.txt to get the file name as the results are saved in the output.txt folder
hadoop fs -cat /analytics/out.txt/part-r-00000
Here is the resulting count.
Bye 1 Hello 1 World 2
Descriptive statistics
In order to understand these models analytics it is necessary to understand descriptive statistics. This is the average , mean (μ), variance(σ2), and standard deviation (□) taught in college or highschool. In statistics, the normal distribution is used to calculate the probability of an event. The taller the curve and the closer the points are together the smaller the variance and thus the standard deviation.
The normal curve is a graphical presentation of probability: p(x). For example, the probability that a value is less than or equal to x above is p(x).
Linear regression
Now we talk in general how some of the analytics algorithms work.
Linear regression is a predictive model. In terms of machine learning it is the simplest. Learning it first is a good idea, because its basic format and linear relationship remains the same for more complicated ML algorithms.
In its simplest form, linear regression has one independent variables x and 1 dependant variable y=mx +b.
We can graph that like this:
The line y = mx +b is the one such that the distance from the data points to the purple line is the shortest.
The algorithm for calculating the line in Apache Spark is:
Logistic regression
In a linear regression we look at a line that most nearly fits the data points. For logistic regression we turn that into a probability. This outcome of logistic regression logit is one of two values (0, 1). This is associated with a probability function p(x). By convention when p(x) > 0.5 then logit(p(x))=1 and 0 otherwise.
The logistic regression is the cumulative distribution function shown below where e is the constant e and s is scale parameters.
1 / (1 + e**-((x -□) /s))
If that looks strange do not worry as further down we will see the familiar linear functions we have been using.
To understand that logistic regression represents the cumulative distribution under the normal curve, consider the point where x =□ in the normal curve. At that point x – □ = 0 so 1 / (1 + e**-((x – □) /s))=1 / (1 + e**((1 – 1 )/s)) = 1/ ( 1 + e**0) = 1/ ( 1 +1) = 1/2 = 0.5. That is the shaded area to the left of the y axis where x = □ In other words there is a 50% chance of a value being less that than the mean.The graph showing that is shown here again:
The logistic regression algorithm requires a LabeledPoint structure in Spark ML.
(labels, points)
Which we plugged into the LogisticRegressionWithLBFGS algorithm. The labels must be 1 or 0. The points (features) can be a collection of any values like shown below.
(1: {2,3,4}) (0:{4,5,6})
The data we feed in is called the training set. In other words it is a sampling of actual data. These are taken from past history. This lets the computer find the equation that best fits the data. Then it can make predictions. So if:
model = LogisticRegressionWithLBFGS (LabeldPoint of values)
Then we can use the predict function to calculate the likelihood, which is 1 or 0:
model.predict(1,2,3) = 1 or 0.
Logistic regression is difficult to understand but easier to understand if you look at it in terms of odds. People who bet on horse races and football certainly understand that.
odds =(probability of successes / probability of failure)
If you roll a dice the odds are (1/7)/(6/7) = ⅙. In logistic regression the outcome is either 0 of 1.So the odds are:
odds (y) = p(y=1)/ p(y=0) = p(y=1)/ (1 - p(y=1))
Logistic regression is the logarithm of the odds.Remember that the probability comes from some linear function like:
Odds (x) = a1x1 + b1x2 + c1x3 + d
The logarithm of that is :
log(Odds (x)) = log(a1x1 + b1x2 + c1x3 + d)
We undo that by raising by sides to e giving the original odds formula:
odds(x) = e**(a1x1 + b1x2 + c1x3 + d)
If that is difficult to see then consider the situation of a heart disease patient. We have a linear formula obtained derived from years of studying those. We can say that the chance of getting heart disease is some functions of:
(a1 * cholesterol) + (b1 * smoking) + ( c1 + genetic factors) + constant
That is a linear equation.
Support vector machines
Here we step up one level in complexity. The other two algorithms we looked at were predictive models. Those are supervised models, meaning we know the input variables, like cholesterol, blood sugar, etc. It is supervised meaning we give it a training set. A Support Vector Machines (SVM) is an unsupervised classification model. There is no training set.
An unsupervised classification model looks for some pattern among data points. Data points that are close to each other we divide into clusters. SVM outputs a binary results: yes or no or 1 or 0. So we could use it to, for example, look at temperature and rain readings over time and determine whether we have a drought or a rainy season.
