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I am a counselor in Santa Cruz with offices in both Santa Cruz and Soquel. In 1994 I took 10 years off from my counseling practice to be a stay at home mom. In 2004, I started practicing again and created a website called "MothersHaveNeedsToo.com" and wrote a book for new moms. After being back to my practice for five years, I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 2009 and am now in full remission. I am Jewish and have been a student of Jewish Mysticism and spirituality all of my life and feel this helped me get through my cancer treatment. I work with people of all different religions. Today I find my own home in Hasidic philosophy and Kabbalah, studying with Shimona Tzukernik & Shifra Hendrie.
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- John F, Kennedy University, Lafayette, California M.A. — Transpersonal Counseling Psychology 1985
- University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA B.A. — Psychology 1981
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The Inter School Young Scientists' Fair is Nepal's largest event on school science activities. Held this year on 10 and 11 November at Nepal Academy, Kamaladi, Kathmandu, the Science Fair is an excellent opportunity for students to learn more about science as they search for answers to specific problems. It also helps to develop an understanding of the scientific method while having fun. Students are encouraged to come up with a project that would be interesting to them. This year has particular emphasis on astronomy, to mark IYA2009.
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Charities, companies push Giving Tuesday movement
In a season with Cyber Monday, Black Friday and this year, even Gray Thursday, a group of charities and corporate sponsors hope people pitch in to help those who need it on Giving Tuesday.
The idea, which started in New York, already has 800 partners including Microsoft and Sony.
"You have a day for thanks, two days of shopping and then a day to give back," explained Bev Carlson, with Nebraska's Lutheran Family Services.
Lutheran Family Services provides free counseling for returning soldiers and their families, helps thousands of abused and troubled children and kids in foster care, and helps refuges find new life in America. Carlson says need for these services continues to grow.
English teacher Darrell Racey volunteers his time helping immigrants get settled.
"It's giving of your time as well as your resources," said Racey. He and his wife travel to Jordan regularly to help the people there, too. Racey says the capacity to give is what makes Americans great.
"America is an incredible country," said Racey. "We couldn't exist without people giving."
The People's City Mission in Lincoln has seen record numbers at its shelter. On Thanksgiving, volunteers served 50-percent more people dinner than last year.
Charities say one day focused on giving will make a big difference.
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Dear Folks.
Received your letters of last and as I have a little time Im going to answer them. I just dropped a card for Pa lest than a half hour ago saying I hadn't heard from you. This will correct me.
Im glad you had such a good time these last two weeks and wish it was only starting. Here Ive started a letter and as much to say as time to say it in, no more. Tell Burt I got his letter also and was very glad to hear from him.
It is getting kind of winterish these days, and I can even feel the night air cooling now. Tomorrow is inspection and Ive got to clean up for it. Im in the spy department of the 103rd pretty soft job now, but when I find out what Ill have to know probably it wont seem so easy.
Well Lena, Em, and Mary (also Burt) this is to let you know I got your letters, and as it is about all I have to say Ill close. Yours truly,
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A Florida attorney was convicted Friday of using a veterans' organization as a front for a $300 million gambling operation in a case that led to the resignation of the state's lieutenant governor and caused the Legislature to ban so-called Internet cafes.
Six jurors deliberated for more than 14 hours over two days before finding Kelly Mathis of Jacksonville guilty of possessing slot machines, helping to operate a lottery and racketeering. He was found guilty on all but one of 104 counts against him.
Mathis was released on bond until his sentencing in February when he faces the possibility of dozens of years in prison. He described the verdict as "shocking" as he left courtroom. His attorney, Mitch Stone, said the fight wasn't over. Mathis' attorneys have said they were constrained in their defense presentation by a judge's ruling that limited the evidence they could introduce.
"I gave legal advice as an attorney, that's all I did," Mathis said as he left the courtroom. "Attorneys all over the nation need to be very afraid when six years after you give legal advice, somebody disagrees with that legal advice and they convict you of a crime."
Statewide prosecutor Nick Cox said he found no joy in winning a conviction against a fellow attorney.
"You can't use the practice of law as a shield," Cox said. "It doesn't make me happy to convict a lawyer. What message does that send to the public?"
Mathis was the first of 57 defendants to go to trial in a case that led to the resignation of Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll who had worked as a consultant for the Allied Veterans charity. She wasn't charged with any crime. The arrests also led the Florida Legislature to ban Internet cafes in the state earlier this year.
About half of the 57 defendants have reached some kind of agreement with prosecutors. The rest have yet to have their cases resolved.
Despite the ban on Internet cafes, some have reopened in parts of north and central Florida. Cox said the verdict may have an impact on those operations since "it's kind of hard to ignore a verdict like this."
Prosecutors said Mathis and his associates built up the network of casinos by claiming they were businesses where customers could buy Internet time, when in reality most customers played slot machine games on computers and didn't use the Internet. Even though the Internet cafes were being operated under the aegis of Allied Veterans of the World, very little of the $300 million the Allied Veteran affiliates earned actually went to veterans, prosecutors alleged.
Prosecutors said Mathis and his law firm earned $1.5 million a year from the Allied Veterans work.
Neither prosecutors nor defense attorneys called as witnesses some of Mathis' key co-defendants who had reached deals with prosecutors: former Allied Veterans of the World leaders Johnny Duncan and Jerry Bass, as well as Chase Burns, who operated a company that made software for computers at the dozens of Allied Veterans centers around Florida.
Defense attorneys also didn't call some of the state's top politicians — such as Gov. Rick Scott, Agriculture Secretary Adam Putnam and Attorney General Pam Bondi — even though they were listed as potential witnesses. The judge in the case limited testimony from witnesses about efforts by local governments and the state Legislature to regulate the Internet cafes. Such testimony would have been valuable to the defense since it would be impossible to argue something was illegal if governments were setting regulations for it, Mathis' attorneys said.
"We were prevented from introducing evidence that was crucial to our defense and who we could call as witnesses," Mathis said after the verdict. "We were unable to put on testimony that my legal advice was accurate, it was correct."
During the three-week trial, prosecutors called a 78-year-old woman who testified that she gambled every night and spent more than $55,000. They also called a retired Army colonel who testified he had stopped by an Allied Veterans affiliate thinking it was a place for veterans to get help but instead found what looked like dozens of slot machines.
Defense attorneys called to the witness stand a former City of Jacksonville attorney who testified he had agreed with Mathis' interpretation of the law that the Internet cafes were legal. They also called other law enforcement officials and municipal attorneys who said they had never found anything wrong with Mathis' interpretation of the law.
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Yesterday, when I tried to pull up my blog via my cell phone, I got the dreaded message, "this blog has been removed." I thought it was just a fluke and tried again. Same message. It directed me to a site that told me the possible causes. I was getting worried about that time and started to think what I would lose if I lost my entire blog.
I finally found out there had been suspicious activity on my blog and that I would need to verify who I was. After I verified this info my blog miraculously reappeared!
Suspicious activity? What does that mean? That's worrisome.
I can tell you, by that time, I had really started to panic!
So, the moral of the story is. Back up your blog! No, I hadn't done that. Yes, I remembered Rick writing something about that a while back and also the Geeks on Tour. I will have to go back and figure out how to do it, but man, what I would have lost if the blog was gone!!
We have really enjoying our new wooded site and sitting outside a lot more. Yesterday morning, I was out around 6:30 and saw three deer.
There is a drainage ditch behind the site which normally has water in it, but is currently dry. It's prettier than it sounds! It's full of cat tails. Beyond that is a beautiful wooded piece of property. That's where the deer live. We frequently see them along side the road leading into the campground. It's nice to see them in our own back yard.
We've put up the birdfeeders and have attracted a large family of Black Capped Chickadees.
I've not gotten any good pictures yet, but I'm working on it.
The feeder above hangs from a branch, so it is not squirrel proof.
The squirrel proof feeder was laying on the ground until Al got around to putting it up. Last night a squirrel went over to the feeder, looked at it then scurried up the tree and looked at me as if to say, where is the food?
About 5 minutes later, he was in the hanging feeder.
We have a male cardinal, but so far the female hasn't shown up. We think she's probably sitting on a nest, so we can expect some babies soon.
We are really enjoying this beautiful site. The two negatives are that we are close to the interstate, and that it is quite a bit shorter than our previous site. It's still a very large site compared so most campgrounds.
The grass is a bit dry and brown, but we're expecting lots of rain soon, so it will green up. Unfortunately, it will also bring out more frogs and mosquitoes.
We have a double concrete site, so we have concrete for the motor home and the vehicles. That sure makes it nice to keep from tracking in dirt and grass.
I've gotten a couple requests for some pictures of the site, and I'll post a few more once we get finished putting our stuff away and prettying it up!
We've seen a lot of birds flying overhead, including swallow tail kites, sandhill cranes, bluebirds, and ducks. I need to keep my camera handy!


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Northern Illinois win offers fitting end to MAC season
DETROIT -- Jordan Lynch for the Heisman.
OK, that might be a stretch. But Jordan Lynch for something.
Best quarterback that nobody talks about -- except the past 13 defensive coordinators Northern Illinois has faced.
Most potent dual threat since fire and brimstone.
The unknown, unsung, unheralded and generally unstoppable force that ought to show up on at least some Heisman ballots. Maybe not in first place. Maybe not in second. But it would be hard to make the case that there are three players out there who have clearly had better seasons than Lynch, with his 1,771 yards rushing and his 24 touchdown passes and Northern Illinois' 12-1 record, and all the streaks we'll get to a minute.
That was the loudest message from the Mid-American Conference championship game Friday night, as the Huskies outlasted Kent State 44-37 in two overtimes. Lynch deserves to be in New York on Dec. 8, sitting there with there with the more famous faces, when the trophy is handed out.
Even if most of the football-speaking world could not pick him out of a crowd of three.
BOX SCORE:No. 18 Northern Illinois 44, No. 19 Kent State 37, 2 OT
COACHES POLL:The top 25
``All I get to see is my guy week in and week out, running for a hundred yards and throwing for over 200 and breaking every record,'' coach Dave Doeren said on his way back to the locker room Friday night. ``I would say he deserves it, at least to be in there.''
Care to campaign, Jordan?
``I just feel like all that stuff's for the (team) banquet,'' Lynch said. ``I really don't want to talk about it today. It was a total team effort and victory. None of that stuff is possible if it wasn't for my teammates.''
It's a dilemma, and not just Jordan. What to do about his team? Does Northern Illinois deserve to be a BCS bowl or not?
The Huskies were No. 21 in the latest BCS rankings and would need to pass several teams to slip into the top 16 to have a chance. Imagine a MAC team in a BCS bowl. Is Northern Illinois – whose one loss was 18-17 to Iowa in its opener – more deserving than, say, an Oklahoma?
Doeren has no problem accepting that idea.
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``It's not hard for us, it's hard for America,'' he said. ``I don't know what else I can say. We've done everything we're supposed to do, other than win our first game, which we lost by one point. We play offense, we play defense, we play special teams, we've got a Heisman candidate at quarterback. We've won every big game and we've blown out that teams that weren't big games. We didn't ever play down to the competition.
``There's a huge target on these guys backs every week. With all that on the line, they just keep winning.''
Led by the quarterback. Lynch's production is impossible to miss.
There is his doubled-edged knack for finding a way. Friday was another day at the office for the nation's third leading producer of total offense, with his 160 yards rushing and his 212 yards passing, his four touchdowns run or passed for, his general defense-shredding ways that are the biggest reasons Northern Illinois is near perfect.
Then again, it wasn't just another day at the office.
In a remarkable season for the MAC – seven teams bowl eligible, a stack of upsets in the bank – no ordinary championship game would do.
There were four touchdowns in the last 4:53 of regulation. Northern Illinois had a 27-13 lead in the fourth quarter. And lost it. The Huskies then back ahead 34-27. And lost it. A 40-yard field goal saved them in the first overtime. A 2-yard Lynch dive into the end zone won it in the second. Kent State nearly won a game in which it was outgained 524-260.
No ordinary championship game it was. Anyone wondering about the MAC's considerable entertainment value this season got an eyeful Friday.
``I thought we showed the nation what we're made of today,'' Lynch said.
There is Lynch's relentless drive. He ran the ball 36 times Friday, and passed it 34.
And there is his increasingly impressive list of Nobody Elses.
Nobody else in FBS history has ever rushed for 1,771 yards as a quarterback, Lynch passing Michigan's Denard Robinson Friday with a 44-yard burst in the third period.
He's broken 100 yards rushing in 11 consecutive games, and nobody other quarterback has ever done that.
Northern Illinois has won 21 of its past 22 games, and nobody else has done that.
The Huskies have won 17 conference games in a row, and nobody else has done that.
Lynch throws a crisp and authoritative ball, and tends to turn pass rushers into flailing frustration. He zigs, he zags, he stops and starts again, and if all else fails, he is not averse to steamrolling someone. He converts third downs into first downs and would-be punts into touchdowns.
And if the nation has yet to appreciate him enough, do you know who certainly does? That would be ... rinnnggggggggg.
Excuse us, that's one of the big fish schools, calling Doeren to see if there is any interest in its coaching vacancy. There'll be a lot of those, since Doeren is 23-4 in two years. He's going up the ladder soon, if he wishes.
Kent State's Darrell Hazell, too. He's 16-9 in his two seasons. That can be put into context of the Golden Flashes' recent past. It took them 12 years – 1989-2000 – to win 16 games. The MAC could be college football's answer to Manpower.
Who can Doeren thank most for being such a hot ticket? For being able to say Northern Illinois belongs in a BCS bowl and being dead serious?
The quarterback who runs, and passes, and wins. The junior from Chicago, who should be in Best Buy Theater in Times Square next week.


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Sandusky begins grim transition to prison
In the moments immediately after a jury pronounced Jerry Sandusky guilty, the man who once ranked among the most admired figures in Pennsylvania and all of college football began an uncertain journey into the abyss of the nation's vast criminal justice system.
As a packed Bellefonte, Pa., courtroom was absorbing the news of his conviction on 45 counts of horrific child sex abuse, the 68-year-old former Penn State University assistant football coach was in a backroom under police guard emptying his pockets of a cellphone, spare change and the common accoutrements of the free world that he is all but certain to never see again.
Centre County, Pa., Sheriff Denny Nau, who helped escort the hand-cuffed prisoner through a gantlet of photographers and hissing spectators to a waiting squad car, said the moment was notable for Sandusky's silence.
"The guy didn't say a thing," Nau said.
STORY:Some of Sandusky's jurors hoping for life sentence
Except in private meetings with his attorneys and family members, Sandusky has maintained that silence since arriving at the Centre County, Pa., Correctional Facility, where he awaits sentencing Tuesday. In a written response to USA TODAY, Sandusky declined to comment on the direction of his lawyers.
"Probably down the road, if you are still interested," Sandusky wrote.
Since his late-night arrival June 22 at the county jail, Sandusky's life has been largely directed by a 45-page inmate handbook, says his attorney, Joe Amendola. It is a detailed document that controls virtually every aspect of his grim life in transition — from when he can shave himself (between 8 and 10 a.m.) to how long he has to eat meals (15 minutes).