Since we are dealing with more than one simple equation, we are dealing with more than 2 or even 3 dimensions. So we have to think in terms of n dimensions. But humans cannot visualize 4, 5, 6, … dimensions. But something we can visualize is a 2-dimensional plane. So we use that.
We use the same approach as linear regression, which is to find a line that best fits the data. But in this case we are looking for a plane, called a hyperplane. Here we use the same basic y = mx + b formula but in this case m is a vector. We write that as y = Mx + b.
We find the plane that is maximum distance instead of the minimize distance from the data points. This minimizes the error. Data points closed to the place are called support vector points.
In the example below, the values of W**Tx + b >= 0 are above the line and those W**Tx + b < 0 are below the line. (W is a vector. T means which one.) Positive values belong to Class 1. Negative ones below to Class 2.
Similarly, this approach of using distance to find the best line or plane is also used in K-Means Clustering and other algorithms. For K-means we also find the line or plane that minimizes the distance. Then we move the points and recompute and then do that again until we reach convergence, in other words where the points and the line or plane coincide.
So that is a basic start on how you can use Hadoop to do analytics. As you can see this is a complex topic that requires much follow on study. You could start with linear regression and then move onto more complex topics.
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On this week's show Jay and Casey try Evil Genius's This One Time at Band Camp Double IPA. Jay and Casey also discuss a woman from Australia who uses her boyfriend's balls to apply make-up, a local school finds a worm in a kid's lunch, and weird video games that caused controversy. Get those flutes out nice and polished and enjoy episode 31 of Openly Hostile Opinions!
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Box office: Do Jason Segel and Jason Statham need new acts?
There may be no second acts in American life. Fortunately, Jason Statham and Jason Segel work in the movie business, which is somewhere very far away from mainstream American life.
Just a few years ago, the two Jasons were unquestionably on the rise, albeit in very different genres. Segel could do no wrong as the nice guy in sweet-but-raunchy comedies. Hits such as "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and "I Love You, Man" began to flow, and a niche sitcom, "How I Met Your Mother," began to establish itself.
Statham was on his own upward trajectory. After emerging in Guy Ritchie films more than a decade ago, the tough-talking Brit solidified his status as an action hero with a dependable franchise in "Transporter." He then had a tidy late-summer performer in "Death Race" and was a key younger element in the blockbuster "The Expendables."
REVIEW: 'The Five-Year Engagement'
Then things began to change for both men. Segel staked a great deal of his reputation on his revival of "The Muppets," which was a modest and not entirely memorable performer last year. The streak turned colder this spring in the lower-budget "Jeff, Who Lives at Home," which flopped by all but the most indie of standards (though, to be fair, the movie inexplicably got only a small release in the first place). "How I Met Your Mother" has begun to show its age. And then this weekend, "The Five-Year Engagement" gave Segel the lowest numbers for a wide opening since he became a star.
Statham also has hit a wall, and finally it was one he couldn't punch through. After a 2008-2010 period in which the actor had a prolific four movies that grossed at least $30 million (on modest budgets), Statham's next two pictures, "The Mechanic" and "Killer Elite," each fell short of that mark. Then this weekend he too had one of his lowest openings as a star, with the measly $7.7-million take of "Safe."
On one level, the story of the two Jasons is an age-old tale -- the actor who went to the well once too often. Studio executives like to say that actors should stay on brand. But the truth is that many performers can only play the same character so many times before audiences start to feel like they've seen it before, and turn away.
The Jasons also may be falling prey to something more specific. Fans didn't just flock to these actors' movies because they liked them; they flocked to these actors because they weren't seeing too many other people do what they were doing.
Prior to Segel and a few of his ilk, we hadn't seen the nice guy toss out ribald barbs. Statham also was a novelty, at least in this age -- a genuine action hero, a man who could punch and kick his way out of a problem with his God-given hands instead of relying on superhero powers (or just brooding darkly about those problems). These were actors, in other words, who staked their appeal on their freshness. And freshness kind of has an expiration date.
The way around this, of course, is to do something totally different and show film fans that you're still capable of surprise. Five years ago that meant a part in a smaller, more prestige-y movie. But there are fewer of those roles than there used to be, and in any event, they're increasingly taken by the likes of Brad Pitt and George Clooney, who have shown an insatiable appetite for them.