Meal trays are delivered to a sparsely appointed cell containing a bed, toilet and a desk. Visits are limited to one per week — a time usually spent talking with his wife of 45 years, Dottie, who continues to support him.
Other visitors, including some former Penn State football players whom Amendola declines to identify, also have made the trek to the low-slung county jail, a short ride from the stadium where Sandusky once patrolled the sidelines alongside head coach Joe Paterno.
Still, the visits are not without stark reminders that the once-revered former coach belongs to a different world: He is subject to strip searches before and after each encounter. He spends much of his day, his attorney says, compiling notes from a failed defense and preparing a statement he wants to make at his sentencing.
"He is not going to apologize," Amendola says of the proposed statement. "He will not be asking for mercy. He's always said he is innocent; he firmly believes that, and he's hanging on to that."
Sandusky also is helping prepare an intended appeal, but even Amendola concedes that his client faces almost impossible odds and a maximum sentence of 442 years.
"Whatever the sentence, because of the number of offenses and Jerry's age, it is tantamount to life," Amendola said. "We've talked about the possibility of this from the very beginning. It's not going to be pleasant."
A prison target
Herbert Hoelter, a prison consultant, has helped prepare some of the country's most famous new felons — Bernard Madoff, Michael Vick and Martha Stewart to name a few — for lives in prison. Hoelter says none of them carried the risk that Sandusky brings with him as he approaches the state prison gates for the first time.
As a celebrity, a convicted sex offender with multiple child victims and the man ultimately responsible for the sanctions that gutted Penn State's beloved football program, Sandusky represents a uniquely dangerous convergence of vulnerability in one Pennsylvania inmate.
"I don't think there is any way — given what he represents — that he'll stay out of protected custody," Hoelter says. "He's likely looking at spending the rest of his life alone in solitary confinement just for his own safety."
Even the hated Madoff — the central figure in one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. history in which he swindled thousands of investors out of about $20 billion — does not spark the visceral reaction that follows Sandusky and his crimes involving children, Hoelter says.
In federal prison serving a 150-year sentence, Madoff is destined to die in custody. At the same time, Hoelter says, his client is able to live among other prisoners and directs classes for inmates seeking their high school general equivalency diplomas.
"The work and interaction at least provide a way in which he can feel good about himself," Hoelter says of Madoff. "Sandusky is a much more difficult challenge. He's in for a tough, tough ride."
At trial, Pennsylvania prosecutor Joseph McGettigan referred to Sandusky as "the predator." In prison, says inmate safety consultant Larry Levine based in Los Angeles, the former coach will become "the prey."
The potential risk for sex offenders in general is very real, Levine says.
Four inmates have been killed in Pennsylvania prisons since 2010, including one sex offender. It is not known whether the slain inmate's rape conviction was the reason for the killing, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Susan McNaughton says.
In California, six sex offenders have been slain in state prison this year. The number includes the murders in May of at least three prisoners convicted of sex offenses involving children. California Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton says it was not known whether all the inmate victims were targeted because of their offenses.
"But those inmates who have offended against children are targeted more often than not," she says.
In one of the highest profile killings involving a child sex offender, John Geoghan — a main figure in the Boston priest sex scandal — was killed in prison in 2003 by a fellow inmate who specifically targeted the priest.
Levine, who served a 10-year federal prison sentence for narcotics trafficking, weapons possession, obstruction of justice and securities fraud before he began teaching prospective inmates survival techniques, says child sex offenders are often more despised in prison than even informants.
Levine says he has counseled some sex offenders, routinely targeted for abuse and harassment, to create new identities in prison in which they claim credit for offenses unrelated to sex crimes.
"With all the information available on the Internet, that's even hard for people nobody has ever seen or heard of," Levine said. "Everybody knows who this guy (Sandusky) is."
Like Hoelter, Levine says he believes Sandusky is destined to spend the rest of his life in protective custody, where every regimented day is like the day before and the next.
"It's like living that movie Groundhog Day," he says. "I don't think there is anything you can do to prepare somebody for that."
McNaughton, the Pennsylvania corrections spokeswoman, says there are no extraordinary preparations taking place for Sandusky's expected arrival. She says the state has no special units for the 6,777 sex offenders scattered across the system's 26 prisons, which house 51,500 inmates.
After sentencing, McNaughton says, Sandusky will be transferred to the prison system's evaluation unit in Camp Hill, just southwest of Harrisburg. He will spend "several weeks to a couple of months" undergoing psychological screening, being evaluated for medical needs (his attorney says he is in good health) and potential security risks, before a more permanent assignment.
"He'll go through regular processing like any other inmate," McNaughton says.
Sandusky's swift fall
A year ago, Jerry Sandusky enjoyed all of the comforts that his status as a former Penn State assistant football coach allowed.
As recently as a week before charges against him were announced last November, he was mingling in the exclusive Nittany Lion Club at Penn State's Beaver Stadium on a Saturday when Paterno was recognized as the winningest big-time college football coach in history.
The victory over Illinois would be the last game Paterno, now deceased, coached before the charges against Sandusky prompted his removal. The win, as well as the record, would be wiped out in a subsequent cascade of NCAA sanctions vacating 111 school victories.
This football season, Sandusky has an obstructed view of Penn State football on a television near his isolation unit, only if he positions himself at a certain angle in his small cell. For some time, his attorney says, Sandusky was not allowed even a deck of playing cards to pass the time awaiting his sentencing out of fear that he might use the cards' sharp edges to harm himself.
"He has never considered suicide," Amendola said.
To fight the numbing boredom, Amendola says, his client assembled a card deck of his own making, using slips of paper to play solitaire.
The attorney says Sandusky's state prison assignment will be up to corrections officials.
"I am confident that they will put him in the safest place they can," Amendola says. "They are not going to throw him to wolves."
Sandusky's victims do not share the lawyer's concern for his client.
An undisclosed number of victims are to make statements at the former coach's hearing, including a young man designated by the state grand jury as "Victim 5." The victim's attorney says his client is unmoved by Sandusky's claims of innocence.
"My client knows Sandusky is guilty," attorney Thomas Kline says. "We do not believe that it will be constructive for Mr. Sandusky to continue to maintain his innocence in the face of the overwhelming evidence on which he was convicted."
Slade Mclaughlin, one of the attorneys representing the victim known as "Victim 1" who sparked the investigation leading to Sandusky's conviction, says any sentence that would allow the former coach to ever leave prison would be "disgraceful."
"When you consider the harm and amount of abuse he is responsible for," McLaughlin says, "I look at it as an eye for an eye. I can't feel sorry for this guy. He deserves what he's got coming to him."


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Francogrex wrote:
Hi, I am struggling to understand how to work with asdf.
I have been using it for ten years and I am about 50-50 now on getting it to work. I am assured it does a great job in working with a multitude of Lisps/OSes, and I can assure you it is a disaster at working with programmers.
Come back here and post console output freely, you will need help, especially because one of its great triumphs is useless error messages.
(1) It will work. You will have to promise it your first-born, but it will work.
(2) No, PB was not joking: you have to separately push locations onto some magical special variable. Leave off a slash (or add a slash, I forget) and ASDF will take your head off, so don't do that.
(3) No, PB was not joking, the syntax is:
(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :cl-pdf)
Why is it not (asdf:load-system :cl-pdf)? In my experience, extremely smart programmers think it astoundingly brilliant when "one function does everything!!!!", remembering the ridiculous op-code first parameter left as an exercise.
Since you asked, this is because extremely smart programmers are tone deaf to programmer productivity; they are so smart they do not even notice when they have created something unuseable, they just brain through it.