Still, some commercial actors are able to make the transition. Check out Jonah Hill, Segel's "Knocked Up" costar, who has cleverly managed to find new avenues for his brand of goofy comedy, in more dramatic vehicles such as "Moneyball" and more action-y pictures like "21 Jump Street."
Both Statham and Segel have several of those new paths open to them. But they're going to need to start venturing down one or two, or risk becoming tired old acts.
"Five-Year Engagement" a missed opportunity
Jason Statham looks to punch above his weight
"Think Like a Man" is the surprise box-office winner
--Steven Zeitchik
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For a number of years, Spencer County was the fastest growing county in the state of Kentucky and one of the fastest growing in the entire nation. People looking for a little rural living close to the comforts of the city found exactly what they needed here.
Near the time that boom began, Bobby Smith opened up a small real estate office next to Elk Creek Restaurant.
Owner: Dwight & Carla Martin
Address: 36 West Main Street
In business since: 1995
Phone: 502-477-5444
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There was a time when crowds would line the sidewalks in front of 36 W. Main Street in Taylorsville waiting for the doors to open. That's when the building was home to a state-of-the art movie house known as Valley Theatre.
Owner: Dr. Becky House, PT, OCS
Address: 4813 Taylorsville Road
Hours: Therapy by appointment
Number of employees: 7
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Primary business: Physical Therapy, Orthopedics
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When it comes to health, there are many ways that people can take proper care of themselves. But, having the right doctors and physical therapists can help people make the right decisions for their own health.
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The goal of Spencer Christian School has been the same since day one — to educate the mind while nurturing the heart through a unique partial-week Biblical education model that magnifies Jesus and promotes the integrity of the family.
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At the Kentucky Farm Bureau's Spencer County Agency, you can count on a friendly, local face waiting to meet you one-on-one to answer your questions and meet your insurance needs.
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WASH in Schools Empowers Girls' Education in Masbate Province and Metro Manila, Philippines: An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools
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Emory University, UNICEF Philippines, Plan Philippines and Save the Children Philippines carried out a qualitative assessment of menstruation-related challenges girls face in school. Girls, boys, teachers and mothers at 10 schools in Masbate Province and the National Capital Region were interviewed for their opinions. This report highlights the challenges girls face in school during menses, describes the determinants of these challenges, and outlines the educational and health impacts of these challenges as voiced by the participants.
Many girls lack the knowledge, support and resources to manage menstruation in school. Few studies have focused on educational impacts such as concentration, class participation, missed class and absenteeism. This assessment aims to understand the scope of educational and health impacts and challenges across settings in order to foster a broad movement towards mitigating challenges presented by menstruation among adolescent girls. Findings focus on the challenges surrounding menstrual hygiene practices from the participants perspectives.


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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Oslo - is that all it is?
In the comments, there were lots of follow-up questions about the realness and substance of Oslo, and the target customers of the language. Here's some reflections from one Oslo guy...
What we shipped in our first CTP is very much an early alpha of our bits. And, it represents the lowest level of the platform without many of the services, libraries, and bells-whistles that you'd want as a developer. It's as if we shipped the .Net runtime and C# but without any libraries or tools. So, that may be some cause of confusion.
Why did we do this? We wanted to get out the core of the platform as soon as possible so we could start having real discussions with customers and partners. We also want the developer community to embrace modeling as a key principle in the future for how we build applications.
Ultimately, our goal is to enable declarative, model-driven programming. If I look around, I see people doing this today in the form of XML schemas and dialects, various textual reps, and frameworks that encode a domain. We went down that path as well, using visual designers and XML. But at some point the pain was too much :) We evolved our approach into Oslo by trying a more holistic solution. We wanted an easy-to-use language to write down declarations. We wanted a place to store those declarations, and then query, and even compose that data (i.e., join) into "instructions" that runtimes could execute to produce interesting behavior. And then, the idea of making it very easy to create a textual DSL over the model/declarations seemed like a natural step forward to enable app development in an elegant way. It just all fit together for us - and we wanted to share as soon as we could.
Let me also comment about our target customers. We are all developers on our team, and we care deeply about developer tools and productivity. We do not really talk much about making business users programmers. I have to say that personally, I think having a DSL may make it easier to have interesting conversations with business users about the solutions that we build for them. But I don't think that makes them programmers. It just makes it easy to write things down and share/design it with them.
...end of reflecting for now.
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- Colin Jack said...