(4) ASDF has a featurebug: it loads in the wrong order in order to make McCLIM work. Don't ask. If the author of the .ASD file retreated to the desert for forty days to slave over the dependencies this will not be a problem. Otherwise do what I do: take a sledgehammer to the beast:
(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :cl-pdf :force t)
That abandons the whole point of having a build system, but it gets ASDF to work. When for the love of god I am just trying to build this frickin thing!!! that is a nice tradeoff of compile-time vs tracking down and short-sheeting the author of ASDF.
(5) On success ASDF emits more messages than an IBM OS/360 core dump. This is so any errors will scroll well out of view and anyway stand out like a healthy thumb from the surrounding...um, other healthy thumbs. Anyway, do what I do: ignore all messages other than a backtrace and Just Try the Hello World(tm).
If you get a backtrace, Just Post It to c.l.lisp.
(6) If hello world fails, f*ck! But at least now you are a Real Lisp Programmer(tm), this is what we live with.
hth, kenny


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(CNN) It's hard to believe that 30 years ago this month, Wendy's first aired its iconic "Where's the beef?" ad.
The commercial, which first debuted on the small screen on Jan. 10, 1984, featured three white-haired women examining a hamburger. As they rave about the large and fluffy hamburger bun, one woman, Clara Peller, addresses the obviously small hamburger patty paired with the bun.
"Where's the beef?" she demands during the ad.
The phrase caught on and was eventually printed on a slew of merchandise, including T-shirts and bumper stickers. It was also memorably used by former Vice President Walter Mondale during the 1984 presidential election.
Peller later filmed a series of sequels to the original commercial, during which she'd always shout her signature line, "Where's the beef?"
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aokaf wrote:If money is no issue, then get 32gb of ram, get two SSD'sm one for the OS/APPs and one for scratch/temp disk get 2x 2TB disk WD RE4 / for your data storage in a soft RAID-1
thanks man!
this is what i'm looking for
32 GB ram 1000 $
one virtual tour should cover the price
and the GPU is like you say (not useful) ! waw! thanks man, I would have fallen for that!
UK Pano wrote:Thanks both - both interesting inputs which I have taken onboard, especially your formula. Duly copied and printed off with all my other panorama notes!
Completely off topic but picking your brains, when rendering from APG for then importing into PTP for creating a tour, what is best in the following?
Would you render out of APG at the maximum resolution of the stitched panorama or would you render at a reduced size of 6000x3000 for example?
HansKeesom wrote:aokaf wrote:32 GB ram 1000 $
one virtual tour should cover the price
hmmmm well paid tours, Can I work for you :-) I can process everything for you at lower rates :-)
KreAture wrote:When selling a $500,000+ house it will probably pay to use a pano-tour at $1000-2000 as it will attract a lot more bidders.
tived wrote:Hi Guys,
Sorry for my absense, I can see we are having a few issues again on this topic which have been covered in length here.
In an ideal world where we have no limitations in $$$, we can design systems that will eliminate bottlenecks in the pano production. From this we deduct a lessor system which fits within our available funds.
Look at the data travelling through your system, as it has to move from the different stages, moving data to and from its host drive set takes longer then moving data from host drive set to the next drive set. With this idea in mind, you have to build a system with multiple hard drives or drive sets (RAID). The more we can separate each task the faster we can make the system.
To SSD or not to SSD? is only a question of money, as the SSD's in particular the 3rd Gen is very very fast, so if you can afford SSD's then go for it.
This applies to most OS's, Mac/PC and *nix
Have your OS/Applications on one set of disks - eg. The Bootdisk, i currently use two SSD's (2nd Gen) in RAID-0 i would prefer to have 4 SSD's for this or more simpli for the speed, these can be very small disks but they should atleast sum up to 120GB, or big enough to store your OS and your apps with spare space left.
There are guys who build systems for database handling and use 8 or more SSD disks and they are able to get speed of up or greater the 2GB/sec which is very fast :-) they then also you several sets like this for their various tasks, but they make sure that all sets equally fast and this is an important thing, as the system is only as fast as its slowest link.
Page-file, again this is something that both windows and Mac OS uses, but have different names for it, again here you need to accommodate for this, as no matter how much ram you have you will always need this temp-swap space for your OS. I here use 3 SSD's 2nd Gen in RAID-0, again to optimise speed, ideally it should be made up of many more disks but not enough $$$$
Temp/Scratch disk: the same as with the page-file, you can combine these to save some $$$$, but if it is possible then separate in a RAID-0 set, and again the more drives the faster it is.
Finally we came to the storage of the data, here if you have the $$$ you could use SSD's but in all honesty i would use large HDD in a stripe and mirror RAID combination.... this is not so that you do not have to back up your data because you have to do this regardless - not that I always practice what I preech, but you really should!
Now we are talking of the ideal situation here, where you make large pano's and hopefully are also making some money from it. The above WILL give you the best data flow!
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Better-than-average duck season comes to a close
Sunday at sunset, Robert Mason, Denny Copeland and I were putting limits of mallards and pintails on duck straps. It was to be our last duck hunt of the 2011-12 season and one that a whole lot of us won't soon forget.
This should give you an idea of how good the season was. Four of my duck hunting buddies in Central Texas bagged just over 800 ducks, which according to their data, is an all-time record for them. They hunt a lot, but what's most interesting is that they only hunt on public lakes and rivers.
I spent the last four days of the season duck hunting with them up around Waco. The day I headed up there it began raining and flooded many of the creeks and rivers of Central Texas. That set up some outstanding hunts for mallards, pintails, gadwalls and even a few widgeon.
This week I talked with waterfowl biologist Jim Sutherlin, who is the area manager at the J.D. Murphree WMA in Port Arthur. Based on his data, they had an outstanding season, with lots of gadwalls bagged by the hunters there. In fact, they averaged three to five ducks per hunter.
"During the first split, we actually had some fresh water in the Big Hill Unit," said Sutherlin. "Because of that we had thousands of gadwalls there, and the hunting was very good. But during the second split, the hunts in the Big Hill Unit slowed down a good bit. In the Salt Bayou Unit, we had a lot of slow hunts during the first split. But in the second split, the numbers of birds per hunt went up to three to five per hunter. That's mainly because we got some badly needed rain around Christmas. And in January, we got about 5 inches of rain. That really helped."
West of Beaumont out toward China, teal saved the day on many hunts. But a lot of the duck hunters out that way lost their water and their ducks. Beaumont's Jerry Allen has a duck hunting lease near China and they had very good hunts during the first split. But it slowed in the second split."We had lots of pintails and teal and tons of spoonies during the first split," says Allen. "A lot of our first-half hunts also included specklebelly geese."Some of the most consistent hunts were south of Winnie down toward Bolivar in the marsh. Conversely, hunters with leased land north of Winnie had major water issues, as in dry land, which converted to a lot of very slow hunts.
The best and most consistent hunts throughout the season were along the coast from High Island and on down to Port O'Connor. Pintails and redheads were pretty much guaranteed on most coastal marsh hunts around Matagorda and Port O'Connor.
The lack of widgeon had a lot of hunters scratching their heads. But prior to the season the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that the numbers of American wigeon were 14 percent below the 2010 estimate and 20 percent below the long-term average. That was right on the money. Usually widgeon are pretty numerous along the coast, but that was definitely not the case this season.
Prior to the season opener the USFWS said that we were in for a great waterfowl season. Their data showed that we had an estimated mallard abundance of 9.2 million birds, a 9 percent increase from the 2010 estimate of 8.4 million birds and above the long-term average. That was definitely on the money, too. Mallard hunts up around Central Texas were as good as they get. On many of our hunts up that way, four of us were averaging 10 to 17 "greeners" per hunt.
As for pintails, I don't recall ever seeing as many during one season. Before the season opener, the USFWS data indicated a northern pintail estimate of 4.4 million birds. That was 26 percent above the 2010 estimate of 3.5 million and similar to the long-term average. There were plenty along the coast, and lots more on rivers and lakes in the Hill Country.
Numbers of teal were excellent during the first split. But they sort of disappeared during the second half. Coming into the season, the service said blue-winged teal numbers were at a record 8.9 million, which was 41 percent above the 2010 estimate of 6.3 million, and 91 percent above the long-term average. Green-winged teal numbers were slightly down. But on the last day of the season, I saw hundreds of them on a lake north of College Station.
Hopefully, the duck numbers will continue to increase. And as we look forward to another season, think positive thoughts on more rain coming our way so the birds that do make the migration next fall will have something to keep them in the area.


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TIGER participants meet in space-based hunt for African water
An ambitious initiative to utilise ESA satellite data to improve availability and management of African water resources took a further step forward on a hill slope overlooking Rome this week.
ESRIN, the European Centre for Earth Observation in Frascati near Rome, was the setting for the two-day TIGER Workshop which is being followed by three days of Earth Observation technology training sessions.
ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes and Head of ESRIN Volker Liebig began the Workshop on Monday 3 October by welcoming the 95 participants coming from 31 countries: "We consider the TIGER Initiative to be a very important application of our space programmes and Earth Observation satellite data. There are now 50 projects in progress, 70% of which are being headed by African organisations. A dedicated TIGER Office will also be opened in Africa."
TIGER aims at applying Earth Observation to supply water-related geo-information in support of the practice integrated water resource management for sustainable development. Since its initiation two years ago more than 200 African organisations – including water and basin authorities, technical centres, universities and regional organisations - have become involved in different projects around the continent. The hope is to develop a technical, human and institutional capacity to bridge Africa's water information gap using satellite data.
The projects span the African continent as well as the various stages of the water cycle. Presentations at the Workshop included the use of satellite data to chart soil moisture across Southern Africa, monitoring flood plains and humid zones in the Sahel region of Senegal, combining radar and optical Earth Observation data to monitor the environmental state of the northwest coast of Madagascar and modelling the water balance of semi-arid rock watersheds using both satellite imagery and in-situ data.
Providing perspective on the needs of end-users, Mahmoud Hassain, Acting Director of the National Water Resources Plan Project for Egypt, gave a presentation on the changing approach to water resources management in his country. Egypt has had water plans in place for the last three decades, commencing from the approach of supply management. The current National Water Resources Plan (NWRP) integrates the management of water supply and demand, aiming to guarantee the quantity and quality of water for socio-economic development to 2017.
This change in approach has been driven by growing demand due to population increase and rising living standards. Available water per head of Egyptian population has halved since 1959, and is projected to further decrease by a third by 2025.
Additional water sources will be needed to meet the NWRP's aim of increasing agricultural land by 35% and create desert living space for 20% of the population, as well as doubling people's access to safe sanitation from its current 30% level. Satellite data has a role to play in both locating and managing water resources, particularly in terms of subsurface desert aquifers but also monitoring irrigation services and the extension of agricultural land.
Hassain gave examples of satellite images being used to chart the morphology of the artificial Lake Nasser, follow the 2004 flood of the Toshky spillway from the Lake into the Toshky Depression in the Western Desert, and track the westerly extension of agricultural land via water from the Nile in the West Delta Project.
Dr. Stephen Donkor of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNEC-A) is Chairman of the TIGER Steering Committee. He pronounced himself happy that the original objective behind the TIGER Initiative, expressed at the Johannesburg World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002, is being realised.
"Everything we are doing here comes out of a statement made by global space agencies during Johannesburg that as part of their commitment to sustainable development they would provide tools which can be used to manage Africa's water resources better," Dr. Donkor said. "Three years on we have got organised and are getting concrete projects started on the ground.
"Now the question is whether the projects reflect African needs. Right now most of the projects are scientifically oriented, and the products of these projects have to be translated into usable information for practitioners in the field. I think we are getting there, judging by some of the questions asked today, especially on finding and managing groundwater, without which Africa will not be able to meet the Millennium Development Goals set by the United Nations."
Dr. Donkor also added that UNEC-A is hosting an Africa Water Information Clearing House, intended to be a 'one-stop shop' for all available data on African water available to everyone who needs it. Results from individual TIGER projects will be added to this Clearing House, on the basis that increasing their visibility and data accessibility will increase their overall effectiveness. It should also be a means of attracting funding from national and international donors to support the continuation of TIGER project activities.
Jean-Marc Chounard of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) reaffirmed his organisation's commitment to TIGER, and said that the seven projects being supported by CSA would all be receiving free Radarsat-1 data, including a high-resolution radar mosaic of the African continent. He also extended the offer to ESA projects requiring supplementary data.
Information was also given on a new class of project called TIGER-Innovators which seeks proposals for African teams to develop novel water-related services. Several proposals have been received so far, with up to five projects due to be selected at the end of this year.
Following the conclusion of the two-day Workshop, the rest of the week was taken up with training sessions in specialised software applications for processing data known as the Basic ERS & Envisat AATSR and MERIS (BEAM) toolbox. Participants were also supplied with Training Tool Kit software and dedicated TIGERWorks software for beginner training.


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Volunteers lend a hand with MLK preparations
Trevor Denn mused on the value of community as he brushed sky-blue paint on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words displayed on a banner: "The time is always right to do the right thing."
"I think service is really important. It bonds us together," said Denn, a senior studying international relations at St. Mary's University and one of about 350 participants Saturday in a local MLK Day of Service.
To prepare for Monday's march on the East Side honoring the slain civil rights leader, volunteers painted posters, touched up murals, picked up trash, planted trees and planted landscaping along the 2.75-mile route.
The work was part of a DreamWeek San Antonio celebration from Jan. 11-22, and a National Day of Service declared by President Barack Obama on the weekend prior to his inauguration.
Along with more than 100 local members of City Year, an international, education-focused nonprofit that promotes leadership and service, the event drew about 250 volunteers.
"Our mission today is to celebrate Dr. King's legacy through community service," said Susan Varghese, a City Year corps member and media chairwoman of the MLK Service Project Committee.
Aside from sprucing up the area for the march, which is one of the largest events of its kind in the nation, Varghese said the annual day of labor also helps build relationships and neighborhood pride.
"We do projects year-round, and some of them involve work that's tedious. This is more fun."
Working with the city's Parks and Recreation Department, Green Spaces Alliance of South Texas and business sponsors, City Year tries to develop the next generation of leaders by giving young people a forum to focus their energy on the common good of the community, Varghese said.
More than 250,000 were expected to have gathered at similar service events nationwide, in what Obama has said hopefully will become an annual MLK tradition.
In Washington, a fair was held on the National Mall to raise awareness about service organizations, as volunteers worked to fill some 100,000 relief kits for deployed U.S. troops, veterans and emergency first responders.
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Wreath-laying ceremony: Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza (East Houston Street at North New Braunfels Avenue), 2 p.m.
Citywide interfaith service: Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, 315 E. Pecan St., 4 p.m.
Yviand Serbones, who helped repaint a mural that an anticipated 100,000-plus marchers will pass Monday, said she "was living in a bubble" while growing up on the North Side.
Her 10 months of service nearly a decade ago with City Year, providing tutoring for children at an inner-city elementary school, "opened my eyes."
It was heartbreaking, Serbones said, to learn that some children rely on school lunch for "their main meal of the day" as their parents struggled financially, often working two jobs. When she was accepted to the University of Texas, she wore a Longhorns shirt to the school and told the children that they could go to college as well.
"It really made me feel committed to San Antonio as a whole. I don't want to be that close-minded again," said Serbones, now 28 and working in public relations.
Denn said he's hopeful Americans can work together after a contentious election year.