My view is that the problem isn't what you've delivered, it's that there was too much hype and the message hasn't been clear.
On the hype I think it is worth saying that we've had announcements of game changing breakthroughs before, including with WSDL and WCF, but enumerable times in the past. Some of these have delivered some value, many have not, so I think its fair to say that we'd be smart staying a little pessimistic.
The second reason is that the way its been discussed has left many of us pretty cold. To many of us models are active things, we're thinking behavioral domain models and possibly using DDD and OO. Even if we're not using DDD we do want to build in behavior. Microsoft has a poor
However the message has all been data, data, data. Its been about XML, XML schemas, Excel, passive models consumed by workflow/services/rules. That means very little if your target audience are people developing real systems today using object-oriented languages and techniques.
I'm not even clear how you fit behavior into your model, how do I have a Customer/Account with real behavior in it? Should I really need to download Oslo and try it out to find out?
"I have to say that personally, I think having a DSL may make it easier to have interesting conversations with business users about the solutions that we build for them"
Me too, but there is almost no discussion on this side of Oslo.
- November 11, 2008 at 5:41 AM
- Pinky said...
On hype - I love that folks are cautious. I would be too. In fact, I hope that you continue to push and ask hard questions so we can get it right. Our goal is to make it better for all developers.
On behavior - I think I need more education here. What do you mean by behavior? Isn't a workflow behavior? Or are you looking for the more traditional "model -> generate OO code" kind of thing?
Our focus at PDC was on developers for developers. We want to spend our "hype" dollars carefully ;)
- November 11, 2008 at 8:45 AM
- Colin Jack said...
"What do you mean by behavior? Isn't a workflow behavior?"
Workflow and services are definitely one approach, both are fine and certainly have their place.
However the domain model itself (Customer/Order/Account/FeeSetting) should also contain behavior.
"Or are you looking for the more traditional "model -> generate OO code" kind of thing?"
Well in DDD the code is a key expression of the model, you don't create a whole lot of UML and then generate code. That approach has tried and failed several times. Instead you focus on your code (C#/Java) being a clear expression of the problem domain.
So if my domain experts talks about a client medical history then I'd quite possibly have a ClientMedicalHistory class in the model. If she talks about some behavior being closely related to a clients medical history then its quite possible that the ClientMedicalHistory will take on some/all of that behavior.
At the very least we're talking validation but in complex domains we might have all sorts of behavior in the model itself.
I'm sure you guys have thought of this style but if not I'd certainly start looking at it now because I think one of the big failings in previous MS initiatives (including EF v1) was not correctly supporting this style of development.
- November 11, 2008 at 9:11 AM
- Pinky said...
Thanks for the clarification.
I (and we) understand the modeling approach you take, that is, use a general programming language to capture the domain. Great. Love it. We're not trying to prevent that.
We're trying to add a new way of doing modeling that augments what people do today, that is, lots of declarative/data-driven stuff in XML. In a data-driven world, you model behavior as data and use a runtime like WF to execute it.
Why would you do that? Well, there's lots of benefits from turning behavior from imperative code to declarative content. It's data so you can more easily query and transform. You can also more easily persist it, and send/receive it. You can build multiple interpretations of it (my favorite reason), e.g., if you want your own patterns and practices about how to execute a workflow, then you can massage to data to get that. That's much harder to do in C# - I've tried :)
But again, by no means are we saying that you shouldn't use C# or Ruby or whatever general language you use to model your domains. We just offer a higher level of abstraction and a data-oriented approach to modeling.
- November 11, 2008 at 9:56 AM
- Colin Jack said...
Just to be clear, I didn't think you guys were trying to discourage us using general purpose languages and I only gave that as an example of what we do now. If Oslo offers a better path then I'd take it (or use it wherever it suited.
"We're trying to add a new way of doing modeling that augments what people do today, that is, lots of declarative/data-driven stuff in XML"
Get you, was hoping Oslo might enhance the approach I'm using now for example by allowing me to build DSLs on top of the existing behavior rich models I am creating.
"In a data-driven world, you model behavior as data and use a runtime
like WF to execute it."
Coming back to the behavior issue though, lets say I buy into the advantages of my entire model being represented as declarative content. Will you be providing any way to actually include behavior in that model, so that any DSLs I create can look as if I do have a behaviour rich model?
I can't see why not.
"Why would you do that? Well, there's lots of benefits from turning behavior from imperative code to declarative content."
I'm looking forward to being surprised but I'm not imaginative enough to think why the benefits you describe would be useful in domain modelling, not saying they don't have value elsewhere though.
- November 11, 2008 at 11:06 AM
- Pinky said...
There is good news to help you with DSLs and your current approach.
You can choose to use our MGrammar language to write a DSL. MGrammar produces structured data. You can then write a small program to process that data and turn it into your OM or anything else you want to. This gives you the flexibility to separate the language from the implementation, support multiple implementations in time, and to present a textual DSL to customers. There's a couple of posts on how to do this, and a sample in the SDK.
- November 11, 2008 at 2:27 PM
- Colin Jack said...
Ok ta, yeah that makes sense as its the sort of process you might use if you were creating a declarative internal DSL using a dynamic language. I'll definitely give it a shot.
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It's easy to walk in with low expectations for "The Lego Movie," a film so saturated with product placement that every single scene doubles as a toy commercial.
The movie is a wonderful surprise, cleverly written and executed brick by brick with a visual panache. Filled with humor and action, the Warner Bros. movie pulls off an emotional finish that rivals some of Pixar's best work. You can argue, and not sound completely crazy, that this is a better film than one or two recent Academy Awards best-picture nominees.
There were early signs that "The Lego Movie" might rise above mediocrity. It was directed and written by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who seem to specialize in stealthily making quality films, including the charming "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" and a satisfying film remake of "21 Jump Street." Lego has a history of nurturing the brand; the company's video games have mostly been excellent in recent years.
But the first big-screen Lego movie has the feel of a passion project - where smart people were given a lot of resources and allowed to execute the craziest thoughts that came to their head. "The Lego Movie" is a PG film, but its closest comparison is the work of "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The single musical number, "Everything Is Awesome," is so effective, you'll wonder why Lord and Miller didn't make more.
"The Lego Movie" begins in the middle of a generic Lego city, where construction man Emmett (voiced by Chris Pratt) lives a lonely but upbeat life as one of the most boring Lego mini-figures. He is mistaken for a savior by love interest and rebel leader Wyldstyle, who is in a relationship with Batman.
(That love triangle is one of many insider nods for Lego-loving kids and adults. As anyone who has played with the toy can tell you, a construction worker is at the bottom of the Lego caste system, while only Lego Boba Fett is cooler than Lego Batman.)
As the friends work to save the city from the schemes of conformist tyrant Lord Business, the movie settles into a nice blend of sly rapid-fire humor and over-the-top action sequences that all seem hatched from a 9-year-old's imagination. With plastic brick people instead of flesh and blood, the filmmakers get a bit of a pass on the violent and racy content. If a real-life construction worker gets beheaded, it's unspeakably gory. A man photocopying his naked butt is lowbrow and obscene. When these things happen in the Lego world, it's kind of cute.
Lord and Miller offer a lot for adults - from unexpected pop-culture nods to a blink-and-you'll-miss-it joke about failed Lego play sets. But that humor is almost never patronizing. So many lazier family filmmakers have dropped a line from "Taxi Driver" or a double entendre, counting on the fact that the joke will sail over kids' heads. Part of the uniqueness of "The Lego Movie" is that children and their chaperones can enjoy it on pretty much the same level.
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A 14-year-old was beaten, burned with cigarettes and dropped off along the side of the road after a drug deal went bad, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff�s Office.The incident happened Thursday night in northern Lincoln County.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are seeking more than 12 years in prison for a Muslim convert from Brooklyn who pleaded guilty to posting online threats against the creators of the "South Park" television show.
Sentencing is scheduled Friday in Alexandria, Va., for Jesse Curtis Morton, who founded the now-defunct Revolution Muslim website. Earlier this year, he admitted using the site as an outlet for al-Qaida propaganda. He also conspired with another man to deliver a thinly veiled threat to the creators of the "South Park" television show for perceived insults to the prophet Muhammad.
Defense attorneys are asking for a prison term of less than five years.
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KevinL: Nice. The Pandora Android app is available in the Google Play Store, for what it's worth. I had a previously registered account - some time ago it wasn't geo-blocked and you could access Pandora by signing up with a US zip code, so it's nice to see it working again.
Just tried installing on both my phone and my wife's. Both show "This item cannot be installed in your device's country"
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"Modern Family's" Julie Bowen has booked a pair of bigscreen roles: New Line's "Horrible Bosses" and Sony's "Jumping the Broom."