"We're not really going to get everything done unless we put all that aside," Denn said. "We need to come together."


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Ascent of Steens Mountain-North Peak on 2007-07-01
Dennis Poulin
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Ascent Type:
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Steens Mountain-North Peak
9348 ft / 2849 m
Ascent Trip Report
My wife and I wanted to get away for a few days so I planned a little road trip to Eastern Oregon and then up to Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. My wife is not a hiker or mountain climber but she actually encouraged me to plan a few hikes along the way. I was delighted to comply with her request.
I had been to the Steens Mountains previously and knew she would like the area, so our first night out from home in Medford, I planned to camp in the Steens Mountains. We left home Saturday, June 30, 2007 and drove Hwy 140 through Klamath Falls to Lakeview where we filled up with gas. Gas is a precious commodity in Eastern Oregon and you never want to pass a gas station without filling up. We continued on Hwy 140 east into Nevada and to Denio. In Denio we turned left on Hwy 205 and headed back into Oregon.
We stopped in Fields to sample their "world famous" burgers and "world famous" milk shakes. This is a HUGE meal and we finally waddled out of the café and got back in the truck to continue on our adventure. In Frenchglen we stopped at the historic hotel and looked around. The public restroom here is an outhouse about 100ft from the hotel. There were vacancies and the rates weren't too bad at the hotel, but we wanted to camp this first night out so we left and headed up towards the Steens Mountains.
The road up the west side of the mountains is very good for a gravel road and we made good time. We stopped at the Fish Lake Campground and looked around. There were 6-8 vacant spots, but I wanted to see if the next campground had any vacancies. We drove up to the Jackman Park Campground and it was half vacant so we paid our $6 and pitched a tent.
It was only about 6:00PM so we got back into the truck and headed up the road. We stopped at the Kiger Gorge Lookout to see the climb I scheduled for the next morning, and then we drove up to the end of the road near the Steens Mountain Highpoint. My wife was feeling good even though we were at about 9,500ft elevation, so we hiked the .5 mile to the highpoint and enjoyed the views. The wind was blowing a little, so we put on our windbreakers and spent some time just looking around. Soon we drove back down the road and returned to our campsite. We decided to skip dinner since lunch was still weighing heavy on us. We crawled into the tent early to avoid the mosquito attack and to get some good rest for the next day.
We slept well and we were up early the next day. After breakfast we drove up the road a little past the Kiger Gorge Overlook and I started my hike from there. My wife drove down to the Overlook where she would be able to watch me through binoculars and also enjoy the view.
I headed over a slight hill towards my objective and soon found myself on a little cliff that I needed to descend to get down onto the ridgeline. I took my time, found a couple of dead ends, but finally got safely down. This ridgeline is interesting with lots of views down both sides. Time and mileage went by quickly as I scrambled along mostly on the east side of the ridge, sometime on top of the ridge, but mostly trying to find the easiest way forward. The west side seemed to be more vertical dropping into the Kiger Gorge. There is a climbers trail or game trail along the ridge. It was probably a game trail long before any climbers came along and started using it. It is braided in some places and roughly follows the ridgeline. I saw a boot print a time or two from an earlier hiker or a hunter.
It took some time to traverse the 2.0 miles of ridge line before I crested an area where I could finally see the highpoint in the distance. No more rock piles to climb over, only a rocky flat plateau area to cross. It is almost a mile to the highpoint once you are on the plateau, but it is scenic with lots of wildflowers. Unfortunately, I didn't see any wildlife except for a few birds. From the highpoint I continued along the ridge for a few hundred feet to the U notch. Great views from up here and there are some cliffs to the east so I stayed back from the edge a few feet.
I carried one of those two-way radios so I could talk to my wife while I hiked. It was fun that she could watch me and talk to me too. I returned back to the road the same way I came and my wife met me there. The hike took about 4 hours and was a little over 7 miles and 2,300ft of elevation gain. This is a great hike and I would recommend it to anyone unless you are afraid of heights, or afraid of scrambling a little over the rocky areas. On to see the town of Diamond, Diamond Crater, and the Peter French Round Barn before heading to Burns, Whitney, Sumpter, and Baker City.
Summary Total Data
Total Elevation Gain:
2300 ft / 701 m
Total Elevation Loss:
2300 ft / 701 m
Round-Trip Distance:
7.1 mi / 11.4 km
Route Conditions:
Unmaintained Trail, Open Country
Ascent Statistics
Gain on way in:
2300 ft / 701 m
3.5 mi / 5.7 km
South Ridge
Start Trailhead:
7048 ft / 2148 m
Descent Statistics
Loss on way out:
2300 ft / 701 m
3.5 mi / 5.7 km
End Trailhead:
7048 ft / 2148 m
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Inside 'Kidchella,' North West's Extravagant First Birthday Party [PHOTOS & VIDEOS]by Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Given how much time, preparation and money went into the Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's Italian wedding, you just know that they weren't going to have a regular Chuck E. Cheese for daughter North West's first birthday party.
Kanye and Kim went all out for daughter North's first birthday, who was born on June 15 but the couple threw her birthday party yesterday, June 21. The party was held in the backyard of Kourtney Kardashian's house (which was also once owned by Justin Bieber).
The party was nicknamed 'Kidchella' and featured a carnival wheel, bouncy houses and all kinds of things that most of us would never have at a birthday party.
In a series of Instagram posts by Kris Jenner, Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian, we have a look inside at some of the festivities that took place.


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This is the second in a series about refactoring parts of wxHaskell so that it will work as expected in GHCi. There's nothing very specific to wxHaskell here – it's much more about implementing a custom build system in Cabal, and how to use the Cabal API.
The work described is still somewhat in progress, so there are probably a few wrinkles in the cross-platform support, but it is basically working on my development machine, so it's slightly more than half-baked…
What we are going to do is to add a build system capable of building a shared library to the Distribution.Simple. This is not a particularly clever build system – it doesn't do any dependency tracking, for example, which makes it somewhat painful for developers. However, the main use case for Cabal is that it is an easy way for library users to install software on their machines, and in this case dependency tracking is not really an issue as the code is only built once.
If you want real dependency tracking, use Make (or better, something like Scons – if I had a pound for every Make-based build system I've worked with which doesn't quite track dependencies correctly, I'd have enough to buy a paper copy of Learn You a Haskell for Great Good).
Extending the cabal build description
In the hope of creating something reasonably re-usable (if there is enough interest, I'm happy to work with the Cabal team to get something like this into Cabal by default), I'm going to add some custom stanzas. These use the "x-something" support already built into Cabal:
x-dll-sources: a whitespace separated list of all of the C or C++ source files which need to be compiled into a shared library.
x-dll-name: the basename of the shared library we are going to create. This will expand to basename.dll on Windows, libbasename.so on most Unix systems and basename.dylib on OS X.
x-dll-extra-libraries: a list of the libraries with which the shared library must be linked at runtime. This is present to stop the library user from having to worry about this. Restrictions on some platforms mean that any libraries used here really ought to be available in a shared form on all supported platforms.
Updating the list of libraries to link
When installing a Cabal package, Cabal informs GHC of all of the libraries which need to be linked for the package to run. In this implementation, this means the shared library we are building and any libraries in x-dll-extra-libraries. These need to be added to the list of libraries which Cabal passes to ghc-pkg when the package is installed, and a good place to extract this information is in the configuration hook.
The configuration hook runs when you execute runhaskell Setup.hs configure (or as the first stage of a cabal install). You need something like the following in your Setup.hs:
main :: IO () main = defaultMainWithHooks simpleUserHooks { confHook = myConfHook, buildHook = myBuildHook }
The configure hook is, rather unadventurously, named myConfHook and the build hook, which we will discuss at length later, and which is responsible for building the shared library, is myBuildHook.