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Seth Gordon directs the pic about three friends who decide to murder their overbearing bosses with disastrous results.
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The actress was just nominated for a supporting actress Emmy for her role on the breakout comedy "Modern Family."
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Would you like to see where I create? I'm everso nosey and love a look round the internet to see how others organize their creative spaces, so today I'll share a picture of my studio. Its during a project so there's STUFF everywhere 😉
To the right of this is, more cupboard space and what was drying area..before I covered it in other stuff oops
Its no good I refuse to show you the other side of the room, its a mess! Yup worse than these two sides. Its an orgazined mess, in that there are things I've made, and stuff for making things, mostly in boxes but it looks like a horders dumping ground (which it kinda is) but I'm too ashamed to put that pic out there {blushes}
Instead a close up of the ATC project I was working on at the time I took these pictures, check out my 'new to me' paint colours, pastel! Yes I'm still in shock too, they are very nice but I'm still getting used to what to do with them and what colours they will play nicely with.
Hope you have enjoyed a look round my studio, maybe I'll post some more pics soon of after the tidy up 😉 Holler if you want to see the 'after' pictures hehe.
Where do you create? Love a nosey round studios online, go on show us your studio pics and maybe we can have our own little blog hop, post your craft room pics in a blog post and link up in your comments below.
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Jeremy Lin is out for 6 weeks with a meniscus. For those of you that don't know anything about calendars, this means that he will, BEST CASE SCENARIO, return in the middle of may. The Knicks are pretty screwed right now. Stoudemire is out 2-4 weeks, Jeffries is still out and numerous other guys are hurt. They are the walking dead. I'm sorry, this team is not going to win anything in the playoffs. Unless Lin and Stoudemire miraculously come back and produce in the first round of the playoffs, the Knicks are almost a sure bet to be done. This sucks. Also, the Knicks and Cavs play tonight. I guess I'll preview the game.
Here's what to watch for:
- Kyrie Irving is out tonight. I guess that's a good thing. He's the best guy on the Cavaliers by a mile. Given the fact that its the Knicks, Cleveland will probably find a new superstar tonight. I fully expect Antawn Jamison to score 70 points. Varejao will grab 60 rebounds and Alonzo Gee will hit 7 three pointers. In all seriousness, the Knicks have to make Cleveland pay for having Irving out. The stationary bike, aka Baron Davis, will suck again in all likelihood. Mike Bibby is really old and Toney Douglas is really bad. Speaking of Toney Douglas…
- The Knicks will probably dust off Toney Douglas tonight. Lets see what he can do. He probably won't do anything good, he's been awful this season. I love Toney, but he's been disgustingly bad this year. I have decent hopes for him next year, but I think he's shot mentally this season and he'll still be bad.
- It's on your shoulders now, Melo. If the Knicks are going to make the playoffs, Melo has to be the guy to carry them. He wanted more touches and he's going to get them. The Knicks have -3 other consistent options so they'll be riding iso-Melo for the rest of the year. He's being paid to score points and lead the team and he has to do that now.
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NEW YORK (Tuesday, November 15, 2011) – MLS W.O.R.K.S., Major League Soccer's community outreach initiative, will put on multiple events leading up to the League's championship match in an effort to highlight the League's commitment to increasing the accessibility of soccer, creating sustainable projects, and supporting local youth health and wellness programs. MLS Cup 2011 will be played on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 9:00 p.m. ET at The Home Depot Center in Carson, CA (ESPN, Galavision, TSN2).
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During the day the action moves uphill to seven stage areas on the mountain above town. The performer to audience ratio is something like 1:1, and for the Bulgarians it is as much a chance for them to meet foreigners and shower them with gracious Bulgarian hospitality, which means being offered drinks, food, and having a gaggle of grannies decked out in full Thracian folk costumes grabbing Fumie and her friend from Tokyo, Rieko, to have their picture taken with them (for some reason Rieko gets more attention than Fumie…)I'm amazed at how well these folks hold up in the heat, dressed head to toe in layers of heavy folk costumes, some part of which is always made of raw wool, but there were no casualties that I know of during the festival.I play Macedonian and Bulgarian music, although less these days, but I've been able to fight off my compulsive acquisition of folk instruments. It isn't easy. There are gaida vendors up on the hill, and I was thinking of picking up a new bagpipe, but the instrument has been subtly changing over the last twenty years. Except for the players of the large Rhodope kaba gaida, almost nobody performs using the drone pipe anymore. Plugging the drone makes it easier to play with accordions and other orchestral instruments, but it's a bagpipe, fer chrissake, you need a drone.Also, gaida reeds have become harder, making a much louder instrument better suited to playing for larger crowds, but the cost is a loss of the buzzy warmth that one hears on older gaida recordings. I bumped into UCLA ethnomusicologist Tim Rice last night, who has been studying Bulgarian folk music and its sociological dimensions for four decades. We commiserated about soulless composite gaida reeds a bit, but he pointed out that that is the way folk music adapts and changes. Nothing you can do 'bout it.