Much of the effort in working with both build and configuration hooks is in finding where the information you need is stored and unwrapping and rewrapping the data structures (doubtless someone with greater Haskell-fu than me would do this in a shorter and infinitely more elegant way, but this works, so… whatever). The Cabal documentation is definitely your friend, and in this case, we start from UserHooks, which is the container for all of the hooks available in Cabal.
We are interested in creating a confHook function, and the documentation says that this has type confHook :: (GenericPackageDescription, HookedBuildInfo) -> ConfigFlags -> IO LocalBuildInfo. It's also worth noting, to understand what follows, that simpleUserHooks simply gives us the default set of hooks envisaged by the Cabal designers.
myConfHook (pkg0, pbi) flags = do lbi <- confHook simpleUserHooks (pkg0, pbi) flags let lpd = localPkgDescr lbi let lib = fromJust (library lpd) let libbi = libBuildInfo lib let custom_bi = customFieldsBI libbi -- Lookup DLLs to add to our extra-libs from x-dll-name and x-dll-extra-libs let all_dlls = parseDLLs ["x-dll-name", "x-dll-extra-libraries"] custom_bi let libbi' = libbi { extraLibDirs = extraLibDirs libbi ++ extraLibDirs wx , extraLibs = extraLibs libbi ++ extraLibs all_dlls ++ extraLibs wx , ldOptions = ldOptions libbi ++ ldOptions wx , frameworks = frameworks libbi ++ frameworks wx , includeDirs = includeDirs libbi ++ includeDirs wx , ccOptions = ccOptions libbi ++ ccOptions wx ++ ["-DwxcREFUSE_MEDIACTRL"] } let lib' = lib { libBuildInfo = libbi' } let lpd' = lpd { library = Just lib' } return $ lbi { localPkgDescr = lpd' }
The key lines are highlighted in red. The customFieldsBI libbi stanza returns an association list [(key :: String, value :: String)] containing all of the entries in the cabal file which start "x-". The parseDLLs function extracts the contents of all of the stanzas whose key string matches an entry in the match list – "x-dll-name" and "x-dll-extra-libraries" in this case – and wraps them in a BuildInfo structure. We add the BuildInfo thus extracted to the extraLibs stanza.
parseDLLs :: [String] -> [(String, String)] -> BuildInfo parseDLLs x_stanzas bi = buildBI emptyBuildInfo dlls where dlls = concat $ map (\e -> (lines . fromJust) (lookup e bi)) x_stanzas buildBI bi (w:ws) = buildBI (bi { extraLibs = w : extraLibs bi }) ws buildBI bi [] = bi
The operation of parseDLLs is straightforward: We simply update the extraLibs field of an empty BuildInfo with a complete list of the libraries provided in the selected x_stanzas. It is worth noting that it is legal to have multiple libraries in a stanza, provided that they are separated by newlines (hence the use of lines when we are constructing the list of DLLs).
After executing myConfHook, we have all of the libraries we need to link with our Haskell package (note: not the libraries we link with our DLL!), and these will be added to the list of libraries included when the package is used.
Compiling C or C++ code from within Cabal
This requires a user hook to be executed during the Cabal build phase (i.e. when you type cabal build at the command line). As I mentioned earlier, the build hook we will be executing is myBuildHook. The example shown is from an early (but working) draft. I'll discuss why this is not quite sufficient in a later posting, but it shows the principle.
myBuildHook pkg_descr local_bld_info user_hooks bld_flags = do -- Extract custom fields customFieldsPD where field name x-cpp-dll-sources let lib = fromJust (library pkg_descr) lib_bi = libBuildInfo lib custom_bi = customFieldsBI lib_bi dll_name = fromJust (lookup "x-dll-name" custom_bi) dll_srcs = (lines . fromJust) (lookup "x-dll-sources" custom_bi) dll_libs = (lines . fromJust) (lookup "x-dll-extra-libraries" custom_bi) cc_opts = ccOptions lib_bi ld_opts = ldOptions lib_bi inc_dirs = includeDirs lib_bi lib_dirs = extraLibDirs lib_bi libs = extraLibs lib_bi bld_dir = buildDir local_bld_info progs = withPrograms local_bld_info gcc = fromJust (lookupProgram (simpleProgram "gcc") progs) ver = (pkgVersion . package) pkg_descr -- Compile C/C++ sources - output directory is dist/build/src/cpp putStrLn "Building wxc" objs <- mapM (compileCxx gcc cc_opts inc_dirs bld_dir) dll_srcs -- Link C/C++ sources as a DLL - output directory is dist/build putStrLn "Linking wxc" linkSharedLib gcc ld_opts lib_dirs (libs ++ dll_libs) objs ver bld_dir dll_name -- Remove C/C++ source code from the hooked build (don't change libs) putStrLn "Invoke default build hook" buildHook simpleUserHooks pkg_descr local_bld_info user_hooks bld_flags
As with the configuration hook, much of the code is simply extracting the required information from the various structures passed into the build hook. Most of the information is pretty standard for compiling any C or C++ shared library: a set of source files, the paths to search for include files, libraries to link and so on. Cabal already knows where to find compilers, linkers, archivers and the like (on Windows, GHC includes a copy of the MinGW development system, which contains a port of gcc and GNU binutils), and you can look up the full path to any of these tools using lookupProgram.
The most important lines in myBuildHook invoke the compiler and link the shared library, respectively, and are marked in red.
compileCxx :: ConfiguredProgram -- ^ C/C++ compiler (gcc) -> [String] -- ^ Compile options from Cabal and wxConfig -> [String] -- ^ Include paths from Cabal and wxConfig -> FilePath -- ^ Base output directory -> FilePath -- ^ Path to source file -> IO FilePath -- ^ Path to generated object code compileCxx gcc opts incls out_path cxx_src = do let includes = map ("-I" ++) incls out_path' = normalisePath out_path cxx_src' = normalisePath cxx_src out_file = out_path' </> dropFileName cxx_src </> replaceExtension (takeFileName cxx_src) ".o" out = ["-c", cxx_src', "-o", out_file] opts' = opts ++ osCompileOpts do_it <- True -- needsCompiling cxx_src out_file when do_it $ createDirectoryIfMissing True (dropFileName out_file) >> runProgram verbose gcc (includes ++ opts' ++ out) return out_file
The CompileCxx function compiles a single C or C++ source file to object code. In the version shown there is no dependency management whatsoever, which means that every file is compiled every time cabal build is invoked. This is very inefficient for development, since there are quite a number of files to compile, and most are recompiled needlessly. A proper C++ build system would check whether the modification time of the source file or any of the files it includes is newer than the modification time of the corresponding object file. This is a lot of work to get right (most large scale C++ build systems I have encountered don't quite get it correct!), and I have taken the judgement that since most Cabal users only compile the library the one time they install it, it is an unnecessary effort. That said, if you look in the code above, you will notice a commented out call to a function needsCompiling which checks only the modification time of the source file to compile. This is fragile (it will do the wrong thing if an include file has been changed, but not the source), but it speeds things up for development. It will not (and should not) go into released code.
I'd also like to mention the normalizePath function. This is present to fix some behaviour in System.FilePath which turns out to be, shall we say, infelicitous. The problem is an age-old one. Way back in the days of MS-DOS 1.0, which didn't support directories, Microsoft chose to use the forward slash '/' character for command line switches, which meant that it was unavailable for use as a path separator when, in about 1983, MS-DOS 2.0 came along. At that time, Microsoft chose the backslash '\' character as a file separator, and software engineers across the world have been dealing with the fact that Unix chose the forward slash (some 10 years earlier) ever since.