Dr. Rice is the author of "May It Fill Your Soul" a fantastic book and CD set examing the development of Bulgarian folk music through the experiences of two master musicians – Ivan and Todora Varimezov – whose lives spanned the changes of the twentieth century. If you are interested in Balkan bagpipes, Bulgarian music, or how humans learn music, get this book. Rice focuses on the concept of how Bulgarians learn their devilishly complicated music, which traditionally was "learned but not taught." It is an eye opener to anyone who has ever tried to learn a folk musical form or instrument from a culture other than their own.We've been to the last two Koprivshtitsa festivals, in 2000, and 2005, and at the last one we discovered a tradition that I had not known of before, the Koleda dancers of Yambol.These are troops (literally in Bulgarian "cheta") of young men, often Gypsies, who do a marching and dancing routine each Christamas and New Year and compete against each other for the title of best of the year. The dances are related to the ancient ritual dance tradition in the Balkans such as that of the Calusar in Romania as well as the moresca dance of southern Europe and even the Morris dance of England.
And these are some heavy masculine dudes, tattooed up the wazoo, bayonets tucked in their boots, knocking back buckets of beer before each performance and dancing non-stop in between sets – often dancing in feminine belly dance styles. Really tough tattooed muscle guys are allowed to do that. The Koleda troops are so fascinating that I will write more about them later in the blog, but Koprivshtitsa has almost no internet access – there are a couple of hotels up the hill, but we can live without wifi for a week, can't we? Can't we?In fact, Bulgaria is pretty well wired and internet savvy – anybody who finds themselves with some time to spare in Europe should make the effort to take a detour to Bulgaria. For tourists, it is about the most affordable place in Europe. Face it – regarding tourism, Hungary is rip-off city, Romania has gotten expensive, leaving few places where one can just relax and spend time without feeling like you are being milked for cash. Bulgaria – which has a fantastic traditional culture, a beautiful Black sea coast, and lots of stunning mountain scenery – deserves more travel attention. Food, internal transport, lodgings are a fraction of the western or even Eastern European price and you will never feel ripped off ( except if you take a taxi that waits in front of the Sofia train station. Use the taxi stand in front of the neighboring bus station instead.)
Our next stop is Istanbul, the city that stole my heart and made me start this blog back in 2006. Music? Food? Tradition? Istanbul has it all in spades. I will miss Bulgaria, but the Ottoman influence pervades Bulgarian culture in many of its more positive ways – the hospitality, the pursuit of pleasure in food and music. I'll be back. The next Koprivshtitsa Festival is only a half decade away.


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I'm currently in 2007 with Lincoln, I've got them up from Division 3 to Division 1 so far.
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I'm currently in 2007 with Lincoln, I've got them up from Division 3 to Division 1 so far.
Forest Green.
6th Season - promotion first 4 then finished 4th in PL and won FA Cup.
Still have 3 regular starters from the Conference, plus a fair few who've been with me since the 2nd at least.
Only just started in Season 6 though - 2 wins and 2 draws so far, plus through to CL proper.
2012/13 With Charlton on CM 01/02. Going for my 7th EPLL crown in a row, however I'm a couple of poitns behind the Spurs after 15 games. Won the CL for the second time last season with a 5-1 win over Roma :o. Italian striker regen and an English striker regen are my front pair, with a sweidsh FC regen as back up :p. Then I'm pretty sure I have zidane's regen and Figo's regen. Then Harbuzi and Robben and I'm quite sure Nedved's regen. Then a fair few young defenders who I have no idea about, with Tieme Klompe still playing and Ashley Cole!
£100 Mil in the bank and stadium has been upgraded to 48,200(2 upgrades in the last two seasons :cool: ) so far from 25,500!