The infelicitous behaviour comes about because of the way that MinGW (and Cygwin) try to get around this irritation. Because software originally written for Unix often hard-codes the forward slash as the directory separator, both MinGW and Cygwin treat the '/' character as though it is a '\' on Windows. This is OK as far as it goes, but it is fragile. In particular, many Unix derived tools generate paths with the '/' separator even on Windows. When these are concatenated with paths produced using System.FilePath (or by Windows executables), you end up with paths containing both sets of separators (e.g. c:/path/to\some\windows/location.c). It turns out that some programs are not robust in the presence of both types of separators, so the only solution is to normalize all paths so that they contain only the correct path separator.
normalisePath :: FilePath -> FilePath normalisePath = case buildOS of Windows -> dosifyFilePath _ -> unixifyFilePath -- | Replace a character in a String with some other character replace :: Char -- ^ Character to replace -> Char -- ^ Character with which to replace -> String -- ^ String in which to replace -> String -- ^ Transformed string replace old new = map replace' where replace' elem = if elem == old then new else elem unixifyFilePath = replace '\\' '/' dosifyFilePath = replace '/' '\\'
The code is shown above. Nothing to be especially proud of (in particular, I'm sure there must be something which does the same as replace in Data.List, but I couldn't find it in about 30 seconds of looking!), but it works. Personally I believe that it would be better if System.FilePath did such normalization, but it's probably a religious argument, and I'm not trying to flame anyone.
I think that's about enough for this posting. I'll be continuing shortly with a look at linking the shared library, and a digression into C++ static destructors. Apologies to those who value the beauty of Haskell and are offended by the ugliness of static destructors, but lifting of stones is sometimes necessary, even if what we find under them is not particularly palatable. Linking libraries isn't much more attractive either 😉


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ORLANDO, Fla. – The19th-ranked Central Florida Golden Knights came back from a 4-0 deficit on Sunday to edge visiting Harvard by a 6-5 count to complete a weekend sweep that saw the home side win three games by a total of just four runs.
Eight of Harvard's (1-12) losses this season have come by three runs or fewer and seven by two runs or less. Nine of its 12 losses have come against Top-20 programs. Unfortunately, fielding has been the root of Harvard's problems as the Crimson has lost four straight games and five of its last six on unearned runs.
Harvard broke out to a 4-0 lead through the first two innings on a two-out RBI single by Steven Dill in the first before Jake McGuiggan pounded a three-run home run in the second inning.
Keeping the Crimson within reach, UCF's Brian Adkins retired the first two batters in the fifth but was forced to face a bases-loaded situation with two down. On his next pitch, the southpaw induced Carlton Bailey to ground into a fielder's choice to end the threat. That moment proved to be big as the Knights got on the board in the home half, generated by an infield single, a balk by starter Tanner Anderson (0-1), a fly out and a RBI groundout by James Vasquez.
Trailing 4-1 in the sixth, UCF tied the game on three singles, a walk and a throwing error to make it a 4-4 game.
Searching for its first lead of the day, UCF grabbed it in the seventh without the benefit of a hit as three walks, a hit batsman and an error spelled doom for the Crimson with the Knights claiming a 6-4 lead.
The game was far from over, though. Facing Roman Madrid in the eighth, Harvard pushed a runner across and had runners at first and second with one down. The right-hander locked up the second out with a three-pitch strikeout of Ethan Ferreira, and got McGuiggan chasing at strike three to keep UCF up 6-5.
That set up another save situation for Joe Rogers, who retired the side in order in the ninth.
Harvard out-hit the Knights 10-5 in the game. The Crimson, which out-hit their hosts in all three games by a combined 24-14, was led by Dill's 4-for-4 performance while Bailey had two hits.


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PHOENIX – The Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) have raised $705,395 in support of the families of the 19 firefighters who perished fighting the Yarnell fire as well as members of the community who have been affected by the fires. The money was raised in various fundraising efforts that began two days after the June 30 tragedy and throughout the D-backs 10-game homestand. The funds raised throughout the homestand will benefit the 100 Club of Arizona, American Red Cross, Prescott Firefighters Charities and other charities that will assist in the rebuilding efforts.
50/50 Raffle: The D-backs 50/50 Raffle, which is held at every home game, raised $354,061 in total, with $177,031 going to the raffle winners and $177,031 benefitting the charities. In addition, the D-backs set a 50/50 Raffle record on July 5 with more than $100,000 raised in one night.
Online donations: More than 5,000 fans donated online for a total of $252,364. The Arizona Diamondbacks Foundation added $200,000 with a matching grant for a total of $452,364 raised. Fans who donated at least $19 online at dbacks.com/19 were entered into a raffle to win a team autographed "Yarnell 19" jersey.
Online auction: The D-backs raised $76,000 through an online jersey and nameplate auction held online at dbacks.com/auctions during the homestand. The D-backs auctioned off the newly created game-worn and autographed black "Arizona" tribute jerseys that players and coaches wore throughout the entire homestand as well as autographed player and coaches nameplates that feature the "19" logo.
Starting next homestand, fans will be able to purchase a T-shirt replica of the black "Arizona" tribute jerseys for $28 at the Team Shop located at Chase Field. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the T-shirt sales will benefit the 100 Club of Arizona, American Red Cross, Prescott Firefighters Charities and other charities that will assist in the rebuilding efforts. The T-shirts were made possible by a partnership between the D-backs, MLB Properties, Game-day Merchandising and Majestic Athletic will be available while supplies last.
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Release Date: 2013 |
"Odyssey" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXpq6XZDRBI
Official Album Teaser - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55YtTr882Kk
First studio video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c6AjwbgxNs
I wrote another review for this album yesterday morning, but it was kind of a drag to read. Boringly descriptive. I decided such a colorful album needed a more colorful review!
I hope you guys check this album out, because Scale the Summit has been one of my favorite groups for awhile now. It was a pleasure to write about this release for them, and I'm excited to hear what others think about it.
I shouldn't like this band, but I do.
nice review
"I heard Scale the Summit's music described as "adventure metal" the other day, and as ridiculous the phrase is"
think you might be missing an as after the word ridiculous ;)
very nice review though
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Thanks Adrian!
And you're right Atari, cheers man.
Great review Jacob! As per usual lol
Unfortunately I don't find much to like about these guys :/
no worries. if you want to return the favor you can give me criticism on one of my latest reviews. ;) Nobody seems to give me advice on how I can improve lol.
"Yet the layers are there, and they always add the sense of depth Scale the Summit's music has always possessed."
I'm guessing it should say "that" in between "depth" and "scale".
Other than that. Sweet ass review.
Looking forward to hearing this!
Actually Drummerboy, 'that' isn't really necessary in the spot you mentioned. It could be added there, but I try to keep out extraneous words when possible. But thanks for pointing it out, and for checking out the review. =]
Cheers, guys-- putting these staff powers to use, haha. And Atari I'll look at one of your reviews right now.
@Omaha, sweet thanks! be gentle ;)
Omaha, I get a boner every time I see your avatar. Good Lord. Love me some Jennifer Lawrence.
Album Rating: 4.0dayum staff and their dayum promotionals
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hm the teaser was ok, will check eventually
Album Rating: 3.5I love deeze guys
I've never been into this band so I'll probably skip it. Good job on the review though.
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Album Rating: 4.5yah, review is good. can't wait to get my vinyl/cd combo
I actually should order a vinyl of this too. Once I get myself a record player, damnit.
and thanks budz < 3
Album Rating: 4.0nice!
definitely excited to hear this.
I find it interesting that so many people are concerned about this album's quality just because of its samples, etc.
I'm sure brief samples of The Collective would've had us worried, too, because small bits of StS will always sound
I've always wondered which summit they were scaling.
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