How did you win the EPL by beating Roma 5-1?? :wacko:
Yeah I just edited that, I do in fact mean the CL!Quote:
Originally Posted by PY
Very quick on the change there, so quick in fact that it didn't show up as an edit. :p
haha.. that way everyone can think your crazy :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by PY
I'm in my third season with Manchester United.So far i've won the league two times in a row and i'm on top in the third.I've had Arsenal like seasons going unbeaten so far.Last year of my contract.I've won every trophy that an EPL team can win.The FA Cup,EPL,Super Cup,League Cup,Community Shield and Champions League.So far van Nistelrooy's had two 71 goal seasons and Reyes has had two 50+ goal seasons.I'm investing in youngsters now with Kenneth Christiansen,Darren Fletcher,Kieran Richardson and Ronaldo my top prospects and in a few weeks i'll be getting Portillo.Sold Barthez and bought Buffon with Howard and him interchanging and Roy Carroll as backup.Defence is good with Wes Brown's injuries solved and the emergence of Ferdinand and O'Shea.Gary and Phil Neville are still there with Heinze as a good backup signing and Silvestre there too.Giigs is solid and Keane too but his play his limited due to the emergence of Kleberson and the sales of Fortune,Butt and Djemba-Djemba.Scholes is still ever present.Saha is a backup striker with the sale of Forlan.Hoping for another six trophies this year.Two already.
well well well, where do i begin, im back on 01/02 with Anderlecht, early on we enjoyed a lot of success. we set he oringal goal of winning 13 straight leagues and have a CL crown by 2021.
Things started slowly finishing behind Lokeren in season 1, but then 8 years of good football saw us take 8 league titles until a little team called GBA won 2 in a row. it wasnt panic stations yet. runner up in 2012 suggested there was more anderlecht domination to come. Then 4 more straight titles to us saw me eyeing down 13 in a row, but agani things came unstuck to GBA, however this time they won just 1 title and we claimed the 2017/18 crown the year after.
Little did i know then that would be my last title on the game with the next decade to be dominated by GBA. They claimed 10 of the next 12 titles (Antwerp and Club Brugge) have one each as well. i could only manage 2 runners up performances in that time and things just arent going well.
Next season will be 2030/31 and i have a good squad and hopefully i can finally win that title.
I still havent won the champions league title, we have been runners up 4 times (to Lazio twice, Ajax and Inter). We have won 1 Uefa cup and 3 runners up, so europe hasnt been very succesful at all!
a few of th regens through the doors, ive had beckhams, Veron, Riquelme, Crespo, Trezeguet, Buffon, Pagliuca, Giggs, Kewell, Guily, Terry, Figo and Zidane are a few thats come to mind.
Biggest sale was Victor Solari (Veron's regen) sold to Chelsea in 2020/21 for £92m, hes just returned to us as a 33 year old on a free transfer this season. I have an awesome Brazlian striker who keeps getting injured, but im not sure who he is.
The best performance by anyone in a season for me was really early on, when Aruna scored 50 goals in a season from AMC....
im hoping to finally have that trophy back this season, and when i do i can happily go back to playing 03/04!
completed 5 seasons with perth glory and won the league twice by coming 2nd on the ladder finished on top of the ladder once and didnt make the final...
James Coppinger (english)
Adin Brown (american GK)
Brett Emerton (aus international)
Kasey Wherman (aus playing in swiss i think atm)
Yang Yu (chinese)
they would be the only players people might recognise im using 00/01
was Emerton still at the olympic sharks in 00/01??
feyenord got him on free transfer tho
um what does regen mean????
A regen is a regenerated player from an original plaer in the game.Quote:
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Say for example Emerton retired. The following season there would be a player with his positions and nationality(ies). So in this case tehre would be an Australian D/DM RC who came into the game the season after (or during) emerton retired. the player would have virtually identical stats but he may be a random age between 14 and 27. The name of the player would be something completely different though. Every player who comes in after the starting date of the game (In your case 00/01) is a regenerated player. Every player in the entire game has a regen!
Hopefully that helps!
not every player gets regenerated though andy, say a game that starts with 5500 players, after about 30 years there tend to be around 3500 players....
on a better note i just won the belgian league title for the first time in 13 years :D, arch rivals only managed 6th positioned, including a great 5-1 over them along the way :)


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